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Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row present—something to show how Emanuel will likely have the
Washington) we feel about you but also shows money. He certainly has the
Submitted at 10/1/2010 10:55:58 AM we understand your new broadest name recognition in the
possibilities. I was the natural go city. On the negative side, there is
What do you get a guy who’s between—I voted for you all three a bit of a view of him as a carpet-
leaving the White House to run times you ran for Congress and bagger. He’s from here but he
for Mayor of Chicago? even in that first primary. So here hasn’t been here for some period
W h i t e H o u s e c o l l e a g u e s is your present.” of time.”
presented Rahm Emanuel with a Emanuel opened it and said, “this “We have 50 years of tradition of
dead Asian carp wrapped in is a dead fish!” And Goolsbee ethnic voting here which has been
C h i c a g o n e w s p a p e r s a t t h e said, “to most people, it looks like suppressed because a Daley
morning meeting on his last day. a dead fish. But to a future mayor would always win,” said Andrew
It was a symbol of two of the of Chicago, it looks like a dead McFarland of the University of
many political battles fought by Asian Carp. And you’ll be happy Illinois at Chicago. “If the black
the man who became President to know that it wasn’t easy to find community puts forth one major
Barack Obama’s chief of staff — one of these.” candidate, if anything, that person
he once sent a dead fish to a “ In Chicago, this is how friends would be favored.”
p o l l s t e r a s a m e s s a g e o f say goodbye ,” said White House One thing’s for sure, Rahm is
displeasure, and the other was his spokesman Robert Gibbs. likely to give his opponents a
fight against the Asian carp Rahm told senior staff in the fight they won’t forget…
election to the top Chicago will not waltz into City Hall to
threatening to invade the Great Roosevelt Room: “I know that I Photo credit: Reuters/Larry
political post is not a sure thing. succeed the retiring Richard
Lakes. pushed you all very hard. But I Downing (Rahm Emanuel
The New York Times outlined Daley.
Our White House correspondent did it in service to the president listening to Obama speak at White
five reasons why Rahm will win “There’s no obvious favorite in
Steve Holland tells us that Austan and I believe that our whole House March 18), Photo of dead
and five reasons why he will lose. the race,” said Michael Mezey, a
Goolsbee gave it to Rahm at a country is better off for it.” fish present provided by a source.
Our Chicago Correspondent political analyst at DePaul
senior staff meeting, saying, “I In pursuit of his longtime dream
Andrew Stern found that political University in Chicago. “As in
talked to the policy team and we though, Emanuel will have to fend
analysts in Illinois said Emanuel many races, money counts, and
wanted to give you a going away off some opponents, and his
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Washington Extra – Storm clouds over Haiti

Simon Denyer (Front Row uncertain as ever. Taking a swipe at his own
Washington) Here are our top stories from Republicans, who hope to regain
Submitted at 9/30/2010 5:09:57 PM today… control of the chamber in the
Obama aide Emanuel to run for November elections, as well as
T h e r e w a s a t r e m e n d o u s Chicago mayor the majority Democrats, John
outpouring of goodwill and White House chief of staff Rahm Boehner said the House has
money for Haiti after the quake, Emanuel, one of President Barack earned a reputation for “fiscal
w h i c h p r e v e n t e d a f u r t h e r Obama’s most powerful aides, recklessness.”
humanitarian catastrophe. But so plans to step down on Friday to For more of this story by
far, nine months after the capital pursue a run for Chicago mayor, Thomas Ferraro, read here.
was devastated, progress in sources familiar with the matter As TARP ends, small banks
“building back better” seems said. Obama was to make an struggle to repay
painfully slow. Rubble still announcement at a White House The U.S. government’s $700
chokes the narrow streets of Port- East Room event on Friday. billion bailout of the financial
au-Prince, and 1.3 million people White House spokesman Robert system has become a form of
some of its secrets — and that regulatory regime.
occupy every available scrap of G i b b s w o u l d n o t c o n f i r m
access can be lucrative. On For more of this story by Dave long-standing aid for many of the
l a n d i n t e n t s a w a i t i n g Emanuel is the subject of the
August 19, just nine days after the Clarke and Rachelle Younglai, nation’s small and regional banks,
resettlement, or even just a announcement but the sources even as the program officially
U.S. central bank surprised read here.
government plan on what to do said Emanuel’s announcement
financial markets by deciding to Data support modest third- expires on Sunday. The banks are
with them. would come on Friday. eager to repay the taxpayer
buy more bonds to support a quarter growth hopes
Given the mind-boggling scale For more of this story by Steve
flagging economy, former Fed New claims for jobless aid fell money, but the meek economic
of the disaster, the weakness of Holland, read here.
governor Larry Meyer sent a note last week, while manufacturing in recovery has gotten in the way.
the government and economy Obama staff changes may signal
to clients of his consulting firm the nation’s Midwest region grew For more of this story by Joe
even before the earthquake, the fresh start
with a breakdown of the policy- faster than expected in September, Rauch and Dave Clarke, click
lack of land as well as clearly The exit of top aide Rahm
setting meeting. s u p p o r t i n g t h e v i e w t h a t here.
defined land ownership records, Emanuel and other staff changes
For more of this story by economic activity picked up a bit Big energy firms cut Iran ties
it is unfair to expect too much. give President Barack Obama a Kristina Cooke, Pedro da Costa in the third quarter. Another under U.S. pressure
But today everyone seems to be chance to signal a fresh start as he Four major European oil
and Emily Flitter, read here. report showed consumer
asking: What has all this goodwill tries to boost his weak poll
Lawmakers urge regulators to spending was slightly stronger companies will abandon their Iran
achieved in terms of lasting numbers and prepare for his 2012
avoid infighting than expected in the April-June ian activities voluntarily to avoid
benefits to Haiti? One thing that is re-election campaign. White
Lawmakers warned regulators period, causing the government American sanctions designed to
clear from our interviews this House officials said Emanuel’s
not to let infighting or to revise its second-quarter pressure Iran over its nuclear
week is the government, local departure and that of other senior
intimidation get in the way of growth estimate up to a 1.7 program, U.S. officials said on
elites and the international aides, such as top economic
their new responsibility to spot percent annualized pace from 1.6 Thursday.
community seem to be playing adviser Larry Summers, would For more of this story by
and defuse the next financial percent.
something of a blame game. mean a loss of valued players. crisis before it becomes an For more of this story by Lucia Andrew Quinn, read here.
Last week six people in the For more of this story by Caren White House keeps pressure on
economic disaster. Federal Mutikani, read here.
camps died when a freak storm Bohan, read here. China over yuan
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Top Republican Boehner decries
struck Port-au-Prince, and today Special Report: The ties that The White House kept pressure
and five other top officials “fiscal recklessness”
more bad weather could be on its bind at the Federal Reserve
testified as a group on Thursday The top Republican in the House on China over the valuation of its
way. There has been a spike in To the outside world, the Federal
for the first time on how they o f R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s s a i d currency but gave no clear sign
births in the camps as the first Reserve is an impenetrable
intend to turn more than 800 lawmakers should be forced to whether President Barack Obama
“earthquake babies” arrive, but fortress. But former employees
pages of financial reform make cuts in federal spending if WASHINGTON page 4
the future they face looks as and big investors are privy to
legislation into a workable they want to add new programs.
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Washington Extra – Building a better Haiti

