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More Reasons To Like The European Stress Tests
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:02:40 PM
First of all, you should be
skeptical anytime EVERYONE
is saying that the stress tests
were too weak, if the market
doesn't register the same
disappointment.
As Jamie Coleman at
ForexLive put it, groupthink can
be expensive.
As we argued in the hour before
the results were release, what
was really being tested was the
political/regulatory structure of
Europe. Could the famously
fractious EU actually pull off a
credible-looking test with some
harmony? The answer turned
out to be yes.
Meanwhile, European
regulators might actually be in
better shape now than they were
before. Felix Salmon argues that
leniency aside, if at a minimum
the whole exercise got everyone
talking and seriously looking
into the banking system, that's a
long-term plus.
That actually dovetails nicely
with a point Christopher Whalen
made in a guest contribution at
Reuters:
In the EU, on the other hand,
there is virtually no
transparency on bank financial
statements and thus no visibility
for investors in terms of making
the stress tests credible. There is
- 24/07/10 http://www.LibertyNewspost.
Chatroulette tries to
eradicate the perverts.
New warning on site
financial data regarding EU
banks without going through reads, "Broadcasting
enormous trouble and expense. inappropriate content to
Thus the entire EU stress test
process is suspect. And analysts
min...
have no way to independently (Business Insider)
verify either the inputs or the Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:42:00 AM
results.
That's remarkable. Chatroulette tries to eradicate
Look it is possible, appearance the perverts. New warning on
of leniency aside, that the site reads, "Broadcasting
European banking system is not inappropriate content to minors
that bad, especially if no is a violation of both US and
governments collapse. The UN law. We are actively
problem is: in an opaque cooperating with law
system, the presumption is to be enforcement agencies."
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can't easily sort winners and story »
losers.
no SEC in Europe, no EDGAR
The crises of this spring
or FDIC portals on the internet
indicate that Europe has a long
with extensive financial data on
way to go in terms of figuring
banks. There is not even a
out its structure. The latest
common template for gathering
exercise may yet prove to have
financial data on European
been an important step.
banks or even credit statistics
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Financial analysts, risk
professionals and publishers
cannot even obtain basic
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Advertising is next
Jeff Jarvis (Business Insider) side, we must develop a much, dollars versus digital dimes, but
Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:42:00 PM much more effective financial rather a realistic assessment of
relationship with the consumer.” how to make money in a world
Condé Nast is a house built on That is, get money from the of abundant competitors and
smoke and mirrors — that is, to c o n s u m e r i n s t e a d o f t h e consumer choice.
say, on brand advertising. So it a d v e r t i s e r . Instead, I suggest they have to
is astonishing to hear its CEO, Good luck. get new revenue through
Chuck Townsend, essentially The company plans — like commerce — through selling
toss the company’s business Murdoch — to try to suddenly the things they once advertised
model out the window of the get new money from consumers now that advertisers are
Death Star in what The Times who for years — long, long deserting them to sell direct.
frames as “a fundamental before the internet — have been Problem is, that’s hard, as
overhaul of the advertising- accustomed to almost-free Condé knows best from its
based business model.” This, content: $1-per-issue luxe experience with Style.com,
folks, is surely the real product magazines that cost probably which started as an attempt to
o f t h e M c K i n s e y s t u d i e s four times that to produce and create a high-end store (I
undertaken at Condé, not a few distribute (not to mention the worked there then). They
magazines folded but a new tens of dollars it takes in created it in partnership with a
strategy. In a phrase: marketing to acquire that retailer and the retailer bagged
Advertising is fucked. marketing. The age of the ad that says I get a buck or two a
subscription with advertising the effort when times got tough
I’ve said that Rupert Murdoch’s and schwag — a purse for sales guy is over because the month. How about I get a buck
in the first bubble; it then
paywall is also essentially his Glamour readers or the fabled age of the ad is over. for a click?”
became another ad-supported
surrender of any hope that sneakerphone up the street at The problem is going to be that Dream on.
site. But the strategy wasn’t
advertising can be grown or Sports Illustrated). there is only more competition They’re not wrong that they
wrong. Problem is, there is no
even maintained. He gave up in content and so trying to need to get money from
Condé promoted Bob retail expertise in the company.
a n d s h r a n k l i k e G e o r g e Sauerberg, former head of suddenly charge more flies in consumers but they’re not
More recently, Condé should
Costanza’s privates. It’s one consumer marketing (read: the face of basic economics. The going to get it for content. Sorry
have bought Net-a-Porter but
thing for the dirty digger to give circulation) to its presidency. absurdity of the strategy struck guys. But as Google schooled
instead luxury conglomerate
up on car ads. It is quite another Bob is one of the good guys of me yesterday as Amazon tried to the newspaper industry (I’ll
Richemont snarfed it up.
for Condé to go off its diet of Condé Nast (I don’t mean to sell me a subscription to Time substitute appropriate words):
(Disclosure: I spoke at
Madison Avenue and Seventh damn him with faint praise there for 28.8 cents an issue while The large profit margins
Richemont’s corporate retreat
Avenue in favor of a parking … sorry, couldn’t resist); he’s Time is trying to sell its iPad [magazines] enjoyed in the past
recently.) Condé should buy Gilt
meter. issues for $4.99 and I see no were built on an artificial
smart, mature, experienced. (I to establish new skills, a new
“We have been so overtly worked with him a good deal reason to buy either. In what scarcity: Limited choice for
relationship with customers, and
dependent on advertising as the when I was at Advance’s parent world do these economics make advertisers as well as readers.
new revenue. Its content then
turbine that runs this place, and c o m p a n y a n d h e w a s a t sense? In their dreams. With the Internet, that scarcity
becomes just added value: the
that is a very, very risky model Fairchild; I should add that none “I want to collect income from has been taken away and
Cinnabon’s in the mall.
a s w e e m e r g e f r o m t h e of what I’m saying here comes the consumer,” Townsend told replaced by abundance. No
A media company going into
recession,” Condé CEO Chuck from the slightest contemporary The Times earlier. “An annual [dreaming] will be able to
retail and selling in areas held
Townsend told The Times. “In a knowledge of the company; magazine subscription may be restore [magazine] revenues to
by former advertisers has
company like ours where 70 haven’t been in the cafeteria for something like anywhere what they were before the
precedent: Media News’ Salt
percent of our margins are many months.) Bob knows bet[ween] $12 and $24. So I’m emergence of online [content].
currently locked into a model It is not a question of analog ADVERTISING page 6
generated on the advertising management and consumer
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The Government's Landlord Smartens Up and Goes Green

Greg Lindsay (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/23/2010 9:29:54 PM

By now you’ve heard plenty

about smarter cities and even a “
decade of smart,” but what
about a smarter courthouse? Or
a smarter federal building?
Despite the flurry of deals
signed by cities and even non-
profits with the likes of IBM
and Cisco (which announced a
new pilot project around Akron,
Ohio this week), the biggest
score in the smarter sweepstakes
is a government agency you’ve
likely never heard of, the
General Services
Administration, and its real
estate arm, the Public Buildings
Service. The PBS is the federal
government’s landlord and
superintendent, charging rent,
making repairs, and otherwise
doing the utmost to cover its
$8.6 billion annual budget and
return a profit to Congress. It’s
also been charged with going
green in a big way -- meaning it
will have to retrofit and smarten alike as a potential gusher of future of facilities, really. We Wendell Wyatt Federal Building buildings. In an experiment that
up its aging buildings. contracts. They announced the have the ability to change the in Portland, Oregon, which is would make Cass Sunstein
It won’t be cheap. PBS would become a “green platform.” scheduled to undergo a $133 proud, the PBS is working with
The PBS owns or leases 9,600 proving ground” for smarter He doesn’t have much choice. million retrofit that will designers at IDEO and
buildings across all 50 states, buildings, using its clout and its The Energy Independence and essentially rebuild it from the researchers at Lawrence
totaling enough square footage cash to make the technology Security Act of 2007, coupled inside out. The new Berkeley National Laboratory to
to fill every office building in companies play nice and create with Executive Orders issued by enhancements include a fiber install a giant screen in the
Manhattan below Central Park. interoperable standards. They President Obama, dictate the backbone for the entire building, lobby of the San Francisco
At the Realcomm“connected hoped to kick broad adoption GSA cut its energy use by 30% and networked smart meters, Federal Building displaying its
real estate” conference in Las into high gear. “This isn’t just (compared to 2003 levels) by HVAC, and lighting controls. real-time levels of energy use.
Vegas last month, PBS officials the flavor of the month; this 2015. The agency has responded “But to hit that 30% target, we The assumption is that if you
were the belles of the ball, isn’t just a pilot,” GSA assistant by targeting the 200 worst need to change behavior, too,” give people the information,
courted ardently by tech commissioner Larry Melton told offenders for total overhauls -- said Frank Santella, the GOVERNMENT'S page 6
heavyweights and niche players me afterwards. “This is the buildings like the Edith Green- agency’s director of smart
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How to Save Nokia: Rip Out Its Bureaucratic Guts

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/23/2010 5:03:29 PM

Nokia's business may not be

circling the drain hole, but it is
in the toilet despite positive spin
around its recent finances. How
can the company be saved? A
former exec knows: by flushing
its middle management.
Juhani Risku wrote a book--
Uusi Nokia(New Nokia)--that
has been a sensation in Finland,
but is only now hitting the
English-speaking world, and
The Register gave it a close
read. Risku is a former architect
and industrial designer, and he
was employed at a senior level
inside Nokia between 2001 and
just recently. In fact, Risku was
involved in product design, he
was head of the Symbian "user
experience" design team (which
means you can partly blame him
for Symbian's insipid, bland UI),
he worked at Forum Nokia Nokia is bogged down, believes many of the potentially Nokia may be looking for a new nations, and that's kept the cash
(which supplies tools for third- suffocated, and squashed by its world-beating ideas are ditched CEO after the most recent coming in. But its lack of
party developers) and he was many layers of management. by managers who merely don't financial release, quashing any innovative, game-changing
head of Nokia Showroom. So The complex mechanisms of like them. Or else they are notion that he's leaving. Maybe phones at the high-end of the
his book about the issues management often stifle delayed and then tinkered with it's time he did? market (where big profits can be
Finland's premier company is innovation, and ensure that even by unthinking staff to the point This rings horribly true when made very swiftly--just ask
facing is sourced in real, juicy cutting-edge solutions to that they become flat and boring you look at Nokia's product Apple) is explained away
inside data--some of it technical or marketplace by the time they become real portfolio: Phone after boring completely by what Risku
presumably stuff Nokia problems are months old by the products. phone, each with minuscule reveals as normal Nokia
wouldn't want you to know. time they swing into any sort of How did Nokia get like this? differences to other similar business.
Risku thinks he understands action. Many management posts This is perhaps Nokia's biggest units, along with style and How can you fix Nokia before
Nokia's core problems, and how are filled with folks who've been mistake: It's embattled CEO Olli performance and specs that its giant cargo-ship of similar
to solve them. The issues are promoted through their -Pekka Kallasvuo may just be wouldn't look out of place in a cellphones sails into a storm
almost depressingly normal, incompetence (the classic Peter too entrenched, too close to his phone catalog from 1997. This that'll sink it? Risku thinks it's
they are the same slow-breaking Principle). While Nokia's R&D business to admit anything's strategy has served Nokia well easy: Gut the management
cumulative disasters that befall is roaring along on rocket- structurally wrong. He even in delivering cheap low-power HOW page 6
many successful companies. powered roller skates, Risku jumped on press rumblings that phones to the world's poorer
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White iPhone 4 Delayed Again: Innovative Manufacturing
Process Just a Bit Too Tricky
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/23/2010 5:31:20 PM
The white iPhone 4, which was
expected to go on sale at the end
of this month, has become a
pink elephant: Apple now says it
won't arrive until "later this
year." The manufacturing
process turns out to be trickier
than even Steve Jobs imagined.
Apple's fresh-out-of-the-box
PR statement, titled "Statement
by Apple on White iPhone 4"
couldn't be simpler:
CUPERTINO, Calif., July 23 --
White models of Apple's new
iPhone® 4 have continued to be
more challenging to
manufacture than we originally
expected, and as a result they
will not be available until later
this year. The availability of the
more popular iPhone 4 black
models is not affected.
Back at the end of last Friday's
press conference about the
iPhone 4's antenna, Steve Jobs
himself admitted the white
version of the new iPhone was
proving a bit trickier to make,
and it would only be arriving in
"limited" numbers at the end of
July. But even that hope proved
Good News In The Gulf: Tropical Storm Worries Are Over
Joe Weisenthal (Money
Game)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:42:30 AM
false, as this new data definitely
precludes a late-July launch.
What the heck is holding the
white phone back though--
surely it's just a simple job of
changing the paint used to color
the thing? The iPhone 4's
manufacturing process is way
more complex and innovative
than you realize, and the white
version is messing with the fine
parameters.
It turns out that Apple's
Alright, BP. You're four feet
away from finishing that relief
well. The National Hurricane
Center has discontinued its
patented the assembly
mechanism for this phone, as
well as numerous physical and
software components inside the
beastie. Intent on producing a
seamless design for this new
edition, with the novel rear glass
panel, Apple uses ultra-precise
positioning techniques and a
liquid-metal "glue" for bonding
the glass to the phone's metal
chassis. Yup--liquid metal that's
injected around the glass screen
tropical storm warning for
Business/ Economy/
and hardens to bond it to the
frame. Is that exotic enough for
you?
This info surfaced over at
PatentlyApple.com some weeks
back, but we all skipped the
relevance of the data.
The paint that makes the black
iPhone black (and which
adheres to the inwards-facing
side of the aluminosilicate glass
screen) is different to the white
paint for white iPhones, and it
Bonnie. Let's do this.
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would seem that the color and
consistency of the white display
just isn't up to Apple's strict
quality assurance issues--or so
we guess. The paint itself may
also be interfering with the
reliability of the novel frame
bonding method, since this has
to be ultra-precise so that no
unsightly or structurally
weakening bubbles get in the
mix.
Should Apple simply have
avoided making a white
version? Of course not. When
you attempt a device design that
completely changes the game,
you have to take risks--this one
just didn't quite end in success
as swiftly as Apple had hoped.
The same thinking is behind the
whole "antennagate" fiasco, of
course, and skeptics will be
wondering if Apple isn't using
this screen design delay as a
cover for quietly re-engineering
the iPhone to fix the supposed
antenna problem.
To keep up with this news,
follow me, Kit Eaton, on
Twitter.
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Lake City paper became a real
estate broker and undersold the
entire business in town. The
Telegraph, as I like to point out,
sells everything from hangers to
wine to betting to its readers.
But if Condé and other media
companies are going into retail,
they need entirely new skills of
merchandising and sales, an
entirely new financial structure
to cope with inventory costs and
tight margins, the ability to
cope with entirely new
competitors and suppliers (that
is, former advertisers — but,
worse, Amazon), and an entirely
new efficiency (forget the
cafeteria; they’d be lucky to
have a Wal-Mart lunch room
with vending machines as a
profit center).
They also have to defeat a
calcified, entitled culture. For
that, I’d suggest they buy
GOVERNMENT'S
continued from page 3
they’ll take steps to rein in their
consumption. “We want to see if
we can change the behavior of
people,” Santella said. Down the
road, he hopes to stick a widget
on employees’ screens depicting
their personal usage. “We want
to bring this down to human
scale.”
In addition to the 200 buildings
slated for gut renovation, by the
end of the year another 50 will
be identified for outfitting with
simpler measures such smart
meters and stand-alone
Gawker Media to get the
incredibly popular competitor
Jezebel and to infuse the
company with a new culture.
Make Nick Denton editorial
director and COO and then
watch the fun.
I doubt they heard any of this
from KcKinsey because in the
few encounters I’ve had with
them they remix known models
rather than invent new ones,
which is what is called for here.
I’ll bet they proposed cutting
some costs (done) and remixing
revenue (started) when what’s
really needed is a complete
restrategizing.
Or maybe I”m wrong. Maybe 4
Times Square will become the
world’s lushest mall, with one
helluva food court.
Nevermind my advice. The
moral of this story remains that
advertising is next to fall into
applications. But the long-term
vision is to link all 9,600
buildings on a single network,
with regional command centers
controlling energy output and a
national one “spotting trends
and opportunities and writing
policies around them,” as
Melton put it. It would be the
prototype for the nation-wide
smart grid touted by everyone
from GE to IBM to Google --
although the agency isn’t about
to hand over the keys to just
one. “We’re trying to test as
the black hole (as a Time Inc.
president once dubbed this
damned internet thing).
Welcome to Bob Garfield’s
Chaos Scenario.
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School On Newspapers
many different technologies as
possible,” Melton said. “Our
strategy isn’t to buy one, walk
away and let it run. Others have
done that, and let’s just say they
didn’t work so well. Initially, a
lot of companies were surprised
by this, but considering we have
an inventory of 360 million
square feet, we have the ability
to be leading customers.”
In practice, this means being
able to dictate the terms: open
protocols; nothing proprietary;
seamless interoperability, and
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continued from page 4
structure, injecting some vitality changes, but a real injection of
and speed to the way new life. And soon. Because Palm
projects proceed from concept tried something similar. And we
to reality. And avoid bringing in all know how that turned out.
"Americans," who Risku thinks Main image via Csonka.
would corrupt the "Finnish way" To keep up with this news,
the company works with their follow me, Kit Eaton, on
"aggressive" habits and "money- Twitter.
grabbing" thinking. Cultural
stereotypes aside, Risku may be
right--what Nokia seems to need
is not money-grabbing, cash-
before-long-term-success
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shared data. “We’re looking for “A lot of people think we’re this
the total solution, not just big bureaucratic arm, but we’re
someone to sell us the really no different than the
middleware boxes, but also the private sector other than the fact
analytics and the engineering,” we work for the government.
said Santella, all of which We knew we had to be a leader
means no one can go it alone. in this -- we feel like we’re
The result is that practical making the market.”
partnerships are starting to form,
rather than everyone touting
their own technology as the only
one you’ll ever need.
“We know the technology is
changing, and we’re making the
case for change,” said Melton.
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DOE's Energy Innovation Hub Will
Develop Fuel From Sunlight
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:53:07 AM
Want to generate innovation?
Build a hub to make it happen.
The U.S. Department of Energy
is embarking on an ambitious
plan to speed up energy
innovation with a $122 million
cash injection for an Energy
Innovation Hub in California.
Dubbed the Joint Center for
Artificial Photosynthesis, the
research center will do exactly
as its name suggests--develop a
solar energy fuel conversion
system through artificial
photosynthesis and bring it to
commercialization.
The DOE has selected an all-
star team of researchers to get
the hub going. Participants
include researchers from Cal
Tech, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, SLAC
National Accelerator
Laboratory, and the University
of California, Irvine. The project
will probably take a long time to
get going--solar fuels have
lagged in research and
development for years, and
bringing them into widespread
use will take a concerted effort.
The DOE hints at the
magnitude of the scientists'
Business/ 7
Comfort Zone Investing:
Undercurrents of a
Recovery
Ted Allrich (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL),
Intel (INTC), Ford Motor (F),
International Business Machines
(IBM), Comfort Zone Investing
There is some solid evidence
building that a recovery is
beginning. The broader data advances in sales and profits,
points like unemployment, though a little less than hoped.
housing starts, and consumer Semiconductor companies,
spending aren't showing them beside Intel, can't make their
yet. The reason for hope of a integrated circuits fast enough
real recovery lies more in as demand for mobile devices
sectors that are often precursors such as cellphones continue to
grow. Clearly, the tech sector is
undertaking: JCAP research will decades, into applied research to economic growth.
enjoying boom times.
be directed at the discovery of and technology development, The first industry showing real
Continue reading Comfort Zone
the functional components thereby setting the stage for the strength is technology. Apple (
Investing: Undercurrents of a
n e c e s s a r y t o a s s e m b l e a creation of a direct solar fuels AAPL) reported great numbers
($3.51 vs. $2.01 last year in the Recovery
complete a r t i f i c i a l industry.
Comfort Zone Investing:
photosynthetic system: light Ambitious, yes, but the DOE is third quarter -- fiscal year ends
Undercurrents of a Recovery
absorbers, catalysts, molecular confident that the Innovation in September). Revenues were
originally appeared on
l i n k e r s , a n d s e p a r a t i o n Hub model could work for a $15.7 billion vs. $9.73 billion
BloggingStocks on Sat, 24 Jul
membranes. The Hub will then variety of projects. Oak Ridge l a s t y e a r . M a n a g e m e n t i s
2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see
integrate those components into National Laboratory is already forecasting $3.44 per share for
our terms for use of feeds.
an operational solar fuel system working on a nuclear reactor the fourth quarter and $18
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and develop scale-up strategies hub, and a third hub will focus billion in sales. iPods and iPads
Comments
to move from the laboratory on radically improving energy were very popular the last three
months. Another tech giant that IBM- Apple- Intel Corporation-
toward commercial viability. efficiency.
BloggingStocks- Technology
The ultimate objective is to Ariel Schwartz can be reached wowed investors: Intel ( INTC).
drive the field of solar fuels on Twitter or by email. It set a new record for quarterly
earnings. IBM ( IBM) showed
from fundamental research,
where it has resided for
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"Greener Skies" Project Lowers Flight Emissions by 35%

Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/23/2010 5:09:46 PM
This week, Alaska Airlines
demonstrated a set of next-
generation flight procedures that
dramatically reduced fuel
consumption and carbon
emissions. Under the banner of
its "Greener Skies" project, AA
used satellite-based guidance
technology that enabled aircraft
to fly more efficient landing
patterns, which are shorter and
more direct. The Seattle-based
airline estimates that such
improved descent approaches
would burn 2.1 million less
gallons of fuel and cut carbon
emissions by 22,000 metric
tons, or 35%.
"Ultimately this project could
serve as a blueprint for next-
generation aviation technology
throughout the country," said
Ben Minicucci, COO of Alaska
Airlines.
AA has been perfecting its
precision flight-guidance
technology, or Required
Navigation Performance (RNP),
since the mid-1990s, and the
company's planes are capable of
landing in some of the most
remote and challenging airports
in the world.
Commercial aircraft usually
follow long approach patterns
with a "series of stair-step
descents." RNP enables planes
to descend from a higher
altitude along a shorter route
that uses less power. Such
seemingly simple modifications
to landing patterns will create a
big change on environmental
impact, especially when coupled
with other "open skies"-type
thinking such as Honeywell's
SmartPath landing system.
RNP technology is part of the
FAA's Next Generation Air
Transportation System, a plan to
modernize the country's flight
system by 2025. Alaska Airlines
is the only major U.S. airline to
be completely RNP-equipped,
and judging from the
effectiveness of the technology
so far, it looks like the FAA is
off to a good start toward
greening our blue skies.

