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White House Intrigue: Could Hillary Replace Joe?

David Morgan (Front Row Latinos are disillusioned with the switch is “already in the works.”
Washington) political process. Only 51 percent “It’s so logical. I don’t think you
Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:55:41 AM of Latino registered voters are can run again with Joe Biden,” he
sure to get to the polls in the told MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Could Hillary replace Joe as November midterm elections, “You won’t capture the energy.”
Barack’s main squeeze in 2012? according to Pew. That’s bad “She’s only going to be VP for
That’s the juicy bit of palace news for Democrats because two years, if they get reelected,
intrigue enlivening today’s U.S. L a t i n o s f a v o r t h e m o v e r and then she would be off running
political melodrama. Republicans by a margin of 65 on her own. Otherwise, she’d just
It started when author Bob percent to 22 percent. be continuing dealing with
Woodward told CNN that the idea But some who might welcome a Afghanistan and it’s not going to
of a Clinton-Biden switch was Clinton-Biden switch could have be good for her,” Brinkley said.
“on the table” — at least among more than the 2012 campaign in Besides, he added, Biden wants
s o m e C l i n t o n a d v i s e r s . A mind. to be Secretary of State.
s w i t c h w o u l d m e a n H i l l a r y “The other interesting question is Photo credits: Reuters/Kevin
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taking up her State Department younger than Ronald Reagan (Woodward); Reuters/Jason Reed
chores. when he was elected president,” David Axelrod as calling the job in a second Obama term? (White House)
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Washington Extra – Trump cards

Simon Denyer (Front Row candidates, and things are looking rates to respond to market
Washington) a little less grim for the Dems this conditions is vital to ongoing
Submitted at 10/5/2010 5:48:32 PM evening. efforts to rebalance global growth
Look out also for our special and will be on the agenda when
The “enthusiasm gap” was report on the Pentagon’s new finance chiefs meet Friday and
always the Democrats’ biggest cyber warriors, and an exclusive Saturday, a senior U.S. Treasury
p r o b l e m h e a d i n g i n t o t h e story about how Sarah Palin has department official said on
November midterm elections, and paid tens of thousands of dollars Tuesday.
conversely also their biggest for foreign policy advice to a U.S. For more of this story, read here.
hope. Democrats have told poll firm that represents three overseas Many Tea Partiers part of
after poll they were less likely to governments, including Georgia religious right: study
v o t e t h a n t h e i r R e p u b l i c a n and Taiwan, raising questions Many supporters of the
counterparts. If only Democrats about the impartiality of that conservative Tea Party movement
could enthuse their supporters, advice. And breaking tonight, that has shaken up politics share
strategists have been hoping, then news that Donald Trump might the same views as the Christian
maybe the party could still trump just be considering a bid for the right on social issues like abortion
the Republicans in some tight presidency. and the role of religion in public
races. “For the first time in my life, I’m Defense Secretary William Lynn. stability in the past six months. life, according to a new poll. “On
So the Democrats will be pleased actually thinking about it,” Trump For more of this Special Report “The global financial system is nearly all basic demographic
today with the results of our latest told Fox News Channel. ”I see by Jim Wolf, read here. still in a period of significant characteristics, there are no
R e u t e r s / I p s o s p o l l f r o m what’s going on with this country Democrats hold narrow leads in uncertainty and remains the significant differences between
California, which not only shows and it’s never been worse. What’s key California races Achilles’ heel of the economic Americans who identify with the
their candidates leading in the happening is a disgrace.” The Democrats hold a narrow recovery,” the IMF said in its Tea Party movement and those
race for the Senate and the Here are our top stories from advantage in California where big semi-annual Global Financial who identify with the Christian
governor’s office, but also shows Washington today… - s p e n d i n g R e p u b l i c a n M e g Stability Report. conservative movement,” the
that enthusiasm gap narrowing Special report: The Pentagon’s W h i t m a n i s s t r u g g l i n g , a s For more of this story by David study’s authors wrote.
slightly. Some 75 percent of new cyber warriors D e m o c r a t s s h o w i n c r e a s e d Lawder, read here. For more of this story by Andy
Democrats now say they are In the Middle Ages, vital enthusiasm about voting on Q+A-Will the Fed do more to Sullivan, read here.
certain to vote, up from 60 resources were hoarded behind November 2, a Reuters/Ipsos poll help the economy? For a factbox on Tea Partiers and
percent in June. Comparative castle walls, protected by moats, found. A flap over Whitman’s The U.S. Federal Reserve is the religious right, click here.
numbers for Republicans are 83 drawbridges and knights with former housekeeper Nicky Diaz, a mulling whether or not it should Obama agrees to put solar panels
percent now, up from 73 percent double-edged swords. Today, Latina woman who said she do more to spur a sluggish on White House
in June. U.S. national security planners are worked for Whitman as an illegal economic recovery and lift an President Barack Obama has
This tends to support evidence proposing that the 21st century’s immigrant, does not appear to inflation rate that is too low. agreed to put new solar panels on
f r o m o t h e r p o l l s t h a t t h e critical infrastructure — power have had a big impact on the race. Given the economy’s weak the White House roof for the first
enthusiasm gap could be closing, grids, communications, water For more of this story by Steve outlook, many analysts expect the time since then-President Ronald
giving Democrats a flicker of utilities, financial networks — be Holland, read here. Fed to embark upon another Reagan had an array removed in
hope of avoiding a rout, as shielded from cyber marauders Debt woes dealt setback to round of asset buying as early as 1986. “By the end of this spring,
political correspondent John and other foes. Any major future financial stability: IMF its next meeting on Nov. 3-4 there will be solar panels that
Whitesides reported last Friday. conflict inevitably will involve The International Monetary Fund meeting. convert sunlight into electricity
Add to that, some evidence from cyber warfare that could knock said sovereign debt risk in Europe For more of this story, read here. and a solar hot water heater on the
an ABC/Washington Post poll out power, transport and banks, and continued real estate woes in Need forex flexibility for roof of the White House,” Energy
that voters are losing their and causing “massive” economic the United States have dealt a rebalancing growth-U.S.
e n t h u s i a s m f o r T e a P a r t y disruption, says Deputy U.S. setback to global financial Allowing currency exchange WASHINGTON page 3
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Secretary Steven Chu told a clean
energy conference at George
Washington University. “It’s been
a long time since we’ve had them
up there.”
For more of this story by
Timothy Gardner, read here.
Palin adviser worked for foreign
governments
Sarah Palin, seen as a possible
Republican presidential candidate,
has paid tens of thousands of
dollars for foreign policy advice
to a U.S. firm that represents three
overseas governments, campaign
finance documents show. While
legal, the adviser’s work as an
agent for other countries raises
questions about whether Palin is
receiving impartial information
about foreign relations and could
become a subject of debate if she
runs for president or another
elected office
For Mark Hosenball’s story, click
here.
What we are blogging…
Is your tea getting cold? A new
poll suggests the Tea Party
movement may be losing some of
its steam in the run-up to Election
Day. The ABC/ Washington Post
survey found that only 18 percent
"The [$40 million] Katie Couric deal will be the last big deal of
that kind ever done … Those days are over,"...
(Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:29:15 AM
of registered voters now say they
are more likely to vote for a Tea
Party affiliated candidate. That’s
down from 30 percent in July.
For David Morgan’s full blog,
click here.
From elsewhere…
Reflective “death ray” torments
Vegas sunbathers
MGM Resorts International is
taking the heat for an intense
beam of searing desert sunlight
that some hotel guests say poses a
risk of severe burns to bathers
lounging poolside. The beam is a
concentrated reflection of solar
rays bouncing off the concave-
shaped, high-rise Vdara hotel,
which opened on the Las Vegas
“strip” in December. Locals refer
to the reflection as the “death
ray,” but MGM Resorts officials
prefer to call it a “solar
convergence phenomenon.”
For the full story, click here.
Philippines tells anthem crooners
not to do it their way
In the Philippines, a land of
passionate singers, taking on the
national anthem is about to get a
little more daunting — get it
wrong and you could land in jail
for a couple of years and be fined
"The [$40 million] Katie Couric
deal will be the last big deal of
that kind ever done … Those days
more than $2,000. A ban on the
improper singing of Lupang
Hinirang (Beloved Land) and
unpatriotic displays of the
Philippine flag is a Senate vote
away from becoming law.
For more of this story, read here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
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Prouser (UCLA students cast
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Voters may like the healthcare plan

after all, poll shows
Patricia Zengerle (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 6:28:27 PM

Oct 5, 2010 19:28 EDT

Pundits may want to reconsider
the conventional wisdom that U.S.
voters are sour on President
Barack Obama’s sweeping
healthcare overhaul, at least
according to a new survey
released Tuesday.
A majority — 54 percent — of
all voters said they would be more
likely to vote for a candidate who
supported the healthcare overhaul,
the Public Religion Research
Institute found in its American
Values Survey of more than 3,000
voters.
Among women voters, 60 percent
said a candidates’ support for the
new healthcare law made them
more likely to vote for that
candidate, Dan Cox, the institute’s
research director, said.
Women surveyed were also
keenly interested in healthcare,
with 25 percent saying they
considered it the most important
issue in the Nov. 2 election.
Sixteen percent of men rated
healthcare the most important
issue, Cox said.
“Women who say healthcare is
the most important issue for them
are leaning toward Democratic
over Republican candidates by 56
to 34 percent,” Cox said.
Gap Revives Denim-to-
Insulation Program
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) customers receive a 30% discount
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:36:02 AM off new denim purchases, and the
Obama’s fellow Democrats are election season gets under way. Gap gets kudos--everybody wins.
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Leaked e-mail fuels Palin for president Low Expectations for
speculation
Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:56:38 AM
A leaked e-mail is providing
more grist for speculation that
former Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin is seriously pondering a run
for president in 2012.
In the e-mail, Palin’s husband,
Todd Palin, complained to Alaska
Republican Senate candidate Joe
Miller and Tim Crawford,
treasurer for Palin’s SarahPAC
political organization, after Miller
declined to endorse the possibility
of a Palin presidential candidacy.
Sarah Palin had endorsed Miller
in his successful Senate
Republican nomination fight
against incumbent Republican
Senator Lisa Murkowski, and it is
clear from the e-mail that Todd
Palin expected some loyalty in
return.
Miller, asked on Fox News
Sunday in September whether
Palin was qualified to be
president, was non-committal,
saying, “I am not going to get
distracted by other candidates.”
The Todd Palin e-mail was
leaked to themudflats.net, an
Alaska website that reports on
Palin and other political figures in
the state.
Todd Palin complained Sarah had
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California Passes Steve Jobs's Organ Donor Law (AAPL)

Nicholas Carlson (Business Here's that story. ( See a fast, neighborhood on March 17, 2009.
Insider) picture-book version here.) Then, during the week of March
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:27:00 AM In the summer of 2008, Steve 22, 2009 Steve underwent
Jobs appeared on stage at Apple's surgery. His surgeon was either
We published a version of this W o r l d w i d e D e v e l o p e r s James D. Eason, M.D or
story last spring, when the organ Conference in San Francisco's Nosratollah Nezakatgoo, M.D..
donor law cleared the California Moscone Center to introduce the The operation probably took five
state senate's health committee. latest version of the iPhone. to six hours. The liver came from
Yesterday, California Governor Observers were shocked at Steve's a person in their mid-20s who
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed emaciated appearance. Steve died in a car crash.
into law a bill that will make looked so bad, that, not wanting to Hospitalization from a liver
California the first state in the be in the business of mocking a transplant can take several weeks,
nation to create a live donor dying man, Dan Lyons soon quit and it wasn't until mid-April that
registry for kidney transplants. writing his satirical blog Fake Steve felt well enough to move
The bill also requires California Steve Jobs. into his new home in Memphis.
drivers to decide whether they Apple PR tried to tell reporters According to a source who
want to be organ donors when that Steve caught a "common conducted several interviews,
they renew their drivers' licenses. bug" and that he'd regain his neighbors noticed when he did.
A c c o r d i n g t o o n e n o t a b l e weight soon. They spotted Steve's wife around
supporter, this second measure But he didn't. In December 2008, town and the security cameras he
alone should double the number Steve shocked the media and What Steve probably did next, in EKG, "and a number of other
had installed in trees surrounding
of organ transplants available in worried friends by announcing the weeks between January and tests."
his home. They noticed the guard
California. March, was what most wealthy Of course, anybody who needs an
that he would not deliver Apple's parked in the driveway.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs attended keynote at the upcoming 2009 Americans with failing livers do new organ to survive would go
See photos of the home
yesterday's ceremonial signing of Macworld Convention. Apple in the same situation: travel through such an ordeal over and
Doctors recommend liver
the bill at Packard Children's again tried to suggest Steve's around the US and pay big fees to over again. Most just can't afford
transplant patients stay in town
Hospital near Stanford. be examined by various doctors at to. Their insurance companies
health had nothing to do with the for at least a month after leaving
This was fitting, because despite issue, but two weeks into the new various hospitals in order to get only cover one listing because
the hospital. And so, between
the law's near universal support, year, the company and the CEO on as many waiting lists as getting listed is very expensive.
weekly visits to the hospital,
the ideas behind the bill had announced he would be taking a possible. By early to mid-March: a
Steve stayed at his new home in
languished for years on the desk leave of absence in order to deal This process is called multiple- miracle. One of the hospitals at
Memphis. Even if he felt up for it,
of Senator Elaine Alquist. listing, and its benefit is that when which Steve had gotten listed
with a "hormone imbalance." Steve couldn't go out much
The truth is, the idea of a registry looking for a patient who needs a reached him to say that they had a
Here's what was really because he had to take
for living kidney donors only happening: Steve Jobs's liver was liver, hospitals look at their own liver and that he was the best
immunosuppressive medications
gained enough political support failing and he was learning that he lists before moving on to the candidate to receive it via
to prevent rejection of the new
from Alquist's Senate colleagues needed to replace it or else he national one. transplant.
liver, and this made him more
and the Governor to make it into a would die. T h e p r o c e s s i s v e r y t i m e It was Methodist University
susceptible to disease. (At least
formal bill this past March thanks Around this time, Steve began consuming. One of the hospitals Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
the place was nice. It's listed as a
to Steve Jobs's efforts. where Steve got listed required an Steve acted fast. According to
looking for a new liver. $1.4 million, 7,400 square-foot
More specifically, the law exists Unfortunately, he wasn't the only interview with a doctor, an one source, Steve had the local
home, with five bedrooms and
thanks to Steve Jobs's illness last one doing so in California. In fact, interview with a a social worker, l a w y e r s a t B u r c h , P o r t e r &
five bath rooms.)
year and the huge, expensive over 3,400 Californians were complete medical work including Johnson create a limited-liability
By June, Steve had recovered
effort it took for him to find a waiting for a new liver in 2009. l a b t e s t s , a n a b d o m i n a l corporation (LLC) called LCHG
liver donor. u l t r a s o u n d , p s y c h o l o g i c a l LLC and buy the nicest mansion CALIFORNIA page 7
Only 671 got one. 400 died.
clearance, a colonoscopy, an i n M e m p h i s ' s w e a l t h i e s t
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continued from page 6
enough that he allowed it to be
leaked to the Wall Street Journal
that he would return by the end of
the month. On June 20th, the WSJ
also got word of Steve's surgery.
In September, Steve was healthy
enough to speak at Apple's annual
refresh of its iPod line. Still a bit
raspy, he told the crowd about his
surgery and his new liver.
By December 2009, Steve Jobs's
life was much like it was before
he got sick. Rumors were running
wild again and, unlike the year
before, and more like every other
year in Steve's life since the
launch of the iPod, they were not
about his health, but about Apple's
latest gadget.
But something about his whole
experience still bothered Steve.
What bothered him was that
while he, a very wealthy man, was
surviving his liver's failure, others
were not so lucky. Specifically, he
was upset because, while he was
able to afford the costs of multiple
-listing and a private jet that could
ferry him to any hospital in the
country at a moment's notice,
others in California could not;
they had to stay in California and
hope. He knew that 400 people
died hoping.
And so, in a departure from a
largely apolitical career, Steve
decided to do something about it.
At a dinner in December -- no
one will tell us where this dinner
was -- Steve sat next to Maria
Shriver, John F. Kennedy's niece
and California governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger's wife. Steve told
her the whole story of his liver
transplant. He complained that
California doesn't do enough to
encourage people to become
organ donors. He told Maria that
she should get her husband to do
something about it -- that
California should require people
who want drivers' licenses to say
whether or not they want to be
organ donors (previously, they'd
only had the option of saying they
wanted to be donors).
The First Lady talked to her
husband. Then the Governor
called Steve. The Governor called
State Senator Alquist, who he
knew to be a long time advocate
for organ donation. Suddenly, a
cause that couldn't find its way
into a bill for two or more years
was set to become State Senate
Bill 1395. All thanks to Steve
Jobs -- and his now-departed
liver.
After his conversation with the
Governor, a lot happened to
distract Steve from his new cause.
Mostly, there was the iPad -- a
gadget that was supposed to save
media and replace laptops. The
iPad needed announcing and then
last-minute perfecting. Things got
so busy that during the month
before the iPad's launch, Steve
almost skipped an event at
Stanford's Lucile Packard
Children's Hospital where he, the
Governor, and Senator Alquist
were scheduled to announce the
bill.
When the Governor's office
contacted Lucile Packard to
schedule the event roughly 10
days ahead of time, they said that
Apple's famous CEO had been
invited to appear, but that the
hospital should not include his
name in the press release.
See photos from the event
Then, five days before the event,
Katie Cotton and Nick Ammann
from Apple public affairs showed
up at the hospital and took a
preview of the tour that the
Governor and the Apple CEO
would take that Friday.
Finally, word came that Steve
would show.
Friday came and so did the
Governor, his entourage, and
Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his
characteristic black mock turtle
neck and jeans. After an
introduction from the hospital's
president, the Governor stood at
the podium. He looked at Steve
and said:
It's great to have Steve Jobs here,
who I think was very instrumental
in getting us here today and to
have us come up with this great
bill that will change a lot here in
California. He talked to my wife
about his transplant and then my
wife talked to me about it and I
talked to him about it and we had
these great phone conversations
back and forth and now here it is
reality; we are introducing the
bill.
And what I like about Steve is,
because he is a wealthy man, we
all know that and that helped him
get the transplant. But he doesn't
want that, that only wealthy
people can get the transplant and
have a plane waiting to take him
anywhere he needs to go. He
wants every human being, if you
have no money at all or if you're
the richest person in the world,
everyone ought to have the right
to get immediately a transplant.
And this is why he has talked to
my wife and this is why he has
talked to me and put the pressure
on us to get this bill going so that
we open it up and have enough of
the organs available for all the
people that are potential
recipients. So we want to say --
let's give him a big, big hand for
his great generosity.
That's when Steve walked to the
podium and said the following:
Thank you, Governor
Schwarzenegger. Last year I
received a liver transplant. I was
very fortunate, because many
others died waiting to receive one.
Last year in California there were
671 liver transplants but last year
there were also over 3,400 people
waiting for a liver and over 400 of
them died waiting in California.
I was almost one of the ones that
died waiting for a liver in
California last year. I was
receiving great care here at
Stanford but there were simply
not enough livers in California to
go around and my doctors here
advised me to enroll in a
transplant program in Memphis,
Tennessee, where the supply/
demand ratio of livers is more
favorable than it is in California
here. And I was lucky enough to
get a liver in time. As a matter of
fact, this coming week is my one-
year anniversary.
So why aren't there more organs
available in California? Because
in California, like most other
states in the nation, you must
specifically request to become an
7
organ donor at the Department of
Motor Vehicles when you're there
to get or renew your driver's
license. No one asks you if you
want to become a donor. And
there's no marketing campaign to
make you aware of this
opportunity, either, so unless you
know about it and unless your
specifically ask, nobody is going
to ask you, nobody is going to
give you this opportunity. And yet
even with this obscure procedure
over 20 percent of Californians
have signed up to be organ
donors, which is fantastic. But
imagine what it could be if
everyone knew of this
opportunity.
And that's what the Governor's
bill will do. It will simply require
the DMV to ask you if you'd like
to become an organ donor. That's
it. Asking this one simple
question may double the number
of transplant organs available in
California -- one simple question.
And that's a very high return on
investment, especially for the over
20,000 Californians currently
waiting for an organ transplant.
So Governor, thank you for your
leadership on this bill. And now
I'd like to introduce Senator
Alquist. Thank you.
There's reason to believe the
event moved Steve Jobs more
than he expected it would.
During the preview tour five days
prior, a hospital staffer recalls
someone from Apple suggesting
that they tighten up the tour of the
hospital's kidney transplant area --
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8 Business/
Watch Out: Commercial Real Estate Prices Dipped In August
Calculated Risk (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:33:41 AM
This is the new repeat sales index
for commercial real estate.
Previously I've only been using
the Moodys/REAL Commercial
Property Price Index(CPPI) for
commercial real estate.
From CoStar: CoStar
Commercial Repeat-Sale Indices
• General commercial real estate
and the broad-based CoStar
composite index for all
commercial real estate reversed
the positive trend reported in last
month’s findings and came in at -
3.48% and -1.38% respectively
for the month of August. ...
• Repeat sales values for
investment grade commercial
property reversed their negative
trend from July and moved
positive again with a 3.73% climb
in August. We continue to see a
significant spread in cap rates and
prices from the larger property in
prime core markets to the
property in second- and third-tier
broader markets. Even with
tighter financing, there appears to
Macy's: Uptrend Resumes After Summer Break
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy
Readers of this space know that,
from an investment standpoint,
the retail space is best avoided.
The era of the 'frugal consumer'
be plenty of institutional and
REIT capital oriented to the lower
-risk core markets.
• For the past three months, all
three indices are negative at -
3.92% for the broad general
index, -3.24% for investment
grade and -3.92% for the
composite. For the past 12
months, all three indices are down
approximately 10% to 11%.
• One reason for the volatility of
and a surplus of store chains has
led to triage-like conditions in the
retail sector, as stores close and as
some chains go out of business
entirely.
However, there are exceptions,
and Macy's ( M), first discussed
here on June 17, 2009 at a price of Macy's shares have rebounded
$11.23, is one.
these indices discussed here is the
proportion of distress sales, which
are continuing to climb in
absolute levels, although as a
percentage of sales they have
leveled since June. This volume
of distressed sales, while certainly
not a tsunami, is still significant
especially among lodging and
multifamily properties.
from an over-correction in the
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transactions (compared to
residential), and that there is a
high percentage of distressed
sales.
On the number of transactions:
The CCRSI September report is
based on sales data through the
end of August. In August, 559
sales pairs were recorded.
...
Distress continues to be a
significant factor in the index
results. Since 2007, the ratio of
distressed sales to overall sales
has increased from approximately
1% to approximately 23%
currently. Discounts on distressed
property sales (REOs and short
sales) compared to non-distressed
sales are running an average of
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This graph from CoStar shows office and industrial and 17% for
the indexes for investment grade, retail property based on 2010 data
g e n e r a l c o m m e r c i a l a n d a to date.
composite index. The investment This post originally appeared at
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Mind Map of the Digital Age

Richard Watson (Fast difficult to be truly alone. As a patience to sit quietly and read.
Company) result we never get a chance to Does this mean that we are
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:54:15 AM think deeply about who we are breeding a new generation with
and where we are going. This plenty of quick answers but very
A new map showing how the links to Nicholas Carr's point in few deep questions? What will
digital era is changing our minds The Shallows that our thinking is this mean for innovation?
and in particular about how new becoming hurried, cursory and Virtualisation means that we are
digital objects and environments superficial. Interesting counter- removing the physical interactions
are re-wiring our brains. Best point here. We have never been so that both people and ideas require.
viewed by people aged 35+ with connected and yet U.S. research is (i.e. both people and ideas are
full-time jobs and teenage kids. showing that we have never felt inherently social). Companies
Click to Enlarge so alone. think that they can scatter people
Here's another map meant to 24/7 access to everything is all over the world, give them
provoke debate. It's not serious creating a culture that values access to a computer and expect
although a few of the issues it immediacy over and above almost something of great value to
raises are. Interestingly, there everything else. We can no longer happen almost instantly but it
appears to be an unease building wait for things to happen. Again, rarely does. Will we perhaps see a
up around everything from the this can give rise to a lack of back-sourcing counter-trend
Internet in general to Apple (no rigour and reflection but it can within the world of innovation,
longer David but now a Goliath) also cause serious mistakes. I'd knowledge. The result is a more as you might expect.
especially where R&D becomes
and Google (when can we expect predict a single-tasking movement convergence of sources, which Generational shifts. Teens figure
concentrated in a single physical
the next anti-trust case?) so as a reaction against multi- may reduce creativity and there's no point in learning
location rather then being
perhaps this is quite timely. tasking. originality. For example, only 1% anything if you can just Google it.
distributed geographically?
Specific things the map seeks to Digitalisation is creating too of Google searches now proceed Moreover, trends like digital
explore include: past the first page of results and instant gratification and the shift
much information and choice.
Constant connectivity means we There is now so much to consider academic papers are now towards interactive media mean
are constantly distracted. It's now t h a t w e t a k e s h o r t c u t s t o referencing fewer citations--not that teens no longer have the

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continued from page 7
make it quicker for the busy
executives. But at the end of the
tour on the actual day of the
event, this same hospital staffer
says that while everyone else --
the Governor's people, Apple's
people, and the hospital staff --
waited outside the recovery room
for the children who had just
received organ transplants, "Steve
was still in there talking to kids."
"Steve stayed in there for a while,
really enjoying himself."
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Carbon Trick for Advancing Medicine, Electronics

Wins 2010 Chemistry Nobel Prize
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:42:59 AM
The 2010 Nobel Prize for
Chemistry has been awarded to
three scientists for a powerful
process to produce carbon bonds
important for medicine
production, materials science, and
electronics--including the tech
behind OLED screens.
The Heck reaction, Negishi
reaction, and Suzuki reaction are
the three independent processes
that are being rewarded here:
Each was championed by the
eponymous scientists, and in
concert with the element
palladium as a catalyst the three
result in a powerful way to create
new carbon-carbon bonds.
These bonds are key to
synthesizing new medicines,
clones of biological molecules,
and in producing novel materials
in the electronic industry. Without
the methods of this year's Nobel
prize, it would've been far harder
to synthesize "high tech materials
that benefit society" in large
scales, according to the Nobel
Committee, and resulting in the
ability to "create sophisticated
chemicals, for example carbon-
based molecules as complex as
those created by nature itself." In
the Prize citation, the Committee
noted that without the Heck-
Negishi-Suzuki reactions, it
used in producing materials for
OLEDs, and there's even a link to
this year's Physics prize as other
scientists have altered the core
reactions and one new version has
recently been use to attach
"palladium atoms to graphene,
and the resulting solid material
was used to carry out the Suzuki
reaction in water."
Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi,
Akira Suzuki all worked
independently of each other in
different nations around the
world, but together their work is
"already of great importance to
humanity" according to the Prize
Committee, and "taking into
account the developments
wouldn't have been possible to c u r r e n t l y b e i n g m a d e i n
synthesize an artificial version of laboratories worldwide, their
a molecule called discodermolide, reactions are likely to become
copied from the poison of a even more important in the
Caribbean marine sponge, that's future."
been found highly promising as To keep up with this news, and
an anti-cancer drug since "among more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
other things, it stopped cancel on Twitter.
cells from growing in test tube"
conditions. The reactions are also
Live At Cisco’s SF Event;
New Video Calling
Hardware Rumored
Devin Coldewey (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:14:39 AM
I’m in San Francisco, at the Cisco
press conference where the
connectivity giant is rumored to
be showing off a new video
calling tool — likely one that sits
on top of your TV. Cisco already
has such solutions in place for
enterprise, but their growing
interest in the consumer space,
and the increasing numbers of
internet-connected TVs, have
likely inspired them to improve
existing video calling solutions.

Tascam's TC-1S guitar tuner is solar powered, super tiny

Darren Murph (Engadget) everyone's life (admit it, there's sweet carrying clip, integrated 1S guitar tuner is solar powered,
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:02:00 AM always one), Tascam has a cutesy microphone and a quarter-inch super tiny
new guitar tuner that's both a) input for guitar and bass tuning. It Tascam's TC-1S guitar tuner is
We hate to point out the obvious, affordable and b) Stocking Stuffer can even be calibrated to an solar powered, super tiny
but it's about time you threw -approved at just 3.77- x 0.71- x external source, and it'll be originally appeared on Engadget
procrastination in the nearest 1.57-inches. The TC-1S claims to available in a half-dozen hues on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:02:00
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Fashionable Credit Cards
- Shop in Style With these
Pantone Visa Platinium
Rewards Cards
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:00:05 AM

Visa teamed up with Pantone to

release an edition of stylish credit
cards named the PANTONE Visa
Platinum Rewards Cards. These
cards are available in five exciting
Pantone colors, including
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Holy Groundtography -
The Stefanie Vogl 'Open
Mosque' Series is
Beautifully Solemn
(GALLERY)
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:50:01 AM

