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Bachmann says her “high-profile” congressional
race targeted by top Democrats
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:23:56 AM
Oct 12, 2010 12:23 EDT
Second-term Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann, who started
the “ Tea Party Caucus” in the
House of Representatives this
summer, says her “high-profile”
congressional race is being
targeted by some very high-
profile Democrats ahead of the
Nov. 2 election.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has
set her sights on ousting her from
the congressional seat, Bachmann
said. The outspoken Republican is
a social conservative and is
known for her strong Christian
faith.
“I’ve been one of Speaker
Pelosi’s top targets to defeat this
fall,” Bachmann said on NBC’s
“Today” show. ”President (Bill)
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Sorry, Readability was unable to
Clinton came in, he was
campaigning against me. In a
couple of weeks Speaker Pelosi
will be in Minnesota as will
President Obama. Mine is a very
high-profile race, and she’s trying
to do everything she can to defeat
me.”
Bachmann led Democrat Tarryl
Clark by 9 points in the race for
Minnesota’s 6th congressional
district in a mid-September poll,
according to Real Clear Politics.
Bachmann shrugged off
questions about whether the Tea
Party was stepping into social
issues like gay rights after a
controversy erupted this week
over remarks by Carl Paladino,
Republican candidate for New
York governor who is backed by
the conservative movement.
“I think really that isn’t the issue
that we’re focusing on in this
election,” she said. “The issue is
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She targeted her criticism at
the Democrats she said were
targeting her.
“The Tea Party movement I think
has been very focused because
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from the very beginning they’ve
been concerned about the
overreach of the liberals like
Speaker Pelosi and President
Obama and Congress – what
they’ve been doing by spending
too much, taxing too much and
adding too much of deficits,
because it’s clearly led to job
losses in our country,” Bachmann
said.
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healthcare rally Nov. 5, 2009)
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Washington Extra – Nobel committee polishes Diamond’s

credentials
Simon Denyer (Front Row 2008, to draw their own governments save jobs for such
Washington) conclusions. employees as teachers,
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:05:56 PM The White House wasted no time firefighters, police, and social
in making political capital from workers.
After irking the Chinese with the the award, with Obama urging For more of this story, read here.
award of the Nobel peace prize speedy confirmation so Diamond US decision on China yuan
last week, the Nobel committee could bring his “extraordinary practices looms again
set a few feathers flying in e x p e r t i s e ” t o t h e F e d j o b . President Obama faces a deadline
Washington today by awarding Spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Friday on whether to formally
the economics prize to Peter blocking Diamond was a “harmful declare for the first time that
Diamond, an MIT professor who attempt to score political points China undervalues its currency,
has also been nominated by that hurts our middle class and our following a vote in Congress to
President Barack Obama for a broader economic recovery.” get tough with Beijing. An IMF
spot on the Board of Governors of Shelby was unbowed. “While the meeting last weekend failed to
the Federal Reserve. Nobel Prize for Economics is a defuse tensions between China
Diamond’s nomination to the Fed significant recognition, the Royal and some developed countries,
job has been held up by Senate Swedish Academy of Sciences including the United States, that
Republicans who have questioned does not determine who is are pressing Beijing to allow the
his qualifications. At the time qualified to serve on the Board of yuan to appreciate.
Richard Shelby, the most senior Governors of the Federal Reserve For more of this story by Doug
Republican on the Senate Banking System,” he said. Palmer, read here.
Committee said the current Diamond told a press conference homeowners may cheer efforts to to help bring his extraordinary In coal state, a Democrat keeps
uncertain environment would not he had no plans to withdraw his g e t t o u g h w i t h b a n k s , a n e x p e r t i s e t o o u r e c o n o m i c Obama at a distance
benefit from board members name from consideration for the increasing number of analysts recovery,” Obama said in a Democratic Governor Joe
deciding monetary policy “who Fed job, and just for good warn that that a blanket ban on statement. “I hope he will be Manchin once seemed certain to
are learning on the job” and told measure said the United States foreclosures could further hobble confirmed by the Senate as win a Senate seat in coal-rich
R e u t e r s D i a m o n d w a s a needed a second stimulus bill to the economy. quickly as possible.” West Virginia, but voter anger
“behavioral man” who had no help stem the deepening problem For more of this story, read here. For more of this story by Alister over policies from climate change
background in monetary policy of local government job losses. Obama hammers Republicans Bull, read here. to healthcare are putting him in
and the economy. Washington Extra is looking after Fed pick wins Nobel Nobel winner Diamond says U.S. danger of losing. Manchin’s battle
I t i s a p r o b a b l y l i t t l e forward to the nomination President Obama seized on the needs second stimulus to escape being swept aside
conspiratorial to suggest the h e a r i n g s . award of the Nobel prize in Peter Diamond, a 2010 Nobel mirrors what Democrats in Senate
Nobel committee was deliberately Here are our top stories from economics to his pick for the economics prize winner who has races around the country are
tweaking Republican noses by Washington today… Federal Reserve to ratchet up been nominated to the Federal facing as they try to survive a
recognizing Diamond along with Foreclosure halt could hit pressure on Senate Republicans, Reserve board, said a second turbulent political environment
two other leading economists for investors w h o h a v e b l o c k e d t h e stimulus bill would help stem the and win in Nov. 2 congressional
their work in helping to explain A U.S.-wide foreclosure confirmation. Peter Diamond’s deepening problem of local e l e c t i o n s . W i t h o p p o s i t i o n
unemployment and jobs markets. m o r a t o r i u m c o u l d p e n a l i z e nomination is among dozens the government worker job losses. running high in West Virginia to
Nevertheless, critics are bound to investors and make new home White House says are being held Diamond said a second effort President Obama, Manchin is
seize on this, along with Obama’s loans more expensive and harder u p i n t h e S e n a t e . “ I h a v e “would be valuable,” especially if struggling to convince voters he
peace prize last year and Paul to obtain, an investor group and nominated Peter to the Board of the federal government stepped in
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would be his own man and not
rubber-stamp Democratic policies
if sent to Washington.
For more of this story by Steve
Holland, read here.
Monetary policy’s diminishing
returns
The Federal Reserve runs the risk
of diminishing returns from its
next round of money printing, but
that won’t stop it from trying.
For more of this story by Emily
Kaiser, read here.
SCENARIOS-Republican
election impact on climate control
Big gains in November could put
Republicans in position to reverse
Democrats’ drive for climate
control legislation. A Republican
takeover of either chamber, or
even large gains by Republicans,
will make it harder for President
Obama to win mandatory
reductions of greenhouse gas
emissions from smokestacks and
tailpipes.
What to look out for on energy
and climate policy for if
Republicans win big here.
First patient treated in Geron
stem cell trial
Doctors have begun treating the
first patient to receive human
Investment Bloggers Are Bullish and ETFs Are Hot
Gary Sattler (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:40:00 AM
Filed under: Blogs, S and P 500, An ongoing investment blogger
ETF
It comes as no surprise to me that T i c k e r S e n s e f r o m B i r i n y i
c u r r e n t i n v e s t m e n t b l o g g e r Associates Inc., indicates that
consensus is bullish on the nearly 54% of the investment
embryonic stem cells, but details
of the landmark clinical trial are
being kept confidential. Geron
Corp has the first FDA license to
use the controversial cells to treat
people, in this case patients with
new spinal cord injuries. It is the
first publicly known use of human
embryonic stem cells in people.
For more of this story by Maggie
Fox, read here.
For a factbox on the controversial
stem cell issue, click here.
What we are blogging…
NY governor candidate Paladino
says he only opposes gay
marriage (and doesn’t like the
parades)
Carl Paladino, the Tea Party
backed Republican running for
New York governor, says he is
not against homosexuals, only gay
marriage and taking children to
gay pride parades. News reports
quoted Paladino, in remarks to
Orthodox Jewish leaders in
Brooklyn on Sunday, saying: “I
just think my children and your
children would be much better off
and much more successful getting
married and raising a family, and
I don’t want them brainwashed
into thinking that homosexuality
markets. They're not bullish by an
extremely wide margin, but they
are optimistic nonetheless.
survey, conducted weekly by
is an equally valid and successful
option — it isn’t.”
For Tabassum Zakaria’s full post,
click here.
From elsewhere…
Ecuador turns recent unrest into a
music video
Recent police riots in which
Ecuadorean President Rafael
Correa was tear gassed, roughed
up and trapped in a hospital for
hours by officers angry over
bonus cuts has been turned into a
music video. The video, which is
set to the music of “Hey Jude” by
the Beatles, intercuts news
footage of the September 30
unrest with singers crooning
passionately about Correa’s
“Citizens’ Revolution.”
For more of this story, read here.
Malaysia Islamists object to
Adam Lambert concert
Malaysia’s Islamist opposition
party has demanded that
authorities cancel a planned
concert by rocker Adam Lambert
that they say is promoting “gay
culture” in the mainly Muslim
country. “Adam Lambert’s
shows… are outrageous, with
lewd dancing and a gay
performance that includes kissing
writers it surveys are holding a
Business/ Technology/
male dancers, this is not good for
people in our country,” one leader
said. Homosexual sex is a
criminal offence in Malaysia.
For more of this story, read here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/Brian
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Prize for Economics, laughs with
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news conference at MIT in
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AOL Patch Responds To
Recent Plagiarism
Incidents And Ongoing
AOL's hyperlocal venture, Patch,
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to 500 the number of community
news websites in its network,
thereby making Patch the " largest
hirer of full-time journalists in the
U.S. in 2010," the company
boasts.
But as the infrastructure of Patch
grows, so too does the perception
that it is a content farm with
overworked editors and, in some
cases, sloppy journalism.
The allegations...
• Patch's local reporter-editors
don't know their communities. A
recent LA Weekly article, for
instance, refers to Patch as " The
WalMart of news" -- offering
anecdotes that Patch sites in
Southern California try to poach
from existing hyperlocal media in
the communities where they set
up shop, or hire editors who are as
familiar with said communities
"as someone can [be] from a
Google search." (To be fair, good
journalists will immerse
themselves and become experts in
local beats no matter where
they're from.)
• Patch editors plagiarize. More
negative press came in the form of
several plagiarism incidents in
recent weeks -- the first in West
Hollywood, Calif., the second in
New Rochelle, N.Y., where the
local Patch editor was alleged to
have been a "democratic political
operative" while she was running
the site. In both cases, the editors
(one of whom was a freelance
calendar editor) lifted content
from local bloggers. (Both were
fired.)
local bank executive for which a respond to the questions we sent about unreasonable workloads
freelancer had been contracted her. and difficulties taking time off:
• AOL overworks Patch editors, $300 last month. The freelancer Here's what Patch has to say We're a start-up, with start-up
who aren't exactly making big told us that the editor, a "23-year- about.... hours and start-up enthusiasm.
bucks. Meanwhile, Patch editors, old fresh out of j-school" (who no • The recent plagiarism incidents: We want Patch employees to be
who reportedly make $38-$45K a longer works for that site), was Like any journalism organization, happy and set out from day one
year and are given a weekly "gung ho" about the piece, but we won't tolerate it. We are still to accomplish that. From the
freelance budget of around $500, that his regional editor killed it going to be the largest hirer of beginning, we've had a great deal
continue to speak out about because "they don't want to rock journalists and we're really proud of communication with our
working conditions. We've heard the boat in town." Emails we of the teams we've created and the employees -- it's an open
from about 10 of them since viewed seem to corroborate this work they're doing. Bad calls will dialogue. As we evolve as a
publishing an account over the claim. "I'll never write for them sometimes be made -- we're all company, we'll learn more and
summer of an editor who claimed again," the source told us. human -- but we're doing more about what works and what
she worked 70-hour weeks, 24/7, everything we can to hold our doesn't, and we'll continue to take
w i t h o u t t h e v a c a t i o n d a y s So why do Patch editors keep journalists to the strictest of steps to try to do what's best for
promised her and with " little working for AOL? We posed that editorial standards. We want to our employees, [such as] adding
support in getting any kind of question to a disgruntled editor serve our communities well, our an additional editor in regions,
time off." who has worked at Patch since the editorial team well, and offering our editors freelance
summer. journalism well. We take that budgets to help share the work,
"A lot of us came from other seriously. increased communications with
• Patch requires overworked media outlets, and those jobs just the field and weekend relief,
editors to also volunteer. One don't exist anymore," he said. among many other things we
editor told us several weeks ago "What else can you do? For a lot • The killed story in New already had in place and have
that "a lot of people are upset" of people it's out of necessity. Canaan: We were pitched a bad since put in place.
that they are now mandated (as "I try to be patient with these story and we passed based on its
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also said that he and many of his completely different story." the field. We encourage • Will AOL's Patch Be Able To
colleagues struggle to find Patch recently got its own employees to participate -- it's Sustain Its Gremlins-Like
freelance editors -- as Patch communications director, Janine good for their communities and Expansion?
requires them to do -- who can fill Iamunno, who started two weeks people seem to have a good time • AOL Already Spending ~$45
in when they want to take ago. (AOL did not return previous making a difference -- but it's not Million Per Year On New Patch
vacation/personal days or get inquiries seeking comment.) We mandatory and the dates are Employees
relief on the weekends. requested an interview with Patch flexible. Doing positive things in
Media president Warren Webster. our communities is part of our
We also reached out to Patch core mission and we've gotten a
• Patch won't "rock the boat" and editor-in-chief Brian Farnham by tremendous internal response so
hides from controversial stories. phone. far.
We got a tip that the Patch site in Farnham did not return our call,
New Canaan, Conn., killed an and Iamunno told us that Webster
investigative story involving a was not available. But she did • Complaints from employees
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Poll: Why the Boss Sucks, By Employees

Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:00:22 AM
Earlier today, we revealed which
CEOs, celebrities, and politicians
were considered the most wanted
bosses, according to a new poll by
HR company Adecco. But not
everyone can have their ideal boss
--and in fact, most don't. Adecco's
poll also asked 700 employees
and 300 bosses from blue and
white collar industries about the
relationship between workers and
management. The results make all
bosses seem a little more like
Michael Scott--and might make
them rethink their next interaction
with employees.
Commanders vs. Coaches
When asked to report on
leadership style, bosses and
employees disagreed in certain
categories. Only 15% of bosses
described their own management
style as commanding. About 23%
of employees, on the other hand,
reported their boss's style to be
commanding, and just 11% said
being commanding was the
desired style. "Bosses may not
recognize how bossy they actually
are," the report says.
Similarly, bosses believe they are
visionary leaders and good
coaches; their employees
disagree. "Nearly one in three
bosses may think they are using a
coaching style, but only one in
five employees agrees," concludes
Adecco. Only 17% of bosses are
self-styled visionaries, whereas
close to 23% of employees view
this as the preferred leadership
style.
Respect the Team Player
More than one out of three
three-quarters completely agreed,
with another 14% somewhat
agreeing.
Do You Want the Top Spot?
Interestingly, though many
respondents offered criticism of
their boss' style and approach,
very few are interested in a
management position. A
surprising 70% said they did not
aspire to have their boss' job.
Moreover, aspiration also varies
based on age, gender, and other
factors. Around 36% of men
aspire to have their boss' job,
compared with just 23% of
women. Only 18% of Boomers
aspire to the same positions,
compared with more than double
the numbers of Gen-Xers and
Millennials. Lastly, respondents
employees think they are smarter cause significant problems with with kids at home were more
than their bosses, even if they are respect. Could you respect and likely to aspire to their boss' job
m o r e e d u c a t e d . Y o u n g e r work with a boss who is two years (39%), compared to 23% without
generations tend to think this way younger than you? 89% agreed. children.
more: 41% of Millennials and Ten years? Only 68% agreed. So what is your management
Gen-X'ers believe they are Twenty years? The number drops style? Are you a visionary? A
s m a r t e r t h a n t h e i r b o s s e s , to 56% of respondents. commander or a coach? Think
compared with just 30% of Baby One area where most respondents again. Don't forget: A third of
Boomers. agreed: Bosses must be willing to your employees believe they are
Age difference is an integral part get their hands dirty. When asked smarter than you.
of respect. While the vast majority whether a good boss is willing to
of bosses and employees share roll up his or her sleeves to help
mutual respect, age disparity can the team get the job done, nearly

The 13 Careers Where You’re Most Likely to Commit Suicide

Mamta Badkar and Gus Lubin Data on occupational suicide is the most suicidal jobs. white Americans are twice as
(Business Insider) hard to find, perhaps because the This list is not weighted for likely to commit suicide as blacks.
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Wind Could Drive 20% of World Power Needs By
2030, With China in Lead
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:38:40 AM
Despite earlier setbacks, wind
power may have reached a tipping
point. This morning we learned
that Google (of all companies) is
investing up to $200 million in
infrastructure to support a massive
wind farm 10 miles off the East
Coast that will be operational in
2016. And approval was granted
just last week for the first offshore
wind project in the U.S., a $1
billion 130-windmill affair off the
coast of Cape Cod. Earlier this
year the U.K. granted licenses for
nine offshore projects, which
could generate up to 25% of the
country's energy needs. And tiny
Portugal, which has had large
offshore windfarms since 2008
and opened a new onshore facility
in May this year, has the second
highest wind-power mix in the
world.
In light of this massive expansion
in wind power generation,
Greenpeace and the Global Wind
Energy Council have been
looking at the state of the wind-
powered generating industry
around the world, and have
predicted how wind energy usage
may evolve over the next 20 years
in a new report out today. Their
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finding: 20% of our energy needs
could be powered by wind inside
20 years--and China will lead the
way. Do we believe it?
Among the numerous statistics in
the study, there are two stand-out
conclusions: In a best-case
scenario, rapid uptake of wind
tech by many countries around the
world could result in between
11.5% and 12.3% (about 2,600
terawatt-hours) of global
electrical energy needs. Continued
uptake could see this figure
expand to 18.8% to 21.8%
(around 5,400 terawatt-hours).
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change? The report also sheds
light on that question: It's China.
It came in second in the world in
installed wind power capacity in
2009, and is predicted to take top-
slot in 2010. The nation certainly
has a vested economic interest in
Is Avon
pursuing eco-energy, and it's not
in the spirit of a better Buyout
environment: If China can benefit
from "free" energy (lacking the
massive, expensive infrastructure
Bait?
needed for coal or nuclear power Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)
generation), it wouldn't have to Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:20:00 PM
rely on external sources for its
power. And since it's the Filed under: Rumors, Avon
production source of significant Products (AVP)
amounts of goods for the rest of From time to time, Avon
the world, it could produce things Products ( AVP) becomes the
more cheaply, for greater profit. topic of buyout rumors. And yes,
Even a very conservative scenario this week it happened again.
Compared to, say, the U.S. where
would see 4.8% of our needs met Actually, investors are giving it
NIMBYism is a problem and a
inside the next 10 years--equal to some credence. In Tuesday
skittish government isn't exactly
Europe's energy consumption. morning trading, the shares of
leaping to embrace wind energy
There's one simple eco- Avon were up 5.6% to 35.03.
(despite the best efforts of folks
conclusion to be drawn from these That's only a couple bucks away
like Google), the Chinese
figures: If the world really from its 52-week high.
government is also not afraid to
embraced wind power, 34 billion The buyout buzz comes from a
enforce the building of wind
tons less carbon dioxide would be report in the Daily Mail.
farms. This is proven by the
added to the atmosphere by 2030- According to this UK paper, it
mailed-fist approach to getting the
-that's more than the entire world's appears that L'Oreal is looking at
Three Gorges Dam project
current level of CO2 output for a a bid that could be as high as $44
working, displacing 1.3 million
year, and the savings would per share, or $19 billion.
people on the way.
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Abusive Microfinanciers Have Prompted Lawmakers in India to

Regulate the Industry
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast While most microfinance lending We wrote last month about
Company) around the globe has a India's microfinance boom, some
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:39:54 AM measurably positive effect on of the current trends in the
borrowers, the business has industry, and the need for
A new law is being introduced in become less do-gooder as it's increased regulation as
response to frequent suicides at grown into a hugely profitable microfinance grows among some
the hands of bullying lenders. form of banking. But as of now, of the world's poorest borrowers.
Microfinance borrowers are the system is largely unregulated. As microfinance becomes "big
being bullied so ruthlessly by "Though there are legislations like business," we wouldn't be
lenders--to the point of inducing the Money Lenders (regulation) surprised if new laws like the one
suicide in some cases--that Indian Act, to check traditional being proposed pop up all over
authorities are introducing a new moneylenders, non-banking the country, not just in Andhra
law to "control the lending rates financial institutions like MFIs Andhra Pradesh, India's fourth couple of days, mostly by women. Pradesh.
and curb the often abusive are not governed by any particular largest state and home to 40% of The new bill would levy punitive [ I m a g e : f l i c k r u s e r M c K a y
approach used by MFIs during legal structure," reported the India's microfinance institutions measures for harassing or Savage]
recollection," according to the Hindustan Times. (MFIs), where there's reportedly a molestation of women in name
Hindustan Times. And that's becoming a problem in lending-related suicide every of recovery.
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Restaurant.com Sells 1.5 Million Tony Gwynn Has Mouth

Coupons In 48 Hours With Groupon- Cancer – Time To Ban
Style Promotion Dipping?
Nick Saint (Business Insider) Cork Gaines (Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:44:10 AM Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:43:30 AM

Restaurant.com just sold a Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn, the

whopping 1.5 million coupons
nationwide in just 48 hours by
telling consumers they were
getting in on a Groupon-like deal.
Restaurant.com called its offer a
"daily deal," but it didn't actually
have much of anything in
common with what Groupon or its
competitors do.
Restaurant.com has a relatively
stable inventory of discounted
vouchers on sale all the time.
Rather than highlighting some
specific deal for a limited time,
the company simply put a wide
range of its inventory on sale at
90% off face value for a two-day
window.
Naturally sales exploded. Take
90% off anything and people are
going to be interested.
What's funny here is that
Restuarant.com felt the need to
frame its sale as a Groupon-esque
daily deal. Really, it was just a
run-of-the-mill sale.
That's a great sign for Groupon
and company: even businesses
current head coach at San Diego
State, has cancer of a salivary
gland.
While he hasn't talked to his
doctors about a possible cause,
Gwynn believes the cancer was
caused by his longtime use of
chewing tobacco, a habit
maintained even after retiring
from baseball.
While Gwynn's prognosis is
good, the same cannot be said
about the future of smokeless
tobacco in Major League
that aren't in a position to offer See Also: Baseball.
Groupon-style daily deals think • 100 Million Reasons Yahoo One study showed that as much
it's in their interest to associate Would Spend $2 Billion To Buy as 50% of big leaguers were
themselves with the Groupon Groupon dipping in the late '80s. MLB
model. • Groupon CEO Andrew Mason banned the use of chewing
In this case, that appears to be O n A c q u i s i t i o n R u m o r s : tobacco in the minor leagues since
right. Restaurant.com normally " U g g g g g g g g h h h h h ! " 1993 and indications are that this
sells roughly 79,000 coupons in a • Yahoo Looking At Buying has helped lower the use in the
48-hour period, the company tells Groupon big leagues in recent decades.
us. The "daily deal" promotion Back in April, congress got
boosted sales almost twenty-fold. involved by asking MLB and the
Join the conversation about this players to ban chewing tobacco.
story » Still, if MLB wants to ban
chewing tobacco is must be
collectively bargained, and of
course, the players aren't going to
give up their habit lightly.
But if the always popular Gwynn
becomes the poster-child for
banning tobacco from the field,
MLB may now have their best
weapon yet.
Join the conversation about this
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See Also:
• CHART OF THE DAY: Even
Without The Obama Splurge,
Your Taxes Are Heading Much
Higher
• Austerity Anger Heads To
France: Health Care Protest Shuts
Down Paris Train Station
• Uh-Oh: Chance Of Having A
Heart Attack Spikes After
Working More Than 10 Hours Per
Day

That New Super WiFi? What's in It For Me?

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Put Spread Player Bets on The Sherwin-Williams
Bank of America Summer Dip Appears to
Pullback Be Over
Elizabeth Harrow
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Earnings Reports,
Bank of America (BAC), Options,
Technical Analysis, DJIA
Puts were unusually popular on
Bank of America ( BAC)
Monday, with volume rising to
1.50 times the expected level.
Roughly 144,000 puts changed
hands on the Dow component
during the course of the session,
easily outpacing the banking
baron's predicted daily volume of
96,000 contracts.
Taking a closer look at the day's
major block trades, it looks as
though one speculator is
expecting a modest pullback from
BAC during the near term. In
afternoon action, a block of
20,000 November 13 puts traded
at the ask price, suggesting they
were purchased. Simultaneously,
a block of 40,000 November 11
Business/ Technology/ Economy/ 9
Markets Stay Mixed: Here
Are The 10 Trades To
Watch Right Now (EWT,
AVP, SBUX, IXC, BT,
PKX)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Joseph Lazzaro Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:41:00 AM
(BloggingStocks)
Markets have failed to move
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:40:00 PM
sharply in either direction today,
Filed under: Stocks to Buy in advance of the release of the
If you took the opportunity to minutes for the last FOMC
take some profits off the table this meeting.
summer with paint-supplier • Dow down 0.18%
• NASDAQ up 0.22%
puts crossed the tape at the bid supreme Sherwin-Williams ( but investors will accept the • S&P 500 down 0.07%
price, indicating they were most SHW) it proved to be a wise company's profits just the same. • DAX down 0.04%
likely sold. Open interest rose move, as shares dipped from Continue reading The Sherwin- • CAC 40 down 0.52%
substantially at both strikes about $78 to the $72 level. Williams Summer Dip Appears to • FTSE 100 down 0.08%
overnight, confirming that these However, I still like the shares, Be Over
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Oracle, IBM to collaborate on OpenJDK

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:09:04 AM
Oracle and IBM have unveiled a
new collaboration that will allow
developers and customers to build
and innovate based on existing
Java investments and the
OpenJDK(Java Development Kit)
reference implementation.
According to a joint statement
issued by Oracle, the two partners
will make the OpenJDK
community the primary location
to facilitate open-source Java SE
(Standard Edition) development.
The new collaboration will also
center on the Java language, JDK,
and Java Runtime Environment.
Both vendors plan to enhance the
JCP (Java Community Process)
which will continue to be the
primary standards body for Java
specification work.
Read more of " Oracle and IBM
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Sarkozy in pension showdown as street protests

escalate (AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) As a huge crowd of protestors trains was running, although approved hiking the retirement
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:45:30 AM snaked its way noisily though the Eurostar trains between Paris and age from 60 to 62.
streets of Paris near the national London operated normally. Paris That is the most hotly contested
PARIS (AFP) – French students a s s e m b l y , P r i m e M i n i s t e r commuter and metro trains were part of the package which White House To Lift Ban
joined more than a million Francois Fillon defended the also hit as transport workers Sarkozy says could save 70 On Deep Water Drilling,
striking workers Tuesday in the pension plans during a rowdy walked off the job. billion euros (90 billion dollars)
biggest protests so far against parliamentary session. Train workers voted to renew by 2030. France's public deficit is
And The Drilling Stocks
President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan "We are determined to carry their strike and the SNCF national around eight percent of GDP, well Are Surging (BP, RIG,
to hike the retirement age to 62. through this reform," he said. rail company said services would above the eurozone target of three HAL, DRQ, TTI, CAM)
Some strikers decided to prolong But opposition Socialist leader likely be as badly disrupted on percent. Gus Lubin (Money Game)
their stoppages to try and make Martine Aubry accused him of Wednesday as on Tuesday. Unions and opposition politicians
Sarkozy give up the pension plans o v e r s e e i n g a r e f o r m t h a t Students at around 400 high say the plan puts an unfair burden Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:12:00 AM

that are the cornerstone of the "symbolises all the injustices and schools across the country built on workers and have made
The White House is about to lift
right-wing leader's reform agenda inequalities that characterise his barricades with plastic wheelie alternative proposals to fix the
the ban on deepwater drilling,
and which he says are needed to policies and which the French bins or used other methods to try deficit.
NYT reports:
slash France's budget deficit. find intolerable." to prevent other pupils attending Pensions are a key plank in the
“The process is coming to its
Students and school pupils Operations at 11 of France's 12 classes, the education ministry reform agenda of Sarkozy, whose
natural end,” Robert Gibbs, the
broadened the movement and mainland oil refineries were said. poll ratings are at their lowest
White House press secretary, told
their participation -- along with disrupted and 56 tankers were A CSA opinion poll said 69 since he came to power in 2007,
reporters on Tuesday morning. “I
the plans to make some strikes s t u c k w a i t i n g o f f t h e percent of French people back the as he eyes reelection in 2012.
believe the process will wrap up
open-ended -- was seen as an Mediterranean port of Marseille strike, with 61 percent in favour The Senate's deliberations are to
very soon.” The Interior
escalation of what has become the as petrol and dock workers held of more open-ended industrial last until Friday and the
Department later sent reporters
toughest battle in Sarkozy's an open-ended strike. action. government hopes for the reform
an e-mail announcing that it
presidency. Travellers faced major delays, The government had hoped the to be approved by the end of the
would hold a telephone news
Tuesday's nationwide streets with up to half the flights to and demonstrations would fizzle out month.
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Christina Aguilera
First Human Clinical Trial of Embryonic Stem Cell and Jordan Bratman
Therapy Underway Reportedly Split!
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
(Society) brain injury rehabilitation hospital study, leaving only Geron to pro-life groups insist human
Submitted at 10/11/2010 2:06:08 PM and clinical research center. report that the federal agency embryonic stem cell research is Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:40:00 AM

Less than three months ago, the determined the cysts "did not lead unethical and equate it with
The first-ever clinical trial of U . S . F o o d a n d D r u g to any adverse consequences to abortion because it destroys a Christina Aguilera and her
human embryonic stem cell-based A d m i n i s t r a t i o n g a v e G e r o n the animals" and that the company potential life. They also argue that husband since 2005, Jordan
therapy on a human patient is now approval to proceed with its trial changed some of its procedures adult stem research is an Bratman, have been living
underway, according to the first on a therapy for patients with "to minimize the likelihood of alternative that is both ethical and separately for months, reports Us
and presently only company in the spinal-cord injury. The trial cyst formation." has proven results. Weekly. The couple have a 2-year
United States with the license to involves injecting a stem-cell "When we started working with Just last month, a team of -old son, Max, who according to
use the controversial cells to treat treatment into patients with severe hESCs in 1999, many predicted researchers revealed its insiders is of the utmost
people. spinal cord injury with the hope that it would be a number of development of a new technique importance as they work out their
T h e C a l i f . - b a s e d G e r o n that it will help damaged nerve decades before a cell therapy that can quickly and more arrangement. Christina and Jordan
Corporation announced Monday cells regrow and eventually allow would be approved for human efficiently create safe alternatives apparently haven't given up on a
the enrollment of the first patient patients to regain movement. clinical trials,” noted Okarma on to human embryonic stem cells. possibility of reconciling, but at
in its clinical trial at the Shepherd The FDA had originally Monday. The new method, which is the moment they are split.
Center in Atlanta, where the approved the study in January “This accomplishment results featured in the October issue of This news comes hot on the heels
biopharmaceuticals company 2009 and the trial was scheduled from extensive research and Cell Stem Cell, uses synthetic of yesterday's surprising
hopes to see the first major to begin last summer. But Geron development and a succession of RNA to drive the expression of announcement about Courteney
b r e a k t h r o u g h f o r h u m a n found that animals used in a inventive steps to enable stem cell-inducing proteins Cox and David Arquette, who like
embryonic stem cell research. preclinical study had developed production of cGMP master cell without irreversibly altering the Christina and Jordan had seemed
"Initiating the … clinical trial is a small cysts that appeared with “a banks, scalable manufacture of cells' genetic material. Continue » to have things worked out despite
milestone for the field of human higher frequency” than other differentiated cell product, and This entry passed through the their different lifestyles. Christina
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medical director of the Shepherd declined to comment on why they the embryo during the process of Catastrophe. Sundays are off.
Center, a 132-bed spinal cord and decided to lift their hold on the harvesting the stem cells. Many

