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Clinton to Tech Innovators and Entrepreneurs: “We Want You”
E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 8:21:55 AM
Feeling cooped up in that dingy
old cube? Life seem a little
meaningless? No worries. The
State Department will be happy to
send you to the far reaches of the
planet to end violence, empower
citizens, and bring peace and
prosperity to the rest of the world.
Public officials swinging by
Silicon Valley usually are on the
prowl for precious campaign
dollars. But Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton made a point of
stopping by the Bay Area on
Friday night to ask for something
completely different: the tech
world’s energy and expertise.
“The new communication tools
that you and I use as a matter of
course are helping to connect and
empower civil society leaders,
democracy activists, and everyday
citizens,” Clinton said in a speech
at San Francisco’s
Commonwealth Club. “We need
your help.”
You might have heard how, over
the past couple of years, the State
Department has been reaching out
to the tech world for help with
their diplomatic and development
goals, particularly through
delegations of tech innovators and
entrepreneurs to places like Iraq,
Russia, and Mexico, where
they've explored how the the
Internet, mobile phones, and other
tech tools can be used to build
democracy and combat violence.
The initiatives have apparently
been working so well that Clinton
carved time out of her globe-
trotting schedule to make a public
speech—only her third since
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becoming the country’s top
diplomat—to implore the Bay
Area's innovators to join the State
Department’s efforts. “Whether
you care about Haiti … violence
in Mexico from the drug cartels
… national treasures in Iraq,”
Clinton said, “we want you to
know there’s a place for you.”
Part of our approach is to
embrace new tools like using
cellphones for mobile banking or
to monitor elections. But we’re
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partnerships that link the on-the-
ground experience of our
diplomats and development
experts with the energy and
resources of the business
community.
Since taking office, Clinton has
appointed a Special
Representative for Global
Partnerships to catalyze
collaboration with the private
sector, hosted conferences
like“TED at State,” and, most
recently, set up a seed fund within
US AID, Development Innovation
Ventures, to provide start-up
money to potential development
game-changers, like a new idea
for solar lighting in Uganda and a
bicycle that doubles as a power
source.
also reaching [out] to the people “Diplomacy and outreach can’t
behind these tools, the innovators just be left to our government,”
and the entrepreneurs themselves. Clinton told the audience in San
We know that many business Francisco . “There are so many
leaders want to devote some of ways that we can influence what
their companies’ expertise to goes on in other countries.”
solving problems around the Technology “is not a silver
world, but they often don’t know bullet,” she noted. “But all over
how to do that. What’s the point the world, we see [its] promise.”
of entry? Which idea is going to “If you have a good idea, we will
have the most impact? listen.”
To bridge that gap, we are
embracing new public-private
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Welcome To The Subprime Debacle, Part 2

John Mauldin (Business Insider) disaster for investors. I admit I did mortgages in foreclosure are near
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:47:01 PM not see in January that it would all-time highs, close to 1 in 21 of
bring down Lehman and trigger all mortgages, up from 1 in 100
Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right the worst banking crisis in 80 just four years ago. That's got to
here in River City! years, less than 18 months later. be bad for your profit models.
With a capital "T" That rhymes But it was clear that it would not Anyone who tells you the
with "P" be "contained." We had no idea. housing problem is "bottoming"
And that stands for Pool, That I also said that it was going to either has an agenda or simply
stands for pool. create a monster legal battle down does not pay attention to the data.
We've surely got trouble! the road that would take years to I really want to see housing
Right here in River City, develop. Well, in the fullness of bottom and then turn around and
Right here! Gotta figger out a time, those years have come nigh the home builders come back; the
way upon us. Today we briefly look at nation desperately needs the jobs.
To keep the young ones moral the housing market, then the But my job is to be realistic.
after school! mortgage foreclosure debacle, and When we see 3-4 months of non-
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, then we go into the real problem stimulus-induced housing sales
trouble... lurking in the background. It is growth, then we can start talking
- From The Music Man The Subprime Debacle, Act 2. It about bottoms.
(Quick last-minute note: I think is NOT the mortgage foreclosure But housing sales are not really
this (and next week's) is/will be issue, as serious as that is. I the issue. Let's look at the next leg
one of the more important letters I s e r i o u s l y d o u b t i t w i l l b e "bottom." That may have been FICO scores) and want reasonable of the problem. The Foreclosure
have written in the last ten years. contained, as well. Could the optimistic, given what we will down payments. Only 47% of Mess
Take the time to read, and if you confluence of a bank credit crisis cover in this letter. applicants have the FICO score to OK, in a serendipitous moment,
agree send it on to friends and in the US and a sovereign debt First, existing and new single- get the best mortgage rates. Maine fishing buddy David Kotok
responsible parties. And note to banking crisis in Europe lead to family home sales continue to ( S i d e b a r : G a r y w r i t e s , s e n t m e t h i s e m a i l o n t h e
new readers: this letter goes to 1.5 another full-blown world banking slide, in the wake of the tax rebate "Furthermore, false appraisals mortgage foreclosure crisis just as
million of my closest friends. It is crisis? The potential is there. This that ended earlier this year. We rose 50% in 2009 from 2008. The I was getting ready to write much
f r e e . Y o u c a n g o t o situation wants some serious have declined back to the down- t a x c r e d i t f o r f i r s t - t i m e the same thing. It is about the best
www.frontlinethoughts.com to attention. sloping trend line. If you are a homebuyers cost taxpayers about thing I have read on the topic.
subscribe. Now, let's jump in!) This letter is going to print a little seller, this is not a pretty picture. $15 billion, twice the official Saves me some time and you get a
There's trouble, my friends, and it longer. But I think it is important The homebuilding industry, forecast, in part due to fraud. Over better explanation. From Kotok:
is does indeed involve pool(s), but that you get a handle on this issue. which was the source of so many 19,000 tax filers claimed the "Dear Readers, this text came to
not in the pool hall. The real Where is the Housing Recovery? jobs last decade (aka the good old credit but didn't buy houses, while me in an email from sources that
monster is hidden in those pools We are going to quickly review a days), is on its back. This country 74,000 who claimed $500 million are in the financial services
of subprime debt that have not few charts from Gary Shilling's n e e d s a h e a l t h y h o u s i n g in refunds already owned homes." business and with whom I have a
gone away. When I first began latest letter, where he review the construction market to get back to Where are the regulators?) personal relationship. The original
writing and speaking about the housing market in depth. Bottom lower unemployment, and until Shilling thinks prices are likely to text was laced with expletives and
coming subprime disaster, it was line, the housing market has not the overhang in the foreclosure fall another 20%. Given what I I would not use it in the form I
in late 2007 and early 2008. The yet begun to recover, and it is not market is cleared out, that is am writing about in the next received it. Therefore the text
subject was being dismissed in only going to take longer but the unlikely to happen. section, that is a possibility. There below has had some substantial
most polite circles. "The subprime decline in prices may be greater L e n d i n g i s t i g h t e r , a s i s is certainly no demand pressure to editing in order to remove that
problem," testified Ben Bernanke, than many have forecast. I wrote reasonable. Banks actually expect push up housing prices. language. The intentions of the
"will be contained." three years ago that it could be you to have the ability to pay back Finally, two charts on
My early take? It would be a well into 2011 before we get to a the mortgage you take out (solid f o r e c l o s u r e s . R e s i d e n t i a l WELCOME page 3
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writer are undisturbed. The writer
shall remain anonymous. This text
echoes some of the news items we
have seen and heard today;
however, it can serve as a plain
language description of the
present foreclosure-suspension
mess. There is a lot here. It takes
about ten minutes to read it. -
David Kotok ( www.cumber.com)
"Homeowners can only be
foreclosed and evicted from their
homes by the person or institution
who actually has the loan
paper...only the note-holder has
legal standing to ask a court to
foreclose and evict. Not the
mortgage, the note, which is the
actual IOU that people sign,
promising to pay back the
mortgage loan
"Before mortgage-backed
securities, most mortgage loans
were issued by the local savings
& loan. So the note usually didn't
go anywhere: it stayed in the
offices of the S&L down the
street.
"But once mortgage loan
securitization happened, things
got sloppy...they got sloppy by the
very nature of mortgage-backed
securities.
"The whole purpose of MBSs was
for different investors to have
their different risk appetites
satiated with different bonds.
Some bond customers wanted
super-safe bonds with low returns,
some others wanted riskier bonds
with correspondingly higher rates
of return.
"Therefore, as everyone knows,
the loans were 'bundled' into
REMICs (Real-Estate Mortgage
Investment Conduits, a special
vehicle designed to hold the loans
for tax purposes), and then "sliced
& diced"...split up and put into
tranches, according to their
likelihood of default, their interest
rates, and other characteristics.
"This slicing and dicing created
'senior tranches,' where the loans
would likely be paid in full, if the
past history of mortgage loan
statistics was to be believed. And
it also created 'junior tranches,'
where the loans might well
default, again according to past
history and statistics. (A whole
range of tranches was created, of
course, but for the purposes of
this discussion we can ignore all
those countless other variations.)
"These various tranches were sold
to different investors, according to
their risk appetite. That's why
some of the MBS bonds were
rated as safe as Treasury bonds,
and others were rated by the
ratings agencies as risky as junk
bonds.
"But here's the key issue: When
an MBS was first created, all the
mortgages were pristine...none
had defaulted yet, because they
were all brand-new loans.
Statistically, some would default
and some others would be paid
back in full...but which ones
specifically would default? No
one knew, of course. If I toss a
coin 1,000 times, statistically, 500
tosses the coin will land
heads...but what will the result be
of, say, the 723rd toss? No one
knows.
"Same with mortgages.
"So in fact, it wasn't that the
riskier loans were in junior
tranches and the safer ones were
in senior tranches: rather, all the
loans were in the REMIC, and if
and when a mortgage in a given
bundle of mortgages defaulted,
the junior tranche holders would
take the losses first, and the senior
tranche holder last.
"But who were the owners of the
junior-tranche bond and the senior
-tranche bonds? Two different
people. Therefore, the mortgage
note was not actually signed over
to the bond holder. In fact, it
couldn't be signed over. Because,
again, since no one knew which
mortgage would default first, it
was impossible to assign a
specific mortgage to a specific
bond.
"Therefore, how to make sure the
safe mortgage loan stayed with
the safe MBS tranche, and the
risky and/or defaulting mortgage
went to the riskier tranche?
"Enter stage right the famed
MERS...the Mortgage Electronic
Registration System.
"MERS was the repository of
these digitized mortgage notes
that the banks originated from the
actual mortgage loans signed by
homebuyers. MERS was jointly
owned by Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac (yes, those two again
...I know, I know: like the
chlamydia and the gonorrhea of
the financial world...you cure 'em,
but they just keep coming back).
"The purpose of MERS was to
help in the securitization process.
Basically, MERS directed
defaulting mortgages to the
appropriate tranches of mortgage
bonds. MERS was essentially
where the digitized mortgage
notes were sliced and diced and
rearranged so as to create the
mortgage-backed securities.
Think of MERS as Dr.
Frankenstein's operating table,
where the beast got put together.
"However, legally...and this is the
important part...MERS didn't hold
any mortgage notes: the true
owner of the mortgage notes
should have been the REMICs.
"But the REMICs didn't own the
notes either, because of a fluke of
the ratings agencies: the REMICs
had to be "bankruptcy remote," in
order to get the precious ratings
needed to peddle mortgage-
backed Securities to institutional
investors.
"So somewhere between the
REMICs and MERS, the chain of
title was broken.
"Now, what does 'broken chain of
title' mean? Simple: when a
homebuyer signs a mortgage, the
key document is the note. As I
said before, it's the actual IOU. In
order for the mortgage note to be
sold or transferred to someone
else (and therefore turned into a
mortgage-backed security), this
document has to be physically
endorsed to the next person. All
of these signatures on the note are
called the 'chain of title.'
"You can endorse the note as
many times as you please...but
you have to have a clear chain of
title right on the actual note: I sold
the note to Moe, who sold it to
Larry, who sold it to Curly, and
all our notarized signatures are
actually, physically, on the note,
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one after the other.
"If for whatever reason any of
these signatures is skipped, then
the chain of title is said to be
broken. Therefore, legally, the
mortgage note is no longer valid.
That is, the person who took out
the mortgage loan to pay for the
house no longer owes the loan,
because he no longer knows
whom to pay.
"To repeat: if the chain of title of
the note is broken, then the
borrower no longer owes any
money on the loan.
"Read that last sentence again,
please. Don't worry, I'll wait.
"You read it again? Good: Now
you see the can of worms that's
opening up.
"The broken chain of title might
not have been an issue if there
hadn't been an unusual number of
foreclosures. Before the housing
bubble collapse, the people who
defaulted on their mortgages
wouldn't have bothered to check
to see that the paperwork was in
order.
"But as everyone knows,
following the housing collapse of
2007-'10-and-counting, there has
been a boatload of
foreclosures...and foreclosures on
a lot of people who weren't sloppy
bums who skipped out on their
mortgage payments, but smart and
cautious people who got squeezed
by circumstances.
"These people started contesting
their foreclosures and evictions,
and so started looking into the
chain-of-title issue, and that's
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when the paperwork became
important. So the chain of title
became crucial and the botched
paperwork became a nontrivial
issue.
"Now, the banks had hired
'foreclosure mills'...law firms that
specialized in foreclosures...in
order to handle the massive
volume of foreclosures and
evictions that occurred because of
the housing crisis. The foreclosure
mills, as one would expect, were
the first to spot the broken chain
of titles.
"Well, what do you know, it turns
out that these foreclosure mills
might have faked and falsified
documentation, so as to
fraudulently repair the chain-of-
title issue, thereby 'proving' that
the banks had judicial standing to
foreclose on delinquent
mortgages. These foreclosure
mills might have even forged the
loan note itself...
"Wait, why am I hedging? The
foreclosure mills did actually,
deliberately, and categorically
fake and falsify documents, in
order to expedite these
foreclosures and evictions. Yves
Smith at Naked Capitalism, who
has been all over this story, put up
a price list for this 'service' from a
company called DocX...yes, a
price list for forged documents.
Talk about your one-stop
shopping!
"So in other words, a massive
fraud was carried out, with the
inevitable innocent bystanders
getting caught up in the fraud: the
guy who got foreclosed and
evicted from his home in Florida,
even though he didn't actually
have a mortgage, and in fact
owned his house free -and clear.
The family that was foreclosed
and evicted, even though they had
a perfect mortgage payment
record. Et cetera, depressing et
cetera.
"Now, the reason this all came to
light is not because too many
people were getting screwed by
the banks or the government or
someone with some power saw
what was going on and decided to
put a stop to it...that would have
been nice, to see a shining knight
in armor, riding on a white horse.
"But that's not how America
works nowadays.
"No, alarm bells started going off
when the title insurance
companies started to refuse to
insure the titles.
"In every sale, a title insurance
company insures that the title is
free -and clear ...that the
prospective buyer is in fact
buying a properly vetted house,
with its title issues all in order.
Title insurance companies
stopped providing their service
because...of course...they didn't
want to expose themselves to the
risk that the chain of title had
been broken, and that the bank
had illegally foreclosed on the
previous owner.
"That's when things started
getting interesting: that's when the
attorneys general of various states
started snooping around and
making noises (elections are
coming up, after all).
"The fact that Ally Financial
(formerly GMAC), JP Morgan
Chase, and now Bank of America
have suspended foreclosures
signals that this is a serious
problem...obviously. Banks that
size, with that much exposure to
foreclosed properties, don't
suspend foreclosures just because
they're good corporate citizens
who want to do the right thing,
and who have all their paperwork
in strict order...they're halting
their foreclosures for a reason.
"The move by the United States
Congress last week, to sneak by
the Interstate Recognition of
Notarizations Act? That was all
the banking lobby. They wanted
to shove down that law, so that
their foreclosure mills' forged and
fraudulent documents would not
be scrutinized by out-of-state
judges. (The spineless cowards in
the Senate carried out their
master's will by a voice vote...so
that there would be no registry of
who had voted for it, and
therefore no accountability.)
"And President Obama's pocket
veto of the measure? He had to
veto it...if he'd signed it, there
would have been political hell to
pay, plus it would have been
challenged almost immediately,
and likely overturned as
unconstitutional in short order.
(But he didn't have the gumption
to come right out and veto it...he
pocket vetoed it.)
"As soon as the White House
announced the pocket veto...the
very next day!...Bank of America
halted all foreclosures,
nationwide.
"Why do you think that
happened? Because the banks are
in trouble...again. Over the same
thing as last time...the damned
mortgage-backed securities!
"The reason the banks are in the
tank again is, if they've been
foreclosing on people they didn't
have the legal right to foreclose
on, then those people have the
right to get their houses back. And
the people who bought those
foreclosed houses from the bank
might not actually own the houses
they paid for.
"And it won't matter if a particular
case...or even most cases...were
on the up -and up: It won't matter
if most of the foreclosures and
evictions were truly due to the
homeowner failing to pay his
mortgage. The fraud committed
by the foreclosure mills casts
enough doubt that, now, all
foreclosures come into question.
Not only that, all mortgages come
into question.
"People still haven't figured out
what all this means. But I'll tell
you: if enough mortgage-paying
homeowners realize that they may
be able to get out of their
mortgage loans and keep their
houses, scott-free? That's
basically a license to halt
payments right now, thank you.
That's basically a license to tell
the banks to take a hike.
"What are the banks going to
do...try to foreclose and then evict
you? Show me the paper, Mr.
Banker, will be all you need to
say.
"This is a major, major crisis. The
Lehman bankruptcy could be a
spring rain compared to this
hurricane. And if this isn't handled
right...and handled right quick, in
the next couple of weeks at the
outside...this crisis could also
spell the end of the mortgage
business altogether. Of banking
altogether. Hell, of civil society.
What do you think happens in a
country when the citizens realize
they don't need to pay their
debts?"
(I am not sure who wrote this, but
if you want your 15 minutes of
fame, I will be glad to credit you
next week. - John) Some
Foreclosure Takeaways
Let me add a few thoughts. First,
I agree, this is very serious. It has
the possibility of seriously hurting
the housing market, which as we
saw in the first section is already
on the ropes. But at the end of the
day, there is a cure.
Someone borrowed money for a
mortgage. Some entity is cashing
a check if that person is paying.
That entity should have the title
until it is paid off. If someone is
not making their mortgage
payments, they should be
removed from the house and it
should be sold to the benefit of
the ultimately correct and what
everyone thought was the proper
title holder.
If you took out a mortgage and
now the title is in some doubt
because the investment banks and
mortgage banks and all the middle
guys screwed up (big-time!)
because they wanted to save some
bucks and make some
commissions, you did not win the
lottery. That is not America as I
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know it. You can't pay the
mortgage, I am sorry. But you do
not get to keep the house. The
people who (thought) they bought
the mortgage in a fair deal need to
end up with that mortgage.
If you pay your mortgage, you
get to have the American Dream.
We CANNOT allow this debacle
to continue. It will bring the
system down. Who will want to
buy a mortgage that is in a
securitized package with no clear
title? Who will get title insurance?
Some judge somewhere is going
to make a ruling that is going to
petrify every title company, and
the whole thing grinds to a halt.
Let's be very clear. If we cannot
securitize mortgages, there is no
mortgage market. We cannot go
back to where lenders warehoused
the notes. It would take a decade
to build that infrastructure. In the
meantime, housing prices are
devastated. Whatever wealth
effect remains from housing gets
worse, and the economy rolls
over.
This is beyond my pay grade, but
there have to be some adults who
can make everyone play nice in
the sandbox. Ideally, someone in
authority at the Treasury, with
bipartisan support steps in and
says everyone follow these rules,
whatever these rules need to be.
I had a very spirited conversation
with good friend Barry Ritholtz
today (of The Big Picture). Barry
runs money but is also a lawyer
and has a somewhat different
perspective. He thinks we do not
need any legislation and there is a
legal cure. He says that real
trained people (lawyers and
paralegals) need to look at each
mortgage and figure it out, and
that it can get resolved. It is
expensive to the banks; but I
agree, if it is just dollars I don't
care. Fix it.
But that is a maybe. Other people
I talk to disagree. Some think we
need some regulatory fixes. Some
think we will need a legislative
cure. But if we need to, there need
be no finger pointing, no partisan
BS. This needs to get solved.
Someone took out a mortgage.
Some entity thinks they are owed
money. Fix the damn paper trail
so that happens, whether in a legal
if time-consuming manner, in a
regulatory fix, or with legislation.
Now, that is not to say the people
who did this stuff did not commit
felonies and such. We can sort
that out over time. The longer we
wait the worse it will get. Fix the
problem and then go round up the
bad guys. There are bigger issues
in play here. (I know this will be
somewhat controversial. Oh well.)
I get the fraud being done here. I
am regulated by FINRA, the
NFA, various states, the British
FSA, and ultimately the SEC. If I
did something in my business like
the stuff described above,
someone would come in and
justifiably shut me down, fine me,
and ban me from the securities
business. Oh, wait. These guys
ARE regulated by the above
groups.
Finally on this topic, I shake my
head when I think that the FDIC
is now running several of the
banks (think IndyMac) that are
part of this foreclosure crisis.
These are the guys who are
supposed to be preventing
something like this. Again, where
are the adults? The Subprime
Debacle: Act 2
OK, this letter is already getting
too long. I am going to finish it
next week, as the next topic needs
a lengthy treatment. But I will not
leave you hanging. A quick
preview.
All those subprime and Alt-A
mortgages written in the middle
of the last decade? They were
packaged and sold in securities.
They have had huge losses. But
those securities had
representations and warranties
about what was in them. And
guess what, the investment banks
may have stretched credibility
about those warranties. There is
the real probability that the
investment banks that sold them
are going to have to buy them
back. We are talking the potential
for multiple hundreds of billions
of dollars in losses that will have
to be eaten by the large
investment banks. We will get
into details, but it could create the
potential for some banks to have
real problems.
And all this coming as European
banks are going to have to sort out
their own sovereign debt
problems. Shades of 2008. I hope
I am wrong, but it's all connected.
Yankees, Rangers, and The
Endgame
I travel on Monday to New York,
where good friend Barry Habib is
going to take me to the Yankees-
Rangers game. I will be the guy
on the second row behind home
plate, behind the mayor, wearing
the Rangers jacket. Barry assures
me I will be safe. Cliff Lee
pitching. Can the Rangers hold up
to the pressure against the best
there is? Stay tuned.
My book, The End Game, is
coming along. It is out for
comments from friends, and then I
will sit down with my co-author
in London for four days and we
will finish this the first week of
November, and then Wiley will
push as fast as they can to get it
out.
This has been a very tumultuous
week for a host of reasons. It's all
good, but exhausting. I am more
than ready to hit the send button. I
just turned on the TV to watch the
last few innings. The Rangers
have gone from up 5 to zip to
losing 6-5. Can we say
disheartening?
Your really wanting to see a
World Series analyst,
John Mauldin
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Rap for US troop leadership in Afghan

killings case (AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) larger problems in the 30-man Morlock is one of five soldiers
Submitted at 10/16/2010 10:30:59 AMunit. charged with murder in the case;
The platoon was separated from seven others are accused of trying
WASHINGTON (AFP) – As the its company and attached to a to block the investigation. They
US military moved to court cavalry unit that ignored it, also face charges of using hashish
martial the first of five soldiers weakening oversight. and severely beating a comrade
accused of murdering Afghan "They were kind of the red- who blew the whistle.
civilians for sport, questions arose headed stepchild of the cavalry The charge sheets include
Saturday about the leadership of because they weren't their guys macabre allegations of
men's rogue unit. and they were kind of left by dismembering corpses, though
The New York Times, citing t h e m s e l v e s , " C h r i s t o p h e r authorities have not specified if
unpublished documents in the Winfield, the father of Adam the bones they say some men took
case and interviews, reported that Winfield, was quoted as saying. were from the bodies of slain
the unit was plagued by rampant So far, no leaders of the platoon civilians.
drug use and was under limited or of its parent organization, the The soldiers were deployed with
supervision from commanders as Fifth Stryker Combat Brigade, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion,
Foursquare Signs Up it operated in Kandahar in have been charged or disciplined
southern Afghanistan. in the case.
1st Infantry Regiment, from the
2nd Infantry Division's Stryker