Toyota's All-In-One Energy Hub For Home And Car
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) There's just one catch: It will only
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:37:45 AM be available in Japan.
The Smart Center syncs Toyota's
All plug-in hybrid and electric upcoming plug-in hybrids with
v e h i c l e s o f f e r d e t a i l e d home energy management system
information about in-car energy -equipped homes (including
usage. They have to--without that i n f o r m a t i o n a b o u t p o w e r
information, drivers could run out c o n s u m p t i o n , s o l a r p a n e l
of battery power without knowing electricity production, and electric
it. But Toyota wants to take heat pump hot water volume) to
energy monitoring a step further allow remote energy monitoring
with the Smart Center, a system and coordination. Toyota's system
t h a t l i n k s h o m e s , v e h i c l e s , also takes into account weather
utilities, and users into an all-in- forecasts and utility charge-rate
one energy management hub. information for different times of
The Stefanie Vogl 'Open Mosque'
series is a collection of
day to cut down on household U.S. customers won't be able to photographs shot during open
energy use and costs. And use Toyota's system, but they can M o s q u e i n G e r m a n y . T h e
smartphone users can remotely take advantage of a similar system photographs not only display
check on vehicle battery charge, in the 2011 Ford Focus Electric, Stefanie Vogl's photographic skill,
tweak the charging time, and turn which syncs with Microsoft's but the talent behind the…
the air-conditioning on or off in H o h m e n e r g y m o n i t o r i n g
preparation for use. software to optimize charging.
The Smart Center system is Ford's system doesn't control
currently in testing, but Toyota home energy use, however--for
hopes to have it ready to go by that, we'll have to wait for Toyota
2012--just in time for the release to expand its Smart Center
of Toyota's plug-in hybrids. Only worldwide.
Toyota Homes(yes, Toyota has a Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
housing division in Japan) will be Twitter or by email.
able to use the control center.
12 Business/ Technology/ Policy/
UPDATE: New York Longshoremen Trafficked
Cocaine And Used Money To Drive Stock Pump-
And-Dump (HEME, MXMI, SSOL, TSPG, BTDG)
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:28:00 AM
UPDATE: More details have
emerged on the scheme, via South
Florida Business Journal.
11 men in New York and Florida
were using money from cocaine-
trafficking to fuel a pump-and-
dump.
The investment scheme pocketed
$3 million and cost investors $7
million.
The drug scheme was worth up to
$100,000 per bag received.
PREVIOUSLY: Nine New York
longshoremen were busted
yesterday for helping Panamanian
drug dealers smuggle nearly a ton
of cocaine through local ports.
Sounds like business as usual.
What's strange here is that the
longshoremen were also busted
for running a stock pump-and-
dump scheme.
The stock scheme allegedly
posted bogus claims online, like
"Our Stock Picks are Off the
Charts!" and "Lock in 500% in a
Tough Economy," according to
NY Post.
Do We Really Need a Bigger IMF?
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PennyWinners.com has been
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its website and twitter stream,
including HEME, MXMI, SSOL,
TSPG, and BTDG. Tweets
include: "If HEME doesn't break
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Microsoft Acquires .NET
Application Monitoring
Startup AVIcode
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:36:44 AM
Microsoft has just announced the
information regarding the
acquisition of AVIcode, a
hardware and software
Baltimore-based company that
components of a distributed
develops a realtime application
application or service.
monitoring software for the .NET
Brad Anderson, Microsoft’s
Framework. According to a
CVP, Management & Security
statement from the company, the
Division, writes that“Bringing
acquisition will help provide
together the capabilities of
Microsoft “customers with unified
Operations Manager with the
management for physical,
enhancements from AVIcode
virtualized and cloud applications,
enables organizations to truly get
whether they are running in a
the 360-degree view of their
customer, service provider or
service—independent of where
Microsoft datacenter.” Terms of
the service is hosted, whether a
the deal were not disclosed.
datacenter/cloud, in a partner’s
According to the blog post,
hosted data center/cloud, or from
AVIcode’s software will be
a public cloud solution such as
available through the Microsoft’s
Windows Azure.” AVIcode has
System Center product family.
raised over$2 million in venture
AVIcode’s products include a
funding.
variety of application monitoring
It’s unclear if the AVIcode deal
services for the full application
is part of Microsoft’s secret
lifecycle.
acquisition spree of 15 companies
AVIcode’s monitoring
over the past year, including 3D
capabilities includes, a specialized
virtual world Vivaty. In contrast
Silverlight monitoring product,
to Google, Microsoft has been
data on how an end user measures
more tight-lipped about its
an application’s performance and
acquisitions but perhaps this
quality, the ability to trace the
strategy is changing. CrunchBase
performance of critical business
Information AVIcode Information
transactions, and allows
provided by CrunchBase
administrators to access detailed
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Natural gas pipeline crisis plans kept from public (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:45:19 AM
WASHINGTON – The
emergency plans for companies
operating natural gas pipelines
like the one that exploded in San
Bruno, Calif., killing eight people
and destroying a neighborhood,
are effectively off-limits to the
public and industry watchdogs
because the federal pipeline safety
agency itself doesn't have copies.
The Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
policy means companies can keep
their emergency plans hidden
from people who might live near
natural gas transmission lines.
Because the government doesn't
have copies of the plans, the
public can't use the nation's open
records law to request them.
State, city and county officials in
California said they do not have
copies of the San Bruno pipeline
disaster plan, either.
The federal pipeline safety
agency doesn't ask natural gas
pipeline operators for the plans
because it isn't required to do so,
agency spokesman Julia P.
Valentine said.
"Congress requires PHMSA to
inspect the emergency response
plans," Valentine said. "There is
no regulation requiring operators
to submit these plans to PHMSA
and for the agency to retain
them."
Rather than obtaining copies of
the plans, inspectors view them
while visiting natural gas
operators' facilities and leave
them there.
The Associated Press discovered
that federal regulators didn't have
natural gas pipelines' emergency
plans when it filed a request under
the Freedom of Information Act
for copies of every emergency
plan for every natural gas and oil
transmission pipeline in the U.S.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which
operated the San Bruno natural
gas pipeline that exploded last
month, declined to provide a copy
of its emergency plan to the AP,
saying it contained confidential
customer and employee
information.
The federal pipeline safety
administration has long been
criticized for a cozy relationship
with the companies it is supposed
to regulate. Its on-site-only review
of natural gas pipeline emergency
plans puts it at odds with other
federal agencies such as the
Interior Department, which
publicly disclosed copies of BP's
plan for the Gulf of Mexico and
the Deepwater Horizon rig after
the Gulf oil spill in April. Those
plans, approved by the
government last year before BP
drilled its doomed well, contained
errors and showed that BP was
unprepared to handle quickly a
spill of the Gulf disaster's
magnitude.
PHMSA's policy for natural gas
pipelines is also at odds with its
handling of spill plans prepared
by oil pipeline operators. Federal
law requires PHMSA to
periodically obtain and keep
copies of those plans. Agency
Administrator Cynthia
Quarterman told Congress last
month that her agency would
make the oil spill response plans
public.
The emergency plan for PG&E in
California will likely draw
scrutiny as investigators examine
the utility's response time in the
San Bruno explosion, including
how long it took to stop the flow
of natural gas.
Officials in San Bruno and San
Mateo County said PG&E didn't
share its emergency plan for the
pipeline with their emergency
response agencies prior to the
disaster. They said it is
information they'd like to have.
"The city of San Bruno and I
think many other cities are more
acutely interested now in what are
the locations and configurations
of the lines and how are they
operated and how can they be
quickly shut off," San Bruno City
Manager Connie Jackson said.
Jackson said PG&E cooperated
immediately with emergency
crews.
The environmental health
director for San Mateo County,
Dean Peterson, said the county's
hazardous materials team
examined surrounding facilities
such as gas stations and radio
towers after the blast.
"Any information we have of
hazards in our county would be
beneficial," Peterson said.
PG&E spokeswoman Katie
Romans said the California Public
Utilities Commission asked to see
the plan early this year as part of
an annual audit, but the utility
didn't give the plan to local
emergency crews.
It has shared elements of it with
local public safety agencies
during joint exercises; the most
recent joint exercise with San
Bruno area emergency responders
was in 2006, Romans said.
"We did not widely distribute the
plan because it contains
confidential operating
information," Romans said.
California Public Utilities
Commission spokeswoman Susan
Carothers said her agency reviews
the plans while auditing utilities
but doesn't have copies. That
effectively puts it out of reach of
citizens who otherwise could
request copies under California's
open records law.
A new U.S. Senate pipeline
safety bill would require PHMSA
to collect emergency response
plans from natural gas and other
hazardous liquid pipeline
operators and, after removing
sensitive details such as
proprietary or security
information, post them online.
The bill is sponsored by Sen.
Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.,
chairman of the Senate
Commerce, Science and
Transportation Subcommittee on
Surface Transportation, and
Senate Commerce Committee
Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-
W.Va.
A pipeline safety advocate said
federal regulators should get
copies of the natural gas pipeline
disaster plans so they can review
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them in detail, and the public
should get to see them.
"Most of these plans are pretty big
documents. I don't think an
inspector who's going to be
visiting for a day or two can get
up to speed on a significant
document like that and then ask
specific questions about what
they're doing," said Carl Weimer,
executive director of the nonprofit
Pipeline Safety Trust in
Bellingham, Wash. "They're being
developed by industry and get a
nod from PHMSA and the public
never gets to see or comment on
them."
Weimer and Christina Sames,
vice president of operations and
engineering for the American Gas
Association, an industry lobbying
group, said they were unaware of
any states that collect natural gas
pipeline operators' emergency
response plans and make them
public.
Sames said it makes sense for
federal officials to collect oil spill
plans because, unlike natural gas
pipeline leaks, oil spills can
spread for miles and cause a lot of
environmental damage.
Operators share natural gas
pipeline emergency plans with
PHMSA, states and local
emergency responders, Sames
said. By reviewing plans while
visiting facilities, state and federal
inspectors can have questions
answered instantly, she said,
adding that it was unclear how the
public would benefit from seeing
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Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) tougher laws for repeat offenders deliberated for five hours over During the trial, authorities of July 23, 2007, in pain and
Submitted at 10/5/2010 8:19:45 PM and home invasions, and two days. showed text messages between feeling the sensation that blood
Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell He was convicted of 16 counts, the men hours before the crime in was running down his face. He
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A cited the case when she vetoed a including six capital felony which Hayes told Komisarjevsky saw two people standing nearby.
paroled burglar was convicted bill that would have abolished the charges, three murder counts and that he was "chomping at the bit "If he moves, put two bullets in
Tuesday of murdering a woman death penalty. two charges of sexually assaulting to get started." him," Petit recalled one of the
and her two daughters in their The girls' father and the lone Hawke-Petit. The capital offenses Authorities say the men were assailants telling the other.
suburban home during a night of survivor, Dr. William Petit, were for killing two or more caught fleeing the scene. Petit said the men took him to his
terror that drew comparisons to appeared to stifle tears as the people, the killing of a person Hayes, still reeking of gasoline, basement and tied him to a post.
"In Cold Blood" and bolstered verdict was read. His head down, under 16, murder in the course of gave an emotionless confession to Jurors saw photos of the victims,
efforts to retain the death penalty he sucked in his bottom lip. a sexual assault and three counts police in which he said he was charred beds, rope, ripped
in Connecticut. "There is some relief but my of intentionally causing a death financially desperate when the clothing and ransacked rooms. A
T h e m o t h e r w a s s e x u a l l y family is still gone," Petit said during a kidnapping. men hatched a plan to break into a medical examiner described the
assaulted and strangled. Her two afterward, his father and other During the penalty phase, which house, tie up the family, rob them painful and panic-stricken smoke
girls died of smoke inhalation relatives clutching him. "It doesn't is expected to last up to a month, and flee. But Hayes said "things inhalation death likely suffered by
after the youngest was sexually bring them back. It doesn't bring Hayes' attorneys will try to got out of control," a detective Michaela. Hayley's injuries
assaulted, they were tied to their back the house that we had." persuade the jurors to spare him testified. suggested she managed to free
beds and doused in gasoline, and Hayes showed no emotion as he the death penalty. They argued Hayes told authorities he sexually herself and was burned as she
the house was set on fire. stood for the verdict, which during the trial that prosecutors assaulted Hawke-Petit after tried to flee. She also died of
Steven Hayes, 47, could be triggers the trial's second phase, failed to prove Hayes intended to Komisarjevsky, 30, told him he smoke inhalation.
sentenced to death. His attorneys beginning Oct. 18, in which the kill the girls. had to — to "square things up" — When asked Tuesday how he
have admitted his involvement same jurors will decide if Hayes Attorneys not involved in the because Komisarjevsky had would find the strength to attend
and will argue for a life sentence. should be executed. case said Hayes' lawyers will have sexually assaulted Michaela, a the penalty phase and then
Prosecutors said Hayes and Petit said he hoped the jurors difficulty showing mitigating detective testified. another trial filled with the same
another ex-con broke into the would use "the same diligence factors that would favor prison A prison officer, Jeremiah Krob, horrifying testimony, Petit said:
family's house in Cheshire in and clarity of thought" as they over execution. said he overheard Hayes tell "If your family was destroyed by
2007, beat the girls' father with a consider the sentence. "If there was ever to be a hue and another inmate that he killed evil, I think you would all try to
baseball bat and forced their Hayes' defense conceded most of cry for the application of the death Hawke-Petit after Komisarjevsky do the same thing and be there for
mother, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to the evidence on the trial's first penalty, this case is it," said told him he had to do it. your family."
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1959 murders of a Kansas family, to death. supermarket, followed them to acquitted Hayes of an arson count.
and prompted more Cheshire Hayes' jury heard eight days of their home, then returned later William Petit told the jury he
residents to get guns. It also led to g r u e s o m e t e s t i m o n y a n d with Hayes, authorities say. woke up on his couch the morning
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Christian Physicians Hail New Breakthrough in Let's get

Stem Cell Research fiscal
(Society) create safe alternatives to human field. morally acceptable to all,” (The Economist: Daily news
Submitted at 10/5/2010 4:21:24 PM embryonic stem cells. “In terms of therapeutics, any Stevens noted. “The fact that and views)
The new method, which is genetic disease that involves a these iPS cells strategy can then Submitted at 10/6/2010 5:39:33 AM
Christian medical professionals featured in the October issue of mutation of a gene that doesn’t turn those cells into ones that
are hailing the latest breakthrough Cell Stem Cell, uses synthetic make a certain protein, we can could be used for transplants is a LOOMING debt and
in stem cell research, claiming RNA to drive the expression of now approach that with this huge step forward as well." demographic crises have many
that it further proves that the stem cell-inducing proteins technology to reintroduce that Notably, despite the highly touted governments searching for new
d e s t r u c t i o n o f e m b r y o s i s without irreversibly altering the protein into those cells and potential of embryonic stem cells, revenue sources. Some
unnecessary to find cures for cells' genetic material. reestablish proper function to research on embryo-derived cells governments have less room to
disease. The resulting stem cells then are those cells,” he reported. “So we has yet to treat a single disease. raise taxes than others. An
"This breakthrough validates able to recapitulate the functional think that this is going to be really Adult stem cell research, analysis by KPMG, a consultancy,
many other significant proofs of and molecular properties of important for many therapeutic meanwhile, has produced compares effective tax rates—net
t h e t h e r a p e u t i c p r o m i s e o f human embryonic stem cells, and avenues in addition to basic treatments for heart muscle of offsets—and social-security
induced pluripotent stem cells therefore can be transformed into questions of biology.” rehabilitation, muscle growth, contribution rates across 81
(iPS cells) and adult stem cells,” specialized cells to treat disease. After news spread of the latest diabetes and Parkinson’s disease, countries. Unsurprisingly,
declared Dr. David Stevens, CEO Furthermore, unlike current development, CMA’s Stevens among others. Altogether, more European countries top the list. As
of the 16,000-member Christian methods that use viruses to questioned how anyone could than 80 diseases are already being a result austerity measures across
Medical Association (CMA), on deliver the genes that “reprogram” continue insisting that the treated with non-controversial much of Europe must focus on
Monday. a cell into a stem cell, the new government, “in a time of adult stem cells and 1,970 clinical cutting spending. At just under
"Compared to the speculative, method poses little (if any) risk financial crisis, should continue to trials with adult stem cells are 40%, the total burden of taxation
controversial and dangerous for cancer as RNA doesn’t shovel hundreds of millions of tax underway. With embryonic stem in India is quite high relative to
embryonic stem cell research that become part of the cell’s genome. dollars down the black hole of cells, there is only one human that in China. But a thin social
the [Obama] administration insists The resulting stem cells are also speculative embryo-destroying clinical trial. Continue » safety net means that China’s
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Talk of In Vitro Advancements Reignites Religion
Debate
(Society)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 7:00:07 AM
Talk of in vitro fertilization has
abounded since Robert G.
Edwards, pioneer of the
technique, was awarded the Nobel
Prize Monday.
The procedure, which led the to
the first “test tube baby,” Louise
E. Brown, in 1978, was deemed
shocking in its day. From the
beginning, the Roman Catholic
Church denounced the procedure
as one that tampers with the
natural process of conception.
However, now, with the number
of test tube babies at 4 million,
many consider IVF as the norm
for couples having trouble
conceiving.
In fact, it has evolved into a
thriving industry. As with any
industry, IVF specialists and
scientists are finding ways to
improve their product.
Developmental biologists at
Standford University are
researching a method of
embryonic video monitoring.
Video will allow biologists to
observe the embryo prior to
implanting them in the womb.
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biologists to predict with 93
percent accuracy which fertilized
eggs will produce a baby,
reducing the need for the abortion
of extra eggs inside the womb.
“We’re hopeful that our research
will help improve pregnancy rates
arising from in vitro fertilization,
while also reducing the frequency
of miscarriage and the need for
the selective reduction of multiple
embryos,” said the Stanford
study’s senior author, Renee Reijo
Pera, Ph.D.
So is the controversy and
religious stigma over IVF gone?
Answers are mixed. The Catholic
Church remains staunchly
opposed to the procedure and a
Vatican official – Bishop Ignacio
Carrasco de Paula, president of
the Pontifical Academy for Life –
denounced the Nobel Prize
winner. However, Protestants are
more accepting of the procedure.
The Christian Medical and
Dental Associations declares in its
ethical statement that it approves
of IVF in the context of marriage.
But according to CMDA Vice
President Gene Rudd, MD, this is
not a blanket acceptance of the
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Rudd stressed that in vitro
fertilization is only biblical when
done in a morally responsible
manner. First, the fertilization
must result from the union of a
wife's egg and her husband's
sperm, he explained.
“When you start deviating from
that, red flags should go up,”
Rudd said. Second and third,
every embryo produced
(successful or not) should be
implanted into the mother’s
womb; no eggs are to be
destroyed or discarded.
“Couples can go into an in vitro
clinic and form an agreement that
they will not create excess
embryos and that every embryo
will be implanted in one or more
subsequent cycles,” he said.
According to Rudd, the CMDA
believes that morally responsible
methods of IVF can be beneficial
to couples struggling to conceive.
There are, however, some
downsides too, he cautioned.
He said that the selective abortion
of embryos inside and outside of
the womb is wrong. “That is when
we cross over and become God,”
he commented.
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For this reason, Rudd said he
believes the new methods
unearthed by Stanford’s research
are unethical. Embryos found to
be unsuccessful during the
observation period will not be
implanted into the womb, he
pointed out. Instead, they will end
up being discarded and destroyed.
“We are responsible for our
reproductive choices and our
offspring,” he commented.
Another ill of IVF is the part that
it has played in embryonic stem
cell research. “Stem cell
technology is built on the
technology learned through in
vitro fertilization,” Rudd pointed
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WORSE Than japan
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:23:00 AM
This is one of the hottest
questions around: Is the US going
to experience two lost decades
like Japan has, or will the US
rebound?
Kyle Bass thinks the premise is
off.
The US won't have the "glide
path" that Japan has had, because
we don't have the savings to fund
our massive debt (like Japan did)
and we don't run a huge trade
surplus like Japan has all those
years.
So in otherwords, expect a
disruptive collapse.
And remember! Bass hates Japan,
and he's even taken out his
mortgage in Japan, because he's
expecting a hyperinflationary
collapse there imminently.
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SocGen: Global Debt Has Already Increased By 150% In Just Two Years
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The U.S. isn't the only nation c h a r t b e l o w f r o m S o c i e t e nations have become the world's
adding government debt at a Generale shows the net result. basket case economies, while
torrid pace. Europe is, Japan is, Global debt has increased by firm forecasts that the situation emerging markets have managed
a n d a c t u a l l y m a n y s m a l l e r 150% in just two years, and the could potentially get far worse to keep debt under control.
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Israeli rabbis visit torched West Bank
mosque (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 3:42:21 PM
BEIT FAJJAR, West Bank – Six
rabbis from West Bank
settlements took a step Tuesday to
defuse tension over an arson
attack at a West Bank mosque,
apparently by extremist settlers —
they presented 20 new Quran
books to replace those damaged in
the blaze.
During the rabbis' visit to the
mosque in the village of Beit
Fajjar, Palestinian residents held
charred pages of the burned
Quran books. The mosque was
not seriously damaged.
Israelis and Palestinians
denounced the fire. The attackers
left Hebrew slogans on the
mosque walls, including the word
"revenge." It appeared to be the
latest action in a campaign that
extremist Jewish settlers call the
"price tag," their response to
moves by their government to
remove unauthorized settlement
outposts and other similar
measures.
Israeli politicians rushed to
condemn Monday's attack. Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu ordered his security
forces "to act with determination"
to bring the arsonists to justice.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak
described it as a "shameful act."
It came as Israeli, Palestinian and
U.S. negotiators tried to salvage
peace talks by working out a deal
over Israeli settlement
construction in the West Bank.
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas has said he will not
continue the talks restarted last
month by President Barack
Obama if Israel does not renew a
construction slowdown. Israel
refused, but Netanyahu appealed
to Abbas to stick with the
negotiations.
Rabbi Menachem Froman from
the nearby settlement of Tekoah,
the leader of Tuesday's
reconciliatory visit to Beit Fajjar,
said those who committed the
attack "oppose peace." Froman
said it was his third visit to a West
Bank mosque damaged in arson
attacks blamed on Israeli settlers.
Froman said the rabbis were
received warmly. "They thanked
us for coming to identify with
them over the sorrow that took
place," he said later in a telephone
interview.
Taking the new Quran books, a
local religious leader said he was
accepting them in the name of
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
jails. Israel is holding about 9,000
Palestinians.
After the visit, a small clash
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the plans. Utilities are supposed to "That's one of the biggest
let people know if they live near a
pipeline, and that's the most
concerns at the local levels, is
sometimes these emergency plans
erupted, with Palestinian youths important information for that are produced by operators are
throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, homeowners to have, Sames said. often just sort of a paper tiger, and
who responded with tear gas "I think the critical thing here is they sit on a shelf and they're not
grenades. There were no reports that those emergency response really shared effectively with the
of casualties. plans are very easily accessible to emergency response community
In another clash, Israeli activists,those people who really need and they're not maintained,"
settlers and police scuffled in the them," Sames said. Butters said.
east Jerusalem neighborhood of Timothy Butters, chairman of the ___
Sheikh Jarrah, and two Israelis International Association of Fire Associated Press Writer Jason
were arrested, activists said. Chiefs' Hazardous Materials Dearen in San Francisco
Israeli police had no comment. Committee, said emergency contributed to this report.
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India's most expensive film sets box-
office record (AFP)
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:29:56 AM
MUMBAI (AFP) – Indian
cinema's most expensive movie
"Endhiran" (Robot), starring
former bus conductor Rajinikanth,
had a record opening weekend at
the box office, Bollywood
analysts said.
"In the opening weekend, all the
three versions of Robot have
together collected 950 million
rupees (21 million dollars), the
highest-ever in India," said Komal
Nahta, a Bollywood trade analyst.
The sci-fi fantasy adventure,
made in three languages, opened
in India last Friday, with sales
twice that of the previous record
opener -- Bollywood star Salman
Khan's recent hit "Dabaang" --
Nahta said.
He expects Endhiran -- which
cost 35 million dollars to make --
to collect a further 28 million
dollars from ticket sales, as
reviews have been encouraging.
A month ago, Dabaang (Fearless)
grossed 10.8 million dollars
during its opening weekend,
surpassing Aamir Khan's mega-hit
"3 Idiots" record of nine million
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Accurate box office figures are
hard to come by in India. An
independent industry website,
boxofficeindia.com, said
"Endhiran" had taken in 12.4
million dollars over the weekend -
- a far lower estimate, but still a
record.
India's previous costliest film was
"Kites" which starred Hrithik
Roshan and was said to have been
made for 27 million dollars..
Theatres are running shows of
Endhiran as early as 4:00am in
Rajinikanth's stronghold southern
city of Chennai, where fans have
been seen queuing up for tickets.
The 60-year-old superstar
Rajinikanth plays a double role, of
a scientist and an android, which
he has created.
The robot falls in love with the
scientist's girlfriend, played by
former Miss World and actress
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
In Chennai, a 61-foot-poster was
created close to a theatre where
the movie was released.
Some fans washed the poster
with milk -- as offered to Hindu
Gods -- a sign of purity.
Some celebrated the release by
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In Mumbai, Bollywood's
hometown, fans offered prayers at
a local theatre and the reel of the
movie was offered in worship at a
nearby temple, after which it was
made available for public
viewing.
"Endhiran is writing box office
history," Nahta told AFP, despite
steep ticket prices of up to 1,500
rupees (32 dollars) at some
multiplexes.
Movie critic Nikhat Kazmi said
"Endhiran" typified a mainstream
Indian cinema movie and that the
last 30 minutes of the film were
"the 'baap' (grandmaster) of all
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Found Footage: Using an
iPhone and a movie theatre
to propose marriage
Matt Tinsley (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:00:00 PM
Wow! These days, it seems, if
you're going to propose, popping
the question needs to be done in a
super creative, ultra romantic
fashion. Gone are the days of
proposing to your love after a few
drinks at the local pub or after a
few too many at a New Years Eve
party (Both proposals I know of,
both ladies said yes)!
Apparently, If you're going to do
it right in this day and age, you
need to do it akin to the
stratosphere that B.B Bling did it
in. This guy took his girlfriend to
the cinema where they watched
their first movie together (OK,
nothing too special there), but
after a few commercials, what
appeared to be an iPhone
commercial came on the screen.
However, it turned out to be a full
blown music video proposal,
written and performed by the
One-Armed Midgets, Rejoice!
Bradford Plumer (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:00:00 PM
The months leading up to an
election always involve a rush of
frantic activity. There are key
states to visit and swing voters to
court. And so, late this summer,
19
groom to be. Using apps from his
iPhone, the song declared Bling's
undying love for his stunned
girlfriend, culminating in an on
screen proposal. Thankfully, she
said yes, and the rest of the
cinema goers burst into applause.
To to top it all off, the track is
now available for purchase on the
iTunes store to finance the
wedding.
From all of us here at TUAW, we
say well done to you, sir! And
congratulations to the happy
couple.
Now, why didn't I think of that?
For all the juicy details, click
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Michael Steele was paying timely
visits to crucial battlegrounds ... in
Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands,
Puerto Rico, and the Northern
Mariana Islands. Perhaps those
aren’t considered key states in the
elections that most Republicans
care about, the 2010 midterms.
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Taliban and Afghan government hold talks to end war: report

(Reuters: Top News) Omer, speaking in Kabul, U.S. and NATO troops on an Oct 06, 2010 10:33am EDT already have Pakistan.
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:50:17 AM declined to confirm or deny the agreed timeline. The Taliban will never be Oct 06, 2010 11:05am EDT
report of new meetings. The Quetta Shura is the remains satisfied as a secondary element “Their intention is to return
Afghanistan's President Hamid "There were contacts in the past of the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan. They are barbaric, Afghanistan”. The Taliban never
Karzai speaks during the opening and may now be direct or indirect government overthrown and uneducated, evil zealots using a left Afghanistan. Afghanistan
ceremony of the peace jirga in ones. There have been regular driven into Pakistan by the 2001 false religion to promote male- several regions or states where the
Kabul in this June 2, 2010 file contacts over the past two years," U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. domination and cruelty. Taliban rule. Having the Taliban
photo. he said, when asked about the The Post quoted several sources Their intention is to return and Karzai find a way to rule
Credit: Reuters/Omar Sobhani Washington Post story. as saying that the talks with the Afghanistan to Taliban rule and together will get us off the hook
WASHINGTON| Wed Oct 6, " T h e r e h a v e n ' t b e e n a n y Quetta Shura did not involve the the dark ages – period. They’ll and bring our boys home. There is
2010 10:50am EDT substantive talks, there have been Haqqani network, the target of say what they need to for now in no military solution to this war.
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - contacts only." U.S. drone attacks in northwestern order to eventually take back total *We welcome comments that
Representatives of the Taliban Afghanistan has been beset by Pakistan. The Haqqani network is control. When Karzai finally advance the story directly or with
and President Hamid Karzai's war for decades. U.S. forces led based mainly in Pakistan's North realizes this, maybe he’ll have a relevant tangential information.
government have started secret an invasion in 2001 to topple the Waziristan and adjoining harder approach to governing. We try to block comments that
talks to negotiate an end to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan who provinces in Afghanistan. For Karzai to believe there is use offensive language or appear
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Karzai's spokesman Waheed government and the withdrawal of Pentagon. to train suicide bombers they

The Master List of Hotmail Keyboard Shortcuts [Hotmail]

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IMF warns against currency war
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:57:22 AM
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) Managing Director
Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks
at his closing news conference at
the G20 Summit in Toronto June
27, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK| Wed Oct 6, 2010
11:57am EDT
NEW YORK(Reuters) - Global
policymakers clashed over
currency policies on Wednesday
as Western leaders warned China
and other emerging markets that
widespread efforts to weaken
exchange rates threatens to derail
economic recovery.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner said countries with large
trade surpluses must let their
currencies rise lest they trigger a
devastating round of competitive
devaluations.
"When large economies with
undervalued exchange rates act to
keep the currency from
appreciating, that encourages
other countries to do the same,"
Geithner said in a speech ahead of
this weekend's semi-annual
international Monetary Fund
meeting.
Officials around the world fear
Dropbox is down
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:47:24 AM
Every realtime system we depend
such a race to the bottom may
trigger trade tariffs and other
measures that could damage
global economic growth.
Using exchange rates "as a policy
weapon" to undercut other
economies and boost a country's
own exporters "would represent a
very serious risk to the global
recovery," IMF Managing
Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
was quoted as saying in
Wednesday's edition of the
Financial Times.
But China, which the West
accuses of keeping the yuan
artificially weak to promote
exports, has rebuffed such calls.
On Wednesday, Premier Wen
Jiabao told the European Union to
stop piling pressure on Beijing to
revalue the yuan, saying a rapid
exchange rate shift could unleash
disastrous social turmoil in China.
""Many of our exporting
companies would have to close
down, migrant workers would
have to return to their villages,"
Wen said during a visit to
Brussels. "If China saw social and
economic turbulence, then it
would be a disaster for the world."
RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Low interest rates in Europe and
Japan and expectation that the
Federal Reserve will launch
another round of money printing
on will go down at some point.
http://status.dropbox.com/
Today it's Dropbox's turn. We get
to find out what it's like when the
that could weaken the dollar have
pushed currencies to the top of the
agenda at the IMF meeting and at
Friday's gathering of finance
leaders from the Group of 20
economies.
Despite disagreement among
governments, IMF chief
economist Olivier Blanchard said
he was "optimistic" about a
solution. "We are just at the
beginning of the process, so it's
much too early to declare it a
failure."
Others, however, are less sure.
Brendan Brown, economist at
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities
International, said the IMF, which
has the United States as its biggest
stakeholder, would not try to
prevent further U.S. monetary
easing or a weaker dollar.
"That Washington institution has
failed in its central mission to
prevent currency war," he wrote
in a report.
The U.S. dollar tumbled to
another 8-1/2-month low against
major currencies Wednesday in
anticipation of more Federal
Reserve monetary easing, pushing
the yen to a fresh 15-year high.
A strengthening yen prompted
Japan to sell yen in currency
markets last month, its first
intervention since 2004, and
several emerging market countries
systems we've built on top of I forget if scripting.com depends
Dropbox stop working.
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News Wire/ Featured/
have followed suit or are
threatening to.
Oct 06, 2010 7:22am EDT
Japan faces a unique perfect
financial storm with a debt to
GDP ratio of 189 percent, the
second largest in the world after
Zimbabwe, the fifth lowest
birthrate in the world, extremely
low immigration, the longest life
expectancy in the world, a
declining population and an
economy that has experienced
deflation off and on for the past
15 years. Many developed nations
face these same issues, however,
not generally all at the same time.
WIth these factors in mind, it
should not surprise anyone that
Japan has been forced, yet again,
to lower its overnight rate to
between 0 and 0.1 percent. For
further information on Japan’s
economic crisis, see:
h t t p : / /
viableopposition.blogspot.com/
2010/08/japan-are-three-ds-going-
to-kill-its.html
Oct 06, 2010 11:15am EDT
The US Government is not
responsible for the world. Period.
It is responsible for the USA. That
kind of mis-thinking led our
previous generation of leaders to
disregard the future of their own
descendants and to promote the
export of American jobs. That
on it. Guess I'll find out now.
21
will stop.
If third world countries, including
China, want to compete they need
to compete on a fair currency
value and superiority of
production basis. The American
free ride is over. Furthermore,
companies that export jobs from
the USA should be denied tax
breaks here.
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Gunmen attack NATO supply trucks in Pakistan

(Reuters: Top News) under scrutiny again, while the Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. defeat! Do US have any other
Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:58:42 AM country reels from summer floods The TTP claimed responsibility choice?
that left over 10 million homeless for most of the latest attacks on Oct 06, 2010 10:43am EDT
Fire fighters try to extinguish a n d h e a v i l y d a m a g e d t h e which hit nearly 70 NATO supply Pakistan created the roadblock to
burning oil tankers, which were e c o n o m y . trucks. On Wednesday, 14 allow the militants to have an easy
carrying supplies to foreign forces A British man killed by an air gunmen opened fire on trucks and target.
in Afghanistan, after they were strike in Pakistan had ties with the torched them, killing a driver. The Pakistan government,
attacked in the outskirts of Quetta would-be Times Square bomber, a The U.S. has also ramped up military and intelligence are
October 6, 2010. Pakistani intelligence official, pilotless drone aircraft strikes garbage pits of corruption,
Frightening Charts Show
Credit: Reuters/Stringer who declined to be named, told against militant targets within impotence, and weakness. We Record Low Revenue,
By Gul Yusufzai Reuters. Pakistan's borders, further should break ties loudly and bomb Worst-Ever Austerity
QUETTA, Pakistan| Wed Oct 6, He said the Briton, Abdul Jabbar, deepening concern of a more the hell out of the border region, Measures For US Cities
2010 9:58am EDT had also been in the process of aggressive U.S. war strategy. including all Pakistani sites with
QUETTA, Pakistan(Reuters) - setting up a branch for the Taliban Two missiles from a suspected nests of al Qaeda and Talibani Gus Lubin (Money Game)
Gunmen in Pakistan set fire to 20 in Britain. U.S. drone on Wednesday struck militants. Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:41:00 AM
trucks carrying supplies to NATO "He had some links to Faisal a house in Miranshah, the main Enough tit-for-tat. It’s time to
t r o o p s i n A f g h a n i s t a n o n Shahzad but the nature of the ties town of North Waziristan, killing ignore Pakistan and go full bore. Municipal pain is at its worst
Wednesday, police said, the latest are not clear," the official said, six militants, local intelligence Bring in the Blue-82s. level on record, according to
in a series of assaults on the referring to the Pakistani-born officials said. There was no *We welcome comments that annual report from the National
logistical backbone of the war in U.S. citizen sentenced to life in immediate independent advance the story directly or with League of Cities.
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American, two Japanese share Nobel for chemical