Britney Spears Brings Her Smile and Sundress to Starbucks

Molly Goodson (PopSugar) yesterday. The pop star helped songwriters and producers at a and Jayden James with her ex
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:45:00 AMGlee break a Billboard Hot 100 "camp" to crank out new tracks Kevin Federline. Her To see more of Britney, just read
record last month, and since then for her. She's also on a good path conservatorship is still in place for more.
Britney Spears stopped off for a she's been hard at work on her in her personal life, going strong now, but everything seems to be View 10 Photos ›
cold drink and a snack at a own album. She's rumored to have with boyfriend Jason Trawick and on the up and up for Miss Brit.
Starbucks in Calabasas, CA, recently congregated a group of dividing custody of Sean Preston
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Adam Lambert to play it safe for
Malaysia concert (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 8:27:27 AM
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia –
Adam Lambert pledged Tuesday
to obey Malaysian government
rules that forbid the flamboyant,
openly gay glam rocker from
kissing anyone onstage at a
planned concert this week, but
called it "a tough decision."
The "American Idol" runner-up,
who is touring Asia, told The
Associated Press in Hong Kong
that his "main goal is to keep
people entertained - not to make
them uncomfortable." Lambert is
slated to perform Thursday at a
stadium in Muslim-majority
Malaysia's biggest city, Kuala
Lumpur.
Lambert has agreed to heed
restrictions against stripping,
jumping and kissing onstage, said
Yuen-See Cho, a representative
for concert co-organizer Sony
Music Entertainment Malaysia.
"It's something I'm doing out of
respect," Lambert said in an
interview with the AP ahead of
his Hong Kong concert. "It's just
one little thing. Man kissing
another man is something that
government really doesn't
appreciate."
"I think it's a tough decision to
make, but to me, there are so
many amazing fans in Malaysia
that it's more important for me to
be able to come and do my show
there for them and entertain them
and thank them for supporting
me," he added.
Lambert is known to sometimes
lock lips with a male musician
during his concerts. At last year's
American Music Awards, he also
dragged a female dancer around
by the ankles and had a dancer
simulate oral sex on him.
The 28-year-old's planned
concert has drawn objections from
the opposition Pan-Malaysian
Islamic Party, which in the past
also criticized concerts by Gwen
Stefani, Avril Lavigne and other
artists it considers to be bad role
models for youngsters.
Cho of Sony Music said Lambert
had "agreed to respect the
guidelines that are set by the
Ministry of Culture, Arts and
Heritage."
"We have shared with him in
terms of what are the do's and
don't's ... dressing and stuff like
that."
Malaysia's Islamic opposition
party claimed Lambert was
advocating homosexuality, but the
singer said on Twitter late
Monday that his show "promotes
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Gorillaz: We won't let
'Glee' cover our songs
living ANY lifestyle that includes
the freedom to seek love and
intimacy. Gay, straight, bi, young
(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Murphy to consider using some of
or old. It's all inclusive."
The party also pointed out that Submitted at 10/12/2010 6:31:03 AM his tunes on the show.
Lambert is known for racy But Albarn says shows like
NEW YORK – The virtual band "Glee" showcase "a very poor
performances.
Gorillaz isn't exactly going substitute for the real thing."
Lambert's music is popular in
bananas over the television The "Glee" cast recently
Malaysia, and many of his fans
musical series "Glee." surpassed the Beatles for the most
say his sexuality doesn't bother
Lead singer Damon Albarn says appearances on the Billboard Hot
them. Sodomy - even consensual -
he's not interested in letting the hit 100 chart by a non-solo act, but
is punishable by 20 years in
show perform covers of his band's Albarn says people shouldn't take
prison in Malaysia, but
songs. the feat seriously.
prosecutions are rare.
"We wouldn't let that happen," "Those songs won't last like the
In recent years, several female
Albarn said in an interview with Beatles by any stretch of their
Western pop stars, including
The Associated Press last week. imagination," he says. "They'll be
Stefani and Fergie, revamped
"And not that they've asked us forgotten in a few years' time."
their wardrobe and avoided
because they haven't, and now Gorillaz kicked off the North
skimpy costumes to perform in
t h e y d e f i n i t e l y w o n ' t , " h e American leg of their "Escape to
Malaysia.
continued with a laugh. Plastic Beach World Tour" earlier
___
Gorillaz is best known for their this month. It wraps up in
Associated Press writer Min Lee
Grammy-winning jam "Feel Good Vancouver on Nov. 3.
contributed to this report from
Inc.," which features De La Soul. ___
Hong Kong.
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Wall Street stresses jobs and taxes after election

(Reuters: Top News) by the Obama administration to focus on after the elections, nearly either. They’re already rolling in
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:33:53 AM stimulate the economy through a two-thirds of respondents said cash. We need to create demand.
combination of spending and tax extending President George W. That means more stimulus
Traders work on the floor of the breaks. Bush-era tax cuts should be a spending no matter what the big
New York Stock Exchange The latest Reuters poll of priority, while more than half said ugly deficit is.
October 4, 2010. economists shows expectations boosting economic growth should Oct 12, 2010 12:14pm EDT
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McDermid gross domestic product in the Democrats have said they want to American public will gain
By Edward Krudy third quarter and 2.1 percent in extend tax cuts for the middle anything from a second
KC Fed Chief Hoenig Is
NEW YORK| Tue Oct 12, 2010 the fourth quarter. class but let tax rates revert to “quantative easing” when it didn’t Back And Warning Of
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NEW YORK(Reuters) - Wall had been promulgated by the least $250,000 a year. There is no reason for a company Exit Its Money Printing
Street is more worried about high O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n h a d Republicans want tax breaks to pay you more, if it has option
unemployment than the makeup produced extraordinary growth in extended across the board. All the to substitute your work with far Binge
of Congress or the Federal our economy, I don't think we'd tax breaks will expire at the end Asian work. I am not saying that Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Reserve's next move, according to be having these conversations of the year without action from is bad in general, but it is Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:50:35 AM
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priorities of the new Congress, All seats in the U.S. House of than a quarter wanted Obama's We try to block comments that surprise... he's warning of asset
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of a priority for Wall Street. Just Republicans to win at least the rewarded those companies who inappropriate, you can flag it to we don't have his full text yet, you
three of 53 respondents said House. Some say the market has outsourced the most US jobs and our editors by using the report can surmise that it's similar to his
scrapping the bill should be one of built in such expectations in its brought in the most foreign abuse links. Views expressed in speech in April where he
two top priorities, despite months recent September rally, and two- workers to reduce wages and the comments do not represent slammed 0% interest rates and the
of vocal opposition. thirds of respondents say the replace US workers is NOW those of Reuters. effect they had in manufacturing
The poll shows Wall Street has market will rally at least modestly saying that unemployment is a This entry passed through the bubbles.
lower unemployment as by far the if Republicans win one House. problem! WOW. Full-Text RSS service — if this is Join the conversation about this
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followed by increased consumer more enthusiastic about the all in that $250K+ bracket. our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
confidence. Those two factors coming election. Oct 12, 2010 11:52am EDT content-only/faq.php
trounce more Fed action and even Such an outcome would give If they’re concerned about Five Filters featured article:
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The U.S. economy endured an 18 make it harder for Democrats to should start investing the $1.5 Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
-month recession ending in June push their agenda. Trillion they have sidelined. Catastrophe.
2009, the longest since the Great TAX BREAKS WANTED Government cannot force the
Depression, but growth since then In a question about which two private sector to hire people.
has been anemic despite attempts issues the Republicans should Business tax cuts won’t do it,
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Higher costs, risk lasting legacy of Gulf spill

(Reuters: Top News) proportion will increase to about have big balance sheets," Duroc- said.
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:27:24 AM half in 2015, the International Danner told an oil conference. "We don't see that the potential
Energy Agency says, but that "Do you really think that people for offshore has changed,"
Oil clings to marsh grass in South trend has been slowed by the Gulf who don't have a very large Sandrea said. "We do see a higher
Pass near Venice, Louisiana, of Mexico spill. balance sheet will risk the entire -cost environment going forward.
August 1, 2010. "A return to drilling in the Gulf of company on human error?" Taxes, rigs, the lack of equipment
Credit: Reuters/Sean Gardner Mexico will not occur until late "It's likely there will be an will come into play in one form or
By David Turner and Emma 2011," oil and gas banker Michael ownership shift. A fair amount of another."
Farge O'Dwyer of Morgan Stanley said, properties over a period of time *We welcome comments that
LONDON| Tue Oct 12, 2010 adding he did not believe offshore will find themselves on the advance the story directly or with
12:27pm EDT activity would be normalized until auction block in the Gulf of relevant tangential information.
LONDON(Reuters) - The Gulf of then, even if the U.S. moratorium Mexico," he said. We try to block comments that Jennifer and Sera Stroll
Mexico oil spill will push up costs w a s l i f t e d a s e x p e c t e d i n "What will happen to deepwater use offensive language or appear Hand in Hand to Pick
and reduce the number of offshore N o v e m b e r . in general is that it will take more to be spam and review comments
oil and gas operators in U.S. "Once legislation is passed, time, it will be more expensive, frequently to ensure they meet our Up Violet at School
waters for a long time to come, oil pressure on smaller players in the and will yield, on average, less at standards. If you see a comment Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
company executives told an Gulf will inevitably increase. We a later time," he said. that you believe is irrelevant or Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:15:00 AM
industry conference on Tuesday. expect to see a change in the David Williams, chief executive inappropriate, you can flag it to
More than 4 million barrels of ownership structure in the Gulf of Noble Corp, said 15 to 20 our editors by using the report One-year-old Seraphina Affleck
crude oil spewed into the seas off with smaller players looking to percent of Gulf of Mexico abuse links. Views expressed in led the way for Jennifer Garner as
the U.S. Gulf coast after the consolidate and potentially exit," operators, mainly smaller players, the comments do not represent they went to pick up Violet from
rupture of BP's Macondo offshore O'Dwyer said. might have to leave the region. those of Reuters. school in LA yesterday. Jennifer
oil platform in April. Bernard Duroc-Danner, chief Ivan Sandrea, vice-president of This entry passed through the is back from a quick trip to NYC
The disaster has led to a e x e c u t i v e o f W e a t h e r f o r d international exploration and Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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healthy snacks Save the Children
U.S. waters and new regulations oil output across the world would state energy company Statoil, said on someone else's site, please read
initiative and chatted about her
aimed at permanently reshaping b e c o m e m o r e e x p e n s i v e , he expected the proportion of oil our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/daughter's upcoming Halloween
the U.S. offshore oil and gas increasing the attractions of from offshore production to stay content-only/faq.php costumes on The View. Violet is
industry, which industry officials o n s h o r e e n e r g y p r o d u c t i o n at roughly the same level as Five Filters featured article: apparently still in charge of what
have said will raise costs and including heavy oil and shale gas. previously forecast, but costs Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- her little sister wears, though
could reduce offshore output. "OWNERSHIP SHIFT" would rise. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Jennifer joked this might be the
About a third of the world's oil "How many real estate owners Deepwater oil production would Catastrophe. last time only one opinion picks
production now comes from can afford to stay in Gulf of account for "probably over 30 per what the siblings dress up as.
o f f s h o r e p r o j e c t s a n d t h i s Mexico deepwater? The ones that cent of worldwide oil growth," he Otherwise, Jennifer's been at
home with her girls, getting in the
Destroyed in Seconds: Bank Robber Takedown Fall spirit at soccer games and
making frozen yogurt runs with
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) unmarked police car stops him in system videos Five Filters featured article: Violet.
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Discovery Channel's "Destroyed Full-Text RSS service — if this is Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
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Morning Links - David
Chile's trapped miners finally set to escape Schwimmer Secretly
Married Girlfriend Zoe
(Reuters: Top News) -made capsules. a tent with four family members, The men have set a world record
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:41:32 AM Wives, children, parents and their hands joined together to for the length of time workers Buckman
friends are waiting on an arid, form a circle, singing hymns and have survived underground after a PopSugar (PopSugar)
A relative of a trapped miner rocky hillside around 2,050 feet chanting "hallelujah" and "glory mining accident, and have been
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:15:49 AM
observes the rescue operation in directly above them at a tent to God." doing exercises to keep their
Copiapo October 12, 2010. settlement dubbed "Camp Hope." Her daughter had just left to have weight down for their ascent.
Credit: Reuters/David Mercado An entire nation, still recovering her hair done in a makeshift *We welcome comments that • David Schwimmer secretly
By Cesar Illiano and Terry Wade from a devastating February hairdressers in another of the advance the story directly or with married for four months- People
COPIAPO, Chile| Tue Oct 12, earthquake, is ready to celebrate. camp's tents. relevant tangential information. • Jim Carrey gets cozy with a hot
2010 12:41pm EDT "Right now I'm calm, though still "She went to the salon to get fixed We try to block comments that brunette- TMZ
COPIAPO, Chile(Reuters) - The very anxious. I hope my nerves up so she can look pretty when use offensive language or appear • Carrie Fisher used cocaine on
first of Chile's 33 trapped miners don't betray me when the rescue she receives him," Donoso said, to be spam and review comments Empire Strikes Back- PopEater
are set to travel nearly half a mile starts," said Jessica Salgado, as excited school children ran frequently to ensure they meet our • Oliver Stone's update on
through solid rock in a shaft just whose husband Alex is trapped around the camp with face paint standards. If you see a comment Michael Douglas- Huffington
wider than a man's shoulders on below, as the sun rose over the on. that you believe is irrelevant or Post
Tuesday, as their two month camp. ESCAPE ROUTE TESTED inappropriate, you can flag it to • James Franco's two-movie
ordeal after a cave-in draws to an "The first thing I'm going to do is Rescuers on Monday successfully our editors by using the report weekend- Lainey Gossip
end. hug him hard, tell him how much tested a capsule, dubbed abuse links. Views expressed in • Demi Moore auctioning off
Nervous anticipation grew among I love him, and how I've missed "Phoenix" after the mythical bird the comments do not represent painting in NYC- Wonderwall
the miners' relatives and friends as him all this time," she added. She that rose from the ashes, after they those of Reuters. • The Situation storms off DWTS
M i n i n g M i n i s t e r L a u r e n c e said Mining Minister Laurence partially lined the narrow escape This entry passed through the set after bad scores- Us Weekly
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the hot, humid bowels of a gold Wednesday) estimate. the width of grapefruit, which Five Filters featured article: • Paris and Nicky Hilton
and copper mine in Chile's Many miners' relatives staged then became an umbilical cord Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- celebrate Beverly Hills' Real
northern Atacama desert after an vigils as the climax neared. used to pass hydration gels, water Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Housewives- I'm Not Obsessed
August 5 collapse, and now face a Noemi Donoso, whose 43-year- and food to keep them alive Catastrophe.
h a r r o w i n g l y c l a u s t r o p h o b i c old son-in-law Samuel Avalos is during one of the world's most
journey to the surface in specially among the trapped, sat praying in ambitious rescue operations.

Chic in Paris: Dries Van Noten Men's Store

Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:12:02 PM
I would like to think that if Diana
Vreeland was alive today, she
would greatly approve of the new
Dries Van Noten men's store in
Paris. The shop, located at 9 quai store which was once an office. coexists with a Jean Cocteau
Malaquais, is two doors away Even though the space is now drawing and an Anthony van
from his gorgeous women's devoted to men's clothing, the Dyck painting that hangs on a
boutique and was until recently an designer has also filled it back up wood panel from the 1960's that
art gallery. What I love the most with carefully chosen art, antiques was bought in Brussels. Oh, and
is that Dries and his architect Gert and furnishings from every time the clothes aren't too shabby
Voorjans kept the original red/rust period and style. A metal Italian either.
and replicated it the back of the
colored lacquer from the 1970's coffee table by Gabriells Crespi
16 News Wire/ Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Oct. 12, 1928: Iron

White House opposes broad foreclosure moratorium Lung, Savior to a
(Reuters: Top News) But it is not clear if any Temporary pauses in foreclosures character. dratman Report As
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:46:46 AM individual or single regulator has have expanded among major Abusive Generation
the power to impose a nationwide lenders as the courts, lawmakers Oct 12, 2010 12:13pm EDT Tony Long (Wired Top Stories)
An auction sign for a property is moratorium, with most mortgage and state attorneys general *We welcome comments that
Submitted at 10/12/2010 6:00:00 AM
seen at the front garden of a regulation conducted on a state-by investigate whether banks advance the story directly or with
f o r e c l o s e d h o u s e i n M i a m i -state basis. supplied shoddy paperwork to relevant tangential information. Sorry, Readability was unable to
Gardens, Florida September 15, The health of the housing market support evictions of delinquent We try to block comments that parse this page for content.
2009. is a major concern as the Obama borrowers. use offensive language or appear This entry passed through the
Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria administration tries to step up the But an investor group and to be spam and review comments Full-Text RSS service — if this is
WASHINGTON| Tue Oct 12, economy's recovery from its worst industry experts warned on frequently to ensure they meet our your content and you're reading it
2010 12:46pm EDT downturn since the 1930s. Monday that a nationwide standards. If you see a comment on someone else's site, please read
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Gibbs said the administration is foreclosure moratorium could that you believe is irrelevant or our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
White House on Tuesday rejected determined to "get to the bottom penalize pension funds, insurance inappropriate, you can flag it to content-only/faq.php
calls for a broad moratorium on o f " a p r o b l e m o f h a s t y companies and other investors and our editors by using the report Five Filters featured article:
home foreclosures, saying it f o r e c l o s u r e s . make new loans more expensive. abuse links. Views expressed in Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
feared such a step could harm the "We want to take the just and (Writing by Caren Bohan; Editing the comments do not represent Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
U.S. housing market and hinder a necessary steps to ensure that the by Philip Barbara and John those of Reuters. Catastrophe.
housing recovery. process is being followed legally," O'Callaghan) This entry passed through the
"There are a series of unintended he said. "At the same time, we Comments Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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spokesman Robert Gibbs told the housing recovery." difference. Maybe this is good our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
reporters. Lawmakers are acutely aware of policy — who knows? — but it content-only/faq.php
Disclosures that some big voter angst over jobs and the definitely appeals to no one out in Five Filters featured article:
m o r t g a g e p r o c e s s o r s f i l e d sluggish economy with the the real world. Nobody ever Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
affidavits without proper scrutiny N o v e m b e r 2 c o n g r e s s i o n a l seems to get more than half of Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
in thousands of foreclosure cases election three weeks away, and what they want if the issue is Catastrophe.
has drawn calls from some regulators face heavy pressure to controversial. This is the exact
lawmakers and civil rights groups prevent a repeat of the 2007-2009 opposite of populism: stay in the
for foreclosures to be halted in all financial crisis that began when middle and please no one.
50 states. the U.S. housing bubble burst. Mr. Obama is one stubborn

BlackBerry Style (or Oxford?) launching on Sprint October 31?

Chris Ziegler (Engadget) be called "Oxford" at retail, and that they've made a last-minute launching on Sprint October 31?
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:26:00 PMthat a gray version will be branding decision internally. We originally appeared on Engadget
launching at the tail end of this prefer Style, we think... but on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:26:00
The so-called BlackBerry Style month -- October 31, to be exact - regardless of what it's called, we'd EDT. Please see our terms for use
got kind of lost in all the recent - for $99.99 on contract after wager the wild QWERTY clam of feeds. Permalink PocketNow|
PlayBook noise, but fear not, rebates and discounts, while a format is going to make for some BGR| Email this| Comments
clamshell lovers -- it seems the purple version will follow on soon pretty polarizing water cooler
phone is still very much on track. thereafter. For what it's worth, chat.
Some literature leaked this week we've been hearing from other this thing is still Style, not [Thanks, Delon]
by way of BGR suggests that it'll sources recently that the name of Oxford, but it's more than possible BlackBerry Style (or Oxford?)
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Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T Review

Ewdison Then (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:30:06 AM

There was a time when an

ultraportable notebook would
invariably cost well in excess of
$1,000 and offer performance
suited to little more than emailing.
Now Acer’s Aspire TimelineX
AS1830T-68U118 drops onto the
scene, a sub-$900 11.6-inch
ultraportable packing an Intel
Core i7 processor and a claimed
battery life of up to eight hours.
Too good to be true? Check out
the full SlashGear review after the
cut.
Acer’s TimelineX series – itself a
development of the Timeline
range – is reasonably mature now,
and the design language has
evolved into a slick, handsome
line-up of variously sized
notebooks. The TimelineX
AS1830T-68U118 is the smallest
on offer, at 11.6-inches, and is a
roughly 1-inch thick slice of black
brushed aluminum. It’s
lightweight, too, at 3.1-pounds,
and feels sturdy and well-built.
Open it up, and there’s a full-
sized keyboard that’s particularly
comfortable in use, together with
a trackpad that supports
multitouch gestures. It’s worth is also strong. 5,400rpm hard-drive, together Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU U Connectivity includes WiFi b/g/
noting that the Acer’s trackpad is Where once a machine like this with Intel HD graphics (with 680 @ 1.47GHz Processor ID n, gigabit ethernet and Bluetooth
particularly accurate and would’ve used a mere CULV 128MB of dedicated system GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 37 3.0 as standard, while there’s also
responsive. The screen, processor, the TimelineX memory). System - Acer Aspire Stepping 5 Processor Frequency an HDMI port, VGA port, three
meanwhile, runs at 720p-friendly AS1830T-68U118 squeezes in 1830T Manufacturer Acer 1.47 GHz Processors 1 Threads 4 USB 2.0 ports, a multi-format
1366 x 768 resolution, and we one of Intel’s latest ultra-low Product Type Notebook Cores 2 L1 Instruction Cache 32.0 memory card reader and audio in/
can’t really fault it either; it’s voltage chips, specifically the Operating System Microsoft KB L1 Data Cache 32.0 KB L2 out (the latter optionally
sharp, the LED backlighting is Core i7-680UM dual-core running Windows 7 Home Premium Cache 256 KB L3 Cache 4.00 MB outputting S/PDIF digital audio).
bright, and the viewing angles are at 1.46GHz. It’s paired with 4GB Motherboard Intel Corp. Base Memory 3.68 GB 800 MHz FSB
great. Meanwhile color accuracy of DDR3 memory and a 500GB Board Product Name Processor 1.07 GHz BIOS INSYDE V1.16 ACER page 21
18 Technology/
€799 Galaxy Tab on sale in Germany says Samsung
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:56:57 AM
Samsung Germany has put the
Galaxy Tab Android 2.2 tablet up
for sale, though the hefty €799
($1,106) price tag may put many
would-be buyers off. Supplied
unlocked and SIM-free, the Tab
has a 7-inch touchscreen, 3G/
UMTS, WiFi and a 3-megapixel
camera
Samsung has also confirmed that
the Galaxy Tab will work with its
existing Media Gateway
WMG160, the DLNA adapter that
was announced back at the
Samsung Galaxy S launch. The
UK version of the tablet isn’t
expected until November 1st
2010.
[ via Carrypad and via Android
Community]
Press Release:
Launch: Samsung Galaxy Tab
now available in Germany
7-inch display and 380 grams for
full functionality. The Samsung
Galaxy Tab is a reliable business
partner as well as an
accomplished entertainer on the
go
Schwalbach / Ts. 11 October
2010 – The Galaxy Tab Samsung,
Samsung Smart Media Device
from his first. Its low weight,
handy size and a large TFT
display Samsung qualify the
Galaxy Tab primarily as a
constant companion. With
Android ™ v2.2 makes it easier
for the business with helpful
business applications, and
enriches the life with a variety of
entertainment and information
options. The Samsung Galaxy
Tab offers voice and video
telephony and full access to the
Android Market ™.
With 190 x 121 x 11.98 mm is
the ideal sized Samsung Galaxy
Tab to get it in the jacket – or bag
always and everywhere to carry.
The large screen with a diagonal
of 17.8 inches guarantees a
comfortable viewing of web
pages, videos and e-books,
without going into a compromise
on mobility.
Whether with a headset or via
speakerphone – the user can talk
with the Samsung Galaxy Tab as
with a conventional mobile
phone. Video calls are possible by
the 1.3-megapixel camera on the
housing front.
Unlimited possibilities with
Android ™ v2.2
Whether you need an overview of
the first train connections, or the
time would drive to a computer
game: the Android Market ™ is
full of applications that make
users’ lives easier. The Samsung
Galaxy Tab granted the Android
™ operating system v2.2 full
access to this offer, and gives
users the opportunity to the
Samsung Galaxy Tab fully match
your needs.
Adobe ® Flash ® Player 10.1
provides a common picture while
surfing the web. All web content
E-reader News Edition
is presented in the same extent
that the user is from a home PC
used to. take you with HSDPA up
to 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA at up to
5.76 Mbit / s the user has to
purchase without waiting times.
The pre-installed application
“Reader’s Hub” opens the doors
to a large and well clear of books,
magazines and newspapers from
around the world. The well-
stocked library offers interesting
stories of different genres that are
on the large display of the
Samsung Galaxy Tab to read.
Also installed is the video game
“Let’s Golf by Gameloft. 63 holes
can be played with four different
characters in four different
locations in 3D. For use on the
Samsung Galaxy Tab Let’s golf
has been adapted to the big
screen.
Complete equipment for full
functionality
Android ™ brings several useful
Google ™ services with them.
With Google Maps ™ Navigation
is a complete navigation solution
on board, which steers clear voice
guidance with the optimal path. A
satellite view gives you extra
guidance and with the real-time
traffic view, you avoid the jams.
Searches, this Samsung Galaxy
Tab ™ including via Google
Voice Search, the typing of goals
is no longer necessary. The
processor of the Samsung Galaxy
Tab provides a Gigahertz
performance, providing a normal
operation of the device safe even
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Survey Says… DIY Market Research Firm continued from page 18

when multiple applications are

GutCheck Scores $2 Million In Series A Funding running in parallel. For a long
operation ensures the 4,000 mAh
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch) but will the vast array of social battery strong. This gives the user
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:38:56 AM media tools, like Twitter and up to 1,500 hours of standby or up
Facebook, (and the seemingly to 16.7 hours talk time. Complete
On AMC’s Mad Men, whenever infinite consumer touch points on in the fastest WiFi n Bluetooth 3.0
ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper the web) provide them with standard and the features.
Pryce needs qualitative market enough data, to render services Accessories for Samsung Galaxy
research they arrange a focus like GutCheck obsolete? Tab: more opportunities, more
group, usually a small collection Understandably, Warta doesn’t style
of women, with the ad executives believe so. Protection against dust and
looking on via a two-way mirror. He thinks companies can get a scratches different, tailored bags
Now, more than forty years later, good picture on their current for the Galaxy Table Though be
many companies are still relying consumers from the web’s social entered quickly thanks Swype ®
on similar methods: expensive in- tools but that these tools lack texts, the real key of the keyboard
person panels, which can be labor sufficient qualitative data on dock is more practical for many
intensive to set-up, yield variable potential consumers. “If you look writers. Like the docking station
s u c c e s s a n d l a c k i n c o s t process and bringing it all online. i n t e r v i e w — y o u p r o m p t at social media today and how it and the car cradle, it has a
effectiveness. T h i s i s h o w i t w o r k s : A GutCheck to find your target plays in market research, most charging function and 3.5 mm
Denver-based GutCheck is trying m a r k e t i n g a g e n c y , a b r a n d demo, a qualified subject is marketers and researchers will jack for connecting speakers and
to offer an alternative with its self manager or any other enterprise brought to you via the web-based give a nod to Facebook,” he says, sound systems. For wireless
-described do-it-yourself platform client signs up for an account on c l i e n t , a n d t h e n y o u c a n “but if you start extrapolating transmission of the Galaxy Tab to
for qualitative market research GutCheck’s website and describes immediately start interacting and [only] from that group, you’ll DLNA ™ compatible devices,
a n d t h e y ’ r e b u i l d i n g u p a t h e t a r g e t d e m o g r a p h i c . using the chat guide to push pre- make some bad decisions that’s m a k e s t h e M e d i a G a t e w a y
w a r c h e s t t o c o n v e r t t h e GutCheck has roughly 4 million s c r i p t e d q u e s t i o n s t o t h e not reflective of the average WMG160 older televisions and
unconverted. The startup, founded subjects in its pool, which are interviewee. (See below for their consumer out there who doesn’t sound systems fit for WiFi
by CEO Matt Warta, Carl Rossow supplied by large partners who get video demo.) use your product.” multimedia streaming.
and Jen Drolet, has just raised $2 a cut of the revenues. Once you’re I love the sleek interface and at The startup is currently in the The Samsung Galaxy tab is now
million in a Series A round led by signed up, you can begin to build $40 a pop, GutCheck does beta testing phase but should be a v a i l a b l e i n G e r m a n y . T h e
Highway 12 Ventures. Village your project, a chat guide (the provide a low-cost alternative to ready to officially launch their suggested retail price is 799 euros.
Ventures (where Warta was objectives and questions) and set in-person panels, but I wonder product in the next few weeks.
formerly a partner) and a few specific parameters (i.e. age, whether this deep, one-on-one CrunchBase Information
other individual investors also behavioral, custom questions) for model will still be in high demand G u t C h e c k M a t t W a r t a
participated in this round. the type of person you want to several years from now. Information provided by
GutCheck’s goal is to be the survey. Once you’re ready to Companies will always want to C r u n c h B a s e
SurveyMonkey for qualitative commence your research— at a comprehensively understand their
research by simplifying the price of $40 per 30-minute market and potential consumers

Set Desktop Wallpaper From Google Chrome [Downloads]

Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Chrome: Currently Windows- Chrome that adds in the set-as- basically every other popular web
Submitted at 10/12/2010 8:30:00 AM only, Set Image As Wallpaper is a wallpaper right-click context browser. More »
simple extension for Google menu functionality present in
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Beyond the Check-in: How Location Amazon Breathes New

Services Can Now Fight Identity Theft Life into Novellas, Long-
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:30:00 PM Form with Kindle Singles plan which is the Advanced plan
plus daily credit file monitoring
(coming soon). Developers Need Mike Melanson
When we talk of location-based to Think Bigger Than Apps (ReadWriteWeb)
services these days, there's a This launch proves the untapped Russ Grandinetti, vice president
heavy focus on so-called "check- potential for location services to Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:49:52 AM of Kindle Content, says that,
in apps" like Foursquare and expand far beyond mapping, "Ideas and the words to deliver
Gowalla- apps that allow users to phone. If the two are far apart, it navigation and check-ins. Amazon is continuing to ramp up them should be crafted to their
register their physical presence at raises an alert. Location Labs is one of the
for the holidays with the natural length." Amazon is
a venue in return for deals, The end user will then be sent a busiest companies in this arena introduction of Kindle Singles, describing the move as, "a call to
discounts and virtual rewards like text message or email to verify today, enabling everything from offerings that aren't quite a novel serious writers, thinkers,
badges and points. whether or not the transaction was but are more than a magazine scientists, business leaders,
the geofenced text messaging
But location-based services legitimate. Think of it as sort of a s e r v i c e S h o p A l e r t s t o t h e article. Just last month, the historians, politicians and
actually encompass a much larger "first responder" to the possibility Foursquare-augmenting Mayor service began offering iTunes- publishers to join Amazon in
market than check-ins, as a new of a stolen wallet, stolen credit Maker which introduced the esque previews of content, making such works available to
venture from location provider card or any other financially- checkout to complement the recognizing that users may want readers around the world." The
Location Labs and fraud detection bound identity theft. Forget Apps, check-in. With Location Labs' to peek at what they're buying only thing we wonder is, what
service Finsphere is now showing. Just Sign Up Online new cross-carrier Universal
before actually buying it. took so long?
They can be used to fight identity Because Location Labs already Location Service, developers can Now, with Kindle Singles, the Amazon is opening itself up to a
theft, too. has relationships with all major company is recognizing that it has market that, surprisingly, seems
build location-based services that
Sponsor U.S. carriers and can locate over officially escaped the constraints wide-open still. While many of us
work on every mobile phone in
Location-Based Services + Credit 250 million mobile phones, it's the U.S., not just on those phones of the printed word. live in a world where we no
Card Transaction Tracking = now possible for the service to where someone has downloaded a Sponsor longer consider such things as a
PinPoint locate just about any mobile From Amazon's press release: page count, the world of
new app.
Today, the two companies are phone in the country, whether So to developers with big ideas, Less than 10,000 words or more publishers is still constrained by
officially launching a new identity smartphone or feature phone. And we challenge you now: think even than 50,000: that is the choice the base physicality of print. By
v a l i d a t i o n p r o d u c t c a l l e d without the need of an app bigger. If you want to build an writers have generally faced for abandoning the physical
PinPoint, which helps to fight download. app, sure, go for it. But maybe
more than a century--works either requirements of print, which
identity theft and validate a user's Instead, interested users can sign you should build an app as a value had to be short enough for a become arbitrary when transferred
identity with the use of Location up online for the service ( pricing -add to a service, not as the entire magazine article or long enough over to digital media, the Kindle
Labs' Universal Location Service. available here) and choose from service itself. The potential is out to deliver the "heft" required for is breathing new life into the
The concept behind the service is one of three plans: a free service there, you just have to access it. book marketing and distribution. novella and providing a platform
simple: PinPoint tracks the associating one cell phone with Discuss But in many cases, 10,000 to for those works that may be
l o c a t i o n o f a c r e d i t c a r d one credit card, an "Advanced" 30,000 words (roughly 30 to 90 uncomfortably long for the
transaction and matches it to the plans for unlimited cards and pages) might be the perfect, desktop computer, but perfect for
location of the end user's cell three phones or the "Complete" natural length to lay out a single the cross-country flight.
killer idea, well researched, well All we can really say is, welcome
argued and well illustrated-- to the real reason e-readers will
whether it's a business lesson, a change the way we think and
political point of view, a scientific interact with words. Discuss
argument, or a beautifully crafted
essay on a current event.
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We benchmarked the Aspire
TimelineX AS1830T-68U118
with Geekbench, a synthetic test
of processor and memory
performance. The ultraportable
scored 3,805, with particularly
strong CPU scores courtesy of the
Core i7 chip. That’s less than
we’ve seen from other notebooks
of late, predominantly because of
the compromises in performance
that have been made to reduce
power consumption. Still, it’s
significantly ahead of Apple’s
MacBook Air (itself long overdue
an update) but around half the
price. Benchmark Score - Acer
Aspire 1830T Section Description
Score Total Score Windows x86
(64-bit) - Microsoft Windows 7
Home Premium Integer Processor
integer performance 3742 3805
Floating Point Processor floating
point performance 4559 Memory
Memory performance 3285
Stream Memory bandwidth
performance 2428
Acer claim users should see up to
eight hours of runtime from the
standard six-cell, 5,800mAh
battery. In practice, we almost
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managed to reach that figure.
Browsing over WiFi, the
AS1830T-68U118 lasted for 7
hours and 25 minutes, which is
impressive. HD playback took
more of a toll; the TimelineX
could get through 3 hours and 50
minutes of a 720p HD .mkv video
file before expiring. More general
use should see runtimes
somewhere in-between those
figures.
Interestingly, despite the
workload, the Acer still remained
relatively quiet. Unlike many
ultraportables, which have tiny,
shrieking fans, the TimelineX’s
active cooling is more tolerable.
It doesn’t underperform, either; at
no point did the AS1830T-
68U118 become uncomfortably
hot for lap use.
Our main complaint about the
Acer comes down to its graphics;
while the Intel HD is far more
capable than previous integrated
GPUs, we’d still prefer to see a
dedicated GPU for extra
performance. Something like
NVIDIA’s intelligently-switching
Optimus graphics would be ideal.
still hard to get right. I've been
pouring over all the images from
Other than that, USB 3.0 seems an
obvious omission, but the main
pain-point is the sheer quantity of
bloatware Acer preloads. Not
only are there various Microsoft,
Norton, McAfee, Google and
Windows Live trials installed, but
seven individual Acer apps
covering power management,
updates and security. They slow
down the system, and give a poor
first impression of what’s
otherwise a speedy machine.
Still, a little work in the Uninstall
Programs menu and much of the
bloatware is gone, and you’re left
with one of the best value, most
appealing ultraportables around
today. Priced at$899.99 it’s hard
to argue with the Acer Aspire
TimelineX AS1830T-68U118s
specifications, nor its battery life
or build quality. If you’re in the
market for an ultraportable but are
unimpressed with the larger
netbooks, this new TimelineX
could very well fit the bill.
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Study: Film had varied effect on
Facebook's image
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:19:56 AM
Opinions were mixed as to
whether the film " The Social
Network," which topped the U.S.
box office charts for the second
week in a row, would have a
positive or negative effect on
audiences' perceptions of
Facebook as a company. On one
hand, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is
depicted as a harsh
megalomaniac; on the other, the
well-received movie is a sexy,
stylized look at Silicon Valley
that certainly makes hacking and
engineering seem a bit more
titillating than it is in real life.
YouGov, a market research firm
that's been monitoring Facebook's
"brand perception" for some time
now among U.S. audiences with
its "BrandIndex" product, says the
answer is twofold: Young adults'
opinions of Facebook have gone
markedly up since the Oct. 1
release of "The Social Network,"
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but in the 50+ demographic it
remains quite tepid.
That's not surprising. With its
young cast, edgy electronic
soundtrack, and plethora of scenes
set in college dorms and at
parties, the film is skewed toward
an appeal to young audiences in
the first place. And in this case it
seems like the cinematic version
of Facebook may have given them
a better impression of the real-life
social network.
Granted, YouGov didn't specify
whether the people it polled had
seen the movie or planned to. But
Facebook's brand perception took
such a sharp jump up among the
18-34 demographic right around
the film's release that it's difficult
to argue that there wasn't a
correlation somehow. YouGov
charts its BrandIndex on a scale
from -100 to 100 (negative to
positive) and in the 18-34
demographic, Facebook went
from a score of 23.5 on
September 22 all the way to 46.4
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on the film's opening day, and
then climbing even further to 51.5
the following week.
Adults between 35 and 49,
according to YouGov, were less
swayed by the effects of the
movie. But as press and hype built
up in the days before the theatrical
release of "The Social Network,"
the BrandIndex score for
Facebook among adults over 50
reached a low point of 13.7 on
September 28. It had returned to
its previous position in the low
20s within a few days of the film's
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Worry - It's Generational
Mike Melanson
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Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:45:49 PM
The Social Network, the movie
about the murky origins of
Facebook and its primary creator,
Mark Zuckerberg, has been out
for just over a week now. Just
after its release, David Carr wrote
a piece for the New York Times
looking at how the " Film Version
of Zuckerberg Divides
Generations".
YouGov BrandIndex, a company
that measures consumer
perception, is now offering
numbers to back up the perceived
generational divide.
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"When you talk to people
afterward, it was as if they were
seeing two different films," Scott
Rudin, one of the films producers,
told Carr. "The older audiences
see Zuckerberg as a tragic figure
who comes out of the film with
less of himself than when he went
in, while young people see him as
completely enhanced, a rock star,
who did what he needed to do to
protect the thing that he had
created."
Looking at the numbers from
YouGov, the generational divide
seems evident.
YouGov asks respondents to rate
their impression of a brand on a
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scale of -100 to 100. During the
time leading up to the movie's
release, the 18-34 demographic
had a brand impression of
Facebook that dipped as low as
23.5 on September 22, but nearly
doubled to 51.5 on October 6. The
movie was released on October 2.
For the 35-49 demographic, the
company identified "plenty of zig
zagging", but notes that the 50+
demographic saw a "decisive
negative impact".
Coming from someone in that
younger demographic, I have to
say, I left the movie feeling
inspired. The movie came off as
the story of someone that pulled
themselves up by the bootstraps,
defied authority and won. On the
way into the movie, however, an
older man (definitely of the 35+
demographic) commented on how
the movie made him leery of ever
using the site again.
I guess we were just
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Mobile video calling to

hit 29 million users by
2015
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:10:41 AM
Video calling is expected to be
used by 29 million people around
the globe by 2015, Juniper
Research announced in a new
study released today.
functionality is now also available
on the latest iPod Touch. Outside
of that, folks hoping to place
video calls over 3G or to other
products will find their options
limited at best. Woe be to the
market if other video-calling
providers follow that lead.