Simon Denyer (Front Row enough of lasting benefit will be officials falsely said they
Washington) left behind when all these reviewed mortgage documents
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:07:49 PM foreigners eventually pack up and and concluded that they justified
leave. A further disaster avoided, foreclosure.
R e t u r n i n g h o m e f r o m a yes. A firm foundation for the For more of this story by Scot
fascinating week in Haiti today, future, not much sign yet. Paltrow and Jonathan Stempel,
and meetings with the prime Here are our top stories… read here.
minister, UN mission chief, aid Obama names low-key insider U.S. apologizes for syphilis
workers, business leaders and Pete Rouse as chief of staff experiment in Guatemala
middle class and poor Haitians. President Barack Obama turned The United States apologized for
In a sense, Haiti is another test to low-key insider Pete Rouse to an experiment conducted in the
case for the international aid and replace high-profile chief of staff 1940s in which government
development effort. A disaster on Rahm Emanuel in a prelude to a researchers deliberately infected
t h e s c a l e o f t h e J a n u a r y wider staff shake-up expected at Guatemalan prison inmates,
earthquake — striking a poor the White House. Obama named Doering, read here. meeting and voted to seek public women and mental patients with
country with a weak government Rouse, a veteran Capitol Hill Democrats see signs of hope for comment for a period of 30 days syphilis.
a n d p r i v a t e s e c t o r — h a s operator, to take over at least on election on the Volcker rule, which For more of this story by Maggie
highlighted all the well-known an interim basis from Emanuel, After enduring months of bad restricts risky bank trading. Fox, Health and Science Editor,
pros and cons of the international 5 0 , w h o a n n o u n c e d h i s n e w s a n d g l o o m y p o l i t i c a l For more of this story by Dave read here.
aid effort, which now seems to resignation as Obama’s top aide forecasts, some Democrats are Clarke, read here. Factory and inflation data suggest
run much of the country and to launch a campaign for Chicago s e e i n g s i g n s o f h o p e t h a t Single trade kickstarted flash more Fed easing
economy. mayor. R e p u b l i c a n g a i n s i n t h e crash: regulators Manufacturing growth slowed
Today, there is very little For more of this story by Steve N o v e m b e r 2 c o n g r e s s i o n a l A computer-driven sale worth last month and inflation remained
malnutrition, epidemics and major Holland, read here elections will not be as big as $4.1 billion by a single trader subdued in August, leaving the
disturbances have been avoided CFTC starts overhaul of U.S. predicted. A modest boost in the helped trigger the May 6 “flash door open for the Federal Reserve
and healthcare for most Haitians swaps market party’s national poll numbers and crash,” setting off “liquidity to launch a fresh round of
is better than before the quake The U.S. futures regulator, in the a n u p t u r n f o r D e m o c r a t i c crises” in U.S. futures and stock monetary policy easing. Data also
struck, all major achievements. roll-out of its first new rules under candidates in a few key states, markets, regulators said in a showed both consumer and
But many Haitians have serious the sweeping financial reform p a r t i c u l a r l y C a l i f o r n i a a n d report. construction spending rose more
r e s e r v a t i o n s a b o u t t h e law, proposed to limit the control Washington, have fueled For more of this story by than expected in August, but
“occupation” by thousands of of banks and other firms in the Democratic hopes that a yearlong Jonathan Spicer and Rachelle investment in private projects fell
foreign NGOs, only a few of clearinghouses that will soon Republican wave of momentum Younglai, read here. to its lowest level in more than 12
which actually work with the manage most trade in risky swaps. may have crested. GMAC showed ‘bad faith’ in years.
government. Much of the aid The Commodity Futures Trading For more of this story by John Maine foreclosure-judge For more of this story by Steven
money flows right back out of the Commission’s proposal is an early Whitesides, read here. A Maine state court judge C. Johnson and Lucia Mutikani,
country, and much of the energy test of how hard the agency Risk council takes first steps on reprimanded GMAC mortgage read here.
and goodwill is dissipated in intends to crack down on the Dodd-Frank over its foreclosure practices and What we are blogging…
waste and overlap. previously unregulated market for A new council of regulators concluded that it submitted a Rahm’s White House going away
The massive influx of free s w a p s , t h e s p e c u l a t i v e charged with identifying risks to company official’s affidavit to present – dead fish wrapped in
foreign food, medicine and i n v e s t m e n t s b l a m e d f o r the financial system acted on support a foreclosure “in bad newspaper
medical help has also undermined accelerating the 2008-09 financial Friday to begin implementing the faith.” The ruling came in a case What do you get a guy who’s
local Haitian agriculture and the crisis. new financial regulatory overhaul that revealed that GMAC, now leaving the White House to run
private health sector. For more of this story by Roberta law. The Financial Stability part of Ally Financial Inc, filed
There is a real fear that not R a m p t o n a n d C h r i s t o p h e r WASHINGTON page 4
Oversight Council held its first thousands of affidavits in which
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supports a House bill that
threatens to penalize Chinese
goods.
For more of this story, click
here.
U.S. issues new drilling rules,
offshore ban stays
The Obama administration
unveiled new regulations aimed at
permanently reshaping the
nation’s offshore drilling industry
in the wake of the BP oil spill, but
kept its deepwater drilling ban in
place for now.
For more of this story by Ayesha
Rascoe, read here.
What we are blogging…
Gibbs skillfully dances around
Rahm question
The performance was worthy of
“Dancing with the Stars.”
Watching White House Press
Secretary Robert Gibbs waltz
around the question of whether
White House chief of staff Rahm
Emanuel had decided to leave
and run for mayor of Chicago was
quite breathtaking.
For Toby Zakaria’s full blog,
click here.
Castle rules out write-in race
Congressman Mike Castle will
not launch a write-in campaign
for the Senate seat he once was
heavily favored to win. Castle had
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been considering the option of
running as a write-in candidate
since he lost to Tea Party favorite
Christine O’Donnell in
Delaware’s Republican primary
election.
For Joanne Allen’s full blog,
click here.
For more Front Row
Washington, click here.
From Haiti…
Interview – Haiti must use
election to lever out of aid trap –
U.N.
Haitians should seize U.N.-
backed elections in November as
an opportunity to build a better
nation from the ruins of this
year’s earthquake by taking
charge of future development and
shedding years of aid dependency,
the top U.N. official in Haiti said.
Edmond Mulet said the Nov. 28
presidential and legislative polls
to be held 10 months after the
massive Jan. 12 earthquake would
be a chance for Haiti to shake off
its identity as a weak, unstable,
poverty-ridden “Republic of
NGOs” dominated by foreign aid
organizations.
For the full story by Pascal
Fletcher and Simon Denyer, read
here.
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Haitian mother Louise Estela
Nacius and her five children have
lost their home twice in less than
a year. The first time was in
January when a devastating
earthquake toppled their house
along with those of at least 1.5
million others in the overcrowded
capital Port-au-Prince. Their
second “home,” a tarpaulin
stretched on sticks over a patch
of muddy earth in a quake
survivors’ tent camp, was blown
down on Friday when a freak
storm hit the ravaged city and its
camps for the quake homeless,
causing fear and panic.
For the full story by Pascal
Fletcher, read here.
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Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
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for Mayor of Chicago?
White House colleagues
presented Rahm Emanuel with a
dead Asian carp wrapped in
Chicago newspapers at the
morning meeting on his last day.
For Toby Zakaria’s full blog,
click here.
In House, bipartisanship is in eye
of the beholder
A top Democrat is fed up with
House Republican Leader John
Boehner citing their work together
years ago as an example of
Boehner’s commitment to
bipartisanship. Representative
George Miller says Boehner — in
line to become House speaker if
Republicans win the chamber in
the Nov. 2 election — is long-
time partisan and everyone should
know it.
For Thomas Ferraro’s full blog,
click here.
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“Adventureland” and
“Zombieland” and independent
films like “Squid and the Whale.”
Now, the 26 year-old actor is
getting ready to take on his most
high-profile role to date, playing
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
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In House, bipartisanship is in eye of
the beholder
Thomas Ferraro (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:05:14 PM
A top Democrat is fed up with
House Republican Leader John
Boehner citing their work together
years ago as an example of
Boehner’s commitment to
bipartisanship.
Representative George Miller
says Boehner — in line to become
House speaker if Republicans win
the chamber in the Nov. 2 election
— is long-time partisan and
everyone should know it.
“The fact is, the only bipartisan
moment Representative Boehner
can point to is working with me
nine years ago” on an education
bill that Republican President
George W. Bush “had made a
priority,” Miller said. “Everything
since has been partisan opposition
to issues of great importance to
America’s middle class.”
Kevin Smith, a Boehner
spokesman, on Friday accused
Miller of “revisionist history,”
and charged that President Barack
Obama and his fellow Democrats
have been the ones shutting
Republicans out of the legislative
process the past two years.
Miller, chairman of the House
Education and Labor Committee,
issued his statement on
Thursday, shortly after Boehner
publicly pointed to their joint
efforts from 2001 to 2006 while
Boehner was chairman of the
Education committee and Miller
was its top Democrat.
“No one would confuse me and
George Miller for ideological soul
mates,” Boehner said in a speech
at the American Enterprise
Institute. “But in just a few short
years, we were able to work
together and transform our
committee from a ‘backwater’
panel that nobody wanted to be on
to an active panel at the center of
some of the biggest issues of the
day.”
“There is no reason that every
single committee in the House
can’t achieve the same thing,”
Boehner said.
Miller replied: “Lately … John
Boehner has enjoyed referring to
his work with me nine years ago
as if to suggest that he is
bipartisan. Sadly, nothing could
be further from the truth.”
“Our work together on ‘No Child
Left Behind’ was one moment in
time that has itself been left
behind,” Miller said.
Miller said while he and other
Democrats worked with Boehner
to pass the measure, a top Bush
priority, Boehner and other
Republicans have failed to step up by too much in the coming
to help Obama.
“Unfortunately, over the last two time to look at a bullish hedged
years, the Obama administration
and Democratic leaders have
willfully chosen to ignore
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on every big issue of the day,
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Nokia Ships N8
Smartphone -- Still A
Buy?
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Corp. (NOK), Options, Technical
Analysis, Smartphones,
Technology Nokia ( NOK- option
chain) shares are rising today after
the company announced it has
begun shipping its Nokia N8
smartphone. The phone has
reportedly received the most pre-
orders in company history, and an
analyst at Morgan Stanley wrote
in a note to investors earlier this
week that NOK could sell 3
million mobile phones during the
fourth quarter thanks in large part
to the highly-anticipated N8. If
you think that the stock won't fall
months, then now could be a good
trade on NOK.
NOK opened this morning at
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$10.35. As of 12:35, NOK is
trading at $10.25 up 0.22 (2.2%).
The chart for NOK looks bullish
and S&P gives NOK a positive 5
STARS (out of 5) strong buy
ranking.
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slightly positive ISM report and a
positive report from China kept
the US markets in the black on
Friday. The first day of the month
and quarter is on the heels of a
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Gulf Coast Oil's Disappearing Act Comes to an End
David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:57:03 PM
Remember all that talk a while
back about how the oil from the
broken BP well had magically
disappeared? "The vast majority
of the oil is gone," Obama's
climate czar Carol Browner had
said. Well, like in any decent
magic act, what disappeared has
now reappeared. Greenpeace
scientists spent 10 days sampling
areas around the Deepwater
Horizon site and reported that
they found oil as deep as 3,200
feet beneath the surface, and as a
far as 300 miles away from the
site.
Though the oil has obviously
spread and dispersed, it has not
entirely dissolved or been
rendered harmless. The
Greenpeace scientists tested
oxygen levels in the water and
found them to be apparently
altered by the presence of oil.
They also dredged sediment from
the ocean floor, and found
samples that reeked of oil.
"Despite everything that BP and
the government would like us to
think, the truth is, the oil spill's
impact is not over," Greenpeace's
Kert Davies, according to AFP.
The news comes just as Chevron
has been given a permit for the
first deepwater drilling project in
U.K. waters since the Deepwater
Horizon disaster. Though the U.S.
has issued a moratorium on new
drilling projects, Britain has
decided such measures aren't
necessary. Greenpeace had
attempted to halt the project, but
recently lost a battle in court. The
U.K. says it's dedicated to the idea
of a low-carbon economy in the
long run. "In the meantime we
will be dependent on oil and gas,"
the U.K.'s Department of Energy
and Climate Change said in a
statement. "So it is a choice
between producing oil and gas
here in U.K. waters, where we
have one of the most robust safety
and regulatory regimes in the
world, with all the economic
benefits that will bring, or paying
to import oil and gas."
All in all, then, it was a day of
more appearances than
disappearances for oil.
Business/ 7
Zuckerberg Taking
Facebook Staff To See
"The Social Network"
Jay Yarow (Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:18:07 PM
Mark Zuckerberg isn't running
away from the Social Network.
He's embracing it, says New York
Times' ace reporter David Carr.
Carr just tweeted, "Heard from
gd source Zuckerberg rented out
theater and is taking FB staff to
see #SocialNetwork. Prolly
realized film is great for FB/him"
Nice for them!
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As Microfinance Explodes in India, Regulators Step Up Oversight

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast standardized rates, and a lack of such as SKS Microfinance, innovation, among other
Company) transparency in microfinance Bandhan, and Equitas. attributes. While already present
Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:07:21 PM institutions (MFIs). So the India The Small Industries in India, they've recently entered
Microfinance Platform (IMFP) Development Bank of India one of the poorest states, Bihar,
T h e I n d i a n M i c r o f i n a n c e will be established this month, (SIDBI) is expected to be a which may help other MFIs learn
Platform is launching this month, due to "over-heating, employee primary actor in the IMFP and from their approach, especially
increasing transparency and poaching, multiple lending, and wants to make a common with the introduction of the IMFP.
standardizing reporting for the lack of common reporting" in the reporting system available to the Competition can certainly spur
public domain. sector, according to Microfinance public domain. innovation, so let's see what
Microfinance is getting big in Focus. Standard Chartered Bank, ACCION was recently named the happens.
India--so big, in fact, it's having the Reserve Bank of India, and world's most effective [Image via Flickr/ Rita Banerji]
its first growing pains. the Indian Bankers Association microfinance reporting and allow microfinance non-profit, and what
Concerns have been raised about are all signatories to the new a joint loan portfolio audit of makes them so competitive is
f a i r l e n d i n g p r o c e s s e s , platform, which will standardize Indian microfinance heavyweights their perpetual cycle of
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Newmont Mining Have Cute Matching
Bounces Higher Smiles in Malibu
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:30:00 PM

Courteney Cox and her daughter,
Printing Facebook Gives Filed under: Newmont Mining
(NEM), Stocks to Buy Newmont
Coco, had a girls' dinner at Nobu
in Malibu yesterday. Courteney's
Hard-Copy Reassurance Mining ( NEM), first discussed
here on June 3, 2009 at a price of
back home in LA after taking a
quick trip during a break from
$46.42, continues to break new currency market uncertainty (and f i l m i n g C o u g a r T o w n . T h e
of Popularity ground (pun intended) share price low, real interest rates) will comedy's premiere last month
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David Zax (Fast Company) your poster, if you haven't pruned Jennifer Aniston that had you
risk investors. Continue reading Newmont excited to see the Friends stars
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Bank Of America Joins JPMorgan In Suspending Foreclosures