Four Millionth User "I just don't understand how this On Friday, the military said
went so far," the Times quoted the Specialist Jeremy Morlock, one of
father of one of the platoon the accused soldiers, would face a
brigade, at Forward Operating
Base Ramrod.
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• G o o g l e N e e d s T o B u y Specialist Adam Winfield, as preliminary hearings last month. from the case, which threatens to
Foursquare signed up its 4 Foursquare Now, Before It's Too saying. "I?ve been in management "The case will now come under undermine efforts by the
millionth user this morning, a Late for 20 years; you know what your the control of a military judge American military to secure the
little more than a month and a half • Here's What Foursquare Mayor people are doing." who will arraign the accused," confidence of wary Afghans.
after crossing the 3 million mark. Battles Have Been Missing: Party Private First Class Justin Stoner said a statement issued by the Pentagon press secretary Geoff
A testament to Foursquare's Politics! s a i d m a r i j u a n a u s e w a s Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Morrell said that the charges
reach: user number 4 million is • C H A R T O F T H E D A Y : commonplace in the platoon even Seattle. represented "an aberration" for an
'Wijono S.' of Jakarta, Indonesia. Foursquare's Weekly Checkins before it deployed to Afghanistan No date has yet been set for the American force of nearly 100,000
The milestone was first spotted Are 5X As Big As Facebook's from Joint Base Lewis-McChord court martial trial, it said, adding in Afghanistan.
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Hard-hit British heartland braces for cuts (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) she brought us to our knees," said wish there was an easier way. But Britain's neighbor Ireland — no notices to 8,500 city hall staff
Submitted at 10/16/2010 11:55:13 AM retiree Doreen Treweek, 70. "We I tell you: There is no other longer the Celtic Tiger — has warning they may face reductions
really struggled. And now I'm responsible way," Cameron told made savage cuts in response to in benefits or hours — or be laid
S H E F F I E L D , E n g l a n d – really proud, because it's risen his Conservative Party conference its debt crisis, including tax hikes off.
Sheffield knows all about cuts — from the ashes." earlier this month. and deep cuts in public sector Meanwhile private businesses —
and no one knows better than With grit and determination and As many as 600,000 public sector salaries. including a reduced but still
Philip Wright. dollops of public investment, jobs expected to be eliminated, on In France, plans to raise the significant steel sector — face
A scissors manufacturer, he Sheffield has remade itself, top of hundreds of thousands of retirement age from 60 to 62 have shrinking government support at a
remembers this city at the height forging a postindustrial economy private sector positions already sparked mass demonstrations and time when credit crunch-squeezed
of its steel-making glory, when f r o m a m i x o f h i g h - t e c h lost in the recession. The a series of strikes. Even prudent banks remain reluctant to lend.
Sheffield's furnaces and factories businesses, the service sector, government hopes that as the Germany plans to save euro80 The city celebrated when the
produced ships and tools and tourism and education. Now many economy grows, new private billion ($96 billion) by reducing previous Labour government
cutlery for the dinner tables of the in this city of 500,000 — as in sector jobs will fill the gap. handouts to parents, cutting promised an 80 million pound
world. other cities across Britain — are But some economists say sudden 15,000 government jobs and loan to Sheffield Forgemasters to
The huge steelworks are mostly worried that the spending cuts cuts could tip Britain's fragile delaying major construction make parts for nuclear power
gone now, like so much British could derail that recovery. economy back into recession. The projects. plants — a blend of traditional
industry over the past few Recession-battered Britain faces OECD, an international club of Anger and worry are simmering steelmaking and high-tech
d e c a d e s , t h e v i c t i m o f shrinking tax revenue and a developed economies, has warned in Sheffield, 170 miles (275 engineering that would have
i n t e r n a t i o n a l c o m p e t i t i o n , growing welfare bill, and has against rapid cuts, and the U.S. kilometers) north of London, created 180 jobs. The new
c h a n g i n g t e c h n o l o g y a n d spent billions bailing out indebted government wants other countries where civic regeneration is a Conservative-led government has
governments with other priorities. banks. to continue stimulus programs source of local pride. canceled the loan.
"The city at night used to be On Wednesday, Treasury chief aimed at encouraging spending. Downtown Sheffield has been Small businesses like Wright's
alight," said Wright, whose tiny George Osborne will announce Christopher Pissarides, joint transformed in the last decade. scissors factory are clinging on,
factory is a link to Sheffield's past details of more than 80 billion winner of this year's Nobel Prize The once-grimy area around the and hoping. Founded in 1902,
— and, he hopes, a part of its pounds ($128 billion) in cuts he in economics, said the cuts are grand Victorian town hall is busy Ernest Wright and Son had 65
future. says are necessary to rein in "too much too quickly." with shoppers and dotted with employees by the 1970s. Now it
That dream is under threat from Britain's 156-billion-pound deficit "If you do it suddenly, lots of pleasant new squares and public has six, and is one of the last
deep government spending cuts to and reduce its huge debt. workers might lose their jobs and spaces. industrial businesses left in an
be unveiled Wednesday that many Prime Minister David Cameron's then you have a problem of But the impact of the recession is area of brick warehouses and
fear will once again crush cities in center-right coalition government placing all of them in new jobs," visible. Several streets of shops factories being remade into trendy
England's traditional industrial took office in May and has said Pissarides, who teaches at the were emptied to make way for a city apartments.
belt, a generation after they were already announced a raft of London School of Economics. "If new retail development that is "I knew there was going to be a
laid low by former Prime Minister painful measures, including you do it gradually ... people may now in limbo. The empty recession, but I didn't know it was
Margaret Thatcher's severe brand welfare cuts, a hike in the goods have found new jobs by the time storefronts have been filled with going to be as bad as it was," said
of capitalism. and services tax and a rise in the others lose theirs." work by local artists and Wright's son Nick, who plans to
Sheffield lost 70,000 jobs retirement age. Governments across Europe are designers to make the area look take over the business when his
b e t w e e n 1 9 7 9 a n d 1 9 8 7 , In the next stage of cuts, facing similar dilemmas. They less bleak. father retires next year. "Our order
according to the local government government ministries will have don't want to end up like Greece, Worse may be coming. A third of book just plummeted.
— a quarter of the city's total. The their budgets reduced by up to 25 which had to be saved from the Sheffield's workers are employed "We've struggled like there's no
decline in steel-making was percent over four years — far brink of bankruptcy earlier this in government, education and tomorrow and we're that close,
compounded by the closure of m o r e t h a n a n y B r i t i s h year by massive rescue loans. The health care, and many private still, to going to the wall."
nearby coal mines in the wake of administration since World War II severe austerity measures that companies rely on public-sector But he is determined to carry on
Thatcher's war with the unions. has attempted, even Thatcher's. followed have sparked violent contracts.
"When Maggie Thatcher was in "I wish there was another way. I protests. The local council has already sent HARD-HIT page 10
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Alexander Estrada, compliance were trying to make a big deal of dirt. into your blood."
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startling — two open pits filled Embalmers, said a regulatory business that owns six southern investigating the cremation Benjamin Timmins in London
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Iraqi PM seeks neighbors' support to stay in power
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BAGHDAD – Iraq's prime
minister will travel to Iran and
Jordan to seek support for his bid
to win a second term more than
seven months after national
elections, an adviser said on
Saturday.
Nouri al-Maliki is struggling to
remain in power since his Shiite
alliance narrowly lost the March 7
vote to a Sunni-backed bloc led
by rival Ayad Allawi. Sunni Arab
states like Jordan have supported
Allawi because of his ties to Iraq's
Sunni minority and out of fear
that al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated
government was too friendly with
Iran.
Al-Maliki adviser Ali al-
Moussawi said Saturday that the
prime minister will tell Amman
and Tehran that none of Iraq's
major political constituencies will
be excluded from a new
government if they back his
second term.
"The aim of the visit is to assure
(them) that all political groups
will be included in the new
government," al-Moussawi told
The Associated Press in a phone
interview. "The prime minister
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will give assurances that no
political party or list will be
marginalized."
Al-Maliki is slated to meet
Jordan's King Abdullah II on
Sunday. He's then scheduled to
travel to Tehran for meetings with
Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Monday.
Arab states have been deeply
concerned about the influence of
Iran, a Shiite power, in Iraq and
across the wider Middle East.
King Abdullah II has been a
particularly vocal critic of the
Shiite-led government in
Baghdad, and in 2004 even
warned about the emergence of a
"Shiite crescent" including Iran,
Iraq, and Lebanon.
Iraq's Sunnis have felt politically
marginalized since the 2003 U.S.-
led invasion toppled Saddam
Hussein. The Sunnis then
boycotted the first round of
elections in 2005, which further
sidelined them politically.
This year, they backed Allawi, a
former prime minister and a
secular Shiite, in hopes of
regaining political strength and
credibility.
With strong Sunni support,
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Allawi's secular Iraqiya alliance
edged out al-Maliki's State of Law
Shiite-dominated bloc. However,
neither group won enough seats to
control parliament outright,
touching off a scramble to rally
support from other political
parties that has dragged on for
more than seven months.
Al-Maliki got a boost last month
by forging an alliance with anti-
American and Iran-based Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. That all
but sealed his hold on the job and
set al-Maliki on a tour of Arab
capitals to present himself as
Iraq's undisputed leader despite
falling short of winning March
elections.
There were no immediate plans
for al-Maliki to meet with al-Sadr
while in Tehran, al-Moussawi
said.
Al-Maliki also plans to visit
Turkey and Egypt next week.
Earlier this week, al-Maliki met
with Syrian president Bashar al-
Assad in Damascus in an effort to
normalize long strained relations
between the two neighboring
states.
Iraqi and U.S. officials have long
worried that the government
impasse would embolden
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who have struggled to protect the
country.
On Saturday, Defense Ministry
spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohammed
al-Askari said authorities have
arrested eight al-Qaida-linked
insurgents accused of plotting two
brazen attacks in Baghad this
summer.
Al-Askari accused the suspects of
being members of the Iraqi
Islamic Army, a wing of al-Qaida
in Iraq, and said that they have
confessed to involvement in a
strike on a security checkpoint in
Baghdad in July, and an attack
against Iraqi army headquarters
two months later that killed 12.
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Netflix on PS3 ready to
download on some
consoles, service starts
Oct. 18th
Sean Hollister (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:41:00 PM
You can't really use it for
anything for two more days, as
Netflix will tell you "this product
is not currently available in your
location," but if you turn on your
PlayStation 3, you might notice
the disc-less, 1080p and 5.1
surround sound version of the
instant movie streaming service is
already available to download.
The above install screen popped
up on our console without even
requiring a trip to the PlayStation
Store, which suggests that 1.)
Sony has decided that this is a big
deal and 2.) should an evil force
ever wrest control from the
Japanese manufacturer, they'd
have some pretty rad propaganda
pushing power.
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Bill Clinton stumps for ex-foe Brown in California

(Reuters: Top News) "I am so grateful to Jerry Brown," be clear about that." worked outside of government in
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:23:44 AM Clinton, standing before the flags Brown later said he had called a job like most of us have. It’s
of California and the United Clinton's office to apologize for amazing for him or any “lifer” in
Former President Bill Clinton States, told a crowd of about 500 the jab, and the former president government can presume to even
speaks in support of California people at an outdoor campus rally. endorsed him in the governor's know how hard it is in the real
D e m o c r a t i c g u b e r n a t o r i a l "You know, we're not very far race a few days later. world.
candidate Jerry Brown (L) and apart in age and we've both been The event was billed as a rally for Oct 16, 2010 6:08pm EDT HTC 7 Pro and 7
D e m o c r a t i c c a n d i d a t e f o r doing this a long time, and he still Brown and fellow Democrat Hey there Billy C. — you really Surround strut their stuff
Lieutenant Governor Gavin cares about your future." Gavin Newsom, running for are the moral torchbearer for the
Newsom at a rally at University of For his part, Brown heaped praise California lieutenant governor. Democratic party! Just don’t get in official sizzle videos
California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Clinton's presidency despite But Clinton was the star of the any on Jerry’s dress. Sean Hollister (Engadget)
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Cablevision customers lose Fox channels in fee

dispute
(Reuters: Top News) Schueler said in a statement. -up to the Oscars telecast in television altogether. In the days
Submitted at 10/16/2010 12:31:26 PM Cablevision has said it currently March. of analog transmissions this was
pays News Corp $70 million (Reporting by Yinka Adegoke) the case, T.V. was FREE, but then
NEW YORK| Sat Oct 16, 2010 every year for its channels, but the Oct 16, 2010 2:28pm EDT in the late 1960’s a gentleman
1:31pm EDT Rupert Murdoch-run company is Rupert is digging Fox’s own named Mr. Ted Turner came
N E W Y O R K ( R e u t e r s ) - demanding more than $150 grave. along, and he figured out another
C a b l e v i s i o n S y s t e m s C o r p million a year. Oct 16, 2010 2:56pm EDT angle on how to make a buck off
customers in the New York area Fox Networks said Cablevision Fox News should also be pulled. television, and we have been
could miss Major League was seeking "preferential Oct 16, 2010 3:24pm EDT paying dearly ever since! All in
Baseball playoff games and NFL t r e a t m e n t " i n n e g o t i a t i o n s . …along with MSNBC and CNN the name of better quality T.V ReadWriteWeb
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Cinderblock-Wrapped
Chile's rescued miners tight-lipped about ordeal Warehouses - Archi
Union Architects
(Reuters: Top News) "That's reserved," was the answer "Writing the book was what saved things get out."
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:40:22 PM to the same question from Ariel my life in the mine." Reporters will have another try at Revamps Old Buildings
Ticona, 29, as he left the hospital Parts of the notebook have been extracting information from the into an Art Studio
Rescued Chilean miner Florencio where the miners were cared for taped closed to ensure secrecy, for men on Sunday, when many of
Avalos (C) attends a welcome after their stunning Wednesday now. Segovia said he was so them plan to return to the mine for
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Merkel says German multiculturalism has failed

(Reuters: Top News) the meeting in Potsdam, south of part of their landscape. week there was no room in
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:30:50 PM Berlin. She said on Saturday that the Germany for more people from
Merkel faces pressure from education of unemployed "alien cultures."
German Chancellor and head of within her CDU to take a tougher Germans should take priority over (Writing by Sarah Marsh; editing Reminder: The Market
the Christian Democratic Union line on immigrants who don't recruiting workers from abroad, by Noah Barkin)
(CDU) party Angela Merkel show a willingness to adapt to while noting Germany could not *We welcome comments that Has Seen Trouble For The
speaks at the congress of the G e r m a n s o c i e t y a n d h e r get by without skilled foreign advance the story directly or with Banks For A Long Time
youth wing of the CDU, Junge comments appeared intended to workers. relevant tangential information. Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Union, in Potsdam, October 16, pacify her critics. In a weekend newspaper We try to block comments that
Submitted at 10/16/2010 7:28:21 AM
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Muslims. tough on integration but also the CDU's sister party, has
"This (multicultural) approach has telling Germans that they must rejected any relaxation of
failed, utterly failed," Merkel told accept that mosques have become immigration laws and said last

Citi: Rebounding Sentiment Forecasts Even Further Gains For Stocks

Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 8:18:56 AM
Market sentiment has finally
back to normal according to Citi's
Panic/Euphoria model. The firm
notes that sentiment is now 'barely
in panic territory' in its latest What's interesting is how well sentiment during Q2 of this year
PULSE Monitor report. this model worked during the will end up having been a good
Citi: recent crisis, whereby forward buying opportunity as well.
This week’s Panic/Euphoria returns (shown in gray above) (Via Citi, PULSE Monitor, 15
reading was -0.21; versus last ended up being high when October 2010)
week’s revised number of -0.23, sentiment collapsed in early 2009 Join the conversation about this
generating a high probability of a months. (shown in blue above). It's also story »
rally over the next six-to-12 starting to look like the drop in
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Y Combinator Startup School Kicks Off With Founders Of Sun,

Groupon, And YC
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:26:18 PM

Today Y Combinator is holding

its sixth Startup School, where a
roster of Silicon Valley’s most
experienced and successful
founders and investors come
together to lecture hundreds of
eager entrepreneurs. The event is
always extremely popular, and
today is no exception — the
lecture hall on Stanford’s campus
is packed to the brim.
Today’s event will feature eleven
talks, including lectures from the
likes of Paul Graham, Mark
Zuckerberg, and Ron Conway.
The first session — which
featured Andy Bechtolsheim, Paul
Graham, and Andrew Mason —
just ended. You can find my notes
from each talk below, and we’ll
be posting more later today on
each cluster of speakers. You can
also watch a live stream of the
event right here.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Sun founder Andy
Bechtolsheim’s talk revolved
around innovation. He kicked off innovation: first, the time from web companies? Bechtolsheim YC founder Paul Graham’s talk Unlike traditional angel investors,
with a brief history of the innovation to adoption can be says that it’s primarily because focused on one of the all- Super Angels are investing other
incredible changes we’ve seen in remarkably short (see Google’s starting one is so cheap, relatively important problems facing people’s money, which makes
the computer industry in a brief rapid adoption, for example). And speaking. You no longer need to budding startups: raising money. them similar to the VC camp. But,
period of time, with the number of the key to success isn’t to be first have your own infrastructure And he had good news, at least as unlike VCs which have
transistors on a chip increasing a (after all, there were many search — with AWS, you can get up and far as entrepreneurs are historically invested large sums of
million fold since 1970 and engines available before Google running for cheap. It’s also concerned. money (usually $1M+), Super
networking technology seeing came out). Instead, it’s important cheaper than ever to raise There’s an increasing tension Angels are happy to make many,
similarly impressive gains. to be the first to solve the right awareness due to the proliferation between so-called Super Angels much smaller investments.
Bechtolsheim says that there are problem. of blogs, Twitter, etc. and Venture Capitalists (which
a few key lessons from what’s So why is there so much focus on Paul Graham manifested itself in AngelGate). COMBINATOR page 23
gone on in terms of web
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Ron Conway Shares Anecdotes about Early Days with Google,

Napster, and Facebook Founders
Audrey Watters and have some level of on it." you going to measure success
(ReadWriteWeb) profitability if you were going to Conway talked about the with this thing called 'social
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:45:10 PM get VC funding. attention that Larry and Sergei networking'?" Conway asked
Although going public with Altos paid to learning how to become Zuckerberg in an early
"It's not lost on me that the future was a huge win for Conway, he good CEOs. And he said that the interaction. "Because some day I
of innovation is in the minds of argued that he defines success by important things to the founders am going to have 300 million
the people sitting in this room," having what was, at the time, the of Google was providing a good users using this product," was
said angel investor Ron Conway, fastest growing company in service, making users happy, and Zuckerberg's response.
addressing a crowd full of America. "And that was more building a good brand name. And Something that demonstrates the
said Conway, Fanning showed up
entrepreneurs at Startup School satisfying than getting rich." then monetize. founders humility, says Conway.
in a suit he'd borrowed, as he'd
today. One of the 11 speakers at And the message Conway Conway also related an anecdote The Origin and the Definition of
never worn one before.
today's event, co-sponsored by Y repeated to the crowd at Stanford when Sheryl Stanberg approached "Founder Friendly"
But as Conway noted, Fanning
C o m b i n a t o r a n d S t a n f o r d today: "You can do it too." Conway as Google thought it was "Once an entrepreneur, always an
was smart enough to know that
University's BASES. Napster's Shawn Fanning: running out of money. Ten days entrepreneur," said Conway. You
once Napster found itself in the
Known as the premier angel Superstardom and Borrowed Suits later, Conway joked, Google don't need to have a business plan
courts that things were probably
investor, Conway admitted that he Conway told of a party at his changed its mind as "AdWords or an MBA. All you need, says
all over. And Fanning was
had fretted about what the content house in 1999, at the top of the started working." What The Conway, is a great idea.
perceptive enough, despite his
for today's lecture should be, but Internet bubble. With 40 million Social Network Gets Wrong about Anything is possible and you can
young age, to be ready to move on
with some urging from YC's Paul users at the time, Napster founder Zuckerberg accomplish it.
to his next idea and his next
Graham, Conway opted to simply Shawn Fanning had a large crowd "Zuck," says Conway, "meets the Demonstrating how he has been
company. Building a Good
tell a few stories of how he had around him the whole time at the definition of 'anyone can do it if known as not just an early
Service, Building a Good Brand
met a number of today's strongest party. "I'm going to go talk to the they think big.'" Railing against investor but a strong ally and
Name, then Monetizing: Early
tech companies: Napster, Google, two wallflowers over there, Larry the depiction of the early days of advocate for startups but also
Google
Facebook, and Twitter. and Sergey," said Conway, who Facebook as chronicled in The alluding to some of the recent
When Google was looking for its
Sponsor told the investor that "We're going Social Network, Conway insists "Angelgate" controversies,
first VC round, the founders told
Conway started his tales with the to build a big company too, but that Zuckerberg was not partying Conway ended by saying
Conway that if he could help the
background of his co-founding of we will never be famous like all the time. Nor was he sitting in "entrepreneurs build companies
company secure investment from
Altos Computers in 1979, noting Shawn." depositions five days a week, and should be the one who are the
Sequoia that they'd let him invest
that in its day it was a very Conway pointed out that Fanning arguing with lawyers. Rather, "he focus of the stories" the press
as well. Criticizing some of the
disruptive technology. "It was a managed to cultivate a strong was working his tail off like any writes - not investors.
recent protestations about
typical startup," said Conway, but brand name with Napster, and good entrepreneur." "Never forget it's your company,"
valuations of startups, Conway
he described an investment while Napster didn't survive, Conway argued that Zuckerberg said Conway. "It's the founder's
noted that the valuation of that
environment that was much Fanning used that brand name to has had a consistent vision about company." Discuss
round was $75 million - "and
different from today's. Then, you build future companies. When what Facebook is, something that
every one of us felt lucky to get in
had to bootstrap your company Napster lost its first court ruling, isn't evident in the film. "How are
Out of the Margins
Drew Gilpin Faust (The New Confederate Reckoning: Power (Harvard University Press, 449
Republic - All Feed) and Politics in the Civil War pp., $35)
Submitted at 10/15/2010 11:00:00 PM South
By Stephanie McCurry
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‘Shock Value’ isn’t worth it in the gaming industry

Don Reisinger (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 10:00:41 AM

EA’s Medal of Honor went on

sale this week amid the kind of
controversy that’s usually only
reserved for Grand Theft Auto
games. Although the game is a
standard first-person shooter
featuring a campaign and
multiplayer, it caught heat not
from anti-violence groups, but
from the military. The game’s
multiplayer mode allowed gamers
to play as Taliban fighters who
could kill Allied soldiers in-game.
After getting leveled with
complaints from the U.K.
government, veterans, and other
groups, Electronic Arts finally
decided to remove “Taliban” from
the game, and call the group an
“Opposing Force.” It was a move
that, the company hoped, would
quell unrest.
It was a surprising move. For
months, EA had been saying that
it would support the inclusion of
the Taliban in the game. And it idea, critics said, that users could inclusion reminds me of the “Hot multiplayer modes. And we’ll do don’t hear a thing. Activision
wasn’t until a couple weeks play as virtual Taliban fighters Coffee” scandal with Grand Theft just fine without Hot Coffee-like simply sets out to build a solid
before the title’s launch that it and kill virtual Allied soldiers was Auto: San Andreas. It also didn’t scenes in games. title each year and releases it. No
finally made the decision to ditch wrong. And the outcry didn’t end need to be there. It was irrelevant Believe it or not, what we’re more, no less.
it. until EA finally relented. to the game or the quality of the looking for is actually quite I thought we would be over the
But it didn’t matter. EA’s But whether or not Medal of title. simple: a high-quality gaming “shocking” game content by now.
decision to wait so long to change Honor really should have included That’s the problem I have with experience without all the frills After all, developers hoping to
the name helped keep Medal of the Taliban in its game from the these games and others that try so that huge publishing houses think shock folks did so long ago with
Honor in headlines, as opposed to beginning is decidedly up for hard to push the envelope and be will sell more games. Leisure Suit Larry and countless
being ignored as it normally debate. It didn’t need to be different. Take, for example, the Call of other titles that missed the mark.
would without the controversial included in the title. And the We don’t need “shocking” Duty franchise. It’s arguably the The industry has come a long way
inclusion. game’s developers could have features to make a game great. most important gaming franchise since then. And gamers expect
But the Taliban inclusion did easily called the fighters an We need an outstanding storyline, in the business. And yet, more than an attempt to capitalize
little more than shock some who “Opposing Force” from the solid controls, and nice graphics controversy rarely surrounds it. on sheer shock.
couldn’t believe that a video game beginning. to make a game great. We can live Yes, the anti-violence groups
would offer such content. The ‘SHOCK page 26
The outcry over the Taliban without the Taliban in our don’t like it, but beyond them, we
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Hearts heart new mini measuring device
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:14:22 PM
The sensor's lid has been
removed to show the inner square
cell, which contains a gas of 100
billion rubidium atoms.(Credit: S.
Knappe/NIST)
Physicists at the National
Institute of Standards and
Technology, along with
researchers at the German
national metrology institute, say
they've successfully tracked a
human heartbeat with NIST's mini
atom-based magnetic sensor, a
development that might one day
lead to readings more precise than
currently possible using
electrocardiograms.
Roughly the size of a sugar cube,
the sensor--originally developed
in 2004 as a spinoff of NIST's
miniature atomic clocks--contains
an inner square cell with rubidium
atoms; red, black, and white
electrical wires that power the
cell's heaters; and a clear optical
fiber that connects to a control
box.
Typically used in highly
controlled physics labs, the sensor
was put to the test in a clinical
setting at the Physikalisch
Technische Bundesanstalt in
Berlin in a building described as
having the world's best magnetic
shielding to block the Earth's
magnetic field from interfering
with the high-precision
measurements. The researchers'
findings were published in
Applied Physics Letters. MCG
does not require contact with the
body, which eliminates the need
for attaching probes to the body's
surface.
--John Kitching, principal
investigator
Placed just 5 millimeters above
the left side of a person's chest, it
detected the regular magnetic
pattern of that person's heartbeat.
A superconducting quantum
interference device(SQUID) also
recorded these signals to
determine the sensor's accuracy,
and revealed not only the same
pulse but nearly identical signal
features. (SQUIDs, however, are
much larger and more complex,
are most accurate at minus 269
degrees Celsius, and as such
require more expensive
materials.)
To give a sense of the faintness
of signal, the sensor measured the
heart's magnetic signature in
picoteslas, which are trillionths of
a tesla, which is a unit that
describes the strength of the
magnetic field. The Earth's
magnetic field, measured as
millionths of a tesla, is a million
times stronger than a heartbeat,
and MRI machines are, at several
tesla, using fields several million
times stronger still.
But even if this sensor could be
u s e d i n a expect MCG to be used more
magnetocardiogram(MCG), it
would require powerful shielding
from the Earth's magnetic field to
take measurements of the
comparatively weak signals of the
human heart. I asked principal
investigator John Kitching why it
would ever be used in place of, or
even alongside, an
electrocardiogram(ECG), which
does not require a shielded room:
One advantage of MCG over
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ECG is that the magnetic signals
detected by the MCG are not
affected at all while propagating
from the source (the heart, say) to
outside the body because the body
is essentially transparent to
magnetic fields. Electrical signals
can be affected very strongly by
fluids in the body. Parts of a
mother's body surrounding a
fetus, for example, can prevent
the propagation of fetal heart
signals to the exterior of the
mother's body during certain
periods in gestation. So magnetic
signals are advantageous in that
way. In addition, MCG does not
require contact with the body,
which eliminates the need for
attaching probes to the body's
surface.
Kitching admits that it may be a
long way off before MCGs are
developed, and that at least for the
foreseeable future they will
require shielded rooms. But given
the signal advantages over ECGs,
and much lower operating costs
than SQUIDs, they may offer
practical medical application.
"With reduced system cost, we
widely," Kitching says. "And so
the possibility for reduced cost is
one important feature of the
technology we are developing."
Further testing of the NIST
sensor is already being planned at
the Berlin lab.
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Startup School: Reid Hoffman On The Burden Of Competition
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:24:41 PM
Oftentimes when you hear a
startup CEO speak about their
competitors, there’s a lot of talk
about “validation of the market”
and how there’s room for multiple
winners. That may be true in
some cases, but competition can
hamper you in ways you may not
immediately expect — and
winning involves more than just
building a superior product. That
was one of the takeaway
messages from LinkedIn founder
Reid Hoffman, who gave an
excellent talk at today’s Y
Combinator Startup School.
Hoffman says that when he’s
looking at startups, he often
encounters entrepreneurs who
think their product will be
immensely useful once it gains
traction. Unfortunately they
oftentimes fail to put enough
thinking into how they’re going to
get from zero users to that critical
mass that turns their product into
something that people actually
want to use. And that can be
lethal, because getting traction is
no given.
Hoffman touched on a point that
was raised earlier during today’s
event: it’s cheaper than ever to
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tap into cloud services like AWS
instead of having to build out your
own infrastructure with a
significant capital investment. But
that has the downside of meaning
that there are many hundreds and
thousands more sites being
created than there used to be,
which means there’s more noise
than ever.
Hoffman says that people go to
around seven sites, give our take
two, on a regular basis. In order
Catastrophe.
for your site to succeed you need
to break through the noise, and
maybe even displace one of these
mainstay sites. And therein lies
the big problem: you don’t really
have to worry about Google or
Microsoft doing exactly what
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about rising above a whole “zone”
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you’re not embarrassed by the
first product you launch, you’ve
waiting too long.
He recalled one relevant anecdote
to this theory: just before
LinkedIn was due to launch, his
team of engineers said that they
had to wait until they could
implement a “contact finder” that
would help users hone in on the
kind of people they wanted to
connect with. Hoffman asked his
team if it would be possible to
wait and implement this after the
launch. The answer was yes, so
Hoffman said to launch as
planned, and that they’d
they stumble across first. In other implement the Contact Finder as
words, even if your competition is soon as possible if it was clear
completely mediocre, they’re still that users wanted it. Seven years
making your progress that much later, LinkedIn has yet to launch
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Steve Jobs hosts Mark Zuckerberg for New MacBook Air