Now For Sale On Apple’s iBookstore: According to the market research

firm, Apple's FaceTime video-
calling feature will help jump-
Aside from video calling, Juniper
said that it expects 84 percent of
mobile phones shipped to the
Microsoft Press, O’Reilly Media start the mobile
videoconferencing business, but it
United States in 2015 to feature
"app store connectivity and touch

Books likely won't spur a full "mass

market" adoption within the next
five years.
screens." It also expects 3D
functionality and dual-core
processors to play a bigger role in
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) HTML5: Up and Running. Andrew Savikas, VP of Digital "We forecast there will be 29 mobile devices over the coming
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:40:59 AM Definitely sounds like something Initiatives at O’Reilly Media, has million smartphone video users in years.
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Super Mario Bros. creator says flaws
'embarrassing'
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:25:51 AM
Super Mario Bros. is a legendary
video game that has captivated
audiences for 25 years. But its
creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, is
embarrassed by it.
In an interview last month that
has resurfaced this week,
Miyamoto said Super Mario Bros.
was made for a different time.
And because of that, he said,
some of the flaws that were
unable to be seen 25 years ago are
glaringly obvious on today's HD
sets.
"Back then, with tube televisions,
it was a little blurrier and the
images weren't quite so sharp,"
Miyamoto said. "The places
where we tried to fudge it a bit
really stand out (on a current
display)."
Miyamoto went on to say that if
he was developing the title today,
he "would fix it." But he
acknowledged that those flaws,
while potentially embarrassing to
him, are actually "well-received"
as "part of the game."
Evidently those "flaws" didn't
matter all that much to gamers.
Super Mario Bros., which turned
25 last month, is an iconic title
that helped push the industry
forward at a time when it
desperately needed it. And it was
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Miyamoto's contribution to the
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:00:00 AM
industry is just as important.
Aside from Mario, Miyamoto is The time you're spending
the developer behind several mincing and prepping your
popular franchises, including The ingredients? The money you're
Legend of Zela and Donkey spending on pre-sliced vegetables inflicting such pain in the kitchen
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iOS social apps attracting more eyes than top TV shows

Steven Sande (TUAW) length of an average prime-time top even the highest-rated TV decades-old entrenched television
Submitted at 10/12/2010 1:00:00 PM TV show, minus ads. That puts shows such as American Idol. ad market, it's a sign that some
iOS viewing on a par with such The point of the Flurry research very big changes are in store for
In the battle for viewer eyes, popular shows as ABC's "Dancing seems to be that advertisers the advertising industry.
Apple appears to be making some with the Stars" and NBC's Sunday should take heed of mobile apps TUAW iOS social apps attracting
huge strides. How huge? Well, ad Night Football. and spend more of their more eyes than top TV shows
group Flurry says that socially Researchers at Flurry say that advertising budgets in that originally appeared on TUAW on
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2010 Map of Online Communities

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In A Down Real Estate Market, Trulia Scratches At Profitability
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:16:56 AM
The real estate bust is still
dragging down the economy, but
some startups are making the best
of a bad situation. Real estate
search engine Trulia, is still
growing by zeroing in on
subscription services for real
estate agents. CEO Peter Flint
tells me the company edged into
profitability two months ago—six
years after the company was
founded. He won’t give specific
U.S. Online Advertising Rises 11.3
Percent In First Half Of 2010
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:43:29 AM
Online advertising is showing
healthy gains this year. During
the first half of 2010, online
advertising revenues were up 11.3
percent to $12.3 billion, according
to a new report from the
Interactive Advertising Bureau
and PriceWaterhouseCoopers
(embedded below). At this rate,
the report estimates that online ad
revenues for the full year should
surpass the 2008 peak of $23.4
billion.
On a quarterly basis, online ad
revenues for the second quarter
$6.2 billion. That was 13.9
percent higher than last year, and
4.1 percent better than the first
quarter of 2010, but still not quite
as high as the peak in the fourth
numbers, but says that revenues
are doubling from a year ago and
almost half comes from real estate
agents who pay for Trulia Local
Ads and the premium Trulia Pro
service to help market their
listings.
Traffic to the site is up more than
50 percent from last year, up to 9
million unique visitors a month,
according to Flint. ComScore
estimates a smaller number—6
million U.S. visitors in
September—but even stronger
growth of 155 percent (Zillow
quarter of 2008.
The report also offers the
following stats (all numbers are
for the first half of 2010):
• The top ten online ad-selling
companies account for 70 percent
grew even faster at a 200 percent
annual clip to 7.6 million uniques,
so it’s not just Trulia that is doing
well here). Trulia’s growth comes
of revenues.
• Search accounts for 47 percent
of online ad revenues, the same as
a year ago (to $5.8 billion).
• Display grew its share to 36
percent from 34 percent a year
ago (to $4.4 billion).
• Digital video (which is part of
display) grew its share to 5
percent from 4 percent a year ago
(to $627 million)
• Classifieds stayed flat at 10
percent ($1.2 billion)
• Lead generation declined to 5
percent from 7 percent ($642
million)
• Email ads are also flat at 1
percent ($120 million)
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from expanding its listings to
rentals earlier this year, and in
general trying to help people
make smarter real estate decisions
Feed the world
(The Economist: Daily news
and views)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 6:37:38 AM
TWENTY-NINE countries suffer
from “alarming” levels of hunger,
most of which are in sub-Saharan
Africa, according to a report
published on Monday October
11th. The “ Global Hunger Index”
(GHI) gives developing countries
scores based on three indicators:
the proportion of people who are
undernourished, the proportion of
children under five who are
underweight, and the child
mortality rate. The worst possible
score is 100, but in practice,
anything over 25 is considered
“alarming”. Scores under five,
meanwhile, are indicative of “low
hunger”. Since 1990 the overall
level of the index has fallen by
almost a quarter (though the data
do not cover the period of the
25
with all sorts of tools and data.
Demand for Trulia’s private
shares on SecondMarket are
among the fastest-growing. Flint
plans to expand further in 2011
with new products aimed at the
real estate market. He still has
some catching up to do, however.
Zillow, Yahoo Real Estate, and
Realtor.com are all still larger
sites.
CrunchBase Information Trulia
Zillow Information provided by
CrunchBase
global recession beginning in
2008). Two-thirds of the 99
countries counted in 1990 have
reduced their populations' hunger
levels. Kuwait, Malaysia, Turkey
and Mexico have been the most
successful, cutting their scores by
over 60%. Those where hunger
has increased include North
Korea, Comoros and Congo.
Congo's GHI score fell by over
60%, the worst of any country.
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Japanese game giant
DeNA buys Ngmoco for
$400M
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:40:00 AM
Japanese gaming company DeNA
has announced plans to purchase
Ngmoco for a cool US$400
million. This purchase sets quite a
precedent as it represents one of
the highest amounts ever paid for
an iPhone application
development firm.
DeNA sees the mobile social
gaming market heating up rapidly.
The company's founder and chief
executive Tomoko Namba
described his aggressive, forward-
thinking vision to the New York
Times: "The big tide in social
gaming is coming, right now.
We'd like to capture it and quickly
become the world's No. 1 mobile
gaming platform...We want to
enable developers to go cross-
device and to go cross-border.
And we need this to happen
quickly, in about the next one or
two years."
Presently, DeNA runs Mobage
Town, a wildly popular social
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gaming platform that is unique to
Japan. The pricing model is
interesting: the games are free but
Apple publishes Ping Minka Kelly Is Esquire's
Sexiest Woman Alive (6
require users to create avatars that
can be used to interact with each
other. DeNA then sells clothes
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Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
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Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:00:00 AM Apple also lists what's not
Good luck to DeNA and allowed on an artist profile, Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:00:00 AM
congratulations to Ngmoco. We're Apple has published official Ping including "...pornography, hate
eager to see what the next chapter usage guidelines for artists which speech, racism, nudity or drug Esquire magazine has chosen 30-
will bring. describe exactly how to create an use." year-old Minka Kelly as their
[Via the New York Times] artist profile and begin posting Most of the artists I follow are 2010 "Sexiest Woman Alive," and
TUAW Japanese game giant content. relatively quiet, with notable after looking at these photos, I'd
DeNA buys Ngmoco for $400M According to the guidelines [ exceptions like Jack Johnson. be hard-pressed to disagree with
originally appeared on TUAW on PDF], artists are encouraged to Some users have panned Ping, but them.
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Surreal Monsters
by Dan May (7
total)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 2:00:00 PM

Jacksonville, Florida-based artist

Dan May recently updated his
online shop with a variety of new
prints and originals. His paintings
are best described as delightful
yet haunting and you'll find it
really easy to get caught up in his
New Archos tablets get Android Marketplace hack, dreamlike world. His monsters are
mysterious and magical, which
works as promised only adds to the surreal-like
nature of his work.
Joanna Stern (Engadget) 2.2 tablets (like the Archos 32 we We did have a few issues at first - how it goes in the comments. If you ever wanted a pet monster,
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:51:00 PMreviewed just a few weeks). But - you must have the latest 1.0.70 New Archos tablets get Android may I suggest one of Dan May's?
fear not: ArchosFans to the firmware and we had to reboot a Marketplace hack, works as Dan May
Our biggest complaint about the r e s c u e ! A f o r u m m e m b e r few times to successfully connect promised originally appeared on
variety of Archos tablets? The successfully complied a new to Google's servers -- but we were Engadget on Tue, 12 Oct 2010
lack of the Android Marketplace, gApps4Archos.apk that can be finally able to log into our Gmail 12:51:00 EDT. Please see our
of course. But while you've been easily sideloaded, and installed to and download Pandora. If you're terms for use of feeds. Permalink
able to sideload the Market apk on give you access to all that Google adventurous enough to try it out Liliputing, Armdevices.net|
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It's official: iPad now the all-time Medibuntu Repository

fastest-selling gadget Installs Non-Free Apps in
Steven Sande (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:00:00 PM
recent research study by NPD
found that 13% of iPad users
would have purchased a PC if
Ubuntu 10.10 [Ubuntu]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
For those of us who are Apple they hadn't been able to buy an
fanatics, we've had a feeling that iPad. Submitted at 10/12/2010 7:30:00 AM

the iPad was popular. Whether it's Coupled with the recent start of
seeing the devices pop out all over If you grabbed the final release of
iPad sales at U.S. mega-retailers
the plane on an airline flight, or Ubuntu 10.10 this weekend, you
Target and Walmart, the device is
having to give hundreds of demos can now fill out its codec
sure to break many more records
of the iPad on a cruise ship, it's compatibility, software updates, recently updated to support the
over the holiday buying season.
apparent that Apple's tablet is still and DVD playback powers with latest Ubuntu release. More »
TUAW It's official: iPad now the
a hot item. the Medibuntu repositories,
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Now it's officially the fastest- originally appeared on TUAW on
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HTC 7 Trophy, HTC HD7 and LG Optimus 7 all up

for unlocked preorder
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 9:29:33 AM
Windows Phone 7 devices aren’t
showing up on carriers in Europe
Perfect Brew Cone Is a
No Fuss, Minimalist, and
November 8th), but that’s not the exclusives. If Amazon and Cheap Coffee Maker
only one so far. Expansys are to be believed, that [Stuff We Like]
Amazon Germany, for instance, exclusivity period is a little under
has the HTC HD7 listed for €599, three weeks. Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
albeit with no estimated release Update: Clove UK is also listing Submitted at 10/12/2010 8:00:00 AM

until October 21st (and November
7th for North America) but that
hasn’t stopped preorders for
unlocked, SIM-free devices from
beginning to sprout. Amazon UK
and Expansys have both listed the
HTC 7 Trophy for £429.99 (with
delivery expected on or around
date. It’s not just HTC devices the HTC 7 Trophy, for £423 with
either; the retailer also has the LG initial stock expected at the end of The Perfect Brew Cone takes the
Optimus 7 up for preorder at October. simplicity of a drip coffee maker
€499, also with no release [ via Unwired View] and strips away the pot, the boiler,
estimates. and the electricity, leaving behind
unlocked for an unspecified a cone that drips the fresh coffee
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WP7 pre-brief that their devices
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“There’s an App for that”

