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George W. Bush starting to emerge from cone of
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Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/20/2010 4:25:15 PM
Oct 20, 2010 17:25 EDT
George W. Bush is slowly
starting to emerge from a self-
imposed cone of silence that he
has generally adhered to since
leaving Washington for Texas
when he turned over the
presidency to Barack Obama.
President No. 43 gave a lecture at
the University of Texas in Tyler,
Texas, on Tuesday and spoke
before a sold-out crowd of 2,000
people. All this is according to the
Tyler newspaper.
Bush talked up a book he has
written about major decisions he
made as president, “Decision
Points,” which is to be published
on Nov. 9. The author will be
doing a number of major
interviews surrounding the
publication of his memoir,
including with a Facebook fan.
Blake Lively Gushes About the "Incredible" Ben Affleck
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:50:00 AM
“This will come as a shock to
some people in our country who
didn’t think I could read a book,
much less write one,” he joked.
And he does miss some things
about the White House.
“I miss being pampered. I miss
Air Force One. I miss being
commander-in-chief of an
awesome group of (people),” he
Blake Lively stepped out in NYC
with her sister and chatted about
watching Ben Affleck move
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said.
Bush talked about one of the big
final decisions he made that has
been a point of debate this
campaign year — the bank
bailouts that Obama continued
when he came to office.
Bush said Fed Chairman Ben
Bernanke told him, “If you don’t
do something significant, you’re
between his acting and directing
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likely to see a depression greater
than the Great Depression.”
“Depression, no depression,”
Bush said. “It wasn’t that hard for
me, just so you know. I made the
decision to use your money to
prevent the collapse from
happening.”
Bush also said he read a dozen
biographies of Abraham Lincoln
while in office, and, “I think he’s
the country’s greatest president.”
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(Bush and former Texas Rangers
pitching great Nolan Ryan)
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Innovation Agents:
Ian Rowe, CEO of
Public Prep
Noah Robischon (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:35:50 PM
Have you located your north star?
Do you even have a compass? Ian
Rowe's story will inspire you to
find it if you haven't already -- at
least that's his goal. Rowe's
journey took him from the Gates
Foundation to MTV and The
White House USA Freedom
Corps before he became the CEO
of Public Prep, a network of non-
profit single-sex charter schools.
He's taken everything he learned
in the private sector and applied it
to public education. Are you using
your skills to make a difference?
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Washington Extra – (Blue) dog days

Simon Denyer (Front Row Tea Party is going to scare the stymie President Obama’s efforts The Obama administration said it
Washington) bejeebers out of any Republican to try terrorism suspects in found no sign of “systemic”
Submitted at 10/20/2010 5:10:10 PM that is talking about compromise, criminal courts and make it harder troubles so far with home
for fear of what will happen in the to close the U.S. military prison at mortgages, as banks sought to
In the immortal words of next primary,” Penner told a Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay. “I play down a crisis over
Jonathan Swift (paraphrasing Chamber of Commerce forum. personally think (Democrats are) accusations of shoddy foreclosure
Erasmus and Hamlet) “Every dog “There is no way we’re going to going to lose the House and once practices. But Housing and Urban
must have his day.” get out of this problem without a they do that, I think that’s the end Development Secretary Shaun
According to our correspondent compromise between the two of their hopes of criminal trials Donovan insisted the government
A n d y S u l l i v a n , B l u e D o g parties.” rather than the military courts,” would “take every action” to press
Democrats may have had theirs Here are our top stories from said Larry Sabato, a politics banks to fix paperwork problems
a l r e a d y . H i s r e p o r t f r o m Washington today… professor at the University of at the core of a foreclosure crisis
V e r m i l l i o n , S o u t h D a k o t a Are “Blue Dogs” a dying breed Virginia. “I just don’t know how that has put major financial firms
suggests the Blue Dogs may be a in U.S. elections? they move forward. on the hot seat.
dying breed, their centrist brand In the conservative farm state of For more of this story by Jeremy For more of this story by Jeff
of conservatism in danger of South Dakota, Rep. Stephanie Pelofsky, read here. Mason and Ross Colvin, read
b e i n g s w e p t a w a y b y t h e Herseth Sandlin’s best chance of Midterm vote to influence here.
Republican tide in the midterms. winning re-election rests on her Mideast peace U.S. wants G20 commitment to
The original Dogs were actually ability to remind voters just how Next month’s midterm elections let currencies rise
y e l l o w , o f c o u r s e , f r o m a often she disagrees with her might do more than just redefine The United States wants G20
Southern nickname for party fellow Democrats. That might not candidates, click here. the political landscape in countries to reduce global
loyalists who would vote for a be enough to save her job. U.S. small bank execs fear Washington. Israeli-Palestinian economic imbalances by
yellow dog if it were on the ballot For more of this story by Andy Washington influence wane negotiations, launched with gusto committing to curb trade
as a Democrat. The Blue Dog Sullivan, read here. Community bank executives, b y P r e s i d e n t O b a m a i n surpluses or deficits and by letting
Coalition took its name from the Despite midterms, Obama may fearing a loss of influence in September, have fallen into limbo currencies rise more freely, a
view that members’ moderate-to- have it easier in 2012 Washington, will start pressing ahead of the vote as both sides senior U.S. official said: “When
conservative ideas had been Democrats may be headed for a members of Congress personally bide their time and wait to see large economies with undervalued
“choked blue” by the party in the train wreck on November 2, but rather than relying on their how the U.S. leader emerges from exchange rates act to keep their
run-up to the 1994 election. the president’s re-election bid in lobbyists, part of an industry the campaign. currencies from appreciating, that
(Suggestions for alternative color 2012 would face a brighter path if effort to roll back parts of the For more of this story by compels other countries to do the
schemes gratefully received at the a grindingly slow economic recently enacted Wall Street Crispian Balmer in Jerusalem, same, setting off a dynamic of
Democratic National Committee.) r e c o v e r y p i c k s u p s t e a m . reform law. “Political engagement read here. competitive nonappreciation.”
Centrist Republicans have also Washington politics will likely get is a job requirement for every U.S. economy grew sluggishly in For more of this story by Glenn
been under pressure from the rise more difficult for Obama after the b a n k e r , ” A r t h u r J o h n s o n , recent weeks – Fed Somerville and Doug Palmer,
of the Tea Party. While that will congressional elections, with chairman and CEO of United The economy grew sluggishly in read here.
likely make the next Congress Republicans seemingly poised to Bank of Michigan, told fellow recent weeks with scant inflation Confusion as gays attempt to join
more fiscally conservative, it will take control of the House of bankers. “Political advocacy is pressures, and employers were US military
not necessarily translate into a Representatives and cut the not a seasonal sport.” reluctant to hire or invest amid Dan Choi, a former Iraq war
bipartisan deal to reduce the Democratic majority in the For more of this story by Dave e c o n o m i c a n d p o l i c y veteran discharged in July for
b u d g e t d e f i c i t , f o r m e r Senate. Clarke, read here. uncertainties, the Federal Reserve being openly gay, returned to a
Congressional Budget Office For more of this story by Steve Republican gains may foil said. New York City recruiting station
director Rudolph Penner warned Holland, read here. terrorism trials in U.S. For more of this story, read here. to complete his application to re-
today. For a factbox on potential 2012 Expected Republican gains in Obama admin: Mortgage troubles
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enlist in the Army. But at the
Pentagon, U.S. officials are
warning that Choi and other gay
veterans now applying for the
armed forces may never be called
to duty
For more of this story by Phil
Stewart, read here.
For a story on the fight over gays
in the military moving to the
appeals courts, read here.
CIA acknowledges “missteps”
led to officers’ deaths
The CIA acknowledged
“missteps” and “shortcomings”
that allowed a would-be informant
to enter a U.S. base in
Afghanistan and blow himself up
on December 30, killing seven
CIA officers.
For more of this story by Phil
Stewart, read here.
Pentagon seeks tight ties with
cyber contractors
The Defense Department aims to
tighten ties with cybersecurity
contractors to help thwart
mounting threats to sensitive
networks.
For more of this story by Jim
Wolf, read here.
Key health insurance group to
weigh in on spending
A seven-month-long process for
determining how much insurers
must spend on medical care
comes to a head on Thursday
when a key group of state
insurance commissioners meets to
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Study points to possible gene
therapy for depression
Researchers have identified a
gene that can cause symptoms of
major depression and said it may
be possible to use gene therapy to
counteract its effects. “We
potentially have a novel therapy
to target what we now believe is
one root cause of human
depression,” Michael Kaplitt of
Cornell Medical College said in a
statement.
For more of this story by Maggie
Fox, read here.
Water concerns grow over
Canada-U.S. mega oil pipe
Nebraskan officials are urging
the State Department to ensure a
proposed $7 billion pipeline that
plans to send Canadian crude to
refineries along the Gulf of
Mexico would avoid a massive
water reservoir that irrigates
agriculture in the nation’s
breadbasket.
Calgary-based TransCanada Corp
had hoped to start building the
2,000 mile Keystone XL pipeline
next year.
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Barack and Jon, together again,
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First he gave an unexpected
endorsement to Jon Stewart’s
upcoming“Rally to Restore
Sanity.” Now President Obama is
giving the host of the satirical talk
show the ultimate television “get”
— himself as a guest. Obama will
appear on Oct. 27, in the middle
of a week of special episodes
taped in Washington called
“When Grizzlies Attack: A ‘Daily
Show’ Midterm Teapartyganza.”
For Patricia Zengerle’s full post,
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Clinton to gay youth: “hang in
there”
Hillary Clinton has joined a
growing list of celebrities and
politicians reaching out to gay,
lesbian and transgender youth
following a rash of suicides
prompted by bullying. “I have a
message for all the young people
out there who are being bullied, or
who feel alone and find it hard to
imagine a better future: First of
all, hang in there and ask for
help,” Clinton said in a video
message available on YouTube.
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read here.
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Temple visit: White House AMZN, BJ, CAH, GRNB,
Patricia Zengerle (Front Row
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Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh is a Sikh.
Gibbs said Obama’s final
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"With the new school year
underway, we're adding an
attractive REIT to our portfolio
that specializes in campus
housing: American Campus
Communities ( ACC)," says
Stephen Leeb.
The growth & income specialist
and editor of The Complete
Investor explains, "The real estate
investment trust, which went
public in 2004, has been
providing housing for college
students since 1993, and is now
one of the nation's largest
developers, owners, and managers
of high-quality student housing
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Alice.com: Trust and Privacy in the Age of Social Networking
John Gerzema and Michael
D'Antonio (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:09:04 PM
In this excerpt from Spend Shift:
How the Post-Crisis Values
Revolution Is Changing the Way
We Buy, Sell, and Live, authors
John Gerzema and Michael
D'Antonio tell us about
Alice.com, where you can hand
over your personal info to dozens
of companies, and receive
discounts or even free stuff in
return. Is this the future of
commerce?
The power of information could
easily frighten someone who
worries about "Big Brother" style
bureaucracies or considers the
consolidation of so much data--
purchase records, motor vehicle
records, tax records, and so on--a
threat to their privacy. However,
the generation that has come of
age in the era of the Internet, cell
phone cameras, and surveillance
systems in every public space
doesn't seem to expect nearly as
much privacy. They view the
constant exchange of information,
even rather personal information,
as simply a part of the game of
life. And it's a game that anyone
can play.
With GoodGuide anyone can
take advantage of independent
product ratings and feel better
equipped to face the often
dizzying array of choices in the
marketplace. (Does anyone really
need that many flavors of tea?)
With Alice.com, another
information-based start-up,
individuals can go a step further.
They can willingly hand over
rather personal information about
themselves--like how much toilet
paper or deodorant they use--to
the companies that make these
products and hundreds of other
household items. In exchange,
Alice.com and the companies
keep you supplied, via packages
sent free of shipping costs,
automatically.
Would you exchange private
information about your personal
hygiene--or, for that matter, how
many trash bags or sponges you
use--if Alice.com guaranteed that
you would get better prices, never
run out, and never have to shop
for them again? As it turns out,
millions of people would. Among
them are lots of mothers who
happily trade information for free,
reliable deliveries of items like
diapers, and senior citizens who
can stop worrying about
schlepping to the supermarket for
supplies in bad weather or when
they don't feel like going out.
Instead they can count on
Alice.com for any of six thousand
different products made by 125
manufacturers.
The president and co-founder of
Alice, Mark McGuire, spent years
developing the idea, only to have
it debut at the height of the Great
Recession. Although he was
concerned that people might not
be open to a newcomer,
conditions actually worked in his
favor. Customers under time
pressure, who wanted to reduce
their trips to the store, were drawn
by the convenience. Costsensitive
shoppers discovered they could
get goods delivered free by Alice
at roughly the same price they
would pay at a store. And when
they stay out of the store, they are
less likely to grab an impulse item
they never planned to buy.
"They're trying to do things like
plan their shopping lists and limit
impulse purchases or save as
much money as they can by
comparing one price of a brand
that they typically get to all the
other brands they could substitute
that for," McGuire says. "Doing
that online and through Alice is
great. Also, you get automatic
coupons with us. There are a lot
of retailers, the Walmarts and the
Targets of the world, they've done
a tremendous job and they're
incredibly skilled at getting me in
the store to buy a bottle of laundry
detergent and walk out with three
other things that I didn't think I
needed." However, in the new
economy, "People are very much
focused on their basic essentials
and getting rid of those
extraneous purchases," adds
McGuire. For these folks, "Alice
has had perfect timing."
People also don't mind the
convenience. Despite tight
budgets, "Consumers are still
looking to pamper themselves and
reward themselves," says
McGuire. "Our tag line is
everyone needs an Alice. It's
almost like having a maid or
someone that helps out with your
house and eliminates a chore. And
you can do that in a way that's not
wasting money."
For the scores of manufacturers
who signed up with McGuire,
Alice.com trades its customer data
in exchange for best pricing,
which gets passed on to the Alice
community. But it also solves a
problem that major companies
have faced as the Internet, digital
video recorders, and other
technologies have given people
the power to delete, bypass, and
avoid traditional print and
broadcast advertising. With Alice
they get one-to-one relationships
with customers who tell them
everything they need to know
about how, where, and when their
products are used. Nothing could
be more valuable to
manufacturers who want to
distribute a special offer, roll out a
new product, or find a previously
unmet need.
Business/ 5
Before it was even a year old,
Alice.com was so promising that
McGuire was able to raise a
second round of capital from
investors who believe he can
succeed. His business model, he
says, is like the travel service
Orbitz, which arranged to serve as
a central booking site for almost
all of the world's airlines. Orbitz
succeeded by helping them reach
customers directly instead of
through travel agents who
collected commissions from the
carriers.
"We set up Alice very much the
same way," said McGuire. "All of
these big brands are getting killed
by these dominant retailers, and
they need to find new ways to get
to their end customer, but they
can't do it alone. As a consumer
I'm not going to go to the Nyquil
store to buy my Nyquil and the
laundry detergent store to get my
laundry detergent and pay
shipping and get all these boxes. I
want to go to one place where I
can get all the brands. That's
really what created that
opportunity for Alice."
Reprinted by permission of the
publisher, John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., from Spend Shift: How the
Post-Crisis Values Revolution Is
Changing the Way We Buy, Sell,
and Live, by John Gerzema and
Michael D'Antonio. Copyright (c)
2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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Five Leadership Lessons From the Lion Launch

E.B. Boyd (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:03:40 PM

When Apple's executives took

the stage in Cupertino yesterday,
they weren't just listing off the
new features and products. They
were giving a master class in how
to design and market world-class
products. Here are a few of the
lessons we took home:
Watch what's working in one
product line, and adapt it to your
other product lines ...
Companies with multiple product
lines often run them as separate
fiefdoms, rarely interacting, other
than occasional hobnobbing
among their executives. Few
share their lessons well. Apple
showed yesterday that it's one of
them. "We invented some new
things [for the iPhone and iPad
operating system, iOS], and we've
perfected it over the last several
years," Jobs said. "We're inspired that it was the principle of multi- laptop now has a unibody. It based on those. stardom.
by some of those innovations in touch that worked, but the reengineered internal components Know what you're really selling-- Toss in a little bling
the iPad and the iPhone [and] implementation didn't have to be so they fit together more and sell that Apple hired the London
we'd like to bring them back to the same for both sets of devices. compactly. But there were two Sure, the new features in iLife '11 Symphony Orchestra to score a
the Mac." "We've tons of user testing on features that didn't shrink: the were impressive. The ability to soundtrack you can use on your
Smart companies make a habit of this, and it turns out ... touch keyboard and the trackpad. make more exciting trailers for iMovie-made movie trailers. Who
harvesting business lines for surfaces don't want to be vertical," Customers wanted smaller, lighter your home movies, for example, can say that's not exciting? The
practices and features that work Jobs said yesterday. "After a short -weight devices. But Apple also or to learn the piano by following trailer to your home movie about
well, and then spreading those period of time, you start to fatigue knew--as anyone who's spent time along with a professional chamber rafting down the Grand Canyon,
insights to other business lines, to ... . Touch surfaces want to be using one of the new mini- orchestra. But what was Apple or traipsing about Paris, or seeing
improve products and processes horizontal." So Apple simply netbook computers knows--that really selling? the Penguins in Patagonia, set to
there. implemented new multitouch you can't use a smaller keyboard In the era of reality TV, we all music performed by the same
... but don't copy indiscriminately capability on the trackpad for OS for the kind of extended use secretly hanker for the glamour of people that did the score to Star
Apple could have said, X Lion. MacBook users need before your instant fame. As Randy Ubillious, Wars? It's the kind of retro cool
"Multitouch is working so well in Know where to hold your ground hands start cramping up. Apple's chief architect for video that Apple's hipster fans go crazy
mobile devices, let's start making Apple made many changes to the The folks at Apple didn't make applications, demonstrated the for. Know what your customers
the screens of our laptops and MacBook Air to make it smaller decisions based on a single new features in iMovie '11, he value, and toss a little bling in
desktop monitors as well." The and more lightweight. It pulled criterion. They understood all the wasn't just offering us the ability your products that speaks to those
company soon realized, however, out optical drives and replaced variables their customers valued, to make home movies faster and FIVE page 7
them with a solid-state drive. The and made their design decisions more easily. He was selling us
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Dell Outlines Its Strategy Against Good, We Were Getting

Apple: A Hundred-Million Dollar Ad Bored Of QE, Anyway
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Dell is to try and draw a line at Brian Caulfield's Dell M1210 QE QE QE QE QE
under its poor performance this with what Caulfield called a " If you're not bored of those
year with a new strategy: don't predatory grin." letters, you're not paying
mention the low prices; and spend Dell's execs, however, are attention.
a whole heap of money on fighting back in this long war of Ben Bernanke is going to
But maybe the obsession is about implement massive QE -- is
advertising. Paul-Henri Ferrand, words, portraying Apple as to recede a little bit. The
CMO for the firm's global dictatorial in its attitude to coming to an end.
traditional QE bets -- gold, Actually, knew that it would
consumer, and small and medium customers. "Apple is known for Treasuries, etc.-- are fading. And
business division told Reuters on dictating what is going to happen come to an end. Would would
yesterday's somewhat decent remarkable is if it ended with a
Wednesday that it would start to in the market place and what a Beige Book didn't hurt the market
sold faulty products to consumers. whimper, not a bang.
put the emphasis on premium consumer should buy," said Steve by causing people to question
The firm is evidently taking a Join the conversation about this
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being, of course, that Apple gear Gaining Steam
which its laptops will come with premature to tell customers what that's not causing many waves.
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the added goodness of JBL they're going to like and what they Perhaps (just perhaps) this whole
quality, something that Steve Jobs And It's Good
speakers. don't like." trade -- dump the dollar, buy
is very aware of. Jobs recently
Just how much difference a nine- Next Monday sees the launch of everything else trade, because
claimed that Apple's rivals' tablets
figure advertising budget will Dell's latest products aimed at
would never compete with his
make to Dell remains to be seen,
firm's products, saying that the
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seven-inch tablets from
has been paying out hefty sums to which will be a smaller tablet values.
competitors would be "DOA,
settle lawsuits. As well as shelling device, as well as a sized-down
dead on arrival." And after
out$100 million to the SEC to laptop that converts into a 10-inch
Wednesday's MacBook Air event,
settle a fraud case, it is currently tablet.
Jobs took time to poke fun calling
battling claims that it knowingly

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Leah Goldman and Dashiell
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:22:42 AM
Brett Favre has been mired in an
embarrassing and lurid sexual
scandal and while it might be
good for his wife's book sales, it's
the kind of thing that tends to
scare away advertisers.
Major brands love family-
friendly images and they hate
controversy. So when their heroic
spokespeople get caught in
something less than heroic,
companies want to distance
themselves as quickly as possible.
Contracts are ended, ads are
pulled, and the superstar finds out
who their real friends are.
(Hint: It's not the marketing
department.)
Wrangler hasn't caved yet, but if
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reporting that its third-quarter
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that it does not rely solely on
hamburgers and cheeseburgers,
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Atom Smasher Ramps Up Chase for 'God Particle'

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(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) around the ring in each direction. mystically as the " God particle," very massive and very difficult to "When we get to design, we're
Submitted at 10/21/2010 6:25:17 AM Now it sends 256 bunches at is a theoretical particle that gives detect, but the lightest of them talking 600 million events per
once. Each of these clusters now other particles their mass. could be created during the second."
The world's largest atom smasher contains 100,000 million protons According to the concept, Higgs crashes in LHC, scientists predict. For comparison, about 6 million
has been upping its game ever (that's 10^11 protons.) particles create a field throughout Full throttle ahead particles currently collide per
since it opened in 2008. Just last While that's an improvement, it's the universe, and when other To get to the point where Higgs second.
week it reached a new milestone - only part of the ultimate goal. particles pass through the field, and supersymmetric particles That's still not too shabby. The
the particle accelerator is now "We've got a long way to go," they interact with it and acquire might be discovered, the LHC machine is already more sensitive
smashing unprecedented numbers said Mike Lamont, LHC's head of mass. will likely have to function at in some channels than the world's
of protons into each other during operations. "For this year, we If LHC can create one of these peak capacity. second-largest atom smasher,
each collision. hope to get up to 400 bunches." Higgs particles, it would be a "For us it really is a matter of Fermilab's Tevatron in Batavia,
The Large Hadron Collider at the The team also plans to boost the major coup for physicists and increasing the amount of data we Ill. LiveScience.com chronicles
E u r o p e a n O r g a n i z a t i o n f o r collision rate of particles in other would go a long way toward deliver to the experiments - they the daily advances and
Nuclear Research (CERN) in ways. explaining the fundamental nature just need more, more, more," innovations made in science and
Switzerland is the world's most "At the interaction point where of matter. Lamont said. "They're looking for technology. We take on the
s t a t e - o f - t h e - a r t p h y s i c s bunches pass through each other, The particle accelerator is a very small needle in very large misconceptions that often pop up
e x p e r i m e n t . S c i e n t i s t s a r e we can work on the number of probably not producing enough haystack." around scientific discoveries and
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the lead in denouncing gay wear purple to bring awareness to in that group people who didn’t
Christian teens are the target of a bashing and bullying. “I’d like to bullying. want homosexuals in their church
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US chronicler of Italian history Katz Microsoft celebrates

dies at 77 (AP) Windows 7's first
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atrocities in occupied Italy, the
1944 slaughter by German troops
of 335 innocent Italian men at the
Erich Priebke, a former Nazi SS
captain who was extradited to
Italy from Argentina in 1994 and
birthday
(CNET News.com)
ROME – American writer and Ardeatine Caves in retaliation for convicted in Rome for his role in
historian Robert Katz, whose an attack by Italian partisans the the Ardeatine Caves massacre. Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:57:35 AM Of course, there are also plenty of
meticulous reconstruction of an day before. A native of Brooklyn, Katz other cute kids around. Apple is
infamous Nazi massacre in Rome The book, first published in 1967, Like any proud parent, Microsoft pregnant with a Lion and Google
moved to Italy in the mid-1960s,
brought him fame and sparked a stirred controversy because it wants us to know just how cute its is still carrying Chrome OS,
first living in Rome and then in a
trial over whether he defamed the suggested Pope Pius XII did not baby is. which should be nearing its due
country house near Arezzo in
pope, has died in Italy, his family intervene to stop the massacre To mark the first birthday of date, no?
Tuscany.
said Thursday. He was 77. Windows 7, Microsoft posted a As for Microsoft, it is planning
even though he knew about the "I was following a grand old
Katz, who had been a longtime Nazis' plans. When the movie blog touting its first steps. on having another kid, but refuses
tradition," he said about his move
resident of Tuscany, died in a came out, a relative of the late Unlike Vista--which was a to talk about the new baby or give
to the Italian capital in 1964. "It
hospital there on Wednesday. His pontiff brought a lawsuit against somewhat awkward toddler-- any clue as to when it is due.
had been created by some of the
wife Beverly Gerstel told The Katz. Windows 7 has proven to be a (Someone did manage to sneak
great American writers and artists
Associated Press that the author According to Katz's website, a rather good addition to the family. out an ultrasound, though.)
of the 19th century, and like them,
died from complications from two-year criminal trial ended with In addition to selling more than During her years at CNET News,
I'd set out to pursue and court the
cancer surgery. 240 million copies, it has helped Ina Fried has changed beats
the author being convicted and 'mistress of the world.'"
Katz wrote extensively on 20th- sentenced to 14 months in prison rebuild the company's reputation. several times, changed genders
Katz is survived by his wife
century Italian history in books, for defaming the pope's memory. Here's some other fun facts that once, and covered both of the
Gerstel, his two sons Stephen and
essays and articles, some of which The verdict was overturned on Microsoft wanted to show off. Pirates of Silicon Valley. These
Jonathan, and three grandchildren.
were made into films. In "Days of appeal and later the case was (Sorry, no wallet pictures.) days, most of her attention is
The family said the funeral would
Wrath," Katz chronicled the 1978 dismissed by Italy's highest court, According to Microsoft, people focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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BAGHDAD – An American
soldier was charged Wednesday
with killing two fellow U.S.
troops and wounding a third after
an argument last month in a
former Iraqi insurgent stronghold
turned deadly.
Army Spc. Neftaly Platero was
charged with two counts of
murder and one count of
attempted murder in a Sept. 23
shooting in Fallujah, about 40
miles (65 kilometers) west of
Baghdad.
A statement issued late
Wednesday by the U.S. military
in Baghdad described the killings
as premeditated but offered no
other details.
Earlier, a U.S. military
spokesman said Platero was
accused of shooting the three
soldiers after a verbal altercation.
The spokesman, Col. Barry
Johnson, did not know what the
argument was about.
Pfc. Gebrah Noonan, 26, of
Watertown, Connecticut, and Spc.
John Carrillo Jr., 20, of Stockton,
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investigation of the incident is
ongoing.
Platero, 32, from Houston, Texas,
is being held in pretrial
confinement in Kuwait. He will
be tried by a military court.
He was assigned to Camp
Ramadi, in western Iraq, with the
Army's 3rd Infantry Division
based out of Fort Stewart,
Georgia.
Meanwhile, four gunmen
stormed the home of a policeman
in northern Iraq, killing him and
four members of his family. An
Iraqi police official said three
women were among the dead.
The late Wednesday raid
occurred in the northern city of
Mosul, located about 225 miles
(360 kilometers) northwest of
Baghdad.
Mosul is no longer considered an
al-Qaida stronghold as violence
around Iraq has ebbed. But police
and other security officials remain
prime targets for insurgents.
An official at Mosul Medical
Hospital confirmed the death toll
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it's the simple ones like 'Made
in the raid. Both officials spoke
on condition of anonymity
because they are not allowed to
talk to the media.
Also, a local official in the oil-
rich city of Kirkuk was killed,
after being shot three times in the
head as he was leaving his home
on Wednesday night. City police
Col. Ghazi Mohammed did not
immediately know why Ahmed
Faraj Samad, mayor of the city's
al-Khadhra neighborhood, was
targeted.
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first of several big distribution
deals aimed at cementing its lead
in social commerce, Groupon and
Ning are launching an a ffiliate
beta program today. Anyone who
runs a Ning social network can
now add a Groupon widget with
geo-targeted daily deals. They
will get a cut of any Groupon
deals purchased through their
Ning sites, and Groupon will
extend its reach potentially to tens
of thousands of new sites with
strong communities who perhaps
would like to start buying things
together. The program is in
limited beta now, and will be
rolled out as an option for all
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these types of offers. One of the
best things Groupon has going for
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amazing economics, and its
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Special report: Conservative donors let Christine O'Donnell sink
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:32:25 AM
Delaware Republican senatorial
candidate Christine O'Donnell
smiles as she speaks to supporters
after a candidates forum at the
Bowers Beach fire hall in Bowers
Beach, Delaware, October 20,
2010.
Credit: Reuters/Tim Shaffer
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WILMINGTON, Delaware| Thu
Oct 21, 2010 10:32am EDT
W I L M I N G T O N ,
Delaware(Reuters) - Christine
O'Donnell, the outspoken GOP
candidate for Senate in Delaware,
has a money problem.
Her shocking victory in the
Delaware Republican primary
was a breakthrough for the
conservative Tea Party movement
that has up-ended U.S. politics.
But while her grassroots fund-
raising has been more than
respectable, O'Donnell's tense
relations with mainstream
Republicans and her floundering
campaign have led bigtime donors
to shun her, albeit quietly.
Their reluctance to open their
checkbooks underlines the GOP's
recent tightrope act: the Tea
Party's emergence as a major
force has energized the
conservative base and bolstered
Republican prospects in the
November 2 election. But the two
camps often don't see eye to eye --
on policy as well as on politicians.
Pro-Republican groups and
activists insist their decision
reflects financial triage rather than
any antagonism toward the Tea
Party or O'Donnell, who trails
Democratic opponent Chris
Coons by 10 to 15 percentage
points in polls. In fact,
establishment Republicans and
powerful conservative groups that
are officially "independent" are
providing significant support to
other Senate candidates identified
with the Tea Party movement --
including Pat Toomey, whose
campaign in neighboring
Pennsylvania presents a striking
contrast to O'Donnell's.
Jonathan Collegio,
communications director for
American Crossroads and
American Crossroads GPS, two
independent campaign
organizations which GOP
political guru Karl Rove helped to
found, confirmed that his group
presently is not putting money
into the Delaware Senate race,
even though Crossroads GPS last
week broadcast spots attacking
the Democratic candidate for
Senate in next-door Pennsylvania.
"Were American Crossroads to
invest there (in Delaware), they
could not invest in Colorado,
where the polls are within the
margin of error," Collegio told
Reuters. He said that if
O'Donnell's poll numbers improve
markedly in the last days of the
campaign, it is possible
Crossroads could reassess its
position. "But at the moment,
spending money there would
mean not spending money in
races which are legitimately
competitive," he said.
The business world appears to
share that sentiment. An official
of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, the national pro-
business group that is investing
heavily in political advertising
during the current mid-term
campaign, said the Chamber has
not sponsored independent
advertising in support of
O'Donnell and was not planning
to do so.
Republicans insist that their
problem is not with O'Donnell but
rather her lack of competitiveness
in the race, even though that may
in part reflect her funding issues.
Rick Wilson, a political
consultant who is launching a last
minute independent fundraising
and advertising campaign pitched
at Tea Party voters, says that from
the point of view of both the
Republican Party and Tea Party
movement, putting their money
into races where a Tea Party
candidate's numbers are more
favorable than O'Donnell's is
simply a better bet.
Wilson says that the independent
groups he is involved with have
no plans to sponsor ads in support
of O'Donnell. Instead, his groups'
money -- and heavy support from
other Tea Party groups as well as
organizations like American
Crossroads -- is flowing to
support other GOP Senate
candidates, most notably Sharron
Angle, who is mounting a strong
challenge to the re-election bid of
Nevada's Harry Reid, the
Democratic leader in the Senate.
"Harry Reid's scalp is the biggest
scalp out there," Wilson said.
"Decapitating the Senate majority
leader is a bargain if you can do
it." Wilson, who produced
controversial last minute ads
during the 2008 presidential
campaign attacking Barack
Obama for his ties to the radical
Chicago preacher Reverend
Jeremiah Wright, says his group's
late-campaign attack ads this year
will appear both in Senate and
House races which might be
within GOP reach. He says his
ads will urge voters to reject the
"Obama/Reid/Pelosi agenda" and
bring the government "under
control again."
Even the Tea Party Express, the
Sacramento-based national
organization that launched a well-
financed, late-stage advertising
campaign which helped
O'Donnell win her primary race,
has dialed back its financial
support for her.
Documents filed with the Federal
Election Commission show that
between O'Donnell's September
14 primary victory and mid-
October, the Tea Party Express
paid for around $11,000 in e-mail
blasts and radio ads supporting
her. By comparison, records show
the group spent more than
$64,000 in support of Angle
during that period. (Tea Party
Express representatives did not
respond to messages requesting
comment.)
Two weeks before polling day,
the only independent group which
appears to have been willing to
invest a relatively large sum in
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support of O'Donnell's campaign
is a conservative fundraising
organization headed by Senator
Jim DeMint, the South Carolina
Republican who is trying to
position himself as a potential
leader of a Tea Party Caucus in a
sharply reshuffled Senate.
WHERE ARE THE BIGWIGS?
Oct 21, 2010 9:33am EDT
God she’s stupid. I’m
Libertarian, and have been for the
past couple years. I have a
question to anyone who would
like to answer. I’ll preface it with
this, I have strong beliefs, things
that I can actually put into words,
and a lot of my beliefs coincide
with Ron Paul’s, to no surprise,
but my question is directed at any
Dems or Rep out there, do you
really associate people like
O’donnell, Palidino, and various
Tea Party nutbags (not all of them
I actually agree with the majority
of their platform) with
Libertarians?
Oct 21, 2010 9:49am EDT
Surprise me. There IS a limit for
the GOP in just how much crazy
it is willing to support.
Oct 21, 2010 10:29am EDT
@lighthouse
Many of the tea baggers are
libertarians, including the Koch
brothers, who fund the tea party.
Obviously, some republicans
support them, but I am curious as
to how you got the idea that
democrats support any of these.
Oct 21, 2010 10:31am EDT
Money, money, money. GOP
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U.S. plan hits opposition at G20, FX accord remote

(Reuters: Top News) policy "norms". on the current account -- the The politicans can play any Otherwise, the USA is just a
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:06:49 AM "Right now, there is no broadest measure of trade in games. At the end of the day, trading post on the globe and the
established sense of what's fair," goods and services -- to 4 percent logic prevails. day that the harbours silt up, ships
U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim he told the paper. "We would like of gross domestic product. Oct 21, 2010 6:42am EDT will find new ports of call
Geithner speaks during the first countries to move toward a set of But German Economy Minister Mr. Geithner lied when he said elsewhere…..
meeting of the financial stability norms on exchange rate policy." Rainer Bruederle said he was he was not deflating the dollar. He Oct 21, 2010 9:04am EDT
oversight council to vote on a Washington is also floating the opposed to numerical goals. and his elite buddies are I am an American. I have to say
number of resolutions at the idea of specific targets for current "Macroeconomic fine-tuning and squeezing even more margins out that sometimes the things these
T r e a s u r y D e p a r t m e n t i n account balances. This would quantitative targets are not the of printing more money, and there guys pull is so nuts, it is
Washington, October 1, 2010. build on a G20 pledge a year ago right approach in our view," is nothing the American people maddening. The US loved it when
Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed to tilt growth away from exports Bruederle told Reuters in Berlin can do about it but pay more in the balance was tilted in its favor,
By Abhijit Neogy and Toni in fast-growing surplus countries, before leaving for the G20 talks. inflation to make them richer. but now that it is losing the game,
Vorobyova such as China, and to boost Russian deputy finance minister This guy, Geithner,was born into it thinks it can run around and tell
GYEONGJU, South Korea| Thu savings in rich deficit economies, Dimitry Pankin was also skeptical connections going back to his the winners that they should stop
Oct 21, 2010 11:06am EDT including the United States. about the U.S. initiative. grandfather and has never done winning because it isn’t fair.
G Y E O N G J U , S o u t h "We are exploring whether we Oct 21, 2010 5:11am EDT anything of merit except leach off Anything but actually address the
Korea(Reuters) - G20 officials are can agree to commit to keep the You go into a casino, change the system: problem and WORK to fix it.
unlikely to reach an accord external imbalances to levels that dollar for chips. The casino put http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Plus, don’t forget the lunacy of
rejecting currency devaluations are more sustainable," Geithner the money in a bank as reserve Timothy_Geithner bellowing about the “crisis” of
and capping current account said. and leave some cash at the Oct 21, 2010 8:27am EDT climate change, then running
balances, an informed source said The G20 source said the drafting counter in case you want to If the USA intends to re-balance around Asia telling a billion
on Thursday, after U.S. proposals of a communique would only change back some of the chips and rejuvenate its domestic Chinese that they need to
ran into stiff opposition. begin late on Friday after a first into dollar. In any case, these are economy, bold new formulations consume more. Where is the
The swift rebuff of a U.S. call for round of meetings between the customer’s money, not the will have to be undertaken. The media with all of this? Not even
numerical targets for "sustainable" finance ministers and central bank casino’s money. USA needs to boost savings and Fox News picks up the true level
trade surpluses and deficits governors in Gyeongju. This is what foreign currency interest returns by instituting new of this nonsense, choosing instead
underscored the difficulties facing "If the U.S. persists with that line, reserve is all about. You go to development bonds for the revival to just broadcast the same old
Group of 20 finance ministers we will oppose it," he said, adding China, change dollar for Yuen. of its manufacturing sector, but numbing rhetoric.
gathering in South Korea as they that the final communique would The Chinese Government put ONLY with a reciprocal If you are a foreigner, please
try to defuse tensions over make a rather "subdued" reference away the money as foreign understanding on the part of don’t think that all Americans are
c u r r e n c i e s a n d e c o n o m i c to currencies and current account currency reserve. It is still your labour and unions that part of a completely vacant. Just enough of
imbalances. balances. money. It is not the money of the loaf if better than none. A brave us to elect politicians who are,
The G20 source, who has direct French Economy Minister Chinese Government. new frontier where efficiency and unfortunately.
knowledge of deliberations at the C h r i s t i n e L a g a r d e s a i d Now instead of changing 1 piece ingenuity take centre place, while Oct 21, 2010 9:21am EDT
meeting, said the proposals had coordination on currency policy of chip into 1 dollar, you want the living within your means – a Did the US limit its exports when
not found favor with India, China was lacking and that Asia had a casino to change 1 piece of chip return to the American frontier it had a trade surplus for most of
and other emerging economies, or vital role to play. "We can see to 1 dollar and 20 cents. The days of survival and innovation. A the last century, of course not.
even the likes of Germany, which t h e r e a r e i m b a l a n c e s , t h a t owner of the casino says ‘no’, I dramatic and sensible revision of Expecting other nations to give
has a large current account coordination is at times lacking on cannot give money back to you workplace laws without the US a break when the US
surplus. policy," she said in Paris. for your chips. burdening industry with litigation, would have condemned such a
In an interview with the Wall "LET'S ALL LIVE IN PEACE" What are you trying to achieve while ensuring ‘reasonable’ move when it was winning the
Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Diplomats said Washington was here? No more gambling? No worker and end-user rights. By trade game is a bit rich.
Timothy Geithner called for an proposing that countries should more investment in China? Invest the way, fire all of your political
agreement on exchange rate aim to limit their surplus or deficit all your money in US? representatives and start afresh. U.S. page 17
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Obama courts women voters on West Coast tour

