Liberty Newspost Nov-30-2011

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Cain vows to move forward with campaign

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Clinton warning over aid from China - Financial Times

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His two campaign events signal that Cain is unwilling to be Submitted at 11/30/2011 10:43:00 AM sidetracked by allegations from Updated 2:29 p.m. ET Ginger White, who stood by her GOP presidential contender story of an extramarital affair over Herman Cain pressed ahead with the course of "13, 14 years" in an his campaign in Ohio today, as an interview Wednesday with ABC's Atlanta businesswoman shared Good Morning America. more details of what she said was White explained that it was "not a a "very casual affair" over many consistent love affair," but one years. that was "a very casual affair" that Cain told a suburban Cincinnati occurred "off and on." audience that "my character, my "Am I proud to admit that? No, I reputation and my name" are am not," she told ABC's George being attacked to thwart his White Stephanopoulos. House bid. The businessman says White said they took several he has a "groundswell of positive trips, including one to a Las support." Vegas boxing match between PHOTOS: Political sex scandals Mike Tyson and Evander INTERACTIVE: Poll tracker Holyfield. And she acknowledged STORY: Cain reassesses that she "consistently" accepted Later, at an event in Dayton, Cain gifts and cash from Cain but it repeated that he is "reassessing was "not sex for cash." and re-evaluating" his campaign. White said she was CNN reports Cain will make a " d i s a p p o i n t e d " t h a t C a i n "decision in the next several days" described her as a "troubled about his future. Atlanta businesswoman" and content] [unable to retrieve full-text
declined to say whether he should continue in the presidential race. "You know last night I slept very well telling the truth. I'm not sure what's going on in his head right now but it's unfortunate that any of this is going on," she said. During a conference call with supporters, Cain himself said Tuesday that the "firestorm" that's erupted since White's interview with WAGA-TV in Atlanta is a "cause for reassessment." While that has been interpreted as sign that Cain could abandon his presidential bid, top aide Mark Block told ABC News Tuesday
night that there is "no way he's dropping out." In an e-mail to supporters, Cain acknowledged "recent events have taken a toll on me" but vowed to press on "with vigor and enthusiasm." During his remarks in suburban Cincinnati, Cain invoked the celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and his signature phrase as he tried to explain what he meant by "reassessing" his campaign. "As the great philosopher Emeril Lagasse said, kick it up a notch," Cain said, according to ABC News. (Contributing: Associated Press) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. content]
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Britain orders Iran's diplomats out of U.K.

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to the U.S. Germany, France and the Netherlands all recalled their LONDON (AP) Britain ordered ambassadors from Iran late Iran on Wednesday to remove all Wednesday for consultations on its diplomats from the U.K. within f u r t h e r a c t i o n i n r e s p o n s e . 48 hours following attacks on its Norway closed its embassy in e m b a s s y a n d a r e s i d e n t i a l Tehran as a precaution. compound in Tehran one of the For many, the hours-long assault most significant diplomatic Tuesday on the British embassy in retaliations against Iran since the Tehran was reminiscent of the 1979 U.S. embassy crisis. chaotic seizure of the U.S. By Vahid Salemi, AP embassy there in 1979. Protesters Iranian protesters enter the replaced the British flag with a British embassy in Tehran on banner in the name of a 7thTuesday, which led to the century Shiite saint, Imam expulsion of Iranian diplomats Hussein, and one looter showed from the U.K. off a picture of Queen Elizabeth II Foreign Secretary William Hague apparently taken off a wall. told the House of Commons that " T h e i d e a t h a t t h e I r a n i a n Britain had also withdrawn its a u t h o r i t i e s c o u l d n o t h a v e entire diplomatic staff from Iran protected our embassy or that this after angry mobs hauled down assault could have taken place Union Jack flags, torched a without some degree of regime v e h i c l e a n d t o s s e d l o o t e d consent is fanciful," Hague told documents through windows. lawmakers. The rare move to kick out a Iran currently has 18 diplomats in country's entire diplomatic corps Britain, according to Britain's marks a significant souring of ties foreign ministry. between Iran and the West, amid Britain previously ordered Iran to d e e p e n i n g s u s p i c i o n s o v e r remove its diplomats in 1989, Tehran's pursuit of nuclear when the two nations broke off w e a p o n s . T e n s i o n s w e r e ties over a fatwa, or religious heightened in October when U.S. edict, ordering Muslims to kill officials accused agents linked to British author Salman Rushdie Iran's Quds Force an elite wing because his novel "The Satanic of the powerful Revolutionary Verses" allegedly insulted Islam. Guard of a role in an alleged The White House strongly plot to kill the Saudi ambassador condemned the attacks and
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European Union foreign ministers were meeting Thursday to consider possible new sanctions. Hague also praised Poland, Russia, China and the UAE for offering support and expressing their concern. The French foreign ministry said it was moved to act "in the face of this flagrant and unacceptable violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and the gravity of the violence." Italy's foreign minister Giulio Terzi said Rome was also evaluating whether to keep its diplomatic presence in Iran. Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said Iran was placing itself "outside of the framework of international law," Hague said. France's budget minister, Valerie Pecresse, said the EU should consider a total embargo on oil exports, or a freeze on Iranian central bank holdings. British officials said the U.K. would likely support new measures against Iran's energy sector. Hague claimed those involved in Tuesday's attack were members of a student group allied with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary Basij organization, which recruits heavily on university campuses. "We should be clear from the
outset that this is an organization controlled by elements of the Iranian regime," he said. Hague told Parliament the private quarters of staff and Britain's ambassador were trashed in the attack and that diplomats' personal possessions were stolen. "This is a breach of international responsibilities of which any nation should be ashamed," he said. Some were alarmed by Hague's tough tone. David Miliband, Britain's former foreign secretary, said he hoped the robust words would not become "part of the very unwelcome drumbeat of war." About 24 British embassy staff and dependents were based in Tehran. They are all adults because Britain will not post diplomats with small children to Iran for security reasons. Iran's government has expressed regret about the "unacceptable behavior" of protesters, whose attacks began after anti-British demonstrations apparently authorized by authorities. But Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the "wrath of (students) resulted from several decades of domination-seeking behavior of Britain." Iran's tensions with Britain date back to the 19th century, when the Persian monarchy gave huge
industrial concessions to London, which later included significant control over Iran's oil industry. In 1953, Britain and the U.S. helped organize a coup that overthrew a nationalist prime minister and restored the pro-Western shah to power. More recently, Iran was angered by Britain's decision to honor Rushdie with a knighthood in 2007, and over its involvement in Western scrutiny of Iran's nuclear program. In March 2007, Iran detained 15 British sailors and marines for allegedly entering the country's territorial waters in the Gulf a claim Britain denies. The 15 were released after nearly two weeks in captivity. On Sunday, Iran's parliament approved a bill to downgrade relations with Britain, vowing to expel the country's ambassador. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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L.A., Philadelphia police arrest 250 Occupy protesters

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Police made a large show of force, assembling first at a staging area set up at Dodger Stadium By William M. Welch, USA before moving to retake City Hall. TODAY A large number of police officers Updated moved out the doors of City Hall, LOS ANGELES Police dressed surprising protesters, and took up in riot gear moved in on protesters positions throughout the park. camped outside City Hall early At least one protester scuffled Wednesday and arrested more with the police officers near the than 200 protesters who refused front door of City Hall and was orders to leave, police chief subdued. Police stood shoulder to Charlie Beck said. shoulder, some carrying batons By Bret Hartman, AFP/Getty and with plastic zip-tie handcuffs Images Los Angeles police ready on their belts, as they took officers remove an Occupy Los up positions through the park and Angeles supporter from the camp in the streets around it. at City Hall on Wednesday. Several protesters occupied trees in the park, with one tree By Bret Hartman, AFP/Getty sprouting an elaborate tree house Images festooned with signs and flags. Los Angeles police officers Some remained in the trees in remove an Occupy Los Angeles defiance of police. supporter from the camp at City Hundreds of people filled the Hall on Wednesday. streets outside the park, blocked It was the same situation in from entering by police lines. Philadelphia, as riot-suited Los Angeles police earlier had officers confronted demonstrators, secured a perimeter around the arresting about 50 who refused to area with the aim of blocking clear a street, police said. more people from converging on A f t e r a l o n g e v e n i n g o f the park. anticipation, police moved swiftly Police declared the crowd in the just after midnight in an effort to park to be an unlawful assembly. evict protesters and retake the Using a squad car loudspeaker, a park surrounding City Hall that police officer announced that for two months has been the declaration and said people who c a m p s i t e o f O c c u p y L . A . wanted to leave could depart demonstrators. peacefully. They warned that
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KCAL-TV's helicopter showed the park littered with tents that appeared to have been knocked down and a group of protesters still in the area. Some sat in a circle, arms linked, awaiting arrest. Police appeared to be in no hurry as they arrested and handcuffed protesters who defied those who remained in the park the eviction orders. despite the order were subject to Contributing: The Associated Press For more information about arrest. Before police made their move, reprints & permissions, visit our police Commander Andrew Smith FAQ's. To report corrections and told reporters that "we're really clarifications, contact Standards optimistic'' that the actions would E d i t o r B r e n t J o n e s . F o r publication consideration in the be peaceful and non-violent. Aside from a few isolated cases, newspaper, send comments to t h e r e a p p e a r e d t o b e l i t t l e letters@usatoday.com. Include resistance on the part of most name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our protesters. go to An unknown number of people c o r r e c t i o n s , corrections.usatoday.com. We've were arrested. L.A. County Sheriff's Department buses stood u p d a t e d t h e C o n v e r s a t i o n by to take those arrested from the Guidelines. Changes include a brief review of the moderation scene. Police subdued and detained process and an explanation on several people, including at least how to use the "Report Abuse" one woman, as they cleared the button. Read more. area immediately around the front This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is steps and doors of City Hall. Among the police were some your content and you're reading it officers wearing white Hazmat on someone else's site, please read suits to protect themselves from the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentpotentially unsanitary conditions. only/faq.php#publishers. Five An hour and a half after police Filters recommends: Donate to moved in, aerial video from Wikileaks.
AT&T, China Telecom agree to expand partnership Reuters

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AT&T, China Telecom agree to expand partnership Reuters (Reuters) - AT&T Inc (TN) and China Telecom Corp Ltd (0728.HK) have agreed to expand their relationship in China and the United States and will look into supporting each other in other regions. AT&T said on Wednesday that the agreement would expand its... China Telecom gains access to AT&T networks Financial Times AT&T Deepens China-Telecom Ties Wall Street Journal AT&T, China Telecom Agree to Expand Services in China, US BusinessWeek Bloomberg all 34 news articles
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General Motors CEO: We've 'Gotten Over' Our $23.6 Billion Auto Bailout Loss
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Huge Government, Obama Administration line. ----Government General Motors We have for the last several (GM) Chief Executive Officer months witnessed the federal (CEO) Dan Akerson - a President government engage in the terribly Barack Obama post-bailout Crony shortsighted and inadequate debt Socialist appointee - is hard to ceiling and Super Committee confuse with someone in touch budget debate. with the common man. One tin-ear aspect of the warped Theres Akersons palatial focus throughout has been How house. Or his second, palatial, will this affect Wall Street? beachfront condominium. Neither Almost never has it been How of which were used in the filming will this affect taxpayers? of Good Times. In the end, it looks as if We the As we pointed out back in March, People will be force fed a deal Akerson is a foundational part of that pleases Wall Street and the uber-wealthy, interwoven leaves the taxpayers on the hook Washington, D.C.-Wall Street for another $10 trillion. Crony Socialist nexus. Government Motors under Akerson is not and never has Akerson is similarly situated. been a car guy. He said so The absolute last thing about himself. What is he? He is a DC- which they seem to care is We the connected, Wall Street hedge fund People. We stand to lose about big coin guy. $24 billion on our generous Akersons immediately preceding conscripted auto bailout. gig was Managing Director and And we get the distinct head of Global Buyout for the impression that Akerson couldnt incredibly inside-the-Beltway- care less. connected Carlyle Group. We are in the midst of This hip-joined relationship with transforming an iconic American the federal Leviathan means company so 20 and 30 years from Akersons a cardboard cutout for now (taxpayers) will look at this the real CEO of Government c o m p a n y a n d t h e y l l s a y , Motors U.S. Treasury Secretary Absolutely it was the right thing (and yet another fellow DC-Wall to do, Akerson said. And it Streeter) Tim Geithner. shouldnt be measured on did it And from all we have since seen, sell for $43 or $53 (a share) or did Akerson is one giant toe on the t h e y l o s e a c o u p l e b i l l i o n
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a $1-per-gallon gas tax increase to raised Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) mileage standards. Akersons remark has everything to do with the upcoming CAFE requirements starting in 2017 that will push gas mileage standards as high as 47 miles per gallon and even higher still to 62 miles per gallon by 2025. Such an increase will put a major strain on vehicle prices (and costs) some estimates run as high as an additional $3,500 to $10,000 per vehicle... But in July, there was Obama Administration toady Akerson dollars? (Despite this distinct disinterest, backing the more than doubling of A couple billion dollars being GM is looking to expand its Volt- CAFE standards. an Akerson euphemism for about ishness. Upping production next Heres some more of Akersons $24 billion. Cant you just feel year to 60,000 - and adding new Little Guy glow: the compassion for us Little hybrid Cadillacs and Cruzes. I think you need to cut the hell Guys? Oh, and Volts are repeatedly out of the budget and youve got How about now? leaping into flames and failing to increase taxeson everybody. You know what Id rather have two out of three crash tests, while Thats all of us the people who them do this will make my possibly requiring immediate bailed out his failing company to Republican friends puke we battery drains thereafter to avoid allow him to now make such ought to just slap a 50-cent or a further explosions. So Im not fabulous pronouncements. dollar tax on a gallon of gas. sure the technology is at all ready In all of this does Akerson sound Bask in the warmth. for free market prime time. just like any other lackey for the Akerson in part wants this huge GM, in fact, last year registered Obama Administration. Which of gas tax hike t o more Solyndra, Fisker-esque course he is. transformationally herd us green non-energy patents than any I cant go on (television). Im s h e e p i n t o h i s e x p e n s i v e , other company on Planet Earth - toxic. Im like a lightning rod. I unprofitable hybrid Chevy Volts. excuse me, I mean Mother Gaia. couldnt have an intelligent In which we have thus far shown Yet again, Government Motors discussion without someone very little interest - a pathetic, and the Left are building on piddling 4,000 sold thus far this failure.) GENERAL page 12 year. Akerson in June said hed prefer
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Dark Times For the Eurozone

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Hang on to your wallet. 11/30/2011 Things are looking pretty bad over in the Eurozone, with CNBCs Jim Cramer calling the situation DEFCON 3, two stages from a financial collapse so huge its hard to get your mind around. Cramer is a highvoltage guy, but hes not the only one talking this way. Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times turned many heads by predicting the Eurozone has 10 days at most, after watching Italy hold a funereal disguised as a bond auction. On Tuesday Reuters ran an article about international firms preparing themselves for the postEuro world: Planning for a breakdown of Europe's 17-nation single currency is not easy. Like many business leaders, [Novo Nordisk CFO Jesper] Brandgaard views a break-up of the euro as possible though not yet probable -- but the odds are increasing. In a Nov 23 Reuters poll 14 out of 20 economists said the single currency would not survive in its current form - and companies are starting to plan for a worst case scenario. Their trepidation is best summed up by Martin Sorrell, the head of the world's biggest advertising agency WPP. "The complexity fills everybody with such
appalling fear and is so complicated that the last thing in the world you want to happen is that," Sorrell told Reuters on Monday. "But the honest answer is that, like everybody else, you try and contingency plan for any break-up of the euro zone." Among those contingency plans are war games conducted by top brokerages and investment banks, including U.S. firms, to handle the collapse of the Eurozone in realtime. American involvement in the Euro collapse could go far beyond stuffing different bills into the cash drawers at currency exchanges. Obviously an unprecedented financial crisis ripping through nations that do a lot of business with American firms would deal a horrible blow to our already shaky economy. One of the reasons its such a bad idea to set an everyday baseline of staggering government debt and moribund economic growth is that it leaves us very little reserve strength to deal with crises. We might find ourselves dealing with this particular crisis in a more direct manner. Last week, Jim Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute laid out three scenarios in which Washington could end up bailing out Europe, despite the mutual rage of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street types: a trillion dollar Super TARP bank bailout; a global liquidity operation fed with bags of cash slipped out the back door
of the Treasury; or a massive American purchase of European bonds that would amount to taking out a home equity loan on the European house we built through the Marshall Plan. As we saw during the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, when Uncle Sam hears scary talk of unprecedented crisis, his checkbook slides easily into his trembling fingers. There are still some last-ditch measures under consideration, as reported by NPR: The 17 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro converged on EU headquarters Tuesday in a desperate bid to save their currency and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy from a debt-induced financial tsunami. The ministers were discussing ideas that would have been taboo only recently, before things got as bad as they are: countries ceding fiscal sovereignty to a central authority; some kind of elite group of euro nations that would guarantee one another's loans but require strong fiscal discipline from anyone wanting membership. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her support for changes to Europe's current treaties in order to create a fiscal union that will include binding and enforceable commitments by all euro countries. Merkel acknowledged Tuesday
that changing the treaties usually a lengthy procedure won't be easy because not all of the European Unions 27 member states "are enthusiastic about it." But she dismissed reports that the eurozone, or some nations within the bloc, might go ahead with a swifter treaty between governments. There seems to be growing support for tighter European integration, particularly Eurobonds that would be jointly issued by all 17 member nations. However, German chancellor Angela Merkel has repeatedly rejected this proposal, because it would ease pressure on weaker countries to reform their economies, as the Washington Post puts it. Instead, Merkel believes members need to give up more sovereignty, including surrendering some control of their budgets. Unsurprisingly, Germany doesnt like the idea of other member nations hiding their systemic problems behind Eurobonds. The Germans are tired of being handed the bill after the rest of Europes crazy fiscal parkour stunts land them in the hospital. The sovereignty handover Merkel wants might be a tough sell to local populations who have taken to rioting in the streets when their own governments implement austerity measures. The flip side of Merkels Eurobond rejection is the grim realization that dead-end
Euro states have used the expanding size of their international government to become more irresponsible. Reforming a nation-state demands enormous pressures. The belief that someone, somewhere, is standing by with a plump lastminute bailout causes those pressures to dissipate. It allows local governments to please the man on the street by avoiding hard choices. Now the German man on the street has just about had it with all the men on other streets. The Eurozone has two basic paths before it: double down on even tighter integration, at increased cost to the selfdetermination of individual national populations, or pull out the frayed stitches holding the Euro monster together and let the whole thing collapse. Looking at the way things have gone so far makes doubling down look like the riskier bet, but it would involve less short-term pain and long-term thinking has gone completely out of style in Western capitals, most definitely including the one along the Potomac. Washington had best prepare for a rash of 3:00 AM phone calls from various historic locations, where mighty kingdoms were seated in bygone days. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it DARK page 6
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Has Romney Changed His Position on Immigration?

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(Photo: Reuters/Joe Skipper) Republican candidate for U.S. president and former Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign appearance at Conchita Foods Inc. in Miami, Florida November 29, 2011. When asked on Fox News' Special Report Tuesday, if he has changed his position on immigration, Romney replied, No, my view is that those people who are here illegally today should have the opportunity to register, to have their status identified, and those individuals should get in line with everyone else that is in line legally. They should not be placed ahead of the line. Instead, they should be placed at the back of the line, and they should not be allowed to stay in this country and be given permanent residency or citizenship merely because you've come here illegally. The former Massachusetts governor recently criticized rival Newt Gingrich's stand on
immigration, arguing that Gingrich supports amnesty for immigrants who have been living in the country without proper documentation. Former Speaker of the House Gingrich said he supported a type of legal status for some illegal immigrants. If you've been here 25 years and you got three kids, two grandkids, you've been paying taxes, obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out, Gingrich said at a Nov. 22 debate. Romney explained his position in the same debate, saying, The principle is we're not going to have an amnesty system that says the people who come here illegally get to stay for the rest of their life in this country legally. Like us on Facebook Since that debate, many news organizations have reported that Romney used to be for amnesty for illegal immigrants, and is now opposed. The Gingrich campaign noted on its twitter feed that, in a 2007 interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Romney said, Those people who've come here illegally
and are in this country, the 12 million or so who are here illegally, should be able to sign up for permanent residency or citizenship. Meet the Press also played that clip in its Nov. 27, 2011 episode. This is why we keep the tape, host David Gregory joked. The Romney campaign contacted Meet the Press this week to complain that the clip from Romney's 2007 interview was taken out of context. In response, Meet the Press put the video and transcript of the entire video on its website. Inspection of Romney's full remarks in the 2007 Meet the Press interview reveals that the Romney campaign is correct. Romney's position on immigration has not changed. Meet the Press admitted Monday it made a mistake by not airing the full context of Romney's remarks on immigration, saying, Yesterday we aired a clip from an hour-long interview that candidate Mitt Romney did in 2007 on 'Meet the Press,' during his first run for the Republican nomination, which has been referenced in other
media outlets and used by his political opponents. Upon reflection, we should have aired his complete answer or noted that he went on to say that people here illegally 'should not be given a special pathway' so that viewers could have a better understanding of his position on this complex issue. In that 2007 Meet the Press interview, Romney also said, My own view is consistent ... that those people who had come here illegally and are in this country the 12 million or so that are here illegally should be able to stay sign up for permanent residency or citizenship, but they should not be given a special pathway, a special guarantee that all of them get to say here for the rest of their lives merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That statement is consistent with what Romney has said in recent debates and interviews on the topic. Romney's older and more recent statements on immigration show he clearly wants illegal immigrants to not be denied access to citizenship and wants them to apply for citizenship, if
they wish to remain in the country. But, he also thinks they should not be given a privileged status in the application process. Immigration is an issue that divides the Republican Party. Some in the party are sharply opposed to efforts that would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Others want more immigration and a simplified path to citizenship for immigrants who are already here illegally. Given this split, Romney, understandably, continues to parse his words carefully on this topic. C o n t a c t : napp.nazworth@christianpost.co m Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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LAPD too violent, some Occupy LA protesters allege [Updated] - Los Angeles Times
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Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:22:00 PM
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Los Angeles police are being praised for their planning, outreach and judicious use of force in ousting the Occupy L.A. encampment Wednesday morning, but a few protesters are reporting more physical confrontations with some of the 1,400 officers. In a KCAL 9 video, now posted on YouTube, Tyson Heder, 35, was taking pictures of the eviction, when a police officer shoved him away. The video showed Heder then standing up, yelling at the officer, then being forced to the ground by several policemen. His sister, Christy Collins, said Heder was in custody Wednesday morning. Occupy L.A.: Photos| Videos| 360 photos| Live webcam Collins, who lives in Albany, N.Y., said she got an emotional
phone message from him some time after his arrest. He posted on Facebook, "They beat me and stole my camera." Collin said her brother had not been an Occupy participant previously and apparently went to the encampment Tuesday night just to take pictures. "I do think it was horrible and excessive," Collins said after watching a video of the encounter. "But I have to say, I was relieved it wasn't worse once I saw it." [Updated at 11:46 a.m., Nov. 30: In response to complaints about police actions, Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber said in a statement: It is unfortunate that our society has come to the place where a lawful command from an officer goes ignored. Oftentimes, as was the case at the Occupy L.A. camp, this sets in motion a regrettable series of events. As the League has maintained, when a dangerous individual refuses police orders to end the threat they are posing to the safety of officers and the
public, they subject themselves to the consequences of their actions. While some may complain about the LAPD tactics, Los Angeles business and political leaders are already commending the officers for effectively and efficiently ending Occupy L.A. at City Hall with minimum use of force.] Ruth Fowler, an Occupy protester, blogged that officers beat some protesters who were running away from them on Alameda Street between 1st and 2nd streets. FULL COVERAGE: Occupy protests "The violence I witnessed was pretty intense," she wrote. Officers "wanted to hurt people. They were running and beating people who were simply RUNNING away, trying to escape!" Still, most had praise for authorities, who arrested more than 200 protesters. Pam Noles, an observer with the National Lawyers Guild, which has advised the protesters, gave
high marks to police and protesters during the eviction. "I would have to say honestly that the LAPD had their A game on," Noles said, adding that protesters should also be given credit for remaining nonviolent and not giving police any excuse to use force. "I was really proud of the occupiers who stood on message, stood on discipline and stood on faith. Both sides did what they had to do." Overnight, more than 1,400 police swooped in to clear out the encampment. Police arrived in force and within minutes had encircled the park. Most protesters chose to leave on their own, but others remained behind. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa toured the park early Wednesday and praised Police Chief Charlie Beck and his officers. "I said that here in L.A. we'd chart a different path, and we did," Villaraigosa said. The mayor credited Beck's community-policing approach, noting that the chief and his
officers had established a relationship with the Occupy protesters at the beginning of the encampment. [For the record, 11:41 a.m. Nov. 30: An earlier version of this post incorrectly gave an age of 25 for Tyson Heder, the man involved in a physical confrontation with police.] RELATED: Lopez: Put Occupy L.A. on the road Occupy L.A. protesters gone but their belongings, debris remain FULL COVERAGE: Occupy protests in California and around the nation -- Sam Quinones and Abby Sewell twitter.com/samquinones7 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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NLRB Likely to Punt on "Quickie Election" Proposal For Now

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Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:01:00 AM
Observers of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) believe that today will be a red-letter date for the 77-year-old panel charged with remedying unfair labor practices. With two vacancies on the five-member panel and two of the three members Obama appointees with strong ties to organized labor, the stage is a set for a vote on the major unions much-cherished rules change to shorten the time frame for union elections. Known as the quickie election plan, the rules change would, as the Wall Street Journal explained last week, shorten to as little as 10 to 14 days the period between the time a union seeks an election to organize a work site and the election date. Under current rules, companies typically have five to six weeks to make their case before the union holds a secret ballot election. Late last night, sources close to the NLRB told HUMAN EVENTS that the panel was likely to duck controversy for now by putting off the up-or-down vote on the "quickie election" that
would have surely created controversy and chaos. However, the same sources also insisted to us that , before the 2012 elections, the NLRB's "Obama majority" would almost surely try to readdress the measure that has been so divisive. There is little question, then, why Big Labor so desperately wanted the rules change that the Journal denounces as a putsch" or that it would have passed with the votes of two of the three NLRB members who are so closely tied to the unions: Chairman Mark Pearce, who has represented union leaders as a private attorney, and Craig Becker, a longtime labor lawyer who has worked for both the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). But there's one wrinkle should the quickie election measure be enacted. Lone Republican NLRB member Brian Hayes has publicly voiced his anger at what he considers being marginalized and shut out in the crafting of the allimportant ruling expected to come down today. In a letter to House Education Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.), Hayes pointed out that he had not been
session year-round, and thus provide a roadblock to any future recess appointments. President Theodore Roosevelt faced a similar situation, and nonetheless got what he wanted. On Dec. 7, 1903, the Senate of the 58th Congress closed its first session and immediatelythat is, within secondscommenced its second session. Roosevelt characterized this moment as a constructive recess between the two sessions and used the opportunity to make roughly 160 recess appointments. Whether Obama follows the given the 90 days members are In that event, an even more Teddy Roosevelt example, and historically allowed to write their intriguing question could be what Brian Hayes does, will be dissents and that I would be raised: What will President two developments sure to attract l i m i t e d t o d o i n g s o a f t e r Obama will do when the recess a t t e n t i o n i n t e r m s o f t h e p u b l i c a t i o n o f t h e r u l e . appointments of his two choices relationship between the White Taking his anger a step further, for the NLRB, Pearce and Becker, House and Congressnot to Hayes has hinted he may not run out later this year? A mention the future of the NLRB. attend todays session in which President historically makes John Gizzi is Political Editor of the rules changed will be voted r e c e s s a p p o i n t m e n t s w h e n HUMAN EVENTS. on. There are even bubbling Congress is out of session, and This entry passed through the rumors Hayes may resign from Presidents since Washington have Full-Text RSS service if this is the NLRB altogether, which exercised this constitutional your content and you're reading it would cripple the panel under the prerogative. But Obama would on someone else's site, please read Supreme Courts New Process have a particular problem, in that the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentSteel v. NLRB ruling last year House Republicans have worked only/faq.php#publishers. Five (which set three members as the t o k e e p t h e H o u s e o f Filters recommends: Donate to quorum for NLRB rulings). Representatives they control in Wikileaks.
How Path Is Becoming A "Smart Journal"