(BAC)
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:00:00 PM
Bank of America is joining
JPMorgan Chase and GMAC is
suspending foreclosure processes
in 23 states that weren't reviewed
properly.
A BoA exec admitted she signed
up to 8,000 documents in a month
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Vulcan Materials:
Stopped-Out for Loss
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:00:00 PM
They don't all work out. Vulcan
Materials ( VMC), first discussed
here on June 3, 2009 at a price of
$46.28, was stopped-out for a
roughly 9-point loss at $37 on
August 24, 2010.
Vulcan, a major producer of
construction aggregates, asphalt
and concrete, hit a high just shy of
$60 in the spring, then formed a
bear hug.
The calculation in June was that a
bottom in highway and related
road construction projects would
push VMC out of its bear hug
pattern. It did not happen, and the
trade ended with a 9-point loss.
Vulcan later made a new 2010
How to Open Compressed
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Could Harry Potter
return? JK Rowling
says maybe (AP)
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 12:27:05 PM
CHICAGO – Could Harry Potter
return to work more magic?
J.K. Rowling is leaving open the
possibility. She told Oprah
Winfrey in a taped interview
airing Friday that she may
low at $35.61. someday write another novel in
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The Netflix Stock Bubble More than 400 million copies of
the books about the boy wizard
have been sold. Rowling says
Finally Bursting? (NFLX) fame brought extreme pressures,
including paparazzi and reporters
Jay Yarow and Kamelia
Angelova (Business Insider)
down by an off market, it has
underperformed for two days
running. This could just be an
searching her trash.
She says it was "like being a
Beatle" and there was a time she
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:03:00 PM
anomaly, but maybe all the "was barely hanging by a thread."
Netflix's stock's big run is finally Netflix stock doubters will finally Forbes magazine ranks Rowling
hitting a rough patch. After hitting have their day.
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started falling back to Earth. Twitter:@chartoftheday
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Brake problem forces BMW, Rolls-Royce recall
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PARIS (AFP) – The German
luxury automaker BMW said
Friday it was recalling 350,800
BMW and Rolls-Royce vehicles
worldwide because of brake
problems that a spokesman
stressed were "without danger."
Of the total, 5,800 vehicles were
limousines built by Rolls-Royce
in Britain, a BMW spokesman
told AFP.
The United States was most
affected by the recall, with a total
of 198,000 vehicles, but the
problem was "without danger" for
passengers, the spokesman said.
It concerned braking systems that
could become "slightly more
difficult to use" following an
extended period of operation, he
added.
BMW is the world's leading
premium automobile
manufacturer and the US market
is its biggest after Germany.
Last year, BMW sold 1,068,770
of its own brand autos and 1,002
Rolls-Royces.
Found Footage: Woz on Big Bang Theory
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:00:00 PM
Nerds squealed with delight last
night as the geekiest comedy on
American television, The Big
BMW sales director Ian
Robertson told AFP in Paris:
"We've chosen to recall the cars. I
think this is normal pratice in this
industry.
"It is a large number of cars but
it's a small percentage" of the
group's total, he noted, before
stressing: "We are a responsible
manufacturer."
In Britain, a BMW spokesman
added: "It's a voluntary recall, we
took it upon ourselves. It affects
large-engined 5-, 6- and 7-series
(BMWs) and Rolls-Royce" cars.
Large engined models are those
equipped with V8 and V12
engines.
"The potential fault is a small leak
that could develop in the power-
assisted braking system ... if there
is a leak the car would lose some
breaking power but should still be
able to stop," the British
spokesman said.
"Not all the vehicles are
necessarily affected by the
problem" but owners should
nonetheless bring them in for
checks, the German spokesman
said.
Bang Theory, featured a cameo by
Steve Wozniak. The Apple co-
founder played himself in a brief
scene with the gang from the
show (Is that his daughter next to
him at the table?). He was pretty
funny and seemed comfortable on
No accidents have been reported
and a simple parts replacement
would clear up the problem, he
added.
Shares in BMW screeched to a
loss of 3.39 percent at 49.69 euros
in afternoon trading on the
Frankfurt stock exchange, while
the DAX index of leading stocks
was 0.25 percent higher overall.
Other luxury carmakers have also
had to issue recalls in recent
months, with General Motors
putting out a notice in late
September for 20,000 Cadillac
CTS models to fix their glove
compartments.
In May, GM recalled more than
160,000 Hummers owing to a
flaw that could cause part of the
hood to break off while the
vehicle was being driven.
The Italian automaker Ferrari
said in September that it had
recalled all of its model 458 Italia
sports car produced before July
2010 after four of them caught
fire.
That recall extended to 1,248
vehicles worldwide, an official
said.
camera. In fact, Steve is an old
hand at TV by now, having
appeared on Dancing With The
Stars and My Life on the D-List.
In case you missed it, you can
watch it above (sorry about the
audio quality -- we'll keep an eye
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The worst incident involved
Japanese auto giant Toyota which
this year saw its reputation badly
damaged after it had to recall
some 10 million worldwide
because of defects, mainly for
"sticky" accelerator pedal
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Producer of 'The A-Team,' other shows Facebook announces 5-to
dies (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:02:27 PM
Stephen J. Cannell, the voracious
writer-producer of dozens of
series that included TV favorites
"The Rockford Files," "The A-
Team" and "The Commish," has
died at age 69.
Cannell passed away at his home
in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday
night from complications
associated with melanoma, his
family said in a statement on
Friday.
During three decades as an
independent producer, he
distinguished himself as a rangy,
outgoing chap with a trim beard
who was generally identified with
action dramas full of squealing
tires and tough guys trading
punches.
But his range was greater than for
which he was given credit.
"Tenspeed and Brown Shoe" was
a clever detective drama starring
Ben Vereen and a then-unknown
Jeff Goldblum in 1980. "Profit"
was a shocking saga of a psycho
businessman that was
unforgettable to the few viewers
who saw it: Fox pulled the plug
after just four episodes in 1996.
With "Wiseguy" (1987-90),
Cannell chilled viewers with a
film-noir descent into the
underworld that predated "The
-1 stock split
Sopranos" by more than a decade.
"The Rockford Files," of course,
became an Emmy-winning TV
classic following the
misadventures of its hapless ex-
con private eye played by James
Garner.
"People say, 'How can the guy
who did "Wiseguy" do "The A-
Team"?' I don't know," said
Cannell in an interview with The
Associated Press in 1993. "But I
do know it's easier to think of me
simply as the guy who wrote 'The
A-Team.' So they do."
During his TV heyday, Cannell
became familiar to viewers from
the ID that followed each of his
shows: He was seen in his office
typing on his Selectric before
blithely ripping a sheet of paper
from the typewriter carriage,
whereupon it morphed into the C-
shaped logo of Cannell
Entertainment Inc.
That was all the idea of his wife,
Marcia, he said, and it "appealed
to my sense of hooey. ... I'm a
ham."
He was also an occasional actor,
most recently with a recurring
role on ABC-TV's series,
"Castle."
A third-generation Californian,
Cannell (rhymes with "channel")
got into television writing scripts
for "It Takes a Thief," "Ironside"
and "Adam 12." It was a
remarkable career choice for
someone who had suffered since
childhood from severe dyslexia
(he became an advocate for
children and adults with learning
disabilities).
Cannell in recent years had
focused his attention on writing
books. His 16th novel, "The
Prostitute's Ball," will be released
this month.
"I never thought of myself as
being a brilliant writer, and still
don't," he said in the AP
interview. "I'm a populist. With
'Rockford,' we were never trying
to be important. And as
thoroughly hated as it was by
critics, I loved 'The A-Team.' I
thought it was really cool."
He was a producer of the feature
film updating "The A-Team,"
released earlier this year.
Cannell is survived by Marcia,
his wife of 46 years, their three
children, and three grandchildren.
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:31:00 PM may be, and when it may finally
take the plunge and file for an
Facebook formally sliced up its IPO. Rumors that Facebook
stock in a 5-for-1 division on employees would be permitted to
Friday, a move designed to keep cash out some of their stock
the price of individual shares options began to surface about
lower as demand for the privately two years ago, and the company
owned Facebook on secondary formally launched an employee
markets has been driving it stock buyback program with a
upward. major investor, Digital Sky
"The reason is that the stock has Technologies (which has since
risen significantly since our last changed its name to Mail.ru
split, and this allows us to bring it Group) last year.
into a similar price range as other The company modified its stock
private companies," Facebook structure to a more powerful dual-
spokesman Jonny Thaw told class system last year, in a move
CNET. "It also allows us to give that some pegged as a preparation
everyone larger stock unit grants for going public soon. A report
without increasing dilution for this summer said that there likely
shareholders." would not be an IPO until next
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Second EU nation set to ban burqas
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 9:32:03 AM
The Netherlands is on track to
become the second European
Union country to ban burqas,
Reuters reports. A draft
agreement would allow a minority
party led by the anti-Islamic
politician Geert Wilders to tighten
immigration rules and ban the
burqa. In exchange, Wilders
would agree to the majority
party's sweeping budget cuts.
French lawmakers passed a ban
on burqas, the head-to-toe, face-
covering religious garment worn
by some Muslim women, earlier
this month. Face-covering veils in
general are not permitted in the
country.
"Given the damage it produces on
those rules which allow the life in
community, ensure the dignity of
the person and equality between
sexes, this practice, even if it is
voluntary, cannot be tolerated in
any public place," the French
government said when
recommending the ban, according
to CNN.
Malene Birger: Chic in Majorca
Habitually Chic (Habitually
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 11:32:52 AM
Not only does fashion designer
Malene Birger have a gorgeous
home in Copenhagen but she also
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Loyalty Card Company
Adds High-Powered
Check-in Capabilities
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:41:57 PM
Novitaz, makers of a line of
customer loyalty cards powered
by film-thin batteries that enable
location tracking, announced
today that the company has joined
the Dash7 Alliance, a consortium
of companies using a wireless
data transmission technology that
allows data to be sent from
indoors, through cement or water,
and bent around impermeable
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(Photo of woman wearing a burqa
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Sponsor
Novitaz calls itself "the first
for what seems like a week and I company to enable a Digital In-
think we could all use a little store Ad Network," and says its
sunny inspiration. I am going to data acts as "a rich platform for
close my eyes today and dream of customer identification and
that amazing view and ignore the interactive commerce."
has a fabulous retreat in Majorca. rain outside. Bon Weekend! The prospect of a low-powered
It has been raining in New York smart card broadcasting my
13
location to trusted organizations
sounds fairly appealing, and as a
technology that can be baked into
existing loyalty programs it
sounds like a viably fast path to
mainstream adoption of
commercial location-tracking
technologies. Indoor-capable,
unafraid of cement, water and
metal? Bring it on, location
platform.
Dash7 is an organization that's
very big on the Internet of Things,
the vision of a world filled with
network-connected physical
devices, publishing data to the
Web for analysis and interaction.
Now we'll just have to remember
to take those smart cards out of
our wallets and purses when we
don't want to be tracked around
town. Can companies offer a
sufficiently compelling value
proposition to persuade
consumers to make that trade-off?
Discounts in exchange for your
purchasing data were an easy
story for the loyalty card industry
to sell - but how many of you put
your real personal information
into that system? That might
change with a location-tracking
smart card. Discuss
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Militants set fire to NATO tankers in Pakistan

(Reuters: Top News) Shikarpur. About 12 people, their would allow no infringement of guys are sitting ducks and their the war is being conducted in a
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:49:41 PM faces covered, opened fire with its sovereignty. blood is on the hands of the guy landlocked country where we no
small arms into the air to scare "I want to assure the entire nation whose dog ate his birth certificate direct except through Pakistan.
A man tells others to stay away away the drivers and then set fire from this house that we will and those who think like he does. Pakistan has been an unreliable
from a burning oil tanker on a to 35 tankers. consider other options if there is Oct 01, 2010 2:57pm EDT supply route, where many
highway near Shikarpur, about 39 " S o m e o f t h e m h a v e b e e n interference in the sovereignty of No amount of money or military convoys and depots have been
km (24 miles) from Sukkur in completely destroyed and others our country," Gilani said without might is going to pacify the destroyed by the Taliban and Al
P a k i s t a n ' s S i n d h p r o v i n c e , partially. But there is no loss of elaborating. militants, only turn pro-American Qaeda over the years. Access via
October 1, 2010. human life," Shikarpur police Pakistan's ambassador to people against us. The Pakistani the “stans”, the former Russian
Credit: Reuters/Nadeem Soomro chief Abdul Hameed Khoso told Belgium lodged a protest with government won’t tolerate provinces is iffy and depends on
By Faisal Aziz Reuters. NATO's deputy general secretary infringement by Nato forces, but Russian airspace. So, ship to
KARACHI| Fri Oct 1, 2010 In a separate incident, two over the incursions, the Pakistan will tolerate infringement by the Karachi and truck to the Peshawar
3:49pm EDT unidentified men fired on a embassy said in a statement. Taleban, their people. If we can’t area and then via the Khyber Pass
KARACHI(Reuters) - Suspected NATO tanker traveling through a Oct 01, 2010 8:16am EDT get the cooperation of Pakistani have been the major supply
militants in Pakistan set fire to town in Pakistan's southwestern Stonewall Jackson–a lot better government to go after the route,often intercepted.
three dozen tankers carrying fuel Baluchistan province toward general than any we have over terrorist, then we should pull out Now, after the Pakistan floods,
for NATO troops in Afghanistan Afghanistan. Two people burned there (he won battles) said “If I and wait for them to come to us. the truck routes are interrupted by
on Friday, officials said, a day to death after the vehicle caught can get my enemy to attack I can Let Pakistan stew in its own loss of roads and bridges. Supply
after three soldiers were killed in fire, security officials said. kill him”. We NOTICEABLY are juice’s. The nuke option is on the of most everything must depend
a cross-border NATO air strike. Police arrested 10 people after not doing this–lightning quick table, as on air transport from the Mideast.
Angered by repeated incursions the earlier attack, including five response plans (Jackson was more the Prime Minister said. Other The cost of the supplying the
by NATO helicopters over the netted from a raid on an Islamic than quick) to enemy attacks options…. NATO forces must be
past week, Pakistan has blocked a seminary, or madrasa. (when he has exposed himself) “I want to assure the entire nation astronomical.
supply route for coalition troops The tankers were parked at a will let us kill the right guys at the from this house that we will One wonders whether the
in Afghanistan. filling station on their way to right time–and, either we’ll kill all consider other options if there is Pentagon Brass took orders on
Pakistan is a crucial ally for the Afghanistan from Pakistan's of them–or, at least, they will quit interference in the sovereignty of this or was too worried about
United States in its efforts to southern port city of Karachi. doing it. We are hugely stronger our country,” Gilani said being replaced by more
stabilize Afghanistan, but analysts Thursday, three Pakistani soldiers than they, we need to take Oct 01, 2010 3:55pm EDT “obedient” generals, both in the
s a y b o r d e r i n c u r s i o n s a n d were killed and three wounded in advantage of it. This is only the latest in a long Bush years and now. No
disruptions in NATO supplies two cross-border incursions by Oct 01, 2010 12:38pm EDT series of interruptions of the intelligent general would commit
underline growing tensions in the NATO forces chasing militants in This is exactly what we would do NATO supply line that has an army where the supply routes
relationship. Pakistan's northwestern Kurram were we occupied by a foreign received little attention for its were not under firm control.
A senior Pakistani intelligence region. military.Has no one watched critical importance. Lastly, this situation needs to be
official said the border incursions It was the third cross-border “Jericho”.? Pondering the logistics problems considered in terms of our
could lead to a "total snapping of incident in a week, the Pakistan Enough. stop the violence. of the NATO forces in disengagement. All troops have to
relations." But U.S. special envoy military said. NATO said the Oct 01, 2010 1:35pm EDT Afghanistan, and wondered be flown out again: 180,000 in
Richard Holbrooke told a forum helicopters briefly crossed into We have the weakest, least whether the escalation in the Bush airplanes holding 200-300 troops.
i n W a s h i n g t o n t h e c u r r e n t Pakistan airspace after coming strategically minded commander years was dictated by the White What of the military hardware?
tensions were unlikely to "change under fire from people there. in chief ever. House, after it was initially almost Do we leave to the Afghan army,
the fundamental relationship OTHER OPTIONS? Our military should be abandoned for the war in Iraq. the Taliban if they prevail, or just
between our two countries." Prime Minister Yusuf Raza independent of the Oval Office The problem of supplying the destroy it all????
Senior local officials blamed Gilani, speaking in parliament, clown and Congress should not be forces there is almost totally The we must think back to the
"extremists" for the attack on the said Pakistan was a partner in the allowed to dictate policy. With the dependent on air transport. Every
tankers in the southern town of war against Islamist militancy, but current rules of engagement our soldier has to be flown in, because MILITANTS page 18
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BP pledges Gulf of Mexico oil fields to spill fund