gets official Trademark
Stephanie Scala (SlashGear) iPhone is only a few taps away!
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:47:55 AM Getting the coveted trademark
gives the consumer another
Apple can now claim that they “official” reason to be devoted
own the phrase, “There’s an App iPhone junkies.
for that.” After filing for the But what is it about the iPhone
trademark in December 2009, and its Apps that we love so
Apple has finally (and legally) much? Accessibility? Mobility?
been given the rights to their The Apple brand? Whatever the
commonly used phrase to promote reason for our iPhone obsession,
the App store and iOS devices. be careful someone from the FCC
The App store filled with doesn’t overhear you say to your
F a c e b o o k , E S P N , T w i t t e r , friend, “There’s an App for that,”
T-Mobile G2 getting an OTA update to
and whatever other Apps your while trying to find out the best
heart desires, along with their new Chinese restaurant in town or add WiFi calling and tethering?
nifty commercials, has made you might get slapped with a fine! Paul Miller (Engadget)
consumers happier to know that [via Boy Genius Report and What's not to love? Well, so far becoming a requirement in this
the unlimited potential of the IntoMobile] Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:18:00our G2 hasn't been offered the
AM Android-age.
update, which is, like, totally T-Mobile G2 getting an OTA
What to Eat After a Workout It almost sounds too good to be unfair. Also, if you've been
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30 Technology/ Economy/ Culture/
Lego's MINDroid Android Soros: We're Moving Towards A New
app remotely controls World Where Everybody Wants To
Mindstorms NXT robots Control Their Currencies Like China
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:02:00 PM
Hardcore hobbyists have been
controlling their Mindstorms
NXT creations with all sorts of
paraphernalia for years, but now
Lego itself is stepping in to lend a
hand. The new MINDroid app just
splashed down in the Android
Market, and it enables Android
2.1 (or greater) handsets to dictate
Mindstorms NXT robots over
Bluetooth. According to Lego,
tilting / turning the phone can
make the robot move forward,
turn to the sides, and by pressing
an action button on the phone's
screen, activate the 'Action'
motor. Given that the download
will cost you absolutely nothing,
what are you waiting for? Your
A Wonderfully Odd World (18 photos)
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 3:00:00 PM
A w a r d w i n n i n g A m e r i c a n storytelling style has an artistic as
photographer Geof Kern takes our well as a deadpan nature to it. His
world and turns it upside down. black-and-white photos may
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:37:03 AM
China's yuan-dollar exchange rate
has been the secret to China's
success according to George
Soros speaking to the Financial
Times.
The trade surplus created by the
robot army awaits your
yuan-dollar peg allowed China to
commands.
cruise through the financial crisis
Lego's MINDroid Android app
relatively unscathed and massive
remotely controls Mindstorms
currency reserves it created
NXT robots originally appeared
provide a powerful bargaining
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employ China's currency strategy.
Capital controls are in fashion.
George Soros:
"If China continues in this, the
other countries will be driven to
adopt also a two-tier system.
Brazil is beginning to move in
that direction and I think the
others will have to follow."
FT's Martin Wolf:
Inspired by post-modernist
painters and cinematic actors/
directors such as Buster Keaton
and Jean-Luc Godard, Kern's
remind you of another Met
favorite, Rodney Smith, in that
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America or Europe, is actually in
the economy's driver's seat.
George Soros in the FT:
Whether it realises it or not,
China has emerged as a leader of
the world. If it fails to live up to
the responsibilities of leadership,
the global currency system is
liable to break down and take the
global economy with it. Either
"So you're actually thinking it's
way, the Chinese trade surplus is
quite likely that we move to a
bound to shrink but it would be
world of capital controls.
much better for China if that
George Soros:
happened as a result of rising
"I think there is a considerable
living standards rather than a
chance of that happening, but if it
global economic decline.
happens in an uncoordinated, in a
The chances of a positive
unilateral, way that could lead to
outcome are not good, yet we
trade wars, retaliation, and then
must strive for it because in the
we really would have a
absence of international
breakdown."
cooperation the world is heading
China needs to understand that
for a period of great turbulence
fixing the global imbalances
and disruptions.
caused by its currency peg is in its
You can also find video of Mr.
own interest. As the latest trade
Soros being interviewed here.
war rumblings show, China
(H/T Paul Kedrosky)
cannot continue to rise without
Join the conversation about this
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trade partners. Thus China, not
both have the ability to create Geof Kern
timeless photos that, on closer via [ Whitezine]
inspection, seem slightly surreal.
Read a short interview with Geof
at Partfaliaz where he talks about
his background and how cinema
has influenced his style.
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The End of History in America's Classrooms
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 6:00:00 PM
Earlier this year, Massachusetts
and New York, blaming budget
troubles, pulled the plug on their
state tests in U.S. history. Given
the strident union rhetoric against
"high-stakes" testing-- America's
Federation of Teachers' Randi
Weingarten has accused reformers
of turning schools into "Test Prep,
Inc."--one would have expected
social studies teachers in the two
states to be elated. Instead, they
were outraged.
On Huffington Post, Alan Singer,
an education professor at Hofstra
University, voiced the general
mood with the headline, "New
York cancels history." The Long
Island Council for the Social
Studies, which represents over
1,100 teachers and administrators
in Nassau and Suffolk Counties,
drafted an open letter all but
accusing the state Board of
Regents of undermining
democracy.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts
Council for the Social Studies is
now polling its members on the
suspension of state history tests,
after losing its fight to move
forward with testing. One retired
teacher professed shock at the
group's test-positive stance: "Here
are teachers actually begging the
state to shackle them so that they
too can say to their students: 'You
need to know this if you want to
pass MCAS.'"
He shouldn't be so surprised.
These teachers are not out of the
mainstream--they're the majority.
More than nine out of ten teachers
want social studies to become part
of their state's set of standards and
testing, according to a new
survey, " High Schools, Civics,
and Citizenship: What Social
Studies Teachers Think and Do."
With teacher layoffs now a
reality in many resource-strapped
states, social studies teachers are
well aware that if their subject
comes to be seen as dispensable,
they may be too.
But while teachers might want
testing, they don't necessarily love
it. In fact, as Ann Duffett and
Steve Farkas (the researchers
behind the survey) note, almost
half say that their subject has been
deemphasized as a result of the
2001 No Child Left Behind Act
(NCLB). Another half believes
their school district treats civics as
an "important but not essential"
subject, and 70 percent claim it's a
lower priority because of pressure
to show progress in math and
reading.
Of course, NCLB is not uniquely
responsible for the decline of
civics. The law's impact has been
felt much more in elementary and
middle schools than in high
schools, and even then, much of
the curriculum narrowing predates
NCLB. Still, NCLB reflects what
we prioritize when it comes to
education and, right now,
knowledge of America's history,
political institutions, and ideals is
conspicuously absent. Nor is it
surprising that states and school
districts would downplay these
subjects in favor of those for
which they're held publicly
accountable and compared with
one another: reading, math, and
science. Thus, in the state-led
Common Core initiative, civics
gets nary a mention, while history
has been entirely subsumed under
English and language arts
standards.
These are disturbing trends, and
teachers are right to protest them.
True, there is a healthy dose of
self-interest about their
complaints. With teacher layoffs
now a reality in many resource-
strapped states, social studies
teachers are well aware that if
their subject comes to be seen as
dispensable, they may be too. "I
was once among those who
disagreed with state testing as a
sole measure of accountability,"
wrote one such teacher in the
Worcester Telegram. "However,
the reality is simple: If it is not
tested, it will not be emphasized
and perhaps not even taught."
If testing helps restore civics in
the minds of principals and
legislators, it also focuses the
minds and efforts of educators. As
one Massachusetts teacher told
Education Week, "You realize
that without high stakes, we
probably wouldn't have pushed
the students as hard, because we
didn't need to."
Teachers could use that focus.
Opponents like to argue that
standardized testing produces
narrow outcomes, but the current
civics curriculum--to judge from
the Farkas-Duffett survey--lacks
definition. Given the chance to
pick their teaching priorities,
nearly half of the teachers think
it's important students "internalize
core values like tolerance and
equality." Less than 40 percent
chose "understand[ing] the key
principles of American
government" as their top priority.
Moreover, only 63 percent of the
surveyed teachers (the majority of
whom teach U.S. history) think
it's "absolutely essential" to teach
students to be knowledgeable
about America's past. Given this
historical apathy, it's a small
miracle that only 40 percent say
their students haven't carefully
studied the nation's keystone
documents--the U.S. Constitution
and the Declaration of
Independence.
With less emphasis on core texts
like the Constitution and the
principles of American
government, teachers, not
surprisingly, report less
confidence in what their students
know. Only 24 percent of teachers
indicate that their students can
identify the protections in the Bill
of Rights when they graduate high
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school, 15 percent think that their
students understand federalism
and the separation of powers, and
11 percent believe their pupils
know the basic precepts of the
free market.
America's public schools were
once thought to provide the
cornerstone for an informed
citizenry--a citizenry made up
multiple races and ethnic origins.
What made "e pluribus unum" a
fact was a common understanding
of what rights and responsibilities
we had as citizens and the role the
government played in providing
sound and effective self-rule. We
are playing fast and loose with our
future if we continue to downplay
or simply ignore the role civic
education plays in making citizens
of us all.
Cheryl Miller is the program
manager of the AEI Program on
American Citizenship.
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Dialogue of the Debt
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 6:00:00 PM
Well, that was awkward. The
world's leading economic
authorities just gathered in
Washington for a weekend
session of policy glowering.
Heading into the regular fall
meeting of the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund,
there was some hope that some
constructive, multilateral dialogue
could defuse tensions and calm
talk of currency wars. It was not
to be.
What happened? The United
States went into the meetings
pushing for multilateral solutions,
in particular an enhanced role for
the IMF. In a speech at the
Brookings Institution last week,
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
addressed the issue of global
misalignments: "This problem
exposes once again the need for
an effective multilateral
mechanism to encourage
economies running current
account surpluses to abandon
export-oriented policies, let their
currencies appreciate, and
strengthen domestic demand."
He noted that this was part of the
long-standing mission of the IMF,
then went on to argue that the
world's powers had already agreed
to address these issues: "When the
world's leaders met in London in
April of 2009 and then in
Pittsburgh in September that year
to set a strategy for confronting
the crisis, they agreed to begin
work on a new "Framework" for
global growth and to reform the
architecture for cooperation.
The Framework... was designed
to create stronger incentives for
rebalancing growth, as the world
recovered from the crisis, with
higher savings in countries like
the United States, complemented
by reforms to strengthen domestic
demand in surplus countries like
China, other emerging economies,
Germany, and Japan."
The reference to reforming
architecture was where Secretary
Geithner added some teeth to the
U.S. stance. He linked the
rebalancing of the global
economy with the rebalancing of
power at global financial
institutions. It is not clear whether
that lever will move China or any
other recalcitrant countries. It is
certainly no incentive for surplus
European countries, who are
slated to see their voting weight
shrink.
There is a risk that holding up
institutional reform could weaken
the IMF at a time when the
Treasury wants to assign it a
starring enforcement role. That
may not matter, though, since the
IMF is much better equipped to
play the role of facilitator than
enforcer. It has never had success
strong-arming any country that
was not in dire need of a loan.
Exchange rates matter, but are
largely driven by monetary
policies. Business climate and
regulatory policies matter, but
those are crude tools for revving
up the economy in the short run.
The Chinese are certainly not in
dire need of a loan. Nor were they
receptive over the weekend to
proposals for cooperative
multilateral resolutions to global
economic problems. To
paraphrase, China's stance was:
"No. It's not our fault. It's your
fault." It didn't seem to matter
much what the question was; that
was the answer. Nor did it seem to
matter that China's policy
prescriptions do not add up.
In the past, China had voiced its
concerns about profligate U.S.
fiscal policy. This weekend, there
were explicit complaints about
loose U.S. monetary policy:
"Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central
bank governor, told the IMF
meeting the focus on currencies
was one-sided. "The continuation
of extremely low interest rates
and unconventional monetary
policies by major reserve currency
issuers have created stark
challenges for emerging market
countries in the conduct of
monetary policy."
For those keeping score, that
means China is uncomfortable
with the United States using either
monetary or fiscal policy to
stimulate its economy.
Economists argue about which of
those policies is more effective,
but they are the two big weapons
in a country's macroeconomic
arsenal. Exchange rates matter,
but are largely driven by
monetary policies. Business
climate and regulatory policies
matter, but those are crude tools
for revving up the economy in the
short run. Telling the United
States to use neither monetary nor
fiscal policy to stimulate its
economy seems to demonstrate
petulance, rather than a well-
crafted plan to address the world's
economic problems.
The truly unfortunate feature of
this brewing confrontation is that
the policy China seems to be
pursuing--gradual currency
appreciation along with efforts to
boost domestic demand--is not
that far from the policy the United
States and others would like
China to pursue; slightly less-
gradual currency appreciation
along with greater efforts to boost
domestic demand. But the
Chinese refusal to acknowledge
the existence of a global problem
or to discuss the issues
constructively is raising tensions.
China's undervalued currency is
likely more damaging to China
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than to the rest of the world, but
the perception that global
adjustment processes do not work
is a dangerous one. Brazil's
finance minister recently
expressed concerns about a
burgeoning currency war, in
which countries loosen their
monetary policies and try to
depreciate against one another. In
the face of worries about global
deflation, such a battle would not
necessarily be so bad, if it is
confined to countries shooting
money at each other. As soon as
they start firing trade barriers and
capital controls, the casualties
could mount quickly.
This weekend's meetings in
Washington did little to establish
safe rules of engagement.
Philip I. Levy is a resident
scholar at AEI.
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Why Taiwan Finds Washington Unreliable
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 6:00:00 PM
Over the past decade,
Washington's Taiwan policy has
created unnecessary dilemmas for
Taiwan's political leadership. On
the one hand, if a president of
Taiwan is considered too
provocative toward China,
Washington, rightfully irritated
over undue tensions, will freeze
relations with the democratic
island. On the other hand, if a
president of Taiwan reconciles
with China, Washington's impulse
is to neglect relations, confident
that the cross Strait "problem" is
resolving itself. It's a small
wonder why many Taiwanese
believe that Washington is
unreliable.
President Chen Shui-bian faced
the former from Washington.
While no one in Taiwan doubted
that he would protect Taiwan's de
facto independent status and its
hard won democracy, or fight for
its international dignity, he lost
the confidence of Washington and
then his own people when
relations with both China and the
United States soured.
President Ma Ying-jeou faces the
latter. He has made major strides
in easing tensions with China.
And while relations with
Short ride -- third day straight
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:24:46 PM
The days are getting shorter, and
I did a bunch of walking around
Washington are not characterized
by tension, they are almost non-
existent. Ma has negotiated a free
trade agreement with China, from
which Washington can benefit by
leveraging its close relationship
with Taipei to enter the China
market duty-free. But no U.S.-
Taiwan free trade agreement is
pending. And, while China's
military pressure is unrelenting
(not a single of the 1,000-plus
missiles pointed at Taiwan has
been dismantled,) Washington is
taking its commitment to helping
Taiwan defend itself rather
lightly. Taiwan badly needs more
F-16 fighter aircraft to recapitalize
its aging air fleet. None seem
forthcoming. This is all the more
troublesome given China's
stepped up aggression against its
other neighbors such as Vietnam,
Indonesia, Japan, and India. It is
just a matter of time before
Beijing loses patience with
Taipei's refusal to discuss its
political future. Taipei will need
to show it cannot be pushed
around.
In addition, the people of Taiwan
profoundly desire a greater
international personality, but
China heads off Taiwan's
participation in just about any
international organization.
Washington's diplomacy, which
NYC today. But as it started
getting dark around 5:30PM, and
with the forecast turning to rain
for the next few days, I decided to
squeeze in a half-ride.
can help Taiwan enter
organizations where statehood is
not a pre-requisite, has been
languid.
The main tasks of a Taiwan
president in a democratic system
are threefold: maintain decent
relations with China, warm
relations with the United States,
and increase Taiwan's
international status. A president
who cannot do all three is doomed
to failure in Taiwan's fickle
political system.
A reinvigorated Taiwan policy
will encourage Taiwan presidents
to keep relations with China on an
even keel while holding out hope
that Taiwan will not live in
international isolation.
Washington has an interest in
encouraging all three pillars of
any Taiwan's president's success.
It wants relations between Taiwan
and China to be stable. At the
same time, the United States
wants Taiwan to hold on to its
democratic status, even its ill-
defined international status, until
the day when China can be more
reasonable in its approach to
Taiwan's future. Once China
abandons its stubborn--and for
Taiwan, unacceptable--stance that
the only solution to the conflict is
the absorption of Taiwan by
China, many creative diplomatic
The map. 31 minutes. 5.01 miles.
Up to 46th St and back.
Lots of riders, runners, bladers
and pedestrians on the trail.
I need some bright clothing and
solutions will open up.
It is thus incumbent upon the
United States to reward Taiwan's
China diplomacy with bilateral
initiatives that increase Taipei's
international status and help it
deter China's military coercion.
Washington can start by
highlighting to American
businesses the opportunities
Taiwan has created through its
economic cooperation framework
agreement with China. While it
negotiates a free trade agreement
with Taiwan, Washington should
also send the U.S. secretary of
commerce to the island with a
delegation of leading businessmen
to scout out new investment
opportunities. Not only can the
United States benefit from
Taiwan's closer links with the
mainland, but more American
investment on the island will also
increase Taiwan's international
prestige.
Regarding military cooperation,
Washington should sell both the
additional F-16s to Taiwan as
well as submarines promised, but
never delivered, by President
Bush in 2001. The F-16s will not
solve every military problem but
will signal strong support from
Washington and send the message
to Beijing that its arms build-up
will not go unanswered. As a
lights on my bike.
Feeling gooood.
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stealthy, survival platform,
submarines are an effective
answer to Beijing's naval build-up
(that is why every U.S. friend in
the region is buying submarines in
response to China's underwater
threat). Finally, Washington
should energetically push for
Taiwan's participation in
functional United Nations
organizations.
A reinvigorated Taiwan policy
will encourage Taiwan presidents
to keep relations with China on an
even keel while holding out hope
that Taiwan will not live in
international isolation. The
purpose of U.S. policy should be
to discourage unneeded cross
Strait tension while binding the
democratic island ever closer to
Washington.
Dan Blumenthal is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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Krugman and the Inevitable "I Told You So" - Tim Duy "Bad
Things Happen When You Fight the Fed"; Final End of Bretton
Woods 2?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael it’s not because it doesn’t work; No Paul, it's because it doesn't keep public workers employed the lessons of Japan or Greece,
Shedlock) (Mish's Global it’s because it wasn’t tried. Never work, no matter how hard you try. delays a much needed realignment insist it is not a problem. Yes,
Economic Trend Analysis) Enough Cheering the Loss of of government wages and Japan has not blown up yet, but it
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:24:00 AM No matter how much money Government Jobs benefits with that of the private will. We just do not know when.
As predicted on numerous Government spends it will never Krugman whines about the loss sector. Some might argue this is Japan has squandered all of its
occasions, Paul Krugman is once be enough because government of government jobs. not the time for it. However, such surplus building bridges to
again pleading for still more cannot create lasting jobs. As " Consider, in particular, one fact thinking is foolish. nowhere and other nonsensical
Keynesian stimulus. Please soon as the stimulus spending that might surprise you: The total States are in this mess because of things. It now has a debt to GDP
consider Hey, Small Spender stops so do the jobs. No matter number of government workers in unsustainable spending, and of 200%, highest in the G-20.
Here’s the narrative you hear how many times Austrians insist America has been falling, not pension promises. Pensions alone All it takes for this to be a major,
everywhere: President Obama has Krugman look down the road to rising, under Mr. Obama. A small are a $3 trillion problem. Please major problem is for interest rates
presided over a huge expansion of what happens to his Fantasyland increase in federal employment see Interactive Map of Public in Japan to rise a few percent.
government, but unemployment model when the stimulus stops he was swamped by sharp declines Pension Plans; How Badly When that happens, (and it will),
has remained high. And this refuses to discuss this simple at the state and local level — Underfunded are the Plans in it will take all of Japan's tax
proves that government spending point. most notably, by layoffs of Your State? for details. revenue, just to pay interest on the
can’t create jobs. It is impossible to debate schoolteachers. Total government It is axiomatic that the cure and national debt.
Here’s what you need to know: Keynesian clowns because no payrolls have fallen by more than the disease cannot possibly be the I believe 7th graders can easily
The whole story is a myth. There matter how much money they 350,000 since January 2009. " same, so throwing money at the understand the problem of deficit
never was a big expansion of blow building bridges to nowhere I openly cheer the loss of problem cannot possibly be the spending even if Nobel Prize
government spending. In fact, that like Japan did, the answer will government jobs, and did so solution. willing economists and other
has been the key problem with always be "It wasn't enough". recently in Economic Nonsense There is no better time than the clowns can't.
economic policy in the Obama I Told You So from Ezra Klein at the present to get rid of government Scrap Davis-Bacon, It's a Real
years: we never had the kind of The easiest prediction in the Washington Post workers and lower pension Porker
fiscal expansion that might have world to make was that Krugan The only genuinely good news in benefits. Kicking the can down Without a doubt states need to
created the millions of jobs we would whine "I Told You So". Friday's jobs report was the much the road solves nothing. get a grip on finances. The correct
need. I discussed the prediction in Are needed shedding of 159,000 Greece and Spain put off solution is to reduce pay and
And a side consequence of this we "Trending Towards Deflation" government workers of which tackling the issue of public sector benefit levels of government
awkward positioning is that or in It? only 77,000 were temporary wages and benefits, and look workers, privatize anything and
officials can’t easily offer the Actually, we have seen a never census workers. what happened to them. everything that can be privatized,
obvious rebuttal to claims that big ending parade of "I Told You Shed another million government Ultimately the bond market and scrap the Davis-Bacon Act
s p e n d i n g f a i l e d t o f i x t h e So's" from Krugman but this one workers and you have a small imposed its own (badly needed) along with all prevailing wage
economy — namely, that thanks tops them all. start as to what needs to happen. solution. We can either take care laws.
to the inadequate scale of the Indeed, he has taken his whining Some don't see it that way, of this mess now, or suffer a Davis-Bacon ensures that
Recovery Act, big spending never to a new level by claiming " If job including Erza Klein at the similar fate later. taxpayers pay the most for the
happened in the first place. -creating government spending Washington Post. ... Deficit Spending Unsustainable least amount of work. The goal
But if they won’t say it, I will: if h a s f a i l e d t o b r i n g d o w n No Better Time than the Present Deficit spending is should be to get projects
job-creating government spending unemployment in the Obama era, to Kill Government Jobs and unsustainable. Unfortunately it is completed at the least cost to
h a s f a i l e d t o b r i n g d o w n it’s not because it doesn’t work; Benefits rising because Keynesian clowns
unemployment in the Obama era, it’s because it wasn’t tried." Giving states free money just to who have learned nothing about KRUGMAN page 36
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taxpayers.
For more on prevailing wage
laws and the enormous
inefficiencies they create, please
see Thoughts on the Davis Bacon
Act
Tunnel of Idiocy
Krugman calls the possible
cancellation of a second tunnel
connecting New Jersey and New
York by governor Chris Christie
a Tunnel of Idiocy.
The merits of the project can be
debated all day, but what is not
debatable is large cost overruns
on every such project on top of
huge initial cost estimates in the
first place.
The reason for these high cost
estimates and the inevitable
overruns has everything to do
with union salaries and prevailing
wages.
Want that tunnel? It's simple.
Scrap Davis-Bacon. There would
be a line 20 miles long for those
construction jobs if you did, and
the job would come in on-time
and under-budget. Seen and
Unseen
The problem with Keynesian
clowns is they simply cannot look
at the seen and the unseen
consequences of their economic
models.
To be sure, government can
create jobs by paying everyone to
spit at the moon. But the spending
comes at a cost. That cost is a
cheaper dollar, and rising interest
on the national debt that at some
point will consume all federal
revenues.
What then?
Well Keynesian clowns never
discuss "what then?" because in
their fairy tale world everyone
lives happily ever after if only
government spends enough
money.
Frankly, 7th graders can see the
asininity of such free lunch
proposals, even if Nobel Prize
winning economists cannot.
Firing Public Union Workers
Creates Jobs
This might sound strange until
you think it through, but Firing
Public Union Workers Creates
Jobs.
Public unions in New Haven,
Connecticut have not yet gotten
the message that business-as-
usual no longer flies. I am quite
happy with that because the city
responded by dumping public
workers and privatizing services,
and that is exactly what needs to
happen.
Rebuttal to Union Complaints
Public union custodians argue
that privatization would lead to
lower wages, lost jobs, and
wasted taxpayer money on costly
management contracts.
Lower Wages: Let's hope so. The
union workers are overpaid even
if they cleaned the schools like
they are supposed to do.
Wasted Taxpayer Money: No,
that is a blatant self-serving union
lie given the district saves at
least two-thirds of the cost of
using union-only labor, “and the
work gets done.”
Lost Jobs: Not a chance. There
will actually be more jobs as a
result of getting rid of the unions.
How so? For starters, there will
be an equivalent number of
private jobs to replace the union
jobs. Moreover, given the district
saves 67% on cleaning costs,
some of the saved money will be
used on other school district
needs, creating more jobs.
Finally, some of the savings can
be used to cut back on tax
increases putting more money in
the pockets of taxpayers who will
spend it. That too creates jobs.
Every fired public union worker
creates more jobs elsewhere,
faster than most can imagine
possible, quite possibly
immediately.
Thus, a good way to deal with
rising unemployment is to fire
public union workers. Getting Rid
of Government Workers is a
Winning Proposal
Getting work done for lower
prices puts more money in the
pockets of taxpayers who will
make far better use of it than
politicians who use taxpayer
money to buy union votes. It also
makes projects more affordable
so more of them can be done for
the same amount of money.
If pay scales are cut to match the
private sector, the jobs can
actually stay (or be privatized),
AND taxes lowered at the same
time.
Thus getting rid of government
jobs is a win-win for everyone but
the overpaid, ungrateful public
union workers who always want
tax increases to support their
undeserved pay and benefit
scales.
Who's Responsible for the Loss
of Government Jobs?
The ultimate irony in Paul
Krugman's and Erza Klein's posts
is that public unions are
responsible for all the government
job losses they are whining
about.
In every state worker cutback
instance that I have read about
(dozens if not hundreds), public
unions have resisted modest cuts
in pay and benefits and instead
have voted to cut jobs.
Thus, public unions themselves
are responsible for that modest
loss in jobs.
Policies That Support Growth
The correct way to spur growth
is by fostering an economy that
supports economic growth.
For details, please see Bleak
Outlook for Small Businesses and
Job Creation; Where Obama Went
Wrong, and What to do About It.
Correct Solution Takes Time
Will there be pain to make the
necessary adjustments? Of course
there will. Look at Greece and
Spain. But the longer we delay
tackling the structural problem of
too much government spending,
the greater the overall pain.
Keynesian clowns pretend there
is some sort of free lunch, that we
can spend our way to prosperity.
Well it cannot be done.
Numerous countries have tried
and all have failed.
Final End of Bretton Woods 2?
Tim Duy is discussing the Final
End of Bretton Woods 2?
In essence, a nasty surprise
awaited US policymakers - after
two years of scrambling to find
the right mix of policies,
including an all out effort to
prevent a devastating collapse of
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financial markets and a what
Administration officials believed
to be a substantial fiscal stimulus,
the US economy remains mired at
a suboptimal level as stimulus
flows out beyond US borders.
The opportunity for a smooth
transition out of Bretton Woods 2
was lost.
Consider the enormity of the
situation at hand. The Federal
Reserve is poised to crank up the
printing press for the sake of
satisfying their domestic mandate.
One mechanism, perhaps the only
mechanism, by which we can
expect meaningful, sustained
reversal from the current set of
imbalances is via a significant
depreciation of the dollar. The
rest of the world appears prepared
to fight the Fed because they
know no other path. Dual
Mandate Idiocy
Consider the idiocy of a dual
mandate. Monetary policies
cannot create jobs. The reason
should be easy to spot. The Fed
can create liquidity, but it cannot
determine where it goes, or indeed
if it goes anywhere at all.
Fed Has Two Options
1: The Fed can defend an interest
rate target but will then have no
control over money supply
2: The Fed can defend a money
supply target but it will then have
no control over interest rates
Notice that nowhere in the
picture is there an option for the
Fed to create jobs. It cannot be
done.
Tim Duy: Bad things happen
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when you fight the Fed. You find
yourself on the wrong side of a
whole bunch of trades. In this
case, I suspect it means that
Bretton Woods 2 finally collapses
in a disorderly mess. There may
really be no other way for it to
end, because its end yields clear
winners and losers. And the
losers, in this case largely
emerging markets, [are] not
prepared to accept their fate.
Arrogant Claptrap
The " Bad things happen when
you fight the Fed" comment from
Duy is quite arrogant.
After all, the Fed's policies under
Greenspan and Bernanke fueled
the biggest housing and credit
bubbles the world has ever seen.
Bernanke, failed to see the
recession coming, failed to see the
housing bubble, failed to see the
unemployment rate rising above
8.5%, and just plain failed at
damn near everything.
For Christ's sake we would not be
in this big of a mess were it not
for the Fed and its idiotic
manipulation of interest rates,
trying to meet some asinine (as
well as physically impossible)
dual mandate.
No Tim! Bad things happen when
the Fed does not know what is
doing, which by the way is
always.
Indeed that is corollary number 1
of 4 of the Fed Uncertainty
Principle.
Fed Uncertainty Principle:
The fed, by its very existence,
has completely distorted the
market via self reinforcing
observer/participant feedback
loops. Thus, it is fatally flawed
logic to suggest the Fed is simply
following the market, therefore
the market is to blame for the
Fed's actions. There would not be
a Fed in a free market, and by
implication there would not be
observer/participant feedback
loops either.
Corollary Number One:
The Fed has no idea where
interest rates should be. Only a
free market does. The Fed will be
disingenuous about what it knows
(nothing of use) and doesn't
know (much more than it wants to
admit), particularly in times of
economic stress.
Tim Duy: Well, thank the
Heavens above, the IMF stands
ready to produce a report. Now I
can sleep easy.
On that score I happen to agree
with Duy's sarcasm and said so in
PBoC Researcher says China
Should "Set Red Line for Yuan
Appreciation at 3%"; IMF
Participants Pledge to "Create
Reports"
Tim Duy: Bottom Line: The
time may finally be at hand when
the imbalances created by Bretton
Woods 2 now tear the system
asunder. The collapse is coming
via an unexpected channel; rather
than originating from abroad, the
shock that sets it in motion comes
from the inside, a blast of
stimulus from the US Federal
Reserve. And at the moment, the
collapse looks likely to turn
disorderly quickly. If the Federal
Reserve is committed to
quantitative easing, there is no
way for the rest of the world to
stop to flow of dollars that is
already emanating from the US.
Yet much of the world does not
want to accept the inevitable, and
there appears to be no agreement
on what comes next. Call me
pessimistic, but right now I don't
see how this situation gets
anything but more ugly.
Monetarist Nonsense
Here are a few stats from my
friend "BC"
Since Q1 '07:
• Increase in total reported gov't
spending: $926B or 6%/yr.
• Total gov't receipts: -$300B
• Increase in the Fed's balance
sheet: $1.3 trillion or 28-29%/yr.
• Increase in banks' Treasury,
agency, MBS, and cash assets:
$1.3 trillion or 14-15%/yr.
• Increase in nominal GDP: $789
billion or 1.7%/yr., of which gov't
spending was 117%
• Increase in private nominal
GDP: -$135 billion or -0.44%/yr.
• Total stock market
capitalization: -$4.7 trillion
• Total US residential unreal
estate equity: -$4.8 trillion
Will QE II, III, etc., work any
better?
Bernanke Incapable of Learning
Anything
Bernanke is completely inept,
failing to learn anything from
history. Yet, Ironically he is given
great acclaim as being a student of
the Great Depression.
Here are a few snips from
Lessons Not Learned - No Failure
Too Great to Admit It
No Failure Too Great to Admit It
Japan is in debt to the tune of
200% of GDP, which is all it has
to show for all its Keynesian and
Monetarist stimuli over the past
decade. So what does Japan do
but toss another $61 billion into
the fire, fresh on the heels of an
$11 billion stimulus plan.
$72 billion total may not sound
like much these days, but it is a
sizable chunk of money for
Japan's economy. Supposedly
these stimuli will "boost
employment, help small and
medium sized businesses, and
support regional economies".
It will do no such thing. If these
stimulus efforts worked, there
would be results to show for it.
Yet the only conclusion of the
Keynesian and Monetarist clowns
is that Japan did not do enough!
This should be a lesson for the
US, but it won't.
Sharing the Blame
When this mess collapses, the
monetarist clowns at the Fed and
the Keynesian clowns in Congress
will share the blame.
In a final twist of fate, the
Keynesian clowns will blame the
Monetarist Clowns and vice
versa.
I discussed this likelihood in
Bernanke says Lawmakers Should
Consider Rules on Fiscal Limits;
Expect Hissy Fit from Krugman;
Bernanke Pisses in the Wind
Proving that he far more of a
Monetarist clown than a
Keynesian clown, Bernanke Calls
on Lawmakers to Consider Rules
on Fiscal Limits
Expect Hissy Fit From Krugman
Paul Krugman, flag bearer for
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the Keynesian clowns, is without
a doubt having a hissy fit at the
thought of any step, no matter
how small, regarding Bernanke's
statement “ It is crucially
important that we put U.S. fiscal
policy on a sustainable path.”
Monetarist Nonsense
Bernanke claims Quantitative
Easing will "ease financial
conditions.” Forgive me for
asking the obvious, but what the
hell needs easing?
Mortgage rates are at all time
lows in spite of the fact that
housing itself is in the gutter and
risk of default is high, junk bonds
are back to par, and the ability for
corporations to get financing for
total garbage is at or near historic
highs.
If anything, Bernanke has ignited
a bubble in junk bonds. The one
thing Bernanke has not done is
ignite bank lending.
Why Now?
In regards to Bernanke's new-
found fiscal conservativeness,
Calculated Risk asks " I wonder
why? Well, he missed the housing
bubble completely - but what
about the structural deficit?"
The answer should be pretty
easy to spot.
Bernanke, knows full well
Congress is unlikely to act in any
meaningful way. When they don't,
and when a global currency crisis
is well underway, Bernanke will
point his finger and blame
Congress.
Thus, Bernanke's statements are
not about fiscal prudence, but
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French Unions On Strike Against Pension Reform,
Disrupt Rail, Air Traffic
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:21:00 AM
The retirement age in France is
60. Given demographics and
increasing longevity, this is not
sustainable. None of that matters
to people on the take. Moreover,
and unlike Greece, polls shows
most support the striking workers.
Please consider French Workers
Strike Against Sarkozy Pension
Plan French workers are
demonstrating today for the fourth
time in five weeks in nationwide
marches, disrupting rail and air
traffic as labor unions threaten
open- ended strikes to press
President Nicolas Sarkozy to
scrap his pension-system
overhaul.
Railway and Paris subway
workers and as well as teachers,
air-traffic controllers and port and
refinery employees walked out to
protest plans to raise the
retirement age to 62 from 60 and
lift the age for a full pension to 67
from 65. Unions, which warn they
may renew the strike every 24
hours unless the government
backs down, said 244 marches
will take place across France
today in cities including
Toulouse, Marseille and Nantes.
Three rallies since Sept. 7 that
brought hundreds of thousands of
protesters onto the streets failed to
derail Sarkozy’s retirement
proposals. The government says
the changes are needed to help
France cope with an aging
population and help balance the
pension system’s budget by 2018.
Labor unions called for more
demonstrations on Oct. 16.
“We need this reform to save our
system,” [said Luc Chatel, the
government spokesman]
A survey in yesterday’s Le
Parisien newspaper showed 69
percent of the respondents support
today’s protest and 61 percent
said they favor an open-ended
strike. The Paris-based pollster
CSA called 1,011 adults on Oct. 6
-7 and gave no margin of error.
France’s aviation authority
advised carriers to cut half of their
flights to and from Paris Orly
airport and a third to and from
Roissy Charles de Gaulle because
of the air-traffic controllers’
strike. The Lyon airport canceled
21 percent of its flights it said on
its web site.
Air France-KLM Group said the
protest won’t affect its long-haul
flights, while some European and
domestic flights will be canceled
or delayed. Ryanair Holdings Plc
said it’s canceling 250 French
flights today.
The RER B commuter train,
which connects Orly and Charles
de Gaulle airports, will face the
most disruption, with no trains
running inside Paris, forcing
travelers to take other
transportation.
Workers at refineries and gas and
electricity plants joined the strike.
Employees at the oil terminal at
the port of Marseille, who have
been on strike for the past 15 days
because of the government’s plan
to revamp the ports system, joined
in. The correct government
response to this mess is to do
what Reagan did to the PATCO
workers, fire all the public union
employees on strike and terminate
their benefits.
Moreover, the French
government should take this
opportunity handed to them on a
silver platter and go one step
further to make a much needed
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unions. The same should happen
in the US.
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rather all about absolving the Fed
in general, and Bernanke in
particular for the upcoming global
financial collapse. Bernanke
Poised to Blame Keynesians
So there you have it. Bernanke is
all poised to blame the
Keynesians. Meanwhile the
Keynesians are already pointing
the finger at the monetarists and
everyone else who does not want
more government spending.
The real threat is not of deflation,
but of absurd Keynesian and
Monetarist attempts to prevent it.
The Greenspan-Bernanke housing
bubble (and subsequent crash),
and decades of futility in Japan
should be proof enough.
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Humans have always been
fascinated by the primary machine
that sustains life: the heart. Sure,
we haven't always known what it
does or how it works, but it's hard
to ignore its ever-present beating.
In fact, it's hard to ignore even the
sound once you've tuned in. It's
fortunate that we do manage to
ignore those rhythmic beats,
because consciously listening to a
few billion lub-dubs over the
course of a lifetime would drive
us batty.
If you look at your closed fist,
you will see fairly accurately
exactly how big your heart is. It
Tim Duy worries that " Bretton
Woods 2 will finally collapse in a
disorderly mess." Compared to
the Keynesian and Monetarist
alternatives, and because at this
point a currency crisis is
inevitable, I suggest the sooner
the better. Indeed a strong case
can be made that the worry ought
to be that we don't quickly
collapse in a disorderly mess.
We really do need to start over.
Bretton Woods 2 has had it.
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weighs somewhere between 7 and
15 ounces (198 and 425 grams),
functions essentially as a pump,
and pushes blood through a
network of blood vessels that --
placed end to end -- extend
60,000 miles. Consisting of four
chambers and four valves, it
receives blood from two different
sources -- oxygenated blood from
the lungs, and oxygen-depleted
blood from the body -- and sends
it two different places at once.
Oxygen-depleted blood goes to
the lungs for a recharge, and
oxygen-rich blood from the lungs
goes out to the entire body to
replenish every cell and tissue.
Once this process stops, so do
you.
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workers worldwide work with destructive of these diseases.
major media providers to alert us Unexpected health conditions can
to the pandemic potential of the strike anywhere. Here are 10
H1N1 flu virus. health conditions that are far more
But there's a lot more out there prevalent than you may have
that can affect our health. realized. Can you guess what they
The world is filled with diseases are?
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A UK obesity study (via BBC)
has identified 13 genetic
variations that influence whether
silhouettes resemble bigger
bellied apples or hip-heavy pears.
Body fat distribution appears to
be regulated by genetic factors we
inherit, which helps explain why
some people are more prone to
obesity than others. The
researchers were particularly
interested in the biology [...]
Tags: genetics, genes, Hourglass,
body shape, body fat distribution,
marilyn monroe, hip-to-waist ratio
This week on Stuff Mom Never
Told You, Cristen and I explored
the stories behind some things
women take for common. On
Monday, we tackled how some of
our most beloved cosmetics
became the superstars of the make
-up world, and on Wednesday, we
delved into one of the most
persistent beliefs about the
menstrual cycle — that women in
close quarters can sync up their
periods.
Tags: iconic cosmetics, make-up,
Revlon Fire and Ice, menstrual
synchrony, Martha McClintock
Maybe I just have Gaga fatigue.
Either way, I sighed like an
annoyed teenager when I spotted
ye olde Gaga on Forbes’ 100
Most Powerful Women in the
World list. I fully expected the
pop star to score a ridiculously
high rank on the list (she’s #7),
but Beyonce and Ellen Degeneres
rounding out the top 10? Come
on.
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media, forbes, forbes most
powerful women, beyonce, ellen
degeneres, female demographic
Pregnant women everywhere can
knock back a pint without feeling
an ounce of guilt, thanks to study
findings published today in the
Journal of Epidemiology and
Community Health (via
Discovery News). Based on long-
term research that followed
18,500 children from the moment
they exited the womb through
their first couple years, it’s
perfectly healthy to [...]
Tags: drinking, alcohol, maternal
health, pregnancy, fetal
development, binge drinking,
Mayo Clinic, prenatal care
This week, our Stuff Mom Never
Told You episodes were inspired
by nostalgia and by our travel
wish list. The nostalgia led to a
podcast on our favorite childhood
dolls(exempting Barbie and the
American Girl dolls, which had
been discussed previously) and a
yearning for vacation led us to
escape to the wonderful world of
Scandinavia, which, if you believe
the media, is a gender rights
Shangri-la. So what did we learn?
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Patch Kids, Madame Alexander,
Raggedy Ann, Scandinavia,
women-friendly countries
I might have to even trade out my
current book for Cordelia Fine’s
Delusions of Gender*, if only
because it deals with something
that Molly and I regularly run into
while researching for Stuff Mom
Never Told You. Since we spend
so much time dissecting the
wonderful and confusing
differences between boys and
girls, men and women, we
probably have a lot of lessons to
learn from Fine’s reexamination
of the academic studies that we
often pull from.
Tags: brains, Cordelia Fine,
Delusions of Gender, gender,
gender differences in the brain,
Louise Brizendice, neuroscience,
The Female brain
You know what’s a fun topic to
bring up on a first date with a
guy? Feminism. Once you get
hard-lined religious and political
beliefs out of the way (preferably
in the car, on the way to date
destination or maybe during the
appetizer if you must wait that
long), I highly recommend you
toss out a couple of Betty Friedan
or bell hooks quotes, and see if
the gent picks up on it and
responds with an appropriate
Simone de Beauvoir reference.
Awkward silences — not gonna
happen, guaranteed.
Tags: dating, feminism,
heterosexual couples, love,
romance, rutgers
As a journalism grad and blogger
/podcaster on women’s issues,
GOOD magazine’s list of 17
Female Reporters Who’ve
Redefined a Formerly Male-
Dominated Field doubled my nerd
pleasure. The heavy hitters you’d
expect made the list — Barbara
Walters, Katie Couric, Diane
Sawyer and Arianna Huffington.
Yet while clicking through the
slideshow, I also noticed a
disappointing pattern…
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women in journalism, GOOD,
This American Life, racial
barriers, NPR, Michele Norris
This week’s episodes of Stuff
Mom Never Told You were
E-reader News Edition
brought to you by the letter C
(and I’m not just referring to
Cristen). We talked about chivalry
and celibacy, two big topics that
we hope will start some good
conversations — another C-word!
First on the docket was chivalry.
While chivalry originally referred
to a code of conduct followed by
knights, the meaning of the word
has evolved to denote any act of
courtesy provided by a man to a
woman.
Tags: celibacy, chivalry,
courtesy, gender
In the United States, the
traditional gift for a first wedding
anniversary is paper. For the
second, cotton is in order, and for
the third, leather. What to give on
a sixth-month anniversary? Well,
to mark the six-month anniversary
of the Affordable Care Act, I’m
going to highlight some of the
women-friendly measures that go
into effect today, which, in turn, is
the act’s gift to us.
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insurance, preventive care,
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There aren’t enough drugs in the
world to make you Jimi Hendrix,
but don’t let that stop you from
trying. With one of these portable
digital studios, cutting a good
demo has never been easier.
1. BOSS BR-800
A streamlined interface makes
recording on the BR-800 as easy
as microwaving popcorn—but
with about as many options for
tweaking the results. As the big
EZ REC button implies, laying
down tracks is a cinch: Hit the
button, select a predefined setting
(say, Electric Guitar), then pick a
sound effect, tempo, and drum
beat. Shred. Rock. Repeat.
WIRED Limited editing options
make it ultrasimple to use.
Glorious sound. Dedicated guitar
input on front is as plug-and-play
as it gets. Included drum patterns
are instant Bonham.
TIRED Limited editing options.
Finicky touch-sensitive buttons.
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Bundled software required to
convert recordings to usable audio
files. Fine-tuning effects and
drum patterns is a pain in the ax.
$449, bossus.com
2. Zoom R24
The Zoom R24 is wider, pricier,
and has a lot more features than
the rest of this band. But don’t let
that intimidate you: It’s a logical,
sophisticated tool crammed into a
lightweight package. After a little
setup, the R24 records and exports
gorgeous audio. You can also use
it as an audio interface for
software apps like Cubase when
recording to your computer.
WIRED Rocking combination of
simple recording functions and
advanced mixing tools.
Simultaneous 8-track recording;
play back up to 24. Excellent built
-in sampler and drum machine.
Saves tracks as easy-to-play
WAV files.
TIRED Much too complicated
for the average user. Hunching
over to squint at the tiny buttons
and displays is a total headache.
$499, zoom.co.jp
3. Tascam DP-008
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Weinberg may not be joining
Conan O'Brien on the comedian's
new TBS talk show, but Coco's
other sidekick will sit loyally by
his side when 'Conan' premieres
We’re conflicted: The DP-008 is
tiny and talented, but it frustrated
the hell out of us. It delivers
brilliant recordings and was the
most compact workstation in our
test. The built-in condenser mics
are excellent, and using the
external microphone jack resulted
in clean, clear sound. But the
interface is a hot mess: Most of
the DP-008’s face is devoted to a
ridiculous number of pan and
reverb knobs—we kept hitting
them by accident while fumbling
for the recording-level controls.
WIRED Great sound at a great
price. Small enough to tote around
all day. Easy file export is a slam
dunk.
TIRED No drum machine. Barely
audible metronome. Sucks down
batteries faster than Amy
Winehouse chugs vodka.
$300, tascam.com
4. Fostex MR-8 MkII
This unit was clearly designed for
guitar players who fancy
themselves producers. Jack in
your strat and choose from a
number of simulated amplifier
sounds. But that’s where the fun
on Nov. 8.
TBS announced today that Andy
Richter will, in fact, join his best
bud Conan on 'Conan.'
"I'm thrilled to be going back to
work with Conan, and very
excited to start a whole new
venture on TBS,'" Richter said in
a press release. "However, I am
ends. This 3.5-pound monster is
the bulkiest unit we
reviewed—more like a permanent
fixture than a portable. And
whether you use the built-in mic
or plug in an external, expect
uniformly bad results. At least it’s
cheap; keep it around as a blunt
object to toss at your drummer.
WIRED Inexpensive. Easily
exports tracks with the push of a
button.
TIRED Complex menus hard to
navigate. Too many buttons, too
few functions. Piercingly high-
pitched metronome may drive you
to Townshendian acts of
destruction.
$250, fostex.com
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Washington State's Jamal
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Jamal Atofau and Andre
Barrington, two redshirt freshman
on the Washington State football
team, w ere arrested early Sunday
morning after police found 38
marijuana plants growing in a
house they rented with two others.
According to police, they came to
the home to serve an unrelated
search warrant, but discovered the
plants growing in a basement
room. Upon obtaining a drug-
related warrant, they found plants,
manufacturing equipment and
paraphernalia.
All four roommates were arrested
and charged with a violation of
the uniform controlled substance
act. They were booked and
released on their own
recognizance.
For his part, O'Brien announced
that "This decision was made
without my authority. I will get to
the bottom of this."
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The World of Gloria Vanderbilt
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Wendy Goodman is a very busy
author. She writes for the Home
Design section of New York
magazine and also found time to
write the new book The World of
Gloria Vanderbilt. It seems like a
perfect pairing since design plays
a big part in Gloria's life. As she
says in the magazine, "decorating
is autobiography" and it's fun to
see her progression from
patchwork quilts to dramatic
glamour in her apartment. I can
only imagine that the stories in the
book are just as interesting!
Gloria Vanderbilt in front of a
portrait of her mother and with a
cardboard cut out of her son
Anderson Cooper.
Watercooler: How I Met Your Maury Povich
Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:29:00 AM
How I Met Your Mother
OK, this one goes out to anyone
who has ever visited New York:
Is Maury Povich really that
ubiquitous?
According to last night's How I
Met Your Mother, the talk-show
host is apparently the most-seen
celebrity around the Big Apple.
Gamely playing along, Povich
popped up in a slew of scenes as
the gang raced around town,
trying to beat one another to a
The painting above the fireplace
was painted by Gloria in 1953 but
she paints the fireplace when the
mood strikes her.
Gloria in front of anther fireplace
during her quilt phase.
restaurant where Woody Allen
(apparently the holy grail of "did
you see who that was?") was
having dinner.
Of course, it wasn't Allen at the
eatery — in fact, it was Povich in
The entrance hall.
"A portrait by Miguel
Covarrubias of Gloria’s half-
sister, Cathleen, hangs in the
entrance hall."
I love the mix of patterns and
textures in this room vignette.
Gloria's studio.
Gloria's current living room.
Gloria's home was also featured
in Elle Decor magazine in
October 2000.
Gloria with her sons Carter and
Anderson Cooper. Carter
committed suicide in 1988 at the
age of 23.
Gloria's bedroom in her quilt
decorating period.
Gloria and her children.
Photos from W magazine, New
York magazine, and Style Court
typically frumpy Woody-wear —
but the joke had us wondering if
Povich has become the better-
employed equivalent of Times
Square's Naked Cowboy.
So, if you've been to New York,
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October 12, 2010
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Some classic TV shows are
remembered by their characters'
signature styles. Before 'Friends'
and "the Rachel," there was
'Blossom' and her hats. A recent
episode of 'Glee' made reference
to that show, which most likely
went above the heads of most
'Glee' fans. However, some of you
which includes the original pilot
out there might also remember
of 'Blossom.'
Joey Lawrence's catchphrase,
Check out the full list of DVD's
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this much is true.
Park51’s developers recently
posted on their website three
conceptual drawings of the center
by the New York-based SOMA
architects. Inside, there will be a
500 seat-auditorium, and several
floors will be given over to a
fitness and sports center,
including a swimming pool. One
floor is designated for a childcare
center and a playground. JCCs
and YMCAs do not have chapels
on their premises, but Muslims
are required to pray five times a
day, so Park51 will contain two
prayer halls, called musallas to
differentiate them from a formal
mosque. One will be for men, one
for women, and both will be
located below ground level.
On the structure’s exterior,
SOMA has depicted a white,
irregular lattice-like screen
façade, a contemporary
reinterpretation of the elaborate,
cut-stone Mashrabiya sunscreens
so prevalent in traditional Mughal
buildings. Regular geometries are
by turns employed, then pulled
out of shape; in this sunscreen of
zig zags and falling diagonals,
some apertures seem more like
windows poked in walls; others,
more like window-walls held in
place by thin concrete struts.
Midway up the building, and
again toward the top, where the
façade is most open, the
geometries offer up an evocative,
symbolic surprise—a kind of
daisy chain of interlaced
hexagrams, a decorative symbol
that Jews, Muslims, and
Christians share. The interior
views suggest that similar
geometries permeate the
structure’s rooms: At least, on the
uppermost floors depicted, the
goal seems to be to create a light,
airy feeling and a dynamic
circulation network that opens up
floor-to-floor views of lower
Manhattan.
But caution is necessary when
considering what these drawings
do and do not reveal about
Park51. What they do reveal is
this: Park51’s projected image is a
forward-looking, contemporary
one. The patterning of the
depicted façade and interior views
is a clever, promising idea, taking
a cutting-edge strain of
contemporary architectural
practice that employs and
celebrates the complex parametric
geometries made possible by new
digital technologies and
synthesizing it with traditional
Islamic precedents, the long out-
of-fashion postwar work of
American architect Edward Durell
Stone, and more. The ethos of the
design is modernity and
(depending upon how many Stars
of David you see) inclusiveness.
What these drawings do not
reveal is much, perhaps not even a
single aspect, of what the
completed Park 51 project will
look like.
Renderings such as these are the
stock-in-trade of architectural
clients, be they real estate
developers or museum directors,
who are trying to curry favor with
people and institutions who are
indispensible to the success of
their projects, or to overcome
neighborhood or municipal
opposition (of which there has
been just a bit to Park51) by
providing what is thought to be an
appealing or unthreatening image.
Such renderings in general, and
these renderings in particular, are
not necessarily presented in bad
faith. But let’s be clear: These
drawings are marketing tools.
They are not architectural designs.
Park51’s developers are hoping
they will help bring reluctant
opinionmakers and members of
the public around to supporting
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the construction of the proposed
Islamic Cultural Center near the
World Trade Center site. SOMA,
a very young and small firm, is
listed as “architectural
consultants” on the project, which
means that neither it, nor any
other firm, has been hired to come
up with a final design. And, even
if SOMA had been hired, New
Yorkers’ experience with the
many, many design iterations of
the so-called Freedom Tower
should be enough for them to
know that initial drawings for an
architectural project are wishes,
and that wishes often bear little if
any resemblance to the finished
building.
Those who wish to know what
Park51, the actual building, will
look like have no choice: They
must wait and see.
Sarah Williams Goldhagen is the
Architecture Critic of The New
Republic.
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Boardwalk Empire Exclusive: Gangster Rapture
Mike Flaherty (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:04:00 AM
Boardwalk Empire
Three faces of Boardwalk Empire
grace a photo studio in
Manhattan's meatpacking district
on a sunny Saturday: Gretchen
Mol is glowing, not only because
she's expecting her second child,
but because her makeup's done
and she now sits rosy-hued as her
stylist affixes fiery-red extensions
to her blonde locks. Michael Pitt,
the very image of laconic
Hollywood cool in his gelled
locks and pinstripes, lounges on a
sofa languidly strumming his
acoustic guitar. Finally, a haggard
Steve Buscemi shuffles in. He's
here on two hours sleep, having
worked till 4am directing an
episode of Nurse Jackie. He plops
down, takes one look at the tape
recorder in front of him and
grouses, "I got nothing."
Still, he rises to the occasion
when discussing his new gig, and
why not? After only a few weeks,
HBO's surfside drama Boardwalk
Empire is a smash. The gorgeous,
painstakingly re-created story of
Atlantic City circa 1920 and the
attendant sin and intrigue
unleashed by the enactment of
Prohibition has received near-
unanimous kudos from the critics.
More important, it has killed in
the ratings, with its September 19
premiere notching the highest
debut number of any HBO series
since 2004.
Buscemi plays Nucky Thompson,
who serves as Atlantic City's
treasurer but essentially runs the
town, overseeing above-board
business while ruling its
underworld, which now includes
the very lucrative distribution of
contraband booze. "I love the
period, and I love this part,"
Buscemi gushes, the coffee
starting to kick in. "Nucky is
painted with a lot of different
colors." Adds creator Terence
Winter, "He's essentially a
politician, but with an asterisk. To
do that job effectively, you are a
gangster in a sense."
He's not the only one who's doing
his job effectively. "The show's
getting this kind of attention
because it's being done right,"
says Pitt. "Everyone involved has
been really, really professional."
Of course, professional doesn't
begin to describe the show's brain
trust, led by Oscar winner Martin
Scorsese, who serves as an
executive producer and directed
the pilot, and Winter, who came
to the gig fresh off a seven-year
stint as a writer on The Sopranos.
Between Boardwalk and Mad
Men, the creation of Winter's
former Sopranos colleague
Matthew Weiner, it's already
shaping up to be an interesting
night at the Emmys next summer.
HBO's certainly hoping its
investment pays off — the pilot
reportedly cost upward of $15
million, much of which went
toward constructing an eerily
accurate 300-foot boardwalk on
NYC's East River waterfront. The
first season features more than
100 different locations and
extravagant crowd scenes with
hundreds of extras.
"I wasn't looking to do a series,"
admits Buscemi, who did a
limited arc on The Sopranos and
has a film career most actors
would die for. "You always get
asked about doing TV and the
grind of playing the same
character for many years... I hope
it's for many years! I'm just so
relieved to get something of this
quality."
If Boardwalk's whole seems to
exceed even the sum of these top-
shelf parts, it's because the players
immersed themselves in the
show's time and place. "Every
single person really did their
homework on this," says Pitt, who
plays Nucky's protégé, Jimmy
Darmody, a traumatized WWI
vet—turned—hood. He not only
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got a hold of every book
referenced in the script, but
acquired a shelf's worth of history
texts and hired a tutor. Reflecting
on his character, Pitt says, "What
makes Jimmy complicated is that
he's always tried to do the
honorable thing, and he's
constantly conflicted by when is it
OK to commit murder, for your
country or in business." A
personal tragedy will show just
how gangster Jimmy can be —
and instigate his return from
Chicago (where he's been hanging
with Al Capone).
For more with the Boardwalk
Empire cast, pick up this week's
issue of TV Guide Magazine, on
newsstands Thursday, October
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CR Index Finds Americans'
Economic Difficulties Declining
YONKERS, NY — Americans
are seeing some real
improvements this month, with
economic difficulties continuing
to decline, an improved retail
picture, and modest gains in
employment, according to the
Consumer Reports Index for
October.
The Consumer Reports Trouble
Tracker Index has declined for
four straight months and now
stands at 50.5, down from 53.7
the prior month and down from its
recent high of 63.5 in June.
Positive developments were led
by a decline in consumers unable
to afford medical care or
medications, to 12.7% from
13.6% in September; and a drop
in the proportion of Americans
who missed a payment on a major
bill (8.7%), down from the prior
month (9.3%). On the downside,
in the past 30 days, 3.0% reported
that they have missed a payment
on their mortgage, up from 2.4%
in September.
Consumer Reports Past 30-Day
Retail Index for October is 9.9, on
par with the prior month (9.8), but
down from a year ago (10.4).
There was a slight increase in
consumer purchasing for personal
electronics (23.2%, up 1.8%
points), and small appliances
(18.5%, up 1.9% points).
Consumer Reports Next 30-Day
Retail Index stands at 7.4, down
from the prior month (7.6),
capping three months of decline
since July (8.5). Small appliances
posted a slight gain in October
(11.5) from the prior month
(10.6).
The Consumer Reports
Employment Index is up slightly
this month to 49.5 from 49.1 in
September. Overall labor force
activity is modest, with fewer
Americans claiming to have
started a new job in the past 30
days (5.7%), than those that lost
their job (6.7%). Job losses
(6.7%) were largely unchanged
from the prior month (6.9%),
while job gains were up slightly
(5.7%) from September (5.0%).
The employment index remains in
negative territory, with job losses
outpacing gains.
Despite improvements,
confidence remains low and stress
is up. The Consumer Reports
Consumer Sentiment Index is
currently at 44.8. Sentiment has
doggedly refused to enter positive
territory (over 50) since it was
first measured by the Consumer
Reports Index on October 5, 2008
and stood at 45.3. The Consumer
Reports Stress Index is up in
October to 63.2 from 60.1 the
prior month, and is at its highest
level since April 2010 when it hit
63.8.
“Americans appear to be
experiencing less financial woes,
but the key factor continuing to
depress consumers is weak
employment growth,” said Ed
Farrell, a director of the
Consumer Reports National
Research Center. “The lack of
real improvement on the jobs
front will dampen any meaningful
improvement in economic
activity.”
The Consumer Reports Index
report, available at
www.ConsumerReports.org,
comprises five key indices: the
Sentiment Index, the Trouble
Tracker Index, the Stress Index,
the Retail Index, and the
Employment Index. Here are the
key findings:
Consumer Reports Sentiment
Index: 44.8
• Consumer Reports Sentiment
Index has changed little since
October 2009, and now stands at
44.8, unchanged from September
(44.1).
• The most optimistic consumers
are between the ages of 18-34
(54.3), and those with household
incomes of $100,000 or more
(51.2). The most pessimistic
consumers are between the ages
of 35-64 (41.9) and 65 or older
(37.2), and those with household
incomes under $50,000 (40.9).
The Consumer Reports Sentiment
Index captures respondents’
attitudes regarding their financial
situation, asking them if they are
feeling better or worse off than a
year ago. When the index is
greater than 50, more consumers
are feeling positive about their
situation. When it is below 50,
more consumers are feeling
worse. The Sentiment Index can
vary from a high of 100 to a low
of 0.
Consumer Reports Trouble
Tracker Index: 50.5
• The Consumer Reports Trouble
Tracker Index showed further
improvement this month, pointing
to fewer troubles for consumers,
dropping to 50.5 in October from
53.7 in September, and is down
substantially from one year ago
(65.5).
• Positive developments were led
by a decline in consumers unable
to afford medical care or
medications, to 12.7% from
13.6% in September; and a drop
in the proportion of Americans
who missed a payment on a major
bill (8.7%), down from the prior
month (9.3%).
• On the downside, in the past 30
days, 3.0% reported that they
have missed a payment on their
mortgage, up from 2.4% in
September. The leading problems
faced by consumers include:
• Unable to afford medical bills
or medications (12.7%)
• Missed payment on a major bill
– not mortgage (8.7%)
• Credit card increased rates/fees,
reduced credit line (7.6%)
• Lower-income households,
earning less than $50,000 a year,
have been disproportionately
affected. In the past 30 days:
• Unable to afford medical bills
or medications (20.6%)
• Missed payment on a major bill
– not mortgage (14.4%)
• Credit card increased rates/fees,
reduced credit line (10.1%)
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The Consumer Reports Trouble
Tracker focuses on both the
proportion of consumers that have
faced difficulties as well as the
number of negative events they
have encountered. The negative
events include: the inability to pay
medical bills or afford
medication, missed mortgage
payments, home foreclosure,
interest-rate increase, penalty fees,
reduced lines of credit or other
changes in credit-card terms, job
loss or layoffs, reduced healthcare
coverage, or the denial of personal
loans. The Consumer Reports
Trouble Tracker Index is then
calculated as the proportion of
consumers that have experienced
at least one of the negative events
comprising the index multiplied
by the average number of events
encountered.
Consumer Reports Retail Index:
Past 30-Day – 9.9, Next 30-Day –
7.4
• Consumer Reports Past 30-Day
Retail Index for October,
reflective of September activity, is
9.9, on par with the prior month
(9.8), but down versus one year
ago (10.4).
• Looking at the category
purchases over the past 30 days,
there were slight increases logged
for personal electronics (23.2%,
up 1.8% points) and small
appliances (18.5%, up 1.9%
points).
• Among the non-index
categories for past 30-day
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purchases, new cars (3.0%) were
up slightly versus the prior month
(1.7%), but used cars (4.0%) were
down from the prior month
(5.1%). Home purchases were off
slightly (2.0%) relative to
September (2.5%).
• Consumer Reports Next 30-Day
Retail Index, reflective of planned
purchases for October, is at 7.4,
posting three months of decline
from July’s recent high of 8.5, and
also is down from a year ago
(8.3). Within the Next 30-Day
Retail Index, only small
appliances posted a slight gain
from the prior month. Among
non-index categories, new cars
(2.2%) and used cars (3.3%) are
holding steady relative to the prior
month. Planned purchasing for
homes (3.0%) in the next 30 days,
reflecting planned October
activity, is up versus the prior
month (1.5%), and is at its
strongest level of the past nine
months.
The Consumer Reports Retail
Index looks at consumer
purchases in the past 30 days as
well as the outlook for planned
purchases in the next 30-days
across several categories. The
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Giants send Cox to retirement, close out Braves
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 1:00:45 AM
Game Information Stadium
Turner Field, Atlanta, GA
Attendance 44,532 (89.5% full) -
% is based on regular season
capacity Game Time 2:56
Weather 76 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind 6 mph Umpires Home Plate
- Mike Winters, First Base - Jerry
Layne, Second Base - Ed Hickox,
Third Base - Dana Demuth
Associated Press
ATLANTA -- The San Francisco
Giants celebrated their first
playoff win in eight years, then
paused to honor the man whose
career they had just ended. As
Bobby Cox came out of the
Braves dugout to tip his cap to the
chanting crowd one last time
Monday night, the Giants stopped
what they were doing on the other
side of the field. More From
ESPN.com
Cody Ross' bat sent San
Francisco into the NLCS and
Bobby Cox into retirement, ESPN
The Magazine's Jorge Arangure
Jr. writes. Story
It's a shame things ended like this
for Bobby Cox but the better team
prevailed Monday, writes
ESPN.com's Rob Neyer. Blog
• FanGraphs: Ross' Giant
contribution
• Stats & Info blog They began
clapping, too, and tipped their
caps in Cox's direction. The
Atlanta manager waved
back.Then the Giants headed off
to savor a 3-2 victory that sent
them to the NL Championship
Series for the first time since
2002. Twenty-one-year-old rookie
Madison Bumgarner pitched six
strong innings, late-season pickup
Cody Ross homered and drove in
the go-ahead run with a two-out
single in the seventh, and the San
Francisco bullpen closed it
out.For Cox, there are no more
games, only the reality of what
he's going to do with the rest of
his life without a group of
ballplayers to manage.He can put
away that familiar No. 6 uniform
for good."It doesn't feel like the
last time I'm putting it on, but it
Sports/ 51
take the best-of-five series and
earn a shot against the two-time
defending NL champion Phillies.
Game 1 is Saturday at
Philadelphia and features a
marquee matchup: Tim Lincecum
vs. Roy Halladay.After the final
out, the crowd of 44,532 chanted
"Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!" to lure
the retiring skipper out of the
dugout for a well-deserved curtain
call."Thank You, Bobby Cox," the
giant video board said as "Georgia
On My Mind" played throughout
the stadium"He's the best manager
for me that's ever managed the
game," said Ross, who was
acquired from Florida on a waiver
claim in late August and paid big
dividends in October. "I got a
chance to play against him for
five years. I love coming in here
seeing him. I want to congratulate
the Braves on a fine season and
him on a great career." Braves
Meet Familiar Fate
The Atlanta Braves have lost six
straight postseason series, tied for
certainly is," Cox said, his voice ERA Series Dodgers (1981) 0.64 the fourth-longest streak all-time.
cracking. "I won't put it on NLCS Braves (1996) 0.79 NLDS Streak Years Cubs 10 1910-98
again."The series was tight and Giants (2010) 0.93 NLDS Phillies Dodgers 7 1916-53 Astros 7 1980
tense to the very last out. Giants (1983) 0.94 NLCS Dodgers -2001 Braves 6 2001-10 * Twins
closer Brian Wilson walked two (1963) 1.02 WS-- Elias Sports 6 2002-10 * Athletics 6 1990-
in the ninth, giving the Braves one B u r e a u " T h i s s e r i e s h a d 2003* Denotes active streak
more shot to extend Cox's career. everything," Giants manager -- Elias Sports Bureau Atlanta
But Omar Infante struck out Bruce Bochy said. "Just the starter Derek Lowe pitched no-hit
attempting to check his swing on intensity and excitement of the ball into the sixth inning, and still
a nasty slider, and Melky Cabrera series, it had to be thrilling for the it wasn't enough. The Braves have
grounded out to third. Giants fans. There was never an easy yet to win at Turner Field with a
Raise Bar By Lowering ERA moment for Bobby or myself, series on the line, losing for the
The Giants starters finished with because these games could have eighth straight time in that
an ERA of 0.93 in the series -- the gone either way."Indeed, every situation since the Ted opened to
third-lowest ERA by an NL game was decided by one run, but
rotation in a postseason series. the Giants won three of them to GIANTS page 53
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Favre tosses 500th TD, throws away win to Jets