tool
(Reuters: Top News) Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi telling a lie if I wasn't thinking "It revolutionizes the kinds of
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:53:23 AM and Akira Suzuki shared the prize about this. I told someone that I techniques that chemists have
for the development of "palladium began thinking -- dreaming -- available to make new medicines
Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue -catalyzed cross-coupling," the about this prize half a century and new plastics and new Concept Car
University (R) receives a gift Nobel Committee for Chemistry ago." materials," he added.
from the university's president at the Royal Swedish Academy of Suzuki, of Hokkaido University The prize does not come as a Inspired by
France A. Cordova, after winning Sciences said in a statement.
t h e 2 0 1 0 N o b e l P r i z e f o r "Palladium-catalyzed cross-
in northern Japan, was also
pleased and said science was
surprise, Francisco said, because
the work is so fundamental and
Electronica (6 pics)
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Negishi and Akira Suzuki shared molecules used in the electronics told a news conference in We try to block comments that In the future, how will electric
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24 Technology/
Interior Dept. OKs first solar projects on public lands
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:10:55 AM
While news of the White House
solar installation captured the
world's attention yesterday,
another historic change that could
have greater impact on solar
energy in the U.S. was taking
place.
The Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), part of the U.S.
Department of the Interior,
announced it had approved the
first large-scale solar-energy
projects to ever be built on public
land.
Secretary of the Interior Ken
Salazar signed final versions of
the Records of Decision for two
solar installations, both of which
happen to be on public lands in
California. They will have a large
impact on the amount of
electricity generated from solar as
a result.
"There are 11 million acres of
public lands in the California
Desert, and a large majority of
those lands are managed for
conservation purposes. These
projects, while a significant
commitment of public land,
actually represent less than one-
hundredth of one percent of that
total area. Given the many
benefits, the extensive mitigation
measures, and the fair market
value economic return, approval
of these projects is clearly in the
public interest," Salazar said in a
statement.
One of the alternative-energy
projects approved was proposed
by a subsidiary of the oil giant
Chevron.
The Chevron Lucerne Valley
Solar Project, which will be
overseen by the Chevron
subsidiary Chevron Energy
Solutions of California, was
granted use of 422 acres of public
land in San Bernardino County,
Calif., for the purpose of building
a 45-megawatt solar plant
consisting of 40,500 solar panels.
The land is located near
California State Route 247 north
of San Bernardino National Forest
and abuts an existing transmission
line. When complete it's expected
to generate enough electricity to
power between 13,500 and 33,750
homes at any given time. (The
range takes into consideration the
natural fluctuation in available
solar power.)
Another project, the Imperial
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Valley Solar Project, which will
be overseen by Tessera Solar of
Texas, was granted use of 6,360
acres of public lands in Imperial
County, Calif. It's desert land
located along Interstate 8 near
Plaster City, Calif., just north of
the California-Mexico border.
That plant will consist of 28,360
parabolic solar dishes estimated to
produce about 709 megawatts
worth of energy annually. Once
up and running, that plant is
expected to provide enough
energy to power between 212,700
and 531,750 homes at any given
time.
Map of the Imperial Valley Solar
Project located on U.S. public
lands(Credit: U.S. Department of
the Interior)
As part of the program, each of
the companies involved will also
receive a hefty monetary incentive
from the U.S. government if they
get the projects done quickly.
"Through the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
renewable energy developers that
have their projects under
construction by the end of 2010 or
meet one of the program's safe
harbor provisions can qualify for
significant funding. The Recovery
Act's payment for specified
energy property in lieu of tax
credit program makes Tessera and
Chevron eligible for
approximately $273 million and
$31 million, respectively," the
Department of the Interior said in
a statement.
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iPhone vs. Android vs. Blackberry, According to VCs
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:00:00 PM
The smartphone battle, as
everyone knows, is raging these
days. Analysts have been making
predications about which mobile
operating system platform will
end up on top and Nielsen has
been tracking market share trends.
But what do venture capitalists
think about all this? A recent post
on Thomson Reuters's peHUB
offers a few key insights.
Sponsor
Private Equity Hub, for those
unaware, is a forum for the global
private equity community,
including venture capitalists,
buyouts professionals, public
pension funds, endowments,
foundations, lenders, investment
bankers, attorneys, entrepreneurs
and others.
Via a blog post from peHUB's
Connie Loizos, we're given a brief
glimpse into what some of the top
VCs investing in mobile think
about the platform wars. The
comments were insightful, and we
thought worth sharing. You can
read them in their entirety on
peHUB, of course.
• Dana Stalder, General Partner,
Matrix Partners Related
investments: free text messaging
startup GOGII, mobile payment
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Stalder says the iPhone "changed
everything from an innovation
standpoint," but now Google is
"really creating the alternative to
the iPhone platform, and they're
doing it in a very real way.
"Venture investors have been
looking at a whole slew of mobile
companies that have emerged
over the last couple of years to
build applications for the iPhone
platform. But [now] every single
one of those companies is doing
development for Android, too, or
figuring out when they'll start
development on the Android
platform. The iPhone still has the
larger installed base, so anyone
new is probably starting with the
Apple platform then looking at
Android as an obvious extension
of that platform. But I think that
will change as the installed base
shifts in time. If I had to guess, I'd
say that will happen about two
years out. Then, app developers
will have a real decision to make-
out of the gate-about whether they
start with Apple or Android or
both."
• John Albright, Founder and
Managing Partner, JLA Ventures
and Co-Managing Partner,
BlackBerry Partners Fund Related
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startup Nexage, mobile content
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it's good or bad, [unlike] when From an investor point of view,
you're dealing with Apple and there are certain challenges to
Blackberry, where apps have to be building a big breakout company
cleared. [That could] result in if you're operating a closed
thousands of developers dedicated ecosystem. If you're iPhone only,
to the [Android] platform. But it's hard to know how Apple
you might get lower quality might change the rules in one to
developers because they don't five years. If you're building your
have to clear any quality or app on iPhone only, it's organized
"On a macro basis, we want to security hurdles. It's also a lot to their credit, but they make all
invest in mobile companies that easier for hackers to get in to the rules. In some ways, because
address all the major platforms in Android [because of its open Android is less tightly controlled,
the marketplace, so it's Apple, platform]." it requires more thought to
BlackBerry and Android. Albright also shared some [develop the] business model to
For a commerce platform, we'd concerns about the fragmentation make it successful. But because
push [a startup] to write to of the Android ecosystem, saying it's open, there's more potential to
BlackBerry or Apple. I'd say you it could become a real headache. build a big startup business.
have to have both of them • Rich Wong, Partner, Accel [John Albright makes] valid
covered. The Android platform Partners Related investments: points but exactly those points are
and the devices out there have a mobile app store GetJar, mobile the business opportunities. [If you
poor commerce solution. You a d v e r t i s i n g s t a r t u p A d M o b need] a better security framework
have to go through Google ( a c q u i r e d f o r G o o g l e ) for enterprise apps, you build a
checkout and to do that you have company around mobile security
to register with Google and most Wong was more excited about perhaps. So these gaps, these
users aren't registered. So if your Android than Albright, saying: business challenges, are in and of
solution is dependent on or "Android will be massively themselves business
driving commerce, don't do it for important over the next five to opportunities."
Android. seven years of mobile startup Wong also notes that Android's
Also, if the application is investing. You can see it in terms current issues involve app
material to users, if they're going of the pressure that's being put discoverability, payment models
to care about privacy, then I'd say upon Nokia and RIM. You see it and security issues. But concludes
again that Android is inferior to in terms of Motorola, whose that there are still great
BlackBerry and Apple because it's d o m i n a n t A n d r o i d s t r a t e g y opportunities for developers on
an open platform, and there are suddenly has it doing well again. Android. Discuss
pros and cons to open platforms. So I think it's an incredible wave,
On the one hand, it's nice because and I think we'll see a lot of
anyone can write an app to it and incredible companies around the
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Firefox 4 getting Bing search option
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:54:02 AM
Firefox's direct pipeline to
Google search results is Mozilla's
dominant revenue source, but the
next version of the open-source
Web browser will also get
Microsoft's Bing as an alternative.
Google will remain the default
search option in Firefox, and
Yahoo will be second, but Bing
will become a third for English-
language users when Firefox 4 is
released, Mozilla announced
Wednesday.
"Bing...offers a user experience
that we think users will find
valuable, and with its significant
rise in popularity over the last
year, we will also be including
Bing as a general search option
for English language users," said
Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice
president of products, in a blog
post.
Those who delve into a dialog
box already can add Bing and
other search options to Firefox, so
it's not as if Bing fans have been
shut out. But the new option will
build it in, a notable change given
the fierce rivalry over the last
decade between Microsoft and
Mozilla when it comes to
browsers.
The browser landscape is
changing, though. After years of
relatively sluggish change,
Microsoft is back in the game
with IE9, now in beta testing. The
software includes support for
many Web standards that Mozilla
and others have been trying to
establish for months or years,
making IE now also something of
an ally as well as a competitor.
Mozilla garnered $79 million in
revenue in 2008, the lion's share
from search ads on Google that
appear next to search results.
When Firefox is used to initiate
the search, Google shares the
resulting search revenue with
Mozilla.
Mozilla's search partnership with
Google is set to expire in 2011,
but it won't necessarily end. The
last search-ad partnership ended
in 2008, but the two extended it.
The announcement came just days
before Google launched its
Chrome browser.
Chrome is new competition for
Firefox, to be sure, but don't
expect Google to freeze out
Mozilla just because it's got its
own browser to promote now. For
one thing, Mozilla remains a
significant force in advancing
Web standards Google believes
in; Mozilla was the most
prominent organization to endorse
Google's open-source, royalty-
free WebM video format, for
example. For another, Google's
bread and butter remains search
advertising, and shutting down
sources of search traffic isn't in
Google's overall interests.
In September's browser usage, IE
dipped back below 60 percent
share and Chrome gained 0.5
percentage points of
usage.(Credit: Net Applications /
Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Chrome has changed how search
works in a browser, though, with
its "omnibox" that functions as a
mechanism to type in both Web
addresses and searches. Microsoft
has adopted the same strategy
with its IE9 beta.
And search is becoming even
more prominent in Chrome. The
developer version of Chrome on
Windows now builds in Google
Instant, the new search-as-you-
type interface Google introduced
in September.
The new Bing option isn't the
only change coming to Firefox 4's
search.
Mozilla also will scrap two
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search options present today,
Answers.com and Creative
Commons. The former is less
popular than the Wikipedia
option, Mozilla said, and the latter
has shifted away from its earlier
mission of locating content
licensed under the Creative
Commons into a general search
engine.
So the way the search options
will look after the change is as
follows: Google, Yahoo, Bing,
Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia.
Firefox 4 is scheduled to ship
before the end of 2010 and is in
beta testing now. The next beta,
the seventh, is set to be the feature
-complete version, but Mozilla is
wrestling with the best way to get
beta 7 into testing while balancing
speed and feature requirements.
Updated 9:08 a.m. PDT with
Mozilla's statement.
On Windows, Chrome's omnibox
is getting Google Instant results
when enabled through
about:labs.(Credit: screenshot by
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Should one worry that these latest state, opened new solar-energy
TV All Over Again? changes mean our nation's federal
parks will soon be mottled with
permitting offices, and overhauled
the application and review
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) -video/ less than a minute ago via unsightly solar panels, consider process.
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:57:22 AM Twitterrific for Mac Wil Shipley t h i s : t h e B u r e a u o f L a n d And last month, the California
wilshipley Management oversees 258 million Public Utilities Commission
Remember Web TV? The set-top Now don't get us wrong - when surface acres of land and the granted permission for power of
box and keyboard that connected broadcast and cable television and Web TV first made the rounds the agency has taken over two years purchase agreements involving
to your television to the World Internet video. People with a Web wasn't anywhere near as to assess impact and develop a local utilities, Chevron, and
Wide Web? It's hard to not flash G o o g l e T V w i l l n o l o n g e r interesting as it is today (I planned program for allowing Tessera.
back to that odd venture ( still differentiate...We've very excited. remember - I had one!). There solar installations on public lands. "Only lands with excellent solar
kicking, mind you) after spying We're at the beginning of a new wasn't Facebook or Twitter or any In May 2008 the Bureau of Land resources, suitable slope,
the new Sony remote for Google age, an age where the monopoly Lady Gaga videos back then. I Management, in conjunction with proximity to roads and
TV, which was recently spotted over content distribution is think its best feature was the way t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f E n e r g y , transmission lines or designated
on ABC Nightline's Google TV eroding and anyone with talent the LED would light up when you initiated a joint Environmental corridors, and containing at least
special. and drive can access audiences..." had new email. Yes, that was Impact Statement (EIS) to assess 2,000 acres of BLM-administered
T h e r e m o t e o f f e r s a f u l l And the gushing continued. amazing, let me tell you. the impact of using public land in public lands were considered for
keyboard, two directional pads, Hudack has a point: putting the But Web TV failed to captivate a s i x s t a t e s f o r s o l a r - f a r m solar energy study areas. Sensitive
volume and channel buttons, all G o o g l e n a m e b r a n d a n d large audience, because - guess development: Arizona, California, lands, wilderness and other high-
encased in a form factor so large, engineering know-how behind a what? - TV viewing is generally a Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, conservation-value lands as well
it requires two hands to hold. product as big as this does hold passive, "lean-back" activity. Not and Utah. It also placed a as lands with conflicting uses
Sponsor promise for a more democratic one requiring a keyboard. Or any moratorium on reviewing any new were excluded," the BLM said in
The Guardian says this after future for TV. effort, really. Are We Ready for applications for solar installations, a statement at the time.
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capabilities: 1983 called, wants its remote blares in the background, the studies for specific areas in each
"It's good. Very good. The main back. http://www.engadget.com/ comforting white noise it's always
reason why it's so good is that it, 2010/10/05/sonys-google-tv- been. What do you think?
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Burstly Lets Mobile App Developers
Set Up Storefronts To Sell Their Own
Ads
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:24:05 AM
If you have a successful mobile
application that’s reliant on
advertising, then you obviously
want to do everything you can to
maximize how much revenue
each ad unit is generating. One
way to do that is to sell ads
directly to clients instead of
relying exclusively on big ad
networks like AdMob. The
benefits are clear — advertisers
can more directly hone in on the
audience they want to reach, and
developers can generally get a
higher price for their ad space.
But it also takes time and
experience, which small
development teams don’t have.
That’s where Burstly comes in.
Today, the company is launching
a new Storefront feature that
allows app developers to set up
their own branded portal where
advertisers can directly purchase
placement in their apps. And to
help launch the new feature,
Burstly has teamed with a very
popular app store developer:
Newtoy, the company behind the
hit game Words With Friends.
Beginning today, advertisers will
be able to directly purchase ads on
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GDC Online 2010: Newtoy
and Words with Friends' 10
million downloads
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
major metropolitan areas, and in Apple Weblog (TUAW))
the future Burstly will support
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
targeting based on zip codes. This
means that a local business can
Newtoy is the company behind
identify an application that’s
the popular Games With Friends
Words With Friends, which has relevant to their business (a movie brand on the App Store, featuring
grown to 1.5 million daily active theatre might purchase ads to
Chess With Friends and the
users who spend a an average of appear on a movie app, for extremely popular Words With
one hour playing per day (that’s a example), and can then target
Friends. If you're on Twitter, you
lot of ad impressions). Advertisers t h e i r a d s a t u s e r s i n t h e i r probably already knew that Words
will now be able to go to neighborhood.
With Friends was popular (it's all
Newtoy’s homepage, where App publishers are given two over the service), but you might
they’ll see a banner prompting choices for how they want to price
not have realized just how
them to run ads in the game. Click their ads: they can either set the popular. Newtoy's own David
the banner, and you’ll be taken to pricing themselves, or they can
Bettner took the stage here at
a workflow that lets you upload rely on an automated bidding GDC Online 2010 in Austin,
your ad copy, geo-target your ads, system. The latter will show
Texas for a panel and said that the
and specify how much you’re advertisers a suggested bid price game has had 10 million
willing to pay for your based on various market million daily active users and five
downloads so far. That's allowed
impressions. conditions (for example, how million monthly active users. And
him, his brother Paul, and their
Burstly hasn’t fully automated its much ads are selling for in other cousin to take Newtoy from a of those users, 60% were brought
signup process yet so other apps). The company recommends in to the game by their friends
company of three people working
developers can’t immediately get the second option. on laptops in a library (though (which makes for a very viral
their own ad storefronts up and Burstly company raised$1.8 cocktail), and a whopping 40%
they admittedly had a lot of good
running, but CEO Evan Rifkin million earlier this year, and has experience as developers at Age play the app ten times or more per
says that the company wants to offered an open source SDK that day.
of Empires dev Ensemble
support as many developers as helps mobile developers manage Studios) to a 30-person game TUAW GDC Online 2010:
possible (in other words, you can and optimize their ad networks, in Newtoy and Words with Friends'
studio with a bright future in what
sign up and the company will try - a p p p u r c h a s e s , a n d m o r e . Bettner calls "turn-based 10 million downloads originally
to get you set up soon). Today’s Strorefront launch comes appeared on The Unofficial Apple
asynchronous mobile gaming."
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iPhone 4 shipping times improved
Matt Tinsley (The Unofficial
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:00:00 AM
Good news for those wanting to
purchase an iPhone 4...in the US
anyway. Shipping estimates have
improved from three weeks to
between five and seven business
days, according to Apple's US
online retail store. Improved
shipping estimates usually
indicate that Apple is catching up
with consumer demand.
The iPhone 4 has been in high
demand since its release in June,
selling well over 1.5 million
devices in its first three days of
availability. But supply is still
short, especially with expansion
into the overseas market.
According to AppleInsider,
mobile carrier China Unicom was
only able to meet about half of the
pre-orders placed by customers,
with the rest having to wait until
the end of October for their orders
to be fulfilled.
Similarly, the iPad suffered high
shipping times upon its release in
April, with things only improving
in August when Apple's standard
shipping time of 24hrs was
reached.
In the UK, the iPhone 4 shipping
time is set at three weeks, while
the iPhone 3GS can be shipped in
one to two weeks, according to
Apple's UK online retail store.
Personally, I've currently got an
iPhone 3G with the mobile carrier
O2. The contract has expired, and
I'm now running on their
Simplicity tariff. I could upgrade
to the iPhone 4 with O2 (they
seem to get priority stock),
however, Tesco is offering the
most cost effective contract (for
me anyway). Unfortunately,
though, they never seem to have
any stock.
Tesco is offering a 16GB iPhone
4 on a 12 month contract at £35 a
month. The upfront cost is £229,
but the overall cost of ownership
is £649. With this contract, you
get 750 monthly minutes, a 1GB
monthly data allowance, and
unlimited texts. Alternatively,
O2's£35 a month contract is for 18
months. The upfront cost is
cheaper, at £179, but the overall
cost of ownership comes in at a
much steeper £809. Worse still,
with this contract you only get
300 monthly minutes and a
500MB monthly data allowance.
If I was to purchase a contract
nearer the 600 minute a month
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Wolfram Alpha app
comes to Android devices
(CNET News.com) pricing decision last year when it
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:02:23 AM started offering the program in
Apple's App Store for $49.99. The
Wolfram Alpha is now available company said at the time that the
on Android-based devices, the price was right because it was
company said today. "less than half the price of a
Dubbed the Wolfram Alpha App graphing calculator." After poor
for Android, the program offers sales, Wolfram Alpha reduced the
t h e s a m e c o m p u t a t i o n a l price of its iPhone app to $1.99.
functionality available on the The company also offered those
service's Web site. According to who paid the larger price a refund
Wolfram Alpha, its computational upon request.
engine features "over 10 trillion Wolfram Alpha App for Android
data elements" and "tens of is available in the Android
point with O2 (which is more like thousands" of computational Market.
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comScore: Android Continues Assault In-flight calling and
On RIM, Apple
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:24:47 AM
It looks like there is yet again
more data to support the trend
Google’s Android platform is
eating away at the share of other
smartphone operating systems,
including RIM and Apple.
ComScore’s smartphone numbers
were just released today, which
measured smartphone usage from
May until August. According to
the recent data, 55.7 million
people in the U.S. owned
smartphones during the three
months ending in August, up 14
percent from the the May period.
While RIM was the most popular
smartphone platform with 37.6
percent share of U.S. smartphone
subscribers, followed by Apple
with 24.2 percent share; Google
continued to gain ground in the
market, rising 6.6 percentage
points to capture 19.6 percent of
smartphone subscribers. In fact,
RIM’s share dropped from 41.7
percent in the May period and
Apple also saw a slight drop as
well. Microsoft accounted for
10.8 percent of smartphone
subscribers, while Palm rounded
out the top five with 4.6 percent.
All the platforms posted losses in
share except for Android phones.
Consumer interaction with
mobile phones increased for the
time period as well. For the three
months ending in August, nearly
67 percent of U.S. mobile
texting coming to
Singapore Airlines in 2011
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:25:00 AM
So, OnAir is still hanging around,
huh? It's been quite a while since
we've heard anything from the in-
flight telephony company, with
outfits like Row44 and Aircell
dominating the space with their
near-constant rollout of in-flight
WiFi services here in the States.
But for those traveling in and
around Asia on Singapore
Airlines, it sounds as if your
flights are about to get a bit more
connected, and potentially more
chatty. A new in-flight
connectivity system based on
Inmarsat's SwiftBroadband (and a
collaboration with OnAir) is
subscribers used text messaging subscribers. expected to provide passengers on
on their mobile device, up 1.4 In total, 234 million Americans medium- and long-haul flights
percent, while browsers were used ages 13 and older used mobile with "access to WiFi internet and
by 34.5 percent of U.S. mobile devices for the period. In terms of mobile telephony services." This
subscribers (up 2.6 percent). d e v i c e m a n u f a c t u r e r s h a r e , should, in theory, enable patrons
Consumers who were using Samsung continued to be the top to send and receive SMS text
downloaded applications made of handset manufacturer overall with m e s s a g e s w i t h t h e i r G S M -
nearly one-third of the mobile 2 3 . 6 p e r c e n t m a r k e t s h a r e , compatible handsets, send and
audience, representing an increase followed by LG with 21.2 percent r e c e i v e e m a i l s o n t h e i r
of 2.3 percent from the previous share. Motorola came in third
period. ComScore says the (18.8 percent share), followed by Sweet Potato Recipes
consumers who access social RIM (9.0 percent share) and
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smartphones (and laptops, we
presume?) and potentially make
and receive voice calls. SIA
expects to have the first of its fleet
equipped in the first half of 2011,
with introductions to happen in
progressive fashion on its Airbus
A380, Airbus A340-500 and
Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
Sounds like a few airlines we
know and love have a little
catching up to do...
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Google Tests Mind Reading, AKA Full Page Previews
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:54:00 AM
Google has begun testing yet
another new feature for its
flagship search product, offering
entire website previews when you
mouseover search results. Before
you know it, the enter key and the
mouse button will go completely
extinct and you'll simply have to
visualize the information your in
search of and Google will make it
appear on your screen.
Sponsor
Intel X25-M and X25-E SSDs third-gen update
previewed
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:37:25 AM
Details of Intel’s third-generation
solid-state drives have spilled,
with AnandTech getting their
hands on the specifications.
According to their source, the
new SSDs are internally known as
“Postville Refresh” (“Postville”
being the codename for the
second-gen drives) but which will
launch using the same Intel X25-
M nomenclature as before.
The most significant change is
the shift to 25nm manufacturing
processes, which has prompted an
increase in both capacity and
speed. The new drives will be
available in 80GB, 160GB,
300GB and 600GB (2.5-inch
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Google introduced its Instant every single web page. The
Search product early last month, snippets highlighted are not
offering as-you-type search always the same as the snippet in
results and suggestions. With this the search results.
new feature, users can type in While it certainly seems like a
their search terms and simply great feature for users, we have to
mouseover the results as they wonder what the effect on
appear to see if they're advertising and pageviews will
appropriate. If nothing is coming be. Another big question is, just
close, they can continue how real-time are these preview
modifying their search terms. results? If we're seeing a search
SEO Consultant Patrick Altoft One of the fascinating things the text to provide a snippet of result for a dynamic page, are we
first noticed the feature, saying about this is that they are information. This shows that they getting a real-time preview or a
that they appear to be full-page highlighting certain sections of have the technology to know look at a cached version from
previews with some interesting the page in orange and expanding exactly where a piece of text is on minutes, hours or even days ago?
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GDC Online 2010: Booyah's InCrowd,
or how to develop an app in four weeks
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:00:00 AM
Booyah first made a big splash
on the App Store with the check-
in game MyTown, then they
stepped over to Facebook to
release a game called Nightclub
City before returning to Apple's
platform a little while back with a
title called InCrowd. Most App
Store releases are known for their
short development times (usually
around six months or less), but
InCrowd might set a record. As
Booyah's Jon Parise explained in
his panel at this year's GDC
Online conference, Booyah
created the app in just four weeks.
There were a few reasons for
doing this. First and foremost, the
app is designed to work in
conjunction with Facebook's new
Places service, and because of
Booyah's success with Nightclub
City, Facebook granted them
early access to work on and
release an app for launch day (just
four weeks after development
began). While Parise didn't say it
directly, his speech gave the
impression that Booyah just
wanted to try it -- could they
really take an idea and turn it into
a viable App Store product and
brand in just four weeks' time?
That, as Parise pointed out, is just
about the length of Adobe
Photoshop's trial period. In fact,
one of their developers
downloaded and used the
expensive photo editor's trial all
within the time of development.
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Panasonic MW-20 is a digital
photo frame, iPhone / iPod touch
stereo, and money burner all in one
Ross Miller (Engadget) with a Lumix camera? The MW-
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:49:00 AM 20 has a function that'll group
photos by style (i.e. all nighttime
If you're the sort who fancies a scenery). Look for it during your
digital picture frame and a stereo haze of Christmas shopping in
dock for your iPhone, Panasonic's late November for -- and here's
new MW-20 might just be the the part that's gonna sting -- just
thing to converge and satiate one dollar shy of $250. Don't say
those needs. The 9-inch frame can we didn't warn you. Scenes from
display pictures via SD card, 2GB the CEATEC show floor below.
internal memory, or an iPhone / Gallery: Panasonic MW-20 hands
iPod touch via the bundled dock -- -on
and if you've got the device Panasonic MW-20 is a digital
connected, you can also play photo frame, iPhone / iPod touch
music video via the frame's stereo, and money burner all in
internal stereo speakers (there's no one originally appeared on
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iPhone maxi and iPhone nano incoming insists
analyst’s sources
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:08:55 AM
Almost since the first iPhone
model was announced, there’s
been speculation about larger or
smaller versions of the
smartphone; now, Kaufman Bros
analyst Shaw Wu is claiming that
his checks on the Apple
touchscreen supply chain suggest
both are in the works. His sources
claim that Apple is preparing both
a new high-end iPhone with a
larger display, and an entry-level
model with a smaller panel, which
could feasibly ship in advance of
the usual iPhone refresh.
Unfortunately there are no hard
specifications about the sizes of
the screens, leaving things
uncertain about exactly what sort
of scale Apple could be thinking.
With the current iPhone 4 at 3.5-
inches, it might be feasible to
assume a 3.0-3.2 inch entry level
model and a 4.0-4.3 inch high-end
version, but that’s only
speculation.
The suggestion, Wu says, is that
Apple is looking to use the same
tiered structure as with its latest
iPod lineup in its smartphone
business. Still, the company has
had no small amount of success
with its current iPhone range, with
relatively scant differentiation.
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W3C: HTML5 Not
"Ready For Production
Yet"
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:35:17 PM
HTML5 is all the rage. Everyone
from mobile developers to Apple
CEO Steve Jobs to Google CEO
Eric Schmidt have backed the
standard as the future. Everyone,
that is, except for the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C), the
official standards organization of
the Web.
An official for the W3C came out
calling for developers to hold off
on all the HTML5, saying it's a bit
too early for the Flash-killer to be
let loose on the general public.
Sponsor
Phillippe Le Hegaret, an official
with W3C responsible for SVG
and HTML specifications, told
InfoWorld"The problem we're
facing right now is there is
already a lot of excitement for
HTML5, but it's a little too early
to deploy it because we're running
into interoperability issues."
Top 5 ways to build wealth and success
nospam@example.com (Dory
Devlin, Shine staff)
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 2:13:36 AM
From living below your means
like Warren Buffet to rebounding
after defeat like Steve Jobs and
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Robert and Kristen
Pile in to Share a
Ride With Friends
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:15:41 AM
Robert Pattinson and Kristen
Stewart hopped in the back of
Mercedes-Benz gets in on the their friend's crowded car last
night after visiting LA's
According to Le Hegaret, the
basic issue is getting HTML5 to factory iPad integration game, Troubador, where The 88 and
Scott Doherty played. It was
operate the same in different Robert and Kristen's latest big
browsers and using different makes headrests a little smarter evening out of the week, after
video devices. He also noted that Tim Stevens (Engadget) could very well be where your Rob showed off his good manners
HTML5 currently lacks a video
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:12:00 PM face ends up in a major accident at their dinner date on Monday.
codec and digital rights we'd love to see what star rating Robert, though, has spent some
management capabilities, which You didn't think BMW would be the tablet's glass scores in a crash hours solo, including an afternoon
he said he does not expect to have the only one releasing hideous in- test. No price is given for the of errand running yesterday. Both
in the upcoming specification. car iPad integration, did you? accessory at this point, but it'll Robert and Kristen have some
The HTML5 specification should Mercedes-Benz, a company we surely be rather more accessible business to take care of before
be "feature-complete by mid- previously thought had a bit more than the truly egregious Brabus they start work on Breaking
2011", he told InfoWorld, noting class, has released images of its iBusiness S Class. Dawn, but they're also due for a
that we should expect the death of strikingly similar headrest- Gallery: Mercedes-Benz iPad little down time after spending
Flash "anytime soon". Discuss mounted iPad docks. The idea is integration their Summers on set shooting
that the person in the back seat Mercedes-Benz gets in on the Water For Elephants and On the
can comfortably use and recharge factory iPad integration game, Road respectively.
Michael Jordon, here are five tips t h e i r d e v i c e w h i l s t t h e i r makes headrests a little smarter
gleaned from some successful m a n s e r v a n t , b o d y g u a r d , o r originally appeared on Engadget
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Disc-free Netflix for PS3 due this month

Chris Davies (SlashGear) promised window of three months • Netflix streaming headed to Wii
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:09:26 AM from the end of July 2010. this spring
However, Rubenstein couldn’t • Netflix offers details on PS3
Sony’s update for accessing give a specific date, and a Netflix streaming service
Netflix on the PS3 without having s p o k e s p e r s o n , w h e n a s k e d , • Netflix for Wii instant-
to slot in a disc first is due to declined to comment on the disc- streaming discs shipping now
arrive before the end of October, free update due for both the PS3 • Netflix PS3 disc-free update
a c c o r d i n g t o s o c i a l m e d i a and the Nintendo Wii. The coming; Hulu Plus is “a direct
manager Jeff Rubenstein, who update will also bring with it a competitor”
How to Break Down the
confirmed the timescale in the new UI, according to company Barrier Between Your
c o m m e n t s o n t h e o f f i c i a l CEO Reed Hastings. Relevant Entries on SlashGear iPhone and Computer
PlayStation Blog. That should get [ via HackingNetflix and via • Netflix streaming officially hits
PS3 today
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them just inside their originally Twitter]
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Apple TV on track for over 1m sales per quarter tips Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:59:00 AM

analyst Your iOS device is a killer

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:59:14 AM
Looks like the Apple TV is on its
way to being an unqualified
success, with the streaming STB
not only cheap for the Cupertino
company to make, but selling in
pretty huge numbers. Barrons
quotes JMP Research analyst
Alex Gauna, who reckons Apple
is on course to sell at least 1m
Apple TV units per quarter.
That estimate is based on
inventory checks in various US
Apple stores, many of which have
sold out of the compact
mediaplayer. Preorders began
shipping in late September, but
new online orders are still listed
as not expected to ship for 1-2
weeks.
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predicted
• iPad sales higher than Mac sales
at Apple?
pocketable computer; your
desktop is more powerful with a
bigger screen. They need to play
better together. Here's how to
break down the barrier between
the two and shuttle text, files,
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Reese Leaves LA Behind to Bond With Costars Old and New

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
Reese Witherspoon was back in
Vancouver yesterday to shoot
This Means War with one of her
two handsome leading men, Chris
Pine. Her other male costar, Tom
Hardy, had the day off after being
on hand last week. The trio will
soon welcome another actor to the
set - Chelsea Handler, who's
apparently dating 50 Cent, was
just added to the cast. Reese and
Chris went business casual while
in front of the cameras, but
between scenes, she stayed warm
in a long down coat. Over the
weekend, though, Reese was
home in LA running errands in To see more Reese, just read
just shorts. She was also able to more.
spend a few days with her View 15 Photos ›
boyfriend, Jim Toth, and also lend
a helping hand to her injured son,
Deacon.
36 Policy/
Good Deeds Besmirched in Heat of Campaign
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 6:00:00 PM
I have written before about the no
-good-deed-goes-unpunished
syndrome, one acutely felt this
year as Democrats have been
blasted on the campaign trail
simultaneously for having done
nothing good and for having done
nothing of substance.
They have been given little credit
for an amazingly high level of
productivity that includes--besides
the blockbuster items of health
care reform, the stimulus and
financial industry reform--an
army of solid legislative products
ranging from credit card reform to
the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to
public land management and the
regulation of tobacco by the Food
and Drug Administration.
But nowhere is the no-good-deed
-goes-unpunished syndrome more
apparent than with the Troubled
Asset Relief Program, passed
during the Bush administration by
the 110th Congress but clearly an
electoral millstone around the
necks of many Members of the
111th, Democrats and
Republicans alike. From Rep. Bob
Inglis (R-S.C.) to Sen. Bob
Bennett (R-Utah), lawmakers
have been vilified and sometimes
dumped for supporting TARP.
TARP, which just expired, will
go down as one of the great heroic
acts of our lifetimes, an act of
triage that saved the economy,
perhaps the entire global economy
Many lawmakers who voted for it
have tried to get distance from it.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who
suspended his presidential
campaign to come back from
Washington to try to save the
package (remember?) and who
voted for it, said during his Senate
primary campaign earlier this year
that he had been misled, even
duped, to do so.
Tea party activists and liberal
populists have joined in the
vilification, portraying TARP as a
$700 billion bailout that enriched
bankers--the miscreants who got
us into the mess in the first place--
while the rest of the country saw
their hard-earned tax dollars
thrown into the sewer.
Voters generally agree; a
Bloomberg poll showed that less
than 30 percent of Americans
think the bailout was necessary.
Here is the reality: TARP, which
just expired, will go down as one
of the great heroic acts of our
lifetimes, an act of triage that
saved the economy, perhaps the
entire global economy, from a
total credit freeze and an
economic collapse leading to
depression and deflation--at an
absurdly modest cost.
Of course, TARP was, to say the
least, imperfect. The original
proposal from then-Treasury
Secretary Henry Paulson was not
a program at all, but in effect, a
blank check for the Treasury chief
to do whatever he saw as
necessary to save us from the
abyss. But Congress took the
proposal and put some flesh on
the bones, through a messy and
difficult process that came close
to collapse several times until it
was rescued with bipartisan
leadership.
Credit President George W.
Bush, along with Paulson and
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke, the Congressional
leaders on both sides of the aisle
and both sides of the Capitol, and
both presidential candidates for
stepping up to the plate to
overcome intense political
pressure to reject any "bailout."
The 111th Congress took another
important step: It made sure that
there would be vigorous and
regular oversight of the $700
billion fund to avert fraud and
waste.
To be sure, TARP ended up with
three big flaws.
First, it did not take the huge
array of troubled assets off the
books of the banks as promised,
with the goal of giving them the
immediate liquidity to start
lending quickly. And Congress
did not provide the necessary
impetus to push banks that did
develop some liquidity to start
lending the money instead of
hunkering down to wait for a
better day.
Second, the bailout of American
International Group could have
provided a better and fairer deal
for taxpayers.
Third, the program should have
done a much better job helping
homeowners in trouble, with
mortgages under water.
But the bottom line is a hugely
positive one. The net cost of
TARP to taxpayers will be
perhaps $65 billion, maybe less.
That is one-half of 1 percent of
the annual U.S. economy--an
incredibly cheap price to save the
economy from utter catastrophe.
The money infused into banks
will be paid off with enough
interest to turn a tidy profit for
taxpayers. The AIG bailout will
not result in a huge long-term
loss. In the end, it is possible
TARP may even make money!
It is worth noting that the same
bottom-line judgment will
ultimately apply to the bailout of
General Motors and Chrysler. The
failure to step in and keep these
big auto companies from
collapsing would have meant the
recession would have been far
more devastating, and not just in
Michigan and Ohio, but all over
the country where there are auto
dealers, parts distributors, plants,
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steel mills and so on. Here, we are
already seeing the payoffs. GM is
growing rapidly in health, and the
federal government will soon be
able to sell its stake in it for a tidy
profit for taxpayers.
But TARP and the auto bailout
are exhibit A and exhibit B in the
populist revulsion of a
government seen as out of touch
and out of control. One result
already has been the purging of
some top-flight lawmakers, such
as Inglis and Bennett, and the
nomination of extreme candidates
whose major qualification is no
connection to the real world of
making policy in a complex and
dangerous world.
No good deed goes unpunished,
indeed.
Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
scholar at AEI.
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The Threat South of the Border