Ping pong? appears. Or does it?
(CNET News.com) through power. And it's very easy looking than you are. They surely (CNET News.com) processor seems not to be any
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:24:46 PM to imagine that an invitation to sniggered about what it's like to Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:20:09 PM different from that on the current
Casa Jobs is an invitation to cede have the media write every day MacBook Air.
Many will have wished they to the Apple CEO's will. about you. They must have held a There is a ritual before Apple What could this all mean? That
could have been a fly on the wall. I fancy, though, that they might long disquisition about what it's unveils something new. It's the next week will see less excitement
The trouble is, that wall would have enjoyed more exalted topics like to wear the same clothes to ritual of rumor, leakage, and than so many had hoped? Or that
have been so pristine any flies than merely the Ping thing. Here work every day. They must have misdirection. someone, somewhere, perhaps
would have been swatted before are two CEOs who, though discussed the relative merits of The rumors about Monday's even at Apple, is enjoying a
their ears got beyond a hello. allegedly of different sharing and keeping everything to Apple event suggest that the spirited giggle, having dampened
You see, the L.A. Times is temperaments, focus the whole of yourself. company is to reveal a new expectations before lifting them
reporting that a vastly important their thinking on the human And, surely, surely one of them MacBook Air, perhaps a smaller like a Hollywood scriptwriter in
dinner took place at the house of experience. From their very must have said: "How about those MacBook Air, one that would fit the dying minutes of a movie?
Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO different starting points, both San Francisco Giants?" into at least one of the pockets of You thought he wouldn't come
reportedly invited his Facebook believe in changing human They might have even compared a Gucci jacket. Well, perhaps. back, take her in his arms, tell her
counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg, to behavior, not merely enhancing it. the relative fun of driving a So now it is time for leakage. he loves her, and kiss her hard on
dinner and a stroll. Both are said to have visionary Mercedes and an Acura. Right on time, Engadget produces the mouth. But he does. Perhaps,
As the Times would have it, the tendencies. Zuckererg might even have tried a an image of what might, possibly, therefore, there will be Air kisses
subject of discussion during So how sad that they might have joke about ninja stars. Jobs might maybe, perhaps, could be the next week when Apple, with the
dinner was a back-and-forth about only talked about something as have parried with a privacy gag or innards of a new MacBook Air. slightest glimmer of a gleam in its
Ping, Apple's musically inclined relatively prosaic as Ping. two. How could he not? However, and please move away eyes, reveals something that
social network. Before its launch, Why can't one speculate that they Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg from sharp objects and people you wasn't rumored.
Apple spoke to Facebook about talked about a world of permanent had dinner and you think all they care about, this possibly, maybe You know, like a white MacBook
P i n g , b u t , i n J o b s ' w o r d s , 20 percent unemployment and did was talk about Ping? Wouldn't new MacBook Air appears still to Air that weighs less than fourteen
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their time doing something that film made about you and know
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PHP Power Button: VMware vCloud Getting To The Bottom

SDK Of The Crazy Yahoo-
Jay Cuthrell (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:15:00 PM
it's important to understand that
many of the resources mentioned
are going to be comments that
Groupon Rumors
Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
Developers have access to a make reference to websites with a
growing number of options for URL ending in .php or that Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:15:56 PM

spinning up virtual machines. contain references to index.php

With each new software release I’ve had an interesting few days
where RewriteRule was not
from virtualization titans such as trying to track down exactly what
enabled. Unfortunately, not all
VMware there are also developer is and isn’t going on with Yahoo
developer community portals
community efforts such as VI and Groupon. even consider an acquisition
have the sophistication of Google
Java API with a wide base of One source earlier this week said would require $3.5 billion or
(yet) when it comes to searching
contributors. Just as the that a $1.7 billion acquisition was more. Clearly, Yahoo would have
on blobs of text and mixed file
contributors expand so do the all but done, but Groupon’s a lot of trouble completing an
types for a generic term like
powering on a virtual machine in management team balked and acquisition of that size.
options for developers familiar "PHP".
just a few lines of code from one killed the deal. That’s certainly Also, we’ve checked with some
with other languages. In short, now is your chance to
of the documents on the VMware juicy and consistent with Yahoo’s of the other usual suspects who’d
Let's take a look at how VMware create meaningful and relevant
developer community portal: failure to acquire Yelp and likely be bidding against Yahoo in
is expanding options with a recent paths within the community
Resources and Recourses Foursquare. a Groupon acquisition. They’ve
beta that targets the PHP portal!
More resources are available Another source close to Yahoo not heard a thing.
developer community. Of course, there are other
within the VMware community said much the same thing, but We have confirmed that Groupon
Sponsor resources outside of the corporate
portal (free registration required). suggested the price was higher, and Yahoo are working on a large
Here Comes Beta portals to help you understand a
Once you are logged in you can north of $2 billion. distribution deal of some kind. A
The VMware vCloud SDK for specific product better. For
review documents such as the None of it adds up though. smaller deal is already in place,
PHP Beta is an example of example, if you are curious about
vCloud SDK for PHP introduction Groupon was valued at $1.35 but something much bigger is
expansion in available language what the object model for vCloud
and the programming guide will billion earlier this year. A sale in coming in the next few weeks.
support for the PHP developer API would look like in a picture,
get you started quickly. For now, the $2 billion range would mean Deals with eBay and Citysearch
community. The appending of head over to Steve Jin's blog for
those appear to be the only formal that Groupon sees a major are probably also being signed.
beta speaks to the path and desire the UML diagram.
resources RWH was able to find problem in their business model. But for now, no acquisition.
for inclusion longer term. If you are currently working with
for this post. Otherwise, they’d be in it for the Either because discussions never
Indeed, sometimes the popularity VMware or within a VMware
A quick search on "PHP" within long haul. happened (most likely) or because
within a developer community shop, do you expect to make use
the VMware community portal And in fact the information from Groupon management balked at
that includes paying customers of the vCloud SDK using PHP?
returns hundreds of discussions, these two separate sources is being part of Yahoo. CrunchBase
can have an impact on a company Are you a PHP developer that is
documents, and blog posts. probably incorrect. A source close Information Groupon Yahoo!
roadmap. Perhaps this post active in the VMware community
However, you'll need to be to Groupon tells me that there Information provided by
regarding PHP and VMware portal and if so does this latest
mindful of the quality of those haven’t been any serious CrunchBase
reflects how continued pursuit of beta excite you? What resources
search hits. acquisition discussions with
more options can benefit the PHP have you come across in your
While "hundreds" of hits might Yahoo at all, and for Groupon to
developer community. Hit the own searches?
seem like a lot or a little
Power Button PHPlease Let us know in the comments
depending on your point of view,
Here's a simple example for below! Discuss
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This gives entrepreneurs more
control — they can raise exactly
how much they want instead of
having to take a giant Series A
round. It’s also led to larger VCs
making small (~$100K)
investments to compete more
directly with the Super Angels.
This has another consequence:
because VCs are mostly price-
insensitive at this point (they view
these seed investments as options
to invest larger sums down the
road), they don’t mind if the
startup valuation grows higher
than it would have. Which is great
for the entrepreneur, but is bad for
Super Angels who do care about
the startup’s valuation. This,
Graham says, could lead to what
looks like another bubble with
skyrocketing valuations, but
hopefully without the pop at the
end.
In the long term, this probably
isn’t sustainable — Graham says
that VCs and Super Angels will
increasingly become one and the
same, as the top VCs who add
value are weeded out from the
rest. But he thinks that process
will take time, since the VC
industry moves at a “glacially
slow” pace. Until then, we’ll keep
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We've shown you how to bring
the OS X GUI to Windows, but if
seeing those sky-high valuations
for companies that appeal to both
VCs (who think the company has
a chance to IPO) and Super
Angels (who think the company
has a chance at an early, lucrative
exit).
For more on this topic, see our
post on The $4 Million Line.
Graham will also be publishing an
essay covering his talk, which
we’ll post a link to as soon as it
goes live.
Andrew Mason
Groupon founder Andrew Mason
decided to take a different
approach with his talk: he gave an
old pitch for his original startup
The Point, which eventually
evolved into the wildly successful
Groupon. The Point was a
collective action platform that
would let users take action
together — for example, to raise
money to build a dome around
Chicago to block out the city’s
frigid winter weather (yes, this
was an actual initiative on the
site).
But Mason’s (old) pitch wasn’t a
good one, and The Point never
really gained traction. So what
went wrong? Mason pointed out
some of the original company’s
you're more of a Linux fan,
Macbuntu will add an OS X
main flaws: it was about a vision
more than making a tool that was
actually useful. Mason was
thinking of what the Point could
become five, ten years down the
road, without figuring out how to
get people to actually use it.
Another problem: you need to
recognize and embrace your
constraints, and figure out what’s
practical. You also need to realize
that you’ll probably fail. Many
people who are thinking of
launching startups are very smart
— they’ve succeeded in the past
and the notion of failure isn’t
really conceivable to them
(Mason fell into this camp when
he was working on The Point).
Now, at Groupon, he constantly
reminds himself of ways he could
fail — the company has a bunch
of magazine covers hanging on
the wall near the entrance
featuring companies that have
gone downhill after massive
success, like MySpace and AOL.
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News Corp pulls their Hulu content
from Cablevision customers,
escalating carriage dispute (update)
Ben Drawbaugh (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:21:00 PM
If you were thinking that you'd
just watch your favorite Fox
shows on Hulu until Cablevision
and News Corp worked out their
differences, then think again. Not
only can you not watch Fox on
Cablevision's cable service at the
moment, but if you get your
internet from said company, you
can't watch Fox content on Hulu
either. This isn't too terribly
surprising considering the
networks see Hulu as a
supplemental service to their
traditional avenues, but that
doesn't make cord cutters who
don't even subscribe to cable feel
any better. The good news is that
these disputes don't tend to last
long -- they usually never amount
to an interruption in service -- so
you shouldn't miss too many of
23
your favorite shows before
Cablevision gives in and pays Fox
$1 per subscriber (vs $0) like the
other providers have.
Update: Hulu PR told All Things
D that it "remained neutral" by
blocking only Fox content on
Hulu, so it's not like the entire
service was pulled. Either way,
things may be resolved quite
soon, as the publication reports
that both Fox.com and Fox
programming on Hulu have been
switched back on.
News Corp pulls their Hulu
content from Cablevision
customers, escalating carriage
dispute (update) originally
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Instagram Has Made Me an iPhone
Photo Addict
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:30:36 PM
I have a new favorite iPhone app.
And I'm not alone. After only a
week in the iPhone App Store, the
photo-sharing app Instagram has
won not just the adoration of
many in the tech media, but has
netted well over 100,000 users.
And according to co-founder
Kevin Systrom, Instagram is now
counting new user sign-ups by the
minute and counting photo
uploads by the second.
Instagram is a free app, a simple
photo-sharing tool that allows you
to snap pictures and easily post
them to your Twitter, Facebook,
Tumblr, and Flickr accounts. You
can follow others via Instagram's
social network, allowing you to
view and comment on others'
photos. Instagram also includes
11 filters for your photos, turning
the photos taken by the camera
phone - photos that even under the
steadiest of hands and keenest of
eyes tend to be rather mediocre -
from the mundane to the
spectacular.
Sponsor
The improvements to the camera
on the iPhone 4 have spurred a lot
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Microscopic Photos of
to the app has put some strain on
the servers. And, he noted, during
the brief times when the service
2010 (photos)
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has dropped and people have been
unable to share, new registrations Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:39:14 PM In this slide show, we take a look
have gone done. Clearly, part of at the top 25 images from Nikon's
As a convergence of art and 2010 International Small World
what's attractive to users is that
science in the natural world, few Competition.
they can take photos, adjust them
things can summon a sense of Jonas King, from the Vanderbilt
with the filters, and share them
wonderment like Nikon's Small U n i v e r s i t y D e p a r t m e n t o f
not just with other Instagram
W o r l d p h o t o m i c r o g r a p h y Biological Sciences, submitted
users but to other social
competition. this image of an Anopheles
networking sites - all within the
In one way, these images are g a m b i a e ( m o s q u i t o ) h e a r t
of new photography apps. So app, and all within a matter of technical documents--visual m a g n i f i e d 1 0 0 t i m e s .
Instagram has benefited from seconds.
accounts of research from the Photo by Jonas King
being, in the words of Systrom, in Instagram is a two-person team, hard sciences. Caption by
the "right place at the right time." Systrom and co-founder Mike
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All it takes is a (very) close look
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Instagram's filters seem to give and adoption of Instagram have
the most banal shots a new depth not just exceeded the team's initial
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shouldn't be discounted. well. Discuss
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New MacBook Air prototype leaks amid SSD Card and screen
size speculation
Chris Davies (SlashGear) storage into something more akin profile.
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:49:55 AM to a stick of RAM. However, We’ll be liveblogging the whole
they also claim that it’s “certain” Apple event next Wednesday,
Apple’s “ Back to the Mac” event that Apple has switched to a October 20, so join us at http://
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can’t seem to decide on what lines for a week already. • Prototype MacBook Pro hits
e x a c t f o r m t h e n e x t - g e n The two display sizes could be a eBay
u l t r a p o r t a b l e m i g h t t a k e . sign of two (or more) different • MacBook event rumor roundup;
Engadget‘s anonymous tipster SKUs within the MacBook Air live blogging to start soon
sent them a shot of what’s said to range, or it could simply indicate • Apple announces MacBook Air
be the guts of the new machine, that the company was testing with 128GB SSD option
with extra battery room, a 13.3- prototypes with older hardware. • Macbook Pro and MacBook
inch display (with unibody The source of the leaked images refreshed with Penryn
instant-on system with their new multitouch trackpad with
MacBook-style hinge) and no says this particular prototype • 2.4GHz Apple MacBook leaks,
SSD Card storage. integrated button; however the
space for a regular hard-drive or dates from around April 2010, and gets video unboxing
As for the final hardware, that’s display bezel is said to look just
SSD. The last part chimes with is running the Core 2 Duo SL9400
expected to be more like the rest like the current Air. Further
AppleInsider‘s sources, who CPU from the existing models.
of the MacBook range in sources say it has a more
reckon Apple is using an “SSD Apple might have been using
appearance, with a large noticeable wedge shape in side
Card” which packs solid-state those components to test out an

Swearch brings style to the iPhone web app

Josh Helfferich (TUAW) Swearch is lightning fast once you over at Swearch.me.
Submitted at 10/16/2010 12:00:00 PM add it to your homescreen (with a And one last thing: The clouds on
spiffy retina-ready icon, to boot!). the Twitter search page move!
I guess you could say that it Navigation is done through a card How freakin' neat is that? I'm
finally happened: Someone built a -like interface that allows you to giddy over it. The polish on this
web app for the iPhone so swipe through the selection of app is incredible.
b e a u t i f u l t h a t i t ' s n e a r l y search engines much like one Swearch brings style to the
indistinguishable from something would swipe through pictures in iPhone web app originally
natively run. That person is Steve the Photos app. Once you type in appeared on TUAW on Sat, 16 Life Browser adds
Streza, and that app is Swearch. your search, the results are Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please sideswiping,
Swearch does one thing, and it displayed inside the app and are see our terms for use of feeds.
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Building a better browser for iOS
devices is a bit of a Sisyphean
task. When you're pitching your
product against one of the most
successful mobile browsers of all
time -- in fact, when you and
everyone else trying to hike the
trail are simply staging your
product atop the underlying
WebKit engine shared with
Mobile Safari -- it's not easy. The
best approach may be to identify
the pain points Apple isn't
addressing in designing Safari for
80% of the users, and hit hard on
the convenience and features
demanded by the other 20% who
might be shopping for a new deal.
Looking at Life Browser, the
latest project from the team at It's
About Time, brings home the
concept of power features for the
rest of us. This snappy browser,
available in a $2.99 universal
Raptr releases free iPhone app
Mike Schramm (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:00:00 PM
Raptr is one of the gaming social
networks that seems to have some
staying power -- the idea is that
you can broadcast and track what
and when you're playing, and the
network will share all of that
information with your friends as it
happens. Raptr has just introduced
an iPhone app that allows you to
check in on all your friends and
build and an $0.99 iPhone-only
version, is evolving pretty quickly
as user feedback translates
directly into new features and bug
fixes. Life Browser first appeared
on the iPad back in June of this
year, at which time TUAW
provided a first look at the app.
The three big features that
recently joined the list for Life
Browser are sideswiping to
navigate from open page to page,
an 'Open Sites' popup at the
bottom of the screen to assist
navigation, and the seemingly-
omnipresent 'pull to refresh'
pioneered by Tweetie/Twitter on
the iPhone. Life Browser also
tweaks and improves the Queue
feature, which is handy for
preloading links off of a page
you're browsing (think Reddit or
Twitter, where you might want to
see several outgoing links without
their gaming habits from
anywhere, and even send
messages across to Xbox Live
with just one inbox.
The app is free on the App Store,
but if you're brand new to Raptr,
you'll want to head over to their
site and create an account first
(and probably pick up the desktop
client, too, although it's Windows-
only at the moment). If you're That said, a few recent App Store
already a Raptr user, then there's reviews say the app has a problem
no reason not to have this app.
jumping forward and back
repeatedly).
All in all, Life Browser provides
quite a bit of value for your app
dollar, and the rapid iteration of
features and fixes is good to see.
It's a shame that there isn't a way
to do a trial version of the app,
because it's hard to know if you're
really in the 20% of high-needs
users who will really take
advantage of the power it brings.
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Of course, that doesn’t mean that
EA or Medal of Honor’s
developers were trying to shock
gamers. But it shouldn’t have
been a distraction in the first
place.
I understand that developers
should be able to express
themselves. And I realize that
movies are pushing boundaries, as
well. But pushing boundaries
should not be the focus for either
medium. Inevitably, game
developers or filmmakers should
be worried first and foremost
about delivering a top-notch
entertainment experience.
If they’re not doing that because
of distractions elsewhere, it’s the
person consuming that content
see any issues, but be warned. I'm
sure the Raptr team is hard at
work on fixing any issues that
come up.
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be of the upcoming MacBook Air

that is likely to be announced at
Wednesdays " Back to the Mac"
event.
Features include a re-designed
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drive. Wait, what? In this
particular example, there doesn't
appear to be a hard drive. This
leaves us to speculate that there

Ice Cream is Android’s must be multiple models of the

Air and this particular SKU is
probably making use of some sort
dessert of choice after of flash-based storage device.
The MacBook Air hasn't received
a substantial hardware upgrade in
Honeycomb quite some time and the newer
Unibody MacBooks have many
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:41:53 AM
dessert will also be the next
significant update of the OS. For KIRFy iPad adapter adds features not found in the
MacBook Air. Whether this is the
their part, Google is declining to
Google apparently plans to name comment on iterations beyond
a future version of its Android Honeycomb, and it’s possible the
HDMI output, probably new MacBook Air or not, this
Wednesday cannot arrive quickly
enough.
OS“Ice Cream”, following on release could be a 3.x build rather
from the upcoming Gingerbread than 4.0.
release expected to debut before [ via Android Community]
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batteries, few hard drives
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It?
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:51:20 PM
If the Google robocars have
taught us anything it’s that no
industry is immune to the rapidly
encroaching search service’s
clutches. Maps? Done. Mail?
Done. Translation? Done. Social?
In progress.
Is no startup safe from Google’s
finger in every pot?
T h e f o l k s a t
WhatIfGoogleDoesIt.com have
decided to use crowdsourcing in
order to at least give startup
founders some verbal ammunition
32% of Homeowners Expect Home Prices to
Drop Next Year, Highest Short-Term
Pessimism Ever; Recognition Phase Underway
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 11:34:00 AM
Rasmussen Reports recently
released an interesting survey that
shows Homeowners Are More
Pessimistic Than Ever About the
Short-Term Housing Market
A new Rasmussen Reports
survey finds that 32% expect the
value of their home to decrease
when the inevitable “What if over the next year, the highest
Google does it?” question comes finding since Rasmussen Reports
up during a VC pitch or demo. b e g a n a s k i n g t h e q u e s t i o n
My favorite user-contributed regularly in December 2008.
answer so far, aside from the one Just 21% believe the value of
above: their home will go up over the
“Clearly, the appropriate response next year.
is to release an inferior and Looking longer term, people are
expensive product, then dump feeling a bit better. Fifty-two
millions into advertising to make percent (52%) of homeowners say
it look ubiquitous. That’s how the value of their home will
Microsoft manages to compete, increase over the next five years,
anyway.” the highest level of optimism
Zing! measured since May.
CrunchBase Information Google For the second month in a row,
I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y only 55% of homeowners say
CrunchBase their home is worth more than
their mortgage. A third (33%),
however, report that the mortgage
is bigger than the home value.
Over half of Americans know
someone who has lost their home
because they could not pay their
mortgage, but just 20% believe
that when banks foreclose on a
home, it's generally due to unfair
lending practices. Recognition
Phase
Some will look at the survey
results and see a contrarian
indicator. I rather doubt it. I do
not think we bottom until
homeowners sour on long-term
optimism.
Given current conditions,
housing inventory, shadow
inventory, another jobless
"recovery", and changing social
attitudes from younger
generations, home prices will
likely stay depressed for a while.
So instead of the survey being a
contrarian indicator, I view these
attitudes as part of the recognition
phase. Consumers are starting to
realize the economic headwinds
and what that will do to housing
prices in the short-term, even if
they have not yet figured out the
long-term demographic mess.
Time and Price is the Only
Legitimate Cure
The most encouraging sign in the
report is that "a majority of
Americans continue to oppose any
government intervention in the
housing market."
The only legitimate cure for what
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Prices need to fall to the point
there is genuine demand. When
that happens, the bottom will be
in, although appreciation off that
bottom will be quite slow.
In the meantime, the Fed's
misguided attempt to prop up
prices, in conjunction with all the
interference by Congress, just
stretches out the bottoming
timeline.
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Welcome To The Subprime Debacle, Part 2

