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Perry vs. rivals in Republican debate

JoAnne Allen (Front Row Washington)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:07:32 AM
There were eight candidates in the first big Republican debate of the 2012 campaign season. Two of them dominated the stage from the start in a contest over who has created more jobs. And the winner is.. Mitt Romney, according to his campaign. Mitt Romney won tonights debate because he demonstrated that he is the only candidate in the race who can return the country to economic prosperity. Career politicians got us into the mess and it will take someone with experience in the real economy to get us out, the campaigns communication director Gail Gitcho said in a statement released after Wednesdays debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi
Valley, California. While the former Massachusetts governors campaign claimed victory, Rick Perry was the man in the spotlight. All eyes were on the Texas governor as he made his debut on the national stage and when it was over Perry said in a postdebate statement he was pleased to have been able to introduce his conservative philosophy and projobs record to the American people. Perrys campaign said it was a strong performance. The new front-runner in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Perry came out swinging, writes Reuters Steve Holland. A confident Perry fended off Romney, the rival he bumped out of the front-runner position when he entered the race a few weeks ago. The governor also fought off friendly jabs from others on
the stage, including fellow Texan Ron Paul. I kind of feel like the pinata here at the party, Perry said at one point during the debate. Darrell West, director of Governance Studies at Brookings Institution says Perrys performance proved he has electoral legs.
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leading issues, a sense of humor, and an ability to draw a contrast with opponents, West said in commentary on the debate. Perry clearly understands how to resonate with conservative voters, West added. What the debate didnt answer was whether he can broaden that appeal to centrist and Independent voters in a general election. Photo Credits: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (Republican presidential candidates at debate in Simi Valley, Calif.) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Newly Published Audio Provides Real-Time View of 9/11 Attacks - New York Times
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Submitted at 9/7/2011 9:44:51 PM
minute, the manager said. There was no time to read it out. In the background, people can be By JIM DWYER Published: heard shouting: Another one just September 7, 2011 hit the building. Wow. Another For one instant on the morning of one just hit it hard. Another one Sept. 11, an airliner that had just hit the World Trade. vanished from all the tracking The manager spoke. tools of modern aviation suddenly The whole building just came became visible in its final seconds apart, he said. to the people who had been trying That moment is part of a newly to find it. published chronicle of the civil It was just after 9 a.m., 16 and military aviation responses to minutes after a plane had hit the the hijackings that originally had north tower of the World Trade been prepared by investigators for Center, when a radio transmission the 9/11 Commission, but never came into the New York air traffic completed or released. control radar center. Hey, can Threaded into vivid narratives you look out your window right covering each of the four airliners, now? the caller said. the multimedia document contains Yeah, the radar control manager 114 recordings of air traffic said. controllers, military aviation Can you, can you see a guy at officers, airline and fighter jet about 4,000 feet, about 5 east of pilots, as well as two of the the airport right now, looks like hijackers, stretching across two hes hours of the morning of Sept. 11, Yeah, I see him, the manager 2001. said. Though some of the audio has Do you see that guy, look, is he emerged over the years, mainly descending into the building through public hearings and a also? the caller asked. federal criminal trial, the report Hes descending really quick provides a rare 360-degree view too, yeah, the manager said. of events that were unfolding at Forty-five hundred right now, he high speed across the Northeast in just dropped 800 feet in like, like the skies and on the ground. This one, one sweep. week, the complete document, What kind of airplane is that, can w i t h r e c o r d i n g s , i s b e i n g you guys tell? published for the first time by the I dont know, Ill read it out in a R u t g e r s L a w R e v i e w , a n d
selections of it are available online at nytimes.com. The story of the day, of 9/11 itself, is best told in the voices of 9/11, said Miles Kara, a retired Army colonel and an investigator for the commission who studied the events of that morning. Most of the work on the document which commission staff members called an audio monograph was finished in 2004, not in time to go through a long legal review before the commission was shut down that August. Mr. Kara tracked down the original electronic files earlier this year in the National Archives and finished reviewing and transcribing them with help from law students and John J. Farmer Jr., the dean of Rutgers Law School, who served as senior counsel to the commission. At hearings in 2003 and 2004, the 9/11 Commission played some of the recordings and said civil and military controllers improvised responses to attacks they had never trained for. At 9 a.m., a manager of air traffic control in New York called Federal Aviation Administration headquarters in Herndon, Va., trying to find out if the civil aviation officials were working with the military. Do you know if anyone down there has done any coordination to
scramble fighter-type airplanes? the manager asked, continuing: We have several situations going, going on here, it is escalating big, big time, and we need to get the military involved with us. One plane had already crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Another had been hijacked and was seconds from hitting the south tower. At F.A.A. headquarters, not everyone was up to speed. Why, whats going on? the man in Herndon asked. Just get me somebody who has the authority to get military in the air, now, the manager said. In its 2004 report, the commission praised front-line aviation officials. But it then thoroughly dismantled the accounts of senior government officials, who in the weeks after Sept. 11, and for more than a year afterward, assured the public that fighter pilots had been in hot pursuit of the suicidal hijackers. During these chases, according to accounts from Vice President Dick Cheney, the F.A.A. and the Defense Department, the pilots were described as ready to carry out a wrenching order from President George W. Bush to shoot down airliners. The commission discovered that little of that was true: of the four
flights, military commanders had nine minutes notice on one before it flew into the World Trade Center, and did not learn the other three had been hijacked until after they had crashed. Military commanders, given an order outside the chain of command to shoot down hijacked airliners, did not pass it along to the fighter pilots, but instructed them instead to identify the tail numbers of any suspected rogue planes. That turned out to be a prudent call because by then, there were no longer hijackers in the air for them to shoot. The newly published multimedia document spells out precisely how the recordings contradicted the accounts of the senior officials. Throughout the recordings, listeners also get a visceral feeling for the desperate scramble for information, as well as the confusion and lack of coordination between the civil and military aviation authorities. One example is an exchange that began at 9:34 a.m. A military aviation official contacted the Washington center of the F.A.A. to discuss the situation, and learned, to her surprise, that American Airlines Flight 77 had disappeared more than 30 minutes earlier. No one NEWLY page 14
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Christian Women Taking Back 'Feminism'

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:52:29 AM
This fledging movement has more and more Christian conservative women looking back to feminisms early roots and (Photo: REUTERS/Chris Keane) finding a lot to admire and U.S. Republican presidential emulate. c a n d i d a t e a n d M i n n e s o t a The very earliest feminists were C o n g r e s s w o m a n M i c h e l e women of faith, who were very Bachmann speaks during the godly and who said the Bible American Principles Project demanded that women be treated Palmetto Freedom Forum in with the same equalities as men C o l u m b i a , S o u t h C a r o l i n a and have the same opportunities, September 5, 2011. says Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D., director and senior fellow for The The term feminism has been Beverly LaHaye Institute at hijacked by the secular feminist Concerned Women for America movement, says Betsy Hart, a in Washington, D.C. syndicated columnist for Scripps Like us on Facebook Howard News Service and author The feminist movement was of It Takes a Parent. Many established to address legal people including Christians and disparities that were really hurtful a lot of young, secular women to women, adds Hart. associate traditional feminism From Abolition to Abortion with very angry, men-hating, The feminist movement started in strident, unattractive and unhappy the 19th century with a focus on women. social causes and suffrage. These But today, Christian women like women, who included pioneers P a l i n a n d B a c h m a n n a r e like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and redefining a feminist as a woman Susan B. Anthony, fought for the who is conservative and pro-life, abolition of slavery and womens w h o h a s a c a l l i n g i n t h e right to vote. workplace, but who also embraces For many years, both secular and her role as a Christian wife and religious feminists operated with mother. the same definition of equality, In a 2010 speech, Palin drew a says Crouse. Then somewhere in connection between herself and the last 30 years that changed. feminists, but reconfigured the Feminism was taken over by term to mean a self-sufficient, pro lesbians, by those who wanted -life Christian who believes being quotas and abortion on demand. a woman is a source of her The shift to an emphasis on success. Bachmann has said she abortion and workplace quotas went into politics partly because drove many Christians out of the of her womans intuition. movement entirely. Christian
women shied away from feminism because they rejected its stridency and politicization of women, says Hart. But in a shift that began in the latter part of the 20th century and continuing into the 21st century, many secular feminists saw men as the enemy in a war between the sexes, adding yet another reason for Christian women to disassociate themselves from the movement. We love our husbands, we love our sons, we love our fathers. We appreciate them and value their contributions to our lives, says Crouse. We dont view them as the enemy. Feminism in the Workplace Ironically, its the workplace that has become part of the dispute between secular feminists and Christian women. Christian women do not like workplace quotas because Christian women dont like the idea of being forced into the workplace Christian women like choice, the option of going into the workplace or not, says Crouse. Part of the workplace tension between Christian women and secular feminists relates to how both groups define success. A Christian woman tends not to seek accolades or advancement solely in the workplace but instead views her work as part of her calling as a wife and mother. In general, Christian women are not in the workplace for power,
they are there because they have some challenge, some very fulfilling responsibility, adds Crouse. Many Christian women choose to work part time, to bring in some extra income to help the family, but they dont view their job as a career or they dont see themselves as career women they see themselves helping their husbands. Its a completely different perspective from modern secular feminists, a fundamental disagreement and a different worldview about what it means to be a woman. Many Christian women also have found that they can easily fit working from home into their roles as wife and mother. With the advance of technology, so many more woman are simply able to do things at home that our own mothers could not have done, says Hart. With more possibilities, their values of that work and being rewarded for it has become more palpable and more Christian women are taking advantage of that and enjoying it. Reconciling Christianity and Feminism Many Christian women are grateful for those early feminists who did pave the way for women to choose when and how they work, but while some Christian conservatives are returning to the ideals of early, religious feminists, the Christian community continues to fight against modern secular feminism perhaps for far too long for the term to be
rehabilitated today. Personally, the term feminism has too much baggage that goes along with it, so thats why I dont use it. I dont have a problem with Christian women using the term because I understand theyre using it in a different way, says Crouse. When a Christian woman uses the term feminism, shes not using it in the political sense that the term has come to mean. When talking about Christianity and feminism, its good to remember that Jesus taught us the value of men and women. He violated social taboos, befriending and bringing good news to those who were marginalized racially, economically, morally and religiously, says Mardi Keyes, who has written and lectured on Christianity and feminism. Jesus came into a world where in law and life, women were treated as inferior in virtually every way, says Keyes. By His teaching and behavior, He continually challenged the patriarchal norms of His culture. For example, Jesus rejected the practice of keeping women separate and silent by including them in His traveling band of disciples. One place to start reconciling Christianity and feminism is to recognize that both groups saw a problem and attempted to find solutions, sometimes together. Keyes points to alliances between CHRISTIAN page 14
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News analysis: Perry, GOP frontrunner, under fire at debate - USA Today
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:44:58 AM
Rick Perry arrived at his first presidential debate packing heat. By Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry speaks during a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif. By Robyn Beck, AFP/Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry speaks during a debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday in Simi Valley, Calif. The Texas governor who once shot a threatening coyote while jogging came armed, rhetorically, for his debut on the national political scene. He blasted rival Mitt Romney on job creation, doubled down on his critique of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme and defended his record on everything from education to climate change. Perry's performance Wednesday night in the forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., demonstrated not only his considerable strength in the Republican primaries he has rocketed to the top of the national polls little more than three weeks after announcing his
candidacy but also his clear vulnerabilities in a general election. And it illustrated the changing shape of the GOP contest for the nomination to take on President Obama in 2012. The spotlight was on Perry and Romney, the man he dislodged as frontrunner in national polls. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party favorite who was the star of the first debate, was largely eclipsed and the other contenders often had to battle to get into the conversation. So the question ahead may be this: Can Romney or others raise enough questions about Perry's ability to attract the independent voters needed to win the White House to curtail the Texas governor's stunning rise among Republican conservatives? Romney, noting that Perry has called Social Security "a Ponzi scheme," told him, "You can't say that to tens of millions of Americans who live on Social Security and those who have lived on it." Romney said he would "make sure that we keep the program and make it financially secure." Perry rejoined: "You cannot keep the status quo in place and call it anything other than a Ponzi scheme. It is. That is what it is." Perry's refusal to back down may
folksy. He talked about "gettin' the snake's head cut off" when it comes to controlling federal spending and said that amid all the criticism on stage, "I kinda feel like the piata here at the party." At one point, he gave Gingrich a broad grin and a thumbs-up sign when he have shown his commitment to m e n t i o n e d t h e g l o w i n g his principles, appealing to his introduction he wrote to Perry's base, but is all but certain to book, Fed Up!. create serious problems with While Romney extolled the 59centrist voters and others who point plan he unveiled Tuesday to view the nation's retirement fix the nation's economic woes, Perry used declarative sentences program as sacrosanct. And while he was confident in to brag about his state's record on sparring about jobs, Perry dodged jobs. That provided the evening's questions about why his state has sharpest exchange. the highest percentage of residents Perry cited the Lone Star State's who lack health insurance. He job market Texas accounts for seemed less certain in discussing 40% of the jobs created in the his skepticism toward climate country over the past two years change when asked to name a and Romney defended his record scientist who agreed with him. in turning around a faltering The debate, which stretched for economy in Massachusetts. an hour and 50 minutes, was " Michael Dukakis created jobs sponsored by NBC News and three times faster than you did, Politico. Participants included Mitt," Perry said. Texas Rep. Ron Paul, former "Well, as a matter of fact, George Utah governor Jon Huntsman, Bush and his predecessor created former House speaker Newt jobs at a faster rate than you did, Gingrich, former CEO Herman governor," Romney shot back. Cain and former Pennsylvania The crossfire reflected the role of senator Rick Santorum as well as opposition researchers in modern campaigns and the careful Perry, Romney and Bachmann. Perry demonstrated his abilities preparations of both candidates to as a natural pol: Barrel-chested spin their jobs records into the and conversational, confident and best possible light. In both cases,
the observations apparently were accurate but involved comparing their opponent to predecessors who governed in more prosperous times. The debate was Perry's chance to make a first impression on many Americans. Before he announced he was running for president last month, only about half of Republican and Republican-leaning voters even knew who he was, according to the Gallup Poll. Now three of four have heard of him, and most like what they see. Perry has the strongest intensity of support of any of the GOP presidential contenders, Gallup found. While the favorable ratings for him and Romney are about the same, 73% and 71%, twice as many of those surveyed say they have a strongly favorable view of Perry. "He has to look energetic and well informed so people come away thinking, 'I need to know more about this guy,' " Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said before the debate began. That means walking a line: Convincing the Tea Party that he's one of them while addressing what Jillson called "some concern about this cowboy out of Texas." NEWS page 11
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Tropical Storm Nate Forecast to Strengthen Bloomberg

Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:23:52 AM
Tropical Storm Nate, one of three active weather systems in the Atlantic basin, was forecast to grow stronger today in Mexicos Bay of Campeche, the National Hurricane Center said. Nate, with winds of 45 miles (72 kilometers) per hour, was about 125 miles west of Campeche, Mexico, according to an NHC advisory at 8 a.m. New York time. Nate, which along with Hurricane Katia and Tropical Storm Maria is churning over tropical waters, is forecast to turn north tomorrow and may strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph. Remnants of Tropical Storm Lee caused heavy showers and snarled traffic today in the U.S. Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, the NHC also said. Katia, bearing 90 mph winds, is now 325 miles west of Bermuda and will pass between the island and U.S. East Coast later today and swing northeastward far off Maine and Nova Scotia this weekend, the NHC also said. Computer models suggest Nate, almost stationary now, may go ashore in Mexico south of its oiland gas-producing region or near Brownsville, Texas, said Travis Hartman, a meteorologist at the
commercial forecaster MDA EarthSat Weather in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The latest model runs keep it south of the producing region but I dont think we can write it off just yet by any stretch of the imagination, Hartman said yesterday. There is a chance the storm may go farther north, which would threaten U.S. rigs and platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico. The Bay of Campeche holds rigs and platforms owned by Petroleos Mexicanos. The Gulf is home to 27 percent of U.S. oil output and 6.5 percent of the countrys natural gas production. Nate, Maria, Katia Nate became the 14th storm to form in the Atlantic region this June-November hurricane season, hours after Tropical Storm Maria. Maria is about 760 miles east of the Windward Islands with winds of 50 mph. Its moving west at 23 mph, according to the Miamibased hurricane center. A tropical storm watch is in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis and St. Kitts. Its in an environment that isnt conducive to explosive strengthening, said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the NHC. In fact, we have it as a tropical storm through the end of the five-day forecast period.
The statistical peak of the sixmonth Atlantic hurricane season is later this week. This year has produced storms at a faster rate than 2010, when 19 named systems moved through the basin. The 14th storm didnt form until Sept. 29 last year. Feltgen said the activity is in line with pre-season forecasts for an above-average storm season. A typical season produces 11 named systems, according to the hurricane center. Atlantic History Since 1995, when the Atlantic entered a warming phase, the seasonal average has been 15, said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The only things that have kept storm numbers down since then are El Nino events, warmings of the central Pacific Ocean, Feltgen said. El Nino creates wind shear in the Atlantic that tears at storms. The most active hurricane season on record was 2005, when 28 storms formed. If we continue on this pace, we are going to challenge 2005, said Masters, who used to fly on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hurricane reconnaissance planes. That would make three of the last six years among the top five busiest hurricane seasons on record.
Masters said the basin may be entering an era in which 20 storms a year becomes common. Maria, Katia Marias forecast path shows it passing near the northeast coast of Puerto Rico in three days and east of the Bahamas on Sept. 12 as a tropical storm. Hurricane Katia is moving north off Bermuda, where a tropical storm watch is in effect, the hurricane center said in an advisory at 8 a.m. Eastern time. Katia is forecast to curve northeast and gain speed tonight and tomorrow as it moves between the island and the U.S. East Coast on a track that may take it just north of the U.K. early next week. Katia is producing dangerous surf conditions along much of the East Coast. It is a Category 1 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. A system becomes a named storm when its sustained winds reach 39 mph, and a hurricane when winds hit 74 mph. With all the storm activity, the Energy Department may report that oil inventories fell 2 million barrels last week as Tropical Storm Lee came ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast, causing heavy flooding, and shut output, according to a Bloomberg News survey. Northeast Drenched
Remnants of Lee continued to cause heavy rain and thunderstorms across the midAtlantic states and southwestern New England, the NHC said today in an advisory. As much as 6 inches of rain may fall and cause serious flash floods and mudslides in an already soaked area, it said. Rain has worsened morning commuters travel and also wrecked havoc for a second day at the U.S. Open in New York City. About 36.9 percent of U.S. Gulf oil production and 18.1 percent of natural gas output remain shut following Tropical Storm Lee, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement said. To contact the reporter on this story: Brian K. Sullivan in Boston at bsullivan10@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dan Stets at dstets@bloomberg.net This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Gamer Heal Thyself With Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter

Lora Kolodny (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:31:20 AM
When Jane McGonigal suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009, she created a game, "SuperBetter," to help herself heal. Today, she unveiled a new platform, SuperBetter, to help others cure what ails them, from obesity to a broken leg to addiction. Deeply impacted by a traumatic brain injury in 2009, and struggling with traditional therapy, Jane McGonigal created a game--SuperBetter--to help heal herself. It worked. Since then, the best-selling author and game designer has been creating SuperBetter the platform to empower anyone to create a browser-based SuperBetter game, tailored to cure whatever ails. Before speaking as a panelist at the SOCAP11 conference in San Francisco this week-- an event that inspires the "flow of capital to [entrepreneurs advancing] social good," McGonigal revealed the SuperBetter beta and a list of partners in her tech-forward effort to make self-help more effective. She revealed that Zappos is SuperBetter's pilot customer and development partner. (McGonigal and Zappos' founder Tony Hsieh are good friends.) All Zappos employees will be creating and playing SuperBetter games in the
coming months to become less stressed, more fit, and generally happier with their lives. Ahead of SOCAP, McGonigal recounted her inspiration to bring SuperBetter to the masses in a call with FastCompany: I had a mild traumatic brain injury in 2009 and had a very hard
time healing. It looked like an impossible road ahead. I didnt know if I could go back to work, or ever be myself again. It was a low point in my life. In a flash, in one moment of clarity that I had, I thought--if I could approach my recovery in the same way that I could play games, it would feel
like anything was possible. It would feel like I was on a road to getting better, an adventure, where I had friends and family who felt like my allies helping me get better. So, I made up a game that helped me. Later, I published the rules online and off, and got letters from
everyone who took them up and made their own versions of SuperBetter. People around the world played this game to help themselves lose weight, get over asthma, diabetes, knee surgery, chronic pain, autoimmune GAMER page 12
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Republicans Bailing on Obama Speech

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 2:01:00 AM
Key Republicans will be a noshow for President Obamas speech tonight before a joint session of Congress, prompting cries of disrespect from the Democrats House leader. House Speaker John Boehner (R. -Ohio) has decided there will be no Republican rebuttal following the 7 p.m. unveiling of the presidents $300 billion jobs and economic plan. Sen. Roy Blunt (R.-Mo.) told Fox News he suspects there will be no formal response because the "the speaker doesn't expect to hear much to respond to." Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) called it a snub and says that Republicans arent showing respect for her partys plan to create jobs. The Republicans' refusal to respond to the President's proposal on jobs is not only disrespectful to him, but to the American people, Pelosi said. Other members of the Republican caucus have declared an outright boycott of the House chamber speech. Sen. Jim DeMint, (R.-S.C.) doesnt plan on attending, Rep. Joe Walsh (R.-Ill.) says he wont be used as a prop for the President, and Rep. Paul Broun (R.-Ga.) will take to the Twitterverse and host his own meeting with followers. Brouns spokeswoman Meredith
Griffanti told CBS News that "jobs are at the forefront of everyone's mind" and it is a better use of his time to hear from constituents than sit in the House chamber." Obama originally asked Boehner to address the Congress on Wednesday night, which conflicted with the GOPs presidential debate in California. Boehner politely outmaneuvered the President and suggested he reschedule the speech for tonight, which instead competes for the kickoff of football season and the game between the New Orleans
Saints and Green Bay Packers. Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter says his loyalty will be to his team, and hell be watching the game with the rest of WhoDat nation. The Presidents time slot will also cost him some viewersWTMJ, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wis., will be airing pre-game coverage instead of the speech. The Presidents jobs plan is expected to cost several hundred billion dollars in new infrastructure spending, extended unemployment benefits and aid to
Some members of Congress are responding to the speech before its even delivered. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said in a Senate floor speech Wednesday that his party will oppose any new spending that is not offset by cuts. It comes to a point that you cant keep borrowing in a futile attempt to stimulate the economy when the increased debt itself is weakening the economy, Sessions said. Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) said that if Obama wants his speech to be greeted warmly by Wall Street, he should admit Obamanomics was a mistake. He needs to reverse course and embrace the Cut, Cap and Balance bill, and he should ask Congress to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment immediately. The President also needs to cut the state and local governments, to be cost of over-regulation in half and paid for in later years with tax to open up drilling. Finally, he increases. The President is also has to believe in these proposals, expected to announce that the 2% and we would have to believe payroll tax cut will be allowed to him, King said. If the President's speech goes in continue. According to The Heritage t h e o p p o s i t e d i r e c t i o n b y Foundation, Obama, who pledged embracing Keynesian economics, to create 3.5 million jobs by 2010, he will be digging us even deeper is instead running a deficit of 6.7 i n t o a h o l e o f r e c o r d unemployment and stagnant million. The President will propose new growth. After two-and-a-half meaningful initiatives to create years of the President's failed jobs and grow the economy, and it economic policies, we know what will be fully paid for, said White to expect from Obamanomics and, House Communications Director REPUBLICANS page 9 Dan Pfeiffer.
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Hoffa's Fighting Words Show How Far Left He's Strayed

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By now, most Americans have read or heard about the remarks of James P. Hoffa in warming up the crowd in Detroit before President Obamas Labor Day address. In words that dwarfed those of the President himself, Teamsters President Hoffa denounced the Tea Party-backed Republicans in Congress and declared: Lets take these sonofabitches out and give America back to an America where we belong. Strong partisan words, all right, andwhile it is certainly not the rhetoric of civility that Obama has long called forit should not be all that shocking coming from the leader of a 1.4 millionmember labor union and a partisan Democrat. What makes Hoffas words shocking to those who have known and followed him is that he was not always a partisan Democrat. In fact, one of the most notable factors in Hoffas rise in 1997 to the union helm once held by his legendary father was his promise of a union that will not be tied to any one political party." In an exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS (Dec. 5, 1997), Hoffawho was prepared to seek the Teamster presidency
after incumbent Ron Carey was ruled ineligible because he violated union election rulesvowed he would join with other unions in helping Democrats overturn the Republican majority in Congress in 1998. No, were not going to do that, Hoffa said. The Teamsters will not be dictated to by any one
party, and instead we will talk to and support candidates individuallyDemocrat, R e p u b l i c a n a n d independentwho share the goals of the Teamsters union. Hoffa went on to contrast his vision of the Teamster political agenda with that of Carey, who had edged him out in the 1996
election that was eventually voided by a court-appointed election monitor. Carey, Hoffa told us, was trying to make the union an appendage of the Democratic Party. In demanding a Teamsters Union that would not walk in lock-step with the Democratic Party, Hoffa was calling for a return to its pre-
Carey days. Dave Beck, Teamster president from 1950 to '58, was a registered Republican who in 1956 led the union in supporting President Eisenhowers reelection. Becks successor, the elder Hoffa, was an enthusiastic backer of Richard Nixon in 1960. Frank Fitzsimmons, the man Hoffa handpicked as president when Hoffa went to prison in 1967, backed President Nixon for reelection in 1972. Under Presidents Roy Lee Williams and Jackie Presser in the 1980s, the Teamsters twice supported Ronald Reagan for President. Careys immediate predecessor, William McCarthy, endorsed George H.W. Bush in 88. All that ended when Ron Carey took over in 1991, Hoffa told HUMAN EVENTS in 1991. He noted that Carey and his chief lieutenants at the Marble Palace (the unions nickname for its national headquarters in Washington) twice took the union into Bill Clintons corner and did so with no input whatsoever from the 580 Teamster locals. During that interview 14 years ago, Hoffa went on to praise thenRep. Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.), a strong conservartive who, as chairman of the House Workforce HOFFA'S page 15
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Perry's 'Ponzi Scheme' Comments Continue to Draw Fire

Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:25:38 AM
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see the promised return but when new money fails to keep pace with the required payout, the scheme will collapse. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Mitt In most cases legal or financial Romney and Rick Perry at authorities interrupt the scheme, Republican Debate, Reagan or when the person or company Presidential Library, Simi Valley, running the scheme is disputed in Calif. September 7, 2011 some other fashion it will end. Why would Social Security be Perry stuck by his comments that compared to a Ponzi scheme? t h e n a t i o n s m o s t p o p u l a r Like us on Facebook e n t i t l e m e n t p r o g r a m i s a When Social Security began in monstrous lie and cannot meet 1935, it was designed as a safety the expectations of future retirees. net for older Americans. Before Yet it was his continued reference then, support for the elderly feel to the term Ponzi that critics to the states, towns and families. have zeroed in on. The program is based on and The term Ponzi is often dependent upon active workers misunderstood and misused by making contributions into the people when describing a certain program. type of illegal or unethical However, unlike an individual financial transaction. So, what retirement account, the money exactly is a Ponzi scheme? someone is paying into Social Named after Charles Ponzi who Security today is not the same masterminded the scheme at the dollar they will receive later on. beginning of the 20th century Plus, those who qualify under (although the scheme had been disability and some spouses of used earlier), it is a fraudulent retirees also receive funds. investment operation that pays When a person retires and is returns to separate investors, not eligible for Social Security, they from the actual profit earned by receive benefits for life even if the investment, but from the new those benefits exceed the amount money that is collected from new they paid into the program. But in investors. Early investors often order to keep the program afloat,
people who are in the workforce today are funding the retirees of today. If the money coming into Social Security suddenly stopped, the government would be unable to meet its monthly commitments. Does Social Security fit the profile of a true Ponzi scheme? Not entirely, because it was not designed to defraud taxpayers or workers. It does however, depend upon a constant source of revenue from current and new workers to survive. Therein lies the comparison to the Ponzi reference. While Democrats cling tightly to the program in order to protect their tradition base of support, Republicans, especially Rick Perry, are saying that if significant adjustments are not made and made soon the program will collapse on top of itself. Many pundits are expecting Perry to suffer some fallout over the Ponzi comparison; however, others are applauding Perry for bringing attention to the issue. Romneys wasted little time in attacking Perry on the issue. Our nominee has to be someone who isnt committed to abolishing Social Security but to saving Social Security, Romney said
during the debate. We keep the program and we make it financially secureUnder no circumstances would I ever stay by any measure its a failure. Weve got to keep it working. One of Perrys supporters, Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon, while attempting to avoid the Ponzi term, summed Social Security up by saying, It [Social Security] is mathematically unsustainable. New Hampshire State Rep. Pamela Tucker wasnt nearly so careful, telling Politico after the debate, You can call it a Ponzi scheme. People are putting money in thats not gonna be there. Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
I believe, we know what the negative results will be, King said. Republican leaders, including Boehner, requested a meeting with the President prior to his speech but the offer was rejected. I do not believe that anyone out there in the country thinks that the answer to getting Washington out of gridlock is having another round, before this speech, of meetings in the Cabinet Room," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Audrey Hudson, an awardwinning investigative journalist, is a Congressional Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS. A native of Kentucky, Mrs. Hudson has worked inside the Beltway for nearly two decades -- on Capitol Hill as a Senate and House spokeswoman, and most recently at The Washington Times covering Congress, Homeland Security, and the Supreme Court. Follow Audrey on Twitter and Facebook. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The CEO of embattled Gibson Guitar will be the special guest of the leader of Capitol Hills Songwriters Caucus at the Presidents speech to Congress on jobs tonight. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (RTenn.) invited Gibsons Henry Juszkiewicz as a gesture of support to her longtime friend and constituent, said Michael Reynard, her press secretary. Blackburn, who plays both the guitar and the ukulele, founded the Songwriters Caucus in 2003 as a vehicle to promote her states music industry and protect creative property, Reynard said. When House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) heard that Juszkiewicz would be in Washington, he contacted the congresswomans office and invited him to watch the speech from the speakers box in the House gallery, Reynard said. Before the speech, Blackburn said, she will escort the guitar executive through the halls of the Capitol to meet Congress members and other businessleader guests of the speaker. Small businesses under the leadership of executives like Henry are the key to getting our nations economic engine running
again, she said. The best thing President Obama could do is seek their advice, then get out of the way. Big government doesnt create jobs, small businesses like Gibson Guitar do, said Blackburn, whose favorite guitarist is Chet Atkins, who not only played Gibson guitars, but was a revolutionary designer for the company. The company is seen as a victim of heavy-handed government tactics after it was overwhelmed Aug. 24 by more than two dozen
Department of Justice agents in combat gear and armed with automatic rifles. The agents executed search warrants at the companys Memphis and Nashville facilities, seizing several pallets of rare wood, electronic files and guitars. Although no charges have been filed against the company, Juszkiewicz said it is his understanding that the issue is the Justice Departments interpretation of Indian export law and its enforcement of the 1900
Lacey Act, which prohibits the importation of materials that are illegal to export from the country of origin. Gibson has complied with foreign laws and believes it is innocent of any wrongdoing. We will fight aggressively to prove our innocence, Juszkiewicz said after the raid. The CEO said in an Aug. 25 statement that he was told by Justice Department officials that he would have no more problems if he moved his operations to
India. The use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Departments interpretation of a law in India, he said he was told. If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal. This interpretation is not shared by officials in India, he said. Blackburn said she wants to hold up Gibson as the model of what is correct about free enterprise in Tennessee and America. Gibson Guitar is at the heart of this jobs debate, and is an example of exactly why President Obama has it wrong when it comes to getting our economy back on track, she said. Maybe if the President spent more time finding real solutions to empowering small-business owners and less time hindering businesses like Gibson, we'd see more new jobs being created, she said. Neil W. McCabe is the editor of Guns & Patriots. McCabe, an Army reservist, has mobilized twice, first as combat historian in Iraq and then as a photojournalist at Fort Bragg, N.C.. Before his call to active-duty, he was a GIBSON page 12
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Google Acquires Zagat, Facebook Earned $500M In 2011 (So Far), Nike's McFly Electric Sneakers, HTC Sues Apple
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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Twitter Announces Activity. Twitter.com has 400 million monthly unique visitors, 100 million active users, and half its users log in every day, Twitter announced today. Also, Twitter has seen a 40% in mobile, quarter over quarter, with 55% of active users loggin in on mobile devices. Dick Costolo, Twitter's CEO rolled out the numbers in his announcement today, live tweeted b y t h e i r account@TwitterGlobalPR. For a closer look, Twitter has a meaty profile of their users on their blog. --NS --Updated 12:51 p.m. EST GetGlue To Connect Networks And Fans. When it launched, GetGlue tapped into people's need to be social and chatty about the television shows they were watching, and created a check-in application for entertainment. Now, signing up for GetGlue's newly launched business
"I don't think any single debate is make-or-break but the series of debates over the next few weeks will be critically important," says Republican pollster Whit Ayres. "In many ways, he is an unknown commodity to national Republicans. They know him by accounts, networks can create G i f t s P r o j e c t . E B a y ' s f i r s t Future 2 may finally be coming to reputation. They know him by his verified accounts for themselves, acquisition in social retail is the a store near you, soon. Nike, the record in Texas. But they don't connect with fans and track their Gifts Project. Friends planning for brand on the shoes in the movie know how he will deal with the social media engagement across a birthday party or another event and also the owners of a recent very complex issues that a Twitter and Facebook. GetGlue can use the platform to plan a gift patent for self-tightening tech for president has to face every day." s a y s t h e y ' v e s i g n e d u p 1 0 and contribute sums online. Ebay shoes, has released a teaser video The debate begins a six-week networks so far. --NS and the Gifts Project have been that shows hundreds of boots that period that will shape, and GetJar Launches Premium working together for a year, with look very similar to the movie perhaps winnow, the GOP field. Service. App store pioneer GetJar the Project powering eBays' props on shelves, poised to sell by There are three debates in 16 is launching GetJar Gold, a Group Gifts, which offered a the truckload during the holiday days in Simi Valley, Tampa premium service will begin with a similar service, All Things D season. --KE and then Orlando followed bundle of 50 free apps, to get reports. --NS HTC Sues Apple With Google next month by similar forums in consumers to try new apps and --Updated 11:49 a.m. EST Patents. HTC, makers of some of Iowa and Nevada. app developers extra visibility. [youtube PZ6SkdkXjAQ] the better selling Android phones, At that point, the opening Iowa This puts GetJar in step with the Facebook Earned $500 Million has a new IP suit against Apple-- caucuses will be just three months competing Amazon Appstore, So Far In 2011. According to which it has just admitted is away. which also features a premium analysis of Facebook's operations enabled by patents it bought from Contributing: Catalina Camia app a day. --NS by analysts, the world's largest Google last week. It's not clear This entry passed through the --Updated 12:22 p.m. EST s o c i a l n e t w o r k i n g s i t e h a d how much HTC paid. Google Full-Text RSS service if this is Google Acquires Zagat. Google revenues of around $1.6 billion recently acquired a patent treasure your content and you're reading it has bought the 32-year-old ratings for the first half of 2011, and trove by buying Motorola, to ward on someone else's site, please read company Zagat. Marissa Mayer, converted this into a net income off IP suits from players like the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentGoogle VP announced the news a of $500 million. While this figure Apple and Microsoft, which were only/faq.php#publishers. Five blog post on the Official Google may seem low (Facebook makes a both part of the successful bidding Filters featured article: A 'Malign Blog today. "I'm incredibly profit of only around $1.4 per team for Nortel's patents. --KE Intellectual Subculture' - George excited to collaborate with Zagat year for every user) it's twice the --Updated 6:00 a.m. EST Monbiot Smears Chomsky, to bring the power of Google e s t i m a t e d f i g u r e f o r 2 0 1 0 . Yesterday's Fast Feed: Groupon Herman, Peterson, Pilger And search and Google Maps to their Facebook is expected to IPO in IPO Delay, Facebook Boosts Media Lens. products and users and to bring early 2012. iPhone App, Antitrust Raid For the innovation, trust and their Nike Hints At Back To The Google Korea ...and more... wealth of experience to ours," Future Shoes. Marty McFly's Mayers wrote. --NS famous self-tightening electric EBay Gets Social, Buys The sneakers from Back To The
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problems, even unemployment. There was a point where I got so many letters that I thought this was something bigger. Finally, SuperBetter is a platform that's ready and available to try out in beta. In this system, users will be able to: create games to address certain challenges they're facing; select a nickname (like Jane The Concussion Slayer); build their own headquarters or laboratory (image below); select villains to fight, and allies to enlist to play with them online; or choose tasks they must accomplish in order to progress to an "Epic Win." Perhaps those are predictable aspects of the SuperBetter platform. A more surprising element is the game system's inclusion of scientific, interactive footnotes. If users--perhaps wary after too many Mafia Wars enticements surfaced on their Facebook walls-wonder why they should bother to enlist allies to play SuperBetter with them, how that helps them heal, they can click on a symbol within the game screen, and learn
more about the impact of allies on their health. Users will be presented with notes from studies like this one, Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analystic Review, by psychology and epidimeology researchers at the University of North Carolina and Brigham Young University. They found:"Social relationships are linked to better health practices and psychological processes such as stress and depression that influence health outcomes in their own right...[and involve] multiple biologic pathways that in turn influence a number of disease[s]... Social support is linked to better immune functioning..." Other partners in the development of SuperBetter the platform have included clinical researchers from Stanford, UC Berkeley, the University of Pennysylvania, and Ohio State University. All contributed scientific insights that guided the development of the SuperBetter platform. Ohio State University will further embark on clinical trials of
SuperBetter games starting on September 26. McGonigal said, "They have a leading research group looking into traumatic brain injury. They contacted me about six months ago asking if they could help me. They've been working with us to think through what will be helpful for doctors to play with their patients, or for patients to play at home with the families." The idea that healing from an injury or illness could be as simple as playing FarmVille or becoming a mayor on Foursquare almost makes you want to go catch a flu to try it out. Almost. SuperBetter can help users achieve goals like training for a half-marathon, or becoming a better dancer, too though. One user enlisted her family to go on a vegan diet for 30 days, McGonigal recounts. Another used it to get over a breakup. Because the achievements this game inspires could fall into any category, SuperBetter seems well positioned to seek revenue from advertisers, from Whole Foods to Match.com. McGonigal is not
sure exactly how she will generate revenue with the game platform, though. She is committed to keeping at least some primary version of this social game free to all users. FastCompany readers can gain priority access to become SuperBetter beta platform users by visiting this link and entering the code: FastCompany [Editor's note: Ahead of her speech at SOCAP, I wished McGonigal good luck on stage with a traditional note, "Break a leg." She quipped that if she ever does suffer another injury, including a broken leg, her readers, followers and colleagues will be suspicious: "It's a ruse! She's just trying to get SuperBetter again. She's working on something."] [Image: Avantgame via Wikimedia Commons]
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China's Amazon Eyes $5 Billion U.S. IPO Wall Street Journal

