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Could there be two John Pistoles?
David Morgan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 10:29:01 AM
Could John Pistole have an
identical twin who helps him run
the Transportation Security
Administration — a John
Pistole and a John Pistole, maybe?
Here’s why…
John Pistole appeared over the
weekend on CNN’s State of the
Union to say that TSA’s highly
invasive airport security screening
procedures are here to stay. Those
would be the ones that give
travelers the choice of having
their physical accouterments
inspected either by sight or by
hand — but always by complete
strangers.
“No, we’re not changing the
policies,” he told CNN.
Then on Monday, John Pistole
showed up on NBC’s Today show
and ABC’s Good Morning
America with the news that TSA
is rethinking its methods of
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 9:00:00 AM
operation.
“What I’m doing is going back
and looking at: Are there less
invasive ways of doing the same
type of screening?” he said.
But at the same time, John Pistole
was in front of the cameras again,
this time on MSNBC’s Morning
Joe, where he defended full-body
scans as safe and patdowns as
effective at preventing
people from boarding airliners
with bombs.
“In the final analysis,” John
Pistole said, “reasonable people
can disagree … as to privacy and
security. But everybody wants to
make sure that everybody else on
that flight you’re on has been
properly screened, just as they
want to make sure you and I have
been properly screened.”
Confused? You shouldn’t be. The
explanation is simple.
John Pistole is under intense
pressure from the public,
members of Congress and others
to modify modes of security
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Miley Cyrus: Xbox
Kinect "Is My New
way to satisfy America’s need for
unadulterated personal space Training For Tour"
while protecting America’s Nick Saint (Business Insider)
personal safety from people who
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:03:00 PM
might be disposed to hide
explosives in their underwear. Microsoft went all out for the
He might wish he were two opening of its new retail store in
people. That can be no enviable its backyard of Bellvue. Steve
task for one guy. Ballmer went nuts, as per usual,
Photo Credits: Reuters/Jonathan but the real attraction for most of
Ernst ( John Pistole); Reuters/ the mob was teen pop star Miley
Jonathan Ernst (John Pistole); Cyrus.
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screening that violate the Between songs, Microsoft even
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American sense of personal got her to do a little straight up
(Accused Underwear Bomber
modesty. shilling for the Xbox Kinect.
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2 Business/
Twitter Is Destroying Press Criticism
Ben Crair (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:49:27 PM
Twitter's 140-character blasts
aren't bringing down the
newspapers. They're just turning
journalists into sniggering cheap-
shot artists.
Ever since reporters started using
Twitter, an old guard of
newspaper hands has complained
that the micro-blogging site is
undermining the art of
journalism, 140 characters at a
time. But Twitter is actually more
of a threat to a particular strain of
journalism, a mostly noble one:
press criticism. On Twitter, every
journalist is a press critic. This
may sound like a good thing:
Journalism, more than most
institutions, would seem to benefit
from self-scrutiny. But, trust me,
it isn’t. Twitter opens a window
into journalists’ minds and, often
times, the view ain’t pretty.
Take one example from last
week: ABC White House
correspondent Jake Tapper’s near
meltdown last week over the
Twitter meme#nprgoesnazi.
Taking Fox News chief Roger
Ailes’ comment to The Daily
Beast’s Howard Kurtz that NPR is
run by “Nazis", Twitter users
began re-imagining NPR’s
programming for Das Fuhrer:
“This American Life” became
“This American Reich,” etc.
When jokes started veering
towards the Holocaust, Tapper
was quick to wag his finger, as
might seem appropriate. But note
his method: First, he tweeted,
“Going off twitter. Let me know
when the liberals joking about the
Holocaust (in response to Ailes'
comments) stop.” After a 24-
minute sabbatical, Tapper
returned to say he was equally
offended when Glenn Beck
mentioned the Holocaust and
announced, “i dont have a
different standard for people who
trivialize the Holocaust based on
their politics.”
By attacking both liberals and
Beck, and then announcing his
own lack of a double standard,
Tapper used his purported offense
at the joke as an excuse to
trumpet his own objectivity and
high standards. Such self-
promotion is the yeast that makes
Twitter press criticism rise.
Journalists attack other
publications in ways meant to
emphasize their own superiority
to the thing they mock; they type
with one hand and hold their
noses with the other.
Slate’s Dave Weigel, who was
once one of the lead reporters
covering birther-queen Orly
Taitz, now regularly uses Twitter
to snark at journalists who cover
fringe politicians. “Haha, that
stupid guy is still stupid! Let’s hit
him with rocks,” he wrote after
Politico ran an article about Alvin
Greene’s presidential ambitions.
When Sarah Palin misidentified
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real-time conversations, and the
instigating legions of like-minded
followers (or, even better,
antagonistic competitors)—that,
as Sicha writes, “is literally
designed to bring out the worst in
people.” The worst in people,
when it comes to many writers,
appears to be an insecurity about
their own standing in the
journalistic firmament and a
consequential complex that
attempts to camouflage this
insecurity with mockery and
snark. BREAKING: Journalists
have been and will always be
vicious gossips. But on Twitter,
everyone tastes their sour grapes.
Ben Crair is the Deputy News
Editor of The Daily Beast. This
o n e o f h e r o w n e n d o r s e e s , not funny to tweet the word
article originally appeared at The
N a t i o n a l J o u r n a l ’ s M a r c “BREAKING” followed by a link
Daily Beast and is republished
Ambinder had his cake and ate it to or summary of an article
here with permission.
too by tweeting, “Hey media-- whose content the tweeting
shiny Sarah Palin mini-gaffe--go journalist finds obvious. (For Join the conversation about this
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to see how quickly everyone described the “ hate retweet,” in York Times Has More Twitter
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was mere seconds.) finds laughable; the gesture drips There Goes One Of The Last
Working Class Democrats
Such half-baked media criticism with scorn.
is so rampant on Twitter that it’s Press criticism, of course, is a
already developed its own clichés. good thing and keeps everyone on
A concerned comedian might their toes. Still, there’s something
want to sit down the Washington about Twitter—maybe its the
press corps and explain that it’s faux-intimacy it intimates through
E-reader News Edition
Apple's "Integrated SIM" Plans Thwarted?--Not So Fast
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:27:27 PM
There's been a lot of fuss about
Apple's plans for a next-gen
integrated SIM card in iDevices,
and new reports even suggest that
Apple's now abandoned the plan,
for the iPhone at least. But does
all the fuss even make sense? Not
necessarily.
The rumor that Apple's pulled
back from it's digital SIM plans
comes from the slightly unlikely
source of the U.K.'s Sunday
Telegraph newspaper, which
notes that Steve Jobs' company
has now officially abandoned the
idea. The reason is direct pressure
from European cell phone
operators--we'd learned that they
were getting uppity about the
idea, even threatening legal
action. The Telegraph has spoken
to sources in the industry that
suggest these machinations have
been successful. "Apple has long
been trying to build closer and
closer relationships and cut out
the operators," says the source,
adding "But this time they have
been sent back to the drawing
board with their tails between
their legs." This is a pretty
venomous comment, given how
often the networks themselves
been the subject of legislation to
force them to be fairer to both
their customers and competitors.
But actually Apple's plan was
The Charnel Continent
Istvan Deak (The New Republic
- All Feed)
never to " cut out" the cell phone
networks. How could it? Apple is
not going to build, lease or
operate its own cell network in
multiple countries across the
world--it's not a viable plan.
When it sells the iPhone to
consumers, it's relying on another
industry to operate the devices.
Because the iPhone is such a hot
property, and Jobs is a clever
negotiator, the computer firm has
had more success than other
manufacturers in breaking the
stranglehold the networks hold
over their users (arguably in all of
Bloodlands: Europe Between
Hitler And Stalin
our benefits) but it still needs
them.
The integrated SIM card would
have worked exactly like a
physical SIM card: The chip in a
SIM card contains a limited lump
of encrypted data that digitally
identifies the user and the phone
it's plugged into to the relevant
network. The only difference
Apple's plan would've involved is
that the SIM would be virtual--the
codes would work the same way
as the code on a SIM's chip, and
the phone would identify and
connect to the networks in exactly
By Timothy Snyder
(Basic Books, 524 pp., $29.95)
Business/ Politics-Left/ 3
the phone to their service, which
forces consumers to stick with a
particular network even if they
terminate their existing contract.
That will definitely have irked
many cell phone operators, even if
it doesn't make sense: If a
particular network wants to keep a
consumer to itself, then it should
do so by offering the best service,
rather than crippling their phones-
-or so the logical argument runs.
The Telegraph notes that Apple
may still continue with its plan in
iPads, since these aren't carrier
subsidized. And while that may be
true, it also weakens some of the
anti-Apple arguments, as E.U.
networks often don't subsidize the
phone's price either.
So where does this leave the
story? It's not clear. The
Telegraph may be wrong, and
Apple may still be pushing ahead
t h e s a m e w a y a s i t d o e s with its integrated SIM plans,
nowadays. The move simply aided by moves made by the
places control of activation of the international GSM organization
SIM in Apple's hands, which itself, and quietly negotiating
gives the firm more control over deals with cellphone operators
the security of the device. But around the world to manage
control over the contract would virtual SIMs. It may have merely
remain with the network: Apple been testing the idea out, for
would have to request a phone incorporation not into 2011's
number and other data from the iPhones, but 2012's or even later.
networks to activate each iPhone. To keep up with this news, and
The network even gets to save more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
money, as it needn't produce and on Twitter.
package millions of SIMs.
The one thing the networks
wouldn't be able to do is "lock"
4 Business/ E-reader News Edition

10 TSA Horror
Stories Of Pat-
Downs Gone Wrong
Leah Goldman (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:49:30 PM

Check-in/Coupon Business Exploding: Groupon Get ready. It's just days until
millions of Thanksgiving travelers
come face to face (hand-to-groin)
Gets Into Digital Music Downloads with the new TSA security
measures.
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) That's a pretty big coup for holiday season at 12:00 EST o f f . W h e n y o u r e m e m b e r It doesn't look fun.
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:44:55 PM Groupon, given the big-star status today, transforming Groupon G o w a l l a ' s p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h Especially when an 8-year-old
of Rihanna, and the fact that from a popular shopping deals Disney, Foursquare's with Pepsi boy has to take his shirt off or a
Groupon is soaring like a rocket LOUD is running at $9.99 in platform into a deals platform that and a string of other big names, cancer survivor gets covered in
at the moment: Today it opens the Apple's iTunes store--the biggest also has a bona fide online store, and other efforts like the location- urine. Those are some of the
G r o u p o n i c u s S t o r e , w i t h music retailer in the U.S. ready to compete with the likes of based, email-friendly WeReward horror stories that may, just may,
Rihanna's new album as the star The company is calling it a "first Amazon and now iTunes with this scheme, you begin to see a whole force the TSA to come up with a
offering and social media links a- of its kind" deal, and while it's deal with Rihanna. The venture n e w i n d u s t r y p o p p i n g u p new security procedure.
plenty built in. It's the latest sign definitely a success, it's probably into music is also likely to alongside and in between the On Wednesday, angry travelers
that the check-in/coupon digital almost as much thanks to the become a big part of the way existing "traditional" retail are holding National Opt-Out
m a r k e t i n g p h e n o m e n o n i s clever marketing that Rihanna's Groupon works, if you look at the models. It's also a sign that Apple Day, a protest to refuse the body
exploding. team are using for the new record, language of the press release--and really needs to step up its efforts scan and opt for a pat down,
As well as the "variety of which includes "aggressive" it makes sense, given the massive with Ping if it's to transform the which takes more time and will
unbeatable features that have social media activity across the "captive audience" Groupon has faltering social net shopping cause delays. Click here to read
m a d e G r o u p o n a g l o b a l u s u a l s u s p e c t s o f T w i t t e r , among its millions of members s y s t e m i n t o o n e t h a t i s the horror stories >
phenomenon" the press release F a c e b o o k , a n d M y S p a c e . around the world, which makes c o m p e t i t i v e w i t h G r o u p o n , Join the conversation about this
states, "LOUD will be available as The Grouponicus store in itself is promotion of new MP3 deals Foursquare, and the others. story »
a $5 digital download in the a s i g n t h a t G r o u p o n ' s n e w easy. To keep up with this news, and
i n a u g u r a l h o l i d a y s t o r e o f business model is affecting the It's also another sign that the more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
Groupon, the Grouponicus Store, way consumers think about online phenomena of check-in apps and on Twitter.
beginning November 22, 2010." purchases: It opened for the coupon websites is really taking
E-reader News Edition Business/ Technology/ 5

Netflix Creates $7.99 Streaming-only Service Aimed at Hulu,

Increases DVD Pricing
Austin Carr (Fast Company) trying to attract more users to its But the shift in its subscription
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:47:09 PM streaming service. plans also suggests a reaction to
"The fact is that Netflix members competitors Blockbuster and
" W e a r e n o w p r i m a r i l y a are already watching more TV Hulu. The threat from behemoth
streaming company that also episodes and movies streamed (and ultimately bloated)
offers DVD-by-mail," Netflix instantly over the Internet than on Blockbuster kept Netflix's by-mail
CEO Reed Hastings recently DVDs, and we expect that trend service cheap--both companies
declared. And today, the company to continue," wrote Jessie Becker, engaged in a pricing war until
put its money where Hastings' VP of Marketing, on Netflix's they settled on the same costs for
mouth is. blog. "Creating the best user plans (1 DVD for $8.99, 2 for
Netflix announced Monday that it experience that we can around $13.99, etc.). Blockbuster's recent
is now offering a new streaming- watching instantly is how we’re bankruptcy gives Netflix some leg
only $7.99 monthly plan that lets spending the vast majority of our -room to increase its rates.
subscribers watch its expansive time and resources. Because of That leaves Netflix positioned
library of online TV and movie this, we are not creating any plans against a new arch rival: Hulu.
content--but without access to its that are focused solely on DVDs majority of its members would Relativity Media, and the The streaming TV service
DVDs by mail. Subscription rates by mail." soon be watching more content company would love to cut some recently dropped its subscription
are actually increasing for that Indeed, at its most recent streamed than on DVD. Netflix of the strains of its by-mail service to $7.99 per month--the
service--its two most popular earnings call, Netflix said 66% of has also been aggressively service, which costs an exact same price now as Netflix's
plans (one and two DVDs out a its users are streaming content expanding its online catalogue estimated$600 million annually in streaming-only option.
time) are increasing by $1 per online--up from 41% year-over- with deals with Epix and postage fees.
month--suggesting the company is y e a r - - a n d b o a s t e d t h a t t h e
Ceiling Fan-Inspired
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Good news, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), offerings, so this move should be look at a bullish hedged trade on Netflix (NFLX) Debuts Cheaper
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unlimited access to its online overhead costs decrease. The only $13.25 (7.5%). The chart for down like a wingnut. Height-
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6 Business/ Technology/
Bringing Computer Modeling to "The
Hurt Locker"
David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:01:01 PM
A group of MIT researchers
developed computer models to
simulate the effects of explosions
on brain tissue, concluding that
adding face shields to standard-
issue helmets could greatly reduce
traumatic brain injuries.
130,000 US service members
have sustained traumatic brain
injuries from the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. A group led by
MIT's Raul Radovitzky, an
associate professor in its
Department of Aeuronautics and
Astronautics, set out to model just
how the pressure waves emitted
from an explosion interact with
the brain. The computer models
they came up with, according to
MIT, give an unprecedented
amount of detail, delving into the
physics of blast waves, and
distinguishing its effects on the
skull, sinuses, cerebrospinal fluid,
and gray matter. In the hopes of
spurring further research,
Radovitzky is releasing his
computer code to the public
today.
The intriguing--and helpful--
finding of Radovitzky et al. is that
helmets aren't enough. The face, it
turns out, is the main thoroughfare
by which shock waves make their
way to the brain. The typical
combat helmet delays the arrival
of these waves to the brain, but
doesn't prevent their arrival. But
Radovitzky's team showed that
the addition of a polycarbonate
face shield to the model greatly
reduced the effects of blast waves
on the brain. The findings are
published in today's edition of the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Further study is needed, looking
at on varying explosion angles
and intensities, and examining
whether the torso and neck could
also be pathways by which the
concussive force of explosions
rattles brains.
[Images: The Hurt Locker; MIT]
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Insiders Snapping Up
Coca Cola, Western Gas
and More
Wade Hansen (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: Insiders, Coca-Cola
(KO), Stocks to Buy If you are
looking for clues telling you
which stocks have a good chance
of increasing in value, you might
want consider watching what market value of $2,730,948.
insiders are doing. After all, talk Insiders now own 1.35% of the
is cheap, but when insiders put company's stock after decreasing
their own money on the line, you their overall holdings by 0.38%
should sit up and take note. during the past six months.
Coca Cola Co ( KO) topped the
insider-buying charts for the week
ending July 9th as insiders
Continue reading Insiders
Snapping Up Coca Cola, Western
Gas and More
snapped up 270,000 shares of
company stock at a market value
Insiders Snapping Up Coca Cola,
Western Gas and More originally
of $16,899,786. During the past appeared on BloggingStocks on
six months, insiders have Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST.
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Western Gas Partners L P (
WES) was not far behind, with
insiders buying 91,275 shares at a
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E-reader News Edition Business/ Technology/ 7

Chasing Value: ConocoPhillips (COP):

Newcastle's Huge Gain An 'Excellent Value'
Steven Halpern
Leaves Me At a Loss (BloggingStocks)
Sheldon Liber (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:20:00 PM
Verizon LTE SIM
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:30:00 PM Filed under: Newsletters, Cards Showing up in
ConocoPhillips (COP),
Filed under: Major Movement, Commodities, Oil, Stocks to Buy Some Verizon Stores
Chasing Value[TM], Newcastle "ConocoPhillips ( COP) is one of
Investment (NCT) Two months Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
my favorite ideas for investors core exploration and production
ago I wrote about a stock I bought seeking a reliable (and increasing) Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:18:51 PM
for 60 cents appreciating over segment at ConocoPhillips are up
income stream and modest upside more than 100%. With Verizon getting ready to
600% to close at $3.84. Just a potential," says Nathan Slaughter.
month later Newcastle Continue reading ConocoPhillips launch their 4G LTE-based
The editor of Street Authority (COP): An 'Excellent Value' network in just a matter of weeks,
Investments ( NCT) reported Market Advisor explains, "With
earnings and I posted Chasing ConocoPhillips (COP): An there’s no surprise that the
the dollar sliding, oil prices have 'Excellent Value' originally company would be getting their
Value: Newcastle Reports Great climbed back above $87 per
Results noting the stock had time I am at a loss to explain this barrel and could soon flirt with appeared on BloggingStocks on retail locations ready for what’s to
popped again, rising to $4.84. The vertical leap. Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:20:00 EST. come. We know that there aren’t
the $90 mark. And
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it's getting nuts with no slowdown Newcastle's Huge Gain Leaves million barrels every 24 hours. feeds. Permalink| Email this| initial roll-out, but that doesn’t
in sight. Me At a Loss Comments mean that the USB modems and
"Through the first nine months of
In the interim I have resisted Chasing Value: Newcastle's Huge 2010, adjusted earnings in the netbooks won’t need their own
writing about this again, but today Gain Leaves Me At a Loss LTE 4G SIM cards.
the stock has jumped over $6.00 o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n The photo does indeed show a
per share and in the words of BloggingStocks on Mon, 22 Nov 4G-branded SIM card, with the
Peter Lynch, it's a "ten bagger". 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see Verizon logo present as well. As
Clearly this is exciting news and I our terms for use of feeds. we mentioned above, Verizon
have a huge gain, but at the same Permalink| Email this| Comments won’t have any handsets ready to
go right off the bat, but the SIM

The Market Is Ridiculously Strong Right Now
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:00:00 PM
We'll be back with a full roundup
as always at 4:00 PM ET, but with
an hour to go, you can't help be
cards should be used for USB
modems, as well as notebooks
that get green-lit for 4G
marvel at the strength of this So far, it's a win for the bulls.
connectivity. With the LTE
market. Join the conversation about this
launch due in December, at least a
There are all kinds of headwinds: story »
few Verizon customers out there
The Irish crackup, ongoing
are counting down the days until
weakness in China and Hong
they can access the faster speeds.
Kong, and the widening insider the S&P 500 are off less than
[ via Droid-Life]
trading probe. But the Dow and 0.5%. The NASDAQ is even up.
8 Top News/ E-reader News Edition

A grope too far: Fliers' anger at TSA boils over (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) unknown terror, yet somehow do symptomatic of a bigger issue," year, agency workers confiscated think through, are there ways of
Submitted at 11/21/2010 6:37:41 PM so without treating everyone from said Geoff Freeman, executive more than 4.8 million firearms, doing it that are less intrusive."
frequent business travelers to the vice president of the U.S. Travel knives and other prohibited items, Clinton, appearing on NBC's
How did an agency created to family heading home to visit Association, an industry group according to a report by the U.S. "Meet the Press," said Sunday she
protect the public become the grandma as a potential terrorist. that says it has received nearly Government Accountability thought "everyone, including our
target of so much public scorn? The TSA "is not a flier-centered 1,000 calls and e-mails from Office. security experts, are looking for
After nine years of funneling system. It's a terrorist-centered consumers about the new policy But even as the new agency ways to diminish the impact on
travelers into ever longer lines system and the travelers get in the last week. mushroomed, officials at the top, the traveling public."
with orders to have shoes off, caught in it," said Paul Light, a "It's almost as if it's a tipping pressured by airlines worried that On CNN's "State of the Union,"
sippy cups empty and laptops out professor of public service at New point," Freeman said. "What tighter security would discourage TSA chief John Pistole insisted
for inspection, the most surprising York University who has tracked we've heard from travelers time people from flying, looked to the that the current threat level is too
thing about increasingly heated the agency's effectiveness since its and again is that there must be a business world for lessons on high to lessen the use of full body
frustration with the federal creation. better way." systems, efficiency and service. scans and intimate pat-downs.
T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S e c u r i t y That built-in conflict is at the Indeed, TSA has a history of TSA set up "go teams" pairing "No, we're not changing the
Administration may be that it took heart of a growing backlash stirring public irritation. There government employees with policies," he said.
so long to boil over. against the TSA for ordering was the time in 2004 when Sen. executives from companies Hours later, however, Pistole
Even Secretary of State Hillary travelers to step before a full-body Ted Kennedy complained after including Marriott International issued a statement saying the
Rodham Clinton, who is not scanner that sees through their being stopped five times while Inc., The Walt Disney Co., and agency would work to make
subjected to security pat-downs clothing, undergo a potentially trying to board planes because a Intel Corp., to figure out how to screening methods "as minimally
when she travels, understands the invasive pat-down or not fly at all. name similar to his appeared on move lines of people through invasive as possible." He gave no
public's irritation. She, for one, "After 9/11 people were scared the agency's no-fly list. And the checkpoints efficiently and how to indication that screening changes
wouldn't want to go through such and when people are scared they'll time in 2006 when a Maine deal with angry travelers. were imminent but said that "there
scrutiny. do anything for someone who will woman went public with her tale But the agency was working is a continual process of
"Not if I could avoid it. No. I make them less scared," said of being ordered by a TSA agent under what Freeman calls "an refinement and adjustment to
mean, who would?" Clinton told Bruce Schneier, a Minneapolis to dump the gel packs she was unachievable mandate." Congress ensure that best practices are
CBS' "Face the Nation" in an security technology expert who using to cool bags of breast milk. demanded an agency that applied."
interview broadcast Sunday. has long been critical of the TSA. And the time in 2007, when a eliminated risk. But the risks are TSA operates on the belief that a
The agency, a marvel of nearly "But ... this is particularly Washington, D.C., woman always changing, as terrorists key to foiling terrorists is to keep
instant government when it was invasive. It's strip-searching. It's charged that another TSA agent devise new methods and them guessing, agency watchers
launched in the fearful months body groping. As abhorrent goes, threatened to have her arrested for government parries. That has led say. But it has never really
following the 9/11 terror attacks, this pegs it." spilling water out of her child's to an agency that is always in explained that to a flying public
started out with a strong measure A traveler in San Diego, John sippy cup. crisis mode, constantly adding that sees never-ending changes in
of public goodwill. Americans Tyner, has become an Internet TSA denied the last, releasing new policies designed to respond policies covering carry-on liquids,
wanted the assurance of safety hero after resisting both the scan security camera footage to try and to the last terror plot. shoes and printer cartridges as
when they boarded planes and and the pat-down, telling a TSA prove its point. But that did little President Barack Obama says he maddening and pointless
entrusted the government with the screener: "If you touch my junk, to offset the agency's longtime has pushed the TSA to make sure inconsistency.
responsibility. I'm gonna have you arrested." struggle to explain itself and win that it is always reviewing "If you ask what its procedures
But in episode after episode since That has helped ignite a campaign traveler cooperation. screening processes with actual are, how you screen people, it's, 'I
then, the TSA has demonstrated a urging people to refuse such It wasn't supposed to be this way. people in mind. "You have to can't tell you that because if the
knack for ignoring the basics of searches on Nov. 24, which After Congress approved creation constantly refine and measure bad guys find out they'll be able to
customer relations, while i m m e d i a t e l y p r e c e d e s of the agency in late 2001, the whether what we're doing is the work around the system'," said
struggling with what experts say Thanksgiving and is one of the TSA grew quickly from just 13 only way to assure the American Christopher Elliott, an Orlando,
is an all but impossible task. It year's busiest travel days. employees in January 2002 to people's safety," Obama said
must stand as the last line against The outcry, though, "is 65,000 a year later. In the first Saturday. "And you also have to GROPE page 9
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Fla.-based consumer advocate
specializing in travel. "That's why
a lot of what they've done has not
really gone over well with air
travelers. They perceive it as
being heavy-handed and often the
screeners come across as being
very authoritarian."
Over time, TSA has settled into a
pattern of issuing directives with
little explanation and expecting
they be followed. But increasingly
fed-up travelers don't understand
the agency's sense of urgency and
aren't buying it.
"I don't think the law enforcement
approach is going to work with
the American public. You've got
to explain yourself and reassure
people. And they're not doing it,"
Light said.
That goes beyond public
relations, experts say. As more
and more layers are added to air
travel security efforts, it creates
difficult and potentially unpopular
choices. But the TSA has been
unwilling to openly discuss how it
arrives at policies or to justify the
trade-offs, highlighted by its
insistence over the need for the
scanners.
"They're very expensive and what
they (TSA officials) should be
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reduce the risk, how much does it
reduce the risk and is it worth it?"
said John Mueller, a professor of
political science at Ohio State,
who has researched the way
society reacts to terrorism.
The pushback against the body
scanners and pat-downs shows the
agency at its worst, Elliott said: It
issued a policy that wasn't
properly vetted or explained, but
it is determined to defend it.
Growing dissatisfaction with
TSA has even led some airports to
consider replacing the agency
with private screeners. Such a
change is allowed by law, but the
contractor must follow all the
security procedures mandated by
the TSA, including body scans
and pat-downs.
But frustration with the TSA was
building even before the latest
furor. In a December 2007
Associated Press-Ipsos poll
asking Americans to rank
government agencies, it was as
unpopular as the Internal Revenue
Service. Even so, a poll earlier
this month by CBS News found
81 percent of Americans support
the TSA's use of full-body
scanners at airports. The poll,
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Elliott said that better
communication would probably
win the TSA more cooperation.
But the public irritation suggests
that a growing number of
consumers, particularly frequent
travelers, are questioning the
premise at the heart of the
agency's existence.
"I think at some point Americans
said to themselves, maybe in their
collective subconscious...there's a
line here where it's not just worth
it anymore," he said. "There's a
growing sense that that line has
been crossed."
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"Dancing With the Stars" readies for Motorola files ITC

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Microsoft
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The B u t o f f i c i a l s a t t h e A B C scores had routinely fallen behind
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S t a r s " r a n t h r o u g h r e g u l a r program seen by nearly 20 million who was kicked off last week. company's patent licenses--
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Producers have defended the
week's finale even as controversy statement saying it was delivered disagreements with Microsoft wireless networking and video
voting and Palin has hit back at
centered on contestant Bristol to the show's production office. thickened this morning, with decoders, both of which Microsoft
critics, attributing her success to
Palin and mystery surrounded an "Measures were taken to secure Motorola's mobility unit filing a uses in its Xbox 360 game
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Many contestants over the years,
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"Dancing" completes its season
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ire of many of the program's loyal " D a n c i n g " p i t s c e l e b r i t y t h e c o m p a n y i s c u r r e n t l y accused Microsoft of infringing
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U.S. security rethinking airline screening