(AEI.Org: Articles) leadership against illegal drugs aided by Washington. weapons they seek. severity of the problem. Last
Submitted at 10/5/2010 6:00:00 PM and their corrosive effect on Mexico is rapidly approaching But Mexico does have a month, Secretary of State Clinton
American society. the stark choice Colombia faced legitimate complaint about the said the truth: that Mexico's drug
Mexico today increasingly The statistics alone are in 2002. And there are disturbing powerful demand pull of U.S. war was beginning to resemble
resembles Colombia 25 years ago. frightening: Reliable estimates put signs that, as in Colombia, many drug use--because the brewing the violence in Colombia 20 years
Drug cartels are strengthening the number killed by drug-related Mexicans prefer appeasement crisis would be nowhere near its ago.
rapidly, Mexico's governmental violence in the past four years at rather than confronting the cartels. current levels without the U.S. Days later, Obama contradicted
authority and legitimacy are 28,000. Fully 30 journalists and They hope, without much market. her--saying "you cannot compare
weakening and the people are 11 mayors have been assassinated evidence, that returning to a "go And Calderon is also correct that what is happening in Mexico with
deeply divided over how to so far in 2010. Corruption in along get along" strategy with the the United States could do much what happened in Colombia 20
respond to the cartels' challenge to Mexico's police and judiciary, drug cartels, thereby accepting more to counter the rising tide of years ago."
Mexico's civil society. long a serious and insidious continued police and judicial violence. You cannot fix a problem you
The stakes for the United States problem, is worsening. The cartels corruption, would bring back the We have tried to aid both fail to see.
were high in Colombia back then, engage in open gun battles with deceptive tranquility of earlier Mexico's police and its military, Without the slightest doubt, our
but they are even higher now in the police and, among themselves, times. most visibly through the 2007 inattention will soon come back to
Mexico. compete for territory and markets. Mexico's President Felipe Merida Initiative. Unfortunately, haunt us here, not south of the
The drug cartel threat has already In Ciudad Juarez, right on the Calderon and others blame the our efforts are nowhere near "Plan border. This should be an issue in
rendered broad areas on our side border with El Paso, 102 police United States for many of Colombia's" ultimately successful the fall election.
of the border unsafe. The State have died this year alone in drug- Mexico's problems, citing the levels, much of the potential John R. Bolton is a senior fellow
D e p a r t m e n t h a s o r d e r e d related violence. enormous American demand for assistance has been tied up at AEI.
dependents in some consular posts So it was in Colombia in the cocaine and other illegal drugs. bureaucratically in Washington, Photo Credit: Esparta/Flickr/
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drugs in the United States, there is explicit policy of appeasement complaints are badly misplaced. for U.S. residents in the border Catastrophe.
every reason to fear the violence that only made things worse. Not The United States has effective areas, where vulnerability to drug-
could infect us in short order. until the 2002 inauguration of export controls in place, and in related violence grows daily.
P r e s i d e n t O b a m a h a s Alvaro Uribe as president did any event, the drug cartels have Indeed, the administration seems
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'Stargate Universe' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap

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38 Policy/ Culture/ Economy/
America's Assassination List
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 6:00:00 PM
Does Anwar al-Awlaki deserve
to die? Would it be good for
America and the world if, through
some combination of fate, luck,
justice, and the arsenal of
democracy, his heart stopped
beating tomorrow? Does Barack
Obama have America's best
interests at heart when he
endeavors to make that happen?
The answer to each of these
questions is, as far as I can tell,
yes.
According to any number of
credible reports, the U.S.-born al-
Awlaki is arguably the leading al-
Qaeda propagandist in the world.
He has directly inspired and
recruited terrorists to kill
American troops and civilians.
His name has come up in
numerous investigations,
including those of the 2005
London subway attacks and the
more recent Fort Hood, Texas,
killing spree.
So, again, I hope he gets his toe
tag sooner rather than later.
But that doesn't mean President
Obama's decision to put al-Awlaki
on a secret assassination list is
problem-free.
For starters, the very idea of a
secret presidential assassination
list is creepy in a country
committed to democracy and the
rule of law.
That's why the ACLU and the
Center for Constitutional Rights
are suing on behalf of al-Awlaki's
father to have Obama's
assassination order blocked by a
judge. They say the president
cannot simply off a U.S. citizen
living outside a war zone who
poses no imminent threat.
"Congress authorized the
president to use necessary and
appropriate military force against
Al Qaeda, the Taliban and
associated forces," and al-Awlaki
is a "senior operational leader" of
al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula.
The White House responds that
the judicial branch cannot, should
not, and must not interfere with
the commander-in-chief's ability
to fight a war Congress has
authorized (if not formally
declared). "Here, the political
branches have exercised their
respective constitutional
authorities to protect national
security," reads Obama's brief.
"Congress authorized the
president to use necessary and
appropriate military force against
Al Qaeda, the Taliban and
associated forces," and al-Awlaki
is a "senior operational leader" of
al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula.
The ACLU and CCR counter:
"The idea that courts should have
no role whatsoever in determining
the criteria by which the executive
branch can kill its own citizens is
unacceptable in a democracy."
Fair enough, but historically the
courts usually step in when the
fighting is over and clean up the
legal mess when the smoke clears.
The problem is that it doesn't
look like the smoke is going to
clear anytime soon. In Bob
Woodward's new book, Obama's
Wars, Gen. David Petraeus says
of the Afghanistan war, "This is
the kind of fight we're in for the
rest of our lives and probably our
kids' lives."
I hope Petraeus is wrong, but I
certainly don't think it's a crazy or
uninformed perspective. And if
that's the case, we as a society
need to keep thinking this stuff
through.
There's ample precedent--and
common sense--to support the
claim that the executive branch
can kill American citizens when
they are sworn members of enemy
forces and avowed traitors
working with the enemy.
But those precedents start to fray
at the edges when the whole
world is the war zone and the war
doesn't end until a diffuse,
committed, and often
camouflaged army of suicidal
religious fanatics defy their god
and agree to leave the Dark Ages.
And the common sense starts to
drain away like water through
your fingers when you
contemplate that we may be
facing these kinds of problems for
half a century. So while it strikes
me as a no-brainer that al-Awlaki
should go, what about the next
guy? Or the next?
And we know there will be a next
guy. Indeed, homegrown terrorists
are only going to become a bigger
and bigger threat in the future.
That's not right-wing cant but the
judgment of the Bipartisan Policy
Center's recent report, co-written
by the former chairs of the 9/11
Commission.
Some civil libertarians seem to
think we can never, ever kill an
American citizen without a trial
by jury (and perhaps not even
then). That argument would have
been silly during the days of
conventional warfare. Now it's
plain crazy.
And the Obama administration is
right. This is no job for courts.
Wars and how we fight them are
political decisions, properly left to
Congress and the president.
So, let's have Congress and the
president come up with some
clear, public rules. Better to start
the debate over an easy case than
a hard one.
Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
fellow at AEI.
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Management
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John Hussman is bearish on the
economy and stocks. He backs up
his beliefs with good commentary
and a series of charts in Economic
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Measures Continue to Slow.
Please see the article for some
excellent economic charts. Here
are a few snips regarding equity
returns. With the S&P 500 at a
Shiller P/E over 21, and our own
measures indicating an estimated
10-year total return for the S&P
500 in the low 5% area, it is clear
that investors have priced in a
much more robust recovery than
we are likely to observe. Our long
-term total return estimates are
consistent the historical norms
based on Shiller P/Es - since
1940, Shiller P/E values above 21
have been associated with annual
total returns for the S&P 500
averaging 5.3% over the
following 7 years and 4.9%
annually over the following
decade.
Dividend payout ratios and
operating earnings growth
A note on valuation. A number of
observers have suggested that the
low level of dividend payouts as a
fraction of operating earnings is
indicative of strong prospects for
reinvestment, which is then
extrapolated into assumptions for
high rates of future earnings
growth. Unfortunately, this
argument is problematic on two
counts.
First, forward operating earnings
are not realized cash flows. As
I've noted frequently over the
years, forward operating earnings
represent analyst estimates of the
next year's earnings excluding a
whole range of chargeoffs and
"extraordinary expenses" as if
they do not exist. While operating
earnings provide a smoother
measure of business performance,
they don't provide a good measure
of the cash flows that are actually
deliverable to shareholders.
Losses that are booked as
"extraordinary" are still losses,
and represent the results of bad
investments and a consumption of
amounts that were previously
reported as earnings. Similarly,
the portion of earnings used for
share buybacks is often expended
simply to offset dilution from
grants of stock to employees and
corporate insiders, and again do
not reflect cash that is deliverable
to shareholders. In recent years,
based on the widening gap
between reported operating
earnings on one hand, and the
sum of dividends and increments
to book value on the other, a great
deal of what is reported as
earnings ends up evaporating as
extraordinary losses and share
compensation.
The second problem with the low
level of dividend payouts, relative
to forward operating earnings, is
that there is no historical evidence
whatsoever that low payouts are
accompanied by higher growth in
future operating earnings. To the
contrary, when dividends are low
relative to forward operating
earnings, it is a signal that
operating earnings are temporarily
elevated - typically because of
transitory profit margins. As a
result, subsequent growth in
forward earnings is actually
slower than normal over the
following decade.
On the latitude for a constructive
investment stance
Based on the data that we've
observed in recent months, my
view remains that a fresh
downturn in the economy remains
a not only a possibility but a
likelihood. Little of the economic
improvement we've observed
since 2009 appears intrinsic, but
instead appears driven by
enormous government
interventions that are now trailing
off. Still, while I believe that there
is a second shoe that has not
dropped, I recognize that the full
force of government policy is to
obscure, stimulate, intervene and
borrow in every effort to kick that
can down the road. I believe that
the unaddressed and unresolved
problems relating to debt service,
employment conditions and
housing are too large for this to be
successful, but as we move
through the remainder of this year
- as I've said throughout 2010 -
we are gradually assigning greater
probability to the "post-1940"
dataset. Accordingly, there are
developments that could
potentially move us to a more
constructive position. We don't
observe those at present, but an
improvement in economic
evidence and a clearing of
overbought conditions, leaving
market internals intact, would be
one configuration that might
warrant less defensiveness.
To some extent, I view current
market conditions as something of
a "Ponzi game" in that valuations
appear neither sustainable nor
likely to produce acceptably high
long-term returns, and speculators
increasingly rely on finding a
greater fool. As the
mathematician John Allen Paulos
has observed, "people generally
worry only about what happens
one or two steps ahead and
anticipate being able to get out
before a collapse... In countless
situations people prepare
exclusively for near-term
outcomes and don't look very far
ahead. They myopically discount
the future at an absurdly steep
rate." Undoubtedly, we have
periodically missed returns due to
our aversion to risks that rely on
the ability to find a "greater fool"
in order to get out safely. But it is
important to recognize that
speculative risks are not a source
of durable long-term returns. At a
Shiller P/E of 21 and a historical
peak-to-peak S&P 500 earnings
growth rate of 6%, a simple
reversion to the historical (non-
bubble) Shiller norm of 14 would
require seven years of earnings
growth and yet zero growth in
prices. Stocks are not cheap here.
Stocks Not Cheap
I wholeheartedly endorse
Hussman's analysis that suggests
stocks are not cheap. I have said
the same thing repeatedly all year
long, most recently in Analysts
Cut S&P 500 Profits Forecast;
Earnings Estimates Still Overly
Optimistic; Stocks Not Cheap
Earnings Estimates A Mirage
It's important to understand why
earnings have gone up: Trillions
of dollars of stimulus worldwide
that is not sustainable. Bank
earnings estimates have been
inflated by massive extend-and-
pretend games encouraged by the
39
Fed with a blind eye from the
FASB.
Moreover, the FASB has
delayed mark-to-market
accounting rules and has still not
forced banks to bring SIVs and
off-balance-sheet assets back on
the books. Those assets are held
at inflated values.
Equities only look cheap if you
use absurd forward earnings
estimates, and ignore future
writeoffs and other "one-time"
items that seem to have a way of
recurring with remarkable
regularity. No Sure Things
Although most are plowing hand-
over-fist into the "QE-Trade", it is
a mistake to assume that
quantitative easing is a guaranteed
play for equities. It's not. Please
see Sure Thing?! for a discussion.
Moreover, QE is not a guaranteed
play for the economy either, as
noted in Bernanke says
Lawmakers Should Consider
Rules on Fiscal Limits; Expect
Hissy Fit from Krugman;
Bernanke Pisses in the Wind
Yet everyday I get emails calling
me a "chicken little" or other
unprintable names for not
recommending everyone plow
into equities. I heard the exact
same thing in 2006-2007.
However, I have recommended
gold continuously since it was
$300. I have also recommended
treasuries with many attempting
to short the things and getting
their heads blown off.
Superior Returns Come From
Reducing Risk
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Global Competitive Debasement; Currency Wars Begin; Message
of Gold
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 6:37:00 PM
The Bank of Japan is leading the
way to new measures of stimulus
insanity with a plan to buy a wide
variety of assets including real
estate investment trusts (REITs)
and asset backed commercial
paper (ABCP).
Please consider Factbox: BOJ to
set up fund to buy JGBs,
corporate debt
The Bank of Japan on Tuesday
decided to set up, as a temporary
measure, a 5 trillion yen ($59.9
billion) pool of funds to buy
assets ranging from government
bonds to corporate bonds.
Following are key points about
the new measure:
-- The programme will consist of
a fund totaling 5 trillion yen to
buy assets anew as well as the
existing 30-trillion-yen fixed-rate
fund-supply tool that will hold
designated assets as collateral.
-- The programme is a temporary
measure aimed at encouraging
declines in long-term interest rates
and risk premiums.
-- The fund is designed to cover
Japanese government bonds,
treasury bills, commercial paper
(CP), asset-backed commercial
paper (ABCP), corporate bonds,
exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
and Japanese real estate
investment trusts (J-REITs).
-- The BOJ will not apply its self-
imposed ceiling on its outright
JGB buying to the JGBs to be
purchased with the new fund.
-- The BOJ will aim to bring the
balance of assets purchased using
the new fund to 5 trillion yen in
one year, with about 3.5 trillion
yen assigned for JGBs and
treasury bills and about one
trillion yen for CP, ABCP and
corporate bonds.
What About Paintings and
Shellfish?
Why not paintings, equities, and
shellfish? Given enough time,
perhaps it comes to that.
Meanwhile, I am pleased to
report that the global recovery has
gained so much traction that
numerous countries feel obliged
to join the US/Japan sponsored
stimulus party.
Global Competitive Debasement
Bloomberg reports BOJ May
Have Acted First in Renewed
Round of Action
The unexpected decision by the
Japanese central bank yesterday to
drop its interest rate to “virtually
zero” and expand its balance sheet
follows the U.S. Federal
Reserve’s move toward more
unconventional easing. Bank of
England officials will consider
further stimulus tomorrow, while
the central banks of Australia,
Canada and New Zealand are
among those now holding fire on
further interest-rate increases.
The renewed push for easier
monetary policy comes as the
International Monetary Fund
warns growth in advanced
economies is falling short of its
forecasts ahead of its annual
meetings in Washington this
week. The dilemma for policy
makers is that their actions may
do little to revive growth and end
up roiling currency markets.
Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki
Shirakawa may not be alone for
long in taking action and Daiwa
Institute of Research argues he’s
now engaged in a “vicious spiral”
of monetary easing with the Fed
as both compete to bolster their
economies.
“The irony is that the Fed is
creating all this liquidity with the
hope that it will revive the U.S.
economy. It is doing nothing for
the U.S. economy and causing
chaos for the rest of the world,”
Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-
winning professor at New York’s
Columbia University, said today
in New York.
The ECB will be forced to
postpone tighter policy as
European exports fade and
investors continue to fret about
peripheral euro-area economies
such as Portugal and Ireland, said
Silvio Peruzzo, an economist at
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Inc. in London.
“The ECB’s exit strategy is fully
on, but the business cycle will
turn against them,” said Peruzzo.
“The communication will then be
adjusted to consider downside
risks greater than what they have
anticipated.”
The ECB last week stepped up its
government bond purchases as the
cost of insuring against default on
Portuguese government debt
surged to a record and Irish bond
spreads soared to euro- era highs.
Another risk is that the use of
unconventional monetary policy
is viewed as an effort to weaken
currencies to boost exports, rising
competitive devaluations and
protectionist responses, said Eric
Chaney, chief economist at AXA
Group in Paris. Japan,
Switzerland and Brazil are among
the countries that have already
intervened in markets to restrain
their exchange rates.
“This is close to a currency war,”
said Chaney, a former official at
the French France Ministry. “It’s
not through exchange-rate
manipulation, but through
monetary policies.” Currency
Wars
This is not "close to a currency
war" this IS a currency war.
While I have had numerous
differences of opinion with Joseph
Stiglitz, he is absolutely correct
when he says “ The irony is that
the Fed is creating all this
liquidity with the hope that it will
revive the U.S. economy. It is
doing nothing for the U.S.
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economy and causing chaos for
the rest of the world.”
Moreover what Stiglitz says
about Bernanke and the Fed,
applies equally to the Bank of
England, the Bank of Japan, and
the central banks of Canada and
Australia as well.
Message of Gold
The competitive currency
debasement can be seen in the
price of gold and silver.
None of these central bank
measures are doing a damn thing
for the real economy (in the US or
anywhere else), but it sure has
ignited a fire in gold and silver.
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I see no reason to like equities

here, but that does not mean they
won't go up. Indeed they did.
However, investors need to
understand why equities are
rising, the likelihood it continues,
and what the risks are, even if
short-term traders don't.
When this rally ends, it is as
likely as not to be a steep descent
with dip buyers fully conditioned
to "buy the dip" all the way down.
Day traders and swing traders
seem to think that everyone ought
to be hopping in and out of stocks
every hour or every week.
However, not everyone wants to,
or can - for many reasons, trade
that way. Money managers in
particular are unlikely to trade
that way.
It is important to honor your
timeframe and trading style, not
someone else's.
Most of those fully invested here
were also fully invested in 2008,
with disastrous consequences.
In the long haul, superior returns
are made by reducing risk,
patiently waiting for favorable
opportunities to invest. In the
meantime, (and although this
opinion can change at any time
without warning) I am
comfortable owning gold and
treasuries, and being hedged in
equities.
It is far easier to make up for lost
opportunities than it is to make up
for losses, especially losses that
happen while chasing the latest
sure thing.
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amputated after breaking it in a surgery.
game. Roberts suffered an injury "Everything's looking really good
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gorgeous husband David. She's
currently off in London taking
care of her business with Range
Rover, meaning she wasn't there
to witness David's big goal on
Sunday. Even so, Posh is still
David's number one fan, and she
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in a woman's body. She said:
• On performing "Mein Herr"
from Cabaret as her Spice Girls
audition piece: "Entirely true. But
does that surprise you? If nothing
else, that alone proves I’m a gay
man in a woman’s body."
• On her and David being
close:"We are still so close, David
and I. We were at a party the
other day at my mum’s house and
I was sitting on his lap. We’re
very affectionate. And I looked at
him and thought after being
married for 11 years! We were the
only couple who were even near
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extraordinary life:"Some people
are so blasé about having an
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I never take anything for granted.
I think it’s very cool to still get
excited about things. I get as
excited now as I ever did when I
get a chauffeur driven car pick me
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get to fly in a private plane. I
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were about to go out somewhere
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on whatsoever. I was getting out
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there looking at him. He was all
tan. Has all those tattoos- which I
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naturally looks good all the time.
He never looks like shit in the
morning. Never. So he's sitting
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ripped. Not an ounce of fat on
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pushing artistic boundaries,
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"Beam us up." It's one of the most that doesn't mean some of the get to do what you're good at:
iconic lines in television history. ideas that seemed far-fetched You own the ballroom. And that's
It's something often heard in the when the show debuted in 1966 exactly what happened when
hit science fiction television series haven't become a reality. In this Michael Bolton stepped up to the
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pretty cool, though impossible, Catastrophe. was never a Bolton fan.
right? But what if there was such Accompanied by a children's
a device? choir and the gorgeous dancing of
pros Anna Trebunskaya and her
husband, Jonathan Roberts,
Bolton was an 11 th-hourhour
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sensation Susan Boyle, who is
home in Scotland nursing a severe
throat infection. She was
supposed to sing the same song. "I
don't know why they even asked
her back," said one Dancing
source, "because when she was
here last year, she was so fragile
backstage, so clearly unable to
handle her celebrity. I was
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perform."
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night of happy tears for Cho, a
funny lady who had the guts to
drop her comic shield after the
first week and just dance.
Compare that with Adam Carolla,
the Season 6 comedian who ended
one routine by circling the
ballroom on a unicycle. "It felt
amazing to just be myself," said
Cho. "Dancing makes me feel
really strong and happy and
excited because it feels like
flying."
Earlier this season, Cho told her
pro partner, Louis Van Amstel,
that she had loved ballet class as a
child, but quit when someone
called her "a fat ballerina." She
hasn't done anything remotely
sports-like since. "I'm not a
physically active person," said
Cho about her last seven weeks as
a dancer, "and becoming one was
very hard. I can't feel my toes.
The whole bottoms of my feet are
covered in band-aids. I'll probably
walk away from this with a
painkiller addiction."
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Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia
Since Live Aid
By Peter Gill
(Oxford University Press, 280 pp.,
$27.95)
In the fall of 1994, James P.
Grant, the executive director of
UNICEF, sent a message in the
name of his agency to the
upcoming Cairo conference on
population and development, in
which he declared that the world
had within its grasp the means to
solve “the problems of poverty,
population, and environmental
degradation that feed off of one
another in a downward spiral
[bringing] instability and strife in
its wake.” Grant was a great man,
a giant of the development world.
He was among the first senior
figures within the U.N. system,
not to mention national
governments in either the poor
world or the countries of the
Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(OECD), to take on board the
fundamental insight that
development is inextricably
bound up with the emancipation,
education, and empowerment of
women.
Throughout his long career,
Grant was as unyieldingly
optimistic about human
possibility as he was clear-eyed
about the extent of human
suffering among the bottom half
of the world’s population. He
would have disliked Gramsci’s
celebrated injunction, “pessimism
of the intellect, optimism of the
will”—he stood for realism of the
intellect, optimism of the will.
And the fact that his optimistic
scenario for what could be
achieved has not come to pass
does not necessarily mean that
Grant was wrong to say—as, were
he alive today, he almost certainly
would say—that there was every
reason to believe that it could do
so. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not
in our stars,” and all that.
There are fundamentally two
views of development aid, and
they are incompatible. The first is
Grant’s, which is essentially that,
after many false starts, we now
know how to do development, and
that what is lacking is political
commitment and money from the
donor side, and political
commitment and fiscal
responsibility on the part of the
governments and the elites of the
recipient countries. The opposing
view is that, no matter our good
intentions, and the literally tens of
thousands of people in
development ministries, relief
groups, international and local
development NGOs, and popular
movements, we still do not know
what we are doing. Those who
favor an emphasis on
entrepreneurial assistance rather
than aid-based development
solutions, the subtlest of whom by
far is William Easterly, who runs
the Development Research
Institute at New York University,
argue not only that much aid is
wasted—about this optimists and
skeptics largely agree—but that,
after five decades, outside aid,
whether given by governments or
by the increasingly important
philanthropic sector, above all the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
has done little to alleviate the
condition of the world’s poor.
What is needed is private
enterprise, and the more the
better. As Easterly has put it, “the
parts of the world that are still
poor are suffering from too little
capitalism.”
The critique from the left has
important points of overlap with
Easterly’s view. Colin Leys’s
classic work The Rise and Fall of
Development Theory, which was
published in 1996, two years after
James Grant had made his
sweeping claims for the
effectiveness of development aid,
argued that the theoretical
assumptions that have
underpinned development policies
since the 1950s no longer hold
true, if indeed they ever did. The
deregulation of international trade
and the free movement of
capital—that is, the move away
from the post - World War II
regime of regulation in which
economic interventions by the
state could be effective, which is
the signature result of
globalization—means that
development aid on the traditional
model has had fewer and fewer
positive effects. As the longtime
editor of the Socialist Register,
Leys would probably not endorse
this view, but a strong case can be
made that just as it had been a
mistake for supporters of
communism who nonetheless
opposed the Soviet Union, China,
and Cuba to keep saying that not
one of these actual communist
regimes had lived up to the
doctrine’s emancipatory potential,
so it is time to admit that there is
only “actually existing”
development, and that it has not
worked.
These debates have their arcane
side, but for what Paul Collier has
called “the bottom billion,” they
are in fact matters of life and
death. To really understand this,
one needs to get down to cases.
This is what makes Peter Gill’s
book so valuable. Gill knows
Ethiopia extremely well. He was
among the first foreign journalists
to cover the famine of 1984 -
1985, first in Bitter Harvest, a
film he did for Thames Television
while the famine was going on,
and then in A Year in the Death of
Africa: Policy, Bureaucracy, and
the Famine, his subsequent book
on the catastrophe that was far
better than its dreadful title might
suggest. As Gill writes, the
famine of 1984 was “supposed to
be the final turning point,” but of
course it was nothing of the sort.
He rightly observes that for all the
bluff talk of “eliminating world
poverty,” (the utopian phrase was
Tony Blair’s), “the hunger
persists, people still die of
starvation, and no country in the
world confronts the threat of
famine more painfully and more
frequently than Ethiopia.”
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The irony is that in contrast to,
say, Niger and other Sahelian
countries, where hunger is
endemic, or North Korea, where
the regime of Kim Jong Il has at
the very least (accurate
information is almost impossible
to come by) brought the country
repeatedly to the brink of famine,
Ethiopia since the famine of 1984
- 1985 has become quite literally
the poster child for global hunger.
In large measure, this was because
of Band Aid and Live Aid, the
globally broadcast concerts that
the Irish pop singer Bob Geldof
organized as the centerpiece of his
massive fundraising effort in 1985
for Ethiopian famine relief.
If anything, Gill remarks, “our
expectations and promises have
become grander” since Geldof
recorded his charity single about
starving children, “Do They
Know It’s Christmas?” with its
chorus of “Feed the world/Let
them know it’s Christmastime
again,” and when, in the acerbic
formulation of the Zambian-born
neo-liberal economist Dambisa
Moyo, one of the fiercest recent
critics of the aid system, “Africa
became the focus of orchestrated
worldwide pity.” When New
Labour came to power in Britain,
Blair declared that one of its goals
was “eliminating world poverty.”
Bono, generally more sensible
than Geldof (who does not seem
to be able to imagine how any
decent person could question
either his motives or the effect of
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his initiatives), has popularized
Jeffrey Sachs’s wildly over-
optimistic view that poverty can
be ended in our time—a theme
taken up on the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Ethiopian
famine by the charity Christian
Aid, with its “Poverty Over”
publicity campaign.
Gill looks in some depth at what
the real effects have been on the
ground in Ethiopia, over the past
twenty-five years, of all these well
-meaning and not so well-
meaning foreigners. All the usual
suspects make their
appearances—Western donor
governments, the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), the relief and development
arms of the United Nations
system, notably UNICEF, and the
mainline international relief
organizations like Save the
Children and Doctors Without
Borders (MSF, in its French
acronym). Much of this is
historical. The famine in Ethiopia
in 1984 was a milestone in the
history of modern
humanitarianism because, as
Rony Brauman, who was
president of MSF/France at the
time and was a central figure in
the controversy, later put it, the
crisis was crucial in that it
compelled MSF to reconsider
some of its most basic ideas, and
to face the cruel fact that “aid
could be turned against those
toward whom it was directed and
those delivering the aid integrated
into a system of oppression.”
Obviously, serious people in the
aid world had always known that
relief could have perverse
consequences as well as positive
ones. But until Ethiopia, Brauman
pointed out, there were very few
in NGO circles who could accept
that “we had become part of the
problem, not just part of the
solution.”
Haile Selassie, the emperor of
Ethiopia, was overthrown in 1974,
and his downfall was caused to a
considerable extent by his
regime’s failure to confront the
famine that year. A decade later,
famine swept the north of
Ethiopia once again. For most of
1983, it went on without much of
the rest of the world paying it any
noticeable heed. It was this
famine that galvanized Geldof,
Bono, and the Live Aid
movement. A part of the reason
for this was that the Derg, the
Stalinist regime then in power in
Addis Ababa, forbade almost all
coverage of what was going on.
This is not to say there was no
coverage at all—Gill, who unlike
most of the foreign journalists
covering the famine at the time is
actually an Ethiopia expert, points
out with understandable
exasperation that in July 1984,
ITV ran a documentary called
Seeds of Despair, and an appeal
launched in its aftermath raised 10
million pounds for Ethiopian
famine relief; but it was only in
October 1984, when a BBC TV
team led by Michael Buerk and
Mohamed Amin were allowed to
film what was going on, that
Ethiopia became the focus of
widespread public attention in the
rich world.
The result was that before very
long, the Ethiopian catastrophe
had gone from being one of the
world’s most forgotten crises to
perhaps its best known. Geldof’s
single, “Do They Know It’s
Christmas?”, the first blast of
what would become the Band Aid
/Live Aid juggernaut, came out
that November and raised five
million pounds, though, as Gill
comments acidly, Ethiopians “did
of course know it was Christmas
because the starving were mostly
Christian.”
Neither Geldof nor Bono has ever
been willing to accept that,
however wellintended, the
premise of Live Aid was flawed
from the start. Amid criticism of
the ways in which the monies
from Live Aid were being used by
international relief agencies to
fund programs connected with
resettlement, Geldof told The
Irish Times that “the
organizations that are
participating in the resettlement
effort should not be criticized....
In my opinion, we’ve got to give
aid without worrying about
population transfers.” The way in
which both men have capitalized
on their new status as global
consciences to rescue their pop
music careers has been grotesque,
but their sincerity is beyond
doubt. Yet their competence to
hold the opinions that they peddle
is another matter. What is so great
about sincerity if it leads not to
understanding but to
mystification? And what
transpired in Ethiopia between
1983 and 1986 has been
abundantly mystified.
We know with some certainty
that famines have occurred
everywhere in the world, with
regularity, since the beginning of
recorded history. But as the great
contemporary authorities on
famine—among them Amartya
Sen, Cormac Ó Gráda, and Alex
de Waal—have shown, modern
famines are almost invariably
political in the larger sense of the
term. Another way of putting this
is to say that whereas before the
nineteenth century most famines
were largely the result of
climate—flooding or drought,
most commonly—today they are
largely the result of anti-
democratic or at least non-
democratic practices by the
authorities and the dominant elites
in the countries where they take
place. History will remember
Amartya Sen when Malthus is
long forgotten, or thought of no
more seriously than we think of
nineteenth-century phrenologists.
What Sen showed in his work on
the West Bengal famine of 1943
was that the problem was not
absolute food supply but the
access to that food supply by
disfavored groups. In other words,
what appeared like a food crisis
was really, to use Sen’s term, an
entitlements crisis.
Sen’s insight is borne out by the
history of famine in the twentieth
century. The great famines have
taken place under colonial
regimes (as in British India in
1943), or under regimes where the
government was ruled by groups
unsympathetic to other groups in
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the famine zone (the famines and
near-famines in Tuareg areas of
Mali are good illustrations of
this), or, most commonly of all, as
the result of vast misguided
efforts at social engineering
undertaken by socialist regimes,
notably in Soviet Russia under
Lenin and Stalin, and, in the worst
modern famine of all, in Mao’s
China during the so-called Great
Leap Forward. The Ethiopian
famine of 1983 - 1984 was an
example of this most terrible
variety of man-made famine. The
definitive account of it is to be
found in Evil Days: Thirty Years
of War and Famine in Ethiopia,
the report that Alex de Waal
prepared for the Africa Watch
division of Human Rights Watch
in 1991. De Waal was
unequivocal. “The famine killed
in excess of 400,000 people,” he
wrote. “The human rights abuses
made it come earlier, strike
harder, and reach further. Most of
these deaths can be attributed, not
to the weather, but to the
government’s gross violations of
human rights.”
And yet Michael Buerk’s first
BBC report from the famine zone
opened with the words, “Dawn,
and as the sun breaks through the
piercing chill of night on the
plains outside Korem, it lights up
a biblical famine, now, in the
twentieth century.” Apart from
the facts that it was dawn and
there was a famine, nothing in
what Buerk said was right. It was
precisely not a biblical famine, in
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the locusts/great flood/visitation-
from-God sense that Buerk was
evoking. It was, rather, a man-
made famine—the direct and in
all likelihood inevitable result of
deliberate policies in Addis Ababa
by the Stalinist government of
Mengistu Haile Mariam. That is
to say, it was a famine that was
more likely to occur in the
twentieth century—the heyday of
man-made famines—than at any
other time in human history.
Gill, for reasons that elude me
(he knows de Waal’s work well
enough to cite it, and is as far
removed from being an apologist
for the Mengistu regime as it is
possible to be, speaking of
Mengistu’s “Red Terror”), argues
that Buerk’s report was “a model
of evocative precision.” He could
not be more in error. Buerk has as
much as conceded the point,
admitting later that while he had
of course known of the Ethiopian
government’s role in the famine at
the time, he had chosen to present
the famine to his audience in the
tried and true vernacular of the
classic “natural” disaster so as not
to complicate the situation too
much for his viewers—a decision
that Rony Brauman has rightly
compared to Sartre’s famous
admission that he had known
about the Gulag all along but had
not wanted to admit it publicly so
as not to make the French
working class give up hope (“pour
ne pas désespérer Billancourt”).
Gill is on firmer ground in his
account of the Ethiopian
government’s policy of forced
population transfer of people from
the famine zone of the country’s
northern highlands to lowland
areas in the south. He is in no
doubt that the Derg used this
policy as part of its war against
the forces of the Tigrayan
secessionists in the north—and
not as part of famine alleviation,
as the government and some of its
apologists among U.N. and
foreign NGO officials, and the
representatives in Addis Ababa of
important donor governments,
claimed at the time, at least
publicly. As Gill notes, the
Mengistu regime was quite frank
in admitting that “food is a major
element in our strategy against the
secessionists.” That strategy was
not just brutal, it was immensely
sanguinary. De Waal concluded
that “resettlement certainly killed
people at a faster rate than the
famine.” Credible estimates of the
deaths range from fifty thousand
(de Waal) to a hundred thousand
(MSF).
As the full implications of this
became clear to at least some
people in the relief world, above
all to MSF/France, a bitter fight
erupted over whether or not the
international NGOs should
participate in the resettlement
effort. For most of the agencies,
notably Oxfam International and
the Irish relief organization
Concern Worldwide, it was
imperative that the NGOs stay
and do what they could,
regardless of the political
context—that, indeed, the duty of
relief agencies was to stay, thus at
least trying to bring a measure of
humanity into situations that they
were powerless to alter. This fight
spread to the donor governments,
with Washington taking the
hardest line against resettlement
(but not hard enough). Here Gill
rather misstates MSF’s argument.
As Brauman has pointed out, the
reason the public silence of
mainline agencies such as Oxfam
and Concern was so grave is that
“neither the Reagan
administration nor the European
Commission would ever have
agreed to underwrite forcible
population transfers.... The Derg
could never have resisted a
critique coming from [all] the
NGOs ... [and had they been
forthcoming] the transfers might
have been halted.” Instead MSF
was expelled, and the remaining
NGOs, while remonstrating
privately with the Derg, did not
suspend their assistance with the
program.
Gill’s for the most part studiously
neutral, he-said-she-said approach
to the controversy (there are
occasional hints of British-style
condescension to the French relief
agencies) is quite
useful—particularly for readers
who are not familiar with the
period. Gill pursues this
somewhat tentative approach
throughout his book, and while
this can be frustrating at
times—probably more frustrating
the more you know about the
subject—on balance he was right
to do so. For one thing, there
surely was a question of access.
Gill makes the point in his
introduction—many observers
pay lip service to this point but
rarely seem as informed by it as
they should be—that “poor
countries will emerge from
poverty only when they take full
charge of their own destiny.” His
book is not just a look back at the
great controversies of the famine
years of the mid-1980s, but also
an attempt to understand whether,
as he puts it, “beyond the
challenges of famine forecasting
and hunger relief, are there [now]
Ethiopian political institutions and
policies in place to deliver the
transformation known as
‘development’?”
Let’s be grown up about this.
Ethiopia is a tyranny. It was a
dictatorship under Haile Selassie,
and then under the Derg, and it
remains one under the regime of
Meles Zenawi, the erstwhile
leader of the Tigrayan rebels, and
once the poster child for a
supposedly new, uncorrupt, and
dynamic generation of African
leaders. (Paul Kagame in Rwanda
and Yoweri Museveni in Uganda
were the others most frequently
cited.) At the G8 Gleneagles
Summit on Africa, called by Tony
Blair in 2005, the podium at
which the final communiqué was
announced included Blair, then -
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Gordon Brown, Geldof, Bono,
and Meles. Two years later, when
it had become impossible to deny
the dictatorial nature of Meles’s
regime, Bono would admit
regretfully in an interview in New
York magazine that “Meles
Zenawi in Ethiopia is somebody I
thought was an amazing
character, and now he’s gone very
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reactionary, closing down civil
society. But he was a brilliant
macroeconomist. I went with Jeff
Sachs to see him, and I asked him
how he became this great
economist when he’d fought a
guerrilla war against the
communists for 70 years.” Yes,
that’s seventy years, which would
take Meles’s struggle against the
Derg back to 1937, that is, the
year after Ethiopia fell to
Mussolini—but hell, who’s
counting? And what’s all that rot
about pop stars not being
qualified to speak on these
subjects?
The admiration for Meles was not
restricted to official circles in
Washington, London, and
Brussels. Joseph Stiglitz, hardly a
regurgitator of neoliberal pieties,
was an early ally and supporter of
Meles—an episode that Gill
recounts at length and with great
acumen. Stiglitz told Gill that he
was struck by Meles’s level of
insight into macroeconomic
structures, and championed the
Ethiopian regime during the
1990s against its critics at the
IMF. That the British government
could put Meles forward at the
Gleneagles Summit as the model
of the forward-looking African
leader less than two months after
national elections in Ethiopia that,
as Gill rightly records, ended in
“violence and repression,” and in
the arrest and imprisonment of
hundreds of anti-Meles activists,
demonstrates how low Western
expectations are about African
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The End of the Great Game