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Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored San Francisco: November 2 UPDATED

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:41:11 PM
Yuan to Be Fully Convertible by 2015, China Tells EU Chamber San Francisco Chronicle
Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event will take place on November 2nd in San Francisco. Confirmed speakers include: Mark Pincus, Founder, CEO & Chief Product Officer, ZyngaDave Morin, Cofounder and CEO, PathRobby Kwok, Head of Business Development, LinkedInAlison Moore, SVP, Digital Projects, HBO Craig Newmark, Founder and CSR, craigslist; Founder, craigconnects Franklin Leonard, VP Creative Affairs, Overbrook Entertainment; Creator/CEO, the Black ListSarah Ross, Founding Partner, West StudiosScott Case, CEO, Startup America PartnershipGary White, Executive Director and Cofounder, Water.orgLyndon Rive, CEO, SolarCityKathleen J. Powell, Cofounder and President, CinequestDoug Ulman, President and CEO, Livestrong Join our LinkedIn group to connect with attendees and speakers. Follow our speakers on Twitter. Click here for more information and to register for tickets.
Insight. Inspiration. Impact. We just added 5 new speakers to the lineup for Innovation Uncensored in San Francisco on November 2nd: Honorable Cory A. Booker, Mayor, City of NewarkDavid Cush, President & CEO, Virgin AmericaJohn Donahoe, President & CEO, eBay, Inc.Nathan Hubbard, CEO, TicketmasterEric Feng, CEO, Erly The conference is going to be intimate enough to give you access to the business visionaries in attendance, so that provocative thinking and collaboration can take place. But that also means space is limited and the earlybird ticket rate expires on September 23rd. Click here for more information and to register for tickets. Original Post: For the past two years, Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event in New York has gathered the people we cover in the magazine to speak candidly about how they do what they do. This past April, the people who took the stage offered an
unflinching look at "the power of transformation," through leadership, marketing, sustainability, design, and technology. Speakers included Hulu CEO Jason Kilar; director Morgan Spurlock paired with JetBlue's SVP, marketing, Marty St. George; FX Networks president John Landgraf in discussion with actor, director, musician Jared Leto; the head of sustainability at Starbucks paired with alternative fuel leader Sapphire Energy; Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org, and many more. Christina Norman, the former CEO of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, told the audience that she was unsure about joining OWN. A week later she was let go.
When asked why it's important to break form, Jared Leto responded, "Ultimately, as an artist, I follow my heart, my gut, my soul and do whatever the f--- I want." He continued to discuss the freedom he experiences as a musician, telling the audience to "bet on yourself, you have to always follow your dreams, and be willing to fail." Some 550 business leaders--from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, academia to government, from sustainability to entertainment, and more--joined the conversation. Now we're bringing the conversation to San Francisco. The location may be different, but the goal is the same: to bring together visionaries from all industries and change the way we think about business.
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had told the military. They lost radar with him, they lost contact with him, they lost everything, and they dont have any idea where he is or what happened, an unidentified F.A.A. official said. The plane was a 767, he said, explaining that he had gotten his information from the F.A.A.s Indianapolis center. All I need is the lat-long, last known position of the 767, the military officer asked. Well, I dont know, the F.A.A. official replied. That was Boston, that was Indy Center. But they said somewhere, it was, last time I talked to them, they said that it was east of York. And I dont even know what state that is. Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon three minutes later. At almost the same time, a military commander, Maj. Kevin Nasypany, discovered that some of the fighter pilots had been sent east of Washington, over the ocean, in pursuit of American Airlines Flight 11 which had
crashed nearly an hour earlier into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Major Nasypany ordered them to head toward Washington at high speed. I dont care how many windows you break, he said. The account published this week is missing two essential pieces that remain restricted or classified, according to Mr. Kara. One is about 30 minutes of the cockpit recording of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into the ground after passengers tried to storm the cockpit as hijackers flew across Pennsylvania toward Washington, D.C. Families of some of those onboard have objected to the release of that recording, Mr. Kara said. The other still-secret recording is of a high-level conference call that began at 9:28 and grew, over the course of the morning, to include senior figures like Mr. Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the vice
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers. The recording was turned over to the National Security Council. The 9/11 Commission was not permitted to keep a copy of it or of the transcript, Mr. Kara said, and investigators were closely monitored when they listened to it. Mr. Kara said he believed that the only truly sensitive material on the recordings were small portions that concerned the provisions being made to continue government operations if the attacks took out some national leadership or facilities. There was a staffer who was designated to sit with us, who would stop and start the tape, in my estimation to mask continuity of operations, Mr. Kara said. Nevertheless, he noted, the commission ended up with hours and hours of recordings that it initially did not have access to or had been told did not exist, a point Mr. Farmer echoed in the preface to the Rutgers Law Review
article. When the commission began taking testimony, military and civil aviation officials said that no tapes were made, and we were told at one point that a technical malfunction would prevent us from hearing them, Mr. Farmer wrote. If we had not pushed as hard as we did ultimately persuading the commission to use its subpoena power to obtain the records many of the critical conversations from that morning may have been lost to history. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Christians and secular feminists that fight pornography, rape, incest, domestic violence, working conditions and even abortion. Modern feminism has challenged the church to re-examine its life and theology of sex and gender, says Keyes. Christians should be deeply thankful for all the responsible biblical scholarship that has resulted reaffirming that
the Gospel Jesus brought to the poor, the lame, the blind, to prisoners and to all who are oppressed is indeed Good News for women, too. Where Do We Go From Here? Christian women should look to those early feminists who modeled how to impact their world while being wives and mothers. With the economy replacing brawn-based work that
favored men with service-oriented work that favors women, women will have more opportunities than ever to make a difference in the world. Im really excited to see what Christian women are doing today, says Crouse. When you look at a list of outstanding women today, you rarely see evangelical Christian women. And yet, if you want to find
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Anne Coulter: Sarah Palin Is the Obama of the Tea Party

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Ingraham also stated that eventually Palins tease has to deliver or just go away. Maybe not, Coulter replied. Newt Gingrich carried it on for 15 years and I kind of think that might be what were getting here, largely because of the polls. I mean, you just showed the Fox News poll. Gallup took a poll - I dont know - five, six months ago, showing that 65 percent said they would never definitely, positively, ever vote for Sarah Palin. With numbers like hers, Coulter said its unlikely Palin would run. Both women agreed that Palin was good at galvanizing crowds but seems to lack substance on some important issues. Coulter also made the statement that conservatives are hesitant to criticize the former governor for fear of backlash. Most Americans dont want Sarah Palin for president, Coulter continued. But shes become sort of the Obama of the tea party. Shes just The One to a certain segment of right-
Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, pressed for an investigation of Teamster money-laundering under Carey. He also cited Pat Buchanan, who, Hoffa felt, perhaps more than any other candidate for President [in 1996], talked about issues of concern to wingers. And the tiniest criticism conservatives out there. Yes, it's American labor, mainly keeping of her - I think many of your true that liberals will accuse some good jobs in America. Under James Hoffa, the viewers may not know this - no Republicans of being unelectable, Teamsters Union has remained conservative on TV will criticize just because they don't want to Palin because they dont want to face those Republicans. But that the appendage of the Democratic deal with the hate mail. You say doesn't mean there's no such thing Party he charged it had become under arch-nemesis Ron Carey. her voice is a few octaves too as unelectable. h i g h , o r p e r h a p s M i c h e l e T h e r e i s s u c h a t h i n g a s In 1998, Hoffas first year as Bachmans speaking voice is electable. And Republicans and president, the Teamsters gave more modulated, and you will be conservatives ought to be focused $2,333,270, or 93%, of its inundated with enraged emails. on that like a laser beam, because political dollars to Democratic Like us on Facebook I agree Obama has a glass jar and c a n d i d a t e s , a n d o n l y 6 % I got sick of it with Newt we've got to get this guy out if we ($149,650) to Republicans. In Gingrich, too: Fish or cut bait, want to turn the country around. this election cycle so far, the Coulter said, Because you are I n a r e c e n t A B C N e w s / union has given 97% of its g i n n i n g u p t h i s g r o u p o f Washington Post poll, Obama, political dollars to Democrats and Americans who will not even despite falling approval ratings, only 3% to Republicans. (Figures consider anyone else. You know, still trounces Palin in a match up we used to all love Sarah Palin - 53 to 41. conservatives like me - for her Be the first of thousands of enemies. Im starting to dislike iPosters by sharing your news, her because of her fans I think views, and analysis. shes bright, but her good points This entry passed through the do not seem to be in the direction Full-Text RSS service if this is of running for president. I sort of your content and you're reading it wish, just like Newt Gingrich: on someone else's site, please read (Nation - Google News) Just run so we can get this over the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentSubmitted at 9/8/2011 4:34:33 PM with. only/faq.php#publishers. Five Coulter went on to lament what Filters featured article: A 'Malign Talks with Maoists will be most conservatives have already Intellectual Subculture' - George fruitful, Binayak Sen asserts thought of Palin as a potential M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Economic Times candidate: unelectable. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And KOLKATA: Human right activist There is an incorrect statement Media Lens. Binayak Sen on Thursday exuded that is often made by -- by many confidence about the talks between the West Bengal
provided by the Center for Responsive Politics). And now comes the salvo about taking these sonofabitches out. Simply put, its a far cry from the words of the union reformer in 1997 who promised a union that will not be tied to any one political party. John Gizzi is Political Editor of HUMAN EVENTS. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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AFP Why a U.S. War With China May Be Inevitable U.S. News & World Report (blog) Coincidental with the rush of 9/ 11 reflections has been the howling of war hounds for conflict with China. Princeton professor Aaron L. Friedberg, a former close adviser to Vice
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo gave a progress report at the company's headquarters in San Francisco this morning. Internally, the company looks at three metrics: growth, innovation (new features and how fast they can roll them out), and revenue. But Costolo said that revenue is viewed as a means to an end -- to fulfill the company's mission of connecting people everywhere to what's most meaningful to them. As he put it, "we should think of revenue like breathing -- it's (Nation - Google News) in a specially adapted double necessary for life, but it's not the purpose of life." decker... Submitted at 9/8/2011 4:27:40 PM Universities in rethink over As far as growth goes, he gave BBC News some pretty amazing stats. Twitter tuition fees The Guardian Anglia Ruskin University student Cut fees to recruit more students, now has: finance bus starts tour universities told Telegraph.co.uk 100 million active users (who BBC News C h e a p e r b y t h e d o z e n : log in at least once a month). A university has begun a road universities cut fees in response to That's up over 80% since the show across the east of England to W h i t e P a p e r T i m e s H i g h e r beginning of the year. (Those explain the changes to student E d u c a t i o n numbers don't include spam, f i n a n c e s . A n g l i a R u s k i n The Independent- Scotsman- which is next to zero now.) University, which has campuses Braintree and Witham Times in Chelmsford and Cambridge, all 29 news articles will visit 20 towns in East Anglia
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Twitter CEO Claims 50 Million Daily Users -- And 40% Are Just Watching
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50 million users who log in every day. 40% of active users don't tweet -- they're just following timelines. That number is way up from the beginning of the year, and Costolo believes this is a good thing -- it's proof that the platform is becoming mainstream, and shows that Twitter has successfully moved from being a publishing platform to a place where people can follow their interests. 55% of users log in on a mobile device. 400 million monthly unique visitors just to Twitter.com, according to Google Analytics. That's up from 250 million at the beginning of the year. As far as innovation goes, Costolo said that he wants Twitter to be completely consistent across mobile devices, and that new
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versions of the Twitter mobile apps will be closer in tight. Twitter is also tightening the feedback loops, and trying to make it easier to find content you're interested in -- that is, moving beyond having to type hashtags. He didn't discuss Twitter's revenue in detail, but said that advertising is the business focus -they won't be expanding the datalicensing side, although deals like the one with Bing are still important. "Every quarter, advertising as a percentage of revenue will grow and grow and grow." Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The Best Tech People To Follow On Twitter Piictu Is Twitter For Pictures, No Typing Allowed Shockingly, Twitter Users Don't Mind Its Ads
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Classic Dan Loeb: Read His Scathing Letter To The Yahoo Board
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and governance. The Failures of Yahoos Board of Directors Necessitate a Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:50:26 AM Significant Infusion of Fresh Just out: Dan Loeb's letter Board Talent slamming the Yahoo board. Yahoos current Board of Fans of hedge fund letters will Directors has made a number of definitely want to read: decisions that have directly ---------harmed the Company and resulted Board of Directors in a stock price far below the Yahoo! Inc. Companys intrinsic value. While 701 First Avenue we are focused on the future for Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Yahoo under new management, it Attention: Mr. Roy Bostock, is instructive to understand how Chairman this Boards many mistakes have Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: created the current conditions at Third Point LLC (Third Point) an asset and talent rich company. is a registered investment adviser Among others: with approximately $8 billion 1) under management. We are It is now widely accepted that the writing to inform you that certain B o a r d m a d e a s e r i o u s investment funds we manage have misjudgment in approving the acquired a 5.1% interest in hiring of Carol Bartz as Yahoos Yahoo! Inc. (the Company or Chief Executive Officer, given Yahoo), bringing our holdings her inexperience in the consumerof common stock and currently- oriented internet space. Although exercisable equity options to we are pleased that the Board has 65,000,000 of the outstanding t e r m i n a t e d M s . B a r t z s shares, and positioning us as the e m p l o y m e n t , w e f a i l t o Companys third largest outside understand why this decision was shareholder. so long in coming given her This letter details our principled abysmal performance over the last demands for sweeping changes in two and a half years. During this both the Board of Directors (the period, Ms. Bartzs poor decision B o a r d ) a n d C o m p a n y making and communication skills leadership, and outlines the publicly alienated the Companys hidden value of Yahoo, which has highly respected Asian partners, been severely damaged but not as well as its shareholders, sellirreparably by poor management side analysts, bloggers, customers
and employees. While the decision to hire her alone is grounds for questioning the Boards competence, its willingness to turn a blind eye to these serious problems and inexplicably remain supportive of Ms. Bartz notwithstanding the negative impact she was having on the Company is even more troubling. As recently as June 23, 2011, at the Companys annual meeting, Chairman Bostock reportedly stated that the Board remained very supportive of Carol and this management team and that they were confident that Yahoo [was] headed in the right direction." These comments demonstrate that this Board lacks the courage to urgently make the difficult decisions required by the situation today. 2) It is also now widely recognized that the Board made a gross error in turning down the $31 per share Microsoft bid in 2008, which would have generated significant returns for Yahoos shareholders. This mistake is all the more frustrating given Yahoos current depressed stock price of $13.61 per share far below the Companys intrinsic value, which we currently place in excess of $20 per share, as detailed below. From the failed Microsoft sale negotiations, to a subsequent
bungled and disappointing search deal with Microsoft, through a series of misguided CEO selections, and most recently the Alipay debacle, this Boards failures have destroyed value for all Yahoo stakeholders. Ms. Bartzs exit and Mr. Morses elevation to interim CEO makes him Yahoos fourth CEO in four years and further demonstrates the poor corporate governance Yahoo investors have been saddled with for too long. Even before Ms. Bartzs hire, Yahoos shares materially underperformed the market and their peer group, as graphically evidenced in the Companys most recent 10-K. Against this background, it is evident that merely replacing the Companys CEO yet again will not be enough to alter the direction of the Company. Instead, a reconstituted Board with new Directors who will bring fresh eyes, relevant industry expertise and increased investor alignment to the table is immediately necessary. Yahoos website states the Companys values, among them: We foster collaboration while maintaining individual accountability. It is time that certain members of this Board were held accountable for its past failures and their individual roles. Accordingly, we insist that Mr.
Bostock, who championed Ms. Bartzs hiring and led the charge against the Microsoft deal, promptly resign from the Board. We also demand that fellow Directors Arthur Kern and Vyomesh Joshi, who have stood by silently during these last five years of woeful performance, join Mr. Bostock in resignation. Finally, we can only assume that Director Susan James, the President of Tri-Valley Animal Rescue, will also resign, given her close relationship with Ms. Bartz. If she does not do so voluntarily, the Board should request her resignation as well. As the Company sets out to recruit a new CEO and evaluate strategic alternatives, we are adamant that reconstituting the Board is crucial to provide any serious CEO candidate or strategic counterparty with a stable and responsive governance structure. There is much work to be done and time is of the essence. Even after the Company announced Ms. Bartzs dismissal 2 and the pursuit of strategic alternatives, Yahoo shares rose only 5%. We believe the muted market reaction to Ms. Bartzs dismissal represents a recognition that this management change is a CLASSIC page 18
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necessary, but not sufficient, step towards unlocking Yahoos actual value. Investors reluctance to embrace the stock and their lack of confidence in this Boards ability to lead the franchise is understandable given the current Boards track record. Third Point has held discussions with many highly respected entrepreneurial executives active in technology, internet, media and consumer-related businesses. From these discussions we have distilled an All-Star team of potential Director candidates, who would be indispensable in working with the reconstituted Board to pursue the three paths outlined in the recent company announcement: CEO search, business review and strategic options. We look forward to sharing our candidates with you shortly. The Obscured Value in an Iconic American Technology Asset We firmly believe that there is much to be gained from a successful and rapid transition in management, as we are convinced that Yahoo is grossly undervalued. We have followed Yahoo for many years, and our analysis suggests that at a share price of $13.61, with $2.49 per share in tax adjusted net cash, $3.10 per share and $5.24 per share of after-tax values for the
Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Group stakes respectively, core Yahoo is left at an implied value of $2.78 per share or 2.2x 2012 EBITDA. With more effective and focused management, one could realistically envision a re-rating to at least 7.0x 2012 EBITDA, driving a target of over $19.00 per share. When coupled with tax efficient outcomes for its Asian assets, an additional $3.00-4.00 per share stands to be realized. Continued share count reduction via buybacks and other potential capital structure optimization alternatives would further bolster the Companys stock price. In addition, based on our discussions with industry experts and entrepreneurs, we believe that with new management, there is significant further value in leveraging Yahoos globally trusted franchise and platform for a range of new products and innovations. Focusing specifically on the Alibaba Group, the mid-term value potential for this stake alone could represent another $5.00 per share of upside. The e-commerce interests housed under the Alibaba Group umbrella hold the dominant positions in the B2B (63% of 2010 market share according to Marbridge Consulting), C2C (85% share) and B2C (51% share) Chinese e
-commerce markets. Alibaba Groups Taobao business is essentially Ebay and Amazon on steroids in terms of market share and revenue growth. According to Goldman Sachs, the Chinese ecommerce market was $75 billion in 2010, with a 3 year forward compound annual growth rate of 43% compared to the $193 billion U.S. market with compound annual growth of 14% over the same period. We currently estimate a pre-tax value for Alibaba Group of $25 billion. Given Alibaba Groups growth potential and market share, it is entirely conceivable that Yahoos 40% fully diluted stake in Alibaba Group could double in value over the next 2-3 years, highlighting its tremendous value. 3 Looking deeper into core Yahoo, it is clear that the Company possesses unique scale and scope as the Internets premier digital media company. The near completion of significant platform transitions and increasing ad format creativity and client engagement translate to exciting prospects for 2012. These compelling Yahoo initiatives were sadly lost in the chaos surrounding Ms. Bartzs tenure as CEO. Hidden by Yahoos senior management drama is a franchise benefitting daily from tremendous
investment in resources and new platforms successfully built by Yahoos corps of talented, committed engineers, product development team and salespeople. Finally, the Companys leadership needs to rebuild relationships with its valued Asian partners in Yahoo Japan, Softbank and the Alibaba Group. These are important sources of value for Yahoo, and the Company needs to enter a new, constructive era with these critical allies and friends of the Company. In conclusion, we are eager to present to the Board our candidates and thoughts on the Companys future. We hope that the Board will take our proposals seriously and move towards the leadership overhaul that we are championing. While the decision to undertake Board turnover initially rests with individual directors, ultimately, shareholders like Third Point have other means to effect changes necessary to protect their investment. We are prepared to propose a slate of directors at the Companys annual meeting next year should it become necessary. Such proxy disputes are burdensome, and we sincerely hope that one will not be necessary here. Shareholders have already suffered enough. It is time for new leadership at
Yahoo. Yahoos investors, employees, clients and users deserve it. We look forward to having what is great about Yahoo make headlines, encouraged and communicated by new CEO and Board leaders. Sincerely, /s/ Daniel S. Loeb Daniel S. Loeb Chief Executive Officer Third Point LLC CC: Ms. Patti Hart Ms. Sue James Mr. Vyomesh Joshi Mr. David Kenny Mr. Arthur Kern Mr. Brad Smith Mr. Gary Wilson Mr. Jerry Yang Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: GOSSIP: Today's Wall Street Buzz in 60 Seconds Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple Why There's Still No Housing Bottom In Sight
Morrisons: shoppers becoming 'professional' to save money

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Shoppers are becoming increasingly "professional" as a result of the lowest consumer
confidence in a generation, according to the head of Morrisons.
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The Complete Guide To What Bright Young To Expect From Barack Supernova Visible Obama's Jobs Speech Tonight With Binoculars
Zeke Miller (Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:49:00 AM
creating" companies who he says are impacted by the Obama administration's regulatory President Barack Obama will a c t i o n s . a d d r e s s a J o i n t S e s s i o n o f Here's what we've learned about Congress tonight at 7 p.m. to O b a m a ' s p l a n s o f a r f r o m present his economic growth plan, administration and Democratic "The American Jobs Act" to the sources: American people. The single-largest component of The speech comes at a pivotal the bill will be an extension and moment in Obama's presidency, expansion of the payroll tax cut to under pressure from both sides of benefit employers as well as their the aisle to get Americans back to employees. The estimated cost of work. this measure is between $120 His plan may top $400 billion billion to $140 billion. a number that will undoubtedly He is also expected to unveil a draw criticism from Republican new small business tax cut, which lawmakers worried about debt and combined with increased transfer deficits. payments to state and local Obama has not shared his plan governments would cost $100 with congressional Republicans, billion. despite their requests to be Obama will push for the consulted before the speech, and extension of unemployment he may even present his proposal benefits, and may introduce a job as a formal bill that he will creation initiative modeled on a demand Congress take up and G e o r g i a p r o g r a m t o a l l o w bring to a vote. business to take on unemployed Speaker of the House John workers for a trial period without Boehner has invited more than a paying them. (The workers would dozen executives from "job receive unemployment benefits in
lieu of salary.) These plans would run to at least $50 billion. The long-promised infrastructure bank to invest in schools, bridges and other projects would cost another $100 billion. The plan is "fully paid for" through a combination of closing corporate tax loopholes and " asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share." It's not clear whether these are immediate offsets, or if the savings will be realized over 10 years. Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Bachmann Goes Rogue, Will Offer Rebuttal To Obama's Jobs Address Here's What's At Stake For Each GOP Candidate In Tonight's Debate Here's The Most Important Exchange Of The GOP Debate
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Plough." Looking between Alkaid and Mizar, the first two stars in the Berkeley Astrophysicist Peter handle of The Plough or Big Nugent Discusses PTF 11kly Dipper, the pinwheel galaxy is A newly discovered stellar located above their midpoint at explosion is currently expected to t h e a p e x o f a n i m a g i n a r y be at its brightest phase and can e q u i l a t e r a l t r i a n g l e . T h e be seen with a good pair of supernova is a bright star at the binoculars or a small telescope. edge of one of its spiral arms. PTF 11kly was spotted about 21 "Whilst it looks more or less like million light-years away in the just another bright star, unlike its pinwheel galaxy, Messier 101, by companions this supernova will scientists from Oxford University soon fade away, and after a few on Aug. 24 during the Palomar days it will only be visible with Transient Factory (PTF) sky larger telescopes," Sullivan said. survey. It is now being observed "For many people it could be a using the Hubble Space Telescope once in a lifetime chance to see a through mid-October. PTF 11kly supernova of this kind blossom is a Type Ia supernova and the and then fade before their eyes; nearest of its kind to Earth for 40 we may not see another one like it years. These explosions occur due for another forty, or perhaps over to detonation of a white dwarf, a hundred, years!" and are so bright that they can be This entry passed through the used as standard candles to Full-Text RSS service if this is d e t e r m i n e d i s t a n c e s i n t h e your content and you're reading it universe, and also to measure dark on someone else's site, please read energy. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"The best view of this exploding only/faq.php#publishers. Five star is likely to be this Wednesday Filters featured article: A 'Malign or Thursday," said research team Intellectual Subculture' - George leader Mark Sullivan of Oxford M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , University in a press release. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And "Look for it just after evening Media Lens. twilight near the handle of The
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Military Pilots Defending America's Skies on 9/11

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"I remember seeing the first tower burning and realizing pretty quickly as the blue sky surrounded that image that every American remembers to this day," recalls Dan Caine. Caine was like many Americans on 9/11, as he watched the unfolding horror on a television screen. "I truly realized that we were a nation under attack when I stood there ... and the second airliner hit the second tower. And then, after a second of pause, our training kicked in." Unlike many of his fellow citizens, he was called to do something about it. Caine is a colonel in the Air National Guard, 113th Wing, based at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside of Washington, D.C. He flies F-16 fighter jets, and he was ordered on Sept. 11, 2001, to take to the skies to shoot down any other hijacked airlines that posed a threat to the nation's capital. When he got the orders to run out to his jet, which was on standby, he recalls his boss saying, "I don't know exactly what you're going to see out there, I don't know what you are going to face, but I trust you and I got your back."
Those were encouraging words as Col. Caine raced to his jet, climbed into the cockpit as the missiles were loaded onto the wingsfor the first time facing a real-life threat on the home frontand not just another practice drill. "Our mission on the morning of 9/
11 was to protect right over downtown Washington, D.C. As my airplane came to life, the generators came on-line, the radios were going ballistic, and you know, people on the emergency channels were saying 'anybody around Washington, D.C., you will be shot down,' and
I remember thinking to myself, 'wait...that's me.' " Caine took to the sky and flew near the Capitol and past the White House. He never had to fire a missile. Caine intercepted about a dozen different aircraft, pulling up alongside them on the pilot's left
side, waving his wings and indicating the recognized message to change course. He even had to pull in front of some airliners and drop flares out of his fighter, as a signal for the offending planes to turn around. MILITARY page 22
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Obama's Jobs Plan: Real Deal or Political Posturing?

