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Bennet, Buck score wins in Colorado
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:48:14 AM
In a primary drama that might
have been subtitled “two
presidents and a party,”
incumbent Colorado Senator
Michael Bennet won the battle
for the state’s Democratic
Senate nomination on Tuesday.
Bennet’s win was a welcome
victory for President Barack
Obama who backed the
incumbent who battled both anti
-incumbent fever and a
challenger, Andrew Romanoff,
who had the endorsement of
former President Bill Clinton.
On the Republican side, Tea
Party-backed candidate Ken
Buck narrowly defeated former
Lieutenant Governor Jane
Norton. Buck, a former
prosecutor, won despite being
caught on tape complaining
about Tea Party “dumb-asses”
who question whether Obama
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was born in the United States.
He will face Bennet in
November.
In Connecticut, the anti-
establishment outsider candidate
Linda McMahon — the former
CEO of World Wrestling
Entertainment — beat former
Representative Rob Simmons in
the race for the Republican
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Senate nomination.
The Colorado and Connecticut
Senate races were the highlight
of Tuesday’s primary races. But
voters also cast ballots in
Georgia and Minnesota to pick
candidates for November’s
midterm elections.
In Georgia, former
Representative Nathan Deal
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narrowly led Karen Handel in
the Republican runoff for
governor with nearly all
precincts reporting.
Facing Democratic Governor
Roy Barnes is the ultimate prize
for Deal or Handel, both
players in a proxy war between
potential 2012 Republican
presidential contenders.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin endorsed Handel. Deal
was backed by former Arkansas
Governor Mike Huckabee and
former House Speaker Newt
Gingrich.
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Bennet point to supporters
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Denver in February); REUTERS
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Senate candidate Ken Buck (R)
greets supporters at an election
night party in Loveland,
Colorado while waiting for
results in his primary race
against Jane Norton)
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Washington Extra – Tragedy in Alaska
Simon Denyer (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 5:48:25 PM
There were three big stories
competing for our attention in
Washington today. The first was
the tragic death of former
Senator Ted Stevens in a small
plane crash in his home state of
Alaska. Stevens, the longest
serving Republican senator ever,
was on a fishing trip with Sean
O’Keefe, the North American
chief of European aerospace
giant and Airbus maker EADS,
who was among the survivors.
Dominating eyeballs in the
financial markets was the
Federal Reserve’s surprise
decision to move back in the
direction of what it calls
“quantitative easing.” The Fed
will use cash from maturing
mortgage bonds it holds to buy
more government debt. So for
now, there is no more talk of an
“exit strategy” from the
extraordinary monetary stimulus
the central bank delivered
during the financial crisis. It is a
significant policy shift for the
Fed, and a sign it does not view
the recent slowing in the
economy as simply a soft patch.
The third is our exclusive
Reuters/IPSOS poll from Ohio,
which showed Republican Rob
Portman holding a narrow lead
over Democrat Lee Fisher in a
race marked by, guess what,
concerns over the economy and
unemployment. Interesting
nuggets in the survey too about
who voters blame for the
economic mess. Bankers and
Wall Street were identified by
93 percent of voters as mostly or
partially to blame for the
economic downturn, while
Bush’s administration was
blamed by 86 percent. Obama,
though, did not get off scot-free,
with 69 percent of voters also
holding his administration at
fault.
Here are our top stories from
today…
Fed takes fresh steps to support
fragile recovery
The Federal Reserve took fresh
steps to lower borrowing costs
amid a softening economic
recovery, announcing it would
use proceeds from its maturing
mortgage bonds to buy more
government debt. The decision
to reinvest proceeds from the
more than $1.3 trillion in
mortgage-related debt the Fed
holds, an effort to keep market-
set borrowing costs down,
represents a significant policy
shift.
For the full story by Pedro da
Costa and Mark Felsenthal,
click here.
Republican Rob Portman leads
Senate race in Ohio
Ohio Republican Rob Portman
holds a narrow lead over
Democrat Lee Fisher in a Senate
race marked by voter worries
about a stumbling economy and
high unemployment, according
to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Portman,
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to provide $26 billion to Under the new Dodd-Frank
struggling states by closing tax financial regulatory overhaul
loopholes for multinational law, bank regulators over the
companies and cutting back next year will have to propose
food assistance for the poor. The alternatives to the use of private
Democratic-controlled House credit ratings in their
passed the bill on a largely party assessments of banks’ capital
-line vote of 247 to 161 after levels.
President Barack Obama urged To read the rest of the story by
lawmakers to send it to him to Dave Clarke, click here.
sign into law. Productivity weakens in second
For more by Lisa Lambert and quarter
director of the Office of Budget Matt Spetalnick, click here. Business productivity fell for
and Management and the Trade Democrats play defense in the first time in 1-1/2 years in
Representative under former battle over tax rates the second quarter and labor
President George W. Bush, Barack Obama and fellow costs hardly rose, according to
leads Fisher 43 percent to 36 Democrats will be playing government data that underlined
percent among likely voters less defense in what is a heated issue the halting pace of economic
than three months before the this election season, whether to recovery. Falling output per
Nov. 2 election for the open extend lower tax rates for the worker implies the economy is
Senate seat. rich during a waning economic operating less efficiently
To read the rest of this story by recovery. Despite a risk of being because overall production is
John Whitesides, click here. perceived as coddling the rich below its potential.
Former Senator Ted Stevens a n d f u e l i n g d e f i c i t s , For more by Glenn Somerville,
dies in Alaska plane crash Republicans have the upper click here.
Former Senator Ted Stevens, hand in selling renewal of lower Despite charges, Representative
who for decades had a leading tax rates for a small slice of Rangel is not resigning
hand in controlling the nation’s wealthy Americans, political Representative Charles Rangel
purse strings, died in a small analysts say. The critical battle said he was not resigning in the
plane crash in his home state of will likely affect the November face of ethics charges and asked
Alaska, officials said. Alaska elections, where Republican for an expedited resolution of
Governor Sean Parnell said five hope they can win at least one his case before he has to face
people, including Stevens, died chamber in Congress. voters in November elections. “I
in the Monday night crash and For the rest of this analysis by am not going away. I am here,”
four survived. Kim Dixon, click here. Rangel, a Democrat, said to
For more of this story by Bank regulators move to some applause during a lengthy,
Jeremy Pelofsky and Yereth replace credit rating rambling speech on the floor of
Rosen, click here. Banking regulators took a first the House of Representatives.
House passes state aid bill step on the road to replacing the To read more of Susan
Obama is eager to sign use of private credit ratings to Cornwell’s story, click here.
The House of Representatives assess the soundness of banks, U.S. increases aid to Pakistan,
gave final congressional w h i l e a l s o e x p r e s s i n g WASHINGTON page 3
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wary of flood fallout
The United States announced
an additional $20 million to help
Pakistani flood victims amid
growing concern over the
political, economic and security
ramifications of the disaster.
The new aid brought to $55
million the amount of funds
committed by Washington so far
to flood relief efforts in
Pakistan, along with U.S.
military helicopters that have
been airlifting survivors trapped
by the worst floods in 80 years.
For more by Sue Pleming, read
here.
What we are blogging…
White House spokesman’s
“professional left” comment
bites back
If the White House was trying
to fire up its liberal base ahead
of the Nov. 2 elections, this was
Republicans Portman, Kasich lead in Ohio races
Steve Holland (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 4:10:53 PM
Republicans Rob Portman, a
former White House budget
director, and John Kasich, a
former House member, so far
are leading in their races for
new jobs in economically hard-
hit and politically important
Ohio.
That’s according to our new
Reuters-Ipsos poll.
probably not the way to go
about it. White House
spokesman Robert
Gibbs criticized the
“professional left” for criticizing
his boss, President Barack
Obama, but the comment came
back to bite him.
For the rest of the blog by Toby
Zakaria, click here.
And a final story from New
York…
U.S. steward who fled via
emergency chute gets bail
A JetBlue flight attendant who
became an Internet hero after
storming out of a plane with an
expletive-filled intercom
address and an escape down the
emergency chute had bail set at
$2,500. Steven Slater, 39,
captured the sympathy of
frustrated travelers and airline
industry workers on Monday
Portman leads Democrat Lee
Fisher in the U.S. Senate race by
43 percent to 36 percent in the
poll of likely voters, with less
than three months to go until the
Nov. 2 congressional elections.
Kasich has a 48 percent to 39
percent lead over incumbent
Democrat Ted Strickland in the
Ohio governor’s race.
High on the minds of Ohio
voters is the state’s weak
economy, which has a 10.5
percent jobless rate, a
with his theatrical departure that
was provoked by an altercation
with a passenger aboard a jet
that had just arrived at New
York’s John F. Kennedy
international airport.
To read more of this story by
Daniel Trotta, click here.
Photo Credit: REUTERS/
Jonathan Ernst (Former Sen.
Ted Stevens (c) leaves a Senate
Republican luncheon meeting at
the Capitol, Sept. 5, 2007) ;
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
(Stevens departs the U.S.
District Court in Washington,
Oct. 22, 2008)
percentage point higher than the
U.S. rate. The poll said 79
percent of those surveyed saw
the economy as the state’s
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Recession Beneficiary
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"Family Dollar Stores ( FDO),
with 6,600 stores in 44 states, is
one retail chain that is benefiting
from the recession," says Jim
Powell.
The editor of Global Changes
& Opportunities explains, "Most
of us have driven by Family
Dollar stores but have probably
given them little notice.
However, they are very popular
with several million consumers
of modest means.
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Portman and Fisher are battling
to replace the retiring
Republican Sen. George
Voinovich and the Ohio seat is
among about a half-dozen open
Republican seats the party must
defend in competitive races.
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White House spokesman’s
“professional left” comment bites
back
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 3:20:50 PM
If the White House was trying
to fire up its liberal base ahead
of the Nov. 2 elections, this was
probably not the way to go
about it.
White House spokesman
Robert Gibbs criticized the
“professional left” for criticizing
his boss, President Barack
Obama, but the comment came
back to bite him.
He’s talking about the various
liberal cable TV talking heads
and bloggers who complain the
president isn’t living up to his
promises to them.
“I hear these people saying he’s
like George Bush. Those people
ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs
said in an interview with The
Hill. “I mean, it’s crazy.”
Reaction was swift and not kind
from the liberal sector. For
example firedoglake.com ran a
post titled “Tribalism is the Last
Refuge of Political Scoundrels,
Including Robert Gibbs.”
Another Net Neutrality Option: Remove Financial Incentives
Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:11:11 AM
Gibbs did a bit of backtracking,
saying he had made those
comments “inartfully,” and
telling the Huffington Post, “I
watch too much cable, I admit.”
His absence at the White House
briefing also got tongues
wagging that perhaps he just
didn’t feel up to sparring about
the issue with the media. Gibbs’
deputy, Bill Burton, who took
his place at the podium said he
was filling in because the press
secretary had a pollen-induced
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And to top off the day, a
congressman called for Gibbs to
resign. Rep. Keith Ellison, a
Minnesota Democrat who is a
member of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, told the
Huffington Post: “I think he’s
walking over the line.”
Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin
Lamarque (Gibbs at a briefing in
July)
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Earnings Overshadowed
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Brent Archer (BloggingStocks)
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LDK Solar ( LDK- option
chain) shares are rising today
after the company reported Q2
earnings of 0.36 per share on
revenues of $565M, beating
analysts' estimates of 0.22 and
$458 by a good margin. The
company also lifted its forecast
for the next quarter and the full
year, but the stock is trading
lower today, dragged down by
the sagging market and weak
economic data from China. On
any other day, this kind of
earnings report would probably
send LDK up by leaps and
bounds, so we could be seeing a
good opportunity to make a
trade. If you think that the stock
won't fall by too much in the
coming months, then now could
be a good time to look at a
bullish hedged trade on LDK.
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$7.63. So far today the stock has
hit a low of $7.26 and a high of
$7.80. As of 12:15, LDK is
trading at $7.36 down 0.11
(1.5%). The chart for LDK
looks bullish and S&P gives
LDK its highest 5 STARS (out
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How Nike's CEO Shook Up the Shoe Industry

Ellen McGirt (Fast Company)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:31:49 PM

Photograph by Patrik Giardino

Nike's Mark Parker brings
together extreme talents,
whether they're basketball stars,
tattooists, or designers obsessed
with shoes.
"It still has moon-dust on it."
Mark Parker sounds like a
happy kid as he points to an
astronaut manual from the
Apollo mission inside his glass-
topped desk at Nike's
Beaverton, Oregon,
headquarters. Over his shoulder,
Keith Richards, at least the
version of the Rolling Stones
guitarist by German artist
Sebastian Krüger, feigns a with are creatives. I like the me," smiles Parker, sounding mid-'80s. John McEnroe, Kobe Putting his stamp on Nike as
boozy disinterest. "And here," eccentricity, to be surprised." decidedly un -- CEO -- like. Bryant, Olympic athletes, and forcefully as the much splashier
says Parker, swinging around in Whether artists or athletes, he And no, he doesn't check Nike's your high-school's cross-country cofounder Phil Knight did,
his chair, "is Jimi Hendrix's says he's attracted to people who share price daily, fret about 10- star -- he's shod them all. Parker has reorganized the
guitar." are "intense, maybe even Qs, or try to game the news Bryant, fresh from the Lakers' company into units based on
It is astonishing to see this shoe obsessed." He regularly hosts cycle, no matter what messes his play-off victory and his MVP particular sports, "a conscious
designer turned CEO in his dinners for about 25 artist athletes get into. Obsessed award in June, describes decision to sharpen each piece
natural habitat, surrounded by friends to just talk and kick people make messes. It goes meeting Parker, then Nike of the business so we're not
artwork he has commissioned or around ideas. One that emerged with the territory. copresident, in 2003 and some big fat dumb company,"
collected, mixed in with bits of from a get-together at his friend Obsession comes naturally to watching him whip out his he says; reshuffled its regions to
Nike history, such as the boots Lance Armstrong's house was Parker. As a champion teenage notebook to sketch while they put new emphasis on China and
Michael Keaton wore in the "Stages," a recent show of more marathoner, he routinely talked. "I knew right from that Japan; streamlined the reporting
1989 hit Batman. Next to Keith than 20 commissioned artworks modified his own running shoes that we were on the same page," process and removed regional
Richards is a bas-relief by that he and Armstrong cocurated in search of better performance. Bryant says. "He's not doing middle management; handled a
Missouri sculptor Kris Kuksi. in Paris to benefit the Lance Now, the designs he once called things just for innovation's sake. rare round of layoffs; and
Parker owns three of his pieces, Armstrong Foundation. Another his "delicate creations" are so He truly wants to optimize my weathered yet another scandal
one a blank-check commission. friend, artist Tom Sachs, deeply embedded in the success performance." involving a high-profile
"He just said, 'Do something delighted the crowd with of the company that he's lost Parker isn't an attention-seeking endorser. The company came
huge,' " says Kuksi, who met "Lance's Tequila Bike for track of the number of patents sort of CEO, so until now it has out of the recent downturn with
Parker at a gallery show in Girls," a modified Trek bike that he holds. One is for Visible Air been hard to get a sense of him. strong revenue numbers and
Philadelphia. dispensed tequila in technology, which he created as But the imprint he is making as earnings up 53% for the most
"Being a designer," says Parker, scatologically named shot a side project; it helped catapult CEO is turning out to be as
glasses. "Irreverence inspires Nike out of the doldrums in the meaningful as his design work. HOW page 6
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recent quarter.
I met with Parker in Beaverton
just a few weeks after he and his
executive team impressed
shareholders and analysts in
their first public investor
meeting in three years. Parker
used some big talk -- "Nike's
infinite marketplace" -- to set
some big goals: increase sales
by more than 40%, to $27
billion by 2015; meet a set of
equally ambitious sustainability
benchmarks; grow earnings 7%
a year; and keep 33,000
employees thinking as nimbly as
possible. "It's like a framework
as opposed to a process. We
need that organic-ness to be an
innovative company that's
continually challenging itself,"
he says. He characterizes his
challenge as a struggle to mix
his right- and left-brain
strengths: "It's about balance."
Infographic: Nike-Parker
But the sketchbook is never far
away. "Always, always, the elite
athlete" -- the Jordans, the
Bryants, the Armstrongs, whose
unparalleled abilities make them
ideal lab rats for new products --
"still leads our design. What we
learn from them is who we are,"
he says. Mark Parker, collector,
CEO, cobbler to the gods.
Parker is sitting in on a product
meeting in Nike's secretive
Innovation Kitchen, a think tank
for designers where athletic
ambition, art, and a bit of mad
science are cooked into the stuff
that has made Nike the
dominant player in sport shoes
and apparel. The Kitchen is a
free-range creative playpen,
with every type of tool, material,
machine, toy, instrument,
software, game, and
inspirational image at the ready.
Nike Free, the training shoe that
mimics the benefits of running
barefoot, was born here. So was
Flywire, the ultralight thread
system inspired by a suspension
bridge that has changed the way
shoes are constructed. The
Kitchen is so secure that most
employees aren't allowed in.
The Kitchen and its earlier R&D
iterations are also where Parker
spent most of his time before he
became CEO. "I think his heart
is still here," says Michael
Donaghu, director of footwear
innovation. "He still likes to just
pop in and start talking to
people about stuff that's on their
desks, particularly their side
projects. He can't help himself."
On the table in front of Parker
is an abundant display of shoes,
sandals, gear, and what might be
a digital Etch a Sketch that you
stand on; at the head of the
room, under a drape, waits a
shiny prototype of a new image-
transfer gizmo that will allow
the swift customization of shoes
at retailers and special events.
Unveiled, it lurches to life after
a few false starts; a mildly acrid
smell fills the room as the
machine's mother shyly explains
the process and affixes some art
to a sneaker. "It looks like the
fortune-teller machine from
Big," someone jokes. It does.
Parker and the team applaud
good-naturedly when the demo
actually works. Although the
alarm on his watch prompts him
to leave after an hour, Parker
continues to listen raptly to each
presenter, asking questions and
studying their wares. Afterward,
as I continue the Kitchen tour, I
spot him, now very late, perched
on the desk of a designer,
chatting happily and poking
through a pile of midsoles and
uppers. "I told you," says
Donaghu.
Though Parker later tells us that
not everything he saw at the
meeting will get a green light,
he's careful not to shut people
down at meetings. "I prefer to
let people share what they're
working on. And I don't like to
embarrass anyone." He repeats a
mantra I hear early and often:
Edit and amplify. "I'm trying to
amplify the innovation agenda
further, and short-list the things
that will make the biggest
difference. That's an art and a
science."
Back in 2003, Phil Knight
passed over Parker for the top
spot, bringing in an outsider,
William Perez, from S.C.
Johnson. It was a move that was
widely misread as a snub. "It
didn't upset me," says Parker,
who was part of the team that
vetted CEO candidates. "It
wouldn't be honest to say that I
didn't think about it, though. I
trust and respect Phil, so I
decided to learn from it." Knight
explains that he thought it was
time for an outside look. "I'd
been CEO for almost 40 years.
The company worked around
my idiosyncracies so much that
they didn't know that they were
idiosyncracies anymore." But
Nike's unique culture chewed up
Perez in less than 18 months.
Sandy Bodecker, now VP of
Nike global design, was so
unhappy on Parker's behalf that
he says he "made a vow never to
actually meet the guy." They
once presented on the same
stage -- Perez exiting left as
Bodecker entered right. They
even stood shoulder to shoulder
at the urinals in the men's room.
"I chose not to introduce
myself," Bodecker smirks.
Ultimately, Knight says, "Yeah,
it was a mistake. We're not for
everyone."
Parker came by Nike honestly,
the way that all the early
employees got there, as a
"running puke" -- "even more
extreme than a running geek,"
he says -- lured by the siren
song of an unlimited supply of
revolutionary shoes. In the mid-
'70s, he was a champion runner
for Penn State, part of what was
then one of the most
scientifically managed track-and
-field programs in the country.
At 6-foot-4, Parker brushed the
scales at 130 pounds. "I looked
like a praying mantis," he says.
He customized his own shoes by
cutting the soles and
experimenting with foam and
homemade sock liners. He
turned, ironically, to sheets of
Nike-made waffle-sole material
that he got from local shoe-
supply shops. "I might run in an
Asics Tiger shoe and put a
waffle bottom on it," he says.
"The cushioning was so much
better." He sounds wistful as he
recalls his first pair of Nikes. He
got them by mail order. "Waffle
trainers, red with the white
swoosh. I put them on and ..."
he trails off.
The fourth of seven kids, Parker
grew up in a busy household in
Stamford, Connecticut. His
father was a lifelong IBM
engineer, his mother a
psychiatric nurse. "I was a pretty
independent kid," he says, but
not particularly artistic. "I
thought maybe I'd be a
veterinarian or an environmental
lawyer." After he graduated
from Penn State in 1977 -- he
majored in political science
because "I had to pick
something" -- he was hired by
Jeff Johnson, Nike employee
No. 1, and "took what was
basically an avocation, design,
and turned it into my life." He
worked in the company's dusty
R&D facility in Exeter, New
Hampshire, testing products and
enjoying the brotherhood of
athletes cum shoe dogs, trying
to figure out what they and Nike
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were going to be when they all
grew up. Bodecker, the now
legendary codesigner of
Flywire, was a broke ski racer in
1980 looking to get his hands on
cutting-edge training shoes
when he agreed to try the only
pair available, two-and-a-half
sizes too small, to get into
Parker's testing program. ("I had
no idea the shoes didn't fit," says
Parker.) Former pole vaulter
Tinker Hatfield was working as
an architect at Nike when Parker
spied some sketches of shoes on
his desk and pointed him toward
R&D. Hatfield is now the father
of some of the most iconic shoes
ever made, including the Air
Jordan.
Parker's own success at Nike
has had much to do with his
philosophical alignment with the
company's other cofounder, Bill
Bowerman, the very first
cobbler to the gods. In 25 years
as track coach at the University
of Oregon in Eugene,
Bowerman had only one losing
season and trained 31 Olympic
athletes. Subjecting his athletes
to rigorous study in the service
of making the perfect sneaker,
he famously cooked up shoe
soles using his wife's waffle
iron. His sketches, brought to
Japanese manufacturers by his
new partner and former student
Phil "Buck" Knight, became the
first Nikes. His quirky, bespoke
creations were worn by Nike's
first famous elite athlete, Steve
Prefontaine, the explosive three
miler who broke all existing
records before he broke hearts
with his early death in 1975.
Bowerman was famous for
brutalizing young designers
bearing prototypes, whipping
out a scale and mocking the
weight or construction. He
greeted interlopers from Nike's
East Coast outpost with rugged
bluntness. russia has siberia,
nike has exeter read a sign over
his desk. Parker largely escaped
Bowerman's wrath, partly
because he was an actual
athlete, but mostly because he
was that good." I witnessed
more of the brutality than felt
it," says Parker. "There was no
filter from his brain to his
mouth. I found it really
refreshing to know what he was
thinking." Parker's unusual
ability to remain calm in the
face of passionate exchanges
has helped him thrive in an
environment filled with highly
competitive people driven to
succeed. But Bowerman's
coaching technique -- he created
personalized training programs
for each athlete, unusual back
then -- informs Parker's
management style to this day. "I
spend a good deal of time
coaching executives now," he
says. "Each person needs
something different to succeed.
It's a Bowerman approach." He
also mentions Margaret
Wheatley, author of Leadership
and the New Science, a meaty
exploration of Newtonian
physics, chaos theory, and
business: "Her premise is that
the energy in an organization is
a product of the relationships
between people" -- not creating
an org chart and then putting
people into the boxes, which "I
think is exactly backward."
The '80s were a mixed bag for
Nike. Parker describes the early
'80s as a frantic time, with the
company going through "some
choppy water within a general
industry malaise." Knight puts it
more starkly. With net income
down 75% year over year in
1985, "Reebok had just gone by
us in a fairly big way," he says.
"It was serious. We didn't like
that." And Nike wasn't the high-
tech R&D emporium it is now.
When Parker arrived from
Exeter's Siberia in 1981, it was
more of a shoe shop. Donaghu,
then a college runner, interned
for Nike in 1988. He remembers
joining a small team that relied
on mimeograph machines and
still telexed handwritten
instructions to the factories in
Asia. "I finally brought my little
Apple that I used in college just
for documents," he says. "It was
the first computer in the design
part of Nike."
With Reebok breathing down
the the company's neck,
Darwinian battles were waged
for resources and support. While
the company cast about for
ideas, Parker, Hatfield,
Bodecker, and a few others
hunkered down to skunk-work a
new generation of shoes. Their
nickname inside Nike was the
"Speed Group," but Parker
recalls, "We also called
ourselves the SWAT Team."
Working under spartan
conditions, Parker pulled off a
miracle -- a technology called
Visible Air. The concept was
simple on paper: Take the
cushioning element embedded
in Nike's existing Air series and
cut a window in the sole so that
people could actually
understand the effect. The
trouble is, the window kept
popping. "I was working on it as
a side project," says Parker,
along with developing a cross-
training shoe with Hatfield.
By 1986, Parker had a
prototype ready, and Knight let
him show it to the board. In
1987, a suite of shoes called Air
Max -- running and basketball
models and Parker and
Hatfield's cross-training shoe --
debuted at a trade show to
tremendous buzz. "Parker made
a terrific product," Knight says.
That same year, Nike teamed
with ad agency
Wieden+Kennedy to make a
splashy ad called "Revolution,"
set to the original Beatles song.
The choppy, fast-cut black-and-
white commercial mixed images
of everyday people and Nike
athletes, and outraged Beatles
purists. "But it really made a
complete campaign," says
Knight. "Nike Air relaunched
the whole brand. It was a huge
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moment for the company and
for Parker, too."
At the same time, an
unexpected audience for Nike
was developing. Hip-hop artists,
DJs, designers, and other
influentials were using the shoes
that Parker and his team were
creating to compete for nothing
else than style points. The Air
Force One, which arrived in
1982, turned the heads of
uptown scenesters. "It looked
different from any other
basketball shoe, white on
white," says Don Cherry,
currently the managing partner
and director of brand strategy
for the marketing firm Anomaly.
(While at Wieden+Kennedy,
Cherry worked on the 25th
anniversary of the iconic Air
Force One.) Then came the Air
Jordan series. In 1985, the shoes
were such a colorful deviation
from the basketball norm that
Michael Jordan was fined
$5,000 by the NBA for wearing
them. A cult following was
born, expertly stoked through
marketing. In 1988, Mars
Blackmon, director Spike Lee's
alter ego, started appearing in a
funny series of ads starring
Michael Jordan and directed by
Lee. The next year, Lee
referenced the fierce earnestness
of sneaker culture in Do the
Right Thing when a character
melts down after his spotless Air
Jordan Cement IVs are defiled
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by a clumsy Celtics fan. By the
time Jordan dazzled on the 1992
Olympic Dream Team, the
world wanted to be like Mike.
There was no one better poised
to amplify the sneaker's
aesthetic appeal than Parker.
"That was part of Mark's
genius," says Cherry. Parker
found a natural source of
inspiration in his artist network,
including graffiti artists Stash
and Futura 2000, artist and toy
designer Kaws, and even rapper
Kanye West. The company
began churning out artist retakes
of classic Nike shoes, all highly
collectible, deftly creating
scarcity by meting out limited
supply to small specialty stores
and ultrahip fashion retailers.
Parker's own top-shelf designs
for HTM, a collaboration with
Hatfield and Japanese designer
Hiroshi Fujiwara, can sell to
collectors for as much as $1,000
a pair. As the rich, famous, and
fashionable began to sport
colorful Nikes, clothing
designers began to retool their
collections to accommodate the
sneakerhead lifestyle. Fashion
designer Alexander McQueen
owned 150 pairs.
The relationships with artists
that Parker has built as a
collector and fan have had an
added benefit. For the better part
of this decade, Nike had been
trying to make inroads into
action sports, particularly the
highly insular skate market.
"Our reps, especially, kept
hearing from people that we
couldn't be relevant here,"
admits Parker. Acquisitions --
Hurley for surfing in 2002 and
Savier for skateboarding in 2004
-- were not enough. "The mom-
and-pop specialty shops in
particular had a tough time
believing a big corporation had
any business there. And we
struggled, and it embarrassed
me. We weren't authentic."
To build credibility with
skaters, Bodecker and Parker
tapped artists such as the Los
Angeles graffiti-and-tattoo-
design star known as Mr
Cartoon to design limited-
edition shoes, logos, and
apparel. "I used to fly to Japan
in the '90s to buy the Air Forces
and Jordans you couldn't get
here," says 'Toon, who has
inked Eminem, 50 Cent, and
Christina Aguilera. "And now I
make them." Nike has allowed
him to create a platform,
holding specialty events in the
United States that advocate
design and self-discovery to
Latino youth. "We did 50 last
year alone," he says. Os
Gêmeos, twin Brazilian street
artists, painted huge murals in
Europe for the 2006 World Cup
for Nike and created limited
runs of shoes. Their work
appeals to the very crowd Nike
is trying to impress. No
overpriced marketing grunt
could pull off this kind of
authenticity. "It's not the kind of
thing where you say, 'Get me
something cool to debut for the
tattoo community in the third
quarter,' " says Cherry. "Mark
gets the irreverent beauty of real
artists and real subcultures."
Parker refuses to take credit for
Nike's hipster appeal. "I think it
goes back to Hayward Field," he
says, referring to the early days
when Bowerman's home track at
the university was the best R&D
lab Nike had. "We used to make
the wildest-looking shoes that
you couldn't buy," he recalls,
and people would crowd around
the athletes as they queued up
for a race to ask about their
shoes. To this day, he says,
athletes understand the
psychological advantage of the
aesthetics of what they wear.
"It's what people wanted then --
to feel like they were special.
And that's grown into a whole
global culture."
For all the hush-hush design
thinking and fashion lust its
products generate, Nike has had
some not-so-secret problems,
among them disgraceful
working conditions, including
child labor, in the Asian
factories that produce the goods.
Add on energy use and carbon
inefficiency, and the need for
innovation is clear. Parker ticks
off a laundry list of
opportunities, all related to
design: "Materials,
componentry, construction
methods, manufacturing
methods, the whole digital
revolution. Knitting technology
that allows you to make
completely sustainable design
and footwear without any
cutting and stitching, without
any archaic manufacturing
processes. We're embedding all
that thinking into the product."
But never at the expense of
performance. "The entire
process becomes sustainable; it's
not just a 'green' footwear line."
Hannah Jones, Nike's vice
president of corporate
responsibility, is Parker's
frontline commander, sitting a
few doors away and reporting
directly to him. Her first audit
discovered some $800 million a
year in wasted materials.
Working with Parker and
product designers, Jones and her
team -- which now numbers
some 130 -- examined all
processes for efficiency,
toxicity, energy impact, and
safety. What has emerged is an
evolving series of metrics, the
Considered Index, that helps
determine the environmental
impact of each item Nike
makes. The company is now
focusing on the supply-chain
and manufacturing elements that
impact working conditions in
the 20% of its contractors'
factories that produce 80% of its
goods. By 2011, Parker has
promised, all shoes will meet a
minimum standard. "But it's a
never-ending challenge," he
says. "There's no finish line."
Nevertheless, he is delighted
that the index has inspired a new
creative tension inside Nike. A
software tool based on the index
allows designers to see the
environmental impact of their
design choices and gives them a
benchmark to shoot for. They
compete with one another as
they work. "We're not creating a
green product for the sake of
doing it," he says. "We're
creating a whole new way of
design." And the company is
sharing what it is learning. In
2005, Nike debuted a sneaker
without the toxic solvents long
used to bind the sole to the shoe;
the formula for the new
adhesive is now available
through the Green Exchange
that Parker announced at the
World Economic Forum in
Davos this year. And in 2006,
after a decade and a half of
research and millions of
research dollars, the company
removed a greenhouse gas
known as SF6 from its famous
Air pockets. There was no
announcement.
Parker has become a visible
champion for sustainable
thinking and a quiet star at
Davos, leading conversations
with CEOs from giants such as
General Mills, Kaiser
Permanente, Renault-Nissan,
Swiss Re, Telstra -- even
Facebook and Hunch.
"Populations are exploding.
Emerging markets are getting
more power," says Parker.
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Disruptive change is on
everyone's mind. "There's this
internalization of how critical it
is to deal with sustainability. As
we're out here trying to wave the
flag, it's very satisfying to see
that."
"And why the blankety-blank
are you now in the MP3
business?" Parker is telling
stories at dinner, this one about
a call he got from Apple's Steve
Jobs. We are in a private dining
room at one of Parker's favorite
Portland restaurants. The waiter,
also a bit of a pal, pops in
periodically to check on us. And
to chat up Parker. The waiter
has six marathons under his belt,
and he's feeling hinky about the
seventh. "San Francisco next
month," he pauses. "Hills." He
feigns a shudder. Parker smiles.
That his world shifts easily from
waiters to Mr Cartoon to Lance
Armstrong and back says a lot
about the man. He is open,
curious, and wanting to connect
with people doing their thing.
"You'll do great," he says. They
talk strategy.
Facing Jobs, however, Parker
conceded defeat. Nike had
partnered with Phillips in 2003
to make an MP3 player that
would help connect a runner
A Guide to Organizing Your Android Home Screen [Android]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:00:00 AM
Android lets you add a lot of
with music and his or her own
workout stats -- distance, speed,
calories, and so on. "Nobody
remembers it, but it was a best
seller at the time," says Parker.
(One look back at the online
reviews explains why nobody
remembers it.) Jobs called
Parker and didn't mince words:
"Why are you doing this? It's
not your core business!" Parker
flew down to Cupertino for a
face to face; what resulted from
the meeting was Nike+, a nifty
sensor that goes in the bottom of
a running shoe and feeds
workout stats to an iPhone or
iPod and through social
networks. Today, says Trevor
Edwards, Nike's VP of
marketing, social features allow
millions of people to feel they're
part of the planet's largest
running club. "We now have 3
million members who have run
182 million miles," he says. It
took 18 months, and Nike spent
a rumored $1.6 billion on the
launch.
But Parker saves the best part
of the story for last. Jobs -- a
New Balance wearer who
typically shows up for only his
own product extravaganzas --
joined Parker onstage for the
Nike+ debut in 2006. "Oh, he
things to your home
screens—widgets, shortcuts,
folders, apps—so much that overwhelming. Here are some
organizing it all can get
wore Nikes," says Parker. He
smiles.
When the conversation turns to
Tiger Woods, though, Parker
gets serious. "I learned about it
the way everyone else did," he
says of the messy swirl that
became Woods's downfall.
Parker, part of the Nike full-
court press that recruited Woods
as he turned pro, clearly likes
him. "He sat right there," Parker
says, pointing to my chair. "I
knew his dad." Still, when the
news broke, Parker trod lightly.
"We made efforts to connect
with him. He went really quiet,
shut himself off from
everybody; so it was difficult."
Ultimately, he says, Nike
handles issues like this on a case
-by-case basis. "What does
what's happening mean to what
we should be doing? And, yes,
character also matters." But, he
says, "we didn't want to convict
him through the media." And as
Woods reemerged into his
professional life, Parker didn't
shy away. Nike released an ad
with a silent and contemplative
Tiger and a voice-over from his
now-deceased father. It was
instantly polarizing. "I knew
that it would be controversial.
Some people thought it was
creepy," he says. "It was the
voice of the athlete, and we're
committed to that."
For Parker, the elite superstar
may be the lab rat of choice to
start the design process, but his
heart remains with the
everyathlete. Paula Radcliffe,
the British marathon star,
describes watching the CEO and
his wife, a world-class runner
who is now a high-school track
coach, at the national high-
school cross-country
championships that Nike hosts
every year. Elite athletes are
invited to race with the kids and
spend the day mingling with
them. Despite the rainy Oregon
day, the Parkers eschewed the
VIP tent. "They were going
wild, and they seemed to know
everyone by name," says
Radcliffe. "They were as
inspired by the kids as they were
by any of us."
"There's a certain energy and
purity and passion in the
relationships between the
parents, kids, and coaches, and
the love of team," Parker says.
In their way, these folks are as
obsessed as a Kobe, or a
Radcliffe. "It's as important for
me to be there as with record
holders and Olympians. These
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are the people we're serving."
Parker has made sure that
everyone knows that. Nine years
ago, he recalls, "Phil wanted us
to work on a new mission
statement." The previous one --
"To be the No. 1 sports-and-
fitness company in the world" --
was old news. Parker's choice:
"To bring inno-vation and
inspiration to every athlete in
the world. (And if you have a
body, you're an athlete.)" He
also put together nine maxims,
quirky guiding principles for
Nike. The one he thinks about
most is No. 6, "Be a sponge.
Curiosity is life. Assumption is
death. Look around." It's a nod
to his grandmother Helen
Parker, who spent hour upon
hour with her quiet grandson,
walking in the woods, sharing
her observations about the
world. "She was engaged and
learning new things until she
passed," Parker says. "That was
always her advice to me. And it
really worked."
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Jeff Greene And His Reef-Destroying, Vomit-Caked, No