Steve LeVine (The New Asia, but the events in Kyrgyzstan like Kulyab, Stepanakert, and the construction of huge oil and the Great Game. During the
Republic - All Feed) appear to mark a softening of this Sukhumi, and officials in the natural gas pipelines that would Clinton era, Deputy Secretary of
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:00:00 PM red line in practice. Central Asia struggling republics of provide the Caucasus and Central State Strobe Talbott tried to
is no longer a reason to put up Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan Asia an independent link to soothe Russian sensibilities by
Has the United States stopped one’s fists. began complaining to Washington Western markets, unimpeded by declaring a “ Farewell to
playing the Great Game in Central If this trend continues, about their inability to export their Russia. This was a major shift, Flashman”—Flashman was the
A s i a ? I n t h e w a k e o f t h e Washington’s willingness to defer oil and natural gas for hard though at first it went under the scurrilous adventurer who played
d e s t a b i l i z i n g v i o l e n c e t h a t to Russia in the land of Kipling currency. Successive governments radar in the United States. Instead, the Great Game in George
occurred in Kyrgyzstan this may mark the beginning of fell in Azerbaijan, threatening the it was best understood by Turkey, MacDonald Fraser's novels—but
summer, that seems to be the case. something larger: a new era in country with disintegration, and whose paternalistic the Obama administration
T h e O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n which the Great Powers attempt oilmen from companies like politicians—many of the region’s genuinely means it. There is
reacted slowly when at least 300 to tread more gingerly in each Amoco, Pennzoil, and Unocal states are ethnically cooler rhetoric and a return to
people were killed in inter-ethnic o t h e r ' s b a c k y a r d s . T h e fretted that the daily tumult Turkic—embraced the high-profile cooperation with
fighting in June and Kyrgyzstan implications of this shift are great, jeopardized their deals. When Washington initiative in the spirit Russia. Kyrgyzstan is only the
seemed on the verge of spiraling and potentially risky. evidence accumulated of Russian of comrades-in-arms on a mission latest example of this
out of control. American officials To understand what's happening, connivance in the trouble, some in to link those states to the NATO shift—Obama has also pulled
declined an informal request from it's useful to look back at the way the Clinton foreign policy bloc. The Clinton Pentagon also back from a planned deployment
the fragile Kyrgyz government for U.S. policy has evolved since apparatus said the U.S. ought to opened up military-to-military of missile defense installations in
military assistance, deferred to 1991. At first, after the Soviet be less conciliatory toward relations with the region, which Poland and the Czech Republic,
Russia's lead in the crisis, and collapse, Washington had only the Moscow. became even more important after and rejected further talk of re-
followed Moscow's example vaguest idea how to interact with One of the leading voices September 11, as U.S. forces arming Georgia. “We are not in a
when the Kremlin proceeded to the eight new republics of Central advocating such a policy established a presence in three of competition with any country over
o f f e r u p l i t t l e a p a r t f r o m Asia and the Caucasus. What the reorientation was Sheila Heslin, a the five Central Asian republics, influence in Central Asia,” Robert
humanitarian aid. Belatedly, the George H.W. Bush and Clinton deceptively librarian-like National including the Transit Center at O. Blake Jr., assistant secretary of
United States nudged the administrations did know, Security Council staffer in her Manas in Kyrgyzstan. These state for the region, told the
Organization for Security and Co- however, was their attitude early thirties. Drawing on work deployments, designed to counter Helsinki Commission in
operation in Europe (OSCE) to toward Moscow: Both pledged to she did previously for the World Al Qaeda but which in practice Washington this July. “We seek to
d e p l o y 5 2 u n a r m e d p o l i c e help to smooth the way for the Bank, the tough-minded, further encroached on Russian maintain mature bilateral relations
advisers, but the tardy action country's natural evolution from a bureaucratically wise Heslin influence, angered President with each country based on our
allowed local politics to intervene, communist dictatorship to a free- argued that Washington’s blanket Vladimir Putin, who objected foreign policy goals and each
and now even this skeletal force market democracy. As far as the accommodation of Moscow bitterly to the continued U.S. country’s specific characteristics
appears unlikely actually to be former Soviet Caucasus and encouraged just the policies that military presence along with the and dynamics.” Russia has taken
sent. All of this was a sharp Central Asia were concerned, they the United States sought to sale of U.S. weapons to Georgia. Blake at his word. In August,
contrast to Washington’s activism c o u l d b e a t t e n d e d t o w i t h eradicate—Russia, Heslin argued, In 2008, Russia went to war with Moscow deployed a new missile
during the prior two presidential humanitarian and bureaucratic would start to shed its Georgia, shoring up its authority system in Abkhazia, and earlier it
administrations. In 2005, for assistance, such as food aid and authoritarian edge when it was in the near-abroad and sending a made permanent its military base
i n s t a n c e , w h e n a m a s s a c r e judicial training, but no policies forced to respect its neighbors’ message about how strongly the in South Ossetia, two breakaway
occurred in Uzbekistan, America that would interfere with the sovereignty, and one way to Kremlin rejected the American Georgian republics that
organized an airlift of victims out liberation of Russia from its accomplish that was to strengthen presence. Yet the Bush now—though they would
of the country and relocated some autocratic past. the republics of Central Asia and administration insisted that the strenuously deny it—are
in the United States. On paper, the Then, the Russian Federation the Caucasus. After several United States was in the region to effectively Russian vassals.
Obama administration continues b e g a n t o l o o k l e s s b e n i g n . months, the Heslin view won the stay. President Obama's public
to reject the idea of a Russian Crushing civil wars erupted or internal policy debate, causing The Obama administration, by
sphere of influence in Central worsened in now-forgotten places Washington to throw itself behind contrast, has been dialing back on END page 52
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leadership, not to mention the
superficiality of the West’s
commitments to democracy on the
continent. All Tony Blair was
ever willing to say, six months
later in South Africa, was that
while Meles’s government had
won the election fairly, it had
“over-reacted” to the protests
against its victory. Geldof’s
response was typically childish.
“Behave!” he said, when asked by
a reporter what Meles should do.
Clearly neither Meles, nor his
colleagues in the African Union
(of which he was chairman at the
time of Gleneagles), nor the
leaders of the principal Western
donor governments, were
listening. Since the summer of
2005, Meles has represented
Africa at one international forum
after another, from the G8 and
G20 summits to the 2009 United
Nations Climate Change
Conference in Copenhagen in
2009. And the Ethiopian elections
of 2010 (which took place after
Gill had finished his book but
certainly would not have surprised
him) were, if anything, even more
questionable than the ones held
five years earlier. Human Rights
Watch described them as “multi-
party theater staged by a single-
party state.”
The importance of this does not
derive from some sentimental
attachment to free elections, let
alone a “Western” desire to
impose democracy and good
governance. As Gill points out, in
the development world, Sen’s
celebrated argument in
Development as Freedom that “no
famine has ever taken place in the
history of the world in a
functioning democracy,” and its
corollary, “that a free press and an
active political opposition
constitute the best early-warning
system a country threatened by
famines can have,” is considered
to be proved, no longer open to
dispute. But for Meles, as Gill
reports, it is a neo-liberal myth,
“not validated by historical facts.”
The threat of a major famine
returned to Ethiopia in 2003. This
time the government response was
infinitely more effective than
Mengistu had been in 1983 - 1984
or Haile Selassie had been in
1973. Proud as they were of their
accomplishments, Ethiopian
officials realized that their success
had been due at least partly to
good luck, an important point that
Gill is right to emphasize. The
famine had come at a moment
when the levels of food aid
Ethiopia was receiving, above all
from the United States, were at
historic highs. These levels were
not sustainable, as Meles
understood, and in response the
Ethiopian authorities began to
emphasize agricultural
development—something that had
consistently been under-resourced
and treated very much as a
stepchild by governments all over
sub-Saharan Africa, including
Ethiopia—and growth in the
economy. In terms of GNP
growth, Ethiopia has been
remarkably successful, achieving
rates somewhere between 7
percent and 11 percent since 2004
(the latter figure reflects official
government statistics, which are
in all likelihood exaggerations).
The problem is that the food
security of poor Ethiopians is
anything but more assured today
than it was a decade ago, and it is
anything but clear that the country
is any less dependent than it ever
was on food aid from foreign
donors.
Although he does say that
outdated farm technology
combined with periodic drought
played a role in Ethiopia’s
inability to banish hunger on a
durable basis, Gill believes that
the main reasons for this are not
failures of agricultural policy but
Ethiopia’s vertiginous rate of
population increase. A country
that numbered 40 million in 1984
now numbers 80 million and is on
track to double again over the
next twenty-five years. And
unlike most of those countries
where population is projected to
rise steeply in the next two
decades, the demographic
transition has not even begun in
Ethiopia. To the contrary, fertility
rates are rising, not falling. Gill
argues that this is at least partly
due to the dramatic shift away
from population control as an
essential element in international
development policy, which he
dates back to the 1970s. He
attributes this partly to “China’s
one-child policy and the excesses
of India’s sterilization drive
[having] undermined the
international consensus around an
emphasis on the merits of birth
control.” In this century, he says,
“it was the AIDS disaster that
deflected the international
consensus away from population
growth.” And he cites astonishing
statistics from the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) that
show that out of the four principal
program areas—family planning,
reproductive health, HIV/AIDS,
and research—the percentage of
funds allocated to family planning
has decreased from 40 percent in
1997 to 5 percent in 2007. In this
matter, he says, Ethiopia “has
taken its cues from the
development community at
large,” seemingly in the belief that
“patience and the development
process itself will bring about
sufficient falls in the birth rate and
so stabilize population growth.”
The problem is that, as critics on
both the right and the left have
shown from their oddly
complementary perspectives, the
development process is in
shambles: its theories are
incoherent, and based as much on
wishful thinking—the triumph of
hope over experience—as on
empirical research. As for its
implementation—well, anyone
who has observed directly how
the development business actually
unfolds in poor countries can only
laugh so as not to weep. One of
the great contributions of Gill’s
book is to show, by means of
observant, well-informed
reporting on the ground in rural
Ethiopia, just how vain a promise
development has been to date.
Gill tries hard to be optimistic.
He even writes hopefully of the
role that China, now the most
transformative player on the
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African scene, might play in
Ethiopia’s better future. To have
gotten Chinese officials in Africa
to speak with candor and in depth
is a considerable journalistic
accomplishment, but quoting a
Chinese official in Addis Ababa
about China directing “some of
their surplus savings to
infrastructural development in
Africa” is the thinnest of thin
reeds on which to place one’s
hopes. My sense is that Gill
knows it.
This pessimistic note is
confirmed in a vignette about
Jeffrey Sachs, the former
economic shock-therapy man who
re-invented himself as the
intellectual avatar of the
Millennium Development Project
and the author of a book
(complete with a preface by Bono,
naturally) called The End of
Poverty: Economic Possibilities
for Our Time, in which he
confidently predicted that if the
rich world would dramatically
increase its aid commitments,
there could be no global poverty
to speak of by 2025. Gill visits a
benighted village called Koraro,
chosen to be one of Sachs’s so-
called Millennium Villages,
which were meant as
demonstration projects to prove
that foreign aid can really work.
He asks a local man whether he
has ever met Sachs, to which the
man replies, “I have met the
owner twice,” which in itself is
worth a dozen U.N. development
assessments and a hundred NGO
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Ghosts
Leon Wieseltier (The New triumphalism of our moment, and to Trilling, it seems hours that Martin Sheen spent on He prefers to believe that he is the
Republic - All Feed) its e-millenialism; its idiotic belief incontrovertible that in our a grate with the homeless near the beginning. This accounts for the
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:11:36 AM in the complete transfiguration of politics we are becoming trash. White House a few decades ago, strange soullessness of this
human life in our time, in the final The degradation of politics takes after which he returned to his thoughtful man. He seems to
“If you have ghosts, then you b a n i s h m e n t o f o p a c i t y a n d many forms, not all of them tea- hotel a survivor of homelessness. regard the past as a long era of
have everything.” Those are the obscurity, by means of data and soaked. One of them is the And having turned the Capitol errors, and carries himself in the
words of a tender and demented the quantification of inwardness, valorization of entertainment. The into a ratings opportunity, Colbert superiority of the very latest. I
rock legend of Austin, and they or by the expansion of genetic and spirited defense of liberalism has will do the same to the Mall later keep hearing that he does not like
have stood me in good stead for evolutionary necessities—all this become the work of comedians. this month, when he and Jon his job. It certainly shows in the
years. Ghosts are a solution for i s n o t s u p p o r t a b l e . I s i t But there was nothing funny Stewart hold a rally in response to dourness of his current demeanor,
loneliness. One needs someone to conservatism to say so? Perhaps. I about Stephen Colbert’s the rally that Glenn Beck, another from which only the Damoclean
talk to. I mean about the old think of it more as a custodial testimony before the House conscience with audience share, predicament of the Democrats
themes, if one believes that they f e e l i n g a b o u t t h e m a n y Judiciary Subcommittee on held last summer. The moral occasionally rouses him. We
are still the right themes. Ghosts attainments that made it, quite Immigration on behalf of migrant authority of Jon Stewart is a appear to have disappointed him.
are the natural companions of improbably, all the way across farmworkers. It was tiresome and baffling phenomenon. “He’s He may even be experiencing
anybody in estrangement; the time to me, and for whose fate I exploitative and insulting to the Cronkite,” proclaims New York some sort of crisis, as he
invisible officers of tradition, of am, whether I like it or not, chamber’s ghosts. This time the magazine, “the most trusted man discovers the folly of his post-
all the valuable things that have responsible. (I like it.) Too much fake blowhard was a real in America.” He is plainly a political Mugwumpery, and the
been declared obsolete but, in is slipping away too easily. This is blowhard. When John Conyers likeable man, and always good for failure of his illusion about the
some stubborn hearts, are not a l s o t h e q u i n t e s s e n t i a l sagely remarked (did I just type intelligent laughter, though an air transcendence of partisanship. For
o b s o l e t e . I t i s o n e o f t h e Washington sensation now. The that?) that “I would like to of genial sanctimony clings to his there is honor in partisanship,
fundamental properties of the capital is busily diminishing itself. recommend that now that we’ve every joke. But it is not exciting when the differences are
human that the absent may be I sense this every time I run into got all this attention that you that people glean their philosophical; and for the purpose
more significant than the present. one of its ghosts. At lunch, for excuse yourself,” the putatively understanding of the world from of social change, politics is all we
I have the best ghosts. My example: in the dining room of hilarious witness pointed out that “The Daily Show,” it is have. Faction is not only a reality,
revenants will never utter the the Hay-Adams, the black arts of he was there at the invitation of discouraging. Better Stewart than it is also a calling. A bummed-out
words “Mark Zuckerberg.” In influence are practiced on the the chairwoman, a Democrat who Beck, sure; but the Lincoln White House is a
their company I may continue the very spot that Henry Adams lauded him for “walk[ing] in the Memorial deserves a break from misunderstanding. The memory of
conversation that was begun long produced the greatest book ever shoes of migrant farmworkers” all this political vaudeville, as do courage and wisdom covers its
before me and will last (since I written here, in which he foresaw and serving as an “example of we from the notion that walls. Its past is its gift. Behind
will not shirk my own ghost- “the acceleration of history,” how, using both levity and fame, a amusement is a basis for the Beltway, there is Washington.
service!) long after me. And the where text messages now fly. Or media figure can bring attention commitment. I omit Bill Maher The Beltway is a venal place, but
ghosts have a public role to play, another phantom, this one a more to a critically important issue for from my complaint, because no the streets of Washington are
too. They possess a certain r e c e n t a n c i e n t : i n S t e v e n the good of the nation.” And moral authority can plausibly be paved with the Constitution, the
shaming force. They spoil the Weisman’s rich and riveting promote himself, too, which is all imputed to him. He has the look Constitution is the mortar between
adoration of the new with the compilation of the letters and these people ever do. Their true of a man who mainly wants to get every brick of every building, it is
suggestion of a decline, or at least journals of Pat Moynihan, I read cause is their own celebrity. laid. in the air and in the light, you can
with an unflattering comparison. I this, in a letter to Louis Henkin in Colbert—eternally trapped in the “‘Ghosts,’ Obama whispered.” find it even in a brandy glass, and
do not mean to exaggerate their 1989: “If we are somehow to keep dungeon of his character—had This, in Bob Woodward’s telling, it can get you through the day.
authority: in the recurring quarrels our tradition alive for the next spent a day on a vegetable farm at was a scornful response to an Leon Wieseltier is the literary
between the ancients (who, by our century, we are going to have to the invitation of the United Farm allusion to Vietnam made by editor of The New Republic. This
velocity, lived just the other day) return to Trilling.” This, from a Workers, and so he was an expert Richard Holbrooke in a meeting piece ran in the October 28, 2010,
and the moderns, there are no United States Senator. Whether or on agricultural adversity. I was about Afghanistan in the winter of
c l e a r w i n n e r s . B u t t h e not we are going to have to return reminded of the few freezing 2009. Obama is not a ghosts man. GHOSTS page 52
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rationale for this shift is clear. He
wants arms control agreements,
victory in Afghanistan, and the
denuclearization of Iran—and
Russia has a role to play in all
three. Reset has lubricated new
agreements with Russia that
enable, for example, the speedy
overflight of U.S. military planes
across the North Pole and on to
Kyrgyzstan, in support of the war
in Afghanistan; the sale of
Russian military helicopters, to be
paid for by the Pentagon, to the
Afghan government; and a tighter
financial squeeze on Iran.
Meanwhile, on the domestic front,
absent any other fulfillment of
Obama’s campaign vow to win
hearts and minds abroad through
civility, the "reset" is Exhibit
Number One that good manners
work.
In addition, Obama officials
believe that, while the great-
power-rivalry strain of geopolitics
in the region may have been
necessary in the 1990s, it is now
obsolete. When Heslin's policy
was initially drawn up, its
concrete objective was to provide
the Caucasian and Central Asian
states with a financial channel
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field reports. And when Gill
himself finally meets Sachs, he
discovers that he, too, is grasping
at the Chinese straw. “They are
doing something,” he tells Gill,
“where we are not there at all.”
But Sachs also says that “unless
the fertility rate comes down
sharply I’m running out of ideas.”
independent of Moscow's grip.
That meant the construction of
energy pipelines to alternative
markets, especially the Baku-
Ceyhan oil pipeline from the
Caucasus to Turkey. But that
policy has largely succeeded: The
full flow of oil Baku-Ceyhan
began in 2006. The Central Asian
states of Kazakhstan and
Turkmenistan are not linked
in—and given their cautious
nature, they are unlikely to risk
Russia’s ire by agreeing to be
connected by pipeline with the
West—but they have also
developed alternate export routes
through China, which has
constructed its own pipelines that
serve precisely the same function.
Crucially, the change in
American policy has been more
dramatic in Central Asia than it
has in Eastern Europe or the
Caucasus. Sensitive to criticism
that the administration's policy of
“reset” with Russia means selling
out fragile countries that have
developed close ties with the
West, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton was volubly supportive on
a July swing through Ukraine,
Poland, and the Caucasus states of
When Gill tells him that
Ethiopia’s population has doubled
in a quarter-century and will
likely double again in the next
twenty-five years, Sachs can only
reply that “it is absolutely
unmanageable ... beyond any of
our [development] tools right
now.” The end of poverty, indeed.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and
Georgia. At times, she seemed to
err on the side of trying too hard,
as when she said Ukraine is still
welcome in NATO (Kiev itself
seems to have lost interest in the
idea), and when she accused
Russia of invading and occupying
Georgian territory. Though
Clinton's trip also made some
progress in assuaging local fears
about waning American fidelity,
the assertive deployment of
Russian weaponry on what most
of the world still regards as
Georgian territory demonstrates
the irrelevance of her assurances.
President Obama must realize
that his new policy ultimately
represents a trade-off. While the
geopolitical gains from
deemphasizing the Great Game
have been substantial, the local
costs of America's hands-off
approach have been quite high. In
Kyrgyzstan, which is still
embroiled in ethnic strife,
deferring to Russia has meant
leaving a largely powerless
government to its own devices.
Azerbaijan has nervously struck
up negotiations over natural-gas
with Russia’s Gazprom in order to
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chronic malnutrition and the
global food crisis will be
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2011. This piece ran in the
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forestall any possible trouble of
its own with Moscow. And the
United States has adopted a far
different approach toward local
leaders, swallowing Kazakhstan's
backsliding on what they believed
was the country's private
commitment to release
imprisoned opposition political
activist Yevgeny Zhovtis, and
deepening relations with
Uzbekistan's President Islam
Karimov, probably the most
brutal leader in the former Soviet
Union. In other words, the reset
has a serious downside: By
deciding that the politics of
Central Asia are what they are,
Washington risks losing its justly
earned reputation as the region's
protector of political and
economic independence.
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editor at Foreign Policy, is the
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Isaiah 26:4 (10-
06-10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 2:00:00 AM
Trust in the Lord forever, for the
Lord, the Lord is the Rock
Eternal.
— Isaiah 26:4(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... When we see
mountains we feel small, knowing
not only how much larger it is
than we are, but also how much
longer it has been here than we
have been. But the Lord was long
before any mountain and will be
long after it has melted into
nothing. He is the only rock of
security and stability. All the
forevers we have are found in
him. My Prayer... Eternal I Am,
who is and was and will be
forever, I trust that you are and
will always be my God, my
Redeemer, my Savior, my
Shepherd, and my Father. I
commit all my tomorrows to you.
In the name of Jesus my Lord I
pray. Amen.
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Criminal Minds' Behavioral
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murders because he can't
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"It's such a prevalent condition
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last 20 or 30 years. It's a realistic
among the serial killers."
But because of the killer's
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Good Wife's Amber Madison —
God knows, we certainly have —
but that homewrecker sure knows
how to put on a show.
Last night, Peter's former call-
girlfriend popped up again in one
of the episode's many high points
(the debut of Scott Porter, Lou
Dobbs' respectable cameo and
Kalinda's dirt on Will among
them) as the star of a viral music
video that puts Obama Girl to
shame. Cooing and gyrating like
the straight-up hooker she is, the
woman most likely to drive Alicia
to break the law is apparently is
now using her notoriety to support
Peter's bid for state's attorney.
And she's making no bones about
his ability to serve the public. A
few sample lyrics:
"People say you're down in the
polls, but I say you're always
good at coming from behind."
"You can caucus me all night."
"Please, leave your wife and mis...
trial."
fashion magazine ever completely
dedicated to celebrating
would deter me. I'm going to do
projects that I want to do."
It was a hoot and a half, for sure, transvestism, transexuality, cross Franco can currently be seen in
but it was also more proof of how dressing and androgyny, in all its Howl and in next month's action
smart the writers of Wife are. manifestations." thriller 127 Hours.
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Joel Keller (TV Squad) week-by-week, and you can tell in strings on Steve in his new/old another comparison to 'Arrested
Submitted at 10/6/2010 6:00:00 AM the third episode that they're job, becoming an evil oil Development' here. But more for
trying to right the ship: they're executive in the service of illustrative reasons than to whine
Filed under: Reality-Free, Recaps r o u n d i n g o u t s o m e o f t h e "breaking a few eggs" to make her about how much better that show
Let's give credit where credit is characters, trying to find where environmental protection omelete. was.
due: Mitch Hurtwiz and Will the funny is, and inserting in some But a lot of it still didn't work, and Permalink| Email this| Linking
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Filed under: TV Previews Here's
tonight's lineup of new shows and
events (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for
additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
7:30
Cartoon Network:'Hole in the
Wall'* -- New game show
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'The Middle' and'Better
With You'
CBS:'Survivor: Nicaragua'
CW:'America's Next Top Model'
FOX:'Hell's Kitchen'-- (120
minutes)
NBC:'Undercovers'
Cartoon Network:'Dude, What
Would Happen?'* and'Destroy
Build Destroy'*-- Season 2
premieres for both
Discovery:'MythBusters Buster's
Cut'
Disney XD:'Pair of Kings'
DIY:'This New House'
G4:'Campus PD'
Logo:'Bump!'
Science Channel:'What You
Can't See'
TBS: Major League Baseball--
8:30 start for the American
League Division Series
The rest of the schedule and the
late night talk shows after the
jump.
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'Bring it On' is one of your
favorite guilty pleasures, you get
'Fired Up' at the sight of pom-
poms, or a cheerleading uniform
is your default Halloween
costume of choice, chances are
you're already hooked on the
CW's peppy freshman
drama'Hellcats,' a spirited (or
should we say "spirit-fingered"?)
look at the world of competitive
college cheerleading. what's in store for our ridiculously
If you're not already hooked, attractive squad.
perhaps we can entice you to join Join us after the jump to hear
the team with this perky preview. what we can expect in upcoming
Two weeks ago, TV Squad was episodes from stars Aly Michalka,
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Submitted at 10/5/2010 3:00:00 PM
I hate Halloween. Every year I
decline invitations to "hilarious"
and ribald costume parties (that's
right, I get invited to parties)
because, well, I hate costume
parties. I don't have the time,
craftsmanship, or money to
dedicate to a completely
superfluous and extravagant
ensemble I'm going to wear all of
six hours and hopefully not throw
up on it or have someone spill
beer or jell-o shots down the back.
Then there's the problem with the
costumes themselves; I'm not sure
when mass marketing decided
everything about this holiday had
to be "sexy," but trying to interact
with women at a party in which
all of them have their boobs and/
or butts out on display just makes
me feel awkward. Equally
awkward is watching said women
simultaneously encourage and
spurn the advances of the
multitude of drunken bros who
inevitably show up at said parties.
Here's a free valuable life lesson:
if you have a sibling of the
opposite sex, never attend their
Halloween parties. Your opinion
of them may never recover.
That said, if you're GOING to
attend a costume party, it stands
to reason that you need a costume.
Now if you're the crafty DIY type
you're probably already 65 work
hours in and waiting for some
materials to be shipped in from
Laos or something, but if you're
planning on buying a costume
you've got myriad options, all of
them bad. Just like the people
wearing them, though, some
costumes are worse than others.
You need to be warned that the
costume you're buying might not
be as "hilarious" as you thought.
That's why we've compiled this
guide...
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Hey, check it out! I'm an Indian!
Pretty cool, right? I always loved
dressing up like these guys as a
kid. And I coordinate so nicely
with my wife's squaw outfit!"
What It Actually Says
"I have so little regard for Native
American culture that this pretty
much covers the breadth of my
understanding. While a lack of an
ornate feathered head dress may
be seen as a gesture of tolerance, I
assure you its absence is only due
to my inability to afford the next
model up. However, with the
money I saved I've purchased two
sheets of blotter acid and I'll be
staring at my shoulders for the
rest of the weekend."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Speaking of saving money! Get
it? Get it?! From the
commercials! 'Just 15 minutes
could save you 15% or more,'
right?! Hahaha! I love that little
guy and his adorable accent!"
What It Actually Says
"My life is so devoid of meaning
and human contact that I have
foolishly deduced that the only
way to gain acceptance is to
reconfigure myself as not only a
Right? Seeeeee, seeeeeñor! La
cucaracha! La cucaracha!"
What It Actually Says
"I will literally cross the street to
avoid walking past someone with
a TAN, let alone a person of
Mexican heritage. I say 'Mexican'
because, in all honesty, I have no
idea that there is more than one
Latino culture. In fact, I would be
okay with building a border fence
around my local Taco Bell."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Hey, I'm all about some
TOPICAL HUMOR, you know!
BP should stand for 'Bad
Planning,' am I right? When I
think about all those poor shrimps
and crabs and stuff I just get so
mad I could almost donate money
to something, you know? I'm just
glad they took care of it and that
stuff's all gone now."
What It Actually Says
"I have the attention span of a
fruit fly. Much like my friend in
the Geico Gecko outfit, I view
human interaction through an
c o r p o r a t e m a s c o t , b u t t h e almost-autistic cipher that led me
corporate mascot of one of the t o b e l i e v e r e f e r e n c i n g a n
most boring companies on earth environmental catastrophe would
selling the most boring product in make me popular at the party
human existence. The only reason solely because people have heard
I'm wearing this is I couldn't find of it. I will spend the rest of the
a reasonable facsimile of those evening frustrated that no one
well-to-do cavemen. We have wants to talk to me, oblivious to
literally nothing to talk about." the fact that I look like a
The Costume homicidal lunatic who's recently
What You Think It Says crawled out of a septic tank."
"Olé! Right? Oh man, this is so The Costume
hilarious! I'm totally saving this What You Think It Says
outfit for Cinco de Mayo, because "I'm just a kid at heart! This guy's
I will be ordering a CERVEZA! so funky and weird, right? Super
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awesome! I feel like I'm in that
'Groove is in the Heart' video!
Let's cut a rug already!"
What It Actually Says
"If you turn your back on me for
even a SECOND, I will use this
costume to lure your children to
my van."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Hark, m'lady! 'Tis I, Sir
FireBrand, the Bold! I have
traveled many a mile to rescue
you, my love. I beseech you,
worry not for me! For my valor
shall carry me through this day as
our love carries me through this
life! Now back, lest the blood of
mine enemies soil your gown!"
What It Actually Says
"There is roughly a 95% chance I
have, have had, or will have a
grotesque neck beard. Not only
will I wear this costume more
than just on Halloween, I will
wear it alone in my room as I
pretend to be a brave warrior. The
action in my head will be epic, but
in reality will consist mostly of
me flopping breathlessly on my
bed, legitimately winded from
twirling around my room with my
foam sword."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Smells Like Teen Spirit in here,
man! Remember the '90s and how
cool Nirvana was? Hey, joke's on
you guys; this ain't a costume, I
rock this look every day! Heh. I'm
gonna go see if the karaoke
machine has any Alice in
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Chains!"
What It Actually Says
"In choosing my costume I first
found a blind man, then a child
born after 1999. I had the child
describe to the blind man their
understanding of grunge, who in
turn relayed it to me. Through this
bizarre game of telephone I
arrived at the following costume,
which is in no way an actual
costume aside from the cartoonish
slogan on my shirt and the
ridiculous blonde wig which,
ironically, is probably borrowed
from the costume maker's 'glam
rocker' series. If you'll excuse me,
I need to be getting drunk and
screaming Kurt Cobain lyrics into
fellow partygoers' ears now."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Check it out, I'm the Boy
Wonder! Well, I should say MAN
Wonder, right? Look at these
pecs! I'm totally a superhero. I
don't even need that Batman guy
to kick some butt! Ha, but
seriously, my pal Kevin is here
somewhere dressed as Batman.
We're the Dynamic Duo!"
What It Actually Says
"I have such deeply-rooted
feelings of inadequacy and self-
loathing that even though I
allowed my friend to convince me
to dress as a pre-teen sidekick, I
insisted on buying this most
garishly-faux muscled costume
available. Nevermind that Robin
is a pre-pubescent trapeze artist
whose greatest assets have been
his flexibility and gymnastic
talent; in my version he is now
more ripped than Superman
himself. The sad truth is I'm
hoping the fake six pack will
mask the body I am so ashamed
of from everyone here."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Look out! There's a party animal
on the loose! Hey bros, me and
you guys. Right now. That table.
Beer pong! We're doin' it, man. I
kick so much ASS at this game! I
even bought a shirt online that
says UNDEFEATED BEER
PONG CHAMPS! I should've
worn that under this giant cup!
GAME ON!"
What It Actually Says
"I have become so enamored with
my own alcoholism that this was
the only logical conclusion. I'm
not even sure what event this
party is commemorating, and it
doesn't really matter. I would
wear this to a wedding, bris, or
funeral. I have actually tried to
plug up the leg holes in this cup to
fill it with booze. Don't bother
trying to explain to me that the
game I'm obsessed with is
actually called 'Beirut,' and that
beer pong involves actual ping
pong paddles. I won't care."
ABANDON ALL HOPE...
We've saved the saucier outfits
for last, so from this point on you
might want to make sure your
boss isn't looking over your
shoulder. Unless you're the kind
of person for whom staring at men
in ridiculous "sexy" costumes on
company time isn't out of
character, in which case you're
me.
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Get it? Heheheheh. I love good
wordplay almost as much as I
love doin' it! Look out ladies, I'm
on the prowl! Hey, Lisa! Lisa!
LISA! Check out my costume!
Huh? Sack race? No. I'm good in
the sack! Hey, where are you
going?"
What It Actually Says
"I am so focused on my own
inadequacies in the bedroom that I
was inexorably drawn to the one
costume I could find that literally
attempts to tell people I am
sexually proficient. If you are a
woman you would probably be
wise to not accept drinks from
me."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Say hello to my little friend!
HILARIOUS, right? Oooh, watch
him squirm! Hey! Don't touch my
trouser snake! He's only got one
eye! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
What It Actually Says
"My own obsession with
homoeroticism and penile humor
will soon be surpassed only by my
regret at the logistics of
navigating a crowded house party
with a three-foot erect phallus.
Nevertheless, I will continue to
admonish all to pet the snake, kiss
the snake, lick the snake- well you
see where this is going. In about
two hours you'll have to forcibly
eject me from your house after I
drunkenly use this thing to lift up
several women's skirts and/or
cram it into someone's mouth or
pants. Maybe both."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"That's right, fellas. I'm the
p****y magnet! It's a pun, I think,
so that makes it clever! Dude this
is the greatest mixer in Phi Beta
Epsilon history! WE'RE
TOTALLY GOING TO CRUSH
THOSE IDIOTS FROM
SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS
COLLEGE AT THE GAME
TOMORROW! WOOOOO!"
What It Actually Says
"I have never spent any actual
time with a woman. Seriously.
Not even my mother. I mean, she
was AROUND, but we never
really bonded and as a result I
have some pretty severe
estimations as to what it takes to
form a coherent, supportive
relationship with another human
being. Luckily, I've accepted this
long ago and just wore this to
impress my bros."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"Hey, I'll be your lifeguard. My
name's Anita Waxin'! HA! Check
it out, dude! It looks like I've got
Buckwheat in a scissor hold or
something! Dude, can you
imagine a real chick like this?
Gross!"
What It Actually Says
"I hate women. I don't mean that
in the way guys sometime say
after a bad break-up or in the
middle of a fight with a female
loved one. I mean I genuinely
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have absolutely no respect or
regard whatsoever for any woman
in any way other than a sexual
object. A lifetime of solitude
fueled by mass marketing and
pornography has led me to believe
that waxing is the norm and I
should derisively mock anyone
who dares to venture outside the
incredibly narrow constraints of
'beauty' dictated to me by Maxim.
The horrible reality is I am
equally intimidated by the pop
culture idea of male beauty, so
rather than fruitlessly strive to
achieve it I have decided to take
women down a notch. You know.
Because they deserve it."
The Costume
What You Think It Says
"I'm too sexy for my shirt, dude!
Remember...whatever those guys'
names were? And that song?
Awesome!"
What It Actually Says
"Why's everyone dressed so
weird? Costume party? Oh. I had
no idea."
Think you could pull off wearing
one of these get-ups? Know any
better costumes out there that we
missed? Let us know in the
comments below, and if you ARE
planning on wearing one of these,
you owe us a picture.
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Randy Moss' improbable return
to Minnesota has become reality.
The Patriots have completed a
blockbuster trade sending the Pro
Bowl wide receiver back to
Minnesota.
The Vikings will send a third-
round 2011 draft pick to the
Vikings in return, a league source
told ESPN NFL Insider Adam
Schefter. Mike & Mike in the
Morning
Adam Schefter says Randy Moss
will be traded to Minnesota
sometime today. Schefter doesn't
expect Vincent Jackson to wind
up in New England because San
Diego won't budge.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick said
he was "grateful" for the
opportunity to coach Moss and
wished him the best "for the
remainder of his Hall of Fame
career.
"Over the course of the past
several months, I have spoken
with Randy and his representative
about Randy's place on our team
and his future in football,"
Belichick said in a news release
announcing the trade.
"While I will keep private the
details of internal conversations
with players and staff, suffice it to
say that many things were taken
into consideration before making
the trade," Belichick said. "In this
business, there are complex and
often difficult decisions, but it is
my responsibility to make them
based on what I feel is best for our
football team, in both the short
term and long term."
Vikings coach Brad Childress
was expected to discuss the trade
at a news conference at 3:30 p.m.
ET.
The Patriots now have two picks
in each of the first four rounds of
the 2011 draft -- their own picks
and a first-round pick from
Oakland, a second-round pick
from Carolina, the third-round
pick from Minnesota and a fourth-
rounder from Denver.
A source close to Moss told
ESPN NFL senior analyst Chris
Mortensen that Belichick
informed Moss of the trade on
Wednesday morning by
telephone. The source said the
conversation was cordial, with
both men expressing appreciation
for the time they spent together.
Moss will report to the Vikings
on Wednesday and is said to be
"excited" about returning to his
original team with Brett Favre at
quarterback, the source said. No
contract extension talks have been
conducted, but it is expected the
two sides will have a discussion
later in the day, the source said.
FoxSports.com earlier reported
the trade talks.
The seven-time Pro Bowl
receiver is in the final year of his
four-year contract with New
England and has voiced his
displeasure with being in limbo.
More from ESPN.com
The Patriots are only getting a
third-round pick in return for
Randy Moss, a year after they got
a first-round pick for Richard
Seymour. ESPNBoston.com's
Mike Reiss wonders if there's
more to the story of Moss' trade.
Blog
The Vikings have already bent
over backwards to bring back QB
Brett Favre for one more season,
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Moss
"When you have done so much
and put so much work in, it kind
of feels like I am not wanted,"
Moss said before the season
began on Sept. 6. "I am taking
that in stride and playing my final
year out and whatever the future
holds is what it holds, but it is
kind of a bad feeling -- feeling not
wanted. It is not like my
production has gone down."
Moss made similar comments
during a press conference
following the Patriots' season-
opening victory over the Bengals.
The next day, he apologized for
the timing of his remarks and said
he loves playing in New England.
But the Boston Herald, citing an
unnamed source, reported on
Tuesday that Moss wanted out of
New England after a Week 1 win
on Sept. 12, telling his agent to
ask the Patriots to trade him.
Although the Patriots crushed the
Dolphins on Monday night, Moss
did not have a catch -- the first
time that's happened for him in a
New England uniform.
Moss and Belichick did not speak
or even see each other on
Tuesday, a league source told
Schefter.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady
has been an unabashed fan of
Moss since the receiver arrived in
New England prior to the 2007
season. The two hooked up for 23
of Brady's record 50 touchdown
passes that season. Last season,
Brady came to Moss' defense
when a Panthers defensive back
questioned Moss' effort. And after
Moss said he didn't feel wanted by
the Patriots a few weeks ago,
Brady again came out strong in
support of Moss.
"Randy is important, was
important, will be important,
especially from my standpoint as
a quarterback," Brady said during
an interview on Boston sports
radio station WEEI. "I love Randy
and I'd love to play with him for a
long time."[+] Enlarge
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Randy Moss had 259 catches and
50 touchdowns in his 52 games
with the Patriots.
Moss, 33, has only nine catches
for 139 yards and three TDs
through four games this season.
That comes after hauling in 83
passes for 1,264 yards and 13
touchdowns last season. His
career year came in his first with
the Pats, when he caught 98
passes for 1,493 yards and 23
TDs, an NFL record.
The Vikings have been looking
for help at receiver for Favre, but
they were unable to work out a
deal for the Chargers' Vincent
Jackson.
Pro Bowl receiver Sidney Rice is
sidelined for at least the first six
weeks of the season because of a
hip injury and Percy Harvin has
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struggled all season with migraine
headaches.
Without the deep threat that he
had in Rice, Favre's production
has dropped dramatically. The
Vikings have lost two of their first
three games and their receiving
group lacks the prototypical big-
play receiver who can outjump
smaller cornerbacks for passes
down the field.
That's Moss in a nutshell.
Moss immediately energized a
lagging franchise when he was
chosen in the first round in 1998.
He averaged 19.0 yards per catch
and hauled in 17 TDs as a rookie
to help the team reach the NFC
title game. His first season
coincided with a string of sellouts
at the drab Metrodome that
remains going to this day.
The move would no doubt delight
Favre, who will turn 41 later this
month. He openly campaigned for
the Packers to acquire Moss
toward the end of his time in
Green Bay. But the Patriots
ultimately ended up parting with
just a fourth-round pick to pry
Moss away from the Raiders, and
Favre privately fumed at the
swing and miss by the Green Bay
front office.
Favre was traded to the Jets a
year later and signed a two-year
deal with the Vikings last season.
The Vikings made room for Moss
on their roster by trading
defensive end Jayme Mitchell to
the Cleveland Browns for an
undisclosed 2012 draft pick. The
teams agreed in principle to the
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Randy Moss is going back to
Minnesota, as the Patriots and
Boy review:
Vikings have completed a trade
that sends Moss back to his first Into the grinder
NFL team in exchange for a third- Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
round pick in next year's NFL
Liverpool Agrees on Sale draft. How does this affect Randy
Moss and the rest of the
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:01:00 PM