(Reuters: Top News) acquiring new exploration leases The pledging of the assets is in pass off’s. the unemployment lines and
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:52:53 PM after the blow-out at its Macondo line with the terms of the fund set Oct 01, 2010 9:33am EDT double dipping of your economy.
well in April. out in August, when BP agreed to @bobw111: your type continues Oct 01, 2010 10:21am EDT
A logo is seen at a BP fuel station A BP spokesman declined to give the fund first priority to some to annoy me. Aren’t the stockholders funding a
in London July 27, 2010. comment on whether the move oil revenues to finance its $5 If BP wanted to ‘avoid’ paying good portion of the fund. So far
Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville means the U.S. government has billion contribution this year and anything, they could do so very $5 billion not paid to the
By Sarah Young told BP, or the company expects, the $1.25 billion every quarter easily. BP’s US business is stockholders ( 2 quarters at $2.5 B
LONDON| Fri Oct 1, 2010 it will not be banned from future from 2011 to 2013. seperate from the rest of the each ). Also the US government
4:52pm EDT drilling. (Additional reporting by Tom Group. Therefore, if the Group looses incom tax on the dividends
LONDON(Reuters) - BP, which Shares in BP gained 2.9 percent Bergin; Editing by Erica (yes, the Group being the British and no corporate profits. Many
faces U.S. opposition to drilling to 440 pence at 7:02 a.m. EDT on Billingham) owned, operated and managed billions so far.
for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, Friday, their highest level since Oct 01, 2010 9:21am EDT entity) wanted to, they could quite *We welcome comments that
named fields there that it will use e a r l y J u n e , o u t p e r f o r m i n g Absolutely brilliant move on simply stop funding the US advance the story directly or with
to help finance its $20 billion fund Britain's blue-chip index, which BP’s part. The US Government business and leave it to fund and relevant tangential information.
for victims of the worst oil spill in was up 0.6 percent and slightly wont’ let them drill, making the fight for itself from its own assets. We try to block comments that
U.S. history. ahead of the European index of oil Gulf leases worthless. It is a simple thing that every use offensive language or appear
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Gisele Dresses Up and Strips Down, Glee Gives Lea Confidence, and Bradley Shares
Renee Love
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(Reuters: Top News) headed by U.S. Treasury The panel hopes to issue a The conservative mantra. “We
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:47:12 PM Secretary Timothy Geithner, proposed rule for comment on the avoid what we do not wish to see;
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Fed, Securities and Exchange designating non-bank firms by the wish to hear; we ignore what we Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:39:34 PM
Geithner looks on during the G20 Commission, the Commodity end of the year, allowing a vote do not wish to know. We are
Finance Ministers and Central Futures Trading Commission and on a final proposal by the end of masters of self-deception, of October 1, 2010 1:39 PM PDT
Bank Governors Meeting in the Federal Deposit Insurance March. manipulating our perceptions.” SAN FRANCISCO--Each year,
Busan, South Korea June 5, 2010. Corp. (Reporting by Dave Clarke, (The Winds of Dune) tgs10 the West Coast Green show plays
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Ecuador's Correa asserts control as police chief quits

(Reuters: Top News) and for a period on Thursday, it Hugo Chavez, is part of the bloc out of control.
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:47:54 PM appeared that Correa might be of Latin American leaders fiercely The police were angered by plans
facing a serious challenge to his critical of U.S. policy, and he to cut bonuses and freeze
Ecuador's new police chief rule. alienated foreign investors when promotions as part of nationwide
Florencio Ruiz (C) speaks to the The fiery 47-year-old leader was his government defaulted on $3.2 austerity measures that Correa is
media in Quito October 1, 2010. contemptuous of the rebel police billion in global bonds, trying to push through in the face
Credit: Reuters/Elder Bravo officers, who were protesting SUPPORT AT HOME AND of a financial squeeze.
B y H u g h B r o n s t e i n a n d against proposed cuts to their ABROAD *We welcome comments that
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Microsoft rolls out Windows Live Messenger for Zune HD

Donald Melanson (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:17:00 PM
The Zune HD may not have seen
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many had hoped for, but it's just
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continued from page 14
end of the Vietnam war.
Helicopters departing Saigon,
crowds trying to get a ride. But
there we had ship just off shore,
close by. From Kabul, it is a long
way to “friendly ground”.
Yet another point is the case if
the Taliban get a hold of effective
anti-aircraft missiles.
The Northern Alliance had
Stingers supplied by the US-CIA.
The shot the Russian helicopters
out of the sky and helped force
the departure of the Russians. –
They could just drive home !!
If we start loosing aircraft, shot
out of the sky by Taliban missiles,
it will be a huge disaster. The
Vietnam war end will be a walk
home in comparison.
Another point is the current
transfer of equipment from Iraq to
Afghanistan, by ridiculous
circuitous routes. Is that being
done?
This discussion is totally apart
from whether the conflict in
Afghanistan should have ever
been escalated into a major war or
not. It certainly ignored the
people, the culture and the history
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of the place.
In my daily reading, I have only
seen a single article on this
subject: a piece in the NY Times
on the effect of the flooding on
the supply line. No one else ever
mentions this significant problem
and effort required. The
dependence on a “peaceful”
Pakistan, Pakistani trucks,
guarding the depots by the
Pakistani army, and the huge
losses involved, moving supplies
through a poor nation.
More media discussion would
open a lot of eyes of people in the
US. Little has been written in the
widely available media. I doubt
that many people have even
thought about it and considered
who is responsible for getting us
into the problem of Logistics for
Afghanistan.
Oct 01, 2010 5:12pm EDT
“Our military should be
independent of the Oval Office
clown and Congress should not be
allowed to dictate policy”.
And this country would have
defeated Saddam only to become
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Number of Virtual World
Users Breaks 1 Billion,
Roughly Half Under Age 15
Audrey Watters
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:11:50 PM
The number of users registered
for virtual world sites broke the 1
billion mark during the third
quarter of this year. That's the
finding of KZero, a British
analytics company that specializes the numbers have still almost
in the virtual worlds and virtual doubled since 2009.
goods market. Virtual worlds are The most popular virtual world
those online communities where for those under 15 is Stardoll with
people operate avatars in a 69 million registered users. But
computer simulated environment, the largest is Habbo, with over
such as Second Life and Blue 175 million accounts. KZero
Mars. identifies the 15 to 25 age bracket
That's an increase of 51 million as "the one to watch" over the
from Q2 of 2010 and a 350 next year, as "With an active user
million increase from this time base as large as Habbo's it's the
last year. perfect testing ground for
Sponsor emerging initiatives such as
More telling perhaps than just branded virtual goods,
this record-breaking number is the simulcasting/real-event
demographic where this is integration and product
occurring: 468 million virtual extension."
world registered users are Of course the number of
between the ages of 10 and 15, an registered users doesn't mean the
number of active accounts. But
increase of 24 million from the
the increase in the registrations
second quarter of the year.
still points to a rather phenomenal
The second largest group is 15 to
market penetration, something
25 year olds, which increased by
likely to grow as more of these
15 million to hit 288 million
worlds become available via
accounts. Although the number
mobile. Discuss
of people over the age of 25
participating in virtual worlds isn't
increasing at this same rapid rate,
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As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL’er, My Thoughts on One Portal