Good, Very Bad Yacht
Rachel Slajda (Business -- sailed there in 2005 and I got these rugby players. I got
Insider) dropped anchor right through these naked girls ... But then
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:54:09 PM the reef. [the dealer he met in
From a local news report: Amsterdam] saw how much of a
In a campaign season swelling The luxury yacht released a mess I was. He came in and
with populism, where very large anchor with kicked everybody out of my
candidates try to out-folk each approximately two hundred feet room! All the nude people, all
other and prove their anti-elitist of chain down to an estimated the people having sex. He said,
credentials, having a symbol of seventy-foot depth. In the 'I feel so bad I ever gave him
extreme wealth as potent as a process, the chain dismantled a that stuff.'"
145-foot yacht is already a large section of coral and as it It's important that Tyson never
liability. descended the swinging motion, mentions Greene's boat, and
It's way more of a liability if from side to side, continued to Greene told Politico that he has
your yacht has been involved in break off more sections of hard a "zero tolerance policy" for
a number of untoward episodes and soft coral and sponges. drugs. He added that Tyson
over the past decade -- if, like Belize's Department of often "peeled off" and went out
Florida Senate candidate Jeff Environment eventually levied a on his own.
G r e e n e , y o u r y a c h t h a s $1.87 million fine, but the Greene did, however, mention
destroyed part of a precious Summerwind was long gone. that he's paid "tens of thousands
Belizean coral reef, showed up The fine remains unpaid and the party yacht. When it went to partying. The employee,
of dollars" for Tyson's rehab.
"caked in vomit" in travel- case open. Confronted with the Cuba, everybody talked about however, sticks by his story,
But does it matter?
embargoed Cuba and, possibly, information by the the St the vomit caked all over the adding that Greene intentionally
It's hard to say how much the
fueled some of Mike Tyson's Petersburg Times, Greene's sides from all the partying going went to the banned country.
yacht scandals have hurt
less proud moments. on." (Cuba and the embargo, of
campaign asserted that it never Greene. They certainly haven't
Greene, who is vying for the even happened. Greene's Democratic primary course, is a hot-button issue
helped, but they'd have maybe
Democratic nomination in a race "Career politicians are attacking opponent, U.S. Rep. Kendrick among Florida's Cuban voters.)
hurt him more if Democrats
where most Dems will probably him with ridiculous stories Meek, asked him about Cuba at Tyson!
weren't turning en masse to
vote for Republican-turned- about something that didn't even their next debate. The boxer, who recently
Repbulican-cum-independent
Independent Charlie Crist happen five years ago on a boat "I was not on the yacht on the detailed his struggles with
Gov. Charlie Crist.
anyway, is a billionaire who h e w a s n ' t e v e n o n , ' ' s a i d trip you're talking about," addiction to Sports Illustrated,
Greene and Meek are about
made his fortune betting against campaign spokesman Luis Greene said. was the best man at Greene's
neck and neck -- in primary
t h e i m p l o d i n g s u b - p r i m e Vizcaino. Pressed, he said, His campaign, however, later wedding in 2007. And he's spent
matchups, favorability ratings
mortgage system. clarified that Greene was indeed a lot of time aboard the
"That's our position. That's our and in the general election,
Belize on the boat, headed past Cuba to Summerwind.
quote." where they're each trailing Crist
Belize is home to a diverse, Cuba the Bahamas, when the Tyson gave details of his
and Marco Rubio by big
protected barrier reef that This one started when former Summerwind had mechanical cavorting during the same
numbers.
Charles Darwin reportedly Summerwind deckhands told all problems. They docked in Cuba summer he spent a month on
The primary is Aug. 24.
called "the most remarkable reef to the Times, including this and Greene says he waited out Greene's boat: "This guy goes
Join the conversation about this
in the West Indies." The particular anecdote: "Mr. the days by visiting the Jewish and gets me a big rock of
Summerwind -- absent its owner Greene's yacht is known to be a community. cocaine. So pretty soon I got a JEFF page 12
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Facebook Plans to Rebroadcast Shows from U.K.'s Sexy
Channel Five
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:23:37 PM
If you remember Fox's attempt
to integrate TV show content
and social media, from a
broadcaster perspective, you'll
probably be having flashbacks
that're filled with ick and horror.
It was disastrous. But that
doesn't mean a blend of the two
types of broadcasting system
isn't a good idea--there's a lot
that can be gained from a good
social media-TV relationship.
And ready to take up the baton,
here comes the U.K.'s Channel
Five network.
Channel Five, which is the
U.K.'s newest and last terrestrial
broadcast, ad-supported national
channel (launched in 1997), has
revealed it'll be broadcasting its
TV shows as a kind of "watch
again" system inside an online
media player. Nothing new
there, except that the "Demand
Five" player will be embedded
inside Facebook, making it what
Cree Gets Creamed
Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:40:00 PM
Filed under: Technology Going
into its fiscal fourth-quarter
earnings report, the shares of
Cree ( CREE) were priced for
NewMediaAge deems the first
broadcaster to try this
experiment.
The new system will only be
accessible to U.K. audiences,
somewhat similarly to the
BBC's geo-locked iPlayer
initiative--though the BBC's
complex public entity status
precludes it from international
transmission, so we're not sure
perfection, with the price-
earnings ratio at over 60. True,
this is OK if the growth rate can
continue at its torrid rate. But of
course, Cree wasn't able to keep
up the momentum. In today's is down 12%.
trading, the stock price for Cree
exactly why Five is geo-locked,
too. The company is reportedly
talking with Facebook to keep a
role in ad-sales negotiations, so
that it can make sure there's
enough revenue coming in, and
that the ads are compliant with
the kind of public image Five
would prefer to project--much
as it undoubtedly manages its
own over-the-air ad sales
matters.
It's obvious what Facebook gets
from the deal: More users will
spend longer logged into its
website in order to ogle Channel
Five's offering of soaps, re-
transmitted U.S. comedies, and
soft core porn (well ... I jest, but
check into the company's history
and you'll see what I mean).
That means potentially
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increased ad revenues for
Facebook.
But what does Five gain from
this, other than a reduced
requirement to maintain and
promote its own online
rebroadcasting system? It's the
social angle. Imagine posting a
status update about the Five
show you're watching, with a
link back to Demand Five's page
--it'll definitely drive more
traffic to the Five page, and
that'll promote more ad sales. Be
prepared (if you're a Brit) to see
more TV-related chatter in your
Facebook stream. And if the
experiment is a success, which
it's likely to be, then expect TV
channels everywhere to quickly
get in on the act. Whether you
think that's a good thing or not,
is up to you.
To keep up with this news,
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Twitter.
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Deconfusinator: Google Ads on DirecTV? How
Does That Work?
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:43:03 PM
Remember when DirecTV and
TiVo were best pals? It didn't
last. But now DirecTV has a
new big, bad mother of a best
friend: Google. It'll be selling ad
time on some of DirecTV's
channels. But ... Google, the Net
giant, selling TV ads?
The Associated Press is
reporting that DirecTV and
Google have just entered into a
big new deal about selling
advertising on its Bloomberg,
Fox Business, Centric, Fuel, G4,
Current, Ovation, Fit, Sleuth,
Chiller, and TV Guide feeds
(not all its channels, but a broad
cross-section of TV genres).
What you may not remember is
that Google already has a TV ad
-selling division and has deals
with some 98 other cable
channels.
DirecTV("America's #1
satellite TV service"), however,
JEFF
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the "smart TV" game, too,
attempting to turn plain-old
transmission-only TVs into a
two-way, Net-connected (and
thus, Net ads-friendly) devices Video: James Franco
with partnerships with Sony, Takes a Twilight Team
Intel, and so on ... so it makes and Dave Franco Talks
perfect sense for the company to
try to sew up the other end of Auditioning to Be
the market too--TV ads Edward Cullen!
themselves. It's certainly got the Molly (PopSugar)
ad customer information
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:20:46 PM
available to it, possibly helping
it decide which ads to pitch at James Franco plays coy but
which audiences, and it's got a eventually reveals he's Team
vast ad-selling mechanism Edward while his younger
already in place. Adding brother Dave reveals he
DirecTV into it won't stress it auditioned for the part of
too much, just as it unburdens Edward Cullen and is glad he
gives Google a huge leg-up into emerging from Apple and others
DirecTV of having to do much didn't get it in a series of videos
the TV ads business--extending in the nascent mobile Net
of its own ad selling. shot for Esquire magazine.
its reach to some 19 million new advertising space, Google
And, finally, it helps paint the Watch the adorable siblings on
households via DirecTV's probably should look to TV to
picture of a potential push by PopSugar Rush!
subscriber base, effectively expand its ad business. Because,
Google to become TV's go-to
tripling the ad audience it was lest we forget, though Google is
broker.
reaching. And with the Net famed for its search engine, it's
To keep up with this news,
advertising space all but sewn really a giant ad-generating
follow me, Kit Eaton, on
up, and hot competition machine. It's already playing in
Twitter.
A lengthening shadow
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Smartphone Sex Files II: The Droid Lovers Strike Back

David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:19:06 PM
Do iPhone users get more sex,
or are they just more
promiscuous?
That renowned institute for
social scientific research,
OkCupid, yesterday caused a
stir with data purportedly
showing that iPhone users
totally get more laid than
Android and BlackBerry users.
The news was picked up, well,
just about everywhere.
As often happens in science, the
study has provoked controversy,
drawing a rapid response from
other researchers in the field.
Some sullenly looked for
explanations. “Who knows,
maybe it is because we have
porn,” wrote Android Central’s
Kyle Gibb. Others were quick to
point out that correlation does
not equal causation, and it may
simply be that “people who tend
to score a lot more, for whatever
reasons, might also be the type
inclined to get iPhones for some
of those same reasons.” Still
others, without disputing the
findings, sought to overturn
them in future surveys by
changing user behavior now:
“go out and have sex,”
commanded Android Police’s
Aaron Gingrich. “We can’t have
those iPhone asshats showing us
up that badly.”
The most compelling objection
to the OkCupid study so far
concerns interpretation of the
data. Though many outlets,
including our own, reported that
iPhone users had more sex than
others, in fact the study only
measures number of different
one-night stands. “I’m married,
monogamous, and have more
sex than most single people. 3 -
5 x per week,” an Android
Central commenter helpfully
illustrated. (“The downside is I
still have a BlackBerry,” he
added.)
So FastCompany.com would
like to revise our prior
declaration that iPhone users
have more sex, purely
quantitatively speaking, than
others--a conclusion impossible
to reach definitively until further
partners. Droid partisans have
research is conducted. Let's
been insistent on this point; after
hope OkCupid gets a fat grant
all, someone who has sex
sometime soon.
thousands of times with a single
partner certainly has more sex
than someone who has a dozen

U.S. Military Will Change the Face of Computing, One

Exaflop at a Time
Suzy Evans (Fast Company) firms it wants to build exaflop evolutionary approach" of
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:35:04 PM computers. The fastest computing. In other words, the
supercomputer in the world, the government agency plans to
What could you do with an Cray Jaguar (above), currently defy Moore’s Law, which states
exaflop computer -- one that has a processor speed of little that the number of transistors
could perform a quintillion more than a petaflop -- a that can be placed on an
calculations a second? Cure thousand times slower than an integrated circuit will double
cancer? Map out the entire exaflop. every 2 years. The exaflop
future history of climate The contracts are part of computers should be completed
change? Find God? DARPA's Ubiquitous High in prototype by 2018, meaning
We may be about to find out. P e r f o r m a n c e C o m p u t i n g we'll see a thousandfold increase
T h e D e f e n c e A d v a n c e d (UHPC) program. The goal: to computers will help increase the to chart climage change and in power. What we do with that
Research Projects Agency reinvent the face of computing productivity of Department of help with renewable biofuel power is anyone's guess -- and a
(DARPA), the agency that with machines that will be up Defense missions. But its remit research. science fiction-writer's dream.
brought us the Internet, has to 1,000 times more energy could grow much wider, very DARPA wants to go beyond
awarded the first grants to e f f i c i e n t . I n i t i a l l y , t h e s e fast. The Jaguar has been used the “limitations of the current
14 Business/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Seriously? Eric Schmidt Thinks Citigroup Singled Out

There Should Be No Anonymity for a Long-Term
Online? Strangle
Henry Blodget (Business Elizabeth Harrow
Insider) (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:49:21 PM Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:40:00 AM

Eric Schmidt has been widely
quoted as saying the following
at the Techonomy conference
last week:
"The only way to manage this is
true transparency and no
anonymity. In a world of
asynchronous threats, it is too
dangerous for there not to be
some way to identify you. We
need a [verified] name service
for people. Governments will
demand it."
ReadWriteWeb describes the
context for this remark as"on the
misuse of information for
criminal or anti-social
purposes."
Now, we assume that by now
everyone understands that, if
prosecutors want to find out
who someone is online, they can
already sub-poena server logs,
IP addresses, and so forth. But
Eric's comments make it sound
as if he wants to go farther than
that.
Specifically, it sounds as
Mystery of Honeycomb-Cloud Formation Solved
Brandon Keim (Wired Top
Stories)
though he wants an Internet in
which everyone has to comment
and interact under their real
names.
If so, is he serious? Does he
want to qualify that at all? Is he
out of his mind?
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Option volume was relatively
quiet in Citigroup Inc. ( C) on
Tuesday, with call and put
activity both falling short of the
expected daily levels. However,
a noteworthy volatility play
crossed the tape around midday,
with one long-term speculator
betting on a significant price
swing from the bailed-out bank.
Shortly after noon, a block of
10,000 March 2011 4-strike puts
traded at the ask price,
suggesting they were purchased,
while a matching block of
10,000 March 2011 5-strike
calls changed hands at the ask
price. Open interest at both
strikes swelled overnight by
more than 10,000 contracts
apiece, confirming these were
all freshly opened positions.
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CHART OF THE DAY: For Mobile TV, Screen Size Does

Matter (AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)
Dan Frommer (Business Google Android devices also Here's What Mark Hurd's
Insider) outperformed (126 minutes) the Legacy Could Have Been If He
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:51:00 PM likes of Apple's iPhone (78 Hadn't Blown It On An E-List
minutes) and RIM BlackBerry Actress
World Cup viewing data from devices (65 minutes). Given that • CHART OF THE DAY:
mobile TV company MobiTV most -- if not all -- of the 5-inch- Skype Is A Real, Live Growth
backs up the obvious: The screen devices on the market are Company
bigger the screen on a mobile Android-based, there's probably • CHART OF THE DAY: IAC
advice, the better a TV-watching some correlation there. As Good An Investment As
experience it'll be. Lastly, people were watching a Apple So Far This Year
Those with 2-inch screens lot of the World Cup on their
watched, on average, 61 minutes phones at work. Weekday than 72% of total viewing, on Twitter:@chartoftheday
of the World Cup via MobiTV, games played at 2:30 p.m. ET according to MobiTV. Join the conversation about this
while those with 5-inch screens h a d t h e h i g h e s t a v e r a g e Related: What's Up With All story »
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CHART OF THE DAY: Markets Lose Faith In Ben

Bernanke's Deflation-Fighting Skills
Vincent Fernando, CFA and chart below is also a barometer success or failure of Ben
Kamelia Angelova (Business of the market's confidence in Bernanke's latest move. If
Insider) Mr. Bernanke's deflation- inflation expectations keep
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:46:00 PM fighting credentials. falling in the months ahead, his
The chart below shows the While there's been some gambit failed. If they rise, say
market's inflation expectations volatility, since the end of April back to 2%, then he'll have
for the next five years. It is the we can see that Bernanke's succeeded. Today wasn't off to a
'5-Year TIPS Spread', which is deflation-fighting credentials good start, given that inflation
the difference between the yield have deteriorated. Inflation expectations fell, but it will take
on a 5-year U.S. government expectations have fallen from a few months to make a fair
bond and that of a 5-year 2% in late April to 1.5% now, as assessment.
signaled that he will keep easy- reverse the decline in inflation
i n f l a t i o n - p r o t e c t e d U . S . shown below. Join the conversation about this
money policy tools on the table expectations shown below.
government bond. This helps explain the story »
in order to fight potential Thus this chart, the TIPS
Yet given that Ben Bernanke is p s y c h o l o g y b e h i n d B e n
deflation, in an attempt to Spread, is where we'll see the
battling to prevent deflation, the Bernanke's latest move. He has
16 Top News/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Rock hall to mark

Conservative Congressmen Take Stand Against anniversary with
Federal Judge's Marriage Ruling Elvis exhibit (AP)
(Society) approved marriage definition the millions of Americans who metric, opposite-sex couples are (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 9:58:43 PM unconstitutional. have voted on this issue, but the not better than their same-sex Submitted at 8/11/2010 5:23:07 AM
The resolution calls for an history of marriage itself." counterparts; instead, as
A group of conservative appeal and outlines how over Proposition 8 was passed by 52 partners, parents and citizens, CLEVELAND – The Rock and
c o n g r e s s m e n a n d w o m e n half the states in the country percent of California voters in opposite-sex couples and same- Roll Hall of Fame plans to
s u b m i t t e d o n T u e s d a y a have codified in their state November 2008. The California sex couples are equal. celebrate its 15th birthday with a
resolution stating that the constitutions the legal definition Supreme Court last year rejected In continuing, Walker added, look back at the year rock's king
federal judge's decision to strike of marriage as between one man lawsuits against the amendment, "In the absence of a rational turned 21.
down California's Proposition 8 and one woman and that every ruling that it was not an illegal basis, what remains of An exhibit of photos taken of
is wrong. state whose voters have constitutional revision by the proponents’ case is an inference, Elvis Presley in 1956 by Alfred
"We really need to ask ourselves c o n s i d e r e d t h e i s s u e n o w people nor unconstitutional. amply supported by evidence in Wertheimer will open Sept. 13
the question: are we now in the prohibits same-sex marriage. Two of the nation's top the record, that Proposition 8 at the hall.
position of giving a judge the It also accuses Judge Walker of litigators – Theodore B. Olson was premised on the belief that The hall said Tuesday that the
decision to decide whether or failing to conduct himself in an and David Boies – filed a same-sex couples simply are not pictures offer a record of a
not the American people are impartial manner and allowing a lawsuit in federal court on as good as opposite-sex couples. defining period for rock and
rational when they go to the handful of activists to void a behalf of one gay couple and Whether that belief is based on roll's most enduring figure.
voting booth and make their c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a m e n d m e n t one lesbian couple, arguing that moral disapproval of They show Presley in public and
w i s h e s k n o w n , " M i c h e l e protecting traditional marriage, Proposition 8 violates the U.S. homosexuality, animus towards in private as he started to break
Bachmann (R-Minn.) posed to thus eliminating "the core of the Constitution's guarantees of gays and lesbians or simply a through nationally.
reporters Tuesday. American democratic system." equal protection and due process belief that a relationship The rock hall says visitors also
"It certainly seems the answer The Family Research Council, of the law. between a man and a woman is will see a new display of nearly
would be in the negative." a conservative Christian group, Siding with the plaintiffs, inherently better than a 30 Presley artifacts on loan from
The House resolution was lauded the resolution. Walker concluded that relationship between two men or the Graceland Archives.
sponsored by Lamar Smith (R- "As the resolution points out, Proposition 8 is irrational two women, this belief is not a They include a shirt and belt the
Texas), the ranking Republican Judge Walker is a single judge because it singles out gays and proper basis on which to singer wore for 1970 rehearsals,
o n t h e H o u s e J u d i c i a r y who thinks he knows better than lesbians for unequal treatment. legislate." Continue » and a Memphis, Tenn.,
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New superbugs spreading from South Asia: study

(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 3:06:07 AM
PARIS (AFP) – Plastic surgery
patients have carried a new class
of superbugs resistant to almost
all antibiotics from South Asia
to Britain and they could spread
worldwide, researchers reported
Wednesday.
Many hospital infections that
were already difficult to treat
have become even more
impervious to drugs thanks to a
recently discovered gene that
can jump across different
species of bacteria.
This so-called NDM-1 gene
was first identified last year by
Cardiff University's Timothy
Walsh in two types of bacteria --
Klebsiella pneumoniae and
Escherichia coli -- in a Swedish
patient admitted to hospital in
India.
Worryingly, the new NDM-1
bacteria are resistant even to
carbapenems, a group of
antibiotics often reserved as a
last resort for emergency
treatment for multi-drug
resistant bugs.
In the new study, led by Walsh
and Madras University's
Karthikeyan Kumarasamy,
researchers set out to determine
how common the NDM-1
producing bacteria were in
South Asia and Britain, where
several cases had turned up.
Checking hospital patients with
suspect symptoms, they found
44 cases -- 1.5 percent of those
screened -- in Chennai, and 26
(eight percent) in Haryana, both
in India.
They likewise found the
superbug in Bangladesh and
Pakistan, as well 37 cases in
Britain, where several patients
had recently travelled to India or
Pakistan for cosmetic surgery.
"India also provides cosmetic
surgery for other Europeans and
Americans, and it is likely that
NDM-1 will spread worldwide,"
said the study, published in the
British medical journal The
Lancet.
NDM-1 was mostly found in E.
coli, a common source of
community-acquired urinary
tract infections, and K.
pneumoniae, and was
impervious to all antibiotics
except two, tigecycline and
colistin.
In some cases, even these drugs
did not beat back the infection.
Crucially, the NDM-1 gene was
found on DNA structures, called
plasmids, that can be easily
copied and transferred between
bacteria, giving the bug "an
alarming potential to spread and
diversify," the authors said.
"Unprecedented air travel and
migration allow bacterial
plasmids and clones to be
transported rapidly between
countries and continents,"
mostly undetected, they said.
The emergence of these new
drug-resistant strains could
become a serious global public
health problem as the major
threat shifts toward a broad class
of bacteria -- including those
armed with the NDM-1 gene --
known as "Gram-negative", the
researchers warn.
"There are few new anti-Gram-
negative antibiotics in
development, and none that are
effective against NDM-1," the
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Atheists Advertise: Imagine No
Religion, Sleep In on Sundays
(Society)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:10:44 AM
A humanist group has launched
another billboard blitz telling
the public that it's OK to sleep
in on Sundays, among other
things.(Photo: Freedom From
Religion Foundation)
Freedom From Religion
Foundation's "Imagine No
Religion" billboard is seen here
in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
"Obviously, there are many
reasons to reject religion, most
of them intellectual," said Dan
Barker, FFRF co-president. "But
face it – one of the immediate
benefits of quitting church,
besides getting a 10 percent
raise because you can stop
tithing, is getting to sleep in on
Sundays! What the world really
needs is a good night’s sleep."
The Freedom From Religion
Foundation will have 20
billboards placed throughout the
Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla.,
area this month.
Four different ads are being
featured, including "Sleep In On
Sundays," "Imagine No
Religion," "God & Government:
A Dangerous Mix," and "In
Reason We Trust" – which is
the group's newest message.
Some of the messages are
designed with a stained glass
window motif.
"We want our billboards to be
attractive, since our messages
are controversial, and
freethinkers like stained glass as
much as the religious do," said
FFRF Co-President Annie
Laurie Gaylor, in a statement.
"But we'd also like to create a
little cognitive dissonance.
Wouldn't it be something if you
saw this message, 'Imagine No
Religion' or 'Sleep in on
Sundays,' in a church?"
Incorporated in 1978, FFRF
describes itself as an association
of freethinkers, including
atheists, agnostics and skeptics.
The Madison, Wis.-based group
claims more than 15,500
members nationwide.
Gaylor has pointed out that the
nonreligious are the largest-
growing segment of the
population by religious
identification in the United
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religious services, more than
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half (56 percent) of nonreligious
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Colorado Democrat Bennet escapes anti-incumbent mood