If You Want To Understand How The US Is Still

So Much Richer Than China, Look At The Oil
Spills
Joe Weisenthal (Business oil. human achievement entirely.
Insider) What you see is the difference Of course China's advancing
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:35:42 AM between a country that has
sophisticated cleanup
rapidly, but if you're paying
more attention to reserves, and
Restore the Color
It's only just now percolating technologies, and one where not the actual functioning of day of Old Lego
into the public's view, but there's men have to wade directly into to life, then you won't see the
a huge oil disaster in China, the oil and get covered in it. real story. Bricks [DIY]
resulting from the explosion of This is the difference between Below: A picture of a US Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
an oil pipeline. povery and wealth demonstrated command center at the
Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:00:00 AM
The pictures are vivid and quite vividly. serious fiscal muscle. But if you Deepwater Horizon site:
disturbing, especially when you Folks like to talk about China's think that makes China richer Join the conversation about this We've been known to break out
look at the workers who are s w o l l e n f o r e i g n e x c h a n g e than the US in any meaningful story » the Lego every once in a while
completely covered in oil. One coffers, and it's true that that sense whatsoever, the you're for fun DIY projects, but if all
person actually drowned in the allows the government some missing the point of wealth and your Lego is old and discolored,
here's how to get it looking like
new. More »
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Two Quarterly Reports: McDonald's Receives
Hershey and Verizon Bearish Reaction to
Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks) Latest Earnings
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:10:00 PM
Filed under: Earnings Reports,
Hershey Co (HSY), Verizon
Communications (VZ)
Let's take a brief look at a
couple companies that reported
quarterly earnings this week that
couldn't be more different: one
sells candy while the other sells
telecommunication services.
Both, however, pay dividends,
although one is set at a much
higher yield than the other.
We'll go with the confectioner
first. Hershey ( HSY) issued
second-quarter results that I
thought were appealing.
According to the press release,
sales increased more than 5%,
and on an adjusted basis, net
income jumped 19% to 51 cents
per share. Analysts believed the
business was capable of
Good News In The Gulf: Tropical Storm Worries Are Over
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:42:30 AM
Business/ Culture/ 9
Fact or
Fiction:
HDTV
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Steven Mallas Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
(BloggingStocks)
If you don't have an HDTV by
Submitted at 7/23/2010 5:30:00 PM
now, you might feel like you're
hopelessly behind the times. But
Filed under: Earnings Reports,
even if you do own one, you
delivering only 46 cents per M c D o n a l d ' s ( M C D ) , Y u m might not be exactly sure how it
share. This is a nice follow-up to Brands (YUM), Wendy's Intl works or how to optimize your
the first-quarter release. (WEN), Burger King Hldgs
s t o c k p o s s e s s e s . I n d e e d , viewing experience. This quiz
C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g T w o (BKC) won't tell you what HDTV is
Quarterly Reports: Hershey and McDonald's Corporation ( considering how many equities
best for you, but it might help
Verizon MCD) was down roughly 2% as have pulled back from their 52-
week highs, you've got to enjoy you sort out some of the
T w o Q u a r t e r l y R e p o r t s : I began composing this piece mystery.
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Hershey and Verizon originally during the afternoon session. I
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CTIA sues San Francisco over cellphone radiation law

Sean Hollister (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:44:00 PM
San Francisco may have signed
cellphone radiation labels into
law, but the stickers won't stick
without a fight -- the Cellular
Telephone Industries
Association (CTIA) just filed a
complain in federal district
court, claiming the new law watt per kilogram threshold cellphone radiation law
supersedes the FCC's authority already. But hey, we're all for originally appeared on Engadget
to regulate radio emissions and bombarding our brains with that on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:44:00
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pass fall below a specific 1.6
rigorously tested for cell phone CTIA sues San Francisco over
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US aircraft carrier ups pressure on NKorea (AP)
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:32:44 AM
BUSAN, South Korea – A
massive nuclear-powered U.S.
supercarrier readied Saturday
for maneuvers with ally South
Korea in a potent show of force
that North Korea has threatened
could lead to "sacred war."
The military drills, code-named
"Invincible Spirit," are to run
Sunday through Wednesday
with about 8,000 U.S. and South
Korean troops, 20 ships and
submarines and 200 aircraft.
The Nimitz-class USS George
Washington, with several
thousand sailors and dozens of
fighters aboard, was deployed
from Japan.
The North routinely threatens
attacks whenever South Korea
and the U.S. hold joint military
drills, which Pyongyang sees as
a rehearsal for an invasion. The
U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in
South Korea and another 50,000
in Japan, but says it has no
intention of invading the North.
Still, the North's latest rhetoric
threatening "nuclear deterrence"
and "sacred war" carries extra
weight following the sinking of
a South Korean warship that
killed 46 sailors. Seoul and
Washington say a North Korean
torpedo was responsible for the
March sinking of the Cheonan,
considered the worst military
attack on the South since the
1950-53 Korean War.
The American and South
Korean defense chiefs
announced earlier in the week
they would stage the military
drills to send a clear message to
North Korea to stop its
"aggressive" behavior.
The exercises will be the first in
a series of U.S.-South Korean
maneuvers to be conducted in
the Sea of Japan off Korea's east
coast and in the Yellow Sea
closer to China's shores in
international waters. The
exercises also are the first to
employ the F-22 stealth fighter
— which can evade North
Korean air defenses — in South
Korea.
South Korea was closely
monitoring North Korea's
military, but no unusual activity
had been observed Saturday,
South Korea's Yonhap news
agency reported.
North Korea, which denies any
involvement in the sinking of
the Cheonan warship, has
warned the United States against
attempting to punish it.
"The army and people of the
DPRK will legitimately counter
with their powerful nuclear
deterrence the largest-ever
nuclear war exercises to be
staged by the U.S. and the South
Korean puppet forces," North
Korea's official news agency in
Pyongyang quoted an unnamed
government spokesman as
saying. North Korea's official
name is the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea.
Though the impoverished North
has a large conventional military
and the capability to build
nuclear weapons, it is not
believed to have the technology
needed to use nuclear devices as
warheads.
Its rhetoric regarding using
nuclear deterrence was seen by
most as bluster, but its angry
response to the maneuvers
underscores the rising tensions
in the region.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Rodham Clinton announced
Wednesday, after visiting the
Demilitarized Zone dividing the
two Koreas, that the U.S. would
slap new sanctions on the North
to stifle its nuclear ambitions
and punish it for the Cheonan
sinking.
On Friday, the European Union
said it, too, would consider new
sanctions on North Korea.
The North's Foreign Ministry
said Saturday that Pyongyang
will further strengthen its
nuclear deterrent and again
mentioned "powerful physical
measures" in response to the
U.S. military provocations and
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sanctions.
In an apparent bow to China,
the George Washington will
participate in the exercise in the
Sea of Japan, but there are no
plans for it to enter the Yellow
Sea for the subsequent
exercises.
China, a traditional North
Korean ally, has voiced
concerns that military drills in
the Yellow Sea could inflame
tensions on the Korean
Peninsula and also fears
exercises too close to its own
shores could breach Chinese
security.
The George Washington had
been expected to join in
exercises off Korea sooner, but
the Navy delayed those plans as
the United Nations Security
Council met to deliberate what
action it should take over the
Cheonan sinking.
The council eventually
condemned the incident, but
stopped short of naming North
Korea as the perpetrator.
__
Associated Press writer Kwang-
Tae Kim in Seoul contributed to
this report.
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Forum Site Lefora
Gobbled Up By
CrowdGather
Michael Arrington
(TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:13:49 PM
Los Angeles based
CrowdGather, which offers
forums for online communities,
has aquired the assets of Silicon
Valley based Lefora. The size of
the all-stock transaction isn’t
being disclosed.
Lefora, founded by Paul
Bragiel, first launched in 2008.
It’s notable because of how
simple it is for users to create
and embed forums onto their
sites.
The much larger CrowdGather
boasts around 4.5 million
monthly unique users and 80
million monthly page views.
The company has raised$3
million or so in funding and has
been on an acquisition tear –
albeit always very small deals.
CrowdGather is also licensing
technology from Tal.ki, another
company founded by Bragiel.
Tal.ki is acquiring the remaining
assets of Lefora as well.
Bragiel also recently cofounded
i/o Ventures, a work/cafe
incubator located in San
Francisco. CrunchBase
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17 killed in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade Apple posts

Droid X antenna
(AP) issue video
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) on the ground as rescue workers who were lying on the ground." a peaceful festival of happy Michael Grothaus (The
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:52:51 PM rushed to aid them. Many of the Another witness, a young man young people is terrible," Unofficial Apple Weblog
injured were loaded into Red who wasn't named, told n-tv the President Christian Wulff said, (TUAW))
DUISBURG, Germany – A Cross vans and driven away. tunnel became so crowded that according to his office.
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:00:00 PM
stampede inside a tunnel Kieskemper said that just people began falling. "It got The Love Parade was once an Filed under: iPhone
crowded with techno music fans before the stampede occurred at tighter and tighter from minute institution in Berlin, but has Just two days after Apple
left 17 people dead and 80 about 5 p.m. (1500 GMT, 11 to minute and at some point been held in the industrial Ruhr posted a video showing antenna
injured at the famed Love a.m. EDT), police closed off the everyone just wanted out," he region of western Germany issue on Nokia N97 mini, the
Parade festival in western area where the parade was being said. "People were just pushed since 2007. company has updated the
Germany on Saturday. held because it was already together until they fell over." The original Berlin Love Smartphone Antenna
Other revelers initially kept overcrowded. They told revelers Duisburg city officials decided Parade grew from a 1989 peace Performance page with a video
p a r t y i n g a t t h e e v e n t i n over loudspeakers to turn at a crisis meeting to let the demonstration into a huge showing the Motorola Droid X
Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, around and walk back in the parade go on to prevent more outdoor celebration of club dropping from three to zero
unaware of the deadly panic that other direction before the panic panic and another stampede, culture that drew about 1.5 signal bars when held in the
started when police tried to broke out, he said. said city spokesman Frank million people at its peak in "death grip." The Droid X,
prevent thousands more from Eyewitness Udo Sandhoefer Kopatschek. 1999. But it suffered from which runs Google's Android
entering the already-jammed told n-tv television that even Police initially reported 10 financial problems and tensions OS, is seen as the greatest rival
parade grounds. though no one else was being let deaths, before raising the toll to with city officials in later years, to Apple's wildly popular
Authorities were still trying to in people still streamed into the 15, and then 17. and eventually moved. iPhone 4, so it's no surprise that
d e t e r m i n e e x a c t l y w h a t tunnel, causing "a real mass It is the worst accident of its _____ Apple has gotten around to
happened at the event, which panic." kind since nine people were Gera reported from Berlin. showcasing that the Droid X,
drew hundreds of thousands of "At some point the column (of crushed to death and 43 more Associated Press Writer Geir like most smartphones, suffers
people, but the situation was people) got stuck, probably were injured at a rock festival in Moulson contributed to this from attenuation issues.
" v e r y c h a o t i c , " p o l i c e because everything was closed Roskilde, Denmark, in 2000. report from Berlin. Apple has posted the video on
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Found footage: the
Thousands of Christian Zionists Gather to Support REAL iPhone 4
jailbreak, courtesy of
Israel Saurik
(The Christian Post RSS Feed an Iranian port, we proudly leaders. against Israel, and Israel has a Steven Sande (The Unofficial
| Society) proclaim I am an Israeli. When James Besser of The Jewish right to defend its citizens. Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:58:02 AM the world condemns Israel for Week wrote in a column this “Israel is America’s closest and Submitted at 7/23/2010 6:05:00 PM
defending yourself from week that Jewish leaders in the most trusted ally. We are
More than 4,000 Christian thousands of missiles and political center are “ambivalent” committed to steadfastly Filed under: Found Footage,
Z i o n i s t s g a t h e r e d i n mortar attacks, we proudly about Hagee, “unsure of exactly supporting the Jewish State as iPhone
Washington, D.C., this week to proclaim I am an Israeli,” said what kind of friendship the she fights to defend the So, you have an iPhone 4, but
send a pro-Israel message to Hagee at Wednesday’s banquet. Christian Zionists are offering.” democratic values that we all you're missing all of that Cydia
members of Congress. “When terrorists threaten to kill “Some remain nervous about the hold dear,” Hagee had said. “As love? Well, in a recent interview
The fifth annual Christians you, we proudly proclaim I am prophecy issue, as well, and our leaders in Washington make with Make It Work, Jay
United for Israel Washington an Israeli. When your allies uncomfortable with what seems decisions about American Freeman (known to the jailbreak
S u m m i t b r o u g h t t o g e t h e r grow weary of fighting tyranny like staunch opposition to giving foreign policy in the Middle world as Saurik) talked about
everyday Christians, politicians, and oppression and seek the up any more territory,” Besser East, it is important for them to the iPhone 4 jailbreak. But wait,
Orthodox Jews, and evangelical easy way out, we stand with you wrote. know that Christians across the there's more -- he also showed
leaders on July 20-22 to show and say I am an Israeli.” But The Jewish Week writer country remain solidly the Cydia store on his iPhone 4,
solidarity with Israel and to CUFI on its website said the said conservative Jews mostly committed to a strong US-Israel which is the App Store
lobby federal lawmakers on t h r e a t s a g a i n s t I s r a e l a r e see Hagee and his group as a relationship.” replacement found on jailbroken
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At the “Night to Honor Israel Hamas, anti-Semitism, and U.S. CUFI summit attendees on founding chairman, Hagee is An extended interview will air
Banquet” on Wednesday night, -Israel relations. The Christian Thursday spent the entire day also the founding pastor of the tomorrow on KNX 1070
speakers raised concern about Zionist group said now more lobbying elected officials to 18,000-member Cornerstone Newsradio in LA from 1 - 2 PM
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51 bodies found at northern Mexico dumping

ground (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) one group or another and, methods to dispose of their reached new levels in recent
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:17:48 PM among other things, determine victims or make identification of weeks, especially since
whether they were linked to their bodies harder. traffickers claimed
MEXICO CITY – Investigators organized crime," Garza y The largest mass grave found in responsibility for a car bomb
said Saturday they have found Garza said. recent years was discovered in that killed a federal police
51 corpses in two days of He added that investigators May in the southern city of officer and two others July 15 in
digging in a field near a trash were nearing the end of their Taxco, where a total of 55 Ciudad Juarez, across the border
Brad, Angelina,
dump outside the northern city search. bodies were dumped in an from El Paso, Texas. Jennifer, Sienna, and
of Monterrey, as excavations "We have practically covered all abandoned mine shaft, On Friday, Mexico's Defense More in This Week in
continued at one of the largest the area where we think there apparently by a drug gang. Department said in a statement Pictures!
clandestine body dumping might be this sort of thing," Nearly 25,000 people have that soldiers seized 57 pounds
grounds in Mexico's bloody Garza y Garza said. "In general been killed in drug violence in (26 kilograms) of a water gel PopSugar (PopSugar)
drug war. terms, we are wrapping it up." Mexico since the government explosive from nine gunmen Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:00:00 AM
The attorney general of Nuevo A state government spokesman launched an offensive against killed in two separate clashes
Leon state, where Monterrey is said the bodies have been found cartels in late 2006. with soldiers in the border state Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
l o c a t e d , s a i d t h e v i c t i m s both whole and in parts, with The government has said in the of Chihuahua on Thursday. turned heads when they stepped
included 48 men and 3 women. some buried in pits and others past that the overwhelming That appears to be the same out for the premiere of Salt this
There so many bodies that on or near the surface. The majority of the victims are gang type of explosive U.S. week, though there was plenty
a u t h o r i t i e s w e r e u s i n g spokesman, who was not members, in part because the investigators say was probably of fun happening outside of
refrigerated trucks to hold them, authorized to be quoted by cartels want to control domestic used in the Ciudad Juarez Hollywood too. Sienna Miller
Alejandro Garza y Garza told name, said an anonymous phone street-level drug sales and often bombing. and Paris Hilton both slipped
local television. tip led authorities to the site on kill rival dealers. Five Filters featured article: into bikinis on vacation, while
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10 Most Common Heirlooms

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
You've seen it in a hundred
films, the in-fighting among
siblings to see who'll inherit the
good silver, the grand piano, the
lake house or Grandma's
engagement ring.
Heirlooms represent family
wealth, history and memories.
We covet them, but often for
different reasons. If your sister
loves the silver candlesticks
while you're more interested in
the crazy quilt your great
grandmother made by hand,
don't be too surprised.
Identifying with specific
heirloom objects is half the fun
and one of the things that makes
visiting an antique shop so
interesting. From Depression-
era glassware to decorative
buttons, we collect what we
value, pass on what we prize
and keep what gives us comfort.
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Canadian jet crashes during air show Where in the World is

practice (AP) Facebook Used?
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:59:39 AM (Interactive Map)
was just starting a maneuver
known as a High Alpha pass
before the accident.
as originally planned.
Thankfully the pilot, as we hear,
is OK." Marshall Kirkpatrick
LETHBRIDGE, Alberta – A "It's a high-angle pass, very low Bews, who was assigned to 425 (ReadWriteWeb)
Canadian air force jet crashed speed, fairly close to the ground. Tactical Fighter Squadron based
and exploded in a ball of flames It's the lowest-speed maneuver at Bagotville, Quebec, was Submitted at 7/23/2010 9:29:38 PM

during a training run for a the Hornet generally performs," selected by the air force to join
weekend international air show said Jansens. Facebook hit 500 million users
the CF-18 demonstration team
in Alberta, but the pilot was able "The pilot did eject safely but this week, but where do they all
for 2010.
to eject from the plummeting was dragged several hundred live? If Facebook were a Facebook500M
The accident will have no
plane before it hit the runway. feet unconscious along the country, it would be the third Powered by Tableau
impact on CF-18 operations
The pilot, Capt. Brian Bews, ground," he added. most populous in the world - but I think it's fascinating to think
elsewhere in the country, 2nd
who sustained a sore back and it's not a country. Those 500 about the relative sizes and
The military and the Lt. Christopher Daniel said from
scraped-up arms, was treated at D e p a r t m e n t o f T r a n s p o r t million people (give or take a market penetrations of various
Ottawa.
a hospital and released Friday. i m m e d i a t e l y l a u n c h e d a n few fake profiles, right?) all live countries. In case you were
"It is one of the most reliable
Bews was practicing Friday in a investigation into the accident. in actual countries, where wondering, the countries with
airplanes you can buy on the
C F - 1 8 H o r n e t j e t o v e r There was no indication of the Facebook is used to a greater or the highest percentage of people
market. Its safety record is
Lethbridge County Airport for cause of the accident. lesser degree. using Facebook are Hong Kong,
second to none. I have no
an international air show. The Air show president Robb Engen Ross Perez is a Data Analyst at Canada, the UK and then the
problem getting in the airplane
CF-18 he was flying is a model said the airport was briefly data visualization company United States. Who's most into
and I know that Capt. Bews will
specifically used for air shows. closed to all incoming and Tableau. When the UK Facebook in South America?
be eager to get back in as well,"
"All of a sudden you could hear outgoing flights, but he said the Guardian data blog posted Chileans, at 41%.
Daniel said.
`pop, pop, pop,' " witness event, which is in its 19th year, numbers of Facebook user Not all countries are included.
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Roland Booth told CTV News. would go ahead as planned this numbers country-by-country China, for example, doesn't
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16 News Wire/ Food/ E-reader News Edition

