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Taxes: battle of the shoulds, musts, nots
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 1:07:25 PM
Political maneuvering is in full
bloom as positions are being
staked out in the battle over tax
cuts to the wealthy and for the
hearts and minds of the Middle
Class ahead of the November
election.
President Barack Obama on
F r i d a y h a d h i s
say: Congress should pass what
everyone agrees on — extend
Bush-era Middle Class tax relief
for families earning up
to $250,000.
For higher incomes, Obama said
the country can’t afford extending
tax cuts, but he is willing to talk
about it . “We can have a further
conversation about how they want
to spend an additional $700
billion to give an average of
$100,000 to millionaires. That I
think is a bad idea.”
Obama didn’t slam the door in
anyone’s face. In fact, if someone
was looking for grains of
compromise he appeared to leave
the door slightly ajar.
House Republican leader John
Boehner, who could be Speaker if
his party wrestles control from
Democrats on Nov. 2, said on
Sunday that he would be open to
only the Middle Class extension if
that was the only piece that would
get through, but in principle all
the expiring tax relief should be
extended.
- 14/09/10 http://www.LibertyNewspost.
and issued a statement on Monday
that didn’t exactly back Boehner
(could there be a fight for Speaker
brewing?)
“I will do everything in my power
to stop President Obama and
Speaker Pelosi from raising taxes
on working families, small
business people, and investors,”
Cantor said. Doesn’t sound
like he’s leaving much wiggle
room.
Boehner’s way could reduce the
a m m u n i t i o n f r o m
Democrats trying to portray
Republicans as obstructing
tax relief to the Middle Class.
“If the only option I have is to C a n t o r ’ s w a y s p e a k s m o r e
vote for those at 250 and below, strongly to the conservative
of course I’m going to do that,” Republican base.
Boehner said on CBS’s “Face the Somebody has to blink
Nation” program. “But I’m going somewhere. If they don’t do
to do everything I can to fight to anything, something is going to
make sure that we extend the happen that nobody wants —
c u r r e n t t a x r a t e s f o r a l l everyone gets a tax increase.
Americans.” Photo credit: Reuters/Rick
Then there’s Eric Cantor. Wilking (Woman dressed as
The House Republican Whip is Statue of Liberty waving sign at
second on the leader ladder drivers in Colorado, Feb. 4, 2009)
Sorry MSNBC:
Dylan Ratigan Is
A Conservative
Joe Pompeo (Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:14:00 AM
One of these things is not like the
other: Dylan Ratigan, a self-
proclaimed conservative among
his lefty co-workers at MSNBC.
"I consider myself a conservative
... the social [stuff] I could care
less, but when it comes to actual
structure..."
Also: "The Libertarians lose me
when they go to the law of the
jungle but refuse to prevent the
game from being rigged."
Watch the video below.
[ h/t Mediaite via Politics Daily]
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See Also:
• Gasparino And Ratigan Blast
Their Old Employer, CNBC
• Dylan Ratigan's Ratings Show
A Loss For MSNBC, But He's
Still Beating CNBC's 'Closing
Bell'
• TV Anchors Steered Clear Of
Suggesting James Lee Was Crazy
In Case He Was Watching
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Washington Extra – I see your gauntlet, and raise you a gauntlet

Simon Denyer (Front Row Democratic leaders to get tough economic data are all over the
Washington) with China over its exchange rate map, causing confusion about
Submitted at 9/13/2010 5:27:50 PM practices. This looks from the whether the actual readings are
outside more like political better or worse than expected and
On Friday, President Barack posturing than any real threat that what that might mean for growth
Obama threw down the gauntlet legislation will be passed this prospects.
t o R e p u b l i c a n s o n t a x e s , year, but Beijing will be watching For more of this story by Anooja
effectively daring them to vote closely. The yuan has risen less Debnath and Emily Kaiser, click
against a tax cut for the middle t h a n o n e p e r c e n t s i n c e i t s here.
classes, just so that they can give currency peg was eased ahead of Pentagon expects Saudis to
an average of $100,000 in tax cuts the G20 summit in June, but that commit to $30 billion in arms:
to millionaires. appreciation has quickened in source
Over the weekend, Republican recent days, in what might be an The Obama administration will
leader of the House John Boehner attempt to dampen congressional soon notify Congress of an arms
seemed to shirk the challenge, but anger. deal with Saudi Arabia worth up
on Monday, Senate minority Here are our top stories from to $60 billion, but the kingdom is
leader Mitch McConnell picked today… expected to only initially commit
elections. As lawmakers return exchange rate policies.
up the gauntlet and threw it right Senate Republicans firm on tax to about half that, a senior
from a month-long break this For more of this story by Doug
back. McConnell has promised to cuts for rich defense official said . The official,
week, Democrats aim to pass their Palmer, read here.
introduce legislation “today” to Senate Republicans have enough speaking on condition of
small-business bill out of the For a Q+A on the issues, click
ensure that “no one in this country votes to block President Barack anonymity, said the package
Senate by the end of the week here.
pays higher income taxes next Obama’s plan to extend tax cuts would include 84 new Boeing Co
and send it to the House of US sets steep duties on China
year than they are right now.” f o r t h e m i d d l e c l a s s w h i l e F-15 fighter jets and upgrades to
Representatives for final seamless steel pipe
There are no Republicans who allowing those for the rich to another 70 of them.
approval. The Commerce Department
support a tax hike, he said, expire, a spokesman for the For more of this story by Phil
For more of this story by Andy announced steep final anti-
effectively daring Democrats to Senate Republican leader said. Stewart, read here.
Sullivan, read here. dumping and countervailing
vote for higher taxes when the R e p u b l i c a n s s c r a m b l e d t o Pentagon to release affordability
House lawmakers urge action on duties on hundreds of millions of
economy is in the mire. regroup on the tax issue ahead of directives
China currency dollars of seamless steel pipe
Washington Extra is not sure N o v e m b e r 2 c o n g r e s s i o n a l Pentagon acquisition chief
Ninety-three lawmakers have from China. The decision is a
who will blink first. But elections after House of Ashton Carter plans to unveil
signed a letter urging Democratic victory for the United States Steel
whichever side you take in this Representatives Republican detailed affordability directives
leaders in the House of Corp, V&M Star LP, TMK
debate, one thing is for sure: this Leader John Boehner appeared to for U.S. weapons makers at a mid
Representatives to schedule a IPSCO and the United
“wrestling match,” as Obama open the door for a possible -afternoon news conference at the
vote on a bill to get tough with Steelworkers union, who filed a
called it, or game of high-stakes compromise. Pentagon on Tuesday, a
China over its currency exchange petition asking the Commerce
political poker if you prefer, does For Kim Dixon and Thomas spokeswoman said. Carter told
rate practices, a lawmaker’s office Department for import relief.
the economy no good at all. Ferraro, click here. reporters in July he expected to
said. “So far we have 93 For more of this story by Doug
Another big story bubbling up Small-business bill could be unveil 16 directives for industry
members signed on to the letter,” Palmer, here.
this week is a series of hearings Democrats’ last hope on jobs and defense officials in mid-
a spokeswoman for Analysis: Unusual uncertainty
on the Hill over China’s currency Democrats in the Congress have September about how to meet
Representative Tim Ryan told strikes U.S. economic forecasters
and trade policies, with Treasury a late chance to show frustrated Defense Secretary Robert Gates’
Reuters in an e-mail ahead of U.S. economists are having an
Secretary Tim Geithner among voters they are trying to boost the goal to cut overhead costs by
congressional hearings this unusually tough time predicting
those scheduled to appear. We are sluggish economy with a plan to $100 billion over the next five
Wednesday and Thursday on the path of a recovery that doesn’t
told that 93 lawmakers in the extend help to small businesses
what steps the United States seem to fit neatly into a bullish or WASHINGTON page 3
House have signed a letter urging before the November midterm
should take to deal with China’s bearish box. Forecasts for
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years.
For Andrea Shalal-Esa’s full
story, click here.
Geithner says U.S. economic
recovery not fast enough
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner said the U.S. economy
was recovering but not fast
enough and Washington needed
to do more to boost growth and
create jobs. In a speech to the
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Institute, Geithner urged support
for a small business lending
package the Senate is set to debate
this week.
For more of this story by Donna
Smith, read here.
Violent crime falls for third
straight year: FBI
Violent crime in the United
States fell in 2009 for the third
straight year, with the number of
murders dropping to a level not
seen in four decades, according
to FBI statistics. Violent crime
dropped 5.3 percent in 2009,
including a 7.3 percent decline in
murders, an 8 percent drop in
robberies, a 4.2 percent decline in
aggravated assaults and 2.6
percent fall in rapes, according to
the final 2009 statistics.
For more of this story by
Thomas Ferraro, read here.
UFO Shuts Down Chinese Airport For An Hour -- AGAIN!
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:12:08 AM
A UFO sighting caused Chinese
U.S. posts $90.53 billion budget
deficit in August
The United States posted a
$90.53 billion budget deficit in
August, Treasury Department data
showed. The August deficit was
slightly below the $95 billion
expected by economists polled by
Reuters and smaller than the
$103.56 billion budget gap a year
earlier.
For more of this story by Corbett
Daly, read here.
Industry has sway over food
safety system: study
The food industry is jeopardizing
public health by withholding
information from food safety
investigators or pressuring
regulators to withdraw or alter
policy designed to protect
consumers, said a survey of
government scientists and
inspectors. A study released by
the Union of Concerned Scientists
found one-in-four of those
surveyed have seen corporate
interests forcing their agency to
withdraw or modify a policy or
action designed to protect
consumers during the past year.
For more of this story by
Christopher Doering, read here.
What we are blogging…
Obama should call a truce with
authorities to shut down an airport
for an hour yesterday.
This happened at another Chinese
airport earlier this summer.
Wall Street
The pre-election economic treats
that President Barack Obama
handed out this week included
several intended specifically for
business: research and
development tax credits, for
instance, and the small-business
tax breaks he is pushing to
introduce in the face of
Republican congressional
opposition. But these familiar
sweeteners won’t be nearly
enough to reverse one of the most
significant estrangements of the
first two years of the Obama
administration — the rift between
the White House and business.
For more of this column by
global editor at large Chrystia
Freeland, click here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Kevin
Lamarque ( McConnell (R) and
Boehner after a meeting with
Obama June 10, 2010)
Here's a video of yesterday's
UFO sighting. We're pretty sure
someone just strapped some LED
lights on a kite (via allnewsweb):
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Bank on Preferreds: Bank
America and Wells Fargo
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:00:00 AM
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to Buy
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Reform Act, certain trust
preferreds can offer investment-
grade safety, robust yields of debt, not equity. As such, they
around 6-7%, and capital gains provide greater safety than
potential," suggests Carla traditional preferred stock.
Pasternak. Continue reading Bank on
The editor of High Yield Preferreds: Bank America and
Investing explains, "Among our Wells Fargo
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Castle vs. O’Donnell AIG Devises a Plan to

JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:23:18 AM
who know nothing about
Delaware, nothing about Christine
O’Donnell and nothing about the
Reduce Government
The fate of another Republican
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Microsoft: We'll Stop Russia From Using Us as a "Baseball Bat"

Dan Nosowitz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:19:27 AM

This weekend the New York

Times published an expose
showing one method used by the
Russian government to crush
opposition from activist groups.
And one of our Most Innovative
Companies, Microsoft, is tangled
up in the story.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's
government, along with the
Russian office of Microsoft's
formidable legal team, has been
raiding groups that oppose its
policies. During those raids,
computers, servers, and other
electronic equipment are seized,
with data often copied and/or
erased before being returned, if
the equipment actually is returned
(which it often isn't). It's an
effective way to stop an activist
group in its tracks.
The reason for these raids? The
groups are usually accused of
using pirated Microsoft software.
But the security forces never
actually check before confiscating
computers to see if there is pirated American Great Lakes combined). raids. At least one investigation and journalists would simply not and with a proposal for a way to
software on them. The complaints The paper plant was shut down in was kicked off by a Microsoft be able to occur." fix the mess--but the problem is,
that trigger the raids are often 2008 in part due to massive prosecutor. Microsoft lawyers Microsoft has issued a couple of the proposal won't solve the
made by shifty third parties who worldwide protests--the plant was invariably side with the police and official responses to the article. problem at its base.
have sometimes never even seen a notorious polluter, leaching vigorously prosecute whoever the The first is a brief and Smith proposes an essentially
the equipment. obscene amounts of toxic police wants, and the company tremendously unsatisfying pledge two-pronged approach. First,
The most recent raid targeted a chemicals into the otherwise refuses to authenticate software to "increase monitoring and Microsoft will "create a new
group called Baikal pristine lake. But in January, purchases by these groups (such awareness," a meaningless unilateral software license for
Environmental Wave. The group Putin decreed that the plant is safe authentication would nullify the statement that doesn't require any NGOs," which extends
is protesting the re-opening of a and should be reopened. entire investigation). Said an actual action. A second, more Microsoft's NGO program to
paper plant on Lake Baikal in Baikal Environmental Wave editor of opposition newspapers: personal statement from Brad more organizations through 2012.
Siberia, the largest lake in the disagrees, and has suffered for "Without the participation of Smith, Microsoft's General (The precise nature of the
world (it has about the same their protests. Microsoft, these criminal cases Counsel, has the right attitude--
amount of water as all five North Microsoft is a key player in these against human rights defenders concerned, proactive, apologetic, MICROSOFT: page 7
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CampusLIVE Is College 101
Lydia Dishman (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:11:05 AM
Students, you are about to get
schooled—in the reality of
mastering your entire college
experience, academics included.
From the pitfalls of navigating a
sprawling campus to the pressing
need to find food beyond the
culinary creations of an
institutional kitchen, from getting
to know (or avoiding) the
denizens of your dorm or off-
campus living quarters, to making
sense of who to ask for missed
notes amid the masses in the
lecture halls, CampusLIVE has
the answers. Call it College 101
… 2.0.
CampusLIVE.com is an online
portal that offers students in
participating schools a way to
balance academics and social
networking by aggregating it all
onto one campus-specific home
page. And then balance that idea
against the service becoming
boring or just another Facebook
clone. Rather, it works to
aggregate information, in part,
from the Facebook profile of
students enrolled at the school
between 2009-15. Think:
university email, events, athletics,
news, weather, local restaurants,
and entertainment as well as a live
feed that updates as members add
information to their profiles.
"What it was a campus-specific
homepage like i-Google where
academic links, email, and
Facebook were pulled together,"
co-creator and the often
overcaffeinated-sounding Boris
Revsin tells Fast Company,
adding without a breath, "It was a
great idea but you won’t get the
virality you need with a static
page. So we had to see what we
could do to create the homepage
as more of a social resource."
The Brainchild of Brainy
Students
Launched in 2008 by Revsin and
Jared Stenquist while they were
students at UMass Amherst,
CampusLIVE was conceived as a
simple utility for students to
connect to on- and off-campus
resources. With some tweaking of
the back end architecture and
allowing the students to log on via
Facebook (and have all their
profile information pulled into
CampusLIVE), Revsin says the
site turned a major corner in
functionality.
"It’s not just a message board,"
Revsin says. A ranking system,
for one, sets it apart from a
campus activities page—and from
Facebook. Sure, your Facebook
friend pool is made up of people
you hand-selected and
CampusLIVE’s stream includes
everyone signed up from the
student body. But, Revsin notes, if
a person who’s your Facebook
friend posts something, it
immediately gets moved to a
prominent position on your live
feed. Ditto for someone in your
dorm, or signed up for one of your
classes. "The pool is bigger but
ranking makes it more relevant,"
Revsin emphasizes.
It’s also really easy to keep it
separate from Facebook,
according to Emma Greene, a
sophomore at Amherst who says
never the twain shall meet in her
world. A self-professed outgoing
co-ed, Greene says she’s been
using CampusLIVE since she was
a freshman, back when it was a
more static experience. Still she
liked having everything in one
place without the fuss of
bookmarks.
Now, CampusLIVE’s latest
version – just launched last
week–has already invaluable
resource to her. "You get on and
add all your classes,” she
explains, "I have five classes this
semester and only know one
person." With the class finder,
Greene can see everyone who is
in any of her classes. "If I missed
anything, or need help with a
lecture, I can just send an email."
Like a GPS, for School!
But Revsin really wants to talk
more about CampusLIVE’s
proprietary feature – mapping.
"We are the only site that I know
of that has a map function like
Google maps." By this he means
his team has spent hundreds of
hours perfecting maps of its
member campuses and each one
not only shows a street layout and
the school buildings, it also
catalogs frat and sorority houses,
local businesses, and landmarks.
With the new interactive feature,
clicking on a dorm opens a
balloon showing all the profile
photos of users who are residents.
A discussion link takes you to a
running commentary on what
everyone is doing (think: studying
or partying). Revsin notes drily
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that if you don’t want your
Facebook friends to know you are
partying (hi mom!) better do as
Greene did and disconnect your
updates from FB.
On the other hand, a co-ed who
asked not to be indentified notes
the utility’s more practical side.
"So you're totally not a stalker,
but who wants to waste a great
outfit when the hot guy you're
creeping on isn't even on campus?
Checking CampusLIVE’s feed
means you never waste time,
energy, and laundry quarters
again. I mean, if he's gone home
for the weekend, why NOT wear
the faded band camp t-shirt and
granny panties?"
Regarding stalkers, Revsin says
no worries. The dorm addresses
are hidden and CampusLIVE
never lists anyone's room number.
"We do take it seriously and
privacy settings are built-in."
Greene says she’s been surprised
at the level of discussion that’s
already been generated. Revsin
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application process is a bit vague-
-I was told that groups with
"under 50 computers" that follow
"generally accepted guidelines for
NGOs" will qualify.) That will be
accompanied by documentation
that states specifically that each
NGO has full license to use these
products and that no software
piracy is involved. Microsoft also
plans to fly its Russian counsel
out to Russian authorities to
"personally" explain this new
NGO documentation--basically,
to tell any Russian police force to
quit raiding any group that can
present the documentation.
Second, Microsoft is pledging to
"undertake new steps" to ensure
third parties no longer pretend to
represent Microsoft for nefarious
purposes. Microsoft doesn't really
have a plan for that yet, but has
set a team on it and plans to put
something into effect by next
month.
The first part of the plan is sound,
if the Russian authorities play by
the rules. But, obviously, they
don't. Does anyone actually think
fancy new documentation will
deter these authorities,
considering they've already been
seizing equipment based on
flimsy and false charges filed by
people who have never even seen
the equipment that is to be
investigated?
In fact, Baikal Environmental
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Wave had specifically kept all of
the documentation and even
packaging of their legally
purchased Microsoft software,
and presented it to the Russian
police, to no effect. One more
sheet of paper is hardly likely to
deter these governmental
authorities from attempting to
destroy dissenting groups.
I spoke to Kevin Kutz,
Microsoft's Director of Public
Affairs, who told me that he's
largely concerned that Microsoft
maintain its anti-piracy stance
while making sure the company is
not involved in any way with anti-
dissident action. Microsoft's new
policies are designed not to stop
the cycle of anti-dissident action,
but to make sure the company is
not enabling or participating in it.
One of the biggest complaints of
the Russian activist groups is that
Microsoft offers little or no help
to fraudulently accused NGOs,
and Kutz says this will change.
"We're sending forty lawyers to
Russia to defend the new NGO
licenses," he said. So the raids
may not stop, but Microsoft wants
to make sure its hands are clean.
That's not necessarily a criticism:
It's not fair to expect a
multinational corporation to be an
activist group as well, but
Microsoft is definitely taking a
more hands-off stance than, say,
Google in China.
A series of robotic trains shuttle
people through this incredible
tunnel in Shanghai. "Colored
This part of the proposal is all
about hindsight. After a raid has
occurred, Microsoft will make
itself available for assistance,
providing legal documentation
and personnel. But that won't stop
the raids--it could stop activist
groups from being successfully
prosecuted, but they'll still have
lost their equipment and data,
which is really what the raids are
intended to do in the first place.
The second part of the pledge is a
little more questionable. Kutz
described the Russian authorities
as using Microsoft's legal team as
a "baseball bat" for dissidents, but
noted that the exact nature of the
relationship between this
"baseball bat" and Microsoft is
complex. Some of those involved
are probably Microsoft
employees, some are Russian
national lawyers who have been
retained by Microsoft, and some,
according to Kutz and Smith, are
complete frauds.
In another New York Times
piece Transparency International,
an anticorruption group, says
some of these lawyers have
extorted money from NGOs for
supposedly piracy-related reasons.
Kutz told me that some of these
lawyers do not represent
Microsoft at all, and sorting out
the good lawyers from the bad
and the legitimate employees
from the frauds is a hefty process.
lights in every lighting
Kutz said that Brad Smith,
Microsoft's general counsel,
"wants it [the report] fast--
probably measured in weeks
rather than months."
Given the diversity and quantity
of these claims, from multiple
NGOs, activist groups, Russian
media, and international
anticorruption groups, it seems
likely that Microsoft will have to
fire and possibly prosecute some
lawyers. At least, Microsoft plans
on publishing a list of all the
lawyers it really does employ, so
NGOs won't be tricked by frauds.
But that assumes that this fraud
really is the majority of the
problem, which it might not be.
For all Microsoft knows, prior to
the investigatory report, it's their
own lawyers who are acting as the
Russian government's muscle--in
which case the published list
won't help.
This second part of the proposal
is an attempt at foresight, at
taking away the muscle of the
Russian authorities. It's harder,
involving a ton of bureaucracy
and internal investigation, and
will certainly take longer to set
up.
This is a major scandal for
Microsoft. Though major
American companies often have
to undertake otherwise unsavory
projects in countries with
authoritarian governments just to
configuration fly by in beautiful
colors," says Trey Ratcliff.
via stuck in customs
Culture/ 7
stay in business, that doesn't make
it acceptable. Google recently
departed from China over a
philosophically similar
controversy. Microsoft is
unwilling to do the same in
Russia, and Kutz even told me
that he "hasn't experienced any
blowback from the Russian
government" over the story.
Microsoft is going to stay in
Russia, of course, and isn't able or
willing to dial back piracy
investigations.
Microsoft can't really fix this
problem. It remains to be seen if
the company will adequately
publicize and live up to the
promise of its new NGO
assistance program, and if it will
have any effect on these sorts of
raids. The Russian government
will almost certainly continue to
try to block dissident groups.
Microsoft just wants to stay out of
it. They can, too, if they stick to
these promises once the story has
died down.
[Image credit: New York Times]
Dan Nosowitz, the author of this
post, can be followed on Twitter,
corresponded with via email, and
stalked in Brooklyn (no link for
that one--you'll have to do the
legwork yourself).
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Ad Giant Thinks You'll Pay for Media Again With the Content
Project
Austin Carr (Fast Company) gain access to a network of sites. members” that would help
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:36:52 AM Revenue will be shared among introduce TCP when the service
this network depending on usage. launches in early 2011.
How much content are you “Our ambition is to create a With any paywall scheme, there
willing to pay for online? That’s network whereby we have a are a number of important
what providers from publishers to number of publishers agreeing to questions. How much access will
media outlets want to know as a common platform, so we could users have to these sites? Which
t h e y g e a r u p t o l a u n c h roll this out on a broader scale,” sites are involved in TCP’s
subscription services. Hulu and says general manager David network? Will consumers have to
the New York Times are just two Restrepo. “From a consumer pay for sites even if they are not
of the many experimenting with perspective, you won’t need interested in subscribing to them?
paywalls. But the idea has yet to dozens of accounts at different How will these network partners
become viable among consumers places.” agree to share revenue? Is shared
who are used to free, ad-supported So TCP will act as a mobile revenue a sustainable model?
content. wallet enabling consumers to Restrepo admits that “our
The Content Project(TCP) may jump to different media sources solution isn’t going to be right for
change that. Developed by WPP, without having to pay or log in. everyone.” As he puts it, TCP
the world’s largest advertising Restrepo recognizes that this idea the opinion that we have to technology, user-experience needs to “experiment before it can
firm, TCP is a scalable platform has been discussed before: “Is it experiment much more.” expertise, and “right draw any hard conclusions.”
that will help content-providers unique? No, it's been talked about TCP was created as a joint relationships” will help TCP
share revenue from a pool of it, and there’s been tons written venture between two WPP succeed.
consumer payments. Rather than and theorized about paid content,” subsidiaries: 24/7 RealMedia, a So what exactly are these “right
doling out $10/month to, say, the he says. “There are case-by-case digital marketing and analytics relationships?” Restrepo could
Wall Street Journal, users will be examples for paid content--WSJ, company, and design firm only say that there would be a
able to pay a single fee to TCP to Hulu, ESPN.com--but we’re of Schematic. Restrepo says WPP’s number of “major initial charter
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agrees the response has been

Report? encouraging. Before the new
version launched,
Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) about the shares. Even though After Latest Comps Report? CampusLIVEhad pages for 225
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:30:00 AM they closed down 0.6% (in some originally appeared on schools and plans to add 50 more
sense, that isn't really down so BloggingStocks on Tue, 14 Sep in the next six months. The team
Filed under: Earnings Reports, much as it is flat) to $74.57, 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see rolled out the live stream version
McDonald's (MCD) they're still rather close to the 52- our terms for use of feeds. Read| last week to only 50 schools and
McDonald's ( MCD) was down week high of $76.26 -- and quite Permalink| Email this| Comments is working on getting the rest
Monday. What a disappointment. far off from the 52-week low of McDonald- BloggingStocks- 52 online soon. For perspective, the
How can Mickey D's be down $53.88. There's something to be Week Low- Business- Allegedly new Amherst site started with 700
when the rest of the market was said for that these days, right? Unethical Firms members last week and Revsin
Comps Report?
up? Hey, it happens. Continue reading McDonald's: McDonald's: Still a Good Idea CAMPUSLIVE page 10
But here's the interesting thing Still a Good Idea After Latest
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That's One Small Step for a Potato ...

Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:11:03 AM

When humans decide that it's

finally time to colonize the moon,
researchers at the University of
Arizona Controlled Environment Stocks Are Snoozing, But
Agriculture Center (CEAC) will
be ready with hydroponic Yen And Gold Action
vegetables for our intrepid Shows The Real Panic
adventurers. A team of CEAC Behind The Scenes
engineers has built a prototype
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
lunar greenhouse that can grow a
number of vegetables, including Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:44:00 AM

potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, and

peppers. Stocks are flat on the day. Fine,
The membrane-covered there's no news, and the bulls
greenhouse contains water-cooled have had a nice run, so it's not a
optic cable--essentially light pipes partially funded by NASA, is project for two more years. But if big deal one way or another.
sodium vapor lamps and seed-
--which would channel sunlight based on a CEAC food production all goes well, CEAC researchers But behind the scenes it's panic.
filled envelopes, as well as a
from the surface to the plants system that has been operating at might be able to use the lunar We already mentioned the gold
robotic system that can get the
underground. The lunar the South Pole research station for greenhouse a bit closer to home-- spike. It's now at $1270.
whole thing up and running in just
greenhouse contains six years. That greenhouse for example, in urban centers that Meanwhile the yen, which surged
10 minutes. CEAC explains:
approximately 220 pounds of wet successfully provides food to don't usually grow food. Now, last night, just keeps crushing the
Carbon dioxide is fed into the
plant material that can provide 53 researchers who are cut off from that's boldly growing where no dollar. It's almost too painful to
prototype greenhouse from
quarts of potable water and about outside resources for up to eight vegetable has grown before. watch.
pressurized tanks, but astronauts
three-quarters of a pound of months each year. Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Join the conversation about this
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base just by breathing. Similarly,
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kilowatts of electricity and a astronauts with fresh vegetables.
extracted from astronaut urine,
pound of carbon dioxide. CEAC needs another $225,000
and the water-cooled electric
The system, which is being from NASA just to continue the
lights might be replaced by fiber

Retail Sales Increase During August

Mark Fightmaster the past five months. s o m e s t r e n g t h a f t e r t h e Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:00:00 AM registered a sizable decline last Continue reading Retail Sales Business- BloggingStocks- Retail
month, retail sales increases 0.6%. Increase During August Trade
The Commerce Department Department stores, sporting good Retail Sales Increase During
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says 200-300 are joining daily all
with no marketing - just from
word of mouth.
Pizza Money
All this activity and labor-
intensive back-end work demands
a lot of hands -- and a lot of
money. Revsin admits that
CampusLIVE has made good use
of interns ("They aren’t just
making copies," he underscores)
in addition to a full-time staff of
fourteen, including the founders.
CampusLIVE snagged an initial
round of VC funding to the tune
of over $1 million early on, and
are casting the net for another
infusion.
But Revsin’s already speedy
delivery gets even more energized
when he talks about the potential
11 Free Tools Every Entrepreneur
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:04:28 AM
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professional yet also squeeze you do both in the startup days of
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CampusLIVE’s become a hot
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Revsin says, "Anyone who
completes the challenge engages
businesses, he says. "We know with the brand in a modified way.
what students are buying online: It's so much better than a click
food delivery," and in last year through."
and a half the company’s made a Even with such a potential
significant amount of revenue just revenue stream, Revsin knows
by posting menus, he adds. CampusLIVE has challenges
Taking it a step further, ahead. "We are not going to
CampusLIVE is issuing change student’s behavior by just
challenges to students that require linking with Facebook. We need
check-ins, tweeting or completed to play at getting more interaction
advergames. The student gets a and engagement." After all, isn’t
discount coupon and the brand that was college is all about?
builds a presence among the
students along with boosting
sales. The model is already
drawing sponsors such as Peter
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(Reuters: Top News) $500,000 bail was paid, and
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:32:16 AM would be allowed to leave Iran.
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Sarah Shourd speaks with the judiciary, reported that bank
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conference in Tehran May 20, secure Shourd's release and that
2010. she had been handed to Swiss
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Springsteen talks 'Darkness' with festival doc (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) at that age going through the love it and still question it, still showing two lovers having a
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:32:15 AM creative process on it. Any artist, I challenge it." picnic, when the scene abruptly
think, will appreciate the chance Unlike "Born to Run" — for cuts to a dead body. This song,
TORONTO – Bruce Springsteen to see someone who is as great as which Springsteen wrote nine Springsteen said, is that body.
says he and the E Street Band he is at that age struggling and songs, eight of them appearing on The "Darkness" songs were
were on a mission when they struggling and struggling to get the album — "Darkness on the leaner and angrier than those on
made his "Darkness on the Edge things to where he hears them in Edge of Town" was honed into a "Born to Run," advancing from Evan Williams Coughed
of Town" album 32 years ago. his head." 10-song cycle from about 70 the earlier album's sense of Up $7,500 For
Springsteen opens up about the After its Toronto premiere, "The tunes he wrote, according to his youthful anarchy and escape to
career-altering album in the Promise" will air Oct. 7 on HBO, band mates. The songs included growing resignation to a "life of Twitter.com Back In The
documentary "The Promise: The then will be included in a CD and such castoffs as "Because the limitations and compromises," Day
Making of Darkness on the Edge D V D b o x e d s e t r e l e a s e o f Night" and "Fire," which became Springsteen says. Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
of Town," which premieres "Darkness on the Edge of Town" hits for Patti Smith and the "`Born to Run' and `Darkness,'
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:57:26 AM
T u e s d a y a t t h e T o r o n t o due in stores Nov. 16. Pointer Sisters. they're the beginning of the
International Film Festival. Directed by Thom Zimny, who Springsteen jokes that if a song story," Springsteen says. "I'm Mid-2006, when Twitter was
The film, which played Monday m a d e a s i m i l a r m a k i n g - o f did not work, he would pull out beginning to tell the story that I born, the domain name
for press, features contemporary documentary about "Born to the fragments he liked and try tell for most of the rest of my Twitter.com changed hands
interviews with Springsteen and Run," "The Promise" captures them elsewhere, like taking car working life." for$7,500, chief executive and co-
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CHICAGO – They shrieked, they
gasped, they cried, they hugged
— and that was before Oprah
Winfrey's studio audience got a
trip to Australia.
Winfrey kicked off her 25th and
final season of "The Oprah
Winfrey Show" on Monday with
promised surprises. After teasing
the 300 audience members with a
suggestion she might take them
on a trip to New York,
Philadelphia or Los Angeles, she
said her last season merited
something "bigger."
"So I started to think about where
would I most want to go," she
said over the din of an audience
that suddenly understood they
were going somewhere far away.
"Maybe I should take you all with
me to the other side of the world.
We're going to Australia,"
Winfrey shouted.
With that, a mock-up of a Qantas
jet rolled onto stage, its door
opened and actor John Travolta,
who also flies airplanes, stepped
out dressed as a Qantas pilot.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said in a
news release that it was a
Teaser First, Movie Later: Goon Taps Hollywood's Proof-of-Concept Trend
Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:00:00 AM
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"fantastic opportunity" to promote
the airline and Australian tourism.
Winfrey, who opened her 19th
season six years ago by giving out
cars to everyone in her studio
audience, will take this group in
December on an eight-day, seven-
night trip.
The audience was made up of
some of who the program called
its most loyal viewers over the
years. And throughout the show,
Winfrey introduced audience
members, including a man named
Larry who received word he'd
been invited to the program via a
taped message from Winfrey
delivered to his house by
NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson.
There were some surprises for
Winfrey as well. Actor Don
Johnson, who declined to appear
on the program when it first aired
in 1986 — when he was a much
bigger television star than
Winfrey — came by to explain
he'd wanted to appear but "Miami
Vice" bosses wouldn't let him
because he was too busy.
"But I understand things have
been going OK for you," he joked
to Winfrey.
Winfrey teared up during a
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lyrics.
The rest of this week's show will
include an appearance by country
music stars The Judds, and a
return to Williamson, W.Va.,
where she filmed a town hall
episode about AIDS in 1987. The
week will end with a live show on
Friday, in which Winfrey will
announce her first book club
selection in nearly a year.
This season a parade of
celebrities are likely to follow
Travolta, who danced with
Winfrey to open Monday's
program. Over the years, Winfrey
has interviewed a host of
celebrities, including Michael
Jackson, Julia Roberts and Tom
Cruise — who made headlines
when he jumped on her sofa to
proclaim his love for wife Katie
Holmes.
Winfrey also might land some
major interviews, as she has done
throughout the years with
presidential candidates George W.
Bush and later Barack Obama.
But Janice Peck, author of "The
Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for
the Neoliberal Era," expects
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not the end of Winfrey. She's set
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1.
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Matt Burns (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:35:00 AM
Backpacks are a necessary part of
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strangers to backpacks, messenger
bags, and bags in general. We’ve
looked at a ton over the years and
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Thousands Rally Against Park51 Mosque on 9/11