(Reuters: Top News) change and defended the percent of the 2 million security. do not protect us. And we tear
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:25:48 PM effectiveness of current methods. passengers screened daily, or Besides, isn’t it illegal to use down what little social insurance
"In the short-term, there will not 40,000, are given the patdowns. cameras and cell phones within we have. All to fight wars to keep
A passenger is scanned using be any changes," Pistole said on With pilots allowed to carry guns security screening areas? Those palestine an exclusive Jewish
''backscatter x-ray technology'' at CNN. and cockpits hardened against guys should be charged! state.
a security check-point at Logan The screening methods that have hijacking threats after the 2001 Nov 22, 2010 8:29am EST Nov 22, 2010 8:52am EST
Airport in Boston, Massachusetts irked passengers and lawmakers hijack attacks on New York and CNN is broadcasting a map Profile. Profile. Profile
November 22, 2010. in Congress rely on highly Washington, screening in recent showing the location of all the Nov 22, 2010 8:59am EST
Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder revealing full-body imaging years has focused on sophisticated scanners. It’s hard not to laugh. Actually, the elevated risk of
By David Morgan scanners and physical pat-downs explosives that are hard to detect. Good Ole TSA will now attack cancer from the backscatter
WASHINGTON| Mon Nov 22, for travelers who choose to opt Nov 22, 2010 8:07am EST our first amendment rights. Well, machines is about the same as the
2010 2:25pm EST out of the scans. There is always a third option, at least they won’t be screening chance of getting killed by
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Airlines expect 24 million people don’t fly. any terrorists. terrorists.
Authorities will reconsider airline to travel over the Thanksgiving If compromises are chosen and The odds of being a victim of an Security fail.
passenger screening procedures holiday period. Airlines say they by chance the persistent attackers airline terrorist attack are set at Nov 22, 2010 9:16am EST
that have caused a public uproar have passed along passenger break through, it will be too late 10.5 million to one. By As an ex-airline captain with
on the eve of the busy holiday concerns to TSA. to say “if I had only realized, I comparison the chances of being 15,000 hours I assure you that
travel season, the top transport After saying "No, we're not wouldn’t have……etc”. hit by lighting are 500,000 to one. these scanners and pat-downs are
security official said on Monday. changing the policies" in a A few hundred others will have We’ve over reacted and the NOT effective and will NOT
"We're going to look at how can Sunday television interview, paid the price too. terrorist are winning. It’s time to enhance security in any way
w e d o t h e m o s t e f f e c t i v e Pistole issued a statement hours Nov 22, 2010 8:22am EST take a more rational look at airline shape of form.
screening in the least invasive l a t e r s a y i n g t h e T S A w a s Perhaps we could think about anti-terrorism. We are wasting The “Underwear Bomber” paid
way knowing that there's always a constantly evaluating ways to adopting the EL Al Model of many, many dollars and many, $2,800.00 CASH for a ONE
trade-off between security and adjust its screening methods. Profiling…its worked with a many hours and offending many, WAY TICKET, didn’t have his
privacy," Transportation Security PROBLEMATIC PATDOWNS 100% success rate for 35 years many American citizens. passport, had NO CHECKED
Administrator John Pistole told Pistole said on Monday that and is not invasive…and it Nov 22, 2010 8:39am EST LUGGAGE and the FBI screwed
NBC's "Today" show. security officials would consult actuially does what its suppose to When will it end? up and didn’t put him in their
"What I'm doing is going back government investigators who do. We “sacrifice” our country, our database which feeds the No Fly
and looking at, are there less penetrated the TSA's previous The TSA system is more to make people, our freedoms so that a database.
invasive ways of doing the same screening cordon to determine travellers feel good and does small minority of people here can THE TSA ARE TOTALLY
type of screening?" he said on how methods might change and nothing to prevent bombs from bully other people far away in the INEPT.
ABC's "Good Morning America." still protect against a passenger getting on planes…. Middle East. We elect a “peace” Nov 22, 2010 9:20am EST
Coming amid public and political who poses a security threat. Nov 22, 2010 8:24am EST President and get not only no What’s Next? Full strip search?
pressure, Pistole's comments Pistole said he himself has Please don’t compromise our peace, but more war. We lose our Anal and vaginal inspections?
appeared to row back from a undergone both the scans and the safety because a couple activists ability to live in a non-police The main issue here is those who
Sunday interview in which he said patdowns and defended both. make a scene on purpose to state. Everything we do is fly 5-6 times a year have figured
there were no plans to scale back "I felt that it was thorough," he advance their anti-government recorded and analyzed for out just how ineffective the TSA
procedures that travelers have said of the patdown. "I felt it was agenda. Tight screening is possible prosecution and is and view this as nothing less
criticized as invasive and a doing exactly what it's designed to necessary. Honest passengers are retribution by our “Public than a power trip by the agents.
violation of privacy rights. do -- to try to detect somebody OK with it, we recognize that nut Servants”. How many airplanes have be
But while making the rounds on who's trying to kill hundreds of jobs trying to hurt us are real, And our “elections” do not brought down by US citizens?
U.S. morning television shows, he people on an airplane, " he told despite what the hard-core matter. Our choices are non- How many terror attacks by
a l s o c a u t i o n e d a g a i n s t MSNBC. activists say. You have to wonder existent. We “do as you are told”
expectations for immediate TSA estimates that fewer than 2 why they advocate for less or we get punished. Our “laws” U.S. page 13
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Cowen vows to pass budget, then call snap election

(Reuters: Top News) "These (EU/IMF) negotiations in demonstration over planned fee “debt restructuring.” choose to such utter fools. The
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:10:39 PM turn are taking place in the increases turned violent earlier Nov 21, 2010 9:24pm EST money trust virus took over the
context of the budgetary this month, and unions have These EU bail-outs sound like host nations… long, long ago.
Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen arrangements coming into effect. organized a march to protest at the those American TV ads that Nov 21, 2010 11:03pm EST
reacts as he speaks to the media in "It is a matter then of highest planned austerity measures on encourage indebted freespending The nation that doesn’t choose
Government Buildings Dublin importance that Dail Eireann November 27 in Dublin. consumers to get a “bill payer financial suicide financially wins,
November 21, 2010. (parliament) should continue to Cowen's junior coalition partners, loan.” Bad old habits die hard. it would seem; their currency
C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / C a t h a l consider and enact the relevant the Greens, said early on Monday Nov 21, 2010 10:08pm EST could replace the dollar.
McNaughton measures and that the government that they would support the The EU bailouts and US bailouts As for EU bailouts sounding like
By Jodie Ginsberg and Carmel should continue to discharge its government only until the budget will eventually be paid for by the billpayer ads on TV, this may date
Crimmins obligation to bring forward the was passed and the EU/IMF taxpayers of the affected me somewhat to say EU bailouts
DUBLIN| Mon Nov 22, 2010 necessary proposals." bailout was in place. countries, not the bankers that remind me of Citicorp VISA
3:10pm EST CREDIT CRUNCH Nov 21, 2010 7:30pm EST took advantage of the system or (before the “corp” was dropped)
DUBLIN(Reuters) - Irish Prime Ireland requested the bailout on Common sense dictates that loan the Irish government that was ads on late night in the 1980’s and
Minister Brian Cowen resisted Sunday to shore up its banks and is merely a debt refinancing. seriously negligent in letting the 1990’s (Johnny Carson, Jay Leno,
calls for his resignation on budget against the effects of the Eventually, all debts need to be banks have too much free reign to David Letterman). The ad simply
Monday, vowing to stay in power global credit crunch. But early last repaid in full. Translation? conduct business in a way that consisted of a shopping basket
long enough to pass an austerity w e e k , C o w e n h a d s a i d t h e Problems remain. jeopardized a countries financial and arm (in upscale supermarket)
budget needed for an EU/IMF government was not in talks about Nov 21, 2010 8:19pm EST balance. filling the cart with exotic bottled
bailout package, and then call an a bailout. Who is going to bail out the EU Shame on the government! water from around the world…
early election. The news only fueled a sense of and IMF? Nov 21, 2010 10:40pm EST thanks to having a VISA card!
C o w e n c a m e u n d e r a c u t e national outrage at the handling of Nov 21, 2010 8:37pm EST Globalists, aka, bankers, run the With VISA you can afford better
pressure after the Green Party said the economic crisis and the “Who is going to bail out the EU planet. water, and that’s just to whet your
it would quit the coalition after prospect of a draconian austerity and IMF?” They meet in secret societies and appetite (or some such marketing
the budget if a January election program set to last for another Some debt laden nations are they instruct their members to run line). Next, the caviar isle. VISA.
was not called and opposition four years. taking austerity measures and we for high office and once in power, It’s how you want to shop!
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Most Dangerous Cities in America: St. Would you read an e-
Louis is No. 1
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:01:07 PM
By Jack Phillips
Epoch Times Staff Created: Nov
22, 2010 Last Updated: Nov 22,
2010
St. Louis was named the most
dangerous city in America,
according to a recent study.
Above, an interior view of Busch
Stadium and the St. Louis
Gateway Arch during the 2009
MLB Playoffs. (Ronald Martinez/
Getty Images) St. Louis edged out
Camden, NJ, to become the most
dangerous city in America last
year, according to a study released
by CQ Press on Sunday.
The 388-page study noted that St.
Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes
per 100,000 people compared to
the national average of 429.4.
The publisher has been using the
same kinds of crime numbers to
rank cities since 1999.
Last year Camden, a city with a
population of just under 80,000,
just east of Philadelphia, was
rated most dangerous. It also held
the unfortunate distinction in 2003
and 2004. Camden moved to
second place this year.
Detroit, Mich.; Flint, Mich.; and
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rest of the top five.
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populations of more than 75,000.
The safest city for the second
year in a row was Colonie, N.Y.
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five safest cities were O’Fallon,
Miss.; Ramapo, N.Y.; and
Mission Viejo, Calif.
Among metropolitan areas, the
Detroit-Dearborn area is the most
dangerous and the Glen Falls, NY
area is the safest, according to the
study.
Some experts say that the way in
which the data is gathered and the
method itself doesn’t do the cities
justice.
"Crime is based on a variety of
factors. It's based on geography,
it's based on poverty, it's based on
the economy," Erica Van Ross, a
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Boeing 767 Emergency Landing:
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:54:58 PM
By Alex Johnston
Epoch Times Staff Created: Nov
22, 2010 Last Updated: Nov 22,
2010
Boeing 767 emergency:
Leonardo DiCaprio attends the
'Inception' press conference at the
Ritz-Carlton Tokyo on July 21,
2010 in Tokyo, Japan. The film
will open in Japan on July 23.
(Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)
Inception actor Leonardo
DiCaprio was on the Boeing 767
airplane that blew an engine and
made an emergency landing at
John F. Kennedy International
Airport in New York on Sunday
night, according to E! Online.
Along with DiCaprio, there were
around 200 other people on board
the Delta aircraft. No one was
hurt in the incident, according to
the entertainment website.
The Associated Press reported
the the Moscow-bound plane
dumped fuel and flew around the
airport for approximately an hour
after it departed.
The Federal Aviation
Administration told AP that they
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There are a lot of sentiment
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Social Networking Trailblazers Pull the Plug on
Cliqset
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:13:35 PM
Cliqset, a website that allows
users to view and interact with
streams of activity data from
multiple social networks in one
place, is losing its two co-
founders after an unsuccessful run
at growing the company. Darren
Bounds and Charlie Cauthen led
what might have been the single-
biggest show of startup support
for bleeding-edge technical
standards aimed at building a
federated social web, rich with
consumer choice - but the
company's business execution was
insufficient to ensure its survival.
Leaders of the distributed social
web standards community, the
effort to build interoperable
competition for the big social
networking silos, say that
Cliqset's apparent demise is
unfortunate, but that they look
forward to seeing what Bounds
and Cauthen do next.
Sponsor
Cliqset - Getting started from
cliqset on Vimeo. Cliqset worked
with all kinds of different
technical standards, but the
startup's brightest shining moment
may have been in December
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2009, when it released an API that
transformed user activity data
feeds from more than 70 different
social websites into standardized
Activity Streams data and offered
them through a new API.
Standards across sites for user
activity data feeds are aimed to
act as a common foundation to
provide scale for innovation
outside the big mainstream social
networks. In other words, if all
photos, friends and comments are
marked-up in a common
standardized way, those activities
can be viewed across all the small
social networking startups -
giving them more people and
content to display than they would
if it was just a random startup
alone against the big guys like
Facebook.
I've compared standards in social
networking data to the historical
rise of standardized railroad
measurements - which allowed
trains to ride across different
networks and fostered a new era
of nation-wide commerce in the
United States.
Unfortunately, economic
incentive hasn't driven people to
engage with interoperable small
networks instead of favoring the
big players, Facebook and
Twitter. Meanwhile, little Cliqset
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Through the Flu to Talk
Engagement, Ring
Details, and Music
Cauthen and Bounds have not Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
announced what they will do next, Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:30:00 AM
but it's probably safe to assume
that it will include working to Jessica Simpson was up and
ready to appear on The Early
suffered from a substantially move social web data standards Show in NYC this morning after
unappealing User Experience, forward. Startup Challenges arriving on the East Coast with
which it was never able to Not everyone agrees that this has her fiancé Eric Johnson yesterday.
anything to do with challenges
overcome. She was battling the flu, but Jess
"Darren and Charlie have done an faced by the larger standards was still happy to chat up her just-
a m a z i n g j o b t a k i n g o p e n community. "I don't believe this released album Happy Christmas.
technologies and distilling them really has anything to do with Discussion quickly turned from
into a consumer experience," standards," Chris Saad of Echo music to her personal life, and
Yahoo's Eran Hammer-Lahav said and the Data Portability Working Jess shared details of her recent
Group says. "Lifestreams in the
today. engagement to Eric. Jessica said
"The problem is that social b2c space has long been crowded that she was, "so shocked" at the
aggregation no longer offers any and has now consolidated around proposal and they were both
s i g n i f i c a n t v a l u e w i t h t h e the Facebook news feed." "teary-eyed" afterward. She also
Cliqset's Bounds appears to
Facebook/Twitter market showed off her ruby and diamond
agree. "In order to build a
consolidation. The biggest loser sparkler, explaining that the
community, you need massive
from the collapse of Cliqset is unique piece, a Tiffany ring from
differentiation today," Bounds
Google, as their world of potential 1910, was all Eric's idea. Jessica
told blogger Louis Gray this
social federation partners shrinks and Eric are spending the week
morning."It's fairly obvious in
even further. Cliqset was a strong with her family in the Big Apple,
hindsight. Projects I would be
supporter and early adopter of where she'll participate in Macy's
m a n y o f t h e c o r e s o c i a l working on in the future would be Thanksgiving parade before her
technologies such as Salmon, leveraging the existing social TV special airs that night.
WebFinger, and PubSubHubbub." graph, and the need for success
Unfortunately, all those standards w o u l d n ' t b e c o n t i n g e n t o n
are feeling less viable today than relationships and community To see more Jessica and watch
they were in the heady times they within itself. In no means do I her interview, just read more.
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social web technical leaders have a n d s o m e b o d y c a n ' t b u i l d
largely joined up with Google or something to compete with it, but
F a c e b o o k a n d s t a n d a r d s it's not an easy task." Discuss
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Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks

Links And Likes
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:45:55 PM

Another chapter in the Facebook

vs. Lamebook, errmm, book: the
social networking giant has
confirmed to us that it has moved
to diligently block all outgoing
links to Lamebook.com, shut
down the two-person company’s
Facebook Page (previously at
facebook.com/thelamebook), and
actively blocks visitors of the
funny site from ‘liking’ posts to
boot.
For your background: Facebook
wants the Austin startup to quit
using the name Lamebook,
deeming its activities under that
name an “improper attempt to
build a brand that trades off
Facebook’s popularity and fame”,
become impossible even to refer proverbially choke Lamebook to Lamebook, meanwhile, is actively blocking Lamebook links
and filed a trademark
to an iconic brand without using death. actively soliciting donations from and likes. Here’s their official
infringement lawsuit last week.
its name, thus infringing on They’ve most certainly dealt a visitors for its ‘Legal Fund’. The statement on the matter:
Lamebook had previously filed
trademark rights. Fortunately, major blow to the two-person site also put up a notice on top of Our terms prohibit posting of
for declaratory judgment on its
when faced with these disputes, startup by actively discouraging its website, which reads: material or other activities on
non-infringement of Facebook’s
most courts now realize their role Facebook users from posting links Well, Facebook didn’t like us Facebook that infringe the rights
trademark, saying it operates a
as protectors of speech. to their website and refraining sticking up for ourselves, so they of others. We reserve the right to
parody website and as such is
And even Facebook doesn’t even them from liking posts. Removing shut down our Fan Page, are pull down any content we believe
protected under the First
try to stop use of the company’s Lamebook’s fan page is one thing, preventing any users from is infringing. We also specifically
Amendment of the U.S.
trademark in a newspaper story but it’s safe to assume their funny “liking” us, and won’t even let prohibit use of any Facebook or
Constitution.
about the company, or go after site used to get a fair amount of you share URLs with your friends confusingly similar marks (See
Bill McGeveran, law professor at
sites that track it (or, for that traffic from the Facebook site that if they point to Lamebook. In SRR Sec. 5.1, 5.2 & 5.6 http://
the University of Minnesota, is
matter, in the highly fictionalized it’s no longer getting now. light of this, be sure to follow us www.facebook.com/terms.php)
just one of many to believe
and rather negative account of its For a tiny startup that relies on on Twitter so you get updated To be continued, no doubt.
Lamebook actually has a pretty
founding in The Social Network.) those pageviews for income – it’s with the latest and funniest of the CrunchBase Information
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parody, comment and so-called
mean they can’t just try and dearly. they confirmed that they’re
“nominative use,” it would
18 Technology/ Culture/
NAVTEQ Study: Worst Traffic In U.S. On New
York City Freeways
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:09:17 AM
NAVTEQ— the digital map,
traffic and location data
company— released a study today
via its Traffic.com site and service
naming New York City and its
freeways as the most congested
and traffic-delayed in North
America.
Freeways in Montreal,
Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
Boston and Toronto cracked the
top ten on this dubious list as
well. Following New York on
NAVTEQ Traffic.com’s ranking
of cities with the worst rush hour
are: Washington D.C., San
Francisco, Los Angeles,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas-Ft.
Worth, Atlanta, Houston and
Denver.
This Thanksgiving holiday
(Wednesday, November 24th to
Sunday, November 28th) the
American Automobile
Association (AAA) and IHS
Global Insight predict that the
number of Americans traveling
will increase 11.4 percent versus
2009, with approximately 42.2
million travelers overall and 39.7
million of them reaching their
destination by vehicle.
How All the Great New Stuff in iOS 4.2 Works [Video]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 10:00:00 AM
E-reader News Edition
Miley Cyrus Welcomes
Her 18th Year With a
Leather Bikini Top and
Sparkling PDA!
Drivers who avoid the most Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
congested routes, roads with lots Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:00:00 AM
of stop signs and traffic lights,
and who drive during off-peak Miley Cyrus slipped into a black
hours hopefully with carpoolers leather bikini top last night to
can curb their impact on air celebrate her 18th birthday at
quality, and the overall amount of LA's Trousdale. Her soon to be
fuel or energy they consume single mother Tish was on hand
while traveling. for the party, as was Demi Moore
From the NAVTEQ Traffic.com and her daughter Tallulah. Miley
study: was fresh off an appearance at the
Freeways with the Slowest American Music Awards, where
Typical Rush Hour 1. New York she wore a mini Marchesa and
City – Brooklyn Battery TUNL simple makeup on the red carpet
NB 2. New York City – before switching into fringe to
Washington BRG EB 3. Montreal perform. It looks like the real fun
– AUT-15EB 4. Philadelphia – for Miley started after she blew
Vehicles account for at least 25 vehicles from diesel buses to US-202 SB 5. Montreal – RTE- out the candles on her enormous
percent of air-polluting emissions typical family cars to emit more 138 WB 6. New York City – cake, found a dark corner of the
d o m e s t i c a l l y , t h e U . S . particles including black carbon Washington BRG WB 7. Los club, and brought a new guy
Environmental Protection Agency and volatile organic compounds, Angeles – 1-10EB 8. Boston – US friend over for some kissing. Her
reports. Numerous studies have s c i e n t i s t s a t Q u e e n s l a n d -1 NB 9. Dallas – TX-366 EB 10. ex, Liam Hemsworth, was also
l i n k e d t r a f f i c a n d r e l a t e d University of Technology in Toronto – Don Valley PKWY NB spotted with a new companion
emissions to health problems that Australia found. That’s one Cities with the Worst Rush Hours over the weekend, so it seems like
range from childhood asthma to reason air quality declines around 1. New York 2. Washington D.C. both he and Miley are moving on
higher risk of sudden heart attacks traffic-congested areas. 3. San Francisco 4. Los Angeles with no problems following their
for people living within 300 to In New York, areas with the 5. Philadelphia 6. Chicago 7. August split.
500 meters from a highway or greatest traffic density suffer three Dallas – Ft. Worth 8. Atlanta 9. View 5 Photos ›
major road most effected by times the concentration of the Houston 10. Denver Image via
traffic. According to the Health pollutant nitric oxide, and twice R y a n V a a r s i C r u n c h B a s e
Effects Institute in Boston, 30- the concentration of nitrogen Information Navteq Information
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American cities live within such t h e l o w e s t t r a f f i c d e n s i t y ,
zones. according to the 2010 New York
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HP-Palm's Enyo: A New webOS Apps

Framework
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) devices.
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:48:37 AM Apps built using Enyo will
natively scale to multiple aspect
At HP-Palm's "Developer Day" ratios. Engadget describes how
in New York this weekend, the this could work, by explaining
company revealed details what you see in the Enyo demo
regarding its new application (the video embedded below from
framework called Enyo, named YouTube):
after the Greek goddess of war. "HP's Scott Miles demoed it
Reportedly, the framework loads
apps faster, is more flexible and
easier to use, and will help
earlier this week by playing
around with a tiny, single-pane Volvo’s Air Motion
portrait email application in the
support a number of different One of the key selling points for desktop version of Chrome... and
device form factors, including the Enyo is its support for HTML5 then maximized the browser
Concept Car Runs on Air
tablet computer. Evan Selleck (SlashGear) within a tank, and accessed when
standards - Palm's Ben Galbraith w i n d o w t o r e v e a l a f u l l y -
Sponsor and Dion Almaer even said during functioning three-pane landscape Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:53:23 PM the vehicle needs power.
Enyo will succeed the older their keynote speech that the Web layout suited for a large tablet Considering that the whole
framework called Mojo during and HTML5 will soon become a screen." Probably the best part of being a vehicle is powered by air, and the
2 0 1 1 , b u t M o j o w i l l n o t first-class app development and This video below provides a first concept, is that you get to use frame is constructed from carbon
completely disappear. your imagination a little bit more fiber, it’s no surprise that the
distribution platform. Almaer also look at Enyo, including the demo
A c c o r d i n g t o H P - P a l m ' s goes into more detail about Enyo mentioned above. than you would in an actual vehicle would weigh somewhere
a n n o u n c e m e n t , t h e E n y o on his personal blog. This news gives further credit to production model. At least, until in the ballpark of 1,000 pounds.
f r a m e w o r k w i l l o f f e r t h e Enyo, which now joins other rumors of an HP-Palm tablet you have to figure out how to There’s no combustion engine
following features: a c t u a l l y g e t w h a t y o u under the hood, either. Instead,
touchscreen UI frameworks like device running webOS 2.0,
• Support for multiple form Sencha Touch, Sproutcore Touch, something which Palm chief Jon conceptualized to work in the real d e s i g n e r s i m p l e m e n t e d a
factors/aspect ratios world. While we’ve seen plenty of p n e u m a t i c m o t o r .
jQuery Mobile, has made great Rubinstein all but announced at
• Faster performance other concept vehicles in the past When asked at the LA Auto
strides in terms of performance, the recent Web 2.0 Conference in
• Modern, modular design - one of the areas where webOS San Francisco. He said the work on all sorts of things, this Show how you would refuel the
easier to maintain and reuse code needed to improve, explains company is planning to launch a new design from Volvo, called the vehicle that runs on air, Volvo
• Will work great with Ares Almaer. And it offers "fantastic number webOS-enabled devices Air Motion Concept, is a design said that they believe there will be
(Palm's UI builder tool, named developer ergonomics, especially including phones, printers and that would have the vehicle wind-powered stations ready to
after the Greek god of war) - it's around layout and event design," tablet computers, but gave no running on nothing but the air. fill up your Air Motion Concept
built by the same team and has which will help make sure that other details as far as when or Teh Air Motion Concept is when the time comes.
common roots. powered by compressed air, and [ via Wired]
developers don't leak memory, of what they will be.
• Hardware acceleration built-in compressed air only. It’s held
critical importance on mobile Discuss
• Browser-based development

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What Does the Acquisition of Novell
by Attachmate and Microsoft Mean for
Enterprise IT?
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:10:00 PM
Independent software company
Attachmate will purchase Novell
for $2.2 billion the companies
announced today. CPTN Holdings
LLC, a consortium of companies
lead by Microsoft, put up $450
million of the $2.2 billion in
exchange for 882 patents from
Novell, ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley
discovered. Microsoft isn't talking
about what patents it's purchasing
from Novell.
Sponsor
TechFlash suggests Microsoft is
keeping Novell's intellectual
property out of the hands of rivals
like Red Hat and VMware.
IDC analyst Matt Eastwood says
he doesn't know what Microsoft's
consortium purchased, but is
hazarding a guess that Novell's
virtualization technology
PlateSpin is the target. However,
it seems just as likely that
Attachmate, best known for its
terminal emulation software, is
primarily interested in the
virtualization technology as well.
Attachmate announced that it
would run Novell and SUSE as
two separate entities, indicating
that Microsoft isn't buying SUSE
outright. However, the lack of
information on Microsoft's part is
making some observers uneasy.
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn
writes: What does this mean for
Linux? Nothing changes.
Microsoft still claims to control it.
The details remain hidden from
view. Which means Microsoft
still has something to hide from
the open source community, and
something to hold over its head.
Other than SUSE and PlateSpin,
Novell's offerings include its e-
mail and groupware system
GroupWise, various access
control systems, a cross-platform
.NET framework called Mono,
and a new social media platform
called Vibe. According to Mono
founder Miguel de Icaza, the
project will continue as-is under
Attachmate.
Foley also notes that Novell was
appealing its suit against
Microsoft involving WordPerfect,
and speculates that this purchase
will end that appeal.
"From an enterprise social
computing stand point and the
needs we see in our customer
base, I'm disappointed to see
Novell get taken out," says
Sameer Patel of Constellation
Research. "Novell has a
meaningful, yet disjointed,
portfolio of products that it was
weaving together with Vibe."
"Identity, Groupware and Unified
Communications gave Novell a
very promising vantage point
from where social computing
solutions can emerge," Patel says.
"The hard part of social
computing really is not text - its
folding in voice, dynamic profiles,
virtual teaming, video and the like
to stitch a connected enterprise
fabric for customers. And Novell
had the right pieces." Patel hopes
Attachmate will recognize and
capitalize on this. Discuss
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Apple retro-fitting iPhone
4s with tamper-proof torx
screws
Dave Caolo (TUAW) On one hand, it's an
understandable move: Apple
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:45:00 PM
makes no money on those kits. On
Apple has begun retro-fitting the other, it seems like dirty pool.
iPhone 4s brought in for service I've almost always been able to
with proprietary torx screws, open my Apple products and
meant to keep customers out. make at least some changes on my
Similar to those used to keep the own, even cosmetic ones (like the
new MacBook Air sealed, these white iPhone kits). Locking the
screws are of Apple's own design iPhones and MacBook Airs down
and send a clear message: Do not eliminates that option entirely.
enter. Apple retro-fitting iPhone 4s with
What would prompt such a t a m p e r - p r o o f t o r x s c r e w s
move? No doubt the cottage originally appeared on TUAW on
i n d u s t r y o f a f t e r - m a r k e t Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:45:00 EST.
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Report: Infected Web sites double in 2010
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:01:00 PM
Web-based malware growth Q3
2009 - Q3 2010(Credit: Dasient)
The number of Web sites infected
with malware has doubled from a
year ago to more than 1.3 million,
according to a study released
today by Internet security
company Dasient.
Not only are social media sites
getting targeted, but sites of larger
government agencies increasingly
are hit, including the National
Institutes of Health (NIH), the
U.S. Treasury, and the
Environmental Protection
Agency, the report said. In the last
two years, the NIH has been
infected and reinfected five times,
and the state of Alabama's site
was infected 37 times.
A Service for Using Google Docs in Microsoft Office
Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:00:26 AM
Google is unveiling its service to
connect a Google account to
Microsoft Office today.
Google Cloud Connect is
intended for people who have not
made the full move to Google
Docs and are still using Microsoft
Office.
It allows people to use the Office
interface with the features that
come with Google Docs web-
based collaboration. The product
is based on DocVerse, the
company Google acquired earlier
More than 1.5 million malicious
ads are served a day, including
drive-by downloads and fake
antivirus campaigns. Drive-by
downloads on legitimate Web
sites have become the most
popular method for delivering
malicious programs, overtaking
this year.
Sponsor
The service syncs Office
documents to a Google account.
People do not leave the Office
environment. Once synced,
documents receive a unique URL.
From that point, the document is
part of Google Docs with all the
features that come with that
service.
The documents may be shared
and edited by multiple people
within Microsoft Office. A
revision history is kept. It is
accessible on a mobile device.
Google Cloud Connect is
Technology/ Finance/
receive a response.
Elinor Mills covers Internet
security and privacy. She joined
CNET News in 2005 after
working as a foreign
correspondent for Reuters in
Portugal and writing for The
Industry Standard, the IDG News
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How to Avoid Online
Holiday Shopping
Pitfalls
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:13:46 PM
With the holiday shopping season
quickly approaching, we are all
looking for ways to save. One of
the best ways to cut costs and
avoid hassles is to shop online.
But not all deals are as great as
they seem at first glance. Our
friends at MoneyTalksNews.com
share five potential pitfalls to
online holiday shopping, and
some ways you can address them
to maximize savings and
minimize stress:
different UX environments but
provides feature sets that are a
part of the Web. That may be just
the right for the long-time
user who wants the look and feel
of Microsoft Office but the
capabilities that come with
Google Docs.
Google is accepting early testers
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Foursquare Makes Its West Coast
Office Official, Is Hiring
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:54:21 PM
Mayor Gavin Newsom’s claim
that Foursquare is a San Francisco
startup just got a little bit more
accurate. Foursquare, which has
famously worked out of the
Square offices here in SF for quite
sometime, has finally bit the
bullet and made its West Coast
dalliance official today with
a“We’re heading west!” blog
post.
“In the past year, we had a major
growth spurt: from about 100,000
to over 4.5 million users; from a
single phone platform to six; from
50-person foursquare flashmobs
to 1,000 person epic swarms; and
we now have thousands of
developers building on the the
So, to help attract the best talent
in the world, we decided it’s time
to open an outpost in San
Francisco.”
The location based startup will
not be moving from San
Francisco Chronicle Building
where it’s set up defacto shop
since summer, and Square will be
freeing up more room for the
company to hire a full team of
West Coast engineers in addition
to its 35 current employees. With
$21.4M in funding led by
Andreesen, Foursquare has
definitely got room to grow.
foursquare API. The biggest Photo: niallkennedy
challenge: hiring fast enough to CrunchBase Information
support that surge. Despite Foursquare Information provided
growing from 5 employees to 35, by CrunchBase
we can’t expand as quickly as we
want.
E-reader News Edition
Incredibly Humorous Video of N.J. Governor
Chris Christie and the President of the
Teachers Union regarding "Death Prayers"
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Economic Trend Analysis) com
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continues to impress. Please "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
check out this video in which he investment advisor representative
discusses death wishes by the f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l
head of the Bergen County Management. Sitka Pacific is an
Education Association. asset management firm whose
The president of the Teachers goal is strong performance and
Union offered an official apology low volatility, regardless of
and Christie invited her to his market direction. Visit http://
office to deliver that apology in w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m /
person. account_management.html to
The video is funny from the start, l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h
but gets progressively funnier m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l
when Christie describes the preservation strategies of Sitka
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UK iPad subsidy plan to be announced later today

