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Sarah Palin, the Bard of Wasilla
Reuters Staff (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 4:34:41 PM
Washington’s Emma Ashburn
had some thoughts today on
Sarah Palin’s latest literary
stylings:
Sarah Palin: former Alaska
governor, ex-vice presidential
candidate, bard.
The media-savvy Republican
introduced a new term over the
weekend, using the word
“refudiate” on her Twitter feed
at SarahPalinUSA when she
opined on plans to build a
mosque at the site of the 9/11
attacks in Manhattan. Later, she
suggested she wasn’t doing
anything William Shakespeare
hadn’t done.
Her first tweet on Sunday read:
* Ground Zero Mosque
supporters: doesn’t it stab you in
the heart, as it does ours
throughout the heartland?
Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
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She changed it within hours to: Refudiate is somewhere in the
* Peaceful New Yorkers, please no man’s land between
refute the Ground Zero mosque neologism and malapropism.
plan if you believe catastrophic Arguably her greater
pain caused @ Twin Towers site contribution to the English
is too raw, too real language will be her new
Later Sunday she took feminist terms: hockey mom,
ownership of the slip-up, which
she had also made a week
mama grizzlies. And don’t
forget her famous line on the
The 10 Most
earlier on Fox News.
* “ R e f u d i a t e , ”
difference between a pit bull and
a hockey mom — lipstick.
Unemployed
“misunderestimate,” “wee- Photo credit: Reuters/Chris States in America
wee’d up.” English is a living Keane (Sarah Palin speaks at Isabelle Schafer (Business
language. Shakespeare liked to National Rifle Association’s Insider)
coin new words too. Got to 139th annual meeting in
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:34:54 PM
celebrate it! Charlotte, North Carolina May
A search for #shakespalin 14, 2010.) Compared to the previous
yields a raft of imitations on Reuters/Luke MacGregor
Shakespeare didn’t go to month, the seasonally adjusted
Twitter, some of the best riffing (Chairman of The Shakespeare
Cambridge or Oxford. He wrote state unemployment rates in
on “Hamlet” and “Richard III.” Birthplace Trust, Stanley Wells,
for the theater-going masses in June generally decreased
* How’s all that bein’ and not poses with a newly discovered
Elizabethan England. He made slightly, according to a new
bein’ workin’ out for ya? portrait of William Shakespeare
up the verb “puke,” the noun release of the Bureau of Labor
* To suffer the slings and at Dartmouth house in London
“eyeball,” and the adjective Statistics.
arrows of outrageous liberals, or March 9, 2009)
“zany.” But not every state has seen its
to quit halfterm, and by
Palin’s creations may not last as unemployment rate gone down.
opposing, rake in speaking fees.
long as those by the bard of Click here to see the states >
* A moose, a moose! My
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Gingrich chides Obama for acting
like a teenager with credit card
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:25:35 AM
Extending unemployment
benefits is this week’s
battleground for Democrats
versus Republicans.
Democrats look set to push
the legislation through the
Senate with the help of
newcomer Carte Goodwin of
West Virginia. They hope to
show voters in an election year
that they are the party
responding to the plight of
the unemployed.
Republicans had blocked the
measure, demanding cuts
elsewhere to pay for the $34
billion price tag and prevent it
from adding to the U.S. budget
deficit. They want to show
voters that they are the party of
fiscal restraint.
Former Republican House
Speaker Newt Gingrich had a
dig for President Barack Obama.
“The second biggest concern of
the American people after jobs
is deficit spending and the fact
that this president has been like
a teenager with a credit card …
if he serves eight years under
current plans he will double the
national debt. He’ll borrow
more than every previous
president combined,” Gingrich
said on NBC’s “Today” show.
(Democrats will quickly point
out that deficits were on the rise
during the former administration
of President George W. Bush).
Gingrich, who has been
mentioned as a possible
candidate in the 2012
presidential election, put the
chance of Democrats losing
control of both the House and
Senate in this November’s
midterm elections at “about 50-
50.”
“The president’s very shallow
politics assuming the American
people are dumb enough to
follow the latest headline and
don’t realize the real problem
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An Open Letter to Sarah Palin, Politician, Mom, Innovatrix

Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:58:21 AM
Readers. Readers. We at
FastCompany like to think of
ourselves as the Information
Booth at the top of Mount Idea,
trumpeting the innovation of
others to the world at large. And
perhaps it is time to salute, the
innovation used in the language
of Sarah Palin.
When one of her tweets
contained the neologism,
refudiate, numerous attempts
were made to sully her name.
She tweeted back, "Hey, call me
Shakespeare." So everyone did,
using the hashtag #Shakespalin.
Soon, the Twittersphere was
filled with Shakespearean
pastiches --favorite by far:
"Shall I compare thee to a Tina
Fey?" So, to Mrs Palin and her
creative veriosophy, here is FC's
hommagination to the queen of
the teabaggers, a special, open
letter.
Dear Sarah
We at FastCompany.com are
fans of innovation. And you,
Sarah, are the most innovationist
of them all. Not only with your
maverickian stance on language,
but the fact that you are bidding
to be the first female in U.S.
history to be both
presidentialator and Innovatista.
Case in point, your kids' names:
Trig, Bristol, Pup, Skisledge and
Hambone (copy editor: please
check spelling on those last
two). If that isn't innovation, I
am a banana, albeit a left-
handed one. Sure, we can
attribute the clever names to
your Bachelorette of Arts in
Communications (with minor in
Journalingo), but the real source
of brilliance is your fertile
imagina.
In fact, the closer we examine
your life (via Wikipedia entry),
the more we realise just how
much you and Shakespeare have
invent an awesome salad. Your
way of doing it may be less
messy than chicken entrails, but
it's just as effectivatious, Sarah.
But perhaps to make the
comparison complete, we
should look at your prodigatious
literary output. You're on the
right track: two books so far:
Going Rogue; and America By
Heart, in just over a year. A rate
that may not rival Shakespeare's
output of thirty-eight plays and
154 sonnets, but your Twitter
Stream is pretty poetical, so that
counts.
Like Shakespeare, you're not
appreciated in your time. It took
him a bunch of centurions for
him to get the recognition he
in common. Perhaps a rogue bit Palin kept a jar with the names deserved. Give us two hundred
of DNA was carried on the wind of Wasilla residents on her desk. years and Palinspeak will rival
f r o m l a t e 1 6 t h - c e n t u r i o n once a week, she pulled out a Esperanto in popularity. That's a
England over to America. A name, picked up the phone and promise we won't break so long
Shakespore, if you like. asked, 'How's the city doing?' as we live and breathe.
It's this bit in your Wiki entry It's augury on a par with Julius Sincelery,
that gets me. Caesar--and I think we all know Fast Company
During her first year in office, that dude did more than just

Google Announces Major Redesign Of Image Search (GOOG)

Nick Saint (Business Insider) • Google Images gets 1 billion w h i c h i t a p p e a r s i n t h e • Google One-Ups Bing With
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:40:31 PM page veiws per day. background, instead of the ugly, C r e a t i v e C o m m o n s I m a g e
• Image search results will now two-frame page you see now. Search
Google is in the middle of be displayed without any text • How To Use Google's New
announcing a major overhaul of surrounding them. Rather than The old Images page is still (Free) Photo-Editing Tool,
its image search at a press loading a finite number of loading for us for now, so we Picnik
conference in San Francisco. search results per page, Google haven't seen this. But it sounds • How To Use Google's Free
The event is still underway, but, will dynamically load more like a big improvement. Online Hard Drive
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4 Business/ Economy/
Chipotle Burritos: Stuffed With Integrity
Suzy Evans (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:37:40 PM
Integrity isn't the first word that
comes to mind when you think
of burritos. Chipotle is out to
change that with a new
marketing overhaul, Food with
Integrity. Though they won't be
tampering with the tasty (and
caloric) burrito recipe, they
hope to alter the way American
think about fast food and fast
food advertising.
Chipotle, a former subsidiary of
McDonald's (the company went
solo in 2006), partnered with
San Francisco-based design and
strategy firm Sequence to create
an informative and somewhat
irreverent campaign for its
website and product packaging.
Just click on the knotted string
at the bottom of the screen, and
The Chipotle supply chain
appears.
"While we have never sourced
these ingredients to be a
marketing platform, it is what
makes Chipotle so different
from other restaurant
companies” the company’s chief
Trouble on oiled waters
(The Economist: Daily news
and views)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 5:57:24 AM
PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA meets Britain's prime
minister, David Cameron, for
talks in Washington on July
marketing officer Mark
Crumpacker said in a release.
The burrito giant uses naturally
raised animals, locally grown
food and other sustainable
ingredients, whenever possible.
Their suppliers include pork
from Virginia’s Polyface Farms,
made famous by the
documentary Food, Inc. and
journalist Michael Pollan in The
Omnivore’s Dilemma.
20th. The BP oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico and allegations
over the company's involvement
in an “oil-for-terrorists” deal
with Libya are likely to be on
the agenda. BP is under pressure
to satisfy government officials
that the containment cap placed
The new design includes erratic
typeface, which tells stories of
where burrito ingredients
originated. (Did you know the
pigs get to sleep in comfortable
beds? Genius!) In stores, cups,
bags and bowl liners tell tales
from suppliers about the roots of
the food. Customers can even
submit their own stories online
for a chance to be featured on
the packaging. Even if you
on the leaking well on July 15th
is holding. Using the
government task force's upper
estimate, as many as 4.4m
barrels of oil have escaped into
the Gulf. This would make it the
largest accidental oil spill in
history (military attacks have
didn’t want to know where that
chicken came from, you’re
going to find out anyway.
Even with wholesome
ingredients, the meals are still a
caloric mouthful. (One flour
tortilla alone has 290 calories!)
A basic chicken or steak burrito
has 850 calories. Add sour
cream and guacamole and you
have 1120 calories or more.
That’s more than two Big Macs
created far bigger spills).
Despite that, this quantity of
refined oil is enough to keep
America's cars and trucks on the
road for just a quarter of a day.
BP has spent almost $4 billion
on clean-up costs to date, with
the eventual total estimated at
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or almost five McDonald's
hamburgers.
Chipotle makes sure to note on
its nutritional page:
It’s very important to consume
only as many calories as is
recommended in a day. But it’s
also important to try to eat
whole foods that are full of the
nutrients and micronutrients that
really keep your body running.
Foods that are unprocessed and
un-tampered with (like at
Chipotle) are more filling and
nutritious than the synthetic
foods you might find at other
restaurants.
Even so, the company
continues to thrive and make the
right moves. The “obsessive
chef” and co-CEO Steve Ellis
just signed on as an investor and
judge the new NBC reality
show, “America’s Next Great
Restaurant.” Contestants, it
seems, would do well to listen to
Ellis for advice; Chipotle's
1000th store opened in Texas in
June.
$39 billion.
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What To Expect From Bernanke
Tomorrow In Front Of Congress
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:33:00 PM
From Deutsche Bank:
Commentary for Wednesday:
The economic and financial
outlook remains cloudy. As
such, we doubt Mr. Bernanke is
going to say anything
substantially different than what
we gleaned from the June 22-23
FOMC minutes that were
released last week. The
economic forecasts that
accompany the Chairman’s
prepared remarks will be
identical to those in the minutes.
Since the June meeting, stock
prices are down about 2-3%,
high grade spreads are little
changed but money market
conditions have improved,
owing to strong demand for
European sovereign debt. This
is evident from 2-year swap
spreads which continue to
tighten—they are well inside 25
bps, down from a high of 52 bps
in late May and around 35 bps at
the June meeting. The
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funding is one development Mr.
Bernanke could cite if we
wanted to sound upbeat on the
prospects of improving financial
conditions. However, the
economic data on balance have
been softer than expected since
the June meeting—for example,
employment, retail sales,
industrial production, housing
starts and consumer sentiment
were all soft. We marked down
our estimate of Q2 real GDP
growth from +4.0% to +3.0%,
although most of this was due to
less inventory accumulation.
Mr. Bernanke will probably
highlight the recent weakness in
the data as a key factor behind
keeping interest rates near zero
and for keeping the Fed’s
balance sheet bloated. We
continue to be more optimistic
than many of our peers, because
despite some dreadful economic
data, the underlying health of
the corporate sector remains
intact. Profits are high and
rising, margins are expanding,
and companies have
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dramatically cut labor, capital
and inventories arguably by the
most on record. For the
economy to continue to expand,
the corporate sector has to
continue to spend and ultimately
increase labor demand. The fact
that capital spending has been
growing at a double-digit pace is
encouraging because we have
never had a robust capex cycle
without ultimately experiencing
relatively strong employment
growth. We do not believe
companies are spending on
capital investments at the
expense of labor for two
reasons: One, the trend in capex
tends to lead the trend in hiring,
and it is still early in terms of
the recovery in the former.
Two, companies need people to
operate the capital being
purchased. For example, new
orders for computers are up 16%
year to date. Surely, companies
will need people to operate this
equipment.
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Google's Image Search
Make-Over Borrows
Ideas From Bing
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) 2007, but retracted it after too
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:45:47 AM many disgruntled folk
complained. Evidently Google's
Google's Image Search is decided it's worth trying this
getting an experimental user- again, given that people are now
interface revamp right now, and more familiar with the whole
some of the ideas appear to process of searching for images.
come from Microsoft's Bing. And especially since Microsoft's
Google has adjusted the site's r i v a l B i n g s e a r c h e n g i n e
look so that where there was actually has an image search
formerly whitespace, there are interface that's more polished in
now images, the images are terms of looks than Google's.
bigger, and Google has made Why should you care about this
descriptive text invisible except change to Google? Partly
upon mouseover. because any change to the
The page is also longer, with world's dominant search engine
more thumbnails in once place. will affect how you interact with
There's also more use of pop- the Web. And partly because the
over windows, and a kind of elements "borrowed" from MS's
click-based interface that's similar UI mean that Microsoft
similar to how you typically may have stolen a tiny march on
interact with elements on Google for once, and that sort of
Apple's iPad--a system that's competition can only be a good
increasingly familiar to PC thing for consumers.
users. To keep up with this news,
Google actually tried something follow me, Kit Eaton, on
similar as an experiment back in Twitter.
6 Business/
Facebook Nears 500-Million-User
Mark, Prepares Self-Loving
"Facebook Stories"
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:38:30 PM
When the first official poster
for the Facebook-themed movie
The Social Network was
unveiled last month, some of us
wondered about that official
tagline. "You don't get to 500
million friends without making
a few enemies." Catchy! But
does Facebook have that many?
The last number quoted was 400
million, at the f8 conference a
few months ago.
Facebook revealed to All
Things D that they do expect to
announce the joining of the 500
millionth Facebook member
sometime this week. It was
bound to happen, of course, but
it's a pretty stunning number of
users. Just one year ago, the
quoted membership was half
that.
So what's Facebook doing to
celebrate this milestone? Turns
out they're having a bit of a love
-in, creating a separate website
within Facebook to show off the
"Facebook Stories" users have
been submitting over the years.
This site will have about 200
stories, with a maximum length
of 420 characters ( the same
number as in a Facebook status
update), chosen by Facebook
itself. But the company is also
asking for new submissions
from users. Said spokesperson
Randi Zuckerberg:
"As we anticipated our 500-
million milestone, and we
wanted to find a different way to
announce and celebrate it," said
Zuckerberg, who has
spearheaded the site’s creation,
in an interview this afternoon.
"In the past, it’s been all about
the numbers and milestones, and
we realized we had never taken
the opportunity to celebrate
users."
Those stories will be organized
both by geographic location and
by theme, and can be both
"Liked" and linked to any user's
profile. By submitting a story to
Facebook, users will be
essentially surrendering all
rights to the story, allowing
Facebook to use it for
commercial or other purpose
without warning, payment, or
notification.
You can submit a story here, if
you'd like. Or, if that's too much
work, might I suggest watching
the trailer for the suspiciously
excellent-looking The Social
Network?
Dan Nosowitz, the author of
this post, can be followed on
Twitter, corresponded with via
email, and stalked in San
Francisco (no link for that one--
you'll have to do the legwork
yourself).
Three Reasons to Tune
Your Portfolio to Sirius
XM Radio (SIRI)
Jim Woods (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:20:00 PM
Filed under: Sirius Satellite
Radio (SIRI), Stocks to Buy
When you mention cult stocks
that trade around a buck, one of
the first names that pops to mind
is Sirius XM Radio ( SIRI). The
satellite radio purveyor is a
classic case of a company with
an exciting new technology with
the potential to revolutionize an
entire industry -- in this case the
so-called "terrestrial" radio
space.
To a large extent, that
revolution has indeed taken
place. Yet, since the July 2008
merger of XM Satellite Radio
and Satellite CD Radio (Sirius),
the new SIRI shares have had a
pretty tough slog. Although the
shares now trade nearly nine
times higher than their March
2009 nadir of a measly 6 cents,
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from the $2.68 they traded at
just two years ago.
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Gossip Grind: Today's Wall Street
Buzz in 60-Seconds (JPM)
Katya Wachtel and Courtney
Comstock (Business Insider)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:38:00 PM
Jamie Dimon might be about to
kill 5,000 back office jobs in the
UK. Apparently JP's offices in
Glasgow and Bournemouth are
under threat, and the bank has
made clear they see expansion
opportunities in Asia over
London.
The Corporate Challenge
Boxing tournament is happening
tonight. Albert Gore Jr. of
Strategic Capital Partner s is
fighting the “The Carnivore”,
aka Ken Cunningham of
Oppenheimer; “Yellow Fever”
aka Andrew Kang of Marathon
Asset Management says his
advantage is his “ability to take
hits,” and Austin “Monkey Fist”
Philbin of Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney likens his style to
Mike Tyson's.
Someone who (informally)
interviewed with the 20-
something year old Spencer
Greenberg, who runs Rebellion
Research told us he asked only
very tough questions about
computer programming and
when he couldn't answer them
said something like,"You really
need a lot more experience in
that area to work for a firm like
ours."
Hedge fund Eton Park Capital
Management bought new office
space in London's West End.
The President and CEO of
Credit Union Atlanta is dead
after being shot by an
undercover cop in New Jersey.
The detective was looking into
reports of sexual activity in a
park when he “tussled” with the
Georgia banker.
Media mogul Sumner Redstone
tried to bribe a reporter via
voicemail and now its all over
the web. "We’re not going to
kill him... We’ just want to talk
to him," Redstone garbles. The
Viacom chief wanted to find out
who told the journo about a girl-
band reality show being forced
to air on MTV, over the
objections of execs. Listen to
Redstone's voicemail here >>>
Upper East Side homeowners
are antsy after the sale of a
sharply discounted townhouse,
on one of Manhattan's most
exclusive blocks. Art collector
and healthcare titan Donald
Rubin slashed his initial asking
price by 25%("one of the
steepest one-time markdowns
for a high-end residential
property"), which could shrink
pricing in the whole
neighborhood.
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Teva (TEVA): A 'Sure
Pick' for the Long-Term
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Newsletters, Teva
Pharm Indus ADR (TEVA),
Stocks to Buy, Israel"With a
sprawling portfolio of 409
different remedies, Teva introduced Venlafaxine, a
Pharmaceuticals ( TEVA) is generic version of Pfizer's anti-
easily the world's largest generic depressant Effexor.
drug maker -- and unless people Continue reading Teva
suddenly stop getting sick, Teva (TEVA): A 'Sure Pick' for the
is one of the surest picks around Long-Term
for long-term investors," says Teva (TEVA): A 'Sure Pick' for
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OMGPOP Hits 3 Million Users
Amid Acquisition Offers
Nicholas Carlson (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:36:00 PM
New York-based "real-time"
multiplayer games site
OMGPOP crossed the 3 million
member mark this month, CEO
Dan Porter tells us.
He says users play games for
over 1 million minutes a day.
Even more exciting, Dan says
the company now fields a fairly
steady stream of acquisition
offers. So far, Dan has had the
pleasure of turning them all
down.
"A number of the large social
game companies have talked to
us, [but] we've not been
interested in trading our stock
for their stock or being another
acquisition in a series of
acquisitions, especially as
things are going great for us."
"We have also been approached
by several major media
companies looking to get into
the social games space but
BP Annouces Planned Asset Sale In Pakistan, Vietnam (BP)
Gus Lubin (Money Game)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:09:00 PM
BP has picked a pound of flesh
to cleave to pay for the oil spill
disaster: Pakistan and Vietnam.
BBC:
given our growth are holding
out right now."
Going forward, OMGPOP
plans to finally launch some of
its games on Facebook "in the
next month or so" and release
some games on other social
platforms as well. Dan is
cautious about the Facebook
launch, which he views as "a
crowded market."
Join the conversation about this
The oil giant has notified
governments in both countries,
although it says it does not yet
have buyers lined up.
Proceeds from selling the
pipelines and other assets, go into a $20bn dedicated fund.
valued at $1.7bn(£1.1bn), will It looks like a relatively minor
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Housing Starts Fall in
June
Connie Madon
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Economic Data,
Housing, Recession The
Commerce Department reported
that June housing starts were
down 5% from May. Total starts
for June were 549,000, the Continue reading Housing
lowest level since October, and Starts Fall in June
fewer than the median estimate Housing Starts Fall in June
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What Will Commercial Aircraft
Look Like in 2050?
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:55:42 AM
Boeing's 747-8 jumbo jet may
represent the best of what
engineers have to offer now, but
Airbus has reached 40 years into
future and come back with a
design that barely resembles the
aircraft of today. The Concept
Plane, revealed this week at the
U.K's Farnborough International
Airshow, is a mash-up of future
aerodynamics, materials, cabin
design and engine technology.
Some of the Concept Plane's
more intriguing features
(courtesy of Wired): a u-shaped
tail, engines wrapped up in
lightweight fuselage, long
wings, shape-shifting seats that
adjust for maximum comfort,
walls that become see-through
at the touch of a button, and
even holographic projections for
passengers. And of course, the
Concept Plane incorporates
alternative energy, including
solar power and passenger body
heat.
We are clearly a long, long way
from seeing anything like this
roll off production lines,
especially considering the turtle-
like timeline of aircraft
manufacturers. But it's always
fun to think about, right?
Ariel Schwartz can be reached
on Twitter or by email.
Business/ Politics/ 9
Biogen Idec Looks
Bullish on Earnings
Guidance
Wade Hansen
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: Earnings Reports,
Stocks to Buy its guidance for 2010 earnings to
Biogen Idec ( BIIB) improved $4.70 per share, up from the
its bullish prospects today as it current consensus of $4.57.
announced earnings of $1.31 per Continue reading Biogen Idec
share -- well above the Wall Looks Bullish on Earnings
Street consensus estimate of Guidance
$1.12 -- and raised its 2010 Biogen Idec Looks Bullish on
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The Heir
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Submitted at 7/19/2010 11:00:00 PM some years back, he was caught
attempting to privately procure
The seven sons of Libya’s tanks for the army unit he
longtime leader, Muammar commands. Then, there’s Saadi,
Qaddafi, have each charted very a s o c c e r e n t h u s i a s t , w h o
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Mohamad, the eldest and least exception to his edict that sports
favored, chairs the Libyan must be played by the people,
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Is experimental well cap making disaster worse? (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Sunday night, but this time more could keep the cap closed at On Monday, Allen budged a gushed into the Gulf over the
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:34:01 AM slowly, and scientists aren't sure least another 24 hours, as long bit, saying unless larger past three months in one of
whether the leaks mean the cap as the company remained alert problems develop, he's not America's worst environmental
N E W O R L E A N S – A n that stopped the flow last week for leaks. inclined to open the cap. crises.
employee on BP's blown-out oil is making things worse. For those whose livelihood Also on the table: Pumping BP PLC said the cost of dealing
w e l l t e l l s g o v e r n m e n t The government's point man on depends on clean waters, drilling mud through the top of with the spill has now reached
investigators he reported a leak the disaster, retired Coast Guard worries about the cap were the cap and into the well bore to nearly $4 billion. The company
of hydraulic fluid from a critical Adm. Thad Allen, will decide tempered by relief that the oil stop up the oil flow. The idea is said it has made payments
safety device but doesn't know again later Tuesday whether to stopped gushing. similar to the failed top kill plan totaling $207 million to settle
if federal regulators were c o n t i n u e t h e t e s t o f t h e "I'm for anything that will stop that couldn't overcome the claims for damages. Almost
notified. experimental cap — meaning the oil from coming," said Capt. pressure of the geyser pushing 116,000 claims have been
Government investigators are the oil would stay blocked in. Ty Fleming, who runs charter up. submitted and more than 67,500
trying to determine whether BP He said Monday the amount of fishing trips in Orange Beach, BP said it could work now payments have been made. BP
missed the leak in the blowout o i l l e a k i n g w a s s o f a r Ala. said Tuesday. "I guess because there's less oil to fight stock was down slightly
preventer, which could have inconsequential. But ever since when you've got how many against, but it wasn't clear how Monday.
averted the April 20 explosion the flow of oil was closed off million gallons pouring out such a method would affect the "I'm hoping that they'll get
that killed 11 workers and Thursday, engineers have been before, and now you have less, cap's stability. Allen said the everything cleanup with the next
loosed millions of gallons of oil glued to underwater cameras it's like comparing a coconut relief well was still the plan for one to two years. Let's things
into the Gulf of Mexico. and pressure and seismic hitting you in the head with a a permanent fix. will get back to normal," said
Ronald Sepulvado, a BP well readings, trying to determine raisin. The raisin would be BP and the government are still Terry Lash, manager of Doc's
site leader, tells a panel of whether the cap is displacing insignificant." trying to understand why Seafood Shack & Oyster Bar in
g o v e r n m e n t i n v e s t i g a t o r s pressure and causing leaks BP and the government had pressure readings from the well Orange Beach, Ala. "We're
Tuesday in suburban New underground, which could make been at odds over the company's are lower than expected. Allen hurting really bad, but there are
Orleans he told his supervisor the sea bed unstable and cause desire to simply leave the cap in offered two possible other restaurants that are worst
about the leak weeks before the the well to collapse. place and employ it like a giant explanations: The reservoir the than we are."
explosion. "As a condition of moving cork in a bottle until a relief well oil is gushing from is dwindling, ___
But Sepulvado says he doesn't forward with the well-integrity being drilled deep underground or there is an undiscovered leak Daly reported from
know if the supervisor told test, BP has to report to us any can be used to plug up the well somewhere down in the well. Washington. Associated Press
federal regulators, as required. anomalies and act on those permanently. Work on a permanent plug is writers Erica Werner in
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS within four hours," Allen said Allen initially said his moving steadily, with crews Washington, David Dishneau in
UPDATE. Check back soon for Monday. preference was to pipe oil drilling into the side of the New Orleans and Phuong Le in
further information. AP's earlier Seepage from the sea floor also through the cap to tankers on the ruptured well from deep Orange Beach, Ala., contributed
story is below. was detected over the weekend surface to reduce the slight underground. By next week, to this report.
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Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme

Court (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) the full Senate, where Kagan's record gives me "Sadly, it appears election-year
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:53:59 AM Democrats have more than confidence that she could be just politics may deprive her of the
enough votes to confirm her. such a voice," said Sen. Dianne vote total that her nomination
WASHINGTON – Pushing But most GOP senators are Feinstein, D-Calif. deserves," said Sen. Chuck
t o w a r d a n e l e c t i o n - y e a r against her, arguing that she If confirmed, Kagan would be Schumer, D-N.Y.
Supreme Court confirmation would put her political views the fourth woman to serve on Politically active conservative
v o t e , a p o l a r i z e d S e n a t e ahead of the law. They point to the court and her swearing-in groups are pressuring GOP
Judiciary Committee Tuesday what they call her liberal agenda would mark the first time that senators to oppose Kagan's
approved Elena Kagan to be the and on such issues as abortion three women have served nomination. The National Rifle Antenna-aid bandages
fourth female justice. and gun rights, and have together on the nine-member Association is urging a "no" your iPhone 4 reception
Just one Republican joined chastised her for the decision as Supreme Court. vote or a filibuster to block issue, hopes for role in
Democrats to approve Kagan's dean of Harvard Law School to The debate over her nomination Kagan outright, saying she's
nomination and send it to the bar military recruiters from the has unfolded against a highly hostile to the 2nd Amendment
next Eminem video
f u l l S e n a t e , w h e r e s h e ' s campus career services office partisan backdrop, at a time right to bear arms, and has Darren Murph (Engadget)
expected to win confirmation because of the policy against when Republicans are focused warned that it will downgrade Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:29:00 PM
within weeks. openly gay soldiers. on making sharp distinctions supporters in candidate ratings
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., "Ms. Kagan's record shows that between themselves and Obama, that are circulated to millions of Oh, Steve -- you should've
broke with his party to cast the she supports an activist judicial who approval ratings are gun-owning voters. known better. You show up and
sole GOP "yes" vote on philosophy, and that her sagging little more than 100 The Susan B. Anthony List, an remove a laptop from a manila
President Obama's nominee to personal and political views days out from midterm anti-abortion rights group, wrote envelope, and Earth's most
succeed retiring Justice John drive her legal views," said Sen. elections. to senators Monday urging creative go and create a case
Paul Stevens. The vote was 13- Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "It's a tough political opposition based on Kagan's fashioned out of one. You go
6. Democrats praised Kagan, the environment out there," noted actions as a Clinton and suggest that Eminem could
"What's in Elena Kagan's heart 50-year-old who has served as Graham. administration official to resist a " come out with a band-aid that
is that of a good person who the Obama administration's Republicans have been quicker broad ban on a procedure goes over the corner" of your
adopts a philosophy I disagree solicitor general, calling her a to announce their opposition to opponents call partial-birth controversial iPhone 4, and
with," Graham said. "She will highly qualified glass ceiling- Kagan than they were last year abortion. well... this happens. You could
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controversy (The Upshot)
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:24:46 AM
An employee of the Department
of Agriculture has resigned,
after conservative media outlets
posted video Monday of her
describing a time in the past
when she hadn't used the "full
force" of her abilities to help a
farmer because he was white.
In the video, Shirley Sherrod,
who is black, recounts having
been asked to help a white
farmer avoid foreclosure. She
says she was torn over how
much to help him because so
many black farmers were also
struggling, and decided to do
just enough to be able to say
she'd tried:
I didn't give him the full force
of what I could do. I did enough.
... So I took him to a white
lawyer. ... So I figured if I
would take him to one of them,
his own kind would take care of
him.
Sherrod spoke to CNN on
Tuesday, explaining that she
told the story of her actions —
which, she said, occurred 24
years ago when she was
working for a nonprofit, not the
USDA — to illustrate how she
has since realized that
everything is not about race but
"about those who have versus
those who do not have." She
says she later became friends
with the farmer and his wife.
Even so, Sherrod resigned after
conservative media activist
Andrew Breitbart posted video
of the story and Fox News
picked it up. She told CNN that
she tried to explain to USDA
officials that the incident was in
the past, but said "for some
reason, the stuff Fox and the tea
party does is scaring the
administration."
In a statement quoted by CNN,
Secretary of Agriculture Tom
Vilsack said of Sherrod's
actions:
There is zero tolerance for
discrimination at USDA, and I
strongly condemn any act of
discrimination against any
person. ... We have been
working hard through the past
18 months to reverse the
checkered civil rights history at
the department and take the
issue of fairness and equality
very seriously.
NAACP CEO Ben Jealous was
also quick to condemn Sherrod's
actions, though. In a statement
Monday posted on Breitbart's
Big Government site, he said:
Her actions were shameful.
While she went on to explain in
the story that she ultimately
realized her mistake, as well as
the common predicament of
working people of all races, she
gave no indication she had
attempted to right the wrong she
had done to this man.
In response, Sherrod told CNN
that it was "unfortunate that the
NAACP would make a
statement without even checking
to see what happened. This was
24 years ago, and I'm telling a
story to try to unite people."
Watch her interview with CNN
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Users of Microsoft's Bing
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Image Search will find the
took the wraps off a new look interface familiar. Bing also
f o r G o o g l e I m a g e s e a r c h uses their version of an "infinite
Tuesday, putting up to 1,000 scroll" to let users scroll through
images on the first results page images without clicking through
and implementing a new image- any number of search results
based ad format. pages, and offers up some
Google Image Search hadn't background information in a
received a major update since thumbnail preview.
2001, said Marissa Mayer, vice On the business end, Google
president of search products and announced that advertisers on
user experience, during a Google Image Search pages will
briefing for reporters at Google's be able to insert an image into
San Francisco offices. The new their text ads. The idea is that
look is designed to reduce the such ads will be more relevant
number of clicks it takes to find and catchy, hopefully enticing
the image you're looking for and more users to click on those ads
to provide more information and generating more traffic for
about a particular image without Google's advertisers and more
having to click through to the revenue for the search company.
result. Around 10 percent of Google
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China rejects world's number one What Amazon didn't say

energy user title (AFP) about e-books
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:57:57 AM saying. summit that it would embark on Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:24:16 PMprovoking columns with
The Financial Times quoted a major energy efficiency drive inflammatory headlines
BEIJING (AFP) – China on IEA chief economist Fatih Birol to curb growth in its world- Executive Editor David Carnoy designed to elicit commentary
Tuesday rejected an assessment as saying: "In the year 2000, the leading greenhouse gas has been covering electronics from readers. Fully Equipped is
from the International Energy US consumed twice as much emissions. for CNET since 2000, arriving the longest continuously running
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Here Are The 5 Reasons Why This Sovereign Debt Crisis Really Is Different
Gregory White (Money Game) this sovereign debt crisis is economies. He argues that this Join the conversation about this
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:54:00 AM different in his latest white changes the dynamics of what story »
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Edward Chancellor of GMO His explanation is that the sovereign debt. Click here to see
LLC has a breakdown of why biggest difference is that the debt problem is in developed the reasons >
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Supreme Court Nominee Kagan

Approved by Panel
(The Christian Post RSS Feed wrote. "They reject judges who prisoners was "well-
| Society) use their power to impose their intentioned." She also called
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:39:47 AM own political views – liberal or parts of the decision "ludicrous."
conservative – on the nation." Later, while serving as a
A Senate panel voted Tuesday Conservative groups say Clinton White House counsel,
to send the Supreme Court confirming Kagan would mean Kagan proved to be
nomination of Elena Kagan to appointing someone who, for "instrumental," as Sessions
the full Senate for confirmation. the next several decades, would stated, in stopping legislation to
After a week's delay on the force taxpayers to support limit partial-birth abortions.
vote, the Senate Judiciary abortion on demand. Democrats hope to confirm
C o m m i t t e e v o t e d 1 3 - 6 t o "We now know that Elena Kagan before the Senate's
support her. Sen. Lindsey Kagan advised Justice Thurgood August recess.
Graham of South Carolina was Marshall, for whom she worked, Kagan is the former dean of
the only Republican to back to vote for compulsory taxpayer Harvard Law School and New Xbox 360 4GB ships August 3rd for
Kagan. funding of abortion on demand," currently the U.S. solicitor
Ahead of the vote, Sen. Jeff said Ken Blackwell, senior general. She was named in May $199, Kinect standalone priced at $149,
Sessions (R-Ala.), ranking f e l l o w for Family by President Obama to replace bundle coming this holiday for $299
member of the committee, E m p o w e r m e n t a t F a m i l y retiring Justice John Paul
announced that he would oppose Research Council. "Kagan Stevens. Ross Miller (Engadget) Kinect sensor, and game -- that's
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A No-Excuses Ranking of Airline s h i p p i n g A u g u s t 3 r d f o r holiday for $299

Dependability [Charts]
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travel, but it's dependent on
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Morning Links - Sandra
Housing starts fall, permits offer ray of hope Bullock Extends a
(Reuters: Top News) table," said Zach Pandl, an May's starts were revised down through consumer spending and Restraining Order
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:15:33 AM economist at Nomura Securities to show a 14.9 percent decline, bank lending. When the housing PopSugar (PopSugar)
International in New York. previously reported as a 10.0 market is healthy households
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:15:00 AM
By Lucia Mutikani Analysts do not believe output percent drop. Compared to June feel wealthier and are inclined to
WASHINGTON| Tue Jul 20, is contracting, but acknowledge last year, starts were down 5.8 spend, while banks profit on
2010 12:15pm EDT the risks of a double-dip percent, the biggest decline mortgage loans. • Sandra Bullock renews a
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - r e c e s s i o n h a v e r i s e n . since November. Last month, home completions restraining order against an
Housing starts hit their lowest Stocks on Wall Street opened Analysts said the housing starts surged a record 26.2 percent to alleged stalker- PopEater
level in eight months in June, down as the report and below were close to finding a bottom an 886,000-unit pace, the • Robert Shapiro already quit as
further evidence the economy forecast earnings from corporate in the aftermath of the tax credit, highest level since December LL's lawyer and she rehires
lost momentum in the second giants like Goldman Sachs citing a modest decline in single 2008. The inventory of houses Shawn Chapman Holley- TMZ
quarter, but a rise in permits soured investor sentiment. family starts last month. under construction dropped 5.5 • The Situation signs up for
offered hope of a pick up in Safe-haven U.S. government Groundbreaking for single- percent to a record low 450,000 season three of Jersey Shore-
homebuilding. bonds rallied, with the yield on family homes slipped 0.7 units in June while units People
The Commerce Department the two-year note dropping to a percent to an annual rate of authorized but not yet started • Bristol Palin and Levi
said on Tuesday housing starts record low. The U.S. dollar rose 454,000 units, the lowest since rose 3.6 percent to 91,500. Johnston aren't doing a reality
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seasonally adjusted annual rate near seven month lows versus multifamily segment tumbled unemployment and a flood of • Jason Bateman moves on after
of 549,000 units, the lowest the yen. 21.5 percent to a 95,000-unit foreclosed properties will his line-cutting incident- Lainey
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straight month of declines in Although housing starts fell last percent rise. construction. • Are Katy Perry and Russell
groundbreaking activity and was month, applications for building "The report suggests that the "With high unemployment and Brand in a hot-and-cold
well below market expectations permits unexpectedly rose 2.1 housing market is trying to find tight credit likely to keep relationship?- Wonderwall
for a 580,000-unit rate. percent to a 586,000-unit annual a bottom after the expiration of demand subdued and more • Did Mel Gibson threaten to
The data was the latest in a p a c e . T h a t i m p l i e d h o m e the homebuyer tax credit," said foreclosures set to add to the kill Oksana and her children?-
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United States' recovery from its up in July, analysts said. Barclays Capital in New York. homes, homebuilding activity is • John Stamos talks about his
longest and deepest recession Building permits dropped 5.9 "We continue to expect housing going to remain weak for a long experience with the
since the 1930s took a step back percent in May and markets had starts to rebound in the second time," said Paul Dales, a U.S. "heartbreaking" trial- ICYDK
in the second quarter, much expected them to slip to a half of the year, albeit at a economist at Capital Economics • Bachelorette Ali talks about
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16 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

BP to sell assets to pay for spill 10 Home

(Reuters: Top News) BP, which said on Monday it
had spent about $3.95 billion so
been extended in 24-hour
increments by the U.S.
-Megrahi.
Cameron, in Washington to
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government, will continue until
Tuesday afternoon and then be
meet Obama and lawmakers,
told National Public Radio: "Of
Solutions
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LONDON/WASHINGTON| an independently administered further extension. Scientists are everything necessary to cap the Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:00:00 AM

Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:20pm EDT $20 billion escrow fund for now weighing another option -- oil well, to clean up the spill, to
L O N D O N / damage claims from the spill. a so-called "static kill" to help pay compensation. I've met with Whether you operate a small
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The Obama administration has smother and plug the leak. BP. I know they want to do that, business out of your home or
British energy giant BP Plc on stressed that the amount is not a This would involve pumping and they will do that." simply have a dedicated spot in
Tuesday announced plans to sell cap on the company's liabilities. heavy drilling mud and possibly Several U.S. lawmakers have a room or closet for handling
assets worth about $1.7 billion The broken well was capped cement into the well, much like called on the United Kingdom to your household paperwork, it
as it seeks to build up cash to last week -- at least temporarily BP's failed "top kill" in May. review its decision to release al- needs to be organized. If it's not,
pay for the worst oil spill in U.S. -- after spilling up to 60,000 The American public and U.S. Megrahi and will talk to who knows whether everything
history. barrels a day of crude for three lawmakers are angry with BP Cameron about the issue. will get done on time?
As British Prime Minister months. for the oil spill, which has "But ... let's be clear about who But organizing a home office is
David Cameron sought to Shares were flat in London and caused an economic and released al-Megrahi; it was a easier said than done. The
defend the energy giant before New York trade after the latest environmental disaster in five government decision in the UK. common, ultra-simple storage
m e e t i n g P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k asset sale announcements. states along the Gulf Coast, hurt It was the wrong decision. It solutions come to mind: shelves
Obama and U.S. senators, the Analysts said investors, who Obama's approval ratings and wasn't the decision of BP. It was for stacking books and boxes,
energy company outlined its reacted positively after the top complicated traditionally close the decision of Scottish bulletin boards for tacking up
latest plans to raise money. U.S. oil spill official said on ties with Britain. ministers," Cameron said. reminders, and filing cabinets
Exactly three months after an Monday that seepage about Illustrating that anger, the (Additional reporting by Doina for filing away the papers you
explosion on an offshore rig three kilometers (1.9 miles) energy giant is facing questions Chiacu and Tabassum Zakaria don't need to see again for a
killed 11 workers and caused from the well was not caused by on an unrelated issue -- whether in Washington, Matthew Lynley while. But what about all that
millions of barrels of crude to a pressure test, were still wary. it had a role in the release last in New York, Writing by other stuff? The steady stream
spill into the Gulf of Mexico, "So much is unknown, the year of Libyan Abdel Basset al- Deborah Charles and Sitaraman of incoming paper and
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Supreme Court nominee Elena
Kagan wins panel nod
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:20:48 PM
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON| Tue Jul 20,
2010 1:20pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) -
Supreme Court nominee Elena
Kagan won approval Tuesday of
a divided Senate Judiciary
Committee, moving her a step
closer to becoming President
Barack Obama's second
appointee on the high court.
With the support of just one
Republican, Lindsey Graham,
the Democratic-led panel voted
13-6 to recommend that the full
Senate confirm the former
Harvard Law school dean to
replace retired Justice John Paul
Stevens, who had been the
court's leading liberal.
If confirmed, Kagan is not
expected to change the
ideological balance of the court,
which in recent years has often
ruled 5-4 with a conservative
majority.
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The full Senate is expected to
confirm Kagan, 50, next month.
The former Clinton White
House lawyer has served the
past year as Obama's solicitor
general, a post that had her
represent the U.S. government
before the high court.
In breaking ranks with fellow
Republicans, Graham said
Obama had chosen "someone
who is qualified, who has the
experience and knowledge to
serve on this court, who is in the
mainstream of liberal
philosophy and understands the
difference between being a
liberal judge and a politician."
"It would not have been
someone I would have chosen,"
said Graham, a conservative.
"But the person who did choose,
President Obama, I think chose
wisely."
Kagan would be Obama's
second life-time appointment to
the nine-member court,
following Sonia Sotomayor,
who was confirmed last year, 68
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Renegade Afghan soldier kills U.S.

civilians
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:17:05 AM the northern city of Mazar-i- -strong, U.S.-dominated force
Sharif, the U.S. military said, starts a gradual withdrawal from
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12:17pm EDT to be an Afghan army trainer." commanders are quick to play
KABUL(Reuters) - Two U.S. "A joint ... investigation is under up their role in joint operations.
civilians and an Afghan soldier w a y t o d e t e r m i n e t h e
were killed on Tuesday in a circumstances surrounding the
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Live From Google’s Image Search Event

Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:40:09 AM

Today at a special press event

in San Francisco, Google is
showcasing some of the latest
features that will be rolling out
on its search engine. The event
will be starting shortly, and
from the decor it’s clear that the
focus of the event will be
Google Image Search. One
announcement will almost
certainly be a new look for
Google Images, but we expect
to hear much more. My live
notes from the event are below;
look for more posts calling out
each major announcement.
Update: Here are the links for
what Google had to say today:
Google Image Search: Over 10
Billion Images, 1 Billion
Pageviews A Day
Google Unveils Image Search
Ads — Your Ads Now With
Picture Thumbnails
Google VP of Search Product
and User Experience Marissa
Mayer has taken the stage. She
says that today is about Google
Images. The site sees 1 billion
page views every day. People
come to the site for a multitude
of reasons: they go to shop, to
find out what something looks
like, what the First Dog looks
like. Education, coloring books.
Entertainment. comprehensiveness. 250 million Kesha, Justin Bieber, Nicki can jump between different to a seed image. Showing using
Ben Ling, Director, Search images when Image Search Minaj, Avatar. types of images (clip art, line it to look at an eagle (and then
Products has taken the stage. He launched in beta in 2001. 10 Nate Smith, Google Images drawing, faces, etc.). ‘Find similar looking eagles). Can
says one of the site’s billion images today. The fastest PM, is on stage. Runs a query Similar Images’ lets you find
LIVE page 21
differnating factors is rising terms of 2010: Haiti, for “Beach”. Showing that you images that are visually similar
20 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Miio: If Twitter were FriendFeed, Facebook and an RSS

Reader. Wait, What?
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) another site where you have to function as a lightweight RSS anyone else. And don't allow top
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:21:10 AM (either manually or reader for those who don't really followed members to dominate
automatically) re-create your do RSS. discussions like on Buzz,
Miio is a new microblogging social graph. It's a place to meet Miio Groups FriendFeed, Twitter and every
service which is a bit like a new people who share your There are also groups within other "social" service out there
m a s h u p b e t w e e n T w i t t e r , interests. also be questions, which then miio, where you can discuss today. Make it more democratic.
FriendFeed, Facebook and an Now whether you're supposed puts miio up against Q&A sites items of interest to you whether And simplify, simplify,
RSS reader. Now typically, we to chat them up or hit on them like Quora, for example. that's sports or iPads. But given simplify. Twitter worked
don't like describing services as w h e n y o u m e e t t h e m i s Miio RSS miio's "early adopter" because it was basic and easy.
a "it's like a this plus a that," but something I wasn't too clear In fact, updates can even be mindshare, the biggest groups That's how miio should start too.
Miio is precisely the kind of about, given that miio asks for RSS feeds thanks to a profile seem to be tech-focused ones It can add in advanced filtering,
service that needs a little help in your "relationship status" and setting which lets you publish like those discussing iOS, location-based services,
the "what this is" department. what you're "looking for" RSS to miio. Already a number startups or even miio competitor metadata and all the rest later
Don't get us wrong, the concept ( f r i e n d s , d a t i n g , c h a t t i n g , of "members" have created miio Google Buzz. on, if necessary. (Or perhaps not
itself isn't bad: a discussion "whatever") via your profile accounts with RSS feeds - as Final Thoughts: Too Much of a at all).
board built around interests as page. Those seem like features you can see here by searching Good Thing, miio Needs to Diet With a redirected singular goal
opposed to popularity. It's just borrowed from Facebook, and for*rss*. However, given the Although miio gets some things like this, miio could have a
that the execution makes the frankly, if miio just wants to be high profile nature of some of right, simplicity is not one of chance at attracting not just the
service seem a little confusing. discussion site, it could do these accounts (ABC, AP, BBC, them. It's not clear yet what tech geeks who sign up for
So what is miio? That's what without them. Miio's Twitter- CBS, Huffington Post, etc.), it exactly miio wants to be when it anything shiny and new but
we're trying to figure out today. Like Dashboard looks like miio created these grows up, why there's a need for those who just like to go online
Sponsor The miio Dashboard is accounts itself for others to this service and who should use and chat about things they're
Miio Members: Find New reminiscent of Twitter, with its follow, which is actually a it. into, no matter what those may
Friends "replies" and "messages to me," handy feature. Our advice to miio, ditch the be. Obviously, the folks behind
When you first sign up for the latter very much like From the Public Timeline or advanced feature set ( it's miio have the technical know-
miio, you can search for friends Twitter's own DMs (direct Search page, you can filter out overwhelming!) and focus on how to build a great service,
across your social networks and messages). But unlike Twitter, whether or not you want to see doing just one thing and doing it now they just need to establish a
email accounts or you can skip you don't just follow tweets, RSS updates or whether you well. Groups, perhaps. Google sharper focus. Good luck, miio!
that step and just search for err...posts, limited to 140 want to see just text updates, Buzz lacks a "groups" feature Discuss
other miio users who share your characters or less. Users can just photos, just videos, just and although FriendFeed has
interests. This is perhaps the key write as much as they want. And questions and so on. If you them, that service lost quite a
f e a t u r e i n m i i o t h a t like Facebook, those status switch the setting to "RSS few members after its Facebook
differentiates it from many other updates can be links, photos, only," miio could effectively acquisition. Do discussion
social networks: it's not yet videos, etc. as well. They can groups and do them better than
E-reader News Edition
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continued from page 19
search for leopard, see visually
similar images, and also look at
the content on the pages the
images appear on to show
related search.
Another feature that has proven
popular: color search. If you run
a search for ‘tulips’ and select
the color pink, it will not just
look for images that contain a
lot of pink pixels, it looks for
images in which the tulips
themselves are ping.
One problem users have is they
have to click an image, find one
they might not like, hit “back”,
go back to the list of images and
repeat — it’s not very efficient.
“That’s why we’re here today”.
There’s still a lot of room for
improvement. “Today we’re
launching the largest redesign of
Google Images since 2001.
Results are now shown on the
screen without text/links — it’s
all images. It has infinite
scrolling (images load
dynamically as you keep
scrolling down the page). You
can get up to 1,000 images on
one page. Second thing they’ve
changed is that you get more
information on the results page.
Clicking an image gives a larger
Happy 30th Birthday, Gisele Bundchen!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:30:00 PM
Gisele Bundchen turns 30
today! From her start modeling
in the 1990s to her becoming a
thumbnail preview, rather than
opening it in a frame — this
makes it easier to quickly
browser through many images.
The snippet accompanying each
image is also more
comprehensive.
What happens when you click
through? First you see a big
version of the image, with a
preview of the website it came
from in the background (no
more annoying frame nested at
the top of the browser).
Announcement for advertisers:
Google Image Search Ads. A
new ad product that allows you
to run your own image as an ad
on Image Search.
Q&A:
A: Ads will appear on the top,
will have an image and ad text.
Q: Is there a fair use issue with
showing full image instead of
thumbnail?
A: We believe our
implementation is within fair
use. That said, when you look at
the page, you do get webpage
behind the image; you get both
in a single view.
Q: Do you have estimate on
percentage of queries that have
commercial use (for ads)?
mother last year, Gisele's three
decades have certainly been full.
Fab's taking a look back at her
impressive career and we love
reminiscing about her young
DiCaprio and seeing her
romance with Leonardo
A: We see a lot of in
entertainment, travel, retail. No
number to announce.
A: It’s going out now, currently
around 10%. Going out over the
course of the week.
Q: How do ads show up/
compete with organic search
results?
A: They always show in the
same place at the top of the
page; they’re separated and
clearly marked as sponsored
links.
Q: Why now?
A: There have been ads before
now, but they’ve generally been
text based. Now we’re doing
images.
Q: Do you see a pricing
premium compared to a text ad?
A: We expect users to get
higher value out of those ads, so
we expect that there should be a
premium over text ads.
A: For now this is just desktop.
We’re launching on modern
browsers first (Chrome, Safari,
Firefox 3.0+, IE8 and 7).
A: There’s no tool to select
time in image search now,but it
will be coming.
A:. Google.com redesign has
been very positive. Because of
left hand nav bar many of our
properties are now seeing
increased volumes of searches.
Q: Images in search ads beyond
image search?
A: Good suggestion, something
we’ll explore.
Vertical Scroll Interface was
hard to get right; had to do
pagination to help make sure
users knew where they were.
Prefetching information about
some images to make sure that
page scrolling is consistent.
Q: Will infinite scroll come to
web search?
A: It’s interesting, it’s possible.
Something to think about, but
may be more difficult with web
search than image search.
Regarding the frame at the top
of the screen in the old version,
Smith says that even in the
original design docs nobody
really liked the frame (they
knew it wasn’t quite right). But
it was very difficult to come up
with a better solution.
marriage to Tom Brady. All the and motherhood.
while, she maintaining her hot Source: WireImage, Bauer-
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exciting past of fashion, love,
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The Hottest Bikini
Body Contest Is Down
to the Elite Eight!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:45:00 AM
We've just entered the fourth
round of this year's Hottest
Bikini Body contest, and now
only eight stars remain. You
were most surprised to see Bar
Refaeli getting knocked out of
the competition, and it's
especially shocking since she
was last year's champ! Bar was
edged out by Brooklyn Decker,
who's now in the running with
Katy Perry, Diane Kruger,
Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry,
Marisa Miller, Jessica Alba, and
Megan Fox. Check out the
official rules, fill out your ballot,
and enter to win an iPhone 4
before we move on to the Final
Four on Friday at midnight!
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Revolution
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:23:36 PM
In the read/write era, enterprise
technology has been playing
catchup with the consumer
sector, integrating social
networking, wikis and activities
streams into business-grade
applications. But that hasn't
always been the case - look at
the evolution of e-mail, which
was originally nurtured by
enterprises. And there's at least
one area in which enterprises are
leading the pack today: point
and click app creation and the
data mashups that feed them.
Sponsor
The easy creation of apps and
mashups are particularly of
value to enterprises as they
enable an organization to vet,
purchase and deploy an app
platform once and then let users
create the tools they need - so
long as the platform is able to
guarantee enterprise-grade
compliance. In a blog post titled
" Are enterprise mashups the
Excel of our era?" Heather
Havenstein wrote in 2008: Users
have a long laundry list of
projects they need to get done
that typically fall below the
radar of IT, which is usually
distracted with much bigger
problems like keeping the lights
and pipes on and developing
massive back-office
applications.
Mashups allow users to get this
laundry list of needs met more
quickly without the delays or
costs commonly associated with
going the normal route through
IT.
The new version of KickApps
Studio will support drag and
drop authoring of data driven
and multimedia iPhone/iPad
ready HTML5 apps, KickApps
Corporation announced today.
The new functionality will
compliment the platform's drag-
and-drop Flash authoring tools.
KickApps Studio screenshot
KickApps Studio, launched two
years ago and, is capable of
various data mashup
functionality, is mostly focused
on marketing, not on internal
use. JackBe, on the other hand,
is focused on internal app use.
We covered their internal app
store platform recently. The
company's products, revolving
around Presto Hub, are
dedicated to creating secure,
enterprise-grade apps from a
point and click environment.
Adam Greenfield, author of
Everyware and outgoing head of
design direction for service and
user-interface design at Nokia,
mocked-up his vision for a
consumer-oriented app creation
and data mashup platform he
called " Momcom" in response
to Google App Inventor.
Greenfield's concept is a simple,
point-and-click interface for
creating mobile apps powered
by data mashups.
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Compare Greenfield's mock-up
above with this screenshot of
JackBe's Presto Wires:
Visual programming has a long
history, starting with perhaps
Pygmalion and popularized by
educational languages like
Squeak and the audio and
multimedia language MAX/
MSP. But thanks to projects like
Yahoo! Pipes and Lily, it's a
paradigm that's regaining
popularity.
Visual mashup app
programming faces many
obstacles: performance,
usability (both for the creation
and use of apps) and access to
the data and APIs needed. The
latter problem, at least, is being
worked on by various
companies. Mashery helping
companies create APIs.
Dapper(which seems to be more
focused display advertising
now) and Kapow, for example,
scrape data from sites that don't
have XML feeds and offers it up
in a variety of formats.
As we've previously reported,
mashups are the most popular
"web 2.0" technology in
enterprises, and Forrester
estimates the enterprise mashup
market will be worth $700
Million by 2013. Discuss
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Teen trades old cell phone on Craigslist, gets Porsche

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:58:17 AM
This is the story of enterprise in
hard times. It is the story of a
teen who dedicated himself to
improving his lot. It is the story
of how one young man turned
an old cell phone into a Porsche.
Without any money changing
hands.
Steven Ortiz is a man who
understands what it is to be
committed. So, according to the
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, he
spent around six hours a day on
his iPhone, trawling Craigslist's
barter section, seeking deals that
would somehow make his asset
base seem more impressive.
While his enterprise hasn't quite
reached the scale of the man
who traded one red paperclip
and ultimately ended up with a
house, it is still quite something
for a 15 year old to enjoy this
level of both smarts and
dedication.
Ortiz began, around two years
ago, with an old cell phone he
had been given by a friend. He
traded it for a better cell phone.
Which he subsequently traded
for an iPod Touch. Some people
would be happy to have traded
an old cell phone for an iPod
Touch. But not Ortiz. He told
the Tribune that he managed to
barter the iPod Touch up to a
dirt bike, then another.
A MacBook Pro came into his
possession, before he somehow
managed to obtain a Toyota
4Runner.
The 4Runner was less useful to
him than it might have been to
have the money. Here I have
this CD player lying around that
I don't use anymore, maybe I
can trade.'"
Naturally, there are some who
question whether he is merely a
growing con man. But he insists
that people have certain needs
and are prepared to trade away
other, perhaps more valuable,
things for those needs to be met.
By the way, should you be in
need of a 2000 Porsche Boxster
S convertible, I have a feeling
there may be one going soon.
Steven is finding it difficult,
having lost his job in a sushi
restaurant, to meet the running
costs on this fine car. So what
are you going to offer him? A
some, as he was only 15 at the he got his 2000 Porsche Boxster Lexus? A house? Or perhaps an
time. So he bartered that for a S convertible. internship with Warren Buffett?
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collector's item. And that's how need a new phone, but I don't