to Rule Them All
Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch) promise to create a company that
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:48:30 PM can afford to pay well for good
content a online mass audience
This is going to come as a shock will read.
to you: But suddenly and for the First, three reasons I hope it does
first time in years, I really care happen:
about the future of AOL. And, 1. I really miss the Yahoo studios
because I used to host a show on team, and our up-and-down
Yahoo Finance, the story floating e f f o r t s t o l a u n c h v i d e o
around about whether or not these programming at TechCrunch has
two has-beens of the Internet proven to me just how hard it is–
(sorry, new overlords) would be especially trying to do it on a
b e t t e r t o g e t h e r h a s s p e c i a l budget. At Yahoo, I had the
resonance with me. benefit of working in a million-
I don’t totally agree with Henry dollar, beautiful studio built out
Blodget when he says that it’s a during the free spending crazy dot
no-brainer because they are the com bubble days, and we had a
exact same company. (Btw, I used staff that knew how to make us
to co-host that same Yahoo show look good. At TechCrunch we
with Blodget. How can a business have Jon Orlin running our video
that employs thousands and efforts– the very guy who actually
thousands of people be so small?) built that Yahoo studio back in the
Nor do I agree with Mike that day. So it’s not a staff problem,
working for Yahoo is a fate worse it’s a resources problem. Piggy-
than losing hundreds of millions backing onto what Yahoo had
in acquisition value. already built and the insanely
Here are my totally selfish, great Yahoo Finance platform we
biased reasons why I hope the quickly and cheaply became a
deal does happen or doesn’t profitable division with four times
happen. Beyond obvious navel the reach of CNBC. That’s
gazing, I’m looking at this from something that TechCrunch just
the point of view of someone who couldn’t replicate. Could AOL? I
has worked her whole adult life in don’t know. But I do know if we
media. The companies I grew up c o u l d t a k e t h e t a l e n t a n d
writing for are dying in increasing personalities of TechCrunch and
numbers, while TechCrunch just add in the expertise and facilities
set an uncomfortable cap on how of Yahoo Studios we could launch
much even the most successful the kind of amazing and slick
blogs can sell for. Our only hope video programming that most of
is that either Yahoo or AOL can us wanted from TechCrunchTV.
finally make good on this obvious 2. I think a big part of Silicon
but for some reason elusive Valley’s future is becoming a
1. Big companies suck. The
bigger they get, the more they
suck. Yahoo isn’t a company; it’s
a collection of smaller companies
and silos. For all my talk of
potential video and Asian
synergies above, I’d be skeptical
that any of that would ever prove
to be much of an advantage for a
property like TechCrunch because
my sense is none of those groups
are great at working together.
Those are things that companies
say when they buy you, but they
usually don’t wind up being true.
This isn’t a knock on Yahoo, it’s
just a fact of life.
2. All content companies aren’t
the same and all content isn’t the
financial and expertise hub for been making a huge branding same. My understanding is that
high-growth, tech entrepreneurs push into India in the last year. I Y a h o o i s s t i l l m o s t l y a n
around the world, similar to the don’t know how all of that could aggregator of other people’s
w a y N e w Y o r k b e c a m e a add up to a smart media strategy, content, while AOL is mostly a
financial hub for publicly traded but at least there are smart assets creator of original content. Those
companies and a management hub and teams on the ground in the a r e t w o w i l d l y d i f f e r e n t
for media. There are huge content, most mature and most nascent businesses and I’m not sure there
is a lot of synergy. When you
a d v e r t i s i n g a n d c o n f e r e n c e Asian markets.
opportunities to knit Silicon 3. I still carry a Yahoo backpack aggregate, you pick great partners
Valley elites together with the because it’s a great backpack, and and have a symbiotic relationship.
most mature and fast growing I haven’t had the heart to rip the When you create content, you are
Asian entrepreneur economies. l o g o o f f , a l t h o u g h t h e competing with those partners to
Yahoo has done a better job in OneTrueFan founders tried to produce better content. Yahoo’s
Asia than anyone in Silicon convince me to at Disrupt. So, value in the media world is
Valley. It has valuable properties yunno, I have the backpack largely routing eyeballs around
in China and Japan– so valuable already… And, for some reason, the Web. That’s closer to a Digg-
they’re largely propping up the Yahoo TechTicker still lists me as model than AOL properties like
stock prices these days. Yahoo a reporter. (This was my best TechCrunch, Engadget or TMZ.
has also been one of the only attempt at a third reason, which And managing great content
creators is a lot harder than
I n t e r n e t g i a n t s l o o k i n g a t should say something.)
acquisitions and building a Now, three reasons I hope the managing dealmakers. We’re
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presence in Indonesia, and it has deal never happens:
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Vinod Khosla: New CEOs Should Spend More Than
50% Of Their Time Recruiting (TCTV)
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:27:34 PM
Not one to shy away from bold
and at times controversial
statements, heavyweight investor
Vinod Khosla took the stage at
Disrupt this week and compared
green tech innovation in Silicon
Valley to Microsoft’s IE9 browser
launch.
No offense to Microsoft, but in
this analogy Khosla was
criticizing the Valley for its
deficiency in game-changing
technologies and its focus on
incremental advances. We got the
founder of Khosla Ventures and
former CEO of Sun
Microsystems, to defend his
statements on TechCrunch TV.
Khosla had some interesting
thoughts to share on the current
state of green tech investment and
entrepreneurship. According to
Khosla, too many companies who
want to think big are doomed to
remain small because they pick
the wrong investors, as he says,
“Any investor who looks at exit
strategies, or multiples of
investment or even does an IRR
calculation, a rate of return
calculation, probably is the wrong
partner for you.” These days,
Khosla is used to dispensing
advice to entrepreneurs— his own
daughter is in the process of
securing angel investors for her
own startup (no, dad does not plan
to bankroll the operation). His
best advice for his daughter?
“I think the single, most important
fact about doing a startup is being
clear about your vision and not let
it get distorted by what pundits
and experts tell you. But the
second most important thing is
finding the right team, and that’s
really, really hard, because people
tend to look for people around
them…You know, I was
relentless… really spent well over
50% of my time recruiting, and I
encourage all entrepreneurs to try
and do that.”
On his specific investments,
Khosla was particularly bullish on
Eco-Motors and its advancements
on an opposing pistons engine.
This summer, Khosla and
Microsoft founder Bill Gates,
invested another $23.5 million
into the Troy-based Eco-Motors
(his second round of investment).
According to reports, Khosla
Ventures owns nearly 50% of the
company.
Video above.
Below are some key excerpts:
On Entrepreneurship And
Investment
VC should be a co-founder, who
thinks big
VK: Your job [(as an investor)]
and this is really, really important
but misunderstood about startups,
startups aren’t big or small,
they’re made big or small. So an
entrepreneur picking the right
partner will more likely end up as
a big company, than if they pick
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nuts. Seriously. We’re highly
volatile, dramatic and expensive.
Why do you think the volume was
the wrong partner who wants a 3X we’ll first find some specialty never turned on during our
return on money. Any investor markets, so we make, so instead CrunchCam days?
who looks at exit strategies, or of putting it in the car on day one, 3. Competition is good for
multiples of investment or even because those companies are everyone. Some of the arguments
does an IRR calculation, a rate of c o n s e r v a t i v e , w e ’ l l m a k e for the deal are that AOL and
return calculation, probably is the generators out of it, gensets out of Yahoo would each take out their
wrong partner for you. it. That’s an easier market to get b i g g e s t p o r t a l c o m p e t i t i o n .
Incremental Innnovation Vs. Real into, it’s less cost sensitive, but They’d be a must-buy for every
Disruption e f f i c i e n c y a n d w e i g h t s t i l l large ad deal and the prices of
VK: I’ll tell you, ten times more count… as soon as we prove it acquisitions like TechCrunch
improvement is possible in the there, we’ll be in autos, already would be squeezed, because
engine, than most people think is we’re talking to auto and truck there’d be no bidding wars. Yeah,
true or in your standard car… makers.” that’s not good for reporters and
We’re far away from taking Best Advice For Entrepreneurs ultimately not for shareholders
enough large shots at it. One of VK: I think the single, most either. Competition makes every
our companies, Eco-Motors is important fact about doing a c o m p a n y b e t t e r a n d e v e r y
dramatically redesigning the startup is being clear about your industry dynamic. It’s the white
engine, they’re building what’s vision and not let it get distorted space between clumsy giants
called an opposing piston engine, by what pundits and experts tell focused on one another that
most engines today are like V8s… y o u . B u t t h e s e c o n d m o s t creates opportunities for new
These opposing piston engines important thing is finding the entrants. The only hope for a real
were used in the 1920s and right team, and that’s really, really media organization that can pay
discontinued for a reason but hard, because people tend to look for and distribute the kind of great
those reasons are no longer true for people around them and so it’s content that most blogs can’t
but people don’t go back and the person who they happen to afford and most newspapers are
reexamine the assumptions again. know as opposed to the best hemorrhaging is for Yahoo and
This needs to happen in every p o s s i b l e p e r s o n t h e y c a n AOL to be fighting each other to
area, whether its solar cells, even find…You know, I was relentless, do better, not one big messy
looking at coal, cleaning up coal took a lot of time, I used to say company fighting within itself.
or mining or air conditioning, or when I was starting my first
lighting, almost everything we company, I was more of a
do… glorified recruiter than a CEO or a
Question: Going back to those founder. I really spent well over
engines, you talked about them 50% of my time recruiting, and I
with such enthusiasm, you clearly encourage all entrepreneurs to try
see that as being an important part and do that.
of your portfolio, what pieces CrunchBase Information Vinod
need to align to help this K h o s l a K h o s l a V e n t u r e s
technology take-off? Information provided by
VK: I don’t think a lot needs to C r u n c h B a s e
align, we’ll build a great engine,
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How Does One Startup Defeat Sprint Epic 4G update delayed by

'administrative issues,' consumer
Another? rage released on schedule
Chris Cameron still need a better Web-based
(ReadWriteWeb) personal finance solution. Mint Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:00:00 PM may have been acquired and Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:14:00 PM

Wesabe may have folded, but

There is a lot of competition out Hedlund says needs are still not And this, folks, is a lesson of
there in startup land, and often being met. what not to do if you're a major
times similar companies launch "No one, in my view, solved the carrier with a majorly perturbed
around the same time and are financial problems of consumers. user base. In a way, this sort of
pitted against one another in head- with."Focus on what really No one even got close," he says. feels like the Instinct update
to-head competition. This was the matters: making users happy with "Because our products existed debacle all over again, with users
case in 2007 when personal your product as quickly as you during a deep financial crisis, claiming that a promised software
finance startup Mint launched less can, and helping them as much as consumers everywhere cut back, update was being held beyond the beyond the 30 day return window.
than a year after competitor you can after that." saved more, and tried to reduce 30 day return window in order to Look, we all know it's a baseless
Wesabe. Over time, it would be - Marc Hedlund"A domain name their debt. Neither product had keep contracts alive. 24 hours conspiracy theory, but there's
Mint that would win over the d o e s n ' t w i n y o u a m a r k e t ; any significant impact beyond after a Sprint forum administrator really no need to get feisty, is
hearts and minds of the Web, launching second or fifth or tenth what the overall economy led proudly proclaimed that a long- there? Full announcement is after
leading to a hefty acquisition by doesn't lose you a market," says people to do anyways." awaited Epic 4G software update the break.
Intuit, and the shuttering of Hedlund. "You can't blame your "There is no Google nor Amazon was rolling out over the next few [Thanks, Edward]
Wesabe. So what was it that competitors or your board or the of personal finance," he adds, days, another admin has chimed Continue reading Sprint Epic 4G
helped Mint emerge victorious? lack of or excess of investment. encouraging entrepreneurs to in with a nearly-audible "sike!" update delayed by 'administrative
Sponsor Rather than letting users cheer its
Focus on what really matters: continue attacking the personal hard work over the weekend, Epic
issues,' consumer rage released on
Friday morning, Wesabe co- making users happy with your finance space. schedule
founder Marc Hedlund posted a product as quickly as you can, and What are some of the other ways 4G owners are now being told that Sprint Epic 4G update delayed by
blog titled"Why Wesabe Lost to helping them as much as you can company A beats company B? "administrative issues" are to 'administrative issues,' consumer
Mint" in which he explains his after that. If you do those better Hedlund says Mint's hustle was blame for a new delay -- a delay rage released on schedule
opinions on just that. From his than anyone else out there you'll Wesabe's downfall. Leave us a that'll stretch on for an originally appeared on Engadget
perspective (which he admits is win." comment below with other ways undetermined amount of time, to on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:14:00
anything but un-biased), Mint Interestingly enough, Hedlund startups can win the day over boot. Oh, and back on the topic of EDT. Please see our terms for use
won because they hustled to make doesn't believe either startup has worthy competition. Discuss what not to do, the operator's of feeds. Permalink Android
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Another Indirect Android Lawsuit As Microsoft

Sues Motorola. This Is Getting Out Of Control
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:57:55 PM
Here we go again.
It seems like a week can’t go by
now without some company suing
another company over some lame
software patent. The latest is
Microsoft which today announced
it was suing Motorola for features
on their Android phones.
As it continues to rapidly grow in
size, Android is increasingly a
target of such suits. But the weird
thing about these suits is how they
always seem to be indirectly
targeting Android. That is,
companies aren’t suing Google
for Android, they’re suing
manufacturers using Android on
their phones. See: Apple suing
HTC for another example of this.
So what does Microsoft think is
being infringed upon here? Here’s
the key blurb from Microsoft PR:
Microsoft filed an action today in
the International Trade
Commission and in the U.S.
District Court for the Western
District of Washington against
Motorola, Inc. for infringement of
nine Microsoft patents by
Motorola’s Android-based
smartphones. The patents at issue
relate to a range of functionality
embodied in Motorola’s Android
smartphone devices that are
essential to the smartphone user
experience, including
synchronizing email, calendars
and contacts, scheduling
meetings, and notifying
applications of changes in signal
strength and battery power.
So basically it sounds like
Microsoft is upset about the
customizations Motorola has been
making for its popular Droid
brand of Android phones.
But the details are the best part.
Microsoft is suing Motorola over
battery power and signal strength
notifications. Oh, and email
syncing. Yeah, this is getting out
of control.
In a blog post on the matter,
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice
President and Deputy General
Counsel, Horacio Gutierrez, even
cites the similar lawsuits by Apple
and Oracle as validation of their
own. Ugh.
Update: In the comments, Seth
Weintraub brings up a great point:
Microsoft is obviously pissed that
Motorola is ‘all in’ on Android.
Otherwise, why would they back
UP HTC in their case, yet sue
Motorola.
Back in April, Microsoft struck a
patent deal with HTC—
undoubtedly over much of this
stuff. HTC is helping out with
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows
Phone 7, Motorola is not right
now. CrunchBase Information
Microsoft Motorola Android
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Google Updates Car
Home Android App for
Navigation Customization
Chris Cameron
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:40:00 PM
Device convergence is happening
everyday as new tech gadgets
combine the functionality of
previous devices into one handy
solution. I first experienced this
when the iPhone replaced both
my previous phone and my iPod.
Not having to carry both devices
around all the time was a huge
step forward for a music fan like
myself, and now we overlook
simple pleasures like these.
Another device that could soon
be swallowed by the smartphone
is the dedicated GPS receiver.
Friday, Google announced some
GOOGLE page 24

Crafting the Sounds of The Social Network

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My The Social Network. Directed by of the new century was invented. Mixer and Supervisor Sound peek clips and to see how much
Modern Metropolis) David Fincher (The Curious Case With rave reviews pouring in, this Editor Ren Kylce and Sound Re- work goes into something we
Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:00:00 PM of Benjamin Button, The Game is another must-see movie of the Recording Mixer Michael often take for granted..the sound.
and Se7en) with screenplay by year (after Inception, which was Semanick take the viewer through SoundWorks Collection
SoundsWorks Collection is back Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), fantastic). the creative and technical process Related:
with another behind-the-scenes the movie explores the moment at In this SoundWorks video, two for crafting the audio soundscape Inception's Sound Design
video! This time it's on the sounds w h i c h F a c e b o o k , t h e m o s t members of Fincher’s talented of The Social Network movie.
of the highly anticipated movie, revolutionary social phenomena sound team, Sound Re-recording Watch it for some cool sneak
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Colorware ships its first original product: the $300 Grip for iPad
(hands-on)
Darren Murph (Engadget) is just how awkward that $300 built like a tank -- but it simply
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:48:00 PM price tag looks beside the $499 makes no sense whatsoever at
MSRP of the device it's supposed $300. Even at$100, you've got
Colorware's been making the to hold; imagine buying a $13,000 way better options when it comes
products you buy look better (or set of tires for your $17,000 to actually protecting your iPad.
worse, if you'd like) for years on vehicle. It just doesn't sit well in Gallery: Colorware Grip for iPad
end, but up until now, it has never the cranium. And then there's the press photos
actually created a product from problem of using it. Continue reading Colorware
scratch. Enter the Grip for iPad, a Gallery: Colorware Grip for iPad ships its first original product: the
simplistic new iPad holster that's hands-on $300 Grip for iPad (hands-on)
less of a case and more of a You see, as nice as it is to have a Colorware ships its first original
handle. It's a metal frame that you handle on your tablet at all times, product: the $300 Grip for iPad
bolt around the edges of your it makes actually using the iPad in (hands-on) originally appeared on
tablet, and as you can tell, it adds p o r t r a i t m o d e p r a c t i c a l l y Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010
a major grabbing point to the side. impossible. You're constantly open and susceptible to drops / it's inside of the Grip. Oh, and did 15:48:00 EDT. Please see our
But here's the rub: it's $300. Yeah, trying to figure out how to work scratches, and the front isn't we mention that the slightest terms for use of feeds. Permalink|
three Benjamins. We get that it's around that bulge that's now there recessed in the least. Adding bump against a rough surface will Colorware| Email this| Comments
manufactured in Minnesota using on the left side. Furthermore, it insult to multiple injuries, there's rip the paint right off of the
that high-priced American labor, does essentially nothing for not enough room to have a case device? We'd love to love the
but seriously? The major problem protection. The back is still wide wrapped around your iPad while Grip -- it's mighty pretty and it's

