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LinkedIn cofounder Reid
Obama sounds note of optimism about Democrats Hoffman is about to
announce a $20 million
and November seed funding program, via
his job at VC firm Grey...
David Morgan (Front Row At least part of his optimism Tea Party movement. But more
Washington) appears to spring from “A Pledge r e c e n t l y , s o m e (Business Insider)
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political manifesto that signs of improvement in polling
President Barack Obama sounded Republicans unveiled last month data. LinkedIn cofounder Reid
an optimistic note about the as part of their campaign to win It’s not that Obama thinks all Hoffman is about to announce a
Democratic Party’s prospects in c o n t r o l o f t h e H o u s e o f Republicans are irresponsible, $20 million seed funding
upcoming congressional midterm Representatives. The document however. program, via his job at VC firm
elections, saying in an NBC proposes scaling back federal “When I say Republicans, I really Greylock, Fortune's Dan Primack
interview that Democrats would spending to 2008 levels and should say Republican leadership reports.
“do just fine” if they could keep ending government control of because I think there are a lot of Join the conversation about this
the focus on issues of substance. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and wonderful people out there who story »
“The question for voters over the Freddie Mac. It also calls for consider themselves Republicans
next five weeks is: Who is putting tougher border security, trying cuts and $16 billion in spending or independents who have maybe
forward policies that have a suspected terrorists in military cuts. And then they say that we’re some criticisms of my
Pandora says users who
chance to move our country courts and repealing Obama’s going to somehow magically administration but basically listen through connected
balance the budget. That’s not a
forward so that our schools have overhaul of the U.S. healthcare
serious approach,” he said.
recognize we’ve got to solve TVs or Blu-ray players
improved, so that we have a world system. some big problems, we’ve got to listen for about 3 hours
-class infrastructure, so that we’re Obama used the interview to turn The Pledge is reminiscent of be serious, we’ve got to base our
serious about helping small u p t h e r h e t o r i c a l h e a t o n “The Contract with America,” decisions on facts,” the president over the course of a...
business, we’re serious about the Republicans and their Pledge: which helped Republicans win said. (Business Insider)
getting a handle on our spending, “What I’m seeing out of the control of the House during the Presumably, many of those Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:20:48 PM
and who’s just engaging in Republican leadership over the second year of Democrat Bill Republicans would be voters.
rhetoric?” the president said near last several years has been a set of Clinton’s presidency. Photo credits: Reuters/Kevin Pandora says users who listen
the end of a half-hour interview policies that are just irresponsible. Democrats hope to avoid a repeat Lamarque (Obama); Reuters/ through connected TVs or Blu-ray
devoted mainly to education And we saw in their Pledge to of the 1994 rout. They struggled Larry Downing (Republicans players listen for about 3 hours
issues. America a similar set of throughout the summer against a Unveil ‘Pledge’) over the course of a day,
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2 Headline/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

THIS JUST IN — Conservatives Find

Home in GOP
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:10:59 AM

The term “conservative

Republican” may seem like a
truism nowadays. But a new
Gallup survey answers some
interesting questions about just
who those conservatives are —
and who they are not.
The GOP is growing more
conservative. Seventy-one percent
of Republicans and Republican-
voting independents call
themselves conservatives today.
That’s up from 62 percent in
2000, when the Bush-Gore
presidential election split the
country down the middle and had
to be settled by the Supreme
Court. Conservatives accounted
for 66 percent of Republicans in
2006.
The latest Gallup findings say
only 29 percent of Republicans
are moderates or liberals — yes,
this implies the continued but
perilous existence of the species
known as Republican Liberals.
Conservatives are older — more
than 40 percent are 55 years of
age or above and thus belong to
the American generation that once
Sick Day
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 10:33:05 PM
trusted no one over 30.
Only about one-third of
Republican moderates and liberals
are north of 55.
Two-thirds to three-quarters of
Republican conservatives are
Protestant vs. 17 to 22 percent
who are Catholic and 5 percent
who follow a different religious
tradition.
There’s probably no need to
remind Democrats that older,
church-going Americans tend to
be among those most likely to
We're taking a sick day. Please
vote in an off-year election.
Otherwise, 90 percent of
Republican conservatives are
white, more than half are male
and about 40 percent live in the
South.
Gallup based its findings on
telephone interviews with more
than 262,000 adults conducted
Jan. 2 to Sept. 23. That gives the
results an error margin of less
than 1 percent.
Photo Credit: Reuters/Adam
Hunger (Republican Rally)
check back Monday for our
regularly scheduled post.
Comedian Colbert
“inappropriate”?
Glenn Somerville (Front Row commentator, hurt him more than
Washington) it did lawmakers.
“I think it was an embarrassment
Submitted at 9/26/2010 5:01:56 PM
for Mr. Colbert more than the
Comedian Stephen Colbert’s House,” Hoyer said. “If he had a
s a t i r i c a l t e s t i m o n y b e f o r e position on the issues, he should
Congress last week left some have given those issues.”
lawmakers cold, and one of them With Democrats fearing major
was House Democratic leader losses in the coming November
Steny Hoyer. elections, a hearing on whether
“I think it was inappropriate,” illegal migrant workers are taking
H o y e r s a i d o n “ F o x N e w s jobs away from Americans, was
Sunday” when asked about perhaps no laughing matter.
Colbert’s appearance before a Colbert testified before the
House judiciary subcommittee on s u b c o m m i t t e e ’ s h e a d e d b y
immigration where he testified on D e m o c r a t Z o e L o f g r e n o f
his brief stint as a migrant farm C a l i f o r n i a .
worker. Photo credit: REUTERS/Kevin
Hoyer said Colbert’s testimony, Lamarque (Colbert on Capitol
delivered in his Comedy Central Hill)
television character as an over-the
-top conservative news
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DoJ Ruling: Apple, Google, Intel Now Freer to Steal Each Other's
Staff, and This Is Better ... How?
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:31:05 AM
The Department of Justice has
just settled an antitrust suit with
Apple, Google, Intel and other
firms over not cold-calling each
other's employees. The DoJ was
worried the secret no-call policy
was anti-competitive, so now the
firms are freer to poach staff. Is
this better?
Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc.,
Google Inc., Intel Corp., Intuit
Inc., and Pixar were targeted by a
DoJ probe into an agreement the
firms had made with each other
years back--one of many
"gentlemen's agreements" that
exist behind and above the normal
rules of business (whatever they
are) that keep businesses ticking
along. The deal in question was
that these firms wouldn't cold-call
each other's employees to tempt
them to work for alternative
enterprises. In some circles it
could be considered base thievery,
and may suppress desire for inter-
company business partnerships
due to lessened trust at a corporate
level--particularly if really
prominent staff were targeted. In
others it would be easy to argue
that a company shouldn't want to
retain a staff member who could
be so easily tempted by a flash of
currency.
Whichever way you or the
companies concerned thought
about it, the DoJ saw it as a
reason for worry because it led to
"overall diminished competition
to the detriment of affected
employees who were likely
deprived of competitively
important information and access
to better job opportunities." As a
result it just filed a civil antitrust
case against the six firms, and
proposed a settlement at the same
time: All six must abandon any
anti-cold-call policies they have
with any of the others, for a
period of five years.
The case targets not just cold-
calling, but also any anti-compete
policies about recruiting staff, but
here is where the DoJ's case gets
murky. Because though the firms
had agreed (in a complex web of
deals, spelled out in the DoJ's
lawsuit) not to directly solicit
each other's staff, any other kind
of action was acceptable--say if a
Google employee, of their own
volition, gently tested the waters
at Apple to see if a move was
possible. To this end, the
companies weren't really
suppressing competitive pay deals
for staff at all, and the DoJ was
being heavy-handed, perhaps in
an overly literal interpretation of
the anti-competitive laws.
Google, responding to the news
took the unusual step of making a
public statement about it in a blog
post: "In order to maintain a good
working relationship with these
companies, in 2005 we decided
not to “cold call” employees at a
few of our partner companies. Our
policy only impacted cold calling,
and we continued to recruit from
these companies through
LinkedIn, job fairs, employee
referrals, or when candidates
approached Google directly. In
fact, we hired hundreds of
employees from the companies
involved during this time period."
The Google statement is
interesting for two reasons: It
supports the notion of reasonable
business practice associated with
the no-call deals, over and above
the DoJ's strict interpretation of
the law. And it's an extremely
open door into the normally
secretive business goings-on that
happen in all companies, and
apparently particularly in Silicon
Valley.
Companies have all sorts of work
-arounds like the one in question
in place with both their allies in
business and their competitors
(complicated by the fact that
sometimes these are the same firm
--look at Apple and Google for
example) because real life is
much more complicated than
simple legal rules would have you
believe. These sorts of deals,
which tip-toe along the lines
between overlapping regulations,
happen throughout a company,
and as you can imagine they get
particularly twisty in the final
moments before one firm buys
another and everyone has to lay
their cards on the table. The anti-
calling deals these particular
companies struck may smack of
corporate intrigue, complete with
imagery of chubby businessmen
puffing cigars in darkened rooms
and muttering in quiet, indirect
Business/ 3
code about their various dealings,
but they are no more or less than
the kind of legal rule-bending that
goes on when a speeding
ambulance breaks the law and
jumps a red light and isn't pursued
for the "crime," or a cop uses his
judgment and doesn't arrest you
for J-walking at 3 a.m. when there
was no traffic around.
Sometimes the agreements do
indeed overstep the mark, and the
DoJ's intervention appears
warranted. But who benefits in
this case? The end-user
consumer? The companies in
question? The high-ranking
employees implicated in the suit?
These last would seem to be the
real target, but it's hard to imagine
someone becoming senior enough
to warrant poaching in these multi
-billion dollar firms without also
acquiring a keen sense of their
own worth in dollars.
To keep up with this news,
follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
4 Business/ Culture/ Politics-Left/
Intel Debuts a Vision for MacBook Air's New CPU
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:26:30 AM
A cluster of future CPUs from
Intel have just been announced,
and among them are mobile chips
that could power the rumored,
smaller MacBook Air upgrade.
Thing is, there are two candidates.
The new Intel chips come with
detailed specs and prices, and
cover upgrades to the Core i5 and
i7 range. The big-hitter among the
new chips is the i7-640M, which
has a default clock speed of 2.8
GHz and yet can be turbo-boosted
up to 3.4 GHz--it costs a largish
$346 to bulk buyers. Behind those
come the i5-580M and i5-560M,
which both have a default clock
speed of 2.66 GHz, with the
580M turbo-boostable up to 3.33
GHz. These chips suck a TDP of
35W, which is sizable, so there
are also 18W units en route for
machines where lower power
consumption is important: The i7-
680UM has a 1.46 GHz speed and
the i5-560UM runs at 1.33 GHz.
For the ultra-low power needs of
powerful but super-slim
Former French Minister Confuses Inflation With Fellatio
Edward Harrison (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:14:53 PM
In France, this video of the
former French Justice Minister
and current European
parliamentarian Rachida Dati is
making the rounds. If you speak
French, you’ll know why when
computers, there's also the i7-
660LM chip, which runs at 2.26
GHz native speed, and 3.06 GHz
at turbo speeds with just 25W of
consumption. This is a 32nm chip,
with two cores that can run four
threads, and has a 3-megabyte L2
cache.
Those of you who aren't chip-
fanatics will probably hum and
you hear Dati’s word choice 14
seconds into the video.
She told Canal Plus: "I see some
[foreign investment funds]
looking for returns of 20 or 25%
at a time when [inflation] is close
to zero."
That type of return clearly
unrealistic in this environment –
one reason you are starting to see
hah at this, but perhaps you
shouldn't since this last chip is
very interesting to Apple
aficionados. The current
MacBook Air CPU is a choice
between a 1.86 GHz or 2.13 GHz
Core 2 Duo chip, each with 6
megabytes of L2-cache. In some
ways the new i7 low profile CPU
outperforms this chip, and
stories of pension fund
underfunding all across Europe
and North America.
• BBC News – Today – ‘A third
of large companies can’t afford to
fund pension deficits’
• Pension Gaps Loom Larger –
WSJ.com
Investors are likely to take
represents an incremental bump in
what the chip is capable of doing.
With recent rumors building
about a potential MacBook Air
revision, suspicion should fall on
the 660LM as its potential
powerhouse. But there's also
another option: The 680UM. This
is a low-power chip, clocked
slower than the existing MacBook
Air CPU, but it's also an ultra-
slim chip, with particularly good
power consumption
specifications. And if rumors
about the Air's upgrade are true,
namely that it'll be smaller and
lighter than the current model--
and thus have less space for a
battery as well as cooling gear--
the 680 chip may be the one. This
means the next-gen Air may be
distinct from the larger MacBooks
in terms of processing power but
still more capable than the iPad,
meaning it could occupy an
interesting middle ground
between them and thus avoid
cannibalizing sales of either.
To keep up with this news follow
me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
greater risk and reach for yield in
order to get the returns they need
to prevent under-funding. This
risks a bad outcome as we have
already witnessed during the
credit crisis. This is exactly why
many are begging government to
turn on the money taps. A lot of
people – not just debtors – would
enjoy a lot more of "l’***lation"
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Steve Ciatti, Argonne National
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The United States is Losing its Innovative Edge: Report

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:18:12 AM
Education, in particular, threatens
the state of innovation in
America.
With the rise of China and the
Global Competitive rankings
earlier this month, it's becoming
clearer that the United States is
losing its innovative edge. Now a
new report was recently released
by the National Academies details
just how hard America will have
to work to play catch-up with
China and other countries in the
very near future.
Five years ago, the authors of the
same report, Rising Above the
Gathering Storm, set out a vision
for how to increase the United
States' competitiveness with direct
recommendations to improve K-
12 education, particularly in math
and science and make visa
requirements more friendly for
international innovators to join
and patent in the United States.
The updated report argues that the
United States is at a tipping point
a n d t h a t a l l
stakeholders—government,
individuals, academics, and
others—must get involved to keep
the United States competitive. "In
the face of so many daunting near
-term challenges, U.S.
government and industry are
letting the crucial strategic issues
of U.S. competitiveness slip
below the surface," says the
report.
Some startling statistics from the
press release: In 2009, 51% of
U.S. patents were awarded to non-
U.S. companies. China has
replaced the U.S. as the world's
United States. In a corresponding
period 10 years later, the number
dropped to 74. Almost one-third
of U.S. manufacturing companies
responding to a recent survey say
they are suffering from some level
of skills shortage.
With limited national funding
available to invest in research and
education, the report cautions that
an important foundation of
i n n o v a t i o n a n d
competitiveness—education—is
failing Americans and threatens
the role and image of the United
number one high-technology S t a t e s i n a n i n c r e a s i n g l y
exporter and is now second in the competitive environment. For
w o r l d i n p u b l i c a t i o n o f more on how to get involved, you
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Has the World Been Fooled by Misleading Climate Change

Statistics?
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast world's emissions by 2050 if prices are more competitive.
Company) current rates of growth continue." The UK researchers are thus
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:18:34 AM Have we been fooled into proposing to measure any carbon
believing that shipping is the god- emissions released from shipping
Turns out the shipping industry is s e n d o f e c o - f r i e n d l y involved in UK trade—both
way worse than we thought. transportation? Well, even the imports and exports—rather than
Shipping is not an industry or authorities don't have it straight. A amounts of fuel sold. And, on that
m e a n s o f t r a n s p o r t t h a t 2008 leaked UN report indicates basis, emissions skyrocket.
immediately makes you think of that emissions from shipping has So there you have it. This may
n a s t y c l i m a t e c h a n g e been vastly underestimated and just be the next scandal to hit the
statistics—compared to, say, yet according to another report, field of climate science and it's a
diesel trucks—but a new report "International shipping is already, disaster waiting to happen.
o u t o f t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f by far, the most carbon efficient estimate of CO2 from UK purchased at UK ports," according [Thumbnail image via Flickr user
Manchester's Tydall Centre for mode of commercial transport." shipping is based on the fact that, to the report. That's a misleading Grantsviews, top image by this
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warning that "the global shipping have emerged as to how and why are calculated using international get fuel at ports such as
industry’s carbon emissions could we've been misled. bunker fuel sales—that is fuel Rotterdam in Holland, where
account for almost all of the "The dramatic change in the
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Has Staples Put in a
Bottom at $17?
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Staples Inc (SPLS),
Stocks to Buy
I first discussed Staples Inc. (
SPLS) here on April 21, 2008, at
a price of $22.11. The question
now is, has the office supplies
chain giant put in a bottom near
$17? The calculation here is that it
has.
Look for Staples to post FY2011
sales growth of 2% to 4%, after a
5.2% increase in FY2010.
Staples should open about 40 net
new stores this fiscal year, to total
about 2,500, with both U.S., and
international zones gaining stores.
About 1,000 of Staples stores are
located outside the U.S., with
Triple Play: Takeover Targets in
Utilities?
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Newsletters,
Commodities, Stocks to Buy
"There's a lot more consolidation
ahead for the utility sector.
Indeed, deal-making is picking up
again," says utility sector
specialist Roger Conrad.
The editor of Utility Forecaster
explains, "CH Energy Group (
CHG), Consolidated
A Bailout for Credit
Unions
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: Deals, Industry,
Money and Finance Today,
Financial Crisis
In a complex set of arrangements,
the federal government has
Canada (316) and Europe (about
190) hosting the bulk. stepped in to stabilize the credit
Continue reading Has Staples Put union industry, as reported by the
in a Bottom at $17? Wall Street Journal. The bailout
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Staples- Office supplies- Canada- in subprime mortgages, and guess
United States- BloggingStocks what? They lost a bundle of
money for their clients, who are
retail credit unions.
anything you wouldn't want to
own if no deal occurs.
Continue reading Triple Play:
Takeover Targets in Utilities?
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Business/ Top News/ Culture/ 7
AA cuts flights
from Puerto Rico to
US, Caribbean (AP)
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 9:56:02 AM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico –
American Airlines is cutting more
than a dozen flights from Puerto
Rico to U.S. and Caribbean
destinations next year due to the
economic crisis.
Spokeswoman Andrea Huguely
Continue reading A Bailout for
says American will discontinue
Credit Unions
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However, the airline is adding
one flight each from New York
and Miami.
102 Year-Old Lens In all, American and American
on Canon 5D MkII
Eagle will operate an average of
41 daily flights through San Juan.
Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Huguely said Friday that an
undetermined number of
employees will be laid off.
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U.S. Kids Drink Too Little Water: Study Safari Extension

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4 Arab Fest Street Preachers Acquitted of Peace

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Submitted at 9/26/2010 10:58:51 PM the four of disturbing the peace. away from him. stunt on YouTube in order raise
The volunteer, Roger Williams of "When someone is a subject of an money.
A jury in one of the most densely Florida, said Wednesday in his investigation, they have to stop While he said he respects the
populated Muslim communities in testimony that the group made what they're doing and answer my jury’s decision, O’Reilly also told
the United States has acquitted him "nervous" and that he "felt
four Christian street preachers of intimidated." Though Williams’
questions," Kapanowski told
jurors Wednesday, according to
the Free Press, “It's really about a
hatred of Muslims.”
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There Were The 15 Best Mutual Fund Managers of Q2

Hannah Kim (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:50:36 AM
After a late rally in the first
quarter, the S&P 500 dropped
sharply in the second quarter with
an 11.86% loss.
So it's not surprising that it left
even the best performing mutual
fund managers on our list in the
red.
The exception was Barry Ziskin
(Z Seven), who jumped from
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Obama calls for longer school year
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:22:00 AM
President Obama said on the
"Today" show Monday morning
that American students attend
school a month less than kids in
other countries -- contending that
the school-year gap puts them at a
competitive disadvantage in the
global economy. "The idea of a
longer school year, I think, makes
sense," he said, when asked if
kids should go to school year-
round.
The president also said that
though per-student spending has
gone up in the country, student
performance has gone down,
which shows that "money without
reform will not fix the problem."
He urged teachers unions not to
resist his administration's reforms,
which include evaluation of
teachers based on their students'
test performance and an emphasis
on independent charter schools.
Obama has pushed for a longer
school year before.
"We can no longer afford an
academic calendar designed when
America was a nation of farmers
who needed their children at
home plowing the land at the end
of each day," Obama said last
year. "That calendar may have
once made sense, but today, it
puts us at a competitive
disadvantage. Our children spend
over a month less in school than
children in South Korea. That is
no way to prepare them for a 21st-
century economy."
[ Photos: More images of
President Obama]
He joked then that the idea was
not popular with his two school-
age daughters. Obama also said
that his daughters, Sasha and
Malia, would not be able to obtain
the same quality of instruction at
D.C. public schools (which are
known for their low test scores
and high dropout rates) that they
get at Sidwell Friends School.
Advocates of education reform
have called out the first family in
the past for sending the girls to
private school.
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interview after the jump:
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Setback for Chavez in Venezuela parliamentary vote

(Reuters: Top News) Facing the prospect of seats in the Assembly and that YUGO…what every..both where reform programs and bailout
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:36:52 AM negotiating with politicians he Democratic Unity took at least 60 not worth a SH*^.. programs like TARP (enacted by
views as bourgeois capitalists, seats. Five seats went to other Sep 26, 2010 11:21pm EDT Congress in the U.S.) is not
Members of MUD (United Chavez may yet move to curb parties and the results from the Hey, this socialist president has anywhere near the same thing as
M o v e m e n t f o r D e m o c r a c y ) parliament's influence. He could remaining six were not yet in. better numbers than OUR socialist the socialist take over of
Ismael Garcia (L) and Caracas d e v o l v e s o m e p o w e r s t o A baseball-mad former tank president ! Venezuela by Hugo Chavez.
Mayor Antonio Ledezma (R) community groups loyal to him, soldier who rose from a poor rural Sep 26, 2010 11:47pm EDT Perhaps you should go live in
celebrate after listening to or pass legislation before the new childhood, Chavez first tried to If you were here in this country Venezuela for a few years to
electoral results in Caracas parliamentarians take office in take power in a 1992 coup and and you lived what we go through experience the difference first
September 27, 2010. January. has lost only one election since he every single day. you would hand. While mojada (see his
Credit: Reuters/Gil Montano The polls were watched closely won the presidency at the ballot understand. he buys people votes statement above) apparently
By Frank Jack Daniel and by investors with money in box in 1998. with just a few cents. i have to believes that Chavez is truly a
Patricia Rondon Venezuelan debt, which offers CHAVEZ 'IMPOSSIBLE TO admit that he is pretty smart but in champion of the people in
CARACAS| Mon Sep 27, 2010 very high yields. Its benchmark PREDICT' all this years all he has done is Venezuela, they still lack the
12:36pm EDT 2027 global bond jumped on the The 56-year-old has since destroy this country! talking about basic services of electricity in
C A R A C A S ( R e u t e r s ) - news from polling centers. become one of the world's most comunism and he has a many parts of that country while
Venezuela's opposition won a "This is a huge result for the recognizable politicians, taking blackberry, a very expensive Mr. Chavez lives a “Capitalist”
third of the seats in parliament opposition. They exceeded even the crown from Cuba's Fidel airplain with lots of luxuries, best life style. In spite of our
and claimed a majority of the their own expectations," David Castro as the leading critic of cars and then he says capitalism is differences with our politicians,
popular vote in elections on Smilde, a Venezuela expert from Washington in Latin America, not the way America is still the greatest
Sunday, boosting its hopes of the University of Georgia, told and nationalizing the assets of Sep 27, 2010 1:48am EDT country on the planet. Venezuela,
besting President Hugo Chavez in Reuters. foreign oil companies. Sounds just like many U.S. not so much.
a 2012 presidential poll. Following years of defeats and Chavez is widely accused of politicians … Sep 27, 2010 8:36am EDT
Chavez's Socialist Party retained missteps, and a boycott of the last using bullying tactics against his Does he twitter Snooki on his I am sure many Americans will
a m a j o r i t y i n t h e 1 6 5 - s e a t parliamentary poll five years ago, opponents, although he can argue blackberry? agree with you but not so sure that
National Assembly. But it fell opposition leaders will now focus his democratic credentials are Sep 27, 2010 2:25am EDT most citizens of many other
short of keeping at least the two- on trying to topple the man they burnished by the opposition gains Chavez has put the right-wing countries will.
thirds it needed to pass major laws call an autocrat at the ballot box in Sunday's vote. oligarchs in their place and has Perhaps you are confusing the
or make appointments to the in 2012. Sep 26, 2010 8:58pm EDT lifted millions out of poverty. No indisputable military might of
Supreme Court and electoral In a Twitter message, the So what is new?….Chavez wonder he is so hated. America with it’s moral
authorities without support from president appeared to poke fun at manipulated the entire legislature Sep 27, 2010 6:19am EDT leadership. It’s lack of the latter
its political foes. the opposition's claims of a with threats before and he will do misterliu..while I harbor no love that has helped regimes like
As results came through on victory. "The paltry minority say it again to remain in power. He for any politician in Washington Venezula thrive.
M o n d a y , t h e n e w l y u n i t e d they won. Well, keep 'winning' owns the legislature and the (I think all of them are doing a After 9/11 America had a huge
opposition Democratic Unity then!" he wrote. promises he makes the people bad job) I am constantly amazed outpouring of goodwill from
umbrella group said it had won 52 With final results still coming in, believe he is their savior while he by people who make statements many old foes, Bush blew it all
percent of the overall vote. If Chavez was close to the three- takes the cream off the top and like yours. There is a major away with his simplistic “War on
confirmed, that would be a fifths of seats needed to give him relegates the poor back to the different between a government Terror”
symbolic blow to Chavez in the special decree powers that he gutter……. that has separation of powers (the The world needs America to
12th year of his rule of South could use to bypass parliament Sep 26, 2010 10:10pm EDT U.S.) where in fact the Congress regain the moral high ground, I
America's biggest oil exporter. and drive forward his socialist Hey–Chavez…or is that Hugo holds the majority of the power as just wish I had some advice to
"We are the majority!" opposition reforms. Castro Chavez Nah–but opposed to a Parliamentary give on achieving that or even
supporters sang after the tallies Election authorities said his wait…HUGO …was there not a government with a communist
were announced overnight. Socialist Party won at least 94 car called a HUGO..or was that dictator like Venezuela. Social SETBACK page 12
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North Korea's political elite meet over succession continued from page 11

some hope that they ever will.