E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 11:46:19 AM
The new version of Path, which is available on iOS and Android today, expands the number of Path steps away from the "photo- things you can share to include sharing" category and firmly joins notes, songs youre listening to, the emerging rank of apps--from your geographic location--even F a c e b o o k t o E r l y - - t h a t a r e the times you go to sleep and devising ways to create digital wake up. But it keeps the "friend" scrapbooks of our lives. limit to 50. When Path launched a little over Path CEO Dave Morin tells Fast a year ago, many people were Company the new version is "a puzzled: Why would an app that s m a r t j o u r n a l " - - a p l a c e t o was about sharing photos let you document the moments of your only share with 50 people? life, in all the forms they come in. Now, with the launch of v2 of the "We talked to a lot of users about app, we have the answer: Path, how they were using Path," he which now calls itself a "journal," says. "They were screenshotting isnt about photo-sharing at all, in apps that they like a lot and taking the conventional sense. Its about that screenshot and putting it into capturing your most personal their Path." moments and sharing them with Users, Morin says, would take others. Creating a safe place to screenshots of the songs they share photos (and videos) with were listening to on their iPods, of just a small group of people was a p e r s o n a l h e a l t h a p p s w i t h first stab at creating a much more interesting visualizations, of their comprehensive--yet entirely achievements on games--and post private--place to document, and all of those to Path. share, ones life with those closest The new version of Path makes it to you. easier to share those moments. As such, Path steps away from "Were basically providing a the "photo-sharing" category and modern journal," Morin says. firmly joins the emerging rank of Morin actually calls it a "smart" apps--from Facebook to Erly--that journal. It doesn't only rely on are devising ways to create digital user input, but it can also scrapbooks of our lives. automatically capture some
when you're sitting in your kitchen telling stories to your nearest and dearest. Speaking of his pre-Path sharing experiences, Path cofounder Dustin Mierau tells Fast Company, "anytime I shared anything with a group of friends, it was a cold experience. It didnt feel right." "When youre at home, talking with friends and family, thats a very warm experience," Mierau says. "A product thats meant for that group of people should have that same feeling." Which is why, at least for now, Path is keeping its limits on the size of your network (currently set at 150 people). "Path is like your dinner table," Morin says. "It's comfortable. You don't think you're going to be judged. You have truly intimate conversations and experiences." elements of the user's life and post the approach of Path, which has "But if one person joins that them to the person's stream--like one million users (about the same c o n v e r s a t i o n t h a t y o u ' r e where you are geographically. number as Foursquare in its first uncomfortable with, it changes While many apps are wrestling year), is unique. Among its peers, the entire experience." with ways to capture and organize its the only one that staunchly Read also: A Former Facebooker the reams of digital flotsam were believes that personal moments Forges A New Path (App) producing and how to archive all are private, and an app that allows E.B. Boyd is FastCompany.com's of that in a way that makes it as you to capture them should be Silicon Valley reporter. Twitter| easy and delightful to retrieve as designed to give you the same Google+| Email pulling a photo album off a shelf, warm, intimate feeling you get
Spotify becomes a platform for music apps

Duncan Geere
Submitted at 11/30/2011 9:22:56 AM
Streaming music service Spotify
has announced the ability for developers to build apps that extend its functionality in a multitude of ways.
At a press conference in New
York, Spotify's CEO, Daniel Ek, By: Duncan Geere, Continue said: "Today, we become a music reading... platform, with the launch of really innovative, integrated apps."
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Senate Votes to Allow Military to Detain Terror Suspects

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Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:48:26 PM
The provisions would dramatically change broad counterterrorism efforts by requiring law enforcement (Photo: AP Images / Alex officials to step aside and ask the Brandon) US Marines Gen. James Department of Defense to take on F. Amos , left, shakes hands with a new role they are not fully the Senate Armed Services equipped for and do not want, Committee ranking Republican said Udall, as reported by The Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Associated Press. Capitol Hill in Washington, Republican senators Rand Paul of Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, prior to Kentucky and Mark Kirk of testifying before the committee's Illinois both supported Udalls hearing on his nomination for efforts. According to Politico, reappointment to the grade of Paul warned that the bills general and the be Commandant provisions could be a slippery of the Marine Corps. slope for Americans citizens being detained without trial. The bill would allow the military However, the amendment was to detain terrorism suspects found struck down and the bill passed on U.S. soil and hold them with a vote of 61-37, with 16 indefinitely without trial. Democrats and one independent D e m o c r a t M a r k U d a l l o f ignoring President Obamas veto Colorado proposed an amendment threat and siding with the 44 to the bill which would have put Republicans in passing the bill. the detention provisions under Like us on Facebook further review, thus stripping the Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) who military of custody of terror supported the bill without Udalls suspects on U.S. soil. amendment, told Politico that
using the military to subdue terrorist operatives abroad but leaving them to the criminal justice system inside the U.S. would almost encourage [them] to come to America, unfortunately, to attack us." The Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a Democrat, and ranking Republican member John McCain also defended the provisions. Should somebody when its been determined ... to be a member of an enemy force who has come to this nation or is in this nation to attack us as a member of a foreign enemy, should that person be treated according to the laws of war? And the answer is yes, said Levin according to The Washington Post. Levin also said that the bill allows for a national security waiver for the administration. "These provisions have been substantially modified as a result of extensive discussions with administration officials," Levin
said during Senate floor debate, according to Politico. The changes, however, may not be enough for the White House. President Obamas administration had previously released a statement saying that the president strongly objects to the mandatory military detention provision of the bill, despite the fact that it includes a waiver. The bill is expected to pass through the House this week and it is not clear whether or not the president will make good on that veto threat. Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Spotify Adds Third Party Apps, Australian Samsung Ban Lifted, Lenovo's Web TV, FCC Damns AT&T-T-Mobile Deal But Allows Re-Try
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:39:37 PM
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Spotify To Enable Third Party App Access. Spotify boss Daniel Ek has just revealed his music streaming website will enable third party HTML5 apps to integrate right into the Spotify platform. "We thought long and hard about what the next big step for music might be," Ek noted, describing requests for new services from users. In Ek's mind Spotify has "become a true music platform" now. --KE [youtube q-8oHqnAChc] Nokia's Indoor Nav Plans With Bluetooth. Bluetooth 4.0 promises many things, but beleagured phone maker Nokia thinks it can tweak the technology to create something that's been long sought -after: Indoor navigation like GPS. It's reached out to 30 potential partner companies to try to develop a standard that could change how millions of people get around. --KE --Updated 12:15 p.m. EST YouTube Turbo-Boosts Analytics. YouTube has taken its Insight system, which for some time has been able to supply
limited analytical insight into the views of uploaded content, and totally replaced it with a new Analytics system which reports quick overviews, more detailed reports and audience retention figures. Google has also updated its Creator Playbook to reflect the changes. --KE Siri May Display A Pro-Life Bias. Reports are surfacing that Apple's Siri assistant app seems to display a bias in terms of reporting the locale of abortion clinics and associated services, ignoring nearby pro-choice
centers and instead returning prolife facilities. A web search via Google immediately returns more balanced results, demonstrating the control Siri exerts over access to search. --KE Samsung Tablet Ban Gone In Australia. Following Samsung's appeal against a ban on selling its Apple-copying tablets in Australia, the court has agreed it's unfair and is lifting the ban on sales. Apple quickly maneuvered and a temporary stay on lifting the ban is in place so Apple can prepare a High Court appeal,
indicating the firm is not planning on ceding ground to Samsung in any of its numerous cases. --KE Lenovo Plans Smart LeTV In 2012. Chinese PC maker Lenovo is planning on entering the connected TV market with a product dubbed LeTV in early 2012. It's following in the footsteps of Yahoo, Google and Apple--which is rumored to be designing its own TV system for the same timeframe--and is Lenovo's attempt to control the ecosystem on phones, laptops, desktops and TVs. --KE
FCC Allows AT&T To Kill, Then Re-Try T-Mobile Deal. The FCC has issued its report after investigating the proposed deal by AT&T to buy out T-Mobile USA-and it's very negative about the idea, noting it would result in thousands of job losses and the disappearance of a key competitor in the wireless market. However, to address concerns about the mechanics of the deal, the FCC is permitting AT&T to withdraw it, make adjustments and re-apply. -SPOTIFY page 12
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saying, Hes a welfare guy from the bailout. I wonder why wed think that? ----Akersons latest oblivious iteration? That wevegotten over our looming titanic auto bailout loss. (Christianpost.com > Politics) tolerance and the separation of d o e s n t b e l i e v e p e o p l e a r e The U.S. government got a stake church and state. offended by Christmas trees in the restructured company, part Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:19:23 PM of which was sold in an initial Like us on Facebook either. John Tim Leyden, tree farmer But State Rep. Doreen Costa (R- Celebrating with a Christmas public stock offering about one and owner of Big John Leydens North Kingstown) told Fox News tree has been going on for year ago on Nov. 18, 2010. The government's remaining 500 Christmas Tree Farm, takes pride Chafees actions are in violation decades, he reasoned. in providing customers locally- of legislature. In January, the state Leyden told CP he is not 100 million shares would have to sell grown Christmas trees like the legislature passed a resolution that percent set on taking back the for around $53 per share for the Blue Spruce he recently donated pledged to refer to the customary Statehouse tree. He is, however, U.S. to break even. Such a sale to the Rhode Island Statehouse. state tree as a Christmas tree. donating a second tree to state probably won't come anytime He now has doubts about his Chaffees decision, she said, flies Rep. Costa who plans to hold a soon. GM shares are trading donation since Gov. Lincoln in the face of state lawmakers. Christmas tree lighting in her around one-third less than the $33 Chafee has begun referring to the He is refusing to honor whats Statehouse office on the same day IPO price. The summer before the IPO, then tree as a holiday tree. Leyden, a p a s s e d i n t h e H o u s e o f as the state tree lighting. -GM Chairman and CEO Ed Christian, said he wants to keep Representatives, Costa said. "Anybody that wants to go see a Christ in Christmas. Polls show that the governors holiday tree can do so, but I will W h i t a c r e s a i d g o v e r n m e n t I think it important to maintain position flies in the face of most be decorating a Christmas tree," o w n e r s h i p w a s h u r t i n g t h e company's sales. Whitacre said our traditions, to maintain our Americans. Costa told AP. holidays and to wish everyone a A December 2010 Rasmussen She also plans to collect canned GM didn't want to be known as "Government Motors." merry Christmas, he told The poll shows that 69 percent of goods. Christian Post. A m e r i c a n s p r e f e r m e r r y Be the first of thousands of But Akerson said on Thursday Leyden said that he has donated C h r i s t m a s o v e r h a p p y iPosters by sharing your news, that the new GM is now making money and has passed that stage. the last six or seven trees to the holidays. Similarly, a Pew views, and analysis. state. But now hes thinking survey shows that 60 percent that This entry passed through the "I do think that we've kind of seriously about taking the tree stores and businesses utilize the Full-Text RSS service if this is gotten over that," he said. back. greeting merry Christmas your content and you're reading it SPOTIFY Chafee has defended his decision, against greetings such as happy on someone else's site, please read continued from page 11 telling The Associated Press that holiday and seasons greetings. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentthe holiday reference is keeping Additionally, 83 percent said only/faq.php#publishers. Five KE with the states founding by 1636 displays of Christmas symbols Filters recommends: Donate to --Updated 5:45 a.m. EST [Image: Flickr user cmmorrison] r e l i g i o u s d i s s i d e n t R o d g e r should be allowed in public Wikileaks. Yesterday's Fast Feed: Facebook Williams who reportedly created places. Settles FTC Privacy Complaints, the state to be a haven for R.I. Tree farmer Leyden said he "Battlefield 3" Banned In Iran, British Library Digitizes 300
As Akerson has said - you shouldnt measure the GM bailout on...did they lose a couple billion dollars. Or 24 billion dollars. Whatever. And if you shouldnt measure by that measure - you certainly should have by now gotten over the bailout. Right? To someone like Akerson - riding so uber-comfortably high on our gi-normous looming loss - it may seem like old news. But when we finally do sell our 500+ million GM shares - and take our 16 or so billion dollar haircut just thereon ( www.Bailoutcost.com) - We the People will be the only ones on whom anyone has gotten over. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?

JD Rucker (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 4:14:54 PM
There is a lot of money riding on the daily deals phenomenon. Consumers are able to take advantage of special discounts offered through the service based upon bulk sales. Businesses get large spikes in their business by making the offers. The biggest challenges facing the phenomenon are two-fold: investing and consumer fatigue. On the investment front, the two leaders in the industry are heading in different directions. Groupon's early IPO success is turning sour of late. On the other side, LivingSocial is looking to exceed their initial expectation of a $200 million round of funding. Big bucks are flying around these and other daily deals sites. Consumer fatigue is the other challenge. That's where Frugalo comes in. Started in June by exDigg.com employees Michael
Cieri and Scott Reynolds, the service officially launched this week. The daily deals dashboard wants to be the central hub for shoppers to consolidate their deal hunting and reduce the barrage of notifications they receive from all of the sites. "We realized that our inboxes were clogged every day with offers on products and services,
many of which they didn't care about," said Cieri. "We knew we could do a better job at helping consumers tame the mayhem of limited-time offers." The service has three primary functions: It acts as a single point through which consumers can see all of the deals available to them from the various shopping sites on which they participate.The
algorithm learns about the consumer based on past purchases, geography, and peer recommendations.Friends can share their purchases with each other (and the rest of the world if they'd like) and see what each other is buying on the sites, adding the social element that has, in many ways, been missing from Daily Deals.
In essence, Frugalo simplifies the way that daily deal enthusiasts manage their shopping. It will bring new consumers into the daily deals mix by amplifying purchases to a wider audience through social media. This will bring more businesses to the table. Groupon, Living Social, and the other sites will view Frugalo as an advocate for their businesses. If Frugalo and similar services can bring sanity to daily deals and if the major players are able to make their business models sustainable, the phenomenon could continue indefinitely. The concept is strong. If investors concerns can be abated and consumer fatigue can be relieved, we should be hunting for our next great spa experience or 57% off piano lessons well into the future. [Image: Shutterstock]
Daily Update for November 30, 2011

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Cain says "stupid people are Move by central banks ruining America" as he asks exhilarates Wall Street - The Associated Press for support - CBS News
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The Dow rose 4.2 percent to close at 12,045. Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:40:00 PM (Top Stories - Google News) to try to shoot me down and tear The Standard & Poor's 500 me down is because of the M o v e b y c e n t r a l b a n k s closed up 52, or 4.3 percent, at Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:16:57 PM strength of my message that's e x h i l a r a t e s W a l l S t r e e t 1,247. The Nasdaq composite Herman Cain resonating with the American By DANIEL WAGNER, AP index closed up 105, or 4.2 DAYTON, Ohio - Sounding like people," Cain said. Repeating a Business Writer 7 hours ago percent, at 2,620. a candidate looking for a reason to line he uses to turn his sometimes A coordinated move by the Seven stocks rose on the NYSE stay in the race, Herman Cain on unpolished approach into a virtue, world's central banks to ease for every one that fell. Volume Wednesday told supporters here Cain added: "With me you don't borrowing costs sent stocks was heavy at 5.7 billion shares. he is the victim of "character have to worry about being shooting higher. The Dow Jones Copyright 2011 The assassination" and appealed to chants of "Nine-nine-nine," and politically correct." industrial average jumped 490 Associated Press. All rights them to stick with him in the face "We want Cain." One sign touted Cain asked voters to be skeptical points, its biggest gain since reserved. of another allegation of sexual a C a i n / B a c h m a n n t i c k e t , of campaign "disinformation" as March 2009. This entry passed through the misconduct. suggesting that the Georgia he continues his quest for the The central banks of Europe, the Full-Text RSS service if this is "Stay inspired," Cain told an businessman tap rival presidential White House. U.S. and other major economic your content and you're reading it enthusiastic audience of several candidate Michele Bachmann, a "Here's what I need you to do to powers agreed to give banks on someone else's site, please read hundred people at a local hotel. Minnesota congresswoman, as his help me get there: Stay informed," cheaper access to loans in U.S. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"They want me to believe that we running mate. he said. "Stupid people are dollars. The move aims to avert a only/faq.php#publishers. Five can't do this. They want you to One day after telling supporters ruining America." credit crisis similar to the one that Filters recommends: Donate to believe that with enough character in a conference call that he is Special Section: Campaign 2012 followed the 2008 collapse of Wikileaks. assassination on me that I will "reassessing" his campaign in the Full CBS News coverage: Lehman Brothers. drop out." wake of a longtime woman Herman Cain T h e c r o w d b o o e d a t t h i s friend's charges that they had a 13 This entry passed through the suggestion. The approximately -year affair, Cain seemed intent Full-Text RSS service if this is 300 people gathered here for the on tamping down speculation of your content and you're reading it second stop of the Republican an early exit. He chuckled at the on someone else's site, please read presidential contender's day-long notion that he would drop out and the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentOhio bus tour represented a suggested that his most recent only/faq.php#publishers. Five (TREND HUNTER - The Latest c a m p a i g n o f f e r s o n e e a s y relatively small audience by troubles are a sign of political Filters recommends: Donate to Trends) solution. The Pipican product is a recent Cain standards, but they strength. Wikileaks. spray that helps train and direct Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:45:02 PM made up for it in enthusiasm, "One of the reasons that they want dogs how to go pee without interrupting his speech with ( TrendHunter.com) Just like making... babies, dogs also have to be potty trained, and the Pipican 2011 ad
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Here's What Philip Greenspun Found Annoying About His New iPhone
Philip Greenspun (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:15:00 PM
Here's How To Try Out Some Of Spotify's Cool New Apps Right NOW
Ellis Hamburger (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:11:14 PM
After a few years of using Android, I received an iPhone 4S ( Verizon network) to use for a consulting project. Im experimenting with using it as my primary phone. One of the things that I have liked best about Android is how easy it is to set up a new phone by typing in ones Gmail account name and password (just once). This automatically syncs calendar, contacts, email, etc. For a Gmail user such as myself, the process of setting up the iPhone is not simple and involves Googling for a variety of tutorials. The first step is to set up the phone with ones Apple ID. In addition to entering the username and password on the phone, I had to respond to an email message from Apple asking me to verify my Apple ID and password. Thus did I have to type in Apple ID and password twice. Next step was trying to use Gmail and sync contacts and calendar. I downloaded the Gmail
app from the App Store and typed in my Gmail account name and password. This populated the Gmail app with mail but did not sync calendar or contacts. So I went to the Settings -> Mail control panel and selected Gmail as an account to add. At the cost of typing in my name, Gmail username, and password, this synced mail, calendars, and notes, but not contacts. The Google help page on the subject says that to sync Gmail contacts one tells the iPhone that one is using Microsoft Exchange and then follows a series of instructions with server names to type in. Back in 2008, I started picking out Favorites on a series of Android phones. Google puts these into a Starred in Android group. You would hope that these would be automatically mapped into the Favorites contact group on a new iPhone, but they arent. The Favorites group remains empty even after all of ones contacts have been syncd. By the end of the set up process I think that Id typed in my Apple ID and password at least twice
and my Gmail username and password three or more times. Typing passwords on the virtual keyboard was much more difficult than on the Droid 2 physical keyboard. One good thing about Android phones is that they dont further clutter my house with cables. I keep micro-USB and mini-USB cables permanently attached to my desktop computer and use them to charge a variety of devices from different manufacturers. Neither cable works with the iPhone, which requires a custom cable. Siri works better than expected as far as speech-to-text is concerned, but has a way to go in common sense reasoning. For example, I asked Will the weather be nice on Thursday? Siri correctly recognized the words but said no. The forecast was for sunny skies and 50 degree temperatures. Thats pretty nice for December 1 as far as most folks in Massachusets are concerned, but Siri apparently differs. Question: What do folks like to use for turn-by-turn navigation (voice prompts) on the iPhone? I
havent yet figured out how to get that out of the built-in Maps application. [Oh yes, how does it work as a phone? So far, not so great in an area of weak coverage that I call "my house". With the Droid 2 I could make and receive calls inside the house, though the sound quality was better stepping outside. With the iPhone, the phone will ring but the call drops after a minute or two unless I walk outside. This could become an issue in January...] Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: This Clever Web App Lets You Try Out Windows Phone On Your iPhone Or Android LEAKED: Will The Galaxy Nexus Cost Just $199.99? Why I'm Dropping The iPhone And Switching To A BlackBerry Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast ChicagoBooth.edu/bfeo Ads by Pheedo
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Here's The Deal With The Crazy Over the Horizon: Price Tags On Bras, Cheese, Dead or Alive, COIN And Other Everyday Items is not the Culprit
Julie Zeveloff and Abby Rogers (Business Insider)
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It seems like we can't go a full day without seeing a headline proclaiming " the most expensive sports bra" or the"most expensive hot dog" has just gone on sale. Most of the time, these "most expensive" items are just everyday objects that have been dipped in gold or encrusted with diamonds, and our eyes usually glaze over when we see them in the news. So of course, we were intrigued when the Wall Street Journal d ecided to find out what the deal was with all that wildly expensive cheese and lingerie. Carl Bialik of the WSJ's "The Numbers Guy" column writes: Buyersfor those mostexpensive products that have themare drawn to such extravagances by their rarity, says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at NPD Group in Port Washington, N.Y. This isn't a market concerned about the high unemployment rate in the U.S. or economic upheaval abroad. Big-ticket items can also be a great PR move for a niche company. Bialik writes:
For buyers interested in seeing but not purchasing such a product, noticing such a high price point could make much lower ones offered by the same merchant seem accessible, even reasonable. Martin K. Sneider, adjunct professor of marketing at Washington University's Olin Business School in St. Louis, describes "a halo effect, which gives other, less expensive items they're selling a sort of glow." As extravagant and silly as they are, it seems like these superlatively expensive items won't disappear from headlines anytime soon. One interesting note: an item can't officially qualify to be the most expensive in its class in the Guinness Book of World Records unless it's been sold, although "a production run of one and a single sale will do," a Guinness rep told the WSJ. We combed through the Guinness book for some objects that actually did earn the coveted title. MOST EXPENSIVE PIZZA: Thin-crust pizza topped with onion pure, white truffle paste, fontina cheese and other ingredients regularly sells for around $178 to customers at Gordon Ramsey's Maze restaurant
in London. Source: Guinness World Records MOST EXPENSIVE OMELETTE: The most expensive omelette commercially available is The Zillion Dollar Lobster Frittata, which costs $1,000, is on the menu at Normas in New York. MOST EXPENSIVE WEDDING DRESS: The $12 million dress is covered in 150 carats' worth of diamonds and was created for the Luxury Brands Lifestyle Bridal Show in 2006. Source: Guinness World Records See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: It's Not Just EducationChina Is Also Beating Us By Breaking A Ton Of Bizarre Records The 10 Most Outrageous Luxury Purchases In November Now Guests At ANOTHER New York Hotel Are Going Full Frontal Presented By: Chicago Booth Business Forecast ChicagoBooth.edu/bfeo Ads by Pheedo
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for some time. In The Gamble, an account of the decision-making leading up to the Iraq Surge in In a recent World Politics Review late-2006, Tom Ricks was critical article, U.S. Army Col. Gian of Gentiles attitude about the Gentile declared that COIN is Surge. Nevertheless, Gentile has " d e a d " a s t h e m o t i v a t i n g written eloquently about the intellectual concept for the U.S. shortcomings of FM 3-24 and A r m y . A l t h o u g h c o m b a t about the strategic insufficiency continues in Afghanistan, to some of the COIN project. Gentile has extent guided by the precepts set also argued that the changes forth in the Armys Field Manual enacted during the Surge have 3 - 2 4 : C o u n t e r i n s u r g e n c y , been oversold by COIN advocates Gentile argues that the inability of and that the actual shifts in U.S. COIN doctrine to produce a Army behavior were relatively d e f i n i t i v e o u t c o m e i n minor. Others, both inside and Afghanistan, along with the end outside the Army, disagree with of fighting in Iraq, serves to this assessment, pointing to much render the school of thought wider changes in Army practice. obsolete. Indeed, Gentile argues ... that the Army should abandon the This entry passed through the search for lessons of strategic Full-Text RSS service if this is value from the past 10 years of your content and you're reading it counterinsurgency warfare, and on someone else's site, please read instead focus on developing the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentcapabilities to achieve victory at only/faq.php#publishers. Five every level of escalation. Filters recommends: Donate to Gentile has been a critic of the Wikileaks. COIN faction of the U.S. Army
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Central banks act as euro zone crisis rages

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have to turn to the International Monetary Fund for more help. In a policy shift by Europe's main U.S. dollar, euro and Swiss franc paymaster, Finance Minister bank notes are seen in a bank in W o l f g a n g S c h a e u b l e s a i d Budapest August 8, 2011. Germany was open to increasing Credit: Reuters/Bernadett Szabo the IMF's resources through By Robin Emmott and Kirsten bilateral loans or more special Donovan drawing rights, reversing the BRUSSELS/LONDON| Wed stance Berlin took earlier this Nov 30, 2011 2:53pm EST month at the Cannes G20 summit. (Reuters) - The world's major The new openness to a bigger central banks acted jointly on IMF role came as Germany Wednesday to provide cheaper presses its EU partners to agree dollar funding to European banks next week on treaty changes to facing a credit crunch as the euro create coercive powers to make zone's debt crisis drove EU euro zone countries change their ministers to urge more IMF help budgets if they breach EU deficit to avert financial disaster. and debt rules. The emergency move by the U.S. "The economic and monetary Federal Reserve, the European union will either have to be Central Bank, and the central completed through much deeper banks of Japan, Britain, Canada integration or we will have to a n d S w i t z e r l a n d r e c a l l e d accept a gradual disintegration of coordinated action to stabilize over half a century of European global markets in the 2008 integration," Economic and financial crisis after the collapse Monetary Affairs Commissioner of Lehman Brothers. Olli Rehn told the European In Italy, now the focal point of Parliament. the euro debt crisis, the Treasury Two years into Europe's debt started emergency cash tenders crisis, investors are fleeing the for banks which have been euro zone bond market, European squeezed particularly hard as banks are dumping government Rome's borrowing costs have debt, south European banks are soared towards 8 percent, a level bleeding deposits and a recession seen as unaffordable in the long looms, fuelling doubts about the term. survival of the single currency. The euro and European shares Euro zone leaders have agreed surged on the central bank action, belatedly on one half-measure which came after euro zone after another but have failed to finance ministers agreed to ramp restore confidence and some up the firepower of their bailout analysts now see a December 9 fund but acknowledged they may Brussels summit as a make-orSubmitted at 11/30/2011 1:53:55 PM
break moment for the euro. Finance ministers agreed on Tuesday night on detailed plans to leverage the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSF), but could not say by how much because of rapidly worsening market conditions, prompting them to look to the IMF. "We are now looking at a true financial crisis -- that is a broadbased disruption in financial markets," Christian Noyer, France's central bank governor and a governing council member of the European Central Bank, told a conference in Singapore. Italian and Spanish bond yields resumed their inexorable climb towards unsustainable levels on Wednesday, as markets assessed the rescue fund boost as inadequate, but fell back on news of the central banks' joint action. "It must also be remembered that the EFSF is already funding at very wide levels (high borrowing costs) over Germany, struggled in its last auction to raise the required funds and would have its rating put under severe pressure by any rating downgrade of France," Rabobank strategists said in a note. "This must call into question any plans related to the EFSF. It is yesterday's solution and the market has simply moved on." IMF TO MATCH? The 17-nation Eurogroup adopted detailed plans to insure the first 20 -30 percent of new bond issues for countries having funding
difficulties and to create coinvestment funds to attract foreign investors to buy euro zone government bonds. Both schemes would be operational by January with about 250 billion euros from the euro zone's EFSF bailout fund available to leverage after funding a second rescue program for Greece, Eurogroup chairman Jean -Claude Juncker said. The aim was for the IMF to match and support the new firepower of the EFSF, Juncker told a news conference. But with China and other major sovereign funds cautious about investing more in euro zone debt, EFSF chief Klaus Regling said he did not expect investors to commit major amounts to the leveraging options in the next days or weeks, and he could not put a figure on the final size of the leveraged fund. "It is really not possible to give one number for leveraging because it is a process. We will not give out 100 billion next month, we will need money as we go along," Regling said. Most analysts agree that only more radical measures such as massive intervention by the ECB to buy government bonds directly or indirectly can staunch the crisis. The prospects of drawing the IMF more deeply into supporting the euro zone are uncertain. Several big economies are skeptical of European calls for
more resources for the global lender. The United States, Japan and other Asian states are hesitant to chip in unless Europe commits to first use its own resources to fix the problem and peripheral euro zone states map out more concrete steps on fiscal and economic reforms. "Nobody wants to spend money on something they doubt would work," a G20 official said. "That goes not only for Europe but for any other country outside Europe. The threshold for seeking IMF help is quite high. Those seeking help need to be willing to give up some of their jurisdiction on fiscal policy and willing to undergo painful reform. Mere pledges and speeches won't do." MONTI DENIES IMF BID New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said he had received a very positive reaction from the euro zone ministers to his fiscal plans, although he was told to take extra deficit cutting measures beyond an austerity plan already adopted to meet its balanced budget promise in 2013. He also said he had met the head of the IMF's European department on Wednesday but Italy had not considered taking help from the Fund. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Italian and IMF officials have held preliminary discussions on some form of financial support for CENTRAL page 23
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Point of Honor: Marine Hero Battles ExEmployer