Google Street View Captures Dead Body on Brazilian Street

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) previous time had a happy ending, While Brazil does have a very plays dead
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:09:56 PM where the body turned out to be a high murder rate, reports have it • Google Street View hits
girl that was simply playing a that this body was not the result of Antarctica
Yesterday marked the launch of prank. That doesn’t seem to be the a murder, but actually a • FTC called on to investigate
Google Street View in Brazil, and case this time around. motorcycle accident. It seems that Google WiFi data collection by
it doesn’t look like everything The picture above was taken at the Google Street View car was Consumer Watchdog
went as well as the company Avenida Presidente Vargas in Rio just in the wrong place at the • Google Maps gets Google
probably would have liked. Not De Janeiro. The other photo in wrong time. Google is working Street View on Windows Mobile
only did the Google Street View question was apparently snapped hard on removing these images, and Symbian S60 handsets
vehicle capture a couple of dead at Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. which are reportedly already • Google Street View coming to
bodies on the side of one road, but As you might expect, Google is gone, as well as any other images Singapore
it’s actually the second image to asking anyone who might be they can find. So if you’ve seen
show such a scene in Brazil. using Google Street View and anything, report it.
While this isn’t the first time a finds anything like this, or a Problem” link that’s on the [ via TechCrunch]
dead body has shown up in a anything else inappropriate, to bottom of the page. This should Relevant Entries on SlashGear
Google Street View sweep, that report it to Google via the “Report help Google clean up Street View. • Girl sees Street View car and
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updates to its Android app, Car
Home, which provides big-button
access to car-friendly apps for
your windshield-mounted
Android smartphone. Are the days
of the dedicated GPS numbered?
Sponsor
app launch automatically when
your phone is paired with these
devices. Device Convergence?
Google has also made it easier
for developers to make their apps
car-friendly, which could be a
catalyst to the convergence of
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Car Home Moves to the
But this convergence will take
some time. The major thing
holding it back is the power (or
Android Market, Updates with
lack thereof) of GPS chips within
smartphones. Until they are
Custom Shortcuts [Updates]
capable of the accuracy found in Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
dedicated units, these units will Submitted at 10/1/2010 12:15:00 PM

The new version of Car Home
features a slew of customization
features, including app shortcuts,
icon colors and background
wallpapers. Users can quickly add
app shortcuts to their Car Home
screen, and the app can be
automatically launched when
placed in a special dock.
Do you always use your
Bluetooth headset when you
drive? Or perhaps you have one of
those newfangled Bluetooth
enabled cars? With a few settings
you can also have the Car Home
smartphones and GPS units. The
powerful developer communities
that exist for smartphones will be
a huge advantage for smartphone-
based in-car navigation.
The other leg-up the phones have
is the ability to pull data down
from the cloud. Some GPS units
can include things like live traffic,
but the advantage of smartphones
is they are already tied to a
cellular network which the user
already pays for. There's only so
much a dedicated GPS unit can do
via satellite.
still remain valuable to wayward
motorists. Eventually, however,
that is going to change and
manufacturers like Garmin,
TomTom and Magellan will
suffer. That is unless they start
making their own phones, like the
Garmin nüvifone. Discuss
Android: If you use Android's
awesome turn-by-turn navigation,
you probably use the Car Home
app to easily operate it from a car
mount. Google's updated the app
and moved it to the Market, à la
Gmail, adding a few cool features only, and may not be available for
along the way. Now, you can add some phones (like some HTC
custom shortcuts to the screen that phones that replace it with their
navigate you to a certain address, own Car app). [ Car Home via
call certain contacts, or launch Google Mobile Blog] More »
applications. Hit the link to check
it out. Note that it's for 2.2 Froyo

T-Mobile G2 trouble roundup: loose hinges, missing storage?

Chris Ziegler (Engadget) screen to hang down, but perhaps [Thanks to everyone who sent
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:46:00 PM more annoyingly, holding it at these in]
some angles causes the screen to Continue reading T-Mobile G2
You know the drill -- new snap shut if it's open -- still not a trouble roundup: loose hinges,
handset, new problems. It's pretty huge deal since most humans missing storage?
much inevitable that sporadic don't use their phones upside T-Mobile G2 trouble roundup:
reports of bugs and hardware down, but it seems like they loose hinges, missing storage?
problems are going to start could've tightened up a few originally appeared on Engadget
popping up by day two of any springs to prevent this from on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:46:00
major phone launch, and sure happening. EDT. Please see our terms for use
enough, complaints are starting to Secondly -- and more strangely -- of feeds. Permalink| xda-
circulate on two biggies for the at least some G2s in the field promised on the phone's Desire Z microSD cards to affected developers| Email this| Comments
G2. First off, some of the phones appear to have half the promised doppelganger. We're not sure how customers, if you ask us. More on
are shipping with loose hinges; storage space of 4GB, clocking in that kind of mix-up happens... but this as it develops -- and let us
the most obvious symptom is that at a total of 2GB, which just if it's legit, T-Mobile's got to take know your experiences so far in
holding it upside down causes the h a p p e n s t o b e t h e a m o u n t back the units or offer really big comments.
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The Dream Is Collapsing:

Another Massive Yahoo Re
-Org Coming Next Tuesday
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:02:53 PM

Yahoo is in shambles right now.

You’ve likely already heard about
the most recent SVP exits, which
CEO Carol Bartz has tried to spin.
Now we’ve heard another one is
Toshiba Halts OLED Production, leaving as well — Jeff Kinder, the
SVP of Media Products and

Focuses on LCD Instead Solutions. And you know that

means — time for a massive re-
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) Nikkei BP claim that Toshiba has plans saw that Toshiba would org at the top of Yahoo. Yes,
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:52:20 PM m a d e t h e d e c i s i o n t o s t o p produce 1.5 million OLED panels again.
production of OLED, in favor of per year for smartphones. What Based on what we’re hearing,
For the most part, Samsung has a LCD, because the demand for the that number is now, however, this re-org will take place next
pretty big stake in the OLED latter is still out-pacing demand remains to be seen. Tuesday. Of course, us reporting
manufacturing market. Other for the former. What helped in the [ via Electronista] on this means that it could
companies, like HTC for example, decision, however, was Toshiba’s Relevant Entries on SlashGear possibly be moved (as has
Page, Finance, Sports, News,
have depended upon them to poor earnings, which have made it • Matsushita promise 40-inch happened in the past with Yahoo Entertainment, Shopping, Travel,
manufacture displays for their difficult for them to sustain the OLED HDTVs on-sale by 2011 deals), but as of right now that’s Autos, Real Estate, Local, and
high-end smartphones, like the p r o d u c t i o n o f t h e o r g a n i c • Toshiba spends $1B on 30% of the plan. Small Business.
Droid Incredible for Verizon. But displays. As for those working on SanDisk production capacity Based on what we’re hearing
As for Bartz? She’s still in charge
there are other manufacturers out the manufacturing of OLED • Panasonic confirm OLED work; Yahoo Chief Product Officer
for now. But there is some talk of
there that take pride in OLED displays, they’ll be transplanted to 40-inch production in 2010? Blake Irving may be the big
attempted coups. In fact, that may
d i s t r i b u t i o n , l i k e T o s h i b a . the LCD panel division, so it • LG Display invests $225M to winner of this re-org, as he’s been be the reason this whole re-org
However, that’s all about to doesn’t look like there’s going to triple OLED making capacity seen as the rising star in the
is necessary right now.
change, as the company believes be any huge waves of job loss. • Gone but not forgotten: New company. Word is that he’ll be The dream is collapsing.
that there is still more of a focus The report does suggest, though, Firmware Update for range of b r i n g i n g s o m e o f h i s o l d CrunchBase Information Yahoo!
on LCD displays, and have opted that Toshiba won’t drop the Toshiba HD-DVD players Microsoft chums in to join him in
Carol Bartz Blake Irving
to stop production of OLED, and production of OLED panels high-up positions at this new-look
Information provided by
focus on LCD. entirely, but that it will focus Yahoo.
CrunchBase
Sources speaking with Japan’s primarily on LCD. The original Losing Kinder would be another
big blow for Yahoo as he
currently oversees: Yahoo! Front
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Sonos updates iPhone app

with more radio for everyone
and Spotify for Europe
Mel Martin (The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:30:00 PM

Following quickly on the heels of

the long awaited iPad Sonos app,
there is now a new version of the
free music controller for the
iPhone. The Sonos system
provides a wireless music
experience in as many rooms of a
house as you want to put Zone
Players and speakers or you can
iControlPad using unlicensed dock connect to an existing music
system.
The new app, which appeared
connection, forced to go Bluetooth today, supports the popular
Spotify service in Europe, and
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial the iPhone (and presumably, its and run with it. Since the iPhone adds an additional 1000 radio this free app.
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) creators don't want to have to pay w a s i n t r o d u c e d , g a m e r s stations that use the AAC format TUAW Sonos updates iPhone
Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:00:00 PM the "Made for iPhone" fee to everywhere have been asking for for streaming. app with more radio for everyone
officially license that hardware), some type of external controls for One thing missing is support for and Spotify for Europe originally
The folks at iControlPad can't i t ' s g o t t o b e t w e a k e d f o r iPhone games, and maybe the the iPhone 4 Retina display. A appeared on The Unofficial Apple
seem to catch a break -- the B l u e t o o t h s u p p o r t i n s t e a d . iControlPad's setback will provide Sonos spokesman says that is Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 01 Oct
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Logitech sent out their invites for
Logitech’s partnership with the event, which will be taking
Part 5 Debuts
• Logitech Revue with Google
coming back to
Google for the upcoming release place on October 6th, and will
of Google TV has been known officially unveil “its line of
TV gets christened
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Apple Stores
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misses its owners. And now that up their sleeve. We’ll be there at case program for your iPhone 4?
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believes that everyone should
Microsoft’s Zune HD Gets Windows Live know about the Antennagate
issue, so there are no more free
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Messenger This also means that bumpers are
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GOP Heaven, West Virginia?