Anniversary
(Society) claiming that the dueling protests or not,” said Bolton. “That is a “a mosque on top of a cemetery.”
Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:57:54 AM over the mosque were evenly very unappealing face to put on “This is not about freedom of
matched. “The media is playing the supposed effort behind the religion,” she said, directly
As many as 40,000 people the dueling rallies; it was no such mosque.” addressing the center’s main
gathered near New York City’s thing.” The former U.S. ambassador, argument. “It’s about geography.” If Housing Is Going
Ground Zero Saturday on the At the rally against the mosque, who has expressed interest in A newly released Public Religion Lower, Then Today's
ninth anniversary of the 9/11 international figures were running for president in 2012, also Research Institute/Religion News Good Retail Sales
terrorist attacks to protest the featured, including controversial took issue with past comments Service poll suggests that the
planned Islamic center and Dutch anti- Islam MP Geert made by Park51 visionary Imam majority of Americans agree with Numbers Don't Mean
mosque two blocks away. Wilders. Feisal Abdul Rauf after the Sept. Braginsky’s geography argument. Jack
But according to Agence France- “We must never give a free hand 11 attacks. Rauf, Bolton pointed According to the poll, 57 percent Gregory White (Money Game)
Presse and other mainstream to those who want to subjugate out, has said the United States of Americans oppose allowing
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:52:09 AM
media outlets, only about 2,000 us,” Wilders said. “Draw this line was an “accessory” to 9/11, Park51 to be built two blocks
people participated in the rally. so that New York … will never Osama bin Laden was made in the from the former WTC site. But This morning's retail data came in
The exceptionally large difference become New Mecca.” USA, and the United States has the poll also found 76 percent of
way better than expected, with
in figures is intentional, claimed Former U.S. Ambassador to the more blood on its hands than the Americans – including the sales growing 0.6% rather than
organizers of the anti-Park51 United Nations John Bolton also terrorists. The imam has also majorities of religious groups the expected 0.3%.
demonstration. spoke to rally participients, albeit refused to call Hamas a terrorist across the spectrum – support thePaper Economy explains that
“Crickets are chirping in taqiyya via video. In a message much organization. building of a mosque in their own
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Scandal-ridden Calif. city must return Nielsen: Bing passes

tax dollars (AP) Yahoo in intentional
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 2:44:32 PM
scandal surfaced involving the
high taxes, huge salaries paid to
former city employees and
the assistant city manager
$376,288, and the police chief
$457,000. The four council
search
(CNET News.com) or 'contextual' searches that are
BELL, Calif. – Lt. Gov. Abel allegations of racial profiling of members targeted for recall were
Maldonado signed a bill Monday drivers. paid nearly $100,000 a year. Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:00:00 AM automatically generated by search
ordering the return of nearly $3 Property owners in the scandal- The three city employees have engines based on a person's
million in property taxes the state plagued city learned earlier this Although Yahoo still leads Bing browsing behavior."
since resigned, and the council
says was illegally collected in the year they were paying the second- in most measures of search Although Microsoft has passed
members have slashed their
blue-collar suburb of Bell, where highest property taxes in Los market share, Microsoft's search Yahoo by Nielsen's method,
salaries to about $8,000 a year.
one in six people live in poverty. Angeles County, ahead of Beverly engine has passed up Yahoo, Yahoo still had a significant lead
The state attorney general's office
An audit by state Controller John Hills and other wealthy cities according to one tracking firm. in July, according to the more
is investigating allegations of
Chiang's office determined the The median household income in Nielsen, which says its numbers widely cited Comscore numbers,
corruption and voter fraud in the
City Council passed an illegal Bell is $40,556. reflect only queries typed into a including a core search measure
city. Federal investigators are
resolution in 2007 that resulted in Maldonado also signed a second search box, has Bing at 13.9 that excludes some of the
looking into allegations that
a 50 percent tax hike over three b i l l a m e n d i n g t h e s t a t e percent, just ahead of Yahoo's slideshows and other non-explicit
police officers targeted Hispanic
years. 13.1 percent. Google is still the searches that had been giving
Unemployment Insurance Code to drivers for traffic violations in the
The tax rate was later rolled back, prevent elected officials from dominant market leader with some providers--especially Yahoo
hope some would be illegal
but the money collected could not collecting unemployment benefits roughly 65 percent of the market. --a boost.
immigrants whose cars could be
be refunded until Maldonado if they are recalled by voters or In the past year, Yahoo has seen Here's a chart of the Nielsen
seized.
signed Assembly Bill 900 into forced to leave office because of its share slip 2.9 percentage numbers and the recent trend
Bell charged much higher fees to
law. points, while Microsoft's search among the leading search
term limits. release impounded cars than
"I know that the residents of Bell Assembly Bill 900 orders Bell to engine has gained 3.2 percentage providers.
neighboring cities.
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It's True - Penelope and Javier Confirm Pregnancy Rumors!

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Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:20:49 AM
Penelope Cruz had people
wondering about a possible
pregnancy over the weekend
when she was snapped with a
serious baby bump on the Puerto
Rican set of Pirates of the
Caribbean: On Stranger Tides-
today, reps for her and husband
Javier Bardem confirmed the
good news and said that Penelope
is actually four and a half months
pregnant!
Official word from Penelope's PR
team comes after over a year of
speculation about her and Javier's
starting a family. This will be the
first child for both Javier and
Penelope, who married earlier this
Summer in the Bahamas.
Congrats to the growing family!
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Berlusconi to young women: Seek rich Infochimps Query API is
guys like me (AP)
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Submitted at 9/13/2010 10:42:36 AM
ROME – Italian Premier Silvio
Berlusconi says young women
should follow the money when
looking for a partner, noting that
women seem to like him and "I'm
loaded."
Berlusconi, who was embroiled
in a sex scandal last year and is
known for his gaffes, also raised
eyebrows with a joke about
Hitler's followers urging him to
return to power.
The billionaire businessman
appeared at a convention Sunday
of the youth wing of his People of
Freedom party. When questioned
by one of his Cabinet ministers —
a woman — he joked about
marriages of convenience, saying
women were lining up for him
because "I'm a nice guy" and "I'm
loaded."
He also recalled a much-
criticized TV interview he once
gave, when "I said to a girl to look
Derek Lam at Home
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 8:35:38 PM
While we're discussing Derek
Bananas
for a wealthy boyfriend. This
suggestion is not unrealistic."
He also claimed women favor
older men, thinking that "he's old.
He dies and I inherit."
The 73-year-old Berlusconi was
engulfed in a sex scandal last year
centering on his purported
dalliances with young women,
including an escort. Berlusconi's
wife Veronica Lario said last year
she was seeking a divorce. They
are now separated.
The media baron has said he is
"no saint" but denied ever paying
for sex.
In Italy, a divorce can only be
sought after three years of
separation. Media reports this
summer suggested that
Berlusconi's wife has rejected his
early proposals for a financial
settlement.
Berlusconi often gets criticized
for his earthy sense of humor, and
this time an opposition political
demanded he apologize to Italy's
Jewish community for his Hitler
Lam, I figured I might as well
repost his fabulous downtown
loft. As I've mentioned a million
times before, I love to see where
fashion designers live. Their
joke.
Before telling it, he said "I
already know I am going to be
criticized."
Berlusconi, who claims
prosecutors have led corruption
investigations against him
because they are left-wing, also
appeared to be poking fun at
himself when commenting on the
loss of his AC Milan soccer team
on Saturday. He contended the
referee robbed the team of three
goals and that Milan often gets
"leftist referees."
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:30:00 AM
You might recall past coverage of
Infochimps on ReadWriteWeb.
But did you know that Query API
access is free to noodle with on
the Baboon tier? Let's explore a
bit more and see what a Query
API Baboon subscription can
monkey with for free.
Don't worry. The example will be
simple so you can go bananas on
your own.
Sponsor
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To the left there is the
Infochimps Dataset API. With
the Dataset API you can search,
create, update, destroy, upload,
and download data on
Infochimps. This has always been
free to use and open to any
registered Infochimps user.
Let's take a right turn and look at
the Query API. The first step is to
get an API key for the Query API
just as you would with any API
provider these days. It's a simple
process and you'll be up and
running quickly.
Next, you'll peruse the
documentation and examples to
their interiors and they are usually
filled with interesting objects. It's
funny that Derek's apartment
doesn't have any patterned fabrics
except for some subtle throw
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get complete your first query. For
this simple example we will
revisit YQL and examine
Trstrank(Trust Rank).
source: http://y.ahoo.it/
EPi8C7XT
If you want to perform the same
type of query in PHP here is a
simple command line approach
that takes single argument for the
Twitter screen name you are
interested in to query Trust Rank.
You should expect to see output
as follows:
You might say this sounds like a
great idea for a simple web app!
Oddly enough...
source: http://trst.me/t/rww
Don't worry though... there are
plenty more big data sets and tires
to swing on over at Infochimps.
Now it's your turn to go ape.
Have you monkeyed around with
Infochimps data sets yet? Let us
know in the comments below!
Discuss
pillows. Kind of reminds me of
his fashions. Enjoy!
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Israelis, Palestinians see deal possible in year
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:10:06 AM
A Palestinian labourer works on a
construction site in the West Bank
Jewish settlement of Maale
Adumim September 14, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun
By Arshad Mohammed and
Crispian Balmer
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt|
Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:10am EDT
SHARM EL-SHEIKH,
Egypt(Reuters) - Israeli and
Palestinian leaders still believe
they can reach a peace deal in a
year, Washington's Middle East
envoy said Tuesday after talks in
Egypt, despite a dispute over
Jewish settlements.
No news emerged of any
compromise on the settlement
issue after negotiations attended
by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas.
But with a 10-month Israeli
moratorium on housing starts in
settlements in the occupied West
Bank due to end on September 30,
U.S. envoy George Mitchell
seemed optimistic in the face of
Palestinian threats to quit the new
talks if building resumes.
"President Abbas and Prime
Minister Netanyahu continue to
agree that these negotiations,
whose goal is to resolve all core
issues, can be completed in one
year," Mitchell told reporters in
Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh.
Clinton, Abbas and Netanyahu
later convened for an unexpected
second round of talks, this time
with top aides present, after the
first session broke for lunch.
Mitchell said negotiations would
continue Wednesday in Jerusalem
with Clinton's participation and
Israeli and Palestinians teams
would meet again "in the coming
days" ahead of further talks at the
leadership level.
"Today the parties have begun a
serious discussion on core issues,"
Mitchell said. "President Abbas
and Prime Minister Netanyahu
also reiterated their intent to
approach these negotiations in
good faith and with a seriousness
of purpose.."
Neither leader made any
immediate public comments at the
summit, hosted by Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak. It was
their first meeting since direct
peace talks were relaunched in
Washington on September 2 after
a 20-month hiatus, with a declared
goal of achieving a framework
accord in a year.
The six-decade dispute's core
issues include settlements,
security, borders and the fate of
Palestinian refugees.
NO EXTENSION
Netanyahu, whose coalition
government is dominated by pro-
settler parties, said Sunday he
would not extend the construction
moratorium but could limit the
scope of further building in some
settlements.
Echoing U.S. President Barack
Obama's position, Mitchell said:
"We think it makes sense to
extend the moratorium especially
given that the talks are moving in
a constructive direction."
Mitchell said Washington was
aware "this is a politically
sensitive issue in Israel" and the
United States also had called on
Abbas to "take steps that help,
encourage and facilitate this
(peace) process."
Palestinians say the settlements,
built on land they want for a state,
would deny them a viable and
contiguous country.
"We are all striving to bring the
message to Netanyahu that the
settlements issue is important to
negotiations and for us there
cannot be any talks on ending
occupation while occupation is
deepening," Palestinian negotiator
Nabil Shaath said.
Mark Regev, a Netanyahu
spokesman, countered: "If
expectations are that only Israel
should make concessions then that
is not a recipe for a successful
conclusion to the talks."
Clinton, who held a trilateral
meeting with Netanyahu and
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas, said both Israel and the
Palestinians needed to take
actions to resolve the settlement
disagreement.
"For me, this is a simple choice:
no negotiations, no security, no
state," Clinton said as she
travelled to Sharm el-Sheikh,
saying Washington wanted to see
Israel at peace with the Arab
world, including neighboring
Syria and Lebanon.
After Clinton completes talks in
Jerusalem, Ramallah and Amman
over the next two days, Mitchell
plans to travel to Syria Thursday
and to Lebanon to continue work
toward a wider peace, said a U.S.
official who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
Obama has staked considerable
political capital in the Israeli-
Palestinian talks, launching them
before November congressional
elections, where fellow
Democrats face possible big
losses to Republicans.
(Writing by Jeffrey Heller in
Jerusalem, Additional reporting
by Marwa Awad in Sharm el-
Sheikh, Edmund Blair in Cairo
and Mohammed Assadi in
Ramallah; Editing by Samia
Nakhoul)
For related stories click on the
following links:
Sep 14, 2010 1:40am EDT
“Netanyahu wants to look at
security arrangements to ensure a
Palestinian state would not pose a
threat to Israel.”
And what about Israel posing a
threat to a future Palestinian state?
The ISraeli government is going
to have to accept that if you want
to be considered a civilized,
democratic nation deserving of
respect, you can’t just sent your
army into your neighbour’s
country to kill innocent people
whenever you like. Reprisals
against civilians in response to
military attacks are reminiscent of
how the British Army behaved in
both Ireland and India during the
empire, and look how that ended
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up for them?
Sep 14, 2010 5:50am EDT
Well we see the usual Israeli
negotiating tactics, make
concessions about things they
have no rights to in the first place.
The only way out of this is to fix
the borders and compensate for
stolen land and to do this quickly.
Thereafter Israel can build as
much as they want to on “their”
land and the Palestinians need not
fear more landgrabbing.
Sep 14, 2010 7:36am EDT
The basic outlines are already on
the table and Netanyahu needs to
hear from the majority of Israelis,
who want a peace deal.
Sep 14, 2010 8:53am EDT
Talks,talks, talks… To do the
same thing in the same way over
and over again with expectation
that the outcome will be different
is a sure sign of insanity. And yet,
our leaders keep doing that and
we keep electing them in the
office.
Sep 14, 2010 10:07am EDT
With Palestinians saying they
will not attend if Jew continue
landgrabbing, and
Jews saying they intend to build
more on
Palestinian land, why do you
nudnicks waste
your time on columns.
No mideast talks worth having
till Jews get
out of all Palestinian land
illegally grabbed, illegal
blockade, atc etc. all condoned by
the U.S.a biased onlookker with
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BP and partners say most victims not yet entitled to sue

(Reuters: Top News) month. They also proposed that the type of documents they MDL-2179. while the attorneys and firms
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:33:18 AM by March they would identify test provide to the plaintiffs. (Editing by Valerie Lee) representing thousands of little
cases that would proceed to trial. The fund, which was taken over Sep 13, 2010 11:10pm EDT people and small businesses are
A road sign expresses local The plaintiffs would likely last month by Obama Only in America can a rich mere “money grabbing lawyers?”
frustration with BP in Belle benefit if the hundreds of cases administration's former executive plaintiff tell the court what rules it It should be noted that Kenneth
Chasse, Louisiana along the north move quickly. They proposed BP pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, could must follow. Feinberg has a history of
/south Route 23 that travels from and its partners should turn over presumably pay the vast majority Justice for sale once again. minimizing claims in large
New Orleans to Louisiana's electronic messages, contracts and of the stronger claims, such as Sep 14, 2010 6:17am EDT damage cases such as this, so the
southeast tip, July 13, 2010. details about employees with those brought by resorts that had It’s not Justice for sale, it’s due corporate boys lobby hard to get
Credit: Reuters/Alexandria Sage knowledge about the well and oil-smeared beaches. process. The fund was set up to him appointed to such cases.
By Tom Hals much more in the coming weeks. That could leave BP and its handle cases and the agreed *We welcome comments that
WILMINGTON, Delaware| Tue The defendants, who are defendants facing weaker claims process, laid out by the gov was advance the story directly or with
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Delaware(Reuters) - BP and its news coverage, countered with a areas affected by the spill. Of course lawyers are against use offensive language or appear
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Julia becomes hurricane in Atlantic as Igor churns
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 6:50:44 AM
This 1145Z GOES imagery
shows Igor east of the northern
Leeward Islands, and Tropical
Storm Julia located south-
southwest of the Cape Verde
Islands.
Credit: Reuters/NOAA/Handout
MIAMI| Tue Sep 14, 2010
7:50am EDT
MIAMI(Reuters) - Tropical
Storm Julia grew in the far eastern
Atlantic into the fifth hurricane of
the Atlantic season while
Hurricane Igor weakened slightly
but remained a dangerous
Category 4 storm, forecasters
said.
The two hurricanes did not yet
pose any immediate threat to land
or energy interests.
Julia reached hurricane status
with maximum sustained winds of
75 miles per hour and was located
some 330 miles west of the Cape
Verde Islands at 5 a.m. EDT
(0900 GMT), the Miami-based
U.S. National Hurricane Center
said.
Julia, the 10th named storm of
the Atlantic hurricane season, is
ISRAELIS,
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no power over either side…..
Sep 14, 2010 10:24am EDT
Here is where Hillary can really
show her stuff. She can solve this
issue, like she has the Iranian
Nuke and North Korean Nuke
issues. Her list of
accomplishments is without end.
moving toward the west-
northwest as a Category 1
hurricane on the five-step Saffir-
Simpson scale of hurricane
intensity, the center said.
"Some additional strengthening is
forecast during the next day or
so," the center said.
Hurricane Igor lost intensity and
changed direction in the Atlantic
but still packed a punch, the
center said.
Igor, now moving to the west-
northwest from its previous
westward direction, was located
about 750 miles east of the
northern Leeward Islands with
maximum sustained winds at 135
mph, the center said. Igor was
forecast to take a turn toward the
northwest on Wednesday.
"Some fluctuations in intensity are
possible during the next couple of
days but Igor is expected to
remain a dangerous hurricane
through Wednesday," the center
said.
Igor remained strong enough to
cause catastrophic damage. It was
too soon to rule out an impact on
the U.S. East Coast, but the
chances of such a landfall were
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and gas operations are clustered.
A west-northwest track would
take it near Bermuda on Saturday,
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keep it over the open Atlantic.
"Bermuda's probably at the
greatest risk of seeing an impact
from Igor, but it's too soon to say
whether it would approach the
(U.S.) East Coast," Michael
Brennan, a senior hurricane
specialist at the hurricane center,
said.
So far this year, the atmospheric
conditions that steer hurricanes in
the western Atlantic have
cooperated to push them away
from the densely populated U.S.
coastline.
Ocean swells generated by Igor
will begin affecting the Leeward
Islands on Tuesday and will reach
Puerto Rico and the Virgin
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Wednesday, causing life-
threatening surf and rip current
conditions, the hurricane center
said.
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A Faster Web - It's Not about the Network Anymore
Guest Author (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:00:00 AM
The Velocity conference took
place earlier this year - and some
of the best and brightest in Web
performance assembled in Santa
Clara to chart a course of
innovation in performance and
operations for the next year.
One of the obvious themes this
year was mobile, but it was the
overarching mission of the
conference that struck the truest
chord: to take a more holistic
view of the performance
landscape, the 50,000-foot view,
and think about it in a way that
accounted for the relative
complexity of a given operational
environment, one that is now
marked by "anywhere access" on
a compendium of devices and
platforms - mobile or otherwise.
Sponsor
Guest author Ed Robinson is co-
founder and CEO of Aptimize, a
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marketing, product management,
and strategy. Ed has 20 years
experience in the Information
technology industry in both the
United States and New Zealand.
But performance has long been
perceived solely as a network
issue, and it's because of this
narrow focus on the networks that
we have gotten to a place where
few understand the various layers
at which our applications and
websites desperately need
performance improvements. One
Step Forward, Two Steps Back
In the last ten years the Internet
has exploded with content:
websites, intranets and Web-based
applications, all coming together
in an uncontrollable, rapid way.
On the flip side of that our
networks have become incredibly
fast. But the sites are growing
faster than the networks are
accelerating.
For example, if you take a look
on the Wayback Machine, this is
what the Whitehouse.gov site
looked like in 1996.
The home page is incredibly
simple. In fact, it's so simple that
it likely reminds you of the
Google home page today - built
for simplicity and speed.
Fast forward to today and this is
what the White House website
looks like:
In 14 years, the Whitehouse.gov
site has emerged a richer site in
every respect. It's more engaging,
has more information, more
graphics, more data. The ability to
design these sites has advanced,
and our expectations of what a
website should be have grown
with it.
But here's the kicker - the site
loaded in about the same amount
of time in 1996 as it does today.
In 1996, the average speed of an
internet connection was 50Kbps.
In 2010 the average speed of a
broadband connection is 3.9Mbps
- an increase of over 74 times. In
theory, this should mean that the
internet is 74 times faster than it
was in 1996.
The current Whitehouse.gov
webpage has grown from 22 KB
in 1996 to 1.2 MB in 2010 - an
increase of 54 times.
With the effects of latency and
distance, the load times of the
page are about the same in 1996
as they are in 2010.
In other words: We have much
better infrastructure, but the
website has become so bloated
that it chews it all up. We have
the ability to deliver more content
in the same amount of time as
1996, but we're doing it very
inefficiently. End users haven't
experienced any true acceleration
in load times.
The fundamental technologies
that deliver web pages actually
haven't changed much at all. Yes
- HTML5, the fifth major revision
of the core language of the World
Wide Web, is nearly complete and
many of the mainstream browsers
like Firefox and Internet Explorer
have already adopted it as
standard.
But the nature of how the
browser processes the HTML
files, JPEG images and other
components of a webpage are still
fundamentally the same. The way
the browser connects to the host
server and downloads the contents
of the page has changed very
little.
The importance of optimization
therefore becomes obvious. If you
look at Google's home page it
loads fast from everywhere in the
world, and the reason is simple -
it's almost a blank page with a
simple textbox on it.
But how can we make more
content-centric and engaging sites
like Whitehouse.gov load as fast
as Google? This is where the
optimization industry comes in.
By optimizing websites for
improved performance, the
Internet performs faster and feels
faster than it did in 1996.
Optimization is the X-factor. It's
the only way that we can make
better use of infrastructure.
Regardless of how much network
capacity we add, it's clear that we
are going to eat it up with larger
websites, more video and richer
content. The truth is that the
optimization market is exploding
because throwing more
horsepower at the problem is not
going to solve it. Look at the 500-
foot View
We have been far too focused on
network-level optimization for too
long. While the industry has kept
its gaze on network innovation,
the Web has suffered from
content bloat, chatty code and
ever-increasing round trips which
have held Web performance back.
But the problem is, most Web
designers, webmasters and IT
managers still see optimization as
an infrastructure-level function.
The variety of optimization tools
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available today is impressive, yet
we spend most of our efforts
discussing broadband speeds,
fiber and network optimization -
which comprises just one slice of
the performance spectrum.
Until we collectively accept that
there's a fundamental problem
with the narrow way in which we
think about delivering content and
applications over the internet,
we're going to continue on the
course of an Internet that loads
sites at the same speed it did in
1996.
This is an awareness problem -
there needs to be much more
clarity around the various layers
at which Web performance can be
impacted.
We break optimization into three
main categories:
• Network Optimization
• Website/Application
Optimization
• Website Acceleration
As I mentioned, we focus almost
100% of our conversations about
Web performance on the network.
When site loads in 25 seconds we
naturally assume that our Internet
connection is struggling, that our
modem is clunky or that our cable
company is unreliable.
The reality is that it's far more
likely that the site itself (on
whatever server it's sitting on) is
bloated, has chatty code and hasn't
compressed files or is using very
large images. Furthermore, the
CMS might be suffering from its
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Interview with Forrester's Josh Bernoff on His New Book
Empowered
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:00:00 AM
Forrester analysts Josh Bernoff
and Ted Schadler's new book
Empowered: Unleash Your
Employees, Energize Your
Customers, and Transform Your
Business, a follow-up to Bernoff's
and Charlene Li's 2008
Groundswell: Winning in a World
Transformed by Social
Technologies, was released today.
Empowered takes a look at
several trends we've been
following at ReadWriteEnterprise,
including Shadow IT, innovation
managment and microblogging.
We caught up with Bernoff to talk
about the new book.
Sponsor
Josh Bernoff (left) and Ted
Schadler (right), courtesy of
Forrester Research
Could you start by giving us a
quick high level overview of what
the book is about, and specifically
how it impacts IT?
Empowered is about how to
manage your company in the age
of the empowered customer.
Customers have much more
power than ever before with
social, video, mobile, and Web
services resources available to
them. Companies working in this
environment need to empower
their employees to reach out to
those customers with technology
solutions.
Regarding IT, IT departments no
longer control the technology in
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companies -- the employees are time. And at the current speed that
able to get access to it for their A twelpforce rep helped me last customers are moving, I don't
own projects, because it's so week when I desperately needed a think a company can continue to
cheap and easy. So IT needs a cable to fix my GPS before a trip. run that way. Slow = dead.
new role -- as a supporter and Once I was in the Best Buy store, What technologies can help
helper, rather than being in charge I ended up buying $1100 worth of companies make this adjustment?
of all tech for the company. stuff. That's pretty cost effective. I've been covered idea
A lot of the ideas in the book A huge amount of customer management software lately and
have been around since at least service is outsourced to call you touch on that a bit in the
the Clue Train Manifesto in 1999. centers owned and operated by book. You also mentioned
So is this groundswell really other companies. Do you think Deloitte Australia's use of
happening now? For example, are this is a sustainable model? microblogging to generate ideas
Whirlpool and United really I want to be clear that this is not a for the company. When should a
suffering from the events you cite book about customer service, company use idea management
in your book? although that's one topic we touch and when should it use
Change starts in small ways. I've
I think United and Whirlpool's on. As for outsourced customer microblogging?
seen companies like Aflac and
brands have suffered, especially service, people often hate it. If it's As with all social tools, the
American Family Mutual
since Whirlpool's Maytag brand is done with quality, it can include choice of what you use depends
Insurance embrace these changes.
supposed to be about outreach on social channels as on your objective. Yammer is
There is a "loosening up" going
dependability. well. If it's not done with quality, great for fast-flowing in-the-
on because it's very hard to lock
As for the ideas -- Cluetrain was it will come back to bite the moment collaboration, but not so
things down any more.
a brilliant stab at some of these companies that are doing it. good for sustained innovation.
I would not say there is a trend to
ideas, but a decade later, Have you seen any examples of Idea management tools like
more bottom up, but there are
companies are actually having to outsourced employees being Imaginatik are better for sourcing
more bottom-up type companies
deal with a majority of their "HEROes" ["highly empowered a million dollar idea.
becoming visible, and this is
customers in social networks. Plus and resourceful operatives"]? If it What should IT staff be doing to
causing people to rethink the way
we have actual experience with not, is it possible in theory? get ready for these changes?
they run things, at least at a
what companies are doing and You need a strong partnership. At We have several chapters on IT
departmental level, if not always
what works. So this isn't a yawp Aflac they built a community for in the book. Here are some tips.
for the whole company.
in the dark -- it's actual to give their independent sales reps -- 1. Don't just say no to technology
The reason I'm skeptical is
real, prescriptive advice with real those kind of people could be projects in a knee-jerk fashion.
because I think a lot of companies
case studies and statistics, now. HEROes, I imagine. Help do a realistic risk assessment
will look at the expense that it
How have organizations been Communicating and and assessment of resources.
takes to make REAL change (not
receiving your message? You give collaborating across silos is a 2. For small to medium projects -
just spamming Twitter) will be
a lot of examples of companies pretty common selling point for - the lifeblood of innovation --
too expensive. Letting CSRs
that are embracing these ideas, but vendors of "enterprise 2.0" provide support and
decide to replace merchandise
the ideas still look really radical software and services. What's the recommendations, rather than
could get expensive.
compared to what's going on in value in doing so, instead of own them.
If you approach this right, it does
most organizations I've gotten a keeping workers focused on their 3. Focus on people as the security
not have to be expensive. It's
good look at in the past few years. own projects? perimeter -- with people having
about reaching out in the right
They really resist change and People who keep to their silos are INTERVIEW page 23
way to the right people at the right
they're anything but "bottom-up." not going to find the next big idea.
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LG target low-end with Optimus Chic and One Android phones
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:53:58 AM
We can’t say we’re massively
enthusiastic about LG’s pair of
new Optimus Android
smartphones, the LG Optimus
Chic and LG Optimus One.
Perhaps it’s because the teaser
image looked so much more
tablety than either of the entry-
level handsets actually are, or
maybe it’s the mediocre
specifications: a 3.2-inch HVGA
display on the Optimus One, for
instance.
There’s also a 3-megapixel
camera, DLNA streaming support
on the Optimus Chic, and LG’s
own custom UI on top of Android
2.2 Froyo. No word on pricing at
this stage, but the two devices will
drop in Europe first – October for
the Optimus One, November for
the Optimus Chic – before
broader EMEA and Asia-Pacific
availability.
[ via Android Community]
Press Release:
LG LAUNCHES NEW
OPTIMUS SMARTPHONES
WITH LATEST ANDROID
PLATFORM FOR UNIVERSAL
APPEAL
Download Photos (JPG)
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SEOUL, Sep. 14, 2010 — LG
Electronics (LG) today launched
LG Optimus One and LG
Optimus Chic, two smartphones
from the company’s Optimus
series of smart devices. Powered
by Android 2.2 (Froyo) and
optimized for Google Mobile
Services, the handsets will deliver
the ultimate smartphone
experience while offering easier
accessibility for the growing
number of consumers looking to
purchase their first smartphone.
LG Optimus One and LG
Optimus Chic are among the
earliest smartphones to launch
with Android 2.2, Froyo, the latest
version of the Android platform,
which allows for two to three
times faster and smoother internet
browsing, web-page loading,
application pop-ups and multi-
tasking.
The devices also enable
professionals to easily sync with
Outlook Calendar for improved
productivity, while offering
portable Wi-Fi hotspots to easily
share a single 3G connection. The
devices are optimized for popular
Google Mobile Services including
Google Voice Search™, Google
Voice Actions™, Google
Goggles™, Google Shopper™
and Google Maps™ with
Navigation, and also offer access
to Android Market with more than
80,000 applications.
LG Optimus One and LG
Optimus Chic are developed
based on consumer insight that
first-time smartphone users have
strong needs for obtaining
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access information fast and easily,
no matter where they are. We
believe the Optimus series will
play a significant role in
accomplishing our vision.”
LG Optimus One: Building a
Newer, Better Smartphone
Experience
In creating the LG Optimus One
“with Google™”, a team of R&D
experts at LG incorporated and
optimized the device for the
Froyo platform and Google
Mobile Services. What transpired
is a smartphone that blends superb
design and with ease of use,
making it the perfect entry point
for prospective smartphone
owners.
Featuring a fun, user-friendly
user interface, LG Optimus One
also includes the exclusive LG
App Advisor, which recommends
10 highly rated applications every
two weeks. The uniquely
designed LG UI (user interface)
and sleek new accessories such as
information and handy application
carkit cradle offer users easier and
services. As a result, these two
more intuitive ways to enjoy all
devices focused on offering
the benefits of the brand-new
instant information search and
Froyo.
versatile application packages
The phone also features a camera
including Google Mobile Service
with face tracking and smile shot,
and even quality application
a 3.2” wide HVGA screen and a
advising functions.
long-lasting 1500mAh capacity
“LG is offering the gateway into
battery.
the smartphone world with the LG
LG Optimus Chic: Best
Optimus One and the LG Optimus
Smartphone for Style-Conscious
Chic that offer the distinctive
Buyers
benefits of smartphones, in
LG Optimus Chic’s, curved lines
intuitive, approachable packages,”
provide a solid grip and the two-
said Skott Ahn, CEO and
color variants make the
president of LG Mobile
Communications Company. “LG TARGET page 26
has a vision of helping people
22 Technology/
Nokia E7 browser & multimedia [Video]
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:20:22 AM
Nokia’s E7 may slot into the
Finnish company’s business-
centric ESeries range, but that’s
not to say the handset has nothing
for more mainstream users. We
spoke to Nokia’s David Rivas, VP
of technology management, about
the E7s multimedia appeal,
together with finding out why,
exactly, they’re so confident with
it as an enterprise offering.
Meanwhile we also grabbed
some more time with the E7 and
shot more hands-on video and
photos, all of which you can find
after the cut.
According to Rivas, the key
differences between the N8 and
the E7 is the software suite. The
E7 is the first device from the
company to show the fruits of
their collaboration with Microsoft,
including preloaded business apps
and much stronger integration
with enterprise services like
Exchange. However, Nokia also
envisages the E7s huge screen and
strong connectivity to appeal to
multimedia producers and
consumers, as well as mobile
bloggers.
Nokia E7 browser & multimedia
demo:
We can’t really argue with that.
The E7s 4-inch 640 x 360
AMOLED – using Nokia’s new
ClearBlack Display tech – is
clear, beautifully color saturated
and looks great showing off
photos and video (including those
taken by the phone’s own 8-
megapixel autofocus camera).
Symbian^3s media browser is as
close to CoverFlow as you
imagine Apple’s lawyers would
allow, and the handset’s processor
proved easily capable of keeping
up with fast-flicking navigation.
As on the N8, the E7 gets
Nokia’s preloaded video editing
app (which can also be used to
create photo slideshows),
complete with transition effects,
titling, optional soundtracks and
even basic editing. Unlike iMovie
for iPhone, it’s not a cost-
download either.
The browser is solid, meanwhile,
but not the best on the market.
Although it supports multitouch
for pinch-zooming, the animation
is jerky and there’s a pause while
the page renders. Pinch-zooming
in the photo viewer was stronger.
Double-tapping a block of text,
which for instance on Android
will automatically reflow it to suit
the zoomed-in screen, only
zooms, meaning there’s still
plenty of side-scrolling to be
done.
That’ll all improve, however,
when Nokia’s new Webkit-based
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has often been a stumbling block
for developers.
Rivas also confirmed that E7
owners can expect regular
firmware updates, moving away
from the historic pattern of a few
OTA changes but generally “big”
sideloaded upgrades, and instead
transitioning to more regular,
incremental OTA packages.
However there’ll also be more
significant PR updates, which
Nokia expect to be much more
timely in their release.
There’s plenty to like about the
Nokia E7. The display is brilliant,
easily better than the Nexus One
we compare it with in the gallery
below, while the QWERTY
keyboard is useful and tactile.
Truth be told, if it were running
Android we’d have no qualms at
all about its mainstream success;
with Symbian^3, as with the N8,
there’s a sense that the hardware
is a few steps ahead of the
software it runs. The company is
still bullish about their
browser is launched. According smartphone sales, and still
to Rivas, that will put them on the enthusiastic about Symbian and
cutting edge of mobile browsing its future, but while the OS is
technology, and is evidence of certainly well polished ( as
Nokia’s stance that the browser is Michael Gartenberg says, it’s the
t h e s i n g l e m o s t i m p o r t a n t best implementation of the
application on a device today. platform to-date) it simply doesn’t
The new version will prioritize feel as fresh as its Android, iOS
efficiency and compatibility with and webOS rivals.
web standards, and see the Relevant Entries on SlashGear
underlying rendering engine made • Nokia N72
available to other applications • Nokia N8 browser gets video
(whether Nokia’s own or from demo: multitouch, Flash & more
third-parties). That should have • Nokia iPhone-rival concept
the effect of boosting app speed,
since a sluggish browser engine NOKIA page 23
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Angry Birds gets new eagle, new revenue stream
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:37:17 AM
Mikael Hed, CEO of Angry Birds
creator Rovio, speaks at Nokia
World.(Credit: Stephen
Shankland/CNET)
LONDON--The creator of the
popular Angry Birds game for
mobile devices is adding a new
character--and new profit-making
potential along with it.
Rovio Mobile currently offers a
limited free version of the game
and constant series of new levels
to those who pay for Angry Birds.
The new character, an all-
powerful bird called the Mighty
Eagle, can be bought in the
middle of the application when
players want to blast their way
through a level they can't pass
with the conventional arsenal,
said Rovio CEO Mikael Hed,
speaking here at the Nokia World
conference for the Finnish mobile
phone company's developers and
business partners.
That means even those who've
paid for the application will get an
opportunity to pay even more for
it. The approach is reminiscent of
INTERVIEW
continued from page 20
their own devices, it's no longer
enough to just lock down the tech
the company owns.
4. Create governance councils for
new technologies to help people
across the company to innovate
with them and develop best
practices. Examples could include
social, mobile, and video.
games like Zynga's FarmVille, for
which people can spend money to
advance faster than with the free
version.
"The key point from a business
perspective is that the Mighty
Eagle is declaring the end of
games as a commodity and the
beginning of games as a service,"
Hed said. To use it, a mobile
phone's software and application
store needs the ability to let
5 .Take a customer-facing
employee to lunch. Learn about
what your line of business
colleagues are thinking!
What books - other than this
book and Groundswell - would
you recommend managers and IT
read?
I also think there is an affinity
people make purchases from
within the game.
The new Mighty Eagle character
in Angry Birds(Credit: Rovio)
"In-app [purchasing] capabilities
provide a remarkable opportunity
to provide extraordinary content
to our most engaged customers,"
Hed said. Nokia just added that
ability to its Ovi store for
applications, and
Rovio intends the Mighty Eagle
between the recommendations in his new one, Cognitive Surplus. • Nokia developing S60 touch
Empowered and Charlene Li's Discuss
Open Leadership-- they fit
together well, and leaders of all
kinds need to know about the
challenges Charlene describes.
Clay Shirky's book Here Comes
Everybody is great and while I
haven't read it, I'm fascinated by
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"The Mighty Eagle is truly a
silver bullet to solve all your
problems in one shot," Hed said.
It "can be used to clear any one
level instantly. If you wish to use
it later in the game, you must
clear [the earlier level destroyed
with the eagle] using the standard
selection of birds."
If you're really into the narrative
structure, check Rovio's Mighty
Eagle video.
Angry Birds is available on
Nokia N900 devices as well as
iOS products, WebOS devices,
and is in beta testing for Android
devices. It'll be available later this
year for phones with the Symbian
operating system, Hed said.
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• Nokia N8 demo video shows
evolutionary Symbian^3 OS
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Businesses to Benefit As Location-
Aware Ads Get More Sophisticated
Adrianne Jeffries
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:00:00 AM
Location Labs, which provides
tools for developers building and
monetizing location-based
services, is announcing a
partnership that will add another
dimension to what advertisers
know about mobile users. By
tapping into the database of 15
million carefully categorized
businesses maintained by
Citysearch and other CityGrid
Media properties, Location Labs
plans to offer developers a richer
location platform and more
monetizable data.
"We're trying to take this broad
longitude, latitude location point
and add some context to it," said
Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of
Location Labs. "Location is going
to graduate to being context."
Sponsor
CityGrid's database includes a
wide range of attributes for a
place, including designations like
Today's Inventory Data Just Demolished The Notion Sales Growth Sucks Right
Now
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:36:07 AM
Some skeptics of the recent
economic recovery have blown-
off rising corporate profits by
blaming cost-cutting efforts and
"family-friendly," "smoking
permitted" and a relative measure
of how expensive it is. Once
Location Labs integrates
CityGrid's data, developers and
advertisers will be able to use this
data about a place to enrich their
knowledge of the customers who
check in there.
It's all part of a broad trend
toward using location to broaden
and refine information about
users. Understanding where
someone spends her time can lead
to more information about her
likes and dislikes, determine
where she lives versus where she
works, and establish behavior
patterns that will lead to more
accurate predictions of what she's
likely to buy.
Companies like Location Labs
saying that sales growth has been
nonexistent.
Well today's inventory data kills
that idea. As shown below, on
both a seasonally-adjusted and
raw non-seasonally-adjusted
basis, sales in July were 9.2% and
8.0% higher respectively.
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own performance issues. Performance challenges will
Our network speeds are roughly
74 times faster than the averages
never exist in convenient silos,
and our approach to dealing with
are starting to pay more attention in 1996 - so we need to look them should account for that. By
to contextual clues such as the elsewhere to determine the zooming out from the network
time of day, whether the user is problem areas. This diagram view and seeing the complete
driving, where she was before the spells out the core areas where process by which your application
gym and where she goes after performance can be impacted or website is delivered to a user,
work, whether her friends are with (either improved or causing slow- you will find much greater
her or she goes alone, how often downs). opportunity to improve
This is the 500-foot view you performance, please your users,
she goes to the store.
need to have in order to truly and even drive better revenue for
Businesses stand to gain as the
address performance issues. If your business.
science of targeted advertising
advances and users are served you can zoom out from your focus The alternative is to continue to
more relevant ad. Developers can on the network, you will start to throw network horsepower at the
more easily monetize when ads identify an ever-increasing series problem. That's a perfectly viable
are reaching the right customers. of potential bottlenecks that are strategy - for those of you hoping
Users also benefit because their slowing your site down. A truly to keep up with the Web speeds of
mobile devices are introducing effective optimization strategy 1996.
them to interesting products are takes a holistic approach - But if there's one thing to take
offering deals, not overrun with accommodating for improvements away from this year's Velocity
spam for products they would from end-to-end on this spectrum. conference, it's that a lot of very
Sir, Step Away From the Network bright engineers and developers
never buy.
Location Labs will be releasing If you're finally going to get a have no desire to build sites and
an enhanced version of its handle on your performance applications that remind them of
location platform with a more challenges, the first step is to take 1996.
intelligent advertising network in a step back and see the forest for Photo by jamesdcawl Discuss
"the coming months," but the trees. What you are sending
companies wanted to announce across the network, and how you
the partnership early as a heads up send it, matters as much as the
network itself.
to developers. Discuss
which is decent. Thus profits
growth won't just be about cost-
cutting when Q3 earnings come
out.
Join the conversation about this
Sales growth is indeed 500 is at just 1,120 you can't ask story »
happening, and when the S&P for better than 8-9% growth,
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Microsoft Outlook Management Tool
Liaise Steps Out Of Beta
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:56:39 AM
Liaise, which develops software
that adds a collaborative layer
over Microsoft Outlook, is
stepping out of beta today and
will be available for commercial
download. Launched last fall at
DEMO, Liase was the winner of
the conference’s enterprise
category and people’s choice
award. We have 100 free Liaise
licenses for TechCrunch readers
which sign up here.
Currently available for Microsoft
Outlook 2010, 2007, and 2003,
Liaise automatically captures,
organizes and prioritizes action
items as you type and receive
messages. The software will
analyze the content within
incoming and outgoing emails,
capture the important information
(Liaise dubs these KeyPoints)
which needs to be acted upon, and
sets up a management list based
on this information. Responses to
Liaise messages sent from any
email platform such as Gmail or
Yahoo Mail, and from mobile
email systems such as BlackBerry
and iPhone, are automatically
tracked by Liaise.
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Over the past year, users in a
variety of industries, including
financial services, management
consulting, internet, technology,
healthcare and retail, have been
beta testing Liaise. Now Liaise
has taken their responses and
attempted to make the platform
better in the commercial release.
For example, Liaise now includes
a dashboard for managing work
and for keeping teams in sync.
Action items can be viewed by
initiative, owner, due date, or
priority. Project information can
be organized into reports,
available for export and printing.
Action item due dates are
automatically displayed in the
Outlook calendar.
The startup has added a new
feature called Liaise Lists, which
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minutes and to-do lists. The
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organize actions, dates, people
and priorities found in these notes,
makes them available to be
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later sent as an email message.
Liaise has also been accepted into
the Mircosoft BizSpark One
program. Liaise is priced at at $50
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Apple warns App Store
name squatters
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:00:00 AM
TechCrunch reports that Apple is
cracking down on "app name
squatters," developers who create
an app and reserve a name on the
App Store, but don't actually
upload files to release and sell the
app. Apparently this is an issue --
personally, I can't immediately
think of any names that I'd need to
have on the App Store (maybe it's
something really generic, like
iReader?), but there are want to get on it. But Apple
supposedly a few developers who doesn't say that it will actually
have a certain name in mind, but check. While the app will need to
can't use it because a squatter has meet all of the other guidelines
locked it up in iTunes Connect. In (including the rules for minimum
fact, our own Victor Agreda functionality), you could probably
foresaw this problem a while still release a small app under the
back, and now it's popped up on name you want, and then upgrade
Apple's radar. and release the full version later
There's good news, though. on. We'll have to see what
Apple will now send out a happens with devs who really
warning after 90 days of locking want to reserve App Store names
up a name with no actual files in the future.
uploaded, and then 30 days later [via AppleInsider]
will delete the record on the App TUAW Apple warns App Store
Store. And notices are going out; name squatters originally
developers who've sat on a name appeared on The Unofficial Apple
for more than 90 days already are Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 14 Sep
getting their 30 days' notice now. 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see
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Socialwok Takes Collaboration continued from page 21