Michael Gray (TUAW)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:15:00 PM
Everything Everywhere is the
UK's largest mobile network
operator, and it owns the UK
telecom brands Orange UK and T
-Mobile UK. According to
Marketing Week, the two telecom
brands are expected to issue a
formal announcement on
November 22 that they will sell
the iPad at their dual-branded
stores. Not only will the
Everything Everywhere stores be mobile carriers.
carrying the iPad, but they will No further details have been
also offer a discount plan to offered yet, although we should
consumers who enter a service expect more contract details with
contract with their telecom the formal announcement soon.
brands. UK iPad subsidy plan to be
The discount plan to Orange and announced later today originally
T-Mobile subscribers could mean
up to 70 percent off of the iPad
appeared on TUAW on Mon, 22
Nov 2010 14:15:00 EST. Please
The FOKI Will
price tag if the subscriber signs an
18 month or 2 year contract. This
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Clean the Floor
is pretty big news, since this is the Everything Everywhere is merely
first widescale iPad subsidy being leading the charge, and we'll soon
Comments While You Walk
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
offered to consumers. Hopefully, see iPad subsidies from other
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:59:01 PM

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While you’re walking around and then throughout the day you
iPad will hit Korea on
your home, or maybe even in a
restaurant or retail location, you
should have enough power to get
through some spot-cleaning here November 30
sometimes notice that a spot on and there. There’s an LED Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW)
the floor may be sticky, or have a indicator on the side of the shoes, Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:45:00 PM
spill on it that you wish you could which will tell you how much
clean up, right then and there. But power is left. Earlier this month we reported
sometimes getting something to
clean it isn’t all that easy, so what
No word on when, or if, this
design concept could ever see the
the iPad had cleared governmental
hurdles in Korea and was about to
Who Do You Think
if your shoes could clean it? light of day, but considering how begin taking pre-orders. Today, Was Worst Dressed
That’s where the FOKI come in. many people hate sweeping, and Electronista reports that over
The FOKI floor cleaner shoes are are always looking for new ways 60,000 pre-orders for the iPad
at the AMAs?
a concept design from designer to make cleaning easier, there’s a have been taken. KT Corp. is carrying the iPad(and iPhone 4), PopSugar (PopSugar)
Adika Titut Triyugo. They are chance that these FOKI shoes offering the iPad in Korea with a but there have been no new Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:00:00 PM
designed to feature a pair of rotary could see the light of day. subsidy if you sign up for their announcements from Korea's #1
cleaners on the bottom of each [ via Yanko Design] data service, bringing the 16GB carrier. Until then, the iPad will The red carpet at last night's
shoe, which rotate to clean the version to less than US$200. You continue to be sold by KT Corp. American Music Awards was full
floor, and kill bacteria. You just can still buy a Wi-Fi model iPad will hit Korea on November of pretty stars in an array of great
charge them up during the night, without a subsidy for around 30 originally appeared on TUAW gowns, and so far Taylor Swift is
US$559. on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:45:00 your choice for the evening's best
Competitor SK Telecom, EST. Please see our terms for use dressed. As usual, there were
meanwhile is selling the Galaxy of feeds. some looks that unfortunately,
Tab with some success, predicting Source| Permalink| Email this| missed the style mark. Take a
over 1 million in sales by the end Comments look at the below options and tell
of the year. As far as we can tell, us - who do you think was worst
SK Telecom is still considering dressed at the AMAs?
Who Do You Think Was Worst
Thanko Soundproof Keyboard Cover Silences the Dressed at the AMAs? Jada
Pinkett Smith - We get it, you're
tough! No need for the
Keystroke, Covers Your Hands breastplate. Katy Perry - There are
no fireworks in that plain get-up.
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) cover, and instead of using some look at the keyboard, there’s a Ke$ha - She's always unique, but
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:38:42 PM kind of new technology to silence nice viewport at the top of the seriously, where to even begin?
the keystroke, they’ve just made cover, giving you ample room to Heidi Klum - The hair makes this
Depending on your situation, you you wear something over your see what’s going on inside the look take a turn for the worse.
may not want everyone around hands. cover. Avril Lavigne - Her Sk8r girl
you hearing you type. Or, maybe According to Thanko, this very The cover costs about $36, or schtick is so tired.
you just don’t like the sound of unique design makes sure that the 2,980 yen. It’s available for
keys being pressed repeatedly, all sounds of the click on “older” purchase from Geek Stuff 4 U, if
day long. Thankfully, Thanko has keyboards isn’t heard. But, there’s you really think you have to have
you covered (pun intended). enough room inside to make sure hindered by the cover. And, if it.
They’ve just shown off their that touch-typists can go about you’re someone who needs to [ via Akihabara News]
brand new Soundproof keyboard their business without being
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iOS 4.2.1 for Apple TV

available now
Dave Caolo (TUAW)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:35:00 PM

The updates keep coming today,

and now iOS 4.2.1 for Apple TV
is available. This update supports
the much-anticipated AirPlay
feature in iOS 4.2, which allows
compatible iOS devices running
4.2 stream content to the Apple
TV. This is build 8C150 and can
be found via your Apple TV's
update feature or directly here.* update to push it to your Apple
We've been waiting to test TV.
AirPlay ourselves and will have a [Via MacStories]
review of the feature up soon. For iOS 4.2.1 for Apple TV available
now, grab the update, start now originally appeared on
playing around and plan how TUAW on Mon, 22 Nov 2010
you'll be showing off your new 13:35:00 EST. Please see our
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Here Are The 10 Biggest Holdings Of Loch Capital, The Third

Hedge Fund To Be Raided By The FBI (AAPL, GOOG, QCOM)
Katya Wachtel (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:08:11 PM
The FBI reportedly had a search
warrant out for Loch Capital, a
small technology-oriented hedge
fund based in Boston, which is
run by brothers Timothy and
Todd McSweeney. It was raided
earlier today, alongside two other
firms - DiamondBack Capital and
Level Global.
Loch, which was founded in
2003, was only remotely tied to
the Galleon case, but even his
remote connection implies that the
Feds are going after EVERYONE
they can find this time.
According to the firm's latest 13f-
HR, the small Boston hedge fund
largest holdings are:
• American Tower ~$4 million
(83,300 shares)
• Apple ~$14 million (48,100
shares)
• Avago ~$5 million (216,800
shares)
• Crown Castle International $4
million (96,200 shares)
• Marvell Technology ~$4.8
million ( 275,900 shares) • Viacom ~$4.5 million (125,700
• Cablevision ~$5 million shares)
(187,600 shares)
• Google ~$7 million (12,900 Click here for more key details >
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• Qualcomm Inc ~$9 million story »
(200,200 shares)
• Varian Semiconductor
Equipment $5 million (181,500
shares)
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Geithner Politicizes the Fed, Warns Congress to Not do the Same;

Idiocies and Ironies; Economist James Galbraith Unfit to Teach
noreply@blogger.com (Michael recovery “is through policies that Bernanke Defends Position
Shedlock) (Mish's Global lead to a resumption of robust Please consider this snip from
Economic Trend Analysis) growth in a context of price Bernanke Defends Fed as
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:55:00 AM stability in the United States,” Republican Criticism Rises
The hypocrisy of treasury Bernanke said in his speech. James Galbraith, an economist at
secretary Tim Geithner would be The asset purchases will be used the University of Texas at Austin,
stunning except for the fact in a way that’s “measured and said the ultimate loser of a single-
hypocrisy from Geithner is pretty r e s p o n s i v e t o e c o n o m i c mandate Fed would be Congress,
much an every day occurrence. conditions,” Bernanke said. Fed which would no longer be able to
Geithner is blasting Congress for officials are “unwaveringly engage the central bank on such
politicizing the Fed, while doing committed to price stability” and critical issues as growth and jobs.
the same thing himself. To top it don’t seek inflation higher than “To say that you should focus on
off, the Fed itself is politicizing the level of “2 percent or a bit inflation and not unemployment is
the Fed by interfering and less” that most policy makers see a little strange,” said Galbraith,
commenting on Fiscal policy as consistent with the Fed’s who helped write the Humphrey-
while bitching about Congress legislative mandate, he said. Hawkins Full Employment Act of
commenting on monetary policy. Bernanke Comments on Fiscal
“at its best” prevents new tax cuts the economy or by increasing 1978, which enshrined the Fed’s
Please consider Geithner Warns Policy
and mandatory spending increases uncertainty about future tax dual mandate to seek stable prices
Republicans Against Politicizing Flashback, October 4, 2010:
from making budget deficits burdens and government spending and full employment. “This is a
Fed. U.S. Treasury Secretary MarketWatch reports Bernanke
worse but doesn’t force Congress -- and thus restrain the recovery,” warning shot by a couple of
Timothy F. Geithner warned calls for tougher budget rules senators who know very well that
to reduce the deficits that are Bernanke said.
Republicans against politicizing In a speech delivered at the they are not going to get a bill
already built into current law. Hypocrisy In Action
the Federal Reserve and said the annual meeting of the Rhode
Bernanke said current spending 1. It's OK for Bernanke to entertained.” Idiocies and Ironies
Obama administration would Island Public Expenditure Council The irony is the Fed and Geithner
plans are “unsustainable” and comment on Fiscal Policy
oppose any effort to strip the and devoid of comments on a re already bitching about
pointed out the ratio of federal 2. It is not OK for Congress to
central bank of its mandate to monetary policy, Bernanke said Congress commenting on Fed
debt-to-national income has comment on Monetary Policy
pursue full employment. that fiscal rules might be a way to policy yet James Galbraith says a
climbed to a level not seen since My Position
“It is very important to keep impose discipline, particularly if under a "single-mandate Fed
the aftermath of World War II. The Fed should welcome
politics out of monetary policy,” those rules are transparent,
Though the budget deficit should discussion of monetary policy and Congress would no longer be able
Geithner said in an interview ambitious, focused on what the
narrow over the next few years so C o n g r e s s s h o u l d w e l c o m e to engage the central bank on such
airing on Bloomberg Television’s legislature can control directly,
long as the economy and financial discussion of fiscal policy. critical issues as growth and jobs."
“Political Capital with Al Hunt” and are embraced by the public.
markets continue to recover, it I happen to believe it is high time The Fed clearly does not want to
this weekend. “You want to be “A fiscal rule does not guarantee
will swell over the medium and EVERYONE question the beliefs be engaged right now.
very careful not to take steps that improved budget outcomes; after
long term if current policy of Ben Bernanke AND the fiscal Fed's Dual Mandate Is Mission
hurt our credibility.” all, any rule imposed by a settings are maintained. irresponsibility of Congress as Impossible
Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke legislature can be revoked or The primary reason Galbraith is
“Expectations of large and well.
defended the monetary stimulus in c i r c u m v e n t e d b y t h e s a m e wrong is that dual mandates are
increasing deficits in the future It is appropriate for everyone to
a speech in Frankfurt today and in legislature,” Bernanke said, sheer madness.
could inhibit current household be concerned. We need more
a meeting with U.S. senators according to a copy of prepared
and business spending -- for debate, not less. Then we need Here's the deal.
earlier this week. remarks made available in example, by reducing confidence action to do something about the 1. The Fed can control money
The best way to underpin the W a s h i n g t o n . GEITHNER page 29
in the longer-term prospects for deficit.
dollar and support the global The current pay-as-you-go rule
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6 New Governors Seek to Kill Defined Benefit Plans; 8 of 9 CA

Cities Vote to Reduce Benefits; Fraudulent Promises (and what to
do about them)
noreply@blogger.com (Michael coming at a time when state and Pennsylvania, Tennessee, providing lump-sum payments to return for endorsements from
Shedlock) (Mish's Global local governments have cut Wisconsin and Rhode Island have police and firefighters who agree unions to get elected.
Economic Trend Analysis) services to balance their budgets, suggested that they want to amend to defer retirement for up to five The entire vote-buying process
Submitted at 11/21/2010 9:10:00 PM have been driven in part by the their states' pension systems to years and stay on the job. by unions is fraudulent. No one
Defined benefit pension plans are pension trusts' investment losses 401(k) plans similar to the private - Prohibit public employees from represented taxpayers, even
in trouble across the country, but during the market downturn but sector's, said Stephen Fehr, a retiring and returning to work. though public workers are
politicians in states like Arizona also by ongoing pension-benefit pension expert for the Pew Center The practice of "double-dipping" supposed to be public servants.
and Illinois are reluctant to tackle improvements and efforts to hold on the States. The center is a non- reduces contributions to the It is not at all wrong to take away
the problem. Voters across the d o w n c o s t s f o r e m p l o y e e s profit policy-advocating group. pension systems by millions of promises made via fraudulent vote
country however, have taken t h e m s e l v e s . "They want to shift away from dollars. buying, influence peddling, and
matters into their own hands by "It's time we get serious about guaranteed pensions," Fehr said. - Prohibit public officials bribes. The same applies to public
refusing to agree to tax hikes and reforming the public-pension Even in states with strong labor convicted of crimes related to union wages as well.
by voting to reduce benefits. systems," said House Speaker unions, such as California and official duties from receiving Mike "Mish" Shedlock
In California, voters in eight of Kirk Adams, R-Mesa. "But if we Illinois, action has been taken, pensions. h t t p : / /
nine cities or counties approved a r e g o i n g t o h a v e a n y Fehr noted. - Eliminate the pension system for globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
measures to reduce public- fundamental change, the voters Voters in eight of nine California elected officials and move judges com
pension benefits. Moreover, six will have to get involved." cities and counties approved who are in that plan into the larger Click Here To Scroll
new governor-elects want to kill Adams said he would work to get measures during the recent Arizona State Retirement System. Thru My Recent Post List
defined benefit plans. the Legislature to have voters in election to cut public-pension Pensions for elected officials are Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a
Finally, the speaker of the House 2 0 1 2 c h a n g e t h e s t a t e benefits. In addition, Fehr said, the best in the state. registered investment advisor
in Arizona wants a constitutional Constitution, which prohibits more than 40 suburban - Change the state's pension plans, representative for SitkaPacific
amendment to lower pension benefits from being diminished communities in Chicago approved which have guaranteed payouts, Capital Management. Sitka
benefits. for those in the public-pension a ballot question that called on the to 401(k)-type systems. Pacific is an asset management
Arizona Central covers these systems. Adams said he has yet to Illinois Legislature to reduce - Refer a constitutional firm whose goal is strong
issues and more in a pair of get support from the Republican- benefits for future state workers. amendment to voters in 2012 to performance and low volatility,
articles. Let's start with a look at controlled Senate or Gov. Jan Arizona House Speaker Kirk allow pension benefits to be regardless of market direction.
Pension reform a difficult task. Brewer, a fellow Republican. Adams Proposes Constitutional reduced. A provision in the Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com
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can go only so far to slow the rate time, from being raided by consider House speaker unveils Kept preservation strategies of Sitka
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systems, which an Arizona budget times. Since then, the Adams plans next session to ask on promises. The reality is those
Republic analysis found cost pensions have not been touched lawmakers to: promises are invalid because they
taxpayers $1.39 billion last year, a by lawmakers. - Eliminate the Deferred came about as a result of fraud.
448 percent increase from a In a significant indication of Retirement Option Plan for public Politicians got into bed with
decade ago. change, six newly elected -safety officers. This program public unions by making promises
These rising taxpayer costs, governors in Alabama, Nevada, costs tens of millions of dollars, they knew they could not keep, in
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Irish Citizens Sold Down the River in "Firepower of Mega

Stupidity" Machines
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
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Videos
all those problems,” Lenihan said.
Ireland may not draw down on the
entire loan, he said.
loans to Ireland).
Why the average Irish citizen
should have to bail out foreign
By agreeing to take on that debt,
and sticking it to the Irish
taxpayers who will be forced to (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 11/21/2010 6:32:00 PM While Ireland may not fully use bondholders is beyond me, but I accept various austerity measures
Today the Irish Government sold any cash it gets from the EU and do note that the same happened in to pay back that debt, Irish Prime Submitted at 11/22/2010 9:00:56 AM

its citizens into debt slavery by IMF, Lenihan said the size of the the US with taxpayers footing an Minister Brian Cowen and
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Mortgage Putbacks On U.S. Banks
Could Total $134 Billion
Barry Ritholtz (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:21:06 PM
During the housing boom, banks
underwrote over $2 trillion in
subprime, alt-A and option-
adjustable rate mortgages
underwriting could have losses as
high as $700 billion, according to
Amherst Securities research.
The problem is, they weren’t
particularly careful in how they
performed their duties.
Administrative and substantive
errors, missing trust documents,
misleading placement
memorandums, all create a
potential liability for the banks.
The speed over quality
underwriting procedures in
securitizing and processing that
$2 trillion in sketchy mortgages is
well over $100 billion dollars.
That’s according to an article in
Barron’s this weekend, citing
research from Compass Point
Research & Trading, looking at
potential putbacks to the banks.
The folks who bought this mostly
AAA rated junk as mortgage-
backed securities are not simply
going to swallow the losses
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quietly. These investors
–including Fannie Mae, Freddie
Mac, Pacific Investment
Management (PIMCO) and
BlackRock (BLK) are seeking
redress. Under certain
circumstances, the terms of their
purchase agreements allow them
to “ put back the mortgages to the
banks.”
Bank of America, with its still
awful Countrywide and Merrill
acquisitions, has the greatest
exposure, at over $35 billion.
Citigroup somehow has a mere
$8B in potential putback losses. A
Potentially Big Hit
Big banks could lose $134 billion
if mortgage securities are put
back to them, according to
Compass Point Research &
Trading. Company/Ticker
Estimated
Loss (bil) Per
Share*% Tangible
Book Value Bank of America/
BAC$35.2$2.11 17% JPMorgan
Chase/JPM 23.9 3.59 13 Deutsche
Bank/DB 14.1 12.56 21 Goldman
Sachs/GS 11.2 12.43 11 RBS
Greenwich/RBS 9.4 0.10 12
Credit Suisse/CS 8.9 4.50 22 UBS
for Microsoft Office
automatically syncs your Office
documents between your desktop allowing you to seamlessly
and Google Docs' cloud storage,
/UBS 8.4 1.32 15 Morgan Stanley
/MS 7.9 3.37 14 Citigroup/C 7.8
0.16 4 Barclays/BCS 3.6 0.18 3
HSBC/HBC 3.5 0.22 2 Total
133.8* After-tax.
Sources: Compass Point
Research & Trading LLC;
Bloomberg; Inside MBS & ABS
Asset Backed Alert
___________________________
___________________________
_ From Deutsche Bank:
One caveat: Chris Whalen of
Institutional Risk Analytics has
looked at the full run of exposure
of banks as both underwriters,
processors, and trustees. He thinks
the exposure is much much
greater . . .
Source:
Banks Face Another Mortgage
Crisis
JONATHAN R. LAING
Barron’s, NOVEMBER 20, 2010
http://online.barrons.com/article/
SB5000142405297020367650457
5618621671054514.html
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That's Really Going To Surge
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:32:26 PM
Deutsche Bank see tomorrow's
GDP release having strong
upward revisions, but that's only
the beginning of the good news
for the U.S. economy.
Corporate profits, a key leading
indicator of future employment,
quarters ahead, because every
are also set to zoom. strong profits recovery in the past
has given way to a noticeable
More importantly, we will get the pickup in hiring.
first snapshot of Q3 economy-
As a result of corporate profits
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projecting a robust 18%
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supply but it will have no control
over interest rates (or anything
else).
2. The Fed can control short-
term interest rates, but then it
would have no control over
money supply (or anything else).
That is the full and complete
extent of the Fed's "control". Note
that neither price stability nor
unemployment is in either
equation. The reason is the Fed
controls neither.
Sure, the Fed can increase money
supply but all those who thought
it would necessarily cause prices
to rise sure got it wrong.
The simple truth of the matter is
the Fed can print money, but it
cannot control where it goes, or
even if it goes anywhere at all.
Indeed the Fed can encourage but
not force banks to lend, and
encourage but not force
consumers to borrow.
The Fed certainly cannot control
jobs and in fact in a global
economy it can at best, struggle to
influence consumer prices.
That last statement should be
obvious given Bernanke's
inability to affect the CPI like he
wants. Yet Galbraith not only
want the Fed to promote price
stability, he also wants the Fed to
promote full employment
(whatever the hell that means).
That Galbraith is still proud of
the misguided legislation he
helped write confirms he is unfit
to teach.
Inflation Targeting at 2% a Year
Of course the idea that "stability"
means prices rising at 2%
annually is stupidity in and of
itself. Does this look stable to
you?
click on chart for sharper image
Bear in mind Bernanke does not
consider asset bubbles, housing
prices, taxes, food, or energy in
his measure of "stable" prices.
Is it any wonder we have had
nothing but serial bubbles from
the Fed?
Kill Dual-Mandate Idiocy
I encourage Congress to kill dual-
mandate idiocy.
Heck, I encourage Congress to
abolish the Fed altogether. The
Fed clearly cannot even get price
stability right, let alone full
employment AND price stability.
All the Fed has done is blow
serial bubble after bubble with the
help and encouragement of those
like James Galbraith.
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10 Biggest Cases of
Revenge in Human
History
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) far beyond the social contract.
Submitted at 11/22/2010 9:00:56 AM The desire to see harm befall
those who wrong us begins on a
The concept of revenge is as old very personal level, within the
as history. Almost since the dawn b r a i n o f t h e v i c t i m .
of the written word, humans have Neuroscientists have found that
had the desire to exact vengeance the dorsal striatum, a part of the
on others who have wronged us. brain responsible for reward, also
F o r e x a m p l e , T h e C o d e o f governs revenge.
Hammurabi, the code of law from What follows, in no particular
the sixth king of Babylon, was order, are 10 examples of people
implemented about 1760 B.C., where someone's dorsal striata
making it the oldest recorded set kicked into overdrive, leading to
of laws in human history. The some of the biggest cases of
code is rooted firmly in the belief revenge in human history.
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Yet our thirst for vengeance goes

5 Things Your Holiday Guests Won't Tell You

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Ditch the Cord, Let the Road Charge Hot Wheels Gone Mad
Your EV Sculpture
Keith Barry (Wired Top Stories) news to anyone who uses a what you’d pay for a conventional alice (Featured Blog Posts - My quality to it. When you have
Submitted at 11/22/2010 10:00:00 AMwireless charger to juice up their charger. Fitzhugh believes the Modern Metropolis) 1,200 cars circulating it mimics a
iPhone, but induction charging cost could fall to $800 within four Submitted at 11/22/2010 6:00:00 PM real freeway. It’s quite intense.”
Entrepreneurs in New Zealand already is available outside of a or five years. E-ways would come The sculpture will be finished in
have developed a “power pad” Brookstone catalog. much later. Can you imagine seeing this in about two months and take two to
capable of wirelessly charging an “The technology is ready today,” “While the technology to do this person? It's Chris Burden's crazy three months to install. It will be
electric vehicle parked on top of said Fitzhugh. “In fact, induction already exists, clearly the kinetic sculpture, Metropolis II, showing at the LACMA in the
it, and it could even charge cars charging is already used in infrastructure to support it filmed in 2009 at the artist's studio near-future. This will be the
on the go. manufacturing, car assembly and remains to be developed,” in Topanga, Calif. second time Burden created
The folks at Halo IPT see the robotics to power machinery on Fitzhugh said. Though she In 2006, he and a team of eight something for the LA museum,
pads being installed parking lots, the move, so the principle is estimates that adding power pads studio assistants, including an he's also the one behind the 200
garages and driveways to charge nothing new. The difference is along existing roadways would engineer, began Metropolis II lampposts standing in the front of
cars with cords. But they’ve got that we are taking the technology add less than ten percent to the which includes 1,200 custom- that building.
bigger things in mind. They’re out of the factory and applying it cost of a roadway, “we do not designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy Burden got his B.A. in visual
betting the technology could be to electric vehicles for the first expect e-ways to become a reality trains and tracks; and, dotting the arts, physics and architecture at
embedded in roads by 2020 to time.” before 2020.” landscape, buildings made of Pomona College and received his
charge cars as they drive. Well, not the first time. We must Fitzhugh said Halo is talking to wood block, tiles, Legos and M F A a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f
“Continuous induction charging, point out that GM’s late, lamented automakers who are interested in Lincoln Logs. It is still a work in C a l i f o r n i a , I r v i n e .
which we call dynamic in-motion EV1 had a paddle charger that the system and have already progress. via [ Gagosian Gallery on
charging, could be used to create d i d n ’ t n e e d t o “ p l u g ” i n t o supplied chargers to OEMs, but By Burden's calculation, “every Facebook] and [ NY Times]
‘e-ways’ – motorways with anywhere — but it did require a she “cannot discuss specific hour 100,000 cars circulate Chris Burden
dedicated charging lanes, set with cord connected to the wall, and details until contract details are through the city. It has an audio
charging pads spaced at regular one certainly couldn’t drive announced.”
intervals,” said Halo’s Helen around while charging. These
Fitzhugh. “As the electric car pads are self-contained, can work
Video: Halo IPT Video: Pop Stars and Boy Bands
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she began the journey.” conductors are not exposed. In the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:15:00 AM
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electrified coil in the power pad. induction chargers would first be Catastrophe. Block, and the guys from Glee on up with all the stars. Check it out
When the two are “tuned,” power available in pilot trials for in- the 2010 American Music Awards on PopSugar Rush!
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the charger and the EV. This isn’t would cost around $2000, about Rolling Stone afterparty to catch
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Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for

Arrest
Kim Zetter (Wired Top Stories) large volume of stolen card
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:00:00 PM numbers and personal
identification numbers.” The court
A Malaysian man has been documents don’t make it clear
arrested after Secret Service whether that person was an
agents caught him in a sting
operation and found 400,000 bank
undercover agent who lured Poo
to the U.S. or another criminal
The Selby
card numbers on his computer.
The man allegedly gained access
to computer systems belonging to
perpetrator.
Poo has been charged with one and The
count each of access device fraud
FedComp, a data processor for
various credit unions around the
and identity theft and two counts
of hacking.
Spades
country; the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve Bank in Habitually Chic (Habitually
Bank in Cleveland, Ohio; Cleveland acknowledged that a Chic®)
networks belonging to “several system was hacked last June but Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:58:54 AM
major international banks and said it was only a “test” system
companies”; as well as the system for software and applications and I kept hoping that someone else
of a major Defense Department did not contain any financial would photograph Kate and Andy
contractor, which provides information. The hack affected Spade's apartment and my wish
systems management for military was finally granted. The Selby has
$1,000. Firemen’s Association of the State “ten or more” FRB computers. finally come uptown and shot
transport and other sensitive
Secret Service agents seized of New York Federal Credit Photo: Andres Rueda/Flickr their fabulous home for his site. I
military operations.
Poo’s laptop at the time of arrest. Union and the Mercer County See Also: remember seeing an interview of
Lin Mun Poo, whom authorities
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New York on October 21st within
finding a “massive quantity of number of financial institutions. our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ charming details such as the old
hours after he arrived from
stolen financial account data and Poo told agents after his arrest content-only/faq.php fashioned light switches. I can't
Malaysia. Poo had traveled to the
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agent posing as a buyer. Poo met
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with the agent at a Brooklyn diner
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where he allegedly sold the agent
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32 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

MUSIC iPad App: Inspirational Stories Shared (14 pics)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My - he likes to photograph on white, with the option to organize the
Modern Metropolis) distilling his subjects down so that entire text thematically, and the
Submitted at 11/22/2010 5:00:00 PM you can really connect with them ability to share text -- creating a
(rather than being overwhelmed truly multi-dimensional
As the amazing follow-up to his with a busy background). What experience and bringing the idea
b e a u t i f u l a n d m o v i n g pulled me in the most was of portraiture to a new level. I
photography books Wisdom and watching the iPad app promo. It's asked for some samples of the
Creature, MUSIC is photographer a 1:29 journey you just have to kind of portraiture you can find
Andrew Zuckerman's latest and experience yourself. Watch it, both in the book and the app so
greatest endeavor. This time, here. you can see Zuckerman's style
Zuckerman released the MUSIC As Zuckerman states, “Because I've been talking about.
iPad app - a first-of-its-kind book different people have different The app is available at iTunes for
extension. The MUSIC app, like ways of enjoying media, we’ve $4.99. I just bought mine.
the book it is based on, features created the MUSIC app to give MUSIC, The Book
stunning portraits and interviews the user the ability to choose how leave them sitting on bookshelves book. The MUSIC app was Related:
with more than 50 musical they want to experience this and coffee tables. An e-book may created to fill this gap and Wisdom, The Book and
legends, young and old, including monumental and comprehensive be portable, but it’s simply text, integrates all media -- text, audio Documentary
Ozzy Osbourne, Lenny Kravitz, project. Art books have stunning and e-readers were not designed and video.”
Common, and Fiona Apple. images and beautiful layout, but to present the content and The app includes 3-to-7-minute
Zuckerman has a minimalist style their size and weight can often complexities of an art or photo films for each of the artists, along

Apple iOS 4.2 Arrives, Makes 'Find My iPhone' Free

Tim Carmody (Wired Top folders, a unified e-mail inbox, iOS 3 for me forever.
Stories) Apple’s Game Center for social Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today
Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:26:00 AM gaming and AirPrint for remote for iPad, iPhone & iPod
printing from the iPad to selected touch[Apple Press Release]
Apple’s long-awaited universal printers. See Also:
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users, who get their first crack at paid MobileMe subscription, is Apple ID, and you can locate your about iOS 4.2 from our intrepid Catastrophe.
some of the new features first now free for any iOS 4.2 device, missing device on a map and have Apple reporter Brian Chen.
i n t r o d u c e d f o r i P h o n e 4 : including iPad and iPod Touch. It it display a message, play a sound, Meanwhile, I’m off to see
application multitasking, the will be available as a separate or even remotely lock/wipe it if whether 4.2 might finally make
ability to organize apps into download from the App Store; log it’s gone for good. my iPhone 3G workable or if it’s
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 33