(Reuters: Top News) colleagues earlier this year. dollars into the race. She beat recorded phone calls on win Colorado in a walk. Sterling
Submitted at 8/11/2010 7:30:26 AM Both Democrats had high- former Representative Rob Bennet's behalf. Obama won the Greenwood/AspenFreePress
profile support. Bennet was Simmons for the right to face state by eight percentage points Aug 11, 2010 2:03am EDT
President Barack Obama shakes backed by President Barack Democratic state Attorney over Republican John McCain If the presidential election were
hands with Colorado Senator Obama, and Romanoff had been General Richard Blumenthal in in 2008. held again today, Obama would
M i c h a e l B e n n e t d u r i n g a endorsed by former President November. Bennet, a former Denver win – a walk.
fundraiser for Bennet in Denver Bill Clinton. McMahon, who promises to schools chief, had been a Aug 11, 2010 5:09am EDT
February 18, 2010. Bennet will face former spend up to $50 million of her relative unknown in state Is anyone suprised that Vince
Credit: Reuters/Kevin prosecutor Ken Buck in own money on the election, was political circles when he was McMahon’s wife won a
Lamarque November. Buck won the the chief executive of World appointed to the Senate last year republican primary? I mean
By John Whitesides Republican Senate nomination Wrestling Entertainment Inc, to replace Ken Salazar, who the WWE is a fine example of
WASHINGTON| Wed Aug 11, o v e r f o r m e r C o l o r a d o which produces staged became Interior Secretary. the people
2010 8:30am EDT Republican Lieutenant spectacles featuring scantily Romanoff, who sold his house who the republinuts concentrate
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Governor Jane Norton, who had clad women and heavily to pay for a tough final round of on with their attack adds and
Democratic Senator Michael the backing of most of the state's muscled wrestlers who anti-Bennet television ads, phoney patriotism. Give them
Bennet of Colorado bucked a Republican establishment. sometimes bash each other with embraced the role of outsider liberty or give them a choke
national anti-incumbent mood to Buck is one of several folding chairs. and said he would be a better slam. Again, we really need to
beat an insurgent challenger on conservative Tea Party-backed Democrats said her wrestling advocate for Colorado. Clinton focus on education in this
Tuesday, and a Tea Party- candidates who have scored past would be a prime issue in had recorded phone calls for country!
backed conservative narrowly w i n s f u e l e d b y v o t e r the November race to replace Romanoff. Aug 11, 2010 7:03am EDT
defeated an establishment unhappiness with Washington retiring Democratic Senator In Georgia, Nathan Deal The only choice we have is
favorite in the state's Republican over high government spending Chris Dodd. narrowly led Karen Handel in www.ronpaulforpresident.com
Senate primary. and Obama's ambitious agenda. "As the former WWE CEO, the Republican runoff for He is the only one who can save
In Connecticut, wealthy former Buck, a former prosecutor, won McMahon built an empire governor with nearly all this country
wrestling executive Linda despite being caught on tape peddling violent, sexually precincts reporting. That race Aug 11, 2010 9:31am EDT
M c M a h o n e a s i l y w o n t h e complaining about Tea Party explicit material that glorified had become a proxy battle Let’s face it, this is a slanted
Republican Senate nomination "dumb-asses" who question the exploitation of women, and between potential 2012 article. How can you say he
over a former congressman in whether Obama was born in the the mentally disabled," Republican presidential escaped the anti-incumbent
t h e l a t e s t i n a s t r i n g o f United States. Democratic Senator Robert contenders. mood in this country when he
Republican primary victories by Democratic control of Congress Menendez, head of the Senate Handel was endorsed by former was appointed only 2 years ago?
anti-establishment outsiders. and the ability to push Obama's campaign committee, said after Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, The anti-incumbent mood is
The Colorado and Connecticut legislative agenda will be up for her victory. the 2008 vice presidential directed towards those politicans
Senate races were the highlight g r a b s i n t h e N o v e m b e r 2 In the Democratic race for nominee. Deal, a former U.S. who have been in office for 10+
of primary voting in four U.S. elections, when all 435 seats in governor, former Stamford representative, was backed by years and who are more attached
states. Voters in Georgia and the House of Representatives, Mayor Dan Malloy defeated former Arkansas Governor Mike to special interest groups than
Minnesota also chose candidates 3 7 S e n a t e s e a t s a n d 3 6 businessman Ned Lamont. Huckabee and former House their constituents.
to square off in November's governorships will be on the Among Republicans, Speaker Newt Gingrich. Give an honest analysis and
midterm elections. ballot. businessman Tom Foley won (Additional reporting by Scott stop trying to protect this
In Colorado, Bennet beat liberal A WRESTLING PAST the nomination as governor. Malone in Boston; editing by President and his party. The
former Colorado House Speaker In Connecticut, McMahon In Colorado, Bennet's win was Todd Eastham) mood is strong and it will be
Andrew Romanoff to dodge a easily won the Republican a welcome political victory for Aug 10, 2010 11:44pm EDT reflected in this Nov’s election.
wave of anti-Washington anger Senate nomination after pouring Obama, who campaigned, If the presidential election were COLORADO page 23
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U.N. warns of second wave of Pakistani flood deaths

(Reuters: Top News) battling a deadly Islamist for my son?" Hassan, a father of symbolism," he said in an (Additional reporting by
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:34:17 PM militancy. 10, told Reuters before rushing opinion piece for The Wall Kamran Haider in
Aid agencies have complained into a throng jostling around a Street Journal. ISLAMABAD and Sahar
Residents evacuting through of a lackluster donor response to truck that arrived with rations of The British government had Ahmed in KARACHI; Writing
flood waters dodge an army t h e c r i s i s w h i l e a U . N . cooked rice. pledged $24 million in aid, by Robert Birsel; Editing by
truck carrying relief supplies for s p o k e s m a n s a i d h e l p w a s ECONOMIC DAMAGE following his meeting with Michael Georgy and Sanjeev
flood victims in Pakistan's n e e d e d s o o n . The International Monetary Prime Minister David Cameron, Miglani)
Muzaffargarh district in Punjab "If we do not respond soon Fund has warned of major the Pakistani leader said. He had Aug 11, 2010 12:49pm EDT
province August 11, 2010. enough to the urgent needs of economic harm and the Finance also been in touch with the U.S. What people in the media
Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif the population, if we do not Ministry said the country would government, which has quickly forget is that citizens of
By Faisal Aziz provide life-saving assistance as miss this year's 4.5 percent gross promised $55 million. the west (Europe and US) are
SUKKUR| Wed Aug 11, 2010 soon as is necessary, there may domestic product growth target Pakistan's military, which has victims of a global Islamic
1:34pm EDT be a second wave of death though it was not clear by how ruled the country for more than Jihad, both covert, using sharia
SUKKUR Pakistan (Reuters) - caused by diseases and food much. half of its 63-year history, has and overt, through terror (9/11,
The United Nations appealed on s h o r t a g e s , " s a i d U . N . Pakistani stocks ended 0.17 taken the lead in relief efforts, 7/7 bombings, etc.) consistently
Wednesday for $459 million in humanitarian operations the percent down at 9,875.68 as the reinforcing the faith many by the Jihadis who are trained
aid for flood-hit Pakistan, spokesman Maurizio Giuliano. economic costs of the disaster Pakistanis have in their armed and robustly supported by our
warning of a second wave of Hundreds of roads and bridges rattled investors. the market has forces and highlighting the “ally”, wink-wink, Pakistan, as
death among sick, hungry have been destroyed from lost 5.37 percent since the comparative ineffectiveness of revealved by WikiLeaks and
survivors unless help arrived northern mountains to the plains floods began. civilian governments. countless other authentic
quickly. of the southern province of The United Nations says the Analysts say the armed forces sources, yet ignored, sugar-
Roiling floods triggered by Sindh, where the waters have disaster is the biggest the would not try to take power as coated and masked by our
unusually heavy monsoon rain not yet crested, meaning the country has faced and it would they have vowed to shun politics media, politicians and
have scoured Pakistan's Indus situation could get worse. cost billions of dollars to and are busy fighting militants. government officials. Yet the
river basin, killing more than Countless villages and farms rehabilitate the victims and U.S. military helicopters have good hearted benevolent people
1,600 people, forcing 2 million have been inundated, crops rebuild ruined infrastructure. been airlifting survivors in an of Britain and the US have
from their homes and disrupting destroyed and livestock lost. In Giuliano said he was optimistic effort that may win Washington emptied their pockets on
the lives of about 14 million some places, families are aid would arrive and $150 some supporters in Pakistan, repeated occasions to help
people, or 8 percent of the huddled on tiny patches of water million had already been where anti-American sentiment Pakistan, and our taxes in the
population. -logged land with their animals pledged. The U.N. World Food runs high. billions have been donated by
President Asif Ali Zardari, surrounded by an inland sea. Program needs $150 million to "Let's not talk about politics. We our unwittingly stupid
whose government has come in On the outskirts of the city of feed six million people for three were trapped here and they politicians to Pakistan as a
for harsh criticism for its Sukkur, in Sindh, hundreds of months. came to evacuate us," said gesture of goodwill with no real
perceived sluggish response to people waited for food supplies Zardari, under fire for his Abdul Rehman, 37, rescued by a return for decades, while all that
the disaster, defended a decision at a tent camp. government's perceived sluggish U.S. helicopter after being the Pakistani leaders both
to travel abroad as the floods "I can't find my 12-year-old son. response to the floods, defended stranded with a new-born baby military and civilian have done
began, saying he helped focus I've been to my village with his decision to travel to France and wife. is siphoned off hundreds of
international attention on the soldiers on a boat but there was and Britain at the end of last "They're doing good. Let's billions dollars meant for the
plight of the victims. no sign of him," said farmer month. appreciate them." people of Pakistan to their
The floods, the worst in the Mohammad Hassan. "Some have criticized my The United States needs a private foreign bank accounts
region in 80 years, have raised "I'm so worried. I don't know decision, saying it represented stable Pakistan to help it end a consistently for the past 63
fears for the prospects of the what to do. Should I take care aloofness, but I felt that I had to nine-year war by the Taliban in U.N. page 23
nuclear-armed U.S. ally already my family here or go and look choose substance over Afghanistan.
E-reader News Edition
Florida AG proposes tougher illegal immigrant curbs
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:01:00 PM
Pedro Zapeta, a Guatemalan
illegal immigrant, washes dishes
at the kitchen of a restaurant in
Stuart, Florida October 17,
2007.
Credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria
By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO| Wed Aug 11,
2010 1:01pm EDT
ORLANDO Florida (Reuters) -
Florida Attorney General Bill
McCollum on Wednesday
proposed tougher curbs against
illegal migrants in his melting-
pot state which he said would go
"one step further" than a similar
contested Arizona law.
The proposal by McCollum,
who is lagging in a race to
become the Republican
candidate for governor, was
certain to thrust Florida into the
heated immigration debate that
is a major issue ahead of
November 2 midterm
Congressional elections.
"This legislation will provide
new enforcement tools for
protecting our citizens and will
help our state fight the ongoing
problem created by illegal
immigration," McCollum said,
presenting the proposed
measures at an event in Orlando.
"Florida will not be a sanctuary
state for illegal aliens," added
McCollum, accompanied by
Representative Will Snyder.
The legislation will require
Florida law enforcement
officials to check a suspected
illegal immigrant's status in the
course of a stop, or a violation
of another law. This goes
beyond the existing situation in
the state where officers are
allowed to check immigration
status, but not required to.
Florida, especially its southern
portion, is a major U.S.
migration destination for
nationals from the Caribbean
and Latin America, making it a
cultural and racial melting-pot.
Many migrants work in the
Sunshine State's $9 billion citrus
sector, or in other farm
industries and tourism.
In the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives, Democrats
hold majorities. But public
opinion polls show Republicans
gaining ground with an agenda
that includes calls for cracking
down on illegal immigration.
McCollum's office said the
proposed Florida legislation
goes "one step further" than a
similar law introduced in
Arizona, which has triggered
protests and a constitutional
challenge from President Barack
Obama's administration.
"I think Arizona is going to
want this law," McCollum said.
Earlier this year, the Arizona
legislature passed a law to try to
drive illegal immigrants out of
the state and stem the flow of
human and drug smugglers over
the border from Mexico.
A federal judge has since
blocked the Arizona law's most
controversial provisions,
handing a victory to the Obama
administration, which argued
the measure was
unconstitutional.
DISCRIMINATION FEARS
According to his office,
McCollum's proposed Florida
legislation offers more teeth
than the Arizona law by giving
judges and law enforcement
officers more tools in dealing
with illegal immigrants, from
bond rulings through to
sentencing.
His office said the Florida
proposal also was strengthened
against "potential constitutional
challenges." It addressed the
objections raised by the federal
judge in the Arizona case by
clarifying better the "reasonable
suspicion" circumstances in
which officers should check
immigration status.
The Arizona law sparked fierce
protests by immigrant
supporters and civil rights
groups, who said it encouraged
racial discrimination against
foreign immigrants.
Anticipating this criticism,
McCollum's office said his
proposal for Florida "will not
allow for racial profiling."
The proposed legislation's
provisions require that aliens
carry immigration
documentation or face a
possible misdemeanor penalty
of up to 20 days in jail for the
first offense.
It allows judges to consider
immigration status while setting
bond and sentencing. It foresees
enhanced penalties against
illegal aliens who commit
further crimes in Florida,
In addition, the bill requires
Florida businesses to check on
immigration status of workers.
Some Hispanic associations and
migrant groups in Florida have
condemned the Arizona law and
warned of damaging
consequences if similar
measures are introduced here.
Obama and his fellow
Democrats back a further” just may be a reason for
comprehensive reform of
immigration policy to tighten
border security, but also to
allow the 11 million illegal
immigrants working in the
United States to get onto a path
to citizenship.
(Writing by Pascal Fletcher,
Editing by Jackie Frank)
Aug 11, 2010 10:32am EDT
Here we go again. How
appropriate that the dominoes
have begun to fall in Florida.
Aug 11, 2010 10:37am EDT
How does it go “one step
further?”
Aug 11, 2010 10:40am EDT
Thanks for not supplying any
facts and letting me know what
to think.
Aug 11, 2010 10:42am EDT
The president disputing the
Constitution?…wow!
Aug 11, 2010 10:43am EDT
Yep, how are they going one
step further? I doubt that they
are going to shoot them, but
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maybe they will send them to
Cuba.
Aug 11, 2010 10:50am EDT
Barry Soetoro is not going to be
happy.
Aug 11, 2010 10:51am EDT
Bravo! It is economics not the
racism that government
controlled news like to spout. I
am ashamed of elected officials
who encourage disregard for the
law and ignore the will of the
people. Illegal should be illegal.
Aug 11, 2010 10:52am EDT
Be careful, this “one-step
it NOT to pass, thereby not
getting a bill at all. I’m not sure
I trust mcCollum.
Aug 11, 2010 10:52am EDT
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Editing by Pascal Fletcher and
Vicki Allen) – The editors may
have used spellcheck on this
story and called it good-to-go,
but they sure as hell didn’t
question whether or not it had
any details about the proposal.
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Is there an anti-incumbant
mood at all? The ones who lose
get lots of articles, but there’s
been less than 10 of them so far.
How many incumbants are (and
have been) safe? Dozens.
I’d like to see some actual
by his very own party. Blanche
Lincoln of Arkansas
experienced a similar scare
recently. We’ll see how much
spin the main stream media is
able to provide for their liberal,
out-of-touch with the people
candidates come November,
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percentage of incumbants
normally stick around, vs how
many are making it this year?
Aug 11, 2010 10:35am EDT
It ain’t over til the fat lady
sings. What happens in Nov.
will tell the whole story.
Aug 11, 2010 10:38am EDT
Spin it any way you want to but
Democratic Senator Michael
Bennet of Colorado narrowly
escaped a denial of endorsement
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when the people exact their
wrath on the death and dumb.
Aug 11, 2010 12:08pm EDT
Let he who had the most
vicious negative campaign and
is the least forthright and most
dangerous candidate win.
Bennet is an idiot and we’re
doomed. Hopefully if we get the
right person for Governor, who
is forthright, he’ll make Bennet
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years!
These are hard times for us, and
more over enough is enough!
Pakistan can no longer preach,
facilitate and support Islamic
terrorism to kill Jews,
Christians, Hindus, Sikhs,
Buddhists, Gays and others on
the one hand and expect the
victims of Islamic terror to
donate generously to support
Pakistan on the other. They need
to listen to David Cameron’s
advise and give up Islamic
terrorism.
“Satish Chandra”, crawl back
under the rock you slithered out
of, you hateful Pakistani michief
maker.
Aug 11, 2010 1:37pm EDT
Pretty formula article, but I
don’t think it’s reasonable to
call Pakistan an American ally:
there is some cooperation
between the two nations, but
nothing approaching an alliance.
I think the term ‘ally’ is being
GREATLY misused (overused)
these days and it’s a word that
helps form opinion. Let’s get
people forming opinions from
honest reporting, not spin-
doctoring.
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5 Ways That Paper Books Are Better Than eBooks
Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 5:50:01 AM
Yesterday we gave you 5
reasons why you should read
your next book on an eReader
device. Needless to say, many
paper book fans protested in the
comments. And with good
reason. Paper books have many
things going for them and it's
still early in the evolution of
eBooks.
This is a technology blog.
However, in order to highlight
how far eBooks have to go until
they seriously challenge for the
hearts and minds of book lovers,
we present here a list of reasons
why paper books are still better
than eBooks. We'll also
speculate about how eBooks
might match each feature that
paper books currently have over
them.
Sponsor
Note: this isn't an 'either/or'
argument, my main point in
these posts is that each format
(paper / electronic) has its
strengths and weaknesses.
Having said that, it may not be
too far into the future when we
begin to think of this as an either
/or proposition. Remember that
the future of paper newspapers
is now seriously in question, so
it may not be long before the
same happens to paper books. 1.
Feel
Paper books just feel good in
your hands - even the best
designed eReader is a cold,
lifeless steely contraption by
comparison. Paper books are
also seen as "more personal,"
which was a comment that a
number of people made on the
previous post. You can become
attached to a copy of your
favorite novel, or a well
thumbed book of poetry. I own a
worn copy of the novel 'Catch-
22,' which I have read a number
of times since my University
days - and no eBook would ever
replace the memories it evokes
whenever I pick that book up.
How can eBooks match this in
the future? They may never do,
but perhaps we will find that the
features I listed in my previous
post assume greater nostalgic
significance instead: highlighted
text, notes that you made back
in your University days, and the
ability to search and find all of
this very easily.
2. Packaging
I bought a poetry book for
Kindle on iPad last week, but it
turned out that the eBook was
missing half of the image of an
obscure painting that adorned
the front and back covers of the
paper edition. The eBook just
had the front cover art, not the
back cover art. This is just one
small example of how paper
books can come in a beautiful
package, which is sadly missing
in the eBook version.
We could similarly point to
book binding and typeface, both
often carefully selected by
E-reader News Edition
Skip Knox summed it up well and try to re-read it in 10 years
in a comment: "We need a new (since I "own" it) it's anybody's
generation of authors and guess whether there will exist a
publishers who will create new platform or device on which that
art forms around the technology. will be possible for that
We're still at the point particular e-book format and
analogous to the early years of DRM scheme."
movies, when all they could Gwyn Headley added, a little
think to do was essentially film cynically, that eBooks are great
a stage play." 3. Sharing for books "you know you will
I noted in the last post that never want to read again."
receiving marked up books from To be frank, I think the same
a friend is something that can't risks apply to paper books too. I
be duplicated by eBooks - yet. have misplaced favorite books
Also, you can't lend a copy of over the years or lent them to
an eBook to someone else. people and not had them
publishing companies for their D R M ( D i g i t a l R i g h t s returned. However, eBook and
paper editions. It can make a big Management) or incompatible eReader manufacturers certainly
difference to one's reading eBook formats prevent that. need to address this issue before
experience. However, I have to think that consumers are truly comfortable
If eBooks are to challenge this both of those features - personal buying them over paper books.
feature, it will need to be with notes and sharing eBooks - will 5. Second-hand books
something unique and native to get figured out by eReader A few people noted that eBooks
the electronic format. For manufacturers sooner or later. are still too expensive and that
inspiration, we can look to what There is no technological reason you can't get cheap second-hand
A r c a d e F i r e d i d w i t h t h e it can't be done, it's more a copies. Or for that matter,
electronic release of its latest matter of navigating the always expensive first edition copies.
album. As a way to try and murky DRM waters and people Similar to previous points,
match the album art and booklet getting used to new kinds of eBooks won't necessarily be
available on CD, Arcade Fire 'reading' functionality. Just as able to match this 'feature' of
came up with an artistic package we DM people on Twitter or paper books. However, the price
i t c a l l e d " s y n c h r o n i s e d send email, sending messages or of eBooks will likely drop over
artwork." This enabled listeners notes to another person via an time and become more flexible.
to access imagery, lyrics and eBook is a feature that would be Indeed, I picked up a copy of
links on their iPod or iPhone useful and eventually well used. the full works of Emerson and
while listening to the album. 4. Keeping Thoreau this week for a few
Some might say that it still isn't On the topics of DRM and dollars - cheaper (and much
as good as a CD package, but eBook formats, not only is this lighter) than I could've gotten
t h i s i s t h e c h a l l e n g e f o r an issue for sharing - but for anywhere else for a paper copy.
electronic mediums - to come up your own future accessibility of We'll see more of this type of
with alternatives that offer b o o k s . A s A d r i a n L a f o n d pricing as the eBook market
something equally compelling, eloquently noted, "If I "buy" an
perhaps even more so. WAYS page 26
e-book, read it, put it in storage,
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Groupon + Foursquare = GroupTabs, Group Deals for Check-

Ins
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:40:14 AM

GroupTabs, a new NYC-based

startup, is offering yet another
twist on location-based social
networking services. Like media
darling Foursquare, the mobile
application incorporates the idea
of "checking in" to a local
business or venue, but uses
those check-ins specifically to
offer special deals.
However, unlike Foursquare's
own partnerships with major
brands like Starbucks and Ann
Taylor, for example,
GroupTabs' deals are just for
local businesses, and are only
provided when enough people
"check in" to get the deal, a
business model similar to that of
group-buying service, Groupon.
Sponsor
Why Check In? Deals, Deals,
Deals
The GroupTabs service
addresses one of the drawbacks
with the current crop of "social" offerings, from the major has the winning combination "side" deals will be provided to they would like. Not Another
check-in apps. Besides the ego- players Foursquare, Gowalla, with its group discounts users who check in prior to the Location-Based App, Supports
boost of earning badges, points, Brightkite and Loopt with their program. For those who have tipping point. Foursquare & Others
stamps and virtual "mayorships" brand partnerships, to never heard of Foursquare or The tipping point is not hard to More importantly, explains
(the title for the Foursquare user WeReward and its"pay-you-to- Gowalla or "LBS," (location- reach, either. The company GroupTabs' Josh Malin, the
with the most check-ins at a check-in" model to Topguest based services) the idea is easy won't require hundreds or service isn't trying to replace
particular venue), some can't see and its travel rewards program to grasp - and sell. Check in for thousands to check in before the your current preferred check-in
the value in checking in if it to Shopkick and its mobile deal a deal. Daily deals, NYC-only to deal is achieved, it will be closer application. "We'll
doesn't come with tangible alerts, this last one requiring in- start, are published on the to a dozen, or maybe 20 or 30, automatically check you in to
rewards. store hardware that verifies the service's main site, and while although the exact number is set your existing LBS accounts," he
Plenty of startups are attacking check-in. achieving a critical mass to get by the merchant. Merchants can
this angle with their own GroupTabs, however, thinks it the "group" deal is the goal, also put a "cap" on deals, too, if GROUPON page 31
26 Technology/ Food/
Contest rewards students who excel at Office
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:04:37 PM
Adrian Mercado credits
Microsoft's Bill Gates with
turning around his life.
No, it's not that Gates--although
Microsoft Office did play a
starring role in Mercado's
transformation from wayward
youth to motivated future
worker. Rather, it is a
dreadlocked, African American
Microsoft employee named Bill
Gates who Mercado said really
inspired him.
Mercado, 17, was one of more
than 50 teenagers and young
adults who competed this week
in a global competition to
determine the world's most
proficient users of Excel and
Word.
Excel whiz Adrian Mercado,
along with Certiport CEO Ray
Kelly at this week's Worldwide
Competition on Microsoft
Office, held in Park City,
Utah.(Credit: Certiport)
More than 115,000 people--
mostly students--entered the
Worldwide Competition on
Microsoft Office, with the best
of the best facing off this week
in Park City, Utah.
After winning a preliminary
competition, Mercado was
invited to Microsoft's field
office in Chicago where he met
that other Bill Gates. Mercado
said this Gates, like himself, had
a tough upbringing but managed
to find his way to a good career
through technology. Gates had
dropped out of high school
before going back to get his
degree and eventually landing at
Microsoft.
"He basically had a story just
like mine," said Mercado, a high
school student from the south
side of Chicago.
That trip to Microsoft's offices
motivated Mercado to keep
going. And although he didn't
reach the podium in this week's
finals, he took a lot away from
his experience.
"It was great," he said. "In the
long term this is going to be
good for us. I can honestly say
they are changing my life."
Mercado said he hopes to
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its sixth year, is put on by eBooks. The eBook market is
Certiport, a company that offers ripe for innovation and
certifications in Office, handing breakthroughs in how we read,
out more than a million such so eBooks will only improve
attestations each year. over the coming years.
On hand to witness this year's In the final analysis though, the
competition was Microsoft real value of any book - whether
Office VP Takeshi Numoto, read via paper or electronically -
who took the certification exam is in the words.
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handling a complex e-mail
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attend a two-year college after
have had some problems," he
graduation and hopefully get a
said. Like others who get their
job that will help pay for further
study. Eventually he hopes to
certifications, Numoto will get Season's Best:
paperwork signed by Microsoft
become a high school teacher
and follow in the footsteps of
CEO Steve Ballmer to mark the Watermelon
achievement. No word on (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Ms. Ferguson, the teacher who
whether Numoto will be
helped get him into computers.
hanging that in his office. Sorry, Readability was unable
"I want to help people out like
Next year's competition, to parse this page for content.
she helped me out," he said.
meanwhile, is set to take place Five Filters featured
As for the winners, each
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completed their exam with a
first to include Office 2010--the an Easy Ride in the
perfect score and did so in a
version of the suite that debuted Independent. Available tools:
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PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
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MOG Multi-tasks!
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) left to right to reveal the audio catalog will actually be the top
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:09:42 AMcontrols for MOG. When the selling point for attracting new
app is playing music but the users. For now, MOG has the
MOG, the online demand music screen is locked, double-tapping most important independent larger catalog, but Rdio offers
service whose accompanying the home button will reveal lock labels and artists," he said. "We unique features, like social
mobile applications are among screen controls. are surprised that a service, networking integration and the
the best of the breed for The new app now also supports whose success would seem ability to preload your iTunes
streaming tunes to your handset, some external hardware devices, dependent on offering its collection into its service. Rdio, Expatistan Compares
has just released its highly too, including third-party Hi-Fi consumers a comprehensive MOG: Data Hogs? Cost of Living Between
anticipated iPhone app upgrade. docks, audio remote controls choice of repertoire, would One problem both services
With the now iOS 4 compatible a n d h e a d p h o n e r e m o t e launch without giving those share is the ability to jack up
Two Cities
app, MOG addresses one its controls(1 click to pause/play, 2 consumers access to the leading your cell phone data bill. After a [Comparisons]
users' top complaints: no multi- clicks to move to the next track, global independent labels we month of heavy streaming Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
tasking support. 3 clicks to move to the previous represent, and their artists." across an iPhone and an
Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:30:00 AM
Now the app runs in the track). MOG vs Rdio For those into indie music, Android phone, our household's
background, allowing you to MOG, which offers about 8.75 many of Merlin's artists are AT&T bill flew way past the 2 Cost of living calculators can
listen to music while working million tracks at present, is household names. It represents GB limit (on AT&T's " be nebulous. What exactly does
with other apps. This, plus a few going head-to-head with Rdio, Vampire Weekend, Arcade Fire, DataPro" plan), charging us an it mean if the cost of living is
other features, make the new the app backed by KaZaA and The XX, Neko Case, The additional $10 per GB over. 13% higher? Web site
MOG app the must-download J o o s t c r e a t o r s , N i k l a s National, Tom Waits, Spoon, Although that's a reasonable, Expatistan offers broad cost of
update of the day. Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Grizzly Bear, DJ Khaled, non-gouging price, when living information, including
Sponsor Although Rdio launched with 7 Dorrough and Tiësto, to name a factoring in the $10/month for real-world price
What's New with MOG million tracks, it did so without few, through its members Rough the streaming service, you're differences—like the cost of
The new iPhone 4-compatible having a firm deal with Merlin, Trade, Warp Records, Epitaph, talking $20/month to ditch milk or a Big Mac. More »
MOG application can now be a slight which seemed to incense Naïve, Tommy Boy, One Little iTunes in favor of the cloud.
controlled with the iPhone/iPod Merlin's CEO, Charles Caldas. Indian, Yep Roc/Red Eye, Yes, it's all-you-can-eat music,
Touch's built-in audio controls. "It is incredibly disappointing Beggars Group, Merge, !K7, but at these prices, that's a buffet
W h e n p l a y i n g i n t h e that Rdio have launched their PIAS, Domino and Koch/E1. many won't be able to afford.
background, a double-tap of the n e w s e r v i c e a c r o s s N o r t h But services like Rdio and Discuss
home button reveals the multi- A m e r i c a w i t h o u t h a v i n g MOG are so new, it's unknown
tasking apps. Swipe your finger finalized a deal for the world's at this time whether a large

Sony outs NWZ-E350 Walkman

Laura June (Engadget) players, they offer up to 50 for the 8GB version once 11:59:00 EDT. Please see our
hours of music playback, and up
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to ten hours of video, and press release is below. Permalink| | Email this|
Sony's just announced a new E- support a variety of formats. Continue reading Sony outs Comments
Series Walkman, the E350. Other than that -- well, there's NWZ-E350 Walkman
Available in blue, red or black, not much more than that. If you Sony outs NWZ-E350
these bad boys come in both can't wait to get your hands on until next month, but it'll cost Walkman originally appeared on
4GB and 8GB varieties. Simple one, well you'll have to wait you $70 for the 4GB and $80 Engadget on Wed, 11 Aug 2010
28 Technology/
Use Google Reader & Chrome?
You'll Like the New Postrank
Extension
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:34:17 PM
Postrank is one of my favorite
web services online, I use it all
day long, every day. The
service performs real-time social
media metrics to show you how
much discussion any post in any
feed has received in comments,
on Twitter, in Delicious, and
across many other services.
Then it allows you to view just
the most-discussed stories from
any source. It's great.
Now it's easier to use than ever
if you're a Google Reader fan
and on the Chrome browser.
The company just released a
Postrank extension for Chrome.
It's not perfect, but it works
much better than the previous
Firefox extension did. You
should try it.
Sponsor
There are two big
improvements over the way
Postrank has worked in the past
and one new decision the
company made that I believe is
a mistake. The extension works
best when in the "List" view, not
the expanded view.
The performance of this
extension is much faster than the
Firefox extension. It won't slow
E-reader News Edition
Cliqset Goes Mobile With
iPhone, Android And Web
Apps; Integrates Google Buzz
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
view, the relative conversation Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:59:38 AM
levels will be tracked across all
posts from all sources. In other Cliqset, a realtime online social
identity platform is going
down your browser and it tracks words, the most popular blogs mobile today, with the launch of
conversation metrics in real will have written the most
iPhone, Android and Web apps.
time. Google Reader's own Sort popular posts. That's not very The free apps include much of
by Magic feature is a cool way helpful. Postrank is most useful
the same functionality as the
to see universally popular when it shows you unusually web client, with the ability to
content, but if you're into blogs popular posts per source. So
post and syndicate content on
about real-time geofencing APIs don't show me every post that Cliqset, Facebook, Twitter,
w i t h n a t u r a l l a n g u a g e ReadWriteWeb has in my tech
Google Buzz and 80 other
processing, or the ceramists of blog folder just because it's an services. And the apps provide
L a k e C o u n t y , F l o r i d a , o r unusually popular blog, show
full access to Google Buzz and
whatever other obscure topic me unusually popular posts for Twitter content and
you might be interested in - now each of the blogs in my tech
conversations including DMs,
Postrank plus Google Reader blog folder. I hope the company mentions, timeline, search and
will show you the hottest posts will change that. Cliqset’s CEO Darren Bounds
more. You can break content
in those sectors. That's very None the less - this is a great down within the apps by users,
says that the startup wants to be
nice. More importantly, the new way to see what's most popular a destination for a decentralized
type of content (Image, video,
extension tracks conversations on a blog-by-blog basis, with text), or by source. And the app
social web with no siloses of
across all feeds, not just a that blog's regular audience of data. A mobile presence should
includes support for Evernote
whitelist of the most popular readers. It's also a good time and Foursquare check-ins.
help further that goal. And
ones. So you can subscribe to saver for Google Reader users. Bounds is hoping to create a
For Cliqset, these apps have
really obscure feeds and still Google Reader's own Sort by been in the works for some time
deeper Facebook integration
filter for just the break-out hits. Magic feature is a cool way to when the social network
and the company has been
That's terrific. Whatever feed see universally popular content, working to make the apps as
releases that functionality to
you can imagine (including but if you're into blogs about developers. While Cliqset faces
user-friendly as possible. The
search feeds across blog posts) - real-time geofencing APIs with startup, which enhanced its
competition from a number of
Postrank will show you just the natural language processing, or other applications, including
Twitter functionality recently, is
most-discussed items in those the ceramists of Lake County, also deepening its integration
Threadsy, Seesmic, TweetDeck,
feeds. Florida, or whatever other Brizzly; the startup’s userbase
with Google Buzz, allowing
Unfortunately, the scale of obscure topic you might be users to not only post and share
seems to be growing. The app is
r e l a t i v e c o n v e r s a t i o n i s interested in - now Postrank plus closing in on 60,000 users,
to Google Buzz but also
"contextual" which means if you Google Reader will show you subscribe to Google Buzz users
which is up from 6,000 in
have a folder of feeds from tech the hottest posts in those sectors. November. CrunchBase
and engage in real-time
blogs, and you select the folder That's very nice. Discuss conversations between the two
Information Cliqset Information
provided by CrunchBase
services.
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First Look At TweetDeck For Android

Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) can check into a location, leave
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:54:45 PM a shout or a tip, or see a location
on a map. Each location has a
TweetDeck is preparing to detail view which shows you all
release its first Android app in your friends who checked in
beta tomorrow. I got a hold of there recently and any messages
Camp Fenton/Fallon:
the beta build and some they left. Where Fashion
screenshots. The app adds some A general map view shows all
new elements which go beyond nearby Foursquare venues and
Dreams Come True
TweetDeck’s popular iPhone any geotagged Tweets. Friends ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
app, and even introduces some who have check in nearby are Blogs)
new elements not yet found in also placed on the map. The Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:52:33 AM
its desktop app. But this app app has a contacts page with
shows the direction where quick links to each of your Last night, Dana Lorenz — the
TweetDeck is going. As CEO account profiles, and slots for genius jewelry designer behind
Iain Dodsworth noted in a blog the people you talk to the most. both Fenton, Fallon and Fenton/
post yesterday that it “also This is a beta, which means Fallon for J.Crew — invited a
represents the future of our TweetDeck is still working on lucky crew of editors and
iPhone and iPad applications.” it. For instance, it doesn’t handle bloggers into her lower east side
The mobile app, which is multiple Twitter accounts as store for a sort of luxury
TweetDeck’s first foray onto smoothly as it should or video summer camp. Long tables
Android phones, supports uploads. But these issues will were stocked with chains, studs,
multiple streams beyond be fixed in the near future. pearls, vintage crystals, beads,
Twitter, namely Facebook, Another thing to note is that leather, out of this world
supports columns as well, and if search column. When you
Foursquare, and Google Buzz. seems to be an older build of the pendants and anything else
you have an existing TweetDeck compose a message, you can
(The desktop is also multi- Android beta floating around, you'd possibly want to wear
account, it populates them with pick which service you want to
stream, but the iPhone app only which has even more bugs. around your neck (or wrists).
your existing preferences. send it out on from the same
supports Twitter and Facebook). Better to wait for the official Everyone was given pliers and
There is also a new “Me” screen (much like the desktop
The biggest departure, though, beta release which should come piles of jump rings to connect
column which pulls together all app)
is a blended stream that tomorrow. their baubles, a brief how-to
messages that mention you from The app takes full advantage of
combines updates from all four CrunchBase Information from Dana, a cocktail, and some
across multiple streams, the Foursquare API. In addition
services, color-coded with TweetDeck Android jelly beans.
including Twitter @replies, to being able to see where your
different backgrounds for each Information provided by DJ Belle de Jour played some
Facebook likes and comments, friends are checking into
one. TweetDeck’s other apps CrunchBase seriously inspiring tunes and the
and Buzz updates on your posts. Foursquare, TweetDeck acts as
maintain a separate column for caramel corn kept the energy up
It is essentially a unified vanity a full Foursquare client. You
each stream. The Android app -- though the thrill of learning
how to mix industrial chains
with ladylike pearls from the
master would have been enough
to keep us going for hours. Our
results, above!
Photos by Vinnie Merlot
30 Technology/ Culture/
Google Begins Rapid Iteration Plan With Chrome
6 Beta Deployment
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:00:10 PM
Last month, Google let people
know that the pace at which
they deploy builds of Chrome
would be greatly increasingly.
The thought is that work is
happening so quickly in Chrome
but much of it is stuck in the
developer channels (or in
Chromium, the open-source
browser on which Chrome is
based) because of code freezes
and long waits to deploy the
stable versions — so why not
just speed the whole process up?
Google is wasting little time
doing that as the latest version
of Chrome, version 6, is being
released into beta today.
So what do we get with Chrome
6? As users of Chromium and
the dev channel builds of
Chrome will know, the entire
browser UI has gotten a facelift.
The buttons (back, forwards,
reload, etc) are now seamlessly
integrated into the toolbar. The
But What About the Samples?
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:03:09 PM
This morning's WWD brings
sad news — Evisu's closing up
their New York shop and
moving design into their Hong
two menu drop-downs have also
now been consolidated into one.
And the Omnibox has also been
tweaked to make it a bit simpler.
But the biggest changes in
Chrome 6 come in the
JavaScript speed increases,
Autofill, and the syncing
capabilities. With the latest
version, you’ll finally have full
Kong headquarters. That means
Scott Morrison, the CEO and
Creative Director responsible
for its increased buzz this past
year is out, and so is Catherine
Holstein.
Holstein came on board just last
year and designed a brilliant
Autofill capabilities that you’re
likely used to with other
browsers (though Chrome’s
version is pretty slick). This
means that anytime you have to
enter your name, address, phone
number, or credit card
information, it can all be
automatically inserted by the
browser. Google notes that your
womenswear collection full of
E-reader News Edition
credit card information is never
saved without your
explicit permission. It’s also
worth noting that your credit
card data is not included in the
Keep Your Touchscreen
browser sync, which has also
been updated with Chrome 6. Clean to Protect Against
Other Autofill data is now Smudge Attacks
included in sync, as are [Security]
extensions.
In terms of performance, Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Google says Chrome 6 is 15% Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:00:00 AM
faster than Chrome 5 beta in
both the V8 benchmark test and The swirls of greasy
the SunSpider benchmark test fingerprints and smudges on
(two JavaScript tests). your smartphone's screen aren't
With Google now saying that just unsightly they're also a
new stable builds of Chrome are potential security weakness that
due every six weeks, you can can give someone unauthorized
expect Chrome 6 to go stable access to your phone. More »
quickly. And then in the Fall we
should probably be on the look-
out for Chrome 7, as well.
CrunchBase Information
Google Chrome Information
provided by CrunchBase
chunky knits, skinny pants, happens next is up in the air.
perfectly soft knits and even a It's a shame to quit in the middle
few bags. The sweaters and of so much anticipation, but on
thigh highs were enough to the upside, we'll find solace in
make sweaty editors wish for the chance that Cat might revive
fall — and though the owners her eponymous collection.
says the fall collection will hit
stores as scheduled, what
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GROUPON
Apple patents "Exciter" technology continued from page 25

explains. At launch, GroupTabs is usually the case with mobile

for devices, including a will support Foursquare, but
Brightkite and Gowalla are
companies.
The native applications will
arriving shortly. Twitter and offer a similar streamlined user
"cyclocomputer" Facebook integration is also
supported.
interface as the Web app, but
will not allow for background
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial these patents, Apple is just Another distinction between check-ins, just push
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) locking down any ideas that it GroupTabs and the rest is that notifications. (Currently, SMS is
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:00:00 AM h a s . J u s t b e c a u s e t h i s GroupTabs thinks the key to its used to alert you when a deal
technology is outlined and listed success is in partnering with goes live). Future iterations will
Patently Apple has news of a in a patent application doesn't actual brick-and-mortar local incorporate social networking
new patent filed by Apple for a mean that there's a project right businesses, not brands. Malin features - namely the ability to
technology that it calls the around the corner; it doesn't says he sees value with brand see which of your friends
Exciter. At present, wirelessly guarantee that we'll definitely partnerships, but that's just not "RSVP'd" to a deal, a feature
trading information between see this product. But as always, what GroupTabs is after. Native which indicates interest.
iPhones can be a bit of a hassle, it's fascinating to see where Apps and Future Plans If the business model proves
since both phones have to find Apple's thinking is going. The The service, which goes live successful, GroupTabs plans on
each other and then sync up. But company that originally released next Wednesday, is accepting expansion to other major urban
the "Exciter" technology would the Mac has now become the registrations as of today. For markets, like Philadelphia,
simply keep an eye out for world's biggest portable device now, it works as an HTML- Boston or West Coast cities like
devices that would use this app
another phone that's willing to company, and it certainly seems based Web app available at San Francisco.
or technology, Apple has listed
share information, and then like it plans to continue moving gtb.me. By launch, a native For now, interested parties in
a "cyclocomputer," which is yet
when a certain signal is detected in that direction. Android app will be available NYC can bookmark gtb.me in
another hint that Apple is
(it could be light-based, sound- TUAW Apple patents "Exciter" and hopefully its Blackberry their mobile phone's browser.
working on some kind of bike-
based, or any other type of t e c h n o l o g y f o r d e v i c e s , counterpart. Ironically, the Web Discuss
related mobile device. In this
emitted information), the two including a "cyclocomputer" app works best on the iPhone, so
case, two bikers would pass
devices would share information originally appeared on The its native application will be last
each other, their devices would
(contacts, calendar information, U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g to launch, instead of the first, as
recognize that there is a device
photos, or text) as necessary. (TUAW) on Wed, 11 Aug 2010
to share information with, and
It's an interesting idea, but the 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
the exchange would take place.
application is even more terms for use of feeds.
It sounds intriguing.
interesting. Along with the usual Read| Permalink| Email this|
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News Bites: Scott Sternberg Gets Low & Zara Gets Inspired
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion this year. Glad they're working other store's basically closing L'Oreal's new Voluminous
Blogs) so hard. { BusinessInsider} one a day. { DailyNews} Original Mascara's getting rave
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:12:05 PM Céline Zara's fall collection Scott Sternberg's launching an reviews. { BeautyJunkie}
looks amazing. { Nitrolicious} affordable line of clothes -- this
According to Goldman Sachs, Mango plans on opening a store is news worth squealing over. {
find spaces given that every
jeggings are going to be huge a day. At least it'll be easy to BusinessOfFashion}
32 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

OkCupid: iPhone users have more sex

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:00:00 AM
I've been a huge fan of social
dating site OkCupid's OkTrends
blog for a while now. They're
constantly sharing data
(anonymized, of course) from
their social site about what
people find attractive and
interesting in each other. The
latest post has some fun
information about cameras --
specifically, the perceived link
between what type of camera
OkCupid's patrons use and
successful relationships. All of
the data is fascinating (as usual),
but there's one little note of
potential interest to iPhone fans.
Apparently, when compared to
users who post pictures from
other smartphone brands, users
who reported using iPhones for
their profile pictures tend to
identify more sexual partners
over all. As you can see in the
chart above, male and female
iPhone users (at age 30) report
higher numbers of sexual
partners to OkCupid.
In fact, across all ages, iPhone
users reported having more
sexual partners than those who
used Android or Blackberry
smartphones to take their profile
pictures. Of course, OkCupid is
just having fun here. Maybe
iPhone users are actually more
inclined to lie about their
amorous conquests, or maybe
there's a higher likelihood that
Android or Blackberry users
have reason to report a lower
number.
But then again, we already
know that iPhone owners tend to
be rich, engage in vigorous
activity, and like to be
outspoken about their buying
choices and preferences. And
aren't those the kind of people
who end up going home with
the girl (or guy) from the bar
anyway?
TUAW OkCupid: iPhone users
have more sex originally
appeared on The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
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i/o Ventures Spotlights
Female Entrepreneurs
With The WIE Prize
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:50:51 PM
i/o ventures has partnered up
with notable females Arianna
Huffington, Donna Karan and
Sarah Brown to put together the
first Women In Engineering
Prize, and will be announcing
the winner at the first WIE
Symposium on September 20th.
The deadline for hopeful female
founders to apply is Sept 10th,
and the lucky and hard working
winner will receive 25k in
investment, become part of the i
/o program, get free office space
for a month as well as a trip to
I/O page 34

The Steven Slater Song (NSFW) [Video]

MG Siegler (TechCrunch) could make an argument that no landed in New York City, so he days running now. And now
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:27:27 PMone has benefitted more from grabbed the airplane intercom, he’s getting the Mann treatment
Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issue started swearing, then grabbed as well.
It was almost exactly one year — as Mann wrote a great song two beers from the food area, Slater got out of jail last night,
ago that Jonathan Mann won the about it, which Apple then opened the emergency door of hopefully he enjoys his song.
Bing Jingle contest with his, played at their press conference the plane, and slid down the It’s not exactly safe for work,
well, awful song. At the time, no as Steve Jobs took the stage. emergency slide. The news but it’s awesome. We’re proud
one seemed to know who he Mann then followed this up with exploded on the Internet, with of you, Mann — but where’s the
was and I was perhaps a little a brilliant song about Jobs. Facebook pages being made in Delta song?
harsh in knocking him down for Today, he’s back again. support of Slater, as well as
it. But he got me back — not In case you didn’t open a web video re-enactments. And, of
with the song he wrote about browser yesterday, there was a Specifically, 38-year-old Steven course, he’s been the top
me, but rather the creative tear little incident involving a S l a t e r g o t p i s s e d o f f a t Trending Topic on Twitter (as
he’s been on recently. You J e t B l u e f l i g h t a t t e n d a n t . passengers after his flight has “flight attendant”) for two
E-reader News Edition Technology/ Sports/ 33

DirecTV signs up for Google TV Corey Pavin: I Didn't

Ads Promise Tiger Woods Ryder
(CNET News.com) attempt to take the self-service Ovation, Sleuth, and TV Guide. Cup Slot
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:41:12 PM search-ad model that has turned The big payoff for Google TV Milton Kent (FanHouse Main)
Google into a financial Ads might come later this year
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:15:00 AM
Google's hopes of transforming powerhouse and replicate it on or next year, after Google TV
the TV ad business took another the small screen. Google TV makes its debut. The Filed under: PGA, PGA
small step on Wednesday, as the Ads customers upload video ads technologies being honed as part Championship, Ryder Cup Did
s e a r c h g i a n t a n n o u n c e d a to Google's site and can decide of this project could be used to Corey Pavin promise Tiger
distribution deal with DirecTV. how much they want to spend make ads alongside Google TV Woods a spot on the United
It's fair to say that Google TV per ad impression. content more interesting and States Ryder Cup team ... or
Ads hasn't set the television Dish Network was Google's more lucrative for Google's didn't he?
world on fire over the last primary vehicle for getting those partners. That's the major question of
couple of years. Still, at least it's ads in front of TV viewers, but Five Filters featured Wednesday as Pavin, the captain
growing: Google has added 11 now it has a few more channels article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets of the American squad, is either he said them.
new channels on DirecTV that to work with. DirecTV channels an Easy Ride in the backtracking from statements he Pavin was widely quoted,
will air ads uploaded by its participating in the deal include Independent. Available tools: supposedly made to Golf saying of Woods, "Of course
c u s t o m e r s , i t a n n o u n c e d Bloomberg Television, Centric, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Channel reporter Jim Gray I'm going to (pick him). He's the
Wednesday. Chiller, Current TV, Fit TV, Term Extraction. Tuesday or is flat out denying best player in the world."
Google TV Ads is basically an F o x B u s i n e s s , F u e l , G 4 ,

Verizon FiOS scores the first NFL 3D broadcast with

Giants/Patriots September 2
Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:03:00 PM
Check off another first for 3D
sports broadcasts, now that
Verizon has announced its
FiOS1 channel will exclusively
carry the first 3D NFL game.
We doubt you'll see much of
Tom Brady and Eli Manning in
a preseason game four matchup
between the Giants and
Patriots, but for the New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and
Rhode Island subscribers
already rocking a 3D setup even
watching backups fight for a
roster spot is bound to be miles
ahead of what's been available
so far. Despite keeping its 3D
plans close to its vest Verizon
has been working closely with
the Giants to bring this
broadcast to life and plans 3D
viewing parties at Meadowlands
Stadium (although not on its
enormous new HD scoreboards)
and Gillette Stadium. ESPN 3D
won't kick off its own college
football broadcasts until a few
days later, if you can't make it
to the field and are still
wondering if the technology is
worth it there are also a couple
of bars in Manhattan and Rhode
Island airing the broadcast --
Jim Sorgi and Brian Hoyer will
be glad to know you're
watching.
Continue reading Verizon FiOS
scores the first NFL 3D
broadcast with Giants/Patriots
September 2
Verizon FiOS scores the first
NFL 3D broadcast with Giants/
Patriots September 2 originally
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11 Aug 2010 13:03:00 EDT.
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RIM launches BlackBerry podcast Quick Seafood Dinners

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) or until vegetables are charred.
service Time: 30 minutes
Stir in ½ cup halved grape
tomatoes and 13 cup chopped
(CNET News.com) Mobile customers can search To kick off the new service, Prep Pointer: You’ll get more green onions; sauté 1 minute or
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:15:07 PM the podcast catalog by keyword, RIM has been teaming up with a juice from a room-temperature -until tomatoes almost wilt.
category, and other criteria, and variety of content providers, lemon. Combine vegetable mixture,
Taking a bite out of Apple's then preview any podcast before including Bloomberg, NPR, Serve with Charred Vegetable rice, and ¾ teaspoon salt.
playbook, Research In Motion deciding whether to subscribe. Reuters, Discovery Networks, Rice: Cook 1 cup long-grain View Recipe: Pan-Grilled
has unveiled a new podcast Podcasts can be downloaded to and The Onion. People white rice according to package Halibut with Chimichurri Next
service for its BlackBerry the BlackBerry's microSD card interested in submitting their directions, omitting salt and fat. Seafood Arrabbiata
mobile customers. where they can be played own podcasts can sign up for an Heat 1½ tablespoons olive oil in Five Filters featured
You can now catch podcasts on through the phone's media account at the submissions page. a large cast-iron skillet over article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
y o u r B l a c k B e r r y . ( C r e d i t : player or removed and played Five Filters featured medium-high heat. Add ½ cup a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e
Research In Motion) on another device. article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets thawed frozen whole-kernel Independent. Available tools:
Launched on Wednesday, the Interested BlackBerry an Easy Ride in the c o r n a n d ½ c u p c h o p p e d PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
free BlackBerry Podcast service customers can download the Independent. Available tools: zucchini to pan; sauté 3 minutes Term Extraction.
lets BlackBerry users find, podcast app via the phone's PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
download, and subscribe to browser or through BlackBerry Term Extraction. I/O
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a u d i o a n d v i d e o p o d c a s t s App World. The app is already
created by a host of providers, included on phones running New York to attend the
said the company. RIM's new BlackBerry OS 6. conference.
i/o’s Paul Bragiel and Ashwin
Women 2.0 Labs Accepting Applications for Fall Navin initially put the award
together because they noticed a
lack of women applying for
Pre-Incubator incubator funding at i/o, and
was wondering if this was
Audrey Watters your startup from an idea to Ventures, and on Thursday possibly because women lacked
(ReadWriteWeb) launch." Women 2.0 Labs is nights will demo their latest clear cut mentors in Silicon
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:30:06 AM open to both men and women. prototypes. Participants will be Valley.
Sponsor joined weekly by industry This wasn’t unique to i/o either.
Women 2.0 Labs is a 5-week Five teams - comprised of "5 experience working with team leaders who serve as visiting Bragiel said,“I’ve talked to
pre-incubator program aimed at engineers (software, hardware, members in order to establish a advisors. Advisors from the various other incubators and
helping develop high-growth b i o ) + 5 m o r e e n g i n e e r s "founder history" as prospective first Women 2.0 Labs session there were very few females
technology ventures in San (students) + 5 designers + 5 entrepreneurs. included Steve Blank, Eric Ries, there, so we figured we’d
Francisco. The mission of business / marketing people" - "Keep your day job, join us and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. market directly to women and
Women 2.0 "is to increase the will move through the program afterward," advertises the This Fall course will run from make it clear that there were
number of female founders of designed to help validate a program. Participants will September 27 through October opportunities specifically for
technology startups, by enabling business idea and rapidly moonlight in teams at the Lab's 28. The deadline to apply is them.”
entrepreneurs with a network, p r o t o t y p e a p r o d u c t . co-working space at True September 4. Discuss The award will target young
resources and knowledge to take Participants will get hands-on female startup founders looking
I/O page 36
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Viacom to appeal
YouTube copyright
decision
(CNET News.com) safe-harbor provisions of the
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:27:00 PM Digital Millennium Copyright
Act that place the responsibility
In a move that surprises no one, for informing a Web site owner
Viacom plans to appeal the that copyright material is
ruling that struck down its present on the owner of that
lawsuit against YouTube and material.
Google earlier this year. In Viacom's statement
V i a c o m s u b m i t t e d t h e following that ruling, it said it
paperwork to the U.S. District would "seek to have these issues
Court for the Southern District b e f o r e t h e U . S . C o u r t o f
iPhone body armor case looks cool of New York on Wednesday, Appeals for the Second Circuit
making official the intention it as soon as possible." And that's
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial actual protection, it makes up make the phone look like a stated after Google won a huge where the next round of legal
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) for in some interesting colored lump, so it's neat to see victory in June in the dispute wrangling will take place--
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:00:00 PM functionality, which includes a case that adds a little between the two companies over meaning that this dispute is far
unimpeded access to the something to the iPhone's c o p y r i g h t m a t e r i a l s o n from over.
Speaking of iPhone cases that charging port and a cool little design. YouTube. Five Filters featured
look ... different, here's an rubber band that can hold [via iPhone Savior] Google's request for summary article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
interesting metal case for business or credit cards. TUAW iPhone body armor case judgment was granted by Judge a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e
e v e r y b o d y ' s f a v o r i t e There is a warning that a metal looks cool originally appeared Louis Stanton, meaning that the Independent. Available tools:
smartphone. A company called case can "affect reception," but on The Unofficial Apple dispute was never presented to a PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Ltd Tools has created a metal, it can't be that much worse than Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 11 jury, after Stanton ruled that Term Extraction.
cage-style case that adds a flip what you're getting already. And Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please YouTube was protected under
cover to the phone and gives it a OK, sure, the case is US$95, see our terms for use of feeds.
pretty distinctive look. I don't which is a bit much to pay for a Read| Permalink| Email this|
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actually makes the iPhone 4 look pretty well-machined). But
look kind of like a big RAZR, I just like the look of it anyway.
but I like it. What it lacks in A great many cases tend to

10 Things to Know About Yogurt

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
1. What those bacteria do
Lactobacillus bulgaricus and
Streptococcus thermophilus, the
two bacteria required by FDA
standards for yogurt, are added
to a warm milk bath, where they
proceed to ferment and
coagulate into a semisolid,
producing tangy lactic acid
along the way. Manufacturers
can add other probiotics, like
Lactobacillus acidophilus and
Bifidobacterium, but they're not
required or regulated. Next
Whey
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an Easy Ride in the
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Safari extensions highlight: A good-

looking Google Reader
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:00:00 PM

With the addition of the Safari

Extensions Gallery to Apple's
website, TUAW will be
highlighting extensions that we
think are special, useful, or just
plain fun.
Wii Classic Controller Many of Google's Web apps
have been long on functionality

Pro gets gilded for but short on looks. Google

Reader, the Web-based RSS
reader, is a good example of
revamped GoldenEye 007 this. Fortunately, Google Reader
Mac OS X Snow Leopard +
dialog boxes are the same nearly
-transparent black that we've
highlight: A good-looking
Google Reader originally
Darren Murph (Engadget) coated in a standard black hue, Delicious is a Safari extension come to expect from Snow appeared on The Unofficial
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:22:00 PM this one will be doused in much that makes Reader look good. Leopard. Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
the same color as 007's Golden Once installed, this extension This extension is simply a new Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:00:00
Alright, gamers -- time to fess Gun. It'll reportedly ship later makes Google Reader resemble set of clothes for Google EST. Please see our terms for
up. Even if you're a self- this year within a "Classic a Snow Leopard application Reader, so its functioning is use of feeds.
proclaimed new schooler, there's Edition" game + accessory (like iTunes). The sidebar is that unchanged. There, now doesn't Read| Permalink| Email this|
no way you're passing up the bundle for $69.99 (a $20 same faint blue, and the rest is that look better? Comments
o p t i o n t o f l a s h b a c k t o upcharge over the software white and gray. Additionally, TUAW Safari extensions
yesteryear in order to play alone), but it's still unclear if it'll
GoldenEye 007 the way it was be available as a standalone I/O
continued from page 34
meant to be played. The Wii peripheral. Not like it matters --
remake of the game actually you know you're buying this for exposure and access to the i/ competition and prize are the go mentor at i/o. Aspiring WIE
doesn't look all that different game, anyway. o incubator, which mentors first of their kind,“The goal in Prize winners can apply here.
than the original when it comes Wii Classic Controller Pro gets founders from product launch our collaboration is to help more CrunchBase Information i/o
to polygon count, but for those gilded for revamped GoldenEye through the next stage of companies founded by women Ventures Information provided
who aren't keen on taking 007 originally appeared on company development, sharing get exposure they need to the by CrunchBase
control of Pierce Brosnan (let us Engadget on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 what has proven to work for best investors and mentors both
dream, okay?) with a Wiimote, 12:22:00 EDT. Please see our product scaling, revenue growth in the valley and world wide.”
there's the gilded Classic t e r m s f o r u s e o f f e e d s . and fund raising. Female entrepreneurs should
Controller Pro. The limited run Permalink MMOMFG| Pocket- Bragiel holds that the also consider this an open call to
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beast, but rather than being
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Kobo e-reader sashays into ten
Fairmont hotel properties, adds to
your poolside experience
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:45:00 PM
Oh sure, you've been able to get
your hands on iPads, iPhones
and Kindles when checking in
before, but a Kobo? Nah. Well,
until now. Announced today, the
a-okay e-reader company has
landed a deal with Fairmont
that'll put e-book readers into
the hands of select guests at
select properties. Specifically,
Fairmont Gold-level guests that
are members of the (free to join) variety of fiction, non-fiction EDT. Please see our terms for gastrointestinal tract or to a
President's Club will be able to and high drama titles. Upon use of feeds. Permalink| Kobo systemic (bodywide) infection.
trial a Kobo during their stay
free of charge, and they'll find
each one brimming with a patrons will be gifted with a $2
The Photography app smackdown on TUAW TV
Live today
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/11/2010 2:00:00 PM
All over the Northern
Hemisphere, a lot of people are
taking advantage of the warm
weather and longer days, and
they're getting out of the office
to take some vacation. Using a
camera to capture vacation
memories is great, but using
your iPhone to nab those
Technology/ Culture/ 37
6 Tips to Cure Bad
Breath
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:00:00 PM
causes. The strong odors of
foods such as garlic, onions and
alcohol are carried through the
off coupon for Random House -Fixing bad breath depends on bloodstream and exhaled by the
titles, and if you're curious as to what's causing it. In 80 to 90 lungs. Another big loser when it
which ten properties will be percent of cases, it's due to comes to bad breath is tobacco.
involved in the offer, head on something in the mouth. Most In addition, some health
past the break and have a look. often, it's nothing more serious p r o b l e m s , s u c h a s s i n u s
Continue reading Kobo e- than a dirty mouth. Plaque, the infections or diabetes(which
reader sashays into ten Fairmont nearly invisible film of bacteria may give the breath a chemical
hotel properties, adds to your that's constantly forming in your smell), can cause bad breath.
poolside experience mouth, is often responsible for Get started on the next page to
Kobo e-reader sashays into ten bad breath. Other dental culprits see what you can do to keep
Fairmont hotel properties, adds i n c l u d e c a v i t i e s a n d g u m your breath as fresh as possible.
to your poolside experience d i s e a s e . Five Filters featured
originally appeared on Engadget Occasionally, bad breath is due article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:45:00 to something in the lungs or a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e
Independent. Available tools:
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another alternative, right?),
is one of the most common
snapshots is even better. watch the live show and
On today's episode of TUAW participate in the chat.
TV Live, host Steve Sande will TUAW The Photography app
demonstrate and discuss more smackdown on TUAW TV Live
than a dozen photography apps today originally appeared on
for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Find The Unofficial Apple Weblog
out how to take better photos (TUAW) on Wed, 11 Aug 2010
with the iPhone, apply effects or 14:00:00 EST. Please see our
retouch those shots, and share terms for use of feeds.
them with your friends and Read| Permalink| Email this| Is this Canon's 60D
relatives. here at TUAW.com. Drop by a Comments DSLR, articulating
The fun starts at 5 PM EDT (2 few minutes before the show If you'll THIS
recall,page
we first
38 heard a
PM PDT, 11 AM HDT) right starts for instructions on how to display
n o t i o n t hand
a t C aall?
non was
considering a 60D and 550D
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THIS
continued from page 37
with articulating displays way
back in January; PMA came and
went, and no such camera
emerged. But now we're back in
familiar territory, and this go
'round we've got IFA and
Photokina happening next
month in Germany. The image
above is bruited to be the 60D
we've all been waiting for, and
while it's usually easy to brush
these off as possible fan renders
(or worse, Photoshops), that
display hinge looks mighty
legitimate. Nikon hasn't seen fit
to take the articulating LCD on
its entry-level D5000 to any
Drew Barrymore Celebrates
Her Nylon Cover With
Friends, Not Justin
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:30:00 PM
Drew Barrymore celebrated
Nylon's new denim issue last
night at The London hotel in
LA. The magazine's latest cover
girl held court in a poolside
cabana and played hostess to
fashionable stars like Jenna
Dewan and How to Make It in
America's Bryan Greenberg and
Lake Bell. Drew spent the
evening surrounded by friends
and fans, but her on-again, off-
again boyfriend and Going the
Distance costar, Justin Long,
didn't attend - instead, he was
off promoting their new
higher-end units just yet, but if
Canon goes ahead with this
one... well, we all know how
competition works, now don't
we?
[Thanks to everyone who sent
this in]
Is this Canon's 60D DSLR,
articulating display and all?
originally appeared on Engadget
on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:49:00
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romantic comedy on Jimmy g o v e r n m e n t s . "
Kimmel Live!
To see more from Drew's party, announced taking on more, there
just read more.
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Hedge Fund Manager Jochen
Wermuth: The Dollar Is About To
Depreciate Substantially
Courtney Comstock (Money
Game)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:39:48 PM
The CIO of Wermuth Asset
Management, Jochen Mermuth,
announcement of further
quantitative easing yesterday
mean that the only real option
for the US right now is to let the
currency depreciate so that it's
easier to pay off our debt to
other countries.
The other option he gives is a
default, which is unlikely
enough to be dismissed:
"US credit risk is huge and
America has two options, either
default or let the currency
depreciate substantially against Asset Relief Program) and the "America today looks like
currencies such as the yuan and expansion of the Fed's balance Russia in 1998. Consumers,
the rouble." sheet, total US public and companies and the government
"Last night's news from the Fed private debt as a percentage of are all highly indebted. America
simply creates the right GDP in the US stood at 290 as a result is a bankrupt Mickey
conditions for dollar weakness percent, that figure is now far Mouse economy."
and a reduction in US liabilities higher." "The big evil for the IMF in
to foreign investors and Wermuth doesn't like what he Russia in 1998 was the prospect
sees in the new image of the US of the central bank funding
His wager is based on the economy, which he says now government debt. The Fed is
theory that since the US has so mirrors Russia in 1998 and is now even buying mortgage-
much debt right now, and just something he calls a "Mickey backed securities."
Mouse" economy. Join the conversation about this
are no other options: Here's what he says it looks story »
"Even before the (Troubled like, according to CNBC:
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Did the Stimulus Stimulate?

