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Fundraising and the American dream of immigrants

Patricia Zengerle (Front Row Kenya, picked up the theme in his looking down over us. You’ve got
Washington) comments, making the case to the an African-American president
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:17:17 PM audience of donors that named Barack Obama. You’ve
supporting Democratic candidates got a young Chinese-American
The trials and triumphs of would preserve the American girl, 16 years old, who is
immigrants to the United States dream of immigrants like the designing cancer drugs, having
were an unexpected theme of a Sharma parents. taught herself chemistry in high
pricey fundraiser in Rockville, Obama’s remarks were similar to school.’ ”
M a r y l a n d , w h e r e P r e s i d e n t those he has made at other recent He then segued into an appeal for
Barack Obama helped raise f u n d - r a i s e r s . H e t o u t e d attendees at the event to keep
$400,000 for Democratic Senate a c h i e v e m e n t s s u c h a s h i s faith, and to vote, and encourage
candidates on Monday night. healthcare overhaul and education others to vote for Democrats in
I t s t a r t e d w i t h O b a m a ’ s reform and acknowledged the the November 2 mid-terms.
introduction by the house party’s difficult political and economic Photo Credit: REUTERS/Robert
host, Rajeev Sharma, chairman of environments. Galbraith (A group of immigrants
a company, who told the crowd “We’ve still got to get control of takes the oath of citizenship near
how his parents and in-laws had our deficit in a serious way and San Francisco, Sept. 17, 2010.)
moved to the United States many that’s going to require more than remarks by telling his audience And then he told the story of a 16 This entry passed through the
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Washington Extra – Busting those Obama myths (or not)
Simon Denyer (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 4:53:45 PM
Our top story today (at least
according to readers of
Reuters.com): President Barack
Obama is to appear on
“Mythbusters”, a television series
that uses science to separate fact
from fiction. It is part of a White
House effort to highlight the
importance of science, math and
engineering, as experts warn that
low interest in these subjects
could damage America’s global
competitiveness.
Among the myths the program
has tackled before:
What’s worse, having an empty
beer bottle smashed over your
head or a full one?
Can a sniffer dog be thrown off
the scent using household items?
A myth Obama will help debunk:
The 2,000-year-old story that
Greek mathematician and
engineer Archimedes set fire to an
invading Roman fleet using a
system of mirrors to focus the
sun’s rays.
Myths that Obama might wish he
was debunking:
The president was not born in the
United States
The economic stimulus plan
failed to create any jobs
The president is a Muslim
Healthcare reform was an attempt
to impose socialism by the back
door.
The president is a communist.
And finally, one the president has
arguably already debunked:
Obama can change the way
Washington works.
Here are our (other) top stories
from Washington today…
Midterm election weighs on
Obama’s foreign policy
With the public fixated on high
unemployment and a sputtering
economy, and the 2012
presidential race approaching,
President Obama is likely to keep
his focus where the votes are —
on domestic priorities. While
predecessors have used foreign
policy to stay relevant when
stymied by a hostile Congress,
Obama can hardly afford to be
distracted from bread-and-butter
issues. “The notion that somehow
he’s going to earn his Nobel
Peace Prize in the last two years
of his term is not very realistic,”
said James Carafano of
conservative think tank the
Heritage Foundation.
For more of this analysis by Matt
Spetalnick, read here.
Obama seeks to rekindle
enthusiasm of 2008 campaign
President Obama sought to
recapture the magic of his 2008
campaign, holding a large open-
air rally in Ohio to help struggling
Democratic candidates in the
Midwestern state. “Everybody
said ‘No, you can’t,’ and in 2008
you showed them, ‘Yes, we can,’”
Obama told a cheering crowd of
35,000 people at Ohio State
University. But he acknowledged
Democrats faced a tough fight.
For more of this story by Caren
Bohan, read here.
U.S. regulators press banks over
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sweeping proposals that include
exponentially higher fines and
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US won’t rubber stamp offshore
oil permits-official
The U.S. offshore drilling agency
will not become a “permitting
mill” now that its deepwater
drilling moratorium has been
lifted, Michael Bromwich, head of
the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, wrote in an op-ed
posted on CNN’s website. But he
also blasted critics who have
complained permitting delays will
hamper offshore oil development.
foreclosures production report illustrates, if For more of this story by Ayesha
Regulators said they were anything, economic growth is still Rascoe, read here.
advancing probes of major banks slowing rather than beginning to U.S. Justice Dept sues Michigan
in the foreclosure crisis and want pick up again, which is yet Blue Cross
to determine whether shoddy another reason for the Fed to The Justice Department has filed
practices caused some people to unleash QE2,” said one analyst. a lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue
be kicked out of their homes. For more of this story by Lucia Shield of Michigan, accusing it of
Stocks rose, led by gains in Mutikani, read here. violating antitrust law by
financial firms, as Citigroup Auto safety proposals dim in n e g o t i a t i n g c o n t r a c t s w i t h
reported stronger-than-expected political upheaval hospitals that bar the hospitals
profits. Bank shares were down Automakers are counting on from giving Blue Cross’ rivals a
last week on worries profits could political upheaval in Washington better deal.
be hurt by investigations of to bury proposed changes in For more of this story by Diane
potentially faulty foreclosure safety regulation born out of Bartz, read here.
paperwork. congressional scrutiny of Toyota What we are blogging…
For more of this story by Dave Motor Corp. Car companies have The chill of the Chandra Levy
Clarke, read here. raised enough questions about murder trial
Industrial output falls, monetary what they view as burdensome The Washington summer of
easing seen new regulation to slow safety bills Chandra Levy seems to belong to
U.S. industrial output shrank last pushed by Democrats. Now they another era — one where a
month for the first time in more hope expected gains by more missing government intern and a
than a year, a sign the economy business-friendly Republicans in straying congressman dominated
was in a slow growth rut that N o v e m b e r , a n d t h e f a d i n g headlines and chatter in the U.S.
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monetary stimulus from the acceleration in some Toyota and
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McCain hails Palin power in the mid-
term elections
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:12:30 AM
Oct 19, 2010 01:12 EDT
Arizona Senator John McCain
says his former running mate
former Alasaka governor Sarah
Palin is a “visionary” for the
United States.
“She has had a tremendous impact
on this election cycle, as you well
know, by supporting certain
candidates,” McCain said in an
interview on ABC’s “Nightline.“It
is really a remarkable thing to
observe.”
The 2008 Republican presidential
nominee again defended his
decision to pick the then relatively
unknown Palin for the number-
two spot on the ticket.
“I couldn’t be more proud of the
campaign she waged,” he said. “I
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2001. Monday saw the start of
jury selection in the trial
of Ingmar Guandique in Levy’s
murder, a trial expected to last
five weeks.
For Deborah Zabarenko’s full
post, click here.
From elsewhere…
Japan recruits foreigners to
improve its travel advice
Japan is planning to recruit
dozens of foreigners to visit the
country and give advice on how to
make things more travel-friendly
couldn’t be more proud of her or
her performance and her
continued performance. So, I
think, you begin to think about
legacy and I think that Sarah Palin
will play a very big role in the
American political scene for a
very long time.”
McCain, a war hero who ran
against Barack Obama for
president in 2008, has represented
Arizona in the U.S. Senate since
1986.
He handily defeated conservative
challenger J.D. Hayworth in a
bitter battle for the Republican
Senate nomination.
During the primary, McCain took
some heat for shifting his stance
on several issues,
including“Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” and immigration.
He told “Nightline” that he has
not changed on the military’s ban
for non-Japanese-speaking
visitors as it aims for higher
tourist numbers.”What we hear is
that there really isn’t enough
information on things like how to
buy train tickets, or how to use the
baths in traditional Japanese
inns,” said one official.
For more of this story, read here.
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But McCain conceded he had
changed on immigration because
he says he was following the will
of American voters. He says he
shifted “frankly because the
American people spoke. They
want the border secure.”
Photo credit: REUTERS/Joshua
Lott (McCain greets supporters at
his headquarters in Phoenix)
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NY state a brothel in
need of a madame –
governor candidate
Basil Katz (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 10:30:35 PM
Oct 18, 2010 23:30 EDT
At their first debate on Monday,
candidates for New York
governor made the usual use of
metaphor and cliche about the
state’s economic woes.
But candidate Kristin Davis took
it a step further when she
compared the state bureaucracy to
a badly run brothel, and New
York politicians to whores.
And she would know.
Having been convicted for
promoting prostitution, Davis,
whose campaign logo is a red,
this state. I might be the only
white and blue Marijuana leaf,
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says former governor Eliot
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Global Heritage Fund Invests in Archaeologists to Save the

World's Most Endangered Sites
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:33:55 AM

Jeff Morgan took an unlikely

route from Silicon Valley to Haiti
and Cambodia--but he brought his
start-up expertise and venture
capitalist training with him.
The Global Heritage Fund takes a
unique approach to preserving
global heritage sites: bypassing
governments and NGOs and
investing directly in highly skilled
archaeologiests and engineers to
restore the vanishing temples,
castles, fortresses, tombs, and
pyramids across the developing
world. Much like a venture
capitalist, the head of GHF now
hunts the world's forgotten places
for archaeologists that have the
ability to train locals in restoration
practices, therefore providing
jobs, securing a knowledge
transfer that withstands
generations, and allowing for
cultural attractions to once again
become a reliable source of
revenue for impoverished nations.
"25 billion dollars has been to the realization that locals in archaeology along with local and Nepal are acknowledged as income," Morgan says. But there
generated this year through developing countries often have representatives from GHF's severely threatened due to is an imbalance in the world's
cultural attractions in the no viable economic opportunities. working countries. One of the unsustainable development and attention: There are 40 UNESCO
developing world," GHF founder With a background in urban main topics will be the GHF construction, pollution, -named World Heritage site s in
Jeff Morgan tells Fast Company. planning and design from Cornell report released this week finding irresponsible tourism, and over- Italy, for example, and only 4 in
"Global heritage sites can be the University, he "left" the Valley that global heavyweights like the crowding--investments in these Nepal and 3 in Guatemala.
number one industry for many (though he still lives there) to start World Bank and UNESCO are sites would translate into billions Morgan's view is controversial,
countries." the Global Heritage Fund. failing to recognize the impact its of dollars in revenue for and somewhat complicated. While
Morgan is a former Silicon Today, the GHF is holding a investments can have in developing countries that need it he supports the preservation and
Valley entrepreneur who, through forum at Stanford University to developing countries as opposed the most. restoration of globally significant
his extensive international bring together international to places such as Italy. Global "If you invest in one site, the
experts in restoration and heritage sites in Cambodia, Peru, whole region benefits from that GLOBAL page 6
business development trips, came
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Did Mailing Nintendo Wii and PS3 Discs Cost Netflix Millions of
Dollars?
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 9:49:28 AM
As of today, Nintendo Wii users
no longer have to pop in that
pesky disc every time they want
to stream content from Netflix.
Now, you can watch movies and
TV shows directly through a
downloaded application, a feature
that PlayStation 3 announced last
week too. Why did Netflix
introduce a disc-based solution for
the Wii and PS3, only to end it
months later? And how much did
that temporary system cost?
Let's crunch some numbers.
According to a rep from Netflix,
more than 3 million Wii systems
have already been connected to
Netflix. While the rep declined to
confirm how many discs were
actually sent out (the number
could be even higher), it's safe to
assume that at least 3 million
Netflix discs were sent out to Wii
owners. The Netflix-Nintendo
program began in late March and
ended this week, only seven
months old. With Netflix
spending roughly 78 cents in
postage for each mailed disc,
sending discs to 3 million Wii
owners would've cost the
company at least $2.34 million.
Steve Jobs reads a speech about Android
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 8:24:34 PM
Here's the speech, part of a
And that's not to mention the
costs of developing, making, and
processing these millions of discs.
And that's not to mention the
likely millions more PS3 owners
who also requested Netflix discs.
(A Netflix rep could not provide
figures.) Was spending millions
of dollars on a disc-based solution
really worth such a temporary fix?
After all, why did Netflix even
develop a disc-based solution if it
could've created an embedded
corporate conference call today.
It's all about Android, but
consider the possibility that it's
also about burying Microsoft once
digital application, as it had for
the Xbox 360? Many have
speculated that Netflix was forced
to follow a disc-based solution
because of an exclusivity
agreement with Microsoft. "We
believe that the exclusive
arrangement limits Netflix's
ability to appear on the
'dashboard' for the PS3 or the
Wii," argued Michael Pachter of
Wedbush Securities in 2009.
Netflix has been vague about the
and for all.
If all everyone talks about is the
rivalry between Android and
Apple, where does that leave
speculation. In an interview with
G4TV, a company rep declined to
comment on the Microsoft
contract, but indicated that discs
were the "fastest and easiest way"
to get Netflix content for PS3 and
Wii users. A rep interviewed by
Joystiq also echoed that stance.
"Again, the instant streaming disc
represented the fastest and easiest
way," the rep explained. "The
Netflix agreement with Sony for
PS3 is consistent with the terms of
Microsoft and it's renewed
aspiration in mobile devices?
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our partnership with Microsoft for
Xbox 360."
So were the millions Netflix
spent on a temporary disc-based
solution really worth
circumventing a contract with
Microsoft? Netflix introduced the
PlayStation disc last October, and
the Wii disc in March. Couldn't
those console owners have waited
until Microsoft's exclusivity
ended?
On the one hand, Netflix spent
loads of cash on a temporary
system--which won't exactly
please investors. On the other
hand, introducing a disc-based
solution demonstrates just how
loyal Netflix is to its subscribers
since, in order to work around the
exclusivity agreement, the
company was willing to drop
millions so PS3 and Wii users
could have some taste of console
streaming.
"Once you've downloaded the
new application," wrote Netflix
exec Greg Peters in a blog post
Monday, "you can recycle the
current streaming discs or keep
them as a souvenir."
Or send them back to Netflix and
hope they can recoup some of the
costs.
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continued from page 4
sites, he doesn't want to promote
aggressive tourism. What he seeks
is a balance. There are pricing
schemes, reservation
requirements, and quotas that
could be enforced to prevent
massive amounts of tourists from
trampling all over Angkor Wat,
for example. He calls his
approach "Preservation by
Design."
And by raising funds and
channeling them directly to the
trained archaeologists and
engineers that then train locals in
preservation practices for the
GHF-identified sites around the
world, Morgan and the GHF
have a chance of showing
UNESCO a thing or two about
preservation.
GHF creates local partnerships
How Maia Josebachvili Turned Her Skydiving
Hobby Into a Business
shatterbox staff (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:10:55 AM
One broke college student e-
mailed all her contacts and turned
her wanderlust into Urban
Escapes, a company that has just
been acquired by LivingSocial.
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*In Partnership with
About Urban Escapes: Urban
Escapes offers excursions for
urban dwellers--from white water
rafting to apple picking, these
that include the private sector so
that the commitment to preserving
the sites is a shared task. GHF
has already trained guides for
certain sites--guides that now
make $1,500 per week, as
opposed to their previous $2 per
day menial jobs. Morgan argues
that it's best to invest in places
that have some kind of
infrastructure--such as airports--so
that investments in heritage sites
can be part of greater community
economic development.
Morgan sites Lamu, Kenya as an
example of grave concern to him-
-an oil refinery is being built right
on top of the UNESCO World
Heritage site there, and Lamu is
now at risk of completely
disappearing. Morgan argues that
preservation and development can
trips range in length and intensity
level. The company quickly
expanded to four cities across the
United States andwas just
acquired by the social shopping
network LivingSocial.
About Maia Josebachvili: Maia is
anything but a homebody. A thrill
seeker, she organized skydiving
trips at Dartmouth and kept
planning weekend adventures for
her friends while working as a
trader on Wall St. She ultimately
realized- this is my company! She
built Urban Escapes to expose
go hand in hand, but there needs
to be planning, science, training,
community involvement, and
partnerships all at play.
The latest report from GHF,
Saving Our Vanishing Heritage:
Safeguarding Endangered
Cultural Heritage Sites in the
Developing World, which is the
subject of today's Stanford forum,
is an attempt to navigate that very
complicated path--the path toward
the twin goals of preservation and
tourism.
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Crude Oil Tops $83 a
Barrel
Connie Madon
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:20:00 AM
Filed under: Oil, Federal
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oil jumped 2.3% to close at
$83.08 per barrel on Monday, The
Wall Street Journal reported. The
reason for oil to trade higher.
trigger was a report by the
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Analyst Calls: DLTR, FLR, H,

HOT, MAR, NTCT, NVO,
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ESPN Orders NFL Coaches To Call

More Timeouts So They Can Show
More Ads
Dashiell Bennett (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:20:00 AM

Tennessee coach Jeff Fisher let

slip in last night's postgame
interviews that TV officials came
to him during last night's Monday
Night Football game and asked
him to use up all his timeouts, so
that they could get in more
commercial breaks.
Fisher declined, because his team
was leading by 20 with under two
minutes to go and he was hoping
to run out the clock. (He said it
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was the first time he'd ever heard
of that request being made.) But
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Silicon Valley VCs Take Turns Coca-Cola's Q3 Earnings

Throwing Money At Tumblr Top Estimates
Nicholas Carlson (Business Mark Fightmaster
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:22:00 AM Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM