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:58:25 AM
WASHINGTON President Obama plans to unveil a $400 billion jobs plan Thursday night, as he attempts to jolt the economy out of a motionless slump and convince skeptical Republicans that his proposals are the right medicine. Democratic officials familiar with the plan, which will be called The American Jobs Act, confirmed its size to Fox News. The bill is expected to contain a blend of infrastructure spending, tax relief, unemployment assistance and other aid. Officials said the president will pay for the plan with spending cuts, though he will not detail them Thursday night. However, presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett told Fox Business Network that the bill sent to Congress next week will be paid for through changes in the tax code. "We need a fair tax system. We need to make sure that people that are paying their fair share, that those who can most afford to pay a little bit more do. ... In this particular bill, the president will be looking to close loopholes." Obama may ask a new congressional super committee debt panel to go beyond its target of finding $1.5 trillion in deficit
reduction by the end of November to cover the cost, allowing the extra savings in the longer run for short-term economic help. That debt panel meets for the first time Thursday before the president's speech. Republicans have voiced frustration with the whole affair.
They expressed concern that the president would use the address to paint Republicans as obstructionists, though they still don't have his plan in hand. "I can't listen to another political speech from this president," Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said. "It will be a lecture."
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., told Fox News people are "tired of speeches," but predicted the public would "see right through that" if Obama tries to prop up the GOP to take the fall for the ailing economy. Democratic officials indeed said Republicans would be sending a
signal to the American people that they are on their own if Congress does not pass Obama's legislation. But they described the president's proposals as bipartisan, suggesting the only reason Congress wouldn't pass them is if OBAMA'S page 26
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"Several of the intercepts that I ran were airliners that we pushed away, to tell them to go: 'Man I don't care where you go; you're just going somewhere else now.' So we basically created a zone around Washington, D.C., in which nobody would travel except us. Our defense in-depth plan became pushing traffic away from Washington out to 40, 50, 60 miles, which created time. The single biggest thing I wanted as the mission commander over downtown, was time. I wanted time to be able to determine what is this airplane's intent, is it under control of the right people that are supposed to be in the cockpit, and so that was our game plan that we executed." United Flight 93, the Boeing 757 that crashed in Pennsylvania when the passengers fought back against the hijackers, was one of the planes he was told could be a threat. Col. Caine says "not a day goes by that I personally don't remember the incredible courage, leadership and sacrifice that those passengers made. They made our lives that much more peaceful today by taking matters into their own hands, and being proactive Americans instead of reactive Americans." Caine spent the day over Washington trying to sort out the mass of airplanes that could have
posed a danger, and calls the prospect of having to actually shoot down an airliner, "a complicated question," but realizes that "the nation relies on folks like me to do that and we were prepared to do that, that morning." F-15 Air National Guard pilot, Col. Timothy Duffy, feels the same way. "If it came down to that, would we have done it? Yes. If it was legal order and properly authenticated, then we would have done what we had to do. It would have been, obviously, a tremendously difficult thing to do and to live with." Duffy was scrambled from Otis Air National Guard base on Cape Cod and headed directly to New York City, flying supersonic to get there as fast as he could. "At 18,000 feet, I really wasn't worried about blowing out anybody's windows. I just wanted to get there as quickly as possible." At first, he was told the target was a possible hijacked airliner, but as he neared the city, the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, had already crashed into the north tower. "That was kind of a shock," he recalls. "We heard about a second aircraft and we didn't know the first one had hit yet. So we were probably something like 80 miles
out, going 1.3 to 1.4 mach, and you could see the smoke coming off the towers. As soon as the second aircraft hit, it was pretty obvious...at that point that we're under attack." Col. Duffy says his first order of business was to make sure there were no more hijacked airliners, and he started a mission similar to Col. Caine's, which was to intercept any questionable aircraft. He points out that even if he had arrived before the second plane hit, he would not have been able to fire any missiles at the airliner. Those were not his orders. "If we'd been there earlier, that's probably the question I get the most, if you'd had been there at least in time for the second aircraft, what would you have done? And we would have intercepted it just like we did the other planes. So, you would have seen me pull up beside it and try to turn it away, but that's all that I could do and that's all that we would have had clearance to do." Duffy intercepted a variety of planes, and when the first tower collapsed, he was doing just that. "When the first tower went down I was actually escorting a Delta jet into Kennedy," Duffy recalls, "and I just remember seeing some, some motion out of the corner of my eye and all I could see was a tan cloud that was over southern
Manhattan." He then headed right for the World Trade Center. "I flew right up over the top of it and I was looking down, and looking at the square of the roof, really just trying to see if it was leaning or doing anything and it looked good, and I was just getting ready to call and tell them hey, you know the building looks great to me from where I'm sitting, and as I'm looking at the square in the roof it just starts getting smaller. And, you know, for a couple of seconds I really didn't have any frame of reference to put it against, and I wasn't sure what I was looking at until I saw the plume coming out of the bottom, realized it was falling away from me. I have to say that was probably the most horrifying thing for me that day was to witness that." Duffy says, "I allowed myself that emotional time to kind of be horrified, and then I had to kind of push that out and then get back to business and focus on the task at hand." The task at hand has remained the same for the National Guard pilots since that morning, a decade ago: Defend America. "We took off in peace time, and landed, basically, in wartime," notes Col. Duffy. "We do not get complacent out here," Caine says. "Every time the
horn goes off I think this is potentially a similar situation to 9/ 11." National Guard units are on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The fighters are ready to bolt into the sky at a second's notice. And since 9/11, Col. Caine's National Guard unit has scrambled to face reports of a possible new threat, more than 3,000 times. Just a short walk from the row of fighters waiting to take to the air, there is stark reminder of why Col. Caine and his colleagues are always on alert. "There's a stone from the Pentagon, reminding us that, again in our history, the sleeping giant has awakened and we should never forget." Click for full coverage of the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Analysis: Romney vs. Perry -- a contrast in style

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presidential campaign who teaches at the University of Southern California. "You R e p u b l i c a n p r e s i d e n t i a l couldn't have a sharper choice." candidates Mitt Romney and Rick The contrast in styles was in full Perry participate in the Reagan display at the California debate, Centennial GOP presidential where the Romney-Perry rivalry primary debate at the Ronald turned the other six candidates on Reagan Presidential Library in stage into bit players except for S i m i V a l l e y , C a l i f o r n i a occasional signs of life from Jon September 7, 2011. Huntsman. Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni Perry was a fountain of red-meat By John Whitesides conservative rhetoric. He declared WASHINGTON| Thu Sep 8, the Social Security retirement 2011 12:27pm EDT plan a "Ponzi scheme" and a (Reuters) - If the Republican " m o n s t r o u s l i e , " a n d s a i d presidential race becomes a two- President Barack Obama had bad man fight between Mitt Romney information or was an "abject liar" and Rick Perry -- and judging if he believed the border with from Wednesday's debate it Mexico was safer. already is -- primary voters will Romney was the voice of have a stark choice. moderation. He said Social East Coast establishment calm Security should be overhauled but versus Texas Tea Party fire. not dismantled, called Obama "a P r i v a t e s e c t o r b u s i n e s s nice guy" and sympathized with background versus lifelong Perry when he admitted he made a p o l i t i c i a n . M o r m o n v e r s u s mistake in ordering young girls be evangelical Christian. vaccinated for a sexually Romney, the one-time moderate transmitted virus that causes from liberal Massachusetts, and cervical cancer. Perry, the outspoken conservative Perry's fiery style is aimed from the west Texas plains, share directly at the Tea Party fiscal and little except party membership, social conservatives who play a good hair and a past as governors big role in the nominating of their respective states. process, but could turn off "On a personal level, these guys independents and conservative are different in every possible Democrats who often decide the way," said Dan Schnur, an aide on general election. Republican John McCain's 2000 Romney, whose moderate past
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and Obama-like healthcare plan in Massachusetts have made him an object of suspicion for some conservatives, has largely targeted his pitch to independents and swing voters who could decide a general election. The outcome of their Republican battle for the right to challenge Obama in 2012 could set the party's course for years to come, determining if it continues its drift to the right or begins to shift back to the middle. CONFLICT ON JOBS The two candidates have relatively few policy differences, but clashed again at the debate on who would be better at creating jobs. Romney touts his private business experience at an equity firm, while Perry points to his record as governor in Texas. But the difference in rhetoric on Social Security could become a flashpoint in the campaign. Perry's fervent attacks on a program that is extremely popular with seniors, the demographic group that most frequently votes, worry some Republican strategists. "You can't win a national campaign when you are on the record calling for the dismantling of Social Security," Steve Schmidt, who headed McCain's 2008 campaign, said on MSNBC. "It's very problematic for him, and
I think it's something that Democrats have a lot of glee over," he said. The attacks on Social Security might not hurt Perry in a primary race dominated by Tea Party conservatives demanding drastic cuts in government spending, but it could raise concerns about Perry's chances of beating Obama. "The people who loved Perry are going to love him more," Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas, said of his debate rhetoric. "The people worried about his electability are going to be more deeply worried than they were before." Romney was the one-time leader in polls of the 2012 race, but since joining the campaign last month Perry has zoomed past him with the help of deep support from social and religious conservatives. That has forced Romney to calibrate his approach, appearing at his first Tea Party rally on Sunday and at a conservative forum in South Carolina on Monday in a more blatant appeal to the party's conservative wing. Ultimately, the winner in the Perry-Romney battle might be the candidate who is most effective in broadening his message and becoming more like the other. "Does Romney win over the Tea Party and become more of a fighter? Does Perry become
calmer and more reasoned? The one who does that best probably wins," Schnur said. With Perry taking away much of her conservative support, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann has been sliding in the polls and made little impression on Wednesday. But Huntsman, the former governor of Utah, had a better and more forceful performance than in the last debate. His showing raised the prospect he could replace Bachmann as the third contender waiting to jump in if either Perry or Romney falter. "I think Huntsman will be a factor before this is over," said Fergus Cullen, the former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. "If Bachmann is fading and is being eclipsed by Perry, somebody is moving into that third slot." (Editing by Jackie Frank) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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U.S. debt panel meets for first time, vow compromise

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The two co-chairs tried to tamp down financial market expectations as both warned in The United States Capitol nearly identical language that the building is seen as legislators super committee work product move into a weekend of crucial alone is not going to be able to health care deliberations in solve all of the country's fiscal Washington March 19, 2010. problems. Credit: Reuters/Jim Bourg Senator Patty Murray, the By Kevin Drawbaugh and Donna Democratic co-chair, said in an Smith opening statement that Democrats WASHINGTON| Thu Sep 8, and Republicans "certainly have 2011 12:25pm EDT some real differences" on how to (Reuters) - Members of a achieve a deficit-reduction congressional "super committee," p a c k a g e . charged with finding at least $1.2 But she noted that super trillion in new deficit reductions, committee members so far "have vowed to help get America's fiscal refrained from drawing lines in house in order when they met for the sand or carving out areas that the first time on Thursday. can't be touched." She urged The panel of 12 congressional members not to be "boxed in or Democrats and Republicans pigeonholed" by special interest acknowledged they had a tough groups. road ahead of them and must keep Signs of the pressure the panel o p e n m i n d s t o r e a c h a n was under were apparent from the agreement. They used the opening beginning as a small group of meeting to make brief statements labor union-backed protesters and set rules for operating, outside the room briefly The committee has until only interrupted the proceedings with November 23 to grapple with chants of, "What do we want? divisive questions of whether to Jobs. When do we need them? cut popular social safety net Now." programs and whether wealthy Police quickly moved the corporations or individuals should protesters out of the building. be taxed more -- and it is doing so In opening statements, two with the 2012 national elections Republican members of the panel coming into focus. said the committee should
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consider comprehensive tax reform. Representatives David Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, along with Senator Rob Portman said such reform could be a key to bringing down the deficit and spur economic growth. While Republicans urge comprehensive tax reform, they are not yet saying they would back more targeted tax hikes as part of a deficit reduction deal -something supported by Democrats. Most experts believe there is not enough time between now and November 23 to achieve a broad rewrite of the complex U.S. tax code. Democratic Representative James Clyburn warned that spending cuts should not be the super committee's only priority, saying that debt and deficit-reduction should be coupled with "a strong code of job creation." The bitter fight between Republicans and Democrats over raising the U.S. debt ceiling this summer brought the country to the brink of a default and led to an unprecedented Standard & Poor's downgrade of the U.S. AAA credit rating. Going beyond $1.2 trillion in savings would hearten financial
markets and U.S. credit rating agencies, which want to see a couple trillion dollars more saved. As the super committee stares down a national debt that will soon race past the size of the entire $14.9 trillion economy, its members know that failure to tackle deficits could result in another downgrade of the government's debt rating. That would be a new blow to a shaky U.S. economy at a time when European countries also are struggling with a massive debt crisis that threatens to ripple across the world. HYBRID PLAN Pressure to reduce government budget deficits is fueled largely by conservative Tea Party activists' successes in the 2010 congressional elections but also by the knowledge that tackling debt would inject confidence into the U.S. economy. It is also a message that President Barack Obama aims to deliver to a joint session of Congress on Thursday when he lays out his plan for creating more jobs. With only about 10 weeks to come up with a plan that Congress would then vote on by December 23, the super committee must come up with a plan that does not fall victim to the partisan
bickering that has sharply divided Capitol Hill and to the acrimony of the 2012 national elections. Under the law, if a majority of the panel does not agree to at least $1.2 trillion in new savings over 10 years -- on top of the $917 billion agreed to last month and $38 billion in April -- automatic spending cuts will be triggered, beginning in 2013. However, Congress may have time to revisit the issue before the cuts would be triggered. The committee could end up supporting a hybrid plan that combines some budget savings with automatic spending cuts and also sketches out additional savings beyond the 10-year window. (Additional reporting by Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro; Writing by Deborah Charles; Editing by Jackie Frank) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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predecessors created jobs at a faster rate than you did. The critiques were among AP multiple rapid-fire exchanges Spet. 7: Republican presidential between the two candidates, who candidates former Massachusetts shared the stage with six other Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and White House hopefuls at the Texas Gov. Rick Perry, stand Ronald Reagan Presidential together before a Republican Library in Simi Valley, Calif., a presidential candidate debate at symbolic setting that invoked the the Reagan Library in Simi memory of the conservative Valley, Calif. Republican who swept to two The two titans of the Republican terms as president. presidential contest hammered The debate also marked a key test each other over job creation and for Minnesota Rep. Michele Social Security on Wednesday Bachmann, whose prospects rose night, as Rick Perry got his first last month with her win in the chance to articulate his campaign Iowa Straw Poll only to be message on the national debate overshadowed by Perry's entrance stage. into the race. The Texas governor sparred early None of the GOP contenders had a n d o f t e n w i t h f o r m e r anything positive to say about M a s s a c h u s e t t s G o v . M i t t Obama, either his record on Romney, whom he has overtaken creating jobs or the health care as front-runner since joining the law they have vowed to repeal if race a month ago. With Perry they win the White House. trying to defend that position and Bachmann said she would Romney trying to reclaim it, the provide the "strong, bold leader in two came armed with zingers to the presidency who will lead that take each other down a peg. effort. None of us should ever "Michael Dukakis created jobs think that the repeal bill will just three times faster than you did, come to our desk," she said in a Mitt, Perry quipped, in a stinging pledge that drew applause from r e f e r e n c e t o t h e f o r m e r the audience. Massachusetts governor who lost Former House Speaker Newt the presidential election to George Gingrich resisted an effort to draw H.W. Bush. him into conflict with other Romney immediately shot back Republicans on stage. "I'm frankly that George Bush and his not interested in your efforts to
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get Republicans fighting each other," he said, sparking an even louder round of applause. He said all Republicans should "defeat efforts by the news media" to spark an internal struggle when the real objective is to defeat Obama in 2012. But moments later, businessman Herman Cain said that after trying to defeat Democratic efforts to create national health care, "I'm running against Romneycare," the legislation that passed requiring residents of Massachusetts to purchase coverage. Perry -- who, after taking several jabs from the other candidates, said he felt like "the pinata here at the party" -- had first claimed his state created more jobs in three months than Massachusetts created in four years while Romney was governor. Romney, in response, chalked up
Texas success to its oil and gas sector and policies maintained by a Republican legislature, which he said Perry could not claim credit to. It would be like Al Gore saying he invented the Internet, Romney said. To distinguish himself, Romney stressed his experience in the private sector over his experience as Massachusetts governor. But Perry, while praising Romneys business record, said his publicsector record did not match that. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman sided with Perry when he turned to Romney and said, "47th just isn't going to cut it, my friend," a reference to the rank Massachusetts had among the 50 states in creating jobs during Romney's term. But he also sought to rebut Perry's claim to be chief executive of the country's top job-producing
state. "I hate to rain on the parade of the great Lone Star State governor, but as governor of Utah, we were the No. 1 job creator during my years in service," Huntsman said. Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania rounded out the contenders on the stage for the debate hosted by MSNBC and Politico. The debate was the first of three in as many weeks, at a time the polls show Obama's popularity sinking, possibly making the GOP nomination worth more than it appeared only a few months ago. Perry and Romney also sparred sharply over Social Security, with Romney criticizing Perry for calling the retirement safety net a failure and Ponzi scheme. Romney said he agrees the current funding formula for Social Security is not sound. But he disagreed that its a failure. You cant say that to tens of millions of Americans who live on Social Security, he said. Perry stood by his remarks, saying maybe its time to have some provocative language. He also took a swing at former Bush adviser Karl Rove, who has criticized Perrys remarks on Social Security and other topics. ROMNEY, page 26
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partisan politics got in the way. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the planks of the bill "common-sense, sensible" ideas. "Every idea in this ... piece of legislation that we will drop next week in Congress is something that has had traditional bipartisan support," he told Fox News. Obama is expected to speak for up to 45 minutes, beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Before Obama even said a word, political and economic reality raised two questions: Will any of his ideas get approved, and will they actually work? When asked about some of the ideas Obama is expected to discuss, majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents were all skeptical that the proposals would do a lot to create jobs, a Pew Research Center poll out Wednesday found. A series of new polls by major news organizations finds that the mood of the country is downright dismal about the direction of the country, with Obama's standing and approval on the economy at or near the lowest levels of his presidency. Democrats familiar with the president's plans say the White House sees the speech as a pivot point after spending the spring
and summer focused on negotiations over deficit spending. They say the fall offers the president a window to press congressional Republicans to act on his economic plan -- and if they don't, Obama will spend 2012 running against them as obstructionists. Whether that's enough to win over voters is another matter. In one upbeat sign for those looking for a Washington compromise, House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor have told Obama they see potential areas of agreement on jobs -- for example, infrastructure, which Obama has pushed repeatedly. Cantor also signaled to reporters Wednesday that he might support a payroll tax cut. "It is not games and politics for people out across this country. It's real," Cantor said about the state of the economic debate. "The fact that we have had such sustained joblessness in this country, the fact that people are doing anything they can in many instances just to stay afloat and to pay the bills, it's real." At the heart of Obama's plan will be extending, by one more year, a payroll tax cut for workers that went into effect this year. The president wants the payroll tax,
which raises money for Social Security, to stay at 4.2 percent rather than kick back up to 6.2 percent. That tax applies to earnings up to $106,800. Obama is expected to seek continued unemployment aid for millions of people receiving extended benefits. That program, too, is set to expire at year's end. Among the other potential proposals by Obama: -- Tax credits for employers who hire -- A major school construction initiative -- Aid to local governments to prevent layoffs of teachers and other workers -- Other tax help for businesses, such as continuing to allow them to deduct the full value of new equipment Since Obama took office in January 2009, nearly 2 million Americans have lost jobs. Almost 14 million people are out of work. The unemployment rate, which stood at 5 percent at the start of the recession and 7.8 percent when Obama began in office, is at 9.1 percent. After a period of steady if modest job creation, employers have stopped hiring. There was no net change in jobs in August. Fox News' Ed Henry and The Associated Press contributed to
this report. September 5: President Barack Obama speaks during a Labor Day event at Detroit's Renaissance Center, headquarters of General Motors. Related Stories Weekly Jobless Claims Rise, Hiring Remains Slow Democrats, Republicans Stress Job Creation as Deficit Super Committee Gets to Work Pelosi Peeved Republicans Opt Out of Rebuttal to Obama Speech Related Video Pressure Is on for President's Jobs Plan Will Obama's address meet expectations? Related Video Republican: I Won't Be a 'Prop' in Obama's 'Campaign Speech' Rep. Joe Walsh sitting out president's jobs address This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Karl has been over the top for a long time. Im not responsible for Karl anymore, Perry said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Related Video Who Won GOP Debate? Peter Johnson, Jr. weighs in This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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1500 is big, strong, and engineered to finish any job. The Sierra engine is a powerful Vortec 4.8 L (293 cu in.) Flex Fuel V8 with VVT, producing 301 horsepower and 305 SAE net torque at 4600 rpm (lb-ft). The Sierra 1500 Electronic 4speed automatic with overdrive and tow/haul mode is standard on this engine. The fuel tank capacity is 26 gallons. Although the exterior commands spectator attention, the interior was my focus point for a driving test experience last week. The rear-seat entertainment systems allow rear-seat passengers to enjoy the DVD player and an 8-inch diagonal flip -down screen. The system is also compatible with most popular video game systems. The Sierra body is surrounded with overlapping layers of protection. The dual climate control includes a control system that allows individual temperature settings for left or right front-seat passengers. For added comfort, the leather appointed 10-way power front seats have heated cushions and setbacks to warm you when temperatures fall. The Bose audio system includes steering wheel-mounted radio
control and a premium speaker system. There is also a woofer mounted in the center console for rich bass notes to give you a further listening experience. Be careful when you first use the bass, it was difficult for me to adjust it back down to a lower, more tolerable level. The SLE features a 40/20/40 front split seat with a center folddown armrest that opens for generous space. Lifting the arm rest reveals a cushion storage compartment, with room for most laptops or other electronic devices, as well as Moms purse or grandchildrens roller skates. GMC built the Sierra with safety in mind. Tire pressure monitoring and StabiliTrak stability control that instantly adjusts engine speed and brake pressure to any individual wheel are two examples. Sierra has a rugged frame and robust body structure. You can see it in the doors. They are heavy but easy to shut, and once closed appear to be vacuum-sealed. The Sierra body is surrounded with overlapping layers of protection. Looking from the driver's seat. (Courtesy of GMC Media) Dual-stage airbags feature sensors that gauge the severity of a crash, and then determine
whether to employ one or two levels of inflation, helping to reduce the risk of injury to passengers. There is also a feature called Passenger Sensing System for all the outboard front passengers that automatically turns off the airbag if the passenger is under the appropriate weight. I want to mention just how attractive Sierra is to the spectators eye. A chrome rear bumper, 17 styled steel wheels with full-size spare, power locks and windows, and vanity mirrors that shade a leather-wrapped tilt steering wheel are items that caught my attention. Let me get back to some of the strength issues that Sierra is known for. The Crew Cab 1500 trailer towing maximum is 10,600 lbs. with the 6.2 L engine and 3.73 axle. The crew cabs front axle capacity is 3,600/3,700 lb., and that of the rear axle is 3,950 lb. The EPA Fuel Economy Estimates are 15 city mpg and 21 mpg highway. I averaged 22 mpg the week I drove the vehicle in both situations. The standard vehicle price is $31,835. I would also recommend spending an additional $495 for a rear-vision camera system.
Durhl Caussey writes a car column read around the world. He may be reached at this paper or dcaussey@sbcglobal.net. Infobox Government Safety Ratings Frontal Driver 4-Stars Crash Passenger 4-Stars Side Front Seat 5-Stars Crash Rear Seat 5-Stars Rollover 4-Stars 5-year/100,000 mile powertrain limited warranty 3-year/36,000 mile bumper-tobumper 5-year/100,000 mile 24-hour roadside assistance 5-year/100,000 mile courtesy transportation This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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A man and woman enter a job fair at the Phoenix Workforce Connection in Phoenix, Arizona August 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa WASHINGTON| Thu Sep 8, 2011 10:51am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. economy may be stumbling, but it is still standing. That was the message from two economic reports that pointed to a weak labor market but also a better performance on trade that should boost third-quarter gross domestic product. The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week, further evidence of an anemic employment picture just hours before President Barack Obama unveils a plan on job creation in a major address to Congress. Still, a considerably narrower trade deficit for July offered a ray of hope for economic growth in the third quarter following a sluggish first half of the year. Applications for unemployment benefits rose to 414,000 in the week ending September 3 from an
upwardly revised 412,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Wall Street analysts had been looking for a dip to 405,000. "Jobless claims numbers have been stabilizing in recent weeks. We're probably seeing an economy that's just growing slowly," said Gary Thayer, chief macro strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors in St. Louis. U.S. stocks were little changed as investors looked ahead to Obama's address while Treasury debt was slightly higher and the dollar was up. A deteriorating global economic outlook prompted the European Central Bank to leave interest rates on hold, even as markets ratcheted up the pressure on the Federal Reserve to ease monetary policy further at its September 2021 meeting. Excluding one week in early August, jobless claims have held above 400,000 since early April. The Labor Department said there was no discernible effect from recent hurricanes and storms on the national figures this week. The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out volatility, rose to 414,750 from 411,000 the prior week.
Continuing claims eased to 3.72 million from 3.75 million in the week ended August 27, the latest available data. The number of total recipients on benefit rolls was 7.17 million in the August 20 week. TRADE HELPS U.S. employment growth ground to a halt in August, with zero net job creation raising fears of a new recession and putting pressure on the Fed to ease monetary policy further. But in a respite from the negative news, the trade gap shrank to $44.8 billion in July, Commerce Department data showed, down sharply from June's $53.1 billion deficit and much lower than forecasts around $51 billion. The 13.1 percent decline was the biggest month-to-month percentage drop in the deficit since February 2009. "The trade numbers are probably sufficiently better than expected to cause some upward revision in the GDP forecast," said Pierre Ellis, senior economist at Decision Economics in New York. U.S. exports rose 3.6 percent to a record $178.0 billion, driven by record shipments to countries in South and Central America and
higher demand from China and major oil producers. Records were also set for two large categories, goods and services, as well as for capital goods and autos. Economists wondered whether such strength could be sustained given a recent weakening in many industrial and developing nations. U.S. imports slipped 0.2 percent in July to $222.8 billion, as the average price for imported oil declined for a second consecutive month to $104.27 per barrel and the volume of crude oil imports also fell. Imports from China, however, rose 2.1 percent. (Additional reporting by Doug Palmer in Washington and Ellen Freilich in New York; Editing by Andrea Ricci) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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the frogfish strikes out using the fastest recorded feeding action of any marine species, which can last A hunting painted frogfish using as little as six milliseconds. a lure to attract its prey at Lembeh Painted frogfish live singly on Strait in Sulawesi, Indonesia. sheltered reefs throughout the (Matthew Oldfield) Indo-Pacific, feeding feed on The painted frogfish, Antennarius small fish, crustaceans, and pictus, is also known as the worms. painted anglerfish because it uses They can vary their color for a lure to attract prey, like all camouflage, and juveniles may frogfish. pass through a white phase. I n s o m e s p e c i e s t h e l u r e In this video, you can see a resembles a small shrimp or fish, young white frogfish trying to while in this species it looks more "walk" forward using its pectoral like a baited fishing line. fins. When the victim is close enough, Matthew Oldfield is a freelance
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Among the many recent changes reshaping the Middle East's political topography, one of the most striking has come not from masses of protesters chanting in the streets or from armed rebels fighting for change, but from suitand-tie diplomats and politicians flexing their muscles in an effort to prove to various audiences just how strong they and their country are. That is how the decades-old alliance between Israel and Turkey, one of the defining
features of what now seems a bygone era in the Middle East, is collapsing: in a muddle of acrimony and recrimination. The growing friction has been exacerbated by a shared trait: Both governments are eager to be viewed by their own populations and by the rest of the region as bastions of strength. That has made solving their differences more difficult. But while there is plenty of evidence of obstinacy on the part of the current Israeli government, there is reason to believe Ankara has found its diplomatic confrontation with
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Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Dips Its Toes In the Cloud, Carefully

Scott M. Fulton, III (ReadWriteWeb)
very quickly configure and implement an ERP system of AX 2012," Fred Studer, ERP business Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:00:00 PM general manager for Microsoft, There is a strong feeling in the air tells RWW in an interview. that cloud-based enterprise apps Leveraging cloud services on the are no longer the "challengers." existing platform The sheer breadth of activity In the enterprise software space s u r r o u n d i n g l a s t w e e k ' s today, Microsoft is certainly a Dreamforce conference in San player, but no longer with the de Francisco was a clear indicator f a c t o d o m i n a n c e t h e m e r e t h a t S a a S a p p l i c a t i o n s h a d mention of the brand once e v o l v e d i n t o c o m p l e t e entailed. In a crowded ERP field ecosystems, with strong support where the top twenty competitors from third-party developers and may be skimmed from the top of strong distribution from plentiful the field, where that list still partners. includes SAP and Oracle, and So the word "cloud" had better where cloud-based NetSuite is figure into any response to last riding the same wave to success week's juggernaut from Microsoft. as Salesforce in the CRM space, With this morning's release of Microsoft's market share is Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, probably no better than one-third. the company's long-standing The alternatives are numerous, so enterprise resource planning suite, even Dynamics' own evangelists the company is rolling out a new are advising Microsoft to make set of Windows Azure-based the transition to the new version services that are leveraged on top easy. of local deployments. The newest "Upgrading to AX 2012 is not of these services is a deployment something you do overnight. It's assistance tool called RapidStart gonna be a project on its own, that gives new customers a wizard requiring resources from both IT -like questionnaire system for and the business." writes Willy, configuring Dynamics AX. the proprietor of the independent Sponsor Dynamics AX 2012 Live blog "RapidStart is a very simplified (and apparently the official tool that's a cloud-based, Azure caretaker of the verb "gonna"). service, but with a very simple "It's gonna take time. And time is question-and-answer format that money. AX customers willing to helps a customer and/or a partner upgrade gonna have to convince
improve their customers' "time-tovalue." That said, RapidStart will eventually have an on-premise version, followed by a hybrid version that includes components from the cloud-based and onpremise software sets. Cloudbased storefronts, team collaboration tools, and payment services have already been part of the Dynamics AX toolset, and those components will be given upgrades for the 2012 edition. higher management it's a good Leveraging the existing platform investment." on another existing platform "There's a new way for people to Microsoft's marketing strategy consume technology," began Fred for software has always been to Studer's response to our question leverage extended functionality on how Dynamics AX intends to from the strengths of an existing distinguish itself as superior to core product. While Dynamics cloud-based alternatives like AX 2012 could present an NetSuite. "We've been in the opportunity to leverage Azure, the cloud with e-mail for 15 years. company is instead continuing BPOS [Business Productivity with its strategy to leverage Online Suite] for the last threeOffice. Specifically, Dynamics and-a-half years. CRM for really will continue to present much of the last year-and-a-half. And now its functionality inside Office ERP. That's just one piece, I components - for example, think, of how people will start to customer contacts data within change the consumption. Really, Outlook, resource inventory tools it's about how they want to within Excel, cost projection maintain it, how quickly they reports within Word, and the like. want to take on a new version and "Being a former Office guy, I can they don't want to worry about tell you we spent a lot of time upgrades. The cloud is a really getting the market trend to adopt good way to do it." Microsoft Office 2007, and then Expediting and easing the Office 2010," says Studer. To deployment process, Studer that end, he says, Dynamics AX explains, is the best way for 2012 will now make full Microsoft to use the cloud to
utilization of the Ribbon tool introduced in Office 2007. "So the configuration and integration of Office is much more tight than [Dynamics AX] 2009." Point-of-presence and messaging tools from Lync will be embedded as well. From within what Dynamics AX now calls role centers, Lync can provide contact buttons for seeing the location and availability of a contact, and making direct contact with him (similar to the functionality Lync provides to Outlook). Role centers are customized consoles with functionality that pertains either to the user's specific line of work or industry, or the level of responsibility he holds within the organization. Pre-release documentation for AX 2012 describes the current incarnation of role centers this way: "Role Centers provide an overview of information that pertains to a user's job function in the business or organization. This information includes transaction data, alerts, links, and common tasks that are associated with the user's role in the company. Role Centers also include reports that are generated by SQL Server Reporting Services or SQL Server Analysis Services. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 includes MICROSOFT page 37
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How Big Data and the iPad Have Fundamentally Changed Baseball
Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:00:00 PM
those locations. Then, once you draw that, it shows you the data, all his stats and numbers, for that The first time I stood in a Major area you've selected, on that type League Baseball clubhouse was a of pitch." - Colorado Rockies month after the original iPad video coordinator Brian Jones. came out. My editor at the time About 15 years ago, baseball was standing next to me and joked started undergoing a shift. Smart how Apple products were like a general managers saw data as a fever in the MLB. Whenever the w a y t o e x p l o i t m a r k e t newest and coolest was released inefficiencies that others were not from Cupertino, all the players yet aware of. Twenty years ago, rushed to buy. the standard baseball statistics I nodded and shrugged. These are were hits, runs, home runs, runs rich men that want their toys. I batted in, hitting average, earned looked over and saw a starting run average and errors. These pitcher sitting on a leather couch, days, those stats do not tell the playing Plants vs. Zombies on his whole story. Without context, iPad (he was not pitching that they are shell numbers. It is great night). Yet, iPads and other to know that a player hit 25 home devices permeating baseball are runs, but how many runs did he not all about watching YouTube create? If he hit 25 home runs yet or killing zombies. Combined got on base less than 25% of the with an era of abundant data, time, he is actually a below iPads have revolutionized the average player. game. These days statistics can tell you Sponsor everything you need to know This post is brought to you by about a hitter or a pitcher. Hit Columbia Pictures " Moneyball" charts that show the spray of Sabermetrics: Stats Can Tell You where a hitter normally puts the Everything"Then you could ball into play can give managers change it to where you say, 'I an edge by allowing them to align want to see all pitches low and their defense to those statistical away.' And it will change every "hot spots." Below is a chart of a piece of data [to] every pitch low game that Red Sox starting and away. You can draw a custom p i t c h e r D a i s u k e M a t s u z a k a area you want to pick on that pitched several years ago against strike zone, or out of the strike the Philadelphia Phillies. The zone, and see all the pitches in chart represents the "release
writers, managers and players. There is even a Chrome extension that allows people to search all of these websites directly from the address bar. Almost all major league teams now have divisions in their front offices dedicated solely to advanced statistical analysis. Data has changed the game. The iPad Revolution Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp once told me that "tablets are the gateway to the cloud." It is a line point," or where the pitcher let go that has stuck with me. of the ball in his windup, for each Think of data as a silo that exists pitch he threw in that game. For within the cloud. That data can be example, a hitter can study this t a p p e d a t a n y t i m e , f r o m and know that when the pitcher anywhere, using tablets with throws a fastball, he tends to applications specifically designed release it at a specific point in his to access the data and give it delivery over time. (Chart from context. Brooks Baseball) That has precisely what is This new era of advanced happening in baseball. baseball statistics is called Before the iPad, some of the Sabermetrics. The term is derived geekier players in baseball would from the name of the research load data and video on to iPod o r g a n i z a t i o n S o c i e t y f o r Touches and research past American Baseball Research, performance when they were a.k.a SABR. SABR is also a working out or on a plane to the mathematical "stochastic volatility next city. Say that a Red Sox m o d e l " u s e d i n f i n a n c i a l second baseman wants to see derivative markets. Along with every plate appearance he has SABR there are a variety of ever had against Yankees starting baseball professionals and stat pitcher C.C. Sabathia. The Red enthusiasts who spend their lives Sox stats and video department analyzing baseball statistics. could queue up those instances FanGraphs, Baseball Reference and download them onto Pedroia's are two of the most popular iPod, to be used at his leisure. destinations for statistical research Image: ESPN and a great resource for sports
The iPad has taken this a step further. Video can now be accompanied with charts and data, all on the same screen. The player does not need to have the video department download any thing, it is available on tap from the cloud. ESPN senior baseball writer Jayson Stark illuminates how the iPad and statistical analysis has changed baseball. He posted an article on ESPN in late August that is a one of the most comprehensive looks at how the Information Age, especially iPads, is changing the fundamental nature of baseball. "You have all these boxes you can change," Brian Jones, the video coordinator for the Colorado Rockies, said to Stark. "Say you want to look at all right-handed pitchers versus Carlos Lee. It will pull up a strike zone and a guy standing there, and it will show you, like, every pitch. Then you can break it down by date. You can change the date range, and it will give you his stats, the pitches thrown, swing-and-miss percentage, everything you can think of, for those dates." Baseball Just The Tip Of The Spear Other sports have jumped into advanced statistical analysis as well. Basketball probably has the second highest rate of advanced HOW page 34
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Spotify Gets A Music Recommendation Engine (Sort of) With Echofi

John Paul Titlow (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:47:51 PM
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For many users of Spotify, the feature that's most painfully absent from the music streaming service is a recommendation engine for songs and artists. After all, listeners have come to expect this feature after years of it being available in Internet radio products like Pandora and Last.fm. Echofi is a new Web app that hopes to solve this problem. It takes Spotify's music library and mashes it up with the API from The Echo Nest, a powerful music intelligence platform that contains data about more than 30 million songs. Sponsor The result is a Pandora-style radio station based on your musical tastes and fueled by tracks from Spotify. Enter an artist's name and hit the "play" button to launch Spotify and songs by similar artists will begin playing. Like on Pandora, you can even vote songs up or down
to help train Echofi to better understand what you're truly into. The Echo Nest, a Massachusettsbased company founded in 2005, uses acoustic analysis, datamining, natural language processing and machine learning to listen to and understand music, learning about its characteristics and defining relationships between various songs and artists. It's like Pandora's Music Genome Project, but on a much bigger scale. Whereas Pandora boasted 800,000 songs in its database at the time of its IPO, The Echo Nest has analyzed over 30 million. The Echo Nest platform powers nearly 200 music apps, including from some notable players like MOG, the BBC and MTV. Spotify, which launched in the United States this summer, does not have a built-in recommendation engine of any kind, even though similar services like Rdio offer the feature. With Echofi, Spotify is as close as it's ever come to offering decent music recommendations. Its sure to be a welcome addition to the service, but it's not without
should imply that we'd like to keep listening. The Echofi Web app itself is nicely-designed with an interface about as simple as they come. If you're accustomed to using the audio controls on your keyboard to play, pause and skip tracks in Spotify, you'll have to get out of that habit to use Echofi. Since it's browser-based, it doesn't use those keys, and the actual song its limitations. For one, users can order originates from the Web only create a radio station based app, not from the Spotify desktop on an artist's name. Last.fm lets app. you do so using artist name or Overall, we found the experience genre, while Pandora gets even of using Echofi to be pretty fluid more granular by offering stations and enjoyable, despite a few based on individual songs. minor issues. We'd love to see this There are also a few minor user kind of functionality built right experience issues. For one thing, into the Spotify app, whether by the Spotify desktop application integrating Echofi or something has a tendency to un-minimize like it. Whatever Spotify may itself when each new song beings, have been planning (if anything) a slightly annoying flaw that for a recommendation engine, the creator Andy Smith acknowledges developers behind Echofi have in the FAQ. We found it strange already made a considerable head that hitting the "love" button on a start. Discuss song resulting in Echofi skipping to the next song. That behavior makes sense if we vote a song down, but if we say we like it, that
statistical usage while football and hockey provide more challenges for the penetration of advanced statistics. That is not to say that hockey and football do not use advanced stats, it is just that the sports have not developed a research community that focuses on them the way that baseball has. Now, think away from sports. Organizations and enterprises such as large companies and federal agencies are starting to see the value of data on tap available through tablet interfaces. Baseball is a fun example but how people, businesses and organizations access data is fundamentally changing how people go about their daily lives. Discuss
Three things the UK government can do to help our businesses crack the Chinese market
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A quarter of a century ago in the industrialised West, the Asian Tiger economies began to stalk our manufacturing sector.
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Google buys Zagat, in original-content gambit