Associated Press (ESPN.com) the Minnesota Vikings to another Harvin said. "He was well
Submitted at 10/12/2010 7:34:42 AM of his classic comebacks. The prepared, so I don't think any of
New York Jets would have none that outside stuff had anything to
Team Stat Comparison of it. More From ESPN.com do with how he played."Favre,
MIN The type of victory the Jets who played for the Jets during the
NYJ 1st Downs 16 20 enjoyed suggests a coming of age 2008 season, threw three
Passing 1st downs 12 12 for Rex Ryan's team, ESPN.com's touchdowns, including two to
Rushing 1st downs 3 8 Tim Graham writes. Blog Harvin. The second -- an 11-yard
1st downs from Penalties 1 0 • AFC East: Rapid Reaction pass -- brought the Vikings within
3rd down efficiency 7-15 5-17 The Vikings' 29-20 loss to the two points with 3:09 left in the
4th down efficiency 0-0 0-0 Total Jets was a perfect example of the game."We were brilliant in the
Plays 62 78 Total Yards 336 328 difference between a collection of first half and we knew you have
Passing 240 173 elite players and an elite team, to play four quarters," Ryan said.
Comp-Att 14-34 21-44 ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert writes. "This guy is as good as it
Yards per pass 7.1 3.9 Rushing Blog gets."The Vikings had the ball
96 155 • NFC North: Rapid Reaction with 1:43 remaining and poised
Rushing Attempts 24 32 Brett Favre should have ignored for a winning drive -- until Favre's
Yards per rush 4.0 4.8 Red Zone pleading teammates and sat this last big mistake sent Minnesota to
(Made-Att) 1-1 0-4 Penalties 8-51 s e a s o n out, writes its seventh consecutive loss to
6-55 Turnovers 3 0 ESPNNewYork.com's Ian New York. Most Career TD
Fumbles lost 2 0 O'Connor. Story Passes
I n t e r c e p t i o n s t h r o w n 1 0 On a night of stars it took a On the night he passed Warren
Defensive / Special Teams TDs 0 couple of Jets backups to make Moon for the most fumbles in
1 Possession 26:05 33:55 the decisive play, writes NFL history with 163, Brett Favre
Passing Leaders Minnesota C/ E S P N N e w Y o r k . c o m ' s R i c h threw his 500th touchdown pass.
ATT YDS AVG TD INT Cimini. Story TD passes Brett Favre 502* Dan
RATING Favre 14/34 264 7.8 3 1 • Jets Center| Jets Blog Marino 420 Peyton Manning 377*
85.9 NY Jets C/ATT YDS AVG With Favre trying to rally his Fran Tarkenton 342 John Elway
TD INT RATING Sanchez 21/44 team, Jets cornerback Dwight 300 Warren Moon 291 Johnny
191 4.3 0 0 59.9 Lowery returned an interception Unitas 290 Vinny Testaverde 275
Receiving Leaders Minnesota 26 yards for a touchdown with Joe Montana 273 Dave Krieg
REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS 1:30 left as the Jets beat the 261* - active-- The Associated
Harvin 5 97 19.4 2 34 10 Moss 4 Vikings 29-20 on "Monday Night Press"I think everyone who
81 20.3 1 37 10 NY Jets REC F o o t b a l l . " " D i s a p p o i n t i n g , I quarterback is left wondering if an Favre said, refusing to answer watches us play sees flashes of a
Y D S A V G T D L G T G T S suppose," Favre said. "I was even bigger punishment is in store questions about the situation. "I'm team that can be 3-1, 4-0," Favre
Edwards 5 70 14.0 0 31 11 expecting we were going to win from NFL commissioner Roger disappointed we lost this football said. "Not that we're not capable.
Cotchery 5 46 9.2 0 14 10 this football game. It was a great Goodell.Favre finished 14-for-34 game."Brushing off those issues, We're very capable."Favre also
Associated Press football game and I wish we for 264 yards for the Vikings (1- he became the first NFL player to p l a y e d t h r o u g h s o m e m i l d
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- would have won it." Nick Folk 3) hours after he reportedly throw 500 touchdown passes and t e n d i n i t i s i n h i s t h r o w i n g
B r e t t F a v r e a d d r e s s e d h i s kicked five field goals for the Jets apologized to teammates for the pass for 70,000 yards. But two elbow."This is probably the worst
teammates before the game amid (4-1), two after fumbles by distraction caused by an NFL early fumbles against his former it's felt in four games," he said. "I
all the distractions. Hours later, Favre."That's a heck of a win," investigation into allegations that team helped put the Vikings in a missed some throws the last drive
the record-breaking quarterback New York coach Rex Ryan he sent racy messages and lewd 12-0 hole."I don't think anyone
put all that aside and nearly led s a i d . N o w , t h e 4 1 - y e a r - o l d photos to a Jets game hostess in wanted to win this game more FAVRE page 55
2008."I said what I had to say," than him," wide receiver Percy
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GIANTS
continued from page 51
baseball in 1997. Cox won't get a
chance to end that streak, deciding
more than a year ago to call it a
career at age 69.He heads for the
rocking chair as the fourth
winningest manager in baseball
history (2,504 regular-season
victories) but one major
shortcoming on a record that will
surely be good enough to land
him in Cooperstown. In 16 trips to
the playoffs -- one with Toronto,
15 with the Braves -- Cox's teams
captured only one World Series
title, way back in 1995.A Braves
fan held up a sign pleading for the
team to "Win It For Bobby," but
Ross and the Giants were in no
mood for sentimentality. Not even
with the comfort of knowing that
Game 5 would've been back in
San Francisco, and Lincecum was
all rested and ready to go after a
two-hit, 14-strikeout shutout in
Game 1.Now, the Giants ace is
lined up to face Halladay, who
pitched a no-hitter last week in his
postseason debut. The Phillies and
Giants split six games this
season."I can't say enough about
our pitching," Ross said. "They
keep us in it the whole time. We
just need to score a few." Fast
Facts
• This was the first series in
postseason history in which all of
the games were decided by one
run.
• Madison Bumgarner became the
youngest Giants pitcher to win a
postseason game, at age 21.
• Bumgarner also became the
second youngest pitcher to win a
series clincher in postseason
history.
• The Giants have only one
regular-season series victory in
the last 17 series played at Turner
Field but have won four of five
games in two postseason series
there.
• At 22, Atlanta's Craig Kimbrel is
the youngest pitcher in postseason
history to pitch in every game of a
series (minimum four games).
-- ESPN Stats & Information and
Elias Sports Bureau The Braves
couldn't blame this one on Brooks
Conrad. Shortstop Alex Gonzalez
made a couple of errors --
including a high throw in the
decisive seventh that got Ross to
the plate with two outs. He
delivered a bases-loaded single to
left, driving in the tiebreaking
run.Gonzalez also got caught
loafing down the line in the eighth
after hitting a soft liner toward
shortstop -- violating one of Cox's
few rules (always play hard).
Edgar Renteria dropped it, but
still threw out Gonzalez easily at
first.Conrad didn't start after
making three errors in Game 3,
which the Braves were one out
from winning to take the lead in
the series. The last of those let in
the winning run of San
Francisco's 3-2 victory, a stunning
turnaround that gave the upper
hand back to the Giants.They
didn't let it slip away, even after
falling behind twice in Game 4.
Bumgarner pitched like a veteran,
allowing six hits and both Atlanta
runs.Missing Chipper Jones and
Martin Prado from an offense that
wasn't all that strong to begin
with, the Braves simply didn't
have enough bats to extend Cox's
career. Jason Heyward had his
first two hits of the series but still
batted .125. As a team, Atlanta
managed just 24 hits in the four
games.Lowe did all he could,
turning in a gutsy performance on
three days' rest. He blanked the
Giants without a hit over the first
5 1/3 innings, but Ross struck in
the sixth with a liner to left that
barely cleared the wall. Just like
that, it was 1-all on San
Francisco's first hit of the night.
Brian McCann, who had a
sacrifice fly in the third to give
Atlanta its first lead of the series
before the eighth inning, struck
again in the sixth. He led off with
a shot over the wall in right to
quickly restore the Braves'
lead.Lowe -- working hard,
muttering to himself and sweating
profusely on an unseasonably
warm night -- finally ran out of
gas in the seventh.With one out,
Aubrey Huff drew a walk from
Lowe. Buster Posey followed by
topping one toward third baseman
Troy Glaus, who was essentially
Conrad's replacement but can
barely move because of a sore
knee. Posey beat it out without
even drawing a throw.Cox walked
slowly toward the mound as
though he was going to make a
change, but he wanted to ask
Lowe how he felt. The pitcher
nodded his head and Cox left him
in the game, drawing a huge cheer
from the crowd.But the Giants
stayed patient against the tiring
Lowe. Pat Burrell worked the
count to 3-1, then Lowe threw a
pitch that darted toward the inside
corner. A little too far inside. Ball
four.Lowe threw out his arms,
practically pleading with home
plate umpire Mike Winters for the
call. Cox emerged slowly from
the dugout a second time, this
time to make the change. Lowe
bent over behind the mound, then
walked toward Cox to hand him
the ball and kept on going toward
the clubhouse. Peter Moylan, a
ground-ball specialist, came on to
face Juan Uribe. The Braves got
what they wanted, only the
grounder was between third base
and shortstop. Glaus didn't even
make an attempt, Gonzalez made
a backhanded grab and threw
toward second for the force.But
the throw was a little high, and
Infante had to reach up to get it.
He had no shot at the double play
-- and the Braves wound up
getting no one when umpire Ed
Hickox ruled that Infante had
pulled his right foot off the bag a
split-second before catching the
ball. Replays were inconclusive
on a call that left the bases loaded
with one out. Jonny Venters, the
third pitcher of the inning, struck
out pinch-hitter Aaron Rowand on
a wicked slider. But Ross came
through with another big hit,
grounding one out of Gonzalez's
reach into left field to bring home
the go-ahead run. Matt Diaz
prevented the Braves from falling
even farther behind when he made
a strong throw to beat the slow-
running Burrell, who was tagged
out by McCann in a collision at
the plate. But 3-2 was good
enough for the Giants' bullpen.
Santiago Casilla worked 1 2/3
innings, Javier Lopez struck out
53
Heyward to end the eighth and
Wilson earned his second save in
as many nights.Then it was time
to celebrate a playoff victory --
and remember Cox's career."I
revere this man so much," Bochy
said. "It's going to be strange
coming in here and not seeing
Bobby on the other side."Game
notes
After drawing a sellout of more
than 53,000 for Game 3, there
were thousands of empty seats in
the upper deck. ... The Braves last
win in an elimination contest was
Game 7 of the 1996 NLCS, when
they routed St. Louis 15-0 in the
final season at old Atlanta-Fulton
County Stadium. ... San
Francisco, making its first playoff
appearance since 2003, won its
first postseason series since
beating St. Louis 4-1 in the 2002
NL Championship Series.
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Stanford compromise
Andy Katz (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:46:34 AM
Updated: October 12, 2010,
11:46 AM ET
The Bay Area schools, California
and Stanford, appear to be the
final hurdle before the Pac-10
unveils next week its two-
division, 12-team setup for the
2011-12 football season.
Pac-10 athletic directors weren't
able to arrive at a consensus
during two days of meetings last
week in San Francisco, but a
compromise is in the works,
according to multiple sources.
The conference would like to
have a north-south split of two six
-team divisions, instead of a
"zipper format" that would divide
the conference on an east-west
alignment of every rivalry.
The schools in the Northwest will
sign off on a north-south split, but
want Stanford and Cal to be in
their division instead of Colorado
and Utah to ensure a foothold in
recruiting-rich California.
However, the California schools
would rather stay together, which
would mean UCLA and USC
being with Stanford and Cal. Add
southern schools Arizona and
Arizona State, and the South not
only would have all of California,
but also a historical competitive
advantage, even if the current
standings show the Oregon
schools atop the conference.
One source said the league has to
do what's best for the overall
conference, not just for the
individual interests of a few
schools. And to a number of the
members, splitting the four
California schools is a must.
If a compromise is reached, Cal
and Stanford would be placed in
the North division with Oregon,
Oregon State, Washington,
Washington State. The South
division would be UCLA, USC,
Arizona, Arizona State and new
members Utah and Colorado,
formerly of the Mountain West
and Big 12, respectively.
During a news conference at
Oregon State two weeks ago, Pac-
10 commissioner Larry Scott said
the league still would play nine
games, with room for crossover
games if rivalries are split up in
divisions. UCLA and USC would
have five games within the
division, for instance, and still
could play four of the North
division teams, meaning games
against Cal and Stanford could
survive a realignment.
Splitting the four California
schools also means two of them
could meet in a Pac-12
championship game.
The north-south division
alignment is an easier sell for
marketing purposes. Scott said he
wanted the divisions to have
"competitive balance," as well as
be able to "market and promote
our football season in a way that's
easy and logical to follow."
The "zipper" split would take
each rivalry -- USC and UCLA,
for example -- and divide it along
east-west lines to form two
divisions, with the rivals still
playing each other in a crossover
game. But that format hasn't had
as much momentum.
The presidents and chancellors
are huddling with their respective
athletic directors this week before
their own meeting Oct. 21 in
downtown San Francisco. Scott
hopes to have a news conference
following the meeting to
announce the divisional
alignment.
The Pac-10 men's basketball
media day is the following week
in Los Angeles, when the
conference should know by then
what it will do. The consensus in
men's basketball is to keep its 18-
game, round-robin setup. The
rivals always would play each
other home-and-home. The teams
would play six others twice for a
total of seven home-and-home
games.
That would leave four, one-game
meetings per team, with the goal
of splitting those into two at home
and two on road. For example,
Arizona could go to Oregon and
then Washington State on a
Thursday-Saturday trip, and host
Oregon State and Washington.
There would be a rotation set up
so that each team gets to play on
each other's home court in a six-
year period.
The future of the Pac-12
tournament is still fluid. All 12
teams will be invited. The Pac-10
still is committed to Staples
Center in Los Angeles for 2011
and 2012, as the tournament is
tied to the conference's television
deal with Fox Sports Net. The Pac
-10 will look to open up the
television negotiations next year.
Andy Katz is a senior writer at
ESPN.com.
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Forget the Scribblenauts you
knew.
Usually, when people say things
like that, it's because the new
thing is so different, that trying to
compare it to the old thing is just
going to leave you confused.
That's not the case with Super
Scribblenauts, which is tonally,
graphically and sonically almost
identical to its predecessor.
No, I mention it only because
Super Scribblenauts, which fixes
practically every problem with the
series' debut, is viewed most
favorably in an alternate
dimension where said debut never
existed.
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[that] I think I make in my
sleep."The game marked the
Vikings return for Randy Moss,
who finished with four catches for
81 yards, including a 37-yard
touchdown late in the third
quarter.With the Jets leading 12-0
and the Vikings facing third-and-
17 from the Jets 37, Favre reared
back and lofted the ball perfectly
into Moss' hands in the back right
corner of the end zone with 2:10
left in the quarter. Favre zipped
down the field and jumped into
Moss' arms in the end zone to
celebrate the score."When I threw
that touchdown to Randy Moss, I
had been thinking about that for
eight to 10 years," Favre
said.Favre also became the first to
reach 70,000 yards passing on the
drive that cut the Jets lead to 12-
7.Moss, acquired from New
England last Wednesday, was
defended mostly by Jets
cornerback Antonio Cromartie
despite the return of Darrelle
Revis from a strained left
hamstring. Adrian Peterson had
88 yards on 18 carries for
Minnesota.Less than five minutes
after connecting with Moss, Favre
hit Harvin for a 34-yard
touchdown that made it 15-13.
But Favre's tying 2-point
conversion try was intercepted by
Cromartie in the end zone. Shonn
Greene's 23-yard touchdown run
with 4:30 left in the game gave
the Jets a 22-13 lead that appeared
to seal the victory, but Favre still
had plenty of time to try for a
comeback."We just hung in there
to the end," Jets quarterback Mark
Sanchez said. "I don't think we
win this game last year."New
York's offense struggled for the
first time since Week 1, failing to
get much going -- other than field
goals -- until late. Sanchez was 21
-of-44 for 191 yards, and still
hasn't thrown an interception this
season, although he came close a
few times. Santonio Holmes
played his first game with the Jets
after being suspended the first
four for violating the NFL's
substance abuse policy. He
finished with three catches for 41
yards. LaDainian Tomlinson had
another solid game for the Jets
with 94 yards rushing on 20
carries.Folk's fifth field goal, a 31
-yarder, made it 15-7 with 49
seconds left in the third. The score
was set up by Brad Smith's 86-
yard kickoff return."You have to
hunker down and bear through
those things and we did that
tonight," said New York's Jason
Taylor, who had one of four sacks
of Favre. "We were mentally
tough enough to do that."Game
notes
The Jets improved to 5-0 at home
against the Vikings. ... The last
time the Vikings beat the Jets was
in 1975, when Bud Grant was
Minnesota's coach. ... Jets LB
Calvin Pace had 1 1/2 sacks in his
regular-season debut after missing
the first four games with a broken
right foot.
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Brett Favre Fails to
Complete Pass, Takes
Harshest Sack
Clay Travis (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:43:00 AM
Filed under: Jets, Vikings, NFL
Hall of Fame, NFL Quarterbacks
Brett Favre is even dumber than
Roger Clemens and Tiger Woods.
No matter what the eventual
fallout is from sextingate Favre's
reputation will never be the same.
Unlike Clemens, who any
reasonable fan already assumed
was using steroids -- do we
believe any player's denial about
using performance enhancing are a mess so it's best to give
employees bright line rules to
drugs anymore? -- and Woods,
whose personal failings were follow. Everyone wants an easy
rule, don't attempt to sleep with
between his wife and he, the
allegations that Favre sexually your co-workers is that rule.
It's easy to follow and if you do
harassed at least three employees
or contractors of the New York your chances of ever having an
issue with sexual harassment are
Jets are pathetic and
embarrassing. negligible. That's the case for
every employee, from janitors to
But why is it so stupid?
First, because it directly surgeons. Just choose your sexual
partners outside of work. If Favre
implicates Favre's livelihood.
While teaching sexual harassment had done this, the NFL and the
New York Jets could have cared
seminars my advice was simple:
don't attempt to sleep with any co- less about his private morality.
workers. Ever. Don't even think
about it. Sexual harassment cases
56 Sports/ Gaming/ Food/
Roger Clemens Stands
Alone as Master of Self-
Inflicted Disaster
David Whitley (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:42:00 AM
Filed under: Blue Jays, Red Sox,
Yankees, MLB Hall of Fame
The Brett Favre firestorm is
currently a Category 4. One more
alleged lewd text and he'll be
forced to enroll in Tiger Woods'
sex-rehab clinic.
It's sad to see a man torch his
own image. With all due
disrespect to Favre, Woods,
Michael Vick, John Edwards and
British Petroleum, nobody has
ruined their reputation quite like
Roger Clemens.
The other guys merely came off
as bums, liars and letches.
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THQ locks down multi- Proverbs 3:5

year rights to Deepak -6 (10-12-
Chopra games 10)
(Verse of the Day)
James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 2:00:00 AM
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:30:00 AM