John Mauldin (Money Game) disaster for investors. I admit I did mortgages in foreclosure are near
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:47:01 PM not see in January that it would all-time highs, close to 1 in 21 of
bring down Lehman and trigger all mortgages, up from 1 in 100
Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right the worst banking crisis in 80 just four years ago. That's got to
here in River City! years, less than 18 months later. be bad for your profit models.
With a capital "T" That rhymes But it was clear that it would not Anyone who tells you the
with "P" be "contained." We had no idea. housing problem is "bottoming"
And that stands for Pool, That I also said that it was going to either has an agenda or simply
stands for pool. create a monster legal battle down does not pay attention to the data.
We've surely got trouble! the road that would take years to I really want to see housing
Right here in River City, develop. Well, in the fullness of bottom and then turn around and
Right here! Gotta figger out a time, those years have come nigh the home builders come back; the
way upon us. Today we briefly look at nation desperately needs the jobs.
To keep the young ones moral the housing market, then the But my job is to be realistic.
after school! mortgage foreclosure debacle, and When we see 3-4 months of non-
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, then we go into the real problem stimulus-induced housing sales
trouble... lurking in the background. It is growth, then we can start talking
- From The Music Man The Subprime Debacle, Act 2. It about bottoms.
(Quick last-minute note: I think is NOT the mortgage foreclosure But housing sales are not really
this (and next week's) is/will be issue, as serious as that is. I the issue. Let's look at the next leg
one of the more important letters I s e r i o u s l y d o u b t i t w i l l b e "bottom." That may have been FICO scores) and want reasonable of the problem. The Foreclosure
have written in the last ten years. contained, as well. Could the optimistic, given what we will down payments. Only 47% of Mess
Take the time to read, and if you confluence of a bank credit crisis cover in this letter. applicants have the FICO score to OK, in a serendipitous moment,
agree send it on to friends and in the US and a sovereign debt First, existing and new single- get the best mortgage rates. Maine fishing buddy David Kotok
responsible parties. And note to banking crisis in Europe lead to family home sales continue to ( S i d e b a r : G a r y w r i t e s , s e n t m e t h i s e m a i l o n t h e
new readers: this letter goes to 1.5 another full-blown world banking slide, in the wake of the tax rebate "Furthermore, false appraisals mortgage foreclosure crisis just as
million of my closest friends. It is crisis? The potential is there. This that ended earlier this year. We rose 50% in 2009 from 2008. The I was getting ready to write much
f r e e . Y o u c a n g o t o situation wants some serious have declined back to the down- t a x c r e d i t f o r f i r s t - t i m e the same thing. It is about the best
www.frontlinethoughts.com to attention. sloping trend line. If you are a homebuyers cost taxpayers about thing I have read on the topic.
subscribe. Now, let's jump in!) This letter is going to print a little seller, this is not a pretty picture. $15 billion, twice the official Saves me some time and you get a
There's trouble, my friends, and it longer. But I think it is important The homebuilding industry, forecast, in part due to fraud. Over better explanation. From Kotok:
is does indeed involve pool(s), but that you get a handle on this issue. which was the source of so many 19,000 tax filers claimed the "Dear Readers, this text came to
not in the pool hall. The real Where is the Housing Recovery? jobs last decade (aka the good old credit but didn't buy houses, while me in an email from sources that
monster is hidden in those pools We are going to quickly review a days), is on its back. This country 74,000 who claimed $500 million are in the financial services
of subprime debt that have not few charts from Gary Shilling's n e e d s a h e a l t h y h o u s i n g in refunds already owned homes." business and with whom I have a
gone away. When I first began latest letter, where he review the construction market to get back to Where are the regulators?) personal relationship. The original
writing and speaking about the housing market in depth. Bottom lower unemployment, and until Shilling thinks prices are likely to text was laced with expletives and
coming subprime disaster, it was line, the housing market has not the overhang in the foreclosure fall another 20%. Given what I I would not use it in the form I
in late 2007 and early 2008. The yet begun to recover, and it is not market is cleared out, that is am writing about in the next received it. Therefore the text
subject was being dismissed in only going to take longer but the unlikely to happen. section, that is a possibility. There below has had some substantial
most polite circles. "The subprime decline in prices may be greater L e n d i n g i s t i g h t e r , a s i s is certainly no demand pressure to editing in order to remove that
problem," testified Ben Bernanke, than many have forecast. I wrote reasonable. Banks actually expect push up housing prices. language. The intentions of the
"will be contained." three years ago that it could be you to have the ability to pay back Finally, two charts on
My early take? It would be a well into 2011 before we get to a the mortgage you take out (solid f o r e c l o s u r e s . R e s i d e n t i a l WELCOME page 30
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writer are undisturbed. The writer
shall remain anonymous. This text
echoes some of the news items we
have seen and heard today;
however, it can serve as a plain
language description of the
present foreclosure-suspension
mess. There is a lot here. It takes
about ten minutes to read it. -
David Kotok ( www.cumber.com)
"Homeowners can only be
foreclosed and evicted from their
homes by the person or institution
who actually has the loan
paper...only the note-holder has
legal standing to ask a court to
foreclose and evict. Not the
mortgage, the note, which is the
actual IOU that people sign,
promising to pay back the
mortgage loan
"Before mortgage-backed
securities, most mortgage loans
were issued by the local savings
& loan. So the note usually didn't
go anywhere: it stayed in the
offices of the S&L down the
street.
"But once mortgage loan
securitization happened, things
got sloppy...they got sloppy by the
very nature of mortgage-backed
securities.
"The whole purpose of MBSs was
for different investors to have
their different risk appetites
satiated with different bonds.
Some bond customers wanted
super-safe bonds with low returns,
some others wanted riskier bonds
with correspondingly higher rates
of return.
"Therefore, as everyone knows,
the loans were 'bundled' into
REMICs (Real-Estate Mortgage
Investment Conduits, a special
vehicle designed to hold the loans
for tax purposes), and then "sliced
& diced"...split up and put into
tranches, according to their
likelihood of default, their interest
rates, and other characteristics.
"This slicing and dicing created
'senior tranches,' where the loans
would likely be paid in full, if the
past history of mortgage loan
statistics was to be believed. And
it also created 'junior tranches,'
where the loans might well
default, again according to past
history and statistics. (A whole
range of tranches was created, of
course, but for the purposes of
this discussion we can ignore all
those countless other variations.)
"These various tranches were sold
to different investors, according to
their risk appetite. That's why
some of the MBS bonds were
rated as safe as Treasury bonds,
and others were rated by the
ratings agencies as risky as junk
bonds.
"But here's the key issue: When
an MBS was first created, all the
mortgages were pristine...none
had defaulted yet, because they
were all brand-new loans.
Statistically, some would default
and some others would be paid
back in full...but which ones
specifically would default? No
one knew, of course. If I toss a
coin 1,000 times, statistically, 500
tosses the coin will land
heads...but what will the result be
of, say, the 723rd toss? No one
knows.
"Same with mortgages.
"So in fact, it wasn't that the
riskier loans were in junior
tranches and the safer ones were
in senior tranches: rather, all the
loans were in the REMIC, and if
and when a mortgage in a given
bundle of mortgages defaulted,
the junior tranche holders would
take the losses first, and the senior
tranche holder last.
"But who were the owners of the
junior-tranche bond and the senior
-tranche bonds? Two different
people. Therefore, the mortgage
note was not actually signed over
to the bond holder. In fact, it
couldn't be signed over. Because,
again, since no one knew which
mortgage would default first, it
was impossible to assign a
specific mortgage to a specific
bond.
"Therefore, how to make sure the
safe mortgage loan stayed with
the safe MBS tranche, and the
risky and/or defaulting mortgage
went to the riskier tranche?
"Enter stage right the famed
MERS...the Mortgage Electronic
Registration System.
"MERS was the repository of
these digitized mortgage notes
that the banks originated from the
actual mortgage loans signed by
homebuyers. MERS was jointly
owned by Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac (yes, those two again
...I know, I know: like the
chlamydia and the gonorrhea of
the financial world...you cure 'em,
but they just keep coming back).
"The purpose of MERS was to
help in the securitization process.
Basically, MERS directed
defaulting mortgages to the
appropriate tranches of mortgage
bonds. MERS was essentially
where the digitized mortgage
notes were sliced and diced and
rearranged so as to create the
mortgage-backed securities.
Think of MERS as Dr.
Frankenstein's operating table,
where the beast got put together.
"However, legally...and this is the
important part...MERS didn't hold
any mortgage notes: the true
owner of the mortgage notes
should have been the REMICs.
"But the REMICs didn't own the
notes either, because of a fluke of
the ratings agencies: the REMICs
had to be "bankruptcy remote," in
order to get the precious ratings
needed to peddle mortgage-
backed Securities to institutional
investors.
"So somewhere between the
REMICs and MERS, the chain of
title was broken.
"Now, what does 'broken chain of
title' mean? Simple: when a
homebuyer signs a mortgage, the
key document is the note. As I
said before, it's the actual IOU. In
order for the mortgage note to be
sold or transferred to someone
else (and therefore turned into a
mortgage-backed security), this
document has to be physically
endorsed to the next person. All
of these signatures on the note are
called the 'chain of title.'
"You can endorse the note as
many times as you please...but
you have to have a clear chain of
title right on the actual note: I sold
the note to Moe, who sold it to
Larry, who sold it to Curly, and
all our notarized signatures are
actually, physically, on the note,
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one after the other.
"If for whatever reason any of
these signatures is skipped, then
the chain of title is said to be
broken. Therefore, legally, the
mortgage note is no longer valid.
That is, the person who took out
the mortgage loan to pay for the
house no longer owes the loan,
because he no longer knows
whom to pay.
"To repeat: if the chain of title of
the note is broken, then the
borrower no longer owes any
money on the loan.
"Read that last sentence again,
please. Don't worry, I'll wait.
"You read it again? Good: Now
you see the can of worms that's
opening up.
"The broken chain of title might
not have been an issue if there
hadn't been an unusual number of
foreclosures. Before the housing
bubble collapse, the people who
defaulted on their mortgages
wouldn't have bothered to check
to see that the paperwork was in
order.
"But as everyone knows,
following the housing collapse of
2007-'10-and-counting, there has
been a boatload of
foreclosures...and foreclosures on
a lot of people who weren't sloppy
bums who skipped out on their
mortgage payments, but smart and
cautious people who got squeezed
by circumstances.
"These people started contesting
their foreclosures and evictions,
and so started looking into the
chain-of-title issue, and that's
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when the paperwork became
important. So the chain of title
became crucial and the botched
paperwork became a nontrivial
issue.
"Now, the banks had hired
'foreclosure mills'...law firms that
specialized in foreclosures...in
order to handle the massive
volume of foreclosures and
evictions that occurred because of
the housing crisis. The foreclosure
mills, as one would expect, were
the first to spot the broken chain
of titles.
"Well, what do you know, it turns
out that these foreclosure mills
might have faked and falsified
documentation, so as to
fraudulently repair the chain-of-
title issue, thereby 'proving' that
the banks had judicial standing to
foreclose on delinquent
mortgages. These foreclosure
mills might have even forged the
loan note itself...
"Wait, why am I hedging? The
foreclosure mills did actually,
deliberately, and categorically
fake and falsify documents, in
order to expedite these
foreclosures and evictions. Yves
Smith at Naked Capitalism, who
has been all over this story, put up
a price list for this 'service' from a
company called DocX...yes, a
price list for forged documents.
Talk about your one-stop
shopping!
"So in other words, a massive
fraud was carried out, with the
inevitable innocent bystanders
getting caught up in the fraud: the
guy who got foreclosed and
evicted from his home in Florida,
even though he didn't actually
have a mortgage, and in fact
owned his house free -and clear.
The family that was foreclosed
and evicted, even though they had
a perfect mortgage payment
record. Et cetera, depressing et
cetera.
"Now, the reason this all came to
light is not because too many
people were getting screwed by
the banks or the government or
someone with some power saw
what was going on and decided to
put a stop to it...that would have
been nice, to see a shining knight
in armor, riding on a white horse.
"But that's not how America
works nowadays.
"No, alarm bells started going off
when the title insurance
companies started to refuse to
insure the titles.
"In every sale, a title insurance
company insures that the title is
free -and clear ...that the
prospective buyer is in fact
buying a properly vetted house,
with its title issues all in order.
Title insurance companies
stopped providing their service
because...of course...they didn't
want to expose themselves to the
risk that the chain of title had
been broken, and that the bank
had illegally foreclosed on the
previous owner.
"That's when things started
getting interesting: that's when the
attorneys general of various states
started snooping around and
making noises (elections are
coming up, after all).
"The fact that Ally Financial
(formerly GMAC), JP Morgan
Chase, and now Bank of America
have suspended foreclosures
signals that this is a serious
problem...obviously. Banks that
size, with that much exposure to
foreclosed properties, don't
suspend foreclosures just because
they're good corporate citizens
who want to do the right thing,
and who have all their paperwork
in strict order...they're halting
their foreclosures for a reason.
"The move by the United States
Congress last week, to sneak by
the Interstate Recognition of
Notarizations Act? That was all
the banking lobby. They wanted
to shove down that law, so that
their foreclosure mills' forged and
fraudulent documents would not
be scrutinized by out-of-state
judges. (The spineless cowards in
the Senate carried out their
master's will by a voice vote...so
that there would be no registry of
who had voted for it, and
therefore no accountability.)
"And President Obama's pocket
veto of the measure? He had to
veto it...if he'd signed it, there
would have been political hell to
pay, plus it would have been
challenged almost immediately,
and likely overturned as
unconstitutional in short order.
(But he didn't have the gumption
to come right out and veto it...he
pocket vetoed it.)
"As soon as the White House
announced the pocket veto...the
very next day!...Bank of America
halted all foreclosures,
nationwide.
"Why do you think that
happened? Because the banks are
in trouble...again. Over the same
thing as last time...the damned
mortgage-backed securities!
"The reason the banks are in the
tank again is, if they've been
foreclosing on people they didn't
have the legal right to foreclose
on, then those people have the
right to get their houses back. And
the people who bought those
foreclosed houses from the bank
might not actually own the houses
they paid for.
"And it won't matter if a particular
case...or even most cases...were
on the up -and up: It won't matter
if most of the foreclosures and
evictions were truly due to the
homeowner failing to pay his
mortgage. The fraud committed
by the foreclosure mills casts
enough doubt that, now, all
foreclosures come into question.
Not only that, all mortgages come
into question.
"People still haven't figured out
what all this means. But I'll tell
you: if enough mortgage-paying
homeowners realize that they may
be able to get out of their
mortgage loans and keep their
houses, scott-free? That's
basically a license to halt
payments right now, thank you.
That's basically a license to tell
the banks to take a hike.
"What are the banks going to
do...try to foreclose and then evict
you? Show me the paper, Mr.
Banker, will be all you need to
say.
"This is a major, major crisis. The
Lehman bankruptcy could be a
spring rain compared to this
hurricane. And if this isn't handled
31
right...and handled right quick, in
the next couple of weeks at the
outside...this crisis could also
spell the end of the mortgage
business altogether. Of banking
altogether. Hell, of civil society.
What do you think happens in a
country when the citizens realize
they don't need to pay their
debts?"
(I am not sure who wrote this, but
if you want your 15 minutes of
fame, I will be glad to credit you
next week. - John) Some
Foreclosure Takeaways
Let me add a few thoughts. First,
I agree, this is very serious. It has
the possibility of seriously hurting
the housing market, which as we
saw in the first section is already
on the ropes. But at the end of the
day, there is a cure.
Someone borrowed money for a
mortgage. Some entity is cashing
a check if that person is paying.
That entity should have the title
until it is paid off. If someone is
not making their mortgage
payments, they should be
removed from the house and it
should be sold to the benefit of
the ultimately correct and what
everyone thought was the proper
title holder.
If you took out a mortgage and
now the title is in some doubt
because the investment banks and
mortgage banks and all the middle
guys screwed up (big-time!)
because they wanted to save some
bucks and make some
commissions, you did not win the
lottery. That is not America as I
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Global Trade Sags; Striking Workers Shut Down Fuel Pipeline to

Paris; US Backs Off Currency Manipulation Charges
noreply@blogger.com (Michael supplying Paris and its airports on which people can retire on a full public companies: train (SNCF), tried what Reagan did. If so,
Shedlock) (Mish's Global Friday and airport workers pension to 67 from 65. metro (RATP), air traffic France will be destroyed one way
Economic Trend Analysis) grounded some flights as protests The government has been at controllers, teachers and so on. or another because this spending
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:22:00 PM mounted to derail an unpopular loggerheads with unions for On top of that, they all benefit is not sustainable.
W i t h m o s t e y e s f i x e d o n pension reform. months over the issue and five from special retirement U.S. Backs Off Currency Dispute
Quantitative Easing let's take a France's airport operator played rounds of strike action since the conditions, which they are very In what may be pre-election
look at some global macro events. down worries of fuel shortages, summer have disrupted public afraid to lose. Most of them are jitters, or perhaps a sign that
World Trade Sags Yet Again but strikes at all of the country's transport and air travel. French entitled to retire between 50 and cooler heads are prevailing, U.S.
In yet another sign of the slowing 12 refineries and fuel depot Political Refugee Chimes In 55, depending on how terrible backs off in currency dispute with
global economy, World Trade, blockades prompted motorists to My friend Bruno, a French their working conditions are! China The Obama administration
Once Rising, Is Starting to Sag stock up on petrol. political refugee has a few This too must be factored in, backed away on Friday from a
Again THE rapid recovery in Truck drivers also were set to insights I would like to share. when figuring retirement age. showdown with Beijing over the
world trade after the financial join the fray as momentum built Bruno writes ... As for getting rid of these people, value of China's currency that
crisis appears to have slowed this for a day of street rallies on Hi Mish, don't even think about it! They would have caused new frictions
spring and summer, raising new Saturday. As a former French, now being a would not hesitate to destroy the between the world's only
concerns about the global The widening protests have political refugee in Thailand, I country. The government is afraid superpower and its largest
economy. Exports of many become the biggest challenge would like to put things into of them. The "PATCO" Solution creditor.
countries have stabilized at levels facing President Nicolas Sarkozy, context. Bruno's reply was to comments I The Treasury Department
well under the peaks reached who is struggling with low First, the retirement age is not made on Tuesday in French delayed a much-anticipated
before the crisis sent world trade popularity ratings as he tries to automatically 60 in France. Only Unions On Strike Against Pension decision on whether to label
into a tailspin. appease financial markets by someone who has contributed to a Reform, Disrupt Rail, Air Traffic China as a currency manipulator
The accompanying charts show stemming a ballooning pension pension plan for 40 years, or more The correct government response until after the U.S. congressional
the dollar volume of monthly shortfall. precisely 160 quarters, can retire to this mess is to do what Reagan elections on November 2 and a
exports reported by 16 major " T h i s m o v e m e n t i s d e e p l y at the age of 60. Otherwise, the did to the PATCO workers, fire Group of 20 leaders summit in
countries since world trade anchored in the country," CGT official retirement age is 65. all the public union employees on South Korea on November 11.
peaked in July 2008. union leader Bernard Thibault However, considering that strike and terminate their benefits. China left little doubt about the
The latest American figure is 10 t o l d L C I t e l e v i s i o n . " T h e French people have one of the Moreover, the French rancor that would ensue if it is
percent below the peak. That government is betting on this longest life expectancy in the government should take this branded as a currency manipulator
compares with figures showing movement deteriorating, even world, it is not rare to see a father opportunity handed to them on a -- a largely symbolic move by the
falls of 20 percent or more in breaking down. I think we have and his son both retired, one age silver platter and go one step United States that would mandate
most of Europe. For some the means to disappoint them." 85 or so, and the other between 60 further to make a much needed more consultations with Beijing
interesting currency and trade "We're filling up at petrol stations and 65. change and dissolve all public but no immediate penalties.
charts that accompany the above to save the fuel we have in depots Thus, it is not surprising that the unions. The same should happen "The Chinese yuan should not be
article, please see World Exports as much as possible," said one pension funds are broke. Until in the US. a scapegoat for the United States'
Level Off. trucker in Paris's southern suburb now, the government has been This would end the nonsense domestic economic problems,"
Striking Workers Shut Down of Rungis. "But if this carries on, paying for the difference, thanks quickly and effectively. As in the Commerce Ministry spokesman
Fuel Pipeline to Paris we won't be able to last too long to a 8% annual budget deficit. But US, there would be lines miles Yao Jian said on Friday. Search
Reuters reports Fuel to Paris either. We'll have to go fishing." this won't last and the day of long to take those jobs at much for Scapegoats
reduced as French protests Polls show two-thirds of people reckoning is getting closer and lower wage and benefit levels. Regarding scapegoats, I said the
escalate oppose Sarkozy's plan to raise the closer. Free Lunch Mentality Runs Deep same thing on Thursday in
Striking French oil refinery minimum retirement age to 62 As far as demonstrators are Bruno thinks the unions would GLOBAL page 34
workers shut down a fuel pipeline from 60 and change the age at concerned, All of them belong to destroy the country if Sarkozy
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know it. You can't pay the
mortgage, I am sorry. But you do
not get to keep the house. The
people who (thought) they bought
the mortgage in a fair deal need to
end up with that mortgage.
If you pay your mortgage, you
get to have the American Dream.
We CANNOT allow this debacle
to continue. It will bring the
system down. Who will want to
buy a mortgage that is in a
securitized package with no clear
title? Who will get title insurance?
Some judge somewhere is going
to make a ruling that is going to
petrify every title company, and
the whole thing grinds to a halt.
Let's be very clear. If we cannot
securitize mortgages, there is no
mortgage market. We cannot go
back to where lenders warehoused
the notes. It would take a decade
to build that infrastructure. In the
meantime, housing prices are
devastated. Whatever wealth
effect remains from housing gets
worse, and the economy rolls
over.
This is beyond my pay grade, but
there have to be some adults who
can make everyone play nice in
the sandbox. Ideally, someone in
authority at the Treasury, with
bipartisan support steps in and
says everyone follow these rules,
whatever these rules need to be.
I had a very spirited conversation
with good friend Barry Ritholtz
today (of The Big Picture). Barry
runs money but is also a lawyer
and has a somewhat different
perspective. He thinks we do not
need any legislation and there is a
legal cure. He says that real
trained people (lawyers and
paralegals) need to look at each
mortgage and figure it out, and
that it can get resolved. It is
expensive to the banks; but I
agree, if it is just dollars I don't
care. Fix it.
But that is a maybe. Other people
I talk to disagree. Some think we
need some regulatory fixes. Some
think we will need a legislative
cure. But if we need to, there need
be no finger pointing, no partisan
BS. This needs to get solved.
Someone took out a mortgage.
Some entity thinks they are owed
money. Fix the damn paper trail
so that happens, whether in a legal
if time-consuming manner, in a
regulatory fix, or with legislation.
Now, that is not to say the people
who did this stuff did not commit
felonies and such. We can sort
that out over time. The longer we
wait the worse it will get. Fix the
problem and then go round up the
bad guys. There are bigger issues
in play here. (I know this will be
somewhat controversial. Oh well.)
I get the fraud being done here. I
am regulated by FINRA, the
NFA, various states, the British
FSA, and ultimately the SEC. If I
did something in my business like
the stuff described above,
someone would come in and
justifiably shut me down, fine me,
and ban me from the securities
business. Oh, wait. These guys
ARE regulated by the above
groups.
Finally on this topic, I shake my
head when I think that the FDIC
is now running several of the
banks (think IndyMac) that are
part of this foreclosure crisis.
These are the guys who are
supposed to be preventing
something like this. Again, where
are the adults? The Subprime
Debacle: Act 2
OK, this letter is already getting
too long. I am going to finish it
next week, as the next topic needs
a lengthy treatment. But I will not
leave you hanging. A quick
preview.
All those subprime and Alt-A
mortgages written in the middle
of the last decade? They were
packaged and sold in securities.
They have had huge losses. But
those securities had
representations and warranties
about what was in them. And
guess what, the investment banks
may have stretched credibility
about those warranties. There is
the real probability that the
investment banks that sold them
are going to have to buy them
back. We are talking the potential
for multiple hundreds of billions
of dollars in losses that will have
to be eaten by the large
investment banks. We will get
into details, but it could create the
potential for some banks to have
real problems.
And all this coming as European
banks are going to have to sort out
their own sovereign debt
problems. Shades of 2008. I hope
I am wrong, but it's all connected.
Yankees, Rangers, and The
Endgame
I travel on Monday to New York,
where good friend Barry Habib is
going to take me to the Yankees-
Rangers game. I will be the guy
on the second row behind home
plate, behind the mayor, wearing
the Rangers jacket. Barry assures
me I will be safe. Cliff Lee
pitching. Can the Rangers hold up
to the pressure against the best
there is? Stay tuned.
My book, The End Game, is
coming along. It is out for
comments from friends, and then I
will sit down with my co-author
in London for four days and we
will finish this the first week of
November, and then Wiley will
push as fast as they can to get it
out.
This has been a very tumultuous
week for a host of reasons. It's all
good, but exhausting. I am more
than ready to hit the send button. I
just turned on the TV to watch the
last few innings. The Rangers
have gone from up 5 to zip to
losing 6-5. Can we say
disheartening?
Your really wanting to see a
World Series analyst,
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China's Rare Earth Supply That The World Relies On Could Now
Run Out In Just 15 Years
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money China, controller of more than 90 as the U.S. and Japan as a reason
Game) percent of production of the to redouble their efforts at
Submitted at 10/16/2010 8:42:00 AM materials used in cell phones and developing alternative rare earth
radar, cut its export quotas by 72 sources. Reliance on China's
Most of the world is dependent percent for the second half and current near-monopoly is getting
on China to supply rare earths as reduced output, spurring a trade riskier by the day. Problem is, as
key raw materials used in many of dispute with the U.S. The country shown by the (slightly dated)
the latest technologies from may not be able to meet growing chart below, even efforts to
military hardware to electric cars, global demand as the government develop rare earths mines
b u t C h i n a ' s M i n i s t r y o f continues to curb output, Lynas elsewhere will take a long time to
Commerce is warning that its Corp. said in March. pan out. The world will be
massive supply of rare earths “ W e c a n n o t r u l e o u t t h e dependent on China for many
could be exhausted in just 15 - 20 possibility that China may need to “China cannot afford to continue This latest claim sounds like it years to come.
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and global consumption is just too of supplying the world,” Chao environment and economic point implements, or any price hikes.
large for China. said. of view,” Chao said. It should be read by nations such
Bloomberg: ...
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The Web Isn't Dead (So Says Its Inventor) And Other 'Do Lecture'
Notes
Rupert Turnbull (Wired Top
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:35:00 AM
Holed up in yurts in a field in
Cardigan Bay, Wales, a couple of
week ago was an impressive
collection of some of the most
intensely motivated, high-
achieving individuals ever
assembled — oh, and me!
Beyond the insights you perhaps
expect from him is a man who is a
bewildering mix of humility,
staggering intellect and unfettered
ambition.
I was attending The Do
Lectures— a series of talks, by
turns inspiring, funny, jaw-
dropping, but mostly humbling.
The speakers come from diverse
walks of life brought together by a
common thread — a great story.
There is a very special
atmosphere in this field — a
suspension of cynicism helps and
any negativity is drowned out by
the spirit of can-do that hums
throughout.
And I got to find out what Sir
Tim Berners-Lee, father of the
World Wide Web and, I was
delighted to discover, a Wired
reader, thought of Wired’s “ The
Web is Dead” article.
“Not so,” he told me, “rumors of
the demise of the Web are very
much exaggerated” (or words to
that effect).
A fascinating encounter. And his
talk the following morning was
equally fascinating. Beyond the
insights you perhaps expect from
him — “Stop thinking of the
internet as another place; it is just
part of the Information Society”
— emerged a man who is a
bewildering mix of humility,
staggering intellect and unfettered
ambition.
Most of us mortals would be
satisfied to have achieved what he
has in 10 lifetimes and yet he
feels that the job has only just
begun, because 80 percent of the
world is still not connected and he
Culture/ 35
own. Take Maggie Doyne — 23
years old and running an
orphanage and school in the
Nepalese Himalayas — both of
which she built from scratch.
And this was not a story about
daddy’s money paying for her to
be altruistic — this was a heartfelt
story about courage, resilience
and youthful belligerence.
Maggie, wide-eyed, diminutive
with a Joan-of-Arc zeal, had us
transfixed. Stifled sobbing all
around. And when she announced
that her ambition was to feed,
house and clothe all the other 80
million orphans worldwide —
nobody blinked. Having said that,
she could do with a hand, so
check out blinknow.org.
The one thing Maggie does not
need is a lecture in improving
your motivational mindset — she
got one anyway! Preceding her
was Phil Parker, an osteopath,
NLP master and hypnotherapist,
who argued convincingly that a
simple change in the language we
use can resolve inertia and unlock
ambition. He encouraged us to
switch from negative or “passive”
language to active language to
gain control of a situation.
Looks like our parents were on to
something with their incessant cry
will not be satisfied until they are. of “There’s no such thing as
So it struck me on my drive can’t”.
home, as I listened to coverage of Another practical life lesson was
the pope beatifying a cardinal, provided by David Allen. He
that he should have made a detour quite literally wrote the book on “
down the M4 — because we had
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lifetime of study, on how to
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5 Long-lasting Building Materials