(AEI.Org: Articles) the Obama administration. Their felt the flames beneath their feet without more data, is that only true in the fall. Furthermore, this
Submitted at 9/30/2010 6:00:00 PM fury provides the oxygen that and fled. Surprised that Phil Hare about one-third of these voters district is normally solidly
turns the Tea Party's spark into a and Baron Hill are on GOP target support the president. Democratic, giving Al Gore and
When Senate dean Robert Byrd raging fire. And West Virginia is lists? Hare's seat is 85 percent Ron Brownstein is the only major John Kerry solid wins. Most of
died this summer, almost all the white working class's capital. white, 17.5 percent college grads; political journalist who has the House seats on the target lists
political observers placed the Look at any list of House targets Hill's is 93 percent white, 19 consistently noticed this. In are much more favorable to the
vacant seat squarely in the and you see that white-working- percent college grads. When the column after column, he has GOP, and West Virginia is now
Democratic column. Even though class-dominated districts appear fire's raging, even strong documented the collapse in overwhelmingly Republican at the
W e s t V i r g i n i a h a s t r e n d e d far in excess of their proportion of buildings get burned. support for the administration national level.
Republican at the national level House seats nationwide. Look at any list of House targets among white working-class Given these trends, what's
since 2000, it was thought the Consider this. According to the and you see that white-working- voters. He reports that a recent shocking is that West Virginia is
popularity of Gov. Joe Manchin 2009 American Community class-dominated districts appear survey shows that this group so close. If anyone other than
would keep the seat from flipping. Survey, over 94 percent of West far in excess of their proportion of distrusts government, opposes Governor Manchin were running,
Recent polls, though, suggest the Virginians are white. Only 17 House seats nationwide. This is Obamacare, and believes the this seat would be considered as
race between Governor Manchin percent have a bachelor's degree true in the South (Chet Edwards, country is "'significantly worse safe a gain for Republicans as is
and businessman John Raese is or more, and fully 60 percent have the open seats in Arkansas and off' because of Obama's policies." North Dakota. As it is, it will be a
dead even. Both parties are up never even attended a two- or four Tennessee), the Northeast (Kathy It's hard to imagine why voters horse race that either side can
with ads, and with Raese's -year college or university. While Dahlkemper, Chris Carney, who hold these opinions, and who win. But we should not be
residual name ID (he's run three t h e w h i t e w o r k i n g c l a s s Michael Arcuri) and the Midwest are also the among the hardest hit surprised if on Election Day, the
losing statewide campaigns) constitutes between 40 and 50 (John Boccieri, Ike Skelton, Steve by the Great Recession, will pull victory that puts the GOP in
observers now rate the race too percent of the national electorate Kagen). It is less true in the West, the Democratic lever in control of the Senate comes at the
close to call. Since there's been no according to various exit polls, it but even there target seats like November. hands of coal miner's daughters
personal revelation or strong issue approaches 70 percent of the Washington 3 and Colorado 3 are Democrats will point to the from the hollers of West Virginia.
position that has swung the race Mountaineer State's voters. whiter and less educated than the special election earlier this year in Henry Olsen is a vice president
(indeed, Manchin has earned the There are few surveys that national average. John Murtha's old seat, and the director of the National
NRA endorsement and says he'll separate out the white working The limited poll data available Pennsylvania 12, as evidence that Research Initiative at AEI.
vote to repeal Obamacare), one class, so we don't have much support these conclusions. As I they can win back the white Photo Credit: BigStock/
must ask what the political elites direct data documenting their posted on the Corner recently, working class. This seat is 94 mtrommer
were missing. opinions. But both anecdotal "President Obama is least popular percent white and 17 percent This entry passed through the
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Reagan Democrats, NASCAR that Obey's seat is 94 percent president's standing among whites party primaries. Not surprisingly,
Dads, or Clinton Democrats, is white and 19 percent college without a college degree is turnout among independents was
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November 15, 2012. And no
penalty was imposed on his
companion, Jerry Jackson, or on
the organization itself.
Coates delivered a simple
message: The Obama Justice
Department is not interested in
aggressively pursuing cases in
which the defendants are black.
The department, Coates said,
believes the Voting Rights Act
protects black, but not white,
voting rights.
Racial double standards at the
Justice Department: shocking
news. Or is it?
It certainly should be. But in fact,
if racial double standards indeed
drove DOJ's decision to
substantially drop the case against
the New Black Panther Party, as
Coates asserted, the department
was simply taking one more step
along a sad road we have long
been traveling.
The authors of this article have
both made our careers opposing
racial preferences--in education,
hiring, contracting, and voting
rights. And federal law--and, in
many places, state and local law,
too--is rife with them. Race-
conscious provisions appear to be
programmed into the computers
of most of the Hill staffers who
craft legislation; the judiciary has
long borne much of the blame;
and federal bureaucrats in this
area have never been colorblind.
Most Americans probably believe
that the Voting Rights Act has
provided equal protection for
minority and white voters alike.
Would that it were so! Alas, the
historical story does not fit that
pattern: We are stuck with,
instead, the evolution of the
statute from a pure anti-
discrimination law to one that has
become an instrument for
affirmative action.
Beginning in the 1970s, blacks
came to be treated as politically
different--entitled to inequality in
the form of a unique political
privilege. "Majority-minority"
legislative districts that ensure the
election of black (and, after 1975,
Hispanic) candidates became a
federal mandate. These districts,
which Justice Sandra Day
O'Connor called "segregated,"
protect minority voters'
"candidates of choice" from
electoral defeat, giving these
voters a sheltered status enjoyed
by members of no other groups.
A sheltered status for minorities
is of course what all affirmative-
action policies provide--not just in
voting, but in contracting and
employment and education, too.
For the most part, the Supreme
Court has signed onto that
understanding of the Voting
Rights Act, in particular. For a
while, in a few cases, it flirted
with abandoning its commitment
to what the ACLU had called
"max-black" districting, but the
limits to its willingness to do so
were apparent in a 2006 decision
involving Texas congressional
redistricting.
That same year, on the
assumption that today's more
"subtle" forms of white racism
required ever more aggressive
countermeasures, Congress
revised a crucial provision in the
statute to ramp up the race-
conscious legal standards that
were built into the law beginning
in the 1970s. Given a chance to
recognize an altered racial climate
by changing the statutory
language, it took a pass and
instead made sure DOJ would
unequivocally insist on race-
driven districting maps,
overturning court decisions that
would have limited DOJ's power
to insist on racial gerrymandering.
Thus, the Voting Rights Act has,
in fact, become a statute whose
key provisions are used to protect
only minority voters. Indeed, only
once has any provision of it been
used to suggest otherwise--and
only in a lower court. The act and
its enforcement have become
suffused with race consciousness.
With the New Black Panther
Party case, there is now another
new element. The racial double
standards that run through
redistricting decisions have now
been extended to a voter-
intimidation case. But that only
makes a larger point: When
statutes, judicial decisions, and a
bureaucracy are all steeped in a
race-conscious culture, inevitably
that culture comes to govern
decision making in new race-
related areas. It is a metastasizing
cancer.
If the Holder Justice Department
came to believe--as some black
politicians and many voting-rights
scholars on both the Left and the
Right do--that America has
changed and race-conscious
strategies built into voting-rights
law have become an anachronistic
holdover from a bygone era, it can
make its views clear. We strongly
doubt it will do so, however,
given the ideological background
of the people who have been
appointed to run the department
and the division.
Congress, too, could step up to
the plate. In an important 2009
decision, Chief Justice John
Roberts strongly hinted on behalf
of the court that it was time to
revise the statute. But
congressional action is unlikely.
How many politicians will
cheerfully risk being accused of
turning the racial clock back--of
racism, in effect?
And so we are left with the hope
that the Supreme Court will
finally reject the unequal
protection that has long been built
into voting-rights law. Two cases
challenging the constitutionality
of a key element in the statute
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have recently been filed, and
down the road the Justice
Department may be forced to treat
white and minority voters equally.
Oh, there is one more hope:
Elections have consequences, and
politicians will listen to voters if
they speak loudly enough. Most
Americans are appalled not only
by the notion of unequal
enforcement of voter-intimidation
cases, but by the whole politically
correct edifice of affirmative
action and racial preferences that
has been constructed over the
years. It should never have been
built, and, surely, it is long past
time to begin tearing it down.
Abigail Thernstrom is an adjunct
scholar at AEI. Roger Clegg is
vice president and general counsel
at the Center for Equal
Opportunity.
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Submitted at 9/30/2010 6:00:00 PM
Imagine for a moment the entire
Supreme Court was wiped out in
an asteroid strike, or maybe they
ate some really bad clams.
Whatever
With the Supreme Court
temporarily out of the picture,
could Congress and the White
House ignore the Constitution,
shutting down newspapers and
locking up tea partiers or ACLU
members?
Apparently.
"I have been fascinated by
[Delaware GOP Senate candidate]
Christine O'Donnell's
constitutional worldview . . ."
Slate senior editor Dahlia
Lithwick confessed. O'Donnell
had said in a debate, "When I go
to Washington, D.C., the litmus
test by which I cast my vote for
every piece of legislation that
comes across my desk will be
whether or not it is
constitutional."
To which Lithwick, a former
appellate law clerk, Stanford Law
grad, and widely cited expert on
the Supreme Court, responded,
"How weird is that, I thought.
Isn't it a court's job to determine
whether or not something is, in
fact, constitutional? And isn't that
sort of provided for in, well, the
Constitution?"
Does anyone, anywhere, think
legislators should vote for
legislation they think is
unconstitutional? Anyone?
Anyone?
Newsweek's Ben Adler was
aghast at the clause in the GOP's
Pledge to America that
Republicans will provide a
"citation of constitutional
authority" for every proposed
piece of legislation. "We have a
mechanism for assessing the
constitutionality of legislation,
which is the independent
judiciary," Adler wrote. "An
extraconstitutional attempt to
limit the powers of Congress is
dangerous even as a mere
suggestion, and it constitutes an
encroachment on the judiciary."
A progressive blogger,
meanwhile, writes in U.S. News
& World Report that such talk of
requiring constitutionality is "just
wacky."
Before we get to the historical
niceties, a question.
Does anyone, anywhere, think
legislators should vote for
legislation they think is
unconstitutional? Anyone?
Anyone?
How about presidents? Should
they sign such legislation into
law?
Yet, according to this creepy
logic, there's no reason for
congressmen to pass, obey, or
even consider the supreme law of
the land. Reimpose slavery? Sure!
Let's see if we can catch the
Supreme Court asleep at the
switch. Nationalize the TV
stations? Establish a king? Kill
every first-born child? Why not?
It ain't unconstitutional until the
Supreme Court says so!
And of course, that means the
president can't veto legislation
because it's unconstitutional,
because that's apparently not his
job. Wouldn't want to "encroach"
on the judiciary!
Of course, reasonable people
understand how absurd all of this
is.
There's nothing in the
Constitution--nothing!--that says
the Supreme Court is the final or
sole arbiter of what is or is not
constitutional.
Nor is there anything in Marbury
v. Madison, the Supreme Court
case that famously established
judicial review. Nor is there in
Cooper v. Aaron, the 1958 case in
which the Court ruled that its
findings are the law of the land.
George Washington vetoed an
apportionment bill in 1792
because it was unconstitutional.
What was he thinking? If only
he'd had a Ben Adler around to
tell him what a fool he was.
Andrew Jackson vetoed the
reauthorization of the national
bank in 1832 because he believed
it was unconstitutional. He added
at the time that "it is as much the
duty of the House of
Representatives, of the Senate,
and of the President to decide
upon the constitutionality of any
bill or resolution which may be
presented to them for passage or
approval as it is of the supreme
judges when it may be brought
before them for judicial decision."
"Even the Supreme Court has
never claimed that it is the only
branch with the power or duty to
interpret the Constitution," says
Jeff Sikkenga, a constitutional
historian at Ashland University's
Ashbrook Center. "In fact, it has
said that certain constitutional
questions like war and peace are
left to the political branches to
decide."
The debate over whether the
courts are the final word on the
Constitution is more than 200
years old. The debate over
whether they are the sole arbiter
of constitutionality is extremely
recent and extremely silly.
But it's also necessary because
too many politicians--in both
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parties--have abdicated their most
solemn duty: to support and
defend the U.S. Constitution.
George W. Bush signed campaign
-finance reform even though he
thought much of it was
unconstitutional. Nancy Pelosi
thinks the Constitution has as
much relevance as a pet rock.
When asked if the health-care bill
was constitutional, her perpetually
wide-open eyes grew perceptibly
wider as she incredulously asked,
"Are you serious?"
The real issue is quite simple. If
more politicians were faithful to
the Constitution, the government
would be restrained. And
restraining government is "weird,"
"wacky," and "dangerous" to so
many liberals today.
Jonah Goldberg is a visiting
fellow at AEI.
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Time To Rate The Rating Agencies: AAA Is Junk
Bruce Bartlett (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:33:33 PM
It is a well-known fact that a key
source of the financial crisis from
which we still suffer was
something called CDOs
collateralized debt obligations,
which were packages of loans,
mostly home mortgages, that were
sold to various financial
institutions. As a consequence, the
ultimate holders of these debts
were institutions that really knew
almost nothing about them. When
the economy turned down, many
more of the debts went bad than
anticipated, thus causing many
financial institutions to fail, which
exacerbated the downturn and
turned an ordinary recession into
the worst since the Great
Depression.
Once upon a time, when a bank
loaned someone money to buy a
house, it held that mortgage until
it was paid off. Thus the bank had
a strong incentive to make sure
that the borrower was credit-
worthy. And in those days that
wasn’t so hard, because banks
normally lent only to individuals
and businesses in its immediate
vicinity with whom it probably
had done business for many years.
The banks knew very well who
was a good credit risk and who
wasn’t.
The problem was that a local
bank with limited deposits only
had so much money to lend. This
made it hard even for those with
good incomes and credit to get
mortgages. Until the 1930s,
mortgages were uncommon and
people mostly paid cash when
they bought a house, which
obviously limited the potential for
homeownership. The
homeownership rate was well
below 50 percent until after
World War II, according to the
Census Bureau.
But in the 1930s, the federal
government began setting up
agencies such as the Federal
National Mortgage Association
popularly known as Fannie Mae
that would buy mortgages from
local banks, thus replenishing the
funds available to lend to other
home buyers. This greatly
increased liquidity in the housing
market and helped fuel a vast
expansion of homeownership
after the war as people moved out
of rental apartments in the cities
in favor of houses in the suburbs.
The homeownership rate jumped
from 44 percent in 1940 to 55
percent in 1950 and 62 percent in
1960.
As mortgages became tradable,
there was an important need for
somebody to look through the
CDOs and assess the risk of
default. Financial institutions
turned to the three principal credit
rating agencies, Moody’s,
Standard and Poor’s, and Fitch,
which had long been in the
business of rating corporate bonds
with letter grades: AAA for those
with the lowest risk of default,
BBB for those with a medium risk
and so on.
But the credit agencies were less
well adept at judging the
creditworthiness of CDOs than
everyone, including the Securities
and Exchange Commission,
thought, which contributed to a
bubble in the housing market as
investors eagerly bought CDOs
that they thought were virtually
riskless. This pumped vast sums
into the housing market so that
more CDOs could be created to
satisfy investor demand, which
led to a decline in lending
standards that the rating agencies
failed to pick up until it was too
late. As New York University
economist Lawrence J. White
explains:
Favorable ratings from these
three credit agencies were crucial
for the successful sale of the
[CDO] securities based on
subprime residential mortgages
and other debt obligations. The
sales of these bonds, in turn, were
an important underpinning for the
financing of the self-reinforcing
price-bubble in the U.S. housing
market. When house prices ceased
rising in mid 2006 and then began
to decline, the default rates on the
mortgages underlying these
securities rose sharply, and those
initial ratings proved to be
excessively optimistic. The price
declines and uncertainty
surrounding these widely-held
securities then helped to turn a
drop in housing prices into a
widespread crisis in the U.S. and
global financial systems.
Another problem is that certain
biases had crept into the credit
rating business dating from the
1930s, when the SEC essentially
gave the force of law to credit
ratings by decreeing that banks
could not buy bonds with a rating
less than BBB. Moreover, the
SEC said that the only acceptable
ratings were from “recognized”
rating agencies, of which there
were only four. (At the time,
Standard and Poor’s were two
different companies; they merged
in 1941.) Thus the SEC created a
de facto cartel that continues to
operate to the present day.
Moreover, because the
methodology used by the credit
rating agencies was proprietary
and critical to their business, they
were not forced to divulge it,
creating a lack of transparency.
Thus we had a situation in which
there was little competition
among the rating agencies
because new entrants were
effectively prohibited, and the
agencies weren’t required to
divulge the methods they used to
determine creditworthiness. As a
consequence, there was no self-
correcting market mechanism that
would ensure accuracy in credit
ratings and prevent the
introduction of biases that tended
to push ratings above the SEC-
mandated threshold for
“investment grade” securities.
(See the fascinating new paper by
economists David M. Levy and
Sandra J. Peart.)
A final problem emerged when
the credit rating agencies changed
their business model. Historically,
investors had paid them for their
ratings, which helped ensure
accuracy. If an agency was wrong
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too often then customers would
buy ratings from one of its
competitors instead. But in the
early 1970s, all the agencies
switched to a model in which the
bond issuer paid for the rating.
This created an enormous conflict
of interest because the issuer
always wants the best rating
possible and can take its business
elsewhere if it doesn’t get the
rating it wants.
For many years, tradition and
concerns about their reputations
prevented too much upward bias
from creeping into the bond
ratings. But as time went by,
pressure to maximize earnings led
to slippage in the quality of
ratings. This became obvious to
everyone in 2001 when Enron
declared bankruptcy. All three
credit rating agencies had its
bonds rated as investment grade
until literally days before the
company went under. This led the
SEC to conduct an extensive
study that finally recognized some
of the structural problems in the
credit rating industry.
However, problems in the
industry persisted and even got
worse after CDOs were created.
One reason noted by Prof. White
is that securities rated AA or
better qualified for a lower capital
requirement. Normally, banks are
required to have capital equal to 4
percent of the value of mortgages
held. But those with an implicit
government guarantee, such as
securities issued by Fannie Mae,
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Why David Tepper Is Only Half Right
Michael Pento (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:40:00 PM
Billionaire David Tepper, one of
the most successful hedge fund
managers in the world, attracted
much attention in a September
24th CNBC appearance by
presenting such unrestrained
optimism that even the normally
buoyant network hosts were
somewhat surprised. In a rare
interview, Tepper argued that all
asset classes would go higher no
matter if the US economy
recovers or not (with the possible
exception of the US dollar). His
faith is derived from the belief
that even if the US economy
deteriorates and fails to raise
markets through organic growth,
the Fed will certainly step in with
enough liquidity to push up stock
and bond prices.
While Mr. Tepper may be correct
in assuming that the major
averages could rally in nominal
terms if the Fed undertakes
another round of quantitative
easing, investors would still need
to own the right assets to gain a
real return on their portfolios.
Like most professional investors,
Mr. Tepper is only concerned
with nominal, near-term
performance.
Of course, in an environment of
intractable inflation, most all asset
classes will rise- but they will not
do so at the same rate. Inflation is
never evenly distributed
throughout an economy and it
affects various asset classes in
different ways. The best assets to
own in order to obtain a positive
return after adjusting for inflation
are commodities and commodity-
producing stocks, especially those
that do not keep their retained
earnings in US dollars. The rarer
the commodity, the more it will
behave like real money and
maintain its value during a
currency debasement. Gold
increases in price more than semi-
precious metals because it has less
capability of having its supply
increased by discretion.
But the point missed by Mr.
Tepper (and those at the central
bank with whom he has placed his
faith) is that the very inflation that
will bolster stock prices will also
destroy the underlying US
economy. The Fed currently has
the hubris to believe that it has the
ability to print the US into
prosperity and that it will always
be able to keep long-term interest
rates from rising. It can't. The Fed
can manipulate the yield curve
lower through quantitative easing,
at least initially; but the more
bonds Bernanke & Co. purchase,
the more quickly the rate of
inflation will increase.
Right now, the yield on the 12-
month T-bill is .25% and the rate
of consumer inflation as purported
by the government is about 1%.
That means even when using a
tortured metric like the CPI (25%
of which is owners' equivalent
rent), real interest rates are still
negative. A better metric would
be to use the price of gold, which
has increased 30% YoY. Or how
about using the CRB Index, a
broad measure of commodity
prices? It's gone up 13% over the
past year. If you adjust nominal
interest rates by using these
measures, or even the dollar itself,
which has lost 11% since June,
rates are already profoundly
negative.
So, the question is: how much
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crumbling currency and soaring
interest rates, especially on the
long end of the yield curve. When
rates rise despite the Fed's efforts
to keep them down, that's game
over for the "recovery."
The final kick in the head is that
the depression the Fed has been
trying desperately to avoid will
still occur- except that it will be
accompanied by runaway
inflation and rapidly increasing
interest rates instead of falling
prices and reduced debt expense.
Those investors like David Tepper
who choose to believe they can
keep up with inflation simply by
investing in "everything" will be
shocked to discover how little
their nominally high returns are
more negative will the Fed be able
actually able to buy.
to send interest rates before the
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To Know (SPY)
Discusses QE, a Retired Teacher Supports Chris Gregory White (Money Game)

