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Presidents keep to-do lists too, check Obama’s

pocket
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row (Perhaps the answers are blowing
Washington) in the wind?)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:56:22 AM Obama has found that not
everyone is in awe of the White
Even presidents don’t escape to- House. Bob Dylan for one.
do lists. Granted they include When the music icon performed Goldman Sachs Turns
more weighty items than mundane at the White House, he didn’t go Even More Bearish,
reminders to pick up groceries to rehearsal and he didn’t want his
after work. picture taken with the president
Raises Chance Of Bad
President Barack Obama, it turns and first lady. He came, played Case Scenario
out, keeps one in his pocket. “The Times They Are A- Gregory White (Business
“I keep in my pocket a checklist Changin’,” stepped off the stage, Insider)
of the promises I made during the “shakes my hand, sort of tips his
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:22:32 AM
campaign, and here I am, halfway head, gives me just a little grin,
through my first term, and we’ve and then leaves,” Obama said. Goldman Sachs has been turning
probably accomplished 70 percent “And that was it — then he left. more bearish throughout 2010,
of the things that we said we were That was our only interaction with and now the company has reached
going to do,” Obama says in an him. And I thought: That’s how a new low ( via Zero Hedge).
interview with Rolling Stone you want Bob Dylan, right? You The bank is raising the
magazine (yes, the don’t want him to be all cheesin’ probability of its worst case
same publication that did a profile mode. It’s just a month before the solving and how the easy ones get and grinnin’ with you. You want scenario, which means GDP
of General Stanley McChrystal November election and he’s handled before reaching him. him to be a little skeptical about growth of less than 2.5% for
which led to his firing). trying to drum up enthusiasm for “The issues that cross my desk are
the whole enterprise. So that was 2010, up to 25%.
“I’ve got two years left to finish Democratic candidates who are h a r d a n d c o m p l i c a t e d , a n d a real treat.” There's a lot more bad news from
the rest of the list, at minimum. w o r r i e d a b o u t l o s i n g t h e i r oftentimes involve the clash not Photo credit: Reuters/Alexander the bank, so check out the most
So I think that it is very important majority in Congress. And being of right and wrong, but of two D e m i a n c h u k ( C a r i c a t u r e o f important slides to get a grasp of
for Democrats to take pride in on the cover of Rolling Stone rights. And you’re having to Obama at a political cartoon their negative outlook. Click here
what we’ve accomplished,” h e l p s t h e p r e s i d e n t g e t a n balance and reconcile against exhibit in Russia) to see key charts from the
Obama says. audience with younger voters. competing values that are equally
presentation >
The president is in campaign Obama talked about problem- legitimate.” Join the conversation about this
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Washington Extra – Comfort Zone
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 4:47:46 PM
President Barack Obama was
jubilant at the bill signing for the
small business lending legislation,
but with just slightly more than a
month to go before the election,
voters appear consistently
unmoved by White House
attempts to lift the economy.
The president acknowledged that
the small business bill came after
a “long and tough fight,” and he
castigated Senate Republicans –
well, all but the two who bucked
their party – for standing in the
way.
Be on the lookout for the Reuters
/Ipsos poll on Ohio tomorrow,
you can find it on our midterm
election page.
And my colleague Deborah
Zabarenko points out the
following that would rattle
anyone’s comfort zone: A
telescope on Maui has detected an
asteroid that will come within 4
million miles of Earth in mid-
October — close enough to be
considered a “potentially
hazardous object,” according to
astronomers at the University of
Hawaii.
The space rock won’t hit Earth in
the immediate future, but we still
have a one-word reaction:
YIKES!
Here are our top stories from
today…
Obama signs small business bill
into law
President Barack Obama signed a
$30 billion small business lending
bill into law, claiming a victory
on economic policy for his fellow
Democrats ahead of November
congressional elections. The law
sets up a lending fund for small
businesses and includes an
additional $12 billion in tax
breaks for small companies.
For more of this story by Jeff
Mason, read here.
Oil companies must show can
clean up spills: panel
Oil companies should be required
to prove they can respond to
major oil spills before they are
allowed to acquire leases for
offshore oil and gas development,
White House oil spill commission
co-chair Bill Reilly said. He said
such a requirement would help
place some of the responsibility
for improving oil spill response
technology on oil companies,
although he said the government
should lead this effort.
For more of this story by Ayesha
Rascoe, read here.
Bank regulators delay “too big to
fail” reform
Banking regulators put off
proposing how the government
would use its new authority to
dismantle large, collapsing
financial companies, saying they
need more time for industry and
other regulators to weigh in. The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
the exam, and others used or
distributed answer sheets or study
guides that essentially provided
the answers to the test.
For more of this story by James
Vicini, read here.
IMF to do mandatory checks on
key financial systems
The International Monetary Fund
said it will conduct mandatory
check-ups of the financial sectors
of 25 systemically-important
countries to try to prevent another
damaging global financial crisis.
Until now, IMF financial sector
evaluations have been voluntary
for IMF member countries.
For more of this story by Lesley
Wroughton, click here.
Obama administration fights for
had tentatively planned to vote on stem cell funding
issuing an interim final rule that The Obama administration
would have put in place some pleaded with a U.S. appeals court
aspects of how the agency would to allow federal funding of human
handle the winding down of large embryonic stem cell research to
f i n a n c i a l f i r m s p r e v i o u s l y continue, arguing a ban would
considered “too big to fail.” ruin numerous projects and cost
For more of this story by Dave millions of dollars.
Clarke, read here. For more of this story by Jeremy
F B I e m p l o y e e s r e p o r t e d l y Pelofsky, read here.
cheated on security test What we are blogging…
F B I a g e n t s a n d s e v e r a l Obama sounds note of optimism
supervisors cheated on an exam about Democrats and November
about new rules for terrorism and President Barack Obama sounded
criminal investigations and for an optimistic note about the
collecting foreign intelligence, Democratic Party’s prospects in
according to a Justice Department upcoming congressional midterm
report. The report by inspector elections, saying in an NBC
general Glenn Fine found that interview that Democrats would
some FBI employees improperly “do just fine” if they could keep
consulted with others while taking the focus on issues of substance.
E-reader News Edition
For David Morgan’s full blog,
read here.
From elsewhere…
Interview: China should keep
yuan stable, resist U.S.
China should keep the yuan
stable and not give in to U.S.
pressure because a rapid rise in
the value of the currency would
harm the economy, a prominent
government economist said. Yi
Xianrong, an economist at the
Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, a top government think-
tank, described U.S. legislation
aimed at forcing China to speed
up the rise of the yuan as
“nonsense.”
For more of this story, here.
North Korean leader’s son named
army general
Secretive North Korea’s ailing
leader Kim Jong-il has named his
youngest son as a military
general, state media said, marking
the first stage of a dynastic
succession. Kim Jong-il, 68, is
believed to have suffered a stroke
in 2008, but despite his declining
health is not expected to go into
retirement just yet, experts say.
They say his son Kim Jong-un is
too young and inexperienced to
fully take the reins.
For more of this story, read here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason Reed
(Obama winks at audience before
signing into law the Small
Business Jobs Act)
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Advice from Biden: Don’t Will Research In Motion's

underestimate O’Donnell and Palin BlackBerry PlayBook
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
“What we should be doing, the
Democrats, is focusing on what Challenge the Apple iPad?
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:24:27 AM they are offering and those who Mark Fightmaster
agree with them and what they are (BloggingStocks)
The only Democrat who has run against and compare it to what we
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:00:00 PM
against, and defeated, both are for and what we’re against,”
Republicans Christine O’Donnell Biden added. “When we do that, Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL),
and Sarah Palin says don’t sell we’ll do just fine.” Research in Motion (RIMM)
either of them short. Biden said O’Donnell’s win in After the closing bell sounded
“Take them both very seriously,” Delaware was a wake-up call — Monday, Canadian tech firm
Vice President Joe Biden said and not just for Republicans. Research In Motion Ltd. ( RIMM)
Monday in an MSNBC interview. “Well this is a wake-up call for released the BlackBerry the potential for a new iPad from
Biden, a former senator from Democrats, we have to show up PlayBook, its answer to Apple's ( Apple. Waiting allows RIM to
Delaware, defeated the state’s and make our case and focus on AAPL) iPad. The tablet has a 7- gauge the prices from the other
Republican Senate nominee in his the differences, not the inch LCD screen, a front-facing companies and price its offering a
last senate race. He also went campaign against the two “Tea p e r s o n a l i t i e s , ” h e s a i d . video camera, and a 1Ghz dual- bit more competitively.
head-to-head with Palin in 2008 Party” favorites. The vice president may be core processor. The PlayBook Continue reading Will Research
when the former Alaska governor Since winning the Delaware thinking beyond 2010. The will also support Adobe's Flash. In Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook
was Republican John McCain’s Republican primary, O’Donnell’s speculation is that Palin might run The PlayBook wasn't a real Challenge the Apple iPad?
vice presidential running mate. past television appearances have for president in 2012. But she’s surprise, as The Wall Street Will Research In Motion's
“Treat them with respect and come back to haunt her. And keeping her options open — for Journal hinted a week ago that BlackBerry PlayBook Challenge
don’t get diverted by all these she’s been parodied on Saturday now. RIM would introduce a tablet. the Apple iPad? originally
silly things that they may or may Night Live, just as Palin was Photo credit: REUTERS/Thaier While the company didn't release appeared on BloggingStocks on
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BlackBerry PlayBook: Everything You Want to Know

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:31 AM

RIM revealed its tablet yesterday,

but you've probably got some
questions. How's it compare to its
competition? Who'll buy it? Why
did RIM make it and announce it
now? Here's everything you
wanted to know, and more...
PlayBook's Competitors
PlayBook's specs are impressive.
But how does it stand up, spec-for
-spec with the market-defining
iPad (which it's most definitely
designed to compete with) and the
iPad's current hottest competitor,
the Samsung Galaxy Tab?
In short, the PlayBook
outperforms against the other two
in several key areas--including
having a meatier processor.
Where it falls down is--we're
guessing--battery life. Its specs
make it certainly more battery-
at the top of the market. will happily pay for, to help you price the thing at the right point Canadian firm's devices now look
munching than the Tab and its
Who'll Buy PlayBook? work harder or more efficiently, relative to its competition. One aged. The iPad is also often
chassis is slightly smaller, leaving
RIM unashamedly targets the but you may balk at yourself. This may worry, though, that the reported to be making huge waves
less space for batteries. The Tab
PlayBook (despite its recreational is because the PlayBook will not PlayBook may be priced at the in the enterprise market, which
already has a lifespan of less than
name) at the enterprise market, have much app support at launch upper end of the tablet market--its must've worried RIM--the iPad
a full working day (unlike the
noting in the press release that its and it will definitely lack the component list alone suggests its could easily cannibalize sales of
iPad) so we're concerned about
got "advanced security features, gadget chic of Apple's product, build price may be higher than BlackBerrys. RIM simply had to
PlayBook.
out-of-the-box enterprise support and even the consumer-friendly many of its peers, and RIM may try to reclaim the higher ground,
And there's one huge thing to
and a breakthrough development "feel" of the Galaxy with its even intentionally aim at the top and appeal to its core audience,
remember: The PlayBook is
platform for IT departments and Android OS, now well-known in end of the market in order to ally lest it lose its grip on the cutting
designed to surpass the iPad's
developers." There's mention of the public. its product with a "professional" edge of business mobile
current specs. But a refreshed
the fact it can pair up with a Pricing? image. And, also, to make more electronics.
edition (possibly coming with a
BlackBerry phone, using secure RIM has kept the pricing secret, raw cash. As to why it broke the news now,
sister iPad Mini that's similar in
Bluetooth for seamless access, on for a number of reasons. Why RIM Made PlayBook, And the timing probably seemed
size to PlayBook) is due at about
a bigger screen, to all the usual Primarily, it doesn't yet know Why Break the News Now? fortuitous--RIM's Developer
the same time as PlayBook is due
BlackBerry business-assistance itself how much the device will RIM had to make the PlayBook Conference was running, the
to arrive. And we'd guess that the
systems. If our suspicions about cost since it notes the specs for two reasons, both Apple's iPad's main media storm has
new iPad will easily surpass the
the price (see below) prove true, haven't yet been finalized. But fault. The iPhone revolutionized faded, and the main thrust of
PlayBook's specs--it has to really,
the PlayBook may be the sort of RIM's exec team is probably the smartphone game, and ate lots BLACKBERRY page 8
if Apple is keen to keep its place
device that your IT department doing some very tricky math to of RIM's lunch because the
E-reader News Edition
THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Bing Launches
Loyalty Program...Again (MSFT)
Heather Leonard (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:09:38 AM
The Microsoft Investor is a daily
report from SAI. Sign up here to
receive it by email.
MSFT Off As Market Climbs Up
Shares of MSFT are down as the
market is recovering post Case-
Shiller's report. Shares of MSFT
are also off as investors continue
to sell on the dividend news.
Upcoming catalysts include
upgrade cycles of Office 2010 and
Windows 7; any entrance into
the tablet market; the launch of
Windows 7 mobile; any adoption
of Azure (cloud computing); and
gamer reaction to Kinect. The
stock currently trades at 8x
Enterprise Value / TTM Free
Cash Flow, inexpensive compared
to historical trading multiples.
Microsoft's Advertisement for
Windows Phone 7 Is
Ridiculous(TechCrunch)
In a new Windows Phone 7 ad,
Microsoft is trying to suggest that
you’ll get more done with less;
less time using your phone. While
that might be true, with more and
more of us on our phones for
increasing reasons, the marketing
message is probably not all that
effective. John Biggs at
TechCrunch suggests that
The Greenback Continues to Plummet
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
index.
Business/ Economy/ 5
powered sites any month. So it
should also come as no surprise
that Microsoft has decided to
migrate its bloggers over to
WordPress’.
Daily Trader: MSFT A Large $39 Used Putter
Cap Buy With Returning
Momentum(Forbes) Wins $11.35 Million
Microsoft is rated a Buy with fair
value at $28.28, making the stock
Championship
approximately 12.4% Nicholas Carlson (Business
undervalued. The stock shows Insider)
declining market momentum on Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:08:32 AM
its daily chart, so as long as
weakness holds at around $23 How's this for return on
momentum should return and investment? Golfer Jim Furyk
point the stock towards its one- bought a $39 used putter at a golf
year price target of $26.26. shop near Boston last month.
Join the conversation about this Then, last Sunday, he used the
story » same putter to sink a two-footer to
Microsoft would be better off charitable donations. People must win $11.35 million – $1.35
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INVESTOR: More Analysts
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• Slim, Sober, Hideously-Dressed
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Struggling In Search, Mobile And
week, Microsoft rolled out Bing to just 7 million bloggers. By With Opening Round 66
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Harrisburg University's Social Media Ban Lifted, Addictions

Soothed
Austin Carr (Fast Company) responded to surveys, wrote "That aside, it's clearly the case
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:57:42 AM essays, and participated in focus that this set of technologies has
groups to discuss their the possibility of taking over our
E a r l i e r t h i s m o n t h , experiences going cold turkey on lives."
P e n n s y l v a n i a ' s H a r r i s b u r g social media. According to Darr, And Darr says the school is
U n i v e r s i t y o f S c i e n c e a n d around 68% of the student planning to do another blackout at
Technology began a weeklong r e s p o n s e s w e r e p o s i t i v e , some point, and that a group of
ban of social media. For days, demonstrating that most found the students has already volunteered
students struggled to cope with ban enlightening and revealing. to continue the ban for an entire
the lifestyle changes: Having no However, the rest of the responses month. Darr even suggests it
access to Facebook, Twitter, and were negative: Some called the could be beneficial to go one step
other services on campus was like ban a "publicity stunt" and some farther and implement a ban not
trudging through the desert "were not so eloquent in terms of just on social media but texting
without water. The blackout has what was said," Darr chuckles. and email.
since ended: Somehow, above all "One of the principal things we Isn't that going too far?
odds, the students survived. observed was the students' "I don't know," Darr says. "Some
"When we first started, there were realization of how stressed they influential on our lives? At least time to sleep with all that tweeting people would say we've already
quite a few angry students," says were over checking status updates one alarming statistic from the and Facebook updating? gone too far."
provost Eric Darr. "I got some on a variety of social media sites," survey indicates so. According to "I'm sure that we have some
rather energetic calls from people he explains. "They weren't even Darr, about 15% of students said students who are clinically close
around the country, saying things aware of the stress they were they were spending between 11 to to addiction, though perhaps these
like, 'Stop the madness!'" under." 20 hours on social media sites-- are people who would be addicted
Upon the week's end, students So has social media become too per day. How does one even have to whatever anyway," says Darr.

"The Wire" and "Treme"'s David Simon, Others Win $500k

MacArthur Genius Grants
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast meaningful way to spend your life for the past couple of years. Berkeley, and Stanford. Marla
Company) . . . it does feel a little bit "A vague sense of guilt," is how Spivak is investigating disease
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:07:22 AM secondary or off-point. I Simon described feeling after among honey-bees; Carol Padden
definitely felt a little sheepish hearing the results. Guilt or not, is a sign language linguist and
Will New Orleans be a winner, after looking at the list," said the guy has certainly become a Amir Shabo-Shaeer is a teacher in
too? Simon, who currently produces favorite over the years--from his the Bay Area driving home
The 2010 Class of MacArthur the post-New Orleans tribute crime reporting to crime story- innovation in engineering and
Genius Grant Winners have been series Treme. telling--and his status just got a robotics with his Dos Pueblos
announced and include, among It would not be surprising to see major boost. Engineering Academy.
others, quantum physicists, Simon give all of his $500,000 Joining Simon on the list are a [Image via flickr/ stutefish]
musicians, teachers, and David away to local communities and focus, professionally and host of artists and researchers, as
Simon, the creator of The Wire. initiatives, or perhaps music- personally, has been New Orleans well as academics from name-
"While I think storytelling is a based programs, given that his brand schools like Harvard,
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Volvo Turning Car Body Panels Into Batteries

Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) ultra-light batteries. As part of the EV batteries. Sellergren explained, "This is a major concern: Volvo claims that
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:01:47 AM project, Volvo and Imperial Eager EV drivers shouldn't get relatively large structure that is the composite material is strong
college built a composite blend of too excited yet--the material easy to replace. Not sufficiently and crash-resistant, but what
Electric vehicle batteries are big, carbon fibers (much like what is development project is still in the large to power the entire car, but happens if a nasty accident
heavy, and expensive. Volvo found in fishing rods and tennis beginning stages, and Volvo and enough to switch the engine off severely scratches up a battery-
hopes to tackle all three problem rackets) and polymer resin that is Imperial College are still figuring and on when the car is at a containing body panel? Will it
with one creative solution: body supposedly strong, flexible, and out how to mass produce the standstill, for instance at traffic drastically increase the cost of
panels that double as car batteries. light enough to be used in body carbon fiber blend. But within the lights." In the next 10 years, repairs? We're curious to see if
The vehicle manufacturer is panels. According to Volvo, the next three years, Volvo will Volvo might start commercially Volvo can resolve safety issues
working with the Imperial College new material could slash the attempt to convert a vehicle's producing the material in well enough to make this work.
i n L o n d o n o n a m a t e r i a l s weight of EVs by up to 15%. spare wheel recess into a everything from vehicle roofs to Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
development project that may Volvo's carbon fiber can also composite battery. In a statement, dashboards. Twitter or by email.
ultimately turn entire vehicles into charge up faster than traditional Volvo researcher Per-Ivar It's a clever idea, but we have one
8 Business/ Technology/ Culture/
BLACKBERRY
continued from page 4
competing tablet PCs hasn't been
made yet.
The launch date may seem poor,
as it's in conflict with the expected
arrival of iPad 2.0 (with specs we
fully expect will beat the
PlayBook's) but RIM's hands are
probably tied by design/
development and marketing
constraints. This is especially true
since Apple had been developing
the iPad on and off for 20 years or
more, and may even have used the
iPad as a development step to
building the iPhone itself,
whereas RIM has had to rush the
PlayBook into existence inside a
year.
Does Apple's iPad Mini Now
Have to Be Real?
It's impossible to say, but we'd
have to suspect that Apple is now
feeling some gentle pressure to
ensure the iPad 2.0's specs are
better than PlayBook's, and
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Confidence Slips Steven Sande (The Unofficial
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(BloggingStocks) Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:00 AM
Nobody has any idea about how
RIM's move will impact Google's Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:00 AM The iPad, and the wonderful iPad
rumored plans for its own-brand music app called Seline
Android tablet. If the project still Filed under: Economic Data, HD(US$9.99), are making a
exists Google may, like Apple, Housing splash in the music world. Last
feel additional pressure to develop According to the Standard & month, Alex Shpil showed us The
its efforts with some speed. It Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home iPad Orchestra, which was a
competes with RIM in the price index, home prices quartet using the same software to
smartphone marketplace, and increased during July, marking the coming months. Nevertheless, make beautiful music. This
tackling its rival in the tablet the fourth-straight month. During the news will be viewed as month, he shows us a street
game is probably on the cards. July, the home price index positive. That is simply the way musician playing sitar-like music
To keep up with this news, increased 0.6% compared to June that many analysts will cling to on the iPad.
follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter. and 3.2% from a year earlier. good news. Enjoy the music, which Alex
While this is good news, seven of Continue reading Home Prices captured in full stereo.
the cities surveyed saw monthly Increase in July, but Consumer TUAW Found Footage: The first
declines, while gains in a number Confidence Slips iPad street musician originally
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Hedge Fund Returns Are Going To
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Be Horrible From Now On Gold in Vending (CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:24:31 AM