BP to resume oil spill work as storm eases

(Reuters: Top News) for the first time since an April SOME BENEFICIAL EFFECT smaller tar balls. bombing of a U.S. airliner over
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:26:21 PM 20 rig explosion killed 11 Work on the spill had been At a town hall meeting in Lockerbie, Scotland.
workers and sent crude spewing delayed by the approach of southern Alabama, fishermen British documents show several
By Anna Driver into the Gulf, soiling coastlines Tropical Depression Bonnie, but and other business owners told discussions between BP and the
HOUSTON| Sat Jul 24, 2010 i n f i v e U . S . s t a t e s a n d the National Hurricane Center Feinberg of their frustration and British government in 2007,
4:26pm EDT devastating tourism and fishery said the storm was unlikely to anger at what they say is a slow Hague said, when a prisoner
HOUSTON(Reuters) - BP Plc industries. strengthen and could degenerate and complex claims process that transfer deal with Libya was
moved ships and workers back Allen said two ships had into an area of low pressure later lacks transparency. being negotiated at the same
to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill remained on site overnight to on Saturday. "After today there will be no time BP was pursuing an oil
s i t e a s a s t o r m e a s e d o n monitor the cap as other ships Bonnie was downgraded from a more business as usual. I exploration deal with Libya.
Saturday, and it could begin pulled out ahead of the storm, tropical storm to a depression on learned today the depth of The U.S. Senate Foreign
pumping mud into the blown- a n d t h e w e l l r e t a i n e d i t s Friday as it weakened on its trek frustration in people here on the Relations Committee, chaired
out well to try to plug the leak i n t e g r i t y . across Florida into the Gulf. coast," Feinberg told the by Kerry, has scheduled a July
within three days. As the storm threat eased, the Bonnie could dissipate into a meeting. 29 hearing to examine whether
As Tropical Depression Bonnie i n d e p e n d e n t a d m i n i s t r a t o r broad area of low pressure if its U.S.-BRITISH RELATIONS BP's oil interests influenced the
weakened in the Gulf, retired running a $20 billion fund set up sustained winds fall another 5 BP's spill is believed to have 2009 release of the only person
Coast Guard Admiral Thad by BP to compensate people for miles per hour. spewed more than five million convicted in the bombing of Pan
Allen, head of the U.S. spill financial losses from the spill The storm was on course to barrels of oil into the Gulf and Am flight 103 over Scotland.
response, said the launch of a said the British energy giant was make landfall between the has complicated relations The bombing killed 270 people,
"static kill" operation to plug the h o l d i n g u p p a y m e n t s t o Louisiana coast and Florida's between close allies the United most of them Americans.
well by pumping in heavy e c o n o m i c v i c t i m s . northwest Panhandle late on States and Britain. (Additional reporting by Leigh
drilling mud and possibly "I have a concern that BP is Saturday. The ruptured deep-sea British Foreign Secretary Coleman and Rachelle Younglai
cement could start in three to stalling claims. Yes, BP is well -- a mile under the ocean William Hague said in a letter to in Alabama, Tom Brown in
five days. stalling. I doubt they are stalling surface -- is located off the coast a U.S. lawmaker the British Miami; Writing by John
The rig drilling a relief well for money. It's not that. I just of Louisiana. energy company behaved in a Whitesides; editing by Todd
intended to permanently stop the don't think they know the Despite causing delays, Bonnie "perfectly normal and Eastham)
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BP sealed the leak last week to set up the $20 billion fund oil at the surface," Lubchenco connection to Scottish
with a tight-fitting containment under pressure from President said, adding it would help break authorities' release last year of
cap, choking off the flow of oil Barack Obama. tar patches and tar mats into the man convicted of the 1988

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Focus shifts to EU banks to scrape test pass Photos: Comic-

(Reuters: Top News) sufficiently severe," said Jon its own capital shortfall months Europe's so-called "stress tests"
Con's Cauldron
Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:07:57 AM Peace, analyst at Nomura in ago. The Bonn-based lender last were never expected to show of Geek Wonders
London. year took drastic measures to massive capital shortfalls, as its
By Steve Slater and Edward "It will be natural for investors Jon Snyder (Wired Top
improve capital, including banks have also already raised Stories)
Taylor to consider the margin by which scrapping its dividend, cutting about 300 billion euros since the
LONDON/FRANKFURT| Sat banks passed," he added, citing staff and shrinking assets. It said start of the crisis. That includes Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:50:00 AM

Jul 24, 2010 9:07am EDT a good pass margin for it will continue with the about 170 billion euros of
L O N D O N / Scandinavian and British banks, overhaul. government support to 34 banks. SAN DIEGO -- Young or old,
FRANKFURT(Reuters) - So but Greek, Spanish and Italian Franz-Christoph Zeitler, Just as investors take a view famous or fanboy, the geeky
few banks failed Europe's long- banks faring less well. Bundesbank's vice president, when markets reopen on siren call of Comic-Con
awaited stress tests on Friday Banks were tested on how they said: "In the regulators' view no Monday, Central bank International draws all types of
that investors will likely focus w o u l d w i t h s t a n d a n o t h e r other German bank (other than governors and heads of people to the San Diego
instead on the dozen or so banks recession in the next two years, Hypo Real Estate) needs further supervision will meet in Convention Center each year.
that just scraped through when i n c l u d i n g s o m e l o s s e s o n capital as the level of 6 percent Switzerland to review proposed With more than 120,000
markets reopen next week. government bonds. They failed is clearly above the regulatory capital reforms, and the attendees -- a good proportion of
S e v e n b a n k s f a i l e d t h e if their Tier 1 capital ratio minimum, but the markets could resilience shown by Europe's whom dress in costumes that act
unprecedented test of Europe's dropped below 6 percent. see that differently." banks could make it harder for as overt statements of their
banking system -- including five There were 17 banks whose Italy's smaller banks will also them to argue they cannot fannish allegiances -- the four-
small regional Spanish lenders - ratio fell to between 6 percent come under scrutiny. implement tough new rules. day event becomes a genuine
- and need to plug a much and 7 percent. "As we expected, bigger banks "The banks are ready to start cultural melting pot.
smaller-than-expected combined They included Deutsche have higher capital ratios, while implementing the new rules Some years it's literally
capital shortfall of 3.5 billion Postbank, Greece's Piraeus the market will probably say which are necessary to reinforce melting, but a cool snap turned
euros ($4.5 billion). Bank, Allied Irish Banks, Italy's that banks such as Monte dei the capital provision and down the heat on Comic-Con
But the health check on 91 Monte dei Paschi di Siena and Paschi and Banco Popolare still liquidity management of the 2010, cutting back noticeably on
banks in 20 countries was UBI Banca, Spain's Bankinter lack adequate ratios," said banks," Vitor Constancio, ECB the amount of nerd sweat in the
criticized as being too soft. It and eight smaller Spanish banks. Centrosim analyst Luca Comi. Vice President, told Reuters giant hall where vendors hawk
w a s a l s o o v e r s h a d o w e d WEAK LINKS ACCESS TO FUNDING? Insider after Friday's results. every manner of geekish delight.
somewhat by a slew of data on Even in the hours before the A main aim of the test was to (Additional reporting by Philipp Melvin White and Sharen
E u r o p e a n e c o n o m i e s t h a t results w ere released National open up funding markets for Halstrick, Huw Jones, Antonella McCall of Murrieta, California,
suggested the banks may face Bank of Greece, Slovenia's NLB banks who have been shut out in Ciancio and Angeliki check out a map of the show
less pressure and loan defaults a n d C i v i c a i n S p a i n a l l recent months. Those still Koutantou; editing by Patrick floor. When asked about their
than earlier thought. announced plans to raise capital. deemed too risky could still Graham) trip so far, McCall says,
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18 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition
January Jones Rests
As Cubans wait, Castro to mark revolution's start and Relaxes Ahead of
(Reuters: Top News) Caribbean island remains mired Cubans who leave the island are although the Catholic Church's Mad Men's Premiere
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:56:18 PM in financial problems. looking for "better economic announcement of the deal was
PopSugar (PopSugar)
He will speak to a nation conditions." published in state-run press.
By Jeff Franks waiting for him to make good "We have to create more Cuba views the jailed dissidents Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:00:00 AM

HAVANA| Sat Jul 24, 2010 on an early pledge to improve attractive policies for young as mercenaries of the United
4:56pm EDT the economy and raise salaries people, so that it makes States, working to topple the January Jones kept things
HAVANA(Reuters) - President that average the equivalent of economic sense for them to stay. government. simple in a black tank as she
Raul Castro will mark the 57th $18 a month. We need growth and a better Castro's speech will be part of a headed to a spa in NYC on
anniversary of the start of the The most urgent complaint of quality of life for everyone," she celebration of a July 26, 1953, Thursday. She left her new guy
Cuban revolution on Monday on most Cubans is that they are told the magazine. assault on the Moncada military Jason Sudeikis behind to do
a bit of a roll internationally, but tired of having only enough She said the Cuban government barracks in the eastern city of some East Coast press before
still struggling to modernize one m o n e y a n d g o v e r n m e n t knows "that our people want Santiago de Cuba by young Mad Men returns tomorrow on
of the world's last communist s u b s i d i e s t o s c r a p e b y . more flexibility and liberality. rebels led by Fidel Castro. AMC. Earlier in the week
economies. "I work every day and I make How this can happen is now the The attack failed, with many of January's shooting schedule
He is expected to make the 250 pesos ($11.30) a month. I subject of discussion in many the rebels killed, but it began the meant she missed the big LA
annual July 26 speech at a have to invent to survive," said committees. It's a slow process, armed insurrection against U.S.- premiere, though we chatted
morning ceremony in the central 28-year-old construction worker but something is moving." backed dictator Fulgencio with the rest of the cast about
city of Santa Clara, beside a Enrique, who did not give his Whether the president will Batista that ended in victory on what's to come this season. Buzz
monument holding the remains full name. "Invent" is a word address those issues on Monday January 1, 1959. is testing how well you
of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the commonly used in Cuba for is unknown, but he is more Fidel Castro, 83, has recently remember the show, while
Argentine who helped lead the finding ways, usually illegal reticent than his older brother emerged from four years of FabFlash checks in with what
armed uprising that put Fidel under Cuban law, to make extra was and has made many of his seclusion that followed we can expect fashion-wise.
Castro in power in 1959. money. changes without announcing emergency intestinal surgery in Bella has the beauty lessons
Raul Castro, who replaced Castro has tweaked the system them. July 2006, but there has been no from Mad Men's gorgeous
older brother Fidel in 2008, this to try to create incentives for Most likely his speech will be word from the government that women and Très is focusing on
month sprung the biggest greater productivity and to the "usual rhetoric" but with the he will attend Monday's event. the hot guy eye candy. January's
surprise of his administration by improve efficiency, but he has possibility of "a slight, Venezuelan President and close character was in an interesting
agreeing in a deal with the moved slowly, saying he wants flirtatious mention of change for ally Hugo Chavez has said he place when we left off, but
Roman Catholic Church to free to avoid mistakes that could international audiences," said will attend and that Raul Castro thankfully there's only one more
52 political prisoners. endanger the future of Cuban Christopher Sabatini an analyst had asked him to speak at the day until we see the aftermath of
The announcement of the communism. at the Council of the Americas ceremony. her decision and the female
release quieted, at least for the 'SOMETHING IS MOVING' in Washington. (Additional reporting by wisdom she'll share this year as
moment, international criticism Many Cubans complain that he "They know they have the Esteban Israel; Editing by Betty Draper.
of Cuba that followed the needs to speed up because the world's attention with the Xavier Briand) View 5 Photos ›
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Taliban say 2 U.S. soldiers captured Apple attacks Droid X

in Afghanistan antenna
(Reuters: Top News) killed in across the country on "They may have been separated (CNET News.com) object.
Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:14:13 PM Saturday, including four by one from one another or may be in Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:23:48 PM Many, on seeing this video (and
roadside bomb. the process of being moved to one posted earlier this week
By David Fox "Two International Security another location." This is turning into one of those featuring the Nokia N97 Mini),
KABUL| Sat Jul 24, 2010 A s s i s t a n c e F o r c e s e r v i c e The statement on local radio charming cage matches in which will wonder whether Apple is
2:14pm EDT members departed their described the missing service wrestlers desperately try to beginning to insist too much.
KABUL(Reuters) - The Taliban compound in Kabul City in a members as U.S. personnel, last maim each other with chains Underlining that all phones are
said on Saturday they had vehicle on Friday afternoon and seen wearing standard U.S. and chairs and blows to very a little bit wonky when it comes
captured two U.S. servicemen in did not return," ISAF said in a military camouflage. private regions. to reception may, indeed, state a
A f g h a n i s t a n , a n d N A T O brief statement. One was described as about six In a new video, posted to both t r u t h . B u t p o s t i n g v i d e o s
confirmed they were missing "The unit dispatched vehicles feet tall weighing 220 lb (100 i t s o w n W e b s i t e a n d t o featuring every competing
and scrambled helicopters and and rotary-winged assets to kg) with blond hair and brown YouTube, Apple attempts to manufacturer, when, as yet,
planes to search for them. search for them and their eyes. The other was described as show that the dazzling new there seems to be little outcry
The U.S. and NATO-led vehicle, and the search is 190 lb (86 kg), bald with a thin Motorola Droid X, which many from those manufacturers'
I n t e r n a t i o n a l S e c u r i t y ongoing." mustache. Both men have seem to rather appreciate, also customers, suggests severe
Assistance Force (ISAF) said A Taliban spokesman told tattoos, the broadcast said. has something of an issue when annoyance. It also feels a little
the pair had gone missing after R e u t e r s t h a t i n s u r g e n t "Coalition forces are offering it comes to being held in the defensive for a company that so
leaving their base in the capital commanders had reported the $20,000 reward for any Death Grip. rarely feels the need to be.
in a vehicle on Friday. pair was being held and that a information that leads to the You know, the grip where you It's not as if anyone buys a
The only other ISAF service third servicemen had been successful return of these two," wrap your fingers round your smartphone to make phone calls
member believed held by the killed. The ISAF statement did the radio broadcast said, cell phone, and the onscreen anyway, so one wonders if all
Taliban is Idaho National not mention a third service providing a contact number and signal bars drop like a swooning the fuss will really be worth it.
Guardsman Bowe Bergdahl, member. no further identification of the '50s starlet? Still, as anyone who enjoys a
whose capture in June last year Local radio in Logar, a short men. Naturally, I'd be extremely keen good cage match will tell you,
triggered a massive manhunt. but dangerous drive to the south, (Writing by David Fox; Editing to hear from Droid X users who the fun is in the fighting, not the
His captors have repeatedly broadcast appeals from ISAF by Peter Graff) a r e , o r , i n d e e d , a r e n ' t result.
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OSCON 2010 has a strong lineup of keynote speakers, as well as expert when they are considering an dislike? What are the real issues
If the first years of OSCON speakers, as well as expert panels and workshops. Investment, the best and worst they have? What will they
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BP plagued by storm delay, claims concerns, Lockerbie query

(CNET News.com) stalling. I doubt they are stalling maintain surveillance on the cap any connection to Scottish
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:41:18 PM for money. It's not that. I just as other ships pulled out ahead authorities' release last year of
don't think they know the of the storm, and the wellhead the man convicted of the 1988
BP moved ships and workers answers to the questions (by of Louisiana. retained its integrity. bombing of a U.S. airliner over
back to a Gulf of Mexico oil claimants)," Kenneth Feinberg Despite the delays, Bonnie At a town hall meeting in south Lockerbie, Scotland.
spill as a storm diminished on told reporters in Alabama. could have some beneficial Alabama, fishermen and other British documents show several
S a t u r d a y , b u t w o r k t o Thousands of businesses in effect on the oil spill, Dr. Jane business owners told Feinberg discussions between BP and the
permanently seal the blown-out Gulf coast states have been Lubchenco, who heads the of their frustration and anger at British government in 2007,
well could be delayed at least a crippled by the oil spill, the N a t i o n a l O c e a n i c a n d what they say is a slow and Hague said, when a prisoner
week. worst in U.S. history. BP agreed Atmospheric Administration, complex claims process that transfer deal with Libya was
Ships and rigs working to drill a to set up the $20 billion fund said at a media briefing. lacks transparency. being negotiated at the same
relief well intended to halt the under pressure from President "We expect that Bonnie should "After today there will be no time BP was pursuing an oil
leak for good were expected Barack Obama. help dissipate and weather the more business as usual. I exploration deal with Libya.
back in place on Sunday, but Work on the spill had been oil at the surface," Lubchenco learned today the depth of The U.S. Senate Foreign
reconnecting the piping to the delayed by the approach of said, adding that it would help frustration in people here on the Relations Committee, chaired
well could delay the operation Tropical Depression Bonnie, but break tar patches and tar mats c o a s t , " F e i n b e r g t o l d t h e by Kerry, has scheduled a July
seven to nine days, officials the National Hurricane Center into smaller tar balls. meeting. 29 hearing to examine whether
said. said the storm was unlikely to BP sealed the leak last week BP's spill is believed to have BP's oil interests influenced the
Retired Coast Guard Admiral strengthen and could degenerate with a tight-fitting containment spewed more than 5 million 2009 release of the only person
Thad Allen, head of the U.S. into an area of low pressure later cap, choking off the flow of oil barrels of oil into the Gulf and convicted in the bombing of Pan
spill response, said the launch of on Saturday. for the first time since an April h a s c o m p l i c a t e d r e l a t i o n s Am flight 103 over Lockerbie,
a "static kill" operation to plug Bonnie was downgraded from a 20 rig explosion killed 11 between close allies the United Scotland. The bombing killed
the well by pumping heavy tropical storm to a depression on workers and sent crude spewing States and Britain. 270 people, most of them
drilling mud and possibly Friday as it weakened on its trek into the Gulf, soiling coastlines British Foreign Secretary Americans.
cement into it could start in across Florida into the Gulf. i n f i v e U . S . s t a t e s a n d William Hague said in a letter to Story Copyright (c) 2010
three to five days. Bonnie could dissipate into a devastating tourism and fishery a U.S. lawmaker that the British Reuters Limited. All rights
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"I have a concern that BP is well--a mile under the ocean Allen said two ships had British government's position
stalling claims. Yes, BP is surface--is located off the coast remained on site overnight to that there is no evidence BP had
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SaaS Lessons Learned
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:31:36 PM
As we wrote last week, the
most common mistakes that
SaaS providers make often
involve errors made while
balancing the incoming
subscription receipts with the
need to go out and spend some
money to acquire new
subscribers.
Dharmesh Shah, CTO and
founder of HubSpot, recently
blogged his thoughts on a
similar topic: the insights he's
gleaned from the B2B SaaS
startup. Describing these as "
non-obvious SaaS startup
lessons," Shah's blog post
contains a list seven important
observations.
Sponsor
You are financing your
customers
Most SaaS businesses are
subscription-based. If you
include a "30-day free trial,"
then it will be quite some time
before revenue comes in. Cash
flow issues arise as a result
because while subscription
dollars come in over time, sales
and marketing costs are incurred
at the start. "The higher your
sales growth, the larger the gap
in cash-flows," Shah writes.
"This is why SaaS companies
often raise large amounts of
capital." Retaining customers is
critical
Unlike the ol' software
licensing fee model, you aren't
getting cash up front from
customers who download and
install your product. Although
this model did utilize renewal
fees as a way to maintain
revenue, under the SaaS model,
all revenue is, in Shah's words,
"some sort of recurring
revenue." He suggests you
determine your total costs for
customer acquisition and your
monthly subscription revenue.
If the acquisition cost is $1000,
for example, and the monthly
subscription revenue is $100,
then you need to retain a
customer for at least 10 months
to recover that initial acquisition
cost. It's software, but there are
hard costs
True, you aren't shipping disks,
CDs, and DVDs, but there are
still substantial infrastructure
costs. "By the time you get a
couple of production instances,
a QA instance, some S3 storage,
perhaps some software load-
balancing, and maybe 50% of
Technology/ Culture/ 25
business
Although there are lots of
things you can adjust in the
SaaS business - pricing,
packaging, features, trial
duration for example - it is Jessica Simpson's
tempting to adjust too many Entourage Cameo Is All
things at once or adjust things
someone's time to manage it all too soon. Shah does caution About Daisy - Funny,
(because any one of those things that experimentations with Fitting Homage or Still
will degrade/fail), you're talking pricing should always take care Too Soon?
about real money. Too many of early customers with some
non-technical founders hand- sort of grandfathering clause. Molly (PopSugar)
wave the infrastructure costs Visibility and brakes let you go Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:00:00 AM
because they think 'hey we have faster
cloud computing now, we can Jessica Simpson makes her
Because of the shorter
scale as we need it.' That's true, operational cycle of SaaS return to acting with her Aug. 1
you can scale as you need it, but businesses, Shah contends, you cameo on Entourage and here's
there are some real dollars just are able to identify when "bad the first look. In the short clip,
getting the basics up and things start to happen" more Ari Gold tries to win her back as
running." Shah recommends quickly. User interface and a client by replacing her beloved
talking to other SaaS companies experience counts maltipoo, Daisy. In real life,
who are willing to share some of A good user interface is crucial Daisy was snatched by a coyote
their data so you can gauge what to obtain and retain customers, less than a year ago, and while
your hosting costs might be. It and so design needs to be a key Jessica has talked about moving
pays to know your funnel on with another pet, she hasn't
element of your SaaS. "Start
As early as possible, ascertain recruiting great design and user replaced her four-legged best
the shape of your marketing and experience talent now." friend yet. Watch the clip and
sales funnel. What drives If you're an SaaS company, tell us what you think about
prospective customers? What is what other "lessons learned" Jessica's humorous Entourage
the conversion rate of visitors to would you add to this great list? guest-starring bit being all about
your site? "The better you know Discuss Daisy - funny, fitting homage or
your funnel the better decisions still too soon?
you will make as to where to Jessica Simpson's Entourage
invest your limited resources." Cameo Is All About Daisy -
You need knobs and dials in the Funny, Fitting Homage or Still
Too Soon? Funny, Fitting
Homage - Jessica's got a good
sense of humor and this is no
different. Still Too Soon - Poor
Daisy, I can't believe Jess had
the heart to film this.
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The Cloud Services Market is Looking Like a Red Ocean