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) weather, man started to look for today, and knowing something
Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:00:56 AM more durable materials with about them will help us make the
which to build long-lasting historic leap from mud huts and
-Around 10,000 years ago, man dwellings [source: Castleden]. tents to skyscrapers that can
started to make fundamental -Over time, man has used a shelter thousands.
changes in the way he lived. variety of materials, and they help First up, lets take a look at the
Slowly moving away from a to paint a picture of our -ongoing ever-versatile building material of
nomadic lifestyle, he started q u e s t t o m a k e l o n g - l a s t i n g man and termites alike: wood.
staying in one place for longer structures to meet our changing This entry passed through the
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food was plentiful. Over time, a how they should be used. Five Filters featured article:
more settled lifestyle brought In the next few pages, we'll take a Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
some challenges with it. Instead look at five materials that man has
of having to find caves or create relied on to build homes, halls,
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:00:56 AM
How could a game with numbers
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Jennifer Garner and AnnaLynne Joins Her

Sweet Seraphina Make a 90210 Girls in a New
Snack Stop Bikini on the Beach
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 11:00:00 AM EW's reunion issue. Now Jennifer Submitted at 10/16/2010 1:22:24 PM day of work, but Shenae traded
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Jennifer Garner and Seraphina
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the opening of a new Waikiki
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also together earlier in the week she wants to dress as daily. the beach with costars Jessica
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Brown Knows
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Submitted at 10/17/2010 11:00:00 PM
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Oakland, trying to find the
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weeks earlier, I had decided to
cover the close-fought California
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contacting both campaigns, I
promptly began getting several e-
mails a day from the efficient
operation of former eBay CEO
Meg Whitman. But Brown’s
outfit was a different story. His
press guy, Sterling Clifford,
promised to put me on a list, but I
never received anything.
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Leave It to Beaver's Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94

Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com: by all of her family, friends, fans Ward (Beaumont), and regularly include Mork & Mindy,
Breaking News) and most especially by me." dispensed advice to her sons, Roseanne, Empty Nest and
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:05:00 PM See other celebrities who died "Beaver" and Wally (Dow). Muppet Babies, on which she
this year "Barbara was a patient advisor voiced Nanny and The Little
Barbara Billingsley A former fashion model, and teacher," Mathers said. "She Train.
Barbara Billingsley, best known Billingsley started acting in the helped me along this challenging Billingsley was married three
as Leave It to Beaver's picture- 1940s, appearing in such films as journey through life by showing times, and her last husband died
perfect matriarch June Cleaver, T h r e e G u y s N a m e d M i k e , me the importance of manners, in 1981. She is survived by two
has died. She was 94. Invaders from Mars and The and respect for others." sons, three stepchildren and
Billingsley died early Saturday at Careless Years. She made her TV Typecast as the perfect mother, several grandchildren.
her Santa Monica, Calif., home, debut in a 1952 episode of The Billingsley took a break from Watch Billingsley's cameo in
f a m i l y s p o k e s w o m a n J u d y Abbott and Costello Show and acting after the show ended. She Airplane!:
Twersky said. The actress had later appeared on The Lone Wolf, poked fun her wholesome image This entry passed through the
suffered from a rheumatoid C i t y D e t e c t i v e a n d S c h l i t z in the 1980 satire Airplane!, Full-Text RSS service — if this is
disease. Playhouse of Stars. playing a passenger who could your content and you're reading it
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gracious lady," Beaver co-star Beaumont and Tony Dow. CBS Impeccably dressed with her revival series, The New Leave It Catastrophe.
J e r r y M a t h e r s , w h o p l a y e d canceled the series after one trademark pearls and high heels, to Beaver, which lasted four
Billingsley's mischievous son, season due to poor ratings. The stay-at-home mom June was seasons. In the 1997 film version
T h e o d o r e " B e a v e r , " t o l d show then moved to ABC, where dutifully devoted to her husband, of Beaver, Billingsley played
TMZ. "She will be deeply missed it remained for five more years, Aunt Martha. Other credits
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Fox Pulls Signal on Cablevision Customers as
Negotiations "Remain Far Apart"
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:42:00 AM
Negotiators said they were far
apart Saturday after more than 3
million Cablevision subscribers in
New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Pennsylvania lost
Fox channels when the cable
operator and News Corp. failed to
reach a new contract over fees,
The Associated Press reports.
The blackout threatens the
broadcast of Sunday football
games and the baseball playoffs
for Cablevision customers, some
of whom are in Philadelphia.
Game 1 of the National League
Championship Series, featuring
the Philadelphia Phillies and San
Francisco Giants, takes place
Saturday. Subscribers lost Fox 5
and My9 in New York, Fox29 in
Philadelphia and such cable
channels as Fox Business
Network, NatGeo Wild and Fox
Deportes.
Fox, Time Warner cable reach
new deal
The channels went dark just after
midnight Friday as the companies
remained embroiled in a financial
dispute over programming.
Cablevision said Thursday that it
is willing to submit to binding
arbitration to settle the dispute,
but Fox rejected the idea, saying
arbitration would "reward
Cablevision for refusing to
negotiate fairly."
This is the third time this year
Cablevision has found itself
entangled in a dispute over
programming fees. In January,
Cablevision customers lost Food
Network and HGTV for three
weeks over a similar contract
dispute with Scripps Network
Interactive. Two months later,
Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network
pulled the plug on Cablevision
Cablevision says it is paying more even the pretense of negotiating at customers, causing subscribers to
than $70 million annually for Fox 8 p.m. — declaring an 'impasse' miss the first 15 minutes of the
programming, and says Fox wants — and made no further efforts 82nd Academy Awards telecast
to increase it to $150 million. Fox toward reaching a new agreement before a deal was made.
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Barbara Billingsley,
'Leave it to Beaver'
Mom, Dead at 94
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 1:51:00 PM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
News Barbara Billingsley, known
to millions of TV fans as the
pearls-wearing housewife June
Cleaver on the classic
sitcom'Leave it to Beaver,' has
passed away at the age of 94.
A family spokeswoman said
Billingsley died of polymyalgia, a
rheumatoid disease, at her home
in Santa Monica, Calif.
In a statement, her TV son, Jerry
Mathers, said, "I am deeply
saddened by the loss of my dear
friend and lifetime mentor
Barbara Billingsley. She will live
in the hearts of her fans as a
wonderful actress and be
remembered by her friends as a
gracious lady."
"She will be deeply missed by all
of her family, friends, fans and
most especially by me."
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T.I. Headed Back to Prison for 11 Sean Connery a No-Show

Months at Spanish Court Hearing
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com: The 30-year-old rapper served Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News) seven months in prison last year Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:59:00 AM before being moved to a halfway Submitted at 10/16/2010 10:49:00 AM
house in December, where he
T.I. remained until March. He was on Sean Connery
Days after talking a suicidal man three years' probation and was Sean Connery declined a judge's
down from an Atlanta skyscraper, ordered to perform 1,000 hours of request to testify in a Spanish
T.I. is going back to prison. A community service. He mostly court hearing, citing his age and
federal judge revoked the rapper's talked with schoolchildren about unspecified health issues, The
probation and ordered him to jail the dangers of gangs, drugs and Associated Press reports.
for 11 months because of a drug violence. The 80-year-old actor and his
arrest, The Atlanta Journal- T.I. is expected to surrender to wife, Micheline Roquebrune,
Constitution reports. authorities Nov. 1. were summoned to appear Friday
The rapper (real name: Clifford The sentencing came two days as part of the "Goldfinger Case"
Harris), who was on probation after the Grammy winner was — an investigation into possible
after serving time on federal celebrated for his heroic actions in tax evasion involving a beachfront
weapons charges, was arrested talking a despondent man down property Connery used to own in
last month on suspicion of drug from a 22-story building with a Marbella. The couple has not been
possession. him back to prison. video message. charged. planning permit that said only five
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'Smallville' Season 10,
Episode 4 Recap
Mike Moody (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 1:40:00 PM
Filed under: Reality-Free,
Recaps['Smallville' -
'Homecoming']
Clark took a stroll through the
past (and the future) as'Smallville'
reached another milestone - it's
200th episode - and The Blur
finally learned what it takes to be
a Superman.
'Homecoming' was a fun and
emotional ride. It was also warm,
compelling and pretty easy to
follow - which is rarely the case
when shows zip back and forth
through time more than Bill &
Ted in a broken phone booth
(hello, 'The Event').
We finally learned the true source
of Clark's darkness: He holds on
to the past and fears the future.
Makes sense, I guess (if you don't
think about it too much). Brainiac
5 (a game James Marsters)
What's the Greatest TV Show of All Time?
PopEater Staff (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Celebrities and
Gossip
showed up give Clark a big push
forward into Superman territory
while teaching him that "heroes
are made in the moment, not from
questioning the past or fearing
what's to come."
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 1:30:00 PM
Filed under: Features, TV News
It's hard to keep up with
everything on the Internet -- trust
us, we know. In an effort to
simplify your lives, we're
presenting you with the best Web
finds of the week all in one
convenient place: this post!
This week in Internet fun: Wendy
Williams gets crazier, 'South Park'
gets Jerseylicious, and more.
It's no surprise that Wendy move? Apparently the execs at
TBS are. Check out these kitschy
Williams is a little crazy. I mean,
she did bring a guest on who deep Conan-inspired crafts before the
Nov. 8 premiere.
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• From our Home & Garden
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• Mercedes-Benz recalls C and E
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• Falling for you: Iron Lover’s
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It's a New Era, but Same
Old Maryland
Michael Katz (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:30:00 PM
Filed under: Maryland, ACC
College Park, Md. -- Around
Maryland basketball, there's as
much talk about what has left the
program as what's still there.
Gone is Greivis Vasquez,
reigning ACC Player of the Year
and first-round draft pick, along
with established veterans Eric
Hayes and Landon Milbourne. It's
a group that led the Terrapins to
back-to-back NCAA tournament
appearances for the first time
since their streak of 11
with them 54 percent of
consecutive trips was dashed
Maryland's offense. There are
during the 2004-05 season.
questions about leadership --
"They've kind of set the bar for
inevitable given the stamp
our upcoming players," coach
Gary Williams said at media day Vasquez put on the program.
on Thursday,
But now, it's a new era in College
Still, there's a sense that the
Terrapins will be more similar
Park. And this year's seniors said than different. After all, this is
it was weird to be back in the
Comcast Center without the And while Williams said he'd be
teammates they'd had since more of a teacher this year, he's
arriving on campus. not about to adjust his approach in
There are questions about where his 22nd season.
the points will come from -- when
those three players left, they took
46 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Texas' defense shuts down No. 5 Nebraska

Associated Press (ESPN.com) for a Cornhusker team that was Martinez came into the game Whittaker to turn a short pass into
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:25:02 PMout to avenge last year's loss in drawing attention as a Heisman a 41-yard gain. Gilbert sneaked
the Big 12 championship game. title game ended with one second candidate but was thrown for over the goal line from the 1 three
Were you at the game? Or, did Texas (4-2, 2-1 Big 12 came in as put back on the clock, enough losses or no gain on four of his plays later.
you attend another game recently? a 9 1/2-point underdog but time for the Longhorns to kick the first 11 runs and was ineffective A late hit by Mathew May on
Check in with ESPN Passport for surprised Nebraska (5-1, 1-1) by winning field goal in a 13-12 win. on the zone-read option. He was Curtis Brown's punt return and
iPhone, or check in online to turning Gilbert loose in the run The stakes became even higher pulled in the third quarter in favor pass interference on Prince
archive your memories, photos, game for the first time this season. after Nebraska announced over of Lee, who quarterbacked the Amukamara set up Justin Tucker's
your record and more. The quarterback ran for a 71 yards the summer that it was moving to Huskers in the Big 12 title game. second field goal, a 28-yarder that
Team Stat Comparison Texas on 11 carries, scoring from 3 the Big Ten next year. Martinez took an intentional put the Longhorns up 20-3 in the
Nebraska 1st Downs 14 13 Total yards and 1 yard, and Cody Suddenly, this became the grounding penalty on his first pass third quarter.
Yards 271 202 Passing 62 77 Johnson had 58 of his 73 yards in Huskers' last chance to beat a attempt, threw behind and short of Texas' John Gold pinned
Rushing 209 125 Penalties 4-53 the second half. T e x a s p r o g r a m t h a t h a d his receivers and fumbled twice, Nebraska at its 3 and 6 in the third
10-94 3rd Down Conversions 7- The Longhorns also stymied a dominated them since the though he or a teammate quarter with rugby-style punts of
16 5-16 4th Down Conversions 0- Nebraska offense that had been inception of the Big 12. recovered each. 55 and 67 yards into the wind.
0 1-2 Turnovers 0 1 Possession averaging 494 yards a game, Barring a rematch in the The Huskers also were Lee, who was No. 3 on the depth
30:10 29:50 holding the Huskers to just 202 conference championship game, victimized by drops. A wide-open chart as recently as last week,
Passing Leaders Texas C/ATT yards. Still, the Huskers were Texas will have won nine of 10 Rex Burkhead couldn't hang on to came on to lead the Huskers on a
YDS AVG TD INT Gilbert 4/16 within a touchdown late in the meetings against the Huskers what would have been a 30-yard 16-play, 83-yard drive that ended
62 3.9 0 0 Nebraska C/ATT YDS game thanks to Eric Hagg's school since 1996, with Nebraska's only TD in the second quarter. Niles with Alex Henery's 28-yard field
AVG TD INT Martinez 4/12 63 -record 95-yard punt return. win coming in the 1999 title Paul dropped what would have goal to pull the Huskers within 14
5.3 0 0 Martinez, who came in averaging game. been an 11-yard score in the third points.
Receiving Leaders Texas REC 147 yards a game and almost 11 The Memorial Stadium crowd quarter and Brandon Kinnie what With the upset, Texas avoided
YDS AVG TD LG Whittaker 1 41 yards a carry, was held to a season came to life after Hagg returned would have been a 38-yarder in losing three straight regular-
41.0 0 41 Newton 2 16 8.0 0 11 -low 21 yards on 13 carries before Justin Tucker's pooch punt 95 the fourth. season games for the first time in
Nebraska REC YDS AVG TD LG being pulled for Zac Lee in the yards to pull the Huskers to 20-13 The Longhorns led 10-0 after Mack Brown's 13 years as head
Paul 6 66 11.0 0 23 Burkhead 1 7 third quarter. with 3:02 left. Jared Crick Keenan Robinson recovered Roy coach.
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Robbie Hummel of Purdue Boilermakers re-tears

right ACL, out for 2010-11 season
Dana O'Neil (ESPN.com) from the tear he suffered in season. He led the team with 16.4
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:56:22 PM February,'' Purdue coach Matt points per game as the
Painter said in a statement. "As he Boilermakers went 29-6 and
Updated: October 16, 2010, 3:56 begins his rehab and recovery, shared the Big Ten regular-season
PM ET we'll persevere together and title. He also became the third
Purdue senior Robbie Hummel re provide Robbie with all the player since 1971 to lead Purdue
-tore his ACL in practice Saturday support possible. I have no doubt in scoring and assists, and the first UFC 120 Results:
morning and will miss the entire he'll continue to play a pivotal player since Troy Lewis in the
2010-11 season, the university role for this season as a leader for late 1980s to lead the team in
Bisping vs. Akiyama,
said. More from ESPN.com our team.'' scoring three consecutive seasons. Hardy vs. Condit, More
Purdue's Robbie Hummel, Because Hummel never Johnson, a 6-10 center, averaged Bryan Tucker (FanHouse Main)
arguably one of the most talented redshirted, he will be eligible for a 15.5 points and a team-high 7.1
Submitted at 10/16/2010 12:25:00 PM
and genuinely nice players in fifth year and would be able to rebounds this past season.
college basketball, will have to go rejoin the Boilermakers next Purdue's career leader in blocked Filed under: UFC, Results
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Dana O'Neil writes. Blog Purdue, a team widely considered seasons, and was second-team All fights, plus live coverage from
With the loss of Hummel, Purdue to be among the top three in the -Big Ten after earning first-team London, live blogs of all the
now must replace two of the most nation with Hummel in the lineup. honors as a sophomore. televised fights and live UFC 120
important pieces of last season's Last season when Hummel was "Rob does something for us Dana O'Neil covers college twitter updates.
title contender, ESPN.com's Andy injured, Purdue rallied and offensively and defensively that b a s k e t b a l l f o r E S P N . c o m . In the main event, Michael
Katz writes. Blog surprised many with a trip to the balances our team," Painter said in Information from The Associated Bisping aims for his second
H u m m e l m i s s e d t h e Sweet 16, in which it lost to February 2009, while Hummel Press was used in this report. straight win when he faces
Boilermakers' final eight games eventual national champion Duke. was recovering from that injury. This entry passed through the Yoshihiro Akiyama. Also, Dan
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Big Ten and honorable mention Saturday back in February, when Johnson, who decided to return Catastrophe.
All-America honors. he is pictured on crutches. after considering entering the
"This is obviously disappointing Hummel also missed significant NBA draft.
for Robbie, as well as our team, time his sophomore year with a Moore, a 6-foot-4 guard, was a
since he worked so hard to return back injury. first-team All-Big Ten pick last
48 Sports/
New York Mets, Francisco Rodriguez In So Many Ways, Daunte
near settlement over grievance, source Culpepper a No-Show in
says
Adam Rubin (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:21:50 PM
Updated: October 16, 2010, 3:21
PM ET By Adam Rubin
ESPNNewYork.com
Archive
A grievance hearing brought by
the players' association on behalf
of New York Mets closer
Francisco Rodriguez will not be
heard Monday as scheduled
because the sides are nearing a
settlement, a source familiar with
the discussions confirmed to
ESPNNewYork.com.
The grievance over the
conversion of Rodriguez's
contract to nonguaranteed and the
withholding of $3 million had
been scheduled to be heard
Monday and Tuesday before
arbitrator Shyam Das in New
York. A Mets spokesman
confirmed Monday's hearing has
been adjourned and "the parties
are in negotiations."
Rodriguez appeared in one game
after allegedly striking his
girlfriend's father at Citi Field in
August. Rodriguez then required
season-ending surgery to repair a
torn right thumb ligament, an
Loss to Locomotives
injury the Mets maintain the
closer admitted he suffered during
the incident. Mets blog
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Any settlement likely would
restore Rodriguez's contract to
guaranteed. Otherwise, it would
make little sense for the players'
association to agree, since the
Mets would be able to cut
Rodriguez in spring training and
owe as little as 30 days' pay.
Still, for the Mets to agree to
settle, Rodriguez likely would still
have to forfeit a significant sum of
money.
Rodriguez is due to make $11.5
million next season. There is an
option that vests for $17.5 million
for 2012 if Rodriguez finishes 55
games next season and is healthy
at season's end. Otherwise, the
Mets would be responsible for a
$3.5 million buyout.
Rodriguez still has misdemeanor
criminal charges pending over the
alleged altercation at Citi Field
and the alleged violation of an
order of protection. Rodriguez is
accused of sending dozens of text
messages to his girlfriend after he
had been warned to stay away
from her.
However, Christopher Booth, the
closer's criminal attorney, recently
indicated there has been
movement toward a settlement of
those charges by the next hearing,
which is scheduled for Nov. 10 in
Queens Criminal Court.
Rodriguez has been attending
weekly anger-management
sessions, Booth said. Prosecutors
likely would require a different,
court-approved venue for those
sessions in any settlement.
The New York Post first reported
in Saturday's editions that the
sides were nearing a settlement of
the grievance.
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 8:49:00 AM
Filed under: UFL
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Daunte
Culpepper was a no-show.
The big-name, veteran
quarterback, the guy brought in to
be the face of the United Football
League, simply didn't show his
face.
Culpepper threw four
interceptions and lost a fumble in
a 26-3 loss to the Las Vegas
Locomotives in front of an
estimated home crowd of 19,000
fans in Sacramento on Friday conspicuous.
night. The man who has embraced the
Following the game, as reporters spotlight in Sacramento instead let
and photographers awaited his his teammates and coach answer
arrival for a postgame press the questions for him.
conference, Culpepper hit the exit "Daunte, he is a professional and
early. It was a move out of he is definitely going to bounce
character for the star who has back," said Sacramento running
been nothing but accommodating back Cory Ross, the last Mountain
since he's arrived in Sacramento - Lions player to leave the locker
making his absence more room.
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Roger Goodell says NFL official will