(AEI.Org: Articles) and therefore calculating that we The Romer-Bernstein paper has second quarter 2009. The first Larry Summers argued that
Submitted at 8/10/2010 6:00:00 PM must have 10,000 angels. The often been cited as saying that if modification fully compensates stimulus should be 'timely,
math is fine. But it sheds no the package passed, the for their objection while the targeted, and temporary." But
A recent paper by Alan Blinder light on the key policy issue-- unemployment rate would peak second modification more than the package that passed was
and Mark Zandi claims that if were the recently passed acts of below 8 percent in the middle of compensates for their concern. neither timely nor targeted and
not for the response of the g o v e r n m e n t s t i m u l u s c o s t 2009 and would decline to But as the chart shows, the today Congress is faced with
f e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t , t h e effective? The degree of cost below 7.5 percent by now. problem with the stimulus making many of the stimulus
unemployment rate would be effectiveness was an assumed Obviously this has not wasn't just the starting point--it programs permanent because
15.7 percent, far higher than the number, not one calculated happened. The administration, was that the stimulus itself has unemployment remains
current 9.5 percent. The press u s i n g a n y v e r s i o n o f t h e along with Blinder and Zandi, been ineffective at lowering it. stubbornly high.
quickly reported that this s c i e n t i f i c m e t h o d . argue that it is not fair to Chart 1 shows that the actual The bill was not timely because
vindicated the Obama stimulus Since the beginning of the conclude that this proves the unemployment rate, given by the bulk of the funds were
plan. But the fact is that most of r e c e s s i o n , t h e n u m b e r o f package was a failure since the solid line, is not only above disbursed through the
the positive effects cited in their unemployed has increased by Romer and Bern-stein the original Romer-Bernstein cumbersome government
p a p e r c a m e n o t f r o m t h e more than 8 million people. For underestimated the severity of projections, but also above contracting process--and often
stimulus but from stabilizing $800 billion, we could have the recession and that projections that take account of made doubly complicated
actions of the Federal Reserve, handed every one of these unemployment was already 8.2 the 'starting point" problem. because the funds were then
the FDIC, and TARP. people a check for $100,000 percent in the first quarter of Actual unemployment has been channeled through state and
The paper argued that fiscal One way to correct this is to 2009, higher than the assumed consistently above all of the local governments. Weekly data
stimulus enacted under both treat the current stimulus as one peak. projections, regardless of collected in 2009 (since
Presidents Bush and Obama would treat any other kind of I am sympathetic to their starting point, because the discontinued) showed a very
lowered the unemployment rate scientific or social scientific argument and Chart 1 corrects stimulus bill has basically consistent $7 billion of stimulus
by 1.5 percentage points. But it experiment: Form a hypothesis for their complaint by raising brought no relief in terms of disbursed every week starting in
did not measure either the before you run the experiment, their estimate of where lower unemployment. the second quarter of 2009. If
number of people who found run the experiment, and then unemployment started in their Chart 2 shows the Romer- you are one of the 6.8 million
work or the effectiveness with observe how the results of the experiment. The lowest line Bernstein projections of what persons unemployed for six
which the Obama stimulus experiment compare with your provides the original estimate of would have happened if the months or more, this slow pace
created jobs. Instead, it assumed original hypothesis. Christina the path of unemployment stimulus had not passed, but as of disbursement is anything but
through the use of economic Romer, who resigned last Friday provided by Romer and in Chart 1, those projections timely.
modeling that the recently as chairman of the president's Bernstein on January 9, 2009. were shifted up to reflect a Nor was the bill targeted, at
enacted stimulus was roughly as Council of Economic Advisers, The second line replicates the higher starting unemployment least in any economically
effective, dollar for dollar, as and Jared Bern-stein, chief Romer and Bernstein path, but rate. The striking observation is sensible way. It was written not
similar provisions in the past. It economic adviser to Vice raises the initial unemployment that after correcting for the by Larry Summers or Christina
t h e n m u l t i p l i e d t h e p a s t President Biden, have done the rate from their assumed 7.5 higher starting point, the actual Romer, but by Democratic
m e a s u r e s o f j o b c r e a t i n g first part of this experiment. In percent to 8.2 percent. This was performance of the economy is members of congressional
effectiveness by the number of January 2009, they published a the actual average of the almost exactly what Romer and appropriations committees,
dollars in the current plan and paper using a model similar to unemployment rate in the first Bernstein said would happen if based on the normal political
added the result to the current the one Blinder and Zandi used quarter of 2009, the period in we had done nothing, rather logrolling and reward process.
unemployment rate. to project what would happen if which the stimulus was passed. than passing the $800 billion This is the group that
This is the economic equivalent President Obama's proposed The third line provides a more package. notoriously brought us 'bridges
of assuming there are 1,000 s t i m u l u s p a c k a g e p a s s e d , extreme alternative by raising There are ample reasons for this to nowhere" in the past. The bill
angels on the head of a pin, compared with what would the initial unemployment rate to lack of success. National DID page 43
observing that we have 10 pins, happen if it did not. the 9.3 percent average of the Economic Council chairman
40 Policy/
Obama's Subprime Nominee
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 6:00:00 PM
The passage of the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act means
there will be a new sheriff in
town: a director for the newly
established Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. The CFPB is
intended to serve as an
independent watchdog
empowered to regulate bank and
nonbank financial institutions
providing services and products
to consumers. White House
signals suggest that President
Obama will nominate Harvard
University's Elizabeth Warren to
head the new agency.
Her candidacy for the post has
drawn support from 141 fellow
professors who recently signed a
letter encouraging President
Obama to nominate Warren
because, "[i]n both her
scholarship and her public
service, Professor Warren draws
her conclusions from careful
analysis of data." Unfortunately
we are forced to disagree. We
are concerned that Warren has
exhibited a tendency to serve
preset policy goals in some of
her academic research.
For example, Congress is
currently considering the
Medical Bankruptcy Fairness
Act, a proposal largely justified
by two studies coauthored by
Warren that claim that most
personal bankruptcy filings are
caused by medical debt. This
finding, however, is the result of
a host of survey design errors
and poor statistical techniques.
The papers, published in 2005
and 2009, rely on surveys of
bankruptcy filers from public
court records for 2001 and 2007,
respectively. In the first paper
Warren and her co-authors
conclude that more than 50% of
the 1,000 debtors surveyed had
filed for bankruptcy due to
medical reasons, but those
surveyed included people with
any sort of addiction, including
uncontrolled gambling
problems.
Warren's findings, based on
research of dubious academic
standards, exaggerate the
magnitude of the problem and
affect policymakers' ability to
make informed, unbiased
decisions regarding pending
legislation.
Presumably in response to
criticism, the 2009 study
excludes gamblers and addicts
but still manages to conclude
that more than 60% of
bankruptcy filings are due to
medical reasons. The finding is
particularly striking because, as
the study acknowledges, only
29% of respondents believed
their bankruptcies were caused
by medical bills. Warren and her
co-authors reach their total of
62% by adding people who lost
weeks of work due to illness,
reported more than $5,000 in
medical bills or reported any
medical problems of self or
spouse. It requires a great leap
of logic, however, to assert that
these problems caused the
bankruptcy filings in every
instance.
The studies also suffer from
what economists and
statisticians call "selection bias,"
which means that the sample is
not random. An unbiased study
along these lines would require
a "control group" of people with
medical debts who did not file
for bankruptcy. That would
enable researchers to see when
and why medical debts drive a
household to file for bankruptcy.
Including only people who file
for bankruptcy exaggerates the
importance of any kind of debt,
including medical debt. And
finally, the Warren studies do
not allow for the possibility that
other household characteristics,
such as an individual's work
status, marital status, income
and other kinds of debt, could
have influenced the bankruptcy
filing.
Warren's findings deviate
markedly from the substantial
economics literature that uses
proper statistical techniques to
study the link between medical
debt and bankruptcy. For
instance, professors David
Dranove and Michael Millenson
estimate that only about 17% of
bankruptcies are caused by
medical debt. The Department
of Justice found that just 10% of
households had large medical
debts relative to income and
according to the Panel Study of
Income Dynamics, a
longitudinal survey tracking
households since 1968, only 9%
of households claimed medical
bills as the primary reason for
filing.
In fact, while bankruptcy filings
have increased by 25% since
2000, medical debts have not
changed significantly as a share
of total debt over this period,
according to the Survey of
Consumer Finances, which uses
a nationally representative
sample of more than 4,000
households and is considered
the definitive source for
information on household
finances.
Warren's findings, based on
research of dubious academic
standards, exaggerate the
magnitude of the problem and
affect policymakers' ability to
make informed, unbiased
decisions regarding pending
legislation. Yet perhaps because
of the Harvard label attached to
the papers or dismay over the
plight of medically distressed
households, far too many in
Washington seem willing to
accept these findings without
question.
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It is troubling to think that the
person responsible for this
distortion may become the first
director of the CFPB, an agency
that will establish critical new
rules affecting nearly all
Americans. While Warren's
academic affiliation and her
achievement as a bestselling
author on personal finance are
impressive, these
accomplishments do not, of
themselves, qualify her for this
post.
A candidate's eligibility should
be based on his or her proven
ability and willingness to
consider all facts fairly and put
forward proposals for the larger
good of the country. Given
Elizabeth Warren's questionable
and seemingly biased research
methods, we believe she would
be the wrong choice for such a
powerful job.
Alex Brill is a research fellow
and Aparna Mathur is a resident
scholar at AEI.
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Obama's State Capitalism: A Failure of Modesty

(AEI.Org: Articles) Democrats' stimulus package Obama Democrats have been but the politicians should be choices. Entrepreneurs with a
Submitted at 8/10/2010 6:00:00 PM was not the timely, targeted and aimed at propping up the old modest." vision for the future can take
temporary measure order--holding up housing prices Modesty, unfortunately, is not their chances, and most may
"The pace of economic recovery r e c o m m e n d e d b y n a t i o n a l and the mortgage market, the dominant character trait of a fail. But some will turn out to be
is likely to be more modest in e c o n o m i c d i r e c t o r L a r r y keeping the Detroit auto president who predicted that his Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, who
the near term than had been S u m m e r s . companies in place, maintaining election would be seen as "the changed our world in ways that
anticipated." Those were the The fact that the private-sector the lush standard of living of moment when the rise of the 99 percent of economic experts
carefully chosen words of the economy has not responded as public employee union members oceans began to slow and our were unable to predict.
Federal Reserve Board after its administration economists (the purpose of the $26 billion planet began to heal." In the meantime, American
meeting Tuesday. Translation e x p e c t e d a n d c o n f i d e n t l y the House was summoned back But facts are stubborn things. voters seem prepared to return a
into English: We wuz wrong. predicted should be a wake-up to Washington to approve The fact that the private-sector negative verdict on the Obama
So were a lot of people, call. Tuesday). economy has not responded as Democrats' version of state
including departing White They can add that the threat of Maintaining unsustainable administration economists capitalism. Bailout favoritism
H o u s e e c o n o m i c a d v i s e r pending regulations interpreting patterns of production, Kling expected and confidently and crony capitalism, it turns
Christina Romer, who wrote that the health care and financial writes, prevents the trial-and- predicted should be a wake-up out, are not vote-winners.
the Obama Democrats' February regulation bills and of pending error process of private call. The open question is whether
2009 stimulus package would tax increases as the Bush cuts investment that creates new jobs It shows the limits of expert Republicans will present and
hold unemployment below 8 expire have created a climate of and patterns of production that knowledge and of the ability of advance public policies that
percent. uncertainty in which consumers will be sustainable. political actors to make optimal leave the way open for market
It wasn't just administration don't consume, banks don't lend Across the Atlantic, Mark economic choices. capitalism to find its way to a
spokesmen who expected a solid and businesses don't create jobs. DeVos, director of the Itinera The intellectual firepower of new, sustainable pattern of
recovery. California economist All true. But in this summer of Institute, a Brussels think tank, this administration may be high. production, as it has done
Bill Watkins i n unrecovery it's still important to advances similar arguments in But so was the intellectual before. Let's hope for that kind
newgeography.com recalls a understand how so many smart his book "After the Meltdown." firepower of the postwar British of change.
conference last fall in which all people got so much so wrong. The financial crisis, he argues, Labour governments that Michael Barone is a resident
the other economists presented One answer comes from has brought a revival of "state nationalized steel and auto fellow at AEI.
rosy scenarios and only he economist Arnold Kling writing capitalism," in which companies and the railroads. Photo credit: White House
forecast extended malaise. He in American.com. Kling argues governments "have an increased That didn't turn out so well, and Photo by Pete Souza
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Constitutional Amendments and Citizenship Rights

(AEI.Org: Articles) our constitutional design." to learn, in July of 1868, that legislators, and the Founders. judges reading new rights into
Submitted at 8/10/2010 6:00:00 PM The issue is not whether the they had just created an Still, if the Constitution is the document but from
world is ever-changing, but adamantine right for unclear or inadequate, what's a Americans lawfully amending
It's like clockwork. Whenever whether judges should treat the homosexuals to marry one strict constructionist to do? it.
c o n s e r v a t i v e s p r o p o s e a Constitution as ever-changing to another and receive state Propose changes, and you're From birthright citizenship and
constitutional amendment, meet their own agendas benefits to boot, as a federal dubbed a hypocrite and a radical gay marriage to flag-burning
p r o g r e s s i v e s s u d d e n l y But wait a second. Progressives judge in California recently for wanting to "tinker with the and gun rights, I trust the
rediscover the delicate gears of l o v e t o t i n k e r w i t h t h e decided (overruling, I might genius of our constitutional American people to change the
the Constitution and the horrible constitutional design. They add, the will of California design." Or else you're guilty of Constitution when necessary
dangers of "tinkering" or simply do it by stealth, voters). hypocritical conservative (after lengthy debate) more than
"tampering" with its precision appointing Supreme Court Hence, liberals claim, we need judicial activism. I trust five out of nine unelected
craftsmanship. Consider the justices such as Elena Kagan, an evolving Constitution that, as The relevant fact is that central justices with lifetime tenure,
sudden brouhaha over the idea w h o , h e r t e s t i m o n y President Obama writes in The to the genius of the hiding behind closed doors and
of revising the 14th Amendment notwithstanding, everyone Audacity of Hope, "is not a Constitution's design are the away from TV cameras.
to get rid of automatic birthright knows will treat the Constitution static but rather a living mechanisms to change it. That What are the opponents of
citizenship (which would make like Felix the Cat's magic bag; document, and must be read in process is arduous, requiring "tinkering" afraid of? I suspect
us more like that alleged when she searches the document the context of an ever-changing long and deliberate debates at sullying the genius of the
progressive nirvana known as hard enough, you know she'll world." But as legal analyst Ed the national and state levels. (In Founders takes a distant
"Europe," by the way). Here's find what she's looking for. Whelan has noted, this "living over two centuries, thousands of backseat to their real fear: losing
Angela Kelley of the liberal But when conservatives who document" argument is a straw amendments have been a fair fight.
Center for American Progress talk about reverence for the man. Of course justices must proposed, 33 have been Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
on Sen. Lindsey Graham, who Constitution also want to update read the document in the context approved by Congress, and only fellow at AEI.
started the amendment chatter: it in a way that is actually of an ever-changing world. 27 have been ratified by the Photo credit: iStockphoto/
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was, moreover, rushed through
without much review or
oversight. One may remember
that the stimulus bill was the
one that authorized the payment
of bonuses to AIG executives, a
fact not discovered until well
after the bill was signed. This
was then followed by days of
publicly discussed 'mystery"
about how such a provision was
included. Well-designed
targeting would not have
included such provisions.
From a macroeconomic
perspective, a targeted bill
would have injected money
directly into the cash flow of
American households and small
businesses where it was needed.
Many of us who supported the
administration's call for a
stimulus in early 2009
recommended the reduction of
the payroll tax for both
employers and employees,
something with the same net
revenue effect as what was
Taleb: Bet On A Bond Collapse, And Hedge Against Imminent
Inflation
Joe Weisenthal (Money
Game)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:36:25 PM
Not surprisingly, Nassim Taleb
is NOT joining the parade of
deflationistas.
The author who previously
argued that every single human
passed. Such a payroll tax cut
would have provided an
incentive at the margin for
continued work and
employment for more than 90
percent of the labor force. The
tax provision in the actual
stimulus that passed did so for
less than 15 percent of the labor
force, and the spending
provisions impacted only 2
percent of the labor force even
under the administration's
assumptions. That is bad
targeting.
The Blinder and Zandi paper
did note that a few provisions of
the stimulus appeared to be
particularly effective at pulling
forward economic activity.
These were the "Cash for
Clunkers" program and the first
time homeowners' tax credit.
But both of these programs were
enacted separately from the
$800 billion American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act and
together totaled less than $20
being should be short Treasuries
-- a bet that's done absolutely
miserably this year -- is still at
it.
Bloomberg:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who
warned that unforeseen events
can roil markets in “The Black
Swan,” said he is “betting on the
billion. How you spend money
is as important as how much
you spend. Since the beginning
of the recession, the number of
unemployed has increased by
more than 8 million people. For
$800 billion, we could have
handed every one of these
people a check for $100,000--
which gives a sense of what was
possible with that much money
and just how inefficient the
actual program was.
It really should be no surprise
that the stimulus bill has created
far fewer jobs, dollar for dollar,
than past stimulus measures.
That is why it is
methodologically spurious to
assert that unemployment is far
lower than it would be in its
absence. I say that as one whom
the administration itself cited as
a supporter of a generic stimulus
measure back in January 2009. I
continue to believe that it would
be a mistake to withdraw
stimulus from the economy--
collapse of government bonds”
and that investors should avoid
such as by raising taxes or by
letting existing tax provisions
expire. This despite the very
high deficits we are now
experiencing. Our policy
problem today is that the bill
that was actually passed into law
was both so expensive and so
badly flawed that it gives the
whole concept of
macroeconomic stimulus a bad
name.
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visiting scholar at AEI.
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“I’m very pessimistic,” he said
at the Discovery Invest
Leadership Summit in
Johannesburg today. “By
staying in cash or hedging
against inflation, you won’t
regret it in two years.”
That's a precise prediction.
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Small Business
Trends - Yet
Another Disaster
noreply@blogger.com
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's
Global Economic Trend
Analysis)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 2:04:00 PM
Neither the treasury market nor
small business trends reflect the
incessant optimism of the stock
market. These will eventually
align, when I do not know.
Please consider NFIB Small
Business Economic Trends for
August 2010.
OPTIMISM INDEX
The Index of Small Business
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August 11, 2012.
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The Index of Small Business
Optimism lost 0.9 points in July
following a sharp decline in
June. The persistence of Index
readings below 90 is
unprecedented in survey history.
The performance of the
economy is mediocre at best,
given the extent of the decline
over the past two years. Pent up
demand should be immense but
it is not triggering a rapid
pickup in economic activity.
Ninety (90) percent of the
decline this month resulted from
deterioration in the outlook for
business conditions in the next
six months. Owners have no
confidence that economic
policies will “fix” the economy.
LABOR MARKETS
Ten (10) percent (seasonally
adjusted) reported unfilled job
openings, up one point from
June but historically very weak.
Over the next three months, nine
percent plan to increase
employment (down one point),
and 10 percent plan to reduce
their workforce (up two points),
yielding a seasonally adjusted
net two percent of owners
planning to create new jobs, up
one point from June and positive
for the third time in 22 months.
CAPITAL SPENDING
The frequency of reported
capital outlays over the past six
months fell one point to 45
percent of all firms, one point
above the 35 year record low
reached most recently in
December 2009. The percent of
owners planning to make capital
expenditures over the next few
months fell one point to 18
percent, two points above the 35
year record low. Five percent
characterized the current period
as a good time to expand
facilities, down one point. But a
net negative 15 percent expect
business conditions to improve
over the next six months, down
nine points from June and 23
points from May.
INVENTORIES AND SALES
The net percent of all owners
(seasonally adjusted) reporting
higher nominal sales in the past
three months lost one point,
falling to a net negative 16
percent, 18 points better than
June 2009 but indicative of very
weak customer activity.
Widespread price cutting
continued to contribute to
reports of lower nominal sales.
The net percent of owners
expecting real sales gained a
point over June, rising to a net
negative four percent of all
owners (seasonally adjusted),
quite dismal.
INFLATION
The weak economy continued
to put downward pressure on
prices. Twelve (12) percent of
the owners (down one point)
reported raising average selling
prices, and 24 percent reported
average price reductions (down
three points). Seasonally
adjusted, the net percent of
owners raising prices was a
negative 12 percent, a two point
increase in the net percent
raising prices. Plans to raise
prices fell one point to a net
seasonally adjusted 10 percent
of owners.
PROFITS AND WAGES
Reports of positive profit trends
worsened by a point in July,
registering a net negative 33
percentage points, 29 points
worse than the best expansion
reading reached in 2005. The
persistence of this imbalance is
bad news for the small business
community. Profits are
important for the support of
capital spending and expansion.
CREDIT MARKETS
Regular borrowing gained three
points from last months record
low to 32 percent accessing
capital markets at least once a
quarter. A net 13 percent
reported loans harder to get than
in their last attempt, unchanged
from June. Overall, 91 percent
of the owners reported all their
credit needs met or they did not
want to borrow, up one point.
Credit may be harder to get
compared to the bubble period
(as it should be) and is always
harder to arrange in a recession.
But credit availability does not
appear to be the cause of slow
growth as many allege.
COMMENTARY
The expiration of the Bush tax
program and the implementation
of the health care bill represent
the two largest tax increases in
modern history. Add to that
serious talk of a VAT and
passing cap and trade. Nothing
here to create optimism about
the future for business owners or
consumers. Top that off with
government borrowing of $1.8
trillion last year and $1.5 trillion
this year and on into the future,
it is no surprise that owners are
fearful and pessimistic.
What’s missing from the
“debate” is logic. Policies
should not violate common
sense and logic, if they do, they
are misleading and disguising a
hidden agenda. Arguing that
more government spending and
taxes are needed to re-establish
optimism, confidence and
growth doesn’t meet the
common sense test. Saving
bankrupt companies to preserve
union jobs doesn’t make sense
either. The list of these “policy
inconsistencies” is long.
Bottom line, owners remain
pessimistic and nothing is
happening in Washington to
provide encouragement.
Confidence is lost. The article
sports numerous charts of trends
of all the individual
components. It's well worth a
look.
I happen to agree with their
commentary that Obama
administration policies are
compounding the already
numerous structural
underpinnings that are
amazingly poor in and of
themselves.
From Fooled by Stimulus -
Structural Problems Still Intact.
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Problems Many, Solutions
Nonexistent
• Tide of Debt: Consumers are
swimming against a tide of debt
with no way to pay it back.
• Demographics: Boomers are
heading into retirement scared
half to death because they did
not save enough.
• Jobs: There is no source of
jobs
• Wages: Global wage arbitrage
• Attitude Changes: a secular
shift in the attitudes of
consumers towards housing
and risk taking is underway.
• The Fed is powerless to
change attitudes.
It is going to be extremely
difficult to counteract all of the
structural problems in place.
Poor policy decisions
compound the problems facing
small business owners. And
unless small business conditions
improve, business hiring plans
are not going anywhere no
matter how much the Fed
wishes, hopes, fires bazookas, or
quantitative eases.
For more on the quantitative
easing debate, please see
• Will Quantitative Easing Spur
Inflation? Job Creation? Credit
Expansion? Do Anything?
• Quantitative Easing Take II;
Uncharted Territory
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Global Economic Trend three years ago.” -prescribed course of money in the pockets of people
Analysis)
“The pace of economic recovery amphetamines (to keep it up), who will spend it, as Democrats
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:11:00 PM is likely to be more modest in antibiotics (to prevent infection) in Congress are wont to say,
Now that it's perfectly obvious the near term than had been and antidepressants (to make it then the $862 billion fiscal
to everyone on the planet that anticipated,” the Federal Open feel better). It endured regular stimulus has been a smashing,
the recovery is not much more Market Committee said in a steroid injections from both but not lasting, success. What
than burnt toast, Economists Cut s t a t e m e n t a f t e r m e e t i n g monetary and fiscal authorities. Now?
U.S. Growth Forecasts yesterday. Revised Estimates And it still has no real muscle. The key question, as always is
A lack of jobs will shackle Still Too Optimistic Inventory accumulation "What Now?"
consumer spending and restrain Why was everyone so accounted for more than half of Geithner, Obama, and Krugman
the U.S. recovery more than optimistic in the first place? gross domestic product growth all want more stimulus to keep
previously estimated, according There was no real reason for it. in the fourth quarter, three- the recovery going. However, as
t o e c o n o m i s t s p o l l e d b y The answer of course is Fooled fourths in the first quarter and a Baum explains, you can't keep
Bloomberg News. by Stimulus. little less than half in the second something going, that was never
Gross domestic product will However, the economists still quarter. going in the first place.
expand at an average 2.55 don't get it. Second half GDP is
percent annual rate in the last likely to be closer to 0% than
The Federal Reserve’s near-
zero percent interest rates and
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(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's
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Analysis)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:51:00 AM
Curve Watchers Anonymous is
paying close attention to the
following snip from the
Bloomberg article Pimco Calls
Fed Rate Policies ‘Good for
Risk Assets’
The central bank said in a
separate statement that it will
announce a purchasing schedule
today and that its buying will be
concentrated “in the two- to 10-
year sector” of the maturity
spectrum, though it will also
buy other maturities as well as
Treasury Inflation Protected
Securities. Clearly no one could
have possibly known that in
advance. Or could they?
On August 6 in Two Year
Treasury Yields Drop Below
.5% First Time Ever; 30Yr/10Yr
Spread Widens Again I
commented...
The following chart shows the
yield curve over time.
click on any chart for sharper
image
The chart depicts weekly
closes. 10-year yields did
slightly exceed 4% in April but
those highs do not show in the
Economy/ 47
above chart. Thus, the decrease am not a fan of conspiracy
in yields is even more dramatic theories. I also want to point out
than shown. once again that the Fed the most
Note the huge rally on 5 and 10 influence in the direction of the
year treasuries as compared to trend, and that the middle of the
the 30-year long bond. It yield curve was begging to be
appears as if someone is putting flattened given the weak
on a long-10 short-30 spread. economy. Besides, hints like
Shortly after the FOMC that simply don't happen, do
meeting but before I saw details they? So whocouldanode?
of what the Fed would be Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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bond continues to widen Bernanke and Jamie Dimon,
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I suspect a major player CEO of JPMorgan, that explains
flattened with the "sweet spot" investment advisor
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this time being the 7-year representative for SitkaPacific
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loss) in response to economic regardless of market direction.
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low, and the 10-year note yield but ... here's a helpful hint:
A couple things stand out on
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the above chart.
well. So much for the idea that yield curve." With that
1. The 5-year treasury yield is
the bull market in treasuries is hypothetical conversation out of
approaching all-time record
over. the way, I do need to point out I
lows and is now back to where it
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Quantitative Nothingness and the Yield Curve's Reaction
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Analysis)
Submitted at 8/10/2010 8:12:00 PM
While most eyes were focused
on the FOMC meeting, I did
something far more enjoyable,
and probably far more sensible
as well. I went golfing.
Upon return I see a new but
meaningless twist in Bernanke's
statements in the latest FOMC
Press Release.
Information received since the
Federal Open Market
Committee met in June indicates
that the pace of recovery in
output and employment has
slowed in recent months.
Household spending is
increasing gradually, but
remains constrained by high
unemployment, modest income
growth, lower housing wealth,
and tight credit. Business
spending on equipment and
software is rising; however,
investment in nonresidential
structures continues to be weak
and employers remain reluctant
to add to payrolls. Housing
starts remain at a depressed
level. Bank lending has
continued to contract.
Nonetheless, the Committee
anticipates a gradual return to
higher levels of resource
utilization in a context of price
stability, although the pace of
economic recovery is likely to
be more modest in the near term
than had been anticipated.
To help support the economic
recovery in a context of price
stability, the Committee will
keep constant the Federal
Reserve's holdings of securities
at their current level by
reinvesting principal payments
from agency debt and agency
mortgage-backed securities in
longer-term Treasury
securities.1 The Committee will
continue to roll over the Federal
Reserve's holdings of Treasury
securities as they mature.
Quantitative Nothingness vs.
Quantitative Easing
Bernanke's pledge to hold the
Fed's balance sheet constant is
certainly a new twist. However,
given that quantitative easing
will not do a damn thing as
discussed in Quantitative Easing
Take II; Uncharted Territory it
is silly to think that Quantitative
Nothingness will do anything.
When the equity market will
figure this out remains a
mystery, but the treasury market
seems to have figured it out
already.
10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 16
-Month Low
If the Fed's action was
supposed to help the economy
grow, long-term yields actually
should have bounced. Instead,
they reached a new low for the
move.
While some will scream
manipulation, and clearly it is,
the key point to remember is the
Fed cannot change the trend.
Quantitative Nothingness aside
(Quantitative Constancy if you
prefer) treasuries were poised to
rally in the face of extended
economic weakness, and they
did just that.
Yield Curve as of 2010-08-10
7-year Sweet Spot
Once again the yield curve
flattened with the "sweet spot"
this time being the 7-year
treasury. The 30-year long bond
barely budged.
Normally, the further out one
goes the bigger the rally (or
loss) in response to economic
news. It will be interesting to
see if the 30-year long-bond can
catch up.
Yield Curve May 2008-Present
click on chart for sharper image
A couple things stand out on
the above chart.
1. The 5-year treasury yield is
approaching all-time record
lows and is now back to where it
was in January of 2009.
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2. The spread between 10-year
treasuries and the 30-year long
bond continues to widen
I suspect a major player
continues to put on a long-10
short-30 trade. I can easily be
wrong on that. The question is
"where does the spread go from
here?"
A continued bullish flattening
of the curve, with the long-bond
playing catch-up is certainly not
out of the question.
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h t t p : / /
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CHART OF THE DAY: Markets Lose Faith In Ben

Bernanke's Deflation-Fighting Skills
Vincent Fernando, CFA and chart below is also a barometer success or failure of Ben
Kamelia Angelova (Money of the market's confidence in Bernanke's latest move. If
Game) Mr. Bernanke's deflation- inflation expectations keep
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:46:00 PM fighting credentials. falling in the months ahead, his
The chart below shows the While there's been some gambit failed. If they rise, say
market's inflation expectations volatility, since the end of April back to 2%, then he'll have
for the next five years. It is the we can see that Bernanke's succeeded. Today wasn't off to a
'5-Year TIPS Spread', which is deflation-fighting credentials good start, given that inflation
the difference between the yield have deteriorated. Inflation expectations fell, but it will take
on a 5-year U.S. government expectations have fallen from a few months to make a fair
bond and that of a 5-year 2% in late April to 1.5% now, as assessment.
signaled that he will keep easy- reverse the decline in inflation
i n f l a t i o n - p r o t e c t e d U . S . shown below. Join the conversation about this
money policy tools on the table expectations shown below.
government bond. This helps explain the story »
in order to fight potential Thus this chart, the TIPS
Yet given that Ben Bernanke is p s y c h o l o g y b e h i n d B e n
deflation, in an attempt to Spread, is where we'll see the
battling to prevent deflation, the Bernanke's latest move. He has

German Debt To Skyrocket As EU Adds Bailed

Out Banks To Its Balance Sheet
Gregory White (Money Game) beginning, with the UK and its
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:21:09 PM bailed out RBS soon to follow,
not to mention Spain and its caja
Germany is about to endure a situation.
significantly large addition to its Now, if these countries all have
balance sheet as the EU is now
Tired Of The Dismal US
to admit to having more debt on
forcing the state to bring bailed balance sheet than markets Market? Here's A Primer
out banks onto its books, previously realized, their On Investing In
according to WSJ.com( via Zero sovereign debt could come Emerging Markets
Hedge). under increasing threat from
What has changed is that speculators. That is if markets Betty Jin (Money Game)
Eurostat, the division of the EU did not already assume such Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:10:55 PM

in charge of how European government bailed out or

states compile statistics, is
forcing Germany to bring its bad
banks, the remnants of bailed
out banks, on balance sheet.
The addition of Hypo Real
Estate, the bailed out, stress test
failing bank, to Germany's
balance sheet could make the
90% debt to GDP ratio a reality.
The WSJ.com reminds, that this
would be well above the 60%
requirements of the Masstricht
Treaty.
As Zero Hedge points out, this
is huge. It is akin to making the
U.S. bring Frannie and Freddie
on balance sheet.
And Germany may just be the
sponsored entities were already
on balance sheet. Check out
Niall Ferguson's complete guide
to sovereign debt >
Join the conversation about this
story »
Right now, U.S. equity
investors are wondering if
they'll ever see growth in their
portfolios again as a "lost
decade" looms for American
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growth.
But there is an alternative in
countries like Turkey, China,
Brazil, South Korea, India, and
Mexico. The MSCI Emerging
Markets index climbed 73% in
2009 (versus a moderate 25%
increase in the S&P 500 index).
And while flashbacks of the
1994 Mexico crisis, or the 1998
Russia meltdown, or the 1997
Asian Financial Crisis, or the
2001 Argentina debt crisis may
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Emerging Markets as a poor
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Back in the saddle again
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:52:37 AM
After two days off biking due to
a Boston trip, I'm riding again.
Today's trip was quite a bit
shorter than the last one. Not
sure why, but my energy is a bit
lower and my legs hurt more.
Rather than push too hard, I
took a couple of breaks during
this ride, and only got as far as
70th St. A total round trip of 7.9
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miles. 55 minutes.
I turned around at the south end
of Riverside Park, where there's
this great long pier with views
north and south.
As I passed 46th St, I took a
picture of the bike with the USS
Intrepid.