Trust in the Lord with all your

It's not quite an EA-NFL-level
heart and lean not on your own
blockbuster deal, but THQ has
understanding; in all your ways
Capcom launches Ace entered into a multi-year licensing
agreement for exclusive video
game rights to Deepak Chopra's
acknowledge him, and he will
make your paths straight.
Attorney 10th anniversary teachings. The deal with rights
holder Curious Pictures extends to
— Proverbs 3:5-6(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... When things
are tough, I find it easy to call on
website on 9th anniversary pretty much every platform
imaginable, including XBLA, Dr. Chopra is the author of more God and lean on his mercy and
than 55 books on "mind-body grace. He's my ripcord Savior.
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) work on the first Phoenix Wright PSN and WiiWare.
as a summer project after Dino Clearly not meant for THQ's " health, spirituality and peace." But I must confess, when I'm
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:30:00 PM
Crisis 2. core" catalog (though yogic ab- You probably won't be able to reveling in his blessings and
Capcom must be planning Meanwhile, Andriasang reports b u i l d i n g m i n i g a m e s a r e n ' t shoot things in his games, or even things are going well, I am so
stomp on them. much like the Israelites and forget
something big for the 10th that a "???x???" link at the official necessarily off the table), the
anniversary of the Ace Attorney site displays a book with the Deepak Chopra games will fit into THQ locks down multi-year to acknowledge that all the
s e r i e s , a s i t ' s o p e n e d a n words "Majo Saiban" ("Witch the publisher's "Casual and rights to Deepak Chopra games blessings I have and all the
anniversary website exactly one Judgment") on it, suggesting a Lifestyle Portfolio." Said THQ originally appeared on Joystiq on opportunities I have received
year early. Either that or someone collaboration between the TV e x e c M a r t i n G o o d , " T H Q Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:30:00 EST. come because of his grace. In my
thought this year was the 10th drama by that name and the Ace continues to expand its casual Please see our terms for use of joy and success, I need to learn to
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anniversary, and Capcom just Attorney series. Curiously, the games portfolio and has grand
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when things appear to be going
The anniversary site features Capcom launches Ace Attorney category with this game." well! My Prayer... Gracious
commentary by series composers, 10th anniversary website on 9th Father, every good thing I have in
staff, and even the actress who anniversary originally appeared my life has come because of you.
played Phoenix Wright in the on Joystiq on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 The family I have been blessed
Takarazuka Revue musicals. 12:30:00 EST. Please see our with, the protection I have
There's also an interview with terms for use of feeds. received, the values that I hold,
creator Shu Takumi, who started Permalink| Email this| Comments the successes I have enjoyed, the
hope I have, the salvation I have
received, and the future I
anticipate are all mine because of
your grace and not my goodness.
Thank you! Thank you! In the
name of Jesus I thank you more!
Amen.
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How Barack Obama
All the news that's fit to print Can Avoid Becoming
(Scripting News) reporter for the NY Times. That's deserves an acronym: ATNTFTP. should the Times have aspired to
why, as often is the case, the It suggests a breadth of coverage. be the all-inclusive place where
Jimmy Carter
Submitted at 10/12/2010 5:05:15 AM
discussion revolves around Times. The first word isn't modest -- it people go to find out what's Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Excellent Rebooting the News Someday we'll figure out why the isn't "some of the" or "most of happening in the world, through Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:18:00 PM
podcast yesterday, with someone Times looms so large in all our the" or "a good cross-section of" - the Internet. I think that the
both Jay and I respect -- Saul discussions, but that's not what we - it's "all." answer is self-evident. You can President Obama is in danger of
Hansell, who runs the seed.com discussed yesterday. Now this is why I find it so hear the tale of woe for the "news becoming Jimmy Carter. This is
program at AOL. The crux of our disagreement is frustrating that the only new industry" on the op-ed page of the not an original observation.
He came to be a guest on the this. media ideas that appear on the op- Times and every other newspaper. His "Carteresque" tendencies
show because he argues with the I say that nothing appears on the ed pages of the Times are those And on the business pages, and were on full display during the
podcast, at his home in suburban pages of the NYT until a reporter that appear obvious to David Carr. the technology pages. Even in recent CNBC town hall meeting,
New York, while doing his at the Times has an epiphany Not that Carr isn't a very clever politics and culture, the Internet is when a supporter -- lamenting her
laundry. A time-honored way to about it. Saul says: "And isn't that writer and speaker. He certainly is usurping the former role of the present economic condition --
consume podcast content. I do it what the Times is supposed to quite creative, but not in what's Paper of Record. asked Obama, "Is this my new
myself. I often feel like yelling be?" possible given the new I think history has shown over reality?"
back at the idiot on the MP3, only To which I resond: Emphatically, distribution and authoring and over, that you must rise to the Obama's response will likely not
this time I happened to be the no. The Times is supposed to technologies, that have been challenge of new technology, or be featured in any leadership
idiot! capture the events of our times. developing for decades. But the be marginalized by it. motivational books. He
Not that we have the power to Hence its name. If it had been limits he imposes on what the You don't read about the demise responded: "Times are tough for
hear anyone yelling back at us. meant to capture the epiphanies of Times and can and can't do are far of social networks on the social everybody right now," then
Wish we did. Saul sent us an a few reporters, it might have more restrictive than the mission networks. Instead they have implied that things would be
email suggesting he might be a been called "Our Epiphanies" and the Times is on, ATNTFTP. grown from a few million users worse without him, and generally
good guest. When I said I the motto might be "All the things Because the Times has drifted so just a couple of years ago to gave a very drab and technical
welcomed the chance to argue that occur to us, when they occur far from ATNTFTP, it can take hundreds of millions of users response to this lady's sincere and
with him, he got a bit squeamish, to us, and not a moment before." ten years or more before a news- today. They are beginning to exert emotional question.
as if we wouldn't like each other So I didn't say any of that, related idea that's actively being the kind of political and cultural Instead, Obama might have
after the show, or whatever. I because I let Jay steer us into an pursued by the tech industry to power that the Times used to. borrowed a page from Ronald
thought to myself, what's become idea I proposed to the Times in actually appear in the pages of the How do I know? I read about it in Reagan, and said, "America's best
of us that we can't argue, even 2002, that they offer a Times- Times. This is not doing a service the Times. days are yet to come," or any
passionately, and learn something hosted site to anyone they quote, to anyone, certainly not to the As I said to Saul, I have a number of things that might have
in the process and come away which of course is a tactic for members of the Times community window on my desktop computer inspired this lady to keep on
with even more respect for the achieving the kind of mix I was who don't draw a paycheck from that scrolls the latest NY Times keeping on. Heck, even saying, "I
person we're arguing with? That's looking for and does nothing to the Times, and probably not even articles in realtime. I keep moving feel your pain," would have been
the way it turned out. If you like a explain why this is something to those who do. the technology and keep making a major improvement. At least it
h e a t e d a n d p a s s i o n a t e they should have wanted to do. Since the birth of the web, it's offers to the Times. I see the value would have shown empathy.
d i s a g r e e m e n t , I h i g h l y (BTW, to Jay who asked for a always been the next step for the of what they do, but I want more It was a horrible answer. There
recommend listening to RBTN reference to this proposal, I found Times to open the windows and of it, much more. I want their was no optimism. And, absent a
#67. couple. Expand this paragraph on let the fresh air in. They have a process to influence the processes miraculous economic recovery,
As with all good disagreements, I the scripting.com website for beautiful office, but the news isn't of everyone else. But I'm losing optimism is what is most needed
thought of the real argument a few details.) happening there, it's happening that battle and I know it. right now.
hours after it was over. But to really nail it, consider that everywhere but there. Yet to read That is the point I keep trying to To be clear, I'm not advocating
Before explaining, it's important the motto of the Times is"All the the Times you would think the make: Let's work together. "happy talk" or trite sloganeering.
to note that both Jay and I first news that's fit to print." opposite.
met Hansell when he was a Which is so fundamental that it Now to the why of it. Why HOW page 59
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HOW
continued from page 58
Saying that things are fine -- when
they clearly are not-- implies a
leader is out of touch with reality.
Few sins are deadlier in politics.
But there is a huge difference
between misrepresenting the
present -- and voicing faith in the
future. And I would argue that
part of a leader's job is to inspire
citizens to believe in their future.
During the great depression, FDR
told Americans "the only thing we
have to fear is fear itself." During
World War II -- during Britain's
darkest days -- Churchill inspired
his nation with words like "we
shall never surrender." Ronald
Reagan talked of America being a
"shining city on a hill." See a
pattern?
To be sure, some cynics view
inspirational talk as mere
demagoguery, meant to
manipulate a naive public. But
part of leadership, it seems to me,
is inspiring followers to believe
they can be successful, even when
their present future is bleak.
Whether it's a football coach
whose half-time words inspire his
team to rally in the second half, or
a president whose words inspire
his nation to turn around a
struggling economy, words -- as
President Obama correctly said --
do matter.
So is this our new reality? In the
1970s, the new reality for Jimmy
Carter seemed to be malaise. To
many Americans, the best advice
Carter could muster involved
wearing cardigans and turning the
heat down. It also implied a belief
that the presidency might "too big
for one man." And, ultimately, it
signaled that America's best days
were behind her.
Ronald Reagan, of course, utterly
rejected that defeatist attitude,
espoused optimism, and won. It
turns out the public was yearning
for that message. But the message
was not "just words," Reagan's
optimistic language became a self
-fulfilling prophesy. As
Americans began to believe they
could succeed, they did succeed.
That's is why I think the analysts
who think a "boring" Republican
might be the key to the GOP's
ousting Obama in 2012. I think
the most optimistic candidate will
win the nomination.
Of course, it is utterly ironic that
President Obama now finds
himself in this position. For a
campaign that appropriated the
word "Hope" -- and made the
point of saying that " words
matter" -- this is a strange
conundrum.
Aside from the fact that America
needs an "Inspirer in Chief" right
now, its also in Obama's best
interest to become inspirational ...
if he wants to be re-elected in two
years.
Many pundits believe our nation's
current economic status
(unemployment is at 9.6 percent)
preordains a huge Republican
victory this November. While the
economic numbers are, no doubt,
the largest contributor to President
Obama's problems, there are other
factors, as well. My guess is that a
contributing factor is that
Americans are depressed, and see
no bright future just around the
corner.
And while economic recovery
may be elusive, if Obama wants
to be re-elected, he would be well
59
advised to correct the things
which are within his power to
change now. One thing he could
do immediately, is begin
projecting a sense of optimism for
the future.
Clearly, President Obama has the
rhetorical skills to deliver soaring,
inspirational speeches. But
speeches only work when ones
heart is in them. The real concern
isn't that President Obama's words
aren't inspirational, but that his
lack of optimistic words represent
his honest assessment of the
future. And that is scary.
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Poll: Mortgage Industry, Wall Street and Bush Most
to Blame for Economy
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:37:00 PM
Contributing Editor The
mortgage industry, Wall Street
financial firms and banks, and
former President Bush top the list
of culprits
that Americans say did most to
hurt the U.S. economy, according
to a Bloomberg National Poll
conducted Oct. 7-10
Bloomberg asked the question
this way:
The U.S. avoided what many
experts said could have been a
major economic collapse in 2008
and there are signs of recovery,
though unemployment remains
high and many people are still
struggling. For each of the
following people and institutions,
I'd like you to tell me if you think
they did more to help or more to
hurt the U.S. economy. If you
don't know enough to answer, just
say so.
Eighty-eight percent singled out
the mortgage industry for having
hurt the economy followed by
Wall Street financial firms and
banks, which were named by 82
percent.
Sixty-six percent said Bush's
stewardship had hurt the
economy, followed by
congressional Republicans at 57
percent and congressional
Democrats at 53 percent.
Obama was seen as hurting the
economy by 47 percent, while 45
percent said his policies had
helped, with 8 percent not sure.
A third or more of those surveyed
were not sure about two key
players in economic policy --
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke and Treasury Secretary
Tim Geithner. Of those who did
have opinions about them, 34
percent said Bernanke had hurt
the economy while 33 percent
said he had helped, while 40
percent put Geithner in the "hurt"
column while 23 percent said his
actions had helped.
The poll also asked what
proposals to reduce the deficit
should be taken off the table. The
top one, unsurprisingly, was
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Buffett Says ‘Pain Will Be Felt for a
Long Time’ Amid Recovery
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 7:18:13 AM
Tuesday, 12 Oct 2010 12:18 PM
Warren Buffett, the billionaire
chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Inc., said the effects of the
financial crisis and the recession
will be felt “for a long time” as
the economy recovers.
“The worst is behind us, but the
pain will be felt for a long time
from what happened,” Buffett
said in previously recorded
remarks shown today at a
conference at Airport City outside
Tel Aviv. “We’re inching
forward, we’re not galloping
forward.”
U.S. economic growth has
slowed this year as a lack of jobs
curbed consumer spending. The
unemployment rate remained at
9.6 percent in September, near a
26-year high of 10.1 percent last
October. Buffett, 80, said last
month that he was “a huge bull”
on the U.S. and reiterated that
Omaha, Nebraska-based
Berkshire was hiring.
The worst U.S. recession since
the Great Depression ended in
June 2009, the National Bureau of
Economic Research said on Sept.
20. A recent slowdown raises the
possibility of another slump.
Economic growth decelerated to
an annualized 1.7 percent rate in
the second quarter from 3.7
percent in the first and 5 percent
in the last three months of 2009,
according to the Commerce
Department.
Buffett’s Views
Buffett’s pronouncements on the
economy are watched by policy
makers and investors. Buffett, the
world’s third-richest person,
oversees more than 200,000
Berkshire employees who work
for units selling insurance,
building supplies and consumer
goods. He was in China last
month to visit carmaker BYD Co.,
where Berkshire has holdings
valued at more than $1 billion.
He’ll travel to Japan and India in
the next year to seek possible
investments.
Buffett built Berkshire into a
$200 billion company through
four decades of stock picks and
takeovers. The billionaire
investor, also Berkshire’s chief
executive officer and biggest
shareholder, bought Israeli
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George Clooney Meeting
With Obama to Put Focus
toolmaker Iscar Metalworking
Cos. in 2006 in his largest
acquisition of a non-U.S. firm.
on Sudan Partition Vote
Lynn Sweet (Politics Daily) The expectation was that Obama
Buffett plans to travel to Japan
and India in the next year in Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:04:00 PM would be much more vocal on
search of opportunities. Sudan, given his stance on the
Correspondent issue as a senator. In recent weeks
Buffett told shareholders in
Actor and Sudan activist George the Obama administration has
February 2009 that “America’s
Clooney visits President Obama taken a much more active stance
best days lie ahead” even though
in the Oval Office on Tuesday on Sudan. At the U.N. General
he wrote that the economy would
afternoon to discuss his recent trip Assembly last month, Obama
be “in shambles” for the
to south Sudan in advance of a spoke at a ministerial meeting
remainder of the year. Berkshire
r e f e r e n d u m i n J a n u a r y o n where he called for governments
cut about 20,000 jobs in 2009, and
partition. Clooney hopes to call of both North and South Sudan to
profits advanced in the second
attention to the increasingly ensure a peaceful, fair and
half of that year. In November,
unstable relationships between the t r a n s p a r e n t r e f e r e n d u m i n
the company said, “the credit
northern and southern regions. January.
crisis has abated.”
Sudan President Omar Al Bashir, Clooney and Obama started
Buffett predicted on May 2 that
who has been indicted by the working on Sudan issues in 2006 -
unemployment would decrease.
International Criminal Court for - before Obama's trip to Africa. In
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Palin Raises $1.2 Million for PAC continued from page 60

from fellow Republicans disapprove of President Obama's

During Quarter compared to 70 percent support
for Manchin from Democrats,
job performance. Democrats
approve of the Obama by only 49
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) She contributed $10,000 to Joe Palin also gave $10,000 to the although that's not a great percent to 43 percent.
Submitted at 10/12/2010 7:11:27 AM Miller, a political upstart in her Iowa Republican Party, donations advantage since PPP sees the state "The good news for Manchin
home state who upset U.S. Sen. that coincided with her unity as 55 percent Democrat and 33 though is that things seem to have
Tuesday, 12 Oct 2010 12:11 PM Lisa Murkowski in the GOP speech at the party's largest percent Republican. Raese leads stabilized for him some after it
JUNEAU, Alaska — Former primary and is seeking to turn annual fundraiser last month. among independents (12 percent seemed like he was headed
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised b a c k M u r k o w s k i ' s w r i t e - i n Her filing shows she ended the of the sample) by 52 percent to 38 downhill through the last part of
more than $1.2 million for her candidacy in the Nov. 2 election. period Sept. 30 with nearly $1.3 p e r c e n t , w i t h 1 0 p e r c e n t September," said PPP's Dean
political action committee during He received his first $5,000 million on hand. undecided. Debnam. "His high level of
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If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. For Republican women, this
That’s the motto of many election season is a time of
vulnerable Democrats in empowerment. For Democrats,
Congress, who are shifting their it’s just the opposite, Politico
policy stances closer to those of reports. Almost 25 percent of
Republicans, trying to move away female Democrats in the House
from their own party’s lack of are in danger of defeat, including
popularity, Politico reports. once rising stars like Ann
Palin, contend that the incoming
In a television ad, West Virginia Kirkpatrick of Arizona, Betsy
GOP women may create a new
Democratic senate candidate Joe Market of Colorado, and Mary Jo
political culture in Congress,
Manchin (pictured), literally Kilroy of Ohio.
order to get reelected, but the especially if Republican leaders
blasts a gun at a facsimile of the Three Democratic
claims lack meaning if they start give them prominent positions.
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First New Meat-Eating Mammal in 24 Years --

Surprise, It's Already Endangered
Jennifer Abbasi (Popular and paws helped taxonomists at
Science - New Technology, the museum confirm that it is a
Science News, The Future distinct species from its cousin,
Now)
from which it may have diverged
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:04:56 AM in the past 10,000 years.
Durrell's Vontsira (Salanoia "The vast majority of new
Durrelli) The first new mammals that have been Giant Undersea Network
carnivorous mammal to be described in the last 10 years have
discovered for 24 years. It was come from Madagascar,"
Will Bring Offshore Wind
discovered on the Island of Hawkins says. "Many of these Power to East Coast, With
Madagascar by a team from species are hidden within Google Investment
Durrell Wildlife Conservation populations of others. They look Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
Trust (DWCT), the Natural the same, but they have different New Technology, Science
History Museum, London, Nature calls, behavior and DNA," he News, The Future Now)
Heritage, and Conservation says. The discovery of the
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:55:09 AM
International (CI). Durrell Durrell's vontsira, however, was The Atlantic Wind Connection
Wildlife Conservation Trust even more unexpected, as it's the The proposed undersea
Meet the Durrell's vontsira ( only Malagasy carnivore that lives transmission cable would link
Salanoia durrelli). It ain't pretty, in freshwater marshes rather than offshore wind projects up and
but this small, mongoose-like forests. down the mid-Atlantic coast. The
critter-pronounced "voontseera"- Unfortunately-and you knew this Google
has the distinction of being the was coming-the outlook for the Last night, Google announced
first carnivorous mammal Durrell's vontsira isn't great. that it has agreed to invest heavily
discovered in 24 years. The last Agricultural expansion, burning in a proposed $5 billion, 350-mile
was the related Grandidier's and invasive plants and fish are
London; Nature Heritage; and discovered species probably preys power transmission backbone that
vontsira, which, like the new threatening the Lac Alaotra
Conservation International, on crabs and crayfish in the would provide infrastructure for
creature, was found on marshes. Add to that the creature's
appears in the latest issue of the marsh, but may also eat smaller future offshore wind projects
Madagascar. tiny population size (Hawkins
taxonomic journal Systematics mammals, like rats. "Its teeth are along the mid-Atlantic coast. But
Researchers from the Durrell estimates that only a few dozen
and Biodiversity. bigger and more robust than those even with the backing of one of
Wildlife Conservation Trust first individuals may exist today) and
The Durrell's vontsira's closest of brown-tailed vontsiras, so it's the world's mightiest tech
spotted the one-pound animal severely restricted habitat of less
relative is the rainforest-dwelling likely that it is tackling stuff that's companies, various financial
swimming in the marshes of the than a square mile, and you may
brown-tailed vontsira ( Salanoia more difficult to chew up," says investment firms, and many
Lac Alaotra wetlands of central be looking at the most endangered
concolor). The two are members Frank Hawkins, vice president of important officials in government,
eastern Madagascar in 2004 carnivore on the planet.
of a small group of animals the Africa and Madagascar the transmission line is going to
during a field survey of bamboo
known as Malagasy carnivores- program at Conservation be something of a technological
lemurs. The research, co-authored
meat-eaters found only on International. Such differences in trick.
by scientists from Durrell; the
Madagascar. The newly the Durrell's vontsira's teeth, skull The Atlantic Wind Connection
Natural History Museum,
(AWC) will stretch from New
Jersey to Virginia, moving power
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World's First Robot Census Prompts Existential

Robot Questions
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:00:00 AM In New Attempt to Build
PR2 Pairs Socks What is a robot?
At Carnegie Mellon University, a Practical Military Laser
one robotics student estimates that Weapon, Lockheed
there are more robots than Inverts a Prism
students in the department, but in
a shameful display of mammalian Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
arrogance, the precise number and Science News, The Future
type of said robots is unknown. Now)
That realization led the student,
Heather Knight, to begin the Submitted at 10/12/2010 8:57:01 AM

world's first robot census. Laser-Powered Warfare

Knight, a graduate student in Lockheed's RELI laser, developed
robotics (Carnegie Mellon is the under a DARPA contract, works
only school in the country to offer like an inverse prism to focus
a degree program in robotics), several different wavelengths of
began by counting the 547 robots laser light. Lockheed Martin
present on the CMU campus, not Lasers can be powerful weapons
including its government-run - they can take down an aircraft at
such information as "functional home appliances, like notice, for what it's worth, that long ranges and in unstable
satellite lab in which several
category" (companion, medical, dishwashers, that demonstrate "time-traveling cyber assassin" is conditions, for instance. But they
hundred secret robots are
entertainment, research), "degree some degree of autonomy. The not listed among the possible are hampered by power and size
estimated to be languishing. But
of local intelligence," and the census itself doesn't really address categories.) limits, so they're not widely used
that was only the beginning.
dates of both conception and these issues: If you think your Here at PopSci, we've got our by the military (yet).
The quest to document robots
birth. creation qualifies, then by all own little informal census going, Lockheed Martin has a solution:
spread from Carnegie Mellon to
But all this analysis of robots means, fill out the census. including Mars-bound robot a fiber laser that basically works
the Makers, a community of DIY
prompts a more existential It's a great project, not just for its planes, an utterly bizarre dancing like a backward prism.
enthusiasts organized loosely by
question: What exactly is a robot? inherently amusing format but for swan, a vaguely racist bow-and- Lockheed is among three firms
MAKE Magazine and its
Knight's own three "minimum, its ability to bring the robotics arrow-wielding archerbot, and, of recently awarded contracts to
accompanying Maker's Faire
but not sufficient" requirements community together, showing course, military robots that lie develop a laser for the military's
events. Knight put out word on
are as follows: "They must act in these makers what else is out through their figurative robotic Robust Electric Laser Initiative,
the census through the Makers,
the world, sense the world, and there. And it's serving to bring teeth. which seeks to improve the power
and set up her own online census,
they need to have computation." more attention to robotics, which [ Robot Census via Technology of electric lasers. Fiber lasers are
which, it should be noted, is far
But, as Technology Review notes, Knight says is a struggle in the Review] efficient and compact, but until
more in-depth than the U.S.
that rather broad list allows smart west, due to the Terminator. (I now they have been weaker than
government's census. It asks for
other types, like chemical lasers.
The RELI program seeks to
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up and down the shoreline to the which will eventually be covered offshore oil platforms, these
Pledge Drive
highest capacity markets along the over again with sediment. intermittent platforms will absorb vote for all measures, including
Submitted at 10/12/2010 3:00:31 AM