(Reuters: Top News) friendly outcome is an retirement just yet despite his actually a good leader unlike Jong Sep 27, 2010 8:47am EDT
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:02:40 AM approximate continuation of the declining health, experts say. Il). Moral highground? Who
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Southwest expands presence with AirTran buy

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Look Ma! No hands! The Rampant View iPod nano headcam

Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:00:00 AM
How many times have you
thought, "It's a beautiful day. If
only I could capture it using my
iPod and my head?" If you're
anything like us, the answer is
hundreds of times. Now, our
yearning has come to fruition
thanks to Rampant View.
The Rampant View Headcam
now accommodates the 5th
generation iPod nano. Just pop the
nano inside, adjust it for your
head (or helmet if you're safety
conscious) and start shooting. It
looks like a super way to enhance
your skate videos. It doesn't look
waterproof, so forget the rad
kayaking videos, but there are
many other fun and hands-free
applications we could think of.
The Rampant View costs
US$34.95 and is shipping now.
There's another demo video on the
next page; click Read More to
view it.
[Via Engadget]
TUAW Look Ma! No hands! The
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Iran reports 6.1 earthquake west of Top 10 Survival Tools

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The Panel That’s Definitely, Maybe Not About AngelGate

MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:54:18 AM

Today at our TechCrunch Disrupt

conference in San Francisco, there
was probably one panel above all
others that everyone was waiting
for: Super Angels To Super VCs.
The reason, of course, is that last
week the situation known as
“AngelGate” broke out. It started
with Mike walking into a closed-
door meeting at a bar. And it
ended with heated emails being
published. We said Disrupt would
not be about AngelGate, but
naturally, it had to come up.
The panel consisted of: Ron
Conway(SV Angel), Chris
Sacca(Lowercase Capital), Dave
McClure(500 Startups) — all of
whom were right in the middle of
AngelGate — and Roelof
Botha(Sequoia), Chris
Dixon(Founder Collective), Mark
Suster(GRP Partners), and Yossi
Vardi.
Below, find my live notes
(paraphrased):
MA: You guys may have heard
of AngelGate. I promised this
wouldn’t be about it. But I have to
ask…
DM: I’ve said everything I want
to say about it on my blog.
CS: Ron made this industry
possible. I think there was a
misunderstanding. I wasn’t at the cover it. shirt.) CS: Quora had a good list of everything being different. It’s all
second dinner, so I hope no one MA: So we’re not going to have DM: The amount of social media jokes, actually. about the value proposition. It’s
fucked that up. But I was at the a Jerry Springer moment. going on about all this was DM: Last point, the Hitler video about what we offer the founders.
first, it wasn’t bad. I think this CS: I don’t think you want that. actually pretty cool. TechCrunch, was genius. MA: Is there any different
whole thing is a total waste of YV: I’m more concerned about Facebook, Twitter, Quora — it MA: What’s the difference between the huge amount that
time. this all getting nuclear. was cool watching everything between a VC and super angel?
RC: I think all the leaked emails PANEL page 18
(McClure is wearing a Bin38 develop in realtime. RB: We don’t really think about
16 Technology/
DROID R2-D2 making Sept 30 debut for $249
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:18:06 AM
We know how it is: you’ve read
our review of the Motorola
DROID 2 and are suitably
convinced by the new Verizon
Android smartphone, but you’ve
been waiting until the R2-D2
version arrived before putting
down your money. Well, the wait
is almost over: Verizon has
confirmed that the DROID R2-D2
by Motorola will be available
online and in select stores from
September 30th.
The DROID 2 itself comes
decorated to look like the
Astromech Droid from Star Wars,
and is packaged in a custom box
resembling carbonite. There’s
also a Star Wars media dock and
wired stereo headset, together
with some exclusive content:
• Bounty Hunt Visual ID: Find
and capture images around the
Star Wars universe to unlock
hidden content
• Sound and Photo Gallery
• Live Wallpapers (Blast the
Probe Droid; Luke Balancing
Yoda; Navigating the Asteroid
Field; Watch Bespin’s Cloud
City)
• Trivia Challenge: Answer trivia
questions about The Empire
Strikes Back
• Widgets
For all this R2-D2 goodness
you’ll need to pay $249 (after a
$100 mail-in rebate) and sign up
to a mandatory two-year voice
and data plan. Otherwise it’s
exactly the same phone as the
DROID 2.
Press Release:
MAY THE DROID BE WITH
YOU: LIMITED EDITION
DROID™ R2-D2™ BY
MOTOROLA LANDS ON
VERIZON WIRELESS’
NETWORK
DROID™ R2-D2™ by Motorola
Brings the Galactic Empire to
Customers
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. – Verizon
E-reader News Edition
To celebrate 30 years since the
film hit theaters, customers with
Android devices running Android
2.1 or higher will soon be able to
get the Empire Strikes Back app
from Android Market™. The
app, only for Verizon Wireless
customers, allows Jedi Masters to
browse, preview and download
Star Wars content related to Star
Wars: Episode V The Empire
Strikes Back. Verizon Wireless
customers can access premium
Star Wars content for a one-time
charge of $2.99.
The Star Wars mobile app will
have the following features and
content:
· Bounty Hunt Visual ID:
Find and capture images around
the Star Wars universe to unlock
hidden content
· Sound and Photo Gallery
· Live Wallpapers:
o Blast the Probe Droid
o Luke Balancing Yoda
o Navigating the Asteroid Field
o Watch Bespin’s Cloud City
· Trivia Challenge: Answer
trivia questions about The Empire
Wireless announced that the dock and wired stereo headset. Strikes Back
highly anticipated limited edition Exclusive content comes pre- · Widgets
DROID™ R2-D2™ by Motorola loaded on the special edition The DROID™ R2-D2™ by
will be available online at smartphone, including: Motorola will be available for
www.verizonwireless.com and in · R2-D2 notification sounds $249 after a $100 mail-in rebate
s e l e c t V e r i z o n W i r e l e s s and ringtones with a new two-year customer
Communication stores beginning · Four live wallpapers agreement. Customers will need
Sept. 30. With a graphic design · R2-D2 Clock Widget to subscribe to a Nationwide Talk
to look like the iconic Astromech · “The Best of R2-D2” video plan or a Nationwide Talk & Text
Droid from the Star Wars™ Saga, with the original Cantina music plan (beginning at $39.99
the DROID™ R2-D2™ by · Exclusive Binoculars App monthly access) and an Email and
Motorola will be packaged in a Star Wars Mobile App Available W e b f o r S m a r t p h o n e p l a n
custom box resembling carbonite for All Customers with Android
and come with a Star Wars media 2.1 phones DROID page 18
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Paid Android App Support Expands to More
Countries
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:45:53 PM
The Google Android Market
team recently announced plans to
extend support for paid
applications to more countries
worldwide, a move that will allow
developers to earn additional
income from their "for sale"
mobile applications.
Registered developers were sent
an email containing information
about the upcoming changes a
few days ago, according to several
reports. The email hints at
Google's expansion plans, but did
not detail which countries in
particular would be added.
However, analytics firm Distimo
is now reporting it has seen 13
new countries where paid content
has been added over the weekend.
Sponsor
Currently, paid Android
applications are only available in
nine countries according to
Google's own oddly out-of-date
website: Austria, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, the
Netherlands, Spain, the U.K. and
the U.S. But in reality, the full list
also includes Australia, Canada,
the Republic of Korea, New
Zealand and Switzerland, says
Distimo. And according to the
email sent to developers(see full
text below), there will be more
supported countries coming soon.
A thread on developers forum
site XDA-Developers.com, now
mysteriously missing, had some
claiming that users in Hungary,
Poland and Sweden were able to
access paid applications in the
Market.
However, Distimo is reporting
today that it has seen paid support
arrive for 13 countries over this
past weekend: Argentina,
Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Hong
Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
Singapore and South Africa.
Distimo notes that consumers in
these countries now have access
to paid apps while browsing the
Market, but it's not clear if Google
has enabled the ability to purchase
(i.e. "check out") yet. Google
appears to be rolling out the
support now and this list may not
be the definitive list of countries,
explains Distimo.
Google is also expanding the
availability of the Android Market
worldwide, not just its paid apps.
India and Hungry, for example,
recently appeared in the list of
supported countries, now
numbering 48 in total. The Impact
of More Paid App Support
An op-ed on Android-watching
blog Androinica said that the lack
of paid applications in the Market
has led to increased piracy
because people want to use the
apps and cannot pay for them
through legal means. To back up
these claims, the author looks at
the piracy rates worldwide in
relation to paid app support. The
North American region, where
paid app support first debuted, has
a lower piracy rate than others. It's
hard to prove this is a direct
correlation (hence the "op-ed"
tag) - it's possible that Android
users may just be of a different
mindset than those who use other
platforms. For one thing, many
Android users are open source
fans who are used to the power of
free, while others are simply
associate "Google" itself with free
and powerful tools, noted the blog
Venture Beat late last year.
One thing the increased paid
application support should
change, though, is the ratio of free
to paid applications, such as those
cited by Distimo itself in its latest
report. At the beginning of this
month, Android had the largest
share of free apps by far: 60%
were free, compared with 29% on
the iPhone, 26% on the iPad, 26%
on Blackberry, 28% on Nokia
(Ovi), 31% on Palm's webOS and
22% on Windows Mobile.
Developer Letter
The following is the text of the
letter sent to the developers:
Hello,
We're writing to inform you
about some changes to Android
Market that require your attention.
Over the next few weeks, we'll be
adding paid apps support for
additional countries. If you have
selected to publish your paid apps
to all locations and intend to
support all new locations as we
expand the number of supported
countries for paid apps, you don't
have to do anything. If you have
selected to publish your paid apps
to all locations but intend to only
target the currently supported 14
countries, please update your
location selections to target these
specific countries.
Please look for follow-up emails
when we introduce paid apps
support for specific additional
countries in the coming weeks. At
that time, you'll have the option to
target these specific countries.
Thanks, and we look forward to
continue working with you on
Android Market.
Sincerely,
The Android Market Team
Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Discuss
Technology/ 17
Nielsen: growth
of digital music
sales flat in 2010
Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:42:00 PM
It's a bit early for the big music
companies to start panicking, but
it looks like the heyday of double-
digit growth in digital music sales
may now be behind us. That's
according to market research firm
Nielsen, at least, which found that
sales in the US fell flat in 2010
after a 13 percent increase from
2008 to 2009, and a whopping 28
percent jump from 2007 to 2008.
Nielsen is quick to point out,
however, that it thinks this is a
"plateau," and that it "doesn't
mean that this digital consumption
is going to drop significantly." It
also still seems to be a different
story outside of the US, with
Nielsen reporting that digital
music sales were up up 7 percent
in Britain, 13 percent in Germany
and 19 percent in France.
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sales flat in 2010 originally
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Sep 2010 12:42:00 EDT. Please
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some angel raises?
RB: I don’t think there’s a
difference, really.
DM: Yeah but the targets are
different. Huge guys are looking
for billion dollar exists. We’re
looking for $50 million exits still.
MA: Average size you guys
invest?
RC: $50 – $100K
CS: $75 – 300K
MA: What’s your smallest
funding?
RB: $0. Seriously. Some
companies aren’t quite ready for
funding yet, but we still work
with them. Some we don’t put any
money in.
YV: The different between super
angel and a VC is like making
love with a lover versus making
love with the government. The
angels are much more
accommodating to the founders.
MA: Is it okay for you to sell
stock early before some kind of
exit? Some people do it, and it
pissed people off.
DM: Not in the first round, but
later yes.
MA: What about founders taking
money off the table?
RC: I think a company consists
of every single person on the
team. Facebook has 2,000, Zynga
has 1,200, startups have 10.
Everyone should cash-out at the
Coffee Catcher Filters and Simplifies Your French Press [Video]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:00:00 AM
same time.
DM: But that’s just impractical.
Sometimes there are offers on the
table that are too good to pass up
— if people don’t want to sell,
why not let them take money off
the table?
YV: Young founders should be
allowed to get some money.
RC: The rank-and-file engineer
has the right to get liquidity at the
same time as founders.
CD: I’m against liquidity events
unless the company is profitable.
RB: Founders should be allowed
to take “feed the family” money
off the table.
DM: Big VCs are getting
squeezed out unless they offer
founder liquidity.
MA: Let’s talk about valuations.
They’re going up, I hear. What do
you guys do counter?
DM: We’d have to go to dinner
first (laughs).
CS: We’ve slowed down — just
not doing as many deals.
CD: We’ve done 15 investments
in the last few months and I
haven’t seen any of them being
huge. We need to make sure they
can raise VC later.
DM: It’s all about the exit you’re
aiming for.
MA: But why should
the entrepreneur care?
DM: It may seem fine that
Using a French press is a better
way of making coffee at home,
b u t c l e a n - u p c a n b e a b i t awkward. The Coffee Catcher
they’re looking for a big
valuation, but it can hurt them.
MA: Shouldn’t all these guys be
going to change the world?
DM: No, absolutely not. It’s
about being realistic.
MS: If you raise a large round too
early, you don’t have a chance to
get out. We sat on the sidelines
when valuations got way too high
a few years ago.
MA: Ron what do you think
about it being okay to be a $25
million company?
RC: We invest, then
the entrepreneur decides. The
investors don’t decide that.
MA: Do people say they want a
small exit with Google? Or
Facebook?
RC: Sometimes they say that, and
we weigh those things. But a
great entrepreneur doesn’t talk
about those things.
CS: People get rich at $20
million exits. People have braces
as $4 million each.
YV: It’s all about risks.
MA: In the last 18 months
Sequoia has exited something like
$12 billion. That has to be more
than super angels right?
DM: For sure. They had a great
model, but in the future it’s going
to be different. It’s not a bad thing
to be building a small mousetrap.
RC: I think Super Angels versus
VCs is a bunch of confusion.
Super Angels are just small VCs.
DM: That’s absolutely not true.
We have designers on staff.
RC: Can I finish?
DM: Sure.
RC: Many of the super angels
have the same backers as big
VCs. Litte VCs are now called
Super Angels. What matter is the
partners in these firms. It should
be all about the entrepreneurs and
what they want. All these names
are bullshit.
MA: What we need are $10
billion companies in SV. Isn’t that
true?
DM: But if you ask companies
some like these smaller ideals.
MA: No one is talking about the
entreprenuers.
CS: That’s not true. You call
some smaller companies
“dipshit” companies, but they’re
not.
YV: Not all super angels are
funded angels. Some of us are
doing it with our own money.
RC: You’re right.
That’s a wrap.
makes it easier to remove your
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continued from page 16
(beginning at $29.99 for unlimited
monthly access). Customers will
receive the rebate in the form of a
debit card; upon receipt,
customers may use the card as
cash anywhere debit cards are
accepted.
For more information on
DROID™ R2-D2™ by Motorola,
go to www.droiddoes.com/r2d2.
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with WiFi support
• Droid 2 gets killed for science
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Big News: Google Starts Rolling Out
Paid Android Apps Support In More
Countries
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:07:24 AM
Just before the weekend, Google
dropped word to developers that
paid Android apps support was on
its way to more countries than the
14 currently supported. In the
email, the company did not
specify a timeframe other than
“over the next few weeks” and
stopped short of saying which
markets would be gaining support
for paid apps.
Now app store analytics company
Distimo tells us they’ve noticed
paid apps targeting previously
unsupported countries have
started making their way to the
Android Market.
So far, the startup has identified
12 ‘new’ countries: Argentina,
Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Hong
Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
Singapore and South Africa.
Other reports suggest Sweden and
Hungary are two other countries
that are starting to see paid apps
support. Note that we haven’t yet
confirmed this is actually the case
for these countries at this point,
but Distimo’s tracking system was
built to pick up things like this.
If all this checks out indeed,
Technology/ 19
Big Changes for
Arduino's Programmable
Little Platform
target the currently supported 14 Marshall Kirkpatrick
countries, please update your (ReadWriteWeb)
location selections to target these Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:40:48 PM
specific countries.
Google would be at least (and at Please look for follow-up emails Arduino, the programmable We'll demo the board at Maker
last) doubling the amount of when we introduce paid apps platform of sensors and Faire and it will be available later
c o u n t r i e s w h e r e u s e r s c a n support for specific additional corresponding device controls, in the autumn."
purchase Android apps, which countries in the coming weeks. At will add ethernet connectivity and The Web Store of Arduino-built
would in turn be nothing short of that time, you’ll have the option a web store of built products, the products will be a curated
t e r r i f i c n e w s f o r m a n y a to target these specific countries. company announced this collection of the best products
developer. This greatly expands Thanks, and we look forward to weekend. built on the platform and will
their potential reach and thus continue working with you on Arduino is one of the best known launch on the 18th of October.
money-making opportunities – Android companies enabling others to There's nothing like a good App
even if this is only a start – and it Market. create what's called the Internet of Store to make the value of a
would most definitely reduce the Sincerely, Things, network connected platform clear to consumers and
gigantic proportion of free-only The Android Market Team physical-world devices with web to inspire further development by
apps currently in the application Google, Inc. interfaces. The organization developers.
store over time. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway announced a number of new Open source hardware, network
Here’s the email Google sent out Mountain View, CA 94043 hardware and software connected physical devices and
before the weekend: We’ve contacted Google to see developments forthcoming in the sensors that can facilitate the
Hello, what’s up and hope to provide short and medium term in a blog control of real-world systems are
We’re writing to inform you more details soon. post on Friday. fast becoming more accessible
about some changes to Android For now, if you’re an Android Sponsor outside the mega-geek-o-sphere.
Market that require your attention. user based in any of the countries TRAILER Arduino: The The blooming of new data
Over the next few weeks, we’ll put in bold above, let us know if Documentary (available on HD) streams, like the physical location
be adding paid apps support for you can actually locate any paid from gnd on Vimeo. of mobile device users, and the
additional countries. If you have applications in Android Market, The addition of ethernet will be proliferation of new publishing
selected to publish your paid apps and if you’re effectively able to based on "a new bootloader that platforms for updates from
to all locations and intend to p u r c h a s e t h e m a l r e a d y . lets you upload code to the board devices (Facebook, Twitter, think
support all new locations as we CrunchBase Information Android via TFTP and discover them on clients) could converge with
expand the number of supported I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y the network via a broadcast platforms like Arduino to further
countries for paid apps, you don’t C r u n c h B a s e protocol," the blog post explained. dissolve the hard line around what
have to do anything. If you have "This board can be powered over constitutes a computer and
selected to publish your paid apps the ethernet cable through an computing in the future. Discuss
to all locations but intend to only optional PoE power supply
module that's standards compliant.
20 Technology/ Food/ E-reader News Edition

Greylock Gives Super Angel-Turned- Apple, Google, Privacy,

VC Reid Hoffman A $20 Million Seed Productivity: Tech News
Fund In a Nutshell
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) $25,000 to $500,000 in startups in Because of this pressure, VC Mike Melanson
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:21:04 PM the technology space. Any firms are starting to respond with (ReadWriteWeb)
Greylock partner can make their own early stage funds, which Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:45:00 PM tech news, with the company
L i n k e d I n c o - f o u n d e r R e i d investments out of the fund, and is what Greylock is doing with accounting for 15% of stories.
Hoffman is undoubtedly one of the investments don’t need to go Hoffman. Some venture firms like Pew Research Center's Project Google came in a close second
the Valley’s most prolific angel through the entire partnership Andreessen Horowitz make both for Excellence in Journalism with nearly 12% of all stories.
investors. Hoffman has made approval process. seed investment s as well as larger released a study today examining Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft
angel investments in Digg, One We are told the funding will be infusions in startups. the media's ambivalent approach all followed.
King’s Lane, Facebook, Flickr, mainly put towards investments Here are are live notes: to addressing technology finding The report also stood behind
Last.fm, Ning, Six Apart and that don’t result in a board seat at MA: How did you miss Twitter? that, among other things, the Twitter's claims that it was
Zynga. Last November, Hoffman the company. Hoffman has a great DS: We feel happy about out positive effects of technology on becoming a news distribution
joined VC firm Greylock as a track record of angel investing, bets, but feel great for Twitter. productivity just barely edge out vehicle - especially in the case of
partner, making all his future making big bets on Zynga, ES: Here’s an example of a a privacy concerns as the most technology news. In mainstream
angel and seed investments Facebook and more, and Greylock company that didn’t know how common theme in technology media, technology news accounts
through the VC fund. Today at is essentially giving him the big it would be. coverage. for 2% of all news, whereas on
TechCrunch Disrupt, Greylock opportunity to do what he does DS: That’s a great point; people According to Pew, the research Twitter a full 51% of the top
Partners and Hoffman have best (besides, of course, founding have said that about LinkedIn, suggests that "the press reflects linked-to news stories each week
announced a $20 million fund companies like LinkedIn and Facebook, Pandora. exuberance about gadgets and a were related to technology.
s o l e l y f o r s e e d a n d a n g e l PayPal). ES: Let’s go through some of wonder about the corporations Of stories linked on Twitter,
investments. As super angels (like Hoffman) those. behind them, but wariness about Twitter itself was the most
Hoffman will be managing are now challenging venture DS: We spent a o lot of time effects on our lives, our behavior popular topic, accounting for
partner of the fund, which is capital firms like Greylock, as talking about how to be and the sociology of the digital 15%, with the iPhone coming
called the Greylock Discovery startups take angel funding, intelligently contrarian over what age." second with nearly 8% of stories.
Fund and is part of the VC firm’s launch without much investment, we should invest in. CrunchBase Sponsor According to the report, "more
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Origin EON 17 Gaming Notebook Unveiled, Ships in October

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) mid-range options, or even the be shipping until October. You
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:23:33 PM basic versions may be more than can head on over to Origin’s site
enough for some, it’s the and start building right now, if
Origin have launched their brand “ultimate package” that will get you’re interested enough.
new gaming notebook, the EON all the attention. If you have the [ via TechDigest]
17, sticking to the old adage, cash to throw down, then you can Relevant Entries on SlashGear
“You get what you pay for.” get your hands on the 17.3-inch, • Origin gaming PC boutique
O f f e r i n g t h e c u s t o m i z a t i o n full 1080p HD display. Inside, builder launches
options that PC/notebook gamers you’ll find a six-core Intel i7 • Origin computers offers Asus
expect, plus throwing the kitchen 980X processor, as well as 2GB Rampage III Extreme mainboard
sink into the deal as well, the GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX • ORIGIN EON18 gaming
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of a gaming notebook. With a 512GB Kingston V+ series Solid (BYOC)
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The Origin EON 17 keeps up burner, featuring Power DVD 10 card reader. building and ordering your brand
with the company’s focus on Ultra. There’s also Bluetooth 2.1 To (almost) exhaust the feature new gaming notebook
mobile gaming. But, while there connectivity, and Intel’s Centrino set, you’ll find an HDTV tuner, a monstrosities, but that they won’t

Study: we're keeping our mobiles longer, despite sinking prices

Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 1:27:00 PM
Had your current cellphone for
the better part of the this century?
Turns out you aren't the only one -
- according to new research
gathered by J.D. Power and
Associates, Americans are
holding onto their mobiles for
longer than ever these days. In
fact, the study found that the
length of time customers keep
their traditional wireless cell
phone has increased by 17 percent
from 2009, with the average
customer holding onto their phone
for around 20.5 months. That's the
longest period since this study
began tracking the data in 1999,
when the average was 17.3
months. Kirk Parsons, senior
director of wireless services at the
company, feels that the recent
economic downturn has a lot to do
with folks keeping their existing
phones longer, while we're
guessing that it has to do with
existing phones simply being
"good enough."
Furthermore, anyone who is even
remotely tuned into the mobile
world knows that widespread 4G
is just around the bend, giving
folks reason to hold off on
renewing their contract until
WiMAX / LTE comes to their
carrier of choice. Curiously,
phone prices are lower than ever
before, which should mean that
it's even less expensive to upgrade
now than in the past. Of course,
none of that matters if your
existing phone contract isn't up
(or you aren't due for a discounted
renewal), and the savings on the
hardware is likely being devoured
by the extra fees we're paying for
messaging and data. So, are you
in the "run it till it dies" camp, or
are you wondering who on Earth
this survey (shown in full after the
break) is referring to?
Continue reading Study: we're
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despite sinking prices
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Bing Gordon: “Zynga Is Four Disruptions In One”

Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch) made him think that Zynga would Pincus. Her response: “He’s
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:39:47 AM be a massive success. Gordon said pretty cool”. The deal was on
that, years ago, he anticipated that soon after. Pincus notes that Mary
The wait is over: TechCrunch there would be four disruptive was playing a Zynga game at the
Disrupt San Francisco has just trends in the game industry: time.
kicked off, and it’s starting with a social, analytics, an “APIable Toward the end of the panel,
red-hot panel called Internet Internet” (app economy), and new Pincus was asked what he thought
Treasures that features John Doerr payment methods. But he’d about Zynga’s current progress.
and Bing Gordon of KPCB, and previously thought of each of Pincus says that Zynga is still far
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus. these as separate entities, not from being an Internet treasure, at
The conversation quickly turned s o m e t h i n g t h a t w o u l d b e least in the way he defines one
to Zynga — the massively combined into a single company. —”I think people can still
popular social gaming company Then he saw what Mark Pincus imagine life without playing our
that Kleiner Perkins is an investor was onto with Zynga — which he games,” he explained. Pincus
in. Doerr says that Zynga is the s a y s c o m b i n e d t h e s e “ f o u r wants Zynga to “make your daily
company that’s “most rapidly d i s r u p t i o n s i n o n e ” . for breakfast, but there was one point. To which Pincus said grind have more meaning” in
growing, most profitable, with the Later in the panel, Gordon unexpected guest: Doerr’s “You’re John Doerr at KPCB — whatever way it can. And it
m o s t h a p p y c u s t o m e r s t h a t recounted how he introduced daughter, Mary. During the if you can’t do what you want, sounds like he realizes that isn’t
Kleiner Perkins has ever backed”. Doerr to Pincus. “Mark’s a bit of conversation Doerr expressed who can?” going to come from addictive
Bing Gordon, who founded a bad boy, but he’s totally on to some skepticism, noting that After that Doerr asked his farming games.
gaming giant Electronic Arts prior something”, Gordon told Doerr. Zynga was pretty late stage at this daughter what she thought of
to joining KPCB, recalled what The trio then met at Doerr’s house

Microsoft taps Kinect for hands-on ads

(CNET News.com) Redmond announced three initial several times, changed genders
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:40:01 AM advertisers--Chevrolet, Sprint, and once, and covered both of the
T-Mobile--that will advertise Pirates of Silicon Valley. These
Microsoft has lined up several within the Kinect Sports, Kinect days, most of her attention is
advertisers, including Chevrolet, Adventures, and Kinect Joy Ride focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
to create interactive ads that tie in games. With Chevy, for example, This entry passed through the
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kinds of interactive ads that tie statement. The campaigns will an Xbox and the Kinect Top games exec Don Mattrick Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
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Xbox attachment that lets gamers market on November 4. Both analysts and Microsoft sell more than 3 million Kinect
take action without the need for a Kinect will sell for $149 and executives have talked about the units this holiday season.
controller, thanks to a motion Microsoft and retailers will also potential for Kinect to be a huge During her years at CNET News,
sensing camera. offer several bundles that include money maker for the company. Ina Fried has changed beats
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Digital Music Sales Flatten in US, Rise Apple is the most-
in Other Countries in 2010
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:05:11 PM
Today, Nielsen reports that the
sales of digital music have
flattened in the year 2010, versus
previous years. While they’re
quick to suggest that the flat-line
isn’t a long-term effect, and more
of a short-term situation, it looks
like the effect isn’t being felt
around the world, but mostly just
in the United States, based on
their reported numbers. While the
US flattens out, countries like
Germany and France are still
seeing inclines in the digital
music market.
The numbers from Nielsen
suggest that the sales of digital
music have gone flat. When
reported back in 2008, the
increase from 2007 to 2008 was a
promising 28%. And from 2008 to
2009, the market saw an incline of
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13 percent. But this year, it’s a
different story, as sales have
managed to taper out, and find a
nice “plateau.” That’s exactly
what Nielsen is saying is
happening. They add to the
plateau idea that this “doesn’t
mean that this digital consumption
is going to drop significantly.”
The same report shows that sales
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climb. In Britain, Nielsen is Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
reporting a 7 percent increase. Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Germany saw a 13 percent climb, Submitted at 9/27/2010 1:00:00 PM
and there’s a 19 percent rise in
France. So even if the music sales Here's a bit of news that's no
in the digital retailers aren’t shock to us. According to the Pew
climbing in the States, it’s good toResearch Center's Project for
see that they’re climbing in other Excellence in Journalism, Apple
places on the globe. receives more coverage from the
[ via iPodnn] press than any other tech
Relevant Entries on SlashGear company.
• Warner Music schooled in The research center recently
supply and demand by way of concluded a year-long study
iTunes pricing which found that a full 15.1
• Sony PS3 sales dwindling this percent of all tech articles were
holiday season about Apple. Google commanded
• Intel predicts retail electronics 11.4 percent of articles while 3
sales to grow in September and percent were primarily about
October Microsoft. The study used data
• Technics axe 1200 and 1210 from 52 newspapers, broadcast
turntables and Web sites from June 2009
• Nokia 5250 touchscreen through June 2010.
Symbian^1 phone gets official What's powering Apple's station in my little Podunk town
popularity? Its computers covered the recent iPod updates.
represent only a fraction of those As I said, telling us that Apple
in use. However, the iPhone and gets a lot of press coverage is like
the iPod's meteoric rise to
stardom, and infiltration of
telling bees that honey is popular.
But anecdotal evidence is one
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Verizon Droid 2 R2-D2 Edition lands September 30 for $249

Chris Ziegler (Engadget) custom-designed to look like Follow the break for the full press
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:20:00 PM carbonite (Harrison Ford not release and a couple more pics!
included, we presume). You'll Continue reading Verizon Droid
Just how badly do you want Star also get a variety of custom live 2 R2-D2 Edition lands September
Wars branding on your Droid 2, wallpapers, sounds, photos, 30 for $249
eh? You'd better want it bad, widgets, and a "binoculars app," Verizon Droid 2 R2-D2 Edition
b e c a u s e V e r i z o n h a s j u s t which we imagine is some sort of lands September 30 for $249
announced that it'll be charging digital zoom tool. Conspicuously originally appeared on Engadget
$249 for the privilege of owning missing is any sort of indication on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:20:00
an R2-D2 Limited Edition-- with that this features the rumored EDT. Please see our terms for use
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again, for that dinero you get not continues. CTIA next week, access a special Empire Strikes fangirl or fanboy. Meanwhile,
just the funky-looking phone but a perhaps. Back app and related content for a look for the phone to go live on
Star Wars-themed dock and a box On a related note, other Verizon one-time charge of $2.99, which this Thursday, September 30.