Cutest Kid of the Day: Presley

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Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:00:00 AM
Each day we will post an
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of our readers' cute kids.
Presley showing off her
muscles to distract from the
spaghetti she put in her hair and
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The history of Apple and AT&T's Pogoplug Gets Down to

marriage of convenience Business
Chris Rawson (The Unofficial on Verizon's CDMA network, Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) and it was also unlikely that Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM

Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:00:00 AM Verizon would handle the

additional data load any better Pogoplug, the makers of a
Filed under: iPhone Wired has than AT&T had. device to publish the content of
just published a lengthy article As an international iPhone user, your USB drive to the Internet,
that outlines the often my own experience with AT&T has launched Pogoplug Biz. Biz
uncomfortable partnership has been mercifully brief and allows a company the ability to
between Apple and AT&T. The limited to them telling me that hook up to four external drives
overall thread of the article isn't they wouldn't allow me to get a to the Internet, providing them
anything new. Apple isn't happy prepaid SIM so that I could use with "an extensible cloud • Metrics
with AT&T's flimsy network my New Zealand iPhone in the storage solution with no • Web View-Only Sharing:
infrastructure; meanwhile, t o m e s s u p t h e c o n s u m e r US for two weeks. After reading monthly fees." share viewable files over the
AT&T, though certainly happy experience on the iPhone to the Wired piece (which is an A robust customization element web while preventing them from
with the increased profits it's make your network tenable," intriguing read and highly allows users to change the being downloaded
gained thanks to the iPhone, s a i d a n A p p l e e m p l o y e e recommended), I still can't say interface of their business's • Multiple Users
feels as though Apple hasn't (according to Wired). When that I'm sympathetic toward Pogoplug to reflect company • Remote backup: continuously
held up its end of the whole AT&T threatened to escalate the AT&T. I will say that it seems identity and branding. Emails mirror all or part of your
"partnership" angle, since Apple matter to its executives, Apple like any US carrier who tied can be customized in the same Pogoplug storage to a second
is insisting that AT&T solve its staffers said, "Fine, we'll itself to the iPhone in 2007 way. Domain and email address Pogoplug in a remote location
network problems on its own. escalate it to Steve and see who would likely have found itself in identities are customizable as
What's most interesting and wins." the same state as AT&T. well. ReadWriteWeb covered
entertaining about the article are Apparently, an AT&T rep once AT&T's profits are up, but its Sponsor Pogoplug's cloud printing
some of the anecdotes. Within a suggested that Steve Jobs wear a reputation is circling the drain, Additional enterprise-specific feature Discuss
few months of the iPhone's business suit to a meeting with ... and its image is unlikely to features include:
introduction in 2007, AT&T, AT&T's board of directors. The recover anytime soon.
finding itself pummelled by response? "We're Apple. We TUAW The history of Apple
unprecedented demands on its don't wear suits. We don't even a n d A T & T ' s m a r r i a g e o f
network, met with Apple and own suits." At the same time, convenience originally appeared
tried to get the company to put Steve Jobs considered severing o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e
some data-sipping restrictions ties with AT&T only a few Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 20 Jul
on the device. AT&T wanted months after the iPhone's 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see
YouTube to run only over Wi- launch. Only two things kept our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft prices Kinect at $149, adds Top 10 Appliances We

4GB console Can't Live Without
(CNET News.com) uses the same smaller, and just north of 452,000 units, (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) stories behind these inventions,
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:00:00 AM quieter form factor introduced at putting it on top of Sony's Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:00:00 AM along with a few coincidences,
the end of Microsoft's E3 press PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's mysteries and lucky accidents.
The rumors of a $149 price tag briefing. The new unit, which Wii, despite those consoles If you prepared a list of Leaps in our technical know-
for Microsoft's Kinect accessory can be found in the $299 Kinect having a two-and-a-half-week appliances you couldn't live how and our knack for using
for the Xbox 360 were true. console bundle, as well as on its lead. without, how long would it be? new knowledge to build on
Microsoft on Tuesday finally own for $199, ships with 4GB As for why Microsoft didn't Before you answer that established ideas have resulted
announced the pricing for both a of built-in flash memory, and announce Kinect pricing at last question, imagine a typical day in inventions that have shaped
standalone Kinect bundle, which features a matte paint job month's E3, Greenberg said it in your life. Did an alarm clock our society and ways of
will ship with the Kinect instead of the high-gloss finish was due to not wanting to wake you this morning? Did you thinking. Equally astonishing is
h a r d w a r e a n d t h e K i n e c t found in the current Xbox 360 oversaturate its press briefing take a shower or brush your the broad availability of these
Adventures game for $149, as "S" units. The console will with too much news. "We had a teeth? Did you grab a drink technologies that make them
well as a bundle of the Xbox otherwise remain the same as tremendous amount of news," from the fridge? Has the heat or some important creature
360 hardware, a Kinect unit, and the $299 Xbox unit, with front Greenberg said. "We had to air conditioning kicked on yet to comforts available to huge
Kinect Adventures for $299. and back USB ports, a Kinect- unveil the Kinect name, all the keep you comfortably warm or numbers of people around the
Rumors of the $149 price tag specific I/O port, and built-in experiences, and the brand new cool? Were the socks you put world.
began circulating months ago, 802.11n Wi-Fi. consoles. We had more than on fresh from the laundry room? Let's explore 10 appliances that
and were all but confirmed just According to Microsoft director enough to talk about there." Despite the fast pace of modern enhance our lives and take a
a w e e k a f t e r E 3 w h e n of product management Aaron Kinect, and the new 4GB living, with its uncertainties and glimpse at the how, when and
Microsoft's own online store Greenberg, who spoke to CNET console are shipping worldwide challenges, many conveniences why of their existence. Some of
listed the peripheral for that on Monday, the new version of on November 3. and small delights are the result these choices may surprise you,
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Breaking: Lindsay Lohan Cuffed and Bound For Jail

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:15:00 AM
Lindsay Lohan reported to an
LA court this morning to check
in with Judge Marsha Revel
before reporting to jail. She had
some last-minute upheavals in
her legal representation, after
her just-hired lawyer Robert
Shapiro quit and Shawn
Chapman Holley was rehired.
Amid rumors that she's not
ready to be incarcerated, LL
tweeted last night that she never
expected to go to prison - she
wrote, "the only 'bookings' that
i'm familiar with are Disney
Films, never thought that I'd be
'booking' into Jail. . . eeeks."
She was reportedly cuffed and is
now on her way to the Lynwood To see more Lindsay at court,
Correctional Facility, where just read more.
she's expected to serve only View 5 Photos ›
around 25 percent of her 90-day
sentence.
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FileMaker Go launches today for iPad and iPhone
Michael Rose (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:15:00 AM
Filed under: Software, iPhone,
iPad Mobile databases: they're a
good thing, as Martha might
say. Back when Palm ruled the
handheld space and HanDBase
was the king of the data
portability castle, it might have
been hard to imagine the iPhone
/iPad world of today -- but the
challenge of taking your data
with you on the road is still just
as present now as it was a
decade ago.
For Mac users, and a hearty
helping of Windows users too,
the database of choice for small
to medium business and home
use is FileMaker. Although
there's already a third-party
mobility solution for FileMaker
DBs and the iDevices (via the
US$9.99 FMTouch application
and development suite), the
notion of FileMaker on the
move gets a big authenticity
boost today as the Apple
subsidiary announces FileMaker
Go for the iPhone and iPad.
The two separate applications
A Guide to Meditation for the Rest of Us [Mind Hacks]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:00:00 AM
Believe it or not, you can
($19.99 for the iPhone/iPod
touch version, $39.99 for the
iPad version) don't allow the
creation of new databases --
you'll need FileMaker 7 or
higher for Mac or Windows to
tackle that. Once your databases
are created, however, you can
access them remotely over WiFi
or 3G (given the proper
networking configuration for
improve your concentration and
slow down your day-to-day life
with meditation without ever
uttering the word "chakra."
your server, or a hosted FM
provider) and update records,
search and browse on the fly.
You can also operate in fully
mobile mode, with a copy of
your database sent via iTunes,
email, Dropbox, box.net, etc.
and stored in its entirety on the
iDevice. While there's no record
-level sync built into the product
that would allow you to 'rejoin' a
Incense, yoga pants, and
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database to its parent once it's
been on the road, FileMaker VP
Ryan Rosenberg told us that
there are script-based sync
solutions available from
FileMaker's developer network
if you have to reconcile
detached DBs back into a master Participate in the Thing a
file. Day Challenge for No-
We'll be diving into these apps
with gusto once they are
Stress Decluttering
available on the App Store later [Clutter]
today. The potential for mobile Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
recordkeeping, audit and
Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:30:00 AM
customer service applications
built on top of FileMaker and It's easy to put off decluttering
the iPad is huge -- can't wait to your home and getting out from
see what some of the under your junk. Next weekend,
experienced FileMaker next month, anytime but now,
development folk can do with all seem like more comfortable
this new capability. times to start. The Thing A Day
TUAW FileMaker Go launches Challenge breaks it down into
today for iPad and iPhone single daily steps. More »
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Facebook: As Unpopular as Airlines, Video: SpaceShipTwo's
Cable Companies & the IRS
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:36:51 PM
A report released this morning
by the American Consumer
Satisfaction Index and ForeSee
Results states it as plainly as can
be stated: "Despite being the
most popular website in
America, consumers don't like
Facebook". The world's largest
social networking site, which
boasts more than 500 million
users worldwide, now occupies
the dismal depths where airlines,
cable companies, IRS e-filers,
pineapple on pizza and those
who TYPE IN ALL CAPS
reside.
According to the survey,
Facebook landed "in the bottom
5% of all measured private
sector companies", scoring a 64
on the ACSI's 100-point scale,
leading the lowest entry in the
social media category -
MySpace - by just one point.
Sponsor
Bringing Up Baby: I Don’t Think My Baby Likes Me
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM
Last night Rory came home
from work at a reasonable
hour—7 instead of, say, 9—so
First Crewed Flight
Larry Freed, CEO of ForeSee
Results, says in the release that
the reasons for users
dissatisfaction with Facebook
are varied, but lie along some
expected lines of tension.
"Facebook is a phenomenal
success, so we were not
expecting to see it score so
poorly with consumers," said
Freed. "At the same time, our
research shows that privacy
concerns, frequent changes to
the website, and
commercialization and
advertising adversely affect the
consumer experience. Compare
that to Wikipedia, which is a
non-profit that has had the same
user interface for years, and it's
clear that while innovation is
critical, sometimes consumers
prefer evolution to revolution."
The Internet Social Media
category - new to the index this
that I could take a break and
take care of some non-baby
tasks. I was only gone for a few
hours, but I missed my baby!
Aside from two (brief) trips to
the gym, it was the only time I’d
really spent away from him in
year - had only five entries, with
MySpace and Facebook
bringing up the tail end.
Wikipedia and YouTube led the
pack, with scores of 77 and 73
respectively. We have to say, it's
odd that the "Internet Social
Media" category - a
categorization that could contain
hundreds of sites - has this few
entries, but even in the other
categories released this month,
none scored as low as Facebook
and MySpace.
The site has run into continual
trouble over the past year, from
backlash after repeatedly
changing its privacy settings to
simply redesigning the user
interface, and it looks like the
numbers reflect this. But will
these numbers reflect whether or
not consumers actually use the
site?
As usual, we expect consumer
dissatisfaction to mean little, if
anything, until a better
alternative comes along. Discuss
the past six weeks.
I thought when I got home that
maybe I’d get some indication
that Emmett missed me, too.
After all, I’ve been his go-to girl
for meals, diaper changes, burp
assistance, tummy time, song
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Jason Paur (Wired Top the first glide flight of the
Stories) spacecraft.
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:32:00 AM There have been several
preparation flights during the
SpaceShipTwo, also known as last month, suggesting the team
the VSS Enterprise, had made is preparing for the glide flight
its first flight with a crew even though no date has been
aboard, and we've got video. released. Though with the
Thursday's flight marked the Farnborough International
first time a captive-carry flight Airshow taking place this week
o f t h e s p a c e c r a f t a n d i t s and Airventure in Oshkosh,
mothership, Eve, has included Wisconsin, next week, the
pilots on SpaceShipTwo. The media-savvy Virgin Galactic
video includes preparation of team has ample motivation to
the morning flight and air-to-air create a headline or two.
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Violet for the iPad: an interactive Starting Tomorrow, Get

children's book
David Winograd (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: App Review
identity. The world of Violet has
a consistent look and a great
attention to detail. When the
family gathers around the
breakfast table after one of
There is a spider that swings
when touched. If the
accelerometer was used, as in
Alice, it would be much more
apparent. I can imagine small
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Prabal, Alex, Joseph & Co.
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Violet for the iPad(US$2.99) Violet's exploits, they look kids getting frustrated by
from My Black Dog Books is absolutely exhausted, but you'll tapping on everything and not Last month, Swarovski
the latest entry in the emerging have to read the book to see getting paid off very often. A unveiled a collection of one off
field of interactive books for why. There are two specific real design problem is that you accessories from the designers
children. Geared at children tasks to perform in the book, need to tap on a page in order to nominated for the Swarovski
ages 4 and up, Violet is the first and I think it was a good design display an arrow that, when CFDA Award for Emerging
of a series of stories about a choice to have the book do it if tapped on again, gets you to the Designers.
charming little girl with a big the child doesn't. next page. I think the arrow On the accessories side,
secret. The 20 page book tells a Unfortunately, I found a should be persistent and Alexander Wang studded his
nice little tale, along with a number of problems with the eliminate an unneeded tap on signature Rocco Duffel with while Jason Wu wove sheer
m o r a l , a n d i t i n t r o d u c e s execution of the app, which may every page. black crystal studs, Eddie Borgo ones across the bodice of a nude
elements that will be continued frustrate small children. There is TUAW Violet for the iPad: an stuck especially sharp clear and dress, and Prabal Gurung
in future books. scant interactivity to be found. interactive children's book yellow crystals into silver cages, splattered black crystals across a
Allison Keeme's illustrations With many possibilities for originally appeared on The and Dana Lorenz worked her sharp white dress — and now,
are beautifully drawn, and they interaction, only a small number Unofficial Apple Weblog usual magic with pearls, metal finally, you can buy them.
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children will enjoy reading anything appears on page five, blazer with sharp black crystals
about Violet and her secret and you might easily miss it.

The Big M: Mind’s Eye

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think dirty jeans, video games,
gas station food and couches.
But now, a partnership between
ABC News and streaming music
service Slacker Radio is looking
to redefine our knee-jerk
association, bringing news to
those who can't care enough to
actively chose their music. (We
jest.)
The partnership was first
announced back in January at
the Consumer Electronics Show,
but is finally going live today.
Sponsor
Slacker Radio is a music
recommendation engine much
like Pandora, in that it lets you
chose an artist or song and then
creates a streaming music
station based on that selection.
The service also provides a
number of pre-set stations to
chose from, such as "Indie Hits"
or non-vocal "Classic Jazz". The
service is available on a number
of devices, including iPhones,
Android, Palm and Windows
phones.
The partnership is the first
we've seen between a streaming
music service and a news
service. ABC's content will be
available in two ways - as a
separate stream of news and as a
top of the hour update, which
will interrupt streaming music
with a news update each hour.
The service will initially be
available to Slacker Radio Basic
listeners for 14 days, while
Slacker Radio Plus listeners,
who pay a $3.99 monthly fee,
will have unlimited access to the
content.
According to the site, news will
consist of "a mix of the day's
most compelling news including
Headlines, US and World news,
Sports, Business, Politics and
more" and will be added
throughout the day. According
to the release, the news station
"features segments from ABC
News programs, including
"Good Morning America"
anchored by Robin Roberts,
George Stephanopoulos, Juju
Chang and Sam Champion,
"Nightline" anchored by Terry
Moran, Cynthia McFadden and
Martin Bashir and much more."
Users will have the ability to
skip and queue stories just as
they can with music.
Overall, we really like the idea
of an hourly real-world
interruption of our streaming
music and hope to see a similar
option make its way into other
services. Discuss
Beta Increases Protection on a First-
Come, First-Serve Basis [Beta Beat]
Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:40:00 AM
Windows only: Microsoft today
released a new, limited beta for
their increasingly popular anti-
malware application, Microsoft
Security Essentials. The beta
introduces a new protection
engine claiming better account, Microsoft Security
performance and protection, a Essentials beta is available to a
network inspection system limited number of users on a
designed to protect against first-come, first-serve basis, so
network exploits, token if you're interested, we'd suggest
Windows Firewall integration you get it while it's hot. Other
(doesn't sound all that than that, it's a free download
impressive), and enhanced web for Windows only, available in
protection for anyone who 32- and 64-bit flavors. [
happens to be using Internet Windows Team Blog] More »
Explorer. Available here after
signing in with a Windows Live

iLife 2010 coming in time for back-to-school?

Michael Grothaus (The features and the book's cover on at the beginning of the year, time for back-to-school?
Unofficial Apple Weblog clearly lists the five current iLife but with Apple abandoning originally appeared on The
(TUAW)) apps. Macworld future release dates Unofficial Apple Weblog
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:30:00 PM For now we are posting this for seem to be up in the air. One (TUAW) on Tue, 20 Jul 2010
Filed under: iLife A reader sent interest's sake only. While For thing that does make sense if the 13:30:00 EST. Please see our
us a link to an iLife '10 for Dummies is one of the largest iLife '10 for Dummies book is terms for use of feeds.
Dummies book on Amazon how-to publishers in the world, real, is that Apple would start Permalink| Email this|
France. The book is set for it's not clear if Apple would give targeting an iLife update in time Comments
release on September 23rd, them access to pre-release for back-to-school sales to give
suggesting an updated iLife versions of iLife software in added value to those students
software release on or around order to release a book around buying a new Mac.
that date. A Google translation the same time the software is months ago in January 2009. Thanks to reader DA360 for the
of the book's description doesn't released. For years a new iLife release find.
mention any new apps or iLife was last updated over 17 was something you could count TUAW iLife 2010 coming in
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Google Image Search: Over 10 Billion Images, 1 Billion

Pageviews A Day
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:51:15 AM
Today at Google’s search event
in San Francisco, Vice President
of Search Product and User
Experience, Marissa Mayer,
announced a revamp of Google
Images — the company’s image
search product. The service
garners more than a billion
pageviews a day for Google,
Mayer said.
Director of Search Products,
Ben Ling, then took the stage to
show off some of the changes
(which we previewed here).
First, he gave some stats. When
Google Images launched in
2001, 250 million images were
indexed. By 2005, this was up to
a billion images. Now, in 2010,
they’re over 10 billion images
indexed, Ling said.
People are using Google image
search for all kinds of things —
such as looking for products.
But Ling said that the fastest
rising image search terms in
2010 are: Haiti, Kesha, Justin
Bieber, Nicki Minaj, and
Avatar.
Yes, Justin Bieber. You’re
welcome, Internet.
Google Image Search has
hundreds of millions of users,
Ling said. Today, Google is
launching the largest revamp of
the product since it launched in
2001.
The main emphasis now is on
showing hundreds or thousands
of images on a single
(continuously scrolling) page.
And the thumbnails for those
images are larger. Hovering
over them shows the meta data
for that image. Clicking on the
image takes you to the page that
the image resides on, but the
image is overlaid very large
with the page dimmed in the
background. It’s all about the
image now.
Google said this new image
search will begin rolling out
today to users (about 10% have
it right now). The roll-out will
continue throughout this week.
This product will work in
“modern browsers” — which is
Google’s cute way of saying “all
browsers by IE 6.”
Google also unveiled a new
Google Image Search Ad
product at the event today.
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Twitter’s Underwhelming Second @EarlyBird Offer Goes

Live
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) with free shipping. exactly$348. Of course the
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:51:54 AM As we wrote in our previous Twitter-sponsored deal includes
coverage, Twitter is partnering free shipping.
Last week Twitter’s Earlybird with advertisers to distribute So in the end, it’s an ok deal.
took flight with its first deal, offers via the @EarlyBird Nothing really spectacular,
tickets for “The Sorcerer’s a c c o u n t , a n d t h e y g e t t o considering all the hype around
Apprentice,” a film from Walt determine the terms of the offer, EarlyBird. Last week’s deal was
Disney Pictures and Jerry including availability, amount, also mediocre, considering the
Bruckheimer Films. Today, and pricing. Twitter says that terrible reviews the movie
Twitter is unveiling its second deals will be published via the received. CrunchBase
d e a l f r o m t h e n e w s a l e s @EarlyBird handle several original list price is $450), so $405 but Walmart has the same Information Twitter Information
initiative, a TV. The new deal times a week. you’ll get a little less than $40 TV for only$358, which is just provided by CrunchBase
offers a 32-inch Vizio HDTV So is it a good deal? The TV is discount plus free shipping. On $10 more than the discount.
for $349.99 at Target, along listed on Target as $388 (the Amazon the TV is listed for Sam’s Club has the same TV for
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Ngmoco's We Farm now available in Canada

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM

Filed under: iPhone, App Store

Ngmoco has released the
followup to its popular We Rule
game on the Canadian App
Store. We Farm is, as you can
see above, very similar to We
Rule, with the main difference
being that the game is set on a
farm rather than in a medieval
fantasy world. You'll be able to
raise animals, plant vegetables,
build up a barnyard, and of
course, trade and share with
friends to earn experience. We
Rule originally launched in
Canada back in February
(Ngmoco likes to use America's
neighbors to the north as a
testing ground before releasing
their apps worldwide), and then
it was released to everyone in
March, so we can probably
expect the same time frame for
We Farm.
Will it be as big a hit as We
Rule was? It's hard to tell; the
gameplay is certainly proven
already, but one of the draws of
We Rule was that it wasn't just a
FarmVille clone, and obviously,
this seems to be borrowing at
least the setting from Zynga's
popular title. Of course, another
reason that We Rule was so
popular was because it had the
iPhone all to itself, and now
FarmVille is up and running.
We'll see, though. Ngmoco has
certainly shown that it's
constantly learning about how to
find success on the App Store;
I'm sure the company has taken
lessons from We Rule and
GodFinger, not to mention that
their development method
allows for plenty of quick
updates and changes if things
don't work out right away. It's
been fascinating to watch
Ngmoco's experiment, and We
Farm (along with We City,
another adaptation planned for
release soon) is their next step.
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now available in Canada
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Google Unveils Image
Search Ads — Your Ads
Now With Picture
Thumbnails
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:01:25 PM
At its search event today,
Google launched a new product
that’s a part of Google Images:
Google Image Search Ads.
Basically, this allows anyone to
advertise alongside Google
Image searches in a new, more
visual way.
“ This allows you to reach
hundreds of million of users
who are searching on Google on
a daily basis,” director of search
products Ben Ling says. And
Google Images is actually doing
GOOGLE page 32

Brad Pitt Goes Casual to Play Ball, Then Dresses Up to Join

Angelina For Salt
PopSugar (PopSugar) It was a long afternoon on set, including Angelina's father, Jon, PopSugar Rush, so make sure to
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM but Brad soon changed out of and brother, James, as well as stay tuned for our report from
his sportswear to put on his Tom her costar Liev Schreiber and the scene!
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yesterday to film Moneyball at her big LA premiere of Salt. We have exclusive video from
with his costar Jonah Hill in LA. There were plenty of stars on t h e e v e n t ' s b l a c k c a r p e t , the screening to come on
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over a billion pageviews a day, open for anyone to use.

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Google Set To Unveil New Look To Google
Images
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:28:30 AM
We’re here in San Francisco for
a Google Search event. It’s not
yet clear what this event will be
about, but we know Marissa
Mayer will be on hand to show
off some new things. One of
those things definitely looks to
be a revamping of Google
Images. Google has been bucket
testing changes to the service
over the past week or so.
The room we’re in has walls
covered in a mural with large
pictures. This matches some of
the bucket test designs we’ve
seen. Rather than show the meta
data below images, it now
appears that you can hover (or
click) over an image to enlarge
it and show the meta data.
In other words, yes, it looks
more like Bing.
The event should be starting
relatively shortly. Stay tuned for
more.
Update: Here are the links for
what Google had to say today:
Google Image Search: Over 10
Billion Images, 1 Billion
Pageviews A Day
Google Unveils Image Search
Ads — Your Ads Now With
Picture Thumbnails
Live From Google’s Image
Search Event
[thanks Roi] CrunchBase
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What's On Tonight:
'Hell's Kitchen,' 'Pretty
Little Liars,' 'White
Collar,' 'Deadliest Catch'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:20:00 AM
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
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'Wipeout'
FOX:'Hell's Kitchen'-- Two
hours
NBC:'Losing It With Jillian'
ABC Family:'Pretty Little Liars'
Cartoon Network:'Unnatural
History'
History:'Most Extreme
Airports'
Nick:'The Penguins of
Madagascar'
The rest of the schedule, and
the late night talk shows, after
the jump.
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Pogoplug Biz adds corporate skinning, usage stats
and other metrics
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM
Remember that second
generation Pogoplug we
unboxed last December? Meet
its corporate cousin, fresh out of
LinkedIn and ready for that 40
hour work week. For all intents
and purposes, the Pogoplug Biz
is really a Pogoplug with just a
few extra features that business
owners may appreciate, such as
enabling said owners to use their
own domain name(s) and
customize (or "skin") the user
interface and email templates.
The device -- which can connect
up to four external HDDs to the
internet -- also keeps track of
how many visits, streams and
downloads your files rack up,
and you can even claim your
own custom email addresses to
let clients email files directly to
the Pogoplug. The full list of
extras awaits you past the break,
and you can pre-order one for
$299 (with lifetime Pogoplug
service) down in the source link.
Gallery: Pogoplug Biz
Continue reading Pogoplug Biz
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'Modern Family' Co-
Creators Dissolve
Partnership, But Will
Still Run Show Together
Chris Harnick (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:40:00 AM
Filed under: TV News The two
dads of'Modern Family' are
divorcing. No, not Cam and
Mitchell, but creators Steve
Levitan and Christopher Lloyd.
According to Vulture, Lloyd
and Levitan, the executive
producers and showrunners of
the hit comedy, have dissolved
their four-year business
partnership.
Don't fret over the future of the
show just yet, the duo will stay
on writing and running 'Modern
stats and other metrics
Family,' but as individuals.
Pogoplug Biz adds corporate
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The GOP's Counterinsurgency by Spenders