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and I've never, ever known him to be a drinker," she said. "That's all I can tell you." The grandmother of Medal of Meyer, of Green County, Honor recipient Dakota Meyer, Kentucky, said she helped raise who has filed suit against a former the veteran along with his father, employer over claims that he is Michael. mentally unstable and a problem " T h a t b o y h a s n e v e r d o n e drinker, came to the defense of anything that we had to get on her hero grandson on Wednesday, him about or punish him for -telling FoxNews.com that, "I've nothing," she said. "You couldn't never, ever known him to be a have asked for a better boy drinker." growing up and he still is. He Meyer, a 23-year-old Marine would do anything in the world Corps sergeant who received the for anybody." nation's highest honor from Meyer said she last saw her President Obama in a White grandson two or three days ago. House ceremony in September -- He is currently traveling to New two years after his heroism was York, according to his father, who credited for saving 36 lives during declined additional comment a six-hour ambush in Afghanistan when reached Wednesday. -- filed legal papers in Texas on " W e w e r e a l l d o w n f o r Monday. Thanksgiving," Jean Meyer said. His lawsuit claims that defense "We just had a good time." contractor BAE Systems Asked about her grandson's r e t a l i a t e d a g a i n s t h i m f o r mindset, Meyer replied: "Dakota objecting to the company's sale of is always in good spirits. He has high-tech sniper scopes to the not said anything [about the Pakistani military. Meyer claims a lawsuit] and we have not asked manager at the British company him." said he was "mentally unstable" Regarding allegations that her and had a "problem related to grandson is a problem drinker, drinking in a social setting," Meyer replied: "That's not true, according to the lawsuit. and I've been around him all his Jean Meyer, the Marine's 81-year life." - o l d g r a n d m o t h e r , t o l d The lawsuit, which was first FoxNews.com those allegations reported by The Wall Street were unfounded. Journal on Tuesday, seeks "I've known him for all of his life u n s p e c i f i e d d a m a g e s .
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only. According to the lawsuit, BAE hired Meyer in March, but the relationship quickly soured. Meyer said he became dismayed in April upon learning that BAE had pursued sales of weapons systems to Pakistan, later sending an email to his supervisor expressing his disapproval. Meyer wrote that it was "disturbing" how U.S. troops were being issued outdated equipment when better, advanced thermal optic scopes were being offered to In a statement to FoxNews.com the decision on which defense- Pakistan. on Wednesday, BAE Systems related products can be exported, "We are simply taking the best spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said including those to Pakistan. gear, the best technology on the the company was "incredibly " I n r e c e n t y e a r s , t h e U . S . market to date and giving to guys grateful" for Meyer's service and Government has approved the that are known to stab us in the bravery. export of defense-related goods back," Meyer wrote in the email, Meyer was employed as a f r o m n u m e r o u s d e f e n s e according to the lawsuit. construction worker in Kentucky companies to Pakistan as part of Meyer claims his supervisor when he was awarded the Medal the United States bilateral began berating and belittling him of Honor. In September 2009, a relationship with that country," after sending the email, at one then-21-year-old Meyer defied the statement continued. point allegedly taunting him about orders by charging five times in a The technology Meyer apparently his Medal of Honor by calling it Humvee into heavy gunfire and protested was, according to the Meyer's "pending star status." provided cover for his team, State Department, a type of T h a t s u p e r v i s o r , B o b b y allowing many to escape likely thermal-imaging rifle scope. McCreight, is also named in the death. He killed at least eight State Department spokesman lawsuit and is still employed by Taliban insurgents. Mark Toner said Tuesday that the BAE. Roehrkasse said McCreight "Although we disagree with his U.S. government in August is a former decorated Marine claims, which we intend to defend approved a "marketing license" sniper. through the appropriate legal a l l o w i n g t h e c o m p a n y t o McCreight is unavailable for process, we wish him success and "temporarily export" up to 20 of c o m m e n t o n t h e l a w s u i t , good fortune in all his endeavors," the scopes to Pakistan. But he said R o e h r k a s s e s a i d . the statement read. the approved export of the scopes Roehrkasse said the State did not count as a sale, since they POINT page 23 Department -- not BAE -- makes were for demonstration purposes
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Private-sector jobs soar, payrolls forecasts rise

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Pedestrians walk past a ''Now Hiring'' sign in the window of a GNC shop in Boston, Massachusetts September 1, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK| Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:11pm EST (Reuters) - Companies created the most jobs in nearly a year in November, adding to cautious optimism that the country's battered labor market is working its way toward healing. Better-than-expected housing and regional factory data released on Wednesday reinforced the view that the economy should avoid recession, though growth is unlikely to be brisk. "All of this confirms the economy, after slowing in the late spring and early summer, is back firmly at its 2 (percent) to 2.5 percent growth rate," said Steve Blitz, senior economist at ITG Investment Research in New York. Even so, Blitz added, "Firstly, I need to temper the enthusiasm that these numbers indicate that economic growth is accelerating, and secondly, it's still a very dangerous world out there." Central banks around the world addressed some of that danger on
Wednesday as they acted jointly to provide cheaper dollar liquidity to European banks facing a credit crunch. The credit crisis in the euro zone is one of the biggest dangers to the U.S. economic recovery that is still highly sensitive to shocks. Janet Yellen, the vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said earlier in the week the central bank still has room to ease monetary policy further. The Fed has bought more than $2 trillion in long-term securities in efforts to boost the economy. CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM ON JOBS The ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday showed private employers added 206,000 jobs this month, surpassing economists' expectations for a gain of 130,000 jobs. It was the biggest gain since December 2010. The data set an optimistic tone ahead of Friday's more comprehensive government report on the labor market and some economists raised their forecasts. "So far in the current U.S. economic expansion, the only period of relatively healthy job creation lasted for a few months from late last year to this spring," Ryan Wang, U.S. economist at HSBC Securities USA, wrote in a note.
"Today's job gain of 206,000 in November raises the possibility that we may be on the cusp of a similar period of job creation." The weak labor market remains one of the biggest hurdles for the economic recovery and is a major concern for U.S. President Barack Obama ahead of next year's elections. Friday's non-farm payrolls report, which includes both public- and private-sector employment, is expected to show a rise in overall non-farm payrolls of 122,000 this month. While economists often refer to the ADP report to fine-tune their expectations for the payrolls numbers, ADP's track record as a predictor has varied. Deutsche Bank raised its forecast for Friday to 150,000 from 125,000, while Capital Economics increased its expectations to 140,000 from 100,000. One economist, however, cautioned that the ADP number has a tendency to overshoot in November and warned against building too much optimism before the Friday report. "A seasonal adjustment quirk typically -- six of the past seven years -- generates November ADP readings well above the underlying trend," Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency
Economics, wrote in a note. "In 2010 and 2011, ADP was an average of 64,000 better than the prior three-month average, so applying the same margin today suggests the 'real' November ADP number was 140,000." Shepherdson said he was maintaining his forecast for a gain of 125,000 jobs. Macroeconomic Advisers' Joel Prakken said he didn't see any evidence of seasonal effects in the day's data. "I don't see any technical or seasonal reason to question the momentum in today's numbers," Prakken told journalists in a conference call. Macroeconomic Advisers jointly developed the report with ADP. The data helped lift U.S. stocks, but investors were more focused on the moves from the central banks. The three major U.S. stock indexes jumped more than 3 percent, with the blue-chip Dow industrials up more than 400 points. MIXED BAG ON HOUSING, PRODUCTIVITY Meanwhile, a separate report showed the number of planned layoffs at U.S. companies edged down marginally in November, though job cuts for the year so far have surpassed 2010's total. On the housing front, the National Association of Realtors
Pending Home Sales Index jumped 10.4 percent to 93.3 from 84.5 the month before. It was the biggest monthly gain since November 2010. But that report was tempered as separate data showed applications for U.S. home mortgages slumped for the third week in a row last week, hit by a drop in demand for refinancing. Business activity in the U.S. Midwest grew faster than expected in November, adding to expectations that national manufacturing data should show an uptick in growth when it is released on Thursday. Separate data showed the rebound in U.S. non-farm productivity growth was not as strong as previously estimated in the third quarter, while wages declined for two straight quarters. Productivity increased at a 2.3 percent annual rate, the Labor Department said, a downward revision to its previous estimate of 3.1 percent. (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Additional reporting by Lucia Mutikani and Jason Lange in Washington; Editing by Jan Paschal) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it PRIVATE-SECTOR page 22
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Accuser Alleges 100 Acts Of Abuse From Sandusky

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learned of so many other kids. Now that I have told and done something about it, I am feeling Former Penn State assistant better and going to get help and football coach Jerry Sandusky work with the police. I want other sexually abused a young boy people who have been hurt to more than 100 times after meeting know they can come forward and him through The Second Mile get help and help protect others in charity he founded in 1977, the future. according to a civil lawsuit filed The alleged abuse occurred after Wednesday. Sandusky met the then-10-yearThe 27-page lawsuit, which was old boy through his charity in filed in Philadelphia, identifies the 1992 and continued until 1996, alleged victim -- now 29 -- as according to the lawsuit. Attorney John Doe. It lists Sandusky, The Jeffrey Anderson said Sandusky Second Mile and Penn State as threatened the boy's family to defendants, claiming Sandusky keep quiet about the encounters. abused the boy at his State "Sandusky made a threat to him College home, at Penn State that nobody would believe him facilities and on at least one bowl and made a threat to his family," game trip. Anderson said. In a statement provided by his "The sexual abuse occurred on attorneys, the unidentified 29-year multiple occasions and at multiple -old man said he filed the lawsuit locations within Pennsylvania and because he did not want "other outside of Pennsylvania; in the kids to be hurt and abused" by f a c i l i t i e s o f P e n n S t a t e , Sandusky. particularly the football coach's "I never told anybody what he did locker room," the lawsuit reads. to me over 100 times at all kinds "His molestation was enabled by of places until the newspapers t h e n e g l i g e n t o v e r s i g h t o f reported that he had abused other Sandusky by Second Mile and kids and the people at Penn State Penn State." and Second Mile didnt do the Sandusky allegedly abused eight things they should have to protect boys throughout a 15-year period. me and the other kids," the This latest alleged victim is not statement read. "I am hurting and among those identified in a grand have been for a long time because jury report released this month. of what happened, but feel now The former one-time heir apparent even more tormented that I have to former Penn State head coach
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Joe Paterno has since acknowledged showering with young boys but denied molesting them. "Penn State and Second Mile each had a duty to protect the minor Plaintiff when he was entrusted to their care by Plaintiff's parents," the lawsuit read. "Plaintiff's care, welfare, and/or physical custody was temporarily entrusted to Penn State and Second Mile when Plaintiff attended functions sponsored by Penn State and Second Mile, and when on properties and premises operated by Penn State and Second Mile, and when traveling with Sandusky to football activities, including a Bowl game." Anderson said Sandusky, who remains free on bail, "belongs behind bars" today. "Sandusky is out there free on bail or low on bail and walking the
streets knowing what we know, he is out there," he said. "Imagine how the survivors are feeling," Anderson said the victims are afraid that Sandusky could be currently preying on children while free. Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general, declined comment on the new accusations to FoxNews.com due to the "ongoing nature" of the grand jury investigation. The growing sex abuse scandal has rocked Penn State, resulting in the departures of school President Related Video Graham Spanier and Paterno. Sandusky Charity Funding Under Athletic Director Tim Curley has Fire also been placed on administrative Why were millions approved for leave, and Vice President Gary charity? Related Video Schultz has stepped down. Exclusive Interview With Jerry Schultz and Curley have been Sandusky's Attorney charged with lying to the grand jury and failure to report to police. ACCUSER page 22 Both maintain their innocence.
In a statement to FoxNews.com, officials at The Second Mile said the organization will review the lawsuit. "The Second Mile will adhere to its legal responsibilities throughout this process," the statement read. "As always, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families." Lisa Powers, a Penn State spokeswoman, said the university had not yet received a copy of the lawsuit. "As with any litigation, we are unable to comment on specifics related to the case," she said. Sandusky's attorney has not immediately responded to FoxNews.com's requests for comments. Nov. 5, 2011: In this photo provided by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky, is escorted in handcuffs to a waiting police car in Bellefonte, Pa.
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Packing and patrolling, U.S. troops roll out of Iraq

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on Iraqi soil. "It's time. The president and everyone is saying it's time. We By Patrick Markey did as much as we can," U.S. CAMP ECHO, Iraq| Wed Nov Army Sergeant Fred Fox said at 30, 2011 1:24pm EST Echo in Diwaniya, 150 km (95 (Reuters) - Camp Echo's dusty miles) south of Baghdad. motorpools are empty, its private "It's time for us to go home and contract caterers have long gone let them take care of their own," home and murals depicting the he said. September 11, 2001 attacks on Soldiers left on Camp Echo, like New York's twin towers have other bases in Iraq, are still been painted over. patrolling to protect themselves, One of the last seven U.S. the highway south and the base military bases in Iraq, Echo is in even as they pack up and hand rapid handover to Iraqi hands as over equipment from vehicles to American soldiers there pack up air conditioners to the Iraqi armed and complete their final task - forces. protecting the last few departing On Echo, rows of white SUVs, troops heading home south across construction vehicles and jeeps sit the Kuwaiti border. parked waiting for Iraqi officials Nearly nine years after the to check U.S. inventories. U.S. invasion that ousted Saddam t r o o p s a r e l e a v i n g b e h i n d Hussein, the U.S. mission in Iraq anything not cost-effective to ship is fast winding down with only elsewhere, like concrete blast 13,000 troops left in the country. walls. Hundreds are departing each day Nearby, sand-colored MRAP until the end of 2011. armored vehicles warm their Hundreds of convoys of military engines before trundling out on vehicles and civilian trucks have patrol to secure Highway One. gone south into Kuwait since Violence in Iraq has dropped President Barack Obama last sharply since the sectarian conflict month said troops would leave as in 2006-2007, when suicide scheduled, effectively ending the bombers claimed hundreds of large-scale U.S. military presence victims each day and interSubmitted at 11/30/2011 12:24:55 PM
communal killing between Sunnis and Shi'ites ravaged Baghdad and other cities. Attacks and bombings still happen almost daily. Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Islamist insurgency and rival Shi'ite militias backed by Iran. At the height of the war, Iraq had more than 100 attacks a day. Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops died in eight and a half years and at least 60,000 Iraqis were killed in the violence. In 2006 alone, 17,800 Iraqis were killed, government statistics say. Attacks on U.S. forces are far less common now, though officials have warned insurgents may try to pick up their assaults in the last days of the American withdrawal. U.S. forces at Camp Echo still face one or two attacks a week, usually roadside explosives. The base was last mortared a few months ago. Patrols from Echo head out daily scouring highways or nearby fields for suspicious piles of trash, dead animals on roadsides clearing anything that could be used to hide explosives targeting convoys. "We know they can't destroy us,
but they do want to try to show they are the ones who forced the Americans out," Captain Mark Barnes, an army intelligence officer. "WAITING FOR THE WORD" Before Obama's announcement, U.S. officials had held months of talks with Iraq's government over the possibility of keeping a small contingent of several thousand American troops in Iraq as trainers to help local armed forces. But Iraq's multi-sectarian leadership lacked the political capital to push through any agreement that would have granted legal immunity to remaining U.S. troops, effectively blocking a new accord on troops staying for the moment. Civilian trainers will remain in Iraq to help teach Iraqi forces how to use the new U.S.-made hardware they have purchased, from F-16 fighters to Abrams tanks. Around 200 U.S. military personnel will be attached to the U.S. embassy. "This tour is all about bringing our soldiers home, getting them out of Iraq and turning over to Iraqi forces," said Sergeant Derrick Grabener. "We have to
keep the mindset that we are still here until we cross over the border." Camp Echo is down to the basics. Private mess hall caterers have been replaced by army cooks and soldiers now run their gym. Photographs of U.S. troops have been taken off the base's office walls. A mural painted in honour of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, which helped propel the United States into its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been painted over to stop images being defaced once the Americans leave. "We are basically getting light on the ground. Every soldier is consolidating down to one duffle bag," Staff Sgt. William Cannon said. "We are pretty much ready to go when they give us the word." (Editing by Andrew Roche) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Is Reagan Shooter Still Too Dangerous to Walk Freely?

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Government lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday that the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 went to a bookstore recently where he perused books on Reagan and people who've tried to assassinate presidents. Prosecutors who want to ensure that John Hinckley Jr., is not released from a mental hospital told the court that Hinckley is deceptive and unstable. They said Secret Service agents who tracked Hinckley during a visit to his mom's home followed Hinckley when he was supposed to be seeing a movie. Instead, he went to a bookstore across from the theater. Hinckley "has a long history of deception," they said, and "does whatever he wants and thinks he can get away with it." The lawyers are in court to review Hinckley's case. Hospital officials want Hinckley to be allowed extended visits outside the mental facility -- and eventually be released to live with or near his mother in Williamsburg, Va. Court filings from St. Elizabeth's
hospital are private, but Hinckley's doctors and his attorney have publicly pushed many times for more freedom for the failed assassin. Most recently, they were able to secure for Hinckely a number of 10-day visits with his 85-year-old mom. Now, hospital officials want to increase his departures from the institution to 17- to 24days at a time. Hospital administrators say if those visits go well, they -- not the court -- should be allowed to decide whether Hinckley can be released to go live with his mother permanently. "In excess of two decades," Hinckley has not had "a single incident of violence," Hinckley
Joe Amendola speaks about child sex abuse scandal Related Video Inside the Mind of Jerry Sandusky Who is Jerry Sandusky? Related Stories All Six Victims ID'd in Hinckley is still "a man capable Child Sex Abuse Case Expected of great violence" and his mental to Testify Against Ex-Penn State condition has not improved, Coach prosecutors argued. In an earlier This entry passed through the court filing, they noted Full-Text RSS service if this is specifically his thoughts about your content and you're reading it women. on someone else's site, please read Hinckley "continues to be the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdeceptive regarding his only/faq.php#publishers. Five relationships and interest in Filters recommends: Donate to women," reads the prosecutors' Wikileaks. court filing. It adds, Hinckley is "still not sufficiently well to alleviate the concern that this violence may be repeated." attorney Barry Levine argued in Friedman, the same federal judge court. who allowed Hinckley more visits PRIVATE-SECTOR In his court filing last month, in 2009, is hearing the arguments continued from page 19 Levine said, "There is no evidence that may last more than a week. of him being dangerous, not a He can then take his time deciding on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentlittle bit, not marginal evidence." on a ruling. He added that claims to the Fox News' Molly Henneberg only/faq.php#publishers. Five contrary are "shameful fear- contributed to this report. Related Filters recommends: Donate to mongering without any factual Stories Should John Hinckley Wikileaks. basis." Ever Be Allowed His Freedom? But the government argues This entry passed through the Hinckley -- who tried to kill Full-Text RSS service if this is President Reagan in a show of your content and you're reading it affection for actress Jodie Foster on someone else's site, please read and severely wounded Reagan's the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentpress secretary, James Brady, who only/faq.php#publishers. Five afterward dedicated his life to gun Filters recommends: Donate to control -- is still dangerous. Wikileaks. Prosecutors say efforts to obtain his eventual release are "premature and ill conceived."
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Rome, although no decision has been taken, according to sources familiar with the talks. Italian bond yields are now above the levels at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal were forced to apply for EU/IMF bailouts, and Rome has a wall of issuance due from late January to roll over maturing debt. The Eurogroup ministers agreed to release their portion of an 8 billion euro aid payment to Greece, the sixth installment of 110 billion euros of EU/IMF loans agreed last year and necessary to help Athens stave off the immediate threat of default. Juncker said the money would be released by mid-December, once the IMF signs off on its portion early next month. G20 leaders promised this month to boost the global lender's warchest. However, another G20 source said policymakers had made no progress since then in efforts to boost IMF resources,
which at current levels may not be sufficient to overcome the crisis. EU sources said one option being explored is for euro system central banks to lend to the IMF so it can in turn lend to Italy and Spain while applying IMF borrowing conditions. With Germany opposed to the idea of the ECB providing liquidity to the EFSF or acting as a lender of last resort, the euro zone needs a way of calming markets and fast. The ECB shows no sign yet of responding to widespread calls to massively increase its bondbuying although EU officials said it may have to shift, even if the EFSF gained IMF help. A Reuters poll of economists showed a 40 percent chance of the ECB stepping up purchases with freshly printed money within six months, something it has opposed so far. The poll forecast a 60 percent chance of an ECB rate cut to 1.0
percent next week and a big majority of economists said they expect the central bank to announce new long-term liquidity tenders to help keep banks afloat at its next meeting on Dec 8. (Additional reporting by Marius Zaharia in London, Erik Kirschbaum in Berlin, Robin Emmott and John O'Donnell in Brussels, Saeed Azhar and Kevin Lim in Singapore; Writing by Paul Taylor/Mike Peacock; Editing by Janet McBride/Ruth Pitchford) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Anna Hazare opposes FDI in retail - Times of India

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Moneycontrol.com Anna Hazare opposes FDI in retail Times of India Gandhian Anna Hazare on Wednesday opposed the Centre's
decision to allow FDI in retail and called for a review of the move. PUNE: Gandhian Anna Hazare on Wednesday opposed the Centre's decision to allow FDI in retail and called for a review of the move... Panel still split over PM's inclusion under Lokpal Deccan Herald
Anna slams FDI, evokes East India Company Hindustan Times Hazare asks Govt to respect people's sentiments on FDI Daily Pioneer IBNLive.com- Indian ExpressDaily News & Analysis all 427 news articles
Meyer resigned from BAE in May. He then tried obtaining a job at a former employer, San Diegobased Ausgar Technologies, but the lawsuit claims the opportunity fell through after McCreight characterized Meyer as a poor employee during a conversation with a manager who had to approve new hires. "Bottom line, it was determined that ... you were not recommended to be placed back on the team due to being mentally unstable and no performing on OASYS tasks assigned," according to an email from an Ausgar manager included in the lawsuit. Valerie Ellis, an administrator at Ausgar, said the company had no comment when reached Tuesday. Attorneys for Meyer did not return a phone messages seeking comment. Pentagon and Marine officials also declined to comment on the lawsuit when reached on Wednesday. "It is between Dakota Meyer and BAE," one source said. In a statement to FoxNews.com, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation said it honors Meyer for his "undisputed heroism" and his commitment to assist wounded Marine families through his relationship with the foundation. Meyer is in the process of raising $1 million for the organization, spokeswoman Eugenia Gardner
said. It was not immediately clear how much Meyer had raised thus far, she said. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Sept. 15, 2011: President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dakota Meyer Related Slideshow Medal of Honor: Dakota Meyer Dakota Meyer, a former activeduty Marine Corps corporal, will receive the Medal of Honor on Sept. 15 for his courageous actions while serving in Afghanistan in 2009, the White House said Friday. These photos were released Friday by the Department of Defense coinciding with the White House's announcement. Related Video Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer Receives Medal of Honor Young Marine receives Medal of Honor This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Plan (2011-2015) outlined wideranging reforms, including huge investment in non-coal electricityBEIJING -- Following recent generation assets -- renewables, declines in headline inflation, nuclear and gas -- and a strong weak power generation in October move toward more market-based and deepening financial losses for pricing. The need for these power companies, speculation has reforms is growing: Besides the once again picked up regarding g r a v e e n v i r o n m e n t a l potential coal and electricity consequences of inaction, power pricing reform in China. While s h o r t a g e s a r e b e c o m i n g some form of price adjustment increasingly common, while l o o k s i m m i n e n t , s t r u c t u r a l power industry indebtedness is reforms to pricing mechanisms rising sharply and generationaffect multiple domestic interest capacity investment has collapsed. groups and are proving hard to ... manage for the party-state. This entry passed through the Beyond pricing, many broader Full-Text RSS service if this is reforms are already delayed, and your content and you're reading it the struggle to build consensus on someone else's site, please read looks likely to cause further the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdisruption. only/faq.php#publishers. Five China's ambition to wean itself Filters recommends: Donate to off coal is well-documented. Draft Wikileaks. versions of the 12th Five-Year

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With huge hydrocarbon finds being unearthed in both conventional and unconventional sectors across the Americas, energy independence is being hyped to epic proportions in the United States. The scorecard now shows 6.5 trillion unconventional barrels of oil in the Americas, running from Canada all the way to Argentina, versus 1.2 trillion conventional barrels in the Middle East and North Africa. The U.S. and Brazil sit comfortably in the middle of the expected windfall, and even Mexico, long lost to the annals of hydrocarbon blunders, boasts major new unconventional reserves. Given the awesome scale of these figures, it is hardly surprising that
explosive geopolitical conclusions are being drawn: The U.S. can declare energy independence; import dependency is practically gone. The deficit can be fixed; dollars will stay in the U.S. rather than filling OPECs coffers. Oil will flow between the north and south rather than the east and west. Its American oil for American consumers at American prices, and U.S. superpower status can be maintained far into the 22nd century. ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Lok Sabha, Assembly by-elections peaceful - The Hindu

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Retail FDI: Congress closes its ranks, begins negotiations - Hindustan Times
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Novice kayakers die on fishing trip - The Age

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PPP Polls Florida: Gingrich 47%, Romney 17%

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CTV.ca William Hague's expulsion of Iranian diplomats divides opinion The Guardian The green, white and red tricolour of Iran still fluttered on Wednesday night above the entrance to the Iranian embassy in London after the foreign secretary, William Hague, had
ordered its occupants to leave. "These so-called diplomats are just... Iran's mullahs come out fighting Telegraph.co.uk US highlights Iran's 'increasing isolation' AFP UK orders closure of Iranian embassy Financial Times Daily Mail- BBC NewsWashington Post all 4,185 news articles

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The Age Bowen's grand plan to keep the refugees coming NEWS.com.au Mr Bowen will propose at the Labor Party's national conference this weekend to increase
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And here's the second poll out today showing Newt Gingrich with a whopping lead over Mitt Romney in Florida:
How to be the Anti-Microsoft

David Strom (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:30:00 PM
Yesterday, I wrote a short review of a new mobile app from Webscorer that has a curious lineage. The startup came to be from a group of several exMicrosoft developers and is led by Vesa Suomalainen. I have known Vesa for many years, and first met him when he ran Microsoft's mainframe communications business with a product called Host Integration server. This was back in the 3270 terminal emulation days and was quite the advanced product for its time. Vesa shared with me some lessons that he has learned with several botched startups since
then and what he is trying to do with his latest venture. Sponsor What is interesting about some of these points is how different the kind of company that Vesa is creating from what his team came from in Redmond. It is almost as if everyone learned how little they liked the BigCo mentality and have purposely tried to make things small. Don't be optimistic. Plan that you will struggle initially, and this way you won't end up diluting all (or even much) of your startup capital. "It is always better not to take any outside money and pay everything on your own dime," he told me. Agreed. This means that you have to start off small. Set
your sights lower."You don't want to conquer the world, just make a small adjustment over time." Vesa talks about having an excellent niche product that is highly profitable rather than shooting for the stars and failing and losing your entire company. That is what
he is trying to do with the racing scoring app. Know what not to do. Learning from your mistakes is just as important as success. Vesa's failure taught him more about what not to do with his present venture. "Watching a startup destroy itself was a very potent teacher." Speaking of which, note: "There are lots of ways to fail, but only one way to succeed." Sounds like something Yoda might say to young Luke. Don't make too many promises that you can't keep. Understand scope creep and keep it under control. Eliminate buttons, reduce functionality, and keep things simple. Resist the temptation to make your product more complex at every turn. Don't be greedy,
share your equity with your key founding members. Even if it is a small percentage, you want to retail your key developers and engineering talent. Nothing says loving more than some points of equity. Venture lightly with lawyering up your company.'Nuff said.
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Context, not Cores, is the Tablet Industrys Challenge

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:30:22 PM
Samsung showed off what makes it special this morning, with the new Exynos 5250 mobile chipset getting official ahead of its debut in next-gen smartphones and tablets next year. A 2GHz dualcore with what Samsung reckons is twice the overall grunt of the companys current 1.5GHz dual-cores and four times the 3D graphics prowess the Exynos 5250 is also interesting because, unlike NVIDIA, Samsung has opted for a pair of ARM Cortex A15 cores, rather than four A9 cores as in the Tegra 3. Thats going to raise plenty of questions about comparative performance, heat output and power frugality, but perhaps most importantly in the marketplace, at least its going to prompt an interesting marketing challenge for every company pushing a tablet or phone. When consumers predominantly look at a tick-list of specs, generally with the mindset that more = better, how do you get past the immediate assumption that four cores in one phone or tablet are automatically better than two cores in another phone or tablet? Its a question weve asked chipset manufacturers like Texas Instruments another firm that has shifted to A15 rather than increase the number of A9s in its
chips before, and they generally dodge it, arguing thats something
the brands using the chips in devices are are skilled at.
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Samsung, though, makes both the chips and much of the hardware that those chips end up in: it cant avoid the marketing challenge. The companys press release this morning did make a vague effort to put the spec improvements into context, hitting on the 2560 x 1600 resolution and stereoscopic 3D support though not with any great gusto. Thats perhaps to be expected from the semiconductor department, but unfortunately most product manufacturers arent doing much better either. This reluctance, laziness or inability to tell would-be users why they should care is increasingly going to bite those pushing tablets and smartphones. The chipset world is split in how it sees next-gen mobile processors taking shape. NVIDIA has thrown itself into the more-core approach, doubling up but keeping the same A9 architecture as it shifts from Tegra 2 to Tegra 3. Texas Instruments has taken the opposite approach, sticking with a pair of cores but shifting to ARM Cortex A15 architecture for a complimentary boost in power. Qualcomm, meanwhile, is hovering in-between: it designs its own chips, licensing the core tech from ARM but tweaking as it sees fit. The custom Krait cores in the
Snapdragon S4 series, therefore, will have roughly the performance of an A15 but use significantly less power than either it or indeed an A9, or so Qualcomm tells us."Apple hardly ever talks about raw specifications, focusing instead on the experience" A good rule of thumb is to look at what Apple is doing, though of course the Cupertino crowd has followed a vastly different strategy with its phones and tablets. An oft-highlighted difference is the fact that Apple hardly ever talks about raw specifications, focusing instead on the experience. The iPad 2 has a dual-core chip, Apple points out, but thats so that multitasking is smooth, apps load quickly, and anything you touch responds instantly; similarly, the graphic chip is faster not just because that looks better on the spec sheet, but so that games and menus are even more fluid and realistic. However, Apple in effect has its tablet and smartphone markets to itself: nobody else makes an iOSbased iPad or iPhone, whereas Samsung, ASUS, Acer, Motorola and the rest all make Android tablets and phones. In their rush to compete, theyve all set the benchmark for success at being faster/more powerful/more-
packed-with-cores. Android Tablet A is 0.23% faster than Android Tablet B, so it is A Better Device. General consumers dont understand why that might be the case, however, so theyre forced to translate the specs as best they can. Until now, the tablet market outside of the iPad has predominantly revolved around NVIDIAs Tegra 2, but thats increasingly going to diverge as the next-gen chipsets arrive. Context is something that will play a huge role as each manufacturer justifies their choice of processor. Their challenge is arguably the consumers gain: instead of being picked on price, or which has the skinniest chassis (but probably the same specs inside as everything else), or a color option that matches your suit, brands will be forced to explain why buyers should care rather than simply throw a long list of specifications at them. It could even result in a net benefit for manufacturers, too, a refinement in positioning opening up new niches for iPad rivals and allowing them greater space to flourish. Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Texas Instruments have convinced us that therell be no
shortage of power in the next-gen phones and tablets. Now the industry needs to raise its game in how it dresses that power with something even more important to end-users: context. Without that, every mobile device not wearing an Apple logo is likely to struggle to find its feet in an increasingly impatient marketplace. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Apple iSlate tablet has no camera/webcam? Dual Quad-Core On Mac Pro 8 Cores Drop-in Upgrade Orange deny Apple iSlate blunder: VP taken out of context eLocity A7 tablet now shipping Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set Sharp Galapagos 7-inch WiMAX tablet launches HP XW series gets Penryn upgrade Intel shows off 80 Core CPU Context, not Cores, is the Tablet Industrys Challenge is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
TechCrunch Gadgets Webcast: The Standing Desk