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:07:58 AM
Eyeing An IPO, Cloud-Based Phone System RingCentral Raises $10M From Cisco And Others
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:30:48 AM
Google today acquired Zagat in an effort to bolster its local products with the restaurant rating service. More notable is that Zagat is a content company. In a blog post, Google said that Zagat will "be a cornerstone of our local offering." Zagat is best known for its original reviews and rating service. There are a few key elements to the Zagat purchase: Google will build out its local coverage and have reviews in more than 100 cities. Google is showing that it may actually have to own some content instead of merely aggregating it. As Robert Scoble noted, Zagat's reviews are social-friendly and play in with Google+. Earlier this year, Google ran afoul of Yelp. Yelp argued that Google was importing its user reviews on the Google Places page and not providing any link love. Google later removed external links from its Places page. The Federal Trade Commission is also poking around Google's actions and whether it favors its own sites over others. With that backdrop, Google's
customers. RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis move to buy Zagat makes sense. active in the business as cotells us that the new funding will Zagat will boost Google's local Chairs; however, the merger of Cloud-based phone systems b e u s e d f o r e x p a n s i o n a n d coverage by providing: our resources, expertise and provider RingCentral has raised towards the delivery of new User surveys. platforms with those of Google $10 million in new funding from products and services. And he Recommendations and ratings. will give us the opportunity to new investor Scale Venture explains that RingCentral is Guides that can be aggregated greatly expand. We have spent Partners and Cisco. The company playing in a $50 billion market, into Google services and maps. enough time with Google senior previously raised$45 million in where there is plenty of room for Last year, Google was rumored management to know that they funding from Cisco, Sequoia growth. Its a matter of educating to be in talks with Yelp. Now it fully share our belief in user- Capital, Khosla Ventures, DAG businesses that they can save appears that Google is going for generated content, and our Ventures, and Silicon Valley thousands up front by going with old-school content brand names. commitment to accuracy and Bank. the cloud, he explains. We see You could argue that Google fairness in providing consumers R i n g C e n t r a l m a r k e t s a n the cloud has a winning business started dabbling with content via with the information necessary to a d v a n c e d , c l o u d - b a s e d function for any market. its purchase of ITA, but that's make smart decisions about where replacement for legacy phone Interestingly, RingCentral has arguably more about an online to eat, travel and shop... systems in the form of a hosted also been flagged as an IPO travel database. We couldn't be happier to see our business phone platform with candidate as well. Shmunis The Zagat purchase, which baby placed into such good hands voice and fax functionality. The confirms that an IPO is a viable probably didn't amount to any and are looking forward to being p l a t f o r m i n c l u d e s a u t o - f u t u r e p o s s i b i l i t y f o r t h e material sum for Google, raises a Googlers in the years ahead. receptionist, multiple voicemail c o m p a n y . few interesting questions. This story was originally posted boxes, call routing, business Crunchbase RINGCENTRAL Will Google keep Zagat's pay at ZDNet's Between the Lines a n s w e r i n g r u l e s , e x t e n s i o n Company: wall? Probably not. under the headline " Google d i a l i n g , c a l l t r a n s f e r s , a n d RINGCENTRAL Website: Will Google maintain Zagat's acquires Zagat, enters original integration with Smartphones. http://www.ringcentral.com guide publishing business? content business." RingCentrals phone systems Funding: Is this Zagat purchase the This entry passed through the basically make their clients appear $34M beginning of a series of content Full-Text RSS service if this is bigger than they are. RingCentral delivers hosted moves for Google? Google's your content and you're reading it And earlier this year, RingCentral phone systems that are designed timing is notable given the on someone else's site, please read b e g a n p o w e r i n g t h e c l o u d f o r m o b i l e a n d d i s t r i b u t e d struggles of both AOL and Yahoo the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- business phone system solutions businesses, and is the market of late. Both AOL and Yahoo are only/faq.php#publishers. Five for a number of wireless carriers leader in cloud computing-based b u i l d i n g o u t c o n t e n t t o Filters featured article: A 'Malign including AT&T and Rogers telephony. RingCentral helps differentiate themselves from Intellectual Subculture' - George Canada, who offer RingCentrals small businesses manage mobile, Google. Now the search giant M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , cloud phone system solution to fax and... Learn more enters the content game via Zagat. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And their customers. The company In a letter to users, Zagat Media Lens. currently has over 200,000 founders Nina and Tim Zagat said: Nina and I will continue to be
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Fired Facebook commenters ordered back to work

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:21:12 AM
Twitter Has 100M Monthly Active Users, And 40% Of Active Users Dont Tweet
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Five people who were fired from their jobs after posting complaints on Facebook about working conditions will now be able to return their positions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal organization that safeguards employee rights, announced yesterday. Last week, administrative law Judge Arthur Amchan ruled on the case between the five employees and their former employer, Hispanics United of Buffalo. According to the information included in the judge's decision, the five employees last year took to Facebook to discuss their issues with other employees, as well as how much work they take on. Soon after, the five employees were terminated for the comments made on the social network. In his ruling, Amchan argued that the company was "looking for an excuse to reduce its workforce and seized upon the Facebook posts as an excuse for doing so." Because of that assertion,
billion devices eventually he said. Costolo emphasized that the fact Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:29:22 AM that 40% of users are logging in Were at Twitter HQ listening to and not Tweeting doesnt mean A m c h a n o r d e r e d a l l f i v e time an administrative law judge Twitter CEO Dick Costolo talk that those users arent doing employees back to work, and has made a determination on the about the state of Twitter as anything, and brings up the required that they receive all back firing of employees because of his business. Costolo begins the talk example of Twitter investor Fred pay (plus interest) since their or her use of Facebook. However, d r o p p i n g s o m e r e c e n t u s e r Wilsons son, who only follows termination. the NLRB said in a statement numbers, wanting to give a NBA players or his family friend Related stories: yesterday that it has seen an complete picture of Twitter who follows chefs like Mario Batali and Daniel Brooks, Its Yes, insults on Facebook can uptick in the "number of charges usership. still get you fired related to social media in the past Costolo said that Twitter.com is fun to see the conversation around now seeing 400 million monthly people you view as celebrities, Company settles Facebook firing year." case Last year, for example, an uniques according to Google he said. Facebook entry gets office e m p l o y e e w a s f i r e d f r o m analytics, which is up from 250 He also said that the statistic worker fired Connecticut medical-services million at the beginning of the represents Twitters potential, and The issue illustrates the difficulty company American Medical year, Theres still a lot of people that Twitter will be making in determining what can and Response after allegedly posting who log into Twitter but dont use changes in order to move those people from a consumption to a cannot be said on social networks. negative comments about a it every day, he said. Generally, companies can fire supervisor on Facebook. The case Costolo confirmed that Twitter production experience. Crunchbase TWITTER e m p l o y e e s i f t h e y h a v e was settled earlier this year, now has 100 million global active exceedingly off-color things to though financial terms of that deal users, which he defined as anyone C o m p a n y : who logs into Twitter once a TWITTER Website: say about their employers or if were not disclosed. t h e y e n g a g e i n h a r a s s m e n t This entry passed through the month, with 50 million users http://twitter.com Launch Date: t o w a r d s o t h e r e m p l o y e e s . Full-Text RSS service if this is active or logging in every day. 21/3/2006 Funding: However, if the things they say your content and you're reading it He also revealed that 40% of $760M are protected under the National on someone else's site, please read active users dont tweet, which Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Labor Relations Act, they have a the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- means that they havent tweeted Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in defense. only/faq.php#publishers. Five in the past month. 55% of active March 2006 (launched publicly in In this latest case, the NLRB Filters featured article: A 'Malign users are active on mobile, which July 2006), is a social networking pointed out that "a conversation Intellectual Subculture' - George has seen a 40% quarter on quarter and micro-blogging service that allows users to... Learn more among co-workers about their M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , growth. t e r m s a n d c o n d i t i o n s o f Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Twitter wants to be on over 2 employment" is protected under Media Lens. the act, paving the way for Amchan to rule the way he did. Amchan's ruling marks the first
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Sony Ericsson denies XPERIA Ice Cream Sandwich plans

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:05:49 AM
hardware point of view. Right now, though, theres no official policy that Sony Ericsson is Sony Ericsson has denied reports sharing on upgrades. that it confirmed the 2011 That could well be an issue of XPERIA Android range would all specifications. The companys g e t u p d a t e d t o I c e C r e a m range this year has worked from a Sandwich, Googles next-gen 1GHz processor baseline, but version of the OS expected to be Sony Ericsson is yet to shift from released in October or November. single-core chips to dual-cores; According to SoMobile, a UK its unclear whether Ice Cream spokesperson told them that Sandwich will require more than current-gen XPERIA devices one core or not, since Google is would get Android 4.0; however, y e t t o r e l e a s e m i n i m u m Sony Ericssons press team says s p e c i f i c a t i o n s . that no such decision has been Sony Ericsson has been working made. hard to improve its reputation for W h e n i t c o m e s t o f u t u r e software upgrades, after a dismal platforms of the Android OS, we s h o w i n g a r o u n d t h e f i r s t will make them available to generation of handsets that left consumers in a timely manner, many owners frustrated and the company told SlashGear, as angry. The 2011 range of devices long as they improve the user has seen more timely updates, and experience and are viable from a Sony Ericsson even changed its
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 delayed? Xperia X8 Android 2.1 update rolling out now Sony Ericssons XPERIA X8 ships, Android 1.6 proudly on board Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone is a sign of the company thinking outside the box Sony Ericsson confirm no Froyo for XPERIA X10 Sony Ericsson denies XPERIA Ice Cream Sandwich plans is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
mind and promised Gingerbread for the XPERIA X10 having originally said the device would be left behind. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com XPERIA X10 gets taste of
Gingerbread despite Sony Ericsson abandonment No WinMo6.5 update for XPERIA X1 says Sony Ericsson Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Android 2.1 update promised for Q4 2010
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more than two dozen predefined Role Centers, which users can access from Enterprise Portal or the Microsoft Dynamics AX client." Microsoft has used "roletailored" functionality since Dynamics NAV in 2007, and began implementing the three-tier role center application model with AX 2009. An old-style competitive move Taking direct aim at just one of
its competitors in the ERP space, Microsoft announced today it will give customers of Lawson ERP a 50% discount on new Dynamics AX 2012 licenses. Lawson's market share overall may not climb into the Top 20, though it claims a share in certain vertical markets, such as healthcare, of as high as one-third. "We specifically targeted [Lawson] because we had a lot of their customers call us, and
partners who were previously building businesses on Lawson, with interest around AX 2012," says Microsoft's Studer, "because they're lacking the confidence of the roadmap, they don't know what the investment strategy is, and they don't feel they're going to get a modern ERP any time soon." In addition, partners will be given a $10,000 revenue credit for every existing Lawson consultant they switch over to AX
2012. "We wanted our system to be adaptable, to run the way the customer wants to run, and not force customers - like many of our competitors - to run the way the software has to have them run," he adds. "It's not electronic concrete any more. So if our customers want to change the business organization, or get into a new geography, or invest in or acquire another business, the
software provides that flexibility for them to be able to do that the way they want it, and provide that capability to everybody in that organization." Discuss
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iPhone cleans up in J.D. Power smartphone survey

Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:57:47 AM
J.D. Powers latest batch of smartphone rankings are out, and its another strong showing for Apple as well as good news for users all round, as more claim to be content with their advanced devices than every before. Apple maintains its top spot, with the iPhone scoring 838 out of a possible 1,000 when rated by users for performance, physical design, ease of operation and features. Bringing up second place is HTC, the only other manufacturer to make it above the 800 mark (and only just at that, with a score of 801). Samsung (777), Motorola (775) and RIM (762) take third, fourth and fifth place, leaving LG and Palm to languish behind with 760 and 733 respectively. Nokia brings up the last place, with its
Says Analyst Smartphone customers say Apple is the best, according to survey The Motley Fools call Palm Pre DOA, I call them fools Apple iPhone Could Be More Vulnerable Than Many May Think Clari-Fi headphone adapter cleans the audio from your MP3 player PIRO Windoro Cleans Windows Like the Roomba Cleans Floors underwhelming Symbian smartphones leading to a score of 721. Meanwhile, in J.D. Powers star ratings, only Apple managed to score the full five out of five in any category in fact, it managed a clean sweep though HTC was rated well for physical design and feature set. According to the research, users are happiest when their smartphone is under 5oz in weight and less than 0.45-inches wide, and people prefer all-touch phones to either QWERTY-only or QWERTY/touch hybrids. Which smartphone do you use, and do you agree with J.D. Powers results? Let us know in the comments. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Survey finds that a lot of iPhone, RIM, and Android phone owners think they own a 4G phone iPhone most satisfying smartphone claims J.D. Power HTC Thunderbolt Sales Surpass The iPhone 4 At Verizon Stores, iPhone cleans up in J.D. Power smartphone survey is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Babies lose their bilingual ability by their first birthday

Learning a second language is easy for babies, but research from the University of Washington finds that infants start to lose that
innate ability as early as their first birthday if they are only exposed to one set of sounds. The brains of babies raised in bilingual households show a longer period of being flexible to
different languages -- especially if they hear a lot of different
sounds at home -- but the research suggests that if you want to raise a baby bilingual you better start introducing the two languages to them before he or she can even speak. Continue
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1Password now available on Mac App Store

Kelly Guimont (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:30:00 AM
Costolo: Advertising Is Key, Promoted Tweets In Stream Coming Everywhere, Including Third-Parties
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:49:14 AM
If you haven't already heard, AgileBits has unleashed their fantastic password manager 1Password upon the Mac App Store. Not only is it now available in a convenient easy-to-update form, but this new version will include new features and an easy upgrade path to 4.0. Not to mention it's also HALF off at the moment. For those of you who have somehow missed the 1Password boat, it is a password manager that lets you set a "master password" and then stash all sorts of sensitive info behind it: website logins, credit card numbers, software serial numbers, even secure notes. One of my favorite features is password generation: I can tell it my Facebook password needs to be 16 character and super high security and boom! As if by magic, I have a highly crackresistent password. Thanks to the magic of browser add-ons I can fill in web forms with my credit card information or any other bit of stuff I have secreted away behind that master
password. Did I mention they also have an iOS app and Dropbox syncing so all your goodies are available on all your Apple hardware? Well, there you go. (There's a Windows version too, should you need that sort of thing. Not that there's anything wrong with that.) If you're an existing customer, here are a few of the changes you'll want to know about in the new version: A new menubar icon for easy access from any application, full-screen support and 64-bit support. This new version requires Lion, so be sure you're all upgraded before you pull the trigger.
We would prefer you view the Tweets here instead of there because theres more money over Today at Twitters headquarters here we dont want to think of in San Francisco, CEO Dick it that way, he says. Costolo sat down with some Its important to note that Twitter members of the media to talk a bit isnt just blindly shoving these about the state of the company. ads (which, lets be clear, thats He rattled of plenty of stats, and e x a c t l y w h a t t h e y a r e ) i n also gave the all-important update everyones face and hoping they on the state of the business. stick. Twitter is still using signal Of note, Costolo confirmed that analysis to determine which Twitter is in the process of rolling Tweets should be shown where. out Promoted Tweets in the But its also important to reiterate stream to everyone whether that users will not have to be youre following a particular e x p l i c i t l y f o l l o w i n g t h e s e advertiser or not. And that doesnt advertisers (as used to be the case) We here at TUAW rather like just mean on Twitter.com (where to see these Tweets. 1 P a s s w o r d , s i n c e i t ' s a this roll-out is starting), these This all plays into the broader straightforward app that does Promoted Tweets will be going message Costolo shared today: what it does very well. If you everywhere Tweets flow, Costolo advertising is key. While he noted haven't yet moved to some sort of says. Yes, that means not only that Twitter has a few revenue password solution, this is a great Twitters own mobile apps, but sources, such as fire hose access, there is no plan to scale o p p o r t u n i t y t o d o s o . third-party services as well. Congratulations to AgileBits on This will allow Twitter to make this business. Our advertising getting to show off all the hard money no matter where or how method is the only one we need to work they've been doing lately! people are using the service. be a big business, he says. 1Password now available on Mac Costolo says this is important. App Store originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| nospam@example.com (Dory you're in the market for certain Comments Devlin, Shine staff) items, this may be the best time to (Financiallyfit on Shine) bank on some rock-bottom prices. Read the article here. Submitted at 9/7/2011 10:27:04 PM September is packed with deals as retailers attempt to unload excess summer merchandise. If
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Apple spending some of its cash in US Capitol

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
InstaPrevue promises an end to HDMI roulette

Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:34:23 AM
will be able to customize the appearance of each preview window, as well as change its size Silicon Image first gave us and the position it appears onHDMI connections that switched screen. quicker; now it wants to preview It will also be possible to exactly whats plugged into each integrate the windows with a of those ports. The company custom UI, presumably opening whose InstaPort technology is the door to smart TV that shows found in Samsung sets among local sources alongside internet others has outed InstaPrevue, streams and on-demand content in offering a live, picture-in-picture the same interface. No word on glimpse of whats playing through when we might expect it to show each HDMI input. up on commercial sets, however. Silicon Image argues that seeing Relevant Entries on whats coming through each S l a s h G e a r . c o m connection makes far more sense LED Roulette Table ideal for than either HDMI 1, HDMI 2 clandestine gambling and HDMI 3 or even customized On-chip CEC HDMI transmitter labels for CONSOLE and r e d u c e s s y s t e m c o s t a n d CABLE. Manufacturers that c o m p l e x i t y pick up InstaPrevue, meanwhile, HDMI hub Big, expensive
and ugly New Samsung 3D LED TVs to feature InstaPort S tech Hack Use a cheap HDMI cable on your Xbox 360 Premium Microsoft confirms HDMI port on Xbox 360 Premium PS3 Gets Price Cut and HDMI 1.3 Silicon Images InstaPort promises sub second HDMI switching InstaPrevue promises an end to HDMI roulette is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Apple has a large cash reserve and it's using some of the those funds to lobby Congress. Judging by the money that's passing hands, Apple is taking its lobbying efforts seriously. In the second quarter of 2011, Apple spent a whopping US$790,000 on lobbying. This is more than double what the company spent in the same quarter of 2010 and up $230,000 from the first quarter of 2011. Apple is reportedly using this money to influence issues like patent reform, electronic waste, and consumer privacy. You don't need to look too far back in the news cycle to appreciate how these three issues greatly affect Apple and other tech companies. Patent litigation is out of control with both tech companies and patent holding companies suing
each other in court. Tech companies are also struggling to providing personalized, locationbased services without compromising customer's privacy. Apple spending some of its cash in US Capitol originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Solyndra office searched by FBI

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:57:07 AM
A Solyndra solar collector.(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET) The FBI is searching the offices of solar company Solyndra in Fremont, Calif., this morning, the agency confirmed. Agents began the search around 7:30 a.m. PT and were seen interviewing employees and moving in the parking lot of Solyndra's offices, the San Jose Mercury News reported today. The ongoing search is part of a joint operation between the FBI and Department of Energy's Office of Inspector General, an FBI representative said. Solyndra last week abruptly shut down its solar panel manufacturing operation in Fremont and laid off more than 1,000 workers. On Tuesday, it declared bankruptcy and is now seeking to sell its assets. The company received a $535
Cupertino City Counsel considers environmental impact of Apple campus

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:00:00 PM
million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy to build the factory but said that it was forced to shut down because it could not keep pace with falling solar panel prices. A representative from Solyndra was not immediately available for comment. We will update the story as more information becomes available. This entry passed through the
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The City of Cupertino is holding a public meeting to discuss the environmental impact of Apple's new campus. This meeting is procedural as Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has already said there's no way the city will reject Apple's plan. Though this meeting won't throw a monkey wrench into Apple's plan, it may provide additional insight into the architectural details for the building. The
meeting will be broadcast live over the Internet and you can find the early details on Apple's new campus here on Cupertino's city website. [Via Edible Apple] Cupertino City Counsel considers environmental impact of Apple campus originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
What War Looks Like - Photos by Kate Brooks

KATE BROOKS (Foreign Policy)
The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks took photojournalist Kate Brooks
to Afghanistan and Pakistan to cover the fall of the Taliban. These are her images of the Afghans whom she met during her journey and the slow-motion descent into civil war that has
played out over the past decade. PHOTOS BY KATE BROOKS| SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it
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Gigantic Metal Cows - Finnish Sculptor Miina kkijyrkk Mixes Agriculture and Art Culture (TrendHunter.com)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:28:02 AM
Artistically Abandoned Photography Jennilee Marigomen Captures Nature's Lonely & Desolate Moments (TrendHunter.com)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:57:06 AM
How California Tortilla keeps up with the online conversation

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:39:00 AM
Real-world 'Back to the Future' self-lacing trainers teased by Nike

a mysterious package from Nike on 7 September containing an It looks like you won't have to iPod Shuffle with a voice clip wait until 2015 to get a pair of from Dr. Emmett Brown, a pair self-lacing Nike Air Mag shoes, of the Doc's 2015 shades and an because the iconic trainers from invitation to an unveiling on 9 Back to the Future II could go on September that could "change the sale in time for Christmas. course of time". Continue Sneaker blogs and publishers got reading...
( TrendHunter.com) Finnish artist Miina kkijyrkk has an amazing collection of junked cars transformed into gigantic metal cows at her farm, near Helsinki. Miina kkijyrkk, a controversial Finnish sculptor, is known for...
( TrendHunter.com) The eerie, yet hopeful nature of the photographs of Jennilee Marigomen encapsulates the intrigue that lies beneath each shot. The world's small and seemingly insignificant details attract her lens, which...
California Tortilla may be known for quirky promotions, but it takes life in the digital age seriously. The executive team at the 40-unit chain responds to about 100 customer e-mails each week, monitors Facebook, Twitter and other social sites and invites unhappy guests to send an e-mail so managers can resolve the issue. Full story at SmartBrief/ SmartBlog on Restaurants. More SmartBrief stories. Permalink| Leave a comment
Kate Middleton Preps For a Party!

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about sex addicts!- Huffington Post Donald Faison got Cacee Cobb a giant engagement ring!- TooFab Get Fassbender and McAvoy in your house!- Rotten Tomatoes Candace Bushnell teams up with a Gossip Girl guy to make a show for ABC- Hollywood Reporter Jessica Simpson says she's not getting a breast reduction-
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Europe Out of Time; Differences Impossible to Untangle; Merkel's Mind is Fried; Eurozone Breakup Inevitable; "Let the Euro Die"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Merkel Coalition at Risk) Spanish Prime Minister Zapateros Socialist Party suffered a massive defeat over his Submitted at 9/8/2011 4:19:00 AM One of the many interesting austerity programs in May. It was aspects of the Eurozone crisis is the worst rout in 30 years for how many key political and Zapateros Socialist party. (See central bank leaders fail see (or at Prime Minister Zapateros least admit) that Europe is out of Socialist Party Routed in Spanish time. Elections; Antinuclear Greens Even more peculiar are Surpass Merkel's Party in Local statements by ECB president Jean German Vote) -Claude Trichet who finally does In Finland, True Finns party realize time is of the essence, yet chairman, Timo Soini launched a Trichet "solution" is a set of scathing and accurate attack measures that must be passed by against Jean-Claude Trichet, Jeanall 17 nations when those nations Claude Junker, and the ECB for cannot agree on EFSF funding, on its policy raping taxpayers of Eurobonds, on collateral for various countries to pay back Greece, or even on whether a German, French, UK, and US fiscal union or transfer union must banks that made stupid loans for take place. stupid reasons. (See True Finns In some instances the differences Party Chairman: Greece, Ireland boil down to big country vs. small and Portugal Ruined; Gangrene country concerns. In other Spreads; Enron Looks Simple; instances it is Southern "club- Italy's prime minister has a Spain Next Zombie) med" states vs. Northern states. voter approval rating of 22% (see German Chancellor and French Some countries refuse to give up I t a l y a u s t e r i t y p l a n d e n t s President oppose Eurobonds (see s o v e r e i g n t y , w h i l e o t h e r s B e r l u s c o n i g o v t s u p p o r t ) Merkel, Sarkozy Reject Euro welcome giving up sovereignty. Merkel's Christian Democrat Bonds and Expansion of Rescue It does not help matters when party (CDU), only managed to Fund; What Does it Mean? G e r m a n c h a n c e l l o r A n g e l a pull in 24% of the vote in her Middle of the End for Merkel) Merkel seems to change her mind h o m e s t a t e i n a n e l e c t i o n 89% of the German population on something every other week. September 4th (See Merkel's oppose the expansion of the EFSF German Court OK's Bailouts, But Credibility Shattered; CDU Party a n d d o u b t t h a t e v e r l a r g e r "No Blank Check" Defeated in Regional Election, amounts will solve the debt crisis.
On Wednesday the German court ruled that bailouts were legal. However, chief judge Andreas Vosskuhle also stated "This was a very tight decision. It should not be mistakenly interpreted as a constitutional blank check authorizing further rescue measures", adding that parliament was "forbidden from setting up permanent legal mechanisms resulting in the assumption of liabilities based on the voluntary decisions of other states." Finally, the court ruled government must get approval from parliament's budget committee before granting aid. Those rulings went pretty much as expected but parliamentary approval of any kind is yet a further restriction and will slow things downs, even if just a bit. Incredibly Messy Politics
80% demand that parliament must agree each time before Germany can take on additional burdens and risks. 85% demand that financial institutions, rather than taxpayer, take the first losses when a country defaults. (see 90% do not want bigger bailout). Marine Le Pen, a top French candidate who wants to "let the Euro die" is polling ahead of French President Sarkozy (see articles below)
The poll confirmed a previous Le Parisien survey conducted in early March that gave Le Pen a considerable head start over Sarkozy, and even a small edge on IMF boss Strauss-Kahn. The March survey said Le Pen would gather 24% of French votes, beating Strauss-Kahns 23% and Sarkozys 20%. In Thursdays survey StraussKahn climbed to 30% and Le Pen dipped down to 21%. Either way, the figures makes Le Pen a The last two bullet points are credible candidate in the 2012 f r o m B a i l o u t R e b e l l i o n i n race. Those polls were conducted Germany, on ZeroHedge. Here in April before the Strauss-Kahn are expanded excerpts from the affair and I have not been able to original articles. find a more recent poll. French President Nicholas Marine Le Pen Says "Let the Sarkozy May Be Ousted in Euro Die" Preliminary Voting The results for Le Pen are very In French elections, the top two interesting because of her stance candidates face a runoff in the o n t h e E u r o . V i a G o o g l e national elections. France 24 Translate, please consider M. Le reports New poll shows far right Pen says "let the euro die". could squeeze out Sarkozy Marine We must "let the euro die a Le Pen, leader of the anti- n a t u r a l d e a t h , " m e a n s o f immigration National Front (FN), reassuring the markets and revive is projected to win enough votes the economy, said the president of to knock out President Nicolas the Front National Le Pen Marine, Sarkozy from the second round of interviewed this morning on next years all important 2012 France Info. presidential election, the French Asked about the remedies it daily Le Parisien's revealed on EUROPE page 44 Thursday.
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proposes to end the economic crisis, she said that we must "first stop bailouts repeat: there was Greece, now there will be Cyprus, Italy, the Spain ... " "There are masses of savings to do," she said, particularly expenses related to immigration. "The cost of the AME (State medical assistance for undocumented) explodes, there are 20 billion euros of social fraud against which nothing is done," she added, saying that "of 60 Vitale million cards, 10 million are false, that qualify for benefits unjustified ". The market clearly says "Time's Up", yet politicians cannot agree on one major thing, and to top it off, voters are fed-up with austerity measures, bailouts, and politicians. Clearly Le Pen is an anti-Euro, anti-immigration candidate and that is just the kind of message that can easily catch fire in this environment. Merkel Proposes "Two Speed Europe" in Divide and Rescue Plan Given that 17 countries cannot agree on anything, and voters are in open revolt of current leaders, it is preposterous to believe a "Two-Speed" Europe is the answer. Merkel discarded "Two Speed Europe" long ago, but the plan is back in play as noted in Berlin Lays Groundwork for a TwoSpeed Europe The chancellor is planning her next political policy reversal . Until very recently, she has insisted that she was firmly opposed to creating divisions
within Europe. But under the pressure of the euro crisis , Merkel has recently been thinking about abandoning the concept of a unified EU -- and assigning a key role to [Belgian politician and president of the European Council] Herman Van Rompuy in the process. A New Power Center? Today, it is primarily Great Britain that is preventing the EU from growing closer together. Merkel, though, has had enough - and is now planning a two-speed Europe. It would mean tightly interlocking the countries of the euro zone, possibly by means of a separate treaty that would apply in parallel to the EU Treaty of Lisbon. This was the concept German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble proposed last week to the leadership of his party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel sees Van Rompuy, who already chairs the council of the 27 EU leaders, as the head of the new power center. In addition to the club of 27 nations that primarily manages the common domestic market as it has done until now, Merkel envisions a tight alliance of the 17 euro-zone members -- one which would unify their fiscal, budgetary and social policies. This would create a two-class club, raising questions like: What happens to the European Commission? Will it still be responsible for economic matters in the euro zone, or will there be a new organization? The same
questions apply to the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Would all of these institutions have to be duplicated, meaning even more bureaucracy, effort and expense? There are no answers yet to these questions, and there is already plenty of skepticism. The European Commission is just as opposed to Merkel's plans as most members of the European Parliament and many smaller EU countries are. They also have some within Merkel's own ranks raising their eyebrows. "We will not rescue the euro by creating more and more committees and instruments," says Horst Seehofer, the chairman of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). That is precisely what Merkel has in mind. She can draw on a concept known as "Core Europe," which was developed in the 1990s by the then-chairman of the CDU/ CSU parliamentary group, a certain Wolfgang Schuble, who now serves under Merkel as finance minister. Both have established various measures to rescue the euro in recent months, some for the EU as a whole and others exclusively for the 17 eurozone member states. For starters, blaming this on the UK is absurd. The UK was smart to stay out of this mess. The article continues ... Giving Up Sovereignty The scope of a joint corporate tax proposed by Merkel and Sarkozy at their meeting in mid-August is
also likely to be expanded beyond the two largest member states. "This is much more broadly conceived," says a source within the German government. The two leaders envision a largely uniform tax for corporations within the euro zone. Ireland refused to give up its tax advantages, and why should it? Indeed Ireland ought to tell the EU to stuff it right now and leave. Tax advantages are the only way Ireland has to grow out of this mess. Part 2: A New Shadow Government for the EU But that isn't enough for Merkel and Sarkozy. They want the 17 leaders of the euro zone countries to convene for a summit twice a year, with Van Rompuy serving as its permanent chairman. The Belgian would also receive a bureaucratic structure for his new responsibilities, giving the Euro Group its own secretariat. According to initial ideas, the new agency would be appended to an existing European Council secretariat, so that the separation doesn't seem too obvious. The group of finance ministers of the euro zone, which prepares the groundwork prior to meetings of heads of state and government, may also be strengthened. An idea being considered is to provide it with a full-time chairman, who would serve as a contact for Van Rompuy. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has taken care of the duties until now. The new chairman would be a former finance minister, making him more acceptable to a group of
his peers. While that is still in the planning stages, it has already been resolved that the working group of finance state secretaries will have a full-time chairman with his own team of employees. The body, with the cumbersome title Eurogroup Working Group, does the detail-oriented heavy lifting ahead of finance minister meetings. In short, a kind of shadow government is currently taking shape in Brussels. But officials in Berlin have begun considering ideas which go even further. Merkel, for example, is thinking about introducing a right to file complaints before the European Court of Justice against euro-zone member states that violate the Stability Pact. Such a move would require an amendment to the Lisbon Treaty. Merkel's Mind is Fried Merkel's mind is clearly fried. How many years would it take to get agreement on something like that? Even two years is too long. She will be long gone. It's time to start asking serious questions like ... Is the Euro Worth Saving? Regardless of what you or I may think, that question is where European voters come in. From that standpoint it does not look pretty. German Chancellor Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero, Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, and Greek President George EUROPE page 49
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What President Kennedys Tax Experience Can Teach Obama About Fighting For Stimulus
Dan Greenhaus (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:02:00 AM
As the Twain saying goes history doesnt repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Given the current malaise in the economy and debate in Washington, this saying is as relevant as it has ever been. Most of the time when one discusses todays economic and political environment, historical comparisons are made to the 1970s, a comparison we do not believe is wholly unwarranted. However, we use this occasion to quickly - too quickly - run through another important historical analogy worth revisiting; the Kennedy Tax cuts, enacted in 1964. In an effort to help boost an economy that had been in recession from April 1960 until February 1961, President Kennedy and his advisers spent considerable time on the exact composition of a stimulus package. While Kennedy wasnt initially on board with the idea his first State of the Union contained passages referencing a balanced budget - he subsequently relented and offered a $1.5 billion stimulus package focusing on the types of government spending
projects Democrats could support. When that suggestion failed to gain support, Kennedy tried again in the spring of 1961, composing a package with meat for both parties; an 8% investment tax credit aimed at Republican support and tax reform (the closing of loopholes) aimed at shoring up the liberal base. As he found after floating the first package, Kennedy was unable to find sufficient support. Part of the reason for the opposition was the business community which was not enamored with Kennedy, opposition that would grow in the ensuing months after Kennedy took the Steel industry to task for raising prices. By early 1962, it was clear that anything but a net reduction in taxes was going to be extraordinarily difficult to pass through Congress (although some small public works projects had been approved) and by May, it was obvious enough that newspapers began to suggest the Presidents proposals would be, on balance, a net cut in taxes. By the summer, business was firmly against anything the President recommended. Indeed a survey conducted in June 1962 showed that 88% of businessmen polled
found the President hostile, no doubt related to the aforementioned Steel debate. Along the way, the equity market suffered a meaningful setback. The 1962 bear market totaled nearly 26% as the Dow fell in each month except for February to start the year. Certainly overseas tensions contributed to the market malaise-the Cuban missile crisis would not reach a crescendo until the fall but weighed on the country for much of 1962-but the ongoing debate about the economy certainly impacted markets. On May 28th, the Dow declined by 35 points, or 5.71%. This followed a week during which the Dow fell by 6%, its largest weekly drop in nearly twelve years. As the conversation continued to evolve, the Presidents liberal base was of course dissatisfied and wanted more of a focus on closing loopholes. As the debate dragged into the new year, it was again increasingly clear that anything but an absolute reduction in tax rates wouldnt pass Congress, and even that proposal was anything but guaranteed given the belief that such a plan would worsen budget deficits (a concern echoed by Republicans). By the summer
of 1963, the President still hadnt secured enough support but did have the AFL-CIO in his corner. Support began to build until the Presidents assassination in November of that year. While there is debate as to whether the plan could have eventually passed with the President in power, President Johnson was able to push through the Revenue Act of 1964 which, among other things: reduced top marginal rate from 91% to 70% reduced corporate tax rate from 52% to 48% phased-in acceleration of corporate estimated tax payments (thru 1970) created minimum standard deduction of $300 + $100/ exemption (total $1,000 max)
3.8% (it had been as high as 7.1% in May 1961) while real GNP grew at an annual rate of 5.7%. While historical analogies are never perfect, and this one most certainly is not, we do find the similarities interesting. Both Presidents favored spending programs in an effort to combat economic weakness but in Kennedys case, he was eventually moved towards tax cuts as the primary means by which he intended to spur growth. In President Obamas case, he clearly favored stimulus spending in the depths of the crisis however in a more normalized economic environment, his upcoming jobs speech appears to focus on policies that appear to have at worst failed outright and at best have disappointed. While we will not wade further into political waters, we do find Without wading into the the Kennedy episode an philosophical debate as to whether instructive lesson on a similar or not revenues were higher in the situation. Irrespective of the ensuing years than they otherwise policies pursued, we should all would have been (tax cuts pay for hope the outcome is the same. themselves), it does seem clear Disclaimer: This information was that the move away from prepared for BTIG LLC e x p e n d i t u r e s t o w a r d s t a x institutional clients and it is not reductions helped boost the the product of the BTIG Research economy; From 1963 to 1966, WHAT page 47 unemployment fell from 5.6% to
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Mortgage Rates at Record Lows: 30-Year at 4.12%, 15-Year at 3.33%; Home Resales Worst in 14 Years
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:20:00 AM
U.S. 30-year mortgage rates are at record lows but it does not matter. Too few want to buy and many cannot refinance because they are underwater. Fixed mortgage rates fell this week to the lowest levels in six decades. But few Americans can take advantage of the rates to refinance or buy a home. The average rate for the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 4.12 percent, down from 4.22 percent, Freddie Mac said Thursday. It's the lowest level on records dating back to 1971. Freddie Mac said the last time rates were cheaper was 1951, when most long-term home loans lasted just 20 or 25 years. The average rate on a 15-year fixed mortgage, a popular refinancing option, fell to 3.33 percent from 3.39 percent. That's the lowest on records dating to 1991 and likely the lowest ever, according to economists. Over the past year, the average rate on the 30-year fixed
mortgage has been below 5 percent for all but two weeks. That compares with five years ago, when the average 30-year fixed rate was near 6.5 percent. Yet sales of new homes are on pace to finish the year as the lowest on records dating back a half-century. The pace of re-sales is shaping up to be the worst in 14 years. Many Americans are in no position to buy. High unemployment, scant wage gains and large debt loads have kept them away. Others can't qualify for the lowest rates. Banks are insisting on higher credit scores and 20 percent down payments for firsttime buyers. Many repeat buyers have too little equity invested in their homes to meet loan requirements. Roughly 40 percent of U.S. households have the necessary credit scores above 700 to get a prime mortgage rate, according to an Associated Press analysis of Fair Isaac Corp., or FICO, data. A bigger issue is just half of Americans say they'll ever be able to save enough money for any
type of down payment, let alone one as high as 20 percent, according to a survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. Nearly a third of homeowners have nearly zero equity or are underwater in their mortgage, according to the real estate research firm CoreLogic. That leaves then unable to refinance because of lender-imposed limits and the cost of extra fees. These findings should not be surprising. I discussed the setup in Five Rules to Remember When Dealing with Real Estate Agents; Why are New Home Sales So Low? How Big is the Pool of Eligible Home Buyers? How Big is the Pool of Eligible Home Buyers? Here is a set of questions that will explain what is happening now. How many people .... Don't have a house? Want a house? Can afford a house, upkeep, and property taxes? Have a needed cash cushion in the bank? Have a decent down payment
for a house? Have a salary that can support interest and principal payments even at these low rates? Are not scared s*less about the loss of a job, assuming they do want a house and meet the rest of the conditions?
prices. Many items on my 7 point list are more important than interest rates, notably 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7. That is the psychology of the situation and I see little reason for it to change until the labor market changes first. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Someone needs to meet all of h t t p : / / those conditions before they will globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. buy a new house. How many is com that? Click Here To Scroll Thru My I just happen to have the answer. Recent Post List Mike New Home Sales at 1963 Levels "Mish" Shedlock is a registered The Los Angeles Times reports investment advisor representative New home sales drop to six- f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l month low Sales of newly built Management. Sitka Pacific is an homes fell in July to the lowest asset management firm whose level in six months, as the nation's goal is strong performance and housing market continues to low volatility, regardless of struggle. market direction. Visit http:// Newly constructed single-family w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / homes sold at a seasonally account_management.html to adjusted annual rate of 298,000, l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h putting the industry on a pace to m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l post the lowest annual sales since preservation strategies of Sitka the Commerce Department began Pacific. keeping data in 1963. Is the eligible buyers' pool getting bigger or smaller? The trend says smaller, in spite of falling interest rates and falling
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Japan's Machinery Orders Plunge at Double Economists' Predictions; Beneficiary of Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Export Policies is Gold
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Department. It is not a research report, nor is it intended as such. The information contained herein has been gathered from multiple sources and is believed to be reliable. However, BTIG LLC has not independently verified the noreply@blogger.com (Michael Japan's recovery from the post- quicker rate due to the strong yen currency debasement policies. accuracy of the content and does Shedlock) (Mish's Global quake slump. and a slowdown in the global I see no reason to believe central not make any representations as to Economic Trend Analysis) The disappointing data could economy, a Reuters poll showed banks have ended currency the accuracy or completeness of place some pressure on the before the release of the data on debasement. Thus I see no reason this information. BTIG LLC is Submitted at 9/7/2011 10:11:00 PM The temporary (very temporary) government and the Bank of Friday. ($1 = 77.325 Japanese to believe the runup in gold prices p r o v i d i n g t h i s d a t a f o r Band-Aid placed on the global Japan, which highlighted risks to Y e n ) B e g g a r - T h y - N e i g h b o r is over. informational purposes and does economic dike today by the growth after leaving monetary I n s a n i t y Mike "Mish" Shedlock not believe that it is sufficient to German court ruling (see Stocks policy on hold on Wednesday, to As I have pointed out on h t t p : / / base an investment decision on. Rally in Yet Another Futile "We ensure that the yen doesn't numerous occasions, Japan wants globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. This information should not be are Saved" Trade; Greek 1-Yr strengthen further. to increase exports, China wants com regarded as a solicitation or Yield hits 97%, "No Blank The yen has been attracting safe- to increase exports, the US wants Click Here To Scroll Thru My recommendation of any particular Checks"; Gold Decouples) is haven demand from investors to increase exports, Germany Recent Post List Mike security or to engage in any already in question, not in Europe unsettled by Europe's sovereign wants to increase exports, Brazil "Mish" Shedlock is a registered trading strategy. Opinions and but in Asia. debt crisis and signs of U.S. wants to increase exports, and investment advisor representative information provided are current Please consider Japan machinery economic slowdown even as Europe in general wants to f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l as of the date appearing on this o r d e r s s l u m p , s i g n a l w e a k Japan struggles with its own debt increase exports. Management. Sitka Pacific is an material and may change without i n v e s t m e n t J a p a n ' s c o r e burden and its new government Every country on the planet asset management firm whose notice. machinery orders tumbled in July faces a long battle to gain w a n t s t o i n c r e a s e e x p o r t s . goal is strong performance and Please follow Money Game on at twice the pace economists' had consensus over how to fund Switzerland initiated a policy to " low volatility, regardless of Twitter and Facebook. expected in a sign that companies reconstruction from the March 11 B u y F o r e i g n C u r r e n c y i n market direction. Visit http:// Join the conversation about this are delaying investment due to earthquake and tsunami. Unlimited Quantities" to drive w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / story worries about a strong yen, Japan is on guard against further down the value of the Swiss Franc account_management.html to See Also: slackening global growth and yen appreciation after intervening to save its export machine. l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h Tonight's Republican Debate: slow progress in reconstruction in currency markets last month Beneficiary of Beggar-Thy- m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l The 19th Century Or The Stone from the March earthquake. when its currency approached a Neighbor Insanity is Gold preservation strategies of Sitka Age? The current account surplus fell record high versus the dollar. It is a mathematical impossibility Pacific. Yes, Microsoft Did Change The more in the year to July than the Japan's economy probably shrank for every country to be a net World More Than Apple median estimate as exports at a faster annualized pace in the exporter. Yet every country Why There's Still No Housing weakened, highlighting concerns s e c o n d q u a r t e r t h a n t h e attempts to do just that with Bottom In Sight that a strong yen and a stuttering government's initial estimate as Beggar-Thy-Neighbor policies. global economy could hamper corporate spending fell at a Gold is the beneficiary of these
11 Myths that Destroy your Prosperity