Blue Monday
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 10:27:39 AM

While researching another story,

I came across this beautiful
apartment in Paris designed by
Chahan Minassian. It was also
published in the September 2010
issue of French Architectural
Digest. From what I could glean
from the article without pulling
out the French/English dictionary,
the pied-a-terre was designed for
a couple who's primary residence
is in Beverly Hills, CA. There is
an Italian fantasy theme full of
mercury mirrors and pale blues,
grays, and greens. There is
something about this apartment
that reminds me of a more ornate
version of a David Collins design.
Chahan Minassian is not only an
interior designer but also a gallery
owner and antiques dealer in Paris
at 7 rue de Lille. Wish I had
known this when I was in Paris
but I look forward to visiting him
on my next trip.
The dining room, salon, and petit
salon are connected by an enfilade
so the colors must flow from
room to room.
Although it's not credited, that
looks like a Kelly Wearstler
designed rug from The Rug
Company.
I love the contrast of the abstract
painting and the antique furniture.
Another view of the petit salon
from the designers portfolio. The
painting might have been brought
in specially for the magazine
photo shoot.
I love the mercury mirror tiles on
the walls of the dining room. I
can imagine that the room must
glow when lit by candles for
dinner.
I think this might be the dressing
room.
While the apartment is decorated
in pale colors, it is full of subtle
patterns and textures such as the
fabric on the bed rails.
Mercury mirrors were also used
in the bath which can expand the
size of a small room. The owners
of this apartment are one very
lucky couple. C'est magnifique!
Photos by Jerome Gallard
Punch Me Panda (12
photos)
Eugene (Featured Blog Posts - stress through violence. He gets
My Modern Metropolis) punched (and roundhouse kicked)
about 100 times a day.
Submitted at 11/22/2010 7:00:00 PM
"I choose the panda suit because
Punching a panda isn't something the panda face really melts
you just wake up and long to do. people’s heart," says Hill. "I
That is, of course, unless you live wanted to have people get out
in New York City, where artist their aggression on something
Nate Hill invites strangers to c u t e . I t ’ s f u n t o h a v e t h a t
unleash their aggression on his contradiction. This is an art
wickedly cool character, "Punch project. I’m not just a thrill
Me Panda." seeker."
Hill ordered the panda suit on Punch Me Panda
eBay and bought the biggest chest Photo credit: Rob Bennett
protector he could find on the via [ metropolis - wall street
internet. He wanted to offer a journal]
public service - to relieve people's
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Laffer Track
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 11/21/2010 11:00:00 PM
WASHINGTON—Ronald
Reagan (bless his sense of humor)
loved to say that the problem with
his administration was that the
Practice Eye Contact to right hand didn't know what the
Generate "Reality far right hand was doing.
Distortion Field" Something of that sort is
Charisma [Personal happening among conservatives
on the supposed urgency of
Development] closing the federal budget deficit.
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) On the near right is the
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:00:00 AM
preliminary proposal of the co-
chairs of the president's deficit
Some people, like Bill Clinton commission, Erskine Bowles and
and Steve Jobs, have undeniable Alan Simpson. It is a deeply
charisma that even their most conservative document that would
ardent detractors are forced to make sharp reductions in Social
acknowledge. Master the art of Security, Medicare and Medicaid
eye contact and personal space while also cutting and flattening
management to create "Reality income tax rates. As is, it would
Distortion Field" level charisma. do a lot of harm, but at least it
More » takes the deficit seriously.
Then there are Republicans in
Congress whose top priority is to
Palin, Romney, force through legislation making
the Bush-era tax cuts for the best-
and the 2012 off Americans permanent, thus
expanding the deficit by about
Nomination $700 billion over the next decade.
So on the one hand, we have to
Ed Kilgore (The New Republic - cut, cut, cut because fiscal
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Submitted at 11/21/2010 11:00:00 PM other, we have to make the
problem worse by shoveling more
How will the Republican primary money to the rich because ... well,
election of 2012 unfold? It's because taking care of those with
impossible to predict the exact tidy incomes is contemporary
result, but now that the midterms conservatism's highest purpose.
PALIN, page 35
How can the two right hands be
forced to work in tandem?
Outgoing House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid promised a vote in
Congress if 14 of the
commission's 18 members could
agree on a plan. If the incoming
speaker, John Boehner, and his
new Republican majority are as
serious about deficit cutting as
they say, Boehner should make
clear he'll hold such a vote in the
next Congress since there will be
little time for debate in the lame-
duck session.
I have doubts any plan can get 14
votes, partly because the
Republican House members on
the commission, Dave Camp, Paul
Ryan and Jeb Hensarling, may not
want to put the new Congress on
the spot.
But the only way to create
pressure for agreement by the
commission's Dec. 1 deadline is if
its members know that getting to
14 would force congressional
consideration. Boehner should
show he has Pelosi's courage in
committing to a vote before
knowing what the commission
will produce.
In the meantime, the Bowles-
Simpson proposal will have to
change a lot if progressives and
moderates are to come on board.
One test will be how open they
are to elements of an alternative
put forward by Rep. Jan
Schakowsky, D-Ill. One of the
commission's most progressive
members, she leans more on
revenue increases and defense
cuts to get toward balance.
Good for Schakowsky for
showing that liberals embrace
fiscal responsibility and that
biting hard into programs that
benefit the middle class and the
poor is not the only way to do so.
And all who reject her military
cuts need to make clear what they
would cut instead, or which taxes
they would raise.
As for the Bowles-Simpson plan,
its problems include an unrealistic
21 percent limit on revenues as a
share of gross domestic product.
And as the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities has pointed out,
the proposal's excessive cuts in
Social Security would rather
substantially reduce benefits for
Americans earning as little as
$43,000 a year, hardly rich
people. That's a bad idea.
In a sharp but even-tempered
critique, the center—a liberal
group deeply committed to deficit
reduction—also notes that the
plan's health cuts "could harm
vulnerable people" by creating
"widespread health care access
problems." This is the last thing
we need.
And why is a deficit reduction
commission in the business of
reducing tax rates for the wealthy
and corporations? Bowles and
Simpson propose to cut the top
income tax rate from 35 percent,
under current law, to 23 percent?
Yes, they get there by eliminating
all deductions—and would treat
capital gains and dividends like
other income, a sensible tax
reform.
But even if certain popular tax
benefits are restored, the top rate
would still come down to 28
percent. Why do that when the
deficit is so big?
Some conservatives are smart
enough to know what a Trojan
horse looks like. Wall Street
Journal columnist Daniel
Henninger wrote an ecstatic
column last week ("8-14-23 or
Fight!") praising the commission
for the rate cuts. If the main
purpose of this exercise is to cater
to the supply siders on The Wall
Street Journal's editorial board,
many of us will fall by the
wayside.
But shouldn't conservatives want
to debate all this? Will Speaker
Boehner be serious about deficits
or not?
E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
the recently published Souled
Out: Reclaiming Faith and
Politics After the Religious Right.
He is a Washington Post
columnist, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, and a
professor at Georgetown
University.
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continued from page 34
are over, we are in a position to
make some educated guesses.
Below is a state-by-state analysis
of the early Republican primary
contests, and a look at how Sarah
Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike
Huckabee, and the whole
presidential field will fare in a
landscape altered by the Tea Party
wars and the Democratic
Shellacking of 2010.
Nobody 'Won' the Midterms
One determining feature of the
2012 field is that no potential
candidate so distinguished him or
herself on the midterm campaign
trail as to vault—as Richard
Nixon famously did back in
1966—into a front-running
position. And despite talk about
the midterms producing a fresh
new batch of presidential timber,
the reality is that no one first gets
elected to major office and then
runs for president the very next
minute. (Barack Obama had four
years to make the switch, and was
already a national celebrity before
he was elected to the Senate.) The
unquestioned new GOP superstar,
Marco Rubio, is already being
fitted for the vice presidential
nomination in 2012, but no one
thinks he’s moving to Des Moines
or Manchester to campaign a few
days after he's sworn in.
Tea Party State of Mind
The key effect of the midterm
campaign was psychological. The
conservative base of the
Republican Party, which now
calls itself the Tea Party
movement, is fully convinced that
the conventional wisdom holding
that trans-partisan appeal and
“moderation” are the keys to
electability is a total crock. After
all, the Republican Party just
moved aggressively to the right
after two straight defeats, and
proceeded to rack up a historic
victory. This is precisely the
formula conservative activists
have been touting for over four
decades. Now that they've been
vindicated, it’s most unlikely
they'll want anything less than a
fire-eating conservative as their
presidential nominee in 2012. In
particular, those polls showing
that a candidate like Sarah Palin is
a sure loser in a general election
will be dismissed as elitist BS
designed to keep the RINO
establishment in the driver’s seat.
For the same reason, the GOP
establishment has almost surely
lost its alleged power to dictate a
presidential nominee. The idea
that Republicans are sheep-
like“hierarchical” voters who will
always go for the presidential
candidate that is “next in line,” or
favored by national party bosses,
isn’t terribly compelling in a
climate where members of the
establishment are visibly
struggling to keep up with their
followers' demands. Indeed,
according to a much-discussed
Politico piece that appeared just
before the midterm elections,
party insiders are pretty much
focused on the more limited task
of keeping St. Joan of the Tundra
from the nomination.
They have their work cut out for
them. No politician in recent
memory—or maybe ever—has
her ability to channel the deepest
resentments, and most vengeful
hopes, of her fans. And that
makes her remarkably immune to
criticism, and even to self-
inflicted political damage. Who
else could have survived a fiasco
like her baffling resignation as
governor of Alaska? And why
would anyone who has
experienced her rapid rise from
obscurity to almost limitless
celebrity—she's even capable of
making her teenage daughter a
major global entertainment figure
by mere association—exhibit
modesty or “wait her turn”?
So Much Depends Upon the Iowa
Caucus
But the story doesn't end there.
At first glance, the Iowa Caucus
appears to be friendly territory for
a candidate like Palin. Republican
caucuses are dominated by
conservative activists, and Iowa is
especially partial to social
conservatives, including Palin’s
old comrades in the Right-to-Life
movement. Yet the way
endorsements shook out during
the 2010 election, a different
candidate may have the
advantage: Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee is the unquestioned
organizational kingpin of
Republican Iowa. He humiliated
Mitt Romney there in 2008, and
his Iowa chairman that year, Bob
Vander Plaats, has maintained his
status as the most important right-
wing figure in the state. During
the 2010 election, when Vander
Plaats was running for governor,
both Romney and Palin endorsed
his opponent Terry Branstad (a bit
of a RINO), who ended up eking
out a win by a surprisingly narrow
margin. Yet Vander Plaats then
rebounded by heading up a
successful ballot effort to deny
“retention” in office to three
members of the Iowa Supreme
Court who supported the 2009
decision legalizing same-sex
marriage.
These dynamics may seriously
affect the way the campaign
unfolds. Even though Vander
Plaats lost his bid for statewide
office, he walks tall in the activist
-controlled Iowa Caucuses. So, if
Huckabee decides to run, he'll
probably control the strongest
organization against a divided
field of opponents, and he would
have to be considered the Iowa
frontrunner. If he doesn't run, his
base of support could be up for
grabs.
For his part, Mitt Romney will
face a painful choice about
whether to compete in Iowa. Like
Hillary Clinton in 2008, he may
think it necessary to go all-out in
the state because he is the
frontrunner; and like Clinton, that
could be a choice he comes to
regret. Other candidates will see
Iowa as do-or-die: Nobody will
take Tim Pawlenty seriously if he
doesn’t run, and run well, in the
state next door to his own
Minnesota. And potential “dark
horse” candidates like Hoosiers
Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence,
who have no obvious early-
primary base, are in a similar
situation.
The New Hampshire and Nevada
Backstops
Whether or not Romney commits
35
in Iowa, expect him to treat the
next contests in New Hampshire
and Nevada as a firewall. In those,
there will be high expectations:
New Hampshire is next door to
his home state, and
Nevada—which he won handily
in 2008—has a significant
Mormon vote. He leads in early
surveys of both states by Public
Policy Polling.
But by that point, Romney’s
more basic problem for 2012 is
likely to have been resolved one
way or another. It’s important to
remember that Romney ran in
2008 as the “true conservative”
candidate against Rudy Giuliani
and John McCain; he was also
much preferred to Mike Huckabee
among the conservative
establishment, thanks to the
Arkansan’s heretical attacks on
Wall Street and the Bush
economy. If Romney runs in
2012, much of the field will be
positioned to his right, and he is
likely to become the default-drive
candidate of what’s left of the
moderate wing of the GOP. This
is not a very comfortable place to
be, given the rightward trajectory
of the party, and Romney has two
problems in particular: His
unrepentant support for TARP,
and above all, his championship
of a health reform initiative in
Massachusetts that shares many
features with the current demon of
the conservative imagination,
Obamacare.
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s
recent demand that Romney
PALIN, page 36
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PALIN,
continued from page 35
repudiate his Massachusetts
health care plan is just the first
thump of an endless drumbeat
which will play all the way to
2012, a period during which
Republican efforts to repeal
Obamacare will be featured on
Fox News every day and night. If
Romney persists in making
convoluted distinctions between
the two plans, he will simply draw
more attention to his problem. If
he finally bends at the knee and
disavows his own proudest
domestic policy achievement, he
will add another chapter to his
long history of flip-flops. Like
Jonathan Chait, I don’t think
Romney can get out of this trap,
particularly if his main credential
is that establishment Republicans,
the 'lamestream media,' and
Democrats think he’s the sanest
Republican option.
Romney may not draw the
terrifying Palin as an opponent in
2008, or Huckabee, who beat him
before. But in a smaller field then
he’d be in peril of a united
conservative opposition
consolidating behind someone
else—perhaps a Rick Perry or a
Mike Pence pulled into the race
by the vacuum on the right.
Romney was beaten in New
Hampshire in 2008, in part,
because the New Hampshire
Union Leader made a surprise
endorsement of John McCain.
And it seems unlikely that New
Hampshire conservatives will get
behind Romney this time around
with so many more ideological
options available. It’s worth
noting that Palin offered an
endorsement of Kelly Ayotte in
the New Hampshire GOP Senate
primary that almost certainly
helped her survive a conservative
challenge from Ovide
Lamontagne, and go on to the
Senate as the state’s highest-
ranking Republican. In general,
the well-known delight of Granite
State presidential primary voters
in surprising frontrunners cannot
be reassuring to Romney.
As a caucus state, Nevada is
more manageable for the cash-
rich Romney, who should be
strongly favored there again. And
if one of the dark-horse
candidates comes out of Iowa
with a decent showing, he or she
would need to score big in either
of these states, preferably New
Hampshire, given the vast media
attention the state’s primary
obtains.
South Carolina and Florida: Last
Stand?
South Carolina is the only state
guaranteed an early primary after
New Hampshire, and it’s there
that the eventual nominee will
probably have to make a good
showing. Romney’s likely
financial advantage over the field
would help him at this point, if
he’s still around. But again, it’s
unclear where his 2008 supporters
in the Palmetto State would go.
His most visible South Carolina
endorsements back then were
from Senator Jim DeMint and an
up-and-coming state legislator
named Nikki Haley. It's unlikely
that they would endorse Romney
two years from now, given
another option: DeMint is
unlikely to give his "true
conservative" imprimatur to the
race's main perceived moderate,
and Haley owes a lot more to
Sarah Palin for her victory in the
2010 gubernatorial race than she
does Mitt.
A big factor in South Carolina
will be whether there is at least
one surviving conservative
candidate from the South—most
likely Huckabee or Gingrich—to
draw off support from someone
like Palin, perhaps helping a
relative “moderate” win just as
Romney and Huckabee split the
conservative vote there in 2008
and tossed the contest to McCain.
And if, as in 2008, Florida’s
primary occurs right after South
Carolina’s, Romney may again
have an edge because of money
and the fact that he performed
very well there in 2008. However
it’s worth noting that the new titan
of Florida Republican politics,
Senator-elect Marco Rubio,
backed Mike Huckabee in 2008.
The Weak Republican Field
If no one nails down the
nomination after the early states,
it's very likely that the field will
have polarized between two
viable contenders, and we'll see
the election play out as a Hillary-
versus-Obama–type slugfest. But
even that is extremely difficult to
be certain about, not just due to
unexpected events, but because
the entire Republican field looks
weak: I've already discussed
Romney’s Achilles' heel. Palin
and Gingrich both have
“electability” problems, for voters
who care about that, and
Gingrich’s marital history will
trouble some socially
conservative voters. Huckabee
may be able to play kingmaker at
key moments, but he seems to
possess almost no skill at raising
money.
Among the dark-horse
possibilities, Tim Pawlenty is
abundantly available, but he’s
vulnerable to an early exit if he
fails to win in Iowa. (T-Paw is
also not exactly a ball of fire.) The
fundraising genius Haley Barbour
is magic in Washington circles,
and seems to want to run, but his
background as a lobbyist’s
lobbyist is ill-suited to a Tea Party
-driven primary season; he would
seem certain to follow the path of
past GOP candidates John
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Connolly and Phil Gramm to
ignominious defeat in a sea of
wasted money. John Thune has
reportedly decided against a run
already. Mitch Daniels called for
a truce in the culture wars, which
is a deadly insult to Christian
conservatives. Maybe he can flip
a coin with fellow Hoosier Mike
Pence to see who will try to
become known outside Indiana in
time for 2012.
How can Republicans save
themselves? The best way would
arguably be for the Republican
establishment to coalesce behind a
least-bad dark-horse candidate as
early as possible in the process. It
could be easier this time because
2012 will be the first presidential
election after Citizens United, and
it might be the first cycle in recent
memory where big sacks of
shadowy outside money have an
impact on the primaries. Yet it's
still a long shot, and whether the
ultimate nominee is a dark horse,
an insider, or an inflammatory
Tea Party favorite like Palin, the
nominee will still be hobbled by
the demands of the incredibly
excited conservative base.
Advantage: Barack Obama.
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Toshiba 26” LCD HDTV with Built-in DVD Player

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) hassle? Jerry down at the Drive- After several decades of slackery • Package Contents • OSD language: English, French,
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Best GPS deals for 2010 Black Friday--Your guide
to door busters
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 6:29:59 AM
Best GPS deals for 2010 Black
Friday--Your guide to door
busters
Planning a deal-driven route for
shopping on Black Friday? We
have compiled a guide to the best
deals on well-rated devices and
similar GPS navigators from
major retailers.
We have scrutinized sales flyers
and websites to compile this door-
buster directory, and these prices
stand out as offering a significant
discount.
Of course, you can avoid the long
lines and stress at the major box
stores by shopping online. Often
the sale door-buster deals are
available from the store’s website,
and some will even allow you to
get a head start by shopping on
Thanksgiving.
If you’re anxious to get your
shopping done ahead of Black
Friday, see our best GPS deals for
early shoppers.
When choosing a navigation
device, don’t buy strictly on price.
Often the cheapest units are older,
have fewer worthwhile features,
and use small screens. To make
an informed choice, see our
extensive buying advice, then use
our interactive ratings tool to find
the top-rated units that match your
needs and budget. You’ll find a
dedicated model overview page
for each tested device, with notes
from our experts, ratings,
specifications, and user reviews.
Once you’ve done your
homework, dig in to the chart
below and map out your holiday
shopping. Make/model Price
Notes Best Buy— Fri., Sat.
Garmin Nuvi 255WT$99.00
Basic, wide screen. Text to
speech. Garmin Nuvi 1300
LMT$129.99 Basic, wide screen.
Magellan 3045$109.99 4.7-inch.
Free traffic. TomTom XL
350TM$99.99 Wide screen. Free
maps, traffic. TomTom XXL
550TM$129.99 5-inch screen.
Free maps, traffic. BJ's— Fri.,
Sat., Sun. Magellan RoadMate
1420$69.99 Wide screen.
TomTom XXL 540TM$119.99 5-
inch screen. Free traffic, maps.
Costco--Fri., Sat., Sun. Magellan
RoadMate 2036$30 off Wide
screen. Free traffic. TomTom
XXL 550TM$70 off (Regular
$199.99) 5-inch screen. Free
traffic, maps. Kmart— Fri., Sat.
Magellan RoadMate 2035$79.99
4.3-inch. Free traffic. Meijer—
Friday morning Magellan
RoadMate 3030$83.00 4.7-inch.
Radio Shack— Friday TomTom
XXL 550T$99.99 5-inch screen.
Free traffic. Garmin Nuvi
1300$99.99 Basic, wide screen.
Garmin Nuvi 1350T$129.99
Basic, wide screen. Free traffic.
Garmin Nuvi 1450T$149.99 5-
inch screen. Free traffic. Sam's
Club— Friday Garmin Nuvi
1450$129.82 5-inch screen.
Sears— Friday Magellan
RoadMate 2035$79.99 4.3-inch.
Free traffic. Magellan RoadMate
5045$99.99 5-inch. Traffic.
Magellan RoadMate 1700$149.99
7-inch screen. TomTom
XL340M$99.99 Wide screen.
Free maps. Staples— Fri., Sat.
Garmin Nuvi 265WT$99.00 Staff
favorite. Free traffic. Friday morn.
Garmin Nuvi 1490T$169.99 5-
inch screen. Free traffic. Magellan
RoadMate 1700$149.99 7-inch
screen.
TomTom XL 540S$89.99 5-inch
screen.
TomTom XL 540TM$129.99 5-
inch screen. Free traffic, maps.
Target— Friday Garmin Nuvi
1450LMT$159.00 5-inch screen.
Free traffic, maps. TomTom XL
335T$79.00 Wide screen. Free
traffic. Walmart— Friday
morning TomTom Ease$59.00
Very basic navigator. TomTom
XL 355SE$79.00 Wide screen.
In addition to the deals
highlighted above,
ConsumerReports.org has a Price
& Shop function tied in with most
electronics ratings that allows you
to move right from reviewing test
results to checking the prices
online and even buying the
product. This service is offered in
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ad-free user experience. Retailers
cannot pay for top placement in
our safe-shopping environment,
so consumers looking to buy GPS,
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search results will be listed by
price from lowest to highest to
ensure a good shopping
experience. Featured retailers
meet certain customer service
standards, and there are retailer
ratings to guide you to the best
prices from trusted retailers.—
Jeff Bartlett Next Steps
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Championship eater
inhales bananas at
Donkey Kong Country
Returns launch
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:20:00 PM
If pressed, we're not sure we
could eat an entire banana in 60
seconds -- they're just so dry and
heavy, you know? We certainly
couldn't come close to the
achievement of championship
eater Takeru Kobayashi, who, at a
recent Donkey Kong Country
Returns launch event, slammed 16
'nanners in a minute.
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Netflix introduces a $7.99 streaming- Apple iOS 4.2 for iPhone

only plan and iPad available
Paul Eng (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 10:02:03 AM
month, respectively. Its priciest
plan—8 DVDs out at a time—will
jump by $8, to $56 per month.
today–but when?
Jeffrey Fox (Consumer
Netflix introduces a $7.99 "The price increase will allow us Reports)
streaming-only plan to continue to offer the popular
The options for streaming video plan choice of unlimited TV Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:50:39 AM

sources grow by one more today: episodes and movies streaming

Netflix introduced a streaming- Apple iOS 4.2 for iPhone and
instantly along with unlimited
only plan, allowing the DVD iPad available today–but when?
DVDs," said Becker in the
r e n t a l s e r v i c e t o r e m a i n the new plan: "The fact is that company blog. Apple is releasing today the
competitive with the likes of Netflix members are already The new DVD price plans are newest version of its operating
Hulu, Apple Itunes, and Amazon's watching more TV episodes and e f f e c t i v e t o d a y f o r n e w system for the iPhone, Ipad, and
video-on-demand. iPod touch: iOS 4.2. But it's not iOS 4.2 will bring iPad users
movies streamed instantly over subscribers, but current Netflix clear what time today the update
The $7.99-per-month plan allows the Internet than on DVDs, and subscribers won’t see the price printing, multitasking, folders, a
anyone with a PC or other Netflix we expect that trend to continue." hikes until January. will actually be available. unified inbox, airplay, a game
-compatible device—such as Web zznot all of Netflix’s library of Following Apple's instructions, I center, and a variety of other
A new plan for watching
-enabled HDTVs, Blu-ray players thousands of DVD titles are instantly, plus price changes to connected an iPad to a computer features. The Find My iPhone (or
a n d v i d e o g a m e available for instant viewing, existing unlimited plans[Netflix running iTunes 10.1. But the Ipad or Touch) feature, which lets
consoles—unlimited access to though. And to help boost its blog] software told me that my iPad you locate and secure a lost
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Leslie Frazier's Head-Coaching Opportunity a Long Time Coming

A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:53:00 AM
Filed under: Vikings, NFL
Coaching, NFL Analysis Leslie
Frazier interviewed for as many
as seven NFL head-coaching jobs
in recent years. He finally got the
call Monday, although the owner Zygi Wilf on Monday room reportedly turned against
"interim" tag will be alongside his afternoon. Childress, who was criticized
name as he replaces Brad The 3-7 Vikings, thought to be anonymously by players for the
Childress as head coach of the contenders for a trip to the Super handling of wide receiver Randy
foundering Minnesota Vikings. Bowl with the return of Moss, among other things.
Frazier, who becomes the seventh quarterback Brett Favre, hardly More Coverage: Brad Childress
African-American head coach in the media alongside Vikings present the ideal situation for a Fired
the NFL, is scheduled to address first-time head coach. The locker
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Live chat: Talk to our Joey Votto of Cincinnati Reds voted

expert about food safety
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:34:22 AM
Live chat: Talk to our expert
about food safety
Tomorrow at 12:30 EST
Consumer Reports' food safety
expert Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D. will
be here to talk about
Thanksgiving dinner preparation
and food safety. She'll be
discussing the safe handling of the
turkey and side dishes as well as
the meaning (and value) of labels
like "hormone-free," "natural,"
"free-range" and "certified
humane." She can also address
readers' concerns about
Thursday's meal—including what
leftovers not to feed the dog.
Foodborne illnesses don't take a
holiday just because we do. When
you are cooking your turkey, use
a meat thermometer to make sure
it reaches a temperature high
enough to kill bacteria. And
National League MVP
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:57:06 PM
Updated: November 22, 2010,
2:57 PM ET
NEW YORK -- Cincinnati's Joey
Votto was overwhelmingly
elected the National League's
Most Valuable Player on Monday,
ending the two-year reign of
remember to keep your cooking Albert Pujols.
surfaces clean to avoid cross- Votto, a first baseman who
contaminating foods. helped the Reds reach the
You can submit questions in postseason for the first time in 15
advance in the comments area years, received 31 of 32 first-
below—or ask them during the place votes and 443 points in
chat. See you here tomorrow. voting announced by the Baseball
Consumer Reports Food Safety Writers' Association of America.
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preferences Reds 443 31 Albert Pujols,
Cardinals 279 1 Carlos Gonzalez,
Rockies 240 0
Votto was a first-time All-Star,
finishing second in the NL in
batting average at .324 and third
in homers (37) and RBIs (113).
He led the NL in slugging
percentage (.600) and topped the
major leagues in on-base
percentage (.424).
Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinals'
first baseman, was second with
the remaining first-place vote and
279 points after winning the
award in 2005, 2008 and 2009. He
batted .312 and led the NL in
homers (42) and RBIs (118).
Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez was
third with 240 points after
winning the NL batting title with
a .336 average. San Diego's
Adrian Gonzalez(197) was fourth,
followed by Colorado's Troy
Tulowitzki(132) and Philadelphia
pitcher Roy Halladay(130),
Balloting was completed before
Votto went 1 for 10 with one RBI
in the first-round playoff loss to
Philadelphia.
He joined Ernie Lombardi
(1938), Bucky Walters (1939),
Frank McCormick (1940), Frank
Robinson (1961), Johnny Bench
(1970 and 1972), Pete Rose
(1973), Joe Morgan (1975-76),
George Foster (177) and Barry
Larkin(1995) as Reds to win the
award. The Reds' 12 MVPs are
tied with the Giants for second in
the NL behind the Cardinals (17).
In the AL, the New York Yankees
have won 20.
The AL winner will be
announced Thursday. Josh
Hamilton of Texas is the front-
runner.
Pujols has 10 straight top 10
finishes. His three wins and four
second-place finishes matched
those of Cardinals Hall of Famer
Stan Musial.
Votto, a bargain with a $525,000
salary, will be eligible for
arbitration for the first time.
Neither Votto nor Gonzalez
($406,000) had MVP bonus
provisions. Pujols gets $50,000
for finishing third. By finishing
fourth, Adrian Gonzalez gets a
$100,000 raise to $6.3 million
next season.
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Minnesota Vikings fire coach Brad Childress, name Leslie Frazier