Tumblr CEO John Maloney and Filed under: Coca-Cola (KO),

founder David Karp are out in
Silicon Valley taking meetings
with big name VCs.
Tumblr is the super simple blog
platform that old media publishers
and hipster kids love.
After we heard the news from a
bunch of sources, we asked
Maloney about it and he said
there's no big secret.
"As our growth continues to
accelerate we're basically
doubling the size of our team this
quarter, and we're spending some
time in Palo Alto hanging out
with a bunch of companies and
investors who we don't usually get
to spend time with."
"I will say - it is nice to be well-
received on the West Coast."
Well-received, indeed. The story
we've heard is that Tumblr wasn't
planning on raising money, but
that at least one very big name
VC finally convinced the New
York startup to head west for
some meetings.
Tumblr raised $5 million from
Spark and Union Square Ventures
only last April. CTO and
cofounder Marco Arment quit in
September to turn his side-project,
Instapaper, into a real company.
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Conference
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Beverage firm Coca-Cola ( KO)
announced that its third-quarter
earnings came in better than the
consensus estimate. For the
quarter, Coke brought in 88 cents
per share ($2.06 billion), or 92
cents per share excluding items.
The consensus estimate called for
earnings of 89 cents per share.
Turning to revenue, Coke saw a
5% increase to $8.43 billion. The
company noted that its integration
efforts are "well on track,"
stressing its savings target of at
least $350 million per year. These
savings will be implemented
during the next four years.
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HARVARD PRESIDENT ON FACEBOOK
MOVIE'S SEAN PARKER: “He was seductive and
yet so complicated. He was sort of Mephistophelean.
There was something both attractive and repulsive
about him.”
Henry Blodget (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:28:00 AM
Harvard's president Drew Faust
finally saw "The Social Network."
She kind of liked it.
She says her office isn't actually
full of all those rare books it was
full of during the movie.
And she's disappointed in Aaron
Sorkin for turning Harvard's
women into sex objects and coke-
snorting platforms.
But she was fascinated by Justin
Timberlake's portrayal of Sean
Parker, the Napster founder and
Mark Zuckerberg confidante:
“He was seductive and yet so
complicated. He was sort of
Mephistophelean. There was
something both attractive and
repulsive about him.”
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Kansas High Court Allows Planned
Parenthood Criminal Case to Proceed
(Society)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 2:09:14 PM
The Kansas Supreme Court
decided to allow a 107-count
criminal case to proceed against
Planned Parenthood of Kansas
and Mid-Missouri after the case
had been tied up for two years.
The organization had been
accused of conducting illegal late-
term abortion s.
“This is a huge victory for the
cause of life,” said Troy Newman,
president of Operation Rescue, in
a statement. The pro-life group
lobbied for the criminal case to
move forward despite a subpoena
tie up and a letter from the state’s
attorney office pardoning the
Planned Parenthood group
involved.
“We asked people to call the
Supreme Court,” reported Cheryl
Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s
senior policy advisor. Newman
and his group circulated petitions
and purchased radio spots, raising
the public consciousness on the
issue.
Last Friday, the court finally
cleared the case to be tried in the
District Court by the Johnson
County State’s Attorney office.
Criminal charges were initially
filed in 2007 by then-District
Attorney Phill Kline after having
investigated the late abortionist
George Tiller and Planned
Parenthood for performing a
number of late-term abortions.
The charges included 23 felony
counts including providing
falsified documents to the courts,
failing to keep proper documents
attesting to the dates abortions
were performed, and illegally
performing late-term abortions
without two doctors' approvals.
The case, however, has had a
number of setbacks. Subpoena
problems halted the case’s
progress in the courts. Johnson
County District Judge Stephen
Tatum threw out a number of
subpoena requests for documents
such as abortion requests from the
Kansas Department of Health and
Environment, and for witnesses
such as Shawnee County District
Judge Richard Anderson, who
oversaw an inquisition of Planned
Parenthood and Tiller.
Friday’s ruling now allows for
the subpoena for Judge
Anderson’s testimony to stand.
However, the court ruled that state
documents could not be
subpoenaed without the approval
of the state attorney general and
the board overseeing medical
professionals.
Also, Kline’s successor, Paul
Morrison, issued the clinic a letter
absolving it of wrongdoing four
months after the charges were
filed. Anderson reviewed the case
and said Morrison should not
have sent the letter. Morrison later
resigned amid allegations of an
extramarital affair with a female
subordinate.
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“This case has been marred by
continued delay and political
corruption that has caused public
confidence in the system to be
diminished. In the interest of
justice and closure for the people
of Kansas, this case must go to
trial,” said Newman.
According to Sullenger,
Operation Rescue plans to
continue following the case to
ensure it goes to trial.
“Now that the case can move
forward, the next hurdle is the
district attorney,” she said. The
public policy expert called on
Johnson County State Attorney
Steve Howe to “quit delaying.”
The district state attorney office
did not immediately return The
Christian Post’s calls regarding
the case. However, Howe told the
Kansas City Star it will take a
while.
“Our office is currently reviewing
the decision, and we’ll then
decide what our next course of
action will be,” he said.
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Agenda
(Society)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 5:28:49 AM
Dr. Michael Brown believes
Christians have already lost the
battle when it comes to public
opinion on homosexuality and
gender identity issues.(Photo: The
Christian Post)
Dr. Michael Brown, author of 20
books and founder of ICN
Ministries, speaks at the National
Conference on Christian
Apologetics in Charlotte, N.C.,
Oct. 16, 2010.
Pro-gay books are being read in
elementary school classrooms,
teachers are being mandated to
use gender neutral language, gay
activists have been welcomed in
the White House, and young
evangelicals see no problem with
same-sex marriage.
Yet the prevailing thought in
churches is that "this stuff is
happening elsewhere" or that
Jesus is coming back soon and
"we're out of here any minute,"
Brown, a Jewish believer in Jesus,
lamented.
"[We can] put our heads in sand
or we can recognize that massive
transformation is happening in our
society right in front of our eyes,
on our watch," he told Christians
over the weekend at the National
Conference on Christian
Apologetics in Charlotte, N.C.
Author of 20 books, Brown has
spoken to revival in America, the
need for moral and cultural
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Brown wants to awaken the non-lesbian, Brown said.
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told the crowd "there were times baby: Don't pay attention to last year, which he called "a with Jay-Z and another with Lupe Using the ever-popular stop
that I contemplated suicide." anything you see on the news." moment of sincerity," West took a Fiasco and Pharrell Williams motion film-making method,
However, he said, "I will not give The phoenix sits on a lawn with a six-month break. (At the MTV under the name Child Rebel which hipsters…
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JetBlue attendant in famous meltdown pleads guilty
(AP)
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:06:52 AM
NEW YORK – The JetBlue flight
attendant whose job-quitting
meltdown landed him in court
avoided jail time in a plea deal
Tuesday that requires him to
undergo counseling and treatment
for a least a year.
Steven Slater spoke politely and
calmly as he entered a guilty plea
to a charge of second-degree
attempted criminal mischief, a
felony, and a lesser charge of
fourth-degree attempted criminal
mischief.
He admitted he pulled the
emergency chute Aug. 9 on a
JetBlue flight from Pittsburgh
after it landed at Kennedy
International Airport. Slater went
on the public-address system,
swore at a passenger who he
claimed treated him rudely,
grabbed a beer and slid onto the
tarmac.
"At the end of the day, I'm a
grown-up and I must take
responsibility for my actions,"
Steven Slater said outside court.
He thanked his attorney,
prosecutors, his mother and his
This Was The Worst Consumer News Of The Day (HOG)
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:18:40 AM
Harley Davidson shares are
sliding hard on the news that the
company is reducing the forecast
partner, and said the public
interest in his case had surprised
him.
Under the terms of the deal,
Slater must undergo at least a year
of counseling and substance-
abuse treatment. If he completes
the program to the judge's
satisfaction, the top charge will
dismissed, the misdemeanor will
remain and he will be sentenced
to a year of probation.
He must check in with the court
periodically and could also have
to pay restitution to JetBlue. If he
does not fulfill the requirements,
he will get one to three years in
jail.
Slater's dramatic and unusual
departure made him a cult hero to
some. He was a topic on TV
shows, on the front pages of
newspapers and many cheered
him for standing up to the
inhospitable world of airline
travel and for quitting his job so
spectacularly.
His fame has waned, but it's not
gone: In a homage to Slater this
Halloween, several retailers are
selling their own versions of the
disgruntled airline employee or
the angry steward.
for sales of its iconic "hogs."
The question is: why?
Is it because the consumer is
weaker than they thought?
Or is it because their core
customers are getting too old to be
"It's a blue steward shirt with a
light blue tie and it comes with a
Band-Aid for your forehead,"
Todd Kenig, chairman of Ricky's
NYC, told the AP last week.
JetBlue Airways Corp. suspended
Slater, and he resigned from the
company last week, leaving him
unemployed. He had worked at
JetBlue for about three years,
though he spent nearly two
decades in the airline industry.
JetBlue told employees in a
memo that press coverage was not
taking into account how much
harm can be caused by emergency
slides, which are deployed with a
potentially deadly amount of
force.
District Attorney Richard Brown
scolded Slater — and the public
— for not taking his actions more
seriously, noting it cost $25,000
to fix the slide and that the plane
had to be taken out of service
afterward, causing flight delays.
Slater's attorney, Daniel J.
Horwitz, said his client took the
matter very seriously. He said
Slater had been under tremendous
pressure because of his terminally
ill mother, recently deceased
father, and health problems of his
having mid-life crises?
Either way it confirms something
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own, adding that his client is HIV
positive.
Slater was upbeat and smiley
outside court, dressed in a gray
suit, blue shirt and gold tie.
"I am very grateful to the court for
making these arrangements," said
Slater, who did not answer
questions.
Slater was initially charged with
criminal mischief, reckless
endangerment and trespassing. He
underwent a mental health
evaluation and it was determined
he was fit for the alternative
sentencing program. His case was
transferred to Mental Health
Court, a special division of state
justice where defendants are
monitored and treated instead of
immediately jailed.
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Think Again On China:
It's Really A Debt-
Burdened Builder Of
Bridges To Nowhere
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:22:00 AM
China's economy may be the
ultimate grey swan, according to
investor Vitaliy Katsenelson.
Katsenelson is concerned China's
enormous growth rates haven't
been built on anything real, but
rather a command economy ready
to collapse.
That command economy has
created cities and malls with no
residents, based on a demand it
manufactured itself. His thoughts
dovetail nicely with the thinking
of that other well-known China
bear: Jim Chanos.
It's a powerful presentation, that
also spells out the result of a
Chinese collapse for the broader
world economy. including a
collapse in commodity markets.
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(LiveScience.com)
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 6:35:56 AM
It's a good news/bad news
situation for believers in the 2012
Mayan apocalypse. The good
news is that the Mayan "Long
Count" calendar may not end on
Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension,
the world may not end along with
it). The bad news for prophecy
believers? If the calendar doesn't
end in December 2012, no one
knows when it actually will - or if
it has already.
A new critique, published as a
chapter in the new textbook
"Calendars and Years II:
Astronomy and Time in the
Ancient and Medieval World"
(Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that
the accepted conversions of dates
from Mayan to the modern
calendar may be off by as much
as 50 or 100 years. That would
throw the supposed and
overhyped 2012 apocalypse off by
decades and cast into doubt the
dates of historical Mayan events.
(The doomsday worries are based
on the fact that the Mayan
calendar ends in 2012, much as
our year ends on Dec. 31.)
The Mayan calendar was
converted to today's Gregorian
calendar using a calculation called
the GMT constant, named for the
last initials of three early
Mayanist researchers. Much of
the work emphasized dates
recovered from colonial
documents that were written in
the Mayan language in the Latin
alphabet, according to the
chapter's author, Gerardo Aldana,
University of California, Santa
Barbara professor of Chicana and
Chicano Studies.
Later, the GMT constant was
bolstered by American linguist
and anthropologist Floyd
Lounsbury, who used data in the
Dresden Codex Venus Table, a
Mayan calendar and almanac that
charts dates relative to the
movements of Venus.
"He took the position that his
work removed the last obstacle to
fully accepting the GMT
constant," Aldana said in a
statement. "Others took his work
even further, suggesting that he
had proven the GMT constant to
be correct."
But according to Aldana,
Lounsbury's evidence is far from
irrefutable.
"If the Venus Table cannot be
used to prove the FMT as
Lounsbury suggests, its
acceptance depends on the
reliability of the corroborating
data," he said. That historical data,
he said, is less reliable than the
Table itself, causing the argument
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Aldana doesn't have any answers
as to what the correct calendar
(Reuters)
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Students Celebrate Pro-Life Day,
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Students at over 3,000 schools in
29 countries are participating in a
24-hour period of silence Tuesday
to remember the 50 million
unborn children that have been
aborted since 1973.
As Pro-Life Day of Silent
Solidarity commences, the
Alliance Defense Fund says it is
committed to defending U.S.
students who may be harassed
during the quiet demonstration.
Pro-Life Day founder Bryan
Kemper says the day is
traditionally about kids expressing
their solidarity with the pro-life
movement.
“This is their way to participate in
the pro-life movement,” he said.
Students typically wear arm
bands or a strip of red duct tape
over their mouths. Pro-life T-
shirts and fliers are also passed
out and booths are set up at
schools during the annual day.
“We encourage kids to be
creative,” said Kemper.
However, retaliation has also
become a part of the tradition.
Students bearing taped mouths
have sometimes had to endure
ridicule, torment and insults from
fellow students. Kemper says
some students can expect to be
censored by teachers and school
administrators.
“Yes, a lot of public schools will
try to take away students rights,”
he said, noting that he has heard
of students being remanded
detention or even sent home.
“Many students have been told to
turn their pro-life shirts inside
out,” he added.
ADF Senior Counsel David
Cortman says he has heard of
similar infringements.
“In several cases, students were
prohibited from passing out pro-
life fliers, from wearing arm
bands, from wearing the pro-life
shirts,” he said.
The Christian legal firm has an
intake system to take students’
calls and has published a letter
online reminding students of their
rights.
“It’s important that students know
that the [U.S.] Supreme Court
ruled 40 years ago that their
freedom of speech accompanies
them to school,” said Cortman.
The possibility of legal trouble
has not dampened the spirit of the
day. Kemper’s event page has
over 40,000 members. Several
have commented on the page’s
wall with their plans for the day.
One person writes, “This is my
first year wearing the tape on my
mouth. I just hope that I won’t get
into too much trouble with my
middle school teachers.”
Another wrote, “I am wearing the
red tape on my mouth while
attending my two university
lectures at an 80 percent pro-
choice populated school. Wish me
luck!”
Kempt says the silent holiday is
making an impact on those
considering an abortion.
“Last year we had, that we know
of, 80 women who canceled
abortions,” said Kempt. “Two of
those, one was a student and the
other one was a teacher."
Pro-Life Day began in 2004 and
is sponsored by Stand True
Ministries. Over 3,320 home
school, grade school and colleges
have registered to participate from
the U.S., Germany, Canada,
Australia, Ecuador, France, the
U.K. and Turkey. Several
individuals, businesses and
ministries have also registered to
participate.
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High Court Over Church Land Dispute game sales to grow
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Government officials in a
Colorado county are taking their
case against a local church up to
the U.S. Supreme Court after
failing to win over two lower
courts.
Boulder County officials say
their land-use dispute with Rocky
Mountain Christian Church in
Niwot, Colo., raises questions that
local governments across the
nation need to have answered.
"The issues raised by this case go
far beyond a dispute between a
single church and a small
government entity," the county
stated in a petition filed this past
week to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"These are national issues of
pressing performance."
Four years ago, the county
decided to deny Rock Mountain’s
plan to more than double its
106,000-square-feet campus,
claiming that it would violate
local land-use codes.
The church, however, alleged
that the county was not neutral in
its treatment of their application,
pointing to the 1995 approval of
an expansion project for
Alexander Dawson School.
After its application was denied,
the church took their case to the
courts, two of which have so far
ruled in their favor.
In November 2008, a U.S.
District trial jury concluded that
the county violated the Religious
Land Use and Institutionalized
Persons Act (RLUIPA), under
which religious institutions are
protected from discriminatory
land-use laws. Specifically, the
jury determined that the county
was treating the church on less
than equal terms with secular land
users, imposing unreasonable
limitations on churches in the
county, and placing a substantial
burden on its religious exercise.
This past summer, a three-judge
panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit
Court of Appeals also ruled
against the county, concluding
that the county violated the
unreasonable limitations provision
of RLUIPA based on testimony
presented that it was more
difficult now for a church to be
sited in the county.
After the latest decision in June,
the county decided to file a
petition to the U.S. Supreme
Court, maintaining that, without
the court’s guidance on applying
local land use regulations to
religious landowners, local
governments “face a quagmire of
undefined terms, judicial
disagreement and complex
constitutional analysis every time
a religious landowner applies for
a building permit.”
The case, the county argued,
“presents federal statutory and
constitutional issues critical to
local governments.”
“Thus, it is important for all local
governments to have a clear
understanding of how RLUIPA
will be applied throughout the
country,” it added.
With the county’s petition now
filed, Rock Mountain Church has
30 days in which to file its
objections to the Supreme Court.
The high court will then decide
whether or not to hear Boulder
County’s appeal.
Though there is no specified time
frame within which the high court
must decide to intervene, county
officials predict it will take about
two months based on past cases.
Notably, not all of the county’s
commissions voted late last month
to move forward with Friday’s
petition filing.
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Take-Two Interactive expects
digital game sales to grow at a
rapid clip, the company's CEO
said in an interview yesterday.
Speaking to Bloomberg
Television, Take-Two CEO
Strauss Zelnick predicts that
overall digital game sales will
account for up to 40 percent of the
company's business within the
next three years.
"I think you can see digital
distribution to be 20, 30, 40
percent of our business," Zelnick
told Bloomberg Television.
"However, I believe our business
is going to grow, so I don't think it
actually takes a bite out of retail,
and I doubt it takes a bite out of
consoles."
Zelnick said that digital
distribution accounts for "less
than 15 percent" of Take-Two's
current revenue.
The debate over whether digital
or physical game sales are the
future has been raging for years.
But it's hard to turn a blind eye to
the impact digital sales are
having. Services like Steam are
quickly appealing to customers
who prefer digital downloads over
buying physical titles. In fact,
Steam's internal statistics claim
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have been online through its
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Moreover, a recent study from
the NPD Group found that
customers are more likely to buy a
digital game copy than a physical
title. Over the first six months of
2010, 11.2 million digital PC
games were purchased, while
consumers bought just 8.2 million
PC titles at retail.
Based on those figures, and the
fact that digital game sales are
becoming more important in the
industry, NPD has gone so far as
to no longer provide software unit
sales in its monthly gaming
industry sales reports.
NPD said that the "changing sales
landscape" has made it more
difficult to fully estimate game
sales. Its reports now include a
footnote that states all sales
figures are based on physical sales
alone.
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Geithner vows U.S. will not devalue dollar
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 3:27:58 AM
Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner talks during an event at
the Commonwealth Club in Palo
Alto, California, October 18,
2010.
Credit: Reuters/Kim White
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PALO ALTO, Calif./
WASHINGTON| Tue Oct 19,
2010 4:27am EDT
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Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner vowed on Monday that
the United States would not
devalue the dollar for export
advantage, saying no country
could weaken its currency to gain
economic health.
"It is not going to happen in this
country." Geithner told Silicon
Valley business leaders of
devaluing the dollar.
Geithner broke his silence on the
dollar's protracted slide ahead of
this weekend's meeting of finance
leaders from the Group of 20
wealthy and emerging nations in
South Korea, where rising
tensions over Chinese and U.S.
currency valuations are expected
to take center stage.
"It is very important for people to
understand that the United States
of America and no country around
the world can devalue its way to
prosperity, to (be) competitive,"
Geithner added. "It is not a viable,
feasible strategy and we will not
engage in it."
Answering audience questions
before the Commonwealth Club
of California in Palo Alto, he said
the United States needed to "work
hard to preserve confidence in the
strong dollar."
Geithner, normally reluctant to
publicly discuss currency and
market movements, has not
uttered the so-called "strong dollar
mantra" -- a refrain he helped
create at Treasury in the 1990s --
since February.
On Friday, the dollar index hit a
10-month low against a basket of
major currencies, while the
greenback has been plumbing
fresh 15-year lows against Japan's
yen .
Many emerging market countries
are complaining that Fed money
creation is weakening the dollar,
and causing more funds to flow
into their markets, pushing up
their currencies.
Talk of a "currency war" has
persisted as countries take action
to keep from losing export
competitiveness.
Brazil on Monday moved to cool
a strong rally in its currency by
raising taxes for foreigners buying
local bonds and trading in foreign
exchange derivatives.
Finance Minister Guido Mantega
said the move was aimed at
reducing foreign investment into
Brazil, and he urged other
countries to take coordinated
action against the weak dollar.
Argentina's Minister of Economy
and Public Finance Amado
Boudou on Monday called on
developed nations to focus on
creating jobs rather than actions
that weaken their currencies,
saying a "true currency war" was
underway.
U.S. POINTS TO CHINA
The G20 finance ministers and
central bank governors at the
meetings in Gyeongju, South
Korea are expected to tackle head-
on the disparities in currency
policies that are distorting capital
flows in the hopes of achieving a
more coordinated approach.
But U.S. officials have put most
of the blame on China's highly
restrictive exchange rate regime,
which until recently had kept the
yuan largely pegged to the dollar.
The United States is pressuring
China to allow the value of its
yuan to rise to take some pressure
off capital flows and to rebalance
its economy away from exports.
Oct 18, 2010 9:51pm EDT
Makes sense when the main
export is war and the military
complex
Oct 18, 2010 10:25pm EDT
This is just plain rhetoric. The
dollar is devalued simply by
printing more than what is
actually earned. The dollar has
been worth less every year when
measured against a tangible asset.
Its value cannot be measured by
another piece of paper. If you
think things have been going
downhill up until now. Get ready
for the edge of a cliff because if
he is trying to convince anyone
it’s not happening. You better get
ready for it. Because that is how
the government operates. Tell you
one thing so they can rip you off
before you can protect yourself.
Anyone got a $100 for some
bread? We need a revolution. We
fought the British because they
taxed us to death and we had no
voice. Guess what, more that 70%
of this country doesn’t agree with
the choices of this government
and yet they keep do whatever
they want. We are again being
taxed to death without
representation.
Oct 18, 2010 10:30pm EDT
can you believe this guy? how
much paper has been used to print
green dollars?
not far in the future,you will have
it more than tolite paper.
Oct 18, 2010 10:31pm EDT
“Geithner broke his silence on the
dollar’s protracted slide”. How
stupid do they think we are? The
dollar has already dropped about
25% in value over the last few
months – hence the term
“protracted slide”. And we are
currently printing more money in
order to buy our own government
bonds. But we will never devalue
our currency to pay off our
trillions of dollars of debt. Yeah
Right!
Oct 18, 2010 10:43pm EDT
Oh, now I feel so much better.
Getting 82 yen for the dollar must
have been a typo. Mr. Geithner
speaks well and I must take him at
his word. I really do.
Oct 18, 2010 10:48pm EDT
HAHAHA! Can’t believe this!
So this is what “They” think of
the average Joe in the US… He
may not be wrong either!! What
happened to education and
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freedom of information?
Oct 18, 2010 11:05pm EDT
Our Government has become our
enemy, and tax dodger Timmy is
one of the lieutenants. So believe
him at your own peril.
Oct 18, 2010 11:10pm EDT
This article is LAUGHABLE…
Timmy needs to get the boot…his
nose is growing at a rapid rate!!!!
Oct 19, 2010 12:11am EDT
Does Geithner actually think we
are stupid????????? The US is
already devaluing the dollar
indirectly by keeping interest rates
near Zero and engaging in QE
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20 Technology/
Sprint offer 3G/4G-enabled Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Inspiron
11z
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:39:48 AM
Sprint has obviously decided that
when you have a 4G network it
makes sense to leverage it, and so
the company has outed its latest
range of netbooks and notebooks
that bundle both 3G and 4G
radios. The Dell Inspiron Mini 10
(1012) and Dell Inspiron 11z each
support high-speed WiMAX
when coverage is available,
falling back to regular old EVDO
Rev.A when it’s not.
The Inspiron Mini 10 runs a
1.66GHz Intel Atom N450
processor with 1GB of RAM and
a 250GB hard-drive; it has GMA
3150 graphics driving a 10.1-inch
widescreen 1024 x 600 display,
runs Windows 7 Starter Edition
and has WiFi b/g/n along with a 6
-cell battery good for up to nine
hours runtime. Meanwhile the
Inspiron 11z has a 1.20GHz Intel
Core i3-330UM processor, 2GB
of RAM and a 250GB hard-drive,
and runs an 11.6-inch, 1,366 x
768 display off Intel HM57
graphics. It too has WiFi b/g/n,
but also throws in an HDMI port,
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
and a 6-cell battery good for up to
6.5hrs use.
As for pricing, the Dell Inspiron
Mini 10 will be free after a $100
mail-in rebate from October 31,
while the Dell Inspiron 11z will
be $149.99 after a $100 mail-in
rebate from November 14. Each
will require a two-year agreement,
with a choice of 3G/4G bundles or
3G-only:
• The 3G/4G plan is $59.99/
month (excluding surcharges and
taxes) and includes Unlimited 4G
and 5GB of 3G per month
(300MB domestic roaming/off-
network limit for 3G; additional
MB: $0.05/MB for on-network
usage, $0.25/MB for off-network
usage). This plan is eligible for
existing dual-mode bundled
pricing.
• The 3G-only Entry Level price
plan is $39.99/month (excluding
surcharges and taxes) and
includes 500MB of 3G per month
(100MB domestic roaming/off-
network limit for 3G; additional
MB: $0.05/MB for on-network
usage, $0.25/MB for off-network
usage).
Press Release:
E-reader News Edition
blazing-fast mobile broadband
speeds
Sprint 4G footprint – 55 cities
and growing – expected to include
New York, Los Angeles and San
Francisco by year end
CHICAGO (BUSINESS WIRE),
October 19, 2010 – Sprint
(NYSE: S) today claimed another
U.S. wireless first as the 4G
leader unveiled the first dual-
mode 3G/4G-embedded netbook
and notebook offered in the
country by a national wireless
carrier. Dell™ Inspiron™ Mini 10
(1012) netbook with Windows 7
Starter, is designed to deliver long
battery life, on the go
entertainment and maximum
connectivity in a compact size
while the ultramobile Dell™
Inspiron™ 11z notebook with
Windows 7 Home Premium
provides PC performance in a
stylish mobile package that can go
anywhere. Since introducing 4G
service in 2008, Sprint has
launched 15 4G devices, with 11
devices currently available,
including phones, USB modems,
Sprint Expands 4G Product mobile hotspots and routers.
Portfolio Again Becoming the The compact and light weight
First Wireless Carrier in America Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012)
t o o f f e r 3 G / 4 G - E m b e d d e d netbook is perfect for students,
Netbook and Notebook, Dell consumers and small businesses
Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) and Dell that rely on Internet access, Web
Inspiron 11z browsing and social networking to
Collaborating with market stay connected. Nearly as small
leaders Dell, Intel and Microsoft, and light as a netbook but with
Sprint announces powerful new more storage and a powerful
Windows 7 netbook and notebook
with 3G/4G versatility and SPRINT page 21
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SPRINT
continued from page 20
processor, Dell Inspiron 11z
notebook is a perfect solution for
business users and consumers
who want more computing power.
Both Dell Inspiron Mini 10
(1012) netbook and Dell Inspiron
11z notebook also come pre-
loaded with Windows Live
Essentials 2011. Windows Live is
an integrated suite of products
that help you communicate and
share on the PC, Web and mobile
phone. Windows Live includes
Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive,
Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and
a number of other great apps and
services. The power of Windows
7 plus Windows Live delivers the
true promise of a mobile PC,
helping customers stay connected
to the people that matter most to
them in the most meaningful way
while having access to all their
digital content – whenever and
wherever.
Additionally, both Dell Inspiron
Mini 10 (1012) netbook and Dell
Inspiron 11z notebook have
integrated connectivity to the
Sprint 3G and 4G networks. This
flexibility allows customers to
enjoy 4G performance in any
Sprint 4G market or to use the
reliable Sprint 3G network when
outside a 4G area. Sprint 4G is
already available in 55 markets
and continues to expand to new
cities, delivering wireless speeds
up to 10 times faster than 3G.1
“As a 4G leader in the United
States, Sprint continues to
introduce innovative products that
provide unrivaled speed, access
and mobility for millions of users
today,” said Fared Adib, vice
president-Product Development,
Sprint. “While other carriers
continue to talk about their 4G
networks, we lead by example.
The addition of these two exciting
4G-embedded Dell products
nicely fits within our current
ecosystem of fixed and dual-mode
devices that also includes phones,
mobile broadband cards, mobile
hotspots and routers.”
Starting Oct. 31, Dell Inspiron
Mini 10 (1012) netbook will be
available to business customers
from Sprint’s Direct Business
Field Sales Team. On Nov. 14, it
will become available at select
Sprint Stores and sold via Direct
Ship from remaining Sprint
stores, sprint.com, Telesales (1-
800-SPRINT1), select dealers,
and Business Solution Partners.
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) is
FREE (excluding taxes), after a
$100 mail-in rebate, with a new-
line activation (or eligible
upgrade) on a Sprint Mobile
Broadband plan and a two-year
service agreement.*
Beginning Nov. 14, Dell Inspiron
11z notebook will be available at
select Sprint stores, and available
through sprint.com, Telesales (1-
800-SPRINT1), select dealers,
remaining Sprint Stores, Business
Solution Partners and Sprint’s
Direct Business Field Sales via
Direct Ship. Dell Inspiron 11z
will cost just $149.99 (excluding
taxes), after a $100 mail-in rebate,
with a new-line activation (or
eligible upgrade) on a Sprint
Mobile Broadband plan and a two
-year service agreement.*
“Young professionals, students
and even moms will enjoy the
Inspiron Mini 10 and the Inspiron
11z because they deliver fast and
reliable access to e-mail, social
networking and Internet surfing,”
said Michael Tatelman, vice
president-Global Consumer Sales
and Marketing, Dell. “Bundling
Sprint’s fast and reliable 3G/4G
network support with these easy-
to-carry systems ensure they will
get the best in immersive on-the-
go experience available.”
“Intel continues to work closely
with Sprint and other service
providers worldwide to provide
ubiquitous mobile connectivity to
both consumers and businesses.
Sprint is the first carrier to
provide a 3G/4G (WiMAX)
notebook and netbook offering to
address the demand for fully
mobile, connected computing
solutions”, said CJ Bruno, VP,
GM, Intel Americas.
Big on Features, Small on Size
With Dell Inspiron Mini 10
(1012) netbook, users can take
with them all of the things they do
on the Internet in a convenient,
affordable and portable package –
eliminating the need to carry a
bulky laptop. Dell Inspiron Mini
10 pairs with a Sprint 3G/4G
connection plan to easily handle
both the bandwidth and data
volume requirements of
demanding e-mail/browsing users.
Key features include:
Intel® AtomTM Processor N450
(1.66GHz)
Windows® 7 Starter – 32-bit
Windows Live™ Essentials
10.1-inch widescreen display
(1,024×600)
3 lbs. with 6-cell battery
(2,600mAh) supports up to nine
hours depending on usage
1GB Memory
250GB hard drive
Intel® GMA 3150 integrated
graphics
Wireless connectivity via Intel®
Centrino® Advanced-N +
WiMAX 6250 integrated WiFi/
WiMAX
Dell Inspiron 11z notebook is
ideally suited for small businesses
and consumers who live a mobile
lifestyle and want to enhance their
productivity by being connected
virtually anywhere they go. Its
processor is one of the latest from
the Intel® CoreTM Processor
family, enabling it to multitask
and handle most business
applications with ease. Key
features include:
Intel® Core™ i3-330UM
processor, 1.20GHz , 3MB cache
Windows® 7 Home premium –
64-bit
Windows Live™ Essentials
11.6-inch 1,366×768 WLED HD
3.44 lbs. with 6-cell battery
(2,600mAh) supports up to 6.5
hours depending on usage
2GB memory, expandable to 4-
GB
HDMI output port
250GB hard drive
Intel® HM57 integrated graphics
Wireless connectivity via Intel®
Centrino® Advanced-N +
WiMAX 6250 integrated WiFi/
WiMAX
“Customers have shown they
want a Windows experience,”
said Harry Patz, vice president-
Communications Sector North
21
America, Microsoft. “Working
with Dell and Sprint, we’re
bringing the power of a Windows
PC and the Web to a broad set of
mobile customers. By offering
Windows 7 and Windows Live on
a compact device that capitalizes
on the speed of Sprint’s 4G
network, customers will get the
ultimate mobile solution and
allow them to connect to their
content, social hubs, devices and
the Web from anywhere.”
Dell Inspiron 10 (1012) netbook
and Dell Inspiron 11z notebook
will work with two distinct two-
year pricing plans, a 3G/4G price
plan and a 3G-only Entry Level
price plan.
The 3G/4G plan is $59.99/month
(excluding surcharges and taxes)
and includes Unlimited 4G and
5GB of 3G per month (300MB
domestic roaming/off-network
limit for 3G; additional MB:
$0.05/MB for on-network usage,
$0.25/MB for off-network usage).
This plan is eligible for existing
dual-mode bundled pricing.
The 3G-only Entry Level price
plan is $39.99/month (excluding
surcharges and taxes) and
includes 500MB of 3G per month
(100MB domestic roaming/off-
network limit for 3G; additional
MB: $0.05/MB for on-network
usage, $0.25/MB for off-network
usage).
Leading with 4G
Sprint already offers an extensive
portfolio of 4G-enabled devices
and routers, including America’s
first 4G capable handset, HTC
SPRINT page 27
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Palm Pre 2 gets official with HP webOS 2.0
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 9:16:58 AM
HP has officially announced the
Palm Pre 2, the much-rumored
replacement to the original Pre,
and running HP webOS 2.0.
Headed to Verizon and a
Canadian carrier “in the coming
months”, but making its debut on
French carrier SFR this Friday,
the Palm Pre 2 has a 3.1-inch
HVGA capacitive touchscreen,
slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a
1GHz processor and 16GB of
onboard storage.
There’s also WiFi b/g, Bluetooth
2.1+EDR and GPS, along with a 5
-megapixel fixed-focus camera
with LED flash and geotagging
support. The Verizon model uses
EVDO Rev.A while the SFR
version will have UMTS/HSPA.
There’s still no memory card slot,
however, but you can use the Pre
2 with the Touchstone inductive
charger.
HP webOS 2.0, meanwhile,
introduces “Stacks” – where open
apps are logically grouped
together in card stacks – and has
Flash Player 10.1 support and the
same Synergy multi-account
synchronization from the first Pre.
The Verizon model will also have
a Skype app, and there’s
Quickoffice, VPN support,
Bluetooth keyboard support, and a
feature called Exhibition which
auto-loads apps when docked on
the Touchstone.
No word on pricing at this stage,
but HP has said that US
developers will be able to buy a
UMTS version of the Pre 2 for
coding purposes (from http://
developer.palm.com/
devdevices.html). Meanwhile HP
webOS 2.0 will be rolled out to
existing users “in the coming
months.”
Press Release:
Coming first on new Palm Pre 2
in France, the United States and
Canada
E-reader News Edition
Jon Rubinstein, senior vice
president and general manager,
Palm Global Business Unit, HP.
“We’ve made tremendous strides
since the platform launched, and
now we’re taking our biggest leap
forward with powerful new
features that make it easier to get
more things done with your
webOS device.”
webOS 2.0 offers consumers
compelling application
experiences not available on any
other platform, while providing
developers an unparalleled level
of openness to integrate their
applications and services. The
next generation of webOS makes
it easier to get more done:
True Multitasking – Pause a
game, tap an email notification,
check your calendar, read a
restaurant review, send an email
reply, then switch back to the
game without closing
anything.(1,2) webOS lets you
easily manage multiple open
applications and notifications
using natural touch gestures. New
in webOS 2.0, Stacks logically
groups together your open apps so
they work the way you do.
Whether you’re reading email or
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 19, Friday in France from SFR and is planning a night on the town,
2010 – HP today announced HP scheduled to be available in the S t a c k s k e e p s r e l a t e d i t e m s
webOS 2.0, the most significant coming months in the United together so managing multiple
update to the platform since its States from Verizon Wireless and tasks is even easier.
launch in 2009 and a substantial in Canada. Just Type – Start an email, create
step in HP’s vision to transform “ W i t h w e b O S 2 . 0 , w e ’ r e a message, update your status,
how people think, feel and advancing the innovations we search your favorite websites – all
connect. i n t r o d u c e d 1 6 m o n t h s a g o , before you’ve even opened an
The first device to run webOS expanding the features that make a p p . ( 1 ) W i t h w e b O S 2 . 0 ,
2.0, HP’s new Palm Pre 2 webOS great for consumers,
smartphone, will be available on enterprises and developers,” said PALM page 23
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PALM
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whenever you want to do
something on your phone –
whether it’s emailing, texting,
searching or almost anything –
just type. And Just Type is open
to developers, so they can
integrate with the search function
and add their own user-
customizable shortcuts, called
Quick Actions.
HP Synergy – webOS was the
first mobile OS to connect you
seamlessly to multiple web
services. With the Synergy
feature, you just have to sign in to
your Facebook, Google,
Microsoft® Exchange, LinkedIn
and Yahoo! accounts and your
information automatically
populates your phone.(3) webOS
2.0 will extend the support for
Synergy so developers can easily
plug new Messaging, Contacts
and Calendar application sources
directly into the core webOS
experiences.(4)
Exhibition – A new way to use
your webOS phone, Exhibition
lets you run apps designed
specifically for the Palm
Touchstone Charging Dock,
turning charge time into useful
time.(4, 5) Set your phone on the
dock and Exhibition launches
automatically, showing you
anything from today’s agenda to a
slideshow of your Facebook
photos. Exhibition will enable
developers to display aspects of
their existing app experience or
create specialized apps for use
when users have their webOS
device in charge mode on the
charging dock.
Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 Beta
– With version 2.0, webOS now
supports a beta of Adobe Flash
Player 10.1 in the browser, which
provides access to rich, Flash
based web content.(6)
webOS 2.0 also includes many
more new features, including the
following:
Favorites – With webOS 2.0, you
can tag your favorite contacts so
they appear as favorites in Phone
and Contacts views. When you
search for them by name, they
instantly show up at the top of the
Contacts, Email, Messaging and
Phone apps. Favorites make it
simple to get in touch fast.
Skype Mobile™ (Verizon
Wireless only) – For Verizon
Wireless customers, webOS 2.0
supports Skype-to-Skype calls
and messaging while in the
United States to anywhere in the
world, and low-rate calls to
international landlines and cell
phones.
Text Assist – webOS 2.0 offers
greatly expanded capabilities to
spell check, auto correct, set up
macros and customize the
dictionary.
Quickoffice Connect Mobile
Suite – An all-new document
viewer from the leading provider
of mobile document viewers
offers support for Microsoft
Office Word, Excel and
PowerPoint documents and
provides integration with a variety
of services, including Google
Docs and Dropbox.
Facebook 2.0 – Available via the
Palm App Catalog, Facebook 2.0
will support Facebook IM via
Synergy in the Messaging
application,(4) as well as Stacks,
status updates via Quick Action
and the Exhibition feature.
Browser – The browser adds
support for more HTML5
features, including geolocation
support. OpenSearch plugin
support makes it easy to add your
favorite websites to Just Type
web search.
Messaging – The unified
Messaging app in webOS 2.0 adds
Yahoo! IM and buddy
management. Customers can now
connect to their buddies through
SMS, MMS, Google Talk, AIM
and Yahoo! IM.
VPN – webOS 2.0 supports the
most popular ways to connect to a
corporate network, including
IPsec and Cisco AnyConnect
mobile optimized VPN, which
supports SSL (TLS and DTLS).
App Catalog – The redesigned
Palm App Catalog makes finding
and discovering great apps even
easier.(7) And the new Software
Manager helps you keep your
apps up-to-date.
Launcher – A redesigned app
launcher lets you add, label and
reorder launcher pages.
Phone – The webOS 2.0 Phone
app lets you easily dial your
favorites and offers reverse area
code lookup and Skype Mobile
integration (Skype Mobile for
Verizon Wireless only).
Accounts – The new Accounts
app provides a single place to
manage all your Synergy
accounts.
Bluetooth® keyboards – webOS
now supports Bluetooth
keyboards and Bluetooth SPP
peripherals, enabling applications
such as barcode readers and realty
lock boxes.
A host of developer features – In
addition to Exhibition, Just Type
and Synergy APIs, webOS 2.0
adds Node.JS, enabling
developers to create services in
JavaScript. They also can now use
the webOS Plug-In Development
Kit (PDK) to combine C/C++
with web technologies in a single
app.
More information about the
features of webOS 2.0 is available
at www.palm.com/
softwareupdate.
Introducing Palm Pre 2
HP also introduced the Palm Pre
2 smartphone, the latest evolution
to the Palm Pre lineup. Pre 2 is
the first Palm phone with a
gigahertz processor and features a
5-megapixel camera, a glass
screen and a sleeker, streamlined
design that still gives users the
ideal combination of a vivid
touchscreen and a slide-out
keyboard.
More information about Palm Pre
2, including features and
specifications, is available at
www.palm.com/Pre2.
Availability
Palm Pre 2 featuring webOS 2.0
will be available on Friday in
France from SFR and is scheduled
to be available in the coming
months in the United States from
Verizon Wireless and in Canada.
The webOS 2.0 update will be
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delivered to existing customers in
the coming months, with exact
timing to be announced at a later
date.
Developers will be able to
purchase unlocked UMTS
versions of Pre 2 in the United
States to use as a canvas to build
the next generation of webOS
applications and services. More
information about the purchase
program will be available at http:/
/developer.palm.com/
devdevices.html.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for
technology to have a meaningful
impact on people, businesses,
governments and society. The
world’s largest technology
company, HP brings together a
portfolio that spans printing,
personal computing, software,
services and IT infrastructure to
solve customer problems. More
information about HP (NYSE:
HPQ) is available at http://
www.hp.com.
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acceleration”?
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early 2011 release
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webOS: gamers ahoy!
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Pixi; 1.3.5 imminent
• HP set to launch new webOS
smartphones in 2011
24 Technology/
Bug Labs add AT&T 3G modem to modular toolkit
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:21:53 AM
Last month it was Verizon and
Bug Labs; today the modular
product development platform
specialist is announcing a
partnership with AT&T. Like
with the CDMA carrier, the new
AT&T deal will see Bug Labs
users equipped with a BUG+ 3G/
GSM plug-and-play electronic
toolkit that will make adding
cellular connectivity
straightforward.
AT&T will in fact be Bug Labs’
exclusive GSM connectivity
provider in the US, and the new
BUG+ module will mean devices
built using the modular system
can get online – and with a
modem approved by the carrier –
instantly. It’ll also be arguably
more useful than the CDMA
version for those with
international ambitions, since the
GSM module will work on the
European networks as well.
What we don’t yet know is
pricing and availability, though
Bug Labs says the company will
be announcing further programs
involving the carrier come
January 2011.
Press Release:
AT&T and Bug Labs Arm
Device Developers With New
Wireless Product Development
Platform
Integrated system designed to
save developers time and money
using the GSM world
standard–exclusively with AT&T
DALLAS, Oct 19, 2010 /
PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —
AT&T* and Bug Labs, an award-
winning open hardware
development platform, today
announced plans to launch BUG +
3G/GSM, a plug-and-play
electronic tool kit that puts
network ready wireless modules
in the hands of emerging device
product developers for a speedier,
more cost-efficient path to
commercial launch on the nation’s
fastest mobile broadband network.
The BUG platform — accessible
through AT&T Emerging Devices
— offers a new, innovative
approach to device innovation,
providing developers with easy
access to a full complement of
FCC and AT&T certified 3G
wireless modules, reducing the
need for extended and costly
testing and certification during the
initial deployment phase. Some
additional testing may be required
if changes are made in volume
production.
In addition to unprecedented
hardware configurability,
developers can collect, share and
control the data coming from
networked BUGs using the new
BUGswarm web application, now
fully integrated with the AT&T
Control Center, powered by
Jasper Wireless.
“With Bug Labs, developers now
have the ability to test and trial
their products in the sandbox
while they are in the nascent
stages of development,” said
Glenn Lurie, president of
emerging devices, resale and
partnerships, AT&T. “As part of
our ongoing commitment to
E-reader News Edition
innovation, we’re eliminating the
certification barriers that have
kept some developers from
jumping into the game. We’re
encouraging product developers
to bring the next generation of
new and exciting products to
market as soon as possible.”
Products with Bug Labs modules
must secure final certification on
the AT&T network.
“Together with AT&T, we’re
inspiring developers around the
world to tap into their creativity,”
said Peter Semmelhack, founder
and chief executive officer of Bug
Labs. “By leveraging our open
product development program,
product developers can build,
deploy, produce and certify
wireless devices at a practical,
faster rate.”
The addition of Bug Labs builds
on the existing AT&T Connection
Kit for Device Developer program
available through the dedicated
AT&T emerging devices web site.
The Connection Kit also includes
AT&T SIM cards, data capacity
for testing, access to AT&T
Control Center, powered by
Jasper Wireless and best practice
guidelines. To learn more about
AT&T’s Emerging Devices
Organization or to see the
additional Connection Kit options,
please visit AT&T Emerging
Devices.
For more information about Bug
Labs visit the Bug Labs Web site.
Also, view a video on the Bug.
*AT&T products and services are
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HP Reveals webOS 2.0, Arriving Friday on Palm
Pre 2
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:11:20 AM
HP today has officially
introduced webOS 2.0, the biggest
update to what was formerly
Palm's mobile operating system,
one of the assets gained by HP
back in April when it acquired
Palm, Inc for $1.2 billion. Now
called HP webOS, the updated
operating system will make its
debut this Friday on the new Palm
Pre 2 smartphone. The phone will
be available first in France and
then, in later months, in the U.S.
and Canada on Verizon's network.
Sponsor
What's New, Pre 2?
In September, HP pushed a beta
of the webOS SDK (software
development kit) to developers,
allowing them to experiment with
all the new features of the updated
operating system. These features
included a multi-tasking user
interface improvement called "
stacks" (for stacking open screens
like a deck of cards), the
introduction of " Just Type" quick
actions for common tasks like
Facebook status updates, adding
items to a list or starting an email,
an improved Universal Search
feature which extends phone-
based searches to the Web, a
screensaver-like " Exhibition"
mode customizable through apps
and various under-the-hood
improvements including HTML5
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provided or offered by
subsidiaries and affiliates of
AT&T Inc. under the AT&T
support, PDK plugins and more. original webOS was a good brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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doesn't add much to the earlier webOS 2.0 looks like a worthy • Bug Labs and Verizon team
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that Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta Palm Pre's hardware wasn't great, • Bug Labs unveils Bug 2.0
will be supported, an important especially when compared with platform
distinction between mobile the top-of-the-line iPhone. Plus, • Quake on Bug Labs BUG
operating systems today. Ever Palm's paltry App Catalog showed modular computer: Video Demo
since Apple banned Flash from its how few developers had spent • Modular Dishwasher simplifies
mobile devices, competitors are time building native apps for the life
quick to point out the inclusion of n e w O S . I n F e b r u a r y , f o r • The Modular Dish Drainer
Flash as a feature they offer which o p t i m i z e d V P N a l o n g w i t h example, it included just 1,452
the iPhone doesn't. support for Exchange email round apps, according to analytics firm
Another notable feature, is the out the corporate user-targeted Distimo. As of late September,
Synergy, the technology which f e a t u r e s . O u i , O u i - P r e 2 webOS reached the 5,000 app
merges Facebook, Google, Launches in France mark(note to Distimo: update
Yahoo, LinkedIn and Exchange Oddly, HP has decided to launch your website). Considerable
contacts into one universal contact the Pre 2 Friday in France from growth, but so far behind Apple's
list. Now that feature has been SFR. And it won't become App Store (now at 300,000
e x t e n d e d s o t h i r d - p a r t y available to U.S. or Canadian apps!), it seems like a drop in the
developers can actually build on users until months later. However, bucket.
top of Synergy, offering plugins since it will arrive on Verizon Still, times have changed since
for the OS's built-in Messaging, Wireless when it reaches North the first Palm Pre's reveal.
C o n t a c t s a n d C a l e n d a r America, Pre 2 users can take Consumers have found comfort in
applications. A clever example of advantage of the Verizon/Skype a number of iPhone alternatives,
Synergy's potential can be seen partnership to make Skype-to- most notably Android, which
with Facebook's webOS 2.0 app, Skype calls using the new device. sometimes even arrives on feature DIY Door Mirror Mount
which supports Facebook IM via Developers will also be able to phone-grade hardware. Economic Hangs Heavy Mirrors,
S y n e r g y i n t h e M e s s a g i n g buy an unlocked UMTS version pressure also may influence Creates Illusion of Space
application. of Pre 2 in the U.S, notes HP. buying decisions, too. If Pre 2 can [DIY]
W e b O S 2 . 0 a l s o i n c l u d e s And yes, original Pre owners, HP get its pricing right (also unknown
Quickoffice Connect Mobile says that "some" of the new at this time), it may find a niche Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Suite, which allows for Microsoft webOS 2.0 features will arrive as as an affordable alternative - Submitted at 10/19/2010 8:00:00 AM
Word, Excel and PowerPoint over-the-air software updates. prettier than Android, cheaper
viewing and integration with Unfortunately, HP doesn't specify than iPhone. But that's just a When you lived in a cramped
Google Docs and Dropbox. For which ones. Can webOS Stage a guess - what do you think? apartment sometimes the backs of
office workers, that's a nice value- Comeback? Discuss doors are the only wide open
add since normally Quickoffice is There was never a question (in space you have. This simple hack
a paid application. IPsec and our minds, at least) that the mounts a full size wall mirror
Cisco's AnyConnect mobile safely and securely to the back of
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2 Ways to Bring Activity Streams to Any App

Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb) Y2K hoax, we've been judiciously
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:00:00 PM streamlining process in black and
white. Ensuring that every
Well, almost any browser based application has a Submit and a
app anyway. Socialcast Cancel Button. Commit your
announced today a new product decision now, or roll back.
called Socialcast Reach. Reach Choose now and forever hold
will bring Socialcast streams into your peace.
SharePoint or any other Decisions are not always black
application that supports HTML and white in the Enterprise
and JavaScript. Socialcast is context. To me, the ultimate
trying to solve the problem of too promise of social computing lies
many applications by bringing in improved process execution
activity streams into the outcomes. What I've been looking
applications users already spend for is an in-context and even
their time in. onscreen utility inside enterprise
Socialcast's approach is similar to process apps that helps you
but different from the approach answer: "I'm not sure" OR
taken by SimplyBox. SimplyBox "What's the best selection from
has created a collaboration tool that dropdown menu" OR "Who
that can run as a web application, recently. "Software is often Altimeter Group's R "Ray" Wang i s n ' t d e s i g n e d f o r s o c i a l knows more about this than I?"
desktop application, Outlook created, packaged and sold in praised SimplyBox and called it a interaction. To combat this, OR "Can I first take a vote from a
plugin and browser plugin. The silos and integration is hard." disruptive technology earlier this SimplyBox is partnering with few smarty pants before I commit,
browser plugin allows users to Socialcast and SimplyBox year. "Expect to see SimplyBox SAP to create native SimplyBox please?
access their SimplyBox streams attempt to solve that problem by transforming experiences in staid support in some applications. Open standards for activity
from any web based application. enabling users to put activity ERP, CRM, and SCM systems," SimplyBox already works within streams and social data will be
Sponsor streams wherever they want he wrote. SAP CRM, for example. crucial to this process of re-
Silo Smasher without difficult or expensive IT consultant Larry Blair told me However, enterprise software invention. Socialcast currently
Activity streams have the integration work. he choose SimplyBox over built to from the ground up to be support the ActivityStreams
potential to achieve the holy grail Socialcast Reach users will be Salesforce.com's Chatter because social would be much better. format and Reach will support
of enterprise 2.0 technology: able to create snippets of code to it would reduce the number of Sameer Patel wrote: What we Facebook's Open Graph Protocol,
enabling collaboration across insert into the applications they different places his teams would haven't really seen is back to the so it will be well positioned for
silos. But there's a problem: users want to use Socialcast with. have to look for information, and drawing board innovation on the future integration with social
h a v e e n o u g h d i f f e r e n t SimplyBox provides a plugin that because it was easy to collaborate business process design. Over the enterprise applications. Discuss
applications to use on a daily overlays the SimplyBox interface with customers and other outside last decade we've mistakenly
basis without adding one more for on top of other applications. users. Stream Standards begun to believe that the best way
place to look for and make Here's a screenshot of it being SimplyBox's solution is quite to execute a given business
updates. u s e d w i t h S A P ' s B u s i n e s s elegant, and I'm sure Socialcast activity is synonymous with how
"One of the fundamental barriers O b j e c t s : Reach will be as well. However, our ERP systems enforced our
to a collaborative enterprise are The video below explains a bit one can't escape the notion that way of work. Ever since the wide
the systems themselves," IDC more about how SimplyBox these solutions are just being s c a l e a d o p t i o n o f E R P
analyst Michael Fauscette wrote works: bolted onto other software that applications, largely thanks to the
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EVO™ 4G, the newly launched
Samsung Epic™ 4G, and
Overdrive™ 3G/4G Mobile
Hotspot from Sierra Wireless (a
mobile hotspot supporting up to
five simultaneous Wi-Fi
connections). These products are
part of a large selection of 4G-
capable modems, mobile hotspots
and routers, which enable the
productivity-enhancing and
application-expanding 4G
advantages of rapid mobile
downloads of large files, high-
quality streaming video, online
presentations and high-speed Web
browsing.
Sprint 4G download speeds
support faster data rates and
higher system capacity than 3G,
enabling customers to move large
amounts of data at broadband
speeds comparable to basic DSL.2
These faster speeds enable
customers to take advantage of
robust applications and services,
such as wireless voice-over-IP
(VoIP), high-speed video
telephony, music on-demand, and
video messaging. This kind of
high-powered computing device
combined with a large screen
easily enriches viewing
Camp Logos took me from know-nothing to advanced
TJ Luoma (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:00:00 AM
Over the weekend, I attended the
Camp Logos training seminar for
Logos Bible Study software. I
have been to lots of seminars, but
this was my first one specifically
experiences, such as streaming
video on Hulu.
Sprint delivers an exceptional
network experience and
unmatched value, providing the
first and ever-expanding wireless
4G network from a national
carrier and a coast-to-coast 3G
network customers can depend
on. Sprint 4G provides peak
download speeds of more than 10
Mbps and average download
speeds of 3-6 Mbps. Sprint 3G
(EV-DO Rev. A) generates
expected average upload speeds
of 350-500 kbps and download
speeds of between 600 kbps and
1.4 Mbps. Peak 3G download data
rates are 3.1 Mbps and peak
upload data rates are 1.8 Mbps.
With 4G, users can download
music, pictures, files or videos in
seconds – not minutes. If it
normally takes 15 to 45 minutes
to download a full-length feature
film with a 3G connection, it will
likely take less than 10 minutes
with Sprint 4G. If a business
traveler has to send a huge file
(10MB, for example) and it
usually takes a couple of minutes
with a 3G connection, it will
likely take less than a half a
about software, and I went in not
really knowing what to expect. I
was completely blown away by
how useful it was.
When Logos for Mac came out
last year, I spent a little bit of time
using it, but I never really got into
it. Logos 4 is a major redesign,
minute using Sprint 4G.
Sprint 4G is now available in 55
cities across the country:
California – Merced, Modesto,
Stockton, Visalia; Delaware –
Wilmington; Florida – Daytona
Beach, Jacksonville, Orlando;
Georgia – Atlanta, Milledgeville;
Hawaii – Honolulu, Maui; Idaho –
Boise; Illinois – Chicago;
Maryland – Baltimore;
Massachusetts – Boston;
Michigan – Grand Rapids;
Minnesota – Minneapolis-St.
Paul; Missouri – Kansas City, St.
Louis; New York – Rochester,
Syracuse; Nevada – Las Vegas;
North Carolina – Charlotte,
Greensboro (includes High Point
and Winston-Salem), Raleigh
(includes Cary, Chapel Hill and
Durham); Oregon – Eugene,
Portland, Salem; Pennsylvania –
Harrisburg, Lancaster,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading,
York; Rhode Island – Providence;
Tennessee – Nashville; Texas –
Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Corpus
Christi, Dallas/Fort Worth,
Houston, Killeen/Temple,
Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, San
Antonio, Waco, Wichita Falls;
Utah – Salt Lake City; Virginia –
and it was recently released for
Technology/ Culture/
Richmond; and Washington –
Bellingham, Seattle, Tri-Cities,
Yakima. Additional major cities,
including New York, Los Angeles
and San Francisco, are expected
to launch by year end.
Sprint is delivering the power of
4G as the majority shareholder of
Clearwire, the independent
company that is building the
WiMAX network. For more
information, visit
www.sprint.com/4G.
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use on a daily basis, and learning
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Unvarnished Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The

Floodgates
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch) been less than 10 user complaints,
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:59:41 AM that (combined with the previous
stat) does imply a high level of
Unvarnished is all grown up. civility.
The self-described reputation However, I still wonder whether
management site, which allows Honestly is ready to be unleashed
professionals to anonymously on the world wide web. Since
submit reviews on their peers, has March, the site’s users, which
just renamed its site to“Honestly” preexisting profile and submit For those unfamiliar with the have numbered in the tens of
and raised $1.2 million from reviews. mechanics of the site, Honestly thousands, have been frolicking in
s e v e r a l h i g h - p r o f i l e f i r m s In a press release this Tuesday, works by allowing any user to a fairly small, properly walled-off
Fact or Fiction:
including First Round Capital, the company says, “Based on the create a profile for him/herself or garden. Now that everyone (and
Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Charles professional, honest, and nuanced a peer. Reviews are submitted their vengeful ex-boyfriend/
Hollywood vs.
River Ventures. The round also review content that has been anonymously, your name is never girlfriend) has a key to the garden,
includes individual investors, like contributed by the community attached to a quantitative or it will be interesting to see how
History
Joshua Schachter, Travis Kalanick over the past six months, we’re qualitative review, however, the environment changes and (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
and Richard Chen. The corporate confident that now is the right people can rank how helpful your whether the rate of consumer Submitted at 10/19/2010 9:00:56 AM

entity is still officially named time to take this next step.” As review is, which influences your complaints rise. I don’t expect a
Unvarnished, but in terms of evidence of the community’s overall trustworthy rank. It is an deluge of false reviews mucking It's time to step into the time
identity and brand the company health, Honestly points to recent incentive to be fair and provide up the entire Honestly community machine and travel back through
will effectively go by Honestly. statistics: Over the last six insightful reviews but it doesn’t and abuses might not be obvious history. Of course, if you hope to
Beyond today’s makeover and months, the review distribution— really prevent anyone from using for quite a while. However, until survive, you're going to want to
funding announcement, founder which is numerically based on a 5 t h e s i t e t o s e t t l e p e r s o n a l Honestly allows users to opt out separate what you actually learned
P e t e r K a z a n j y i s o f f i c i a l l y -star rating system, with 5 being vendettas or fabricate lies. Unless and remove their profiles, I will in history class from all the
o p e n i n g t h e s i t e t o a n y the top score— shows that 61% of a comment violates the terms of remain skeptical. historical inaccuracies in the
professional. Previously, access to ratings feature a 5 star rating and service (i.e. illegal), users cannot As the cliche goes, it only takes a movies. Think you can do it?
Unvarnished has been limited to only 2% of ratings showcase the remove it from their profile (nor few bad apples. Well, before you pull the lever,
invite-only or professionals from dreaded 1 star review. CrunchBase Information let's do a little travel planning and
can they take down their profile), see what you really know.
a list of roughly 200 pre-approved That does indicate a largely however, they can respond with Unvarnished Peter Kazanjy SV
tech/tech-related companies. Now positive environment, but as I’ve comments. Angel Charles River Ventures Earn a point for every right
anyone, with a Facebook account, written before, there is still room When Kazanjy and I spoke in First Round Capital Information answer! Save your score at the
c a n s e t u p a p r o f i l e o n for the devil. end of the quiz.
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Apture's on-page search tech comes to Scribd
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM
The idea of finding out more
about a word or phrase you run
across while reading is becoming
more popular. In reading
applications on the iPad, and of
course, Amazon's Kindle, it's now
common to find a built-in
dictionary tool, or a way to start a
Web search on something that
may have you scratching your
head.
That same technology is coming
to digital book and document
repository Scribd via a partnership
with Apture. Now, when a reader
gets to a word or phrase they want
to know more about, they can
highlight it and select the "learn
more" option that appears next to
the highlighted text. Doing this
opens up Apture's little pop-up
information pane, which grabs
word definitions, Wikipedia
entries, Web search results, and
media such as photos and videos.
All of these things can then be
seen without leaving the page.
As of this morning, half the
public documents on Scribd will
be Apture enabled, with the rest to
Incredible Shadow Scuptures (16 pics)
Marica (Featured Blog Posts -
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Submitted at 10/18/2010 10:00:00 PM
Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens
follow in the coming months. The
feature cannot be turned off, but
it's been tuned so that if you're
selecting large groupings of text,
the "learn more" option will not
show up. It's also available only
on HTML5-enabled public
documents (read: not through
Scribd's Flash viewer); private
documents that go public can then
have the feature enabled.
Scribd's integration with Apture
will let you click on a word or
creates incredible shadow
sculptures. When light filters
through them, hidden messages
are unveiled through bent wires, and even living plants. The artist's
cotton clouds, cardboard boxes,
group of words to do an Internet
search without leaving the
page.(Credit: Screenshot by Josh
Lowensohn/CNET)
Beyond user documents, Scribd
and Apture are working with a
handful of publishers to add
additional Apture features to their
books and publications. Author
Kemble Scott is one of those users
and has actually gone back in to
rewrite parts of his books to adjust
how Apture would do a search.
Technology/ Culture/
Scott also opted to have certain
sections highlighted by the
technology so users would be able
to click on it to start a search
instead of having to highlight it
themselves.
These are not things users will be
able to do with their own
documents--at least yet, according
to Apture's CEO Tristan Harris,
who told CNET yesterday that it's
something that may be rolled out
later on. Harris said he envisions
play on words and images give
rise to a surprising aesthetic
effect, while the kinds of
materials he chooses is
reminiscent of poetry.
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this being most useful for things
like legal documents and sheet
music, two things that can be
found in plentiful supply on
Scribd.
Harris says that this is the largest
use of Apture by a publisher thus
far. The technology can also be
found on The Financial Times'
technology blog The Nation and
Reader's Digest. To use Apture on
sites that have not implemented it,
it can be added to your browser
via an extension.
Here's a video of the feature in
action:
Apture Highlights on Scribd from
Tristan Harris on Vimeo.
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What Did She Find in Her Happy Survey: One Third of Small
Meal? A Facebook Scam Businesses Use Social
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
are just that - self propogating bits
of annoying. The entire operation
Media to Reach Customers
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:52:19 AM appears to be a scam to build the John Paul Titlow
(ReadWriteWeb)
for all the world to see. Take a popularity of these domains recovery, as it provides an
We know. Joe and Christina look: before selling them off to likely Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM inexpensive means of marketing
"liked" it and they're both smart So you won't have to, we clicked. make your digital life that much and reaching customers.
folks, so it's got to be real, right? This is what we saw for the more aggravating in the long run. The use of social media to "Over the last two years, many
Wrong. Happy Meal girl: So don't click. connect with customers is b u s i n e s s o w n e r s s h e l v e d
For the sake of all of our sanity It's a terribly mocked-up version This isn't the first we've seen of growing among small businesses, investment and hiring plans and
and humanity in general, we took of a Facebook page that seems to unsavory types trying to take according to the results of a semi- dipped into cash reserves and
a peek behind the "like" scams get the color and shape just right advantage of Facebook's "like" annual survey released last week personal assets to stem the tide of
m a k i n g t h e i r w a y a r o u n d enough for people to ignore how button. Last June, Sarah Perez by American Express OPEN, the declining sales," said Susan
Facebook and we can tell you bad it is and click on the video. wrote about "like-jacking", or the small business arm of American Sobbott, president, American
right now - the American dude The thing is, the entire video is act of fooling users into liking Express. Express OPEN, in a press release.
doesn't deserve to get stoned to simply a linked image, as is most things other than what they Approximately four out of ten "Now entrepreneurs are driving
death and all the little girl found of the page. thought they were liking. small businesses said they used more business with existing
i n h e r H a p p y M e a l w a s Just to feed your curiosity, here's In the future, just ask yourself s o c i a l n e t w o r k i n g s i t e s t o customers through regular follow-
m e c h a n i c a l l y s e p a r a t e d , the "American guy" that should be before you click: Does it have communicate with customers and up and better customer service.
genetically modified chicken and stoned to death: multiple exclamation points? Is market their products, according They're also tapping into relevant
high fructose corn syrup. The end is the same, no matter half or more of it in all CAPITAL to the Small Business Monitor and low-cost marketing tools like
Sponsor what one you examine - a post to LETTERS? Do they want you to survey. Not surprisingly, the vast social media."
There are a bunch of these scams your wall saying you like it and "CLICK HERE TO SEE!"? It's majority of those companies The American Express OPEN
out there and at the end of each that's it. There is no video. Right- likely a scam. And don't worry. prefer Facebook to other major Small Business Monitor is a semi-
t u n n e l , t h e r e ' s n o t h i n g b u t clicking on the page brings up a There's no single video out there p l a y e r s l i k e d T w i t t e r a n d annual survey that has been
aggravation for your friends who dialog box offering for you to sell that could actually make all you LinkedIn. conducted for the last nine years.
have to watch their otherwise your Facebook Fan page. SMS fiends stop text messaging. Sponsor Its findings are based on the
brilliant buddies be fooled into The funny thing is, these pages Just know that from the start. This represents a substantial responses of a sample of 726
automatically posting this spam Discuss increase from only a year ago, s m a l l b u s i n e s s o w n e r s a n d
when only one-in-ten respondents managers of companies with 100
Chic at Maxim's reported actively using social employees or less.
networking sites. Discuss
Habitually Chic (Habitually look like a French Holly The survey attributes the rise of
Chic®) Golightly. I still don't have the social media usage in part to the
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:59:58 AM November issue yet but you can economy's slower-than-hoped
see more photos and read the
I'm busy working today so for interview at Vogue.com. A tout à
right now, I'm leaving you with l'heure!
these beautiful photos of Anne were shot by Mario Testino at Photos by Mario Testino
Hathaway from Vogue. They Maxim's in Paris and make her
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Loopt update puts Facebook friends on the map

(CNET News.com) iOS app to map out Facebook Josh Lowensohn writes about
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM friends ( Sobees got there last Web start-ups, video games,
month), but it's done it in a way multimedia tools, and the
Knowing where your friends are, that integrates with the company's occasional robot. He joined
and seeing their location are two existing social-mapping tools. CNET in 2006, and posts to the
very different things. Loopt's You can, for instance, see where Web Crawler and Webware blogs.
latest iPhone update, and soon-to- Facebook friends have been E-mail Josh, or follow him on
be Android update, illustrates this visiting in the past--something Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/
point nicely. you have been able to do with Josh.
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Loopt Feeling Right At Home With Facebook Places, Adds Deep

Integration
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:41 AM
When Facebook launched Places,
their entry into the location space,
the headlines made it seem as if
every startup player in the field
was about to go extinct.
Obviously, that didn’t happen.
Instead, the playing field has
largely stayed the same — though
slowly, but surely, those startups
are now integrating with
Facebook Places in order to get
access to Facebook’s massive
social graph. The latest is Loopt,
and they’re going deep. come with that,” he continues. This new Facebook Places
With a lot of these location I agree with that. Right now, integration is a part of the latest
startups, you check-in and you while it’s nice to see a lot of iPhone update for Loopt. In it,
can push that check-in to companies working with you’ll also be able to see all of
Facebook. This technically checks Facebook’s data to unify things a your Facebook and Loopt friends
you in to Facebook Places as well, bit, it’s not true unification since on a map at the same time. And
but what it really does is create a all these random place objects are you’ll be able to see past check-
new object for the place you’re at being created. Foursquare and ins to Facebook Places from
on the other service within Gowalla are two example of within Loopt — including
Facebook’s graph. With Loopt’s location startups doing this. On Facebook comments on those
new integration, you’ll check-in one hand, you can certainly see check-ins.
to a place and it will find that why — they want to keep their All of this should be coming to
place on Facebook Places, and location graphs, which they’ve the Android version short as well,
check you in there. founder Sam Altman tells us. “ I worked hard to build, intact. But Altman says.
“ As far as I can tell, this will be think this is key to a unified data on the other hand, the data is a lot
the deepest integration yet,” set and all the good things that less useful.
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Scribd Partners With Apture To Include Rich Media Contextual

Browsing Within Content
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:02 AM
We wrote about Apture
Highlights, a new plug-in that
brings instantaneous search to
content on the web, a few months
ago. Today, Apture has scored a
pretty significant deal with
document-sharing site Scribd to
allow users to use Apture
Highlights on the tens of millions
of public documents on the
content platform.
As we wrote in August, ‘Apture
Highlights’ plugs the “search
leak” that is taking place with
content on the web. The feature
allows you to highlight any word
or phrase on a page and instantly
bring up search results in a
window. The startup brings
results from 60-plus sources
including YouTube, Twitter,
Wikipedia, Google and more for
extra context around content.
Now, when users are reading
documents, books, or other works
on Scribd, they will be able to
highlight any word, and Apture
will open a small browser within
the page to search for the
additional information on Google,
Bing or Yahoo.
Scribd representative Michelle
Laird says that this integration is
made possible party because of
the company’s move to convert
the platform to HTML5, which
provides a more engaging
experience for users (as of July,
user engagement had tripled on
Scribd.)
According to Laird, 50 percent of
documents will be integrated with
Apture today, with the remaining
integrations rolled out over the
next few days. For Apture, which
has raised$4.1 million in funding,
the deal with Scribd is a big win.
This will be largest
implementation of Apture to date,
says the startup’s CEO Tristan
Harris. Other Apture partners
include The Financial Times and
Reuters.
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Apple retail presence continues to grow and produce

Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW) $2.04 billion, and this year they new product lines and achieve
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:30:00 AM were $3.57 billion. "service goals."
• Mac sales went up from
Y e a r s a g o , w h e n A p p l e 670,000 to 874,000, a 30% No matter how you look at it,
announced they were opening increase. Apple's retail efforts have been a
retail stores I don't know that • Almost half of Mac sales were huge success in Q4.
anyone expected them to be such to new customers, something Apple retail presence continues
a r e s o u n d i n g s u c c e s s . B u t we've been hearing for years. to grow and produce originally
yesterday's call confirmed this • Foot traffic in stores were also appeared on TUAW on Tue, 19
fact, as nearly every metric was up significantly, reaching 74.5 Oct 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please
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• Revenues are up 75% since last outside the US. The Beijing and records from all store openings in overseas, and it plans to renovate
year. Last year revenues were Shanghai stores were noted in the years past. many existing stores to reflect its
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YouTube Leanback launches on Ditching Cable for the Web: How

Google TV
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:47:34 AM
A view of YouTube
Leanback.(Credit: YouTube)
YouTube's made-for-television
viewing experience has fittingly
found its way to Google TV.
YouTube Leanback, which was
announced over the summer, will
be available on all Google TV
products starting this week. The
launch of Leanback, which
automatically plays YouTube
videos in full screen at the highest
available quality, coincides with
the imminent release of the
Logitech Revue set-top box, one
of the first products that integrates
Google TV.
When a Google TV viewer clicks
Much Can You Save Buying, Renting,
or Streaming TV [Streaming Tv]
People can also rent TV shows Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
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YouTube didn't say whether
Leanback would be coming to set- Ever wonder if, for just your
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Android no nightmare says TweetDeck CEO to Steve Jobs

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 9:52:25 AM
Earlier today it was Andy Rubin
challenging Steve Jobs’
description of Android as
fragmented rather than open; now
it’s TweetDeck CEO Iain
Dodsworth who isn’t happy with
how the Apple CEO portrayed his
company’s experience of coding
for the Google platform. Jobs had
said that TweetDeck “had to
contend with more than a hundred
different versions of Android” and
that it was “a daunting challenge”;
not so fast, says Dodsworth.
“Twitter client [TweetDeck]
recently launched their app for
Android. They reported that they
had to contend with more than a
hundred different versions of
Android software on 244 different
handsets. The multiple hardware
and software iterations present
developers with a daunting
challenge” Steve Jobs
In fact, Dodsworth tweeted “Did
we at any point say it was a
nightmare developing on
Android? Errr nope, no we didn’t.
It wasn’t” which seems a pretty
conclusive stance from the
developer. The company has apps
for both Android and iOS, too, so
are in a pretty good position to
judge difficulties in coding.
[ via AllThingsD]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
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been revealed
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• Android 3.0 tablets sampling
Dec 2010; challenging Steve Jobs
at CES 2011
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change
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Qantas to offer in-flight iPads on T-Mobile director scares the FCC

Jetstar flights
Matt Tinsley (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM
MarketWatch is reporting that
iPads are to be offered to
passengers as in-flight
entertainment on Qantas Airways'
Jetstar flights, according to a
company official speaking to the
Dow Jones Newswires. The move
is to draw would-be flyers to
Jetstar in an increasingly
competitive market for budget
airlines operating in and around
Australia and Asia."We're in the
final stages of putting in place
what would be a broader roll out
across the network. We're in
ongoing discussion with the
manufacturer around a more
integrated network proposition," a
Jetstar spokesman said in an
interview Monday.
According to ZDNet Australia,
passengers will have the option to
rent an iPad for the duration of the
flight at AUD $10.
The larger screen would certainly
be a plus, but I must admit,
holding an iPad for the duration of
a flight would become slightly
tiresome. However, I know that if
I was on a long-haul flight, I'd
certainly choose an iPad loaded
with games, music, and movies
over the usually clunky in-flight
entertainment service offered on
most airlines these days. Though,
not at an additional cost --
especially if I've got an iPad of
my own already.
[via MacDailyNews]
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with a chilling tale: 'The IM App
that Killed Our Network'
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:25:00 PM
It's almost Halloween, kiddies.
Do you have your spooky stories
ready for telling around the
campfire? If you need a little help,
take inspiration from this doozy
told by Grant Castle, a Director at company's many outages were
T-Mobile USA. It was submitted caused by the app that wouldn't
to the FCC way back in January die ( shriek), but we'd sure hate to
and as a sort of written protest think that any members of the
against "risky and unnecessary" FCC are losing sleep over this
net neutrality rules. He tells the saga of corporate woe.
tale of an undisclosed IM app that T-Mobile director scares the FCC
caused the network of an with a chilling tale: 'The IM App
undisclosed city to go offline due
that Killed Our Network'
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check for updates. T-Mo
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There's no telling which of the

Piper Jaffray raises Apple price target to $429

Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:00:00 PM
Piper Jaffray has raised the price
target on shares of AAPL to
US$429 following yesterday's
financial report from Apple. The
company posted its first $20
billion quarter, beating expected
earnings.
In addition, Piper Jaffray raised
FY11 revenue growth rate from
24% to 32%. In a note to clients
issued today, Jaffray said, "While
shares of Apple may pull back
today (10/19), we would be
buyers based on our belief that
investors will gain optimism over
the next three months that the
growth story will continue."
Indeed there was a bit of a
pullback, as AAPL dropped 5.6%
in after-hours trading on Monday.
The stock fell to $299.70, down
$18.30 (-5.75%), within two
hours of yesterday's
announcements. The drop was
blamed on iPad sales of 4.1
million; more were expected.
For more Apple financial news,
look here.
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Hamster Free Video

Converter Is a Dead
Simple Drag and Drop
Video Conversion Tool
[Video]
iPhone-controlled Acutouch Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 8:30:00 AM

HT-9500 massage chair MSI WindPad tablet design Windows: If you're looking for a
simple drag and drop solution for
now available concepts rendered, available in converting videos for on your
iPod, PS3, or other portable
Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:14:00 AM
world of resources, massage
programs and expertise designed your choice of innie or outie device or media center, Hamster
Free Video Converter is a no-fuss
to improve your wellness and Tim Stevens (Engadget) be quite nice for carrying whilst
Have you been struggling to life." Head on past the break for a video conversion tool. More »
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:52:00 AM sauntering about the penthouse.
come to terms with your non- glimpse of the app itself, and hit On the back is a raised black
iPhone-controlled massage chair up the source link below to find a It's a bit odd to see a gadget go surface that surely can't be glass...
ever since seeing the Acutouch r e t a i l e r n e a r y o u ( i t ' s from sitting in your hand to sitting right? Anyhow, there's no being
HT-9500 back in August? Well, unfortunately listed as out of in the output file of some renderer sure of the legitimacy of these
your long, comfortable nightmare stock online). but, if images uncovered by renders, but both look respectable
could soon be over. The massage Continue reading iPhone- blogeee.net are as legit as they're enough to show up on this tablet
chair is now available for the low, controlled Acutouch HT-9500 said to be, MSI looks to be whenever it shows up at retail,
low price of $4,999 -- that's a full massage chair now available thinking a redesign for its supposedly by the end of the year.
grand off the MSRP. In case you iPhone-controlled Acutouch HT- upcoming WindPad tablet. Two MSI WindPad tablet design
missed it, the real selling point 9500 massage chair now available different versions are shown, one concepts rendered, available in
here (for some folks, anyway) is originally appeared on Engadget with a chromed bezel that's not your choice of innie or outie
the accompanying HT-Connect on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:14:00 entirely unlike the one we played originally appeared on Engadget
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Workers Funding Obligations; Needs to Double Property Taxes;
but so very bored. Vertu's happy to have "cray Uncle Vertu"
QWERTY-packing Constellation around for the party. Democrats' Attack Ads? Current Liabilities of $41,966 per Household
Quest has just gotten the FCC's Gallery: Vertu Constellation (AEI.Org: Articles) noreply@blogger.com (Michael its property taxes for the next 40
stamp of approval, and in addition Quest shows up at the FCC Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Submitted at 10/18/2010 6:00:00 PM years to cover its pension
to the typical beauty shots the Vertu Constellation Quest shows Economic Trend Analysis) obligations, said Gene Saffold, the
FCC includes, there's also a up at the FCC, running Symbian With its baseless charge that the
Submitted at 10/18/2010 10:16:00 PM city's chief financial officer.
detailed manual that shows the and looking pleasantly outrageous U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Congratulations of sorts go to To cover the outstanding
phone to be running some heavily originally appeared on Engadget using foreign money to influence Chicago for having the most liabilities, each household in
skinned version of Symbian. The on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:37:00 the November elections, the messed up pension plan of any Chicago would have to pay
phone has HSDPA data and WiFi, EDT. Please see our terms for use Obama administration and its city in the nation. $41,966, the report concluded.
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phone, like when it will hit stores The accusations that foreign Much has been made of retiring Inquiring minds just may be
and how many arms and legs it ARE page 37 Mayor Richard Daley's plan to w o n d e r i n g " H o w m a n y
will cost, but for now we're just draw down reserve funds to households are in Chicago?"
balance next year's city budget The answer is 1,044,027. That
The Future of Housing Finance and how it could burden his would make the pension liability a
successor. mere $43,813,637,082.
(AEI.Org: Articles) supporters of Fannie Mae and do even more--play a dominant But the chairman of the Finance Chicago is bankrupt.
Submitted at 10/18/2010 6:00:00 PM Freddie Mac frequently used to and disproportionate role. In the Committee, Ald. Ed Burke, today Mike "Mish" Shedlock
say, "American housing finance is wake of the bubble, it is clear that talked about a far larger problem. h t t p : / /
American housing finance is the envy of the world." It really this GSE-centric model should not One in four pension funds for city globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
living in the wake of the great wasn't, as discussions with survive. What should replace it? . workers will go broke in the next com
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corporations are funding
Republican attack ads have been
widely panned. Even President
Obama and his top aides have
admitted they have no proof to
back their allegations against the
Chamber and conservative
campaign groups such as
American Crossroads (Obama
said the Chamber's money "could"
be coming from foreign-owned
corporations but "we don't
know.") Now the Democrats' calls
for investigations into these
groups could backfire--leading to
closer scrutiny of the sources of
funding for Democratic attack
ads. Labor unions are spending
millions to tar Republican
candidates--and they take in far
more foreign cash than the
Chamber. If the GOP takes
control of Congress,
investigations into how organized
labor funds its political efforts
could be forthcoming.
The SEIU takes in nearly $9.2
million per year from foreign
nationals--almost 10 times the
amount the Chamber receives
from its affiliates abroad.
The U.S. Chamber says it
receives about $100,000 from its
affiliates abroad (out of an
operating budget of about $200
million), none of it used for
political campaigns. Compare that
to one of the largest labor unions
in America, the Service
Employees International Union
(SEIU), which is spending
lavishly to elect Democrats. The
SEIU claims 100,000 members in
Canada. According to SEIU's
2008 constitution, dues include
$7.65 per month per member that
must be sent to the SEIU
International in the United States.
This means that the SEIU takes in
nearly $9.2 million per year from
foreign nationals--almost 10 times
the amount the Chamber receives
from its affiliates abroad.
Is any foreign money being used
to fund the SEIU's anti-
Republican campaign efforts?
According to the Wall Street
Journal, "The Service Employees
International Union, one of the
nation's fastest-growing labor
unions, acknowledges that it can't
be certain that foreign nationals
haven't contributed to its $44
million political budget to support
pro-labor Democrats." The SEIU
is not the only union that takes in
money from foreign members.
According to the Canadian
Department of Human Resources
and Skills Development, the
United Steel, Paper and Forestry,
Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy,
Allied Industrial and Service
Workers has 280,000 Canadian
members; the United Food and
Commercial Workers has more
than 245,000; the Teamsters has
more than 108,000; the Laborers'
International Union of North
America has more than 68,000;
and the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers has more
than 57,000. How much do these
foreign union members send to
the United States? If the
constitutions of their unions are
anything like SEIU's, it could be
tens of millions of dollars. Is any
of that money being used to help
elect Democrats this November?
Unions have another source of
foreign cash: dues from illegal
immigrants. In an April 2007
speech, uncovered by the
conservative Web site RedState,
SEIU Executive Vice President
Eliseo Medina boasts how his
union's rolls are loaded with
illegal immigrants. Medina
declares proudly: "SEIU is the
largest union of immigrant
workers in the country, and a
number of them are
undocumented. But let me hasten
to add, these are not just Latinos.
In our membership are Eastern
Europeans, Irish, Polish, Indians,
Chinese--the whole world is
represented among the
undocumented and also in our
membership. We also represent
American-born workers, legal
residents."
They "also" represent legal
residents? Exactly how many
illegal workers are on the rolls of
the SEIU and other trade unions?
Do the unions track which of their
members are here illegally? How
much do these illegal workers
contribute to union coffers each
year? And is any of this money
being used to fund union efforts to
elect Democrats this November?
Some may argue that raising such
questions is unfair. But it was the
president of the United States who
opened the door to this line of
inquiry. Obama recently said of
the Chamber, "Groups that
receive foreign money are
spending huge sums to influence
American elections." Well
Obama's allies in organized labor
receive far more foreign money
than the Chamber and are
spending huge sums to influence
American elections. They have
boasted of having illegal foreign
workers on their rolls and have
admitted that they cannot be
certain money from foreign
nationals has not been used in
their campaigns efforts against
Republican candidates.
Now it's time for the Democrats
to start answering the same
charges that they leveled against
the Chamber and American
Crossroads with such abandon. Is
organized labor using foreign
money to elect Democrats this
November? To paraphrase the
president, they could be--we just
don't know. But if Republicans
win two weeks from now, and
take control of the investigative
committees of Congress, we may
soon find out.
Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
fellow at AEI.
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'Mad Men's' 10
Most Meaningful
Lines of the Season
Jane Murphy (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 7:20:00 AM
Filed under: Features As we look
back and dissect'Mad Men's'
finale, delaying hibernation from
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce for
one more day, let's take a look at
season 4's most meaningful lines.
Not necessarily the most
memorable lines, mind you. Our
winner in that category: "I would
have my secretary do it, but she's
dead."
This list is dedicated to the
dialogue - evocative, ironic, or
more than a little strange --
through which creator Matthew
Weiner and company gave small
(very, very small) clues to his epic
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Here's What You Need To Know About China's Unexpected
Deposit Rate Hike
Michael Pettis (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:06:00 AM
The PBoC has just announced
that it is hiking the one-year
lending and deposit rates by 25
basis points. Here is what
Bloomberg says:
China raised its benchmark
lending and deposit rates for the
first time since 2007 after
inflation accelerated to the fastest
pace in 22 months. The one-year
deposit rate will increase to 2.5
percent from 2.25 percent,
effective tomorrow, the People’s
Bank of China said on its website
today. The lending rate will
increase to 5.56 percent from 5.31
percent, it said.
China’s inflation quickened to
3.5 percent in August,
highlighting overheating risks that
have prompted the government to
curb credit and clamp down on
the real-estate market this year.
Higher interest rates may
encourage inflows of speculative
capital from abroad, complicating
management of the fastest-
growing major economy.
This is definitely good news. It
increases household income by
raising the return on savings,
which is a necessary part of the
rebalancing process. It (very
slightly) reduces the incredible
incentive to borrow money and
splurge on manufacturing
capacity, investment and real
estate development. And it
signals that the PBoC is
concerned about overinvestment.
But it is a pretty small move and
very late. The PBoC has been,
very unwillingly I think, behind
the curve on interest rates. Most
of us believe the PBoC has
wanted to slow investment growth
and to raise rates for a quite a
while now, but it isn’t easy to do
so. One of the problems is that
the economy – especially local
and provincial governments and
SOEs, not to mention the central
bank itself – is so dependent on
artificially low interest rates to
remain profitable or viable, that
even a small increase in interest
rates can raise put pressure on
cash flow and financial distress
costs.
Beijing hasn’t raised interest
rates in nearly three years
(December 2007), even though
deposit rates are clearly negative
and the lending rate may well be
close to zero or even negative –
depending on what you consider
the right measure of inflation.
There have been rumors about a
rate hike for the past three weeks.
Earlier this month Chen Long, my
assistant at SWS, told me that the
there was a lot of talk about a hike
in the deposit rate some time this
month.
We thought it would be very
unlikely that the deposit rate
would be hiked without an
equivalent hike in the lending
rate. The very wide spread
between the two (306 basis points
for one-year maturities, which
does not take into account the
typical maturity mismatch
between depositors and
borrowers) is the main part of a
bank recapitalization process
which many believe necessary to
protect the system from an
anticipated surge in non-
performing loans.
But Chinese borrowers are too
dependent on artificially low
interest rates for their viability, so
we felt there really wasn’t much
room to raise the lending rate.
Our conclusion: the PBoC might
raise both deposit and lending
rates by up to 25 basis points,
mainly as a way of reversing
some of the decline in real lending
rates during the past year, but they
wouldn’t be able to do anything
more aggressive.
The key is to see if they follow
this up in the next month or so
with more rate hikes, which I
doubt, but it depends on what the
balance of power is between the
various economic views. More
rate hikes would be great news for
the medium term rebalancing
process. Real rates in China have
declined rapidly this year and, as I
have argued many times before,
this is a real problem for the
economy. Declining real rates
exacerbates China’s already
serious over-reliance on excess
investment. But I don’t think
there is much they can do about it
without causing a serious
slowdown in growth, and before
the leadership transition in 2012 I
don’t think there is much appetite
for a slowdown, no matter how
badly needed.
New lending
On a related note the most
interesting piece of news last
week for me was the new lending
number. Net lending grew in
September by RMB 596 billion, a
lot more than the expected RMB
500 billion. This may have
helped convince Beijing that they
needed to do something more
drastic and probably helped the
decision to raise rates.
New lending totaled RMB 6.3
trillion for 2010 year to date (84%
of the RMB 7.5 trillion quota).
To get a sense of comparison, in
2009 new lending in September
was RMB 517 billion, with the
year-to-date total being RMB 8,7
trillion (90% of the year’s RMB
9.6 trillion total). In 2008 new
lending in September was RMB
378 billion, with the year-to-date
total being RMB 3.5 trillion (71%
of the year’s RMB 4.9 trillion
total).
We are talking some pretty big
numbers. Last week the PBoC
also raised the minimum reserve
requirements for the six biggest
banks by 50 basis points. Here is
what my assistant at SWS, Chen
Long, said at the time:
The PBoC unexpectedly lifted
the reserve requirement rate for
two months by 0.5% for the 6
largest banks, which will freeze
RMB 200 billion in the banking
system. The PBoC’s open market
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operations had injected RMB 181
billion into the market with 3-
month, one-year, and three-year
bills and notes. Short-term money
market rates dropped while long-
term rates rose.
The RMB accelerated its
appreciation this week, and we
believe it will continue. USD
remained very weak, but the RMB
actually depreciated again a
basket of currencies in the last
week as other currencies (AUD,
JPY, SGD and EUR) rose. What
is happening now is exactly what
we expected: Beijing is
appreciating RMB, but does not
dare to tighten the credit.
Liquidity is very loose and is the
main reason driving up the stock
market.
It looks like there has been a lot
of unsterilized money creation in
the third quarter, driven at least in
part by what seems to be a pick up
in hot money inflows, and the
reserve hike was probably aimed
at mopping up some of that
money. There is some concern
that today’s raising of the deposit
rate might cause an increase in hot
money inflows, but I am
skeptical. I don’t think 25 basis
points one way or the other is
going to drive hot money in such
a volatile economy.
I suspect the PBoC actions on
minimum reserves also represent
what seems to be a split among
policymakers. One the one hand
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Lie of the Month: Geithner Says US will Not Engage in