Alex Williams for IT infrastructure services
(ReadWriteWeb) already and they trust them
Submitted at 7/23/2010 6:47:02 PM more than a third-party
company."
Earlier this week, Opsource Opsource and Rackspace are
announced a partner program. two well-established companies
The news came on Monday, the in the cloud computing space.
first day developers could But the number of providers in
download code from the overall market is beginning
OpenStack, a separate initiative to morph.
that has had considerable John Treadway of Cloud Bzz
attention this week. put together a comprehensive
Both companies provide cloud list. He says the market is
infrastructure based upon open looking more like a red ocean:"I
source. They could easily be hope you'll pardon my dubious
part of a same open-cloud take, but I can't possibly
network such as OpenStack. But understand how most of these
for now Opsource says it will will survive. Sure, some will
not join the effort lead by because they are big and others
Rackspace. Our guess is because they are great leaps
Opsource competes to some forward in technology (though I
extent with Rackspace and is see only a bit of that now).
looking at other alternatives. There are three primary markets
Rackspace, Opsource and cloud infrastructure to the Ryan:"The feedback we're Ryan says customers want to for stacks: enterprise private
a l m o s t t w o d o z e n o t h e r enterprise, service providers and getting from the telecoms is that work with one company:"Most clouds, provider public clouds,
companies are now offering a systems integrators. a request for cloud is becoming likely it's a combination of not and public sector clouds. In five
variety of cloud infrastructures. Opsource calls its program a an increasing part of the RFP's wanting to go to separate years there will probably be at
It's an increasingly crowded p a r t n e r e c o s y s t e m . T h e s e they are seeing from customers. vendors for separate services most 5 or 6 companies that
market that is due for some partners include integrators, Usually it comes as a request for (i.e. a colo company for hosting, matter in the cloud IaaS stack
consolidation. But for the d e v e l o p e r s , I S V s , c l o u d bundled services (such as OpSource for cloud, a telecom space, and the rest will have
moment, the market is an platform companies and telecom managed network, internet for network, and a managed gone away or taken different
example of how companies providers. access, hosting and cloud.) One security company for VPN's) routes to survive and (hopefully)
perceive the opportunities the Opsource expects 50% of its of our European telecoms stated they want to get it all from one thrive."
cloud provides. revenue to come from these they couldn't bid on $2 million a vendor completely integrated. Lots of blood in the water.
Sponsor partners, and points in particular m o n t h w o r t h o f c o n t r a c t s S e c o n d l y , I t h i n k m a n y Who's going to get eaten first?
R a c k s p a c e , a s w e k n o w , t o t e l e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s because one of the requirements c u s t o m e r s h a v e a t r u s t e d Discuss
p r o v i d e s p u b l i c c l o u d c o m p a n i e s . C E O T r e b was cloud." relationship with their telecom
infrastructure. Opsource offers
28 Technology/ Culture/
Wisconsin: Land of Beer, Cheese, and…Startups
Guest Author (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:20:48 AM
Editor’s Note: The following is
a guest post by Steve Faulkner.
He is the CEO of the
GeoHuddle, a Madison,
Wisconsin based startup
developing community
geothermal heating and cooling
systems. You can follow him
on twitter@southpolesteve.
Most people associate
Wisconsin with cheese and beer,
but you should think about
adding startups to that list. Led
by a tidal wave of mostly young
entrepreneurs, Madison,
Wisconsin is staking a claim as
the startup capital of the
Midwest. Madison was recently
ranked as the 7th most
innovative city in the country by
Forbes magazine – just above
perennial powerhouse Boston,
MA.
Several key organizations are
driving the growing startup
community. Capital
Entrepreneurs is a group of over
56 companies that meet on a
regular basis to help founders
Top 10 DIY Food Geek Projects [Lifehacker Top
10]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:00:00 AM
The best-tasting food is the
kind that comes from your own
network and develop
connections. MERLIN Mentors
provides free mentoring services
to new startups. Applicants are
assigned a team of experienced
entrepreneurs who help founders
navigate many of the challenges
facing a new company. These
groups, along with the
University of Wisconsin, are
fostering a great culture for new
startups.
Here are just a small selection
of technology companies in the
area:
Entrustet is a free online service
that allows you to securely list
all of your digital assets, which
are all of your online accounts
and files on your computer, and
decide if you would like them
transferred or deleted when you
pass away. It is like a Will for
your digital life.
Virent is commercializing a
proprietary sugar to
hydrocarbon conversion process
developed at the University of
Wisconsin. This means they
can take biomass and directly
convert it to gasoline, which has
attracted a lot of interest from
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China questions review of A Case For AIR: Adobe Evangelist

Builds Video Conference App For
controversial carbon program Android & PC
(CNET News.com) He referred to the developers' Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:41:42 PM "high concern." The letter was
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:07:48 PM
not addressed to a particular across both Android and
A Chinese government fund has the waste gas than necessary, to body, but its submission to the Earlier this year, you probably desktop computers. He’s built a
told a U.N. panel it supports destroy it and claim the resulting EB was confirmed in published heard that Apple blocked basic video conference app in 30
project developers that earn offsets. U.N. documents. Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone App lines of code, which he demos in
carbon offsets under a lucrative The CDM executive board (EB) HFC projects account for more converter from the App Store on the YouTube clip above (the
Kyoto Protocol program, and will judge next week whether to than half of all carbon offsets the eve of the tool’s launch. heavy lifting was pre-written,
rejects the idea that they are conduct a formal review. generated under Kyoto, but That may have crushed Adobe’s powered by Adobe’s LiveCycle
overcompensated. "We consider that some of the represent just 22 out of a total of dream of allowing developers to Collaboration Services module).
Chinese project developers key issues raised...are contrary more than 5,300 CDM projects, write their Flash apps once and Obviously the application is
rejected key grounds for a t o t h e a c t u a l f a c t s . . . l a c k U.N. data show. deploy them wherever they’d quite basic, but it’s pretty
review of Kyoto's clean scientific proof," said an The projects--mostly in China like, but its AIR platform still impressive nonetheless.
d e v e l o p m e n t undated letter signed by 10 and India--have so far generated works with Mac, PC, and Linux, I’ve never been a big fan of
mechanism(CDM), and the Chinese project developers. carbon offsets, called certified with support for Android AIR — I’ve yet to run into an
China CDM Fund supported One issue is whether projects emissions reductions (CERs), devices coming later this year. AIR app on my Mac that didn’t
t h e m , c o n f i d e n t i a l p a p e r s are resisting modernizing their worth $3.32 billion (2.6 billion That means developers will feel a bit out of place, with
showed a week before a U.N. factories, which may then euros) at Friday's prices, at soon be able to write quirky window behavior and
panel decides whether to launch produce fewer greenhouse comparatively little cost. applications that will work on decidedly non-native UI (though
a formal review of the program. gases. A blocking minority of three both the desktop and this may be the fault of third-
The projects are the most "All of our plants were built and people at next week's meeting of smartphones. party app developers building
lucrative under the CDM, which had been running for at least 10 EB board members would be Of course, the prospect of on the platform). Still, it’s hard
allows rich countries to buy three years before 2004, and enough to prevent a formal running cross-platform not to see the benefit of being
offsets from carbon-cutting adopted appropriate...production review, sources close to the applications is a lot more able to build an application that
projects in the developing world technologies," the project process told Reuters. impressive when you can see runs on both mobile and PC.
as a way to ease the cost of developers said. Story Copyright (c) 2010 one in action. Which is why CrunchBase Information Adobe
reducing emissions. Their view was supported by Reuters Limited. All rights Adobe Technical Evangelist AIR Information provided by
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Survey: Most iPhone users happy with AT&T
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:12:17 PM
If all the tutting, clucking, and
yakking about the iPhone has
made you reach for your lover's
purple pills, here's a remedy for
your malaise: Most people who
have an iPhone are very happy
with the service they get from
AT&T.
No, this is not my conclusion.
Though my sense is that the
iPhone is largely a wonderful
thing (even though I don't use
one) and that AT&T's service
(which I do use) is, well, not all
that different from that of other
providers.
The Yankee Group, people who
ask people about people and
things for a living, decided to
find out just what iPhone users
really feel about their phone
service. And what they
discovered was a remarkable
level of comfort with AT&T.
CNN reported that The Yankee
Group's questioning elicited
positive responses from 73
percent of iPhone users. As a
whole, 69 percent of smartphone
users say they're happy with
their service provider. So this
might suggest that AT&T is
performing above the average as
far as iPhone users are
concerned.
Oh, no one's perfect. Not even
AT&T.(Credit: Josh Lowensohn
/CNET)
However, Yankee Group
analyst Carl Howe offered CNN
a sobering explanation of why
the often-criticized AT&T might
be getting a relatively glowing
review from those in the outside
world: "Consumers transfer the
high gloss of their Apple iPhone
experience to AT&T. The
iPhone creates a halo effect that
rubs off."
This seems entirely at one with
the idea of human beings being
prepared to put up with certain
rational deficiencies when they
are being emotionally satisfied.
It is a phenomenon true of so
many human relationships, in
which an emotional uplift
entirely circumvents say, a nose
that is too big or a walk that is
too ducklike.
AT&T, for its part, believes it
really isn't all that ugly.
Company spokesman Mark
Siegel told CNN: "There's a gap
between what people hear about
us and what their experience is
with us. We think that gap is
beginning to close. It doesn't
mean we're perfect; we still have
work to do. But that's no
surprise to us, because we have
a great network."
Well, perhaps, but the sheer
width of the iPhone halo is
described by another statistic
offered by The Yankee Group.
77 percent of iPhone users say
they will buy another iPhone.
Only 20 percent of Android
users say they will buy another
Android phone.
None of us is perfect. And we
don't expect perfection from
anyone or anything in life. We
merely hope for it. However,
when something that is far
above average grips us by our
feelingful parts, we are more
than a little grateful.
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Halcyon Molecular’s William
Andregg: “The Only Way To Reach
The Stars Is To Live Longer”
Cyan Banister (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:00:27 PM
This week’s episode of
Speaking Of…(video below)
features the founder/CEO of
Halcyon Molecular, William
Andregg.
Andregg grew up in Arizona.
There’s a song by The Orb
called Little Fluffy Clouds that
describes the light-pollution-free
Arizonan sky quite perfectly,
with amazing clouds, sunsets
and stars. Most Arizonans – at
some point in their lives – will
lay on the hood of their car and
gaze towards the grandness of
those fluffy clouds and the
Milky Way, but most probably
won’t come to the same
conclusions that William did
about it all.
William yearned to travel
beyond the clouds to the stars,
but become perplexed by the
fact that he most likely wouldn’t
make it due to an unfortunate
condition that plagues us all —
mortality. He knew that in order
to reach the stars, which he so
desperately wanted to do, he
must dedicate most of his life to
prolonging and increasing
human lifespans so that he or
others like him might have a
chance to go where no man has
truly gone before. In order to go
big, he went very small. Our
DNA.
Halcyon Molecular has come
out of stealth mode, letting
William tell his story in order to
encourage a few good business
women and men to join their
plight to end aging. They’ve
discovered an inexpensive and
most importantly, fast way to
sequence the entire human
genome. If commercialized
successfully, their discovery
will change the world of
medicine as we know it and
increase our chances of living
even longer.
Biotech startups are rare now,
but we’re going to start seeing
more and more of them pop up
over the next decade.
Technology that was once
incredibly expensive is now
becoming obtainable and the
next wave of tech startups will
delve into the largest market of
all, human health. William is the
only person I know with one of
the world’s most powerful
electron microscopes operating
out of his garage, which is pretty
damn cool.
What about frogs? Well, the
dissection of frogs in high
school almost led to William
avoiding an entire career in
biotech, which struck me as one
of many things we should
consider revising in our public
education system. We need
more Williams, not fewer.
( Exciting Note! Speaking Of…
is now available via RSS/iTunes
Podcast:)
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Big Money: AOL’s Beauty Pageant Apple releases iBooks

With Google, Microsoft For New 1.1.2 update
Michael Grothaus (The
Search Deal Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Michael Arrington
(TechCrunch) Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone, App Store
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:10:04 AM Just days after releasing iBooks
1.1.1, Apple has updated the app
Time Magazine Editor Josh again. iBooks 1.1.1 introduced
Quittner and AOL CEO Tim the ability to double-tap an
Armstrong took the stage on image within a book in order to
Friday afternoon at the Fortune view it in greater detail and the
Brainstorm Tech conference in ability to experience books that
Aspen. Most of the interview the comments!
include audio and video, among TUAW Apple releases iBooks
was centered on AOL’s content other fixes.
strategies. 1.1.2 update originally appeared
Today's 1.1.2 update only lists on The Unofficial Apple
But what I really wanted to one fix: "Addresses a minor
know about was what AOL’s Weblog (TUAW) on Sat, 24 Jul
issue when updating iBooks." 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see
plans were around search. Their While we can't tell what it's
long term Google deal expires in our terms for use of feeds.
actually fixed (everything was Read| Permalink| Email this|
December. And from what we
market share is really more like Both companies want the deal. working fine for us), it's nice to Comments
hear both Microsoft and Google
6% of total search advertising The bids are getting high see Apple is on top of things. If
are gunning for AOL’s search
market share. enough that one person familiar any of you notice a difference
traffic.
Google has paid AOL more with the negotiations suggested with iBooks 1.1.2 let us know in
Why? AOL is the fourth largest
than $600 million/year for (jokingly, I think) that it may be
U.S. search engine, but they
search over the last several c h e a p e r j u s t t o b u y A O L
have just 2.5% market share.
years. With the appropriate outright – their current market
If Microsoft could add AOL’s
amount of negotiating leverage, cap is just $2.25 billion.
searches, though, they’d be,
that number could increase Lots of people are keeping an
with Yahoo’s share, above 30%.
dramatically. eye on the ongoing MySpace
Search volume brings more
Armstrong says there are more search negotiations. But the
advertisers, and more
than two companies competing MySpace deal will be a pittance
advertisers means a more robust
for their search traffic, which compared to what AOL brings
bidding system. Microsoft needs
presumably means Yahoo has in. We expect a deal to be done
that 2.5%.
somehow gotten itself into the b y S e p t e m b e r , b a s e d o n
But there’s more. AOL visitors
m i x . B u t t h e o n l y r e a l information from sources.
tend to click on search ads at
competition, says our sources CrunchBase Information AOL
more than twice the rate that
( a n d c o m m o n s e n s e ) , i s Tim Armstrong Information
people click on ads on Google’s
Microsoft and Google. provided by CrunchBase
search engine. So that 2.5%
E-reader News Edition
Breeze: another fresh take on
window management
Brett Terpstra (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:30:00 PM
Filed under: Software
We've covered a surprising
number of innovative Mac
utilities for easily positioning
windows, from MercuryMover
to SizeUp and, most recently,
Divvy. Well, a new one, Breeze,
is taking yet another look at the
task of window management.
Breeze is similar to the others
in that it runs in your menubar
and handles resizing and
positioning windows via
keyboard shortcuts. Unlike
some of the others, it does away
with the confines of presets and
grids, and instead lets you
memorize any window position
and assign a shortcut to it. What
makes Breeze stand out, though,
is per-application settings: you
can assign a single hotkey to
perform different window
movements depending on which
application you're in at the time.
That's pretty cool.
Breeze is resolution
independent, allowing you to
perform equivalent positioning
no matter what display you're
using at the time. The latest
version also handles "drawers"
(the sidebars that dock to some
windows), adjusting as
necessary to fit. It has a simple
interface, too. It's a cinch to add
new window states and
shortcuts, and easy to see
existing states from its menubar
icon. Breeze also has a "Rescue
Window" feature that will bring
stray windows to the center of
your screen. That's not a daily
need of mine, but I can think of
several frustrating incidents
when I would have loved to
have the option.
Breeze has a couple of
shortcomings, the biggest one
being an inability to edit
existing shortcuts. I have little
Technology/ 33
RIM's BlackBerry
Curve 9300 spotted in T
-Mobile branding
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 5:55:00 PM
It's certainly not the first time
we've seen this here
BlackBerry(with "this here"
meaning " Curve 9300"), but it's
the first time we've seen it
outfitted in carrier clothing.
Notice that T-Mobile logo at the
bottom? That's the clearest
indication yet that this particular
'Berry will soon be headed to T-
doubt that the developer is Mob, but given that it's unlikely
working hard on expanding new t o s u p p o r t a n u p g r a d e t o
features as I write, though, so BlackBerry OS 6, your off-the-
spotted in T-Mobile branding
this is one to keep an eye on. chart excitement level may
originally appeared on Engadget
Try it out for free, and if you indeed be unwarranted. At any
on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:55:00
like it, pick up a license for rate, we're also hearing that
EDT. Please see our terms for
$8.00US. Rogers in Canada will be
use of feeds. Permalink| BB
TUAW Breeze: another fresh snagging this at launch, but we'll
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take on window management be passing along official details
originally appeared on The just as soon as we get them.
U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g RIM's BlackBerry Curve 9300
(TUAW) on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
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34 Technology/
Adobe Air peer-to-peer video call concept Android app hands-
on (video)
Richard Lai (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:33:00 PM
If you recall, a few days ago we
stumbled upon a cheekily-
named concept app (which has
since been renamed for obvious
reasons) from Adobe that does
video-calling on Android. This
is pretty rad considering it's just
Qik and Fring offering the same
service for the green bot right
now, so we trotted along to
Adobe's London office to get a
closer look at this demo. As
with many things in life, not all
went as planned as you can see
after the break -- the video
stream froze up on several
iHome announces iPad clock radio dock
Megan Lavey (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Accessories, iPad
iHome has announced the first
clock radio with a fully
functioning iPad dock. In
addition to traditional clock
radio features, you get a
Bluetooth connection to use
with your iPad. You will be able
occasions, but then again
Adobe's Mark Doherty only
spent three days cooking this
simple app. Regardless, this
should still help Android
developers understand the
beefed-up peer-to-peer
capabilities in the forthcoming
Air 2.5 runtime, which is now
"feature-complete" and
undergoing extensive testing
ahead of launch later this year.
Things are less positive for
Flash availability on other
mobile platforms, though. While
Nokia's just waiting for a Linux
SDK before it can start porting
Flash apps to its devices within
2010, Adobe implied that it's
to sync the proper time from an
iPhone, and in turn, the alarm
settings from the radio get
synced to your iPad. You can
also pair the physical device
with the free iHome+Sleep app,
which will eventually gain iPad
optimization. You will be able
to use both iPhones and iPods
with the dock.
It's a neat idea, but this begs the This sort of dock makes sense,
question -- what took so long? especially for those who get a
still waiting for two other
vendors to respond -- Palm's
already been shown a Flash
build running on webOS
devices, and it's just a matter of
E-reader News Edition
both Air and Flash. And here's
the surprise of the day: no
comment on Flash for iOS(not
to be confused with its digital
publishing tools for the iPad),
but there's no stopping you from
hacking it in yourself.
Continue reading Adobe Air
peer-to-peer video call concept
Android app hands-on (video)
Adobe Air peer-to-peer video
call concept Android app hands-
on (video) originally appeared
the company signing up for on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
Adobe's device certification 15:33:00 EDT. Please see our
system; RIM, on the other hand, t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s .
is a bit more vague, but we were Permalink| | Email this|
told it's definitely interested in Comments
lot of use of the iPad in the clock priced around $150.
bedroom, or even in other rooms [Via iPodNN]
such as the kitchen. I'm TUAW iHome announces iPad
surprised that iHome did not clock radio dock originally
announce this months ago. appeared on The Unofficial
No price or release date was Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sat,
revealed, but the company's 24 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EST.
price range for similar models Please see our terms for use of
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BlackBerry Bold 9780 leaks out with Plan a Staycation While

OS 6, QWERTY instead of
touchscreen
Sean Hollister (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:22:00 PM
Take this one with a grain of
salt, but it's looking like our old
friend the BlackBerry Bold
9700 is getting a wee bit of an
update. Yesterday evening,
CrackBerry discovered a RIM
document that describes a
QWERTY-packing, OS 6-
rocking "BlackBerry 9780"
destined for a GSM carrier near
you... and less than 24 hours
later, handset sleuth
Salomondrin claims to have the
first picture of the device. While
we quite honestly can't tell the
difference, the man who outed
Still Seeing New Things
[Vacation]
the Curve 2 says this device's
chrome bezel is a tad darker
than the original, and that it'll
have 512MB of flash memory
when it hits the scene. Of
course, this could just be an Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Bold 9700 with a hacked ROM Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:00:00 PM
or a theme of some sort, but we
certainly hope not; pepper it up There's nothing wrong with
with CDMA, and you've got a spending your week off at
shoe-in for the Curve 3. home, but that doesn't mean it
[Thanks to everyone who sent has to be uneventful. Weblog the other seeing new things
this in] Apartment Therapy around your city. More »
BlackBerry Bold 9780 leaks out recommends spending part of
with OS 6, QWERTY instead of your time lounging at home, and
touchscreen originally appeared
on Engadget on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
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If You Want To Understand How The US Is Still So Much

Richer Than China, Look At The Oil Spills
Joe Weisenthal (Money look at the workers who are Folks like to talk about China's rapidly, but if you're paying
Game) completely covered in oil. One swollen foreign exchange more attention to reserves, and
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:35:42 AM person actually drowned in the coffers, and it's true that that not the actual functioning of day
oil. allows the government some to life, then you won't see the
It's only just now percolating What you see is the difference serious fiscal muscle. But if you real story.
into the public's view, but there's between a country that has think that makes China richer Below: A picture of a US
a huge oil disaster in China, s o p h i s t i c a t e d c l e a n u p than the US in any meaningful command center at the
resulting from the explosion of technologies, and one where sense whatsoever, the you're Deepwater Horizon site:
an oil pipeline. men have to wade directly into missing the point of wealth and Join the conversation about this
The pictures are vivid and the oil and get covered in it. povery and wealth demonstrated human achievement entirely. story »
disturbing, especially when you This is the difference between quite vividly. Of course China's advancing
36 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Chinese Banks Face Default Risk on 23% of $1.1 Trillion