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This week we bring you the Fujifilm X10, the Galaxy Tab 8.9, and my new standing desk. The standing desk, incidentally, is my second desk, which puts me firmly in the 1% camp when it comes to home workstations. I write a little about my standing desk here but generally its a FREDRICK desk from Ikea set up so I have my keyboard and mouse at waist level and monitor by my head. We also talk about Devins favorite camera this week, the Fujifilm X10, and my favorite Android tablet this week, the Galaxy Tab 8.9. Ive included MP3 downloads and RSS feeds for your listening pleasure. Download MP3 Subscribe in iTunes RSS Feed
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The problems with video chat

Ross Rubin (CNET News)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:17:50 PM
Smartphones accounted for 59 percent of the handsets sold to U.S. consumers in the third quarter of 2011, according to The NPD Group's Mobile Phone Track. As their penetration has grown, consumers have been more likely to find themselves with an evermore versatile tool in their pockets. These capabilities have certainly contributed to the decline in once hot-selling categories, such as MP3 players, digital cameras, and portable navigation products. These companies, in turn, have sought to differentiate themselves, for example larger screens on car navigation products and better image quality and longer zooms on digital cameras. Smartphones are relatively cheap because of carrier subsidization; they are almost always with us because of the desire to be available for phone calls. However, are consumers settling for a second-hand experience in leaving their specialized gadgets behind? According to recent research from NPD Connected Intelligence, most consumers would say they are not. Propietary apps like Apple's FaceTime limit the overall reach of video chat.(Credit: Apple)
When surveyed about their satisfaction in performing a variety of tasks on their handsets, smartphone owners were overwhelmingly satisfied with all activities, eliciting either an "extremely satisfied" or "very satisfied" from the majority of users. Despite the warm embrace, though, some tasks earned higher levels of satisfaction and many showed room for improvement. Among the tasks consumers were least likely to be satisfied with was video chat, with only 66 percent of smartphone owners saying they were "extremely" or "very satisfied" with the experience. In contrast, 88 percent of smartphone owners expressed that level of satisfaction with making phone calls and nearly as many were as satisfied listening to music or audio on smartphones. Indeed, the relative lack of enthusiasm for video chatting on smartphones is not surprising given some of the hurdles facing the activity. These include: Fractured standards Imagine how ridiculous it would be if one phone couldn't call another. Alas, that's the case with video chat programs. While some, such as Skype, are available on a wide array of popular platforms, native video calling applications, such as FaceTime on the iPhone, achieve integration as the default method of remote face-to-face
Synchronicity Like phone calls, video calls can only when two people are prepared to chat at the same time. Unlike phone calls, though, most video chat services can't redirect missed attempts to a "video mail" equivalent to voice mail. That's a particular disadvantage for video chat because even if people are available to receive a video call, they may be less likely to accept depending on who's calling and how comfortable they feel about their appearance when video communication. chatting with that party. Bandwidth challenges With other smartphone tasks, Video chat can be handled such as listening to music or competently by most home taking video, there is a precedent broadband connections so there's to the experience with dedicated not much of an issue using it over devices. However, while some Wi-Fi from such a setting. may have experienced video chat However, if you try to use it on on the PC, it is for many a new the go, it can be challenging on a experience, particularly on the go. cellular connection. Carriers, handset makers, and This is particularly true because software providers should have unlike other streaming video strong interest in righting its applications, video chat depends deficiencies, though, if the on how fast your connection up to experience is to live up to its the Internet is, whereas today's promise as a key driver of 4G cellular implementations (like data. those of Internet access in This entry passed through the general) deliver far greater speed Full-Text RSS service if this is when sending data down from the your content and you're reading it Internet. This is why most carriers on someone else's site, please read f o c u s o n v i d e o c h a t a s a n the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentapplication for their 4G networks; only/faq.php#publishers. Five 4G-capable phones are most Filters recommends: Donate to l i k e l y t o h a v e f r o n t - f a c i n g Wikileaks. cameras.
Canadian firm General Fusion plans prototype nuclear fusion test for 2014
Mark Brown
Submitted at 11/30/2011 10:20:02 AM
A small Canadian firm is aiming to beat world governments and international research teams in the race to commercialise a nuclear fusion reactor, with hopes of testing a prototype fusion-factory in 2014. Nuclear fusion is the process most commonly found in the crucibles of active stars and the heart of the hydrogen bomb. But since the 1950s experiments have begun in earnest to harness the technique -- which involves crushing two or more atoms together to make a heavier atom and lots of heat -- and turn it into clean electricity. By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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Blue vs. Pink: What Role Does Gender Play In Mobile Phone Usage?
Alicia Eler (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:30:00 PM
A new study by Compete shows that women are adopting smartphones more quickly than men. In 2011, women outnumbered men in a study of smartphone owners by gender. This goes directly against findings in 2010, at which point there were more male than female smartphone owners. Of the types of activities done on smartphones, female-identified smartphone owners were more interested in sending text messages, accessing social networks, playing games, sharing photos and videos, conducting financial transactions and shopping online than their male counterparts. A greater percentage of men surveyed were more interested in streaming content (movies/TV) and making dinner reservations than female smartphone owners. Of course, this study falls into the same space that all genderspecific studies from big research
firms do. It conflates sex (biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women) and gender (socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women). These definitions of sex and gender are from the World Health Organization. Sponsor This study sees a clear distinction between "male" and "female," and asserts that boys will be boys, and girls will be girls. It seems to deemphasize gender-neutral phone features like sending text messages, access to social networks, long battery life and camera/video which score about the same across gender lines. What if marketers thought more about the Kinsey scale and variations in gender instead of going by the same old hum-drum heteronormative model that conflates gender and sex? For example, what about people who identify sex-wise as "female"
1950's. What women really want more than their male counterparts, it says, is personal email access and pre-installed games. These results are in line with a study earlier this year from Flurry, which found that mobile gamers are more heavily female (53%) than traditional gamers(40% female). Male smartphone owners are apparently most interested in fast Internet browsing, WiFi, but, if you asked them about their speakerphone, touchscreen, high gender, they would respond with screen quality, GPS, music "boy" or "male"? How about players, ability to search contents people whose sex is male, but o f t h e p h o n e , Q W E R T Y their gender is located more in the keyboard, memory card slot, "girl" or "female" side of the ability to run more than one app at gender spectrum? And how about a time, integrated app store, folks who don't see themselves in access to 4G network and access either realm? This study chooses to corporate email. to ignore them. Perhaps those Basically, the study suggests that concepts are too difficult for w o m e n w a n t t o u s e t h e i r traditional marketers to grasp. If smartphones for fun and personal you want to go by a "two-gender" u s e w h i l e m e n a r e b u s y system, you'll still find the results conducting business on their to this study fascinating and phones. By these standards, it indicative of a much scarier trend: looks like things haven't changed That we're still living in the a bit since the 1950s.
What is study data like this being used for? Helping marketers create hypergendered products. The study goes on to discuss the gendered nature of Android (crazy red-eyed robot caters to people whose gender is more "male" or "boy," if we're going by the twogendered system that this study works off of) in contrast with the new Verizon HTC Rhyme phone, which was released in September 2011 and is supposed to cater specifically to women. How does it do this? With a "charm call indicator which dangles from your purse and lights up when you get a call or text message." So boys get the fierce, all-powerful robot from Hell and women get a dangly light-up purse toy trinket? What marketers are really missing here is the difference between sex and gender, and how gender variance and a move away from the "two-gender" system can be used to make gendered actually marketing work. Discuss
Stuff you should know: sky high

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John Paul Stapp was the original crash test dummy, and his research has led to numerous
breakthrough in automotive playlist at HowStuffWorks.com. safety, including Toyota's injury Total aggregation of simulation software. Join Chuck H o w S t u f f W o r k s . c o m . and Josh for a closer look at Photo credit: Fotolia automotive safety in this video. Permalink| Leave a comment Full Stuff You Should Know
Former Paraguay guerilla Marciano Villagra dies (AP)

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battled two of Paraguay's militaryled governments has died at age 93.
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Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift 2011 is here

Jason Parker (CNET News)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:17:48 PM
Network Optix Raises $750K For Their Enterprise Video Platform

Devin Coldewey (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:21:39 PM
Cut the Rope, one of the hottest smartphone games, just got a free standalone version for both the iPhone and iPad(universal) featuring new challenges and holiday-themed levels. Each level features the Christmas tree background, and adds new stockings that teleport candy.(Credit: Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET) Certain apps have staying power on the top-10 list at the iTunes App Store and Cut The Rope offers just the right mix of challenging physics-based gameplay, family-friendly graphics, and tons of levels to explore to keep it near the top. Just like last year's Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift, the 2011 version helps you get into the holiday spirit. Developed by ZeptoLab, the game comes with 25 new levels, holiday-themed obstacles, and a new Rocket level at the end to add to the fun. There's also a bonus feature that lets you make greeting cards by adding the game's mascot, Om Nom, to images from your iPhone image library. Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift(free) comes with 25 holiday-themed levels to explore. Each level features holiday themed
of Cut the Rope art including various poses of Om Nom, along with other holiday-themed art like bells, presents, Santa hats, and a few more. The extra photo enhancer is a lot of fun, but lacks a resizing feature for the art making it crucial to take your pictures at just the right distance to make it possible to pose with Om Nom. Still, as a free holidaythemed extra, we think people will have fun with the Greeting Card maker. The game also acts as an advertisement for the other games in the franchise, letting you purchase the original Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope: backgrounds with Christmas trees, Experiments through in-app and even the ropes themselves purchases. have been made to look like Overall, Cut the Rope: Holiday strings of lights. In later levels, Gift is a worthy addition to the new holiday stockings let you popular franchise with new levels drop candy into one stocking, then to explore and added features that watch it shoot out of the another will be fun for any fan of the to add to the challenge. game. Unfortunately, the holidayJessica Dolcourt was a good sport themed version is only available and posed with Om Nom for a for iOS devices at this time. greeting card.(Credit: Screenshot This entry passed through the by Jason Parker/CNET) Full-Text RSS service if this is As an added bonus, ZeptoLab has your content and you're reading it added a greeting card maker so on someone else's site, please read you can add Cut the Rope art to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentyour images. Start by snapping a only/faq.php#publishers. Five photo or choosing one from your Filters recommends: Donate to iOS image library. Once you're Wikileaks. satisfied with the image, you can browse through a smallish pallet
same meta-stream, so you could video-chat while interacting with another HD video or presenting One of the companies at Disrupt slides. Its very unstructured yet SF 2011 that escaped the horror of more versatile than simple screenpresenting on stage was Network sharing. Optix, whose impressive video The system is demonstrated in handling technology was a little their EVE Media Player, which at too practical for presentation. the moment is necessary for the Theyve been busy the last few various applications they suggest months in improving their product for their tech. Essentially it a n d f o r g i n g b u s i n e s s relocates the most processorrelationships, and have just heavy aspects of HD video announced that theyve raised (running several at a time, $750K with which to continue switching between dozens of development. simultaneous streams) and Their product is what they call converts that to a bandwidth Enterprise Video as a Service, and requirement that is more easily is designed around the idea of met by less capable systems. In a h a n d l i n g a l l t h e c o m p l e x way its comparable to OnLives transcoding and bandwidth issues method, though I think they associated with viewing and w o u l d s l i g h t l y r e s e n t t h e manipulating video on different comparison, as their system is platforms. much more flexible on the user The delivery of rich, interactive, side. high-definition video is the focus If its not entirely clear what of their technology, which allows Network Optix does, exactly, (for instance) for several video watch a few of their demo videos streams to play at once in the and all will become clear.
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Support Web Standards on International Blue Beanie Day

Jon Mitchell (ReadWriteWeb)
Welcome To The Future: Every Instrument In This Song Is From An iPad App
Greg Kumparak (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:20:39 PM
and other essential building blocks of the future Web that will Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:20:00 PM keep us, our computers and our Today is the Fifth Annual sites and services from talking International Blue Beanie Day in past each other. support of Web standards. It's a Some decisions are hashed out day to celebrate HTML, CSS, the quietly by experts. Others happen open standards, languages and loudly in public. Web standards protocols that have always formed are sustained by conversation, and the backbone of the Web. The Blue Beanie Day is a chance to movement is spearheaded by the start some. indomitable Jeffrey Zeldman, Don Your Blue Beanies! whose work and writing To participate, take a self-portrait c h a m p i o n s t h e c a u s e o f a what it is, and as champions of the wearing a blue beanie and upload c o m p a t i b l e , r e a d a b l e W e b Web, we have to encourage a it to the Blue Beanie Day 2011 culture that keeps it alive and Flickr pool. You can also share it forever. If you want a Web that degrades t h r i v i n g h o w e v e r w e c a n . on Instagram and Twitter with the gracefully onto older systems, Standards battles are a long, h a s h t a g # b b d 1 1 . C h a i r m a n works with any browser on any b l o o d y s l o g , w i t h e n d l e s s Z e l d m a n a l s o o f f e r s a screen, is accessible to all disagreements and back-and- downloadable blue beanie you can regardless of abilities, and doesn't forth. But if we keep on talking add to your social network load like a trying to squeeze about it, we'll get there. avatars. football down a garden hose, join As we learned at ReadWriteWeb You can also just share the link to the movement and don your blue 2Way this year, the World Wide the Blue Beanie Day page. W e b C o n s o r t i u m ( W 3 C ) i s Want to learn more about Web beanies. working to pull us together standards? Here's our infographic Sponsor Let's face it: The vagaries of the around Web standards. It has on the history of Web standards. marketplace put demands on developer and community groups Check out our coverage of past publishers to crapify the Web. working on HTML5, device APIs, Blue Beanie Days. Discuss Zeldman knows this. But it is standards for privacy and security,
Fiddle, Magic Piano, etc.) making up the rest of the orchestra. Total cost? Probably around $100 Id be lying if I said I hadnt tried bucks. You might be able to find my hand at making music with one of these instruments in decent various iPad apps. Id also be (but definitely used) shape for that lying if I said any of that music much. sounded even halfway decent. Were entering a new era here, Imagine someone getting into a folks. One in which people can fist-fight with a duck. Add some not only simulate just about any reverb and a terrible bass track. It instrument in the world, but in generally sounds like that. which they can do so without Thats clearly a limitation of my b a t t l i n g a n u n n a t u r a l u s e r own musical abilities, though, as interface (thanks to touch input). dudes like the one in this video Want to play a guitar? Done. are managing to make entire Want to play a moog? Sure, why songs with nothin but the iPad, a not! Its by no means a substitute handful of apps, and their own for the real deal, but it opens up a golden pipes. world of possibilities to people Theres at least a dozen or so who never would have even tried apps in play here, with the likes of before. Garage Band on the guitar/drums, The future is wonderful. Animoog on the bass, and a bunch of Smule apps (MadPad, Magic
Glass Computer Peripherals - The Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse is Stunning (TrendHunter.com)
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( TrendHunter.com) The MultiTouch Keyboard and Mouse sports the classiest peripheral re-
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Evernote updates Windows Phone app with note pinning, templates, and more
Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:34:31 PM
Evernote has updated the Windows Phone 7 version of its popular note-taking app to version 2.1, introducing several new features and improvements that are uniquely designed for Microsofts Metro interface. They include the ability to pin any note to the homescreen, use note templates, and new language support. Users can now pin Evernote notes and notebooks directly to Microsofts unique LiveTiles Start Page. Shortcuts to opening a new specific type of note, such as text note, snapshot note, or audio note, can also be pinned to the homescreen. Tapping them from the homescreen then takes you directly to a new note of the corresponding type. Note templates can now be created for both basic text-only notes or for a set of note-taking actions. An example of the latter
More than 20 European robots have taken residence in the Science Museum for a four-day robotics festival called Robotville this week. Robots in all shapes and sizes -humanoids, disembodied hands, a fish and a ladybird -- are among the exhibits at Robotville. All have been born out of labs that are part of the European-Commission funded Cognitive Systems and option would be to create a Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Evernote updates Windows Robotics Programme. template that launches the camera D u t c h , a n d P o l i s h . O t h e r Phone app with note pinning, By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Nate and then attaches the snapshot and improvements to the app include templates, and more is written by Lanxon Continue reading... certain pre-defined texts to the easier text editing, background Rue Liu& originally posted on note, which could be a good sync, search integration, and SlashGear. method for capturing expenses or s o c i a l s h a r i n g o p t i o n s t o 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All business cards. Facebook, Twitter, and Windows right reserved. The app also now supports Live. several new languages, including [ via Evernote] Japanese, Korean, Brazilian, Relevant Entries on
SlashGear.com Evernote Delivers App For Windows Phone 7 Evernote for Mac 2.1 Updates Include Note Sharing and Recording Evernote landing on the BlackBerry PlayBook Evernote explains how it works with Siri Evernote v2.0 for Android arrives: offline notes, UI update & more Evernote buys Mac drawing app Skitch, makes it free Evernote for Android released iPad 2 Gets Evernote Peek Smart Cover App
In pictures: Robots invade the Science Museum

Olivia Solon
Submitted at 11/30/2011 8:36:00 AM
'Little Mole' Czech cartoonist Miler dies at 90 (AP)

Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:31:16 PM
AP - In the 1950s, Zdenek Miler stumbled over a molehill in woods west of Prague, giving him
the idea for an animated cartoon character that has enchanted millions of children around the
world and even made it into space on a NASA shuttle.
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LTE iPad 3 rumored for summer 2012, LTE iPhone 5 in fall

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:22:30 PM
Apple may be preparing for an LTE-based iPad 3 to launch by summer of next year and an LTEbased iPhone 5 to arrive by fall, if a new report from Nikkei Business is to accurate. The story claims that Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has reached an agreement with Apple to distribute the next-gen devices on this schedule, which suggests that device would arrive worldwide on a similar time frame. According to the report, NTT DoCoMos president Kiyoyuki Tsujimura and VP Takashi Yamada met with Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this month to work out the deal. The execs had reportedly reached agreeable
4-inch iPhone 5 and thicker iPad 3 tipped for 2012 iPad 3 this fall tips latest batch of frantic Apple refresh rumors Apple to overhaul all products in 2012, iPad 3 rumored for Q3 Apple rumored to be working on another larger tablet, possibly based on Mac OS X Mercedes-Benz shows off iPhone Interface Plus concept for 2012 terms, although previous reports from the WSJ suggested that Apples demand for a large sales volume commitment and its refusal to allow the carrier to add its own apps to the device had stalled the discussions. Although the largest carrier in Japan, NTT DoCoMo has not had a previous distribution agreement with Apple, which has instead been selling its handsets through rival carrier Softbank. However, Softbanks exclusivity with Apple ended with the iPhone 4S and Apple has since signed up carrier KDDI. [ via 9to5Mac] Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com iPad mini offers small price not small screen tips analyst Amazons 10-inch Tablet may not ship until 2012 Sharp may supply Apple iPad 3 LCDs, already supplying iPhone displays LTE iPad 3 rumored for summer 2012, LTE iPhone 5 in fall is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Effortless Earthy Ensembles - The Boessert Schorn Spring 2012 Lookbook is Laid Back and Cool (TrendHunter.com)
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All Things Superman Videos

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Details on Apple's Grand Central Terminal retail deal

Chris Rawson (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 4:00:00 PM
Apple is soon set to open a huge new store in New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and it's expected to be one of its largest and most profitable venues. The New York Post has obtained some details on the deal Apple got on the space, and let's just say I want someone from Apple in my corner negotiating for me if I ever buy a house. First, while it's expected that Apple's Grand Central Terminal location will see US$100 million in annual sales, unlike all other retail entities in Grand Central, Apple won't be sharing a percentage of that revenue with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Second, Apple is reportedly paying only $60 per square foot for renting the space,
far below what most other tenants are paying. The Post cites an upcoming Shake Shack burger restaurant as one example; that outlet will pay $200 per square foot in rent. MTA has justified the terms of the deal by saying it expects the Apple Store to generate
significantly increased traffic and higher sales at nearby stores where it does reap a percentage of revenues. By comparison, Apple's 5th Avenue location reportedly generates $400 million in annual sales, with approximately $15 million of that going to the location's owner.
In order for the MTA to see similar percentages, sales at outlets adjacent to the Grand Central Terminal Apple Store will need to rise by a minimum of 7.5 percent. That's assuming the estimates of $100 million per year in Apple Store sales and MTA's $500,000 revenues per 1 percent increase in sales are both correct. There's no way of knowing whether sales will rise by that much -- the new Apple Store hasn't even opened yet -- but count me among the skeptical. Details on Apple's Grand Central Terminal retail deal originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
CRAMER: The Central Banks Did This Because A European Bank Was Going To Fail
Lisa Du (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:06:00 PM
CNBC's Jim Cramer's latest tweets has a shocking theory on why major central banks dropped the news they did today. And he's not the first to throw this idea around. Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Your Complete Guide To Every Important Event In The MF Global Meltdown REVEALED: More Details On The Fed's Breathtaking $7.7 Trillion In Loans To Large Banks Here's The Real Scandal From The Fed's $7.77 Trillion Secret Lending To The Banks
Tips from Santa training school

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:30:00 PM
Even Santa Claus isn't immune to the effects of the recession. The New York Times reports that students and alums of the nation's largest Santa school are adjusting their act for our troubled
economic times. First, what is this Santa school? For the last 75 years, the nonprofit Charles H. Howard Santa Claus School has worked to "uphold the traditions and preserve the history of Santa Claus." Its goal is to help students to "further define and improve
their individual presentations of Santa Claus." Teachers cover the history of Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas, real-live reindeer habits, the correct dress and make-up for the job, building a social media presence, and saving for Santa retirement. Find out who's going to Santa
school, what changes during econmic recession, and what Santas are doing to curb kids' gift expectations in tough times. Full story at The Week. All the top stories from The Week. Permalink| Leave a comment
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Box offering 50GB of free storage to LG, Sony Ericsson customers

Scott Webster (CNET News)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:26:08 PM
LG and Sony Ericsson customers have access to 50GB of free cloud storage.(Credit: Box) Cloud-based storage service Box is in a generous mood this holiday season. The company announced new partnerships with LG and Sony Ericsson today, and effective immediately, anyone who owns an LG smartphone running Android 2.1+ will receive 50GB
of free storage when signing up for an account. The generous amount of cloudbased hosting far exceeds the 5GB of Dropbox storage that HTC recently began offering their customers and lasts the lifetime of the account. However, LG owners must sign up for an account using their handset before March 31, 2012, when it's expected that the storage will go back down to the 5GB plan. In a related note, Box will soon begin offering the same 50GB of
others, and the ability to sync desktop files. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. storage to Sony Ericsson's Xperia line of Android smartphones. However, an exact time frame has not been announced at this time. For those not familiar, Box offers cloud-based storage and mobile access to music, movies, photos, and other documents. Additional details include file editing, collaboration and sharing with
Apple reportedly to launch iTunes Music Store in Latin America in December

Megan Lavey-Heaton (TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
launch December 8 and will include Roberto Carlos, a popular singer who has yet to make the Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:00:00 PM digital transition. We got a couple tips from our The Next Web, who provided the S o u t h A m e r i c a n r e a d e r s translation, said the December 8 indicating that the iTunes Music launch will include all of Central Store might be heading to Brazil. and South America. Mexico N o w V e j a , a B r a z i l - b a s e d already has an iTunes Music magazine, says this store will Store.
However, to start with, customers are restricted to using
international credit cards and will pay in dollars. Veja stated local currency should be available within the next six months. This isn't that unusual, as until recently China had similar restrictions with the App Store. Apple reportedly to launch iTunes Music Store in Latin America in December originally
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Comedian Patrice O'Neal dies, had suffered stroke (AP)

Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:51:43 PM
AP - Veteran stand-up comic Patrice O'Neal, who gained a wider following through TV and
radio and helped roast Charlie Sheen, died Tuesday from complications of a stroke he
suffered last month. He was 41.
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Newt's Numbers, Cain's Cuts - By Scott Clement

SCOTT CLEMENT (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:02:37 PM
Is Gingrich trusted with the '3 a.m. phone call'? What the polls tell us about the Republican candidates on foreign policy. BY SCOTT CLEMENT| NOVEMBER 30, 2011 Most Wednesdays, we feature a special poll watcher analysis of American public opinion on foreign policy. The series will be cross-posted at the Behind the Numbers blog. Gingrich trusted with "3 a.m. phone call?": Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has become a frontrunner in the race for the Republican nomination by consolidating support among key GOP groups, and while some have dismissed him as another Republican "flavor of the month," his longtime Washington ties may give him a key edge over other contenders: experience. Fully 36 percent of Republicans and GOPleaning independents said Gingrich is the most qualified candidate to be commander in chief in a November CNN/ORC poll, topping the 20 percent who named Mitt Romney. The results echo a November Fox News poll that found likely primary voters trusting Gingrich with nuclear weapons more than
any other candidate. About half as many trusted his top rival Romney. Indeed, almost eight in 10 Republicans said Gingrich has
the experience to serve effectively as president, along with a similar number who said this about Romney. Fewer than half of
Republicans thought Cain possessed the necessary experience to serve as president (the poll was conducted before
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affair). Military spending cuts divide public: Embattled Republican presidential contender Herman Cain argued forcefully against military spending cuts in a speech on Tuesday, criticizing what he called a "cut, cut, cut" approach to national security. Cain's position echoes those other Republicans aimed at protecting military spending following the failure of Congress' supercommittee to produce a $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts. Americans overwhelmingly see the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan causing financial problems for the country. Six in 10 adults said the wars deserved "a great deal" of responsibility for size of the national debt in a Pew Research Center poll this spring, compared with about four in 10 who blamed the national economy and a quarter who cited increased domestic spending. Possibly reflecting war-weary attitudes of a public after 10 years of wars in Afghanistan and about as many in Iraq, nearly two-thirds of Americans approved of
reducing military commitments overseas to help reduce the debt in a September Pew Research Center poll. But fewer support reducing military spending in general -half of adults in an October Washington Post-Bloomberg News poll-- and just four in 10 backed "major cuts in military spending" in a November CNN/ ORC poll. Part of the reluctance to institute sharp cuts may be the overwhelmingly positive image of the military among the general public. Fully 78 percent of adults expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the military in a June Gallup poll, higher than any of the 15 other institutions tested and at least twice the number who had confidence in the Supreme Court, the presidency or Congress. Even though less than 1 percent of adults served in the armed forces in the past decade, a September Pew poll found that most report having family members who once served or are currently serving in the military. Pakistan controversy highlights
popular anti-terrorism program: The ongoing snafu over a NATO air strike killing 24 Pakistani soldiers renewed the focus on U.S. drone strikes, which are overwhelmingly unpopular among Pakistanis but seen by Americans as one of the most effective measures for reducing the threat of terrorism. The situation may fuel distrust between the two nations, who already hold staunchly negative views of each other. More than seven in 10 Americans in a September Washington PostABC News poll said missile strikes against suspected terrorists were effective at reducing the terrorist threat since the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks. In addition to spanning partisan lines, many more said such attacks were effective than said so about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, whose popularity has soured after initially strong support. The current controversy does little to help already strained relations between the Americans and Pakistanis. Nearly threequarters of Pakistani adults
expressed an unfavorable opinion of the U.S. in a 2011 survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project; just over one in 10 offered positive ratings. And while ratings did not go down further in the immediate aftermath of Osama Bin Laden's killing, over six in 10 Pakistanis disapproved of that U.S. operation. Even more Americans hold negative views of Pakistan. Fully 81 percent rated the nation unfavorably in a May CNN/ORC poll(pdf), ranking almost as unpopular as Iran and North Korea. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Why are a donkey and an elephant the symbols of the Democratic and Republican Parties?
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:24:00 PM
Top 10: Teeth Care Commandments