(Reuters: Top News) and understanding that there are reform, were helping women. risk his signature achievements, listing to Obama sweet big mouth
Submitted at 10/21/2010 5:06:05 AM real stakes in this election and that "The best thing for the Democrats including healthcare and financial of lies. I guess I should not care
it's important to participate," said to do is probably focus on the reform. Republicans have vowed but I don’t want none of my
U.S. President Barack Obama senior White House adviser David economy and jobs and the class to repeal those initiatives. family subject to this type of law.
campaigns for Ohio Governor Ted Axelrod. issue," said Lara Brown, professor Oct 21, 2010 9:53am EDT You want to go backwards and
Strickland at a midterm election "There is a Democratic president of political science at Villanova Wow, if the women of the left loose your rights fine with me. It
campaign rally at Ohio State a n d t h e r e i s a D e m o c r a t i c University in Philadelphia. coast support their liberal seems like you women always get
University in Columbus, Ohio, Congress now and it's easy .... to "They're probably better off candidates, I hope they can your noses in others business on
October 17, 2010. be complacent," Axelrod said, attracting pretty much everyone in explain to their children why they equal rights etc so what is
Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed adding that it is hard for this electorate by focusing on how will bear the brunt of Obama’s happening to you here? Are you
By Caren Bohan supporters to "imagine the they are helping with jobs and the mad spending spree. all that BLIND that you can not
SEATTLE| Thu Oct 21, 2010 potential scenarios if the vote economy." Oct 21, 2010 10:10am EDT see what this man is doing…
6:06am EDT goes the other way." Wins by Republicans in the Why are we paying for this Mercy me.
SEATTLE(Reuters) - President Obama will hold a backyard Washington state and California pompous imposter to travel *We welcome comments that
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Polls have shown an erosion in reporters. trillion U.S. budget deficit. don’t meet their criteria will be those of Reuters.
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Appeals court stays ruling on gays in military

(Reuters: Top News) own injunction, prompting the Phillips ruled in September that UCMJ, several of your “rights” Ridiculous. We look like puritan
Submitted at 10/21/2010 2:49:59 AM administration to petition the the military's 17-year-old policy are limited due to national fools before the rest of the world.
appeals court. infringes on the constitutional free security. Are we sure it isn’t a case of
A participant waves a flag during Her injunction will now be -speech and due-process rights of This is nothing but Obama trying having someone on the lower
a gay rights demonstration in suspended while the 9th Circuit gay men and women in the armed to make this country look foolish. totem pole to belittle? The boss
Washington October 11, 2009. considers the administration's forces. Don’t try to fix what isn’t broken. yelled at the secretary, she at the
Credit: Reuters/Molly Riley request for a longer-term stay to She put that opinion into effect This country has one of the finest office boy, and he kicked the
By Peter Henderson remain in effect during the on October 12 with a blanket military forces in the world. cat…………
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The Gold And Silver Selloff Is Gaining Steam

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game) most notably evidenced by selling And here's the longer-look at
in the precious metals and
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:15:00 AM gold futures showing the Tuesday
Treasuries. lows in jeopardy:
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voters in DE voted down the
establishment candidate for a
reason. The establishment ignores
that fact at its own peril. Voters in
this election cycle simply want to
boot out the incumbents. The
message is this: “career” and
“politician” are two words that no
longer belong together.
Oct 21, 2010 10:54am EDT
@lighthouse. The thinkers in the
group know that the TEA party,
along with the extreme right wing
of what is now the republican
party, does not represent either
traditional republican or
libertarian ideas.
The extreme right wing of the
republican party has pushed and
pushed to take over the party and
to “define” who is and who is not
a republican. Those who do not
support their ideology is labelled
a RINO.
Rather than start their own party,
the right wingers want to either
take over the Republican party
(does not look like they will
succeed) or brand themselves as
“libertarians” (which they are
not).
Their only reasonable solution
would be the creation of another
party which would support their
ideals.
Oct 21, 2010 10:57am EDT
Christine deserves to sink and
fast. She tells many fibs (better
known as l###), has no experience
to be a Senator, and has been a
failure in business and life. Maybe
Sarah Palin can hire her as her
administrative assistant.
Oct 21, 2010 10:58am EDT
To Lighthouse, I think you have
it backwards, it’s the libertarians
that frequently associate
themselves with the right due to
tax/regulation policy while
disregarding other issues of
personal freedom and government
restraint which generally the left
supports (end prohibition, more
religious/sexual tolerance,
excessive military/police spending
build-up).
This makes it very easy for the
lines between true libertarians and
pseudo-libertarian conservative
statists (i.e. the tea party) to blur.
Oct 21, 2010 11:01am EDT
@lighthouse. Many of the tea
partiers are libertarians, including
the Koch brothers who fund who
the tea party.
Oct 21, 2010 12:23pm EDT
The Koch brothers are not
Libertarians. They are all about
the republican ideas of
deregulation and corporate
agendas. The Tea Party
candidates seem like childish
conservatives to me. Doesn’t
matter anny way once the
republicans get back in and
people remember why they voted
against them in the first place the
Democrats will probably get an
even bigger majority then they
had before. The republicans and
Tea Partiers are their own worst
enemies. It’s like the American
people want Obama to break out
his wand and “POOF” everything
is fixed!
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Oct 21, 2010 9:36am EDT
Sometimes I feel that I live in
some parallel world. It turns out
that the famed “free market”
Americans have been preaching
all over the world for years can
only survive with massive
government bailouts. And what
happened to the nice Keynesian
economics? Did “stimulus”, all
“Nobel” winners praised so much,
work? And what happened to the
mantra other “Nobel” laureates
were praising, the undoubted
benefits of “free trade” and “free
movement of capital”? Let us be
clear, a world in which countries
regulate their exchange rates and
have targets for current account is
what we already had once. It was
in the late 1930s: Germany
introduced such policy of
regulated and balanced exports
with each country. Soon after, the
war followed.
Oct 21, 2010 9:36am EDT
The largest debtor nation in the
world, with a treasury secrectary
that can’t work Turbotax has less
than no credibility when
attempting to negotiate anything.
Oct 21, 2010 10:09am EDT
Mr Geithner will achieve
something if he stops thinking
solely at the interest of the US but
at the interest of the World.
Asking China to do this or to do
that so that the Americans will be
better off and the Chinese worse
off is not the way to proceed.
Oct 21, 2010 10:40am EDT
It’s actually kind of funny how
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narrow minded and blind the USA
is with global politics.
It’s like a bully in a wheel chair
trying to order kids in the school
yard to give them their lunch or
else.
The world has moved on as the
USA focused inwardly and forgot
the see how the world was
evolving.
Hope they do not resort to their
second nature and try to use wars
to “fix” this meltdown leveling
their country
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about the Beyonce and
Protectionism Jay-Z Pregnancy
(CLUSTER)
Judah Grunstein (World Politics topping the list. No surprises here, of ways in which globalized trade terrorism -- revealed itself for
Review: Trend Lines) that's consistent with what I've has a very destructive impact. what it is: an auto-immune (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Submitted at 10/21/2010 5:17:00 AM come to think of as the new Most of the big-ticket items are disease in the body of Trends)
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The U.K. defense review is now What's striking is the way in lay waste to vast tracts of land and can be made for cyber threats, as
available(.pdf), and to make a which the West is increasingly accompanying cultures, or else illustrated by the Stuxnet worm, Rumors have been buzzing like a
long story short, London -- with a conceiving of national security in arms deals that are hardly the stuff which is essentially a commercial frenzy as people are highly
g r e a t d e a l o f h e l p f r o m "protectionist" terms. What that utopian dreams are made of. strain. speculating the Beyonce and Jay-
Washington -- broke its military counterterrorism, cyber security, Nevertheless, the ties created by The problem, as revealed by the Z pregnancy. If it is true that
and is now looking at about a and NATO's new grand strategic such deals, and the revenue excesses of the past decade and as these chart-topping all-stars may
decade of shore leave. There are project of missile defense all have generated by them, in some ways now expressed by the U.K. be expecting a baby it might just
some parallels with France's in common is the obsession with subsidize the far-more palatable review, is that the immune be time…
Defense White Paper from two p r o t e c t i n g a l m o s t - l i m i t l e s s connections that create bonds response to an auto-immune
y e a r s a g o , w i t h t h e m a j o r borders and massive strategic between countries, and wealth disease is often as much, if not
differences being that the French terrains from what amount to within them. The latter two are more destructive than the initial
Cranium Cushions - The
review took place before the pain microscopic units of measure in what inoculate us against the virus itself. Hovding Airbag Helmet
of the financial crisis took hold, security terms -- lone-wolf destructiveness of the security The financial havoc of a decade Will Save Your Life in
and without needing to absorb the terrorists, computer viruses and a "viruses" that are in many ways of scorched-earth economic and Style (VIDEO)
toll of the Iraq War. currently non-existent Iranian the by-products of globalization. security policies are now coming
But this is clearly a cautionary ballistic missile capability. Trade is essentially the immune home to roost. And with the (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
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contract into line with that of the white blood cells targeting As such, I've long been struck by importance of maintaining the
French, making Britain essentially increasingly cellular organisms, how little attention has been given open ties of global trade is even It's true that a lot of cyclists are
a coalition-dependent security with an emphasis on hermetic over the years to the symbolic greater. That will be a challenge, not fond of the sometimes
"producer." Given Britain's borders. significance of the institutions not only due to the protectionist unfashionable helmets necessary
overall dependence on NATO -- The parallels with the gathering targeted on Sept. 11, 2001. urge generated by all recessions to prevent head trauma; therefore,
and now bilateral cooperation storm of currency wars and trade Inasmuch as trade does function and currently on display, but also a pair of Swedish designers
with the French -- for major protectionism are compelling. The as an inoculation against global because of the security created the 'Hovding' airbag
deployment capabilities, it can be global system, mainly through the security threats, the World Trade protectionism now emerging. The helmet. The almost…
argued that the U.K. is now, for G-20 forum, managed to stave off Center and the Pentagon latter reveals what may be deeper,
all intents and purposes, a security a first wave of protectionism in represented two sides of primal reactions that could prove
"consumer." the immediate aftermath of the globalization's security equation. even harder to resist, even if the
The broader takeaway lies in the financial crisis. Now it is faced By targeting the neural center of global economic outlook doesn't
nature of the threat environment with the same urgent task. global commerce, al-Qaida -- and completely bottom out.
that the U.K. review identifies, What's at stake should not be more generally, the phenomenon
with terrorism and cyber security underestimated. There are plenty of 21st-century transnational
E-reader News Edition
Apple's Guidelines Revealed: Apps You Can't Sell in the Mac
App Store
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:03:52 AM
Yesterday, at Apple's"Back to the
Mac" press event, the company
announced an App Store for the
Mac, similar to the stores it
already runs for the iPhone, iPod
Touch and iPad within iTunes.
There's no doubt a computer-
based "app store" is an interesting
concept, and it will likely attract
developers because of the
exposure it provides, not to
mention the hassles it eliminates -
like dealing with credit card
processing, or paying for hosting
and bandwidth bills.
As with the iTunes App Store,
developers receive the standard 70
/30 (developer/Apple) revenue
split on app sales. Also like the
iTunes App Store, Apple has
created a long list of apps it plans
to reject.
Sponsor
Thanks to an anonymous person,
the entire contents of Apple's
Developer Agreement have been
posted to the website pastie.org, a
site which functions as sort of a
Web-based clipboard for sharing
notes.
The list of apps Apple won't
allow in its Mac App Store is
long. Some of the reasons are
relatively standard - for example,
apps that cause damage to the
device, utilize Apple trademarks,
apps that don't work, etc. won't be
allowed.
However, some of the Mac Store
guidelines are less about
consumer protection, and more
about Apple's own version what it
wants, as a company, to promote.
Some call this "censorship," some
call it "curation." Regardless of
your position on the matter, it's
clear the Mac App Store will
abide by similar rules as the
iTunes store. In fact, in reviewing
the document, it looks like Apple
cut-and-pasted quite a bit of the
iTunes App Store Guidelines into
the the new document.
Here are some standout, and
perhaps questionable, examples of
what Apple will reject from its
Mac App Store:
• Apps with "Easter Eggs:" Apps
that include undocumented or
hidden features inconsistent with
the description of the app will be
rejected.
• No beta apps: Apps in "beta,"
"trial" or "test" versions will be
rejected.
• No duplicate apps: Apps that
duplicate apps already in the App
Store may be rejected, particularly
if there are many of them.
• No drinking/drugs: Apps that
encourage excessive consumption
of alcohol or illegal substances
will be rejected.
• No License Keys: Apps that
require the entry of a license key
will be rejected.
• No Java?: Apps that use
deprecated or optionally installed
technologies (e.g. Java, Rosetta)
will be rejected.
• No auto-run: Apps that are set
Technology/ 19
that present excessively will review every app on the Mac
objectionable or crude content App Store based on a set of Mac
will be rejected. App Store Review Guidelines that
• No porn: Of any kind. (Porn as we are ready to share with you.
it's defined by "Webster's These guidelines are designed to
Dictionary," that is). help you create and prepare your
• No gambling: Of any kind. apps so they will sail through our
to auto-launch or have other code • No file-sharing: No P2P apps - approval process.
automatically run at startup or apps that enable illegal file We want to help you reach tens
login without user consent will be sharing will be rejected. of millions of Mac customers with
rejected. Similarly, apps can't • Religious apps must be for your apps. As with the mobile
automatically add their icons to educational purposes only: Apps App Store, developers will earn
the dock or desktop. may contain or quote religious 70% of the revenues. Please join
• No copying Apple!: Apps that text provided the quotes or us as we launch our Mac App
look similar to Apple Products or translations are accurate and not Store within the next 90 days, and
a p p s b u n d l e d o n t h e M a c , misleading. Commentary should together we can surprise and
including the Finder, iChat, be educational or informative delight our joint customers.
iTunes and Dashboard, will be rather than inflammatory. Table of Contents
rejected. Terms and conditions
• OS X may not be changed: You can read the entire list of Functionality
Apps that change the native user guidelines here on pastie.org or by Metadata, ratings and rankings
interface elements or behaviors of clicking through to the next page. Location
Mac OS X will be rejected. App Store Review Guidelines Trademarks and trade dress
• No rentals: Apps containing Introduction User interface
"rental" content and services that The App Store has revolutionized Purchasing and currencies
expire after a limited time will be t h e w a y m o b i l e a p p s a r e Scraping and aggregation
rejected. developed and distributed. With Damage to device
• No RSS Readers?: Apps that over 300,000 apps and 7 billion Personal attacks
are simply Web clippings, content downloads, it has been a huge hit Violence
aggregators, or a collection of with developers and users around Objectionable content
links may be rejected. the world. Now we are thrilled to Privacy
• No data collection: Apps cannot be opening our new Mac App Pornography
transmit data about a user without S t o r e t o t h e h u n d r e d s o f Religion, culture, and ethnicity
o b t a i n i n g t h e u s e r ' s p r i o r thousands of Mac developers and Contests, sweepstakes, lotteries,
permission and providing the user tens of millions of Mac users and raffles
with access to information about around the world. Charities and contributions
how and where the data will be We hope the new Mac App Store Legal requirements
used. is the most exciting place for 1. Terms and conditions
• No Chatroulette clones?: Apps users to discover and purchase 1.1
that include games of Russian their apps. To ensure that apps are As a developer of applications for
roulette will be rejected. reliable, perform as advertised, APPLE'S page 20
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the Mac App Store you are bound
by the terms of the Program
License Agreement (PLA),
Human Interface Guidelines
(HIG), and any other licenses or
contracts between you and Apple.
The following rules and examples
are intended to assist you in
gaining acceptance for your app
in the App Store, not to amend or
remove provisions from any other
agreement.
2. Functionality
2.1
Apps that crash will be rejected
2.2
Apps that exhibit bugs will be
rejected
2.3
Apps that do not perform as
advertised by the developer will
be rejected
2.4
Apps that include undocumented
or hidden features inconsistent
with the description of the app
will be rejected
2.5
Apps that use non-public APIs
will be rejected
2.6
Apps that are "beta", "demo",
"trial", or "test" versions will be
rejected
2.7
Apps that duplicate apps already
in the App Store may be rejected,
particularly if there are many of
them
2.8
Apps that are not very useful or
do not provide any lasting
entertainment value may be
rejected
2.9
Apps that are primarily
marketing materials or
advertisements will be rejected
2.10
Apps that are intended to provide
trick or fake functionality that are
not clearly marked as such will be
rejected
2.11
Apps that encourage excessive
consumption of alcohol or illegal
substances, or encourage minors
to consume alcohol or smoke
cigarettes, will be rejected
2.12
Apps that provide incorrect
diagnostic or other inaccurate
device data will be rejected
2.13
Developers "spamming" the App
Store with many versions of
similar apps will be removed from
the Mac Developer Program
2.14
Apps must be packaged and
submitted using Apple's
packaging technologies included
in Xcode - no third party installers
allowed
2.15
Apps must be self-contained,
single application installation
bundles, and cannot install code
or resources in shared locations
2.16
Apps that download or install
additional code or resources to
add functionality or change their
primary purpose will be rejected
2.17
Apps that download other
standalone apps will be rejected
2.18
Apps that install kexts will be
rejected
2.19
Apps that require license keys or
implement their own copy
protection will be rejected
2.20
Apps that present a license screen
at launch will be rejected
2.21
Apps may not use update
mechanisms outside of the App
Store
2.22
Apps must contain all language
support in a single app bundle
(single binary multiple language)
2.23
Apps that spawn processes that
continue to run after a user has
quit the app without user consent
will be rejected
2.24
Apps that use deprecated or
optionally installed technologies
(e.g., Java, Rosetta) will be
rejected
2.25
Apps that do not run on the
currently shipping OS will be
rejected
2.26
Apps that are set to auto-launch
or to have other code
automatically run at startup or
login without user consent will be
rejected
2.27
Apps that request escalation to
root privileges or use setuid
attributes will be rejected
2.28
Apps that add their icons to the
Dock or leave short cuts on the
user desktop will be rejected
2.29
Apps that do not use the
appropriate Mac OS X APIs for
modifying user data stored by
other apps (e.g bookmarks,
Address Book or Calendar
entries) will be rejected
2.30
Apps that do not comply with the
Mac OS X File System
documentation will be rejected
3. Metadata (name, descriptions,
ratings, rankings, etc)
3.1
Apps with metadata that
mentions the name of any other
computer platform will be
rejected
3.2
Apps with placeholder text will
be rejected
3.3
Apps with descriptions not
relevant to the application content
and functionality will be rejected
3.4
App names in iTunes Connect
and as displayed on Mac OS X
should be the same, so as not to
cause confusion
3.5
All app icons should be similar,
so as to not to cause confusion
3.6
Apps with app icons and
screenshots that do not adhere to
the 4+ age rating will be rejected
3.7
Apps with Category and Genre
selections that are not appropriate
for the app content will be
rejected
3.8
Developers are responsible for
assigning appropriate ratings to
their apps. Inappropriate ratings
may be changed by Apple
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3.9
Developers are responsible for
assigning appropriate keywords
for their apps. Inappropriate
keywords may be changed/deleted
by Apple.
3.10
Developers who attempt to
manipulate or cheat the user
reviews or chart ranking in the
App Store with fake or paid
reviews, or any other
inappropriate methods will be
removed from the Mac Developer
Program
4. Location
4.1
Apps that do not notify and
obtain user consent before
collecting, transmitting, or using
location data will be rejected
4.2
Apps that use location-based
APIs for automatic or autonomous
control of vehicles, aircraft, or
other devices will be rejected
4.3
Apps that use location-based
APIs for dispatch, fleet
management, or emergency
services will be rejected
5. Trademarks and trade dress
5.1
Apps must comply with all terms
and conditions explained in the
Guidelines for using Apple
Trademark and Copyrights and
the Apple Trademark List
5.2
Apps that suggest or infer that
Apple is a source or supplier of
the app, or that Apple endorses
any particular representation
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Apple Aperture 3.1 gets fixes, iPhoto '11 features

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:01:44 AM

Aperture 3.1 lets you upload

photos to Facebook's wall.(Credit:
screenshot by Stephen Shankland/
CNET)
Riding on the coattails of
yesterday's MacBook Air and
iLife '11 announcements, Apple
also updated its high-end Aperture
photo editing and management
software with bug fixes,
performance improvements, and
updates to match features in
iPhoto '11.
iPhoto is geared for consumers,
while Aperture is aimed at photo
enthusiasts and professionals who
want more sophisticated controls
for editing and cataloging. There's
a lot of overlap, though, and one
is the ability to create themed
slideshows. All six of the new
iPhoto '11 slideshow themes also
arrive in Aperture 3.1
That includes the new Places
theme that's specifically geared
for people whose photos have
been geotagged with location
information. iPhoto '11 and
Aperture 3.1 can create pitching prospective clients, editing controls for curves, levels, high-contrast edges in photos. Fixes an issue that could prevent
slideshows that interleave the iPads. and highlights and shadows; Here's the full list of changes thumbnails from being properly
photos with views of a map with Also matching iLife '11, Aperture importing large libraries of described in the release notes: rendered when reprocessing
automatically generated labels to 3.1 can export photos better to photos; repairing photo library Aperture 3.1 Release Notes masters.
show where the next photos in the Facebook and Flickr. For databases; exporting images that This update improves overall Addresses reliability and
sequence were taken. Geotagging example, photos can be published have been heavily edited; stability and performance, and performance issues when running
can be a hassle, but features such directly to the Facebook wall, not straightening and cropping edited addresses compatibility with iLife Repair Database and Rebuild
as this can help turn the data into just to its photo albums. And the images; and zooming images to a '11. It also includes a number of Database operations in Aperture
something useful. software can retrieve Facebook 100 percent view. specific fixes in the following Library First Aid.
Speaking of slideshows, the comments on published photos. Apple Aperture 3 areas: Improves reliability of upgrading
upgrade also lets people export Performance is better in a number Apple also fixed a lot of bugs, Library libraries with images containing
them for Apple TV devices and, of areas, too, Apple said. Among including one that bothered me, Improves performance when
more important for photographers tasks that got speedier are core halos that could appear around opening large libraries. APPLE page 22
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Spot & Patch adjustments.
Improves accuracy of the
progress bars displayed when
updating Vaults.
Adjustments
Addresses performance issues
when exporting heavily adjusted
images, particularly those with
Highlights & Shadows,
Definition, Noise Reduction,
Edge Sharpen, Sharpen, Skin
Smoothing, or Blur.
Addresses performance when
using Core Image filters such as
Curves, Levels, and Highlights &
Shadows.
Eliminates black "halos" that
could appear in areas of extreme
luminance in scaled images in the
Viewer.
Addresses quality issues with
Red Eye correction.
Fixes an issue in the Adjustment
Presets editor that could cause the
names of adjustments within a
preset to temporarily appear
blank.
Addresses performance issues
with using the Straighten tool on
adjusted images.
Straighten grid now appears
correctly after applying and
resetting a crop.
Fixes issues that could cause
Aperture to stop responding or
quit unexpectedly when
processing an image with Sharpen
applied.
Addresses an issue that could
reduce image quality on
straightened photos.
Fixes an issue that could prevent
data from being properly entered
into numeric fields in the
Adjustments HUD.
Addresses an issue that
sometimes prevented the correct
cursor from appearing after
choosing a Quick Brush
Fixes a problem that caused the
Master Aspect Ratio setting to fail
if used in combination with the
"create new versions when
making adjustments" preference.
Fixes an issue that could cause
Aperture to stop responding when
making adjustments to images in
a stack if the "create new versions
when making adjustments" option
was chosen.
Thumbnails and previews now
display correctly for images that
are flipped and rotated.
When reprocessing masters,
Aperture now displays a progress
bar with a count indicating the
number of images remaining to be
processed.
Addresses performances issues
when zooming images to 100%.
Faces
Fixes an issue that could cause
some file tiles to be rotated
incorrectly.
Addresses performance issues
when loading thumbnails in Faces
view.
Improves reliability of face
detection and naming when
working with RAW+JPEG pairs.
Addresses an issue that could
result in "blank" face thumbnails
in Faces view.
When in Confirm Faces mode,
the contextual menu now
correctly includes the "Not a face"
option.
The Confirm Faces mode can
now be updated and refreshed by
holding down the Option key
while clicking the Done button.
Dragging multiple snapshots on
the Faces corkboard now correctly
moves all the selected snapshots.
The "include face info in
exported photos" option now
exports Face names as keywords
when exporting masters, writing
IPTC to masters, or exporting
metadata.
Printing
Fixes an issue that caused the
wrong color profile to be used
when previewing an image using
the Loupe in the Print dialog.
Addresses an issue that could
cause a thin black line to appear
on the top edge of some prints.
Slideshows
Addresses an issue that could
cause photo effects applied to
images in slideshows to persist
even after being removed.
When exporting a slideshow, the
Custom option now includes a
Quality pop-up menu in order to
control compression quality/size
of resulting H.264 or MPEG-4
files.
Fixes a problem that could cause
the audio browser to display
improperly when creating a
slideshow.
Slideshows can now be exported
using presets for compatibility
with Apple TV and iPad.
Fixes an issue that could produce
incorrect results when the start
and end positions of a Ken Burns
setting were swapped in the
slideshow editor.
Adding an inset to a photo in a
Classic and Ken Burns slideshow
no longer changes the width of a
border applied to the same photo.
Choosing "Fit Selected Slides to
Main Audio Track" no longer
unnecessarily reduces the length
of video clips contained within
the slideshow.
Deselecting the custom duration
set for a select slide by
deselecting the "Play slide for"
checkbox now correctly returns
the slide's duration to its default
value.
Places
Fixes an issue that could produce
inaccurate results when assigning
photos to a GPS track path.
Metadata Inspector can now
display GPS Direction if this data
is available in geotagged photos.
Addresses an issue that could
prevent imported track paths from
appearing in the Tracks &
Waypoints menu after restarting
the application.
Metadata
The Keyword HUD now displays
a count for the number of times
each keyword has been used in a
library.
Fixes an issue that could cause
duplicate keywords to appear after
merging a library.
Fixes an issue that could prevent
photos with an IPTC Subject
Code to export correctly when
exporting masters with the
"Create IPTC4XMP Sidecar File"
option enabled.
Fixes an issue that caused
Longitude data to export
incorrectly when using the Export
> Metadata command.
The Date Created field in IPTC
Core can now be activated and set
by simply clicking in the field.
Auto-complete of contact info in
E-reader News Edition
IPTC Contact fields can now be
enabled or disabled in
Preferences.
Metadata Inspector now includes
a Sharing view which logs when
each photo is published to
MobileMe, Facebook, or Flickr.
General
The application now displays a
progress dialog when opening or
switching between libraries.
Fixes an issue that disabled
browser scrolling when in Split
View with sort and filter controls
hidden.
Addresses quality issues in
connection with rendering of
images scaled to below 100% in
the Viewer.
Fixes an issue that could cause
the "Loading" indicator in the
Viewer to disappear before
images were actually loaded.
Activity window can now be
opened by pressing Command-
Shift-0 (zero).
Photos displayed in the iLife
Media Browser on Mac OS X
v10.6.x Snow Leopard now retain
their sort order from Aperture.
Photos synced to iPod, iPhone,
iPad and Apple TV are now
sorted in date order by default.
Search
Addresses issues to improve
performance when searching
libraries containing a large
number of keywords.
File Type query now correctly
supports search for RAW+JPEG.
Import
Fixes an issue that could prevent
all photos and videos from
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regarding quality or functionality
will be rejected
5.3
Apps which appear confusingly
similar to an existing Apple
product or advertising theme will
be rejected
5.4
Apps that misspell Apple product
names in their app name (i.e.,
GPS for Imac, iTunz) will be
rejected
5.5
Use of protected 3rd party
material (trademarks, copyrights,
trade secrets, otherwise
proprietary content) requires a
documented rights check which
must be provided upon request
6. User interface
6.1
Apps must comply with all terms
and conditions explained in the
Apple Macintosh Human
Interface Guidelines
6.2
Apps that look similar to Apple
Products or apps bundled on the
Mac, including the Finder, iChat,
iTunes, and Dashboard, will be
rejected
6.3
Apps that do not use system
provided items, such as buttons
and icons, correctly and as
described in the Apple Macintosh
Human Interface Guidelines will
be rejected
6.4
Apple and our customers place a
high value on simple, refined,
creative, well thought through
interfaces. They take more work
but are worth it. Apple sets a high
bar. If your user interface is
complex or less than very good it
may be rejected
6.5
Apps that change the native user
interface elements or behaviors of
Mac OS X will be rejected
7. Purchasing and currencies
7.1
Apps that unlock or enable
additional features or
functionality with mechanisms
other than the App Store will be
rejected, except in cases where the
application hosts plug-ins or
extensions
7.2
Apps that create a store inside
themselves for selling or
distributing other software (i.e.,
an audio plug-in store in an audio
app) will be rejected.
7.3
Apps that allow the user to
purchase access to built-in
capabilities provided by Mac OS
X, such as an iSight camera, will
be rejected
7.4
Apps containing "rental" content
or services that expire after a
limited time will be rejected
7.5
Insurance applications must be
free and in legal-compliance in
the regions distributed
7.6
In general, the more expensive
your app, the more thoroughly we
will review it
8. Scraping and aggregation
8.1
Applications that scrape any
information from Apple sites (for
example from apple.com, iTunes
Store, App Store, iTunes Connect,
Apple Developer Programs, etc)
or create rankings using content
from Apple sites and services will
be rejected
8.2
Applications may use approved
Apple RSS feeds such as the
iTunes Store RSS feed
8.3
Apps that are simply web
clippings, content aggregators, or
a collection of links, may be
rejected
9. Damage to Products
9.1
Apps that encourage users to use
an Apple product in a way that
may cause damage to the device
will be rejected
9.2
Apps that rapidly drain a
products battery or generate
excessive heat will be rejected
10. Personal attacks
10.1
Any app that is defamatory,
offensive, mean-spirited, or likely
to place the targeted individual or
group in harms way will be
rejected
10.2
Professional political satirists and
humorists are exempt from the
ban on offensive or mean-spirited
commentary
11. Violence
11.1
Apps portraying realistic images
of people or animals being killed
or maimed, shot, stabbed, tortured
or injured will be rejected
11.2
Apps that depict violence or
abuse of children will be rejected
11.3
"Enemies" within the context of a
game cannot solely target a
specific race, culture, a real
government or corporation, or any
other real entity
11.4
Apps involving realistic
depictions of weapons in such a
way as to encourage illegal or
reckless use of such weapons will
be rejected
11.5
Apps that include games of
Russian roulette will be rejected
12. Objectionable content
12.1
Apps that present excessively
objectionable or crude content
will be rejected
12.2
Apps that are primarily designed
to upset or disgust users will be
rejected
13. Privacy
13.1
Apps cannot transmit data about
a user without obtaining the user's
prior permission and providing
the user with access to
information about how and where
the data will be used
13.2
Apps that require users to share
personal information, such as
email address and date of birth, in
order to function will be rejected
13.3
Apps that target minors for data
collection will be rejected
14. Pornography
14.1
Apps containing pornographic
material, defined by Webster's
Dictionary as "explicit
descriptions or displays of sexual
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organs or activities intended to
stimulate erotic rather than
aesthetic or emotional feelings",
will be rejected
14.2
Apps that contain user generated
content that is frequently
pornographic (ex "Chat Roulette"
apps) will be rejected
15. Religion, culture, and
ethnicity
15.1
Apps containing references or
commentary about a religious,
cultural or ethnic group that are
defamatory, offensive, mean-
spirited or likely to expose the
targeted group to harm or
violence will be rejected
15.2
Apps may contain or quote
religious text provided the quotes
or translations are accurate and
not misleading. Commentary
should be educational or
informative rather than
inflammatory
16. Contests, sweepstakes,
lotteries, and raffles
16.1
Sweepstakes and contests must
be sponsored by the developer/
company of the app
16.2
Official rules for sweepstakes
and contests must be presented in
the app and make it clear that
Apple is not a sponsor or involved
in the activity in any manner
16.3
It must be permissible by law for
the developer to run a lottery app,
and a lottery app must have all of
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Toshiba AC100 Review