meet with Brett Favre
ESPN.com news services interviewed regardless of whether interview to Deadspin for the
(ESPN.com) the game hostess, Jenn Sterger, report. The website said it bought
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:49:54 PM cooperates in the investigation. the material from a third party it
Earlier this week, Goodell said he did not identify.
Updated: October 16, 2010, 5:49 had no plans to meet with Favre Deadspin also reported that Favre
PM ET himself, but added that it's pursued two female massage
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- NFL something that he would do if it therapists who worked part time
commissioner Roger Goodell says were warranted. for the Jets. The website didn't
a league official will meet with Favre has been listed as identify the women, but the Jets
Brett Favre Tuesday in Minnesota questionable by Minnesota for have said they gave contact
as part of an investigation into Sunday's game against Dallas information about them to the
allegations the quarterback sent with tendinitis in his right elbow. league.
racy e-mails and lewd photos to a He has started a record 289 Depending on what the league's
Jets game hostess in 2008 when straight games. investigation finds, Favre could
he played for New York. The NFL Network said the be fined or suspended under the
Goodell made his comments league had not yet met with NFL's personal conduct policy.
S a t u r d a y d u r i n g a s i d e l i n e Sterger, the woman who allegedly Information from The Associated
interview with NBC at the received the messages and photos
Western Michigan-Notre Dame from Favre. Her manager declined
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CC Sabathia Wants to Get
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ESPN's Ed Werder reported. p h o n e . S t e r g e r , n o w a T V Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Filed under: Rangers, Yankees,
This series smells like a sweep
An NFL source told Werder p e r s o n a l i t y f o r t h e V e r s u s Catastrophe. MLB Playoffs, American League after the Yankees crushed the
Saturday that Favre will be n e t w o r k , d i d n o t g r a n t a n
Championship Series Rangers' spirits with Friday's
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The only comeback from a five-run deficit
thing CC Sabathia would like that was Sabathia's responsibility.
more than to finally pitch on If Texas can win a game,
normal rest in Game 5 of the Sabathia gets his second choice.
American League Championship "I am looking forward to being
series is if his next start comes on able to throw my regular bullpen
11 days' rest. (session)," he said, "and be in
Because that would mean the kind of a normal situation heading
Yankees swept the Rangers and into my next start."
were off until Game 1 of the
50 Gaming/
Sample Ken's Rage on
October 19
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:30:00 PM
You may be feeling one of two
(valid) concerns about Fist of the
North Star: Ken's Rage, even if
you're tentatively interested in the
title.
• It might get repetitive like other
Warriors games.
• You might not want to see that
many people explode like water
balloons full of blood.
Luckily, Tecmo Koei is giving
you an easy, low-risk way to find
out if your concerns bear out: a
demo. On October 19, the
publisher will release a demo for
the manga-inspired massacre
game on both PSN and XBLA. It
won't take you long to determine
your tolerance for both
bloodsplosions and endless waves
of punchables.
Gallery: Fist of the North Star:
Ken's Rage (10/1/10)
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Left 4 Dead 2's latest
mutation invites the
survivors to a Hunter Party
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 1:30:00 PM
It's Friday, which means it's Pizza
Night in America. Sure, a slice of
'za is a great way to cap off the
week, but some people prefer
their unwinding to be a bit more
slaughterful. So we'd like to point
out the latest Left 4 Dead 2
mutation: Hunting Party.
This mutation simplifies the
horde by turning all of the Special
Infected into Hunters. No
Boomers, no Smokers, no
Jockeys, just the sheer agony of
listening to screeching, nimble
Hunters like so many dozens of
nails scratching against so many
dozens of chalkboards. And the
tearing -- oh, why all of the
tearing?
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Spec Ops: The
Line beta sends
out more invites
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 7:30:00 PM
We've received several tips from
readers that the Xbox 360-only
Spec Ops: The Line multiplayer
beta is finally expanding to
incorporate more users. Back in
July, a " small number of
applicants" were selected to
participate in the beta.
One tipster sent over some
images from the beta, showing off
the character customization
screen, challenges menu and some
gameplay shots. Feel free to work
a little recon on our gallery below
and check 'em out.
Gallery: Spec Ops: The Line --
Early Preview Demo
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GoldenEye 007 dives
deep into story for its
latest trailer
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:30:00 PM
Despite what you may have
thought, Alec Trevelyan reminds
us (and consequently, James
Bond) that it's really not about
protecting "Queen and country" --
it's all about "the bankers and
their bonuses." It's also all about
stopping a satellite weapon from
Washington Post Explodes Myths about Palin
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 9:23:55 AM
Saturday, 16 Oct 2010 02:23 PM
Sarah Palin is far from the
caricature lampooned on
"Saturday Night Live," and in
reality is "a complex woman who
has risen in no time from
being fired.
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obscurity to the stratosphere of
American politics, fusing
celebrity a nd populism in novel
ways." That's the portrayal of the
former Alaska governor by
Matthew Continetti in an op-ed
article for the Washington Post.
Continetti, the opinion editor of
the Weekly Standard, debunks
There are many possible social graphs
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:40:42 PM
The best blog post I read today
was on TechCrunch, written by
Naval Ravikant, an early investor
in Twitter, and Adam Rifkin, who
I once knew, a long time ago,
when he was starting a
wonderfully-named company
called KnowNow.
Anyway, this post had a single
idea that's worth repeating, and
remembering whenever you think
one of the leading platforms has it
wrapped up.
The idea is this: There are many
possibe social graphs.
The thesis of this piece was that
Twitter's graph has different value
from Facebook's because its
structure of a relationship is more
meaningful in some ways.
In Facebook a friendship is
symmetric. If I have a connection
to you then you must have a
connection to me.
five myths about Palin:
• That she cost Sen. John McCain
the 2008 presidential election.
• That she made a hasty decision
to resign as governor in 2009.
• That she and the tea party are
destroying the Republican Party.
• That she's an extremist.
Gaming/ Featured/ Politics/
In Twitter, you can have a
connection to me, but that does
not say that I have a connection to
you.
Facebook has labels on
friendship arcs, I can say you're
my lover, wife, or just a friend --
or I can decline to say what our
relationship is. But I can't say we
have a relationship unless you
agree.
Facebook relationships represent
reality. Twitter relationships
represent aspirations.
Neither of them has a language
for defining relationships, in other
words I can't extend the idea of a
• That she has no chance of being
elected president in 2012.
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relationship arbitrarily. And it
doesn't seem to be in the DNA of
either company to allow others to
get in there and mess with this
core stuff. (When Twitter started
they made it seem like it was their
philosophy, but they've been
pulling back from that, in some
dramatic ways.)
No doubt we'll look back at these
networks years from now and see
them as starting points, because
neither now has anything like the
full richness of human connection
that can be modeled in computers.
And of course some relationships
will be very difficult to model in a
computer's memory. But for now
and for the forseeable future,
there's lots of growth possible in
this form of modeling. Maybe
that's why there's so much
investment today in tech.
I love blog posts that make me
think, or change my thinking.
Good work!!
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From your East Village
reporter
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:10:06 PM
My first report from the Lower
East Side.
1. Big news! They removed the
scaffoldin g from the Starbucks
on Astor Place.
2. Earlier today I caught a
demonstration of skateboarding
on Broadway.
3. The Mud Truck is a good place
to get coffee.
4. The East Village is often as
loud as the West Village. But the
drunks don't seem as angry, and
they're quiet (or asleep) by 3AM,
unlike their West Village
counterparts. And they don't
sound like trannies.
5. I drove my car for the first
time today in a couple of months.
It's very different from driving a
bike. At times I found myself
forgetting that. Luckily there were
no bikers nearby to observe and to
chastise me (as I certainly would
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:15:00 PM
President Obama opened a
weekend of intense campaigning
with a speech before a large
crowd in Boston where he urged
voters to reelect Democratic Gov.
have if I had been biking nearby Deval Patrick and urged them not
Dave-the-driver). to give in to "anger and
6. My move yesterday was done f r u s t r a t i o n , " s t o k e d b y
by Moishe's Movers. They rolled R e p u b l i c a n s .
out the red carpet for this Twitter "You have to help guard the
micro-celeb. They not only change that you helped deliver in
packed everything, and apparently 2006," he said, referring not to
nothing is missing or broken himself but to Patrick's election as anybody tell you this guy a rally at Ohio State University in
(haven't unpacked everything yet) governor. Patrick sat on a high (Patrick) isn't worth it." Columbus designed to drum up
but helped with some of the stool behind the president -- the Republicans, Obama said, are enthusiasm for Democratic Gov.
unpacking. The price was an two men are personal friends -- in relying on a strategy that Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher, the
incredible $950 for three men, a Saturday evening rally at the capitalizes on voter anxiety. "The Democratic Senate candidate.
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(Newsmax - Inside Cover) Michigan, which has the second candidates to House incumbents Tea partiers' call for reining in In the bucolic Hudson Valley of
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:41:11 AM highest unemployment rate in the who have become closely government and cutting back New York, Republican Nan
nation at 13.1 percent. identified with the movement, spending could affect efforts to Hayworth has tea party backing in
LOS ANGELES – Doubters who The tea party's legions of backers including Republican Rep. address the home foreclosure a close race with Democratic Rep.
thought the tea party would fade have Democrats fearing that 2010 Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. crisis and any administration John Hall, whose campaign has
away can forget it. More than 70 could be the reverse of 2008, Former Philadelphia Eagles attempts to kick-start the slow depicted her as a fringe candidate.
of its favored candidates are on when 15 million first-time voters lineman Jon Runyan is in his first economic recovery with another To Hayworth, it's Hall and
Nov. 2 ballots, and nearly three helped the Democrats win control campaign — a tight race in New stimulus measure. The Washington Democrats who are
dozen are locked in competitive of the White House as well as Jersey's 3rd Congressional movement's fierce opposition to out of the mainstream.
House races, according to a state- Congress. District. He was recruited by a Obama's health care overhaul Tea party members "are insisting
by-state analysis by The Many Republicans are New Jersey legislator. In Indiana, could drive efforts to repeal the we pay careful attention to the
Associated Press. concerned, too. Jackie Walorski is a state law. size and scope of the federal
F r o m t h e h u n d r e d s o f Jim Bennett, who saw his father, legislator who won the Some tea party-backed government," says Hayworth, a
conservative activists who took up U t a h S e n . B o b B e n n e t t , endorsement of several tea party candidates have called for phasing member of the Hudson Valley
the cause in races this year, these dispatched by tea party activists groups. out Social Security or eliminating Patriots. "People are acutely
candidates — mostly Republicans who flooded the state Republican How much impact the movement the Education Department or sensitive" to the growth of
— e m e r g e d t o c a p t u r e convention in May, described a will have in Congress next year other federal agencies. Washington spending.
nominations and are running with m o v e m e n t m o t i v a t e d a n d depends in part on how many of It's not clear to what degree new In Michigan, three candidates
the support of loosely organized energized "to burn down anything the candidates win. More than a members aligned with the tea aligned with the tea party are in
tea party groups that are furious at that had anything to do with half-dozen tea party-backed party would cooperate with tight races. In Detroit's northern
the government. Washington." Senate candidates, including Democrats — or even with suburbs, former Army officer
Some of the candidates are "I've decided the Republican Florida's Marco Rubio, Nevada's centrist Republicans. Rocky Raczkowski is counting on
political newcomers who have Party in Utah doesn't exist Sharron Angle, Colorado's Ken The tea party presence extends tea party clout to help him defeat
struggled to organize and raise anymore — it's the tea party and Buck and Alaska's Joe Miller, are from Hawaii, where Republican first-term Democratic Rep. Gary
money and have little chance of the Democrats," Jim Bennett, who in competitive races or even John Willoughby credits his win Peters.
winning election. In some states, managed his father's campaign, pulling ahead of their rivals. in a three-way primary to the The tea party is a network of
tea party groups have been said months after the senator was They are relying on support of support of the Kona Tea Party and loosely connected community
divided over whether to even back defeated. the movement's dedicated the Maui Tea Party No Ka Oi, to groups — not an established
candidates or become active in The deep vein of conservative backers. Arizona, where dentist Paul Gosar political party with official
campaigns. anger was there in 2008, but "it's "There is nothing that will keep won the support of Sarah Palin nominees — so there is some
But about 35 candidates appear to taken a different turn now that the them from turning out," said and tea party activists and debate about any list of candidates
be waging campaigns that have D e m o c r a t s h a v e t h e W h i t e Democratic pollster Andre knocked off an establishment aligned with the movement. Even
put them ahead or within striking House," says Larry Grisolano, a Pineda, who has advised the Republican in the state's 1st within the tea party there often is
distance of their opponents, media consultant to President Democratic National Committee Congressional District primary. disagreement among rival groups
according to the AP analysis. Barack Obama's campaign. "Now this year. Gosar is trying to oust about the legitimacy of candidates
Candidates with tea party ties are they have something to be "The real enthusiasm gap is Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick claiming tea party credentials,
favored to win in Republican- against." between tea party folks and in the largely rural district. Tea particularly between national and
leaning districts in Indiana and Most of the House candidates everybody else," Pineda said. On partiers have been going door to local organizations.
South Carolina. Several are w i t h t e a p a r t y s u p p o r t a r e Election Day, "they will be there." door for him, seeking votes. In identifying candidates, the AP
running strong in rural districts in unknown outside their home Thus, January could see a If he's elected, slowing spending assessed factors including a
the West and the suburbs of districts: a rancher, a pilot, a dramatic remaking of the and cutting the federal debt is candidate's history with the
several major cities. Three pizzeria owner, doctors and war congressional agenda, with the "going to be the mantra," Gosar movement, the involvement of
candidates aligned with the tea v e t e r a n s . T h e i r p o l i t i c a l GOP possibly in control of one or says. "We've got to make sure the
p a r t y a r e i n t i g h t r a c e s i n experience ranges from first-time both chambers. government is cut back." TEA page 56
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How Obama Stopped
Democrats Cling to Narrow Lead in California Worrying and Learned
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) the latest poll, coupled with a reaching a wall where additional quarters. The existing law to Love the Oligarchy
Submitted at 10/16/2010 11:57:49 AM similar survey earlier this month, spending is not necessarily requires California to cut
shows the races are showing yielding additional voters," said greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 Robert and Donna Trussell
Saturday, 16 Oct 2010 04:57 PM stability. "California is trending Julia Clark of Ipsos. levels by 2020. (Politics Daily)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic although the races are Enthusiasm about voting in The poll data was based on the Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:05:00 PM
D e m o c r a t i c c a n d i d a t e s a r e close," he said. California is higher on the wording of the question as it will
clinging to narrow leads over their Friday's poll found Democrat Republican side than among appear on voters' ballots. A In an effort to encourage the
Republican rivals in two key J e r r y B r o w n ' s l e a d o v e r Democrats. Eighty-one percent of Reuters story on the climate issue, same level of civil dialogue
California races with less than Republican Meg Whitman in the Republicans said they are certain based on a Reuters/Ipsos poll among Politics Daily’s readers
three weeks to go until November r a c e t o s u c c e e d A r n o l d to vote compared to just 65 earlier this month, was withdrawn that we expect of our writers – a
2 elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll Schwarzenegger as California percent of Democrats. last week because the poll “civilogue,” to use the term
found. governor is four points -- 48 All 435 House seats and 37 of the question used language obtained coined by PD’s Jeffrey Weiss– we
Democratic Senator Barbara percent to 44 percent among 100 Senate seats are up for grabs from an incorrect official source. are requiring commenters to use
Boxer's lead over Republican likely voters. nationally in an election seen as a The Ipsos poll of 601 registered their AOL or AIM screen names
Carly Fiorina among likely voters That's slightly narrower than the referendum on Obama's first two voters, including 448 who said to submit a comment, and we are
in California is only one point, 46 lead of 50 percent to 43 percent years in office. they are likely to vote, was taken reading all comments before
percent to 45 percent, down from he held in a poll taken between Californians are notably unhappy from October 12-14. publishing them. Personal attacks
a four-point advantage early this October 2-4. at the state's economic and The full survey of registered (on writers, other readers, Nancy
month. Brown, a former governor and budgetary problems, with 77 voters has a margin of error of 4 Pelosi, George W. Bush, or
Boxer is a key ally of President familiar face in state politics for percent reporting they believe the percentage points while the anyone at all) and comments that
B a r a c k O b a m a , w h o i s t o 40 years, is likely benefiting from state is on the wrong track. This smaller sample of likely voters are not productive additions to the
campaign for her and other California's status as a heavily rises to 89 percent among has a margin of error of 4.6 conversation will not be
D e m o c r a t s n e x t w e e k i n Democratic state. Republicans. points. published, period, to make room
California. Fiorina is a former Whitman is a billionaire and CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE © 2010 Thomson/Reuters. All for a discussion among those with
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Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown: A Bromance or
Frenemies for Life?
Carl M. Cannon (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 4:39:00 PM
Is it a budding bromance between
longtime adversaries Jerry Brown
and Bill Clinton or will they
always be " frenemies"? Either
way, it is the talk of California
politics lately, with third wheel
Meg Whitman bringing up old
hurts to try to put a damper on the
relationship between the two old
Democratic war horses.
Clinton is thinner than when he
and Jerry Brown tangled in 1992,
and his hair has gone completely
white -- Brown's hair has almost
completely disappeared -- but the
two Democrats seem different in a
more fundamental way. These
days, instead of sniping at each
other, they have joined forces to
help Brown in his bid to regain a
job he held from 1975 to 1983.
Newsom, mayor of San Francisco,
was Bill Clinton's first choice for
governor of California, but when
Newsom dropped out last year,
the former president settled on a
man with whom he had a long and
contentious history, starting when
they both sought the Democratic
presidential nomination 18 years
ago. Today, however, the two
men's mutual interests have
harmonically converged: Brown
wants his old job back and
Clinton is traversing the country
attempting to show he has the
juice to help get Democrats
elected. Earlier this week Clinton
was in his old home town
attempting to stave off the
Republican tide that threatens to
engulf Arkansas. He found the
sledding a bit easier in heavily
Democratic California, where
even Meg Whitman, Brown's
Republican opponent and the
former CEO of eBay, had some
conciliatory words for the 42 nd
president."I think there were
many good things about Bill
Clinton's presidency," Whitman
told supporters at a dueling GOP
rally at the downtown theater LA
Live. "He was a big eBay buyer.
He bought a lot of his Clinton
memorabilia on eBay. But he's
obviously out here because he's a
Democrat, a dyed-in-the-wool
Democrat, and he's trying to help
Democrats across the country."
And what would an event held in
a Los Angeles theater be without
a movie? The Whitman camp
didn't disappoint, either, showing
the audience an eight-minute short
film called " The Way We Were,"
featuring insults hurled back and
forth between Jerry Brown and
Bill Clinton in the days before
their détente. "It's was all in good
fun," one Whitman adviser told
Politics Daily. "But the film could
have been longer -- these two
have a long history." Click play
below to watch the full short film
screened at the Whitman rally, as
provided exclusively to Politics
Daily:
This was not the first time Camp
Whitman has enjoyed itself at
Brown's expense over the Brown-
Clinton connection. It produced
an ad in September consisting of
an old clip of Clinton telling Larry
King that Brown was lying about
his record. Brown's initial
response to that ad was to lash out
at Meg Whitman -- and Bill
Clinton."Meg Whitman -- she
stops at nothing. She's even got
Clinton lying about me," Brown
said in impromptu remarks to
supporters in East Los Angeles.
"Did you see that? Where he said
I raised taxes. It's a lie ..." Brown
then continued: "I mean Clinton's
a nice guy, but who ever said he
always told the truth? You
remember, right? There's that
whole story there about did he or
didn't he. Okay, I did not have
taxes with this state." Brown
apologized by the end of the
afternoon for that last crack,
which was a reference to Clinton's
infamous "I did not have sexual
relations with that woman"
assertion. And even more
recently, Brown apologized when
he and aides were caught on tape
discussing whether they should
call Meg Whitman "a whore" for
dealing with special interests.
These latest developments have
revealed the toll this expensive
gubernatorial campaign is taking
on its participants. It also
somewhat undermined the
widespread impression that
Brown had become warmer and
more self-deprecating than when
he was a younger man. Some
veteran California political
insiders have found him more
appealing this time around. But
Brown is up against a wealthy and
self-made opponent who is
breaking all known spending
records in a year that is shaping
up as an inhospitable one for
career politicians, especially
Democrats. Thus the call to Bill
Clinton, a man Jerry Brown once
dubbed "The Prince of Sleaze."
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Psalm 19:14
(10-16-10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 10/16/2010 2:00:00 AM
May the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be
pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my
Rock and my Redeemer.
— Psalm 19:14(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... God does so
much for us. He is the Strength
and Promise that undergirds our
lives. He is the One who has
saved us from sin and death. Our
worship comes from our gratitude
for what he has done, recognition
of who he is, and anticipation of
what he is going to do. But
worship can never be
compartmentalized to just fit into
church places or quiet times.
Worship involves every aspect of
life. That is why it is so important
for us to tune the words of our
mouths and the motives of our
hearts to God's will and work.
Then private worship, whether
alone in quiet or in a group with
Christians, becomes the tuning
time for our hearts and lives so
that our public worship, our lives
lived out in the world, will play
the song of God to a world who
has not yet heard his tune. My
Prayer... O Holy and Almighty
God, I want this day to be a day of
worship and honor to you. May
my life praise you: not just in
thought, not just in words, but
also in action. In the name of
Jesus I pray. Amen.
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Deals -- Cautionary Tales Abound campaign, endorsements or
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Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:00:00 PM they did last week in Chile, CNN running on a platform that
kept its cameras trained at the site. dovetails with the movement's
Contributor Chile is experiencing Americans were transfixed by the agenda.
what could be called 'egalitarian 58-hour rescue as a paramedic In some cases, candidates
capitalism.' This rare sentiment of wedged the 18-month-old baby up defeated establishment-backed
prosperity for all is captured in a from the narrow well slathered in Republicans in primaries. In other
photo of the country's president, petroleum jelly. Her parents, who cases, candidates had the backing
Sebastian Pinera, surrounded by were teenagers at the time, had of Palin, a tea party favorite, or
the recently rescued gold and the foresight to put the outpouring a r e g e t t i n g h e l p f r o m
copper miners in their hospital of donations to their daughter into FreedomWorks or other groups
gowns and bathrobes wearing a trust fund that Jessica McClure sympathetic to the tea party cause.
newly acquired$450 Oakley will receive next March when she Democrats — even those in party
sunglasses(to protect their eyes turns 25. strongholds — are not dismissing
from the sunlight that they had not Her most immediate rescuer did the challenge.
seen for 69 days). Cable news not fare as well. Robert O'Donnell Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff
r a t i n g s s u r g e d a s v i e w e r s Susana Valenzuela at Camp Hope before food could be lowered suffered from post-traumatic h o l d s a n e a r l y 2 0 - p o i n t
remained riveted for hours while calling out her husband's name). down to them, by rationing half
stress syndrome and had trouble registration edge in his suburban
The men made a compact, while spoonfuls of tuna or salmon. But
the men were brought up one by adjusting to every-day life after Los Angeles district, but he sent
still buried by rock, to share there were fistfights. Only after
one. We have not heard any first- being featured on the front page v o t e r s a t w o - p a g e l e t t e r
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b e c a u s e n o n e h a v e g i v e n to them, but assuming they're they dare joke about what each He committed suicide in 2004. party-backed Republican John
interviews. They understand their flooded with lucrative offers, how must have been thinking -- that A d u l a t i o n , h o w e v e r w e l l - Colbert would mean the end of
story is valuable, and want to sort will they divvy up everything their situation was so desperate it deserved, comes with a cost that Medicare and the Environmental
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Choose with care at your local
pizza shop, or it may be your
waistline that's doughy. Two
slices can easily cost 500 calories
without supplying much in the
way of helpful nutrients. Perhaps
the most pressing health concern
of all, though, is that it's
shockingly easy to consume more
than a day's worth of sodium from
just two slices.
But fear not—it is possible to eat
pizza without undoing a healthy
diet. When it comes to calories,
there are smart choices and
indulgent ones, as you'll see. Sky-
high sodium, though, is nearly
impossible to avoid. Your best
strategy is to plan around it:
Precede or follow pizza night with
a day of lower-sodium foods.
And size does matter: Order a
large instead of a medium, and
you end up consuming nearly 40
percent more pizza per slice.
The numbers below are for two
slices. Those labeled "Splurge
Only" aren't untouchable—no
food is—but can be a really big
splurge. Nutrition numbers are
estimates.
Splurge Only:
• Deep dish (cheese) 640 calories
Two slices from a 12-inch deep-
dish pizza have more than twice
the calories, fat, and sodium you
would get with a regular crust.
• The works/supreme 606
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with and one slice without.
• Hawaiian 520 calories Don't
think fruit makes this a healthy
choice: The pineapple is typically
sweetened (adding empty
calories), and the ham ratchets the
sodium up to nearly 1,300
milligrams per serving.
Healthy Choices:
• Thin crust cheese 388 calories
You save 50 calories and 200
milligrams of sodium by opting
for thin over regular
crust—without sacrificing flavor.
Choosing thin crust is a no-
brainer, no matter what the
topping.
• Mixed vegetable 466 calories
Add spinach and broccoli, and
this is as healthy as pizza gets.
Now if only we could lower the
sodium, which clocks in at a
whopping 1,020 milligrams.
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The Piedmont, the rolling terrain
in the middle of North Carolina,
has long been known as Tobacco
Road for its most famous farming
export. Lately, however, the
region has turned its attention to a
more healthful harvest. Not that
the area has forgotten its
agricultural roots—you can still
drive half an hour in just about
any direction from the capitol
building in Raleigh and find
yourself surrounded by farmland.
But instead of tobacco rows,
you're now more apt to see fields
of sustainably grown heirloom
tomatoes or pastures of grazing
dairy goats.
What prompts that kind of
change? Eating from the land is
woven into the culture here. The
diverse topography of North
Carolina (only 500 miles separate
western mountains from eastern
coast) means chefs can source
everything from oysters to apples,
both likely harvested within the
same day. Public health policy has
certainly helped, too; with
smoking rates dwindling, North
Carolina farmers have turned to
other crops just in time for the
rising local-food movement.
But the main driver is an
increasingly cosmopolitan
population drawn to the region by
the three major universities
(Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, NC
State) and scores of international
technology firms that now make
their homes in Raleigh, Durham,
and Chapel Hill—the three cities
in the eastern Piedmont that are
collectively known as The
Research Triangle.
While the recession hasn't cast as
dark a cloud over the region as it
has over other parts of the country
(thanks in large measure to the
strong presence of nearby
electronics and pharmaceutical
manufacturers and researchers),
its shadow can still be seen in a
dramatic increase in fine dining
establishments now offering
bargain meals. The quality of
ingredients isn't sacrificed, but
portion size is often reduced—a
silver lining for those seeking to
eat healthy.
Among the most enticing of such
dining deals is Chef Scott
Crawford's seasonally evolving
Market Menu at Herons, the
restaurant in the Umstead Hotel
and Spa. With a focus on local
produce—much of it grown in the
Umstead's garden—the three
course prix fixe lunch might
feature winter squash consommé,
roasted Carolina flounder, and a
Honeycrisp apple tart for $20. An
additional $12 yields wine
pairings for each course.
Crawford is one of a growing
number of chefs discovering
inventive new ways to present
traditional Southern flavors. At
Panciuto, Aaron Vandemark
peppers his contemporary Italian
menu with dishes such as grilled
pork rib chop with wilted Tuscan
greens and that country-cooking
classic, red-eye gravy. At Watts
Grocery, Chef Amy Tornquest's
Frogmore stew includes white
corn, shrimp, lump crabmeat, and
potatoes in a spicy tomato broth
seasoned with house-cured bacon.
Butcher Jeff Barney brought fine
dining way out into the
country—and into an old, no-frills
gas station 17 miles west of
Chapel Hill—when he opened
Saxapahaw General Store in
2008. The day's menu will likely
be a mystery until you arrive, but
expect dishes like hearty chickpea
succotash or burgers made from
goat raised just down the road.
"We love our Southern cuisine,
and we have lots of fantastic
restaurants that gladly provide it
to us," says Dave Artigues, a
Duke researcher-turned-farmer.
"But if you look carefully,
ingredients are fresher and more
locally produced. Preparation is
ingeniously executed, allowing
for a more healthful meal that still
honors the Southern tradition that
we all hold so dear here."
Among the rapidly growing
number of organic farms in the
area is Hilltop Farms, where bok
choy and tatsoi might just as
easily be harvested for a chef's
sophisticated Asian stir-fry as
sweet potatoes and collard greens
for a home cook's old-fashioned
Southern supper. Cane Creek
Farm provides grass-fed beef and
heritage breed Ossabaw and
Gloucestershire Old Spot pork for
restaurants like Piedmont, where
chef-partners Drew Brown and
Andy Magowan transform them
into shortrib ravioli and Italian
sausage. And Artigues' Elodie
Farms hosts monthly Dinners on
the Porch, where area chefs
highlight Artigues' goat cheese in
five-course gourmet meals.
"Though you'll see young hipster
farmers working happily
alongside a 75-year-old tobacco
grower, it's not just about being
trendy for North Carolina
farmers," says Sean Wilson, of
Fullsteam brewery in Durham.
"We're just doing what we've
always done. There's an
authenticity and permanence to
the South that we're proud of.
Local food isn't just a novelty
here; people really support it."
As in other other cities, Triangle
diners pay as much attention to
what's in their glass as to what's
on their plate. Here, though,
tradition is as revered as
innovation.
Mixologist Gary Crunkleton and
his staff readily regale customers
with the history of meticulously
researched classic
cocktails—Manhattans, Sazeracs,
Pimm's Cups, and Old-
Fashioneds—at The Crunkleton.
At Fullsteam, meanwhile, the
focus is more current and closer to
home: Locally grown sweet
potatoes, parsnips, and mulberries
make their way into subtly
nuanced brews (there's no cloying
pumpkin-pie spice in the sweet
potato beer, for example).
One thing you won't find at these
spots (or any other bar in the area)
is a haze of cigarette smoke. In
January of this year, North
Carolina—whose name has been
synonymous with tobacco since
the days of Sir Walter
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Raleigh—passed a statewide ban
on smoking in restaurants and
bars.
Nowadays, if there's any smoking
going on in a restaurant on
Tobacco Road, it's probably
something tasty being cooked up.
LUNCH AT GUGLHUPF
After more than a decade of
supplying some of the area's best
restaurants and sandwich shops,
local artisanal bakeries are now
offering their own dine-in options.
At La Farm Bakery in the nearby
town of Cary, master baker Lionel
Vatinet fills his Parisian baguettes
with charcuterie and Gruyère, and
transforms his rustic farm bread
into croques monsieurs. When the
weather is fair—a reasonable
expectation here well into
October—the landscaped patio at
Guglhupf fills quickly with
customers hungry for light salads
of shrimp salad with radicchio,
local tomatoes, and green goddess
dressing or sandwiches ranging
from roasted beef with arugula
and blue cheese spread to house-
roasted turkey with watercress.
Top it off with a cup of locally
roasted coffee and a Linzer
cookie.
Go there: Guglhupf
Make it at home: Fall Salad with
Apples, Walnuts, and Stilton
recipe
DINNER AT BU·KU
For the menu at bu·ku, Chef
William D'Auvray draws
inspiration from the pushcarts and
markets of the world. Diners can
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embark on a gastronomic tour that
might include Colombian arepas,
Polish beer--braised chicken
pierogis, Thai-style barbecued
pike, and a sashimi selection
unrivaled by any of the traditional
sushi bars in the area.
Go there: bu·ku
Make it at home: Coconut Red
Curry Hot Pot with Braised
Chicken and Mushrooms recipe
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Mollie (GetReligion) be superior to embryonic stem replacements for embryonic stem by President George W. Bush, a I have neither wealth,
Submitted at 10/16/2010 7:40:10 AM cells. For example, iPS cells could cells,” says research professor lawsuit challenging the use of nor fame, nor grace.
enable scientists to take an easily Daniel Anderson, walking public money for the research and I cannot comfort with words,
There was a massive “game- obtainable skin cell from any between his laboratories, which a conservative shift in Congress nor inspire to march.
changing” development in stem patient and use it to create are scattered across several floors could leave the field more sharply I am small and simple,
cell research last month, but you perfectly matched cells, tissue and in interconnected buildings at restricted than it has been since its so leave me this.
probably didn’t hear about it. potentially even entire organs for MIT. “But it’s not today.” inception a decade ago. At stake Let me heal you.
So what else is new? The short of transplants that would be immune For example: The viruses used to are about 1,300 jobs, as well as This is my body
it is that scientists figured out an to rejection. … reprogram adult skin cells to act grants from the National Institutes which is given for you.
improved method to efficiently “All I can say is ‘wow’ - this is a like embryonic stem cells make of Health that this year total more Take this
produce safe alternatives to game changer,” said Robert them unsafe, so far, for many than $200 million and support in remembrance of me.
human embryonic stem cells Lanza, a stem cell researcher at applications. more than 200 projects. The state agency apologized:
without destroying embryos. It’s Advanced Cell Technology in I think it might be a mistake to While this is true, as Wesley CIRM recently announced two
been just a few short years since Worcester, Mass. “It would solve equate potential risk with an Smith notes, it neglects to winners of the second annual
scientists figured out that they some of the most important actual lack of safety, but it doesn’t mention the $2 billion in private poetry contest, one of which
could pursue promising stem cell problems in the field.” … matter either way. The story and state funding the field has contained some religious
research without using, much less In 2006, researchers discovered completely misses this “game- received. “Indeed, in California, language that is identical to
killing, human embryos. that they could coax adult cells changing” development all the the CIRM is permitted-if it wishes liturgical language used in the
Rob Stein, who covers this beat into a state that appeared identical way across town. Part of the -to fund $300 million a year in context of Christian and Catholic
regularly at the Washington Post, to embryonic stem cells and then, problem could be that advances ESCR experiments. Surely that is sacraments. The language
had the goods. He explains that a just like embryonic stem cells, — or even discussion of advances relevant to a story on how the introduces a religious element that
team of researchers at the Harvard morph these iPS cells into various — in embryonic stem cell sector would be impacted if the we now realize was offensive to
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place where he could have glad to explain it all to them once deserve to be exposed and convincing because he couldn’t
thrived, and in any case, he never more, and did so in the kind of opposed as much now as when he have cared less about impressing -
From the Nov. 1, 2010, issue of did find a way back from “deadly long, lovely letters and essays Joe was alive.” - which might also help explain
NR. banishment” (to borrow a phrase could produce straight through in As a generation of NR readers his troubles later on.
A fter Bill Buckley died, people from Joe’s favorite author), or one sitting -- and at NR, on an will attest, along with friends who #ad#Whatever the controversy, he
who knew I’d once worked at even think to try. electric typewriter. His knew Joe Sobran longer and kept your attention on the matter
National Review asked about him, He lost his syndicated column, Shakespeare “obsession” gave better than I did, such talk does a at hand, applying his vast learning
and I always told them that lost the CBS radio slot he’d had critics one more pretext to write grave injustice to a good man, to instead of displaying it, inviting
nothing about the man was from 1979 to 1991 (“my three him off as a crank, and that didn’t his work, and to those final years agreement instead of demanding
overrated. When you grow up decades in radio”), wrote a trouble Joe either. He was just when even his judgment deserted it. Hugh Kenner described Joe’s
admiring a lofty public figure and newsletter, and, working out of happy in the knowledge that the him. And it’s certainly no way to early work as “a mind in
then find on direct acquaintance his home in Northern Virginia, case had been made and the work speak of the finest writer ever to exemplary action.” Bill Buckley
that he’s even better than the commanded the attention of completed -- as he told me at the pass through National Review. To recalled the thrill of detecting
image, when you remember his subscribers to The Wanderer, a time, “It exists.” paraphrase Joe in his defense of “singular powers” that first time
personal goodness more than his venerable little Catholic weekly When his name came up at all in Laurence Olivier (another Sobran he read something by Joe. It was a
greatness, that’s something. that carried Joe’s “Washington Washington journalism circles, it hobbyhorse) against the style that looked easy, except no
My experience with Buckley’s Watch” column. To read his was in sympathy over Joe’s disparagements of fellow actors, one else could duplicate it,
greatest literary protégé, Joseph commentaries in recent years, you travails, or as a supposed case the critics might as well belittle making points that seemed
Sobran, was happy in a different had to look for them, and lately study in why the Right needs a him; there is no hope at all of obvious, except no one else had
way. To see all of that talent up they were reprints. When the good purge now and then, or else rivaling him. thought of them. The quality of
close, as a colleague and friend, website featured “another classic as a horror story in career #page#His case for the Earl of Joe’s thinking was so evident that
was a privilege. But, of course, by from Joseph Sobran,” it signaled management. Even fellow Oxford rested in part on you could forget to compliment
the time of Joe’s death on declining health and fading conservatives, at least the younger “voiceprints,” the signature the quality of the writing.
September 30, he was at no risk of powers, and though he was just ones, tend to remember Joe’s patterns, technique, and tone that There was actually going to be a
an inflated reputation. And when 64, you knew there would never troubles more than his writings. could be no one else’s. Joe left his collection of his best NR stuff in
people ask me if all they’ve heard be another classic. You know you’ve been around own on 40 years’ worth of essays, the early 1990s, but the idea was
and read about the man is true, the He did, in 1997, finally publish awhile when a rising conservative columns, and reviews that dropped when he was. Ed
answer is no. his masterwork on the columnist presumes, as happened someone needs to finally gather Capano, our publisher at the time,
#ad#Explaining our sense of loss Shakespeare authorship question, once in my company, to denigrate up into a published collection by liked the title Sobran Thoughts,
to those who didn’t know Joe resolving the case in favor of Joseph Sobran as if he were some our era’s master of plain-English while I proposed Order Out of
Sobran, or perhaps have only Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of old nobody -- that bum who got prose. Don’t bother checking his Chaos-- with a picture of Joe’s
heard the name, is complicated, in Oxford. He loved Shakespeare, run off for being a hatemonger. house for the old clips, either, smoky landfill of an office on the
large part because of Joe’s falling- who “seems to know us better And lest we allow any tender because Joe himself hardly cover -- to convey the mystery of
out with Bill and the magazine than we know him,” and if the feelings to slip in now that Joe has thought to save his own writings, how such clarity of analysis could
some 20 years ago, and the lonely author was actually someone else, been buried, his critics are still at and this in a way was part of his be sustained in a life so cluttered.
career path he followed from then it seemed to Joe worth ten it -- one fellow making the late- secret: He wrote with so little self- The book would have included
there. Dust off your copy of Bill’s years of his life to prove. It didn’t breaking announcement that along regard. It was a style so natural, classics like his 1985 meditation
In Search of Anti-Semitism for all really matter to him that even the with everything else, Joe was “a comfortable, and unpretentious on the basic differences in outlook
the details; it was an awful, small group immersed in this 400- Nazi fellow-traveler.” The that even praise like “graceful,” between conservatives and
entirely avoidable departure from year-old controversy refused to People’s Meeting isn’t over yet; “elegant,” or “polished” -- though liberals (a piece given the title “
the place where Joe had thrived give him much of a hearing, those who haven’t finished can it was all of those -- doesn’t Pensées” against Joe’s will -- he
since 1972 as a contributor and dismissing Alias Shakespeare still denounce this enemy who exactly fit Joe’s writing because it disliked “out-of-town words”). An
senior editor. National Review with condescending lectures on “spent much of his life suggests intended effect, a desire
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example, pulled almost at random
from the essay, shows not how
Joe wrote at his very best, but
how he wrote consistently:
There are natural limits to our
sympathies, limits liberalism can
only condemn, never respect. And
there is no reason to credit its
attitude with “idealism.” A robin
that took worms to every nest in
the forest would not be an ideal
robin; it would only be an odd
bird.
Joe elaborated:
Nothing is easier than to imagine
some notionally “ideal” state. But
we give too much credit to this
debased kind of imagination,
which is so ruthless when it takes
itself seriously. To appreciate, on
the other hand, is to imagine the
real, to discover use, value,
beauty, order, purpose in what
already exists; and this is the kind
of imagination most appropriate
to creatures, who shouldn’t
confuse themselves with the
Creator.
The highest form of appreciation
is worship. I don’t insist that there
is a correlation between formal
religion and conservatism. But
there is an attitude prior to any
creed, which may make a healthy-
minded unbeliever regretful that
he has nobody to thank for all the
goodness and beauty in his life
that he has done nothing to
deserve. One might almost say
that the crucial thing about a man
is not whether he believes in God,
but how he imagines God: as
infinitely good and adorable, or
merely as an authoritarian
obstacle to human desire? The
opposite of piety is not unbelief,
but crassness.
So much of what he wrote in
those days was appreciative, and
in the way of “hatemongering,”
what Joe seemed to despise most
was a ruthless streak in his fellow
man, bullying in any form, and
the euphemisms that trait inspires.
“Most of the world is a mystery,”
he wrote in “ Pensées.”
“Consciousness is a little clearing
in a vast forest; every individual
has his own special relation to the
area of mystery, his own little
discoveries to impart.” In Joe’s
little clearing, he kept coming
upon crass and violent things
done in the name of high-
sounding causes, and he revealed
them for what they are with
reason and wit.
#page#His 1983 book Single
Issues, gathering his work for the
Human Life Review, is as
eloquent and persuasive a defense
of the unborn as I know of,
because even there, where Joe’s
feelings ran deepest, he retained
his sense of calm and courtesy.
He wrote an open letter in the mid
-1980s to Mario Cuomo, when the
New York governor was being
lionized in the media as the
Catholic champion of the pro-
choice position. Joe’s letter is
unanswerable, and most of all the
opening paragraphs where he
describes the thing chosen, based
on some pictures a doctor had
given him showing a second-
trimester baby boy who never
reached the third:
#ad#
I told you I’m no theologian. It
didn’t take much theology to
understand those pictures. I
reacted about the same way I’d
have reacted before I was a
Catholic: I just stared at
them.#...#Not that it was a highly
emotional experience. Just the
opposite. All my emotions were
very still. It didn’t seem to make
much difference what I felt, or
whether I felt anything. Outrage
would have seemed as hollow as
nonchalance. I just kept staring
until it sank in.
He didn’t like the word “issues” -
- it bought into the premise that
everything in life is on the
political agenda, awaiting
government action -- but whatever
we call them, he covered a lot. He
wrote in those days about
abortion, Christianity, capitalism,
socialism, class, race, the
Constitution, the courts,
pornography, the media,
Shakespeare, baseball, movies,
music, and all kinds of public
figures, past and present,
including favorites like Brando
and Sinatra and the writers he
most admired -- Samuel Johnson,
G. K. Chesterton, and C. S.
Lewis. You could toss Joe any
book and he’d come back with
some funny, judicious, and never
quite predictable verdict, as in a
1989 review in which he
described Paul Johnson’s method
in Intellectuals as “Will Durant
with a beadle’s whip.” The book
is a tour of the flawed lives of
leftist intellectuals, and Joe didn’t
care for it:
There is something wrong with a
writer who arouses in me an
impulse to defend Lillian
Hellman. Bitch, slut, liar, tyrant,
crypto-Communist, self-deluded
fool, yes. But is it fair to pile on
the rumor that she once made
herself the prize in a poker game?
Does the inductive method require
such detail? Doesn’t the beadle’s
arm ever weary?
It all sounded awful, he added,
but such characters could
probably be found among people
whose politics Johnson shares.
Noam Chomsky is dragged in
solely for his detestable radical
views, with no evidence -- apart
from the very fact that he appears
in this book -- that his personal
life is in any way defective.
Mentioning him in this context
seems unfair.#...#[Johnson]
should have complicated it with a
few unpleasant “right-wingers.” If
he couldn’t find them, he wasn’t
really looking.
#page#Editors sent Joe off to
events and places more as an
experiment than as an assignment,
just to see what little details
would catch his attention. He
wasn’t much for on-the-scene
reporting and rarely ventured far
from home, but here’s a stretch
from an account of his trip in late
1975 with Buckley, Kevin Lynch,
and some other NR colleagues to
Russia. It’s titled “Next Year,
Tahiti!” and this is just one
paragraph:
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Twice I left the tour group and
walked through Moscow alone or
with a friend. Once you get away
from the showcases, it seems a
city of shabby old warehouses.
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The people are stolid and
expressionless, though you see
girls holding hands and young
boys laughing together as if they
have not yet learned the gloomy
secret their elders share. One
lovely girl -- in Moscow that’s a
mermaid in a swamp -- smiled at
me, and I didn’t know why until I
got home and saw Kevin Lynch’s
photo of me in my fur hat: I was
the very image of heroic Russian
youth. One day Rose Flynn (NR’s
treasurer) and I went inside the
shopping center we had been so
proudly shown from our tour bus,
and believe me, you never pity the
Russians so much as when you
inspect the things they vaunt. The
queues were immense: women
even waited in line to try dresses
on, bad print dresses, overpriced.
The groceries were worse: we saw
identical jars of plum juice in
three shades (no artificial coloring
added), and the meat must have
been DOA at the slaughterhouse.
Rose and I got back to Red
Square too late to go inside
Lenin’s mausoleum, but when we
saw a bridal party going to the
head of the line to draw some sort
of nuptial benison from
association with that corpse, it
came home to us that Lenin is
simply not a national hero, like
Washington. Not at all. He is a
god. No Caesar was ever more
truly deified than this little man
whose cruel face is so
monstrously ubiquitous. Marx, by
comparison, is almost unseen.
Marxism-Leninism is Leninism.
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He knew how to keep you alert:
“Anything called a program is
unconstitutional.” “War is just
another big government
program.” “Freedom is coming to
mean little more than the right to
ask permission.” “Politics is the
conspiracy of the unproductive
but organized against the
productive but unorganized.”
When the escaped Nazi scientist
Mengele was discovered to have
lived on in South America,
working as an abortionist, the next
Sobran offering was titled “Josef
Mengele, Angel of Choice.” After
Ted Kennedy and his nephew ran
into trouble on a Good Friday,
and tried to cover up their
cavortings before the nephew was
charged with rape, Joe offered as
the moral: “A family that preys
together stays together.” After the
Ayatollah Khomeini died, he
asked: “Does this mean Rushdie’s
off the hook?” How to sum up
Joe’s case that Truman was wrong
to order the second atomic
bombing? “If you can’t stand the
heat, get out of Nagasaki.”
I loved his way of starting things,
often with some little gem worthy
of Eric Hoffer, such as: “Abortion
might be called the single issue
about which you mustn’t be a
single-issue voter.” Or: “In the
Catholic Church it takes several
centuries for a doctrine to become
a dogma. In progressive circles
the same process can be achieved
within months.” A personal
favorite of mine is the lead to a
1990 NR essay Joe wrote about
baseball, recalling how much he
had played and loved the game as
a boy in Ypsilanti, Mich. It may
strike others as unmemorable, if
not pedestrian, but somehow it
still works for me:
Ted Williams began his
autobiography by saying that
when he was a kid, his only
ambition was to have people say,
as he walked down the street,
“There goes the greatest hitter
who ever lived.” My own
autobiography could start the
same way. It would end a little
differently, though.
I guess what I like about it is the
simple charm and efficiency of
starting that way, instead of
reaching, as he easily could have,
for some larger reflection on the
“meaning” of our national
pastime. He described a fellow
commentator’s writing as too fine
and showy (producing “the
column as master’s thesis”), and
resisted all temptations in that
direction. Joe didn’t “craft,” he
just wrote, turning out copy
instead of performing for his
public. For a good lead, he
advised, you’ve got to “run on the
pitch.”
#page#Other times he’d start off
with some thought, casually
offered as usual, that would throw
you back a bit, as in a 1989
review of a book about Orwell
called The Politics of Literary
Reputation. In a dozen or so
words, Joe dispenses with all
conventional opinion on the
subject at hand: “I have always
enjoyed reading George Orwell,
except for his fiction, especially
Nineteen Eighty-Four.” He
summarizes the book’s thesis,
about Orwell and literary politics,
in a couple of sentences, and then
informs the author that he “takes
it all much too seriously”:
#ad#
To make matters worse, he writes
sentences that don’t suggest he’s
alive to Orwell’s syntactical
vigor: “We will return to these
conceptual points as we relate the
anomalies of Orwell’s present-day
educational institutionalization
and their implications for canon-
and reputation-formation to the
development of his curricular
reputation.” I’m quoting out of
context, but only because I would
spare you reading the context too.
Four hundred pages of this stuff is
a lot of context.
When I asked Joe once if he’d
read a particular book, he replied,
“No, but I reviewed it,” and I
have a feeling this Orwell study
got the same treatment. Yet even
when he was having fun, he
wasn’t mean or condescending,
though a man of his superior gifts
could so easily have been both.
He observed of another author
and former NR contributor, in a
1974 piece, that “learned as he is,
he writes as if he had graduated
from erudition to omniscience,
and as if the ignorance of his
enemies (he seems to assume
enmity between himself and his
subjects) deprived them of any
dignity.” Joe’s own writing
assumed friendship with his
reader, in a perfect mix of the
formal and colloquial, always so
pleasantly offhanded even when
he was giving bad ideas and
conduct their due. No one ever
got the better of him in any
rhetorical clash, because such
debates are usually lost when a
posture is revealed, and Joe
assumed no posture, just an
attitude of relaxed discourse that
would gladly yield to a better
argument if one were offered.
His favorite conservative was
Samuel Johnson, because,
explained Joe, Johnson knew his
reader’s instincts and trusted his
reader’s intelligence. He assumed
no special wisdom of his own, but
held truth as “a common
possession.” Indeed, “he may
fairly be called the great
champion of the obvious. To
Johnson, the great truths are
above all public, available equally
to all reflective men.” Joe himself
wrote in this spirit, in a tone that
won your trust even when you
couldn’t quite agree, or, as in later
years, when you thought he was
carrying matters past the point of
useful inquiry. You could doubt
his judgment, if you heard him
out, but never his integrity. And
maybe the surest sign that his
judgment and fine Johnsonian
disposition were beginning to fail
(doubtless along with his health
and financial fortunes, which
were both very bad in recent
years) was that the sense of humor
was fading too. He told me in his
NR days that getting a funny line
down on paper was one of the
hardest things to do, but when Joe
Sobran was in form, he was at
least the equal of Johnson,
Chesterton, or even Malcolm
Muggeridge.
He called Hugh Hefner, before
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Playboy moved west, “the most
pretentious meatpacker in all
Chicago,” and began a 1974 essay
-- “The Sage and Serious Doctrine
of Hugh Hefner” -- with an
observation about the captions
under the pictures. I’m not sure
Joe would count the passage
among his “best of,” but there’s
no doubting that only he would
lay it out quite this way:
If the playmates have changed,
the captions have changed more.
They have always been aloof, but
they used to be more humorous.
Though Gloria, or whoever, might
look ecstatic with desire for the
reader, the caption would just
ignore that, according her instead
something of the detached
admiration that is the meed of fine
horseflesh -- she was described in
fancy phrases like “amply
endowed,” “pulchritudinous,”
“cantilevered,” and “39-21-35.”
The jocose circumlocution was
necessary, for Playboy’s specialty
is not merely sex but
attitudinizing about sex, putting it
in the comforting setting of
sophisticated camaraderie.
The difficulty of writing texts for
such pictures is greater than one
might assume. Try it. What can
you say: “The reader will note
that Gloria has huge knockers”?
No. No! You have to be more
elegant than that, or why say
anything? And Playboy has this
compulsion to say something. It
has, easily, the largest words/
knockers ratio in the history of
girlie magazines, and that ratio
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helps account for its success.
#page#He reviewed The Last
Temptation of Christ, the 1988
film by Martin Scorsese, noting at
the outset: “The movie begins
with a disclaimer to the effect that
any resemblance to real persons --
living, dead, or resurrected -- is
purely coincidental.” The movie,
of course, was notorious for a
scene in which the Jesus character
dreams of sleeping with Mary
Magdalene, and the fantasy is
played out on screen. Joe’s piece
is entitled “Jesus, We Hardly
Knew Ye,” and after a series of
hilarious observations he
concludes:
#ad#
Whatever you think Jesus was, he
wasn’t this fumbling pretty boy,
torn between being a Messiah and
settling down with a whore-turned
-Hausfrau. The options are too
opposite. They belong to different
scales of personality. You might
as well imagine Napoleon torn
between conquering Europe and
becoming a Parisian chef. That
would be less bathetic than this
Jesus who wouldn’t even rate a
statue in the town square, let
alone change the world
forever.#...#
That’s why the alignment of
attackers and defenders [in the
controversy over the film] falls
along such rigidly predictable
lines. They’re all fighting for
possession of the sacred name.
It’s still the secret name of what
we now call “Western”
civilization.
If there is ever a Sobran
authorship controversy, we will
know just what to look for. All we
have to do is search the text for a
single false note, a self-
consciously literary touch, a
forced sentiment or piece of
flattery, a loss of calm or fairness,
an insult standing in place of wit,
or an attitude in place of an
argument, and finding any one of
these, we could rule out Joe. If, on
the other hand, we detect a
lightness and charm in the tone, a
modesty in literary manner, an
original use of common words,
arguments that are devastating but
never aggressive, and a sense of
fun that has us dissolving in
laughter before we can even
complete the analysis, that would
be our man.
You can see these same qualities
at work in Joe’s early
commentaries addressing the anti-
Semitism suspicions, back in the
late 1980s, when all the trouble
started. He had been in many
controversies before, and seemed
to assume this was just one more
along the way. Freedom was more
than the right to ask permission,
and why should these new
adversaries in debate command
any more deference than all the
others? Only now he had
stumbled into a tough section of
town, where his arguments invited
more than counterarguments, his
witty lines didn’t have their usual
effect, and his doggedness in
debate didn’t hold the audience.
Joe either didn’t notice or refused
to acknowledge the different
circumstances. He just went right
along, as in a 1987 NR column
entitled “Le Nouveau Canard,”
not only addressing his accusers
but, to make matters worse,
teasing them:
My putative bigotries include anti
-Semitism, racism, sexism, and
homophobia. I’ve been accused of
others (hating Italians, for
example), but these are the Big
Four. I’ve also been diagnosed as
“obsessive.”#...#
Last summer I discovered the
utter futility of trying to defend
my own motives against those
who claim to be more
authoritative and more honest
about them than I am. Norman
Podhoretz and his wife, Midge
Decter, took up the theme that I
was anti-Semitic. That was when
Norman charged me with writing
“obsessively” about Jews and
Israel. Since then I’ve hardly
mentioned these subjects, by the
way, but Norman is still on the
warpath. I guess he finds it hard to
stop thinking about my obsession.
Wherever Joe stood with Norman
Podhoretz, what mattered much
more, as friends told him, was
where he stood with Bill Buckley.
Honorable retreat is available
when a man who discovers you,
hires you, and over many years
protects you from personal
troubles asks for your silence on
the matter -- in deference to his
judgment, and never mind all the
endless particulars of an argument
already made many times over.
#page#Whatever he believed
about the first Gulf war, the
Middle East in general, and
American-Israeli relations, there
were, moreover, ways to state the
case without letting a principled
difference devolve into literary
warfare. It was Joe who reminded
others that before you criticize
people and causes, you have to
first appreciate them. So why not
a few words like those he had
written earlier in his career, about
the greatness and heroism of the
people of Israel, if only to show
himself a credible observer of
their country’s conduct?
There was also an obligation to
his own talent, not to squander it
in pointless intellectual battles
when there were so many good
and worthy causes that needed
him. The protection of life, the
defense of freedom, the
advancement of “Western” ideals,
and hell, even the cause of
Edward de Vere, were all more
important than settling this one
ultimately fruitless quarrel in
which Joe had gotten himself
trapped.
#ad#He had his own views on all
of this, of course, and Buckley got
it just right in noting Joe’s
“obstinate tendentiousness” on the
subject. Reading this further
criticism in NR, he would
doubtless run us through the
entire matter again, point by
point, fallacy by fallacy, just as
rigorously and affably as he did in
reply to Buckley’s painstaking,
book-length essay, In Search of
Anti-Semitism. Joe agreed with
an observer’s description of Bill’s
extended review of the anti-
Semitism case against him as that
of “an extremely scrupulous judge
at a show trial,” and began his
defense:
When a man shouts “Wolf!” it’s
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not really necessary to remind us
that the wolf is a dangerous
animal, or to inform us that its
Latin name is Canis lupus, or to
discourse on its breeding and
migratory patterns. We just want
to know if there’s really a wolf
there. And if we find no trace of a
wolf, it may be helpful to know
whether the man doing all the
yelling uses the word “wolf” to
include, say, terriers and spaniels.
Had he only left it there -- with
this rebuttal that perhaps only
Buckley, among magazine
editors, would even have solicited
for inclusion with his statement of
the case -- how much better off he
would have been. “I learned a lot
of things from Bill Buckley,” Joe
said in one of his last writings,
“but the best thing he taught me
was how to be a Christian.” Yet
for a time, happily ended before
both were gone, Joe traded a
friend and mentor who loved him
for new company that was
beneath him, National Review for
the Institute for Historical
Review. His appearance before
that sorry outfit a few years ago
(it’s the kind of group where they
talk about “the Holocaust story”)
remains impossible to explain, at
least if you’re trying to absolve
him. If, as I had always supposed,
Joe was just one damn stubborn
spaniel who didn’t know when to
let the point go, then what was he
doing with all those wolves? It
calls to mind a Sobran line
directed at Mario Cuomo, in that
letter rebuking the governor’s way
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The Wilders West
Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:00:25 AM
Once a place of free inquiry,
Europe is slowly stifling itself.
F or a prosecutor, it was a simple
matter of cause and effect. First, I
showed that the “Blind Sheikh,”
Omar Abdel Rahman, called for
acts of violence: He admonished
Muslims that Allah commanded
them to slay non-believers and
precisely quoted Islamic
scriptures to back up that
admonition. Then I showed that
Muslim terrorists responded to
these scripturally based
exhortations by plotting and
carrying out terrorist acts.
For this, the Clinton
administration presented me the
Attorney General’s Exceptional
Service Award, the Justice
Department’s highest honor. For
doing exactly the same thing, the
justice department of the
Netherlands presented Dutch
parliamentarian Geert Wilders
with an indictment.
#ad#I got the pretty glass eagle
for the mantelpiece, and the Blind
Sheikh got sent to prison.
Wilders, by contrast, got to stand
in the dock while the global
Islamist movement got to savor
the possibility of something far
more valuable than a trophy: a
white flag draped over the
shriveling remains of free speech.
Wilders has been acquitted, but
his trial was nonetheless
damaging to what remains of the
Western tradition of free
discourse and inquiry.
For demonstrating cause and
effect, for graphically displaying -
- most notoriously in his short
film, Fitna-- that Islamic
scriptures beget jihadist atrocities,
Wilders was put on trial in the
Netherlands. In this Kafkaesque
situation, as Diana West reports, it
would have been hard to conjure
words more frightening than the
ones that tripped off the Dutch
prosecutor’s lips: “It is irrelevant
whether Wilders’ witnesses might
prove Wilders’ observations to be
correct. What’s relevant is that his
observations are illegal.”
And so they might easily have
proved to be, in much of Europe.
Wilders was charged with
speaking words and producing
images that were discriminatory
toward Muslims, and that insult
and incite hatred against Muslims.
Such speech is criminal in the
Netherlands, as it is throughout
Europe, which teems with
defiantly non-assimilating
Muslims and which has responded
to the resulting cultural
confrontation with the societal
surrender known as political
correctness. That the things
Wilders has said may be true
made no difference in the case. It
is immaterial whether the bracing
opinions he has expressed are
grounded in fact, or that the
success of a free society hinges on
its being an informed society.
Wilders, says the prosecution, was
guilty simply for saying these
things. In the new West, we are
unconcerned with the pathologies
that besiege us. But those who
call our attention to the
pathologies -- who dare to
puncture our “religion of peace”
fantasy -- must be quelled. After
all, they may get Muslims upset,
and you know what happens when
Muslims get upset.
Here in America, I can still write
the last part of that last sentence --
for now. But maybe not for long,
if President Obama has anything
to say about it. Last spring, the
administration joined with the
Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) to propose a
United Nations resolution that
condemns “negative stereotyping
of religions.” The resolution
exhorts all nations to take
“effective measures” to “address
and combat” incidents involving
“any advocacy of#...#religious
hatred” that could be construed as
an “incitement” not just to
“violence” but to any form of
“discrimination,” or even to mere
“hostility.”
We needn’t worry about that
here, you tell yourself. We’ve got
the First Amendment. Don’t be so
sure. The anti-hostility resolution
states that the “effective
measures” it urges are compelled
by each nation’s “obligations
under international human-rights
law.” When we look at one source
of such law, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights (foolishly ratified by the
first President Bush, after U.S.
Senate consent, in 1992), we find
-- nearly verbatim in Article 20 --
the same speech-suffocating
standard proposed by Obama and
the OIC: “Any advocacy of
national, racial or religious hatred
that constitutes incitement to
discrimination, hostility or
violence shall be prohibited by
law.”
#page#Even before Elena Kagan
made it to the Supreme Court,
there existed a five-justice
majority (including Anthony
Kennedy) for the proposition that
international and foreign law
should be weighed in interpreting
American constitutional
guarantees. Justice Kagan keeps
that bloc intact, sliding
comfortably into the shoes of her
predecessor, Justice John Paul
Stevens. She is also known to
harbor hostility toward free
speech: As an academic she
belittled its value, and as solicitor
general she argued that
“categories of speech” may be
suppressed if the government, in
its wisdom, decides the “societal
costs” of permitting them are too
high.
#ad#When it comes to Islam as a
category of speech, there is no
doubt that our current government
reflects the transnational
progressive consensus: that the
Western tradition of critical
examination must give way to the
Muslim tradition of submission.
This is why when jihadists attack,
the self-loathing elite’s response
is to wonder what we did to
offend them. It is also why when
Muslims rioted over harmless
cartoon depictions of their warrior
-prophet as a warrior-prophet, the
State Department’s harshest
condemnation was reserved not
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for the marauders but for the
offending newspaper. It is why
Yale University Press would only
publish a book about the cartoon
controversy after the author
agreed to purge from its pages the
cartoons themselves. It is why the
Washington Post just spiked a
“Where’s Mohammed?” spoof in
which the prophet nowhere
appeared -- and, by this craven
act, validated cartoonist Wiley
Miller’s point about Western
timidity.
At least Mr. Miller is around to
tell the tale. Seattle cartoonist
Molly Norris had to go
underground for merely
suggesting an “Everybody Draw
Mohammed Day” -- as Mark
Steyn observes, even being a good
lefty who never followed through
and tried to disavow the whole
business didn’t help her. The
threat whose name must not be
spoken was too much. On the
FBI’s advice, she disappeared
without a trace, much to the relief
of her former employer, the
Seattle Weekly.
The Blind Sheikh has more
maladies than I’ve got space to
describe them. He can’t build a
bomb, hijack a plane, or carry out
an assassination. His one and only
capacity to cause mayhem is his
renowned mastery of Islamic
doctrine. We know little about
Islam. By comparison, the Blind
Sheikh is a doctor of Islamic
jurisprudence, graduated from
storied al-Azhar University and
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The Not-So-Great Recession
Submitted at 10/18/2010 3:00:12 AM
Our present situation does not
resemble the Great Depression.
T he National Bureau of
Economic Research has declared
that the Great Recession ended in
June 2009. At first glance, some
may see the end of the recession
as vindication of the White
House’s stimulus and its other
aggressive fiscal-policy
initiatives. But a closer look at the
numbers suggests the president
and his economic advisers may
have significantly misdiagnosed
the nature of the recession.
President Obama frequently
invokes the specter of the Great
Depression in speeches to the
public, knowing full well that the
reference conjures up images of
mass unemployment, breadlines,
and despair. In one of his more
recent high-profile appearances,
the president forcefully claimed
that his administration’s policies
staved off a second Great
Depression.
#ad#True enough, the Great
Recession lasted 18 months.
That’s the longest recessionary
period since 1929. But this fact
reveals far less than the president
implies. The Great Depression
was a decade-long economic
roller coaster. The economy fell
into a 43-month abyss, grew for a
while starting in 1933, and then
plummeted again into recession in
1937. By some estimates,
unemployment peaked at one
third of the national labor force.
The Great Recession isn’t
anywhere close to those numbers.
While the president has accurately
called the absolute numbers of
jobs lost “unprecedented,” the
economy is so much larger now
that the official unemployment
rate has barely nudged up to the
10 percent mark. In 1929, the
economy generated about $977
billion in goods and services (in
2005 dollars). In 2009, in the
midst of the Great Recession, the
economy generated $12.9 trillion
(down from $13.2 trillion in
2008).
Indeed, the Great Recession is
significant only when compared
with the relatively mild recessions
of the recent past. Most recessions
have been short and shallow. The
recession of 1973–75 was 16
months long, and unemployment
peaked at 8.5 percent. The
recession of 1981–82 was also 16
months long, and unemployment
peaked at 9.7 percent -- about
where it stands today.
These similarities are hugely
important for economic policy.
For all practical purposes, the
Obama administration’s entire
economy-policy framework is
built on bolstering aggregate
demand by goosing consumer
spending and ramping up
government spending.
In a world where national output
has declined by nearly half -- as it
did from 1929 to 1933 -- this
approach is plausible (if still
controversial). But in an
economic climate that is
characterized by recession, not
depression, this aggregate-
demand-driven approach is far
more suspect. Recessions are
typically caused by industrial
restructuring or realigning supply
and demand, not massive, across-
the-board declines in output or
income.
The steep recession of 1973–75,
for example, was triggered in part
by price shocks resulting from a
quadrupling of oil prices.
Persistent inflation complicated
matters as the Federal Reserve
used monetary policy to keep
interest rates low while financing
federal spending for the Vietnam
War and massive expansions of
social programs. Both these price
effects resulted in significant
reallocations of resources in the
private sector as businesses,
investors, and consumers adjusted
to the new realities of higher
energy costs, less access to private
capital, and higher consumer
prices. In economic terms, relative
prices changed, and we had to
adjust.
It is less well known that during
this period, there was a dramatic
shift in international
competitiveness in manufacturing
that required domestic industries
to restructure and become more
competitive. Once the economy
reset its industrial “mix,” it began
to grow again.
#page#The steep recession of
1980–81 was accompanied by a
further, even more dramatic
restructuring of American
industry. Heightened international
competition, most notably in
automobiles, steel, and
electronics, forced American
industry to tighten its belt,
streamline, innovate, and shift
away from mass production in
order to survive. This was the
period when Japan, not China,
was supposed to be eating our
lunch. Economic downturns also
took on distinctly regional
characteristics: Midwestern and
northeastern manufacturing
economies crumbled while
service-based and “new”-
manufacturing southern and
southwestern economies boomed.
The Great Recession’s proximate
cause was the bursting of the
housing bubble, but this is far too
simple an explanation. Exotic
financial instruments, with the
help of federal housing and
monetary policy, emerged to
satisfy what seemed like an
endless thirst for real-estate
investment. But the impacts were
not even. Texas has hardly
experienced a blip, while
California, Florida, and Las Vegas
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have seen their housing markets
collapse. Midwestern states such
as Ohio and Michigan continue to
get hammered as their economies
restructure and low incomes
undermine local housing markets.
#ad#The nuances of recessionary
declines are apparently lost in the
current White House
policymaking apparatus, which
seems consumed with the belief
that a massive federal response is
necessary. President Obama
continues to invoke the simplistic
message of Great Depression–era
decline, shunning the
complexities of recent recessions
that are likely much more relevant
to today’s economic challenges.
At the end of the day, the capital
markets that became entangled in
the Gordian Knot of financial-
industry excess will have to lead
the nation out of its present woes.
Until we find a way to cut this
knot, no amount of feel-good
government spending is going
turn the economy around. Indeed,
the solution may be the most
politically difficult decision of all:
Let private markets sort
themselves out to reestablish a
foundation for long-term growth.
-- Samuel R. Staley is Robert W.
Galvin Fellow and Director of
Urban & Land Use Policy at the
Reason Foundation. Samuel R.
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of sounding pro-life while
encouraging exactly the opposite
cause: “The worst thing I can say
about you is a thing that is too
obvious to deny: that these
fanatics accept you as one of their
own.”
#page#He was, as another former
colleague of Joe’s put it to me,
“the co-author of his own
misfortunes.” Yet we all hope to
be remembered for our best
moments, and pardoned for our
worst ones, and those who knew
Joe Sobran can still remember a
person who seemed incapable of
hateful or cruel thoughts of any
kind, much less hatred for an
entire people. If anti-Semitism
were not beneath that man
morally, it would surely have
been beneath him intellectually.
It’s a crass, wicked, and irrational
view of the world that just can’t
be squared with the wisdom and
goodness of heart that shine
through the rest of his work. You
might say the ideas and the man
belong to different scales of
personality.
#ad#I spoke to him on the phone
once around 1998, when Joe was
really down, which he wasn’t
often, and he mentioned some
new benefactors who were trying
to help him get his career back
together. It was small money but
needed, and he felt miserable at
having to rely on the kindnesses
of these few left who seemed to
believe in his abilities and the
works still in him. “They think
I’m Chesterton,” he said, in a tone
of bitter self-reproach, for where
he had got himself, for all the
books he wanted to write and now
realized he never would. I just
hope he knew, and I’m glad I told
him, that those good people were
right. The work completed was
more than enough to earn the
tribute, and nothing can take away
what he achieved. It exists. And
were Chesterton himself to read
Joe’s work, he would be honored
by the comparison.
What a wonderful thing that Bill
Buckley and Joe spoke again as
friends, and surely Bill would
have been the first among us, now
that Joe has gone to his rest, to
recall what a brilliant man this
was, and better still what an
endearing fellow. There are
bigger mistakes in life than
subverting one’s career, and in an
era when opinion journalists too
carefully cultivate their “brand,”
there’s something to be said for a
guy like Joe, who had only pure
talent to offer the world and no
aptitude whatever for self-
promotion, nor even survival. In
the immortal words of Edward de
Vere, the Earl of Oxford,
“Reputation is an idle and most
false imposition; oft got without
merit, and lost without
deserving.” What Joseph Sobran
deserves right now is to be
remembered at his best, as a kind
and gentle person, a noble soul,
and among opinion journalists,
the greatest of his time.
— Matthew Scully has served as
National Review’s literary editor,
as senior speechwriter to Pres.
George W. Bush, and as a
speechwriter to 2008 Republican
presidential nominee John
McCain and vice-presidential
nominee Sarah Palin. He is the
author of Dominion: The Power
of Man, the Suffering of Animals,
and the Call to Mercy. Matthew
Scully
WILDERS
continued from page 65
steeped in that ancient
institution’s literalist, militant
construction of Muslim theology.
We are instructed by our betters to
view Islam as a religion of peace -
- indeed, as one of our best assets
in the fight against terrorism. To
the contrary, the Blind Sheikh
instructed the faithful that Islamic
scriptural commands -- Allah’s
personal commands -- to violence
and intolerance mean exactly
what they say.
Because of his exalted clerical
status -- that is, owing to his
authority in Islam and nothing
else -- the Blind Sheikh was able
to spur Muslims to terror. Upon
demonstrating this fact, I was
given an award, while he was
locked in a prison cell.
Fifteen years later, for making a
similar demonstration, Geert
Wilders risked being the one
locked in a prison cell. Fifteen
years later, when Iraq’s Ayatollah
Ali Sistani says Islam requires the
killing of homosexuals, it is
considered preaching; when Geert
Wilders says it, it is a hate crime.
I don’t know if the Netherlands
gives its prosecutors baubles for
67
proving this sort of thing.
Wilders’ prosecutors seem
unlikely to be lauded: They have
now tried to dismiss the charges
against him for a second time, the
first (in 2008) having been
rejected by Dutch jurists who
seem hell-bent on nailing Wilders
and whose approval is needed
before the case can be dropped. I
do know the Islamists at the OIC
have already been handsomely
rewarded by this travesty. Their
campaign to impose sharia
proscriptions against speech
unfavorable to Islam -- against
telling uncomfortable truths about
Koranic injunctions and the
terrible consequences that flow
from them -- is steadily
vanquishing the West’s
commitment to discourse and
reason.
-- Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior
fellow at the National Review
Institute, is the author, most
recently, of The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America. Andrew C. McCarthy
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HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job Search