There was a time when I thought

ability. Unbelievably, Tate
to Red Sox Owners Minnesota and New England
passing attacks moving forward?
Brandon Tate is the big winner in
I was pretty good at video games.
actually has more receptions with
I've brought down the likes of
the Patriots this year than Moss.
Earthworm Jim, Rocket Knight
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse iconic club. Tate will likely be the third
Main) fantasy leagues, as he moves into Adventures, Ninja Gaiden(2004),
According to Liverpool chairman option for Tom Brady on offense,
Moss' starting role. He's done well Mega Man 9 and many others
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:48:00 AM Martin Broughton, the Red Sox but that will translate to a few big
in his limited work in the passing without much trouble and only the
owners have offered to pay £300 games in the future when New
Filed under: English Premier million ($477 million), which game this season, but his big occasional spurt of profanity.
contribution to the team has come England plays teams with good Having completed the story (but
League, Sports Business and would cover the debt and bank pass defenses, like that of the
Media, England on kickoff returns, where he's not nearly all of the levels) of
charges stemming from the 2007 New York Jets. He's a must-own
Liverpool FC's board agreed to takeover by Hicks and Gillett. The returned two kicks for Super Meat Boy, I can soundly
touchdowns. Take that as an in all fantasy leagues after this
declare that it trumps them all. As
sell the Premier League club, pair stands to lose £144 million in news.
which is saddled with debt and the transaction, according to The indication of his open-field of this writing, I have died 1,792
times and several hundred of
mired in 18th place, to the owners Guardian. NEW those lives -- at least-- were spent
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Wednesday, but may have to take and Gillett, who own all the trying to conquer the last level.
deal Tuesday, but didn't formally content-only/faq.php Super Meat Boy is tough, as
legal action to force out the shares in Liverpool, the offer was announce it until Mitchell passed Five Filters featured article: tough as the toughest nails in the
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Current co-owners Tom Hicks board members: Broughton -- Information from The Associated Reporting of Falluja's Cancer m a i m e d , b e a t e n , c r u s h e d ,
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Age: Origins save Free Realms up to Mac
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:30:00 AM
You can still import an older save
file into BioWare's upcoming
fantasy RPG, Dragon Age 2, like
you could with Mass Effect 2--
but since you don't have a
persistent character this time
(whoever your Warden was in the
first game is replaced by "Hawke"
in the sequel), it hasn't been as
clear what the save file would
change in the new game.
Speaking to NowGamer, lead
designer Mike Laidlaw revealed
that while you don't get to import
your character, you're "importing
the world" as it was in your game
of Origins. "Who's in charge of
Ferelden, what happened with the
Dwarves, who's running
Orzammar?" Laidlaw said. "All of
these things are reflected and
accounted for in Dragon Age 2."
So if you hate the way you left
affairs in Origins, consider a fresh
save in Dragon Age 2. Then
again, maybe you like fixer-
uppers.
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It's also one of the best games
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:30:00 PM president John Smedley explained
the port is an answer to "the
Though PS3 owners are still overwhelming player demand for
waiting to hear about when they'll F r e e R e a l m s o n t h e M a c
DJ Hero 2 bundles
get their oft-promised opportunity platform." We thought Mac include free DJ
to embark into the free-to-play owners were too busy editing
environs of Free Realms, a Sony movies and listening to cool Hero in Europe
press release has revealed Mac music while hanging out with
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
owners will be able to join the Justin Long to play MMOs, but
g a m e ' s 1 4 m i l l i o n - s t r o n g apparently we were mistaken.
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:45:00 AM
community later this fall. Mac Sony Online Entertainment Kenny Rogers is fond of
players will be able to congregate opening Free Realms up to Mac
reminding us"you've got to count
freely with their PC-playing originally appeared on Joystiq on your dub-plates before you touch
brethren -- a heartwarming feature Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:30:00 EST.
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sure European purchasers of DJ
Hero 2 are going to be in a better
position to follow The Gambler's
advice when they collect the free
copy of DJ Hero, that Activision
has announced will be included in
their purchase of the Party or
Turntable bundle (while supplies
last).
In total, the deal will net buyers
170 mixes, which we'd assume are
enough big tunes. Again though,
and we can't stress this enough,
there is no way of knowing.
What if Wes Anderson did the
Zuckerberg movie?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:01:14 AM
Aaron Sorkin was an interesting
choice, but what if the Zuckerberg
movie had been more fanciful,
like the Royal Tenenbaums? Bill
Murray, Angelica Huston and
Danny Glover play the lawyers.
Young Luke Wilson to play Zuck
and Owen Wilson to play his
wacky sidekick Sean Parker.
Gene Hackman would have made
a great Harvard president! There
would have been an opportunity
for some fun dialog with the
Winkelvii.
There would have been a lot of
songs, old Beatles and Beach
Boys tunes, and Zuck would have
had a real girlfriend who loved
and nurtured him, instead of
having one who was pissed off.
Maybe the Coen Brothers? You
gotta know someone would have
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appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 06 The OS, Windows Server 2003,
Oct 2010 11:45:00 EST. Please Okay I think this is the second asks if I'd like to turn it on.
see our terms for use of feeds. time I've done this. There's a little warning message
Permalink| Email this| Comments Hopefully by writing it up as a that I might have to restart the
blog post, I won't do it again. And machine if something happens
perhaps there's some way out of that I can't make heads or tails of.
this jam. I don't know. You tell I think Geez restarting isn't such a
me. big deal, so I click OK, and then
Anyway. I had this server, my Remote Desktop session
running fine. It's main purpose freezes.
was to run a copy of River2, and At this point I realize what I've
serve as the aggregation engine done.
for many of my experiments with I've now put up a firewall that
RSS. It also is the cloud-end for prevents my remote desktop app
the FeedHose experiments I've from getting to the server. And
would be Zuck for sure, and the been running. this is a completely virtual
music would be by David Byrne. Everything's going great. The machine, there's no keyboard, no
Helena Bonham Carter as Zuck's server has lots of extra capacity. big red switch, no physical reality
girlfriend, and instead of being Just one problem. I can't get it on with which to fix this. I think, if
nurturing or angry she'd be on port 5337. This isn't usually I'm not mistaken, I'm going to
drugs, but would wear those cool something to worry about but I have to completely reprovision
dresses and dance a lot and have an application that isn't this baby. Could that possibly be.
generally be puzzled (in a nice working because of this. So I go Yeah probably.
way) by his nerdiness. poking around and find out that
There are so many possibilities.
Francis Ford Coppola, or his
daughter Sophia. Martin Scorcese
could direct Matt Damon and
Leonardo DiCaprio in the leading
roles. Matt could ask Leonardo
gotten murdered, maybe a lot of how do you like them apples. And
people, but it would have been where was Scoble in all this?
fun anyway. Javier Bardem would O b v i o u s l y P h i l i p S e y m o u r
play the gunslinging Zuck, with H o f f m a n w o u l d p l a y h i m .
Steve Buscemi as his nincompoop There were so many ways to go,
sidekick. The Dude, played by and maybe we can try them all.
Jeff Bridges, could do a walk-on, Zuck is only 26, and people love
bathrobe and a milk carton. sequels!
Tim Burton! Now that would
have been coool. Johnny Depp
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Making Sense of This Week's Differing Polls on the Fight for

Congress
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily) Republicans than the Democrats. In the end, 40 percent of eligible generic ballot -- you're best off on those two questions were
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:37:00 AM Polling analyst and statistical guru adults actually voted. simply taking an average and based on the responses of all
N a t e S i l v e r o f So, pollsters included other staying focused on the big adults. Given that more
Readers trying to follow the F i v e T h i r t y E i g h t . c o m n o w factors in their models such as picture." Americans identify with the
s u c c e s s i o n o f " g e n e r i c " estimates that likely voter samples historical voting patterns, how "The big picture," he says, "is that Democrats than the Republicans
congressional ballot polls to get a produce outcomes in favor of the much thought the respondent says Republicans are poised to have a (Gallup says it is by a 49 percent
sense of how Election Day is Republicans that are six points he or she has given to the election, very good November -- but to 40 percent margin), it is less of
shaping up have good reason to be higher than do the samples of all whether the person voted in the exactly how good, we're all kind a surprise that Democrats would
confused by the multitude of registered voters. last election, or whether they of guessing at." have that edge.
surveys with different results and But while all the major pollsters know where in their precinct they One final note: the generic But there was still something
messages, particularly this week now have made the switch to need to go to vote. Then they congressional ballot results are telling in that figure about the
in the wake of the Washington sampling likely voters, the results assign various weights to these not the only thing that can cause downward fortunes of the
Post/ABC News and Gallup polls. a r e i n e v i t a b l y g o i n g t o b e factors. (Gallup has put online the confusion in reading a poll. Democrats. In 2006, the year they
The Post/ABC poll had the different because they may use measurements it uses in arriving On Tuesday, when I was writing went on to recapture Congress,
Republicans ahead by 49 percent d i f f e r e n t m e t h o d o l o g i e s a t at its likely voter model.) about the Post/ABC's survey, they led the Republicans on who
to 43 percent among likely voters, determining who they think the "Statistical Noise" which showed Democrats cutting was trusted more to deal with the
while Gallup produced two likely voters will be. On this week's polls specifically, the Republican lead but still country's main problems by 54
scenarios -- one for high turnout Is the main way of finding that Silver, who has constructed his trailing in the race for the House, percent to 35 percent, and on the
and one for low turnout -- and, in out just by asking those polled? own model for digesting the an editor was puzzled by the fact economy by 54 percent to 37
both, the Republicans had big That's part of it, but there's going generic congressional surveys and that despite the drumbeat of news percent.
double-digit leads. to be built-in error because some coughing out his own forecast, about the frustration at the Follow Poll Watch on Twitter
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Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Westboro Protest
at Marine's Funeral
Politics Daily Staff (Politics
Daily)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:10:00 PM
The Supreme Court heard oral
arguments Wednesday over a
classic First Amendment case: At
what point does free speech
become so offensive that is loses
its protection under the
Constitution? At issue are the
crude anti-gay protests staged by
members of the Kansas-based
Westboro Baptist Church at
military funerals.
The father of a Marine killed in
Iraq has asked the court to
reinstate a $5 million judgment
against the Rev. Fred Phelps and
other church members who
picketed his son's funeral,
carrying signs saying "Thank God
for Dead Soldiers" and "God
Hates Fags." Phelps and his
followers were not arguing that
the man being buried was gay, but
that war deaths are God's
punishment of a country that
tolerates homosexuality.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa., says
he was harmed by the protest,
even thought it was nonviolent.
The demonstration not only
tarnished his son Matthew's
funeral, he said, but it is burned in
his memory of his last day with
his slain son. lance Cpl. Matthew
Snyder died in a Humvee accident
in 2006.
A Baltimore judge agreed that
Snyder has been injured --
emotional distress -- and ordered
the cash award. But an appeals
court overturned the verdict on
First Amendment grounds. The
Constitution, after all, is supposed
to protect unpopular speech as
well as conventional views.
"No American should ever be
required to apologize for
following his or her conscience,"
Phelps' daughter Margie Phelps
told the Associated Press. Margie
Phelps, a lawyer, is representing
front of the Capitol. Also on the
scene were Westboro protesters
and those opposed to them. "This
nation will be no more once we're
gone!" said Jacobs Phelps, 27, a
grandson of Fred Phelps. He was
holding a sign that read "Thank
God for Dead Soldiers." His
message was countered by area
students, including George
Washington University freshman
Sam Garrett, dressed in sneakers
and tight boxer briefs, the
Washington Post reports. He
carried a sign that read "Fred
Phelps wishes he were hot like
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me!" Tagged: Albert Snyder,
members -- usually six or seven of
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One-Upping Rick
Sanchez? Rays Pitcher
Said to Get Nod Because
He's . . . Jewish! (Or Not)
David Gibson (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:37:00 AM
A week after CNN anchor Rick
Sanchez got canned for saying
that Jews run the media and that
some, like Comedy Central's Jon
Stewart, are bigots who don't face
discrimination, a caller to a sports
radio talk show has become a
national sensation for suggesting
that a Tampa Bay Rays pitcher
will start Game 2 of the playoffs
because he, too, is Jewish.
The woman, who identified
herself as Linda (and as a Quaker
who says she follows the Bible
but doesn't really know the Bible),
called into Steve Duemig's radio
show on WDAE in Tampa and
said the Rays decided to start
James Shields in Game 2 of the
American League Divisional
Series because he "is a Jewish
person" and the team's owners are
Jewish.
Admittedly, the bar on media
commentary should be higher for
a leading television personality
like Sanchez than for a caller to a
talk radio show. Still, Shields is
not in fact Jewish, which seems
like a fairly important oversight.
Then again, why let facts get in
the way of a good conspiracy
theory -- or an ethnic dig?
"Well, it's their faith, and they
support each other," Linda told
Duemig, who was
uncharacteristically flabbergasted
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for much of the exchange. (Listen
to the audio here.)
The Rays, underdog winners of
the American League East in a
close-fought duel with the New
York Yankees, open the playoffs
Wednesday afternoon in Tampa
against the Texas Rangers.
Manager Joe Madden selected
Shields to start Thursday's game,
which set off the kind of debate
that sports junkies. especially stats
-addled baseball fans, revel in.
Shields, his detractors noted, is
having a mediocre season, with a
13-15 record and an ugly 5.18
earned run average.
His defenders point out that the
pitcher has done much better at
home -- a 31-21 record with a
3.60 ERA in 78 starts -- which is
where he'll pitch in Game 2. And
he has struck out more batters and
walked fewer than any other
season in his career.
In any case, the Jewish question
was never raised until Tuesday,
and now it's all over the
blogosphere.
The funny thing is, there are so
many Jewish baseball greats, from
Hank Greenberg to Sandy
Koufax, and just plain fine
players, like Shawn Green and
Kevin Youkilis, that Shields may
want to consider converting (as
Rod Carew did).
On the other hand, the Rays'
onetime star outfielder, Gabe
Kapler, is proudly and publicly
Jewish, but was placed on the
disabled list this week and is out
for the playoffs, a merciful end to
what had been a dismal year for
him. So much for Jewish
conspiracies.
And Shields' response to all this?
"I think that story is funny," he
said.
Well, Jews are known for their
sense of humor . . .
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 6:44:14 AM
Wednesday, 06 Oct 2010 11:44
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WASHINGTON — The
presidential seal fell off President
Barack Obama's lectern and
clattered to the stage as he
delivered a speech to a women's
conference.
"That's all right, all of you know
who I am," the president joked to
laughter from the audience when
he realized what had happened.
"But I'm sure there's somebody
back there that's really nervous
right now, don't you think?" the
president added, referring to
whatever staffer had hung the seal
on the front of his lectern so
precariously.
"They're sweating bullets," he
said, laughing. "Where were we,"
he then said, and returned to his
remarks.
It happened about halfway
through the president's speech to
Fortune magazine's "Most
Powerful Women Summit"
Tuesday night at Carnegie Mellon
Auditorium.
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TARP Bailout Loss to Taxpayers Put at $29 Billion

Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 12:02:00 PM
Correspondent Taxpayers are
likely to lose $29 billion -- less
than expected -- from the federal
TARP bailouts for failing
businesses made during the
financial crisis, with the biggest
bites coming from the automobile
industry rescue and a housing
finance program, the Treasury
Department says.
In a report Tuesday, the Obama
administration said it expects to
swallow $17 billion of its
investment in General Motors,
Chrysler and car loan financing
companies, the New York Times
reported. Another $46 million that
won't be coming back went to a
mortgage assistance program
called Home Affordable
Modification.
All in all, not bad by Washington
math. Earlier estimates by the
Congressional Budget Office put
losses from the $400 billion
federal payout as high as $350
billion, and then scaled that down
to $66 billion. "Because of the
success of the program, TARP
[the Troubled Asset Relief
Program] will likely cost a
fraction of this amount," the
Treasury report said.
In coming up with its lower
figure, Treasury officials included
in the repayments the profits it
expects from selling off its shares
in American International Group
stock, the bailed-out insurance
giant. TARP was started under
President Bush to stave off a
financial meltdown in late 2008.
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Anti-Abortion Dems Poll: Republicans Lead in
Who Backed Obamacare 11 of 12 Hot Races
in Fix
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 6:10:38 AM
Wednesday, 06 Oct 2010 11:10
AM
Anti-abortion Democrats who
went along with the healthcare
reform bill may come to regret
their decision. That’s because anti
-abortion activists are going after
them with a vengeance in the
election campaign, Politico
reports.
Susan B. Anthony List is
targeting its erstwhile allies. The
group put $1.5 million into its
“Votes Have Consequences” bus
tour in August, aimed at anti-
abortion Democrats who voted for
the healthcare bill.
The campaign includes bus tours
and billboards stating that
members “voted for taxpayer-
funded abortion.” Last week SBA
List spent $55,000 on 32
billboards placed in the districts
of three Democrats in hotly
contested races.
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of America, the biggest group
working for anti-abortion
Democrats, has spent just $308 on
this year’s campaign.
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A new poll from The Hill/
America’s Natural Gas Alliance
shows that Republicans lead in 11
of 12 hard-fought races that could
determine who controls the House
next year, and the last contest is a
tie. All the races involve freshmen
Democrats, The Hill reports.
The only good news for the
Democrats is that none of the 12
Republicans hit the 50 percent
level in the poll, and six of them
have leads within the margin of
error. Still, overall it’s reason to
cheer for the GOP.
“This is a particularly volatile set
of districts,” said pollster Mark
Penn. “Overall, we see a strong
Republican trend in these
districts, but given where these
numbers are, the races haven’t
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races are really put away one way
or the other.”
Republicans have to add a net 39
seats to gain control of the House.
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How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature's
Toughest Fiber
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:52:34 AM
Spidergoat This baby goat will
produce milk that contains spider
silk proteins. Holly Steinkraus/
University of Wyoming After
years of research, we may be
close to full-scale production of
super-strong spider silk
Mutant silkworms can produce
miles of super-strong silk, in a
new breakthrough that could lead
to mass production of tough,
flexible spider-silk material.
Thanks to the efforts of these
genetically modified spider-
worms, along with spidergoats
and spider-alfalfa, spider clothes
may soon be upon us.
Randy Lewis, a molecular
biologist at the University of
Wyoming, has been milking his
spidergoats for a couple years
now, and he's been trying to
improve yields of genetically
engineered spider-silk alfalfa.
He's researching improved
synthetic spider silk genes, and he
hopes to start growing spider
cotton in the near future. With his
latest research, spider fabrics
might only be a year away.
Last week, Lewis and Malcolm
Fraser at the University of Notre
Dame announced they bred
silkworms that had been
genetically engineered to produce
spider silk.
"From our perspective, there are
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published in the journal Science
in July, Tufts University
researchers said silk could be used
to build flexible and degradable
displays or even implantable
optical systems for medicine.
"There's lots of things you can do
with fibers that you can't do with
something that comes as an
amorphous blob or a solid," Lewis
said.
Nano-fabrics could be even
stronger than spider silk, but as of
now they're impossibly small.
Last week, Canadian researchers
reported building the longest-ever
polyyne chain- polyyne carbon-
carbon bonds are even stronger
than those in graphene - but it was
only 44 carbon atoms long.
Nano-sized fibers are still
limited. "We can make textile
quantities of the silkworm silks,"
Fraser said. "Nanotechnology is
certainly something that has some
awesome potential, but I don't
huge advantages to the fact that it makes a whole lot of things products, from artificial ligaments know how soon that potential will
the fiber is already spun," Lewis possible in terms of the amount of to super-strong wound dressings be realized, and even if it is
said. "You don't have to purify the material you can make." or even body armor. Lewis realized, I'm not sure that it would
protein, you don't have to take it A single silkworm cocoon envisions spider-silk replacement replace many of the medical
and spin fibers." contains more than a half-mile of tendons, parachute cords and applications of natural silk fibers,
Lewis said the study, which has silk thread, so colonies of more. which are considerable."
not yet been published, proves the transgenic silkworms produce Silk could even be used to Lewis has been working on those
concept of engineering and plenty of silk, said Fraser, a transport drugs or act as nanoscale applications for two decades. It's
breeding transgenic silkworms. molecular biologist at Notre transistor scaffolds. In a study last been 12 years since he first
"The real question is going to be, Dame. He believes industrial year, scientists at Legacy Clinical isolated the genes that produce
can we make the necessary production of engineered spider Research & Technology Center in high-performance spider silk, and
improvements in the mechanical silk could happen within a year. Portland, Ore., demonstrated that he garnered international attention
properties of the silkworm silk by Spider silk is one of the most s i l k - b a s e d b r a i n i m p l a n t s for his transgenic goats, whose
incorporating the spider silk in it? valuable materials in nature. It containing adenosine can suppress DNA has been altered to produce
If we can do that, then obviously could be used for a vast array of seizures in rats. In a paper HOW page 72
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the proteins necessary to make
spider silk. When the goats give
birth and start lactating, they
produce spider silk proteins in
their milk, which is collected,
purified and spun into silk, Lewis
said.
It would be easier to milk spiders
than mutant goats, if only spiders
were not so murderous and
territorial. As it is, spider farms
have not proven a successful
venture, whereas there are long
traditions of farming both
silkworms and goats. Scale makes
a difference too: Lewis can get
half an ounce of silk from every
quart of milk. It would take 100
spiders to obtain that amount.
Transgenic silkworms could be
even more productive. Breeding
them involved some sneaky DNA,
however. Kraig Biocraft
Laboratories Inc., a Lansing,
Mich., firm, partnered with
Fraser, who discovered and
patented a DNA transposon called
"piggyBAC." The transposon can
insert itself into a cell's genetic
material. The researchers used
piggyBAC to incorporate snippets
of spider DNA into silkworm
embryos, resulting in silkworms
that spin a hybridized part-
silkworm, part-spider silk.
The researchers wanted to be sure
they could breed the spiderized
silkworms, so they also added
fluorescent protein to the spider
DNA. The mutant silkworms had
glowing red eyes, and their silk
was fluorescent green.
Fraser said he is completing
molecular analyses before
submitting his study to a research
journal. Meanwhile, he hopes to
continue improving the snippets
of spider DNA - especially if
scientists obtain a sequence for a
brand-new spider just discovered
in Madagascar. The Darwin's bark
spider makes the largest webs in
the world, spinning silk that is 10
times stronger than Kevlar.
Fraser also studies HIV and
hepatitis, and he hinted that
piggyBAC-hacked silkworms
might be useful for other
applications: "Silk isn't the only
protein that silkworms can
produce," he said.
Lewis said his highest priority is
figuring out the fastest and most
efficient way to produce large
quantities of silk. He also hopes to
continue isolating new spider silk
genes and incorporating them into
his formula. As of now, his
formula is a blend of several
different spider proteins, mainly
from the golden orb weaver.
Lewis also hopes to start
breeding cotton plants that contain
the protein necessary to make
spider silk. Cotton seeds already
contain protein, and they're
considered a waste product, Lewis
said.
"If we can take and use something
that nobody is going to eat and
that doesn't have much value, and
use that as a production system,
then we have very little impact on
food and fiber, and we can use the
methods that are already out
there," he said.
Then spider clothes might not be
far off at all.
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First Solar Power Projects Approved to be Built on
U.S. Public Lands
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:49:30 AM
Energy from the Sun Parabolic
solar troughs harvest sunlight at a
solar thermal power installation in
California. kjkolb via The
The U.S. may be years behind
some European nations and China
when it comes to taking
advantage of solar power tech, but
even global superpowers have to
start somewhere. Secretary of the
Interior Ken Salazar has approved
the first large-scale solar energy
projects to be built on public
lands, a first step in unlocking the
acres upon acres of federal and
state managed real estate for clean
energy production.
The approval paves the way for
two projects: The Imperial Valley
Solar Project managed by Texas-
based Tessera Solar, a 6,360-acre
site that will harvest up to 709
megawatts from 28,360 solar
dishes, and the Chevron Lucerne
Valley Solar Project, managed by
Chevron and pulling in up to 45
megawatts from 40,500 solar
panels. Together they will be able
to power somewhere between
226,000 and 566,000 typical
homes.
Both projects were approved
under what the Department of the
Interior calls its "fast track"
program, though those who have
been waiting for years for
bureaucracy to catch up with both
the technology and the times
might not care to call it that. But
now that they're approved, the
administration does want the
companies to get their projects up
and running quickly. Under the
stimulus act, developers that have
their projects under construction
by the end of this year qualify for
a good deal of public funding -
specifically, $273 million for
Tessera and $31 million for
Chevron.
The slow approval process
mostly stems from the fact that
most of these public lands are
managed for conservation
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Future-Predicting Search
Engine Reveals Some of
the Analytical Tricks
Inside Its Crystal Ball
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 4:26:48 PM
Searching the Future Recorded
Future
Remember Recorded Future, the
future-predicting information
analysis company that made a
splash earlier this year when it
scored investments from both
Google and the CIA? The
purposes, so they are strictly announcement came on the same company has recently revealed a
governed by rules regarding the day Energy Secretary Steven Chu bit more about how its technology
environmental ramifications of also announced the White House works and just how well the firm
any construction taking place will become a source of solar has done recording events before
there, even seemingly green power, receiving photovoltaic they happen. And, presumably,
construction like solar farms. panels and a solar water heater on how well it will continue to do in
Both projects survived rigorous the roof by the end of spring. coming days.
environmental review and must Presumably it's a sign of the Speaking to Technology Review,
take extensive actions not to administration's commitment to a company founder Christopher
disrupt surrounding ecosystems. green energy future, though it also A h l b e r g d e s c r i b e d h o w i t s
But it the projects can get off the goes to show just how slow software goes deeper than search
ground without causing an oil Washington can be when it comes engines like Google that simply
spill or otherwise fouling their to implementing green initiatives rank the relevance of results by
s i t e s , t h e y c o u l d s e r v e a s [ Dept. of the Interior] links. Rather, it analyzes the more
important proving grounds for nuanced, invisible connections
further green energy development between events and people that
elsewhere on public lands. shape the future. Doing so, he
Perhaps its no coincidence this says, lets Recorded Future look
FUTURE-PREDICTING page 74
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As the WISE Infrared Survey Warms Up to a New