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:03:14 AM

Companion devices come in all

shapes and sizes, from big-screen
smartphones through tablets to
netbooks and ultraportables, but
Toshiba is hoping that by
borrowing a little of each they’ll
find a gap in the market. The
Toshiba AC100 looks like a
netbook but runs Android, an OS
we’re more familiar with on
smartphones or, more recently,
tablets. The company reckons a
traditional keyboard and
NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor
should make the AC100 the best
multimedia, browsing and
communication ultraportable
around, but is Android being
asked to do more than it’s
currently capable of? Check out
the full SlashGear review after the
cut.
The production AC100 has
certainly been tightened up from
the flexing, creaking prototypes
Toshiba showed at the
ultraportable’s launch. Although
you can still see some chassis-
bend if you hold the notebook by
the very corner with the screen
open, there’s no bowing of the
keyboard tray as you type and the
keys themselves are firm and
nicely clicky. We’ve used plenty
of ultraportables over the years,
but the AC100s slender
construction was still enough to
impress coming out of the box;
significantly tapered edges and a
mere 0.87kg weight make for an That’s in part because you get netbook. The AC100 has a single an HDMI output, a combination
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and an SDHC card reader, along
with the power input and
Kensington lock port. There’s
also an integrated microphone, 1.3
-megapixel webcam, and stereo
speakers whose grills are on the
underside of the Toshiba.
Conspicuously absent is any sort
of cooling vent; that’s because the
AC100 is fanless and, since it
uses flash storage not a spinning
hard-drive, silent in operation.
In fact, internal storage is just
8GB, paired with 512MB of
DDR2 memory. Rather than the
Atom CPU you’d usually find in a
netbook, Toshiba has opted for
NVIDIA’s second-generation
Tegra 250, a 1GHz mobile
processor based around ARM not
x86 cores. The promise is that the
frugal Tegra 2 will deliver far
longer battery life while still
being capable of 1080p HD video
playback (via the HDMI output,
since the 10.1-inch display 16:9
runs at 1024 x 600). Wireless
connectivity, meanwhile, consists
of WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth
2.1+EDR on this AC100-10Z
model; Toshiba also offer the
AC100-10U with an HSPA
modem.
Running on that Tegra 2 is
Google’s Android OS, in this case
version 2.1 Eclair with Toshiba’s
own Home Menu modifications.
Android is, obviously, intended
first and foremost for
smartphones, and in the absence
of a touchscreen (unlike the HP
Compaq Airlife 100) Toshiba has
thrown shortcuts galore at the
AC100s keyboard. Where
normally you’d find the function
key row, the AC100 has buttons
for media playback, internal/
external display control, screen
brightness, wireless, locking the
trackpad, volume up/down/mute,
taking screenshots, and loading
the email, browser, settings or
task switcher.
Meanwhile, there are also buttons
for search and home, down where
you might usually find the
Windows Start key, and a menu
button where the right-click
shortcut normally is on PC
notebooks. Then there’s the
trackpad, for which Toshiba have
added an on-screen cursor control
so you can navigate Android
much as you would Windows.
Five horizontal homescreen panes
can have various widgets, and
there’s the usual status bar
running across the top of the
screen with WiFi, clock, battery
and network indicators (the latter
only showing a connection if you
have the 3G-enabled model).
As for Toshiba Home Menu, that
consists of four panels –
Applications, Widgets,
Bookmarks and Settings – which
basically put the various apps and
other shortcuts within a click or
two from the homescreen.
Toshiba preload the Opera Mobile
browser, Evernote, Fring,
Amazon MP3, a File Manager
app, FBReader for ebooks, and
the Camangi Market (there’s no
Android Market access) together
with their own media player app
and Documents To Go, but you
don’t get the Gmail app, only the
generic Android Mail app.
Unfortunately, while it’s a good
attempt to translate a touch-based
OS to keyboard and mouse use,
it’s not 100-percent there. Five
homescreen panes filled with
widgets make sense when you can
swiftly flick between them with a
finger; it’s less intuitive when
you’re working with a 10-inch
non-touch display. You might
assume that the arrow keys would
shift you from pane to pane, but
they actually control the various
Home Menu options. Regular
text shortcuts, such as tabbing
between fields or CTRL+arrow to
jump by word, don’t work.
Gmail loaded with its full
desktop view in the Android
browser, but the keyboard wasn’t
fully functional: hitting Enter, for
instance, to start a new paragraph
instead opened up the address bar.
Some on-screen dialogs can be
navigated via the arrow keys and
enter, some cannot; there’s more
jumping between the keys and the
trackpad than on a Windows or
OS X machine. Even Toshiba’s
own apps – added to take
advantage of the netbook form-
factor – are hobbled by Android’s
finger-centric paradigm; you can’t
drag files between local and USB
storage in the Toshiba File
Manager, for instance, instead
having to individually select
them, cut/copy them and then
paste them into the other volume.
It adds up to a frustrating user
experience that’s ironically far
more complex to get to grips with
than a regular Android
smartphone. Toshiba could have
fitted a touchscreen – adding to
the price, naturally – but even
then we’d want to be able to
successfully navigate solely via
the keyboard, as even the most
basic netbook can manage.
There’s no multitouch support on
the trackpad, either.
A glimmer of hope, however, lies
with Ubuntu. The AC100
modding community kicked off
efforts to load the alternative
Linux OS onto the ultraportable,
and in response Toshiba has
assigned a small team of its own
to explore the possibility. There’s
no timescale for its release, but
from the early DIY attempts
we’ve seen it could give the
AC100 a real boost in usability.
Ubuntu would hopefully be able
to handle more USB peripherals
than the AC100, too; the Android
notebook could recognize a 2GB
USB memory stick, but not an
external NTFS hard-drive.
Plugging it into another PC via
the miniUSB port allowed the
AC100 to be mounted as a
browsable drive, meanwhile.
If Toshiba can manage to squeeze
Ubuntu into the AC100 and
preserve its battery life, it could
be onto a winner. The company
estimates up to 8hrs of runtime
from a full charge, or 180hrs –
over a week – of standby. In
practice, we managed around six
hours of solid web browsing over
WiFi, and even longer if we were
just watching video. The Tegra
2s 1080p abilities also live up to
NVIDIA’s promises, as long as
you have a file format which
Android can play; that means yes
to H.264, MP4, AVI and XviD,
but no MKV. Still, given the
25
mere 8GB of internal storage, you
won’t be able to keep many files
on the AC100 itself; thankfully
it’ll recognize up to 32GB SDHC
cards.
At a time when Android’s
suitability for tablets is being
questioned – even, when it comes
to 2.2 Froyo, by Google itself –
the platform seems even more ill-
equipped to handle the AC100s
form-factor. Tegra’s HD video
abilities are great, and the battery
life and portability of the Toshiba
are both excellent, but general use
can be a chore that belies its
companion-device intentions; the
missing Android Market only
compounds that. Ubuntu may
change things, but for the moment
the Toshiba AC100, despite its
relatively affordable £211(plus
VAT; $333) price tag, falls short
of earning a place in our bag.
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could be in works
• Toshiba AC100 Tegra 2
benchmarks tip the performance
we’ve been waiting for
• Toshiba AC100 gets played
with: hardware good, Android
lacking [Video]
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Please Touch This

Philip Berne (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:10:29 AM

Last night, an embargo lifted and

a stream of technology sites
posted reviews for a major new
product launch. I’m not going to
bother telling you which launch,
that isn’t the point, and you can
probably figure it out (hint: not
the MacBook Air). It’s always a
rush to be part of that initial surge
of interest. It’s hard to sleep
afterwards. Instead, I took to
Twitter and started posting my
thoughts and answering questions.
[Image credit Anssi Koskinen]
One friend, who works for a
competing manufacturer, kept
asking what all the hubbub was
about. He had read reviews and
seen the photos and watched the
videos, and he still couldn’t
understand why there was so
much enthusiasm, let alone
interest at all, in this new device. I
completely understood his is to make them feel like it’s in completely understand the restaurant per se, because one of there’s a big difference. It’s okay
sentiment. their hands.” product as surely as if you held it the best parts about trying a new if I blow $20 on a movie or even
I tweeted something like “Read My guess is that this was a in your own hands? I don’t think restaurant is the feeling of $100 on dinner, but spending
all the reviews you like sentiment being repeated by so. I think that reflects novelty. If we’ve read a dish hundreds, perhaps thousands of
(especially mine), but until you’ve numerous reviewers of the same expectations from the reader that described in detail, we’ll dollars on technology is not a
had one in your hands, you won’t product. How did I feel when I are too high, and aspirations from recognize it as familiar, but at decision to be made lightly.
understand.” read Hiner’s tweet? Narcissistic the reviewer that are too best, the tastes we encounter Admittedly, there is no novelty to
An analyst friend soon retweeted rage of course, same as always. egotistical. should be novel and unexpected, ruin in, say, a laptop review. I
a post from Jason Hiner, who But then I poured myself three Think of other review categories, no matter how well the food is don’t want novelty when I buy a
works as Editor in Chief of fingers of bourbon (I have small besides technology. If you read a described. new piece of technology, at least
TechRepublic, a CBS site fingers), and decided to respond restaurant review, do you want it If you read a movie review, do not in the long run. I want some
(according to his Twitter profile). in more detail. to make you feel as if you have you want to feel as though you’ve sort of performance, some sort of
Hiner doesn’t follow me, so I’m The first question that came to eaten there? You certainly want seen the movie? Of course not. need to be met.
positive he wasn’t referring to me mind was whether this sentiment the right details, rendered Movie reviewers go to great When I review a piece of
when he said: is true, and whether we should succulently to whet your appetite, lengths to describe the film technology, I think of my reader
“Reviewer tip: NEVER tell want it to be true. When you read or turn you away if the spot is without destroying any of the as someone who is about to make
people they won’t understand a review, should it be so lousy. But you don’t want to feel novelty of the experience.
until it’s in their hands. Your job immersive, so thorough, that you like you’ve experienced the Of course, with technology, PLEASE page 30
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Sagemcom RM50 WiFi radio suggests stations it thinks you’ll
enjoy
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:03:25 AM
One of the problems we’ve had
with internet radios in the past is
that it can be pretty overwhelming
trying to sift through the many
thousands of stations on offer,
meaning we tend to stick to the
same old channels. Sometimes,
we even find ourselves missing
the analog days of spinning an
FM dial. Sagemcom‘s new RM50
internet radio claims to fix all
that, with a “Smart Random”
button that automatically picks a
different channel for you based on
the type of stations you listen to
most often.
So, we’re guessing that if you
spend your days tuned to salsa,
you’ll get another interesting salsa
station to try; perhaps a Chinese
one or a Turkish one instead.
There’s also an FM radio, just in
case you’re feeling nostalgic, an
alarm clock and a simple
equalizer.
Sagemcom throw a remote
control into the mixture, and
there’s WPS for easy setup with
your WiFi network. It’ll land in
the UK sometime this month,
priced at £99 ($156).
Press Release:
SAGEMCOM INTRODUCES
NEW INTERNET RADIO
Chertsey, UK 25th October 2010:
Sagemcom today announced its
elegant Sagemcom RM50 radio.
With its highly visual black
design, the Sagemcom RM50
radio makes accessing more than
13,000 Internet radio stations
around the world, as well as
conventional FM stations,
extremely easy.
For the last few years Sagemcom
has been guiding customers
through the Digital Switch Over,
providing customers with digital
TV services via its Freeview and
Freesat set top box range. Now,
building upon its reputation it is
Technology/ 27
access to other radio stations of
the same genre as those most
frequently listened to – aswell as
alarm clock functions and an
intuitive equaliser.
The RM50 has WPS (Wi-Fi
Protected Setup) protection to
obtain secure connections to WiFi
Internet access points and has a
stand-by ‘low power
consumption’ mode making it a
secure and green audio option.
The compact and extremely
sophisticated radio has a highly
competitive price, making it ideal
for everyone looking for an
internet radio solution that is easy
to use and will easily fit in with
their home décor.
Recommended price £99
including VAT
Available: October 2010,
available from Amazon
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and IP alternatives and Sagemcom favourite, or finding new stations internet radio fans
is aiding customers to make the is simple. With the world’s radio • Sonoro elements W HD radio
transition smoothly and easily. stations at your finger tips the now available
The RM50 is a feature packed, RM50 allows you to search for • Grace Solo WiFi internet radio
smartly designed product that will stations by theme, by name, by tuner brings internet radio to
e n a b l e g r e a t d i g i t a l a u d i o genre or by region. home stereo
enjoyment. It’s easy to find the type of
This RM50 offers a great stations that you like. The “Smart
listening experience thanks to its Random” function gives the
‘air-proof’ design which prevents listener the possibility of random
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loading in the Import window
when importing from iPhone or
iPad.
Duplicate detection now correctly
works with imported audio and
video files.
Images in BMP format can now
be imported.
Aperture now correctly rotates
square images cropped in-camera
from Olympus E-P1 and E-P2
models when imported.
Tethering
Images captured during a
tethered session no longer appear
in the Import window, unless they
are actually stored on the camera's
memory card.
Fixes an issue that caused a
"Missing" badge to temporarily
appear on some images imported
via tethering.
Addresses an issue that disabled
tethered capture via FireWire on
Snow Leopard.
iPhoto Import
Images from an iPhoto library
that are imported as referenced
files can now be correctly
accessed and relinked using the
Locate Referenced Files
command.
Smart Albums created using
Faces in an iPhoto 8 library are
now correctly displayed when
imported into Aperture.
Portrait-oriented photos
contained in an iPhoto 8 library
are now correctly rotated when
the library is imported into
Aperture.
Photos marked as "hidden" in an
iPhoto 8 library are now imported
with a "rejected" tag when the
library is imported into Aperture.
Export
Fixes an issue that could cause
images exported as TIFFs to have
an incorrect dpi setting.
Addresses issues that could slow
performance when exporting a
large number of projects as a new
library.
Fixes an issue that could cause
the "Consolidate masters into
exported library" option to not
complete when exporting projects
to a new library.
Exported libraries now correctly
include all pre-defined Library
Smart Albums such as "* * * * *"
and "* or better."
Web sharing
Improves memory management
when publishing to MobileMe.
Supports multiple MobileMe,
Facebook, and Flickr accounts for
compatibility with iLife '11.
Enables publishing to Facebook
Wall and Flickr Photostream.
MobileMe, Facebook, and Flickr
accounts can now be individually
enabled or disabled in each
Aperture Library.
Photos downloaded from
MobileMe albums are now copied
when imported into Aperture
projects.
Video
When Aperture attempts to open
an unsupported video format, it
now correctly prompts you to
open the file using QuickTime via
Finder.
Fixes an issue that could cause
videos to flicker when multiple
videos were selected in the
Viewer.
Books
Improves scaling of images when
photos placed in book layouts
have an effective resolution of
110 dpi or less.
Plug-ins
Addresses an issue that could
cause export plug-ins to use the
wrong Aperture export preset
when exporting files.
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the following characteristics:
consideration, chance, and a prize
16.4
Apps that allow a user to directly
purchase a lottery or raffle ticket
in the app will be rejected
17. Charities and contributions
17.1
Apps that include the ability to
make donations to recognized
charitable organizations must be
free
17.2
The collection of donations must
be done via a web site in a web
browser
18. Legal requirements
18.1
Apps must comply with all legal
requirements in any location
where they are made available to
users. It is the developer's
obligation to understand and
conform to all local laws
18.2
Apps that contain false,
fraudulent or misleading
representations will be rejected
18.3
Apps that solicit, promote, or
encourage criminal or clearly
reckless behavior will be rejected
18.4
Apps that enable illegal file
sharing will be rejected
18.5
Apps that are designed for use as
illegal gambling aids will be
rejected
18.6
Apps that enable anonymous or
prank phone calls or SMS/MMS
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messaging will be rejected
18.7
Developers who create apps that
surreptitiously attempt to discover
user passwords or other private
user data will be removed from
the Mac Developer Program
Living document
This document represents our
best efforts to share how we
review apps submitted to the Mac
App Store, and we hope it is a
helpful guide as you develop and
submit your apps. It is a living
document that will evolve as we
are presented with new apps and
situations, and we'll update it
periodically to reflect these
changes.
Thank you for developing for
Mac OS X. Even though this
document is a formidable list of
what not to do, please also keep in
mind the much shorter list of what
you must do. Above all else, join
us in trying to surprise and delight
users. Show them their world in
innovative ways, and let them
interact with it like never before.
In our experience, users really
respond to polish, both in
functionality and user interface.
Go the extra mile. Give them
more than they expect. And take
them places where they have
never been before. We are ready
to help.
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Mozilla Director Says Apple Trying to We Don't Need No Stinkin'

"Bypass the Web" DVDs: Netflix Considers
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:17:11 AM
misgivings. John Battelle,
journalist and founder of Streaming-Only in U.S.
Federated Media (disclosure: FM Mike Melanson
As we noted earlier this morning, is a ReadWriteWeb partner), is (ReadWriteWeb)
Apple's Mac Store guidelines none too pleased with the new Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:33:35 AM
have been revealed, including the guidelines either, saying, "I'm not
long list of apps Apple plans to holding out much hope for the Netflix, the streaming-video and
reject. While some developers saying, "If our results are as
Mac continuing to be a computer DVD subscription service, may
will jump at the chance for strong as we think they will be,
in any real sense of the word. You soon offer an instant-streaming
exposure a Mac App Store then we will look to start this
know, where a computer means only option in the U.S. The
provides, not everyone in the offering later in this Q4. Pure
you have choices as to what apps feature is one that the company
industry is happy about the news - streaming could become our core
you run on it, what apps get already began offering in Canada
least of all, Mozilla Firefox chief offering in the USA, and DVD
developed for it, and how you last month.
Mike Beltzner. For him, Apple's applications." More importantly, express yourself using it." would be offered as a supplement
This week, Netflix CEO Reed
version of a desktop-based Mac perhaps, open Web apps are built He even says that Apple's rules for an additional charge, like we
Hastings said that the success of
App Store is especially disturbing. using standards, and "can be could have him leaving the Mac offer Blu-ray today."
its streaming-only service in
In fact, Beltzer accused Apple as distributed by developers directly platform for good: "If anything, For those of us more often on the
Canada has got the company
attempting to "bypass the Web" to users without any gatekeeper..." ever, will make me leave Mac for move than not and those of us
considering testing the option in
altogether. While obviously Mozilla is good...it will be the integration of living off netbooks and
the U.S., as soon as later this
Sponsor talking "Web" and Apple is the Mac OS into Steve Jobs' smartphones, the move sounds
quarter.
After hearing Steve Jobs speak at talking "desktop," the two visions vision of where mobile is going." ideal. If Netflix shaves a couple
Sponsor
the press conference, Beltzer are diametrically opposed. bucks off the monthly fee, it may
Overreacting? When Netflix first discussed
tweeted,"I wonder when Apple In Apple's case, the company But Apple supporters will tell even lure in those with DVD
offering a streaming-only service
will stop shipping Safari. It's plans to reject the buggy, the you all this bellyaching is just an players that just want to save a
last year, Hastings said that
obvious already from today's betas, apps built with Java, apps overreaction: Apple isn't going to buck. And as the Internet-
"Everybody also wants to get
keynote that they're looking to with Easter eggs, apps that stop shipping a Web browser or connected TV becomes
DVDs. [...] When there is
bypass the web." aggregate content, apps that preventing the installation of increasingly popular, the idea of
demand, it will make sense for us
I wonder when Apple will stop duplicate Apple's own apps, apps alternative browsers like Firefox waiting for a DVD in the mail just
to meet that demand for streaming
shipping Safari. It's obvious t h a t c o n t a i n p o r n o g r a p h y , and Chrome. The Mac App Store becomes silly. We want what we
only."
already from today's keynote that violence, promote drinking and will just offer a curated selection want, and we want it now.
Now, Hastings commented on the
they're looking to bypass the web. drugs, and so on. Yes, Apple of apps, making it easier for Mac Discuss
company's earnings report,
less than a minute ago via Tweetie plans to reject a lot of apps in its users to find great apps to try.
for Mac Mike Beltzner vision of curation. Apps will still exist on the Web
beltzner Says Beltzner, pointing to the for download and Apple won't
The Mac App Store news comes s o m e w h a t o n e r o u s prevent you from using the apps
only a day after Mozilla itself guidelines:"these Mac OS X App you want on your own computer...
announced its own "open Web Store requirements are not going At least, that's what we're hoping.
app store"- a move we recently to work well with Mozilla's 'open What do you think? Discuss
called promising. beta' development process." More
In Mozilla's vision, the open Web Complaints
"is a great platform for rich Beltzner is not alone with his
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a purchase. There are sites that
cater to technology enthusiasts,
people who may never buy the
gadgets about which they read,
but still want to know every last
detail. For those people, a hands-
on experience might be out of the
question. They might not even be
interested in making the effort to
saw pictures, watched literally
hours of videos and read the first
impressions of my colleagues in
the Northeast, who did get an
early hands-on opportunity. I read
spec sheets, reviewer’s guides,
owners manuals and marketing
materials. Before I started my
review, I prepared myself as best I
certainly the experience can feel
Get Offa My Facebook!
realistic, but let’s not deceive
ourselves that writing can ever SmartTwitter Cleans Up
replace reality. Holding an object
in your hand, feeling it respond to
your touch, that triggers an
Your Tweets
entirely different set of emotions Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
than reading and imagining the
same. Would you ever buy a car Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:06:21 PM

spend hands-on time. But I could. after simply reading a review? Of

imagine my readers are about to
spend a very long time using the
product I’m reviewing, and it will
probably cost them a significant
chunk of change.
With too many products today, it
is very difficult for interested
buyers to spend a great deal of
time handling the device. Even
products that cost thousands of
dollars might go sight unseen by
the average buyer until it’s at
home, unwrapped and in use. To
that extent, Hiner is correct. It
would be best if I could describe
the product so well that my reader
encounters no surprises once the
purchase has been made.
For the product in question, I was
fortunate enough to see relatively
early builds of the final version.
Never an actual working model,
but slides, movies and market
research concerning the product. I
saw early hands-on experiences. I
My first impression when I took
the gadget out of the box? Holy
cow, this is nothing like it seems
in the videos. You really have to
get your hands on this thing to
understand it.
That was my response. It was
purely emotional. I was surprised.
I was delighted. I felt a sort of
cognitive dissonance, in that I had
so many expectations in mind,
and the device in hand didn’t
match any of them. It wasn’t
about exceeding or failing to live
up to my expectations. It was a
completely different animal.
That’s my review, in a nutshell.
You have to get your hands on it.
You have to see it in person to
understand what it’s all about.
That’s no less a legitimate opinion
than a multi-volume description
of the device and all its parts.
A good writer can deliver
emotion to his readers, and
course not. You can read about
the roar of the engine, or the thrill
of cornering on a windy road, but
until you’ve actually heard the
noise rattling your eardrums and
felt gravity slam you against the
door in a hairpin curve, you
haven’t come close to the full
experience.
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In San Antonio, Greenhouse Gases

From Sewage Are Saved And Sold As
Energy
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch) Biogas has remained somewhat
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:51:17 AM scarce in the U.S. consumer
energy market. Once biogas has
This week, a new biogas facility been captured, it remains a
opened in San Antonio, Texas, challenge to transport it for use in
and began turning greenhouse fuel cells like the ClearEdge5 or
gases into a power source. the Bloom Box or other systems.
Companies that partnered to BioEnergy Solutions in
develop and run the new facility Bakersfield, California has taken
are the San Antonio Water mitigating global warming within greenhouse gases from dairy
System (SAWS) which treats 25 years, the EPA suggests. manure, and directed it into
Firefox director says
sewage and provides potable In a press statement, Robert R. Pacific Gas & Electric’s pipeline,
water and wastewater to about 1.3 Puento, the chief executive and and Cargill has embarked on a
Apple is “looking to
million people in Texas, and president of SAWS said “This n u m b e r o f b i o g a s p r o j e c t s
Ameresco, a publicly traded project is a sound investment for worldwide, mostly involving
energy services company. o u r e n v i r o n m e n t a n d o u r agriculture industry projects, but
bypass the web”
Chris Davies (SlashGear) Beltzner’s comments prompted
The project captures methane gas community. By reusing biogas Ameresco and SAWS claim theirs
that’s generated during sewage instead of burning it off, we are is the first biogas project of its Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:54:57 AM an unsurprising retaliation from
treatment, and directs this gas into helping protect the city’s air kind in the country. the Apple faithful, accusing the
Is Apple “looking to bypass the developer of being paranoid over
a commercial, natural gas pipeline q u a l i t y a n d d e v e l o p i n g a Environmentalists are eager to
web” with their new Mac App whether future versions of Firefox
nearby so it can be sold, delivered renewable energy resource.” see more collaboration between
Store? That’s the charge levelled would be available on OS X 10.7
and used as energy for heat and Ameresco will treat and transfer large, public wastewater utilities
by Firefox director Mike Beltzner, (something he denies).
electricity generation. Typically, at least 900,000 cubic feet of and private sector or other
who took to Twitter during [ via The Register]
waste water facilities burn m e t h a n e g a s f r o m S A W S companies that can help them
Apple’s keynote to ponder out Relevant Entries on SlashGear
methane off in flares. wastewater plant to a nearby curb methane emissions, while loud “when Apple will stop • Firefox Home for iPhone &
According to U.S. Environmental commercial gas pipeline, where generating renewable, and low
shipping Safari.” It seems the iPod touch hits App Store
Protection Agency research they will sell it on the open emissions energy. CrunchBase
subject of Beltzner’s ire is the • Mozilla Scheduled to Release
methane is about 21 times more market. The gas will be used and Information ClearEdge Power
Cupertino company’s attempt to FireFox 2.0 Gold Today
p o w e r f u l a t w a r m i n g t h e sold as energy, and some royalties I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y
p a c k a g e t h e i n t e r n e t i n t o • Mozilla releasing FireFox 3
atmosphere than carbon dioxide, on the sale of the biogas will be C r u n c h B a s e C r u n c h B a s e
individual, neatly bounded apps, tomorrow – aim to set Guinness
and has a chemical lifetime in the returned to the water company I n f o r m a t i o n B l o o m E n e r g y
complete with some reasonably World Record
atmosphere of approximately 12 and its customers, reducing its I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y
d r a c o n i a n g u i d e l i n e s o v e r • Microsoft & Firefox combine –
years. Methane’s relatively short cost of operations, overall. SAWS C r u n c h B a s e
functionality and stability. all hail our new interweb
life, coupled with its problematic expects to generate at least
For instance, no “beta,” “demo,” o v e r l o r d s !
potency as a greenhouse gas, $200,000 a year from biogas
“trial,” or “test” versions are • Firefox Hits 200 Million
m a k e s i t a c a n d i d a t e f o r sales.
permitted, nor apps that change Downloads
“the native user interface elements
or behaviors of Mac OS X.”
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Nearly 3 percent of Germans opt out of

Street View
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:03:22 AM
• Video Apple unveils new, thinner
Deep Tech Apple Aperture 3.1
gets fixes, iPhoto '11 features
An update to Apple's high-end
photo editing and cataloging
software brings several
performance improvements and
bug fixes along with slideshows
for geotagged photos.
• about 3 percent of homes will be
Gallery The art of making high-
end wine (photos)
• •
The Digital Home AT&T
activates 5.2 million iPhones in
3rd quarter
The carrier activated more than 8
million smartphones over the past
quarter, and a hefty portion of
those were iPhones--"the most
iPhone activations ever in a
quarter," AT&T says.
• •
Beyond Binary Microsoft
celebrates Windows 7's first
birthday
The software maker gushes about
its youngster, noting it has sold
more than 240 million copies of
the operating system, which hit
the market one year ago.
• •
MacBook Airs
•
The Digital Home Nearly 3
percent of Germans opt out of
Street View
Google's Street View will be
coming to Germany in the next
few weeks. When it launches,
blurred out at the homeowner's
request.
Video Apple previews new Mac
OS X Lion
• CFL efficiency without the wait
Geek Gestalt Road Trip Pic of
the Week, 10/21: What is this?
If you know what this is and
where it's located, you could win
a prize in the CNET Road Trip
Picture of the Week challenge.
Crave Get him back (and go
green) with Sibling Soaker
PBS series "Design Squad"
challenged kids 5 to 19 to create
the next great green invention,
with winning innovations built by
a global design firm. Watch out,
Dean Kamen!
Gallery Porn studio files IP
addresses with court (images)
•
iPhone Atlas Five frighteningly
good Halloween apps
Get your trick or treat on with
these spook-tacular apps, which
include a coloring book,
interactive e-book, pumpkin-
carving simulator, and zombie
game collection.
• The Europas, the TechCrunch information on any of the entries,
Green Tech GE: Hybrid light
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Halogen hybrid light bulb offers
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Scarlett Stays in Spain to Celebrate Mango's Fashion Awards

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:45:00 AM
Scarlett Johansson brought out
her brand-new blonder bob last
night to make an appearance at
the third annual Mango Fashion
Awards in Barcelona. John Paul
Gaultier presided over the event
this year, and he and Scarlett were
together to present the evening's
big winner, Israeli designer Lena
L u m e l s k y , w i t h h e r h o n o r . Dolce & Gabbana's new holiday View 10 Photos ›
Scarlett's in Europe tending to her makeup ads.
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Nokia focusing on Qt, HTML5 for app

development
(CNET News.com) too. As updates are created for the technology decisions that will
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:39:21 AM OS via Qt, people using Symbian accelerate our ability to offer the
3 phones and future Symbian strongest possible opportunity for
Nokia is making Qt its sole products will be able to take developers and the richest
a p p l i c a t i o n d e v e l o p m e n t advantage of them. In line with possible experience for
framework and is supporting this, Nokia said it will no longer consumers," Rich Green, Nokia's
HTML5--both of which the refer to the mobile operating chief technology officer, said in a
company says are designed to system as Symbian 3 or Symbian statement. "For developers, it will
benefit mobile app developers and 4 but will simply continue to open up a huge installed customer
customers. evolve the OS. base for their applications. For
The mobile phone maker said Nokia itself will use Qt consumers, it means a more
today its Qt decision means that exclusively to develop its own
mobile apps will be compatible future mobile apps. The company
compelling engagement with their
Nokia product in terms of access
IPad is affecting the hard
with future versions of Symbian is also introducing Qt Quick into
a n d M e e G o . P r e v i o u s l y , the Qt framework. Demoed at
to the best applications in the
marketplace and a constantly
drive industry, but MacBook
developers could write directly for Mobile World Congress earlier
Symbian or MeeGo, each with its this year, Qt Quick lets scripting-
improving product experience."
More information is available on Air could deal a fatal blow
own specific development tools language-savvy developers create Nokia's Qt, Qt Quick, and Megan Lavey (TUAW) netbooks and tablets is not a disk-
and environment. touch-enabled user interfaces and HTML5 pages. based hard drive.
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Google Spent $1.2M On Lobbying In

Q3, Up 11 Percent From Last Year
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) its lobbying resources was
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:51:32 AM “openness and competition in the
online services market,”
Google’s and Facebook’s specifically related to the $700
lobbying efforts have continued to
grow this quarter. For the third
quarter of 2010, Google spent$1.2
million acquisition of travel
software company ITA. The deal
is reportedly being investigated by
iLife, iWork apps to sell
million on lobbying efforts
compared to $1.08 million in the
the U.S. Justice Department.
Facebook spent its lobbying individually in Mac App
same quarter last year. The seach money on global regulation of
giant is already close to spending
more in the first three quarters
software companies and
restrictions on internet access by
Store
($3.92 million so far this year) 2010. According to a release foreign governments; cyber Dave Caolo (TUAW) bundle for one or two apps only
than in all of 2009 ($4.03 from organization Consumer security policy, internet privacy Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:50:00 PM (iMove and iPhoto, but not
million). Google is on track to Watchdog, Google outspent a regulations, and FCC regulations GarageBand for instance). An a la
spend $5 million on lobbying this number of other technology on net neutrality. None of these It seems that Apple will sell its carte offering would prevent those
y e a r F a c e b o o k d o u b l e d i t s companies this quarter including t o p i c s a r e t h a t s u r p r i s i n g , iWork and iLife apps individually shoppers from paying for an
lobbying spending this year from Apple ($340,000) and Facebook. especially considering Facebook’s through the forthcoming Mac App app(s) that they won't use.
$60,000 in the second quarter to Microsoft, however, spent $1.63 recent issues with online privacy. Store. Some keen-eyed observers The Mac App Store will premiere
$120,000 in the third quarter. But million in the third quarter. In July, Facebook spokesman noticed hints during this week's for Snow Leopard users in about
the social network spent slightly Google’s lobbying strategy for Andrew Noyes said ninety percent demonstration, ElectricPig 90 days. We'll know for sure by
less than the same quarter last this quarter included immigration, of the D.C. staff’s day is focused reports. then.
year ($121,000). You can find the online advertising regulation on privacy. During the demo, you could [Via MacNN]
reports from the U.S. Senate’s including privacy and competition Photo Credit/Flickr/ clearly see GarageBand, iMovie iLife, iWork apps to sell
lobbying database here. issues, patent reform, online VinothChandar CrunchBase and iPhoto icons among the individually in Mac App Store
For Google, this quarter’s consumer protection, cloud Information Google Facebook available apps. Indeed, the originally appeared on TUAW on
lobbying efforts were slightly computing, renewable energy, I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y screenshot on the official Lion Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:50:00 EST.
lower than previous quarters this smart grid, Congressional Internet C r u n c h B a s e information page shows the same Please see our terms for use of
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Morning Links - Kristen Stewart Knows What "Krisbians" Are

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:15:00 AM
• Kristen Stewart opens up about
"Krisbians"- Huffington Post
• Beyonce's mom, Tina, denies
that a baby's on the way- People
• Tom Hardy might be bound for
the next Batman movie too-
Lainey Gossip
• Eva Longoria involved in a
minor car accident- PopEater
• Paris Hilton apparently adopted
yet another puppy- TMZ
• Jennifer Lopez models with her
twins for Gucci!- Us Weekly
• Kanye West talks about his
diamond teeth- Wonderwall
• Are Blake and Penn on or off
right now?- Celebitchy
• Plagiarism suit against J.K. a romance with Samantha Ronson
Rowling allowed to proceed- Fox - ICYDK
411
• Ashley Greene and Joe Jonas
make out over pizza- Hollywood
Life
• Christina Aguilera's rep denies
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FaceTime for Mac security hole easily David Rosenberg: North
remedied
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Macworld Germany has
described what they're calling a
security hole in the FaceTime for
Mac beta ( Google translation).
The gist is this: once a user has
logged into FaceTime for the
Mac, his/her Apple ID and
password can be altered from the
app by anyone with access to the
computer while FaceTime is
running.
Let that sink in for a second.
If you were to log into FaceTime
for Mac and then abandon your
computer with everything running
and no concern for who has
access to it and for how long,
there's a possibility that a n'er-do-
well could sit down in your empty
but still warm chair and engage in
a scandulous conversation with
your poor Aunt Shirley (who
undoubtedly is wondering why
you'd be dumb enough to walk
away from your operational Mac
in public) before changing your
password and making several
pricey purchases in iTunes.
In related security news, cash
registers left unattended with their
drawers open are likely to be
robbed and cars left running with
Technology/ Economy/
America Is Losing Some
Serious Momentum
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:48:53 AM
David Rosenberg remains
undeterred by a market that's near
all-time post-crisis highs.
Today he brings our attention
back to the slowing North
American economy:
NORTH AMERICA LOSING
SOME SERIOUS MOMENTUM
The U.S. economy may in fact be
contracting again. The monthly
data from Macroeconomic
Advisers showed that real GDP
the doors unlocked are likey to be • Think. Physical access is total contracted 0.6% in August. While
stolen. As Ars notes, "...whoever access.
this did follow a red-hot +1.25%
happens to be sitting at the gain in July, this does mark the
c o m p u t e r c a n c h a n g e t h e The takeaway here is this: any third decline in real activity in the
associated account password." miscreant who has physical access past four months. And, as an
In the interest of our readers' to computer is a potential security exclamation mark to the overall
safety, here are a few steps we threat.
deflationary backdrop we are in,
suggest you take: FaceTime for Mac security hole nominal GDP also fell 0.4% in
• Don't go to the bathroom while e a s i l y r e m e d i e d o r i g i n a l l y August and has contracted now in
FaceTime is running on your Mac appeared on TUAW on Thu, 21 three of the past four months.
at Starbucks. Hell, don't leave Oct 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please Maybe the bond market does not
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computer. market really needs to sustain the
• If the "office prankster" asks to
downward trend in yields.
use your FaceTime account to And, talk about taking a knife to
make a call, SAY NO.
the forecast — to both growth and
inflation. That is what the Bank of
Canada just did as it signalled a
deep pause in what has turned out
to be a brief interest rate cycle. As
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the Bank indicated, “the global
economy is entering a new
phase”, a “time of transition” that
involves “a weaker U.S. outlook,
constraints beginning to moderate
growth in emerging-market
economies” and “domestic
considerations that are expected to
slow consumption and housing
activity in Canada.” Wow. All it
took to bring the economy to its
knees were three rate hikes (okay,
and the loonie back at par too!).
Is there anything in these
numbers and comments that
would otherwise support this
crazy notion that there is a bubble
in bonds? Could it be that the
fixed-income market is telling us
the same thing about the
economic outlook that the Bank
of Canada is — maybe, just
maybe, it is the equity market,
liquidity-craved as it is, is the odd
man out?
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Lumigon T1 with ICEpower amplifiers officially unveiled, to

arrive 'by the very end of this year'
Richard Lai (Engadget) only does it have an HDMI dock year'
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:59:00 PM and Bang & Olufsen's renowned Continue reading Lumigon T1
ICEpower audio amplifiers, but it with ICEpower amplifiers
Just as promised, Denmark-based also doubles up as an "innovative" officially unveiled, to arrive 'by
Lumigon has finally lifted the universal remote control for your the very end of this year'
curtains over its much hyped T1 various AV devices -- pretty Lumigon T1 with ICEpower
Android handset. Specs include unique for an Android device, amplifiers officially unveiled, to
an 800MHz Freescale i.MX515 we'll give you that. Interestingly, arrive 'by the very end of this
c h i p s e t w i t h a n o p t i o n a l the press release omits any year' originally appeared on
Qualcomm HSDPA modem, mention of Froyo, so here's a Engadget on Thu, 21 Oct 2010
along with a 3.5-inch 480 x 800 glimmer of hope that Lumigon 12:59:00 EDT. Please see our
capacitive touchscreen LCD and a will manage to skin whatever the year," just in time for your Q3 2011. Sometimes it's better to terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
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really selling here, though, is the lucky outlets will receive the handset S1? We're now told that Freescale processor unveiled, to
phone's multimedia features: not phones "by the very end of this this T9 slider won't be out until arrive 'by the very end of this

iMovie '11 Trailers feature won't let "Science of the

you spoof Universal trailers
Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:16:00 PM
Loyal tipster Tarik sent word that
the iMovie '11 Trailers theme
using a globe (very similar to the
Universal Studios opener) won't
allow you to use the word
"Universal" in the title.
He's currently testing other
themes for similar censors, but it
looks like Apple didn't want
people spoofing Universal Studios
trailers. Because I'm sure "Me and
my dog go to the beach" could
easily be confused with "Marley
and Me,"* right?
As you can see in the picture,
Tarik tried to input Universal for
the "studio name" field. iMovie
detected this, and substituted the
hyphens. Further, he reports
you're able to use the string
'Universal' in other themes, just
not in this one. Was this
accommodation reached directly
with Universal, perhaps to prevent
any derailing of Universal's deal
for distribution on iTunes and
Apple TV? I doubt we'll ever
know.
Let us know in the comments if
you find more examples of this.
*Yeah, I know "Marley and Me"
is a 20th Century Fox production.
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PSA: FaceTime beta endangers your Apple ID Taliban Peace

password and security questions
Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:18:00 PM
Worried about local hackers?
Like leaving your laptop behind
in the coffee shop while you take
long, leisurely trips to the
bathroom? We wouldn't be so self
-assured. Turns out there's a
gaping security hole in the
FaceTime beta, which allows
anyone with access to your
Talks Leave
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password without knowing it to PSA: FaceTime beta endangers (AEI.Org: Articles)
begin with, as well as peep and your Apple ID password and Submitted at 10/20/2010 6:00:00 PM
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answers. It would be nice if appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Last week's media reports that the
signing out of FaceTime would Oct 2010 12:18:00 EDT. Please government of President Karzai
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Samsung's new SyncMaster monitors: Travel the World: State