interim coach
ESPN.com news services friend of Frazier's who was also a the Vikings finally put up points John Sullivan was out of action
(ESPN.com) candidate for the job here before and became the dominant team for several weeks with a nagging
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:06:22 PM Childress got it. "And it's hard for that matched the Pro Bowl talent calf injury.
all of us because Brad Childress is on the roster. Power-Point Coincidence or not, the offense
Updated: November 22, 2010, a good man and a good coach. But Presentation? was out of sync to start, Favre
3:06 PM ET Leslie deserves an opportunity, Brad Childress is supposed to be began turning the ball over at
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Brad and I know he'll do a good job." an offensive guru. But this season costly times and the Vikings
Childress is gone, one season after Childress, who is the second NFL the Vikings are averaging just suddenly were missing last year's
he famously picked up Brett coach to be fired this season after 17.2 points per game (T-29 NFL). magic.
Favre at the airport, got a contract Dallas cut Wade Phillips loose, Vikings' Offense Through 10 The relationship between Favre
extension and came within a field thanked the Vikings for the Games 2009 2010 PPG 30.6 and Childress, which was tense at
goal of reaching the Super Bowl. chance to coach in Minnesota. 17.2* Rush YPG 126.2 118.5 Pass times in 2009, seemed to sour
Mortensen/Glazer/Pellissero Why Brad Childress Failed YPG 249.1 218.3 Giveaways 10 further when Favre threw three ill
ESPN's Chris Mortensen, FOX's Kevin Seifert sees two main 25* 3rd down pct 46.4 -fated interceptions in the Oct. 24
Jay Glazer and ESPN 1500's Tom reasons why Brad Childress didn't 35.5*Ranked among bottom 5 in game at Green Bay and the
P e l l i s s e r o t a l k a b o u t B r a d succeed in Minnesota: He had a NFL Vikings lost to Favre's old
Childress being let go by the distant relationship at best with powered by team.[+] Enlarge
Vikings and what Leslie Frazer is his players. And his schemes Still, they went from 6-10 to 8-8 AP Photo/Andy King The
likely to do as interim coach. minimized the skills of his most to 10-6 to 12-4 in his first four Vikings' soap opera season took
More Podcasts » talented players. Blog Wilf to instill discipline and seasons, losing in the NFC title another turn on Monday when the
The Minnesota Vikings fired • More: Stats & Info Blog demand better off-the-field game in overtime last January to team fired coach Brad Childress
Childress on Monday, ending an "I have a great respect for the behavior from a team that was the eventual champion New following a lopsided loss.
eventful and often tumultuous run players and coaches who I have embarrassed the year before by a Orleans Saints. Last November, Childress, who was just 3-9
with the team marred recently by w o r k e d w i t h a n d f o r t h e i r bye-week boat party gone bad and Wilf -- pleased by the stability against the rival Packers as
player unrest, livid fans and an dedication to each other and to the a number of other legal problems and the progress -- gave Childress Minnesota coach, was sharply
angry boss over everything from organization. I am proud of our for players. a contract extension. The deal critical of Favre's decision-
his abrupt decisions to a 3-7 start. accomplishments and believe the However, Childress stumbled in runs through 2013 but the final making afterward, and the coach
Defensive coordinator Leslie foundation of this football team is his first year and never fully year is the team's option. drew his own criticism for failing
Frazier, who has interviewed stronger today than when I gained the faith of the fans -- or This season almost seemed to challenge a Packers touchdown
s e v e n t i m e s f o r N F L h e a d became [coach] in 2006," he said. some of his players. destined for doom, given how catch that could've been
coaching jobs, will serve as The loss to the Packers was the He infamously cut dissatisfied smoothly it all went in 2009 until overturned because the ball was
interim coach for the remainder of final blow to Childress in his fifth wide receiver Marcus Robinson the very end and how well the 40- being bobbled.
the season. Frazier and owner season in charge of the team. His on Christmas Eve, had trouble year-old Favre played by taking On Sunday, Favre told ESPN's
Zygi Wilf, who stormed out of the most-lopsided home defeat as connecting and communicating care of the ball and making age- Ed Werder that he's still stung by
locker room after Minnesota's 31- head coach dropped his overall with some of his players and often defying throws into the end zone. Childress' postgame criticism
3 loss at home to rival Green Bay record to 40-37, including 1-2 in came across to the public as rigid Favre didn't show up for camp following the 28-24 loss at
on Sunday, were scheduled to talk the playoffs. and aloof. until mid-August, and the next Lambeau Field in Week 7.
with reporters at 4 p.m. ET. Childress took over for the fired The offense struggled without a week wide receiver Sidney Rice "It's a damn shame," Favre told
"I know it's a tough one to take Mike Tice in 2006 after spending clear solution at quarterback, and had hip surgery. Wide receiver Werder about the game in which
over because he was working for seven years with the Eagles, it wasn't until last year, when Percy Harvin missed big chunks he suffered two fractures in his
a guy he loved and was loyal to," including four as the offensive Childress persuaded Favre to put of time, mostly because of MINNESOTA page 46
said Colts coach Jim Caldwell, a coordinator. He was chosen by off retirement a second time, that migraine headaches, and center
E-reader News Edition
Vince Young of Tennessee Titans frustrated by lack of coach's
confidence
Adam Schefter (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:48:00 PM
Updated: November 22, 2010,
1:48 PM ET
After reflecting on the messy
events during and after Sunday's
loss to the Washington Redskins,
quarterback Vince Young said his
biggest issue with Jeff Fisher is
that the Tennessee coach lacked
the confidence in him to return to
the game when Young thought he
could have played with his thumb
injury.
"It was very frustrating," Young
said in a Sunday night telephone
conversation. Mike & Mike in the
Morning
ESPN NFL analyst Cris Carter
says the Jets offense has evolved
with QB Mark Sanchez. Plus,
Carter says Titans QB Vince
Young throwing his jersey in the
stands shows he doesn't want to
play football anymore.
Young's comments followed an
emotional day in which he was
booed, injured his thumb, threw
his shoulder pads into the stands,
reportedly verbally sparred with
Fisher in the locker room --
saying he was walking out on the
coach, not the team -- and
stormed out of LP Field without
talking to the media.
Fisher said afterward Sunday that
Young had lost his hold on the
Titans' starting quarterback
position.
Young said he knows he made
mistakes dealing with the
situation Sunday and didn't react
the way he should have. But he
said his frustration of not playing
and not having Fisher's faith had
built up to the point in which he
didn't know how to handle it. He
now knows he did not handle
matters the right way.
"It was just an awkward
situation," Young said. "I just
want to play football. I want to
win games. I want to go to the
Super Bowl. That's it."
Young, who tore the flexor
tendon in his right thumb late in
the third quarter and was replaced
by rookie Rusty Smith, left for the
locker room after being hurt but
returned to the sideline and had
the thumb taped and re-taped in
an effort to return. He even tried a
glove, but Fisher stuck with
Smith. Kuharsky: This Should Be
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What made it even more
frustrating, Young said, was that
the Titans opted to go with
quarterback Kerry Collins in
Week 10 against the Miami
Dolphins when Young felt like he
was physically ready to start.
Young also has had to endure a
season in which he has had to
battle through various ailments,
from a sprained ankle he suffered
during a Monday night win over
Jacksonville to the thumb injury
he incurred Sunday that led to an
MRI on Monday morning.
Meanwhile, Young denied
throwing his jersey in the stands,
as was widely reported. He said
he was simply giving it to the
daughter of longtime Titans
executive vice president Don
MacLachlan.
"She's been very supportive of me
and I wanted to give it to her as a
sign of thanks because she knows
what I'm going through," Young
said.
Young also denied throwing "half
his uniform" in the stands, as
Fisher said his quarterback did
after the game. "I throw my shoes
into the stands after every game,
my hat into the stands after every
game, my wristbands into the
stands after every game," Young
said. "If it's a problem, I'll pay for
my jersey."
When the team gathered in the
locker room following the loss,
Young began muttering and
cursing under his breath as Fisher
addressed the team, the
Tennessean reported Sunday
night.
After Fisher asked Young to be
quiet, the paper said, the
quarterback finished dressing and
prepared to leave the room. Fisher
told Young to stop and not to "run
out on your teammates," sources
told The Tennessean. Young told
Fisher, "I'm not running out on
my teammates, I'm running out on
you," the paper said.
Fisher admitted he and Young
spoke in the locker room, but
wouldn't discuss what was said.
"That is between me and him and
the team," Fisher said.
Young then left the locker room
and ignored media members as
Titans safety and former
University of Texas teammate
Michael Griffin chased after him.
The Tennessean reported that
Griffin was seen confronting
Young in the players' parking lot.
Griffin reportedly pleaded with
Young, "You can't leave, you
can't do this," before Young
shrugged and left.
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Griffin denied chasing after
Young, but multiple media outlets
reported witnessing the incident.
Griffin did say that he hoped
people can set aside their egos and
personal feelings so they could
stick together as a team.
Young also said that Griffin did
not chase him up the tunnel. "But
I was upset with the way I was
being treated and I just needed to
get out of there," he said.
Young said he is frustrated and
bewildered at the criticism now
being leveled at him.
"It is not just me. It falls back on
me, but I don't know how to
respond to it when it's not just me.
I'm outnumbered right now," he
said.
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Insider. Information from The
Associated Press was used in this
report.
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left foot. "What I think about is
going to my press conference
knowing he had taken some shots
at me.''
Then the situation really went
south following a loss at New
England. Wide receiver Randy
Moss, acquired in a trade for a
third-round draft pick just four
weeks earlier, went out of his way
to praise the Patriots and criticize
Childress in a post-game rant.
The next day, Childress told his
players he had cut Moss and never
fully explained the situation to
them or the public, amid reports
that Moss had launched a tirade
over a post-practice bufffet in
front of the local restauranteurs
who had supplied it.
Wilf was reportedly angry that
Childress didn't tell him first of
his plan, and there were
anonymous reports of growing
dissatisfaction in the locker room
about the boss. Childress and
Harvin got into a heated argument
during one practice over an MRI
test on his sprained ankle.
The debate escalated and "was as
close to physical as you can get,"
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After the two were separated,
according to sources, a teammate
told Harvin: "You just did what a
lot of us have been wanting to say
for years."
Fans made no secret about their
frustration, with thousands of
"Fire Chilly" signs distributed on
Nov. 7 outside the stadium before
the Vikings played Arizona and
several chants breaking out from
the seats during the game.
The Vikings rallied for an
overtime victory over the
Cardinals to table the firing talk
temporarily, but a 27-13 loss at
Chicago on Nov. 14 and the
blowout against Green Bay
cranked it back up again.
Last month, a number of Vikings
aired their grievances with
Childress anonymously in a
Chicago Sun-Times report.
"We know that [Brad] Childress
doesn't have our backs, so why
should we have his?" one player
told the newspaper. "We're
playing for us, and we're winning
despite him."
Childress, according to the Sun-
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and questioned their effort. "He
has absolutely no people skills,"
one team source said.
The Packers also blew out Dallas
the day before the Cowboys fired
Phillips earlier this month. Green
Bay linebacker Desmond Bishop
posted on Twitter on Monday that
he hates to see anyone lose his
job.
"However, that's gotta be a record
of some sort to get 2 head coaches
fired," Bishop tweeted.
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Texas Town, Courts Fail
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David Whitley (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:18:00 PM
Filed under: High School Sports
She is identified by her real name
now, Hillaire. But after almost 21
months she still can't bring herself
to say somebody else's.
Hillaire was a cheerleader,
yelling for her high school
basketball team in a Texas town.
A player went to shoot a free
throw. Hillaire knelt in silence.
The player had been arrested for
allegedly raping her four months
earlier. Temporarily cleared of the
charge, Rakheem Bolton was
back on campus. Because of that, online petition demanding the
school officials told Hillaire to school officials apologize has
cheer for him. gathered 16,270 signatures, more
"I was not going to do it," she than twice the population of the
said. East Texas town.
Hillaire was kicked off the team. It all sounded so preposterous
She filed a lawsuit, which an that I figured there had to be more
appeals court recently rejected. to it. Court decision aside, how
She had no right to remain silent. could adults make a 16-year-old
Her defiance has become the non cheer for her alleged rapist?
-cheer heard 'round the world. TV "The whole thing is twisted,"
networks, magazines and blogs principal Gaye Lokey said.
have weighed in on what
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Toddler Dies After Fall

From Suite at Lakers
Game
FanHouse Newswire
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:26:00 PM
Duke Stays No. 1 in AP Filed under: Lakers, Warriors,
NBA Police Blotter LOS
Poll; UNC at 25th
ANGELES (AP) -- A police
investigation was under way
Monday in the death of a toddler
FanHouse Newswire State(3-0), which got the other who plunged from a third-level
(FanHouse Main) No. 1 nod, were third and fourth luxury box at Staples Center after
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:28:00 PM after switching places from last a Los Angeles Lakers basketball
week. The Buckeyes' jump came game.
Filed under: Duke after their impressive 93-75 The fall occurred Sunday as 2-
(AP) -- Minnesota was impressive victory at then-No. 9 Florida. year-old Lucas Anthony Tang was
in winning an early season Pittsburgh, Kansas, Villanova, taking pictures with his family in
tournament, and Texas looked Kentucky, Syracuse and Purdue a skybox with a glass safety
good in finishing second in rounded out the Top 10. barrier that varies in height but is
another of the November classics. Missouri moved up four spots to at least several feet high, police
Both moved into The Associated 11th and was followed by Baylor, Officer Julie Sohn said.
Press' Top 25 on Monday while W a s h i n g t o n , M e m p h i s , "Somehow the child went over the
North Carolina hung on at 25th. M i n n e s o t a , F l o r i d a a n d edge of the section and fell to the
Duke(3-0) was again No. 1 in the Georgetown, which tied for 16th, seating below," Sohn said.
poll, receiving 58 first-place votes San Diego State, Illinois and Fire officials said boy fell 25 to
from the national media panel for Texas. 50 feet.
the second straight week. Temple, Gonzaga, BYU, The case was being handled by
Michigan State(2-0) remained Tennessee and North Carolina the Police Department juvenile
second although the Spartans lost were the last five ranked teams. division, which investigates
one first-place vote, getting six. deaths of young children and
Ohio State(3-0) and Kansas
Word Up:
it's Dance
Central DLC
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:30:00 PM
Get out your bright red codpiece
for this week's Dance Central
DLC. Cameo's "Word Up!,"
whose video features the
aforementioned junk
accoutrement, is one of the three
other crimes involving juveniles.
songs that will be available for
"It's procedural," Sohn said of the
your download-and-dance
probe involving Tang, declining
pleasure tomorrow, November 23.
to elaborate or discuss possible
The other two songs include Tag
causes of the fall.
Team's classic "Whoomp! There
The Garden Grove boy suffered
It Is" and The Black Eyed Peas' "I
severe head trauma, Fire
Gotta Feeling." We've included
Department spokesman Erik Scott
links to each song's music video
said. However, an official cause
after the break, so you can learn
of death had not yet been
some of the moves already
determined.
WORD page 48

Pecan Pie
(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 11/21/2010 6:39:58 PM
From the recipe archive, updated
with new photos. Originally
posted 2006. Have you tried this
pecan pie? It's one of my can give you a sugar headache nut used in cooking, use only the
favorites. ~Elise after a couple of bites. This pecan freshest of pecans.
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call for 2 cups of sugar - one cup most, but the molasses, butter and
of corn syrup plus one cup of vanilla bring out the wonderful
which results in pies so sweet they
either granulated or brown sugar - flavor of the pecans. As with any
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associated with the songs, which
will likely be worked into the
Central routines. For example, the
LeVar Burton Seethe.
Continue reading Word Up: it's
Dance Central DLC
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TSA Chief Says Goal Is to Make Airport Checks Less Intrusive,
But Gives No Timetable
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:03:00 PM
John Pistole, head of the
Transportation Security
Administration, reiterated
Monday that his agency was
trying to find a balance between
tougher security measures at
airports aimed at screening out
passengers carrying explosive or
other dangerous devices, and
complaints that procedures like
pat-downs were too intrusive. But
he did not give a firm indication
about whether and when any
changes might take place. On
Sunday, Pistole had appeared to
rule out changes in the use of full
body scans, or for doing pat-
downs on those who exercised
their right to "opt out" of the
scans. When he was asked in an
interview on CNN's State of the
Union whether the TSA was
going to change anything, he
responded, "No. Not going to
change."
But several hours later, he issued
a statement calling the security
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procedures an "evolving program"
and saying that his agency would
work to make the screening
procedures "as minimally invasive
as possible, while still providing
the security that the American
people want and deserve."
Pistole was back on the interview
circuit Monday where he seemed
to suggest that his agency was, in
fact, reviewing the procedures but
that changes would not be coming
in the short term.
Asked on NBC's Today show if
he was "actively rethinking this
policy," Pistole said, "Yes
...You're probably aware that we
constantly evaluate and evolve
our protocols in light of the latest
intelligence," such as new
information that he said had been
received about how al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula constructed
the explosive devices that it had
succeeded in getting aboard cargo
planes last month.
"Clearly there has been a
significant concern raised with the
traveling public and members of
Congress" about the new security
procedures, Pistole
acknowledged. "So, yes, we're
going to look at how can we do
the most effective screening in the
least invasive way, knowing that
there's always a tradeoff that we
talked about: a tradeoff between
security and privacy and where,
again, reasonable people can
disagree as to that precise blend
for them."
Interviewed on Fox News, Pistole
said, "What I agreed to do is to
look at how we can do this type of
screening. If we can do it less
invasively, has been the request,
then I'm open to doing that."
However, on CNN, while Pistole
said, "We're always looking at
ways that we can evolve our
technology and our protocols for
how we go about doing this," he
added, "In the short-term, there
will not be any changes."
Similarly, meeting with reporters
at a breakfast organized by the
Christian Science Monitor, Pistole
said his goal was to find the "least
intrusive means (of screening
passengers) while still providing
the best possible security," but
that "nothing has changed as far
as today."
In his television appearances,
Pistole said, "It seems like, from
what I'm seeing in the media
anyway, that every passenger
almost is receiving this pat-down.
That's clearly not the case. It is a
very small percentage." Pistole
also urged those up in arms about
the tougher security regimen to
show "some judgment and
reason" when it comes to calls by
some activists to stage a national
"Opt Out" day on Wednesday,
when people hit the airports and
the road for Thanksgiving travel.
It's not clear how much, if any,
organization is behind the protest.
There is a"Opt Out" day website,
although its creator has appended
to it a message to the news media
saying, "I'm just one guy doing
this in his spare time - there's no
organization behind it. So please
understand if I can't get back to
you right away, or if I have to
decline your request."
While body scans can be done in
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as little as 10 seconds, the TSA
says that pat-downs for those who
opt out of the scans can take as
much as four minutes each, which
could create backlogs of
passengers at checkpoints.
Pistole said, "We'll be fully
staffed ... but the question
becomes what happens to the wait
times and do people end up
missing flights because of a small
or large group, whomever it is,
decides to protest and delay those
vast majority of people who just
want to get home for the
holidays."
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Twitter Posting, Nobel Fallout Earn Harsh Punishments in China

Delia Lloyd (Politics Daily) To add insult to injury, Chinese International and several other
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:27:00 PM authorities will not allow Liu Xia prominent human rights groups,
to travel to Oslo to accept the such as International PEN, the
Well, just when you thought that prize on her husband's behalf. writer's group, are using Liu's
the human rights situation in Family members have often detention (and his wife's house
China couldn't get any worse, it stepped in to accept prizes on arrest) to keep the spotlight on
did. Following the news last behalf of jailed winners of the abuses in China.
month that prominent Chinese internationally renowned prize -- Liu Xia's house arrest, on top of
dissident Liu Xiabo was awarded Polish Solidarity leader Lech Cheng's tragically absurd hard-
the Nobel Peace Prize, two Walesa's wife did so in 1983, and labor sentence for re-tweeting a
Chinese women have found their the son of the Burmese opposition political joke, reminds us what
h u m a n r i g h t s d r a m a t i c a l l y leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi draconian political restrictions
curtailed. delivered the acceptance speech continue to exist within China as
The first is Liu's wife, Liu Xia, for his mother in 1991. it emerges as a global economic
who was placed under house In this case -- and for the first power. One can only hope that the
arrest immediately following the time in the postwar era -- key future holds brighter days for
announcement of her husband's aspects of the Nobel ceremony p o l i c e w i t h o u t t r i a l b y a n Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. (Oddly,
political freedom.
prestigious honor. While she was (including the awarding of the independent court. her fiancé was not charged in the
As the CEO of Twitter, Dick
able to visit Liu (who is currently gold medal, a diploma and $1.5 Her "crime"? She re-posted (i.e. incident.)
Costolo, posted on his Twitter
s e r v i n g a n 1 1 - y e a r p r i s o n million in prize money) will re-tweeted) a satirical message on But Cheng's real crime --
account Friday night: " Dear
sentence for "inciting state p r o b a b l y b e p o s t p o n e d . Twitter last month encouraging according to other Chinese
Chinese Government, year-long
subversion") to bring him the M e a n w h i l e , t h e C h i n e s e Chinese protesters to smash the activists on Twitter (which is
detentions for sending a sarcastic
news, since then, her freedom of g o v e r n m e n t i s w a g i n g a n Japanese pavilion at the Shanghai officially banned in China, along
tweet are neither the way forward
movement has been sharply aggressive propaganda campaign Expo. with Facebook, YouTube and
nor the future of your great
curtailed. Yes, it's true. According to Amnesty International itself) --
to persuade other countries to people."
On Sunday, the Times of London boycott the ceremony. (So far, Amnesty International, Cheng was her online political activism,
Amen. I think I just might re-
reported that her telephone and only a handful have complied.) Jianping, 46, re-posted a message which included support for Nobel
tweet that.
Internet connections have been But it's not only Liu Xiabo's wife originally sent by her fiancé Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. Cheng
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Want a Republican? Use a Landline. A Rick Perry: No Interest in
Democrat? Call a Cell Phone.
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:40:00 AM
Contributing Editor
If you wanted a symbolic picture
of the Republican-Democratic
divide, maybe it should be a split
photograph of soon-to-be-House
Speaker John Boehner and
President Obama talking by
phone.
Boehner would be on a landline
and Obama would be on his cell
phone. Well, maybe that's taking
things too far. But the Pew
Research Center's final study for
this year of the disparities
between those interviewed by
landline and those interviewed by
cell phone further bolster its
earlier findings that landline-only
samples of voters skew the results
toward Republicans.
Analyzing three of its own polls
during 2010, Republicans held a
lead that was an average 5.1
points higher in the landline-only
samples than in the surveys that
combined landlines and cell
phones.
Pew found this factor in play
with two groups of cell phone
users. It was most apparent among
those who only use cell phones
and don't have a landline, but it
also showed up, though to a lesser
degree, among "dual" users who
Running for President
have both a landline and a cell
phone.
Pew says that in the three polls
from this year that it analyzed,
dual users reached on their cell
tended to be younger, more likely
to be black or Hispanic, less likely
to be college graduates, less
conservative and more
Democratic in their vote
preference than dual users reached
by landline.
When dual users were reached by
landline, Republicans had a 12-
point advantage in the Pew polls
on the midterm elections. But
when dual users were reached by
cell, the Republican margin fell to
five points.
Among cell phone-only voters,
the Republicans led by just three
points. The overall margins of
error in the Pew congressional
polls for samples that included
landline and cell phone users
ranged from 2.5 to 3 points. Pew
cited the particular challenge of
reaching younger voters because
many have no landlines and
because of their lifestyles. The
National Center for Health
Statistics has said that in the
second half of 2009, 38 percent of
18-to-24-year-olds and 49 percent
of 25-to-29-year-olds lived in
households without a landline.
To deal with this, Pew did twice
as many interviews with voters
under 30 by cell phone than it did
by landline, even though, overall,
the landline part of Pew's sample
is twice that of cell phones.
Pew found that young people
reached by cell phone differ
politically from young people
reached by landline.
Democrats had a 53 percent to 38
percent lead over Republicans
among registered voters under 30
in Pew surveys this year that
included both landline and cell
phone users. But when it came to
just those reached by landline, the
Democratic edge fell from 49
percent to 45 percent. One final
note from Pew's findings: "Voter
registration is lowest among those
with only a cell phone -- just 60
percent are registered voters."
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It looks like you can take one
name off the list of potential
Republican presidential
candidates for 2012. Texas Gov.
Rick Perry says he has no interest
in the job, Politico reports.
"Being the governor of a state like
Texas -- or, for that matter,
Oklahoma or New Mexico -- is a
more pivotal job in the future," he with these governors across the
said on Fox News Sunday. "I do, country to make the states more
indeed, hope for someone that pivotal, more powerful, as they
says I'm going to go to should be."
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Newsmax Poll: O'Reilly, Beck Could Chris Coons: I'm Not a

Rival Obama in Head-to-Head Liberal
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Presidential Race Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:25:03 AM

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) percent. Monday, 22 Nov 2010 02:25 PM

Submitted at 11/22/2010 7:56:13 AM Other media personalities in the Liberal Democrats jumped for
poll were “Tonight Show” host joy when Democrat Chris Coons
In a clear sign of voters’ disdain Jay Leno, who got 40 percent of won the Delaware Senate race this
for President Barack Obama’s the vote, Comedy Central host Jon month, defeating Republican
policies, several media Stewart (39 percent), and Oprah Christine O’Donnell. But they
personalities with no political Winfrey (37 percent). may want to cool it a bit – he’s
experience, including Bill But all of the media figures in the not one of them, The Hill reports.
O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, would poll, including Winfrey, defeated was that, I’m nobody’s ‘pet,’ and
In an interview with the news
be within striking distance of Obama among Republicans and I’m somebody who’s dedicated to
also were asked that question with service, he says his victory over
defeating Obama in a head-to- conservatives. working tirelessly for Delaware
other leading media figures in tea-party-backed O’Donnell
head race, according to a new SurveyUSA is an independent and Delaware’s interests,” he
place of O’Reilly. reflects the “reasonable, balanced,
Newsmax/SurveyUSA poll. research company that conducts says.
Overall, O’Reilly got 46 percent centrist” nature of Delaware
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Marques Colston
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:00:00 AM
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In his last four games, Colston
has 32 catches for 365 yards and
all four of the touchdowns that
he's caught this season. Despite
suffering plenty of injuries on
offense (to running backs Reggie
Bush and Pierre Thomas, as well
as tight end Jeremy Shockey), the
Saints continue to solidify
themselves as a legit contender in
the NFC. On Nov. 21, in a 34-19
win against the Seattle Seahawks,
Colston had eight catches for 113
yards and two TDs, looking every
bit the number one option on a
playoff team. For the year,
Colston now has 62 catches for
over 700 yards receiving.
We featured Colston in our
October issue to find out how he
was dealing with his Super Bowl
hangover. Apparently, he's doing
just fine.
Plenty of NFL receivers hog the
spotlight with their mouths.
There's no need to name names.
New Orleans Saints wideout
Marques Colston isn't one of
them. And he lets you know that
by the tattoo on his left shoulder:
"The Quiet Storm." "That's just
me," he says. "I've always been an
under-the-radar type of guy, but I
go to work every day and try to
get better.
When we talked with him, the
6'4", 225-pounder was still
dealing with the after-effects of
the Saints' Super Bowl XLIV win.
After all, no one parties as they do
on Bourbon Street, and Colston
says the celebrations went on so
long they cut six weeks out of his
off-season training. "It's tough to
manage something like that
because [winning] is a lifelong
dream," he says. "But you've got
to stay focused." Colston certainly
is. His off-season program centers
around lifting four times a week
with strength coach Aaron
Sistrunk, co-owner of Balance
gym in Chestnut Hill, Pa. Every
two weeks, the pair change up his
exercises. "We don't want his
body to plateau," Sistrunk says.
"You want to keep shocking it."
True to his demeanor, Colston
approaches his workouts without
flair or drama. "He's strictly
business," Sistrunk says. "He just
does what he needs to do."
Much of Colston's workmanlike
attitude may come from the fact
that he isn't really supposed to be
in the NFL. He played his college
ball at tiny Hofstra University
(which has had only a handful of
players reach the NFL), and he
wasn't selected until the last round
of the 2006 NFL draft. Last
round. "Subconsciously, I think it
drives me."
Last year, Colston caught 70
balls for 1,074 yards and nine
TDs, but he's still obsessed with
getting better.
In addition to lifting, his
workouts emphasize plyometrics
and unilateral training. Sistrunk
will often put Colston on a Bosu
ball for one-legged squats while
throwing a medicine ball at him to
simulate game play.
At the time we chatted, he also
had to drop eight pounds before
training camp. His strategy: No
bread, no pasta, no rice. "Just lots
of fruit and vegetables," he said.
When the Saints take the field to
defend their title, he's confident
the work will pay off. "The weeks
before training camp are crucial,"
he says. "You've got to learn to
work smarter, rather than just
going harder." Related articles:
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Success Story: Marc Ware

(Mensfitness.com) All those years, Ware had been Day 4, but by Day 8 or 9, it's not That and a healthy discovery that
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:00:00 AM lactose intolerant, a deficiency so bad," he says. inspired his new commitment to
that affects about 50 million Ware also hit the gym—hard. "I fitness.
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Email to Friend 70% of African Americans). been doing situps and leg raises, "Surrounding yourself with
MARC WARE Upon removing all things dairy, but that's not the best way to build people who are motivated and fit
Hometown: West Hollywood, he no longer suffered stomach ab muscle," he says. "You have to makes it easier to motivate
Calif. bloating or diarrhea. His health no be intense." He began a four-times yourself. If you go to a gym
Age: 55 longer holding him back, Ware -a-week lifting program and where everybody's big and fat and
Height: 5'11" decided it was time for even added two ab-specific workouts, doesn't seem to care, then you
Weight Before: 170 lbs bigger changes. For 15 years, he'd as well as biking, tennis, and won't care, either." Related
Weight Now: 160 lbs
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Foursquare Boasts 4.5 Million Users, Opens West Coast Office

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New Marketplace Helps Musicians Find Opportunities

Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) musicians from around the world. in a coffee shop — with a lot we’re told.
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:18:28 PM It also has a ton of contests and better opportunities than the Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
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funemployed or underemployed bands. Twenty-six recordings “Musicians now have even more MARKETING, money, music
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Vatican condomania: the day after