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1. Think about money differently not scarcity thinking. If you think you dont have enough the energy then starts to manifest that
enough and its not showing exact thing. If you think you have
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The Complete Guide To What To Expect From Barack Obama's Jobs Speech Tonight
Zeke Miller (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:49:00 AM
Which Financial Companies Will Win From The Fed's "Operation Twist"? (AMG, BEN, BX, WETF, KKR, APO, OZM)
Sam Ro (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:33:00 AM
creating" companies who he says are impacted by the Obama administration's regulatory President Barack Obama will a c t i o n s . a d d r e s s a J o i n t S e s s i o n o f Here's what we've learned about Congress tonight at 7 p.m. to O b a m a ' s p l a n s o f a r f r o m present his economic growth plan, administration and Democratic "The American Jobs Act" to the sources: American people. The single-largest component of The speech comes at a pivotal the bill will be an extension and moment in Obama's presidency, expansion of the payroll tax cut to under pressure from both sides of benefit employers as well as their the aisle to get Americans back to employees. The estimated cost of work. this measure is between $120 His plan may top $400 billion billion to $140 billion. a number that will undoubtedly He is also expected to unveil a draw criticism from Republican new small business tax cut, which lawmakers worried about debt and combined with increased transfer deficits. payments to state and local Obama has not shared his plan governments would cost $100 with congressional Republicans, billion. despite their requests to be Obama will push for the consulted before the speech, and extension of unemployment he may even present his proposal benefits, and may introduce a job as a formal bill that he will creation initiative modeled on a demand Congress take up and G e o r g i a p r o g r a m t o a l l o w bring to a vote. business to take on unemployed Speaker of the House John workers for a trial period without Boehner has invited more than a paying them. (The workers would dozen executives from "job receive unemployment benefits in
lieu of salary.) These plans would run to at least $50 billion. The long-promised infrastructure bank to invest in schools, bridges and other projects would cost another $100 billion. The plan is "fully paid for" through a combination of closing corporate tax loopholes and " asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share." It's not clear whether these are immediate offsets, or if the savings will be realized over 10 years. Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Bachmann Goes Rogue, Will Offer Rebuttal To Obama's Jobs Address Here's What's At Stake For Each GOP Candidate In Tonight's Debate Here's The Most Important Exchange Of The GOP Debate
More and more people are expecting the Federal Reserve to announce "Operation Twist" at the end of its two-day FOMC meeting on September 21. Basically that means the Fed will buy long-dated bonds, and sell the short-dated ones -- keeping the balance sheet the same size, but pushing down long-term rates. For some financials, like big banks, it could be bad news if they further lose what profits they're getting from owning Treasuries. Some may benefit though. Citigroup analyst William Katz sees a "mixed outcome" for broker dealers and retail managers in this environment. However, he expects institutional and alternative asset managers to be outperformers. "[W]e see mandate activity further
shifting toward proven/durable/ branded incremental alpha generating platforms in light of the extension of low rates," said Katz. "We see the alternatives broadly benefiting, with [Affiliated Managers Group] best positioned among traditionals." Katz's other top picks are Franklin Resources, The Blackstone Group, and WisdomTree Investments. To a lesser extent he likes KKR, Apollo Global Management, and Och-Ziff Capital. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple Why There's Still No Housing Bottom In Sight The GOP's Brilliant Strategy To Counter Obama's Jobs Speech
10 Secret Strategies Online Retailers Use to Make You Spend

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With the economy in jeopardy and $680 billion in projected online sales this year at risk,
online retailers are making it ever easier for shoppers to buy. Through
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Papandreou will all be gone after the next set of elections. French President Nicholas Sarkozy may bite the dust as well, and if he does it may be to a vehemently anti-Euro candidate. All it takes is one government to say "to hell with this" and the whole mess unravels. The current set of politicians all want to "save the Euro". But what did the Euro buy Greece, Ireland, Spain, or Portugal except misery? Even German and Finland voters wonder what it bought them. Eurozone Breakup Inevitable Merkel's half-baked proposal raises more questions than answers. The market (and voters) will not possibly wait for details of her proposal to get hashed out. If this is the best Merkel can come up with, a Eurozone breakup is inevitable. Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
What Not to Pair: Disastrous Food Can't-Live-Without Tools That Have Combinations Saved My Hide
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Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
There are an infinite number of food combinations that sound horrible -- soy sauce and oatmeal would be awful, for one, or how about maple syrup over broccoli? Of course, it's all a matter of taste -- we've heard of plenty of people who enjoy dill pickles with almond butter. Theories also abound about what food combinations are disastrous for your health. Take this quiz with a grain of salt, though -- we're not advocating any one theory, just giving you some ideas on what not to eat for your next dinner. Earn a point for every right answer! Save your score at the end of the quiz. This entry passed through the
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We've featured lots of essential apps that we use every day, but some apps and extensions can also be considered life-savingor at least can save you from tearing your hair out when trying to get things done. Here are a few that have really saved my hide. More
17 Silly and Unusual Motorcycle Names

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marketing firms to come up with catchy names for their products. Others just wing it. The following is a list of motorcycles burdened with monikers seemingly conjured up during an out-of-control
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Sept. 8, 1966: Liftoff for the Starship Enterprise

Tony Long (Wired Top Stories)
1966: Star Trek makes its network television debut. Given the cultural impact and enormous franchise spawned by the original Star Trek series, its hard to believe that the show lasted just three seasons and was canceled by NBC in 1969 because of low ratings. See Also: Photo Gallery Star Trek Then and Now Photo Gallery Star Treks 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures But if network number-crunching and the shortsightedness of advertising sponsors doomed it, Star Treks long-term survival, evidenced by its ongoing syndication, not to mention the numerous TV spinoffs and feature -length films its inspired, is both a vindication of and a tribute to its creator and executive producer, Gene Roddenberry. And Roddenberry was a guy badly in need of vindication. His career began promisingly: Roddenberry wrote scripts for some popular 1950s TV shows like Naked City, Highway Patrol and Have Gun, Will Travel. But the original Star Trek TV series, as well as the first feature-length s u c c e s s e s i n a n o t h e r w i s e film, Star Trek: The Motion u n r e m a r k a b l e a n d o f t e n P i c t u r e , w e r e c o n s p i c u o u s problematic association with
Hollywood. The commercial success of the first Star Trek movie would
spawn other films and a new TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, although
Roddenberrys involvement with those projects was diminished. But if his relationship with the industry had its rough patches, his reputation as a futurist and visionary which begins and ends with Star Trek is assured. The original shows most visionary aspects were social, not scientific, and that had everything to do with the times. The country was in turmoil, embroiled in Vietnam and the growing civil rights movement. Roddenberry said later that these events influenced many of the themes, as well as the multicultural makeup of the crew. Roddenberry remained in demand on the lecture circuit to the end of his life, speaking not only at universities but at some other pretty significant places, too, including the Smithsonian Institution and NASA. Star Treks impact on popular culture is matched by only a handful of other television shows, and surpassed by precious few. The original cast members on the USS Enterprises 1966 flight deck became household names: Capt. James T. Kirk ( William Shatner), First Officer Mr. Spock ( Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy ( DeForest Kelley), Chief Engineer Montgomery Scotty SEPT. page 52
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Dolphins May 'Talk' Like Humans

Wired UK (Wired Top Stories)
By Katie Scott, Wired UK A study in which recordings of dolphins made in the 1970s were re-analyzed has revealed that dolphins talk to each other in a manner very similar to human speech, using tissue vibrations. The study by biologists at Aarhus University in Denmark concentrated on the dolphins whistle, which was believed to be produced by the resonance of air in the dolphins nasal air cavities. This would have implications for how dolphins communicate at depth increased air pressure would affect the size of the nasal air cavities and therefore the pitch of the sounds they can make. Instead, the team discovered that the dolphins whistle isnt in fact a whistle at all; but a sound produced by tissue vibrations. The study centered upon recordings of a 12-year-old male bottlenose dolphin made in 1977 by Professor Sam Ridgway and Dr Don Carder, who were then working for the US Navy Marine Mammal Program. The dolphin, which had been trained for the study, was given a mixture of 80 per cent helium and 20 per cent oxygen (known as heliox) through a US Navy Fenzy breather, which was placed over its blowhole. It was then prompted to whistle and sound recordings taken. Recordings of the dolphin whistling whilst breathing solely
air were also taken. The hypothesis was that the pitch of the whistles would change as the sound speed in heliox is 1.74 times higher than in air the dolphin would exhibit the same effect that helium has on humans. Specifically, the pitch of the whistle would be 1.74 times higher than when the dolphin had been breathing air. However, this was not so. Listen: Dolphin speech in heliox Listen: Dolphin speech in air
Peter Madsen, lead author of the paper, which has now been published in Royal Society Biology Letters explains that the US Navy team couldnt make sense of their findings as analyzing just one whistle would take an entire afternoon. The Aarhus team digitized the recordings; and analyzed them using mathematical computing and visualization scripts. Speaking to Wired.co.uk, he explained that these scripts
allowed the team to trace the harmonics in each whistle; and determine their frequency. They found that the pitch did not change between the whistles produced in Heliox and the normal whistles. The dolphins whistle is therefore not a whistle but, states the paper, a sound produced by pneumatically induced tissue vibrations analogous to the operation of vocal folds in terrestrial mammals and the syrinx in birds. The team
suggests that dolphins phonic lips are good candidates for the source of the sounds. Madsen adds that this finding reveals why dolphins can convey information and their identity regardless of the depth that they are swimming. Specifically, the use of tissue vibrations made by recycling air allows them to change tone very quickly whereas simply blasting air out once, as DOLPHINS page 52
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Scott ( James Doohan), Communications Officer Nyota Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols) and Helmsman Hikaru Sulu ( George Takei). Navigator Pavel Chekov ( Walter Koenig), who joined the cast in the second season to give the Russians their due in space, was also a popular character. Phrases like Beam me up, Scotty and Live long and prosper and to boldly go entered the lexicon, and the shows cult following, kept visibly alive by the numerous and rollicking Star Trek conventions, remains strong to this day. An 11foot model of the starship Enterprise is on display at the Smithsonian. On the tech front, the communicator used by Enterprise crew members is said to have been the inspiration for the flipopen cellphone. The original pilot episode for the series, The Cage, was filmed in 1964 but not aired in its entirety until 1988. After the original pilot was rejected by NBC, The Cage was chopped up and heavily edited, and eventually shown under the title The Menagerie
during Star Treks three-year run. Nimoys Mr. Spock was the only character from the pilot to later appear in the TV series, although he was most un-Spock like, showing a lot more emotion than your average Vulcan. In the pilot, the Enterprise was commanded by Capt. Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter). Because of all the spinoffs that resulted from it, Roddenberrys Star Trek is often referred to as The Original Series. For a lot of us who came of age watching Shatner chewing on all that alien scenery and nibbling on all those alien necks, it was The Only Series. Source: Various Kirk (William Shatner), Bones (DeForest Kelley) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) all appeared in Star Trek: The Original Series. (Courtesy CBS Paramount Television) This article first appeared on Wired on Sept. 8, 2008, and attracted lots of commentary on our Underwire blog. See Also: New Mondo Star Trek Poster Ventures to City on the Edge of Forever
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humans do when we whistle, wouldnt be conducive for good communication in a social setting. Madsen says that dolphins would have used tissue vibrations to communicate when they lived on land; but suggests that they may have lost this ability when they first moved into the oceans only to develop it over time as a more effective form of communication at depth. Madsen also believes that the findings could have implications for all toothed whales. True whistles would also be less effective for them when swimming the depths of the This entry passed through the oceans and so they too may have Full-Text RSS service if this is d e v e l o p e d s i m i l a r w a y s o f your content and you're reading it c o m m u n i c a t i n g . on someone else's site, please read Image: Flickr/ Isbalon/ CC the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Audio: Journal of the Royal only/faq.php#publishers. Five Society Biology Letters Filters featured article: A 'Malign Source: Wired.co.uk Intellectual Subculture' - George See Also: M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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What Do You Do When You Need to Relax and Compose Yourself on the Job? [Stress]
Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Ideally you're doing your job because you love it, but that doesn't meant you're never
overwhelmed or stressed out. red zone, what do you do to relax When the pressure of your job and compose yourself? More pushes your stress needle into the
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Why Wait for Google? Use Encrypted Search Today

Scott Gilbertson (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:28:00 AM
Google appears to be expanding the use of its encrypted search page, automatically redirecting some Chrome users to the HTTPS version of Google search. The company has also expanded the number of Google search tools that work with the encrypted page to include Google Image Search, Google Instant and Google Instant Preview. Using Google search over SSL means that your search terms are encrypted, so prying eyes cant see what youre searching for, nor can they see the results you get back. Googles efforts to provide an encrypted search page are just one part of a broader move afoot on the web to shift more traffic over to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Why all the fuss about HTTPS? Well, every time you search Google or log in to Twitter or Facebook over a plain HTTP connection, you expose your data to the world. Its a bit like writing your username and password on a postcard and dropping it in the
mailbox. There is a better way, the secure version of HTTP HTTPS. That extra S in the URL means your connection is secure, and its much harder for anyone else to see what youre doing. Think of the extra S as the envelop that keeps prying eyes from looking at your postcards. Although the HTTPS version of Google does, in Googles words, provide you with a more secure and private search experience, its worth noting that it doesnt stop Google from tracking your search terms and other data.
Google Operating System, which tracks all things Google, dug up a post on the Google Support Forums where a Google employee says that Google is running an experiment with some percentage of Chrome 14 users where we send them to SSL search. That means that some Chrome users may find themselves using the HTTPS search page without even realizing they are. Chrome 14 is still in beta, so in order for this to affect you, youll need to be using the beta channel. Of course even if you arent part
of Googles effort to expand Google Search over SSL, doesnt mean you cant configure your browser to use the HTTPS search page by default. Firefox fans can just install the HTTPS Everywhere extension. Chrome and Chromium users can simply right-click the URL bar, choose edit search engines and then look for the Google entry. Just click edit, add an s to the end of the http and youre done. Internet Explorer users can head to the IE add-ons page and create a new search provider using the form. Photo: Joffley/Flickr/CC See Also: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
New York Spring Fashion Week Fun Through the Years!

Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
It's still hard to believe Fall is already here, but with it comes the fun of Spring Fashion Week! NYC is buzzing with the excitement of shows, parties, presentations, and other festivities, and it all kicks off tonight with Fashion's Night Out events across the country. So as the celebrities, designers, and models step out to get Fashion Week started with the first shows already underway, let's take a look back at some memorable moments from Spring shows over the years. View Slideshow
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Anne Hathaway and Christian Bale Get Into Character For The Dark Knight
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway spent last night on the LA set of the new Dark Knight Rises. Anne was dressed as Selina Kyle for the stint before the cameras, looking fancy as her Catwoman alter ego. She's out on the West Coast with boyfriend Adam Shulman, who has been by her side for nights out, grocery store runs, and more. Christian and Anne were recently together in Pennsylvania to shoot alongside costars Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman. Marion, however, was in NYC
Californians Get Another Year of Tax-Free Purchases from Amazon [In Brief]
last night to premiere Contagion. Thorin Klosowski (Lifehacker) Anne also had to break from the Submitted at 9/8/2011 9:39:47 AM action in order to do press for One Day, but now it's back to kicking Californians will be able to butt in her Catwoman costume. continue avoiding sales tax by ordering from Amazon for one View Slideshow more year, as the company has reached a deal with legislative leaders to delay collecting taxes until September 2012. More
'Creole Beethoven' composer, arranger dead at 81 (AP)

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The home advantage to education? [infographic]

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The post 9/11 effect on travel [infographic]

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who arranged "Chapel of Love" for the Dixie Cups and was Submitted at 9/8/2011 5:15:49 AM dubbed the "Creole Beethoven" AP - Composer, arranger, by Allen Toussaint, has died. He bandleader, producer and teacher was 81. Wardell Quezergue (kuh-ZEHR),
Gaddafi forces fire rockets from Bani Walid

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from inside one of his last strongholds, hours after a TV station aired an audio message reportedly from the deposed Libyan leader urging his fighters on. At least 10 loud explosions could be heard on Thursday along the desert front line at Bani Walid, a town of 100,000 people about 140km southeast of Tripoli, following early morning skirmishes in the same area. Smoke billowed from the projectiles, said to be Grad rockets, after they landed in Wadi Dinar, about 20km outside the town. Thousands of fighters for Libya's new leadership have converged on Bani Walid. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has requested that Interpol issue a "red notice" to arrest Muammar Gaddafi for the alleged crimes against humanity of murder and persecution. "Arresting Gaddafi is a matter of time," said Moreno-Ocampo, who is also requesting red notices for the arrest of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Abdullah Al-Senussi. Officials have said a number of prominent regime loyalists, including Gaddafi's son and onetime heir apparent, are believed to be inside Bani Walid. Earlier on Thursday, in a message broadcast on the Syriabased channel Al-Rai TV, Gaddafi denied rumours he had fled Libya, vowed never to leave the land of his ancestors and
exhorted followers to keep fighting. The former Libyan leader, in power for nearly 42 years, has not been seen in public for months. A military official in Libya's new leadership had said a day earlier that Gaddafi was cornered and would soon be captured or killed, but another senior defence official contended his whereabouts are unknown. 'Libyan land is yours' Finding Gaddafi would help seal the new rulers' hold on the country, and likely trigger the collapse of the remaining regime loyalists still fighting the former rebels. His most recent audio message encouraged Libyans to take up arms against the fighters battling his loyalists and accusing the National Transitional Council (NTC), currently running the country, of being a front for Western powers. Click here for more of Al Jazeera's special coverage In his message on Thursday, Gaddafi said: "To all my beloved Libyans, the Libyan land is yours and you need to defend it against all those traitors, the dogs, those that have been in Libya and are trying to take over the land. "They were spies for the Italians and now they are spies for France. All those germs and rats ... capture all those who are working with NATO and the UK to bomb our country and kill Libyans and our children." Gaddafi also dismissed reports that he had fled to neighbouring
Niger as "psychological warfare and lies". He said there was nothing unusual about a convoy of cars going to Niger. "How many times do convoys transporting smugglers, traders and people cross the border every day for Sudan, Chad, Mali and Algeria," Gaddafi said. "As if this was the first time a convoy was headed towards Niger." High technology The president of Burkina Faso has also deined that Gaddafi is in his country. "We don't have any information on the presence of Libyans on our territory since these events started," he said. On the ground, Libyan fighters claimed on Wednesday to have Gaddafi surrounded within a 60km radius. Anis Sharif, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council, however, would not say where exactly Gaddafi had been found. Sharif said Gaddafi had been tracked using high technology and human intelligence. "He can't get out," he said. Gaddafi, who was removed from power in August after an uprising against his rule, is believed to be travelling in a convoy of about 10 cars and may be using a tent as shelter, Hisham Buhagiar, who is co-ordinating the NTC efforts to find the former Libyan leader, said. "It is the tent. We know that he does not want to stay in a house, so he stays in a tent. People say
the cars came, and then they made a tent," Buhagiar said, adding that his sources had not seen Gaddafi themselves. Meanwhile, the antiGaddafi forces are still working to gain full control of the country almost three weeks after the fall of the capital, Tripoli. Fighters have been engaged in prolonged negotiations to convince representatives from Bani Walid, about 150km southeast of Tripoli, that there would be no retributions if the town surrendered peacefully. But the representatives, upon returning to the town to deliver the message, were fired at and forced to retreat to NTC territory on Tuesday. On Thursday, the NTC sent an additional battalion of rebel fighters to Bani Walid, where it is preparing for a showdown with Gaddafi loyalists. Thousands of NTC fighters have been camping outside Bani Walid, which is one of Gaddafi's last strongholds. They have also built a field hospital and deployed 10 volunteer doctors to prepare for the possibility of a fight. Final battles Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, reporting from near Bani Walid on Thursday, said there was an apparent escalation of violence - including "four NATO airstrikes this morning" - although NATO could not confirm this. According to NTC officials, the surrender negotiations inside Bani Walid have stalled and the
NTC has given them till Saturday before revolutionary fighters move on the town. Our correspondent said fighters outside the city had been saying, "We must stay and wait ... until [NTC leaders] give us the goahead". Abdullah Kinshil, the NTC's chief negotiator in Bani Walid, said one of Gaddafi's sons, Saif al -Islam, was seen there with supporters on Tuesday. Fighters are also preparing to move towards Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte. For now, talks have been stalled and they are awaiting orders to take the towns from Gaddafi loyalists. Amid the Libyan fighters' push to gain full control of this North African country, news came on Tuesday of convoys of Gaddafi loyalists, including his security chief, fleeing across the Sahara into Niger. The US said it believed the convoy was carrying senior members of Gaddafi's entourage, and urged Niger to detain anyone liable for prosecution for alleged crimes committed during the uprising. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, GADDAFI page 58
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'Three detained' over Delhi blast claim

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Authorities are investigating a claim of responsibility allegedly made by the armed group, Harkatul-Jihad Islami [AFP] Three people, including the owner of an internet cafe, have been detained for questioning over an email allegedly claiming responsibility for Wednesday's deadly blast in New Delhi that left 12 dead, police say. Senior police officials told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that they had detained the owner of an internet cafe in the Kishtwar region of Indian-administered Kashmir from where they suspect the email was sent on Wednesday. The blast inquiry was quickly turned over to the National Investigation Agency [NIA], established after the Mumbai attack of 2008 to investigate and prevent terror attacks. Police were scouring the city for possible suspects, searching hotels, bus stands, railway stations and the airport, UK Bansal, a senior security official, said. All roads out of the city were under surveillance as well, he said. Of the dozens injured in the blast, 19 still remain in intensive care unit. An official said on Thursday the government would do all it can to provide medical assistance. Sketches released
Late on Wednesday, police also released two sketches they said were based on descriptions given by witnesses who claimed they had seen someone with a briefcase waiting in line outside the building. Authorities are investigating the claim of responsibility allegedly made by the armed group Harkatul-Jihad Islami [HUJI], an alQaeda-linked with bases in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It has claimed responsibility for attacks in India in the past. "That mail has to be looked at
very seriously because HUJI is a very prominent terrorist group among whose targets India is one," SC Sinha, the NIA chief, said. In an email to the NIA, the group called on India to repeal the death sentence of a man convicted in connection with an attack on the Indian parliament in 2001 who was awaiting execution by hanging. "We are determined to track down the perpetrators of this horrific crime and bring them to justice,'' P Chidambaram, India's interior
minister, told parliament on Wednesday. PM's admission Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, conceded that there were "weaknesses in our security system and terrorists are taking advantage of them". "We will never succumb to the pressure of terrorism," he said. "This is a long war in which all political parties, all the the people of India, have to stand united so that this scourge of terrorism is crushed." However, Arun Jaitley, an
opposition politician, asked in parliament: "Have we become so vulnerable that terrorist groups can almost strike at will?" The attack was carried out even though Delhi had been on high alert because parliament was in session. The blast erupted near a large crowd of people waiting in line to reach a reception counter where passes are made for entry to the court building, RK Singh, India's home secretary, said. 'THREE page 58
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Abuse of Iraqi by British army 'appalling'

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The chairman of the inquiry said there was 'corporate failure' at the British ministry of defence A three year-long investigation into the death of an Iraqi civilian in British army custody has concluded that Baha Mousa died after suffering an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence". Mousa died after being detained by UK forces in Basra in 2003 after suffering 93 individual wounds to his body. He was arrested by the 1st Batallion, The Queen Lancashire Regiment, along with nine other Iraqis at a Basra hotel where he worked. Mousa then died two days after his arrest. The 26-year-old was repeatedly kicked and punched over a 36hour period while being held in a squalid detention block on a British military base in the southern Iraqi city. Hooded and handcuffed in the fierce heat, the father of two suffered injuries including a broken nose, broken ribs and bruising all over his body, the inquiry found. William Gage, the chairman of the inquiry, condemned members of the British army batallion involved in the incident and said there was "corporate failure" at the defence ministry over the use of banned interrogation methods. Gage said senior officers should
have done more to prevent Mousa's death and sustained attacks by British troops on the other detainees. "Sir William Gage's report provides us all with a chronicle of what he himself described as grave and shameful events," Phil Shiner, a lawyer for Mousa's family, said. "This cannot be explained away as being the act of a few rogue soldiers." "His report provides a detailed analysis of how hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, noise disorientation and minimal food
and water, ultimately contributed to Baha dying in British custody," he said. No systematic abuse While the inquiry criticised individual soldiers for using unlawful methods of interrogation, Gage did not suggest there had been systematic abuse by the British army. Nicola Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia programme director at Amnesty International, said, "What happened to Baha Mousa and the other men detained with him at the hands of British
soldiers must never be allowed to happen again". "Whatever the pressures the soldiers may have faced in Iraq during that time, torture can never be justified in any circumstances," she said. "Those responsible must be held accountable for their actions and brought swiftly to justice, including in criminal proceedings - nothing less will do." A leaked report last month suggested that the army would be cleared of systematic torture. "This is a serious and regrettable
incident, such an incident should not have happened and should never happen again," Gage said. "It is a stain on the reputation of the army." He concluded that the death was a result of Mousa's weakened physical state and a struggle with the guards. Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee, reporting from London, said: "Sadism, brutality, organized and illegal violence perpetrated or condoned not just by one but by a ABUSE page 58
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The blast will renew concern about the authorities' ability to prevent attacks, particularly in sensitive, high-risk areas. "This is a glaring example of the shortage of intelligence, both human and technical," Ajai Sahni, executive director at the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, said. In May, a low-intensity blast outside the same Delhi court triggered panic but injured no one. The explosion on Wednesday was outside the busiest gate of the building. It was the first major attack in India since a string of bombs
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group of British soldiers at a military base in Basra in southern Iraq - that's the key finding of this inquiry". Our correspondent said, "In terms of the final reading, William Gage was limited in that he was only dealing with the death of Baha Mousa and a group of others". Iraqi lawyers will respond to the report, and our correspondent predicts they will say the report did not go far enough. There is a "clear need to have exposed the wrongs that have been done to the detainees and
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Fall TV: The Kids Are All Right

AOL TV Staff (AOL TV)
Filed under: Features, Fall TV The great comedian W.C. Fields once famously said, "Never work with children or animals." But come on -- sometimes animals are really cute! Oh, and we guess children aren't so bad either. We kid, we kid ...
Whether you need a prematurely precocious tyke to spout oneliners, or a serious little man to play the heir to a lineage of serial killers, it's not the kind of thing you can just CGI in. To tell a reallife story, you're just gonna have to suck it up, work on your knockknock jokes and get ready to act but there are a few special squirts alongside real-life little ones. -- and several more mature minors Fall TV is chock full of children,
-- that have caught our eye, including a new little Lily on'Modern Family,' a hot'Terra Nova' teen and an animated 40year-old trapped in a 7-year-old's body. Check out our favorite kids of the fall TV season after the jump ... Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
TED: Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive - Lee Cronin (2011)
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Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:05:37 AM
Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead "stuff." How improbable is it that
life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to
create a fully inorganic cell using a "Lego kit" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete.
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'Biggest Loser' Contestant Sam Poueu in Critical Condition After Accident

Jean Bentley (AOL TV)
TomTom EASE 3.5 GPS with Text-To-Speech & IQ Routes

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Kim and Kourtney Kardashian Talk Sears Line, Relationships on 'GDNY' (VIDEO)
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Filed under: TV News Former'Biggest Loser' contestant Sam Poueu is in critical condition in a San Francisco hospital, according to TMZ. The Season 9 competitor reportedly fell several stories from a building on Sept. 3 and has been in the ICU ever since suffering from a pelvic injury, torn ligaments, a punctured lung and a broken leg. No word on how long Poueu's
recovery will take, but Dr. H from 'The Biggest Loser' told TMZ that Poueu is improving every day. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
Forget driving. What I really needed was a GPS for getting through lifes decisions. You can look at something like this refurbished TomTom EASE 3.5 Portable GPS Navigator and marvel at how far weve come: its super easy to use, its got a touch screen, and it freaking talks to you while beaming signals TOMTOM page 60
Filed under: TV Replay When the good folks from 'Little House on the Prairie' used to order from the Sears catalogue, they probably didn't imagine it would some day be flooded with the Kardashian Kollection. But Thursday on'Good Day New York'(weekdays, 9AM ET on Fox) Kim and Kourtney Kardashian detailed their new
Sears line and spoke about the new season of'Keeping Up With the Kardashians.' The Kardashian line will include clothes, handbags, jewelry, shoes, lingerie, and even a home collection. And apparently, it's cheap. "Everything is pretty much under a hundred dollars," said Kim. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
Barbara Frum 1937-1992

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pending endeavour. After a few minutes the questions turned to what type of training he was Submitted at 9/8/2011 7:30:11 AM doing for his impending launch. I can remember listening to your The man replied that his diet Mother on CBC with my family consisted of eating grass. At around the dinner table and in our that point your mother lost it. You VW bug buzzing around Calgary, could hear her suppressing her o r H o r n b y I s l a n d . I n o n e laughter. However, this man was interview with a man from Britain serious. Getting launched from a who was preparing to launch catapult was serious business. We himself with the assistance of a laughed for minutes after that catapult over a river, she asked interview. him a series of questions relating Your mother was remarkable and to the reasons and physics of his her extraordinary talents, wisdom,
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Peter Gabriel's great new 3D concert movie: Will anyone care?