Adam Fox (AskMen Latest Articles)
Teeth are a funny thing. One minute theyve got no problem tearing apart a beefy burger, and the next theyre screaming bloody
murder from a seemingly harmless piece of string (that is, if youre disciplined enough to attempt flossing at all). Sure, teeth have bite, but they require a hell of a lot of maintenance to stick around and look good for the long haul. So at the risk of adding fuel
brush up on the basics of oral hygiene (and hopefully squeeze in some finer points in the process). Continue Reading to that fiery sermon from your dentist, were going to help you
Why do the Democrats choose to affiliate themselves with an oftridiculed member of the horse family? And how did the Republicans, the party of social and fiscal conservatism, come to be represented by an ivory-tusked pachyderm? The origins of these political images lie in the mind of a German-born political cartoonist named Thomas Nast, whose drawings also helped create modern images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus. Nast joined the staff of Harper's Weekly in 1862. By the time he left in 1886, he had not only stamped the elephant and donkey as political party symbols, he'd also become one of the most influential cartoonists in American history. Full article at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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China Cuts Bank Reserve Ratios by .5 Percentage Points; Central Banks Cut Rates on Dollar Swap Lines; German 1 -Year Bond Yield Negative First Time Ever; Futures Soar
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
have triggered a shift in policy." Wednesday's move will take the reserve-requirement rate to 21% for major banks. It will free up Submitted at 11/30/2011 9:09:00 AM Equity futures sharply reversed around 390 billion yuan (about an overnight pullback on a pair of $61 billion) in funds for the banks central bank actions, one in to lend, according to calculations China, the other an agreement by The Wall Street Journal based between the US and Europe. on data for bank deposits in China Cuts Bank Reserve Ratios October. by .5 Percentage Points The cut in reserve ratio "is a clear The Wall Street Journal reports signal that Beijing has decided China Cuts Reserve-Requirement that the balance of risks now lies Ratio with growth, rather than The People's Bank of China, inflation," said Stephen Green, C h i n a ' s c e n t r a l b a n k , s a i d regional head of research in Wednesday it will cut the reserve- Greater China for Standard requirement ratio for banks by Chartered, in a note following the half of a percentage point, the first PBOC's move. Mr. Green predicts such cut since December 2008. that China will reduce the reserve The cut essentially frees up banks ratio again in January due to a to lend additional money. potential liquidity crunch coming The cut late Wednesday in up before Chinese New Year. B e i j i n g c h e e r e d E u r o p e a n The PBOC has raised the reserve markets, with the benchmark requirement ratio six times so far Stoxx Europe 600 index up 0.8% t h i s y e a r , a n d h a s r a i s e d midday, while London's FTSE benchmark lending and deposit was up 0.8%. rates five times since October last "The data for the last few weeks year to combat stubbornly high h a s b e e n b a d , " s a i d M a r k inflation. The previous reserve Williams, China economist at ratio increase took effect June 20, Capital Economics. "There's zero and the last interest rate hike was g r o w t h i n p r o p e r t y s t a r t s , effective July 7. electricity output growth has There will likely be more such slowed, the export numbers for reserve ratio cuts, with one more November will be awful and they cut of 0.5 percentage point may have had a sneak preview of coming as soon as the beginning that. All of these things could of next year, said Yao Wei, China
economist with Socit Gnrale, adding that she doesn't expect any interest rate cut in the next six months. Central Banks Cut Rates on Dollar Swap Lines Bloomberg reports European Stocks Rally After Central Banks Cut Rates on Dollar Swap Lines European stocks rallied for their longest stretch of gains in seven weeks as the Federal Reserve and five other central banks lowered the cost of dollar funding and China cut its reserve ratio for banks. The Fed, Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank and Swiss National Bank agreed to reduce the interest rate on dollar liquidity swap lines by 50 basis points and extend their authorization through Feb. 1, 2013. Finance ministers of the 27-
nation European Union are meeting in Brussels today to seek agreement on how to temporarily guarantee banks bond issuance in order to improve funding conditions for lending. EU leaders agreed last month to provide the guarantees to restore investor confidence in banks. German 1Year Bond Yield Negative First Time Ever Investment Week reports German 1-year bunds move to negative yield for first time ever The yield on 1-year German bunds turned negative today for the first time ever, according to Bloomberg data, as the European Central Bank looks set to ramp up measures to fight the debt crisis. The yield on the 1-year note fell 13 basis points to -0.05% by midday. This is the first time it has seen a negative yield since
Bloomberg began compiling data on the asset class in 1995. Yields on the 6-month bunds, known as Bubills, turned negative last week, dropping to 0.05% on Friday. It was the first time 6-month bunds have offered a negative yield since the creation of the euro. S&P Equity Futures are up another 3 Percent, Bond Market Yawns Global equities are sharply higher with this global coordinated action. S&P 500 futures are up another 3 percent and will gap higher. Meanwhile Spanish 10-year bonds rallied (yields fell) a mere 7 basis points to 6.32%, Spanish 2year bonds rallied a mere 8 basis points to 5.51%, Italian 10-year bonds rallied 10 basis points to 7.13%, and Italian 10-year bonds rallied 9 basis points to 7.00%. Whatever the equity markets see, the bond market doesn't. A flight to safety of German bonds is back on, that China needs to cut reserve requirements is a huge sign of weakness (and no it will not stop a hard Chinese landing). Also bear in mind that on September 15, there was coordinated swap-line action that did nothing. Bloomberg reports ECB CHINA page 43
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Maximum Intervention Moves Into Overdrive; Foreign Banks can Fund themselves Cheaper in US Dollars than US Banks; Discount Rate Cut Coming Up?
Submitted at 11/30/2011 10:54:00 AM
Steen Jakobsen, chief economist for Saxo Bank offers his take on the liquidity moves by global central bankers. Please consider Steen's Chronicle, Maximum Intervention Moves Into Overdrive Our theme for Q4 was Maximum Intervention and today was a new high for this exact concept. The day after the European Union Finance Ministers (ECO-FIN) meeting (which once again failed to produce any progress on the EU debt crisis) the Chinese cut the RRR-ratio - the minimum reserves each commercial bank must hold of customer deposits and notes - from 21.5 percent to 21.0 percent. (The RRR started the year in 18.5 percent and this is the first cut since 2008. Back in 2006 the RRR ratio was just below 8.0 percent for a number of years.) This is an indication that Chinas help to the growing outlook of a Perfect Storm will be monetary easing despite relatively stubborn inflation numbers. Coup-de-grace Then in coup-de-grace style the Federal Reserve and five other
major central banks cut the dollar funding rate for overnight swaps by 50 basis points, down from 100 basis points, and at the same time made this programme run through to February 2013. This immediately raises the hope for further cuts in policy rates in the US and Europe. Right now, foreign banks can fund themselves cheaper in US Dollars than US banks. This will almost certainly mean the discount rate will be cut by 25 bps and before the weekend. Mounting pressure on Monti The market loves liquidity and this action shows the true determination of policymakers to address the growing funding crisis, but its ultimate success will depend on progress in the EU debt crisis, and whether this will again merely be a stand-alone action of throwing liquidity at a problem which remains one of solvency. In other words, the lack of structural changes in Europe are the same both before and after this coordinated intervention. Alas, technocrat Monti remains more important to the future of this risk -on move than the move itself. However, it should not be ignored that the market is looking for excuses to take the S&P 500 index higher, and there is no
generic models are short, and from a tactical point of view, I feel that to get a real solution to solvency, unlike liquidity, we need to see stock markets in minicrash mode before politicians and policymakers truly understand the necessity to make a long-term commitment to austerity and d e n i a l t h a t t h e u n d e r l y i n g growth. The signal today was: We economic data from the US has are prepared to buy more time, continuously surprised to the and feel confident enough to float upside over the past month. the market with cheap liquidity Fundamentals are improving in and an indication of further easing the US, and the ADM report this to come. The market will love morning gave indications that that, but investors should also Non-Farm Pay-Rolls data on remember to stay sober when Friday could yet be another drinking from the cool-aid name: positive news story. cheap money. 'Monster Santa' rally Go Santa, Earlier this week I described this Safe travels! Discount Rate week as likely to be one of Discussion consolidation and potential for a The Federal Reserve website has rest at 1215/1220 we have now this discussion of the Discount clearly overshot this on the upside Rate. and the target 1240/50 might well The discount rate is the interest be in full view. The market also rate charged to commercial banks likes the seasonal play of and other depository institutions buying into year-end, and I am on loans they receive from their getting plenty of ammunition regional Federal Reserve Bank's from tech-based analysts that the lending facility--the discount price action reminds them of window. The Federal Reserve September/October 2010 the B a n k s o f f e r t h r e e d i s c o u n t post Jackson Hole rally - making window programs to depository this the start of a 'monster Santa' institutions: primary credit, rally. secondary credit, and seasonal I will remain sidelined with a credit, each with its own interest negative bias, if only because, my
rate. All discount window loans are fully secured. Under the primary credit program, loans are extended for a very short term (usually overnight) to depository institutions in generally sound financial condition. Depository institutions that are not eligible for primary credit may apply for secondary credit to meet shortterm liquidity needs or to resolve severe financial difficulties. Seasonal credit is extended to relatively small depository institutions that have recurring intra-year fluctuations in funding needs, such as banks in agricultural or seasonal resort communities. The discount rate charged for primary credit (the primary credit rate) is set above the usual level of short-term market interest rates. (Because primary credit is the Federal Reserve's main discount window program, the Federal Reserve at times uses the term "discount rate" to mean the primary credit rate.) The discount rate on secondary credit is above the rate on primary credit. The discount rate for seasonal credit is an average of selected market rates. Discount rates are MAXIMUM page 46
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STOCKS EXPLODE HIGHER AFTER LATEST ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE WORLD: Here's What You Need To Know (SPY, DIA, QQQ, BAC, C, MS, WFC, GS, RIO, FCX)
Sam Ro (Money Game)
Federal Reserve has a range of tools available to provide an effective liquidity backstop for Central banks around the world such institutions and is prepared to the rescue? to use these tools as needed to First, the scoreboard: support financial stability and to Dow: +488.9 pts, +4.2% promote the extension of credit to S&P 500: +51.7 pts, +4.3% U.S. households and businesses." NASDAQ: +104.8 pts, +4.2% In other market moving central And now, the top stories: bank actions, the People's Bank of G l o b a l c o o r d i n a t e d China cut its reserve ratio i n t e r v e n t i o n . T h e F e d e r a l requirement for banks by 50 basis Reserve, the European Central points. In other words, the PBOC Bank, the Bank of England, the reduced the amount of money Bank of Japan, the Bank of banks have to keep on hand, Canada, and the Swiss National which should encourage more Bank announced they would lending activity. This move is lower the cost of swapping likely to appease those fearing a dollars. Specifically, they are hard landing for the slowing cutting the U.S. dollar liquidity Chinese economy. swap rate by 50 basis points. This U.S. financials were among the is an effort to boost liquidity in big winners today. This despite the European bank funding last night's S&P ratings cuts, markets. The announcement, w h i c h i n c l u d e d B a n k o f which came before the markets A m e r i c a ( + 7 . 3 % ) , C i t i g r o u p opened, caused futures to roar (+8.9%), and Morgan Stanley higher. (+11.1%). S&P also cut Wells In case that wasn't enough, the Fargo (+7.4%) and Goldman Fed also reminded us that it could Sachs (+7.9%) and slapped still do much more: "[W]ere negative outlooks on the two conditions to deteriorate, the banks.
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Metals were also among the major movers today. Gold jumped 2% and copper soared 6%. Mining stocks were big winners today. Rio Tinto and Freeport McMoran jumped 9.2% and 8.6%, respectively. The U.S. saw three pieces of good economic data this morning. According to ADP, companies added 206k private payrolls in November, crushing economists estimate of 130k. This is encouraging ahead of Friday's big BLS jobs numbers. The Chicago PMI came in at 62.6, beating the estimate of 58.5. October pending home sales jumped 10.4%, smashing the estimate of of 2.0%. The Fed Beige Book of economic anecdotes was released this afternoon. It showed 11 of 12 Fed districts were showing slow to moderate growth. The only exception was the St. Louis district, which includes parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. There were few losers in the
stock markets today. Netflix was the biggest loser in the S&P 500, falling 4.5%. Don't Miss: CITI: These 15 Countries Will Provide Monster Returns For Investors For Decades To Come Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: STOCKS SURGE, RETAILERS SOAR AMID FLURRY OF EUROPEAN RUMORS: Here's What You Need To Know STOCKS GO NOWHERE AND EUROPE GOES DEEPER INTO CHAOS: Here's What You Need To Know STOCKS GO NOWHERE AND BANK OF AMERICA TANKS: Here's What You Need To Know
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track Everything on Your Phone, and How to Remove It [Video]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:05:00 PM
Android developer Trevor Eckhart last week discovered a widespread rootkit, called Carrier IQ, that's capable of logging everything you do and comes preinstalled on a ton of smartphones-including various Androids, iPhones, and BlackBerrys. Here's how it works and how you can get rid of it. More
PopSugar's Picks: Our 100 Best Gifts For 2011!

Lisa Sugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:20:02 PM
Happy holiday shopping! In honor of all the giving to come
this holiday season, the PopSugar editors are sharing our present picks for the year. We've got 100 great ideas from home goods to shoes, accessories to bags, and
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Market "Inverse-Plunges" But Not Everyone Happy

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:11:44 PM
Today's tremendous rally in equities was well supported by broad risk assets initially, but as financials took off this afternoon to end the month down only 4.8%, CONTEXT remained less exuberant. The 6.2% rally in financial stocks today was not so evident in corporate bond-land where we saw net-selling overall. Copper slipped well off its highs of the day but ended very well as Oil was only able to match USD weakness on the day while Gold and Silver outperformed (with the former touching $1750). VIX was a popular topic as it dropped below 30% but we note that implied correlation did not drop from the open suggesting macrohedges remained more bid than underlying sentiment might suggest. IG credit outperformed (relatively speaking) which seemed more a squeeze move into the month-end close but HY's move was impressive as an early afternoon fade in HYG reverted to end at its highs. Equities and Credit ended back at 11/14-15 levels with IG and HY ahead of equity. Credit and Equity surged to get
back to mid November levels and we note that IG credit appears to be leading - not exactly a hugely high beta sentiment really and more like a squeeze on low-cost hedgers. We have talked about the relationship between index vol (options) and the vol of the underlying components a few times. The green line in the chart measures the relationship between index vol and the underlying vol of the components of the S&P
500. While VIX futures (red) did indeed drop significantly, the fact that Implied Correlation did not suggests that there remains an underlying bid for more macro protection than underlying singlenames - or more differently correlation is expected to remain high as risk-on / risk-off remains the regime. Consumer Staples were the month's outperformers and Financials the laggards but the strenght of financials since Friday
USD. Notably DXY is back to 11/ 22 levels but as is evident the change across various individual pairs is huge. And finally, to put the move in CONTEXT, we look at how a broad basket of risk assets performed relative to ES (the emini S&P futures contract). As the smash higher occurred, markets synced as we suspect machines reverted to their algos and looked for correlations to center around some price level. As teh afternoon wore on, broad risk markets did not remain quite as excited and stabilized as stocks managed to squeeze higher into the close on decent volume. ES remains 10pts or so expensive to the CONTEXT of broad risk assets for now. is considerable. Charts: Bloomberg Average: Commodities today were exciting Your rating: None but flatlined this afternoon (post This entry passed through the Europe close) and wqe note Oil's Full-Text RSS service if this is clinging to the USD move today. your content and you're reading it It was clear that Gold and Silver on someone else's site, please read were the higher beta Fiat bets the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwhile Copper just got over- only/faq.php#publishers. Five excited at China's new growth Filters recommends: Donate to prospects. Wikileaks. FX markets were very dispersed today as AUD massively outperformed and JPY underperformed relative to the
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STANDARD CHARTERED CHIEF STRATEGIST: The Euro Has Failed, It's Time For The Twouro
Simone Foxman (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:44:00 PM
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In a note out today, Standard Charter Chief Economist Gerard Lyon says that this crisis will bring an end to the euro as we know it. He argues that a "two-speed euro"with different currencies for the core and the peripheryis the real way forward. That's because the only way the eurozone periphery can get debt under control and return to growth is through vastly reducing the size of its economies. But the deflation this might cause could kill the eurozone altogether: I have always held the view that the euro would most likely collapse in a deflationary environment. And that is what we now look likely to have in the West. In an inflationary environment the necessary adjustment in the euro area is easier, albeit still tough. In the absence of inflation, the necessary adjustment becomes severe. That's why a two-currency
Coordinated Policy Action Is Big Deal, Blanchflower Says September 15, 2011 11:35 AM EDT The Frankfurt-based ECB said today that it will coordinate with system rather than a two-speed without losing some or all of its the Federal Reserve and other central banks to conduct three Europe is the way forward: members are pretty grim. I have argued over many years, One extreme is one or more d o l l a r l i q u i d i t y - p r o v i d i n g and outlined in a piece in this countries deciding to leave the operations with a maturity of publication in August, that the euro as austerity fatigue sets in. approximately three months. The best way for the euro to survive is At the other extreme is political loans are in addition to the banks not just a political union but a two union, and before one gets there a regular seven-day dollar offerings -speed euro: one currency for the c e n t r a l T r e a s u r y a n d , a s a and will be conducted as fixedcore, another linked to it for the stepping stone, the core helping to rate tenders with full allotment, rest who want to stay committed bail out the periphery. Both may the bank said. It will offer the politically to the project but who be more likely at the same time, loans on Oct. 12, Nov. 9 and Dec. economically cannot compete in for if at any stage a country thinks 7. the euro as it is. about leaving this will have to The dollar funding situation has Currently this is not being speed up the process for the core caused headaches for some discussed. Instead a two-speed to keep itself together. What is banks, said David Schnautz, a Europe, as opposed to a two- clear is that the euro cannot f i x e d - i n c o m e s t r a t e g i s t a t speed euro, is being talked about, survive in its present format. Commerzbank AG based in with greater political integration Please follow Money Game on London. The ECBs measures help ease those problems. It will for those in the euro, and those Twitter and Facebook. outside being somewhat excluded. Join the conversation about this be interesting to see if there is more to come. In order to survive, a monetary story Basis swaps allow banks to union needs to go the other way, See Also: and become a political union. IT'S OFFICIAL: Europe Has 10 borrow in one currency, while simultaneously lending in another. That is what needs to happen to Days To Save The Euro the euro now, hence the pressure MORGAN STANLEY: This Is The ECBs measure is a really on Germany to accept eurobonds, What The Euro Economy Will Do big deal, according to Dartmouth College Professor David issued at yields higher than in In 2012 And 2013 Germany now but substantially EU LEADERS: Here's Our Big Blanchflower. The fact that these central banks have acted together less than on the periphery. Bazooka! and said well backstop banks is Either way, the prospects for the really big news, Blanchflower, a eurozone getting out of this mess former member of the Bank of Englands Monetary Policy Committee, said today at the Bloomberg Markets 50 Summit in New York. Here is an interesting chart on ZeroHedge that shows
what happened the last time there was coordinated swap-line action. What's Changed? Nothing much that I can see. China cut the reserverequirement rate to 21% from 21.5% and the Fed and ECB renewed swap lines at a slightly lower rate. Yields on Italian bonds are still at or above 7%, and nothing has been done to solve any long-term structural issues. Nonetheless it's party time for equities, crude, and metals, particularly gold and copper. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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German Finance Minister says "Big Bazooka" Not Ready, Would Not Stem Crisis, Even IF it Was; Plans Too Intricate and Complex for Investors to Understand.
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"China Will Not Hesitate To Protect Iran Even With A Third World War"
Tyler Durden
In a huge non-surprise to the bond markets (but not to bullish equity buffoons), Wolfgang Schauble admits euro bail-out fund won't halt crisis Europe's "big bazooka" bail-out fund is not ready and won't stem the debt crisis that on Tuesday pounded Italy and the European Central Bank (ECB), admitted Wolfgang Schauble, Germany's finance minister. Mr Schauble said eurozone finance ministers, who are meeting in Brussels, could not agree on the terms of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). He told Germanys Handelsblatt that although Europe needed a fund capable of action, plans for the EFSF were too intricate and complex for investors to understand. The finance ministers, who were meeting ahead of a full Ecofin summit today, acknowledged the
440bn (376bn) fund would not win support to leverage it up to 1 trillion. Its capacity would be between 500bn and 700bn instead a total that is unlikely to be big enough to rescue Spain and Italy. However, the ministers concurred that the 8bn of international aid to Greece should be disbursed before Athens runs out of cash in two weeks. Evangelos Venizelos, Greeces finance minister, said: In Greece we have all the necessary conditions in order to go ahead with the next disbursement. Necessary Conditions Met?! The only way "necessary conditions" can possibly have been met is if "necessary conditions" have changed. Germany, the Netherlands, and the IMF have all insisted that all Greek coalition leaders sign off on agreement to IMF and EU demands. However, the leader of the Greek New Democracy party still refuses to sign as noted on November 22 in Showdown in
Greece; EU Gives Deadline on Signatures; Samaras Won't Sign, Sends Letter Instead, Seeks Policy Changes. Either the EU has blinked or I missed a "signing party". Regardless, Greece is going to default anyway, signing party or not. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
China. Toward Iran." Watch, and please forward the entire video, for an explanation of how China Fast forward to 2:08: "It is is approaching the situation not puzzling to some that Major only in Iran, but a perspective of General Zhang Zhaozhong, a how they view the western professor from the Chinese "threat", as well as what tensions National Defense University, said they face domestically. China will not hesitate to protect h/t Scrataliano Average: Iran even with a third World Your rating: None Average: 3( 2 War... Professor Xia Ming: votes) "Zhang Zhaozhong said that not This entry passed through the hesitating to fight a third world Full-Text RSS service if this is w a r w o u l d b e e n t i r e l y f o r your content and you're reading it domestic political needs...." And on someone else's site, please read d o n ' t f o r g e t R u s s i a , w h i c h the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentrecently said it is preparing to only/faq.php#publishers. Five retaliate against NATO and has Filters recommends: Donate to put radar stations on combat alert: Wikileaks. " Russia is another ally of Iran, with similar policy to that of
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:09:28 PM
Left-Leaning Kaiser Poll Shows Americans Dislike Obamacare

Jeffrey H. Anderson (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:36:00 PM
The November Kaiser Health
Tracking poll shows that Americans have an unfavorable (44 percent), rather than a favorable (37 percent), view of Obamacare including 29
percent very unfavorable to 17
percent very favorable. Whats most remarkable about Kaisers survey, however, is that it shows such results despite having polled a group of respondents that bear
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14th Consecutive Week Of Stock Outflows: Retail Refuses To Go Back Into Stocks No Matter What Market Does
Tyler Durden
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:50:33 PM
So much for engineered stock market "rallies" and global "bailouts" - per the latest ICI update, we can now confirm that
no matter how or what the market does, retail investors have firmly decided that the ridiculous market volatility is simply too much for most, and have withdrawn another $3.7 billion from domestic equity funds, and have now taken out
money for 14 straight weeks ($44 billion) since the US debt downgrade(but, but, the S&P barely lower), or 31 weeks ($130 billion) if one ignores the statistically irrelevant blip of a $715mm inflow on August 17.
Perhaps instead of trying to fabricate a makeshift price for the SPX which nobody believes any more, the Fed should focus on moderating the insane volatility which is the primary reason preventing any normal investors
from putting cash into stocks. And yes, $6.2 billion went into bonds, despite the record low yields. Said otherwise, retail investors have withdrawn $214 billion from 14TH page 46
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established by each Reserve Bank's board of directors, subject to the review and determination of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The discount rates for the three lending programs are the same across all Reserve Banks except on days around a change in the rate. Further information on the discount window, including interest rates, is available from the Federal Reserve System's discount window web site. Discount Window Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My
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domestic equity mutual funds since the beginning of 2010. Put a fork in stocks: America's infatuation with the stock market is officially over. Average: Your rating: None This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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Challenge: Who Discovered These Antarctic Islands, and What's It Got to Do with India? [Search Research]
Daniel M. Russell (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:00:00 PM
5 Ways to Snare Dinner in the Wild

Amy Hunter (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 8:00:56 AM
If you'r-e out in the middle of nowhere, and you're lost, and- it's been a couple days since you last ate, you're in what we call a survival scenario. And you're going to be glad, when you dig down into your pockets, to find out that you held onto the following list of snare- and trapbuilding instructions -- because snaring your dinner sure beats
knife hunting. To capture an animal you'd like to eventually eat, you first need to know where your prey is located. It's no good to set out a trap or snare where no animal is likely stumble into it. So before you set up your trap, look for signs of animals in the area. Prints are one obvious sign, but there are other more subtle signals: animal droppings, plants that have been chewed on or rubbed against, and areas where the vegetation is flattened, indicating that animals
rest there. For the best luck, set your trap or snare in an area where animals travel frequently like between a feeding area and a watering hole. Learn to spot the difference between a run and a trail. A trail is a very noticeable path through the area and it's used by many different species. A run is a smaller path that you may miss unless you look closely. It's used by only one species and often leads to the animal's home. Some
types of snares, such as a drag noose, are more effective when set in runs. Let's discuss some other snare and trap options. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Googler Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution-using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. This week's challenge: Who was the sailor who discovered an Antarctic island with connections to India? More
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Air Force Extends Secret Space Plane's Mysterious Mission

David Axe (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:41:00 PM
NASAs 135th space shuttle flight ended this morning when Atlantis touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking the close of a 30-year run for NASAs ambitious, controversial and troubled orbital vehicle. Americas space programs will continue, but without their flagship space plane or any manned vehicle, for now. Over the next few years at least, U.S. astronauts will hitch rides to the International Space Station in Russian capsules. Meanwhile, purely robotic systems will take over other space duties. Listening to some critics, youd think America had just retreated from space, forever. Were basically decimating the NASA human spaceflight program, former astronaut Jerry Ross told Reuters. The only thing were going to have left in town is the station and its a totally different animal from the shuttle. Today many observers consider the Shuttle the ultimate expression of American technological prowess, and see its demise as a signal of Americas decline. In one sense, theyre right: With its huge size, distinctive shape and fiery launches, the shuttle has
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symbol. But as a practical space vehicle, it has long been an overpriced, dangerous compromise. Theres a reason the Soviets canceled their space shuttle, and that the Chinese have never attempted one. Even without their own shuttles, both nations are now nipping at Americas heels in space. Russia has increasingly reliable rockets and capsules; China began manned spaceflights back in 2003 and is mulling a space station and a moon mission. Both countries are working hard to expand their satellite fleets, though they remain far behind the United States with its roughly 400 spacecraft. In truth, the shuttles retirement could actually make the U.S. space program stronger, by finally allowing the shuttles two users NASA and the Pentagon to go their separate ways in space, each adopting space vehicles best suited to their respective missions. When I hear people say, or listen to media reports, that the final shuttle flight marks the end of U.S. human space flight, I have to say these folks must be living on another planet, NASA administrator Charlie Bolden said in a July 1 speech at the National Press Club in Washington. For NASA, future manned missions will ride in upgraded 1960s-style manned capsules: first Russian models, then potentially American-built ones. Missions that dont require a human passenger will fall to rockets of
various sizes. The military will use many of the same rockets, and could also expand its brand-new fleet of small, robotic space planes. Together, these vehicles will make space flight cheaper, safer and more flexible than was ever possible with the shuttle. Pricey, Risky Ride Counting development costs, the shuttle sets the taxpayers back$1.5 billion per launch. Worse, it has killed more space explorers than any other vehicle: 14 in two accidents, compared to four killed in Russian Soyuz capsules (none since the 1970s). The space shuttle has narrowly avoided many more crashes than most Americans realize. Its hard to pick the closest calls, former shuttle chief Wayne Hale told Scientific American July 7. The shuttle, he said, is an extraordinarily delicate and complex system. The shuttles complexity is an inevitable consequence of its ambitious design. When approved by the Nixon Administration in 1972, the shuttle was seen as a cheap, reusable orbital jack-of-alltrades. There would be, simply put, no need for another vehicle because the shuttle could satisfy all launch requirements, be they scientific, commercial or military, human or robotic, National Defense Universitys Roger Launius wrote in a collection of essays titled Toward a Theory of Spacepower. Problem was, the shuttle
embodied some dangerous design trade-offs. To carry the heaviest military satellites, it needed to be big. The requirement that it also carry up to 11 people and all their life-support systems made it even bigger. With size came complexity. The complexity compounded with the additional requirement that the shuttle be reusable. Instead of splashing down at sea and being ruined, the shuttle had to land like an airplane. That meant wings and a dangerous, precise re-entry pattern shedding 20 times as much energy as a capsule would. The desire for the shuttle to be all things to all people research and development aerospace vehicle, operational space truck, commercial carrier, scientific platform ensured that it would satisfy none of these singular and mutually exclusive missions, Launius explained. To make things worse, with the multipurpose shuttle in hand beginning in 1981, NASA and the military essentially suspended development of other space vehicles. In that sense, the shuttle was an innovation to end innovations. Shuttles Down It took the crash of Challenger in 1986, after which all surviving space shuttles were grounded for three years, to convince the military that it could not rely on the huge, complex craft for all its orbital missions. That was the beginning of the end of the Pentagons love affair with the
shuttle, and in its autumn years, it did very little military work that we know of. The vehicle survived as NASAs sole astronaut transport until the second crash Columbia in 2003 forced the space agency to rent Russian capsules for the first time. Thats when NASA also began seriously looking into homegrown capsules as the shuttles successor, eventually settling on Lockheed Martins Orion design. For routine sorties placing satellites and other space vehicles into orbit, NASA will use unmanned rockets, from the 1.6million-pound Delta IV to the 1,300-pound Minotaur. Thats the Pentagons preferred approach, as well. NASA is trying a more commercial approach for resupplying the space station. For example, theyve agreed to 12 resupply missions with SpaceX worth at least $1.6 billion. But the military is also experimenting with the Boeing X37B, a robotic space plane that Gary Payton, the Air Forces space boss, described as an updated version of the space shuttle. Thats not quite an accurate characterization. In fact, the X37B ditches the shuttles most extravagant features in favor of more modest capabilities that work far better. For starters, the X -37B is small just 28 feet from tip to tail. It cant carry giant satellites and was never meant to thats a task for Delta IVs and
other big rockets. Instead, the X-37B duplicates the shuttles ability to carry small experiments into orbit and return them safely but at much lower cost: just $100 million per flight, barely 7 percent of the shuttles per-flight cost. The robot space plane can also function as an orbital spy and even a space weapon, although the latter role is unlikely. Most impressively, the X-37B can remain in orbit up to nine months since it doesnt have to keep people alive. The longest shuttle flight was 17 days, in 1996. So heres to the space shuttle the most visually impressive hightech boondoggle in American history. With the deadly, giant space plane consigned to museums where it belongs, Americas civil and military space agencies can get about the business of winning the space race, with orbital craft far better suited to the job. Photo: NASA See Also: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Whitman Concedes HP's PC Crown to Apple (If Tablets Are PCs)