Loans; Chinese Rating Agency Criticizes Moody's, Fitch, S&P
noreply@blogger.com replenish capital after the sector counterparts for causing the other major economies, believes the report. Likewise,
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's extended a record $1.4 trillion in global financial crisis and said reflecting Dagong’s belief that does anyone really think China's
Global Economic Trend credit last year. that as the world’s largest China is more politically and banking system is in good
Analysis)
“In China now, it is the same as creditor nation China should economically stable than all of shape, anyone other than
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:39:00 PM the people getting loans in have a bigger say in how these countries. Chinese rating agencies?
Here is an interesting pair of Phoenix here in the U.S. three governments and their debt are “The US is insolvent and faces The last paragraph in the above
stories at odds with each other, years ago,” said Vikas Pershad, rated. bankruptcy as a pure debtor article tells the story of one
the first article is about problem chief executive officer of “The western rating agencies are nation but the rating agencies corrupt rating agency citing
loans at Chinese banks, the C h i c a g o - b a s e d V e d a politicised and highly still give it high rankings ,” Mr corruption in other rating
second is about a rating agency Investments LLC. “People who ideological and they do not Guan said. “Actually, the huge agencies. In other words this is
mud fight. want money get money, and adhere to objective standards,” military expenditure of the US is nothing more than a "pot calling
Bloomberg reports Chinese then they all lose track of it.” Guan Jianzhong, chairman of not created by themselves but the kettle black" type of story.
Banks See Risks in 23% of $1.1 Local governments set up the Dagong Global Credit Rating, comes from borrowed money, The way to fix the rating
Trillion Loans financing vehicles to fund told the Financial Times in an which is not sustainable.” agency problem is to end
Chinese banks may struggle to projects such as highways and interview. “China is the biggest A wildly enthusiastic editorial government sponsorship of
recoup about 23 percent of the airports due to limits on their creditor nation in the world and published by Xinhua , China’s them. If Moody's, Fitch and the
7.7 trillion yuan ($1.1 trillion) ability to directly borrow with the rise and national official state newswire, lauded S&P got paid on how accurate
they’ve lent to finance local money. The central government rejuvenation of China we should Dagong’s report as a significant their ratings were instead of how
g o v e r n m e n t i n f r a s t r u c t u r e this year restricted borrowing on have our say in how the credit step toward breaking the much volume they did, the
projects, according to a person concern money isn’t being used risks of states are judged.” monopoly of western rating problem would quickly go
w i t h k n o w l e d g e o f d a t a for viable projects. On the corporate side, Mr Guan agencies of which it said China away.
c o l l e c t e d b y t h e n a t i o n ’ s “The issue is symptomatic of the argues Moody’s Investors has long been a “victim”. I have talked about this sorry
regulator. way the stimulus package was Service, Standard & Poor’s and But even if the company can state of affairs before. Please
About half of all loans need to r o l l e d o u t i n 2 0 0 8 , ” s a i d Fitch Ratings – the three overcome reluctance from US consider Time To Break Up The
b e s e r v i c e d b y s e c o n d a r y Nicholas Consonery, Asia companies that dominate the regulators it may have a hard Credit Rating Cartel
sources including guarantors specialist at the Eurasia Group. global credit rating industry – time convincing international Mike "Mish" Shedlock
because the ventures can’t “ I t i s d i f f i c u l t f o r l o c a l have become too close to the clients that it is more objective h t t p : / /
generate sufficient revenue, the governments to finance these clients they are supposed to be than its western peers, especially globaleconomicanalysis.blogspo
person said, declining to be projects. It is written under the objectively assessing. considering the overtly t.com
i d e n t i f i e d b e c a u s e t h e Chinese constitution that local Last week, privately-owned nationalistic tone it strikes at Click Here To Scroll Thru My
information is confidential. The governments cannot offer their Dagong published its own home. Pot Calls Kettle Black Recent Post List Mike
China Banking Regulatory own debt.” Chinese Rating sovereign credit ranking in what Is the US banking system "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
Commission has told banks to Agency Criticizes Moody's, it said was a first for a non- insolvent? Of course, but so is investment advisor
write off non-performing project Fitch, S&P western credit rating agency. the Chinese banking system, the representative for SitkaPacific
loans by the end of this year, the The Financial Times reports The results were very different UK banking system, and the Capital Management. Sitka
person said. China rating agency condemns from those published by European banking system. Pacific is an asset management
The nation’s five-largest banks, rivals Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s Recent "stress tests" show firm whose goal is strong
including Agricultural Bank of The head of China’s largest and Fitch, with China ranking European banks are generally in performance and low volatility,
China Ltd., plan to raise as c r e d i t r a t i n g a g e n c y h a s higher than the United States, good shape, but no one with an
much as $53.5 billion to s l a m m e d h i s w e s t e r n Britain, Japan, France and most ounce of common sense CHINESE page 37
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Oregon's Public Employee

Retirement System (PERS) in Deep
Trouble, Taxpayers on the Hook
noreply@blogger.com prepaid contributions. The outrage.
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's system's investments declined The system is broke and the
Global Economic Trend about 1 percent year through only way to fix it is to get rid of
Analysis)
May 31, Mercer said. If they it. Defined benefit plans at
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:08:00 AM finish the year at this level, the taxpayer expense have to go.
OregonLive reports PERS rates system's overall funded status, Mike "Mish" Shedlock
for state agencies will more than excluding prepaid contributions, h t t p : / /
double in 2011. The actuary for will decline to about 70 percent, globaleconomicanalysis.blogspo
Oregon's Public Employee Mercer said. t.com
Retirement System confirmed Actual pension rates vary by Click Here To Scroll Thru My
F r i d a y w h a t i s a l r e a d y a individual employer. Employers Recent Post List Mike
common-knowledge piece of the will learn the exact rate they'll "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
state's looming budget shortfall: s t a r t p a y i n g i n 2 0 1 1 i n
the cost of funding PERS will September. If we finish the year
investment advisor
representative for SitkaPacific
North Korea Vows Nuclear
increase sharply in 2011. her the system will only be 70%
Mercer Inc. told the PERS funded. Pray tell what happens
Capital Management. Sitka
Pacific is an asset management Response If US-Seoul Drills
board Friday that systemwide, if the stock market finished the firm whose goal is strong
the payroll rates paid by cities, year down a modest 15% and is
counties, school districts and flat next year?
performance and low volatility,
regardless of market direction.
Happen This Weekend
Gus Lubin (Money Game) Korean Central News Agency.
state agencies to cover their Notice the article says "Actual V i s i t h t t p : / /
Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:40:00 AM Since America won't back
employees' pension and health pension rates vary by individual www.sitkapacific.com/ down now, expect Kim Jong-il
care benefits will more than employer". Although the rates account_management.html to Every time you think things are to explode some nukes off the
double in 2011, from their will vary, it is not "employers" learn more about wealth cooling down in Korea, Kim coast of South Korea (causing
current level 5.2 percent of who pick up the tab. Rather it is management and capital Jong-il ups the insanity. Now if who knows what tidal waves) or
payroll to 10.8 percent of taxpayers who have to pay taxes preservation strategies of Sitka US naval exercises happen this something else scary. The man
payroll. to pick up the tab. Pacific. weekend, North Korea will is about to retire or die, so he's
As of Dec 31, the retirement If articles like the one quoted counter with "powerful nuclear got nothing to lose.
system had 76 cents in assets for explained things properly, there deterrence." Read here for more on how the
every $1 in liabilities, excluding would be much more needed Reuters: US state department bungled its
CHINESE "The army and people of the response to the Cheonan attack,
continued from page 36 (North) will legitimately counter failing to recruit the local
regardless of market direction. m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l with their powerful nuclear hegemon, China. See also: How
V i s i t h t t p : / / preservation strategies of Sitka deterrence the largest-ever North Korean Artillery Could
w w w . s i t k a p a c i f i c . c o m / Pacific. nuclear war exercises," the Level Seoul In Two Hours
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38 Economy/ Politics/
More Reasons To Like The European Senators Rip Plan to Cut
Stress Tests
Joe Weisenthal (Money
Game)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:02:40 PM
First of all, you should be
skeptical anytime EVERYONE
is saying that the stress tests
were too weak, if the market
doesn't register the same
disappointment.
As Jamie Coleman at
ForexLive put it, groupthink can
be expensive.
As we argued in the hour before
the results were release, what
was really being tested was the
political/regulatory structure of
Europe. Could the famously
fractious EU actually pull off a
credible-looking test with some
harmony? The answer turned
out to be yes.
Meanwhile, European
regulators might actually be in
better shape now than they were
before. Felix Salmon argues that
leniency aside, if at a minimum
the whole exercise got everyone
talking and seriously looking
into the banking system, that's a
long-term plus.
That actually dovetails nicely
with a point Christopher Whalen
made in a guest contribution at
Reuters:
In the EU, on the other hand,
there is virtually no
transparency on bank financial
statements and thus no visibility
Bioterrorism Defense
for investors in terms of making
the stress tests credible. There is
no SEC in Europe, no EDGAR
or FDIC portals on the internet
with extensive financial data on
banks. There is not even a
common template for gathering
financial data on European
banks or even credit statistics
for many EU consumers.
Financial analysts, risk
professionals and publishers
cannot even obtain basic
financial data regarding EU
banks without going through
enormous trouble and expense.
Thus the entire EU stress test
process is suspect. And analysts
have no way to independently
verify either the inputs or the
results.
That's remarkable.
Look it is possible, appearance
of leniency aside, that the
European banking system is not
that bad, especially if no
governments collapse. The
problem is: in an opaque
system, the presumption is to be
fearful of everyone, because you
can't easily sort winners and
losers.
The crises of this spring
indicate that Europe has a long
way to go in terms of figuring
out its structure. The latest
exercise may yet prove to have
been an important step.
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:25:50 AM countermeasures for dozens of
other potential bioterror
President Barack Obama is pathogens. The BioShield
coming under attack from a Program was meant to address
bipartisan group of senators who t h e s e s e r i o u s s e c u r i t y
object to an administration s h o r t c o m i n g s . "
effort to slash up to $2 billion Lieberman and 16 other
f r o m a n a n t i - b i o t e r r o r i s m senators signed a letter to
program. Obama that outlines their
A bill pending in the House objections to the funding cuts.
would decrease funding for Bioterror experts say a
P r o j e c t B i o S h i e l d f o r t h e biological attack could kill
p u r p o s e o f b u y i n g a n d 400,000 Americans and cost $2
stockpiling drugs and vaccines trillion in economic damage,
to combat a bioterror attack, reports the Times.
reports the Los Angeles Times. To read the full Los Angeles
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Oregon Public Employee Retirement Rangel Says He Seeks
Costs Will DOUBLE Next Year
Mike "Mish" Shedlock (Money
Game)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:08:00 AM
OregonLive reports PERS rates
for state agencies will more than
double in 2011.
The actuary for Oregon's
Public Employee Retirement
System confirmed Friday what
is already a common-knowledge
piece of the state's looming
budget shortfall: the cost of
funding PERS will increase
sharply in 2011.
Mercer Inc. told the PERS
board Friday that systemwide,
the payroll rates paid by cities,
counties, school districts and
state agencies to cover their
employees' pension and health
care benefits will more than
double in 2011, from their
current level 5.2 percent of
payroll to 10.8 percent of
payroll.
As of Dec 31, the retirement
system had 76 cents in assets
for every $1 in liabilities,
excluding prepaid contributions.
The system's investments
declined about 1 percent year
through May 31, Mercer said. If
they finish the year at this level,
the system's overall funded
status, excluding prepaid
Fairness in Ethics Case
contributions, will decline to
about 70 percent, Mercer said.
Actual pension rates vary by
individual employer. Employers
will learn the exact rate they'll
start paying in 2011 in
September.
If we finish the year her the
system will only be 70%
funded. Pray tell what happens
if the stock market finished the
year down a modest 15% and is
flat next year?
Notice the article says "Actual
pension rates vary by individual
employer". Although the rates
will vary, it is not "employers"
who pick up the tab. Rather it is
taxpayers who have to pay
taxes to pick up the tab.
If articles like the one quoted
explained things properly, there
would be much more needed
outrage.
The system is broke and the
only way to fix it is to get rid of
it. Defined benefit plans at
taxpayer expense have to go.
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(Newsmax - Inside Cover) guilty.
Submitted at 7/24/2010 7:46:47 AM He says that all he wants is
fairness when the House reveals
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel says the charges on Thursday.
he doesn't want "any special After 40 years in office, Rangel
breaks" when it comes to still enjoys support among many
charges that he violated ethics of his Harlem constituents as he
rules. faces re-election.
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'Battle: Los Angeles' Mixes UFO Lore, Fallujah Feel
Lewis Wallace (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 8:30:00 AM
SAN DIEGO — Graft urban
combat’s raw intensity and a
back story based on real events
onto an explosive alien invasion
and you’ve got Battle: Los
Angeles, an upcoming sci-fi
movie that attempts to convey
what an alien invasion might
actually look like.
The now-familiar videos of
U.S. troops engaged in Iraq
firefights informed the look and
feel of the movie, said cast
members and filmmakers
Thursday during a Comic-Con
International panel offering a
first glimpse at the film.
“We made a war movie with
aliens in it,” said Aaron Eckhart,
who plays a Marine in the
movie.
The footage shown in Hall H
looked like a combination of
Black Hawk Down and District
9, with U.S. troops taking
withering fire from aliens in a
decimated Los Angeles. The
goal was to inject realism and a
first-person feel into a classic sci
-fi scenario.
“I found a lot of the embedded
footage you find of the Marines
in Iraq and Afghanistan
incredibly powerful,” said
director Jonathan Liebesman,
“and I thought that would just
be a great way to tell an alien-
invasion story.”
The Comic-Con crowd got only
the briefest glimpses of Battle:
Los Angeles‘ extraterrestrial
invaders. But Liebesman said
the aliens would be different
from what we’ve seen in
previous sci-fi movies.
“What we wanted to do was an
alien that wasn’t a creature or an
insect,” he said, adding that
concept art used had a “hint of
biomechanicalness” to it. “We
wanted to do something that was
literally alien.”
Michelle Rodriguez plays a
hard-edged fighter in Battle: Los
Angeles.
Photos courtesy Sony Pictures
The film takes its name from
the so-called Battle of Los
Angeles, a real-life false alarm
during World War II that
triggered a barrage of anti-
aircraft artillery fire when U.S.
forces thought they spotted
enemies over the Southern
California city.
The incident, yet another
mysterious aerial event
supposedly involving weather
balloons, has since been seized
upon by ufologists as an
encounter with extraterrestrial
spaceships. For the movie, the
1942 incident is framed up as a
scouting mission for the
eventual alien invasion.
Michelle Rodriguez, who plays
yet another macho, ass-kicking
female fighter in the movie, was
asked if she would ever take on
a lighter role.
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“Oh, you mean like get raped
and win an Oscar?” Rodriguez
asked, stunning the crowd just a
little bit. “I’m horrible, I know.”
“She’s tough in real life, too,”
Eckhart said.
Rodriguez went on to say that
male screenwriters’ lack of
understanding of the balance
between masculine and feminine
characters leads to the kind of
parts she ends up playing on
screen, and held out hope that
better roles would come along.
“There are independent,
beautiful, strong women who
are sexy and don’t necessarily
have to be butch like the chicks
I play,” she said. “But, you
know, it’s just a matter of
getting that quality out there in
the writing.”
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How Sarcasm Works

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) office didn't hear it." Your co- first two examples, you used aphorisms. Some people
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:00:00 AM worker apologizes. Later that understatement to express your consider sarcasm to be a cruder,
day, you're in the break room disgust and annoyance with the "lower" form of irony, or simply
You walk outside to leave for talking with other co-workers. weather and the other driver. In a verbal form of irony. But
work and discover that it's One of them says that he's the third, you made an indirect sarcasm always hinges on the
incredibly cold and rainy. Your thinking of going to graduate request of your co-worker. You speaker; a person is sarcastic (a IPad Goes Under the
next-door neighbor is leaving at school and then leaves the room. really wanted to let him know sarcast), but a situation is ironic.
the same time. "Great weather, "Oh, I'm sure he'll do really that he was talking too loudly Sarcasm is not deceptive,
Gauntlet at
h u h ? " y o u s a y . " Y e s , well!" you say. Everyone and needs to talk softly the next although not everyone grasps Universities This Fall
wonderful!" he replies. You laughs, because this co-worker time he's on the phone, so you the speaker's true intention. Chris Foresman, ars technica
drive to work, and after parking is known for being on the flaky said the opposite to emphasize In this article, we'll explore (Wired Top Stories)
your car, you begin crossing the side. it. The last example is more how people indicate that they
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:35:00 AM
street to get to your office What was really going on in subtle; on the surface, it seems intend to be sarcastic. We'll see
building. Suddenly a car come-s each of these exchanges (other like a nice thing to say. But your how children learn sarcasm and The iPad is about to have its
out of nowhere and comes close than the fact that you seem to be tone of voice showed that you find out how the brain processes academic chops put to the test
to hitting you in the middle of having a bad day)? The weather were making fun of your co- it. Finally, we'll look at some this fall in a number of
the crosswalk. "Thanks a lot!" wasn't great. You really weren't worker instead. Sarcasm can be examples of sarcasm in classic programs around the country.
you yell. The driver rolls down grateful to the driver that nearly used in all kinds of ways -- it literature. Colleges and universities are
his window and makes a rude hit you, and you definitely didn't can express everything from - looking to adopt the iPad as a
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louder next time -- the entire examples of sarcasm. In the affectation and speaking in

'Eureka' - 'All the Rage' Recap

Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps(S04E03) I
guess we shouldn't say things
settled down this week as our
time-tossed heroes began to
acclimate to their new
environment. In fact, quite the
opposite happened, thanks to a
turn by guest star Wil Wheaton. needed to explore how he fits in despite being "just one of the
With all those scientists working with the GD family, so we can team." Plus, it's fun watching
at Global Dynamics, it's always better get a grasp of him in this him try and pull off "confident
easy to slip in guest stars, isn't leadership position. leader."
it? In a way, I'm glad to see him in Permalink| Email this| Linking
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Fargo is a bit of a tyrant, which because it never made sense that
is something our own timid out of the rabble of scientists,
of Director of Global Dynamics,
Fargo isn't quite comfortable this bumbling goofball was one
the writers apparently felt they
with. Since he's in the key role of our principal cast members
42 TV/
IPAD
continued from page 41
plans to begin a pilot iPad
program this fall, with students
in certain courses offered by the
School of Media and Strategic
Communications and the Spears
School of Business receiving
iPads to use with those courses.
The program will be used to
determine how effective iPads
can be as tools to enhance
learning as well as how such
mobile devices can be integrated
into the workplace.
“This limited pilot will be
focused on fields of study
where we believe we can best
determine the higher education
value of the iPad,” Bill Handy,
visiting assistant professor in
OSU’s School of Media and
Strategic Communications, told
Macsimum News. “We will
evaluate the academic
enhancement to the courses,
how the iPad and its specific
apps and web-based tools can be
integrated in this capacity, and
perhaps most importantly, how
the integration of these mobile
tools can expand the tactical
abilities of students as they
enter the workforce.”
Though an iPad starts at $499
and can cost as much as $829
for the top-end model, there is
potential for cost savings, as
well. The university has already
identified one class where the
textbook in ePub format costs
$100 less than the dead-tree
version. With a typical class
load of five courses, it could be
possible to completely offset the
cost of a device like an iPad in
textbook savings alone. (At
least, this is true if you’re
comparing the iPad against a
stack of brand new textbooks;
the savings may disappear if
used books are brought into the
comparison.)
The Illinois Institute of
Technology has even more
ambitious plans to integrate
iPads into academics. A
technology initiative will give
all incoming freshman
undergraduates—about 550
students—an iPad to use as a
technological enhancement to
the curriculum. Because all
freshman are required to take
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several introductory courses,
such as “Introduction to the
Professions,” software, e-texts,
and other resources will be
uniform for those courses.
“We can ensure everyone has
the same hardware and software,
and it makes it easier to
integrate into the curriculum,”
Evan Venie, associate director
of media relations for IIT, told
Ars. “But we also want to open
it up to other faculty that want to
integrate iPad support into their
courses—most of the faculty are
very interested in leveraging the
potential the iPad offers in the
academic environment.”
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The "troubles" are back. Maybe people were acting extra crazy.
they'll leave if Syfy does The hospital's chief doctor
everyone a favor and cancels apparently lost his marbles too
'Haven.' and started tossing orderlies out
Emily Rose and crew the window. Turns out that
sleepwalked through another crazy is contagious as a few of
dull mystery plot in the third the patients escaped and the
episode of Syfy's new regular townspeople started
supernatural series, which acting violent and using each
attempts to blend the small town other as dartboards.
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The End of the Fox News Era