Will space tourism ever be a reality?

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) Branson's Virgin Group are Continents, oceans and storm support systems. Such are the increasingly real, government
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:00:00 PM betting big bucks that the systems will stretch silently costs of overcoming the planet's agencies will undoubtedly take
answer is "yes." In fact, for a below while the void of space gravity and bedding down in an an increased interest in
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buy you happiness, it can $200,000 ticket, you can go If $200,000 still sounds like a Still, companies such as Space tourism is already a
certainly buy you a ticket to the ahead and reserve a seat aboard hefty price tag, that's because Canada's Space Island Group reality and has been since 2001.
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Soleil owner Guy Laliberté, who the next few years. a pound of payload into orbit space tourists. For that goal to orbit, but the tickets are already
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more rounds you play, the more cloudberry, a fruit that contains simply Lumene. and other documents or
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continued from page 53
as attorney general by seeking to
have state investigators probe
the company involved in the
lawsuit, Solantic Urgent Care,
and stated flatly that he would
not release his deposition.
Cutting off reporters repeatedly
they asked about the deposition,
Scott snapped: “You can ask the
question 100 times and get the
same answer. It’s a private
matter.”
The new scandal could prove
especially damaging to the Scott
campaign in light of lingering
questions about his role in an
earlier Medicare fraud case.
In 1997, Scott was forced to
resign as CEO of Columbia/
HCA, the nation’s largest
hospital chain, while it was
being investigated for massive
Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
The FBI launched a multi-state
probe that led to the firm’s
pleading guilty to criminal
charges of overbilling the
government.
It remains the largest Medicare
fraud case in U.S. history and
ended with Columbia/HCA
paying a record $1.7 billion in
fines, penalties and damages.
Scott, who walked away from
the company with $310 million,
has stated in TV commercials
for his campaign that he
accepted responsibility for what
occurred at Columbia/HCA and
said he had learned “hard
lessons” from the case.
“I’ve made mistakes in my life.
And mistakes were certainly
made at Columbia/HCA,” he
stated on his campaign website.
“I was the CEO of the company
and as CEO I accept
responsibility for what happened
on my watch. I learned very
hard lessons from what
happened and those lessons
have helped me become a better
businessman and leader.”
But Scott’s new company,
Solantic, has been faced with a
wave of recent lawsuits alleging
a similar pattern of fraud.
Solantic, a chain of about 30
walk-in Florida clinics he co-
founded after leaving Columbia/
HCA, ironically, faces an
allegation of billing
irregularities involving
Medicare.
Two physicians, both former
employees of Solantic, claim
that the company repeatedly
used their names and medical
license information without their
permission in order to keep the
clinics operating legally,
according to an investigation by
The Florida Independent.
Dr. P. Mark Glencross began
working as Solantic’s chief
medical officer in 2003, and
states in his lawsuit — the suit
that led to Scott’s videotaped
deposition — that he left in
2004 after he discovered
incidents of “unauthorized
misappropriation.”
He filed a suit in 2008 alleging
that the company “secretly”
named him medical director of
six clinics to comply with state
regulations requiring that each
clinic designate a medical
director who would accept legal
responsibility at the site.
Solantic settled the suit with
Glencross in May.
The second physician, Dr.
Randy Prokes, worked at
Solantic from 2004 to
November 2009, treating
patients at one of the chain’s
clinics. He claims his name
appeared on billing forms and
medical records at clinics he
never visited, with patients he
never met.
Prokes called that “a really
unethical practice.”
He told The Florida
Independent he also discovered
documents showing that
Medicare was being improperly
billed when a nurse practitioner
was working alone at a clinic.
If a nurse practitioner treats
patients when there is no doctor
on the premises, Medicare in
almost all cases will pay only 85
percent of the scheduled fee for
the visits. Prokes said records
showed that Medicare was being
charged 100 percent for the
visits.
A former Solantic manager said
the Medicare “discrepancies”
would amount to tens of
thousands of dollars a month.
Solantic fired Prokes on Nov.
23, 2009, shortly after he began
questioning company practices,
according to a nurse at Solantic.
The company asserts that he was
terminated for other reasons.
Prokes has settled his suit with
Solantic, Independent reported.
Several former Solantic
employees said that Scott was a
hands-on owner who talked
often with management and
approved all major policy
decisions.
At Scott’s news conference in
the state capital Tuesday, a
process server approached him
at the podium, before he could
begin addressing the media, and
gave him a subpoena in a
lawsuit filed by Tallahassee trial
lawyer Steve Andrews, the
Miami Herald reported.
Andrews is requesting the
release of the videotaped
deposition Scott gave in the
Glencross case in August 2009,
just six days before he
announced his candidacy for
governor.
Andrews is a contributor to the
McCollum campaign, but he
also has contributed to
Democrat Alex Sink, who also
is running for governor, and
says he was motivated because
“I routinely sue hospitals and
medical facilities and I believe
this sort of information should
be public.”
Andrews also said: “This guy
Scott is the corporate spawn of
Satan.”
Also on Tuesday, 10
Republican lawmakers in
Florida — nine members of the
state House and one state
senator — sent a letter to Scott
stating: “Recently, it has come
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to our attention that just six days
before you announced your
candidacy for governor, you
were deposed over allegations
amounting to criminal and
fraudulent activity at Solantic, a
company you founded and
operate. Instead of being
forthcoming about your role in
the case, it appears you worked
behind the scenes to prevent this
deposition from reaching the
public view.
“As state legislators with an
interest in building on our
party’s success over the past 12
years, we are concerned your
refusal to be upfront with the
public in this case could
severely jeopardize your
chances of becoming governor
should you win the Republican
gubernatorial primary.
“We ask that you release your
deposition and all documents
related to and concerning
lawsuits against Solantic in
order to provide the
transparency the public wants
and deserves.
“If you remain unwilling to
release these materials and
answer questions on these
issues, we believe you should
immediately withdraw from the
race for the good of our party
and the conservative cause in
Florida.”
The McCollum campaign
issued a statement following
Scott’s news conference: “If the
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Pollster Zogby: Time 'Running Out' for Democrats

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) approval numbers to the poor "Do they have confidence the been too moderate in his • He says long-term GOP
Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:50:06 AM economy. But he says there is Democrats can get us out of our reforms. So Obama's policies do prospects for attracting Hispanic
also a growing sense among economic doldrums?" Zogby not "seem to have really pleased voters aren't bright. "When
By: David A. Patten voters that "the country isn't asks. "No. But they trust anyone," he says. Republicans push on illegal
Pollster John Zogby warns time m o v i n g f o r w a r d , t h a t i t ' s Republicans to get us out of our • Democratic Sen. Barbara immigrants, that is defined by
is "running out" for Democrats heading in the wrong direction." economic doldrums even less. Boxer is in "a danger zone" in Hispanic voters as anti-
to escape the beating that most Unemployment, for example, "So this is not good news for her California's Senate immigrant and therefore anti-
political analysts expect them to remains at 9.5 percent despite pretty much everyone. And showdown against GOP Hispanic."
receive in the looming midterm over $1 trillion of stimulus that's what makes this election challenger Carly Fiorina. Boxer • Republicans must be wary
elections. spending. very, very interesting… is winning about 45 percent of that their alliance with grass-
In an exclusive Newsmax.TV "I think these three letters: R-O- Republicans would win big the vote in recent polls. But roots conservatives doesn't
interview, Zogby cited his firm's I," Zogby tells Newsmax. today, but the deal has not been Zogby points out that Fiorina is alienate moderates. "The Tea
r e c e n t s u r v e y s h o w i n g "Voters are saying, 'OK, where's closed yet." a well known figure in Party appears to be strident,
Republicans holding a 46 to 38 the return on investment?' We're Taking a closer look at non- California as well, and she is there's a lot of anger out there,"
percent lead when voters are starting to hear trillions more affiliated voters explains why only getting about 41 percent of says Zogby. "And if Republican
asked which party's candidates a n d m o r e a s a u n i t o f the president "is doing very the projected vote. "Generally candidates tilt too far towards
they are more likely to support measurement. But trillions have poorly with independents," the challenger does win in a the tea party, the shrillness of
in November. been spent, and is it all coming Zogby says. circumstance like that, but some of what the tea party is
And a whopping 60 percent of back? And I think certainly the "Fifty percent of independents Fiorina is going to have to do calling for -- for example, repeal
voters now say the nation is on sense today is either 'No, or we are moderate," says the author some heavy campaigning," of the 14th Amendment. It may
the wrong track, according to haven't seen enough or heard and pollster. "Obama does well Zogby says. "She has that mixed sound good to the base, but it's
that Zogby International poll. enough to suggest that it is.'" with them. But of the remaining blessing of having gotten some the sort of thing that really
Story continues below. One of the great ironies of the [voters], 3-to-1 they break for tea party support in that effort to worries the moderate elements
Zogby says that if the election Obama administration, Zogby conservatives. They don't want defeat Barbara Boxer. California that are really looking for
were held today, Republicans says, are the major pieces of to call themselves Republicans is not a tea party state." problem solving, not problem
could re-take control of the l e g i s l a t i o n h e ' s s q u e e z e d because they were alienated by • Obama could face an creating."
House of Representatives. But through Congress. Zogby says the Bush years and by insurgent opponent from his • Growing public opposition to
h e c a u t i o n s t h a t t h a t they "will make the history Republican spending. party's left in 2012, but Obama the war in Afghanistan
Republicans still need to "close books," but could hurt Obama They're not necessarily a base still has time to turn things represents "a real conundrum"
the deal" in the months ahead to with swing voters because "it for the president or for around. "And let's put things in for President Obama, who
complete a successful political has also really consolidated the Democrats. The issue there is context: Ronald Reagan's campaigned on the idea that
comeback. opposition to President Obama." are those independents going to numbers in 1982 were even Afghanistan was the "good
"What this most recent poll And it was those centrist voters vote Republican? Are lower than Barack Obama's are war." The issue could determine
shows is not only an 8-point who helped elect President Republicans going to be able to today. So in that sense two years which party wins the White
[GOP] lead in what we call the Obama in 2008, Zogby says: close the deal?" … is a long ways away," he House in 2012, he says: "We're
congressional generic, but "He's got to worry about having Other key points that Zogby adds. seeing the death count of
Republicans moving up to 46, lost that center with a big made in Monday's exclusive • If Hispanic turnout is low in Americans going up, no real
Democrats slipping down to 38. question mark: Has it all been Newsmax.TV interview: the midterms it "could be very sense of progress taking place
That's an ominous number for worth it?" very devastating to Democrats' on the ground. This, in addition
Democrats, and time is running The problem for Republicans is • Conservatives aren't the only chances," he says. He adds that's to the economy, could be the top
out," the pollster tells Newsmax. that polls show voters don't trust o n e s u n h a p p y w i t h t h e one reason the administration issue."
Zogby primarily attributes them to properly manage the president's job performance. decided to challenge Arizona's POLLSTER page 57
President Obama's weak job- economy either, Zogby says. Liberals are complaining he has controversial immigration law."
56 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Summer Reading
Ruth Franklin (The New the complicated brain with walking or talking, the are too adult for him: instead, valuable as anything he might
Republic - All Feed) development necessary for a milestones usually thought of as when confronted with a poster learn from the books he chooses
Submitted at 8/10/2010 11:00:00 PM person to read). More than the most significant. Like them, for the movie Dinner for about fossils, or Star Wars, or
learning to read, my son had it offers a new kind of Schmucks, I find myself having Tintin. He is learning about his
This summer my son learned to become a reader: discovering independence. The child who to explain what a schmuck is, own interests, his own drives,
read. Like all the childhood the old favorites ( Tintin in takes a first step no longer has to and why it’s not a nice word to the person he wants to be.
milestones, it seemed to happen Tibet, or The Trumpet of the rely on others to carry him use about someone, and then When my son was a toddler,
all at once. One day he was Swan) that I had left on his wherever he wants to go: (naturally) why one would want one of his favorite storybooks
wobbling on his seat, teetering shelves for the day when he independent motion allows him to have a dinner party for them. was “The Runaway Bunny,” a
back and forth, liable to fall on would be ready for them, asking to uniquely assert his own will. These are not particularly fable about a baby rabbit who
his face at any moment; the next the librarian for the Star Wars The child who can speak can enlightening examples: it’s repeatedly tries to hide from his
he could sit up. One day he books he desired, even trying to convey her needs directly and perhaps just as well for a movie mother, only to have her tell him
could cruise around the room read and walk down the street at coherently, without relying on like Dinner for Schmucks to that she will find him no matter
o n l y b y h o l d i n g o n t o t h e the same time. (After a few an adult to decipher her gestures remain on the outside of a six- where he goes. “I will be a bird
furniture; the next he was taking fruitless attempts to break him and cries. And the child who can year-old’s filter. But they are a and fly away from you,” the
a single independent step, and of this habit, I gave up and let read is able to remove the filter necessary price for the little bunny says. “I will be a
then another, and then another. him crash into a pole.) I was that exists between himself and inestimable gains that the filter’s tree that you come home to,” his
And even though it happened at thrilled, of course; truth be told, the outside world, and engage removal yields. More than mother replies. “I will become a
the end of a year of school in I had expected this day to come with that world directly, without anything else, what reading little sailboat, and I will sail
which my son, like the majority a bit sooner, and I had been having to ask another person to offers to a child is the ability to away from you,” he says. “I will
o f o t h e r A m e r i c a n looking forward to a time when interpret its mysterious signs pursue his own intellectual become the wind, and blow you
kindergarteners, was engaged my son—always, shall we say, a and symbols. Now he can see interests, without relying on where I want you to go,” she
for hours each day in explicit somewhat high-maintenance when the right subway stop another person as guide. When replies. Child psychologists say
reading instruction, when the child—might have access to a arrives, or read the flavors of ice my son depended on me to read this book is comforting: read at
milestone finally arrived it felt b o t t o m l e s s s o u r c e o f cream, or decipher the to him, I controlled the material. an age when many children
more like the sudden flick of a entertainment that was not instructions to a toy. I thought of myself as a experience separation anxiety, it
switch than the end of an dependent on my own finite The disadvantages of this new benevolent dictator, of course, consoles them with the idea that
arduous process. One day he attentions. Of course, more than development were obvious inflicting a diet of children’s their mother will always be
was protesting when I asked him simply getting him out of my immediately. First, my son was classics—E.B. White, Lewis there, even when she seems to
to “help” me read some simple hair (really!), I wanted him to no longer susceptible to the Carroll, Hans Christian be absent. But I have to admit
text, the effort visible in his learn the pleasures of reading, kinds of white lies that parents Andersen—in an attempt to that I always found it mildly
face. And the next—or so it an activity that has brought me tend to resort to as shorthand teach cultural literacy and good sinister. Shouldn’t the mother
seemed—he was curled up on more, and more reliable, joy when they don’t have the energy taste. But the books I chose bunny allow her child a little
the couch with a library book, than any other. As a character in to explain their reasons: No, were an obvious effort to mold more space, a little more
m u r m u r i n g t h e w o r d s t o a novel by Imre Kertész says, in they don’t have the kind of ice my son into the kind of reader I autonomy? And so I would
h i m s e l f , s o d e e p i n one of my favorite lines about cream you want a half hour wanted him to be, which is also silently edit the text to make the
concentration that it required reading, it is “a narcotic which before dinner; the egregious to say the kind of person I mother bunny more comforting,
several shoutings of his name pleasantly blurs the merciless movie you have become wanted him to be. This is a less controlling: I would change
before he would bestir himself outlines of the life that holds inexplicably obsessed with isn’t mother’s natural impulse, but the line to “I will become the
to come to dinner. sway over us.” playing anywhere around here. such control can’t continue wind, and blow you wherever
What happened wasn’t just the Reading, it seems to me, ought Nor can I shield him from forever. Reading independently you want to go.”
acquisition of a skill (although a t o b e c o n s i d e r e d a language that I don’t want him allows a child to mold himself, SUMMER page 58
phrase like that badly simplifies developmental step on a par to use or concepts that I think which in the end is a skill just as
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McCollum: Florida Law Will Go Further Than continued from page 55

• Arab approval of the United

Arizona's States, which improved in the
months following President
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) of another law. This goes c o n t r o v e r s i a l p r o v i s i o n s , It allows judges to consider O b a m a ' s e l e c t i o n , h a s
Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:35:18 AM beyond the existing situation in handing a victory to the Obama immigration status while setting plummeted. "Almost all of that
the state where officers are administration, which argued bond and sentencing. It foresees progress is gone and we've
Wednesday, 11 Aug 2010 allowed to check immigration t h a t t h e m e a s u r e w a s enhanced penalties against r e v e r t e d b a c k t o t h e l o w
01:35 PM status, but not required to. unconstitutional. illegal aliens who commit numbers that we had seen
ORLANDO, Florida -- Florida Florida, especially its southern According to McCollum's further crimes in Florida, following the launching of the
A t t o r n e y G e n e r a l B i l l p o r t i o n , i s a m a j o r U . S . office, his proposed legislation In addition, the bill requires war on Iraq," Zogby says.
M c C o l l u m o n W e d n e s d a y m i g r a t i o n d e s t i n a t i o n f o r offers more teeth than the Florida businesses to check on • A Republican "we don't
proposed tougher curbs against nationals from the Caribbean Arizona law by giving judges immigration status of workers. know" would probably have the
illegal migrants in his melting- and Latin America, making it a and law enforcement officers Some Hispanic associations and best chance against President
pot state that he said would go cultural and racial melting pot. more tools in dealing with migrant groups in Florida have Obama in 2012, he says, rather
"one step further" than a similar Many migrants work in the illegal immigrants, from bond condemned the Arizona law and than current frontrunners Mitt
contested Arizona law. Sunshine State's $9 billion citrus rulings through to sentencing. w a r n e d o f d a m a g i n g Romney, Sarah Palin, Mike
The proposal by McCollum, s e c t o r , o r i n o t h e r f a r m His office said the Florida c o n s e q u e n c e s i f s i m i l a r Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich.
who is embroiled in a race with i n d u s t r i e s a n d t o u r i s m . proposal also is strengthened measures are introduced here. He believes a successful GOP
businessman Rick Scott to In the U.S. Senate and House, against "potential constitutional O b a m a a n d h i s f e l l o w governor such as Gov. Mitch
b e c o m e t h e R e p u b l i c a n Democrats hold majorities. But challenges." It addresses the D e m o c r a t s back a Daniels of Indiana, Gov. Chris
candidate for governor, is public opinion polls show objections the federal judge c o m p r e h e n s i v e r e f o r m o f Christie of New Jersey, or Gov.
certain to thrust Florida into the Republicans gaining ground raised in the Arizona case by immigration policy to tighten Haley Barbour of Mississippi is
heated immigration debate that with an agenda that includes clarifying better the "reasonable border security, but also to more likely to emerge as the
is a major issue in the run-up to calls for cracking down on suspicion" circumstances in allow the 11 million illegal greatest threat to Obama.
t h e N o v . 2 m i d t e r m illegal immigration. which officers should check immigrants working in the • He predicts Sarah Palin will
c o n g r e s s i o n a l e l e c t i o n s . McCollum's office said the immigration status. United States to get onto a path d o w e l l i n c o n s e r v a t i v e
"This legislation will provide proposed Florida legislation The Arizona law sparked fierce to citizenship. primaries, but questions her
new enforcement tools for goes "one step further" than a p r o t e s t s f r o m i m m i g r a n t © 2010 Reuters. All rights ultimate viability. "Does she get
protecting our citizens and will similar law introduced in supporters and civil rights reserved. Republication or nominated? It's hard for me to
help our state fight the ongoing Arizona, which has triggered groups, who said it encouraged r e d i s t r i b u t i o n o f R e u t e r s see that scenario," Zogby says.
problem created by illegal protests and a constitutional racial discrimination against content, including by caching,
immigration," McCollum said, challenge from President Barack foreign immigrants. framing or similar means, is © N e w s m a x . A l l r i g h t s
p r e s e n t i n g t h e p r o p o s e d Obama's administration. Anticipating this criticism, expressly prohibited without the r e s e r v e d .
measures at an event in Orlando. "I think Arizona is going to McCollum's office said his prior written consent of Reuters. Five Filters featured
"Florida will not be a sanctuary want this law," McCollum said. proposal for Florida "will not F i v e F i l t e r s f e a t u r e d article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
state for illegal aliens," said The Arizona Legislature passed allow for racial profiling." article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e
McCollum, accompanied by a law this year to try to drive The proposed legislation's a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e Independent. Available tools:
Rep. Will Snyder. illegal immigrants out of the provisions require that aliens Independent. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
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officials to check a suspected the border from Mexico. possible misdemeanor penalty
illegal immigrant's status in the A federal judge has since of up to 20 days in jail for the
course of a stop, or a violation blocked the Arizona law's most first offense.
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Unmasking ACORN: Former Leaders Reorganize

with New Groups
Tina Korbe (The Foundry: Keene said the people who were turned out, MonCrief said, half Keene and MonCrief said they
Conservative Policy News.) a part of ACORN and who used of those were either duplicate or hope the site will serve as a
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:00:40 AM that organization to mobilize on fraudulent registrations. Since clearinghouse for information
behalf of their favorite 2000, the organization has about any irregular and illegal
Posted August 11th, 2010 at politicians “aren’t going away, registered 6 million voters – the elections activity. That includes
12:00pm in Ongoing Priorities haven’t gone away, and can’t margin of victory for President any actions intended to What's On Tonight: 'So
Print This Post really be expected to go away.” Obama. All of those intimidate or keep eligible You Think You Can
ACORN might have disbanded, To track and expose former registrations were to support the voters from casting their ballots.
but the risk of vote fraud in the ACORN leaders and the various Democratic Party. Keene and MonCrief are
Dance,' 'LA Ink,' 'Hot in
November 2010 elections is still reincarnations of ACORN, Today, former ACORN realistic. They know a perfectly Cleveland'
real. Keene and the ACU recently activists work for organizations fair election is unlikely. But Rich Keller (TV Squad)
“Desperate men and women will launched the ACU ACORN with different names – for they said citizens have to at least
Submitted at 8/11/2010 7:30:00 AM
do desperate things to maintain Action Center. example, “Communities Voting try.
power when the public threatens Anita MonCrief, a former Together” or “America Votes” – “We can’t stop all of it, but we Filed under: TV Previews
to take that power away from ACORN employee who blew but they’re still not above cheap can stop a lot of it,” Keene said. Here's tonight's lineup of new
them,” said David Keene, the whistle on illegal activity tricks, MonCrief said. “And if we stop a lot of it, we shows and events (all times
chairman of the American within the organization, has “If we’re going to stop them, it’s can keep them from stealing the Eastern). Check your local TV
Conservative Union. “That joined ACU on the project. Like going to take a massive effort,” November elections – and that listings for additional
means that, more so than in Keene, MonCrief thinks it’s she said. would be a real-world information.
other years, [some candidates] “business as usual for ACORN.” That’s why the ACU ACORN accomplishment for us and for * = Series/Season Premiere
are going to be relying on “The voter registration arm of Action Center site features the country.” ** = Series/Season Finale
whatever kind of assistance they ACORN – Project Vote – is not photos and descriptions of Five Filters featured The reality-competition shows
can get from whatever quarter going anywhere,” she said. “It former ACORN leaders, videos, article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets are starting to wind down.
that assistance might come.” will still be doing the same an in-depth fact sheet and the an Easy Ride in the Tonight, the final dancers
That assistance will come from things it’s been doing since its Action Desk contact information Independent. Available tools: perform on 'So You Think You
ACORN-like groups, Keene inception in 1982.” so site visitors can deliver PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Can Dance.'
e x p l a i n e d a t y e s t e r d a y ’ s In 2007, ACORN registered 1.4 reports of suspicious activity to Term Extraction. 8:00 to 9:00
Bloggers Briefing at Heritage. million people to vote. As it ACU. CBS:'Big Brother'
SUMMER FOX:'So You Think You Can
continued from page 56 Dance'-- Two hours
I realize now, of course, that two-year-old, but not for an child’s mind as a lump of clay Twitter. NBC:'Minute to Win It'
my efforts to downplay the older child. Encouraging my son waiting for me to form. Reading The rest of the schedule and the
mother bunny’s control were my to read on his own involves, for on his own, he becomes his own late night talk shows after the
own expression of maternal me, a kind of letting go: of the wind. And maybe I, one day, jump.
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Can You Call it ‘Social Security’ if it’s Built on