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Insider)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:08:19 AM
PIMCO's Bill Gross wins for the
most depressing forecast of the
afternoon.
Getting rich as a hedge fund
manager is a thing of the past,
says Gross. Druckenmiller's exit
was like a punctuation point at the
end of an era.
It's all very dramatic, the way
Gross explains it, though the
reality is much more boring.
The hedge fund industry mogul
saw the industry changing, saw
performance lag, and has no hope
that it will come back anytime
soon. That's why Druckenmiller
left Duquesne.
Gross told Bloomberg he thinks
it's because Druckenmiller
forecasted the end of a time when
hedge fund managers can make a
lot of money.
"Future investment returns will be
far lower than historical
averages."
And because we're just like
Japan.
“If bond investors believe that the
resplendent and abundant capital
gains of the past 25 years will be
duplicated from yield levels of 2
to 3 percent -- well, they just
haven’t been to Japan, have
they?”
PIMCO's gone back and forth on
their predictions of inflation vs
deflation, but here it seems the
firm's CEO is siding with the
deflation camp.
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gold.
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knowledgeable about the
teachings, history and figures of
major world religions, a new
survey reveals.(Photo: AP Images
/ The Denver Post, Karl Gehring)
In this file photo, Jolene Larson
takes Holy Communion with a
Bible in her lap in Brighton, Colo.
Out of 32 religious knowledge
questions asked by the Pew
Forum on Religion and Public
Life, atheists and agnostics had on
average 20.9 correct answers
while Protestants as a whole
answered 16 correctly.
Jews and Mormons also scored
high with 20.5 and 20.3 correct
answers, respectively.
When it came to Christianity,
however, white evangelical
Protestants were among those
with the highest levels of
knowledge. They scored 7.3 out
of 12 on questions related to the
Bible and Christianity. Mormons
were the only ones to score
higher, with 7.9.
Still, atheists and agnostics were
not far behind with a score of 6.7.
The findings, released Tuesday,
are based on a nationwide poll
conducted from May 19 to June 6
among more than 3,400
Americans age 18 and older.
The Pew Forum employed the
help of Boston University
professor Stephen Prothero,
author of Religious Literacy,
among others to design the survey
and analyze the results.
Some of the questions asked
included identifying: Mother
Teresa's religion, the dominant
religion in Pakistan, the figure
who inspired the Reformation,
which religion teaches that
salvation comes through faith
alone, and whether public school
teachers can read from the Bible
as an example of literature.
"[W]e could have designed harder
questions, or easier ones. As it
happens, through a combination
of good survey design and good
luck, the results were an almost
perfect bell curve in which the
average score was exactly half of
the 32 possible correct answers,
and very few people got all
questions right or all questions
wrong," said Luis Lugo and Alan
Cooperman, director and associate
director of the research.
The researchers also noted that
they have refused to give the
public an "A" or "F" grade
because they "have no objective
way of determining how much the
public should know about
religion."
Nevertheless, the survey showed
that faithful Americans know little
even about their own religion.
More than half of Protestants (53
percent) cannot correctly identify
Martin Luther as the person who
inspired the Protestant
Reformation. Forty-five percent
of Catholics do not know that
their church teaches that the bread
and wine used in Communion do
not merely symbolize but actually
become the body and blood of
Christ. And 43 percent of Jews do
not recognize that Maimonides,
one of the most venerated rabbis
in history, was Jewish.
Overall, at least two-thirds of
respondents are knowledgeable
about Mother Teresa's religion,
Islam being the dominant religion
in Pakistan, Moses leading the
exodus from Egypt, and the
Constitution stating that
government shall neither establish
nor interfere with religion.
Just a little more than a half know
Joseph Smith was Mormon,
Ramadan is the Islamic holy
month, the Koran is the Islamic
holy book and the Golden rule is
not one of the Ten
Commandments.
Forty-seven percent know that
the Dalai Lama is Buddhist and
only 45 percent know the four
Gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John.
Less than a third are
knowledgeable about Jonathan
Edwards participating in the First
Great Awakening and "only
Protestants" traditionally teaching
that salvation comes through faith
alone.
Most Americans, however, are
able to correctly answer at least
half of the survey's questions
about the Bible such as what is
the first book of the Bible and
where was Jesus born.
Measured on their knowledge of
religion in public life, 89 percent
know public school teachers
cannot lead class in prayer but
only 23 percent know that
teachers can read from the Bible
as an example of literature.
Notably, the Pew Forum found
that college graduates get nearly
eight more questions right on
average than do people with a
high school education or less.
Those who read Scripture at least
once a week, talk about religion
with friends and family, and have
high levels of religious
commitment also are likely to
score higher.
Those with the lowest scores on
the religious knowledge survey
include Hispanic Catholics, black
Protestants and Americans who
describe their religion as "nothing
in particular."
The survey was an attempt to
provide a baseline measurement
of how much Americans know
about religion today.
Researchers note that they cannot
conclude whether Americans in
2010 know more or less about
religion than prior generations did
because of the lack of historical
data on levels of religious
knowledge in the U.S. public.
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wife ending 17-
year marriage (AP)
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 4:53:32 AM
LOS ANGELES – A publicist
says George Lopez and his wife
are ending their 17-year marriage.
A brief statement issued Monday
by publicist Ina Treciokas says
the comedian and his wife Ann
came to the decision together and
the breakup will be amicable.
It did not offer further details,
other than to say the pair would
remain business partners in a
charitable foundation.
Court records did not indicate the
couple had filed a petition for
divorce or legal separation.
The 49-year-old comedian hosts
the late-night talk show "Lopez
Tonight" on TBS. Ann Lopez
donated a kidney to her husband
in 2005.
The pair have a teenage daughter.
The split was first reported by
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Rothfus Pushes GOP Reform in Tough House Race
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:00:00 AM
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa.
-- Keith Rothfus, the Republican
challenging Pennsylvania
Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire, is
a business-driven conservative
who's lukewarm about some of
his party's leadership.
Fifty-five percent of the vote in
the western Pennsylvania district
went for Arizona Sen. John
McCain in the 2008 presidential
election, making it a key targeted
race for the GOP this fall. But in a
cycle when so many Republican
candidates burst onto the political
scene out of fear for the country's
deficit and spending level, some
who have a decent shot to join
their party in Congress next year
may have visions that differ from
the leadership they must follow,
and Rothfus is among that group.
In an interview with
RealClearPolitics, Rothfus praised
House Minority Leader John
Boehner but hesitated when asked
if he'd like to see new leadership
take the reins of the House GOP.
"I'm looking for reformers," he
said. "I'm looking for people who
are willing to be - we have a lot to
fix in this country. And I'm
looking at the leaders who will
take up the charge." He added,
"I'm pleased that Leader Boehner
is talking about the points we're
talking about, the things we're
concerned about here at the
grassroots level."
On the House Republicans' newly
released Pledge to America,
Rothfus said he fully supports it
but wished it went further to
include earmark reform and term
limits -- both for congressional
tenure and membership on
committees. He does believe in
term-limiting himself, and said six
terms or 12 years - either in the
House or the Senate, is sufficient.
But for all of Rothfus's positions
that may go beyond those that
Republican leaders are offering,
his fate is bound closely to the
image they project - because as
Rothfus said Monday, his biggest
challenge this cycle in his race is
increasing his name recognition
throughout the district.
"I'm a private sector guy. People
are just learning who I am," he
said. "I had a big win in the
primary. I came out of nowhere to
beat an eight-year U.S. attorney
here in the western district."
Rothfus beat Mary Beth
Buchanan, a heralded National
Republican Congressional
Committee recruit, two to one in
the May primary.
Republican Rep. Melissa Hart
represented the area for three
terms before Altmire ousted her in
2006, and it is an easy area for
Republicans to pinpoint. Still,
most analysts give a clear edge to
the incumbent, and part of that
dynamic seeps into the
challenger's hesitancy about
which Republicans he'd have
campaign for him this fall.
Asked if former Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin, who campaigned
heavily in the region when she
was her party's nominee for vice
president in 2008, would be
helpful to his campaign, Rothfus
said, "I don't know. I don't know
if she could help me or not." He
said he would accept her
endorsement "if" she were on the
road issuing her support for
candidates, because, he noted,
"she strikes a chord with certain
people."
He said Boehner and House
Republican Conference Chair
Mike Pence had both come to his
district to raise money and had
been successful for him. But, he
said, "Steve Forbes is coming out
for me in a couple weeks. I'm a
big Steve Forbes fan, so I'm
happy to have him come along."
Nevertheless, Altmire's campaign
says it has internal polling
showing him ahead of Rothfus by
a substantial margin just five
weeks out from Election Day.
The congressman hosted a
fundraiser at the ritzy Fairmont
Hotel in Pittsburgh on Monday
night and had a crew of supporters
lined up to see him 10 minutes
before the event even began.
Campaign workers estimated that
more than 100 people were
expected at the high-dollar event.
For Altmire, a vote in opposition
to the final version of health care
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reform may have provided a
serious boost to his campaign.
Rothfus signed onto Missouri
Republican House candidate Ed
Martin's pledge to repeal the bill
but said the most important issue
in the race remains burgeoning
debt. But Rothfus still has a health
care message against the
incumbent; he says district voters
are "frustrated with the lack of
leadership out of our
representative" because "sitting on
the fence for 85 days regarding
the health care bill is not
leadership."
The Keystone State is becoming
a more visible target this fall for
Democrats, who have found great
success in the last two cycles. But
Rothfus said the shift is not reason
for concern in his own efforts.
"I think people in 2006, they
voted against a broken
government," he said.
"Government has not been fixed.
It's only been made larger."
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Ooyala Jumps On Board
With Roku, Launches
Custom Channels For
Publishers
Matt Burns (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:43:28 AM
Roku is quickly turning into a
major source within the streaming
community and its just-announced
deal with Ooyala will likely bring
even more content to the massive
install base. The deal allows
publishers to utilize an Ooyala-
made, turn-key operation to create
a custom Roku channel.
This is a big move for the video
distributor as it suddenly gives
publishers a totally new
demographic to target along by
bringing their content to the
livingroom. Content can be shot
with a big screen in mind. It truly
opens new doors for Ooyala users
such as Alloy Digital, which is the
first content partner to implement
the Roku custom channel.
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High court will reconsider Anna Nicole Smith case
(AP)
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:24:56 AM
WASHINGTON – The Supreme
Court will decide whether the
estate of Anna Nicole Smith
should get part of the fortune left
behind by the elderly Texas
billionaire whom Smith married
in the mid-1990s.
The justices on Tuesday decided
to reconsider an appeals court
ruling against Smith's estate,
which wants to capture some of
the $1.6 billion estate of her
husband, J. Howard Marshall,
who died in 1995.
Marshall's will left nearly all his
money to his son, E. Pierce
Marshall, and nothing to Smith.
The younger Marshall died in
2006 and Smith died of a drug
overdose in 2007.
Smith challenged the will,
claiming that her husband
promised to leave her more than
$300 million above the $7 million
in cash and gifts showered on her
during their 14-month marriage.
But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals sided with a Houston
jury that said Marshall was
mentally fit and under no undue
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pressure when he wrote a will
leaving nearly all of his $1.6
billion estate to his son and
nothing to Smith.
Smith's estate is appealing that
ruling.
Marshall's estate said it is ready
to fight this ruling and noted other
appeals in this case have yet to be
heard.
"We have never wavered in our
commitment to uphold the clearly
stated and carefully documented
wishes of the late J. Howard
Marshall, II concerning how he
wished the estate he created be
distributed after his death," a
statement from the estate said.
The convoluted dispute over J.
Howard Marshall's money has its
roots in a Houston strip club
where he met Smith. The two
were wed in 1994 when he was 89
and she 26. Marshall died the next
year and his will left his estate to
his son.
Smith challenged the will in a
Houston probate court, alleging
the billionaire's son illegally
coerced his father to exclude the
former Playboy model from
sharing the estate. She alleged that
her husband promised to leave her
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While the probate case was
pending in Houston, Smith filed
for bankruptcy in Los Angeles,
alleging in federal court filings
that her husband promised her a
large share of the estate.
In late 2000, the bankruptcy court
awarded Smith $474.75 million,
which a federal district court
judge reduced to $89.5 million in
2002.
But in the case's most recent trip
up to the Supreme Court,
Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy in March 2009 refused
to lift a court order that prevented
Smith's estate from collecting that
money.
Elaine Marshall, Pierce
Marshall's widow, had argued that
the order preventing Smith's estate
from collecting the money should
remain in place while the tangle
of competing claims was sorted
out.
Smith herself showed up at the
Supreme Court in 2006, dressed
in all black, to hear the justices
debate whether she could pursue
her late husband's fortune in court.
She wept in the courtroom as
justices discussed Marshall and
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provide for his young wife in
death.
The high court ruled in her favor
that time.
Smith's 4-year-old daughter,
Dannielynn Birkhead, was named
Smith's heir in 2008 after she died
of a drug overdose at 39 at a
Florida hotel. The girl's father,
Larry Birkhead, and attorney
Howard K. Stern are in charge of
the estate.
Stern is on trial for drug
conspiracy charges involving
opiates and sedatives allegedly
given to Smith.
___
The case number is Stern v.
Marshall, 10-179.
(This version CORRECTS date of
Smith's death to 2007.)
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It's Official: The ECB Is
Propping Up Irish Bonds-
-But Yields Are Still Sky
High
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:26:00 AM
Bloomberg Television is
reporting that the European
Central Bank is stepping in to buy
Ireland's sovereign debt in an
effort to provide support to the
country ( via David Cochrane).
This morning the S&P put a
figure on the country's bailout of
Anglo Irish Bank, at €35 billion.
Yields and CDS prices spiked on
the news.
Check out this video from
Bloomberg Television where they
report on the ECB purchases and
Ireland's Foreign Minister
Michael Martin defends his
country's position.
Via David Cochrane on
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North Korean leader's son unveiled, seen as successor
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:42:46 AM
North Korean people and
students dance at a ball held to
congratulate North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il on his re-election as
general secretary of the Workers'
Party of Korea in central
Pyongyang September 28, 2010 in
this picture released by the
North's KCNA news agency on
Tuesday.
Credit: Reuters/KCNA
By Jack Kim and Jeremy
Laurence
SEOUL| Tue Sep 28, 2010
9:42am EDT
SEOUL(Reuters) - North Korea's
ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his
youngest son his first public title
on Tuesday, naming him a general
in a move analysts said marked
the first stage of dynastic
succession in the secretive state.
State media mentioned Kim Jong
-un for the first time by name, but
without identifying him as the son
of the iron ruler, hours before the
start of a rare ruling party meeting
to elect its supreme leadership.
Kim Jong-il, 68, is believed to
have suffered a stroke in 2008,
but despite declining health shows
no sign of relaxing his grip on
power, underlined by his
reappointment on Tuesday as
secretary-general of the Workers'
Party.
Experts say his son is too young
and inexperienced to fully take
the reins.
"As expected, the dynastic
transition is becoming public. So
far, they are following the pattern
we saw in the 1970s when Kim
Jong-il himself was moving to
become the new Dear Leader,"
said Andrei Lankov of Kookmin
University.
"The difference is that this time
they seem to be in a great hurry."
Regional powers are watching
the party conference, the biggest
meeting of its kind for 30 years,
for any sign of change in the
destitute state's policies.
"I would like to carefully watch
North Korea's internal situation,"
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto
Kan said.
Financial markets see the
preferred outcome of the meeting
as a continuation of the current
system and relative stability, even
though the economy is in near
ruin and the internationally
ostracized government is trying to
build a nuclear arsenal.
The biggest fear is that the
country could collapse, triggering
a flood of refugees or even
fighting on the divided peninsula.
That could hit hard the economies
of neighboring South Korea,
China and Japan which together
account for about 20 percent of
global economic output.
Experts warn of potential
infighting over the rise of the
unproven young Kim.
"Succession of power may lead to
factional fighting and incur
tremendous economic cost that
will make the Korean peninsula a
powder keg," said Shotaro Yachi,
a special envoy for the Japanese
government and former vice
minister for foreign affairs.
FAMILY AFFAIR
State news agency KCNA said
Kim had issued a directive
bestowing military rank on six
people, including promoting Jong-
un and the leader's sister Kyong-
hui to general in one of the
world's largest armies.
The son is believed to have been
born in 1983 or 1984 but little is
known about him, even by
intensely secretive North Korean
standards, beyond the sketchy
information that he went to school
in Switzerland and is his father's
favorite. This was the first time
has been named in state media.
Sep 28, 2010 7:46am EDT
I don’t believe this news item
until I’m entitled to see the birth
certificate or other evidence like a
blood test/gene test.
Sep 28, 2010 8:43am EDT
Wall Street prefers stability so
this son of a dictator will be
enthroned by the directors of our
mutual funds. My 401K is going
to be starving people in North
Korea for the next 40 years, just
to keep things on an even keel.
Lovely.
Sep 28, 2010 10:18am EDT
No. Who didn’t see that one
coming? Those poor folks must
be so cowed to allow a rule
by…wait. Never mind. I forgot
about OUR President. The USA
will not ever be United again if
we don’t change the content of
our government. If the ballot box
doesn’t work there shall be
insurrection. Mr. O should resign
for the sake of the Union.
Sep 28, 2010 11:40am EDT
“The biggest fear is that the
country could collapse.”
A ridiculous sentence confirming
the prevalent free world mentality
– get more, more, more and to
hell with those who are starving,
sick, and poor.
THE BIGGEST FEAR is the
country will not collapse and their
leaders will continue to destroy
the lives of those who know
nothing better than what they
have now – which is nothing.
Sep 28, 2010 11:41am EDT
“The biggest fear is that the
country could collapse.”
A ridiculous sentence confirming
the prevalent free world mentality
– get more, more, more and to
hell with those who are starving,
sick, and poor.
THE BIGGEST FEAR is the
country will not collapse and their
leaders will continue to destroy
the lives of those who know
nothing better than what they
have now – which is nothing.
Sep 28, 2010 11:45am EDT
Careful, OdinsAcolyte, the
greatest threat to the Union ever
was a response to election of a
president who was very unpopular
in the more conservative states.
Strangely, though, at this point in
history the Democratic party was
the conservative anti-big
government one. I’m not sure
Obama deserves to be compared
to Lincoln just yet, even by
accident.
On the other hand, Kim Jong-il
seems like a dangerous and
petulant child already. It’s hard to
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imagine that his heir could be not
yet be “mature” enough by their
government’s standards. I think
it’s more an issue of Kim Jong-il
trying to make sure he doesn’t
become a puppet of some general.
Sep 28, 2010 11:52am EDT
Uncanny parallels to the dynastic
succession that occurred in this
country a few years back, when
senior Bush anointed his slacker,
ne’er-do-well son George W. as
his eventual successor, and the
Republican machinery under the
Dark Lord Karl Rove made it
so…giving us eight years of
plague, pestilence and famine.
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Medvedev fires defiant Moscow mayor

(Reuters: Top News) used a $37-billion budget to keep had not yet come up with a list to Sep 28, 2010 7:40am EDT
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:59:17 AM pensions and public services high, submit to the president. He will be reinstalled by Putin as
remaining largely popular despite In his first public comments on the second in charge at Kremlin,
Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov corruption allegations, which he the conflict between Medvedev soon.
attends a ceremony to start the always denied. and Luzhkov since it erupted into Sep 28, 2010 7:51am EDT
construction of a new section of The rare public spat among the open three weeks ago, Putin Corruption, Inc. Luzhkov! Most
the city underground railway in Russia's secretive elite was widely depicted it as a personal clash and expensive real estate awaits you
the capital Moscow, September seen as a test of the resolve of
18, 2010. Medvedev, junior partner to Putin
struck a delicate balance that
seemed to place him above the
and your cronies in hell!!
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Landslide buries hundreds of homes in Gunman shoots himself

Mexico at University of Texas
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:50 AM Excelsior, a leading national vulnerable parts of the country. Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:27:07 AM his rifle at passersby, killing 14
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Barcode Scanning for Points and Prizes with CheckPoints
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:25:19 AM
If you can believe it, a company
called CheckPoints has just come
up with yet another twist on how
"check-in" location-based services
applications should work. With its
new smartphone application,
consumers are rewarded for
scanning the barcodes of their
favorite products while shopping.
The scans add up to points which
can then be redeemed for prizes -
good prizes, too, like frequent
flier miles, Amazon gift cards,
iPods and iPads.
But in return, users are
essentially agreeing to receive a
one-time mobile ad from each
product they scan. This makes us
wonder: how far will people go
for a free iPad?
Sponsor
Differences from Shopkick
CheckPoints sounds most similar
to the mobile app Shopkick which
launched earlier this year. Like
Shopkick, consumers are
rewarded for using their
smartphone's camera to scan
product barcodes in a retail store.
Those scans equate to points,
which are later turned in for
prizes.
That's where the similarity ends,
however. With Shopkick,
consumers get points for both
Want to Help Developing Countries? Sell Them Good Stuff — Cheap
David Wolman (Wired Top
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:00:00 AM
checking in and for scanning
items with the app, as with
CheckPoints. But to verify the
check-in portion of the game in
Shopkick, retailers have to install
proprietary equipment in their
store to determine if a user is
physically present before the app
can dole out points. This limits
Shopkick's adoption as it requires
retail partners to sign up first.
CheckPoints, on the other hand,
only uses GPS to determine
location, not special hardware.
And instead of partnering with
retailers, it's partnering with
brands themselves. At launch,
Belkin, Energizer, Seventh
Generation and Tyson Foods are
offering rewards points for
selected products scanned with
CheckPoints. By doing brand
partnerships, consumers aren't
limited to particular stores - they
can scan products anywhere they
find them. How & Why You
Check-in
Whether or not this sort of
interaction appeals to you
personally, says a lot about what
kind of location-based, "check-in"
app user you are. Many of us
(myself included, to be honest)
enjoy the more social, game-like
elements found in apps apps like
Foursquare, Gowalla and
Brightkite which award you with
badges, stamps and other virtual
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Although these companies also
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occasional coupon or deal to
customers who check-in, adoption
is still limited on this front.
Outside of tech hotspots like San
Francisco and New York, finding
local businesses who've heard of
Foursquare or Gowalla, much less
use them, is more rare. For now,
the primary focus of these apps is
on the "fun" you have using them.
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value in things like Topguest
which distributes automatic
rewards to frequent travelers
which come in the form of real-
world discounts - in Topguest's
case, free airline miles or cheaper
hotel rooms.
The appeal of a real reward for
disclosing your location simply
holds more appeal for some
people than a meaningless badge
or stamp does. For example,
TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy recently
wrote at length about why she
prefers apps like Shopkick to
Foursquare, noting that, "as a
user, telling my friends where I
am doesn't gives me enough in
return to warrant the privacy
invasion." Instead, she prefers
getting points that can be used
"broadly across several online and
offline brands, including making
charity donations." It's a
statement that's likely
representative of the feelings
many have with these new
services: what's in it for me? Want
Free Stuff?
With CheckPoints (and
Shopkick) the rewards are real,
but to get them, you have to scan
products then receive a
notification from the advertiser
after the scan. These messages
could be anything from a handy
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recipe for the Tyson chicken you
just scanned to a less helpful,
more marketing-oriented plea to
"like" the company on Facebook.
It will be interesting to see how
far people will go for the promise
of free stuff, be it gift cards or
electronics. Will consumers really
walk around shops scanning items
to collect points? Do people have
that sort of free time on their
hands?
On a personal note, I have to
admit that as a new mom who still
hasn't figured out how to carry a
purse, diaper bag and baby all at
once, I'm barely capable of the
"check-in" process itself, much
less barcode scanning in-
store...but that's just me.
However, the typical mobile
coupon, deal collector and "free-
stuff gatherer" is precisely this
female-oriented market I
represent.(That's not a sexist
statement, it's just a fact). Will
barcode scanning be the next big
thing in mobile rewards? Or will
it remain a niche activity as so
many other location-based
services are today? What do you
think?
CheckPoints will launch first as
an iPhone app and an Android
version is coming soon. Other
platforms are still being
evaluated.
Discuss
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Oracle bypassed: programmers fork OpenOffice

(CNET News.com) continue work in the meantime," OpenOffice will be able to who was involved in the effort to
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:05:40 AM the group said in an FAQ. cooperate on development of the foster OpenOffice's file formats as
Niceties aside, the move is body of the code." the OpenDocument Format
A group of programmers has another vote of no confidence With open-source software, the standard, lauded the new
forked OpenOffice.org, the open- from open-source advocates in source code that underlies a foundation and said the software
source rival to Microsoft Office Oracle's handling of assets it software project can be seen, project failed to meet its potential
that Oracle acquired when it a c q u i r e d f r o m S u n . T h e changed, and shared by anyone. under Sun stewardship.
bought Sun Microsystems. OpenSolaris Governing Board However, in this case, Oracle "The OpenOffice suite could have
The group, called the Document disbanded after Oracle disengaged owns the copyright to the become so much more. As with
Goldman Sachs Turns
Foundation, published beta from open-source work involving software, other single-company controlled Even More Bearish, Sees
versions of its software, called the Unix operating system. What OpenOffice.org, formerly called efforts in the past..., other Bigger Risk Of Worst-
LibreOffice for download on will happen with the open-source Star Office before Sun acquired it companies that could have, and Case Scenario
Tuesday. And although the group Java and MySQL projects remains and released it as open-source would have, made significant
i n v i t e d O r a c l e t o o f f e r i t s somewhat unclear at this stage. sotware, has attained a measure of contributions of personnel, Gregory White (Money Game)
OpenOffice trademark, they made Oracle didn't respond to a request popularity as an alternative to funding, and promotion stood Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:22:00 AM
it clear they're willing to proceed for comment. Microsoft Office. Although it aside," Updegrove said in a blog
without the software and now Other organizations, though, helped catalyze a movement to post. Goldman Sachs has been turning
hardware company. were willing to endorse the help liberate customer data from The lesson is clear, Updegrove more bearish throughout 2010,
"Developers are invited to join the foundation. proprietary file formats, added: "Corporations that wish to and now is more pessimistic than
project and contribute to the code Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Novell will OpenOffice.org has largely encourage wide participation by ever ( via Zero Hedge).
in the new friendly and open include LibreOffice in their languished. the development community must The bank now sees a 25%
environment, to shape the future versions of Linux, according to Today, the bigger competitive spin their projects out as probability of its worst-case
of office productivity suites the foundation's announcement. challenge to Office is Google independent legal entities. Only scenario, which means GDP
alongside contributors who Linux hasn't had too much Docs, part of the Google Apps by doing so can they guarantee to growth of less than 2.5% for
translate, test, document, support, influence beyond programmers suite that Google lets customers those they encourage to 2010.
and promote the software," the and the technically advance, but use in premium form for a participate that their efforts will There's a lot more bad news from
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DOE: Grid storage works, costs a 'red herring' Morning Links -

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Some people argue that the grid these systems provide and absorb carbon batteries, are being
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WALTHAM, Mass.--Five years renewable energy without storage more effective than natural gas Gyuk said. Similarly, ramping up PopSugar (PopSugar)
ago, energy storage on the U.S. but places that already have high turbines and reduce carbon and smoothing wind and solar
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:15:00 AM
electric grid was almost non- percentages of wind and solar dioxide emissions between 70 power needs more technical
e x i s t e n t b u t d e m o n s t r a t i o n power are running into limits, he percent and 80 percent, he said. innovation and industry scale to
projects have shown that storage said. A sudden drop-off in wind in Because wind and solar are bring down the cost of storage. • James Van Der Beek and his
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Aligata iPad Case Review

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:42:05 AM

For some, a gadget case is just a

means to an end: a way to protect
their latest toy from bumps and
scrapes. For others, they’re a
means of self-expression,
enhancing the ownership
experience and significant in their
own right. Aligata’s Nippon and
Perfect Black cases fall resolutely
into the latter camp, natural grain
leather folios that make a virtue
out of their unique finish. Are
they the top choice to clad a
precious iPad? Check out the full
review after the cut.
Considering most companies are
at pains to highlight how polished
their offerings are, it’s a surprise
to hear Aligata point out that their
iPad cases neither fit perfectly nor
have perfect surface finishes. In
fact, the minor flaws – glitches,
scars and small imperfections –
are part of the allure; you can
even see creases where the cow are no longer manufacturing the right angle to accidentally drop speaker. Either a hole is punched flat. To be fair, Aligata also warn
bent its neck and tiny holes where Perfect Black case; we received the tablet, certainly. It’s worth in the bezel at the top, or a notch, in advance that’s the case, but it’s
horseflies bit them. That might be our review sample before they noting that there’s no clasp, strap, for the ambient light sensor, while still worth bearing in mind if
off-putting to those who prefer made that decision. Over time, Velcro or magnet to keep it the lower edge scallops to that’s one duty you expect a folio
not to consider where leather the natural patina of the leather closed; Aligata reckons magnets accommodate the home button. to fulfil. Finally, there’s some
actually comes from. will change and the color – on the have an adverse affect on Apple’s Aligato use 3/16-inch thick upkeep involved if you want the
If you can cope with its bovine Nippon at least – darken, making mobile devices. Whether or not leather, which is on the thick side Aligata to stay looking its best:
origins, however, there’s sure every case remains unique. that’s true, we do wish there was for cases we’ve seen but also glycerine soap if you want to
something deeply appealing about The physical design of the cases some simple way of keeping the surprisingly supple. It certainly clean it, oil or leather grease if
a product that revels in its is pretty straightforward. The folio closed when you drop it into feels capable of withstanding a you want to treat the surface. You
naturalness. The Nippon case is iPad slides into the stitched your bag. knock or drop, even if it landed on could leave it to age naturally, of
slightly oxidized and died yet still leather frame where it hinges, and Cut-outs at the top allow access one of the corners. course, though it might pick up
pale, whereas the Perfect Black is is held in place with a central to the sleep/power button and the What it won’t do is act as a stand some stains along the way.
obviously much darker. rubber dot . It’s not quite the tight headphone socket, on the side for to prop your iPad up in landscape At $69 the Aligata Nippon is
Unfortunately, because of grip of, say, Apple’s official iPad the volume rocker and screen orientation for watching video; obviously more expensive than
manufacturing issues with case, but nor is it a slip-sleeve. orientation switch, and at the unless there’s something to wedge
sourcing the dyed leather, Aligata You’d have to shake it at just the bottom for the dock connector and up against, it just slides open and ALIGATA page 23
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5 Wi-Fi Management Tools for Small Apple Remote app v2

Businesses now available for iOS4
Chris Cameron network but don't want to buy Richard Gaywood (The
(ReadWriteWeb) another router or bridge? Unofficial Apple Weblog
Connectify, which works with (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:00:00 PM
Windows 7 machines, turns your Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:30:00 AM
Anyone who has lived in a Wi-Fi enabled computer into it's Apple has released an all-new
crowded residential area or own hotspot that can be accessed version of their long-untouched
apartment complex knows that by other computers, printers, Remote app for iOS devices,
accessing the Internet is often as cameras and any other Wi-Fi which has been well overdue an
easy as logging on to an device. The network created can update for some time now. It has a
unprotected wireless network. Chanalyzer Lite still be protected under WPA2 number of significant new
With the growing number of Wi- Also from MetaGeek, Chanalyzer encryption and best of all, it's free features, including Retina Display
Fi enabled devices, wireless Lite does a lot of what inSSIDer to use. Meraki WiFi Stumbler support, an all-new iPad UI,
connectivity has become the go-to does, but it works in tandem with If you've noticed one thing about gesture-based remote control
do. Instead it merely allows an
standard for both individuals and USB Wi-Spy Spectrum Analyzers the previous tools, many are support for the new Apple TV,
easier way to "pair" your iOS
businesses, making network and Wi-Fi cards to provide richer designed to work with Windows. and (perhaps most significantly
device and iTunes without
management and security a must- data. It even picks up the RF Meraki WiFi Stumbler is a quick for some people) the ability to use
entering the four-digit codes
have. Small businesses sometimes signals produced by phones, and free tool that is platform use Home Streaming to stream
required by the previous version.
store customer information and microwaves and anything else that agnostic - it works within a Web content from an iTunes library on
The over-enthusiastic writer of the
rely on continuous connectivity, could be causing interference with browser. While this Web-based your local network to your iOS
original story conveyed his deep
so here are five Wi-Fi tools that a wireless network. Another tool may be a little limited device ( UPDATE- please see
regret about this error as he was
can help keep your company safe added bonus? It works with both compared to its software brethren note below). This last addition
W i n d o w s a n d M a c . C i s c o (data cannot be exported and it's taken out and shot.
and operational. will be really useful for people
Network Magic Pro TUAW Apple Remote app v2
Sponsor mostly a read-only experience), it with music libraries too large to
now available for iOS4 originally
This series on wireless standards With a broad suite of features can certainly come in handy when fit on their device.
that allow you manage and protect y o u ' r e l o o k i n g t o q u i c k l y appeared on The Unofficial Apple
is brought to you by Intel. We'll have more coverage of the
your wireless network, PC troubleshoot a problem on Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep
inSSIDer app soon, but in the meantime get
2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see
If you are Windows, you may Magazine is right to call Cisco whatever device you have handy your download via iTunes.
our terms for use of feeds.
want to check out MetaGeek's Network Magic Pro the "software at the time. What Did We Miss? UPDATE: numerous commenters
Read| Permalink| Email this|
free Wi-Fi app, inSSIDer. The Swiss Army knife for your There are a lot of tools out there are pointing out that the Home
Comments
open source app is compatible network." The app, for Windows for Wi-Fi network administrators, Sharing feature does not allow
with all the modern versions of only, provides administrators with and we've merely scratched the you to stream from iTunes to the
Windows, from XP and up, and a birds-eye view of a network, surface on some of the best ones. iOS device, although that would
will help troubleshoot any WLAN and allows for easy file and If you have a suggestion for a sound like a logical thing for it to
problems your network may p r i n t e r s h a r i n g , n e t w o r k great way to monitor, manage or
encounter. The app shows you troubleshooting and security secure wireless networks at the
various signal strengths of nearby alerts. Users can even control SMB level, please leave us a
networks, as well as channel access to various devices and comment below!
allocations. Sometimes boosting t r a c k a c t i v i t y w i t h r e m o t e Photo by Flickr user fboyd.
your signal is as easy as switching s c r e e n s h o t s . C o n n e c t i f y Discuss
channels, and this app can help This one's pretty straightforward.
you find the less busy ones. Need to extend your wireless
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RIM chief suggests method for
eavesdropping
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:36:32 AM
messages. This would leave RIM
out of the process entirely, putting
the onus on governments and
reasons. These governments have
threatened to shut down key
BlackBerry services unless their
Sony, Warner and Disney mulling
$30 at-home viewing option, we
laugh and wait for the $100 option
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:17:00 AM

After tangling with foreign
governments over BlackBerry
encryption issues, Research In
Motion's co-CEO has one
suggestion: ask the companies
that use the smartphones for the
encryption keys.
In an interview with the
Associated Press, Jim Balsillie, co
-CEO of RIM, reiterated the
company's assertion that it has no
way of giving governments the
keys to the corporate data that
flow through its BlackBerry
networks. But those governments
are free to ask BlackBerry-
wielding companies themselves
for access, a move that would be
okay by RIM.
Balsillie added that he could see
such countries creating a national
registry in which companies doing
business locally would be
required to give government
officials the encryption keys to
help them tap into secure
companies to hash things out.
"We would support that if it's
applied equitably to everyone,"
Balsillie told the AP. However,
the CEO cautioned that
governments that adopt such a
practice risk alienating businesses
that have set up shop, potentially
prompting them to pack up their
bags.
"Will companies just leave and
say this is not commercial
practice that's acceptable?" he
said. "Strong encryption for
corporate data is the norm in all
business."
RIM has run into conflict with
several foreign governments over
the security of the BlackBerry
network. Countries such as the
United Arab Emirates, India, and
Indonesia have been trying to
force the company to open up
access to data from its corporate
customers so they could monitor
messages for national security
demands are met. But aside from
one workaround of placing local
BlackBerry servers inside a
country's borders, RIM has
remained steadfast, arguing that
its data is encrypted and that it
does not hold the keys to deciper
that encryption.
Meanwhilte, the Obama
administration is reportedly
looking into the feasibility of
pushing for a law that would force
Internet communications
providers to create encryption
backdoors for the benefit of U.S.
law enforcement agencies.
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Ah, " premium" video-on-
demand. Media controllers have
been fighting the inevitable
forever, but now it seems they're
finally coming around to the
future -- letting users watch silver
screen gems (or duds, for what it's Warner expected to begin testing
an offering later this year that lets
worth) in their home shortly after
release in the theater. Before you consumers watch new(ish) release
material for "$20 to $30 per
bust out the golf claps for these
dudes and dudettes, you should viewing." Of course, we guess it
can't hurt to throw the option out
know that they're planning to ding
you for around $30 for the there and see exactly who is
desperate enough, but we're
privilege, so it's only remotely of
interest if you happen to have a guessing this won't exactly be the
demise of the cinema. Or Redbox.
family of eight. According to a
new Bloomberg report, Sony Sony, Warner and Disney
mulling $30 at-home viewing
Pictures, Warner Bros., and Walt
Disney Co. are all in talks with option, we laugh and wait for the
$100 option originally appeared
major cable systems to "offer
films for as much as $30 per on Engadget on Tue, 28 Sep 2010
11:17:00 EDT. Please see our
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of streaming its content to the
Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with