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music fans is "U2 3D," which was critically lauded (including by me) during its short 2008 Submitted at 9/8/2011 8:19:59 AM theatrical run, before it all but Peter Gabriel's great new 3D disappeared. concert movie: Will anyone care? A similar fate may await the "Peter Gabriel: New Blood Live Gabriel film, given that I saw it in London 3D" is a new concert with no more than a dozen other movie that uses 3D imaging to p e o p l e i n a l a r g e m i d t o w n capture and even subtly enhance a Manhattan movie theater on one March, 2011 London performance of only two nights of screenings by the British art-rocker. Good as across the country. Yet "New it is, though, it's unclear whether Blood" is an artistic smash, this filmor any othercan o f f e r i n g a 9 0 - p l u s - m i n u t e boost the curiously struggling performance, with a 50-piece fortunes of the 3D performance- orchestra, of old hits and new film genre. cover versions from a London To my eyes, at least, live music show on Gabriel's tour earlier this performances are made for 3D, year. given the potential of the As an artist, Gabriel is technology to create a more unfailingly thoughtfuldetractors lifelike cinematic experience. Yet might even say ponderousso it's relatively few 3D concert movies no surprise that the 3D effects in have been made. Mostincluding "New Blood" are restrained. The "Hannah Montana Best of Both closest thing to 3D gimmickry is W o r l d s C o n c e r t " ; " J o n a s the brief use, no more than three Brothers: The 3D Concert times, of line illustrations Experience"; and "Glee: The 3D superimposed over the footage. At Concert Movie"have been one point, musical notes float aimed at young crowds and, for between Gabriel and daughter what it's worth, have received Melanie, one of his backup critical drubbings. singers. During a performance of Until the Gabriel film, the only the song "Red Rain," red sticks other 3D concert movie I know of shoot towards viewers as the song that was made primarily for older starts and rain down on the
album and on October 24 as a DVD and on Blu-ray disc in both 2D and 3D versions. (See our Ratings, available to subscribers, of 3D TVs and Blu-ray players, including 3D-capable models, if you're thinking of making a 3D home upgrade.) If you're a Gabriel fan, however, concert crowd during the first consider seeing the film in a theater on September 12, the date chorus. Mostly, the 3D heightens a sense f o r i t s n e x t a n d , s o f a r , of intimacy with the performers, l a s t s c h e d u l e d t h e a t r i c a l during a setlist that favors screening. If you're like me, you'll G a b r i e l ' s s l o w e r a n d m o r e appreciate seeing "New Blood" on reflective songs. Much of the film a bigger screen and with better is shot close up and includes not sound than if you wait to see it at only many tight shots of Gabriel home. And while you'll pay himself but frequent roaming pans premium 3D-ticket prices (my over and around the orchestra, admission was $15), that's still a some so close to the players that fraction of the $200 or more that you can identify the song that's the best seats cost on Gabriel's just beginning from reading the handful of U.S. dates with the same show earlier in the year. sheet music's title. At one point, after Gabriel sings Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o while illuminated by a small spotlight at his feet, he uses a ConsumerReports.org for expert hand-held mirror to turn the beam Ratings, buying advice and into a spotlight that plays over the r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f concert crowd. 3D makes the products. Update your feed effect as haunting on the screen as preferences it must have been live. "U2 3D" had no life beyond theaters, but "New Blood" will be released on October 11 as an
From Dust to PSN: Sept. 14 in EU, Sept. 27 in NA

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:15:00 PM
Eric Chahi's From Dust is blowing over to PSN next. The deity delight arrives in Europe and North America for Sony's console on September 14 and 27, respectively. The game launched smoothly in early August as part of Microsoft's Xbox 360 " Summer of Arcade" promotion and then decided, like a spontaneous piece of performance art, to simulate a disaster for its PC launch. From Dust to PSN: Sept. 14 in EU, Sept. 27 in NA originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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IBM global commuter survey: Traffic's better, but drivers are still pained
Federal Appeals Court In Virginia Tosses Out Challenge To Health Care Reform
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
IBM global commuter survey: Traffic's better, but drivers are still pained How was your commute this morning? If you drive in New York or Los Angeles you were probably as frustrated by all the traffic. But at least you're not in Mexico City, where drivers' frustration levels are three or four times L.A. or N.Y. drivers have with commuting woes. That's one of the many findings in IBM's fourth annual global Commuter Pain Survey, an analysis of 8,000 car drivers in 20 of the world's "most economically important international cities." As with the past studies, IBM sought to gauge worldwide traffic patterns and commuters' attitude towards driving in their respective cities. According to IBM's research, respondents in many of the cities surveyed say traffic has improved either "somewhat" or even "substantially" over the past three years. For example, 24 percent of New York drivers in the current
survey believe their roadway traffic has improved in 2011double the amount of New Yorkers who felt that way when surveyed last year. However, despite the improvements in local traffic, an increasing number of commuters are seething while sitting behind the steering wheel. In this year's survey, 29 percent of Los Angeles drivers said they've been angered by roadway congestion. That's more than double the 14 percentage points recorded in IBM's 2010 survey. But even drivers in cities that scored low on IBM's "Commuter Pain Index" seems to be flustered by the daily stop-and-go. A third of the drivers surveyed in Londonthe second lowest city on IBM's indexreported increased levels of stress due to traffic this year. In 2010, that number was less than
citing the Commerce Clause in its decision. Then in August, the 11th U.S. Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:50:09 AM Circuit Court of Appeals in The final of three federal appeals Atlanta ruled that the individual one-fifth, or 19 percent of c o u r t r u l i n g s o n t h e m a n d a t e is indeed surveyed British drivers. constitutionality of the Patient unconstitutional, but did not strike The frustration level of drivers in Protection and Affordable Care down the entire bill, only the the 20 cities covered by IBM's Act has come down, and this portion requiring individuals to global Commuter Pain Survey. round goes to the White House. have insurance. Graphic: IBM Earlier this year, a lower court in There is no doubt that this matter IBM's data will help guide the Virginia had sided with the will ultimately end up at the feet company and its efforts to help c o m m o n w e a l t h ' s A t t o r n e y of the Supreme Court, so there is cities make transportation systems General, declaring the portion of little to do but wait and see when smarter, which promise to reduce the Care Act requiring individuals they decide to hear the case. congestion and its economic and to have health insurance is Virginia court tosses challenge to ecologic impacts. unconstitutional. Today's ruling health care overhaul[Chicago What are your thoughts about by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Tribune] your daily commute? Has it Appeals in Richmond overturns This entry passed through the gotten better or worse? Post your that decision. Full-Text RSS service if this is thoughts in the comments below. From Reuters: your content and you're reading it IBM Global Commuter Pain Virginia had contended that this on someone else's site, please read Survey: Traffic Congestion provision conflicted with a state the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentDown, Pain Way Up[IBM press statute, giving it standing to only/faq.php#publishers. Five release] challenge the federal law. But the Filters featured article: A 'Malign IBM Commuter Pain Index 4th Circuit disagreed and directed Intellectual Subculture' - George S h o w s W o r s t C i t i e s f o r the lower court to dismiss the case M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Driving[Wall Street Journal] because it lacked jurisdiction. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Mexico City traffic is worst, In June, Circuit Court of Appeals Media Lens. drivers survey says[Reuters in Cincinatti ruled that the law Africa] Subscribe now! does not violate the Constitution, S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Google Buys Zagat To In our labs: Time Improve Search Results & for a new string Google Maps trimmer?
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
ordinary) experiences around the corner and around the world." For those not familiar with Zagat, Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:30:00 AM the company was founded in 1979 In an "effort to bolster" its "local and became famous for its slim reviews and ratings," Google restaurant guides that used announced today that it has customer-submitted ratings and purchased Zagat, the company reviews to form brief snippets known for its quotation-heavy about each eatery and give them restaurant, movie, shopping and ratings (out of a possible 30 other review guides. points) on food, decor and In a post on the official Google service. blog, the company says that Using the same customer"Zagat will be a cornerstone of generated ratings, the company our local offering delighting subsequently branched out to people with their impressive array p r o d u c e g u i d e s o n m o v i e s , of reviews, ratings and insights, shopping, nightlife, travel, music while enabling people everywhere and more. t o f i n d e x t r a o r d i n a r y ( a n d There's no timeline yet for rolling
out Zagat reviews to Google search and Google Maps, so for now... enjoy this clip of Chris Farley in drag reading from the Zagat restaurant guide: Google just got ZAGAT Rated![Google Blog via TechCrunch] This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.

Authorities release photos of tattoos, hoping to ID suspect in Woburn shooting - Boston Globe
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Boston Globe Authorities release photos of tattoos, hoping to ID suspect in Woburn shooting Boston Globe This tattoo is on the back of the
unidentified man who faces charges in the shooting of a Woburn police officer during a botched jewelry heist on Tuesday. By John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Authorities today sought the public's help... and more
In our labs: Time for a new string trimmer? Even if youve been diligently mowing all season, your lawn will look ragged around the edges if you dont have a string trimmer for cutting grass, weeds, and brush where your mower or tractor cant reach. A new video weve prepared, below, explores pros and cons of not only gasoline -powered models but also ones that use propane or electric powercorded and cordless. Well post the results of what were currently testing in time for next years shopping. Besides how a string trimmer is powered, your considerations include the shaft, which transfers power from the engine or motor to the cutting lines. If youre especially tall or have a lot of bushes and other shrubs, you might prefer a straight shaft. Models with a curved shaft, like our top-rated Stihl FS45, $150,
tend to be lighter and easier to handle. Among other considerations, pay attention to the head housing the monofilament line, which does the actual trimming. Fixed-head units use two or more precut pieces of line. Bump-feed models let out line when you bump the head to the ground, and automatic models release more line by themselves when needed. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Man Arrested At WinnDixie With Lobster, Shrimp, And Pork Down His Pants
Laura Northrup (The Consumerist)
Police update meats found in accused shoplifter's pants[WLOX](Thanks, Reid!) Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:45:00 AM RELATED: If you're going to shoplift two Teen Steals 12-Pound Turkey lobster tails, two bags of shrimp, Breast By Stuffing It Down His and a pork loin from a grocery Pants store, what's the least obvious way Shoplifter Stuffs Chainsaw Down to do so? Shove them in your His Pants shorts, of course. A MIssissippi Police: Alleged Shoplifter man is accused of shoplifting after Stuffed Beef Down His Pants allegedly doing just that. This entry passed through the Winn-Dixie employees say that Full-Text RSS service if this is the 35-year-old tried to leave the your content and you're reading it store with the lobster tails in his on someone else's site, please read front pockets, the pork loin in his the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwaistband, and the bags of shrimp only/faq.php#publishers. Five in an unnamed location. Filters featured article: A 'Malign Initial news reports indicated that Intellectual Subculture' - George the man tried to leave the store M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , with two live lobsters in his Herman, Peterson, Pilger And shorts, which makes a much better Media Lens. news story. Alas, no shoplifter is that stupid. This week.
Arian Foster: All signs point to me playing on Sunday

Andy Behrens (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
Things are definitely looking up, Arian Foster owners. On Thursday, Foster offered these comments to Yahoo! Sports Radio's Craig Sheman: "The hamstring is coming along. It feels really good, and all signs point to me playing on Sunday." Not some signs, gamers, but all signs. Listen to Foster's comments right here. Of course you won't know for sure that it's him until John Clayton has had a chance to examine that clip in his acoustics lab. Still, this seems like good news. Foster thinks he'll get the
green light for the opener against Indianapolis. You might recall that he performed decently against the Colts in Week 1 last season (231 yards, 3 TDs). Ben Tate and Derrick Ward remain Plans B and C, but it sounds like Plan A is OK. Foster has been running in recent days,
so it never seemed like his return was far off certainly not 3-4 weeks away. The threat level has officially been reduced. Keep checking practice reports, but this recovery seems to be going well. Photo via US Presswire
Leviticus 19:31 (09-08-11)

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Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 19:31(NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse... Our world has a re-emerging fascination with the occult and the world of demons and witchcraft. It's easy for us to react in one of two dangerous ways: to downplay the reality of these things or to dabble in them as matters of
entertainment or amusement. God wants us to know that these fascinations are dangerous because the evil entities behind them are real and when we involve ourselves in them, they defile us. God alone is God and is to be worshiped without rival by
his people. My Prayer... Holy and magnificent God, thank you for breaking the power and hold of evil powers through Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Please deliver those whom I know and love that are entrapped in one way or another with a fascination
with false gods and deceiving and destructive spirits. Empower your Church with your Spirit; please cleanse us and make us a holy people, undefiled and ready for your service. In the name of the Lord Jesus I pray. Amen.
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Ozzie: 'We just gave this game away' Minneapolis Star Tribune
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field in the third inning finally helped the Twins break through against Chicago. MINNEAPOLIS - The "He feathered the ball down the Minnesota Twins were waiting for right field line," Gardenhire said. something to go right offensively. "It's about time one of those When the Twins finally caught a landed for us. That was a good break, of course it was Danny thing. We got something to land Valencia coming through. for us and in a big situation." V a l e n c i a ' s t w o - r u n s i n g l e It had been a while since the snapped Minnesota's 20-inning Twins had a clutch hit. Prior to scoreless streak and rookie Chris Valencia's RBI single, Minnesota Parmelee added a two-run double was 0 for 24 hitting with runners to help the Twins avoid a sweep in scoring position dating back to with a 5-4 win over the Chicago Sept. 3 and had scored two runs White Sox on Wednesday night. total in the past 42 innings over Carl Pavano (8-11) pitched 5 1-3 that stretch. innings, giving up three runs But the Twins had Valencia up in one earned and 10 hits as the perfect position. Minnesota snapped a five-game With two runners on, Joe Mauer losing streak. Joe Nathan closed was hit by a John Danks' pitch to the game with his 13th save in 16 load the bases for Valencia. chances. Valencia who had the team's "It was exciting, to say the least," only hit in the second game of Twins manager Ron Gardenhire Monday's doubleheader is 12 said. "Some big moments out for 22 with 27 RBIs in his career there, some big pitches. We with the bases loaded. missed a couple of opportunities Parmelee, playing in his second here and there, but we needed a career game, followed with a twowin desperately." run double, over centerfielder Minnesota had been shutout in Alex Rios' head for his first RBIs. back-to-back games and scored "Hitting's contagious, we thrive just one run in the first three off each other," Parmelee said. games of the four-game series. "Those two hits got everybody Valencia's bloop single to right pumped up."
Danks (6-11) lost his second straight start, allowing five runs on six hits and two walks, while striking out four. This time, Chicago was the team struggling for the big hit. The White Sox left 13 runners on base, and failed to captalize in the sixth when they had runners at second and third with one out. After Alexei Ramirez grounded out back the pitcher, Paul Konerko was intentionally walked and A.J. Pierzynski hit into fielder's choice, leaving the bases loaded. Konerko had three hits and an RBI after getting a rare day off on Tuesday. Chicago squandered another prime opportunity in the eighth against Minnesota reliever Glen Perkins. Juan Pierre walked to start the inning and Ramirez followed with a double to right. Pierre scored on an RBI groundout by Pierzynski, but the tying run was left at third base when Alex Rios struck out. Rios then snapped his bat over his knee following the strikeout, which continues a disappointing season for the former All-Star outfielder. "I don't think we lose," Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I
think we just gave this game away. We had a lot of chances, we can't get the hit. With the Tigers' 8-6 win against Cleveland on Wednesday, the White Sox are nine games behind Detroit in the American League Central and have just three games remaining with the Tigers. NOTES: Minnesota 1B Justin Morneau took batting practice before the game and could travel with the team to Detroit on Friday. Morneau isn't on the disabled list, but will have to get approval from Major League Baseball before returning to play after experienced concussion symptoms. ... White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said OF Carlos Quentin could possibly return to action later this week, even though there is no possibility for a rehab stint. Quentin has taken batting practice the past two days as he recovers from a sprained shoulder suffered on Aug. 20. ... Injured Minnesota pitchers Francisco Liriano (shoulder), Brian Duensing (oblique) and Scott Baker (elbow) will each throw off a mound on Thursday to determine if they will be able to return this season. Duensing could slot back into the rotation and
give Minnesota six starting pitchers, but Liriano and Baker likely won't start again this season. ... Gavin Floyd (12-10, 4.45 ERA) will start Thursday for Chicago, who opens a four-game series against Cleveland. Floyd received a no-decision while allowing four runs in five innings on Sept. 3 against Detroit, but has won his last three decisions. ... After an off day, Minnesota will send Kevin Slowey (0-4, 5.31 ERA) to the mound at Detroit. Slowey has given up two runs and pitched seven innings in each of his past two starts. The Twins have scored just one run total in the two games and three runs total in Slowey's four starts. He is 5-0 with a 4.93 ERA lifetime against the Tigers. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The SEC -- A Troubled Agency - Forbes

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Image via Wikipedia The SEC has been faced with an unusually large number of problems recently. The SECs notorious failure to detect Bernie Madoffs Ponzi scheme is even more distressing in view of the repeated warnings the SEC received about Madoff. The Commissions Enforcement Division also failed to bring charges again Mark Stanford who allegedly operated another Ponzi scheme. In the Stanford case, the Enforcement Division in the SECs Fort Worth office was repeatedly told by SEC examiners of their suspicions that Stanford was engaged in a Ponzi scheme. Nonetheless, the Enforcement failed to investigate In its case against the Bank of America, the Commission was taken to task by District Judge Jed Rakoff for bringing charges against the bank but not against any individuals. Initially, Judge Rakoff refused to approve a settlement agreed upon by the SEC and the bank. When he did approve the settlement, the Judge criticized the Commissions practice of allowing defendants to settle cases without admitting or denying the allegations. Another set back for the Commission took place when it dropped its insider trading case against Rajat Gupta. On the eve of the criminal trial of Raj
Rajaratnam, the Commission brought an administrative proceeding alleging that Gupta gave inside information to Rajaratnam. Bringing the Gupta case before an administrative law judge was a dramatic departure from the Commissions practice of bringing insider trading cases in federal court. Gupta sued the SEC in federal court, saying that the administrative proceeding deprived him of his constitutional right to a jury and also deprived him of the pre-trial discovery available in federal court but not in administrative proceedings. Unfortunately for the SEC, Guptas lawsuit was assigned to Judge Rakoff who denied the SECs motion to dismiss Guptas case against the Commission. Shortly thereafter, the Commission dropped its administrative proceeding against Gupta, and Gupta agreed to dismiss his case against the Commission. The SEC has recently been criticized by one of its own lawyers and by the National Archives for destroying documents pertaining to informal SEC investigations that were closed without bringing charges. The SEC might have continued to destroy documents even after the National Archives advised the SEC staff that this practice was unlawful. The SEC has had other serious problems. For example, it anticipated that it would need to
add 800 employees to its staff to comply with assignments Congress gave it under Dodd Frank. The SEC rented space to house the new employees. Unfortunately, Congress did not provide funds for the Commission to hire the additional employees or to pay for the additional space. The landlord sued the government for the rent the SEC had agreed to pay. The Commission has been repeatedly criticized by the Government Accountability Office for material weaknesses in its financial reporting and
and of the participants in those markets including brokerage firms, mutual funds, and hedge funds. The SEC plays an important role in public securities offerings and in corporate disclosure. The SEC also has the responsibility to enforce the securities laws, a responsibility shared in part with the Department of Justice. This may be too broad an area of responsibility for an agency with 3,700 employees. One potential remedy would be to remove the Division of Enforcement from the SEC and have it become a separate division within the Department of Justice. Part of the problem facing the Division of Enforcement is that all decisions about bringing or settling cases must be approved by the Commission. Historically, very few Commissioners have had experience as litigators or a c c o u n t i n g p r o c e s s e s , a n conducting investigations. extraordinary embarrassment for While a commission is probably t h e a g e n c y r e s p o n s i b l e f o r the appropriate body to establish evaluating the financial statements the rules and regulations that of all companies whose shares are govern the securities markets, it sold to the public. The GAO would be better to have a single found material weaknesses in the individual with the authority to SECs internal controls for its bring or settle cases, an individual 2009 and 2010 fiscal years. who has extensive litigation This extensive series of problems e x p e r i e n c e a n d e x p e r i e n c e forces the observer to ask why c o n d u c t i n g i n v e s t i g a t i o n s . such a small agency appears to be This entry passed through the so troubled. There is of course, Full-Text RSS service if this is no simple answer, but one thought your content and you're reading it is that the SEC has too many very on someone else's site, please read different responsibilities. It is the SEC page 67 regulator of the securities markets
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Russian ice hockey to help rebuild Yaroslavl team - YAHOO!

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Among the 43 dead were the team's Canadian coach Brad McCrimmon, Slovakia captain MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Pavol Demitra and three former top ice hockey teams will provide world champions from the Czech players to help rebuild the Republic. stricken Lokomotiv Yaroslavl News of the crash plunged the club after nearly its entire squad world of ice hockey into shock was killed in a plane crash, the and grief. The Lokomotiv squad chairman of the sport's national included former players with the league said on Thursday. Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Former Soviet Union captain and Kings and Florida Panthers -- all National Hockey League (NHL) members of the NHL. star Vyacheslav Fetisov said all "Though it occurred thousands of t e a m s i n t h e E u r a s i a - w i d e miles away from our home arenas, Kontinental Hockey League t h i s t r a g e d y r e p r e s e n t s a (KHL) could send one player each catastrophic loss to the hockey t o f o r m a n e w L o k o m o t i v world," said NHL Commissioner Yaroslavl squad. Gary Bettman. "This is an initiative of the clubs. Lokomotiv were the runners up They called me on the phone in the KHL's inaugural season in o f f e r i n g h e l p . E v e r y o n e 2008-2009. The club won back to u n d e r s t a n d s h o w g r a v e t h e back titles in the old Russian situation is. Everyone understands Superleague in 2002 and 2003. that a huge disaster has happened. READY TO HELP But Lokomotiv will be reborn, it The KHL called off its season has to continue playing in the opener at defending champions league," he told the Izvestia Ufa following the crash. State newspaper. television cited KHL President The Lokomotiv team were on Alexander Medvedev as saying on route to play their KHL season Thursday that the season would opener in the Belarus capital of g e t u n d e r w a y o n T u e s d a y , Minsk when their Yak-42 aircraft S e p t e m b e r 1 3 . crashed into a river bank shortly Yaroslavl region governor Sergei after takeoff from the airport Vakhrukov added that he had outside Yaroslavl, 250 km (150 already been contacted by players miles) north of Moscow. willing to step in to enable
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Lokomotiv to fulfill its fixtures for the rest of the season. "Other teams are ready to help. Players who are from Yaroslavl are ready to return to our club. About 30 hockey players have already expressed desire," he told reporters. President Dmitry Medvedev, who laid carnations on Thursday at the crash site and went on to make a previously scheduled speech at a policy forum in Yaroslavl, backed the two officials and said the league should do "everything possible" to revive the club. "Given that this is the favorite team in Yaroslavl ... you have to think that a resurgence is possible. Our hockey league must do everything possible (to make that happen)," Medvedev told reporters. KHL President Alexander Medevedev said all 18 league clubs supported the idea. "Lokomotiv's new coach will have a list of 40-45 players and he can pick a good team," state-run Vesti television quoted Medvedev as saying. "Lokomotiv will be revived." A successful attempt to rebuild the club would echo the rejuvenation of the Manchester United soccer team after more than half the team died in a plane
crash in Munich in 1958. Led by manager Matt Busby and attacking midfielder Bobby Charlton, who both survived the crash, the club became the first English side to lift the European Cup exactly 10 years after the accident. The death of the Lokomotiv team, of which offenseman Alexander Galimov is the sole survivor, is the second time a Russian sporting side has been involved in a fatal plane crash. VVS, a Soviet Union club sponsored by the son of dictator Josef Stalin, crashed near the city of Yekaterinburg in January 1950 during a journey to play a league match. All 11 players who were aboard of the plane died in the crash. (Writing By John Bowker, editing by Justin Palmer) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Photos from the Needville fire in Fort Bend County Your Houston News ( photo by Patric Schneider) Firefighters put out hot spots on a grass fire off Foster School Road near Needville Texas on Wednesday afternoon. ( photo by Patric Schneider) A firefighter steps away from the heat as he battles a grass fire near Needville... and more
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Mexican football team pulls out of game citing cartel threats

Jonathan Wall (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
One of Texas' top high school football teams had the chance to play an opponent from across the border a couple of weeks ago, as The Woodlands (Texas) High School took the field against perennial Mexican football powerhouse Monterrey Tech. The game was competitive, with The Woodlands coming out on top, 56 -32, in its home opener. Despite the loss, Monterrey Tech outgained The Woodlands 492 yards to 405 in the contest, a bright spot that had the team looking forward to its upcoming game against state-ranked Stony Point (Texas) High School. But after an announcement on Wednesday, the two schools won't even get the opportunity to play each other next week, after Monterrey Tech officials backed out of the game citing a cartel's
cash demand to cross back over the border for the game. As the Austin AmericanStatesman reported, the school claimed that an unspecified cartel wanted $30,000 to cross from Mexico back over into the United States for Thursday's football game, a fee the school wasn't going to pay. "Do we have a way to verify it?
No," Round Rock ISD athletic director Jim Loerwald told the Statesman. With a big non-district game against Desoto (Texas) High School the following week, Stony Point will now have extra time to game plan for the opposition. Monterrey Tech had played Stony Point the last two seasons, and despite the Texas school being
questioned for its decision to fill its schedule with games against teams from Mexico, the school decided to schedule another game against Monterrey Tech this season. Loerwald told the Statesman that the only reason the district had scheduled the game in the first place was due in large part to Stony Point's inability to find
opponents to fill its 2011 schedule. "I don't think that will be a priority," Loerwald told the Statesman regarding the possibility of playing the school in the future. "The only reason we got locked in this deal was because nobody wanted to play Stony Point." Rumors had already been circulating that some of the Mexican teams coming across the border were using ineligible players. The questionable cancellation, coupled with age questions, could keep schools from scheduling games against teams from Mexico in the future. Want more on the best stories in high school sports? Visit RivalsHigh or connect with Prep Rally on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
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Goalie mask turns Mighty Ducks into gun-crazy angry birds

Greg Wyshynski (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
In seeing Anaheim Ducks goalie prospect Timo Pielmeier's new mask for the first time, our thoughts went immediately to Elmer Fudd. What if "duck season" turned out to be the time when the ducks loaded up on heavy weaponry like a 'T2' Linda Hamilton and blasted the ever-loving [expletive] out of hunters? (And what, then, would it mean for "wabbit season"?) Via InGoal Magazine comes this new mask courtesy of David
Leroux of Diel Airbrush in Montreal, who told the magazine: "Timo always ask for the stop sign on the chin and then he lets me run with it," Leroux wrote InGoal in an email Tuesday morning. "So for this year, I came up with a title to help me with the design: THE DUCKS REVENGE. I wanted to switch the situation, make the duck hunt the opponent or the hunter, so that the ducks become the hunter." (Come to think of it: Why didn't Nintendo offer that an as gameplay option for "Duck Hunt" on the NES? Allow the user to play as a well-armed duck, blasting
away at giggling dogs through the thicket. It would have been worth trying to use that terrible laser gun on your standard-def TV.)
But what really makes this mask into a near-classic is the back of it: It's a Mighty Ducks of Anaheim logo which, incidentally, should have been the logo on their third jersey instead of that webbed -D and the mantra from the Emilio Estevez Disney film series: " Ducks Fly Together." Because when the wind blows hard and the sky is black well, just read the back of the mask. Quack. Read the full story at InGoal.
Deus Ex 'Missing Link' DLC gets a trailer, more details

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Frontier's stalled 'The Outsider' project seen in action

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showcasing the first bit of ingame action that we've seen from the stalled project. Frontier Developments may have The Outsider seems to take a few put the kibosh on continued cues from Ubisoft's Splinter Cell development of its open-world series -- especially the latest entry action title, The Outsider, but that in that franchise-- though the clip doesn't mean footage of the game only offers a few brief glimpses of isn't out there. Ex-Frontier sound actual gameplay, unfortunately. earlier this year that the project engineer Kyle Nichol wrangled However, this may not be the last was down, but not out. some of that footage and posted it we see on The Outsider, as the "There is still publisher interest in u p o n h i s p o r t f o l i o s i t e , developer specifically noted
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the project and we haven't canceled it," studio head David Braben explained at the time. It
appears support will have to come from outside Codemasters and EA, with whom discussions fell through some time ago. [Thanks, Daniel.] Frontier's stalled 'The Outsider' project seen in action originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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downloadable content for Deus Ex: Human Revolution. As previously revealed, the DLC fills in a three-day chunk of Deus Ex, during which Jensen loses the use of his cybernetic augmentations. We assumed the DLC would include new characters and story, but today Square officially revealed a much more interesting tidbit: The ability to "rebuild Adam's augmentation set." In other words, players will be able to reapply those wasted Praxis points on more useful augmentations. We're guessing Jensen is still stuck with his most
useless augmentation, however, that being his permanent sunglasses. "The Missing Link" will arrive next month. Continue reading Deus Ex 'Missing Link' DLC gets a trailer, more details Deus Ex 'Missing Link' DLC gets a trailer, more details originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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how to do it and the sites become more accomodating to a person such as myself. I mentioned in passing the other 3. I generally end up spending a day the conflict of interest lot less money, and get more of reporters have re bloggers. what I want. I'm pretty sure I've written about 4. I think the travel industry has this before, but it deserves a readapted, and have products that visit, in a little more detail. more suit the traveler, now that First, you have to accept this they no longer have to serve the premise: Reporters facilitate access to the interests of travel agents (My 1. Reporters get paid a salary to sources. And to the extent that we agent loves golf. That's probably report. can go direct to the sources' blogs, why I ended up staying at resorts 2. In general bloggers do not get that interferes with #1 above. with great golfing. I don't golf paid. In the old days the reporters had myself.) Now I don't believe they do the an exclusive on access to sources. Anyway, all this is why I don't same thing, and if you're going to Today that exclusive is gone. expect blogs and blogging to get rebut me by saying that they don't So if we were to respect blogs, fair treatment from professional do the same thing, forget it, that serves to undermine #1. reporters. because I agree with you. (Also, So the reporters have an interest PS: And this is not their only some people who call themselves in their readers not respecting conflict. They can't report on the bloggers are paid to write. I don't blogs. media industry without a conflict. think they are bloggers. But There's the conflict. That's the industry they work for. there's nothing I can do to stop It's the same conflict my travel Too bad, because they have great them from calling themselves agent (who I have not spoken to access, and it's a very important bloggers.) in 20 years) had about the industry going through great With those recitals out of the prospect of me using Expedia to changes. They could tell us how it way... book my own flights. She had to really works, instead of reporting I see the bloggers as sources. Not believe she was doing something the company line, or ignoring it all of them, and not for all special that I could not do for altogether (more common). I once reporters. But the people who myself. had a big argument with Dan reporters quote, more often than When I was finally able to do it Gillmor over this, when he was not these days, have blogs. for myself, this is what I learned working for Knight-Ridder. They T h e r e l a t i o n s h i p b e t w e e n about booking my own trips: were in the news. I wanted him to reporters and bloggers is the same 1. It takes a lot more of my time tell us what was going on. He relationship that travel agents to do it. wouldn't do it. have to flights or hotel rooms. 2. But it takes less time as I learn
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Cellphone progress!
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A bunch of good stuff happening in the phone department. 1. AT&T, as promised, disconnected the service on my iPhone. 2. Surprisingly (because I hadn't thought about it) the damned thing still works, over wifi. I get text messages, and Twitter updates, etc. 3. Someone sent me a pointer to the T-Mobile website. Just for fun I tried entering the number I had for the phone when I first got it back in April. It asked me how much money I wanted to add to the account. I said $50. It said OK. And a couple of seconds later, the phone made a nice little sound and a text message arrived saying it was working again. Oh. Had I known it was that easy... 4. Next stop, and this one is going to take some guts, is to disconnect the Droid, but first have the number transferred to Google Voice, so I can keep getting calls on the number. At that point I will be entirely month-to-month. And that's how I'd like to stay, forever. Hopefully
Trade Deficit Decrease May Reflect Weak Economy