DisplayPort, 16:10, tres European Capitals
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) Available for €269 ($378) and (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:57:00 AM €329 ($460) respectively. Look Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:00:56 AM
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Talk to the Taliban?
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With the war in Afghanistan now
in its tenth year and both security
and public support at their nadir,
diplomats and generals in both
Washington and Kabul focus
increasingly on reconciliation
with the Taliban as the key to
stability and withdrawal.
Engagement with enemies
remains President Obama's
wonder drug. Outlining his
Afghanistan strategy last
December, Obama declared, "We
will support efforts by the Afghan
government to open the door to
those Taliban who abandon
violence and respect the human
rights of their fellow citizens."
Behind the scenes, both British
and American officials have
encouraged talks between the
Afghan government and the
Taliban. Gen. David Petraeus,
commander of U.S. forces in
Afghanistan, acknowledged on
October 15 that U.S. forces have
given Taliban safe passage to
peace talks in Kabul. As General
Petraeus explained, "We support
that [dialogue], as we did in Iraq,
as the United Kingdom did in
Northern Ireland. This is the way
you end insurgencies."
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Afghanistan, however, is neither
Iraq nor Ireland. It may be used to
war, but it is also no stranger to
negotiation. The most infamous
example of engagement occurred
in 1842: The British had occupied
Kabul to prop up Shah Shuja
Durrani, a weak but compliant
ruler. Facing an insurgency waged
by Dost Muhammad, the ruler
whom the British helped unseat,
British officials decided to
negotiate their way out of the
conflict. Promised free passage by
his insurgent interlocutors, Gen.
William Elphinstone led the
British column out of Kabul.
There followed Great Britain's
worst defeat in history, at least
until Singapore's fall a century
later. Legend has it that, of the
16,000 British men, women, and
children who left Kabul, only one-
-surgeon William Brydon--arrived
in Jalalabad.
Today, the American push to
engage the Taliban is based on the
falsehood that the Taliban
represent the Pushtun,
Afghanistan's largest ethnic
group.
In Afghanistan, history is alive.
More than a litany of names and
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British may promote their
engagement with the Irish
Republican Army as a model, and
Petraeus may see his engagement
with Iraqi Sunni insurgents as an
unbridled success, but both
narratives are as foreign as sushi
in the mountains of eastern
Afghanistan. It is Afghan history
that matters. As Obama
encourages dialogue with the
Taliban, we cast Afghan president
Hamid Karzai as Shah Shuja.
Mullah Omar already describes
himself as a new Dost
Muhammad. That makes General
Petraeus a latter-day Elphinstone.
This is an unfair comparison, but,
in Afghanistan, perception trumps
reality. Indeed, even our allies
embrace the narrative. In the
Ministry of Defense, Minister
Abdul Rahim Wardak has hung a
painting depicting Britain's 1842
defeat.
More recent history matters as
well. During the Clinton
administration, U.S. officials met
with the Taliban more than 30
times. The Taliban promised
repeatedly to close terror-training
camps. They played American
officials like fiddles, always
telling interlocutors what they
wanted to hear. Now-declassified
records show that the State
and I'm sure they will be sold out
Department embraced the success
of its engagement almost up to the
first strike on the Twin Towers.
Today, the American push to
engage the Taliban is based on the
falsehood that the Taliban
represent the Pushtun,
Afghanistan's largest ethnic
group. True, Afghan Taliban may
be Pushtun, but not all Pushtun
are Taliban. At Afghanistan's
foreign ministry, I heard fury at
Special Representative Richard
Holbrooke for his suggestion that
cutting off a woman's nose was
simply a Pushtun cultural
practice. Likewise, Afghan
Pushtun resent former Bush-
administration official Robert
Blackwill's proposal to partition
Afghanistan, handing Pushtun
areas to the Taliban. A former
presidential adviser told me that
"suggesting the Taliban represent
Pushtun is akin to saying Pol Pot
represents Cambodians." Indeed,
America's Afghan allies worry
that Karzai, himself a former
Taliban official, will sacrifice
them on the altar of appeasement.
"Once again, America rewards its
enemies at the expense of its
allies," a former cabinet member
complained.
There is similar skepticism in
Islamabad. A retired Pakistani
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intelligence officer dismissed
Karzai's reconciliation councils as
a show for Western consumption.
Pakistani officials also said it is
naïve to believe money motivates
the Taliban. Western pragmatism
does not work when faced with an
ideological army convinced it is
on the verge of a historic victory.
Diplomacy may be a tool in the
American arsenal, but
engagement is not cost-free.
Reconciliation can work, but only
after a decisive Taliban defeat:
The only path to victory--and U.S.
security--is to defeat the Taliban
leadership, wherever they may be.
Talking to the Taliban now is not
an exit strategy; it is at best a
diversion, and at worst a strategy
for defeat.
Michael Rubin a resident scholar
at the American Enterprise
Institute.
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of a negotiated solution to the
Afghan war. While
representatives from the Afghan
government and the Taliban have
held several secret meetings in the
past years, albeit without success,
the current talks have a new
dimension: The United States and
NATO are now facilitating the
process.
Karzai set up a 68-member High
Peace Council earlier this month
to speed up reconciliation efforts.
The council elected former
president and Northern Alliance
leader Burhanuddin Rabbani as its
chairman, and its prominent
members include many senior
jihadi leaders with whom the
Taliban fought in the late 1990s,
such as Hazara leader Mohammed
Mohaqeq and the head of
Afghanistan's upper house of
parliament, Sebghatollah
Mojadedi.
Both the Afghan media and
Afghan political experts are
skeptical, arguing that the Taliban
are not willing to negotiate peace
and accept conditions set by the
Afghan government and the
international community at a time
when the insurgent groups believe
they are winning.
• A commentary in Kabul
Weekly, Afghanistan's largest
newspaper, entitled "Price Paid
for Peace Must Not Be Worth
More Than Its Value," called into
question the chance for the talks
to succeed, reasoning that the
Taliban would not cut ties with al-
Qaeda and accept the Afghan
constitution.
• Fazil Sancharaki, the
Culture/ 39
spokesman for the opposition "soft and flexible" policy toward the killing of German and
alliance led by Abdullah the Taliban. Swedish soldiers over the past
Abdullah, Karzai's chief rival in The north, once hailed as the week, and the increasing presence
the 2009 presidential election, most peaceful region in of the Taliban and foreign fighters
said the Taliban would never Afghanistan, is increasingly in the region signal growing
negotiate peace with the new becoming unstable. On October 8, instability and the rising power of
council because the head of the the Taliban killed the governor of insurgent groups in the north.
council and many members were Kunduz province and 20 other These also indicate that the
leaders of the anti-Taliban
movement in the 1990s.
worshipers in an audacious bomb
attack at a mosque in the capital
Taliban are still closely linked
with the transnational terrorist
Urban Street
• Independent daily Afghanpaper
reports that many Afghan
lawmakers have also questioned
of neighboring Takhar province.
In an interview with
Afghanistan's Tolo television just
groups and have no inclination to
lay down arms and accept peace.
Previous efforts by the Afghan
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victory. It says the government's Takhar, which borders the Taliban and instead focus on street artist opened his show, "The
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"psychologically and militarily" of not just Taliban fighters but Ahmad K. Majidyar is a senior through November 6.
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40 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Severe, Life-changing, and Consciousness-Altering State Budget

Cuts Coming
noreply@blogger.com (Michael differential rate of growth to soundness.
Shedlock) (Mish's Global private payrolls and population/ Unfortunately, Keynesian clowns
Economic Trend Analysis) labor force growth, OR gov't think government can spend our
Submitted at 10/21/2010 2:40:00 AM payrolls will be cut by 30-31% way to prosperity. It cannot and
My friend "BC" pinged me with over the coming decade, implying will not happen.
some interesting employment further a similar cut in local and We need to reduce government
stats regarding the state of Oregon state budgets. spending, not increase it.
that apply in varying degrees to Extrapolating further at the trend UK Leads the Way with Massive
every state in the union, and rate of population growth, the per- Public Sector Cuts
arguably most countries in the capita reduction in gov't payrolls I talked about public sector cuts
world. and spending will be around 40%, in the UK and public union strife
"BC" Writes .... matching what is likely to be the in France yesterday in French
OR total payroll employment has same decline per capita in oil Strikes Reach 7th Day; Japanese
not grown in 11 years, which is production/consumption, bank Economy at Standstill; China
not unlike most of the rest of the lending (and overall value of US Hikes Interest Rates; Leaked Docs
US. assets), and US GDP (and states' say 10% of UK Public Sector
However, adjusting for OR GSP) that otherwise would have consequences for such a decline these demographic changes.
Workers to be Fired
p o p u l a t i o n g r o w t h , p a y r o l l occurred from the '00 peak rate in overall private and public Everyone is so used to upward
Today the New York Times
employment is back to the level of had the long-term trend rate e c o n o m i c ( o r u n e c o n o m i c ) progress that we have a very hard
discusses the UK at great length
the early '90s. activity will be severe, life- time imagining anything else.
occurred. in Britain Details Radical Cuts in
But it's worse than that. Private Japan, parts of continental EU, changing, and consciousness- Pension System is Bankrupt
Spending, Citing Debt
payrolls are back to the level of and the UK and Ireland are altering. The above comments The public pension system is
The British government on
'97, and adjusting for population moving, or soon inevitably will stem from an analysis of Bureau bankrupt at every level: city,
Wednesday unveiled the
there are fewer private payroll move, in this direction of public o f L a b o r S t a t i s t i c s O r e g o n county, state, and federal. We
country’s steepest public spending
jobs per capita than the late '80s to spending cuts with the predictable Economy at a Glance statistics. c a n n o t a f f o r d t h e p e n s i o n
cuts in more than 60 years,
early '90s. Debt Overhang and Civilian promises and benefits made to
implications for household reducing costs in government
And gov't payrolls over the past incomes, increasing household Employment Population Ratio public union workers. I reported
departments by an average of 19
two decades have grown at twice economic hardship, and social The following chart civilian on one such example the other
percent, sharply curtailing welfare
the population/labor force growth discontent/unrest. (Gov't spending employment-population ratio has day.
benefits, raising the retirement
rate. declined to a point last seen in the In case you missed it, please
cuts will not have a sustained age to 66 by 2020 and eliminating
Total OR employment is back to stimulative effect on the private early 1980's. consider Chicago Pension Funds
hundreds of thousands of public
the levels of '04-'05 and '99-'00; sector, however, as the gov't That population group is now S e l l i n g A s s e t s t o M e e t
sector jobs in an effort to bring
however, adjusted for population/ spending cuts are occurring responsible for supporting not Obligations; Needs to Double
down the bloated budget deficit.
labor force growth, employment because the private sector is not only their own personal debt P r o p e r t y T a x e s ; C u r r e n t
“There’s a growing acceptance
is down 10% from '00 and down growing or contracting, and the obligations (much higher than at L i a b i l i t i e s o f $ 4 1 , 9 6 6 p e r
and public awareness that this is
3.1% from '90. any point in history), but also the H o u s e h o l d .
cost of existing gov't as a share of necessary, that these measures are
N o w t h a t l o c a l a n d s t a t e the private sector will not fall demands of public union benefits Pension plans in general are at
needed,” Helen Cleary, deputy
employment is necessarily being much, if at all, especially if taxes on top of social security and least $3 trillion in the hole.
political director for the Ipsos
cut along with no growth or are raised and net interest per Medicare promises to retirees. Changing demographics seal the
Mori polltakers, said in an
continuing contraction of private receipts and per private GDP This turn of events has been an fate. Few are prepared for the
interview. “But I don’t think
payrolls, and were OR gov't continue high or increase.) enormous shock to the system yet sacrifices that must be made to
most people have not recognized bring the system back into fiscal SEVERE, page 43
payrolls to converge with the Needless to say, the
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Obamacare Career Ending Votes; Republican Chance to Win

Senate; Expect House Blowout; Stimulus Appetite Greatly
Diminished
noreply@blogger.com (Michael he said the bill would do great the other "Stupak Five" appear Republicans seems about right, representative in Congress should
Shedlock) (Mish's Global things for his constituents. headed for losses. with a smaller chance 52-53 or be reelected if he or she voted for
Economic Trend Analysis) Boccieri's district was represented Republicans Have Chance to Win 47. the stimulus plan. But 50% don’t
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:49:00 AM by Republicans for 58 years until Senate To pick a number I will go for 50 see it that way and say the
The public is still angered over he was elected in 2008. It looks Rasmussen Reports says the -50. individual should not be reelected.
Obamacare so much so that Dems like it will be again next year. In Senate Balance of Power: Dems One thing is sure, this Senate will The partisan divide is predictable
Find Careers Threatened by three polls, Republican Jim 48 GOP 47 Toss-Ups 5 Current have a vastly different makeup since virtually no congressional
Obamacare Votes Seven months Renacci leads Boccieri by an projections suggest that the and the Republicans (or Republicans voted for any of
ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent a average of 46 percent to 36 Democrats would hold 48 seats Democrats) can filibuster any these measures. So Democratic
busy week rounding up votes to percent. after Election Day while the legislation they want. voters overwhelmingly think
pass the Senate version of the Then there is Suzanne Kosmas, a Republicans would hold 47. Five Most Voters Oppose the those in Congress who voted for
Democrats' health care legislation. longtime real estate agent who states are in the Toss-Up category Reelection of Anyone Who Voted them should be reelected, while
It wasn't easy. She had to get beat a Republican with an ethics (California, Colorado, Illinois, for the Health Care Law, Auto Republicans feel just as strongly
Democrats who had voted no in issue in 2008. She announced her Nevada, and Washington). All Bailouts, Stimulus Plan that they should not be reelected.
November to switch to yes in switch from no to yes late in the five Toss-Ups are seats currently Rasmussen poll says Most Voters But, tellingly, voters not
March. And she had to get week before the roll call. She's held by Democrats. Oppose the Reelection of Anyone affiliated with either party also
Democrats who had refused to now running behind Republican Republicans have the edge in Who Voted for the Health Care feel strongly that supporters of the
vote for the bill in November Sandy Adams by an average of 47 four Democratic-held Senate seats Law, Auto Bailouts, Stimulus health care law, the auto bailouts
w i t h o u t a n a n t i - a b o r t i o n percent to 40 percent in three --Arkansas, Indiana, North Plan and the stimulus should not be
amendment to vote for a bill in recent polls. Dakota, and Pennsylvania. Incumbents, beware: The major returned to Congress.
March that lacked that language. To put these numbers in At the moment, no Republican- votes you’ve cast in Congress A new Rasmussen Reports
What about the districts of the perspective, it's highly unusual for held seats appear headed for the over the past couple years appear national telephone survey finds
House Democrats who cast the an incumbent House member to Democratic column. In the "edge" likely to come back to haunt you that most Likely Voters think
key votes that made Obamacare trail a challenger in any poll or to category I think only this Election Day. their representative in Congress
law? So how are they doing? run significantly below 50 Pennsylvania is in play. Forty-three percent (43%) of all does not deserve reelection if he
Take Betsy Markey of Colorado p e r c e n t . B u t t h e s e t h r e e Real Clear Politics Battle For the Likely Voters say someone who or she voted for the national
4, who in 2008 beat a Republican Democrats are running 5 to 10 Senate has a different take with voted for the health care law health care law, the auto bailouts
who seemed fixated on the same- p o i n t s b e h i n d R e p u b l i c a n Kentucky, Washington, West deserves to be reelected. Fifty or the $787-billion economic
sex marriage issue. Markey cast a challengers, and none tops 40 Virginia, and Pennsylvania in the percent (50%) oppose their stimulus plan.
l a t e - i n - t h e - r o l l - c a l l n o i n percent. The article notes that Bart tossup category. reelection. Those votes also appear to be
November, then publicly switched Stupak of Michigan 1 opposed the Of the Rasmusen tossups, I think Thirty-six percent (36%) say if driving factors in the GOP’s
to yes in the week before the original bill over an abortion Illinois, Nevada, and Colorado go their local representative voted for consistent lead over Democrats on
March 21 roll call. She's currently clause along with 5 others known to the Republicans. If the rest of the taxpayer bailouts of General the Generic Congressional Ballot.
trailing Republican Cory Gardiner as the "Stupak Five". those tossups go Democratic Motors and Chrysler, he or she Independents are the key to this
by an average of 44 to 39 percent Bart switched his vote when (accepting the Rasmussen starting deserves to be returned to election and independents have
in three polls. Obama promised to take care of point) we have a 50-50 tie. Congress. Fifty-three percent abandoned Obama and the
Consider John Boccieri of Ohio the abortion issue by presidential However, I am not sure if that is (53%) say that person does not Democrats in droves.
16, who switched from no to yes decree. Bart has graciously the right starting point. Thus a deserve reelection.
in a TV press conference in which bowed out the election and four of range of 48-51 for the Similarly, 41% say their OBAMACARE page 44
42 Economy/ Culture/ Finance/
Why Do Lenders Foreclose Rather Than Make
Principal Modifications?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 8:03:00 PM
Tom Lawler, founder of
Economic & Housing Consulting,
and a former director and senior
vice president at Fannie Mae,
provides Answers to Your
Questions on the Foreclosure
Crisis.
I pickled that link up from
Calculated Risk who highlighted
one question. Here is a different
question I want to discuss in more
depth.
Q: Why does it make more sense
for a bank to foreclose rather than
writing down the loan to keep
people in their homes? I know
many folks who can qualify,
based upon current income and
credit, for loans based upon the
homes’ current market values.
(Most homes are down 50% here
from 2004-7.) However, the bank
would rather foreclose than
renegotiate with the current
owner. Many of these folks are
current on taxes, HOA, etc. Is it
an issue of spite to discourage
strategic defaults?
A: This is a loaded question.
While many lenders/servicers
have not done a great job in
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who are struggling to make
mortgage payments, by the same
token many borrowers whose
home values have plunged and
have made no payment for well
over a year want the banks to
write down their mortgage
balance to today’s distressed-
value levels, so that if home
prices later go up, they can reap
any future appreciation even if
their home value remains below
their old mortgage balance.
Banks and lenders, not
surprisingly, are not crazy about
doing that! Instead, most offered
modifications that are intended to
reduce a borrower’s payment, but
not in any meaningful way reduce
the borrower’s mortgage balance.
So let me state it differently:
Suppose you had lent money for
someone to buy a home for, say,
$300,000 with a – crazy as it
sounds – $300,000 mortgage.
Property values then fall, and that
person just stopped making any
payments, and said that he/she
wanted you to write down the
mortgage balance to, say,
$150,000, because that’s what the
home is worth today.
You counter with an offer to
temporarily reduce the borrower’s
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from 6 percent. But the borrower
says, “Fuggedaboutit, I want my
mortgage written down to
$150,000, so if home prices rise
again, I’ll make money!” How
would you react?
The question says that a bank
“would rather foreclose than
renegotiate.” But what is the right
renegotiation? The Seen and
Unseen
Lawler answered the question
with two questions, but there is
another factor at play that is far
more important. I am surprised he
did not mention it.
Here's the real deal: If lenders
gave loan modifications to
everyone who was seriously
underwater, it would openly invite
everyone who was underwater to
stop paying their mortgages.
Thus, while it may appear to
make economic sense to work out
a principal reduction (the easily
seen effect suggests the lender
would lose less by working out an
arrangement than opting for
foreclosure then having to unload
it at fire sale prices), it is highly
likely to be a losing strategy in the
long run because it creates a
moral hazard of opening inviting
everyone who is underwater to
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as they can (foreclosure is a
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people will really understand what
it all means until the cuts start to
bite.”
Mr. Osborne said that 490,000
public sector jobs would be lost
over the next four years, some to
attrition. At the same time,
payments to the long-term
unemployed who fail to seek jobs
would be cut, he said, saving $11
billion a year. Additionally, he
said, a new 12-month limit would
be imposed on long-term jobless
benefits, and that measures would
be taken to curb benefit fraud.
Britain has about six million
public-sector jobs, about one fifth
of all jobs in the economy,
according to the Office for
National Statistics. Nobel Prize
Winning Fools
One quick look at the
demographics in both the united
states and the UK show the
present path is not sustainable and
the system is bankrupt. Yet noble
prize winning economists like
Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz
cannot seem to grasp the simple
reality of the situation.
Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
argued that the government’s plan
was “a gamble with almost no
potential upside” and that it would
lead to lower growth, lower
Make Your Own Mustard for Customized Flavors and Great
Sandwiches [DIY]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 8:10:00 AM
Why bother making your own
demand, lower tax revenues, a
deterioration of skills among the
unemployed and an even higher
national debt.
“We cannot afford austerity now,”
he wrote in The Guardian
newspaper. “Austerity converts
downturns into recessions,
recessions into depressions. The
confidence fairy that the austerity
advocates claim will appear
almost never does, partly because
the downturns mean that deficit
reductions are always smaller than
was hoped.”
Every day I ask myself how
allegedly brilliant economists
cannot see that continuing down
the current path will lead to a
situation like we recently saw in
Greece. It is impossible to spend
one's way out of a mess then the
problem is unsustainable
spending.
For more on "Brilliant Idiots"
please see Keynesian Nonsense
Falls Out of Favor in UK - Thank
God!
None of these Keynesian fools
ever address the question as to
what happens when the stimulus
is cut off. None of them can see
that Japan has proven in spades
that neither Keynesian nor
Monetarist solutions did anything
mustard, when the yellow jars are
so cheap? For one thing, it's
remarkably easy, and sometimes
even cheaper than buying. And if
Culture/ 43
for Japan but increase debt. hoping the system will right itself
Unavoidable Path by more spending even though it
My friend "BC" has it correct: " should be perfectly obvious that
The consequences for such a mathematically, demographically,
decline in overall private and and in actual historic practice, that
public economic (or uneconomic) more government spending
activity will be severe, life- cannot possibly work.
changing, and consciousness- Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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OBAMACARE
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House Blowout
By now it should be clear that
Democrats are going to get
pounded in House elections. Real
Clear Politics shows the Battle for
the House to be 180 Democrat,
214 Republican, and 41 Tossups.
The current makeup is 255
Democrat, 178 Republican, and 2
vacancies.
My prediction GOP +50. That
would make it 228 Republican,
207 Democrat, an enormous
change from the current setup.
If so, Obama will not be able to
pass much of anything. From
what we have seen so far, that
would be a good thing.
Once again, I want to point out I
am not a Republican, but rather an
independent with strongly
Libertarian views.
Lame Duck Session Push
In the lame duck session, there
may be one more push for cap-
and-trade, but probably not.
However, there will likely be
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:30:00 PM
World renowned artist Zaha
Hadid recently completed a
school in Brixton, south London
that features a bright red running
another Democratic push for
forced collective bargaining and
open union voting.
Hopefully the Republicans block
those expected attempts because
more public unions and public
union power is is the last thing the
country needs.
Appetite for Stimulus Greatly
Diminished
I am hoping we see some real
fiscal conservative take over as
happened in the UK, (see
Keynesian Nonsense Falls Out of
Favor in UK - Thank God!), but I
would certainly not count on that.
Nonetheless, the new
Congressional makeup suggests
the appetite for stimulus, bailouts,
and large projects will be greatly
reduced.
If so, that would not be a good
thing, but a great thing. The US
needs to get its fiscal act together,
and there is no better time than
now.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
track that flows right through it.
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Goldman's Jim O'Neill Makes
The Case For Betting On The
Chinese Consumer (PG, AAPL)
Gregory White (Money Game) years, and China will be key to
that, like it is for Germany.
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:21:42 AM
• 4:05 The next five years are all
Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill about China. And the crisis may
spoke with CNBC this morning have been good for China, as they
about the BRICs, the next eleven now know they have to consume.
emerging economies, and how to For the next 11 countries, that is
play the new Chinese consumer. huge.
• 0:30 BRIC idea was inspired by • 5:30 Having a stronger currency
9-11, notably the need for is part of China's growing
globalization to accept other consumption market. Raising
systems of government, rather wages is another. Greater rights to
than Americanizing things. migrant workers in cities is also
• 1:25 America is not necessarily huge, and, finally, the social
weakening, but it is sharing more. security system needs to be
• 2:00 On American Congress developed.
with actions against China, "Isn't • 6:20 China is allowing people
that just a sport that all your to move around more freely, and
congressional friends enjoy that is helpful to the labor market.
playing?" • 6:40 Getting involved with
• 2:25 For the first 15 years of my companies that are selling to the
career it was Japan, and now it is Chinese consumer is where to be
China. For U.S. multinationals for the next 5-years. Procter and
they are more involved in China Gamble and Apple are already
than they were in Japan. succeeding.
• 3:05 It's good that there is a guy
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to double exports in the next 5
while oblique lines stride across s c h o o l s , e n c o u r a g e s s o c i a l
the elevations of the structure, communication and interaction.
veering into curves around the Zaha Hadid
corners. via [ dezeen], [ guardian]
The structure allows maximum
levels of natural light and
ventilation to enter. This
collective space, shared by all the
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Good, We Were Getting Please Do Not Drool On the McLaren

Bored Of QE, Anyway
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:39:15 AM
QE QE QE QE QE QE QE QE
QE QE QE QE QE QE QE QE
QE QE QE QE QE
If you're not bored of those
letters, you're not paying
attention.
But maybe the obsession is about
to recede a little bit. The
traditional QE bets -- gold,
Treasuries, etc.-- are fading. And
yesterday's somewhat decent
Beige Book didn't hurt the market
by causing people to question
whether QE would be huge.
In fact, most of the talk lately has
been about a stronger dollar --
thank you Tim Geithner -- and yet
that's not causing many waves.
Perhaps (just perhaps) this whole
trade -- dump the dollar, buy
everything else trade, because
Ben Bernanke is going to
implement massive QE -- is
coming to an end.
Actually, knew that it would
come to an end. Would would
remarkable is if it ended with a
whimper, not a bang.
Join the conversation about this
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See Also:
• The Gold And Silver Selloff Is
Gaining Steam
• The October Beige Book Is Out,
And It's Good
Chuck Squatriglia (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 7:59:00 AM
Every supercar has a signature
style, a look so distinctive that
anyone with even a passing
interest in cars immediately
knows what they're looking at.
Ferraris tend to be sensual.
Lamborghinis look like origami.
And the Bugatti Veyron just looks
mean. Designing a car that can
stand out in that crowd is a tall
order that fell to Frank
Stephenson when he was named
design director of McLaren
Automotive.
Stephenson is no neophyte.
Before joining McLaren two years
ago, he led the vehicle design
center for Fiat. And he landed that
gig after a stint as design director
at Ferrari and Maserati. He was
responsible for the Maserati
GranSport and MC12. He also
penned the Ferrari FXX. And the
F430.
The new Fiat 500? That's his. So
was the 2001 Mini, which
Stephenson designed while he
was at BMW in the 1990s.
Clearly the man knows how to
design hot cars. You can see why
McLaren boss Ron Dennis tapped
him to design the MP4-12C,
McLaren's latest lustworthy ride.
McLaren is synonymous with
Formula 1, and its only road car
so far -- the venerable F1--
remained the fastest production
car in the world for seven years
after the last one rolled out of the
factory in Woking, Surrey,
England.
That's a lot to live up to.
Stephenson knew he'd have to
come up with something special.
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Stuff from the Science Lab

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) continues to stand the test of time. a chuckle over the inevitably
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:00:56 AM But don’t take my word for it. magic qualities of a blade made
You’ll find the full video in this from space rocks, but it’s
Home> Stuff from the Science post. If this is your first time important to point out that the use
Lab viewing “Powers of Ten,” then of meteoric iron in weapons is
Fossil fuels are under attack these you’re in for a real mind-blowing actually a very ancient practice.
days — literally. In October 2010 treat. Hold onto your cerebral Tags: Iron, meteorites, Swords
alone, attackers have targeted cortex, kids. I have no idea how your
NATO fuel convoys in Pakistan Tags: Cosmos, powers of ten, Monday’s going, but I’m willing
on six different occasions, killing video to be that it can benefit from some
seven people and destroying Not much of the U.S. wool awesome scientific squid and
dozens of oil tankers, according to supply gets made into Donegal octopi illustrations from the turn
Nasir Habib’s CNN story. In one hats, Pendleton throws or $800 of the century. Skip on over to the
instance, 54 different tankers went lamb vests. According to Fast BibliOdyssey blog for this post
down, Habib reports. Company, 90 percent of it is full of images from the 1898
folks have already discerned, is to -gel-based-solar cell
When you think about the great, simply thrown out — too coarse
slash energy consumption and Given NASA‘s recent financial German Deep-Sea Expedition.
big lumbering trucks and factor in to make cozy clothing or textiles.
make people rethink their woes, it’s hard to imagine a time The crew of the steamship
some basic military strategy, it’s Tags: eco-friendly insulation,
behaviors when it comes to when the U.S. space program Valdivia hit the Atlantic, Indian
easy to see why the vehicles are energy efficiency, sheep's wool,
powering their households. found room in its budget for an and Great Southern oceans with a
picked off. wool insulation The event in question is artist-in-residence. Between 2003 hull full of laboratory equipment
Tags: fossil fuels, U.S. Navy, fuel Have you ever watched an action
sponsored by Earth Aid, a a n d 2 0 0 5 , N A S A p a i d and science tomes. Upon his
tank convoys, green military, hero fly through the air, propelled
Washington-based organization experimental performance artist r e t u r n , L e i p z i g U n i v e r s i t y
NATO, Ray Mabus in slow motion by the massive founded in 2007 specifically to Laurie Anderson $20,000 to zoologist Carl Chun published an
Forget sonic headaches. The explosion erupting behind them?
educate folks about their energy create a film about moons and a illustrated multivolume work on
latest piece of wind-power news This slice of cinematic cheese
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imitate art in startling ways. NASA’s first and last artist in Cephalopods, science history
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Consider the tree cathedral in resident* — and you really see Recent Postings by Category
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Oct. 21, 1879: Edison Gets the Bright Light Right

Randy Alfred (Wired Top his time to the quest: He had to Edison didn’t start delivering
Stories) redesign the receiver of his electricity to paying customers
Submitted at 10/21/2010 6:00:00 AM telephone system — which was until he opened the Pearl Street
being marketed in England — to power station in New York City
1879: Thomas Edison crowns 14 avoid infringing on Alexander in September 1882.
m o n t h s o f t e s t i n g w i t h a n Graham Bell’s patent. The lab So, what we see here is Edison
incandescent electric light bulb also had to work on improving leveraging profits from one
that lasts 13½ hours. electrical generators and invention to finance the next,
S i r H u m p h r e y D a v y h a d developing an electric meter to announcing a product well before
produced incandescent electric bill the eventual customers. it’s completed, dodging and
light in 1808 by passing battery Edison’s lab put a lot of effort defending intellectual-property
current through a platinum wire. into making a bulb with a disputes, missing a big deadline,
But the voltaic pile was expensive platinum filament, but that work working his development staff
and could be messy. went nowhere, because platinum feverishly, unveiling a prototype
The invention of the dynamo in has a relatively low resistance. in a splashy and impressive event,
1866 literally generated new But gas bubbles in the platinum and still needing more time before
possibilities and a few American had led Edison to develop an it was actually available to end
and European cities had some of efficient vacuum pump to remove users — in select markets, of
their streets illuminated with arc the air from the inside of his course.
lights by the end of the 1870s. bulbs. And that created a new If that pattern reminds you of a
Arc light (where the current opportunity: carbon. tech mogul of our own time,
flows from one electrode through Carbon conducts electricity, has a that’s your business. Or his,
a gas to another electrode) is high resistance and can be shaped actually.
bright and harsh. Edison wanted into thin filaments. And it’s Source: Electric Perspectives,
to “subdivide” the light by using cheap. But it burns easily — September/October 2004
the softer glow obtained when unless there’s no oxygen around. Image: Thomas Edison received
electricity passes through a The vacuum bulbs Edison had a patent for his light bulb in
filament and heats it up until it created for platinum were ideal January 1880.
glows. for carbon. Restored photolithograph/
Edison was riding high on the Edison pushed hard on his Courtesy National Archives
fame and profits from his gadgets research assistants, whom he This article first appeared on
for telegraph printing, multiplex more or less affectionately called Wired.com Oct. 21, 2008.
t e l e g r a p h y , t e l e p h o n e “muckers.” After testing hundreds See Also:
improvements and the brand-new of materials, they baked a piece of 1,200 experiments, but was ready carbonized filaments made from • Feb. 11, 1847: Look Out,
phonograph. He figured he and coiled cotton thread until it was at last for a public debut. plants as diverse as baywood, World, Here Comes Tom Edison
the 40 researchers at his Menlo all carbon. Inside a near-vacuum On New Year’s Eve, 3,000 boxwood, hickory, cedar, flax and • Aug. 8, 1876: Edison Patents
Park, New Jersey, development bulb, it stayed alight for more people visited the lab in Menlo bamboo. “Before I got through,” Mimeograph
lab could come up with a good than half a day. The “three or four Park to witness 40 electric light he said, “I tested no fewer than • Aug. 15, 1877: ‘Hello. Can You
incandescent bulb in three or four month” project had taken 14 bulbs glowing merrily. Edison 6,000 vegetable growths, and Hear Me Now?’
m o n t h s i n 1 8 7 8 . W h e n h e months. switched them on and off at will, ransacked the world for the most • Dec. 18, 1878: Joseph Swan
prematurely announced that he’d Soon, the lab got a carbon- dazzling and delighting his guests. suitable filament material.” Demonstrates Electric Lamp
come up with the bulb, stock in filament bulb to last 40 hours. It These bulbs used carbonized Bamboo became the favorite for • Jan. 19, 1883: Let There Be
gaslight companies took a dive. had cost $40,000 (about $850,000 cardboard. several decades, but tungsten
Edison was unable to devote all in today’s money) and taken OCT. page 49
Eventually, Edison’s lab tested supplanted it by 1910.
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Mindflex Hack Turns Brain Waves Into Music

Scott Thill (Wired Top Stories) instrument’s public debut. attached to it.”
Submitted at 10/21/2010 6:00:00 AM Boom! Brain music. Although Schneider hasn’t
“The curve of the pitch is confirmed that he’ll break out the
By modding a geeky toy and basically the same for both Teletrons on The Apples in
c o n n e c t i n g i t t o a v i n t a g e synthesizers,” said Schneider. Stereo’s upcoming tour, which
synthesizer, an indie rocker/ “But the left-brain synth is more starts Friday in Colorado, the
hacker has created a trippy logical and dry, while the right- band’s recent pop-tronic release
instrument that lets him make brain synth is more dreamy and Travelers in Space and Time
music with his mind. surreal.” should have no trouble sonically
Robert Schneider, singer/guitarist Schneider’s Teletron is the latest teleporting audiences nationwide.
for The Apples in Stereo, made entry in a sparse subculture of Eerie tracks like the digitally
his Teletron by cracking open a brain-based music. Musique ethereal “Time Pilot” (below) are
Mattel Mindflex, a mind-control concrète pioneer Pierre Henry, musical fodder for sci-fi fans and
game that employs an EEG sensor who influenced everyone from sonic modders who give bonus
to let players move a small ball The Beatles to Futurama, used points to bands that nod in the
through a maze using nothing but EEG sensor-based composition to direction of H.G. Wells and 2001:
brain waves. create a series called Cortical Art A Space Odyssey.
“It’s kind of punk-rock,” d e c a d e s a g o . A m e r i c a n But like any serious Jedi geek,
Schneider told Wired.com in a experimentalist Alvin Lucier was Schneider plans on furthering his
phone interview about the project. arguably the first to transmit alpha telepathic training.
“You can hack the Mindflex waves through percussion in his “The Teletron is really cool to
yourself and make brain music.” 1965 composition “Music for play,” he said. “You have to be
Schneider’s first mind-control Solo Performer.” very conscious of your thoughts,
musical performance took place The Mindflex game lets a headset and alter the music by agitating
l a s t m o n t h a t L V L 1 , a -wearing player maneuver a blue your mind.”
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basically a collage of various texts musical scale. “I’m not sure D a y a n d q u i c k l y s e t a b o u t Moog synthesizer’s pitch input. content-only/faq.php
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manipulated the twin Teletrons’ months to build the Teletron, but had rewired it to shock people,” “I went through all the Greek Catastrophe.
signals through vintage Moog only because of a knowledge gap he laughed. “Once I opened it up, prefixes I could before finding
synthesizers, serving as separate that he overcame with the help of I realized that it was fairly tele,” Schneider said. “And tron
musical interpolators of Cprek’s other hackers. After lusting over simple.” just fell out of heaven, because
brain waves during the weird Mattel’s $80 Mindflex and Eventually, Schneider jacked the everything should have tron
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Fantastic Photos That Tell a Story - Nicky Hamilton
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:00 PM
Rat Race
London born and based Nicky
Hamilton is a photographer whose
background in art direction pushes
his photos to wonderful heights.
As a self-proclaimed perfectionist,
he thinks about all aspects of his
shots including the concept, the
lighting, the props, and as he says,
"everything my previous life
ingrained in me." His pre-
planning routine even includes
using storyboards, which help him
understand the end results, giving
him a strong idea of what he
wants to achieve.
I caught up with Hamilton to ask
him a few questions. Read that
short Q&A below, after seeing
some of his storytelling shots.
Which is your favorite photo and
why?
For a week or so, my favorite
OCT.
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Light
• Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an
Elephant to Prove His Point
• Geeks Take Their Cue From
Thomas Edison’s Napping
Technique
• March 14, 1879: Mr. Big
• April 8, 1879: The Milkman
Cometh … With Glass Bottles
• Dec. 28, 1879: Tay Bridge
shot is always my last until I
critique it enough that I go off the
shot (for a while at least).
Although, the Rat Race (first in
this post) is special to me as it was
a celebration of leaving the 9-5
world to become an artist.
What's your creative process
like? How do you come up with
your photos?
Collapses, Alas
• Nov. 4, 1879: Ka-Ching! The
World's First Cash Register
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At first, I work on translating the
concept visually, focusing on how
to bring out the key points of the
photograph. Next, a scamp is
drawn to reflect this, locations are
scouted and test shots are taken
along with some light reading.
The scamp is then updated with
the chosen location test shot,
lighting directions are sketched
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and lastly wardrobe and props are
decided. Now, with the shot
planned out in detail, several
shoots take place. Usually the
people are shot first, then the
background, and lastly any extra
elements. The post production
work is then started and usually
requires about five solid days.
This is all done by myself.
Increase Your Chances of
Achieving Your Goals by Keeping
Them to Yourself [Video]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 8:30:00 AM
Peer pressure may work for some
of us, but speaker Derek Sivers
explains how people who talk
about their goals frequently have
a lower rate of follow through and
success than those who keep their
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Favorite websites for inspiration?
Lurzer's Archive and other
photographers I admire.
Favorite photographers or digital
artists?
In no particular order, Koen
Demuynck, Romain Laurent,
Dimitri Daniloff, Jill Greenberg,
Dave Hill, Staudinger Franke, and
Nick Meek.
Tips for other photographers?
Constantly push yourself,
experiment with your work until
you find your own style, always
ask yourself this simple question
‘if there is one thing I could
improve on (in this piece of work)
what would it be?’, it’s amazing
what happens when you ask that
question, all of a sudden the good
just won’t do, you find all sorts of
things that you can improve until
it (hopefully) becomes great.
Nicky Hamilton
goals to themselves. More&nbs:
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Automate Just About
Anything on Your
Windows PC, No Coding
Required [Video]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:00:00 AM
We've shown you how to
automate just about anything on
your Mac without coding, but if
you're a Windows user, you can
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same way with free app Actions.
More »
Photos: Kim Kardashian's Top Birthday Suit Shoots
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:34:00 AM
Kim Kardashian
Have we seen the last of Kim
Kardashian posing in her birthday
suit?
Photo Gallery: Kim Kardashian's
birthday suit shoots
Four Reasons Why You
Choke Under Pressure
(and How to Avoid
Them) [Mind Hacks]
Sian Beilock (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:30:00 AM
In her book Choke, author Sian
Beilock examines the science
behind why we choke under
pressure. Here, Beilock explains a
few of those reasons, and offers a
few solutions. More »
The reality star turns 30 today,
and she said earlier this month
that she's "too old" to pose for
risqué pictorials.
"I wanted to get it all out of my
system before I turned 30," she
said.
Kim Kardashian gets naked for
W magazine Kardashians star first went nude
The Keeping Up with the for Playboy in 2007 and recently
Penthouse Founder Bob Guccione Dies
at 79
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:31:00 AM
Bob Guccione
Penthouse magazine founder Bob
Guccione has died. He was 79.
Guccione died at Plano Specialty
Hospital in Plano, Texas, his
family said in a statement to The
Associate Press. He battled lung
cancer for several years.
See which celebrities have died
this year
Guccione started his magazine in
England in 1965 in order to pay
for his art career. He brought the
magazine to the U.S. four years
later, hoping to one-up Playboy
by focusing on voyeurism. "To
see her as if she doesn't know
she's being seen. That was the
sexy part, Guccione told The
Independent in London, in 2004.
"That was the part that none of
our competition understood."
In 1984, Penthouse published
nude pictures of Vanessa
Williams after she was chosen as
Miss America. She was famously
forced to relinquish her crown due
to the nature of the photos.
Guccione also made waves with
bared all again for W magazine's
annual art issue. Will that be her
final naked hurrah?
That remains to be seen, but in
the meantime, click here to look
back at the birthday girl's top
photo shoots.
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an investment in the 1979 X-rated
film, Caligula. The film, which
starred Malcolm McDowell,
Helen Mirren, and Peter O'Toole
was a box-office bomb that critics
panned it for its gratuitous sex
scenes.
Guccione married four times. He
has a daughter, Tonina, from his
first marriage, and three sons, Bob
Jr., Tony, and Nick, and daughter,
Nina, from his second marriage.
He married his fourth wife, April,
in 2006.
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Foreclose? For Shame.