smartphone as stylish as the LGMobileHQ) LG Mobile Global

Platform Mobile, Launches iPhone person carrying it. LG Optimus
Chic’s touch-sensitive buttons
YouTube Page (http://
www.youtube.com/
complete the device’s sleek and LGMobileHQ).
And Android Apps minimalist look.
LG Optimus Chic also offers a
LG Optimus One will be
available in over 90 countries via
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) feeds. unique on-screen phone feature 120 partners. It will arrive in most
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:00:40 AM Since launching a year ago, which allows users to remotely of Europe in October followed by
Socialwok is now used by control the device from their PCs. other EMEA and Asia-Pacific
Socialwok, a product that ads a hundreds of thousands of users Plus, via LG Air Sync, it keeps countries. LG Optimus Chic will
social layer to Google products from over 10,000+ businesses. users up-to-date with its ability to be available in Europe starting in
and Microsoft Outlook, is taking Socialwok, which employs a wirelessly sync contacts, photos November with other markets in
its collaboration platform mobile freemium model, has steadily and other vital information with Asia-Pacific to follow soon after.
today. The startup, which been adding features and computer and cloud database. Relevant Entries on SlashGear
launched its Google Apps-focused improvements to its application, Compatible with DLNA™ • LG Optimus One and Optimus
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year, is debuting both an iPhone Facebook, Twitter and Buzz Alliance), multimedia content can • Android LG tablet and flagship
app and Android app to the public within its applications and easily be shared with other DLNA Optimus Z refresh due Q4
today. releasing a new version of its certified devices such as TVs, AV • LG Optimus Pad Unveiled,
Socialwok provides a social layer HTML 5 mobile version for systems and laptop computers. Super Thin and Running Android
within Google Apps, Gmail and Android and iPhone browsers. To announce the launch of LG • Optimus 103 Keyboard pre-
Outlook, creating a private social Earlier this year, Socialwok was Optimus One and LG Optimus orders taken soon
network within the application to chosen as one of the showcase Chic, LG hosted a unique • Optimus Mini 3 becomes Mini
share ideas, emails, files, Office companies for Google’s interactive virtual news 2×3
documents from Microsoft Word, AppEngine technology at the conference from Seoul. The video
Google Docs and other rich media company’s Google IO Developer of the event can be viewed at both
using status updates. Socialwok’s Sandbox. And Socialwok was the LG Mobile Global Facebook
b e a u t y i s t h a t i t w r a p s a accounts, background syncing of integrated as a pilot partner in Page (http://www.facebook.com/
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around the most unsocial of email view notes and emails in feeds, Google Apps Marketplace.
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Darker is the Memory by Mario Sorrenti (10 pics)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 2:00:00 PM
Famed photographer Mario
Sorrenti and 27-year-old Brazilian o u t f i t s b y e v e r y o n e f r o m photo shoot.
model Raquel Zimmermann team G i v e n c h y t o E m i l i o P u c c i , via Fashion Gone Rogue
up for an amazing editorial in the Balmain and more. Called Darker Thanks, Marica, for the tip!
October issue of Vogue Nippon. in the Memory, it's a fitting title
Set in Naples, Italy, it features Zimmermann wearing gorgeous for a dark and cinematic-style
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Auto-tune nabs new lease on life, kills Microsoft LifeCam

phase noise in long-haul fiber
transmissions
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:48:00 AM
It's probably advisable to not
mention this to T-Pain or anyone
even closely related to him, but it
looks as if auto-tune may have
finally found a legitimate use.
You know -- aside from crafting
one of the most hilarious Bud
Light commercials in the history
of Bud Light commercials. An EU
-funded team has crafted a
prototype device that uses a
technology similar to auto-tune in
order to nix cross-talk on signals
that travel down fiber optic
cabling. Currently, the clean up
process on phase noise ends up
decimating the total capacity
available to travel, so far less
Studio HD webcam
launches
information actually gets through
the end than what you started
with. Now, this here device is
claiming to spit shine the noisy
signals and "re-transmit them with
fuller capacity." Periklis
Petropoulos, a researcher on the
project from the University of
Southampton's Optoelectronics
Research Centre, summed it up as
such: "With this demonstration
we've shown that it is possible to
use the capabilities of the optical
fiber to the full without being
restricted by the capabilities of the
electronics; you could say that in
its final functionality, it is like
auto-tune." Obligatory video
demonstration is after the break.
Continue reading Auto-tune nabs
new lease on life, kills phase
noise in long-haul fiber
transmissions
Auto-tune nabs new lease on life, Microsoft says the camera is the
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Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:07:16 AM
Microsoft has all sorts of
peripherals to its name with lots
of mice, keyboards, and webcams
to choose from. The company has
unveiled its latest webcam called
the LifeCam Studio that offers up
to 1080p resolution and lots more.
next best thing to being there
when you want to video chat with
someone.
The camera has a sensor that is
twice as large as the sensor on
720p webcams and can adapt to ordered on BestBuy.com now,
changing light conditions for and will hit stores later this
optimum performance. The month.
camera is also fully compatible Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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Messenger 11. The camera has a picture-perfect?

Who Said It: Bush or Obama?
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 1:00:00 PM
We can't blame you for thinking
this quiz is going to be a walk in
the park. George W. Bush and
Barack Obama obviously have
strong differences of opinions
about many, many things. There's
also the matter of Obama's rep as
a smooth talker and his
predecessor's sometimes …
interesting way with words. But
check out these quotes about
economic matters and see if some
swivel mount that lets it pan 360-
degrees for optimum placement
• Microsoft VX-7000 LifeCam
2MP webcam
• Microsoft HD LifeCam Cinema
answer! Save your score at the and an elongated hood.
end of the quiz. Other features include TrueColor announced
This entry passed through the t e c h n o l o g y t o m a k e c o l o r s • Microsoft LifeCam VX-2000 is
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content-only/faq.php low light. The LifeCam Studio
Five Filters featured article: will sell for $99.99, can be
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
of them don't give you pause. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Could it be that these two aren't as Catastrophe.
far apart as we think?
Earn a point for every right
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Record Store
Meets Delicatessen
(5 pics)
thinkpossitive (Featured Blog
Posts - My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:00 AM

For those of you who believe that

electronic music only belongs in
the club, do we have a place for
you. Located in Vienna’s lively
sixth district, Tongues is a
beautifully designed concept store

Ocosmos gaming gadget stars Windows 7 with two very different sides - the
record store where you can pick
(CNET News.com) of the brand? You're not alone, gaming and entertainment device, photos of the OCS 1--at Crave up some sweet vinyl, and the
but the company's product, but there are plans to embed a 3G Asia. rustic delicatessen, where you can
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:57:03 AM
scheduled to be showcased at or even an LTE radio in the This entry passed through the munch on some delicious meat.
The Ocosmos OCS 1--should the Wednesday's IDF keynote, is future. Its selling point is that it Full-Text RSS service — if this is The decor is quite inviting with
N i n t e n d o D S a n d S o n y generating quite a buzz . We're can run both online and offline your content and you're reading it interior design by Peter Fehringer
P l a y S t a t i o n P o r t a b l e b e talking about the OCS 1--a games such as Starcraft II and on someone else's site, please read and his wife Gabriele (who run
worried?(Credit: Damian Koh/ handheld gaming device based on World of Warcraft along with 3D our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ t h e d e l i ) a n d C h r i s t o p h e r
CNET Asia) the Oak Trail mobile CPU which development tools. In a nutshell, content-only/faq.php Schweiger (who runs the record
SAN FRANCISCO--Tucked runs the full Windows 7 operating you're looking at a full-fledged Five Filters featured article: store).
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Developer Forum Technology According to the company's Read more of " Windows 7 Reporting of Falluja's Cancer raving meat!
Showcase area is Korea-based representative, the OCS 1 is handheld gaming device OCS 1 Catastrophe. Tongues
company Ocosmos. Never heard primarily designed as a portable runs Oak Trail--and also see more via weheart
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TUAW preview:
NimbleBit's Pocket Frogs
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial It would have to be something
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) that was social and progressive
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:00:00 AM and all that that entails, but it
would also need to have a game
Since I got my new iPhone 4 a component that was actually fun
few weeks back, I've been playing to play.
more games than ever on Apple's Enter NimbleBit! They're
little handheld. I just recently got following up on their great froggy
back into Ngmoco's We Rule. It's platformer DizzyPad with Pocket
probably the pinnacle of the Frogs, a freemium title that
"freemium" genre on the iPhone actually adds some fun to the
so far. It's free to play, very social, equation and shows a lot of
and very much based on timed potential as well.
Twinkle augmented reality Thank You
"check-ins," where you set crops Gallery: Pocket Frogs
to grow and then come back in a TUAW TUAW preview:
few hours to harvest them. It puts N i m b l e B i t ' s P o c k e t F r o g s
interface promises to make Elle Decor!
in little blips of gameplay that originally appeared on The
move you towards a larger U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
your world a platformer Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
progress goal. (TUAW) on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 Donald Melanson (Engadget) the researchers say that the system
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:33:03 AM
The only problem is that We 11:00:00 EST. Please see our Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:07:00 AM can not only recognize specific
Rule isn't all that fun; it's a bunch terms for use of feeds. objects like the ones on the board The October 2010 issue of Elle
of clicking and grinding. So, Read| Permalink| Email this| Augmented reality pictured above, but everyday Decor is one of their best ever and
lately I've been wondering when Comments demonstrations may be pretty objects as well -- letting you put I'm not just saying that because
someone would add a fun common these days, but this so- your LittleBigPlanet skills to use I'm in it! I want to thank Elle
freemium game to the App Store. called "Twinkle" interface on your desk, for instance. Head Decor for including my quote
developed by some researchers on past the break to check it out in about luxury at home in the issue.
Most Clicked Mobile Ads Aren't On Tokyo University and Keio action. I am especially humbled to be
University takes a different Continue reading Twinkle
Android or iPhone enough approach to still turn a augmented reality interface
included with Allegra Hicks,
Schuyler Samperton, China
Ryan Singel (Wired Top your content and you're reading it few heads. That's done thanks to promises to make your world a Chow, Ralph Rucci, and John
Stories) on someone else's site, please read t h e c o m b i n a t i o n o f a p i c o platformer Oetgen! Especially, because I'm
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:52:00 AM our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ projector and a camera, the former Twinkle augmented reality sure all the rest of them are
content-only/faq.php of which projects a character onto interface promises to make your wondering who the heck I am!
Sorry, Readability was unable to Five Filters featured article: any surface, while the latter is world a platformer originally Thank you Elle Decor!
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iMainGo 2 case for iPod, iPhone and more has its
own speaker
Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:15:41 AM
Most of us want a case for our
smartphones or music players to
keep them safe when we are
carrying them with us. The thing
with most cases is that you have
to have a separate speaker if you
want to listen to music on the go
without headphones.
A new case called the iMainGo 2
has debuted that is a case and a
portable speaker dock all in one.
The device measures in at 5.7 x
3.8 x 2.4 and weighs 9 ounces. It
has a pair of 2.5W speakers on
one side and a clear sleeve on the
Is Game Center limited to 500 friends? Order Steak Fries and
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:00:00 AM
Rene Ritchie at TiPb recently
noticed that Apple's new Game
Center seems to be capped at 500
friends, which another user was
able to confirm.
After receiving 500 friend
requests*, Rene noticed they
stopped coming in. He figured
that was the end until he saw a
tweet from fellow Game Center
user MuscleNerd:
"So much for my not-so-secret
plan to break GameCenter!
They're capping my friend count
at 500 (as soon as I delete 1, I get
1 new request)."
other that lets you see and control
your device. The sleeve doesn’t
keep the touchscreen functions of
your device from working.
Power for the speakers comes
from four AAA batteries good for
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another popped up. So, if you've Comments
got a lot of requests waiting
up to 30 hours of play per set. The
speaker set has a tuned bass port
and it will connect to any 3.5mm
headphone jack. The case is made
from neoprene that is waterproof.
Any device with a 3.5mm
beyond 500, you won't see them.
As Rene correctly points out,
most people won't have this
problem as 500 is a heck of a lot
of friends. Still, it's something to
keep in mind lest would-be friend
number 502 thinks he's being
ignored.
*I know 9 people. Including my
children.
TUAW Is Game Center limited
to 500 friends? originally
appeared on The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 14 Sep
headphone jack will work with
the case. You can order one now
for about $40.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Griffin offers Woogie case for
iPhone and iPod touch
• iLuv iMM178 Vibe Plus shakes
you awake (then plays you music)
• Atlantic’s EGO is a waterproof
iPod speaker
• iHome2GO iH85 iPhone
speakers
• iPod Touch – A case of identity
crisis
Refrigerate Canned Soups for
Subtle Fat Saving [Diet Hacks]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:45:00 AM
In listing eight ways to cut fat
"without realizing it," Men's
Health has some oddities (adding
juice concentrate to stir-fry?) but
also potentials for healthier eating
without pain. Among them are
ordering steak fries and putting
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Our Favorite Office

Objects: The Letter Tray
TUAW's Daily App: as Laptop Stand
[Workplace Timesavers]
Monkey Island 2 Special Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:15:00 AM

Edition Nokia hires Peter Skillman, Throughout our Workplace

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
and click your way around the old
control scheme. It's hilarious,
former Palm Design VP, as Timesavers week, Lifehacker's
editors are going to get geeky
about the most useful, beloved,
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:00 AM beautiful, still original, and just
plain captivating.
MeeGo user experience chief and otherwise cool things in their
office. In this case, it's a cheap-ish
This will be the shortest Daily Oh, and it's usually $7.99 (in fact, Vlad Savov (Engadget) that if you weren't excited for the letter tray serving as a kind of
App post I've ever had to write. the iPad version is still priced at platform already, you've now got
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:39:00 AM poor (wise) man's docking station.
LucasArts has inexplicably put $9.99, even during this sale). Just a very good reason to be. More »
the iPhone version of Monkey go buy this game right now! This Now this, this is what we call [Thanks, Dave]
Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge is a crazy bargain for iPhone exciting. Nokia has managed to Continue reading Nokia hires
Special Edition on sale for just US gamers, and you should consider scoop up Peter Skillman from the Peter Skillman, former Palm
99 cents. Go buy it. You're yourself lucky to have it. wreckage of the HP/Palm merger. Design VP, as MeeGo user
welcome. TUAW TUAW's Daily App: One of the many senior VPs to experience chief
Oh, you need more? This is one Monkey Island 2 Special Edition leave Palm upon its assimilation Nokia hires Peter Skillman,
of the most beloved LucasArts originally appeared on The into the HP empire, Peter spent 11 former Palm Design VP, as
adventure games of all time, and U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g years with his previous employer MeeGo user experience chief
it's actually two games in one. (TUAW) on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 and was in charge of the design originally appeared on Engadget
They redrew and recorded all new 08:00:00 EST. Please see our team that produced the deliciously on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:39:00
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Obamanomics Meets Incentives

(AEI.Org: Articles) and I estimate that 0.6% per year whether the rich can afford to pay
Submitted at 9/13/2010 6:00:00 PM of that seven-year growth came more taxes, and so on. . . .
from the tax cuts. Similarly, This article is available in full by
One memorable phrase from the George W. Bush cut the average subscription from the Wall Street
Reagan administration is "supply- marginal rate to 21.1% in 2003 Journal. The full text will be
side economics." These catchy yet from 24.7% in 2000. The GDP posted to AEI.org on Monday,
misleading words pertain not to growth rate between 2001 and September 20.
supply versus demand but rather 2005 (including negative effects Robert J. Barro is a visiting
to incentives, good or ill. For from the 2001 recession) was a scholar at AEI.
income taxes the key point is that respectable 2.7% per year, and I Photo Credit: Bigstock/Suzy M
cuts in marginal tax rates spur the estimate that 0.5% per year of that This entry passed through the
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Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
and practically unreal from 29.4% in 1981. The GDP is mainly about whether the poor
growth rate between 1982 and or the rich spend a greater fraction
Catastrophe.

Vlad Savov (Engadget) Then you can get fancy by storing 1989 was a strong 4.3% per year, of added disposable income,
distances inside these silicone
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:28:00 AM
shells' built-in memory and using
Time to pause today's stream of them to work out the volume of a
Pretty Ladies Like Natalie, Freida, and
real news and breathe a deep given three-dimensional space.
wistful sigh. If only. That's our Top marks are also earned for the
reaction to this Smart Finger integrated design that means the
Nicole Take the Spotlight in Toronto
PopSugar (PopSugar) recent trip to Venice, and she
"distance measuring device," two parts fit into one curvy little
which combines the natural device. If only, indeed. Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:00:00 AM joined her fellow Black Swan
human urge to measure things by Smart Finger measuring thimbles actors Vincent Cassel and Winona
The Toronto Film Festival rolled Ryder, as well as director Darren
eyeballing them with the ruthless a r e b o t h c o n c e p t u a l l y a n d
on yesterday, with Freida Pinto Aronofsky, for their showing last
precision of electronics. Data is practically unreal originally
turning out for the premiere of night. Her boyfriend Benjamin
obtained by beaming a signal appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14
Miral with director Julian Millepied wasn't able to attend,
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How Will Al-Qaeda Mark the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11?