Bryan Riley (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:31:35 AM
Today the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that the trade deficit for July fell by $6.8 billion. Exports increased by $6.2 billion and imports decreased by $500 million. Historically, decreasing trade deficits are often a sign of economic weakness. When workers are unemployed, they have less money to spend. As a result, fewer goods are imported and the trade deficit may decrease. when the iPhone 5 comes out I will be able to buy one without signing up for a 2-year plan. And at some point, I expect to stop signing up for voice. I just want data anyway. 5. Can I still use Cyclemeter on my iPhone without an AT&T connection? I guess we'll find out. But it's raining in NY, so not today.
For example, the U.S. trade deficit fell by more than 50 percent from 2007 to 2009 as our economy weakened and unemployment increased. The amount of freedom available to Americans is a better gauge of U.S. economic strength than the size of the trade deficit. Unfortunately, Americans have less economic freedom today than when President Obama was elected, based on data in the Index of Economic Freedom. Prospects for renewed economic growth will be much stronger if policymakers spend less time worrying about the size of the
trade deficit and more time working to make the United States a world leader in economic freedom. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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After Record-Making Flight, Martin Jetpack Will Soon Be on Sale

Gregory Mone (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:17:30 AM
The Jetpack Blasts Off Courtesy The Martin Aircraft Company Buy one next year for just $100,000 In May, inventor Glenn Martinalong with fire-rescue officers and crews on board a pair of chase helicopters-watched as his jetpack flew for nine minutes and 43 seconds, soaring 3,500 feet into the New Zealand sky. Had the machine been holding a live person instead of a 150-pound dummy, it would have smashed the record for the longest and highest jetpack flight ever. Every other such device in history has managed to be airborne for, at most, only a minute or two. But Martin was out to do more than set records with his demonstration. He wanted to prove that his design was safe enough to become the first commercial jetpack-one anyone could buy and fly. Click here to launch a gallery
looking at the finally airborne jetpack. Martin had flown his machine thousands of times before the May launch, but never higher than a few feet. Since the jetpack's first public flight in 2008, Martin and his team of 10 engineers haven't changed its basic design: a twostroke, custom-designed gas engine spins a pair of ducted fans that generate thrust. They did,
however, convert the original cable-and-pulley steering system to an entirely electronic, fly-bywire system. A cellphone-size flight-control unit made by defense contractor Rockwell Collins and commonly used in Predator UAVs allows Martin to set bounds on pitch, roll and yaw, and generally steadies flight, canceling out a new pilot's jerky maneuvers (it also means no
backflips, unfortunately). By adding remote control to the jetpack, its applications expand. A search-and-rescue team, for example, could remotely pilot a Martin Jetpack to a hard-to-reach spot in a disaster zone, instruct a victim to strap in, and fly him to safety. Or soldiers could use the jetpack to fly a mini cellphone tower to a hilltop for temporary communications.
Martin says that he hopes people will also use his jetpack for recreation. He's designing it to meet FAA ultralight standards, which will limit the speed to 63 mph and flight time to around 30 minutes. Flyers won't need a pilot's license, but they will need about $100,000 to buy the rig, which includes a mandatory twoweek training session. The first units could ship as early as next year. THE PRIOR PACK When Glenn Martin first unveiled his jetpack in 2008, it could hover only a few feet off the ground. He earned a PopSci Best of What's New award that year, but critics argued that the jetpack would never get much higher than a few feet. The design's fans, they said, were pushing air down off the ground for lift. Martin's jetpack actually speeds flow to alter air pressure, generating lift at any height.
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First Big U.S. Test of Car-to-Car Communications Planned

Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
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Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Ford Vehicle-to-vehicle technology is about to get its first major realworld test in the U.S. The Department of Transportation awarded $14.9 million to the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute last month, and the university is already moving forward with a plan to put 3,000 short-range radio equipped cars on the road in Ann Arbor over the next couple of years. Ann Arbor, Mich., is a pretty ideal place for such a trial. It's small enough that the cars are likely to encounter each other on the road fairly often, ensuring prodigious data output. Its proximity to America's auto hub in Detroit doesn't hurt either. But ultimately the initiative goes beyond the Big Three, involving eight automakers, many of whom began working together more than a decade ago to create a common platform for this kind of technology. The drivers will be
selected from among the university's 20,000 medical center workers. The cars will communicate with each other and with some radioequipped traffic infrastructure via short-range radio, which will broadcast things like each car's GPS position, speed, and direction of travel to every other equipped car on the road. The idea here is that cars that can share information will be not only more efficient but also safer. DOT thinks that 80 percent of serious,
unimpaired collisions can be mitigated by technologies that let drivers (and cars) know when it might be unsafe to pass, when another car is approaching an intersection at an unsafe speed, or when an automobile several cars ahead slams on its brakes. This kind of tech is also the precursor to a lot of future technologies considered to be the future of the automobile, like selfdriving vehicles and automated traffic flow. The testbed will generate data for a year, after
Via Fox News: A seemingly intoxicated moose has been discovered entangled in an apple tree by a stunned Swede. Per Johansson says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbors garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female moose kicking about in the tree. The animal was likely drunk from eating fermented apples. With the help of police and rescue services, the 45-year-old Johansson later managed to set the moose free in part by sawing w h i c h t h e D O T ' s N a t i o n a l off tree branches. But the animal H i g h w a y T r a f f i c S a f e t y appeared confused and wandered Administration will make a into Johanssons garden, where decision whether or not to she was still resting Thursday. . . approve the technology. If it does, Stupid moose. Greg Pollowitz v e h i c l e - t o - v e h i c l e This entry passed through the communications could become a Full-Text RSS service if this is pretty standard feature in as few your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read as ten years. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content[ Technology Review] only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Cuba Announces Release of the World's First Lung Cancer Vaccine

Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Cohibas Cuba is known for exporting cigars, but it might soon be known for exporting a lung cancer vaccine researchers say can turn advanced lung cancer into a manageable chronic illness. M Turner via Wikimedia From the island nation known for the quality of its cigars comes some pretty big news today: Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana's Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing latestage lung cancers, researchers
there say. CimaVax-EGF isn't a vaccine in the preventative sense--that is, it doesn't prevent lung cancer from taking hold in new patients. It's based on a protein related to uncontrolled cell proliferation-that is, it doesn't prevent cancer
from existing in the first place but attacks the mechanism by which it does harm. As such it can turn aggressive later-stage lung cancer into a manageable chronic disease by creating antibodies that do battle with the proteins that cause
uncontrolled cell proliferation, researchers say. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are still recommended as a primary means of destroying cancerous tissue, but for those showing no improvement the new vaccine could be a literal lifesaver. The vaccine has already been tested in 1,000 patients in Cuba and is being distributed at hospitals there free of charge. That's a big deal for a country where smoking is part of the national culture and a leading cause of death. If it proves as successful as researchers say it is, it should give those suffering from lung cancer reason to celebrate--just not with a Cohiba. [ Xinhua]
Weight-Loss Program Beats Doctor's Advice To Shed Pounds

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Death Row Applause

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Politics : The Atlantic)
Apparently people were shocked by the applause here. The only thing that shocked me was that they didn't form a rumba line. It's a Republican debate. And it's
America. Perry's right--most people support the death penalty. It's the job of those of us who oppose the death penalty to change that. It's worth remembering that no Democratic nominee for the presidency in some twenty years, has been against the death
penalty. This is still the country where we took kids to see men lynched, and then posed for photos. We are a lot of things. This is one of them. MORE: Forgot about this Jon Chait piece."It takes balls to execute an innocent man." See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/09/deathrow-applause/244737/ This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/09/deathrow-applause/244737/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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many other illnesses. But those patients might be better off going to Weight Watchers, according to new research. And, a second study finds, paying for weightloss programs now may reduce health care costs over the long haul. People who participated in the commercial weight-loss program Weight Watchers lost twice as much weight as people who were advised by their doctors on weight loss. The Weight Watcher group lost an average of 11 pounds over a year, compared to five pounds in the doctor's advice group. The study was just published in the Lancet. These results need to be taken with a few chunky grains of salt, though. Almost half of the study's 772 participants dropped out before the year was out, and the reported results don't reflect the dropouts, who probably had less success. Also, the study was funded by Weight Watchers, which provided a year of free membership for each participant. (All the major diet plans typically fund their own research.) Fees for the program in the United States run about $40 per month.
Still, a commentary accompanying the article notes that in some parts of England, where the study took place, national health insurance already pays for Weight Watchers and other commercial weight-loss programs. That's not true in the U.S., where people usually have to pay their own way. But a second study suggests that paying for weight-loss programs for pre-diabetic baby boomers could shave billions of dollars off of future Medicaid costs. Those researchers looked at the YMCA's Diabetes Prevention Program, which uses group classes on nutrition and exercise to encourage people to lose 7 percent of their body weight, and exercise 150 minutes a week. It costs about $240 a person for a 16 - to 20-week program, and is currently available through 50 YMCAs in 26 states. People lost about 6 percent of their weight over six months in one study of the program, and sustained that weight loss for more than a year. Studies of the program have found that it reduces participants' risk of developing diabetes by up to 71 percent.
If the federal government paid for overweight people in their early 60s to participate in the YMCA program, it would save the Medicare program $1.8 to $2.3 billion dollars in the following 10 years. "Those people would be healthier when they entered the Medicare program," Kenneth Thorpe, an economist and professor of health policy at Emory University, told Shots. The study was published in the September Health Affairs. The high and low numbers are based on the 70 percent participation rate in the YMCA clinical trial, and the 55 percent rate typical of good workplace wellness programs. Medicare spending is 15 to 35 percent higher in people who are obese at age 65, compared to people of normal weight. Thorpe and his colleagues liked the concept so much they applied it to aging baby boomers with high cholesterol and high blood pressure. If the government paid for those folks to take the YMCA program, it could increase the Medicare cost savings to $3.7 billion over 10 years. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding
some of the YMCA diabetes prevention programs, and insurer UnitedHealth Group said last year that it will pay for the program for people in selected markets in Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, and Minnesota. There are 2,686 YMCAs nationwide, Thorpe notes, and 60 million Americans live within 3 miles of a branch. But other community organizations, including local health departments or nonprofit organizations, could sponsor similar prevention programs. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Pay For U.S. Doctors Is Tops

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Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:06:00 AM
iStockphoto.com Doctors' compensation gets a checkup in the latest Health Affairs. Do U.S. doctors make so much in the U.S. because we pay so much to hedge fund managers? The competition for top intellectual talent is one possible explanation for a sure-to-becontroversial study published in
the latest issue of the policy journal Health Affairs. The analysis from researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health looked at why the U.S. spends so much more on physician care than Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K. do. And the differences are eye-popping. In 2008, the U.S. spent roughly $1,600 per person on physician care; the rest of the combined nations that belong to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, just over $300. That's more than 80 percent less. And, yes, that higher spending translates into higher incomes for doctors. U.S. primary care doctors, although frequently considered underpaid, nonetheless earned more on average ($186,582 a year, after practice expenses, but before taxes) than primary care doctors in any of the other countries studied. Orthopedic surgeons, the specialists examined in the study,
also earned the most in the U.S., with an average salary of $442,450, well above second place U.K. orthopods, at $324,138. One of the biggest reasons, concluded authors Miriam Laugesen and Sherry Glied, is that doctors in the U.S. get paid more for each service than doctors in those other countries. That's not as obvious as it seems; it rules out the possibility that doctors in the U.S. perform more services (which they apparently do not) or
differences in the supply of physicians. And the main reason for the price differential, it turns out, is that doctors in the U.S.get more of their payments from private rather than public insurers. Private insurers in the U.S. aren't the hardest bargainers around, it turns out. Now before you point out that doctors in the U.S. have to pay for their own educations, while PAY page 77
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doctors in Europe and elsewhere generally don't, the researchers took that into account. And while the educational debt close the gap somewhat, "it doesn't seem to explain those differences," Laugesen told Shots. Nor does the cost of malpractice insurance, since the researchers' calculations counted that as a practice expense, building it into the comparisons. So what might? Let's go back to the hedge fund manager concept for a moment. When it comes to human capital, the researchers found: [T]he medical care delivery sector cannot be fully separated from the
rest of the economy: Physicians everywhere are drawn from the peak of the educational distribution, and their earnings reflect the cost of drawing highly skilled people to the profession in an economy where the rewards for skilled individuals are higher than elsewhere. So does that mean that the only way to pay doctors less is to lower salaries for the top-paid people in society? Laugesen said that question was outside the scope of this research. But primary care doctors in particular may want to watch over their shoulders. The American Academy of Physician Assistants
reported yesterday that their ranks surged to an all-time high in 2010 of 83,466. That's a doubling over the past decade. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
A Better Social Security Reform

financial decision than it really is before the Social Security safety net is gradually unwound Submitted at 9/8/2011 8:12:36 AM by inflation over the next few Jed Graham offers an ingenious decades in retirement. idea to improve Social Securitys Here is a brief case for a new finances, raise US productivity, approach that works in the and still protect seniors in need opposite way providing the which in time means almost all b i g g e s t c u t , t h o u g h i n a seniors: progressive way, in the first year Washington policymakers are of retirement in order to avoid any trapped in a Social Security lock- benefit cuts in very old age box of their own making: a menu . of mostly regressive cost-saving The steepest benefit cuts would options, which all cut the safety c o m e i n t h e f i r s t y e a r o f net where it needs to be strongest retirement; the cuts would be in very old age. progressively smaller for lower Of all the options, reducing earners; and they would gradually COLAs is among the worst unwind over 20 years to provide approaches because it could make robust support for retirees of all retirement at 62 look like a better income levels in very old age,
when almost everyone will depend on it. Once fully phased in after two decades, a career $21,000 earner retiring at 62 would face a 10% benefit cut, which would steadily
dwindle to zero for those age 82 and up. Thats roughly the opposite of the White Houses COLA shift idea, which would take 4% out of a retirees Social Security check at age 75 and 9%
at 95. Heres Jeds home page where his interesting idea is developed in greater detail. In the coming days, I will subtract some time from watching Rick Perry try to reverse his self-immolation last night to think hard about Jeds more constructive approach. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Business Leaders to Join Boehner at Obamas Jobs Speech

Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:51:13 AM
House Speaker John Boehner (ROH) is looking to make a point with his invitee list at the presidents address to the joint session of Congress on Thursday evening. He will be hosting 12 individuals of various private ventures in an effort to drive home the importance of the private sector in any effort to spur job creation. The Speakers guests are all employers who have run into unnecessary Washington-made barriers as theyve tried to create jobs, a release from Boehners office noted. Among those attending is Gibson Guitars chief executive Henry Juszkiewicz, whose company has been subject to an invasive investigation by the Justice Department over wood that was, DOJ claimed, illegally imported from India. Gibson has disputed the grounds for that investigation. The Heritage Foundation also stressed the importance of eliminating regulatory barriers in anticipation of the presidents jobs address. Thursdays Morning Bell noted: In the first six months of the 2011 fiscal year, 15 major regulations exceeding $5.8 billion. Since were issued with annual costs Inauguration Day, the Obama Administration imposed 75 new
major regulations with annual costs of $38 billion. The regulations that are on the
booksand the ones that are yet to and leave businesses waiting on comedrive up the cost of doing BUSINESS page 79 business, discourage investment,
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the sidelines until they have more certainty about their future. Instead of regulating more, Washington should end the regulatory assault, eliminate unnecessary regulations, and free our businesses to grow and create jobs. Here is the full list of guests, as posted on Speaker Boehners website: Spencer Weitman is the President of National Cement, which recently suspended construction of a new $350 million cement kiln in Ragland, AL due to regulatory obstacles. The construction project would have created more than 1,500 construction jobs and 20 new fulltime operational positions, but was determined too costly and unpredictable because of proposed changes to EPA Clean Air Act regulations. The obstacles encountered by National Cement are on the list of Top 10 JobDestroying Regulations identified in Majority Leader Eric Cantors (R-VA) August 29 memo outlining the legislative agenda for the remainder of the year. Rock Katschnig is a corn and soybean farmer of 32 years from Prophetstown, IL. Hurt by a stream of harmful federal regulations, Katschnig appealed to President Obama at an Atkinson, IL town hall last month, pleading, Please dont challenge us with more rules and regulations from Washington D.C. that hinder us. The president replied, Dont always believe what you hear.
Despite President Obamas statement, one proposed regulation on particulate matter (dust) would devastate Katschnigs industry and destroy many farming jobs. The obstacles encountered by Mr. Katschnig are on the list of Top 10 JobDestroying Regulations identified in Majority Leader Eric Cantors (R-VA) August 29 memo outlining the legislative agenda for the remainder of the year. Eric Treiber is the CEO of Chicago White Metal Casting, a third-generation family-owned die casting company employing 250 workers in suburban Chicago. Jobs at White Metal Casting are being threatened by increased costs associated with excessive federal regulations, in particular Clean Air Act and utility MACT regulations. White Metal Casting has also been forced to dedicate multiple employees to the task of complying with existing federal regulations. Lisa Ingram is the COO of White Castle, a 90-year old family -run company that serves signature slider hamburgers. Excessive federal regulations current and proposed have put a strain on White Castle, contributing to a plant closure in New Jersey and slowing the companys ability to create new jobs. The new health care law, for example, has not only jeopardized White Castles ability to provide health benefits to its employees, but one provision alone could increase costs so
dramatically that it would destroy hundreds of jobs. Jim Plante is CEO of Pathway Genomics, a 100-person San Diego-based biotech startup that developed a genetic testing product for consumers. Last year, Pathway partnered with a major drugstore chain to help market their product a move that would have enabled Pathway to hire 100 additional workers. Despite being in compliance with all available FDA regulations, the FDA attacked Pathway in the media following the announcement of the partnership. The drugstore chain consequently backed out, and Pathway was unable to create those 100 new high-paying jobs. Ignacio Urrabazo is president of Commerce Bank of Laredo, Texas, a small community bank with $450 million in assets. Urrabazo would like to lend more money to local businesses to help create more jobs in Laredo, a border community with an unemployment rate nearly 10 percent higher than the state of Texas as a whole. Unfortunately, current FDIC regulations have kept him from lending to qualified businesses. Urrabazo believes excessive federal regulations will soon put community banks out of business. John Jack Earle is the Managing Partner of Earle Enterprises LP and is a multi-unit franchisee of McDonalds restaurants in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. Mr. Earle also serves as the Chairman of the International
Franchise Association. Excessive regulations imposed by the health care law and Dodd-Frank, the ongoing threat of tax hikes, and regulatory overreach by agencies like NLRB, have hamstrung Earle and other franchisers with uncertainty and stifled their ability to create new jobs. Glenn Rieger is a General Partner at NewSpring Capital, a private equity fund in suburban Philadelphia that provides capital for growth and expansion-stage businesses. A lead investor in more than 50 mid-Atlantic businesses of all sizes, NewSprings ability to support job creators is being hampered by excessive regulations from Sarbanes-Oxley, which is costing them millions of dollars annually. Safi Bahcall is the CEO of Synta, a biopharmaceutical company focused on creating new drugs for treating cancer. Hampered by an increasingly uncompetitive American business environment, Bahcall is advocating for the research and development tax credit to be made permanent. More favorable tax incentives in France and Canada have encouraged Synta to outsource work to Canada and the company is currently weighing the potential of moving American jobs to France. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman is the CEO of KIT Digital, a 1,200-employee publicly traded video technology company. KIT faces considerable costs as a result of SarbanesOxley compliance regulations. A first generation American with
Colombian heritage and fluent in Spanish, Isaza Tuzman was a U.S. special trade representative in Colombia and Mexico under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and is a strong proponent of passing the U.S. -Colombian Free Trade Agreement that the president has yet to submit to Congress. Chris George is the CEO of CMG Finance, a mortgage company in the San Francisco Bay area employing 370 people. Hurt by increased health care costs and higher taxes from the new health care law, CMG Finance says the uncertain business environment created by the Obama Administration is preventing them from hiring an additional 15 to 20 workers. Henry Juszkiewicz is CEO of the Gibson Guitar Company. Armed federal agents have twice raided Gibson Guitars facilities. Why? Unelected Washington bureaucrats wont say. No charges have been filed and federal regulators have not explained to the company what may have been done wrong or how to rectify the situation. Gordon Logan is CEO of Sport Clips, a hair salon chain with over 800 stores. If not for the environment of uncertainty created by Washington, Logan estimates he would have opened 50-100 new stores over the past three years. Instead of hiring new workers, Sports Clips franchise owners are struggling with the BUSINESS page 83
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The Arab Spring and Christian Persecution

Joseph Puder (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
minority. The Voice of Russia radio interviewed Egyptian Human Submitted at 9/7/2011 11:24:59 PM Rights activist, Waukee Yakub, While the Western media and and when asked what happened g o v e r n m e n t s h a v e b e e n between the Salafi Muslim groups preoccupied with the so called and the Coptic-Christians he Arab Spring, little if any replied: After the revolution of attention has been paid to the January 25th Salafis came to i n c r e a s e d p e r s e c u t i o n o f power. And the only side with Christians in the Muslim Middle which they conflict a lot with is East. the Coptic Orthodox Christians. Throughout the region, Christians They know we are peaceful have been targeted by Muslim people and we dont hurt anyone mobs killing innocent bystanders, a n d t h e y s t a r t e d a t t a c k i n g burning churches, and destroying churches, stop attacking even Christian properties. Interviewed other Muslim people the Sufi by The National on June 19, 2011, Muslims that they dont like. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop Whats happening now is that it of Canterbury declared that the seems like the Military Council Arab Spring is posing a threat to that rules the country right now is Christian minorities throughout totally involved with them and the Middle East. He added that constantly agrees them. We have extremists were filling vacuums videos and lots of pictures that left by ousting of autocratic prove that they do nothing when it regimes, and leading to Copts comes to attacks on Christians. being targeted in Egypt. In As the interview with the Voice Syria, Archbishop Williams of Russia continued, Yakub w a r n e d , t e n s i o n s b e t w e e n added: The problem is with C h r i s t i a n c o m m u n i t i e s a n d Salafi fanatics who have al-Qaeda Muslim majorities were reaching -styled thinking. Its exactly albreaking point. And, he added Qaeda thinking: We are rejecting that Christians in northern Iraq others; we want to kill the had been subjected to a form of Christians; and, we want to make e t h n i c c l e a n s i n g . T h e the Christians leave the country. I archbishop made his comments in have witnessed an incident in an interview with BBC radio on Imbaba, when a house was August 30, during which he said burning, and furniture was thrown that even in Bethlehem, Christs out of the windows, while water birthplace, the once-majority quenching vehicles and the police Christian population had now stood there doing nothing. It was b e c o m e a m a r g i n a l i z e d happening right in front of them.
Ive seen my own church set on fire and burning like hell and nothing was done. No one was arrested, though we have videos that show faces of the people, who are very well-known. The American Coptic Association reported on August 30, 2011 that during an annual meeting in Rimini, Italy, also known as Meeting for Friendships Among People, Cardinal Antonios Naguib, patriarch of the Catholic Church in Alexandria, said he was concerned about minorities rights after the 25 January, 2011
Egyptian revolution. Islamists will have great representation in the next parliament, which is normal. We should recognize its political forcebut some fear they will assume power and impose an Islamic State. A brief regional survey of recent cases of religious persecution of Christians reveals a clear pattern which neither the U.N. nor the European Union has responded to. In Iran, a 32-year old convert to Christianity named Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to hang for abandoning Islam for Christianity a State crime.
Nadarkhani has been in jail since October 2010 and has, so far, refused to recant his Christian faith. If he is hung, he would become the first Iranian to be put to death for apostasy since 1990. Saudi Arabia, an alleged ally of the U.S., forbids any kind of nonMuslim religious ceremony public or private. If caught with a Bible, violators are sent to prison and then deported. A story in the Washington Times (11/14/05) underscored the religious intolerance of Saudi Arabia when stating that: A court sentenced a teacher to 40 months in prison and 750 lashes for mocking religion after he discussed the Bible and praised Jews, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday. In Iskenderun, Turkey, the personal driver of Bishop Luigi Padovese, head of the Catholic Church in Turkey, was a Muslim named Murat Altun, who repeatedly stabbed and decapitated the Bishop and then proceeded to shout I killed the great Satan. Allahu Akhbar. The brutal murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, on June 3, 2010, shocked the small and hard pressed Christian community in Turkey. The 62 year-old bishop had been spearheading the Vaticans efforts to improve Muslim-Christian relations in Turkey.
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Perry, Romney Face Off

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/7/2011 11:55:11 PM
Last nights Republican presidential debate was all about Texas Governor Rick Perry. It was his first debate, kicking off a series of five debates in six weeks that will reshape the structure of the race. Perrys primary obstacle was the high expectations of his candidacy. The question of whether he measured up to the hype will determine the verdict on his performance and ultimately, his campaign. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney opened the debate, emphasizing his experience on creating jobs in the private sector. He made the point that fixing the economy requires having worked in the economy, not just in government. It was a polite contrast with Perry that fell far short of an attack. Romneys campaign had decided not to go on the offensive, knowing that it was imperative for the other candidates to take him on. Romney was poised throughout the debate, appearing presidential and articulate, but his candidacy will be increasingly threatened as voters that oppose him rally behind fewer candidates. Perry immediately criticized
Romneys record, saying his performance in the private sector did not lead to impressive job growth. He boasted that the job growth in Texas dwarfed that of Massachusetts. Romney delivered an effective counter-punch, saying that the two states could not be compared, partly because of the natural resources, like oil and gas, that exist in Texas. To give Perry credit for the growth caused by those resources, Romney argued, was like giving Al Gore credit for inventing the Internet. It was his biggest applause of the night, and was a reference to Perrys prominent role in Al Gores 1988 presidential campaign. The exchange, which was the hottest of the night, continued. Perry responded that former Democratic governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukakis had higher job growth than Romney, who made the same comparison between Perry and Bushs tenures. The confrontation was done with smiles, unlike the August onstage battle between Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who exited the race after a poor showing in the Ames Straw Poll. Rick Perry adequately defended himself, particularly from
Gingrich drew the biggest applause of the night when he took on the MSNBC moderators. He did this during the previous debate hosted by Fox News and the Washington Examiner and scored big points for doing so. This time, he criticized the moderators and accused the news media of trying to stir up conflict between the Republican candidates in order to help President Obama. He defended all of the candidates, saying that despite their differences, all of them would repeal ObamaCare. In so doing, Gingrich positioned criticism by Karl Rove and former the debate. She lacked a stand-out himself to become the second Vice President Dick Cheney. His moment, though many viewers choice of primary voters who most powerful moment was when probably connected with her on have chosen other candidates. If he discussed the death penalty in an emotional level when she he uses this tactic again, however, Texas, and how he does not regret discussed the affects the economy it runs the risk of appearing executing convicted murderers. is having on children and the gimmicky. However, it is likely that his youth that are just entering the Gingrich hopes to follow the comment about Social Security workforce. Unfortunately for her, t r a c k o f f o r m e r A r k a n s a s being a Ponzi scheme will it is difficult to imagine that one Governor Mike Huckabee in dominate the coverage of the portion of the debate earning any 2008, likewise rising to the debate, and may cause concern votes. The problem she faces is forefront through the debates. The about his electability. He stood by that if she attacks Perry, she may difference is that Huckabee was the comment, but kept repeating alienate his supporters and new at that time, and many voters that Social Security is in a broken discourage them from coming to have a strong familiarity with state. Even if Republican voters her camp. She may be wise to Gingrich. He will have to prove agree with his statement, theyll hold off on going on the offensive that his campaign is viable in want to see a more articulate for the moment to see if Perrys order to get volunteers to work for defense of his position in future support has peaked and will fall as him and supporters to donate to him. If he can point to a quick rise debates and interviews. he comes under the spotlight. Bachmanns presence faded in Former House Speaker Newt in the polls, he may be able to accomplish this.
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New Pew Poll Undercuts Lefts Islamophobia Card

Joseph Klein (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/7/2011 11:30:43 PM
The Muslim Brotherhoodaffiliated Council on AmericanIslamic Relations (CAIR) and its groupies on the Left, such as the Center for American Progress (CAP), the ACLU, and the University of California, Berkeleys Center for Race and Gender, have spun out a series of patently absurd conspiracy theories employing the Islamophobia canard, which are designed to intimidate critics of Islamic extremism into silence. The latest example of this vitriolic attack campaign is a CAP report titled Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America. However, the more these groups pursue this misguided agenda, the more they expose their ignorance with respect to both reality and the actual interests of the Muslim community. This is illustrated by the results of Pew Research Centers latest public opinion survey of Muslim Americans, released on August 30, 2011. These results confirm that Islamic extremism in the U.S. is a real
problem not something made up by so-called Islamophobes and that many in the Muslim American community fault their leaders for failing to address it properly. Thirteen percent of the Muslim Americans surveyed by Pew refused to rule out suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians in all circumstances. The results broke down this way 8% said that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets are either often or sometimes justified to defend Islam from its enemies, and 5% were willing to entertain such terrorist tactics in rare circumstances. Extrapolating from the survey results, out of the estimated 1.8 million Muslim adults (18 or over) living in the United States in 2011, this means that nearly 150,000 Muslim Americans would appear to condone suicide bombing or other violence against civilians often or sometimes, and another 90,000 would support it in rare circumstances. Al Qaeda received the support of 5% of the Muslim Americans who were surveyed by Pew. Another 14% claimed they didnt know.
Extrapolating from these survey results, 90,000 Muslim Americans are favorably disposed towards al Qaeda. Approximately 250,000 were not prepared to respond one way or the other. Thus, though the percentages look small, the results in numbers are still a major cause for concern. Another telling fact is that many Muslim Americans surveyed by
Pew, who just want to live peacefully with their fellow Americans, are concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism in their ranks and believe their national leaders have fallen short in dealing with the problem the same leaders who condemn any criticism of Islamic radicalism as Islamophobia. Sixty percent of Muslim
Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center indicated concern about possible rise of Islamic extremism in the U.S. That percentage increases to 73% amongst all native-born Muslim Americans expressing such concerns 78% amongst nativeborn Muslim American blacks. About a fifth of those surveyed went further and said that there is a great deal or a fair amount of support for extremism in the Muslim American community. That rises to 32% amongst all native-born Muslim Americans 40% amongst native-born Muslim American blacks. Moreover, many Muslim Americans want bolder challenges from their leaders against Islamist radicals, not excuses. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed by Pew said that Muslim leaders in the United States have not done enough to speak out against Islamic extremists. Only about a third said that Muslim leaders had done enough.
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In the Shadow of Ronald Reagan

Twenty years ago, historian William Leuchtenberg published a book with the poignant title, In the Shadow of FDR. Leuchtenbergs point: President Roosevelt raised expectations for the modern presidency that his (Democratic) successors could not hope to fulfill. From Truman to Clinton, they were doomed to fail. You could make an analogous argument on the Republican side based upon the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Reagan left Republicans wanting another like him. Republicans take the like Reagan principle so far that they have even come to valorize Reagans flaws. Reagan achieved great political success despite his sometimes shaky grasp on facts and despite his
disengagement from the details of governance. In subsequent years, those failings associated with Reagan (failings that nearly brought down his presidency during the IranContra scandal of 1986), have been promoted into irrelevancies or outright merits.
Mitt Romneys ready grasp of policy has led many conservatives to reject him as atechnocrat. When candidates like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, or now Rick Perry are reduced to sputtering incoherence by basic and predictable questions, conservatives are untroubled.
Reagan sometimes also had trouble answering basic, predictable questions! Therefore consistent inability to answer basic, predictable questions isnt a bug. Its a feature. I watched Rick Perrys performance last night and saw a man adrift and unprepared. Im braced today that many conservatives who saw that same performance will decide: they dont care. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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new health care laws burdensome costs and mandates, and considering canceling existing health coverage for current employees. Logan also struggles with access to capital, complicated by governmentcreated uncertainty. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read
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FBI Agents Raid Solyndras Fremont, California Headquarters

Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
was also a major donor to the Obama campaign a fact that raised concerns of political favoritism in the $535 million Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:33:08 AM The politically connected solar loan the company received from firm that announced its impending the federal government. bankruptcy last week was raided The San Francisco Chronicle by federal agents this morning as reported on the raids Thursday part of a joint investigation morning: between the FBI and the Energy FBI agents are serving search Department Inspector Generals w a r r a n t s t h i s m o r n i n g a t office. Solyndra, the Fremont solar The company, Solyndra Inc., company that abruptly closed last had received significant favorable week, an agency official said. t r e a t m e n t f r o m t h e O b a m a The search is part of a joint a d m i n i s t r a t i o n . O n e o f t h e investigation involving the FBI companys primary investors, and the Department of Energys Oklahoma oil man George Kaiser, Office of Inspector General, said
FBI spokeswoman Julianne Sohn, who declined to elaborate. Solyndra closed its doors on Aug. 31. It did so without warning and without WARN, a state and
federal law requiring advance notice of a large layoff or shutdown. The company has said it was most likely exempt from notifying its 900 full-time and 200
contract workers ahead of time under a loophole in the law, officially known as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Twitter Has 100 Million Active Users