Devaluing Dollar
noreply@blogger.com (Michael signaled the Federal Reserve is Paul Zemsky, the New York- small business trends and every savers. Certainly their spending
Shedlock) (Mish's Global prepared to ease monetary policy. based head of asset allocation for month it looks like a broken has been curtailed as a result.
Economic Trend Analysis) Where once such a decline may ING Investment Management, record. October is no different. Every dollar a borrower saves
Submitted at 10/19/2010 2:23:00 AM have been met with resistance which oversees $550 billion. Please consider NFIB Small from some sort of refinance deal
Given all the problems with from the U.S., Geithner may now Matt McCormick, portfolio Business Trends for October. is a dollar of interest income lost
foreclosures, it might seem hard be tolerating it as a way of manager at Cincinnati-based Bahl Inflation Not A Threat to savers. Even lenders will lose
to pick a winner for the lie of the bolstering the recovery. & Gaynor Inc., which manages Inflation? Not a threat. Far more income as loans with interval rate
month contest. However, fraud Companies from Costco $2.9 billion, said the dollar’s owners have cut prices than raised re-sets will be set based on
and lies are not the same thing, Wholesale Corp. to Deere & Co. weakness is benefiting companies them for 21 months in a row. historically very low Treasury
but even if they were, Geithner is have credited the weaker dollar he owns with “significant” Deflation? It certainly feels that rates (lowering net interest
up to the task. for giving their earnings a boost, overseas revenue, including way to a quarter of the owners margins). No wonder confidence
Please consider Geithner denies and the currency’s slide has McDonald’s Corp., Procter & reporting price declines for the is low and uncertainty is high, it is
US bid to weaken dollar helped propel the Dow Jones Gamble Co., Intel Corp. and goods and services they produce hard to make sense of this. The
S p e a k i n g a t a m e e t i n g i n Industrial Average above 11,000 Qualcomm Inc. and sell, and apparently a majority previous three paragraphs hold the
California on Monday, Tim for the first time since May. “A low dollar will be with us for at the Federal Reserve are now key to understanding just how
Geithner, Treasury secretary, “In an era where deflation longer than most people expect,” worried. New “inflation targets” wrong the Fed's weak dollar
denied that the US was trying to pressures appear to be the greatest he said. are being floated out there, like policy is. Multinationals and
devalue the dollar to boost its risk, growth is below trend and “Geithner’s comments recently two percent (characterized as exporters may like it, but the net
economy. the U.S. wants to boost exports, have been not exactly dollar- price stability?). This will be the effect on jobs is negative.
“It is very important for people to why would they not want” a supportive,” said Barry Knapp, justification for more Geithner says “ It is not a viable,
understand that the United States weaker dollar, Jim O’Neill, chief U.S. equity strategist at “quantitative easing”. Buying feasible strategy and we will not
of America and no country around chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Barclays Plc in New York. more Treasury securities may engage in it.” Half of that
the world can devalue its way to Management in London, said in “Typically what happens is that push rates even lower, but to what sentence is true, and that is about
prosperity and competitiveness,” an interview. “The answer is the Treasury either says we end? The impact on home sales the best you can expect from
he said. “It is not a viable, feasible when it becomes a problem for support a strong dollar or we think will surely be minimal. With Geithner.
strategy and we will not engage in financial markets. Until then it’s a a free market should decide where mortgage rates at record low Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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Industrial Production Unexpectedly Declines, First Drop in a
Year; Where to From Here?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:44:00 AM
In yet another sign of a
weakening economy, Production
in U.S. Unexpectedly Dropped in
September Output at factories,
mines and utilities fell 0.2
percent, the first decline since the
recession ended in June 2009,
figures from the Federal Reserve
showed today. Factory production
also decreased 0.2 percent,
reflecting declines in consumer
durable goods, like appliances and
furniture.
The rebuilding of stockpiles, a
component of the factory rebound
last year, will probably cool
following eight consecutive gains
in inventories, a sign assembly
lines will not accelerate much
more. At the same time,
improving demand from overseas
and a pickup in business
investment on new equipment
may keep benefiting American
manufacturers like Alcoa Inc.,
helping support the
Economists forecast production
would increase 0.2 percent,
according to the median of 63
projections in a Bloomberg News
LIE
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survey. Estimates ranged from a
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of 0.4 percent. The drop followed
an unrevised 0.2 percent gain in
August. Industrial Production
Release
Inquiring minds are interested in
the Industrial Production Release
details.
Final products and consumer
goods were both down for the
second consecutive month. With
the collapse in housing and the
stimulus money pretty much
spent, I expect further weakening
of all the major market group
components.
The only positives in the report
this month are mining and
business equipment, with the
latter weakening rapidly.
Industrial Production
In percentage terms the bounce in
industrial production looks
impressive. In actual terms it
looks pretty feeble.
Note that industrial production
collapsed to 1998 lows at the
bottom of the recession, taking
back an unprecedented 11 years
worth of gains. In spite of the
huge bounce from the bottom in
percentage terms, Industrial
production is barely above the
level in 2000.
Business Inventories
Note the impressive drop in
business inventories. In
percentage terms the rebound
looks good, but only in percentage
terms, not real terms.
Moreover, the important point is
that inventory replenishment is
nearly over. Looking ahead,
production will be more in line
with actual final demand, and that
demand looks both weak and
weakening.
Look for 3rd quarter GDP to
surprise to the downside.
Fed is Spooked
I believe this is what has the Fed
spooked. Yet, spooked or not, the
Demographic Pendulum is in
Motion.
Demographic Pendulum in
Motion
Few understand the deflationary
impacts of the entire gamut of
trends that is playing out, or the
stress these trends place on
families.
It is futile to fight changing
social trends, but that has not
stopped the Fed with reckless
proposals on top of reckless
proposals. Please see Inflation
Targeting Proposal an Exercise in
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Blazing Stupidity; Fed Fools Itself
for more details.
As I stated in June of 2008, we
are now on the back side of peak
consumption and Peak Credit.
Regardless of what Bernanke of
the Fed does, the demographic
pendulum is in motion. There is
no going back. Once attitudes hit
extreme then reverse, there is
nothing the Fed or anyone else
can do about it.
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Those of you considering voting
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consider this.
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post-Plaza Accord policies.
2010 if we are to make the quota.
Let’s see if that happens. It
fiscal deficit or in disguised
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“We have enough wealth to
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On the other hand many averaged RMB 310 billion a growth – even more so if the trade
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6, Episode 9
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They have made it very difficult numbers within the quota, but Recaps['Weeds' - 'To Moscow,
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Gregory White (Money Game) and gradual improvement into Unwilling to admit, or suggest, has to deal with the dollar. It is paper.
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:37:13 AM 2011. the Fed is engaging in activity the not one of the more prominent The writers began to draw an
• 2:35 More concerned about Treasury is against. things. interesting line between Nancy's
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Science fiction has served as a could levitate above the delays relatively affordable planes that when they might be buzzing will be moved.
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Hollywood, it’s that the world
will end in spectacular fashion.
Thankfully, it also schooled us on
how to survive. Movies and TV
shows are overflowing with handy
tips for keeping it together when
everything falls apart.
Scenario A:
Rampant Viruses/ Exploding
Nukes
The causes are just distractions.
The outcome is the same: empty
cities but plentiful resources. The
real problem won’t be smoldering
ruins—it’s the hell that is other
people. And zombies. Steal an
armored ATV like in Damnation
Alley or a Doomsday 1-style
converted bus. Fill it with food,
water, and gear like they do in
Survivors 2. Also, guns. At least
those will scare off the cannibal
raiders à la The Road 3 or The
Book of Eli. And if Omega Man
taught us anything, it’s that world-
ending viruses also create
zombies, so aim for the head.
You’re also going to need to
know kung fu. Zombies hate kung
fu.
Modern Architecture: Razor's Edge (13 pics)
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:30:00 AM
This pointy building by architect
Daniel Libeskind is like that hot
chick with a bad attitude. The
Frederic C. Hamilton Building is
an extension of the already
Scenario B:
Natural Disaster
Errant asteroids, flip-flopping
magnetic poles, or total climatic
collapse will make things awfully
lonely. Just look at that poor
bastard in The Quiet Earth 4. He
ended up dressing in a lady’s slip
and preaching to a cardboard
cutout of Hitler. Worse yet,
you’re going to be hunting for
water like the Solarbabies or
freezing your ass off in a Day
After Tomorrow 5-style winter.
So bring a pair of roller blades
and a warm jacket. Also,
engineering and physics textbooks
are the perfect foundation for
rebuilding the ties that bind
humanity (though an RV also
helped in Ark II 6). And track
down a knockoff lightsaber—if
it’s good enough for Thundarr the
Barbarian…
Scenario C:
Alien Invasion
When giant alien tripods start
blasting people with heat rays, as
in War of the Worlds 7 or, um,
The Tripods, you have little
existing Denver Art Museum.
Inspired by the vitality and
growth of Denver, the addition
currently houses the Modern and
Contemporary art collections as
well as the collection of Oceanic
and African Art.
"The materials of the building context as well as innovative new
closely relate to the existing
recourse but to hope they forgot to
take their allergy meds or that,
like in Independence Day 8, their
computers are vulnerable to a
Mac virus. If the aliens look just
like us, bodies are gonna get
snatched. Smart survivors observe
friends and family to distinguish
them from pod people, à la
Invaders From Mars 9. Tolerance
for g forces and heights helps, too,
whether flying fighter jets against
10-foot-tall Thetans—er,
aliens—from Battlefield: Earth or
jumping from helicopters to kill
(non-alien) dragons in Reign of
Fire.
Scenario D:
Authoritarian Dystopia
Life in the megalopolis can be
fun—the restaurants! the
thunderdomes!—but it’s always
raining acid, and traffic is a bitch.
First things first: Get a job as a
cop. That gig made life easier in
the Blade Runner 10, Logan’s
Run, and Judge Dredd 11
universes, and it lets you learn
cool skills, like Gun Kata in
Equilibrium 12. Professional
athletes also have it made, so join
the Rollerball team or the pit crew
in Death Race 2000. The
slavering proles will bet on your
success even if you’re a convicted
murderer, like in The Running
Man. Skip the exhausting Matrix-
ian messiah act. The one
takeaway: The State hates kung
fu.
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together will form spaces that
connect local Denver tradition to
the 21st Century," says Libeskind.
"The new building is not based on
an idea of style or the rehashing
of ready made ideas or external
shape because its architecture
does not separate the inside from
Culture/ 43
Palm Pre 2 and
WebOS2 Announced,
Adobe Flash Supported
Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:30:00 AM
Palm has announced the Pre 2,
along with a major update to its
webOS. It will be available to buy
in France this Friday on SFR and
will be available in the US
(Verizon) and in Canada “in the
coming months.”
Hardware-wise, not much has
changed. In fact, from the outside,
PALM page 44
the outside or provide a pretty
facade behind which a typical
experience exists; rather this
architecture has an organic
connection to the public at large
and to those aspects of experience
that are also intellectual,
emotional, and sensual."
Daniel Libeskind
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continued from page 43
the Pre 2 is almost identical to the
Pre, and it still has the slide-out
QWERTY of the original. There
are a few differences: the camera
is now 5-Megapixels, up from
3MP, memory has jumped from
8GB to 16GB (although the
upgraded Pre Plus already got this
boost) and, well, that’s about it.
You probably won’t notice the
difference in your hand.
Which leaves the interesting stuff
to webOS 2.0. The headline
feature is “True Multitasking”,
which HP and Palm tout as
allowing you to switch between
apps and then go back to where
you left off. This doesn’t actually
look anything like “true”
multitasking, which keeps the
applications open and running,
and even rendering unseen
graphics as happens on a PC. In
fact, it looks a lot like the Android
and iOS versions of multitasking,
which effectively pause apps
when they’re not in actual use.
The presentation is different,
though, with an update to the
“cards” metaphor that the original
webOS used to organize app
windows. Now these will be
sorted into stacks, grouped by
task.
More useful is “Just Type”. This
lets you start typing to launch
apps, search the phone, send
email and other things (Just Type
is open to third-party developers,
too). If you have used a quick-
launcher on your computer, like
Quicksilver or Launchbar on the
Mac, then you’ll be familiar with
just how great this could be.
The Pre’s ability to tie into all
your social networks and pull in
accounts and contact details
remains, only now it’s called HP
Synergy, after Palm’s new owner.
“Exhibition” is another useful
addition. Exhibition is triggered
when you stick the Pre to its
pebble-like magnetic charging-
dock, the Touchstone, and can be
configured to show a slideshow,
your day’s appointments or
anything else a developer might
choose to do.
There are also a whole lot of
smaller tweaks, but there’s one
more thing that Palm has snuck in
that is worth a mention: Adobe
Flash. webOS “now supports a
beta of Adobe Flash Player 10.1
in the browser.” This will only
work on the Pre phones, not the
Pixi or Pixi Plus, and it is unclear
whether it actually comes pre-
installed.
Finally, you’ll have to wait for
the price. SFR, the French carrier
that will launch the Pre 2 this
Friday, has taken down its Pre 2
page already. Google’s cache tells
us that the handset will have a
1GHz processor and 512MB
RAM, but that’s about it.
This seems a very pedestrian
upgrade in a world where Android
handsets grow as powerful as
small computers, and the iPhone 4
has leapt ahead of its predecessor
in every way. It seems that Palm
is still competing with last year’s
models of everything. Lets just
hope that the team are putting all
their time into the upcoming
webOS tablets, at least.
Palm Pre 2[Palm]
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night to host its 17th annual
Women in Hollywood event. The
gray carpet was full of color, with
both Diane Kruger and Gwyneth
Paltrow opting for bright Calvin
Klein numbers. Kate Hudson,
each honored at the bash along
meanwhile, went with a black with Diane. Kate took the stage to
Prabal Gurung dress and a daring
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covered up her supposed baby
Hawn. Jake had kind words to
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Zoe for QVC fur, while Jake she is not a mere mortal like the
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headed inside to her waiting
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Oct. 19, 1943: A Wonderful Discovery, and a Helluva Row

Tony Long (Wired Top Stories) court settlement. spent all of his adult life pursuing.
Submitted at 10/19/2010 6:00:00 AM The key that unlocked He died in 2005.
streptomycin was Schatz’s Source: The Guardian
1943: A biochemistry grad success in isolating two active Photo: Albert Schatz (left) and
student discovers streptomycin, a strains of actinomycetes. Both Selman Waksman.
synthetic antibiotic used to treat could effectively stop the growth Rutgers University Archive
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Feeling slighted and discarded, at the Smithsonian Institution. I disease that was often fatal and at the time because he believed
Schatz grew increasingly bitter. felt elated, and very tired, but I still widespread at the time. that streptomycin should be made
Finally, in 1950, he sued his had no idea whether the new Waksman, who had once available, quickly and cheaply.
former mentor, as well as the antibiotic would be effective in described Schatz as his most It was 1990 before Schatz finally
university, and won an out-of- treating people. gifted student ever, took full received the official credit he

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Ralph Lauren for the Ladies
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 4:37:39 PM
The biggest buzz this weekend
was about the new Ralph Lauren
boutique that opened on Madison
Avenue. Located across the street
from his already famous
Rhinelander mansion for men,
this one is devoted to women and
home. Unlike most retailers who
hire the "it architect" of the
moment to create a modern store,
Ralph Lauren chose to look to the
past and to complement the
Rhinelander mansion.
The Beaux Arts style limestone
beauty was a collaboration
between Weddle Gilmore and
architect Thomas Hut of HS2
Architecture with a nod to
McKim, Mead & White. It
harkens back to the age of Edith
Wharton and looks rather grand.
According to The New York
Times, Ruth Brown, a widow,
hired McKim, Mead & White in
1893 to design a house at the
southwest corner of Madison
Avenue at 72nd Street (above).
She never moved into the
mansion and in 1895 it was sold
to Alva Vanderbilt. Work on
Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo's
"fanciful chateau" on the
southeast corner was completed in
1897. It was bought by Ralph
Lauren for his store in 1986.
As you can see, there was
nothing chic about the building
that replaced the original McKim,
Mead & White mansion in the
1950's. It later became another
Ralph Lauren boutique which was
torn down to make way for this
chic boutique.
Even though the building is
dedicated to Ralph Lauren, there
is something about the black and
white central staircase with its
mirrored walls that reminds me of
Coco Chanel. I think she too
would have also enjoyed this
space.
The whole building is absolutely
gorgeous and I highly recommend
a visit. Right now, the Ralph
Lauren Home boutique occupies
the fourth floor but I hear it will
be moved to the adjacent
brownstone under construction.
I'll be sure to keep you posted.
Happy Shopping!
Ralph Lauren 888 Madison
Avenue at 72nd Street New York,
NY 10021 212-606-2100
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b u t t o n e d - d o w n , r u l e - b o u n d violations are severe.
people who care about precision Still, the lack of a speed limit
and discipline more than anything makes the autobahn a tempting
else. Of course, that stereotype informal speed track. In fact,
would seem to fail when you pull German car makers once used it
onto the autobahn. to set speed records, until a couple
The autobahn works a lot like the of horrific crashes and increased
U.S. interstate system-- it's a traffic (which brought along
network of high-speed roads built increased liability) made doing so
to take travelers from city to city impractical. Now those setting
as quickly as possible. However, records on the autobahn are more
there's one major difference that likely to be individuals hoping for
sets the autobahn apart. A a little glory.
d i f f e r e n c e t h a t ' s a l s o t h e Keep reading to learn about five
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A First Look at Robert, Backstage at Dancing With the Stars:
Kristen, and Taylor on the Name That Tune?
Set of Breaking Dawn!
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:45:00 AM
Kristen Stewart and Robert
Pattinson reunited with Taylor
Lautner last week on the
Louisiana set of Breaking Dawn!
The trio was spotted near their
trailers, talking and stopping to
play with someone's dog. She's
had to leave their Southern
location, though, for a few days of
work in NYC, where she's been
busy promoting, premiering, and
partying to support her other film
Welcome to the Rileys. Robert
and Taylor are apparently still
prepping to shoot alongside their
other Twilight costars like Kellan
Lutz, Nikki Reed, and Ashley
Greene, who left LA together over
the weekend. Kristen will soon
head back to join the group to
The Most Despicable Ad
of the Year
Jason Zengerle (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:00:00 PM
There are still two weeks left
until the midterm elections, but
it’s not too early to declare a
winner in the contest for the most
despicable political ad of this
campaign season. On Friday
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Deborah Starr Seibel
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:04:00 AM
Dancing With The Stars
If you thought that dancing to
iconic TV theme songs on
Monday night's Dancing With the
Stars would give the performers a
leg up because they already knew
the music, you'd be wrong.
In fact, most the Dancing pros —
and at least one star — were
either too young or living in a
foreign country when American
continue her good times with television hits such as Bewitched
Robert after their stint in LA a nd Hill Street Blues were on the
taking in shows and doing dinner air. "I had no idea what that song
together.
was," says pro Cheryl Burke, who 1972) was a completely new 20 million people, that you would
was born in 1984 and danced to experience. "I had to YouTube it be dancing to it? You couldn't
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Rick Fox was a different story. He Did it help? "Yes, but I wish it Is there any other theme
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says he idolized one of its stars, nose to get [ Kurt Warner] to dance? "The theme from The
Michael Warren, a former UCLA learn to dance." Addams Family," she says.
basketball player. "I could name Happily, for one couple, there "Anything but The Partridge
that tune in one note," says Fox.
Adds Burke, "I liked it, but I was
was total recall: Florence
Henderson and pro Corky Ballas
Family," adds Williams, laughing.
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danced to Henderson's own theme
from The Brady Bunch(1969-
1974). "It brings up so many
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the early 1980s. At Baylor, Paul
belonged to a secret society
known as the NoZe Brotherhood
which, according to the ad’s
narrator, “called the Holy Bible ‘a
hoax’ [and] was banned [from
campus] for mocking Christianity
and Christ.” It was also during his
time at Baylor that Paul and a
fellow NoZe brother allegedly
tied up a female classmate, tried
to get her to do bong hits with
them, and then took her to a creek
where they made her worship
“Aqua Buddha”—which, as the
ad points out, is “a false idol.”
During a candidate debate on
Sunday night, Conway repeated
these charges, while Paul accused
Conway of “descend[ing] into the
gutter” and “demean[ing]
Kentucky.” When the debate was
over, Paul refused to shake
Conway’s hand.
Frankly, I don’t blame him. First,
no candidate over the age of, say,
30 should be held politically
accountable for anything he or she
did in college—short of gross
academic misconduct or
committing a felony. Second, and
more importantly, a politician’s
religious faith should simply be
off-limits. If it’s disgusting when
conservatives question Barack
Obama’s Christianity, then it’s
disgusting when Jack Conway
questions Rand Paul’s.
Alas, as the guy who first shined
a light on Paul’s NoZe
membership and the Aqua
Buddha prank in GQ this past
summer, I suppose I’m
responsible for supplying the raw
material for Conway’s disgusting
ad. But the reason I wrote about
Paul’s college days was not
because I thought they revealed
anything interesting or significant
about his religious faith, or even
his attitudes toward illegal drugs.
Rather, I wrote about them
because I believe they point to
traits that are crucial to
understanding Rand Paul: namely,
his anti-authority streak and his
lack of respect for institutions.
Although the Conway campaign
makes the NoZe Brotherhood
sound like a bunch of pagans who
got together to sacrifice small
woodland creatures in tribute to
the anti-Christ, the group was, in
reality, the closest thing Baylor
had to the Harvard Lampoon. In
other words, the NoZe existed to
poke fun at and, whenever
possible, piss off the school’s
administration; and since Baylor
was (and, to a lesser extent, still
is) a devoutly Southern Baptist
school, the surest way to do that
was to engage in absurd acts of
sacrilege. So that’s the context for
understanding why the NoZe, in
its satirical newspaper, called the
bible “a hoax”; and why Paul
allegedly told a female classmate
his God was “Aqua Buddha”; and
why the Baylor administration
ultimately banned the NoZe from
campus. After all, during Paul’s
time at Baylor, the Baylor
administration banned dancing on
campus, too. (Chapel attendance,
meanwhile, was required.)
Belonging to the NoZe didn’t
mean a Baylor student was
irreligious or a bad Christian. It
simply meant the student didn’t
subscribe to—or, at the very least,
was questioning toward—all of
the very conservative dictates of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
And that’s what’s so interesting
about Paul’s membership in the
NoZe. As the son of a Texas
Republican congressman, he
might have been expected to join
a fraternity or a campus Christian
group—as the sons of other
prominent Texas politicos did
when they went to Baylor.
Instead, Paul fell in with the one
group at Baylor that flagrantly
thumbed its collective nose at the
cult of conformity that permeated
every corner of the campus.
“None of us were real line-toers,”
John Green, one of Paul’s old
NoZe brothers, explained to me.
“We all had conflicts with
authority. If you didn’t get that
about our group, you weren’t
going to fit in with us, so it does
say something about him that he
belonged.”
What it says is that, unlike so
many politicians who cast
themselves as outsiders, Paul is
the real deal. Time and again
throughout his life—first as a
student at Baylor; then as a
renegade ophthalmologist who
tried to secede from the
specialty’s leading professional
organization in protest of its
membership rules; and finally as a
Senate candidate who ran against
the state’s Republican
establishment in the GOP
primary—Paul has demonstrated
a profound lack of respect for
authority and institutions. In this,
he’s very different from the
typical Republican senator. And if
Paul makes it to Washington, it
stands to reason that he’ll display
a similar attitude toward the
powers that be in the Senate
Republican caucus, occasionally
making Mitch McConnell look
like Dean Wormer.
Granted, now that Paul’s running
for the Senate, he’s a lot less
forthright than he once was about
this part of his character. In fact,
while Conway obviously gets the
lion’s share of the blame for
making Paul’s behavior in college
part of this campaign, I think Paul
could have defused the entire
Aqua Buddha story back in the
summer if he’d simply owned up
to it with something along the
lines of, “When I was young and
irresponsible, I was young and
irresponsible.” Instead, he and his
campaign offered up carefully
worded statements that denied
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accusations his former classmate
never made while refusing to
address what she did say
occurred.
Then again, maybe Paul was
doing the politically smart thing
by playing coy—in the hope of
baiting Conway into this attack.
The fact that Paul’s now raising
money off of Conway’s
commercial would seem to
suggest that Paul sees an
advantage there. Indeed, if I had
to guess, I actually think
Conway’s ad makes Paul’s
election—already probable—even
more likely. Just as voters in
North Carolina recoiled when
Liddy Dole questioned Kay
Hagan’s faith in 2008, I imagine
Conway’s ad will generate a
similar backlash among voters in
Kentucky. Which is unfortunate.
After all, there are many, many
good reasons to vote against Paul.
What he did during his time at
Baylor, however, isn’t one of
them.
Jason Zengerle is a senior editor
of The New Republic.
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Mother Sues Tyra Banks Over

Daughter's Appearance on Sex Addicts
Episode
Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:55:00 AM