John B. Judis (The New wasn't a great deal for banks: percent. increasing consumer demand, not administration’s rhetoric to
Republic - All Feed) They had to write-down the value As reports have circulated that boosting bank capital. And to do persuade them otherwise.
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:00:00 PM of their loans; but they went along banks ignored the law while that, the administration needs an In his defense of the
with it because it gave them a obtaining foreclosures, many effective program that will allow administration’s position,
We sometimes hear that Barack chance to receive something Democrats have called for a working Americans to liquidate Donovan reverts to Hooverism by
Obama and his top people read rather than nothing. And the foreclosure moratorium. But the their debts without being thrown offering moral injunctions rather
The New Republic, but they must p r o g r a m , w h i c h o p e r a t e d Obama administration has balked. out on the streets. In the end, than real help: “Banks need to
not have been paying attention primarily between 1933 and 1936, In a Huffington Post article, Americans may have to look provide more help, more people,
during the campaign when we ran and was very popular, ended up Housing Secretary Shaun elsewhere—toward, for instance, more resources to those families
an article titled “History Lesson: owning about 14 percent of the Donovan has responded by public investment in green facing a crisis long before they
FDR Solves the Mortgage Crisis,” value of existing mortgages. warning that a moratorium, even technology—rather than to the ever get to a foreclosure—so
by Andrew Jakabovics. If they T o d a y , h o w e v e r , P r e s i d e n t though temporary, would “do far revival of the housing market in more families can keep their
had done so, they might have Obama's approach more closely more harm than good—hurting order to achieve a full recovery. homes. And where foreclosure is
proceeded a little differently in mirrors Herbert Hoover's than homeowners and homebuyers And what about politics? On that not avoidable, having been
dealing with the current crisis and FDR's. alike at time when foreclosed level, the administration’s processed legally and
w i t h t h e c o n t r o v e r s y o v e r As Obama took office, about one homes make up 25 percent of approach makes no sense at all. appropriately, banks should help
foreclosures. in ten homeowners were in home sales.” Appearing on PBS, Among the top ten states suffering families transition to sustainable
In 1931, the United States began default on their mortgages, and as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner from foreclosures are Nevada, housing situations with dignity.”
to suffer from a foreclosure crisis many as six million homes were called a moratorium “very Florida, California, Michigan, (Italics mine.)
similar to the one today—in that expected to go in foreclosure. But damaging.” Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Roosevelt didn’t rely on bankers’
y e a r , 1 . 4 p e r c e n t o f a l l instead of dealing directly with Maybe so, but it’s worth noting Indiana. These are all electorally goodwill. He understood that in a
homeowners lost their homes. In homeowners, Obama has relied that those advocating a important states where many severe downturn, government has
1932, President Herbert Hoover primarily on efforts to encourage moratorium have been calling for Democrats (think of Harry Reid) to act directly, whether in
responded, typically, with a the banks to make loans and a temporary freeze while the are in deep trouble, and opposing providing jobs or preventing
Federal Home Loan Bank that r e w r i t e e x i s t i n g o n e s . T h e government develops a more a moratorium isn't going to help. people from losing their homes.
was supposed to provide money government has bought up toxic effective approach. In their The administration seems to be He also knew who his
t o l e n d e r s r a t h e r t h a n t o assets in order to free up loan statements, though, Donovan and convinced that their main problem constituency was: His was the
homeowners. This approach failed capital and has offered financial Geithner seem to be referring to is with something called the party of the common man. The
to stem the crisis, and it helped incentives for banks to reduce the effects of an extended “left.” Why else would they have Obama administration,
lead to the election of FDR. homeowners’ monthly payments, moratorium. It’s also true that their housing secretary publish his meanwhile, worries about the
Once president, Roosevelt b u t n e i t h e r i n i t i a t i v e h a s temporarily preventing banks comments in the Huffington Post, people who listen to "Charlie
decided to take a different path. In significantly stemmed the rate of from throwing people out of their or Geithner make his case on Rose." And they and the
1933, he set up the Federal Home foreclosure. According to housing homes wouldn’t necessarily "Charlie Rose"? But it’s not. The Democrats are going to pay a
O w n e r s ’ L o a n C o r p o r a t i o n expert Pat Garofalo of the Center depress home prices. And, further, left will support Obama and steep price for their inattention to
(HOLC), which loaned directly to for American Progress, the by leaving the policy on autopilot Democrats. It’s the working-class common concerns this November.
homeowners. The HOLC bought problem with the administration’s we’re allowing vast numbers of voters who reluctantly backed John B. Judis is a senior editor of
up existing loans for less than Home Affordable Modification avoidable foreclosures to go Obama in 2008, but have been The New Republic.
their original appraised value, and Program is that “banks have forward unnecessarily, something turned off by the impression that For more TNR, become a fan on
then loaned money at longer-term d r a g g e d t h e i r f e e t g e t t i n g that doesn’t help people as much the administration cares more Facebook and follow us on
rates to people who were already borrowers into the program.” In as it helps banks. about the banks than about them. Twitter.
in default on their mortgages. It 2009, foreclosures went up 21 A recovery will depend on And there’s little in the
52 Politics-Left/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Chris Coons Is Not a “Bearded Marxist”

McKay Jenkins (The New you might find yourself sitting in Shortly after this essay ran, During the debate, he sharply
Republic - All Feed) a small lecture hall with James Coons gave Amherst’s graduation criticized the recent Citizens
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:00:00 PM Baldwin, or the Dalai Lama; address. He admonished the United Supreme Court
where David Foster Wallace college for not fully divesting decision—a position he
Since winning the Republican studied literature, Dan Brown from South Africa; tipped his hat acknowledged might seem
nomination for Joe Biden’s Senate sang tenor in the Glee Club, and to student protests against racism counterintuitive, given his desire
seat in Delaware (thanks in part to student activism ran strongly in and sexism on campus; and talked to represent a state he called
$150,000 in out-of-state Tea Party favor of feminism and against about the difference between the “America's corporate capital.” He Two 'Talking TV'
money), Christine O’Donnell has apartheid. But off campus, Wall “power” of George Wallace and noted that, “in terms of political podcasts: 'Mad Men'
provided virtually all of the race’s Street was booming, so, after the “authority” of Martin Luther contributions, the free speech
rhetorical oxygen. She has been graduation, a good many of our King. A yearbook photo showed rights of corporations I don’t Finale and the State of the
asked to explain why it took her classmates—including, it seemed, him, in an Amherst t-shirt and red think deserve the same protections Sitcom
15 years to get her college degree; the entire football team—went off -and-white baseball cap, standing as the free speech rights of real Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
what exactly happened when, in to make their fortunes. next to three African bushmen, living, breathing, voting humans."
Submitted at 10/21/2010 7:50:00 AM
high school, she and a witch had a Coons, who had grown up two of them with spears. Clearly, Coons’s comment from
midnight meal “on a satanic w e a l t h y a n d c o n n e c t e d i n What happened? To his friends, more than two decades ago was Filed under: Reality-Free, Stay
altar;” how serious she was when Delaware, might well have Coons wrote in his op-ed, Africa the rhetorical flourish of a college Tuned This week there are two
she campaigned publicly to stop followed this route. His mother was like “a catalytic converter that student, not a literal statement of editions of the'Talking TV with
people from masturbating; and was married to Robert Gore, takes in clean-shaven, clear- political beliefs. Nonetheless, in Ryan and Ryan' for your listening
why the IRS has taken a lien on w h o s e f a m i l y f o u n d e d t h e thinking Americans and sends retrospect, it seems to reveal an pleasure.
her property for unpaid taxes. company that makes Gore-Tex. back bearded Marxists.” Clearly important philosophical lesson Podcast 1: Ryan McGee and I
O’Donnell’s reaction to the Coons went to Tower Hill, a meant to be tongue-in-cheek, the Coons learned at Amherst and in chat about the season 4 finale
negative publicity surrounding her prestigious private school in remark, at least to my ear, Africa—that the world is a of'Mad Men' with special guest
has been to refuse interviews with Wilmington, and arrived at expressed the ambivalence of a complex place beyond the borders Todd VanDerWerff, esteemed
the national media and to cast her A m h e r s t a s e l f - p r o c l a i m e d very smart young man navigating of a state known as “The Home of critic and writer for the L.A.
opponent, Chris Coons, as both an “ R e p u b l i c a n f a n a t i c . ” H e a return from the poverty of Tax Free Shopping.” Times Showtracker and the AV
“elitist” and a “bearded Marxist.” campaigned for Ronald Reagan in Kenya to a life of privilege. McKay Jenkins directs the Club. (My post on the finale is
(Something about the now- 1980 and founded Amherst’s Delaware, after all, is a state journalism program at the here.)
common conflation of these two chapter of College Republicans known mainly for quietly University of Delaware. He is the Podcast 2: Ryan and I take a look
terms always reminds me of the three years later. siphoning out-of-state money author of a number of books, at the state of network comedy,
old “Saturday Night Live routine” But then, in the spring of our from credit card fees and including The Last Ridge: The with discussions of everything
in which Chevy Chase hawks a senior year, Coons published a demanding registration payments Epic Story of America's First from'Raising Hope' to'Big Bang
product called Shimmer: “ It’s a s h o r t e s s a y i n t h e s t u d e n t from far-distant yachts and Mountain Troops and the Assault Theory' to'Modern Family'
f l o o r w a x ! A n d a d e s s e r t newspaper under the headline “ internet companies. on Hitler's Europe. His new book to'Community' and much more
topping!”) Chris Coons: The Making of a When his “bearded Marxist” quip What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying (there are a few mentions of cable
Coons as a “Marxist” is an issue I Bearded Marxist.” During a came up during the Senate debate Healthy in a Toxic World will be shows as well). The podcast
know something about—so I’d semester in Kenya, he wrote, he last week, Coons sounded published by Random House in begins with an extended
like to add some context to the had witnessed genuine poverty for aggravated that people didn’t get April. discussion of Steve Carell's final
O’Donnell camp’s smear. Coons the first time and felt himself the joke. “I am not now, and I For more TNR, become a fan on year on'The Office.'
and I graduated from Amherst sickened by wealthy Kenyans have never been, anything but a Facebook and follow us on Permalink| Email this| Linking
College in 1985, and it was at parroting “the same beliefs held clean-shaven capitalist!” he said. Twitter Blogs| Comments
Amherst that he pinned himself by many Americans: the poor are Indeed, Coons considers himself a
with the descriptor. Amherst in poor because they are lazy, “fiscal conservative,” albeit one
the early 1980s was a place where slovenly, uneducated.” with strong liberal instincts.
E-reader News Edition Politics-Left/ TV/ 53

Leave a Message
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New relentlessly effective focus on a Kilroy recalls encountering a President Obama sees Ohio as a
Republic - All Feed) handful of themes? These seem to voter who told her: "I've voted for firewall in his 2012 re-election
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:00:00 PM resonate with voters without you throughout your career, but effort, and having a friendly
actually solving any problems. So I'm not voting for you this year governor would be a major asset.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Let us far, the Republicans have not even because I don't have a job." Obama's visit here on Sunday,
contemplate the joys of being in been forced to explain how their She spoke to her constituent which drew a crowd of 35,000,
the political opposition when promises add up. Between now about what Congress had was an exercise in firewall- What's On Tonight: 'The
unemployment in your state tops and Nov. 2, will they get away accomplished, and also about how building. Office,' 'The Apprentice,'
10 percent. with offering tax cuts and a the tied-up-in-knots U.S. Senate Kilroy, however, could still use
Kevin DeWine, the affable reduction in the deficit without had blocked other House the firewall of a simple, coherent
'The Vampire Diaries,'
chairman of the Republican Party specifying what spending they initiatives. national argument. Many of the 'The First 48'
in Ohio, has a transparent board would eliminate or trim? To which the voter replied: "Do Democrats' political consultants Rich Keller (TV Squad)
b e h i n d h i s d e s k a t s t a t e In the meantime, Democrats have you think I care they're stuck in warned of the dangers of Submitted at 10/21/2010 7:20:00 AM
headquarters where he scribbles left loyalists such as Kilroy, who the Senate? I don't have a job." "nationalizing" the election and
r e m i n d e r s t o h i m s e l f . A deserve better, without the Stivers, who lost to Kilroy in preferred a race-by-race focus. Filed under: TV Previews Here's
permanent fixture is this list of support of a driving national 2008 by just 2,312 votes, has had But guess what? This already is a tonight's lineup of new shows and
words: "Spending, taxes, jobs, message. There is no Democratic much happier doorstep nationalized election. Kevin events (all times Eastern). Check
economy, deficit, debt." counterpart to Kevin DeWine's experiences. "People were mad at DeWine's list is the GOP's your local TV listings for
DeWine says he keeps the issues handy list. George Bush two years ago and template. Over the coming week additional information.
inventory as a reminder to all of For her part, Kilroy doesn't they were going to take it out on and a half, the president and his * = Series/Season Premiere
his party's candidates. "If they are whine. She's not the type. In anyone with an ‘R' after their party need a few good words of ** = Series/Season Finale
not talking about these things," he defending health care reform, she name," he said. This time, they're their own. That's the least they # = New Day/Time
says, "they are off-message." cites actual constituents the law eager to talk about—you guessed owe Kilroy and those like her who 7:30
And his candidates seem to has directly assisted. In a nation it—"the debt and jobs." were willing to risk their political FOX: Major League Baseball--
listen. Republican Steve Stivers is where some 50 million lack health What Kilroy has going for her is lives to keep their promises—and Game 5 of the National League
in a rematch with Rep. Mary Jo coverage, Kilroy says, she is the determination of Gov. Ted his. Championships
Kilroy, one of those endangered- proud to have kept her promise Strickland to get re-elected and E.J. Dionne, Jr. is is a 8:00 to 9:00
but-still-gutsy Democrats who from two years ago to take steps the best-organized state Washington Post columnist, a CBS:'The Big Bang Theory'
won't back down from her support to solve the problem. Democratic Party in the nation. senior fellow at the Brookings and'$--! My Dad Says'
for the new health care law, But she is also thoroughly Its headquarters in a renovated Institution, and a professor at CW:'The Vampire Diaries'
financial reform or the stimulus. realistic about the extent to which former Salvation Army building Georgetown University. He is the NBC:'Community' and'30 Rock'
Among the first words out of joblessness has created a double- here hums with activity, looking author of, most recently, Souled PBS:'This Old House Hour'
Stivers' mouth when I chatted w h a m m y f o r D e m o c r a t i c more like a national party Out: Reclaiming Faith and HGTV:'Property Virgins' and'My
with him over the phone were "the candidates. On the right, she says, command center than the typical Politics After the Religious Right. First Place'
debt and jobs," followed quickly "the voters who are worried about ramshackle state party office. (c) 2010, Washington Post The rest of the schedule and the
by "unemployment" and "big change are worried because they While Strickland trails Writers Group late night talk shows after the
spending." don't have a job." And on the left, Republican John Kasich in public For more TNR, become a fan on jump.
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days: Is there anything Democrats enough are worried because they overcome the enthusiasm gap
can do to shake the GOP off its don't have a job." with organizational energy.
54 TV/
Rachael Ray's 3-Delish Episode!
Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:56:00 AM
Rachael Ray
Yum-O! For her October 29
Halloween episode, foodie and
Halloween fiend Rachael Ray is
serving up an episode packed with
3-D effects and suitably outré
appearances by Pee-wee Herman
and magicians Penn & Teller.
Good thing the two-time Emmy
winner is as fearless as she is
fabulous.
TV Guide Magazine: Where did
you come up with the idea to do a
3-D episode?
Ray: We went to this conference,
and the men who created the Real
-D technology were there. They
showed us scenes from The
Departed and [had] a showing of
Kung Fu Panda in Real-D that
was amazing. So I called our
executive producer and said, "We
have got to be the first daytime
show that does a 3-D production."
We've been kicking it around for a
few years, so this has been some
time in the making.
TV Guide Magazine: Well, it
looks awesome. And rumor has it
you are quite the Halloween fan,
anyway.
Ray: Oh, yeah. Anything that
involves playing with your food,
you know? [ Laughs] And I
always reek like garlic, so the
only time people don't mind that
is when it keeps the vampires
away.
TV Guide Magazine: On the 3-D
episode, you rock a serious
Jessica Rabbit outfit. Did you
have a favorite costume as a kid?
Ray: I'm 42, so when I was a kid,
everyone made their costumes.
We were pirates and hobos. I
liked being a hobo because I liked
putting the dirt makeup on and I'd
go out into the woods to find a
good stick for the bag you'd carry.
TV Guide Magazine: What was
your candy of choice?
Ray: My favorite Halloween
candy was Mary Jane. Can you
imagine? Those peanut-butter
chewy things? Mmmm. And It's
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown was my favorite special, of
course!
TV Guide Magazine: How are
you and your husband, John
Cusimano, celebrating the holiday
this year?
Ray: We're having a bunch of
friends to our place upstate and
I'm making everybody goofy
Halloween bags with all kinds of
masks and tattoos [and] jacked-up
teeth people can pop in. They get
to make their own costume. Oh,
and we're gonna watch the new
Blu-ray release of The Exorcist.
That is my favorite horror movie
of all time!
TV Guide Magazine: And what
kind of treats have you cooked up
for the trick-or-treaters?
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something together about [the
issue]. But I have no complaints.
I'm Dave's biggest fan.
TV Guide Magazine: Talking
about Week in a Day — you have
that, 30 Minute Meals, the talk
show, your books, the magazine,
your Yum-o! charity, your animal
-rescue work, lobbying and live
appearances... where do you find
time to have a life?
Ray:[ Laughs] John and I are
people who never really looked
for balance in our lives; we just
look for quality. So even if we
only have two hours together, we
make dinner, open a bottle of
wine — we have a good quality of
Ray: I don't make treats. I give bed hungry. And he's right! life.
out a big ol' bowl of candy and let During my segment, he went on a For a pair of free 3-D glasses and
the kids pick out what they want. [ rant that I completely agreed with. e x c l u s i v e i m a g e s f r o m t h e
Laughs] I always hated those TV Guide Magazine: So no hard Halloween special, pick up this
houses where the mom would feelings then? week's issue of TV Guide
choose for you. Ray: I actually didn't have a Magazine, on newsstands now!
TV Guide Magazine: Recently, problem with it. But everyone in Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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really incenses him that we're a length rant about it, you know?
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The Biz: Brian Williams Stays on Top of the News

Stephen Battaglio first try with a suggested cameo is
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) in a color I don't work in. I return
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:53:00 AM it and respectfully say, "Soften
this." Sometimes we go back two
Brian Williams or three times before we settle on
It's not easy being a traditional something.
TV newsman in a new-media TV Guide Magazine: You lost
world. But Brian Williams, who your dad this past year. Were you
grew up worshipping Walter able to talk with him about what 'Night of Too Many
Cronkite, remains the most you've achieved and how he'd Stars' Preview: Celebs
watched anchor as NBC Nightly influenced you? Unite for Autism Benefit
News averages 8 million viewers Williams: He had a satisfying
each night. He talked with TV feeling all his life of how he PopEater Staff (TV Squad)
Guide Magazine about how he's contributed to this. It was he who Submitted at 10/21/2010 7:40:00 AM
navigating the changing news insisted that dinner not be served
landscape. until Cronkite was over. He lived Filed under: TV Previews The
TV Guide Magazine: CBS chief until 93, and his boy, 51, has stars are aligning in a big way for
executive Leslie Moonves achieved his dream in life. There Comedy Central.
recently said everybody knows TV Guide Magazine: Is that why evening newscasts at CBS or wasn't a soul in his assisted living From Tina Fey to Jeff Garlin,
the news by the time it airs on the you've done a promo that tells ABC survive without a cable facility on the Jersey Shore who celebrities are uniting for Comedy
network evening news. Is he viewers to DVR the program? partner? didn't know within 20 seconds of Central's biennial 'Night of Too
wrong? Williams: That was my idea. I've Williams: Sure. They just have to entering the building that Brian Many Stars: An Overbooked
Williams: Everybody isn't with been trying to get us to inhabit the say they're going to do it. The Williams' father was a resident. Concert for Autism Education'
Richard Engel and they can't see same world in our promos as we corporate parents have to decide TV Guide Magazine: I bet it (Thu., Oct. 21, 9PM ET on
what he saw in Afghanistan. do in our homes. It took a little it's a priority, [that] there's a made him popular with the Comedy Central).
Everybody isn't with Chuck Todd doing. public service in it. women there. 'The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart
and Savannah Guthrie at the TV Guide Magazine: Does TV Guide Magazine: Do you Williams: Oh, yeah. He did pretty has once again been tasked with
White House. Nobody knows M S N B C ' s n e w p a r t i s a n think Katie Couric will return to well. wrangling the stars for the autism
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Conan O'Brien
Announces First Week of
'Conan' Guests
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: TV News In less
than two weeks, Conan O'Brien
will no longer be legally
prohibited from being funny on
television.
With just a few more days until
the premiere of 'Conan' at 11PM
on Mon., Nov. 8, TBS has
released the list of guests for the
comedian's first week on the
network.
The first episode of Coco's new
late night talk show will feature
Seth Rogen and musical guest
Jack White, along with the "first
guest poll winner" -- whatever
that is.
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Roboni-i Gaming Robot
Woot (Woot! - One Day, One
Deal)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:42:26 AM
HOPE YOU LIKE THE TASTE
OF HEAVY METALS IN YOUR
DRINKING WATER.
Because these things are going to
ruin the planet.
Don’t get us wrong, the Roboni-i
Programmable Gaming Robot is
much cooler than its incredibly
stupid name would lead you to
believe. And this pack has
everything you’ll need to
get…well, started, having fun
with it. You’ll be able to play with
your tiny robot right out of the
box and use its Energy Station,
Base Station, Infrared Gun,
Electronic Ball, and Resource
Cards for cool but kind of lonely
single player games.
Hook it up to a computer running
Windows XP, Vista, or 7, though,
and you’ll get an even better treat.
A program editing suite that lets
you update firmware, programs,
and games to your robot via USB
as well as learning some of the
basics of software programming.
You’ll be able to program the
buttons on your remote like hot
keys, predispose your robot’s auto
behaviors when it encounters
things like other robots, and track
its development on its very own
profile page.
So how are they going to ruin the
earth? Well, between the robot,
the remote, and the Base Station
you’re going to need 12 AA
batteries. No, that’s not a typo;
12. As in a dozen. And we know
it’s easy to say, “Well I just can’t
afford buying a dozen batteries so
I won’t get the robot,” but then
you’ll think about how much fun
you’ll be having with this sweet
little robot and you’ll say, “Well,
what the heck?”
Then 25 years go by and those
batteries get thrown out and the
cadmium and cobalt and lead
leech into the groundwater and air
and topsoil, eventually
contaminating us. But, y’know,
robots. You take the cool with the
deadly. Authorized for
SquareTrade Extended Warranty
Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited
Warranty
Condition: New
Recommended Ages: 13 Years +
Features:
• World’s first programmable
intelligent gaming robot – the
ultimate holiday gift!
• Roboni-i will grow dynamically
with its owner and learn more
advanced actions and movements
the more it is played with
• Nimble 360° movement
provides the Roboni-i with
incredible agility
• Control the Roboni-i with the
included wireless handheld
controller to perform stunts and
loops
• Uses 16 sensors and 4
processors to sense the
surrounding environment
• Roboni-i can navigate on its
own, avoid obstacles, play games,
do tricks and interact with its
environment
• Easy to customize and load with
games – play on your own or
against friends with similar robots
(requires some degree of
computer competence that
younger children may not
possess)
• PC-based Command Center
application is user-friendly and
allows you to configure every
facet of your robot including
reflexes and behaviors
• Roboni-i comes loaded with
electronic gaming accessories,
offering games of infinite variety
and chance
• Create your own games or
download games that others have
created
• Shoot, scoop, capture and
maneuver through single and
multiplayer games
• Use the same remote controller
offline and online
• Plug Roboni-i into your PC to
join a vibrant online community –
use the controller to guide your
customized avatar through the
virtual lunar world, play online
games and run missions
• Infrared sensors to detect
obstacles and interact with other
robots
• ZigBee (RF) technology allows
different robots to participate in
team games
• Download new games and
updates to your robot through
USB
• For best results use the Roboni-i
on a hard, flat surface
• Requires 12 AA batteries (not
included)
Related Videos:
• Roboni-i: The Rise of Robotic
Gaming
• Roboni-i SpacePods
Tournament
Additional Photos:
• BaseStation (Powered On)
• Remote Controller
• Electronic Resource Cards
• Roboni-i Robot with Electronic
Ball (Pod)
• Energy Station with Electronic
Ball (Pod)
• Package Contents
• Packaging
Robotic Gaming: (Play all of the
following games right out of the
box)
Single Player Games: Complete
solo missions and sharpen your
skills
• Colors: Entry level game to
introduce you to robotic gaming.
It will teach you to control your
robot, manage your robot’s
energy, respond to game state
information on your Mobile
Controller, and play against time
• CodeBreaker: Unlock the
erratic security codes to gain
access to the BaseStation so the
malfunctioning access control
system can be repaired! You only
have 5 minutes to achieve this
before the errant system
permanently locks everyone out
of the facility
• MaxOut: Generate the huge
amount of electricity that will be
required to test-fire LunaCorps’
first Large Scale Laser, all three
power generating plants have to
run at full capacity. Use your
Products/ 57
Roboni-i to cart in sufficient
quantities of ore from the
different ore mines so all three
plants can be in full production in
time for the test-fire
• CounterAct: Neutralize the
contamination caused by a
maintenance error at the
BaseStation’s nuclear power plant
before it spreads to adjacent
facilities! Use your Roboni-i to
place Pods with protective
shields at strategic locations in the
contaminated zones to enable
technicians to affect the necessary
repairs
Multiplayer/Team Games: Team
up to outwit opponents and
compete for resources
• SpacePods: Collect and deposit
the Pods at the BaseStation for
processing – there are rogue
elements at work that also want
the Pods for themselves, so you
may have to use your EMP gun
and SFX counter effects
• ConQuest: Cripple the rogue
element’s electricity supply by
taking over and disabling all their
power generating plants! Make
skillful use of booby traps to
prevent them from reclaiming and
activating their power generating
plants
• Overload: Stop a malicious
virus before it permanently
damages the BaseStation’s
computer system. Collect data
from the UniHubs and deposit it
at the BaseStation before the virus
causes irreparable harm
ROBONI-I page 58
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Michelin Smart Jumper Cables with Automatic continued from page 57

Polarity Adjustment System Requirements:

• Windows XP(SP2) or Vista or 7
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Deal) Cables with Automatic Polarity But don’t you worry, ol’Bibi’s up • 2.) Connect the other set of • 500 megabytes of hard drive
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:30:56 AM Adjustment. See, he’s actually a there taking good care of your car. clamps to the disabled vehicle space
golem made from tires, and that I bet two days from now, when battery – first clamp to the • 1024 x 768 screen resolution
Always Respect The Local gives him a great sensitivity you get out of jail, those Michelin positive battery terminal and the • Video adapter DirectX 9.0
Customs when it comes to motorists in Smart Jumper Cables with second clamp to metal on the compatible
OFFICER! OFFICER! YOU need. He’ll just up and leave his Automatic Polarity Adjustment vehicle engine block/frame • USB connectivity
GOTTA HELP ME! IT’S… IT’S little shack, I’ve seen him do it, will have your battery all charged • 3.) Both green indicator lights
OUT THERE! IT’S AFTER ME! and cross miles of forest just to up. should illuminate on the center In the box:
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down get to where he’s needed. Why, Ooooof. module – if not adjust the clamps • (1) Roboni-i robot & remote
t h e r e , b u d d y ! W h a t ’ s t h e he’s probably up there right now, Can you stand yet? until they do controller
problem? holding the textured grips and Warranty: 1 Year Michelin • 4.) Start the assisting vehicle • (1) Infrared gun accessory
It’s… it’s… oh, I’m so out of flexible cables, wiring up your Features: and allow to idle for about 30 • (1) BaseStation
b r e a t h … i t ’ s s o m e s o r t o f battery to his little cart and • No guesswork, green indicator seconds. Start the disabled • (1) Energy Station
monster, officer. It’s big, and jumpstarting your car. And lights confirm correct connection vehicle. When it’s running, • (1) SFX Hub
white, and it’s… it’s shooting meanwhile, you’re down here • No sparking or shorting, When disconnect the clamp from the • (3) UniHubs
sparks from these two wands it like a frightened little girl, not clamps are attached the polarity is engine block/frame then • (1) Electronic ball (Pod)
keeps touching together… I even saying thank you. adjusted automatically disconnect the remaining clamps • (2) Electronic resource cards
barely escaped alive! I… officer, how was I supposed • Built-in surge protector in any order (Energy and SFX)
Big? White? Sparks? Say… was to know it who it was? I mean, I prevents damage to the vehicle • (1) CD with Roboni-i Command
this “monster” speaking French? just wanted to get a cabin and computer and electronics Additional Photos: Center
It… I don’t know, it… it was, I relax, I didn’t know that your • Textured grips and flexible • Textured Grip • (1) USB Cable
guess. Is that… is that worse? forest was full of crazy monsters cables are easy to handle, even in • Green Indicator Lights • (6) Single player and team
Worse? Aw, heck, buddy, you holding Michelin Smart Jumper cold weather Illuminate on the Center Module player games
just had a run-in with Bibendium, Cables with Automatic Polarity • 12 Foot cables are constructed to Confirm Correct Polarity • (1) Game reference cards & 3 x
who you might know better as Adjustment. Why, back in the using heavy 8-gauge copper clad blanks
the Michelin Man! Don’t you city, we’d never stand for-” aluminum In the box: • (1) Getting Started instructions
worry none, he’s friendly. Let me City, eh? Why don’t you go • Michelin 5100 Smart 8 Gauge
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seen monster movies, I just and drugs. vehicles in the off position, XP(SP2), Windows Vista, and
figured… WHAT? Officer, I don’t think connect one set of clamps to the Discuss this product Windows 7
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Can Nuvigil help you get through the Not a Snuggie Deluxe
night shift? with Book Light – 2 Pack
rss@consumerreports.org employees: a nurse, an airport the new drug Nuvigil. Especially Woot (Woot! - One Day, One first step, but let’s not stop there.
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 2:59:59 AM on. Ostensibly they've all beat price tags: around $350 a month Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:39:56 AM Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited
their drowsiness by taking for Nuvigil, and now more than Warranty
Can Nuvigil help you get through N u v i g i l . $600 a month for Provigil An Idea With Legs Condition: New
the night shift? But as our latest AdWatch video (perhaps another way to T h i s t w o - p a c k o f N o t - A - Features:
Y o u m a y h a v e h e a r d a shows, there’s more to the encourage people to switch to Snuggies is fine for you. But me, • Deluxe blanket with sleeves and
commercial on the radio for a Nuvigil story than what you get Nuvigil before Provigil becomes a I’m holding out for a blanket with a pocket
d r u g c a l l e d N u v i g i l ( from the radio ad. Modest cheaper generic). pants. • Not a Snuggie Deluxe is 50%
armodafinil). It's being promoted effectiveness, potential side Watch the story behind Nuvigil's Everybody’s talking about how Thicker than Not a Snuggie
as an antidote to the sleepiness effects, a new drug that arrives on radio spot, and learn more about t h e s l e e v e d b l a n k e t h a s • Made of 100% polyester fleece
experienced by people who work the scene right as a similar one Nuvigil and its predecessor, revolutionized the way we • Machine washable
overnight or other nontraditional from the same company is nearing Provigil. chillax. Well, from where I • Dimensions: 71” x 54”; sleeve
hours, such as nurses, truck the loss of its patent—it's all — Jamie Kopf Hirsh, associate slouch, this revolution looks length 30” x 11”
drivers, security guards, and there. And the wildest part is that editor incomplete. Am I the only one • Book light is adjustable and
bartenders. more than half of the prescriptions Do you know anyone who’s who remembers that we have four compact (4.5” x 1.5” folded),
While Nuvigil, a stimulant, is written for Nuvigil's predecessor, taken Provigil or Nuvigil for off- limbs, not just two? features one-button opening/light
also approved for narcolepsy and P r o v i g i l ( m o d a f i n i l ) , a r e label reasons? Tell us about it. I mean, I know the typical extension, and includes a clip for
excessive sleepiness due to reportedly not for its approved Subscribe now! American’s legs are doughy, easy attachment to books or
obstructive sleep apnea (that’s indications but for off-label uses, S u b s c r i b e t o essentially vestigial organs, clothing
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commercial is all about the shift hyperactivity disorder, or jet-lag. Ratings, buying advice and couch to your GMC Yukon button cell batteries, included
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Jenn Sterger Camp in 'Ongoing Dialogue' With NFL

FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:34:00 AM
Filed under: Jets, Vikings Jenn
Sterger's cooperation in the NFL
investigation of Brett Favre's
alleged sexting is still up in the
air, but the two sides are talking.
Sterger's manager Phil Reese said
Wednesday that, "We currently
have an ongoing dialogue with the
league. Jenn is currently
considering all her options. It
could be she talks. It could be she
does nothing. We just don't know
yet." Reese also emphasized that
the decision to cooperate or not
belongs to Sterger alone.
Reese also clarified that "there
have been no talks" with Favre
regarding a financial settlement
that would pay Sterger to keep
quiet, a scenario many have
potentially envisioned happening.
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Toyota to recall Avalon, Highlander and Lexus GS, Updated: October 21, 2010,
12:50 PM ET
IS for brake concerns TCU team physician Dr. Sam
Haraldson issued a statement
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Blog (Consumer Reports) and 2006 Lexus GS300, IS250, For more information, contact: sideline incident with Horned
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Toyota has announced that it will such polymers, a master cylinder Ratings, buying advice and detailed how TCU officials dealt
recall 740,000 vehicles sold in the seal could dry up and curl, r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f with an injury to running back Ed
United States due to concerns that allowing a potential leak to occur. feel soft or spongy to the driver products. Update your feed Wesley during a Sept. 24 game
a brake-fluid lead from the brake Should the fluid run low, a brake and stopping distances can preferences against SMU. Wesley was
master cylinder could diminish warning lamp should illuminated lengthen. diagnosed by Haraldson with a
stopping power. The impacted on the instrument panel, alerting Owners will be notified by mail concussion and was kept out of
vehicles include: 2005-2006 the driver. As the fluid level starting in early November. The the remainder of the game.
Avalon, 2004-2006 Highlander decreases, the brake pedal may repair work will be performed a "He was knocked unconscious,
and any loss of consciousness is
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TCU
Miami Heat guard Mike Miller has continued from page 60

automatically considered a apologized to me."

injury to thumb shooting hand concussion," Haraldson said,
according to amednews.com, the
"Let's be clear -- we had a
misunderstanding on the sideline
Associated Press (ESPN.com) summer. He has been starting to the Heat in large part because AMA's website. "He had an during a very emotional football
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:34:45 AM during much of the preseason for of the opportunities he could get unsteady gait and a few memory game," TCU athletics director
Dwyane Wade, who is recovering playing alongside Wade, LeBron problems." Chris Del Conte said in a
Updated: October 21, 2010, from a strained right hamstring, James and Chris Bosh. For his The ESPN telecast of the game statement. "Dr. Haraldson has
12:34 PM ET and now becomes the latest name career, Miller has averaged 13.7 showed Patterson debating the explained that all the full details,
MIAMI -- Heat forward Mike in a long list of Heat injury woes. points on 46 percent shooting, 41 issue with Haraldson. at the time, had not been
Miller is not on Miami's final Guard Eddie House is scheduled percent shooting from 3-point "Then five or six plays later, I communicated to Coach
preseason road trip, remaining to make his preseason debut range. literally was verbally accosted by Patterson. Both Dr. Haraldson and
home because of an injured right Thursday night after continuing to With Miller sidelined, the Heat the coach, screaming at me Coach Patterson have apologized
thumb that could sideline one of recover from surgery on his left, will likely use James Jones-- insanely at the top of his lungs to each other and we've moved
the NBA's top 3-point shooters for non-shooting, shoulder. Point another top 3-point shooter -- that he doesn't think [Wesley] has forward. We consider the matter
several weeks. guards Mario Chalmers and even more at small forward than a concussion and what right do I closed."
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra says Carlos Arroyo have had nagging perhaps originally planned. have to hold him out," Haraldson Wesley returned to the field on
Miller -- a right-handed shooter -- injuries throughout the preseason, C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 0 b y T h e said, according to amednews.com Oct. 2 and has played in three
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details of the incident, and I take
responsibility for that. We sat
down and talked it over, and it's
all been worked out. I apologized
to Coach Patterson, and he

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Education) (Financiallyfit on According to a recent report from noted that couples with a college benefits associated with a college
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 6:19:23 PM graduates are more likely to marry divorce than people with no According to the College Board's
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How much is a college education The report, which looked at Another recent report, this one
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Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James FanHouse Roundtable: How

Harrison returns to practice facility to Fix the Disappointing
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Still, Harrison's agent, Bill Parise,
had told ESPN NFL Insider Adam
enough on Harrison.
"Harrison has made $20 million
Dallas Cowboys
Schefter that his client was "very over the past three years, and they FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:46:12 AM
serious" about retiring after only fined him $75,000?" he said. Main)
Updated: October 21, 2010, getting fined for a hit hat knocked "To me, that's not going to be a Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:39:00 AM
11:37 AM ET Massaquoi out of the Steelers' win deterrent. The Browns are
PITTSBURGH -- Linebacker over the Browns. Harrison also probably going to be without a Filed under: Cowboys, Giants,
James Harrison has returned to put a hit on receiver Josh Cribbs, starter this week. I don't think that Ravens, Vikings, NFL Injuries,
the Pittsburgh Steelers, one day and both he and Massaquoi fine is a deterrent or fair to NFL Predictions, NFL Analysis
after he threatened to retire suffered concussions. competitive balance. They are America's Team --
because of the NFL's stricter The hit on Cribbs was deemed a "The punishment did not fit the loaded with talent and picked by
enforcement of dangerous hits. legal hit because Cribbs, running crime." many to represent the NFC in the
Harrison, a three-time Pro Bowl out of the Wildcat formation, was Information from ESPN's Bob Super Bowl, an accomplishment
linebacker, was given a cooling- a runner in possession of the ball. Holtzman and The Associated that would have made them the
off day Wednesday by coach Harrison's headfirst hit of Press was used in this report. first team to play the game at
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much to quit during the second said earlier this week that he So what, exactly, has been the Trade
season of a $51.2 million contract. didn't think the league was tough problem? OK, step into Jerry Jones' $2,500
We asked our group of NFL wing tips for a moment. What do
Psalm 40:8 (10-21-10) experts to play general manager -
or, in this case, to play Jerry Jones
you do to fix the Cowboys?
Thomas George: Challenge Wade
(Verse of the Day) is that God's law is written on our you, and lead others to you. Give -- and come up with a plan to Phillips to take more control.
Submitted at 10/21/2010 2:00:00 AM hearts and demonstrated in our me spiritual discernment to know salvage the season for the shell-
lives. God is not concerned that it your will and spiritual courage to shocked Cowboys.
I desire to do your will, O my be written on tablets of stone. do it today. I want your character It's just one of the burning issues
God; your law is within my heart. Jeremiah prophesied of such a day and righteousness to inform my
— Psalm 40:8(NIV) Thoughts on when the focus of God's people heart when I am tempted by Satan
Today's Verse... Too many of us would be their desire to do God's not to live for you. Humble me
are paranoid about the word law will -- a passion to love the things gently when I am wrong or have
and find it hard to hear a scripture our Father loves and despise the lost my way. In the mighty name
like this. But we must recognize things he despises. My Prayer... of Jesus I pray. Amen.
that the goal of the New Covenant Abba Father, I do want to do your
of grace and the gift of the Spirit will. I want to please you, glorify
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Eric LeGrand Injury Shines Light on Deanna Favre relying on

NCAA Rules and Enforcement faith amid allegations
A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main) Associated Press (ESPN.com) NFL for allegedly sending
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:00:00 AM Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:21:58 AM suggestive messages and lewd
photos to a woman who worked
Filed under: Army, Rutgers, Updated: October 21, 2010, for the New York Jets.
Injuries 12:21 PM ET "I'm handling this through faith,"
His helmet lowered, Rutgers NEW YORK -- Deanna Favre Deanna Favre said.
tackle Eric LeGrand suffered the says her religious faith and an She did not address whether the
type of catastrophic spinal injury outward focus are helping her allegations against her husband
that longtime athletic trainer overcome the allegations of are true or false.
Charles Thompson is surprised improper behavior that have been Copyright 2010 by The
doesn't occur more frequently. leveled against her husband, Brett. A s s o c i a t e d P r e s s
"They think they're invincible in Deanna Favre was interviewed This entry passed through the
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LeGrand was paralyzed from the there's no simple answer and it's
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neck down. Rutgers coach Greg impossible to eliminate all serious
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Schiano had no updates on his injuries from football, but he
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fallen player's condition when he offered up one solution: more
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spoke to reporters on Wednesday. yellow flags.
don't think it's always because accusations against Brett Favre,
The NCAA, like the NFL, has "One big problem is that (illegal
they are trying to hurt the other who is being investigated by the
continued to adjust its rules over hits) aren't called enough,"
guy."
the years after similar tragedies Thompson said. "The rules for
It was the opposite in LeGrand's
combined with the recent spearing are there. It's written
case as he was the defender who
revelations of the debilitating, down and it's very, very clear."
initiated the contact in a game
long-lasting effects of
against Army on Saturday. The
concussions. Thompson admits
immediate diagnosis was that

Brandon Inge, Tigers Ink Two-Year Deal

Knox Bardeen (FanHouse the team announced Thursday. of Brandon today," general season, Dombrowsky said that he
Main) The 33-year-old third baseman manager Dave Dombrowski said. wanted to keep Inge at third base
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:24:00 AM finished the season with a .247 "Brandon is one of the top because of his defensive skills and
batting average with 13 home defensive third basemen in the outstanding work ethic.
Filed under: Tigers, MLB runs and 70 RBI. He played in game and a quality individual we
Transactions Third baseman 144 games, all at third base, are proud to have as a
Brandon Inge has agreed to a two- where he led the American representative of the
year deal with the Tigers, with an League with a .977 fielding "The Tigers' organization is organization."
club option for the 2013 season, percentage. pleased to announce the signing
On the final day of the regular
64 Gaming/
5TH Cell counting down
to XBLA announcement
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Scribblenauts developer 5TH
Cell is about to reveal its next
game, which it has been teasing
for almost a year -- but there's a
bit more teasing to do before that
happens. The developer posted a
seven-day countdown for the title
on its site, revealing in a press
release that the end of the
countdown -- Thursday, October
28 at 10pm PDT -- will coincide
with the reveal of the new title on
Spike TV. A brief teaser will also
be shown tonight.
According to the press release,
the game will be "a completely
new experience for Xbox Live
Arcade players." 5TH Cell's
Jeremiah Slaczka has previously
told Joystiq that the company's
next original game would use the
Source Engine. We'll find out
more in ... seven days, and
counting.
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EA lets Reckless Racing
loose on iPhone and iPad
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:00:00 PM
It's time to get Reckless with
your iPhone! No, wait, don't do
that, these things are expensive.
It's actually time to get Reckless
Racing for your iPhone. Yes,
that's much safer.
Pixelbite's top-down rally racing
game features multiple driving
styles, and three game modes:
"Dirt Rally," a time trial mode,
and "Delivery," a sort of relay in
which you pick up items on
special tracks and drop them
elsewhere. It's meant to evoke
"classic" top-down racers, but
without that free-spinning wheel
we used to love to play with as we
walked by the Super Off-Road
machine in the arcade. Reckless
Racing is on the App Store now
for both iPhone and iPad.
Gallery: Reckless Racing (iPhone
/iPad)
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This sucks: No
Kirby for Europe or
Australia until 2011
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:30:00 PM
With his rotund shape and
waddling gait, we would never
consider Kirby to be a particularly
hasty creature -- still, we never
would have expected his latest
adventure, Kirby's Epic Yarn, to
take months to reach European
and Australian territories.
Nintendo Australia recently
confirmed that the title, released
earlier this month in the U.S. and
Japan, would see 2011 launch in
PAL regions. (Online retailer Play
suggests that it'll only arrive in
March.)
In the months between, a
dedicated European fan could
probably recreate the game using
actual yarn. Hey, why hasn't
anyone done that yet? Get crafty,
you guys.
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Will the Mac remain an open platform?

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:01:38 AM

There's always a lot of debate

about what "open" means, so let
me say what I mean by open in
this context.
A story to illustrate.
Right now I'm sitting in
Starbucks on Astor Place in NYC.
I'm looking at the entrance to a
NYC subway station. Every
minute a hundred people walk

A Rock Band 3 pro guitar down the stairs to pass through a

trailer to crush your
dreams
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:15:00 PM
There may have been a part of
you that had a dream. You might
have thought you could pick up a
Rock Band 3 Mustang controller
or Squier guitar, learn a few
tricks, and instantly start rocking
out in Pro Mode. Now, just watch
the note charts in this video --
never mind trying to make sense
of them -- and feel the weight of
your dreams being crushed.
Sorry kids, this is going to take
some practice. It's like you're
actually playing music or
something.
Continue reading A Rock Band 3
pro guitar trailer to crush your
dreams
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turnstile where they pay a fare.
They wait for a train, get on it. It
takes them somewhere. Once
there, they reverse the process
(except they don't get their money
back).
There's no Apple employee at
any of the entrances, deciding if
they are dressed well enough to
get on the subway. There isn't
anyone there to be sure you aren't
carrying a virus that you could
give to everyone you come in
contact with on the subway.
It's in that sense that the Mac is,
today, an open platform.
I can install whatever I want on
it. No one can tell me what I can
and can't.
I know intuitively that we took
the next step yesterday toward the
day when the Mac is not an open
platform in this sense. I'm not
going to say it's right or wrong, or
a betrayal of trust, or make any
moral judgements. I'm not even
going to say it's not wise, for all I
know it's the best business
decision Apple could make.
But for me, it sucks. Makes me
sad.
If there's nothing to worry about I
wish Apple would say "there's
nothing to worry about, the Mac
will always remain the kind of
platform where you can run
anything you want."
On the other hand, it would be
smart for Microsoft to find a way
to say that Windows will never be
a locked platform, that they will
never try to dictate who can and
can't ship software for it. Seems
like a small concession for a
company that's operating under an
antitrust settlement that prohibits
it from erecting barriers to entry
to the Windows platform. (And at
some point, if Apple isn't very
careful, they're going to end up
being supervised the same way
Microsoft is.)
I depend on the Mac for my
work, and I don't see Apple
approving my software, nor do I
see myself applying for their
approval.
Update: Rafe Colburn thinks the
Mac will not become an Apple-
gated platform.
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Writing during a crazy week Tea Party Urges Drastic

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/20/2010 8:58:52 PM
activity that used to pay no longer
does. In both cases we made the
transition. We have a better
large numbers of users, you'll get
new stuff. Innovation. The
connectivity in homes in eastern
Budget Cuts
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) Tea party groups and candidates,
This last week has been crazy encyclopedia that is accessible to US cities is substantially better
here. First I moved, then I had eye everyone all the time, and is than in the west. This isn't Submitted at 10/21/2010 4:59:08 AM while fractious at times, are
surgery. Even so, I wrote three constantly expanding. And we are factored into most people's mostly united in their demands for
pieces, with three significant ideas creating more software than ever, "Tea party" activists are a smaller government that would
thinking when they consider
that are interesting enough to call a n d e m p l o y i n g m o r e exhibiting a fervor for budget cuts provide less of the so-called
advantages one area might have
out separately in a follow-up programmers, yet we no longer not seen in years, pushing to slash "safety net" programs for senior
over the other. Symmetric
piece (this one). everything from Social Security to citizens, the unemployed, the
charge for software, or if we do, connectivity allows people to
1. Readings from news execs. we charge very little compared to unemployment benefits in their disabled and other groups that
operate small scale servers in their
When we look at the predicament what we used to. drive to cut the burgeoning have become heavily dependent
homes for no additional cost.
the journalism industry finds itself So yes, it is conceivable that you federal debt. on government benefits.
3. Complexity is the enemy of
in, we all overlook the elephant in could get your journalism without But while applauding their Sharron Angle, a tea-party-
progress. A continuation of the
the room, what if it's possible to paying for it. Now let's see how budget-cutting zeal, economists inspired Republican opponent of
series about doing open
create something very much like that might work. Let's at least are divided over whether their Senate Majority Leader Harry
development work. This piece is
the journalism we have now, but discuss it. If it hurts the feelings prescription is good medicine for Reid, for example, has called for
one of the best-received I've ever
with reporters who earn their of editors and reporters, so be it. a weak economy. Some say it's the privatization of Social
written.
living doing something other than 2. Why FIOS is important. The reminiscent of President Hoover's Security, while other candidates
Starting tomorrow I'm hoping for
commercial reporting. drive to balance the budget during have questioned the
tech future is created by people a quieter existence with slightly
There is prior art: 1. Wikipedia who live with its limits. And the Great Depression — and
less upheaval. TEA page 68
and 2. software. In both cases, an when the limits are expanded for would backfire this time as well.

Dems Turn on Each Other Over Campaign Spending

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) liberal House Democratic are taking their votes for granted, Democratic aide views the troika
Submitted at 10/21/2010 7:39:56 AM chairmen from safe districts who especially after failing to adopt as the “three horsemen of the
are hoarding more than $8 million immigration reform legislation. apocalypse.”
Thursday, 21 Oct 2010 12:39 PM of cash for their campaigns, Roll Meanwhile, the moderates are © Newsmax. All rights reserved.
With Democratic candidates Call reports. Show us some of the ticked off at Energy and This entry passed through the
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spending more money on efforts decline has been massive. The moderates are particularly Catastrophe.
to bring in Latino voters than in “I’ve never seen the investment so miffed because the three were
any other mid-term election, anemic,” says Jorge Mursuli, night and day. I think it is going principal writers of the cap-and-
Politico reports. president and CEO of Democracia to be devastating.” trade bill and healthcare plan that
Meanwhile, Democratic House -Ahora, a Miami-based group that The slide in spending strengthens are causing so much trouble for
moderates are upset with three works in seven states. “It is like Latino concerns that Democrats moderate candidates. One senior
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Military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy Thrown Into Confusion
David Wood (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:07:00 PM
Defense Secretary Robert Gates'
attempt to carefully ease the
military beyond "Don't ask, don't
tell" is collapsing in a shambles,
as a verdict on the
constitutionality of the ban on
military gays seesaws uncertainly
through the federal courts. A
previous attempt in Congress to
repeal the law ended, in effect, in
a hung jury. Meantime the
military, which prides itself on
strict rules and tight discipline, is
awash in confusion.
As things stand, the ban on gays
and lesbians serving openly in the
military is still in place. Sort of.
At least until Monday. Or maybe
Thursday afternoon, when the
Pentagon may issue new
guidelines.
A Defense Department official
acknowledged that yes, as of now,
someone could acknowledge his
gay sexual orientation to a
military recruiter and proceed
with the enlistment process -- and
if he was accepted and sworn into
service could then face
investigation and discharge for
being gay.
"That's where we are,'' the official
said with an unhappy shrug.
A military officer involved in
personnel administration told me
Thursday, "We just don't know
which way is up.''
Unofficially, the Pentagon was
sending out word that gays and
lesbians closeted within the
military should stay hidden until
the judicial smoke clears.
But that was before the 9 th
Circuit Court of Appeals stepped
in Wednesday to temporarily halt
a lower court's ruling that the
Pentagon must immediately stop
enforcing the ban. That seemed to
put the ban back in place.
Standing Defense Department
policy is that "we will continue to
obey the law,'' a spokesman said.
But how to determine, hour by
hour, what the law is?
This is precisely the outcome that
Gates sought to avoid earlier this
year when he declared that the
legal ban on gays serving openly
should be lifted, in accordance
with the direction issued by
President Obama. Gates asked for
time -- until December -- for the
Pentagon to figure out how to
gracefully implement a lifting of
the ban. "A guiding principle of
our efforts will be to minimize
disruption and polarization within
the ranks . . . and to mitigate and
mange any negative impacts,'' he
told the Senate Armed Services
Committee back in February.
Good luck with that.
Last week, as the courts were
busily undoing this careful
strategy, a visibly grumpy Gates
told reporters that he still feels
"very strongly that this is an
action that needs to be taken by
the Congress.'' Lifting the ban, he
said, "requires careful preparation
and a lot of training. A lot of
revision of regulations. . . . [has]
to be done in addition to the
training.''
That work, currently underway
by a Defense Department task
force, won't be completed for
another five weeks.
Some optimists are saying the
courts may delay long enough for
a lame-duck Congress to take up
DADT when it reconvenes after
the Nov. 2 elections. That seems
unlikely, however the elections
turn out, given that Senate
Republicans already were able to
block a vote on the issue last
month.
Yet transition away from "Don't
ask, don't tell," when and as it
comes, may not be as difficult as
Gates believes.
Harassment of gays in the
military peaked in 1999 with the
murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell,
beaten to death with a baseball bat
as he slept in his barracks at Fort
Campbell, Ky. The slaying by a
fellow soldier followed months of
harassment of Private Winchell.
Military leaders, from the
sergeants who lead squads and
platoons to company and
squadron commanders and the
chief petty officers who run
shipboard units, already are
authorized and given
responsibility to maintain "good
order and discipline'' in ways they
see fit.
Military units under stress --
whether an infantry platoon under
fire in Afghanistan or a deck gang
working flight ops on a carrier --
mostly are manned by younger
service members who grew up
with openly gay friends and
acquaintances and already know
gays in the ranks.
"Not a big deal,'' is the refrain I
heard pretty consistently this
summer from soldiers deployed in
Afghanistan, when I asked about
repealing the ban on gays.
That's clearly the feeling of most
Americans. According to a new
CBS news poll, a majority of
Americans -- 56 percent --
support repealing the ban on gays
in the military
But zealots on both sides are
angry at the courts. The
conservative Center for Military
Readiness, which opposes gays
and even straight women in the
armed services, accuses federal
district judge Virginia Phillips,
who ordered the ban overturned,
of presuming to appoint herself
"supreme judicial commander of
the U.S. military.''
On the other side, the
Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, a gay-rights group,
sounded fed up with the legal ping
-pong. In a statement issued
Wednesday night, it said that "gay
and lesbian service members
deserve better treatment than they
are getting with this ruling. We
now must look to the Senate next
Politics/ 67
month in the lame duck session to
bring about the swift certainty
needed here and to repeal this
unjust law that serves no useful
purpose.''
The three-judge panel of the 9 th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
which issued the temporary stay
Wednesday, gave the two sides
until Monday to present
arguments on whether Judge
Phillips' order to lift the ban
should be permanently in effect.
The Justice Department, arguing
for a stay of Phillips' ruling, said
lifting the ban now "risks causing
significant immediate harm to the
military and its efforts to be
prepared to implement an orderly
repeal of the statute."
But Dan Woods, the attorney
arguing the case on behalf of the
pro-gay group Log Cabin
Republicans, said all the evidence
has already been presented and
there is little reason to expect the
Phillips ruling will be overturned.
"We didn't come this far to quit
now,'' he said in a statement.
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constitutionality of unemployment
and welfare benefits despite an
unemployment rate hovering near
10 percent.
A poll by Bloomberg News has
found that solid majorities of tea
party activists and sympathizers
favor raising the retirement age
for eligibility for Social Security
and Medicare. That contrasts with
the fewer than half of all likely
voters that support such measures,
the poll found.
While this country has not seen
such attempts to control spending
since Republicans took control of
Congress in 1994, Britain, Spain,
Greece and other European
nations this year have been forced
by the threat of a widening debt
crisis to slash their public welfare
programs — often in the face of
fierce public protest.
The tea party movement appears
to be the only constituency for
such drastic action in the U.S.
While most American voters are
focused on the economy and what
the government can do to make
things better, tea party supporters
view the public debt — not the
economy — as the most important
issue facing the country.
Nearly two-thirds of tea party
supporters would consider cutting
spending on roads and bridges as
well as research funding for
Alzheimer's and other diseases to
narrow the $1.3 trillion budget
deficit, Bloomberg found.
In placing overwhelming
importance on taming the debt,
the tea party agenda runs counter
to conventional economic
wisdom. Most economists say the
economy could not endure
draconian budget cuts at this time,
and many favor providing further
stimulus through temporary
spending programs or tax cuts.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.
Bernanke spoke for most in his
field when he advised Congress
earlier this year to avoid big
spending cuts now, but lay plans
to gradually rein in spending on
entitlement programs like Social
Security and Medicare over the
next five to 10 years, when he
thinks the growing debt will be
more of a problem for the
economy.
"The tea party's demands to
balance the budget and reduce the
federal deficit aren't merely
misguided, but dangerous, and
would cause the worst depression
in history," said Warren Mosler, a
former investment manager and
monetary policy expert who
describes himself as a former tea
party Democrat.
"I have been, and continue to be, a
strong supporter of the core tea
party values of lower taxes,
limited government, competitive
market solutions, and a return to
personal responsibility," he said.
"However, their proposals to
balance the budget are the same
suicidal policies that caused six
horrible depressions in the U.S.
over the past 200 years."
With the economy barely
recovering from the deepest
recession since World War II, Mr.
Mosler said, now is not the time
to abruptly remove $1 trillion in
government spending that has
been propping up consumer
spending and the overall
economy.
President Obama and his
Democratic allies agree, and have
attacked Republican candidates
with tea party backing as
"extremists" who would harm the
economy. Even the national
Republican Party has not
embraced tea party proposals to
cut Social Security and
unemployment benefits.
The Republican "Pledge to
America" caters to the tea party
by touting the goal of smaller
government through spending
cuts, but lists only vague cuts in
"discretionary" programs and
exempts defense and homeland
security.
Tea party activists demand to go
further. They mostly deride
proponents of conventional
economics like Mr. Bernanke,
whom they accuse of enabling the
government's debt addiction by
printing money to buy Treasury
bonds. The Bloomberg poll found,
in fact, that a majority of tea party
supporters would like to abolish
the Fed.
The tea party largely eschews
conventional prescriptions of
stimulus for the economy, other
than supporting extension of all
the Bush tax cuts.
Howard Rich, chairman of
Americans for Limited
Government, called the idea of
stimulating the economy "folly"
and denounced Mr. Bernanke for
his role in the government's
bailout of the financial sector.
But even if they aren't seeking
support from the economics
profession, a growing school of
economists agrees with these
ultraconservatives that the goals
of debt reduction and economic
growth are not incompatible.
A recent study by Goldman
Sachs economists found little
harm to the economy in countries
that, faced with the threat of a
debt crisis, pursued debt reduction
primarily through spending cuts
rather than tax increases.
The study found the spending
cuts in those cases led to sharply
lower interest rates and higher
stock prices, fueling a surge in
investments and exports and
boosting economic growth in the
five years after the adjustment.
"Contrary to popular belief, we
can reduce spending without
endangering the republic," said
Jerry Jasinowski, economist and
former president of the National
Association of Manufacturers,
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suggesting Congress start with
unnecessary weapons systems and
pork-barrel projects.
He said the tea party's "revulsion
against the spending binge" in
Washington has hit a chord with
the public.
"You can argue all night that the
spending is necessary to avert an
economic meltdown or keep the
nation safe, but no one really
believes that," he said. "What they
do believe is a vast sea of debt
must be repaid."
The truth is, Mr. Jasinowski said,
the tea party agenda poses a threat
to both parties.
"Their message strikes to the heart
of what Washington does best:
squander money," he said. "It is
perhaps the one thing that is truly
bipartisan."
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Five Ex-Governors Hope to Catch on Again

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) governors are running against someone new, they may be public office since his time as But Mr. Branstad's tenure during
Submitted at 10/21/2010 5:06:44 AM sitting governors, which largely reluctant to place a total unknown chief executive. His opponent, tough times appears to be helping
takes the anti-incumbency card in charge of running the state, a former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, him with the voters, who may be
T h e a n t i - i n c u m b e n t f e v e r out of play. Former Maryland job that calls for a measure of has gathered the lowlights from looking for someone who is battle
sweeping the nation apparently Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., a experience in state affairs and his extensive public service record -tested. Polls show that he has led
isn't contagious when it comes to Republican, is facing Democratic executive skill. in an ad titled, "A Lifetime in the race consistently by double
gubernatorial contests. Gov. Martin O'Malley in a "The legislative and executive Politics, a Legacy of Failure." digits.
Five former governors who left rematch of their 2006 race. branches are very unique, very "Forty years in politics and failure "Gov. Branstad led Iowa through
office years or even decades ago Former California Gov. Jerry different, and I do think voters has followed him everywhere," the farm crisis of the 1980s, when
are back on the campaign trail, Brown and Oregon Gov. John take into account whether intones the ad. unemployment was higher than it
h a v i n g w o n t h e i r p a r t i e s ' Kitzhaber, both Democrats, may someone's run a large Mr. Brown has countered in part is today, and by the time he left
nominations in defiance of a have the toughest hurdles to organization, especially one that's by touting his experience, and so office, it was down to 2 percent,"
national tide that rewards fresh overcome: They're both running under tremendous stress right far it seems to be working. The said Branstad spokesman Tim
faces and views career politicians against intriguing first-time now," said Mr. Storey. candidates have spent much of the Albrecht. "I think people see Gov.
a s l i t t l e b e t t e r t h a n c a r e e r candidates who have wasted little Mr. Kitzhaber, who was term- election locked in a dead heat, but Branstad as a hands-on leader
criminals. time in labeling the former limited in 2002, has countered the the latest Rasmussen Reports poll who can right the ship again."
At the same time, the once-and- governors as retreads. Dudley attacks by hearkening to shows Mr. Brown pulling away Georgia Democrat Roy Barnes
f u t u r e g o v e r n o r s m a y b e In Oregon, Republican Chris the state's strong economy in the with 50 percent of the vote served a single term before being
benefiting from a bit of voter D u d l e y , a f o r m e r N a t i o n a l 1990s and the gains made during compared with 44 percent for ousted by Republican Sonny
nostalgia. No matter how grim the Basketball Association star with his tenure on workers' Mrs. Whitman. Perdue in 2002. Now Mr. Perdue
situation during their first terms the Portland Trailblazers, is compensation and the In Iowa, Mr. Branstad, who is term-limited, and the Democrat
— Iowa's Terry Branstad, for running radio ads calling for environment. retired in 1999 after setting the Barnes is back for another crack
example, was at the helm during voters to embrace "a new vision." His eight years' experience on the record for the most terms served at that second term in a contest
the state's disastrous 1993 floods "It's clear that after 24 years, the job was pivotal in winning the as the state's governor at four, is against Republican Nathan Deal.
— the financial situation was same insiders, including Gov. endorsement of the state's largest seeking a fifth term over first- © Copyright 2010 The
almost inevitably rosier than it is Kitzhaber, are desperate to protect newspaper, the Oregonian, even term Democratic Gov. Chet Washington Times, LLC
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state fare when they were in contests. While voters appears public service record." "It's your decision: Will we
office?'" eager to jettison their In California, Mr. Brown is the continue forward or go back to the
Three of the five former representatives in favor of only former governor to have held past?" says another.
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Obama's Approval Ratings at the
Lowest Ebb of His Presidency
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:51:00 AM
Contributing Editor President
Obama's average job approval
rating for the seventh quarter of
his administration has dropped to
the lowest point and ranks him
near the bottom of the list of other
modern presidents at this point in
their time in office, according to
Gallup polling conducted July 20-
Oct. 19.
Obama's job approval averaged
44.7 percent. Since Dwight
Eisenhower, the only presidents
who have had lower approval
numbers at this point were Bill
Clinton in 1994, with an average
for the three-month period of 41.4
percent, Ronald Reagan in 1982 at
41.7 percent and Jimmy Carter in
1978 at 42.3 percent.
Former President Bush was still
riding high during his seventh
quarter in 2002 at 67.3 percent.
His father, George H.W. Bush
was at 69 percent in 1990. Both
Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy
were in the mid-60 range and
Richard Nixon was at 55.2
percent.
Gallup's view on what these
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stops in seeking to reverse their
sagging electoral fortunes. That
includes trying to convince voters
that Republican leaders and
candidates backed by the tea party
movement are stupid, Politico
reports. But the strategy hasn’t fueling the wave of anti-elite
gained much traction so far. resentment,” says Republican
Democrats have particularly gone consultant Alex Castellanos.
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Race Between Rand Paul and Jack
Conway in Kentucky
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 12:12:00 PM
Contributing Editor Republican
Rand Paul holds a 48 percent to
43 percent lead over Democrat
Jack Conway in the bitterly-
contested Kentucky Senate race,
according to a Mason-Dixon
Research poll conducted Oct. 18-
19 for state news organizations.
Nine percent are still undecided.
the margin of error is 4 points.
The result is similar to a
Rasmussen Reports poll
conducted Oct. 18 which had
Paul's lead at 47 percent to 42
percent, which was the closest
Conway had come in any of 13
match-ups that Rasmussen had
done between the two since the
beginning of the year.
Paul has a more positive image
among voters than Conway in the
Mason-Dixon poll. He is seen
favorably by 42 percent and
unfavorably by 37 percent with 21
percent putting themselves in the
neutral category. Conway is
viewed unfavorably by 35 percent
and favorably with 31 percent
with 33 percent describing
themselves as neutral.
While the number of undecideds
shows the race to still be fluid,
political analyst Larry Sabato told
the Lexington Herald-Leader,
"That's not a great majority of a
lead for Paul but I believe it's
almost impossible for a
conservative Republican to lose in
Kentucky this year."
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But of course Spitzer, a
Democrat, was also involved in a
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Windows Phone 7 Review: Once More, With Feeling
John Mahoney (Popular
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 6:00:19 PM
Home Screen The interface
consists of just two main screens:
This customizable field of "Live
Tiles" is your main home screen,
and you can stick a wide variety
of things there, from individual
contacts to app shortcuts to
dynamic widgety info-squares.
John Mahoney We've been using
the HTC Surround, one of the first
class of phones to launch running
Microsoft's fully revamped
mobile OS. Is it good enough to
forgive years of Windows Mobile
misery?
So there's this company called
Microsoft. Perhaps the name rings
a bell. Pretty good at software,
services, that kind of thing.
They've spent the last five years
getting absolutely obliterated on
the most important software
platform of our time: the mobile
phone. Just obliterated, as arch
competitors Google, Apple, even
Palm (Palm!) have whizzed past,
slipping the occasional kick in the
ribs to Windows Mobile 6.5,
laying in the gutter there.
Bleeding pretty badly.
But it seems as if the
hemorrhaging may have finally
stopped.
Click to launch the photo gallery
for a tour of Windows Phone 7
What's New
Pretty much everything.
Windows Phone 7 is an entirely
new OS, although you can trace
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core UI elements for most
smartphones, which are often at
odds.
Other choices are equally bold:
two primary home screens serve
as the only foundation; a militant
adherence to text over graphics to
convey choices; a new sense of
scale, where the screen can
always be swiped over to see
more. None of these things have
changed significantly in the
months since the initial rollout,
but for me, they made the jump
from concept to practical reality
with ease.
Performance: The HTC Surround
I used for testing has a now-
standard 1GHz chipset, and at no
point did I feel WP7 was too
much for it to handle. But setting
aside megahertz and megabytes,
it's often a poorly designed and
implemented interface that's
responsible for a feeling of
sluggishness in our gadgets. WP7
is designed with a certain fluidity-
-animated twirly flourishes when
you tap a tile; bounciness when
the notification drawer drops from
the top of the screen; a running
spark that trails across the length
of the screen as the standard "I'm
working on it" notification. The
its lineage back through the Zune A lot. While a bit rough around brave choice, when you think keyboard keeps up with quick
family. Just like Windows Mobile the edges, WP7 feels carefully about it. Even as some legacy touch-tapping. The whole thing
6.5 (and Android), it will be considered down to its core. computing metaphors start to slip feels quick.
available on a wide variety of Which is of immense importance. away or evolve--the file, the Integration of Services: And here
phones from different carriers Even in version 1.0, it does a lot desktop--icons have held fast. But we see where Microsoft can blow
w o r l d w i d e . W e t e s t e d t h e of things really, really well. WP7's "Live Tiles," after a brief, everyone out of the water. It's a
software on the HTC Surround, Creativity: Microsoft created an s o m e w h a t d i s o r i e n t i n g funny feeling, scrolling down the
coming to AT&T in November, exceptionally unique smartphone acclimation period, work really apps and realizing that yes, all of
but this review will focus mostly UI. Bye bye icons and faux three well. What's smart is they serve as
on the OS. What's Good dimensionality. That's a fairly both icons and widgets--the two WINDOWS page 74
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these apps and services were
created by the same company!
Together at last! Zune, Office,
Windows Live and Hotmail,
Xbox Live--all are pilars (or
"Hubs") of WP7--meta-apps for
certain activities that can hold
additional apps. And the main
third-party service focus here,
Facebook, is integrated quietly
but smartly. Status updates pop up
everywhere--not in your face, but
just a side-swipe away. All of
your contacts have their Facebook
photos associated. You can write
on people's walls, if that's your
thing, unobtrusively from the
contacts app. Individually, each
service could stand up to its own
mini-review, but overall, the
general integration is a resounding
success.
What's Bad
It's a first-run release of a major
mobile operating system. There
Will Be Bugs. And rough spots.
A Little too Creative: While I
love the interface for the most
part, there are parts of it that make
very little sense. With few if any
exceptions, an application's
settings are only found in the
universal "Settings" app. Valuable
information, like, say, your
current 3G reception or wi-fi
connectivity in the omnipresent
top status bar, are hidden unless
you tap for them. Stuff like that.
In some ways, this is good--
Microsoft picked a strict set of
rules for a UI, and they stuck with
them, at times militantly. Now it's
time to find a happy medium in
future versions.
Multitasking: Is handled
confusingly at best. Some apps
resume where you started, some
don't. Some emerge from a lock
screen where you left them, some
restart. Working through the
phone you have no sense of what's
running in the background, which
to some extent is a nice
simplicity, but on the other hand
is frustrating as hell.
Searchiness: The overall strategy
for sorting and handling lots of
information on WP7 doesn't go
too far beyond "search for it."
After importing from Google and
Facebook, my contact list was
gigantic. I regularly talk to maybe
eight percent of these people, and
to reach that eight percent, I
generally have to type a part of
their name into a search box. No
good.
Doubleplus ungood for finding
apps and other downloadables in
the Zune Marketplace. Searching
"Twitter" brings up every song,
album or video with Twitter in the
title in a massive unsorted list. I
still haven't found the good
Twitter app. Crazy.
Windows-Only For the Full,
Zuney Experience: Please,
Microsoft, bring Zune to the Mac.
There are a million reasons not to
do it, some of them potentially
dealbreakers, but with Apple
reporting today a 20% new-
consumer market share for the
year, that's 20% of people who
will use the stripped-down
Windows Phone 7 Connector app.
Zune isn't perfect, but Lord
knows, iTunes could use some
competition to blast it out of
complacency.
Oh yeah, The Phone
Sucks! HTC, usually known for
sleekness, has decided that a
gigantic slide-out speaker is
somehow a good idea with the
Surround. It adds a half-inch of
girth to the phone, at least, and
still sounds like a speaker inside a
phone. I can't tell you the
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disappointment I've witnessed
when someone holding this phone
for the first time pops the slider
and sees not a keyboard, but a
speaker grille. So, should you buy
the HTC Surround? Absolutely
not. Wait for sleeker hardware,
like the Samsung Focus, for your
WP7 purchase. The Price:
Probably around $200, probably
available sometime in November.
The Surround is one of five
phones dropping in the U.S. in the
next 30 days or so running
Windows Phone 7. The Verdict
We have a new contender in the
field of exciting smartphone
operating systems. With Apple's
OS X looking more like their
iPhone and iPad operating by the
day, it's not absurd to say that
mobile software is the only
software that matters today and
for the future. And the more
exciting players we have duking it
out, the better.
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Fermilab is Building a 'Holometer' to The “Angry Birds” Have