Chris Taylor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:54:55 AM
Twitter has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day, CEO Dick Costolo revealed Thursday. The microblogging service has a total of 200 million registered users, but how many of those are actually regulars has been open to debate for some time. Costolo, in an informal chat with tech reporters he called his state of
the union, revealed that exactly half of them log in monthly a number he says is up 80% since the beginning of the year. The CEO offered a whole raft of statistics to prove that Twitter is healthy and growing like a weed especially on mobile platforms. Some 55 million users log on to Twitter from their phone or tablet every month. Web-based year, Costolo says. u s e r s a r e o n t h e r i s e , t o o : Less than 40% of users have not Twitter.com now sees 400 million t w e e t e d i n t h e l a s t m o n t h , visitors a month, up from 250 according to the CEO, preferring million at the beginning of the
to simply follow the timelines of others. That figure stood at 70% at the end of the year. Were excited about that number,
Costolo says. Thats super healthy. SEE ALSO: Explore Twitters Evolution: 2006 to Present Twitter now hosts a billion tweets every five days, and has hit a new record for tweets per second: 8,900. That record was set the Sunday before last, when Hurricane Irene hit New York and Beyonce announced her pregnancy on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards. More About: dick costolo, twitter
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Fashions Night Out: A Digital Field Guide

Macala Wright Lee (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:42:36 AM
Macala Wright is the publisher of FashionablyMarketing.Me, one of the leading fashion and retail industry business websites. She is a retail consultant and business strategist who specializes in marketing consulting for fashion, luxury and lifestyle brands. You can follower her on Twitter at@InsideFMM or@Macala. Digital media has become an integral part one of the fashion industrys most celebrated event, Fashions Night Out, which will be held across the globe for its third year Thursday. This year, weve compiled a bestof guide to the brands and retailers leveraging digital technologies to create interactive events for shoppers in New York, Los Angeles and online. Know of a great event we missed? Please share it in the comments section below. New York Mattel Various locations, 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. Join Barbie and her favorite designers on a city-wide mobile scavenger hunt through a series of QR code clues and free rides aboard the official double-decker Barbie bus. Locate doll-size fashions and accessories from Rogan, Tracy Reese, Alice + s e e p.m. Olivia and Alexis Bittar at the i n f o r m a t i o n B a r b i e L o v e s F N O . c o m . Bloomingdales kicks off its designers stores and be entered to nation-wide partnership with win life-sized versions. For more Bloomingdales Various locations, 6 p.m. to 11 NBC beginning 6 p.m. Thursday.
At each Bloomingdales store C u s t o m e r s w i l l b e a b l e t o across the country, customers are download characters from NBC invited to walk the red carpet via FASHIONS page 86 AR application Goldrun.
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shows to their iPad 2, iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 and snap a photo with them for a chance at various prizes. Calvin Klein 654 Madison Avenue, 6 to 10 p.m. New Yorks own Amare Stoudemire will also make a special appearance on the mens floor between 6 and 10 p.m. where Calvin Klein Collections Italo Zucchelli will be on hand to assist the evenings guests with their selections. Shoppers will get the chance to have their photo taken with either Amare or model Lara Stone with purchase. Photos will be posted to Calvin Kleins Facebook Page, where users can tag themselves. Coach 374 Bleecker Street and 595 Madison Avenue, 7 to 9 p.m. Coach is hosting in-store and online events at its Bleecker Street and Madison Avenue Stores to relaunch the companys classic Duffle Sac. As part of its style blogger collaboration, seven well-known bloggers will meet guests and photograph themselves sporting the Duffle to appear on the broadsheet and coach.com. Online customers will be able to purchase the limited edition duffle at the companys website, as well as listen to a party playlist and follow along on Twitter. Color Club Mobile Ice Cream Truck Meatpacking district at 13th Avenue and 9th Street, 6 to 11 p.m. The beauty brand has taken its
polish brushes to a vintage Good Humor Ice Cream Truck where they be serving up nail polish in every color of the rainbow, including a special limited edition FNO Red. Follow the Mobile Color Bar on Twitter for updates. Diane von Furstenberg 874 Washington Street, 6 to 11 p.m. Although Diane von Furstenberg is holding events at stores across the country and abroad, the designers greatest event will be online. In addition to a series of Promoted Tweets and Trends, the company will be sending direct messages to users who are out and about during Fashions Night Out, surprising them with one of the first bottles of the houses new fragrance, which they can pick up at DVFs Meatpacking location. DKNY 655 Madison Avenue, 6 to 11p.m. DKNY has hired street style photographers to snap photos of guests using the mobile app Pose, which will then be projected onto store windows and uploaded to Facebook. Twitter and Tumblr personality DKNY PR Girl is also virtually hosting an event in London, where the company has built a set that imagines DKNY PR Girls Manhattan apartment, bedroom and closet. Tweets will be projected onto a giant Blackberry in DKNYs London store so she can interact with customers from New York. Helmut Lang 93 Mercer Street, 6 to 11 p.m. An interactive digital photo booth
curated by creative directors Nicole and Michael Colovos will livestream images from the Mercer Street store party on helmutlang.com and its Tumblr. Online fans and followers can download the photos from Facebook and add them to their Twitter or Tumblr. Kirna Zabete 96 Greene Street, 6 to 11 p.m. Retailer Kirna Zabete will be hosting and interviewing a number of its designing, including Proenza Schouler, Thakoon, Altuzarra, Prabal Gurung, Peter Som and Reece Hudson, which will stream live on its website. Lord & Taylor 424 5th Avenue, 6 to 11 p.m. Shoppers have the opportunity to submit their favorite New York City-inspired photo to be displayed in the stores Fifth Avenue windows curated by Candy Pratts Price, creative director of vogue.com. Photos can be submitted between now and the end of FNO via a special application on the stores Facebook Page. In addition, online shoppers can enjoy free gifts with purchase, interactive how-to videos and participate in a live online chat with the Jones New Yorks resident style expert Lloyd Boston. Mackage 123 Mercer Street, 6 to 10 p.m. Fashion-forward shoppers can join celebrated fashion blogger Kelly Framel of The Glamourai at Mackages Soho store for a night of styling. Visitors can listen to the beats of DJ Evalicious as they
pose in the Mackage-style booth and upload their photos directly to Facebook. Macys 151 West 34th Street, 6 to 11 p.m. Tommy Hilfiger, Bobbi Brown, Rachel Roy and Anna Dello Russo will all be making guest appearances at Macys flagship in Herald Square, which will also be livestreamed on macys.com from 6 to 8 p.m. Madison Ave BID Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Streets, 6pm Madison Avenue BID is partnering with the blog Madison Avenue Spy to create the Madison Avenue Spy Fashion Hunt. Shoppers are invited to attend and tweet pictures to and from a list of events taking place in stores on Madison Avenue between 57th and 86th Streets. At 9 p.m., approximately 10 shoppers who tweet photographs from a specified number of Madison Avenue FNO events will be given instructions to a secret Madison Avenue location. Winners will toast their success and receive luxury prizes from assorted Madison Avenue boutiques. Bonus points will be given to those who spot Madison Avenue Spys Lila Delilah and tweet her picture. Marc Jacobs 403 Bleeker Street, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. In addition to games and goodiefilled totes at Marc Jacobss stores in New York and Los Angeles, shoppers who RSVP online at
marcjacobs.com are entered to win a bottle of the brands Oh, Lola womens fragrance, autographed by Dakota Fanning, or a bottle of mens fragrance Bang Bang autographed by Jacobs himself. Net-a-Porter 155 Mercer Street, 6 to 10 p.m. Using augmented reality technology powered by Aurasma, shoppers will be able to buy and win from Net-A-Porter after downloading a specially createdWindow Shop app available on iPhone, iPad and Android platforms. The app locates purchasable items surrounding the shopper without the need for bar codes or tags. Shoppers can then use the app to purchase or potentially win a number of specially selected goods. Opening Ceremony + ShopBop The Ace Hotel at 29th and Broadway, 6 p.m. Opening Ceremony is teaming up with Tumblr and several of its notable bloggers to present a carnival-themed photo booth. Photos of guests, participating designers and more will be uploaded in real time on Opening Ceremonys newly launched Tumblr. At the same time, Shopbop will have a lounge in the Meatpacking District at 9th Avenue and 13th Street, where host and stylist Louise Roe will livestream interviews with designers, stylists and bloggers, and take questions via Twitter. FASHIONS page 87
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Saks Fifth Avenue DIY Events 611 5th Avenue, 6 to 11 p.m. For Fashions Night Out, Saks has filled its windows with 64 iPad 2s and 18 27 Apple Cinema Displays (pictured above) featuring live-streaming content from the newly redesigned Stylelist.com, as well as tweets pulled in from across the web with the #StylelistAtSaks hashtag. Between 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. on the fifth floor, participants can join DIY bloggers Erica Domesek and Chris Lospalluto to create hair accessories and follow online on Twitter. Target 1095 6th Avenue, 6 to 9 p.m. Angela Missoni and Margherita Maccapani Missoni will greet shoppers when the doors open at Targets pop-up shop Thursday evening. The first 20 guests to spend more than $100 will have the chance to take a family-style portrait with the Missonis that is a fun, quirky take on the classic prom photo experience. All images will be uploaded to the Target Style Facebook Page for shoppers to view, tag and download. Tiffany & Co. 727 Fifth Avenue, 6 to 9 p.m. Around 11:30 a.m. Thursday morning, 16 Audrey Hepburn lookalikes will be handing out roughly 3,000 QR code-frosted cookies in Times Square (near
46th and Broadway), Rockefeller Center, NYU (across from Starbucks at Washington Square Park) and at the corner of 5th and 59th streets. Codes can be scanned to see an invitation for Tiffanys event that evening, at which the company will unveil a new jewelry line and host a performance by Leighton Meester. Van Cleef & Arpels 744 Fifth Avenue, 6 to 9 p.m. Street style photographer Mr. Newton will be taking photos of shoppers who opt to be styled in Van Cleef & Arpels watches and jewels. Photos will appear on screens inside and outside the flagship store and on Facebook. Los Angeles Assouline South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, 7 to 9 p.m. The Assouline store at South Coast Plaza will be teaching Samba lessons, as well as snapping photos and uploading them Facebook and Twitter. Shoppers can find photos of themselves on Facebook to tag and download. Diane von Furstenberg 8407 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, 6 to 11 p.m. Join Katherine Schwarzenegger at DVFs Melrose Avenue location for cocktails and hors doeuvres and their Trust Your Senses fragrance launch.
Shoppers will be able to create flipbook via an interactive photo booth. Kenneth Cole Beverly Center, 8500 Beverly Boulveard, 6 to 9 p.m. Shoppers who check into the Beverly Center store via Foursquare will receive a Kenneth Cole FNO T-shirt. Van Cleef & Arpels 300 North Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, 6 to 9 p.m. A street style photographer from Streetgeist will be taking photos of shoppers as theyre styled in Van Cleef & Arpels watches and jewels. Photos will appear on screens inside and outside the boutique, on Facebook and on Streetgeist.com. Online-Only Kyler By Joy O Eco Jewelry facebook.com/KylerJewelry Kyler Jewelry will host a Facebook Like Sale event between 6:30 and 8 p.m. PT. Sales that get the most Likes during this period will be valid on thekylerdesigns.com for one week beginning 8 p.m. Thursday. Les Nouvelles facebook.com/pages/LesNouvelles Les Nouvelles will be hosting a style off with the Polyvore Virtual Stylist Tool on Facebook. Shoppers will be asked to style a chic fall look using the FNO Tshirt. The look with the most Likes will receive an Les
Nouvelles gift card and a styling session with the brands buyers. Sofistafunk sofistafunk.com Between 6 and 11 p.m., customers are invited to play Sofistafunks Fashion Freeplay game on its website for a chance to win free swag. Shoppers can also follow Sofistafunk on Twitter to watch for the words Skirt Alert. Click the link and follow the instructions for a chance to win. Shopbop shopbop.com Starting at 8 p.m. watching live streaming coverage of New Yorks FNO, hosted by stylist Louise Roebroadcast and broadcast from the Shopbop Lounge. Also visit Shopbops exclusive Fashions Night Out boutique online. More About: fashion, fashion's night out For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Kickstarter Project Aims to Finance Super Bowl Ad

Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:47:41 AM
A trio of ad industry executives in Kentucky are using Kickstarter to finance a Super Bowl ad promoting their home state. So far, theyve raised about $1,100. Spots are going for around $3 million. Ad industry veterans and Kentuckians Whit Hiler, Kent Carmichael and Griffin VanMeter have formed a group called Kentucky for Kentucky, raising money for a spot that will show Kentucky is akick-ass state. As the groups site explains: We invented bourbon, bluegrass music, and the motherfreaking Kentucky Derby. We birthed cool with Clooney, Depp, and Hunter S. Thompson. We nurtured beauty with Loreta Lynn, all the Judds and Diane Sawyer. The group claims this would be the first crowd-financed Super Bowl ad. To carry out its mission, Kentucky for Kentucky has set a KICKSTARTER page 88
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goal of raising $3.5 million by Nov. 7. If they dont hit that figure, they will abandon their project. The 2012 Super Bowl will air on Feb. 5. NBC, the network airing the game, has already sold the bulk of its ad inventory. More About: advertising, kickstarter, Super Bowl For more Business & Marketing coverage:
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Mousa, pictured, was "deplorable, shocking and shameful", Mr Fox told the Commons. He added: "If any serviceman or woman, no matter the colour of uniform they wear, is found to have betrayed the values this country stands for and the standards we hold dear, they will be held to account. I expect a number of suspensions." He accepted the 73 recommendations from the
13million inquiry bar one, defending the use of short, sharp bursts of shouting aimed at getting information from captives to save lives. Mr Mousa suffered 93 separate injuries, including fractured ribs and a broken nose, after he was arrested with six other civilians following a weapons find in Basra Nicholas Cecil and Paul Cheston (Evening Standard DAY page 89 News)
Day of shame for British Army: Shocking brutality uncovered by inquiry
Slowdowns 'are threat to whole world economy'

Joe Murphy and Craig Woodhouse (Evening Standard - News)
back the growth scenario looks much worse, one would say growth is stagnating," said OECD chief economist Pier Carlo Submitted at 9/8/2011 6:10:33 AM J o e M u r p h y a n d C r a i g Padoan. "We are witnessing a Woodhouse growth slowdown across OECD 8 Sep 2011 countries." Fears for the world's powerhouse The OECD blames belteconomies grew today as a major tightening across the world and report warned that Germany is in f a l l i n g c o n f i d e n c e f o r t h e danger of going into reverse while d i s a p p o i n t i n g s i g n a l s . America faces a slowdown. The German economy could Britain will grow by a meagre 0.4 contract by 1.4 per cent between and 0.3 per cent in the final two next month and December despite quarters of this year, predicted the strong growth in the summer, it respected Paris-based think tank, said. the Organisation for Economic Official German data has shown Cooperation and Development. that the country's exports fell by But alarm bells were ringing that 1.8 per cent in July, much more some of the countries on which than expected. UK firms depend for trade are For the US, the OECD predicted heading for a serious slowdown growth of 1.1 per cent in the third by the end of the year. quarter, slowing to 0.4 per cent in "With respect to three months the fourth. It estimated that
Nicholas Cecil and Paul Cheston 8 Sep 2011 Up to 14 soldiers will be suspended over the horrific killing of innocent Iraqi Baha Mousa. In a day of shame for the British Army, a damning inquiry revealed growth across the G7 nations as a O s b o r n e t o t a k e a l e a d b y the full extent of the "appalling whole would be 1.6 per cent in adopting a "plan B" for the British episode of serious gratuitous violence" inflicted on the 26-yearJuly to September, falling to 0.2 economy, to stimulate growth. per cent between next month and The Coalition is divided over old hotel receptionist. December. calls to scrap the 50p top rate of Defence Secretary Liam Fox The organisation said there were tax to encourage growth. The immediately ordered the head of huge uncertainties surrounding all Bank of England held interest the Army to suspend a number of individuals who are still serving. its estimates. Its German forecast, rates today at 0.5 per cent. for example, could prove out by This entry passed through the Charges could also be brought in up to 2.1 percentage points. Full-Text RSS service if this is civilian or military courts against Although the OECD said it did your content and you're reading it the soldiers who beat Mr Mousa not expect a repeat of the 2009 on someone else's site, please read to death. slump, the interim report set alarm the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Mr Fox vowed to break a "wall bells ringing that the recovery will only/faq.php#publishers. Five of silence" among troops to bring take years. Filters featured article: A 'Malign those responsible for the shocking Ed Balls, Labour's shadow Intellectual Subculture' - George brutality to justice. chancellor, spoke of the risks of a M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Branding the killing of Mr Mousa "disaster" in the US and a Herman, Peterson, Pilger And " a v e r y g r e a t s t a i n o n t h e reputation of the Army", inquiry "catastrophe" in the European Media Lens. chairman Sir William Gage Union's eurozone if political named 26 people in his report, of leaders failed to agree a credible whom 14 are still in the Army. plan to turn around their The unlawful killing of Mr economies. He urged Chancellor George DAY page 88
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in September 2003. Soldiers had placed the detainees in a circle and beat them so they cried out in a "choir". Mr Mousa was also handcuffed, hooded, starved, dehydrated and kept in a "stress position" in extreme heat. Since 1972 such techniques have been banned in Britain and declared unlawful under the Geneva Convention. The lawyer representing the Mousa family, Phil Shiner, immediately called for the soldiers responsible to stand trial and said even the regimental padre and medical officer turned a blind eye. The report said Mr Mousa was subjected to 36 hours of internationally outlawed interrogation techniques because of a corporate failure in the Ministry of Defence. Sir William called for fundamental changes to training and for every unit to designate an officer responsible for prisoner welfare. He also named four soldiers who should bear "heavy responsibility"
for the death including Cpl Donald Payne, who "instigated and orchestrated" the beatings, and Lt Col Jorge Mendonca, who ought to have known what was happening. Sir William said Lt Craig Rodgers must take responsibility for the indiscipline under his command and Maj Michael Peebles should have monitored the welfare of detainees. All were members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. The 2,500-page report exposes the confusion in the Army over what techniques could legally be used to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation. Sir William said: "There was no proper MoD doctrine on interrogation of prisoners of war that was generally available." He accepted that his criticism could be seen by some as "ungrateful and insensitive" towards British soldiers operating in Iraq but he said he had to achieve justice for Mr Mousa's family. Mr Shiner described the MoD as
"a disgraceful outfit - they just don't care and are proud not to care". General Sir Peter Wall, head of the Army, said Mr Mousa's death cast a "dark shadow" over the Army's reputation. Cpl Payne became the first member of the British armed forces convicted of a war crime when he admitted inhumane treatment at a court martial in 2007. He was jailed for a year and dismissed from the Army. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Ron Johnson Called Social Security a Ponzi Scheme -- and Won

Garance Franke-Ruta (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:46:57 AM
While Mitt Romney and his aides argued last night that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would be a poor fit for a general election contest thanks to his argument that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" based on a "mountrous lie," Erick Erickson of RedState.com points out that there's actually a precedent for a successful Republican candidate who says just that: tea party-backed Republican Senator Ron Johnson. In this 2010 campaign video, Johnson says: Guess what's coming in Russ Feingold's negative campaign? He's going to tell you I said Washington treats Social Security like a Ponzi scheme. You know what? I did say that -- 'cause it's true. Russ Feingold and politicians of both parties raided the Social Security trust fund of trillions and left seniors an IOU. They spent the money. It's gone. I'll fight to keep every nickel of Social Security for retirees, and I respect you enough to tell you the truth. Of course, Johnson -- who beat the incumbent Feingold 52 to 47 percent-- was running in Wisconsin, not in states like
Florida. And as author Michael Cohen pointed out last night, President Obama could in 2012 lose the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Colorado and Ohio and still win reelection if he can pick up Florida. Still, as much as Social Security is the third rail of American politics, were Perry to become the GOP nominee and chose someone like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) as his running mate, it would likely complicate the picture and negate some of the damage Democrats are hoping his Social Security stance will do to his support among seniors. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/09/ronjohnson-called-social-security-aponzi-scheme-and-won/244753/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Riot man's family claim police shot him 'in cold blood'
Rashid Razaq (Evening Standard - News)
Study: Couples who receive government assistance report less marital satisfaction
Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 10:25:06 AM
The family of Mark Duggan today claimed police shot him "in cold blood". More than 1,000 people are expected to attend a funeral service for Mr Duggan, 29, in Tottenham tomorrow. His death at the hands of a Metropolitan Police firearms officer sparked last month's riots. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is yet to announce findings of an inquiry into the fatal shooting on August 4. However, sources close to the investigation have revealed that it is expected to find the CO19 specialist firearms unit officer opened fire because he feared Mr Duggan was about to fire the gun
he was carrying in a sock - which had a hole cut for the barrel of the weapon. Mr Duggan's mother, Pamela, said the family did not condone the riots that followed his death, but wanted answers from the police. She said: "You (the police) killed my son in cold blood. I just want the police to admit that they killed my son. Why didn't the police shoot him in the foot instead of the chest?" Mrs Duggan said she was on medication after her health had deteriorated and feared she might not have the strength to attend her son's funeral. Mr Duggan's brother, Shaun Hall, 42, said: "The police were clearly operating a shoot-to-kill policy that day. They are supposed to disable, not kill, suspects. If they hadn't shot and killed Mark there
would have been no riots." A key figure in the investigation is the driver of the taxi Mr Duggan, a father of four, was using when it was intercepted by police in Ferry Lane in Tottenham. Mr Hall said: "He said he will tell the truth about what happened. He said it should not have happened the way it did. Mark should not have been killed." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Like Fanny Prices mother in Mansfield Park, those who marry for love only to live in poverty might actually advise singles to seek out a marriage of money and convenience. Studies have repeatedly shown that low-income couples report less marital satisfaction and commitment. But, fortunately, through programs like Medicaid and food stamps, the government provides assistance to the needy and that surely helps those on the low end of the income scale to experience a little more joy in married life, right? Wrong. A new study from the University of Missouri shows that couples that experience the combination of earning low incomes and receiving government assistance had even lower levels of marital satisfaction and commitment than couples earning low incomes but not receiving government assistance: We found that theres a unique relationship among income level, government assistance and marital satisfaction and commitment, said David Schramm, assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. The study confirms that low income does have a
negative impact on marital quality, but there are additional factors as well. The relationship between income and marital satisfaction is influenced by other issues, including whether or not the couple receives some form of government assistance. In the study, couples with low incomes (less than $20,000 per year) scored significantly lower on five of the six dimensions of marital quality: overall satisfaction, commitment, divorce proneness, feelings of being trapped in a marriage, and negative interaction. Married individuals who received government assistance reported similar scores. Couples that experienced the combination of earning low-incomes while receiving government assistance had drastically lower levels of overall marital satisfaction and commitment. Its pretty easy to see why earning too little money to comfortably cover expenses strains a marriage. As Schramm put it, Economic hardship, the feeling of strain and tension associated with money issues, tends to be a driver for other stressors. For example, if couples cant pay the bills, then they are likely to be more irritable and stressed about other areas of life. STUDY: page 91
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Breaking: FBI raids Solyndra

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Kaiser, in recouping the losses. Coincidentally, Kaiser was a big bundler for Obama in 2008. Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:35:57 AM And coincidentally, his company Barack Obama plans on talking made a lot of visits to the White about using stimulus funds for job House over a two-year period creation tonight. Think hell w h i l e g e t t i n g t h e t a x p a y e r mention Solyndra, which his subsidies, too (via Zombie at PJ administration fast-tracked to Tatler): $535 million in taxpayer-financed Not only does the now-bankrupt loan guarantees? Naaaah: solar energy firm Solyndra have a FBI agents armed with search cozy financial relationship with warrants descended this morning t h e O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , on bankrupt solar company company representatives also Solynrda this morning. made numerous visits to the The investigation comes after a W h i t e H o u s e t o m e e t request by the Department of with administration officials, The Energys inspector general, FBI Daily Caller has learned. spokesman Peter Lee told NBC According to White House visitor Bay Area News. logs, between March 12, 2009, Agents arrived at 7a.m. and are and April 14, 2011, Solyndra examining the factory. Solynrda officials and investors made no has a skeleton crew of 100 fewer than 20 trips to the West workers on the scene, closing the Wing. In the week before the f a c t o r y d o w n . A C N B C administration awarded Solyndra photographer on the scene says with the first-ever alternative the FBI has promised a press energy loan guarantee on March c o n f e r e n c e . A n a g e n c y 20, four separate visits were spokesperson at its San Francisco logged. headquarters says hes unaware of George Kaiser, who has in the any such plans. past been labeled a major Just to remind everyone, Obama Solyndra investor as well as touted Solyndra as an example of a Obama donor, made three visits what government subsidies to to the White House on March 12, green-tech firms could do for the 2009, and one on March 13. economy and job creation. So far, Kaiser has denied any direct its managed to make $535 involvement in the Solyndra deal million disappear from the and through a statement from his economy and took 1000 jobs with foundation said he did not it. As ABC reported yesterday, participate in any discussions with taxpayers are actually behind the the U.S. government regarding the companys main investor, George loan.
But the countless meetings at the White House seem hardly coincidental. Kaiser, in fact, is responsible for 16 of the 20 meetings that showed up on the White House logs. Now we have the FBI raiding Obamas pet green-tech company at the behest of a DoE Inspector General. This of course prompts the question of when this IG gets the Gerald Walpin treatment. With Obama about to make a case for even more government intervention and manipulation in markets, this raid couldnt have come at a worse moment for the administration. If this raid turns up any official corruption, though, this moment will look like a Sunday afternoon on a Marthas Vineyard golf course by comparison. Update: Oh, by the way, this was Solyndras gratitude for getting over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies: The chief financial officer of bankrupt start-up Solyndra, which had ramped up its operations after getting a U.S. government loan for solar companies, declined to say on Wednesday if potential buyers would keep its business in the United States. Under questioning at a bankruptcy court hearing by a U.S. government attorney, CFO W.G. Stover declined to identify either of the two companies that have shown an interest in Solyndras operations or even where they
were based. Asked if the potential buyers might move Solyndras unique solar cylinder business overseas, Stover would only say that doing so would increase the cost to a potential buyer. Feeling the love yet? Update II: Getting some of this in the comments: Isnt Holder in charge of the FBI? He will shut down the investigation and conduct a DOJ investigaton of his own in 5.4.3 First, the FBI has performed professionally for decades in regards to politics; they learned their lesson from Watergate and the long Hoover reign. Second, the DoJ isnt conducting the investigation, and technically neither is the DoE. The IG is an independent actor, and the FBI would have to turn over all products from the search to the IG. However, it wouldnt be a bad idea for Darrell Issa to insist on access to the materials as well, since Congress has oversight jurisdiction on executivelegislative agencies like the DoE. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
This leads to negative interactions between spouses or individual feelings of being trapped because they cant survive on their own. Its a constant drain on many aspects of marital quality and overall well-being. Its less easy to see why government assistance would further weaken sentiments of satisfaction until you consider the issue through the prism of happiness research. Ever since I heard American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks speak at a Heritage Foundation Bloggers Briefing more than a year ago, Ive been enamored with his most hopeful of messages: Earned success is, in fact, the surest path to happiness. And Brooks has the research to prove it. Maybe, just maybe, couples receiving government assistance, conscious that they didnt earn that assistance, experience a diminished selfworth as a result. The University of Missouri study doesnt posit reasons for the lack of satisfaction in governmentassisted unions, but it does make note of the fact that few studies have looked at the link between such assistance and marital satisfaction and encourages further research. Schramm also said, based on his findings, he plans to implement an education program that targets low-income couples who receive government assistance. This program will provide additional resources for STUDY: page 92
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the couple, including healthy relationship and wellness education, employment training and financial planning. I like the sound of that its vital that folks know the facts, in this and in everything but I cant help but hope that Schramm will include a Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top kind?) One told me to ask the environment sounds somewhat work component in the program. Picks) people of the former Soviet Union like the lyrics to All She Wants That is, I hope he provides and East Germany about how to Do is Dance. Even if an Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:05:33 AM these resources in return for some ridiculous that might be. Well, it eventual US government closed kind of work from recipients. And now for a lighter moment may come as a shock to Ron Paul the border to keep Americans in, Perhaps they could perform basic from last nights debate, or at and his followers, but the Iron we have a wide-open border on research assistance for Schramm least the weirdest moment. Jim Curtain wasnt what made the the north and two oceans on either or do some simple gardening H o f t c a l l s t h i s R o n P a u l s Soviet Union a totalitarian state side. Americans would like about the University of Checkpoint Charlie moment, but (and it wasnt literally a wall Canadians and swimming a lot Missouri. Perhaps, after they its really more like an apex of anyway), nor the Berlin Wall for better than taking their chances complete the education program, P a u l s p a r a n o i d b a n d o f East Germany. The latter had to with the drug cartels. And if we they could turn around and help libertarianism. In this exchange, build the wall in Berlin to keep were ever in a position where teach it. Just something that Paul opposes building a border people from escaping its police Americans wanted to escape to enables them to feel theyve fence because he doesnt believe state, which existed before the Mexico, then a border fence earned a spot in the program and it represents American values, w a l l w a s b u i l t o r e v e n would almost literally be the least havent just been handed it which is a fair enough argument contemplated. Anyone who of our problems. because they happen to be poor that one usually hears from doesnt understand the difference This entry passed through the and dissatisfied. Democrats. He then tips over into doesnt belong in any serious Full-Text RSS service if this is Just as throwing more money at hilarity when he suggests that the political debate. your content and you're reading it education has done nothing to US government might use it to Besides, Im pretty sure that on someone else's site, please read raise test scores, so throwing more stop Americans from fleeing to, were not running a great risk of the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentresources at those already er, Mexico: capital flight to Mexico at the only/faq.php#publishers. Five experiencing a diminished selfI immediately noted on Twitter moment. Our southern neighbor Filters featured article: A 'Malign worth at the lack of earning wont on hearing this that it was my first is teetering on the precipice of Intellectual Subculture' - George make them happier. The worth of laugh-out-loud moment of the b e c o m i n g a f a i l e d s t a t e , M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , work for the dignity it imparts to debate, which got an angry kidnappings are an epidemic, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And r e s p o n s e f r o m a c o u p l e o f cartels run entire swaths of the Media Lens. Ronulans. (Is there any other c o u n t r y , a n d t h e p o l i t i c a l
its performers must again be espoused over and against the lie that material advantages alone are at the root of the greater satisfaction reported by higherincome couples. True freedom to pursue happiness necessarily through work exists only where redistribution of wealth doesnt rob those who do work from the joy of keeping the fruits of their labor and doesnt rob those who lack materially from realizing that not all money is equal and its not handouts that will solve their problems its earned success. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Supercommittee Hearing Interrupted by Protests

Chris Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:12:21 AM
The bipartisan effort to reduce the nation's debt got off to a rocky start as speakers were drowned out by cries of "Jobs! Now!" "What do we want?!" "Jobs!" "When do we want them?!" "Now!" The first hearing of the 12member "supercommittee" charged with reducing the national debt by $1.5 trillion, was interrupted by a loud protest outside the hearing room in the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday. After some conciliatory opening remarks by members, during which microphones failed, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) was
rendered inaudible by shouting immediately outside the committee room's front doors. About 15 protesters shouted "Jobs! Now! Jobs! Now!" for about ten minutes before being cleared away by Capitol Police, bringing the hearing to a brief halt, while co-chairman Rep. Jeb
Hensarling (R-Texas) asked staffers to close the hearing-room doors. They couldn't -- a cluster of TV wires wedged the doors ajar. A protest organizer, 23-year-old Valerie Bachelor, told me between shouts that the group Our DC, made up primarily by members of Washington's 8th
Ward, had formed in May to canvas against a Republican congressman in Virginia. Proceedings resumed as Capitol Police shooed the protesters away. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) later offered Camp a chance to finish his interrupted remarks, but Camp declined.
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Engadget's massive back to school 2011 sweepstakes ends tomorrow... find out how to win!
Zach Honig (Engadget)
along with plenty of other awesome items. We'll be choosing Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:00:00 PM one commenter from each of our We really, really love gadgets, back to school category pages, but nothing brings us greater joy and one from our main contest than to see our readers unbox a announcement, so if you meet the new toy, especially when it can qualifications listed on each post, help improve your experience at simply leave a comment to be school. So this year we're giving eligible to win. You won't be away bags-- 15 of them, in fact -- penalized for commenting more each filled with 20 amazing than once on each post, but it prizes. Each winner will score a won't help your chances, either. laptop, tablet, a killer camera, and And since we'll be randomly even a new dual-core cell phone, selecting one commenter from
each post, enter at each of the 14 tomorrow, so better get clickin'! pages linked to here, along with Note: Comments added below this page to boost your odds. will not be eligible, nor will those We'll wrap things up at 12PM ET left on the main back to school
page -- if you see a long list of terms and conditions above the comments section, then you've made it to the right place. Engadget's massive back to school 2011 sweepstakes ends tomorrow... find out how to win! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments
ESPN's new Monday Night Football deal includes 3D broadcasts, WatchESPN app
Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 11:05:00 AM
programming (beginning this season) to availability of games on the WatchESPN mobile app to Just hours before the 2011 NFL the Pro Bowl we still won't watch. season kicks off, the ESPN and According to the LA Times, the the NFL announced a new eight pricetag for ESPN -- before it's year extension for Monday Night passed on to the cable / satellite Football that runs from 2014 to company and eventually ends up 2021 and most notably to us, on your bill in a rate increase -- is includes a provision for 3D around $1.9 billion per season, up that ESPN 3D might be axed after broadcast rights. The new deal from $1.1 billion previously. its removal from U-verse, the bad covers items from new studio While this should help quell ideas
news is it could still be a ways off, as we're told 3D broadcasts are expected when the extension takes effect in 2014. Sadly, 3D early adopters are probably used to waiting, with unbundled retail availability of Avatar still pending for 2012, this is just one more item to add to your calendar. Continue reading ESPN's new Monday Night Football deal includes 3D broadcasts,
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Audio-Haptic Navigation Environment makes music the hands-free way (video)

Lydia Leavitt (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/8/2011 12:33:00 PM
You've heard of pianists, flutists and organists, but have you heard of Thereminists? The title, originally applied to players of another hands-free instrument from the 1920s, has been repurposed for those who can manipulate invisible sounds in a 3D space called an Audio-Haptic Navigation Environment (AHNE). By tweaking a Kinect sensor and using the OpenNI framework and OSCeleton, researchers at the SOPI Research Group at Media Lab Helsinki were able to create an AHNE "proof concept" called "Tension." Outfitting a volunteer with sensorladen gloves with a small vibration motor for haptic feedback, they were able to create
"music" -- add a pinch of Pitbull, and you're looking at the world's next great mellow anthem. Check out the full music video after the break. Continue reading Audio-Haptic Navigation Environment makes music the hands-free way (video) Audio-Haptic Navigation Environment makes music the
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