Tyra Banks
A mother of a 15-year-old girl
has filed a $3 million lawsuit
against Tyra Banks, claiming that
her child appeared on a teen sex
addicts-themed episode of Banks'
talk show in 2009 without her
permission, according to The
Associated Press.
In the suit, Beverly McClendon
says the show contacted her
daughter on her cell phone after
the girl responded to the show's
website seeking "sex addicts."
McClendon claims the girl was
picked up in a limo and flown to
New York, where she was put up
in a hotel, all without
McClendon's knowledge. The girl
has never been diagnosed as a sex
addict, the lawsuit says.
McClendon, who says she filed a
missing person's report with local
police when she discovered her
daughter was gone, says she and
her daughter suffered damages
because the show "was
undoubtedly watched by sexual
deviants, perverts and
pedophiles." The lawsuit also
names Warner Bros.
Entertainment and the executive
producers of Banks' epononymous
show, which ended in May.
An e-mail to the Banks' rep was
not immediately returned.
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:04:00 AM
Shannon Woodward, Raising
Hope
You may not know Shannon
Woodward's name just yet, but
that's about to change. On Raising
Hope, she's proving a standout as
Sabrina, the mischievous love
interest of young dad Jimmy
Chance ( Lucas Neff). (Catch a re
-airing of the pilot tonight at 9:01/
8:01c on Fox).
One person who's already a fan?
Singer Katy Perry, Woodward's
bestie. (The pop star even sings
her pal's praises on Twitter.) "We
get involved in lots of partners-in-
crime silliness," confirms
Woodward.
Audiences will be seeing more of
the 25-year-old later this year in
indie drama Girlfriend. "I play a
single mother going through a
rough time," says Woodward.
"Then a boy with Down syndrome
helps take care of us and comes to
think I'm his girlfriend. It's very
sad and very different from
Raising Hope."
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Is It Just Me: Does Size
Matter on Mike & Molly?
Ingela Ratledge (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:04:00 AM
Mike & Molly
Are there really men the size of
Mike ( Mike & Molly's Billy
Gardell) on the police force? Do
they not have to pass a
physical?—Carol Osika, Emerald
Isle, N.C.
"Police recruits entering the
academy are required to pass a
physical and several fitness tests
before graduating," confirms
Roderick Drew of the Chicago
PD. But once they've donned the
uniform, "there is no contractual
requirement for officers to
maintain a certain fitness level."
Still, says Drew, "most do so in
order to carry out their jobs
effectively." Translation: Take a
bite out of crime, not junk food!
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Mike Rowe Talks 'Dirty Jobs,'
Manscaping & Where He'll
Be in 20 Years (VIDEO)
Maggie Furlong (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: Celebrity Interviews,
The Show Girl I'll take any excuse
I can get to hang out with Mike
Rowe. Sure he's on a hit TV
show, has a deep, velvety voice
and is often described as
"ruggedly handsome," but he's
also hilarious and a genuinely
good guy. Pretty much what you
see on TV is what you get with
Mike.
As'Dirty Jobs' returns with new
episodes (Tues., Oct. 19, 9PM ET
on Discovery), Mike talks about
working his way up -- to the
sewer -- and reminisces about his
glamorous Discovery Channel
beginnings on a little travel show
called 'Romantic Escapes.' He
then explains why deep down, he
doesn't like people (he kids, he
kids!), and tells me why they'll
never run out of 'Dirty Jobs.'
We also dish about most popular
episodes, an upcoming
manscaping segment with
producer and regular target Dave
Barsky going under the wax and
what Mike will probably be doing
in 20 years.
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Prinny 2 mercifully
offers 'Baby'
difficulty setting
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:33:00 AM
In a press release, NIS America
revealed the box art for the UMD
release of Prinny 2-- confirming
that, yes, the publisher is bravely
going ahead with the name "Dawn
of Operation Panties, Dood!" Had
it been us, we'd have changed all
the panties to sandwiches. See the
box art after the break.
More importantly, NIS also
revealed that Prinny 2 will feature
a new, easier difficulty called
"Baby," for people who thought
the first Prinny game was too
hard. In other words, people. How
many other games give you 1,000
lives right from the start, knowing
that won't help?
Continue reading Prinny 2
mercifully offers 'Baby' difficulty
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On the 'DWTS' Scene: Florence Daily electronics deals

Henderson Remembers the Late Paul Eng (Consumer Reports) • Amazon: Brite-View
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Michael Maloney (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 6:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features, Celebrity
Interviews Last week, 'Dancing
With the Stars' producers weren't
sure if they could get the rights to
'The Brady Bunch' theme song for
Florence Henderson(aka Carol
Brady) and pro partner Corky
Ballas to use during their TV
theme week performance.
As viewers saw last night, the
song was approved. While it
wasn't perhaps the best tune to
tango to, it did have great
sentimental value to Henderson.
"The reason I really wanted to
dance to the 'Brady Bunch' theme
was because I wanted to dedicate
it to Bob," Henderson told TV
Squad on the post-show press
line, referring to the late Robert
Reed (who played her TV
husband Mike Brady.)
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to subscribers). Price shouldn't be
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"To lose him to AIDS [in 1992]
broke all of our hearts. The fact
that Barry [Williams, Greg] was
here and knows how close we all
were to Bob ... that was my
dedication tonight."
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First The Dance Floor, Then The World

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 2:00:00 PM
One inevitable day, when your
tiny band of survivors gathers
deep within an underground cave
to avoid detection by our robot
masters, maybe you'll all play
everyone's favorite game "Before
The Fall of Man". The young
woman who lost her arm during
the Uprising will start. "I
remember hugs in the sunshine."
"I remember chocolate
milkshakes. I remember the sound
of children playing," says a man
slowly rocking himself there in
the dark.
"Remember LOLcats? Anybody?"
asks a second woman. "That was
great. That was so great." Then
she'll look down at the empty
baby carrier she refuses to take off
and cry. Again.
Then, they'll all look at you,
looking for answer. That's when
you'll clear your throat and say, "I
rememeber when they taught the
metal bastards how to dance."
I dunno. I find myself torn, I
guess. On one hand, there's my
irrational fear of a future in which
I am a slave to robotic tyrants that
dance better than I do. On the
other hand, there's my curiosity to
see just what happens when pop
music takes its last step in its
evolution and finally becomes the
soulless, unemotional, and
perfectly packaged confectionary
treat the music industry has
always wanted. It all seems like a
slightly NSFW webcomic I read
somewhere once.
But hey, if it gets Bieber out of
my mass media, I'm all for it.
Bring on the dancing 'bots and
utter destruction!
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Consumers wary of doctors who take drug-company dollars
rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 9:01:59 PM
Consumers wary of doctors who
take drug-company dollars
Would you trust a doctor who
moonlights for a drug company?
Most Americans are skeptical of
such financial arrangements,
according to a new, nationally
representative poll of 1,250 U.S.
adults from Consumer Reports
National Research Center.
Most respondents, 74 percent,
disapprove of doctors taking
payments from drug companies in
exchange for promoting specific
drugs to other doctors. And 77
percent would be concerned-
–some “very concerned” (37
percent) and others “somewhat
concerned” (40 percent)-–about
the quality of treatment or advice
from a doctor who accepts such
payments. Most think doctors
should tell patients about the
payments they’ve received from a
company whose drugs they are
about to prescribe.
We asked these questions
because thousands of U.S. doctors
are on drug company payrolls for
activities such as giving speeches
to other doctors about drugs,
according to an analysis of
publicly disclosed payments from
seven pharmaceutical companies
done by ProPublica, a nonprofit,
independent investigative
reporting organization. ProPublica
also found that 384 health-care
providers (mostly doctors, along
with a handful of pharmacists,
nurse practitioners, and dietitians)
accepted more than $100,000 in
payments from drug companies in
2009 and 2010. Our poll found
that even modest payments were
enough to turn off many
respondents.
About half of Americans said
they would be concerned about
the quality of care or advice from
a doctor who accepted as little as
$500 from a drug company, and
two-thirds said they’d be
concerned if a doctor took $5,000
or less. Most respondents (75
percent) were concerned about
doctors who accept $25,000 or
less.
Would doctors who take money
from drug companies “always or
almost always” be biased to
prescribe that company’s
drugs—even when they were no
better and/or more expensive than
an alternative drug? Yes, said 36
percent of poll respondents, while
another 15 percent said doctors
would be biased in this fashion
“more than half the time.” Just 11
percent said doctors would
“never or almost never” be biased
by a financial relationship.
When it comes to their personal
physicians, Americans were more
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“never or almost never” show Consumer Reports poll, we found package. Take a look, and-
such bias toward drug companies. that 69 percent of Americans –whatever you find-–feel free to
Still, 26 percent agreed that even think drug makers have too much ask your doctor if he or she
their own doctor would “always influence on doctors’ decisions accepts any payments from drug
or almost always” be biased in about which drug to prescribe. companies.
favor of companies that pay them, And the majority were also —Kevin McCarthy, associate
and an additional 8 percent c o n c e r n e d a b o u t r e w a r d s editor
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be biased “more than half the prescribing a lot of a drug, survey to coincide with
time.” payments for testimonials or for ProPublica’s “Dollars for
Do ask, do tell serving as a company Doctors” report, and has joined
Most Americans think that spokesperson for a given drug, with NPR, PBS Nightly Business
doctors who take drug company payments for speaking at industry Report, Boston Globe, and the
payments to promote their drugs conferences, and paying for meals Chicago Tribune to help inform
to other doctors should fess up. for doctors and their staffs. the public about this investigation.
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Tax savers: Tax-wise gifts to grandkids
Artemis Dibenedetto
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 7:28:38 AM
Tax savers: Tax-wise gifts to
grandkids
Giving money to your
grandchildren during your
lifetime offers financial and
emotional benefits to you and
them. It reduces your estate,
thereby limiting how much of
your assets might be subject to
taxes. And you get the satisfaction
of helping them go to college, buy
a home, or get a leg up on
building wealth.
For people of modest means,
simple approaches like funding a
529 college savings plan or giving
annual gifts could be best. Most
gifts of up to $13,000 a year are
free of the gift tax. Wealthier
people might consider more
complex strategies, especially
given the uncertainty about the
estate tax. There is no estate tax in
2010, but it will return in 2011
with an exemption of $1 million
and a top tax rate of 55 percent.
By contrast, in 2009 up to $3.5
million per person could pass free
of estate tax, which topped out at
45 percent.
Whatever the size of your estate,
here are some strategies to
consider.
Plan for yourself first.
Before you give away too much
of your estate, make sure you
have enough for your retirement.
Consider the possibility that
you’ll live to 90 or 95, then do a
budget to see how much you can
afford to pass on.
College savings plans.
Putting money into a 529
education account is perhaps the
best way for many people to give
away money. Earnings on the
accounts build free of federal and
state income taxes as long as the
money is used for qualified
education expenses. They cost
nothing to set up, and 32 states
currently give state tax deductions
on deposits. Money contributed to
a 529 is subject to the $13,000-a-
year gift limit; only direct
payments for education and
medical expenses fall outside of
that. But you can “front-load” five
years worth of contributions in
one year—$65,000 for a single
giver or $130,000 for a
couple—without paying the gift
tax.
Roth IRAs.
If you have money in an IRA or
other tax-deferred retirement
account, you can convert some or
all of it to a Roth IRA and name
your grandchildren as
beneficiaries. You’ll pay tax
today on the amount you convert
but you’ll save them a tax bill
later. After your death, the Roth
IRA will pass directly to your
beneficiaries, who will have to
take required minimum
distributions each year based on
their life expectancies. They’ll
owe no income tax on those
distributions, and the balance in
the account will continue to grow
tax-free.
Another option is to help your
working age grandkids fund their
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Nerd-In-Chief
But be realistic about the need for
Obama To Appear
a trust. If you don’t have much
money there’s no point in paying
on 'Mythbusters'
thousands to an estate planner to Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
set one up. Science News, The Future
Family partnerships and LLCs. Now)
If your estate is over $1 million
(or in certain other cases), setting Submitted at 10/18/2010 4:34:40 PM
up a family partnership or limited Barack Obama, the country's first
liability company may be nerd president, is scheduled to
own Roth IRAs. You can give p r e f e r a b l e t o a t r u s t . I f a appear on the TV show
them a gift equivalent to the grandparent transfers assets to a "Mythbusters," he said at the
maximum amount they can partnership or LLC, a parent White House today. We are
contribute each year. For 2010, could manage operation of it. You thrilled that in this difficult time,
the maximum is $5,000 or the may be able to give away shares the president would put petty
amount of your grandkid’s taxable in the partnership or LLC to politics aside and exercise his
earnings, whichever is less. minimize estate taxes. inner geek.
Trusts. While you can set one up for as The myth he's busting has
If you’re worried that your 21- little as $50 to $100 through do-it- nothing to do with false birth
year-old grandson might blow his yourself legal websites like announcements in Hawaiian
inheritance on beer or electronic Nolo.com, you’re better off newspapers or presidential belief
gadgets, you can set up a trust that paying an attorney to advise you in Islam, as Time magazine's TV
designates a higher age before he and do the paperwork. That’s blog helpfully points out.
can have full access to the money. because these arrangements are a "I can announce today that I taped
But a major downside to trusts is red flag for the IRS and have legal a special guest appearance for
that they can cost $1,000 to risks as well. It helps to have a their show, although I didn't get to
$4,000 to set up and might cost small business or real estate in the blow anything up," Obama said at
$500 a year in tax-preparation partnership or LLC. If it’s purely a White House science fair. "I was
fees (though some tax software a tax dodge, the IRS will disallow a little frustrated with that."
can handle them). One option if it. In the episode, Obama will help
you have several grandkids is to Learn more money tips in our hosts Adam Savage and Jamie
set up a single “pot” trust rather Money section, and in Consumer Hyneman test Archimedes' solar
than individual trusts. This allows R e p o r t s M o n e y A d v i s e r . ray, determining if it's possible to
the trustee to distribute funds to S u b s c r i b e n o w ! light ships on fire using only
all the beneficiaries at a lower S u b s c r i b e t o mirrors and solar rays.
cost per child. ConsumerReports.org for expert The show will air Dec. 8,
Martin Shenkman, an estate Ratings, buying advice and according to the Discovery
planner in Paramus, N.J., says that r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f Channel.
a “grantor” trust is one of the products. Update your feed
most popular types, since the preferences
grandparent pays the taxes on the
trust’s income, not the trust or the
grandkids, so the trust grows tax-
free.
54 Products/ Science/
Koss Custom Fit Noise Isolating Earbuds – 2 Pack
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:00:24 AM
Phantoms of the Park
I guess I’d have to say there are
pros and cons to living in an
abandoned amusement park.
Obviously, you can’t beat the
free rent. There’s always plenty of
room for dance parties, or
Wiffleball games, or one of my
mescaline freakouts. When I eat
breakfast on the midway, it’s easy
to pretend I’m eating funnel
cakes instead of the week-old hot
dog buns they hand out at the
soup kitchen. And it’s easy to stay
in shape with the many exciting
climbing opportunities, although
there are times when that blessing
is decidedly mixed (see
“mescaline freakouts” above).
It’s not all funnel-cake dreams,
though. Some working plumbing
would be nice: it’s a real shame
what I’ve done to the bumper-car
ring. It’s always exciting to be
around young people with an
interest in the arts, but I wish
their graffiti was a little more
interesting than SUK IT HOMOE.
The worst thing of all, though, has
to be the noises.
Every night, without fail, a low
moan echoes through the
dilapidated rides and abandoned
game stalls. Then comes a high,
chattering sound – a cackle? It’s
joined by a scratching like a
pitchfork on rusted aluminum,
punctuated by sharp cracks and
dull thumps. By this time I’m
usually freaking out, so maybe I
really hear this and maybe it’s in
my mind, but I swear I hear
someone crying. I usually fall
asleep crying myself, terrified
that I won’t wake up in the
morning, just waiting to be
violently claimed by whatever
obscene perversion of nature lurks
in the shadows of Thrill Village.
Then I wake up and everything’s
cool, except for the occasional
false alarm provoked by the big
fiberglass cowboy outside the
Whirl-E-Wrangler. Dude looks
pretty murderous in the right light.
Harmless or not, though, these
noises are keeping me from
getting the sleep I need to “have
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Speaking of which, man, I gotta
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think the people left a goat or
something behind and it mated
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that might be the mescaline
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Lee K's 13 as Rangers bury Yanks for 2-1 lead

Associated Press (ESPN.com) but not well enough against the to swing-and-miss and expand pitcher with a minimum of five history to allow at least five runs
Submitted at 10/19/2010 2:09:20 AM Rangers: - Pettitte made one their strike zone. He threw 51 starts, trailing only Sandy Koufax while getting one out or fewer in a
mistake, a hanging cut fastball fastballs and the Rangers swung (0.95) and Christy Mathewson game. He is the 10th pitcher to do
Game Information Stadium over the middle of the plate, at 27 of them, 12 of which were (1.06). so overall.
Yankee Stadium, New York, NY which Josh Hamilton deposited to out of the strike zone (42.9 Cliff Lee is the third pitcher to How Cliff Lee dominated the
Attendance 49,480 (94.7% full) - right field for a home run. That percent). That's Pettitte's highest start his postseason career with a Yankees, helping the Rangers
% is based on regular season was one of only 16 of Pettitte's chase percentage on his fastball 7-0 record, joining Orlando take a 2-1 series lead: - Lee relied
c a p a c i t y G a m e T i m e 3 : 1 8 110 pitches (14.5 pct) that were in this season. They also missed on Hernandez(8-0) and Orel on his cutter yet again, continuing
Weather 55 degrees, partly cloudy the middle of the strike zone, six of their 27 swings (22.2 Hershiser (7-0) the trend from Game 5 of the
Wind 8 mph Umpires Home Plate below his season average of 19.7 percent), Pettitte's highest miss This the first postseason to have a ALDS against the Rays. Lee
- Jim Reynolds, First Base - percent. - Following that home percentage on the pitch this pair of starts in which a pitcher threw 41 cutters in Game 5 and 37
Angel Hernandez, Second Base - run, Pettitte retired 20 of the next season. Overall, Pettitte recorded allowed no runs and struck out 13 on Monday against the Yankees,
Fieldin Culbreth, Third Base - 23 hitters, allowing only three 12 outs on his fastball, the most in or more (done by both Tim the most he's thrown in any two
Brian Gorman singles, two of them infield hits. a start this season. Lincecum and Cliff Lee). starts this year. - The Yankees
Notes, Stats and Trends He was able to command his Cliff Lee's current postseason David Robertson became the first LEE page 56
How Andy Pettitte pitched well, fastball well, getting the Rangers ERA is 1.26, third-best for any pitcher in Yankees postseason
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LEE
continued from page 55
have struggled against Lee's cutter
all season. Before Jorge Posada's
single broke up Lee's no-hit bid in
the fifth, Yankee hitters were 0-
for-27 this season against Lee's
cutter. They finished with two hits
(Posada, Gardner singles), making
them 2-for-30 this year, including
eight strikeouts. - Relying more
on his cutter of late has helped
Lee miss more bats. The Yankees
swung-and-missed on 17 of their
57 swings (29.8 pct) on Monday,
Lee's highest miss percentage in a
start this season. He also recorded
17 swings-and-misses in Game 5
against the Rays. Nine of Lee's 13
strikeouts were swinging, tying a
career-best. - Lee didn't pound the
strike zone as well as usual - an
impossible standard he's set -
instead relying on Yankee hitters
to expand their strike zone and
chase. He threw just 62 of his 122
pitches in the strike zone (50.8
pct), his second lowest percentage
in a start this year and well below
his regular season average of 60.6
pct, which led all starters. He
recorded eight outs on pitches out
of the strike zone, second most in
a start this year. All of those eight
outs came with two strikes, and
seven came via the strikeout. -
Lee also mixed in more
changeups than usual to keep the
Yankees off balance. With hitters
likely looking for the lefty to pitch
off his fastball, Lee threw 10 of
his 15 changeups in early in the
count (first three pitches). The 15
changeups were the third most for
Lee this season. Yankee hitters
put just one of their nine swings
against the pitch in play (A-Rod
groundout).
The Yankees are lucky not to be
down 3-0 in this series. Excluding
the 8th inning of Game 1 in which
they mounted a comeback, the
Yankees have scored just 3 runs
while hitting .156 with a staff
ERA of almost 7. Conversely,
The Rangers are hitting a shade
under .300, have scored 20 runs,
and have a staff ERA of 1.04.
Cliff Lee is the 4th pitcher with at
least 13 K while allowing 2 hits or
fewer in a postseason game.
In their postseason history the
Yankees have won 8 of 11 best-of
-7 series they've trailed 2-1 after 3
games. Last time was 2001 World
Series when they trailed the
Diamondbacks 2-1 and lost the
series 4-3.
The 3 baserunners for the
Yankees is the fewest they've ever
had in a postseason game. They
had 4 baserunners in Game 2 of
the 2001 World Series and in
Game 4 of the 1958 World Series.
The Yankees 8-0 loss in Game 3
was the worst shutout loss in
franchise postseason history.
The Rangers have outscored the
Yankees 20-8 in this series,
including 14-2 before the 7th
inning. The Rangers have led 25
innings while the Yankees have
led only 2. Rangers with 7 multi-
run innings while the Yankees
have only 1, that 5-run 8th inning
in Game 1 that accounted for 5 of
their 8 runs in this series.
Cliff Lee had 13 strikeouts in
Game 3, the 5th most strikeouts
by a pitcher in an ALCS game.
Andy Pettitte went 7 innings and
allowed 2 ER in Game 3. Its his
14th postseason start allowing 2
ER or fewer and pitching at least
7 innings, tied for 3rd-most all-
time
Cliff Lee tied Bob Gibson's
record of consecutive 10+ K
games in postseason with 3
(Gibson did it in 1967-1968) Lee
is the first pitcher with 3 straight
10+ K games in the same
postseason.
Cliff Lee has his 5th career
postseason game with at least 10
strikeouts, tied with Randy
Johnson and Bob Gibson for the
most all-time.
The last pitcher to have a no-
hitter through 4 innings against
the Yankees in a postseason game
was Jeremy Bonderman(2006
Tigers, ALDS Game 4), who
retired the first 15 hitters before
allowing a hit.
Andy Pettitte had not allowed a
first-inning run in his last nine
postseason starts. The last first-
inning run he allowed were two in
the first inning of Game 1 of the
2005 NLCS against the Cardinals
(with the Astros). He allowed a
first-inning HR to Reggie Sanders
He had not allowed a first-inning
run in his last 12 postseason starts
with the Yankees. The last was in
Game 2 of the 2002 ALDS
against the Angels (he also
allowed a HR in thefirst inning of
that one to Tim Salmon)
From Elias: This is the third time
in Yankees postseason history that
they came back from five or more
runs down to win a postseason
game. The other two were Game
4 of the 1996 World Series (at
Braves) and Game 1 of the 1997
ALDS (vs Indians). The Yankees
three comebacks from five or
more runs down are the most in
postseason history. The Angels,
Athletics, and Blue Jays each
have two.
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Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Cliff Lee
stumbled as he stepped up to his
seat at the postgame
podium."Booby trap right here,"
he said with a grin.That was about
his only slip-up all night.The ace
of October went through the New
York Yankees like a buzzsaw
again, striking out 13 and pitching
the Texas Rangers to an 8-0
victory Monday for a 2-1 lead in
the best-of-seven AL
Championship Series. Josh
Hamilton hit an early two-run
homer off Andy Pettitte and
started a six-run outburst in the
ninth with a leadoff double. Lee
allowed only two singles in eight
innings and became the first
pitcher to reach double digits in
strikeouts three times in one
postseason."I'm not satisfied with
that," he said. "We still have some
work to do here. A lot of fun to
come into New York and get this
first one. Hopefully we can come
out here tomorrow and pick up
where we left off."It'll be a tough
act to follow for Texas -- Lee and
the Rangers handed the Yankees
the most lopsided shutout loss in
their storied postseason
history.Mr. Automatic improved
to 7-0 with a 1.26 ERA in eight
postseason starts. Three of those
wins have come against the power
-packed Yankees, including two
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in last year's World Series for
Philadelphia.New York won the
other four games against the
Phillies to take home its 27th
championship, but now faces a
tall task to repeat. The Yankees
must win three straight against the
resilient Rangers to advance
without facing Lee in a decisive
Game 7 at Texas.Game 4 is
Tuesday night and the Yankees
will start struggling right-hander
A.J. Burnett, who hasn't pitched
since Oct. 2. Tommy Hunter goes
for Texas in his first career start at
Yankee Stadium."I don't think
we're in trouble," Yankees
manager Joe Girardi said. "We're
down 2-1, we're not down 3-0. It's
frustrating we've lost two games
in a row, but we've lost two games
in a row a lot of times before and
come back."Pettitte, the ol' pro
seeking his 20th postseason win,
did his best to match Lee. But the
longtime New York left-hander
hung a first-inning cutter that
Hamilton yanked over the short
porch in right for his second
homer of the series."It was just a
bad pitch by me," Pettitte said.
"At the time, you don't think that's
going to win the ballgame."Lee
matched a career high for
strikeouts and Texas broke it open
in the ninth against an ineffective
David Robertson, getting RBI
singles from Nelson Cruz and
Bengie Molina, plus a two-run
single by Mitch Moreland.
Historic Night For Lee
Cliff Lee is the fourth pitcher
with at least 13 strikeouts while
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Team Stat Comparison
TEN
JAC 1st Downs 20 17
Passing 1st downs 10 8
Rushing 1st downs 8 7
1st downs from Penalties 2 2
3rd down efficiency 8-14 3-13
4th down efficiency 1-1 2-4 Total
Plays 60 63 Total Yards 324 249
Passing 171 173
Comp-Att 14-21 21-36
Yards per pass 8.1 4.8 Rushing
153 76
Rushing Attempts 39 25
Yards per rush 3.9 3.0 Red Zone
(Made-Att) 1-4 0-3 Penalties 8-57
7-55 Turnovers 0 4
Fumbles lost 0 1
Interceptions thrown 0 3
Defensive / Special Teams TDs 0
0 Possession 32:45 27:15
Passing Leaders Tennessee C/
ATT YDS AVG TD INT
RATING Collins 11/16 110 6.9 1
0 108.9 Young 3/5 61 12.2 1 0
142.5 Jacksonville C/ATT YDS
AVG TD INT RATING Edwards
14/24 140 5.8 0 2 40.3 Garrard 7/
12 49 4.1 0 1 33.0
Rushing Leaders Tennessee CAR
YDS AVG TD LG Johnson 26
111 4.3 1 35 Ringer 10 42 4.2 0
13 Jacksonville CAR YDS AVG
TD LG Jones-Drew 17 57 3.4 0
11 Edwards 5 16 3.2 0 5
Receiving Leaders Tennessee
REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Scaife 4 53 13.3 1 28 5 Williams
4 48 12.0 0 20 4 Jacksonville
REC YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Thomas 8 88 11.0 0 21 9 Lewis 4
39 9.8 0 15 6
Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --
Tennessee's Vince Young
watched from the sideline.
Jacksonville's David Garrard was
in the locker room. Both starting
quarterbacks were knocked out of
Monday night's game, turning
things over to veteran Kerry
Collins and recently signed Trent
Edwards. More From ESPN.com
With Vince Young injured, the
Titans know that Kerry Collins
can still get the job done,
ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky
writes. Blog
• Blog: Rapid Reaction The
backups performed as expected,
with Collins leading the Titans to
Sports/ 57
a 30-3 victory and Edwards
looking mostly like a guy who
joined the team three weeks
ago."Kerry did a nice job, and
that's why Kerry's here," Titans
coach Jeff Fisher said. "We're
very, very fortunate that we have
t w o v e r y g o o d
quarterbacks."Collins completed
11 of 16 passes for 110 yards and
a touchdown, directed five
consecutive scoring drives and put
the Titans (4-2) atop the AFC
South. Tennessee, which also got
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NFL executive Ray Anderson: League cracking down on head-to-