Role, We Look At Its Successes
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:03:44 AM
The Scorpion's Claw Located
right in the claw of the
constellation Scorpius, nebula DG
129 looks pretty unremarkable in
the visible spectrum. But at
infrared wavelengths bright light
from nearby stars lights gas and
dust up with beautiful purples,
greens, and blues. NASA/JPL-
Caltech/UCLA
After almost a year of
successfully surveying the entire
sky one-and-a-half times over,
NASA's Wide-Field Infrared
Survey Explorer has run out of
coolant - quite expectedly - and
reached the end of its primary
mission. Since its launch last
December, the mission snapped
more than 1.8 million images in
four different infrared
wavelengths, providing
FUTURE-
continued from page 73
astronomers with enough data to
keep them busy combing through
it for decades. That is to say,
WISE has had a very productive
year.
Click to launch the photo gallery
How productive? WISE
cataloged objects ranging from
asteroids and comets within our
solar system to nebulae
throughout the Milky Way and
faraway galaxies in other parts of
the universe. So far, WISE has
discovered 19 comets, more than
33,500 asteroids (120 of which
are near-Earth objects) and
collected images of luminous
galaxies and brown dwarf stars in
astonishing scientific detail.
And just because WISE is
warming up doesn't mean the
discoveries will end. WISE's two
longest-wavelength detectors are
indeed done for, but the two
shorter-wavelength instruments
will continue to function even as
the satellite heats up to a not-so-
balmy minus 334 degrees. The
new mission, dubbed NEOWISE
(for Near Earth Object + WISE)
Post-Cryogenic Mission, will pick
up the second full survey of the
sky where WISE left off,
continuing to observe the closest
brown dwarfs as well as closer
asteroids and comets. The new
mission will last another one to
four months, meaning our gallery
of WISE's greatest hits could still
be a work in progress.
[ NASA]
Danica
Patrick
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Submitted at 10/6/2010 5:00:00 AM
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Fresh off a respectable sixth-
place finish at this year's Indy
500, and with the lead role in the
new racing video game Blur,
Danica Patrick—the only female
racer competing in both NASCAR
and IndyCar racing today—took a
few minutes to chat with MF
about how she trains her focus
DANICA page 75

for patterns that suggest certain
outcomes, like when a product
might release or when a company
might clear a patent hurdle or
offer an IPO.
Recorded Future's software does
this semantically, using linguistic
tools that identify certain types of
events and the sentiment
conveyed in the wording. It aims
for articles with some degree of
established veracity, like
government filings, news articles,
and speeches by leaders or heads
of industry, but the software also
scans Twitter updates and other
measures of general feeling or
sentiment surrounding an event,
person, company, or product.
In other words, it's less a matter
of Recorded Future wagering an
educated guess about a future
event and more like an
aggregation of predictions that
have already been made. That
aggregate collated prediction
about the future is influenced by
all the factors listed above and
gives, say, a stock analyst a
reasonable measure of when an
event is likely to happen.
Right now Recorded Future has
fewer than 100 clients paying to
use its tools, but those that are
using them aren't lightweights -
Ahlberg tells TR a mix of
government analysts and financial real time market activity.
firms are taking advantage of the Which means Recorded Future,
insight the company offers. Those and analytic tools like it, might
are players whose decisions are have a future after all.
tied to serious stakes in both [ Technology Review]
security and finance, lending
Recorded Future an air of serious
credibility. Indeed, studies of its
past performance have shown its
models tended show increased
strength of activity around an
event or entity that correlated to
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(and body) for the track.
As a race car driver you've got to
be pretty fearless. Is there
anything you're afraid of?
Lots. [Laughs] Spiders and bugs.
Extreme heights. The dark. Water.
Ghosts. Basements. All kinds of
things.
What kind of car do you drive
when you're not on the track?
Most of the time I drive a
Mercedes SUV. I do have a
Lamborghini, but I basically just
keep it so I can say that. It's not
practical.
How hard is it to stick to the
speed limit on public roads?
I don't think I should have to.
[Laughs.] Surely, I'm qualified to
speed, right? I should be able to
get away with that. Obviously, I'm
looking for special treatment. But
cops still give me tickets. Doesn't
that suck? Usually they tell me
they don't know who I am, and
then it's on the news in the
morning.
Any mental tricks you use to
prepare for approaching a big
event like the Indy 500?
Don't overhype things too, too
much in your head. If you do,
they can seem overwhelming and
you worry too much about
making a mistake. You almost
have to view each race as just
another race while you're there.
Our sister mag, Shape, recently
put you on the cover in a bikini.
Did you have to workout extra
hard or change your diet to get fit
for that?
I always work out really hard.
But the girls always look amazing
on the covers, and I didn't want to
disappoint—so I worked out a
little bit more and ate a little bit
more cleanly. I definitely tune-up
for it.
So you train regularly?
I used to get worn out all the
time. I got sick a lot. Now I work
out every day. I do cardio. I run a
lot. I lift weights. And in the
winter when I'm not racing, I do
yoga. I'd like to do that all year,
but it takes away from my
strength training.
What do you focus on at the
gym?
Upper body is really important.
Not so much core strength, but
shoulders, back, and chest.
How essential is fitness to racing
cars?
There's no power steering. If
you've ever tried to turn your car
when the steering goes out, it's
like that. And then with the g-
forces you produce going around
corners especially, it can be
grueling.
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Baseball demons, angels and Jesus

Bobby (GetReligion) to the majors with the Cincinnati
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:00:28 AM Reds in 2007. He was traded to
the Rangers in 2008 and has
When my beloved Texas Rangers developed into one of the game’s
clinched the American League most dangerous hitters.
West championship on Sept. 25, So … Faith Day. Religious faith.
Josh Hamilton steered clear of the At this point, I’m surprised the
champagne-and-cigar celebration story went ahead and called him a
in the visitors’ clubhouse in Texas Ranger rather than a
Oakland, Calif. generic major-league baseball
The difference in how various player.
media outlets covered the absence Contrast that with the Associated
of Hamilton, a leading AL Most Press story about Hamilton
Valuable Player candidate, was skipping the clubhouse party:
interesting. He had to convince a few
ESPN Dallas seemed to go out of teammates to not pour bottles of
its way to avoid any mention of water on him, explaining he had
Jesus Christ or Hamilton’s other postgame activities in mind.
Christian faith: It was church day in Oakland and
Hamilton, whose baseball career Hamilton planned to join some of
was derailed for several years by the Athletics in sharing stories of
drug and alcohol abuse, felt it was their faith with fans.
smarter for him to avoid the “So it would be kind of
champagne and beer showers in hypocritical of me to come in here
the Rangers clubhouse. So he and douse myself with alcohol
stayed in the trainer’s room, and smoke cigars and then go out
showered and kept his there and talk about Jesus,”
commitment to speak to a large Hamilton said.
fan gathering in the stadium as So … Church Day. Jesus. That
part of Faith Day in Oakland. wasn’t so hard, was it?
He was able to hug teammates My wife, children and I got to see
and celebrate with them on the Hamilton up close at Rangers’
field right after the final out of a 4 spring training in Surprise, Ariz.,
-3 Rangers victory. A large group in 2009. We were with a college
of his teammates got the idea to group on a spring break mission
dump water on him instead of trip to the Phoenix area. A
champagne as part of the friendly Hamilton posed for
celebration, but Hamilton was pictures with my children and
already dressed and headed out to visited with the Christian
his speaking engagement when university students in our group.
they located him. When one of the students asked
Later, there’s this: Hamilton about his faith, he
Hamilton’s troubled past is well prospect when Tampa Bay made drug and alcohol abuse He credits his religious faith for
documented. He was a can’t-miss him the No. 1 overall pick out of sidetracked his career, and he was helping him overcome his BASEBALL page 81
high school in the 1999 draft. But out of baseball by 2003. addictions, and he finally made it
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Bible-toting bullies with webcams?
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 1:31:33 PM
The bullying stories are back in
the news, for totally valid reasons.
This always yanks an emotional
chord for me, since I was once
one of those public-school kids
who was bullied constantly for a
wide variety of reasons.
First of all, I was a pudgy, non-
athletic boy in sports-mad Texas
and, to make it worse, I was a
musician who sang in classical
choirs (boy soprano, no less). In
one case that led to a major school
hallway beat down, I was in a
local musical. Thus, I was — do
the math — obviously gay, which
was a strange thing to call one of
the most girl-obsessed preteens
who has ever walked the face of
the earth. Nevertheless, a boy who
sings classical music, lives in the
library, avoids sports and doesn’t
wear Texas guy garb is gonna pay
the price.
Oh, but these weren’t the main
reasons I was bullied. There was
something even worse to those
bullies — I was a preacher’s kid.
That was the worst offense to the
cool guys in my school.
Trust me, I have no idea how odd
kids survive today in the age of
cellphones and Facebook.
The current wave of bullying
stories started with the tragic case
of eighth-grader Asher Brown in
Texas. Here’s the top of the
Houston Chronicle report that has
been frozen in my folder of guilt
for quite some time.
Asher Brown’s worn-out tennis
shoes still sit in the living room of
his Cypress-area home while his
student progress report — filled
with straight A’s — rests on the
coffee table.
The eighth-grader killed himself
last week. He shot himself in the
head after enduring what his
mother and stepfather say was
constant harassment from four
other students at Hamilton Middle
School in the Cypress-Fairbanks
Independent School District.
Brown, his family said, was
“bullied to death” — picked on
for his small size, his religion and
because he did not wear designer
clothes and shoes. Kids also
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accused him of being gay, some
of them performing mock gay acts
on him in his physical education
class, his mother and stepfather
said. The 13-year-old’s parents
said they had complained about
the bullying to Hamilton Middle
School officials during the past 18
months, but claimed their
concerns fell on deaf ears.
Believe it or not, that early story
never filled in any details about
the “religion” reference.
However, a new Chronicle story
has the information from the
parents — David and Amy
Truong — that readers needed
from the get go:
Brown’s parents said he was
bullied because of his small size,
because he was Buddhist and
because he didn’t wear trendy
clothes. Brown also had confided
in his parents that he was gay, and
his parents said he suffered gay
taunts during his physical
education class.
So far, I have not been able to
find out any hard, factual
information about the alleged
bullies, other than the grieving
parents’ claims that school
officials were protecting those
families. It is clear that Brown
was part of a circle of so-called
losers of various kinds who were
tormented, one would assume, by
the winners in that public-school
culture.
Now, there are several obvious
questions, all of them worthy of
investigation. My top two:
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Delaying marriage more than ever
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
(GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 5:14:26 PM
As I was tying the knot last year,
most of my peers were not,
according to a new study that
suggests the recession has
accelerated a decline in the
number of people getting married.
The number of young adults ages
25 to 34 who are married dropped
from 55 percent to 45 percent
from 2000 and 2009. The
percentage who have never been
married increased from 34 percent
to 46 percent, so the proportion of
young adults who have never
been married now surpasses
people who are married.
The Associated Press released a
generic roundup of the results
with a brief mention of the
marriage numbers.
Take marriage.
In America, marriages fell to a
record low in 2009, with just 52
percent of adults 18 and over
saying they were joined in
wedlock, compared to 57 percent
in 2000.
The never-married included 46.3
percent of young adults 25-34,
with sharp increases in single
people in cities in the Midwest
and Southwest, including
Cleveland, Phoenix, Los Angeles
and Albuquerque, N.M. It was the
first time the share of unmarried
young adults exceeded those who
were married.
That’s about all we get on
marriage—some significant
numbers but hardly a significant
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on cohabitation and commitment.
The counselor seems fairly
nonchalant about cohabitation.
Remember a few months ago
when we looked at some census
data on cohabitation? Religious
people are most likely to be
married and unlikely to cohabitate
while nonreligious people are as
likely to be single as to be
married.
Joel Greiner, 31, director of
counseling for the Journey, an
interdenominational church in the
St. Louis area, said about a third
of the couples in his congregation
who attend premarital classes live
together before marriage, telling
him they are “testing out the
waters to see if it will work and
wanting to save money.”
But Mr. Greiner says the talk of
economics may be cloaking the
primary issue. “It’s more a fear of
intimacy and fear of marriage,” he
said.
According to the federal data, the
share of young adults who have
never married climbed from 35
percent at the start of the decade
to 46 percent in 2009.
mention. The most ironic part of for instance, the implications that However, most researchers agree Taking cues from the
this story comes at the end. the researchers suggest? t h a t m a r r i a g e a l s o h a s a n researchers’ spin, most reporters
The census figures come weeks These trends are significant independent, positive effect on blamed the economy for why
b e f o r e t h e p i v o t a l N o v . 2 because marriage is associated well-being. Therefore, the recent young people are not moving
congressional elections, when with many benefits for families d e c l i n e i n m a r r i a g e m a y towards marriage. Surely there are
voters anxious about rising and individuals, including higher contribute to worse outcomes for m o r e c u l t u r a l r e a s o n s ,
deficits and the slow pace of the income, better health, and longer less educated individuals, beyond generational differences and
economic recovery will decide life expectancy. One reason for those resulting from the recent assumptions made besides dollars
whether to keep Democrats in these benefits may be that people recession. and cents? Does any data offer
control of Congress. with higher potential earnings and G e t t i n g s o m e a n e c d o t a l breakdowns based on religious
Remember me why must all better health are “selected” into perspective, the New York Times practice?
implications be seen through an marriage, resulting in better quotes a counselor connected to a
election cycle? Why not consider, outcomes for married couples. church to offer some perspective DELAYING page 81
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A timely, positive, abuse story?

tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:06:05 AM

It has been some time, let me tell

you, since I read a mainstream
news report linked to this era of
clergy sex abuse scandals in the
Catholic church that left me, well,
smiling with appreciation. It’s
hard to even imagine such a thing,
right?
However, note this short news
feature from Francis X. Rocca and
the specialists at Religion News
Service. Read it all.
Mother Mary MacKillop won’t
be canonized until Oct. 17, but
some Catholics already have an
unofficial title for the 19th-
century Australian nun: Patron
Saint of Whistle-blowers.
MacKillop (1842-1909),
Australia’s first native-born saint,
was co-founder of the Sisters of
Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart,
an order of nuns dedicated to the uncovered for being involved in documentary’s account is “The merits of Mother Mary Bergeron of Survivor’s Voice, a
religious instruction of children the sexual abuse of children,” the “consistent with” previous studies MacKillop, her commitment to group that is organizing an
and care for the poor. Rev. Paul Gardiner, the official of the event. children, to the poor, to international demonstration by
The strong-willed MacKillop, advocate for MacKillop’s This revelation has earned the indigenous peoples, to the dignity abuse victims to be held in St.
who worked under harsh canonization, told Australia’s praise of the ever-media-friendly of all human persons, were much Peter’s Square on Oct. 31.
conditions in the Australian ABC television. Father James Martin — the more extensive than the fact that “Anyone that can be used as an
outback, was once briefly After her denunciation led to official Jesuit chaplain of The she denounced an abuser,” example to protect children is a
excommunicated by her bishop disciplining the priests, Gardiner Colbert Report— so we can Lombardi said. positive thing,” Bergeron said.
for reasons that have never been said, “one of these priests was so expect this label for Mother Mary Nevertheless, this is a news angle “And frankly, we could use all the
entirely clear. According to a new angry with this that he swore MacKillop to spread into the that seems undeniable, even if this help we can get.”
Australian television documentary vengeance.” mainstream media, if and when part of her veneration is informal Please keep your eyes open for
set to air a week before her The same bishop who mainstream newsrooms cover her and driven by voices in pews, the stories that are almost certain
canonization, at least one of the excommunicated MacKillop canonization rites. rather than part of the saint’s to follow this one. Let’s hope that
reasons MacKillop was punished rescinded the decision on his The story does include another official title. Thus, the story ends they are as solid as this report.
was for denouncing clerical child deathbed five months later. A point of view, one that says this with this arrow pointing toward Written by: tmatt on October 6,
abuse. short statement from the Sisters of label — while accurate — is another news event to watch: 2010.
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smiled and pulled a devotional
guide out of his uniform sock. I
was surprised and impressed.
But several months later, I was
disappointed when news surfaced
of Hamilton relapsing that
previous winter. Photos were
published involving the drunken
slugger, whipped cream and
women who were not his wife.
Mollie posted last year on the
media coverage of that incident.
This past Sunday, The Dallas
Morning News recalled that
incident in a remarkable Page 1
story about Hamilton and the role
of his Christian faith in helping
him overcome his addictions and
sins:
On the chilly morning of Jan. 22,
2009, when everything else in her
life seemed to be working out
perfectly, Katie Hamilton
received a phone call at her home
outside Raleigh, N.C.
It was her husband, Josh, calling
from Tempe, Ariz., where he had
gone to a boot camp for athletes.
Hamilton had become famous the
DELAYING
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The Wall Street Journal looked at
how big cities factor into young
people’s marriage decisions. Last
year, the Journal published at least
two pieces in 2009 on how it’s
harder for couples to divorce
during the recession. So is the
consensus among sociologists that
it’s harder to tie the knot but also
harder to break the knot during
the recession?
Besides, what do more religious
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year before for leading the million signing bonus in four magazine and drew GetReligion your content and you're reading it
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in his first full season as a major The writer, S.C. Gwynne, lets the Episcopal — er, Anglican — content-only/faq.php
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to a pizza restaurant, which themselves the sincerity of Tampa Bay Rays starts at 12:37
happened to have a bar. He had a Hamilton’s faith. (I must p.m. my time. I’ve already filled
vodka and cranberry juice, then acknowledge that if I were the out the proper medical excuse
another, then went to a bar and editor, I would have added a he form to take off from work. BIBLE-TOTING
continued from page 78
had many more. He told her he says to facts such as this: he has Written by: Bobby on October 6,
didn’t remember everything that been clean since that night in 2010. (1) What were the circumstances
happened, but that there might be Tempe.) This entry passed through the surrounding the anti-Buddhist
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taken to avoid the demons that reported stories with Godbeat (2) To be blunt, were the bullies
allowed him to burn through a $4 legend Richard Ostling at Time accusing Brown of being a sissy
or a sinner? Was there any
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torment others.”
“There are accomplices out
there,” he wrote Saturday. In an
interview, Mr. Savage, who is
gay, said he was particularly irate
at religious leaders who used
“antigay rhetoric.”
“The problem is that kids are
being exposed to this rhetoric, and
then they go to the school and
there’s this gay kid,” he said.
“And how are they going to treat
this gay kid who they’ve been told
is trying to destroy their family?
They’re going to abuse him.”
Now, before we get pulled off the
journalistic issues here, please
note that I am actually saying that
journalists need to probe the facts
of these stories. Journalists need
to find out if the bullying trends,
right now, are linked to students
who are acting on religious
motives or acting on other
motives. I, for one, suspect that
the actions of the Rutgers students
accused of broadcasting a sexual
encounter between the late Tyler
Clementi and another male were
more inspired by reality television
(think the sludge of“Jersey
Shore,” if you must) than by
religious doctrines.
The bottom line: Were these
cyber-punks bar hoppers or
members of a dorm Bible study?
At Rutgers?
Journalists need to ask the
questions to a wide variety of
people (and not just to Savage). If
there are Bible-toting bullies out
there, in public-school hallways
and on the WWW, they deserve to
be exposed and the details of their
actions dissected. That would be
responsible journalism. Do the
work, folks. Written by: tmatt on
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The Gift of Obama’s
Foreign Policy
Remove Bush, elect his antithesis,
Submitted at 10/6/2010 3:00:31 AM
and a natural state of calm would
As the antithesis of Bush is return.
learning, foreign dictators are # a d # B u t s u d d e n l y B a r a c k
likely to bite the hand that strokes O b a m a ’ s b r i e f t e n u r e h a s
them. reminded us that, in fact, almost
T he Obama reset foreign policy all the world’s crises arose before
has, in an unintended way, t h e B u s h p r e s i d e n c y a n d
brought clarity to America’s continued during and after it.
traditional role in the world. After E x a m i n e c u r r e n t A m e r i c a n
2004, “blame Bush” proved an foreign policy toward every
easy way for Europeans and region, and one of three general
American liberals to delude patterns emerges: Either things
themselves into thinking the are no better since the end of
world’s problems neither predated 2008, or they are much worse, or
nor transcended George W. Bush: the Obama administration has
Tensions arose, America was at GIFT page 84
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Lethal Engagement
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:21:39 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Joseph A. Klein, an
attorney with a Harvard Law
School degree who writes for
Frontpagemag.com and Canada
Free Press as their United Nations
correspondent. He is also a
featured blogger for NewsReal
Blog, where he has written
extensively on the Ground Zero
Mosque controversy. A guest on
many radio and TV shows,
including “Fox & Friends,” he is
the author of the new book, Lethal
Engagement: Barack Hussein
Obama, the United Nations and
Radical Islam.
FP: Joseph A. Klein, welcome to
Frontpage Interview.
Let’s begin with what inspired
you to write this book.
Klein: Thank you for having me.
Have you ever remembered a
United States President from
either party who has traveled
abroad and apologized repeatedly
for America’s alleged wrong-
doing? That’s what President
Obama has done, including when
he went to Cairo as part of his
never-ending aggressive outreach
to the Muslim world. He
apologized to them for America’s
the West’s alleged misdeeds and
promised to make amends. Add to
that President Obama’s policy of
unconditional engagement with
the thugs of Iran without
preconditions.
For the first time that I can
remember under either party’s
administration, I am truly nervous
for our country’s future. What
kind of America will our children
be inheriting from us?
That’s why I felt compelled to
write Lethal Engagement: Barack
Hussein Obama, the United
Nations and Radical Islam. It is
intended as a wake-up call for the
American people to do everything
that we can lawfully do to stop
this madness.
FP: How has your experience in
researching and writing about the
United Nations, along with your
legal background, helped you in
writing this book?
Klein: I have studied the United
Nations for many years and have
watched it degenerate into an anti-
Western echo chamber that does
more harm than good. I wrote
about the UN’s dangers to
American sovereignty and
freedoms in my previous book,
Global Deception: The UN’s
Stealth Assault on America’s
Freedom.” In my new book Lethal
Engagement, I focus on the
perfect storm revolving around
the increasing Islamicization of
key UN bodies – particularly the
ones that produce
influential international norms-
and President Obama’s key
priorities to improve America’s
standing with the Muslim world at
all costs, to elevate the United
Nations (where radical
Muslims exert so much influence)
to a central place in his foreign
policy and to force-fit
U.S. foreign policy into the
straightjacket of UN-inspired
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international norms. As a United
Nations correspondent for
FrontPage Magazine and Canada
Free Press, I have been able to
gain access to and ask questions
of high level UN officials
including Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon, our UN Ambassador
Susan Rice, the Israeli UN
ambassador and Islamic delegates.
Their answers are included in
Lethal Engagement along with the
results of more than a year of
extensive research. My legal
background, including my
intensive study of constitutional
law at Harvard Law School under
the late Watergate Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox, has
helped me analyze the
implications of a very disturbing
trend I see in recent Supreme
Court decisions that I expect will
get even worse as a result of
President Obama’s two nominees
now sitting on the Court. The
trend I am talking about are
Supreme Court decisions tending
to internationalize the U.S.
Constitution.
FP: Your thoughts on Sharia and
how it poses a threat to us?
Klein: Sharia (Islamic law) is a
political-legal system that is
wedded to the religion of
Islam. Separation of Mosque and
State is foreign to Islamic
ideology.
Here are some examples of
mainstream Islamic laws which,
along with others, are discussed in
more detail in my book Lethal
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reverted to the Bush way of doing
things -- despite constant
assurances to the world that Bush
was at fault, American foreign
policy was now reset, and global
animosity arose out of past
misunderstanding, insensitivity,
and American hubris.
Take first our most vocal and
overt enemies. Fidel Castro, after
a few mixed messages, is still
recycling his 1960s anti-American
boilerplate. Syria’s Bashar al-
Assad is cementing relations with
Iran and Hezbollah, and doing
nothing to help matters either in
Iraq or in the Mideast generally,
despite being assured by Obama
that he can do business with
someone who is not “smoke ’em
out” George Bush.
North Korea’s unhinged rhetoric
and occasional missile or torpedo
shots escalate. Hugo Chávez is
becoming more authoritarian and
more anti-American the more he
need no longer call Bush a devil.
Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
told the world at the United
Nations that the United States
might well have planned to kill
the 3,000 of its own citizens who
died on Sept. 11, 2001; apparently
the tired American apologies for
the removal of Mossadeq nearly
sixty years ago still do not
register.
Note that in each of these
instances, appeasement -- failing
to support the Iranian freedom
protestors, ignoring the abuses of
the Cuban and Syrian totalitarian
regimes, and keeping silent about
the destruction of democracy in
Venezuela -- has resulted in even
more animus, just as appeasement
of the unhinged and dictatorial
always does. One might almost
conclude that dictatorships hate
American freedom, the global
stature and power of the United
States, and our propensity to
oppose aggrandizement, and that
they do not much care who
happens in any given year to be in
the White House.
Then there are the big four. China
is more confident today in
confronting the Japanese and its
other neighbors in the Pacific. It
sees no obstacle to being the new
ascendant power, flexing its
growing muscles as Japan did in
the 1920s, and imperial Germany
at the turn of the 20th century
(and we know how all that ended
up). Turkey wishes to become the
new Ottoman Empire, and it sees
the United States as largely
indifferent to its ambitions, and
perhaps even quietly sympathetic.
Relations with India are no better
than they were under Bush, and
perhaps less friendly. Russia, in
contrast, seems to be quite fond of
the Obama administration -- to the
degree it is given concessions in
return for empty promises. It
weighs the downside of having a
nuclear Islamic Iran in its
neighborhood against the upside
of having such a rogue state,
which, at least in the short term, is
more a problem for America than
for Russia. Chaos in the Middle
East, Putin knows well, is always
good for the oil business.
#page#Pressuring Israel did not
bring any Middle Eastern
breakthrough. To the extent that
there has not been another
intifada, it is largely a result of a
mini economic boom on the West
Bank, which continues despite,
rather than because of, American
negotiating.
Are our other allies -- like Japan,
South Korea, and Europe --
suddenly much more friendly
owing to Obama’s hope-and-
change proclamations? Not really.
All, for the first time in 60 years,
have some suspicion that just
maybe the sort of liberal
American administration that they
have so longed for might not be as
ready as past administrations to
come to their aid in the next crisis.
Certainly, we have spent far more
effort in winning over Putin than
emphasizing our old alliances
with Germany, France, and
Britain. Japan and South Korea
are starting to sense that their
respective Communist rivals,
China and North Korea, will soon
become more their own problems
than ours.
#ad#The situations in Iraq and
Afghanistan are now simply
evolutions of the policies that
George Bush had established
when he left office. The “bad”
war in Iraq that Obama
campaigned against has become a
better war than the “good” one in
Afghanistan that he had hoped
was over by virtue of NATO and
U.N. approval.
Despite Obama’s interview with
Al Arabiya, his Cairo speech, and
his editorializing about the
Ground Zero mosque, there has
been no letup in radical Islamists’
efforts to kill us at home, as we
saw in the cases of Major Hasan,
Abdulmutallab, and the would-be
Times Square bomber. What good
Obama has achieved by
resonating more effectively with
the Middle East’s tired and poor is
offset perhaps by the impression,
fair or not, among would-be
terrorists that he would not quite
be as unpredictable and dangerous
as past presidents, should there be
another 9/11-like attack. As far as
Muslim sensitivities go, serially
promising to close Guantanamo
Bay seems no better than quietly
keeping it open.
Why, then, is the Obama reset
policy a positive development?
Obama’s efforts, and the global
reactions to them, are reminding
the world that global tensions still
arise out of perceptions of self-
interest, regardless of who is in
the White House.
When nations act contrary to
American interests, they can be
finessed somewhat by empathetic
American officials, but they
remain largely unaffected by
apologies, bowing, promulgations
of pseudo-history, and therapeutic
mythologizing. Leaders like
Putin, Assad, and Ahmadinejad
act in their own perceived self-
interests, calibrating to what
degree a constant desire to
maximize influence, stature, and
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wealth at someone else's expense
is balanced by the risk of any
confrontations that might ensue
and the possibility that they might
lose -- all such calculations being
more likely when the players are,
like these three, autocratic in
nature.
In the end, Obama’s Carteresque
sermonizing over the past two
years has achieved the opposite of
its intended result. The preaching,
confessionals, and outreach, from
the ridiculous bowing to Saudi
princes to the supposedly sublime
Cairo mythmaking, have
reminded the world that anti-
Americanism transcends alike the
unfair caricatures of George Bush
and the hokey apotheosis of
Barack Obama. If we can avoid
the wages of this naïveté -- and
not suffer another annus horribilis
in the fashion of 1979 -- then
Obama’s inadvertent primer on
unchanging human nature will
have been worth it.
— NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
Rome, and the author of The
Father of Us All: War and
History, Ancient and Modern.
Victor Davis Hanson
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Morning Bell: Fighting Back Against Arbitrary Government Rule
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 8:36:38 AM
Posted October 6th, 2010 at
9:36am in Rule of Law Print This
Post
Abner Schoenwetter had been in
the commercial seafood business
since 1986. Over the years,
Schoenwetter built a successful
company distributing seafood
across the country, including
lobster tails imported from
overseas. As far as Schoenwetter
knew, all of his business
transactions were perfectly legal
and he had no reason to believe
that he or any of his business
partners were breaking any laws.
But at 7 a.m. one morning in
1999, armed agents from the FBI,
IRS and National Marine Fishery
Service (NMFS) showed up at his
south Florida home with search
warrants. The federal agents
herded him, his wife, his mother-
in-law and his daughter (all still in
their night clothes) into the living
room where they were told to sit
and be quiet. A year later,
Schoenwetter was sentenced to
eight years in prison, three years
of supervised release and fined
over $100,000. His crime?
Schoenwetter testified to the
House Judiciary Committee last
week:
No matter how you frame it, the
truth is that I am a convicted felon
who has just spent the last six
years of my life in federal prison
for entering into a contract to buy
lobsters.
Specifically, the NMFS charged
Schoenwetter with violating the
Lacey Act, a law that makes it a
crime for an American to take
wildlife in violation of domestic
laws or regulations. The law was
intended to punish, for example,
an American who killed an
elephant in Kenya in violation of
Kenyan wildlife protections. So
what foreign regulations had
Schoenwetter violated? Well, the
NMFS claimed that the lobsters
he had contracted to buy were in
violation of three Honduran
regulations: 1) they were in
plastic bags, not cardboard boxes;
2) they were undersized; 3) some
of them were egg-bearing
lobsters. Despite the fact that this
specific shipment was no different
than any of the hundreds of other
deals Schoenwetter had done over
the years, despite the fact that
Schoenwetter had never seen the
lobsters in question and knew
nothing of the Honduran
regulations, and despite the fact
that the Honduran Attorney
General confirmed that the size
regulation had never actually been
signed into law and the Honduran
Minister of Justice testified that
the egg-bearing regulation was
directed at turtles, not lobsters,
Schoenwetter’s conviction was
upheld.
The injustice done to Abner
Schoenwetter illustrates a very
real problem that is currently
undermining the civil liberties of
all Americans. Between 2000 and
2007, Congress created 452
entirely new crimes, a rate of over
one new crime every week. By
the end of 2007, the U.S. Code
included more than 4,450 federal
crimes, with an estimated tens of
thousands more located in the
federal regulatory code. Civil
liberties attorney Harvey
Silvergate estimates that the
average working American
unknowingly commits Three
Felonies a Day. Heritage
Foundation Senior Legal
Research Fellow Brian Walsh
explained to last week’s Judiciary
Committee hearing why this is
happening:
Placing thousands of vague,
overbroad criminal laws in the
hands of government officials
means that no one is safe from
unjust prosecution and
punishment. Many of these
criminal laws punish conduct that
the average person would not
guess is prohibited. The body of
criminal law thus fails to meet one
of the primary requirements of
due process: providing individuals
with fair notice of what conduct
can be punished criminally.
Since our nation’s founding, a
core principle of our system of
justice has been that no citizen
should be subjected to criminal
punishment for conduct that he
did not know was illegal or
otherwise wrongful. This
principle is embodied in the
requirement that, with rare
exceptions, the government must
prove a defendant acted with
intent, or at least knowledge,
before subjecting him to criminal
punishment. Responding to this
undermining of our nation’s
founding principles and the need
for major changes in how the
federal government criminalizes
behavior, a wide range of
conservative, liberal, and
independent organizations have
joined forces to push back against
arbitrary government rule. A
similarly broad spectrum of
organizations also supported last
week’s congressional hearing on
overcriminalization, including the
American Bar Association,
American Civil Liberties Union,
Families Against Mandatory
Minimums, The Heritage
Foundation, Manhattan Institute,
National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, and the
National Federation of
Independent Business.
In conjunction with NACDL, The
Heritage Foundation released a
report, Without Intent, in May
recommending that Congress
should: 1) Enact default rules of
interpretation ensuring that mens
rea requirements are adequate to
protect against unjust conviction;
2) Codify the rule of lenity, which
grants defendants the benefit of
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the doubt when Congress fails to
legislate clearly; 3) Require
adequate judiciary committee
oversight of every bill proposing
criminal offenses or penalties; 4)
Provide detailed written
justification for and analysis of all
new federal criminalization; 5)
Redouble efforts to draft every
federal criminal offense clearly
and precisely. In his opening
remarks last week, Schoenwetter
explained why he chose to testify
now:
I’m not testifying here today to
complain about my personal
predicament or to seek publicity
for my case. I simply wish to
prevent other Americans from
having to go through the same
terrible ordeal that my family and
I have had to endure. If I can help
just one family avoid the pain and
suffering of watching a loved one
go to prison because of vague and
overbroad laws, then I will
consider my appearance here a
success.
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The GOP Must Fight Earmarks