Rockchip Android desk phone gets video demo

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:43:20 AM
Rockchip’s Android-based desk
phone was one of the sleeper
surprises at IFA 2010, and having
seen Engadget Chinese‘s video
demo we’re finding we’d quite
like on of our own. The unnamed
phone places VoIP calls over
WiFi or your mobile network, but
also allows for video calls, web
browsing and multimedia
playback.
We’re still not entirely sure of the
specifications – we’re guessing it
uses a roughly 7-inch touchscreen
– but it also seems that Rockchip
might want to do a little more
work on their Android build.
Several of the hands-on photos
show the phone rotated into
portrait orientation; not a problem
with an Android smartphone, but
less ergonomic when you’re
having to flip your desk phone
around.
It’s unclear whether that’s down
to a limitation of the phone or
something Rockchip actually
wanted to include. Either way,
we can see it being a stumbling
block for this “home media
player” should any companies
actually decide to pick up the
reference design.
[ via Cloned In China]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Rockchip tease with Android
desk phone
• RAmos to release Rockchip
Android MID with 1080p?
• Samsung I7500 Android phone
in-depth video demo
• Acorp EM501R super-cheap
Android MID gets video demo
• 14-megapixel Altek Leo
Android phone gets video demo

Halle Berry Schools Little Nahla in the Art of Shopping

PopSugar (PopSugar) adorable duo are home again in reconnecting with her favorite
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:00:00 PM California after a busy Summer of places. She's also busy balancing
travel that included a stint in her family and love life, as she To see more Halle, just read
Halle Berry and her daughter, South Africa as Halle filmed Dark continues staying close to Nahla's more.
Nahla, enjoyed special moments Tide and, more recently, a dad, Gabriel, while giving her View 10 Photos ›
yesterday while shopping for charitable visit to NYC. Now the relationship with Olivier Martinez
home goods at a CB2 in LA. The girls are getting back to their West Coast routine and Halle's
room to grow.
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Friendster explains ReadWriteMobile: New

monetization plans Channel, Authored by
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:32:03 AM
Pointing to Facebook, Zynga, and
Groupon as currently the biggest
players in the three respective
@sarahintampa
Richard MacManus
As part of its efforts to better segments, Bangah noted that (ReadWriteWeb)
monetize its services, Friendster is while the three Internet companies
looking to expand its brand operate in different areas, they Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:45:00 PM Create a Calendar to Keep
beyond just a social-networking rely on each other to monetize Track of Important Past
site to one that encompasses their business. Today we're launching our sixth
games and location-based channel, ReadWriteMobile. Dates, Not Just Future
Read more of " Friendster
services. explains monetization plans" at
Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent, Ones [Calendars]
In an interview with ZDNet Asia, ZDNet Asia. ReadWriteMobile is dedicated to
helping its community understand Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
MOL Global CEO Ganesh Kumar This entry passed through the
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networks, social games and your content and you're reading it technical implications of
developing mobile applications.
location-based services as three on someone else's site, please read
key areas of growth, noting that our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ ReadWriteMobile will be
authored by Sarah Perez, who you
the company now wants to bring content-only/faq.php
these elements together and Five Filters featured article: all know as a feature writer for
ReadWriteWeb. Sarah admits in
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social network. A Malaysia-based Reporting of Falluja's Cancer her Twitter profile that she's
"obsessed with mobile," so I think
p a y m e n t s c o m p a n y , M O L Catastrophe.
acquired Friendster last you'll agree that she's the ideal
writer for this new channel. I'm
December.
also thrilled to announce that
Sarah is now a full-time member
of our team! Sarah is the ninth full
-time person at ReadWriteWeb.
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will be one to two posts per day. MoogleLally reminds us that we
ReadWriteMobile joins our five can use them to remember
other channels: ReadWriteStart, important dates from the past as
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ReadWriteEnterprise,
ReadWriteCloud and
ReadWriteHack. The aim with all
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A Stunning Sicilian Story (11 pics)

Marica (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:30:00 PM
Famous photographer Jean-
Francois Campos and Belgian
model Anouck Lepere team up for
an amazing editorial in the Alberta Ferrettii, Riccardo Tisci beautiful and historic Baroque
October issue of Flair Magazine. and more Italian stylists. buildings of an amazing country
Set in Modica in south Sicily, The name of this editorial is that's chock full of history.
Italy, it is one of the cities ' R a c c o n t o S i c i l i a n o ' m e a n s via NoirFacade
declared as World Heritage by 'Sicilian Story.' It is the perfect http://www.mfilomeno.com/
UNESCO. The spread features by everyone from Versace to title for a photoshoot that shows,
Lepere wearing fabulous outfits in addition to lovely outfits, many
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Bank Of America: Bond

Yields Make Sense If We
Are On The Verge Of
"Something Really
Awful"
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Green iPhone 4 case: The Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:42:32 AM

EcoShield+ We wonder if we're looking at a

future inductee to the "bond yields
(CNET News.com) So what makes this black case
green? Well, Agent 18 promises
First working Social Bicycles can't get any lower!!"-Hall of
Fame.
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:47:18 AM
that it uses one recycled plastic
The EcoShield+ carries a list bottle in every case it makes.
GPS-enabled bike lock Bloomberg:
“It’s very hard to justify where
yields are now, unless we are
price of $39.99.(Credit: Agent 18) You'd think that would make the
Alas, going green always seems case cheaper, but alas, no. pictured, looking chunky indeed on the verge of something
really awful,” said Johan Jooste, a
to cost a little extra, and at $39.99, Currently, the EcoShield only Tim Stevens (Engadget) and it's immediately added to the
strategist at Bank of America
Agent 18's EcoShield+ iPhone 4 comes in black.(Credit: Agent 18) Submitted at 9/27/2010 1:05:00 PM queue of available human-
Corp.’s Merrill Lynch Global
case, borders on the exorbitant. This entry passed through the powered chariots. This version is
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case is expensive, we did check on someone else's site, please read Bicycles (or SoBi) bike lock release date, we're also hoping the
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it's really pretty nice. Agent 18 content-only/faq.php revolutionize bicycle loaning miniaturization before then -- they
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bonds.”
distinguish the case--and it does Catastrophe. rear wheel of a bike set to be GPS-enabled bike lock pictured,
Here's the latest look at the US
come in handy. offered up to others. Those others looking chunky originally
curve. At least for today, with
can call up a mobile app to locate appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27
stocks sliding, you're doing well
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Break It, You Own It
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 6:00:00 PM
The Obama administration is
getting a crash course in the old
axiom "you break it you bought
it" when it comes to their recently
enacted health care plan.
The administration thought
themselves clever scheduling the
first wave of insurance market
reforms to take effect just before
the November election. Many of
these reforms are the most
popular element of their health
plan.
But the measures are also
destructive to the existing
Apple TVs are on the insurance markets. So the
administration is watching
insurance businesses adapt to
way from Shenzhen accommodate the new Obama
rules, in ways that are leaving
Steven Sande (The Unofficial date. politicians spooked, and
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl about c o n s u m e r s u n h a p p y .
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:15:00 AM the shipment - a middle-aged, First up is the impact of the new
slightly overweight schoolgirl rules on premiums. Insurance
Wow. with a beard, but you get the idea. rates are rising across the nation
No sooner had we published the Thanks to the many tipsters who in the individual and small group
post about Apple TV s being let us know about the packages markets, sometimes by more than
queued for shipping than our that shipped while we were 20 percent. The Obama team
TUAW mailboxes were filled sleeping. blames the recession for these
with a steady stream of shipping TUAW Apple TVs are on the p r i c e h i k e s ( a n d " g r e e d y "
notices. way from Shenzhen originally insurers). But the industry's
The new Apple TVs are now appeared on The Unofficial Apple profitability is largely flat. Plans
being shipped from Shenzhen, Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 27 Sep are merely passing along their
China to a variety of destinations, 2010 10:15:00 EST. Please see higher costs, some of which is a
and most people are seeing either our terms for use of feeds. direct result of the new rules.
Thursday, September 30 or Read| Permalink| Email this| Just how much Obamacare is
Friday, October 1 as the delivery Comments spiking the rates is subject of
debate. The Obama team cites a
study saying their rules only
account for about 1 to 2 percent of
the increase. A better picture
comes from the research reports
issued by Wall Street analysts
who track these firms, and have
no political motivation to
understate the impacts.
Cowen is in line with others
when they write "the mandates
will raise costs (and premium
levels) by 8-10% in the individual
market and 2-4% in the small
group market on average (with a
negligible impact on the large
group segment)."
The bigger story, however, may
be the quiet steps that large group
plans are taking.
The administration estimated that
up to 85 percent of employer-
based plans would keep their
benefits static to qualify for
"grandfathering" under the new
rules, and avoid the full brunt of
Obamacare's expensive
regulation. Now it looks like only
about 50 percent of plans will
qualify for grandfathering. What
about the rest?
They are opting for greater
flexibility that comes with
jettisoning their "grandfathered"
status so that they can reduce
benefits and raise co-pays to
offset rising costs. The plans
calculate that they can fully blunt
the cost of Obamacare's future
rules by cutting benefits, and
they're right.
Many consumers will get an
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initial taste of these changes this
fall. Co-pays and cost sharing will
rise. It's an ironic outcome for the
Obama team. Their entire scheme
was predicated on a rejection of
the Bush Administration's drive
toward "consumer oriented"
health plans designed to give
patients more choices but also
more financial skin in the costs of
their health care decisions.
But the bigger casualty may be
choice itself. The fastest way to
cut costs is to reduce options, and
employer plans are rolling out
new products with narrow
networks of doctors and hospitals.
This is the irony of Obamacare.
The President promised more
choice and lower prices. We're
getting the opposite. Now that the
administration has broken the
private market, they will own
these consequences.
Scott Gottlieb, M.D., is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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Republican Pledge Misses Radical Fix United States Needs

(AEI.Org: Articles) these petitions come from for tax policy. legislation passed earlier this year. whose new book "Restoring the
Submitted at 9/26/2010 6:00:00 PM different walks," according to the Next, it turns to reducing the long Republicans assert that the health- Republic: A Clear, Concise and
document, "their message is -term fiscal imbalances that many care law will kill jobs, raise health Colorful Blueprint for America's
According to the Intrade political uniform: Washington has not been economists say have caused so -care costs, reduce the availability Future" has quietly become the
futures market, the odds that listening." But consistent with the much business caution. The of private insurance, increase leading topic of conversation in
Republicans will capture the U.S. view that House Minority Leader proposal outlines four steps to government spending, and raise some Washington policy circles,
House of Representatives are John Boehner is steering the party curb discretionary spending. taxes. This is perhaps the most have argued for a different
about 74 percent. With a lead that hard toward the middle, the meat Four Steps dramatic part of the proposal. But approach. They believe that
big, one might expect that of the document is extraordinarily The first step would be a given how unpopular the health- Republicans need to set a clear
Republicans would avoid specific moderate. cancellation of all unspent care bill has been, with even and aggressive agenda ahead of
policy proposals at all cost. It's Party of No stimulus money remaining from Democrats running against it, it is the midterm election so that they
b e t t e r n o t t o c h a n g e t h e The Pledge might refute the last year's $787 billion package. hardly a risky step. can claim a mandate while
conversation when you are accusation that Republicans are Second, they would aim to cut Far to Left negotiating major fixes with
winning. the Party of No, but it may do spending to pre-stimulus levels, There is a grab bag full of other Obama afterward.
Last Thursday, they did the next little to soothe the hunger for representing an immediate proposals, covering such items as Boehner might argue that it is
best thing, proposing a list of drastic action that has driven the reduction of $100 billion. Third, national defense priorities, TARP, prudent to start with small steps,
cautious and moderate policies nation so quickly to the right. they would institute budget caps Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and but in choosing this path he is
that will be extraordinarily hard The first stated goal of the on discretionary spending to legislative procedures, but none of sacrificing the mandate that the
for sinking Democrats to snipe at. proposal is to promote policies attempt to control the future rate these are particularly noteworthy. Tea Party movement possibly
The document is called the that will improve the economy of spending growth. Lastly, President Barack Obama, it could have provided for more
Pledge to America. Like Newt and create jobs. "The longer our Republicans would institute a seems, has governed so far to the ambitious proposals.
G i n g r i c h ' s C o n t r a c t W i t h government refuses to wake up hiring freeze for all non-security left that House Republicans with Kevin A. Hassett is a senior
America, it outlines how the and abandon its job- killing federal employees. such moderate goals can still fellow and the director of
Republicans would seek to govern agenda, the longer it will take to The immediate spending seem right wing in comparison. economic policy studies at AEI.
if granted a majority in the next turn around and get people reduction of $100 billion sounds One worries, though, that while Photo Credit: BigStock/
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As Sweden Goes . . .
As a cradle-to-grave welfare
state, Sweden has long been the
northern light of liberals, the pole
star of congressional progressives.
And yet when the Social
Democrats cast the recent election
as a choice between tax breaks for
the rich and more welfare, they
were handed their worst electoral
showing since 1914. By electing
the four-party right-of-center
coalition, Alliance for Sweden,
voters opted for tax cuts. This
unexpected Swedish victory is
just the latest in an unprecedented
run of success worldwide for
fiscally conservative parties,
beginning after the Greek debt
crisis in April.
Since then, there have been eight
elections in the developed world,
six of which have been won by
the right. In Central Europe,
voters embraced center-right
parties that pledged to reduce
spending. The Czech Republic's
TOP 09 party fared well in May
elections, as did Slovakia's free-
market Freedom and Solidarity
party a month later. Results from
Western Europe are even more
telling, where in June Dutch
voters gave their most fiscally
conservative party, the People's
Party for Freedom and
Democracy, its first ever victory.
Despite particular differences, a
few common themes emerge from
this record, themes with which
American conservatives are
certainly familiar but which they
might do well to internalize in the
weeks ahead.
Despite voters' fiscal
conservatism, they do not want to
uproot entirely the welfare state.
First, cap and trade has proved to
be a successful foil. For instance,
in Australia Liberal leader Tony
Abbott argued that cap and trade
would hurt mining interests, an
approach that enabled the
coalition he led to pick up votes
and seats in working-class,
especially mining, districts. In the
Western Sydney suburbs, Abbot
told working-class voters it would
significantly increase their
electricity bills. Even as green
parties increased their share of the
Australian vote, the Labor party
shunned cap and trade and instead
pledged multiparty talks on
curbing greenhouse gas
emissions.
Second, the Tea Party
phenomenon is part of a surging
populism worldwide, and
traditional parties everywhere are
feeling the crunch. The most
attention has gone to anti-
immigrant parties, like Geert
Wilders's Freedom party, which
nearly tripled its representation in
the Dutch parliament, or the far-
right Sweden Democrats, which
entered parliament for the first
time. But there is also the
populism that issues from
frustration with an unresponsive,
and fiscally irresponsible, ruling
class. Accordingly, new parties
pushing fiscal conservatism form
the backbone of the Czech and
Slovak governments. In the
United Kingdom both currents did
better than they have before. Both
the United Kingdom
Independence party, a fiscally
conservative party, and the anti-
immigrant British National party,
siphoned votes away from
Cameron.
Nonetheless, despite voters' fiscal
conservatism, they do not want to
uproot entirely the welfare state.
Australia's Abbott started his
campaign by pledging not to
reintroduce WorkChoices, a law
deregulating labor markets passed
by the last Liberal prime minister,
John Howard, which proved so
unpopular that voters toppled
Howard's government despite a
booming economy. In Sweden,
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's
right-wing New Moderates party
has successfully argued that
lowering taxes, increasing the
number of Swedes at work, and
decreasing those on the welfare
rolls is the best way to pay for
Sweden's social model.
Polls show that each of these
trends is in evidence on our
shores. Voters say they want
smaller government with fewer
services, and independents are
especially concerned with the
deficit. Cap and trade may be
popular in San Francisco and on
college campuses, but Democrats
who backed the bill in districts
dependent upon fossil fuels for
their electricity--or for their jobs--
are paying the price. And anger at
establishment leaders on both
sides of the aisle has fueled the
Tea Party, suggesting that the
"plague on both your houses"
sentiment is deep and widespread.
Still, antigovernment attitudes
don't seem to affect the pillars of
the American welfare state: Even
ardent constitutional
conservatives like Sharron Angle
promise to protect Social Security
and Medicare.
These trends sound both
optimistic and cautionary notes
for GOP leaders. Republicans can
ride the wave of populism and
fiscal conservatism to victory
now, but they will need to
reconcile Tea Party populism with
Americans' attraction to the
welfare state if they are to
simultaneously govern and
forestall a third party effort in
2012. Republican leaders might
look to their foreign counterparts
for lessons in how to manage this
challenge now, before the
challenge manages them.
Henry Olsen is a vice president
and the director of the National
Research Initiative at AEI.
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Penelope Cruz was dressed for
Fall on Saturday morning as she
headed to catch a flight out of
London's Heathrow airport with
her sister Monica. The Cruz ladies
were off on a trip after a stay in
England, where Penelope's Pirates
of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides costar, Johnny Depp, also
spent time with friends. Penelope
has been keeping a low profile
since confirming the news about
her pregnancy almost two weeks
ago. Her husband Javier Bardem,
meanwhile, has been visible as he
travels to promote Eat Pray Love
in Spain and Italy. While out on
the press circuit, Javier was asked
about his impending fatherhood
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How Big Is The Housing Market's Shadow Inventory Problem?

The Pragmatic Capitalist
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:05:14 PM
The problem of shadow
inventory has been widely
reported on, but difficult to
quantify. A new report out of
John Burns Real Estate
Consulting estimates the added
supply at 10 months or about 4.7
million units and will ultimately
result in lower prices (via WSJ):
“The report also estimates that the
distressed share of home sales
will rise to around 40% of all
home re-sales through 2012. And
that the shadow inventory of
distressed loans will stay at
elevated levels through 2016.
The rising share of distressed
sales could send prices down
faster because banks are less
likely to wait to reduce prices on
their inventory of bank owned
homes. The Irvine, Calif.-based
housing consultancy estimates
that prices will fall by 8% to 11%
through 2012, though the
declines will be worse if the
economy deteriorates or interest
rates rise significantly. The firm
estimates that distressed sales
will peak next year at 2.36
million, up from 2.05 million this
year and 1.5 million in 2009.”
This only reconfirms my belief
prices. The pre-bubble level was
roughly 4 months of supply. This
should continue to put pressure
on real estate prices as demand
simply fails to outstrip an
overwhelming amount of supply.
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Prepare for Currency/Trade Wars; How Might China Respond to