head contact to protect players' safety
ESPN.com news services Anderson told "Mike and Mike in pass in these egregious or flagrant has to wrap up. He has to do and Patriots defender Brandon
(ESPN.com) the Morning" on Tuesday. "We're shots." things more fundamentally." NFL Meriweather's hit on Ravens tight
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:05:23 AM trying to protect everybody in But Tuesday on "Mike and Rule on Defenseless Receivers end Todd Heap were hits that
defenseless positions from head Mike," he said "I don't know Here is Rule 12, Section 2, highlight the league's concerns.
Updated: October 19, 2010, and neck injuries." where the word devastating came Article 8(unnecessary roughness) Asked about Meriweather's hit on
12:05 PM ET NFL Hard Hits Anderson also said the league is from. That's not my word. What I in the NFL rulebook as it pertains Heap, he said: "That, in our view,
Debate looking to set an example for the would tell you is that if there are to wide receivers: h) If a receiver is something that was flagrant, it
Stuart Scott, Matt Millen, Steve lower levels of the game, from flagrant and egregious violations has completed a catch and has not was egregious and effective
Young and Trent Dilfer debate the college to youth football, by of our current rules, we will be had time to protect himself, a immediately that's going to be
NFL's reported decision to emphasizing safe play. He said enforcing, effective immediately, defensive player is prohibited looked at a very aggressive level
suspend players for "devastating there's no intent to change the discipline at a higher level." from launching (springing which could include suspension
hits" Tags: NFL Hard Hits Debate rules -- specifically, Rule 12, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello forward and upward) into him in a without pay."
N F L f o o t b a l l o p e r a t i o n s Section 2, Article 8 -- but that the clarified the policy further on way that causes the defensive Of Robinson's hit on Jackson,
executive Ray Anderson told league will enforce its current Tuesday, saying: "Some of those player's helmet, facemask, Anderson said that although it
ESPN Radio's "Mike and Mike in rules more strictly. hits Sunday were devastating but shoulder, or forearm to forcibly was a split-second play, the rules
the Morning" that the league will Anderson, the league's executive the rules already account for strike the receiver's head or neck are the rules and they will be
hold players accountable under a v i c e p r e s i d e n t o f f o o t b a l l devastating hits. What we're area -- even if the initial contact of enforced.
"strict liability" standard for operations, backed away from the focused on is stricter enforcement the defender's helmet, facemask, "Yes, it was a bang-bang play, but
illegal hits to the head and neck word "devastating" in describing of the existing rules and elevated shoulder, or forearm is lower than that the end of the day it was still
starting with games this week, the kind of hits the league will act levels [of] discipline." the receiver's neck. illegal under the rules, a current
s a y i n g t h e l e a g u e w i l l n o t upon beginning with games this Anderson stressed that the "With the seriousness of head and rule," he said.
apologize for trying to protect week. More on NFL injuries league's increased attention and neck trauma and concussions Steelers linebacker James
players' safety. Mike & Mike in Was Dunta Robinson's hit on discipline on head shots is based generally ... we've got a Harrison's hit on Browns receiver
the Morning DeSean Jackson a sign of a on current rules protecting responsibility to make sure Josh Cribbs would not qualify as
NFL executive Ray Anderson problem or a football reality? "defenseless" players -- for players understand" that they need an illegal hit, he said, because
says the NFL isn't going to change SportsNation wants you to weigh example, a wide receiver or punt to adapt to the rules, he said. Cribbs was a runner in possession
any rules, they're just going to in. PollCenter returner making a catch, or a Asked if that might lead with the ball.
enforce the ones that are already • Nation blog: Too violent? defender prone to a blindside hit defenders to attack low rather Harrison's hit on Cribbs'
there. The league will take any The scary head injuries on on an interception return. Those than high, increasing the risk of teammate Mohamed Massaquoi,
criticism because they feel they're Sunday should be all the warning rules have already been a point of leg and knee injuries, Anderson however, is being reviewed by the
doing what's right by the players. the NFL needs not to expand its emphasis for game officials this said the league does want to avoid league. Anderson said the NFL
The NFL will immediately begin schedule to 18 games, writes season, he said. unintended consequences, but wants to set an example for the
suspending players for dangerous ESPN.com's Jemele Hill. Story "You should know the rules," must weigh a player's career rest of football in protecting
and flagrant hits, particularly • E S P N . c o m t o p i c s : N F L Anderson said. "If you're in against the long-term health player safety.
those involving helmets. concussions violation of those rules we're effects of concussions. "Let me add that we understand
"We are trying to get our players On Monday, Anderson said going to hold you to a higher "Hits to the head can be life- this is not just about the NFL.
t o n o t i n i t i a t e c o n t a c t o n "We've got to get the message to standard." altering, not just career-altering," This is about safety at our level, at
defenseless players including players that these devastating hits He said that players should be he said. the college level, at the high
defenseless receivers to the head and head shots will be met with a able to adjust their technique to Asked about specific hits from school level, at the peewee level,"
or neck area with the forearm the very necessary higher standard of the rules and avoid illegal hits. Sunday, Anderson said Falcons he said. "Because we are the
shoulder or the helmet. We're accountability. We have to dispel The defender, Anderson said, defender Dunta Robinson's hit on NFL page 61
trying to get that out of the game," the notion that you get one free "has to adjust his target area. He Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson
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111 yards rushing and a late score
from Chris Johnson, moved into a
three-way tie with Indianapolis
and Houston.The Jaguars (3-3),
meanwhile, were left in a familiar
position. They finished last in the
division the past two seasons and
are again in chase mode."Not the
night we were looking for,"
Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said.
"We turned it over four times, lost
our quarterback. ... Not the kind
of night we wanted to
have."Young threw a 23-yard
touchdown pass to Kenny Britt on
the opening drive, then sprained
his left knee on the next
series."He's a little sore," Fisher
said, adding that Young also
sprained his left ankle. "He could
have finished in shotgun."Collins
replaced him and threw a short
TD to Bo Scaife, then led the
Titans on time-consuming drives
to keep control."That's part of the
life of a backup in the NFL,"
Collins said. Coincidence?
When the Titans win this year,
Chris Johnson's numbers are
much better than when they lose.
Four wins Two losses Rushes PG
26.0 17.5 Rush Yds 509 * 87
Rush TD 7 0* - 100 rushing yards
in each game
-- Source: ESPN Stats and
Information At 37 years old,
Collins has been a starter and a
backup. He even replaced Young
in the 2008 season opener in
Jacksonville, then kept the
starting job the rest of the
year.This time, though, he knows
his role."I'm a short-term fill-in,"
he said.Jacksonville was plagued
by turnovers for the second
straight week. The Jaguars were
able to overcome three mistakes
against winless Buffalo. No such
luck against Tennessee, which has
won six of the past eight in the
series.The Titans turned three
short fields into 13 points, taking
advantage of two interceptions
and a short punt. Making matters
worse for Jacksonville, tight end
Marcedes Lewis fumbled at the
Tennessee 10-yard line in the
second quarter and receiver
Tiquan Underwood let Vincent
Fuller rip a pass out of his hands
in the end zone in the fourth.The
Jaguars finished with four
turnovers."We can't shoot
ourselves in the foot like that,"
Lewis said. "It's not them beating
us. It's us beating ourselves. It's
self-inflicted. And playing from
behind, that's not us."Garrard, hit
several times early, completed 7
of 12 passes for 49 yards, with an
interception. He sustained a
concussion in the second quarter
after getting rocked by Will
Witherspoon."Losing David
definitely hurt," Underwood said.
"That's our quarterback, our
captain, our leader."Edwards, the
former Buffalo starter who was
claimed off waivers three weeks
ago, stepped in for his first action
with the Jaguars. He was 11 of 20
for 115 yards, with two
interceptions."We never got any
offensive rhythm," Lewis said.
"To have Dave go out like that,
everybody felt they had to press."
Just Win, Baby
Among active players, Vince
Young has more wins in his first
45 starts than all but a select
group of signal callers. Player
Wins Ben Roethlisberger 33 Tom
Brady 33 Tony Romo 31 Vince
Young 30 Philip Rivers 30--
Source: ESPN Stats and
Information Jacksonville finished
with 249 yards, as Tennessee's
defense stuffed Maurice Jones-
Drew, blanketed Mike Sims-
Walker and kept steady pressure
on whoever lined up at
quarterback.The Titans moved the
ball with relative ease all night.
They finished with 324 yards,
including a 35-yard touchdown
run by Johnson on his final carry
of the night.Jones-Drew and
Johnson set an NFL record the
last time they shared a field. Jones
-Drew ran for a career-high 177
yards and two touchdowns,
Johnson finished with a career-
high 228 yards and two scores.
Together, they gave the league its
first game with at least four TD
runs of at least 50
yards.Tennessee won that one 30-
13 last November.The rematch
was nearly as lopsided. Rob
Bironas kicked three field goals,
plenty for Tennessee's stifling
defense.The Jaguars only got into
Tennessee territory twice. The
first one ended shortly before
halftime when Lewis caught a
short pass from Edwards, turned
and let the ball slip out of his
hands that the Titans
recovered.Down 20-0 early in the
third quarter, Edwards hit Mike
Thomas for 21 yards. Cortland
Finnegan was called for defensive
pass interference and Edwards
again found Thomas on third-and-
8 from the 18 to get down to the
7. But on third down, Jacob Ford
sacked Edwards, and the Jaguars
had to settle for a 33-yard field
goal by Josh Scobee.Jones-Drew
managed only 57 yards on 17
carries.All three of Jacksonville's
losses have been one-sided
affairs. The team has been
outscored 96-19 against San
Diego, Philadelphia and
Tennessee."It's unacceptable to
lose games in that way," safety
Gerald Alexander said. "To have
lopsided losses like that, it just
shows inconsistency. It's
demoralizing."Game notes
Jaguars C Brad Meester set a
franchise record with his 151st
start. ... Jaguars CB Derek
Cox(hamstring) missed the game,
and the Titans picked on his
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replacement, David Jones. ... Britt
said earlier this week that
Jacksonville's pass defense
"makes everybody smile,
especially the wide receiver
room." Young and Collins
completed 14 of 21 passes for 171
yards and two touchdowns. ...
Witherspoon on knocking out
Garrard: "He definitely didn't look
good. I saw him wincing on the
ground, but that's the nature of the
game. It was a clean, solid hit."
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OCTOBER 18: Running back
Chris Johnson #28 of the
Tennessee Titans warms up prior
to the game...(Photo by J. Meric/
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allowing two hits or fewer in a
postseason game. Series
Performance Cliff Lee 2010
ALCS 13 K, 2 H Tim Lincecum
2010 NLDS 14 K, 2 H Roger
Clemens 2000 ALCS 15 K, 1 H
Kevin Brown 1998 NLDS 16 K, 2
H-- ESPN Stats & Information
Rangers closer Neftali Feliz flung
his 100 mph fastball in the ninth
and finished the two-hitter in front
of a nearly empty ballpark, adding
two strikeouts to increase Texas'
total to 15 -- one shy of a
postseason record for Yankees
batters.New York's two hits
matched a postseason low also set
in Game 4 of the 1958 World
Series and Game 3 of the 2001
division series.Lee nearly landed
with the Yankees before Seattle
traded him to Texas on July 9.
Maybe they should have offered a
few of their many All-Stars -- Lee
doesn't seem to need much
help.New York could try again by
throwing money at him in the
offseason, when the lefty can
become a free agent. Michael
Young had three hits for the
Rangers, who are 4-0 on the road
in these playoffs. Texas won all
three games at Tampa Bay in the
first round, including a pair of
masterful performances by
Lee."Yeah, they're comparable. I
felt good every time," he said.
Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and
the Yankees fared no better.
Cutters, curves, sliders -- they
couldn't touch Lee, who pumps in
one strike after another like a
robot programmed to do so. One
Inning Costs Rangers 3-0 Lead
Aside from the eighth inning of
Game 1, the Rangers have
dominated the ALCS. Here's a
look at those other 26 innings.
Rangers Yankees BA.297.156
Runs 20 3 XBH 12 5 ERA 1.04
6.92-- ESPN Stats &
Information"He's not just firing
the ball down the middle of the
plate. He's throwing quality strike
after quality strike and there really
is a big difference," Young
said.Lee was so dominant, New
York hitters were left shaking
their heads in the dugout or
questioning calls by plate umpire
Jim Reynolds. Robinson Cano
showed bunt, Brett Gardner tried
another headfirst dive into first
base. None of it worked.Gardner
singled leading off the sixth and
stole second, but Lee never
rattled. He struck out Jeter for the
second time, then induced routine
grounders from Nick Swisher and
Mark Teixeira, who is 0 for 11 in
the series.Lee has been
spectacular in the postseason,
striking out 67 and walking only
seven in 64 1-3 innings. Even
after throwing a season-high 122
pitches, he was going to pitch the
ninth until Texas broke it open.
"He was coming back out,"
manager Ron Washington said.
"We were going to ride him."Lee
retired his first 11 batters Monday
night, striking out seven, before
missing high with a full-count
fastball to Teixeira. It was the left
-hander's first walk in 19 2-3
innings this postseason, drawing a
loud roar and a standing ovation
from some in the sellout crowd of
49,840.Rodriguez drove the next
pitch to deep left-center, but Cruz
reached down for a running catch
that ended the fourth. Jorge
Posada fisted an opposite-field
single into shallow right with two
outs in the fifth for New York's
first hit.Young singled on the
ninth pitch of his at-bat in the first
inning and then Pettitte hung a 2-1
pitch to Hamilton in the middle of
the plate. The slugger was a bit
off balance on his front foot, but
strong enough to pull the pitch
about 330 feet to right field,
clearing the inviting porch at
Yankee Stadium."Josh hitting that
homer in the first made things a
lot easier, that's for sure," Lee
said.Fellow lefty CC Sabathia
made a similar mistake on a slider
to Hamilton in the first inning of
the series opener and he lined it to
right for a three-run homer.
Hamilton also drew four walks in
Game 2, two of them
intentional.Pettitte set down 15 of
16 after the home run, with the
only blemish coming on Young's
two-out infield single in the third.
He threw 61 pitches through the
first three innings, 17 to Young in
his first two at-bats.Pettitte, who
owns postseason records for wins,
innings and starts (42), allowed
five hits in seven innings. He
struck out five and didn't walk a
batter.A top contender for AL
MVP, Hamilton barely missed
another two-run shot when his
sixth-inning drive was caught at
the right-field fence.Gardner hit a
bouncer to first in the third and
tried to beat the play with a
headfirst dive -- nearly an exact
replica of his infield single that
sparked New York's late
comeback in Game 1.This time,
Lee was quick to cover and
Gardner appeared to miss the bag
with his hand, perhaps pulling it
away to make sure he wasn't
spiked. First base umpire Angel
Hernandez called Gardner out on
a close play, and the Yankees
didn't argue.Game notes
The Rangers have homered in all
eight playoff games this year,
longer than any streak they had
during the regular season. ...
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Pettitte gave up only two homers
to left-handed hitters during the
regular season, both to Tampa
Bay's Carlos Pena. ... Hall of
Famer Bob Gibson had three
consecutive games with at least
10 strikeouts for St. Louis in the
1967 and '68 World Series. ... Lee
also struck out 13 on July 27
against Oakland. ... A security
official tackled a fan who ran onto
the field in the top of the fifth
before the man even made it into
fair territory. He was quickly
restrained and led away.
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The Works: Jordan vs. Kobe, Redux;
Previewing Thunder and Nuggets
Bethlehem Shoals and Tom
Ziller (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Bulls, Lakers,
Nuggets, Thunder, The Works In
The Works today, we preview the
Thunder and the Nuggets.
But first, Jordan and Kobe jaw at
each other like the only the media
-savvy can.
Clash of the Titans ... Sort Of
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
You all know these guys. Not
only are they two of the game's
greatest guards -- nay, players --
ever, they're also as compelling,
and complicated, as professional
athletes get. Jordan, with his
hyper-competitive, nearly
vindictive, drive to stay on top;
and Kobe, known for his
moodiness, self-consciousness,
and craftsmanship on the court.
When such strange creatures
collide, it's like a monster movie
we can all agree on.
MJ's playing days are long
behind him; no, the Wizards never
happened. So when the two have
a backhanded, heavily-mediated
back-and-forth, it's the closest
we'll get to these two squaring off
on the court. Unless you believe
video games are real. Never mind
earlier contestants like Bill
Russell; Jordan was once the
consensus G.O.A.T., to such an
extent that he got that snappy
nickname. Kobe, a shabby
pretender, and worse, a biter. But
as Jordan's luster has faded, and
Kobe has found his own story and
style -- oh, and won a few more
rings -- the conversation has
shifted. Maybe it's the residual
E-reader News Edition
Chris Rainey Concussion
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FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:34:00 AM
Filed under: Florida Chris Rainey
might have been affected by a
concussion leading up his arrest
on felony stalking charges,
according to records in the Florida
state attorney's case file.
On Sept. 14, Rainey was arrested
after an argument with girlfriend
Kelly Anderson. Rainey allegedly
made death threats towards
court the following day. "When
Anderson that night.
the police came, I signed papers
The records state that Anderson,
to not press any charges. I don't
the victim of Rainey's Sept. 14 ,
effect from Jordan's reign, but you told police that Rainey had been fear for my safety. I think he
will find plenty of folks today "acting strangely" after receiving should be released on his own
asking if Bryant might not be the a concussion against USF on Sept. recognizance." Rainey accepted a
best ever. plea agreement in September.
11. After that game, coach Urban
As you can expect, this doesn't sit Meyer told reporters that Rainey, Experts differ on whether the
so well with Jordan. When asked "got dinged up pretty good." concussion could have played a
by USA Today about Kobe's role in Rainey's behavior.
When the alleged incident
place among the immortal ones, between Rainey and Anderson Concussions, a controversial topic
he concluded that "If you are occurred, Anderson downplayed in sports of late, have been linked
talking about guards, I would say it. "I did not want to have him to depression and other behavioral
[Kobe] has got to be in the top arrested last night," she said in issues.
10." Ouch.
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Mike Quade Sheds Interim THQ Montreal will be a two team

Tag, Will Remain Cubs' studio working on 'great, original IP'
Manager Christopher Grant (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:30:00 PM
figures," we'll all pretend.
Ultimately, Bilson wanted
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse everyone to understand that this
Main) During a press event in Montreal morning's announcements -
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:12:00 AM this morning, THQ Core Games centered around the new studio
veep - and certified Straight makers in the world," Bilson said. and the hiring of Patrice Désilets -
Filed under: Cubs When Mike Shooter[TM] - Danny Bilson took "Starting with Patrice and his are intended to continue to weave
Quade stepped in as interim the opportunity to not only team and followed by a second the story of a new THQ. "We've
manager of the Cubs following welcome Assassin's Creed team that I haven't announced yet all been in beautiful facilities at
Lou Piniella's sudden retirement designer Patrice Désilets to the and we're not going to." many companies that turned out a
in August, hardly anyone thought newly created THQ Montreal When asked if the studio would 68-rated Metacritic game," Bilson
he had a chance to keep the job studio, but to also tell the be working on the unnamed said. "It's not about the facility but
past the end of the season. assembled press that THQ would Guillermo Del Toro project, the people we put in the facility."
But Quade obviously made quite be "building a second large-scale Bilson teased, "Have we We might not know who's leading
an impression in the final six game in that studio. It's a two- announced that? Uh, no." Instead, up this second team, but with
weeks and on Tuesday was given
Quade's work at the helm was game studio." To fuel that type of Bilson offered the following: recent hires like Désilets and
the full-time job. He agreed to a
enough to overcome the allure of production, Bilson said that THQ "They'll be awesome core games" partnerships with developers like
two-year contract with a club
installing Cubs legend Ryne Montreal will be the "largest and "great, original IP." He did Tomonobu Itagaki, we're
option for 2013.
Sandberg as the next manager. studio in the THQ system," hiring concede, "We do look to see what increasingly bullish on THQ.
The Cubs went 24-13 after Quade
Sandberg, the Cubs' Triple-A as many as 400 developers over the transmedia opportunities are THQ Montreal will be a two
took over August 23, the second-
manager, had been seen by most the next five years. If we didn't to make the games more team studio working on 'great,
best record in baseball in that know better, we'd guess that the important." While that's not quite original IP' originally appeared on
as the likely heir to Piniella.
span. They had won only five of majority of Montreal is inhabited the same thing as saying, "Yes, Joystiq on Tue, 19 Oct 2010
their previous 25 games before he exclusively by game developers at Guillermo Del Toro is making a 12:30:00 EST. Please see our
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In Pop Culture During a recent
press event, Assassin's Creed:
Brotherhood mission director
Gaelec Simard disclosed to
Joystiq that 40 percent of
Assassin's Creed 2 players
finished the game -- "which is
huge," he added. The figure is up
roughly 5 percent from the
estimated 35 percent completion
percentage of AC1 players on
Xbox Live, who were tracked
through their Achievements.
Ubisoft's AC2 data paints a more
complete, cross-platform picture
of the total player base's
completion rate, as it was
provided by the game's built-in
Uplay service, which tracks
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood single player
preview: Welcome back, friend
David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 12:01:00 PM
We all have those friends that we
see maybe once a year. We catch
up, have a great time and depart,
wondering why we meet so
infrequently. During my first few
hours with the single-player
component of Assassin's Creed:
Brotherhood, I couldn't help but And jumping into Assassin's The game picks up right where back, friend originally appeared and Asian markets, they're a new
f e e l l i k e t h a t . S i n c e 2 0 0 7 , Creed: Brotherhood, that familiar Assassin's Creed 2 left us, on Joystiq on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 and affordable option for adding
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gameplay statistics (in addition to
providing a platform through
which players can unlock in-game
content). Still, players must have
their consoles connected to the
internet and must register Uplay
accounts before the service begins
tracking their data.
While 40 percent completion
might seem low, especially for
one of the best games of 2009, it's
still significantly higher than the
less than 30 percent rate of
completion among a sampling of
GTA IV players, as found in a
study published by Gamasutra a
year ago. "In the industry, the
number of games that are finished
is more like five to ten percent,"
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Simard figured. "We all think
people finish games, but when
Jarrett a Constant
you start asking around, you'll Amid Change
find that a lot of people don't get
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that's something we're trying to
In a no-drama White House on
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responsibilities, Jarrett says she
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a Chinese restaurant? So so good.
OBAMA page 65 Guest author Garrett McCord
shows us how to cook them up
quickly, Sichuan style. ~Elise
Chinese long beans (also called
Chinese green beans, yardlong
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prominent figure was a bad move Southeastern Asia. While they can
-- hindsight being 20/2 and all be eaten raw they're often thrown
that. in stir-fries, curries, and
Gallery: Assassin's Creed: omelettes. They taste like the
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continued from page 64
already has the job she wants:
senior adviser to the president,
White House liaison to outside
groups and perhaps the only
person left in Washington short of
the president himself whose belief
in the promise of hope and change
remains unshaken.
Obama's detractors may dismiss
his "Yes We Can" mantra as
showing a naivete about the ways
of Washington. Even many of his
supporters now show symptoms
of hope-and-change fatigue.
But Jarrett, a successful
businesswoman who cut her
political teeth in Chicago's city
hall, can hardly be described as
naive. As White House emissary
to cities, states and minority
groups, she hears the frustrations
of Americans more directly than
any other senior staffer.
Jarrett is the only woman within
the president's tightest cadre of
trusted advisers. And having
formed a deep bond with the
president and first lady Michelle
Obama over nearly two decades,
she might be the only one in the
room who knows what the
president is really thinking.
Jarrett's critics have dismissed
her standing in the White House
as simply an extension of that
friendship, painting her as more of
a confidant and less of a
substantive policy adviser. It's an
assumption her supporters say is
oversimplified at best and
insulting at worst.
"The president trusts her," said
former White House
communications director Anita
Dunn. "But he also trusts her to
get the job done."
Jarrett's turf extends to a vast
array of issues, and her
responsibilities are far-reaching.
She is the go-to person in the
White House for state and local
officials, the business community,
women and minority groups, and
her job is to represent these varied
interests to the president.
Outreach is often symbolic,
meaning success and failure can't
always be easily measured — at
least not in the short term. But
Jarrett, 53, has been at the center
of some of the administration's
most sensitive engagement
efforts.
When business leaders accused
the president of being anti-
business in the midst of the
economic crisis, Jarrett, a former
CEO of a real estate development
firm and board member of the
Chicago Stock Exchange, invited
small groups of executives in for a
series of informal lunches to ease
the tension.
Obama asked Jarrett to reach out
to another critical audience earlier
this month and speak to gay and
lesbian advocates, who have
criticized Obama for being too
slow to fulfill his promises. Amid
a spate of recent suicides among
gay and lesbian youths, Jarrett
assured those in the gay and
lesbian community that they had
supporters in the White House.
And during the height of the Gulf
oil spill, Obama tasked Jarrett
with being the White House
liaison to the Gulf Coast
governors — all Republicans,
plus Florida's Charlie Crist, a
Republican-turned-independent.
Jarrett approached the assignment
with her trademark style —
understated, empathetic, and
organized — holding morning
conference calls with the
governors every day for three
months, and traveling frequently
to the region.
Her work won her the rarest of
victories in the current political
climate: praise from Republicans.
"She is probably the most
effective person I've ever had the
opportunity to work with in a
White House," Alabama
Republican Gov. Bob Riley said.
Riley said he may disagree on
politics with Jarrett. But he
recognized that she put in the time
to understand the needs of the
region and take its concerns to the
president
Jarrett, who speaks with a soft
but precise voice, is highly
protective of her public image.
She declined to be interviewed for
this article.
When she speaks publicly, she
often focuses on her admiration
for the president's agenda and of
what a "luxury" it is for her to
contribute. She's also regularly
seen, if not heard, standing at the
president's side when the cameras
are rolling.
Those close to Jarrett say the
president's trust in her is built into
their shared vision of hope and
change to increase the diversity of
voices within the government, and
the voices that the government
listens to when shaping policy.
Behind Jarrett's wonky title —
assistant to the president for
intergovernmental affairs and
public engagement — is a
portfolio tailored to that mission.
Her focus is policy, not politics, a
mandate formalized by the
decision to separate her offices
from the political affairs unit,
where they were under previous
administrations.
Like Obama, Jarrett brings a
unique background to the White
House. She was born in Shiraz,
Iran, where her American parents
lived while her father ran a
hospital as part of a program that
sent U.S. doctors to developing
countries. Jarrett also spent part of
her childhood in London before
her family moved to Chicago.
Jarrett first met the Obamas in
1991, when she wanted to hire a
young lawyer to join her staff at
Chicago's planning and
development department. But first
the candidate, then named
Michelle Robinson, wanted Jarrett
to meet her fiance, Barack
Obama.
After the three met for dinner,
Jarrett hired the future first lady
and quickly assumed the role of
mentor to the Obamas, advising
them on their careers and
introducing them to many of the
Chicago political and social elite
that would go on to play a role in
the presidential campaign.
The understanding that Jarrett,
perhaps more than anyone else in
the White House besides the first
lady, has the president's ear has
drawn praise and raised questions.
"People certainly know that she's
close to the president and it
reassures them that they're talking
65
to somebody who is the
president's eyes and ears," said
Cecilia Munoz, who serves under
Jarrett as the director of the Office
of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Yet friends say she's sensitive to
criticism that her deep loyalty to
Obama would keep her from
giving him unvarnished advice or
lead her to block out those who
would. She goes to great lengths
to avoid any appearance that she's
using their friendship to overstep
her bounds as an adviser.
"We work very hard to
compartmentalize," Jarrett said
during a recent appearance on
ABC's "The View." Jarrett said
she calls Obama "Mr. President"
during the workday, but "when
we're out of the office and we're
just having dinner or something,
then I talk his ear off and I'm just
Valerie Jarrett."
Colleagues say Jarrett is intent on
ensuring that there are many
voices speaking to president,
including White House staffers
outside his inner circle. It's not
uncommon for her to ask junior
staffers to present their memos to
the president directly rather than
through her. And she's taken a
particular interest in White House
women, holding monthly dinners
to discuss their concerns and
urging the president to appoint
more women to senior positions.
Underlying her approach, those
close to Jarrett say, is a level of
confidence — in the president and
in herself — that allows her to
feel comfortable opening doors
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Obama Wave That Swept Out Republicans Recedes in House

Rematch
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) legislation under two-party rule if One other Democrat in a and middle-class tax relief. In Harris cites other drags on his
Submitted at 10/19/2010 2:40:37 AM Republicans take the House. competitive House rematch office, he voted for the economic party in 2008: $4-a-gallon
The rematches will help decide represents a district McCain won stimulus, a plan to stem gasoline, the Iraq war and Bush’s
Democrat Frank Kratovil drafted whether Republicans gain the 39 by 52 percent in 2008. In greenhouse-gas emissions and a unpopularity
on Barack Obama’s popularity to seats needed to win control. McCain’s home state of Arizona, financial-rule rewrite. Some predict an uphill battle for
c a p t u r e h i s M a r y l a n d Harris started planning his race in Democratic Representative Harry He opposed the final health-care Kratovil.
congressional seat in 2008. Now the Maryland district that includes Mitchell again faces Republican bill in 2010 because he said it Carlton Bradshaw, 43, an
the Republican he defeated, Andy the eastern shore of Chesapeake David Schweikert. would create too much independent from Delmar, said he
Harris, counts on opposition to the Bay after losing to Kratovil by Obama carried as much as 57 uncertainty for business during will vote for Harris as he did two
president to win a rematch. 2,852 votes, with 360,480 cast, in percent of the vote in the other the recession. He called for a two- years ago because he wants
Harris is one of almost a dozen 2008. A Sept. 28-30 poll of 400 rematch districts. In Ohio’s year extension of Bush-era Republicans to control the House
Republicans in competitive House l i k e l y v o t e r s b y t h e H i l l Cincinnati area, Democratic income tax cuts, including those to combat Obama’s policies.
races challenging the Democrats newspaper found Harris supported Representative Steve Driehaus for the wealthiest people, putting “I like Kratovil’s voting record,”
who beat them in 2008. by 43 percent, Kratovil, 40 trails former Republican him in line with Republicans. he said. “His party affiliation is
This and other rematches show percent, within the error margin of Representative Steve Chabot by While visiting a Pepsi Bottling really the only reason I won’t vote
how the campaign landscape has plus or minus 4.9 percentage double digits in opinion polls. Ventures plant in Salisbury this for him.”
shifted, largely due to rising points. Chabot is focusing on Driehaus’s month, Kratovil accepted an Kratovil also has picked up
joblessness and a U.S. budget Independence Stressed vote for the health-care law. award for helping keep a tax on support with his independence.
deficit the Congressional Budget Kratovil, a first-term In northeast Pennsylvania, 13- soda pop out of the health-care “I don’t like the fact that he voted
Office says will reach $6.27 r e p r e s e n t a t i v e a n d f o r m e r term Democrat Paul Kanjorski is law. He promised to curb for cap and trade, but he voted
trillion in the next decade. Two prosecutor, is fighting to keep his on the defensive over his 2008 government spending and taxes against health-care reform,” said
years ago, Harris contended with seat with endorsements from the vote for the $700 billion financial on business. Angelo Monico, a Republican
a v o t e r b a c k l a s h a g a i n s t U.S. Chamber of Commerce and bailout as he faces Republican “Probably the most votes I’ve from Bel Air north of Baltimore.
Republicans, the unpopularity of the National Rifle Association, Hazelton Mayor Lou Barletta. In taken against my party have “That showed some backbone
President George W. Bush, a both of which supported Harris upstate New York, Democratic related to budgetary issues,” he against his party.”
worsening economy and the two years ago. He stresses his Representative Mike Arcuri is in a said. --Editors: Laurie Asseo, Mark
Mideast wars. This time, he says, i n d e p e n d e n c e f r o m f e l l o w close race against Republican Unemployment Factor Silva
Democrats are on the defensive. Democrats, including his vote businessman Richard Hanna, Harris said economic issues that To contact the reporter on this
“I just have this philosophy that against the health-care overhaul. campaigning on Arcuri’s vote for hurt Republicans in 2008 are now story: Laura Litvan in Washington
the pendulum usually begins “The national mood has some role the 2009 economic stimulus. working in his favor amid at llitvan@bloomberg.net
swinging back,” Harris, a 53-year- in the election, but that’s not the In many races, the Democrats’ stronger concern about To contact the editor responsible
o l d s t a t e s e n a t o r a n d end of the story,” Kratovil, 42, ability to show independence will unemployment. Maryland’s for this story: Mark Silva at
anesthesiologist, said in an said in an interview. decide whether they win, said jobless rate was 7.3 percent in msilva34@bloomberg.net
interview. He said his 2008 win in a district Nathan Gonzales, political editor August, compared with 4.6 © Copyright 2010 Bloomberg
Speaking to workers at Nutramax which Republican presidential of the nonpartisan Rothenberg percent two years earlier though News. All rights reserved.
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Baltimore, Harris calls Obama’s showed his own appeal to voters. room for error,” Gonzales said. “There was fear of unemployment your content and you're reading it
economic stimulus wasteful and Still, he said “people have lost a Obama’s Agenda last time, but this time it’s not on someone else's site, please read
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“ m o d e r a t e , m e t h o d i c a l ” Won By McCain including universal health care end in sight,” Harris said.
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Are the Best and Brightest Saying No Levi Johnston's Politicial

to Candidacy? Ambitions Get Smackdown
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:00 AM
brightest" have eschewed public
service.
play the "race card" and the
"victim card"). And in that regard,
From Barbara Walters
As historian John Morton Blum we may have much in common. Politics Daily Staff (Politics bother him. He responded by
Columnist A few years ago, the put it, "In 1880, when Theodore As our election process has Daily) handing out flowers to Walters
U.S. Army was having a hard R o o s e v e l t g r a d u a t e d f r o m become more and more like a Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:54:00 AM and her co-hosts. What are his
time recruiting young people. The Harvard College, gentlemen -- reality show, is it any wonder the qualifications for serving as
problem seemed to be that parents m e n o f g o o d b i r t h a n d candidates who are unafraid of Levi Johnston, the on again/off m a y o r o f t h e s u b u r b a n
simply didn't want their children competence, money -- simply did revealing their private lives are again fiance of Sarah Palin's community? "You gotta live in
to serve. So the Army launched a not go into politics as a career. the ones willing to throw their daughter Bristol, is off to a rocky the city limits for one year," he
new ad campaign. Gone were the Politics was for 'muckers.' '' name in the political ring? start in his wanna-be political said.
glamorous spots of soldiers and Roosevelt obviously helped Meanwhile, is it any surprise that career. When Whoopi Goldberg chimed
choppers. The new ads were changed that trend, as was some serious people are simply Johnston, the father of Bristol's in to ask about his political
actually targeted toward parents. evidenced by the subsequent not willing to endure it all? son, Tripp, said in August that he platform, Johnston said: "At this
I'm beginning to wonder if those elections of men like Franklin Edmund Burke said, "All that is intends to run for mayor of point in time, I couldn't tell you. I
tasked to recruit candidates for the Roosevelt, JFK, and ultimately, necessary for the triumph of evil Wasilla or some other local office said I was running for mayor,
RNC and the DNC may soon have Ronald Reagan. These glamorous is that good men do nothing." A in 2011 in a campaign that could what, a month ago?" Actually, it
to employ similar tactics. Will leaders inspired other Americans corollary to that would be that if also be part of a reality show. But was three months back.
parents someday encourage their to public service. the best candidates eschew public Johnston got a dose of another "Wasilla is a great place," he said
children to go to college and get a But I wonder: Does this poll service, we will end up with sub- k i n d o f r e a l i t y d u r i n g h i s of the town that Sarah Palin once
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Toomey in Pennsylvania Senate Race ‘Run-of-the-Mill
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:16:00 AM
Contributing Editor After a series
of polls showing him behind,
Democrat Joe Sestak is making a
strong sprint to the finish line in
the race against Republican Pat
Toomey for the Senate seat now
held by Arlen Specter, according
to a Public Policy Polling survey
conducted Oct. 17-18.
Sestak leads Toomey by 46
percent to 45 percent with 9
percent undecided. The margin of
error is 3.7 points. Toomey had
led 45 percent to 36 with 20
percent undecided in PPP's mid-
August poll. In most surveys
conducted by other pollsters
during that period, Sestak tended
to be 6 or more points behind
Toomey, although he was within
3 points in one poll.
PPP noted several factors behind
Sestak's turning the contest into a
horse race.
Democrats have become more
engaged -- there is still an
enthusiasm gap with Republican
voters but it is not as great as two
months ago.
- In PPP's August poll, Toomey
had led among independents (11
percent of the sample) by 50
percent to 23 percent with 27
percent undecided. Sestak has
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MSNBC commentator Joe
Scarborough. “For many admirers
of President Barack Obama, these
past few weeks have been painful
to watch,” the former Republican
congressman from Florida writes
closed that gap, with Toomey now momentum right on through on “But two years later, followers of
that grandiose dream have
leading by 49 percent to 48 election day or Pat Toomey can Politico.
percent with 3 percent undecided. turn things back in his favor will “The president seems unfocused. awakened to a grim reality: that
their transcendent leader is
- In August, Toomey had the be the ultimate determiner of who His message sounds jumbled. His
support of 74 percent of fellow wins this race." party is desperate. Rather than beginning to look like a run-of-the
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Church and State'?
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:33:00 AM
Correspondent Tea Party favorite
Christine O'Donnell, the
Republican candidate for Senate
in Delaware, questioned Tuesday
whether the First Amendment to
the Constitution requires a
separation between organized
religion and government.
"Where in the Constitution is the
separation of church and state?"
she said in a debate with Chris
Coons, her Democratic opponent.
When Coons told her the First
Amendment prohibited
government from establishing any
religion, according to the
Associated Press and WDEL
radio, O'Donnell replied, "You're
telling me that's in the First
Amendment?"
The exchange came at Delaware's
Widener University Law School
in a discussion of evolution versus
creationism, with Coons arguing
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campaign attacks against House
Minority Leader John Boehner
and interest groups sympathetic to
Republicans may be backfiring.
Even Democrats are questioning
the approach, The Hill reports.
Obama’s offensive has included a
challenge of American Crossroads
and the U.S. Chamber of strategist says. “In a different
Commerce, questioning whether election year, this narrative and
they have received money from this messaging could work.” This
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A Prototype Greenhouse Demonstrates the Future of Farming on

the Moon
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - system could grow peanuts, power for the sodium vapor lamps
New Technology, Science potatoes, tomatoes and other (ostensibly a future lunar base
News, The Future Now) crops for colonists on other would be built underground to
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:15:27 AM planets. shield it and its inhabitants from
Cultivating Crops on the Moon The 18-foot, membrane-sheathed solar weather, cosmic radiation,
U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a ' s system collapses into a 4-foot and small meteorites).
C o n t r o l l e d E n v i r o n m e n t wide disk for easy packing on an But while designed for use
Agriculture Center director Gene interplanetary mission. When hundreds of thousands of miles
Giacomelli at the demo lunar extended, it is fitted with water- away, the technology could also
greenhouse. Norma Jean Gargasz/ cooled lamps and seed packets have applications here on the
UANews prepped to sprout without soil. ground. Engineers working on the
A p o r t a b l e , c o l l a p s i b l e They hydroponic system needs project think the tech could
greenhouse inspired in part by a l i t t l e o v e r s i g h t , r e l y i n g o n enhance urban farming
crop-producing system at a South automated systems and control techniques, bringing food
Pole research station could a l g o r i t h m s t o a n a l y z e d a t a production out of the fields and
someday provide fresh vegetables gathered by embedded sensors into population centers. The
and other foods in future manned that optimize the controlled emphasis on self-contained, self-
l u n a r o r M a r t i a n o u t p o s t s . ecosystem. The whole system which was built by the same sustainable. Water for the system sustaining systems in space could
Working in conjunction with takes just ten minutes to set up company that is collaborating would be derived from the also inform efforts to make
private industry, the University of and produces vegetables within a with the CEAC on the lunar attending astronauts' urine, CO 2 agriculture as efficient and
Arizona's Controlled Environment month. greenhouse. But the lunar produced by their breathing, and sustainable as possible.
Agriculture Center (CEAC) has The design is similar to that of a greenhouse would possess some fiber optics could pipe sunlight [ Space]
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demonstrate how a hydroponic South Pole Station in Antarctica, would make it even more dispensing with the need for
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Bored By Non-Glowing Skin? Ultra-
Flexible, Waterproof LED Implants
Are What You Seek
Alasdair Wilkins (Popular
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Now)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:15:41 AM
LEDs are, on small scales, the
cheapest, most reliable, and most
technologically powerful light
sources out there. But their true
potential is finally being
unleashed. A new generation of
LEDs can go anywhere - even
into your body.
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes,
are often used for text and video
displays, and their infrared
counterparts are everywhere in
remote control technology. You
can't take a trip without running
into an LED - traffic signals are
all LEDs, as are most of the lights
on a car dashboard. And anyone
who has been to a rock concert
has probably run into a few
people going crazy with LED-
powered glowsticks.
Still, as researcher John Rogers
of the University of Illinois points
out, LEDs are brittle, meaning
they can't be bent into different
shapes. Well, no more, thanks to
his new invention. He and his
team have put tiny LEDs, each
one smaller than the tip of a pen,
on flexible electronic sheets.
These sheets can be stretched and
twisted up to 720 degrees without
any loss in LED function, and
they can hold up under soapy
water or even underneath the skin,
which they demonstrated by
implant one sheet under the skin
of mice.
As scientist's tend to do, Rogers
looks at this from the perspective
of how it might benefit humanity.
He sees great potential
applications in using implanted
LEDs for diagnostic purposes,
and putting his LEDs on surgical
gloves could allow doctors an
even better view at what they're
operating on.
But let's be real here - the crazy
awesome applications of this
invention way outstrip the
humanity-benefiting ones.
Implanted LEDs can be the new
tattoo - put red ones down your
spine for the sexy Cylon look!)
Take your boring old household
pets and stick some LEDs in them
- instant excitement with glowing
kitties and puppies! New
glowsticks could be twisted 720
degrees to look like double
helixes of DNA and handed out to
biologists, giving scientific
conferences a refreshingly heavy
metal feel. And you just know
somebody is figuring out how to
put these things on a condom.
What crazy ideas do you have for
these ultra-flexible LEDs? Here
are some more awesome pictures
of Rogers's LEDs in action to get
your creative juices going.
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10 Ways to Dominate
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Submitted at 10/19/2010 5:00:00 AM major muscles, then the minor One side or portion of your body
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Whitesides, head strength and Watterson, strength coach for the imbalances," Cavaliere says. Try
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Psalm 37:4 (10-19-10)