Cade Metz (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:13:00 PM
Meg Whitman says Apple will overtake HP is the PC king (sorta)(Photo courtesy HP) HP tried to reinvent itself as Apple. But it didnt work out, and now, new HP boss Meg Whitman has freely admitted that Apple could replace her embattled company as the worlds top PC maker sometime next year. I think its possible if you integrate tablets, Whitman told Le Figaro, when asked if Apple could swipe HPs crown. Apple does a great job. We need to improve our game and our products to take over the leadership position. Apple could go past HP in 2012. We will try to become the champion in 2013. It will take time for the products that I have influence on to make it to the market. Later in the interview, Whitman said tablets were not comparable to traditional PCs, and she denied they were eating into the sales of traditional PCs. But her predecessor, Leo Apotheker, said something very different this summer. Clearly, shes intent on challenging Apple on all fronts, despite the premature death of the much-hyped HP TouchPad. Whether or not Whitman sees tablets as PCs, she certainly
believes these very mobile devices are needed revive the companys fortunes. Earlier this month, Canalys an IT research outfit covering markets in the Americas, Asia, and Europe has already included tablets in its latest look at the PC business, and its
confident Apple will surpass HP sometime in the second half of next year, with the version of the iPad likely taking the Jobsians over the top. HP and Apple will fight for top position in Q4, but Apple may have to wait for the release of iPad 3 before it passes HP, says Canalys Analyst Tim
Coulling. Not everyone agrees with the research firms stance. I definitely dont feel that the iPad is a PC not just because Steve Jobs declared this the post-PC era, either! says MacWorld editor Jason Snell. To me, PC refers specifically to one category of
devicesand we know what those are. Mice, cursors, physical keyboards. And HP tells us that Whitman echoed this characterization during her interview with the Le Figaro reporter, who was carrying a WHITMAN page 52
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people to snack less often and lowered caloric intake overall.The value of that study has been questioned for many reasons, not Intermittent fasting might be the the least of which is that despite most buzzed about dietary the fact that roughly 90% of concept on the internet right now. Americans eat breakfast, close to Like many other breakout diets, 50% of Americans are intermittent fasting (IF) is overweight. If eating breakfast is growing by leaps and bounds. In the first step to weight loss, then contrast to most of the other diets, something else is going wrong. however, IF is gaining ground More evidence seems to support despite the fact that the practice the breakfast idea, though. There challenges many long-held are some epidemiological studies assumptions about nutrition.In that show a connection between fact, practicing IF forces you to (with several stops in between), brings us to our next point. skipping breakfast and higher eat in direct opposition to those and each of those specific plans Breakfast: The Most Important b o d y w e i g h t . O f c o u r s e , assumptions, and that -- along will have benefits. RELATED Meal of the Day? Breakfast is sort proponents of the breakfast theory with the results -- is what's VIDEO: Is This The Secret To of a hot topic in the IF world, and are quick to suggest that most generating all the buzz.Before we Losing Weight? It's also important in fact, seems to be the first point people are simply eating the get into the why and the how, let's to note that every one of us does of contention for people looking wrong breakfast. Quick and easy first discuss the basics of the some form of fasting -- whether in on intermittent fasting from the m e a l s l i k e d a n i s h e s a n d w h a t . W h a t i s I n t e r m i t t e n t you realize it or not. The least outside. Don't we need breakfast? doughnuts can lead to weight Fasting? The most accurate t e c h n i c a l - w h i l e - s t i l l - b e i n g - Intermittent fasting proponents gain.However, the crux of the definition is the simplest one: IF accurate definition of fasting is tend to say no -- which flys in the breakfast study is that, ultimately, is merely the alternation of simply "not eating," so anytime face of much of the dietary advice a larger breakfast leads to lower intervals of not eating (fasting) you're not eating, you're fasting. coming from every authority from overall caloric intake. That is, the with times where you are allowed Most of us aren't on a structured registered dieticians to MDs.For argument for a larger breakfast to eat.Or, to use IF parlance, you timetable of meals where the years, we've been told that boils down to energy balance. If alternate a fasting period with a window of fasting is constant, so breakfast is the most important weight loss comes down to feeding window. How long each rather than fasting intermittently, meal of the day. In fact, many "calories in" versus "calories out," will be varies depending on which we're fasting haphazardly -- and people are often scolded by their then the composition of the food type of IF programming you there's no benefit there.The physicians for skipping breakfast, shouldn't matter. If we've learned select -- and there are several to exception for most people is particularly people who are anything from Mark Haub's choose from. Each method of sleep. When you're sleeping, embarking on a plan to lose Twinkie diet, it's that you can eat intermittent fasting will be you're fasting; therefore, most of weight.There is some credence garbage and lose weight; clearly, discussed in a later article, but for us have a fairly rigid fasting here: A study conducted in 2008 something else is at work. We now it's enough to mention that period of 6 to 8 hours per night showed that participants who ate a have more on intermittent fasting, the differences in programming until we eat in the morning. It is calorically dense breakfast lost next... come from expanding the fasting for this reason, by the way, that more weight than those who Continue Reading window. The fasting period on our morning meal is called didn't. The espoused theory for specific plans can range from 16 "breakfast," as you are literally the results was that the higher hours all the way up to 36 hours breaking your overnight fast. That caloric intake early in the day led
John Romaniello (AskMen Latest Articles)
Video: Jessica Simpson Is RedHot at First Pregnant RedCarpet Event With Eric
Lauren Bradshaw (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:15:00 PM
Jessica Simpson is one red-hot mom to be! Jessica arrived to last night's Footwear News Achievement Awards in NYC in a tight red dress, which is a departure from the head-to-toe black pregnancy looks we've been seeing her in lately. Check out Jessica's maternity style in today's PopSugar Rush!
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Google, VMware, and Cisco Throw Money at Puppet

Caleb Garling (Wired Top Stories)
for the end-user is the most important. Kaines actually built Puppet Labs Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:02:00 PM with Google in mind. Back in Computing big boys show Puppet 2005, web giants such as Google the money Three giants of the IT and Amazon were using software game have invested big money in that did automated IT tasks in Puppet Labs, an outfit that their data centers, but these tools develops open source software for were completely proprietary. automatically configuring and Kaines sought to bring this sort of managing machines inside the IT automation to the masses, data center. building an open source platform On Tuesday, the Portland-based as well as an for-pay offering outfit announced Series C funding d e s i g n e d s p e c i f i c a l l y f o r round of $8.5 million, including enterprises. Our opensource investments from Cisco, VMware, product solves most problems of and Google. Mountain View tells every enterprise, he says. And Wired that its investment is in no our commercial product solves way strategic, but Puppet founder e v e r y p r o b l e m o f m o s t Luke Kaines indicates that both e n t e r p r i s e s . VMware and Cisco will advise his The implication is that the open company. source product will require a little VMWare and Cisco both sell coding to completely suite an directly to our IT customers and enterprises needs, while the sysadmins, Kaines says. Its commercial product Puppet crucial to have partners which Enterprise 2.0, announced in understand that building software September is ready right out of
the proverbial box. Kaines points out that online giants like Zynga and Twitter use Puppet for their production environments. According to Kaines, Puppet needed additional funding because it couldnt keep up with the market demands, especially
when it came to Puppet Enterprise 2.0. Kaines says that Google now uses Puppet for its internal IT systems the infrastructure that supports employee desktops and laptops but he adds that Google is still quite secretive
about the infrastructure underpins its search engine, Gmail, and other public web services A spokeman for Google Ventures the companys investment arm tells Wired that its Puppet Labs investment is merely that. Some of the early press reported that the Puppet Labs funding deal is strategic, he said. Thats incorrect. Its strictly a venture deal and not strategic in any way. Photo: Images_of_Money/Flickr This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Path is a Lightweight, Mobile-Only, Private Social Network [Social Networks]

Thorin Klosowski (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:30:00 PM
Android/iOS: If you can somehow manage to fit another social network into your life,
Path, a mobile-only, simplified social networking app has just relaunched with a complete
overhaul to its interface and style. More
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tablet. Is that your only device? she asked the reporter. No, he replied. Thats what weve seen a lot of, Whitman said. Its an additional purchase. But tablets are worth including in the market if only because they do eat into the sales of at least low -end notebook PCs. Tablets sales surpassed netbook sales in the second quarter of this year, according to ABI Research, and Leo Apotheker clearly acknowledged the impact of tablets just before he was ousted as HPs CEO. The tablet effect is real, he said multiple times during a conference call this past August. Big name research outfit Forrester doesnt include tablets in its PC market research, but it sees the value of doing do. I think [it] is a very valuable perspective, says Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps.
iPads (tablets) are a new form factor of PC. iPads broaden the category of computing devices, but they are different from older forms of computers in important ways. HP tried to challenge Apple with its own tablet, the TouchPad, based on the webOS mobile operating system it acquired with its purchase of Palm. And it envisioned webOS as a platform that would span myriad devices from tablets and phones to desktops and even printers turning HP into an Apple of the business world. There is a word for what we have achieved and thats synergy, said HPs Jon Rubenstein, the former head of Palm and a top Steve Jobs disciple. HP is bringing synergy to an incredible range of new products. But TouchPad sales were so poor HP killed its tablet after only a matter of weeks, and webOS is now confined to a tech world
A Broadway tickets web service

(Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 7:16:09 AM
I want to buy tickets to a Broadway play this Saturday and/ or Sunday. It's the height of the season, so the best plays are sold out.
Yes I know about the TKTS booth in Times Square. What I want is a ticket-broker site that takes a query like the one in italics in the first line of this post. I know some of the shows have seats open. But so far all I can find is a hunt-and-peck interface. I
limbo. Speaking with Le Figaro, Whitman said a decision on the future of the OS would be made in two weeks. Whatever the company decides, the synergy idea is no more. HP will offer a Window 8 tablet sometime next year, but Whitman says the company will need a second OS to as it revives its tablet business and pushes to regain that PC crown two years down the road. Additional reporting by Jon Phillips This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentJames Bassil only/faq.php#publishers. Five (AskMen Latest Articles) Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. The best airlines of the 70s and 80s have lost their glamour. Our fathers would scramble to book with companies like Delta, British Airways, Qantas, and Air France, knowing that they were buying a ticket to a comfy seat in a brandnew, big-ass Boeing, where they would be served champagne by a sexy stewardess. Hell, they even had a shot at sleeping with the can ask about individual stewardess. Thats unbelievable performances of individual plays. service!Today, these same That's going to take forever. A airlines have lost all that -- and service like Hipmunk or Kayak more. Delta now charges up to for plays. Now that would be $75 for checked bags. Qantas nice! recently stranded its passengers If you know of such a service, when it grounded its flights over helllp! If not, get busy. a workforce dispute. And Air France has suffered three commercial disasters since the year 2000; in the most recent one, the pilots bickered as the plane crashed. Thats terrible service.
Best Airlines
Its always sad to see onceglorious companies disintegrate, but this is the grim business of life. The old gets rotten and tossed away, to be replaced by the next generation. And the next generation of best airlines is a glorious one indeed, full of Boeings and Airbuses, digital-era service and, yes, hot stewardesses(though they probably wont sleep with you; those days really are done). Here are the 10 airlines that offer the best onboard experience in 2012. We selected and ranked our nextgeneration airlines based chiefly on three factors: youth and quality of fleet, integration of new technologies, and that most missed of great airline qualities, good service. We did not take into account those elements that have no bearing on the in-plane impressions, such as baggage handling and lounge services. Continue Reading
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Top 10 Tech Tools for Managing Your Money

Wesley Fenlon (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Was Mitt Romney Pro-Life Before He Was Pro-Choice Before He Was Pro-Life?
Mark Hemingway (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:09:00 PM
the movies every now and then, but do you know how much you should be saving for retirement? Submitted at 11/30/2011 8:00:56 AM Do you even know how much With the unemployment rate in money you spend on snack foods the United States hanging close to every month? Could you be using the 10 percent mark at the end of a credit card that gives you cash 2010, up from 2008's 7.4 percent, back for every purchase? pinching pennies and sticking to a An amazing array of high-tech tight budget is as important as tools exists to help us answer ever. Fifteen million people out of every one of those questions. work is the sign of a struggling They range from the complex economy -- and even when the s o f t w a r e a p p l i c a t i o n s l i k e economy is healthy, knowing how Quicken that offer precise control to manage your money is a of every transaction coming and valuable skill [source: Trading going through our bank accounts, Economics]. You may know you t o s i m p l e r e s o u r c e s l i k e can afford to go out to eat and hit A n n u a l C r e d i t R e p o r t . c o m .
Whether you need to craft a budget to plan for retirement or pick out a new credit card with a low interest rate, there's a tool out there waiting to be used. We'll start with powerful software that can take charge of your entire financial life, then move on to free Internet solutions that can also be incredibly useful. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
At the American Spectator, about Mitt Romney's pro-life Joseph Lawler draws attention to conversion: this Kathleen Parker column
Holiday Gifts for Food Lovers

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:00:00 AM
Barbara Walters Reveals Most Fascinating People of 2011

Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:03:53 PM
Find out who ranks on Barbara Walter's most fascinating people list- JustJared Country singer Mindy McCready and her child are no longer missing- People Has Michael Fassbender started campaigning for an Oscar?-
Lainey Gossip Jon Hamm to play a butler?Huffington Post Is Christopher Meloni joining the cast of True Blood?- D-Listed Chuck Star Zachary Levi to host Spike TV's video game awards- Hollywood Reporter Stacy Keibler loves to show off her long legs in skinny jeansHollywood Tuna Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler
are engaged. . . again- Pink Is the New Blog
Amanda Seyfried keeps her assets in check- The Superficial Carey Mulligan talks about her NC-17 role in Shame- The Daily Beast Ali Lohan denies plastic surgery rumors- TooFab Twilight fans are flocking to bridal boutiques- Amy Grindhouse
What to gift the food lovera question that can prove to be quite a conumdrum. Luckily, our editors took up the project and deliver with their top holiday picks for the culinary connosieur. If a splurge is in order and a KitchenAid is absent, the 5-quart stand mixer now comes in a handsome espresso finish. Price:$399 Shop: KitchenAid Next Orange Howell Snowflakes This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Britain to expel all Iranian diplomats

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:15:08 PM
"hasty" and that Iran would be taking "further appropriate action", according to state B r i t a i n h a s o r d e r e d t h e television reports. immediate closure of Iran's Britain has voiced outrage over embassy in London and closed its the ransacking of its diplomatic own embassy in Tehran after it premises in Tehran on Tuesday by was stormed by protesters. hardline students and Basij armed "The Iranian charge [d'affaires] in men in revenge for new British London is being informed now and Western sanctions over Iran's that we require the immediate nuclear programme. Iranian closure of the Iranian embassy in protesters stormed two British London and that all Iranian Embassy compounds in Tehran on diplomatic staff must leave the Tuesday [REUTERS] United Kingdom within the next " I f a n y c o u n t r y m a k e s i t 4 8 h o u r s , " B r i t i s h F o r e i g n impossible for us to operate on Minister William Hague told their soil they cannot expect to parliament on Wednesday. have a functioning embassy here," "We have now closed the British Hague said. embassy in Tehran. We have Mindful of the 1979 seizure of decided to evacuate all our staff the US embassy in Tehran, when and as of the last few minutes, the r a d i c a l s t u d e n t s h e l d 5 2 last of our UK-based staff have Americans hostage for 444 days, now left Iran." Britain waited till all its two Hague also announced that dozen diplomatic staff and Iranian ambassadors had been dependents had left the country to summoned in countries across announce its move. Europe to receive strong protests Conservative fringe over the storming of the embassy. Hague said it was "fanciful" to The move is a significant one, Al think the Iranian authorities could J a z e e r a ' s A n d r e w S i m m o n s not have protected the embassy, reported from London, that or that the assault could have amounts to a "firm warning" to taken place without "some degree Tehran. of regime consent". It marks "a complete split in The diplomatic crisis is the worst diplomatic relations, not cut off dispute between Britain and Iran completely but [downgraded to] since full relations were restored the lowest level," Simmons said. in 1999, 10 years after Ayatollah British response 'hasty' Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa to kill I r a n ' s f o r e i g n m i n i s t r y , author Salman Rushdie for his meanwhile, said shortly after book "The Satanic Verses". Hague's announcement that the "It's rock bottom as far as Anglomove to close the embassy was Iranian relations are concerned,"
said Ali Ansari, director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at St Andrews University in Scotland. "The Iranians have a mountain to climb. I don't think they fully understand how difficult it is for them now." "What you are moving into is a period of containment and quarantine." 'Fraught' European response Hague said European Union foreign ministers would discuss a possible co-ordinated response to the embassy attack at a meeting in Brussels later on Wednesday and on Thursday. The EU ministers would discuss "further action which needs to be taken in the light of Iran's continued pursuit of a nuclear weapons programme," he said. Germany and France on Wednesday also recalled their respective ambassadors to Iran for "consultations" over the storming
of the British embassy. Al Jazeera's Simmons reported that France was pushing for sanctions to be imposed on Irans oil exports, but that the initiative was meeting resistance from other European governments. "The reason this is so contentious is that Iran is such a big OPEC producer and this could harm economies in Europe," he reported. "This is going to be a fraught meeting in Brussels on Thursday." Britain, however, will support the embargo, diplomatic sources told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. "Now that the UK has downgraded diplomatic relations with Iran, it will support increased sanctions ... and would likely go ahead with those sanctions unilaterally or with France and Germany," the diplomatic source said, referring to the ban on
Iranian crude oil imports. Britain and other Western nations accuse Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons but Tehran insists its programme is purely for peaceful purposes. Britain announced last week that it was halting all transactions with Iran's financial system, including its central bank. Iranian officials this week retaliated by passing a law kicking out the British ambassador and downgrading diplomatic ties. Iranians split The attack also exposes widening rifts within Iran's ruling elite over how to deal with the increased international pressure as sanctions take their toll on the already stagnant economy. The protest appeared to be a move by the conservatives who dominate parliament to force President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to heed their demand to expel the British ambassador. Ahmadinejad and his ministers have shown no willingness to compromise on their refusal to halt Iran's nuclear work but have sought to keep talks open to limit what sanctions are imposed. "This incident was planned by elements who are not opposed per se to negotiations but want to stop them merely because of their own petty political struggles," said Trita Parsi, a US-based expert on Western-Iranian relations. BRITAIN page 56
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Turkey imposes sanctions on Syria

Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:28:38 PM
Turkey has said it will suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze the assets of Bashar alAssad's government as part of sanctions against its former ally. Announcing the measures apparently aimed at persuading the Syrian president to end his crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish foreign minister, said in Ankara on Wednesday that Assad's government had come "to the end of the road". He said Turkey will block the delivery of all weapons and military equipment to Syria. "Every bullet fired, every bombed mosque has eliminated the legitimacy of the Syrian leadership and has widened the gap between us," Davutoglu said. "Syria has squandered the last chance that it was given." Davutoglu said Syria "has entered a vicious circle of violence", despite warnings from Turkey. "Syria must immediately cease using force on the people and the forces must immediately withdraw from the cities," he said. He also said a co-operation agreement with Syria was being suspended until there was a new government in place. "Until a legitimate government
which is at peace with its people is in charge in Syria, the mechanism of the High Level of Strategic Co-operation has been suspended," Davutoglu said. 'Economic warfare' The Turkish steps follow in the wake of sanctions announced by the Arab League, which have been described by Walid alMuallem, Syria's foreign minister, as equivalent to "economic warfare" and thus giving Syria the right to use its strategic location to inflict economic damage of its own. Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, who is at the Turkish-Syrian border, said that the decision to impose sanctions was a "significant step for the Turkish government", as it demonstrated that it has "completely lost faith in the regime in Damascus. "The sanctions will put more pressure on Syria," he said, adding that previously Turkey and Syria had strong trade relations, and had many plans to work together in both countries. Ankara has said any sanctions would not hurt the Syrian people and has ruled out cutting off electricity and water supplies. It has also said civil aviation by Turkish Airlines to Damascus will continue. Meanwhile, Syria released 912 prisoners detained for involvement in protests against
meeting with the Icelandic foreign minister, Lavrov said that calls for an arms embargo on Syria were "unfair". He said that armed groups opposing the Syrian government had been supplied from the outside. He drew parallels to the fighting Assad on Wednesday, the state Syria if increasing numbers of in Libya, where he said the West news agency said. people try to flee the violence armed the opposition forces Those freed did "not have Syrian there. despite a UN arms embargo. blood on their hands", the agency "If tens, hundreds of thousands of Lavrov said Syria's problems said. It said Wednesday's move people start advancing towards could not be solved by ultimatums followed the release earlier this t h e I r a q , L e b a n o n , T u r k e y and reaffirmed Moscow's call for m o n t h o f m o r e t h a n 1 , 7 0 0 borders, not only Turkey but the a political settlement. prisoners. international community may be A Russian defence ministry 'Ready for any scenario' required to take some steps such official told the ITAR-TASS news Davutoglu had said on Tuesday as a buffer zone," he said. agency that his countrys only that Turkey was ready for any "We don't want that to happen but aircraft carrier and its most scenario if Syria continues its we must consider and work on modern anti-submarine destroyer crackdown on protests against that scenario." will lead a powerful flotilla on a President Bashar al-Assad, but Turkey has stepped up its rare port call to Syria before the that his country is opposed to a criticism of the government's end of the year. m i l i t a r y o p t i o n a g a i n s t i t s crackdown on Syria's uprising The flotilla will reach the littleneighbour. after Turkish diplomatic missions used Russian base in the port of In an interview with television c a m e u n d e r a t t a c k b y p r o - Tartus by New Year's Eve on a broadcaster Kanal 24, he said: government demonstrators in mission that was planned in " W e h o p e t h a t a m i l i t a r y several cities earlier this month. advance and has no direct relation i n t e r v e n t i o n w i l l n e v e r b e Russian opposition to Syria's intensifying standoff necessary. D a v u t o g l u ' s s a n c t i o n s with the West, the official said. "However, the Syrian regime has announcement came a day after This entry passed through the to find a way of making peace Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Full-Text RSS service if this is with its own people to eliminate foreign minister, dismissed calls your content and you're reading it this option. If the oppression for an arms embargo on Syria on someone else's site, please read continues, Turkey is ready for any and cautioned against imposing the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentscenario." u l t i m a t u m s o n A s s a d ' s only/faq.php#publishers. Five Davutoglu also said the g o v e r n m e n t . Filters recommends: Donate to international community may Speaking in the Russian capital, Wikileaks. decide a buffer zone is needed in Moscow, on Tuesday after a
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Clinton arrives in Myanmar on landmark visit

Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:47:25 PM
August 2011, Myanmar's rights record has been improving, according to rights groups. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary The government recently released of state, has arrived in Myanmar more than 230 political prisoners, for a ground-breaking visit, in an eased media censorship and effort to push for democratic s o u g h t g u i d a n c e f r o m reform in the country and renew international financial institutions ties with its leadership. to revive its economy. She is the first US secretary of As part of reforms, Myanmar state to visit the country in more also amended a political party law than 50 years. The US had cut ties removing a clause barring anyone with the country after Myanmar's convicted of a crime from joining military seized power in 1962. a party or taking part in an Clinton is expected to suggest election, paving the way for those s p e c i f i c r e f o r m s t o t h e who had served a prison term, government during her visit, including Aung San Suu Kyi, the which follows a decision by leader of the opposition National President Barack Obama this League for Democracy, to contest month to open the door to the polls. expanded ties with the politically Clinton's visit could herald a isolated country. broad political rehabilitation of The UN and international human Myanmar and may persuade the r i g h t s o r g a n i s a t i o n s h a d US and other Western powers to repeatedly issued reports of ease sanctions on the country. widespread and systematic human She said in South Korea before rights violations in Myanmar. her departure on Wednesday that However, since the transition to a she was hopeful that "flickers of new "civilian" government in progress" in the country "will be
ignited into a movement for change" in Myanmar. 'Strategic position' After holding talks with senior Myanmar officials on Thursday, Clinton will travel to the commercial capital, Yangon, where she will meet Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel peace laureate has spent 15 of the last 21 years in detention after leading a popular uprising that was crushed by the army. Clinton has said credible elections are one condition for ending US sanctions, along with the release of more political prisoners and peace with ethnic minorities. Ko Ko Hlaing, a senior adviser to Thein Sein, Myanmar's president, said on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Bali last week that the NLD's decision to re-register was a "significant step". Al Jazeera's Aela Callan, reporting from Myanmar's capital
Naypyidaw, said that Clinton's visit is a major step by the US government to further its influence in the region. "Myanmar has been under the shelter of China in the last few decades, so the US is looking to reengage with this country which is in a really strategic position between India and China," she said. "People in Myanmar are very optimistic about this visit. They see it as a chance for their country open up with the outside world and reengage with the international community." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
'Law & Order: SVU' Exclusive: Gilbert Gottfried Previews His New Role (VIDEO)
Chris Harnick (AOL TV)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 8:30:00 AM
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"The push to get the UK ambassador out came from parliament which is headed by Ali Larijani," Parsi said. "When Larijani was chief nuclear negotiator Ahmadinejad carried out a similar campaign against
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Filed under: Features, TV Previews A very familiar face -and voice -- is coming to'Law & Order: SVU.' Gilbert Gottfried makes his 'SVU' debut tonight (10PM ET on NBC) and AOL TV has an exclusive behind the scenes first look at his new "nerdy" character. The actor and comedian joins the cast in the recurring role of Leo Gerber, a TARU tech. "I'm like a computer geek and it's one of those kinds of people who know everything, but have absolutely no social skills and so they get annoyed with everybody around them," Gottfried said of his new character. Check out the video below. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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Video: How to save big on electronics

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Watch 'The Voice' Contestant Dia Frampton's 'Don't Kick the Chair' Feat. Kid Cudi (VIDEO)
AOL Music Staff (AOL TV)
'Voice' team, told AOL Music. "It started with my lyrical idea, 'Don't Submitted at 11/30/2011 10:00:00 AM Kick the Chair,' since my sisters Filed under: Features, Celebrities and I throw that phrase around at and Gossip She isn't just a pretty home when we're complaining 'voice,' but also one talented about something when, on the songwriter! Dia Frampton, who other hand, it's a beautiful day rose to fame as the runner-up on outside. In other words, 'don't kick the inaugural season of NBC's the chair' is another way of 'The Voice,' has a catchy new, saying, 'don't give up,' because Kid Cudi-assisted single out you can't have the highs without called 'Don't Kick the Chair.' The the lows, and there's no use in Utah native puts the tune's getting down about something for poignant lyrics in the spotlight for too long. You got to start pushing its brand-new video. forward at some point." "I wrote this song with Busbee Permalink| Email this| Linking and Julie Frost," Dia, who was on Blogs| Comments country megastar Blake Shelton's
See 'Community' Opening Credits a la 'Parks and Recreation'
Submitted at 11/30/2011 11:01:59 AM
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Reader Wants To Know If He's A Bad Consumer

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
I spoke to the manager about getting my $7 back, to help alleviate the pain of having to fix Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:15:00 PM my door. Before I got five words Regular readers of Consumerist out, he cut me off and said, "You are probably familiar with the " need to understand that this is a Bad Consumer" tag, used to touchless car wash, so if the single out those people whose pressure broke anything off, it's behavior often makes it more because it was already broken difficult for the rest of us to be before you went in." treated like human beings. And I countered by showing how while most of us would like to loose the entire panel was and think of ourselves as anything but saying, "It's simple: my door someone that would fit into this wasn't like this when it went in, category, doubts do occasionally but it was when it came out. Your creep in. washer did this to my car." He Take for instance the following was adamant that it wasn't the tale from reader Greg, who thinks machine's fault, and refused to his recent heat of the moment budge. "Thousands of cars go behavior may have crossed the t h r o u g h t h a t w a s h w i t h n o line: problems, our car wash is fine," I recently bought a 13-year-old he said. car from a friend. Despite its age Earlier, I'd spoken briefly to the it was in great shape, with only cashier, who explained that he 65,000 miles on it. It passed the couldn't even give a refund if he safety inspection with flying wanted to because I'd paid at the colors and it drives like a dream. pump. Knowing this, I told the Today I took it through a manager that in lieu of a cash touchless car wash and during the refund, I would be happy to take a drying cycle I noticed that the rear free bottle of washer fluid ($4.50 door panel was hanging off and value) for my troubles, anything flapping in the wind. I checked it to offset the inconvenience and out and found that a small piece cost of fixing my door. After a lot of a plastic snap had broken off, of back and forth he begrudgingly loosening the entire panel to the accepted, saying, "Go ahead and point where I could probably take a bottle. It comes out of my remove the entire thing with my pocket though." hands if I put a bit more pressure. I replied, "Thank you very much,
this door repair comes out of my pocket too." Now I know it wasn't entirely their fault, it also due to bad luck. In the heat of the moment I was in a "someone must pay" mindset, which is why I fought so hard to get something in return. I admit that I argued more for the principle of the matter than anything else. Looking back, I wonder if I was a bad consumer on this one. Most times when I hear of stories like this I think, "Just quit your bellyaching, stuff happens, get over it". Now it seems the tables have turned. So am I bad consumer, or did I deserve a little bit of washer fluid for my troubles? Incidentally, the $4.50 I saved went straight to a roll of duct tape, so I think the door is fixed, for now. Now here's where you get to play judge, jury and (depending on your state) executioner: Was Greg A Bad Consumer At The Car Wash? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Minneapolis Looking To Stop Cabbies From Using Cell Phones