(AEI.Org: Articles) from acting on them. Towers). They captured two commanders since KSM--Adnan Shabab's top commander, Omar
Submitted at 9/13/2010 6:00:00 PM On Aug. 9, 2006, police arrested terrorists sent by Khalid Sheik El Shukrijumah. In 2002, the CIA Hammami, is--you guessed it--an
two dozen al-Qaeda operatives in Mohammed to blow up high-rise began asking al-Qaeda detainees American citizen.
We are less than a year away the London suburbs tasked with apartment buildings in a major who would be picked to lead the Perhaps the fact that Americans
from the 10th anniversary of the carrying out the attacks. They American city--including one, next big attack on America? Abu have assumed to top positions in
Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. found liquid explosives and Jose Padilla, as he arrived in Zubaydah, KSM and other all three of these terror networks
As that milestone approaches, a c h i l l i n g m a r t y r d o m v i d e o s Chicago to carry out KSM's detainees all pointed to is a mere coincidence. Perhaps
dangerous view is taking hold in prepared for broadcast after the orders. Shukrijumah. A global manhunt Adnan Shukrijumah is no Khalid
Washington that al-Qaeda no attacks, including one in which They captured a cell of Southeast ensued, but Shukrijumah went to Sheik Mohammed. Or perhaps we
longer has the intent or capability the ringleader pokes his finger at Asian terrorists--including trained ground. He is more than a highly have grown complacent and do
to repeat the devastation of that the camera and declares: "Sheikh pilots who had met with Osama trained operative, he is an not see disaster coming. Al-Qaeda
terrible day. In February, Vice Osama warned you. . . . Now the bin Laden--recruited by KSM to American who lived among us for planned to mark the fifth
President Joe Biden announced time has come for you to be fly an airplane into the Library 15 years and is intimately familiar anniversary of 9/11 by filling our
that "the idea of there being a destroyed." If al-Qaeda members Tower in Los Angeles. They with our country. His television screens with images of
massive attack in the United had blown up those planes over disrupted a plot to replicate the reemergence and ascendance to a bodies floating in the ocean or
States like 9/11 is unlikely, in my the Atlantic, some 1,500 people destruction of our embassies in top position in the al-Qaeda littered in the streets of North
view" and that we need only would have perished. If they had East Africa by blowing up the hierarchy is an ominous sign. American cities. Is it really safe to
worry about "small bore" attacks. blown them up as they flew over U.S. consulate and Western Al-Qaeda also has developed assume it is not planning
On Friday, the former heads of p o p u l a t e d a r e a s i n t h e i r residences in Karachi, Pakistan; a powerful regional nodes intent on something equally staggering for
the 9/11 Commission echoed destination cities, it could have plot to blow up our Marine camp targeting America. Less than a the 10th anniversary?
Biden's assertions, declaring that been the deadliest terrorist attack in Djibouti in an attack that could year ago, U.S. officials had no Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
a f t e r S e p t . 1 1 , 2 0 0 1 , t h e in American history. have matched the destruction of idea that al-Qaeda in the Arabian fellow at AEI.
intelligence community wrongly According to American the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks Peninsula (AQAP) had developed Photo Credit: iStockphoto/
believed that al-Qaeda was intent intelligence officials, the plot was bombing; an al-Qaeda cell that the intent or capability to strike frankysze
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Our intelligence community was airplanes into Heathrow Airport have been killed, al-Qaeda has attack in Uganda. AQAP recently
not wrong about al-Qaeda's and downtown London (imagine one of its most dangerous and shared its chemical bomb-making
intentions--it prevented al-Qaeda Big Ben collapsing like the Twin capable external operations technology with al-Shabab. Al
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How Student Debt Wrecks Marriages, Inhibits

Family Formation, and Delays the Housing
Recovery
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Vienna. To Europeans, who often Such stories may make for pretty expect housing prices to remain
Shedlock) (Mish's Global pay little or nothing toward their humorous reading, but this is a weak for a decade, even after
Economic Trend Analysis) university studies, the idea of serious macro issue. Housing prices bottom.
Submitted at 9/13/2010 10:55:00 PM going deeply into debt to get typically leads the economy out of That bottom in housing prices Use a Bath Towel to
The New York Times had an educated is, well, foreign.
interesting article last week on Ms. Tidwell feels no guilt about
recession. If couples put off may still be a couple years away Keep Salad Greens
marriage, or never get engaged in (or longer), and the more the Fed
how student debt is affecting the $250,000 in debt she will the first place, that obviously and Congress tries to prop up Fresh [Food Hacks]
f a m i l y f o r m a t i o n s . P l e a s e probably run up, including some hinders family formation. prices, the longer away the bottom Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
consider How Debt Can Destroy a from a master’s degree program In turn, that hinders the demand is likely to be. Although some
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:00 AM
Budding Relationship Nobody she completed in London, where for houses and related goods and localities my be in the process of
likes unpleasant surprises, but she and Mr. Kogler met. “I didn’t services, not to mention the goods bottoming now, there is simply no Of all the things you may have
when Allison Brooke Eastman’s acquire it because I go out and and services required to have kids. economic reason to rush into tried to keep your salad greens
fiancé found out four months ago shop a lot,” she said. “It’s because Moreover, student debt buying a house today. Other from wilting in the
just how high her student loan I’m doing something that I’ll love contributes to the problem of reasons may prevail. fridge—patting dry, salad
debt was, he had a particularly for the rest of my life.” unloading a massive inventory of Mike "Mish" Shedlock spinners, specially perforated
strong reaction: he broke off the Still, if she and Mr. Kogler are homes and a massive shadow h t t p : / / bags—you probably never
engagement within three days. going to move in together and get inventory of homes on top of that. globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. considered rolling them up in a
Ms. Eastman said she had told engaged, she wants their financial Many students are so deep in debt com bath towel. More »
him early on in their relationship arrangements to be clear and fair. and without a job that not only Click Here To Scroll Thru My
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to their wedding day, she took out million dollars in debt to a not even renting apartments. investment advisor representative Attempts Foolish Bailout
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photography. “But if I was lying, I says she knows that now. “What Ironically, falling prices is the management and capital Debt Payment The embattled
was lying to myself, not to him. I would I have done differently, cure for this mess, not the preservation strategies of Sitka government of Harrisburg,
didn’t really want to know the full besides bringing a copy of my problem that politicians see and Pacific. Pennsylvania's capital, will avoid
amount.” credit report on the first date?” attempt to fight. Home prices default on a $3.3 million bond
Ms. Tidwell, 26, is involved in a she said, with a rueful chuckle. “I need to drop to affordable levels payment this week because of
serious relationship with Stefan w o u l d h a v e b e e n m o r e where there is genuine demand to $4.4 million in last-minute state
Kogler, an architect who is a responsible.” Family Formation a clear housing inventory.
native of Austria and living in Serious Macro Issue Because of all these factors, I PENNSYLVANIA page 35
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aid. Of the last-minute state aid,
half a million dollars are
considered a loan and must be
repaid.
With Harrisburg's city council
scheduled to meet Tuesday to
explore filing for bankruptcy,
Gov. Ed Rendell announced
Sunday that he was speeding up
state funds and grants to the
financially-strapped capital.
"I see this as Wall Street versus
Main Street," said city
councilman Brad Koplinski. "The
bondholders are not willing to
budge and they expect us to
completely take care of this on the
backs of our city's taxpayers."
Newly elected Mayor Linda
Thompson, who has feuded with
the city council she once headed,
opposes a municipal bankruptcy
filing. "It's the very last option
after everything else has failed,"
she said.
Harrisburg already has skipped
millions of dollars in payments on
bonds it backed for the costly
renovation of a trash incinerator,
which dates back to the 1970s.
The incinerator is up and running
but doesn't generate enough
revenue to cover debt that has
reached $288 million. This year,
the city owes incinerator debt
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payments of $68 million, an
amount that surpasses its annual
budget.
In Alabama's most populous
county, Jefferson, the government
is saddled with about $5 billion in
debt stemming from the overhaul
of its sewer system in the mid-
1990s. Merit increases for county
workers have been frozen,
building and road repairs halted.
A brand new jail is vacant
because there are no funds to hire
workers or pay utilities. As in
Harrisburg, officials are exploring
bankruptcy.
In the impoverished town of
Central Falls, Rhode Island, near
Providence, officials recently
agreed for a receiver to take
control of local finances and
consider the rewriting of contracts
and cutting of pension benefits. A
city of 19,000, Central Falls has a
budget of about $18 million and
projects a $3 million deficit this
year and a $5 million gap in fiscal
2011. The city also has $4 million
in a pension fund that has $35
million in unfunded liabilities.
"If we are the first domino to fall,
I know there are cities that are
watching us and the bond market
is watching, because if they make
a deal with us, they'll have to
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make a deal with every other
municipality that's having trouble
right now," Koplinski said.
In addition to the incinerator
debt, Harrisburg is coping with a
$9 million deficit in the current
budget. The city is considering
layoffs, closing and leasing or
selling a firehouse, and the selling
of two fire trucks, among other
measures. It has assigned
volunteers to man police stations
in order to have all officers on the
streets. Mayor Linda Thompson is
a fool as is Governor Ed Rendell.
Harrisburg is bankrupt. Period.
Wasting 10's of millions of dollars
will not change that simple fact.
Harrisburg would be much further
ahead had it skipped bond
payments years ago. Now that is
money down the drain.
Harrisburg cannot afford a
$500,000 loan from the state to
pay bills it should not pay. It has
no means of making the next bond
payment. While cutting city
services may be a good thing to
do, cutting city services to pay
bondholders, when city residents
get nothing out of it but higher
taxes is point blank stupid.
There is no deal to work out with
the bondholders other than default
and bankruptcy court.
Governor Ed Rendell is acting in
the interests of the bondholders
not in the interests of Harrisburg.
The move is so foolish I have to
wonder what the governor's
connection to the bondholders is.
The city council should reject this
offer.
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'Life
Unexpected'
Season 2 Review
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 5:45:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Fall
TV, Stay Tuned When it debuted
last January,'Life Unexpected,' the
story of a foster kid who finds her
biological parents, was cuter than
a basket of puppies.
'Life Unexpected' (9PM ET, the
CW) is still plenty adorable this
year, and in its briskly paced,
satisfying season 2 premiere, it
makes a concerted attempt to
shake up the elements that made
the show's soapier elements
increasingly tiresome in its first
season.
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Welcome To The "In Your Face" Market
Bruce Krasting (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:27:57 AM
Think about it. We have a
gagiillion of money going into
fixed income over the past three
months. A big chunk of that
comes from equity mutual fund
redemptions. Seventeen weeks of
outflows. What happens? Stocks
catch a bid and bonds take a
tumble. Two observations come
to mind.(1) Retail is dumb money
and (2) the buy and hold is just a
dead concept.
The “Risk On” trade was a
convergence of a number of
forces. Stocks were oversold,
bonds overbought and as it turns
out the economy was doing a tad
better in August than was
expected on a number of fronts.
So once again the market flushes
out weak hands. It must be tough
on the folks managing their own
401k’s. No sooner than they get
invested in long term fixed
income(at the lowest yield in 40
years) it starts to look like a bad
idea. A lot of money is now tied
up in yields that after taxes and
inflation are just going to produce
losses. Oh well. That is the‘In
your face’ market (AKA the FU
market) we have.
For me this could be just a head
fake. So what if the odds for a
double dip have fallen from 40%
to 30% in the last month? That
whole debate has been a waste of
time. That may be a good excuse
for a snap back reaction to an
oversold/bought market. But it is
a dumb reason to get excited that
stocks will never have another
down day for the rest of the year.
There are plenty of down days in
front of us.
Absent something very big from
DC the economy is going to slow.
We are going to see GDP in Q3
at around 1.5% it will be lower
than that in Q4. That is a given
folks. And that is the good news.
All of 2011 will be a struggle to
get GDP over 1.5% on average.
That forecast assumes there are
no downside shocks or upside
surprises. As it stacks up I think
the bet is better for downside
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Swissie is going to break par
some day soon. That will make
for negative headlines. Gold
swooned a bit as the Risk On
appetite rose. But have you
noticed that for all of the “noise”
from the pundits we are only $10
bucks under an all time high? Ines Sainz Addresses
That is nothing if we get a hiccup Sexual Harasment
in DLR/YEN. More headlines.
I am not sure that watching the Allegations Against New
bond market for correlation trades York Jets on 'Rick's List'
is such a wise thing to do any (VIDEO)
longer. The question I have been
pondering is,“When does the Jeremy Taylor (TV Squad)
current correlation (Weak Bonds Submitted at 9/14/2010 5:35:00 AM
– Strong Equities) change to
Weak Bonds – Weak Equities?” If Filed under: TV Replay Ines
the pendulum of the correlation is Sainz, a reporter for the Mexican
to swing, it is likely to produce station Azteca TV who is now at
news than upside. We shall see. the center of a sexual harassment
some bad “reads” along the way.
I look at a number of barometers controversy involving the New
“Old Reliable” may not be so
for evaluating where we are in the York Jets, was on ' Rick's
relevant.
risk on/risk off cycle. I like the List'(Weekdays, 3 PM ET on
So If you believe in the FU
DLR/YEN and the EUR/CHF. CNN) Monday. Sainz has set off a
market theory watch for the next
When they are trading lower I am media firestorm since claiming
leg to be ‘risk off’ for equities for
very suspicious of the Risk On she was made to feel
a bit and we could still see bonds
trade. Both those rates are down uncomfortable by several Jets
pushing against the critical 2.85
big from Friday’s close. players and a member of the
level. DLR/CHF could break
As I write the DLR/YEN is team's coaching staff while at the
below parity. We could see new
breaking down based on some Jets facility to interview
lows for DLR/YEN and EUR/
political news. If Mr. Kan is the quarterback Mark Sanchez.
CHF. The one thing I would not
winner tonight then the Yen has to First, Rick Sanchez asked Sainz
expect? That the market(s) close
be stronger. The EUR/CHF is to address the allegation the team
where they were in NY today on
going to take a dip should the Yen was throwing balls at her, so they
this Friday. Vol up, belts on.
break to new to new highs. could run up next to her and pick
This post was publised at the
My secondary sources to confirm them up.
author's blog.
Risk Off are the DLR/CHF, Gold "I don't even pay attention to that,
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looks like a sure thing that $/ the balls ... I wasn't in danger,"
Sainz said.
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Shuffling the Commercial Real Estate Jennifer Garner Reunites

Deck With Her Mini Cheerleader
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
the "absorption" effect on the
southwest's vacancy rate was
Companies are moving at the
drop of a hat to get better rates or and Soccer Star in LA!
minimal because companies are a better location for the same PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:00 AM essentially making lateral moves, price. The effect of this is of Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:00:00 AM
According to the Star Tribune the said Northco Senior Associate course deflationary, adding to
Minneapolis suburban office Heather Alderink. price pressures and more Jennifer Garner was back to her
market suffers from 20 percent "Every single deal that I did in the commercial real estate defaults. routine in Brentwood yesterday,
vacancy rates. Recent large deals southwest submarket in the Remember that commercial real bringing Seraphina to the market,
have done nothing to dent that second quarter was a case of estate lags residential and after a weekend in Canada away
glut of inventory. someone coming into new space residential real estate has not yet from her daughters. As Jennifer
Please consider Deals don't make from somewhere else in the area, bottomed, and indeed may not was supporting her husband Ben
dent in the southwest metro's rather than completely new bottom for years. Affleck at his TIFF premiere of
empty offices Several high-profile companies coming in," she said. Mike "Mish" Shedlock The Town on Saturday, Violet
office leases have been signed in "It's been a lot of shuffling from h t t p : / / and Seraphina hit the soccer field
the Twin Cities' key southwest one space to another. They may globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. Buzz's Kickass Female Character
in LA. Violet celebrated a
submarket this year, grabbing be taking a little more space in com Bracket, where Sydney Bristow in
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sidelines. Ben has clocked lots of
be as bad as they seemed in terms Indeed, a closer look at some of "Mish" Shedlock is a registered Selene in round three.
travel time promoting his new
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Rasmussen College took 48,000 they aren't doing much to alleviate for SitkaPacific Capital from Venice to Toronto and
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lease for 27,400 square feet. But, to the 8200 Tower; Rasmussen's market direction. Visit http:// mom is also in the running in
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Blake Talks Food, Family, Fame, and

More Food in Allure
PopSugar (PopSugar) class everywhere I travel. I find
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:00 AM it's the best way to get to know a
culture. It's what people bring to
Blake Lively looks every bit the the family every day, what they
movie star on the October cover break bread over–it's a very
of Allure, but inside she tells the intimate thing."• On her
magazine she never intended to unexpected career: "I come from a
become an actress at all. In fact, family of actors, and I didn't want
another one of her passions, food, to act...You make your mistakes
dominates the interview. The on a bigger screen for everyone to
Gossip Girl star, who hit Paris in • On her role in The Town: "The see."• On one of her favorite
last night's OMG-filled season part was originally supposed to be foodie accomplishments: "The
premiere, says she dreams of for a 37-year-old woman–she's a best thing I made was a chocolate
opening restaurants to feature her mother–but when I read the script, Grand Marnier with homemade
favorite family recipes. She I knew I had to have the part. It fresh chocolate peanut butter,
prefers not to talk about her was selfish of me. I worried that I caramelized candied pecans, and
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Ben Affleck in The Town, which treasure. Wanting to be an actor
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intricate and interesting set of
contemporary jewelry pieces that
are currently on display at the
Soda gallery in Istanbul.
Completely Handmade and
comprised of layers of silver and
copper sheets, the exquisite
collection asks you to find it all;
fantasy, reality, and function.
"Conceptually, I want to awake
subconscious associations as well
as lure you into my suggestive
world that is full of detail;
sometimes beautiful but also
melancholic and malevolent."
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wants you to find your own
meaning. As she says, "My art
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Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:00:00 PM intervention that he’s come out Burton memorably shot a
How does the class of 2010 stack for laxer drunk-driving laws, pumpkin in his backyard to prove
up against its lunatic predecessor, although it’s conceivable this that Vince Foster was murdered,
of 1994? There are the well- position was partly inspired by his but he’s no longer his district’s
known data points— Rand Paul’s two previous arrests for DWI. weirdest candidate. That would be
alleged kidnapping of a college THE SCHWINN CONSPIRACY Tim Crawford, a self-identified
classmate; Sharron Angle’s Dan Maes “conservative American” who
assertion that there are“domestic Gubernatorial Candidate, won the Democratic nomination
enemies” in Congress—that C o l o r a d o despite believing that “the amount
suggest we’ve reached a new Dan Maes has seen the Leviathan of ‘big government’ existing in
zenith of crazy, making Newt state, and it comes in the form of our nation needs to be reduced”
Gingrich’s bunch look like s h a r e d b i c y c l e s . T h e l o c a l and health care reform is
sensible establishmentarians by businessman and political novice “constitutionally questionable.”
comparison. But Paul and Angle made national headlines for his Some posit that, like South
o n l y b e g i n t o c a p t u r e t h e dire predictions that conservation Carolina’s Alvin Greene,
strangeness of candidates out m e a s u r e s p r o m o t e d b y h i s Crawford won by being first on
there who may soon be occupying Democratic opponent, Denver the ballot. Whatever the
your Capitol and governor’s Mayor John Hickenlooper, could explanation, he’s had a rocky
mansion. Herewith, a guide to the “threaten our personal freedoms.” campaign. At one event, he
truly special specimens. “At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, public suggested homosexuality might
TENTHER MADNESS transportation, what’s wrong with be a mutation and struggled to
Tom Emmer that, and what’s wrong with explain how a bill becomes law.
G u b e r n a t o r i a l C a n d i d a t e , people parking their cars and The 29-year-old construction
Minnesota riding their bikes?’” Maes said. Department lawyer, has been House Candidate, North Carolina estimator promised to withdraw,
For most Tea Partiers, reining in “But if you do your homework ... dubbed “Colorado’s Sharron African American Navy veteran but later changed his mind, saying
the federal government is an you realize [the policy] is part of a Angle” for his Tea Party-friendly Bill Randall has been a hit at Tea he was “flustered and felt
article of faith. But state greater strategy to rein in views. But his sincerity was Party rallies, defending the bullied.”
Representative Tom Emmer has American cities under a United questioned when he was caught movement against charges of ENHANCED INTERROGATOR
taken the trouble to figure out the N a t i o n s t r e a t y . ” M a e s ’ s o n t a p e c a l l i n g racism. But he attracted some Allen West
l o g i s t i c s . E m m e r i s spokesperson explained his boss birthers“dumbasses.” After Tom unwelcome attention when he House Candidate, Florida
a“Tenther”—that is, he believes “was trying to say” that biking Tancredo called President Obama claimed that the Gulf oil spill Allen West doesn’t like to back
the Tenth Amendment (which initiatives are a “gateway” to the biggest threat facing America, may have been the result of “some down. The former Army
reserves powers not granted to abortions. Buck was recorded remarking, “I sort of collusion” between the lieutenant colonel left the military
Uncle Sam for the states) should THE WINKING EXTREMIST can’t believe that guy opened his government and BP. “Maybe they after an interrogation in Iraq in
be used to nullify numerous Ken Buck mouth.” He apologized, wanted it to leak, but then it got which he threatened to kill a
Democratic laws. He’s also Senate Candidate, Colorado explaining that the greater peril beyond what was anticipated,” he police officer, then fired a 9mm
proposed some roadblocks of his Some Tea Partiers are born was “the progressive liberal said. Randall allowed that this next to his head to make the threat
own—like a state constitutional believers; others are recent movement that is going on in this charge is“not based on any fact,” credible. In his election campaign,
amendment that would prohibit converts to the cause. Buck, a country.” but he’s demanded an West was chided by The Palm
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Beach Post for violent rhetoric,
such as calling for his supporters
to get out the“bayonets” and to
make his opponent “scared to
come out of his house.” West,
who is African American, is no
fan of Barack Obama either. He’s
demanded to know “what passport
[Obama used] to go to Pakistan”
in 1981 and blasted his
administration for failing to stand
up to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and
call him a “suck-butt fool.”
BORDER BOMBER
Tom Mullins
House Candidate, New Mexico
New Mexico is one of the states
most vulnerable to global
warming, but Mullins, an oil
engineer, isn’t fazed by the
alarming projections. Instead, he’s
accused scientists of falsifying
temperature records in a nefarious
effort to help politicians who are
attempting to regulate “the breath
we exhale.” He has some
unorthodox opinions about
immigration, too, at one point
suggesting that the U.S. should
put land mines on its border with
Mexico.
THE ROCKY SAGA
Andrew Raczkowski
House Candidate, Michigan
Raczkowski likes to be called
Rocky and sometimes refers to
himself in the third person, but
Democrats know him simply as
their dream opponent. A law
graduate and former state
representative, Rocky is the
target of a federal lawsuit which
alleges his company falsified
ticket sales for a motorcycle rally
and concert featuring Kiss, Kenny
Chesney, and Larry the Cable
Guy. He has also eagerly and
incoherently embraced several
extreme right-wing conspiracy
theories. He told one gathering:
“You have a president that seems
to be, um ... well ... I don’t know
if he even has been born in the
United States, but ... until I see a
birth certificate.” He later sought
to clarify his remarks to Politico:
“I believe this: He is our president
of the United States, he is the
president of the United States, and
I guess my question is ... I would
love to see his birth certificate.”
GOD'S OPERATIVE
Ed Martin
House Candidate, Missouri
Martin has a rep for fighting
dirty: He was forced to resign
from his job as chief of staff to
former Missouri Governor Matt
Blunt after trying to cover up the
fact that his office had illegally
used state government e-mail
accounts for campaign activities.
(Martin tried to discredit the
government whistleblower who
alerted authorities by inquiring
whether he was dating anyone in
the office.) Now, he’s trying to
convince Missourians that
Obama’s domestic agenda is a
stealth assault on religious
freedom. He told a right-wing
radio host that Obama wants to
“take away [the choice] to find the
Lord.” When challenged about
these remarks, he insisted that
government bailouts made the
demise of religious freedom “a
growing concern.”
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Covert Affairs' Christopher Gorham: "You See a Deepening of the
Auggie-Annie Relationship"
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:44:00 AM
Covert Affairs, Christopher
Gorham
Awkward work encounters
between exes are becoming a
trend on Covert Affairs.
Weeks after a communications
blackout reunited enigmatic blind
tech expert Auggie ( Christopher
Gorham) with his computer
hacker ex, Natasha, CIA newbie
Annie ( Piper Perabo) will be
forced to work with her former
beau, rogue agent Ben, on
Tuesday's two-hour season finale
of the spy drama.
"The finale is Annie's version of
the Auggie episode. [That] was
such an overwhelming and
emotional episode for Auggie,
and the finale is that for Annie,"
Gorham tells TVGuide.com. "She
has to confront Ben and their past.
A lot of different things come to a
head. It's very poignant for Annie
and wraps a lot of things, but also
leaves a few loose ends hanging.
In the second hour especially,
there's a lot of Ben Mercer."
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Affairs
That's because Ben ( Eion
Bailey), who first resurfaced two
weeks ago, turns up at the CIA
headquarters, and the former
flames are dispatched to Sri
Lanka to rescue Ben's former
asset. Though Annie and Ben are
the focus of the visually
assaulting finale — part of which
was shot in Sri Lanka — theirs is
not the only relationship
examined.
"You see a deepening of the
Auggie-Annie relationship.
Auggie doesn't get to get out in
the field very much, but he is very
present on Annie's mission and
definitely does his part to help her
out," Gorham says.
But that doesn't mean a romance
is in the cards — yet.
"I think it's a potential down the
road. Auggie's tortured. He's very
reluctant to let people in," the
actor says, adding that Natasha is
the person who knows Auggie
best, even though she might not
think so. "Of all the current
characters in his life, he's closest
to Annie, but she still doesn't
know how he lost his sight, which
is a conversation you would have
early on in a friendship. He
doesn't give up details like that
easily."
Besides, would ladies man
Auggie even want a girlfriend?
Since splitting with Natasha (
Liane Balaban) years back,
Auggie seems to be quite content
with the bachelor life. He is, after
all, running his own covert affair
by romancing intrepid journalist
Liza Hearn ( Emmanuelle
Vaguier), who last week reported
classified information about the
agency.
Covert Affairs' Liane Balaban:
Make-out scene with Chris
Gorham was "pretty cool"
The real agency leak will be
revealed in the finale, Gorham
says, promising resolution for
Auggie's sexy op.
"One of the advantages of the
show being about Annie is that we
can throw out Auggie stuff piece
by piece, and this is one of them,"
he says. "I think the character has
grown into the character we
wanted him to be. [We wanted to]
make sure they were going to do
something interesting with him
like we've done as opposed to
have him be a stereotypical tech
guy who is always behind his
desk and is only there for
exposition and the occasional
punchline. ... He is a nerd and
loves the tech stuff. But he's also a
soldier through and through. He's
like the toughest nerd you'll ever
meet."
Toughest and sexiest? Gorham,
previously best known as Ugly
Betty's geeky Henry Grubstick,
has earned a new reputation as a
TV hunk after Auggie's shirtless
romp on the train with Natasha. "I
don't really live in 'sex symbol'
land, whatever that may be. It's
fine. As long as it helps the show,
I'm happy," Gorham says. "And
really, I'm happy that people are
seeing Auggie in the way that I
see him because I do see Auggie
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as being sexy. I'm happy that I've
succeeded in portraying him in
the way that I think he should be
seen."
And what can fans expect to see
in Season 2? More of the same,
Gorham says, whether that
includes shirtless Auggie or not.
USA renews Covert Affairs
"I don't anticipate big changes for
Season 2 and I don't think it needs
big changes. One of the great
things about our show is that it's
not overly complex," he says.
"What's complex are the
characters, not necessarily the
plot. I'm sure Auggie will be back
in the field, but the key is it has to
be organic. ... They've also talked
about potentially doing a
flashback episode where we
actually see him before he lost his
sight. I'm just excited to do
another season!"
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see Castle on the other side of the heads, Fillion says viewers will RedLynx is going to have to
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When Andie MacDowell joins
the new Fox drama Lone Star as
Jon Voight's love interest, she
won't be playing nice.
"Surprisingly, she's a nasty con
woman who's brought in to help
Bob's father with his idea of going
after the company fortune,"
creator and executive producer
Kyle Killen said at Fox's
PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Party,
sponsored by TV Guide
Magazine, on September 13.
Lone Star, premiering September
20, centers around charming con
man Bob Allen ( James Wolk),
who's leading a double life. In
one, he is married to Cat ( Friday
Night Lights' Adrianne Palicki),
the daughter of an oil tycoon
(Voight). In the other, he's in a
relationship with an unsuspecting
girl next door ( Eloise Mumford).
Together with his scheming
Chris Rainey Arrested on Felony Stalking Charges
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Rainey, a University of Florida
receiver, was arrested at 12:30
a.m. ET Tuesday on suspicion of
aggravated stalking, the
Gainesville (Fla.) Police
Department said in a statement
father, Bob is out to clean
everybody's bank account but will
soon find that these two worlds
are hard to juggle.
Enter MacDowell. "She's so
effective, because she plays sweet
very well, so you'd never suspect
her, but she's got a dark streak,"
says Killen of the actress, who he
pursued for the role because of the
that announced the felony charge.
Rainey allegedly threatened the
life of a woman he'd been dating
on and off. The Associated Press
reported that Rainey spent the
night in jail and appeared in court
Tuesday morning.
Police said Rainey was
apparently upset that the alleged
victim missed his call, which
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on the show. " Groundhog Day is
allegations disclosed in court on
one of my favorite movies. I fell
Tuesday as K-Rod made an
in love with her when I was 13,"
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Wolk confesses. "I haven't
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different than the voluptuous
Latin brunette we know her as
today.
See photos of Sofia Vergara
A natural blonde, the Modern
Family star tells the October issue
of Self magazine that the
ignorance of casting directors
made her go dark.
"When I started acting, I would go
to auditions and they didn't know
where to put me because I was
voluptuous and had the accent —
but I had blond hair, "the actress
says. "The moment I dyed my hair
dark, it was, 'Oh, she's the hot
Latin girl...' I'd always felt a little
'too much' as a blonde, like a big-
mouth version of Pamela
Anderson."
Will Sofia Vergara run naked
down Sunset Blvd in honor of
Modern Family's Emmy win?
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Brotherhood (or, Happy 25th, Super Mario Bros.)