(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 2:00:00 AM
Delight yourself in the Lord and
he will give you the desires of
your heart.
— Psalm 37:4(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... Rather than
seeing this as a way to get our
wish list granted, let's see it for
what it really is -- an invitation to
seek a love relationship with God
above all other things. In finding
him, we will find our priorities
properly aligned and our hearts
tuned to know what is really
valuable and what is not. Then we
will see that what we have in him
is our hearts' greatest desire. My
Prayer... Awesome and Gracious
Father, I confess to you that so
often my heart is full of selfish
things. But in moments like these,
Father, I recognize that you are
what I most need and your will is
my heart's desire. Please kindle
your Spirit in me so that I may see
through any selfish deception that
would rob me of having you first
in my life. Forgive me when I'm
petty, selfish and shallow. May I
know you as much as possible for
a mortal to know you, not so that I
may be full, but that you may be
honored. Because of your grace
and in the name of Jesus I pray.
Amen.
74 Religion/
Christine O’Donnell, Catholic?
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 12:52:13 PM
As your GetReligionistas have
noted many times, it’s pretty
obvious that many people —
including more than a few
mainstream reporters — are
confused about the meaning of the
word “evangelical.” Heck, I’m not
sure that I know what that word
means anymore and I used to be
one. The Rev. Billy Graham once
told me that he wasn’t sure how to
define “evangelical.” Honest.
For the most part, many
journalists seem to think that
“fundamentalist” means people
(we don’t like) who believe that
some truths are absolute and
eternal (especially if the doctrines
in question are linked to the
Sexual Revolution). So what
about “evangelical”? It seems that
“evangelical” has simply become
a political term for religious
conservatives. Somewhere, I
imagine, there is an Orthodox
Jewish leader who will soon be
hailed as a powerful
“evangelical.”
Anyway, please note the USA
Today headline and key
references in the actual text of the
following Associated Press
report(drawn from the
Wilmington, Del., News Journal)
about the every colorful Christine
O’Donnell of Delaware:
The headline: “Christine
O’Donnell reins in evangelical
talk.”
And here’s a look at the top of
the story:
When the energy and
conservative fervor of the Tea
Party swept into Delaware this
year, it found Christine
O’Donnell.
She had long been an outspoken
crusader for chastity, against
abortion and for prayer in schools.
O’Donnell didn’t merely join
groups that shared her moral
certitude, she founded an
advocacy group and became a
leading voice in others, staking
out positions against sex
education, urging that biblical
creationism be taught in schools,
and professing that homosexuality
is a sickness. She seamlessly
turned that enthusiasm toward
politics.
Just four years ago, she told The
(Wilmington, Del.) News Journal
that during the primary she “heard
the audible voice of God. He said,
‘Credibility.’ It wasn’t a thought
in my head. I thought it meant I
was going to win. But after the
primary, I got credibility.”
These days, she talks more about
the Constitution than the Bible.
After knocking off longstanding
U.S. Rep. Mike Castle, a
moderate Republican attacked by
the Tea Party Express for
occasionally voting with
Democrats, O’Donnell recast her
campaign. She steered clear of the
talking points that made her
popular with talk-show hosts and
conservative commentators. …
“My faith has influenced my
personal life,” O’Donnell said
Wednesday night at a Republican
speaking engagement. “My faith
hasn’t really influenced my
politics.”
This report, of course, describes
her infamous 1997 visit to Bill
Maher’s show Politically
Incorrect in which she confessed
that she “dabbled into witchcraft.”
It mentions that she attended
Fairleigh Dickinson University
and majored in theater. It notes
that she converted to evangelical
Protestantism in college. It
mentions that she opposes
abortion, believes that
homosexual behavior is sinful,
that masturbation is sinful, etc.,
etc. These are all “evangelical”
stances, apparently. It is
especially bad, of course, that she
believes that some people —
attention devotees of the Kinsey
Scale— change their sexual
behaviors during their lifetimes in
ways that suggest sexual
orientation is often not a matter of
black and white certainty.
Wait, she converted to
evangelicalism? Converted from
what, you ask? From Catholicism,
of course.
However, it is interesting to note
that this AP report never mentions
her Catholic upbringing and, most
importantly, it does not mention
that, as an adult, O’Donnell
returned to the Catholic faith.
In fact, unless my search engine
is broken and I am blind, it does
not appear that this news story
contains the word “Catholic.”
This candidate is, apparently, still
an “evangelical.” Search the text
for yourself.
Meanwhile, the candidate is not
hiding her church affiliation, as
she demonstrated in the most
quoted clip from that Delaware
debate. The New York Times
political team noted:
As she did throughout the first
half of the debate, Ms. O’Donnell
quickly tried to return the focus to
Mr. Coons, saying, “I would
argue there are more people who
support my Catholic faith than his
Marxist belief.”
Now, if you write for The
Huffington Post, this is how you
can deal with O’Donnell’s return
to the Catholic fold:
Delaware is 29 percent Catholic.
Mike Castle, Christine
O’Donnell’s opponent for the
senate nomination, is Catholic.
Christine O’Donnell was born
Catholic but renounced the church
when she was in college, and
became whatever backwoods
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started running for office all the
time, she converted back. Which
sounds pretty convenient, but
then, the prodigal son came home
when he ran out of money, too.
Apparently, if one is an editor at
the Associated Press, it is also
possible to simply call her an
“evangelical” — whatever that
means — and be done with it.
Catholic? Apparently not. Silence
is golden and, in this case,
politically important.
PS: Oh, it goes without saying
that comments should deal with
the journalism issues in this news
report — not with one’s views of
either of the candidates in this
race. This is not the place to
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Time takes an American Journey (kind of)
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 8:54:12 AM
The headline on the recent Time
cover story tried to set an epic
tone, summing up a story that was
going to courageously explore an
election season that has
intimidated politicians (mostly on
one side of the political aisle) and,
thus, has intimidated journalists.
Cue the music. A fanfare please.
Please place your right hand over
your heart.
An American Journey
6,782 miles. 12 states. 24 days.
576 songs. One road trip reveals
the issues people are talking about
— but politicians aren’t.
Once again, I cannot link to the
complete Joe Klein essay, because
Time no longer posts the texts for
several weeks. Have I missed an
actual pattern? I’m a subscriber,
obviously, and I cannot figure this
out. Input, need input.
Anyway, here is a link to the
thumbnail version, which gives
you a bit of the flavor. Here is
Klein’s overture to what Time
editors clearly see as a kind of
sweeping first-person opera of
truth telling:
I found the same themes
dominant everywhere — a
rethinking of basic assumptions, a
moment of national introspection.
There was a unanimous sense that
Washington was broken beyond
repair. But the disgraceful
behavior of the financial
community, and its debilitating
effects on the American economy
over the past 30 years, was the
issue that raised the most passion,
by far, in the middle of the
country. Many Americans also
were confused and frustrated by
the constant state of war since the
terrorist attacks of 9/11. But for
every occasion they raised
Afghanistan, they mentioned
China 25 times; economics
completely trumped terrorism as a
matter of concern.
Road trips are nourishment for
the mind and the soul, if not the
body (given the quality of
roadside food); from Huckleberry
Finn to The Hangover, they have
been a classic American pastime.
The trip exploded my personal
Beltway Bubble, which turns out
to be more a state of mind and a
set of habits than an actual place.
Driving 6,782 miles in four
weeks, I was forcibly weaned
from my usual engorgement of
newspapers, magazines, blogs and
books. I watched no more than 15
minutes of cable news per day but
listened to music obsessively. I
was cleansed and transformed, a
news junkie freed from junk
news, and able to experience
Americans as they are — rowdy
and proud, ignorant and wise.
So where is one supposed to go
to hear the voice of the true
America? I can’t link to the Time
map, but you can draw it in your
mind as I list the stops Klein
made in his pilgrimage.
Our pilgrim starts in New York
City, of course.
Next up? Allentown.
Philadelphia. State College, Pa.
West Middlesex/Youngstown.
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precisely the way they will be
framed the next time that
someone whose last name is
Clinton steps to a podium to
deliver a campaign address.
Of course, it helps if one goes
nowhere near the Bible Belt, other
than, of course, a few select
corners of the Midwest. It is
significant that Klein mainly hits
the industrial Midwest, with the
exception of the Village of
Sharon.
But wait, you say, what about
Colorado Springs? Isn’t that the
center of theocratic America?
Maybe, although that is a very
complex community. And,
besides, I cannot find a single
word in Klein’s piece that appears
to be drawn from encounters in
the homeland of Focus on the
Family. I guess everyone there
was silent.
So here’s the news: The angst
and the rampant anger that is
making America such a dangerous
place right now are completely
rooted in secular, faith-free issues.
There are no cultural, moral or
religious issues at play at the
moment. And there will be no
wave of post-election data from
the Pew Forum on Religion &
Columbus. Detroit. Chicago. that the economy is the main Public Life that demonstrates,
Madison. Sharon, Wisc. St. Louis. issue, which it clearly is, but it is once again, that frequent visits to
Boontown, Mo. Kansas City. Des the only issue. Oh, President pews or sanctuaries have anything
M o i n e s . D e n v e r . C o l o r a d o Barack Obama is also a major to do with how Americans make
Springs. Phoenix. Las Vegas/ issue, as is Speaker of the House their decisions when they pull
Pahrump. Sebastopol, Calif. Nancy Pelosi. But it seems that levers in voting booths.
Sacramento/Yuba City. Los when Americans open their heart, So those of you who are
Angeles/Pasadena. from coast to coast, what they interested in religion news have
Guess what? This election is all want to talk about is economics
about the economy. It isn’t simply — issues that are framed almost TIME page 76
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Headscarves divide Muslims too?

Brad A. Greenberg with the scarf wrapped around it on. In addition to Atik, her family authoritative voice. Further, as
(GetReligion) like a crown. Syrians are known and friends, Abdulrahim talks I’m sure we GetReligionistas have
Submitted at 10/18/2010 3:12:41 PM for cotton pull-on scarves, the with Hijabulous blogger Alaa noted ad nauseum, world religions
hijab equivalent of a T-shirt. And Ellaboudy, whose blog is all about are really, really big streams, and
I’m certainly no fashionista. Most in Egypt veiled brides visit hijab keeping the hijab absolutely you can always find a fish willing
of my shirts are of the T variety, stylists who create intricate fabulous. to swim against the current.
and I’m still rocking a lot of the designs and bouquets of color
clothes I acquired (second hand) atop the bride’s head.
in high school. So take with a But Atik’s experiments with the
But when it comes to voices
opposing flashier designs that
treat the hijab as an expressive
Also of significance: There is no
deep discussion in this article
about why Islam instructs women
Telling it
grain of salt the following hijab, which is meant as a symbol
evaluation of a recent Los of modesty, are created with an
article of clothing and not just a
religious constraint, the story is a
to wear the hijab. The article
reference modesty, but it’s a like it is
Angeles Times article about e y e t o w a r d b e i n g m o r e bit thin. All we get is this: different type of modesty than the Mollie (GetReligion)
Islamic headscarves getting a d v e n t u r e s o m e a n d r i s k y . Eiman Sidky, who teaches yarmulke. Where does the Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:09:46 AM
fashionable. To some, the trend heralds the religious classes at King Fahd concept come from and why is is
The article, a Column One, e m e r g e n c e o f W e s t e r n i z e d mosque in Culver City, is among threatened, or not, by more stylish
When news broke on Monday
focused on the “edgier” hijab Muslim women, who embrace those who say attempts to or, heaven forbid, sexy about the death of a prominent pro
designs of Marwa Atik. And this both their religion and a bit of beautify the scarf have gone too headscarves? Written by: Brad A.
-life activist, I expected to read
evolution of the hijab is cast as a rebellion. far. In countries like Egypt, where Greenberg on October 18, 2010.
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women in the Persian Gulf region The voices in support of the more like the Muslim equivalent of a and her many admirers. But the
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and fitting to begin with her work
fighting against the practice of
abortion.
But what really marks this
obituary, short as it is, is that its
writer gave full treatment to
Jefferson’s beliefs about abortion.
He didn’t avoid them or treat
them as unacceptable — he
simply presented them:
Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme
Court decision that legalized
abortion, “gave my profession an
almost unlimited license to kill,”
Dr. Jefferson testified before
Congress in 1981. …
“With the obstetrician and mother
becoming the worst enemy of the
child and the pediatrician
becoming the assassin for the
family,” Dr. Jefferson continued
to testify, “the state must be
enabled to protect the life of the
child, born and unborn.”
The Associated Press mentioned
Jefferson’s death, but only barely.
But the Boston Globe also
allowed Jefferson to state her own
beliefs:
Dr. Jefferson was small in stature
— Fox believes she often wore
hats so she would not disappear
into a crowd — but she did not
shrink from controversy. And she
was not afraid to use blunt
analogies to state her views. In a
2003 profile in the antiabortion
magazine American Feminist, Dr.
Jefferson said the antiabortion
movement was “second only to
the abolitionist movement” in the
way it changed American
thinking.
“I am at once a physician, a
citizen, and a woman, and I am
not willing to stand aside and
allow this concept of expendable
human lives to turn this great land
of ours into just another exclusive
reservation where only the
perfect, the privileged, and the
planned have the right to live,”
she told the magazine.
While Jefferson’s pro-life
activism wasn’t religious in
nature, I was curious to find out
more about her religious beliefs.
The Globe gave a hint —
Jefferson was the only child born
to a Methodist minister and a
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Who Says Islam Is Totalitarian?

Submitted at 10/19/2010 3:00:16 AM
Wilders has earned the disdain not extremists and Islamists who ideology of a small minority West’s preeminent authority on
just of the usual Muslim have, as the Bush-era refrain which holds that the essence of Islam. At Pajamas Media,
Not long ago, Bernard Lewis B r o t h e r h o o d s a t e l l i t e went, “hijacked one of the world’s Islam is jihad, conquest, forcing Andrew Bostom has unearthed a
s o u n d e d a l m o s t l i k e G e e r t organizations but even of many great religions.” people into accepting a certain 1954 International Affairs essay
Wilders. on the political right. #ad#Emblematic is the estimable very narrow interpretation [of in which Professor Lewis quite
W ho says Islam is a totalitarian Though they support free-speech Charles Krauthammer, who has Islam].” matter-of-factly compared Islam
doctrine? Well, Geert Wilders rights, and thus grudgingly described Wilders’s views as As I take a backseat to no one in with Communism. The essay, in
does, of course. As the editors concede that Wilders should be “extreme, radical, and wrong.” my admiration of Dr. K., I wonder fact, was called, “Communism
point out in Monday’s superb permitted to say such things, they Dr. K.’s complaint, expressed on what he’d make of Bernard and Islam.”
National Review Online editorial, want you to understand they find Fox News back in March (and Lewis’s take on this subject. In it, Lewis considered “the very
the Dutch parliamentarian has his sentiments deplorable. Taking published on the Corner), was that Professor Lewis is the nature of Islamic society,
even had the temerity to compare the politically correct view, they Wilders conflates “Islam and distinguished scholar widely and tradition, and thought,” and
Islam with Nazism. Strong stuff assure you that Islam is not a Islamism.” The latter, aptly admired, including by
indeed, and for speaking it, problem at all -- it’s just those bad Krauthammer insists, is “an Wilders’s detractors, as the WHO page 78
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continued from page 77
concluded that its principal
defining characteristic is the
“authoritarianism, perhaps we
may even say the totalitarianism,
of the Islamic political tradition.”
Expanding on this, he wrote:
There are no parliaments or
representative assemblies of any
kind, no councils or communes,
no chambers of nobility or estates,
no municipalities in the history of
Islam; nothing but the sovereign
power, to which the subject owed
complete and unwavering
obedience as a religious duty
imposed by the Holy Law. . . . For
the last thousand years, the
political thinking of Islam has
been dominated by such maxims
as “tyranny is better than
anarchy,” and “whose power is
established, obedience to him is
incumbent.”
But what about the conceit that
undergirds current American
foreign policy, the notion that
Islam and Western democracy are
perfectly compatible? Lewis
dismissed the idea as so much
elite wishful thinking:
Many attempts have been made
to show that Islam and democracy
are identical -- attempts usually
based on a misunderstanding of
Islam or democracy or both. This
sort of argument expresses a need
of the uprooted Muslim
intellectual who is no longer
satisfied with or capable of
understanding traditional Islamic
values, and who tries to justify, or
rather, restate, his inherited faith
in terms of the fashionable
ideology of the day. It is an
example of the romantic and
apologetic presentation of Islam
that is a recognized phase in the
reaction of Muslim thought to the
impact of the West.
Clearly, the ensuing half-century
has found Western intellectuals --
regardless of political bent --
joining romantic forces with their
uprooted Muslim counterparts.
Thus the accusation by Dr.
Krauthammer, to take a prominent
but by no means singular
example, that Wilders fails to
perceive the distinction -- I’d call
it a hoped-for distinction --
between Islam and Islamism. Yet
this accusation itself conflates
Islam with Muslims, as well as
Islamists with violent jihadists.
This confusion leads
Krauthammer to surmise both (a)
that only a small minority of
Muslims believe jihad is “the
essence of Islam,” and (b) that
because most Muslims in the
West are not terrorists, it should
be “obvious” that they are not
Islamists.
#page#This is wrong on several
levels. First, as Robert Spencer
explains, “Jihad . . . is a key
element of the Islamic faith
according to every single Islamic
authority on the planet.” To deny
that it is the “essence of Islam” --
which is how the prophet
Mohammed regarded it -- is to
deny a basic fact. And though, as
Spencer acknowledges, jihad is
subject to varying interpretations,
Lewis is clear on the preponderant
construction. As he has recounted
several times, most recently in
The Middle East: A Brief History
of the Last 2,000 Years, “The
overwhelming majority of early
authorities . . . citing relevant
passages in the Qur’an and in the
tradition, discuss jihad in military
terms.” This jibes, to quote Ibn
Warraq, with “the celebrated
Dictionary of Islam,” which
describes jihad as an “incumbent
religious duty,” and defines it as
“a religious war with those who
are unbelievers in the mission of
Muhammad.”
#ad#Spencer echoes Lewis when
he elaborates that “all the
mainstream sects and schools of
Islamic jurisprudence teach as a
matter of faith that Islam is
intrinsically political and that
Muslims must wage war against
unbelievers and subjugate them
under the rule of Islamic law.”
The fact that most Muslims do not
engage in violent jihad, whether
out of practicality, indifference, or
what have you, does not change
what Islamic doctrine says. Nor
does it mean these Muslims are
“rejecting” that mandate. They are
ignoring it.
Moreover, as I’ve noted on
several occasions, the point of
jihad is to spread sharia, the
Islamic legal system whose
installation is the necessary
precondition to creating an
Islamic society. That need not be
done by violent means. In fact, the
Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s
most influential Islamist
organization, maintains that
America and Europe will be
“conquered” not by violence but
by dawa--- the proselytism of
Islam by non-violent (or, more
accurate, pre-violent) means, such
as infiltration of our institutions.
Spencer calls this phenomenon
“stealth jihad.”
Consequently, one can be an
Islamist without engaging in
violent jihad, which is precisely
the case with the vast majority of
Islamists. The fact that they are
not terrorists does not mean -- as
we wish it would mean -- that
they are not extremists. While
they abstain from the use of force
(particularly against other
Muslims), staggering majorities of
Muslims throughout the world
favor the implementation and
strict application of sharia.
Andrew Bostom’s essay
demonstrates this, citing polling
done in 2009 by World Public
Opinion in conjunction with the
University of Maryland.
Back in 1954, Lewis recalled
“the political history of Islam” as
“one of almost unrelieved
autocracy” that was
“authoritarian, often arbitrary,
[and] sometimes tyrannical.”
Besides this, the most interesting
part of his essay is its focus on
“certain uncomfortable
resemblances” between “the
Ulama of Islam” and “the
Communist Party.” Though “very
different” in some ways, the two,
he stated, “profess a totalitarian
doctrine, with complete and final
answers to all questions on
heaven and earth.”
Those answers, of course, are
worlds apart in their particulars.
Nonetheless, Lewis saw them as
strikingly similar in
their finality and completeness,
and in the contrast they offer with
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the eternal questioning of Western
man. Both groups offer to their
members and followers the
agreeable sensation of belonging
to a community of believers, who
are always right, as against an
outer world of unbelievers, who
are always wrong. Both offer an
exhilarating feeling of mission, of
purpose, of being engaged in a
collective adventure to accelerate
the historically inevitable victory
of the true faith over the infidel
evil-doers. The traditional Islamic
division of the world into the
House of Islam and the House of
War, two necessarily opposed
groups, of which the first has the
collective obligation of perpetual
struggle against the second, also
has obvious parallels in the
Communist view of world affairs.
There again, the content of belief
is utterly different, but the
aggressive fanaticism of the
believer is the same. The humorist
who summed up the Communist
creed as “There is no God and
Karl Marx is his Prophet” was
laying his finger on a real affinity.
The call to a Communist Jihad, a
Holy War for the faith -- a new
faith, but against the self-same
Western Christian enemy -- might
well strike a responsive note.
In light of this scholarly
comparison of Islam to Soviet
totalitarianism, is it really so
outrageous for Geert Wilders to
compare Islam to Nazi
totalitarianism? One needn’t agree
with the analogy -- and, agree or
not, one needn’t think it a useful
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Kathleen Parker Keeps Her Chin Up
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Despite her new show’s low
ratings, a slightly right-of-center
host stays optimistic.
New York-- In the inner sanctum
of CNN, high above Lincoln
Center, Kathleen Parker’s office
is tucked in the back, a few steps
from the outer rim of newsroom
cubicles. Inside, she keeps a neat
workspace, with political histories
on the bookshelf and framed
pictures of her family on the
windowsill. A stray pair of heels
lie on the floor.
As Parker settles into her chair,
she folds up a packet of research,
pulls her blind poodle Ollie onto
her lap, and tosses me a Diet
Coke.
#ad#Minutes earlier, Parker, best
known as a Pulitzer
Prize–winning newspaper
columnist, wrapped a taping of
Parker Spitzer, the primetime
program she co-hosts with former
New York governor Eliot Spitzer,
who resigned from office in 2008
following a prostitution scandal.
Their talk show, which debuted
earlier this month, has struggled
in the ratings. Its main timeslot
competitors, Bill O’Reilly on Fox
News and Keith Olbermann on
MSNBC, have easily kept their
spots atop the heap, even though
CNN poured large sums of money
into a promotional campaign for
its new evening keystone.
Scathing reviews from numerous
outlets have also rattled its initial
run.
Parker, however, tells me that she
is unfazed by the tepid beginning.
“I’ve been amused by all of these
critiques,” she chuckles. “I
haven’t read the reviews, but
every now and then I get a note
from somebody saying, ‘Keep
your chin up.’ And I think, why?
Is there a problem?”
Parker swats away the idea that
her show cannot compete with the
big dogs of cable news: “I haven’t
yet seen anybody ask, well, how
did O’Reilly do on his sixth day?
How did Olbermann do on his
sixth day? Wouldn’t we call that
journalism? I don’t think anybody
comes out of the gate with
millions of viewers.”
No word on how long the
broadcast has to pick up an
audience. Jon Klein, the CNN/
U.S. president who recruited
Parker and Spitzer to the network,
was fired a few days before the
show premiered. According to the
Wall Street Journal, CNN
executives remain supportive.
“We weren’t in this for the first
night,” Bart Feder, senior vice
president of programming, told
the paper. “We’re in this to launch
and to let it grow. And we’re
confident it will.”
So is Parker. “All I can do is
focus on doing the kind of show
that I want to watch, in the same
way that people write the book
they want to read,” she says. “If
it’s not what people want to
watch, I suppose we’ll find out.
But I just know from my 20-plus
years as a columnist that there is
an appetite out there for civility
and solutions rather than
sensationalism and gossip.”
Her experience as a columnist
has also endowed her with a thick
skin. “I’m used to criticism,” she
says. “I’m used to craziness and
people saying really rude things,
and I don’t take it personally. I
just dismiss them.”
Parker, who for years was based
in Camden, S.C., is still adjusting
to a new life and job in the Big
Apple. “It’s an enormous amount
of work,” she says. “I get in a car
at 7:30 in the morning and don’t
get home till close to twelve hours
later.”
In recent days, Parker realized
that not only the show, but also
her own schedule, needs a little
tinkering. “At the moment I can’t
really attest to what it’s like to
live here because, for now, I live
at CNN,” she laughs. “I look
forward to the day when I have a
little more time to be a New
Yorker.”
So far, Dick Armey, Bernard
Henri Levy, Arianna Huffington,
Aaron Sorkin, Andrew Breitbart,
Ralph Reed, Andrew Sullivan,
and Oliver Stone, among others,
have sidled up to the show’s
roundtable. This week, Eric
Schmidt, Google’s chief
executive, is their big “get.”
Yet the show’s success -- and
survival -- will likely hinge on
more than its booking prowess.
Parker, who began her career as a
reporter before becoming a
syndicated scribe, acknowledges
that sustaining a compelling on-
air chemistry with Spitzer is
instrumental. On the show, she
notes, she wears many hats:
southerner, sometime
conservative foil, mother, writer.
“I represent those different
perspectives,” she says. “I can
only be myself, and I am all of
those things.”
#page#Indeed, one aspect of the
show that won’t change is
Parker’s political sensibility. She
knows that some conservatives
view her with suspicion,
especially after she panned Sarah
Palin’s vice-presidential
nomination. Still, playing the part
of ideologue is off the table. To
clear the air before Parker Spitzer
debuted, Parker described her
politics to Larry King as only
“slightly to the right of center.”
Parker’s continued lack of
interest in espousing an ideology
has already roiled some on the
right. Conservative activist
Richard Viguerie, for one, has
written that Parker, “pleasantly
wishy-washy, mostly plain
vanilla,” is doing too little to
combat Spitzer’s lefty arguments.
#ad#Parker promptly invited
Viguerie on the show late last
week, where the two argued over
the prominence, or lack thereof,
of conservative commentary at
CNN, a network that tries
mightily to bill itself as a centrist,
nonpartisan organization. “I’m not
a partisan, and I’m certainly not
an ideologue,” Parker explains in
our interview. “I got labeled a
conservative by the marketplace.
I’ve never actually declared
myself a conservative.”
Parker adds that rough-and-
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tumble partisan fights, despite
being proven to win cable
viewers, will not be injected into
Parker Spitzer in coming weeks.
But, I wonder, can the political
center, with its tendency toward
the bloodless, be entertaining?
Yes, she nods, it can. As she
gazes out at the Manhattan
skyline, Parker says that she
would like to see her show rise
above talking points and political
zingers, to be like “one great
dinner party where guests steer
clear of the obvious and mix it
up.” Fun, she says in her soft
southern drawl, is the “operative
word.”
For now, it’s unclear whether
Parker will succeed. Aiming to
blend the kind of in-depth,
intellectual conversation seen on
PBS’s Charlie Rose with the
sharp banter of MSNBC’s
Morning Joe is a challenge. “We
are just seven days out of the gate,
for heaven’s sake,” she laughs.
“Every day gets a little smoother.”
Though unfazed by critics, Parker
remains open to advice. “We are
absolutely open to altering
different aspects of the show as
we move along and we decide
what works and what doesn’t,
what we like and what we don’t
like,” she says. The question,
though, is whether people will
start to tune in.
-- Robert Costa is a political
reporter for National Review.
Robert Costa
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Proud to Be a Republican Morning Bell: The

transform” America. I don’t think So angry are many Americans at and governor respectively. The
Left Still Doesn’t
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:00:36 PM
any political observer would have
Today, the Republican party predicted that not one Republican
what the Left is trying to do to erudite, deep, and accomplished Get Poverty
America that spectacularly bright Carly Fiorina is on an
actually stands for something senator or congressman would Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
and accomplished individuals incomparably higher level than Conservative Policy News.)
other than being an alternative to vote for the Democrats’ 2,000- from every walk of life have Barbara Boxer, whose
the Democratic party. plus pages of new federal decided to leave their professions professional life has been largely Submitted at 10/19/2010 8:34:29 AM

A fter I became a Republican in regulations, of controls over and run for office. devoted to getting elected. The
the early 1990s -- in a recent Americans’ medical decisions, There may not be anything like it same comparison can be made Posted October 19th, 2010 at
c o l u m n , I e x p l a i n e d h o w and of massive increased debt. in modern American history, and between Meg Whitman and Jerry 9:34am in Family and Religion
emotionally difficult it is for a This was an astonishing there is certainly nothing like it in Brown. Print This Post
Democrat to vote Republican, let accomplishment. It was obviously the Democratic party, whose In South Carolina, a small- ‘Culture of Poverty’ Makes a
alone become one -- I concluded a c r e d i t t o t h e R e p u b l i c a n candidates for office are business man named Tim Scott is Comeback reads the headline
that I had left the dangerous party leadership. But most of all, it said overwhelmingly career politicians the Republican candidate from from this past Sunday’s New
and joined the stupid party. that every single Republican was whose political lives are largely South Carolina’s first York Times. Patricia Cohen goes
Of course, as I often noted on my p r e p a r e d t o f i g h t t h e L e f t , devoted -- however sincere their congressional district. He is witty on to report: “[I]n the
radio show, I prefer the foolish to whatever the political cost. desire to help people may be -- to and thoughtful -- read the UK overwhelmingly liberal ranks of
the destructive. But, still, being a And to whatever extent giving the public’s money to Daily Telegraph’s feature article academic sociology and
Republican engendered little Republican politicians found their people who vote for them. on him -- and, by the way, black. anthropology the word ‘culture’
pride. moral and philosophical In Alaska, Republican candidate #ad#In Michigan the Republican became a live grenade, and the
#ad#That all changed in the last moorings, the Republican voter for U.S. senator Joe Miller has a candidate against John Dingell is idea that attitudes and behavior
year. President Obama and his left d i d s o a t l e a s t a s m u c h . résumé that reads like something Rob Steele, a distinguished patterns kept people poor was
-wing party have given his Republican voters announced that a Hollywood screenwriter would cardiologist. shunned. Now, after decades of
country three enormous gifts. they prefer to lose an election than make up. He was awarded a In Florida, the Republican silence, these scholars are
First, they created a level of have a Republican who in any bronze star for his military service congressional candidate for the speaking openly about you-know-
p o l i t i c a l / m o r a l c l a r i t y t h a t way supports expansion of the and is a judge who graduated Tampa Bay area is Mike what, conceding that culture and
America has not had in this baby federal government. Whether this from Yale Law School. Prendergast, a recently retired persistent poverty are enmeshed.”
boomer’s lifetime. was wise in every case is not my In Arizona, a rocket scientist -- army colonel with 31 years of At first, this may seem like the
Second, they induced an eruption subject here. The subject is the yes, a physicist and rocket active-duty experience. left is finally ready to make a
of conservative activism -- i.e., moral/political clarity and the scientist -- has decided to leave This is a small, almost random major concession to reality about
activism on behalf of limited desire to fight for it among the world of science to run in a 55 sample of the impressive their decades-long War on
government -- that may be greater R e p u b l i c a n p o l i t i c i a n s a n d percent–Hispanic district against a Republican candidates coming Poverty. But a closer reading of
than at any time since the R e p u b l i c a n v o t e r s . Democratic Hispanic from outside politics. Cohen’s source materials, a recent
founding of the country. And if all this is not enough to congressman. She (yes, she) is This is a great time to be a symposium on poverty in The
And third, they are producing a fill a Republican with pride, there another candidate from central Republican. Thank you, President Annals of the American Academy
Republican party that actually is a development that is as casting. When I spoke to Ruth Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and of Political and Social Science,
stands for something other than dramatic and as unforeseeable as McClung on my radio show, I Majority Leader Reid. You know shows the opposite is true. The
being an alternative to the was the unanimity of Republican was struck by her seriousness, her not what you have done. left is just as clueless about
Democratic party. opposition to the transformational lack of any political guile, and her -- Dennis Prager is a nationally poverty as it has ever been.
T h e R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda: The intellectual depth. syndicated radio talk-show host Heritage Foundation Senior
demonstrated its new stance first quality of many Republican #page#In California, two and columnist. He may be Research Fellow in Domestic
and foremost in its unanimity in senatorial and congressional powerhouse women, Carly contacted through his website, Policy Studies Robert Rector
opposing the Obama-led attempts candidates in the 2010 election is Fiorina and Meg Whitman, are the dennisprager.com. Dennis Prager writes at National Review Online:
to, in his words, “fundamentally the highest in modern memory. Republican candidates for senator One might imagine that experts
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Dark Predictions of a KGB Defector