US Tariffs?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Geithner will also talk about the markets to bring down the value Organisation rules. said Sander Levin, a Democrat
Shedlock) (Mish's Global yuan with the House Ways and of the U.S. dollar amid concerns But in a largely untested area of from Michigan and chairman of
Economic Trend Analysis) Means Committee this afternoon. over a ballooning trade deficits trade law the measure will evoke the committee.
Submitted at 9/26/2010 8:21:00 PM “It is past time for China to with its most important trading opposition from Beijing and could China's determination to shackle
Patience of US legislators move,” Geithner said. partners. lead to a legal challenge in the the strength of its currency helped
regarding the value of the Yuan An undervalued yuan has helped There’s growing concern in WTO. The bill will go to turn the country into the world's
has finally given out. Last Friday, China to boost exports and Beijing that the strong-yen committee on Friday and could be manufacturing hub for everything
Congress jumped into the fray encouraged U.S. companies to agreement doomed Japan’s voted on by the full House as from iPods to T-shirts and, until
a f t e r e x c e p t i o n a l l y h a r s h outsource manufacturing to China economy. early as next week. the recession bit, attracted few
s t a t e m e n t s f r o m T r e a s u r y from the U.S., Geithner said. He Attracted by the appreciating yen, “This bill is being advanced in the critics. But an unemployment rate
Secretary Tim Geithner, who up added that the yuan is held at a cash flowed into Japan in the late absence of effective action on a of 9.6pc in the US, as well as
until now had always preached undervalued level by “heavy 1980s, resulting in loose monetary multilateral basis,” Mr Levin said. upcoming Congressional
diplomacy. Here is a brief intervention” even as Chinese conditions that helped fuel a bull Hours later, Wen Jiabao, the elections, is spreading anger
sequence of events. officials have pledged to allow the market in stocks and real estate. Chinese premier, told business across Capitol Hill.
Patience Runs Out yuan’s value to be guided more by The resulting asset bubble burst in leaders in New York that pressure According to the bill's supporters,
MarketWatch reports Patience market forces. China Rebuffs 1990, followed by two decades of on Beijing was unwarranted. a properly valued yuan would
runs out on quiet diplomacy on Geithner economic stagnation in Japan. “The conditions for a major move jobs back to the US as
China currency. Sept. 15, 2010 Responding to Geithner China “But what has the US done to appreciation of the renminbi do exports from China become more
Patience appears to have run out says it won’t repeat Japan’s reduce its trade deficit?” Li said. not exist,” he said. If the renminbi expensive. The Peterson Institute
in Washington for the standard mistake Sept. 20, 2010 “The US should pay much more were suddenly to rise by a large for International Economics in
White House approach that favors China pledged not to repeat attention to its own problems.” degree against the dollar, “we Washington argues up to 500,000
quiet diplomacy for dealing with Japan’s mistake and allow its Congress Risks Trade War cannot imagine how many American jobs could be created.
China over the dispute over the currency to rise in response to Geithner's sounding off and the Chinese factories will go Not every US company shares
value of its currency. foreign pressure, countering rebuke from China were all it took bankrupt, how many Chinese the committee's view. Wal-Mart
In testimony to the House Ways criticism from U.S. lawmakers to spur Congress into action. workers will lose their jobs, and and Citigroup are among
and Means Committee, a wide that the yuan is undervalued amid The Financial Times reports US how many migrant workers will companies lobbying against the
array of experts said that quiet a growing cross-Pacific row over Congress to attack renminbi return to the countryside... China Bill, fearing it will provoke
diplomacy has essentially been a Beijing’s currency regime. valuation would suffer major social retaliation in China. If the bill
failure. The only debate at the “China will not go down the path Sept. 23, 2010 upheaval”. Risk of Trade Wars passes next week, the Senate will
hearing was what new approach that Japan did and give in to Democratic leaders in the House Looms still need to vote on it.
should be tried. Geithner Enters foreign pressure on the yuan’s of Representatives will move The Telegraph reports Risk of House Vote Set
the Battle exchange rate,” Li Daokui, an ahead with a bill allowing the US trade war rises as key US Bloomberg reports China
One day later Geithner calls for economist and member of the to retaliate against China for committee backs tariffs on China Currency Measure Set for Vote in
faster yuan appreciation monetary policy committee of the manipulating its currency, a The adoption of the measure by U.S. House
Sept. 16, 2010 People’s Bank of China, was cited significant escalation of the the Ways and Means Committee Legislation pressing China to
“China needs to allow significant, as saying in a report by the state- dispute between Washington and on Friday means it will now be raise the value of its currency is
sustained appreciation over time run China Daily. Beijing. voted on by the House of set for a vote in the U.S. House
to correct this undervaluation and Li’s comments appeared to Sander Levin, chairman of the Representatives on Wednesday. next week, as Republicans joined
allow the exchange rate to fully reference to the 1985 Plaza ways and means committee in the "China's exchange-rate policy has Democrats in expressing
reflect market forces,” Geithner A c c o r d t h a t r e s u l t e d i n House of Representatives, said on a major impact on American frustration that the yuan is
said in testimony prepared for the c o o r d i n a t e d g o v e r n m e n t Wednesday the bill would be businesses, and Americans jobs, PREPARE page 32
Senate Banking Committee. intervention in the currency compatible with World Trade which is what this is all about,"
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appreciating too slowly.
“We cannot wait any longer to
level the playing field for U.S.
businesses and protect American
manufacturing jobs,” Democratic
Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland
said yesterday after the Ways and
Means Committee sent the bill to
the full House.
The committee adopted the
measure by voice vote after the
panel’s top Republican, Dave
Camp of Michigan, voted with
Democrats to back the bill. The
full House will vote Sept. 29, said
committee Chairman Sander
Levin of Michigan, a Democrat.
The measure would let
companies petition for higher
duties on imports from China to
compensate for the effect of a
weak currency. President Barack
Obama’s administration hasn’t
taken a position on the bill, said
Natalie Wyeth, a Treasury
Department spokeswoman.
The currency dispute “is a proxy
for the state of the overall U.S.-
China commercial relationship,”
William Reinsch, president of the
Washington-based National
Foreign Trade Council, said Sept.
23 on Bloomberg Television. “I
don’t think it will have that big of
an impact on the American
economy.”
Lawmakers fended off warnings
from lobbyists representing
companies such as Caterpillar
Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and
Citigroup Inc., who said the
measure may lead to retaliation
against U.S. companies operating
in China and curb exports to the
country. China may retaliate if the
House passes the legislation, said
Reinsch, who represents
multinational companies such as
Caterpillar.
Forty-four Republicans had
already signed on as sponsors of
the original bill, and with Camp’s
support, lobbyists said they expect
additional Republicans to vote
with Democrats next week.
“Provoking tension with our
trading partners doesn’t come
without costs, and we should
choose our battles carefully,”
Stephanie Lester, vice president
of the Retail Industry Leaders
Association, which represents
Wal-Mart, said in a statement. “It
makes little sense to enact
harmful policies that will spark a
bilateral conflict over currency
with one of our largest trading
partners and fastest growing
markets for American exports.”
Impact on Jobs
I certainly disagree with C. Fred
Bergsten, director of the Peterson
Institute for International
Economics in Washington who
says "Forcing China to raise the
value of its currency may create
500,000 jobs in the U.S."
I do not think it will create any
jobs. In fact, I think it will cost
jobs. Manufacturing is not going
to return to the US just because
we pass tariffs on China. Wage
differentials are too great. Instead,
imports will simply come from
some other country and rising
prices will hurt sales.
Of course we could pass tariffs
on the whole world, but who then
buy our stuff? The most likely
thing to happen if we pass
massive numbers of tariffs is
global trade will collapse.
How Might China Respond?
Assuming we do pass a bill and
the President signs it, China will
respond.
Some might argue this would
prompt China to dump treasuries.
I find that unlikely. However,
China would certainly buy less of
them.
Here are a few things to consider.
On June 27 China announced it
would buy 20 Boeing 777-800
airplanes for $1.4 billion to be
delivered between 2013 to 2015.
On August 31, Air China
announced it would buy 15
Boeing 787-9 aircraft.
Might not China cancel those
orders or give all future orders to
Airbus? Might not China decide
to put a tariff on US agricultural
imports?
There are all kinds of ways China
could retaliate without dumping
treasuries, and we would not like
any of them.
Pray tell what if China shuts off
all rare earth exports? Please see
Rare Earth Diplomacy: Japan
Holds Chinese Boat
Captain;China Blocks Rare Earth
Exports to Japan;China Holds 4
Japanese on Spy Charges;Captain
Set Free for a discussion as to
what that would mean to US
military.
No-Win Situation for Obama
Anti-China sentiment is at a fever
pitch in Congress.
If Congress passes a bill, the
president will be in a no-win
situation, with either his
reelection chances or the economy
at huge risk.
For example, if the president
vetoed a bill he would be attacked
from members of both political
parties.
If he signed a bill and numerous
import tariffs placed, global trade
would collapse and the US would
soon be back in a deep recession,
assuming you believe Good
News: The Great Recession is
Over
Regardless, trade wars will make
matters much worse. Does anyone
remember Smoot-Hawley?
First Things First
We still do not know if the
Senate will take up the measure
before the election, what the
Senate version will look like,
whether the president will sign
the bill if the measure passes, and
whether or not the final version
of the bill mandates action instead
of noise.
Lots of things can happen.
Hopefully cooler heads prevail.
One final point: Trade wars like
these are hallmarks of
deflationary times.
Addendum - Fair Trade or Free
Trade?
I was asked "Mish, what if we
adopted a 'fair trade' policy where
we only traded with countries that
meet certain standards. Ie.) they
need a EPA equivalent, UI, etc.
This would seemingly stimulate
jobs here while raising the global
standard of living no?"
That may sound good but what
constitutes "fair trade?
Who gets to define "fair"? Us or
them?
Assume for a second that
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everyone is selling us stuff for far
less than its worth. Who is
harmed by this, us or them? The
overwhelming percentage of the
population (everyone but the
handful of jobs we would save by
tariffs) comes out ahead. How is
this not a good thing?
Imagine going into Walmart and
demanding to pay higher prices.
They would think you were nuts,
and so would I. Go into a small
business and demand to pay more
and they will probably
accommodate you. People shop at
Walmart, Target, Kohls, Best Buy
or wherever because they like low
prices.
The only people who don't like
low prices are those who think
(incorrectly) that higher prices
will bring back jobs. But they
won't.
The irony in this "fair trade"
argument is the US is arguably
one of the biggest abusers of "fair
trade" around, especially on
agricultural products. The EU is
second.
Even Canada bitches at us
regarding agricultural goods and
lumber. Year in and year out trade
agreements die on US and EU
agricultural subsidies.
I maintain the first country that
practices free trade regardless of
what anyone else does will be a
winner.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Community Bank Director Chimes In Regarding
Small Business Lending
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
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Submitted at 9/26/2010 12:38:00 PM
In response to$30 Billion Offer
No One Wants - Small Businesses
Hit by Deflation I received this
email from a director of a small
bank. Hello Mish,
I sit on the board of a small
community bank and I can attest
to the fact that our loan portfolio
is in excellent shape even when
taking into consideration today's
dismal economy. That is not to
say a loan is good when made can
go bad but if that happens, our
bank has sufficient collateral
pledged against the loan to cover
such short falls. We also review
our loan loss reserve and increase
as needed based on criteria
established under current banking
regulations.
Sure there are numerous troubled
banks identified by the FDIC but I
feel many of these banks will
survive.
All banks should be making
reasonable earnings with today's
low interest rate environment. For
community banks, loans are vital
and banks are interested in
making loans to individuals or
businesses that meet our
underwriting standards but loan
demand is down. A big majority
of our loans are just loans leaving
another financial institution. Why
would someone leave one bank
for another?
Of course loan interest rates play
a part in the decision but I think a
big part is the relationship a
customer develops with the loan
officer. Dealing directly with a
local loan officer who
understands your business and is
genuinely interested in your
business is vital.
Today many larger banks only
use local loan officers to bring in
the loan request but the decision
to make the loan and the terms
rest in some committee located in
a town far away. Most small
business persons will leave such a
bank for a local bank with more
personalized service.
It's ridiculous that Congress
passed and our president signed a
bill to provide funds to smaller
banks for more loans. As a bank
director, there is no way this plan
can work. If a bank needs more
deposits for loans, assuming the
bank has sufficient capital, a
banker can easily get more
deposits from the public at a much
lower cost than the bill passed by
congress.
Our government is totally out of
touch with the real world and
passed this legislation strictly as a
political move to make the public
think they are trying to help small
businesses.
This bull, I mean bill, should be
labeled TARP II or some similar
acronym. Bazooka Lending
Theory and Practice
Unlike October 2008, when
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Eurozone Recovery Slows; Contraction Evident Except Germany,
France
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:54:00 AM
Robust growth in Q3 will soon
give way in Europe. Markit
reports Eurozone recovery slows
as renewed contraction is evident
outside of French-German core
Contracting periphery
Outside of the two largest euro
member states, a renewed
contraction of economic activity
was evident in September. The
Composite Output Index for the
rest of the Eurozone1 has fallen
steadily since peaking at 54.2 in
March, dropping from 51.7 in
August to 49.4 to thereby slip
below the 50.0 no-change level
for the first time since last
November.
Employment growth disappoints
One of the more disappointing
aspects of the recovery has been
weak job creation. The Composite
PMI Employment Index fell
slightly in September, down from
its weak post-recession peak in
August, and is consistent with
only very modest employment
growth of perhaps 0.2% per
quarter.
Furthermore, the jobs growth is
largely confined to France and
Germany. The former saw jobs
created at a rate only just below
August’s 28-month high, while
the latter saw the sharpest rise in
employment since May 2008. In
contrast, outside of these
countries, PMI data signalled an
accelerating rate of job losses in
September, with the rate of
decline reaching the highest since
February. How long Germany and
France can keep Europe from
slipping back into recession
remains to be seen, but if
contraction of economic activity
in the rest of Europe continues, I
would suggest another quarter or
two at most.
One big advantage German
exporters had earlier in the year
was the Euro collapsed to 1.18.
The Euro is now approaching
1.35.
Meanwhile, Japan's intervention
in the Yen has failed to produce
any lasting results, as expected.
Trade Friction Increases
Congress and Geithner are on the
warpath over currencies already.
Moreover, the House is set to vote
on Tariff legislation this week, as
discussed in Prepare for Currency/
Trade Wars; How Might China
E-reader News Edition
Every country wants its currency
to weaken to stimulate exports.
However, that's mathematically
impossible except against gold,
and rising gold prices will not do
exporters any good.
Hopefully cooler heads will
prevail, but now that Geithner has
stirred up a hornet's nest, anything
can happen.
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Stock Almanac Guy Predicts Dow 38,820 -- Here's

Why That's Definitely Possible
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money despite the recent crisis, and the
Game) entire world's GDP is 90% larger
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:14:00 AM than it was in 2000 based on
World Bank data. Yet a major
Uh-oh. Jeffrey Hirsch, author of index such as the Dow, which
the long-running 'Stock Trader's
Almanac' has forecast the Dow
represents ownership in key U.S.
businesses tapping this larger
Alone with
Jones Industrial Index to hit
38,820.
But the catch is that he believes
economy, is still near the same
price as in 2000.
Getting back to the Dow 38,820
My Thoughts
the majority of future gains won't
start until 2017, when we enter an
forecast, if you consider that the
Dow is roughly flat with where it
(15 photos)
eight-year super boom. was in year 2000, then Mr. alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
So he's forecasting Dow 38,820, Hirsch's prediction only says that Modern Metropolis)
by 2025: the Dow Jones will deliver an Submitted at 9/27/2010 3:30:00 PM
Bloomberg: average annual increase of about
“All previous major economic 5.2% over the 25-year period As a person who's always seeking
booms and secular bull markets from 2000 - 2025. a bit of solitude, I was instantly
were driven by peace, inflation Thus his view is certainly within drawn to these photos. They're by
from war and crisis spending, and the realm of reason and not a wild a young girl named Lauren who
Advisors Inc., which oversees not completely removed from the swears she doesn't use Photoshop.
ubiquitous enabling technologies forecast by any means. He's just
about $900 million. “We’ve had stock market's performance record In fact, the only editing she's done
that created major cultural s a v v i l y communicated his
probably one of the worst 10-year pre-2000. is change the contrast, saturation
paradigm shifts and sustained forecast to make headlines. 5.2%
periods in history, and I think "But the stock market hasn't even and sharpness.
prosperity,” he wrote in a press long-term growth wouldn't be too
there’s just too much overhang gone anywhere in the last ten Each photo is beautiful by itself
release sent with the 44th edition sexy of a forecast.
with the government for it to get years?" but put them together and you
of the book.
to those numbers.” Exactly. That's what makes his In fact, it could even turn out to start to see an interesting pattern.
So he's looking at the growth
But, really, is 38,820 such a wild forecast look pretty reasonable. be too conservative, given that They're of young girls caught up
stage that comes after our current
forecast? See, while stocks haven't gone stocks pre-2000 had a much in their own thoughts, searching
multi-year debacle. Still, not
With the Dow Jones at about anywhere over ten years, the size higher long-term average growth for answering in a beautiful but
everyone's a believer:
10,830 right now, hitting 38,820 of the U.S. & global economy rate than just 5.2%. So Dow lonely world.
“He’s got some crazy number on
by the end of 2025 implies an underpinning them has grown far 38,820 here we come... by 2025. Lauren (aka look left and look
there,” said Frank Ingarra, a
average growth rate of about 9.4% larger. The U.S. economy is over Join the conversation about this right)
Stamford, Connecticut-based
growth per year. This is high but 45% larger than it was in 2000, story » Related:
money manager at Hennessy
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36 Culture/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

5 Unusual Foods You Should Explore

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) percent of any profits it brought "People really eat that?"
Submitted at 9/27/2010 9:00:00 AM in. Do you have a taste for
Columbus never did find his way adventure? Good. First, we look
When Christopher Columbus set to India. But his voyages spurred at a food that's been a mainstay in
sail from Genoa in 1492, it was a trans-Atlantic food exchange Asian cooking for over 2,000
spices he was after -- Indian that transformed European and years -- but it's one that most
spices like cinnamon, cardamom American cuisines, providing Americans still don't know what
and cloves. No, the great explorer tomatoes for Italian pasta sauce, to do with.
didn't have a craving for curry. potatoes for Irish stew and pigs This entry passed through the
Asian spices were all the rage in for Southern barbecues.
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Morning Links - Katy Perry Mocks
Sesame Street Ban on SNL
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:15:00 AM
• Katy Perry mocks her Sesame
Street cancellation on SNL-
Huffington Post
• Gael Garcia Bernal and his wife
are expecting another kid!- Us
Weekly
• The Bachelor's Melissa Rycroft
gets conflicting reports on her
baby's gender- People
• Mariah Carey falls on stage and
doesn't want to get up- Lainey
Gossip
• Wall Street 2 is tops at the
weekend box office- BuzzSugar
• Comedian Greg Giraldo in
critical condition after an
overdose- PopEater
tonight's lineup of new shows and Cartoon Network:'Real Show'
events (all times Eastern). Check and'MAD'-- 8:15 start
y o u r l o c a l T V l i s t i n g s f o r ESPN:'Monday Night Football'--
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The Packers at Da Bears
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• Kim Kardashian puts on a show ** = Series/Season Finale 8:30 start
for the TSA- TMZ # = New Day/Time ID:'Chasing Justice With Dan
• Russell Brand has his bachelor Week 2 of the new fall season Abrams'-- 8:30 start
party at a strip club- Wonderwall a n d a l r e a d y o n e s h o w i s Style:'Too Fat for 15: Fighting
• Could Lindsay Lohan get a supposedly on the ropes -- 'Lone Back'
conservatorship?- Fox 411 Star.' Watch it while you can. TLC:'Little People, Big World'
• Ashton and Demi celebrate five 8:00 to 9:00 The rest of the schedule and the
y e a r s o f m a r r i a g e i n b e d - ABC:'Dancing With the Stars'-- late night talk shows after the
Celebitchy (120 minutes) jump.
• J.K. Rowling sits down to share CBS:'How I Met Your Mother' Permalink| Email this| Linking
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Adrian Grenier Talks

Fame, the Paparazzi and
Paris Hilton
Chris Jordan (TV Squad) of his doc to make it a multi-
layered look at celebrity in our
Photo Manipulation of the Day: Magical Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:00:00 AM
fame-obsessed world. He
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews becomes a paparazzo himself and
Paint Adrian Grenier, the person, has a and interviews high-wattage stars
bit more depth than Vince, the Alec Baldwin, Paris Hilton, Matt
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My seminar I taught in Puebla, fun an messy shoot, one I won't character, he plays on 'Entourage.' Damon, Lindsay Lohan about
Modern Metropolis) Mexico this year. The concept forget!" Take Grenier's new project, their experiences, plus talks to big
Submitted at 9/27/2010 2:00:00 PM was pretty simple, cover a model You may remember Nace as the 'Teenage Paparazzo,' which - i d e a t h i n k e r s l i k e N o a m
in paint. I wanted to make it look man who, in an instant, could debuts at Mon., Sept, 27 at 9PM Chomsky and Jake Halpern about
Aaron Nace shows us the beauty as though the model was invisible, make a young woman age 71 ET on HBO. The documentary fans' "relationships" with celebs.
and magic of Photoshop with this and the paint was defining her incredible years. Like a modern chronicles the life of a 14-year old It's that pseudo relationship that's
r e c e n t l y c o m p l e t e d p h o t o shape. Several photos were taken day magician, he always makes us paparazzo named Austin who fueling today's paparazzi frenzy,
manipulation. I couldn't find the of both her and the background, wonder what other tricks he's got stalks celebs in the middle of the a c c o r d i n g t o G r e n i e r ' s
story behind it so I contacted and in places where the model's left up his sleeve... night in Los Angeles. documentary.
Nace, himself. Here is what he skin was visible, the background Aaron Nace But Grenier -- who wrote, Permalink| Email this| Linking
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38 Politics-Left/
'Mad Men' Mondays: 'Hands and Knees'
Matt Zoller Seitz (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:00:00 PM
This is the new column in TNR’s
weekly series of"Mad Men"
episode recaps. Caution: It
contains spoilers. Click here for
last week's review.
The first time I saw Jon Hamm as
Don Draper, I thought, "This
character has the saddest eyes I've
ever seen." With each passing
season it becomes increasingly
clear that I read them wrong. It
wasn't sadness I saw in Draper's
eyes. It was fear. More accurately,
it was fear held at bay. But once
in a while it springs to the surface,
and when it does, Draper's
unflappable facade crumbles and
we see a man who's seconds away
from abandoning everything,
packing his bags, and running
away—again.
The occasion in "Hands and
Knees"—episode 10 of Season
Four, directed by Lynn Shelton
and written by Jonathan
Abrahams and Matthew
Weiner—was Don's investigation
by the government for what
should have been a routine
security clearance. Don would
have been the point man for a new
client, North American Aviation,
a California-based firm that's
developing technology for the
Department of Defense, including
guidance systems for the
Minuteman II missile. Don's new
secretary, Megan, filled out the
form applying for security
clearance and Don signed it
without looking, as people tend to
do with forms. Don later realized
that within the first eight
questions, he had lied about three
things, including his age. He was
thrown into a spiral of
terror—even suffering a Tony
Soprano–style panic
attack—when the government
sent two agents to question his ex-
wife, Betty. ("Do you have any
reason to believe Mr. Draper isn't
who he says he is?" one agent
asked, with no idea how loaded
that question was.) Betty held up
well under their bland ambush,
telling them nothing
incriminating. She also refrained
from spilling Don's secret to her
second husband, Henry—who, as
an employee of Governor
Rockefeller and a rising political
star, probably should have been
told. "I don't want any secrets,"
she told Henry, laying her head on
his chest without having even
alluded to the secret she was
keeping.
"Everybody keeps secrets." That
was the theme, or something like
the theme, of last night's "Mad
Men," and in case you didn't
figure it out on your own, the
show clued you in over the
closing credits with an
instrumental cover version of the
Beatles' "Do You Want to Know a
Secret?" (The song was a
humorous callback to a running
gag in this episode in which Don
used his agency connections to
get tickets to take his daughter
Sally to see the band at Shea
Stadium, but it was also a
reminder that "Mad Men"
sometimes has trouble quitting
when it's ahead.) And the security
clearance incident was yet another
of the show's periodic reminders
of what sustained deception costs
a person. It's been said that that if
you don't buy the ethical
justification for being truthful,
there's a practical argument for it:
If you don't lie, you never have to
remember exactly what you said.
Don's whole life has been stitched
from a huge lie and embroidered
with countless smaller ones. He
has a lot to remember: where he
grew up, what his childhood was
like, the number and names of his
siblings, how many times he's
been married, the name of his
wife and which wife, and on and
on. And that's on top of all the
smaller lies he's told as a
handsome, alcoholic philanderer.
Judging from "Hands and Knees,"
the strain of being Don Draper/
Dick Whitman is very nearly too
much for Don/Dick. Don
convinced Pete to cover for
him—to scotch the account before
the investigation could progress
too far and absorb the incredulous
fury of his partners. Next week
Don will probably be on an even
keel again and lying about
something else, because that's
what habitual liars do, and
because this is TV: Don can't be
totally exposed, because if he did,
the series would have to either
end immediately or spend the rest
of its run tracking Don's progress
through the prison system for
desertion from the U.S. Army. I
was reminded of a cynical but
very quotable line by Don from
the series pilot: "I'm living like
there's no tomorrow, because
there isn't one." Don is finally
figuring out that there is, in fact, a
tomorrow—the wreckage of
Season Four is the "tomorrow" he
couldn't foresee—and the
expedient life now seems much
less attractive.
So many secrets, so many lies.
Joan becomes pregnant following
her post-mugging tryst with Roger
and they decide that she should
get an abortion (her third, I think).
So she goes alone on a bus to
"take care of it." Roger's reaction
to the news was fascinating and
real: regret and real sorrow
commingled with blase male
entitlement. At one point he even
spun out a hypothetical narrative
that involved Joan having the
baby and pretending it was her
husband's and Roger eventually
entering the picture and claiming
his fatherhood after Greg died in
Vietnam. (I love that Roger can
be so sensitive and profoundly
insensitive in the same breath. I
also loved Joan's reaction, which
was that of a mom who hasn't lost
her capacity to be shocked by a
little boy's verbal fumblings, but
takes it all in stride.) Roger,
meanwhile, had a professional
secret of his own: Lucky Strike,
the source of the vast majority of
Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce's
billings, is dumping the agency.
The final secret—maybe more of
an emphasis than a
revelation—was Pete's. He's
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becoming the steadiest, most-clear
headed senior partner, willing to
absorb outrageous manipulation
and abuse to keep the peace and
stabilize his own position.
Lane Pryce, meanwhile,
entertained a visit from his father,
Roger Pryce, who flew in from
England to give his son a bit of
advice that applies to so many of
the series' major characters,
including Don, Roger, and Joan:
"Put your home in order. Either
there or here. You cannot live in
between." The "in between" is a
kind of present-tense netherworld,
an imaginative space created
when we lie and successfully
avoid, or postpone, getting
caught—a concept whose fragility
was made shockingly clear by the
image of Lane Pryce curled up on
the floor of his apartment,
moaning in pain after his father
responded to the revelation of
Lane's love affair with an African
American Playboy bunny by
sending the young woman along
to dinner and then belting Lane
across the face with a cane. That
blow to the head was merely a
literal version of what many
major characters suffered in this
episode.
In a Twitter discussion after the
show between myself and critics
Alan Sepinwall and Myles
McNutt, I commented that I'm
always resistant to "theme"
episodes of dramatic series in
which nearly every scene and
most of the dialogue is woven
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Rockefeller’s Ghost
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:00:00 PM
BOSTON— "Where are our
plans for a New Deal or a Great
Society?" asked Edward W.
Brooke, the legendary
Massachusetts Republican.
It's not a question anyone in
today's Republican Party would
dare get caught even considering,
but Brooke had the temerity to
raise it in The Challenge of
Change, a book published in
1966, the year he became the first
African American elected to the
United States Senate since
Reconstruction.
The midterm election that year
was very good for Republicans in
general, including a Californian
named Ronald Reagan. But it was
an especially fine year for
moderate and progressive
Republicans of the Brooke stripe
across the Northeast. Their prizes
included governorships in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New York, and Pennsylvania.
In 2010, Republicans run away in
horror at the prospect of being
called moderate, let alone
progressive, and that is an
obstacle in the GOP's path to a
congressional majority. It will be
very hard for Republicans to take
the House if they don't break the
Democrats' power in the
Northeast—and they still have to
prove they can do that.
"When we do retain the majority,"
said Rep. Dan Maffei, a hopeful
42-year-old freshman Democrat
from upstate New York, "people
are going to look at the map and
see that the Northeast held."
In 2006, Maffei ran and lost
narrowly in what had been in a
Republican-leaning district. He
then won handily in 2008. Like
most freshman and sophomore
Democrats, he assumed this year
would not be kind to his party, so
he's been campaigning hard ever
since. The result: Absent a
Republican wave of historic
proportions, his seat now seems
out of the GOP's reach.
Maffei's situation illustrates the
extent to which this election is
playing out very differently in
different parts of the country, a
fact often lost in the sweeping
commentaries.
A Pew Research Center survey
released last week underscored
stark regional disparities that
could shape the outcome. The
survey found that while
Democrats trail Republicans by
three points among all registered
voters in the South, they are ahead
of the GOP by nine points in the
Northeast.
Because of the enthusiasm gap,
Republicans do better among
those who now seem most likely
to vote. Yet the regional
variations are even more
pronounced in this group: While
Republicans are ahead by one
point among likely voters in the
Northeast, they lead by 15 points
in the South. Almost all of the
divergence is driven by white
voters: Among white likely voters
in the Northeast, Republicans
have a 10-point lead; in the South,
their lead is 35 points.
The emergence of the Northeast
as a potential Democratic firewall
has been a long time in the
making. The steady realignment
of the South toward the
Republicans, which rendered the
party increasingly conservative,
called forth a counter-realignment
among moderates in the North.
That trend has been accelerating.
Since 2006, Democrats have
taken 18 Northeastern seats away
from the Republicans, and the
impact of this change is especially
stark in New England. Among the
region's 22 House members, not
one is Republican. By contrast,
nine of the 25 House members
elected in that 1966 election were
Republicans.
This year, Republicans have
plausible chances for both of New
Hampshire's House seats, and for
an open seat in Massachusetts.
They also have realistic prospects
in a number of formerly
Republican seats in New York
and Pennsylvania.
But Maffei believes the
Republicans' ever more right-
wing image, shaped in part by tea
party activists, will impede the
GOP's regional comeback efforts.
"I was often asked in both my
races if this district had shifted
left," Maffei says of an area that
runs from Syracuse to the
Rochester suburbs. "I always said,
no, the district hasn't shifted, it's
still a moderate district. What's
shifted is the national Republican
Party. I still have local
Republicans who are
moderate—and I work with them
all the time."
The Republicans' new "Pledge to
America" released last week
avoided specifics that might turn
off voters. Yet its tea party-
inspired language and its failure
to grapple with the budget deficit
in any detail make it a document
unlikely to win back moderates
the party needs.
The GOP still hopes the
generalized discontent that
allowed Scott Brown to win a
Massachusetts Senate seat and
shock the nation will be enough to
secure it the Northeastern
victories it requires. But if
expectations are overturned
again—this time by a
disappointing Republican
showing—the region of Brown
and Ed Brooke will once again
play a starring role.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is is a
Washington Post columnist, a
senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution, and a professor at
Georgetown University. He is the
author of, most recently, Souled
Out: Reclaiming Faith and
Politics After the Religious Right.
(c) 2010, Washington Post
Writers Group
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This Week's Poll:
Which Returning Show
had the Best Premiere?
Steve Gutierrez (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:30:00 AM
Jessica Capshaw, Sara Ramirez
and Kevin McKidd
The blockbuster shows have
returned! The Grey's Anatomy
docs worked through post-
traumatic stress while the Glee
kids auditioned new members and
sung their angst-filled teenaged
hearts out. Booth surprised
Brennan with a new girlfriend on
Bones, but Benson and Stabler
returned for a record-breaking
12th season of Law & Order:
SVU. So which premiere week
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around a unifying concept. The
risk is that spontaneity and
messiness of life recedes or
vanishes, and is replaced by a sort
of clever algebraic bloodlessness.
McNutt responded that he
distinguishes between "'theme
episodes" (which I would argue
“Hands and Knees” is) and
"episodes with themes" (the
majority of "Mad Men"’s run).
The distinction is a fine one, but
worth making, because it defines
the difference between right-brain
and left-brain storytelling,
between drama as poetry vs.
drama as architecture. "Hands and
Knees" offered more of the
second category than the first, but
it never succumbed to the
tendency to flatten out human
idiosyncrasy and replace it with a
gigantic cause-and-effect
flowchart. All these characters
had their secrets, yes. But those
secrets were all quite different,
and were illustrated in unique
ways. More significantly, the act
of secret-keeping was itself a sort
of dramatic get-out-of-jail-free
card for "Mad Men." Because
everyone does, in fact, harbor
secrets, often dire and shameful
secrets, and has to deal with their
exposure or threatened exposure
at any moment for any reason, the
regular viewer of "Mad Men"
can't complain that it's too much
of a coincidence to have all these
people's secrets illuminated
simultaneously in the course of a
couple of painful days. In this
sense, at least, the fictional lives
depicted on this series are not
terribly different from our own.
Every day we present the world
with an official narrative about
who we are and where we came
from, but huge portions of it are
redacted—like the document that
North American Aviation showed
the agency in that initial meeting.
"There'll be fewer black bars as
the process moves forward," an
aviation rep tells the mad men.
But there never are.
Matt Zoller Seitz is a contributor
to Salon and the founder of Slant's
“ The House Next Door,” where
he has written extensively about
“The Sopranos” and other series.
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Here's a useful new word from or the equivalent.)
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Watercooler: Vanessa Williams Heats Up Housewives