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) at me as I spent life after life "trick" again. I needed something and smiled. For weeks he would
Submitted at 9/13/2010 3:05:00 PM trying to jump that huge pit near bigger. Something that seemed demand I help him get into the
the end of World 8-2 while my doable but wasn't. Something that Minus World, only to throw the
Things I was better at doing than brother never lost one guy. All only I knew about that he couldn't controller in anger once his lives
my little brother in 1985: reading, requests made to my mother to possibly figure out on his own. ran out. "But you were doing so
basic speech, making things with drop me off at a Crossroads at My answer came in the mail. The good," I'd tell him, trying hard to
clay, writing stories, and The midnight so that I might meet the Nintendo Fun Club newsletter keep from laughing. "I think you
Legend Of Zelda. Devil and ask him for the talent to combined with my ability to read almost beat it that time! Keep
Things my little brother was beat Bowser went unfulfilled. My would be the downfall of He Who going!" Death after sweet watery
better at doing than I was in the ego was being shattered by Was Second From My Mother's death, his frustration grew until
same year: eating jelly toast, someone who didn't even know Loins And Therefore Inferior. the day he announced he was
grunting, smashing my clay what the word "ego" meant. I was "Have you ever heard of the done with video games forever.
wonders with his fists, stuffing crushed. Minus World?" "Me hate dumb turtle game. Vee-
my stories down his pants for a And so I did the only thing I "Bro-thur made of lies. No is My- Dee-O games stupid. Hit things
giggle, and Super Mario Bros. could do in such a situation. I Nuss Wurld." Don't judge my with race car tracks more fun."
It was his skill in SMB that made up lies. memory. That's exactly how he Just like that, I was, once again,
bothered me the most. Video "If you jump down that pit, you'll talks today, I swear. the household's resident game
games had always been something get ten lives. Seriously." "No really! I got to it last night master. All was well with the
I was good at. I was the one who "Hey, I read that if you can get hit after you went to bed. Want me to kingdom.
could rock the Star Wars machine by two Bullet Bills at once, you show you?" So today, on the 25th anniversary
at Aladdin's Castle. I was the one get a million points." "Hmm. You show. You show of the release of Super Mario
who had his initials in the 4th "There's a golden ivy that'll take now. NOW NOW NOW." Bros., I'd like to take this
place spot on the Ms. Pac-Man you straight to the last castle in And, of course, I did. "See? It's opportunity to thank Nintendo for
cabinet over at the local Piggly that block. You can only hit it, an underwater level. You like the all the found memories I have of
Wiggly. ME. So watching my though, if you're really REALLY water levels, right? I still can't breaking my little brother's will
brother, this weasel my mother good." beat it, though. Maybe you can, when we were younger. To this
had cursed me with two years These would work once, maybe huh? I mean, you're much better day, the thought of that victory is
after my own glorious birth, deftly t w i c e , b u t t h e y w e r e o n l y than me at this game..." still better than any virtual
avoid the minions of the Koopa obstacles to him, speed bumps in "You give 'troller! Me beat! Me imprisoned princess' kiss, and I
King and save the Princess when I his overall domination of the beat!" am glad to have it.
couldn't was incomprehensible. game. He'd try it, die, put down And as I watched him sitting
For hours, days even, I practiced the controller, walk over to me, there, eyes glued to the screen,
to no avail. Friends of mine would punch me in the mouth, then go desperately looking for the secret
come over to play and then laugh back to playing, never trying my for beating the level, I sat back
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Sunshine vitamin could cut schizophrenia risk

rss@consumerreports.org these curious facts. Vitamin vitamin D supplements would
(Consumer Reports) D(known as the sunshine vitamin reverse the effect. But it’s a
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reactions in the skin when research.
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schizophrenia risk Did you know for growing healthy bones. But, can’t say from this study whether
that your chances of getting researchers suggest, it might also taking Vitamin D supplements
schizophrenia depend in part on be important in developing during pregnancy will help cut the
your birthday? healthy brain structures. chances of your child getting
People with schizophrenia are Could it be that babies whose People with the lowest levels of schizophrenia. But some doctors
CR Index: Amid
more likely to have been born in mothers got less sunlight— vitamin D had twice the chance of recommend extra vitamin D declines in spending and
the winter or spring, compared to because they were pregnant developing schizophrenia as those during pregnancy or while you’re jobs, one bright note
the summer or autumn. Various during the winter, or their dark with the optimum levels. The link breast-feeding. Your needs for
theories have been suggested to skin was less able to synthesize could account for 43 percent of vitamin D supplements depend on Consumer Reports Shopping
explain this, for example whether vitamin D in colder northern Blog (Consumer Reports)
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children of people who migrate key to their increased risk of harmful if you take too much. If patient editor, BMJ Group Although consumer say their
from hot countries to colder schizophrenia? Thanks to a new all pregnant women took extra ConsumerReportsHealth.org has financial difficulties are declining,
countries— notably from the study we’re one step closer to vitamin D, could we reduce the partnered with The BMJ Group to the economy continues to waiver,
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A third aspect is that people who They identified the blood samples had a higher risk of schizophrenia, Ratings, buying advice and results for the Consumer Reports
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than those who grow up in the later life, then compared these Also, showing a link between low preferences September to 49.1 from 50.2 in
countryside. Scientists theorize with samples from people born on levels of vitamin D and August. The share of Americans
about the alienating effect of the the same day, but who didn’t have schizophrenia doesn’t mean that claiming to have started a new job
urban lifestyle on mental health. schizophrenia. one caused the other, or that in the past 30 days is 5.0 percent,
But one theory might explain all The results showed a strong link. versus 5.9 percent in August, and
down from July’s recent high of
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30-days were up, 6.9 percent,
from August, 5.6 percent. Results
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have been hit the hardest by job
losses (13.7 percent). Perhaps as a
result, Americans are continuing
to pull their purse strings tight.
The Consumer Reports Retail
Index for August continues to
decline. The Past 30-Day Retail
Index for September is at 9.8,
down significantly from last
month’s 11.4. September marks
an overall decline from a year ago
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lowest level since November 2009
(9.0). September’s Next 30-Day
Retail Index is at 7.6, down from
August (8.1), as well as a year ago
(8.8). Per-capita spending in the
past 30 days is down to $185,
from $286 in August.
And Americans’ outlook has yet
to brighten. The Consumer
Sentiment Index, which captures
respondents’ attitudes regarding
their financial situation, asking
them if they are feeling better or
worse off than they were a year
ago, has gradually slipped over
the past two months. The index in
September is 44.1, continuing a
slide from July (45.2). This index
has changed little since October
2008 when it stood at 45.3.“The
recovery faces serious challenges
and is at risk of stalling,” said Ed
Farrell, a director of the
Consumer Reports National
Research Center. “Job creation
remains the greatest challenge.
The growth in the ranks of the
employed remains anemic and
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not seen any real improvement in
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2010 U.S. Open: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to complete
career Grand Slam
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 12:16:29 AM
Updated: September 14, 2010,
1:16 AM ET Nadal Wins U.S.
Open
Rafael Nadal completes career
Grand Slam with four-set victory
over Novak Djokovic Nadal Wins
U.S. Open
NEW YORK -- Chasing his first
U.S. Open championship, Rafael
Nadal was so dominant, so
determined, so defiant, his face
curling into a sneer with every
wallop of the ball.
With two marvelous weeks at
Flushing Meadows capped by
victory in a thrilling final Monday
night, Nadal fashioned an
emphatic answer to all those
questions about whether he could
grab the only major trophy
missing from his collection. Slam-
sational
With his victory at the U.S.
Open, Rafael Nadal improved to 9
-2 all-time in Grand Slam finals.
Slam Opponent Result'10 U.S.
Open N. Djokovic W 6-4, 5-7, 6-
4, 6-2'10 Wimbledon T. Berdych
W 6-3, 7-5, 6-4'10 French Open
R. Soderling W 6-4, 6-2, 6-4'09
Aussie Open R. Federer W 7-5, 3-
6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2'08 Wimbledon
R. Federer W 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-
7 (8), 9-7'08 French Open R.
Federer W 6-1, 6-3, 6-0'07
Wimbledon R. Federer L 7-6 (7),
4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2'07 French
Open R. Federer W 6-3, 4-6, 6-3,
6-4'06 Wimbledon R. Federer L 6
-0, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (2), 6-3'06 French
Open R. Federer W 1-6, 6-1, 6-4,
7-6 (4)'05 French Open M. Puerta
W 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1, 7-5-- Source:
ESPN Stats and Information
Now owner of a career Grand
Slam at age 24, champion at three
consecutive major tournaments
and nine overall, the No. 1-ranked
Nadal is suddenly chasing
something else: recognition as the
greatest tennis player in history.
Approaching perfection for
stretches -- the guy played more
than 40 points in a row without
making an unforced error -- Nadal
beat Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-
4, 6-2 in a match filled with
fantastic shotmaking by both men
and interrupted by a thunderstorm
a day after it was postponed by
rain.
"For the first time in my career, I
played a very, very good match in
this tournament," said Nadal, who
never had been past the semifinals
at Flushing Meadows. "That's my
feeling, no? I played my best
match in the U.S. Open at the
most important moment."
Once seen as Roger Federer's
nemesis, Nadal has made his own
greatness quite clear -- and is
more than halfway to Federer's
career record of 16 Grand Slam
titles. Nadal's total already is one
more than Jimmy Connors, Andre
Agassi or Ivan Lendl won.
It's clear where Nadal stands on
the matter. He said "talk about if I
am better or worse than Roger is
stupid, because the titles say he's
much better than me."
Djokovic, understandably, had a
different take on Nadal.
"He has the capabilities already
now to become the best player
ever," said Djokovic, who lost the
2007 U.S. Open final to Federer,
but upset him in Saturday's
semifinals. "I think [Nadal is]
playing the best tennis that I've
ever seen him play on hard courts.
He has improved his serve
drastically -- the speed, the
accuracy. And, of course, his
baseline [game] is as good as
ever."
Nadal is a year younger than
Federer was when he got to No. 9,
and about 3½ years younger than
Federer was when he completed
his career Grand Slam at the 2009
French Open. Nadal is the seventh
man in history with at least one
title from each of tennis' four most
important tournaments.
Bjorn Borg was the only other
man to have nine major
championships by 24. Exclusive
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Rafael Nadal is just the seventh
man in tennis history to win every
Grand Slam at least once. Player,
Total Slams AO FO Wim USO R.
Federer, 16 4 1 6 5 R. Emerson,
12 6 2 2 2 R. Laver, 11 3 2 4 2 R.
Nadal, 9 1 5 2 1 A. Agassi, 8 4 1 1
2 F. Perry, 8 1 1 3 3 D. Budge, 6 1
1 2 2-- Source: ESPN Stats and
Information
"It's too far; 16, for me, is too far
to think about right now," Nadal
said, with his typical humility.
"My goal, all my life, was the
same: keep improving."
He takes that task seriously.
When he started on tour his
forehand was feared, his
backhand wasn't, so he worked on
that. Then he got better at
volleying. He says he decided a
couple of days before the start of
the U.S. Open to tweak the way
he holds his racket to serve.
That added zip to his serves, now
regularly faster than 130 mph,
which helps him earn some easy
points -- important given the way
he hustles so much and hits so
hard, those booming forehands
looking like uppercuts. He won
106 of 111 service games in the
tournament, a key reason he
finally came through in New
York.
Everyone, even Nadal himself,
used to try to explain why he kept
leaving the U.S. Open without a
trophy, why it was the only Grand
Slam tournament he hadn't
conquered.
"The hard court," he said, "always
was the most difficult surface ...
for me."
Here's how the thinking went:
His grinding style exhausts him.
The wind plays havoc with his
spin-lathered strokes. The courts
are too hard and too fast. The
balls are too soft. And so on.
Seems sort of silly, huh?
"Now no one can say he can't win
here," said Toni Nadal, Rafael's
uncle and coach. "It's very
important for us to know that
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Rafael has learned so much,
because players said Rafa could
never win on hard courts, because
he played too much topspin [or]
he's too physical. And now I
believe there's not much that the
players he plays against can argue
with."
Well put.
Nadal is first left-hander to win
the U.S. Open since John
McEnroe in 1984, and the first
Spaniard since Manuel Orantes in
1975.
Nadal first burst onto the scene as
the so-called King of Clay,
compiling a record 81-match
winning streak on that surface and
starting his French Open career 31
-0. His five titles at Roland Garros
have earned him accolades as the
best clay-court player in history,
but now he has become so much
more. Youth Is Served
Rafael Nadal is the second-
youngest player to win nine
Grand Slam titles and
accomplished the feat in the
second-fewest number of major
tournaments (26). Player Slam
Number of Events Age B. Borg'80
French Open 22 24 yrs., 2 days R.
Nadal'10 U.S. Open 26 24 yrs., 3
mos. R. Federer'06 U.S. Open 30
25 yrs., 1 mo. P. Sampras'97
Aussie Open 31 25 yrs., 5 mos.--
Source: ESPN Stats and
Information
He won on the grass at
Wimbledon in 2007, edging
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52 Sports/
Ravens knock out Jets for hard-fought victory
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 12:41:36 AM
Team Stat Comparison
BAL
NYJ 1st Downs 20 6
Passing 1st downs 12 2
Rushing 1st downs 2 3
1st downs from Penalties 6 1
3rd down efficiency 11-19 1-11
4th down efficiency 0-0 0-1 Total
Plays 75 44 Total Yards 282 176
Passing 233 60
Comp-Att 20-38 10-21
Yards per pass 6.1 2.9 Rushing
49 116
Rushing Attempts 35 21
Yards per rush 1.4 5.5 Red Zone
(Made-Att) 1-2 0-2 Penalties 5-38
14-125 Turnovers 3 1
Fumbles lost 2 1
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Defensive / Special Teams TDs 0
0 Possession 38:32 21:28
Passing Leaders Baltimore C/
ATT YDS AVG TD INT
RATING Flacco 20/38 248 6.5 0
1 62.2 NY Jets C/ATT YDS AVG
TD INT RATING Sanchez 10/21
74 3.5 0 0 56.4
Rushing Leaders Baltimore CAR
YDS AVG TD LG Rice 21 43 2.0
0 7 McClain 4 6 1.5 0 3 NY Jets
CAR YDS AVG TD LG
Tomlinson 11 62 5.6 0 21 Smith 2
27 13.5 0 22
Receiving Leaders Baltimore
REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Boldin 7 110 15.7 0 38 10 Heap 6
72 12.0 0 35 11 NY Jets REC
YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Cotchery 2 18 9.0 0 13 5
Tomlinson 2 16 8.0 0 9 4
Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. --
The Baltimore Ravens starred in
this version of "Hard Knocks,"
punishing the New York Jets with
plenty of them. The Jets intrigued
audiences in the preseason with
their no-holds-barred, behind-the-
scenes TV show, but it was the
Ravens who grabbed the spotlight
Monday night with a 10-9 victory.
They held New York to 176
yards, six first downs, allowed
Mark Sanchez just 74 yards
passing and kept Rex Ryan's crew
out of the end zone. More from
ESPN.com
The Ravens proved in Monday's
10-9 victory over the Jets that
they're still a defense-first team,
writes ESPN.com's James Walker.
E-reader News Edition
Blog
The Jets' O was downright
offensive Monday night,
performing as if they drew up the
game plan on the bus ride over to
the game, writes
ESPNNewYork.com's Rich
Cimini. Story
The Jets started the season
looking sloppy, not super, as
evidenced by the abundance of
penalties they amassed,
ESPN.com's Tim Graham writes.
Blog
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After gabbing all summer long,
Rex Ryan sent an undisciplined
team into MNF's debacle, and the
Jets got knocked ... hard, writes
ESPNNewYork.com's Ian
O'Connor. Story
• Jets Center| Jets blog"Anytime
you challenge a warrior, a warrior
is always going to respond,"
Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis
said.For those urging the Jets to
put up or shut up, well, it was
Baltimore that produced most of
the highlights in a sloppy opener
of New York's new home. The
$1.6 billion New Meadowlands
Stadium rocked with J-E-T-S
chants, then the Ravens rocked
Ryan's defense with enough big
plays to silence the crowd of
78,127 -- if not the talkative coach
and his players."They beat us in
every statistical category there is
except turnovers," Ryan said.And
not even a 3-1 edge in that
department could help the Jets."It
became personal when the
schedule came out," Lewis added.
"We knew the tradition and the
respect that Rex wanted to bring
to the Jets. The bottom line is:
Let's just play football. I tip my
hat to my team." Billy Cundiff's
25-yard field goal in the third
quarter provided the winning
points, with Anquan Boldin,
Baltimore's main offseason
acquisition, gaining 65 yards on
two passes against first-round
draft pick Kyle Wilson. Boldin
made the kind of impact the
Ravens sought with seven
receptions overall for 110 yards,
at times toying with the Jets'
vaunted secondary.So did tight
end Todd Heap, who caught six
passes from a cool Joe Flacco for
72 yards."I'm excited about our
weapons," coach John Harbaugh
said. "We have guys all the way
across the board that Joe can go
to. Joe knows how to find
them."The beginning was fiery, as
expected, with Ray Rice and
Shaun Ellis woofing at each other
before kickoff. But it turned into a
slopfest, as many of the openers
were this weekend, with the Jets
looking particularly undisciplined
by drawing 14 penalties for 125
yards. They also were 1 for 11 on
third downs.New York's six first
downs tied a franchise-low set in
1976. Rapid Reaction
Looking for more information on
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AFC East| AFC North| Stats &
Info"We weren't at our best
today," Ryan said, "but that's a
credit to the Ravens."New York's
usually fierce defense sacked
Flacco on Baltimore's first
offensive play, forcing a fumble
recovered by Sione Pouha. The
Ravens' equally intense D held
firm, and Nick Folk kicked a 23-
yard field goal.Pouha grabbed
another fumble later in the
quarter, by Willis McGahee, and
Flacco was picked off by Antonio
Cromartie on a sideline pass at the
New York 3. The cornerback,
acquired in a trade with San
Diego to further bolster a
secondary that features All-Pro
CB Darrelle Revis, got a terrific
block from his partner on a 66-
yard runback to the Baltimore
31.Two plays later, Shonn Greene
lost the ball -- he touched it only
one more time the rest of the night
and dropped a pass -- and
Baltimore embarked on an
impressive 11-play, 76-yard drive
for a 7-6 halftime lead. Of course,
it was aided by Jets mistakes, the
worst of which were Braylon
Edwards-- a wide receiver, of all
things -- running into Cundiff on a
field goal attempt, giving the
Ravens a first down to prolong the
possession, and rookie Wilson's
pass interference on T.J.
Houshmandzadeh in the end zone.
Third Down Is The Goal
Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco
was more proficient on third
down than his Jets counterpart,
Mark Sanchez. Flacco Sanchez
Completions 9 1 Attempts 14 6
Yards 137 9 First downs 9 1--
ESPN Stats & Information
McGahee scored from the 1 with
6 seconds left, but New York
wasn't done committing penalties.
The Jets were offside on the extra
point and had 10 penalties for 100
yards in the opening half.They
weren't any more efficient in the
second half. But they did get
Folk's 48-yard field goal early in
the fourth quarter to make it 10-9.
Even then, however, they wasted
a 22-yard punt return by Jim
Leonhard to the Baltimore
35."Things need to be addressed,
the penalty issue needs to be
addressed immediately," Sanchez
said. "We need to play a lot
smarter."Cromartie's debut as a
Jet was spotty, at best. Like
Wilson, he was beaten several
times by Boldin as the Ravens
usually avoided Revis, even
though the Jets' star cornerback
missed the entire preseason in a
holdout."I told him that the beast
he created, he's got to deal with,"
the Ravens' Terrell Suggs said of
Ryan, who was Baltimore's
defensive coordinator before
joining the Jets. "All respect to
him. I love him with all my heart,
but they got to deal with us this
year."We showed who the No. 1
defense is. He knows the caliber
of players in here. He was just
trying to fire up his team. You
have to commend the man for
that. He wanted them ready to
fight and they were ready. It's just
53
that the better team won."Game
notes
LaDainian Tomlinson gained 62
yards rushing in his Jets debut,
carrying the load after Greene was
benched and looking good in
spurts. ... New York lost
defensive tackle Kris Jenkins to a
first-quarter knee injury. ... Flacco
finished 20 for 38 for 248 yards.
Sanchez was 10 of 21. ...
Baltimore rushed for only 49
yards, yet controlled the ball for
nearly 38 minutes.
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The Associated Press
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -
SEPTEMBER 13: Rain falls on
Jets fans as they enter the west
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Federer 9-7 in the fifth set as
darkness descended, then again
this year. He won on the hard
courts at the Australian Open in
2009, again besting Federer in
five sets.
All that was left was the U.S.
Open. After complaining of
fatigue in 2008, coming off his
gold medal from the Beijing
Olympics, then dealing with bad
knees and a torn abdominal
muscle in 2009, he set out to
make this trip to Flushing
Meadows different.
He curtailed his schedule a bit in
the spring, to save some wear and
tear. He took extra time off after
Wimbledon, getting treatment on
his knees and skipping the Davis
Cup quarterfinals.
It all worked. Nadal only had one
blip all tournament: The second
set Monday evening. Perhaps
bothered by some pro-Djokovic
supporters yelling between serves
-- earning an admonishment from
the chair umpire -- Nadal fell
behind 3-1 by making four
mistakes, including a double-
fault, to get broken at love.
When Nadal pushed a backhand
long to close a 19-shot point,
2008 Australian Open champion
Djokovic screamed, "Come on!"
It was part of a run of 11
consecutive points for Djokovic,
who went ahead 4-1.
As quickly as Nadal lost his way,
however, he gathered himself, his
strokes gaining steam, his
footwork as good as ever. A
violent backhand on a 23-stroke
exchange allowed Nadal to break
back, and he held to 4-all, which
is when there was a two-hour rain
delay.
Djokovic took that set -- the only
one of 22 played by Nadal in New
York this year that he lost. He
came oh-so-close to being the first
man in a half-century to win this
tournament without dropping a
set.
"Nadal ... is just proving each day,
each year, that he's getting better.
That's what's so frustrating, a little
bit. He's getting better each time
you play him," Djokovic said.
"He's so mentally strong and
dedicated to this sport. He has all
the capabilities, everything he
needs, in order to be the biggest
ever."
Nadal stretched his Grand Slam
winning streak to 21 matches by
adding the U.S. Open to his titles
at the French Open in June, then
Wimbledon in July. No man had
won those three tournaments in
the same year since Rod Laver
won a true Grand Slam in 1969.
Now Nadal heads to the
Australian Open in January with a
chance to claim a Rafa Slam of
four consecutive major
championships -- something that
also hasn't been done since Laver.
Djokovic, who overtakes Federer
at No. 2 in the rankings this week,
made Nadal earn it. The Serb
played superbly for long stretches,
showing off terrific returning,
retrieving and a big forehand.
Coming out of the rain delay with
Djokovic serving at 4-all, 30-all in
the second set, both players
clearly benefited from a bit of
rest. Fresh of body and clear of
mind, and with conditions perfect
for tennis -- calm and cool, the
temperature in the 70s -- they
were superb, engaging in 10-, 15-,
20-stroke points that drew
standing ovations and camera
flashes from the stands, no matter
who hit the winner.
And there were winners aplenty
at both ends -- 49 by Nadal, 45 by
Djokovic -- as well as point-
extending defense, sneakers
squeaking as they scurried around
the court. The key, perhaps, was
this: Nadal made only two
unforced errors in the fourth set.
It's not as though he was playing
safe, either, cranking up his
groundstrokes and aiming for the
lines.
Nadal was back to his relentless
best in the third and fourth, hitting
shots so well that Djokovic was
moved to applaud on occasion. A
drop volley here; a running
backhand passing winner there;
most delivered with a sneer.
Nadal broke for 2-1 leads in each
of those last two sets. As the
finish line approached, Toni
Nadal kept putting his palms
down and motioning to his
nephew to keep calm. That he did,
arriving at match point by
sprinting to reach a drop shot and
whipping a forehand that landed
right on the baseline.
When Djokovic hit a forehand
wide to end it second later, Nadal
fell backward onto the court with
a shout. He rolled onto his
stomach, and placed his forehand
on his arms, savoring the moment.
About a half-hour later, the 2010
U.S. Open champion carried his
shiny new trophy into the player
garden outside Arthur Ashe
Stadium. His uncle followed,
toting a bottle of champagne in
each hand. A couple of dozen
relatives and friends gathered
around, sipping the bubbly and
taking photos.
Like a family picnic, only not at a
neighborhood park, but at the
biggest Grand Slam tennis arena
there is.
Amid the celebration, Toni Nadal
was asked where his nephew
stands in the tennis pantheon.
"The best of all time Federer,
Borg, Laver. They're the best.
Rafael is very far away from those
guys. Rafael is a good player. I
think he's a very good player,"
Uncle Toni said. "But I don't
know if he's part of that group."
Could he be, one day?
"I don't know," came the reply.
"Ask me in five or six years, and
maybe I can say."
By then -- if not sooner -- maybe
the rest of the world can, too.
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Submitted at 9/13/2010 10:57:43 PM
Updated: September 13, 2010,
11:57 PM ET
PHILADELPHIA -- Quarterback
Kevin Kolb and linebacker
Stewart Bradley have not been
ruled out for Philadelphia's game
at Detroit next Sunday despite
sustaining concussions in the
season opener. Mike & Mike in
the Morning
ESPN reporter Sal Paolantonio
says Eagles players were blown
away by Michael Vick's
performance on Sunday. Plus,
Paolantonio explains why Kevin
Kolb could be out for a while and
why Andy Reid could have a
tough decision in the coming
weeks.
Eagles coach Andy Reid says
both players must pass a specific
evaluation process before they are
cleared to play. He says the team's
medical staff will follow the
NFL's guidelines for concussions.
Bradley sustained a concussion
when he collided with Ernie Sims
during Philadelphia's 27-20 loss to
Green Bay on Sunday. Yet
somehow, the Eagles' middle
linebacker returned for a few
plays before he was pulled for the
rest of the game.
Minutes before Bradley went
down, Kolb's head was slammed
down so hard on a tackle from
behind that a chunk of grass got
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stuck in his helmet. He got up
slowly and walked off the field.
The team initially said Kolb had
a jaw injury, and the quarterback
returned to throw three passes
before sitting out the rest of the
game with a concussion.
Head injuries were an important
issue for the NFL in the
offseason. Last year, the league
implemented stricter return-to-
play guidelines for players who
show concussion symptoms, and
each team must consult with an
independent neurologist whenever
there is a head injury.
Kolb and Bradley weren't
available for comment Monday.
Both players were sent home from
the team's practice facility, and
didn't watch film with their
teammates.
"They didn't feel great," Reid
said.
Reid said both players would not
practice before Friday. However,
Reid didn't rule either player out
for Sunday's game at Detroit.
"I can't tell you that," he said.
"We have to go through and do
exactly what the protocol calls for
and that's the procedure that we're
doing right now.
Kolb and Bradley will be
evaluated on Wednesday and
they'll see an independent
specialist, as required by the
league, on Friday.
Michael Vick, who nearly led the
Eagles to a comeback win in a
dynamic half of action, would get
the start if Kolb doesn't play.
Reid again squashed any
quarterback controversy.
"Kevin Kolb's the No. 1
quarterback," Reid said.
The Eagles lost Pro Bowl
fullback Leonard Weaver(knee)
and center Jamaal
Jackson(triceps) for the season.
The Eagles placed Weaver and
Jackson on the injured reserve list
and signed former Seahawks
fullback Owen Schmitt and tight
end/fullback Garrett Mills. The
Eagles had been carrying only
two tight ends, and Mills also can
play some fullback.
Schmitt, a fifth-round draft
choice by Seattle in 2008, played
in 30 games with the Seahawks.
He caught 12 passes for 50 yards
and one touchdown, and carried
five times for 21 yards. Schmitt
was released on Sept. 6.
Mills had been on Philadelphia's
practice squad. Guard Fenuki
Tupou agreed to a contract and
will take Mills' spot on the
practice squad.
Weaver tore the anterior cruciate
ligament in his right knee. Reid
called the damage to his knee
"severe," and said a surgery date
for Weaver hasn't been set.
Jackson tore his right triceps, not
biceps as the team originally said.
He will have surgery on Tuesday.
Jackson was in the starting lineup
after making a remarkable
recovery from surgery to repair a
torn ACL sustained last Dec. 27.
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Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch
Daniels is making moves under
the radar to explore a 2012
presidential bid. He’s been
gathering with GOP bigwigs on
the political, business and donor
side from all over the country to
build support, according to
politico.com.
The governor has given little
indication in public that a run for
the White House is in the offing. Republican Party, and I hope he
But the meetings, which have does run.”
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Female Journalist Doris O'Donnell
Drew Ted Williams' Ire, Then His
Respect
Pat McManamon (FanHouse
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:03:00 AM
Filed under: Indians, Red Sox