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
sponsored the bill is rethinking the language, saying, "I think we should ban cell phone use when a Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:30:00 PM driver has a customer in the cab... Most of us who've lived in major When they don't have a customer city for long enough have had in the cab, I don't think we should those experiences of sitting in the be as concerned until the State of backseat of a cab, irritated and Minnesota acts uniformly against possibly concerned by the driver's all drivers." incessant yammering on his/her A handful of cities, including phone. Wouldn't it be nice if such New York City, have banned the distracting chit-chat was illegal? use of cell phone handsets for The lawmakers in Minneapolis everyone behind the wheel, are considering legislation that though the use of speakerphone or would make it against the law for h a n d s - f r e e d e v i c e s i s s t i l l cabbies to gab on the phone. permitted. However, some believe Surprisingly, many drivers say that the mere act of having a they don't have a problem with phone conversation while driving this regulation, but they are is enough to distract a driver and worried that the current proposal put them at risk. would ban cell phone use even New Rules Could Stop Cabbies when the cabbie doesn't have a F r o m Using Cell passenger. Phones[CBSlocal.com] A rep for the Minneapolis This entry passed through the Taxicab Drivers and Owners Full-Text RSS service if this is Association tells WCCO-TV, "We your content and you're reading it would like to have the taxi drivers on someone else's site, please read to use limited (cell) phones the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentbecause that's the only time they only/faq.php#publishers. Five can... be able to communicate Filters recommends: Donate to with their family members when Wikileaks. they don't have passengers." Even the city councilman who
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Judge orders search engines to de-index Chanel ripoff sites
You'd Think It Would Have Been Used In The 90s: Woot Weads The Wire
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filmmaker Ken Russell has died, his friend Norman Lebrecht Submitted at 11/30/2011 11:00:00 AM confirmed Monday. He was 84. Every week in this space, well The funeral is anticipated to be Consumer Reports News adds new sites that sell knockoff take a look at the news and offer interesting, visually arresting, and (Consumer Reports) goods to the case as it discovers o u r o w n i n c i s i v e b l e n d o f about thirty minutes shorter upon them, filing new requests for more commentary, analysis, and poop U.S. release. Submitted at 11/30/2011 10:44:59 AM seizures, according to technology jokes. The news you need, from a LONDON ( UPI) -- A London voice you can trust, in the 90 bar has installed a video game Judge orders search engines to de news site ArsTechnica. -index Chanel ripoff sites The judge's ban on indexing of seconds you have to spare: thats above its men's room urinals that A U.S. district judge has ruled the game's designer says is the Chanel ripoff sites seems to Woot Weads the Wire. S E A T T L E ( U P I ) - - D . B . world's first to be controlled by that search engines and socialextend globally; Domain names media sites remove hundreds of listed in the ruling include some Cooper, who parachuted from a urine flow. domain names for websites selling supplanted by the following websites registered in European hijacked plane over Washington Those in the know say the counterfeit Chanel products. notice to defendants: If you fail to c o u n t r i e s a s w e l l a s U . S . state 40 years ago Thursday, may platform will include Guitar Hero: The federal judge ordered the r e s p o n d t o t h i s c o m p l a i n t , companies with global reach, have worked with titanium, a C h u c k B e r r y , t h e h i g h l y scientific team says. d o m a i n n a m e s s e i z e d a n d judgment by default will be ArsTechnica reported. anticipated Nick Novak's Pro transferred to GoDaddy, where entered against you for the relief US judge orders hundreds of sites Reportedly FBI agents moved in Football Challenge, an Englishthey will redirect to a page demanded in the complaint. To " d e - i n d e x e d " f r o m G o o g l e , on Titanium this morning, only to language version of Gerard find it barricaded behind the Depardieu's Flight Simulator, and serving notice of the seizure. The prevent this from happening you F a c e b o o k [ A r s T e c h n i c a ] ruling listed search results from must file a response with the court Order granting plaintiff's second Alkaline Earth metals with a port of Nethack with music from all internet search engines and clerk or administrator within 21 ex parte application for entry of S c a n d i u m a n d Y t t r i u m a s R. Kelly. named Google, Bing, and Yahoo days of the date this message was temporary restraining order and h o s t a g e s . LOS ANGELES ( UPI) -- Los specifically, among others. Social posted. Your response must be in preliminary injunction(pdf) [U.S. LONDON ( UPI) -- Prince Philip Angeles said it plans to create 50 -media sites such as Facebook and proper form and have proof of district court ruling] Subscribe officially became the honorary new city parks with some of the commander of the British Navy space coming from at least 10 Twitter were also named in the s e r v i c e o n t h e p l a i n t i f f ' s now! ruling. S u b s c r i b e t o Wednesday, receiving the title of foreclosed properties. attorney...You have the right to D o m a i n n a m e s i n c l u d e respond 'pro se,' for yourself ConsumerReports.org for expert Lord High Admiral. Those on whom the city b u y c h a n e l b a g . i n f o , without an attorney, but it is Ratings, buying advice and Surprisingly enough, the title has foreclosed will not be allowed to t o p c h a n e l b a g s . c o m , advised that if you have any r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f not already been trademarked by a sleep in the parks. f a s h i o n p i c k s . c o , a n d questions you should see an products. Update your feed marijuana-themed rapper. LONDON ( UPI) -- British replicachanelhandbag.net, among attorney immediately. preferences many more. As of Wednesday, all Chanel filed the suit in Nevada but the first of these sites were against close to 700 domain still accessible. Buychanelbag was names; the luxury-goods company
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Recall: Best Buy battery case for iPhone 3G/3GSfire hazard
Americans Earning Less Vacation Days, Won't Even Use All Of Them
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
vacation in 2011. One moment, please, while we froth at the mouth with envy. Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:00:00 PM Consumer Reports News Japanese workers, on the other April 2010 through September (Consumer Reports) You work hard to earn vacation hand, only earn 11 days and will 2011. Consumers should immediately days, but when the time comes to use a paltry five of those. Submitted at 11/30/2011 11:44:59 AM stop using the battery case and enjoy them, a new study says We hate to use the word that Recall: Best Buy battery case for contact Best Buy for instructions American workers aren't using up combines vacation and staying at iPhone 3G/3GSfire hazard on returning the product and all the time off they've earned for home, so we won't. But for your own sanity, don't waste those Best Buy has recalled about receiving a $70 gift card ($105 in the year. 31,000 Rocketfish mobile battery Canada). For more information A study by travel site Expedia precious vacation days just sit cases for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, call Best Buy at 800-917-5737 or (via the L.A. Times) says the on the couch, catch up on your and about 1,000 additional t o u c h r u b b e r i z e d m a t e r i a l . v i s i t w w w . b e s t b u y . c o m , o r average worker is expecting to DVR and eat gigantic bowls of Rocketfish battery cases in Designed to hold the phone w w w . b e s t b u y . c a o r earn less days off in 2011, down cereal. Canada, the U.S. Consumer securely the case comes with a www.futureshop.ca (Canada). to 14 from 15, but will only take Americans get less vacation, still don't use it all, study finds[L.A. Product Safety Commission built-in battery. The model Rocketfish Battery Case for 12 days vacation. reported today. number, RF-KL12, is printed in iPhone 3G/3GS Recalled by Best The study polled 7,803 workers Times] While charging, the battery case three different locations: On the Buy Due to Fire Hazard[CPSC] in 20 countries, and found that the This entry passed through the main factor that we're worried Full-Text RSS service if this is can overheat, posing a fire hazard. front of the case packaging, on the Subscribe now! The CPSC and Best Buy have packaging barcode, and (in white S u b s c r i b e t o about is spending money on said your content and you're reading it received about 14 reports of the print) on the curved inner surface ConsumerReports.org for expert vacations. A total of 34% of on someone else's site, please read R o c k e t f i s h b a t t e r y c a s e s of the case. Ratings, buying advice and Americans polled said they didn't the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentoverheating, including three The recalled battery cases were r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f think they could afford to go on only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to r e p o r t s o f m i n o r b u r n s t o s o l d a t B e s t B u y s t o r e s products. Update your feed vacation. The French know how to relax, Wikileaks. consumers, and four reports of nationwide, online, and at Future preferences however, and they get the time to minor property damage. Shop and Best Buy stores in do it using all 30 (yes, 30) days of The Rocketfish mobile battery Canada, for $10 to $60, from case is made of lightweight, soft-
Trading Secrets with Cooking Light

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Saints offense has the firepower to keep up with Packers - NFL

Bucky Brooks (- Bing News)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:05:18 PM
formation, and defenders were left scurrying to get to their assignments prior to the snap. If you're looking for the NFC In looking at Pierre Thomas' 12team with the firepower to yard touchdown run in the fourth challenge the Packers for the quarter (right), it was obvious crown, you might want to cast Giants defenders were unsure of your lot with the Saints. their alignments and assignments The league's top-rated offense is d u e t o t h e S a i n t s ' c l e v e r rounding into form heading down substitution within their "12" t h e s t r e t c h , w i t h f o u r k e y personnel package (one RB, two components that make them a WRs, two TEs). John Gilmore legitimate threat to dethrone the and Pat McQuistan(a backup champs. Let's take a look ... 1. offensive tackle) were aligned as Tempo tight ends, with WRs Robert The frenetic pace of the Saints' Meachem and Marques Colston offense keeps opponents on their positioned in tight alignments. heels. The constant shuffling of The close proximity of the personnel combined with a receivers combined with the tight myriad of formations and pre- formation featuring multiple tight snap movement makes it difficult ends confused the defensive playto get a bead on their plan of caller ( Deon Grant) and resulted attack. Drew Brees adds to the in a free run to the end zone for confusion by pushing the pace Thomas. with a mixture of no-huddle and With few defenses capable of quick snap counts designed to keeping pace, the frenzied nature keep the defensive coordinators of the Saints' offensive approach from substituting personnel or gives them a decided advantage. varying their play calls for fear of 2. Drew Brees a miscommunication error leading After experiencing a sub-par to a big plays. 2010 season, Drew Brees has Against the Giants on Monday, regained his Super Bowl MVP the Saints' organized chaos tactics form. He currently leads the NFL led to receivers running free in passing yards (3,689) on the through zones and defenders strength of eight 300-yard games failing to stay in their assigned and ranks third in touchdowns gaps on running plays. The Giants (27) and passer efficiency (103.9). frequently failed to identify the In looking at his 11 starts, Brees proper strength of the offensive has completed passes to at least
six receivers in each game and had eight or more in eight of those contests. His distribution makes it difficult for defensive coordinators to use exotic coverage to diffuse the Saints' aerial attack, which opens up the field for Brees. With his quarterback in zone-like rhythm, coach Sean Payton has been willing to give Brees more opportunities to attack the defense. The Saints' 41.8 attempts per game lead the NFL, and the team's high-octane approach has helped the unit average 31.3 points, the second best total in the league. Brees' 11 interceptions raise concerns about his ball security. During first few weeks of the season, he routinely forced balls into coverage attempting to generate big plays, but the tightly contested balls frequently resulted in interceptions off tips or overthrows. During the past five weeks, however, Brees has avoided those challenging throws and reduced his turnover total. He has just three picks over that span and the elimination of negative plays has allowed the Saints offense to thrive. If he can continue to pick apart opponents with a surgeon's precision, the Saints pose a tremendous challenge for any defense. 3. Matchup-problem
receivers New Orleans has a plethora of playmakers that make it easy for Brees to carve up the opposition. From Jimmy Graham to Marques Colston to Lance Moore, the Saints have the ability to create mismatches all over the field. Their premise is to isolate a weak defender in space and repeatedly work the matchup until the defense employs soft zone coverage, which provide easy throwing lanes for Brees. Graham, the team's leading receiver with 67 receptions for 957 yards and eight scores, has emerged as the pivotal piece on the chessboard. As a former basketball player with extraordinary size and athleticism, he is nearly indefensible in space. He has the ability to post up defensive backs on slants or fade routes, while also possessing the speed to run past linebackers on vertical routes. His unique ability warrants double coverage on most downs, which opens up the field for Colston and Moore. Colston, second on the team with 45 receptions for 667 yards and three touchdowns, functions as the big-bodied playmaker between the hashes. He excels at making the tough grab in a crowd, and the Saints often run him on inside routes to take advantage of his superior size. While he doesn't
possess the game-breaking speed of some of his teammates, his ability to break tackles makes him a dangerous weapon in the open field. Moore is the valuable slot receiver Brees often turns to when a big first down is needed. His quickness out of breaks makes him tough to guard in isolated matchups, and the Saints routinely design plays to get him the ball quickly on quick outs or option routes. With Devery Henderson and Robert Meachem able to serve as the designated deep ball threats, the Saints have versatile receiving corps that threatens defenses at every level. 4. An actual running game The Saints' potent aerial attack overshadows its running game, which could be the biggest component to success down the stretch. Led by Pierre Thomas, Darren Sproles and Mark Ingram, the Saints boast the league's 14thranked rush offense, averaging 117 yards per game. Those numbers aren't impressive at first glance, but the presence of three runners with 400-plus rushing yards forces defenses to respect the run with occasional eight-man fronts. This creates big play opportunities in the passing SAINTS page 64
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Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim addresses Fine scandal after game - USA Today
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Boeheim changed his stance Sunday. He said Fine's firing by the university that day was SYRACUSE, N.Y. Syracuse appropriate. By then, more coach Jim Boeheim said Tuesday allegations against Fine had that he was not preoccupied with become public. his job security. To get the latest sports news from B y A n n e t t e L e i n , , T h e USA TODAY, including game (Rochester, N.Y.) Democrat & results, columns and features, Chronicle Syracuse coach Jim f o l l o w u s o n T w i t t e r Boeheim enters the floor of the a t @ U S A T O D A Y S p o r t s . Carrier Dome before the start of "More facts came out," Boeheim their game vs Eastern Michigan. said. Additionally, ESPN aired an By Annette Lein,, The audiotape of a telephone (Rochester, N.Y.) Democrat & conversation in 2002 between Chronicle accuser Bobby Davis and Fine's Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim wife, Laurie, in which Laurie Fine enters the floor of the Carrier seemed to acknowledge sexual Dome before the start of their abuse between Davis and her game vs Eastern Michigan. husband. Boeheim said he had not "I've never worried about my job listened to the recording. status in 36 years," Boeheim said Syracuse Chancellor Nancy after his third-ranked men's C a n t o r o f f e r e d s u p p o r t f o r basketball team defeated Eastern Boeheim on Tuesday afternoon Michigan 84-48 at the Carrier after a meeting in Albany, N.Y., Dome. "Many years I didn't have but it could be perceived as a contract extension. I didn't have lukewarm. She said little and anything. When I worry about didn't address the future as much that, I may have to get (another as the present. job)." "Coach Boeheim is our coach," The Hall of Famer has spent his she told news reporters. entire head coaching career at Even that was seen as too strong Syracuse, but there is speculation by at least one person. The Rev. he put his job in jeopardy with his Robert M. Hoatson, president of vehement defense of Bernie Fine New Jersey-based non-profit when allegations of child sexual Road to Recovery, said Cantor's abuse against his former assistant support is premature: "The became public Nov. 17. investigation is not over. It sets a
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Boeheim tried not to stray from a statement he said he prepared with a friend. A few times he indicated he could not answer questions by pointing to it. Nevertheless, it seemed he wanted to clear the air on a few points. He said there was a misperception that he wielded a dangerous precedent. Tacitly she lot of influence on campus and in is saying what Jim Boeheim has the community. That's a stark contrast to a done is OK -- with a federal statement he made after Syracuse investigation going on. Is she going to have to eat her words beat Colgate on Nov. 19. Asked like Jim Boeheim and abdicate?" then whether he was told to stop F o r t h e d u r a t i o n o f t h e making statements in support of investigation of Fine and possibly Fine, he said, "Do you think beyond, Boeheim will remain anybody tells me when to speak connected to the former coach. He or not?" didn't shy away from that during In explaining it Tuesday, he said, his roughly 20-minute postgame "If you're an adult in this world, news conference, nearly all of you have to do what is in your which was spent answering heart." questions about the scandal. In the case of defending Fine, Told that transgressions occurred Boeheim said he supported a o n h i s w a t c h , B o e h e i m friend. diplomatically defended himself. "I'm proud that I did. If you know "When the investigation is done, s o m e b o d y a n d w o r k w i t h we will find out what happened somebody for 36 years you on my watch," he said. "We don't owe a debt of allegiance and know what's happened on my gratitude for what he did for the watch right now. There is an program. That's what my reaction investigation underway. There are was. So be it." n o c h a r g e s . T h e r e a r e n o He declined to say whether he indictments. There is no grand had been in contact with Fine. jury. There is no action being His postgame comments also taken. When that is done, then we focused on accountability. will see what has happened on my Asked what he holds himself responsible for, Boeheim said, watch."
"Everything that I can control." At Tuesday's game, there was no empty seat on the bench in honor of Fine. The Syracuse players had left open a chair for the former associate coach in their last home game Nov. 19. A lot happened since then. Cantor, in addition to offering her support to Boeheim, said the decision to fire Fine was made because she "felt it was very important both for Bernie Fine and the university to move forward." Cantor added that Syracuse has been "very straightforward and candid throughout this whole process." For Bob Wolfe, an officer with the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department, the controversy hit too close to home. "My family's friends with the Fines," Wolfe, 35, said. "It's hard to believe because we've known him forever. Nobody would ever think that. I don't know what to think of it. He's got some issues going on that he needs to deal with. It's tough for the family." At a function in Brooklyn, former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony, now with the New York Knicks, did not want to discuss the scandal: "My heart goes out to the families. I have no comment about the Fine situation or the SYRACUSE page 64
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Puck Headlines: Hedman signs, Miller denies, Ovechkin dates

Greg Wyshynski (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:51:29 PM
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. As tweeted by Alex Ovechkin. Rumors of his scoring issues this year have been greatly exaggerated. [ For more on Ovechkin and Maria Kirilenko, head here] Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman has agreed to a new contract that begins next season and runs through 2017, with an average hit of $4 million. [ TBO] Forbes released its annual franchise valuations for the NHL: "The league's most valuable team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, is now worth $521 million and generated $81.8 million in operating income last season. The New York Rangers, who are enjoying the benefits of playing in a refurbished Madison Square Garden, earned $41.4 million last year and are the NHL's secondmost valuable team, worth $507 million. And the Montreal Canadiens, placing third with a $445 million valuation, earned $47.7 million. Thus the top three
teams posted an aggregate operating profit greater than the rest of the league combined." Also: "The average NHL team is worth 47% more than it was before the lockout that cancelled the 2004-05 season." [ Forbes] Would Teemu Selanne seek a trade from the Anaheim Ducks? [ OC Register] Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres on whether he "wouldn't mind" a trade, as was reported by the Edmonton Journal: "That implies somebody's asked me and I've never made a comment about my status with the team. My comment about my status with the team now is I'm proud to be a Sabre, I'm excited for what we can accomplish moving forward and I want to be a part of it. There's no reason for me to want to leave the situation. We have great new ownership who's excited to put a winner on the ice and I want to be a part of it. For me to want to change that situation and get out, I think the grass doesn't get much greener than it is here." [ Sabres Edge] Spector on the Bobby Ryan trade rumors: "If the Ducks deal Ryan, or another notable player, it will only be for a return that can help them now and in the future. They won't make a trade just for the sake of doing so." [ THN] Carolina Hurricanes defenseman
chapter now, but obviously he was a great coach. Unfortunately we weren't responding here in the last couple months. I think it (Boudreau's firing) was a necessary thing, but we're definitely happy to have Dale here. He seems like an honest guy, a strict guy. That seems to be maybe what we need for guys to respond properly." [ NHL] The latest on the "Fire Carlyle" movement for the Anaheim Ducks. [ Anaheim Calling] A brief history of violence between Sean Avery and Tyler Kennedy.[ Empty Netters] Controversial post from Russian Machine Never Breaks, and a bit of a heel turn against some of the fan "traditions" at Washington Capitals games. [ RMNB] Jason Spezza appreciates your ballot box stuffing, Ottawa Senators fans. [ Sens] Paul Maurice's message for Kirk Muller. [ PHT] Dustin Penner is not ready to play for the Los Angeles Kings. But you already knew this. [ LA Kings Insider] Emily Hall's heartfelt tribute to San Jose Sharks captain Joe Thornton, using (irony) a Boston D e r e k J o s l i n w i l l h a v e a Giroux is your Hart Trophy song. disciplinary hearing for that winner through the first 20 games. Brendan Morrow and Trevor q u e s t i o n a b l e h i t o n K r i s [ ESPN] Daley are both still on the shelf Versteeg.[NHL] Mike Green on the firing of PUCK page 64 Pierre LeBrun believes Claude Bruce Boudreau: "It's a new
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game off play-action, which leads to quick points for the Saints. Although creating big plays through the air is an added benefit of having a potent running game, it is the ability to switch styles in the middle of a game that makes the Saints offense dangerous. The unit can morph into a power running team with Thomas and Ingram grinding between the tackles. Both are rugged with a knack for finding creases in traffic, and their persistence wears down weary defenses in the late stages of games. Sproles' diminutive stature prevents him from acting as the Saints' grinder, but he adds the explosive element to the running game with his speed and quickness. He wreaks havoc on opponents when he gets to the edges, and the Saints use a clever misdirection package to get him loose on the second level. With a
variety of touches on fly-sweeps, reverses and flip tosses, Sproles averages 6.8 yards a carry, while producing five runs of 20-plus yards. With three runners capable of providing power and explosiveness, the Saints' underrated running attack could be a difference-maker heading into the postseason. Follow Bucky Brooks on Twitter@BuckyBrooks This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
for the Dallas Stars. [ Defending Big D] The VERSUS numbers from last week. Not so good, but again keep in mind the loss of local numbers for the Crosby game. [ Puck The Media] Very nice work by Kerry Fraser explaining why Matt Cooke's goal last night for the Pittsburgh Penguins was disallowed. [ TSN] An attempt to quantify how good the Minnesota Wild are this season. [ Copper & Blue] Setting up tonight's intriguing Boston Bruins vs. Toronto Maple Leafs grudge match: [ PPP] Roberto Luongo quote via Jason Botchford, on fellow Vancouver Canucks goalie Cory Schneider:"We're both no. 1s." [@BotchonCanucks] Here's why "Cory Schneider's hockey future has more potential twists and turns than a David
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Baldacci novel." [ The Province] Igloo roof ornaments are pretty much the coolest hockey holiday idea in 2011. [ Penguins] Ryan Kennedy of THN breaks down the World Junior roster. [ THN] Chemmy and Lambert are ready to root root root for the USA in world juniors. [ Sleeping Giant] The latest episode of Fake Henrik Zetterberg is up and running. Special effects wizardry this time! [ FHZ] Finally, here are the top 10 minih o c k e y p l a y o f N o v e m b e r . Brooks Peck (Y! Sports Blogs Shanahan's going to have to look Yahoo! Sports) at some of these hits. (BTW, this Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:09:16 PM video might be out favorite thing We're just 10 days away from the of the week. next Clasico/footballpocalypse, which makes this typo on a traffic sign posted along Barcelona's Ronda de Dalt all the more curious. Instead of warning of traffic restrictions near Barca's SYRACUSE Camp Nou, it does so for the continued from page 62 "Mou Camp." Boeheim situation. That's a Was this the work of Madridista sensitive situation, a sensitive hackers referencing Real manager topic right now that I don't even Jose Mourinho or just a transit want to go into." worker who did his typing a bit Contributing: Jon Campbell, too fast? We may never know. Gannett Until Mourinho admits he did it This entry passed through the himself. Full-Text RSS service if this is Photos: Marca, Reuters your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Maria Kirilenko is dating NHL MVP Alex Ovechkin

Chris Chase (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 12:05:13 PM
Russian tennis star Maria Kirilenko has a new beau, twotime NHL most valuable player Alex Ovechkin. The Washington Capitals superstar tweeted the news on Wednesday afternoon and included a picture of him and Maria acting all cuddly. He wrote, "Me and my girlfriend Maria....she is my queen!!!!" The Montreal Gazette, one of the first newspapers to report on another cross-sport relationship between Caroline Wozniacki and Rory McIlroy, first pondered the rumored coupling earlier this
Some quick thoughts: Kirilenko has made it past the second round in seven of the last eight Grand Slams. Clearly, she's slumming it with Ovechkin. Maria and Alex start dating. Alex's game goes in the tubes. Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau gets fired. Is Maria Kirilenko the Washington Capitals' Yoko Ono? What happened to Igor Andreev, Kirilenko's old flame? Did she Jennifer Anitson him? Say what you will about mid-level tennis players; at least that dude got to week. Apparently Kirilenko has the semis of an occasional Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) b e e n s p e n d i n g p a r t o f h e r tourney. offseason in the Washington D.C. Ovechkin's shirt says "It's good Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:00:00 PM area helping out with the George to be the king." She's his queen. According to Andriasang, Washington women's tennis team. Wordplay! Square's Ultimania guide for Final Fantasy Type-0 includes an interview with director Hajima Tabata, who reportedly reveals that his team is currently working on the international version of the PSP title. This would be the first official confirmation of the game's upcoming arrival in Europe and North America -- though the interview doesn't bring up any details about the timetable for said localizations.
Report: Final Fantasy Type-0 getting international release

Andriasang also reports that the interview contains Tabata's plans for the franchise's future. He reportedly wants to make a direct sequel to the game, titled (what else?) Type-1, and would like to see the next installment on a home console. We've contacted Square for a comment on ... well, everything you just read. Report: Final Fantasy Type-0 getting international release originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Take-Two's Zelnick Call of Duty: Black thinks Zynga Ops Zombies coming metrics are 'sketchy' to iOS on December 1
Online Features - December 2011

Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:00:00 AM
Meet our Superfast Fan of the Month Meet our Superfast Fan of the Month winners and take the Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) that bubble won't pop on its own, challenge: Prepare any Superfast I might as well start passing dish and share how your family Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:30:00 PM David Hinkle (Joystiq) Kino der Toten map and the around a bottle of wake-up juice! l i k e d unlockable Dead Ops Arcade mini Wednesday 30 November Submitted at 11/30/2011 4:00:00 PM Continue reading Take-Two's it, what tweaks you made, your -game found in the console 185 lbs of Ba- Zynga bashing Zelnick thinks Zynga metrics are quick tips, and pictures of the Activision has announced a i n s t a l l m e n t . T h e r e i s a l s o awesomeness. 'sketchy' finished dish. more sequel to its first attempt at multiplayer support for up to four Food consumed today: Nothing. Take-Two's Zelnick thinks Zynga This entry passed through the Zombies on iOS, available on players and full voice chat. I'm being fueled by music. metrics are 'sketchy' originally Full-Text RSS service if this is December 1 for $6.99: Call of Gallery: Call of Duty Black Ops Specifically, one song: "Eye of appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 30 your content and you're reading it Duty: Black Ops Zombies. That's, Zombies (iOS) the Tiger." It's on repeat and Nov 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please on someone else's site, please read uh, tomorrow. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies nothing is gonna get in my way. see our terms for use of feeds. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentBlack Ops Zombies aims to offer coming to iOS on December 1 Afternoon. It's brisk in NYC and Permalink| Email this| Comments only/faq.php#publishers. Five the same features and gameplay originally appeared on Joystiq on I'm bringing the heat to Zynga. If Filters recommends: Donate to elements found in the Zombies Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:00:00 EST. Wikileaks. m o d e o n c o n s o l e s . I t ' l l b e Please see our terms for use of available as a universal app for feeds. b o t h t h e i P a d a n d i P h o n e , Permalink| Email this| Comments optimized for third generation devices, and launches with the
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Medical Marijuana Laws Shown to Reduce Traffic Fatalities

Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:59:35 PM
Well, that settles that Any attempt to segue into this post with a clever lead is likely to fall flat, so in the interest of skipping the cliches: a new study out of University of Colorado Denver and Montana State University shows that legalizing medical marijuana sales in various states over the past two decades has led to a nearly 10 percent drop in traffic fatalities. What the study really shows--by way of causal chain--is a five percent drop in beer sales, and that has in turn led to fewer fatalities on the road. Put that in your pipe and smoke it (couldn't resist just one). This is the kind of study that's going to be attacked from all sides, by those with agendas and those who will simply point out that establishing that causal link between legalized pot and the decrease in alcohol sales (and in turn the reduced traffic deaths) is difficult with all the variables out
there. But it is an interesting study for no other reason than it actually attempts to measure the effects of legalizing pot by linking it to some kind of hard data rather than some hard-to-quantify metric. Related Articles Genome of Marijuana Sequenced and Published Mexican Authorities Seize Homemade MarijuanaHurling Catapult At The Border New Drug Kills Pain by Boosting Body's Naturally Occurring Marijuana-Like Compound Tags Science, Clay Dillow, health, marijuana, medical marijuana, pot, public safety That, of course, is traffic data, of which we have plenty. Traffic data is bountiful and generally pretty good because incidents on the road--particularly those that involve injury or fatality--very rarely go unnoticed by authorities, who are required to dutifully record them in the public record. So Daniel Rees of UC Denver and D. Mark Anderson of MSU started looking at the traffic data both nationwide and more particularly in the 13 states that legalized marijuana for medical
use between 1990 and 2009. They found several connections and trends that seemingly stem from the legalization laws, but most notably they found evidence that alcohol consumption by 20to 29-year-olds decreased, and that translated into fewer deaths on the road. Previous simulator studies have shown that drinkers tend to drive more aggressively and take more risks, while marijuana users tilt toward riskaverse behaviors. Notably, they also found that in the states that legalized marijuana there was no evidence of an uptick in use among minors, which is a major concern for the medical marijuana opposition. To be fair, establishing these kinds of links is still difficult as variable abound and the data is sometimes difficult to trust. Common sense (experience?) tells us that kids smoking pot generally don't go around telling adults about it, including those conducting academic research. So establishing whether or not more or fewer kids are getting high is
more or less an exercise in guesswork. And Rees and Anderson point out that while alcohol is often consumed in public places marijuana is consumed privately, often in the home. So making marijuana use a publicly acceptable activity for all people--not just those with a medical necessity--might diminish the reduction in traffic fatalities as more stoney drivers get behind the wheel. But things being what they are, medical marijuana laws appear to be trending toward safer roadways, and that's all this study purports to demonstrate. Place whatever value on that you will. PopSci would like to point out that this post does not constitute an opinion either for or against the legalization of medical marijuana, and Rees's and Anderson's findings are just, like, their opinions, man. [ Eurekalert]
Visualized: Where NASA's SLS will get high

Terrence O'Brien (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 4:20:00 PM
We've still got quite a while to go before NASA gets back into the space travel game with SLS, but the first pieces of the potential inter-planetary transportation puzzle are starting to fall into place. The $500 million mobile launch tower of the future has already been rolled out and is undergoing structural testing at the Kennedy Space Center. You owe it to yourself to hit up the source link for some more images, including a few from atop the tower. Visualized: Where NASA's SLS will get high originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Space.com| Email this| Comments
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Obama Gives Government Agencies Four Months To Make Digital Plan

Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:03:57 PM
The National Archives NCinDC via Flickr Bringing the nation's recordkeeping strategy out of the WWII era and onto computers Despite this era's amazing advances in data storage and data mining, the accumulated records of our federal bureaucracy are largely - and perhaps unsurprisingly - languishing in the early 20th century. Paperwork and filing cabinets still comprise the bulk of government records. President Obama would apparently like to change this, so this week he gave federal agencies four months to come up with a Web 2.0-inspired way to bring their records management systems online. "With proper planning, technology can make these records less burdensome to manage and easier to use and share," Obama wrote. Within four months, the heads of each federal agencies must submit
a report to the federal archivist's office explaining how the agencies will improve their current records management processes. This extends to every type of electronic record - emails from citizens, social media connections, even cloud-based records storage. Four months after that deadline, the archivist and the director of the Office of Management and Budget have to
come up with a game plan. They'll probably have to create some type of government-wide records management system, one that works across the entire bureaucracy and is more efficient than current filing methods. The National Archives and Records Administration already stores 124 TB of data, the result of a 10-year digitization effort outsourced to Lockheed. But the
program, like so many government programs, was plagued by cost overruns and delays. A newly focused effort will have to be more efficient. The idea is to make federal records more accessible to the public at large, Obama said. "Records transferred to NARA provide the prism through which future generations will understand and learn from our actions and
decisions," Obama wrote. "When records are well-managed, agencies can use them to assess the impact of programs, to reduce redundant effort, to save money, and to share knowledge within and across their organizations. In these ways, proper records management is the backbone of open government." Whether or not you believe Obama is a champion of said open government is another question. For our part, we're wondering what this new federal database will look like. PDFs? How about Adobe InDesign files, which we totally love working with? "Maybe just a big Case Logic book filled with CD-ROMs, handcuffed to a secret service agent that never leaves the President's side," suggests cocontributor Clay. Sounds like a good place to start. [ Computerworld]
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Laser's Quantum Fluctuations Provide a Better, Faster Source of Random Numbers

Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:00:29 PM
Random Numbers Ryan Somma via Flickr In a potential breakthrough for cryptography, a new laser lightscattering technique could be a fast and efficient way to generate truly random numbers, creating unknowable code formulas that will be able to thwart even the most sophisticated hackers. Led by Canadian researchers, the new method relies on the bizarre characteristics of quantum uncertainty. Empty space is really anything but - it's actually filled with particles and anti-particles that spontaneously pop in and out of existence. The uncertainty principle holds that they are everywhere at once, except when they are observed, in which case they are in the place where they're being observed. These virtual particles can be harnessed as a
reflecting source, bouncing photons that are then changed by nature of their interaction with these unknowable, ineffable things. Ben Sussman at the National Research Council in Ottawa works with a laser pulse lasting a few trillionths of a second, and shines it at a 3-mm piece of diamond crystal. The interactions
with vacuum fluctuations changes the incoming photons, whose signals are amplified and converted into binary to generate random bit sequences, according to an NRC news release. It works very quickly, Sussman told the Ottawa Citizen. "This has the potential to scale to extraordinarily fast rates, which is becoming more and more
important as information networks expand and there are higher data rate requirements," he said. Random numbers are used as cryptographic keys for a variety of applications, from militaries to lotteries to banks, but true randomness is very hard to achieve. Any algorithm or device that generates a number is
actually deterministic in some way, so technically they can't make a really random number. Algorithms have logic rules and inputs, and even dice are governed by the laws of physics, for instance. So quantum fluctuation numbers, which are truly uncertain, are an ideal solution. Other researchers have tapped quantum uncertainty to build truly random sequences, including a Chinese team that used quantum noise last year to introduce small frequency changes in laser light. Their method achieved 300 megabits per second of random data, pretty fast but still not great compared to modern bit-rate requirements. Sussman says his method is much faster, capable of producing gigabit-per-second random data. So far, its speed is limited by technology, he said. The work is published in the journal Optics Express. [ Montreal Gazette via Slashdot]
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HIV Treatment Lags In U.S., Guaranteeing More Infections

Richard Knox (Shots - Health Blog)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 11:05:00 AM
Robyn Beck/ AFP/Getty Images The latest numbers from CDC show that only 28 percent of the nation's 1.2 million HIV-infected people are getting effective antiviral treatment; effective treatment rates are lowest among
African-American men. The United States is doing a pretty miserable job of treating people with HIV. The latest numbers show that only 28 percent of the nation's 1.2 million HIV-infected people are getting effective treatment that is, antiviral medications to keep the virus in check. "This means that about 850,000
Americans do not have the virus controlled," Dr. Thomas Frieden said during a media teleconference called by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to unveil the latest numbers on HIV testing and treatment. The CDC director outlined a cascade of shortcomings that explain why the vast majority of
HIV-positive Americans are untreated or under-treated: Twenty percent of them have not been tested, so their HIV infection is unknown to themselves or their doctors. Nearly 40 percent of the total and half of those who've been diagnosed as HIV-positive have not been linked up with HIV care.
Sixty percent of those who enter care drop out. Only a third of all HIV-infected people get anti-retroviral therapy. Some people who get the drugs don't achieve control of the virus. That adds up to a lot of people who are vulnerable to declining HIV page 71
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immune systems and ultimately, the terrible infections of AIDS. About 17,000 Americans still die of AIDS every year. Even in places doing the best job of testing people for HIV and getting them into treatment, there's a long way to go. In San Francisco, which has one of the nation's highest concentrations of HIV-positive people, 60 to 70 percent of them are getting effective treatment, says Dr. Grant Colfax, the city's director of AIDS prevention and research. But that means, of course, that even San Francisco hasn't been able to get as many as 40 percent of its HIV-infected population into long-term treatment. "It's not sufficient to provide people with one doctor's appointment after the diagnosis," Colfax told Shots. "It's very important to give that person the social and emotional support, as well as the medical support, they need to engage in care." That's not easy to do. But the implications of not doing it go beyond the already-infected to the not-yet-infected. Last spring a large study confirmed what AIDS researchers have long hoped: that suppressing HIV with antiviral drugs makes treated people much less likely to infect others 96
percent less likely. "This is a very important finding," Frieden says. "For too many years, there has sometimes been friction between treatment and prevention. This study brings home that treatment is prevention. Treatment is essential to prevention." And not treating people with HIV is probably the most expensive mistake the nation can make in the 30-year-old war against the disease. Without "substantial improvement" in rates of effective treatment, the CDC says, there will be 1.2 million new HIV infections in the U.S. over the next 20 years. Since it costs $367,000 (in 2009 dollars) to treat each infected patient over a lifetime, those avoidable infections will cost the nation nearly a half-trillion dollars. As usual, the HIV burden is not equal. The new report shows that African-American men have the lowest rates of effective antiviral treatment. Of people who are actually getting any antiviral treatment, only 70 percent of black men have good suppression of HIV in their blood, compared to 84 percent of whites and 79 percent of Hispanics. Nearly a quarter of all new HIV infections involve black men
specifically, those who have sex with other men. "And young black men who have sex with men are the only group in the United States who are currently experiencing an increase in new HIV infections," says the CDC's Kevin Fenton. Fenton says nearly two-thirds of HIV-infected black men who have sex with men are unaware of their infection. The CDC is launching a new campaign that targets this especially vulnerable group with the message "Testing Makes Us Stronger." The campaign will cost about $2.4 million. But as the new numbers make clear, diagnosing HIV infection is only the first step. It's a lot harder to get people into treatment and keep them there. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Britains OneDay Strike

David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
at almost exactly the same time? We have one global debt crisis, the aftermath of a global debt Submitted at 11/30/2011 9:39:02 AM boom. British public-sector workers Now we face choices that could engaged in a one-day strike today potentially make the crisis lighter to protest government plans to or (very conceivably) much, much reduce the generosity of public- worse. Today, the locus of those sector pensions. I witnessed the choices is Europe, not the UK or big protest march down Whitehall the US. If Europe gets it wrong, toward Parliament. The crowd pension-squeezes will really be w a s t h i c k , b u t g e n e r a l l y the least of anybodys problems. o r d e r l y a l t h o u g h p a s t s u c h This entry passed through the protests have seen outbursts of Full-Text RSS service if this is violence from the radical fringe, your content and you're reading it and the day here is not over yet. on someone else's site, please read But heres what got me thinking: the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentHow did we convince ourselves only/faq.php#publishers. Five that the US, the Britain, and the Filters recommends: Donate to Eurozone just happened by Wikileaks. coincidence to be struggling with almost exactly the same problem
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Health Law's Popularity Rises ... Ever So Slightly

Julie Rovner (Shots - Health Blog)
mostly unfavorable view of the measure. As has been the case since the Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:55:00 PM bill passed in 2010, however, Can you say blip? many of the law's individual Apparently that's what last elements remain quite popular month's all-time low popularity among those from across the numbers were for President ideological spectrum. More than Obama's health overhaul law, 80 percent of respondents favor a according to this month's tracking requirement that insurance plans p o l l b y t h e K a i s e r F a m i l y provide an easy-to-understand Foundation. summary of benefits and another Overall, the federal Affordable that provides tax credits for small Care Act still remains slightly businesses. more unpopular (44 percent) than Least popular is the so-called popular (37 percent), but that's "individual mandate" that will down from last month's 51-34 require most Americans to either split. have health insurance or else pay The major reason for the uptick is a penalty beginning in 2014. the rebound in support among That's supported by a majority of Democrats. Their favorability Democrats (53 percent), but ratings jumped from 52 percent opposed overall by 63 percent of last month to 62 percent this respondents. Its constitutionality m o n t h . R e p u b l i c a n s a n d will be decided next year by the independents continue to have a Supreme Court.
Finally, the poll found the public is still confused about what the law does and does not do, more than 18 months after its passage. More than 40 percent of those polled did not know the law included such popular provisions as the requirements for simple benefit summaries and providing preventive services without costsharing. At the same time, more than half still thought it includes a government-run insurance plan, which it does not. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- David Frum (FrumForum only/faq.php#publishers. Five David Frum) Filters recommends: Donate to Submitted at 11/30/2011 7:47:37 AM Wikileaks. Heres some interesting data from Pew: Americans turning against the tea party (however they understand the tea party to mean) is not exactly a new story, but here it continues to accelerate. More surprising: the tea party seems to be contaminating the larger Republican brand. Republican favorability has dropped 7 points with the general public since September 2010, with the steepest portion of the drop occuring during the debtceiling debate last summer. But in congressional districts
The Cost of the Tea Party

where the tea party is strong, Republican support has dropped further, by 10 points. And while overall GOP numbers are stronger in those tea party districts, even there, the unfavorables are higher than the favorables, 48 unfavorable to 41 favorable. This is coming to seem a very expensive tea party indeed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Let Europeans Vote for EU Officials

David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
Swedish-Danish cooperation) or else the EU itself would have to evolve into a single polity. Submitted at 11/30/2011 3:06:16 PM Proponents of the currency poohIn my column for The Week I poohed those warnings. Those explain why the European Union euro advocates included not only n e e d s m o r e d e m o c r a t i c the usual array of Brussels accountability: technocrats, but also Americas The European Union is not a own leading business newspaper, democracy because until now it The Wall Street Journal. h a s b e e n r e g a r d e d a s a n Now the issue has been put to the association of democracies. The test. The proponents were wrong. institutions at the center of Europe The critics were right. The euro existed to serve democratic now threatens to plunge Europe governments, not to replace those and the world into financial crisis governments. followed by severe recession. When the euro currency was Threatens? The crisis is here, and proposed back in the 1990s, the recession may already have opponents of the euro warned that begun. different countries cannot safely Again as the critics warned, there share one money. Either the euro is no easy way back. Quitting the would crack up under pressure euro will be painful for the (as, say, the Scandinavian cracked countries that go and even up in 1914 after 40 years of more painful for the countries
too. The most troubled countries in the Eurozone first Greece, now Italy, soon Spain, potentially France are seeing their local democratic decision-making subordinated to a remote bureaucracy elected by nobody at all. Click here to read the full column. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwho stay. Banks will be ruined, squeezed public benefits, higher only/faq.php#publishers. Five g o v e r n m e n t s w i l l s t e p i n , taxes, and years of slow growth. Filters recommends: Donate to taxpayers will be called upon. The But to go forward toward a more Wikileaks. technical term for the unleashed integrated Europe just as the process is adjustment, but that euro critics warned, just as the bloodless term really means euro proponents promised would unemployment, loss of savings, never happen is dangerous,
Tyra Banks to Host Google+ Hangout

Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:12:58 PM
Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. Youll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Former Victorias Secret model and Americas Next Top Model
host Tyra Banks is hosting a Google+ Hangout Wednesday to promote her new book, Modelland. Beginning at 8 p.m. ET, Banks will be joined by two superfans in the Hangout: Emily Doherty, w h o t w e e t s from@TyrasFanForever, and Sharontina Brightman, a.k.a.@TyrasLilSis. Bankss
Google+ has proved a good promotional tool as of late. digital director will moderate a Broadcasters, journalists and even live video discussion on the book, t h e D a l a i L a m a a r e t a k i n g bullying and definitions of beauty. advantage of the platforms Viewers are invited to leave novelty and group participation q u e s t i o n s o n M o d e l l a n d s functions to draw awareness to Google+ page and on Twitter their work. using the hashtag #TyrasHangout. More About: Google, Google+, A few will be selected to join the tyra banks Hangout discussion.
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Medal of Honor Winner Called 'Unstable' by New Employer

(The Feed)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 9:11:34 AM
Walmarts Animated Fruitcake Comments on Your Facebook Wall

Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:26:30 PM
Via ABC News: In September, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, the nations most prestigious military award, to Sgt. Dakota Meyer, the marine who saved 36 of his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan. Obama called Meyer one of the most down-to-earth guys that you will ever meet. But today Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable. Meyer filed legal papers Monday claiming the allegations were in retaliation for objections he raised about BAEs alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. After leaving active duty in May 2010, Meyer worked at Ausgar Technologies, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business in California, until April 2011. He
exhibited a maturity for his age and an insightful capability to get the job done and provide recommendations to improve on what we are doing. I was very impressed while he was working for us. He was an outstanding employee, Tom Grant, a retired military naval officer and a senior program manager at Ausgar Technologies, told ABC News. . . Um, why exactly are the Brits
selling high-tech rifle scopes to the Pakistanis? Greg Pollowitz This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
at one point. Call them up. Come W a l m a r t h a s r e l e a s e d a n on over. We can go caroling, play uncharacteristically odd attempt at dreidels, whatever. a holiday meme: Frank the As voiced by Goldthwaite, Frank Fruitcake, an animated dessert is meant to be, in Alexanders that sounds like comedian Bobcat words, annoyingly charming and embody a gift that no one Goldthwaite. The ad campaign, a nod to the wants. The only plug for the comedic trope that the same sponsor is a line about going to fruitcake gets passed on uneaten, the retailer to get gifts that year after year, is new ground for everyone wants. Walmart. The brief said, Spread Any online holiday campaign, some holiday cheer, says Joe particularly one by a retailer, Alexander, creative director at the owes a debt to OfficeMaxs Elf Martin Agency, which created Yourself, a campaign now in its Frank. Alexander says that though sixth year that lets consumers Walmarts ads have been getting graft pictures of themselves onto funnier, They hadnt really done animated elf bodies. Alexander this kind of loosey-goosey thing says Walmart was hoping to do something viral for the holidays, before. Frank, which will be supported w h i l e e n s u r i n g t h a t i t w a s by a few banner ads, works like substantially different from Elf this: At the Frank the Fruitcake Yourself. site you can load Frank to your What do you think of Frank? Facebook Wall or send it to one Sound off in the comments. of your Facebook friends. Once More About: Advertising, elf on your wall, a video of Frank yourself, Holidays, Marketing, w i l l p r o v i d e a r u n n i n g viral marketing, WalMart commentary. Looks like you have a lot of friends, Frank says
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How to Check Your iPhone Data Usage

GeekSugar (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/30/2011 2:58:36 PM
British embassy in Iran is closed

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the Vienna Convention and "for which any nation should be ashamed". Wondering just how much data 30 Nov 2011 Relations between Britain and youre pulling down in a given Britain has closed its embassy in Iran, already difficult, have month on your iPhone? There are Iran and all UK staff have left the worsened in recent weeks amid a few ways to check your usage. country after the compound was renewed concerns about president You can head to AT&Ts stormed by protesters, Foreign Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear wireless website, log into your Secretary William Hague has ambitions. But Mr Hague insisted: account, and create a billing revealed. "No difficulty in relations can report(under Bills and H e a n n o u n c e d t h a t t h e ever excuse in any way or under Payments, click Create Billing Government was also requiring any circumstances the failure to Report, and Data Usage the closure of the Iranian embassy protect diplomatic staff and Trend), which gives you a in London and the departure from diplomatic premises." detailed graph on how much data Britain of all of its staff within the He said he had called the Iranian youre using. You can also next 48 hours. Foreign Minister, who had said he estimate how much you use with youll see your data usage to switch to a less expensive plan. Addressing the Commons, Mr w a s " s o r r y f o r w h a t h a d your providers online data (sending and receiving) over the Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Hague said Tehran should be h a p p e n e d " . calculator. "ashamed" of the events that took He urged against all but essential cellular network. If youve never izusek Find your usage for AT&T, reset your stats, youll find that More About: apple, iphone place on Tuesday. travel to Iran and said British Verizon, or by signing in to your this number will be fairly high. For more Mobile coverage: About 24 embassy staff and their citizens in need of help would be Sprint account. Since existing customers can Follow Mashable Mobile on dependants were based at the able to get consular assistance However, this third way only keep the plans theyre on now, Twitter embassy's office and residential from other EU missions in requires you and your iPhone to you can reset your statistics today Become a Fan on Facebook compounds in Tehran. Tehran. s e e h o w m u c h d a t a y o u r e (by hitting the Reset Statistics Subscribe to the Mobile channel In a statement to the Commons, This entry passed through the devouring. button at the bottom of the Download our free apps for Mr Hague said the last of those Full-Text RSS service if this is First, head to your iPhones screen), and check back next Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad staff had departed from Iran. your content and you're reading it settings app. Scroll down to week to estimate just how much He said the attack on the embassy on someone else's site, please read General, then click on usage. bandwidth youre eating up each was conducted by about 200 the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentY o u l l s e e y o u r m i n u t e month, and determine if you want d e m o n s t r a t o r s f r o m a n only/faq.php#publishers. Five breakdown, but at the very bottom organisation "controlled by Filters recommends: Donate to elements of the Iranian regime". Wikileaks. Iran's failure to protect British diplomatic staff was a breach of
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Psalm 69:30 (11- Video of the Day: Things 30-11) Mitt Romney Doesn't Like
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I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. Psalm 69:30(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... When was the last time you sang praises to God outside a church or devotional service? Why not open up the Psalms and find several verses that reflect your own praise and thanks to God and give them a tune -- your own tune! God doesn't care if your spiritual gift is music or not; he's just listening for your heart to be full of joy as you share your praise and thanksgiving with him. My
Prayer... O gracious Father, giver of every good and perfect gift, forgive me for relegating my thanksgiving and praise to special days and special places. I praise you for creating your human children with the capacity to celebrate goodness, to rejoice in your creation, and to have the capacity for praise and thanksgiving. Thank you for making our world so full of reasons to offer thanks to you, our Abba Father and Creator. As you continually fill me with your Spirit, may my heart overflow with songs of praise and words of thanksgiving. In Jesus' holy name I pray. Amen.
Getting Asked About

Chris Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
career. "Let's do it again." Unfortunately for Romney, this was not actually an unusual Submitted at 11/30/2011 1:27:03 PM interview. He will run into much Mitt Romney is apparently sick more of this as the election plods o f t h e m e d i a ' s r e p e t i t i v e along, and we now know what his questions. response will be: that his Confronted with the existence of adversaries have selectively attack ads like this one, in an removed quotes from context to interview with Fox News's Bret make him look like a flip-flopper. Baier, the former governor A n d w e k n o w t h a t t h a t ' s seemed generally agitated. "This h a p p e n e d , t o s o m e e x t e n t . is an unusual interview," he said, For what it's worth, in evaluating as Baier reminded him that two of the specific Democratic videotape seemingly shows him National Committee attacks taking different stances on health Romney refuted on Tuesday, care mandates, abortion, and Politifact has said the DNC was climate change earlier in his right about Romney's purported
flip-flop on abortion and mostly right on climate change. Video credit: Fox News, TalkingPointsMemo, YouTube This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/11/video-ofthe-day-things-mitt-romneydoesnt-like-getting-asked-about/ 249285/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Democrats Pin Their Senate Hopes on Women

Josh Kraushaar (Politics : The Atlantic)
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As DEMOCRATS page 77 the party seeks to retain
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control of the upper chamber, its 2012 lineup of candidates will feature more women than ever If you want a sign of the gender gap in American politics, look no further than both parties' Senate recruitment efforts. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Congress's Year-End Alphabet Soup Central Banks Swing Into Action Cain Train Still Chugging Democrats have accomplished the rare feat of convincing more women than men to run in leading Senate races next year. Include the six women up for reelection, and it's the largest crop running for the Senate--ever. Of the eight open or Republicanheld seats Democrats are aggressively contesting, there's a good chance that a woman will end up as the standard-bearer in at least half. Democrats' path to holding the Senate winds through Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, Rep. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, Rep. Shelley Berkley in Nevada, and, potentially, Rep. Mazie Hirono in Hawaii. Party officials also are hoping former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp can pull off an upset in Republicanfriendly North Dakota. Republicans have landed prominent women candidates too, with former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle and former New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson best positioned for victory next year. But their A-list roster isn't nearly as deep as the Democrats'. Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty
Murray of Washington, who on her second tour is the only woman to ever head the committee, played a key role in recruiting and field clearing. It's no coincidence that Berkley, Warren, and Baldwin have no serious primary competition. Party officials believe that in an antiWashington, anti-politician environment, women candidates fit the outsider role much more effectively than men. Murray's close relationship with EMILY's List, whose mission is to elect female Democrats who support abortion rights, has benefited her. The group has spent the last two decades developing a deep farm system of qualified candidates for Congress, governorships, and state legislatures who can step up when opportunities arise. When a wave of senatorial retirements hit earlier this year, many of the group's favored candidates pounced. "Women voters respond to women candidates. It strengthens our ticket in these states to have women running for the Senate," said former DSCC political director Martha McKenna, who has also worked at EMILY's List. But if Democrats are expecting 2012 to be a replay of 1992's "year of the woman," they may have a tougher road to hoe than anticipated. Two incumbents, Missouri's Claire McCaskill and Michigan's Debbie Stabenow, have challenging reelection bids. All of the Democratic women candidates for Senate are a degree more liberal than the states they're
seeking to represent, which is a glaring red flag in an otherwise stream of good recruiting news for the party. Warren, running against GOP Sen. Scott Brown, is the poster child for testing the limits of outspoken liberalism. The architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Warren is a progressive celebrity thanks to her sharp criticism of Wall Street and well-crafted image of fighting for the underdog. In her first campaign advertisement, Warren played up her working-class upbringing in Oklahoma. But even as she energizes the liberal base and has become an impressive fundraiser, Warren provides Republicans with a heap of opposition research fodder. Her recent praise of the Occupy Wall Street protesters and embrace of active federal regulation are politically risky positions. Public polls show Americans wary of Wall Street and big business but equally resistant to the federal government's expanded role under the Obama administration. Even in deeply Democratic Massachusetts, significantly more voters consider themselves moderate (46 percent) than liberal (32 percent). Warren has natural political talent and will benefit from presidentiallevel turnout in a Democratic state. However, Republicans are painting her as outside the mainstream and as a leftist Harvard academic and believe her views could turn off enough
moderates to hand Brown a victory. Baldwin faces similar challenges in Wisconsin for the seat being vacated by Sen. Herb Kohl (DWis.). She brings all the skills party officials want--strong fundraising, tireless campaigning, and rallying of the base. But she also represents the Midwest's liberal mecca, Madison, and has a voting record to match. She backed labor protests against Gov. Scott Walker. She's a strong antiwar voice. And she is the first and only openly lesbian member of Congress who is at the forefront of fighting for gay rights. If Republicans sought her conservative equivalent to run-say, someone in the mold of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)-they'd probably be laughed out of the room. But Democrats believe Baldwin can strike a populist tone and connect with labor, and is likable enough that voters will overlook their issue-specific disagreements with her. They cite the success of another liberal maverick, former three-term Sen. Russell Feingold, in Wisconsin as a telltale example. Still, Democrats made their biggest 2010 gains in the state Senate and in judicial recalls in more-rural parts of the state. Those areas are more culturally conservative, making it debatable whether Baldwin's style will resonate. In Hawaii, Hirono has national party support in her faceoff with former Democratic Rep. Ed Case, in a race that pits the state party's
liberal wing with a more moderate faction. Hirono, the early favorite, consistently ranks in the top tier of the most liberal members in her short tenure in Congress, according to National Journal's vote ratings. That's hardly a disqualifier in the deeply Democratic Aloha State, but the winner goes up against the leading GOP female recruit--the popular former governor Lingle. Case has internal polling showing that nominating Hirono could hand the election to a Republican. Berkley, running against appointed GOP Sen. Dean Heller, is not quite as liberal as her two counterparts but is a party-line voter in Congress on major legislation. As a favored candidate of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who helped clear her path to the nomination, Berkley doesn't have much room to showcase her independence. Heitkamp is the one recruit who will campaign as a moderate and distance herself from President Obama. Republicans will focus on her support for Obama's health care law--an issue that played a key role in the retirement of the state's two Democratic senators over the last two election cycles and the defeat of the state's Democratic congressman last year. Democrats believe this crop of candidates, despite many of their outspoken liberal views, is uniquely positioned to drive the DEMOCRATS page 78
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income-inequality message that party strategists believe will be pivotal. However, that bets that biography trumps ideology in 2012. Image credit: Josh Reynolds/AP This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/11/ democrats-pin-their-senate-hopeson-women/249268/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Picture of the Day: Herman Cain's Facebook Foreign Policy

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The above image is a concise summation of how Herman Cain sees other countries around the world. As we know, there have been some questions about his talents in this area.
Featuring such appraisals as "Pakistan: Danger and Opportunity," the infograpic overlays all those interpretations on a map that purports to show "the density of Facebook connections" between countries in the world. It comes from a.pdf brochure on Cain's foreign-policy stances, which can be found on
his campaign website. The brochure is two pages long; the above image comprises the second. Image credit: Friends of Herman Cain This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/11/pictureof-the-day-herman-cains-
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E-books may have caught on in a big way these past few years, but there have been a few big holdouts. The Harry Potter series only became available for the first time earlier this year, and now Ray Bradbury has finally allowed his dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451, to be made available in electronic form (the title remains unchanged). Bradbury himself has been a longtime critic of ebooks (and the internet itself, for that matter), but he reportedly relented when his publisher, Simon & Schuster, explained that a new contract wouldn't be possible without ebook rights. Other Bradbury novels may also be released as ebooks eventually, according to his agent, but there's apparently no firm plans for those as of yet. There are plans for a new paperback edition of Fahrenheit 451 to be released in January, however, followed by new editions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man that are slated for release in
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