Damian Holbrook Vanessa Williams. brings to the table.
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Hells yeah we loved her on Ugly Are you excited for Housewives
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:00:00 AM Betty, and here it seems that she's again? Or is this just a desperate
pured the best, bitchiest parts of move?
Vanessa Williams and Felicity her Wilhelmina Slater into the Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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from just Paul Young) with the crossed that the writers keep it up possibilities for her to start has gotten kind of bland and could Catastrophe.
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Starz "Starting to Explore" Spartacus
Recasting
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:59:00 AM
Andy Whitfield
Starz is "starting to explore
ideas" to recast Andy Whitfield's
titular role in Spartacus: Blood
and Sand with the cancer-stricken
star's blessing, a network rep told
TVGuide.com.
Spartacus star Andy Whitfield
leaves show after cancer
recurrence
"Everything's kind of happened
quickly and it's too early to say
what we're doing definitively, but
we're starting to explore ideas for
recasting with Andy's
involvement," Paul Campbell
said.
Whitfield dropped out of the epic
drama's second season last week
after doctors advised him to
resume aggressive treatment for
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He
was originally diagnosed in
'Boardwalk Empire' Season 1, Episode
2 Recap
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:15:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free,
Recaps, Stay Tuned['Boardwalk
Empire' - 'The Ivory Tower']
"What do you want from me?" Thompson
Margaret Schroeder to Nucky In its second week,'Boardwalk
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week ago, so we honestly don't
know what's going to happen yet,"
he said. "Hopefully clouds will
part and we'll have some clarity
soon."
Spartacus six-part prequel to air
on Starz in January
Spartacus halted production in
March after Whitfield was
initially diagnosed. Starz then
produced a six-part prequel to Sundays With Seth:
give Whitfield time to recover
before starting work on Season 2.
The prequel will premiere in
'Family Guy' and
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5 Reasons Sesame Street Still Rocks Trent Edwards released

Megan Walsh-Boyle
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) by Buffalo Bills
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:00:00 PM
ESPN.com news services 0-2 this season.
(ESPN.com) He was benched a day following
Elmo
At 41, Sesame Street shows no Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:43:35 AM a 34-7 loss at Green Bay on Sept.
signs of aging. Here's what's fresh 19 after going 11 of 18 for 102
about the new season. Updated: September 27, 2010, yards and two interceptions.
1. A-list talent The season opens 12:43 PM ET In two games, Edwards went a
with a musical number about The Buffalo Bills have released combined 29 of 42 for 241 yards
camouflage performed by Emmy former starting quarterback Trent passing with a touchdown and
winner Kyra Sedgwick, who's Edwards, the team said Monday. two interceptions. He was sacked
joined this year by guests The Bills had been shopping seven times.
including Jude Law, Julie Bowen, Edwards before his release, a The Bills' have made five in-
Jennifer Garner, Usher and Jim league source told ESPN NFL season changes at quarterback in
Parsons. Insider Adam Schefter. six years. The team hasn't had a
2. Parodies galore Executive Edwards was named the starting r e g u l a r s t a r t e r s i n c e D r e w
producer Carol-Lynn Parente is quarterback to start the season Bledsoe's three-year tenure ended
most excited about "True Mud," a 4. Hip music On September 28, youtube.com/user/SesameStreet. after winning a competition in in 2003.
send-up of HBO's True Blood, in Black Eyed Peas front man Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine training camp but was benched Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL
addition to an A-Team spoof will.i.am joins Big Bird and Co. now! after Week 2 in favor of Ryan Insider. Information from The
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Ryder Cup Players Banned From Using Twitter

FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:54:00 AM
Filed under: Ryder Cup Ryder
Cup players won't be allowed to
use Twitter during the the
tournament, captains for both the
U.S. and Europe confirmed at a
news conference in Wales on
Monday.
"We talked about it," said U.S.
Captain Corey Pavin, who will
attempt to defend the Ryder Cup
title as play begins at Celtic
Manor on Friday. "The team has
come to a consensus not to do
that. It can be distracting
sometimes. . . . We decided as a
whole not to tweet this week."
Five U.S. players and four
members of the European team
are active Twitter users, according
to the BBC. Pavin himself
frequently uses Twitter, most Friday.
notably to use the service to call Montgomerie said Britain's ban
into question the reporting of Golf carries over to blogs as well.
Channel's Jim Gray.
"Tweeting and social network
sites can get one into trouble,"
European captain Colin
Montgomerie told the BBC
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Anthony Cesario,
First Look: The 3D Panasonic HDC-SDT750 Former Miami
camcorder Dolphin, Dead at 34
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Jeffrey Fox (Consumer background to maximize the 3D camcorder. It's fairly compact and
Reports) Main)
effect. When I got back to the lab, its image quality average. But if
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how the 3D effect would fare in as significant as 3D, the viewing

First Look: The 3D Panasonic a n i n d o o r l i g h t i n g . T h e n I experience ought to be compelling Filed under: Dolphins, Jaguars
HDC-SDT750 camcorder The connected the camcorder to the enough to outweigh the burden of Anthony Cesario, a former Miami
Panasonic HDC-3dt750K 3D TV (with the supplied HDMI having to wear often Dolphin and All-American
camcorder cable) and put the TV into "side- uncomfortable 3D glasses for long offensive guard at Colorado State,
The big 3D consumer electronics by-side" 3D mode. periods. died Saturday of an apparent heart
r o l l o u t c o n t i n u e s w i t h t h e The 3D experience wasn't very For me, the Panasonic didn't attack near Steamboat Springs,
introduction of the first consumer- compelling. There wasn't enough deliver a compelling enough 3D Col., the Denver Post reported on
As for resolution, if you're used Monday. He was 34.
g r a d e 3 D c a m c o r d e r , t h e depth between foreground and experience, but rather a mediocre
to the crisp HD images from the Cesario, a three-year starter at
Panasonic HDC-SDT750K. I background, certainly less than one. I suggest you view its 3D
best camcorders, you'll be CSU who had shorts stints with
recently blogged about using the I'm used to with broadcast 3D video yourself on a 3D TV set
disappointed. The Panasonic's the Dolphins and Jacksonville
Fujifilm's FinePix Real 3D W1 programs. Nor was the effect at before you buy an HDC-
images looked soft, more like Jaguars, recently had a pacemaker
digital camera, which impressed all like that in the Fuji W1's SDT750K.
standard definition than high implanted.
me when I viewed its 3D photos photos, which had really pulled As for me, I'm keeping both eyes
definition. This isn't totally "It's ironic he died of a heart
on our reference 3D plasma me in. I'm not saying I didn't see open to see what comes next.
unexpected, since the Panasonic attack. He had the biggest heart of
display. So it was with great any 3D effect. The images —Claudio Ciacci Next Steps
presents stereo images in side-by- anyone I ever knew," Cesario's
anticipation that I greeted the definitely showed more depth • Camcorder Buying Advice:
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arrival of the HDC-SDT750K at than those shot with a normal 2D • Types of Camcorders|
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resolution in half. Still, the Cesario had been a fixture at
With visions of spectacular 3D The lenses of the Panasonic • Camcorder Brands
Panasonic looked softer to my eye CSU long after his playing days
videos dancing in my head, I took camcorder (top), are
than what I'm used to with HD
the camcorder to New York City. only 1.5-inches apart, compared A l l C a m c o r d e r R a t i n g s with the Rams were over. He was
broadcast.
It looked and felt like a regular to the 3-inch S u b s c r i b e r s c a n v i e w a n d alongside former CSU coach
One unusual effect I noticed was
camcorder, though when I was in separation found on the Fujifilm compare all Camcorder Ratings. Sonny Lubick's son, Marc, as he
that street lights and red lights on
the field I did get the occasional W1 camera. Recommended Camcorders Look battled cancer a few years back.
the backs of cars appeared
stare from passersby as they eyed I suspect this is due to the fact at the ones that we chose as the "I don't think there are very many
somewhat detached from the
its oversized 3D lens. It has the that the HDC-SDT750K's two best of the best. Subscribe now! people in our football program or
object, floating, when viewed in
usual flip-style LCD display for lenses were only about one-half S u b s c r i b e t o in our building that did not know
3D. On indoor shots, images
reviewing videos, but you can't inch apart. By comparison, my ConsumerReports.org for expert Anthony Cesario," said CSU
looked excessively grainy and as
tell how realistic the 3D effect is eyes are 2.5 inches apart, while Ratings, buying advice and football coach Steve Fairchild, a
if they'd had visual noise
until you view the videos on a 3D those on the Fuji W1 camera are r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f Rams offensive coordinator
removed, further limiting detail
TV. On my little trip, I shot city about 3 inches. In normal use, one products. Update your feed during Cesario's junior and senior
and clarity. years, said in a statement.
streets, people walking, and shouldn't expect a significant 3D preferences
The Panasonic is a notable first "Our most sincere condolences go
buildings, while keeping subjects effect with just one-half inch
attempt at a consumer-grade 3D out to his parents, Anthony and
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What you need (and what you don't) in a family first

-aid kit
Artemis Dibenedetto kit, so stock up on extras of those
(Consumer Reports) common items. Be sure you keep
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Everyone should have a first-aid And remember to restock when Japan
kit at home and in the car, plus a you use something up. It’s also a
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Happy Birthday, Please Don't Shoot
Me In The Gut
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:00:00 AM
If you're here on our blog, you
know how to read. If you know
how to read, you need some Jim
Thompson.
Sure, everybody loves Raymond
Chandler, but since he's the go-to
guy for slumming English majors,
the glory of Jim Thompson often
gets overlooked. We're telling
you, if you don't know the name,
today's a good day to change that.
After the jump, join us for a little
birthday party for this really great
pulp writer… heck, a really great
writer in general.
He was a friend of Harlan
Ellison, he worked with Stanley
Kubrick, and he influenced
Morphine's Mark Sandman. But
after you read a few pages of a
good Jim Thompson novel, the
man himself won't matter. You'll
be more interested in the best part
of Jim Thompson: the way he can
handle a word. You want dark?
You want crazy? Stop wasting
time with Mark Millar nonsense
and spend your money on
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book about a slowly dying hitman
and the deformed woman he
meets on the job. Or maybe you're
a fan of the "con gone wrong"
story? You'll be perfectly happy
with the family drama waiting in
The Grifters. The movie version's
not half bad, either.
In fact, the blend of real and
outlandish in every Jim
Thompson novel makes them all
potential films. Thompson himself
made good money as a
screenwriter, although few
directors really capture the
strengths of his book. The current
version of The Killer Inside Me is
a good example of how a film can
be fun but completely miss the
mark, simply by trying to stay to
close to what was written. It's
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Noire(with Andreas Katsulas, for
you B5 fans) seems to be out of
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movies to fully understand what
Jim Thompson is all about. Like
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mood".
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with the cool older covers by
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writing, and you like your noir
with dusty back roads and dirty
hotel bathrooms, take a gander at
this here birthday boy. Then race
back and give us a review in the
comments. We want to hear how
much you like him.
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Trent Edwards Released
by Bills
Chris Burke (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:55:00 AM
Filed under: Bills, NFL
Quarterbacks The Bills released
quarterback Trent Edwards on
Monday, one week after the four-
year veteran was benched in favor
of Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick went 20 of 28 with
two touchdowns and two
interceptions in Buffalo's 38-30
Week 3 loss at New England. All
indications are that he'll maintain
the starting job, with former touchdown. He started 32 games
for Buffalo after being drafted out
Packer Brian Brohm backing him
up. of Stanford in 2007, though he
never accelerated into the top-
Edwards, 26, started the first two
games of the season for Buffalo -- flight QB prospect the Bills were
hoping for.
losses against Miami and at Green
Bay -- but threw for just 241
combined yards and one
Sources: Denver Nuggets
weighing other offers for
Carmelo Anthony
Marc Stein (ESPN.com) their seven-year association with
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:43:48 AM Anthony by dealing their
franchise player to the New Jersey
Updated: September 27, 2010, Nets as part of a trade that would
11:43 AM ET also involve Charlotte and Utah,
It appears that the Denver as ESPN.com reported Friday, but
Nuggets will convene for their the deal was not finalized as of
a n n u a l m e d i a d a y M o n d a y midnight Monday.
afternoon with Carmelo Anthony The Nuggets instead spent the
still on their payroll. weekend talking to other teams in
The Nuggets entered the
SOURCES: page 48
weekend on the brink of ending
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weekend talking to other teams in
an attempt to see if teams such as
New York, Chicago or the Los
Angeles Clippers could trump the
four-way framework that would
bring Nets rookie Derrick Favors,
Jazz veteran Andrei Kirilenko and
two future first-round picks to
Denver in return for Anthony,
with the Nets also sending point
guard Devin Harris to Charlotte
and Utah acquiring veteran
forward Boris Diaw from the
Bobcats.
Sources close to the situation told
ESPN.com that Denver officials
were clinging to hope that
Anthony -- who has had virtually
no contact with the organization
all summer -- could be convinced
to reconsider his desire to be
traded once he reports to training
camp and starts hearing pro-
Nuggets voices again.
"The deal is in neutral," one
source close to the negotiations
told ESPN.com on Sunday
afternoon. "Denver is trying to get
[Anthony] there for media day [on
Monday] and beg him to stay."
Anthony's presence at camp,
however, is not a given. Sources
with knowledge of Anthony's
thinking said one option he has
considered this week is not
reporting to Nuggets camp if he
was not traded by Monday,
despite the fact that a holdout of
any length would put him at risk
for stiff discipline from the league
office and make things even more
uncomfortable locally for
Anthony if Denver decides to
keep him.
The Nuggets, meanwhile, have
commenced trade talks with the
Philadelphia 76ers about a new
trade for Anthony that would be
co-headlined by Sixers swingman
Andre Iguodala, according to
reports out of Philadelphia and
Denver. That's despite the fact
that the Sixers, according to
sources, have been told that
Anthony is not prepared to sign a
contract extension if he is traded
to Philadelphia, whereas it is
widely presumed that he will do
so if dealt to New Jersey.
The Nuggets have also queried
the Golden State Warriors about
including Stephen Curry in a deal,
according to The Denver Post.
But one source with knowledge
of those discussions downplayed
the possibility of any Golden
State involvement, describing the
negotiations as "brief talks going
nowhere."
Because there has been no
indication that Anthony would
agree to an extension with the
Warriors, Golden State -- like
Philadelphia -- has little incentive
to part with valuable assets for
what could wind up as a costly
one-season rental, given that
Anthony can become a free agent
on July 1, 2011.
Denver's weekend discussions
with other teams have not
surprisingly caused frustration
among the Nets, Bobcats and
Jazz, but one source with
knowledge of New Jersey's
thinking continued to express
hope that the original four-way
deal would go through sometime
this week.
The source, pointing to the fact
that the highly publicized
proposed deal would furnish
Denver with Favors and two more
first-rounders, described the Nets
as "believing the deal will happen
at some point."
Nets general manager Billy King,
speaking Sunday to local
reporters, would only address the
prospect of acquiring Anthony in
general terms.
"I would say that we're exploring
everything," King said. "But
there's no deal. We have nothing.
We have nothing. We're excited
about the guys playing. I'll
continue to explore and see if we
can make the team better. At this
point I'm excited about watching
our guys practice.
"It's a process. ... Some of them
take two years to get to the point
when you get the player you want.
Some take two weeks. I think
you've got to make sure you do it
and do it the right way."
"Everyone is waiting on Denver,
not Melo [committing to an
extension]," one source close to
the trade talks told ESPN.com's
Chris Sheridan.
The trade as currently
constructed would satisfy
virtually all of the requirements
that the Nuggets have expressed
to interested teams over the past
week to 10 days, when they began
fielding offers for their
disgruntled superstar after turning
potential suitors away throughout
the first half of September.
At a minimum to part with its All
-Star scoring machine, Denver
wants a top young player it can
market, salary-cap relief and at
least two future first-round picks.
The Nuggets would get the top
young player in Favors, who was
the No. 3 overall pick in this
year's draft, and the cap relief
through Kirilenko's expiring
contract.
But as ESPN.com reported
Friday night, quoting a source
close to the All-Star forward,
Anthony was still holding out
hope that the Knicks or Bulls --
his two preferred destinations --
would make an 11th-hour bid to
trump the Nets' offer once they
realized how close the four-way
trade was to completion.
The Nuggets could also elect to
back away and keep Anthony for
the short term in hopes that offers
get better with time. They'd do so
even after new vice president of
basketball operations Masai Ujiri
and team president Josh Kroenke,
according to CBSSports.com,
flew to the East Coast earlier this
week for face-to-face trade
negotiations with the Nets,
helping escalate the talks to the
brink of a done deal.
ESPN.com also reported earlier
this week that there was strong
sentiment within the organization,
starting with Nuggets coach
George Karl, to mount one last
campaign to try to win back
Anthony's support once he arrived
in training camp, where he would
be greeted by pro-Denver voices
such as Karl and Nuggets
teammate Chauncey Billups for
the first time in weeks after a
lengthy isolation from the
organization.
Before the trade talks reached a
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stage where the framework for a
four-team deal had been
established, sources said one of
Denver's plans was urging
Anthony one last time to sign the
extension that has been on the
table since June, with the promise
the Nuggets would trade him
closer to the February trading
deadline if he continued to be
unhappy.
But Anthony's desire to leave
Denver, sources say, runs very
deep.
All indications Friday night were
that Anthony was warming to the
idea of joining the Nets, whose
planned move to Brooklyn in two
years under Russian billionaire
owner Mikhail Prokhorov is a
strong lure, in addition to the
presence of center Brook Lopez,
one of the league's top young big
men.
It's no secret that Manhattan is
where Anthony most wants to be,
with Knicks forward Amare
Stoudemire having spoken
publicly more than once about
how much he and Anthony would
like to play together with the
Knicks. But New York's lack of
future draft picks to offer and
Chicago's blanket refusal to make
Joakim Noah available to the
Nuggets in trade talks appear to
have established the Nets as
Anthony's best option if he's
determined to move immediately.
Yet that can happen only with the
Nuggets' cooperation.
Anthony has the ability to
become a free agent at season's
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Nevada Wolf Pack ranked in Top 25 for first time since 1948;
Texas Longhorns drop to 21st
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:03:45 AM
Updated: September 27, 2010,
9:03 AM ET
NEW YORK -- The only
previous time Nevada was ranked
in the AP Top 25, the Wolf Pack
ended the season playing in the
Harbor Bowl in San Diego.
That was 1948.
It took 62 years, but Nevada is
back in The Associated Press poll.
The Wolf Pack were No. 25 in the
poll released Sunday and are off
to a 4-0 start for the first time
since 1991, the year before they
jumped from I-AA to I-A.
"It's very exciting news," coach
Chris Ault told the AP in a
telephone interview Sunday. "I'm
sure our players will be fired up."
AP Poll
The top five teams in this week's
Associated Press college football
Top 25:
The first month of the season
closed with the preseason top
three in the rankings unchanged:
Alabama is No. 1, followed by
Ohio State and Boise State.
The Crimson Tide had their
toughest challenge yet Saturday,
coming from behind to beat
Arkansas 24-20. The road victory
helped the Tide gain five first-
place votes to 57.
Ohio State, which rolled to a 73-
20 victory against Eastern
Michigan, received two first-place
votes and Boise State, which beat
Oregon State 37-24, received one.
The USA Today coaches' poll has
the same top three teams.
No. 4 Oregon and No. 5 TCU flip
-flopped spots this week. No. 6
Nebraska held its position and No.
7 Florida moved up two heading
into its big game at Alabama on
Saturday.
No. 8 Oklahoma was followed by
Stanford, which jumped seven
spots to No. 9, and No. 10
Auburn, which also gained seven
spots.
The Cardinal are 4-0 for the first
time since 1986 after beating
Notre Dame 37-14, and have their
best AP ranking since ending the
1992 season No. 9.
No. 21 Texas dropped 14 spots
after a stunningly lopsided 34-12
home loss to UCLA. This snapped
Texas' streak of 36 straight polls
in the top 10, which was the
longest active streak in the nation.
West Virginia and Oregon State
dropped out of the rankings. No.
23 North Carolina State (4-0), off
to its best start since 2002, was
the other Wolfpack to move into
the poll this week. NC State is
ranked for the first time since
2003.
As for the Wolf Pack from Reno,
Ault, who was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame in
2002 -- after the second time he
stepped down as Nevada coach --
is in his third stint leading his
alma mater. The 63-year-old is
210-96-1 in 26 seasons with no
plans to leave again anytime soon.
The Wolf Pack have emerged as
Boise State's toughest rival in the
Western Athletic Conference in
recent seasons using an offense
Ault invented in 2005.
He put a new spin on the shotgun
-spread offense and came up with
the pistol. In the pistol, the
quarterback lines up in a short
shotgun, a few yards behind
center, and a tailback lines up
behind the quarterback.
With dual-threat quarterback
Colin Kaepernick directing the
pistol, Nevada has had one of the
most potent offenses in the
country in recent seasons.
"He's been our starter for 3½
years and that experience you
can't say enough about it,
especially in our offense, which is
fairly sophisticated," Ault said.
The Wolf Pack have averaged
more than 33 points per game
each of the past five seasons, and
are at 44.8 heading into October.
The difference this season is
Nevada is allowing only 18 points
per game, with nonconference
victories at home against
California (52-31) and at BYU
(27-13) on Saturday.
"We are playing better defense,"
Ault said. "These last two years
we were average at best on
defense and it put so much
pressure on offense to be
productive.
"We're getting better every game
and giving our offense more
opportunities."
Nevada plays at rival UNLV on
Saturday, then moves into its
WAC schedule. Way down the
road, the Wolf Pack host No. 3
Boise State on Nov. 26 in what
could be one of the biggest WAC
games ever.
Both teams are not long for the
WAC, though. Boise State is
leaving for the Mountain West
Conference after this season.
Nevada has also accepted an
invite to the MWC, though when
the Wolf Pack will make the
change is up in the air. Nevada
would like it to be next season,
but the WAC insists the Pack can't
go until 2012.
As for the rest of the AP poll this
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week, Wisconsin was No. 11,
followed by LSU, Utah, Arizona
and Arkansas, which dropped five
spots to No. 15. The rest of the
top 20 was Miami, Iowa, USC,
South Carolina and Michigan.
Michigan moved up a spot to No.
19 and South Carolina moved
down to No. 20 Sunday night
after it was learned that an out of
date ballot was used in tabulating
The Associated Press college
football.
No other rankings changed when
the correct ballot was entered.
Joining Texas, NC State and
Nevada in the final five were No.
22 Penn State and No. 24
Michigan State.
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Rumor: Aardman Animation working on Raving Rabbids TV