E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New team was not to question, let There were no "death panels" in Never mind that this is a story being "motivated by a lawless
Republic - All Feed) alone challenge, the video. the Democratic health care bills. about a tiny group of crackpots hostility toward equal
Submitted at 7/25/2010 11:00:00 PM Instead, it assumed that But this false charge got so who stopped no one from enforcement of the law."
whatever narrative Fox News much coverage that last August, voting. It was aimed at doing This is racially inflammatory,
Washington—The smearing of might create mattered more than an NBC News/Wall Street what the doctored video politically motivated
Shirley Sherrod ought to be a anything else, including the Journal poll found that 45 Breitbart posted set out to do: nonsense—and it's nonsense
turning point in American possible innocence of a human percent of Americans thought persuade Americans that the even if Sean Hannity and Rush
politics. This is not, as the now being outside the president's the reform proposals would Obama administration favors Limbaugh talk about it 1,000
trivialized phrase has it, a inner circle. She could be likely allow "the government to blacks over whites. times a day. When an outlandish
"teachable moment." It is a time sacrificed without a thought. make decisions about when to And never mind that, to her charge for which there is no
for action. Obama complained on ABC's stop providing medical care to great credit, Abigail evidence is treated as an on-the-
The mainstream media and the "Good Morning America" that the elderly." That was the Thernstrom, a conservative one-hand-on-the-other-hand
Obama administration alike Agriculture Secretary Tom summer when support for George W. Bush appointee to issue, the liars win.
must stop cowering before a Vilsack "jumped the gun, partly reform was dropping the U.S. Civil Rights The Sherrod case should be the
right wing that has persistently because we now live in this precipitously. A straight-out lie Commission, dismissed the case end of the line. If Obama hates
forced its own propaganda to be media culture where something influenced the course of one of and those pushing it. "This the current media climate, he
accepted as news by persuading goes up on YouTube or a blog our most important debates. doesn't have to do with the should stop overreacting to it.
traditional journalists that and everybody scrambles." But The traditional media are so Black Panthers," she told And the mainstream media
"fairness" requires treating it's his own apparatus that petrified of being called Politico's Ben Smith. "This has should stop being afraid of
extremist rants as "one side of turned "this media culture" into "liberal" that they are prepared to do with their fantasies about insisting upon the difference
the story." a false god. to allow the Breitbarts of the how they could use this issue to between news and propaganda.
And there can be no more shilly Yet the Obama team was world to become their topple the (Obama) E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
-shallying about the fact that r e a c t i n g t o a r e a l i t y : t h e assignment editors. Mainstream administration." ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
racial backlash politics is bludgeoning of mainstream journalists regularly criticize Instead, the media are supposed E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
becoming an important journalism into looking themselves for not jumping fast to take seriously the charges of the recently published Souled
component of the campaign t i m o r o u s l y o v e r i t s r i g h t enough or high enough when the J. Christian Adams, who served Out: Reclaiming Faith and
against President Obama, and shoulder and believing that Fox crowd demands coverage of in the Bush Justice Department. Politics After the Religious
against progressives in this "balance" demands taking one of their attack lines. He's a Republican activist going Right. He is a Washington Post
year's election. seriously whatever sludge the Thus did Andrew Alexander, back to the Bill Clinton era. His columnist, a senior fellow at the
The administration's response far right is pumping into the The Washington Post's party services included time as a Brookings Institution, and a
to the doctored video pushed by political waters. ombudsman, ask why the paper Bush poll watcher in Florida in professor at Georgetown
right-wing hit man Andrew This goes way back. Al Gore had been slow to report on, as 2004, when on one occasion he University.
Breitbart was shameful. The never actually said he "invented he put it, "the Justice was involved in a controversy (c) 2010, Washington Post
obsession with "protecting" the the Internet," but you could be Department's decision to scale over whether a black couple Writers Group
president turned out to be the forgiven for not knowing this down a voter-intimidation case could cast a regular ballot.
least protective approach of all. because the mainstream media against members of the New Now, Adams is accusing the
The first reaction of the Obama kept reporting he had. Black Panther Party." Obama Justice Department of
44 Politics/ Sports/
Zizek Strikes Again
Adam Kirsch (The New
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Submitted at 7/25/2010 11:00:00 PM
Pity is not one of the qualities
one associates with Slavoj
Zizek, whose radicalism runs
more towards fantasies of
purgative violence. But in a
recent interview with The Times
of India, he indulged in at least a
little pity for himself,
complaining that “now they say
I am the most dangerous
philosopher in the West. But I
don’t care.” He was referring, I
presume, to an article I wrote in
The New Republic in the fall of
2008—though, to be a stickler
about it, the cover line for that
article called him the most
despicable philosopher in the
West.
Comparing what Zizek says in
the interview with what he said
last year, when he wrote in to
TNR to complain about the
review of his books Violence
and I n Defense of Lost Causes,
may help the reader decide
whether that adjective is
justified. In his reply to TNR,
Zizek argued that I had quoted
his amazing judgment on
Hitler—“the problem with
Hitler was that he was not
violent enough”—without
understanding just what he
meant by violence. Violence,
Zizek said in his letter, was
using force “to really change
things,” and Hitler did not really
change things (because, as the
old Communist interpretation
runs, fascism was really just
capitalism unmasked). As an
example of what he meant by
true violence, Zizek rather
surprisingly adduced Gandhi:
“In this precise sense of
violence, Gandhi was more
violent than Hitler: Gandhi’s
movement effectively
endeavored to interrupt the basic
functioning of the British
colonial state.”
At the time, I objected to
Zizek’s using the great apostle
of nonviolence as an exemplar
of violence, suggesting that it
was proof of a mind “fatally
attracted to violence.” I also
wondered why Zizek, in his
letter, seemed to repudiate the
praise of (traditional, non-
Gandhian) violence which is so
conspicuous in his books. Light
may be shed on this question by
his new interview with The
Times of India, where the
subject of Gandhi not
unnaturally comes up:
You have also been critical of
Gandhi. You have called him
violent. Why?
It’s crucial to see violence
which is done repeatedly to keep
the things the way they are. In
that sense, Gandhi was more
violent than Hitler.
A lot of people will find it
ridiculous to even imagine that
Gandhi was more violent than
Hitler? Are you serious when
you say that?
Yes. Though Gandhi didn’t
support killing, his actions
helped the British imperialists to
stay in India longer. This is
something Hitler never wanted.
Gandhi didn’t do anything to
stop the way the British empire
functioned here. For me, that is
a problem.
I guess you have no respect for
Gandhi who is a tall figure in
this country.
I respect him. But I don’t
respect him for his peaceful
ways, vegetarianism, etc. I don’t
care about that.
To recap: Writing to TNR,
Zizek suggested that Gandhi
was more violent than Hitler
because his peaceful protest
movement “effectively
endeavored to interrupt” British
imperialism. Now, speaking in
an Indian newspaper which
most of his American readers
will never see, Zizek says the
precise opposite: Gandhi was
more violent than Hitler because
he failed to disrupt British
imperialism, and so was
objectively responsible for
continuing the violence of the
Raj. (If Gandhi had taken up
arms, presumably, Zizek would
consider him less violent,
because anything that ended
British rule would have been a
net gain for peace.) He then
adds a grace note—that Hitler
was a better anti-imperialist than
Gandhi, because he “never
wanted” the British Empire to
be preserved!
In fact, this is historically
incorrect: in the early stages of
World War II, Hitler wanted to
strike a deal with the British,
which would preserve the
Empire in exchange for German
superiority on the Continent.
But that is not the main point.
What matters is that Zizek now
explicitly denies what he tried to
imply in TNR, that he has any
kind of admiration for Gandhian
nonviolence: “I don’t respect
him for his peaceful ways.” I am
not surprised by this; Zizek is,
after all, the author of a book
called Violence in which
violence is quite openly
defended. What does surprise
me is the pure hypocrisy that his
interview exposes, and the total
absence of consistency in his
thought and public speech. In
the same interview, Zizek also
complains that “In the last two
years, the tone has changed” in
the West regarding him and his
work. Let’s hope so.
Adam Kirsch is a senior editor
of The New Republic.
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Suffers Broken Ribs
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:40:00 AM
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-- West Virginia coach Bob
Huggins is expected to make a
full recovery after being
hospitalized for broken ribs
during a Las Vegas recruiting
trip.
Athletic director Oliver Luck
says Huggins fell in his hotel
room Friday night and broke
four ribs. He was taken to the
hospital and held overnight for
observation. Luck says he spoke
with associate head coach Larry
Harrison, who was with
Huggins on the trip.
Huggins is expected to be
released Saturday.
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Bogota Brouhaha
Francisco Toro (The New breaking off all diplomatic requests for the Ecuadoreans to Venezuela.
Republic - All Feed) relations with Colombia and move on suspected FARC sites The second interpretation, more
Submitted at 7/23/2010 11:00:00 PM placing his armed forces in a in their country had gone prevalent in Colombian political
state of alert ahead of possible unheeded, an accusation echoed circles, sees the Uribe-Santos Six more Rock Band 3
Venezuela and Colombia are air raids into Venezuelan in Thursdays's report on rift as real, and Uribe's decision songs (and one for
the original odd-couple of territory. Venezuela. Yet, since being to air Venezuela's collusion with
Hemispheric diplomacy. With The moves are notable more for elected by a landslide in June, FARC as a last ditch attempt to
Dance Central!) revealed
t h e f o r m e r r u n b y a the timing than for their Santos has struck a conciliatory sabotage Santos's intended Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
rambunctious socialist autocrat substance. That FARC has long pose towards Venezuela, rapprochement with Venezuela. Submitted at 7/24/2010 6:00:00 PM
and the latter by a U.S.-aligned enjoyed a safe haven inside appointing a former Colombian Santos's refusal to stake a
h a r d - r i g h t h a w k , t h e t w o Venezuelan territory has been ambassador to Venezuela with position either in favor or As hinted at yesterday by
countries have been on a an open secret for years: books deep connections in Caracas as against Uribe's move could be Harmonix's Twitter, a whole
collision course for years. The have been written about the Foreign Minister and moving taken as evidence for either of gang of tracks were confirmed
proximate cause and biggest Colombian rebels' extensive towards rekindling the once- the two interpretations. to be included in Rock Band 3
irritant has long been the racketeering operation on the thriving bilateral trade If the Santos-Uribe rift is during the developer's recent
Venezuelan government's tacit Venezuelan side of the border, relationship between the two indeed just for show, it's easy to Comic-Con panel. These ditties
a l l i a n c e w i t h F A R C , and a Spanish investigative countries. imagine a process of include:
Colombia’s oldest and largest journalism TV show even It's at this point that motivations normalization under Santos that • "Everybody Wants to Rule the
Marxist guerrilla movement. managed to record Venezuelan get murky. One school of includes specific demands from World" by Tears for Fears
This week, tensions just about army officials openly discussing thought—particularly prevalent the Colombians on ending the • "Rock Lobster" by The B-52s
b o i l e d o v e r a s C o l o m b i a the location of FARC and ELN inside Venezuela—sees the rebels' safe haven in Venezuela • "Foolin'" by Def Leppard
presented detailed evidence of camps inside Venezuela. What supposed Uribe-Santos rift as as a pre-requisite. But if, as • "Beautiful People" by Marilyn
Venezuelan collusion with isn't clear, however, is why carefully orchestrated political many in Colombia believe, Manson
FARC and a smaller rival Colombia's president Alvaro theater: a ruse to set up an Uribe is acting without Santos's • "Hey Man, Nice Shot" by
guerrilla, the ELN. In a speech Uribe would choose to make elaborate Good Cop/Bad Cop approval, a cross-border Filter
to the Organization of American this evidence public now, less routine, with Uribe in charge of Colombian attack on FARC • "Cold as Ice" by Foreigner
States, Colombian ambassador than three weeks before he's set airing out some politically positions inside Venezuela is
Luis Alfonso Hoyos accused the to hand power over to his explosive charges and Santos not out of the question before Also, one new track was
Venezuelan government of protegé and one-time Defense then stepping in to repair the the August 7th transition. At confirmed for Dance Central:
allowing the rebels to set up and Minister, Juan Manuel Santos. relationship with key facts that point, the Good Cop could "Bust a Move" by Young MC.
consolidate more than 80 camps Long considered even more already out in the open. This find himself inheriting not so Never before has a rhythm game
on the Venezuelan side of the hawkish than Uribe, Santos was approach would spare president- much a tattered relationship as played host to a track giving
lightly-governed 1,375 mile t h e d e f e n s e m i n i s t e r w h o elect Santos the blowback from an imminent war. such welcome instructions.
b o r d e r b e t w e e n t h e t w o ordered the 2008 raid that killed personally disclosing the facts Francisco Toro blogs about Six more Rock Band 3 songs
countries. He also asked for an FARC's number two leader at a included in Thursday's report, Venezuela in the Chávez era at (and one for Dance Central!)
i n t e r n a t i o n a l v e r i f i c a t i o n camp inside Ecuador, setting off while ensuring that a post- Caracas Chronicles. revealed originally appeared on
mission to visit the sites within a major diplomatic crisis at the transition rapprochement For more TNR, become a fan Joystiq on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
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46 Politics/ Gaming/
GOP's Kirk On Defensive After Latest
Discrepancy
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 11:20:58 AM
Since Republican Senate
candidate Mark Kirk
acknowledged embellishing his
military record, the slightest
discrepancy in his life story
prompts another round of news
coverage questioning his
honesty as he makes a bid for
President Barack Obama's old
Senate seat.
The focus this time is a defining
story of Kirk's youth that he tells
frequently, about nearly
drowning when his sailboat
capsized in Lake Michigan
when he was 16 years old.
The Chicago Tribune reported
Friday that Kirk recently told a
boating magazine he watched
the sunset from atop his
overturned boat 34 years ago,
while local news coverage of the
rescue said he was pulled from
Lake Michigan in the afternoon.
Kirk told the Tribune he feared
the sun would set and he'd be
stuck on the water in the dark.
He was quick Friday to blast
the Tribune, which also
questioned claims about his
ability to swim in 42-degree
water and whether his body
temperature was gravely low
when he was rescued.
"It's unfortunate that some
reporters had a pre-conceived
premise that led to a ridiculous
story about an event that is
indisputable. Voters will see this
story for what it is and I will
continue to focus on the issues
that matter and how I will serve
the people of Illinois," Kirk said
in a statement posted on his
campaign website.
His Democratic opponent,
Illinois treasurer Alexi
Giannoulias, was quick to use
the latest incident to take a pot
shot at Kirk, with his campaign
calling it Kirk's "original fish
story."
"Congressman Kirk apparently
can't tell the truth about
anything," Giannoulias
spokesman Matt McGrath said
in a statement.
A Naval Reserve officer, Kirk
has apologized since news
reports surfaced in May that he
had exaggerated his military
record, including claiming a
prestigious award he didn't get,
and that he overstated his
service, including serving in the
first Gulf War when he didn't.
Kirk has said he was "careless"
in describing his military service
and background.
He also has acknowledged
twice being scolded by the
Pentagon for improperly
mingling politics with his
military duties, something his
campaign had flatly denied.
And, he has had to weather
criticism that he made too much
of his past teaching experience
that included working as a
teacher for a year in England
and working in a nursery during
his senior year at Cornell
University.
Kirk has since largely clammed
up about his military service,
instead referring reporters to his
official military reports to
answer questions. But he was
happy to recount for a recent
issue of Soundings magazine the
details of his dramatic boating
escapade and rescue in June
1976.
"I decided that I would take one
long tack out and one long tack
in to make it easy," Kirk is
quoted as saying in a story on
their website. "But I capsized a
couple of more times and in one
of them I lost the centerboard,
so I really couldn't control the
boat. I lost the halyard and
ended up watching the sunset
standing on the upside-down
boat with only a ski belt on."
A local news story of Kirk's
rescue, which he has posted on
his campaign website, said he
was rescued at 2:52 p.m. Kirk
told the Tribune on Friday he
didn't watch the sunset but
denied any embellishment.
"As you know, with anything 34
years ago, some memories
differ," he said during a
campaign stop in Peoria. He
added, "The voters of Illinois
are far more interested in what I
would do as their senator in
2011 than what happened in
June of 1976, when Gerald Ford
was president and it was still 20
years before the Internet was
created."
Medical experts the Tribune
talked to also doubted Kirk
would have been able to swim
in 42-degree water in the lake if
his body temperature was in the
80s as he said.
A statement from Kirk's mother
on his website says her son's
body temperature was in the
80s. The local newspaper
account said Kirk was reported
to be suffering from exposure.
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New Ghost of Sparta
footage teaches how to
solve puzzles with
murder
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 5:30:00 PM
You know, we were just
thinking about how tame ol'
Kratos had become in the latter
portions of the God of War
trilogy. What happened to the
days when he'd straight murder
a Greek historical figure,
unprovoked, just to solve a
puzzle? Fear not -- those days
will apparently return in Ghost
of Sparta.
Continue reading New Ghost of
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solve puzzles with murder
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The BACK LOT: The Menace of ‘Metropolis’

David Thomson (The New years, this classic has played Orchestra – just three guys sense of power, manipulation
Republic - All Feed) short by around 25 minutes—it working keyboards, accordion, and social engineering is …
Submitted at 7/23/2010 11:00:00 PM was enough to make its director, and drums—drums, drums, well, I think it’s fascistic. Never
Fritz Lang, weep. drums. Fritz Lang was a great forget that two of the great fans
I have just had a sensational What came to light in Buenos director in 1927. His hysterical of the film (film buffs both)
night at the movies, and the Aires was a 16mm negative of love of composition, the vision were Adolf Hitler and Josef The Force Unleashed
picture was only 83 years old. the original version. The first of geometric mass, and the Goebbels. That’s why they 2 dev diary certainly
At the Silent Film Festival in thing to say is that the negative terrifying crowd scenes are still offered leadership of Nazi film
San Francisco, the Castro is far from good. My guess is overwhelming. But if you add to Lang. He declined the offer. does unleash the force
Theater was packed for a that it was an intermediary stage them to the drive and inspiration But that doesn’t mean the Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
s h o w i n g o f a “ c o m p l e t e ” in the pirating of prints. So the of the Alloy Orchestra, then you gangsters hadn’t understood the
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:30:00 PM
Metropolis. Moreover, the missing parts now restored are know why this movie and other picture. We may also recall that
screening was graced by the of a disappointing visual quality, silent films raised such a frenzy Thea von Harbou, who wrote We knew the Sithdi (Jedith?)
p r e s e n c e o f t h e t w o and not quite the proper frame in the audience. Metropolis and was Lang’s wife known as Starkiller had some
A r g e n t i n e a n s — s c h o l a r size. More than that, there are And there’s the real point. The at the time, later joined the Nazi serious Force-wielding prowess
Fernando Pena and archivist still scenes from the script that Silent Film Festival Party. No one interested in in the series' first installment,
P a u l a F e l i x - D i d i e r — w h o are missing and which are now presentation, led by Eddie power and politics in modern but if the dev diary for The
discovered the previously lost indicated by titles supplied by Muller, a wonderful spokesman times can miss this new Force Unleashed 2 posted below
footage in Buenos Aires a the F.W. Murnau Foundation, for noir, was content to say Metropolis(Kino will release it is any indication, we haven't
couple of years ago. I honor which did the restoration. welcome to a happy on video, with the Alloy really seen anything yet. Force
their work, and their amusing The missing footage is not rediscovery. That’s fine, but Orchestra soundtrack). But hold Push is great -- but Force
c o m m e n t a r y o n t h e always that relevant or useful. sooner or later you have to ask on to your tapping feet and your Disintegrate is better.
discovery—they were a couple As the film went along, I was yourself why Metropolis is so blood as they rise with the beat Continue reading The Force
once, then separated, then back thinking, “Well, yes, I can see exciting and what it means. And and its promise of drastic Unleashed 2 dev diary certainly
together with the excitement of why they cut that.” But later on that’s where it gets difficult. Its solutions to our social problems. does unleash the force
the find. Still, “complete” needs there are things I’m pleased to parable of crowds and power, David Thomson is the author of The Force Unleashed 2 dev
quotation marks. discover, especially those that automation and liberty, a saint The New Biographical diary certainly does unleash the
To make a long story i n v o l v e t h e l e a d e r o f and a seductress, is not just Dictionary of Film and The force originally appeared on
c o m p r e h e n s i b l e : w h e n Metropolis’s sinister manservant complex—it’s a mess. There Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Joystiq on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
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48 Politics/ TV/
Obama Urges Liberals to 'Keep Up the Fight'
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:34:55 AM
President Barack Obama made
an election-season appeal
Saturday to disgruntled liberal
activists and bloggers, assuring
them his administration is
committed to their causes and
urging them to help elect
Democrats in November.
"Change hasn't come fast
enough for too many
Americans. I know that,"
Obama said in a surprise video
appearance at the annual
Netroots Nation convention in
Las Vegas. "I know it hasn't
come fast for many of you who
fought so hard during the
election."
In a year when Democrats are
expected to lose seats in
Congress, party leaders have
grown concerned with malaise
in the left wing. Liberals who
helped elect Obama in 2008
have grown disenchanted on
issues from the ongoing wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan to the
failure to create a government-
run insurance option in the
health care overhaul, and many
'Dexter' Season 5 Trailer Hits the Web
Danny Gallagher (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:10:00 AM
Last season's 'Dexter' ended
with one of the saddest, most
emotional conclusions ever for a
television show.
believe the White House has
been too accommodating with
Republicans.
In his remarks, the president
said the combat mission in Iraq
would soon end, and that the
administration is working to
repeal the military's "don't ask,
don't tell" policy for gays and
close the U.S. prison for
terrorism suspects at
Guantanamo Bay.
"In ways large and small we've
begun to deliver on the change
you fought so hard for," Obama
said.
"We cant afford to slide
backward. And that's the choice
America faces this November,"
he added. "Keep up the fight."
Hundreds of activists and
bloggers applauded warmly
after the video ended, but some
were not appeased.
The video "doesn't really
change my views. I'm still
waiting for action," said
Matthew Filipowicz, 33, a
cartoonist and comedian from
Chicago. "Words only do so
much."
Obama's video was introduced
by House Speaker Nancy
Dexter Morgan's hunt for the
Trinity Killer, played by John
Lithgow in a ultra-creepy
performance that earned him an
Emmy nomination, may have
scored him another blood slide
for his trophy case. But it cost
Pelosi, who received a standing
ovation from most of the people
in the cavernous, partly filled
auditorium at a Las Vegas
casino.
In her remarks, Pelosi referred
to "differences of opinions,"
and like Obama ticked off
legislative victories like the
health care overhaul and broad
reform of the U.S. banking and
financial sector.
Echoing the president, she
asked the crowd to recognize
what's been achieved in
Washington since Obama's
election and not let differences
cause a political fissure.
The day after the election "we
want to have no regrets," Pelosi
said.
When asked a question about
the military policy on gay
servicemembers, someone
shouted from the audience.
"Your impatience is justified,"
Pelosi said.
Just two days after Senate
Democrats gave up plans to
attempt to pass an energy bill
that caps greenhouse gases
blamed for global warming,
Pelosi said "this is not an issue
him something worth more than
the Senate can walk away
from."
The plan was a priority of
Obama, who had hoped to add a
climate bill to his list of
legislative successes.
"We'll welcome whatever the
Senate can pass to reduce our
dependence on foreign oil,"
Pelosi said. "Sooner or later this
has to happen."
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid was slated to speak at the
convention Saturday afternoon.
Reid faces Republican and tea
party favorite Sharron Angle
this November in his bid to keep
representing Nevada.
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Continued Trillion-
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Brian Riedl (The Foundry:
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 7:33:59 AM
The White House today
released its updated federal
budget projections. By releasing
the report late on a Friday
afternoon—a longtime
Washington tradition for stories
that politicians want to
bury—the Obama
Administration is effectively
admitting that its budget
numbers will not be well-
received.
The “ Mid-Session Budget
Review” projects that this year’s
budget deficit will reach $1.471
trillion, or 10 percent of the
economy. In nominal dollars,
it’s the largest deficit in
American history. As a
percentage of the economy, it’s
the largest deficit since World
War II.
This will be the second
consecutive year of trillion-
dollar deficits that approach 10
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percent of the economy. By
comparison, the previous
post–World War II record was 6
percent of the economy in 1983.
Under President George W.
Bush, deficits typically ranged
between $160 billion and $400
billion (around 3 percent of the
economy).
And the Obama Administration
concedes that these large
deficits are here to stay. It
projects another $1.4 trillion
deficit in 2011, followed by
sustained deficits that never fall
below $698 billion. The national
debt held by the public—$5.8
trillion at the end of
2008—would soar to $18.5
trillion by the end of this
decade.
These future deficits are driven
almost exclusively by rising
spending. President Obama’s
budget would push inflation-
adjusted federal spending
past$36,000 per household by
2020—$12,000 above the level
that prevailed under President
Bush. Even President Obama’s
enormous and anti-growth$3
trillion tax increase proposal
won’t stop this spending spree
from pushing the national debt
to economically dangerous
levels.
The Mid-Session Budget
Review also confirms the failure
of Obama’s economic agenda.
The President concedes that the
unemployment rate will remain
at nearly 10 percent this year
and not revert to pre-recession
levels until 2016—and even that
is based on the same optimistic
Keynesian economic models
that claim the stimulus created
or saved 3 million jobs. If this is
economic policy success, one
wonders how failure would
look.
With the Mid-Session Budget
Review, the Obama White
House has once again confirmed
its agenda of runaway spending,
surging taxes, and soaring
budget deficits. And its
economic figures concede that
high unemployment rates will
be a mainstay of the Obama
presidency.
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Linda Hamilton to Play Chuck's Mom — and