(AEI.Org: Articles) insurgency of more moderate become the state's next senator. who is running slightly ahead opponent is, conveniently, of
Submitted at 7/19/2010 6:00:00 PM Republicans for whom fiscal And in Illinois, moderate Secretary of State Robin Greek descent) and declared that
discipline is not a top priority. Republican Rep. Mark Kirk Carnahan in Missouri. Like "Spending is not the way to go."
The Republican establishment With the departure of Sen. holds a narrow lead in the Hoeven, Blunt is a conservative Even Castle's campaign Web
in Washington is bracing itself Arlen Specter to the Democratic Illinois Senate race for Obama's on many fronts--but spending is site warns, "The federal debt
for an influx of fiscally P a r t y , i t s e e m e d a s i f seat. Both have weak records on not one of them. Blunt has been continues to grow out of control
conservative insurgents this fall, Republican moderates were a fiscal issues. Castle rates a a prolific earmarker during his and threatens American
as Tea Party candidates from dying breed. All that was left of lowly "C" from the National 12 years in Congress. In 2010 financial stability and economic
Utah, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, the troika that put President Taxpayers Union, while Kirk alone, he has requested $153 growth." Of course, how they
Colorado, Wisconsin, Nevada Obama's $787 billion stimulus gets a slightly better "C+" million in earmarks--prompting vote once elected is a different
and other states have either over the top were the women rating. Carnahan to swear off all story.
secured their party's Senate from Maine--Sen. Susan Collins In North Dakota, Republican earmarks in a bid to get to the In this year's election, the
nominations or are running and Sen. Olympia Snowe. But Gov. John Hoeven has a huge right of Blunt on fiscal issues. driving force behind the
s t r o n g . B e m o a n i n g t h e then Sen. Scott Brown arrived in lead over his Democratic Carnahan campaigns as if she conservative insurgency is a
earthquake their arrival on January, and he has hewed a opponent and will almost were the Tea Party candidate, demand for fiscal responsibility.
Capitol Hill portends, former centrist course--recently joining certainly be elected to replace accusing Blunt of having So it is ironic that the GOP
Senate majority leader Trent Collins and Snowe in providing retiring Sen. Byron Dorgan. "become famous for his pork- revolution of 2010 may well
Lott (R-Miss.) told The Post this the GOP votes needed to pass Hoeven is a solid conservative barrel spending" and calling him sweep some big-spending
past weekend, "We don't need a both President Obama's big on many issues, and he would a "prodigious porkmeister." This Republicans into the Senate. If
lot of Jim DeMint disciples" in spending "jobs" bill (a.k.a. "son certainly be an improvement month, Blunt responded with an several Tea Party candidates
the Senate, adding "as soon as of stimulus") and his financial over Dorgan. But he is a big ad promising he would vote as a stumble and fall, there is even a
they get here, we need to co-opt regulation bill filled with budget spender. According to the Cato fiscal conservative in the chance the big spenders could
them." gimmicks that will eventually Institute, he has raised per capita Senate: "Irresponsible spending even make up a majority of the
Jim DeMint can rest easy. It is add more than $5 billion to the spending by almost 7 percent and crippling debt are killing new Republican senators. That
unlikely that folks like Mike d e f i c i t . J u d g i n g f r o m t h e annually since 2003. In just two jobs today and our children's would undoubtedly bring a
Lee, Ron Johnson or Sharron comments on Brown's Facebook legislative sessions beginning in future tomorrow. That's wrong smile to Trent Lott's face.
Angle will be co-opted if they page, many Tea Party activists 2007, Hoeven presided over a and I'll fight to change it." Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
win. But come November there believe they were duped. But whopping 60 percent increase in Blunt is not alone in trying to fellow at AEI.
may be some new Republican the Republican senator from spending. Last year, North regain ground on fiscal Photo credit: iStockphoto/
senators eager to join the club. Massachusetts is simply voting Dakota Democrats even discipline. In the current Anant Dummai
While the media has focused on like, well, a Massachusetts launched ads declaring Hoeven environment, even GOP Five Filters featured article:
the rise of the Tea Party Republican. the "biggest spender in North moderates are tacking to the Headshot - Propaganda, State
movement and the success of Others may soon join the big- Dakota history." While he is not right on fiscal issues--at least Religion and the Attack On the
conservative insurgents in GOP spending ranks. In Delaware, a deficit spender, he is not, rhetorically. Kirk recently Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available
primaries, there is another o n e o f t h e m o s t l i b e r a l suffice it to say, a spending warned that Illinois is rapidly tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
smaller insurgency taking place Republicans in the House, Rep. hawk in the Tea Party mold. falling into the same financial Text RSS, Term Extraction.
under the radar screen--a quiet Mike Castle, is the favorite to Then there is Rep. Roy Blunt, situation as Greece (his
36 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

ECRI Weekly Leading Indicators at Negative 9.8; Has the

ECRI Blown Yet Another Recession Call?
noreply@blogger.com Meanwhile, in the comments a recession "despite an inverted
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's there was a stern rebuke. yield curve, which many
Global Economic Trend Lakshman Achuthan wrote: economists have long
Analysis)
While we certainly appreciate considered to be the best
Submitted at 7/20/2010 2:48:00 AM the attention given to our predictor of a recession"
Inquiring minds have been Weekly Leading Index, I’d like In contrast note the spin from
watching the ECRI's weekly to clarify a few points raised in The Great Recession and
leading index plunge nonstop the article. First, according to Recovery.
s i n c e O c t o b e r o f 2 0 0 9 . the Economist magazine, “the Accompanying that slide the
Moreover the WLI has been in ECRI” has not ever given false ECRI said"And we issued a
n e g a t i v e t e r r i t o r y f o r 6 alarms on a recession forecast. clear Recession Warning noting
consecutive weeks. http://www.businesscycle.com/ that: “The magnitude of oil and
click on chart for sharper image about/testimonials/ interest rate shocks are near
Is that a recession call by the The purported false alarms recessionary readings.” A month
ECRI? from “the ECRI” mentioned in later, as we now know, the
Absolutely not, at least as of t h i s a r t i c l e c o m e f r o m a recession began.
June 14, according to Lakshman mistaken and simplistic view Compare that slide, with the
Achuthan managing director of that negative growth in ECRI’s of the WLI (not merely negative predicted every recession and above image snip, noting the
ECRI who blasted the Wall Weekly Leading Index (WLI) is readings in its growth rate) recovery in real-time." yellow highlighting.
Street Journal for misleading tantamount to a recession f o l l o w i n g a “ p r o n o u n c e d , I need to repeat that, over this The ECRI was clearly bragging
reporting. forecast. In fact, since 1983, p e r v a s i v e a n d p e r s i s t e n t ” entire time period, I was present not only about besting the yield
The Business Insider discusses cyclical downturns have taken decline in ECRI’s U.S. Long to see each of the correct curve, but also said " The
the situation in Why Last WLI growth under the zero line Leading Index (not discussed in recession and recoveries calls in Difference this time is that, even
W e e k ' s C o l l a p s i n g E C R I a dozen times, but recessions the article), before it makes a real-time, without false signals though the shocks have arrived,
Leading Indicator WASN'T A have followed on only three of recession call. Just The Facts in between. Supposedly the WLI good leading indexes like
Recession Signal. those occasions – times when Maam, Not The Spin in "real-time" has correctly U S L L I a r e n o t s h o w i n g
Following the Business Insider ECRI actually made a recession If the ECRI does not want p r e d i c t e d e v e r y r e c e s s i o n recessionary weakness. ... as
link back one step takes us to forecast. people assuming the WLI can be without a single false signal. Chart 1 shows, the level of the
Jeff Miller's " A Dash of Since ECRI itself has never used as a recession forecast, That is quite an amazing claim. USLLI is already a little lower
Insight" Weighing the Week u s e d W L I g r o w t h g o i n g then perhaps they ought not It is also false, for multiple now than it was three months
Ahead: Negativity Prevails negative as a recession signal, it present it that way. reasons! earlier. However, this weakness
where I see that I was cited is important that such “false Please consider some charts and Flashback November 2007 is not pronounced, pervasive
along with the Wall Street alarms” are attributed not to text from the ECRI publication E C R I V o l . X I I , N o . 1 1 : and persistent enough to be
J o u r n a l , Z e r o H e d g e , t h e ECRI or even to the WLI, but to The Great Recession and Weakness In Leading Indicators recessionary"
Pragmatic Capitalist, and the what is a mistaken interpretation Recovery Not Yet Recessionary It's Different This Time!
Financial Times for incorrect of the WLI. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Please consider the following After the fact, the ECRI took
intrepretation of the WLI. In fact, at the very least, ECRI " This is an index that’s been image snip. Highlighting is one statement out of context, a
Miller quoting a comment in itself would need to see a around for over a quarter of a mine. statement they went to great
response to the Wall Street “pronounced, pervasive and century, and over that time In November of 2007 the ECRI
Journal article writes... persistent” decline in the level (shown here) it has correctly was bragging it did not forecast ECRI page 37
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lengths to refute, then has the
blatant gall to claim they issued
a "recession warning".
By the way. The Bold Headline
on the page with the yellow
highlighting is "WEAKNESS
IN LEADING INDEXES NOT
YET RECESSIONARY"
ECRI's Predictive Capability
The facts show that the ECRI
did not actually "predict" the
recession until we were in it for
several months. They get away
with this nonsense because of
an even longer delay by the
NBER in setting the start of the
recession.
Want proof?
Friday, January 25, 2008
ECRI Says There Is A
Window of Opportunity for the
US Economy
The U.S. economy is now in a
clear window of vulnerability,
given the plunge in ECRI’s
Weekly Leading Index (WLI)
since last spring. Yet there is a
brief window of opportunity
within that window of
vulnerability to avert a
recession. That is why ECRI has
not yet forecast a recession.
Self-Fulfilling or Self-
Negating?
If we have a recession this
year, it will be the best
advertised in history. Recently,
several Wall Street houses
joined the 70% of Americans
who have been expecting a
recession for the last few
months. A number of other
prominent economists boosted
their estimates of the probability
of a recession above 50%.
Yet such probability estimates
imply that a recession is a
matter of chance, whereas it is
still a matter of choice. This is
why, having correctly predicted
the last two recessions in real
time without crying wolf in
between, we are not forecasting
one yet.
The facts show the ECRI
thought a recession that had
already started about two
months earlier could have been
prevented.
Recession of Choice
Friday, March 28, 2008
ECRI Calls it "A Recession of
Choice"
The U.S. economy is now on a
recession track. Yet this is a
recession that could have been
averted. In January, given the
plunge in the Weekly Leading
Index, we declared that the
economy had entered a clear
window of vulnerability. Yet
we emphasized the brief
window of opportunity within
that window of vulnerability for
timely policy stimulus to head
off a recession.
It is a somewhat different story
with regard to GDP, because the
cyclically volatile
manufacturing sector still
accounts for 36% of GDP. A
mild downturn in that sector
should limit the decline in GDP
in this recession.
In fact, we may or may not see
two straight down quarters of
GDP in this recession. But,
contrary to popular belief, as
we have detailed* elsewhere,
that is neither a necessary nor a
sufficient condition for a
recession.
Recession of Choice?
As noted above, on March 28,
2008, the ECRI states we are on
a " recession track". At that
time, the recession was already
underway for a minimum of
four months.
This statement is worth
repeating: " In fact, we may or
may not see two straight down
quarters of GDP in this
recession. But, contrary to
popular belief, as we have
detailed elsewhere, that is
neither a necessary nor a
sufficient condition for a
recession."
The idea that this recession
could have been prevented is
far beyond silly. The excesses
and reckless behaviors in
residential real estate,
commercial real estate,
derivatives, credit lending,
securitizations, credit cards, and
debt at every level (not just in
the United States but globally)
were such that not only was a
recession baked in the cake, but
that a gargantuan consumer-led
recession was 100% guaranteed.
There is absolutely nothing the
Fed could have done to avoid
this recession. To believe
otherwise is foolish.
ECRI Paranoia
I believe it is a fair statement by
Lakshman Achuthan that “the
ECRI” has not ever given false
alarms on a recession forecast.
Indeed, the ECRI seems so
paranoid about making a
mistake in calling recessions
that it will not predict one until
it is blatantly obvious by anyone
with an ounce of common sense
that we are already in one.
Now the ECRI is upset that
people are using the WLI to
predict recessions even though
the ECRI posts their chart with
the claim " This [the WLI] is an
index that’s been around for
over a quarter of a century, and
over that time (shown here) it
has correctly predicted every
recession and recovery in real-
time."
Amazingly the ECRI gets upset
when people take them at their
word, mistakenly thinking the
WLI actually predicts
something, perhaps because the
ECRI posts a chart that says it
does!
I suppose you can see how
confusing this is when the WLI
"has correctly predicted every
recession and recovery in real
time" yet Lakshman Achuthan
also says ... In fact, at the very
least, ECRI itself would need to
see a “pronounced, pervasive
and persistent” decline in the
level of the WLI (not merely
negative readings in its growth
rate) following a “pronounced,
pervasive and persistent”
decline in ECRI’s U.S. Long
Leading Index (not discussed in
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the article), before it makes a
recession call.
That is a clear statement that
the WLI cannot in and of itself
predict anything unless it
follows the ECRI’s U.S. Long
Leading Index.
Got that? I hope so.
Synopsis
So ... Please don't think the
WLI predicts anything unless
and until and after the fact
Lakshman Achuthan and the
ECRI says it does, in yet another
publication hyping its stand-
alone "real-time" predictive
capability.
Meanwhile, I note the WLI has
fallen to -9.8. Don't worry. It's
not predicting anything, until
after-the-fact it does. Then again
others disagree.
Double-Dip Odds 2 out of 3
Dave Rosenberg had his sights
on the ECRI in his July 19th
2010 Breakfast With Dave
Commentary (red highlighting is
mine).
The growth rate on the ECRI
leading index did it again! It
sank further into negative
terrain, now at -9.8% during the
week ending July 9, down from
-9.1% the prior week. This was
the tenth deterioration in a row
and the growth index is now
negative for six straight weeks.
We have never failed to have a
recession with the ECRI at
current levels but there is also
inherent volatility in the index
ECRI page 41
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Hugh Hendry Wants to Short Obama; UK Home Prices to
Crash; Mystery Trader Corners the Cocoa Market; China
Passes US as World's Largest Energy Consumer
noreply@blogger.com
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's
Global Economic Trend
Analysis)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 10:57:00 PM
There has been a lot of
interesting news over the last
few of days so let's do a "quick
hits" roundup.
Cornering the Cocoa Market
The Telegraph reports Mystery
trader buys all Europe's cocoa
Even Willy Wonka might
struggle to use this much
chocolate. Yesterday, somebody
bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa
beans. The purchase was
enough to move the entire
global cocoa market, sending
the price to the highest level
since 1977, and triggering
rumours and intrigue in the City.
It is unclear which person, or
group of traders, was behind the
deal, but it was the largest single
cocoa trade for 14 years. The
purchase was enough to move
the entire global cocoa market,
sending the price to the highest
level since 1977, and triggering
rumours and intrigue in the City.
Analysts said it was very
unlikely that a chocolate
company, such as Nestle or
Kraft, or even their suppliers,
would buy such a huge order in
one go and that is was probable
that one or a number of
speculators, possibly hedge
funds, had attempted to corner
the market. By doing this, they
would have control of the entire
supply in Europe, forcing the
price yet higher.
Eugen Weinberg, an analyst
with Commerzbank, said: “For
one buyer it would likely be a
little bit too large. It would be a
crazy number. That said, if
you’re cornering the market ...”
“If it looks like cornering, feels
like cornering and the price
difference between Europe and
the US is so large, it probably is
cornering.” UK House Price
Crash Expected
The Telegraph reports House
prices 'to crash 20pc by 2012' as
Budget bites, says Capital
Economics
Capital Economics, the
consultancy led by Roger
Bootle, expects house prices to
fall 5pc this year, and 10pc in
each of 2011 and 2012. In total,
the group predicts a collapse in
house prices of 23pc from the
start of 2010 – a deeper drop
than the 19.3pc crash during the
recession.
"Higher taxes, spending cuts
and rising unemployment all
point to fresh house price falls
this year and next," the
forecasters said in a report. "The
benefits of low interest rates will
be undermined by a fresh
tightening in mortgage lending
criteria."
It is the second report in less
than a week to make grim
reading for Britain's
homeowners. PwC warned
"there is a 70pc chance that UK
house prices will still be below
peak 2007 levels in 2015 in real
terms ... and that real house
prices [after inflation] may not
regain their previous peak levels
until around 2020". Texas
Budget Mess Now as Bad as
California's
The Texas Observer reports
Texas Budget Mess Now as Bad
as California's
It’s come to this: The Texas
budget outlook has become so
bleak that we’re comparing
rather favorably to the one state
where balanced budgeting goes
to die.
People, our budget deficit is
now as bad as California’s.
Texas: $18 billion shortfall
(estimated) or about 20 percent
of state spending.
California: $19.1 billion
shortfall (official estimate) or
about 20 percent of state
spending.
The numbers match up pretty
neatly.
A couple of caveats: Texas—as
you probably know—budgets in
two-year cycles. If the budget
gap does turn out to be $18
billion (and we won’t have an
official number until early next
year), that would represent
about 20 percent of the $87
billion in state funds that Texas
allocated for 2010-2011.
California budgets one year at
time. But the state spends about
double what Texas does. So a
$19.1 billion budget gap
represents about 20 percent of
the roughly $83 billion
California will spend this year
from its general fund.
Illinois is the new standard in
futility.
IMF Halts Loans to Hungary
Yahoo!News reports Hungary
risks markets' goodwill with
IMF/EU failure Talks with the
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the EU ended
prematurely on Saturday
without a conclusion of the
country's programme review,
which means Hungary will not
have access to remaining funds
in its 20 billion euro (16.9
billion pound) loan secured in
2008 until a deal is reached.
This is a risky path for a
country which has a poor budget
track record and which runs
central Europe's highest public
debt at about 80 percent of gross
domestic product, analysts said.
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Although Hungary does not
face an immediate pressure on
state finances as its 2010
financing seems to be secure
thanks to unused loans and cash
reserves, it needs the lenders'
safety cushion as an external
anchor of credibility. For now,
the market seems to be
shrugging off this news.
UK's Per Capita Debt Hits
£78,000
ThisIsMoney reports UK debt
is 'twice as much as we thought'
The true scale of the national
debt is £2 trillion - more than
twice the official figure, an
alarming study shows.
The black hole in the public
accounts equates to £78,000 for
every household in the country.
The 'real' state of the national
finances is exposed in a study
published today by the Centre
for Economics and Business
Research, which warns of a
series of mammoth debts that
aren't revealed by the official
figures.
The national debt - forecast to
reach £932m by next spring -
does not include a number of
expensive liabilities, such as the
cost of civil service and town
hall pensions and projects
funded under the Public Finance
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Initiative.
Putting these liabilities into the
official figure would add £1.13
trillion to Britain's whopping
overdraft, according to CEBR.
Under the worrying scenario,
the debt would jump from 62%
to 138% of Britain's income.
Hugh Hendry Wants to Short
Obama
The New York Times
comments on An Outspoken
Man in a Secretive Trade
With a sharp wit and a sharper
tongue, Mr. Hendry, a plain-
spoken Scot, has positioned
himself as the public contrarian
thinker of this city’s very private
hedge fund community.
The euro? It’s finished, Mr.
Hendry proclaims.
China? Headed for a fall.
President Obama? “If there was
a way to short Obama, I would,”
Mr. Hendry said.
Last May, on British television,
he verbally sparred with Jeffrey
D. Sachs, director of the Earth
Institute at Columbia and
perhaps the best-known
economist writing on
developmental issues.
Before that, he took on Joseph
E. Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate,
about the future of the euro.
“Hello, can I tell you about the
real world?” Mr. Hendry
interjected at one point. Video
of the encounter was a huge hit
on YouTube. Stiglitz vs.
Hendry: Euro currency
crumbling?
Killing the Spill Take #108
The Wall Street Journal reports
BP Weighs New Way to Kill
Gulf Well
Oil giant BP PLC was Monday
considering yet another method
to kill its ruptured Gulf of
Mexico oil well amid concerns
that the cap it installed last week
could be allowing oil and gas to
seep out the sides.
Meanwhile, a federal panel
investigating the disaster heard
that the Deepwater Horizon
drilling rig suffered a series of
power outages and seized-up
computers in the months before
it exploded.
BP's new containment cap has
stopped the flow of oil since
Thursday, but with the well now
sealed at the top, government
officials are worried that oil and
gas could now be escaping
elsewhere.
The rig's chief engineer,
Stephen Bertone, testified
during a panel hearing in
Kenner, La., that the Deepwater
Horizon suffered a series of
maintenance problems in the
months before the well
exploded.
Investigators have identified
more than 20 "anomalies" in the
rig's last two days that could
have contributed to the disaster,
according to a document written
by the panel's investigators and
reviewed by The Wall Street
Journal. I have no idea how
many things have been tried at
this point. However, I do know
they have all met with failure.
China Becomes World's
Biggest Energy Consumer
The Wall Street Journal reports
China Passes U.S. as World's
Biggest Energy Consumer
China is now the world's
biggest energy consumer,
knocking the U.S. off a perch it
held for more than a century,
according to new data from the
International Energy Agency.
The Paris-based agency, whose
forecasts are generally regarded
as bellwether indicators for the
energy industry, said China
devoured 2,252 million tons of
oil equivalent last year, or about
4% more than the U.S., which
burned through 2,170 million
tons of oil equivalent. The oil-
equivalent metric represents all
forms of energy consumed,
including crude oil, nuclear,
coal, natural gas and renewable
sources such as hydropower.
The figures reflect, in part,
how the global recession hit the
U.S. more severely than China
and hurt American industrial
activity and energy use. Still,
China's total energy
consumption has clocked annual
double-digit growth rates for
many years, driven by the
country's big industrial base.
Highlighting how quickly its
energy demand has increased,
China's total energy
consumption was just half the
size of the U.S. 10 years ago.
China's voracious energy
demand helps explain why the
country—which gets most of its
electricity from coal, the dirtiest
of fossil-fuel resources—passed
the U.S. in 2007 as the world's
largest emitter of carbon
dioxide emissions and other
greenhouse gases. China's rate
of growth in energy
consumption is not sustainable.
Therefore, China's desire to
grown at 8% or more a year is
not either.. Peak oil or perhaps
even oil wars will put an end to
it.
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"5-Second Rule" Is
Bogus, Says Researcher
(And Common Sense)
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 4:20:00 PM
Full disclosure: I've been
known to invoke the five-second
rule myself. But even the most
ardent believers would probably
find their faith shaken if the
dropped foodstuff happened to
land in a pile of cow dung
instead of a tidy tile floor. So
the "findings" reported in this
Chicago Tribune article don't
exactly shatter my paradigms.
Basically, according to
Clemson University food
scientist Paul Dawson, dropped
food is a lot like real estate:
location, location, location. But
not in the way you might think.
He says the kitchen and
bathroom floors are zero-second
areas due to the presence of
bacteria, but the sidewalk is
relatively OK. Unless, I would
add, it's a sidewalk used often
by livestock.
What's your stance on the five-
second rule: words to eat by, or
a joke to take your mind off the
nasty stuff clinging to that Rolo
you just plucked off the floor?
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1/10 Of Your Portfolio In Gold? Not So Fast, Jim Cramer
Clemens Kownatzki (Money
Game)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:16:00 AM
Confused about inflation/
deflation? Don't know whether
to jump on the bandwagon and
buy Gold as everyone else
seems to be doing these days?
To be honest, I am confused
about it just as well.
There is absolutely no question
that Gold has had an enormous
bull run in the past 10 years. If
you had bought Gold say in
2005 at around $450 and kept it
until now at around $1200 the
price appreciation would be a
handsome 1 2/3 or 166.67%. So
should you buy now before
Gold reaches yet another all-
time high?
Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad
Money touted Gold as a must
have investment. In no
uncertain terms, he said: "Every
single person out there should
own some Gold." More to the
point, he declared that "You
must have at least 1/10 of your
portfolio in Gold." “Really?” I
thought...
Again, I am not debating that
Gold has had a great run in the
past few years nor do I question
the possibility of Gold having
further upside movement – the
momentum is certainly there.
But to make a cookie-cutter
announcement of a minimum
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commodity meaning, it can be or will be limited in any manner
But all of this is purely an doubling up tomorrow."
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Alberto Contador
that requires acknowledgment. recession call." freely admit hindsight is 20-20 making a mistake in calling Apologizes to Rival
Our reckoning is that in the past • On January 25, 2008 the and many thought long dated recessions that it will not
few weeks, the index has gone ECRI said "This is why, having
treasuries would implode. predict one until it is blatantly Andy Scheck
from pricing in even-odds of a correctly predicted the last two
Tools in the Bag obvious by anyone with an FanHouse Newswire
double-dip to two-in-three odds. recessions in real time without
Once again, attempting to be as ounce of common sense that we (FanHouse Main)
It may take a while, but Mr. crying wolf in between, we are
fair as possible, the WLI could are already in one. Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:58:00 AM
Market will figure it out before not forecasting one yet." The
be a very useful indicator when That's fine by me, but not if it
long. recession had already started.
other data confirms. wants to make preposterous Filed under: Cycling MADRID
A Look at Both Sides The ECRI clearly blew the For example, in late 2007 one claims such as the WLI "has (AP) -- Spanish cyclist Alberto
I want to be as fair as I possibly recession call. Nothing they do
could have looked at the correctly predicted every Contador has apologized for the
can to the ECRI so I will present or say can paper over this fact.
inverted yield curve in recession and recovery in real- way he took over the lead in the
both sides of the coin as best as • Not only did the WLI blow
conjunction with a negative time" Tour de France from rival Andy
I can. the recession call, but the
WLI and decided it was not very Mike "Mish" Shedlock Schleck.
Side 1 ECRI's U.S. Long Leading smart to be invested in the h t t p : / / During Monday's stage,
Index (USLLI) blew the call as
market. Theoretically, the two globaleconomicanalysis.blogspo Schleck's chain came off and
• The ECRI grossly took well. So much for
tools together could have given t.com Contador kept riding, rather than
statements out of context supposedly"leading" indicators.
a very timely exit signal. Click Here To Scroll Thru My waiting in accordance with race
regarding its recession Unfortunately, a negative yield Recent Post List etiquette.
"Warning Call" in November Side 2 curve is not going to happen Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a In a video posted on YouTube,
2007. There was no recession again for a long time given the registered investment advisor Contador said: "Maybe I made a
warning. In fact, the ECRI • Investors could have used the low end of the curve is at zero. representative for SitkaPacific mistake. I'm sorry. I don't like
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ironically had it correct). at that time. Loss would have inverted yield curve, we do have performance and low volatility, with Andy can go back to being
• The ECRI did not predict the only been 14-15% from the m a s s i v e a m o u n t s o f d a t a regardless of market direction. as good as it was before this
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real-time" while chastising the did not happen. should be easy to see this may not be published,
Wall Street Journal that the WLI economy is in trouble. However, broadcast, rewritten or
needs to follow a "pronounced, Then again, one could also have as in 2007 the ECRI refuses to otherwise distributed without
pervasive and persistent decline looked at the inverted yield see it. the prior written authority of
in ECRI’s U.S. Long Leading curve and loaded up on long Why? The Associated Press. Active
Index (not discussed in the bonds or 10-year treasuries and I am sticking with my thesis the hyperlinks have been inserted
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David Rosenberg Explains His Investing Mantra:

S.I.R.P.
Joe Weisenthal (Money deflationary, pressures will be 2009). As I have said before, monetary stability, and Ben
Game) dominant over the next 80% rallies in a 12- Bernanke and other central
several years. month span, as we saw in the bankers only have to step on the
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:36:06 AM
Moreover, with the median age year to April, last happened in printing presses Tim Tebow's Real
You may have heard of GARP: of the boomer population
Growth At A Reasonable Price, turning 55 in the U.S.,
the early ‘30s and
were followed by gut-
whereas gold miners have to
drill over two miles into the
Heel for Being
a philosophy or strategysome there is a very strong wrenching spasms to the ground (gold Party to Nike Shoe
used to invest. demographic demand for downside. So for any investor, production is lower today than
David Rosenberg of Gluskin- i n c o m e a n d w i t h b o n d s David Whitley (FanHouse
return of capital is yet again it was a decade ago; hardly the Main)
S h e f f t o d a y e x p l a i n s h i s comprising just 6% of the reemerging as a very important same can be said
counterpoint: SIRP: Safety and household asset mix, this theme, and the for fiat currency). Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:25:00 AM

Income at a Reasonal Price. appetite for yield will very need to focus on risk-adjusted Moreover, gold makes up a
My primary strategy theme has likely expand even further in returns. This, in turn, means a mere 0.05% share of global Filed under: Florida, Heisman
been S.I.R.P. (Safety and coming years. Within the equity strategy that household net worth, so Do you recall the ancient
Income at a market, this minimizes both the volatility of small incremental allocations Persian proverb, "I felt sorry
Reasonable Price) because implies a focus on squeezing as the portfolio and the correlation into bullion or gold-type because I had no shoes, then I
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Gulf Coast: Dead Oysters, Dead Jobs, Dead Great

Policy Summer
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Roundup: Analyst commentary on Kinect pricing

Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 1:32:00 PM
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Charts Show Analysts Historically Overestimate

Corporate Earnings by 100%
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Europe Busts 30-Year-Old Cartel For News Bites: Lindsay's

Manipulating Phosphate Prices Headed to the Clink &
Gus Lubin (Money Game)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:59:00 AM the Soup Nazi's Back
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
The European Commission just Blogs)
busted a long-standing cartel in
the world's oldest industry: Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:36:28 AM

animal feed.
Ten companies were fined $161
million for manipulating
phosphate prices from 1969
through 2004, according to
European Voice:
Three companies – Kemira Oyi,
Yara Phosphates and Yara
Suomi Oy – were not fined
because they informed the
Commission about the cartel
and co-operated during the
investigation. Eight companies
received a 10% reduction in
their fines for co-operating with
the Commission.
Some of the companies had
their fines reduced because the
cartel had been operating for so
long that the financial penalties
they incurred would have
exceeded the maximum limit of
10% of a company's 2009
turnover. Tessenenderlo Chemie
NV, a Belgian company,
received a 50% reduction in its
fine, while Quimtecnica.com
and José de Mello of Portugal
received a 25% reduction.
Knowledge of the cartel puts
volatile moves in the market
under a new light.
Could the 20th century surge in
phosphate use have been even
greater? Did the end of price
manipulation contribute to the
800% spike in 2008? And what
happens now that the cards are
on the table? Read more: 15
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Blagojevich Expected to Testify After His Brother