show
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:15:00 PM
Ubisoft's Raving Rabbids
franchise is ready to jump from
video games to television. A
report from Bleeding Cool reveals
that Aardman Animation -- best
known for the Wallace & Gromit
franchise -- is looking for
animators to work on a TV
adaptation of the Rayman spin-
off. According to the job call, the
show will offer a mixture of live-
action footage and computer-
generated animation.
Apparently, Aardman already has
a working relationship with the
Rabbids franchise, having already
produced a number of CG shorts
to promote the upcoming Raving
Rabbids Travel in Time. Ubisoft
has shared its video game
properties with other mediums in
the past, with the Assassin's Creed
series recently spawning some
short films and an upcoming line
of comic books.
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GOG.com's Guillaume Rambourg explains what
happened last week
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:45:00 PM
Last week's GOG.com stunt was
nothing short of confounding. For
reasons (at the time) unknown,
Good Old Games shut its virtual
doors and offered little
information regarding its future,
leaving customers to wonder what
would happen to their ability to re
-download purchased games. This
was after a tweet from the
company's official account
obliquely stated, "Sometimes it's
really hard being DRM-free ...
hard to keep things the way they
are and keep management and
publishers happy."
When the site relaunched less
than a week later and revealed the
hoax for what it was, after days of
... less descriptive explanations as
to what was going on, fans and
customers were understandably
upset. GOG publicly apologized
last Wednesday on Twitter,
saying, "We really are sorry to
those who felt deceived. It was
done with the best of intentions,
NintendoWare Weekly: Zenonia, Target Toss Pro: Lawn Darts
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:30:00 PM
It's a light week on the Wii and
DSi Shops, with two each for
DSiWare and WiiWare, and none
for the Virtual Console. The
hopefully we can make it up to
you." After all that, we asked
GOG managing director
Guillaume Rambourg what in the
world happened.
First and foremost, he said that
last week's temporary closure of
GOG was inevitable for the site's
relaunch. "98% of the code of our
website was rewritten to be able
to welcome more users and
deliver a better experience, which
required a major change in our
highlight on Wii is Target Toss
Pro: Lawn Darts-- if only because
it explains why Target Toss Pro:
Bags had the awkward title it did
and not, like, Bag Toss or
something simple. It's a series!
an iPhone action RPG that sounds
DSiWare has Zenonia, a port of
backend and as a matter of fact,
taking down our platform for a
few days," Rambourg explained.
He told us that management was
faced with two options: make an
"official 'boring' statement" or
take "a more creative route." As
evidenced by the past week, it's
pretty clear management chose
the latter.
And even though the reaction
hasn't been 100 percent positive,
Rambourg said he'd do the same
thing all over again given the
chance.
Continue reading GOG.com's
Guillaume Rambourg explains
what happened last week
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Leahy Pushes
Internet
Censorship Bill
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 6:11:36 AM
Sen. Patrick Leahy has
introduced a bill affecting the
Internet that could have a
“dangerous impact on freedom of
speech,” according to the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The Combating Online
Infringement and Counterfeits Act
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(COICA) introduced by the
Vermont Democrat, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
requires Internet Service
Providers, Domain Name System
providers, and others to block
Internet users from reaching
certain websites.
The legislation, which seeks to
curb online piracy and the sale of
counterfeit goods, would create
two “blacklists.” The first is a list
of all websites hit with a
censorship court order from the
Attorney General. The second is a
list of domain names that the
Department of Justice determines
are “dedicated to infringing
activities” that violate copyright
laws.
COICA requires blocking for
domains on the first list and
“strongly suggests” that domains
on the second list should be
blocked as well by providing legal
immunity for those who do block
access to websites, according to
the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit
civil liberties organization.
“This is a censorship bill that runs
roughshod over freedom of
speech on the Internet” and could
have a “dangerous impact on
freedom of speech,” the EFF
observes.
The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, passed in 1998,
already gives copyright owners
legal means to remove copyright
violating material piece by piece.
But COICA “vastly expands this.
It would allow the Attorney
General to shoot down a whole
domain including all the blog
posts, images, backups, and files
underneath it,” the EFF reports.
“In other words, it’s not just
possible but probable that a great
deal of legitimate, protected
speech will be taken down in the
name of copyright enforcement.”
A hearing on the bill is scheduled
this week before the Judiciary
Committee.
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Fox a Clear Winner for
Election News
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 5:15:39 AM
Monday, 27 Sep 2010 10:15 AM
Cable rules for election news,
and Fox News rules when it
comes to cable. That’s the
conclusion of a Politico/George
Washington University poll.
The poll found that 81 percent of
Americans watch cable channels
for their election news, primarily
Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. But Fox
is the clear winner, with 42
percent of poll respondents saying
it’s their main source of election
news, compared with 30 percent
for CNN and only 12 percent for
MSNBC.
Conservative commentators also
were ranked as the media
personalities having the greatest
positive impact on the country’s
political debate. Bill O’Reilly
took the top spot, with 49 percent
of respondents rating him
positively, Glenn Beck was
second with 38 percent, and Rush
Limbaugh was third with 36
Politics/ 53
Pelosi May be Ousted
Even if Democrats Win
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Republicans are eager to regain
control of Congress so they can
push Nancy Pelosi out of her
position as House Speaker. While
Democrats don’t want to lose
their grip on Congress, some of
them aren’t so hot on Pelosi
either,
Roll Call reports.
More than 10 moderate
Democrats in the House have
declined to offer public support
percent. for her. That includes Reps.
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Painless Laser Tissue Analysis Could Replace X-
Rays Within Five Years
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:52:50 AM
Replacing Needles with Raman
Spectroscopy MIT is exploring
the use of Raman spectroscopy to
test diabetics' blood for glucose
levels without drawing any blood.
Other non-invasive diagnostic
tools are employing the tech to
test for everything from tumors to
high cholesterol to tooth decay.
Photos by Patrick Gillooly
It's a typical scenario: you ask the
doctor to make you feel better; he
or she proceeds to stick you with
needles and bombard you with
radiation. But a new breed of
portable devices painless laser
beams could use Raman
spectrometry to diagnose
conditions inside the body and put
an end to X-rays and even blood
drawing, in just a few years.
Raman spectroscopy is
commonly used in chemistry and
pharmaceutical research to
identify molecules through the
wavelength and intensity of laser
light as it scatters when passing
through them. But though it's been
used to analyze human cadavers,
the technology could soon
become a cheaper, faster, and
more reliable method of
diagnosing illnesses and
conditions in vivo.
When a person is sick the
chemical makeup of their tissues
changes. By firing a laser at that
tissue, Raman spectroscopy can
analyze the tissue - without
removing it from the body - to
identify it as either healthy or not,
via the unique molecular
signatures in the light as it
scatters. Depending on what the
physician is looking for, that
signature can be markedly
different - say, in the case of a
developing tumor - or just slightly
different. But more sensitive
instruments under development
can pick up those nuances,
making for a far less-invasive
diagnostic tool.
The technique could be used to
diagnose everything from early
stages of tooth decay to high
cholesterol (without drawing
blood). For health care systems
around the world that are strapped
for cash, the advance could be
monumental given the fact that
Raman spectroscopy could
replace a battery of more
expensive diagnostics and cut
down on time-consuming lab
work.
For instance, researchers think
the technique could not only
replace the typical mammogram
but actually do a better job; by
E-reader News Edition
Real-Life Iron Man
Exoskeleton Gets a
Slimmer, More Powerful
Sequel
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:12:03 PM
XOS-2 Raytheon-Sarcos
The XOS Exoskeleton, which
was first shown off about two and
diagnosing a growth as malignant a half years ago, was the first full-
or benign without requiring an body suit that really evoked the
actual biopsy - and between 80 sci-fi and comic fan's dream of
percent and 90 percent are benign d o n n i n g a s u i t t h a t g r a n t s
- Raman spectroscopy could superhuman strength. Late last
reduce the number of unnecessary w e e k , R a y t h e o n - S a r c o s
biopsies by 80,000 per year in the demonstrated the newest XOS suit
UK alone by some estimates. --the sequel, you might say.
Extrapolate that across the entire Not so coincidentally, Paramount
globe and an entire universe of Pictures was on hand to talk about
ailments, and that cuts down on a the suit's connections to Iron Man
lot of unnecessary time, and 2, which comes out on DVD/Blu-
money, spent at the doctor's ray this week. But unlike Iron
office. Man 2, which was all about more
[ BBC] (more villains! More length! More
plotlines!), the XOS-2 is all about
less: Less energy required, less
heavy, and less muscle required to
lift objects.
Most importantly, the ratio
between actual and perceived
weight lifted is much improved,
going from 6:1 in the XOS-1 to a
REAL-LIFE page 55
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Long Theorized, Hawking Radiation Has Now Been

Observed For The First Time
Julie Beck (Popular Science - hole, in a white hole, light waves
New Technology, Science come to a complete halt, creating
News, The Future Now) a different sort of event horizon.
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:33:20 AM Having formed this event horizon
Black Hole In Front Of The by sending an infrared laser pulse
Milky Way Ute Kraus through fused silica, the Video: Using New
More than 30 years after Stephen researchers say they were able to Learning Algorithm,
Hawking predicted the existence rule out other phenomena and
of radiation emitted by black
Archer 'Bot Learns How
conclude that what they had
holes, physicists say they've observed was, in fact, Hawking To Aim and Shoot A Bow
finally observed the phenomenon radiation. and Arrow
for themselves, not in the If this is true, the discovery could Rebecca Boyle (Popular
heavens, but down here on Earth. have huge implications for Science - New Technology,
The universe is filled with cosmology and many other fields. Science News, The Future
particle/antiparticle pairs that horizon, one member is sucked in, Researchers at the University of The only known way for black Now)
form and almost immediately while the other is set free -- before Milan claim to have observed holes to evaporate is through
Submitted at 9/27/2010 9:57:08 AM
mutually annihilate, releasing they are able to annihilate each Hawking radiation in their lab by Hawking radiation, so its effects
Archer Robot YouTube
their energy. Hawking radiation, other. The observed effect is that creating the inverse of a black on the eventual end of the
Using a learning algorithm,
as it's known, occurs when these the black hole is radiating hole - the aptly named white hole. universe could be huge.
Italian researchers taught a child-
pairs form near the edge of a particles, and actually losing Rather than all light being sucked [ Technology Review]
like humanoid robot archery, even
black hole. As the pair of particles mass. inside, as happens with a black outfitting it with a spectacular
crosses the black hole's event
headdress to celebrate its new
REAL-LIFE VIDEO: skill.
continued from page 54 continued from page 55 Petar Kormushev, Sylvain
whopping 17:1 in the XOS-2. A especially military and applications are obvious, but its input from humans. Kormushev Calinon and Ryo Saegusa of the
50-pound weight feels like only construction. The suit allows for funding is not. The project has et. al chose archery because of its Italian Institute of Technology
three pounds, and a 200-pound faster, more precise, and more received $4 to $8 million a year complexity, requiring coordinated developed an algorithm called
weight feels like only 12. Test portable moving of heavy objects from DARPA, but the visual processing, the use of both "Archer," for Augmented Reward
engineer Rex Jameson (that name than a large machine, allowing a government hasn't approved hands and external tools. Chained Regression. The iCub
even sounds like a superhero, worker to pick up and move funding through other channels The team used an iCub, a small robot is taught how to hold the
doesn't it?) was able to punch heavy objects all day without quite yet. humanoid robot designed to look bow and arrow, but then learns by
through four one-inch boards fatigue. One suited worker, says [ Raytheon via Gizmodo] like a 3-year-old child. It was itself how to aim and shoot the
strapped together, and repeatedly Raytheon-Sarcos, can do the work developed by a consortium of arrow so it hits the center of a
lifted a 200-pound artillery shell. of two to three non-suited European universities with the target. Watch it learn below.
But the suit also requires 50 workers. g o a l o f m i m i c k i n g a n d The researchers say this type of
percent less energy, a major Though the suit weighs 195 u n d e r s t a n d i n g c o g n i t i o n , learning algorithm would be
upgrade, and weighs about 10 pounds, Jameson says it feels according to Technology Review. preferable to even their own
percent less, at 195 pounds, which extremely lightweight, almost like It has several physical and visual r e i n f o r c e m e n t l e a r n i n g
should come in handy in the suit's a winter jacket. sensors, and "Archer" takes techniques, which require more
most likely future applications, The XOS-2's practical
VIDEO: page 56 VIDEO: page 55
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advantage of them to provide

more feedback than other learning
algorithms, the researchers say.
The team will present their
findings with the archery learning
algorithm at the Humanoids 2010
conference in December.
[ Technology Review]

Glycine Propionyl L-Carnitine

(Mensfitness.com) and increasing exercise food sources are naturally rich in
Submitted at 9/27/2010 5:00:00 AM performance. carnitine and should always be
A 2009 study performed at considered first over supplements.
by Lisa Freedman| Print Article| Florida Atlantic University Lippert suggests adding more
Email to Friend examined the effects of GPLC on beef, pork, chicken cheese, nuts
What it is: Glycine Propionyl L- the performance of repeated high- and dark leafy greens to your diet.
Carnitine (GPLC) is a molecular- intensity stationary bike sprints Associated risks/scrutiny: Like
bonded form of propionyl-L- with limited recovery periods in with regular carnitine, GPLC may
carnitine (PLC) and the amino male patients. In the double-blind cause nausea and diarrhea. Other
a c i d g l y c i n e . " G P L C i s study, 24 resistance-trained males rare side effects include
categorized in the same family as participated in two test sessions sleeplessness, increased appetite,
carnitine and is very important in with a week between each one. body odor and rash. Additional
the formation of creatine," The men took oral supplements of research is needed.
explains Marissa Lippert, RD and either 4.5 grams of GPLC or 4.5 Back to The Men's Fitness
author of The Cheater's Diet. grams of cellulose 90 minutes Supplement Guide
What it'll do for you: GPLC acts before exercising. The men then [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
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research its antioxidant properties, muscle damage down the road. the body optimizes the oxygen While supplements seem to be
GPLC is most talked about for its The study suggests that short-term and nutrient delivery system to the focus of GPLC studies, many
role in stimulating muscle growth oral supplementation of GPLC
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Survive This!
(Mensfitness.com) Injured Ankle
Submitted at 9/27/2010 1:00:00 AM A bad sprain and a fracture can
be hard to tell apart, so treat all
by Dean Stattmann| Print Article| injuries as the latter. Remember
Email to Friend the acronym HIRICE: "Hydration,
The beauty and serenity of Ibuprofen, Rest, Ice,
Mother Nature can quickly turn Compression, and Elevation.
into a nightmare. Animal attacks,
injuries, disorientation—all are
possible when you're roughing it
Follow those guidelines," Lundin
says. Using clothing, duct tape, or Take Time
another material, wrap the ankle
in the wilderness. To stay alive,
you gotta know how to react if
firmly—but not tight enough to
constrict blood flow—and keep
to Heal
such situations arise. We turned to your weight off it as much as (Mensfitness.com)
Dave Canterbury and Cody possible. If you're alone, find a Submitted at 9/27/2010 2:00:00 AM
Lundin, survival experts and walking stick to use for support
cohosts of the Discovery and head back to your car or the by Roy S. Johnson| Print Article|
Channel's Dual Survivor, for nearest road, carefully. "Ankle Email to Friend
advice. Pain is a real pain.
ground and then slowly move You'll get there faster since the injuries can go from bad to worse
Encounter With a Bear Something hurts on me every
away while continuing to talk current is actually pushing your in no time," Canterbury says.
Stay calm and don't run. Help the Keep moving; the last thing you day. No, I don't mean "Call 9-1-1"
softly. body toward the shore.
bear recognize you as a human by want is to be stranded alone at hurt; more annoyance than major
Raft Capsizes in Rapids Lost in the Woods
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can to speed the healing process.
Heck, I keep ice bags in my
freezer, and a special heating pad
is never more than a minute away
from an ache. I research the injury
to ensure I'm not doing anything
that'll cause long-term damage.
Then I do extra stretching and
change up my workout to try and
speed the healing and strengthen
the injured area. I also take
supplements to make sure my
body has everything it needs to
repair the region.
All well and good, but ultimately,
the healing process is going to
take as long as the healing process
tales. The ice and heat might help
me get through it. The stretching
might diminish the pain. The new
moves in the gym might help
strengthen the affected part of my
body. The vitamins and
supplements will certainly help ,
too.
But no matter what I do, I just
have to let my body do its thing.
Time will be the best healer.
Too often we take our need to
heal for granted. We ignore the
pain and keep on playing or
working out at the same pace as
before. That's the wrong
move—inside and outside the
gym. Healing has a purpose. It
repairs what's broken, of course,
but it can also do more: It can
make us stronger.
Sure, it's easy to say that twisted
ankle or injured knee (or broken
heart) will never be the same.
That the joints, muscles, and
ligaments (and the emotions) are
forever altered and will never be
as strong as before.
Bull. With proper healing, your
body can be stronger than before.
You can be stronger than before.
Pain may be inevitable, but it
doesn't have to be forever. And
we can be better for it—if we just
allow ourselves to heal.
Onward,
Roy S. Johnson
Men's Fitness
Editor In Chief
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Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:35:53 PM
The people who have spent us
into our greatest national debt in
history are claiming, with
practiced expressions of concern
and dismay, that Republicans plan
to double the deficit by letting all
of the Bush tax cuts expire. It’s a
deliberate misstatement of the
facts.
The basis of the fable is a
Congressional Budget Office
report released last week. It
concluded that letting all of the
Bush tax cuts expire at the end of
this year would increase the
federal deficit by $3.9 trillion over
the next decade – if federal
spending continues at its current
pace. That’s a huge if, which
Democrats and liberal activists
and journalists are ignoring on
purpose.
Writing about the CBO report,
Ezra Klein, the liberal
Washington Post blogger,
concluded, “Republicans and tea
party candidates are both running
campaigns based around concern
for the deficit. But both, to my
knowledge, support the single-
largest increase in the deficit that
anyone of either party has
proposed in memory.”
Democrats have used that same
spin on the campaign trail. In
New Hampshire, where I live,
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate
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Paul Hodes, who as a
representative voted for the
Obama budget increases, the auto
bailouts, the stimulus and
Obamacare, is trying to paint his
Republican opponent as a deficit-
hiker because she supports
extending all of the Bush tax cuts.
He claims she would vote to
double the federal deficit.
None of that is true. Indeed,
anyone who reads Klein’s own
Washington Post carefully would
know that. The very lead of the
Post’s Sept. 15 th story on the
CBO report read, “Even as they
hammer Democrats for running
up record budget deficits, Senate
Republicans are rolling out a plan
to permanently extend an array of
expiring tax breaks that would
deprive the Treasury of more than
$4 trillion over the next decade,
nearly doubling projected deficits
over that period unless dramatic
spending cuts are made.”
The Post reporter portrays the
GOP in a negative light, but at
least he gets the facts correct. The
important phrase is “unless
dramatic spending cuts are made.”
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Daft Punk’s “TRON:
Legacy” Soundtrack Gets
November 22 Release Date
Blake Robinson (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:51:00 AM
Daft Punk’s TRON: Legacy
soundtrack will be released on
November 22, according to its
official website. TRON: Legacy,
the long awaited sequel to the
1982 film TRON, will be in
theaters on December 17 in
IMAX 3D and RealD 3D, making
it one of the most technically
ambitious films to date.
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Have I got a monastery to sell you
mark (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:00:05 AM
I have read a lot of Michael
Lewis over the years — at least
five of his books that I can
remember, not to mention
countless articles. His real gift as
journalist is a knack for pure,
unadulterated readability. The fact
he’s able to write about esoteric
subjects such as baseball statistics
and credit default swaps and make
them both understandable and
wildly popular is no mean feat.
Believe me, I’m envious.
I guess that’s why I’m so let
down by his most recent Vanity
Fair piece on Greece’s financial
meltdown. Ever since his first
book, Liar’s Poker, about bond
traders on Wall Street coincided
nicely with the Savings and Loan
scandal twenty years ago, Lewis
has been the go-to guy for autopsy
reports on fiscal calamities. His
latest book The Big Short
explains how credit default swaps
and an overheated real estate
market got America into its
current fiscal mess. Vanity Fair
has previously sent him to Iceland
to report on that country’s
meltdown. Predictably, now we
have Lewis parachuting into
Greece to cover the country’s debt
crisis.
But the interesting thing about
Greece’s recent financial trouble,
is it’s really just a symptom of the
country’s profound cultural
problems and political unrest.
Lewis gets this, and much of the
scene-setting in this piece is very
good. He talks to various people
in and out of the Greek
government who basically admit
that much of the country is totally
corrupt:
Greeks who send their children to
public schools simply assume that
they will need to hire private
tutors to make sure they actually
learn something. There are three
government-owned defense
companies: together they have
billions of euros in debts, and
mounting losses. The retirement
age for Greek jobs classified as
“arduous” is as early as 55 for
men and 50 for women. As this is
also the moment when the state
begins to shovel out generous
pensions, more than 600 Greek
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raised a lot of ire among Greeks
because “in a perfectly corrupt
society, it had somehow been
identified as the soul of
corruption.” The tale that unfolds
is indeed interesting — monks at
the Vatopaidi monastery had
somehow convinced the Greek
government to recognize land
deeds given to the church
centuries prior, and from there the
monks parlayed this into a billion-
dollar real estate empire. By all
accounts, there’s no concrete
evidence the monks did anything
illegal and they appear to be
living in austerity. There is,
however, a lot of suspicion that
the monks’ dealmaking and
ensuing profits were the result of
having some sort of undue
influence inside various offices in
the Greek government. To that
end, Lewis includes this anecdote:
Not long after Doukas began his
professions somehow managed to Greece remain more or less new job, two monks showed up
get themselves classified as beyond reproach. They never unannounced in his Finance
arduous: hairdressers, radio ceased to be anything but sleepy Ministry office. One was Father
announcers, waiters, musicians, old commercial bankers. Virtually Ephraim, of whom Doukas had
and on and on and on. The Greek alone among Europe’s bankers, heard; the other, unknown to
public health-care system spends they did not buy U.S. subprime- Doukas but clearly the sharp end
far more on supplies than the b a c k e d b o n d s , o r l e v e r a g e of the operation, a fellow named
European average — and it is not themselves to the hilt, or pay Father Arsenios. They owned this
uncommon, several Greeks tell themselves huge sums of money. lake, they said, and they wanted
me, to see nurses and doctors The biggest problem the banks the Ministry of Finance to pay
leaving the job with their arms had was that they had lent roughly them cash for it. “Someone had
filled with paper towels and 30 billion euros to the Greek given them full title to the lake,”
diapers and whatever else they government — where it was says Doukas. “What they wanted
can plunder from the supply stolen or squandered. In Greece now was to monetize it. They
closets. the banks didn’t sink the country. came to me and said, ‘Can you
This is contrasted with the theme The country sank the banks. buy us out?’” Before the meeting,
that one of the few aspects of Now all that said, it seems Doukas sensed, they had done a
Greek society that is more or less weirdly ironic that the focal point
dependable is the banking system: of Lewis’ piece is a Greek HAVE page 63
Oddly enough, the financiers in Orthodox monastery that has
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Another sex scandal dominates Godbeat

Brad A. Greenberg been all over the story — one Long took the young men — all decentralized than the countless benefits, including a $1.4 million
(GetReligion) GetReligionista wondered if the of them teens at the time — on Protestant churches spread across mansion and a $350,000 Bentley.
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:00:15 AM AP, motivated by its recent feud trips, including to Kenya, the country. Yeah, that’s a lot of bread.
with CNN, decided to try to stay according to the suits. Long Further, the reporting on Long More amazing was Long’s
CNN.com published 10— count ahead of its rival — and this, in allegedly paid for their hotel has conflated homosexuality with response to Blake:
‘em, 10 — articles or video clips turn, likely convinced the major rooms, and gave the young men pedophilia. (I haven’t seen the age “We’re not just a church, we’re an
yesterday about Bishop Eddie metros that a very big story was gifts, including a car, cash and of the accusers reported, but international corporation,” Long
Long. If you don’t know who going down and that they better jewelry — all in exchange for stories have referred to them as said. “We’re not just a bumbling
Long is, then you’re like the get on top of it. sexual favors such as massaging, “young men” and “former bunch of preachers who can’t talk
almost all Americans were one Second, the MSM loves apparent masturbation and oral sex. members of a youth group.”) and all we’re doing is baptizing
week ago, before the media blitz hypocrisy. The accusations were particularly Politically active Christian babies. I deal with the White
began with revelations that four The latter is clear from the controversial because Long, who ministers tend to take a side on House. I deal with Tony Blair. I
young men at Long’s Atlanta-area context given a lot of the stories, is married, has preached same-sex marriage, but I’ve never deal with presidents around this
megachurch were filing lawsuits including the money quote in the passionately against heard of anyone not named Paul world. I pastor a multimillion-
claiming the minister molested New York Times’ front-page homosexuality over the years. Shanley standing up for child dollar congregation.
them. story today. This was the first Obviously, it’s that last line that molestation. Speeches like the one “You’ve got to put me on a
CNN is based in Atlanta, and one quote to appear in that article: gets me. Controversial is such a in this “South Park” clip just different scale than the little black
of their religion reporters, then on “When this comes out, it gives at poorly chosen word. If Long did aren’t convincing. preacher sitting over there that’s
the Godbeat for the Atlanta least the perception of hypocrisy what he is accused of doing, there As for the appetite for hypocrisy, supposed to be just getting by
Journal-Constitution, wrote one of — it’s like red meat to a lion, is nothing controversial about it. I understand that if the because the people are suffering.”
my favorite all-time religion everyone’s pouncing on this Diabolical, certainly. But not accusations are true, Long is not Nice guy. Hard not to take his
stories when he exposed how story,” said the Rev. Timothy controversial. who he has claimed to be. But the side. Is it any surprise he had to
Long was getting rich off the McDonald III, a friend of Bishop More importantly, though, such real question is: Who cares? launch a PR campaign after
charity checkbook. Thus, it’s no Long who heads the First Iconium acts become no more heinous just Before last week no one, other Blake’s story ran?
surprise that CNN has been all Baptist Church. “This is the issue: because they are seen as than the 20,000-plus members of Still, this is not the biggest bit of
over this story. how can you be against hypocritical. And, to be sure, a his church, had heard of long. religion news going on right now,
What’s odd is the media storm homosexuality and you are male pastor having extramarital He’s not a household name like and I’d rather it wasn’t absorbing
that has followed. allegedly participating in it? That sex — period — is also Rick Warren or Joel Osteen or so much attention. Written by:
Despite all the blustering about is the epitome of hypocrisy.” hypocritical. Even if he’s T.D. Jakes. He’s not even Ted Brad A. Greenberg on September
Long being one of America’s I appreciate, at least, that the unmarried and the affair is with an Haggard— at least Long better 27, 2010.
most-recognizable pastors, I can chosen quote says “perception of adult woman. The sad reality is hope not. This entry passed through the
assure you that even a room full hypocrisy.” It hints that maybe the not that such socially accepted To be sure, I’m not a fan of Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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identifying Long (or, being that he CNN.com story doesn’t: That in no way minimizes the and unapologetically so. I our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
is a Baptist, exactly what kind of a The lawsuits accuse Long of severity of what Long is accused mentioned this in a January post content-only/faq.php
bishop he is). using his power and influence of. Sexual abuse is real, and it so about the dangerous gospel of Five Filters featured article:
And so I can only attribute the within the 25,000-member church often involves subjugation and wealth, but it’s worth repeating Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
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First, it was CNN, the Cable m e m b e r s i n t o s e x u a l The Catholic Church and at CNN, investigated Long and Catastrophe.
News Network, that broke this relationships. The suits allege that Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish his charity’s tax records and
story, not a regional newspaper — the relationships, which began community have probably reported for the AJC that between
we all know no one reads those. when the men were in their teens, received the most media attention, 1997 and 2000 Long had received
The Associated Press has also lasted over many months. likely because they are less $3.07 million in salary and
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Puppies v. hard religion news