Guess Who's Pregnant?
Natalie Abrams be your Avatar
(TVGuide.com: Breaking Who's taking over the Buy
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Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:18:00 PM owned and operated by the CIA,
Linda Hamilton, Zachary Levi
Now that Chuck ( Zachary
so every week there will be a
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Jalapeño
Levi) has "given up" being a
spy, per Ellie's request, Chuck's
of Greta, "a CIA operative slash
Buy More executive," said
Bread and
Season 4 will focus on the hunt
for Mama Bartowski—who will
Schwartz. "Every week we will
have a new Greta, and whether Butter Pickles
be played by Terminator star it's a woman or a man, the (Simply Recipes)
Linda Hamilton, it was character's name is Greta." Submitted at 7/23/2010 11:59:17 PM
announced at Saturday's Comic- Olivia Munn will take on the
Con That's not the only role in the premiere, while Old My friend Peg recently gave me
Bartowski coming to town Spice spokesman Isaiah some sweet pickled jalapeño
either: Someone is pregnant! Mustafah appears in Episode 2. chili peppers that she made
Get the very spoilery scoop Will Chuck and Sarah's using my bread and butter pickle
below: speaks to what we we're looking in the oven?"We're looking to relationship survive?"Chuck and recipe and oh my gosh, I
What is at the heart of the for," said Josh Schwartz on the expand our family," Lancaster Sarah are a couple this year," couldn't stop eating them. So of
season?"It's all about family this panel, which kicked off with a revealed backstage of Ellie and said Schwartz. "We've learned course I had to make my own
season," executive producer p e r f o r m a n c e f r o m Awesome ( Ryan McPartlin). about putting people in between batch the very next day. Ay
Chris Fedak told TVGuide.com Jeffster."That's really going to "There might be a little bun in Chuck and Sarah." Added Levi: caramba they are good, and
backstage. "The fun of the be a huge part of the season. the oven, which will be good "Even though we're together oddly not as spicy as you would
season is the search for mom. That's obviously a story that because it will raise the stakes." now, and we can be honest expect. Certainly not as hot as
Chuck has this mission from his lands in Chuck's spy world and Fedak confirmed the impending about being together and we're a my regular jalapeño pickles. Just
father: He has to find his personal world." arrival of the baby who he said couple officially, the love has a little bit hot. Perky hot. And
mother. That is the heart of this Will Chuck still have secrets? "will rule the world." always been there." sweet and crunchy the way a
season." Though Ellie ( Sarah Lancaster) W h o w i l l r e p l a c e T h e Five Filters featured article: bread and butter pickle should
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terms of that action female, that dynamic again this year." past."
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Falling Skies: It's Not About the
Aliens; It's About What They Left
Behind
Kate Stanhope
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:05:00 PM
Noah Wyle
Sci-fans have seen aliens
ravage Earth many times before,
from Independence Day to V.
But TNT's Falling Skies will be
different. It won't be about those
meddlesome aliens. It will be
about what happens after our
extra-terrestrial friends have
left.
The Steven Spielberg-produced
Falling Skies, which debuts next
summer, picks up six months
after an alien invasion has wiped
out a sizeable chunk of the
human population. Did they
leave any parting gifts? Well,
that's the big mystery, and the
characters will be trying to wrap
their heads around what
happened just as much as the
audience will be, co-executive
producer and writer Mark
Verheiden( Battlestar Galactica)
said at a Comic-Con panel
Friday.
Check out all of
TVGuide.com's Comic-Con
coverage
Noah Wyle stars as a Boston
University American history
professor whose wife died in the
invasion. One of his sons has
been captured by aliens. He's
got beef, and fortunately, his
expertise in the American
Revolution makes him a natural
leader in the battle against the
aliens.
Producers said while the series
is filled with action, its story is
about humanity. The survivors
are grappling both with a
radically different world and the
threat of another invasion.
Comic-Con: Let TVGuide.com
be your Avatar
"How do you rebuild a society
from scratch when you're
constantly under threat?" Wyle
said. "[They] become the
architects of the next
Constitution. If something hit
the reset button, what are the
aspects we'd want to retain from
the life before?"
Wyle admitted he didn't want to
like the script. He had little
interest in starring in another
television show after a long
tenure as Dr. John Carter on ER.
But the story compelled him, as
well as the attachment of a
certain marquee producer.
"When you're doing an alien
show, it's nice to attach your
coattails to Mr. Spielberg," he
said.
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of signing free agent Terrell
Owens, according to sources
close to the player and team.
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Adam Schefter, are also
engaged in talks with Owens.
receiver Antonio Bryant during
the offseason but Bryant has
struggled so far. According to a
team source, that has motivated
the Bengals to take another look
at Owens.
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the next 48 to 72 hours.
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Comic-Con Round-Up: 'The Event' Screening, Sex and Age on

'True Blood' and More
TV Squad Staff (TV Squad) a walk-on role for the show on peek for 'The Other Guys,' the
Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:48:00 AMNBC.com action-comedy that stars Will
-- Most of the cast of'True Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg,
Filed under: Comic-Con, TV Blood' was present at a Friday director Adam McKay
News afternoon panel and Q&A -- confirmed he will helm an
H e r e a r e s o m e q u i c k with the notable exception of adaptation of the Garth Ennis'
newsflashes from the day at Alexander Skarsgard, according anti-superhero comic series'The
Comic-Con. to The Hollywood Reporter. To Boys,' which follows a
-- The pilot to'The Event' was remedy that situation, Anna superpowered CIA squad,
screened earlier today, to Paquin and Stephen Moyer went known informally as "The
enthusiastic response from the offstage and returned with a life- Boys," whose job it is to watch
crowd. According to our size cardboard cutout of superheroes and keep them in
Michael Maloney, the reaction Skarsgard, which was too bad, their place. "As of today, I'm
was that the show was like "'24' because some of the later directing," McKay said.[THR]
meets 'Lost.'" The producers discussion on the panel had to creator Alan Ball hinted, see the show run as long as it More updates as they come in...
said that a lot of questions will do with sex on the set --- well, "Everybody goes to therapy. possibly can. I don't want it to Permalink| Email this| Linking
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where we're going" with the wear based on the shooting When prodded on how the series aging."
show (perhaps a dig at the early angle of their nude scenes. might end, he said, "I'd love to -- Meanwhile, over at the sneak
seasons of 'Lost?'). You can win As for next year's Season 4,

Linda Hamilton is Chuck's Mom: 'Chuck' at Comic Con

Laura Prudom (TV Squad) everyone as intersects, just like Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, are."
Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:45:00 AM Chuck himself. Sarah Lancaster, Ryan Series creator Josh Schwartz
Then 'Chuck' stars Zachary McPartlin, Vik Sahay, Scott mentioned that next season will
Filed under: Comic-Con, TV L e v i a n d J o s h u a G o m e z Krinsky and Mark Christopher be driven by Chuck's search for
News Attention'Chuck' fans! appeared on the video screens in Lawrence, as well as show his mom, and explained his
The breaking news out of Comic a prerecorded message to see if creators Josh Schwartz and thought process in casting the
Con is that Chuck's mom is ... the audience was feeling okay, Chris Fedak, were then legendary actress: "Linda
Linda Hamilton! Sarah Connor before the eponymous Jeffster introduced for a lively and Hamilton lives in the universe of
herself -- talk about lucky genes. (Jeff and Lester - Scott Krinsky hilarious panel. this show - she's such an icon in
To start off the packed 'Chuck' and Vik Sahay) hijacked the Did the cast have doubts about terms of action female badass
panel in Ballroom 20 Saturday screens with a ... reinterpretation 'Chuck' being renewed? Adam mom, which really speaks to
morning, the audience was of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Baldwin, who plays John Casey, what we're doing."
warned that evil organisation video, complete with fans explained, "There's always Permalink| Email this| Linking
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the room -- showing the crowd a spray cans for smoke machines. The whole cast -- Zachary Levi, things, but the network and the
rapidly-edited video to program Suffice it to say, Vik Sahay had J o s h u a G o m e z , Y v o n n e fans believed in us, and here we
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Alfred Molina Signs on to Law & Kaye Cowher Dies of

Order: Los Angeles Skin Cancer
Kate Stanhope political family, he hopes to Pat McManamon (FanHouse
(TVGuide.com: Breaking serve in public office one day. Main)
News) NBC cancels Law & Order, Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:48:00 AM
Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:17:00 PM picks up SVU and Law &
Alfred Molina Order: Los Angeles Filed under: Steelers, NFL
Alfred Molina has signed to Molina is best known for his Coaching Kaye Cowher, the
star on Law & Order: Los role as Doctor Octopus in Spider wife of former Steelers coach
Angeles as Deputy District -Man 2 and most recently Bill Cowher, died Friday of skin
Attorney Morales, a show rep starred in the 2009 Oscar- cancer. She was 54.
says. nominated film An Education. The news was first reported by
The 57-year-old actor joins He also previously appeared on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and
previously announced star Skeet both Law & Order: SVU and longtime Steelers beat writer Ed
Ulrich on the upcoming spin- Law & Order: Trial By Jury in a Bouchette. Bill Cowher
off, set to debut this fall on crossover between the two confirmed the news on our three daughters Meagan,
NBC. series in 2005. Saturday. Lauren and Lindsay. They will
Skeet Ulrich joins Law & Law & Order: Los Angeles is Her illness was not widely miss their mother dearly.
Order: Los Angeles scheduled to air on Wednesdays known. The Cowhers have three "Kaye was the rock that we
"I am thrilled that Fred is ' Goldblum, Steven Hill, Dianne at 10/9c on NBC. daughters, Meagan, Lauren and could all lean on in the tough
LOLA''s Deputy D.A.," creator Wiest and Michael Moriarity as Five Filters featured article: Lindsay. All are basketball times. She was looked up to by
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Wolf said in a statement to branded series." Religion and the Attack On the Cowher released a statement on enough about what Kaye meant
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Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeff was the foundation of our have reached out to express their
family. Kaye was always at my condolences. It is clear that
side throughout my career as a Kaye touched a lot of lives."
player, coach, NFL analyst and,
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savings when replacing a grass shoots provide better week began with Team USA
washing machine or dishwasher. shade for the soil beneath and officials talking extensively
The latest models use much less require less water. Taller grass about Kevin Durant being such
water than older units with also has longer roots, which can a key part of this summer's
team. But then they became
quite aware Durant doesn't like
Dwight Gooden Reportedly Deserts that kind of talk.
Not that anything has changed
Family about how much Durant is
appreciated on the team that will bothered if Colangelo, who
called Durant the "focal point''
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse insurance for the kids. He has play in next month's World
Main) offered no financial assistance Championship in Turkey, it now of the team earlier this week,
to us." just won't be discussed as much. were to continue with such talk.
Submitted at 7/24/2010 10:01:00 AM
Monique Gooden says the 1984 "Well, he's probably more "That can cause tension in the
Filed under: Mets, Yankees, AL National League Rookie of the comfortable without it being group,'' Durant said about why
East, NL East Dwight Gooden, Year had been holed up in a said,'' USA Basketball chairman he doesn't like being singled out.
the former New York Mets and hotel somewhere in New Jersey Jerry Colangelo said Friday "I really don't like that too
Yankees star, has abandoned his back in May. about the Oklahoma City much. But if Jerry says it, I
family and turned into a The couple wed in January forward's reluctance to be guess I got to go with it. I don't
deadbeat dad, says his wife, 2009, but Monique claims they dubbed the face of the team. "So really like it too much, being
Monique, according to a New haven't lived together since May that's the bottom line. So we singled out. I just want to be
York Post report. 1, according to the report. won't say it.'' part of a group.''
Monique Gooden told the paper "You know what, right now I'm Then again, Durant, 21, is so
she has not seen Gooden since Milan -- surviving on public so stressed, I've been so stressed respectful he says he won't be
June 22. She said the former assistance and food stamps. that every day has been a
ace, who has been plagued by "He's left us with no money," struggle for me," she told the
substance abuse problems for Monique Gooden told the Post. paper. "I just want support for
decades, left the her and their "When I got here to Maryland, I the kids at this time . . . I just
children -- 5-year-old old son had to go apply for social want to take care of them."
Dylan and 4-month-old daughter services, food stamps and health
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Alberto Contador seals third Tour de France title in time trial
Associated Press happy," Contador said.
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Tour de France title in four Contador is all but certain to
years after keeping the yellow win the race in the 20th and
jersey Saturday in the next-to- final stage Sunday -- a 64-mile
last stage. ride from Longjumeau to the
Fabian Cancellara of Champs-Elysees in Paris. The
Switzerland won the 32-mile last stage has become largely
individual time trial, but ceremonial, and any attempt at
Contador extended his slim lead attacks likely would be quashed
over Andy Schleck of by Contador and his Astana
Luxembourg, who started the teammates.
19th stage 8 seconds behind. Seven-time champion Lance
"I am very moved. ... It was a Armstrong, who is riding in his
difficult Tour and I'm very last Tour and ruled himself out
of contention after crashing and
struggling in the first day in the
Alps in the eighth stage, will be
going out with a whimper.
The 38-year-old Texan, who
once dominated time trials,
finished Saturday's stage in 67th
place, 7:05 behind Cancellara.
Overall, he is 23rd -- 39:20
behind his former teammate and
rival Contador.
Armstrong returned to a
RadioShack team car and left
without speaking to reporters
after the stage.
Riders set off one by one down
a starter's ramp for the race
against the clock that set the
final positions on the podium.
Cancellara, one of the world's
top time-trial riders, outpaced
Tony Martin of Germany, who
was 17 seconds back in second
place. Bert Grabsch of Germany
was third, 1 minute, 48 seconds
behind the winner.
Contador was 35th, 5:43 back,
while Schleck finished 44th,
6:14 behind Cancellara. That 31
-second difference allowed the
Spaniard to widen his overall
lead.
Denis Menchov of Russia, who
won the 2009 Giro d'Italia,
mounted an impressive time
trial and overcame Samuel
Sanchez of Spain to secure third
place overall.
Menchov had begun the day in
fourth, 21 seconds back of
Sanchez, but nearly four
minutes behind Contador and
Schleck. The Russian finished
11th -- 3:51 back of Cancellara -
- and Sanchez was 40th, 5:51
behind.
Overall, Menchov trails
Contador by 2:01, and Sanchez
fell to fourth, trailing his
compatriot by 3:40.
In the other race categories --
assuming the riders and teams
finish Sunday -- France's
Anthony Charteau has locked up
the polka-dot jersey for the
race's best climber; the 25-year-
old Schleck will take home the
white jersey for being the best
young Tour rider for a third
straight year; and Team
RadioShack is set to win the
team competition.
The last remaining question
lingers over the fate of the green
jersey, given to the best race
sprinter based on a points
system, because Sunday's stage
is likely to end in a sprint.
Alessandro Petacchi -- a 36-year
-old Italian -- currently looks
likely to win that shirt.
Cancellara, a Saxo Bank
teammate of Schleck's, nearly
bookended his Tour with stage
victories -- he also won the short
prologue in Rotterdam,
Netherlands, and held the
yellow jersey for a total of six
days.
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This race has fortified Schleck's
standing. Long written off as not
being among the best in time
trials, he won the time trial in
his national championship last
month.
Coming into Saturday's stage,
Schleck and many others
believed that he would need the
time trial of his life -- or for
Contador to have a really bad
day, a crash, or some other
mishap.
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Contador won the last time trial
of the 2009 Tour and was 1:45
faster than Schleck. Contador
went on to win the Tour and
Schleck was runner-up -- 4:11
behind.
At the first time check
Saturday, at 11 miles, Schleck
clipped two seconds off his
deficit to Contador, though both
men were still about 90 seconds
behind Cancellara.
But by the second and third
time checks, Contador gained on
his rival from Luxembourg. By
the second check, 22 miles, he
was seven seconds faster. By the
third, near the finish, he led by
17 seconds.
After more than 2,175 miles of
racing, Contador held a
minuscule lead -- laying the
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Andy Pettitte of New York Yankees eyes early
return as groin seems OK
Ian Begley (ESPN.com)
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NEW YORK -- Yankees left-
hander Andy Pettitte said
Saturday that the idea of him
sitting out another four weeks
with a left groin injury isn't
"realistic."
The 38-year-old veteran, who
played catch on flat ground for
five minutes before Saturday's 7
-4 loss to the Royals, believes he
can return to the starting rotation
much sooner than that.
"It doesn't seem realistic to me
at all right now, but I haven't
gotten on a mound," Pettitte said
the mound, I'll be able to say,
and hopefully I won't have any
setbacks."
caution when told of Pettitte's
expectations, noting the pitcher
had yet to throw off of a mound.
"It's one thing to walk around;
it's another thing to have to get
off the mound and push,"
Girardi said of Pettitte, who
spent 15 days on the disabled
list in 2001 with a groin strain.
progress he's making and says
he feels good. I'll feel a lot
better once he throws off the
mound and says he doesn't feel
anything because that's where
you're going to exert yourself in
that area."
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It is unclear when Pettitte will
throw off of a mound. He said
he will travel to Tampa on
Monday -- presumably to
continue rehabilitation -- and
will rejoin the Yankees on July
30 when the team opens a three-
game series against the second-
place Rays.
Pettitte left his last start on
Sunday against the Rays in the
third inning when he felt pain in
his groin. He was taken to New
York Presbyterian Hospital for
an MRI and diagnosed with a
Grade 1 groin strain -- the least
severe strain.
He said he felt no pain while
playing catch from 60 feet on
Saturday, making about 40
throws. He hopes to soon
progress to long-toss -- throwing
from a distance of 100 feet -- to
increase his arm strength.
"I feel like this is pretty good
that I'm throwing already,"
Pettitte said. "If I can start long-
tossing in the next couple of
days I don't think I'm going to
lose much arm strength at all."
Pettitte, 38, is having one of the
best seasons of his 16-year
career. His 11 wins before the
All-Star break marked his
highest first-half total since
2003 and his 2.88 ERA matches
his 1997 season ERA, his career
-best as an American League
pitcher. He had a 2.39 ERA for
Houston in 2005.
Girardi isn't rushing Pettitte's
return.
"If you go out and you try to do
too much and feel it again then
we're right back to where we
were [last] Saturday, so be
patient," Girardi said he told
Pettitte in the dugout during
Friday night's 7-1 win over the
Royals. "When we put this
behind us we want to put this
behind us for the year."
Sergio Mitre was activated
from the disabled list before
Saturday's game against the
Royals and was slated to start in
place of Pettitte. Mitre, who was
placed on the disabled list on
June 15 with a strained left
oblique muscle, was scheduled
to make his first start since May
16. Reliever Jonathan
Albaladejo was optioned to
make room for Mitre.
Ian Begley is a regular
c o n t r i b u t o r t o
ESPNNewYork.com.
Information from The
Associated Press was used in
this report.
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groundwork for yet another
narrow victory. Only a handful
of Tours have been decided by
less than a minute.
In 2007, when Contador won
for the first time, he outpaced
Cadel Evans of Australia by
only 23 seconds. In that tightest
Tour finish, American rider Levi
Leipheimer placed third, 31
seconds behind the Spaniard.
The 2010 margin is set to be
one of the narrowest in the
race's 107-year history. The
record is the 8-second gap Greg
Lemond of the U.S. held over
Laurent Fignon of France in
1989.
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Lane Kiffin hires away Tennesssee Titans coach,