(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:08:05 AM
Rod Blagojevich's brother is
undergoing a withering cross
examination by a federal
prosecutor who is accusing him
of doing favors for contributors
to the ousted governor's
campaign fund.
Robert Blagojevich
acknowledged at the former
governor's corruption trial
Tuesday that he sent the resume
of a woman to the governor's
chief of staff. But he says it
wasn't a reward for her uncle's
$10,000 campaign contribution.
Robert Blagojevich also
conceded he knew at least one
contributor hoped for state work
but says that it was not used as
leverage for a campaign
contribution.
Both brothers have pleaded not
guilty to scheming to sell or
trade President Barack Obama's
former Senate seat. Robert
Blagojevich has pleaded not
guilty to helping pressure
businessmen illegally for
campaign funds.
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How Astonishing Inception Visuals Came to Life

Terrence Russell (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:00:00 AM

The stark, beautiful Limbo City

is one of Inception's memorable
dreamscapes.
Paul Franklin specializes in
turning the imaginary into
reality. As the visual effects
supervisor for Batman Begins,
The Dark Knight and now
Inception, Franklin is well-
versed in helping directors like
Christopher Nolan populate
their cinematic worlds with
larger-than-life computer-
generated images.
However, in spite of
Inception’s lush, physics-
bending effects, Franklin’s work
on Nolan’s cerebral sci-fi film end up being CG-based? realism with the film’s patent Wired.com: Surely that made concepts, and Chris laid out his
was surprisingly measured. Paul Franklin: A lot of it was, unreality? some of the grand illusions ideal vision: Something glacial,
“Some of the more spectacular but we used a miniature for a Franklin: That was the harder to pull off. Which one with clear modernist
imagery of the film — the street sequence featuring a giant, challenge on the VFX side. It gave you the most trouble? architecture, but with chunks of
folding over in Paris, characters James Bond-like base out in the was about remaining faithful to Franklin: By far, Limbo City at it breaking off into the sea like
creating architecture out of thin snow. At the end of sequence, in the “reality” that was shot on-set the end of the film. Part of the icebergs.
air — are VFX shots that we true action-movie style, we blow and using effects to subtly bend challenge was that this was an For a long time we just couldn’t
created from a combination of it up. The great thing about elements like physics, space and effect that continually developed get it right — we’d end up with
live action and copious amounts miniatures is they give you this time. For instance, we have during production. In the script, something that looked like an
of digital animation,” Franklin chaotic reality that digital hasn’t some great set pieces like a fight two characters wash up on a iceberg version of Gotham City
told Wired.com in a phone quite gotten to yet. Using CG scene that takes place in zero-g. beach and look up at this with water running through it.
interview. versions of complicated action We built sequences like that to incredible crumbling city. The So, what we came up with was a
Wired.com spoke with Franklin like falling buildings, explosions be very stylish, but not city itself is definitely described basic model of a glacier, and
about his experiences planning, or certain lighting effects are all excessively stylized to hide as architecture, but it’s supposed then one of the designers at
crafting and polishing predetermined by the nature of effects work. Due to the amount to look like a natural landform. Double Negative came up with a
Inception’s dreamy visuals to the software and the ideas that of light and high-contrast Again, this is very easy to program that filled the open
work with Nolan’s fastidious went into it. In the effects world, images in Inception, we were picture in your mind, but getting spaces with modernist
brand of filmmaking. there’s still a lot of useful very much committed to the to the reality of what that should architectural blocks. It was just
( Spoiler alert: Minor plot points randomness in real-world same high standard of look like on film turned out to a matter of methodically adding
follow.) physics. photorealism that we held for be a little more challenging. We in elements like roads,
Paul Franklin Wired.com: Did Wired.com: How did you Batman Begins and Dark went through the normal design HOW page 49
most of your work on Inception balance Nolan’s devotion to Knight. process of having artists build
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In-Helmet Social Networking: One Influential Ex-General's

Vision of Future War
Noah Shachtman (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:24:00 AM

In the near future, infantrymen

will be selected by
psychologists, train like football
teams, and tap online social
networks of military experts as
they enter a warzone village.
The soldiers will rely on
overseas translators to talk to the
locals, drive all-electric
vehicles, and have their vital
signs constantly monitored by
their superiors. And thanks to
new “weapons and sensing
technologies and the creation of
hyper-performing small units,” a
small handful of troops will be
able to control vast swaths of
territory and influence large
populations.
That’s the future, at least, as
sketched out for General James
Mattis, the nominee to take over
U.S. Central Command, by
retired major general and well-
known military futurist Robert
Scales. Earlier this year, Scales
and Mattis were sharing ideas
about the next generation of
small units — something the
two iconoclastic senior officers
have done repeatedly over the story. “One of his favorite nodding in approval. Just familiar voice drowned out the and I can feel the team watching
last six years. But rather than pieces is Ender’s Game,” Scales before pulling out of Fire Base rush of background noise: me…”
codify the notions into a formal says, referring to the science Tiger Jerry took a moment… to “Jerry, how are you?” “Martha” was a pseudonym for
policy paper or into a fiction classic. In that spirit, go over the game plan and “I’m OK, Martha, just a little the Pastun interpreter connected
PowerPoint briefing, Mattis Scales penned Jerry Smith’s audibles with his virtual friends stressed thinking about what’s to Jerry through the online
asked Scales to write him a War: 2025. one last time. He said “Online” out there in front of us. This is IN-HELMET page 48
For a second he felt the Coach into his helmet phone and a my first mission in command
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IN-HELMET
continued from page 47
hookup. She had his back and
he could express his concerns to
her without fear it would be
seen as a sign of weakness.
More importantly, she knew a
lot that could help him. She was
born near Fire Base Tiger and
had immigrated to the states just
a few years ago…
“You’ve not taken this route
before, Jerry, so Tim will be
your terrain guy today. He’s
monitoring from DC and as you
know he’s been over this route a
hundred times… George, from
JIEDDO University in Newport
News is on the line to follow
your route using your video
stream and will look for
anomalies in the ground. He’ll
also inform you of all the latest
IED hot spots. I’d like to
introduce Sam from
Minneapolis. He’s a soldier
wounded recently in a fire fight
along your route and he’ll punch
in as you get closer to your
expected danger area… So call
us when you need them. Look,
Jerry, we can tell from your
most recent bio-feedback data
that you and your team have
been pushed by seven firefights
in six weeks. So we’re
monitoring your condition very
closely. Good luck and we’re
with you all the way.”
Orson Scott Card, it ain’t. But
the 36-page short story does lay
out the thinking of a deeply
unconventional, deeply
influential thinker in national
security circles. Scales’ client
list includes government
agencies from the CIA to the
U.S. Navy. For years, Scales has
been a paid consultant and
informal adviser to Mattis,
who’s now slated to oversee
both the Afghanistan and Iraq
wars.
In the mid-90s, Scales headed
up the Army After Next
program, which eventually lead
to Future Combat Systems, the
$200 billion plan to remake the
entire Army as a network-
centric force. Even before FCS
was set, however, Scales
became a fierce critic of its
technological determinism, and
its failure to account for the
human dimension of conflict.
FCS eventually collapsed under
its own weight. Scales went on
to push for the military to
incorporate broader social and
cultural expertise. That
contributed to the rise of the
controversial Human Terrain
System, which embeds
anthropologists and other social
scientists in combat units. That
project has also repeatedly
teetered on the brink, after the
deaths of civilian field
researchers, and accusations of
sloppy management and
training. As an advisor to
Mattis, Scales also did some of
the intellectual legwork which
led to the Combat Hunter
project that teaches big-game
safari skills to marines and to
the Infantry Immersion Trainer,
a 32,000 square-foot high-tech
close combat simulator.
Today, Scales’ focus is on
turning small units, like the ones
fighting in Afghanistan, into the
centerpieces of the armed
forces’ strategy and operations.
Jerry Smith: 2025 is part of that
push.
Scales is also taking aim at the
U.S. military’s hierarchical
command-and-control networks,
which he says are meant to
“feed orders from the top-down
and feed information from the
bottom up.” ( Mattis made
similar complaints as the head
of Joint Forces Command.)
Instead, Scales contends,
networks should tie one
infantryman to another (and to
resources back home) in order to
address their need for
companionship, connection, and
reassurance that they won’t die
alone. In other words, Scales
isn’t one of those futurists who
think technology replaces the
human dimensions of war. He’s
harnessing technology precisely
to address some of soldiering’s
most immediate and human
dimensions: emotional strain.
“What does a soldier need? ‘I’m
lonely,’” Scales says. “As the
battlefield expands, the space
between soldiers expands
geometrically, and primal fear
escalates. The need for psychic
glue increases an order of
magnitude.” Which is why he’d
like to have veterans,
translators, cultural experts, and
battle buddies all connected in a
social network for war.
“Soldiers don’t break from
hunger, thirst or poor leadership.
They break from emotional
collapse,” he says. To keep that
from happening, “maybe
someone far away, like
[National Security Agency
headquarters] Ft. Meade, could
monitor [troops] for emotional
and biological signs — heart
rate, galvanic skin response, a
tremor in a soldier’s voice —
and then aggregate it into a
dashboard.”
Scales also believes infantry
units should spend years
together, instead of “sending out
a pickup squad that’s broken up
every 18 months.” Like football
players, each member of the unit
should have specialized skills
that mesh together. And like
some pro athletes, those troops
should practice group
“visioning” — creating mental
images of their wartime goals.
“Empathy,” not aggression,
should be the new must-have
trait of any military leader. And
soldiers need to develop a
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respect and an affinity for
foreign cultures. Scales believes
current U.S. ambassador to
Kabul Karl Eikenberry best
personifies this comfort, which
is why he calls it the
“Eikenberry gene.”
It’s doubtful whether all (or
even most) of these ideas will
become military doctrine. And
some of Scales’ tech
suggestions seem just as brittle,
and just as prone to cause
strategic interference in tactical
affairs, as the systems he
criticizes today. But with
Scales’ record of pushing
projects — and with his
influential circle of high-ranking
friends — it’d be a mistake to
dismiss Scales’ notions. The
military’s future might not turn
out exactly like Jerry Smith:
2025. But it might not be all that
different, either.
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intersections and ravines until
we ended up with this extremely
complicated (but organic-
looking) cityscape.
Paris never looked quite like it
does in Inception.
Images courtesy Warner Bros.
Pictures
Wired.com: Richard King (
Inception’s sound designer) said
he was able to pull a lot of
recording cues from descriptions
woven into the script. Was it the
same for VFX?
Franklin: Sometimes. For
something like the Paris-folding
sequence the script basically
said, “Ariadne [played by Ellen
Page] looks down the street as it
folds in on itself, forming a
giant cube universe.” It reads as
a great description, but it
doesn’t explain the process of
how the elements transition into
the end result. So, in designing
these effects we had to address a
lot of the outlying questions:
How does the lighting change?
What happens to the people
walking and driving on the
road? Should it fold as if on a
hinge?
These decisions started as
conversations describing
different ideas, and then we
went through the process of
having artists producing concept
sketches. From there, we created
rough computer animations
[called previsualization] to give
us a working idea of what this
one line of script would look
like in motion. It’s a very fast,
interactive process.
Wired.com: How interactive are
we talking?
Franklin: Being able to
previsualize and change the
placeholder animations on the
fly gave Chris insight on how to
most efficiently shoot the live
elements for the greatest impact.
In fact, there was one point later
on in the production where
Chris was walking around on
location with my MacBook,
directing Leonardo DiCaprio
and Ellen Page based off this
basic animation we’d mocked
up. It ended up being a very
collaborative environment.
Wired.com: Collaboration
makes sense, but was there
room for improvisation as well?
Franklin: As a director, Chris
wants you to bring your
creativity to the party and offer
something up. For example,
there’s a sequence in Paris
where Ariadne conjures up a
bridge across the river Seine.
That scene — and the effect it
called for — wasn’t originally
part of the script. In scouting
locations, we came across this
bridge with intricate iron
archways, which led us to
chatting about its symmetrical
design. We sort of came up with
this idea of Ariadne building a
bridge in an equally
symmetrical fashion — starting
from opposite ends in tandem
until the construction meets and
completes itself in the middle. A
lot of the VFX ideas for this
film came from being at these
locations and incorporating
some sort of observed reality.
Wired.com: At what point in
the production did the VFX
work start for you?
Franklin: I was brought in right
at the beginning. Christopher
[Nolan] called me up and asked
if I wanted to read the film. Of
course, I had trek out to L.A.
and read it under close guard —
they put me in a room on the
Warner Bros. lot, locked the
door behind me, and had
someone posted outside over the
two-hour time limit I was
allotted to read the script.
From there, Chris and I had
ongoing back-and-forth
conversations about the scope
and the VFX shots needed as we
started the search for shooting
locations.
Wired.com: With all this
amazing imagery in Inception,
did you spend a lot of time
waiting for things to render?
Franklin: Actually, the visual
effects shot count on Inception
was about par with what we had
on Batman Begins. We came in
at about 500 shots, whereas
Batman was about 620. That’s
actually fairly minor when
compared to some of today’s
visual effects epics, which can
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have something like 1,500 or
2,000 VFX shots. Our goal was
to build on the existing reality
that’d already been filmed.
Wired.com: With Inception
behind you, what’s next? Any
word on the new Batman film in
the works?
Franklin: Nothing has been
announced yet. It would be
absolutely brilliant if I could
work on it, but nothing has been
set in stone. I will say this Online
though: After working with
Chris and the fantastic crew, it
would be great to reconnect and
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Daily Buzz: Are Looks the Most Important Thing

in Your Job Search?
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:33:37 PM
"It’s no secret
we are a culture consumed by
image. Economists have long
recognized what’s been
dubbed the “beauty
premium”—the idea that pretty
people, whatever their
aspirations, tend to do better in,
well, almost everything.
Handsome men earn,
on average, 5 percent more than
their less-attractive
counterparts…" the article said.
While the article makes a valid
point, one that we've all seen
play out anecdotally our entire
lives, I think it fails to address
an
important issue –that it's not
necessarily about looks, per se,
but about
presentation.
Sure, you have your rare
outliers, people who are truly
unattractive; people who have
serious weight issues,
deformations or other
extenuating concerns. Sadly,
they probably do have a difficult
time. And you
have those who are just
completely stunning, but I even
wonder if that helps
them all that much in the not-in
-front-of-the-camera
professions.
But the vast majority of people
are pleasant-enough looking
and it's more about presentation
than genetics. The article does
say"…more than half advised
spending as
much time and money on
“making sure they look
attractive” as on perfecting a
résumé..." But that means you
need to look good, groomed,
stylish, fit
and together--not necessarily
gorgeous.
Invest in an outfit that is
appropriate for your industry,
whether that's a suit or business
casual. Make sure it is pressed,
have nice
accessories, make sure your
hair looks good, your nails are
clean, cut and
groomed. Wear work-
appropriate makeup; make sure
your teeth look nice.
While there's no doubt looks
help, it's not as much about
being attractive to employers
as it is about being pleasant
looking and on top of your
game. If you have an organized
look, it
tells them you are organized. If
you dress appropriately it tells
them you
understand appropriate office
behavior and if you are clean it
tells them you are detail
oriented.
We can't all look like Paris
Hilton, and I'm not totally
sure she'd be all that pretty if
she didn't dye her hair blond,
wear fake blue
contacts (her eyes are really
brown), and spend obscene
amounts of money on
clothes.
So I do agree with the article
that people do judge a book
by its cover. But more than
being naturally pretty, you want
to present
yourself as someone who is
pleasant, organized and a good
representative of
their company.
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Patrick Moran Named as New Head of Drama at ABC

Ryan McKee (TV Squad) it's time to dump the old and developing'Glee,''Prison Break' unsuccessful years.
Submitted at 7/20/2010 6:20:00 AM shake it up. and'Bones.' Look for Moran to start
Enter Patrick Moran, the man He will be replacing Josh developing to creative new
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regardless of its wireless
connection.
The music service MOG may
have started as a free music
blogging network — thus the
name. But the upstart has since
made great strides as a web-
based music subscription
service, as Apple and Google
wait on the sidelines and Spotify
remains a European-only affair.
MOG became a full-blown
cloud-based mobile music
service on Tuesday morning
with the launch of its smooth,
$10-per-month subscription app
for iPhone and Android.
This app impressed us over four
months ago when it was
unveiled to the press at a press
event at the SXSW conference
in Austin, Texas, and now that
we’ve tested the app in its
natural environment, it’s hard to
find much fault with it — other
than, perhaps, that many people
don’t seem to find a library of 8
million songs, accessible just
about anywhere, worth paying
$10 per month for.
Considering that subscription
services have traditionally
charged $15 per month for
DRM-laden music that had to be
downloaded first to a computer
and then to a supported device,
paying $10 per month for a
service that works as smoothly
as this one — no USB cable or
complicated DRM schemes
required — could be considered
a great deal. On the other hand,
it’s never been an easy sell to
convince people to pay for
something they can’t take with
them should they decide to end
their subscription.
Record labels have essentially
given the go-ahead to music
services to offer unlimited
downloads to phones for $10
per month, with Rhapsody’s
version having already launched
in the states. When MOG,
Rhapsody and possibly soon
Spotify, Apple, Google and
other services offer the same
$10 rate for basically the same
music, the difference between
them comes down to only a few
factors: interface, catalog,
offline playback capabilities,
sound quality and the quality of
the requisite free trial for you
check everything else out.
MOG comes through with
flying colors in every category,
with the exception that it won’t
support multitasking (the ability
to play while you do other stuff
with your phone) on the iPhone
until the next version comes out
a few weeks from now. The
interface shines, requiring a
minimum of taps for searching,
browsing, streaming, and
downloading your online music
collection as well as anything
from MOG’s catalog of over
eight million tracks. And the
crucial offline playback
feature— even more important
now that some cellphone
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:15:00 AM
Dr. Oz
Sure, stars often appear
superhuman on TV—but that
doesn't mean they're not
susceptible to the health
concerns of lesser mortals. In
his latest Ask Dr. Oz Hollywood
edition (check local listings), the
all-knowing Dr. Mehmet Oz
fields mind-and-body questions
from a variety of bold-face
names, including Lost's Michael
Emerson, who wants to know
what causes black eyes, Valerie "It's hard when I am running to
Harper, who's seeking exercises catch a plane in the airport and
for her knees, and Molly someone is shouting their
Ringwald, who is on the hunt medication regimen across the
for healthy Greek food. terminal, asking me about side
"It's important to show the effects," he says. "But I
human side of celebrities. We profoundly love talking to
are more fascinated with fame people. It's one of the reasons I
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Everybody’s Gone Surfing — Even the French
Girls!
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:57:00 AM
BIARRITZ, FRANCE —
Question: How do you get
Parisians on a surf board, given
that they are a) highly unexcited
about leaving Paris and b) even
more so about the thought of
wetsuit?
Answer: Get Colette involved;
combine it with man-about-town
Pascal Monfort (frontman of
French pop band The Shoppings
and transnational charmer). And
tah-dah : la crème de la crème of
the capital will be fighting the
waves in no time.
Indeed, Nike France seems to
have its mind set on relaunching
surf culture and to do so, under
Monfort’s strict guidance, it
started by taking over an entire
house in surf capital Hossegor,
by Biarritz. It re-created a beach
house à la She’s All That, the
‘Nike Round House 6.0’ with a
huge lawn, deck chairs, and
swimming pool, but inside is
where the true fun begins: a t-
shirt printing studio, a sneaker
customizing office, a whole
floor dedicated to arcade games,
lockers reminiscent of high
schools (or rather, how the
French fantasize about
American high schools), and
even a photo studio in the
bathroom – free for all.
This weekend, Colette was
asked to get involved and
shipped a few of its favorite
Parisiennes on a surf-discovery
weekend which included getting
professional surfers (and
irresistibly good looking ones,
may I add) to try and get us girls
to stand on surfboards.
This was followed by a
‘Cooklette’ class, ie. one of
Colette’s illustrious cooking
class (Martha Stewart goes to
Bungalow 8), with a special
South Beach menu diet (because
French women do get fat),
followed by a party with all-you
-want hummus and mojitos, in
full beach gear.
Why is this interesting now,
what has changed and what
makes it no so tragically-ten-
years-ago ? As Rob Machado,
one of the Roundhouse’s surfers
explained to ELLE, "Surf has
evolved a lot, it is a lot more
open to girls, both professionals
and newcomers. This isn’t about
relaunching the fashion side of it
-- but girls today are looking for
more extreme games, for the
fear factor."
Let’s wait and see. Spandex
might come in and out of
fashion, but big waves are here
to stay.—ALICE PFEIFFER
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The TV
Review:
‘Wipeout’
Luke Dempsey (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 7/19/2010 11:00:00 PM
Officially they’re called “The
Red Balls,” or “The Big Balls,”
but they actually look like the
tops of huge mahl sticks—you
know, those poles-with-a-knob-
on-the-end that painters press
against the canvas to avoid
smudging their oils. The
idea—or, more exactly, the
“idea”—is either to prance
across the Balls in one go
(should you be lucky enough to
have the gait of a ten-storey
giraffe), or else realize your
human limitations and bounce
gamefully off the first or
second, thereby taking your
obligatory dip in the murky
brine below. Whatever the
technique, there’s really no way
past the impediment of Big Red
Balls; you just have to suck
them up and move on.
Welcome, then, to “Wipeout,”
ABC’s hit reality/comedy/
obstacle course show, back now
for a third season. The formula
is simple: Hurl contestants
through the air, slam them into
crumpled question marks of
human snarge, and splatter them
almost continually with paint
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E-reader News Edition
Five Recommendations for David Cameron
Nile Gardiner (The Foundry: weakening of the Special
Conservative Policy News.) Relationship, which might only
Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:00:24 AM be reversed after he has left the
White House.
David Cameron’s visit to the Cameron should be under no
United States this week offers illusions that the current U.S.
the prime minister a major president is pro-British in
opportunity to assert a stronger outlook, or has much empathy at
British presence on the world all for the Anglo-American
stage after a period of notable alliance. While building ties
decline under Gordon Brown. with the White House, he must
On both Afghanistan and Iran, l o o k b e y o n d t h e c u r r e n t
two key issues likely to feature administration in his meetings
heavily in his White House on Capitol Hill, and seek to
meeting on Tuesday, his engage with conservative
position should be clear: Britain leaders in Congress, who may
will stand shoulder to shoulder hold the balance of power in
with the United States in W a s h i n g t o n a f t e r t h i s
defeating the Taliban and November. Many of them are
standing up to the Iranian instinctively pro-British in
nuclear threat. outlook, and have a direct role
The world needs robust U.S.- in shaping U.S. policy on major
British leadership, which has i s s u e s f a c i n g t h e U n i t e d
been strikingly absent in recent Kingdom, including defense and
years. David Cameron has the i n t e l l i g e n c e c o o p e r a t i o n ,
skill and charisma to build up a national security, and trade.
powerful partnership with In his meetings this week with
Washington, but must be careful the U.S. president, David
to maintain British interests Cameron should:
while doing so, and must not be 1. Focus on victory in
afraid to stand up to the Obama A f g h a n i s t a n , n o t o n e x i t
administration on key areas of timetables: It is important that
disagreement, including how the focus of the Cameron-
best to deal with the global Obama talks be victory over the
economic downturn. He should Taliban, not a timetable for
also be aware that Barack withdrawal, which hands the
Obama is an increasingly initiative to the enemy. As U.K.
weakened president, with many Defence Secretary Liam Fox
policies that are not only recently put it in a major speech
harmful to the United States but at the Heritage Foundation, an
to America’s standing in the e a r l y d e p a r t u r e f r o m
world as well. President Obama Afghanistan “would be a shot in
has contributed to a significant the arm to jihadists everywhere,
Politics/ 53
rests upon reducing levels of
government spending, reining in
budget deficits, and cutting
down the size of the state. This
is not language Obama will
want to hear, but it should be
voiced loud and clear by a
British leader whose standing in
the polls actually went up after
the announcement of tough
austerity measures, in marked
contrast to the big spending U.S.
president, who is rapidly losing
the trustof the American people.
4. Push for ratification of the
U.S.-UK Defense Trade
re-energizing violent radical and must make it clear that the Cooperation Treaty: David
extreme Islamism. It would send possible use of force against Cameron should press Barack
the signal that we did not have Tehran’s nuclear facilities is Obama on ratification of the
the moral resolve and political firmly on the table. There U . S . - U K D e f e n s e T r a d e
fortitude to see through what we s h o u l d a l s o b e s t r o n g Cooperation Treaty, signed in
ourselves have described as a condemnation of human rights June 2007, but currently stuck in
national security imperative.… abuses in Iran, and a statement congressional limbo. If enacted,
To leave before the job is o f s o l i d a r i t y w i t h I r a n ’ s the treatywould significantly
streamline defense-related trade
finishedwould leave us less safe d e m o c r a c y m o v e m e n t .
and less secure. Our resolve 3. Spread the message that between the two allies. It would
would be called into question, deficit cuts are better than also send a strong message that
our cohesion weakened, and the stimulus spending: There is a strategic alliances matter, and
Alliance undermined. It would significant divide between the that the Special Relationship is a
be a betrayal of all the sacrifices U.S. and British governments two-way street, with both sides
made by our armed forces in life o v e r t h e i s s u e o f d e f i c i t fully invested in it.
and limb.” reduction and government 5. Stand up to Obama on the
2. Take a firm line on Iran: b o r r o w i n g , w i t h U . K . Falklands sovereignty question:
Washington and London must Chancellor George Osborne’s David Cameron should not shy
send a clear signal that the days b u d g e t - c u t t i n g a g e n d a i n away from a firm defense of
of engagement with Iran’s brutal marked contrast to the failed British sovereignty over the
regime are over, and that the stimulus approach backed by the Falkland Islands, and reject calls
emergence of a nuclear-armed Obama administration. The for a negotiated settlement over
Iran is unacceptable. In addition prime minister must deliver the t h e i r f u t u r e . T h e O b a m a
to calling for strengthened U.N. message in Washington that administration has generated
S e c u r i t y C o u n c i l a n d E U economic growth in Britain, considerable bad blood across
FIVE page 55
sanctions, Cameron and Obama Europe, and the restof the world
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and what looks like fake
diarrhea; so besplattered, the
adventurer must swim to the
next challenge, where it all
begins again. Given that I’m no
fan of many of the constituent
elements of this TV
show—diarrhea, swimming, and
piercing visions of painful
human contortion are three that
spring to mind—how is that
when 8 p.m., Tuesdays and
Thursdays, comes around, I herd
myself in front of the TV like a
sheep just desperate to be shorn
of all intellect and taste?
In conversations with friends of
mine, I have heard various
arguments. One friend said that
it was simply part of an
American tradition of slapstick
comedy, that what we enjoy in
“Wipeout” is what folks enjoyed
in Buster Keaton movies or the
Keystone Cops. Still another
argued it wasn’t a solely
American tradition at all, and I
will say that I almost put my
hand over my friend’s mouth
when I realized she was going to
say “Wipeout” and “Comedia
dell’arte” in the same sentence.
Because “Wipeout” really isn’t
that. Keaton et al. were
professionals—their stunts were
choreographed within an inch of
their lives (literally), and their
pratfalls may have looked like
visitations from a mischievous
maker, but they were nothing of
the sort. Contestants on
“Wipeout” are to professional
physical comedians what
amazon.com commenters are to
Michiko Kakutani.
So what is it? It’s certainly not
a sense of connection with the
contestants. Yes, they are shown
to us, and given names, but to
call their introductory “bios”
caricatures does a disservice to
doodlers everywhere. They are
merely serfs, interchangeable
stereotypes who take their
lumps for the common good,
which here comes to mean the
propagation of the belly laugh.
In a recent episode we got,
amongst others, a sort-of
cowboy who could sort-of ride a
unicycle; a “church lady” (much
snark was thrown at her for that,
oddly); and a man with glittery
things attached to his face and a
“Glee”-like outre-ness to his
bearing (all to signal, in case we
were in danger of missing it, his
presumed love of the same sex).
For all I know or care, the gay
guy won, or it may be that he
also finished second, or ninth, or
dead last—it doesn’t
matter—these are serfs.
Then there are the co-hosts.
One is John Anderson, a well-
respected ESPN sports journalist
by day, and the perfect foil to
the other John, Henson, a
veteran comedian and former
“Talk Soup” host—a man who
might have made Mother Teresa
a tad short-tempered, with his
way-too-perky eyes and his
catchphrase that ends each
episode (“Good night, and Big
Balls”). Recently, on a
“Wipeout” blind date-themed
special, Henson appeared
wearing a powder-blue floppy
tuxedo about three sizes too big.
(Think David Byrne in Stop
Making Sense, only without the
funk, or the laughs.) At the end
of the intro, he handed
Anderson a red rose; we 10
million viewers secretly wished
he’d ram it up Henson’s nose.
Alas.
Then there’s the co-host,
the“gorgeous Jill Wagner” as
she’s described on the ABC
website. According to the same
source, did I know she keeps a
dream journal? (I did not.) What
I do know is that she is
possessed of a mouth so wide it
could be one of the “Wipeout”
obstacles. You feel for her, too:
While the two Johns are
comfortably snarking up in the
booth, poor Wagner has to stand
in the chilly night with the
hopeful contestants who have
just finished their final rounds,
praying as each does that the
next person doesn’t beat their
time and make them
superfluous, not to mention not
$50,000 richer. They both look
frozen, Wagner and paint/shit-
splattered supplicant, out there
in the Californian wilderness,
making chit-chat, wondering if
it was worth it.
And yet, here I am, counting
down the minutes to 8 p.m.
twice a week. I know ABC isn’t
showing a Jacques Tati movie,
nor even Steamboat Bill Jr., the
Buster Keaton film where the
façade of a building falls on him
and he’s perfectly positioned to
the very spot where the empty
upper window frame lands. But
isn’t it true that sometimes we
just want to turn our brains off
and enjoy a spectacle of inane
falling? These faceless
people—soaked and painted and
hampered by big red
balls—inadvertently make the
starfish shape as they tumble, or
get pummeled by a wall of
boxing gloves, and never once
are we challenged to do
anything other than laugh at
their safe misfortune. We all
tend to think too much, in any
case. I’m sick of thinking, and
this show simply doesn’t let me.
It’s the difference between chess
and NASCAR—once in a while
you want to enjoy the fact that
you know Queens Gambit
Declined; other times, you want
nothing more than to watch fast
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cars going round and round. I’m
tired; I had a shitty day; I’ve got
the accumulated weather of a
lifetime of compromises, loss,
and dulled hope—and here,
right here on this Samsung,
people are Icarus-ing and
getting back up and falling all
over again. Best of all, I’m a
parent, and nothing makes me
happier than watching my
children laugh until they’re fit to
expire. There, that’s really why I
love “Wipeout”: I’m snuggled
up on a couch with the two
greatest people on the planet,
and the three of us are breathless
and teary-eyed, knowing that
what goes up must come—oh ...
oh ... OH!—down.
Luke Dempsey is the author of
the memoir A Supremely Bad
Idea, and the editorial director
of non-fiction for Ballantine
Bantam Dell, a division of the
Random House Publishing
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Judiciary Panel Oks Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) story is below. lawmakers. Democrats hold a 12 August recess, well in time for number of documents in the
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:49:43 AM WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena -7 advantage on the panel. the court term that begins in case during her tenure, but said
Kagan faces the first vote on her Kagan, a 50-year-old New October. she had no firsthand knowledge
T h e S e n a t e J u d i c i a r y nomination to the Supreme York native, has served as Also Monday, Kagan of any of the filings.
Committee has voted to approve Court before a Senate panel Obama's top Supreme Court responded to GOP questions "I never served as counsel of
Elena Kagan's nomination to the dominated by Democrats who lawyer since last year. Stevens that she would weigh stepping record nor played any
Supreme Court. are all but certain to support her. retired in June after more than aside from hearing high court substantial role" in the case,
The 13-6 vote sends Kagan's The only real question is 34 years on the court. challenges to the new health Kagan wrote. "Therefore, I
nomination to the full Senate, w h e t h e r s h e w i l l g e t a n y So far, no Democrat has care law on a case-by-case would consider recusal on a case
where she's expected to be R e p u b l i c a n v o t e s . announced opposition to Kagan basis. -by-case basis, carefully
confirmed as early as next week As the Senate Judiciary and no Republican has She was replying to a list of considering any arguments
to succeed retiring Justice John Committee met Tuesday, Sen. announced support. Sen. questions from committee made for recusal and consulting
Paul Stevens. Jeff Sessions, the panel's top Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is Republicans about her with my colleagues and, if
Just one Republican, Sen. GOP member, said he would considered the most likely involvement as solicitor general appropriate, with experts on
Lindsey Graham of South oppose Kagan, saying she has Republican on the Judiciary in defending the health law. judicial ethics."
C a r o l i n a , j o i n e d p a n e l placed her politics above the panel to vote for Kagan's Kagan, Obama's second Republicans suggested in their
D e m o c r a t s i n s u p p o r t i n g law, lacks experience and has confirmation. Supreme Court nominee, was questions that any involvement
President Barack Obama's activist judicial heroes. Sessions offered extensive solicitor general while the health at all with the health care
second Supreme Court nominee. The Alabaman's announcement criticism of Kagan on Monday law was being passed and as litigation should induce Kagan
A few more Republicans are was no surprise, and most that left little doubt he would states sued the federal to recuse herself to avoid any
likely to back her in the full Republicans are expected to join oppose her. government in March to appearance of impropriety.
Senate, where Democrats have him in voting "no" on President "I know that our nominee was challenge its constitutionality. © Copyright 2010 The
more than enough votes to Barack Obama's nominee to articulate and had good humor She told Republicans in written Associated Press. All rights
confirm her. succeed retiring Justice John and many thought she did very responses to 13 questions that reserved. This material may not
Most GOP senators argue that Paul Stevens. well with her testimony. I was she had no involvement in be published, broadcast,
Kagan would put her political Still, a handful of GOP senators not so impressed," Sessions said developing the government's rewritten or redistributed.
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the Atlantic through its support
for Argentine calls for U.N.-
brokered negotiations over the
sovereigntyof the Falklands, a
position which is unacceptable
to London. This may not be a
major issue for Washington,
which has carelessly sided with
the Kirchner regime in Buenos
Aires, but it is veryimportant to
British interests, especially with
the brave sacrifice of 255 British
servicemen and women in the
liberation of the Islands
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W.Va. Gov Declares Intentions on New Shows on DVD for