Nothing but Monopoly Money?
Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: to borrow money to pay me,
Conservative Policy News.) regardless of how big the trust
fund is.
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:00:07 PM
Instead of holding onto seniors’ New START:
Posted August 11th, 2010 at
1:00pm in Entitlements Print
savings to pay for later benefits,
the trust fund consists of little
Increasing the Risk
This Post more than IOUs. Last year, the of Nuclear War
Social Security faces the trustees included this in their Baker Spring (The Foundry:
serious danger of failing to live report: Conservative Policy News.)
up to its name due to its Neither the redemption of trust
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:00:16 AM
unfunded obligations. Last fund bonds, nor interest paid on
week, the Social Security and those bonds, provides any new According to the translation of
Medicare trustees issued their net income to the Treasury, an article appearing in the
report on the fiscal outlook for which must finance redemptions Russian newspaper Suvorovskiy
the program. We reported that: and interest payments through Natisk on July 17, the Vostok
Social Security has a $7.9 some combination of increased 2010 Russian military exercise
trillion shortfall (up $0.1 trillion taxation, reductions in other concluded with a simulated a
from last year), which means the 2037, the trust fund will run dry. Writing for The Washington g o v e r n m e n t s p e n d i n g , o r low-yield nuclear strike. This
program would require $7.9 That means that while there is Post, Allan Sloan refers to the additional borrowing from the simulated strike is consistent
trillion in cash—today!—to enough money to pay current trust fund as “one of the world’s public. with the Russian policy of
a f f o r d i t s p r o m i s e s . retirees full benefits, younger biggest piles of funny money.” Sloan puts this in layman’s considering the use of non-
Alternatively, closing that gap workers face an uncertain Writes Sloan: terms: “The trust fund is of no strategic (tactical) nuclear
would require payroll taxes to future. Let’s say I begin taking Social economic value.” weapons in regional conflicts
r i s e i m m e d i a t e l y a n d But Heritage expert David John Security when I hit the full There’s no time to kill to solve where up to that point only
permanently from 12.4 percent explains that by 2015, “Social retirement age of 66 later this Social Security’s impending conventional weapons would be
of earnings to 14.24 percent. For Security will require large and year. Because its tax revenue is shortfall. For younger workers, used.
a worker earning $50,000, that’s growing amounts of general below its expenses, Social the program must be fixed now As the United States Senate is
a $920 tax increase. revenue money in order to pay Security would have to cash in in order to put the “security” in the midst of considering the
This year, Social Security ran all of its promised benefits. about $3,400 of its trust-fund back in Social Security. New Strategic Arms Reduction
its first deficits since 1983. Even though this money will Treasurys each month to get the Five Filters featured Treaty (New START) arms
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rebound back into the black for in the special issue bonds in the The Treasury, in turn, would a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e the Senate should understand
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the program will dive into the b o r r o w i n g . ” line is that the government has Russian leadership. According
red permanently in 2015. By to unclassified sources, the
Russians have a many-fold
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Home Depot Does What FEMA Dreams About
Matt Mayer (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:10:37 AM
Posted August 11th, 2010 at
10:10am in Protect America
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The fifth anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina, and all its
attendant devastation, is a good
reminder that the federalization
of natural disasters by the
Federal Emergency
Management Agency continues
uninterrupted. From January 20,
2010 to today, FEMA has issued
78 declarations, including for
Hurricane Alex—a storm that
never actually hit Texas (a little
rain doesn’t count).
That figure puts FEMA on pace
to issue 141 declarations by
January 19, 2011, which would
be the fifth most in FEMA
history. With the 108
declarations issued in his first
year, President Barack Obama
would possess a two-year
average of 124.5, which is just
short of the record average of
129.5 set by George W. Bush
over his eight years. Unlike
during President Bush’s
Administration, we have not had
a single hurricane hit the United
States and only one relatively
minor earthquake, so the trend
of defining disasters down also
continues uninterrupted.
This federalization comes at a
steep price as states and
localities de-fund emergency
management and move the
funds to more critical needs that
aren’t being subsidized federally
(yes, there are still a few things
left) and as FEMA spends
valuable resources on the
routine natural disasters that
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disaster relief areas. In stark
contrast, the private sector has
what FEMA only dreams about.
Specifically, Home Depot has a
system that allows it to do
everything FEMA wants to
do—and far more rapidly.
FEMA probably has the best
administrator it has ever had in
Craig Fugate. Fugate, who hails
from the hurricane bulls-eye
known as Florida, knows better
than anyone the importance of a
vibrant state and local
emergency management
capability. Why can’t he make
any headway in fixing what has
strike America with predictable
been busted for two decades?
regularity (floods, fires, storms,
He is likely trying, but, as James
etc.) With the predictions of a
Lee Witt famously commented,
hurricane season as active as
natural disasters are “inherently
2005 when Hurricane Katrina
political events.” Politics always
hit, FEMA needs to be ready for
trumps common sense.
the truly catastrophic event. It
Thank goodness there is always
isn’t.
the private sector….
After years of talk and millions
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advantage in tactical nuclear
weapons over the U.S. The
Russian government wants to
use this advantage to intimidate
its neighbors in Eastern Europe,
including those that are NATO
allies of the U.S. Specifically,
Moscow sees this as forcing the
U.S. to recognize Russia’s
exclusive sphere of influence in
this region and to weaken its
security commitments to its
allies.
The problem for the U.S. is that
the Russian position seeks to
undermine the U.S. policy of
extended deterrence in the
European theater. This is where
Senate consideration of New
START comes into play. The
Russian position can succeed
only if Russia can maintain
parity with the U.S. in the area
of strategic nuclear arms and
curtail the U.S. missile defense
program. New START codifies
both of these outcomes in favor
of Russia. Regarding offensive
One Tree Hill Exclusive: Clay Makes a Friend in the Hospital
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:45:00 AM
Edwin Hodge
Looks like One Tree Hill's Clay
may make a new friend in the
aftermath of his shooting.
Edwin Hodge has been cast in
an early Season 8 episode as a
character who is seriously
injured in a car accident while
strategic nuclear weapons, New
START will reduce the U.S.
force down to levels that are
consistent with Russian
capacity. Regarding missile
defense, Russia was successful
in getting language in the
preamble of New START that
commits the U.S. government
not to develop or deploy missile
defense capabilities that Russia
finds objectionable. The Russian
government, in order to
strengthen the commitment
regarding missile defense, has
issued a unilateral statement that
informs the U.S. that it will
withdraw from New START if
the U.S. does not limit its
missile defense program in
accordance with Russia’s views.
The Obama Administration, for
its part, has told the Russians
that it has no intention of
pursuing missile defense
capabilities that Russia will find
objectionable.
As a result, New START serves
texting, a show rep tells
TVGuide.com. The character
will cross paths will Clay (
Robert Buckley), who remains
in the hospital following his
shooting in the Season 7 finale.
One Tree Hill's Robert
Buckley: "Clay's had a really
rough year"
Hodge, 25, recently appeared
alongside his brother, Aldis of Leverage. He previously
Hodge, in the Season 3 premiere starred on the WB's Jack &
to weaken the U.S.-led alliance
structure. In turn, this raises the
risk of Russian military
intervention in what Russia
chauvinistically calls its “near
abroad.” Such aggression has
already taken place against the
Republic of Georgia. Finally,
this overall strategic imbalance,
as demonstrated by the Vostok
exercise, increases the risk of
the use of nuclear weapons in a
conflict. The Senate needs to
ask itself whether these are
desirable outcomes as it
considers granting its consent to
the ratification of New START.
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stakes weren’t so high, Rick
Scott’s performance in
Tallahassee today would have
been laughable. Unfortunately,
running for Governor is no
laughing matter.
“Rick Scott, the disgraced
former CEO of Columbia/HCA
who is inseparably associated
with one of the most massive
Medicare fraud schemes in
American history, now refuses
to answer questions about
alarming new revelations about
his current company Solantic.
“Just six days before Rick Scott
entered the race for governor, he
was personally deposed in a
civil case alleging criminal
activity by his company. Now
Rick Scott is refusing to release
this and other relevant
information to voters.
“Today, Rick Scott called the
deposition a private matter. But
Bobby and has also guest-
starred on Invasion and Boston
Public.
Exclusive: Edwin Hodge to
guest-star on Leverage
One Tree Hill returns Tuesday,
Sept. 14 at 8/7c on the CW.
Hodge's episode is scheduled to
air September 28.
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as a candidate for governor, his
role in a possible third degree
felony is a very public matter,
one that could have
ramifications for all Republicans
running for office. Floridians
deserve the facts. If Rick Scott
won’t come clean with Florida
voters now, how can he be
trusted to lead the fourth-largest
state in the nation during these
challenging economic times?”
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TV's 8 Greatest Quitters
Tim Molloy (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:28:00 AM
Amanda Bynes, Steve Carell
It's been a great week for
quitters. Jet Blue flight attendant
Steven Slater went out big by
quitting over his plane's
intercom, grabbing some beers,
and sliding down the emergency
chute. Then a young woman's
quitting via dry erase board
made the online rounds, though
she turned out to be an actress
named Elyse Porterfield (whose
name also sounds too good to be
true). In honor of these
disgruntled employees, real and
fake, we salute TV's greatest
quitters — real, fake, and both.
8. Amanda Bynes: The All That
and Amanda Show star
announced in June that she was
retiring from acting at the age of
24. A month later she changed
her mind and announced her
return to the Chicago Bulls.
7. The Men and Women of
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce:
Unhappy at their purchase by an
outside firm, the key players in
Mad Men's fictitious Sterling
Cooper got themselves
deliberately sacked at the end of
the show's third season. They
immediately began the new and
somewhat awkwardly named
firm Sterling Cooper Draper
Pryce. Can they please quit that
and switch it to SCDP, ASAP?
6. George Costanza/ Larry
David: Seinfeld's George
Costanza was famously modeled
on the show's co-creator, Larry
David, and an incident in which
Costanza quit his job came
straight from David's real life.
Costanza returned to work as if
it had never happened, just as
David did when he quit
Saturday Night Live in the mid-
'80s.
5. David Caruso: Caruso quit
NYPD Blue early in its second
season in pursuit of a movie
career. The show went on for 10
more seasons while he found
mixed success. He soon slinked
back to TV, where he has
anchored CSI: Miami since
2002.
4. McLean Stevenson: When
Stevenson quit the role of Henry
Blake on M*A*S*H, the show's
writers pretty much ensured he
wouldn't return: Blake died in a
plane crash while heading home
from the war. In one of the
show's greatest scenes, Radar
haltingly delivered the news as
Blake's friends and colleagues
were mid-operation.
3. Jack Paar: The host of The
Tonight Show announced his
resignation on the air to protest
NBC cutting material it
considered in bad taste. "There
must be a better way to make a
living than this, a way of
entertaining people without
being constantly involved in
some form of controversy," he
said. Paar returned weeks later
with these lines: "As I was
saying before I was
interrupted... I believe the last
thing I said was 'There must be
a better way to make a living
than this.' Well, I've looked...
and there isn't."
2. Michael Scott: The Office's
interferer-in-chief quit Dunder
Mifflin because he felt
unappreciated, only to start the
quickly disintegrating Michael
Scott Paper Company. Steve
Carell took Scott's lead by
announcing that this season will
be his last on the show, though
his post- Office career looks
brighter than Michael's.
1. Dave Chappelle: The
comedian walked away from his
Comedy Central show and a $50
million contract because he was
unhappy with the show's
direction. Then he headed off to
South Africa to do some soul
searching. Was he crazy?
Erratic? Or just true to himself?
Honorable Mention: William
Petersen: The CSI star burned
nary a bridge with his departure
from the show. He remains an
executive producer and has left
open the possibility of
occasionally returning.
Who is your favorite TV
quitter?
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More Than
Skin Deep
Kate Stanhope
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:31:00 AM
Clare and Louise Roe
The CW's new makeover
reality series Plain Jane may be
focused on changing hair colors
and trying a new shade of
lipstick, but the series' host and
producer insist the series is
hardly skin deep.
"It was very much about the
inside more than the outside,"
host Louise Roe tells
TVGuide.com "The fashion
[and] the beauty are all part of
it, but really getting through the
mental barriers was the
important part."
Check out videos from Plain
Jane
Breaking through those mental
barriers — whether caused by
the high standards put forth by
fashion magazines, or criticism
from family and friends — were
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essential to each woman's head- could never do."

Damian Holbrook
(TVGuide.com: Breaking to-toe transformation, Roe says. Plain Jane encourages women
News) "They have to get through that to try new things, but Roe says
and they have to cry and talk to she went to great lengths to
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:38:00 AM
me and open up. And in some make sure the women were
Lucy Hale and Troian cases, [they] scream and shout never pushed too far. Roe
Bellisario to get it out, so it became very worked with each woman's body
OK, first off, if you've never cathartic," she says. type very closely, making sure
gone glamping, do so That ability to relate also everyone was comfortable in
immediately. Massages. Mani- proved an important factor for their new wardrobe.
pedis. It's divine. the producers, who made sure to "We took our cues from them. If
Secondly, did you really think find girls of all shapes, sizes, we felt they were uncomfortable
the girls would catch "A"? and backgrounds in their search in a conversation, we wouldn't
Come on. This was only the mid for each episode's focal point. In push them because it's not about
-season finale, kids! Wednesday's episode (9/8c), exploiting the girls, it's about a
Last night, Rosewood's fab four Roe counsels an aspiring writer positive experience for them,
left us hanging — and Tweeting and recent Hollywood transplant Robertson says. "And they all
feverishly — as they came oh-so who's hoping for a second had very positive experiences."
-close to nailing their texting or aren't totally convinced that night's summer finale? Did chance after an awkward first And it isn't just the various
tormentor while getting their "A" is really the character we "A"'s identity surprise you, too? d a t e . " T h e m a k e o v e r i s Janes who have had their lives
pamper on at Camp Mona (the saw on that closing-scene video, Subscribe to TV Guide extraordinary," executive changed. " Plain Jane is actually
world's most inspired birthday- we'll spare y'all the spoilers). Magazine now! producer Amy Palmer making quite a big difference in
party theme ever). But since Oh, did we enjoy this one. The Thank you. Your abuse report R o b e r t s o n s a y s . " S h e ' s girls' lives," Roe says. "This is
there's nothing small about the suspense. The reveals. The h a s b e e n s e n t t o t h e u n r e c o g n i z a b l e . " probably the most rewarding job
Pretty Little Liars drama, of scares. That bit with Aria and TVGuide.com moderators. We Check out photos from Plain I've done by a long shot."
course something big had to Ezra in the car, with "A" outside w i l l r e v i e w t h e r e p o r t e d Jane Five Filters featured
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64 TV/
Neil Patrick Harris Gets
Belated Emmy
Nomination
Anna Dimond (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:20:00 AM
Filed under: Emmys, TV News
Neil Patrick Harris can add one
more Emmy nomination to his
list this year: The Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences
has acknowledged that it
neglected to mention Harris in
the special-class program
category for his hosting gig at
the Tonys.
While award show hosts once
had their own category (Hugh
Jackman, for example, won for
his performance as the Tonys
host in 2005), the hosts are now
wrapped up in a composite
award for the show overall. The
63rd Annual Tony Awards'
executive producers Ricky
Kirshner and Glenn Weiss were
listed as contenders when
nominations were announced
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On the Scene: Has
'America's Got Talent'
Found the Next Susan
Boyle?
Michael Maloney (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features, Summer
'Rescue Me' - 'Forgiven' TV The'America's Got Talent'
stage was turned over to
YouTube last night. The 12 acts
Recap all came not from traditional
'AGT' auditions, but rather from
Jason Hughes (TV Squad) them hanging out to dry. the website that can make
last month, but Harris was left
As always, the dialogue was anyone a star.
out in the Emmy cold for his Submitted at 8/11/2010 8:40:00 AM
sharp and brilliant, both in There were memorable acts
role in the show. The Academy
Filed under: Recaps moments of outright absurdity including singer Cam Hodges, a
amended its previous
(S06E07) For once, I have and moments of true poignancy. cappella group PLUtonic and
announcement Tuesday after
absolutely no idea what's Tommy, once again, was put in magician Dan Sperry, but the
'L.A. Times'' awards blog Gold
coming next on'Rescue Me,' and the awkward position of serving only one that judge Piers
Derby pointed out the oversight.
I couldn't be happier about it. as a figure of wisdom, which is Morgan wanted to talk about
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problems, the series was much the back burner while Tommy singer who got a standing
more enjoyable. As much as focuses on the relationship he ovation after her performance.
Tommy is the central figure of thinks he wants with Janet. "She's the most exciting
the series, these writers have Permalink| Email this| Linking discovery we've had on this
done far too good a job of Blogs| Comments show in years," Morgan said. "I
fleshing out the secondary and don't even want to talk about
tertiary characters to just leave [other acts.] I can't even think
about the others at the moment.
I only want to talk about her. It's
too exciting. I just thought she
was amazingly good."
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'Warehouse 13' -
'Around The Bend'
Recap
Mike Moody (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 7:50:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps(S01E05) It
was only a matter of time until
an artifact melted Pete's brain
on'Warehouse 13.'
He might not be the youngest
agent on the team, but he's
easily the most immature relic
hunter of the bunch. He's the
guy who plays ping-pong with
Lewis Carroll's mirror and
sometimes treats the Warehouse
like it's his own personal
Toys"R"Us. So, yeah, sorry
Pete, but sometimes the artifacts
bite back ... hard.
It was strange to see so much
division in the Warehouse. The
team has grown closer than ever
before this season, and it almost
seemed like all that trust-
building and bonding between
Artie, Myka, Claudia and Pete
was gonna get flushed down the
toilet thanks to the betrayal of
one of those sneaky Regents.
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That's Right, Bison. The Man, Father of Three College

Killing Bison.: Woot Weads The Football Players Dies in
Wire Alaskan Plane Crash
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) Those familiar with the case UPI) -- Anthrax has killed 30 Milton Kent (FanHouse Main) respect their players' privacy.
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:00:00 PM added that the man really wishes bison on a farm near Weyburn, Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:42:00 AM Through the university's sports
his assigned caseworker would Saskatchewan, a Canadian information department,
Every week in this space, we’ll stop saying "…OR MAYBE… provincial official said Tuesday. Filed under: Indiana, Stanford, Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh
take a look at the news and offer YOU DID!!!" every time he Authorities now say that Scott Virginia The father of three said, in a statement: "We are
our own incisive blend of calls to discuss the issue. Ian has taken full responsibility current FBS football players struck with deep sadness by the
commentary, analysis, and poop RIYADH, Saudi Arabia ( UPI) and claims that the other was one of five passengers who tragic and sudden loss of Bill
jokes. The news you need, from -- The Saudi government said members of the band are died in a Monday plane crash Phillips. The hearts and prayers
a voice you can trust, in the 90 Tuesday it was holding off on innocent. that also claimed the life of of our entire team and staff
seconds you have to spare: its plan to cut off BlackBerry DESTIN, Fla. ( UPI) -- Police former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens. extend to the Phillips family and
that’s Woot Weads the Wire. corporate messaging services in in Florida said a woman who Bill Phillips, himself a former the families of those lost in the
PORDENONE, Italy ( UPI) -- the kingdom. poured drinks on her husband University of Evansville football crash. A man could hardly live a
Anti-globalization activists have This decision will not affect after finding him at a strip club player, died Monday when the more full life than Bill, whose
destroyed a field of genetically heads, arms and hands, which was charged with battery. single-engine plane he was a kindness and friendship touched
m o d i f i e d c o r n n e a r t h e the Saudis will continue to cut A spokesperson for the woman passenger on, crashed on an us all deeply. His legacy lives
northeastern Italian town of off as they see fit. argues that she intended to only Alaskan mountainside Monday on through his four sons, four
Pordenone, Italian authorities NEW YORK ( UPI) -- Mark throw a single drink on her while en route to a fishing incredible young men he
say. Ruffalo says he and Edward husband, but the club policy vacation. Bill Phillips' youngest raised."
Thankfully, the corn's healing Norton, his friend and fellow mandated that she purchase at son, Willy, 13, was taken to an Former University of
factor and adamantium claws H o l l y w o o d a c t o r , a r e n o t least two. Anchorage hospital with Evansville coach Jim Byers told
will allow it to take its own fighting over the big-screen role NEW YORK ( UPI) -- undisclosed injuries and is the Evansville Courier-Post that
revenge. of the Hulk. Breakfast giant Kellogg's has expected to survive. the elder Phillips was an
WEST NYACK, N.Y. ( UPI) -- Most Hulk fans stand behind opened a Pop-Tart theme Three of Bill Phillips' older excellent student and a key
A 78-year-old New York state their belief that, if they two men restaurant in New York sons play football at Division I- member of the 1974 Evansville
man said he was perplexed to ever did fight, it would be featuring Pop-Tart sandwiches A schools. Andrew Phillips is a team that advanced to the
discover the U.S. government totally freaking awesome like and other sugary concoctions. senior guard at Stanford, while NCAA small college playoffs.
believes he died more than a nobody would ever believe. The joke here is that this really his brothers, Colter, a Byers said Bill Phillips was a
month ago. WEYBURN, Saskatchewan ( exists. sophomore, and Dan, a corporate attorney based in
freshman, are tight ends at Washington and owned several
Virginia and Indiana, fishing vessels in Alaska.
respectively. Bill Lynch, the "What a sad story. The guy had
head coach at Indiana, and Mike so many positive things happen
London, UVA's head coach, in his life because of his talent
offered condolences on behalf and his personality," said Byers.
of their schools and programs,
while asking the media to
70 Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Chris Bosh says LeBron James using doubters,

critics for fuel to perform
ESPN.com news services Chris Bosh said James is using and I think every person in that part of the game. We knew that
(ESPN.com) criticism about his departure organization feels the same was going to happen before we
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:34:29 PM from Cleveland "as fuel to do way.”-- Chris Bosh even got together."
well next season." Some outsiders' high Bosh also addressed criticism
Updated: August 11, 2010, 1:34 "We're always all aware of what expectations for the Heat are from Toronto Raptors general
PM ET we do and how critics can be out another source of fuel, Bosh manager Bryan Colangelo, who
Whether it's to live up to high there sometimes," Bosh said. said, when asked about ESPN hinted in comments after Bosh
e x p e c t a t i o n s o r t o p r o v e "[James] uses it to fuel his analyst Jeff Van Gundy's left Toronto that the power
doubters wrong, the Miami ambition to win next year. I prediction that Miami, now forward was distracted by free
Heat's new stars are gathering think we're going to have a lot featuring James, Bosh and agency and didn't give his all
m o t i v a t i o n f r o m d i f f e r e n t of doubters. But that's fine, you Dwyane Wade, are last season.
sources for the coming season. know, that's a part of the game. overwhelming favorites to win Bosh said Colangelo's
LeBron James, in a comment As long as we come together the NBA title. comments were "unfortunate,"
posted on his Twitter account and play the game the way it's Van Gundy also predicted adding that the two have not
Tuesday, said: "Don't think for supposed to be played I think Miami will threaten NBA spoken since.
one min that I haven't been we're going to be successful." records, including the 1995-96 "That's how he handled it ... All
taking mental notes of everyone Motivation for Bosh and the Chicago Bulls' 72 wins and the I can do is react and just stay
taking shots at me this summer. Heat also comes from within. 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers' 33 grounded and stay humble and
And I mean everyone!" Mike & And the team's own expectation -game win streak. just keep doing what I'm doing,"
Mike in the Morning for the coming season is nothing "I'm not going to sit here and Bosh said. "It doesn't bother me
Miami Heat forward Chris short of an NBA title, Bosh said. say it's not possible. But it's because I know I've never quit
Bosh talks about all of the " W e have to talk going to take a lot of hard at any point in my NBA career,
a c t i v i t y f o r h i m a n d h i s championship," he said. "I work," Bosh said. "Of course in my lifetime, playing
teammates in the last month. expect to win a championship we're not just going to show up basketball."
Plus, Bosh reacts to ESPN NBA and anything else is a failure -- ... and we know things are not Five Filters featured
a n a l y s t J e f f V a n G u n d y ' s and I think every person in that going to be handed to us." article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
comments about how good the organization feels the same Although it's "cool" to hear an Easy Ride in the
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St. Louis Cardinals catcher Jason LaRue hurt in

brawl; team calls up Steven Hill
Associated Press The Cardinals called up Steven Phillips' comments and told him "It's like asking when you're
(ESPN.com) Hill from Double-A Springfield. not to touch him. It quickly going to jail and you haven't
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:55:05 AM The 25-year-old catcher will be escalated into shouting, and both gone to court yet," Baker said.
making his major league debut. benches and bullpens emptied. The Cardinals won the game 8-
Updated: August 11, 2010, St. Louis also put right-hander Cardinals pitcher Chris 4, moving percentage points
12:55 PM ET Jeff Suppan on the 15-day Carpenter ended up pinned ahead of the Reds in first place
CINCINNATI -- The St. Louis disabled list with a sore groin. against the backstop screen. in the NL Central. The standings
Cardinals called up a catcher Suppan felt discomfort while Cueto also was pinned against board at Great American Ball
W e d n e s d a y b e c a u s e t h e y working out Monday, and the the backstop nearby and kicked Park refused to acknowledge the
weren't sure how long Jason Cardinals want to be cautious. players around him. He later change of order on Wednesday,
LaRue would be sidelined with La Russa expects Major League said he was afraid and trying to keeping Cincinnati listed above
injuries from a brawl with the Baseball to take disciplinary defend himself. St. Louis. The teams were tied
Cincinnati Reds. action against the Reds. Major League Baseball will in the games-behind column,
Manager Tony La Russa said "I just believe it's something watch video of the fight and get though St. Louis had the better
L a R u e s u f f e r e d a m i l d significant," La Russa said. "I a report from the umpiring crew winning percentage.
concussion and had sore ribs don't know what it's going to before deciding any punishment. The organist played the theme
from the first-inning altercation turn out to be." Reds manager Dusty Baker said from "Rocky" when a fan threw
the previous night. LaRue is one The brawl centered on Reds there was more to it than the a ceremonial pregame pitch. The
of the players kicked by Reds s e c o n d b a s e m a n B r a n d o n video might show. Reds' mascots acted like boxers,
starter Johnny Cueto after he got Phillips, who said at the start of "I just hope the guys up there pretending to throw punches on
pinned against the backstop the series that he hates the realize the tension, the pressure, the side.
screen. Cardinals. He also called them the background," Baker said. Copyright 2010 by The
"His ribs are real sore," La complainers, using demeaning "Also, you can't just go on the Associated Press
Russa said, before the final language that riled St. Louis. video because you don't know Five Filters featured
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William 'Bill' Phillips, killed in Alaska Ex-Wife Tells Police

crash, father of Andrew, Coulter, Paul Lorenzen Wright Had Drugs,
at Stanford, Virginia, Indiana Cash on Night He Died
Milton Kent (FanHouse Main)
Mark Schlabach (ESPN.com) season. tragic and sudden loss of Bill Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:50:00 AM
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:10:14 PM Colter Phillips is a sophomore Phillips . . . A man could hardly
tight end at Virginia, where he live a more full life than Bill, Filed under: Cavaliers,
Updated: August 11, 2010, 1:10 had five catches for 34 yards in whose kindness and friendship Grizzlies, NBA Police Blotter
PM ET six starts in 2009. touched us all deeply. His The ex-wife of former Memphis
The plane crash that killed Paul Phillips is a freshman tight legacy lives on through his four Grizzlies and University of
former U.S. senator Ted Stevens end at Indiana. sons, four incredible young men Memphis star Lorenzen Wright
of Alaska Monday night also "A member of our football he raised." told police that he left her home
claimed the life of the father of family, Colter Phillips, lost his Dan Paro, who coached each of on the night of his death with a
f o o t b a l l p l a y e r s a t t h r e e father William "Bill" Sr., Phillips' older sons at box of drugs and an untold
universities. Monday in a plane crash that Georgetown Prep School in amount of cash, according to
William "Bill" Phillips, who claimed several lives," Virginia North Bethesda, Md., referred documents obtained by the
was Stevens' legislative director coach Mike London said in a all questions to the school's Memphis Commercial-Appeal. when the dispatcher heard
and chief of staff from 1981 to statement released by the school administrative office, which The newspaper obtained an gunshots and the cell phone
1986, also was killed in the Wednesday. "Our thoughts and declined comment. affidavit from a Memphis police went silent. No arrests have
plane crash near Dillingham, in prayers are with the Phillips William Phillips, an attorney sergeant who said Sherra been made to date.
a remote part of Alaska. family and all the other families and lobbyist at Utrecht and Wright, Lorenzen Wright's The Commercial Appeal
Phillips, from Germantown, affected by this tragedy. Colter Phillips, a Washington, D.C.- former wife, told them that the reported that Wright's ex-wife
Md., was traveling on a fishing is currently with his family and based firm, played football at former NBA forward left her told police that he had had a
trip with Stevens when the plane we are committed to supporting the University of Evansville home late in the evening of July conversation on two separate
slammed into a mountain with him in any way possible." during the early 1970s. 18 carrying a box of drugs. cell phones with an unidentified
such force that it left a 300-foot Indiana coach Bill Lynch Mark Schlabach covers college Sherra Wright said he returned person during which she
gash on the slope. informed his team of the crash football and basketball for to the home a short time later, overheard Wright say that he
Phillips' 13-year-old son, after Tuesday's practice. ESPN.com. Information from then left again, this time with was "going to flip something for
William "Willy" Phillips, also "The thoughts and prayers of the The Associated Press was used cash. $110,000."
was seriously injured in the e n t i r e I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y in this report. Lorenzen Wright's body was Sherra Wright told police that
crash and was among four community are with Paul, his Five Filters featured found July 28 in a wooded area her former husband owned a
survivors. Five passengers were family and everyone touched by article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets in the southeast part of the city, shotgun that he kept at her
killed. this tragedy," Lynch said in a an Easy Ride in the six days after his mother suburban Memphis home and a
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second-team All-Pac 10 last struck with deep sadness by the
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2010 NFL training camps: Al Davis NASCAR Swings,

of Oakland Raiders' likens QB Jason Misses With 2011
Campbell to Jim Plunkett Schedule Plans
ESPN.com news services He said he sees some Plunkett season. Geoffrey Miller (FanHouse
(ESPN.com) in Jason Campbell, his new Davis specifically mentioned Main)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:22:53 AM starting quarterback. new offensive coordinator Hue Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:13:00 AM
"I see this young Jason Jackson as another reason he
Updated: August 11, 2010, Campbell as a football player believes the Raiders will turn Filed under: Sprint Cup,
11:22 AM ET like I saw Jim Plunkett. He has things around this season. NASCAR I'm surprised, but I
The Oakland Raiders have everything. He was 13-0 in Jackson helped Joe Flacco know I shouldn't be.
endured seven straight seasons college, at Auburn, he can throw make it to the playoffs in his NASCAR made some changes
of 10 or more losses. Owner Al up the field, he can run, he's big, first two seasons in the NFL this week in what we can now
Davis, however, said Tuesday in he's smart," Davis said. "I really with the Ravens and also call "The Great Three-Days-and
a rare radio interview that he predict great things for him. I worked with Carson Palmer as -Counting Schedule Reveal of its cookie-cutter, 1.5-mile track.
believes the 2010 team will end hope he doesn't let me down. I the offensive coordinator at 2010" with Kentucky Speedway So much for the "impactful
that slump. don't think he will." USC. adding its face to the Sprint Cup changes" that NASCAR CEO
C l a y t o n : R a i d e r s C a m p Plunkett led the Raiders to two "We have a bright new young Series while biannual attendance Brian France alluded to at the
Confidential Super Bowl victories and was offensive coordinator in Hue -bust Auto Club Speedway lost Indianapolis Motor Speedway
An improved defensive front named the Super Bowl MVP in Jackson, and I just have great what should have never been its: before the Brickyard 400 just a
seven is one of the reasons the 1980. hopes for this young team," a second Cup date. couple of weeks ago.
Raiders' seven-year streak of 10 Campbell, acquired in a trade Davis said. "It's a very young And, oh, Chicagoland Where was the boldness?
or more losses might end in with the Washington Redskins team, but I do have hopes for Speedway will now earn page Where was the dramatic move
2010, John Clayton writes. in the offseason, started 52 it." five in the sports sections of the to charge up what just became
Story games for Washington since Information from The Chicago newspaper coverage, more of a tired mess of tracks
"I really liken this team a great being a first-round pick in 2005. Associated Press was used in buried by the NFL, when it for the 10-race championship
deal to the team of 1980, in H e h a s t h r o w n f o r 5 5 this report. opens the 2011 Chase for the chase? And why in the world
which the great Jim Plunkett touchdowns, 38 interceptions Five Filters featured Sprint Cup with a Sunday are recent track lighting projects
pulled us out of the doldrums, and has a passer rating of 82.3 article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets afternoon race. Meanwhile, now going virtually unused for
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interview with Sirius NFL and a passer rating of 86.4. But
Radio. the Redskins went 4-12 last
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US Players Pay Tribute to Neymar,

Talented Brazil
Brian Straus (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:30:00 AM

Filed under: US Soccer, U.S.