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio -- They
could be chatting, reminiscing
about old times. They could be
cousins, friends, neighbors -- or
romantically involved.
It's 1957 and Ted Williams is
leaning against a wall at Fenway
Park. He holds his glove, but he
isn't smiling. The woman behind
him leans forward, bracing her
hands against the wall. They aren't
laughing, but neither seems
unhappy.
The story behind the photograph,
taken without Williams or the
woman knowing, is part of sports
lore, but also delves deep into
societal changes and is wrapped
up in the irascibility of Williams
and a young lady doing her job.
Nowadays. leagues have
investigations when female
reporters are not treated well -- as
in the current case of the New
York Jets. This woman -- Doris
O'Donnell -- was on her own in a
man's world, talking to the most
contentious player in baseball.
O'Donnell, now 89 and living in
Boston Heights, Ohio, had a
journalism career that spanned 58
years. She worked for the now-
defunct Cleveland News at the
time and was on a trip with the
Cleveland Indians that resulted in
more tales and tawdriness than
she imagined possible.
At that point in time, women did
not write about teams, much less
travel with them. O'Donnell was
on the trip at the whim of
mercurial editor Nat Howard, who
sent her to the East Coast to
follow the team and come up with
stories.
When the trip ended, O'Donnell
had been thrown out of two press
boxes, told she should be home
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Kerry reportedly is flip-flopping
on tax cuts for the wealthiest
Americans, according to
newyorkpost.com.
This past summer, Kerry, a
Democrat, went on record that he
would back a one-to two-year
extension of the Bush tax cuts for
the wealthy -- if that provision
was incorporated in a bill that also
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of mine driving a bus." It also had
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after hearing she had been ejected
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those guys push you around."
O'Donnell's attitude the entire
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The Works: Team USA in the Key of
B, Corporate Logo Creep, Iverson in
China
Bethlehem Shoals and Tom
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: USA Basketball,
Sports Business and Media, The
Works Rob Peterson (@ShotDrJr)
is filling in for Bethlehem Shoals
this week. In The Works today,
logos will creep onto NBA jerseys
(and that's OK) and Allen Iverson
mulls an unofficial goodwill tour
of Chinese basketball arenas.
But first, we insist this American
squad continue to be called The B
-team.
Alphabet Hoop: When you are
derided as inferior, yet you
overcome all obstacles to succeed,
you are legally obligated to
invoke the Law of Nobody
Believed In Us!.
The 2010 incarnation of Team
USA was certainly considered
inferior, earning the moniker "The
B-team" once every last member
of the 2008 Olympic champion
team opted out ahead of the
World Championship this
summer. The B-team, of course,
did what the A-team couldn't in
2006: won the Worlds, a deeper,
arguably tougher tournament than
the Olympics. With the win,
Team USA tripped a clause
demanding the activation of the
Law of Nobody Believed In Us!.
Kevin Durant is a stickler for
regulations, so he ran with it,
tweeting post-gold, " B-team
huh?? Haaaaa we got it done... ."
But all this passive-aggressive
rage against the media ignores the
very important reality that this
really was a B-team. This was not
a collection of the 12 best
American NBA players. That was
2008. That was, essentially, 10 of
the top 20 American NBA players
on the planet, plus Tayshaun
Prince and a guy dressed like
Michael Redd. That was a true A-
team ...
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(Newsmax - Inside Cover) choice. Though Boehner was declined to reiterate that threat on relief for married couples, and said Monday during a backyard
Submitted at 9/13/2010 4:30:19 PM clear that he supports extending Monday. Republicans control 41 lower taxes on investments and town hall in a Northern Virginia
the full range of tax cuts, the seats, the minimum needed for a large estates. suburb.
WASHINGTON — President White House jumped on his successful bill-killing filibuster, On Sunday, House GOP leader Gibbs said the middle class
Barack Obama's plan to raise remarks as a possible change of though McConnell spokesman John Boehner said he would should not be used as a political
taxes on wealthier people while heart. Don Stewart declined to say support renewing tax cuts for the football by Republicans
preserving cuts for everyone else But Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the whether all 41 Republicans would middle class but not the wealthy if maneuvering to give tax cuts to
appears increasingly likely to GOP whip, said Monday his party support a filibuster. that was his only choice. Though wealthy taxpayers, who he said
founder before Election Day. won't give ground. To amplify his point, McConnell Boehner was clear that he don't need the reductions.
Senate GOP leaders declared on "Just before the recess we had a on Monday introduced a bill to supports extending the full range Republicans say paring taxes for
Monday that Republicans are, to a meeting and we discussed this, extend to Bush tax cuts of tax cuts, the White House the wealthy would encourage
person, opposed to legislation that a n d e v e r y R e p u b l i c a n w a s indefinitely for all income ranges. jumped on his remarks as a them and the businesses they
would extend only middle-class absolutely supportive of the idea Some Democrats, like Sens. Kent possible change of heart. operate to create jobs.
tax relief — which Obama has that there shouldn't be any Conrad of North Dakota, Evan Boehner has proposed a two-year Republicans, for their part, say
repeatedly promised to deliver — increases in taxes," Kyl said. Bayh of Indiana and Ben Nelson extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, that it's not just the rich who
if Democrats follow through on Renewing the tax cuts for of Nebraska, are siding with which would push the question would be hit by Obama's tax hike
plans to let tax rates rise for the e v e r y o n e w o u l d c o s t t h e Republicans against raising taxes into the 2012 presidential on upper-income people. Many
wealthiest Americans. The GOP government almost $4 trillion on anyone during a fragile election. Obama has declined to small businesses — that earn
senators forcefully made their over the next decade, according to economic recovery. say that he'd veto such a plan. about half of all small business
c a s e o n e d a y a f t e r H o u s e congressional analysts, who also "I don't think it makes sense to Democrats are worried that income — would also face the tax
Republican leader John Boehner assume that Congress won't allow raise any federal taxes during the November elections could hand hike.
suggested he might vote for the alternative minimum tax to hit uncertain economy we are the GOP control of the House and "No American should face a tax
Obama's plan if that ends up the millions of middle class taxpayers struggling through," Sen. Joe perhaps the Senate. The White increase in January ... not one,"
only option. with eye-popping tax hikes. Lieberman, a Connecticut House and its Democratic allies said Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, the
Both Republicans and Democrats With polls showing broad public independent who aligns with hope to use the tax-cut fight to No. 3 House Republican. "We
are using the looming expiration anger over spiraling federal Democrats, said Monday. "The cast themselves as defenders of will not compromise our economy
of Bush-era tax cuts as a defining deficits, Obama wants to exclude more money we leave in private the middle class and Republicans to accommodate the class warfare
battle in elections to determine individuals earning over $200,000 hands, the quicker our economic as a party eager to revive the days rhetoric of this administration."
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The Treasure of the Safit Chir
Matthieu Aikins (Popular
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:26:00 AM
Searching Haroon, an artisanal
miner, looks for emeralds deep
inside the Hindu Kush. Matthieu
Aikins For over two centuries we
have struggled to understand the
scope of Afghanistan's mineral
wealth. Now geologists, if they
can determine what lies beneath
the nation's ground, might also
help bring stability to the surface
Early one morning in June, just a
week after the New York Times
reported claims by U.S. officials
that Afghanistan was perched atop
enough copper, gold, iron,
lithium, and assorted rare
minerals and gemstones "to
fundamentally alter the Afghan
economy and perhaps the Afghan
war itself," I made my way with a
local guide to the illegal mines of
the Safit Chir, an emerald-rich
line of ridges 100 miles northeast
of Kabul. After a three-hour climb
up trails navigable only on foot or
by donkey, we greeted several
miners, and one of them led us
past the dark maws of the tunnels
to the edge of a ridge, the better to
see the places where his nation's
wealth might be hidden.
As we looked out over steep
slopes dotted with purple
delphinium, the snow-capped
peaks of the Himalayas all around
us, Abdul Latif told me that he
had not always been a miner. He
had become a mujahideen
commander after the Soviet
invasion in 1979, he said, and he'd
faced the enemy's artillery and
helicopters in these very
mountains: land mines and the
bones of men were buried out
there, and older things too.
Haroon, another miner, said that
while he was digging a new
tunnel several years ago he came
across ancient buried walls, the
chamber of a house made with
neat stone masonry. He found a
clay amphora there and smashed
it in the hopes of finding gold, but
it contained only dust.
Afghanistan's "artisanal" miners,
the gem-seeking equivalent of
subsistence farmers, have been
extracting and exporting precious
stones for more than seven
millennia; archaeologists have
discovered lapis lazuli from
Afghanistan in ancient burial sites
as far away as Egypt. For the
3,000 or so artisanal miners
working today, the job remains
difficult. They have no property
rights and keep their operations
hidden from the central
government, which in any case
has little control over the region.
Fatal accidents from blasting,
cave-ins and avalanches are not
uncommon, and the miners
survive on a diet of stale bread,
tea, chickpeas, rice and hashish,
brought up once a week by
donkey. In the summer they live
in small stone huts with tarpaulin
roofs; in winter, they move down
into the mines themselves. For
these efforts, they produce
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gemstones with a market value of
about $2.75 million annually, and
probably keep about a tenth of
that for themselves.Haroon
beckoned us to enter one of the
mines, where the air was cooler.
Crouching, he led us through a
crude system of tunnels that he
and others had dug with
jackhammers and dynamite.
Several hundred feet into the
entrails of the mountain, he
hunched down and pointed his
lamp at a solid stone face. He
placed his finger against a thin
line of whitish feldspar. "This is
the sign of the emeralds," he said.
He scratched at the vein with his
chisel and then reached down and
picked up a stone encrusted with a
faint fuzz of green crystals. "You
see? They must be close."
That there is mineral wealth in
Afghanistan is as obvious as the
stone in Haroon's hand. But no
one knows just how much. The
Times cited a newly arrived
Pentagon task force to support the
claim that Afghanistan possesses
"nearly $1 trillion in untapped
mineral deposits," and the Afghan
government itself puts it closer to
$3 trillion. But such numbers can't
be found in any published
scientific papers. "You can read
every one of our reports, and
there's no dollar figure attached to
them," says Jack Medlin, the
geologist who coordinated the
2007 U.S. Geological Survey
work in Afghanistan that
informed the Pentagon estimate.
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"From what we can tell, someone
took the estimated tonnage and
looked up commodity prices for
that particular mineral at that
time," Medlin says. "You begin to
go through a multiplication and
addition process, and someone
arrived at a trillion-dollar figure."
The Pentagon task force estimate
also obscured another important
fact: Knowing about something is
not the same as having it.
Geologists and mining
professionals carefully distinguish
resources-the actual amount of a
given material that exists in the
ground-from reserves, the amount
of that resource that can be
extracted at profit with current
technology under current
conditions. The Pentagon,
however, had simply tallied up the
current market value of all the
minerals buried under one of the
most rugged, remote,
undeveloped and lawless
countries on Earth.
The result, not uncommon in
Afghanistan, was the promise of a
rich reward with no accounting of
what it would take to obtain it.
The country desperately needs the
resources to rebuild, but future
investors will demand a far more
careful analysis of the costs and
benefits. If scientists can
determine what really lies beneath
the ground-what can be extracted
under the challenging "current
conditions" of poverty, chaos and
war-perhaps Afghanistan can
negotiate its own fate.
****
The Soviet invaders, mindful of
the political importance of natural
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resources, built a fine chart that showed the major faults heavy elements (iron, copper, hid the documentation in their
headquarters for the Afghanistan in the Eastern Hemisphere and gold) from the Earth's mantle and, homes, where it remained until
Geological Survey, on the eastern swept his hand in a line from the as it cools, also crystallizes into the current occupation.In 2004,
edge of Kabul, and 21 years after Balkans down past India. "The emeralds and rubies. Meanwhile, American and British geologists
the Soviet withdrawal, the place is Tethyan mineral belt starts in the prehistoric seabeds, laden as began training the staff of the
still being renovated with Turkey, runs through Iran and they are with organic sediment, AGS to conduct surveys using
international money. When I then into Afghanistan, and goes promise significant oil and gas global positioning satellites and
visited one hot afternoon, workers all the way across Asia to deposits. modern field laboratories. They
were applying a fresh coat of Indonesia. It's renowned for "This country is rich. Everybody also began entering the data from
paint to the stark concrete holding world-class base- and knows this," Garry concluded. the old Soviet reports into
exterior. precious-metals deposits." "But in order to understand this computer databases, converting it
• This magnetic anomaly Steinmüller broke in and jabbed at kind of mineral endowment, you to correspond to international data
indicates the presence of rare- the map. "The Tethyan belt is one need to undertake systematic standards, and verifying the
earth metals. of the best-understood. But there exploration." Soviet geologists' original
• An area with low magnetic are many other mineral belts. **** sampling material, thereby
anomalies could contain oil or There's another one up here," he Afghanistan's potential wealth bringing that decades-old picture
gas. said, pointing toward has long been studied with of Afghan wealth into greater
• High magnetic anomalies here Afghanistan's northeasternmost interest by its ruling powers. The focus.
indicate the presence of copper. corner, where the mountain peaks first scientific exploration of the Still, significant areas of the
• Low density also suggests oil or can reach above 25,000 feet. land came with British invasions country had yet to be studied. A
gas, reinforcing the data from (2) "Lots of precious metals. There in 1839 and 1878, and the first team of USGS geologists
are many other belts like that, but systematic surveying efforts delivered a briefing in Kabul to
The AGS is responsible for, they're not well-understood yet." began in the mid-20th century, the staff of then-ambassador
among other tasks, measuring The existence of such mineral when French, German, Italian and Zalmay Khalilzad, with a
Afghanistan's mineral wealth, and b e l t s a n d t h e d i f f i c u l t y i n Soviet geologists, at the invitation particular focus on the petroleum-
the World Bank, which has analyzing them both owe in part of King Zahir Shah, traveled the producing potential of the
extended $2 billion in loans to to the violent collision of the nation on foot and donkey-back, Sheberghan region in the north.
Afghanistan, has taken an interest Indian-Australian and Eurasian taking rock samples by hand. It The ambassador's staff, however,
in the project. I was here to meet tectonic plates, which began some was the Soviet invaders, though, was more interested in knowing if
two of the experts the bank had 50 million years ago and which who conducted what remain the there might be undiscovered
sent to assist in the effort. I joined still pushes the Himalayas up by most extensive ground surveys: wealth in areas that were seen as
Klaus Steinmüller and Jerry Garry nearly an inch every year. That They used drilling, trenching, and susceptible to Taliban influence.
in the sunlit map room, crowded c o l l i s i o n h a s m a d e t h e field samples to evaluate 20 sites "The question was: Is there any
with plotting tables and geological m o u n t a i n o u s r e g i o n s o f in detail, paying special attention potential for oil and gas in the
charts, where they had been Afghanistan some of the most to the large Aynak copper deposit southern part of the country?
training Afghan geologists. What rugged on Earth-tough places for south of Kabul and the even larger Because that would be critical,"
was it, I asked them, that made surveying minerals and fighting Hajigak iron deposit in the Hindu recalls Medlin, the USGS
countries rich in minerals in the insurgencies alike. Kush. After the Soviet withdrawal geologist. The presence of natural
first place? The collision also drained away in 1989, all geological work came wealth, it was thought, could
"If you're a mining company, the the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, to a halt. In 1995, as the Taliban attract large-scale development
first thing you do is, you look at even as it opened fissures that massed on the outskirts of Kabul, that, in addition to growing the
the regional setting," Garry said. drew magma to the surface. This the staff of the AGS did manage national economy and enhancing
"Is Afghanistan sitting in a highly is, from the perspective of mineral to compile most of the previous the authority of the central
prospective mineral belt? The p r o s p e c t o r s , a n e n t i c i n g research, and when the Taliban TREASURE page 62
answer is yes." He spread out a combination. Magma draws up took Kabul a year later, the staff
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government, might employ the
people of that unstable region in
something other than
insurgency.The administration of
Afghan president Hamid Karzai
determined that additional
research was needed and gave the
USGS $8.86 million to get
started. The USGS in turn
solicited approximately $15
million from USAID and other
international donors. The problem
was that the most promising
"frontier basins"-possible oil- and
gas-bearing rock regions-were in
the most forbidding terrain in the
south and southeast, along the
Pakistan border. No one from the
USGS was going in by road.
"These places being in locations
where for security reasons you
couldn't get in," Medlin says,
"you need some remote
instrument that will allow you to
explore it from above."
The answer was air power. But
remote sensing, no matter how
sophisticated, would still present
major obstacles. The first was that
no private surveyors were willing
to risk their crews or equipment in
a war zone. The solution: The
USGS subcontracted the
fieldwork to the U.S. Naval
Research Laboratory and NASA.
The survey began with a series of
flights by geologists in a Navy NP
-3D Orion equipped with dual
gravimeters and a magnetometer.
Security was always a concern,
especially given that the CIA, in
the 1980s, had equipped Afghan
insurgents with hundreds of
surface-to-air missiles to use
against the Soviet army. The
Department of Defense required
the pilots to fly at a standoff
distance of at least 12,000 feet
vertically aboveground and
horizontally away from nearby
mountain ranges. Since
specialized survival gear would
have been required for the crew to
go more than 26,000 feet above
sea level, the surveyors were not
able to examine the 30 percent of
the country that was more than
14,000 feet above sea level. It also
meant that the survey results were
less detailed. "You want to go
lower and slower," Medlin says.
"Ideally less than 3,000 feet."
For the second part of the survey,
completed in October 2007, Air
Force and NASA pilots
crisscrossed the country at 50,000
feet in a modified WB-57
Canberra jet bomber equipped
with a hyperspectral 3-D-mapping
sensor. The USGS geologists
complemented this overflight data
with images from the NASA-run
LANDSAT and Japanese-run
ALOS satellite systems, and also
with a series of radar surveys
from a space shuttle mission in
2000.
In the end, the USGS remote-
sensing project helped to confirm
and expand on the older data. It
indicated that the Hajigak iron
deposit was much larger than
previously believed and further
suggested the presence of oil and
gas deposits in southern and
southeastern Afghanistan. But
remote surveys can only tell you
so much. The WB-57 Canberra
sensor, for instance, could only
create images with a resolution in
which each pixel represented a
square about 50 feet across-sharp
enough to pick up useful data
patterns, but still at best merely
suggestive.
Ultimately, understanding which
minerals are present in what
concentrations in Afghanistan will
require field research. Medlin
says the USGS is hoping that
Afghan geologists will one day be
able to do that work themselves.
"We are training them," he adds,
"because they are the ones who
can get out into the countryside."
****
Back at the Afghanistan
Geological Survey, in a half-
renovated office down the hall
from the World Bank team, Abdul
Rahman Ashraf sat hunched over
a desktop PowerPoint
presentation, occasionally
sketching on a pad of paper to
illustrate the wavy lines of rock
formations-clines and anticlines-
that inform decisions about where
and when to begin extraction.
Ashraf spent most of his career as
a geologist abroad, but now he is
Karzai's chief adviser on energy
and mines. His job is to bring the
country's mineral-extraction
infrastructure up to international
standards. "This is Stone Age
stuff they're practicing out there,"
he said, referring to the methods
of artisanal miners like Haroon
and Abdul Latif. "The blasting
shatters the emerald crystals and
damages their value. But people
have learned in these past 20
years to go fast and take what
they can."
Ashraf hopes to change that by
opening the nation to long-term
investment in mining technology
and infrastructure. At Peru's
Antamina mine site, for instance,
miners on a 15,000-foot mountain
ridge send copper and zinc ore on
a conveyor belt to an intermediary
plant, where it is crushed into a
slurry that can be sent through a
nearly 200-mile pipeline that
terminates at the port of Punta
Lobitos. Such systems are not
especially complicated, but they
are massive, and making them a
reality in Afghanistan will require
a commensurately massive
investment.
Attracting such investment may
prove the greatest challenge of all.
Even by the turbulent standards of
the Karzai administration, the
Ministry of Mines has seen rapid
turnover (there have been six
appointed ministers since 2002),
and it has gained a reputation as
one of the most corrupt agencies
in Kabul. In 2007 the completion
of the largest private foreign-
investment deal in Afghan history
-a $2.9-billion contract with the
China Metallurgical Group
Corporation to extract the Aynak
copper-was marred by accusations
that one of those former ministers
had accepted a $30-million bribe
from the company.
Ashraf is quick to point out,
though, that the company, which
is owned by the Chinese
government, had offered more in
direct foreign investment than any
of the other bidders, some $2.8
billion. It had also agreed to build
Afghanistan's first railroad,
running from Uzbekistan through
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Kabul and over the Hindu Kush to
Pakistan. In fact, the rapid growth
of neighboring China and India
could provide Afghanistan the
opportunity to develop its own
infrastructure, and ultimately to
open up the whole region.
And the Chinese government has
already funded the construction of
a Pakistani deepwater port at
Gwadar. India and Iran,
meanwhile, are working together
to build roads from southwestern
Afghanistan to the competing
Iranian deepwater port at
Chabahar. It's not the desire to
defeat the Taliban, or the need for
a political friend in an unstable
region, or the hope for peace that
will inspire such partnerships. It's
what's in the ground.
And so real surveying leads to
real investment, which in turn
leads to real roads, real jobs and
eventually-perhaps-real peace.
But precise information about
Afghanistan's mineral reserves is
still scarce. The Hajigak iron ore
deposit, which at upward of two
billion tons is the largest in Asia,
is due to be opened for bids this
month, but mining experts expect
many years to pass before other
major deposits in Afghanistan are
adequately surveyed.
It's hard to have patience after
these dark years," Ashraf said,
looking down again at his careful
sketches of Afghanistan's
geologic inheritance. "But we
cannot make these things
tomorrow."
Matthieu Aikins is a freelance
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MIT's Opera of the Future Features Singing Walls
and Dancing Robots
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 3:45:29 PM
The Future of Opera OperaBots
twirl and sing along with the
human performers in the new
opera "Death and the Powers."
MIT Media Lab
A new opera produced by the lab
behind Guitar Hero technology
includes robotic singers,
interactive instruments and a
focus on technology that could
change the way we experience
live performances.
"Death and the Powers," which
has been 10 years in the making,
premieres later this month in the
city-state of Monaco, whose ruler,
Prince Albert II, is the project's
patron. It's the first royal
performance to feature
OperaBots.
Composer and MIT Media Lab
professor Tod Machover, who has
composed for the violin virtuoso
Joshua Bell and designed
customized instruments for
Prince, conceived the project.
Several years ago, Machover's
audience-interactive Brain Opera
project led to the technologies
behind the Guitar Hero and Rock
Band video games.
The one-act production, which
tells the story of a successful
inventor and his plan to live
forever through technology, uses
gadgets as characters.
The opera takes place sometime
in the future, when no humans
remain - only robots. Former poet
laureate Robert Pinsky wrote the
libretto, which tells the story of an
inventor named Simon Powers.
Powers builds "The System" to
preserve his legacy, allowing him
to download his memories and
personality into the built
environment. His personage is
then expressed through robots,
giant blinking bookcases and a
musical chandelier made of
Teflon, which his wife plays like
a harp.
There's no explanation about
where the humans have gone, but
they left the robots a special text
about relationships and the human
condition. Gradually, by reading
the text, the robots come to
understand what it means to be
human. Machover explains more
in this video.
To build realistic OperaBots, two
PhD students in Machover's
Opera of the Future Group
developed software that
Machover calls "disembodied
performance." The students, Peter
Torpey and Elly Jessop, measured
singers' voice volume and pitch as
well as muscle tension and
breathing patterns. "The System"
therefore takes on a realistic
personality, MIT News explains.
Machover said he was turned off
by a recent Taylor Swift concert
he attended with his teenage
daughters, in which megascreens
and boom boxes overpowered
Swift herself.
"Theater has been especially bad
at allowing technology to make
you feel closer to the performers
on stage," he said.
Opera enthusiasts are already
excited about the production -
Marc Scorca, president and CEO
of Opera America, hopes it will
inspire other operas, MIT says. In
that spirit, here's to a future where
opera means more than a Web
browser. Break a leg, OperaBots!
[ MIT News]
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New York.
Schwarzenegger Hopes
California's Future High-
Speed Railroads Will
Rely on the Chinese,
Again
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
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Chinese workers built this
country's railroad system 150
years ago, laying track for less
than $30 a month in a grand effort
to connect the coasts for the first
time. Future railroad systems
might also be built by the Chinese
- or Chinese-owned firms, at least.
California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger is hoping to spur
Chinese interest in helping his
beleaguered state build a new
high-speed rail network. China
has plenty of experience with high
-speed trains.
On a trade mission to Asia this
week, Schwarzenegger said he
hopes China will invest in his
state both in terms of financing
and in bidding to work on the
project. California is about $19
billion in the red, so"creative
financing" is a must, the governor
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Steel, Disabling IEDs
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Now)
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Stingray Water Blade This
propane tank has no idea what's
coming. Sandia Labs
Need to disarm an IED? Make
sure you've got your Super Soaker
handy. Sorry, make that
your"Fluid Blade Disablement
Tool."
The Stingray, the military's
newest bomb-fighting tech, is a
small water gun developed by
Sandia National Laboratories and
a firm called TEAM water toward a concave opening Sandia first built the Stingray in use computer simulation and high
Technologies. Far from dousing in the reservoir, which shapes the 2009 and licensed the technology -speed flash X-rays to fine-tune
roadside bombs with water, it uses water into a blade. The device to Albuquerque-based TEAM their design. Active-duty troops
an ultra-high-pressure water beam works at short range and over Technologies for mass visited New Mexico to test the
to slice through steel, ripping long distances, according to production. Perhaps appropriately, Stingray, according to Sandia
bombs open before they can harm Sandia Labs. the water gun's inventors include Labs.
troops. Watch below as a propane Its plastic legs can be attached in retired Navy personnel, including TEAM Technologies sent its first
tank meets an untimely end. various configurations so it can be a sailor with IED experience and a shipment of about 3,000 Stingrays
The Stingray involves a clear placed almost anywhere to disable former Navy SEAL explosives to Afghanistan this summer.
plastic water tank, about the size bombs. Paul Reynolds, TEAM expert. [ PhysOrg, Danger Room]
of a coffee pot, attached to an Technologies' program manager, The water acceleration happens
explosive charge. The detonation said it is simple enough for robots too quickly to be observed by the
creates a shock wave that propels to set up. human eye, so researchers had to
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acknowledged. Shanghai's Maglev Train Three the distance from Anchorage to