Submitted at 10/6/2010 3:00:24 AM
imposed a one-year moratorium will likely take over as chairman More insidiously, earmarks are investment and research-and-
on requesting earmarks. And of the Appropriations Committee part and parcel of the deal-making development spending, thereby
If Republicans slip back into the they’ve mostly been faithful to if the Republicans regain a House and horse-trading that greases the slowing economic growth.
bad old habits of the past, they that promise. Since the ban was majority, are positively salivating skids for so much bad legislation Finally, there is much to be said
may find this year’s electoral adopted, Republicans have asked at the prospect of being able to in Washington. Vote against the for the biblical injunction “He that
success to be fleeting. for only seven earmarks. But with earmark once again. “I think that leadership’s pet legislation and is faithful in that which is least is
I t has become almost a cliché for that moratorium expiring, they members have the right to your earmark gets cut off; vote for faithful also in much: and he that
Republican candidates to admit seem to be slouching back toward represent their constituents,” says it and your district gets some is unjust in the least is unjust also
that their party “lost its way” on politics as usual. Representative Lewis in defense delicious pork. And nothing helps in much.” If Republicans can’t
s p e n d i n g a n d t h e s i z e o f It is particularly troubling that the of bringing home the bacon. In an otherwise terrible bill gather end earmarks, how can we expect
government during the Bush era. GOP’s new Pledge to America the year before the Republicans votes better than stuffing it full of them to make hard decisions
But with the GOP poised to retake contains no mention of earmarks. imposed their moratorium, Lewis earmarked goodies for wavering when it comes to something like
the House and possibly even the Given the current political secured 50 earmarks for his lawmakers. Therefore, even a entitlements? (Come to think of it,
Senate this November, it is worth climate, one would think that a district at a cost of $82 million. very small earmark can be used to that’s another area where the
pondering whether they really pledge to end earmarks would be Of course, some might wonder leverage far more costly Pledge to America remains
understand why voters turned a clear winner. Its absence why banning earmarks is government spending. unsettlingly silent.)
against them in 2006 and 2008. suggests that Republicans have no important. After all, they are only Moreover, earmarks fly in the #ad#Republicans should do very
Exhibit No. 1 is earmarks. Few intention of sticking to the a tiny fraction of federal spending. face of the GOP’s newly well this election cycle simply by
issues were as symbolic of the earmark ban. All earmarks combined this year discovered reverence for the not being Democrats. But that
Republican abandonment of In fact, House minority whip Eric amounted to just $16 billion out Constitution. Even if one doesn’t mean that they have
conservative principles. When the Cantor, the No. 2 member of the of a $3.72 trillion budget. concedes Congress’s power to earned back the public’s trust. In
GOP took over the House in House Republican leadership and Earmarks accounted for just 1.2 spend money on earmarked fact, polls consistently show that
1 9 9 4 , t h e f e d e r a l b u d g e t a leader of the supposedly more percent of federal discretionary projects, that power is still voters’ opinion of the Republican
contained fewer than 2,000 fiscally conservative “young spending. constrained by the general- party is dismal, even as they plan
earmarks. By the time voters guns,” has said that a GOP-led But earmarks have an impact far welfare clause, which requires to vote for GOP candidates.
threw the Republicans out in House would be willing to allow beyond their cost in dollars. First, Congress to exercise its If Republicans slip back into the
2006, there were 9,963. And that earmarks next year “as long as the they have been a major source of enumerated powers for the bad old habits of the past, they
was down from nearly 14,000 the spending items have merit.” That congressional corruption. Many of “general welfare” of the may find this year’s electoral
y e a r b e f o r e . I t i s w o r t h caveat is not exactly reassuring. Is the scandals that beset the last population. It is hard to claim that success to be fleeting.
remembering that Ronald Reagan there any member of Congress GOP Congress were the result of refurbishing a theater in some -- Michael Tanner is a senior
once vetoed a highway bill who doesn’t believe that his earmarks. Remember Duke congressman’s district or building fellow at the Cato Institute and
because it contained 152 particular boondoggle has Cunningham and Jack Abramoff? a “bridge to nowhere” is author of Leviathan on the Right:
earmarks, which he called “a “ m e r i t ” ? The corruption continues, of contributing to the general How Big-Government
textbook example of special- Cantor’s boss, John Boehner, course, under the current welfare. Conservatism Brought Down the
interest politics at work.” Twenty who commendably has eschewed Democratic Congress. The FBI is #page#Earmarks are also bad Republican Revolution. Michael
years later, Republicans managed earmarks for his own district, has reportedly investigating several economic policy. A study earlier Tanner
to put together a highway bill that pointedly refused to contradict instances in which congressmen this year by Lauren Cohen, Joshua
contained 6,371. Cantor or make a firm allegedly traded earmarks for Covel, and Christopher Malloy of
#ad#Last year, responding to c o m m i t m e n t t o e x t e n d t h e campaign contributions. Why Harvard Business School
grassroots demands for fiscal earmark moratorium. Others, such would Republicans want to wade concluded that earmarks crowd
discipline, House Republicans as Rep. Jerry Lewis (Calif.), who back into that swamp? out local private-capital
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Stocks Gallup Higher
Submitted at 10/6/2010 6:00:07 AM
A blockbuster poll lights a fire
under markets.
W as it really the new Gallup poll
that drove stocks up almost 200
points on Tuesday? That
blockbuster survey, regarded by
many as the blue-chip gold
standard for election forecasting,
pointed to an unprecedented
Republican landslide tsunami in
the generic congressional race.
That blowout could include a
GOP House gain of 65 to 70 seats,
and a bare-majority 10-seat
pickup in the Senate.
#ad#Released Monday night, the
Gallup numbers demolished the
new narrative of the elite
mainstream media in Washington,
and their prediction that somehow
the Democrats are mounting a
serious comeback based on frantic
Obama campaigning and a slew
of multimillion-dollar negative
campaign ads.
Now, I acknowledge that most
market mavens attributed the rally
to the better-than-expected
S e p t e m b e r I S M
nonmanufacturing report, which
printed at 10 A.M. Tuesday
morning. The composite index
came in at 53, a bit better than
expected. It beat August by two
points, although it was still lower
than July and below the second-
quarter average of 55.
Soft, but growing. No double-dip
recession.
Meanwhile, the business-activity
index for September services
arrived in sloppier condition. It
came in below the August number
and well below the second-quarter
level. So, no recession in the
widespread services economy, but
no boom either. Just a modest
expansion in the services sector
with no new zip.
What was supposed to be
Recovery Summer, according to
Joe Biden, never came to pass.
Other market commentators
attributed the Tuesday rally to
Ben Bernanke’s speech, delivered
Monday night in Providence. The
Fed head clearly moved the
central bank a big step closer to
QEII money-creating through new
bond purchases that will inject
fresh cash into the economy.
However, soaring gold prices and
a plunging dollar on the foreign
exchanges have been discounting
this since Bernanke first launched
QEII in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,
in late August. So there’s nothing
really new on the Helicopter Ben
front.
Then there are the stock pundits
who pointed to the new QEI in
Tokyo, also announced Monday
night. This would increase the
Bank of Japan’s balance sheet by
roughly $60 billion, while
dropping Japan’s target rate to
virtually zero (just like ours). One
aim of this action is to lower the
exchange value of the yen (a goal
of almost all currencies these
days).
#page#But most of this has been
discussed already. And $60
billion in new Japanese
quantitative easing is pretty small
potatoes compared to the U.S.
Fed’s $1.5 trillion humdinger
from early 2009 to early 2010.
Japan’s money announcement
may have moved world markets,
but I venture it wasn’t much of a
game-changer on the NYSE.
#ad#What I do think, however, is
that highly profitable stocks
would love to get Washington out
of their hair. Anything that even
slows down the federal tax-and-
regulatory pawing of American
firms could conceivably prompt
businesses to unleash their
massive cash hoard into
something that more closely
resembles a normal capital-goods-
investment and job-hiring
campaign -- one that would
increase economic growth and
reduce unemployment.
Hence the significance of the new
Gallup poll, which has political
regime change written all over it.
Surveying likely voters, Gallup’s
“high turnout model” shows
Republicans in the lead by 53 to
40 percent. Good enough. But the
more likely midterm “low turnout
model,” with 40 percent of voters
in attendance, shows an incredible
GOP lead of 56 to 38 percent.
Famed political analyst Michael
Barone suggests that it won’t be
1994, but 1894 -- when
Republicans picked up 100 new
seats in a House of roughly 350
members.
Now that’s a game-changer for
politics and stocks. And that’s
what I think caused the 200 point
rally on Tuesday.
Such a staggering Republican
victory would embody tea-party,
free-market values of limited
government and lower spending,
taxing, and regulating As John
Boehner puts it, “We can stop all
the bad stuff.”
And stopping all the bad stuff
would certainly enhance the
future value of all those record-
breaking corporate cash flows,
which then can be capitalized into
higher stock prices. In other
words, a huge stock market rally.
A veritable October surprise.
We saw the beginning of this
rally with the tea-party victories
this summer. Now the Gallup poll
sees the free-market tea-party
carrying the GOP toward a chart-
breaking victory on November 2.
No, the election is not yet over.
We must wait two fortnights for
the results. But a Gallup poll on
Monday night may very well have
ignited stocks on Tuesday. That’s
a harbinger of very good things to
come.
-- Larry Kudlow, NRO’s
Economics Editor, is host of
CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and
author of the daily web blog,
Kudlow’s Money Politic$. Larry
Kudlow
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continued from page 83
Engagement. Sharia is at complee
odds with the individual liberties
and dignity embodied in the U.S.
Constitution and Declaration of
Independence:
(*) Jihad, defined as “to war
against non-Muslims to establish
the religion,” is the duty of every
Muslim. The Koran alone has
over 100 verses commanding
violence against non-believers.
(*) It is a crime (punishable by
death) to “defame” Islam or its
prophet Muhammed.
(*) A percentage of Zakat (charity
money) must go towards jihad.
We have seen this part of Sharia
law in play with the conviction of
the Holy Land Foundation for
giving donations to Hamas. Non-
Muslims are not equal to Muslims
under Sharia.
(*) Women are not equal to
men. The testimony of a woman
in court is half the value of a man,
for example. Husbands are
permitted to beat their wives if
their wives are disrespectful.
(*) It is obligatory for a Muslim
obeying Sharia law to lie if the
purpose is to abide by Islam’s
commandments.
FP: Expand on your view of
Obama and how he has dealt with
the threat we face.
Klein: Obama’s actions and
speeches since being inaugurated
leave little question in my mind
that he is enabling radical
Islamists to achieve a number of
their lethal objectives at the
expense of our national security
and the liberties we have long
LETHAL page 88
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Remembering Marriage continued from page 87

taken for granted in the United At this year’s White House

Submitted at 10/6/2010 3:00:58 AM
long term. There is no institution has never had States of America. The evidence Ramadan dinner, where Obama
governmental interest in procreative sex at its heart, and that I describe and cite with made known his feelings about
From the Oct. 18, 2010, issue of recognizing other types of adult only prejudice against extensive sources is the Ground Zero mosque, at least
NR. relationships, and proponents of homosexuals can explain why it overwhelming. two radical Islamists were invited.
O ur recent editorial making the same-sex marriage hardly bother has historically been restricted to For example, in his first days in I point to Obama’s speech in
case for preserving the institution to try explaining what that interest heterosexual couples. (As for why office Obama signed an Executive Cairo last year as a flashpoint for
of marriage as the union of a man could be. Sooner or later their it has in the Western tradition Order tying the hands of our a new tone in relations between
a n d a w o m a n h a s d r a w n case always falls back on the been restricted to groups of two, interrogators trying to elicit time the White House and the Muslim
predictably indignant responses alleged unfairness of not treating or should be so restricted now, sensitive information from world. In his outreach to the
from Andrew Sullivan, Amy committed same-sex couples as they have no convincing answer suspected Islamic terrorists. Muslim world in Cairo last year,
Davidson (a writer for The New though they were married. at all and barely try to devise Obama’s Department of Justice for example,Obama promised to
Yorker), and Jonathan Rauch. The Imagine two brothers who, after one.) This implicit account of the head, Attorney General Eric do all that he can to ensure there
last of these writers, when not some family tragedy, try to history of marriage is deeply Holder seemed to inexplicably is nothing in our laws to impede
sputtering, comes close to making provide a loving household to a implausible. The critics could try welcome the possibility of a ‘Muslim citizens practicing
a counterargument. The editorial, child. What they are doing is to argue that modern civilian trial for the mastermind of religion as they see fit.’ He also
he writes, “is a mass of non certainly praiseworthy, and may circumstances justify loosening or 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad promised to loosen restrictions on
sequiturs. It assumes that if even deserve some forms of eliminating the link between in lower Manhattan. There is still Islamic charities, which had been
marriage is ‘for’ something -- governmental support. But their marriage and procreation. Not, we no decision with respect to put in place to protect against
regulating procreative sex -- then relationship is not a marriage, and think, convincingly: The disarray Khalid, but other Islamic terrorist front organizatins funding jihad.
using it for anything else must be treating it as such furthers no of the modern family, to our suspects are being given full As I describe in detail in Lethal
‘against’ marriage, which is like i n t e l l i g i b l e p u r p o s e . T h a t mind, argues for strengthening constitutional rights in a civil trial. Engagement, our President is
saying that if mouths are ‘for’ conclusion would not change if those links in both the law and the On November 5th, 2009 a playing right into the Islamists’
eating, we mustn’t use them for the men were unrelated and culture. But the critics cannot Muslim soldier named Nidal stealth strategy to undermine
t a l k i n g o r b r e a t h i n g . # . . . # I t having sex with each other. In even begin to make the argument Malik Hasan murdered 14 people American laws, financial systems
proceeds as if ‘gay marriage is neither of these cases would for change because they resolutely at Fort Hood, Texas. The and democratic values that get in
bad’ follows obviously from governmental recognition of the refuse to acknowledge why ideological source of Hasan’s the way of radical Islamic
‘straight marriage is good.’” relationship as a marriage serve marriage has the form it does in Islamic-inspired massacre seemed priorities. This strategy includes
#ad#Our actual point was and is either the purpose of regulating the first place. They exhibit a kind irrelevant to the White House. manipulating our own institutions
that same-sex marriage is a procreative sex or any other of willed forgetting of basic social The same was true about the against us.
contradiction in terms that legitimate governmental purpose. realities. We should decline to Christmas Day bomber. To the
undermines the logic of the Still less is there a justification for join them even at the price of their contrary, the Obama
i n s t i t u t i o n . T h e r e i s a treating one of these hypothetical ignorant mockery. administration refuses to use
governmental interest in ensuring pairs as married but not the other. — This editorial originally ‘Islamic’ and ‘terrorism’ in the
that as many children as possible If our critics are right, then the appeared in the Oct. 18, 2010, same sentence.
are raised in a home by biological fact that infertile couples have issue of National Review. The
parents who are committed to always been considered eligible Editors
each other and to them for the for marriage means that the
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Lars Vilks, Artist, Hero of the Free World
Craig Snider (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:25:26 PM
Here I sit in the comfort of my
home, surrounded by picture
windows, taking time to write my
thoughts about the last few days
with Lars Vilks, Swedish
artist—a man who has no such
luxury. Vilks has been
condemned for a pencil drawing
he drew of Mohammed depicted
as a dog in traffic. The work was
pulled from a gallery exhibition in
a small Swedish town for fear of
Muslim reprisals. The incident
and illustration was then
published in the local newspapers.
Now, an enterprising Jihadi can
earn $100,000 for executing
Vilks, and get $50,000 extra if a
knife is used to do the job.
Two days before his arrival, I
learned just how seriously the
U.S. law enforcement community
assessed the threat to Vilks when I
received an urgent call from the
hotel where the appearance was to
take place. The manager told me
there were twenty-five officers
representing ten agencies,
including FBI, Homeland Security
and the Philadelphia Police
Department’s SWAT team—
there to discuss how they were
going to keep Vilks alive during
his 40-hour stay. On a threat
profile scale of one to ten, with
ten being the highest threat, Vilks
was a ten.
As Director of the Philadelphia
offices of the David Horowitz
Freedom Center, I invited Vilks
to Philadelphia as part of a North
American Tour to commemorate
the fifth anniversary of another
illustration, by Kurt Westegaard.
The Danish Cartoon
controversy–sparked by a
political cartoon depiction of
Mohammed with a ticking time
bomb in his Turban—had lead to
deaths and executions around the
world. When the FBI showed up
at my office, and Philly’s top
the world living in unusual times
and drawn to acts of social
disobedience. Men like Bjorn
Larsen in Canada, Lars
Hedegaard in Denmark, co-
founders of the International Free
Press Society defend Vilks and
his Danish compatriot, Kurt
Westegaard and their right to
freedom of expression in a free
society. During my two days with
Vilks, and Hedegaard who made
the trip as well, I learned a great
deal about the meaning of
courage and overcame any doubts
I had about becoming publicly
identified with their cause.
Although Vilks himself doesn’t
show any outward signs of worry
about the price on his head, the
Philadelphia’s Joint Terrorism
Task Force didn’t overlook any
detail or spare any expense to
assure his safety. Working with
airport police and the TSA, a
convoy of FBI, SWAT and
Homeland Security officers
commander of homeland security escorted me to intercept Vilks and
called my cell phone, I realized H e d e g a a r d a s t h e y were
that I had no choice but to pull the disembarking the international
plug on the public event. Instead flight. They expedited our guests
I arranged a series of press through US Customs to a private
interviews at an undisclosed area and got us to an unmarked
location. Were it not for the SUV driven by two large SWAT
interest of the press and their wide team agents, wearing bullet proof
coverage, silencing Vilks would vests under dark suits. Each was
have marked a win for the Jihad, armed and in radio contact with
and another loss for freedom of other agents along our planned
speech and artistic expression. route.
Lars Vilks is among a small
cadre of everyday people around
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The Obama Tax
Hike and Lessons
from 1937
Guinevere Nell (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:00:29 AM
Posted October 6th, 2010 at
12:00pm in Entitlements Print
This Post
Raising taxes on successful
businesses is one thing we cannot
afford to do. Large, successful
businesses that create jobs would
be hit the hardest, but small
businesses would also be hurt by
such a tax increase. Although
economists disagree on many
aspects of economic growth and
recession, there is near-unanimity
on at least one issue: raising taxes
during a recession is a bad idea. It
seems clear then, that a jobs-
killing tax increase, such as the
one planned by President Obama,
is a bad idea.
Of course, Obama has argued
that repealing the Bush tax cuts
would not cause job loss. Because
small business owners often earn
OBAMA page 91
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Side Effects: Obamacare Compels More Employers

to Dump Coverage
Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: taxpayers will soar because of the
Conservative Policy News.) growing reliance on government
Submitted at 10/6/2010 10:00:54 AM health programs and subsidies.
Technically, moving from
Posted October 6th, 2010 at employer-sponsored health
11:00am in Health Care Print This benefits that offer defined benefits
Post to defined-contribution HRAs is a
Obamacare has struck again. Last positive change for 3M retirees.
week, 3M announced plans to
drop health benefits for retirees,
Defined contribution plans
empower patients to choose the
Inside the
citing the new law’s impact as a
contributor in its decision.
In 2013, 3M retirees who qualify
health plan that best meets their
personal needs.
But in this case, the change is an
Eco-Fascist
for Medicare will lose their
current employer-sponsored
unplanned consequence
incompatible with system created
Mind
health benefits, and instead by new law. To learn more about Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
receive a health reimbursement costs. So while other options will reason for businesses to drop the right way to create a defined Magazine » FrontPage)
account (HRA) with which to buy be more affordable under the new h e a l t h c o v e r a g e . I t ’ s m o r e contribution system, check out “ Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:30:43 PM
a Medicare plan. law for employers and consumers, beneficial for employers with a Utah’s Defined-Contribution
In 2015, this policy will extend to it’s not because they offer better large proportion of low-income Option: Patient-Centered Health A short film produced by a
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continued from page 89
a portion of their income from
other sources, some commentators
have argued that they are not real
businesses and therefore a tax
increase would not cause job
losses. This is simply not true:
many of these businesses have
employees. The businesses most
likely to have employees are the
most successful ones, and
therefore would face very large
tax increases; but a significant
portion of small businesses at
every income level report having
paid employees.
Many small business owners face
high tax rates even if they are
currently reporting business
losses. For example, a small
business owner may hedge against
losses, and also earn income to
invest in expansion, by
supplementing business revenue
with another source of income
such as interest or capital gains. In
fact, businesses filers in every
earning category will face a tax
increase if Obama’s tax hikes are
enacted. While some
commentators suggest that it is
only a tiny fraction of businesses
that have enough income to face a
tax increase under Obama’s plan,
it simply is not true.
Meanwhile, there are fears of a
“double-dip” recession.
Keynesian advocates of
government spending like Paul
Krugman argue that reducing
government spending during a
recession is dangerous, and was a
big part of what caused the
“recession within the depression”
in 1937. Not all economists agree
with this analysis, for good
reason.
For one thing, the evidence
simply does not support
Krugman’s version of history.
Government spending only fell by
1 percent of GDP in 1937
preceding the “double dip” –
hardly enough to account for the
fall in GDP of 4.3 percent that
occurred the next year, even if
you believe in his high
“multiplier” numbers. Instead, as
a recent Wall Street Journa l
article explains, it was tax hikes
on businesses, along with union
wage demands, that most likely
caused the dip. Today, it is quite
clear that government spending is
not what lifted (to the extent we
have been lifted) out of this
recession, because we’d barely
opened the purse before the
recession officially ended. But,
tax hikes could once again
prevent recovery.
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but if you would like to see just
how far environmental zealots are
willing to go to make their
dubious points, you can watch the
video here.
For those who don’t care for
blood and gore, here’s the
synopsis: A school teacher, a
business mogul, and some soccer
players urge their on-screen
compatriots to get on board with
10:10’s planet-saving carbon
reduction program. “No
pressure,” each environmental
champion says, echoing the tag-
line of the film that its producers
find oh-so-ironic. That punch line,
such as it is, is delivered and then,
inevitably, a dissenter or two
refuses to take the pledge. At that
point, our heroes push a large red
button which causes the stubborn
miscreants to be blown to bits
with as much blood and gore as
10:10 could fit on the screen,
never to offend mother earth
again. This is what passes as
humor among global warming
zealots.
“Many people found the resulting
film extremely funny, but
unfortunately some didn’t and
10:10 would like to apologize to
everybody who was offended by
the film,” 10:10 representatives
said in a statement. It’s hard to
understand what could possibly be
funny about blowing people up
91
who don’t buy into your fantasy.
But, given that the first two
offenders who meet explosive
justice are an adolescent boy and
girl in the middle of a classroom –
executed by their teacher no less –
the notion that any sane person
could find humor in this abhorrent
video defies comprehension.
Bowing to global outrage, 10:10
pulled the video from their
website and the organization’s
director, Eugene Harvey, issued
an apology of sorts. “This media
coverage for this film was not the
kind of publicity we wanted for
the cause of saving the climate,
nor for 10:10, and we certainly
didn’t mean to do anything to
distract from all the efforts of
those in other organisations who
are working so hard to secure
effective action on climate
change,” he said. Nowhere in his
statement did Harvey apologize
for offending the public or for
sending a grossly twisted
message. His overriding concern
was rather that “No Pressure”
might be a distraction and thus get
in the way of the important work
that 10:10 and the well-heeled
charitable foundations that
support it are doing.
92 Politics-Right/ Social Media/
Age of the Facebook Fatwah
Daniel Pipes (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/5/2010 11:11:07 PM
[This piece is reprinted from
DanielPipes.org]
Reciprocal death sentences
raging between Yemen and the
United States offer a glimpse of
warfare in the internet age.
The topic opens with South Park,
an iconoclastic adult cartoon
program on Comedy Central,
which in April mocked the
prohibition on depicting the
Islamic prophet Muhammad. An
o b s c u r e w e b s i t e ,
RevolutionMuslim.com (whose
proprietor was subsequently
arrested on terrorism-related
charges), responded by
threatening the show’s writers,
Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
Panicked, Comedy Central
censored further mention of
Muhammad.
Enter Molly Norris, a cartoonist
at the Seattle Weekly, who
showed solidarity with Parker and
Stone by posting a facetious
“Everyone Draw Muhammad
Day” appeal on Facebook, hoping
that a host of caricaturists would
“counter Comedy Central’s
message about feeling afraid.” To
Norris’ surprise, dismay, and
confusion, others took her idea
seriously, prompting Facebook
campaigns for and against her
“day” and the Pakistani
government temporarily to block
Facebook. Norris disowned her
initiative, apologized for it, and
even befriended the local Council
on American-Islamic Relations
representative, to little avail.
Anwar al-Awlaki, an Islamist
leader in Yemen, responded in
July by issuing a death sentence
on Norris, inaccurately but
pungently called a fatwa. On
consulting with the police, Norris
in September not only went
underground but “went ghost” and
disappeared entirely, including
her name and her profession.
Awlaki’s “fatwa” on Norris,
however, is only half the story.
The other half concerns a U.S.
government “fatwa” on Awlaki.
Awlaki was born in New Mexico
in 1971 to well-connected Muslim
Yemeni parents. His father,
E-reader News Edition
Full Page Previews
Showing Up in Google
Search Results
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:19:45 AM
Google has apparently begun
testing full page previews in its
search results.
Both Blogstorm and
TheNextWeb have captured
screenshots of the new feature,
which allows you to view a
miniature version of a page before
you click on it. If you have the
feature enabled, simply hold your
out to all users. We’ve reached
mouse over a link to pull up the
out to the company for further
preview. Google even highlights
information and will update this
sections of the page where the text
post when we have it.
you’ve searched for is mentioned.
Image courtesy of TheNextWeb.
The company has displayed a
Nasser, studied and worked in the Reviews: Google
renewed interest in improving its
United States until 1978, when the More About: full page previews,
core search product lately, having
family returned to Yemen. Anwar Google, google search
rolled out Google Instant, a
went to the United States as a For more Tech coverage:
feature that pulls up search results
student in 1991 and spent the next • Follow Mashable Tech on
as you type, just last month.
decade in various degree Twitter
Google has released further
programs (engineering, • Become a Fan on Facebook
improvements to the product since
education), only to emerge as an • Subscribe to the Tech channel
then, including keyboard
Al-Qaeda-style Islamist figure, • Download our free apps for
navigation.
comparable to Osama bin Laden iPhone and iPad
We’re not yet sure whether
both in his ideological fanaticism
Google is merely testing the full
and his operational involvement
page preview feature or rolling it
in terrorism. Arrested in
connection with the 9/11 attacks,
he was inexplicably released and
allowed to move to a remote
region of Yemen, beyond
government control, where he
currently lives.
E-reader News Edition Social Media/ 93

An Inside Look at the Ari Marcopoulos Camera Bag

Radhika Marya (Mashable!) point-and-shoot camera.
Submitted at 10/6/2010 9:59:53 AM The bag could also be useful for
the photography-obsessed traveler
Mashable recently reported that — great for holding some basic
Incase and photographer Ari DSLR equipment, along with
Marcopoulos had teamed up to other essentials, like a wallet,
design a camera bag. The limited phone and more.
edition bag was designed to So how does it feel to carry the
provide photographers with a bag? I decided to take it with me,
stylish and practical way to tote traveling back and forth between
their equipment. New York City and New Jersey,
Mashable was able to get its and so far I can say it passed the
hands on one of these bags — test. The bag actually fares well
r e a d o n f o r t h e r u n d o w n . against the hustle and bustle of a
Functionality rush hour train commute. It
A single large zipper across the doesn’t take up an excessive
bag makes it quick and easy for amount of space, but while sitting
photographers to reach for their between other passengers on tiny
equipment when they need it. seats, it was a bit of a tight fit with
Three of the main compartments the bag on my lap.
inside the bag can be used to hold The wide strap is definitely
a DSLR camera and its lenses. An h e l p f u l a s f a r a s s t a y i n g
additional zippered pocket inside comfortable, but I didn’t have the
the bag, which also contains a bag on my back or slung across
lined compartment designed for my shoulder messenger bag-style
holding an iPad, is useful for for more than an hour at a time.
holding on to documents, memory Photographers who are on their
cards and other slim items you feet for hours at a time and prone
don’t want falling out of your to back or shoulder issues may
grasp. Smaller pockets to the side still want to look into a traditional
could be handy for similar -style camera backpack for better
purposes. Meanwhile, a magnetic support. The Look
flap on the outside of the bag There are a ton of camera bags on
provides easy access to a small the market, but most are geared
compartment that could hold a f o r u t i l i t y w i t h o u t b e i n g
there. The Cost
The bag, which is posted for pre-
order on Incase’s website (though
it currently appears to be sold
out), is priced at $199.95. And
this is its one negative factor. But
on one hand, it does come with a
limited edition book of
Marcopoulos’s unpublished
photographs (titled Now Is
particularly fashionable. It’s clear Forever). And on the other hand,
that the Ari Marcopoulos bag is the design is not the type you see
trying to achieve both those o n m o s t c a m e r a b a g s . B u t
objectives. Its canvas exterior and competitors like Lowepro and
seatbelt-like straps make it a Crumpler definitely make a few
relatively sturdy and weatherproof similar-sized bags and some even
bag, and the clean, simple design larger ones that are closer to $100.
also makes it the sort of bag you This bag is definitely useful, but
could potentially take out while it’s not the best for those on a
socializing after work. The lack of budget — and it’s probably only
multiple pockets or clips and best for photographers who use
buttons may make it less of an t h e i r e q u i p m e n t r e g u l a r l y .
“obvious” camera bag too (in case R e v i e w s : M a s h a b l e
someone’s looking to snatch your For more Tech coverage:
multimedia equipment). A subtle • Follow Mashable Tech on
blocked detailing on the back of Twitter
t h e b a g g i v e s i t a f u n , • Become a Fan on Facebook
contemporary touch. • Subscribe to the Tech channel
That being said, this bag still has • Download our free apps for
a bit of bulk — necessary for iPhone and iPad
holding on to your equipment. So
if you’re looking for a bag as
sleek as an everyday messenger
bag, this probably won’t fit what
you’re looking for. But it’s almost
94 Social Media/ E-reader News Edition

What Mashable Readers Think Facebook Is Going

to Announce
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/6/2010 11:24:53 AM

Facebook will be holding an

event at its headquarters later this
afternoon and all signs indicate
that the company will be making a
significant announcement.
Yesterday, we asked Mashable
readers to opine on what they
think Facebook will be
announcing and the responses ran
the gamut from plausible to
outlandish to just plain bizarre. As
always, we really appreciate your
input.
By and large, most readers
responded that they think the other common responses • A Groupon clone (Samir) — Skype
Facebook will be announcing included: hey, everyone else is doing it, For more Social Media coverage:
Skype integration and the launch • The general launch of Facebook why not! • Follow Mashable Social Media
of video chat. Here at Mashable, Questions(as liamdaly pointed out • Facebook is going public on Twitter
we’re leaning towards the Skype in the comments) • Become a Fan on Facebook
and video chat theory, too. • A broader expansion of We’re not that far from the start • Subscribe to the Social Media
However, there are always lots of Facebook Places (a few readers of the event and we’ll keep you channel
other options. Facebook is a also suggested a Foursquare updated on just what Facebook • Download our free apps for
company that hasn’t been afraid acquisition may be in the works) a n n o u n c e s a s i t h a p p e n s . iPhone and iPad
of launching new features or • Facebook for iPad Reviews: Facebook, Foursquare,
radically changing its design • The Facebook Phone Mashable, Skype
overnight. • Aaron Sorkin: The More About: facebook, Facebook
In addition to video chat, some of Movie(thanks Danny Skarka) Event, Facebook Questions,