Men's National Team EAST
RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Men
who had competed against the
world's top teams, who had
advanced to the Confederations
Cup final and the second round
of a World Cup, could do
nothing but offer praise on
Tuesday evening to a very
young Brazilian team that ran
circles around them before more
than 77,000 at the New
Meadowlands Stadium.
The 2-0 scoreline was almost
secondary to a performance that
exposed the gulf in talent
between the two countries. The
U.S. was undone by 18-year-old
Neymar da Silva (right), who
sported a combination afro-
mohawk and who tortured the
American back line during his
72 minutes on the field; 20-year-
olds Alexandre Pato and Paulo
Ganso and a group of players
eager to prove their worth to a
new coach charged with
winning the 2014 World Cup.
"They're the stars of tomorrow,
man. That's always how it is
with Brazil," U.S. captain
Carlos Bocanegra told
FanHouse following the game.
"We played them in the
(CONCACAF) Gold Cup down
in Miami in the semifinals (in
2003). They had Kaká and
Robinho and these guys that
nobody had really heard their
name. Same thing. They just
have a deep country."
The "next Pelé" is almost
always, appropriately, Brazilian.
And players anointed with that
title/burden often aren't very old
when the mantle is passed on.
Ronaldinho is only 30 and can't
even command a place on the
roster. Kaká is 28, Robinho 26
and Pato, who garnered a $30
million transfer fee from AC
Milan three years ago, wasn't
the youngest or best player on
the field on Tuesday.
That honor belonged to
Neymar, who made Jonathan
Spector miserable on the left
flank all evening, scored on a
perfect header in the 28th
minute and could have had a
couple more. It was his first
game with Brazil.
Castlevania: Lords of
Shadow special edition
mockup outed by Amazon
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:07:00 PM
An image spotted on
Amazon(and since removed)
suggests that there will be a
special edition release of
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow--
as if its status as a major game
from a large publisher didn't
already make that clear. The
image shows a package
comprising two Xbox 360 game
discs, a soundtrack, and a "The
Art of Castlevania: Lords of
Shadow" book.
Lords of Shadow producer
David Cox told Joystiq, "The
images of the special edition
leaked onto the net are mock
ups and NOT final," before
adding that the retailer "jumped
the gun" by publishing early
images. Though neither Cox nor
Konami had anything official to
announce about a special
edition, someone at Konami is
mocking up special edition
images. Probably in advance of
a real special edition. That
would just be a weird hobby
otherwise.
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PlayStation Move unboxed, demo disc detailed
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:30:00 PM
Joystiq tipster Phil received a
promotional PlayStation Move
kit, which included two Move
controllers, a PlayStation Eye
camera and a demo disc. The
disc features an interface
inspired by the "Now Playing"
section of the XMB, allowing
you to quickly peruse its
contents. Included on the disc
are demos for Sports
Champions, Start the Party,
Kung Fu Rider, TV Superstars,
The Shoot, Tiger Woods PGA
Tour 11, Beat Sketcher, and
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's premise
explained by developers in hoods
Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 2:00:00 PM
Are you wearing your hooded
cloak and and trying your best
to look inconspicuous? Good,
then you're ready to watch the
first developer diary for
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
(That, or you just really want to
be ready for your office's next
Halloween costume contest.)
In the video you'll find after the
break, the game's key staffers
provide a brief story primer and
Tumble-- all games demoed at
E3 earlier this year.
Interestingly, it appears that the
demos (at least on this
promotional disc) cannot be
launched directly from the disc;
tease a pretty epic-sounding tale
that begins immediately where
Assassin's Creed 2 ended. They
also discuss Brotherhood's
recruitment system, which
you must install each demo to
your PS3 hard drive. According
to our tipster, each demo is
about 1-2 GB in size, meaning
you'll need at least 8GB of free
space if you want to play
totally sounds like Metal Gear
Solid: Peace Walker's. Oh, and
there are some live-action bits
that look nowhere near as good
as this. (And we bet your
everything off the disc at once.
In addition to the demos, the
disc includes an installable
"Setup Guide," which may be
the most enjoyable part of the
entire collection. It includes
some helpful tips, like " don't
use the camera upside-down"
and " don't smack people around
you." Truly, advice for winners.
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Goldeneye 007 Classic
Edition includes gold
Classic Controller Pro
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:30:00 PM
Remember those images which
leaked out of Activision's survey
about the spiritual successor to
Goldeneye? Remember that
totally bitchin' gold Wii Classic
Controller Pro depicted in one
of said images? It's very real,
and can be very yours if you
elect to pick up the GoldenEye
007 Classic Edition for $69.99
when the game launches later
this year.
This news will be especially
exciting to you if you're
planning on playing the game
using the Classic control
scheme, which eschews the
Wiimote and Nunchuck for a
more traditional input
experience -- one which we
imagine will be much more
"retro"-feeling, and much less
less likely to result in you
hurling a Wiimote through your
TV while attempting to chuck a
Throwing Knife at a bothersome
foe.
Goldeneye 007 Classic Edition
includes gold Classic Controller
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Plants vs. Zombies Station Could Be Recycled into Crew
GOTY Edition available
on Steam for Mac and PC
Quarters for Asteroid Mission
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - contains everything an astronaut artificial gravity to help
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) support and the "Zombatar" -- a New Technology, Science on a deep space mission might astronauts avoid muscle and
News, The Future Now) want: Life support systems, bone atrophy during the long
Submitted at 8/11/2010 1:00:00 PM custom zombie creator. You can
also try out the Zombatar on Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:35:03 PM astronaut sleeping quarters, and trip.
Steam is growing regular ol' PopCap's site and use the image With President Obama taking a nice view. If it were detached And the timing couldn't be
Plants vs. Zombies into the f o r a n y o f y o u r s o c i a l the budget axe to some of from the ISS and fitted to two better. Right now, the ISS is
"Game of the Year edition." The networking sites. In only a few NASA's most darling projects space exploration vehicles, it slated to run through 2020, and
free update is available for minutes we made what we lately, it makes sense that the could serve as crew quarters for if its mission is not extended by
existing PC copies of PvZ. In i m a g i n e t o b e a r a b i d agency might look at ways to a long-duration spaceflight. the partner nations that support
addition, PvZ is now available t r a n s v e s t i t e b - b o y . cut down on waste by getting a At 24 feet long by 15 feet wide, it, it will become another piece
in its GOTY incarnation on Mac Plants vs. Zombies GOTY little more mileage out of its Node 3 would offer a good deal of orbiting space waste.
for $10. Remember, with Steam, Edition available on Steam for current hardware. A proposal by of space in which astronauts President Obama has set a 2025
i f y o u o w n t h e g a m e f o r Mac and PC originally appeared NASA's "Blue Sky" group could live and work, and that goal to launch a mission to an
Windows and are a closet Mac on Joystiq on Wed, 11 Aug w o u l d d o e x a c t l y t h a t , space could be expanded using asteroid, and Node 3 would be
user (or vice versa), you also 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see repurposing a room on the ISS attachable inflatable structures freshly defunct in the years
own it for the other system. our terms for use of feeds. as a crew capsule for a manned ( t h e c o m p a n i o n s p a c e leading up to that launch.
The update adds 20 Steam Permalink| Email this| mission to an asteroid. exploration vehicles would also [ Space]
Achievements, Steam Cloud C o m m e n t s Node 3 is one of the newest be fitted with pressurized
additions to the space station cabins). A spinning centrifuge
(it's the one with the big c o u l d e v e n b e i n s t a l l e d ,
panoramic cupola window) and theoretically, to provide some
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MIT's New Glucose Meter Checks Blood Sugar
Levels With Painless Infrared Light
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 9:01:38 AM
MIT's Ramen Spectroscopy
Glucose Meter No pain, no
problem. Photos by Patrick
Gillooly
Medical device makers have
been trying to come up with a
better way for diabetics to
measure their blood glucose
levels for decades, but while a
handful of promising methods
have enjoyed measured success,
the finger-pricking, blood-
drawing glucose meter is still
the most common tool for
everyday use. But a new
development in an old research
pursuit at MIT may finally
provide diabetics with a painless
means of checking their sugar,
by simply shining a light on
their skin.
Researchers at MIT's
Spectroscopy Lab have been
working for more than a decade
on a method of using Raman
spectroscopy to measure glucose
levels. That approach involves
shining near-infrared light on
the patient's arm or finger and
using the ensuing vibrations put
off by the chemical bonds in
various molecules in the skin to
Science/ 77
Silk 'Invisibility Cloak'
Could Lead to Better
Biocompatible
Metamaterials
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:01:52 AM
Silky Invisibility You can get a
silk invisibility cloak in any
measure the amount of glucose blood glucose soars. His or her a pretty big step toward solving color you want as long as it's
present. interstitial fluid levels might a problem that has persisted for invisible. mckaysavage via
The method works well, but the take up to ten minutes to catch years with only measured Flickr
IR light can only penetrate about up, resulting in a faulty reading. progress. The MIT team plans to To think Marco Polo didn't
half a millimeter below the skin. To deal with this lag, the team get a clinical trial underway on even know what he had. Silk
That means glucose readings are developed another method of healthy patients in the fall to see and gold, considered luxury
actually measuring the amount correcting for the difference if DCC can stand up in a more items for as long as mankind has
of sugar in the interstitial fluid between blood glucose and skin real-world setting. If it does, enjoyed shiny things, might now
surrounding skin cells rather glucose levels called Dynamic those finger-pricking meters lead the way forward in the
t h a n t h e b l o o d s t r e a m . T o C o n c e n t r a t i o n C o r r e c t i o n could become a thing of the growing field of metamaterials.
overcome this problem, the team (DCC). By adding the rate at past. Turning flashy into
developed an algorithm that which glucose diffuses from [ MIT News] inconspicuous, scientists from
relates the two different glucose blood to skin into the larger Tufts and Boston University
concentrations so the device can equation, they found they were have created an invisibility
extrapolate the amount of able to improve the accuracy of cloak from silk coated with
glucose in the bloodstream from their readings by up to 30 gold.
the amount of glucose in the percent in the best cases and 15 But keep your Harry Potter-like
skin. percent on average. aspirations in check; this
But another problem persisted: Raman spectroscopy still isn't invisibility material only works
directly after eating, a patient's perfect, but the breakthrough is in the terahertz range, a long
wavelength region between
radio and IR. The researchers
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Cancer-Sniffing E-Nose Can Differentiate
Between Various Forms of the Disease
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:09:58 AM
Breast Cancer Cells This image
shows infiltrating ductal
carcinoma of the breast. A new
e-nose sensor can differentiate
between breast, prostate, lung
and bowel cancer by testing
patients' breath. Wikimedia
Commons
Scientists working on a breath
test for cancer say they can
differentiate between at least
four different forms of the
disease, regardless of the
patient's age, gender or lifestyle,
simply by testing patients'
breath.
Previous research by the same
team found gold nanoparticle
sensors could distinguish
between the breath of healthy
patients and those with lung
cancer. Now, the e-nose can tell
if a patient has breast, lung,
prostate or colon cancer,
according to the researchers,
from the Technion Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa.
The e-nose detects volatile
organic compounds measured in
just a few parts per billion. The
VOCs, which are emitted from
the surface of cells, are a result
of gene and protein changes that
occur because of tumor growth,
according to the study,
published today in the British
Journal of Cancer.
The sensor could provide an
early warning system that
unveils cancer even before
tumors become visible in X-
rays, as AFP reports.
The researchers tested the
exhaled breath of 177 volunteers
ranging in age from 20-75,
including patients with lung,
colon, breast, and prostate
cancers and healthy patients
who acted as controls. Breath
from the cancer patients was
collected before any treatment.
The sensor, which involves an
array of gold nanoparticles and a
gas chromatograph, could detect
differences in the patients'
breath patterns, according to the
study. Its statistical analysis was
valid regardless of variables like
patient age, gender or lifestyle.
Abraham Kuten, who co-
authored the study, tells AFP
that if confirmed in larger-scale
studies, the technique could
become a simple, portable and
non-invasive tool for diagnosing
cancer.
It could also be an easy way to
monitor cancer treatment and
watch for relapses, he says.
[ AFP]
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think it could work at smaller
wavelengths, including those in
the visible spectrum, but that's
not even their focus right now.
Far more promising are the
implications in biomedicine, as
silk is a biocompatible material.
Metamaterials are a unique
category of materials that derive
their optical properties from
their physical makeup rather
than their chemical makeup.
That means they can be
engineered to bend light in
certain ways or to absorb or
reflect all the light in a
particular range. They're not
particularly easy to create and
they are often rigid (unlike the
Boy Wizard's cloak), so the idea
of metamaterials built on
flexible substrates like silk is
especially intriguing to materials
scientists.
To make the metamaterial, the
researchers took a one-
centimeter-square piece of
silkworm silk and stenciled
10,000 gold resonators onto that
tiny surface. They then blasted it
with terahertz waves, which
usually would pass right
through. Instead, the researchers
detected a resonance. Taking it a
step further, the team implanted
the silk into a muscle and found
that they could still detect a
resonance when they bathed the
muscle in T-waves.
While a terahertz metamaterial
is nothing new, the fact that silk
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can be implanted into the body prick necessary.

opens it up to far wider [ Discovery News, Advanced
applications. For instance, an Materials (Subscription
implanted glucose meter made Needed)]
of a silk metamaterial could
monitor a diabetic's blood sugar
levels in real time - as glucose
levels inside the body change
the metamaterial would change
too, beaming a text message to
the person's phone, no needle

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secularism as the only
acceptable basis for moral
judgment on the part of voters.”
Prop 8 backers appealed
Walker’s decision. Jim
Campbell, an attorney with the
Alliance Defense Fund, a
conservative Christian law firm
involved in the litigation, said
the religious-freedom argument
will play an important role as
the case moves up the federal
judicial ladder — including,
potentially, the U.S. Supreme
Court.
“At bottom,” Campbell said,
“our strategy here is, and has
always been, that in this country
we should respect the rights of
the people when they do what
they have always done: vote
based on their religious and
moral convictions.”
Abolitionists, anti-abortion
activists, and civil-rights
activists all have been motivated
by personal faith, Campbell
argued. “To be blunt, we felt
[Walker’s decision] was an all-
out attack on religion.”
It’s a broad argument that
encompasses a lot, and we get
both extensive quotes from
some of the players and even
some historical context.
Refreshing! Of course, there’s
also some more neutral and/or
critical perspective on these
objections. That’s very helpful
for putting the legal validity of
anti-gay marriage arguments in
perspective:
Howard Friedman, an emeritus
law professor at Ohio’s
University of Toledo, said the
judge is not attacking religion
per se; he is just not giving
religious expression any special
consideration.
“He’s basically saying that a
private moral view isn’t a
rational basis for legislation,”
said Friedman, who writes the
popular “Religion Clause” blog.
“Case law goes both ways on
that. There are certainly some
cases that say a merely moral
view isn’t enough to support
legislation; on the other hand,
there are some cases that talk
about laws being a moral view
on society.”
I did, however, strenuously
object to one part of the article.
The juxtaposition of these two
paragraphs was not handled
well:
Walker devotes several pages in
his ruling to identifying religion
as a prime source of anti-gay
animus, listing examples from
the Vatican and the Southern
Baptist Convention, and noting
that 84 percent of weekly
churchgoers voted in favor of
Prop 8, according to a CNN exit
poll.
As if to prove Walker’s point,
Los Angeles Catholic Cardinal
Roger Mahony released a
statement that said, “Those of us
who supported Prop 8 and
worked for its passage did so for
one reason: We truly believe
that marriage was instituted by
God for the specific purpose of
carrying out God’s plan for the
world and human society.
Period.”
Emphasis mine. I don’t think
anything Cardinal Mahony is
saying here can fairly be
construed as “prov[ing]
Walker’s point” that religion is a
“prime source of anti-gay
animus.” Further, I think the
debate is a bit more nuanced.
What constitutes “anti-gay
animus”? Believing that
marriage should remain a
heterosexual institution doesn’t
necessarily mean you harbor
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any ill will toward gay people,
though I’m sure the pro-gay
marriage forces would love to
argue that any opposition to
same-sex marriage is the tip of
the bigotry spear.
But the piece was otherwise
well-handled, so I’m going to
give Burke the benefit of the
doubt. It’s very possible the
phrasing and juxtaposition here
was unintentionally haphazard. I
really hope we see more pieces
that make good faith efforts to
present all arguments in this
debate in the best possible light.
I think it does clarify the
discussion a bit, and generally
help make the debate more
honest. Written by: mark on
August 11, 2010.
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Serving outrage soup for female priests

Mollie (GetReligion) her biases out so clearly. I don’t Catholics from New York facing tough times these days.
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:00:04 AM really have to explain why the Times columnist Maureen It’s really saying something
article is so bad so much as just Dowd to nuns in India. Among when the Inquisition line is not
It’s a tough category, to be sure, quote from it. OK, but in the grave crimes listed by the the most ridiculous part of that
but Lona O’Connor wins the addition to the story’s framing Vatican were heresy, apostasy, excerpt.
prize for the worst story I’ve (the female priests are an schism and the attempted You may enjoy reading this
ever seen about female, non- unimpeachable band of holy ordination of women. alleged news report just for the
Roman Catholic priests. It ran in heroes, anyone who thinks
the Palm Beach Post and it’s otherwise is, clearly, evil
Not Catholic women such as
Maureen Dowd! Anyway, I
laughs. But, needless to say,
there is no explanation offered
Newspaper states
just absolutely embarrassing incarnate), it’s also riddled with
from top to bottom. errors and poorly written. I
would love to learn more about
these enraged nuns in India but
of the church’s teaching about a
male-only priesthood. There is
the very obvious
Here’s the lede, which I do not mean, is the writer trying to say they’re mentioned only in this only one quote in the lengthy (see ‘Holy See’)
believe is satire: that the first Christians met in paragraph. We don’t get the piece that counters the reporter’s tmatt (GetReligion)
Like the first Christians, they s y m p a t h e t i c P r o t e s t a n t name of their order or any poorly written cri du coeur.
are outcasts. They meet in c h u r c h e s ? evidence to support the There are doses of loaded Submitted at 8/10/2010 2:09:56 PM

private homes and sympathetic More substantively, Ray reporter’s claim. language at a rate that would
Protestant churches. One of the big questions that
Bourgeois was excommunicated OK, I can’t quote the whole make a political campaigner
They are a small band of for his participation in an specialty-beat reporters always
piece, but I’m pretty sure blush. The reporter even uses
women priests and the people ordination service but it was for have to ask themselves is this:
GetReligion readers will enjoy multiple uncorroborated stories
who believe that they can melt a service in 2008, not 2002. “How much background
this: in order to paint the church in
the rock-solid determination of That whole paragraph displays a information can I assume that
“Shame on the Vatican,” said the worst possible light. It’s
the Vatican to keep the Catholic remarkable confusion about how my readers know about the
Bridget Mary Meehan, a woman really a train wreck that must be
priesthood all male. subject of this complex story?”
ordination happens in the bishop considered a rogue by seen to be believed. Written by:
Since 2002, when the first Catholic Church, too. Hint: When writing to an audience in
the institutional church. “They Mollie on August 11, 2010.
women were ordained by a male priests aren’t sufficient. This is a North America, for example,
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grown to about 100 worldwide. It doesn’t really get better. Take “Christmas.” That would be
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I’m trying to think of anything that strengthened penalties calendar Russian Orthodox
Yes, someone really wrote that.
positive to say and the only against pedophile priests. But parish that happens to be in a
And it made it through editors.
thing that comes to mind is that within the document was an North American city — which
And it went into the paper. No, I
it’s nice of the reporter to lay i t e m t h a t e n r a g e d w o m e n would require explaining why
have no idea why journalism is
this holy day is on the seventh
day of January.
A religion reporter may need to
explain the details of Ramadan
when writing to readers in, oh,
Knoxville, Tenn. But would you
need to cover the same
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background information in
Detroit? In a mainstream news
outlet in New York?
I raise this question for a simple
reason, linked to a rather strange
passage in a story from the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. The lede is
rather straightforward,
discussing the actions of three
men who had been attempting to
sue the Vatican because of
sexual abuse by clergy in a
Kentucky diocese. Once of their
goals was to question Pope
Benedict XVI under oath.
Now, please read the following
background material closely:
The lawsuit was considered the
first in the U.S. to make it to the
stage of determining whether
victims had a negligence claim
against the Vatican, which
argued the plaintiffs never
showed a connection between
Rome and the American clergy
abuse scandal. Filed in 2004 by
the three men abused by priests
in the Louisville diocese, it
argues in part that U.S. bishops
should be considered employees
or officials of the Holy See. …
An attorney for the Vatican,
which is referred to in the
lawsuit as the Holy See, said the
Kentucky lawsuit lacked merit.
Now here is the question that
bugged the GetReligion reader
who sent this one in. How many
people who read mainstream
newspapers need to be told that
the “Vatican” is often called the
“Holy See”? I mean, for starters,
when you click on Vatican.Va
the browser tells you that you
are visiting “The Holy See.”
Here’s some more strangeness.
The story, at several points, uses
the terms “Vatican” and “Holy
See” in contexts that assume
that readers know that, well,
they are connected. This is
rather like saying that the
“White House” has something
to do with the institution known
as the presidency of the United
States of America.
I don’t mention this because I
think we are dealing with some
kind of serious error. It’s rather
funny, methinks, but it’s not the
end of the world. No one needs
to run a correction.
Instead, I raise this point
because I wonder what
GetReligion readers —
especially Godbeat pros —
think about the wider issue of
“inside baseball” language in
mainstream news. If America is
getting more pluralistic and
diverse (and that is certainly the
case), do reporters need to be
more careful than ever, or can
reporters assume that most
readers are becoming a bit more
informed?
Feel free to cite an example or
two of terms that you think are,
or are not, safe at this point? I
mean, does one need to explain
that the “Vatican” is often called
the “Holy See”? Written by:
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HOW TO: Pick the Right Social Media Engagement Style
Matthew Latkiewicz
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 10:39:12 AM
Matthew Latkiewicz works at
Zendesk.com, customer support
software. He writes for and
edits Zengage, Zendesk’s blog
about customer engagement. He
also writes about wine for
McSweeney’s and imagines
stuff at his own website,
youwillnotbelieve.us.
What’s your customer
engagement style? It’s a
question reminiscent of those
light-hearted quizzes that
proliferate magazines: Are you
strong or sassy? Independent or
group-focused? When someone
@-replies you on Twitter, do
you respond immediately or
wait a couple days?
These questions are actually
important to consider. Why?
Because customer engagement
encompasses your company’s
customer service, support, and
marketing. It also deals with
your company’s forums, Twitter
accounts, blogs and meetups.
How various companies use
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook,
and its ilk, goes a long way to
define the long-term relationship
consumers have with that brand.
There are some amazing
success stories. Old Spice, using
both Twitter and YouTube,
recently ran a customer
engagement masterclass that
created a much-needed mania
around the brand. Yet, for every
success story, there are plenty of
flops. When a Domino’s Pizza
employee uploaded a disastrous
video about the company’s
hygiene standards to YouTube,
a widespread negative viral
campaign ensued.
The lesson: Ensure that your
engagement style matches your
company’s brand, goals, and
general attitude. We took a look
at the top five engagement styles
that currently dominate the
social web. Which are you? 1.
The Game Show Host
Your message: Winning is
sometimes the only thing.
We’ve all seen things like this
before: “RT – FREE STUFF
OVER HERE LINK
#welovefreestuff.” This social
media personality knows that
contests and special offers
generate a lot of activity and set
up a very clear (if slightly old-
fashioned) relationship with the
consumer. The consumer
follows whatever steps you’ve
laid out: Retweeting something,
sending in a picture of yourself
with company swag, or signing
up for a newsletter. Then they
are rewarded for taking these
steps. Dialogue or community
isn’t as important as having
consumers hanging around
hoping they’ll win something or
get a special deal.
How you say it: Giving stuff
away or offering deals works
well only if you’ve got some
trust built up. There are a lot of
scams out there and acting like a
wacko Twitter user doesn’t
instill much confidence that this
offer is trustworthy and/or legit.
Who’s it good for? Big
companies with big pockets
wanting to speak from the
perspective of the corporation.
Example: Virgin America.
Nearly all of Virgin’s Twitter
stream is devoted to special
deals and contests.
The bottom line: They keep the
voice friendly and light, but also
faceless. The brand itself is
speaking here. 2. Your Friendly
Neighborhood Service Rep
Your message: Like a good
neighbor, you listen to your
customers and engage them on
an individual level, mostly to
solve customer support issues or
to capitalize on sales
opportunities. You monitor
social network channels because
“that’s where the customers
are,” and if conversations are
happening about your brand,
you want to be there to
participate.
In this engagement style,
Twitter is an extension of your
customer service reps (albeit in
a limited, loose way).
Businesses following this style
don’t so much start the
conversation as they react to the
ones that have already started –
whether that’s a customer
complaining about your brand
or a consumer asking a question
that your business is well-
equipped to answer. You live by
co-tweet, the @-reply and direct
message.
How you say it: With one
friendly “individual” voice. This
engagement style calls for a
business to officially anoint
someone or selected people
from within the company to be
the official Tweet-voice. Their
personality is allowed to come
through on some level within
company boundaries. Customers
need to feel as if they are being
handled by an actual human
being who is personable, but not
too edgy.
Who’s it good for? Larger,
consumer-centric businesses,
especially service and retail
outlets, that have the resources
to monitor multiple channels of
customer feedback.
Example: Staples. Staples’
Twitter stream is full of @-
replies asking for DMs. And
they even use little illustrations
of the actual people who are
sending out those tweets as the
background of their Twitter
page.
The bottom line: Staples
chooses to engage customers on
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a somewhat personal level; each
tweet is “signed” by the person
who tweeted. 3.The Beehive
The message: We’re all in this
together people. Everyone who
works for you can be your social
network identity. Instead of
having an official company
account, you encourage all
employees to participate in
social media networks. Work
identities collapse into personal
social identities.
In this engagement style, the
focus is not so much the direct
relationship between consumer
and business. Instead, it’s a
distributed relationship whereby
the business benefits by all the
small relationships between its
employees and the wider world.
This is a radical way of thinking
about customer engagement
because it’s about cultivating a
culture of engagement
throughout your entire
company.
How you say it: In a wacky,
edgy, at times out-of-control
voice. Often a company in this
style will have a social media
policy setting some ground rules
and expectations; but the real
thing holding this strategy
together is a philosophy of
engagement.
Who’s it good for? Idea-based
companies, large or small. If
your business is based on
innovation, networking and
generating buzz, this is the style
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Submitted at 8/11/2010 12:48:06 PM
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wane, the pressing question
remains: How do you choose
which mobile devices to
develop for and which devices
to omit from your roadmap?
Cross-OS platforms for mobile
development on the whole are
not yet a completely perfect,
have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too
solution, but many of them offer
an excellent alternative to
ignoring one mobile OS in favor
of another or, perhaps worse,
burning serious resources to
develop for two or three
platforms at once.
Here are a few cross-platform
development tools that were
recommended to us by sources
we trust. If you know of others
or if you have any helpful tips
about the frameworks we’re
mentioning here, please let us
know about them in the
comments. 1. RhoMobile
The tagline “one codebase,
every smartphone” pretty much
says it all. RhoMobile offers
Rhodes, an open source, Ruby-
based framework that allows for
development of native apps for a
wide range of smartphone
devices and operating systems.
OSes covered include iPhone,
Android, Windows Mobile,
RIM and Symbian.
The framework lets you write
your code once and use it to
quickly build apps for every
major smartphone. Native apps
are said to take full advantage of
available hardware, including
GPS and camera, as well as
location data.
In addition to Rhodes, currently
in its 2.0 iteration, RhoMobile
offers RhoHub, a hosted
development environment, and
RhoSync, a standalone server
that keeps app data current on
users’ mobile devices. 2.
Appcelerator
When we polled Twitter
followers for recommended
cross-platform tools,
Appcelerator stood out as a fan
favorite.
Another FOSS offering,
Appcelerator’s Titanium
Development Platform allows
for the development of native
mobile, tablet and desktop
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for you.
Example: Any number of small
software companies, but IBM is
one of the most interesting
examples of this style. They
have an extensive and
thoughtful approach to social
networking (and computing).
They encourage each of their
employees to identify
themselves on social networks
as IBMers. 4. The Community
Builder
Your message: Always an
acquaintance but never a friend.
You think of your customers as
like-minded folks, and so you
build spaces on the social web
for them to hang out and share
in their like-mindedness. You
use Twitter to share non-
business related links and quotes
that you think your customers
will like, but you also keep a
slight distance from them in an
attempt to let them drive the
conversation. You probably use
the word ‘movement’ in your
Twitter bio.
Oftentimes, a business who
follows this style will integrate
their Twitter use within other
social technologies – blogs (but
for strictly non-business news),
forums, and even entire websites
devoted to the things your
community cares about.
The community builder’s goal
is to create conversation around
things the company cares about
and then link that conversation
to the brand.
How you say it: With a
balanced combination of passion
and detachment. You want to
encourage your customers to
join your movement but you
don’t want to either dominate
the conversation or make the
whole thing feel like it was
cooked up by your marketing
department. You are going for
what people actually care about
and so a little humility —
making the brand ride shotgun
or even in the back — works
best.
Who’s it Good For? Businesses
whose products and services
already target a community with
a definable set of values. If your
customers and you would have a
lot to talk about at a dinner
party, this is a good bet for you.
Example: Timberland. They run
a community effort called
Earthkeepers, a set of initiatives
(including social media) devoted
to environmental action. As
described on its site:
“When you’re an Earthkeeper,
you’re part of a community of
like-minded people from all
over the world intent on doing
the little things and doing bigger
things, like replanting eroded
areas and retrofitting their
engines to run on bio fuel.
Earthkeepers learn from and
support one another through
original and inspiring ideas of
making the world a more
sustainable and livable place.
And the more of us there are,
the better.”
Note that while the Timberland
logo is on the top of the page,
it’s not mentioned here. In their
tweets they take a more
anonymous tone and almost
always include a link to
something the community might
care about (often linking back to
the Earthkeeper blog). 5. The
Friend
Your message: Every customer
interaction is like one amazing
high-five. You are the business
owner who knows all your
customers by name and hangs
out with them on the weekends.
Your business Twitter account
is way more important to you
than your personal account (in
fact you may not even have a
separate personal account – it’s
all the same to you).
Businesses in this style will
share relevant info like menu
updates, new products and event
information but will also mix in
personal thoughts, jokes and
pictures of themselves at work.
They tweet about things that
have nothing to do with the
business per se. These
businesses want to their
relationship with their customer
base to be fluid and up-to-date.
How you say it: Just as you
would say something to a pal.
Pretty much anything goes,
though the more personal the
voice the better. Because your
engagement with your customer
is based on the friendliness of
the relationship, the more
natural and true to the voice of
the person communicating, the
better.
Who’s it good For? Smaller,
local businesses. This is best
when your social media
presence mostly extends your
face-to-face relationship.
Example: Choose any local
restaurant and look at their
Twitter account. There are a lot
of food carts here in San
Francisco like The Creme
Brulee Cart which use Twitter to
update their customer base as to
where they’ll be that day, but
you’ll also see messages to
customers, friends, and other
business owners.
The bottom line: They engage
with their customers as friends.
What’s Your Style?
It is important that you think
through how you want to engage
your customers on Twitter and
elsewhere on the social web. It’s
important to stay true to your
brand but also to make clear the
ways in which your customer
87
engagement style furthers the
type of relationship you want
with your customers and
potential customers.
More Business Resources From
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Leverage Facebook’s Open
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Use Social Media In The Future
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Scheduling Social Media
Updates
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[EXCLUSIVE]
Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:32:10 AM
MySpace is rolling out a
complete redesign of the user
homepage (the page users see
when they log in), with a focus
on content discovery through
the stream and more prominent
sharing tools.
The revamp, which will roll out
as a “sneak peek” to some users
today and to all users on August
16, is part of MySpace’s new
effort to showcase its value.
Christina Wodtke, General
Manager of Social Networking
at MySpace, told me that they
have a lot of loyal users that
have been with MySpace for a
long time, but they haven’t
really discovered all that
MySpace has to offer. The new
homepage is an attempt to show
users, especially younger ones,
what’s cool and interesting on
the MySpace network.
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The first thing that should pop
out at you is the MySpace
Stream — just like MySpace’s
recent profile redesign, the
Stream is front and center,
delivering a newsfeed of
information about friends
directly to the user. There are
also a slew of new modules on
the right-hand column complete
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with friend and event
recommendations, birthdays and
a “My Stuff” module, which
gives you quick access to your
events, profile, music, photos,
video, blog and games — core
components of the new
MySpace platform. Alerts have
also been moved to the top right
of the page.
The redesigned homepage is
part of a complete overhaul of
the MySpace interface. Last
month, the company launch a
profile redesign to some of its
users, again with a focus on the
stream and sharing content. The
company has also been
experimenting with an updated
header. According to Wodtke,
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it’s all part of a “learning to
skydive strategy.” The
company wants to get a few
core elements of the redesign
right, specifically profiles and
the homepage, before jumping
out of the airplane and
launching the complete
overhaul.
We’ve got more pictures of the
redesign below. What do you
think of MySpace’s new look?
Let us know in the comments.
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What Happens When You Run Out

of Storage Space in Gmail? [PIC]
Christina Warren (Mashable!) their disposal today. However, have so much storage?!” line
Submitted at 8/11/2010 11:01:56 AMusers also now send larger e- from the Gmail Trash folder.
mail attachments and archive How close are you to “beating”
It turns out that bottomless more messages. Still, for non- Gmail? Mashable’s Adam
bucket of Gmail storage actually corporate e-mail users, racking Ostrow is at 94% — let us know
does have a bottom. Just ask up more than 7GB in e-mail your “score” in the comments!
Mike Monteiro, the most recent archives is a pretty impressive [via Daring Fireball]
person to break Gmail’s usage feat. [img credit: Mike Monteiro]
cap. A few years ago, when some Reviews: Gmail, Google
So much for, “never delete an e users first started to hit the More About: email storage,
-mail again.” When Gmail first ceiling for Gmail storage space, gmail, Google, humor
launched in 2004, its massive Google rolled out the ability to For more Tech coverage:
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Apps users have about 7.3GB at “Who needs to delete when you