AppleTV under the hood: first look

Erica Sadun (The Unofficial used the dev-team's decrypt keys Instead, AppleTV seems to run TUAW AppleTV under the hood:
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) to peek under the hood. Here's LowTide, an application first look originally appeared on
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:00:00 PM w h a t w e f o u n d a b o u t t h e responsible for all user The Unofficial Apple Weblog
"Mojave" Apple TV distribution. interactions, which is derived (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Sep 2010
As TUAW posted earlier, the iOS First, as expected, there's no from the previous FrontRow 12:00:00 EST. Please see our
4.1 firmware distribution for S p r i n g B o a r d . a p p i n C o r e application. LowTide handles terms for use of feeds.
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Twitter “Setting Aside” @EarlyBird

Deals Program
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) based around trending
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:04:49 AM conversations and emerging
demand.
According to a Tweet from All Of course, Twitter is probably
Things Digital’s Peter Kafka, this going back to the drawing board
morning, Twitter COO Dick and reevaluating what Twitter
Costolo said that the company deals. The first deal was two-for- users want in a deals promotion
w i l l b e “ s e t t i n g a s i d e ” i t s one tickets to the “Sorcerer’s like EarlyBird; it should be
E a r l y B i r d p r o g r a m , w h i c h Apprentice,” an average movie. A interesting to see what the
partnered with retailers and e- 32 Vizio HDTV from Target was company comes up with next.
commerce companies to offer offered for$349.99 but was Twitter has confirmed that it will
discounted deals to Twitter users. available for the same price on be setting aside Earlybird: Here’s
The announcement appears to other electronics sites. But the statement they sent us:
Apple COO Tim Cook
have been made in New York at EarlyBird caught the worm with a
the IAB MIXX conference.
We’ve always said we’d
JetBlue offer; Twitter offered experiment and move quickly.
It’s, of course, unclear what users a 20% discount which led to Twitter’s @earlybird account will
tipped for HP CEO job
Chris Davies (SlashGear) months working at Compaq. If
“setting aside,” means but clearly 1,000 ticket sales within the first no longer be tweeting offers.
Twitter is re-evaluating the 10 hours. Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:51:23 AM the rumors are accurate, HP’s
We’re taking the learnings from
promotion. The idea behind But Twitter seemed to be trying @earlybird, including feedback board may be looking to Cook for
Share price wobbling today, as his track record of streamlining
EarlyBird was fairly simple. to think of innovative ways to from users and businesses, and
rumors circulate that Apple COO the Apple supply chain, which has
Twitter partnered with advertisers market EarlyBird, including the investing that knowledge into our
Tim Cook is being courted as been credited as a significant part
t o d i s t r i b u t e o f f e r s v i a possibility of serving deals based Promoted Products platform to
HP’s potential new CEO. The of Apple’s comparatively large
the@EarlyBird account, and they o n r e a l - t i m e c o n v e r s a t i o n . h e l p b u s i n e s s e s g r o w t h e i r
WSJ is reporting the speculation, margins.
get to determine the terms of the EarlyBird product manager Shiva audience and provide great offers
though being clear that it has no Relevant Entries on SlashGear
offer, including availability, Rajaraman told us in July that he a n d i n f o r m a t i o n t o u s e r s .
idea if the talk is accurate or not, • No plans for HDTV with
amount, and pricing. Deals are envisioned a system that will CrunchBase Information Twitter
and points to Fly on the Wall’s integrated Apple TV says Tim
published via the @EarlyBird track company and sector trends I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y
comment earlier today that Cook
handle several times a week. for advertising partners. The C r u n c h B a s e
“shares of Apple are moving • Turn your table into a grill-pit
The initiative ended up being partners could then work with
lower on renewed speculation that • Apple dismiss Verizon CDMA:
mixed bag in terms of quality Twitter to quickly deploy deals
COO Tim Cook may be named sticking with AT&T for iPhone
ALIGATA Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO.” • Live at the Apple MacBook
continued from page 20 Cook most memorably took event; a walk down memory lane
Apple’s basic case, but it’s less the Aligata Nippon should have • Quirky unveils crowd designed control of Apple during 2009 • Apple Q109 results best ever:
than half the price of leather rivals no trouble protecting your iPad Cloak Undercover case for iPad while CEO Steve Jobs was away $1.21bn in profit
from Vaja. We also prefer the and, indeed, outlasting it, and will • International iPad on sale now from the Cupertino company for
more natural appearance of the probably only get more handsome • Scosche unveils new foldIO medical reasons. However before
Aligata materials to the somewhat along the way. case for iPad fans his tenure at Apple he spent six
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BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale
of the tape
Ross Miller (Engadget) the QNX-built operating system -- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Cellular
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:30:00 PM are what will really make or break data 3G and 4G promised for
the slate. Until that time, enjoy future 3G optional (AT&T) 3G
What a day -- yesterday, that is. our number-crunching below: (all carriers) 3G (AT&T) GPS
Research in Motion finally BlackBerry None 3G models only Yes Yes
announced its long-awaited PlayBook Camera 3MP front,
BlackBerry tablet, the 7-inch Apple 5MP rear None
PlayBook(thankfully not named iPad 1.3MP front,
the BlackPad). While there's still Samsung 3MP rear VGA front,
quite a few missing details, and Galaxy Tab 5MP rear Weight 0.9 lbs 1.5 - 1.6
nary an unit in site for us to try Dell lbs
first-hand, we've still got a Streak Screen size 7 inches 9.7 0.84 lbs 0.49 lbs
sampling of specs for this little i n c h e s 7 i n c h e s 5 i n c h e s BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad
guy to go tête-à-tête on the Resolution 1024 x 600 1024 x 768 vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale
quantitative field of proverbial 1024 x 600 800 x 480 Pixel of the tape originally appeared on
battle, at least as it can be seen so density (approx.) 170 133 170 187 Engadget on Tue, 28 Sep 2010
far (that early 2011 release date is Platform BB Tablet OS iOS 3.2.2 1GHz Cortex A8 1GHz 64GB 16GB / 32GB 512MB 12:30:00 EDT. Please see our
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Tab, and the Dell Streak, but our Supported 10.1 Not supported 256MB 512MB 512MB Internal EDR 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth
known unknowns -- i.e. price, app Processor 1GHz dual-core Cortex Storage 16GB / 32GB 2.1 + EDR 802.11 b/g/n,
support, and overall feel of using A9 1GHz Apple A4 (ARMv7) (unconfirmed) 16GB / 32GB / Bluetooth 3.0 802.11 b/g,

Amazon Offers Book Previews with Kindle for the Web

Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:10:44 AM
Kindle creator Amazon has
announced this morning the
release of "Kindle for the Web", a
way to sample and embed
excerpts of e-books in your
browser.
The new feature will allow users
to preview the first chapter of any
Kindle book for free directly on
the Web, just as iTunes users can
sample songs before buying them.
Sponsor
According to Amazon, the new
feature will also allow for easy
sharing of books via Facebook,
Twitter and email. In addition to
simple viewing and embedding,
Amazon will begin offering
referral fees to website owners
when customers purchase books
previewed on their sites.
Kindle for the Web seems like a
natural progression for Kindle and
we can only wonder how long it
will be before the tool transitions
from merely offering previews to
full texts. While much of the
appeal to the Kindle is its
portability and its "electronic ink"
screen, compatibility with more
devices would only enhance the
product. Already, Kindle books
are available not only on the
Kindle itself, but also the iPad,
iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC,
BlackBerry and Android-based
devices.
Providing a download- and install
-free application for the Web
could allow Amazon to sell
frictionless single servings of e-
books and bring the service into
competition with sites like Google
Books and Scribd. Discuss
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Onkyo TW117A4, TW217A5 and TW317A5
Windows 7 Tablet PCs unveiled
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:36:16 AM
Onkyo Japan has outed a trio of
Windows 7 tablet PCs, the 10.1-
inch Onkyo TW117A4 and
TW217A5, and the 11.6-inch
TW317A5. The TW117A4 and
TW317A5 both pack Intel’s Atom
N450 processor and GMA 3150
graphics, while the TW217A5
uses the Atom Z530 and GMA
500 graphics; all have 1GB of
RAM, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth
2.1+EDR.
The TW117A4 has a 160GB hard
-drive, while the Onkyo
TW217A5 and TW317A5 both
use a 32GB SSD. The latter two
also get HDMI, while the two
N450 machines have two USB 2.0
ports (the Z530 tablet only has
one USB 2.0).
The TW117A4 weighs in at
0.99kg, the TW217A5 at a mere
850g, and the TW317A5 at 1.0kg;
battery life is estimated at 6.4hrs,
3.8hrs and 5hrs respectively. No
word on pricing or any plans to
launch outside of Japan at this
stage.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Silent Firmware Update from
Onkyo & Integra
• Onkyo unveils new DP312
nettop and DC213 minimumPC
Technology/ Culture/
netbook
• Onkyo R515A5-3D Core i5 3D
notebook unveiled
• Onkyo debuts new HT-RC260
and HT-RC270 home theater
receivers
• Miffy netbook from Onkyo
surfaces
25
Blake Lively Leaves
the Upper East Side to
Chat About the Town
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:45:00 AM
Blake Lively went with a back-
bearing sequined dress yesterday
for a stop by The Late Show in
NYC. She's out and about talking
up her successful big screen
project The Town, but her new
season of Gossip Girl also started
just two weeks ago. Last night's
episode featured the usual
helpings of drama, social
climbing, and scheming, with
Blake's Serena Van Der Woodsen
showing off a range of styles for
her first days at Columbia from
the short and sweet to the chic and
boho. She was more casual,
though, in a leather jacket as she
headed to her car following her
interview with David, which airs
on Friday.
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more.
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Apple Remote 2.0 released with Apple

TV and AirPlay support
Chris Davies (SlashGear) you don’t have an Apple TV then
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:29:58 AM it’s still useful, as you can browse
a shared iTunes library instead.
Apple’s long-awaited update to You can download it free
the Apple Remote app has finally here[iTunes link].
arrived[iTunes link], and v2.0 Relevant Entries on SlashGear
takes good advantage of the • Apple Remote By Sony
company’s more recent hardware. • Manta TR1 – Add Apple
A universal app with iPhone/iPod Remote To Your Mac
touch and iPad versions, Apple • iHome Shows Off Portable
Toshiba takes Canvio Remote 2.0 still allows you to
control iTunes streaming to
Speaker with Apple’s AirPlay
Built-In

portable hard drive line to various AirPort Express units, but

now also supports the new Apple
TV and AirPlay.
view album, movie and TV show
details and artwork, manage
• SlingPlayer Mac Went Gold
• Apple TV touchscreen remote
leaks?
SuperSpeed heights If you buy one of the new Apple
TV units, for instance, you can
playlists, control playback in
various zones, search your library
Darren Murph (Engadget) BackupNow EZ software for free, now use the Apple Remote app to and also enter text for searches. If
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:41:00 AM and if you're tired of the standard
Fun with Polymaps and CloudMade
black motif, you'll be thrilled to
How does one make a Canvio know that it'll ship in high gloss
hard drive better, you ask? By black with red, green, blue, white, Jay Cuthrell (ReadWriteWeb) Francisco with a historical map
adding USB 3.0 support, of or silver graphical accents. Check overlay.
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:30:00 AM
course! Toshiba has just unveiled 'em right about now in North Next, let's replace that historic
the latest rendition of its stylish America for $119.99, $129.99 and Sometimes you need a map and image for the overlay. In this
pocket drive, the Canvio 3.0. As $179.99 in order of mention. the standard maps don't fit the example we'll use the epic, sweet
with practically every other HDD Continue reading Toshiba takes bill. That means you need to and succulent image you might
on the market, this one is also Canvio portable hard drive line to make your own map. Luckily, recall from prior RWH
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Twitter To Launch jailbreak exploit found

Tom Cruise arrived to the
admiration of fans this morning
when he touched down in Tokyo.
“Promoted Accounts,” Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
warned potential jailbreakers via
Twitter: "Those interested in
Cameron Diaz was by his side
later in the day as they hit the red
*potential* AppleTV JBs, better carpet for the Japanese premiere
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buy early! Remember iPhone 3GS
Members of the iPhone Dev hardware was updated to fix JB
of Knight and Day. Tom went
with a sweater for their evening of
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch) Twitter search) and “Promoted Team have dropped hints on hole." Indeed, Apple has already posing, while Cameron paired her
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:37:41 AM T r e n d s ” ( w h i c h i n c l u d e s Twitter that it will be possible to released a firmware update for the LBD with a pair of hot, neon
sponsored trends in “Trending jailbreak the new Apple TV. Apple TV, though we don't know Jimmy Choo heels. Promotion for
While we’ve been Disrupting all Topics”) as part of Twitter’s T e a m m e m b e r s p o d 2 g a n d if it addresses this exploit. the film has brought Tom and
over the place, Twitter has been triumvirate advertising initiative. iphone_dev have both mentioned TUAW Dev-Team: Apple TV Cameron all across the world,
hitting the advertising beat full We’ve yet to receive word from that the SHAtter exploit has been jailbreak exploit found originally with stops in Spain, Germany,
force, with COO Dick Costolo at Twitter on how much a promoted able to decrypt the Apple TV's appeared on The Unofficial Apple Mexico, and home in the States.
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Twitter’s “Who To Follow” garnering eyeballs on Twitter is Team Member MuscleNerd also her boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez.
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 6:00:00 PM
"Ticking time bomb" is the
entirely accurate way Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton
recently described Sudan. There is
every indication the country is
nearing a breakup, almost
certainly into its northern and
southern halves, and perhaps
additional fragments. The central
question is not if dissolution will
occur, but whether it will proceed
relatively peacefully or whether
renewed military conflict inside
Sudan is inevitable, possibly
spilling into neighboring
countries.
Unfortunately, President Obama
is increasing the risk this time
bomb will explode. His efforts to
appease President Omar Hassan al
-Bashir's government in
Khartoum have increased Mr.
Bashir's perception of U.S.
weakness and reinforced his
inclination and willingness to use
military force to suppress
Sudanese opposition in the South,
Darfur and elsewhere.
Although the conflict between
Khartoum and Darfur has
dominated the news in recent
years, the proximate cause for
dissolving the country now is the
postponed but still simmering
conflict between Mr. Bashir's
Islamicist central government and
the Christian and animist South.
For decades, the South resisted
Khartoum's efforts to impose its
religious law on the entire
country. Then, in 2005, the
George W. Bush administration
put this conflict on hold through
the Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA). While the
CPA halted the ongoing genocide
against the South, it was only a
truce, not a lasting peace. Critical
to gaining the South's agreement
was the commitment to a
referendum in January 2011,
when the South could vote
whether to remain part of Sudan
or become independent.
Wrenching disagreements within
the Obama administration are
reinforcing the impression that
our president is not willing to
confront the Khartoum
government.
That referendum is now the main
focus. Neutral observers almost
unanimously think a free and fair
referendum would produce an
overwhelming pro-independence
vote. Those same observers think
Mr. Bashir's government will do
almost anything, including
resorting to military force, to
prevent losing the South and its
huge oil and other natural
resources. (The North also has oil,
but by many estimates, the South
accounts for 80 percent of Sudan's
total reserves, all of which would
be lost by independence.) The
petroleum reserves explain why
the North is still frustrating one
major aspect of the 2005 CPA: the
delineation and demarcation of a
border between the two regions in
the oil-rich Abeyi territory. While
the border itself has been decided,
the North is preventing the line's
physical demarcation, thus
preventing the South from
benefiting by drilling for and
producing the oil underground.
Mr. Bashir's regime has faced no
penalties for frustrating the
demarcation process, or even
much pressure from the United
States, thus signaling that Mr.
Obama does not take seriously
Khartoum's violations of the CPA.
Wrenching disagreements within
the Obama administration are
reinforcing the impression that
our president is not willing to
confront the Khartoum
government. Mr. Obama's "open
hand" policy toward rogue states,
which has failed so notably with
Iran and North Korea, is similarly
failing in Sudan. Mr. Obama's
special Sudan envoy, retired Air
Force Gen. Scott Gration, has
essentially cuddled up to Mr.
Bashir, hoping he can thereby
persuade Khartoum not to use
military force. Mr. Obama's
meetings with Southern Sudan
leaders and others at the United
Nations General Assembly's
opening have not produced major
breakthroughs.
Instead, Khartoum reads the
Obama administration's weakness
as a license to hold South Sudan
under its control, either by fixing
the referendum, Chicago-style, or
using military force. In theory, the
Obama administration is
confronting Khartoum with
"carrots" and "sticks," promising
as carrots aid and legitimacy if
Khartoum allows a free and fair
referendum and respects the
results. The carrot list is long and
generous, but the list of sticks is
hard to fund. Incredibly, Gen.
Gration revealed his idea of sticks
when he said recently "We have a
policy that gives the North a
pathway to better bilateral
relations [with Washington]. If
they don't take it, that's already a
stick." In other words, if
Khartoum doesn't do what
Washington wants, it won't get
what it has happily lived without
for decades. No wonder
Khartoum isn't listening.
Africa has long observed taboos
against changing the national
boundaries given newly
independent countries during
decolonization. Whether or not
the boundaries were optimal,
African leaders thought that trying
to rationalize them risked
continentwide chaos. Ironically,
there have been few African
border conflicts since
independence, but the number of
internal conflicts has been high.
Near Sudan, Eritrea declared
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independence from Ethiopia, and
their conflict is still unresolved.
Somalia's government has
collapsed, and the country has
fragmented; radical Islamicists
now operate freely, and pirates
attack ships on the high seas.
Chad faces substantial ethnic
hostility, fanned by interference
from Libya. Ethnic conflict in
Africa's Great Lakes region is
well known and continuing.
The debate over Sudan's future,
therefore, clearly could affect all
of Africa. Mr. Obama's policy of
appeasing Khartoum is lighting
the fuse on the time bomb Mrs.
Clinton fears. Only a few months
remain until the scheduled
referendum, and the risks of a
return to genocide in Sudan are
growing daily.
John R. Bolton is a senior fellow
at AEI.
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Sure Thing?!
noreply@blogger.com (Michael March 31, 1973 the S& P was at the Fed is about to try.
Shedlock) (Mish's Global 111.52 with trailing earnings of Amazingly, nearly everyone
Economic Trend Analysis) $6.80. Seven years later, on believes it will work.
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:27:00 AM March 31, 1980 the S&P was at If quantitative easing worked, we
Last week, David Tepper, a 102.09 with trailing earnings of sure would not need another
billionaire hedge fund titan and $15.27. round of it. Would we?
p r e s i d e n t o f A p p a l o o s a Thus, over a span of seven years, However, here were are with
Management remarked on CNBC earning rose 125% while stock unemployment close to 10% (and
... Two things are happening. It's prices fell 8.5%! I believe new all time highs are
that easy sometimes. Either the What happened? The PE ratio on coming). Here we are with
economy is going to get better by the S&P fell from 16.40 to 6.68, treasury yields in the gutter and
itself, in the next 3 months and that's what. with mortgage rates at all time
what assets are going to do well? Moreover, those were real lows, yet home sales are at record
You can guess what assets will do earnings then. Now, corporations lows. To top it off, and in spite of
well - stocks are going to do well, hide garbage in SIVs with the trillions of dollars of Keynesian
bonds won't do so well, gold blessing of the Fed and analysts stimulus from Congress, on top of
w o n ' t d o a s w e l l . O R T h e cite pro-forma earnings that throw trillions of quantitative easing
economy is not going to pick up out "one-time" charges that occur from the Fed, and GDP is likely to
in the next three months and the with increasing regularity. go negative this quarter or next!
Fed is going to come in with QE. Thus, anyone who says stock Indeed, quantitative easing was
Right? Then what's going to do prices will go up because earnings so much of a success that
well? Everything! In the near term go up, does not understand Bernanke needs to do it again.
- Everything! history. This does not make the overnight, call–money rate to has been two lost decades going The Greatest Head-Fake of All-
Video Tepper wrong, but it does make the level of current–account on three. Time?
Earnings vs. Share Prices his argument fallacious. balances (reserves) at banks. Over Japan started QE on March 19, Todd Harrison, founder of
One might not be able to argue What About Quantitative Easing? the five years that the program 2001. The stock market fell for Minyanville is pondering the
with Tepper's past performance, Tepper also argues that was in place, the Bank of Japan two more years before staging a question The Greatest Market
but one sure can argue with his everything will be good if the Fed raised its current–account target magnificent rally that collapsed to Head-Fake of All-Time?
current logic. Stocks do not falls back on quantitative easing. nine times. In implementing the a new all time low in the great One of the first adages I learned
n e c e s s a r i l y g o u p b e c a u s e Really? quantitative easing policy, the recession. on Wall Street was that nobody is
earnings go up. Stocks rise or fall The Cleveland Fed has a series of Bank of Japan also increased its No Lesson Learned bigger than the market. That
primarily based on sentiment. nice charts on Japan’s outright purchases of longer-dated Amazingly, the Cleveland Fed theory is being put to the test.
Right now, sentiment is so Q u a n t i t a t i v e E a s i n g P o l i c y Japanese government securities. article concludes " The Japanese "Don't fight the Fed" has been
bullish and earnings estimates so Japan’s Quantitative Easing vs. The objective was to flood banks experience suggests that when taken to an entirely new level. It's
lofty there is room for hefty Price Inflation with excess reserves, which, of inflation and short–term interest no longer about rate cuts -- that
earnings expansion that falls short Japan’s Quantitative Easing in course, would keep the call- rates approach zero, central banks bullet blasted long ago -- it's about
or estimates. Buying stocks that Trillions of Yen money rate at zero. should act aggressively, giving massive "intervention,” intricate
miss wildly optimistic earnings After a series of fairly ineffectual Although deflation ended in greater than normal weight to acronyms, and the full faith and
estimates is not likely to work out policy actions, the Bank of Japan 2006, along with the quantitative downside risks. Moreover, they credibility of our government. For
well. undertook its famous quantitative easing policy, it returned after a should commit to an inflation those who point to the past -- The
Furthermore, even if earnings do easing policy from March 19, very short hiatus in 2007, and target and clearly explain their Depression, the 70's, Y2K -- I
come in on target, there is no 2001, to March 9, 2006. Under c o n t i n u e d u n t i l t h e r e c e n t actions in terms of that target." would offer that this time is
historic guarantee that stock this policy, the Bank shifted its commodity price boom. That nonsense was written in
prices follow. For example, on day–to–day operating target from Nikkei Monthly Chart 2008. It is still nonsense today. SURE page 32
For the Japanese Nikkei Index it Yet it seems to be the nonsense
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Pied Piper Politics; Krugman and Candle Makers Complain about