Mollie (GetReligion) for praising American pop culture prostitute. From there, it’s only a
Submitted at 11/22/2010 11:13:33 AM ( The Simpsons! The Blues short step to condoning it in a
Brothers!). But sometimes its marriage where the man is HIV-
We already looked at the major news judgment is lacking, to say positive. And then the question
inaccuracies with mainstream the least. In this case, part of the will arise, why not allow condoms
media coverage of Pope Benedict media firestorm was due to for heterosexuals who aren’t
XVI’s comments on condoms. L ’ O s s e r v a t o r e ’ s f l a w e d infected?
But there are a few other points translation of what Benedict had Since he rules out artificial birth
that are worth sharing. said. For instance, by now control in another chapter, a good
USA Today religion reporter everyone realizes that Benedict grammarian would have to
Cathy Grossman nailed it. In her was apparently giving a particular conclude from the context that
first post on the matter, she wrote: statement about a male prostitute. Benedict does indeed mean
Pope Benedict’s unexpected But in L’Osservatore, they had masculine gender here in the
citing of a rare exception to the h i m t a l k i n g a b o u t f e m a l e sexual sense. I’m curious to see
church’s no-condoms teaching prostitutes. Tom Heneghan at how the Vatican explains that its
makes no change in Catholicism’s Reuters tried to make sense of that own newspaper used the
teachings on contraception. And mess in “ Grammar experts feminine. Maybe a long essay
he reiterates his controversial needed for pope comment on about Italian grammar?
comments from his visit to Africa condoms”: I’ll be posting later this week
that condoms are not the answer The problem is that the pope about the Vatican and press
to combating HIV/AIDs. gave the interview in his native management, but it seems like the
I j u s t r e a d t h e V a t i c a n German, which is not 100% clear Vatican should explain just what
spokesman’s clarifying remarks on this issue. The key phrase was going on with L’Osservatore.
on the matter and he pretty much about condom use reads in the The translation is one thing but
says just that. You can read that English translation: “There may the broken embargo is another.
statement here. be a basis in the case of some It’s hard to criticize the
But there was one angle that we individuals, as perhaps when a mainstream media for ignorance
d i d n ’ t r e a l l y e x p l o r e i n male prostitute uses a condom, when L’Osservatore was the first
yesterday’s discussion. The whole where this can be the first step in to flout the embargo, mistranslate
b r o u h a h a b e g a n b e c a u s e the direction of a moralisation.” the Pope’s actual words, and
L’Osservatore Romano— Vatican He explains how different provide no context. It’s not that
C i t y ’ s d a i l y n e w s p a p e r — languages have different rules for — contra the implication above
violated the embargo on the new gender (in the language sense). — L’Osservatore is “The Vatican
interview book of Benedict. They Benedict used a word with a Newspaper,” but there is a
p u b l i s h e d I t a l i a n - l a n g u a g e masculine case. But, of course, relationship between the Vatican
passages, which angered many t h e w e i r d n e s s i s t h a t and the paper.
folks who have been keeping the L’Osservatore translated it so as In related news, one same-sex
embargo. Official launch for the to give the impression he was cannot lead to procreation. The thinks homosexual sex is wrong attracted GetReligion reader
book was supposed to be on singling out female prostitutes. Church rejects artificial methods anyway. shared his personal experience
Tuesday. Why does this matter? that block procreation, such as But if he means male or female with Catholic counseling on the
I think there’s probably a The difference isn’t just condoms and contraceptive pills. prostitutes, then he is allowing issue Benedict addressed here.
fascinating story about just what grammatical. If Pope Benedict Since that doesn’t apply between condum use for a sex act that And here’s another interesting
in the heck is going on with means only male prostitutes, he is two men, a condom could be could possibly led to pregnancy,
L’Osservatore. At best, it’s known speaking about gay sex, which condoned even though the Church i.e. when a male visits a female VATICAN page 58
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The fate of the temple’s fetus morgue
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
(GetReligion)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:11:46 PM
A few days ago, we looked at a
startling story from Thailand
where 2,000 dead fetuses from
illegal abortion clinics were found
at a Buddhist temple. The story
indicated that monks were not
aware of what was taking place,
but there were inevitable
implications for the temple.
The New York Times published
new stories today, including one
that suggested the morgue will be
torn down to be replaced by a
meditation center.
The fetuses are to be cremated
after autopsies are performed and
members of the public, expected
to number in the thousands, gather
at the temple on Saturday as
monks chant Buddhist prayers of
mourning.
Since the fetuses’ discovery,
people have been placing
offerings of milk, baby clothes
and toys at the temple morgue.
We also read about a woman who
adopted eight children that
survived abortions. The earlier
story omitted part of a quote
where she described her aborting
babies as a “sin.” We had some
good comments discussing her
reaction, especially in the context
of a primarily Buddhist country.
John Willard said:
I would have liked a closer
examination of what this woman
means by sin. Did she use that
word or is it the reporters
translation? What does sin, or its
equivalent, mean in a buddhist
context?
Jerry added:
The story did not identify her as a
Buddhist so perhaps she is a
member of another religion. Or
perhaps she’s using the word ‘sin’
in a secular sense since Buddhism
does not have a theological
concept of sin. Still, it is a good
question.
The latest story from the Times
includes the full quote from the
woman, Lanchakorn Janthamanas,
who appears to contradict her
mother.
“I am proud of my daughter for
her contribution to society,” said
the mother, Sombat Sinotho, 60,
speaking of the abortions she had
performed. “Only those who have
not faced the problem of an
unwanted pregnancy tend to view
her as evil.”
Ms. Lanchakorn said she had
rescued eight fetuses that had
survived the procedure and was
now raising them as her own
adopted children. “I commit sin
every day,” she said, “so if the
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illegal abortion is as many as five
years in prison and a fine of up to
10,000 baht, or about $330. The
penalty increases if the abortion
seriously injures the pregnant
woman.
But the penalties may be higher
in the spiritual realm.
“In Buddhist view, both having an
abortion and performing an
abortion amount to murder,” said
Phramaha Vudhijaya
Vajiramedhi, a leading monk who
was quoted on Saturday in Post
Today, a Thai-language
newspaper. “It is a serious sin.”
He added: “Those involved in
abortions will face distress in both
this life and the next because their
sins will follow them.”
What’s unclear is whether this is
the majority belief among
Buddhist leaders and whether it’s
specific to Thailand. The other
interesting development was the
ceremonies that took place for the
aborted fetuses.
An official of the Buddhist
hierarchy here said temple
ceremonies were in effect
kids won’t die, there’s no need to
ceremonies of mourning.
kill them.”
“We have to look at its purpose:
Her mother said she had only
to show compassion for the souls
learned from newspaper accounts
of the aborted fetuses and lead
that they were the survivors of
them to rest in peace,” said
abortions.
Amnart Buasiri, director of the
The mother and daughter’s
Secretariat of the Sangha Supreme
religious backgrounds are still
Council. “It is considered the
unclear and might shed more light
same as the mass mourning for
on how they react to abortion. We
tsunami victims.”
also talked about how the story
The story suggests that there
could explain a Buddhist view of
could be political implications
abortion, which could vary. The
new story explores that further. FATE page 58
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‘Devout’ Catholic thrill alert!
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 11/21/2010 9:00:25 PM
If you live in the Washington,
D.C., area and follow things
Catholic, you probably know that
the shepherd of the nation’s
capital — Archbishop Donald W.
Wuerl — just became a member
of the College of Cardinals, thus
becoming one of the “princes” of
the church.
If you want to read a very
straightforward, dry account of
the rites in Rome, by all means
click here to read the Associated
Press report — as published in
The Washington Post. Here’s a
sample of this extra-normal story:
Inside the basilica, the more than
400 members of Wuerl’s
entourage — family, friends and
ordinary Catholics who traveled
here to support him — cheered as
he walked up, bare-headed, to the
altar and knelt before the pope.
He was given a red zucchetto, or
skullcap, by a papal aide before
Benedict placed the biretta on his
head.
The just-elevated Cardinal Wuerl
smiled slightly as he stood and
bowed before the pope. When the
last of the new cardinals had been
called, they greeted and
congratulated one another. An
evidently joyous Wuerl offered
greetings to his new colleagues,
including Cardinal Raymond L.
Burke, prefect of the Vatican’s
highest court and the only other
American elevated in this
consistory.
Both Wuerl and Burke, like the
others elevated Saturday, share
the pope’s devotion to the
church’s traditional teachings on a
range of social issues.
It certainly appears that the Post
did not have one of its own
scribes at the Vatican to cover this
event — thus, leading to
prominent use of the AP text.
Times are hard, even at our
nation’s major newspapers.
Thus, the newspaper’s biggest
story focused on the events on this
side of the Atlantic that led up to
the event, with special emphasis
on the precise nature of the soon-
to-be cardinal’s entourage and
what ahead for them in Rome.
This lighthearted and in many
ways delightful story raised lots
of Catholic eyebrows and, for
traditionalists, one overarching
question.
See if you can spot the key
descriptive word in the top of the
report by Godbeat veteran
Michelle Boorstein:
The archbishop’s two brothers
will be there. So will a rabbi he
knows from Pittsburgh, the D.C.
barber who cuts his hair and the
fast-talking (and devoutly
Catholic) television commentator
Chris Matthews.
When Washington Archbishop
Donald W. Wuerl heads to Rome
… for the elaborate ceremony that
will make him a cardinal, he will
be trailed by a horde of family
members, friends, priests and
ordinary
Catholics eager to watch him join
the ranks of the church’s most
powerful men. Wuerl’s entourage
numbers 405 — admiring
participants who signed up for a
pilgrimage that is part
transcendent religious experience
and part Catholic fiesta.
“In secular terms, it’s like your
team is going to the Super Bowl,”
explained Rocco Palmo, who
blogs about insider Catholic
Church issues.
And like the Super Bowl,
attendance requires serious cash.
Almost all the pilgrims are
shelling out $2,200 to $5,300 of
their own money to witness
Wuerl’s elevation Saturday to the
elite College of Cardinals.
The rest of the story focuses on
all the colorful details. Lots of
incense? Check. Red Prada shoes?
Check. Big-money donors?
Check. Baseball caps with scroll
“W” logos? Check. Obligatory
question about Vatican
bathrooms? Check. New greeting
cards for Wuerl that have his new
logo with red tassels? Check. A
schedule that includes lots of
shopping and a chance to go to
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confession? Check.
But here’s the big question that
conservative Catholic insiders are
devoutly asking, with special
emphasis on the word “devout,”
as in the ever-vague term “devout
Catholic.”
Will Matthews feel that special
thrill up his leg if and when he
meets the pope?
And then there is this related
question: How, precisely, did
Matthews — a hot-button
Catholic personality if there ever
was one — end up in the
entourage of this particular prince
of the church?
Stay tuned. Anyone want to bet
that Matthews ends up writing or
broadcasting about this
experience, perhaps at the Post’s
“On Faith” section? But wait,
would it be proper to let a devout
Catholic cover this event? Then
again, MSNBC is not exactly a
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:24:00 PM
Samsung said it expected to sell a
million Galaxy Tabs this year, and
it looks like it may not be far off
that mark, if it doesn't exceed it --
the company has apparently told
The Korea Herald that it's sold
600,000 of the tablets worldwide
so far, less than a month after
launch. That includes 30,000 units
sold in Korea since its November
14th launch there, but Samsung
doesn't seem to be dishing out
specific numbers for the rest of
the world just yet. Of course, as
impressive as that is, it may well
be all downhill from here once
word of Russian president Dmitry
Medvedev's frown gets around.
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read about how media
representation of Catholic
teaching about contraception in
general has been flawed for a long
time. Jimmy Akin at National
Catholic Register also has a post
on that point.
George Weigel, who wrote the
forward to the book in question,
diagnoses the “false
assumption(s) beneath the latest
round of media condomania”: that
the Church’s teaching on sexual
morality is a policy position that
can change, like tax rates; that all
papal statements of whatever sort
are equal; and that a change in
Catholic teaching would ever be
announced in an interview (“It
will perhaps come as a blow to
the self-esteem of the fourth estate
to recognize an elementary fact of
Catholic life, but the truth of the
matter is that no pope with his
wits about him would use the
vehicle of an interview with a
journalist to discuss a new
initiative, lay out a pastoral
program, or explicate a
development of doctrine.”).
And the biggest problem, he says,
is the media obsession with “the
notion of Salvation by Latex.” He
points out that in the last media
maelstrom over condoms for
AIDS, the media mostly forgot to
discuss the efficacy of abstinence
and fidelity:
What humane purpose is served
by this media obsession with
condoms? What happens to the
press’s vaunted willingness to
challenge conventional wisdom
when the issue at hand is anything
touching on sexual license? It
seems to disappear. And one fears
that a lot of people are seriously
hurt — and die — as at least an
indirect result. Consciences
indeed need to be examined in the
matter of condoms, Catholics, and
AIDS. But the consciences in
question are those of the press.
So even if most readers just went
for the headline and will forever
be confused about the matter, the
press can’t help but be aware at
how many of them flubbed the
story. How should they handle it
now? Run corrections and
clarifications on the same front-
page the other stories ran?
Examine their consciences, as
Weigel suggests? Or what?
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from the discovery. Prime
Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is
quoted as saying, “Longstanding
social values must be corrected.”
Those “social values” are still
unclear. The Nation newspaper
offers some new details about
how the laws could shift as a
result of the nation-wide
discussion.
The Senate yesterday opposed
the widely discussed legal
amendment that eases the
conditions for legal abortion,
saying that systematic and
effective sex education would be
a better way to deal with the issue.
…Senator Phornphan
Bunyarattaphan said the bill
focused on preventative measures,
cultural awareness and education
on effective birth-control
methods.
The bill also requires government
-run facilities to accommodate
young mothers as well as to
provide them and their newborn
with free healthcare and free birth
control.
The evolving story offers
reporters a number of ways to
explore this from a political,
cultural, ethical angles. Given the
discovery at a Buddhist temple,
the religion angles are just too
difficult to ignore.
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(Verse of the Day) with others, his victory over sin, believers, please give me a heart
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:00:00 AM death and the grave insures that
we can have peace, too! So as we
to love your people. I know as the
character of Jesus permeates my
for Grownups
Let the peace of Christ rule in receive the Spirit of Christ into life, I will appreciate the Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:00:21 AM
from their grandparents’.
your hearts, since as members of our hearts, we can live with our preciousness of each of your Shakespeare’s audiences had only
one body you were called to brothers and sisters, no matter children more and will come to Around 1700, a new way of marginally better lives than
peace. And be thankful. how flawed in a state of peace. see those difficult family speaking about commerce gave Sophocles’. But at the beginning
— Colossians 3:15(NIV) Besides, as Paul changes members as the grit out of which birth to the modern world. of the 18th century, mankind --
Thoughts on Today's Verse... metaphors on us, we are the Body you will fashion my pearl. I pray E conomic history looks, in beginning with the British and
Peace - that illusive state of grace of Christ and of course a body you give me grace till my heart graphic representation, like a Dutch -- hit the blade of that
that incorporates all of life's well- does not want to be at war with matches my commitment to love hockey stick. For tens of hockey stick, enjoying an
being. Because of Jesus, we have itself. So live in peace with others, all of your children. In the name thousands of years we traced unpreceAdentedly sharp and
true shalom - wellness in body, and do so with thanksgiving. My of Jesus I pray. Amen. nasty, brutish, and short lives irreversible upturn in prosperity,
soul, and spirit. His relationships Prayer... Blessed Father of all along the shaft. Children
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life expectancy, and health. Ever
since, the world has changed more
quickly in every generation than it
had previously in millennia. By
all criteria, human life has
improved in ways unthinkable
300 years ago.
#ad#Solving the mysteries of the
birth of the Industrial Revolution
(and, subsequently, the modern
world) has been the primary task
and test of economic history. And,
according to Deirdre McCloskey,
all explanations so far have failed.
Those failures, in turn, indicate
the failings of modern economics.
Her magnum opus, an explanation
of the birth and flourishing of the
bourgeoisie and its subsequent
transformation of the modern
world, will occupy at least six
volumes. This month, Chicago
University Press releases the
second installment: Bourgeois
Dignity: Why Economics Can’t
Explain the Modern World.
Traditional economic models --
the ones we find in Econ 101 --
center on labor, capital,
technology, population, etc.
McCloskey’s economics
incorporates two more factors:
dignity and rhetoric. Economics,
she argues, has failed be a
humane science that accounts for
the ways in which things like
human speech -- rhetoric --
influence the way a society lives
and works. After a detailed
examination of traditional
explanations of economic growth,
McCloskey concludes that each is
inadequate, and that the only
explanation for the peculiar birth
of the modern world is speech: At
the beginning of the 18th century,
people in the Netherlands and
Britain began talking about
commerce as a good thing -- a
novelty at that time. They gave
dignity to the bourgeoisie. And
that drove capitalism, giving birth
to the modern world.
McCloskey is a renaissance
intellectual, with appointments in
both the social sciences and the
humanities at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, and writings
on everyone from Euler and
Gödel to Plato and Derrida. This
ferocious intellect talked with
NRO’s Matthew Shaffer about her
latest book and the state of
modern economics.
NRO: You approach the
Industrial Revolution as
something peculiar. We who
don’t spend our lives thinking
about it assume it was inevitable -
- only a matter of time. But you
think it’s weird that this idea --
that being economically
productive was a good thing --
caught on. Are we very lucky?
What would the world be like
today if bourgeois dignity hadn’t
caught on?
McCloskey: You got it. We
would be at $3 a day, as a good
deal of the world still is. It was a
weird idea, historically speaking.
Especially we Americans, in this
most bourgeois-admiring of
cultures, don’t notice the
ideological water in which we are
swimming. Humans in
northwestern Europe, and now
much of the world, were lucky. It
was luck, not some ancient virtue
of the English constitution, and
least of all some biological
superiority of Europeans or Us
British or the like. It was not
inevitable in 1600. By 1800 it
was, and by 1900 everyone not
blinded by some millennial
fantasy, Left or Right, could feel
it.
NRO: “Bourgeois” and “rhetoric”
are, for many, terms of derision.
But they are superlatives for you.
Explain. In what sense, and in the
vein of which intellectual
traditions, do you use the words?
Hegel and Aristotle?
McCloskey: Aristotle for sure.
Plato was disdainful of rhetoric,
which he rightly saw as an
instrument of democracy. And
Plato hated democracy. He
wanted the rule of the best, hoi
aristoi. That doesn’t leave room
for democratic assemblies and law
courts, or Fox News or MSNBC.
#page#But Aristotle studied the
democratic constitution of Athens
with sympathy, and he wrote the
book on rhetoric. He defined it as
“the study of the available means
of [uncoerced] persuasion.” But
the hard men of the 17th century
turned against it, in favor of
absolute, geometric, neo-Platonic
Truth. Thus Bacon, Descartes,
Hobbes, Spinoza.
I prefer the old sense of the word,
which does not have to mean
“blather”: We have scores of
words in English for bad speech.
We need one for persuasive
speech, the sweet talk for which
one-quarter of us in a modern
economy are paid.
#ad#As for “bourgeois,” Hegel
used the word Burger, which is a
cognate; and most of the
advanced European thinkers circa
1810 praised the middle class just
then emerging. It’s later,
especially after the failed liberal
revolutions of 1848, that the
clerisy turned against the
bourgeoisie.
NRO: Bourgeois Dignity
explains the Industrial
Revolution’s 16-fold
multiplication in average income
as a function of rhetoric and
dignity -- of a society that spoke
approvingly of a bourgeois,
commercial life. How can you
scientifically prove a thesis about
soft factors like rhetoric and
dignity?
McCloskey: Rhetoric and dignity
can be quantified. But I don’t
think the only scientific test is
quantitative -- though quantitative
measurements are certainly
helpful.
You can measure such factors by
finding what’s missing elsewhere.
It’s like measuring the
acceleration of a falling stone in a
non-vacuum. We know the
acceleration in a vacuum. So
anything slower than that is
probably caused by air resistance.
It may be hard to measure the air
resistance directly. But indirectly,
it’s simple, which is the rhetorical
plan of the book. I show what all
the other explanations are
missing.
But, in fact, rhetoric and dignity
are rather easily measured, and
that is the task of the next book,
The Bourgeois Revaluation: How
Innovation Became Ethical,
1600–1848. Stay tuned. You can
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measure the shifting significance
of bourgeois words: honesty,
profit, responsibility, monopoly,
etc., by looking in historical
dictionaries and historical texts in
all the languages of commerce,
from 1600 to 1848.
“Responsibility,” for example, is
entirely modern (and thus
measurable: It’s zero before 1800,
commonplace afterward). The
equivalent word before 1800, as
one can see from the Oxford
Thesaurus(based on the Oxford
English Dictionary), is “duty.” In
a hierarchical society, one has
one’s duty to one’s master,
period. In a modern and bourgeois
society, the duty is turned inward
and becomes a character trait
essential for a modern enterprise:
responsibility. It’s a fairy tale of
scientism that only prices and
quantities can be measured.
NRO: The most familiar of the
explanations that you rebut is the
“Protestant Work Ethic.” Why
can’t it account for the
revolution?
McCloskey: Because one doesn’t
see a change in the psychology of
businesspeople. Weber’s
argument has been under attack
ever since he made it in 1905; he
himself gave it up after 1905, and
never went back to it. It has been
shown repeatedly to be false. It’s
an anti-Catholic prejudice,
unsurprisingly common in
northern Europe, to suppose that
Catholics didn’t worry about their
businesses, or indeed their place
in heaven or hell. We have
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wrong. Adjusted for inflation, per declined slightly, to 12.4 percent 11.6 percent of GDP from 1991 determine the size of a welfare
capita federal outlays on the five in 2000. through 2000. Even with the state that’s exactly the size it
From the November 29, 2010, big categories that dominate the It turned out that the welfare state conservatives’ biggest domestic- needs to be, and doesn’t need any
issue of NR. Office of Management and expanded in the 1990s less policy triumph of that decade, the expansion.
C ome January, America will Budget’s “human resources” because it needed to than because replacement of Aid to Families #ad#President Obama and
have a Democratic president and a programs -- Social Security; all it could. Relative to gross with Dependent Children by the Speaker Boehner will face a set of
Republican Speaker of the House other income support programs; domestic product, total federal non-entitlement Temporary circumstances that are far more
of Representatives, a rare Medicare; all other health outlays actually decreased during Assistance for Needy Families daunting than the ones that
configuration in the 150-plus programs; and all education, job- the decade, from 21.9 percent in program, overall welfare-state confronted President Clinton and
years that there has been a training, and social-service 1990 to 18.2 percent in 2000. spending was larger at the end of Speaker Gingrich. It’s hard to
Republican party. There were programs -- were 7 percent higher Adjusted for inflation, however, the 1990s, both in absolute terms imagine the economy regaining its
Republican House majorities in 2001, the last fiscal year shaped per capita GDP was 22.8 percent and relative to the size of the balance, much less displaying the
during D e m o c r a t i c by the Clinton administration, higher in 2000 than it had been in economy, than it had been at the vigor of the 1990s, before the
administrations for two years after than they had been in 1995, the 1990. The federal government beginning. nation endures several more years
the 1894, 1918, and 1946 midterm f i n a l o n e b e f o r e t h e G O P was spending a somewhat smaller #page#Federal spending on of deleveraging. Making
elections, and for six years after C o n g r e s s . slice of a significantly larger pie. everything else, from farm impossible a breather from rising
the 1994 midterms. It wasn’t just the political Furthermore, the federal subsidies to the National Zoo -- entitlement costs like the one the
#ad#In 2011, only the memory of circumstances of the 1990s that government was laying claim to a that is, everything but national nation enjoyed that decade, the
the acrimonious cohabitation after seemed to favor the reduction of lesser portion of the national defense and human resources -- oldest of the 77 million baby
1994 will matter. The Republican the welfare state. The economic income mostly because of defense amounted to relatively little. It boomers started enrolling in
speaker who took the gavel after circumstances were favorable, -spending cuts after the end of the averaged about one-fourth of Social Security in 2008 and will
t h a t e l e c t i o n h a d f a m o u s l y too. The dot.com boom, before it Cold War, not because of welfare- federal outlays in the 1990s, or become eligible for Medicare in
disparaged a leading senator from turned into the dot.com bust, state reductions. The Reagan roughly 5 percent of GDP. In 2011. Americans born between
his own party as the “tax collector d r o v e i n c o m e s u p a n d rearmament program peaked in 2009, it accounted for 22.6 1946 and 1964 will continue
f o r t h e w e l f a r e s t a t e . ” unemployment down, causing the late 1980s. In 1986 the federal percent of all federal outlays, and swelling the ranks of those
Republicans swept to power in s p e n d i n g o n “ a u t o m a t i c government spent 6.2 percent of 5.6 percent of GDP. programs’ beneficiaries for the
1994 clearly dedicated to the stabilizers” like unemployment GDP on national defense. That The pattern, as I have argued in next 20 years. Finally, it’s highly
mission Ronald Reagan had compensation and food stamps to proportion began to decline my recent book Never Enough, is doubtful that the world will be,
proclaimed 13 years earlier, to fall. Demography should have during “glasnost,” even while indeed that when the welfare state anytime soon, the safe
“curb the size and influence of the helped as well, since the people Reagan was still in office and the doesn’t grow because it must, it neighborhood some supposed it
federal establishment.” Moreover, signing up in the 1990s for the Berlin Wall was still intact. It fell grows because it can. Throughout was between 1989 and 2001.
the Democratic president startled t w o b i g g e s t w e l f a r e - s t a t e to 5.2 percent of GDP in 1990 and the world, left-of-center Adjusted for inflation, defense
the nation, especially politicians programs, Social Security and 3.0 percent in 2000. Leaving GDP politicians and intellectuals react spending was 20 percent higher in
in his own party, by declaring in Medicare, were the ones born percentages aside, inflation- to economic downturns by 2009 than in 1989. Given the
the 1996 State of the Union during the Depression -- and baby adjusted defense spending peaked insisting on more government world’s dangers, the architects of
address that “the era of big bust -- of the 1930s. As life in 1989, the last fiscal year of the spending to assist the afflicted. a military draw-down like the one
government is over.” expectancy increased, the Reagan administration, and When the economy is strong, on in the 1990s would be guilty of
Knowing this much, it would proportion of the American declined by 28 percent over the the other hand, their dramatically gross negligence.
have been plausible for the population aged 65 or over grew following decade. different position is to insist on The felicitous coincidence of a
welfare state to do something in from 8.1 percent in 1950 to 12.6 By contrast, federal outlays on more government spending to surging economy, a respite from
the 1990s it had never done since percent in 1990. Even though life the five human-resources address “unmet social needs.” growing entitlement payments,
the New Deal: shrink. While that expectancy continued to increase categories named above were 10.3 One needn’t be a cynic to suspect and declining military outlays
expectation may not have been far after 1990, the proportion of percent of GDP in 1990 and 10.9 that these leftists have been less
-fetched, it did turn out to be Americans at least 65 years old percent in 2000, and averaged than zealous in their efforts to TOWARD page 63
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gigantic evidence that they did so
worry, and in just the way Weber,
on the basis of misreadings of
Calvinist texts and Benjamin
Franklin, thought was special to
followers of John Calvin.
As I say in the book, what people
like about the Weber hypothesis is
that it combines a spiritual change
inside the souls of businesspeople
( Geist was the German word)
with a focus on routine
investment (savings rates were
supposed to be higher among
Calvinists). It combined idealism
with Marxism. No wonder
everybody likes it. But alas, it’s
wrong.
What changed was the sociology.
That is, what changed was the
attitude of the rest of the society
toward businesspeople, and with
that new attitude came a change in
government policy. It was
suddenly all right -- most clearly
in the most bourgeois country on
earth, the U.S.A. -- to get rich and
to innovate.
#page# NRO: Many journalists
wrote up the financial crisis as a
failure of the science of
economics, or at least of the
neoclassical approach. Are they
right?
McCloskey: No. As I say in the
preface to Bourgeois Dignity:
The Big Economic Story of our
times has not been the Great
Recession of 2007–2009. . . . And
the important moral is not the one
that was drawn in the journals of
opinion during 2009 -- about how
very rotten the Great Recession
shows economics to be, and
especially an economics of free
markets. . . . Such prediction is
anyway impossible: if economists
were so smart as to be able to
predict recessions they would be
rich. . . . No science can predict its
own future, which is what
predicting business cycles entails.
Economists are among the
molecules their theory of cycles is
supposed to predict. . . .
The important flaw in economics
. . . is its materialist and
unnecessarily mistaken theory of
past growth. The Big Economic
Story of our own times is that the
Chinese in 1978 and then the
Indians in 1991 adopted liberal
ideas in the economy, and came to
attribute a dignity and a liberty to
the bourgeoisie formerly denied.
And then China and India
exploded in economic growth. . . .
NRO: How do you evaluate
economics today and economists’
function as modern America’s
preeminent public intellectuals?
McCloskey: With alarm. But non
-economist intellectuals need to
understand some elementary
economics: There is no such thing
as a free lunch; national income
equals national product equals
national expenditure; free trade is
nice; more money causes
inflation; governments are not all-
wise; spontaneous order is not
chaos.
My alarm comes from the
economist’s tendency to reduce
humans to Maximum Utility
machines. We need a
humanomics, of the sort that
Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill
and John Maynard Keynes and
Friedrich Hayek and Gunnar
Myrdal and Kenneth Boulding
and Albert Hirschman practiced.
Some current practitioners are
Nancy Folbre, Arjo Klamer, and
Richard Bronk. It’s an economics
for grownups.
NRO: What should Americans do
to preserve bourgeois society, or
is our rhetoric so naturally pro-
bourgeois that we don’t need to
worry?
McCloskey: We need to worry a
little less than the average
northern European does.
Arguments about bourgeois virtue
that strike most Americans as
pretty obvious (“The middle class,
not the clerisy or the state, is the
source of good innovation”;
“Making money is all right”; “We
can solve environmental problems
by invention”) are fighting words
in the Netherlands or Sweden. Old
Europe distrusts innovation. In the
United States the task is to
embarrass the anti-capitalist Left
with facts, without arousing
moralistic, anti-innovation fervor
on the Right.
NRO: You spend a lot of time
demolishing cherished lefty myths
about capitalism. What do you
think the Right has gotten wrong
on capitalism?
McCloskey: A certain disdain for
innovation, or attributing the few
good parts of innovation to heroic
figures, Nature’s Noblemen. A
conservative suspects that
innovation will result in disaster,
not improvement, unless under
the control of Us Aristocrats. Let
us not flee to evils we know not
of. He is naturally pessimistic. He
hates rock music and feminism
and everything else that came
from the Decade of Innovation,
the 1960s. A libertarian, by
contrast, is naturally optimistic
about change. She sees a
spontaneous order in non-
hierarchical, unplanned societies.
She loved the 1960s as liberating
blacks, women, gays,
handicapped people, colonialized
people, youth.
NRO: You say that dignity and
liberty were “the greatest
externalities” of our pro-
bourgeois rhetoric for ordinary
people. Are liberty and bourgeois
dignity tethered? Many point to
China, Singapore, etc., as
examples of places where
economic advance has not
produced other kinds of
liberalism.
McCloskey: They are correct.
The problem is the fallacy of
Right Now. In 1969 one would
have said the same thing about
South Korea and Taiwan, or for
that matter about Spain and
Portugal. Outside the low,
dishonest decade of the 1930s,
with preparations in the 1920s, it
has always gone one way, since
the cats of liberty and dignity
were let out of the bag in the late
17th century. Do all the statistical
analysis you want, but we
“liberals” (19th-century European
definition) have history on our
side.
NRO: Now that the march of
classical liberalism has proceeded
so far . . .
McCloskey: . . . but has miles to
go before we sleep, / And miles to
go before we sleep . . .
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NRO: . . . and the world accords
more dignity to the bourgeoisie
than ever before, was our recent
rocky passage just a blip in an
overwhelmingly positive trend?
McCloskey: I and Matt Ridley
(author of The Rational Optimist)
and Joel Mokyr (author of The
Enlightened Economy) agree, as
anyone acquainted with the
numbers would. We’ve had 40 of
these recessions since 1800, and
even a half-dozen as bad as this
one. We should have acquired in
two centuries a cautious faith in
the trend, which is up and up and
up since 1800 by about 2,000
percent per person, conservatively
measured.
NRO: You say you’re relatively
unworried about rapacious public-
sector unions. Doesn’t the
example of Greece trouble you on
this point?
McCloskey: Well, if the police
and municipal workers work very
hard at it they can bring a society
to ruin. But the United States is
not heavily unionized. (Sweden,
which is heavily unionized, has
rational unions, which know that
Sweden must trade to live.) And
Americans are not willing to leap
off a cliff holding hands with the
unions, as the Greeks were until
this year. In Chicago the city and
state just broke the power of the
electricians’ union to overcharge
exhibitors at our massive
McCormick Place for such highly
technical tasks as plugging in
extension cords. The exhibitors
are coming back.
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No, the pope did not change
Catholic teaching on condoms.
H ere is what the New York
Times reported to its readers on
November 21:
“Pope Benedict XVI has said that
condom use can be justified in
some cases to help stop the spread
of AIDS . . . .”
No, the pope did not say that in
his new book, Light of the World,
to which I had the honor of
contributing a foreword. Here is
what the pope actually wrote,
answering two questions from
German journalist Peter
Seewald:#ad#
Seewald: On the occasion of your
trip to Africa in March 2009, the
Vatican’s policy on Aids once
again became the target of media
criticism. Twenty-five percent of
all Aids victims around the world
today are treated in Catholic
facilities. In some countries, such
as Lesotho, for example, the
statistic is 40 percent. In Africa
you stated that the Church’s
traditional teaching has proven to
be the only sure way to stop the
spread of HIV. Critics, including
critics from the Church’s own
ranks, object that it is madness to
forbid a high-risk population to
use condoms.
Benedict XVI: The media
coverage completely ignored the
rest of the trip to Africa on
account of a single statement.
Someone had asked me why the
Catholic Church adopts an
unrealistic and ineffective
position on Aids. At that point, I
really felt that I was being
provoked, because the Church
does more than anyone else. And
I stand by that claim. Because she
is the only institution that assists
people up close and concretely,
with prevention, education, help,
counsel, and accompaniment. And
because she is second to none in
treating so many Aids victims,
especially children with Aids.
I had the chance to visit one of
these wards and to speak with the
patients. That was the real answer:
The Church does more than
anyone else, because she does not
speak from the tribunal of the
newspapers, but helps her
brothers and sisters where they
are actually suffering. In my
remarks I was not making a
general statement about the
condom issue, but merely said,
and this is what caused such great
offense, that we cannot solve the
problem by distributing condoms.
Much more needs to be done. We
must stand close to the people, we
must guide and help them; and we
must do this both before and after
they contract the disease.
As a matter of fact, you know,
people can get condoms when
they want them anyway. But this
just goes to show that condoms
alone do not resolve the question
itself. More needs to happen.
Meanwhile, the secular realm
itself has developed the so-called
ABC Theory: Abstinence–Be
Faithful–Condom, where the
condom is understood only as a
last resort, when the other two
points fail to work. This means
that the sheer fixation on the
condom implies a banalization of
sexuality, which, after all, is
precisely the dangerous source of
the attitude of no longer seeing
sexuality as the expression of
love, but only a sort of drug that
people administer to themselves.
This is why the fight against the
banalization of sexuality is also a
part of the struggle to ensure that
sexuality is treated as a positive
value and to enable it to have a
positive effect on the whole of
man’s being.
There may be a basis in the case
of some individuals, as perhaps
when a male prostitute uses a
condom, where this can be a first
step in the direction of a
moralization, a first assumption of
responsibility, on the way toward
recovering an awareness that not
everything is allowed and that one
cannot do whatever one wants.
But it is not really the way to deal
with the evil of HIV infection.
That can really lie only in a
humanization of sexuality.
Seewald: Are you saying, then,
that the Catholic Church is
actually not opposed in principle
to the use of condoms?
Benedict XVI: She of course
does not regard it as a real or
moral solution, but, in this or that
case, there can be nonetheless, in
the intention of reducing the risk
of infection, a first step in a
movement toward a different way,
a more human way, of living
sexuality.
#page#And here is Sacred Heart
Major Seminary professor Janet
Smith’s illustration of the
technical point the pope was
actually making, which touches
on the question of what
philosophers and theologians call
subjective intention:
If someone was going to rob a
bank and was determined to use a
gun, it would be better for that
person to use a gun that had no
bullets in it [for that] would
reduce the likelihood of fatal
injuries. But it is not the task of
the Church to instruct potential
bank robbers how to rob banks
more safely and certainly not the
task of the Church to support
programs of providing potential
bank robbers with guns that could
not use bullets. Nonetheless, the
intent of a bank robber to rob a
bank in a way that is safer for
employees and customers of the
bank may indicate an element of
moral responsibility that could be
a step towards eventual
understanding of the immorality
of bank robbing.
#ad#The Times story was hardly
the worst of the maelstrom of
media misrepresentation, which
was initiated by the once-
authoritative Associated Press.
This latest example of pack
journalism was a disservice in
itself, and it also highlighted
several false assumptions that
continually bedevil coverage of
the Catholic Church and the
Vatican and one specific media
obsession that is, to be brutally
frank, lethal in its consequences.
The first false assumption
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beneath the latest round of media
condomania is that the Church’s
settled teaching on sexual
morality is a policy or a position
that can change, as tax rates can
be changed or one’s position on
whether India should be a
permanent member of the U.N.
Security Council can change. To
be sure, the theological
articulation of the Catholic ethic
of sexual love has been refined
over centuries; it has come to an
interesting point of explication in
recent years in John Paul II’s
“theology of the body.” But it has
not changed and it will not change
because it cannot be changed.
And it cannot change or be
changed because the Catholic
ethic of sexual love is an
expression of fundamental moral
truths that can be known by
reason and are illuminated by
revelation.
The second false assumption
beneath the condom story is that
all papal statements of whatever
sort are equal, such that an
interview is an exercise of the
papal teaching magisterium. That
wasn’t true of John Paul II’s
international bestseller, Crossing
the Threshold of Hope, in which
the late pope replied to questions
posed by Italian journalist Vittorio
Messori. It wasn’t true of the first
volume of Benedict XVI’s Jesus
of Nazareth, in which the pope
made clear at the outset that he
was speaking personally as a
theologian and biblical scholar,
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created budget surpluses in the
late 1990s that took the nation and
its leaders by surprise. One result
of the surpluses, recounted by the
historian Steven Gillon in his
2008 book The Pact, was that Bill
Clinton and Newt Gingrich began
laying the groundwork in 1997 for
sweeping reforms to Social
Security and Medicare. The talks,
held in secret to avoid outraging
each one’s partisans, progressed
far enough to produce a
framework before the Monica
Lewinsky story broke in January
1998, ending the negotiations
before the participants had
fashioned a true deal.
Even so, the framework is
noteworthy. Gillon reports that
President Clinton was prepared to
antagonize his liberal base by
accepting entitlement-policy
changes strikingly similar to the
ones advocated today in Rep. Paul
Ryan’s “Roadmap.” Social
Security’s retirement age would
have been raised, and its cost-of-
living adjustment lowered;
workers would have been given
the option to direct some of their
payroll taxes into private
retirement accounts. Medicare
would have been modified into, or
at least in the direction of, a
defined-contribution program that
helped people purchase public or
private health insurance. Speaker
Gingrich was prepared to
antagonize his conservative base
by agreeing to postpone
consideration of any tax cuts that
returned budget surpluses to the
people until after the entitlement
reforms had been enacted.
It was never certain, or even
probable, that these ambitions
could have been achieved on
Capitol Hill by what Gillon called
a “60-percent coalition made up
of moderates in both parties.” It’s
significant that Erskine Bowles,
President Clinton’s chief of staff
in 1997 and a key facilitator of the
clandestine entitlement-reform
talks, is now the co-chairman,
with former Republican senator
Alan Simpson, of the National
Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform. (Most
press accounts refer to it, more
simply, as the Bowles-Simpson
Commission.) In the event, also
by no means certain, that the
commission can round up 14
votes from its 18 members for a
series of recommendations on tax
and spending policy, it will issue
its report in December.
#page#The happy circumstances -
- economic, demographic, and
geopolitical -- that yielded budget
surpluses and high-level talks
about entitlement reform 13 years
ago have all deteriorated, forming
today’s perfect storm for fiscal-
policy makers. The prospect of
surpluses then meant that the quid
pro quo for cutting entitlement
spending would have been
postponing and limiting tax cuts.
That package would have been
hard to sell, politically. The
prospect in 2010 of federal
deficits that will average $1
trillion a year for the next decade,
and raise the federal debt to a
level nearly equal to the gross
domestic product by 2020, means
that the concessions needed to
make a deal are going to involve
spending cuts and tax increases.
#ad#That combination of
measures, with something to
infuriate everyone, is going to be
even harder to assemble and sell.
The chances of finding enough
votes to assemble a 60 or even a
51 percent coalition are surely
lower in 2010 than they were in
1997. Following leaks that the
Bowles-Simpson Commission has
been considering a mix of
entitlement reductions and tax
increases, liberal bloggers
denounced the “cat-food
commission” and the “Social
Security death panel.” Many
conservatives, by the same token,
have stated that proposals for any
tax increases are non-starters.
Adversaries are supposed to
make concessions during
negotiations, rather than before
and outside them. Maybe these
unalterable positions are the kind
of non-negotiable demands that
savvy politicians make in the
understanding that they’ll wind up
getting altered as talks get serious.
Between the rise of the Netroots
and the Tea Party since Bill
Clinton and Newt Gingrich held
their wary discussions, however,
it’s clear that the determination
not to yield has grown
considerably stronger on both
sides.
As a conservative, I’m
completely sympathetic to the
idea that America’s fiscal
challenges should be resolved
through spending cuts rather than
tax increases. Bending the growth
curve of federal outlays until they
meet tax revenues that remain
constant as a percentage of GDP
is, for example, the essence of the
Ryan Roadmap. But the numbers
have to work. In America’s grave
fiscal circumstances, a zero-
tolerance policy on tax increases
is governmentally tenable only if
the dollars are there, if the
politically feasible spending cuts
are of sufficient size to steer the
nation away from insolvency
without higher taxes. This means
it’s politically tenable only if the
votes are there, in Congress and
the country, for budget cuts of
that magnitude.
Right now, the votes are not
there. According to a New York
Times poll from earlier this year,
three-quarters of Americans
believe “the benefits from
government programs such as
Social Security and Medicare are
worth the costs of those
programs.” Three-fifths of the
people who express support for
the Tea Party movement share
that belief.
Neither are the votes there for the
large and widely applied tax
increases that would be necessary
to balance the budget without any
spending cuts. Liberals and
conservatives are both hoping that
intransigence will be rewarded in
the end. Liberals believe that
when voters reckon with the
spending cuts necessary to make
the conservative fiscal approach
work, they will accede to a policy
based overwhelmingly on higher
taxes. Conservatives believe that
when voters realize the magnitude
of the tax increases necessary for
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the liberal approach to work, they
will swing decisively to the
position that spending cuts are the
lesser evil.
#page#In the event neither side
gets its way decisively, the
resolution will be a combination
of spending cuts and tax
increases, either in the near future
as a matter of choice, or later on
in a desperate attempt to cope
with a dire necessity like the one
that befell Greece this year.
Conservatives, dedicated to the
success of the American
experiment in self-government,
have every reason to prevent the
nation from descending into
insolvency or mutating into a
European social democracy. That
obligation is not sufficiently
discharged by insisting, against
the weight of evidence from the
past three decades, that tax cuts
will pay for themselves, either by
igniting economic growth or by
forcing spending cuts.
#ad#The demands of conservative
statesmanship in this situation call
for making good governance
possible by practicing smart
politics assiduously. Every solid
argument against more spending
and more borrowing should be
brought to bear, so that higher
taxes or dangerous debts do not
become the default option.
Here’s one argument:
Conservatives would do well, by
their cause and their country, to
emphasize that the fact that a
historical pattern is predominant -
- modern economies grow
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Wisconsin Turns GOP

Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:00:34 AM
model for others to follow.” Like Walker has also asked Doyle to 3) People create jobs, not Jersey governor Chris Christie,
most states, Wisconsin has stop negotiations with state government. By lowering the tax whom Walker cites as “the primo
Republicans have a chance to suffered economically over the workers over 2009–11 contracts burden on businesses and cutting example of how you turn
govern. past few years. “We’ve got some so they can be considered as part government spending, Walker government around.” Also in
T he GOP earned a momentous big problems here,” Priebus says. of the upcoming state budget (and boldly pledged to create 250,000 Christie’s mold, Walker has
victory on November 2 by taking However, he is optimistic that the hence be on the table for spending new jobs and 10,000 new expressed a determination to take
back the House of Representatives message voiced by voters on cuts), and called for a freeze on businesses in Wisconsin by 2015. on public-sector employees and
and making considerable gains in Election Day -- less spending, less civil-service hiring. He even #ad#He will have his work cut out require them to make greater
the Senate. However, most agree government -- was so loud and requested that plans for a biomass for him. Wisconsin is facing a $3 contributions to their benefits and
that significant reform is on hold clear that “I don’t think there’s boiler at the University of billion deficit, and currently ranks pension plans.
u n t i l a t l e a s t 2 0 1 2 , w h e n any danger of the Republican-led Wisconsin–Madison be scrapped 40th in the State Business Tax One day after winning the
Republicans can potentially win legislature not listening.” (One in favor of a boiler that runs on Climate Index. For Walker, the election, Walker said it was “put
control of both houses and the m i g h t s a y t h e s a m e a b o u t natural gas, a move he says could stakes are exceedingly high, up or shut up time” for newly
White House. In some parts of the emboldened GOP members of the save the state $100 million. Mayer says, with “drastic” elected Republicans, echoing the
country, such a dramatic power U.S. House and Senate, though #page# cutbacks likely to be required. sentiment of many national GOP
shift has already taken place, and the recent hiccup over an earmark Kenneth R. Mayer, political- “There are no easy choices, no leaders. If Walker and his
could offer instructive insights moratorium in the Senate does not science professor at the University easy cuts,” Mayer says. “We’re Republican legislature are
into an effective GOP strategy for exactly inspire confidence.) of Wisconsin–Madison, says talking closing prisons, successful, that bodes well not
2012 and beyond. All eyes will be on Walker, who Walker’s actions might seem eliminating entire departments; only for his own political
Consider Wisconsin, a state is widely considered a rising star contentious in the context of we’re not at the point of closing fortunes, but also for those of the
President Obama won by 13 in the Republican party, as he previous gubernatorial transitions, down universities, but that’s the GOP in 2012. (Wisconsin hasn’t
p o i n t s . O n N o v e m b e r 2 , i t helms a unified Republican but they are hardly surprising scale of what we’re facing.” voted for a Republican
experienced the biggest party shift g o v e r n m e n t t o a d d r e s s t h e given the circumstances. “As an But Walker has shown no signs presidential candidate since
in the country, switching from struggling economy. He has incoming governor with unified of a weak stomach when it comes Reagan in 1984.)
unified Democratic control to wasted no time: Though he control of the legislature, it’s only to cutbacks. He is holding firm at The GOP’s success in the Badger
unified Republican control. Scott doesn’t take office until January natural that [Walker] would want his current position as Milwaukee State already has Priebus’s name
Walker cruised to victory in the 3, last week he sent a hand- to maximize his discretion,” county executive, which he will being floated as a potential
gubernatorial race to succeed delivered letter to Dan Schooff, Mayer says. “He doesn’t want his hold until the end of the year. He successor to Republican National
outgoing governor Jim Doyle (D), secretary of Doyle’s department hands to be tied.” Walker has said recently vetoed 15 amendments to Committee chairman Michael
and Republicans won significant of administration, requesting that he is not trying to pick a fight his 2011 budget proposal that Steele. Party leaders would be
majorities in both houses of the a number of items be put on hold with the Doyle administration. would have added $10 million to wise to keep a close eye on
state legislature. In national races, until the new government is Walker campaigned on a the budget. His vocal opposition Wisconsin in the months and
the GOP picked up two House sworn in. In the letter, which has message of fiscal restraint and to a federally funded $810 million years to come.
seats and knocked off three-term caused a stir, Walker urged the limited government, promising to high-speed rail line from Madison — Andrew Stiles writes for
liberal icon Sen. Russ Feingold. o u t g o i n g g o v e r n o r t o h a l t govern in accordance with three to Milwaukee -- Walker says the National Review Online’ s Battle
#ad#Reince Priebus, chairman of implementation of Obamacare in basic principles -- what he calls state simply cannot afford the ’10 blog. Andrew Stiles
t h e R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y o f Wisconsin, as he intends to have his “Brown Bag Guide to millions of dollars in annual
Wisconsin, tells National Review Republican attorney general J. B. Government”: 1) Don’t spend subsidies the project would
Online that the GOP’s success in Van Hollen join the multistate more than you have. 2) Smaller require -- has not surprisingly
the state could “certainly [be] a lawsuit challenging the law. government is better government. garnered comparisons to New
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Shellackings Past and Present
Julia Shaw (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:00:36 PM
Posted November 22nd, 2010 at
1:00pm in First Principles Print
This Post
Three weeks ago, Democrats
took what President Obama
dubbed a “shellacking” at the
polls: Republicans picked up 62
seats in the House, enough to gain
a majority, and six in the Senate.
The next day, the post-election
analysis and finger-pointing
began. Defeated Democrats
blamed the President. Defeated
Republicans blamed the media
and the Washington
establishment. The President
(whose usual reaction is to blame
Bush) blamed the American
people’s anxiety over not feeling
the change he had promised. All
blame games aside, the real
question remains unanswered:
what did the 2010 election mean?
To gain some perspective, we
should look to previous major
midterm Republican sweeps:
1994 (54 House: 9 Senate), 1946
(55 House: 13 Senate) and 1938
(81 House: 6 Senate).
In 1994, Republicans won
because Democrats overreached.
The Republican Revolution of
1994 ushered in the first
Republican-controlled Congress
in 40 years. Their success was
attributable not only to
Democratic missteps (scandals
and presidential support of
unpopular government-run
healthcare), but also to Newt
Gingrich’s Contract with
America. The Contract provided a
new vision of limited government,
including specific proposals for
legislation on jobs, taxes, and
welfare, and structural reforms for
Congressional committees and
leadership.
1994 was not the only time
Americans rejected an
expansionist agenda in favor of a
vision of limited government. As
Michael Barone argues, the key
issue of the 1946 midterms turned
on the scope of government:
would the United States become
like Britain, who “ elected a
Labour government that instituted
national health insurance and a
cradle-to-grave welfare state.” In
his 1944 State of the Union
address, Franklin Roosevelt had
proposed exactly that—a cradle-to
-grave welfare state disguised as a
new bill of rights. FDR died
before he could implement it,
leaving Truman to continue his
legacy. But, after numerous labor
disputes and strikes, Truman’s
attempt to take over industries in
response to those strikes (without
any constitutional authority), and
the threat of communism, the
American people had enough.
Wary of a united and expanding
government, the American people
gave Republicans large gains and
the majority in the House and
Senate during the 1946 election.
The 1938 midterm election is
even more telling, as Matthew
Spalding suggests. Following his
landslide election in 1936, FDR
expanded his agenda and
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Congress is still remembered as
the “Do-Nothing Congress.”
Finally, as the presidential
election of 1940 reveals,
progressive ideas do not loosen
easily once they are entrenched in
the American way of life. FDR
had successfully realigned
American politics to the degree
that even Republican’s 1938
midterm gains did not result in
congressional majorities or long-
term dominance.
By all accounts, the 2010
midterms were meant to punished
lawmakers for unpopular
expansions of the federal
government. James Ceaser writes
c o n s o l i d a t e d c o n t r o l o f But, history also indicates that the that the 2010 election was the
government. He tried to expand ascendance of conservative m o s t n a t i o n a l i z e d m i d t e r m
the power of the presidency and legislators does not translate into election in American history: “
pack the Supreme Court with total victory over progressive Every Republican competing for
justices who would rubber-stamp goals. In both 1994 and 1946, national office, from Hawaii to
his expansionist agenda. He did Republicans misjudged their New Hampshire, ran against the
not let the 1937 recession go to opponents’ political skills. The Obama agenda and made it the
waste: he waged a campaign i n s t a n c e s o f b i - p a r t i s a n centerpiece of the campaign.”
against the wealthy, abandoned cooperation with the executive There is reason to assume that the
his promises to balance the resulted in wins for the president. midterm shellacking has halted
budget, and embraced stimulus More importantly, Republicans Obama’s expansionist agenda.
spending. In response to FDR’s failed to reiterate the need to limit But, as Spalding notes, “it does
actions, Republicans picked up 81 g o v e r n m e n t , c o n t r i b u t i n g not yet mean the national course
seats in the House and 6 Senate electoral defeats. Indeed, as the has changed, that progressive
s e a t s i n t h e 1 9 3 8 m i d t e r m 1996 and 1948 presidential successes have been reversed or
elections. While Democrats still elections reveal, presidents can that a liberal president might not
controlled Congress, and FDR always recover from a midterm go on to be re-elected.” To be
went on to be re-elected, twice, drubbing. Clinton triangulated, sure, conservatives must continue
the expansionary phase of the s u p p o r t i n g t h e p o p u l a r to argue for limited government.
New Deal was over. c o n s e r v a t i v e p r o p o s a l s a n d But like Clinton, Truman, and
What the 1994, 1946, and 1938 vetoing others to secure re- FDR, President Obama could
midterms demonstrate is that the election in 1996. Truman found tweak his agenda and coast to a
American people punish overly c o m m o n g r o u n d w i t h h i s second term in 2012. It looks like
a m b i t i o u s , e x p a n s i o n i s t Republican Congress on foreign we may have to wait for 2012 to
agendas—especially agendas that policy, but exploited those efforts
aim to nationalize health care. in such a way that the 80th SHELLACKINGS page 67
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No To Further Cuts In The Defense Budget
Matthew Foulger (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 2:00:22 PM
Posted November 22nd, 2010 at
3:00pm in Protect America Print
This Post
The U.S. defense budget is
currently inadequate to meet the
nation’s security needs. Yet, a
panel led by retired U.S. Senator
Pete Domenici, the former
Republican chairman of the
Senate Budget Committee, and
Alice Rivlin, budget director
under President Clinton, has
proposed to reduce the federal
debt by making drastic cuts to the
Pentagon’s budget. Defense
spending, however, is not the
cause of America’s fiscal woes.
Rather, mandatory spending on
entitlements and interest on our
debt currently accounts for over
50 percent of the federal budget,
while defense spending accounts
for less than one-fifth.
Noting that the defense budget
has been growing since 9/11,
some observers argue that there
should be no problem with
reducing defense. However,
despite the post-9/11 budget
increases, defense spending is still
tight and core defense capabilities
are being shortchanged.
This is true even though current
levels of defense spending are at
near historic lows. Since 2001,
defense spending lingers around 4
percent of U.S. Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), while spending
levels during World War II
reached 38 percent, 14 percent
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billion a year. Yet, despite the
importance of missile defenses in
fulfilling the government’s
constitutional responsibility to
provide for the common defense,
this panel recommends shaving $5
billion off the budget for missile
defenses. This recommendation
comes on top of the Obama
Administration’s massive cuts to
missile defense last year (an
overall reduction of over 15
percent of program spending) and
scaling back of the number of
ground-based interceptors in
Alaska and California from 44 to
30. This short-sighted decision
was presumably made to convince
Russia and China that our
defenses pose no significant
capability against their missiles.
By taking this step, the
Administration is delaying critical
added protection against long-
range missile threats and reducing
the missile interceptor force
dedicated to protecting the U.S.
homeland.
Instead of cutting defense, the
government needs to adopt a
sensible and efficient defense
during the Korean War, 10 case of a contingency crisis at intended target. budget. By maintaining sensible
percent during the Vietnam War, home or abroad, as more than 30 M o s t A m e r i c a n s s u p p o r t and stable defense budgets and
and 7 percent during the Cold countries throughout the world spending what is necessary on adopting efficiencies in logistics
War. rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella. defense, and a large majority of and acquisition, we can find the
Within defense, the need for As the threat of missiles launched Americans, between 80 to 90 funds for military modernization
increased investment in missile from Iran, North Korea, or percent, support missile defense. and provide a steady stream of
defense remains paramount. The coalitions of hostile parties grow, But many are starting to realize funding for new, lower-cost,
threat of ballistic missiles from so does the need for more robust, the nation isn’t spending enough innovative equipment.
Iran and North Korea is rising. c o m p r e h e n s i v e to maintain robust defensive In view of the growing ballistic
Having missile defenses in place defenses—particularly when no capabilities. missile threats to the United
would give the President an matter where on Earth a missile is Indeed, missile defense spending States and its allies and friends,
alternative to retaliating with a launched, it would take 33 consists of only 1.4 percent of the
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NRO: Before Bourgeois Dignity
you wrote The Bourgeois Virtues.
Do you think our debt-ridden
culture is a manifestation of a
decline in the bourgeois virtues,
or is that just romantic nonsense?
McCloskey: Conservative
romantic nonsense, similar to the
cries in the 18th century that
commerce would corrupt the
Spartan virtues. Dr. Johnson, who
was a conservative but no sort of
romantic, said in 1778, “Depend
upon it, sir, every state of society
is as luxurious as it can be. Men
always take the best they can get.”
And the blessed David Hume had
said in 1742, “Nor is a porter less
greedy of money, which he
spends on bacon and brandy, than
a courtier, who purchases
champagne and ortolans [little
songbirds rated a delicacy].
Riches are valuable at all times,
and to all men.” Of course.
There’s a progressive version of
the nonsense, the complaining
about “consumerism.”
A more up-to-date reply is that so
long as various Oriental
protectionists (in the 1970s it was
the Japanese, not the Chinese) are
so foolish as to send Americans
TV sets and hammers and so forth
in exchange for IOUs and green
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the commission’s
recommendation to balance the
budget by making America less
safe is completely irresponsible.
Not only would these cuts leave
America vulnerable to a resurgent
threat, they would also send a
pieces of paper engraved with
American heroes, wonderful.
Would you personally turn down
such a deal? If your personal
checks circulated as currency, and
the grocer was willing to give you
tons of groceries in exchange for
eventually depreciated Matt-
dollars, wouldn’t you go for it? I
would, and drink champagne.
NRO: Do you think bourgeois
virtues can be inculcated by
public institutions, including
schools?
McCloskey: The merchant
academies of England in the 17th
and 18th centuries raised up
prudent bourgeois boys (they
were mostly excluded from
Oxford and Cambridge because
many of the merchant families
were not conforming members of
the Church of England). The
universities in Scotland had
teachers like Adam Smith, and
raised up boys (they were very
young in Scotland) who admired
commerce. Our culture, so corrupt
and so little reflecting the classical
virtues in the eyes of
conservatives like Allan Bloom,
admires innovation extravagantly
in its rock music and its movies
and its ethernet. It’s innovation,
not respect for hierarchy or love
clear message to countries like
North Korea and Iran, as well as
America’s own allies that the U.S.
is no longer capable and willing to
defend America’s interests.
Matthew Foulger is a member of
the Young Leaders Program at the
of military glory, that makes for a
successful society.
NRO: Traditionally, bourgeois
political life is defined in precise
contrast to the ancient state, as
one devoted to accommodating
citizens’ desires rather than
inculcating virtue in them. And
yet, you suggest the virtues are
the precondition for a bourgeois
state.
McCloskey: Not exactly
precondition, because I also argue
that virtues are generated by a
liberal economy and state
(“liberal” in the old and still
European and true sense, not the
sense in which progressives have
used the word in the U.S.A.).
Markets make us more moral.
NRO: What should young people
who want to study economics
your way, your “humanistic
science of economics,” do?
McCloskey: In college you got
the claim that Greed is Good, and
anyway people are Max U
sociopaths, regardless of what all
the scientific evidence gathered
on the point says to the contrary. I
would advise them, of course, to
read my book How to Be
Human*: *Though an Economist,
which is advice to young
economists about maintaining
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information on interning at
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NRO: Will our intelligentsia and
artists come around, and learn to
love the bourgeoisie?
McCloskey: It’s hard. The
temptation to fall back into
schoolyard egalitarianism is great.
After about age 20 or so we have
often chosen our political
identities, and then on emotional
grounds can’t change them
(though I did, come to think of it).
I have a very bright graduate
student here at UIC, a humanist,
who tells me that rereading Marx
makes him “more of a New
communist.” Oy vey ist mir. And
he has a libertarian girlfriend.
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Leader Jon Kyl, the highest-
ranked Republican in the Senate
and the second most powerful
Republican in Congress, signaled
that he would not be willing to
move ahead with President
Obama’s much-loved New
START treaty. New START,
which was signed by President
Obama and Russian President
Dmitri Medvedev last April, is a
sweeping update on past START
treaties (START stands for
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).
By signaling his reluctance to
rush passage of the treaty before
this Congressional session ends,
Kyl has delivered a body blow to
one of President Obama’s primary
foreign policy victories to date,
and has left the Administration
scrambling to secure passage of
the Treaty during the current lame
-duck Congress.
The treaty is an evolution of
various agreements between the
United States and Russia to
monitor and gradually reduce the
size of each nation’s stockpile of
nuclear weapons. Under it, both
sides would have the right to
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inspect each other’s nuclear
facilities and operationally
deployed warheads would be
limited to 1,550 per side. There
would also be a limit of 700
“launchers,” which would include
some mix of ground- and sea-
based intercontinental ballistic
missiles and long-range heavy
bombers. (A further 100 launchers
would be allowed to be kept in a
non-deployed state as a reserve, in
case a “deployed” bomber
crashed, for example, it could be
replaced without violating the
treaty or having to build a new
launcher). Tactical nuclear
stockpiles would not be effected.
The Treaty is worth ratifying. It
would give American officials
access to Russian facilities and
does not pose any realistic threat
to U.S. national security interests.
Deterrence would be maintained,
as both Russia and the United
States would retain more than
enough warheads, deployed on
numerous delivery systems, to
utterly destroy each other as
modern, functioning civilizations.
The power of both would be
nowish). Sure, we could hit some
last minute snags, but we want to
believe. Especially after we
reviewed the new versions of the
softwares on our new-lease-on-
life iPad, blasting AirPlay video
all over the house like it was
going out of style. In addition to
balanced. Some early critics of the
Treaty worried that its math was
flawed because it counted every
bomber as one launcher when it
could in fact carry multiple
warheads, but such concerns miss
the forest for the trees. Even if
one side were to cheat and break
the rules of the treaty when
launching a sneak nuclear attack,
they would be destroyed anyway.
Mutually assured destruction is a
fact.
Seeking to preserve one of his
major foreign policy victories, the
Administration has suggested that
failure to ratify the Treaty would
jeopardize plans to spend tens of
billions of dollars on a
modernization program for
America’s rapidly aging nuclear
arsenal. Nuclear weapons have
shelf-lives, and are extraordinarily
complex machines. Many of the
technicians and engineers who
built the current generation of
warheads during the closing days
of the Cold War are now retired,
or near to it, and the U.S. Military
would like to field a new
generation of high-tech,
being able to play video to your
simplified warheads that will be
cheaper to maintain, less prone to
deterioration over time and more
secure against any possible
terrorist threat.
Such a program, while important
for American national security,
has not been confirmed by the
White House. Indeed, as the
prospects for a speedy passage of
New START have soured,
Administration officials have
even begun to muse that no Treaty
might mean no replacement
warheads.“There is a risk that not
moving ahead with Congress
could shatter the fragile consensus
on modernizing the nuclear
complex,” said a senior Obama
Administration official. “New
START puts nuclear
modernization in the right context
for those who worry how it could
send the wrong signal to the world
and undermine our non-
proliferation efforts.”
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Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:00:53 PM
Much is at stake for President
Obama in the lame duck session.
New START, an offensive arms
control treaty with the Russian
Federation, is capturing the stage
as the most important foreign
policy issue before the new
Congress is sworn into the office
in January. However, concerns
with New START are real and
transcend the accusations that
Republicans seek to obstruct the
vote in the lame duck for political
reasons.
Gary Samore, Special Assistant
to the President and White House
Coordinator for Arms Control and
Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Proliferation, and Terrorism, said
Thursday he feared that putting
off the treaty until next year
would mean it “could be delayed
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not as the authoritative teacher of
the Church. And it isn’t true of
Light of the World. Reporters
who insist on parsing every papal
utterance as if each were equally
authoritative -- and who often do
so in pursuit of a gotcha moment -
- do no good service to their
readers.
The third false assumption was a
“historic change” of Catholic
teaching of the sort that was
misreported to have taken place
would be announced through the
medium of an interview. It will
perhaps come as a blow to the self
-esteem of the fourth estate to
recognize an elementary fact of
Catholic life, but the truth of the
matter is that no pope with his
wits about him would use the
vehicle of an interview with a
journalist to discuss a new
initiative, lay out a pastoral
program, or explicate a
development of doctrine. Light of
the World is chock-full of
interesting material, explaining
this or that facet of Catholic faith,
reflecting on the successes,
challenges, and communications
errors of the pontificate to date,
even pondering personal
questions such as the possibility
of a papal retirement. But such
interviews never are going to be
used for the most serious
exercises of papal authority.
As for the media obsession, it is,
of course, with the notion of
Salvation by Latex. Shortly after
the pope’s visit to Africa, where
he was hammered by the press for
alleged insensitivity to AIDS
victims because of his reiteration
of the Catholic sexual ethic, a
distinguished student of these
matters, Dr. Edward Green,
published an op-ed piece in the
Washington Post with the striking
title, “The Pope May Be Right.”
Green, who is not a Catholic,
made a powerful case that
abstinence outside of marriage
and fidelity within marriage are,
empirically, the genuine AIDS-
preventers. He was right,
according to every thorough study
of this terrible plague. But you
would never know that by the
coverage of Catholics and
condoms -- just as you would
likely never learn that, as a global
institution, the Catholic Church
serves more AIDS sufferers than
any other similarly situated
community.
What humane purpose is served
by this media obsession with
condoms? What happens to the
press’s vaunted willingness to
challenge conventional wisdom
when the issue at hand is anything
touching on sexual license? It
seems to disappear. And one fears
that a lot of people are seriously
hurt -- and die -- as at least an
indirect result. Consciences
indeed need to be examined in the
matter of condoms, Catholics, and
AIDS. But the consciences in
question are those of the press.
--- George Weigel is distinguished
senior fellow of Washington’s
Ethics and Public Policy Center.
His new book is The End and the
Beginning: Pope John Paul II --
The Victory of Freedom, the Last
Years, the Legacy. George Weigel
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indefinitely.” As a result, the U.S.
and Russia would not resume
nuclear inspections that lapsed
last year, which he said would
fuel distrust and lead to “a greater
likelihood you could get into an
arms race.”
It is unclear how the U.S. could
get into an arms race given the
obsolete state of U.S. nuclear
infrastructure. Furthermore,
practical experience runs contrary
to the notion that U.S. nuclear
disarmament is the example of the
leadership that can help rid the
world of nuclear weapons.
To test the underlying hypothesis
of the Administration’s arms
control strategy, The Heritage
Foundation conducted a nuclear
gaming exercise. During the Cold
War, such games were primarily
between two sides, reflecting the
realities of a then largely bipolar
world. Today, however, we face a
world in which nuclear weapons
are sought by several nations,
including states that could
smuggle them to others or cause
others to acquire them in a classic
security dilemma scenario.
The results of the gaming
exercises are clear. Arms control
treaties should be negotiated from
a position of strength. After all,
Ronald Reagan’s “Peace Through
Strength” maxim brought about
the end of the Cold War. This
enduring principle suggests an
alternative path to New START.
Pursuing nuclear disarmament in
a proliferated world without
employing missile defense and
maintaining credible nuclear
deterrence increases instability,
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which can lead to nuclear war.
There are more than 30 countries
with ballistic missile capabilities
all over the world. The threat of
missiles launched from Iran,
North Korea, or coalitions of
hostile parties grows, as does the
need for more robust
defenses—particularly when no
matter where on earth a missile is
launched from, it would take 33
minutes or less to hit the U.S.
target it was programmed to
destroy.
New START would fail to
protect the U.S. and its allies from
attack, to provide verification of
existing programs, and to prevent
nuclear proliferation. Pursuing an
arms control strategy of “protect
and defend”—in other words,
fielding missile defenses and
maintaining a modernized,
c r e d i b l e n u c l e a r
deterrent—appears to be the best
option for pursuing arms control
and nonproliferation policy while
limiting the potential for conflict.
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Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
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Submitted at 11/21/2010 10:05:12 PM
Germany has gone on high alert
until next year due to a suspected
impending terrorist attack on the
country. It has been reported that
the Reichstag parliament building
is one target, but it could easily be
any number of shopping centers,
airports or trains. This plot may or
may not materialize, but the
country will have to remain on
guard for the foreseeable future,
as dozens of its residents have
traveled for terrorist training, and
Al-Qaeda has its sights set on
Germany.
The German Interior Minister has
confirmed that there are “concrete
indications” of a terrorist attack
headed Germany’s way, the first
time the country has used such
language. The Germans received
information from a terrorist
informant overseas that six
operatives have been dispatched
to carry out the attacks, including
a German, a Turk, and a North
African. According to his
information, two of the operatives
already arrived in Berlin between
six and eight weeks ago.
However, the informant says the
attack is planned for February or
March, contradicting other
intelligence claiming the end of
the month was the timeframe.
Germany also received
intelligence from the United
States two weeks ago about a
radical Shiite terrorist group in
India called “Saif.” The group has
supposedly linked up with Al-
Qaeda and sent two operatives to
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great danger and an attack is
imminent in Germany,” the
anonymous official said. A report
by Spiegel Online alleges that the
terrorists want to carry out a
shooting rampage on the
Reichstag and take hostages.
The FBI has identified one of the
brains behind the terror plot as a
man named Mushtaq Altaf bin-
Khadri and Dawood Ibrahim as
the smuggler. Ilyas Kashmiri is
also said to be involved.
In October, the U.S. State
Department issued a travel
warning for Americans in Europe
after intelligence was received
about planned Mumbai-style
attacks in France, the United
Kingdom, and Germany. Eight
Germans and two Brits were said
to be at the center of the planned
carry out attacks in Germany. campaign, but a recent report says
They are said to be arriving in the it included 25 members of Al-
U n i t e d A r a b E m i r a t e s o n Qaeda separated into cells of three
N o v e m b e r 2 2 , w h e r e o t h e r to five operatives. Ten of these
terrorists will give them new operatives have been killed in
travel papers. A senior German CIA drone strikes in Pakistan.
intelligence official says there is This indicates that Al-Qaeda is
additional intelligence which dispatching its recruits to Europe
demonstrates that threat reporting at a quick pace.
has grown in quantity and
specificity recently.
“We are pretty sure that there is a
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steadily, and their welfare states enhances the ability of more