Sharlyn Lauby (Mashable!) and#jobsearch offer both job the #jobhuntchat group. This “Finding #jobhuntchat catapulted
Submitted at 10/16/2010 6:23:50 PM openings and general job search “first of its kind” Twitter chat me into the world of online
advice. If you’re looking for high takes place every Monday night networking. As a college senior,
About 300 to 500 jobs are posted -level information about how to from 10-11 p.m. ET. The I’d barely built up a network and
on Twitter per minute, according conduct a job search, this could be audience consists of recruiters, had zero connections in the
to Carmen Hudson, CEO and co- a great place to start. resume writers, HR pros, working industries I was interested in.
founder of Tweetajob. With that professionals, job seekers, interns #Jobhuntchat — along with its
many shared opportunities, the • ClerkPBC On a #jobhunt? and college students talking about amazing moderators and
task of filtering information W e ’ r e s e e k i n g t o p - n o t c h job search. DeMatteo shared that participants — taught me that it
becomes daunting — that’s why candidates for essential IT, they’ve had up to 300 participants was imperative for me to put
we have hashtags. They can help finance and court positions: http:// in a single session and the format myself out there, both in person
you focus on the tweets you want bit.ly/4yECpD#careers 08 Oct is working. and online. Connections I’ve
to see along with the ones you 2010 from TweetDeck made with people online and at
Programs – Kent State University
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HOW
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professional conference events via opportunities or even long-lasting search, there is a process to - HOW TO: Find a Job on Twitter
hashtags: business or personal relationships. reviewing what exists, identifying - HOW TO: Get the Most Out of
“Conference hashtags are one of Career Advice the right ones for your own Twitter #Hashtags
the best ways for jobseekers to The learning doesn’t (or situation and sifting through the - 5 Terrific Twitter Research
find industry colleagues with shouldn’t) stop once we land a information. But it certainly beats Tools
whom they can network. For job. Managing our careers is a doing it the hard way. - How Job Seekers May Use
example, the HR Technology constant process. Hashtags such What hashtags have you found Social Media in the Future
conference just took place. If I as#career,#careers valuable in your job search? Add - HOW TO: Customize Your
were looking for a job in and#employment can help us with your recommendations in the Background for the New Twitter
enterprise software or talent the questions and challenges we comments. Social Media and Web Image courtesy of Jerad Horning
management systems, I would deal with every day. Job Listings Every week we put More About: career, career
certainly search the#HRTechConf out a list of social media and web counseling, career guidance,
hashtag and follow participants • InterviewCoach 3 Ways Time job opportunities. While we post a career hunting, careers, hashtag,
who might be helpful in my job Travel Can Sabotage Your Career huge range of job listings, we’ve hashtags, how to get a job, job
search.” http://bit.ly/cak0bD#JobAdvice selected some of the latest ones hunt, job hunting, job listings, job
#Career 08 Oct 2010 from from the past two weeks to get search, job search series, job
• ewmonster Inbound traffic to twitterfeed you started. Happy hunting! seekers, jobs, resume, resumes,
J2W clients’ career sites from • JobHuntOrg Tips on how to run twitter
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TweetDeck Acquisition at StyleCaster in New • Become a Fan on Facebook
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Even if you’re not attending on hashtags, don’t forget that • VP, Social Marketing at Zeno channel
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professionals in your field. The There’s no denying that the job
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70 Social Media/
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Matt Silverman (Mashable!) week’s top Twitter topics? Scroll
Submitted at 10/16/2010 3:26:19 PM on down to the complete chart
below, which is compiled by our
Remember when everyone on friends over at What The Trend.
Earth was glued to Twitter(and Because this is a topical list,
their TVs, of course) as 33 hashtag memes and games have
Chilean miners were hoisted from been omitted from the chart.
c a p t i v i t y a f t e r 6 9 d a y s You can check past Twitter
underground? If you thought that trends in our Top Twitter Topics
story would top this week’s section as well as read more about
Twitter trends chart, think again, this past week’s trends on What
pal. The Trend. Top Twitter Trends
Turns out, nothing can top the This Week: 10/9 – 10/15
trend power of Korean boy band Rank Topic Top Index This
Super Junior— specifically the Week Intensity Description#1
singer Kim Hee-chul, whose Super Junior 1 4 Kim Hee Chul of
name, you may have noticed, Korean band Super Junior tweeted
rarely left the top of the trending a number of self-drawn pictures,
topics this week. With Bieber- and fans are excitedly retweeting
esque panache, Hee-chul launched them.#2 Chilean Mining Rescue 1
Super Junior to the top of this 3 Rescue operation "San Lorenzo"
week’s chart, leaving the Chilean successfully freed 33 trapped
miners “down below” (too soon?) Chilean miners from the collapsed
at number two. San Jose Mine near Copiapo/
And there’s good news this week Chileabout. The real-time TV
for tweeters who like their trends feed led to not only tweets and
highbrow. News around the trends about the operation itself,
recently announced Nobel Prize but about the individual miners as
winners continued to trend they were rescued one at a
strongly for the second week in a time.#3 Nobel Prize 1 2 Mario
row, moving the topic up from Vargas Llosa won the Nobel
fourth to third. Literature Prize. Imprisoned
Curious about the rest of this Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was
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awards show on October 12. It
featured appearances by Kanye
West, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross,
Diddy, Gucci Mane, MC
Hammer, Soulja Boy, Digital
Underground, Ice Cube, Salt-N-
Pepa and Swizz Beatz.#8 MLB 1
1 The baseball season finishes
soon, and people tweeted most
awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace about Bobby Cox, the Atlanta
Prize. The Nobel Prize for Braves manager who is retiring
Economics was awarded to Peter after this season.#9 X Factor (TV
A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen Show) 1 1 The British TV show
and Christopher A. Pissarides.#4 continued, with group "Diva
Twitter 1 1 Twitter’s new design Fever" and "Aiden Grimshaw" as
has now been rolled out to all t h e m o s t t w e e t e d - a b o u t
users. Some users reported getting individuals.#10 Our Lady of
an "Internal Server Error" when Aparecida 1 1 Our Lady of
trying to retweet, and that led to Aparecida (Portuguese: Nossa
another flurry of conversation.#5 Senhora Aparecida or Nossa
David Arquette / Courtney Cox 1 Senhora da Conceição Aparecida)
1 Actors Courtney Cox and David is the patron saint of Brazil,
Arquette decided to separate after venerated in the Catholic Church
11 years of marriage.#6 NFL 1 1 on October 12th.
Users tweeted about football, with Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
Viking Quarterback Brett Favre’s ricardoinfante
arm pain, College GameDay More About: entertainment,
Saturday, NFL GameDay Sunday, football, List, Lists, social media,
and quarterback Tony Romo sports, Super Junior, Top Twitter
receiving the most discussion.#7 Topics, trends, twitter, twitter
Hip Hop Awards (TV Show) 1 1 trends
BET aired its annual Hip Hop
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Groupon’s Founder on How to Get