the Sun; Global Trade Wars
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Worse yet, with increasingly China. consensus is after all congruent The candle makers are incensed
Shedlock) (Mish's Global harsh rhetoric from China, Japan, Krugman asserts that the yuan's with Krugman's assertion that the that the light of the sun can be had
Economic Trend Analysis) the US, and now Brazil, I am exchange rate would increase if it yuan is too weak. for free. The sun's 'unfair trade
Submitted at 9/27/2010 2:36:00 PM starting to wonder if anything can were allowed to float as though Let us however step back for a advantage' surely needs to be
The odds of a global trade wars stop the trade war that is shaping that were an incontestable given moment from this discussion and curtailed somehow!
took yet another step forward up. (he does not explicitly demand a for argument's sake accept the We are suffering from the
today. This is now my third consecutive floating, fully convertible yuan notion that the yuan's exchange ruinous competition of a rival
Brazil’s finance minister went on article touching on the subject of however – he just wants China to rate is too low and would rise if who apparently works under
the warpath complaining about trade wars. See also ... keep 'manipulating' it, albeit in an left to float. How can that harm conditions so far superior to our
the " international currency war" upward direction): the US? Krugman asserts that a own for the production of light
upset that the Brazilian Real • Eurozone Recovery Slows; “ I f d i s c u s s i o n o f C h i n e s e trade deficit is 'negative', but why that he is flooding the domestic
appreciated 25% against the US Contraction Evident Except currency policy seems confusing, should that be so? Trade is after market with it at an incredibly low
dollar in less than two years. Germany, France it’s only because many people all a voluntary economic activity. price; for the moment he appears,
Guido Mantega, Brazil’s finance • Prepare for Currency/Trade don’t want to face up to the stark, When people engage in trade, our sales cease, all the consumers
minister, said on Monday the Wars; How Might China Respond simple reality — namely, that they do so because both parties to turn to him, and a branch of
world was in an “international to US Tariffs? China is deliberately keeping its the trade deem it to their French industry whose
currency war”, in a further sign currency artificially weak.” economic advantage. It follows ramifications are innumerable is
that Brazil is preparing measures Krugman Favors Protectionism How do we know whether the that there can be nothing all at once reduced to complete
to prevent further appreciation of Would the Yuan rise if China yuan is 'artificially weak'? As a 'negative' about this. China's stagnation. This rival, which is
its currency, the real. floated it, resulting in more jobs matter of fact, we do not know merchants wouldn't sell their none other than the sun, is waging
“ W e ’ r e i n t h e m i d s t o f a n in the US and a better balance of t h a t , a n d t h e r e a r e m a n y goods for dollars if they did not war on us so mercilessly we
international currency war, a trade? That's what Krugman arguments in favor of the yuan prefer these dollars over their suspect he is being stirred up
general weakening of currency. thinks, but I have stated many weakening if it were allowed to merchandise, and conversely US against us by perfidious Albion
This threatens us because it takes times it's not even clear the Yuan float. .... consumers would not trade their (excellent diplomacy nowadays!),
away our competitiveness,” he would rise. Moreover, Krugman In addition to these dollars for Chinese merchandise if particularly because he has for
said, according to Reuters. never looks at the unseen effects considerations, think about the they thought the trade harmful to that haughty island a respect that
The US dollar has fallen by about of what he suggests. fact that China's citizens had to their economic well-being. Just he does not show for us.”
25 per cent against the real since The Acting Man Austrian blog live with a closed capital account because there is a national border Replace 'perfidious Albion' with
the beginning of last year, making a g r e e s w h i l e n o t i n g C h i n a for an eternity. How would they between these sets of traders this China, and you have Krugman.
the real the strongest performing Bashing in High Gear Again react if it were to be opened? We basic economic fact is not Krugman makes the same mistake
currency in the world, according It began with a NYT editorial by tend to think that citizens with magically suspended. If trade he always makes – the one mark
to Bloomberg. Paul Krugman, who appears to large savings who have heretofore deficits were worth worrying of a truly bad economist if you
Mr Mantega recently said have a number of hobby horses been forced to invest those about, why not also worry about will – he neglects the 'unseen'
Brazil’s sovereign wealth fund that occupy most of his efforts – savings within China – a major the trade deficit between, say, effects of his policy advice. It
w a s p r e p a r i n g t o m a k e demanding more deficit spending, force in driving China's real estate New York and Philadelphia? may well be true that a small
“unlimited” dollar purchases to more money printing, raising bubble to absurd heights – would The fact that Krugman does not group of domestic producers
prevent the real appreciating any taxes and bashing China for begin to divert a lot of capital to even mention this basic facet of would benefit from a higher yuan
more. Currency Intervention currency manipulation. investments abroad. While we can trade anywhere in his articles is (which ones? We're not quite sure,
Doesn't Work Now, don't get us wrong – we not be certain how big a flood of tantamount to a red alert. Frederic actually…). Alas, every single
Currency intervention does not also tend to think that China's money would leave China in the Bastiat lampooned protectionism consumer would suffer for their
work but that never stops any exchange rate policies are harmful event, it's a good bet the markets back in 1845 when he penned his ' PIED page 33
country from trying. – alas, they are mostly harmful for are not prepared for it. The Petition of the Candle Makers'.
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continued from page 30
indeed different. Never before has
the world been so interconnected
and leveraged. FDR didn’t know
what a derivative was.
I've said it before and I'll say it
again, I want to see an economic
recovery as I stand to benefit as
much as the next guy. Despite
what we hear -- the recession is
over, the upside is easy -- let me
tell you something you already
know: it's not easy and it ain't
over. I consider myself an
optimistic realist, meaning I hope
for the best but will call it like I
see it. Before we put the final toe
tag on the legacy of this Great
Recession, I foresee more pain,
perhaps a lot of it.
There are drugs that mask the
symptoms and medicine that cures
the disease. The drugs -- giving
the drunk another drink with
hopes he sobers up -- will carry us
for only so long before social
mood sours to the point of
deterioration either domestically,
internationally, or both. The
medicine -- debt destruction or
reorganization -- would be a bitter
pill for asset classes but a strong
step towards true globalization.
The government bought time,
literally, by reflating markets and
allowing corporate America to
roll out debt and issue stock. Risk
wasn't destroyed, it simply
changed shape. It migrated from
one perception to another, from
one balance sheet to the next. I
don't know how to be any clearer;
we can run but we cannot
indefinitely hide. Sometimes I
feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The imbalances are cumulative
still and the lessons learned from
the previous crisis have been
squandered.
Could we rally in the
intermediate term? Sure, just as
nobody is bigger than the market,
nobody is smarter than it either...
least of all me. I respect David
Tepper -- his track record and the
attendant compensation are eye-
poppers -- but would caution
Minyans that if a trade looks too
easy, it probably is. Could We Be
Missing Something?
Last week, right after this Tepper
story appeared, I was asked by a
fund manager I highly respect
"Could we be missing
something?"
This was my answer.....
Sure.
It's always possible to miss
something.
In spite of what I think the next
Congress will do (be far more
conservative), perhaps I am
wrong. Perhaps Congress starts
sending checks, the dollar drops
and stocks soar. It's quite a long
shot, but it could happen, at least
in theory.
Can it be that the real economy
just does not matter? I don’t think
so, but can it not matter for longer
than we thought?
Perhaps the market is going up
for reasons none of us can see,
even the bulls.
Perhaps the market rolled 6
straight (4’s, 5’s, 9’s, and 10’s)
with no 7’s. The odds are against
it, but it can happen. Long shots
do come in from time to time.
Indeed long-shots must, by
definition pay off at times.
Otherwise they would be zero-
shots not long-shots.
Judging from the technical
action, I believe there is an
increasing chance we have one
more swoon down to say 900,
with the market going sideways
then for 5 years. There is also an
increasing chance we do not have
another collapse, just a slow drift
down for a long time similar to
what happened in the 1970's.
If either of those scenarios plays
out, valuations can catch up with
share prices. The result will not be
pretty, and such a path would
crucify pension plans and frustrate
the heck out of bulls and bears
alike. Arguably that is the path of
maximum frustration. No one
would be happy.
Finally, there is always a chance
we did not miss anything major
and the simple explanation is that
there are (or at least were) far too
many bears. Indeed, that may be
the most likely explanation. After
all, the arguments presented by
the bulls are fatally flawed. Yet
flawed or not, if most of the key
players acted on those beliefs, the
market was at least bound to rise
temporarily on those misguided
beliefs.
Reflections on Confidence
Please consider the Zero Hedge
article Why QE2 + QE Lite Mean
The Fed Will Purchase Almost $3
Trillion In Treasurys And Set The
Stage For The Monetary Endgame
[The following snip is from Bank
of America's Jeffrey Rosenberg,
who analyzes the costs of QE2]
The costs of QE 2 in our view
however go beyond the cost
benefit analysis Chairman
Bernanke highlighted in his
Jackson Hole speech. There, the
Chairman highlighted two key
risks to additional purchases of
longer-term securities. First, that
they do not know with precision
the effect of changes in Fed
holdings of securities on financial
conditions. On this point we have
emphasized on numerous
occasions that the main
consequences of QE1 to date have
been financial asset inflation.
Further purchases under QE2
hence in our view would likely be
limited in impact to furthering this
process of asset inflation.
The second risk highlighted in
Jackson Hole by the Chairman
concerns the confidence effects of
Fed’s ability to exit
accommodative policy and shrink
the size of its balance sheet.
Bernanke acknowledged that
fiscal policy needs to be part of
the policy response and that
“Central bankers alone cannot
solve the world’s economic
problems.” In our assessment,
further liquidity injection beyond
some additional marginal
transmission mechanism into
mortgage refinancing or housing
affordability would achieve little
impact on the real economy.
For smaller corporates or small
business, QE1 did little to expand
lending, though QE1 likely did
prevent even further declines in
lending. However, QE alone
appears incapable of leading to
expanding lending as the
problems today shift from one of
supply to one of demand.
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Even as banks have eased
underwriting standards, the
demand for loans remains low.
And this leads to our final cost
analysis on QE2. Where
confidence stands as the key issue
for the economy, expanding QE2
may end up doing more damage
than good as the confidence loss
from a Fed indicating its fears of
deflation through expansion of
QE2 as well as the follow on loss
of confidence from the
diminishing impact of further QE
leads to a loss in confidence
whose costs outweigh those of the
benefits of further reductions in
long term rates. Uncharted
Territory with Risks to the
Downside
Tepper seems to have more
confidence in Bernanke than
Bernanke has in Bernanke. Even
Bernanke seems to understand we
are in uncharted territory with
uncharted risks.
One such risk is that confidence
could severely erode in financial
assets (such as equities)
denominated in dollars and
unsupported by Fed buying. That
risk is both significant and heavily
skewed to the downside. After all,
equities are subject to earnings
shock and PE compression, as
noted earlier.
Also note that the lift in equities
in 2009 was a directly related to
the lift in corporate bonds.
Arguably, Bernanke's one success
was unlocking the corporate bond
market. Companies priced for
bankruptcy on expectation they
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UAW Workers Vote 457 to 96 to Close
Plant Instead of Reducing Salaries
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/27/2010 10:38:00 PM
With Indiana unemployment rate
at 10.1% one might think that jobs
that pay more than double the
minimum wage would be in
demand. Actually, such jobs are
in demand, but ironically not from
some of those who have them.
Let's take a look at an offer
Illinois businessman Justin
Norman made last August to
UAW members in a plant in
Indianapolis scheduled to close in
2011. The offer was rejected
today.
Illinois Businessman Proposes to
Save 650 UAW Jobs
August 29, 2010: Norman talks
pay with GM workers Illinois
businessman Justin Norman
continued his effort to win over
GM Indianapolis stamping plant
workers, telling a gathering
Sunday that skilled trades
employees at his Chicago-area
plant will earn nearly $100,000
this year.
GM executives three years ago
scheduled the shutdown of the 2.1
-million-square-foot metal plant
in 2011 if no buyer appeared. This
spring, JD Norman Industries
agreed to take over the factory if
UAW Local 23 accepted a new
contract that cuts costs.
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continued from page 31
betterment by having to pay solve anything.
higher prices. This in turn means
that consumers will either have to
The US is in a mess of its own
making. Screaming about "fair
The new contract would include a Lines would be 5 miles long for cut back on their consumption, or trade" is a scapegoat for
lower base wage of $15.50 per jobs that pay $15-$24 per hour lower their rate of saving. It preposterous US economic
hour, down from $29 per hour, with a $35,000 bonus after two seems obvious that this entails a policies on military spending,
and pare the wage for skilled years if such an offer could be lower standard of living for entitlements, policing the world,
trades workers to $24 per hour made to the general public. everyone but the favored few. public sector pensions, Fannie
from about $33. I do not know the nature of their Since less money will be available Mae and Freddie Mac, too big to
Autoworkers who stay with JD existing contract or how long for either consumption or saving, fail, and numerous other disasters
Norman would receive lump sum severance benefits might last, but there will also be less money at the state and federal level.
bonuses, in some cases up to I strongly suspect many of those available for investment. Capital Giving into the Pied Piper, will
$35,000 over two years, and rejecting the offer will start formation is thus likely to slow, do nothing but make the problem
retain the right to transfer to open looking for minimum-wage jobs further impinging on future worse.
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Could A Single Apple Mis-Step Tank
The Entire Stock Market? (AAPL,
QQQQ)
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:49:00 AM
Let's connect three dots:
1) AAPL shares had a mini-crash
this morning, losing$15 right at
the open, on more volume that
AAPl normally does in an entire
day. It appears like this sudden
drop was sparked by just the
rumor that Apple's COO was
leaving the company. (Which
COO Tim Cook has now denied.)
2) AAPL now has a ridiculous
20% weighting in the most
popular Nasdaq ETF, the
Powershares QQQ Trust ETF
(QQQQ).
3) The Nasdaq itself tanked at the
open today.
Draw a straight line and it's
obvious that a major Apple
surprise would be enough to tank
the entire market.
Just look at what this morning's
AAPL mini-crash did to the
Powershares Nasdaq ETF
(QQQQ). QQQQ had its own
Who said it? Darth Vader or Obi-Wan Kenobi
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:00:56 AM
Squared off on opposite sides of
the Force, it might seem like
Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi
have nothing in common. One is
mini-crash on high volume this
morning:
It just followed Apple's
performance:
That's just a broken ETF you
say? It's not the real market?
Well, the actual Nasdaq had its
own sudden drop this morning as
well:
Now, there are valid reasons to
believe Apple shares may still be
cheap, if it can keep delivering
outstanding growth, given that its
valuation is pretty reasonable
relative to peers.
But Apple shares were at $200
just in February, 30% lower than
where they are now, and business
was still extremely good back
tall, dark and deadly, and the
other's, well, not. But take away
Vader's trademark heavy
breathing, and they can be tough
to tell apart. Can you make the
call?
Earn a point for every right
then.
Hence it's not hard to imagine
how a major mis-step or negative
surprise on the part of Apple
could send APPL shares back
towards $200. They could report
far less growth than investors
expect, botch a product launch, or
even have a major change in top
level management, as was the fear
this morning.
Note how the most popular
Nasdaq ETF reacted sharply today
to just a $15 dollar drop. If a real
piece of bad news came out, then
guess what a $90 drop in AAPL
would do to this ETF given
Apple's 20% weighting. Then
note how the entire Nasdaq
dropped this morning.
If the Nasdaq were to drop hard
one day due to Apple, do you
think the S&P500 would just sit
around?
Thus it's as if everyone should be
rooting for Apple's continued
success right now.
Join the conversation about this
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would not be able to roll over
their debt got a new lease on life.
Now junk bonds are back at par.
So where to from here? At best,
QE2 can maintain that liquidity.
At worst, confidence collapses in
spite of, or perhaps because of
QE2.
Conversely, commodities,
especially gold, may be
beneficiaries of a loss of
confidence in equities, junk
bonds, or the dollar. Thus, from a
risk/reward perspective, stocks are
quite far down on the list of
places to be, hoping for QE2.
A month ago everyone was
focused on a "Hindenburg Omen".
Now everyone is focused on a
"sure thing" by the Fed. That is
how quickly sentiment can
change, and sentiment can just as
easily turn again.
Caution, not "sure things" seems
like a better bet to me.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) nutritional value -- it's obvious Submitted at 9/27/2010 4:17:53 PM
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Submitted at 9/29/2010 9:00:56 AM that someone who gets a diverse Photographer François Halard storage including the Louis XVI
mix of fruits, vegetables and fiber recently had an exhibition which lit a la polonaise canopy bed from
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and food. Since the dawn of time, more capable in bed. But there's a accompanying book entitled included photos from both books
we've been experimenting with set of nutrients your body uses Visite Privée. The collection of here but unfortunately Visite
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wine and oysters, have a pretty that help keep you ready for Julian Schnabel, Carlos Mollino, plane to Paris if I ever saw one
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Facebook Founder To Star in His Own Comic

thinkpossitive (Featured Blog Newark schools, etc), the comic has already had a profound impact
Posts - My Modern Metropolis) will be a 48 page giant sized issue on the world. Yet hardly anyone Hover Zoom Enlarges
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:00:00 AM priced at $6.99. Written by knows much about him. It's Thumbnails on Mouse
Jerome Maida and penciled by Sal amazing." Over in Google Chrome
For those of you who can't get Field, with cover art by Michal Is everyone just jumping on the
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Canadian company Bluewater from comic book stores and e y e - o p e n i n g c o m i c b o o k Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
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What's Popping Out of Your
Sweatshirt? (3 pics)
Marica (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:00:00 AM
Taking wearable art to a whole
new level, Berlin-based
Mashallah Design & Linda
Kostowski created this 3-D
sweatshirt by scanning human
bodies and using the data to create
sewing patterns. The human form
is turned into 3D patterns of
polygons, which are then turned
into 2D files and used to laser cut
fabric.
"Making a clothes pattern in this
way changes the aesthetics of the
garment fundamentally, because
in contrary to ordinary pattern
construction methods unfolding
does not matter about orientations
like center front or the shape of a
armhole, which frees the
designers imagination in a way
that feels fresh and liberate. As
fabric we used sweatshirt jersey
as a reference to the common
cliche that Berlin is the city which
fashionable output lies in making
and painting on t-shirts."
Above: Wolf (one of the 3
projects shown at Create Berlin
during the London Design
Festival in 2008)
The T-shirt Issue
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New Projects
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:45:00 AM
Johnny Depp was decked out as
Captain Jack Sparrow this
morning as he worked on Pirates
of the Caribbean: On Stranger
Tides near London. He was also
spotted on set yesterday, when he
wore his own flannel but showed of its December release. He's also
off the braids in his hair needed to lining up more movie projects,
wear his character's wigs. and his upcoming The Lone
Johnny's finishing up shooting the Ranger is apparently in the last
latest installment of his Disney stages of finding the right
franchise with pregnant Penelope director.
Cruz, and soon he'll head out on View 5 Photos ›
the press circuit to promote The
Tourist with Angelina Jolie ahead
DIY Repairs and Upgrades
to Save Your Laptop:
Upgrading RAM [Video]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:00:00 AM
Too many laptops are cast aside
for singular broken parts, for
"running too slow," or other
problems that shouldn't require a functional laptops. Today, we're
rent-sized new purchase. All this installing new memory. More »
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Cheers & Jeers: Dancing With the

Stars — Tea Party for Two?
Bruce Fretts (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:11:00 AM

Dancing With The Stars

Remote App Updates for
the iPad and Retina, Adds
Shared Library Support,
and More [Downloads]
Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:59:00 AM
iOS: The Remote app—capable
of remote controlling your iTunes
library or Apple TV from your
iOS device—finally released an
update today supporting the iPad
and Retina displays, shared
libraries, and compatibility fixes
for the latest iTunes and Apple
TV releases. More »
Computer Trends - from
Consumer Reports
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 9:00:59 PM
Computer Trends - from
Consumer Reports Consumer
Reports tests of computers for the
September issue turned up somve
very good models judged CR
BEST BUYS, as well as some
sporting new stylish features.
Low-Tech Solution:
Cover the Keypad to
Thwart Advanced ATM-
Skimming Techniques
[Video]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:00:00 AM
Last year we showed you how to
spot an ATM card skimmer.
Thieves have increased their
efforts and are now using tiny
pinhole cameras to capture your
PIN number too. Keep the keypad
covered to increase security. More
»
C o m p u t e r T r e n d s - f r o m Either Fox News is paying off the
Consumer Reports Subscribe panel or DWTS producers are
now!
S u b s c r i b e
ConsumerReports.org for expert another one of their ratings
Ratings, buying advice and magnets anytime soon. Of course,
r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f the real attraction is Bristol's
products. Update your feed
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Jeers to Dancing With the Stars
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Alaska's former First Daughter
— explain to me how being the
world's most ironic "teen-
abstinence advocate" qualifies her
as a Star? — is a half-step up
from the Kate Gosselin trainwreck
we might've expected, but the
judges have cut her way too much mom, who sat in the front row, Myself"?
slack. Their scores were so got chatted up by Tom Bergeron Is Bristol Palin winning your vote
shockingly low for competitors and was prominently featured in on Dancing With the Stars?
like Michael Bolton (a 3, Bruno?) the hometown-visit montage Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) In a frankly boring flashback, arrive here? with blood under his skin to join
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:13:00 AM we also learn that Sean and Leila There was a fiery crash of some the CIA. Later in the episode, an
met cute while swimming laps at sort in Alaska in 1944. Sophia, the unwitting Blake Sterling appoints
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would provide lots of answers for through the desert, Sean tells the
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with the able-bodied members of
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Collar,' 'Royal Pains'
In this hour, we learn where the and recognizes the area as where Who and where are the crash him that the plane is in the desert and 'Psych'
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:40:00 AM
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NCIS' Brian Dietzen: Get Ready for "More Jimmy

Goodness"
Adam Bryant (TVGuide.com: wall, and he tries to enlist the help plenty of time to prove himself.
Breaking News) of any of the other agents to give "We're going to see a lot of
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:07:00 AM him a job and make him feel Jimmy Palmer stuff," Dietzen
important. He fears that his says. "When I asked [executive
Brian Dietzen importance in autopsy is slipping producer] Gary Glasberg what I
NCIS' assistant medical examiner away. It's a really fun show for can say about this season, he said,
Jimmy Palmer can't stay lovably Jimmy because he's running 'Tell them they're going to get a 'Sister Wives'
dim forever, right? around like a chicken with its
"I wanted the character to grow a head cut off.
lot more Jimmy goodness.'
"He's constantly learning,"
Stars Investigated
little bit and learn a bit from what "She knows a bit more than
he's been doing the last seven Jimmy does about Scotland,
Dietzen continues. "There are
going to be mistakes still made
for Bigamy
years in autopsy," Brian Dietzen singing, and quite a few different along the way. Although he's PopEater Staff (TV Squad)
t e l l s T V G u i d e . c o m o f h i s things that Ducky really takes a going to try to impress and try to Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:20:00 AM
character's growth this season. shine to," Dietzen continues. do his job extremely well,
"Jimmy's always kind of been the "She's new, she's young, and she's Jimmy's always had a knack for Filed under: TV News Police are
bumbling guy who's a half a beat eager to learn. That's all the stuff asking questions about the investigating the family featured
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of that, but ... if this guy hasn't and he's sent into sort of a becoming a very confident fellow reality show,' on the charge of
learned a thing since the first tailspin." h i s v a l u e a n d g e t s o m e who knows how to solve the case felony bigamy.
season, he'd get canned pretty Check out photos of the NCIS affirmation by episode's end? by himself, I don't think it will get The series stars salesman Kody
quickly." cast "Absolutely not," Deitzen says to that point. But I do think the Brown, his four wives and their
Fall TV: Get scoop on all your Dietzen says his character's with a laugh. "I think that would character will graduate to another 13 children and stepchildren.
favorite returning shows relationship with mentor Ducky is be great, but by the same token, level." Police in Lehi, Utah. told People
Jimmy will start on that path in similar to his with McCallum in it's smart of our writers to always NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on they were looking into the
T u e s d a y ' s e p i s o d e , w h e n a real life. "I get to go to work keep the characters on their toes. CBS. family's situation before the
handful of interns are called into every day and work with a TV It's great to have a conclusion This entry passed through the show's Sunday premiere, and
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Watercooler: One More Reason to
Watch Lone Star
Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:14:00 AM
Lone Star
In an effort to up the ratings —
and apparently our blood
pressures — it seems the powers-
that-be at the season's best new
drama (albeit the one with the
lowest numbers) decided to give
us something more than just
strong writing, compelling
characters and sturdy casting to
rave about: They also gave us
copious amounts of series star
James Wolk in various states of
nakedness.
Not that we're complaining. After
all, the Lone Star lead is hotter
than this week's L.A. temps, and
let's be honest, since Lost's Josh
Holloway went away, TV has
been suffering a shortage of
humina-humina. It's just that
Wolk's bared bod isn't needed to
sell this show. It's smart, it's
seductively crafted, and most
importantly, it's getting even
better now that Bob/Robert's
worlds are starting to inch closer
and closer.
Unfortunately, without the
"stunning upset" series creator
Kyle Killen is hoping for to save
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the show from cancellation, we
may never get to see just how
terrifically twisty things can get in
Texas. What is Robert's low-end
sister-in-law really capable of?
Who did Bob's dad call at the end
of last night's episode? And what
in tarnation is Andie MacDowell
doing, mixing it up with Cat next
week?
So let's keep our fingers crossed
that Fox has the guts to give Lone
Star a real shot. Because like
David Keith's country-fried con
man said about that wind farm last
night — and Mr. Wolk, of course
— it's a thing of beauty.
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Tony Danza On Going
Back to High School and
Being the Boss in 'Teach'
Maggie Furlong (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews,
The Show Girl He's hosted a talk
show, written an Italian
cookbook, starred on Broadway
and tackled TV roles like a true
boss. So what's Tony Danza's
latest gig? Teaching 10th grade
English in Philadelphia.
In'Teach: Tony Danza'(premieres
Fri., Oct. 1, 10PM ET on A&E),
the'Taxi' and'Who's the Boss?'
alum decides to go back to school
(he does have a degree in
education for anyone curious him laughingly call a student
about his qualifications) to try his "schmo." Then I got to take a look
hand in the classroom. at that famous mug -- dimples,
I caught up with Danza to hear distinguished gray hair and all --
how his students reacted on his in his new high school yearbook.
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Where The Sleeved Blankets comprehensive acknowledgement extension, and includes a clip for
Have No Name of the various entities (legal, easy attachment to books or
Happy Good Neighbor Hey, when you’re a big TV star, financial, and extra-terrestrial)
sometimes you just feel like affected by the provisions of any
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EPA to propose 35 mpg, groups push for 60 mpg or

even 70 mpg by 2025
Consumer Reports Shopping overall by 2020. That imminent Here at Consumer Reports, we
Blog (Consumer Reports) announcement has set off a bevy support higher fuel economy
Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:12:24 AM of calls for standards higher than standards and believe that
the required 35 mpg. The
EPA to propose 35 mpg, groups Consumer Federation of America
conserving resources can help
consumers save money at the
Dead Rising 2
push for 60 mpg or even 70 mpg ( CFA), along with the Sierra pump and provide a hedge against review: Duct tape
by 2025 Club, the Natural Resources potentially higher oil prices in the
By the end of this month, the Defense Council, and 57 other future. beats everything
Environmental Protection Agency groups called on the Obama How about you? What level of Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
(EPA) is due to propose new, Administration to set the new and the Environment at the fuel economy do you expect from
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:00 AM
even tougher fuel economy mileage targets at 60 mpg by University of Michigan, has an y o u r n e x t c a r ? A n d w h a t
standards to take effect in 2016. 2025. Citing reports from the even stronger proposal. DeCicco sacrifices, if any, would you Sifting through my inventory, I
Passed just last year, the current National Academy of Sciences says fuel economy standards accept to get it? Let us know in scroll past flaming boxing gloves,
standards will dramatically raise and Massachusetts Institute of should be raised to 70 mpg by the comments below. a sledgehammer duct-taped to a
the fuel economy bar, ramping up Technology that point to the 60- 2035. Using research on past And we'll let you know the EPA's pair of fire axes, a makeshift
from today's 27.5 mpg average for mpg figure as " technically trends, he says this can be proposal when they release it later lightsaber (two of those, actually)
cars and 23.5 mpg for trucks to f e a s i b l e , " t h e C F A s a y s achieved with conventional this week. and a box of french fries. Four
35.7 mpg for cars and 28.6 mg for consumers would save enough on hybrids and internal-combustion Think 60 mpg or 70 mpg sounds survivors -- two of whom I've
trucks by 2015. Those standards fuel to offset the cost of adding engines - no need for plug-in cars impossible? See our coverage of armed with assault rifles -- are
w e r e r e l e a s e d l a s t y e a r i n such fuel-efficient technology to or other alternative fuels. He the Automotive X Prize, the $10 trailing behind me, weaving
response to the 2007 Energy cars. "Making cars more fuel examined the rate of technology million competition to create a car through the zombie-free path I've
Independence and Security Act, efficient from an economic increase from the time fuel that can achieve 100 MPGe. literally carved for them. Soon I
which requires cars and trucks to s t a n d p o i n t , t h e p a y b a c k i s economy standards were first See our guide to fuel economy bring them all back to safety,
meet a combined average of of 35 certainly there," says Jack Gillis, a passed in 1975 through today. for advice on saving gasoline. netting me a cool 168,000
m p g b y 2 0 2 0 . T h o s e 2 0 1 5 spokesman for the CFA. "That's a Combining increases in both fuel Learn about future technologies Prestige Points. I level up. Twice.
standards, covering the maximum greater motivator than just economy and performance, he in our guide to alternative fuels. I barely notice, since I can't stop
number of years regulators are protecting the environment." says the rate of technological — Eric Evarts Subscribe now! wondering how to combine this
allowed to set in advance, were Further, the CFA released a study improvement in internal- S u b s c r i b e t o wheelchair with the lawn mower I
announced on Earth Day last today ( pdf) saying that 46 percent combustion engines has been ConsumerReports.org for expert found in hardware.
April. of consumers say they would about 3.7 percent a year. If all this Ratings, buying advice and Gallery: Dead Rising 2 (review)
Now the EPA, in conjunction support a 60 mpg fuel economy improvement went into fuel r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f Continue reading Dead Rising 2
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Traffic Safety Administration cars could be recouped in five held to current levels, it would be preferences everything
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Hepatitis C case underscores importance of testing,

treatment
rss@consumerreports.org Jacksonville from 2004 to April 2a(Pegasys)—and found that
(Consumer Reports) 11, 2008, when it was owned by while neither has been shown to
Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:42:50 AM the Mayo Clinic. be clearly more effective or safe,
So far, 3 former patients have there is a considerable difference
Hepatitis C case underscores tested positive for hepatitis C, in price. PegIntron could save you
importance of testing, treatment including one who died from the
In a case that could have virus, but the Mayo Clinic says
hundreds to thousands of dollars
over Pegasys, depending on the
Eggplant
international ramifications, a that more than 5,000 people may
radiology technician in Florida have been exposed. Most of the
may have exposed thousands of patients live in Florida, but some
dose and length of treatment.
You should know that pegylated Green Curry
interferon therapy can cause a (Simply Recipes)
people to hepatitis C, a potentially l i v e i n o t h e r s t a t e s i n t h e wide range of side effects, some
by accidental needlesticks Submitted at 9/27/2010 2:43:47 PM
deadly virus that attacks the liver. Southeastern part of the United serious. The most common side
occurring in healthcare workers.
Steven Beumel, a radiology States and a few live abroad. effects include flu-like symptoms, One of my favorite dishes on the
Even if you think you might have
technician at the Mayo Clinic in The tragic case serves as a such as muscle aches, fever, and planet is a green curry made with
been infected, the only way to
Jacksonville, reportedly injected reminder that—as noted in our fatigue, depression, diarrhea, eggplant. But you really need to
know for certain is a blood test.
himself with a painkiller intended free Best Buy Drugs report—4 nausea, and rashes or other skin- know what you are doing to make
Hepatitis C may not cause any
for patients who had undergone million people in the U.S. are related problems. Life-threatening it, and I don't. Which is why we
noticeable symptoms at first, but
surgeries or transplants and then infected with hepatitis C, but the or fatal problems are rare but are turning to guest contributor
over time, if left untreated, it can
refilled the syringes with saline. It only way to know for sure if include suicide, relapse of drug Garrett McCord for this recipe.
cause liver damage, leading to
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people clear the virus on their
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exposed to the virus. transmitted by exposure to blood editor, Consumer Reports Health me that there are two particular
body, but they are very expensive,
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$30,000 for a course of treatment.
continues, but Beumel may have by sharing needles used for ConsumerReports.org for expert The first is that if you're using
Our Best Buy Drugs report
been carrying out his dangerous injecting illicit drugs, such as Ratings, buying advice and eggplant you have to blister and
analyzed the evidence for the two
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faith and baptism, he will bring to thank you for never leaving me you want to kick those Santas Missile Command and Berserk
The man without the Spirit does completion at Jesus' return. But alone. As I am filled with the right in their North Poles. So may while still allowing for maximum
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from the Spirit of God, for they great promise, just as it cannot and more until my will and my Carnage? Best of all, the longer you last,
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Holy Spirit is God's abiding gift, what is true in God's heart and to knock the attacking Santas into focus on pumpkins and hand
God's seal and promise. The Spirit r e v e a l e d i n h i s W o r d . M y next week. There's also a cat. He's turkeys for a little bit longer?
is our assurance that what he Prayer... Father, I thank you for your friend.
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Bears force Packers' fumble, win on late FG
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 2:13:16 AM
Team Stat Comparison
GB
CHI 1st Downs 21 18
Passing 1st downs 16 11
Rushing 1st downs 4 2
1st downs from Penalties 1 5
3rd down efficiency 4-10 3-9
4th down efficiency 0-0 0-1 Total
Plays 60 48 Total Yards 379 276
Passing 316 199
Comp-Att 34-45 16-27
Yards per pass 7.0 7.4 Rushing
63 77
Rushing Attempts 15 18
Yards per rush 4.2 4.3 Red Zone
(Made-Att) 2-3 1-4 Penalties 18-
152 5-38 Turnovers 2 1
Fumbles lost 1 0
Interceptions thrown 1 1
Defensive / Special Teams TDs 0
1 Possession 35:49 24:11
Passing Leaders Green Bay C/
ATT YDS AVG TD INT
RATING Rodgers 34/45 316 7.0
1 1 92.5 Chicago C/ATT YDS
AVG TD INT RATING Cutler 16
/27 221 8.2 1 1 82.5
Rushing Leaders Green Bay
CAR YDS AVG TD LG Kuhn 6
31 5.2 0 18 Rodgers 2 20 10.0 1
17 Chicago CAR YDS AVG TD
LG Cutler 3 37 12.3 0 16 Forte 11
29 2.6 0 12
Receiving Leaders Green Bay
REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Finley 9 115 12.8 0 28 9 Driver 9
61 6.8 0 11 11 Chicago REC YDS
AVG TD LG TGTS Knox 4 94
23.5 0 35 6 Olsen 5 64 12.8 1 21 6
Associated Press
CHICAGO -- The Chicago Bears
stamped themselves as contenders
in the NFC. And they did it with a
big assist from their oldest rival.
Jay Cutler threw for 221 yards,
Brian Urlacher forced a key
fumble and Chicago took
advantage of a team-record 18
penalties by the Packers to beat
Green Bay 20-17 on Monday
night. More From ESPN.com
The Packers hype and Super
Bowl expectations were lost in
penalties and mistakes Monday
night, ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert
writes. Blog
• Lovie Smith's tough decisions
helped the Bears win,
ESPNChicago.com's Melissa
Isaacson writes. Column
• Bears Blog Robbie Gould won it
with a 19-yard field goal with 4
seconds left. The Packers' James
Jones lost a fumble on a hit by
Urlacher in the final minutes.
Then Morgan Burnett was called
for pass interference on Earl
Bennett, setting up the winning
kick."It's fun, that is all you can
ask for," Cutler said. "The defense
did a great job, we struggled the
whole game, felt like we kind of
were killing ourselves."The Bears
(3-0) kept insisting they were
contenders through a sloppy
preseason and less-than-inspiring
opening win over Detroit. Since
then, they turned heads with a win
at Dallas last week, and opened
more eyes by beating Green Bay -
Sports/ 45
- with lots of help from the
Packers.The Bears tied it at 17 on
a 25-yard field goal by
Gould.Urlacher jarred the ball out
of Jones' hands after the receiver
caught a pass from Aaron
Rodgers near midfield. Tim
Jennings recovered, giving
Chicago the ball on the Packers
46 with 2:18 remaining."Any time
a play like that comes up, that's a
play you need to make," the
Packers' Nick Barnett said.
"Luckily for them they didn't have
any penalties on that call and they
were able to get the ball."Soon
after, another penalty cost the
Packers (2-1) in a big way.On
second down at the 33, Cutler
tried to hit Bennett deep along the
right sideline and Burnett
basically hammered him, wiping
out an interception by Nick
Collins and putting the ball at the
9.Three plays later, Chicago
walked away with a wild win and
the only undefeated record in the
NFC."We didn't play our best
game and won. That's got to be a
good sign," Bears coach Lovie
Smith said.As for the Packers?
Two Targeted
Johnny Knox and Greg Olsen
accounted for 71 percent of the
Bears' receiving yards, and Olsen
reeled in Jay Cutler's lone passing
TD late in the second quarter.
Cutler passing by target Knox/
Olsen Others Comp-Att 9-11 7-16
Yds/Att 14.4 3.9 TD 1 0 Passer
Rating 111.2 28.9"It was an
uncharacteristic game on offense
BEARS page 48
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Defendant in Nick Adenhart death guilty of murder