coast. As envisioned, it would There are already some undersea the power from future wind farms discharge petitions, leading to its
eventually link some 6,000 transmission lines running off the A majority of voters in key defunding, deauthorization, and
and introduce it to the grid via
megawatts worth of offshore wind Atlantic Coast, but this is the first d i s t r i c t s w a n t O b a m a c a r e repeal.
four connection point in Virginia,
turbines into the land-based line that will collect power from repealed. This is a gift for
Delaware, and southern and I shall do so whether those
transmission system, generators along the way. This Republicans — if they grasp it. measures are taken for the whole
northern New Jersey, saving wind
supplementing traditional power presents a particular technological I n a recent survey of twelve of the bill or those component
developments the trouble and
infrastructure with enough power challenge. The AWC will carry battleground districts for The Hill, parts that impose mandates,
expense of having to build their
to serve some 1.9 million direct current rather than Democratic pollster Mark Penn restrict patient and doctor choice
own connections to shore. That in
households. Even before wind alternating current like the found that 56 percent of voters and access, violate individual
turn should lower the cost of entry
farms are constructed, the AWC onshore grid. DC is more efficient want the new health-care law freedom and privacy, reduce
for offshore wind projects,
would ferry cheaper power from at moving power over long repealed. “Undecided voters healthy competition, increase
hopefully spurring development
southern Virginia to expensive distances, but DC works best for w a n t e d t h e h e a l t h c a r e l a w costs, or raise taxes.
along the coast and making way
energy markets in New Jersey. point-to-point transmission rather repealed by 49 percent to 27 If the Democratic candidate takes
for a future where alternative
The cable itself will be copper than lines that have many inputs percent,” said Penn.
energies make up a bigger share the pledge, then the Republican
lined with about 2 inches of and outputs along the way. The poll strongly suggests that has (a) done some good and (b)
of America's energy portfolio.
insulation, and it will be big; each To make the AWC work [ Google, NYT] R e p u b l i c a n c a n d i d a t e s f o r made himself look like a leader
foot of cable will weigh about 30 efficiently, the system will Congress should get to the right of and the Democrat like a follower.
pounds. To bury it in the seafloor employ a series of substations their Democratic opponents on the If the Democrat refuses to take the
a jet plow - a tool that shoots along the way that section it off law and then highlight the pledge, he has exposed his stated
ocean water into the sea floor at into a series of direct journeys d i f f e r e n c e . I n c a s e s w h e r e opposition to Obamacare as a
high to pressures to blast a trench rather than long line with lots of Republicans are running against pretense. Either way, it’s a win for
- will cut a path for the cable, entry and exit points. Like Democratic incumbents who conservatives.
voted against the law, that means I’m largely supportive of the
NEW pledging to repeal it -- and House Republicans’ Pledge to
continued from page 65 challenging the Democrat to do America (which includes a
improve laser strength while issue of Aviation Week that it Hellads distributed-gain laser the same. commitment to work for the
reducing power and cooling, so works like a inverse prism: lasers approach to improve efficiency, #ad#The most ironclad pledge repeal of Obamacare). But this
systems can be small enough to w i t h s l i g h t l y d i f f e r e n t while Raytheon will pursue a I’ve seen out there is the one that repeal pledge has the potential to
install on ships or airplanes. wavelengths enter a combiner, planar waveguide laser, according Independent Women’s Voice and do more good for Republicans
A L o c k h e e d s u b s i d i a r y and the result is a single, focused to Aviation Week. American Majority Action are a n d , m o r e i m p o r t a n t , f o r
developed a first-of-its-kind high- beam. It's called Spectral Beam Northrop Grumman is also jointly promoting. The version of conservatism. All candidates who
powered fiber laser capable of Combining. expected to obtain a RELI t h e p l e d g e a p p l i c a b l e t o say they oppose Obamacare
producing 100 kilowatts or more, Lockheed won an initial $14 contract. incumbent members of Congress should take the pledge -- or be
according to Lockheed. It uses million contract from the US reads as follows: pressed to explain why they
fiber optics to produce near- Army Space and Missile Defense I pledge to vote for all bills which won’t.
perfect beams. The method also Command to develop the system. seek to REPEAL the health care -- Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior
confines the laser light to the Along with General Atomics and bill, HR 3590, signed into law on e d i t o r a t N a t i o n a l R e v i e w .
fiber's glass structure without R a y t h e o n , t h e f i r m m u s t March 23, 2010. Ramesh Ponnuru
using mirrors or other optics. demonstrate a 25 kW system that To that end, I do now and will in
John Wojnar, director of business can be scaled up to 100 kW the next Congress endorse and
development for the laser systems within five years.
business, said in a September General Atomics will improve its
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Aspidosperma Quebracho-Blanco Extract
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 3:00:00 AM
by Lisa Freedman| Print Article|
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Where it comes from:
Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco
extract (commonly called
quebracho) comes from the bark
of an evergreen tree that grows in
the northern regions of Argentina.
"The primary active ingredient in
aspidosperma is yohimbe,"
explains Roberta Anding, RD,
ADA spokesperson and sports
dietitian for the Houston Texans.
What it'll do for you: There isn't
enough information to know for
sure how AQBE works but it has
been used around the world to
treat asthma, lung disorders,
coughs, fevers and other
conditions. AQBE, and
specifically yohimbe, is most
often touted for treating erectile
dysfunction and aiding fat loss.
• Erectile dysfunction In some
countries, the extract is used as a
prescription drug to treat erectile
dysfunction. A 2002 study in
Germany found that pro-erectile
effects of the bark extract may
predominantly be caused by the
yohimbe. But it's unclear if the
yohimbe is enough on its own to
help.
• non-esterfied fatty acids, a result
• Fat loss Yohimbe and other
alkaloids in the bark extract are
said to block specific receptors
that actually inhibit fat loss. A
three-week study in 1991
observed 20 obese females on
1,000-calorie diets. They were
given 20 mg of yohimbe each day
and lost three pounds more than
the group receiving placebos. Not
a drastic weight loss, but enough
to give experts hope that yohimbe
can help with weight control.
Other studies have found that
yohimbe increases the amount of
of fat breaking down. More
research is needed.
• This entry passed through the
Suggested intake: There is not
enough information to determine
the appropriate range of doses for
quebracho. Herbal remedies often
suggest dosages of 50-250
milligrams—dosage should
depend on your age, health and
other conditions.
Some weight loss drugs (such as
Health/ 67
Hydroxycut Hardcore) contains
the extract. If you opt to take
them, follow relevant directions
on product labels and consult your
doctor before using.
Associated risks/scrutiny:"There
can be significant side effects
including arrhythmia, seizures and
high blood pressure," Anding
says. People with high blood
pressure or kidney disease should
avoid products containing
yohimbe. There's also some
concern about combing the extract
with stimulants or antidepressant
medications, as it could lead to
variations in blood pressure.
"This product has the potential to
cause harm and should really be
avoided," warns Anding.
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Help Her Love Football
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 2:00:00 AM
by Desiree Gallas| Print Article|
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If your wife or girlfriend gives
you a hard time whenever the
game's on, don't sit back and take
it. Go on the offense—teach her
the sport. She's probably really
never given it a chance, says
Natalie Jahnke, a center for the
Lingerie Football League (LFL)
Champion Los Angeles
Temptation. "Most women are
intimidated by football because
they don't know anything about
it," she says. Here's all the tutorial
you need.
Her Problem: Doesn't Understand
the Rules of the Game
Your Play: Keep your
explanation quick and simple.
"Use general terminology and
don't overcomplicate the sport,"
Jahnke says. Give her the basics,
plus something she can
immediately watch for, like first
downs.
Her Problem: Can't Tell the
Players Apart
Your Play: Pick up an issue of
Star magazine and figure out
which players are dating celeb
actresses and models. "See
number 25. He's the one who
broke up with Kim." "Number
12? He's the one who had a baby
with Gisele."
Her Problem: She Gets Impatient
and Bored
Your Play: Break the game time
down—for real. "When she sees
10 minutes on the clock, she
expects it to take 10 minutes,"
says Jahnke. If she knows the last
half of the game is really going to
take 90 minutes or more, she can
just relax and get into it. To help
draw her in, amp up the drama.
Tell her about rivalries between
players and teams, or the
importance of a specific win.
Exaggerate as much as you can. If
you make it sound like a soap
opera, you may be able to hook
her interest.
Her Problem: You're a Pig When
You Watch
Your Play: Vegging on the couch
with snacks is meant to be messy.
Still, take five minutes during the
first half and throw away your
trash. Take the dishes to the sink.
After the game, spend another
five cleaning up. If she has to do
it, she's just going to resent
you—and football.
Her Problem: You Seem to Care
More About the Score Than
About Her
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The Not-So Secret World
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Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:00:35 AM
Posted October 12th, 2010 at
11:00am in Protect America Print
This Post
This week’s Time Magazine
featured a 12-page article on the
The Secret World of Extreme
Militias. Page after page describes
the threat of renegade anti-
government groups, who are enhance the safety and security of
described as militant groups the citizens within their states.
Your Play: Get her invested in armed with rifles and assault Let’s drop the scare tactics, and
the game's outcome. Tell her that weapons and who threaten war
instead focus on the big picture:
if your team wins, you'll go out to against “‘the jackbooted thugs’ of State Defense Forces offer the
celebrate. Or get her rooting for Washington.” Yet, Time didn’t
states a vital, trained homeland
the other side. If her team is ahead spare a single sentence to describe security force that has proven
at the half, she gets a back rub. If the nation’s true militia forces.
itself time and again. Americans
your team is winning, she has to There is a not-so secret world of and Time magazine should take
reciprocate. If you're bold, up the militias out there called State
notice. Focusing on radical
stakes! Related articles: Defense Forces (SDFs). These extremists may make a good
Tailgating 101
SDFs are authorized by state law headline but why not even
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Ndamukong Suh
(Mensfitness.com) the time to be strong.
Submitted at 10/12/2010 5:00:00 AM If we looked inside your fridge,
we'd find . . . ?
| Print Article| Email to Friend His Absolutely nothing. I've been
name is pronounced "en-DOM-ah traveling so much, all you'd find
-ken soo." Start practicing now. is juice. But the last meal I
You'll be saying it a lot for the cooked, let's see, was salmon,
next several years. Here, we talk asparagus, and rice. Good carbs,
with the big guy about his training good protein—I naturally eat
regimen, the transition between well.
college and the pros, and what What motivates you?
drives him to be a dominate force To be the best. I also think about
on the gridiron. my family, I just want to put them
What's your favorite lift? in a position to live comfortably
I love squats. It just makes you for a long time. Related articles:
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Johnson Performance down in ever needed that [extra push]. For Reporting of Falluja's Cancer over the years. bag, skipping rope, and medicine-
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back in Lincoln, Nebraska, for our in the weight room. I like being the 1950s, Dickstein noticed the common sights in gyms. "A lot of
pro day. There's really nothing strong and knowing that I put in gym crowd was divided into two today's training techniques are
OLD camps—lifters and Broadway taken from boxing. Boxers were
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Mollie (GetReligion) really want non-Hindus to Robertson has called the chanting shocked that no Hindus were
Submitted at 10/12/2010 10:22:27 AM understand that yoga is a Hindu and other spiritual components quoted in the piece. Many would
practice. They send out quotes, that go along with yoga “really say that removing the religious
I’m always surprised at how announcements about temple spooky.” California megachurch aspect from the exercise makes it
many people don’t know the openings — complete with an pastor John MacArthur called something completely different —
relationship of yoga to Hinduism. explanation of and workshops for yoga a “false religion.” Muslim something like rigorous stretching
T h e W a s h i n g t o n P o s t / yoga and its philosophy — and clerics have banned Muslims from exercises.
Newsweek“On Faith” had a piece snippets of stories where Hindus practicing yoga in Egypt, Mohler, in a follow-up, notes that
on the topic a few months ago. In are defending the practice of Malaysia and Indonesia, citing he’s been deluged with mail, but
“ The Theft of Yoga,” Aseem yoga. similar concerns. that none of it dealt substantively
Shukla, an associate professor in Okay, so Southern Baptist Yoga proponents say the wide- with his criticisms of syncretizing
urologic surgery at the University Seminary President Albert Mohler ranging discipline, which yoga and Christianity. Part of that
of Minnesota medical school and reviewed “ The Subtle Body: The originated in India, offers physical could be because — apart from
co-founder and board member of Story of Yoga in America” last and mental healing through the Washington Post“On Faith”
Hindu American Foundation, week. While he gave the book a stretching poses and discussion I mentioned earlier, it’s
wrote: favorable review, he agreed with concentration. rare to see a good debate on the
Yogis say that the dedicated the view of the Hindu American “Lots of people come to yoga religious dimensions of yoga and
practice of yoga will subdue the Foundation and others who say because they are often in chronic what it means, in a religious
restless mind, lessen one’s that the exclusivist claims of pain. Others come because they sense, to practice yoga. A story Attack of the
cravings for the mundane material Christianity is at odds with yoga. think it’s a nice workout,” said about the controversy Mohler
world and put one on the path of You can imagine which side
s e l f - r e a l i z a t i o n - t h a t e a c h Mohler stands on.
Allison Terracio, who runs the caused is a good start but perhaps Evangelicalists!
Infinite Bliss studio in Louisville. a few Hindu voices would have Mollie (GetReligion)
individual is a spark of the And then all hell broke loose. And some yoga studios have been preferable to the Pat
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:49:05 PM
Divine. Expect conflicts if you are I first heard about the essay over made the techniques more Robertson and “spooky” quotes
sold on the exclusivist claims of at Peter Smith’s blog. He’s the palatable for Christians by above. Written by: Mollie on On September 28, we noticed a
Abrahamic faiths-that their God religion reporter at the Louisville removing the chanting and October 12, 2010. Time magazine story with some
awaits the arrival of only His Courier-Journal. He simply associations to eastern religions, This entry passed through the glaring errors. The caption alone
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this is a common theme. They with the teachings of Jesus. Pat and fascinating. But I was still corrected in the previous Time
story by Dawn Reiss. The caption
on the photo still described Ms.
Jacko as becoming “a deaconate”.
I’m not a journalist and my views
on the profession are rapidly
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That one word makes a difference
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 7:00:51 AM
I would like to note that the
following post is in no way an
endorsement of the decision by a
Colorado woman to smash up a
piece of alleged modern art.
In fact, I don’t think that the
following New York Times story
is all that bad.
I am simply jumping in here —
in the wake of a post by the
Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway —
to conduct what I think will be a
vivid thought experiment, this
time in the context of truly elite
media. I am simply asking if this
Times story would have been
handled in a different way if one
word had been changed.
Ready? Here comes my version,
with only one major change made
throughout this excerpt.
Provocative Image of
Muhammad Sets Off a Debate
Punctuated With a Crowbar
LOVELAND, Colo. — For once,
the quaint museum on Lincoln
Avenue was all quiet. A sign
inside was the only indication of
the recent trouble.
“This piece was destroyed by an
act of violence and is no longer on
exhibit,” the sign read.
For weeks now, this bucolic
northern Colorado city of just
over 60,000, which has a vibrant
arts community, has been bitterly
divided over the controversial
artwork that once sat in the empty
display of the Loveland Museum
Gallery where the sign now rests.
Some here interpreted the small
image, which was part of a
lithographic print exhibition by
the San Francisco artist Enrique
Chagoya, as showing Muhammad
engaged in a sex act with another
man, and demanded its removal.
Others argued that Mr. Chagoya,
an art professor at Stanford, had
the right to create what he
pleased. …
The print itself, part of a series by
Mr. Chagoya called “The
Misadventures of Romantic
Cannibals,” shows the head of
Muhammad, eyes rolled back,
atop a mostly clothed woman’s
body. A man’s head, tongue out,
is near the woman’s legs. The
Spanish word “orgasmo” is
displayed in the background. …
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to help organize protests outside
the museum, and last Tuesday
people packed a City Council
meeting to speak out on the
exhibit. Mr. Klassen estimated
that most in attendance were
opposed to the image.
The Rev. Ed Armijo, a deacon at
St. John the Evangelist Catholic
Church in Loveland, said: “It is
deeply offensive to see our Lord
depicted that way. It is our
position that this is not art. It’s
pornography.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Armijo said he
was “devastated” by Ms. Folden’s
actions. “She doesn’t live in our
city,” he said.
So, if the work at focused on
Muhammad, would the Times
have offered the same essentially
pro-art tone, with no other
questions asked or strongly
implied?
Well, I don’t think that I need to work of art that would be seen as Just asking.
go on. The change is pretty offensive by many if not most Photo: After the attack, from the
obvious, is it not? I have simply Christians, especially Catholics in SharksInk website’s offerings of
s u b s t i t u t e d t h e P r o p h e t the context of the American the work of Enrique Chagoya.
Muhammad for Jesus Christ. Southwest and the Rockies, it is Written by: tmatt on October 12,
Obviously, this exhibit did not interesting to ponder whether the 2010.
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articulate voices on both sides. has rejected the show. He is anti-
Here’s my main point: Since this art, you see.
is a story about a provocative Last week, a local deacon began
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approaching Kierkegaard’s
famous insult, but please,
journalists, hear my cry and
answer if you can.
Don’t you guys CARE any more?
Reading a news article is
increasingly akin to watching a
movie where the zipper on the
monster’s back is fully visible, or
a boom mike floats over the
actors’ heads. In B movies, this is
because, as Mystery Science
Theater 3000 famous put it, “They
just didn’t care!” But for such
sloppiness to go uncorrected for
two weeks in the most prominent
newsmagazine in the US? Is that
what your industry has sunk to?
I thought of that when another
GetReligion reader sent along the
caption to this NPR story about
the rise of evangelicalism in
Cuba. Except, well, this is the
headline:
Cubans Flock To Evangelism To
Fill Spiritual Vacuum
Clearly this doesn’t sound right
— but maybe the story is about
Cubans evangelizing. Except once
you get to the caption, you realize
that the problem runs deeper:
Some 3,000 evangelical Christian
Cubans attend an open-air service
in Havana to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of their public service
in 1999. Evangelism is among the
fastest-growing religions in
communist — and formerly
atheist — Cuba.
Right. Now, the story itself has a
few holes, but it’s clear that this is
a copy editor or copy-editing
problem. And certainly the
industry struggles to hire editors
who are both technologically
savvy and literate. But, as the
reader who submitted this notes,
this is embarrassing. Evangelism
is not a religion. Evangelicalism is
a movement within Christianity
and evangelism is the preaching
of the Gospel of Christ.
It’s been a few years since we
shared this Christian Smith
passage that was published in
Books & Culture:
Often in our discussions,
journalists refer to ordinary
evangelical believers as
“evangelists” — as if the roughly
70 million conservative
Protestants in America were all
traveling preachers like Billy
Graham and Luis Palau — or,
more to the point, televangelists
like Jim Bakker and Jimmy
[Swaggart]. Hey, aren’t all
evangelicals really pretty much
like these last two, or rather as
many reporters tend to see them
— scandal-prone limelight
seekers with ambitions to impose
a repressive Christian moral order
on all America? Other journalists
simply cannot pronounce
“evangelicals” at all. They get
confused and flustered, and after a
few uncomfortable tries at
“evangelics” and “evangelicalists”
they give up and resort to
referring to evangelicals simply as
“them.” These are the knowledge-
class professionals who are
supposedly informing millions of
readers about religion in America.
Would editors settle for this kind
of work on other newsroom
beats? Smith continues:
I find it hard to believe that
political journalists call
Washington think tanks and ask to
talk with experts on background
about the political strategies of the
“Democrizer” or “Republication”
parties, or about the most recent
“Supremicist Court” ruling.
Surely reporters covering business
and markets do not call
economists asking 45 minutes of
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elementary questions about how
the business cycle works or what
effect it has when the Fed drops
interest rates. So why do so few
journalists covering religion know
religion?
Things really have improved in
the last few years, at least when it
comes to those who are regularly
on the religion beat. But the
problem persists among some,
particularly those who aren’t used
to covering religion, those
copyeditors who write captions
and headlines. Written by: Mollie
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When Obama is graceless, &c.

Submitted at 10/12/2010 3:00:24 AM
temperament.” I don’t know. I But you know what I find most But when you’re hot, you’re hot. members “congressmen” and
think even third class might be bothersome? I learned this in a You never know when your time senators “senators” -- even though
Y esterday, I was writing a little pushing it. report found here. “Donilon will come again. House members and senators are
something about Jim Jones and #*#A little walk down Memory played a key role in successfully I said to my friend, “What about equally members of Congress?
Tom Donilon: The one is leaving Lane? I thought of something convincing the Senate to defeat the John Engler problem?” John Anyway, I have told a couple of
the post of national security w h e n J o n e s a n n o u n c e d h i s Bork’s nomination” -- the Engler was governor of Michigan, stories about Portman in this
adviser; the other is assuming it. resignation. In the third and final nomination of the great Robert H. and often cited as a presidential or column before. I think I’ve told
And I listened to a clip of presidential debate, between Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court. vice-presidential possibility. them twice. Can you bear a third
President Obama, talking about Obama and McCain, the question That Donilon has been a political Extremely capable, impressive time? I promise this will be it (for
this development. You can find it of Obama’s “associations” came hack -- that’s an unkind word: man. But he was girthy. People at least the remainder of 2010).
here. There’s a video sort of up: Billy Ayers and all of those political operative -- for the said it was a handicap, and they #ad#Way back in 1999, I was
embedded in the article I have lovelies. (By the way, Rashid Democrats is pretty much fine by were probably right. My friend interviewing Gen. Barry
linked to. Khalidi has just become co- me. But the disgusting defeat of said, of Christie, “My slogan for McCaffrey. He was President
This is how Obama began his director of a new Palestinian Bob Bork: That I find hard to him is, ‘A big man for a big job.’” Clinton’s “drug czar.” He had
remarks: “When I took office, I center at Columbia University. take. And I loved the way Christie been a hero of the Gulf War.
pledged to do whatever was It’s all done in honor of the late #*#A little language? The line I handled the weight issue in his Talking about Republicans he
required to protect the American Edward Said. Great, great.) quoted went, “Donilon played a gubernatorial campaign. The admired, he brought up this young
people and restore American Candidate Obama said, key role in successfully opposing campaign, Corzine’s, congressman, Portman. He said,
leadership in the world. Over the “Let me tell you who I associate convincing the Senate to defeat was giving him hell for his “I hope he’s president of the
past 20 months, that’s exactly with. On economic policy, I Bork’s nomination.” (It’s weight: emphasizing it in an ad. United States in another twelve
what we’ve done.” associate with Warren Buffett and maddening to read it again.) That Christie said -- and I paraphrase -- years. He’s one of the finest
#ad#Did he really need to say f o r m e r F e d c h a i r m a n P a u l “successfully” really does not “Hey, it’s a bad economy. The public servants I’ve met in
“restore American leadership in Volcker. If I’m interested in have to be there. Clunks up the people who work at Dunkin’ America.”
the world”? He’s not a candidate figuring out my foreign policy, I sentence, too. Donuts and the International Another twelve years? That
anymore. He should not be associate myself with my running #*#I have heard people say, “The House of Pancakes? They need would put us right at 2012, more
campaigning. He should not be mate, Joe Biden, or with Dick 2012 Republican presidential jobs too.” or less. Kind of interesting.
dumping on his predecessor. I Lugar, the Republican ranking nominee will come out of the I think that’s when I first started Story No. 2? Well, I was at
think American leadership was member on the Senate Foreign 2010 elections.” That’s a little being a big Christie fan. Davos, in 2004. There was this
plentiful when George W. Bush Relations Committee, or Gen. Jim vague. Someone elected to office #page#Was having lunch with a reception, and Portman and
was in the Oval Office. Obama Jones, the former supreme allied for the first time in 2010? That friend -- a different friend -- over another Republican congressman
obviously disagrees. commander of NATO.” seems a little . . . rushed. Even the weekend. He’s from Ohio, and were there. The second
But, when you’re president, A very good answer -- a very Obama, the meteor, had four he said, “What about Portman?” congressman -- he was a little
doesn’t there come a time when effective answer. Anyway, Jones years in the Senate before he Yeah, what about Portman? older than Portman. He’s out of
you stop talking that way? is gone now. And in his place is became president. (Well, he We’re talking about Rob Portman, politics now (not voluntarily). He
One of the things I find most off- Tom Donilon. started campaigning almost as who looks like he’ll be elected to said, “When you’re a politician,
putting about Obama is his #*#He is the ultimate Democratic soon as he got there, true.) the Senate. He was a you say in the early stages of your
gracelessness. We have seen it in politico, of course. He has worked How about someone elected in congressman, years ago. Then, career, ‘I’m not going to be
the way he has conducted himself for everybody, since he was about 2009? I have a friend -- very under W., he was U.S. trade president. I’m not going to be
during Election 2010 -- what he ten: Carter, Mondale, Biden, seasoned political observer and representative. And then director president.’ But you don’t
has said about the tea partiers, the Dukakis, Clinton -- the whole strategist -- who’s looking at of the Office of Management and necessarily mean it. Then there
Chamber of Commerce, Karl crew. And from 1999 to 2005, he Chris Christie. Sure, he’s only Budget. Very, very capable and comes a time when you realize,
Rove, etc. When he was running was a registered lobbyist with one been in office for a couple of appealing guy. ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m really not
for president, some people praised client, and one client only: Fannie years. Oh, excuse me -- check Time out for a second: Isn’t it
h i m f o r a “ f i r s t - c l a s s Mae. Great, just great. that. He took office last January. interesting how we call House WHEN page 75
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Obama’s Radical Past

Submitted at 10/12/2010 3:00:28 AM
name on a conference registration only Obama’s political idol, he Scholars Conference included rise. The Midwest Academy was
list. That, along with some was the darling of America’s ACORN adviser Frances Fox closely allied to the DSA, which
And his connection to socialism misleading admissions in the socialists in the mid-1980s. Piven and organizing theorist sponsored the Socialist Scholars
isn’t all ancient history, either. president’s memoir, Dreams from Washington assembled a Peter Dreier, now a professor at conferences in New York. Most
O n the afternoon of April 1, My Father, makes it clear that “rainbow” coalition of blacks, Occidental College and an adviser Midwest Academy leaders
1983, Barack Obama, then a Obama attended the 1983 and Hispanics, and left-leaning whites to Obama’s 2008 presidential remained quiet about their
senior at Columbia University, 1 9 8 4 S o c i a l i s t S c h o l a r s to overturn the power of campaign. That is to say, socialism. Inspired by the success
made his way into the Great Hall conferences, and quite possibly Chicago’s centrist Democratic Obama’s connection to socialist of the American Communist
of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to the 1985 conclave as well. A machine. Washington worked ideologues didn’t end with his “Popular Front,” and by 19th-
attend a “Socialist Scholars d e t a i l e d a c c o u n t o f t h e s e eagerly and openly with recruitment into the ranks of century American reformers who
C o n f e r e n c e . ” T h e r e O b a m a conferences (along with many Chicago’s small but influential community organizers. It began used populist and communitarian
discovered his vocation as a other events from Obama’s contingent of socialists, many of there and blossomed into a quarter language to achieve socialist ends
community organizer, as well as a radical past) and the evidence for whom brought the community century of intricate relationships through incremental legislative
political program to guide him Obama’s attendance at them can organizations and labor unions with both on-the-record and in-all means, the Midwest Academy’s
throughout his life. be found in my new book, Radical they led onto the Washington -but-name socialists. I’ve spent leaders advocated a strategy of
The conference itself was not a -in-Chief: Barack Obama and the bandwagon. the last two years in the archives stealth.
secret, but it held a secret, for it U n t o l d S t o r y o f A m e r i c a n America’s socialists saw the unraveling the connections. Here In the ’70s and ’80s, theory was
was there that a demoralized and S o c i a l i s m . Harold Washington campaign as a are a few. put into action in a series of
frustrated socialist movement The 1983 Cooper Union model for their ultimate goal of #page#By the mid-1980s, James “populist” coalitions quietly
largely set aside strategies of Conference, billed as a tribute to pushing the Democrats to the left Cone, Jeremiah Wright’s controlled by the socialist
n a t i o n a l i z a t i o n a n d t u r n e d Marx, was precisely when Obama by polarizing the country along theological mentor, had struck up leadership of the Midwest
increasingly to local organizing as discovered his vocation for class lines. This socialist a close cooperative relationship Academy and the DSA. The
a w a y a r o u n d t h e R e a g a n community organizing. Obama’s “realignment” strategy envisioned with the DSA. Cone and a Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition,
presidency -- and its own spotty account of his turn to community driving business interests out of a prominent follower spoke at the for example, fought a series of
reputation. In the early 1980s, organizing doesn’t add up. He newly radicalized Democratic conferences Obama attended. legislative battles against oil and
America’s socialists discovered portrays it as a mere impulse party. The loss was to be more Shortly after the 1984 conference, gas companies. Its signature
what Saul Alinsky had always based on little actual knowledge. than made up for through a newly Cone joined Reverend Wright in proposal was its call for a public
known: “Community organizing” But that impulse saw Obama energized coalition of poor and Cuba, where they expressed energy corporation to “compete”
is a euphemism behind which through two years of failed job minority voters, led by minority support for the Cuban social with private companies.
advocates of a radical vision of searches. Clearly he had a deeper politicians on the model of Harold system as a model for the United Officials from the Midwest
America could advance their motivation. The evidence suggests Washington. The new coalitions States. Wright touted his Cuba Academy network trained Obama,
cause without the bothersome he found it at the Socialist would draw on the open or quiet trips to his congregation for years. supplied him with funds, and got
label “socialist” drawing adverse Scholars conferences, where he direction of socialist community Obama would have quickly him appointed head of Illinois
attention to their efforts. encountered the entrancing double organizers, from whose ranks new discovered Wright’s ties to the Project Vote. Years later, Obama
#ad#A loose accusation of his idea that America could be Harold Washingtons would liberation theologians he’d first sent foundation money to the
being a socialist has trailed t r a n s f o r m e d b y a k i n d o f emerge. Groups like ACORN and learned of at the Socialist Midwest Academy. Barack and
Obama for years, but without real undercover socialism, and that Project Vote would swell the Scholars conferences. The Michelle Obama ran a project
evidence that he saw himself as African Americans would be the Democrats with poor and minority connection helps explain Obama’s called “Public Allies” that was
part of this radical tradition. But k e y f i g u r e s i n a d v a n c i n g voters and, with the country choice of Wright as his pastor. effectively an extension of the
the evidence exists, if not in plain c o m m u n i t y o r g a n i z i n g . divided by class, socialism would #ad#A little-known Chicago Midwest Academy. Alice Palmer,
sight then in the archives -- for The 1983 conference took place emerge as the natural ideology of training institute for community the Illinois state senator who
example, the archived files of the i n t h e s h a d o w o f H a r o l d the have-nots. organizers, the Midwest chose Obama as her successor,
Democratic Socialists of America Washington’s first race for mayor Figures pushing this broader Academy, is in many ways the
(DSA), which include Obama’s of Chicago. Washington was not strategy at the 1983 Socialist key to Barack Obama’s political OBAMA’S page 81
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going to be president!’”
The congressman then did
something funny and memorable.
He got down on one knee, clasped
Portman’s hand, and said,
“You’re my only hope. You could
be president. Would you
remember me for a cabinet
position?”
Portman for President: We could
do worse, we could do worse.
#*#Some readers have asked
whether I would comment on the
Nobel Peace Prize. I have done so
-- at the Corner, our group blog
(as you well know). My “archive”
-- so grand and serious a word! --
is here. Last Friday, October 8, I
had six items (“blogposts,” I
guess). Three of them are on the
Nobel Peace Prize. A glorious
development, the award to Liu
Xiaobo. As Impromptus readers
know, I have written about this
dissident -- now jailed -- for quite
a long time. We have followed the
campaign to get him the peace
prize. Even Tutu endorsed it!
I will have an article on the prize
in the next National Review. And
I will discuss it some more in a
future Impromptus. (Have a lot to
say.) Right now, I’d like to go
back in time -- and say something
about the Nobel Peace Prize of
1992. I was thinking about it
yesterday. Why? Because it was
Columbus Day, and that is very
much relevant.
In 1992, the prize went to
Rigoberta Menchú, the
Guatemalan “indigenous rights”
celebrity. How did she happen to
win? I don’t think it could have
happened in any year other than
1992. You see, it was the 500th
anniversary of Columbus’s
discovery of America -- or
“encounter with America,” or
“rape of America,” or whatever
they’re teaching the kids to say
now. The Nobel Committee
wanted to make a statement: a
statement against Columbus and
everything he means. So they
gave the prize to the most famous
“American Indian,” loosely
speaking, there was.
That is an interpretation, anyway.
At the ceremony in Oslo --
December 10, 1992 -- the Nobel
Committee chairman said to
Menchú, “Welcome to this little
wintry country in the far north, so
far from your own country and
your own world.” Speaking to the
audience generally, he said, “It is
500 years this year since
Columbus ‘discovered’ America,
as we have been brought up to
say, or since colonization began.
The celebration of the anniversary
has at least produced one benefit,
in the spotlight it has so
effectively focused on the
worldwide problem of the rights
of aboriginal peoples.”
So, was Menchú being given the
prize specifically in response to
Columbus? The chairman said,
“For the Norwegian Nobel
Committee it was a happy
coincidence that it was precisely
in the year of Columbus that she
emerged as such a strong
candidate for the Nobel Peace
Prize.”
Many in Norway also thought
there was something local behind
the 1992 selection: a touch of
guilt over the Norwegians’
treatment of their own “Indians,”
called the Sami, formerly known
as the “Lapps,” a term that
somehow fell into disrepute.
Political correctness produces
zigzags in language.
Anyway, I could go on and on,
but won’t. (The Menchú
phenomenon is fascinating, and
also somewhat appalling.) I know
that Columbus Day is terribly
uncool now, except as a day off.
Some of us, in America, celebrate
“Indigenous Peoples Day,” rather
than Columbus Day. I know that
Brown University removed
Columbus Day from its calendar a
few years ago -- and started to
refer to “Fall Weekend.” I like ol’
Chris: a brave, imaginative, and,
of course, adventurous man. The
American spirit, as some of us
understand it, owes a lot to him.
#page##*#Care for a little music?
This is a piece published in City
Arts-- it is chiefly on a new
Wynton Marsalis work, Swing
Symphony, which the composer
also designates Symphony No. 3.
It opened the new season of the
New York Philharmonic. (You
may have seen this concert on
television, under the heading Live
from Lincoln Center.)
#*#A friend of mine sent me a
review of a Metropolitan Opera
performance of The Tales of
Hoffmann. It had kind of a beaut
in it: “Returning from last season,
mezzo Kate Lindsey was again
excellent as Hoffmann’s devoted
but cynical muse, Necklace.” That
character is named Nicklausse.
Why the mistake? I think that
SpellCheck -- or however we
should render that -- didn’t
recognize “Nicklausse” and
suggested “Necklace” instead.
Whereupon someone, by accident,
hit “Change.” I don’t know. Kind
of funny, though.
“Necklace” reminds me of a short
story by Maupassant and a form
of murder in South Africa.
“Nicklausse” reminds me of golf -
- and Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
#ad##*#A cute-kid story, which
happens to relate to music? My
little nephew is having his violin
lesson. He has already learned
about sharps. The teacher asks
him, “Now, what is the opposite
of sharp?” My boy says, “Dull.”
Brilliant.
#*#“Talk about Joan Sutherland!”
readers have said. I will, just a bit.
“La Stupenda” died in
Switzerland on Sunday. She was
Australian, of course. Funny that
Australia, with such a small
population, has contributed two
legendary sopranos: Dame Nellie
Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland.
I’ll say about five things.
1) I did not hear her live much.
When I was a kid, I heard a
recital. (As an instrumentalist, I
was not all that interested in vocal
music -- but I knew enough to
know that I should hear
Sutherland. Or a teacher did.) I
don’t remember much about the
recital. I remember that she used
music, sitting on a stand, which I
thought was odd. I later learned
that it was for the words, not the
music -- that’s what Sutherland
said. She was worried about
forgetting the words. I remember
75
that she sang “Let the bright
seraphim,” the Handel showpiece.
And I heard one of her last
Normas -- the penultimate one.
Those final performances were
given in Detroit, oddly enough.
She did not have much voice or
technique left. But she had an
artistry that could not be hidden.
That reminds me: This summer, I
heard Edita Gruberova, age 63,
sing Norma, in a concert
performance -- that was in
Salzburg. A comment on this
opens my “Salzburg Chronicle,”
in the current New Criterion(go
here).
2) The remarkable thing -- one
remarkable thing -- about the
Sutherland voice was that it was a
big voice that was amazingly
flexible. You usually get one or
the other -- size or flexibility, not
both. Sutherland was almost a
Wagnerian coloratura. Again,
remarkable -- actually, stupendous
(as in “La Stupenda”).
3) She was once asked how she
learned to trill. She said she never
really learned: “The birds in the
trees trilled, so why couldn’t I?”
4) I have twice had the privilege
of hearing Regina Resnik tell a
Sutherland story. (Resnik is the
fabled American mezzo.) She is a
great storyteller -- and the Aussie
accent is spot-on. I don’t
remember the details of the story.
But I remember the accent, and
the spirit. I hope I get to hear it a
third time!
5) I’m sorry she’s gone. Joan
Sutherland was a big, big
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God, Liberals, and Liberty
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:35 PM
America’s anomalous religiosity
is very much worth celebrating.
I n a recent column, New York
Times columnist Charles M. Blow
wrote: “It’s sometimes easy to
lose sight of just how anomalous
[America’s] religiosity is in the
world. A Gallup report issued on
Tuesday underscored just how out
of line we are.”
Given Mr. Blow’s left-wing
politics, and given that his point
was that all rich countries except
for the United States are secular
and that all poor countries are
religious, he was obviously not
celebrating America’s
“anomalous” religiosity.
#ad#He should have been.
America’s anomalous religiosity
is very much worth celebrating --
not because it leads to affluence,
but because it is indispensible to
liberty. Had Mr. Blow made a
liberty chart rather than an
affluence chart, he might have
noted that the freest country in the
world -- for 234 years -- the
United States of America, has also
been the most God-centered.
Yes, I know that the Islamic
world has also been God-based
and that it has not been free. But
that is because Allah is not
regarded as the source of liberty,
as America’s Judeo-Christian God
has been, but as the object of
submission (“Islam” means
“submission”).
Since the inception of the United
States (and, indeed, before it in
colonial America), liberty, i.e.,
personal freedom, has been linked
to God.
America was founded on the
belief that God is the source of
liberty. That is why the inscription
on the Liberty Bell is from the
Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible
(Leviticus 25): “PROCLAIM
LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL
THE LAND UNTO ALL THE
INHABITANTS THEREOF.”
The Declaration of Independence
also asserts this link: All men “are
endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness.”
Because the Creator of the world
is the source of our freedom, no
state, no human being, no
government may take it away. If
the state were the source of
liberty, then obviously the state
could take it away.
Both reason and American values
therefore make these claims:
1. The more important the state
is, the less the liberty.
2. The more important God is,
the smaller the state.
3. Therefore, the more important
God is, the more liberty there is.
A proof of the validity of these
assertions is that as this country --
the country, not the government --
becomes more secular, it becomes
less free, just as has happened in
other Western countries. We have
far more laws governing human
conduct than ever before in
America’s history. And Western
Europe has even more, including
limitations on as basic a liberty as
free speech.
So, too, all totalitarian states
except Muslim ones (because a
religious government is the
Muslim ideal) seek to abolish
religion. Stalin, for example,
murdered virtually every member
of the clergy, and came close to
destroying all religion, in the
Soviet Union. He understood that
a totalitarian state cannot allow a
competing allegiance.
And in democratic Western
Europe, the ever-expanding state
is inevitably accompanied by an
ever-shrinking God and religion.
This is largely what the current
culture war -- actually a non-
violent civil war -- is about. The
Left seeks an ever-expanding state
with, by definition, ever-
expanding powers. And a
fundamental aspect of that
program is the removal of God
and religion from as much of
American life as possible. This is
pursued under the noble-sounding
goal of ensuring “separation of
church and state.” But whatever
the avowed aim, the result is the
same: to secularize as much of
society as possible: its institutions
and, most important, its values.
#page#Over time, much of
America has belatedly awakened
to the realization that two counter-
revolutionary (as in American
Revolution) trends were occurring
at a breakneck pace: God was
being replaced by the state as the
source of liberty and liberty was
eroding.
To use a Civil War simile, the
secular Fort Sumter took place in
1962, when the United States
Supreme Court ( Engel v. Vitale)
overthrew the decision of the
highest court of New York State,
and ruled that the following
prayer, said in New York State
schools, violated the Constitution:
#ad#“Almighty God, we
acknowledge our dependence
upon Thee, and we beg Thy
blessings upon us, our parents,
our teachers and our Country.”
Few rational, let alone religious,
Americans believed that this non-
denominational prayer, which no
school child had to recite, violated
the American Constitution. The
purpose of the ruling was to
impose secularism on America.
Since then, the left-wing attack
on religion in America has
proceeded at a rapid clip:
Though Los Angeles (“the
Angels”) was founded by
Christians, the tiny cross on the
seal of Los Angeles County was
removed by three liberal members
of the five-member Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors.
Wishing a fellow American
“Merry Christmas” has been
widely rendered unacceptable.
A speaker at a public-high-school
graduation may not say “God
bless you” to the graduating class.
The Bible, the basis of American
values instruction for most of
American history, is not taught at
virtually any non-religious school
in America.
Other examples are too numerous
to list.
And now, commensurate with the
removal of God from American
society, the most left-wing
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government in American history
is expanding state powers to an
unprecedented degree.
Our left-wing party has passed --
more accurately imposed, since it
did so without a single vote from
the opposition party -- legislation
that will massively expand state
powers. And it is preparing to
govern more and more of
Americans’ lives without passing
any legislation. As reported by the
Los Angeles Times last week:
“White House staff changes are
being made with an eye toward
achieving goals through executive
actions rather than by trying to
push plans through the next
Congress.”
It was inevitable.
From its inception, the Left has
regarded God and religion
(especially the Judeo-Christian
varieties) as impediments to its
goals: “Trust in Us [left-wing
intellectuals]” has supplanted “In
God We Trust.” And so, God-
based liberty gives way to state-
based controls.
Whichever side you are on, at
least you can now better
understand why the non-Left is
fighting. For liberty’s sake, not
just for God’s.
— Dennis Prager is a nationally
syndicated radio talk-show host
and columnist. He may be
contacted through his website,
dennisprager.com. Dennis Prager
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Guest Blogger: Billie Tucker on 33 Minutes
Billie Tucker (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:01:47 AM
Posted October 12th, 2010 at
12:01pm in Protect America Print
This Post
I am the co-founder of a tea party
group in North Florida and our
main focus is education. Since we
started our tea party, we have
researched issues, met with our
representatives, written letters,
and attended rallies with our
wonderful signs and flags. It’s
been a great experience to help
revive citizens to become active in
their government both at the
federal, state and local levels.
We recently hosted a screening of
the 33 Minutes movie produced
by Heritage. The basic tenet of the
movie is this…You only have 33
Minutes to prepare for impact
once a nuclear weapon is released
and heading towards the United
States.
We also had the pleasure of
having Dr. James Carafano with
us to facilitate a discussion about
the movie and our national
defense.
We were very excited as we set
up the room for the viewing and
we were honored that Dr.
Carafano had agreed to join us.
The room was filled with
anticipation and excitement by the
350 people who joined us for the
event.
Attendees were eating the
scrumptious food that had been
arranged by our events team.
They were visiting with each
other and many found old friends
to chat with. We had patriotic
music playing and the atmosphere
was ripe for a fun event.
When we began the event, our
very own color guard presented
the colors and we all stood and
said the pledge together and sung
our national anthem. You could
not have asked for a better
atmosphere for the event.
Americans know how to put on a
great party!
The smell of popcorn filled the
room as the lights dimmed for the
movie to start. As the movie
began, you could have heard a pin
drop as 350 people watched in
awe. The movie was riveting, the
production was first class and the
information was impressive.
Watching the 33 Minutes movie
aroused the “mother bear” in me.
As a parent, we teach our children
to stand up for themselves when
they are bullied. We tell them to
say “No!” to strangers and run if
they sense danger. We teach them
to say “No!” to drugs and alcohol
and educate them on the effects of
both. We tell them to say “No!” to
those who want to have a sexual
encounter with them without their
permission. It’s our job to educate
and protect our children and
grandchildren against the many
dangers that are in the world.
As the movie ended, I wondered
how I would protect my family
against the evil in the world and
against those who would like to
see America obliterated.
We are in danger and we are
there because our leaders have a
different ideology than the leaders
of the past. Talking is taking place
of weapons and believing that all
man-kind can hold hands together
and not fight each other is the
norm in Washington, DC.
Reality is this…Talking is good
and weapons will protect us.
Our leaders’ job is to protect and
defend the Constitution as well as
maintain liberty for all of us.
Liberty can only be maintained by
strong and wise leaders. America
needs a leader that builds
relationships with those who hate
us all the while building a base of
weapons to defend us should that
relationship falter.
Before the evening ended, Dr.
Carafano took questions and
relieved the minds of many of us.
He gave us hope for our future
and ensured us that good always
wins in the end. The evening
ended with educated and
empowered attendees who are
now hosting 33 Minutes movie
screenings in home tea parties.
We encourage you to host a 33
Minutes movie screening in your
grassroots organization or even in
your own home. You can request
a copy of the movie from Heritage
and view the trailer here.
It is a great educational tool and
one that will empower your
friends and family to vote for the
right leaders in 2010 and in 2012.
Our safety lies in the hands of
those who lead our country. As
you choose your leaders, find out
where they stand on national
security issues. If they want to
talk ONLY, consider them weak
and naive. If they want to talk
AND PREPARE, consider them
strong and smart. Then ask
yourself – “Which leader would
you prefer to be in charge of your
personal and national security?”
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bloggers on the Foundry do not
necessarily reflect the views of
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#JAYBOOK# Jay Nordlinger
Morning Bell: How
the Obama Tax
Hikes Affect You
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 8:26:07 AM
Posted October 12th, 2010 at
9:26am in Entitlements Print This
Post
Yesterday, Time Magazine senior
political analyst Mark Halperin
wrote: “With the exception of
core Obama Administration
loyalists, most politically engaged
elites have reached the same
conclusions: the White House is
in over its head, isolated, insular,
arrogant and clueless about how
to get along with or persuade
members of Congress, the media,
the business community or
working-class voters.” As if to
prove Halperin’s point, Vice
President Joe Biden told a group
of Democratic donors in Seattle
Friday: “The Recovery Act didn’t
do enough because we couldn’t
spend enough.”
At least Biden’s statement shows
that the White House is coming to
grips with the fact that their $862
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Throwing Apostates to the Wolves