Jamie Glazov (FrontPage name of this station chief, The “liberalization” would be
Magazine » FrontPage) information which should have spectacular and impressive.
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:05:35 PM definitely been unknown to him. Formal pronouncements might be
He further offered secret made about a reduction in the
Frontpage Interview’s guest documents from the nearby Soviet communist party’s role: its
today is Jason McNew, a veteran embassy, and stated that more monopoly would be apparently
of the United States Air Force and i n f o r m a t i o n w o u l d b e curtailed. An ostensible
an IT Professional who works for forthcoming if he and his family separation of powers between the
t h e f e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t i n could be immediately evacuated legislative, the executive, and the
Washington, D.C. He has been to the United States. Along with judiciary might be introduced.
studying communism, asymmetric his wife and daughter, Golitsyn The Supreme Soviet would be
warfare, and the works of Soviet left Finland on Christmas day of given greater apparent power, and
defectors for over 10 years. He his 1961, aboard a US military the president of the Soviet Union
a regular contributor to American aircraft. and the first secretary of the party
Thinker, and his work has been While there were many Soviet might well be separated. The
cited on numerous other websites, defectors during the Cold War, KGB would be “reformed.”
including WND, Hot Air, and The t h e m a j o r i t y o f t h e m w e r e Dissidents at home would be
Blaze. He can be reached at providing (knowingly or not) amnestied; those in exile abroad
jasond@mcnew.org. information which was would be allowed to return, and
FP: Jason McNew, welcome to purposefully designed by the some would take up positions of
Frontpage Interview. Soviets to mislead their main leadership in government.
I would like to talk to you today enemy, the United States and its There would be greater freedom
about Anatoliy Mikhaylovich CIA. It wasn’t until 1984 with the for Soviet citizens to travel.
Golitsyn, the famous Soviet KGB publication of his first book, New Western and Unitized Nations
agent who defected to the CIA in Lies for Old, that Anatoliy observers would be invited to the
1961. This man’s revelations have Golitsyn became known to the Soviet Union to witness the
much relevance to the threats the public. His book, most of which reforms in action.
United States faces today. had actually been written before Sakharov might be included in
Let’s begin by you telling us a bit 1980, was ridiculed and ignored. some capacity in the government
about Golitsyn and why what he By 1991, the Berlin Wall had are “differently rational,” if you (and now “neo-Soviets”) have or allowed to teach aboard. The
had to say is still vitally important been torn down and the USSR will. done. By “neo-Soviets” I mean creative arts and cultural and
for the West to heed. was dissolved by Gorbachev — The re-emergence of communism Vladimir Putin and his ilk in the scientific organizations, such as
McNew: Thank you for having events which Golitsyn had written now (albeit with all manner of Kremlin and Lubyanka. the writers’ unions and Academy
me Dr. Glazov. It’s an honor for about several years prior (in the different names) craves FP: Tell us about some of of Sciences, would become
me to have an opportunity to talk last chapter of New Lies for Old.) explanation. Clearly communism Golitsyn’s most significant apparently more independent, as
with you here at Frontpage. In total, there were nearly 150 did not just “die” in 1991 as predictions. would the trade unions. Political
Golitsyn was a Russian KGB predictions in the last chapter of everyone was led (told) to McNew: Golitysn has now clubs would be opened to
Major who, as you point out, the book, and over 90 percent of believe. Golitsyn’s works are the become (somewhat) famous for nonmembers of the communist
defected from the Soviet Union to them eventually proved to be key to understanding how the having warned in advance that the party. Leading dissidents might
the West in 1961. He walked into correct. This seems impossible ancient principles of Sun Tzu USSR was going to break itself up form one or more alternative
t h e A m e r i c a n e m b a s s y i n based on what our accepted (warfare based on deception) can as part of a strategic ruse. On political parties
Helsinki, Finland, and requested notions of rationality are, however be practically applied as a page 339 of his book New Lies So here we have over a dozen
to see the CIA station chief there. it must be kept in mind that comprehensive national strategy. for Old, there appears the
Golitsyn himself provided the communists (and their strategies) This is exactly what the Soviets following paragraphs: DARK page 83
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Chicago, Other Cities Face Huge Tab for Their Government

Pensions
David C. John (The Foundry: to $3.4 trillion underfunding for household) in 2022
Conservative Policy News.) state public pensions. 9. Detroit: $6.4 billion
Submitted at 10/19/2010 11:00:06 AM The report covers 77 major underfunding ($18,600 per
public employee pension plans household) in 2023
Posted October 19th, 2010 at located in 50 major cities and 10. Fort Worth, TX: $2
12:00pm in Entitlements Print counties, accounting for about billion underfunding ($7,200 per
This Post two-thirds of workers covered by household) in 2023
It turns out that many city public city and county pension plans. As this list indicates, the city
p e n s i o n p l a n s a r e j u s t a s Using more realistic estimations public pensions plans must be
underfunded as various state plans of the underfunding of each plan fixed quickly, or the situation will
are. For instance, Chicago has than is used by most public get even worse. Unfortunately,
only about $22 billion in pension pensions, the report paints a dire most of these cities are doing
assets to pay for $66 billion in p i c t u r e o f t h e b u r d e n t h a t nothing major at this point. For
pension promises to its city taxpayers face unless they can instance, Chicago has been given
workers, while New York City find a legal way to reduce those a funding holiday by the state
has $93 billion available to pay costs. legislature, a move that is almost
$215 billion in city pension However, not all public pension certain to make the problem grow
promises, and Boston has only plans are underfunded, and they very rapidly.
$3.5 billion available to pay $11 a r e c e r t a i n l y n o t e q u a l l y Cities and counties can receive
billion in promises. That means underfunded. Certain cities have aid from the states or declare
that every household in Chicago done a better job of controlling bankruptcy. However, they must
has a liability of about $42,000 their pension promises or funding solve their own problems and not
just to pay pensions to city them than others. turn to the federal government for
workers, while each household in Chicago takes first prize in a bailout. Such a move would
New York City owes $39,000, underfunded city pensions, and only guarantee that many cities
and each in Boston owes about this in a state that already has would go back to their bad habits,
$31,000. These are existing such seriously underfunded state convinced that a federal handout
pension promises and would employee pension plans that each awaits them once they get into
remain the same even if that city’s household in the city already trouble again.
pension plans were frozen. owes $29,000 just for the state reforms quickly are as follows: household) in 2020 This entry passed through the
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MORNING
continued from page 80
researching the “culture of
poverty” would examine how
marital collapse, eroded work
ethic, and indifference to
academic study contribute to
financial poverty. Guess again.
Instead, editors of The Annals
firmly declare that the main cause
of poverty is “material deprivation
itself.” In other words, the cause
of poverty is poverty: The cure for
poverty is to artificially boost the
incomes of the poor through
welfare payments, free food,
housing, medical care, and so on.
This is nothing new. Liberals
always have insisted that poverty
causes dysfunctional behaviors
rather than vice versa. But, if
having a low income caused
problem behaviors (such as
illegitimate births and eroded
work ethic), then most Americans
in the 19th and early 20th
centuries (whose incomes were
far lower than those of today’s
poor) should have been drowning
in dysfunctional behaviors. Of
course, they were not.
As Rector has amply documented
before, the left’s continued
blindness to the cultural
underpinnings of poverty have
undermined civil society and
DARK
continued from page 81
very specific predictions, all of
which later proved to be
completely correct – and this is
only a small excerpt of the total.
bloated our federal budget. Since
1964, the U.S. has spent $15.9
trillion on means-tested welfare
programs. After adjusting for
inflation, welfare spending is 13
times higher today than it was in
1965. Welfare spending has
grown more rapidly than Social
Security, Medicare, education,
and defense. And what do we
have to show for these efforts?
According to the Census Bureau,
a record high 3.7 million
Americans fell into poverty in
2009. The out-of-wedlock
birthrate is now 40% and the
African American out-of-wedlock
birthrate is 72%. When the War
on Poverty began the out-of-
wedlock birthrate was just 7%.
The collapse of marriage is the
root cause of child poverty in the
U.S. today. It is far past time to
reboot our poverty programs to
promote work and encourage
marriage in order to control costs
and promote greater self-reliance.
A m o n g R e c t o r ’ s
r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s :
• Slowing the growth of the
welfare state: Congress needs to
establish reasonable fiscal
constraints within the welfare
system. Once the current
recession ends, aggregate welfare
spending should be rolled back to
pre-recession levels. After this
rollback has been completed, the
growth of welfare spending
should be capped at the rate of
inflation.
• Promoting personal
responsibility and work: Able-
bodied welfare recipients should
be required to work or to prepare
for work as a condition of
receiving aid. Food stamps and
housing assistance, two of the
largest programs for the needy,
should be aligned with the TANF
program to require able-bodied
adults to work or to prepare for
work for a minimum of 30 hours
per week.
• Ending the welfare marriage
penalty and encouraging marriage
in low-income communities:
Current means-tested welfare
programs penalize low-income
recipients who get married; these
anti-marriage penalties should be
reduced or eliminated.
During the administration of
President Bill Clinton,
conservatives successfully
reformed one welfare program in
the 1990s: replacing the old Aid
to Families with Dependent
Children (AFDC) with the new
Temporary Assistance to Needy
Families (TANF). But President
Barack Obama’s failed economic
stimulus gutted those reforms.
And his budget proposal would
spend $10.3 trillion on means-
tested welfare over the next
decade. Before the current rise in
poverty, that was enough to give
$250,000 to each person currently
living in poverty in the U.S., or $1
million for a poor family of four.
Our nation can’t afford another 10
years of failed War on Poverty
thinking.
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analogy -- in order to understand
why someone who is not
intimidated by political
correctness might employ it.
#page#In thinking about how to
argue the depth of terrorist
depravity to the jury while
prosecuting a 1995 terrorism trial,
I must confess it crossed my mind
that jihad literally means
“struggle,” the same word found
in the title of Hitler’s manifesto,
Mein Kampf(“My Struggle”). I
quickly dismissed any thought of
mentioning this as too explosive -
- nothing provokes a mistrial
motion faster than a prosecutor’s
comparison of defendants to
Nazis, and when your evidence is
damning, it’s always better to let
it, rather than your rhetoric, do the
talking. But I certainly didn’t
think the point was beyond the
pale. As noted by Daniel Pipes
(who does not agree with
Wilders’s analogy), no less a
figure than Winston Churchill
described Mein Kampf as “the
new Koran of faith and war:
turgid, verbose, shapeless, but
pregnant with its message.”
#ad#In the middle of the 20th
century, before suffocating
political correctness took hold, it
was not all that controversial to
say such things. Note that in 1954,
Bernard Lewis obviously felt no
need to resort to such devices as
“Islamism” -- a device I adopt
myself in The Grand Jihad-- to
conform to today’s obligatory but
unproved assumption that there
exists a moderate, tolerant Islam,
WHO page 87
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The Blue and the Gray

Submitted at 10/19/2010 3:00:21 AM
are moving to address the wrong $4.3 million went to ineligible unwarranted COLA to offset the
problem: They propose borrowing incarcerated felons.) And after harmful effects of two straight
I t is hard not to feel for seniors $ 1 5 b i l l i o n f r o m f u t u r e eliminating the popular Medicare years of near-zero interest rates?
in this economy. Federal Reserve generations to send each Social Advantage program to pay for To believe that (and it’s a
chairman Ben Bernanke is doing Security recipient a check for their new health-care entitlement, stretch), one would have to
everything in his power to make $250. the Democrats tried to mollify believe that sending out these
life miserable for people who rely #ad#Inflation has averaged near- seniors with more one-time checks is in fact the right policy to
on income from their savings, as zero for the past two years, payments of $250 (this time to correct the harm that the Fed is
s o m a n y s e n i o r s d o . B y meaning that it has been two years help seniors pay for prescription- doing to savers. It is difficult if
endeavoring night and day to since the 58 million Americans on drug purchases in excess of those not impossible to justify such a
convince justifiably risk-averse Social Security got an official cost covered by Medicare). large spending commitment to
businesses to expand, the Fed has -of-living adjustment (COLA). The plain fact that there has been Social Security recipients when
made safe savings vehicles Last time seniors got a COLA, no increase in the general price A) such recipients are by their
essentially worthless. Seniors are however, it was a big one: Oil level (combined with the fact that, nature shielded from the very
left with two options: plunge back prices had hit $150 a barrel, and in years when seniors do not worst effects of an economic
into riskier assets at a time when that led to an unusually large 5.8 receive a COLA, Medicare downturn (such as the loss of all
they can’t afford to lose their nest percent upward adjustment in premiums also stay flat) makes it income), and B) far from losing
eggs, or make do with non- Social Security benefits. Oil has tempting to conclude that the their entire incomes, these
existent returns. since fallen to $80 a barrel, but Democrats are engaged in nothing recipients got a 5.8 percent raise
Again, we sympathize, especially seniors have retained the 5.8 more than rank political two years ago and a one-time
to the extent that the Fed’s latest percent increase in benefits. Think opportunism. Yet, as noted above, bonus last year. The Democrats
adventures in magical money- of it as 2 percent a year for the the government has enacted are already waging class warfare
conjuring are Mickey-in- Fantasia last three years, if you prefer. policies that are making life more to win their argument on taxes.
-level misguided. That said, a Actually, think of it as more than difficult for seniors, and the Using the lame-duck session to
rising general price level, which that: Last year, the Democrats government agency making these borrow another $15 billion from
makes it harder to live on fixed granted seniors an un official policies is more or less beyond the our grandchildren to provide
incomes, is one problem seniors COLA by packaging payments of reach of the representative today’s seniors with additional
do not presently have. As usual, $250 for every senior into the branches. Are Democrats benefits makes it a two-front,
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, stimulus bill. (About $18 million advocating the right policy for the generational war. The Editors
and Senate majority leader Reid went out to the deceased; another wrong reasons -- pushing for an
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Turning Churches Against Israel
Mark D. Tooley (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:07:46 PM
“With God on Our Side,” the new
anti-Israel movie produced by an
evangelical pastor and aimed at
evangelical audiences, is touring
America this month, with anti-
Israel British Anglican priest
Stephen Sizer in tow. On October
27, it was originally going to be
screened in the U.S. Capitol
Visitor Center, doubtless hoping
to appeal to young evangelical
Congressional staffers, whose
numbers and influence likely will
increase in the new Congress.
Now, for whatever reason, it
instead will screen at a Lutheran
church on Capitol Hill.
The Evangelical Left is anxious
to neutralize evangelicals as
America’s typically most pro-
Israel demographic, especially by
focusing on the plight of
Palestinian Christians, who are
portrayed as victims exclusively
of Israeli oppression. “With God
on Our Side,” predictably,
portrays pro-Israel Christians as
mindless zealots indifferent to
Palestinian suffering and
exploiting Israeli Jews as merely
tools for precipitating the Second
Coming. Hapless quotes from
Christian Zionists are contrasted
with thoughtful articulations from
Palestinian Christians and other
pro-Palestinian advocates.
Anglican priest Stephen Sizer,
prominently featured in the film,
bewails Christian Zionism on his
website: “Aspects of this belief
system lead some Christians in
the West to give uncritical support
to Israeli government policies,
even those that privilege Jews at
the expense of Palestinians,
leading to great suffering among
Muslim and Christian
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destruction of property, the
creation of ghettos and the denial
of fundamental human rights, in
order to create what is
increasingly becoming a racist
state.” He insists in his blog that
Christian support for Israel
challenges “our understanding of
the gospel, the centrality of the
cross, the role of the church, and
the nature of our missionary
mandate, not least, to the beloved
Jewish people.” And he deplores
Christian Zionism as a “heresy
conclusively refuted by the New
Testament.” Sizer and “With
God on our Side” are unwilling to
accept that many evangelicals
and other Christians have
substantive reasons for
supporting Israel other than a
grimacing expectation of the End
Times. Israel’s democracy, pro-
Palestinians alike and threatening that Christian Zionism has any Western stance, and resistance to
Israel’s security as a whole.” biblical or moral foundation. It is Islamist terror are just a few
Rev. Sizer essentially advocates an oxymoron, as absurd as to reasons that many Americans,
a Helen Thomas sort of theology. suggest that biblical Christianity Christian or not, affirm Israel
H i s b l o g e v e n a c c l a i m e d and apartheid are in any way against its many enemies. But
Thomas for exclaiming that Jews compatible. The Dutch Reformed Sizer and his film are largely
need to “get out of Palestine” Church in South Africa tried and uninterested in the transgressions,
a n d g o b a c k t o P o l a n d o r failed and eventually repented. and inferior human rights
wherever. “Bring it on,” Sizer Would that Christian Zionists did records, of Israel’s primary foes.
enthused in response to Thomas’s the same.” Nor are they usually willing to
promise to keep speaking out. Sizer is incredulous that critique radical Islam.
He has further explained: Christians would “justify on
“With God on our Side” is a theological grounds the theft of
direct challenge to the foolish idea land, the demolition of homes, the
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Bracing for the Big State Bailout

Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage other people’s money, without a
Magazine » FrontPage) shred of anything resembling
Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:19:55 PM fiscal responsibility, has gone
unchecked for decades. The
If one could classify most of the epicenter of progressivism,
missteps by our Democrat California, is facing a $19 billion
Congress and the Obama budget deficit and has resorted to
administration into one group, giving state workers furloughs
“promoting moral hazard” would and issuing IOUs in lieu of
be the title for that category.
“Moral hazard” centers around the
payment as a means of avoiding
default on their bonds. Illinois
Obama’s
idea of protecting people from
the consequences of their own bad
behavior, and it is arguable that
and New Jersey are two more
states on the fiscal respirator, as
progressive profligacy has
Politics of
we’ve never had a government
more dedicated to doing so than
wreaked havoc there as well.
Yet unlike the other Fear
this one. From insulating the aforementioned states, New Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
United Auto Workers and its car- Jersey has begun to reconcile Magazine » FrontPage)
company destroying contracts, to itself with reality. The election of Submitted at 10/18/2010 11:20:47 PM
protecting deadbeat homeowners Governor Chris Christie, who ran
from ill-advised purchases and on fiscal responsibility, has Once again, the president of the
everything in between, Obama demonstrated that the voters in United States has managed to
and company have seriously that state have rejected the insult the people whom he is
undermined the moral fabric of according to the Pew Center on For example, New York and b u s i n e s s - a s - u s u a l f i s c a l supposed to lead — the same
the country. Yet all of their t h e S t a t e s . T h e a m o u n t o f Florida have almost the same dereliction perpetrated by former people that he promised ad
machinations to date pale in municipal debt outstanding has number of people — 19.5 million Governor John Corzine, who lost nauseam to unite under the twin
comparison to what might be increased about 90 percent in the and 18.5 million respectively. the election despite outspending banners of “hope” and “change”
coming in 2011: federal bailouts last decade, according to Federal Yet New York’s state budget of Christie by a factor of five-to-one once he took office. As out-of-
for profligate state governments. Reserve data.” $139 billion dollars more than in a state where registered touch as ever with the mood and
Bloomberg.com spells out the Bloomberg.com is far too kind doubles Florida’s budget of $67 D e m o c r a t s o u t n u m b e r motivations of his fellow citizens,
grim reality: blaming it on the recession. billion. Why? Political ideology, Republicans by over seven Obama carefully considered the
“The longest recession since the Several states have been piling plain and simple. hundred thousand. change in the today’s political
Great Depression has left states up debt long before 2008, and it is New York is a state, like many On November 2nd, it is likely climate and concluded not only
facing budget gaps of $72 billion no secret that much of that debt of the most financially precarious that some states may jump on the are voters in this election
next fiscal year, according to a can be directly traced to soaring states in the union, which Jersey bandwagon, and voters motivated by fear, their fear is
July report by the National costs for public worker health embraces the socialist utopian, will toss progressives out of office irrational because they obviously
Conference on State Legislatures. care and pension benefits. It is ever-expanding bureaucratic in what now appears to be record don’t have the intellectual
State pension funds face deficits also no secret that some states are ambitions of the progressive -breaking numbers. capacity to understand all of the
o f m o r e t h a n $ 1 t r i l l i o n , far more profligate than others. agenda. As a result, spending great things that Democrats have
done for them over the past
nineteen months. If this message
is Obama’s secret weapon to
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scripturally based and doctrinally
distinguishable from the Islam of
the “extremists.”
In those bygone days, the term
“Islamist” was usually used to
identify a scholar of Islam -- akin
to a Sinologist or an Arabist.
There was another usage, dating
back to the 1920s. It was the one
coined by Muslim Brotherhood
founder Hassan al-Banna to
denote a person who urged Islam
as a complete way of life and
favored installation of the sharia
system. For Banna, there was no
difference between Islam and
Islamism.
That, by the way, is not only the
Brotherhood’s view. It is the
adamant opinion of Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, the Islamist prime
minister of Turkey who continues
to be regarded by the U.S.
government as a great moderate,
just as he was during the Bush
administration. “Very ugly” was
his take on the term “moderate
Islam” in a 2007 interview. As
Erdogan fumed at the time, “It is
offensive and an insult to our
religion. There is no moderate or
immoderate Islam. Islam is
Islam, and that’s it.”
Islam is Islam. That is Erdogan’s
position, it seems to have been the
position of Bernard Lewis a half
century ago, and it is Geert
Wilders’s position today. Not that
Muslims are bad, but that Islam is
a dangerous ideology. Wilders
summed up his views in a 2009
interview with Jeff Jacoby (also
quoted in Andrew Bostom’s
piece):
I have nothing against the people.
I don’t hate Muslims. But Islam is
a totalitarian ideology. It rules
every aspect of life -- economics,
family law, whatever. It has
religious symbols, it has a God, it
has a book -- but it’s not a
religion. It can be compared with
totalitarian ideologies like
Communism or fascism. There is
no country where Islam is
dominant where you have a real
democracy, a real separation
between church and state.
These claims are materially
indistinguishable from points
Professor Lewis made in 1954 --
other than, perhaps, Wilders’s
assertion that Islam “is not a
religion,” although by that, I take
him to mean Islam is not merely a
religion or a set of spiritual
principles but a comprehensive
system controlling all of life.
From those premises, Wilders
concluded that “Islam is totally
contrary to our values.” That is a
bracing conclusion. I think the
problem people have with Wilders
is that he is bracing. He says out
loud what they fear is the case, or
what they refuse to examine for
fear of discovering that it is the
case. That makes him
inconvenient. It doesn’t make him
wrong.
-- Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior
fellow at the National Review
Institute, is the author, most
recently, of The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America. Andrew C. McCarthy
OBAMA’S
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rescue his party from Election
Day disaster, Republican
candidates across the country can
take the rest of the campaign off.
“People out there are still hurting
very badly, and they are still
scared,” Obama said at a
Democratic fundraiser in Boston
on Saturday. “And so part of the
reason that our politics seems so
tough right now, and facts and
science and argument does not
seem to be winning the day all the
time, is because we’re hard-wired
not to always think clearly when
we’re scared. And the country is
scared, and they have good reason
to be.”
Those three sentences represent a
classic example of the Democratic
thought process, although most
Democrats would not express
such sentiments less than three
weeks before an election.
Democrats embrace fear. It’s the
emotion that drives them as much
as any other. They spent eight
years demonizing practically
every move George W. Bush
made by whipping up fear.
Domestic wiretaps, Gitmo, and
the War on Terror itself were all
examples of fascism on the rise in
America, or so the Left claimed.
When foreign leaders criticized
our actions, that was proof enough
that America was fast becoming a
rogue state. In 2008, Barack
Obama campaigned for “change.”
Left unsaid, but well understood,
was Obama’s belief that if we
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didn’t change our ways, America
was doomed. If that’s not
appealing to fear, what is?
The president also demonstrated
once again his party’s deeply held
belief that they – and they alone –
are the only legitimate purveyors
of the “facts and science and
argument” that are part of the
ongoing public policy debate. If
you don’t like the government
taking control over seventeen per
cent of the economy through the
healthcare bill, you’re obviously
not aware of the “facts” that prove
this is a good thing. If you oppose
all of the draconian measures that
Lisa Jackson’s EPA is putting into
place that will have a brutal effect
on American industry, then you
are clearly scientifically illiterate.
If you have a problem with the
stimulus packages, then you’re
clearly listening to the wrong
arguments. There is no debate to
be had in Obama’s world, because
the word “debate” presupposes
two legitimately held, defensible
positions. The president clearly
believes that he and his party
know the absolute truth in every
instance and anyone who denies
those truths has to be acting
irrationality, or out of fear and
stupidity.
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Americans Prefer Social Security Upper Income

Benefit Reductions to Tax Hikes
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:00:51 AM
Posted October 19th, 2010 at
11:00am in Entitlements Print
This Post
The Washington Post’s Ezra
Klein has used a new Gallup poll
showing that 77% of Americans
believe “the cost of the
government’s major entitlement
programs, including Social
Security and Medicare, will create
major economic problems for the
U.S. in the next 25 years” to
produce the following headline:
Americans prefer tax increases to
benefit cuts.
Problem is, that just is not the
choice respondents were given.
Here are the actual top line
questions produced by Gallup:
If the cost of major entitlement
programs does create major
economic problems for the U.S.,
do you think the
government should or should not
do each of the following to deal
with the situation? How about –
[RANDOM ORDER]?
A. Raise taxes 42% Yes, should –
56% No, should not
B. Cut benefits 32% yes, Should
– 66% No, should not
The first thing to notice is that
more than 100% of respondents
said no to both items. This shows
that respondents were not offered
an opportunity to prefer one
option over the other as Klein’s
headline implies.
But more importantly “cut
benefits” is a very blunt question
that misses many ways Congress
could cut Social Security
spending. For example, Congress
could “limit benefits for wealthy
retirees.” And when Gallup asked
Americans if they supported that
policy back in July of this year,
63% of Americans said they
would support those spending
cuts. On the contrary, 64% of
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new memes and trends to take
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Stand out from the inevitable
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This costume concept will really
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Dressing up as Mashable favorite
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Even better, the actual
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We love the idea of hitting a
Halloween shindig as “the man
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we doubt few can match Isaiah
Mustafa’s clear diction and
confident poise (not to mention
that physique), the juxtaposition
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Getting your Old Spice Guy
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your waist (and may we suggest
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blushes — invest in some Velcro
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accessorize with medals,
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as you see fit.
And just as a reminder, some key
phrases to repeat while in Old
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and of course, “hello, ladies.” 3.
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It’s a bit of a stretch to say that
Foursquare’s“Sad Mayor” graphic
is the new Fail Whale, but she has
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All you need is a simple gray
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As Mashable’s weekly Top
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Twitter — Justin Bieber — may
not enjoy as much dominance
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We all enjoyed the bittersweet
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Just replicate Mr. Reeves’ outfit,
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charity sells, Zadeh donates 30%
of the proceeds to that charity.
Zadeh, who runs her business
with the help of just two
assistants, said she uses her own
Twitter and Facebook accounts to
keep her customers updated about
her work and philanthropic
efforts, but she’s found social
media most useful for amplifying
the company’s message via her
audience. “It’s exponential,”
Zadeh explained. “I have so many
people in my database, and maybe
10 are interested (in a product),
but when the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation International
retweets about a bracelet then all
their followers know about it.” 2.
Busam Automotive: Raising
Funds Creatively
With so many businesses now
using Facebook and Twitter,
setting your company apart online
has become more difficult. This
was the predicament facing
Busam Automotive, a Cincinnati
auto dealership that sponsors an
annual campaign for Susan G.
Komen for the Cure, a foundation
that promotes breast cancer
research.
“When we began to plan the
fundraiser we thought, ‘How can
we take this kinda boring run of
the mill sponsorship and make it
kinda cool and different?’ ” said
Busam business development
manager Andrew Shipp. The
solution: creative social media
tactics.
For every retweeted picture of a
Busam vehicle ( like this one),
Busam pledged to donate $1 to
the foundation. In addition, the
dealership promised $10 off on an
oil change and a free ticket to a
charity fashion show for anyone
who checked into Busam’s Nissan
branch on Foursquare. 3. SRSCI:
Promoting a Company Philosophy
Jorge Fonseca Mata of the Finca
Fonseca coffee farm, the largest
coffee plantation in San Rafael,
Costa Rica
For some small businesses like
the San Rafael Sustainable Coffee
Initiative(SRSCI), social good is
built into the DNA of the
company. The SRSCI, a joint
venture between Costa Rican
coffee farmers and processing
plants in the small community of
San Rafael, uses micro-loans to
grow the local economy while
connecting growers with drinkers.
The big idea behind the SRSCI is
to cut out the middlemen. If
customers order directly from
farmers, farmers maximize their
profit, thereby growing the local
economy. The SRSCI also
encourages (but does not require)
customers to invest in a micro-
loan to fund the next year’s crop.
“For the consumer, that actual
connection supplies a need in the
market place for those who want
to know the farmer and where
their daily cup originates,” said
Kenneth Lander, one of SRSCI’s
founders. “For the farmer, that
actual connection places the
farmer and the farming
community first in line to receive
100% benefit from the sale of
roasted coffee.”
Since most of SRSCI’s customers
are aboard, Twitter and Facebook
are useful for connecting
customers with growers. “These
tools are the key to this
relationship,” Lander said. “The
direct effect is creating a
relationship that allows the farmer
and the farming community to
flourish and continue to serve the
consumer directly in the future.”
Since the SRSCI was created in
June 2010, its received 111 micro-
loans and sold more than 900
pounds of roasted coffee. That
translates into $9,000 for the local
economy. While that may not
sound like much, Lander stressed
that under the conventional
system, 900 pounds typically nets
just $351 in profit for the farmers.
Social Tools to Consider
While Twitter, Facebook and (to
a lesser extent) Foursquare are
omnipresent, there are other lesser
known online tools that small
businesses can use to promote
social good. Below are three in no
particular order.
Bolder is a platform that works
with businesses interested in
inspiring individuals to do what’s
best for society. On Bolder’s
website, businesses challenge
individuals to do things like ditch
bottled water for a day or bike to
work. In exchange, the business
provides an incentive, which is
usually a discount or freebie.
For the particularly activist-
minded business, Act.ly is a new
platform for starting an online
petition via Twitter. Individuals or
businesses can tweet at someone
requesting that they act on an
issue. The initial request appears
as a tweet and its success depends
on subsequent retweets.
I Shop 4 Microfinance makes it
easy for online customers to
donate to micro-finance
foundations. Customers simply
have to sign up and then shop.
Four percent of all purchases are
donated and, best of all, there’s no
additional cost to the customer.
More Social Good Resources
from Mashable:
- Why Social Media Is
Reinventing Activism
- 3 Creative Social Good
Campaigns that Will Make You
Smile
- 4 Real Challenges to
Crowdsourcing for Social Goo d
- 5 YouTube Projects That Are
Making a Difference
- 5 Inspiring Celebrity Videos
Tell Gay Teens “It Gets Better”
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Heads to the Cloud
Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/19/2010 10:52:19 AM
Microsoft is doubling down on its
commitment to the cloud with the
launch of Office 365, a service
that combines Microsoft Office,
SharePoint Online, Exchange
Online and Lync Online with the
cloud.
Announced by Kurt DelBane,
president of Microsoft’s office
division, at a press event in San
Francisco, Office 365 is a
subscription service that
integrates cloud-based syncing,
collaboration and accessibility to
businesses and organizations
worldwide. So long as a device
supports ActiveSync, customers
can access their e-mail, calendars,
team websites and office web
apps from anywhere. The
inclusion of Lync also means that
Office 365 has videoconferencing
capabilities.
There are two editions of Office
365. Office 365 for Small
Businesses is designed for
organizations of one to 25 people.
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It’s a pre-built package that
includes Office Web Apps, Lync,
e-mail sync and more. It doesn’t
require IT support on the user’s
end and will cost $6 per user per
month.
The second version is Office 365
for Enterprises. Unlike the small
business version, the enterprise
edition can be customized based
on an organization’s needs. It can
be customized so different teams
have different access levels to
Office 365’s features. The
enterprise edition comes with
everything in the small business
version, plus single sign-in, Office
Pro Plus (via subscription),
internal social networking tools,
voicemail in the inbox, and more.
It costs anywhere between $2 to
$27 per user per month,
depending on which features the
company chooses to utilize.
The beta will be available to a
few thousand organizations
starting today; its full launch will
occur sometime next year in 40
countries. Sometime in late 2011,
Office 365 will add Microsoft
Dynamics CRM to its suite of
products.
Microsoft is extraordinarily
bullish on the cloud. DelBane
said that the company believes the
cloud is as radical of an
innovation as the graphical user
interface. Office 365 just makes
sense though; the rising demand
for enterprise-level cloud apps
like Dropbox and Box.net is due
to its ability to help teams
collaborate and coordinate their
efforts.
What do you think of Office 365?
Let us know in the comments.
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