Associated Press (ESPN.com) "I think it's tragic," she told survived, Jon Wilhite. But I think
Submitted at 9/28/2010 8:37:47 AM reporters. "I think there's been a it inches all of us toward a sense
miscarriage of justice." She of peace, and we're just going to
Updated: September 28, 2010, previously said her client did not continue to move on," he said.
9:37 AM ET intend to kill anyone.[+] Enlarge Prosecutors alleged during the
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A jury AP Photo/Nick Ut Areta Pearson, two-week trial that Gallo, whose
convicted a construction worker left, and her daughter Jessica blood-alcohol level was nearly
of murder Monday for a drunken- Pearson, right, hug Jon Wilhite, three times the legal limit, spent
driving crash that killed promising the lone survivor of the crash that hours drinking beers and shots
rookie Los Angeles Angels k i l l e d A n g e l s p i t c h e r N i c k with his stepbrother at three
pitcher Nick Adenhart and two of Adenhart and two of his friends. different bars before running a red
his friends. Prosecutors said they charged the light and T-boning the car driven
It was the second DUI conviction case as a second-degree murder by Stewart.
for Andrew Gallo, 23, who held instead of the lesser charge of Prosecutor Susan Price told
w h i t e r o s a r y b e a d s a n d manslaughter because Gallo had a jurors that Gallo had been
occasionally looked up at jurors previous DUI conviction, had repeatedly warned by friends,
as they returned their verdicts. specific knowledge of the dangers family and court officials about
As he was led away in handcuffs, of drinking and driving from his Rackauckas told reporters. "We I know she's looking down on us the dangers of drinking and
Gallo glanced over his shoulder at own experience, and had signed a want to get the message out there and she's happy," said Carrie driving, but his arrogance and
sobbing relatives of the victims court form from the earlier case as well as we can that people will Stewart-Dixon, who wore a pink need to party prevented him from
gathered in the Orange County saying he understood he could be be prosecuted for murder when and white bracelet bearing her learning the lesson.
courtroom. charged with murder if he drove they engage in this type of daughter's name. "It was justice Goodman contended the district
"What this case has shown is that drunk again and killed someone. conduct." for the kids -- and all our attorney's office had overstepped
the accelerator, the gas pedal on To win a murder conviction, Jurors, who began deliberations families." by charging Gallo with murder.
an automobile in the wrong hands prosecutors had to show Gallo Thursday, said they had intense Angels pitcher Jered Weaver said She said her client believed his
is as dangerous as the trigger on a a c t e d w i t h i m p l i e d m a l i c e , discussions and were well-aware he found out about the verdicts in stepbrother was his designated
gun," Nigel Pearson, the father of intentionally drove drunk, acted that Gallo had not only ruined the a text message from a team driver and only drove after his
2 5 - y e a r - o l d v i c t i m H e n r y with a conscious disregard for lives of the victims' families but official. stepbrother became too
Pearson, said outside court. "And human life, and knew from his also his own. "Obviously, we're glad to see that intoxicated and asked him to take
in the wrong hands, it can personal experience that he could "It was emotional," juror Beth the guy got what was coming for the wheel. By that point, she
devastate the lives of many, many kill someone. Smith said after leaving the him, but that's pretty much all I argued, Gallo was too drunk to
people." Adenhart, 22, died just hours courtroom. "I think a lot of us lost can say. Hopefully it put a little realize the consequences of
Gallo was convicted on three after pitching six scoreless innings sleep over this." closure to what the families had to driving drunk.
counts of second-degree murder in his season debut. Pearson and Her eyes welling with tears, deal with," Weaver said. During the trial, prosecutors
and single counts of drunken Courtney Stewart, 20, also died in Stewart's mother said she felt Said Angels manager Mike played a videotaped interview in
driving, hit-and-run driving, and the April 9, 2009, collision in relieved to finally have a verdict. Scioscia: "There's certainly no joy which Gallo told police he didn't
driving under the influence of Fullerton. Passenger Jon Wilhite Nelson: The Adenhart tragedy involved, but I think it's some remember driving and apologized
alcohol and causing great bodily was severely injured. In April 2009, ESPN.com's Amy closure for a number of families to the families of the victims.
injury. Orange County District Attorney K. Nelson looked at how the lives that have been just going through Copyright 2010 by The
He faces 50 years to life in state Tony Rackauckas said it was the of Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart the worst nightmare for a family." Associated Press
prison at his scheduled sentencing 1 1 t h D U I - r e l a t e d m u r d e r and Andrew Gallo collided "Nothing that happened today is This entry passed through the
on Dec. 10. conviction in the county since tragically at a Fullerton, Calif., ever going to bring Nick, Henry Full-Text RSS service — if this is
His attorney Jacqueline Goodman 2008. intersection. Story and Courtney back or erase that
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"It won't bring Courtney back, but tragedy in the life of the kid who
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Evan Longoria of Tampa Bay Rays calls out team's fans for not
showing up
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:22:25 AM
Updated: September 28, 2010,
11:22 AM ET Mike & Mike in
the Morning
Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic
discuss the Tampa Bay Rays
players that were upset about fans
not showing up to see the games.
Golic thinks the players were
wrong and shouldn't rip the fans.
Greeny says the team should
move.
When 12,446 fans showed up
Monday night to see if the AL
East-leading Tampa Bay Rays
could clinch their second playoff
berth in three years, Evan
Longoria decided he'd seen
enough empty seats -- and said
something about it.
Longoria, who did not play in the
Rays' 4-0 loss to Baltimore, spoke
at length about the team's
chronically low attendance,
calling it "disheartening" and
"embarrassing."
"We've been playing great
baseball all year. Since I've been
here in [2006], the fans have
wanted a good baseball team.
They've wanted to watch a
contender," Longoria told
reporters. "And for us to play
good baseball for three years now,
and for us to be in a spot to clinch
again and go to the playoffs, we're
all confused as to why it's only
15,000 to 20,000 in the building."
Monday's announced attendance
was a little more than half of the
23,047 the team has averaged at
home this season, despite battling
neck-and-neck with the New York
Yankees for the AL East lead and
baseball's best record for most of
the season.
Tropicana Field, the Rays' much-
maligned domed stadium, holds
36,973 for baseball during the
regular season.
"In 2008, when we clinched, this
place was packed," Longoria said.
"It's kind of like what else do you
have to do to draw fans in this
place. It's actually embarrassing
for us."
Longoria said the attendance has
not had any bearing on the team's
on-field effort at home, where the
Rays are 48-31 entering Tuesday's
game against the Orioles.
"But we're talking about a team in
a playoff hunt with the
opportunity to clinch. You could
at least get 30,000 in here to cheer
you on to it," Longoria said.[+]
Enlarge
Cliff Welch/Icon SMI Evan
Longoria, seen earlier this season,
said he's been thinking about
speaking out on the Rays' low
home attendance for a while.
"It's a tough situation for us," he
added. "A lot of the visiting teams
come in and wonder where are all
the fans. It's actually a little bit
embarrassing for us. We're one
game away from clinching a
postseason spot. We have enough
guys in this room to celebrate
with, but we'd love to celebrate it
with the fans, too."
The Rays have a roster full of
young, talented players and are
polishing off their third straight
winning season after starting their
existence with a decade of
dreadful results. But small crowds
at home have been a constant
issue, despite the team's dramatic
improvement.
Longoria said he had been
thinking about addressing the
Rays' home attendance for a long
time.
"I'm not trying to take a low blow
Sports/ 47
season.
Team owner Stuart Sternberg
said last week that no matter what
happens, the team will cut payroll
during the offseason, meaning
pending free agents Carl
Crawford, Carlos Pena and Rafael
Soriano likely will not return.
Tampa Bay's current payroll of
$71.9 million -- a team record, but
tens of millions less than the AL
East-rival Yankees and Boston
Red Sox-- is expected to drop to
$50 million or less next season.
"No question. Nothing can change
that," Sternberg said of the
coming payroll reduction,
at the fans. I'm actually trying to according to the St. Petersburg
rally the troops and get more Times. "Unfortunately there's
people in here," he said. "I'm not nothing that can happen between
trying to say that we have bad now and April that can change
fans or any of that because, that unless [manager] Joe Maddon
believe me, I've been here since hits the lottery and wants to
'06 and I love the Tampa Bay donate it or I hit the lottery."
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for us, well, just as a team,"
Rodgers said. "Way too many
penalties." Devin Hester delivered
his first touchdown return in three
years when he ran back a punt 62
yards in the fourth quarter, giving
the Bears a short-lived 14-10
lead.Rodgers threw for 316 yards
and a touchdown and also scored
on a 3-yard run that gave the
Packers a 17-14 lead in the fourth
period. Jermichael Finley had
nine catches for 115 yards, but the
sloppiness simply caught up with
the Packers in the end.Cutler
completed 16 of 27 passes with a
touchdown and an interception.
Johnny Knox had four catches for
94 yards.Chicago held its
longtime rival to 63 yards rushing,
but the Bears had only 77
themselves. That turned it into an
air game for much of the
night.Hester had just put the Bears
ahead by four in the opening
seconds of the fourth quarter
when the Packers responded with
a 62-yard touchdown drive.A
roughing-the-passer penalty on
Henry Melton gave them a first
down at the 3. Rodgers, who
cramped up a few plays earlier,
rolled to his right and lunged into
the end zone, making it 17-
14.Then the Packers basically
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gave it away. Frank Zombo got
called for a helmet-on-helmet hit
against Cutler on the next drive
that erased an interception by
Barnett. On second down, Collins
got called for a late hit on Matt
Forte after a 15-yard reception,
putting the ball on the Packers 29.
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• NFC North Gould made the 25-
yard field goal to tie it with 3:59
left.Hester's return eased the sting
after the Bears again were stopped
at the goal line for the second
time this season when choosing
not to go for the field goal. It
happened late in the third quarter
after Julius Peppers blocked
Mason Crosby's 37-yard field goal
attempt.The Bears took over on
the 18 and marched to the Packers
1, only to come up short again.
Cutler fired a 5-yard pass to a
kneeling Bennett between
defenders on third down, and the
officials ruled Tramon Williams
touched Bennett before he leaned
over the goal line.So Smith had to
decide to kick the tying field goal
or go for the touchdown.Just as he
did in the opener in the opener
against Detroit, he went for the
end zone. This time, Desmond
Clark dropped a potential TD pass
and Chicago came away empty-
handed again.Hester, however,
showed his old explosiveness. He
took a punt at the 38, broke up the
right sideline and didn't stop until
he reached the end zone in a
familiar scene, albeit one that
hadn't played in a while."My first
few years it looked far too easy,"
Hester said. "Once or twice, every
three weeks. It's been a long time
but I'm happy with what happened
today. I feel confident in my
teammates and I let them know
that."It was 12th time he's
returned a kickoff or punt for a
touchdown and the first since
Dec. 30, 2007."We've been
waiting for Devin to come back
and he was back tonight," Smith
said. "Of course it was
outstanding on that one
touchdown run, but even before
that it just felt like every time he
went back there he had a chance
to score."The Bears wore
throwback 1940s jerseys to honor
the Monsters of the Midway.
They also honored former Bear
George Blanda, who died
Monday, with a moment of
silence before the game.And they
made a surprising move, holding
out defensive tackle Tommie
Harris for reasons that Smith
insisted were related to his
performance -- not health or
discipline.Game notes
Bears LS Patrick Mannelly set a
club record by playing in his
192nd game, moving head of
Steve McMichael. ... The Bears
held out struggling receiver Devin
Aromashodu, while left tackle
Chris Williams and safety Major
Wright sat out with hamstring
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Packers at a Loss to Explain Team- Michigan State Spartans

Record 18 Penalties Against Bears to be coached by Mark
Jerry Bonkowski (FanHouse
Main) Dantonio this weekend
Submitted at 9/28/2010 1:40:00 AM
ESPN.com news services Dantonio's absence.
(ESPN.com) Dantonio was released from the
Filed under: Chicago Bears,
Packers, NFC North, NFL Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:08:53 AM hospital last Tuesday and
Analysis surprised the 24th-ranked
CHICAGO -- In the battle to Updated: September 28, 2010, Spartans (4-0) by visiting practice
remain the lone undefeated team 12:21 PM ET Friday. The Spartans honored
in the NFC, it wasn't so much that EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Less their coach Saturday by wearing
the Chicago Bears won 20-17 than two weeks after having a the letter "D" on the backs of their
Monday night, it was more how heart attack, Michigan State coach helmets for their 45-7 victory
the Green Bay Packers essentially Mark Dantonio said he will coach against Northern Colorado.
handed their opponents the from the press box Saturday when Wisconsin also enters Saturday's
victory in a nicely wrapped the Spartans play their Big Ten game at 4-0.
package. opener against No. 11 Wisconsin. Information from The Associated
McCarthy said after the game. going into the game, the Packers
Green Bay unintentionally picked "We talked about (penalties) at had a grand total of eight penalties Speaking at a news conference Press was used in this report.
a national Monday Night Football halftime. I addressed it with the for 64 yards? Thomas George: Tuesday, Dantonio said he has This entry passed through the
stage to set a rather dubious team football team -- and we came out Versatile, Hungry Bears Prove been making a gradual return to Full-Text RSS service — if this is
record that gave the Bears a win, and had three (more penalties) on Their Worth his duties as coach. He was back your content and you're reading it
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All Jet Everything at World Maker Faire NYC

John Mahoney (Popular
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Submitted at 9/27/2010 5:15:03 PM
Jet Powered Merry-go-round The
madmen of the Madagascar
Institute were the only Makers
able to compete with Carnett's
Whirl in terms of shear volume. Make's traveling DIY circus came hallowed New York Hall of
This is their pulse-jet-powered right to my backyard here in Science, previously home to the
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J.R. Smith Not on

Trading Block, Says
Nuggets Executive
Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main) Versatile, Hungry
Submitted at 9/27/2010 7:58:00 PM Bears Prove Their
Filed under: Nuggets, NBA Worth to Packers
Rumors DENVER -- Before Thomas George (FanHouse
Masai Ujiri took over in Denver's Main)
front office, the word in the NBA
Steve Phillips' 2010 MLB was the Nuggets were strongly
looking to trade guard J.R. Smith.
FanHouse reported Aug. 22 that
Submitted at 9/28/2010 1:26:00 AM

Filed under: Chicago Bears,

Awards Smith was on the trading block.

But Ujiri, hired Aug. 27 as
Packers, NFL Analysis
CHICAGO -- There are reasons
why the Bears are the NFC's only
Steve Phillips (FanHouse Main) J o s e B a u t i s t a s h o u l d b e Denver's executive vice president
considered a candidate with his 50 of basketball operations, is unbeaten team. The Packers
Submitted at 9/27/2010 8:09:00 PM
-plus homers but he is well behind counting on Smith remaining with learned this firsthand here on
want to lose him for nothing and Monday night at Soldier Field.
Filed under: MLB Awards, both Hamilton and Cabrera in on- the Nuggets.
that executive Mark Warkentien, No NFL teams have knocked
Executive Take base percentage and batting "I have confidence,'' Ujiri told
one of Smith's biggest supporters, heads as many times as the Bears
It is that time of year. Teams are average. FanHouse on Monday when asked is no longer with the team. and Packers. This was the 180th
clinching playoff spots while Hamilton is leading all of if he is confident Smith will be
FanHouse's Sam Amick reported rendezvous. And Green Bay had
others are being eliminated from baseball with a .361 average to go with the team throughout the
Aug. 25 that Smith was involved won 13 of the last 17 at Soldier
postseason consideration. That with his 31 homers and 97 RBI season. "J.R. is here, and he's a
in an altercation Aug. 13 at the Field. It had won five of this pair's
makes it time to award the but he has been hurt and unable to Nugget.''
Nuggets practice facility when he last six Monday night affairs. It
hardware for the season's best play since Sept. 4. FanHouse reported Aug. 22 that allegedly choked a one-time D- swept the Bears last season.
performances. Cabrera is third in the league in among the reasons for Smith
League player during a pickup But the Bears' 20-17 victory let
Each season there are so many hitting (.328), second in home being on the trading block were:
game. the Packers know, let the NFL
extraordinary performances. It runs (38) and first in RBI (126). he is in the final year of his
would be nice to reward all of H e i s a f e w p o i n t s b e h i n d contract and the Nuggets don't see, that these Bears can dance.
t h o s e w h o d e s e r v e i t b u t Hamilton in OPS. The fact that Their sleepwalk since reaching
unfortunately that is just not how Cabrera has 31 intentional walks VERSATILE,
continued from page 50
Super Bowl XLI three years ago
it works. Only the best of the best (to five for Hamilton) shows how appears finished. They can beat
will win the awards. little protection he had in the Altercation With Fan you in smorgasbord style.
AL Most Valuable Player Tigers lineup. Videos: Devin Hester's Punt The Packers were left counting
This is really a two-player race: Winner: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Return TD| Packers' Failed the ways. Jerry Bonkowski:
J o s h H a m i l t o n a n d M i g u e l Tigers Kickoff Return Packers Upset Over Team-Record
Cabrera. Some may think that 18 Penalties
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Nick Collins Reportedly Has
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants your
memories in Child of Eden
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:01:00 PM
During a Tokyo Game Show
event, Q? Entertainment head
Tetsuya Mizuguchi unveiled a
new component of his abstract
Xbox 360/PS3 rail shooter, Child
of Eden-- a component for which
he needs your input. For "The
Journey Project" (not to be
confused with The Journeyman
Project), Mizuguchi seeks to build
a collection of player-submitted
pictures, for inclusion in the
game's last level.
"In this game, the player's mission
is to purify everything, every
Gaming/ 51
Child of Eden preview:
Son of Rez
Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq) donuts tonight. Later, I ask
Submitted at 9/28/2010 12:12:00 PM Mizuguchi if Child of Eden,
which he describes as a "feeling
After dazzling a room of Tokyo
Game Show attendees with an
extravagant Child of Eden
good game," even needs to
introduce something so contrary
like a Game Over screen. Does
data," Mizuguchi told us in an cringing about the possibility of demonstration, designer Tetsuya
this mesmerizing mix of thumping
interview. "And this is the final thousands of jokers submitting Mizuguchi offers a far-too-modest
music and abstract visuals really
stage of this game, you know, I pictures of Journey to the Journey appraisal of his "multisensory
need an element of failure?
need the beauty of memories." Project. shooter." This level's still early, he
Gallery: Child of Eden (9/27/
With the collective memories of Gallery: Child of Eden (The a p o l o g i z e s , a n d t h e g a m e
2010)
family, friends and "beautiful Journey Project) currently shares no statistics upon
Continue reading Child of Eden
landscapes" added, "finally, you C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g T e t s u y a completion. And sorry, but there's
preview: Son of Rez
can get that kind of memory with Mizuguchi wants your memories no Game Over screen.
Child of Eden preview: Son of
music. It must be real." The in Child of Eden It's like sitting down in an
Rez originally appeared on
developer added, "I want to put Tetsuya Mizuguchi wants your opulent French restaurant and
Joystiq on Tue, 28 Sep 2010
everybody's credit at the end of memories in Child of Eden being told by the waiter that --
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Offbeat Nevada Candidate Could Lunchbox Makeovers

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Swing Reid-Angle Joust to Reid Ah…the ubiquitous lunchbox.
vending machines, drive-
throughs, and lunch table swaps
are inescapable. Enter our
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) the Tea Party of Nevada, disqualifying the 46-year-old Whether you’re packing your own lunchbox makeover. Look out for
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:31:39 AM according to The Wall Street Ashjian over alleged technical or one for every kid in the house, “Nutrition” “Prep,” and “Smart
Journal. violations, but the undercurrent is there are real challenges when Packing” tips throughout the
Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010 11:31 AM Tea partyers are not amused; they he’s a tea partyer in name only. thinking about your mid-day slideshow, offering our secrets to
A new angle in the Nevada U.S. are so disdainful, in fact, two suits "The guy is a huckster, he's a meal. We know you want healthy building a better lunchbox meal.
S e n a t e r a c e j u s t m a y g i v e are in the legal hopper to get slimeball," the Journal quotes options that keep you full enough Next Mr. Stripey Tomato,
Majority Leader Harry Reid the Ashjian ejected from the ballot. former Nevada GOP Executive to stay away from the vending Arugula, and Pancetta
winning hand come Election Day. Their efforts have been frustrated Director Chuck Muth as saying. machine come mid-afternoon. Sandwiches
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Obama: Fox News Fits with American History

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By: Dan Weil get a small part of their lame-duck

The Democrats may not be long
in power, and they’ll apparently
do their best to advance the liberal
agenda while they can. They may
force 20 bills into the lame-duck
session that will be held after the
Nov. 2 elections and before the ne
w Congress convenes, The Hill
reports.
If Republicans regain control of
Congress in the elections, as many
expect, the lame-duck session will
afford Democrats one more
opportunity to turn their dreams
into law.
Fortunately for Republicans,
given the Senate’s laborious
process to pass legislation,
Democrats will be lucky to even
agenda approved.
The issues include Bush-era tax
cuts and the military’s “don’t ask
don’t tell” policy.
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In a sign of just how desperate
the Democrats are as Republicans
look poised to regain control of
Congress, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi made a rare appearance at a
meeting of Democratic committee
chairmen last week to plead for
more campaign cash. She told the
congressional heavies that they
aren’t doing enoug h when it
comes to money, Roll Call
reports.
She blasted them for the fact that
two-thirds of the chairman
haven’t met their dues goals for
the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee in this
year’s election.
“She said, ‘Your money was
budgeted for; you owe us this
money,’” a Democratic lobbyist
familiar with the meeting told
Claim UFOs Visited
Bases, Tampered With
Nukes
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:27:32 AM
The truth is out there, and
yesterday a group of retired Air
Force officers gathered the media
and a handful of well-wishers at
the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C., in an attempt
to reveal what they say is a
government cover-up of decades
of alien contact. The officers
claimed, through their own
Roll Call. individual accounts, that during
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In the Green Room: Scott Rasmussen on Tea Parties,

Obamacare’s Unpopularity
Brandon Stewart (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:00:42 AM
Posted September 28th, 2010 at
12:00pm in Health Care, Ongoing
Priorities Print This Post
Scott Rasmussen, President of
Rasmussen Reports, a widely
respected polling company. For
years, Rasmussen polling has
helped legislators, business
leaders, and the general public
gain a sense of the country’s
opinions on any number of
important issues.
Recently, Scott teamed up with
pollster Doug Schoen on a new
book, entitled, “ Mad as Hell:
How the Tea Party Movement is
Fundamentally Transforming our
Two-Party System” which delves
in to what the tea party movement
is, what it believes, and the impact
it will have on our nation. Before
a book event here at The Heritage
Foundation, Scott sat down with
us for a short interview.
We discussed the values of the
tea party movement, the early and
persistent underestimating of the
movement by many who didn’t
recognize its broad appeal, and
Obamacare’s consistent
unpopularity among the American
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In Two New Breakthroughs, Scientists continued from page 53

between 1963 and 1980 each was nature, but rather that they aimed
Capture Individual Atoms present at nuclear missile sites
when unexplained flashing lights
to show humankind the error of its
ways and how close it was to
Rebecca Boyle (Popular snap its picture. i n d i v i d u a l a t o m s . T h e i r appeared in the sky at the same destroying itself during that
Science - New Technology, Related Articles Working Tractor m e a s u r e m e n t s c o u l d h e l p time the missiles went form alert period in history. And Hastings,
Science News, The Future Beam Can Move Objects 5 Feet scientists see an atom's electronic status to non-responsive. for his part, thinks these kinds of
Now) Related Articles Far Out: incidents could be ongoing but the
With Just Light First Spintronic and magnetic properties, and it
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:10:55 AM C o m p u t e r M e m o r y D e v i c e could help them engineer the spin NASA's Golden Gift to the Aliens public just doesn't know about
T w o a t o m i c - s c a l e s t u d i e s S u c c e s s f u l l y B u i l t i n L a b of individual atoms to create Aliens Exist, and We Should them. Present along with the Air
announced in the past week could Researchers Witness and Image spintronic devices. Avoid Them At All Costs, Says Force officers were a bevy of
have major implications for the Atomic Spin for the First Time IBM's study used a scanning Stephen Hawking Is Anyone Out declassified documents depicting
f u t u r e o f c o m p u t i n g a n d Tags Science, Rebecca Boyle, tunneling microscope to watch the There? Searching for Aliens in the odd aerial phenomena recorded by
information storage. Last Friday, a t o m i c s t r u c t u r e , a t o m s , behavior of individual iron atoms P o p S c i A r c h i v e s T a g s the U.S. government over the
I B M r e s e a r c h e r s i n Z u r i c h f e m t o t e c h n o l o g y , q u a n t u m at a speed about a million times Technology, Clay Dillow, air years.
announced they had measured computer, quantum entanglement, faster than previously possible. It force, aliens, military, nuclear But what Hastings and the
how long a single atom can store qubits, spintronics, tractor beams worked like a high-speed camera warheads, robert hastings, ufos In officers really want, they said, is
information. And Monday, Kiwi The process could simplify the f r e e z i n g t h e m o t i o n o f a one account, retired targeting the truth, like the details of
researchers announced they had process of building quantum-logic hummingbird's wings, as IBM officer Robert Jamison said all 10 Project Blue Book, an Air Force
trapped a single atom inside a computers, which use small Research explains. missiles in his charge - known as investigation running from 1947
tractor beam and taken its picture. groups of atoms as information Typically, scanning tunneling a "flight" - went off alert status to 1969 in which some 12,618
Taken together, both studies p r o c e s s o r s . U n l i k e b i n a r y microscopes work relatively just as rumors of unidentified sighting were recored, 701 of
represent a major leap in the computers, quantum processors slowly, so scientists can't watch lights in the sky overhead swept which remain "unidentified."
development of femtotechnology. could perform many difficult atomic action in real time. But the through the base. Jamison didn't According to Hastings and
Scientists led by Mikkel F. calculations at once, crunching new technique let them capture see the UFO himself, but several company, the government knows
Andersen at the University of data much more quickly. They atomic motion to study atoms' others on the base witnessed the what's going on and has been
Otago in New Zealand used lasers could also(maybe) break secret magnetic orientation. They found incident. The cause of his missiles keeping it under wraps for
t o s l o w d o w n t h e f r e n e t i c codes that would otherwise be too the speed at which atoms change going offline is unknown. decades.
movement of a group of rubidium hard to hack. t h e i r m a g n e t i c o r i e n t a t i o n Of course, as Danger Room "The American people have a
-85 atoms, and then capture them Andersen said his method would depends on the magnetic field points out it would be tempting to right to know the facts," Hastings
inside optical tweezers. The allow computer engineers to grasp they're in. This could help blame an entire flight of nuclear told reporters. "This is a national
method could catch and isolate 10 or so atoms at a time. The next s c i e n t i s t s e n g i n e e r a t o m s ' warheads malfunctioning on security issues but it is (also) a
atoms 83 percent of the time. step is to entangle the atoms so magnetic lifetime, according to unexplained phenomena rather need-to-know issue, a right-to-
Using the optical tweezers- really they can share information, he IBM. than a far more explicable kind of know issue. Citizens in every
two lasers acting as a kind of said. Learn more about it in this video. occurrence known as human (or country on Earth should be let in
tractor beam - Andersen's team Meanwhile, last Friday, IBM perhaps computer) error. But the on this secret."
was able to hold a single rubidium researchers published a study in fact that all of the officers - whose Paging Fox Mulder.
a t o m i n f r o n t o f a c a m e r a the journal Science that also used accounts took place at different [ Military Times, Danger Room]
designed for use in space, and advanced imaging to record times and installations - told
similar stories with similar
outcomes was a compelling
enough narrative for the
journalists on hand for the event.
Hastings and the officers don't
think their aliens are hostile in
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Eurocopter Launches X3 Propeller-Powered High-