US Senate Seat July 20, 2010
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) the people of West Virginia as businesses and consumers. Elizabeth Chan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 5:22:02 AM best I can." West Virginia has so far Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:00:00 AM
The governor's announcement avoided the painful state layoffs,
W e s t V i r g i n i a G o v . J o e came after he and legislative tax hikes and reduced Filed under: TV Shows on
Manchin confirmed Tuesday he l e a d e r s r e s o l v e d t h e i r government services suffered in DVD A true test of television
will run for the U.S. Senate to differences over the succession many other states amid the greatness depends on whether
fill the late Robert C. Byrd's p r o c e s s . T h e l e g i s l a t i o n , recession and recovery. the series will be immortalized
unexpired term. approved late Monday, calls for Manchin carried all 55 counties in a DVD box.
Manchin's announcement ended an Aug. 28 primary and Nov. 2 in 2008 when he was elected to Believe it or not, 'Jersey Shore'
speculation on whether the general election for the seat. It a second term as governor, has been crowned as such -- fist-
popular Democratic governor a l s o c a l l s f o r a f o u r - d a y winning nearly 70 percent of the pumping its way to take its
would swap the 26 months that candidate filing period, which vote. throne on the DVD shelf. As we
would remain in his second term started Tuesday. Earlier this month, Manchin are deep in another season of
for a chance to serve a similar Republicans view their top became the chairman of the "GTL"... wait a second, you
amount of time left in Byrd's prospect as Rep. Shelley Moore National Governors Association look confused, do you not know
term. Capito, R-W.Va. State GOP for a one-year term. what GTL is? show that could -- placed Jersey
The national profile of the 62- lawmakers won an amendment Groups ranging from the West Sure you can Google it, but it's on the proverbial TV map.
year-old Manchin has steadily in the legislation that allows her Virginia Chamber of Commerce much better to witness it Another honorable mention is a
increased since the former state to seek Byrd's seat without to the state AFL-CIO had urged yourself by buying the the entire new season of 'Matlock' also
l a w m a k e r c a p t u r e d t h e abandoning her ongoing bid for Manchin to appoint himself to first season on DVD. We hitting shelves today. Find out
governor's office in 2004 after a a sixth U.S. House term. the seat in the wake of Byrd's imagine the "uncensored the complete list of releases
term as secretary of state. News The Nov. 2 winner would take death. version" is way better than any after the jump!
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Hugo Chavez Discovers: President Andrew Obama Allies

Jackson Murdered Liberator Simon Bolivar Boosting Crist
Ray Walser (The Foundry: have been on secret mission for in Florida
Conservative Policy News.) the U.S. in Colombian waters. (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:14 PM Hence the improbable but Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:10:52 AM
conspiratorial possibility that
With great solemnity and in the Chávez will soon assert Democratic allies of President
presence of several cabinet President Andrew Jackson and Barack Obama are coming to
ministers, the tomb of Simon the U.S. are to be implicated in the aid of independent Senate
Bolivar (1783–1830), Latin Bolivar’s death. candidate Charlie Crist even
America’s equivalent of George In his last public message, though he will square off against
Washington, was opened in Bolivar lashed out at his a Democratic opponent in
Caracas this past week. enemies. “My enemies,” he November’s general election.
“ Bolivar is alive. Let us not see proclaimed, “exploited your The Florida governor has
him as a dead man and let us not credulity and destroyed what is recently brought several
see him as a skeleton. He is like most sacred to me—my Democratic operatives into his
lightning, like a sacred fire,” reputation and my love of campaign, including a pollster
Venezuela’s President Hugo liberty.” and consultant, The Wall Street
Chávez proclaimed. It is the fate of leaders who Journal is reporting today.
The first question to ask is why betray the Liberator’s principles Also, Alfredo Balsera, a
this zeal for a new forensic American nationalism and appears boundless and not and make an assault on liberty member of Obama’s national
investigation? It is a situation i n d e p e n d e n c e , a n d t h e entirely rational. that should most worry finance committee in 2008 and a
a k i n t o P r e s i d e n t O b a m a e m b o d i m e n t o f a n t i - Chávez theorizes Bolivar, died Chávez—not some historical leading presidential adviser on
ordering President Lincoln’s Americanism. For the leader of not a result of tuberculosis, but whodunit. Latino outreach, is now advising
remains exhumed to see if he the Bolivarian Revolution or as victim of foul play, perhaps Tags: Bolshevism, hugo Crist and is planning to host a
was actually assassinated by Socialism of the 21st Century, arsenic poisoning. Attention c h a v e z , S i m o n B o l i v a r , fundraiser next month that will
John Wilkes Booth or France’s Bolivar is to be revered in the focuses on Bolivar’s chief v e n e z u e l a bring together mostly Obama
Nicholas Sarkozy opening same way Bolshevism’s chief political rival, Francisco de You can follow any responses supporters.
Napoleon’s tomb to prove the architect Vladimir Lenin was Paula Santander. But looking at to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Crist “has successfully courted
Emperor was poisoned by the venerated by the Soviets or Bolivar’s last days one also feed. top Democrats — including
English. It is an action that does Castro is exalted by Cuban discovers that a U.S. naval Five Filters featured article: some with close ties to President
little to help the Venezuelan communists. Chávez’s misuse surgeon George MacNight was Headshot - Propaganda, State Barack Obama and the White
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stagnation, mounting insecurity, has been previously documented attend the dying Liberator. Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available campaign, even though two
and loss of liberty. a n d h i s f a s c i n a t i o n w i t h Others point to a certain Captain tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Democrats are making serious
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saint, a living symbol of Latin Journal disclosed.
In late April, Crist trailed
former Florida House Speaker
Marco Rubio, a conservative tea
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58 Politics/ TV/
START the Debate, Stop the Name-Calling
Peter Brookes (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:00:44 AM
The Left is desperately trying to
convince us that Senate
ratification of the Strategic
Arms Reduction Treaty (New
START) is inevitable, but, as
Henry Sokolski points out, the
real debate is only beginning.
The Left has accused the
treaty’s opponents of (among
other things) suffering from a “
bias problem,” implying that the
perceived consensus in support
of the treaty somehow overrides
the value of an honest inquiry
into its terms. Others say it is
just a matter of the Right’s
being politically contrarian, or
just not liking arms control.
In fact, there is no consensus on
New START. The objections
that have been raised in recent
weeks by skeptics are numerous,
based on extensive experience
in arms control and negotiating
with the Russians — not to
DVR Divas: 'My Boys' Star Jamie Kaler Makes Everything
'Alright, Alright'
Kelly Woo (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features The
'Boys' are finally back in town!
When the under-the-radar TBS
comedy 'My Boys' returns for its
fourth season Sun., July 25 at
mention concerns about our
national security. Indeed, a host
of current and former senior
policymakers have voiced their
reservations about this treaty,
including the former director of
the Defense Nuclear Agency,
Robert R. Monroe, who writes:
“Ratification of New START
would be a major mistake,
10PM ET, we'll be watching
(with beer in hand, of course).
Star Jamie Kaler, who plays
goofball Mike Callahan, stopped
by the TV Squad offices to talk
to us about what's coming up on
the show and the comedy tour (Kenny) are embarking on
he and castmate Mike Bunin across the country. Plus, we
immensely damaging to national
security.”
Chiefly, experts are troubled
that New START will lock
America into all the wrong
commitments at a time when the
threat of nuclear and missile
proliferation is actually growing
(e.g. Iran), not receding. In
addition, New START’s
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deficiencies include giving a
lopsided strategic advantage to
Russia, reminiscent of classic
Cold War–era geopolitics;
constraints on missile defense;
and a reduction in the number of
inspection visits at Russian sites,
Send Trade
relative to revious arms-control
agreements.
Critics Back
Now is not the time for tossing
around hollow epithets; it is a
time for addressing the
to School
Bryan Riley (The Foundry:
problems in this treaty that will Conservative Policy News.)
leave America less secure.
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:00:00 AM
Cross-posted at The Corner.
Tags: Henry Sokolski, New Critics of free trade have used
START, nuclear weapons, funny math to mislead
Russia Americans for decades. It may
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to this entry through the RSS 2.0 back to grade school, so they
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reenacted our absolute favorite
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party favorite, by 30 percentage
points in the race for the
Republican nomination, a lead
so insurmountable that Crist left
the GOP to run as an
independent.
Now he is seen as the front-
runner, leading both Rubio and
GOP to run as an independent.
He vetoed two Republican-
backed bills, one dealing with
abortion and the other with
teacher tenure, winning praise
from many teachers and liberal
women’s groups. Although he
insists he is “pro life,” he told
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Lindsay Lohan Taken to Jail
now, he said: “Perhaps.”
Crist has not promised to
caucus with the Democrats if he
— But How Much Time
wins the Senate seat. But he has
met twice in recent weeks with
Will She Really Serve?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Reid for discussions, The
Journal noted, “that signal that Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:38:00 AM

the likely Democratic candidate,
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, in the
polls. A Quinnipiac University
poll in June showed Crist with
the support of 51 percent of
independents, 28 percent of
Republicans, and 37 percent of
Democrats.
Crist defended his credentials
as a Ronald Reagan
conservative in an interview
with Newsmax as recently as
February. But he has moved to
the center since abandoning the
The Journal that he would not
seek to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In March, he vowed he would
fight to repeal the Democrats’
healthcare reform plan. But last
week, he said the plan should
only be “modified.”
Last year he opposed the
Supreme Court nomination of
Soto Sotomayor, but he now
says he “probably” took that
position under pressure from the
GOP primary. Asked by The
Journal if he feels differently
he may be moving in that
direction.”
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Lindsay Lohan
Soon after tweeting her "eeeks"
about going to jail, Lindsay
Lohan surrendered herself to
authorities Tuesday morning to
begin serving a 90-day sentence.
Lohan appeared in court with
attorney Shawn Chapman
Holley. While it was previously
reported that Robert Shapiro, a
member of O.J. Simpson's
defense team, had replaced
Holley as Lohan's lawyer, HolleyLINDSAY
told Judge page
Marsha
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China account for nearly the
entire trade deficit.” Don’t you
believe it.
Suppose your best friend spent
$1,000 more than he made in
May. Say he earned $2,000 and
spent $1,000 on housing, $1,000
on clothing, and $1,000 on food.
What accounts for his $1,000
budget deficit?
Once you answer that question,
you can use the chart below to
calculate what percent of
the$42.3 billion May trade
deficit is accounted for by
imports of oil and goods from
China (see chart).
If you aren’t a big fan of China
or imported oil, you can report
that imports from China plus
crude oil imports add up to 118
percent of the May trade deficit.
What if you don’t like
Canadians or Europeans?
Imports from those countries
add up to 129 percent of the
trade deficit. Do you have
something against imported
computers or cars? There’s
another 72 percent of the trade
deficit. If you’re willing to play
fast and loose with the numbers,
there’s no end to the amount of
dishonest assertions you can
throw out.
By selectively misusing bits
and pieces of international trade
data, trade critics distort the big
picture. It’s time to send them
back to school for a lesson in
how to honestly add and
subtract.
Tags: china, free trade, trade
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that Shapiro had only served as
a consultant and that she was
still representing Lohan.
Check out photos of Lohan
through the years
Revel denied Lohan the options
of home arrest, electronic
monitoring, work release or
work furlough, which means the
troubled starlet will have to
serve her time behind bars. She
also required Lohan to enter an
in-patient rehab facility within
24 hours of her release.
All cameras were ordered off
before Lohan was cuffed and
taken into custody. It remains
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unclear how much of the
sentence Lohan will actually
serve. Inmates are often released
early due to overcrowding. In all
likelihood, Lohan will serve 25
to 30 percent of her jail sentence
because of overcrowding and
the relatively minor severity of
her crime, according to Sgt.
Richard Peña, a spokesman for
the Los Angeles County
Sheriff's Department.
Lohan tried to keep her sense of
humor the night before the start
of her jail sentence tweeting:
"The only 'bookings' that i'm
familiar with are Disney Films,
never thought that i'd be
'booking' into Jail... eeeks."
Lindsay Lohan sentenced to 90
days in jail for probation
violation
Lohan was found in violation of
her probation after missing
seven Alcoholics Anonymous
classes during a 27-week period.
In July, Revel ordered the
actress to serve 90 days in jail,
followed by 90 days in an in-
patient substance abuse
program.
In May, Lohan was issued an
alcohol-monitoring bracelet
after missing a court hearing.
The actress was in Cannes at the
time promoting the film Inferno,
in which she'll play porn actress
Linda Lovelace. She has been
on probation since August 2007
after pleading guilty to drug
charges and no contest to three
driving-related charges.
Lohan has to delay film plans
because of alcohol-monitoring
bracelet
The 24-year-old actress, who
previously served 84 minutes in
jail in 2007, was to serve her
time in the Century Regional
Facility, an all-female jail, in
Lynwood, Calif. Other
celebrities have also served time
in Lynwood, just south of
downtown Los Angeles,
including Michelle Rodriguez,
Daryl Hannah, Nicole Richie
and Khloe Kardashian.
Lindsay Lohan displays explicit
fingernail art in court
Standard procedure for any
inmate upon arrival includes
being checked by two doctors,
including a psychiatrist, who
will go through Lohan's list of
prescriptions and determine
what she will be able to take
while incarcerated.
Lindsay Lohan hires former
O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert
Shapiro
In general, inmates are housed
in an 8-by-12-foot cell, outfitted
with a cot, Peña told
TVGuide.com. As a high-profile
inmate, Lohan will likely get her
own 12-by-12-foot cell,
according to ABC News.
Inmates are in their cells about
20 hours a day and are able to
briefly use an indoor recreation
area.
Lohan will get a jumpsuit,
which for most inmates is
orange. She will be issued a
plastic bag that contains soap,
deodorant, a tooth brush,
toothpaste and other toiletries.
Check out photos of Lohan
through the years
She will receive three meals a
day — the same food deputies
eat — probably consisting of a
hot breakfast and dinner and
cold lunch.
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Charge of Driving with
a Suspended License
Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:50:00 AM
Ice-T
Ice-T was arrested Tuesday in
Manhattan on the charge of
driving with a suspended
license, the New York Police
Department tells TVGuide.com.
Weirdest feud ever? Ice-T vs.
Aimee Mann
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whose real name is Tracy
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Watercooler: Chelsea Lately's
Animal Attraction
Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:45:00 AM
Chelsea Handler
Turns out those tabloids weren't
totally wrong. Last night on
Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler
welcomed "rumored lover"
Dave Salmoni for what would
normally have been a run-of-the
-mill animal segment.
"Ewwww, a vulture." "Oooh, a
cute baby zebra." But since
these two have been
romantically linked lately, the
bit turned out to be as wild as
any of the beasts the humpy
Animal Planet host brought with
him for the show-and-tell. Right
off the bat, the pair traded barbs
about the allegations, with
Salmoni teasing Handler for
"telling people I've given you
more than a kiss," and having a
crush on him. It was cute, if not
confusing, since he really did
seem serious. But then, like the
catty cut-up she is, our favorite
late-night lush unleashed a
vacation video of the two that a
pretty much proves they've
paired up. Guess Chelsea got
tired of playing hide the
Salmoni!
What do you think of Chelsea
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Cruise-ship regs: Cleaner air, potentially higher

prices for travelers
Consumer Reports Shopping took steps to designate Emission are significant contributors to a proposal from the U.S. and
Blog (Consumer Reports) Control Areas (ECAs) along the variety of ecological threats; Canadian governments. That
Submitted at 7/20/2010 9:01:47 AM coasts of both countries. These without containment such document addressed the
areas include U.S. waters emissions are projected to economic effects and indicated
Cruise-ship regs: Cleaner air, adjacent to the Pacific Coast double by 2030. The EPA “the impacts on cruise vessels
potentially higher prices for including sections of Alaska, the estimates coastal areas will are expected to be small.” The Lose weight with
travelers Atlantic/Gulf Coast, and the
New environmental rules to eight main Hawaiian Islands.
experience the largest
improvements from cleaner air
proposal further predicted the
per passenger price of a seven-
a little help from
curb cruise-line emissions along The designated areas do not
much of the North American i n c l u d e t h e P a c i f i c U . S .
in ports, but benefits will extend
hundreds of miles inland, even
day Alaska cruise operating
entirely within the ECA would
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Canyon and the Great Smoky the U.S. territories of Puerto and the Great Smoky analysts estimate that by 2015 Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:59:59 AM

Mountains, the Environmental Rico and the U.S. Virgin Mountains. the stricter standards will raise
Protection Agency says. But Islands, the Aleutian Islands and In addition, analysis shows that costs by $100 million annually Lose weight with a little help
cruise line operators say that the Western Alaska, and the U.S. as many as 8,300 lives will be in the Alaska market and $30 from your friends
regs could cost them $130 and Canadian Arctic because the saved in the U.S. and Canada million annually in the New The problem is clear: 1 in 3
million a year to implement, and EPA cited the need to gather and over three million people England-Canada market. This Americans are classified as
that they could pass those costs “further information” on those will experience relief from acute apparently is why one European obese. In theory the solution is
on to consumers in higher areas. In November 2009, the respiratory symptoms each year. operator, Fred Olsen Cruise simple – eat less and exercise
prices, fewer sailings, and other Alaska Conference of Mayors A report issued last year by a Lines, has indicated it may more. But in practice it’s
restrictions. requested the EPA exempt the coalition consisting of the discontinue sailings in North extremely difficult to lose
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threatened the U.S. coastline, E C A s , pending a Environmental Defense Fund, other cruise lines may not lifestyle changes. Even weight-
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ADHD: The stigma is gone Black Only Part of

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(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 2:29:59 AM
ADHD: The stigma is gone
There was a time when the g u i d a n c e f o r p o t e n t i a l
boomers are extolling their
powers at parties. So frequently
are patients requesting them that
just last year the American
Academy of Neurology issued a
Medical Colleges has posted
their policy* online.
While the competition heats up
Padres' Stunning Rise
Tom Krasovic (FanHouse
for the rewards of the label, Main)
parents with real-life ADHD
kids at home still struggle to Submitted at 7/19/2010 9:39:00 PM

label of attention deficit p r e s c r i b e r s l i k e m e . find optimal management for

hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Indeed, when it came to using Filed under: Padres, MLB
their academic and behavioral
carried a stigma. Parents didn’t medication, a Consumer Reports Inside Scoop SAN DIEGO,
challenges. After all, 22 percent
talk much about it, and kids s u r v e y o f 9 3 4 p a r e n t s o f Calif. -- Whether Bud Black
of those in our survey found it
didn’t want their classmates to children with ADHD found that will win Manager of the Year
was a problem that their child
know that they were taking parents were not very concerned honors remains to be seen, but
was labeled at school, 27
medication. But there seems to about the stigma of being his boss sure likes him.
percent said it was difficult for
have been a shift in acceptance labeled with ADHD. Among General manager Jed Hoyer
their child to maintain
over the past few years, almost a parents who had given their extended Black's contract to
friendships, and 32 percent
complete about-face. Celebrities child medication, 59 percent 2013 with options for 2014 and
reported that the attention victory pace with the majors'
such as Olympic Gold Medal disagreed strongly with the 2015, an expected move that
focused on the ADHD child at second-smallest payroll, great,
winner Michael Phelps, Deal or statement: "I feel guilty or comes with the Padres(54-37)
home negatively affected other but the players talk like they
No Deal host Howie Mandel, embarrassed about having my atop both their division and the
family relationships. To learn haven't done anything yet.
and Extreme Makeover’s Ty child take medication for National League.
from parents who have been "I'm not thrilled, because I
Pennington speak out about ADHD." And 8 percent even The team's story, though, is
there, including how medication expected us to be here," said
their condition. And just last sought out the diagnosis from a bigger than Black's steady
works and which experts helped first baseman Adrian Gonzalez
week, the popular website professional in order get their leadership and acumen as a
the most, see our latest report. during the All-Star break. "And
Jezebel posted a blog that begins child extra time on standardized pitching guru.
— Orly Avizur, M.D., I expect us to be at the same
with the confession: "Because I tests like the SATs. College Padres players are determined
Consumer Reports medical place at the end of the year. It's
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adviser Subscribe now! not something that I get excited
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ConsumerReports.org for expert that I did not expect."
ADHD are being sought for tips on meeting the requirements want to praise them for their 96-
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them, college kids are sharing a c c o m m o d a t i o n t h a t t h e
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Gilmour Polymer Impulse Lawn JaMarcus Russell Pleads