Sarah Pulliam Bailey Los Angeles Times, Time,
(GetReligion) Newsweek, or the Chicago
Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:52:38 PM Tribune. Some of those
publications don’t have religion
Buzz words around the Religion reporters anymore while others
Newswriters Association’s seem clamoring to keep their jobs.
conference in Denver yesterday As someone commented last
included “broccoli,” “ice cream” night, the number of freelancers
and “puppies” after some seemed much higher than
discussion about how journalists previous conferences.
can get better at developing their When reporters are getting laid
precious online audiences. off left and right and turning to
Elizabeth Tenety of On Faith at freelancing, unpaid posts are not a
the Washington Post, Alana great sign for the future of
Kornfeld of the Huffington Post religion reporting. Media outlets
and Eric Marrapodi of CNN urged put their money where their heart
religion reporters to actively is. If they value hits, they’ll
promote their content through the produce puppy stories all day
web. long. If they value religion
All three of these editors are coverage, they’ll hire (at least) a
doing very interesting work, and religion reporter, and if we’re
you should certainly read those dreaming, maybe they would add
sections and learn tricks about a religion editor and pay for
marketing and promotion. Editors freelance content. If you have
are not only content producing; Cathy Lynn Grossman of USA
they are then actively promoting Today, you get your reporter/
it. Tenety of the Washington Post blogger two-for-one.
explicitly told the audience that While some reporters couldn’t
you can’t expect people to come make it to the conference for
to the Washington Post because various reasons, it looked like
it’s the Washington Post. You Laurie Goodstein from the New
have to take content to people. It York Times experienced quite an
was a humble—and eventful one. We talked before
important—point for other media about Archbishop Charles
outlets to consider. Also, when sites like On Faith, and ice cream, she said. is an encouraging sign ( as Chaput’s boycott. Then, during
But the elephant in the room? Huffington Post and CNN post Generally, you could argue that opposed to this). her presentation on investigative
Who is going to pay for original content in a running blog format, the sites mentioned above place a Last night, RNA handed out reporting, a spokesman from the
religion reporting, even if opinion how do readers distinguish heavier emphasis on opinion, several awards to reporters who Church of Scientology confronted
pieces generate more hits? Who is between news and opinion? especially since none of them pay couldn’t make it (many for her about the piece she did on
paying for a reporter to remain on Kornfeld suggested that readers for original freelance religion weddings and personal reasons), scientology and asked why the
the religion reporting beat? Who could determine that from the reporting while accepting free but there were definitely some church was unable to rebut the
r e p o r t s t h e f a c t s t h a t p u t s t o r y i t s e l f , s o i t ’ s w o r t h content from religious leaders and high- profile publications missing. claims made in the piece. She
backbones in those opinion c o n s i d e r i n g w h e t h e r t h a t scholars. Tenety said that she As far as I could tell, no one was
pieces? presentation/separation matters or plans to make news a priority attending from the Associated PUPPIES page 64
not. Readers need both broccoli after the On Faith redesign, which Press, the Wall Street Journal, the
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great deal of homework. “Before
they come to you they know a lot
about you — your wife, your
parents, the extent of your
religious beliefs,” he said. “The
first thing they asked me was if I
wanted them to take my
confession.” Doukas decided that
it would be unwise to tell the
monks his secrets. Instead he told
them he would not give them
money for their lake — which he
still didn’t see how exactly they
had come to own. “They seemed
to think I had all this money to
spend,” says Doukas. “I said,
‘Listen, contrary to popular
opinion, there is no money in the
Finance Ministry.’ And they said,
‘O.K., if you cannot buy us out,
why can’t you give us some of
your pieces of land?’”
Eventually the finance minister
acquiesces to a deal due to
pressure from above:
[I]t seemed to Doukas, had some
kind of hold on the prime
minister’s chief of staff. That
fellow, Giannis Angelou, had
come to know the monks a few
years before, just after he had
been diagnosed with a life-
threatening illness. The monks
prayed for him; he didn’t die, but
instead made a miraculous
recovery. He had, however, given
them his confession.
By now Doukas thought of these
monks less as simple con men
than the savviest businessmen he
had ever dealt with.
Again, there’s really no evidence
that the monks have done
anything wrong here, but twice
we have the suggestion that the
monks are getting people to
confess their secrets and then
using that against them. That’s
quite a charge, but after it’s
brought up it’s left unexplored
and simply dropped. Why?
In fact, I generally get the feeling
that for his incredible knack for
rendering financial and statistical
information understandable,
Lewis is rather uninterested in the
religious dimension to this story
— which seems like one heck of
an oversight. This Greek
Orthodox monastery is identified
as the “soul of corruption” for an
entire country that’s foundering
and we get almost no historical or
religious perspective on the
church’s relation to the state or
the Greek people.
It wasn’t that long ago that the
Greek Orthodox church was
making major news for major
fraud and sex scandals. This goes
unmentioned. If the Greek people
have vilified this monastery, I’d
think looking at how other
scandals related to the church
affected the country would be a
no-brainer.
Part of me wonders if this isn’t
all a bit crafty on Lewis’ part.
Raising the suggestion of the this
monastery’s peculiar influence
and possible corruption without
putting it in the context of the
Greek Orthodox church’s other
scandals tends to lend an added
air of mystery to this particular
scandal and monastery.
I can’t fault this article for being
breezy and informative, as per
Lewis’ usual standards. But total
lack of religion in a story about a
monastery enmeshed in a
government scandal in country
where the church has had
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profound impact shaping the
politics for millenia seems
egregious. I don’t know whether
to blame Lewis or Vanity Fair’s
editors, but here’s to hoping
Lewis does some backfill if he
incorporates this article into his
(probably) inevitable book on the
global financial meltdown.
I recognize that this is a
complicated topic on many
different levels. Perhaps our
resident Orthodox expert TMatt
has additional thoughts on what
this story got right or wrong.
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Pod people: John Henry Newman ink
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tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:00:30 PM
The second GetReligion podcast
is up and running and it happened
quicker than I expected.
This time around, the voice
you’ll here is that of the Divine
Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway discussing
the media coverage — secular and
religious — of the Blessed
Cardinal John Henry Newman.
Once again, the purpose of the
podcast is to let her go a big
deeper into the discussion of a
topic that, when addressed in a
recent post, fired up quite a bit of
discussion. The conversation then
spins off in several interesting
directions.
It appears that some of the
technical issues we were having
are getting worked out, but we are
not completely out of the digital
woods.
At this stage — until the iTunes
page is up and running — the key
is to load the whole podcast and
then, using the direct download
link, right click and save the file
to your computer desktop. You
can then drag it into your iTunes
files, or whatever system you use
for storing audio files. It’s tricky,
but it works.
Anyway, we are still working out
all the details. We thank you for
your patience. Please offer
feedback on these initial efforts
and help us improve them.
Whenever there is a new podcast,
we will file one of these short
“Pod people” posts. Thus, you’ll
be able to glance through them in
the new “Podcasts” category in
the archives and find them in
searches, using that slug line. We
are considering other filing
options as well.
So, how many of you are
podcasts in the car people?
Commuter trains? Material for
iPod use during boring sermons?
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explained that she did give the
church a chance to respond, and
she said she felt the piece gave
generous space to the church (We
tackled that piece here at
GetReligion back then). Then she
won the religion reporting of the
year award (from work done in
2009), so there you have it.
Finally, RNA gave a lifetime
achievement award to Gustav
Niebuhr, who urged reporters to
write with clarity. Reporters
should not use the words
“liberal,” “conservative” or
“moderate” without defining the
terms and giving appropriate
context — a key point in
GetReligion land and spoken so
eloquently. Hopefully RNA will
post an audio clip or transcript on
its website.
Yes, it’s a tough time for
publishers to dish out even $50,
but if you want to do serious
religion reporting, you might want
to find a way to become a
member of Religion Newswriters
Association. I’m thankful to work
at an organization that takes RNA
seriously and helped me attend
this year’s conference for story,
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source and network ideas. I
happen to know that Melissa
Nanna Burke, who won first place
in her circulation category last
night, will happily discuss
membership possibilities with
you.
If you want to find specific
quotes, data, information gathered
at this year’s conference, search
for #RNA2010 on Twitter, or I
hope religion reporters will post
any follow-up stories, columns or,
yes, blog posts in the comments
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 3:00:06 AM
A review of Waiting for
Superman.
D avid Guggenheim, the man
behind An Inconvenient Truth and
Obama’s 2008 DNC bio-
infomercial, has just released
another film — this one a
stabbing indictment of teachers’
unions and a plea for more charter
schools, titled Waiting for
Superman. Democrats for School
Choice hosted an advance
screening of the documentary, to
which black clergy, New York
City education chancellor Joel
Klein, and National Review were
invited. The school-choice cause
evidently transcends traditional
ideological boundaries.
Waiting for Superman intends to
influence policy, yet its narrative
follows not politicians, but five
children. Bianca, Daisy, Emily,
Anthony, and Francisco come
from diverse locales — Harlem,
L.A., Silicon Valley, D.C., and
the Bronx — and are black,
Hispanic, and white, but they
share the same basic problem:
Each is consigned by geography
to an inadequate public school.
Each wants a choice.
#ad#The stories — of Bianca,
whose single black mother
struggles to afford parochial
school but misses the final
payment that would let Bianca
attend graduation, and of
Anthony, who carries a picture of
his dead, drug-using father as he
seeks a spot at a rare charter
boarding school that might keep
him away from the streets, to
name two — are heartbreaking.
But the real message of the movie
is revealed in the scenes of the
adults who produce this
heartbreak. Superman’s most
memorable episode is the cartoon
illustration of the “lemon dance,”
in which school principals waltz
their “lemons” (teachers who just
can’t teach but can’t be fired)
from school to school. The
musical number would be
hilarious if it weren’t so
devastating. So, too, for the shots
of the infamous “rubber rooms,”
where middle-aged teachers sit in
school kids’ chairs, playing cards
or laying their heads on their
desks to sleep, collecting full pay
and pensions.
Guggenheim chooses one
champion and one villainess.
Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of
D.C. schools, is energetic and
assertive. She bluntly admits that
D.C. students “are getting a
crappy education right now,” she
fires a couple hundred
incompetent educators, institutes
some incentive pay, and starts to
turn D.C.’s schools around. Randi
Weingarten, president of the
American Federation of Teachers
(AFT), and Rhee’s foil, is on the
defensive. She seems most
solicitous about the egos of
teachers; a speech to her union
culminates in the cry, “You are
heroes!” In her interviews,
Weingarten reminds us what good
-hearted people teachers are, and
condemns school-choice
advocates for demonizing
teachers. She has maintained this
pattern off-screen as well. “It’s in
vogue to bash teachers and unions
rather than celebrate the work
they do to help kids,” she said,
responding to Superman. “That
being said, I'm a big girl.”
Weingarten, obviously, can take
the criticism, but she hasn’t
rebutted it. Perhaps it augurs
victory that the only thing she can
find to fault is her opponents’ tone
of voice. For now, though,
Weingarten still has the power
and the money. Weingarten’s
AFT funneled over $1 million to
defeat D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty
(who appointed and supported
Rhee) in the recent Democratic
primary. The winner, Vincent
Gray, used his victory speech to
announce his desire for “ a strong,
empowered chancellor who works
with parents and
teachers.”Translation: Rhee is out.
This is part of a pattern.
Guggenheim, whose political
sympathies are normally liberal,
admits that the Democratic party
is, on education policy, a “wholly
owned subsidiary of the teachers
unions.” The AFT and NEA —
combined, the biggest campaign
contributors in the U.S. — send
more than 90 percent of their
donations to Democrats.
Last week’s D.C. primary is a
fitting political backdrop to the
narrative of Waiting for
Superman. Unions stood in
Rhee’s way every step of her
chancellorship. An unforgettable
scene in the documentary shows
Rhee sitting aside from a podium,
shouted down from her speech by
members of D.C. teachers unions,
full of sound and fury. “We will
not be silenced,” a teacher snaps.
Don’t doubt her.
#page#
After the screening, we heard
from Chancellor Joel Klein, and
some of the founders and
supporters of New York charter
schools. As they moved to the
center of the room to take
questions, I noticed that they all,
with the exception of Klein, were
black. Klein explained why this
was: “On three sides of Central
Park, people have had school
choice all along. Now, for the first
time, on the fourth side —
because we’ve opened up 26
charters up in Harlem — people
have choice.” In other words,
Klein wants to extend the
privilege of voting with your feet
beyond the boundaries of
predominantly white, wealthy
Manhattanites who can afford
private schools. No wonder, then,
the preponderance of black
pastors. Rev. Dr. Alfred
Cockfield, of God’s Battalion of
Prayer Church in Brooklyn, was
seeing the film for the second
time. He was spreading a simple
message: “This is a film that
clergy need to see.”
#ad#Rev. David K. Brawley,
pastor of St. Paul Community
Baptist Church in Brooklyn, runs
the Imagine Me Leadership
Academy. He founded the all-
boys charter because “we looked
at the East New York section of
Brooklyn, looking at the
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incarceration rates of our sons,
and decided that we needed to
meet young males right where
they are.” He described the
opening day of his school: “One
hundred and five African
American men lined up to trade
high-fives with our 120 boys, who
we call leaders—it was one of the
most empowering moments of my
life. But I won’t lie: It is hard
work.”
Rev. A. R. Bernard is a rather
more unusual figure. A former
Muslim, now a charismatic
Christian preacher and published
author, a black conservative who
told The 700 Club that Jesse
Jackson and Al Sharpton “know I
represent a growing conservative
movement in the [black]
community,” he stands in front of
the audience with impeccable
dress and a shaking voice: “Gosh,
I’m still processing that film.” As
a pastor, he had to navigate the
initial skepticism of some
congregants when he helped
establish the Cultural Arts
Academy charter school. “It’s a
little touchy, because we have a
congregation of 33,000 members,
so we have over 460 educators in
the congregation, and they were
supportive of the unions, and were
a little tense about opening a
charter school.” But that turmoil
has been outweighed by the
advantages. “We used the
influence of the faith-based
environment to bring a value to
education. Value was lost
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Cut Us Loose? If Only!

Submitted at 9/27/2010 3:00:46 AM
don’t want to give up on that we make financial decisions for your control,” such as “what meltdown, almost half of
economic philosophy that they ourselves and our families. If ever happened in the economy, Americans (45 percent) worried
Mr. President, meet Americans, a have been peddling for most of a poll was timed to comport with decisions by your employer, an whether their assets would be
self-reliant people. the last decade. You know that an administration’s security- unexpected illness, and what there for them; 59 percent even
W h e n t o u t i n g h i s p o l i c y philosophy -- you cut taxes for blanket agenda, this one should happens in the stock market.” believed another Depression was
successes, President Obama tends millionaires and billionaires; you have been it. After all, the This self-reliant streak cut across a very real possibility. One might
to lapse into “we” speak. You cut all the rules and regulations widespread and seemingly occupational categories. Strong have expected these jittery
know, “we’re building wind for special interests; and then you random economic damage then majorities of clerical workers (58 Americans to support the easy and
turbines and solar panels and bio- just cut working folks loose -- you rampant across the land almost percent) and middle managers (59 self-interested option of a
diesel plants” or “we want to cut them loose to fend for seemed designed to cause even percent) exhibited it, along with government bailout. Instead, they
invest in . . . high-speed rail and themselves . . . What it really the most resilient free-marketer to two-thirds of senior managers. looked askance at the then-
broadband.” The “we,” of course, boiled down to was . . . you were question the wisdom and viability Respondents were asked to unfolding bailout mania on
is a small number of enlightened on your own.” of the free-enterprise system identify the best way to achieve a Capitol Hill. Only 16 percent said
government bureaucrats Cut us loose? To fend for itself. number of financial goals: the congressional rescue package
dispensing our tax dollars with all ourselves? On our own? But that’s not what the pollsters ensuring a financially secure would help their family’s
the aplomb of a hedge-fund Oh, the horror, the horror of it all. found. National Journal retirement, accumulating personal financial situation, 28 percent said
manager investing in the next big With this rhetoric -- now part of summarized the findings as and family assets, purchasing it would hurt, and the remaining
thing. his stump speech whenever he follows: affordable health care, and being 47 percent said it would make no
In getting so “we, we”-ed up, our addresses economic issues -- the Even amid the most disruptive able to count on a reliable income difference.
president betrays an arrogance president clearly hopes to tap into economic downturn since the over one’s lifetime. Majorities, We are a nation comfortably, but
common among progressives. It is what he believes is an underlying Great Depression, a substantial some of them quite substantial, not (alas) dramatically, to the
p e r f e c t l y r e a s o n a b l e , t h i s sense of financial insecurity on portion of American adults expressed greater confidence that right of center. Among the many
reasoning goes, to expect a GS-15 the part of most Americans. The continue to see personal action, their personal actions and private- virtues most Americans embrace
government careerist to (1) use great financial meltdown of 2008 rather than government sector products would accomplish is a profound sense of self-
tax dollars and government and 2009, he no doubt believes, intervention or business decisions, these goals than that reliance on reliance born of an equally
regulations to manipulate entire left an entire generation scarred as the best means of improving government programs and profound suspicion of all things
sectors of our economy, (2) do it and more receptive to the helping their economic security. More regulations would. government.
adeptly, and (3) create more hand of big government than any poll respondents picked personal #ad#Specifically, upwards of 60 You can keep your new college-
wealth and jobs than would be g e n e r a t i o n s i n c e t h e G r e a t initiatives, such as doing a good percent thought relying on their loan program and health-
produced by millions of self- D e p r e s s i o n . job or investing more carefully, personal actions and the private insurance czar, they seem to be
interested investors, consumers, Happily, that is not the case. than any other option when asked sector was the best way to secure saying. Just let us keep more of
and small-business owners acting Americans remain a self-reliant how they might better manage the their retirements, build their what we earn so we can pay the
independently in the private people who instinctively question challenges of financing personal and family assets, and kids’ tuition, buy the health plan
sector. the wisdom and competence of retirement, maintaining a secure achieve a reliable income over the we chose, and otherwise make our
#ad#It is these career government government to guide and shape income, and accumulating assets. long-term. And, by a margin of 50 own way through life.
bureaucrats, after all, who must our lives. #PAGE#Overall, 57 percent of percent to 44 percent, they The president should ponder
look out for us little people and In the economically tumultuous adults said financial well-being preferred the private sector to the these virtues -- and how
protect us from the predatory, days of April 2009, when 401(k)s depends on “your own actions,” government as the source of their widespread they are among the
heartless free-market forces that a n d h o m e v a l u e s w e r e such as “working hard, doing a health care. electorate -- before he gives
seek to destroy us. The president plummeting and pink slips flew, good job, leading a healthy life, These attitudes are entirely in another speech denigrating the
explained all this recently to a rapt the National Journal and the and saving and investing keeping with what we’ve learned great American desire to “fend for
audience of labor-union members Allstate Insurance Company carefully.” Only 37 percent, in about Americans in the Age of ourselves.”
in Milwaukee. commissioned a poll to learn what contrast, said their financial well- Obama. Case in point: At the
Republicans, he explained, “just factors most influence us when being depends on “events out of height of the 2008 financial CUT page 68
E-reader News Edition
How O’Donnell Can Do It
Submitted at 9/27/2010 3:00:40 AM
She is behind, but she has the
right message.
B y the numbers alone, Delaware
is a tough state for GOP
candidates. Registered Democrats
outnumber Republicans by more
than 100,000 in a state with only
620,000 voters. The last time the
state went for the Republican
presidential candidate was 1988,
and it hasn’t sent a Republican
senator to Washington since 1994.
Even if Christine O’Donnell did
not carry her burden of
controversial television clips, she
would face an extremely difficult
challenge. Recent polls haven’t
been promising: The September
16 Rasmussen poll has her
opponent, Democrat Chris Coons,
ahead by 11 points, while the
September 18 Fox News poll
gives him a 15-point lead. Both
polls show that a large number of
voters already have negative
feelings about O’Donnell -- 60
percent in the Fox poll say that
she is not qualified to be a
senator, while 54 percent in the
Rasmussen poll viewed her
unfavorably.
#ad#Coons’s website urges voters
“to show Delaware won’t elect a
Tea Party senator.” And,
unfortunately, that message has
some resonance. Forty percent of
voters in the Fox poll were
strongly opposed to the tea-party
movement, while another 9
percent were somewhat opposed.
“[Delaware] is still a state that is
very centrist in its own politics. I
don’t think that fact has changed
in the last two weeks or two
months, to be honest,” said GOP
strategist Don Mell.
How can O’Donnell prevail in
such circumstances? She will
have to sell two ideas to voters:
that Republican policies will
benefit the state more than
Democratic ones would, and that
she herself is qualified to
represent Delaware in the Senate.
And that is what her campaign has
set out to do.
O’Donnell’s first step is
reintroducing herself to the voters.
“It’s no secret that there’s been a
rather unflattering portrait of me
portrayed,” she said during a
candidate forum last week.
According to a campaign
spokesman, she plans on
“traveling throughout the state,
unveiling her positions on a
variety of issues over the course
of the campaign
and#...#contrast[ing them] with
those of her opponent in the race.”
Signaling her determination to
concentrate on Delaware,
O’Donnell announced last week
that she would no longer appear
on national media outlets. In an
interview with Sean Hannity (her
last such appearance), she said the
exposure wouldn’t help her get
votes. “I instead want to go to as
many town-hall forums, as many
candidate forums, as many church
picnics that I can fit into my
schedule, so that I can meet the
voters,” she explained.
#page#O’Donnell is also working
to reassure voters that she has no
intention of implementing her non
-political convictions. “I have my
personal beliefs, but our
Constitution defends our right for
the voters to disagree with me.
And that’s the right that I’m going
to defend,” she told Hannity.
Next, she’ll have to sell her
policies. While much of the
country, tired of high
unemployment and the economic
fallout from the recession, is
turning right on the economy,
Delaware seems relatively
indifferent.
#ad#That may be attributable to
Delaware’s unemployment rate of
8.4 percent, lower than the
national rate of 9.6 percent. There
is discontent over the state of the
economy -- 66 percent rate it as
“not so good” or “fair” in the Fox
poll -- but there doesn’t seem to
be any clear consensus that it’s
the Obama administration’s fault.
Thirty-five percent think Obama’s
policies have hurt, while about the
same number believe they have
helped.
O’Donnell’s campaign thinks that
her fiscally conservative message
will appeal in Delaware. A
campaign spokesman said that her
“fresh, outside approach” would
be attractive to Delaware residents
“trying to make ends meet and
provide a better life for their
children and families.”
National Republican Senatorial
Committee communications
director Brian Walsh compares
her approach to Scott Brown’s.
“Brown focused on a simple
message -- less government and
lower taxes -- and it clearly
resonated, even in one of the
bluest states in the country,”
Walsh says.
Chris Coons is now receiving
more serious scrutiny. The man
dubbed “my pet” by Senate
majority leader Harry Reid is a
committed liberal -- and
O’Donnell’s campaign plans to
highlight that, hanging Reid,
Democratic tax hikes, and
Obama’s unpopular agenda
around his neck.
In a small state like Delaware,
O’Donnell’s significantly higher
fundraising haul -- thanks to a
massive outpouring of
conservative support around the
country -- and the advertising
opportunities it gives her pack a
significant wallop. There is some
fertile ground for her: Fifty
percent of voters in the Fox poll
want to repeal Obamacare, 53
percent prefer a “smaller
government that provides fewer
services,” and 49 percent agree
that “the federal government has
gotten totally out of control and
threatens our basic liberties unless
we clean house and commit to
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drastic change.” They may not
embrace the tea party, but they’re
not huge fans of the current status
quo, either.
But what if Mike Castle decides
to run as a write-in candidate?
According to recent reports,
Castle -- who has refused to
endorse O’Donnell -- is doing
polling to find out what his
chances would be. Mell notes
that in diminutive Delaware,
“really a congressional district” in
size, a write-in candidacy could
be much more competitive than it
would be in a larger state.
Interestingly, a Castle write-in
candidacy could help O’Donnell.
New York Times poll analyst
Nate Silver argues that it will be
difficult for O’Donnell to nab
more than about 30 percent of the
vote, so a three-way race may be
her best shot. O’Donnell’s
campaign refuses to speculate on
Castle’s decision. Walsh merely
says that the NRSC “firmly
support[s] Christine O’Donnell.”
There are still more than five
weeks left in the campaign. As
O’Donnell’s unexpected primary
victory showed, she can be a
strong campaigner, and -- this
year -- almost anything is
possible.
-- Katrina Trinko is an intern at
National Review.
Katrina Trinko
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BP Spill: Numbers vs. Hysteria
Submitted at 9/27/2010 3:00:19 AM
Contrary to accusations by the
media and environmental groups,
the Coast Guard used worst-case
scenarios from the start.
T he controversy over whether
the Obama administration and BP
conspired to hide the size of the
Deepwater Horizon spill still has
legs, even though, as we reported
in early August, the final official
numbers, up to 62,000 barrels a
day, were devastating to BP. Last
Thursday, independent scientists
at Columbia University’s Lamont-
Doherty labs released a report that
largely backs up the government’s
final claims. Earlier, shifting
estimates, including lowball
numbers of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels
leaking per day, provoked a
lawsuit by an environmental
group, Public Employees for
Environmental Responsibility.
The group charged that the
Obama administration and
political appointees were
withholding documents that
would reveal why it issued that
estimate.
#ad#Good luck with that lawsuit.
I would never misunderestimate
the stupidity or mendacity of
political appointees -- nor of the
media. But what is striking as
I’ve gone back through the record
is that it was clear early on that
the dispute over the size of the
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-- Michael G. Franc is vice
president of government relations
spill, like a lot of the coverage,
was overblown by media cheap
shots at changing estimates.
Why? The “official” size didn’t
matter initially. The media, to
coin a phrase, misundereported
the fact that lowball estimates
were never used in planning the
response. Practically from day
one, the Coast Guard’s official
planning number, which led to
decisions such as how much
boom and how many skimmers
would be needed, was 100,000
barrels a day. That’s significantly
higher than the 62,000 barrels or
less per day the government now
says was spilled. This
conservative overresourcing (for
example, some areas had double
and triple layers of boom) might
partly account for the surprisingly
light damage the spill did to
wetlands, as even the New York
Times is finally reporting.
The catastrophic potential of the
well was never secret. The pre-
drilling “well plan,” which BP
was required by law to file with
the Interior Department’s
Minerals Management Service,
said that up to 162,000 barrels a
day could flow in a blowout. Less
than a week after the rig sank, the
Coast Guard put its contingency
plan in place to contain up to
100,000 barrels a day, according
to logs obtained by the Center for
Public Integrity, even as the
for the Heritage Foundation.
Michael G. Franc
“official” estimate stood at 1,000
barrels. The much larger
contingency estimate may well
have originated with BP, which at
the time was being roped into the
National Incident Command
system, a requirement for the
“responsible party” under relevant
law. Independent oil-industry
sources came up with similar
numbers.
As the Coast Guard morphed into
the National Incident Command,
press releases, including
statements by President Obama,
repeatedly stressed that planning
was for “worst-case estimates”
and was unaffected by the 1,000-
to-5,000-barrel figure or by
numbers emanating from the Flow
Rate Technical Group. It’s hard to
be sure, as much information is
disappearing behind websites’ pay
walls, but it appears that CNN’s
Candy Crowley was one of the
few who thought to ask what the
“worst case” amounted to, and
how it compared to the response.
On May 2, both Secretary of the
Interior Ken Salazar and National
Incident Commander Adm. Thad
Allen told her that 100,000 barrels
per day was what they were
planning to contain. This wasn’t a
number anyone went out of his
way to publicize, but it was
definitely in the public record.
The New York Times and other
outlets, meanwhile, managed to
write stories on May 4 about
politicians excoriating BP for
withholding the worst-case data;
apparently these journalists didn’t
notice that the response was being
shaped by those very worst-case
figures. And it was treated as a
major scandal when, as late as
June 20, Rep. Ed Markey (D.,
Mass.) announced he had
subpoenaed documents in which
BP estimated the spill could be as
large as 100,000 barrels a day.
The president, when he addressed
the nation on the subject, should
have used his megaphone to
emphasize the precise amount of
oil in the generous planning
estimate. He should have
explained what the stakes were,
and what the nation was up
against. Failure to convey this
information contributed to the
public panic surrounding the spill.
Scientists who were making
tentative and inconclusive
findings about underwater oil
short-circuited peer review to
warn of thousands of barrels of oil
in underwater “plumes.” As one
prominent scientist told me this
week, that’s a scary amount of oil
when it looked as if the
government was bumbling its way
to a 1,000-to-5,000-barrel daily
budget. That the government was
preparing to contain 100,000
barrels a day came as news to
him. Reporters, meanwhile,
E-reader News Edition
amplified the concern of scientists
into something bordering on
hysteria.
BP, unsurprisingly, was being
treated like a defendant and was
acting like one. Spokesmen said
as late as May 15 that they
couldn’t tell how much oil was
coming out of the well, and thus
were sticking with their story of
5,000 barrels as the “real” output.
The Miranda strategy will
probably serve them well in court.
So why was the government
bothering with spill estimates at
all? It appears, based on published
comments from Admiral Allen
and others, that the National
Incident Command wanted the
Flow Rate Technical Group to
come up with a definitive number
to be used at a later date for
potential litigation and to gauge
how much oil was in the gulf for
final cleanup. A spokesman for
the group has not responded to my
calls, but the new findings from
Lamont-Dougherty will reinforce
its position.
— Lou Dolinar is a retired
columnist and reporter for
Newsday. He is currently in
Mobile, Ala., working on a book
about what really did happen in
the Deepwater Horizon spill. Lou
Dolinar
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Today Show Highlights President Obama’s