Speed Helicopter, Hopes to Outrace Sikorsky's X2
Lizzie Schiffman (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:17:05 AM
Eurocopter's X3 Hybrid
Rotorcraft courtesy of Eurocopter
Less than two weeks after
Sikorsky's X2 dual-rotor
helicopter smashed the rotorcraft
speed record, going 250 knots,
European group Eurocopter
announced a revolutionary high-
speed winged helicopter.
The X3 hybrid helicraft pairs
traditional overhead rotor blades
with forward-facing propellers
mounted on two short-span fixed
aircraft wings, making a craft
that's half-plane and half-
helicopter. It is the flagship of
Eurocopter's High-speed, long-
range Hybrid Helicopter (H3)
concept, which aims to combine
vertical takeoff and landing
capabilities with cruise speeds of
more than 220 knots.
The faceoff between the two
helicopter companies stems from
competition to deliver more speed
without losing efficiency,
overcoming the usual trade-off
between speed and hovering
efficiency. When rotorcraft are
pushed to high speeds, the rotor
tips approach supersonic speeds,
which threatens the stability of the
base of the rotor.
The helicopter/airplane hybrid
design is intended to address this
problem, while Sikorsky's
approach relies on two main
rotors atop the cabin that spin in
opposite directions, neutralizing
the spinning force and providing a
speed boost.
Take Time
Since the X3's first flight was
only 3 weeks ago, on September to Heal
6, while the Sikorsky X2 has two (Mensfitness.com)
years of test flights under their
Submitted at 9/28/2010 3:00:00 AM
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speeds some 100 knots higher Pain is a real pain.
than typical helicopters, it's sure Something hurts on me every
to be an exciting race. day. No, I don't mean "Call 9-1-1"
[ X3 via Reuters] hurt; more annoyance than major
concerns. A strained this. A
tweaked that. A sore something or
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Master the Sport of Arm Wrestling

(Mensfitness.com) away from his body, weakening toward your fist. "Try to push more]
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other. One body part almost
always seems to be saying: "If
you try that move one more time .
. .!" And it's not just because of
my age. Anyone who works out
regularly, anyone who trains and
strains and pushes their body
physically is going to mess up
something at some juncture. Pains
are just part of the deal. Even
injuries are an almost inevitable
by-product of challenging
yourself to reach your physical
peak. Being hurt is just going to
happen. To all of us. In the gym.
In competition. In life.
Hurt is inevitable.
When I tweak some part of my
body, I want to do everything I
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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Format for Gaining Followers
Launching “Very Shortly”
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:20:24 AM
At today’s IAB Mixx conference
in Manhattan, Twitter COO Dick
Costolo discussed Twitter’s latest
advertising product, dubbed
Promoted Accounts.
Promoted Accounts, which will
be launched “very shortly,” will
allow companies to be be featured
more prominently in Twitter’s
recently launched Who to Follow
of clicks, replies and retweets —
feature. Like the two other
are around 5% on average. The
products in the Promoted suite,
startup is currently working with a
Promoted Tweets and Promoted
little more than forty advertisers
Trends, participating brands will
on Promoted Tweets and
be clearly designated as
Promoted Trends, and expects
advertisers.
that that number will increase to
The feature should help
the “low hundreds” by the end of
businesses attract more followers
the year.
likely to be interested in their
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iPhone and iPad
Promoted products so far, noting
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Best Breakfasts for Weight Loss
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 5:00:00 AM
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Breakfast is the most important
meal of the day— as if you
haven't heard that before. But
what you may not know is that
eating breakfast is essential for
successful weight loss. "It's like
putting logs on a wood-burning
stove. You need that initial input
of fuel to get your metabolism
going for the day," says Milton
Stokes, R.D., author of Flat Belly
Diet! For Men. Shoot for 400 to
600 calories within an hour of
waking up, with an emphasis on
nutrients that will leave you
satisfied for hours: protein healthy
fats, and fiber. Try these popular
options, designed specifically to
boost calorie burn.
Omelet with avocado, broccoli,
and a few slices of hot pepper
"Avocados are nature's ideal fruit
for weight loss," says Jorge
Cruise, author of The Belly Fat
Cure. "They replace sugar with
appetite-curbing good fat."
Broccoli adds bulk to your meal.
"To feel full, you want foods that
add volume with minimal
calories," says MF nutrition
adviser Chris Mohr, Ph.D., R.D.
Spinach is another good option.
(If you like spicy, add hot
peppers, which some studies say
can help to speed up your
metabolism.)
Shake made with whey protein,
strawberries, and cinnamon
"Whey is rich in branched chain
amino acids, which stimulate
muscle growth," says David
Grotto, R.D., author of 101 Foods
That Could Save Your Life. "The
more muscle you have, the greater
the fat-burning capacity of your
metabolism." Adding strawberries
to your shake amps up fiber to
help you feel fuller, while
cinnamon may help your body
burn carbs more slowly
throughout the day so your blood
sugar never spikes.
Yogurt (plain, low-fat) topped
with fresh fruit and a high-fiber
cereal
"The fat in yogurt contains
conjugated linoleic acid, which
can help you stay lean," says
Dawn Jackson Blatner, R.D.,
author of The Flexitarian Diet.
Plain is better than flavored
yogurt since it has no added
sugar. To make the stuff edible,
toss in berries or melons. Top it
with healthy cereal like Fiber
One. Study after study shows a
direct link between fiber and
weight loss, Blatner says. Related
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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.
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technical issues we were having
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then, using the direct download
link, right click and save the file
to your computer desktop. You
can then drag it into your iTunes
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ordains
female priests
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/28/2010 6:00:09 AM
Time Magazine has an interesting
story. Here’s how it begins:
Alta Jacko is the mother of eight
children. She is also a starting
we will file one of these short p i t c h e r f o r t h e N e w Y o r k
“Pod people” posts. Thus, you’ll Yankees. Jacko says that playing
be able to glance through them in baseball is what she was born to
the new “Podcasts” category in do.
the archives and find them in Just kidding. Here’s how it
searches, using that slug line. We actually begins:
are considering other filing Alta Jacko is the mother of eight
options as well. children. She is also an ordained
So, how many of you are priest in the Roman Catholic
podcasts in the car people? Church. Jacko, 81, who earned
Commuter trains? Material for her master’s degree in pastoral
iPod use during boring sermons? studies from Loyola University, a
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whether or not you are a starting
pitcher for the Yankees. It’s not
about what you feel called to do.
It’s not about feelings at all. And
a journalist can check out this fact
just as easily as she can check out
the roster for a baseball team.
Even the caption is a joke:
Alta Jacko’s (third from left)
ordination to be a deaconate on
Nov. 1, 2008. She would later be
ordained as a priest in 2009.
Time managed to not just misuse
the word diaconate but misspell it,
too.
Unfortunately, the story is just a
complete train wreck. The reader
who submitted the story described
it as “the usual thread of ‘These
women are priests already,
regardless of Vatican policy.
Speaking of which, why doesn’t
the Vatican change its policy?’”
And that’s an understatement.
Last week, Archbishop Charles
Chaput of Denver addressed
religion news writers at their
conference there. Among other
things, he said:
[T]he Christian story now told in
mainstream media often seems to
be a narrative of decline or
fundamentalism, or houses
divided against themselves along
predictable lines of sex and
authority. It’s a narrative of
institutions and individuals
that—insofar as they stay true to
their historic beliefs—act as a
backward social force and a
menace to the liberty of their
fellow citizens.
I imagine that if Chaput
attempted to satirize the way the
media write up stories about
female ordination and
Catholicism, he could not have
done better than the actual story
Time published.
After the horrible lede and
problematic caption, we learn that
there is “a movement against the
no-women rule.” We hear from a
variety of people opposed to the
rule. We hear from no one who
can articulate, much less support
the reason for not having female
priests. Instead we get a quote
from a priest whose previous
opposition to female priests was
based, apparently, on nothing
more than emotion. But now his
views are “complicated” and he
helps her learn how to say the
liturgy. He is presented as a hero
facing the loss of his job, his
pension and his home. And then
we get this, which shows the
combined problem of too little
understanding of doctrine and a
complete mangling of doctrine:
It is a question that more and
more members of the flock are
asking. Many have begun to
publicly challenge the church’s
stance, especially after the
Vatican decreed in July that
ordaining female priests was a
“grave” crime, on par with
pedophilia. Biblical passages refer
to female clergy, including an
apostle named Junia in Romans
16:7. On Sunday, Sept. 26,
thousands of Catholics around the
world plan to protest, either by
boycotting Mass or by showing
up wearing green armbands that
say “Ordain Women.” “Women
are tired of being treated as
second-class citizens in the
church,” says Jennifer Sleeman,
an Irish Catholic who turns 81 on
Sunday and is helping champion
the Sunday Without Women
demonstration organized by
Women’s Ordination Worldwide
(WOW).
It’s like the reporter was engaged
in a contest to see how much she
could fill a paragraph with weasel
words, unsourced claims and
other silliness. For starters, the
use of “more and more” and
“many” to quantify the movement
is a bit much. I know journalists
are always trying to suggest a
trend — but at least attempt to
provide some data. Assuming
you’re not writing a press release,
that is. And I’ll skip the
obligatory reference to the
Vatican statement in July. But
what’s this about the Bible
referring to female clergy
including an apostle named Junia?
Okay, that is certainly one view,
a view espoused by the folks
trying to get the Vatican to change
traditional Christian teaching.
They say that Junia/Junias was a
female apostle in the Early
Church but that male clergy
conspired to cover up her legacy
and the legacy of other female
ministers. The argument goes that
since Junia/Junias was a female
apostle, women should be
ordained as pastors. The verse, for
those who are interested, reads:
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my
countrymen and my fellow
prisoners, who are of note among
the apostles, who also were in
Christ before me.
The view espoused by those who
support female ordination is not
shared by the Catholic Church,
the Orthodox or confessional
Lutherans, to name a few. To
begin with, there is some debate
about whether Junia is being
called an apostle, and even
whether Junia is a male or female
name (to be fair, even the early
church fathers took opposing
sides on just that issue). But keep
in mind that this “smoking gun”
passage is in Romans. The book
written by none other than St.
Paul. It’s not like his views
against female ordination aren’t
known. Normally he’s getting in
trouble for the many passages he
wrote about the roles for men and
women.
Anyway, the issue has adherents
on varying sides. Unless reporters
are confused about their job or
have an inflated view of their
understanding of Scriptural
controversies, they probably
should not come down on one
side or another. That’s not good
reporting. The Sleeman quote
above is followed by another
quote from someone identified as
“Chicago’s first ordained Catholic
female priest.” She says that
“many” male priests are all for the
movement.
Then we learn of a documentary
about women’s ordination called
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“Pink Smoke Over the Vatican,”
followed by dramatic quotes from
people who refuse to give their
names. But the worst part is that it
keeps going — there are many
more quotes from people, all from
one side, all saying horrible things
about the Catholic Church.
Perhaps the story is so laughably
bad, so unbelievably silly,
because the reporter failed to
speak with anyone she disagreed
with. That’s bad enough in a story
that quotes only one or two
people. But in a story of this
length, in this high profile of a
publication, it’s an
embarrassment. It’s as if Time is
going after the Newsweek
demographic.
Also, these stories are so
routinely and increasingly bad
that I’m almost beginning to
wonder if there’s some kind of
Bulwer-Lytton-type contest for
who can come up with the worst.
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Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:30:50 AM
It’s also a lot less crowded.
Plymouth Heights is in step with
a larger trend of declining evening
“The people who are exploring
Christianity are not typically
accustomed even to weekly
more popularly secular. We’ve
lost a sense of sacred time that is
being offered back to God.”
Ruling
At my home congregation in a t t e n d a n c e i n e v a n g e l i c a l
Oklahoma, our two Sunday denominations that long have
worship a single time. So to put
forward some kind of a
A fellow GetReligionista also
noticed that the piece doesn’t Ways
morning assemblies drew 1,256 cherished a heritage of worshiping community-based expectation that reference the fact that many Submitted at 9/28/2010 3:00:27 AM
people on a recent weekend. That twice on Sunday. Some evening you do this twice a Sunday would houses of worship have become
same Sunday, just 540 worshipers services are more intimate; others be extraordinary.” “commuter congregations.” Publishing the playbook.
returned for the evening service. have been cancelled or replaced A later reference is made to the Whereas Americans once walked ‘I f we could exhume the
In a fellowship that traditionally by an alternative. Heidelberg Catechism, but the down the street to worship, many Founders and, before we put them
has placed a high value on church “It’s a business question that has story fails to explain clearly what now drive 30 to 45 minutes to all on trial for crimes against
a t t e n d a n c e , t h a t ’ s a l o t o f been asked,” said De Vries, the it means by the “worrisome church. That’s more difficult to do humanity, could ask them how
people“forsaking the assembly.” church’s minister of music. deviation from doctrine.” In the — even with gasoline prices many laws they would have
Perhaps not surprisingly, one of “People are spending time with context of the story, it’s difficult stable for the moment — twice on considered enough, and then
our church elders made a special their family (on Sunday nights) or to determine if tradition and the same Sunday. showed them the Federal Register
announcement on a recent Sunday using that time to get together in doctrine are the same thing. I Also, I was surprised the story alone, they’d all hop back into
morning — I can’t recall if it was small groups. We were concerned understand the tight space didn’t at least mention their graves and commence
the same one — encouraging the t h a t w e w e r e s q u a n d e r i n g constraints of most wire reports Wednesday night. That’s another spinning.”
congregation to return that night. resources to put the evening (this one is 850 words, with an traditional Bible study time for That is the unique voice of one
Of course, my congregation’s service together.” optional trim to 750 words), but I many evangelical churches, and David Kahane, who was
Sunday evening attendance trend The story cites statistics backing wish that reference had been I’m curious if it’s faring better or originally published -- discovered
mirrors what many churches up the trend and gives church developed a bit more. worse than Sunday night. -- by National Review Online.
a c r o s s t h e n a t i o n a r e leaders an opportunity to explain The story doesn’t specifically But overall, RNS deserves kudos He’s a Hollywood liberal who has
experiencing. why they think it’s happening: mention Sunday Night Football, for a timely, newsworthy piece of a habit of sharing way too much
I don’t think I’ve ever read a There are different ways to youth soccer on Sunday or the reporting. I’d love to see more about the rules by which they live
mainstream news story about this interpret the trend: Some see it as demise of blue laws, but it does Godbeat reporters tackle this to a conservative audience.
trend, however, which is why I h a r m l e s s , w h i l e o t h e r s s e e put the trend in the context of trend. Written by: Bobby on #ad#Kahane is actually a
was so fascinated by a Religion worrisome deviation away from secular culture: September 28, 2010. pseudonym for Michael Walsh, a
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evening worship as “a lot less CRC congregation in Holland, to Lord,” Rienstra said. “The Kathryn Lopez (known in the
formal” than the morning service Mich., that, like many new decline of Sunday evening book as Dave’s mom) about how
at Plymouth Heights Christian churches, does not conduct worship is a marker alongside all this came to be and why it’s
Reformed Church. evening worship. many that our culture is becoming important for American politics
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and culture.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: I
was around at David Kahane’s
conception, and yet I don’t think I
could answer this question: What
was the moment where you knew
you had to bring Kahane to life?
MICHAEL WALSH: Oddly
enough, “Dave” started life
because I wanted to explain the
ways of Hollywood to the Right.
There’s a lot of suspicion of the
creative community among the
wingnuts, including the notion
that conservatives are uniformly
“blacklisted” in Hollywood, and
while that may be true in some
cases, it’s not necessarily a
Tinseltown-wide conspiracy. Are
most people in Hollywood left-
liberal? Yes. But given a choice
between the lefties in academe
and the liberals in Hollywood,
give me L.A. every time. They’re
some of the smartest and most
accomplished people I know, and
they’re a lot better looking.
#ad# LOPEZ: Why didn’t you
just play it straight from the
beginning? You’re Michael
Walsh. You’ve worked in
Hollywood. You know how
liberals think. Why not have
Michael Walsh tell us?
WALSH: Because nobody would
have cared to hear yet another
author/screenwriter whining about
what a tough racket Hollywood is.
Far more fun to invent an alter
ego like Dave, a complete idiot
who never understands that the
joke’s always on him. I also find
that you can speak the truth more
bluntly when you disguise it with
humor.
LOPEZ: How much of David
Kahane is Michael Walsh?
WALSH: None. I type what he
tells me to type. But, although
he’s a goofball, he’s a very wise
young man. Handsome, too.
LOPEZ: And you’re hoping Tim
Robbins will play David Kahane
in the movie version of Rules for
Radical Conservatives?
WALSH: I think he would make
a very good Kahane, although
he’s too old for the part. Someone
like Michael Cera would be
perfect ten years older and 50
pounds heavier.
LOPEZ: Why does David
Kahane want to share the Left’s
playbook?
WALSH: Because he can.
#page#
LOPEZ: Why is he so convinced
we can’t win?
WALSH: Because, unlike the
Right, he has spent his life
studying the opposition, rejects
everything about it, and is
absolutely impervious to any of
its arguments. He knows
conservative leaders, by and large,
are a sorry lot, ever willing to
compromise on principle in order
to wave a program at their
constituents. One thing you have
to give the Left: They never
compromise on principle unless
they are backed up against a wall
with a gun to their heads. And
even then, they hardly ever cave.
Just look at the Obama
administration.
#ad# LOPEZ: Does David
Kahane resemble anyone in
particular in real-life Hollywood
politics?
WALSH: I don’t think so. I
certainly didn’t model him after
anybody in particular -- although,
as Carly Simon once sang,
“You’re so vain, you probably
think this Kahane is about you.”
LOPEZ: “I want you to get mad,”
Kahane writes. I get why Rush
might want me to get mad. I get
why you do. Why does Kahane?
Is he just a show-off?
WALSH: It’s a religious
allegory: His father, the sainted
“Che” Kahane (who will be
played by Lucifer in the movie),
has sent his only begotten son,
Dave, on a mission of mercy to
teach the Enemy how to fight, in
order to make the final victory
that much sweeter. Remember
that the Left doesn’t just want to
win -- it also needs our
submission, our acquiescence, our
acknowledgement that they’ve
been right all along.
In The Screwtape Letters,
Screwtape tries to explain to his
nephew Wormwood how to
seduce the Patient. Modestly, I’ve
gone old Clive Staples Lewis one
better.
LOPEZ: I’m afraid my country is
in danger. Kahane seems to
confirm it. What can I do? And
how can this book help?
WALSH: Learn to fight like they
do. Stop being nice to the Left;
after all, they’re never nice to you.
Stop caring what they think. Stop
trying to get along. You’re not
going to get along. In fact, the
only way you can get along is for
you to abandon your bedrock
principles and become a kind of
Lefty Lite. Remember this simple
mantra: Principles, Not Programs.
Most important, remember that
the Left is a Potemkin village of
hatred. Punch them and they run
away; kick over the facades and
there’s nothing there except
empty, destructive rage masked as
“compassion.” It’s long past time
to stop being afraid of them and
what they say about you. But do
mock them; as Luther said, the
devil cannot stand to be mocked.
LOPEZ: Why can’t journalists
“afford to be quite as snooty as
they used to be”? I know the
industry has seen better days, but
they still have more money and
resources than, say, NR.
WALSH: Journalists -- or
“Finemans,” as Dave refers to
them -- are done. The Internet has
made writing an essentially
worthless commodity and as for
opinions, well, you know the old
saying. The liberal pundits now
resemble Custer’s men at the end,
herded onto Last Stand Hill -- the
MSNBC studios -- and waiting
for the end. The way you finish
them off is by no longer paying
any attention to them.
“Reporters,” on the other hand,
are worth their weight in gold. J-
schools ought to be training
reporters instead of “journalists.”
Give me 50 hungry, brave, well-
read, literate, acculturated,
multilingual young people of no
ideological bent, and I’ll give you
the best news organization in the
country in six months.
#page#
LOPEZ: How did you come to
develop your rules?
WALSH: They evolved out of
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the first half of the book, which is
a brisk trot through the history of
the past half-century or so, for
those readers born after 1969.
Since I lived through that history
and paid very careful attention to
what was happening at the time, I
felt it was important to ground the
rules in the events of the recent
past. It’s vital to remember that
the Left has reached this current
apogee precisely because they
play hardball, and the Right has a
lot to learn from them. After all,
the first thing you owe a mortal
enemy is a healthy respect for his
capabilities and hostile intent. So
think of this book as an early
warning.
#ad# LOPEZ: Kahane advises,
“Pretend to be like us, so do what
we do: lie. Adopt all of our
manners and mores, right down to
our mannerisms.” I refuse to do
that. Am I destined to lose?
WALSH: Typical Dave
hyperbole. But, in answer to your
question, no more Mr. Nice Guy.
Time to get your warrior face on.
LOPEZ: How important is Saul
Alinsky, really and truly, to
understanding the Left today?
WALSH: Critical. I arrived in
Rochester, N.Y., to attend the
Eastman School of Music just
three years after he arrived in the
aftermath of the 1964 riots to
organize the black community
under the banner of an
organization called -- you guessed
it -- FIGHT. Alinsky preached a
“progress” that was essentially
nihilist; tearing things down was
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his specialty. He’s one of the most
contemptible figures in modern
American history, a man filled
with bile against civilization who
masked his maleficence with the
fig leaf of “good intentions.” He
also created the classic leftist
whipsaw: Destroy an institution
(“because it’s wreckable, okay?”),
but replace it with nothing; that
way, that the people you are
“organizing” will always have
something to complain about.
Let’s also not forget, by the way,
that although Obama is famously
an Alinskyite, so also is Hillary
Clinton, who’s busily positioning
herself as the “sane” alternative to
BHO II for the 2012 primaries.
But she wrote her college thesis at
Wellesley about Alinsky -- titled
“There Is Only the Fight” --
which ought to tell you all you
need to know about her.
LOPEZ: Your first rule involves,
among other things, knowing your
enemy’s weaknesses. Who is the
enemy and what are his
weaknesses right now?
WALSH: Depends on whether
you’re asking me or Dave. The
Right’s weakness is its continued
willingness to reach across the
aisle, to extend the olive branch,
to hold out the hand of friendship
-- insert cliché here. It wants to be
liked instead of feared, which is
why the Left happily continues its
demonization of the Right with no
pushback. The Left’s weakness is
its utter lack of humor and its
inability to see that there’s no
there there: The entire Marxist
edifice is an evil pipe dream
cooked up by a stateless psychotic
living off the capitalist system of
Victorian England and scribbling
madly in the British Library. Put
it into practice and I’ll show you
the Soviet Union. No, wait! The
USSR is on the ash heap of
history.
And if you’d like to get a sense
of what a swell guy Marx was,
read Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals.
One of history’s truly evil men.
LOPEZ: Rule Number Four says
to “Get on offense and stay on
offense -- and take no prisoners.”
How do Republicans do this, on
the road to November and after?
WALSH: Stop being nice to
Democrats. Adopt Dave’s Golden
Rule: “Treat us with the same
contempt with which we treat
you.” Can you imagine Orrin
Hatch adopting that motto?
#page#
LOPEZ: Dave advises, “Educate
yourself. Get the facts. The truth
shall set you free. And then
spread the word. Set up e-mail
lists and use them.” Is that in large
part what the tea party is?
WALSH: Indeed it is. The Right
is only just now harnessing the
Internet, having ceded a huge
head start to the Left, the netroots,
et al. It’s another reason why the
media has suddenly become
obsolete. One of the reasons the
media is so fearful and
contemptuous of Sarah Palin is
that she simply ignores them and
rules the world from her Fortress
of Solitude in Alaska via her
Facebook page. The other is that,
with a single tweet, she can
assemble an army of half a
million people and put them on
the Left’s doorstep. That’s the
kind of community organizing the
Left understands.
#ad#Remember, they always tell
us whom they fear most by whom
they hate most. And isn’t it
interesting, ladies, that their wrath
is so often directly at conservative
women: Sarah, Michele
Bachmann, and now Christine
O’Donnell . . .
LOPEZ: Have you put
“Conservatives of the world unite!
You have nothing to lose but your
chains,” on a bumper sticker yet?
WALSH: I refuse to deface my
car with bumper stickers, and
Dave told me there’s no way he
would ever put such a thing on his
Prius. He would, however,
consider wearing it on a sandwich
board as he panhandles for change
at the corner of Sunset and
Douglas, near his palatial pad in
Echo Park.
LOPEZ: You say that “the
country is ripe for a huge
rollback.” Do you believe we
have it in us to follow through and
“dismantle,” as Rule Number Five
instructs? And what are we to
dismantle and how quickly?
WALSH: Only if we, however
temporarily, learn to indulge the
joy of destruction that marks the
Left. Remember, for a bunch of
alleged freedom-lovers, they’re
the worst fascists around: Burn it!
Ban it! Pass a law against it!
There’s no one more intolerant
than the tolerant Left. So let’s get
into the spirit of things: Using the
Constitution as our guide,
demolish everything that’s not
mentioned in the founding
document and its amendments and
then start over on an as-needed
basis. Although, come to think of
it, there are a few amendments
that ought to be repealed as well,
particularly the Progressive Era
ones -- 16, 17, 18 (done!), and
maybe even#...#nah. My wife
would never speak to me again.
The Departments of Education,
Energy, and Health and Human
Services could go; their “work” is
best left to the states or private
individuals or to no one at all.
Ditto the absurd Homeland
Security department. The CIA
needs to be cleaved right down
the middle and separated into its
two component parts, information
gathering and analysis. And the
amount of government Americans
tolerate is simply staggering:
redundant offices (why do states
need a secretary of state?), wheels
within wheels, ontogeny
recapitulating phylogeny. The
private sector -- perhaps we
should call it the “leave me alone”
sector -- is being crushed under all
this dead weight.
LOPEZ: Is there any possible
presidential candidate on your
radar who seems to get all of this?
WALSH: Paul Ryan? Eric
Cantor? Certainly not the retreads
and the putative front-runners.
Sarah, I think, probably shouldn’t
run. She doesn’t need the grief,
and she’s far more powerful right
now, in her ability to push the
course of the national dialogue,
than she would be in the Oval
Office surrounded by RINO
courtiers and backstabbing
Borgias.
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LOPEZ: Is there any rule in
particular you are worried that
Republicans will miss?
WALSH: I think there’s a fair
shot that, as currently constituted,
they’ll miss all of them.
Conservatives have simply got to
understand that the Republican
party is not on their side. As the
great Tammany sachem George
Washington Plunkitt famously
said, “Me and the Republicans are
enemies just one day in the year --
Election day. Then we fight tooth
and nail. The rest of the time it’s
live and let live with us.” As the
Republicans’ inaction on Lisa
Murkowski proves, it’s all one big
racket. They’d rather keep the
club intact than bother about
principles. The best thing we can
hope for is that the tea party
infects them and then, in
November and beyond, bursts
through their chests like the critter
in Alien and destroys them.
A rule I hope they pay special
attention to is Number Seven:
“Adapt the time-honored
conservative message for a new
kind of America and a new kind
of American.” One of the current
leftist talking points is that the
troglodytic Right fears the
“browning” of the country, and
that its opposition to Obama is
founded in, naturally, racism. It’s
one of the comforting fairy tales
the Left tells itself as it stares
down electoral disaster this fall.
But conservatives should refuse to
put up with this: Every time some
frothing nutroot calls you a Nazi
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policy disagreement, it’s a - Coates testified before the Civil ranking civil servants (i.e., career Holder himself. Besides the fact malefactors to undermine the
constitutional travesty. Rights Commission last week. It prosecutors) about the correct that the Panthers controversy integrity of federal elections --
T hose who read this space know is now abundantly clear why construction of the Voting Rights inside his department was elections that Justice is obliged to
I am not a fan of the Republicans’ Holder and his minions have been Act. something he’d naturally have protect.
vaunted “Pledge to America.” I’m so keen on blocking Coates’s To the contrary, it is now clear been interested in and briefed on, #ad#Coates has also testified that
for simple pledges, the kind that c o m p l i a n c e w i t h t h e from the testimony of Coates and the Judicial Watch disclosures he complained directly to the
g e t b a c k t o b a s i c s . I f t h e commission’s lawful subpoenas. Adams, as well as from indicate that talking points about aforementioned Perez (the
Republican party is interested in In hair-raising testimony that documents DOJ was compelled to the Panthers dismissal were associate AG) about the Obama
making a pledge like that -- a named names, Coates described disclose in a lawsuit brought by prepared for the attorney general DOJ’s policy of racial animus in
pledge that will resonate with the t h e O b a m a - H o l d e r J u s t i c e Judicial Watch, that Obama at some unspecified point. voting-rights enforcement. This is
vast majority of the American Department’s policy of racially political appointees were heavily The dismissal of the Panthers important because, as Jennifer
people -- here’s a suggestion: biased civil-rights enforcement. In involved in ordering the dismissal case and the dissembling over it Rubin has reported, Perez
P r o m i s e a n u n w a v e r i n g so doing, he corroborated the and that they were being lobbied are damning, but they pale in subsequently insisted to the Civil
commitment to the principle of prior account of his fellow by left-wing activist groups. importance when compared with Rights Commission, under oath,
equal protection of the law for w h i s t l e b l o w e r , J . C h r i s t i a n Indeed, Obama political appointee evidence that DOJ hews to a that no such policy existed. In
every American citizen. Promise, Adams, who resigned from the Steven Rosenbaum, the deputy policy of racially discriminatory fact, not content with this denial,
therefore, that Congress will department in order to comply assistant attorney general who is enforcement of the civil-rights he dramatically elaborated that
investigate weighty allegations with a commission subpoena. nominally responsible for the laws. In short, the policy holds people of the “ilk” that urged
t h a t t h e O b a m a J u s t i c e (Holder’s subordinates stopped decision to dismiss the case, is that if the victims are white and discrimination in law-enforcement
Department is engaged in racist him from cooperating with the said to have admitted to Coates the offenders are from minority would not be tolerated in the
law-enforcement practices. investigation while he was under that he never even read the case groups, the department refuses to Obama Justice Department. He
Promise, moreover, that any their thumb.) Both Coates and team’s memorandum about the bring cases. even challenged the commission
executive-branch high official Adams assert that they came legal and factual support for #page# to produce credible evidence to
who has conspired to deny forward because the Obama taking legal action against the Coates and Adams have both the contrary. All this during the
A m e r i c a n c i t i z e n s e q u a l administration’s policy flagrantly Panthers. recounted that Julie Fernandez, same testimony in which Perez
protection, or who has obstructed violates civil-rights law and the A chain of communications Obama’s deputy assistant attorney denied that DOJ’s political
justice in an effort to cover up Constitution. Both also said that finally pried from DOJ by Judicial general for civil rights, instructed leadership had any involvement in
such a conspiracy, will be public statements and testimony Watch links Rosenbaum with subordinates that the department the Panthers dismissal. He
impeached and removed from by high-ranking DOJ officials even higher ranking political was interested only in filing conveniently omitted any mention
office. about the Panthers and DOJ appointees. These include deputy “traditional types” of voting cases of, among other things,
While commentators have sought policy case have been false. associate attorney general Sam that “provide political equality for Rosenbaum’s failure to read the
to downplay the scandal over The department dismissed the Hirsch (a former Obama racial and language minorities.” case memo -- the direct cause of a
DOJ’s dismissal of the New Black Panthers case despite the fact that campaign operative who has Translation: Justice will not act to blistering argument between
Panther party voter-intimidation the government had already won pushed for the race-based vindicate the rights of white Rosenbaum and Coates that was
case, even the liberal media is i t , d u e t o t h e d e f e n d a n t s ’ Balkanization of Hawaii); people if that would involve civil notorious among DOJ figures
becoming too embarrassed not to c o n t e m p t u o u s d e f a u l t . T h e Hirsch’s boss, Thomas Perez, the or criminal lawsuits against non- involved in the Panthers
take notice of this injustice. That dismissal occurred despite the fact associate attorney general (DOJ’s whites. Furthermore, DOJ is controversy.
owes to last week’s explosive that career prosecutors judged the No. 3 official); and David Ogden, consciously refusing to enforce This is beyond outrageous. If
testimony by Christopher Coates, case to be exceedingly strong. who was deputy attorney general provisions of the National Voter there were evidence that a
a decorated veteran lawyer and N e v e r t h e l e s s , H o l d e r ’ s t o p (the No. 2 post at Justice) when Registration Act that require
supervisor in DOJ’s Civil Rights staffers have maintained for the front office, contrary to its states to purge their registration INVESTIGATE page 67
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The West Has Had It — Say the French