Sprinkler - 2 Pack Not Guilty to Drug Charge
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
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Deal) one. Nothing too crazy, you side splash
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:08:00 AM
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pizzazz. Like, maybe you could spray with an easy top knob and Filed under: Raiders Dressed in
Commencement whip up something involving a set a lever to control how full a a black suit, former Oakland
The seed we plant in this man’s magical green grove of unicorns circle the water will cover Raiders quarterback JaMarcus
mind may change everything. and robots all playing on the • Diffuser screw allows for a Russell let his lawyer enter a not
Or, at the very least, help us healthiest grass in the kingdom heavy stream or a fine spray of guilty plea to a felony narcotics
clear out the warehouse a little. thanks to the sprinklers’ 5800 water charge on his behalf at a Mobile,
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still here, Mr. Corn. Sorry, I’m a spike base that barely leaves a how high off the ground you The short court appearance
little late but, wouldn’t you noticeable mark on your lawn. want the sprinkler head, and came two weeks after
know it, I overslept. I’ve been You do unicorns and robots, also holds it firmly in the undercover sheriff's deputies to be back in court for a
having the strangest dreams right? No? Not even elves? ground raided the home of the former preliminary hearing on Aug. 1.
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ha. That’s was a little joke. You Trains and crumbling buildings? circle, water coverage up to they found a bottle of codeine Briskman, told Mobile's Press-
know, ‘cause of what you… Jeez, for what you charge, I 5800 square feet syrup, a controlled substance. Register that Russell is "getting
You know what? Forget I said figured you guys had a little Several other people were prepared to play professional
anything. You just fiddling with more imagination. Additional Photos: reportedly at the house, but he football." Russell, 24, remains a
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plan. Research looking at 250
Australia women found that just
four group sessions over a year,
plus telephone reminders,
helped them avoid putting on
weight. The women – who all
had young children – lost an
average of 0.4 pounds over the
year if they took part in group
sessions. Women who didn't
take part put on an average of
1.8 pounds.
The advice given to participants
was simple: eat two servings of
fruit each day, and five servings
of vegetables; avoid high-fat
fast food and convenience food;
drink water in place of sweet
drinks; snack on fruit and
vegetables instead of cookies
and chips; eat breakfast every
day; and aim to do 30–40
minutes of brisk walking every
day. We all know these things,
more or less, so presumably it
was the support that women
received that helped them
follow this advice.
The results of the Australian
trial are borne out of a Weight
Watchers program trial, which
uses meetings and a calorie-
controlled diet to help people
lose weight. The research,
p r e s e n t e d a t a plan on losing some weight, you
conference, looked at 772
people (mostly women) in the
UK, Australia, and Germany.
Half were given vouchers for a
12-month Weight Watchers
program. The average weight
loss of people taking part was
8.9 pounds, compared with 3.5
pounds for people who got
standard care from a family
doctor.
The message seems to be that,
when it comes to sticking with a
diet, it’s easy to slip back into
old habits if you don’t get help.
Getting group support might
help with motivation and make
it easier to maintain a healthier
lifestyle.
Interestingly, though, when
researchers were planning the
Australian study, only 1 in 10
women invited to join actually
did. It seems that weight-control
programs only attract the most
motivated people. And the
Weight Watchers study attracted
very few men. So, for many, just
joining a weight-loss group may
be the stumbling block.
What you need to know. If you
could ask your doctor if there
are any weight-loss support
groups in your area. Or, you
could sign up with a commercial
organization like Weight
Watchers. Getting support
seems to aid weight loss more
than doing it on your own.
—Philip Wilson, patient editor,
BMJ Group
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Ratings, buying advice and
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products. Update your feed Activision's intent to incorporate
preferences
Modern Warfare 2
subscription message
dismissed as 'just a glitch'
a pay-to-play plan for the
multiplayer portions of its Call
of Duty franchise sprung up
once again yesterday, when a
player reportedly captured video
of a hidden Marketplace item
titled " Modern Warfare 2
Membership." The buzz was
quickly quieted by a Tweet from
Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling,
who stated, "nobody has to pay
to play COD or MW2
multiplayer, nor will they."
A more thorough report on the
subject of Modern Warfare
subscriptions came from
Activision's Dan Amrich, who
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explained, "This video shows
just a glitch," further explaining,
"since you can access a Live
subscription renewal from
within the MW2 game interface,
it appears some data got jammed
between two parts of Live." See,
we always said some poor menu
would fall into those cracks on
the surface of Xbox Live
Marketplace. Now we've gotta
get it out. Denny! Denny, fire up
the backhoe.
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Inside the labs: Mower differences Realtime XML-RPC

that matter API
Consumer Reports Shopping Craftsman. (Scripting News) ways than through I/Oing.
Blog (Consumer Reports) If you want a mower with a few Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:10:47 AM There are two entry-points, one
Submitted at 7/20/2010 5:41:19 AM extras, fine, but a less expensive to get the next set of updates,
model can also get the job done. To restart the Instant Outliner, I and one to push an update to the
Inside the labs: Mower —Ed Perratore More on decided to implement the workgroup. Both assume there's
differences that matter With mowers: Don’t hit the stores equivalent of FriendFeed's an identity system in place that
some products, you indeed get before you’ve checked out our realtime update functionality can independently determine if a
what you pay for. But with free buying advice for mowers that I liked so much. I started to username/password is valid.
mowers, price differences of and tractors. Subscribers can do it in REST and realized that I (The identity function hooks in
$150 or more may have little to & Stratton engines, only on the view our Ratings for push was reinventing a lot of what as a callback.)
do with how the mower does its more costly Snapper and Deere mowers, self-propelled mowers, XML-RPC already did. Users can connect from more
most basic job: Cutting grass. will you find overhead-valve and lawn tractors. So I put aside the REST than one location at a time, each
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all made by Snapper, serve as a efficient and can last longer if • Lawn mower buying advice: working and a day after that I updates. So I can leave my I/O
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Deere JS46, $500 ( Ratings Snapper’s handle sports an LED perfectly, is instantaneous and You can find the source for
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w e ’ v e j u s t p u r c h a s e d t h e modes: Clock, total hours, trip Subscribers can view and poll approach works perfectly. builtins.realtime in opml.root.
Snapper NXT, $500, for testing. hours, and timers for changing c o m p a r e a l l L a w n m o w e r I wanted to document this for Here are the two entry-points:
The models in this trio are alike the oil and replacing the spark Ratings. Recommended Lawn the programmers who are 1. realtime.getUpdates
in several ways. They sport the plug and air filter. Gimmick? mowers Look at the ones that testing the Instant Outliner, (username, password) returns
same 22-inch cutting deck, as Perhaps, but some of us could we chose as the best of the best. because the realtime updating array of struct
you can see in the photo of the use such reminders. Subscribe now! functionality is more general, it 2. realtime.pushUpdate
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lever height adjustment. In tests, Cadet, Yard Machines, Yard- reliability on hundreds of
the Deere scored a notch higher Man, Troy-Bilt, and other products. Update your feed
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Guide to Basic Herbs

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68 Sports/
Agent: Tennessee Titans, Chris Johnson agree to
2010 accord
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:21:19 AM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Chris
Johnson's agent says the running
back and the Tennessee Titans
have agreed on a revised deal
that will ensure he reports with
the rest of the team for training
camp.
Agent Joel Segal confirmed the
deal Monday to The Associated
Press.
Segal would not say how much
of a raise Johnson is getting but
did say the running back will get
a pay increase. Johnson
reportedly will earn $2.5 million
this season under the revised
Both sides are reviewing the
contract, which could be signed
within the next 48 hours. Some
escalator will be moved
forward, and no new years will
be added to the deal, a source
told ESPN NFL Insider Adam
Schefter.
"We're still talking through
some issues," a source familiar
with the process said Monday.
"It's going to get done, but it's
Mike & Mike in the Morning
ESPN NFL insider John
Clayton says Titans RB Chris
Johnson's new restructured deal
shows that both parties want to
work together. Plus, Clayton
says Brett Favre will be back
and Terrell Owens will get a
job.
It's not the minimum $30
million in guaranteed money the
AP 2009 Offensive Player of the
Year had been saying he wanted
after becoming just the sixth
back to run for at least 2,000
yards in a season.
However, he no longer will be
the lowest-paid running back on
the Titans' roster, with a base
salary of $550,000. The raise
also will prevent him from
missing training camp when the
Titans report July 30 after he sat
out the entire offseason in
protest.
Profootballtalk.com first
reported the deal.
The Titans declined to confirm
the deal Monday, and Johnson
did not respond to messages left
on his cell phone by the AP. The
avid tweeter also had posted
only one message Monday, a
rare drought for the running
back.
Team officials had insisted
Johnson was under contract for
three more years and that rules
in the league's labor agreement
limited pay hikes to 30 percent
and made it impossible to give
Johnson a huge raise. Almost all
of the money for a new, long-
term deal would have been paid
up front, which the Titans were
not willing to do.
AFC South blog
ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky
writes about all things AFC
South in his division blog.
• Blog network: NFL Nation
Johnson won the ESPY for
breakthrough athlete last week
and promised he would be
happy with even a small raise
for the short term.
"When they do something, I'll
be proud to be there with my
teammates," Johnson said
Wednesday.
Johnson still wants a long-term
deal, but for now he can focus
on reaching his next goal -- Eric
Dickerson's NFL rushing record
of 2,105 yards set in 1984.
Johnson came up just short with
his 2,006 yards even as the
Titans focused on trying to get
him to the 2,000 mark in the
final games of the 2009 season.
Johnson already ranks behind
only Dickerson (3,318) and
Edgerrin James(3,262) for the
most yards in the first two years
of a career with 3,234. Johnson
also will be trying to match
Barry Sanders' record of 14
consecutive 100-yard rushing
games; he finished the 2009
season with 11 in a row.
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this report.
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LAS VEGAS -- C.J. Watson is
happy to be a Chicago Bull.
The 26-year-old point guard,
who was acquired by the Bulls
in a sign-and-trade with the
Golden State Warriors early
Tuesday morning, is ready to
show the city of Chicago what
he can do.
"I'm very excited," he said. "I'm
still high off the excitement. I
found out right before I got on
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Former Oakland Raider JaMarcus Russell pleads
not guilty to felony drug charge
ESPN.com news services Oakland Raiders quarterback
(ESPN.com) JaMarcus Russell pleaded not
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:27:19 PM guilty to a charge of illegal drug
possession Tuesday in Alabama.
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MOBILE, Ala. -- Former "He's upbeat. He's looking
forward to his day in court and
getting this behind him,"
Briskman said, according to
WALA-TV in Mobile. "We
fully expect he will be
exonerated from these charges.
That's exactly how I feel. I've
had an opportunity within the
last week to get some additional
information which bolsters my
feeling that he's ultimately going
to be acquitted."
"Be mindful of the fact that
there were nearly a dozen
people at the house when the
sheriff conducted the
investigation and raid."
Briskman said he asked for an
early hearing in order for
Russell to get the case behind
him and renew his effort to play
pro football. A hearing in his
case is set for Aug. 11 to
determine if there is enough
evidence to send the case to a
grand jury.
One of the NFL's biggest No. 1
draft busts, Russell completed
just 52.1 percent of his passes in
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his career, with 18 touchdowns,
23 interceptions and 15 lost
fumbles. He won only seven of
25 starts.
He was released by the Raiders
in May after three disappointing
seasons with the team. He had
been paid about $36.4 million
through last season and was still
owed $3 million at the time of
his release.
The Raiders have filed a
grievance seeking $9.55 million
from Russell in what they say
was paid as salary advances for
the 2010-12 seasons.
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the plane [Monday], so I had the found out. I got a lot of phone
whole plane ride to think about
it and know that I'm going to
calls and a lot of things from
friends and family. It's been a
Jackson's line drive in the sixth saw it hit him," Jackson said. Chicago, so it's a fun and great time and everyone's
inning of an 8-6, 14-inning win "It's weird, because you want to exciting time for me right now." excited for me, and I'm excited
over the Detroit Tigers on stop and check on him, but you Watson, who averaged 10.3 to get out there."
Monday night. have to keep running." points and shot 47 percent from Seemingly the only thing that
More on the Rangers Texas catcher Matt Treanor was the field last season, is confident Watson isn't excited about is the
Richard Durrett and the rest of already sprinting toward the he will be able to slide in right cold weather that awaits him
this winter in the Windy City.
the inside scoop on the Rangers, ground, and was quickly joined and provide his new team with a He was born in Las Vegas and
the American League and Major by teammates and the Rangers spark. still resides there, but he knows
League Baseball. Blog training staff. "I have a pretty much all-around the city of Chicago has plenty to
offer.
walked off the field under his almost immediately, and after shoot, pass, play defense, score. "Everyone's told me great things
own power, was taken to a being examined by trainers, he I just try to go out there and do about Chicago, the city," he
hospital for a CT exam, which walked off the field. He was the best for my team and bring said. "Especially since it's the
was negative. He then returned replaced by Darren O'Day. the energy off the bench. Just try place where [Michael] Jordan
to the team's hotel. "That was really tough, because to be there every night and win played and going in there with
"We'll probably give him a you are worried about your games." so much tradition and history it's
couple days off, just because buddy, and then you've got to Watson has received positive going to be fun to go out there
you want to be careful when a try to get ready to pitch," O'Day reviews on new Bulls coach and play every night and play in
guy gets hit in the head, but he's said. "I didn't even know how he Tom Thibodeau, whom he front of those fans."
With Carlos Boozer, Ronnie
Washington said. "It looked a had all kinds of things going "I know that he's a defensive- Brewer and Kyle Korver already
lot worse than it actually was." through my mind. Finally, after minded coach," Watson said. "I having signed with Chicago,
Washington said there was a the inning, when I got back in heard he was one of the top Watson becomes the Bulls'
chance that the Rangers might the dugout, they told me he was assistants last year. It's going to fourth significant addition of the
put Nippert on the disabled list, talking and doing OK." be fun to play for him. I'm not offseason.
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Tim Tebow's Shoe With Magical
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:25:00 AM
Filed under: Florida, Heisman
Before Denver Broncos rookie
quarterback Tim Tebow even
takes an NFL snap, he already
has a shoe.
Tebow's shoe -- doubtless to
make His father happy -- is set
for release in conjunction with
EA Sports College Football
2011. The sneaker is a blue and
orange cross-trainer, Bronco and
Gator colors, with "PROMISE
September 28, 2008" written on
the back right heel.
The quote is a reference to
Tebow's famous promise speech
made in the wake of Florida's
home loss to Ole Miss. That was
the Gators only setback in a
season that ended with Florida
claiming the national title over
Oklahoma. The left heel features
a series of years: the year
Tebow won a Heisman, 2007,
and the two years he won
national titles, 2007 and 2009.
The anti-Tebow zealots among
us, and there are a ton,
immediately rolled their eyes,
Sports/ Gaming/ 71
Kinect bundled with slim 4GB
Xbox 360 Arcade for $300,
new console for $200 in August
Christopher Grant (Joystiq) market that support the new
"slim" form factor, Greenberg
cursed and thanked God that Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:03:00 PM
told us that this 4GB unit
Alabama fans are already In addition to Kinect retail "absolutely does have that
photoshopping the cover of his pricing, Microsoft announced a expansion bay that we have the
Electronic Arts video game to brand-new Xbox console: a opportunity to use in the future."
show Tebow crying. After all, 4GB Xbox 360 "slim" meant to Between 16GB USB thumb
no third-string quarterback in replace the Xbox 360 Arcade drives and 4GB of internal
NFL history has ever entered the SKU. "It will go on sale August storage, the entry-level Xbox is
league with his own shoe, right? 3 r d i n N o r t h A m e r i c a , " more attractive than ever.
In fact, when you get right Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg Microsoft also detailed a Kinect
down to it, is there any way that told Joystiq, "and later in the b u n d l e , f e a t u r i n g t h e
Tebow deserves a shoe deal? month of August around the aforementioned 4GB Xbox 360
I t h i n k t h e a n s w e r i s world." This $200 console will along with the Kinect sensor and
undoubtedly yes, and I'll tell you sport the same new look as the Kinect Adventures for $300.
why. Xbox 360 slim, "except it will "We think this is really a
have a matte finish," Greenberg tremendous value," Greenberg
said. Though there are currently
KINECT page 72
no Xbox 360 hard drives on the
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said. "We believe the launch of
this product is going to be
driving a whole new series of
new consumers into the Xbox
360 family."
Hoping for another game
besides Kinect Adventures in
your bundle? Greenberg noted
that Kinect Adventures is it for
bundles. "We feel like that's
really the perfect title to include
[...] It's got the great jump-in,
jump-out multiplayer gameplay
as well." The $300 Xbox 360
Kinect bundle will be available
Kinect priced at $150, includes alongside standalone $150
Kinect sensors at retailers on
for the 4GB console bundle."
Some quick Google math puts
those prices at roughly $200 and
$390, respectively.
Gallery: 4GB Xbox 360,
standalone and Kinect bundle
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bundled with slim 4GB Xbox
360 Arcade for $300, new
console for $200 in August
Kinect bundled with slim 4GB
Xbox 360 Arcade for $300, new
console for $200 in August
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Kinect Adventures November 4th.

Update:@AceyBongos(think
Major Nelson, but with an
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accent) just let Twitter know
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 PM later followed up, letting us scientific poll?
that the European prices are
know that Dance Central, Update:@AceyBongos(think
"149.99 Euro for the camera +
The question of Kinect pricing Harmonix's Kinect-powered Major Nelson, but with an
Kinect Adventures, 299.99 Euro
is over ... insomuch as there was rhythm game (and arguably the accent) just let Twitter know
any question. As was widely most well-received title in that the European prices are
assumed - and widely listed on Microsoft's Kinect launch "149.99 Euro for the camera +
retailers, from GameStop to lineup) will also match the $50 Kinect Adventures, 299.99 Euro
Microsoft itself- the Xbox's first-party pricing. for the 4GB console bundle."
newfangled motion-sensing That $149.99 hardware price Some quick Google math puts
camera will retail for $149.99 also comes with a copy of those prices at roughly $200 and
this fall. Kinect Adventures, the casual $390, respectively.
T h e r e ' s a l s o a n a n s w e r title from Microsoft's Good View Poll
regarding the pricing of Kinect Science Studio, formerly known Gallery: Kinect (retail)
retail software. While most a s S p a w n P o i n t S t u d i o s . Kinect priced at $150, includes
stores have been listing Kinect Microsoft promises that those Kinect Adventures originally
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asking price, Microsoft's Aaron the$300 Xbox 360 Kinect
Greenberg told Joystiq, "All of Console Bundle"today" will
Jul 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please
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Kevin Butler
our Kinect retail games, from a "receive a token to download
f i r s t - p a r t y s t a n d p o i n t - three exclusive game levels for
Kinectimals, Kinect Sports, Kinect Adventures." Before you
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New Zealand WhetherKEVIN
you call it an
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or a rip-off, an ad produced by
New Zealand's TV3 bears a
striking similarity to one of
Sony's US PlayStation 3 ads
starring faux executive Kevin
Butler. As noted by
Buttonmasher, the two
commercials include nearly the
same dialogue, setting, reaction
shots and ... well, everything
except the same actors.
When ad agency Deutsch won
the $150 million Sony account
back in 2007, it had an uphill
battle to change Sony's image
following its, err, avant-garde
advertisements under TBWA.
The new agency succeeded with
Butler, who has gone on to
become a sensation -- and that's
where this copy gets unique.
"It's rare to see a carbon copy of
a U.S. commercial or campaign
created by smaller players
overseas," explains Tim Nudd,
editor of AdFreak.com. "I think
there's a healthy fear of getting
caught and sued by the big guys.
More common is the reverse -- a
big U.S. marketer/agency
ripping off unknown work from
smaller players."
Potential examples of the
reverse situation include
companies like Apple, 3M and,
funny enough, Sony itself with
its Japanese " Gameface" ad.
See for yourself how similar the
two ads are, right after the
break.
Continue reading Kevin Butler
commercial cloned in New
Zealand
Kevin Butler commercial
cloned in New Zealand
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French Connection
(Mensfitness.com) Laetitia (bottom), Aurelie E.
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:00:00 AM (top), and Emilie.
What's the difference between
Five beauties tell us about American and European men in
American & French men bed?
by Sean Hyson • Aurelie D.: I don't think there
Print Article Email to Friend are any differences except for
French women are known for t h e l a n g u a g e b a r r i e r . A
their openness, so MF tracked Frenchman would understand
down five of them to find out me when I talk dirty, and an
what makes a European woman American wouldn't. The Yank
tick. Check out what they had to will just have to listen to my
say about passionate kisses, body language.
impressing a French girl, and • Cindy: European men like to
t h e d i f f e r e n c e b e t w e e n smoke a cigarette after love.
American and European men.
(From left) Aurelie D., Cindy, FRENCH page 74

A mosque at Ground Zero

(Scripting News) MYOB when it comes to it's consistent with our values, If anything I'd think it would be
Submitted at 7/20/2010 8:23:50 AM country life, but don't mind and because it's the most Muslims who would protest
meddling in the way the Big arrogant and territorial thing we building a mosque at Ground
The big Tea Party controversy City works. could do vis a vis the assholes Zero.
in NYC these days is whether or Ride the subway some day and who blew up the WTC. Anyway, I think we should
not to build a mosque at Ground tell me there aren't a lot of It's like going over their head to build nothing but shrines there.
Zero. people who go to mosques their god and saying hey you get One of every kind of church.
Not sure who's advocating it, living right here in the Big to hang out here too. Along with Spare no expense. I thought they
but I know who's against it -- Apple. Jesus and Moses. should move Shea Stadium
the know-nothing, down-home "Islam is an American religion," Can you imagine the meeting at there. That's another kind of
T.P. country folk who don't live said Daisy Khan, executive Terrorist HQ when they're shrine. No serious business at
in or particularly like NYC. I director of the American Society thinking about blowing up Ground Zero from now on. Just
wondered why they were so for Muslim Advancement. whatever we build at Ground contemplation, prayer, reflection
upset about the WTC bombing Amen to that. came. But the greatness of our Zero. And you know they're and baseball. When they try to
on 9/11. I thought they hated And check out the history of country, and esp this city, is that going to be thinking about that. blow it up they'll seem like the
NY and the pinko liberals who our great country, and how we it welcomes people from all Some bright young terrorist guy spoiled sports and sore losers
live here. I would have thought w e r e a h a v e n a g a i n s t over the world. It's what fed the will point out that they'll be that they are.
they'd be happy to see a big oppression, and how there were idea of American blowing up a mosque if they do
piece of it go up in smoke. I always ignorant people who said exceptionalism. it. They probably won't think
guess they don't worry too much America is just for the people So yes, we should build a twice, but they sure won't make
about consistency. who are here and the rest of us mosque where the World Trade any new friends in the Muslim
Gotta love how they tell us to should go back from where y'all Center used to stand. Because world.
74 Health/
Bikram Yoga
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 4:00:00 AM
Lose weight, reduce stress, and
more with one of the hottest
new ways to train
by Nate Millado
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George Clooney does it. Daniel
Craig, too. Yet Bikram yoga
(named after founder Bikram
Choudhury) is not just another
celebrity fad. Pro athletes like
New York Jets wide receiver
Braylon Edwards and others
have been doing it for years."It's
the most male-friendly style of
yoga," says Jen Lobo, co-
founder of Bikram Yoga NYC
in Manhattan. "Guys embrace
the challenge. They're not just
sitting around ohming and
chanting. It's a hard workout."
Ready to heat up your routine?
Here's a quick primer.
What it Is
Bikram focuses more on the
physical aspect of yoga rather
than the meditative, according to
Lobo. It's done in a heated room
for safe stretching and for
detoxifying your body. Classes
run through the same 26 poses
and stretches, no matter where
you take them. "You could be
traveling to London on business,
walk into a studio, and know
exactly what you're going to
get," Lobo says.
The Temperature
Expect to sweat—a lot. You're
doing 90 minutes of training in a
studio that's 105 degrees, with
around 40% humidity. "It
sounds super hot, but it's
actually not that much warmer
than our body heat," Lobo says.
"A sauna can get up to 140
degrees."
The Benefits
You mean, aside from being in
a room full of hot, sweaty, and
flexible half-naked women?
Okay, Bikram works every
muscle, tendon, ligament, and
joint, so it can help you avoid
injury. Plus, there's major
weight loss.
"I've seen guys who've come in
twice a week, and two months
later, they've lost 30 pounds,"
Lobo says. "You're working
your thyroid gland in a lot of the
postures, which can help speed
up your metabolism and balance
blood-sugar levels."
Other pluses to practicing Toe
Stands and Tree Poses? Stress
reduction, mental clarity, greater
productivity, and more energy.
It's also a great way to combat
jet lag—even road rage.
"By learning how to breathe and
how to stay calm in strenuous
situations, you can apply these
techniques to everyday life," she
says.
What to Wear
As little as possible. Shorts and
tank tops should suffice. Try not
to eat two hours before class,
but do drink lots of water before
and throughout each session.
Lobo recommends coconut
water, since it contains natural
electrolytes.
Cost
Plan to spend around 13 per
session in most parts of the
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Americans like to watch you
smoking.
• Laetitia: Americans are more
aggressive. European men know
the art of subtlety.
• Aurelie E.: Their bodies.
American men like to go to the
gym. European men don't. It
depends on what the girl is into -
rock-hard bodies or teddy-bear
types.
• Emilie: It's a different kind of
sensuality. American men may
be more conservative than
Europeans. That's not bad - but
you have to reveal yourself
sometimes.
What's the secret to a great
French kiss?
• Aurelie D.: A kiss is an
expression of honesty. If you
feel it inside, then you'll be a
good French kisser. But don't
think you can fake it, because
we'll know.
• Cindy: A French kiss is like
eating a fruit. It's about enjoying
the flavor while it lasts.
• Laetitia: Clean breath - and
not having any food stuck
between your teeth.
• Aurelie E.: A French kiss or a
'freedom' kiss? Either way, don't
forget the tongue. That's
something Bush can't change
[laughs].
• Emilie: Take your time - and
reach your arm around my back
to hold me tightly.
E-reader News Edition
What should every guy know
before trying to pick up a
European woman?
• Aurelie D.: European women
like to be courted. Buying
flowers before the first date is a
good move.
• Cindy: Don't be afraid if we
go to bed with you after the first
date. It doesn't mean we're sluts.
• Laetitia: A European girl
needs to feel that she's desired.
She needs passion. If you want
us, you have to show it, without
playing games or trying to be
tricky.
• Aurelie E.: Don't try to
impress us with the size of your
wallet. It's the size of something
else that matters.
• Emilie: We like to be seduced,
so make sure you have a big bag
of tricks. Charm is more
important than beauty.
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Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:22:32 AM
Dominick Cruz found his way vehicle, Danny Trejo, and the ink, the fine details of the lives
For the life of me, I cannot of liberal believers are rarely
figure out why so many examined.
mainstream journalists do not Your GetReligionistas have
want to write about the practical been saying this since the first
implications of the choices days of this weblog.
made by liberal religious Consider, for example, that
believers and even those of recent Time magazine cover
skeptics. While coverage of
religious conservatives (much of FAITH page 77
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The fundamentalists are everywhere