irks Jeff Fisher
ESPN.com news services "So I am very disappointed in Fisher and he now has an By taking the USC job, Kiffin
(ESPN.com) the lack of professionalism on accurate understanding of the drew the ire of many Tennessee
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:24:30 PM behalf of Lane, to call me and timeline of events. Volunteers fans by spurning the
leave me a voicemail after "We realize the timing of this program to take over his alma
USC has hired Tennessee Kennedy had informed me he isn't perfect for all parties, but mater after last season. In one
Titans running backs coach had taken the job. It is just a
Kennedy Pola to serve as lack of professionalism."
this is a great opportunity and
promotion for Kennedy."
year in Knoxville, he led the
Vols to a 7-6 record, including a No Etiquette
offensive coordinator under The Titans lose their running
coach Lane Kiffin, causing backs coach one week before
This latest bit of USC family in
-fighting comes on the heels of
loss to Virginia Tech in the
Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Breach for New
Titans coach -- and USC alum -- the start of the team's training
Jeff Fisher to question the camp, and The Tennessean
the school naming a new athletic
director earlier this week after
Now the coach is taking heat
from the state's NFL team.
King of Tour
professionalism of the Trojans' reported the team will promote the football and basketball Before being hired at Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
head man. from within to replace Pola. programs were put on probation Tennessee, Kiffin became the Submitted at 7/24/2010 3:04:00 PM
"I am very disappointed in Lane Kiffin released a statement on for the improper relationships youngest NFL coach ever at the
Kiffin's approach to this," Fisher Saturday attempting to outline former players had with agents. age of 31 when he was asked to Filed under: Cycling PARIS --
told The Tennessean on the sequence of events USC has gone so far as to scrub lead the Oakland Raiders. One day, his billowing resume
Saturday. "Typically speaking, surrounding Pola's hiring. any memory of Reggie Bush Kiffin lasted just one season is being celebrated by the
when coaches are interested in "We reached out to Kennedy from the school, planning to with the Raiders, going 4-12 and French president, Nicolas
hiring or discussing potential Pola [on Friday] to gauge erase his image from a mural, left after a public dispute with Sarkozy. The next, he is taking
employment from coaches on whether he had any possible remove his jersey that hangs in longtime Raiders owner Al pictures on the podium with
respective staffs there is a interest in returning to USC the school's Heritage Hall lobby Davis that continued even after Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise,
courtesy call made from the before we moved forward with and return its copy of Bush's the two sides parted ways. who are using the face of the
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informed me he had taken the immediately reached out to school's football tradition. But signing a yellow jersey for Diaz.
j o b . I t i s j u s t a l a c k o f Coach to make him aware of the NCAA sanctions will keep the Did he fetch her phone number,
professionalism.”-- Tennessee situation. program out of the postseason by chance? "I didn't get that
Titans coach Jeff Fisher "I have spoken with Coach for the next two years. far," he said later, laughing.
His name, it should be noted, is
ETIQUETTE not Lance Armstrong.
continued from page 59
Rather, it is Alberto Contador,
Sunday with a sip of champagne in the sport. Such as: Can he unequivocally the new king of
on the Champs-Elysees and, at eclipse Armstrong's record of cycling, who will clinch his
27, already is hearing questions seven Tour victories? third Tour victory in four years
about his own potential legacy
ETIQUETTE page 59
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Apple as
Captain
Queeg
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 7:15:18 AM

If you've never seen the movie,

this is how it goes. Captain

Street Fighter X Tekken Preview: Dragon Age 2 Mike Schramm (Joystiq)

Queeg, played by Humphrey
Bogart, is a career naval officer,
make the game a little flashier in charge of a ship that drags
(and vice versa) Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:00:00 PM and more accessible, and you'd targets for battleships to practice
be right in part. But Dragon Age on. It's part of the huge Pacific

revealed at Comic-Con BioWare surprised fans at

Comic-Con with a world
premiere hands-on preview of
2's dark secret is that even if the fleet during World War II.
action is a little more over-the- Queeg is a mid-level guy, not
top and a lot darker, there's a g o i n g a n y w h e r e . I t b e i n g
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) revealed that Namco Bandai
would be developing Tekken X
Dragon Age 2, completely open r e a l , s o l i d , s t o r y - b a s e d wartime, most of his officers are
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:37:00 PM
to the public. A block down the justification for it. draftees -- college kids,
Street Fighter, which will be
According to Event Hubs, developed in-house at Tekken, street from the convention Gallery: Dragon Age 2 (concept smartasses, in one case a coward
(played by Fred MacMurray).
Capcom producer Yoshinori and spearheaded by long-time center, fans were treated to a art)
Ono recently dropped a fairly franchise producer Katsuhiro short presentation by lead Continue reading Preview: There's another career officer on
the Caine played by Van
sizable bomb on attendees of the Harada. Both titles will be designer Mike Laidlaw, as well Dragon Age 2
company's "Street Fighter released for 360 and PS3, as a few very brief combat Preview: Dragon Age 2 Johnson.
Mania!: SSFIV and Beyond" though according to a cheeky segments and a look at the story originally appeared on Joystiq The captain is way past his
panel at Comic-Con: Street s l i d e a t t h e e n d o f t h e that kicks off the game. on Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:00:00 prime. Mediocre. A failure that
Fighter X Tekken. The oft- presentation, the current release I'll get impressions out of the EST. Please see our terms for they've kept around because no
way first: It's faster and more use of feeds. one had the time to retire him.
r u m o r e d p r o j e c t w i l l b e window is "not for a while!"
developed by Capcom using the Street Fighter X Tekken (and brutal, less cerebral and more P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | The same story for the Caine. So
it tries to stay out of range when
Street Fighter IV engine (only vice versa) revealed at Comic- exaggerated. You might think Comments
the other American boats take
with two-fighter tag team Con originally appeared on that's because BioWare wants to
shots at the targets it drags.
battles), and will feature a Joystiq on Sat, 24 Jul 2010
Queeg does all kinds of stupid
n u m b e r o f f i g h t e r s f r o m 16:37:00 EST. Please see our
shit, like navigate over the
Namco's similarly successful terms for use of feeds.
towing line of a target the Caine
fighting franchise, including Permalink| Email this|
is towing, thus losing it. He's
Kazuya and Nina Williams. C o m m e n t s
weird, he likes to play with steel
But that's not all! Ono also
balls. When he discovers that
some of the frozen strawberries
are missing from the pantry he
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starts an investigation. He says dragging the Droid-X into the you.

it's about time they had some
fun on the ship. He believes they
were stolen by some of the
officers. He's reliving a victory
of his early career. This is too
much for the college kids, so
they convince Van Johnson to
mess. Now Apple's competitors
get to look aloof, like leaders,
puzzled why the captain is
making a federal case about the
strawberries.
The users just got their emails
telling them how to get their
Go On Your Own “Eat
Instead, they're taking stupid
cheap shots at the upstarts, Pray Love” Journey
making themselves look stupid
and cheap. They so totally don't
need to look that way.
With SCVNGR
Now I don't think for a minute Christina Warren (Mashable!)
that Apple is Captain Queeg. It's Submitted at 7/24/2010 9:23:55 AM

depose the captain, in the
famous mutiny that the movie
and the Herman Wouk novel are
named after.
Classic movie, with some great
performances. And somehow
the story comes up all the time
in real life, especially in the tech
industry.
Anyway, just when it seems the
rest of the world is ready to let
Antennagate go, here comes a
Youtube video from Apple,
new cases. The thought occurred
to me that Apple could have
given us a nice present anyway,
even if there hadn't been a PR
mess. Wouldn't that have been
classy. We appreciate that
you're an early supporter of our
products (knowing we're the
ones who always get screwed,
we know it, but they don't have
to say it). So here's a nice gift.
It's really nothing, but it's our
way of saying we appreciate
not some marginal character in a
big war. It's more than an
aircraft carrier, it's a whole fleet.
So why are they acting like a
burned out captain of a mine-
tower who thinks he's found the
missing strawberries.
SCVNGR— the location-based
mobile app that takes a really
creative approach to the space
— is teaming up with Columbia
Pictures to help promote the
upcoming film, Eat Pray Love.
The movie, which stars Julia studying prayer in India and
Roberts, is about a woman who finally finds love in Bali.
goes on a yearlong sabbatical to The concept behind the film —
find herself. First she explores one of traveling and self-
the pleasure of food in Italy,
followed by spending time YOUR page 62

Faith-based reporting
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 12:19:10 PM
Some reporters just react to
events and press releases. Others
do a good job of keeping the big
picture in mind.
I thought of this when I read
Washington Post religion
reporter Michelle Boorstein’s
blog request for assistance on
one of the issues she covers. She
says she’s been requesting
access to the faith-based offices
in federal agencies for more
than six months but has been
shut down across the board:
Sure, we know generally that
the offices help faith-based and
other nonprofits that run
programs on things like job
training, but let’s get more
specific. Which groups do they
help and fund, and for what
projects? Have their priorities
changed since the offices were
run by the Bush White House?
Does the office at USAID, for
example, get involved in the
many millions of dollars of
contracts related to sex and
family planning overseas? And
what does the Justice
Department faith office do?
had the opportunity to find out
answers to these questions but
squandered the opportunity.
But, no. Instead the newspaper
published a puffy, no-news
piece praising Joshua DuBois,
the head of the faith-based
office. You’d be hard pressed to
find a reporter who dislikes
DuBois as a person but many of
the reporters I know who cover
the faith-based office have been
nothing if not frustrated with
their inability to get answers to
If you can help provide basic questions about what the
answers, be sure to let her know. office is doing. At a Religion
The Chicago Tribune actually Newswriters conference a
couple of years ago, an NPR
reporter asked him point blank
why he was so unresponsive to
reporter queries.
So next time someone gets an
opportunity like the Tribune
had, let’s make sure we use it
well!
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discovery — actually makes it
particularly effective as a tie-in
with a location-based mobile
app. In order to promote the
overall themes of the film,
SCVNGR has created different
challenges that capture some of
the experiences from the film in
26 cities across the United
States.
Using the SCVNGR app for
iPhone and Android, users can
check-in to different locations.
Each city will have its own
locations that is marked as being
related to “Eat,” “Pray” or
“Love.” Like other SCVNGR
challenges, visiting a location
and then completing a
challenge, such as snapping a
photo or answering a trivia
question, will earn users points
and badges in the game.
Here are some examples:
• EAT– Looking for a little
spice in your life? Stop by your
Indian restaurant and send in a
description of how spicy you
like your food, like “holy-moly-
fiery-burn-the-roof-of-your-
mouth spicy,” and snag another
2 points.
• PRAY– If you’re more of a
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dreamer, find a serene spot in a has been given so much Comic-Con, Disney launched its
public park and let your friends attention really sets the app new TRON[iTunes link] iPhone
what you’ve always wanted to apart from others in this space. app. Inside the app, there was a
do. Sing in front of a crowded It’s not tacking gaming elements feature that unlocked content if
room? Write a novel? Score onto a social network; it’s you used the app in the vicinity
another 2 points. infusing social elements into a of the Disney Comic-TRON
• LOVE– Head to your game. World of Possibilities booth. We fully expect to see
laundromat and snap a pic of We’re excited by how bigger more of this sort of integration
your dirty clothes arranged in brands are testing the waters with marketing campaigns in the
the shape of a heart, score 2 with new forms of social media. future.
points. We believe especially that there What do you think about how
are lots of opportunities to make film studios are using location-
A Location-Based Tie-in That a g r e a t c o n n e c t i o n s w i t h based apps to connect with
Makes Sense customers through geolocation. audiences? Let us know!
Nearly every day we see These partnerships don’t just Reviews: Android, love
another brand or product partner have to be standard “check in More About: eat pray love,
with a location-based social and earn a badge” deals; with a Film, geolocation, location-
network for a promotion. After little bit of effort, they can be based games, Movies, scvngr
all, it’s a unique and effective tailored to fit the service and the For more Mobile coverage:
way to advertise and to connect partner brand. • Follow Mashable Mobile on
with customers. For content like movies and Twitter
We’re especially fans of books, the power of location can • Become a Fan on Facebook
SCVNGR’s approach to the expand the narrative. Think • Subscribe to the Mobile
location-based space, though. about how cool it could be if channel
The company is demonstrating challenges could earn users • Download our free apps for
its ability to be unique and money off a movie ticket, iPhone and iPad
i n n o v a t i v e w i t h b r a n d e d special clips from the film or a
campaigns like this one, as well hidden interview with the cast.
as with new features like social When we think about the
checkins. impact that location-based
As we noted when we first services can have on viral
covered SCVNGR, the fact that marketing as an industry, we get
the game aspect of the service kind of dizzy. Just this week, at
E-reader News Edition Social Media/ 63

Yolink Helps Web Researchers Search Behind

Links
Christina Warren (Mashable!) Google Patent Search. than U.S.$1 million in annual
Submitted at 7/24/2010 2:42:02 PM The Yolink team has also revenue, you can sign up today.
created a yolink Labs project Entrepreneurs can take
This post is part of Mashable’s t h a t s h o w c a s e s j u s t h o w advantage of the Azure Services
Spark of Genius series, which powerful the service really is. platform for their website
highlights a unique feature of From the Labs projects, you can hosting and storage needs.
startups. If you would like to interact with Yolink in any Microsoft recently announced
have your startup considered for browser. the“new CloudApp()” contest–
inclusion, please see the details This video shows off how use the Azure Services Platform
here. The series is made useful Yolink can be when for hosting your .NET or PHP
possible by Microsoft BizSpark. doing research from a Project app, and you could be the lucky
Name: yolink Gutenberg text: semantic search on steroids and winner of a USD 5000* ( please
Quick Pitch: Yolink is a next- Yolink would be useful enough w i t h t h e r i g h t t y p e o f see website for official rules and
generation technology that if it only searched behind links integration, this service could g u i d e l i n e s ) . ” R e v i e w s :
enhances search by extracting and showed you relevant data really start to turn heads. Craigslist, Evernote, Firefox,
information from behind links from within those links, but it As it stands right now, Yolink G o o g l e C h r o m e , I n t e r n e t
and inside of documents. takes it to the next level with its is one of the best ways to canvas Explorer, PHP, Wikipedia
Genius Idea: Yolink wants to share and save options. You can through lots of dense text or to More About: bizspark, Search,
be a researcher’s best friend. save the data to a Google Doc deep dive into heavily-linked semantic search, semantic web,
How? By searching not just a for instance, or save each link as s o u r c e s . S p o n s o r e d b y spark-of-genius, startup, yolink
p a g e , b u t a l s o t h e l i n k s a bookmark. You can also take Microsoft BizSpark For more Tech coverage:
contained within that page. This data and send it to people via e- BizSpark is a startup program • Follow Mashable Tech on
makes finding contextually mail, capture it with Evernote or that gives you three-year access Twitter
linked information super simple. save something directly to t o t h e l a t e s t M i c r o s o f t • Become a Fan on Facebook
Yolink is available as a browser EasyBib, with the citation development tools, as well as • Subscribe to the Tech channel
plugin (for Firefox, Internet a u t o m a t i c a l l y f o r m a t t e d connecting you to a nationwide • Download our free apps for
Explorer and Google Chrome), a c o r r e c t l y a n d l i n k e d . n e t w o r k o f i n v e s t o r s a n d iPhone and iPad
desktop search app or a widget Yolink has also opened up its incubators. There are no upfront
you can integrate with your own developer API so that it can be costs, so if your business is
blog. The service is also an add- integrated with just about any privately owned, less than three
on to Craigslist, Wikipedia and site on the web. Yolink is like years old, and generates less
64 Social Media/
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week
[CHART]
Matt Silverman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:07:52 PM
The vice grip of the World Cup
has loosened after five straight
weeks on top, and given way to
a real mixed bag of Twitter
trends.
Taking the cake this week is the
psychological sci-fi thriller
Inception, which left many
tweeters raving and head
scratching at the same time.
Music, notes from the news, and
TV populate the rest of the
chart, during what turned out to
be a pretty mellow week for
Twitter.
As always, our partners in data
at What The Trend have
provided the full leader board
below. Because this is a topical
list, hashtag memes and games
have been omitted from the
chart.
You can check past Twitter
trends in our Top Twitter Topics
section as well as read more
about this past week’s trends on
What The Trend. Top Twitter
Trends This Week: 7/17 – 7/23
Rank Topic Top Index This
Week Intensity Description#1
Inception (Movie) 1 4 Inception;
is a 2010 sci-fi action thriller
film starring Leonardo
DiCaprio. Many people are
chatting about how much they
week.#8 Soccer/Football 1 1 A
variety of tweets about various
soccer players, most notably
Ricardo Gomes, Martin Jol, and
Caio Ribeiro.#9 Tour de France
1 1 Controversy erupted this
week when Alberto Contador
ignored common race course
etiquette and passed then-leader
loved the movie, or how much
Andy Schleck while Schleck
they didn’t get it.#2 Felipe Neto
was stopped with mechanical
1 2 Felipe Neto is a popular
failure.#10 SHINee 1 1 The
Brazilian vlogger who spoke out
South Korean boy band released
against the Twilight series of
a teaser for their new album
books and movies on a debate
"Lucifer." It "shows a new and
show on MTV Brazil.#3 Rick
daring side of SHINee with
Ross 1 2"Teflon Don" is the
extremely vogue hairstyles."
new album by rapper Rick
Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
Ross@RickyRozay) released
ricardoinfante Reviews: Twitter,
this week.#4 IYOU 3 1 People
iStockphoto, movie, twilight
are sharing who or what they
More About: entertainment,
love on Twitter.#5 Shirley
inception, List, Lists, Movies,
Sherrod 1 1 Shirley Sherrod, a
social media, sports, Top
former U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Twitter Topics, trends, twitter,
director, was forced to resign
twitter trends
after an edited video surfaced
For more Social Media
where she reportedly made
coverage:
racist remarks about a white
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farmer. The White House
Media on Twitter
apologized for the way this was
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handled and President Obama
• Subscribe to the Social Media
has spoken with her.#6 If You
channel
Knew Me (TV Show) 1 1
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People are tweeting about the
iPhone and iPad
MTV original series "If You
Really Knew Me."#7 Nelson
Mandela 1 1 Nelson Mandela
celebrated his 92nd birthday this
E-reader News Edition
73% of iPhone Users
Are “Very Satisfied”
With AT&T [SURVEY]
Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/24/2010 4:38:08 PM
A survey performed by the
Yankee Group found that 73%
of iPhone users are “very
satisfied” with AT&T, despite
all the negative press the cellular
network has received since the
This all seems to conflict
iPhone launched back in 2007.
somewhat with a previous report
Also, 77% of iPhone owners
by market research firm
would buy another iPhone,
ChangeWave, which estimated
while only 20% of people who
that if the iPhone is released on
use the competing Google
Verizon in addition to AT&T,
Android smartphone platform
AT&T could lose more than half
would repeat their purchases.
of its iPhone customers. Who
The survey was cited at
knows when that might happen,
CNNMoney.com, which was
though. Depending on which
quick to suggest that the positive
rumor you believe, it will either
reviews from iPhone owners
occur in January of next year, or
must be a result of a “halo
sometime in 2012.
effect” or “reality distortion
It just goes to show you that
field” accompanying the
predictions and surveys in the
iPhone’s slick and impressive
tech world are educated guesses,
interface and features. The idea
not products of precise science.
is that some users are so pleased
More About: 3g, apple, att,
and wowed by the iPhone’s
iphone, iphone 4, survey,
presentation that they gloss over
yankee group
the downsides — in this case,
For more Apple coverage:
AT&T’s struggle to prevent
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dropped calls or other problems
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caused by poor or lost signal.
That theory is supported by the • Become a Fan on Facebook
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finding that iPhone users are
more likely to be satisfied with channel
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AT&T’s service than other
AT&T customers, only 68% of iPhone and iPad
whom are satisfied.
E-reader News Edition Social Media/ 65

HOW TO: Put Facebook’s “Like” Button on Any

Website
Ben Parr (Mashable!) Facebook Like works with
Submitted at 7/24/2010 1:16:11 AM Firefox as long as you have the
Greasemonkey add-on installed.
Facebook’s social plugins, It also works with Google
especially its popular “Like” Chrome, since includes native
button, have spread across the support for Greasemonkey
web like wildfire. They were on scripts, while Safari requires
50,000+ websites within one GreaseKit.
week after launch, on 100,000+ What do you think of the
sites in less than a month, and Facebook Like bar? Will you
are now on 350,000+ sites. be installing the script? Let us
There are still millions of web know in the comments.
pages, blog posts and videos Reviews: Facebook, Firefox,
without “Like” buttons, though. Google Chrome, Safari
What if you want to share one of More About: add-on, facebook,
those pages with your friends on Facebook social plugins,
Facebook? There’s an greasemonkey, like, trending,
extension for that. userscript
Facebook Like is a For more Social Media
Greasemonkey extension that coverage:
installing the Facebook Like page you visit.”
places a “Like” bar on the top of • Follow Mashable Social
Greasemonkey script,” Not only does the script allow
any webpage you visit (except Media on Twitter
Facebook told us earlier today. you to “Like” any website, but it
for Facebook.com). It was built • Become a Fan on Facebook
“Built as a personal project by a also includes the social plugin’s
by Facebook Engineer Matt • Subscribe to the Social Media
Facebook engineer at one of Recommendations and Activity
Kelly as a personal project channel
Facebook’s company Feed features. An important
during a company Hackathon. • Download our free apps for
Hackathons, the script makes it note: while the script was built
“If you come across a site iPhone and iPad
possible to have Like, by a Facebook engineer, it is not
without the Like button, you can
Recommendations and Activity officially affiliated with the
still use social plugins to share
Feed features on any Firefox company.
articles with your friends by