Alan W. Dowd (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) grow even faster -- doesn’t make people to spend more of their
it right or wise. As a nation grows lives providing for more of their
Submitted at 11/21/2010 10:08:04 PM richer, it should at some point own health care, education, and
begin to devote a decreasing welfare through their own
President Barack Obama last rather than increasing portion of resources and precautions. Such
week presented the Congressional its GDP to welfare-state spending. prosperity should allow a welfare
Medal of Honor (CMH) to Army America is rich enough to have state to shrink relative to the size
Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta. His spent more inflation-adjusted of the economy, even while
story—and what it tells us about dollars on national defense in growing in absolute terms, if
the men and women who protect 2009 than we did in 1968 with needed, to assist the truly needy.
us from our enemies—is worthy 500,000 troops in Vietnam, even By applying the same logic to
of extra reflection. though we are devoting half as welfare spending that we do to
Giunta is 25 years old. He earned much of our GDP to national military spending, in other words,
the nation’s highest military honor defense now as we were then. we can avoid the taxes and the
for something he did at the age of Had our defense policy been borrowing that would change
22. The curmudgeons and cynics driven by the relentless quest to America irrevocably, and for the
among us, who say that all address and if necessary discover worse.
teenagers and twenty-somethings “unmet military needs,” we would — William Voegeli, a
are uninvolved, myopic, selfish still be spending roughly the same contributing editor of The
slackers, should keep that in percentage of GDP on national Claremont Review of Books, is
mind. defense that we did at the height the author of Never Enough:
While on his second tour of duty
wrenches the gut.” remembrances. Like Giunta, like of the wars in Vietnam (9.4 America’s Limitless Welfare State
in Afghanistan, Giunta’s unit was
Reading that makes me think of nearly every combat veteran I percent) and Korea (14.2 percent). and a visiting scholar at
ambushed by a “well-armed and
something my grandfather told me have ever spoken to, he tried to We would, in other words, be Claremont McKenna College’s
well-coordinated insurgent force,”
not long before he passed away. forget. He actually worked at spending hundreds of billions of Salvatori Center. This article
according to his CMH citation. As
For years and years, I had tried to forgetting and blocking it out. dollars pointlessly. originally appeared in the
he recalled, poetically and Military spending has been November 29, 2010, issue of
talk with him and my other “There are certain events, types of
painfully, in a Vanity Fair
grandfather, both decorated World events that are so strong; they’re c o n s t r a i n e d b e c a u s e i t National Review. William
interview, “There were more
War II heroes, about their service. too much,” he said, trying to c o r r e s p o n d s t o o b j e c t i v e Voegeli
bullets in the air than stars in the
But they always politely refused. explain something that cannot be conditions in the world beyond
sky—a wall of bullets at every
In fact, when we would ask explained to someone who’s o u r s h o r e s . T h e o b j e c t i v e
one at the same time.” The
Grandpa Dowd what he did to never fought for his life. “You conditions, domestically, are that
firefight was so bad that, as
earn the Silver Star his wife kept just have to forget. You don’t long-term economic growth
Obama noted, “Every member of
on display in the living room, he want to think about it.”
First Platoon had shrapnel or a
would say, “The Army gave me In other words, it is a painful
bullet hole in their gear. Five were
that for being first in the chow sacrifice—a sacrifice within a
wounded. And two gave their
line 30 days in a row.” No one sacrifice—for men like Giunta
lives: Sal’s friend, Sgt. Joshua C.
ever pried the secret from his and my grandfathers to talk about
Brennan, and the platoon medic,
humble heart. what they did, what they saw,
Spc. Hugo V. Mendoza.”
But it was Grandpa Dowd’s what they heard, what they
Remembering that day, let alone
passing that finally convinced survived.
talking about it, is hard on Giunta,
Grandpa Eason to talk about the
a humble Iowan. “I try to forget a
war and let me record his
lot of this…talking about it
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Obama’s Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar 8 Ways Technology Is
Michelle Malkin (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) Improving Education
Submitted at 11/21/2010 10:04:59 PM
America is in debt past its
eyeballs. Unemployment remains
stuck near double digits. Small
and large businesses, unions and
insurers are clamoring for
Obamacare waivers in droves.
Jihadists are making a mockery of
homeland security. And border
chaos reigns. So, what’s one of
the Obama administration’s top
domestic policy agenda items this
month? Combating distracted
drivers.
What? You missed the Million
Anti-Distracted Drivers Protest
March on Washington and the
Great Grassroots Groundswell for
federal intervention on our
highways and byways? Don’t
worry. You weren’t the only one.
Making the cable TV rounds to
unveil a public service
announcement campaign against
“epidemic” cell phone use and
texting on the road,
Transportation Secretary Ray
LaHood revealed bizarre and
alarming plans on Wednesday to
install devices in cars that would
block a driver’s ability to
communicate.
“There’s a lot of technology out
there now that can disable phones,
and we’re looking at that,” he
threatened. LaHood — a liberal
Republican and pork-addicted
Chicago crony who embodies
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Sarah Kessler (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 1:32:08 PM
The Education Tech Series is
supported by Dell The Power To
Do More, where you’ll find
perspectives, trends and stories
that inspire Dell to create
technology solutions that work
harder for its customers so they
can do and achieve more.
Don Knezek, the CEO of the
International Society for
While a tuning fork is a perfectly
Technology in Education,
acceptable way to demonstrate
compares education without
how vibrations make sound, it’s
technology to the medical
harder to show students what
profession without technology.
evolution is, how molecules
“If in 1970 you had knee surgery,
behave in different situations, or
you got a huge scar,” he says.
exactly why mixing two particular
O b a m a “ b i p a r t i s a n s h i p ” — L a H o o d r e a l l y m e a n s i s “Now, if you have knee surgery chemicals is dangerous.
envisions centralized government “controlling lives.” There are you have two little dots.” Digital simulations and models
m e c h a n i s m s t o s h u t o f f already 30 states with laws in Technology is helping teachers to can help teachers explain concepts
commuters’ BlackBerries and place regulating drivers’ cell expand beyond linear, text-based that are too big or too small, or
iPhones. phone and/or texting habits. The learning and to engage students processes that happen too quickly
And that’s just the start. “We District of Columbia and Guam who learn best in other ways. Its or too slowly to demonstrate in a
need to do a lot more if we’re also passed bans. The safety role in schools has evolved from a physical classroom.
going to save lives,” LaHood benefits of such laws are in contained “computer class” into a The Concord Consortium, a non-
vowed, while paying obligatory dispute. versatile learning tool that could
profit organization that develops
lip service to encouraging The Insurance Institute for change how we demonstrate technologies for math, science
“personal responsibility.” Will the H i g h w a y S a f e t y e x a m i n e d concepts, assign projects and and engineering education, has
cell phone banners ban radios, insurance claims and driving assess progress. been a leader in developing free,
GPS devices, makeup and fast habits in Louisiana, Washington, Despite these opportunities, open source software that teachers
food in cars next? All are also Minnesota and California, which adoption of technology by schools can use to model concepts. One of
listed as causes of distracted all passed texting bans two years is still anything but ubiquitous. their most extensive projects is
driver-induced accidents. ago. Knezek says that U.S. schools are
the Molecular Workbench, which
Any death due to such reckless still asking if they should
provides science teachers with
behavior is tragic. But by “saving incorporate more technology,
simulations on topics like gas
lives,” what cell phone czar while other countries are asking
laws, fluid mechanics and
how. But in the following eight
chemical bonding. Teachers who
areas, technology has shown its
potential for improving education. WAYS page 73
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are trained in the system can
create activities with text, models
and interactive controls. One
participant referred to the project
as “[Microsoft] Word for
molecules.”
Other simulations the
organization is developing include
a software that allows students to
experiment with virtual
greenhouses in order to
understand evolution, a software
that helps students understand the
physics of energy efficiency by
designing a model house, and
simulations of how electrons
interact with matter. 2. Global
Learning
At sites like Glovico.org,
students can set up language
lessons with a native speaker who
lives in another country and
attend the lessons via
videoconferencing. Learning from
a native speaker, learning through
social interaction, and being
exposed to another culture’s
perspective are all incredible
educational advantages that were
once only available to those who
could foot a travel bill. Now,
setting up a language exchange is
as easy as making a
videoconferencing call. 3. Virtual
Manipulatives
Let’s say you’re learning about
the relationship between fractions,
percents and decimals. Your
teacher could have you draw
graphs or do a series of problems
that changes just one variable in
the same equation. Or he could
give you a “virtual manipulative”
like the one above and let you
experiment with equations to
reach an understanding of the
relationship. The National Library
of Virtual Manipulatives, run by a
team at Utah State University, has
been building its database of these
tools since 1999.
“You used to count blocks or
beads,” says Lynne Schrum, who
has written three books on the
topic of schools and technology.
“Manipulating those are a little bit
more difficult. Now there are
virtual manipulative sites where
students can play with the idea of
numbers and what numbers mean,
and if I change values and I move
things around, what happens.” 4.
Probes and Sensors
About 15 years ago, the founders
of the Concord Consortium took
the auto focus sensor from a
Polaroid camera and hooked it up
to a computer graph program,
thereby creating the ability to
graph motion in real time. Today
there are classrooms all over the
world that use ultrasonic motion
detectors to demonstrate concepts.
“I’ve taught physics before, and
you spend a lot of time getting
these ideas of position, and what
is velocity, and what does motion
really mean and how do you
define it,” says Chad Dorsey, the
president and CEO of the
Concord Consortium. “And you
end up spending a lot of time
doing these things and trying to
translate them into graphs. You
could spend a whole period
creating a graph for an experiment
that you did, and it loses a lot of
meaning in that process. By
hooking up this ultrasonic motion
detector to a graph right away…it
gives you a specific real-time feel
for what it means to move at
faster rates or slower rates or
increasing in speed or decreasing
in speed and a much more
foundational understanding of the
topic than you could ever get by
just drawing the graph by hand.”
Collecting real-time data through
probes and sensors has a wide
range of educational applications.
Students can compute dew point
with a temperature sensor, test pH
with a pH probe, observe the
effect of pH on an MnO3
reduction with a light probe, or
note the chemical changes in
photosynthesis using pH and
nitrate sensors. 5. More Efficient
Assessment
Models and simulations, beyond
being a powerful tool for teaching
concepts, can also give teachers a
much richer picture of how
students understand them.
“You can ask students questions,
and multiple choice questions do
a good job of assessing how well
students have picked up
vocabulary,” Dorsey explains.
“But the fact that you can describe
the definition [of] a chromosome
… doesn’t mean that you
understand genetics any better …
it might mean that you know how
to learn a definition. But how do
we understand how well you
know a concept?”
In Geniverse, a program the
Concord Consortium developed to
help students understand genetics
by “breeding” dragons, teachers
can give students a problem that is
much more like a performance
assessment. The students are
asked to create a specific dragon.
Teachers can see what each
student did to reach his or her end
result and thereby understand
whether trial-and-error or actual
knowledge of genetics leads to a
correct answer.
The organization is also
developing a program that will
help teachers collect real-time
assessment data from their
students. When the teacher gives
out an assignment, she can watch
how far along students are, how
much time each a spends on each
question, and whether their
answers are correct. With this
information, she can decide what
concepts students are struggling
with and can pull up examples of
students’ work on a projector for
discussion.
“What they would have done in
the past is students would make a
lab report, they’d turn it in, the
teacher would take a couple of
days to grade it, they’d get it back
a couple of days later, and two to
three days later they’d talk about
it,” Dorsey says. “But they’ve
probably done a couple of lessons
in between then, [and] they
haven’t had time to guide the
students immediately as they
learned it.” 6. Storytelling and
Multimedia
Knezek recently saw a video that
was produced by a group of
elementary students about
Bernoulli’s Principle. In the
video, the students demonstrated
the principle that makes flight
possible by taking two candles
and putting them close together,
showing that blowing between
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them brings the flames closer
together. For another example,
they hung ping pong balls from
the ceiling and they pulled
together.
“With a simple assignment and
access to technology, researching
and also producing a product that
would communicate, they were
able to do deep learning on a
concept that wasn’t even
addressed in their textbook, and
allow other people to view it and
learn from it,” Knezek says.
Asking children to learn through
multimedia projects is not only an
excellent form of project-based
learning that teaches teamwork,
but it’s also a good way to
motivate students who are excited
to create something that their
peers will see. In addition, it
makes sense to incorporate a
component of technology that has
become so integral to the world
outside of the classroom.
“It’s no longer the verbal logic or
the spoken or written word that
causes people to make decisions,”
Knezek says. “Where you go on
vacations, who you vote for, what
kind of car you buy, all of those
things are done now with
multimedia that engage all of the
senses and cause responses.” 7. E-
books
Despite students’ apparent
preference for paper textbooks,
proponents like Daytona College
and California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger are ready to
switch to digital. And electronic
textbook vendors like
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Why You Need an iPod Touch This Holiday Season
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 12:40:33 PM
This post is part of the Mashable
10, Mashable’s gift guide of the
10 hottest gadgets that will be on
everyone’s wish list this holiday
season. We’ll be publishing one
new post each weekday until
November 26.
We really did our damnedest to
select only one Apple product for
the Mashable 10, but try as we
might, we just couldn’t omit the
iPod touch. For nearly a decade,
Apple’s iPod line has largely
defined the world of portable
media players. When it comes
down to it, the iPod is still the
king.
The original iPod was designed
to do one thing: Play music. The
iPod shuffle and the iPod nano are
evolutions of that basic idea —
and both are stellar music players.
With the iPod touch, however,
you get more than just a music
player — and more than just a
video player — you get a bona
fide pocket computer.
Here’s why we think it deserves a
place on your wish list this year.
Audio Player, Video Player, HD
Video Camera
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The iPod touch is one of the most the Game easily rival anything
versatile gadgets on the market. you’d see on a handheld console.
As an audio player, it’s pretty Plus, with Game Center, you can
fantastic — after all, this is an compete with your friends or with
iPod. Playing back video is strangers across the Net.
equally impressive, especially What’s more, Apple updates the
with the new retina-display. Like iOS software a few times a year,
the iPhone 4, the iPod touch has a adding in new features and
new display that is super clear, enhancements. iOS 4.2 was just
meaning that text, images, games released, adding AirPlay and
and video all look amazing. AirPrint support to the mix.
The fourth generation iPod touch In short, the iPod touch is a lot
also includes dual cameras — just more than a poor man’s iPhone 4
in the App Store. Virtually every
like the iPhone 4. Although the — it’s a pocket powerhouse.
app for the iPhone also works for
still camera on the iPod touch is Let us know how many iPods
the iPod touch.
lacking, it takes great looking you have owned over the years in
From Facebook to Flight Control,
720p HD video. It also features a the comments.
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and thanks to the new display, the
If you’ve got an Android iPhone and iPad
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great way to still get to experience
iPod touch is a great portable
all the apps and games available
gaming device.
for iOS. That means that you
Titles like RAGE HD and Dexter
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CourseSmart are launching to
help them.
E-books hold an unimaginable
potential for innovating education,
though as some schools have
already discovered, not all of that
potential has been realized yet.
“A digital textbook that is merely
a PDF on a tablet that students
can carry around might be
missing out on huge possibilities
like models and simulations or
visualizations,” Dorsey says. “It
takes time and it really takes some
real thought to develop those
things, and so it would be easy for
us as a society to miss out on
those kinds of opportunities by
saying, ‘Hey look, we’re not
carrying around five textbooks
anymore. It’s all on your iPad,
isn’t that great?’” 8. Epistemic
Games
Epistemic games put students in
roles like city planner, journalist,
or engineer and ask them to solve
real-world problems. The
Epistemic Games Group has
provided several examples of how
immersing students in the adult
world through commercial game-
like simulations can help students
learn important concepts.
In one game, students are cast as
high-powered negotiators who
need to decide the fate of a real
medical controversy. In another,
they must become graphical
artists in order to create an exhibit
of mathematical art in the style of
M.C. Escher. Urban Science, the
game featured in the above video,
assigns students the task of
redesigning Madison, Wisconsin.
“Creative professionals learn
innovative thinking through
training that is very different from
traditional academic classrooms
because innovative thinking
means more than just knowing the
right answers on a test,” explains
The Epistemic Games Group’s
website. “It also means having
real-world skills, high standards
and professional values, and a
particular way of thinking about
problems and justifying solutions.
Epistemic games are about
learning these fundamental ways
of thinking for the digital age.”
These eight technologies are
redefining education. Which
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How to Avoid Online
Holiday Shopping Pitfalls
(Financiallyfit on Shine) holidays, plus additional discounts
Submitted at 11/22/2010 8:13:46 PM that not everyone knows about.
Be sure to check the conditions on
B y S t a c y J o h n s o n o f those coupons as well, though.
MoneyTalksNews.com Shipping Time
With the holiday shopping season Risks: Lots of people are
quickly approaching, we are all shopping alongside you, and item
looking for ways to save. One of stock might drop fast. There’s
the best ways to cut costs and a l w a y s a s m a l l r i s k t h a t a
avoid hassles is to shop online. merchant will run out of an item
But not all deals are as great as and have to order more, possibly
they seem at first glance. Our delaying the arrival of your item.
friends at MoneyTalksNews.com Every business has different
share five potential pitfalls to shipping policies, too – some
online holiday shopping, and orders can take weeks to arrive.
some ways you can address them Solutions: Look for sites that
t o m a x i m i z e s a v i n g s a n d have automated systems that
minimize stress: notify you when an item’s stock is
Plus: 13 Things Your Salesclerk low or sold out – some smaller
Won't Tell You independent merchants update
Pricing their product listings by hand and
Risks: While the base price for an their stock listings might be
online item might look lower than inaccurate. If the product page
the store price, you also have to doesn’t mention whether the
factor in the cost of shipping. item’s in stock or not, skip it.
Sometimes the list price assumes Likewise, make sure the ship and/
you’ll mail in a rebate, or meet or delivery date is listed – if not
certain conditions, like buying a on the product page, at least
large enough quantity or spending during the checkout process.
enough money to qualify for a Otherwise, who knows when your
discount. gift will arrive?
Solutions: Check out shipping Returns:
costs before you buy, and see Risks: Whether you shop online
what options you have. Many or at a store, returning a purchase
retailers with local stores will c a n b e a s t i c k y p r o c e s s .
allow you to ship a product to one Sometimes items can only be
of their locations at no charge. exchanged, or can’t be returned at
Also be sure to check for coupons all if they’ve been opened.
through Google and on sites like Sometimes there’s a “restocking
R e t a i l M e N o t . c o m a n d fee” and you won’t get a full
DealCoupon.com-- there are often HOW page 76
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refund. On top of that, you often
have to cover return shipping on
your own.
Solutions: Read the merchant’s
return policy carefully before
ordering. Know if you’re
responsible for return shipping, or
if you can print out a prepaid
return label. Also make sure you
understand the policy for your
specific item – in addition to a
general return policy, there are
also often specifics for different
categories of items. Returning
clothes is different (and often
easier) than returning electronics
or unwrapped DVDs, CDs, and
video games.
Merchant Reputation
Risks: Pretty much anybody can
do business online, and not
everybody is professional or
trustworthy. Especially on auction
sites like eBay, it’s easy to
misrepresent the condition or
nature of a product with a stock
photo or generic description.
Solution: Solution: Check out the
seller’s ratings and what other
buyers have said, if the website
has those features. If it doesn’t, or
if the merchant isn’t well-
established, be skeptical and
contact the seller for specifics
before buying. Make sure you’re
not getting a generic or knock-off
product unless you’re looking for
one. If it’s used, be sure to assess
the condition and quality by
asking questions and getting
photos from different angles, not
stock images pulled from Google.
In short, the less you can tell, the
more you should ask.
Payment Method
Risks: Identity theft and fraud are
always risks online, but never
more so when you’re shopping,
because that’s when you’re
putting your financial information
out there. Online shopping allows
you to screw up in other ways:
like buying more or different
items than you intended.
Solution: At checkout, verify the
list of items you’re purchasing
and make sure the quantities are
right. Consider using secure
checkout methods such as
Paypal.com, or be aware of the
protections your credit card offers
in case something goes wrong.
Consider using a virtual credit
card for online shopping, too.
Now that you know what to look
for, you might be looking for
some sites to compare prices.
Google is a good place to start,
but it doesn’t always provide the
best results when it comes to
shopping. Try these, too:
PriceGrabber.com, Yahoo!
Shopping and NexTag.
Plus: 6 Ways to Survive Holiday
Travel
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Digital photo frames top list of least-wanted holiday
gifts, better find those receipts
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/22/2010 3:09:00 PM
Finished your holiday shopping
already? That's good news, but if
you've made any purchases from
the following list of goods you
might just want to think about just
going ahead and taping that gift
receipt right to the bottom of the
box. A survey from the British
Video Association shows that
digital photo frames are the least-
wanted holiday gadget among
those who consider themselves
worthy of receiving gifts this year,
beating out all-time flops like foot
massagers, electric shavers, and
those poor bread makers destined
to make a single, crusty loaf
before being permanently
relegated to their box. Granted
this was a survey of British
holiday folks and so Ma and Pa
Apple Pie may have somewhat
different desires, but a quick poll
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among Engadgeteers confirms
that digi frames do indeed fall
squarely in the "no, really, you
shouldn't have" category. Oh, and
if you're wondering what you
should get your loved ones this
holiday season, we can help.
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