Under the federal stimulus plan,
California is getting $2.25 billion
to start work on a a high-speed
rail system that will carry 90
million passengers a year,
especially between Los Angeles
and San Francisco. California
aims to finish it by 2030.
On Monday, Japan offered to
loan funds to support the project,
Bloomberg reported. Officials
with the state-owned Japan Bank
for International Cooperation
didn't say how much they would
offer, but sizable loans will be
needed - the project could cost
$40 billion.
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The stimulus awarded $8.5 billion
to 13 regional high-speed rail
projects, and most will require
imported technology - though the
U.S. leads the world in rail
freight, the nation is far behind
the rest of the world in high-speed
passenger trains.
While flirting with China might
not please American
manufacturers, it's a good idea to
at least get some Chinese
perspective. China's high-speed
rail network covers 4,300 miles -
New York by car. And the
country plans to stretch this
network across Europe by 2020.
Chinese companies also have
international experience- they're
building high-speed rail projects
in several countries, including
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela,
according to Marketplace.
Schwarzenegger is also
scheduled to view high-speed
trains in Japan and South Korea.
[ AFP]

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Stuart Bale (left) and Matteo
Malisan (right), bartenders at 69
Colebrooke Row.
Photo: Lottie Davies
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It's been 20 years since the
London restaurant boom banished
the notion that eating out in the
U.K. capital was something to be
endured rather than enjoyed. And
yet while nineties and naughties
London served as the showcase
for every major cooking trend to
emerge from the global kitchen,
the one cuisine typically bypassed
by British culinary fashion was
British food itself.
Not anymore: Recent years have
seen an explosion of interest in
Britain's native ingredients and its
classic dishes, timed perfectly
with the more general rise of the
seasonal, organic, and local food
movement. In February,
Yorkshire rhubarb joined the
ranks of Parma ham and
Roquefort cheese as one of the
regional specialties to be given
"Protected Designation of Origin"
status by the European Union.
And the nationwide supermarket
chain Waitrose will soon offer six
types of heritage apples grown on
its Hampshire farm. What's more,
Waitrose made a multimillion-
pound investment in Duchy
Originals, the U.K.'s most famous
organic food brand, founded by
Prince Charles, with plans to
increase the range to 500 organic
British-produced products. (Not
that U.K. shoppers are restricted
to buying organic only from the
heir to the throne: High-street
supermarkets sell an impressively
wide range of organic foodstuffs.)
London chefs have been quick to
pick up on the trend, naming
British ingredients wherever
possible on their menus. Take
Konstam, which aims to source its
ingredients within the area
covered by the Tube subway
network, producing such dishes as
charcoal-grilled leg of Amersham
lamb and roasted Waltham Abbey
chicken sandwiches. Roast,
meanwhile, takes its inspiration
(and some of its sourcing) from its
location overlooking foodie
mecca Borough Market, offering
the likes of Cornish pollock, a
sustainable alternative to cod.
You'll even find English sparkling
wines on its list, which bear
comparison with the best in the
world—not so surprising,
considering the vineyards of
southern England have growing
conditions similar to those of
Champagne, France. Try a bottle
of Nyetimber Classic Cuvée 2003,
which has beaten Champagne in
blind tastings (though be warned
that its high price matches that of
French fizz).
Richard Corrigan is the chef
behind Corrigan's Mayfair, the
place for superb game, meats, and
the finest fish and shellfish from
around the British Isles. You'l see
when you sample the Elwy Valley
lamb or pan-roasted Cornish
scallops with sweet corn and foie
gras.
London dining isn't all about
hyper-local food, though.
Centuries of immigration
combined with Londoners'
seemingly insatiable hunger for
culinary experimentation means
that, from Afghan to Australian,
the city is a melting pot of global
cooking. Many consider the city's
top ethnic eatery to be Benares, a
Michelin-starred Indian restaurant
in Berkeley Square where Chef
Atul Kochhar's refined use of
spicing brightens dishes such as
tandoor-roasted pigeon breasts.
Kochhar's regular television
appearances have made him the
poster boy for Indian cooking, and
his more casual Colony, in chi-chi
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queues for one of its tables. If you
simply can't be bothered to wait in
line to eat, nearby newcomer
Needoo Grill is owned by a
former Tayyabs manager and
serves a similar lineup of curries
and kebabs offered at bargain
prices.
One upside of the economic
downturn has been a revival of
traditional comfort classics. After
all, London's captains of industry
don't want to eat fussy sauces
made out of foam when the
financial system is imploding
around them. Instead they're
tucking into rib-sticking Scotch
eggs, roast chicken, or a mixed
grill, all on the menu at current
hot spot Dean Street Townhouse.
Launched at the end of 2009 by
the owners of Soho House and
Caprice Holdings (the team
behind celebrity favorites The Ivy
and Scott's), its A-list clientele
mingles over good-value British
Marylebone, has been one of the food in surroundings that look
hottest openings of 2010, serving like the perfect French brasserie.
a short and snappy menu of high- While expense-account fine
end small plates—think tandoori dining may remain in good
m o n k f i s h w i t h c r a b health—March saw the launch of
v e r m i c e l l i — i n p l u s h Gordon Ramsay's Pétrus, which
surroundings. offers more than 30 vintages of
For many Brits, though, "going iconic Bordeaux—recession-hit
for an Indian" still means a cheap Londoners can now get top-end
and cheerful curry-house where food at knock-down prices.
you bring your own booze. For Leading the way are business
that, pick up a bottle of Kingfisher partners Anthony Demetre (chef)
beer and head to the East End, and Will Smith (front-of-house)
bypassing touristy Brick Lane in of Arbutus and Wild Honey,
favor of Tayyabs, an explosively where classical French technique
spicy taste of multicultural is applied to cheap and (what
London that's as famous for its
marinated lamb chops as for the MEALS page 67
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some may consider)
unfashionable cuts of meat with
sublime results, like ox tongue in
a celeriac rémoulade.
"It's not just a credit crunch
tactic," Demetre explains. "I've
always enjoyed cooking with
ingredients that are seasonal and
sometimes a bit neglected by
other chefs because they aren't
prime cuts, such as lamb breast,
mutton, and oxtail. They've got
great taste, and they translate into
slightly lower prices on the
menu."
Meanwhile, at the Giaconda
Dining Room, just off Charing
Cross Road, savvy Aussie chef
Paul Merrony turns out braised
tripe with chorizo, butter beans,
and paprika for less than £12
(about $18): not bad in a city
where £20 is routine for a main
course.
For a sense of the real edge in
London eating, check out the
city's fast-expanding underground
restaurant scene, where diners pay
to eat at someone's home. Queen
of the supper club is a food
blogger known as "Ms Marmite
Lover," who was inspired to start
cooking for paying guests after
visiting the paladares of Havana,
and has been running the popular
Underground Restaurant from her
apartment in north London since
2008.
Explaining her motivation, she
says, "I wanted to put my money
where my mouth is and have
people come to my house and
taste what I was writing
about—turn the virtual into the
real." Diners sit at shared tables
eating off her collection of
vintage crockery, and are treated
to an ever-changing menu with a
decidedly British bent (a recent
meal ended with bergamot posset
with candied thyme).
Food isn't the only place where
Londoners are pushing
boundaries. Tony Conigliaro was
crowned International Bartender
of the Year in 2009. The
showcase for his wizardry is 69
Colebrooke Row. Upstairs from
the 40-seat bar is a laboratory of
centrifuges, water baths, smoke
guns, and sous-vide machines
where Conigliaro invents new
recipes and methods. "We look at
the structure of old-style drinks
and develop new processes to
achieve a modern approach," he
says. Signature libations include
the Somerset Sour, garnished with
small balls of apple infused with
hay essence, and a vintage
Manhattan made with bourbon,
vermouth, and bitters aged in the
bottle on the premises to create
the smoothest version of the drink
imaginable.
You'll find bartender Nick
Strangeway manning the
downstairs bar at Hix, where he
resurrects historic British drinks
such as Lamb's Wool, a 17th-
century combo of apple purée and
India pale ale. Brian Silva at
Rules offers a perfectly formed
list of just 10 drinks in London's
oldest restaurant (founded in
1798). Cutting-edge techniques
with one eye on tradition: You
can't get more London than that.
BREAKFAST AT LANTANA
Breakfast in London used to
mean parting with big bucks in a
hotel dining room or having your
clothes absorb the smell of
cooking fat over a "full English"
in a greasy spoon. No more: Over
the last two years, a new breed of
"cool caff" has appeared. Leading
the way is Lantana, opened by
Shelagh Ryan after she moved to
London and couldn't find the sort
of laid-back, quality café of her
native Australia. Dishes like
sourdough toast with roast
tomatoes, basil, and shaved
Parmesan or corn fritters stacked
with crispy bacon, arugula, corn
salsa, and lime aioli—which
inspired our lightened
version—give Londoners a taste
of why Sydney is the brunch
capital of the world.
Go there: Lantana
Make it at home: Corn Fritters
with Roasted Tomatoes and Lime
Aioli recipe
LUNCH AT TERROIRS
Maybe it's the sort of attention-
deficit disorder that comes from
living in a city with 7 million
inhabitants, but Londoners can't
get enough of tapas-sized
plates—especially from a cuisine
not usually served in mini
portions. Polpo is modeled on a
Venetian wine bar where diners
enjoy anchovy and chickpea
crostini and octopus salad. At
Terroirs, the French bistro
furnishings are the background for
tapas-sized plates of charcuterie
and seafood, like the recipe
below.
Go there: Terroirs
Make it at home: Skillet-Cooked
Shrimp with Romesco Sauce
recipe
DINNER AT HIX
Mark Hix has three restaurants to
his name in London, but it's Hix
that's grabbing attention
now—not only for the fact that
Hix's artist chums such as Damien
Hirst have provided pieces for the
decor, but also for its simply
served, utterly indulgent dishes
made from rigorously sourced
native ingredients. Cornish fish
soup with Julian Temperley's
cider brandy might be followed
by Ayrshire veal stew with
Mendip snails and January king
cabbage. Traditional British
comfort is found in Hix's upscale
take on fish, chips, and mushy
peas.
Go there: Hix
Make it at home: Chunky Fish
Fingers with Pea and Mint Puree
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Where it comes from: Sesamin is
fibrous matter known as a lignan,
which is a chemical compound
found in plants. It exists in natural
foods such as flaxseed (not
flaxseed oil unless the hull
remains), wheat bran, sesame
seeds, pumpkin seeds, vegetables,
cranberries and whole grains such
as oatmeal and barley.
What it'll do for you:"Lignans are
metabolized in the human
intestine by friendly bacterial
flora, and are absorbed and
circulated in the bloodstream,"
explains Sari Greaves, RD and
spokesperson for the American
Dietetic Association. "They exert
powerful antioxidant effects that
can reduce LDL cholesterol (the
'bad' kind), may prevent certain
types of cancers (breast and
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increased brain function." Here's
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• Stimulates weight loss A
Japanese study found that sesamin
increases the activity of several
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liver enzymes that break down
fatty acids. By optimizing the
liver's fat-burning capacity,
sesamin may promote fat loss and
also decrease the body's fat
storage capacity. Additionally,
sesamin is believed to help
preserve lean muscle mass, which
is particularly beneficial when
dieting (especially those who've
cut out carbohydrates), as a
restricted diet may cause the body
to break down muscle mass for
use as fuel.
• helpful when cancer cells no
• May lower cholesterol A group
of mice was separated and
randomly assigned to four groups,
fed a diet of sesamin, another
plant compound (stanol ester), a
combination of the two or a
control diet. At the beginning and
the end of the study, the mice
were weighed, observed and
blood was taken for analysis. The
control group showed an almost
three-fold increase in cholesterol
levels. Sesamin alone and paired
with the stanol ester significantly
reduced the cholesterol levels.
Other studies have confirmed that
the compound raises high-density
lipoprotein cholesterol (the
"good" kind). However it's
unclear if the sesamin consistently
has these effects on cholesterol
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North Avenue Beach
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With stunning views of the city
skyline and lakeshore, Chicago's
busiest beach boasts an ideal
backdrop for a workout. There's a
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Powerhouse Restaurant and Bar
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Renowned Chi-Town chef Jeff
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Trattoria No. 10
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The standout pasta endears this
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Pushups may be the best chest-,
shoulder-, and arm-building move
around, and blasting out 100 reps
in one shot says a lot about your
strength and endurance. Here's a
plan to get you there, no matter
how low your current pushup
power is.
Start by figuring out how many
pushups you can perform with
good form. This is your current
max. Every two weeks, take two
days off and then retest your max.
Workout 1: Monday, Wednesday,
Friday
Perform four times your max
number of reps, taking as long as
you need to do so. It's OK if
subsequent sets have fewer reps
than your max.
Workout 2: Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday
Set an alarm to go off five times
throughout the day (every two to
three hours is fine). Each time it
sounds, hit the deck and do two
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thoroughly.
Reports of the Fellowship have
grown in the past few years after
some high-profile affairs were
acknowledged from people who
lived in the group’s house on C
Street. News of Sen. John
Ensign’s affair seemed
overshadowed by Gov. Mark
Sanford’s bizarre rendezvous in
Argentina, but Boyer documents
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey group inside the DC Beltway.
(GetReligion) (Earlier, we looked at his piece on
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:00:11 AM Francis Collins.)
some interesting details behind Coburn said, he had learned that
We’ve looked at a number of
the Fellowship’s intervention, led John Ensign, who was married,
Peter J. Boyer deserves s t o r i e s s u r r o u n d i n g t h e
by Sen. Tom Coburn. was having an affair with Cynthia
GetReligion’s “rock star religion Fellowship over the years because
Coburn, the senior man in the Hampton, the wife of one of his
reporting of the month” award, an they are hard to do well. The
house, enjoyed these sessions, but aides, Doug Hampton, and there
honor that I just made up on the group is notoriously difficult for
at dinner that Tuesday night in h a d b e e n a n i m m e d i a t e
spot. In all seriousness, Boyer has reporters to reach, so Boyer must
2008 he was plainly troubled. intervention that same day.
produced yet another thoughtful, have taken lots of time and
Finally, he spoke out. “Guys,” he Meeting in an upstairs room at the
thorough, compelling piece for patience to execute this piece
said, “we’ve got a problem in the C Street house (a room that was
The New Yorker, this time on the
house.” FELLOWSHIP page 72 FELLOWSHIP page 70
Fellowship, a secretive religious
One day some weeks earlier,
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Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 5:01:09 PM
What happens when you mix
atheists, Satanists, a Bible Belt
state and a bunch of cliches?
Well, you get a story like this one
from The Associated Press:
OKLAHOMA CITY— Atheists
in Oklahoma City have erected a
billboard seeking fellow non-
believers, and Satanists have
scheduled a conference in a city-
owned building, drawing criticism
from ministers in a state where
more than eight out of 10 people
say they are Christians.
“It’s not a question of ‘Can you?’
It’s a question of ‘Should you?’”
said Dan Fisher, pastor of the
Trinity Baptist Church in Yukon.
“It’s kind of like they’re poking a
finger in your eye.”
Nick Singer, the coordinator of a
local atheists’ group called
“Coalition of Reason,” recently
received $5,250 from its national
counterpart to erect the billboard
along Interstate 44 near the
Oklahoma State Fair, which opens
Wednesday. Its message reads,
“Don’t believe in God? Join the
club.”
You get the message, don’t you?
The God-fearing state of
Oklahoma is up in arms over
these developments, and maybe
some people are. But I live in
Oklahoma City — and I go to
church here — and the only place
I’ve heard anything about the
atheists or the Satanists is on the
news.
Reporters at the hometown level
look for ways to “localize” a
national story. For a national —
make that, international — news
organization such as AP, the goal
is to “nationalize” a local story,
which is wonderful. The problem
is that cliches so easily overtake
such stories. When I worked for
AP in Dallas, the joke was that no
story from Lubbock ever made it
on the wire without a well-
meaning editor in New York
adding “dusty plains of West
Texas.”
But to tackle specifics of the
Oklahoma story: The lede
mentions that eight of 10 people
in the state say they are
Christians. Wow. Then again, 78
percent of Americans identify
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with some form of Christianity,
according to Gallup. That kind of
context might be helpful.
Also helpful would be some kind
of concrete information on the
form — and level — of the
criticism that the atheists and
Satanists are drawing from
Oklahoma ministers. Are
ministers meeting to discuss a
response? Is there any kind of
formal opposition? Did the
ministers approach AP? Or did
AP call ministers trying to find
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occasionally used for marriage
counselling), Doug Hampton,
accompanied by Coburn and three
lay ministers who manage C
Street, had confronted Ensign
about the affair. The encounter
was filled with recrimination and
tears, and culminated in Ensign
confessing and vowing to repent.
Coburn returned to the Senate, but
the others remained with Ensign,
handing him a pen and paper and
dictating a letter to Cynthia
Hampton declaring his intention
to end the affair.
In case you aren’t familiar with
the Fellowship, here’s a primer
from Boyer.
The Fellowship’s participants
(there is no official membership)
describe themselves simply as
followers of Jesus, an informal
network of friends seeking
harmony by modelling their lives
after his. They are assertively
nondoctrinal (eschewing even the
term “Christian”) and
nonecclesiastical (denominations
tend to be divisive), and although
the core figures are evangelicals,
they do not believe in
proselytizing. I have spoken to
Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews
who consider themselves part of
this network. The group rejects
anything resembling a formal
structure—there is no titled
executive team, and even the
name “Fellowship” is unofficial,
an informal convenience. The
business cards of those leaders
who carry them list the
individual’s name at the top and
addresses and telephone numbers
at the bottom, with a blank space
in between, where the name of the
entity might go. A formal
foundation does exist—a
501(c)(3) called the International
Foundation, which oversees three
hundred or so ministries
associated with the Fellowship,
and has a board of directors that
approves a budget for the
ministries (in the fifteen-million-
dollar range) and the salaries of
the parent entity’s relatively few
employees. The Fellowship’s
affiliated ministries vary widely in
their missions, from operating a
secondary school in Uganda to
funding a program for inner-city
youths in Washington, D.C. The
core mission of the Fellowship,
however, is interpersonal ministry
to the powerful, meant “to turn
their hearts to the poor.”
Boyer notes that Coe’s
theological approach could be
fairly controversial among
Christians, and he follows up on
his quotes from responses from
someone who knows Capitol Hill
well.
The other change under Coe was
a refining of the brand of faith
that animated the Fellowship. Coe
distilled that faith down to the raw
teaching of Jesus, as presented in
the Gospels—Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John—and in the first
few chapters of the Acts of the
Apostles. This approach
conformed with Coe’s youthful
rebellion against the idea of a God
who would condemn all but a
particular brand of believer.
“They tell Jewish friends, You
can’t go to Heaven unless you’re
a Christian,” Coe says. “Well, the
facts are, if that is true, Isaiah
could never go to Heaven, Mary
could never go to Heaven, Jesus
could never go to Heaven. It’s
crazy.”
… “I can tell you that critics to his
right think that Doug is just
doctrinally soft and confused,”
Michael Cromartie, the vice-
president of the Ethics and Public
Policy Center in Washington, and
a friend of Coe’s, says. “It’s one
thing to be an admirer of Jesus the
man, but there are people in the
more orthodox world who want to
say that Jesus did more than just
walk around and teach; he
actually did something in history,
on the Cross, that is crucial to
everything.”
The article then states, “Coe
shrinks at the thought of trying to
convert anyone.” Despite Coe’s
appearance on Time’s “ most
influential evangelicals” list, he
doesn’t exactly fit the Bebbington
quadrilateral. There’s also pretty
interesting section on the
Fellowship’s international
engagement that’s worth reading,
but if I’ll refrain from continually
block quoting.
Then there’s the annual prayer
breakfast that the President
attends.
If international dignitaries view
the Prayer Breakfast as a reliable
means of unofficial access, some
Presidents — most notably, Bill
Clinton — have been more
accommodating than others. “Bill
and Hillary got it,” says Doug
Burleigh, who is Coe’s son-in-
law, and a key figure in the
Fellowship. “They came early,
they’d meet with the groups early
and do a photo op with ‘em, hug
‘em. They got what this was
about.” George W. Bush, on the
other hand, made it clear to Coe
and the others from the start that
he’d show up at the Prayer
Breakfast but not to expect much
more. “George came late, and left
early — he did every year,”
Burleigh says. “Now, I appreciate
his honesty. He told Doug, ‘You
know, this isn’t my thing.’ “After
Bush’s first, perfunctory
appearance, Clinton telephoned
Coe to console him. “He didn’t
badmouth Bush, he gave it the
best spin,” Burleigh recalls. “He
said, ‘Hey, Bush’ll get it. He
doesn’t understand what this
thing’s about.’ ”
This is an interesting anecdote,
but my impression was that
Mother Theresa made things very
uncomfortable for the Clintons
when she addressed them on
abortion. As Emily Belz wrote for
World magazine, Clinton spoke
this year about an adoption home
she helped open after Mother
Theresa’s address, but Clinton
failed to mention that it has since
shut down.
I also wonder why Boyer didn’t
ask about Obama’s two
appearances at the prayer
breakfast. A woman called me
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earlier this yea r asking me to
investigate why Obama left before
Tim Tebow’s closing prayer, but I
assumed he left for other duties
and/or for security reasons.
That said, it’s refreshing to read a
piece on the Fellowship that
doesn’t have an underlying
agenda to tear down or build up.
Boyer seems to simply shed some
light on this quiet group, raising
some questions without making
sweeping generalizations. He
address politics without being
political, considering the
relational focus to the group that
many reporters don’t understand.
Read the piece and weigh in with
the parts you thought were helpful
or angles he might have missed.
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Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:54:33 AM
This is one of those cases in
which your GetReligionistas are
tempted to simply put an item up
on this here weblog and say …
What.
He.
Said.
Of course, it matters that the “he”
in this case is one of the top
writers on Planet Earth about all
things Catholic (and I imagine he
could cover just about any other
beat to which he set his mind).
Then a man writes for the
National Catholic Reporter and
consistently earns the praise of
conservative Catholics for his
fairness and accuracy, you know
that he is doing something right.
That man, of course, is John L.
Allen, Jr. And he has a new “All
Things Catholic” essay out
entitled, “ This is no way to end
religious illiteracy.” It is a must
read. Here is how things get
rolling:
Mayor “Diamond” Joe Quimby,
from the TV series “The
Simpsons,” once found himself
listening to talk radio while a
Rush Limbaugh wannabe derided
him as an “illiterate, tax-cheating,
wife-swapping, pot-smoking
spendocrat.” Quimby’s wounded
response was, “Hey … I am no
longer illiterate!”
I sometimes flash on that scene
while listening to people complain
about media coverage of religion,
and of the Catholic church — that
it’s biased, sensationalistic,
sloppy, or whatever. I wish I
could reply, “Hey … at least
we’re no longer illiterate.” By that
I mean “illiterate” about religion,
lacking a grasp of the A, B C’s of
belief and practice.
Three items this week, however,
suggest we’ve got some ground to
cover if we want to catch up with
Quimby.
First was a correction in the New
York Times to a story about
reports that Cardinal Godfried
Danneels of Belgium tried to
cover up charges of sexual abuse
against another Belgian bishop.
The item had referred to Danneels
as a “former cardinal,” which
obviously isn’t correct, and the
Times set the record straight.
Yet in doing so the Times
actually perpetuated another error,
by identifying Danneels as “the
former head of the Roman
Catholic Church in Belgium.” (In
fairness, virtually every story
about Danneels in the last couple
of weeks has used some variant of
that formula.)
Here’s the problem: There is no
such thing as the “head of the
Roman Catholic Church in
Belgium,” or any other country.
Epic battles fought by the Vatican
in the 18th and 19th centuries
against Gallicanism,
Febronianism, etc., were based on
the principle that there is no
“national church” with its own
president or patriarch. There’s the
pope in Rome, and then there are
dioceses around the world led by
their bishops, with no real layer of
authority in between.
You get the idea.
Once again, the point is that
words are tricky things and, in the
world of religion, picky little
things like facts, history and
doctrines matter, as well.
However, there is more to
Allen’s piece than mere whining
about one factual error. This kind
of picky mistake is often a
symptom that a newspaper is a
few tacos short of a combination
platter when it comes to the big
ideas that drive major news
events. In other words, keep
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shouldn’t, be expected to ride
herd on specific personnel moves
and so on. Critics say that until
there’s a way to hold bishops
accountable short of direct papal
intervention, an important cause
of the crisis will remain untreated.
Calling Danneels the “former
head of the church in Belgium”
thus perpetuates a misconception
about how the church works —
one with consequences for
diagnosing what went wrong in
the sexual abuse crisis, and what
may be needed to fix it.
So that is error No. 1 in this
piece. There are more to come.
Read it all. And when you are
done, click here for a classic
flashback on this same topic (but
looking at a wider array of screw
ups), care of sociologist Christian
Smith.
Illustration: This is not John L.
Allen, Jr. This is a stereotypical
piece of art for which I apologize.
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critics? In other words, which
came first — the AP call or the
ministers’ concern (the first
minister quoted serves a church
15 miles from the billboard)? To
me, these are important details.
This is my favorite line of the
whole story:
Oklahoma wears its religion on
its sleeves.
Cliche, anyone?
Here’s how AP backs up that
statement:
Around the holidays, owners of
downtown skyscrapers leave on
nighttime lights in the pattern of a
cross, which across the flat
landscape can be seen for miles.
The Ten Commandments were on
display at a courthouse lawn in
northeast Oklahoma until a
federal judge ordered it removed,
and a move is afoot to erect a
similar monument at the state
Capitol.
Legislators pray in their
chambers, led by a “minister of
the day,” usually Christian. The
Oklahoma City Thunder is one of
the few NBA teams to begin each
contest after a non-
denominational prayer delivered
by a minister on the public
address system.
One state lawmaker wants to
change the state’s motto from
“Labor omnia vincit” — Latin for
“Labor conquers all” — to “In
God we trust.”
Oklahoma also has various
“God” billboards that purport to
pose questions and observations
from the Almighty, like: “You
think it’s hot here?” and “What
part of ‘Thou shalt not …’ didn’t
you understand?” and “Life is
short. Eternity isn’t.”
All of that, I suppose, is true. But
Oklahoma also has topless bars,
more Indian gambling casinos
than you can count and a fair
number of cars parked in
driveways on Sunday mornings
— I see them as I drive through
my neighborhood each week.
However, those images don’t fit
the story, I don’t guess.
Concerning the prayer at the
Thunder games, I wonder if the
prayers are Christian only or if the
writer meant non-sectarian prayer
instead of non-denominational
prayer?
Speaking of cliches, there is one
liberal pastor in Oklahoma City
who stands above all others when
it comes to commanding media
attention. That pastor often is
quoted as the voice of reason in
stories like this. AP does not fail
to deliver that pastor’s
perspective:
Some religious leaders had other
issues on their minds.
“It’s not the people who don’t
believe in God that worry me,”
said Robin Meyers, senior
minister at Mayflower
Congregational Church in
Oklahoma City and a professor of
rhetoric at Oklahoma City
University. “It’s some of the
people who do.
“Fundamentalism is the enemy
worldwide, no matter what the
strain.”
Am I suggesting that Oklahoma
is not a right-leaning religious
state? Not at all. Am I suggesting
that atheists and Satanists are not
a little off the beaten path in the
ordinary narrative of Oklahoma
religious life? Again, not at all.
But I am suggesting that a much
better approach would be to go
beyond the cliches and tell a
fuller, more nuanced story. At a
minimum, give me an idea how
many atheists there are in
Oklahoma, and Satanists too.
When you tell me the Satanists
have reserved a room at the
Oklahoma City Civic Center for a
“blasphemy ritual,” tell me what
that is. What does it involve?
What is the religious — or non-
religious — significance? (For a
bit more coverage of the Satanists,
ABC News and The Oklahoman
report on the planned event.)
Speaking of religious
significance, what does it mean
that the atheists are taking an
evangelical approach to winning
converts?
I have no idea how much time the
reporter involved had to write this
story. I don’t know if it was his
idea or a deadline request from an
editor in New York. Perhaps it
was one of those stories where the
writer was told what it should say
before he reported it. It certainly
reads like it.
I did love the ending:
Singer, from the atheists’ group,
said his group has no connection
to the Satanists.
“As far as Satan goes, we don’t
believe in him either,” he said.
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What’s the
Hurry?
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:30 AM
The Obama administration is
treating New START less as an
arms-control agreement than as an
instrument for “resetting” our
relations with Russia.
T his Thursday, Sen. John Kerry
(D., Mass.), chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee,
intends to force a vote on New
START (Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty), moving the
resolution of ratification to the
Senate floor for a final vote.
Although only a handful of
witnesses requested by the Senate
minority have been called to
testify on the treaty’s merits (we
were among them), serious
criticisms of the treaty’s
shortcomings have nonetheless
emerged. Unfortunately, many of
the concerns raised, while
mentioned in Senator Kerry’s
draft resolution of ratification, are
not addressed in a manner that is
likely to allay critics’
apprehensions.
#ad#Proponents of the treaty are
pushing hard for a vote this week,
motivated at least in part by the
fear that the composition of the
Senate will be significantly
altered by the November elections
-- and in a way that could lead to
further questioning of the treaty’s
provisions and, ultimately, to
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more demands that shortcomings
be fixed before ratification. As
just one example, more in-depth
examination of the verification
provisions could expose the gaps
created by concessions on
exchanges of telemetry data
(which among other things
indicate how many reentry
vehicles a missile can carry) and
on site monitoring of Russia’s
missile-assembly facility. To date,
treaty supporters have relied on
the argument that U.S. security is
strengthened simply by having
“U.S. boots on the ground”
conducting inspections at Russian
operational facilities. However, as
we know from our experience
with North Korea, the fact that
inspectors are allowed into a
country does not mean we can
detect or deter cheating.
While silent on telemetry and
other key verification weaknesses,
Senator Kerry’s draft resolution
does contain references to
concerns raised about, for
example, limitations on missile
defenses and on conventional
prompt global strike, a potential
loophole for rail-mobile ICBMs,
the surprisingly low limit on
strategic delivery vehicles, the
imbalance in Russian and U.S.
stockpiles of so-called tactical
nuclear weapons, the role of the
Bilateral Consultative
Commission (BCC), and the need
for ongoing nuclear
modernization. However, in
almost every case, these
references are in the form of
“declarations,” which are
“statements of purpose, policy, or
position related to matters raised
by the treaty in question but not
altering or limiting any of its
provisions.” Thus, these might not
be included by President Obama
in the formal provisions of the
ratification instruments (and,
hence, would not be shared with
the Russian government).
The more effective path to
addressing the now-acknowledged
flaws of the treaty would be to
include these references not as
declarations, but as
understandings and conditions,
which would make clear both to
the administration and to the
Russians the baseline position of
the Senate in its advice and
consent. In this manner, the
Senate could contribute greatly to
U.S. security by stating that the
United States will not accept
further limitations on missile
defenses or on prompt global
strike, as well as by addressing
directly the U.S. insistence that
rail-mobile ICBMs be counted
and that other potential
ambiguities be resolved -- before
ratification and not in the BCC,
which requires Russia’s
agreement.
Treaty proponents, in arguing for
prompt ratification of New
START, have frequently pointed
to bipartisan support for past arms
-control agreements. As Stephen
Rademaker, an assistant secretary
of state in the George W. Bush
administration, has pointed out,
the surest way to achieve prompt
ratification is to address the
doubts and reservations of treaty
critics in meaningful ways, rather
than pushing ahead with a vote on
a partisan basis as the Obama
administration did with the health-
care legislation. To his great
credit, Sen. Richard Lugar (R.,
Ind.), whose support for the treaty
as it currently stands we do not
share, appears to be trying to do
just that. To succeed, however,
such an effort will need to do
more than record the criticisms
and reiterate the views of
proponents that the treaty does not
require any fixes.
#page#But even if a resolution is
drafted that meets these
desiderata, the requirements for a
deliberate and responsible review
by the Senate as a whole will still
not be in place. First, as of this
writing the administration has still
not made available those parts of
the negotiating record that touch
on the points raised by critics. It is
hard to know how senators will be
able to balance the claims of the
proponents against the points
raised by critics in the absence of
information about what the two
sides brought to the table and
what they meant when they
agreed to the text. Second, the
administration has still not
addressed the detailed questions
raised by Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.)
about its long-term commitment
to modernizing the nation’s
nuclear infrastructure and its
nuclear-force structure.
#ad#In pushing for a vote on the
treaty now, the administration and
its allies outside government have
used two principal arguments.
First, they note that, with the
expiration last December of the
old START agreement (signed by
presidents George H. W. Bush
and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991),
the two sides are no longer
governed by the earlier agreed
verification procedures and thus
are in the dark about the status of
each other’s strategic nuclear
forces. This circumstance, of
course, could have been avoided
had the administration sought an
extension of the original START
agreement and not subjected itself
to an arbitrary deadline for
negotiating New START. The
argument is further undermined
by the fact that the verification
measures under the new
agreement are considerably
weaker than those in the expired
agreement. In fact, New START
may well be unverifiable.
Administration statements that
any “cheating” by the Russians
would be unlikely to upset the
nuclear balance between the two
nations calls the rationale even
further into question.
The second argument is that
delay is undermining the goal of
“resetting” the relationship with
Russia, potentially making it less
likely that Moscow will cooperate
in stopping Iran’s nuclear
program. It is hard to imagine that
a healthy relationship with Russia
could be undermined by the
Senate’s duly deliberating about
the treaty on more or less the
same timeline that has governed
every other arms-control
agreement. Furthermore, in the
wake of Russian statements
opposing further U.S. and EU
sanctions against Iran, and its
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fueling of Iran’s nuclear reactor in
Bushehr, it is a stretch to see the
reset as contributing much on the
Iranian front.
Twenty years ago, the
Commission on Integrated Long-
Term Strategy (which included
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry
Kissinger) made the following
observations about arms control
with Russia: “When arms-control
agreements are valued mainly for
the international good will they
are expected to generate, and only
secondarily for their effects on
arms, then our political leaders
will always be under pressure to
reach agreements by making
concessions on arms. . . . A good
arms agreement will be consistent
with our long-term military
strategy. This means we want
agreements that (a) do not assume
nuclear vulnerability is a desirable
condition for the American
people, (b) do not assume that
accuracy is an undesirable
attribute for American weapons,
and (c) do not assume that defense
against nuclear attacks is more
threatening than offense.
Agreements should be negotiated
with awareness that they could
restrict our forces and
technologies for decades.” We
believe that is still a good
standard. The agreement currently
before the Senate cannot yet be
said to meet it.
-- Robert Joseph is a senior
scholar at the National Institute
for Public Policy; he was under
secretary of state for arms control
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Losing the Class War
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:40 AM
Why Ted Strickland and Lee
Fisher’s One-Note Campaigns
Are Failing
O n September 9, in a speech to
organized labor, Ohio governor
Ted Strickland took to the podium
and, obviously determined to do
his best impression of Phil
Davison, belted out an enraged
attack on Republicans.
“They want to change labor
rights, they want to change this
country,” Strickland bellowed.
“And we say to them, ‘HELL
NO!’” “Hell, no!” is, of course, a
motto associated with another
Ohio politician, Republican John
Boehner.
Strickland may be forgiven if
he’s feeling a little desperate. He
and lieutenant governor Lee
Fisher, who is running to replace
retiring Republican senator
George Voinovich, are
respectively eleven and eight
points behind their opponents in
the polls, according to the Real
Clear Politics averages. In
response, both have adopted
entirely negative strategies,
attacking their opponents as
pro–Wall Street, pro-outsourcing,
and anti-worker, a strategy clearly
designed to excite Ohio
Democrats’ union base.
#ad#It hasn’t worked -- and not,
as Democrats suggest, merely
because they lack sufficient
money with which to broadcast
their vitriol. Strickland enjoys a
financial advantage over his
opponent, John Kasich, but he
polls even more poorly against
him than Fisher (who has to ration
his ads due to scanty funding)
does against his opponent, Rob
Portman. Ohio voters simply
aren’t buying the class-warfare
rhetoric this time around. It turns
out that 2010 is, so far, not much
like 2008 or 2006, leaving Ohio
Democrats with a couple of big
problems. Having ridden a wave
of anti-Republican sentiment to
power in the last cycle, neither
Democrat has established a record
that resonates strongly enough
with restive Ohio voters to
compete with the nationalized,
Republican-friendly, throw-the-
bums-out mood of 2010.
Strickland is giving his class-
warfare speeches to voters who
care more about the immediate,
concrete problem of
unemployment than they do about
electing politicians with whom
they feel some sort of nebulous
class solidarity. Fisher,
meanwhile, has not given voters
much reason to believe that he
actually possesses the common
touch in the first place.
There is a kind of political and
rhetorical reversal at work in the
Ohio governor’s race, with the
incumbent running like a
challenger and the challenger
running like an incumbent. This is
no accident: Strickland and Fisher
were elected on an anti-
corruption, anti-Republican wave
that started with the “ Coingate”
scandal in 2006, but that wave has
passed. With the Republicans
enjoying national momentum and
the Democrats unable to develop
a coherent domestic-policy vision
in the wake of the beatings they
took over health care and the
stimulus bills, they are reverting
to what made them successful the
first time around. Which is to say,
they’re running against a
Republican establishment that
was largely liquidated in 2006 and
2008. You can’t run against the
establishment when you and your
party are the establishment. With
Obama & Co. controlling all of
official Washington, it’s
Democrats, not Republicans, who
are in the position of having to
defend their records.
Those records don’t look good.
In 2006, Strickland ran on a
promise to increase economic
growth at a time when Ohio’s
recession was purely local. Fisher,
then his running mate, doubled
down on his economic-growth
position by taking over the Ohio
Department of Development after
he was elected, asking voters to
judge him on his record. Last
month, Strickland’s Department
of Development faced a scandal
when it was found to have been
outsourcing jobs itself -- hardly
the sort of thing the hardhats want
to hear about. Since Fisher ran the
department and staffed it with
handpicked subordinates, the
outsourcing scandal is sticking to
him. And Strickland’s inability to
keep jobs in Ohio has been so
well publicized that he’s even
been blamed for the Cavaliers’
losing Lebron James to Florida as
a consequence of Ohio’s
punishing income tax-- a burden
Kasich wants to eliminate.
#page#An economic record like
that makes it tough to run a
campaign based on charges that
Kasich and Portman have shipped
jobs overseas while inviting Wall
Street to have its way with
defenseless blue-collar workers.
Never mind that the charges are
economically illiterate -- in
Portman’s case, they also are
demonstrably false, and in
Kasich’s case, the attacks have
backfired.
At a time when 85 percent of
Ohio voters say they know
someone who is out of work or
looking for a job, Strickland has
mostly offered vague and
unconvincing proposals, while
Kasich’s relentless economic-
policy rollouts and fiercely
positive ads touting his record as a
job creator have earned him a
critical advantage on the issue.
Strickland has at least shown
himself to be a relatively able
campaigner. Not so Fisher. One of
his constant themes is Portman’s
alleged lack of sympathy for
Regular Joes, but Fisher’s own
blue-collar outreach has been
hilariously inept. He infamously
stood up a meeting of the
Cleveland police patrolmen’s
union, a group Portman had
addressed. He first offering to
meet with the group, then
downgraded that offer to sending
a campaign representative -- who
never showed up. The union
complained that it looked like
they are being taken for granted
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by the Democrats, which they
probably are.
#ad#Fisher excoriates Portman for
having served, briefly, as
President Bush’s trade
representative, and he blasts
NAFTA at every turn. But his
union supporters must notice that
he campaigns in the company of
Bill Clinton, the original Wall
Street Democrat, who fought hard
for NAFTA and signed it into
law.
The corrupt incumbents of 2006
were a gift to Ohio Democrats.
Without them, Fisher and
Strickland are adrift. It’s a cliché
in politics to call an opponent’s
negative campaigning a sign of
“desperation,” but it very well
may be in these two cases. Ohio
Democrats’ base is shrinking, and
their coffers are running dry, and
there is no George W. Bush to run
against this time around. Instead,
Democrats are trying to make a
national hate figure of Ohio’s
John Boehner, whom Buckeye
State voters have been re-electing
for 20 years, and who would be
well positioned to do his home
state a good turn or two if a
Republican majority were to be
sworn in this January, presumably
making him speaker of the House.
Ohio Democrats will run on class
warfare, they’ll run on Boehner,
they’ll run on the ghost of the
Bush presidency -- anything but
their actual economic record.
-- Mytheos Holt covers Ohio for
National Review Online’s
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Politicizing Banks, Again
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:21 AM
S enate Democrats (plus
Republican George Voinovich)
look ready to pass a bill that
would push another TARP-like
infusion of capital into the
banking system, on the theory that
the banks don’t have enough
money to lend, or, if they do have
enough, that they are not making
enough loans to small businesses
and need to be provided better
incentives to do so. To that end,
the Small Business Lending Fund
would allow the Treasury
Department to make up to $30
billion in credit available to small
community banks at varying rates
of interest: The more politically
conforming loans the banks make,
the less in interest they pay.
Banks that “plan to provide
linguistically and culturally
appropriate outreach” would
receive special consideration, of
course, as would banks that are
“minority-, veteran-, and women-
owned and that also serve low-
and moderate-income, minority,
and other underserved or rural
communities.”
#ad#Let’s put aside all other
considerations for a moment and
consider why some community
banks might be in need of
additional capital: In most cases,
it is because they made a big
batch of imprudent real-estate
loans that went sour when the
housing bubble burst, and now
nobody but the government is
willing to invest in their sinking
ships. In many additional cases,
these banks put profitability on an
equal footing with the pursuit of
some social mission, be it the
expansion of credit to low-income
communities or the creation of
green jobs, and this “double
bottom line” business model
proved unsustainable. These
banks have shown themselves to
be remarkably poor stewards of
capital; the Democrats
nevertheless wish to reward them
for their politically correct
capitalism.
Next let’s consider why other,
sounder community banks might
be hesitant to make new loans to
small businesses. First and
foremost, the administration and
Congress spent close to a trillion
dollars in stimulus money and
failed to deliver their promised
recovery, leading to a dim and
uncertain economic outlook: In
addition to significant consumer
deleveraging, businesses must
now nervously await significant
government deleveraging as well,
which will almost certainly entail
higher taxes. Second, the effects
of the administration’s health-care
bill are already falling heavily
upon small businesses: One by
one, health-insurance companies
are starting to announce stomach-
turning increases in next year’s
individual and small-group
premiums -- the bill coming due
on Obamacare’s promises of
“free” preventive care and the
like. Finally, a great deal of
uncertainty remains over the
future of energy policy: Obama’s
Environmental Protection Agency
has indicated that it will
unilaterally regulate carbon
emissions if Congress fails to act.
Now step back and take another
look at the Small Business
Lending Fund in this broader
context. Those community banks
that are most eager to borrow
from the fund are more interested
in political protection than profits.
They will gladly lend according to
the administration’s
“linguistically and culturally
appropriate” guidelines, even
though that’s how many of them
came to be undercapitalized in the
first place. Meanwhile, those
community banks that have
responded to the weak economy
with an appropriate and measured
reticence to lend are unlikely to
take the money, anyway. This
administration has thrown wild
pitch after wild pitch at the
productive economy: They may
want to play ball, but why would
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and international security,
these banks voluntarily lean into 2005–2007. Eric Edelman is a
the plate? distinguished fellow at the Center
Government borrowing for Strategic and Budgetary
represents saving taking place Assessments; he was under
elsewhere in the economy; secretary of defense for policy,
through the Small Business 2005–2009. Robert Joseph Eric
Lending Program, the government Edelman
would be transforming low-risk
Treasury bonds into high-risk
small-business loans through a
politically favored private
intermediary. Perhaps no policy LOSING
continued from page 76
idea the administration has come
up with better illustrates the Battleground ’ 10 blog.
incoherence of its economic Mytheos Holt
approach, pointing like a neon
arrow toward its central fallacy:
The more the government invites
insolvency by engaging in this
kind of fiscal alchemy, the more
low-risk saving the private sector
will do as it braces for an
uncertain future. If our current
fiscal direction does not change
and we continue to speed toward a
budgetary train wreck, those
investors eventually will have to
find something safer than U.S.
government bonds in which to
invest. At that point, the
government will have to worry
more about its ability to borrow
money than its grand plans to lend
it. The Editors
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Morning Bell: Obamacare vs. the Rule of Law A Democrat

Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:08:31 AM
because, as the massive regulatory
regime goes into effect, the
American people are noticing that
customers. But such are the
dictatorial powers Obamacare
grants to Secretary Sebelius.
coercive authority of the former.
Secretary Sebelius’ Hugo
Chavezesque threats against the
for Fiscal
none of the administration’s
Posted September 14th, 2010 at promises are being honored. The
There are over 1,000 instances in
the more than 2,700 page bill
health insurance industry
demonstrate why the fight to Prudence
9:08am in Health Care Print This cost of health care is going up, not where Congress granted Secretary repeal Obamacare is also the fight Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:41 AM
Post down. Health care spending is Sebelius new powers to regulate for the soul of our country.
Health Insurers Plan Hikes. That going up, not down. Millions of the health care industry. For Obamacare and the progressive Wisconsin state senator Julie
was the headline of a Wall Street Americans are not able to keep example, her power to movement represent a Lassa runs for the House on a
Journal story last Tuesday which their insurance. To combat this “determine” what does or does fundamental threat to our platform of common sense.
reported: “Health insurers say reality, the Obama administration not count as a medical expense founding principles. For the left, I n her bid for the seat of soon-to-
they plan to raise premiums for struck back last Friday. Health alone will decide the fate of many “progress” means fundamentally be-retired representative Dave
some Americans as a direct result and Human Services Secretary health insurance firms. transforming America through Obey (D., Wis.), Democratic state
of the health overhaul in coming Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to Is this the type of government our bureaucratic dictates that will senator Julie Lassa is running a
weeks, complicating Democrats’ America’s Health Insurance Plans Founders intended our federal engineer a “better” society by campaign based on “Wisconsin
efforts to trumpet their signature warning them that “there will be government to become? No. assuring equal outcomes. Through common sense.” In a year like
achievement before the midterm zero tolerance” for “falsely Hillsdale College Associate Obamacare, progressives would this, with voter dissatisfaction
elections. Aetna Inc., some blaming premium increases” on Professor of Political Science redistribute wealth through a with Congress in general and
BlueCross BlueShield plans and Obamacare. Specifically, Sebelius Ronald Pestritto explains: distant, patronizing welfare state Democrats in particular
other smaller carriers have asked t h r e a t e n e d t o p u n i s h n o n - The Founders understood that that regulates more and more of approaching record levels,
for premium increases of between subservient firms by excluding there are two fundamental ways in the economy, politics and society. common sense means distancing
1% and 9% to pay for extra t h e m f r o m t h e g o v e r n m e n t which government can exercise its The question Americans face is: herself as much as possible from
benefits required under the law, regulated and mandated health authority. The first is a system of Are we a country ruled by law or the man she hopes to succeed.
according to filings with state insurance exchanges. Since these arbitrary rule, where the by bureaucrat? Lassa has made fiscal
regulators.” And The Wall Street exchanges will be the primary government decides how to act on Quick Hits: responsibility a cornerstone of her
Journal was not alone. The Los way most Americans receive an ad hoc basis, leaving decisions This entry passed through the campaign, proposing to cut
A n g e l e s T i m e s a n d D a l l a s health insurance ( especially if up to the whim of whatever Full-Text RSS service — if this is federal lawmakers’ pay by 10
Morning News also reported rate more private firms decide to end official or officials happen to be your content and you're reading it percent until the national
hikes in their states, some as high their current coverage) such a in charge; the second way is to on someone else's site, please read unemployment rate goes down
as 16%. And this comes on top of decision by Sebelius would be a implement a system grounded in our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ and saying that, if elected, she
news that Obamacare is forcing death sentence for any insurer that the rule of law, where legal rules content-only/faq.php will refuse a pay raise until the
health care companies to stop does not comply. are made in advance and Five Filters featured article: federal budget is balanced.
offering coverage for kids and Never before in the history of our published, binding both Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- #ad#She has assumed a centrist
forcing colleges to stop offering republican form of government government and citizens and Reporting of Falluja's Cancer and at times conservative stance
coverage for students. has an administration threatened allowing the latter to know Catastrophe. on federal spending, pledging “no
Obamacare is deeply unpopular to extinguish individual firms for exactly what they have to do or big earmarks or no big contracts.”
w i t h t h e A m e r i c a n p e o p l e merely communicating with their not to do in order to avoid the She has called the use of carbon
taxes and emission caps “too
harsh” on businesses, preferring
government action through tax
incentives. Her expressed concern
over tax increases will make
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Adopt a Dissenting Book
Jeffrey Wienir (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:50:26 PM
Adopt a Dissenting Book.
That’s the theme and battle cry of
the David Horowitz Freedom
Center’s fall campaign to prevent
the violations of students’
academic freedom rights that have
become routine in universities all
across the country and to open up
radical professors’ classrooms to
true intellectual diversity. David
Horowitz describes the objective
of the campaign as “making sure
that our students are no longer
force fed with politically correct
conclusions on controversial
issues but instead provided with
materials that will help them think
for themselves.”
Inspiration for the Adopt a
Dissenting Book Campaign
comes from the classic statement
about the principles of a
democratic education issued by
the American Association of
University Professors in 1915: “It
is not the function of a faculty
member in a democracy to
indoctrinate his students with
ready-made conclusions on
controversial subjects… [but to]
train students to think for
themselves and to provide them
access to those materials which
they need if they are to think
intelligently.”
These principles are as
inarguably valid today as they
were nearly a century ago. Yet
they are not only ignored but
scored in many American college
classrooms. The prevailing
attitude today is summarized by a
statement made by Professor
Norma Cantu, a former
Department of Education official
in the Clinton administration, at a
recent conference of the Modern
Language Association. When
asked if students were being
radicalized in her courses and
those of her colleagues, Cantu
replied, “I hope so.”
Commenting on the campaign
and the current tendency on the
part of academic radicals to turn
their classrooms into
indoctrination chambers,
Horowitz comments, “Today’s
students are being victimized by a
form of consumer fraud. You
can’t get a good education if
they’re only telling you half of the
story.” He enumerates the kinds
of intellectual assault that college
students face today:
• programs whose titles show the
overt commitment to propaganda
such as “anti-oppressive
education,” “teaching for social
justice,” and “the pedagogy of the
oppressed”;
• professors who assign hundreds
of pages of Karl Marx, Barbara
Ehrenreich, or Howard Zinn, but
not a page of Friedrich Hayek,
Christina Hoff Sommers, or
Thomas Sowell;
• courses that insist that gender is
“socially constructed” and ignore
the definitive texts that argue that
it is biologically determined.
The Adopt a Dissenting Book
Campaign, which will be
spearheaded by the Freedom
Center’s Students for Academic
Freedom, is designed to remedy
this substitution of indoctrination
for education, and to see that
professors provide students with
texts that reflect, rather than
suppressing, the important
controversies in our intellectual
world. The goal is to see that
students have access in class to
both conservative and liberal
ideas. “It is important to note that
we are not asking professors or
administrators to remove any
books for reading lists,” Horowitz
points out. “This is a campaign
for more books, not fewer; for
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more inclusiveness and for
increased intellectual diversity.”
At Temple University, for
example, a class called “History
of the United States since 1877”
has only one assigned text—a
work titled Created Equal. The
professor said he chose it because
of its focus on topics such as
“American Imperialism,
Reaganomics, The Assault of
Welfare, and the Widening Gap
Between Rich and Poor.”
Horowitz notes: “Our campaign
would make sure that a dissenting
viewpoint to this anti-American
hate-fest is presented in a book
such as Paul Johnson’s A History
of the American People.”
Or at USC a course is offered on
“Middle East Relations:
Colonialism, Nationalism, and
Identity.” It is designed as an anti
Israel propaganda course and all
of the several assigned texts are
blatantly anti Israel. Horowitz
says that the new campaign
“would make sure that also least
one text challenging this extremist
view—Alan Dershowitz’s The
Case for Israel, for
instance—must also be made
available to students.”
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The Cost of Chavez
Matt Gurney (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:40:44 PM
Since coming to power in 1998,
Venezuelan strongman Hugo
Chavez has presided over radical
changes inside the country.
Promising to create “21 st century
socialism,” he has reformed the
constitution, giving government-
funded health care to all. He has
nationalized key industries in
repeated attempts to address what
he perceives as an imbalance
between Venezuela’s business
elites and its masses of poor,
including a “re-nationalization” of
the oil sector. He’s worked within
OPEC to keep the price of oil
high and contain America’s power
(while also blaming it for his
economic woes).
Most alarmingly, he has turned
into the bully of Latin America,
purchasing large quantities of
Russian weapons, threatening his
neighbors with war and constantly
yammering on about American
assassination plots and military
threats whenever he needs a boost
to his domestic approval ratings.
He has supported the FARC
terrorists in their insurgency
campaign against US-ally
Colombia. Clearly, the man has
been busy. So busy, in fact, that it
was to be expected that he would
drop at least one of the balls he
was juggling. Too bad for the
people of Venezuela that the ball
help bring down the rate of
violent crime the next year.
Community outreach into
troubled areas and specialized
police units operating within the
capital were entrusted with
bringing the murder epidemic
back under control. It didn’t work.
How is Chavez, a man willing to
shake his fist at mighty America,
tackling this national nightmare?
He’s blaming the media for
reporting the extent of the
problem. Rather than face up to
the fact that the number of
murders in Venezuela has at least
doubled (some figures suggest an
even great increase of 400%)
since he took office, Chavez’s
government is accusing the media
in question was the one concerned most recent available data for of supporting opposition parties
with keeping crime low and the both nations.) ahead of legislative elections later
streets safe: Under his leadership, Put another way, it is safer to live this month by running pictures of
Venezuela has become a disaster. in Iraq than it is in Venezuela. the afore-mentioned Caracas
The statistics are sobering, and The problem is particularly acute morgue, overflowing with the
astonishing. On the whole, the in the capital city of Caracas, b o d i e s o f m u r d e r v i c t i m s .
country, with 26 million people, currently the murder capital of the Venezuela’s courts quickly
saw a whopping 19,000 murders world. In 2008, as rival gangs deemed the images pornographic
i n 2 0 0 9 . T o p u t t h a t i n t o b a t t l e d f o r c o n t r o l o f t h e and banned similar images from
perspective, the state of Texas, underworld and kidnappings for publication, in a move that
with a comparable population of ransom flourished, the city’s brought swift condemnation from
roughly 24.5 million, experienced central forensic lab was filled to the United Nations and various
1 , 3 7 4 m u r d e r s i n 2 0 0 8 , capacity with murder victims international press agencies. The
considerably less than a tenth of awaiting examination, with more r u l i n g s h a v e l a r g e l y b e e n
Venezuela’s total. Indeed, the arriving each hour. Later that reversed, though the first two
United States as a whole, with year, after more than 500 people papers to publish the images
roughly 12 times the population were murdered in the capital remain under sanction.
of Venezuela, recorded nearly during the month of December
3,000 fewer murders in 2008 than alone, the Ministry of Interior
did Venezuela in 2009. (Please Relations and Justice announced a
note the differing years reflect the slate of initiatives designed to
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voters curious about whether she
would vote to extend the Bush tax
cuts, but in a wide-ranging
interview with the Wausau Daily
Herald, she declined to say.
In her first television ad, released
in August, Lassa promised to
bring some old-fashioned money
smarts (and a healthy dose of
bovine wordplay) to Capitol Hill.
“Growing up on a dairy farm, my
dad taught me not to take any
bull, and how to milk a dollar for
all it’s worth, two skills they
could really use in Washington,”
Lassa says.
It’s almost as if she’s running
against Dave Obey.
Obey, an unabashed old-school
liberal and chairman of the
powerful House Appropriations
Committee, secured hundreds of
millions in federal earmarks for
his district and state. Citizens
Against Government Waste gives
Obey, who was a primary author
of President Obama’s stimulus
plan, a lifetime rating of 19
percent, or “hostile,” according to
the group’s media director, Leslie
Page. “He has shown that he
doesn’t trust the American people
with their own money, that he’d
rather have it in the hands of
Washington,” Page says.
The GOP would like nothing
more than to put a Republican in
Obey’s seat. “The symbolic
significance is obvious; it
certainly would signal a tectonic
shift in the landscape if
Republicans were able to pick up
that seat,” says Kenneth R.
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Obama: Digging His Own Ditch

Tait Trussell (FrontPage weeks, not to mention the nearly
Magazine » FrontPage) $800 billion stimulus that didn’t
Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:30:36 PM stimulate, the Obama economy
decelerated to the abysmal 1.6
Bush is charged with putting the percent ditch, with 9.6 percent
economy in a ditch. But who unemployment. Never has anyone
really dug the hole? dug the ditch so deep. Obama’s
President Obama is correct. Our “shovel” seemed the only one
economy is in a ditch. He has “ready.”
used that analogy to blame
Republicans uncountable times.
Instead of focusing on the
economy, The Obama
The War
He did so recently, Sept 5,
campaigning in Parma, Ohio,
where he pleaded, “Do we return
Administration “embarked on the
most sweeping expansion of
government since the 1960s,” as
Left Behind
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
to the same failed policies that ran The Wall Street Journal put it. A Magazine » FrontPage)
our economy into a ditch, or do year was wasted on a health plan
Submitted at 9/13/2010 11:45:58 PM
we keep moving forward with that a majority of American don’t
policies that are slowly pulling us want. “Obama’s policies have The declaration that combat
out? spread fear and uncertainty,“ operations in Iraq are over doesn’t
But it was not the economic while he blasts anyone in sight for change much. American soldiers
policies of George W. Bush and “greed and recklessness,” The are still fighting as they secure the
the GOP that got us into this Wall Street Journal commented. country from a legion of extremist
economic ditch. It was Obama’s In April, Peter Wallison, the
150 government programs that due to the house slump. Once in forces. On September 7, only one
own Democrat party that is Arthur Burns Fellow in financial
“don’t fulfill priorities.” Bush office, Obama’s top economic week after the official “end” of
primarily to blame, and Obama policy studies at the American
spending actually averaged that of advisers called for their hoped-for the U.S. combat role, two
himself. Enterprise Institute in
President Clinton. But Bush mighty stimulus. The Wall Street American soldiers were killed and
Bush economic policies included Washington, wrote in The Wall
policies were not flawless. Journal reported on Sept. 7 in an nine were injured in an attack.
tax reductions for all Americans, Street Journal: “Obama has taken
The recession started 13 months article explaining how trillions in The casualties are a reminder that
spending to fight two wars, and a to accusing others of representing
before Obama’s inauguration, by fiscal and monetary stimulus the conflict rages on and
free-market ideology aimed at ‘special interests,’” Obama
the measurement of the National bucks have produced an Americans remain in harm’s way.
reducing the role of the federal charged that “the financial
Bureau of Economic Research. In embarrassingly anemic 1.6 A Kurdish member of Iraq’s
government in the private sector. industry and its powerful lobby
February 2008, Bush agreed with percent recovery. Talk about special forces was responsible for
He promoted the concept of have opposed modest safeguards
the then-Democrat controlled being in a ditch! the latest attack. It is unclear right
individual accountability. The against the kinds of reckless risks
Congress on a $168 billion During this Keynesian style now if the attacker pre-planned
national debt did rise significantly and bad practices that led to this
combination of spending and economic policy—from cash for the assault, as accounts are
from 2001 to 2008. But in his very crisis.”
temporary tax rebates. These steps clunkers, $8,000 home-buyer’s contradictory with some saying
State of the Union speech in 2005,
were supposed to prop up growth tax credits, to jobless pay for 99 the incident followed an argument
Bush said his budget eliminated
with American soldiers during a
volleyball game while other
officials say the attack was
unprovoked. It is also speculated
that U.S. participation in a raid the
WAR page 83
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DEMOCRAT
Advance Competitiveness Through continued from page 80

Mayer, professor of political retain Obey’s seat, and have

Economic Freedom science at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison.
already begun to inject money
into the race. The Democratic
Anthony B. Kim (The Foundry: In a normal election year, Lassa Congressional Campaign
Conservative Policy News.) might feel pretty confident -- WI- Committee’s first independent-
Submitted at 9/14/2010 10:00:04 AM
7 hasn’t voted Republican in a expenditure television spot was an
presidential election since 1984. attack ad against Duffy.
Posted September 14th, 2010 at But not this year. Presumed GOP Lassa realizes that her best
11:00am in American Leadership nominee Sean Duffy,who is chance of winning is to run on a
Print This Post taking an even tougher line on the largely anti-Democratic platform
Early this year, The Heritage economy, looks like the clear when it come to matters of
Foundation’s Index of Economic favorite. A We Ask America poll financial prudence, a dynamic that
Freedom reported that the U.S. released in August showed Duffy is playing out in a number of
economy is no longer in the top leading Lassa 42 percent to 33 hotly contested races throughout
tier of economically free countries percent. the country.
and runs the risk of falling further Duffy, a former district attorney “The spending message, the idea
behind. This disappointing news (and a former cast member on that you can bring earmarks back
is vividly echoed in World MTV’s The Real World), is to your state, just isn’t resonating
Economic Forum’s just-released backed by Sarah Palin, an this year,” says Steve Ellis, vice
study, Global Competitiveness endorsement that has earned him president of Taxpayers for
Report 2010-2011. the moniker “Papa Grizzly.” Most Common Sense.
but more importantly, over the competitiveness, reminds us, now people had written him off as a Julie Lassa hopes that her
According to the report, which is
long haul as well. As we have is the time to act “to arrest the novelty candidate until Obey message -- out with the pork (and
based in part on an opinion survey
suffered through the summer of decline of freedom and assert our unexpectedly announced his in with the dairy) -- will be one
among more than 13,000 business
NO economic recovery, the rights as free people to set our retirement in May. Wisconsin that resonates.
leaders around the globe, America
Obama Administration’s response own course toward greater GOP officials were so stunned by -- Andrew Stiles writes for
is losing its competitiveness edge,
has been proposals for higher and prosperity in the future.” the news that some thought it was National Review Online’ s Battle
slipping over the last 2 years from
ever increasing stimulus spending, This entry passed through the a prank. “He went from long shot ’10 blog. Andrew Stiles
1st place to 4th place among the
trading long-term competitiveness Full-Text RSS service — if this is to contender in the space of about
world’s economies. Specifically,
for illusory short-term gains that your content and you're reading it an hour,” Mayer says.
the report highlights the rapid
are proving transient at best. on someone else's site, please read Democrats are just as eager to
increase in U.S. government debt,
Yet, fortunately, the American our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
noting that mapping out a clear
people are waking up and voicing content-only/faq.php
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their concerns about rising Five Filters featured article:
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government intrusion that saps Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
reinforcing [America’s]
our economic dynamism. As The Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
competitiveness going into the
Economic Freedom Agenda for Catastrophe.
future.”
America, the Heritage
Indeed, governments’ policy
Foundation’s policy roadmap for
choices shape entrepreneurial
restoring economic freedom and
environments in the short term,
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Obamacare: The Real Price Tag is a continued from page 81

previous day in the community to ready to carry out counter-

Moving Target arrest a suspected terrorist may
have triggered the attacker.
terrorism missions and intervene
with force if required. In fact, on
Rea Hederman (The Foundry: Whatever the case, the incident September 6, five days after
Conservative Policy News.) showed that American soldiers are combat operations supposedly
Submitted at 9/13/2010 5:30:15 PM
still exposed to violence and take ended, U.S. forces engaged in
part in military missions like raids combat with terrorists attacking
Posted September 13th, 2010 at when necessary. the Iraqi army’s headquarters in
6:30pm in Health Care Print This “We have 50,000 troops still on eastern Baghdad.
Post the ground in Iraq and 5,000 Patterson feels that the so-called
Two new studies highlight the special operations forces. There is end of combat operations in Iraq
growing concern that the true cost no doubt, in my mind, that these will encourage attacks on
for Obamacare is greater than troops will continue to come American soldiers.
originally anticipated. Last week, under attack and will have to “The fact that President Barack
a new report from the Office of respond in kind. By anyone’s Obama has issued his edict that
the Actuary at the Center for definition of ‘combat,’ this is combat operations are officially
Medicare and Medicaid Services combat,” Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson, over in Iraq has absolutely
(CMS) revised its former Senior Military Aide to nothing to do with the reality on
estimates—exposing yet again President Clinton and author of the ground there. Combat
that the new law will mean more Conduct Unbecoming: How operations continue, and if
health care spending, not less. Barack Obama is Destroying the anything, his irresponsible efforts
Plus, the Congressional Research Military and Endangering Our to placate his political base will,
Service released a report that National Security, told FrontPage. no doubt, only attract more
aren’t likely to do so in the future. online calculator that will allow The Director of the Brookings insurgents and more attacks on
suggests states will face higher
As a matter of fact, the physician users to test out their own Institution’s Saban Center for Americans in Iraq,” Patterson
costs as a result of Obamacare.
cuts for this year already were theories. It’s one more way the Middle East Policy, Kenneth said.
These studies are just two
postponed. The CRS report public can decide what’s realistic Pollack, agrees. He writes that the
examples of how assumptions,
focuses on the variation in and unlikely when it comes to the change is mostly a matter of
even small ones, in forecast
estimates regarding the impact of savings and costs of Obamacare. semantics. The remaining forces
models of Obamacare result in
the new law on the states. This entry passed through the are being titled “advisory and
large differences for the total cost
If any of the underlying Full-Text RSS service — if this is assistance brigades” and stand
of the new law. The CMS study,
assumptions for the new law miss your content and you're reading it
for example, assumes the
their target, the price tag is sure to on someone else's site, please read
scheduled physician payment cuts
go up. To help Americans better our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
will continue as planned, resulting
understand how different the content-only/faq.php
in significant savings that will
results of Obamacare can be with Five Filters featured article:
help offset the massive expenses
just small changes in the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
from Obamacare. However,
estimates, the Heritage Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
history has shown that these cuts
Foundation will soon release an Catastrophe.
have never gone into effect and
84 Social Media/
Helvetica Joins the Web Font Revolution
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:30:44 AM
Monotype Imaging, the company
that houses the Monotype,
Linotype and ITC typeface
libraries, has just opened its
Fonts.com Web Fonts solution to
the general public.
Fonts.com Web Fonts has been in
beta for the last few months and
Monotype has taken user
feedback from that beta to make
its web font solution better and
more robust.
With Fonts.com Web Fonts,
designers, creative agencies,
publishers and individuals can
infuse their web apps or web
pages with more typography
options.
Fonts.com Web Fonts joins a
growing list of web font services,
including Typekit, Fontdeck and
Google’s new Font Directory.
Fonts.com Web Fonts is similar to
some of these existing solutions,
but it has some additional features
and supports a few other
platforms that make it a unique
offering in the web font space.
Huge Library
As a company, Monotype houses
some of the biggest font libraries
in the world. Typefaces like
Helvetica, Frutiger and Univers
are all part of Monotype and
available to Fonts.com Web Fonts
users.
Just like Typekit’s recent
partnership with Adobe, the
ability to use premium type
families and well-known fonts in
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web design is a huge step in the represents a pretty significant shift other purposes, JavaScript isn’t
overall world of web typography. on the part of the font foundries. always ideal.
Monotype has made more than Years ago, one of the big reasons Thus, for standard and
7,500 fonts available via the that foundries pushed back against professional subscribers, a
service and more will be added in the idea of web fonts was because JavaScript-free option is available
the future. Monotype has also many were afraid users would as well. Fonts can also be
committed to bringing all ITC, find a way to download and steal declared in a stylesheet directly
Linotype and Monotype font faces their fonts. by using CSS selectors.
developed in the ensuing years to I asked Monotype about this 180- Typophiles Rejoice
the platform. degree shift last week. Vice With Typekit, Google Font
Beyond just the sheer number of President of Marketing Chris Directory and now the Fonts.com
typefaces, Monotype also Roberts told me that Monotype Web Fonts service, we’re finally
supports more than 40 different doesn’t want to risk being passed reaching a place where
which makes it ideal for most
languages — many non-Latin over simply because it’s not typography on the web can go
individual users or bloggers.
character sets are supported too. willing to embrace the future. beyond the built-in, web-safe font
The standard plan, which adds
Extended character sets are That’s one reason he said choices of yesteryear.
another 5,000 or so fonts to the
available for many fonts and users Monotype is so enthusiastic about It’s great to see other companies
library, starts at $10 per month for
can also access Asian-specific the future of web fonts. Type is its enter this space not only to spur
250,000 pageviews. If you need
font foundries. core business and that means on competition, but to give users
more pageviews, you can adjust
Through the course of the beta, giving users all the tools that they and brands more options.
the pricing accordingly.
Monotype has also changed how need. iOS, Internet Explorer and Have you used web font services
For agencies, bigger brands or
its international fonts are hinted JavaScript-free Support with your designs? What do you
large sites, the professional
and kerned, so that Chinese or Right now, Fonts.com Web Fonts think of Monotype’s new
subscription plan starts at $100 a
Japanese fonts are easier for users works with Internet Explorer, offering?
month for 2.5 million pageviews.
to read. For big brands that rely Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome More About: fonts, helvetica,
It has all the same fonts as the
on a typeface as part of its greater and Opera. It also works on the monotype imaging, typekit,
standard subscription, but with
identity, having international iPad, iPhone and iPod touch typography, web fonts, web
one big benefit: The ability to
support across languages can be devices. Monotype added iOS typography
download 50 fonts per month to
very important. Pricing Plans support after hearing feedback For more Dev & Design
the desktop.
Fonts.com Web Fonts pricing from beta users. coverage:
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other tools of choice, because they
you want and you can use as web fonts. It makes sense, as this iPhone and iPad
don’t have access to the font file
many fonts as you want per is generally an easy way to add
itself.
project. support and it means that any
Allowing professional-tier
For instance, there is a free plan changes to the font you want to
subscribers to download 50
that gives anyone access to more use can generally be made
typefaces per month is a great
than 2,200 fonts. The free is good independent of the code itself.
solution to this problem. It also
for 25,000 pageviews each month, However, for accessibility and
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Top 3 Stories in Social Media and Mobile This

Morning
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!) inch AMOLED screen, a stainless forbidden from using Twitter,
Submitted at 9/14/2010 8:25:11 AM steel and glass frame, an 8- Facebook, instant messaging and
megapixel camera with dual LED any other online communication
This series is brought to you by flash and the ability to record except for e-mail.
HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G 720p video. It comes with up to • Wal-Mart has announced a dirt-
phone. Only from Sprint. The 350MB of internal user memory cheap mobile phone plan under its
“First to Know” series keeps you and 8GB of storage memory, own brand name — a first for the
in the know on what’s happening which can be expanded to 32GB department store, which
now in the world of social media with a microsSD memory card. previously only offered low-cost Get Satisfaction
and technology. The €260 ($334) C6 has all of plans in under the Verizon and Celebrates Third
Welcome to this morning’s t h e s a m e s p e c s a s t h e C 7 , Sprint brand names. The $45 per
edition of “First To Know,” a although the screen is .3 inches month plan is called Wal-Mart
Anniversary with $6
series in which we keep you in the narrower and the device has Family Mobile, and it includes Million in Funding
Mayer has announced his decision
know on what’s happening in the 10MB less of internal user u n l i m i t e d t e x t a n d v o i c e Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
to leave the microblogging
digital world. We’re keeping our memory. messaging.
service. Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:08:13 AM
eyes on three particular stories of All three devices are scheduled to
Apparently the account was only
interest today. become available before the end Series supported by HTC EVO Just yesterday, Get Satisfaction
needed to promote his recent tour,
Nokia Unveils Three New of the year. 4G celebrated the third anniversary of
Battle Studies, which has now
Symbian^3 Smartphones Israel Takes Ownership of Its This series is brought to you by its customer support platform’s
drawn to a close. Mayer hasn’t
Nokia announced a lineup of Twitter Account HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G launch. Today, the startup is
given up on social media entirely,
t h r e e n e w S y m b i a n ^ 3 Israel has acquired the Twitter phone. Only from Sprint. The announcing a $6 million Series A
however; he will continue to
smartphones at its Nokia World username@israel from the Miami- “First to Know” series keeps you round of financing — led by
communicate with his fans
event in London this morning, based owner of a pornographic in the know on what’s happening Azure Capital — and private
through his blog and his tumblr.
dubbed the Nokia E7, Nokia C7 web site, The New York Times now in the world of social media communities, a brand new feature
Further News
and Nokia C6. All three will run reports. and technology. for enterprise clients.
• Americans are consuming more
on the Symbian^3 OS. The purchase was confirmed by More About: first to know series, The company will use the
news now than they were a
The E7, designed for business Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel, john mayer, Mobile 2.0, additional funding for expansion
decade ago, thanks to the
owners, sports a full QWERTY the Israeli Foreign Ministry, who Nokia, Nokia C6, Nokia C7, purposes, and aims to attack the
availability of news on online and
keyboard, a 4-inch, 640×460- declined to disclose how much Nokia E7, Symbian^3, twitter middle market to attract more
mobile channels, a new study
pixel touchscreen, and a 8- was paid for the account. For more Social Media coverage: paying customers. Most of the
from the Pew Research Center has
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revealed.
recording 720p video, as well as better use than he did,” Palmor on Twitter been organic in nature, so funds
• Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg
16GB of storage memory and 350 explained, citing Israel’s recent • Become a Fan on Facebook will also be used for more
University of Science and
MB of internal memory. It can initiative to participate in social • Subscribe to the Social Media aggressive marketing and sales
Technology announced plans to
also create PowerPoint slides on media. channel purposes.
enact a week-long social media
the go. The device is priced at John Mayer Leaves Twitter • Download our free apps for With the funding news, Get
blackout for all students in
€495 ($638). After amassing an impressive 3.7 iPhone and iPad Satisfaction is rebranding a bit to
residence. The students will be
The €335 ($430) C7 has a 3.5- million followers on Twitter, John match its marketing goals and
repurposed mission around social

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GET
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support, a mission that extends
beyond “slapping the word social
on to some CRM system,”
according to Co-founder Thor
Muller.
Today the company is unveiling a
new website, new logo and an anti
-mascot — a tongue-in-cheek
representation of the opposite of
what Get Satisfaction stands for
— who goes by the name of
JarGon (pictured above). “JarGon
is a lovably inept robot that pokes
fun at social buzzwords,” Muller
says.
“Business interest in what we’ve
done has skyrocketed,” Muller
claims. He says businesses are
expressing even more need to
map social media strategies to
business opportunities, and he
believes that’s the startup’s core
strength.
To further cater to customer
needs, Get Satisfaction is quietly
rolling out private communities to
its enterprise communities. The
feature will enable customers to
create private communities for
beta testing product ideas in
stealth mode.
To date, Get Satisfaction has
raised $11 million in funding. The
startup operates around a
freemium model and has roughly
2,000 paying customers. Muller
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says it is not yet profitable, but
that the focus is more on product
and growth right now.
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GetSatisfaction, series a, software,
support
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