Educational Choices
Lindsey Burke (The Foundry: way in every city across the half of children graduate high would have the opportunity to
Conservative Policy News.) country. In my hometown of school, only 11 percent of eighth- escape the D.C. public school
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:30:23 AM Chicago there are some great graders are proficient in reading, system and attend a private school
public schools that are on par with and one in eight students reports of their choice. President Obama
Posted September 27th, 2010 at any private school in the country.
12:30pm in Education Print This But it goes to the point Matt and I
being threatened with a weapon
on school grounds. Yet under
indeed chose a school that he
thought would best meet the A Field Trip
Post were talking about earlier. A lot President Obama’s watch, and at needs of his daughters—as was
This morning on the Today of times you’ve got to test in, or
Show, host Matt Lauer sat down it’s a lottery pick for you to be
the behest of the powerful his right to do. But every parent to the Mega-
education unions, this option is should have that choice. And for
with President Obama to discuss able to get into those schools and
his Administration’s policies on so those options are not available
being yanked from the hands of
D.C. families.
the past six years, thousands of
low-income parents in the
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Russia’s Iran Dilemma
Ariel Cohen (The Foundry:
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:00:01 AM
Posted September 27th, 2010 at
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov recently stated that there
is no proof that Iran is building
nuclear weapons. The Russian
Federation has held this position
for a long time. However, Lavrov
apparently has not heard what his
boss, president Dmitry Medvedev
said—and did—on this matter.
Moscow voted in favor of all the
four rounds of United Nations
Security Council (UNSC)
sanctions on Iran aimed at
pressuring the country to stop its
nuclear weapons program. Russia
also joined the ban on supplying
arms and military aircraft to Iran.
Significantly, the Kremlin
reversed its position on selling the
S-300 state-of-the-art air defense
system to Tehran. However,
Russia’s position is somewhat
schizophrenic because the country
is supposedly committed to
advancing military cooperation
with the Islamic Republic.
Russia also constructed and
fueled Iran’s nuclear reactor in
Bushehr last month and
guaranteed a 10-year supply of
the uranium needed to fuel to the
reactor. Despite Russian
guarantees, having a uranium
reactor gives Iran a pretext to
expand its uranium enrichment
program.
There are compelling arguments
suggesting that Iran is well on its
way to developing nuclear
weapons. According to testimony
from Denis C. Blair, Director of
National Intelligence, in March
2009, Iran can achieve the
capability to produce nuclear
weapon as early as 2013 and is
continuously expanding its
ballistic missile force. This
information was reinforced in the
Unclassified Report to Congress
on the Acquisition of Technology
Relating to Weapons of Mass
Destruction and Advanced
Conventional Munitions from the
Office of the Director of National
Intelligence that was released
earlier this year.
In addition, this view is widely
shared with U.S. allies who are
implementing their own regional
sanction regimes against Iran. For
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continued from page 69
educational purposes only.
their nuclear program.
And what Boston field trip would
Despite the efforts of the Obama be complete without seeing the
Administration, Russia has Old North Church, the oldest
worked hard to water-down standing church in Boston, and
UNSC sanctions regime in the the location of the“fateful event”
past. Yet, President Medvedev that “ignited the American
sees Iran as close to acquiring the Revolution”? Of course, since
capability to make nuclear this historical gem is still a
weapons and expressed support functioning congregation,
for the sanctions. In the end, he teachers would once again be
issued a decree banning weapons vigilant to ensure that no
sales to Tehran, including the S- proselytism occurred. They would
300. also, of course, prohibit students
Russia did not implement this from participating in anything
ban out of the goodness of its that might be construed as
heart. If Moscow were convinced “worship.”
that the Iranians do not deliver On May 25, 2010, educators in a
example, Tony Blair, former nuclear weakons, it would never Boston suburb chose to eschew all
Prime Minister of the United agree to lose hundreds of millions these field trip opportunities.
Kingdom, recently stated that it is of dollars in arms sales. Instead, they brought sixth
“wholly unacceptable” for Tehran It is also possible that there are graders from Wellesley Middle
to seek nuclear weapons differences between Prime School to one of the most
capability. Private companies in Minister Putin and President controversial mosques in
Europe are moving from the Medvedev regarding the Iranian America, the Islamic Society of
Iranian market in an effort to policy, and the Foreign Minister Boston Cultural Center.
support the sanctions regime. took Putin’s side. Americans for Peace and
However, most experts agree that Yet, the President of Russia has Tolerance (APT), a Boston-based
sanctions alone are not enough to spoken. It would help if his human rights group, released a
stop Tehran’s nuclear weapons Foreign Minister took the heed. video of the excursion, with
program. This entry passed through the footage secretly filmed by a
Lavrov’s inconsistency may Full-Text RSS service — if this is concerned mother acting as a
suggest that there is a difference your content and you're reading it chaperone on the social studies
of opinion at the apex of the on someone else's site, please read class field trip. The video
Russian power structure. Last our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ demonstrates that in this case,
year, Prime Minister Vladimir content-only/faq.php teachers were not vigilant,
P u t i n d i d n o t a c k n o w l e d g e Five Filters featured article: proselytism did take place, and
evidence that Iran is developing Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- five of the sixth grade boys
nuclear weapons. However, Putin Reporting of Falluja's Cancer participated in Islamic worship.
repeatedly stated that Iran needs Catastrophe. The videographer/mom explained
to come clean and clarify to that Wellesley Middle School sent
Russia, the U.S., Europe, and home a form, asking for parents’
Israel, regarding the true nature of permission to take her son’s social
FIELD page 73
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China-Japan Tiff: A Trade Lesson for the U.S.

Derek Scissors, Ph.D. (The The China-Japan dispute is a
Foundry: Conservative Policy reminder than the U.S.
News.) government needs to pay attention
Submitted at 9/27/2010 9:30:05 AM to trade dependence. We need
Posted September 27th, 2010 at good information, and then we
10:30am in American Leadership need to mitigate any dependence
Print This Post on unreliable partners for
China and Japan had a diplomatic important goods and assets. For
disagreement this past week. Of example, the Department of
the many facets to this dispute, at Defense is upgrading its stockpile
least one has implications for the of strategic minerals like rare
U.S.: during the diplomatic earths, but the process began late
standoff, Chinese shipments of because awareness of this issue
rare earth minerals to Japan were was low.
interrupted. The U.S. is in a much The U.S. is accustomed to having
stronger position than Japan but the economic and financial
this incident is a pointed reminder leverage in a crisis. China’s size
to avoid trade dependence on
global production. And rare earths depends on our bond market far as a trade partner and obvious
strategic competitors in security-
are important, as they are used in more than we depend on their willingness to exploit that size
related products. means we have to take more care
production of advanced weapons bond purchases.
The interruption by China was
and environmental equipment. In trade, an examination of not to leave ourselves vulnerable.
informal and intended from the
China reminded Japan that it was available trade data shows no This entry passed through the
start to be temporary. It caused no
risking more than an exchange of apparent vulnerability of the U.S. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
real economic harm to Japan and
nasty letters. to the PRC. Imports from China your content and you're reading it
might never have, since Japanese
Could the same thing happen to seem to be concentrated in areas – on someone else's site, please read
firms could simply have bought
the U.S.? Could worse happen, textiles, toys, etc. – that have no our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
rare earths from those companies content-only/faq.php
g i v e n t h a t U . S . - C h i n a strategic value.
still receiving Chinese deliveries.
confrontations could be for much There is a big qualifier, though: Five Filters featured article:
However, it was an effective
higher stakes than a detained American trade data aren’t good Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
message.
trawler captain? Probably not, but enough. Rare earths and other Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Rare earths are not rare, with
the situation is not entirely clear. items of concern don’t show up Catastrophe.
large deposits present in the U.S.,
First, the idea that China has clearly as areas of dependence
Australia, and elsewhere. But a
leverage due to its holdings of b e c a u s e t h e d a t a a r e n ’ t
combination of events means
American bonds is false. The PRC s u f f i c i e n t l y d e t a i l e d .
China now dominates actual
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Department of Injustice
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:40:55 PM
For a time, it seemed like the
Obama administration might have
dodged a bullet in the New Black
Panther Party (NBPP) voter
intimidation scandal. The case
mostly faded from public view
after former Department of
Justice official J. Christopher
Adams testified before the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights in
July. Adams claimed the DOJ
routinely ignores civil rights
cases involving white victims,
with its decision to drop most of
the charges in the NBPP case
providing the most egregious
example of this disturbing trend.
Administration officials dismissed
Adams’ allegations and leftists
sought to portray him as a
disgruntled ex-staffer with an ax
to grind. What was a burgeoning
scandal then seemed to burn itself
out. The smoldering flames roared
back to life on Friday, when
Christopher Coates, the former
voting chief in the Civil Rights
Division, testified under oath
before the commission.
The DOJ spent the better part of a
year trying to prevent Coates from
testifying and even ordered him to
ignore a subpoena. It’s now clear
why the administration would try
to stop Coates from telling his
story, for his is a damning tale
indeed. Not only did the ex-
ACLU attorney back up Adams’
claims that charges were dropped
in the NBPP case for political
(rather than legal) reasons, he
outlined a disturbing pattern of
behavior within Attorney General
E-reader News Edition
States vs. Ike Brown et al. That
landmark case, involving an
election in Mississippi, was the
first time that the Voting Rights
Act was invoked to protect the
rights of white voters who were
subjected to racial discrimination
by African Americans and other
minorities. Despite the objections
Drugs, Gangs, and Public
of some long-time DOJ staffers, Schools in America: A
Coates and others pressed forward Call to Action
with the case and the courts Collette Caprara (The Foundry:
ultimately found Brown and his Conservative Policy News.)
co-defendants guilty.
According to Coates, Ike Brown Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:00:21 AM
and his allies engaged in “…some
Posted September 27th, 2010 at
of the most outrageous and
12:00pm in Education Print This
blatantly discriminatory behavior
Post
at the polls…” that he had
Would the discovery that, every
witnessed in over thirty years as a
day, nearly 6 million youths in
voting rights litigator.
America are immersed in abusive
Nonetheless, Coates testified that
environments create a shock wave
some career attorneys in the
Eric Holder’s Department of and a call to action?
voting rights section didn’t want
Justice. Rather than representing That is, in essence, the finding of
to take the case, believing that the
an anomaly, Coates laid out a a report recently released by the
Voting Rights Act should only be
convincing case that the DOJ’s National Center on Addiction and
invoked if a minority was the
questionable behavior in the Substance Abuse (CASA) at
aggrieved party. He added that
NBPP case is consistent with Columbia University: The public
one African American attorney
racially-motivated departmental outcry remains to be heard.
who volunteered to help out in
policy. The results of two concurrent
the Brown case was subject to
In order to put the NBPP surveys, each of 1,000 students
harassment from some DOJ
controversy in context, Coates aged 12 through 17, revealed that
employees.
went back to a case he got 27 percent of those in public
involved in back in 2003: United schools reported that their schools
were infected with both gangs and
drugs. As would be expected,
youths in such schools were far
more likely to use drugs and
alcohol, and tobacco.
Alarmingly, the current numbers
reflect a substantial rise in the
presence of drugs in schools in
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Peace or No Peace?
N.M. Hungerford (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/26/2010 11:36:56 PM
Despite international concern that
fragile Palestinian-Israeli peace
talks would derail following the
expiration of a partial moratorium
on West Bank settlement
expansion, Palestinian Authority
leader Mahmoud Abbas revealed
that he would not walk away from
the table if the moratorium was
not resumed. Indeed, as the
expiration time passed at 6pm
Sunday evening, both parties
remained engaged in peace talks
— though for how long appears
uncertain.
For weeks, Abbas has threatened
to abandon negotiations if the 10-
month construction freeze is not
extended. Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to
capitulate to the demand, noting
that the moratorium was initially
enacted as a concession to
Palestinians, who did not even
acknowledge the olive branch
until almost a year later. The
Israeli decision to allow the
moratorium to expire is its signal
that it does not view the peace
talks as a process in which it is
expected to meet every
Palestinian demand while
Palestinians continue to reject
Israeli’s right to exist, wage terror
against Israelis and preach hatred
of Jews in their mosques, schools
and media. As is tragically
underscored by the Israeli death
toll that has been suffered at the
hands of Palestinians, Netanyahu
is interested in a peace deal only
if it means securing an end to the
endless Palestinian slaughter of
Israelis — and to the Palestinian
justifications for such slaughter.
“I say to President Abbas,”
Netanyahu entreated after the
moratorium ended, “for the sake
of our two peoples, let’s focus on
what really matters. Let’s
continue expedited and serious
peace talks to reach a historic
framework peace agreement
within a year.”
But prospects of this do not seem
to be realistic, even if peace talks
continue, and even if they achieve
noteworthy results. Just hours
before the moratorium expired, a
radical Palestinian group, the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine (PFLP), declared it
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continued from page 70
studies class to the mosque.
“During our visit we will hear
from Islam from members of the
Cultural Center, learn about the
architecture of a mosque, and
observe a midday prayer service,”
the permission slip informed.
The students, who looked well-
behaved and attentive in the
video, were told about Islam
from an American women convert
serving as a mosque volunteer.
Maybe the volunteer should have
read up a little more on Islam
herself. She told the students that
in the time of Mohammed,
“women were allowed to express
their opinions and vote” while in
America, “women didn’t get that
right until less than a hundred
years ago.” Islam was “very
advanced” in “recognizing
would suspend membership in the women’s rights,” the mosque
P a l e s t i n i a n L i b e r a t i o n spokesperson declared. In his
O r g a n i z a t i o n , t h e u m b r e l l a report for Big Peace, APT head
Palestinian coalition which Abbas Dr. Charles Jacobs said that the
represents. The group stated students were also told that the
publicly that it does not want to only meaning of Jihad was a
participate in peace talks and, “personal spiritual struggle” and “
furthermore, would not be “a Jihad has historically had no
cover for policies that would relationship with holy war.”
devastate the national cause.” It is Although the mother who filmed
a n i n t r i g u i n g a n d h o n e s t the mosque visit said that the
declaration to be sure: the pursuit encounter “sometimes came close
of a Palestinian state, which Israel to proselytizing,” the video points
is trying to usher the way for, o u t that dawa(Islamic
would devastate the “national
cause.” Once again it is clear that,
as history has shown time and
again, Palestinians are more
interested in destroying the Jewish
state than in creating their own.
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proselytism) is the duty of all
Muslims. It cites the website
DawaNet, which says that schools
are “fertile grounds where the
seeds of Islam can be sowed
inside the hearts of non-Muslim
students.”
When the videographer and all of
the other females present were
moved to a room adjacent to the
prayer room, she noticed that five
of the Middle School boys had
joined in the prayers to Allah,
including one Jewish boy. The
boys were following the
accustomed prayer format of the
Muslim men, prostrating
themselves. According to the
mother, the teachers did nothing
to intervene. Perhaps they were
not aware that it only takes the
recitation of one prayer, the
Shahada, to be considered
converted to Islam. Jacobs writes
that the parents of these children
were not told that their sons had
joined in the worship. But it is
not just the Wellesley public
school teachers or administrators
who have ignored the threat.
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ROCKING
continued from page 65
somewhere, and somehow wealth
was disconnected from education,
and attached to sports and
entertainment. We had to reorient
the children to understand that
true wealth is portable. It’s
education.” Improving education,
for Bernard, entails changing the
culture.
Chancellor Klein, himself a
product of New York public
housing and public schools, hoped
that if charter schools could teach
kids that “your parents’ income
won’t determine your life’s
trajectory, then the whole world
can change.”
Klein was emotional as he
explained the difficulties school
reformers face, and why the cause
is allying poor, minority
DRUGS,
continued from page 72
recent years. One in three middle-
school students reported that
drugs are used, kept, or sold at
their schools (nearly a 40 percent
rise from 2009) and, among high-
school students, 66 percent said
their schools were drug-infected
(compared to 51 percent in 2006).
Fortunately, an escape hatch
exists. The CASA survey also
revealed a vast difference between
the environments of public and
private schools. For example,
while 46 percent of teens in public
schools reported gang activity,
only 2 percent in private and
religious schools did. Likewise,
78 percent of youths in private
schools can pursue their studies in
a drug-free environment,
compared to just 43 percent of
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communities with conservatives are now works just fine for the
A Detailed Look at Apple
and libertarians against public-
sector unions. The important
unions, many of the politicians,
and others — that’s why it keeps
and Google’s Fight for
division, he said, shouldn’t be
between Republicans and
going. So if we don’t rock this
boat, we’re going to under-serve Mobile Developer Attention
Democrats, between public kids, mostly poor kids and kids of Christina Warren (Mashable!)
schools and private, or between color.” Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:58:17 AM
any one ideology or another — Waiting for Superman, with all
it’s about kids versus adults. the noise and buzz it’s generating,
Appcelerator and IDC just
“Right now, our kids aren’t with the acclaim it’s received published a new survey of
getting educated because it’s all from diverse political circles, smartphone developers focusing
about the adults. We’ve put might be just the thing to start the
on long-term platform
adults’ comfort before kids’ boat rocking. perceptions, as well as what
education. It’s not going to – Matthew Shaffer is a William F.
features are most important when
change until it becomes about the Buckley Fellow at the National developing a new app.
kids. The education monopoly Review Institute. Matthew ShafferThe results, like those from a
wants to keep its monopoly. And similar study performed by
unless people of faith and people Appcelerator in June, indicate that
of color get behind this thing, then to shrink and when looking at non
Google’s Android platform
this movie is just going to be -smartphone or tablet use-cases,
continues to be where developers
another movie. The way things the capabilities and potential for
see the most long-term potential,
Android really start to take shape.
especially when powering
Appcelerator and IDC asked
multiple types of devices (read:
developers a series of questions
beyond smartphone/tablet).
their counterparts in public provide America’s young people about how they perceived
In fact, the gap between iOS and
schools (a gap that has more than with the hope and opportunity that Android and iOS in terms of
Android over “best long-term
doubled in the past 10 years). access to safe and effective capabilities, openness, long-term
outlook” has widened an
Currently, a number of states and schools can provide. outlook and ability to power a
additional 10 points since June.
the District of Columbia have This entry passed through the variety of connected devices in
The latest survey results indicate
incorporated vouchers and tax Full-Text RSS service — if this is the future.
that 58.6% of respondents see
credits to empower parents to your content and you're reading it You can see the results in the
Android as having better long-
send their children to the private on someone else's site, please read chart below:
term outlook as compared to
schools of their choice. While our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ While Android leads iOS in all
34.9% for iOS.
continued funding for the D.C. content-only/faq.php four questions, the two where
I spoke with Scott Schwarzhoff,
school voucher program hangs in Five Filters featured article: Android has an overwhelming
VP of Marketing at Appcelerator
the balance, there’s hope that Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- lead over the competition are
about the results of the survey and
M e m b e r s o f C o n g r e s s — 3 8 Reporting of Falluja's Cancer variety of devices and openness.
some of his thoughts on why
percent of whom have at one Catastrophe. These two areas both speak to
trends are shaping up as they are.
point sent a child to private Android’s potential as an
Android: BusyBox for the 21st
school—will extend that underlying framework (and one
Century?
opportunity to low-income youths that isn’t necessarily tied into
The latest survey results indicate
in our nation’s capital as well. Google or the Android Market) as
that both the iPhone and iPad still
The tragic scenario portrayed in much as its capabilities.
lead Android and Android tablets
the CASA survey should serve as
in terms of developer interest — DETAILED page 76
a clarion call to other states to
at least today. That gap continues
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The Mashable Awards Officially Launches – Start Nominating!
Adam Hirsch (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 12:24:04 PM
Today we are officially launching
the nominations period for the
fourth annual Mashable
Awards(formerly known as Open
Web Awards). The Mashable
Awards seeks to reward the very
best of social media and the web
— from the top websites to the
best social media campaigns.
We’ve opened 21 of the 25
categories, in which you can
nominate a person, company,
organization, app, device, gadget,
video, url or technology.
Mashable will roll out the final
four categories in the upcoming
weeks.
To get started, just sign in to
Facebook or Twitter and you’re
ready to start nominating! You
can nominate once per category
every day(meaning up to 21 total
nominations per day).
Nominations will close at 11:59
p.m. EST on Monday, November
29, 2010. The top five nominees
with the most nominations
(subject to editorial policies and
official rules) will move forward
to the “Final 5 Voting Round”
starting Wednesday, December 1,
2010. How to Place Your
Nominations
This year, Mashable has created a
unique and social voting platform
for the Mashable Awards.
Submitting your nomination
requires four easy steps:
Step 1: Visit Mashable.com/
Awards
Step 2: Log in via Facebook or
Twitter
Step 3: Choose a Category and
Nominee
Step 4: Submit Your
Nominations for Any and All
Categories
*You may nominate/vote in all
categories once per day The
Official First 21 Categories
• 1.Best Location-Based Service
• 2.Best Social Media Service for
Small Business
• 3.Best Music Discovery Service
• 4.Best Web Video
• 5.Best Online Game
• 6.Best New Gadget
• 7.Best Mobile Device
• 8.Best Mobile Game
• 9.Best Mobile Platform
• 10. Best Mobile User
Experience
• 11. Best Website User
Experience
• 12. Breakthrough Website
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• 13.Best Use of an API
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DETAILED
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We’ve already seen a barrage of
Android-powered or Android-
based devices of all shapes and
sizes hit the market. Beyond
tablets and portable music players
— and keep in mind, Google
hasn’t released a tablet-optimized
version of its OS yet — we’ve
seen Android-powered ebook
readers, Android TVs, Android
picture frames and more.
Google’s upcoming Google TV
will be based on Android.
At its base, Android is a
customizable low-level operating
system that is perfect for
embedded devices. In this case,
it’s similar to the GPL-licensed
BusyBox. BusyBox is a very
lightweight and portable set of
Unix tools and utilities that can be
used with the Linux kernel. On
electronic devices that run an
embedded version of the Linux
kernel (read, hundreds of
thousands of electronics),
BusyBox provides an ultra-
lightweight set of tools that can be
used for diagnostics and for
adding additional features.
In many ways, Android is
becoming the BusyBox of the
21st century. Sure, the base
hardware specifications are going
to be higher, but as chip prices fall
and capabilities rise — not to
mention the convergence of
connected devices — it makes
sense to have a base platform that
has built-in support for
networking, userland tools and
also can be hooked into a higher-
level application ecosystem.
In theory, iOS could be used for
these same purposes. The
difference is that Android is
licensed under the Apache license
(Google’s own applications and
the Android Market are under
different licenses, which is why
you don’t see the Android Market
on devices without a cellular data
connection), whereas Apple’s iOS
is proprietary and not licensed to
outside device makers. iOS Still
Has the Better App Experience
In the long-term, the outlook on
Android may be in the lead, but
according to the developers
studied, iOS still offers better
revenue opportunity, a better app
store and the biggest market for
business and consumer apps.
The Android Market is tied to
Google Checkout and paid apps
are still not available in all
countries. This limits the revenue
opportunities for developers.
Additionally, the app discovery
system pales in comparison to
iOS. Mobile App Development:
What Features Do Developers
Want/Need
Beyond what platform developers
are interested in developing for,
Appcelerator and IDC also asked
respondents for feedback on what
features and APIs and types of
integration are essential when
building apps.
Interestingly, four of the five
developers surveyed favored
developing a native app over a
web app — most of these
developers come from a web
development background.
Still, when it comes to native
applications, developers want
their apps to be location aware
and to be able to offer push-
updates. Schwarzhoff described
these two indicators as an area
where mobile development is
unique from other types of
development. Context becomes
increasingly important for mobile
development as apps can display
or push out different information
based on what time it is or where
a user is located.
Schwarzhoff also noted that
when it comes to the phone
camera, developers increasingly
want to utilize the camera as a
way to capture additional
information, instead of the
traditional, “take photos and
upload to Flickr” sense (though
that is helpful too).
That’s why QR codes and
barcode apps have seen a lot of
traction. The camera can be used
to bring back in lots of
information that can then be used
to inform the app of what to do
next.
Likewise, it’s important that apps
have hooks to social features like
Facebook and Twitter.
In the area of commerce, 49% of
developers responded that they
needed access to the iOS-in-App
purchase system. That has really
been a great way for developers to
offer upgrades and enhancements
to their apps.
Likewise, PayPal Payments are
requested by 48% of developers.
PayPal has been dedicating a lot
of energy into improving the
mobile payment process. Earlier
this year, it rolled out its PayPal
iPhone SDK as a way for
developers to accept PayPal
payments in app. We’ve spoken to
PayPal several times and they see
mobile and mobile payments as a
real focus going forward.
Going Forward
On the macro level, Android
continues to entice developers
with its possibilities and future
use cases. iOS still really leads
when it comes to the overall app
development experience, and
especially with any revenue plans.
Looking at the features that
developers want to be able to
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integrate into their apps, it’s
important to note how many are
platform agnostic. This actually
shows that there is potential for
another company — Microsoft,
RIM, HP — to capture developer
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24, 2010 3:18pm PDT this was
acctually pretty helpful. But most
people are chalk full of excuses
and will use them untill their
tounges fall out. Report Abuse
• Posted by Mona Fri Sep 24,
2010 3:36pm PDT My response
to the nosy friend is always to ask
them immediately, "why do you
want to know?" They have to
reveal the why and you still don't
have to answer. As far as the rest
goes, I've learned that if you lend
someone $20 and you never see it
or them again, it was probably
worth it!! Report Abuse
• Posted by Rachelle Fri Sep 24,
2010 6:49pm PDT I have
absolutely no shame in admitting
my favorite store is Goodwill.
That kind of thriftiness is in part,
why at the age of 22 and 20,
respectively, my husband and I
own our car outright, have our
own home that we should be able
to pay off within a year, and I
have the luxury to be a
homemaker and (hopefully
someday soon) sahm, while my
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you split the rest?'" Your message
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husband maintains a very stable
job. And no, mommy and daddy
didn't pay for any of it- they didn't
even cosign our mortgage. Report
Abuse
• Posted by Frantastic Sat Sep 25,
2010 5:53pm PDT If I can't afford
to be somewhere, then I don't go.
It is that simple. I try to teach one
of our sons that. Sometimes his
social calander can break a sistah.
He is 16 and does not have time
for a job with school and sports
but I have to make him choose
what means the most rather than
trying to do all of it. Report Abuse
• Posted by jen Sat Sep 25, 2010
7:37pm PDT For all it is worth
avoid the friends that
conveniently disappear when the
check arrives. That happened
once and never again. I do not go
out when i know that someone is
going to be there that pulls that
stunt. My boyfriend's sister is a
prime example. She makes $3,000
a check, has no car because she
can walk to work or borrow her
mother's, "borrows" things
constantly; but never seems to
have any cash, but can by a PS3.
No way. Avoid at all cost. These
type of people get offended when
you confront them with the
situation. I am not saying she does
not have bills and stuff to do, but
come on so do all of us. Report
Abuse
• Posted by Gurio Sun Sep 26,
2010 6:16am PDT I love to
disclose when I got a great deal or
saved money in any way. There
are not enough friends and
relatives to brag about it... Report
Abuse
• Posted by Muffie 17 hours ago
The problem with keeping mum
about salaries is that it's endemic
to our culture, not just a "none of
your business, my friend" thing.
Being secretive about salaries
allows companies to underpay
women and minorities *and* get
away with it. Because there is
something of a statue of
limitations on suing over
discrimination practices, and most
people find out entirely by
accident---because no one ever
shares what they're making---the
discrimination lawsuits are
difficult to prove. Secrecy isn't
good for employees, but it allows
employers to pay ridiculous sums
of money to a select few
employees and a lot less to others.
So long as we consider salary as
private as sexual positions, we
enable unfair and even illegal pay
practices. Report Abuse
• Posted by Angela 12 hours ago
I have never found a single one of
those situations sticky. I have
always felt honesty is the best
policy. I don't feel ashamed to say
that it is unfair for me to pay more
than what I ate and people who
pressure me to pay more do not
stay my friends. And loaning
friends money beyond a few
bucks if the lunch place doesn't
take a check is suicide. Don't do
it. Report Abuse
• Posted by Ms Mary 5 hours 43
minutes ago lending friends
money is not good to look for it
back, because for whatevery
reason they well not pay you
back, if so not on time. and most
likly you well have to remind
them. question are they really a
friend or a user. Get it in writing
may help. maybe, Report Abuse
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