Mollie (GetReligion) world works in other ways than unable to say that’s not true,” he
Submitted at 7/20/2010 7:00:27 AM it does,” he said. “This can be said. “There are examples all
extremely dangerous.” through history of quite sane
There’s a certain irony in the It is at this point in the story, people who have had such
relationship between atheism about four paragraphs in, that experiences. I don’t think it is
and Christianity and this ABC I’m beginning to feel sympathy but I’m not going to say it
News story highlights that. It’s for atheists. Kagin goes on to be isn’t.”
about some subset of atheists quoted saying that religious Kagin is asked about how he
adopting a debaptism rite a d h e r e n t s a r e u n p a t r i o t i c feels about his son’s religious
m o d e l e d o n t h e C h r i s t i a n terrorists and so on and so forth. faith but the son is never
baptism rite. He comes off like a complete interviewed.
But boy is it horribly written, yahoo. Now, I suppose that it’s The most ridiculous part of this
particularly considering that possible that this is an accurate ridiculous story? The
there were three reporters description of Kagin and the “fundamentalist” pastor is
assigned to the piece. It begins event at which he was speaking, actually a pastor of a mainline
with a vignette of the debaptism but, if so, is it really fair to base Disciples of Christ Church.
rite and introduces someone an entire story on this man? They’re a congregational church
who is supposedly a leading And who are these parents who body so I suppose anything is
atheist — Edwin Kagin. He’s are “subjecting” their children to possible but here’s how the
not a nobody in atheist circles “strict fundamentalist” religious Disciples of Christ self-identify
but I think it would be better to e d u c a t i o n ? A n d i n w h a t on their website:
attempt to show us he’s a universe is strict a required The church is identified with
leading atheist rather than tell us modifier for fundamentalist? Is the Protestant “mainstream” and
he is. He’s also identified as one that modifier needed because of is widely involved in social and
of atheism’s “premier the media overuse of other concerns. Disciples have
provocateurs” which seems like “fundamentalist” to describe particularly care who he’s compelling reading! supported vigorously world and
some tough competition. I’m not Republicans, traditional families offending with his actions, and Immediately after the above national programs of education,
s u r e h o w a c c u r a t e t h a t and anyone who never donated that he is acting completely excerpt, Kagin is quoted as agricultural assistance, racial
description is either. In any to Greenpeace? within his rights. “You can saying that believers must not be reconciliation, care of the
case: The article describes the m o c k a n y t h i n g y o u w a n t secure in their faith if they are developmentally disabled and
Kagin, who is American debaptism rite in great detail, all because you have the right to,” offended by his actions. At no aid to victims of war and
Atheists’ national legal director, with supporting quotes from he said. “Humor is humor and point in the story is a believer calamity.
firmly believes that regardless Kagin. Quote after quote after what types of humor are you quoted for perspective, much Sounds pretty fundamentalist to
of one’s religious beliefs, each quote from Kagin and nobody going to outlaw?” he said. less anyone else to provide me. Seriously, reporters, this is
person has the right to say or do else. For instance: He conceded that although it context. This gets downright getting embarrassing. Not only
what he or she wants, provided Kagin said that many people may not be good manners to silly when we get to this: is the word “fundamentalist”
it is within the law. In the past, h a v e u n d e r g o n e d e - continually take a mocking And then there’s this interesting generally a bad idea. Using it to
he has reportedly called out baptism.”Many have taken it as stance toward religion, “in many twist. His own son, Steve Kagin, describe a church body in
parents who subject their somewhat of a joke, but some c a s e s , i t i s t h e o n l y r e a l is a fundamentalist minister in fellowship with the United
children to strict fundamentalist have found it truly, if you will, a response.” Kansas. Church of Christ is laughably
religious education, referring to s p i r i t u a l l y c l e a n s i n g Come on, three reporters whose Kagin said that his son claims bad.
it as child abuse. experience,” he said. bylines are on this story, a list of to have a personal revelation in
FUNDAMENTALISTS page 77
“It is teaching children that the Kagin has said he doesn’t quotes does not make for Jesus Christ. “I am totally
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story that ran with the headline,
“The Only Child Myth.” (Once
again, alas, the full story is
behind a digital wall and you
can only see an abridged
version. Also, the parts of the
story that center on religion
were among those cut out. I’ll
watch for the full text in future
weeks, but for now you’ll have
to rely on passages that I have
typed up to share with you.)
This topic, and this report,
raises lots of questions,
including why the Time editors
made the Meacham-esque
decision to publish a news essay
on this controversial and
emotional topic that was written
by a reporter, Lauren Sandler,
who right up front states (good
for her, in terms of candor) that
she is an only child and that she
is the mother of only one child
and that’s fine with her, thank
you very much.
The article feels like an
extended argument on behalf of
a cause, with few sympathetic
voices showing up to argue for
the other side. After all, states
Sandler, the one-child model has
become the “new traditional
family,” especially during these
hard economic times. Take that,
Focus on the Family.
I kept wondering if and when a
clearly religious angle would
show up in this story, fearing
that it would be totally haunted.
Finally, one did.
If you comb the World Values
Survey, you’ll find religiosity
and fertility go hand in hand,
whether in more secular Europe
or in more pious America. As
much as family size is a deeply
personal issue, for many people
it is also a spiritual one. And as
Samuel Preston writes in his
2008 paper “ The Future of
American Fertility,” high
fertility can beget high fertility:
children who inherit their
parents’ religious beliefs inherit
at least one of the reasons to
have many children themselves.
No wonder churches nationwide
vied to book Jon and Kate
Gosselin (predivorce) for guest
spots in their pulpits.
Evangelicals — the biggest
share of their viewership — saw
the Gosselins’ brood as proof of
pure piety.
It must have felt good to tap in
the negative rebound on that
Gosselin story. However, this is
a serious subject and there are
many other religious voices —
including Catholics, Jews,
Muslims and others — who
could speak to this point.
However, there really isn’t time
in this editorial essay to
contemplate the lives and beliefs
of those on the other side.
Still, it was at this point that I
really began to wonder if Time
was going to leave the religion
element completely out of its
blissful coverage of the “One
and Done” lifestyle. After all, if
intense religious faith leads to
fertility, what kind of religious
belief or unbelief leads to this
new “traditional family”? In
other words, what is the
religious (or, perhaps, “values”)
content of this new tradition?
What we read sounds
persuasive, but rather — dare I
say it? — self-centered. Check
this out, from the abridged
version:
As parents, we tend to ask
ourselves two questions when
we talk about having more
children. First, will it make our
kid happier? And then, will it
make us happier? A 2007 survey
found that at a rate of 3 to 1,
people believe the main purpose
of marriage is the “mutual
happiness and fulfillment” of
adults rather than the “bearing
and raising of children.” There
must be some balance between
the joy our kids give us and the
sacrifices we make to care for
them.
“Most people are saying, I can’t
divide myself anymore,” says
social psychologist Susan
Newman. Before technology
made the office a 24-hour
presence, we actually spent less
time actively parenting, she
explains. “We no longer send a
child out to play for three hours
and have those three hours to
ourselves,” she says. “Now you
take them to the next practice,
the next class. We’ve been
consumed by our children. But
we’re moving back slowly to
parents wanting to have a life
too. And people are realizing
that’s simply easier with one.”
Or consider this snippet from a
visit with Andrew Oswald of the
University of Warwick:
Ironically, it seems that if
economic pressures can bring
about lower fertility, so can
economic prosperity. “I love my
daughters to bits. But skiing and
sports cars without baby seats
can be fun too,” he says. “That’s
why only children are the
secular trend of a rich society
we’ve been moving toward for
the past 100 years.”
Is that it? This is a “secular
trend” — period? I find it hard
to believe that the Time editors
were willing to settle for that.
Is this crucial question really
that simple? Faith equals living
for others? A lack of faith
equals living for oneself? Surely
there is more to the faith of the
“One and Done” tradition than
this? Where are the religious
voices on the other side of the
childbirth equation?
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And the larger piece is just
unfair to atheists by failing to
place this Kagin character in
context of the larger movement.
By using him as the only real
source for the story, it makes all
atheists look like clowns and
blowhards.
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Christian
awakening
Brad A. Greenberg
(GetReligion)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 5:51:42 AM
NPR yesterday began a multi-
part series on the rise of
religious belief in China’s
spiritual vacuum. And it’s not
off to a good start.
Don’t get me wrong: This is an
interesting and timely subject.
The discussion of religious
freedom and the countryside
vignettes of faith were
important. And the numbers
were eye-opening.
The first story, which will be
followed today with a feature
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about China’s divided Catholics,
was about the People’s
Republic’s Protestant
awakening. It was an unusually
long report — more than 10
minutes ( hear it here) — and
that should be applauded.
But I’m not sure reporter
Louisa Lim is up to the
challenge. I just couldn’t shake
my belief that she didn’t get
Protestantism.
The most poignant example
was this line about China’s
395th richest men, who found
Jesus during a two-month stint
in the pokey:
He did get out after 69 days,
and that convinced him to
become a devout Christian.
I’ve heard of people being born
-again — that alone is a
commonly overused and overly
vague descriptor — but I’ve
never heard of, much less met
anyone, who decided to become
a devout Christian.
Without even addressing the
dangers of the d-word, there’s
just not a lot of sense to
suggesting that someone who
had a road-to-Damascus
moment would think they could
choose between becoming a
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devout or cafeteria Christian.
They’re just becoming a
Christian. As Jesus told the
disciple who wanted to first
bury his father: “Follow me, and
let the dead bury their own
dead.”
There also appeared to be some
confusion in this story about
what people meant when they
talked about applying Christian
ethical principles to their
professional decisions. Speaking
again with Zheng Shengtao, the
rich young ruler known as a
“boss Christian,” Lim said:
He believes that making money
is literally doing God’s work.
Now where did she get that?
From this quote:
We have to be the salt of the
earth. We don’t bribe officials to
make money or make fake
products or harm the customers’
interests or evade tax. We don’t
think the wealth belongs to us.
We’re just like bank clerks. It’s
God who gives you the career
and the wealth and asks you to
manage them.
But the two don’t necessarily
add up.
What Zheng’s comment
suggests is that when he works,
he works as a Christian — it’s
no longer acceptable for him to
bribe officials or behave in
underhanded ways. That’s not
the same as Zheng saying he is
making hundreds of millions of
yuan because God told him to
make lots of money either for
his own enjoyment or for the
benefit of Christianity in China.
You’ll notice other areas where
language is tossed around a little
too loosely. Is a group of
youngsters holding a worship
service in a “dusty rural village”
really rise to the level of
“flouting the law against
proselytizing?”
Maybe. But I’m not sure. I’m
not there. And after some of the
other hiccups in this story, I’m
not willing to take the
descriptions at their word.
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About those flying
monkeys
Mollie (GetReligion) The story concerns Lord Rama,
Submitted at 7/19/2010 5:20:44 PM an avatar, or manifestation of
the Hindu deity Vishnu. Rama
It’s such a simple thing, I guess, was the virtuous crown prince of
but I love the way Pittsburgh a kingdom in northern India, but
Post-Gazette reporter Ann was unjustly sent into exile. His
Rodgers previews upcoming wife Sita went with him. When
religious events. It doesn’t Sita was kidnapped, Rama
matter what my level of interest enlisted Hanuman, a flying
is going into one of her stories, I monkey who commanded an
always come away something to army of monkeys, to help rescue
think about. her.
Take this story about a visit “There is enormous symbolism
f r o m H i n d u S w a m i built into these stories, which
Tejomayananda to a local many people don’t understand.
convention. The point of the They laugh at the Hindu religion
visit is to educate 2,000 and say, ‘You worship a
attendees on a beloved chapter monkey,’ ” Mr. Dharmarajan
in an epic of Lord Rama. She said of Hanuman.
explains a bit about the Swami’s Rodgers explains that some
approach and his popularity. believe the army of monkeys
Perhaps the piece relies a bit too symbolizes human reason. It’s
m u c h o n o n e p a r t i c u l a r not a lengthy story. I imagine
interpreter, but the context is that there are many other
still helpful: interpretations of the monkeys
T h e s t o r y i s f r o m t h e and it would be nice to see
Ramcharitmanas, a 17th century those, too — but she makes it
translation of the Ramayana — clear that she’s showcasing just
the epic of Rama — from o n e s c h o o l o f t h o u g h t i n
Sanskrit into colloquial Hindi. Hinduism. But I figure it takes a
Although the Ramcharitmanas particular talent to write stories
isn’t one of the primary Hindu about upcoming events and
scriptures, it is considered a make them as interesting as she
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10 Tips for Corporate Blogging

Erica Swallow (Mashable!) Guidelines Encourage them to have their most recent posts were on how
Submitted at 7/20/2010 10:31:52 AM When creating a product or own personalities and writing to do a handstand, protect the
service, you must be able to styles. This type of diversity is lower back, and explore a new
This post originally appeared define the value that it’s more representative of your city.
on the American Express OPEN bringing to consumers. In the company than any monotonous Readers will get a taste of the
F o r u m , w h e r e M a s h a b l e case of a blog, you need to tone that you could manufacture massive knowledge bank
regularly contributes articles clearly define the focused theme on your own. available at your company. Take
about leveraging social media that your team will follow. Always keep in mind that your your mind off of marketing, and
a n d t e c h n o l o g y i n s m a l l Choose a blog name and theme blog is about people connecting you’ll find that the analysis that
business. that fits well with your that are knowledgeable and and conversing with people, not you provide sells your company
I n a w o r l d w h e r e s m a l l company’s expertise, but don’t comfortable writing about the a corporation. Throw away that better than a press release ever
businesses with corporate blogs be afraid to branch out into a areas you would like to cover. “corporate” concept, and you’ll could. 5. Welcome Criticism
receive 55 percent more traffic larger space. Your blog should Also, it’s key to choose people be ahead of most. 4. Avoid PR Oftentimes, corporations shy
than small businesses that don’t provide pertinent information who write well and have a great and Marketing away from opening up their
blog, companies should be for consumers interested in your online presence. If maintained correctly, your websites and blogs for
taking note on how to improve area of business. Train your bloggers on the blog will act as a repository of commenting and interaction,
their blogs, attract more readers Once you’ve chosen an area to editorial guidelines and decide real analysis and opinions because they are afraid of the
and get more results. cover, create a set of editorial what type of writing and editing provided by your company’s harm that criticisms may cause.
But still, a lot of companies guidelines that your bloggers process you would like to put in fine employees. The type of Make it a policy to welcome
with corporate blogs seem to be will follow. Guidelines can place. Some companies prefer to insight and expertise that a blog criticism, thinking of it as an
bogged down in uniformed include appropriate verticals and elect an editor or group of can demonstrate is far more opportunity for feedback and
policies and simply aren’t topics to cover, as well as how editors to have a final look at all useful than any PR pitch that improvement. There are lots of
thinking outside the box. Afraid and when posts should be blog posts, while other you could post. Stay away from ways to deal with negative
to take on colorful personalities written. companies allow their bloggers trying to sell your readers. There feedback, so don’t be afraid to
or step a bit outside of their A clear goal and theme for your to publish directly. Figure out are appropriate venues for that, open up to your community. 6.
company’s happenings, many blog will make it easier for users the level of comfort you have and your blog shouldn’t be one Outline a Comment Policy
corporate blogs employ an to know what to expect. For with your blogging, editing and of them. Be aware that if you open up
official tone announcing the example, Dogstuff, an online publishing process and Continue to add to the your blog for full feedback
p l a y - b y - p l a y u p d a t e s o f shop for canine gifts, toys and implement a procedure that conversation, adding value for (which you should), you will get
company news. This is just one supplies, hosts a blog called works well for your team. 3. your readers. Your opinions will a variety of comments —
mistake that businesses are Dog Blog. The blog is simple Humanize Your Company be priceless. And for the times constructive, complimentary,
making in the blogging world. and to the point, and it’s more A company blog is an that you don’t have an opinion hateful, and spam. Be prepared
There is a laundry list of issues than evident that the blog is opportune place to let down on an important topic, gauge for everything. Create a
that need to be addressed when about dogs. The theme is your hair and get to know your your community’s opinion by comment policy that your team
it comes to improving corporate specific enough for readers to customers. Think of it as a taking a poll or interviewing key can follow, and make sure
blogs, but here we’ve narrowed understand what they may find, conversation between people, people. everyone is on same page.
down the key elements that but it is such a broad topic, that not between a brand and one Lululemon Athletica, a yoga- Outline the types of comments
companies should focus on. almost limitless posts are person. In order to have a inspired athletic apparel that should be responded to,
Here are 10 tips for corporate possible. 2. Choose a Blogging conversation, you need two company, constantly adds value deleted or passed along for
bloggers hoping to make a Team and Process people — a blogger and a to its community through its follow-up. 7. Get Social
p o s i t i v e s p l a s h i n t h e i r Choose a team of core bloggers reader. blog by providing posts on Make sure your blog is open for
communities. 1. Establish a t o b e g i n y o u r b l o g g i n g Give your corporate bloggers topics that their core followers
the freedom to be themselves. TIPS page 81
Content Theme and Editorial adventure. Select individuals would appreciate. Some of the
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Why QR Codes Are Poised to Hit the Mainstream

Jennifer Van Grove generation approach to the QR certainly depend on the branded worthy of note.
(Mashable!) code. The mobile app is message that scanners see. SCVNGR is all about activity,
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:21:25 PM primarily a barcode scanner — Anything too pushy will and while it can be used as a
powered by Red Laser— but it discourage app users from Foursquare alternative, there’s
The QR code, or quick response takes the technology into the scanning product barcodes, so much business appeal here
c o d e , i s s i m p l y a t w o - realm of fun by creating a social which would be a lose-lose for that it kind of exists in a new
dimensional bar code that came and shared experience around everyone. category of its own. Cities,
into being in 1994 and found a any item in the physical world For more guerilla-style street museums, small businesses,
l a r g e a u d i e n c e i n J a p a n . that possesses a barcode. campaigns, Stickybits sells universities and even brokers
Stateside, however, QR codes Download the iPhone or barcode stickers, and users can have already turned to
— while clever for tying real- Android application, scan your print codes onto gear or SCVNGR to create their own
world objects to online content favorite cereal box, add an item download and print their own location-based treks for
— have always remained on the — maybe a related recipe, but around things (products), so that codes from home. Gaming and customers or fans.
outskirts of public awareness. any video, photo, audio clip or alone makes it a new platform QR Codes, A Perfect Match goSmithsonian, for instance,
Nonetheless, we’ve seen QR comment will do — and you’ve for digital exposure. Location-based services have used SCVNGR to build a trek
codes employed for creative just started a digital thread The brands and marketers that been around for years. Loopt through nine of the Smithsonian
purposes. The Detroit Red around that item. can motivate fans to take to and Brightkite were early museums that require solving
Wings interactive programs and Where Stickybits succeeds is in product-related conversation pioneers in encouraging mobile clues and completing
the giant QR codes in Times making the scan feel familiar. chains via Stickybits, with or owners to share their location challenges. More recently The
Square come to mind. Each of People have already caught on without a nudge in the right with friends via GPS-enabled Boston Globe’s trek involved
these serves as prime examples to using Red Laser to scan direction, could find a distinct devices. five different content-driven,
of how QR codes could be on barcodes on packages for advantage over competitors. Both services are still around city-based challenges. Treks are
the verge of their breakout c o m p a r i s o n p r i c i n g . S o This is especially true for brands today and each have their own about mobile, challenge-based
moment. Stickybits is nothing more than that find meaningful ways to appeal, but Foursquare, the discovery, so they’re certainly
What the technology needs in a b a r c o d e s c a n n e r f o r participate, even it if is just by second coming of Dodgeball, Foursquare and Gowalla-esque
order to finally make it to the c o m p a r i s o n m u l t i m e d i a listening or following along. In has pushed location-sharing into in nature, but as the Smithsonian
mainstream are applications that conversations. Same idea, this way, Stickybits is like a new mainstream hands. Foursquare and The Boston Globe examples
take the nerd-factor out of the different application. frontier for savvy early adopter did it by hooking users with demonstrate, there’s more here
QR code scan, and drive home It’s this approach that could brands. simple and engaging game than just checkins.
the potential rewards of seeing a finally help to bridge the gap Stickybits also makes more mechanics, and now everyone, It’s within these challenges and
code, scanning it, and then between barcodes on packages aggressive brand plays possible. especially Yelp, is anxious to treks where QR codes make
engaging with the served-up and the still unfamiliar QR Pepsi, for example, signed on as follow suit. their appearance and find real-
content. codes popping up in the real a sponsor. Stickybits users who SCVNGR— which bills itself life relevance. SCVNGR
Stickybits and SCVNGR are world. It certainly doesn’t hurt scan Pepsi cans and other Pepsi as a mobile way to participate in supports QR code challenges, so
startups that integrate the that Stickybits scans standard products will see a sponsored place-based, scavenger hunt-like players can be tasked to scan a
barcode scan in intelligent and barcodes and QR codes, which message from Pepsi atop the bits challenges — is in part a QR code to complete the
fun ways. They’re poised to eliminates the need for users to threads. It’s somewhat akin to checkin application, but with the challenge and earn the points.
propel the movement of the next hunt down other QR code Twitter’s Promoted Tweets, and gaming experience at the core of Of course, the QR code
generation QR code, and here’s scanner apps. could prove to be both a money- the service. Users can check-in challenge is also a nearly fail-
why. The Potential of Collective Of course, Stickybits offers making vehicle for Stickybits at a venue using the SCVNGR proof way to ensure that a
Scanning tons of potential for both brands and an alternative way for mobile app, but it’s what player is where they say they
Stickybits brings context to real and marketers. The service advertisers to get exposure. happens after the checkin that WHY page 82
-world objects with its next essentially creates a social graph Success in this realm will makes this an application
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TIPS
continued from page 79
comments and utilizes share
tools, such as Facebook, Twitter
and Digg. Share tools allow
your users to pass along your
content. Why not allow your
readers to promote your work?
Put forth an effort to respond to
comments or forward them on
when a specific employee could
offer the best expertise in that
area. Make sure each employee
maintains a personable tone
when responding to comments,
so that readers know that your
bloggers are genuine.
Lastly, if you haven’t done so
already, implement a social
media strategy for your blog,
creating the appropriate profiles
across social networks that your
readers and customers are active
on. Usually, Facebook and
Twitter are a good start, and
YouTube is a must for video-
sharing. When you post on your
blog, announce the new post on
your social networks and ask for
your readers’ opinions on the
subject.
Promote your social presence
on your blog, by implementing
links, buttons and widgets that
link to your social profiles. This
will enable readers to stay
connected with you across
platforms. Whole Foods’ blog,
Whole Story, for example,
displays its social links
prominently at the top of the
blog. 8. Promote Your Blog
Just as you would promote any
other company initiative, get the
word out about your blog. Share
the URL on your website, social
networks, business cards, e-
mails, and advertisements.
Without promotion, building an
audience can be difficult. Get
behind the quality work that
your team is putting into the
blog and promote away. 9.
Monitor Mentions and Feedback
One way to get a pulse on your
blog and its effects on the
community is to monitor
mentions and feedback. Set up
Google Alerts for your brand,
blog name and any keywords
that might be relevant. Search
on Technorati and Twitter for
those set terms.
To make things easier with
Twitter, set up custom search
columns in a Twitter client, such
as Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or
CoTweet. The columns will
update in real time, keeping you
up-to-date on brand and blog
mentions at all times.
Getting more sophisticated, you
should look into social media
brand management tools, such
as Radian6, for monitoring
keywords across social sites. 10.
Track Everything
You’re probably accustomed to
tracking everything, and your
blog is no different. If your blog
is a page on your website, make
sure your current web analytics
tools are set to track all the same
data that it monitors on your
website. If you don’t currently
have a web analytics tool, check
out Google Analytics, a free
analytics tool with an easy-to-
use interface.
At the minimum, make sure
you’re tracking site traffic,
where referrals are coming
from, and traffic-wise which
posts are doing best. Learn from
the data and adjust your
blogging guidelines accordingly.
For all of the bloggers out
there, which tips would you add
to this list of corporate bloggers
rules to live by? More Blogging
Resources from Mashable:
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Company Blog
- 5 Ways To Turn Your Traffic
Into Valuable User Data
- WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most
Important New Features
- HOW TO: Secure Your
WordPress Blog
- HOW TO: Build a More
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Google Image Search Gets an Overhaul [PICS]

Ben Parr (Mashable!) Search’s current features. One session, Google stated that there
Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:59:50 AM of those features is Similar will be a premium for Google
Images, a tool that recognizes Image Search ads — not
G o o g l e i s l a u n c h i n g a images and finds similar images. surprisingly, they will cost more
revamped version of Google Google Color Search (find than text ads.
Image Search, which starts images based on color) was also The revamped version of Image
rolling out to users today. demoed. Search has already started its
T h e a n n o u n c e m e n t w a s Google summed up the current rollout and will complete by the
delivered by Marissa Mayer, version of Image Search by end of the week. This update
Google’s Vice President of saying that it is a simple display larger thumbnails with will only be available on
very little text through a hover “modern browsers” at the onset,
Search Products and User interface with powerful tools.
effect. Text information such as specifically Chrome, Safari,
App Lets Brands Add
Experience, here at a press There areover 1 billion page
conference at the company’s views a day, with 10 billion file names, file size and URL Firefox 3.0 and up, IE7 and IE8. Groupon-Like Deals
offices in San Francisco. In a images indexed. However, the are now included when you This is a developing story. to Facebook Pages
c o l o r f u l r o o m f i l l e d w i t h company believes that it can do hover over an image. More in a few minutes…
The landing page has also been More About: Google, Google Jennifer Van Grove
journalists, Mayer and her team better. (Mashable!)
dived into the current 1 massively revamped. The images, google search
technology underlying Google 2 familiar Google Images frames For more Social Media Submitted at 7/20/2010 11:29:35 AM

Image Search, but quickly 3 have been removed in favor of c o v e r a g e :

turned their attention towards an 4 displaying a full size image on • Follow Mashable Social Wildfire, makers of
array of new features that will 5 top of the destination website. Media on Twitter promotional tools for brands on
greet searchers starting today. 6 Once you close the image, you • Become a Fan on Facebook Facebook, is releasing a new
Here’s what the company had 7 a r e t a k e n t o t h e a c t u a l • Subscribe to the Social Media application that lets marketers
to say about the updated version 8 destination page, rather than a channel and brands turn their Facebook
of Google Image Search: The Thus the revamped version of Google-framed website. Page or website in to a deal hub.
• Download our free apps for
New Google Images: Press Google Image Search. The new Finally, Google has announced iPhone and iPad The new application is called
Conference Notes a product for advertisers: Group Deals, and it is designed
Google Images is a far more
At the start of its press visual interface. Instead of lines Google Image Search Ads, a to be like a do-it-yourself
c o n f e r e n c e , G o o g l e of images with text, Google new image-based ad format for
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demonstrated some of Image Image Search results now Image Search. In its Q&A
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are, which means it adds
verification to the checkin.
Since the application doubles as
a QR code scanner, the scanning
activity happens right within the
game and helps to familiarize
users with the foreign notion of
a barcode scan. It’s this
familiarization that will help
make QR codes recognizable
and decodable to the human eye.
Obviously marketers and
brands alike have shown an
increasing interest in creative
location-based initiatives. As
interest continues to grow in this
space, SCVNGR has a solid
shot at becoming the de facto
mobile application to facilitate
mobile scavenger hunts, and
propel QR codes to mainstream
adoption. Challenges Still
Remain
Amidst all the possibilities,
barcode scanning apps and
services still face a number of
obstacles before the general
public will embrace them.
The biggest hurdle is the fact
that there are so many disparate
applications that support QR
code scanning, each with their
own purpose or twist. Of course,
there’s also custom barcode/
scanner services like Microsoft
Tag, which is progressive in its
own way but requires that users
have a special app (they can’t
use generic QR code scanners)
to process Tag codes in the real
world.
It’s asking too much of people
to make them distinguish
between a regular barcode, a QR
code and some other custom
code. We need simplification
and standards.
The barcode scan is also
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Kinect for Xbox 360 Will Cost $150,
Game Included
Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/20/2010 12:38:59 PM
Microsoft’s Kinect motion
peripheral for Xbox
360(formerly called Project
Natal) will cost $150 at retail on
its own, and $300 bundled with
a 4 GB Xbox 360 slim console.
Both will launch this fall with
the Kinect Adventures suite of
casual motion games included.
This price is unsurprising since
numerous retailers and e-tailers,
including Microsoft’s own
online store, have listed Kinect
for $149 at one time or another.
The bundle is no surprise either,
and in fact, it’s very good news.
The 4 GB Xbox 360 Slim fills in
for the hard drive-less Xbox 360
Arcade model, which was never
an attractive proposition for
gamers.
Kinect and the Xbox 360 Slim
were formally announced at the
E3 video game conference in
Los Angeles last month.
Since Kinect Adventures comes
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Groupon add-on to Facebook
Pages and company websites via
Facebook Connect. Wildfire
the same price. “Game specific users can create and define their
peripherals have a limited shelf- own deal-a-day style
life in terms of appeal; there are promotions, which will allow
only so many sessions of Guitar interested brand fans to
Hero one can enjoy before game purchase the deals via their
fatigue sets in,” he says. “With PayPal accounts.
the Kinect, however, there is the During the setup process,
possibility of a wide array of application users can set the
games across a broad range of value of the deal, define the
bundled with all Kinect devices genres, potentially giving the threshold needed to activate it
just like Wii Sports comes with Kinect a much longer shelf-life and link it to their e-commerce
the Nintendo Wii, families and than a typical peripheral.” system through their own pre-
individuals will be able to pick Do you agree? Is $150 the right defined discount codes. Brands
up and play without investing in price? Let us know in the can also set deal terms and
n e w g a m e s . O n c e t h o s e comments. conditions and customize the
consumers start itching for [via Joystiq] appearance of the check-out
more, though, most of the games More About: bundle, console, page, as well as use their own
for Kinect will cost $50 — $10 gaming, kinect, microsoft, images to tweak the
less than “core gamer” titles like motion gaming, price, pricing, application’s appearance. The
Halo Reach or Call of Duty: project natal, video games, final step is to the publish the
Black Ops. That includes third- xbox, Xbox 360 deal to a Facebook Page or a
party titles like MTV Games’s For more Tech coverage: company website.
D a n c e C e n t r a l , w h i c h w e • Follow Mashable Tech on Given that Group Deals are
previewed at E3. Twitter heavily tied to the Facebook
EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich • Become a Fan on Facebook platform, users who sign up for
notes that $150 is fair since • Subscribe to the Tech channel deals can publish the activity to
game-specific peripherals with • Download our free apps for their newsfeed or invite their
much more limited uses are iPhone and iPad Facebook friends to join them to
already selling like hotcakes at unlock the promotion in the
question.
Wildfire is using the PayPal
API, which means PayPal will
help them to track and manage
the entire deal buying process,
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and automatically notify buyers
if and when the deal is activated.
As the group buying trend
continues to grow, brands and
marketers are sure to be curious
about how they can apply the
deeply discounted deal model to
their own products and services.
Wildfire’s Group Deals option
lets them do just that within
Facebook’s network of nearly
500 million members and on
their own sites.
Obviously, there’s huge
potential here. We expect
creative brand campaigns tied to
group discounts, and even think
there’s enough here to help
brands use social media to
significantly impact sales.
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heavily dependent on the user
wanting to interact with it. They
have to pull out their
smartphone, load up an app and
scan the code in question. It’s a
matter of a few seconds, but the
barcode is likely a missed
opportunity, lost in the real
world as real people race to get
from point A to point B.
Thankfully, Stickybits and
SCVNGR both tackle the “why
should I scan this?” problem,
and we’ll be watching closely to
see if that’s enough to push this
edgy technology beyond the
niche. More Mobile Resources
From Mashable:
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- How Mobile Technology is a MARKETING, Mobile 2.0, QR
Game Changer for Developing Codes, scvngr, stickybits
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Location-Based Social Twitter
Networks Should Go Next • Become a Fan on Facebook
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- What the Future Holds for the • Download our free apps for
Checkin iPhone and iPad
- Are Location-Based Services
All Hype?
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