Super Rich
Ben Parr (Mashable!) importantly, these six points are
Submitted at 10/16/2010 5:32:13 PM his advice to aspiring
entrepreneurs trying to build
At YCombinator’s Startup businesses.
School event at Stanford • 1. You’re building a tool, not a
University, Groupon founder and piece of art. Mason suggests that
CEO Andrew Mason revealed his you don’t get blinded by vision,
six tips for creating a successful as he was with ThePoint. Groupon
startup, or in his words, has been the total opposite, very
“polishing your turds and getting focused on hooking the customer
super rich.” within the first few seconds.
Groupon is among the hottest • 2. Recognize and embrace your
startups on the planet. In just two constraints.
ThePoint, which was to solve the
years, the company has made • 3. Have a growth plan.
problem of collective action. He
group-buying a worldwide • 4. The best tools aren’t always
thought that the platform could do
phenomenon, grown to 1,600 that cool. Groupon chose e-mail
everything from create charity
employees and increased its because it’s simple and universal.
campaigns to build giant anti-
valuation to over $1 billion. It • 5. You’ll probably fail. Mason
snow domes over Chicago ( a real
almost feels like Groupon and its suggests that you have the fear of
campaign on ThePoint). He
team were always destined for failure in the back of your mind
wanted to give people the ability
greatness. because it’ll help you confront
to make real change occur
In reality though, Groupon’s road reality and shape your decisions
through collective action.
to prosperity was filled with a lot towards building a viable product.
To prove the potential power of
of struggles and big misses. • 6. Quit now. Sometimes you
ThePoint, Mason started a small
Mason told the story of how have to let an idea go.
WordPress blog called Groupon
Groupon grew out of a failed
in Fall 2008, powered by a widget
company that was trying to do too More About: Andrew Mason,
from ThePoint that provided the
much all at once. business, entrepreneurship,
daily deals. By summer 2009,
In 2007, he started a company groupon, startup, Startup School,
Groupon was clearly taking off
called ThePoint. It’s a platform startups, thepoint, ycombinator
and Mason’s team quickly shifted
that lets users create donation For more Business coverage:
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stratosphere. Why, though?
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people joining the campaign or • Download our free apps for
thinks Groupon succeeded and
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ThePoint did not. More
Mason loved the vision behind