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Reality Is Just an Illusion Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:48:40 AM

Clay Dillow (Popular Science - dimension can't be perceived as will measure for noise or
New Technology, Science Rovio has launched a special
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what it would mean for the future
precise clock ever created. mathematics but short on hard might find out about the Unfortunately, this seasonal
of the Angry Birds franchise.
The universe-as-hologram theory d a t a . S o F e r m i l a b p a r t i c l e holographic nature of the update is available only for iOS
The latest release should dispel
is predicated on the idea that astrophysicist Craig Hogan and universe. devices.
any lurking doubts on that matter;
spacetime is not perfectly smooth, h i s t e a m a r e b u i l d i n g a So enjoy the third dimension Angry Birds Halloween in action:
Rovio is self-publishing the title
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and declaring it “will only make
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Video: The Insurance Industry's New
Disaster Lab Destroys A House
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 9:01:39 AM
On a rural spread of acreage in
South Carolina, insurance
companies are looking to cover
themselves against losses by
knocking down houses. That
might sound counterintuitive, but
from an engineering standpoint it
makes perfect sense. The industry
-funded Institute for Business &
Home Safety yesterday opened a
$40 million, 2,300-square-foot
disaster lab yesterday that is
among the best in the world, with
the ability to subject entire homes
to tornado-strength winds or
Category 3 hurricanes.
The idea is to put standard
construction practices and
building codes to the test, creating
real-world catastrophes within the
confines of the facility. One wall
contains 105 giant fans that can
simulate extreme winds (they
cranked gusts up to 96 miles per
hour yesterday), and a 750,000-
gallon water tank can introduce
water to that mix, simulating
tropical storm and hurricane
conditions.
Related Articles What Is The
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Could Befall Earth? Disaster City:
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and-Rescue Training Facility
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Mysteries of Hurricane Formation
Tags Science, Clay Dillow,
architecture, engineering,
hurricanes, insurance industry,
natural disasters, tornadoes For
such a large, powerful scientific
instrument, the science that will
take place here is surprisingly
simple. Build two houses to
different standards and set them
side-by-side in the hangar-like
space. Flip the switch. See which
one is still standing post-tempest.
A large hurricane simulation costs
about $100,000 to conduct, but
given the fact that a Category 3
storm can render damages in the
tens or even hundreds of millions,
it's a small price to pay to make
sure it knows exactly how sturdy
the buildings that insurers cover.
Call it insurance for the insurers,
who together hold policies on $9
trillion worth of property exposed
to hurricane risk alone.
And how better to inaugurate a
giant destroyer of buildings than
by destroying some buildings?
The IBHS fired up its facility for
media yesterday, putting a
conventional house next to one
fortified with about $5,000 extra
dollars worth of improvements. In
96-mph winds, the conventional
house was ripped from its
foundation and smashed in just
minutes. But you don't want to
read about it. Witness the
destruction below.
[ WSJ, Bloomberg Businessweek
via Discovery]
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Video: Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures its

First Solar Eclipse
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 10:10:39 AM
The SDO's Solar Eclipse NASA/
SDO
Your mom probably told you not
to stare directly at the sun, but
images like this one are hard to
ignore. Captured by NASA's
Solar Dynamics Observatory
(SDO) back on October 7, the
image shows the moon passing
between the observatory and the
sun, marking the first time SDO
has witnessed a lunar transit. aboard SDO. That helps them to
From its position in correct any problems with the
geosynchronous orbit, the SDO observatory and improves the
keeps a steady eye on the sun, quality of the data SDO gathers.
observing solar variations and the As if the still image wasn't
space weather they spawn impact enough, SDO researchers also
conditions on Earth. In this case, strung together the video clip
SDO was observing the sun in a below for your viewing pleasure.
high ultraviolet wavelength, hence Just don't stare at it too long; you
the electric yellow hue. Though might go blind.
the images of the partial solar [ SDO]
eclipse are beautiful, they also researchers on the ground with
have an important research i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t t h e
function. Having an object pass in characteristics of the instruments
front of the sun like that provides

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finished collecting candy, when Filling the house with family,
Answer the knock on the door all the adults and kids in the friends, neighbors, and delicious
with a special dinner for trick-or- neighborhood gathered at one smells of spiced cider and
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:00 AM major muscles, then the minor One side or portion of your body
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NPR fires Williams over
Muslim fears
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 6:14:14 AM
Late last night, NPR fired senior
news analyst Juan Williams. On
Fox News’ “The O’Reilly
Factor,” where he also
contributes, there was a
discussion about something that
had happened on “The View” the
previous week. Apparently
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar
flipped out when guest O’Reilly
said that “Muslims” had
perpetrated the terrorist attacks on
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Monday. On the show, the host,
Bill O’Reilly, asked him to
respond to the notion that the
United States was facing a
“Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly
said, “The cold truth is that in the
world today jihad, aided and
abetted by some Muslim nations,
is the biggest threat on the
planet.”
Mr. Williams said he concurred
with Mr. O’Reilly.
He continued: “I mean, look,
Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know
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the kind of books I’ve written
about the civil rights movement in
this country. But when I get on
the plane, I got to tell you, if I see
people who are in Muslim garb
and I think, you know, they are
identifying themselves first and
foremost as Muslims, I get
worried. I get nervous.”
Mr. Williams also made
reference to the Pakistani
immigrant who pleaded guilty this
month to trying to plant a car
bomb in Times Square. “He said
the war with Muslims, America’s
war is just beginning, first drop of
blood. I don’t think there’s any
way to get away from these
facts,” Mr. Williams said.
NPR said in its statement that the
remarks “were inconsistent with
our editorial standards and
practices, and undermined his
credibility as a news analyst with
NPR.”
The write-up is great and even
includes a bit of analysis,
although perhaps Williams’
statement about addressing reality
should also have been mentioned:
I think, look, political correctness
can lead to some kind of paralysis
where you don’t address reality.
Certainly NPR hadn’t been happy
with him for a while,
reprimanding him, as The Times
notes, for mentioning his actual
title (senior news analyst, NPR)
outside of NPR. This may have
been the excuse they needed to
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NPR
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get rid of him.
Speaking of reality, Williams did
not get in trouble for attempting to
tie Timothy McVeigh’s irreligious
terrorism to Christianity. In fact,
NPR Media Correspondent David
Folkenflik tweeted:
Williams also warned Fox host
Bill O’Reilly agst blaming all
Muslims for “extremists,” saying
Christians shouldn’t be blamed
for Tim McVeigh
It is true that Christians shouldn’t
be blamed for McVeigh. Mostly
that’s because McVeigh didn’t
consider himself a Christian—
self-identifying instead as
agnostic. It’s a common error, but
an error none-the-less. Apparently
Folkenflik and many other media
bigwigs, such as Newsweek editor
Jon Meacham, are unaware of this
basic fact. In fact, NPR’s Michel
Martin was the last big media type
to tar Christians with the Timothy
McVeigh terrorism. Perhaps when
NPR does its next round of
sensitivity training, the network’s
leaders might encourage their
journalists to get their facts
straight on that one.
Anyway, what do you think we’ll
see in next-day stories? I assume
most newsrooms have their series
of Muslim response stories lined
up already.
What else? A newsroom-wide
polygraph to ensure that
newsrooms are free of anyone
who worries about Muslim
terrorism on planes? A look at
some of the hate speech that NPR
approves of? An honest
discussion of the role religion
plays in Muslim terrorism? A
collection of denunciations of
Williams? A discussion of
whether NPR’s status as a
taxpayer-funded entity plays a
role in Williams’ firing? A
discussion of when it’s
inappropriate to reveal fears?
Somehow I think we might see a
few “history of bias against
Muslim”-type stories. All I hope
for is a solid fashion-based
discussion of “Muslim garb.”
Well, that and a good treatment of
stigma and its use and overuse in
reining in bigotry.
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg
weighed in with a look at recent
firings of journalists Helen
Thomas and CNN’s Octavia Nasr.
He wonders if media outlets
aren’t getting too touchy in some
cases.
No, not Helen’s. He says it
appears that Williams was fired
for no particularly good reason.
He looks at the reality of travel-
related violence committed or
attempted by Muslim men in
recent years. He points out,
however, that the terrorists aren’t
known for dressing in “Muslim
garb.”
These last two statements seem to
be a good avenue for further
discussion in a news story. Why
don’t you throw out your story
suggestions. What are the
important religion angles to
include in this story? Extra points
for how to make those “Muslim
response to Williams” stories less
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The U.S.’s Disorganized
Retreat
#ad#NATO, the most successful
Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:56 AM
alliance in world history, the
Out of Iraq, Afghanistan — and p r i n c i p a l e n f o r c e r o f t h e
the rest of the world. containment strategy against the
E ach week, the world visibly Soviet Union and the Warsaw
evolves toward a multipolar Pact until those brutal confections
system, slowly devising new of Lenin and Stalin imploded, is
arrangements as traditional in a state of thorough disarray.
multinational structures atrophy. After the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the
The United Nations is now an alliance rallied magnificently and,
almost universal joke. The annual for the first time in its history,
General Assembly meetings are invoked the provision in the
not the draw they were, and the charter that “an attack upon one is
most publicized appearances are an attack upon all.” It was a
by lunatics, such as Ahmadinejad tremendous manifestation of
or Gaddafi. Dag Hammarskjöld support for America following
and U Thant were among the most i m m e d i a t e l y u p o n t h o s e
famous men in the world when monstrous outrages. Suspecting,
they were secretary general of the perhaps not entirely without
U.N.; even Boutros Boutros-Ghali reason, that part of the motive
was taken somewhat seriously. behind this unexampled solidarity
Ban Ki-moon is a trivia question. was a desire to influence, i.e.
Despite the supposed cleanup moderate, America’s response to
after the oil-for-food disaster the attacks, the George W. Bush
under Kofi Annan, in which administration largely ignored
Saddam Hussein perfected the art NATO and led the Alliance into
of draping the world body in Afghanistan, chased out the
ridicule and infamy, it is still a Taliban regime of Mullah Omar,
c o r r u p t s h a m b l e s , a n d t h e which had happily tolerated the
peacekeeping operations, once the presence of Osama bin Laden and
stuff of vast hopes and pious al-Qaeda in the country, and left
intentions, is mainly a hard- NATO in Afghanistan with an
currency-raising wheeze for i n d e f i n i t e m i s s i o n , m i l l i n g
contributing countries, who rent around, supposedly assisting in
out their forces to the faction- the pacification of the country.
heads they are supposed to be In fact, the NATO contingents
pacifying and have the effect, as were left in charge of different
in the Congo -- the largest areas, thoroughly undermanned
peacekeeping operation, involving and largely uncoordinated. It
nearly 30,000 peacekeepers -- of became a game of skill to opt for
escalating and brutalizing the U.S.’S page 81
internecine conflict.
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U.S.’S
continued from page 80
a region and engagement strategy
that ensured the least casualties.
The British, Dutch, and
Canadians, along with the
Americans, encountered the
enemy from time to time,
incurring hundreds of dead, but
the French and some others
hunkered down with a rather
unambitious occupation plan. The
ostensibly legal government, the
beneficiary of a completely
discredited election, is a sinkhole
of corruption that has alienated
some public opinion to the benefit
of the honest but fanatical and
otherwise detested Taliban.
#page#
For seven years, the Bush
administration was played for a
chump by the Musharraf regime
in Pakistan, which pocketed
billions of dollars of aid and
pledged support against the
terrorists, but encouraged large
factions of them in Afghanistan
and gave them shelter in North-
West Pakistan. Pakistan, it now
emerges, was intimately involved
in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai,
and is well aware of bin Laden’s
presence within Pakistan -- not, as
was comfortably assumed, hiding
for his life in a dank cave, but in a
well-appointed house in
Waziristan.
President Zardari of Pakistan has
been threatened by the
commander of the army, General
Kayani, and by the supreme court,
if he does not purge ministers who
looted aid money after the
catastrophic floods that left nearly
30 million people homeless. (The
aid was also distributed in a
manner that discriminated against
Christian victims, a considerable
irritant to the primarily Christian
countries, including the United
States, that donated most of the
assistance.) General Kayani is
leading a high-level delegation to
Washington this week to finalize
the strategic alliance with the
U.S., including $7.5 billion of
assistance, and these ambiguities
will be raised. The special
representative for the area,
Richard Holbrooke, is certainly
well qualified by temperament
and experience to try to make
some sense out of this Byzantine
double-dealing, but the prospects
are unclear.
#ad#President Obama’s early
determination not to be fleeced by
the Pakistanis as his predecessor
was, and not to spend a trillion
dollars and stay indefinitely in
Afghanistan, is commendable.
The Afghanistan commander,
General Petraeus, is a skilled
negotiator with factional and
tribal chieftains, and presumably
has a more textured and nuanced
plan of action than did his
predecessor, General McChrystal,
who was disembarked from the
armed forces in a quick march
after his astonishing interview
with Rolling Stone. General
Petraeus is assisting in talks with
the Taliban toward a settlement
with the government of President
Karzai, who threatened
collaboration with the Taliban
when American pressures for a
government cleanup became
seriously purposeful, early this
year. Since President Obama has
pledged to start leaving next year,
though he is already trying to
finesse that, it is not clear to me
what incentive the Taliban feels it
has to negotiate anything, at least
with any level of good faith,
especially with continuing support
from Pakistan.
In Iraq, eight months after an
election he apparently lost, Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems to
have secured a workable coalition
by making a pilgrimage to Iran
and enduring, with no visible
discomfort, a lecture from
Ayatollah Khamenei -- whose
iron-fisted dictatorship, executed
through the buffoon
Ahmadinejad, becomes more
brutal and brazen every week --
about how Iraq must rid itself of
the Americans. It is not obvious
what sort of regime may durably
emerge in Iraq after the
Americans have left, but it is
becoming steadily more doubtful
that it will bear much resemblance
to anything the 4,000 Americans
who died there thought they were
trying to establish.
#page#
It appears that the U.S. is
departing the region fairly soon,
undefeated to be sure, and
unencumbered with a debacle like
Vietnam or the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan, but without having
durably accomplished much, and,
despite the execution of Saddam
Hussein, particularly without
having given a believable
cautionary warning to
mischievous regimes. All
indications are that Iran will be a
nuclear military power, and bin
Laden will still be cutting mouthy
videos from his exurban lodgings
in Waziristan. It is not clear what
the point of it all will have been.
Saddam managed to portray
President Bush Sr.’s thrashing of
him in the Gulf War as a victory;
the terrorists may be expected to
do the same now.
#ad#NATO, since its rally to the
Stars and Stripes after 9/11, went
through the burlesque of “the
coalition of the willing,” which
meant enthusiastic adherence
from Britain and Australia and
token forces from a ragged
collection of other states
preoccupied with American
goodwill, to its present phase
where every member country or
pair of countries takes its own
initiative. In NATO’s traditional
European stamping grounds, the
French and Russian presidents
(Sarkozy and Medvedev) and
German chancellor Merkel have
been meeting off-season in the
gambling and horse-racing resort
of Deauville in what is loudly and
believably proclaimed not to be
an anti-American session,
discussing the integration of
Russian and NATO defenses
opposite rogue nuclear states,
especially Iran and North Korea.
Russia vehemently opposed the
Bush administration’s plan for an
anti-missile defense against Iran,
since reduced to a ship-borne
system, and is now interested in
joining it on the usual Euro-
American basis: U.S. technology
and military hardware to protect
the Europeans.
The Turks are now proclaiming
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their vocation for a shared
security interest with Iran,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and
are gratuitously picking
arguments with Israel. Prime
Minister Netanyahu’s interception
of the Gaza flotilla, though
imperfectly executed, looks better
every day, and Israel is
conducting joint military
maneuvers with Turkey’s ancient
bugbear, the Greeks, offering a
new forum for the endless
squabbles of these old enemies
and ostensible NATO allies.
#page#
The well-respected former
Spanish prime minister José
Maria Aznar opined last week that
President Obama has less interest
in Europe than any of his
predecessors. It is a potentially
hotly contestable question how
Euro-oriented Millard Fillmore
and Franklin Pierce were, but the
ineluctable fact is that the U.S.
will not be strong in the world
until it has eliminated its immense
budgetary and current-account
deficits, which means drastically
reducing its oil imports, and has
deployable armed forces
appropriate to the defense of its
interests. Europe is painfully,
slowly imposing austerity and
stepping back from the fool’s
paradise of having less than 40
percent of its population working
to support the rest, and replacing
the unborn with unassimilable,
largely Muslim, immigrants.
Chancellor Merkel last week
declared multiculturalism a
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Hero of Our Time

David Solway (FrontPage perpetrated by France 2 TV. world opinion and issued a
Magazine » FrontPage) Karsenty, deputy mayor of hurried apology. But there was a
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:10:39 PM Neuilly-sur-Seine and director of serious problem with the
the Paris-based analysis firm universally accepted transcript of
In 1839, the Russian novelist Media-Ratings, has become justly the “firefight.” The only
Mikhail Lermontov published A celebrated as the man who single- significant “shooting” was done
Hero of our Time, the tale of a handedly defied the entire French by the camera crew.
melancholy romantic by the name media, political establishment and It was soon revealed that France
of Grigory Pechorin. In the intellectual synod which closed 2 TV possessed 27 minutes of
preface to the book, Lermontov ranks to defend the official tape but released only 59 seconds
explains that his protagonist is “a version of what happened on worth of material. Enderlin, who
portrait, but not of one man. It is a September 30, 2000 at the was not present at the Netzarim
portrait built up of our own Netzarim junction in Gaza. The shootout but justified his
generation’s vices.” Pechorin is episode and its aftermath are by reportage by saying that “the
presented as a self-indulgent this time widely known, but a image corresponded to the reality
cynic, prone to bouts of dejection, brief recapitulation would not be of the situation,” insisted that
w o r l d - w e a r i n e s s a n d p r e - out of place. portions of the film were too
Existential nihilism. “What do I Jamal al-Dura, a native of Gaza, painful to reveal, enabling him to
expect from the future?” he asks, a n d h i s 1 2 - y e a r - o l d s o n bury the outtakes. This, of course,
and replies, “nothing at all.” Mohammad, were filmed rendered him complicit in what
It was my great privilege to meet supposedly caught in a crossfire became a worldwide campaign of
recently another kind of “hero of between Palestinian operatives slander and disinformation, a
our time,” one who has nothing in a n d I s r a e l i s o l d i e r s a t t h e modern blood libel in everything
common with Pechorin with Netzarim junction, approximately but name. A subsequent
whom he differs in two crucial five kilometers from Gaza City. investigation conducted by the
ways. To begin with, he most According to Israeli-French Israeli Defense Force arrived at
certainly is not a representative journalist Charles Enderlin, the conclusion that Israeli fire,
figure of our pusillanimous epoch F r a n c e 2 T V ’ s J e r u s a l e m coming from an oblique position,
but a singular presence, very correspondent who edited and could not have produced the
much in the courageous mold of n a r r a t e d t h e c l i p , a n d h i s round bullet holes that pocked the
Geert Wilders, who holds the era cameraman Talal Abu Rhama wall against which the al-Duras
to account. And secondly, there is who bore witness to the event, the hagiography. issued throughout the Islamic were crouching. A forensic team
nothing of the cynic about him; on Israelis deliberately targeted the Indeed, it did not take long before world, monuments were erected, from Germany, which examined
the contrary, he is a man notable two victims for a full forty-five P a l e s t i n i a n n a t i o n a l p o e t the Second Intifada which had the evidence in March 2002, went
for his sense of justice, crusading minutes, wounding the father and Mahmoud Darwish published his only just begun took on a second one better, determining from
energy, and his belief in the killing the son. An expurgated Requiem for Muhammad al-Dura, wind, journalist Daniel Pearl was angles and trajectories that the
eventual triumph of the truth—a version of the film circulated a piece of versified hogwash beheaded in revenge and Israeli soldiers manning the Israeli
man who expects everything from a r o u n d t h e g l o b e , a n d t h e which became an instant hit and citizens were murdered in the outpost could not possibly have
the future. international media, with scarcely continues to this day to resonate. streets by Palestinian suicide shot the al-Duras, at least not in
I ’ m s p e a k i n g o f P h i l i p p e an exception, condemned the “Mohammad,” Darwish writes, bombers. No one doubted the our familiar Euclidean world
Karsenty, who delivered a talk in Israelis as child killers. With the “hunters are gunning down official story of Israeli barbarism d o m i n a t e d b y t h e l a w s o f
Montreal on October 13 of this collusion of the Western press, the angels, and the only witness/is a and Palestinian innocence. Even g e o m e t r y a n d b a l l i s t i c s .
year dealing with the infamous Palestinians had invented yet camera’s eye…” Postage stamps the Israeli political and military
M o h a m m a d a l - D u r a h o a x another martyr to grace their faux commemorating the event were establishment did not contest HERO page 90
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Buckeye Red
Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:34 AM
Ohio’s congressional delegation
will soon go GOP.
W hen Barack Obama swept
Ohio just a short two years ago,
he brought with him a new crop
of fresh-faced, allegedly reformist
Democrats with an independent
streak and a penchant for taking
on the powers that be. Democrats
openly celebrated, speculating as
to whether Ohio might become
another Illinois, while Gov. Ted
Strickland, then one of the most
popular governors in the country,
looked nigh unbeatable in 2010.
And with the announcement of
the retirement of moderate
Republican senator George
Voinovich, liberals gleefully
wondered if Ohio was poised only
to get worse for the GOP.
It wasn’t. Flash forward to now,
and not only is the once-popular
Strickland locked in the electoral
fight of his life, but Voinovich’s
seat has been virtually locked up
by former congressman Rob
Portman, who now regularly posts
leads of over 20 points against the
aimless and saccharine Lee
Fisher. But perhaps the most
dramatic shift will come in Ohio’s
House elections, where fully a
third of the 18-seat Ohio
delegation is either likely to flip,
genuinely impossible to call, or
vulnerable despite a persistent
Democratic leaning, according to
the model developed by Nate
Silver. To make matters worse for
the Democrats, two candidates
who in any other year would be
seen as untouchable -- Marcy
Kaptur in the 9th district and
Dennis Kucinich in the 10th--
have been spotted by national
commentators as outside chances
for a pickup. At best, Democrats
will lose only two seats; at worst,
they could lose as many as six,
seven, or even eight.
#ad#The two races where
Democrats can be said to have not
only lost, but already surrendered,
are Ohio’s 15th district, currently
held by freshman Democrat Mary
Jo Kilroy, and its 1st district,
currently held by freshman
Democrat Steve Driehaus. In both
races, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign
Committee (DCCC) has either
refused to spend money at all or
spent only a pittance, with Hotline
On Call reporting that Kilroy
received absolutely no money
from the DCCC, according to this
Tuesday’s FEC filings, whereas
Driehaus received the scant
amount of $30,000.
It’s not difficult to see why these
two Democrats should be the first
to drop. Kilroy, whose left-wing
past associations and insincere
disavowals thereof never made
her a particularly good fit for her
purple district, is now locked in a
tight race against her 2008
opponent, the moderately
conservative Steve Stivers. With
no party support behind her,
Kilroy has tried squeezing support
from her allies in the unions by
running a deeply loyalist, class-
warfare-oriented campaign that
can only be described as being
motivated by the fear that
someone, somewhere, might be
making more than the minimum
wage. Having no record of party
apostasy at all, even at points
where it would be demanded of an
intellectually consistent
representative, all Kilroy has to
run on is how icky Steve Stivers’s
previous career as a lobbyist is.
Polls show that it’s not
convincing her constituency, as
the most recent poll in the district
gives Stivers a nine-point lead.
Driehaus, on the other hand, has
tried to distance himself from his
party — rhetorically, if not in
substance. Unfortunately, his
record belies this strategy, a fact
with which Driehaus has not
always coped gracefully. After the
Susan B. Anthony List put up
billboards and did a bus tour
correctly pointing out that
Driehaus had voted for a health-
care bill that included public
funding for abortions, Driehaus
first channeled Nancy Pelosi by
accusing the SBA List of
spreading“a campaign of fear and
misinformation” and then suing to
get the billboards taken down, an
attempt at muzzling inconvenient
political speech so blatant that
even the left-leaning ACLU has
come out against it. None of
Driehaus’s tactics have done
anything to stop the bleeding, as
most polls show him losing to his
predecessor, Steve Chabot, by
double digits.
#page#
Still, in an election cycle as right-
leaning as that of 2010, Kilroy
and Driehaus were always going
to be seen as vulnerable, at the
very least. Where the GOP’s
advantage begins to show is in the
races that it has managed to make
competitive despite a history of
victories by attractive Democratic
representatives. The two examples
that stick out most are sophomore
incumbent Democrat Zack Space
of the 18th district and veteran
congressman Charlie Wilson of
the 6th. Space, whose race is
ranked as a toss-up by Nate
Silver, was until recently seen as
one “local factor” who could
block the insurgent GOP tsunami,
with the Washington Examiner’s
Chris Carney described him as
“charismatic, likable, and skilled
at constituent services.” It is
perhaps for this reason that the
genuine blue-dog Space (who is
fond of reminding constituents
that he has the backing of the
National Rifle Association and
voted against Obamacare) is
considered to be first in the
GOP’s crosshairs where Ohio is
concerned. That Space is
vulnerable at all is a testament to
GOP persistence, but how the race
will end up is anyone’s guess, as
polling has been scant, with only
one poll (done by a Republican-
leaning firm) showing the race a
dead heat.
#ad#Charlie Wilson, meanwhile,
was seen as safe until recent
revelations of his history of
spousal abuse and increased
support from the national GOP for
his opponent, Bill Johnson (who
holds one of the coveted spots on
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the GOP’s “Young Guns” list)
forced his race into what was, for
Wilson, an unwanted spotlight.
Johnson, whose aides told NRO
back in September that his
strategy was to run as the “generic
Republican” whom anti-Wilson
voters could support with minimal
knowledge of his record, is an
attractive candidate on his own:
He has a record of successful
grassroots activism for lower
taxes, and served over 20 years in
the Air Force. Nate Silver
currently ranks the race as “leans
Democratic,” but polls are
inconclusive, given the
deliberately low-profile strategy
Johnson has been using.
But perhaps the biggest wild card
of this year’s election cycle in
Ohio is the infamously
acrimonious race in the 16th
district, where freshman
Democrat John Boccieri, the first
Democrat to represent the district
in half a century, is in the fight of
his life against successful local
businessman Jim Renacci. While
Renacci led Boccieri by double
digits as recently as August, and
is still given a 79 percent chance
of winning by Nate Silver, recent
polls have shown the race
tightening down to a three-point
lead for Renacci. Whether this is
the result of Boccieri’s native
likability or just raw voter
cynicism in the face of the heavily
negative campaign run by both
candidates is anyone’s guess.
Given the national anti-incumbent
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Reviving New Mexico
Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:33 AM
Gubernatorial candidate Susana
Martinez hopes to balance the
budget, fight corruption, and
reform education.
N ew Mexico may be dubbed the
Land of Enchantment, but for
current residents, the reality on
the ground is far from magical.
Unemployment, while lower than
national average, is 8.3 percent.
State-government officials have
been embroiled in a series of
corruption scandals. And in
education, the situation is dismal:
Math and reading scores lag
significantly behind the national
averages, while the state has the
third-worst high-school-
graduation rate in the nation.
Enter Susana Martinez, the
Republican gubernatorial
candidate. Martinez, who has
been a prosecutor for over two
decades, is working to convince
New Mexico voters that she’s the
right person to make the difficult
decisions the state faces. So far,
voters appear convinced: The
RealClearPolitics average of
recent polls shows Martinez with
a nine-point lead over Democrat
Diane Denish.
“They see in her . . . the
combination of the right
characteristics that make her
believable as an outsider, a
reformer, as someone who can
make the tough choices,” says
Republican state senator Rod
Adair. He adds that Martinez has
a “Chris Christie kind of dynamic
going for her,” a reference to New
Jersey’s Republican governor,
who has garnered acclaim for his
budget-slashing reforms.
Martinez certainly has plenty of
ideas about how to solve New
Mexico’s problems. “The first
thing we have to do is balance the
budget,” she says. New Mexico is
facing a $260 million budget
shortfall next year; to close the
gap, Martinez wants to cut
spending and prohibit growth in
all state agencies. At the same
time, she wants to put people back
to work by decreasing small-
business taxes. “We’ve just got to
get away from that heavy tax
burden New Mexicans are
experiencing,” she remarks.
Martinez is also determined to
battle corruption. “We are one of
the most corrupt states in the
nation, and everything is impacted
by that corruption, from the
overspending to the deficit we’re
experiencing,” she says, adding
that the corruption has created an
“unpredictable environment” for
business. Martinez plans to tackle
it “head on,” advocating measures
that would mandate the
prosecution of corrupt elected
officials, require prison sentences
for those convicted, and ban
administration staffers from
becoming lobbyists for two years
after leaving government work.
She’s also thought about
education extensively, notes
Harvey Yates, chairman of New
Mexico’s Republican party. “She
has been very attentive to success
in some other states, such as
Florida, which have
comparatively done so much
better than New Mexico, even
though they have similar
[demographics],” he says.
If elected, Martinez’s biggest
challenge may be to win over
Democrats. New Mexico’s senate
and house have been controlled
by Democrats since 1933, with
the exception of one two-year
period in the ’50s, and this
election isn’t expected to change
that. In order to push through her
reform plans, Martinez will need
some crossover votes.
“I really think the legislators are
going to start to pull together,”
Martinez says. “They’re hungry to
start doing the right thing and
resolve the deficit.” She adds that
“voters are holding them
accountable” and that legislators
who don’t participate in finding
solutions “are going to get
replaced.”
“I think you’ll have a more
circumspect Democrat majority in
the legislature if Susana Martinez
wins this, and wins it
convincingly,” agrees Adair. “I
don’t think they’re going to say,
‘Okay, we can just obstruct.’”
Martinez, who has won four
elections for district attorney in a
county where Democrats
outnumber Republicans three to
one, is well situated to appeal
across the aisle. Currently, she’s
supported by 27 percent of
Democrats, according to a mid-
October SurveyUSA poll. And as
a former Democrat herself -- she
switched parties in 1995 after a
conversation with friends
convinced her that her views
aligned more closely with those of
the GOP -- Martinez knows how
to communicate her positions. She
says she’s “opened up . . . a
dialogue,” and that her state’s
Democrats are more willing to
vote Republican than they have
been in the past.
But don’t expect New Mexico to
become the next Tea Party
stronghold. Martinez’s strong lead
over Denish is almost certainly
due in part to New Mexico voters’
disgust with outgoing governor
Bill Richardson, who has a
disapproval rating of 62 percent.
Denish, who served as the state’s
lieutenant governor during the
eight years Richardson was in
office, has struggled to distance
herself from the administration.
Richardson’s unpopularity stems
partly from a year-long federal
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investigation into whether he had
participated in a pay-to-play
scheme. Although federal
authorities ultimately decided not
to file charges, the issue has
tainted him in voters’ minds. And
while Yates thinks there’s
“something of a revolt among the
more socially conservative folks
in the Democrat party against
control by the progressives,” that
could signify a future with a more
right-leaning Democratic party
rather than a Republican
resurgence.
None of this has made Martinez
adopt left-leaning positions. On
her site, she is frank about her pro
-life views, support for smaller
government and reduced taxes,
and interest in promoting border
security, including through
repealing a law that grants illegal
immigrants driver licenses.
Instead, she’s relying on her
ability to sell conservative ideas
by focusing on how they can
solve societal problems.
Talking about Martinez’s views
on immigration, Yates remarks,
“She’s a no-nonsense lady.” If she
can maintain that approach and
achieve the reforms the state
badly needs, New Mexico just
might be on its way to revival.
— Katrina Trinko writes for
National Review Online’s Battle
’10 blog. Katrina Trinko
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Talk to the Taliban?