David Solway (FrontPage school of Nouveaux Philosophes, view, like installing a car alarm in
Magazine » FrontPage) or New Philosophers, enlivening a Trabant.
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:20:52 PM the intellectual scene in France, Trigano takes a somewhat
whom National Post columnist different tack, analyzing the
In trying to come to terms with Robert Fulford describes as “more Jewish proclivity to self-betrayal
the complexities of our day, the academic yet more flamboyant as a way of dodging “ la mauvaise
mainstream media is of little help cousins of the American neo- foi planétaire”—“the planetary
to us. Newspaper reports are for conservatives.” Many of their bad faith” represented by
t h e m o s t p a r t e d i t o r i a l s i n books have been translated and antisemitism ( Controverse,
disguise, shilling for a chiefly are readily available. numero 10). As he writes in his le
leftist agenda. As for the TV This distinguished cohort boasts temps de l’exil, “ Une lumière
networks—News, public affairs some of the most astute writers s’étaint dans le monde” (“A light
programming and the majority of a n d c o m m e n t a t o r s o n t h e is extinguished in the world”).
talk shows—they are almost predicament in which the West Curiously and somewhat
always slanted and superficial. now finds itself. Among the most incomprehensibly, as if in
The Canadian Broadcasting prominent members are André confirmation of Trigano’s thesis,
Corporation in Canada, for Glucksmann, generally regarded both Finkielkraut and Lévy have
example, is little more than a farm as the father-doyen of the group, recently joined the new
team for Al-Jazeera, the BBC is a Alain Finkielkraut, Shmuel petitionary group JCall with a
m a r b l e s o a p b o x , a n d t h e Trigano, Bernard-Henri Lévy and distinctly anti-Israeli stamp, and
American colossi are in the Pascal Bruckner. Although their have been taken to task by
business of generating simulated s o u r c e s , m e t h o d s , s p e c i f i c Trigano. “There is something
worlds. subjects and lines of attack may pathetic,” he says, “about seeing
For those who have the time, differ, they are all united in political blindness masquerading
however, nothing can replace a confronting what they intuit as the as moral grandiloquence…Israel
significant body of literature that imminent collapse of the West. has become the screen onto which
has come both to supplement and Glucksmann is concerned with Europe projects all its problems
to ground our awareness of the what he calls “the Somalization of and its failure to face up to the
i n t e l l e c t u a l c u r r e n t s a n d the planet” and the Western challenges at hand.”
ideological forces troubling the tendency “to sleep peacefully” Nevertheless, in spite of their
contemporary world. In this before the looming threat of a pessimism and their differences,
respect, the book still remains the reinvigorated Islam, which “puts these writers continue to struggle
primary “technology” for the us all in jeopardy” ( City Journal). against that which they fear may
dissemination of substantive Finkielkraut sees the swelling tide well be inevitable. This is
knowledge. Our focus here tends of antisemitism as a sure sign of a particularly true of Bruckner who,
to fasten, for obvious reasons, on coming civilizational catastrophe. in my estimation, is one of the
t h e E n g l i s h a n d A m e r i c a n His seminal texts, The Imaginary most compelling and prescient of
publishing market, rich with Jew and The Defeat of the Mind, the cadre of French intellectuals
but excoriates the simple- We might say that the terms
important contributions toward make essential reading. In Left in and repays prolonged study.
mindedness, facile utopianism, “social justice,” “diversity,”
our understanding of the times we Dark Times, Lévy (who coined Indeed, in his 2006 La tyrannie de
self-infatuation and futile search “accommodation” and
l i v e i n , b u t b y n o m e a n s the term by which the group is la pénitence, he predicted the
for transcendence which “egalitarianism” bandied about by
exhaustive. Those who enjoy the k n o w n ) r e t a i n s a n o s t a l g i c Russian invasion of Georgia and
characterizes the “new left.” the left comprise an averting
leisure to travel further afield allegiance to the “old left’s”
(Though how this differs from the rhetoric meant to protect an WEST page 73
might do well to consult the commitment to “social justice”
“old left” is an open question.) obsolete and defective world-
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Morning Bell: Education Reform’s Kryptonite

Rob Bluey (The Foundry: his first acts as President was national standards. The Common reformer when it comes to our grand scheme of things?”
Conservative Policy News.) to snatch winning lottery spots Core State Standards, as they’re nation’s schools. Perry might be the most vocal,
Submitted at 9/28/2010 7:49:23 AM from Washington, D.C. school officially known, were developed Fortunately, some states have just but he’s not alone. After the first
children? Specifically, Education by the National Governors said no. Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) round of Race to the Top
Posted September 28th, 2010 at Secretary Arne Duncan sent Association and Council of Chief has led the opposition to national concluded, nine states had
8:49am in Education Print This letters to 216 low-income families State School Officers. Ultimately standards. He makes a powerful reconsidered and, for a variety of
Post informing them that he was taking they will centralize control with and principled case for protecting reasons, chose not to participate in
A quality education in America back the $7,500 in scholarship federal bureaucrats. Congress had local control and preserving the second round of competition.
shouldn’t come down to a lottery money that the D.C. Opportunity no say in the matter. federalism. Perry spoke States with high standards —
ball. But that’s exactly how life S c h o l a r s h i p p r o g r a m h a d Duncan calls this the “quiet exclusively to Heritage about the notably Massachusetts and
plays out for many low-income p r e v i o u s l y a w a r d e d t h e m . revolution” in education. The goal issue (click here to watch): Virginia — have expressed
families seeking an alternative to Yesterday on NBC’s TODAY is to quietly increase federal Texas already has some of the concern about moving backward.
failing public schools. With Show, Obama admitted that control, while reducing the role of best standards, best curriculum. Still, it’s an uphill battle. Thirty-
limited enrollment at charter daughters Sasha and Malia states, localities and individuals. Education Week ranked us rather four states and the District of
schools and private schools deserve better than D.C. public The Race to the Top competition, high in those categories. So, we Columbia have already adopted
financially out of reach, they are schools — that’s the reason he with $4.3 billion in economic know what works for our the Common Core State
left with little choice but to play sends them to a tony private stimulus money, was a convenient children. And the fact is that Standards.
the odds in hopes of a brighter school with other Washington way to go about it. Unions played Washington’s Race to the Top, Obama’s revolution is indeed
future. elites. So then why is Obama a powerful role. In fact, one of the with their national standards, and happening quietly, which is all the
“It’s heartbreaking,” President blocking other kids from the same criteria for winning a federal grant their national testing — yet to be more reason to sound the alarm.
Obama said about a scene in the opportunity? was securing teachers’ union worked out, of course — we think Parents have the most to lose by
new Waiting for Superman It would’ve been the logical support. Some states lost out for would be devastating to the young ceding local control over
documentary. “And when you see follow-up question for Matt Lauer this reason. Others didn’t even people in the state of Texas. education to Washington. Now is
these parents in the film, you are to ask. But just like the rest of bother to compete because of Equally troubling for Perry is the the time to do something about it.
reminded that — I don’t care what NBC’s Education Nation series, clashes with union bosses. process by which the Obama Quick Hits:
people’s income levels are, you Lauer let Obama off easy. The Obama boasted to Lauer that his administration has persuaded This entry passed through the
know, their stake in their kids, network appears content to give Race to the Top program was states to support its education Full-Text RSS service — if this is
their wanting desperately to make Duncan and union boss Randi “probably the most powerful tool agenda. By dangling money your content and you're reading it
sure their kids are able to succeed Weingarten a platform to promote we’ve seen for reform in a couple before cash-starved states, many on someone else's site, please read
is so powerful, and it’s obviously the same failed policies that got of decades.” Of course, he governors jumped at the chance to our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
difficult to watch to see these kids America into this mess. neglected to mention that some compete for Race to the Top content-only/faq.php
who know that this school’s going There are other troubling aspects states are opting out of his grand grants. Perry wasn’t enticed. Five Filters featured article:
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of a ball.” choice. One of the most alarming solutions and a stealth ploy for faceless bureaucrat in Catastrophe.
How can Obama possibly call is the concentration of power more power. Washington, D.C., for, frankly, a
this “heartbreaking” when one of taking place in Washington with Obama, it seems, is a pseudo- small amount of money in the
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The Anatomy of a Hostile Government Takeover
Submitted at 9/28/2010 3:00:00 AM
Obamacare at six months.
D uring the long national debate
over the future of American
health care, President Obama
frequently chastised his opponents
for launching exaggerated attacks
on his plan for “reform.” He took
particular exception to the
criticism that the changes he was
pushing amounted to a
government takeover of the whole
health sector. He knew full well
that this kind of criticism might
derail the entire effort in
Congress, because most
Americans recoil at the thought of
a distant and bureaucratic federal
government running the health-
care system for everyone. So
Obama vigorously denied that his
program would lead to any such
thing. In his Aug. 8, 2009, radio
address, he described the
“takeover” accusation as
“outlandish” and characterized his
approach as a mainstream and
moderate attempt simply to
reform the nation’s private health-
insurance system.
It’s now been six months since
Congress passed Obamacare --
not a long time given the
sweeping nature of the legislation
and the long phase-in schedule for
its most significant provisions.
Even so, it is already abundantly
clear that Obamacare’s critics
were dead right: The new health
law has set in motion a
government takeover of American
health care, and a very hostile one
at that. The Obama
administration’s clumsy and
overbearing behavior since its
passage proves the point.
#ad#First, there are the heavy-
handed statements coming out of
the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS). Two
weeks ago, HHS secretary
Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to
the nation’s insurers with a
plainly stated threat: Either the
insurers conform to the political
agenda of the administration and
describe the reasons for premium
increases in terms acceptable to
the Democratic party, or they will
be shut out entirely from the
government-managed insurance
marketplace. What could possibly
have provoked a cabinet secretary
to launch such an indiscriminate
broadside against an entire
industry? Simple: A handful of
insurers had dared to utter the
truth, noting that the new law has
imposed costly insurance
mandates that will raise premiums
for everyone. For that offense, the
federal government has
essentially threatened to put the
truth-telling insurers out of
business. And what’s truly
astonishing, and telling, is that the
new law almost certainly gives
the HHS secretary the power to do
so if she really wants to.
Then there is the matter of Dr.
Donald Berwick. Recall that
President Obama took more than
a year to settle on Dr. Berwick as
his nominee to head the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) -- and then
moved in a matter of weeks to put
him in place without Senate
confirmation. The president tried
to blame Republicans for this
blatant end-run around
constitutional checks and
balances, even though Democrats
control the Senate and could have
held a hearing and a vote if they
had wanted to. The truth is that
Democrats didn’t want Dr.
Berwick to be confirmed in the
Senate. They wanted him on the
job, for sure, because he is an
ardent government-takeover
enthusiast, and is prepared to use
all of the levers at his disposal to
advance that objective. The
president and his Democratic
allies just wanted to get Dr.
Berwick in place without the
public’s really noticing. So they
chose to circumvent the normal
process and put him in the CMS
position with a time-limited recess
appointment. For the next year
and a half, Dr. Berwick is free to
use CMS’s enormous new powers
to force doctors and hospitals to
conform to his vision of effective
health care, and he is essentially
accountable to no one but the
president.
To distract the public from these
power plays, the administration
decided to launch a series of
“information” campaigns that are
plainly political and filled with all
manner of distortions. HHS sent a
letter to the nation’s Medicare
beneficiaries supposedly
explaining what the new law will
mean for them. Somehow, it
failed to mention that the law will
cut Medicare by half a trillion
dollars over a decade, and cut the
value of Medicare Advantage by
an average of 27 percent by 2017.
HHS followed this up by putting
the same distortions on television,
in the form of an expensive
advertising campaign featuring
Andy Griffith.
In the meantime, busy beavers in
various corners of the federal
bureaucracy are laying plans for
new fiefdoms. Thousands of new
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employees are planned for various
offices in HHS, including the new
office to regulate private health
insurance nationwide. The IRS is
gearing up both to enforce with
tax penalties the requirement that
everyone carry government-
approved insurance, and to help
administer the massive new
entitlement program that will
require income verification on
tens of millions of applicants.
States will also be forced to build
new bureaucracies to carry out the
scores of tasks the federal
government will be ordering them
to perform.
Massive bureaucracy.
Disinformation campaigns.
Blatant power plays. The
politicization of decisions that
should be made with a focus on
patient care. The use of
government power to threaten
citizens and their livelihood.
This is what Obamacare has
brought us. And that’s just in its
first six months.
— James C. Capretta is a fellow
at the Ethics and Public Policy
Center. He was an associate
director of the Office of
Management and Budget from
2001 to 2004. James C. Capretta
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Republican-controlled Justice
James Carafano (The Foundry: headed effort to tag the Dream lead to much less focus on States has failed to enforce its
Conservative Policy News.) Department were engaged in the
Act onto the defense authorization enforcement. It abuses immigration laws. Its visa system kind of abuses that appear to be
Submitted at 9/28/2010 9:00:24 AM bill. Reid knew the Senate would “prosecutorial discretion” to order does not adequately serve the going on here, the media would
never stand for a measure that was ICE employees to look the other needs of the economy, legal long ago have demanded a full
Posted September 28th, 2010 at little more than a “stealth amnesty way on most illegal aliens. It may immigrants, or U.S. citizens. accounting from the White House
10:00am in Protect America Print bill.” also lead to other problems, such Cartel violence and continued that proclaims itself “the most
This Post Reid did not come even close to as liberal, activist, federal circuit illegal immigration along the U.S. transparent administration in
It was only fitting that Stephen getting the votes he needed for court judges citing the memo as a southern border have many history.” Democrats would
Colbert, host of a comedy faux cloture on the bill. All he basis for not affirming deportation Americans concerned. Americans already be preparing
news show, testified before managed to do was kill, at least orders against aliens who don’t fit are demanding a border and impeachment hearings.
Congress in character and make- for now, a bill that Congress used the very limited criteria of immigration policy that will keep I have been a harsh critic of Eric
up regarding the treatment of to consider a “must pass” each ‘violent’ criminals spelled out in the U.S. free, safe, and Holder. When Mr. Holder was
m i g r a n t w o r k e r s . I t j u s t year for national security. the memo.” In short, a memo prosperous—not an amnesty that nominated, I contended that his
demonstrates how unserious Although the attitude of the purported to promise tougher simply exacerbates the problem. conduct as deputy attorney
Congress is with tackling our C o n g r e s s i s d o w n r i g h t enforcement is bound to just The Heritage solution is fair, general during the Clinton years,
broken borders and deeply flawed discouraging, don’t look to the result in less enforcement. compassionate, and practical. It particularly his pivotal role in the
immigration system. That is, if Administration for a more serious All the shenanigans from our starts with eight steps that will pardons of Marc Rich and of
there was a point to it all—even t o n e o n a d d r e s s i n g t h e leaders in Washington would be strengthen our borders, make us terrorists, were disqualifying.
some of the Congressional i m m i g r a t i o n i s s u e . T h e hilarious except for one safe, and grow jobs. These are Moreover, given the Justice
“leadership” did not get it. Administration has invested thing—these issues are no steps that Congress and the Department’s obligation to
According to reports, “House considerable effort in demonizing laughing matter. President can take now—or they enforce the laws against perjury
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer states like Arizona. And even Colbert is right. We ought to do can entertain themselves with and obstruction of justice, and
(D–MD) said comedian Stephen when the Administration says it something about migrant labor. stand-up routines, make-believe given the palpable need for
Colbert embarrassed himself last wants to enforce the law, such as No one should have to work in legislative efforts, and faux Congress and all Americans to be
week when he testified before a recent Homeland Security this country illegally or without enforcement. able to trust the assurances and
Congress. ‘I think his testimony memo that came to light which decent pay or working conditions. This entry passed through the judgment of the attorney general -
was not appropriate,’ Hoyer told would supposedly target resources Fixing the problem, however, Full-Text RSS service — if this is - a need about which Democrats
Fox News Sunday host Chris on deporting “criminal” aliens, it requires real solutions—ones that your content and you're reading it and the media incessantly
Wallace.” The House Speaker, turns out that out to be more of a respect the rule of law; value the on someone else's site, please read reminded us during Alberto
Nancy Pelosi (D–CA), on the joke than a real enforcement sovereignty of the nation; let the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Gonzales’s tenure -- I urged that
other hand, thought it was “great,” effort. “My sources tell me,” marketplace work; and allow content-only/faq.php Holder’s incredible testimony
though that may say more about writes Heritage Senior Legal employers to get the employees Five Filters featured article: during Congress’s investigations
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Colbert’s appearance came on the much confusion among ICE jobs. There are Solutions for Catastrophe. argued that it promised just the
heels of Senate Majority leader [Immigration and Customs] law America that will achieve these sort of testimonial gaffes and
Harry Reid’s (D–NV) wrong- enforcement personnel and will ends. For far too long, the United stonewalling we’ve seen over the
last two years. In short, if
Congress were truly concerned
about the Justice Department’s
being “politicized” -- the very
criticism constantly trumpeted by
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KAHANE'S
continued from page 62
or a racist, get right in his grille. If
you believe in the idea of
America, and if you truly believe
that all men are created equal,
then the Constitution provides a
level playing field for everybody.
The “racism” card is just about
played out, but that won’t stop
them and their media stooges
from playing it until the bitter
end.
#page
LOPEZ: How do we “think
constitutionally,” exactly?
Waving around a Heritage pocked
-sized Constitution will only get
you so far.
WALSH: But it’s a start. Every
American should read the
Constitution and think about it.
It’s not a set of rules, it’s a
framework for liberty. It’s about
principles, not programs. And
we’ve let the Left move us off a
distressing number of
foundational principles. It’s time
not only to take back our country,
but to take back the Constitution,
and use it as both a sword and a
shield.
#ad# LOPEZ: Why is the culture
– Hollywood -- so important for
conservatives to toil in?
WALSH: Because it’s still the
dream factory, the mirror we use
for self-reflection. And because
it’s damn good at what it does:
telling stories in the most efficient
and thrilling possible manner. It’s
true that the industry is in a kind
of Spenglerian late-crystalization
phase at the moment, but there’s
no reason we can’t turn things
around. After all, it all starts with
the scripts.
Which should be non-ideological.
I don’t buy into the notion that
there ought to be “conservative”
movies. Some of the greatest
“conservative” movies were
written and produced by leftists --
hello, High Noon, I’m talking
about you. Carl Foreman, the
writer, was on the blacklist, for
crying out loud. Just write a great
picture and let the politics sort
themselves out. Is On the
Waterfront a conservative movie?
What about Three on a Match, an
underrated classic from 1932
starring Ann Dvorak, Joan
Blondell, and a very young Bette
Davis? As Sam Goldwyn
famously said, “If you want to
send a message, use Western
Union.”
LOPEZ: How exactly do
conservatives “seize it,” as Rule
Number Three commands?
WALSH: Hollywood is liberal in
the same way academe is liberal:
It attracts liberals. But it also
attracts conservatives, just not as
many of them. It’s long past time
for conservatives to stop
complaining about Hollywood
and academe and do something
about it. You can’t win if you
don’t play, so get a mitt, get out to
L.A., and get in the game. If
you’re any good, your politics
won’t matter.
LOPEZ: And how do we
“reclaim academe”? That seems
easier said than done. We’ve been
at it since the Fifties, after all.
WALSH: Believe it or not, this
one is tougher. Hollywood still
has to sell its product to an
audience that largely does not
subscribe to its politics -- and, in
fact, as the string of “antiwar”
flops proved, shuns them. Plus,
there are other uses for your
entertainment dollar. Academe,
however, is the only game in
town, protected by the myth that
it’s indispensable (ask Rush, or
Bill Gates, or Andrew Lloyd
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Webber to speak to that). It’s also
self-replicating, offering levels
upon levels of “achievement” that
can be yours if only you fork over
the dough; in search of “mastery,”
a student can plausibly stay in
school until his or her late
twenties, or even longer, and then,
of course, there’s not much else to
do except to teach.
Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit,
has been warning of the “higher-
education bubble” for some time
now, and it may well be that the
whole notion of value-for-service
is about to come in for a rude
reevaluation in the current job
market. And that’s just private
school. On the public-school
level, it’s basically just another
racket, of, by, and for the
teachers’ unions.
LOPEZ: Will your life in
Hollywood change now that
you’ve outed yourself?
WALSH: We’ll find out soon
enough, won’t we?
— Kathryn Jean Lopez is an
editor-at-large of National Review
Online. Interview
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Fret Factor
Submitted at 9/28/2010 3:00:49 AM
What worries voters more, a
Republican or Democratic
Congress?
W hat concerns voters as we
approach the November
elections?
Some anxieties are obvious. A
slow economy, anemic job
creation, and record spending and
debt are just a few of the bigger
bricks in their wall of worry.
#ad#But do citizens also fret
about who runs Congress? Based
on some of the advertising so far
this campaign cycle, the answer
should be yes.
After all, Republicans (say the
Democrats) will pillage the
middle class, coddle Wall Street,
and privatize Social Security.
Rich people, fat cats, and
entitlement cuts -- oh my!
Last week, the New York Times’
Jackie Calmes and Michael D.
Shear reported that Democrats
may hit the national airwaves with
their message:
President Obama’s political
advisers, looking for ways to help
Democrats and alter the course of
the midterm elections in the final
weeks, are considering a range of
ideas, including national
advertisements, to cast the
Republican Party as all but taken
over by Tea Party extremists,
people involved in the discussion
said.
Democrats will try to convince
voters that Republican out-of-the-
mainstream thinking has costs:
“We need to get out the message
that it’s now really dangerous to
re-empower the Republican
Party,” a Democratic strategist
told Calmes and Shear.
For their part, Republicans will
contend that the Obama/Pelosi/
Reid axis is really the danger; that
the Democrats will spend us into
serfdom and smother America
with new Washington czars and
regulations.
So, do Americans believe
Republicans or Democrats?
Surveys rarely ask voters whether
they worry more about
Democrats' or Republicans'
running Congress, but in a recent
poll I helped conduct for
Resurgent Republic, we did just
that. We asked voters what
worried them more, “a
Republican majority in the House
or Democrats maintaining the
majority in the House (or
Senate).” And by a 16-point
margin (51 percent to 35 percent),
voters said Democratic control
worried them more. Among those
“certain to vote,” the Republican
edge grew even larger, to 26
points on the question of the
House majority.
Not surprisingly, those who
identify with a political party
show comfort with their own
team. Nearly nine in ten
Republicans worry more about
Democrats' maintaining control,
while more than seven in ten
Democrats say a GOP majority
creates concern. Interestingly,
though, more Democrats (11
percent) than Republicans (4
percent) “worry” about their own
party controlling Congress.
But what about independents? By
a 35-point margin (59 percent to
24 percent), independents say
they worry more about a
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continued Democratic majority in
the House. The numbers narrow
to a 24-point spread (53 percent to
29 percent) when independents
are asked about the Senate.
These results are consistent with
research conducted by Resurgent
Republic earlier this year, which
showed that independents prefer
checks and balance between
Congress and the president, as
opposed to the Democrats’
holding a majority in order to help
the president pass his agenda.
Voters’ “worry agenda” is
particularly important during
these troubled economic times.
These results suggest a burning
desire among the public for
political balance following the
Democrats’ radical enlargement
of government over the past two
years. This is the central reason
that independents -- after tilting
heavily away from Republicans in
the 2006 midterms -- have now
swung back toward the GOP.
-- Gary Andres is vice chairman
of research for Dutko Worldwide.
Gary Andres
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The Lower Spending Solution to Deficits

Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: spending, and caps on
Conservative Policy News.) discretionary spending and
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:00:22 AM mandatory spending on
entitlement programs.
Posted September 28th, 2010 at Achieving the ambitious
11:00am in Entitlements Print reductions championed by Lazear
This Post would be difficult—and
With the expiration of the 2001
and 2003 tax cuts fast
approaching, the debate over
impossible if entitlement reform is
not part of the equation. If Obama’s
untouched, Medicare, Medicaid,
whether to extend the cuts, and
for whom, has taken on a new
and Social Security alone will
consume 18.2 percent of
Exceptional
face. Proponents of allowing for
tax increases on the highest
income brackets, or in some
GDP—the historical average of
tax revenue—by 2052. This
would mean that all federal
World View
Tait Trussell (FrontPage
cases, on all Americans, argue revenues would go towards Magazine » FrontPage)
that this is a necessary step to paying for these programs,
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:15:48 PM
reducing projected federal leaving other national priorities to
deficits. be provided for by adding to the The Obama Administration’s
But, as Edward Lazear, former deficit. ideology perceives the world as a
chairman of the President’s Allowing the 2001 and 2003 tax big cake; and the United States is
Council of Economic Advisors, cuts to expire, even just for higher merely one slice of it—no better,
explains in The Wall Street then limiting spending in the Thus, the entire expanded budget income brackets, is not the no more wholesome, no tastier
Journal, this creates a false choice future by imposing an “inflation- deficit will be caused by rising solution to reducing deficits. than the rest. The President’s UN
between huge deficits or tax minus-one” rule, under which, if spending, rather than by falling Congress should extend current speech Sept. 23 revealed this
increases. He writes: government expenditures exceed revenues—even if the 2001 and tax rates and then make the
blind belief once again.
This argument rests on the flawed 18 percent of gross domestic 2003 tax cuts are extended. necessary spending cuts to put the Obama doesn’t seem fully to
premise that we can reduce the product (GDP), Congress could Capping spending would require nation back on a fiscally sound accept the reality that in
deficit only by increasing taxes, as only increase spending “by the lawmakers to make trade-offs and course. international affairs there are
if high levels of spending are a last three years’ inflation rate, set priorities for use of taxpayers’ This entry passed through the those who want to destroy us or
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other nations because of hated,
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we returned to the relative fiscal spending that is driving federal mandatory outlays. In “ 10 our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ the Palestinians, in this case, he
restraint that prevailed during the deficits in the first place. Heritage Elements of Comprehensive content-only/faq.php told the UN he wants “two states,
Clinton and Bush years, when budget expert Brian Riedl writes: Budget Reform,” Riedl lays out Five Filters featured article: Israel and Palestine, living side by
spending was 19.7% and 19.6% By 2020, spending is projected to several feasible ways to do this, Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- side in peace and security, as part
of GDP, respectively, we could be 6.2 percent of GDP above the including capping the percentage Reporting of Falluja's Cancer of a comprehensive peace
avoid the entire mess. historical average, while projected by which spending can increase Catastrophe.
between Israel and all of its
Lazear proposes returning 2020 revenues are 0.2 percent of from year to year, an overall neighbors.”
spending closer to 2008 levels, GDP above the historical average. “ o m n i c a p ” o n a l l f e d e r a l This is an example of a
continuing philosophy for Obama.
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Chavez Meets Defeat

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage 16 garbage trucks away from
Magazine » FrontPage) them the following day.
Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:30:42 PM He has taken extreme measures
to crush dissent, which makes the
Hugo Chavez’s “roller-coaster is opposition’s victory all the more
going down,” declared Carlos impressive. A slight majority
Ocariz, a mayor that is part of the voted against Chavez even though
anti-Chavez Coalition for his government dominates the
Democratic Unity, this week. media. He issued an arrest warrant
Ocariz and other Venezuelan for the president of Globovision,
opposition activists had reason to
be hopeful. Hugo Chavez’s
transformation of Venezuela into
Venezuela’s final independent
media outlet, forcing him to flee
to the U.S. Chavez now controls
Abandoning
an anti-American harbor for drug
traffickers and terrorists ran into
72 T.V. stations, 400 radio
stations and 18 newspapers.
Obama
resistance on Monday. The The wave of support for the Frank Crimi (FrontPage
Venezuelan opposition took away opposition was so large that these Magazine » FrontPage)
the two-thirds majority in the disadvantages were overcome. Submitted at 9/27/2010 11:25:28 PM
National Assembly held by The Venezuelan economy is in
Chavez’s party, winning 52 President Obama, already
socialism. We need to continue -fifths majority and that this is tatters, with the GDP projected to
percent of the vote and at least 61 confronted with his party’s grim
strengthening the revolution!” he sufficient to pass an ‘Enabling decrease by 6.2 percent this year
of the 165 seats. All of Chavez’s November electoral prospects,
wrote on Twitter. The state media law’ granting Chavez wide and inflation set to become the
dirty tricks to undermine his must now face an exodus of top
p l a y e d a n o b e d i e n t t u n e , powers. The government of highest in the world, climbing
opponents failed to prevent a level advisers from his own
describing the election as showing Venezuela manipulates rules, above 30 percent. Chavez’s
majority of voters from acting to administration. The latest to jump
the country as “red, very red.” laws, and institutions as it sees approval rating has fallen to 36
arrest their country’s decline into percent. Power outages have ship is Chief of Staff Rahm
Thor Halvorssen, President of the fit,” he said.
dictatorship. Emanuel, whose imminent
Human Rights Foundation, told It remains to be seen how Chavez become common, and the sale of
Predictably, Chavez declared departure to run for mayor of
FrontPage that although what the will react to his loss, but he can be oil has dropped from 3.5 million
victory because he still holds a Chicago is just the latest example
democratic opposition “pulled off c o u n t e d o n t o a c t i n a n barrels per day in 1998 to 2.5
majority in the National of aides distancing themselves
i s e x t r a o r d i n a r y ” a n d undemocratic fashion. In 2008, he million barrels per day. The oil
Assembly. He mocked the from what appears to be a rapidly
“exceptionally significant,” hamstrung the newly-elected industry is suffering from the
celebrations of the opposition, sinking presidency.
Chavez still has the power to mayor of Caracas because he was n a t i o n a l i z i n g o f f o r e i g n
saying it was he who won. “[I]t Emanuel’s decision comes on the
bring Venezuela down the path to an opponent and hit him with companies and cronyism that has
has been a great election day and heels of chief economic adviser
tyranny. steep funding cuts. He punished led to strikes. The crime rate has
we have obtained a solid victory: Larry Summer’s recent
“Already, the government has the city of Petare after they voted soared, with more murders in
enough to continue deepening resignation, which followed the
stated today that they have a three for one of his opponents by taking 2009 than in Iraq or Mexico.
Bolivarian and democratic earlier departures of budget
director Peter Orszag and Council
of Economic Advisers Chair
Christina Romer. With nearly his
entire group of economic advisers
headed for the tall grass, the only
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INVESTIGATE
continued from page 67
Democrats during Gonzales’s
stewardship -- then Holder’s
baggage made him the last
political insider lawmakers would
want at the helm.
Nevertheless, I have not joined
the growing chorus calling for
Holder’s removal. He won
confirmation fair and square, and
the debate over his nomination
ended with Republicans flocking
to join Democrats in his corner.
Since then, he has been
predictably controversial, but
claims that his misadventures
have been impeachable have, for
the most part, been foolish. By
and large, Holder has made policy
missteps but has not presided over
the commission of illegality. A
more important distinction is that
whatever misguided policies
Holder has inflicted on Justice,
they have not been his policies;
Holder has carried out Obama’s
policies, whether the issue has
been calling Americans
“cowards” on matters of race,
rigging DOJ’s assessment of the
D.C. voting-rights act,
Mirandizing terrorists, pushing for
ABANDONING
continued from page 71
holdout remains Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner.
Given that these individuals have
overseen an economy with record
unemployment rates and job
losses, it is not surprising that
Obama’s economic team
members would want an early
head-start on their post-White
House careers. Supporters of the
president say, however, it’s not
a civilian trial of the 9/11
attackers, denying the role of
Islam in Islamist terror, staffing
his department with attorneys who
volunteered for America’s
terrorist enemies, urging the
damaging disclosure of classified
information, conducting a witch-
hunt against the CIA, suggesting a
willingness to cooperate in
foreign investigations of Bush
administration officials, publicly
egging on the Bush torture
narrative even as his
congressional testimony and
briefs filed by his own department
betrayed its emptiness, etc. These
are reasons to vote against Obama
and Democrats, not reasons to
impeach them. If you don’t want
the policies of the radical Left,
don’t vote for the radical Left.
But racial animus in law
enforcement is categorically
different. The Constitution
guarantees all Americans equal
protection under the law. The civil
-rights laws, moreover, make it a
crime for government officials to
deprive “any person” -- not any
black or minority person, but any
unusual to have staff shakeups
prior to an administration’s
midterm point. They even go so
far as to say it’s actually a good
move because the president will
be able to take advantage of these
departures to bring new energy
and clearer strategic thinking to
his team.
Others, including some
Democrats, conclude differently.
person, period -- of “any rights,
privileges, or immunities secured
or protected by the Constitution or
laws of the United States.” It is a
grave violation of law for the
Justice Department to practice
racial discrimination in deciding
which cases it will bring, to
determine that Americans of one
race or class are not entitled to the
same protection as all Americans.
That’s not just politicization of
the Justice Department. It is
criminalization of the Justice
Department. Under the
Constitution, it is Congress’s
obligation to stop it. The current
Congress obviously won’t do its
duty. Americans will strongly
support congressional candidates
who pledge to right that wrong.
-- Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior
fellow at the National Review
Institute, is the author, most
recently, of The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America. Andrew C. McCarthy
They feel the president’s need to
surround himself with only
longtime associates breeds an
inability to accurately assess and
accurately respond to the roiling
sea of events that have rocked his
presidency and which have caused
a steep decline in his and his
party’s fortunes.
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OBAMA’S
continued from page 70
On July 23, 2007, on the
campaign trail, as a naïve
presidential candidate, Barack
Obama said he would engage with
leaders of rogue nations—Cuba,
North Korea and Iran. He called it
a “ disgrace that we have not
spoken to them.” AOL News, in a
Sept. 23 story, reminds us that this
overly optimistic foreign policy
position has failed.
Obama’s impotence is seen in his
call at the UN for countries that
support the Palestinians to give
them more aid. In his address,
Obama said “Make no mistake,
the courage of a man like
President Abbas—who stands up
for his people in front of the
world—is far greater than those
who fire rockets at innocent
women and children.” Does this
“courage” consist of recognizing
Israel as a Jewish state in
exchange for Israel’s recognizing
Palestine as an Arab state?
Because Abbas is yet to show
such courage.
Obama’s apparent belief that the
U.S. slice of the world’s cake is
obliged, as being part of the cake,
to instruct and give to others.
Obama told the Millennium
Development Conference at the
United Nations Sept. 22 the
United States will shift its
emphasis to “investing” in
developing countries through
diplomacy and trade as the way to
augment direct U.S. aid to help
global leaders alleviate chronic
poverty and disease, as Politico
and others reported. We “have to
offer nations and peoples a path
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out of poverty,” Obama said.
Always attempting to be special,
he touted it as “the first of its kind
by an American Administration.”
This deep sense of responsibility
Obama sees for other parts of the
world cake led him to sponsor a
bill when he was then-Senator and
Presidential candidate Barack
Obama. The legislation could
have imposed a global tax on the
U.S. and made U.S. foreign aid
spending subservient to the
dictates of the United Nations.
The legislation “aligns with a core
theme” of his election campaign,
commented American Thinker in
a February 19, 2008 article.
An abstract of the legislation:
“To require the President to
develop and implement a
comprehensive strategy to further
the United states foreign policy
objective of promoting the
reduction of global poverty, the
elimination of extreme global
poverty, and the achievement of
the [UN] Millennium
Development goal of reducing by
one-half the proportion of people
worldwide, between 1990 and
2015 making $1 a day.” Senator
Obama’s website at the time said:
“]O]ur commitment to the global
economy must extend beyond
trade agreements that are more
about increasing corporate profits
than about helping workers and
small farmers everywhere.”
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WEST
continued from page 64

the craven European prostration
before the Russian juggernaut: “
Si demain Vladimir
Poutine…envahissait la
Géorgie…l’Europe occidentale,
d’un seul souffle, s’exclamerait:
servez vous!” (“If tomorrow
Vladimir Putin…should invade
at the expense of our own
survival. “The future of the
West,” he laments, “is self-
destruction.”
True, in La tyrannie de la
pénitence, the most recent of his
political books (his 2009 offering,
Le Paradoxe amoureux, deals
saisi le processus caché de
“The Social Network”:
l’Histoire. Annoncer…la
décadence d’un empire vous pose Mashable’s Complete
en prophète.” (“There exists
among the Moderns a fascination
for the theme of decline…which
Movie Review
seduces at the same time both the Christina Warren (Mashable!)
e x p e r t s a n d t h e Submitted at 9/28/2010 11:19:03 AM

Georgia…Western Europe, with with the sexual paradoxes of the moralists…Whoever caresses the
one breath, would exclaim: help current age), Bruckner seems to idea sees himself as a superior On the surface, The Social
yourself!”) Two years later it go against his own grain, intelligence who has grasped the Network is the story of Facebook
came to pass precisely as he had downplaying the apocalyptic hidden processes of History. — a website created in a Harvard
envisioned. And in earlier books mode of thought. “ Il existe chez Announcing… the decay of an dorm room in 2004 that has
such as The Tears of the White les Modernes,” he writes, “ une empire makes you seem like a redefined how we connect and
Man and The Temptation of fascination pour le thème du prophet.”) communicate in the 21st century.
Innocence, Bruckner addresses déclin…qui seduit à la fois les At its core, the film is much,
the pervasive cultural drift toward e x p e r t s e t l e s much more than just the story of
self-abasement, political moralistes…Quiconque en caresse one website. It is both a micro and
weakness and the glorification of l’idée se voit comme macro look at success, failure and
The film opens with one of its
the Third World, especially Islam, l’intelligence supérieure qui a the trappings of ego and greed.
strongest scenes, a five-minute
The film is ostensibly based on
ABANDONING interchange between a 19-year-
real people and real events. That
continued from page 72 old Mark Zuckerberg and his
said, many of the proceedings and
girlfriend. Zuckerberg, brilliantly
The Washington Post reported is a strange fallback position for a Recovery tour, a six week long characters were invented for the
portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg,
one such unnamed Democratic man considered by his allies to be public relations trek designed to screen. In the coming weeks,
speaks a mile a minute, quickly
s t r a t e g i s t w h o s a i d , “ T h e y one of the greatest orators in highlight to Americans the there will a flurry of discussion
moving from one topic to the
miscalculated where people were American political history. incredible accomplishments his regarding just how accurate or
next, leaving his companion to
out in the country on jobs, on The latest example of this economic policies have created. inaccurate the film is with regard
exclaim, “Dating you is like
spending, on the deficit, on debt. supposition at work was the Apparently, they were unaware t o F a c e b o o k ’ s f i r s t y e a r .
dating a StairMaster.”
They have not been able to get president’s recent admission that that the loss of 2.9 million jobs Ultimately, these differences and
Throughout the course of the
ahead of any of it. And it’s all he had failed to convince voters of and a 10% unemployment rate inaccuracies are irrelevant.
conversation, an acutely unaware
about the insularity. Otherwise the wonder of his healthcare wasn’t obvious enough proof of For better or for worse, the
Zuckerberg proceeds to insult his
how do you explain how a group reform bill. Speaking to a group its success. cinematic version of “the
girlfriend, belittling her
who came in with more goodwill of supporters at an event designed Facebook story” will be what
background, intellect and future
in decades squandered it?” to resell the bill to a skeptical becomes the lore surrounding the
life prospects. Having had
The Obama response has been to public, Obama said, “Sometimes, company, much as The Pirates of
enough, she ends the relationship
place any perceived internal I fault myself for not making the Silicon Valley has become the
and tells him off. The dialogue in
problems, not on the shoulders of case more clearly to the country.” unofficial history of Microsoft
this scene is a joy for Aaron
unpopular legislation, but instead This healthcare awareness and Apple for a generation of
Sorkin fans, reminiscent of the
on inarticulate messaging, which campaign follows his Summer of users. From a cinematic
best interactions and moments on
perspective, The Social Network
The West Wing or Sports Night.
is no more or less effective based
This scene, one of the most
on its factual accuracy. This is a
significant additions that Sorkin
fictional narrative, not a
documentary. The Beginning “THE page 75
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11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the
Overused
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) what you think of these trends — enterprise, and GitHub, an When you’re trying to project
Submitted at 9/28/2010 10:59:45 AM and what trends we should have industry standard for source code growth, one of the most obvious
included — in the comments. 1. hosting. logo choices is flora. A shy set of
This series is brought to you by Badges and Buttons We don’t know exactly how, leaves, a furling bud, a sprouting
the Intel AppUp Developer We’ve moved away from the when or why kawaii made a seed — what could better convey
P r o g r a m , w h i c h p r o v i d e s once-ubiquitious BETA! button, comeback into serious-business your company’s fresh problem
developers with everything they but location-esque badges, app- logo design, but with logos this solving and rapid expansion? 7.
need to create and then sell their like icons, and “play” buttons are cute, who are we to complain? 5. Quadrangles
applications to millions of Intel still showing up all over the web. Scripts, Slabs and Other Cool It’s not a rectangle, it’s not a
Atom™ processor-based devices. These logos tend to be quite Fonts square, but whatever it is, it’s
Learn more here. “shiny,” thanks to a few carefully- Say it with me: “I will not use popping up everywhere.
Designing and critiquing logos blended white gradient layers. Archer for a web company’s logo Quadrangles are, if the web is to
for web-based companies and The square logos have rounded design.” be believed, the new dots. From
with opacity.
startups is a pursuit of endless corners. Some appear to glow as Archer and its ilk were used to rhombuses to parallelograms to
While this logo treatment won’t
fascination for many of us. Over if lit from within, which is a great effect over the past couple indescribable yet angular blobs,
work for every web app, it’s a
the years, we’ve seen enough compelling and trendy effect in years on a number of memorable these shapes strive for post-
versatile and timeless way to
startups come and go (and rebrand itself. All in all, the badge-and- web company logos. That being modern and consumer-friendly. 8.
present classic shapes in a new
and merge) to fill a volume with button set look quite touchable. said, the Year of the Slab is Retro Game References
light. We’re seeing this basic
how and how not to develop and Still, this trend’s days may be definitely not over. In fact, it’s Perhaps it’s because the newer
effect used simply in MasterCard-
e x e c u t e a l o g o f o r a w e b numbered, if only due to overuse more of an epoch than a crop of web designers are also
reminiscent designs, and we’re
company. and association-bordering-on- traditional Gregorian year at this children of the late eighties, but
seeing much more complex
We’ve also picked up some marriage with the Apple/iPhone point. Slab serif fonts — if they’re we’ve been seeing a lot of pseudo
opacity effects used in logos for
knowledge about trends in this brand. See also: Wet floor effect. unique fonts — are still a viable -retro, video game-inspired logo
HTML5 and Microsoft
field. Some of the trends are 2 . S p e e c h B u b b l e s a n d alternative to been-there-done-that work lately. While these designs
Silverlight, for example.
good; others, regrettable. Others M e g a p h o n e s sans serifs in logos, and the web are definitely quirky, geeky and
Playing with blending modes,
still are simply overused, which is If social web apps are all about community still enjoys them. cool, beware using them for a
opacity and overlapping shapes
the saddest scenario of them all. communication, then it stands to That being said, a good, juicy general audience; not everyone
can also be a fun way to
We hate to see a good design trick reason that many social web script can be one of the liveliest, feels the same nostalgia we do for
experiment with analogous color
or typeface grow hackneyed over company logos are all about most unexpected logo choices yet, an 8-bit, pixelated graphic of a
schemes. 4. Kawaii Illustration
the course of a few months, but it talking. We see fewer logos that particularly if your logo is solely mushroom. 9. Color-Coordinated
Calling all woodland creatures:
h a p p e n s a l l t h e t i m e , revolve around listening (if you typographic. Rephoria uses my Compound Words
You’re wanted on the Internet. In
unfortunately. happen to see a giant ear logo in personal favorite, Candy Script, a Web startup names and logos are
fact, the only time you’ve been in
In this article, we’ve identified 11 the wild, do let us know), but swash-heavy number that’s inextricably linked. We’re a
greater demand than you are now
trends in web company logo megaphones and speech bubbles almost too voluptuous for work couple years past the compound
was when Disney was making
design. Hopefully, you’ll see a abound. 3. Fun With Opacity! but which still makes the cut for a word phase (which was most
those saccharine “princess” films.
few here that apply to the startups Remember the first time you single-word logo. virulent right before the tragic
Why are these wide-eyed,
and web apps we write about discovered Multiply and Overlay Just remember: When using more “missing vowel” phase that gave
adorable critters making their way
every day. And of course, we’ve blend modes in Photoshop? If that unusual fonts for logo design, birth to web companies with
into logo design? Apps are for
included some handy illustrations m o m e n t c h a n g e d y o u r l i f e restraint and legibility are key. 6. names like “Packg” and
adults, right? Especially apps such
as a sort of field guide to the logos forever, then you probably Verdant and Plant-Inspired “Clevrr”), but we haven’t left
as Seesmic, a powerful web app
of the web. understand the beauty of a simple, Plants and leaves aren’t just for TRENDS page 76
dashboard for power users and the
Take a look, and let us know elegant logo that delicately plays green tech companies, folks.
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continued from page 73
made to the script — which is
loosely based on Ben Mezrich’s
The Accidental Billionaires—
introduces the audience to Mark, a
man who is clearly brilliant, but
who is also deeply insecure,
awkward and more than a bit
antisocial.
It also sets up the motive behind
the project that would become the
precursor to Facebook, Facemash.
With Facemash, a Hot or Not for
female students at Harvard (and a
post-breakup lashing-out against
womankind), Mark brings down
the university network, gets in
some trouble from the
administration and makes himself
an outcast on campus. It also
brings him to attention of twins
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss,
two good-looking, athletic and
privileged twins.
The Winklevosses (both played
by Armie Hammer) and their
friend, Divya Narendra, are
looking to build a social dating
site for Harvard men. They want
Mark to work on the code. He
readily agrees.
The dating site spawns a much
bigger idea in Mark’s head — and
that idea is Facebook. Partnering
with his best friend and financier
Eduardo Saverin, played by
Andrew Garfield, Mark builds
The Facebook. What follows is an
almost viral spread of user
adoption and rapid growth and
expansion.
To those of us who joined
Facebook in those early days (I
believe I joined in January 2005),
the sequences demonstrating the
takeoff of the service will
resonate. One of the most
interesting things about Facebook,
a site that first built its allure and
prestige based on its exclusivity
(the need to have a *.edu e-mail
address from a supported school
and an invite from another user),
was just how quickly it spread.
Much like YouTube, which
launched about a year later,
Facebook went from not existing
to being everywhere, seemingly
overnight.
As Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg
is brilliant. I fully expect to see
his name on the shortlist for Best
Actor nominees when award
season ramps up. He manages to
make Zuckerberg sympathetic but
not pathetic — there’s actually a
nuanced difference. The character
could have easily been portrayed
as a pathetic, socially inept
genius. Eisenberg doesn’t do that.
He manages to play a three-
dimensional character, even
though the last five minutes of the
film are the only times we ever
see a mournful side. His speech
patterns, his eye movements, the
way that he walks and moves his
body — it’s truly one of the best
performances of 2010. The
Second Act
As the story progresses, the
film’s focus and point of view
shift. Many of these shifts take
place in a more present-day
setting, where Zuckerberg,
Saverin and the Winklevoss twins
give depositions and testimony in
some of the various lawsuits filed
over the ownership and business
dealings of Facebook.
Much like Fincher’s 2007 film,
Zodiac, The Social Network
makes use of these court
proceedings and depositions to
build out the narrative.
Structurally, this is an interesting
device and one that is well-suited
for this particular story. Fincher
cuts quickly from scene to scene,
various depositions overlapping,
and testimony leads to flashbacks
told from the perspective of the
deposed.
As a director, Fincher is known
for using subtle colors and hues in
his work — from Fight Club to
Benjamin Button, color is one of
the most visually defining
characteristics of Fincher’s work.
In The Social Network, he uses
slight color variations for each
character’s perspective. It’s subtle
but it has an influence on the
energy that takes place on the
screen.
The second and third act of the
film primarily involve the massive
ascent of Facebook and the
parallel breakdown between best
friends Mark and Eduardo. As
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew
Garfield is particularly good at
gaining our sympathies. He’s the
most relatable character in the
film, but that isn’t to say he’s the
hero. On the contrary, while the
film makes it easy to empathize
with his position — being cut out
of one of the biggest companies
founded this decade — it equally
makes it clear that if Eduardo
Saverin had run the business end
of Facebook, Facebook wouldn’t
be anything close to what it is
today.
Not all the credit should go to
Zuckerberg, however. Napster
founder Sean Parker, portrayed by
Justin Timberlake, was
instrumental in making Facebook
the money-maker that it is today.
Timberlake, a truly gifted
performer, has a more middling
track record as an actor. But in
the role of Parker, a well-
connected playboy who quickly
assesses that Facebook is the next
Napster (in a viral and culture
changing sense), Timberlake is
charming, boisterous and
believable.
Timberlake is very good in the
film, but still, his character seems
like little more than a plot device.
His primary function is to act as
the catalyst to get Zuckerberg to
go out to Palo Alto in the summer
of 2004. This was the summer
that Facebook really turned the
page, and was on the brink of
becoming huge. After that
summer, Facebook was clearly on
the path to runaway success.
The film ends almost abruptly,
which is jarring, yet fitting for its
subject matter. This is the story of
the first year of Facebook. The
momentum was building, but at
the stage that the film ends, the
site was still college-only, it
didn’t have apps and it hadn’t
toppled MySpace. In fact, this
film ends where many others
would start. Summation
The undisputed facts regarding
Facebook are that by May 2005,
just over 15 months after
thefacebook.com launched, the
company already had 2.8 million
registered users and had received
its second round of funding for
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$13 million. In six years, the site
has gone from being something
meant to bring the college
experience online to something
that is quickly altering multiple
forms of media and gaining more
and more users from every corner
of the globe.
Whether Facebook is the next
Google or not, I’m not sure, but it
has utterly encapsulated the
zeitgeist of this era of computing
and communications. Facebook’s
legacy and influence over the
future is something that cannot be
in disputed.
Watching the film, I was often
struck by two things: First, how
quickly it all moved. It’s almost
jarring to think that the majority
of the major events in the film
took place over the course of 18
months. Second, I was once again
reminded of just how young
everyone involved in the early
days of Facebook really was.
I kept reflecting on these two
points because I think they
underscore the narrative. On its
surface, this is a story about greed
and ego and how money and fame
change people. And that’s all true.
On the larger level, however, I
think this is also a film about what
happens when success literally
happens overnight to individuals
who haven’t even completed the
college experience. How does that
not affect who you are? How does
that not affect relationships and
loyalties?
There is a cost for great success
and a cost for changing the world.
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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
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
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• 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
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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
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Debt Management: Take Control
of Your Debt in 6 Steps By:
Stephanie Hamilton, Quizzle.com
Most people have some debt: a
car or student loan, mortgage,
home equity line of credit. In and
of itself, debt isn’t bad.
Sometimes it’s necessary. Where
you and I can get into trouble is
when we let our debt get out of
control. High credit card balances,
late payments and calls from
creditors can ensue if we’re not
careful. Fortunately, there are
steps we can take to get and keep
our debt under control.
1) Understand and appreciate the
real cost of credit.
When you pay for dinner or a
new pair of pants with a credit
card, what does it really cost you?
One of the main reasons that
people get in over their heads with
debt is because they don’t stop to
consider the real cost of credit.
Unless you pay off your credit
card balance every month, you’re
paying more than the initial cost
for that dinner or that pair of
pants.
If you just make the minimum
payments on your credit card, you
could pay up to four times the
actual cost of the items you
charge! Imagine if you took that
pair of pants to the cash register
and the store clerk told you they
cost $240 instead of $60! You
probably wouldn’t buy them.
Well, a $60 pair of pants bought
with a credit card could end up
costing you as much as $240 by
the time you factor in the interest
charges.
2) Understand how your brain
works.
There’s something called the
“psychology of credit” that affects
us all and we need to be aware of
it. The psychology is simple:
because you’re just swiping a card
instead of handing over cash, you
feel like you’re saving money.
You walk out of the store with the
item of your choice and your cash
is still in your pocket. It feels like
a double-win. When the
psychology of credit tempts you
to pay with a credit card instead
of cash, be aware of what’s
happening. Remember that
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charging the item will potentially
cost you more, not less.
3) Avoid the temptation.
Impulse purchases are what get
most of us in trouble. Avoid the
temptation to buy things you
don’t need (with money you don’t
have) by leaving your credit cards
at home. If you’re feeling
especially bold, you can cut them
up, or shred them and throw them
away. If you leave them at home,
put them some place where
they’re hard to get to. Try this –
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• 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
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• Posted by Muffie Sun Sep 26,
2010 4:05pm PDT 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 Sun Sep 26,
2010 8:53pm PDT 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 Mon Sep
27, 2010 4:07am PDT 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
• Posted by daisy*kae Mon Sep
27, 2010 7:23am PDT i've found
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that with friends i only lend what iwet a washcloth, wrap your credit
can afford to miss. if they ask for cards in it and put it in the freezer!
an amount that is out of my price Then, even when you’re tempted,
range, i offer what i can. i once your cards won’t be readily
lent more money than i could available.
afford and never received all of it 4) Pay off your balance every
back. i took it as a lesson learned month.
and instituted my new policy. as Making the commitment not to
for the situations with eating out, use credit cards is a good one, but
my friends and i always pay our we all know that emergencies
own way. i've treated people and arise. If you need to use your
have been treated by people in the credit card for an unexpected car
past. if i offer to pay for your repair or some other unforeseen
meal a simple thank you is expense, pay it off in full when
enough. :) Report Abuse you receive your next statement.
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6) Control Your Impulses.
Don’t worry, this one isn’t as
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purchase can throw an entire
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example, if you go into a clothing
store to buy a belt, but while there
you see a “must-have” dress,
don’t buy the dress or the belt.
Instead, leave the store and come
back 20 or 30 minutes later. This
“cooling off” period will make it
easier for your to pass on the
dress entirely.
Controlling your debt is possible.
It isn’t always easy, but it is
possible. And if you get off track
a little bit, don’t give up. Just
recommit to your decision and
start again.
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