Nonie Darwish (FrontPage demanding the right of Muslims
Magazine » FrontPage) to choose their religion. Here is
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:20:00 PM Fahmy’s letter:
Mr. General Secretary of the
Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of League of Arab States
the Muslim Brotherhood founder, Dr. Amre Moussa
is lecturing all over the U.S. about Dear Sir,
how Muslims are the new We, “Set My People Free To Cape Wind Power:
“blacks” in America, victims of Worship Me,” are a network of
human rights violations individuals, churches and What’s Cost Got
equivalent to Jim Crow or worse.
But while Muslims are demanding
organizations working for the
freedom of religious converts to
to Do with It?
more and more special treatment, live and practice their faith, to Nicolas Loris (The Foundry:
they seem to be conveniently experience equality and justice in Conservative Policy News.)
ignoring what their religion is their home countries. Submitted at 10/12/2010 12:00:26 PM
doing to apostates, Christians, and We are calling on the Arab
other minorities in 57 Muslim League to work hard in order to Posted October 12th, 2010 at
countries around the world. achieve the following: 1:00pm in Energy and
The atmosphere in Egypt against 1- Absolute freedom for all Environment Print This Post
Christians and Muslim apostates Muslims in the Arab World to After nearly a decade, the Cape
has recently reached a boiling choose their belief or religion by Wind offshore project has a lease
point. Al Jazeerah TV recently their own consent and to approval from the Department of
also accused the Church of are openly defying Sharia’s death Interior, but it is not quite up and
broadcast a two-hour special guarantee their civil and legal
concealing and aiding Muslim penalty for apostasy. Former running. Once the 130 turbines
attacking former Muslims, rights required to follow their new
converts to Christianity — like a Muslim Kamal Fahmi, who lives that stand 440 feet high (taller
especially Naglaa El Imam, belief or religion and to live freely
slave owner accusing a member in Cairo, heads the group “Set My than the Statue of Liberty) start
accusing them of proselytizing to by its teachings.
of the underground railroad of People Free” and has openly moving, consumers will pay a
Muslims. The program also 2- The stop of all forms of
harboring runaways. The degree launched an appeal to the Arab hefty premium for the electricity
described these individuals’ discrimination against all
of incitement against the Christian League and the international the nation’s first offshore wind
“horrific” sins against Allah as minorities in the Arab World,
and former Muslim minority, community for the right of farm generates. The Boston Globe
defined under Sharia. Al regardless of their origin, ethnic
who only constitute about 15% of religious freedom. Currently, reports:
Jazeerah’s guest on that show was or faith backgrounds.
t h e p o p u l a t i o n , w a s h i g h l y being a Muslim is decided by [T]he energy produced will cost
Islamist Dr. Selim el-Awah, 3- Protection of the freedom of
intimidating. Rumors spread birth, and leaving Islam is against up to 50 percent more than energy
former Secretary General of the individuals and groups to worship
rapidly all over Egypt that by the the law in Egypt and in the today from some land-based wind
World Council of Muslim and proclaim their belief or
end of the current Mubarak m a j o r i t y o f M u s l i m farms and twice as much as some
Scholars. Without any evidence, religion in all Arab countries.
administration, Egyptian Copts countries. Fahmy, who is a hydroelectric dams. The cost will
El-Awah recklessly accused the All of this is in line with the
and apostates will suffer a m e m b e r o f increase customers’ monthly
Coptic Christian Church of Universal Declaration of Human
massive massacre. FormerMuslimsUnited.org, electric bills about 2 percent, and
stockpiling weapons and Rights Articles 1, 3, 7.16, 18, 19.
Despite the highly tense situation, recently wrote a letter to the for many that is too steep in tough
ammunition in monasteries in Kamal Fahmy
and for the first time in Islam’s Secretary General of the Arab economic times.
preparation for war against the Skype Name familyfahmi
recent history, former Muslims L e a g u e , A m r e M o u s s a , And let’s not forget that onshore
Muslim majority in Egypt. He
wind is pricier than more

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Crippling Terrorism in One Step

Daniel Retter (FrontPage terrorists by Muslim moderates
Magazine » FrontPage) that serves as the problem.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:30:33 PM There is, meanwhile, a
solution available to the West that
It is 9 years since 9/11, and the also has very little, if any, cost:
West has come to the painful The moderate Muslim population
conclusion that it is impossible for enjoys almost unfettered travel
Western intelligence agencies to throughout Western Europe,
monitor, let alone preempt, all Canada, and the United States.
acts of terrorism from Muslim
militants, who are hell-bent on
This travel generally requires a
visa, issued by U.S. and Western
Gold
destroying our way of life. True
enough, we are handicapped by
consulates, which are located in
all Muslim countries. A visa
Merchants
our own laws of due process, the
sovereignty of those nations who
refuse to crack down on terrorists
issued for travel to a Western
country is a generous gift by the
West to these moderate Muslims.
Strike in Iran
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
in their midst who are given safe These visas often include work Magazine » FrontPage)
haven for political reasons and, permits, student visas, lawful
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:22:01 PM
mainly, the reality that we simply permanent residence, green
cannot keep an eye on everybody. cards, and citizenship. Alas, this A protest by merchants selling
I have developed, however, an also allows a foreign visitor the gold and jewelry in Iran’s bazaar
effective strategy that we can realize that a major problem because they feel that their protest ability to ”embed” himself in our marketplaces will start its fourth
easily apply if we are willing to remains: Moderate Muslims have is a hopeless and meaningless society, which may also lead to week on Wednesday, triggered by
adopt a tactic of leverage, rather yet to rise up as one body to gesture or because they secretly “home grown” terrorism. the regime’s plan to add a tax of
than a frontal assault. p u b l i c l y c o n d e m n a n d sympathize with the terrorists’ Further, these visas allow the three percent on them. Discontent
It is safe to assume that the effectively marginalize Muslim goals, and they, therefore, have no elites of the Muslim governmental in the bazaars helped set the stage
m a j o r i t y o f M u s l i m s a r e terrorists. And for them to do this motivation to act differently. One leadership which host these for the overthrow of the Shah and
“moderate,” in the sense that they is crucial in the conflict we face. way or another, one fact is clear: Muslim terrorists to send their so the regime is looking at this
do not stay up day and night More importantly, they have there is no real “cost” or price to children to Western schools, buy challenge with great unease. The
planning how to destroy the West. failed to demand that their own pay to moderate Muslims for second homes, check on their regime is finding itself in a worse
Yes, there may be a large number governments crackdown on their staying quiet, or even condoning f o r e i g n b a n k a c c o u n t s a n d position as each day passes by.
of these Muslims who sympathize h o s t M u s l i m t e r r o r i s t s the murderous activities of their i n v e s t m e n t s , a n d e n j o y t h e The proposed tax is causing an
with some of the goals of Muslim immediately and permanently. coreligionists. Yet it is precisely stability of the West. At the same outrage among the gold
terrorists, but these Muslims pose The failure on the part of Muslim t h i s a b s e n c e o f e f f e c t i v e t i m e , t h e s e e l i t e s t a k e s n o merchants. As one
no direct or immediate threat to moderates to pressure their own c o n d e m n a t i o n a n d effective steps to curb their explained,“Today one gold coin
our way of life. g o v e r n m e n t s i s e i t h e r m a r g i n a l i z a t i o n o f M u s l i m coreligionists’ attacks on the was $326. I buy it for $324 from
Having said that, one must West. the bank and with a $2 marginal
profit I sell it on the retail market.
If the VAT [value-added tax] is
applied my customer would pay
$326 plus $10 as a VAT to me
and if he needs to cash the coin
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billion economic stimulus plan

Larry Elder (FrontPage Former Vice President Walter
Magazine » FrontPage) failed. Last Friday’s jobs report
Mondale even offered advice to established that fact yet again,
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:16:49 PM Obama: Lose the teleprompter showing a net loss of 95,000 jobs
(which he less than charitably in September, a half million jobs
Obamalism: a political/social/ referred to as an “idiot board”). lost since the Obama recovery
economic philosophy that Mondale, you might recall, ran began, and an unemployment rate
combines socialism, collectivism against President Ronald Reagan of 9.6%. In President Obama’s
and redistributionism wrapped in 1984 — and lost 49 states. two years in office, federal
around a killer smile. When a guy like that offers spending is up more than 21% and
Welcome, Mr. President, to your advice, things are grim. the national debt has risen by $2.9
new reality. Blaming Bush no longer works. trillion. And Biden wants the
The Republicans need not “take Obama indeed inherited a bad American people to believe that
over” Congress to slow the march economy, drowning under a large this administration has not spent
of the most left-wing president debt and deficit. His solution? enough? Clueless indeed.
ever elected. To clip President Tossing it an anvil. Heritage Foundation Senior
Barack Obama’s wings, the GOP Obama did not inherit the $800 Fellow J.D. Foster explains why
simply needs to carve into the billion-plus “stimulus” plan or the Obama stimulus failed:
once filibuster-proof Democratic various subsequent ones. The theory underlying Obama’s
Senate. Obama did not inherit a stimulus was that the economy
The new 1994 Republican “sweeping” financial regulation of was weak because total demand
majorities in the House and Wall Street that leaves in was too low. The suggested
Senate forced then-President Bill place Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae solution is then to increase
Clinton to smell the center-right and the Community Reinvestment demand by increasing government
coffee. He then signed a more Act, the primary drivers of the spending, exploding the deficit in
modest domestic budget, welfare Likely to Scale Back Legislative refused to answer. Angry voters housing meltdown. the process.
reform (after two vetos) and P l a n s : I n N e w P o l i t i c a l are fed up with a left-wing, job- Obama did not inherit This theory of demand
capital gains tax cuts. Landscape, Incremental Approach killing, anti-business agenda. In government takeovers of the manipulation through deficit
D e s p i t e O b a m a ’ s d e f i a n t Is in Works to Get Support for every demographic — racial, automotive companies. spending ignores the simplest of
assertion that he would rather be a Some Proposals on Energy, gender, age, ideological affiliation Obama did not inherit a massive realities: Government spending
“really good one-term president Immigration.” — the President suffers declines “green jobs” initiative, in which must be financed. So to finance
t h a n a m e d i o c r e t w o - t e r m “Hope and change” has been in his peak popularity. Not since government bureaucrats will deficit spending, government
president,” he already reluctantly replaced with “hopeless and small Mike Tyson in Tokyo have we “invest” taxpayer money in must borrow from private
recognizes the reality of a Clinton change.” witnessed a fall this steep. Even “ p r o m i s i n g ” t e c h n o l o g i e s markets, thereby reducing private
- l i k e p o s t - m i d t e r m p i v o t . Recently, President Obama was among blacks — at 90 percent, proposed by companies that failed demand by the same amount as
Consider the headline of a recent asked this question: Would you his highest-rated demo — his to persuade private investors to deficit spending increases public
Wall Street Journal article based veto a bill that extended the tax numbers are down from their high bet on them. demand. In effect, the theory says
on interviews with shellshocked cut for the wealthy? Four times he of 94 percent. that if I take a dollar from my
White House personnel: “Obama right pocket to my left, then I’m a
dollar richer. No wonder it always
fails.
On top of President Obama’s
failed spending policies, now the
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conventional, reliable sources of would spread across 25 square of subsidies and tax credits was once a high official in the Obama’s memoir, Dreams from
electricity. A new analysis from miles received support and haven’t helped wind projects Midwest Academy network. My Father, are exposed.
the Attorney General’s office pegs o p p o s i t i o n f r o m compete; they’ve stifled them in Several Midwest Academy The pattern of misdirection upon
the cost of the project at $2.5 environmentalists—some arguing mediocrity and complacency. leaders advised Obama’s 2008 which President Obama’s political
billion—more than twice the we need more clean energy Special-interest politicking creates presidential campaign. Academy career has been built has its roots
original estimate. Cape Wind production, others arguing that it benefits for few and disperses the founder Heather Booth is now a in the socialist background of
stands to receive hundreds of will harm the marine’s ecosystem. costs on the rest of us. Audra key figure in coordinating community organizing. ACORN,
millions of dollars in federal The late Senator Ted Kennedy Parker of the Alliance to Protect grassroots support for the Reverend Wright, and Bill Ayers
subsidies, and to replace one long argued that the aesthetic Nantucket Sound explains it well, president’s budget, health-care, were all routes into that hidden
offshore natural gas platform, we beauty of the Nantucket Sound saying consumers“will be and financial-reform plans. socialist world, and that is why
would need 59 Cape Wind would be ruined and tourism needlessly paying billions of The leaders of the Midwest Obama has had to obscure the
projects, which means more than would suffer as a result. Indian dollars in electric bills and Academy were eager to avoid truth about these and other
7,700 turbines covering an area tribes argue it will destroy sacred subsidies to line the pockets of a public exposure of their socialism. elements of his past. More
the size of Rhode Island. We land. private developer.” Yet they trusted Obama enough to important, the president’s socialist
would need 24 of these projects to The debate has become so This entry passed through the put him on the board of their past is still very much alive in the
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the utility to buy the wind power. more robust, competitive energy during the 2008 campaign about we will place a strong check on
The 130-turbine project that market. The reality is that decades his ties to ACORN. New evidence the president’s ambitions.
confirms that Obama has hidden Knowing the truth about Obama’s
GOLD the truth about his relationships to past is the best way to safeguard
continued from page 79
Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. our future.
next week, he has to sell it at the regime thugs tried to force the than six months. In July, bazaar The unknown story of Obama’s — Stanley Kurtz is a senior
same price he has bought it [for] merchants into opening for shops around Iran closed after it deep involvement with a radical fellow at the Ethics and Public
or even for $2 less.” business and damaged their shops. was reported that a 70 percent tax group called UNO of Chicago is Policy Center and author of
The gold merchants in Tehran’s Several merchants who fought increase was on the way. The revealed. The claims of candidate Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama
Grand Bazaar took action by b a c k w e r e a r r e s t e d . O t h e r government said it was an error Obama and his mentors that he and the Untold Story of American
shutting their doors, sparking a merchants are said to be joining and that the tax was only 30 s h u n n e d S a u l A l i n s k y ’ s Socialism. Stanley Kurtz
strike that has spread to major them. The top prosecutor is now percent. The strikes continued to confrontational tactics turn out to
bazaars around the country. In threatening them, calling them grow and according to one report, be a sugary fairy tale. The
M a s h h a d , o v e r 1 0 0 g o l d “economic saboteurs,” an offense about 500 merchants went beyond o b f u s c a t i n g t e c h n i q u e s o f
merchants staged a public protest. that sounds a lot like treason, complaining just about the tax and
Aware that the shutting down of which carries the penalty of death. c a l l e d f o r a “ d e a t h t o
the bazaars was a precursor to the T h i s i s t h e s e c o n d m a j o r dictatorship.” Shops were raided
fall of the Shah, the regime is confrontation between the regime
p a n i c k i n g . I n K e r m a n s h a h , and the bazaar merchants in less GOLD page 82
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White House wants to saddle the
U.S. economy with the largest tax
hike in American history. Taxes
on individual income, capital
gains and dividends are all set to
rise. As Harvard professor Greg
Mankiw explained yesterday:
“[D]on’t let anyone fool you into
billion a year; 3) decrease
personal savings by $38 billion in
2011 alone; 4) decrease consumer
spending by $706 billion through
2020; and 5) kill an average of
693,000 jobs a year through 2020.
The CDA has even broken down
these impacts by state and
How the Obama Tax Hikes Affect
4 Real Challenges to
You.
Quick Hits: Crowdsourcing for Social
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government taxes the rich, only find the state-by-state and district- Five Filters featured article: Geoff Livingston co-founded
the rich bear the burden.” by-district results here(in the right Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- Zoetica to focus on cause-related
The Heritage Foundation Center hand column). West Virginians Reporting of Falluja's Cancer work, and released an award-
for Data Analysis has estimated will see their individual income Catastrophe. winning book on new media Now
the impacts of the Obama tax taxes rise by $1.6 billion. is Gone in 2007.
hikes and found they would: 1) Nevadans will lose $2,697 per For its 40th anniversary, political
decrease inflation-adjusted gross household in disposable income. non-profit Common Cause re-
domestic product (GDP) by $1.1 And Wisconsin will lose 14,083 examined its core values and
trillion by 2020; 2) decrease jobs annually. The stakes are wrote almost 40 theses for the
business investment by $33 high. Click through and find out Internet era in the style of The
seems social media strategy.
Cluetrain Manifesto. The
GOLD REAL Working with a community to
organization needed to know that
continued from page 81 continued from page 82 produce outcomes requires
these restated values were still in
intense work and labor. While
by the security forces, and one being sanctioned by the U.S., the media strategy. 1. Will the Crowd sync with its stake holders and
crowdsourcing may be all the
merchant died of a stab wound on E.U., and other countries. Royal Care? needed its online community to
rage, many online conversations
July 7. Ultimately, the regime Dutch Shell, Total, Eni and Statoil Many non-profits assume that provide feedback.
and literature on the topic fail to
backed down but not without have agreed not to make any t h e i r c o m m u n i t y w i l l For a month and half the
delve into the real hardships an
permanently creating bad blood further investments in Iran, automatically care about the organization tried to socialize the
organization may face in its effort.
with the bazaar merchants. although the sincerity of Royal cause’s ongoing efforts. And t h e s e s , g e t t i n g l u k e w a r m
Some of the hurdles may seem
The loyalty of the merchants has Dutch Shell and Total is being while there is some common responses, but receiving thumbs-
obvious. You need an active
been crucial to the regime’s questioned. Companies in Kuwait, interest, to compel a community up on Facebook posts about
community in place before you
survival as it loses support from Russia, India and Turkey have to act on an issue has to mean i n d i v i d u a l t h e s e s , a n d t h e
can simply thrust your cause’s
its people. As the Associated promised not to sell gasoline to something to the individuals occasional comment. Finally,
effort into the public for feedback.
Press mentions,“For decades, the Iran, and the end of money participating. Common Cause turned the
Additionally, the crowd has to at
ruling theocracy has counted on transfers to Iran by most banks in The old, “what’s in it for me?” feedback exercise into a contest,
least be acknowledged if not
the thousands of bazaar families the United Arab Emirates is adage comes into play, especially creating an effort where the best
rewarded for its participation, if
and businesses as some of their particularly stinging. now that contests with prizes are suggestion from the community
the effort will be sustained for any
most stalwart backers.” To make increasingly becoming the norm. would become the 40th theses.
length of time.
matters worse for the regime, Acknowledgment and recognition O v e r t h e n e x t t w o w e e k s ,
Other hurdles require experience.
companies continue to make the may not be enough, and not Common Cause received 1,200
Here’s a look at four areas that
decision that operating in Iran everyone can afford to offer a responses to the contest, and the
can benefit from the best
isn’t worth the cost of potentially large cash prize. So the average best five were voted on by the
practices:
crowdsourcing effort has to community.
Disclosure: My company Zoetica
m o t i v a t e p e o p l e w i t h r e a l Common Cause’s difficulties and
provided Common Cause a social
eventual success reflect some
REAL page 83 truths about this harder-than-it- REAL page 82
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meaning in their lives. That means
an organization not only has to
know its purpose, but also has to
know where the community’s
passions lie so it can strike the
right balance.
The Extraordinaries, a mobile
application that crowdsources for
volunteers, finds many of its
participating non-profits struggle
because it hasn’t written a
compelling challenge for its
community. Perhaps the largest
crowdsourcing effort in history,
Pepsi Refresh, has gone beyond
grants to serve the community
with topical events like Do Good
for the Gulf extension, major
league sports integration, and
retail marketing programs.
“We’ve got a community manager
who is constantly dreaming up
new weekly challenges … these
are short things that you can do
each week to volunteer in your
spare time,” said Ben Rigby, CTO
of The Extraordinaries. “She
works with each nonprofit to
resolve various issues so that non-
profits can maximize their
exposure. If all else fails, we do
manual routing of challenges to
people whom we feel would be
most interested in them, on the
basis of what they’ve written in
their profile.” 2. Crowdsourcing
Requires Time
The Extraordinaries example
demonstrates another major
challenge with crowdsourcing. It
takes time to crowdsource
effectively. Indeed, although an
organization might outsource
innovation, it cannot outsource
the labor necessary to be
successful.
Community management
involves grassroots customer
service. In spite of well-stated and
published rules, an organization
still needs to provide community
management resources if it
expects to sustain community
interest. If there is a lack of
structure, you can expect to invest
even more time.
The WeCanEndThis
crowdsourcing initiative sought to
use intellectual group exercises to
come up with ways to end hunger
at SXSW. Organizers opted for as
little structure as possible to
empower and inspire people to
take on the challenge, and they
believed there was real potential
for impact. As a result, they spent
more time.
“When you don’t have systems
and structures, and you try to do
ambitious things, it takes time,”
said Brian Reich, co-founder of
WeCanEndThis. “That said,
whatever time you spend feels
very valuable — so the more you
put in, the more you get out. We
were breaking new ground every
time we talked, put something on
paper, engaged another
participant. Our job was to
harness, clean up, make
connections, etc.” 3.
Crowdsourcing Needs Structure
In an altruistic world, all goes
well. In reality, all hell can break
loose. And while not every
crowdsourcing effort goes awry,
many do. Confusion about what to
do can occur, and thus the need
for rules and procedures.
While the crowd craves freedom,
people need to be told the rules of
engagement and how to
participate. These rules have to be
clear, empowering for the crowd
and directive in their end result.
The Sunlight Foundation is one
of the more experienced non-
profits using crowdsourcing. In
2007, Sunlight started examining
how Congress could make itself
more open and transparent by
making some technological
upgrades and inviting experts
from across the political spectrum
to join them. The result was a
series of recommendations that
was lauded by both Speaker of the
House Nancy Pelosi and House
Minority Leader John Boehner.
Since then, Sunlight has been
noted for its Apps for America
and Design for America contests,
and Twitter engagement
techniques.
“In regards to general app
submissions, we assumed too
much structure instead of
encouraging more open-ended
discussion,” said Gabriela
Schneider, communications
director at Sunlight Foundation.
“People are going to use the tools
(wikis, mailing lists, code hosting
sites, etc.) that they are most
comfortable using. Sunlight wants
its role in this process to be that of
matchmaker and knowledge
commons.” 4. Enforcing the Rules
No one wants to police a
community, but unfortunately
even with rules in place,
community management becomes
necessary. Rules can be broken,
the spirit of a contest can be
thwarted, and unforeseen
behaviors can necessitate action.
If the larger community’s
interests are to be encouraged and
sustained, then community-centric
behavior needs to be enforced.
That means the organization will
have to use some of its
community management
resources to enforce and even
build new rules.
Pepsi Refresh needed to adjust its
official rules in June to address
fraudulent voting that was taking
place. And now, the project
management team continuously
monitors the community to ensure
that the current rules are being
met, quality levels are up to par,
and votes are indeed authentic.
“Throughout the duration of the
program, we’ve worked with a
number of organizations that
ensure that voting processes
adhere to the rules, grants are
implemented according to budget
and timelines, and we have a team
that works each day to respond to
consumer inquiries,” said Shiv
Singh, head of digital for Pepsi.
“In addition, a member of the
Pepsi organization reviews every
one of the thousand submissions
each month to ensure the quality
of ideas on the
refresheverything.com site.”
So you see, crowdsourcing isn’t
as easy as it seems. But by
83
identifying potential challenges,
you’ll be well on your way to
success. Let us know of any
challenges you’ve face when
crowdsourcing, or if you can offer
any tips to make it easier for
others in the comments below.
More Social Good Resources
from Mashable:
- Why Social Media Is
Reinventing Activism
- 5 YouTube Projects That Are
Making a Difference
- 9 Creative Social Good
Campaigns Worth Recognizing
- 5 Easy Ways to Support a Cause
Through Your Social Network
- 5 Trends Shaping the Future of
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10 Memorable Viral Videos of 2010 [Mashable Awards]

Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) year thus far. from the 2011 International CES scale deployment, mobile
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Amazon Eyes Different, Shorter Kinds iOS Game Developer

of Content for the Kindle Behind “We Rule” Sold
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:36:11 AM for $400 Million market by allowing students to
forgo the purchase of course
readers and unwieldy anthologies Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Amazon issued a call today for — often peppered with works that
“compelling ideas expressed at never become part of the course Submitted at 10/12/2010 11:15:54 AM

their natural length” for its e-book material — and provide additional
store. Ngmoco, the game-maker behind
visibility for “accomplished” self-
Specifically, per Amazon’s We Rule, Godfinger and several
published writers of non-fiction.
guidelines, that means non-fiction other hit iOS games, has been
It’s not entirely clear whether
works in the 10,000-30,000-word Content Russ Grandinetti in a Amazon expects publishers or self acquired by Japanese social
(30 to 90-page) range that deliver statement. “With Kindle Singles, -published authors to supply most gaming company DeNA for up to
a w e l l - r e s e a r c h e d a n d we’re reaching out to publishers of the content for the new section, $400 million.
thoughtfully executed argument and accomplished writers and n o r t h e e x a c t p r i c e r a n g e Ngmoco says the deal will help
related to business, politics, we’re excited to see what they submissions will fall between; DeNA expand its social network
science, history, current events or create.” Mobage to Western markets.
we’ve reached out to Amazon for
other topics in the field of The Kindle Singles category comment on both, and will update Mobage has “tens of millions of
with a $100 million additional
intellectual discourse. users in Japan,” according to
seems like the perfect place to t h i s p o s t w i t h a n y f u r t h e r ngmoco, and ngmoco’s own plus+
payment should the company
Qualifying works will be labeled offer individual copies of works i n f o r m a t i o n . meet certain performance
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developers the “Open Mobage
IOS IOS IOS android, apps, business, dena,
Smartphone SDK,” a set of tools
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Do You Suffer From Costly “Soft Addictions”?

(Financiallyfit on Shine) habits have become bona fide soft more because we don't experience hour, write down how that the previous month's credit card
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:43:45 PM addictions.) the discomfort of parting with transaction made you feel (e.g., "a transactions.
When soft addictions involve actual cold, hard currency. (This brief buyer's high, but I felt Get Zen With Your Money by
Zoning out for hours watching money, they inflict yet another also explains why I've never restless again 30 minutes later"). following these five steps to
reruns, checking your PDA every side effect: financial drain. Left walked out of Target with just the • Extra credit: Try to identify any forming a more enlightened
15 minutes, spending a morning unchecked, things like boredom things on my shopping list.) triggers that drove you to whip relationship to your money.
surfing the Web for bargains -- spending, convenience shopping, Online shopping, stock trading, out your wallet. 3. Manage your money more
these are hardly behaviors that and day trading can quickly auction sites -- same thing. Done meaningfully
defy social norms. And, really, balloon out of control and become in moderation, all is well. But it After several days, you'll be able Take some time to write down
what's the big whoop about emotional and financial cement doesn't take much for our reliance to identify some mind-money some things that truly add to your
checking your messages or biting galoshes. on these tools to turn into a connections you might never have quality of life -- items, events,
your nails a wee bit too much? All it takes is a few too many harmful addiction. d e t e c t e d i f t h e y h a d g o n e pursuits, and purchases that put a
Nothing. Until it's not nothing, clicks and suddenly: Break bad habits before they unchecked. Quite often the lasting kick in your step and were
that is. become addictions overwhelming feeling people worth the time and money spent.
When done in excess, harmless • Convenience shopping turns Because of that fine line between experience is numbness -- not Then make a list of the things
habits morph into something far into a mountain of credit card "harmless habit" and "soft even remembering or getting you are willing to change about
more sinister and self-destructive debt. addiction," it's easy to overlook or much of any fulfillment from how you handle money today to
-- what self-help expert Judith • Trading in and out of stocks brush aside budding problem these habits. free up psychological and
Wright calls "soft addictions."And eats away at your long-term areas. Don't. Here are 5 Ways to Stop Buying financial space so you can pursue
make no mistake: Soft addictions wealth. If worry about the financial Stupid Stuff. things like those you just wrote
can run roughshod on your • Those winning bids on auction fallout of your everyday actions 2 . C a l c u l a t e t h e p r i c e o f down.
emotional and financial well- sites eat away at the money you've even occasionally breaks through happiness Start with the small stuff (e.g.,
being. amassed for a down payment for the subconscious into the realm of Sit down with your notes and add turning off the TV, canceling
The signs of soft addictions your dream home. acknowledgement, it's worth up how much money you spent. premium cable, and joining the Y
Overshopping, overeating, taking a deeper look. Then compare it to the amount of with the family) and work your
watching endless amounts of TV, How habits become harmful 1. Bring consciousness to your satisfaction each transaction way up to bigger changes you'd
and sporting an impenetrable You can be the most self-aware cash flow brought to your life. like to make. Just a few tweaks to
umbilical cord to the Internet are person on the planet and still You do this by tracking your Did that sweater bring you $45 routine spending habits can really
common soft addictions, Wright suffer from a spending soft spending -- but with a twist. This worth of joy? The answer is, of add up.
says. addiction. That's because the tried-and-true exercise is always course, subjective. So also If you find yourself slipping back
The psychological signs of things that make it easier to an eye-opener. But we're going to consider how many hours you into old habits, review your list of
sufferers can be subtle, but the manage our money also numb our add an element of depth to the spent toiling at work to pay for joy-inducing items and remember
emotional drain is very real: They brains to what's really happening spending analysis: the cardigan. Now, was it worth that a little self-control can keep
"rob us of time, numb us from our with our finances. • For at least three days (two it? you and your finances out of
feelings, mute our consciousness, Consider credit cards: Like poker weeks is even better), record the Asking questions like these will harm's way.
and drain our energy," she says. chips, they only represent money. factual details of every dime you help heighten your financial Balance your budget in a
(You can take this quiz on her Studies show that when we put spend. awareness in a different way than
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