Submitted at 10/21/2010 3:00:24 AM
occurred in 1842: The British had Petraeus a latter-day Elphinstone. presidential adviser told me that
occupied Kabul to prop up Shah This is an unfair comparison, but, “suggesting the Taliban represent
This U.S. policy is seriously Shuja Durrani, a weak but in Afghanistan, perception trumps Pushtun is akin to saying Pol Pot
misguided. compliant ruler. Facing an reality. Indeed, even our allies represents Cambodians.” Indeed,
W ith the war in Afghanistan i n s u r g e n c y w a g e d b y D o s t embrace the narrative. In the America’s Afghan allies worry
now in its tenth year and both Muhammad, the ruler whom the Ministry of Defense, Minister that Karzai, himself a former The Grozny Suicide
security and public support at British helped unseat, British Abdul Rahim Wardak has hung a Taliban official, will sacrifice
t h e i r n a d i r , d i p l o m a t s a n d officials decided to negotiate their painting depicting Britain’s 1842 them on the altar of appeasement.
Attack: Violence in North
generals in both Washington and way out of the conflict. Promised defeat. “Once again, America rewards its Caucasus Undermines the
Kabul focus increasingly on free passage by his insurgent More recent history matters as enemies at the expense of its Pro-Kremlin Ruler
reconciliation with the Taliban as interlocutors, Gen. William well. During the Clinton allies,” a former cabinet member Ariel Cohen (The Foundry:
t h e k e y t o s t a b i l i t y a n d Elphinstone led the British administration, U.S. officials met complained. Conservative Policy News.)
withdrawal. Engagement with column out of Kabul. There with the Taliban more than 30 There is similar skepticism in
e n e m i e s r e m a i n s P r e s i d e n t followed Great Britain’s worst times. The Taliban promised Islamabad. A retired Pakistani Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:00:07 AM

Obama’s wonder drug. Outlining defeat in history, at least until repeatedly to close terror-training intelligence officer dismissed
his Afghanistan strategy last Singapore’s fall a century later. Posted October 21st, 2010 at
camps. They played American Karzai’s reconciliation councils as
December, Obama declared, “We Legend has it that, of the 16,000 12:00pm in American Leadership
officials like fiddles, always a show for Western consumption.
will support efforts by the Afghan British men, women, and children Print This Post
telling interlocutors what they Pakistani officials also said it is
government to open the door to who left Kabul, only one -- The suicide bomber attack on the
wanted to hear. Now-declassified naïve to believe money motivates
those Taliban who abandon surgeon William Brydon -- Chechen Parliament in Grozny
records show that the State the Taliban. Western pragmatism
violence and respect the human arrived in Jalalabad. Tuesday morning cast further
Department embraced the success does not work when faced with an
rights of their fellow citizens.” In Afghanistan, history is alive. doubt on the Russian leadership’s
of its engagement almost up to the ideological army convinced it is
Behind the scenes, both British More than a litany of names and declarations that the strategic
first strike on the Twin Towers. on the verge of a historic victory.
and American officials have dates, history is a narrative North Caucasus region, Russia’s
Today, the American push to Diplomacy may be a tool in the
encouraged talks between the through which ordinary people soft underbelly, is stabilizing.
engage the Taliban is based on the American arsenal, but
Afghan government and the interpret current events. The More trouble is in stock for
falsehood that the Taliban engagement is not cost-free.
Taliban. Gen. David Petraeus, B r i t i s h m a y p r o m o t e t h e i r Moscow and her South Caucasus
represent the Pushtun, Reconciliation can work, but only
commander of U.S. forces in e n g a g e m e n t w i t h t h e I r i s h neighbors (Georgia, Armenia and
Afghanistan’s largest ethnic after a decisive Taliban defeat:
Afghanistan, acknowledged on Republican Army as a model, and Azerbaijan), as the violence in
group. True, Afghan Taliban may The only path to victory -- and
October 15 that U.S. forces have Petraeus may see his engagement Chechnya, Daghestan and
be Pushtun, but not all Pushtun U.S. security -- is to defeat the
given Taliban safe passage to with Iraqi Sunni insurgents as an elsewhere escalates.
are Taliban. At Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership, wherever they
peace talks in Kabul. As General unbridled success, but both According to Al-Jazeera, six
foreign ministry, I heard fury at may be. Talking to the Taliban
Petraeus explained, “We support narratives are as foreign as sushi people were killed and 10 were
Special Representative Richard now is not an exit strategy; it is at
that [dialogue], as we did in Iraq, in the mountains of eastern wounded Tuesday morning during
Holbrooke for his suggestion that best a diversion, and at worst a
as the United Kingdom did in Afghanistan. It is Afghan history an assault on Chechnya’s
cutting off a woman’s nose was strategy for defeat.
Northern Ireland. This is the way t h a t m a t t e r s . A s O b a m a parliament, a symbol of Russia-
simply a Pushtun cultural -- Michael Rubin, a resident
you end insurgencies.” backed power. Chechnya is ruled
encourages dialogue with the practice. Likewise, Afghan scholar at the American
#ad#Afghanistan, however, is Taliban, we cast Afghan president by 34 year-old Ramzan Kadyrov,
Pushtun resent former Bush- Enterprise Institute, recently
neither Iraq nor Ireland. It may be Hamid Karzai as Shah Shuja. a pro-Kremlin strongman.
administration official Robert returned from Afghanistan and
used to war, but it is also no Mullah Omar already describes The attack began when a suicide
Blackwill’s proposal to partition Pakistan. Michael Rubin
stranger to negotiation. The most h i m s e l f a s a n e w D o s t bomber exploded himself outside
Afghanistan, handing Pushtun
infamous example of engagement Muhammad. That makes General of the parliament building, while
areas to the Taliban. A former
gunmen shot their way in, killing
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Rules for Radical Conservatives
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:09:08 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Michael Walsh, the
founding editor of
BigJournalism.com, the former
music critic of Time Magazine,
and the author of eleven books,
including Hostile Intent and the
recently published Early
Warning(Pinnacle Books).
Writing as “David Kahane,” he
has just published Rules for
Radical Conservatives: Beating
the Left at Its Own Game to Take
Back America. (Ballantine).
FP: Michael Walsh, welcome to
Frontpage Interview.
Let’s begin with what inspired
you to write this book.
Walsh: Like most conservatives,
I was tired of seeing the Right get
smacked around all the time by
the Left, and never fighting back.
Even though Bush was not a true
conservative, it was still
exasperating watching him turn
into a piñata that the Left could
gleefully batter with absolutely no
fear of reprisal. Rules for Radical
Conservatives is payback time.
Fortunately, I knew just the man
to take on the job: my alter-ego,
“David Kahane,” who’s been
writing in the pages of National
Review Online for the past three
years. “Kahane” is a dyed-in-the-
red-diaper baby who seeks to
explain the way of Hollywood
and the Left to the whiny losers
on the Right, but even he had had
enough: Rules(the sulfuric
evocation of Alinsky is entirely
intentional) is, as Ann Coulter
says, “the manual for the counter-
revolution.”
FP: So, in your view, why
doesn’t the Right know how to
fight?
Walsh: Because it plays by the
wrong rules. Politics, especially as
practiced by the hard Left since
the 1960s, is not a place for
turning the other cheek. The
Right foolishly believes that
because its principles are better
and nobler than those of the
Left, it will win in the
marketplace of ideas. The Left,
on the other hand, knows that the
Right’s principles are better and
truer, which is why it is always so
desperate to discredit them, by
any means necessary. One of the
inspirations for Rules is Milton’s
Paradise Lost, so draw your own
conclusions.
FP: Why does the Right
consistently underestimate the
nature of the enemy?
Walsh: Because it is has lost one
very fundamental animating
principle — or, rather, it has
allowed the Left to browbeat it to
death. I speak of course of the
existence of evil. Western
civilization, for all its
imperfections (which the Left is
only to happy to point out a la
Alinsky’s rule of making the
enemy live up to its own highest
ideals), triumphed because of its
moral center. It was that moral
center that gave rise to the art,
music, literature, philosophy and
technology that propelled Western
European civilization past its
rivals. For some reason, the Left
feels compelled to destroy that
civilization and I must say it’s
doing a fine job.
Until conservatives face up to the
nature of their opponent — not in
the political realm but in the
moral realm — they’re going to
continue to have a hard time, no
matter what electoral success may
come next month. You can’t fight
an enemy unless you can name
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Clinton or Barack Obama, and his
monograph on the subject is
required reading for
conservatives, especially if you
can’t stand the thought of
slogging through Alinsky’s turgid
prose in Rules for Radicals to
learn his lessons. And what are
those lessons? That ruthlessness
pays when you’re up against a
demoralized foe. That “by any
means necessary” is not
something to be ashamed of. That
if you batter long and hard enough
against even the sturdiest castle’s
walls, they will eventually fall
when their defenders decide
they’re no longer worth
defending. And that has been the
triumph of the left these past 50
years — they have made western
civilization seem not worth
defending.
FP: What are the Left’s weapons
that we should be fighting with?
Walsh: First and foremost, an
unshakable belief in the rightness
of your position. The Left never
compromises, except tactically,
and never on principle. They take
the long view; they understand
him, which is why the very first that the war between St. Michael
rule of my book is Know Thy and Satan didn’t end with the
Enemy. expulsion from Heaven — all that
FP: David Horowitz has exposed it did was give Lucifer (Alinsky’s
what Obama and the left are up to dedicatee) his own counter-
in Barack Obama’s Rules for kingdom, from which to wage war
Revolution – The Alinsky Model. on… well, us. Having no sense of
What do you think are the lessons shame helps a lot, too.
of Saul Alinsky?
Walsh: David knows Alinsky, his
methods, his motives and his
goals better than anybody else
alive who’s not named Hillary
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Government Intervention in Health Care Increases Costs

Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: want to pay for them. coverage, resulting in a greater
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Affordable Health Insurance in the market for a new car, if you risk beneficiaries by no more than
(CAHI) released its annual report can’t afford a Cadillac loaded a 3:1 ratio to the lowest premium
on health insurance mandates in with options, you have to walk.” offered, furthering increasing
the states. They report that Mandates aren’t the only way costs for young, healthy
mandated benefits—i.e., medical government can get in the way of Americans and discouraging their
procedures that states require reducing health care costs: entrance into the market.
insurance providers to States have other ways of To fix the problems of access and
cover—across the 50 states are on adversely affecting the cost of affordability in health care, ideas
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2009 to 2,156 in 2010. But that’s several states have adopted have these detrimental effects and
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A Nuclear Chavez
Matt Gurney (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:11:56 PM
Hugo Chavez has been busy as of
late. On yet another tour of the
world, the Venezuelan leader has
been racking up the air miles,
stopping by to see his anti-
American friends across the
globe. The latest stop on his ten-
day tour of Europe and the Middle
East is Iran, where he was
received warmly by Iranian
President Mahmoud
Ahamdinejad, who welcomed his
“progressive and fraternal” ally
against “the bullying powers.”
The two are keen to discuss
energy issues, and that is logical.
Both Venezuela and Iran are
exporters of petroleum. But they
have something new to discuss,
as well: Venezuela has now
joined Iran in seeking nuclear
power for “peaceful” purposes.
And they have some high-
powered help lined up to get the
job done: Russia has pledged its
support for the construction of
Venezuelan nuclear reactors.
Russia has extended this hand to
Chavez in full knowledge that the
United States will view such
nuclear development with
concern. “A deal in the atomic
sphere has just been signed. I
already know that it will make
someone shudder. [Chavez] told
me that there will be states who
will have different types of
emotions about this,” Russian
President Dmitri Medvedev told
reporters. He also stressed that
the development is non-military
and entirely peaceful, nothing
that should alarm any of
Venezuela’s neighbors in the
Western hemisphere. This is, of
course, the same sort of
justification that has allowed Iran
to press on towards a nuclear
program even while threatening
Israel with destruction. Chavez
has clearly studied
Ahmadinejad’s playbook, and
knows full well that no one will
stop him from building a nuclear
industry, if he so chooses.
This announcement does not
come as a total shock. Venezuela
and Russia first announced their
intention to cooperate on military
matters in 2008, in the aftermath
of Russia’s successful ground war
against Washington-ally Georgia.
Russia was furious over the
West’s firm diplomatic support of
Georgia, and responded by taking
a series of actions designed to
provoke Washington. It deployed
warships to the Caribbean,
including a stop over in
Venezuela, where the Russian and
Venezuelan fleets engaged in war
games. Moscow further
announced its intention to assist
Venezuela in the Latin American
country’s nuclear ambitions. This
announcement is the ultimate
result of that earlier agreement.
An evaluation of the military
ramifications of this
announcement is difficult to
make. The two governments have
obviously not revealed the
technical details of the proposed
plant, and since it has not yet been
built, no Western intelligence
agency has been able to probe its
secrets. What is known is that the
plan calls for the construction of a
single plant and three separate
reactors within in. Two of the
reactors will be used to generate
electricity, and the third will be a
small research reactor.
The smallest reactor is of no
particular concern, and would be
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used to generate particles and
isotopes for scientific
examination. Such reactors can
also be used to produce mildly
radioactive particles necessary
for many medical diagnoses and
cancer treatments, a commodity
much in demand globally. (A
recent shutdown of a similar
reactor in Canada for critical
maintenance disrupted medical
scans and cancer treatments
across the world; so finely
balanced is the supply and
demand for such products.) If
Russia wants to build such a
reactor halfway across the world,
they’re certainly welcome to. It
will be useful.
The nature and purpose of the
other two reactors, however, is
open to debate. According to The
New York Times, they will be
pressurized water reactors, each
putting out 1,200 megawatts of
power — roughly enough to
power two million homes in total.
Pressurized water reactors come
in a variety of forms, but are not
purposely designed to produce
fuel for nuclear weapons. They
can produce the fuel necessary,
but far less efficiently than the
large-scale facilities designed
specifically to take nuclear fuel
and convert it into plutonium.
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Morning Bell: Renewable Electricity Standards Kill
Jobs Too
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/21/2010 8:28:47 AM
Posted October 21st, 2010 at
9:28am in Energy and
Environment Print This Post
Cap and trade legislation is dead.
The left abandoned the policy this
summer when it became clear it
was a liability. Sen. George
Voinovich (R-OH) told Politico:
“You can’t use cap and trade
anymore because it is like manure
on the trough. It’s defined, and
people are opposed to it.” But that
doesn’t mean the left has
abandoned plans to hike up our
nation’s energy costs in a vain
attempt to save the world. All
they did was pick a new a set of
government mandates and
repackage it as Renewable
Electricity Standards (RES).
Don’t be fooled. The goal
(reducing emissions) and
mechanism (raising energy prices)
are still the same. As is the result:
millions of lost jobs at a time
when unemployment already is
hovering around 10%.
According to a Financial Times/
Harris survey conducted this
month, most Americans favor an
expansion of renewable energy.
But that support is very weak.
When asked if they would be
willing to pay as little as 5% more
for electricity, only 32% of
Americans answered yes. On the
other hand, a full 57% of
Americans said they would be
opposed to paying for more than a
5% increase in electricity prices
for renewable energy. And that is
where the left’s RES dreams hit
cold hard economic reality. Here
are the prices that President
Barack Obama’s Energy
Information Administration (EIA)
projects for various sources of
electricity per megawatt hour in
2016 (in 2008 dollars):
• Conventional coal power:
$78.10
• Onshore wind power: $149.30
• Offshore wind power: $191.10
• Thermal solar power: $256.60
• Photo-voltaic solar power:
$396.10
As you can see, the prices for
alternative energy are at a
minimum almost double the cost
of conventional coal power. So
what would happen if Congress
mandated that utilities obtain
growing percentages of their
power from renewable sources of
energy? A Heritage Foundation
analysis of 22.5 % RES by 2025
found: 1) household electricity
prices would jump 36%; 2)
industry prices would rise by
60%; 3) national income (GDP)
would be cut by $5.2 trillion
between 2012 and 2035; and most
importantly 4) RES would kill
more than 1,000,000 jobs.
Renewables like hydro, wind,
solar energy and biomass account
for only 6% of our nation’s
electricity generation. But when
was the last time you saw a dam
built? Take hydro-power out and
renewables account for only 3%
of our nation’s power. And this is
after decades of existing generous
renewable subsidies. If electricity
created by wind and other
renewables was cost competitive,
consumers would use more of it
without a federal law to force
consumption. But renewable
energy is not cost competitive,
hence the need for government
coercion to force the American
people to buy it.
There simply is no upside to a
RES. In fact, in some ways it is
even worse than cap and trade.
Heritage analyst David Kreutzer
explains: “Electric power is one
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continued from page 85
three people in a standoff.
Whether they were killed
Kadyrov’s security forces, or
of the most critical inputs to a blew themselves up when special
modern economy. Thus, it is no forces stormed the building, is
surprise that forcing the cost of unknown. Rashid Nurgaliyev,
electricity to rise dampens Russia’s Minister of Interior,
economic activity. The cost along with a delegation of
increase for electricity can be regional legislators, was in the
viewed as a particularly damaging Chechen parliament building
energy tax, because a renewable when it was attacked.
mandate, unlike the case of a What is certain, however, is that
normal tax, provides no revenue this assault, following on the heels
to at least partially offset the o f a n i n s u r g e n t a t t a c k o n
h i g h e r c o s t . B y w a y o f President Kadyrov’s home village
comparison, the highway use tax of Tsentoroi two months ago,
on gasoline raises the price of challenges Russian assertions that
gasoline, but it also generates P r e s i d e n t K a d y r o v ’ s h a r s h
r e v e n u e s f o r b u i l d i n g a n d approach toward insurgents has
maintaining roads and bridges. On made Chechnya a stable region.
the other hand, a renewable Russian political figures—even
energy standard raises costs in the after the attack—are trying to spin
form of less efficient production, the incident as a garden-variety “
which provides no economic terrorist act,”arguing that the
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only to have his parliament
assaulted and breached by
separatist terrorists.
The attack was particularly
harmful to Kadyrov’s tough-guy
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Karsenty entered the fray shortly
afterward, airing his rebuttal on
his Web site, and soon found
himself on the wrong end of a
libel suit. In a partial reprise of the
notorious Dreyfus scandal, the
French Court of First Instance,
despite the recommendation of the
public prosecutor that it rule in
Karsenty’s favour, convicted the
defendant of libeling France 2 TV
and Charles Enderlin. (To
compound the mockery, the
government of Nicolas Sarkozy
later awarded Enderlin the Legion
of Honor.) Karsenty vowed to
continue the fight and has recently
won a second decision, of which
more later.
Karsenty has prepared a slide/
video display with which he
accompanies the lectures he has
given in many cities around the
world. The evidence he has
marshaled from various sources,
including the eighteen minutes of
tape France 2 was compelled by
the court to reveal, definitively
reduces the entire anti-Israel
media offensive regarding al-Dura
to the level of abject farce. (What
BUCKEYE
continued from page 83
happened to the other nine
minutes remain a mystery.) Frame
after frame reveals the depth of
ignominy which Israel’s
besmirchers were more than
willing to plumb.
We see the almost festive
atmosphere on the road prior to
the first burst of fire; the man
struck in the leg who is then
bundled the wrong way on a
stretcher with his weight upon the
injury; the ambulance stationed
close by, as if in readiness, begin
to move before the “wounded”
man has even fallen to the ground;
Rhama’s testimony that hundreds
of shots were fired at the al-Duras
although the wall behind them
shows only eight bullet holes; the
claim that the elder Dura took
twelve bullets, which would have
sufficed to kill him several times
over, apart from the fact that he
did not budge as he was
supposedly being shot and neither
a trace of blood nor a single
wound was visible on his body;
the migrating blood stain (!) on
the bandage on his right arm,
displaced from one day to the
other when he was photographed
on his hospital bed, and many
more such countervailing details.
There was a time problem as
well. Apparently the short journey
from the Netzarim junction to the
Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City,
probably not more than half an
hour, must have crossed several
time zones. As Nidra Poller
explains, Arlette Chabot, news
director for the network, was
caught off guard during a brief
trial recess when she was
informed that the dead child
identified as Mohammad al-Dura
was brought to the hospital in the
late morning, while the alleged
shooting occurred in mid-
afternoon. Making the motions of
someone who turns back a clock,
Madame Chabot explained there
was “some kind of time change
that day in Gaza.” Karsenty
reproduces this strange temporal
hiccup in his report, adding the
precise times as being between 10
a.m. and 4 p.m. and quoting the
Palestinian biometrician on duty
who deposed that the dead child
was not Mohammad al-Dura and
in fact was several years older.
As if this were not enough,
Karsenty exhibits ten seconds of
initially suppressed footage from
the France 2 TV film, after the
newscaster tells us that “the child
is dead,” in which the boy moves
and lifts his head, arm and leg.
Karsenty then wonders whether
we have come to believe “that a
Cyber Security
‘dead’ child can move.” It seems
that the effect of the media on the
vs. Online
structures of our mental life may
actually have impinged upon our
Freedom
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suggestion in a situation of with the ongoing debate about
ongoing indoctrination and how far government should be
emotion.” able to go in monitoring Internet
communications. Such was the
topic of a recent discussion at the
Voice of America building in
Washington, D.C. Judging by the
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fever, and the lack of time before
the election, Renacci’s slim
advantage should not be
discounted, but no more should
Boccieri’s chance to upset him.
The final race worth watching is
the one between incumbent
freshman Betty Sutton and used-
car salesman Tom Ganley in
Ohio’s 13th district. While
Ganley was recently hit with a
nasty (and dubiously
substantiated) October surprise in
the form of a sexual-harassment
lawsuit, and recently had to shift
his money from broadcast
advertising to radio, print, and
direct mail, sources close to the
campaign told NRO that Sutton is
more vulnerable than such news
would indicate. The incumbent
congressomwan relies
disproportionately on outside help
from liberal interest groups such
as EMILY’s List and the Service
Employees International Union,
and -- with the DCCC having all
but withdrawn from the race due
to complacency -- the chances for
a dark-horse victory by Ganley
should not be underestimated.
Ganley’s campaign manager told
NRO, “We have a very good
chance to win this race because
we’ve been smarter with our
dollars. Rather than blasting them
on TV, we’ve been very
sophisticated when it comes to
microtargeting. We did a full
microtargeting workup of the
entire district, so we know what
voters [to target] and we’re going
after those voters in a very
calculated and surgical way.”
One thing’s for sure: After this
election cycle, liberals will no
longer be able to see Ohio as the
new Illinois.
– Mytheos Holt writes about Ohio
at National Review Online’s
Battle ’10 blog. Mytheos Holt
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remarks of the event’s panelists,
especially those of Ambassador
Philip Verveer, the State
Department’s Coordinator for
International Communications
and Information Policy, there
seems to be a considerable
diversity of opinion within the
government itself on the issue of
cyber security.
There are some very good
reasons for the government to put
in place good cyber-security
policies. The Internet is a cultural,
social, and economic engine that
acts as the very infrastructure on
which most of America operates.
But we also know that criminal
networks and terrorist
organizations often use the
Internet for propaganda,
operations, and recruitment.
However, as Congress pursues
new cyber security legislation and
DHS institutes its new cyber
awareness campaign (Stop Think
Connect), among other federal
cyber initiatives, it remains
important to reflect on just how
much authority government ought
to have on cyber matters.
Earlier this year, there was
intense debate over the
controversial “kill switch”
capability which would have
granted the President emergency
control of the Internet to shut
down online traffic in the event of
a serious threat. The provision has
since been removed from the
Senate’s Cybersecurity Act of
2010; however, this is not the end
of the debate in terms of Internet
freedom and the role of
government.
Tellingly, Ambassador Verveer
first cited the ability of an
Administration to monitor and
censor the Internet when asked
about the greatest threat to online
freedom—before he went on to
mention security threats posed by
terrorists. Verveer and others have
also argued that there are
economic reasons for the
importance of online freedom.
It remains important to fight
terrorists on the electronic
battlefield. The Cybersecurity
Act’s emergency plan for
collaboration between private and
public sectors has the potential to
bring some benefit in terms of
national security. However, cyber
-security legislation must avoid
focusing too much on instituting a
large scale regulatory regime that
would force the private sector to
spend too much money meeting
regulations—a move that would
certainly be bad for business and
consequentially bad for
consumers.
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reputation because it occurred
during a visit by high-ranking
Interior Ministry officials from
Moscow. Kadyrov won’t win any
points in the Kremlin after
Tuesday’s events.
Russian leaders often claimed
that they need control of South
Caucasus, namely Georgia, to
protect the volatile North
Caucasus. Just two months ago,
Russian military forces
established S-300 surface-to-air
missile installations in Abkhazia,
a separatist Georgian province
which unilaterally proclaimed
independence after Russia’s
invasion in 2008. The missiles are
clearly there as a projection of
Russian military and political
power.
The assault in Grozny
demonstrates that there is no
value to the 19th century-style,
great-power foreign policy and
military power projection beyond
Russian borders when Moscow
cannot control Islamist terrorists
inside its own territory. Long-
range anti-aircraft missiles are
impotent against suicide bombers
and trained terrorists.
It is equally important to
remember that the North
Caucasus suicide bombers and
murderers are part of a global
Islamist threat, which benefits
from international ideological
inspiration, Salafi/Wahhabi
education (mostly in the Middle
East and Pakistan), and, at least
partially, from foreign funding.
The insurgents pursue an Islamist
agenda, which includes creation
91
of the Caucasus Emirate from the
Black Sea to the Caspian. If
created, such an emirate will
jeopardize pipelines for the
Caspian oil and threaten secular
regimes, such as Azerbaijan’s.
The insurrection’s leader, Doku
Umarov, proclaims himself an
‘Amir’, an Islamic military leader.
Umarov’s insurgents declare that
they are fighting “a Jihad in the
name of Allah.”
Russian officials repeatedly said
that the West (meaning, the U.S.)
is supporting the North Caucasus
insurgents. Nothing is further
from the truth. An emirate in the
North Caucasus will undermine
stability in southeastern Europe
and threaten U.S. friends in South
Caucasus.
Instead of using military power
projection to threaten neighbors,
the Kremlin should work to
undermine extremists’ legitimacy
in the region and to disrupt
overseas support of Islamist
operations in North Caucasus.
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Ahmadinejad’s American Supporters
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 11:08:38 PM
When Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke
before the United Nations General
Assembly on September 23, he
caused outrage by suggesting that
elements of the U.S. government
had carried out the attacks of
September 11, 2001. His remarks
were widely denounced, but one
organization in the U.S. called
Muslims of the Americas
complimented his speech, raising
frightening questions about what
is being preached to its members,
many of whom live on huge,
isolated compounds around the
country.
“Many true Muslims, true
Christians and true Jews would
concur with the President of Iran,”
the Muslims of the Americas’
newspaper, the Islamic Post, said.
The article also called for an
independent investigation into the
9/11 attacks and a plan to bring
justice to those who carried it out.
The organization also denounced
the War on Terror and capitalism
as “extensions of colonialism and
materialism” that has caused the
“mass murders of innocent
civilians, usurpation of territories,
genocide, increased immortality
and ungodliness, and a total
disregard for humanity[.]”
Ahmadinejad was positively
compared to the Mahdi, the
messianic figure in Islamic
eschatology who comes to bring
world peace and justice. The
article said that Ahmadinejad’s
call to reform the United Nations
to better manage world affairs is
like the Mahdi’s “mission…[to
create] a global management for
peace, security and the realization
of human rights.”
The Muslims of the Americas has
long promoted conspiracy
theories about 9/11 that inculpate
“satanic” Israeli and Zionist
elements of the U.S. government.
In another article condemning the
burning of Korans, this theme is
struck: “The entire world
demands an explanation that how
come 4,000 Jews never went to
work that day [9/11],” the article
reads. It further claims that five
Israelis were seen celebrating the
attacks on the World Trade
Center.
“The whole world knows that the
bombing of the World Trade
Center was done by those
‘invisible rulers’ of the United
States of America…How is it
possible for Osama Bin Laden to
have suspended NORAD’s (North
American Aerospace Defense
Command) intervention for 45
minutes?” it continues. The
writers then call on the
international community to “crush
such elements” behind events like
9/11 in order to wage war on
Muslims.
U.S.’S
continued from page 81
failure, and President Sarkozy is
bucking widespread strikes as he
raises the retirement age, having
already increased the work week.
Britain, Spain, Greece, Hungary,
and Portugal, and even, to a
degree, Italy, are self-
administering strong social and
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reduction commission to report
out. The Eurosocialist Tower of
Babel has so far vastly
outperformed the U.S. in
wrestling with the economic
crisis. If present trends continue,
Europe could actually struggle
back to being a serious force in
the world. The U.S. fumbled away
its opportunity, under Clinton and
George W. Bush, to attract Great
Britain toward it and away from
Europe, and the Europeans are
now answering the old siren song
of Soviet leaders, and becoming
closer to an unthreatening and
shrunken Russia.
The U.S. is conducting a more or
less orderly retreat, unpunctuated
with military disasters, and the
American people will not miss
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their 65-year total immersion in
the world any more than the world
will be heartbroken to be less
dominated by the Americans. But
it all has the appearance and feel
of a default position, of
unplanned, almost inadvertent,
feckless retreat, not a serious plan
of systematically handing over
security matters to carefully
prepared indigenous forces.
Sensible, strategic withdrawals
can be elegant (de Gaulle’s from
Algeria, the U.S. from the
Philippines), disorganized
(Britain’s from India and
Palestine, the USSR’s from
Poland), or disastrous
(Napoleon’s from Russia). So far,
this one is in the second category,
but it is not too late for an
upgrade, nor is it a certainty that a
rout will be avoided. And of
course, it need not be happening
at all.
– Conrad Black is the author of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Champion of Freedom and
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full.
He can be reached at
cbletters@gmail.com. Conrad
Black
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Why Twitter Is a Big Win for Small Businesses
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Submitted at 10/21/2010 11:07:17 AM
The Small Business Round Table
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Twitter is used by businesses of
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businesses find it difficult to
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value for followers.
For this installment of the Small
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brought three small biz insiders
together to talk about the ins and
outs of using Twitter for small
business growth, in hopes of
nailing down a few notes on best
practices. Our knowledgeable
round table attendees included:
• Chanel Huston, owner of
Boutique de Bandeaux, an Etsy
shop selling handmade couture-
inspired hair accessories for thick,
curly and kinky natural hair
• Lev Ekster
, owner of Cupcake Stop, “New
York’s First Mobile Gourmet
Cupcake Shoppe,” founded in
June 2009 and now complimented
by a local fleet of cupcake trucks•
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Alexandra Moskovitz then, once I was on Twitter, I’d people. We have 14,500
, marketing manager at Epicurean find [Twitter accounts for] followers, and we follow 12,000
Management, owners of Italian websites, like Naturally Curly, people, just so I can pick up on
restaurants dell’anima and who have a target audience comments, views, and everything.
L’Artusi, and Anfora wine bar similar to mine, and I’d follow “ Sometimes it’s not really
The attendees shared their their followers. Or I’d add people appropriate to get involved, so
thoughts on starting, maintaining who were following natural hair you have to pick and choose when
and growing a Twitter presence. blogs like Afrobella. [My it’s really relevant without
Read on to see what they had to following] just kind of grew from badgering people and being
say. there.” annoying. For example, if it’s two
From left: Alexandra Moskovitz, Ekster:“I don’t know if there’s a people talking saying that they’ll
Lev Ekster and Chanel Huston single, main reason [why I use meet at Cupcake Stop at 3 p.m., I
1. Why did your business join Twitter], but I guess it all comes don’t want to be like, ‘Yes, please
hospitality — it’s really another
Twitter? down to having a rapport and come!’ But sometimes I will. It’s
method of hospitality, not only for
Huston:“I started using Twitter in dialogue with our customers, an just a spontaneous decision on my
updating on what dishes and
October 2009. My boyfriend was ongoing conversation with them. part sometimes. But at the same
special events we have, but
the one who kept pushing me to But then, things stem from that. time, you don’t want to overdo
responding to and engaging with
use it, because he works at a So, you’ll get reviews — either it.”
our customers. We can reach out
record label, and they were using positive and negative — and Moskovitz:“I like to respond to
to new people and follow other
it to promote their artists, and he menu and flavor suggestions, for everything at this point, and
restaurants to see what’s going on.
thought it was a great way to example. we’ve been pretty lucky that we
It’s a new level of interaction, and
reach fans and interact with “It all just boils down to having a pretty much have [only] positive
it also pushes the restaurants to
people. So, he kept pushing me to face and a voice to the company, responses. We just try to be as
more than just the [in-restaurant
get it and helped me set it up. I where the customer feels that relevant as possible.”
experience].” 2. What’s the top
was on a message board for you’re reachable. With a bigger Huston:“I respond to everything
reason your business uses
natural hair first, called Black company, you don’t know who now. It’s at a manageable point
Twitter?
Hair Media, and it turned out that the owner is, you don’t know how right now — I have a little over
Huston:“My shop is on Etsy right
a lot of the girls were on Twitter. to reach them, you feel like 3,000 followers. For the most
now, and I get a lot of direct
Once I got on Twitter, I found out beyond the suggestion box in the part, anything that someone
traffic from Etsy, but not
that there was a big natural hair store, there’s nothing else you can tweets to me, I respond personally
necessarily my target market.
community that would meet and do. But [with social media], you to.” 4. Who tweets from your
Twitter helps me find the people
give tips and secrets to each get an instant response.” business’s Twitter account?
who are actually going to be
other.” Moskovitz:“We want to establish Huston:“It’s just me. I’m the only
interested in my products, who
Ekster:“For me, it seemed like a a dialogue and level of one — I don’t have any
have the disposable income to
no-brainer, because we had a engagement with everyone. Each employees.”
spend on them and have the hair
mobile food truck that was [of our Twitter accounts] has its Ekster:“From day one, it’s been
type that’s going to be appropriate
changing locations and menu own personality, so you almost me. Everybody always tries to
for my products.
items, so I just wanted to update feel like you know the restaurant convince me to give that
“Finding people on Twitter is
people on where we’d be. Now, as a person, or the people behind responsibility up to somebody
actually easy, but tedious to set
every food truck is on Twitter.” it.” 3. How do you choose when else, but I just think it’s so
up. I started by making
Moskovitz:“I used Twitter with to respond to a tweet? important . I like to think that
announcements on the message
another wine shop at my previous Ekster:“If [the tweet] is a direct there’s a voice, where when you
board that I frequented to let
job, and now it’s kind of just a no- question to us, I’ll respond 99%
everybody know that they could WHY page 94
brainer for restaurants and of the time. And I like to follow
now follow me on Twitter. And
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get that response, you kind of
know that I wrote it. I’ll involve
other people — sometimes I’ll
walk through our bakery and take
a photo of our chef making
something, and I’ll name him. But
the comments and responses have
still been all me.”
Moskovitz:“We had it handled by
PR before, and we just brought it
all in-house, because it’s harder to
have someone who’s not there all
the time doing it. Now we have
someone designated at each
restaurant to feed me material.
And also, I’m there all the time —
I do make laps every night.
“We also have@dellanimom, one
of our owners’ Mom. She’s very
involved with the restaurants, but
one of the great things about her
is that she’s also really involved
with the Twittersphere and other
restaurants… She’s constantly
feeding us content. She does fresh
content, and she’s really on top of
things. And I’d also say that our
followers that are tweeting at us
are also another stream of content,
with their pics, for example.” 5.
How do you interact with the
Twitter community?
Huston:“Generally, I post
pictures of what I’m working on
or where I am, new listings, and
some personal tweets, just
because it’s a handmade shop —
people don’t want to feel like
they’re buying from a company,
they want to know that there’s a
person behind it…They become
personally invested in the
business and want me to succeed.
It’s just finding the balance of not
getting too personal. I try to stay
away from any tweets that are too
polarizing — I don’t want to talk
about religion or politics.”
Moskovitz:“We tend to go off of
what our followers are talking
about. We obviously want
conversation around us, but we
don’t want to be promotional. It’s
awesome if we can get
conversations going around [our
recent endeavors] without being
promotional. Otherwise, it’s
trying to engage with everyone.
The more you can get
conversations going, then
everyone else maintains those
conversations around your
business, and it’s positive, and
you don’t have to worry as much
about that transparency that
everyone’s so scared of.” 6. Do
you monitor relevant key words
on Twitter?
Huston:“Usually the#naturalhair
hashtag is a big one [that I
follow]. On Sundays at 10 p.m.
ET, there’s a big #naturalhair
chat, that I’m generally a part of.
And throughout the week, [the
community] is usually carrying on
conversations using that hashtag.”
Ekster:“I don’t do that as much
now, but when we were starting
out, we wanted to cater to bar
mitzvahs and weddings. So, we’d
go to Twitter’s Advanced Search
and type in ‘bar mitzvah’ and a
zip code within the vicinity, and
try to join those conversations. At
this point, it’s far less prevalent
that I’d do that — I have to be
really bored to do that.”
Moskovitz:“I use TweetDeck,
because I monitor three accounts
at once. Sometimes, if I’m
following something for the day, I
will create a new column for that.
I then use TweetDeck on my
phone, so that I can be with it at
all times. Or, if a person because
really active with us, I might
follow them throughout the day to
see what kind of activities they’re
doing.” 7. What are the pros of
using Twitter?
Moskovitz:“It makes you seem
more approachable. For us, it’s a
whole new level of hospitality.
With that, it’s important to
address the people who have
problems with your business, as
well, because that’s the whole
point — to be transparent.”
Huston:“The personal aspect of it
is really important for a handmade
business. And I noticed that
between the four-month period
before I started using Twitter and
the four-month period after I
started using it, my sales tripled.”
Ekster:“It allows you to expose
your company in a way that you
wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.
People see a food truck, and they
kind of equate it to maybe a cliché
view of the food truck. And then,
maybe I’ll show a picture of our
bakery kitchen, and you see all
the chefs and the product, and you
see how clean it is — it lets you
into a behind-the-scenes look at
the business.
“And I’ll track the views on
photos to see what people are
interested in and what people
aren’t. And what better way to
know? If I’m choosing between
two products to put out, and I
suggest two, and one just has such
a heavier response than the other
one — you’re pretty much
ensuring positive sales before you
put the item out.” 8. What are the
cons of using Twitter?
Huston:“It was very tedious to set
up for me. It was time-consuming
to amass all the followers. But
once I got it set up, it’s very easy
to maintain. I’m not chained to a
computer like when I was first
setting it up, and I can tweet from
anywhere with my BlackBerry.”
Ekster:“All of the exposure is a
double-edged sword. You like it
when you get positive responses,
but you have to be able to accept
negative ones, too. It’s important
how you respond to that.
It also hurts your social life.
Everywhere I go, people already
know that if I’m looking down at
my phone, I’m not being rude —
I’m just responding to people. It
gets to the point that when I go
out to dinner, there’s a phone-in-
the-car rule, where I have to leave
my phone in the car. It’s hard,
because you’re sitting there in the
restaurant, thinking, ‘What am I
missing right now?’”
Moskovitz:“It’s 24/7. People are
always on Twitter. We get
nervous, because people can put
up anything they want. They
could set you up if they wanted to.
Hopefully people are good and
they wouldn’t do that. But it’s
complete access.” 9. Any final
advice for small businesses
starting out on Twitter?
Huston:“There’s a lot of
temptation to follow everyone,
but I would recommend following
people who are going to be
interested in your products. If you
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sell children’s clothes, for
example, add people who are
following parenting magazines or
are in parenting groups.”
Ekster:“Figure out how you’re
going to use Twitter effectively,
rather than just sending out
anything. Don’t over advertise —
not every conversation should be
business-oriented. When we
started, I looked at people that
were using it well, and I read up
on people like Gary Vaynerchuk,
for example. And then I would
watch an interview with him,
where he would speak about how
to use it effectively and some of
his tricks and tips. So, find
someone who you think is doing it
effectively, watch to see how
they’re doing it, and pick up on
those practices.”
Moskovitz:“Take your time.
There are different levels of
interaction. You don’t have to
jump from step one, expecting
that everyone’s going to be
tweeting at you and following
you. It’s such a dynamic world
that it’s going to be changing
every day. Even the platform just
changed in the past couple of
weeks. Figure out what you want
to do with it, find the right people,
find your space and it will all fall
into place.” Series supported by
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Submitted at 10/20/2010 6:19:23 PM
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How much is a college education
worth? The answer might surprise
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According to a recent report from
the Pew Research Center, college
graduates are more likely to marry
by age 30 than high school grads.
The report, which looked at
changes in the likelihood,
stability, and timing of marriage
among 25 to 59 year olds, also
noted that couples with a college
education are less likely to
divorce than people with no
degree.
Another recent report, this one
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According to the College Board's
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grads tend to make more money
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In 2008, graduates of four-year
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