Christie Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:00:00 PM

Markets turned back positive

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Shedlock) (Mish's Global continue to drive sales. As of effect on us. Interest rates could Christie hit the nail on the head, I day.
Economic Trend Analysis) today, our prices are 40% below go to zero and it still would not believe. First, the scoreboard:
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Federal Guarantees for Small Auto Dealer only required capital equal to 1.6
percent of asset value. Once AA
San Diego law professor Frank
Partnoy identified many of the
rated CDOs qualified for the same problems with credit rating
Floorplan Loans; Government Partnerships lower capital requirement that agencies that subsequently fueled
noreply@blogger.com (Michael alone on a $2 million loan. Given the vast majority of applied to quasi-government the housing bubble. Yet even after
Shedlock) (Mish's Global The bill passed the House and housing loans are Fannie Mae, securities, it put even more those problems heavily
Economic Trend Analysis) Senate along party lines and Freddie Mac, and the FHA, and pressure on the credit rating contributed to the second greatest
Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:33:00 PM President Obama signed it into given ongoing efforts by the Fed agencies to inflate ratings. That economic crisis in American
James Grant, editor of Grant's law yesterday afternoon. This is and Congress to "stimulate would free up bank capital for history, little has changed. In fact,
Interest Rate Observer, talks expected to be the last jobs bill to lending", it is safe to say that a d d i t i o n a l p r o f i t - m a k i n g the agencies are growing in
about the overhaul of U.S. l e a v e C o n g r e s s b e f o r e t h e socialization of credit is already i n v e s t m e n t s . importance because of their role
financial regulation and says we midterm elections in November. here. Issuers also began creating new in rating sovereign debt – bonds
are on the road to Socialization of Public-Private Partnerships This is not a good thing. securities designed to game the issued by national governments.
Credit. We have already seen Paulson Mike "Mish" Shedlock rating system and effectively A Sept. 29 report from the
Grant also discusses Federal force government money down h t t p : / / disguise their risk. The methods International Monetary Fund
Reserve monetary policy. the throats of banks at bazooka globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. used were so complex that they warns that some of the practices
Federal Guarantees for Small point. More recently, Congress com were virtually unintelligible even of the rating agencies may
Auto Dealer Floorplan Loans passed a bill to have government Click Here To Scroll Thru My to the rating agencies. But under exacerbate debt problems.
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credit is signed into law community banks for loans to investment advisor representative CDOs with an investment grade great value of information and the
The federal government is small businesses. f o r S i t k a P a c i f i c C a p i t a l rating, the agencies went along for dangers of institutional biases.
keeping up its effort to stimulate Fortunately both banks and Management. Sitka Pacific is an the ride. There’s no obvious solution; the
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Business Administration from $2 S h e l v e B u s h T a x C u t s f o r m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l throughout the 2000s, testified assessed within a reasonable
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Manufacturing ISM Expands , Rate
Slows, Internals Weak
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 10:26:00 AM
Inquiring minds are digging into
details of the September 2010
Manufacturing ISM Report On
Business® Economic activity in
the manufacturing sector
expanded in September for the
14th consecutive month, and the
overall economy grew for the
17th consecutive month, say the
nation's supply executives in the
latest Manufacturing ISM Report
On Business®.
"While the headline number
shows relative strength this month
as the PMI reading of 54.4
percent is still quite positive, the
overall picture is less
encouraging. The growth of new
orders continued to slow, as the
index is down significantly from
its cyclical high of 65.9 percent
(January 2010). Production is
currently growing at a faster rate
than new orders, but it typically
lags and would be expected to
weaken further in the fourth
quarter. Manufacturing has
enjoyed a stronger recovery than
other sectors of the economy, but
it appears that weaker growth is
the expectation for the fourth
quarter. Both the Inventories and
Backlog of Orders Indexes are
sending strong negative signals of
weakening performance in the
sector." September ISM
Manufacturing at a Glance
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Sto-rms- are one of those call this same storm a cyclone.
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destructive a storm is? Is it by the destruction they can cause. The
number of lives lost? Its lasting Enhanced Fujita (EF) Tornado
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Fed Presidents Dudley And Evans 5 Ways Social

Come Out In Support Of QE2 Networking Can Help
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:46:00 PM
aversion could very well stifle a
meaningful recovery, keep
unemployment high and reinforce
Your Career
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From New York Fed President disinflationary pressures – clearly
William Dudley: The Outlook, an undesirable equilibrium. Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:00:56 PM you make to create and maintain
Policy Choices and Our Mandate So, in the coming weeks and relationships within that social
Currently, my assessment is that You may have heard the old network. You can do this face-to-
months, as I assess the incoming
both the current levels of adage: "It's all about who you face at conferences or at the gym,
data, update my forecast and
unemployment and inflation and know." This statement pre-dates or you can connect with others
deliberate on the best monetary
the timeframe over which they are evolves in a way that makes me policy approach, I will be the Internet, sometimes explaining online through Web sites like
likely to return to levels consistent more confident that we will see pondering two key issues: How why the boss's cousin was hired or LinkedIn and Facebook. Social
w i t h o u r m a n d a t e a r e b e t t e r o u t c o m e s f o r b o t h much more should monetary why the CEO's golf partner was networking uses your professional
unacceptable. In addition, the employment and inflation before policy do to reduce the shortfalls promoted to vice president. It and personal connections to move
longer this situation prevails and too long. holds a lot of truth, though, as your resume to the top of the
in meeting our dual mandate
the U.S. economy is stuck with And from Chicago Fed President responsibilities for employment statistics show people rate their stack or to move you ahead in
the current level of slack and Charles Evans: A Perspective on and price stability; and what tools connections, both professional your career.
disinflationary pressure, the the Future of U.S. Monetary should we use? and personal, as the most effective This article describes five ways --
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Dudley is on the FOMC (NY is a
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further from our dual mandate liquidity traps indicates that the an alternate member. The Fed Whether you're changing jobs, career, whether it's based on who
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deflation. or just trying to move up the c o n n e c t e d t o o n l i n e .
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10.) Divorce Lawyer
With so much competition out
there, job seekers need to find
ways to separate themselves from
the pack.
A business card is an extension
of who you are. It's a great, non-
verbal way to let your potential
employer know that you're a
creative person who thinks
outside the box. And, you know
what they say, first impressions
go a long way...
Here, then, are the top 10 most
clever business cards ever created.
I hope that they inspire you to
find creative ways to get that job!
9.) Photographer
8.) Computer Programmer
7.) Laser Printer
6.) Landscaper
5.) LEGO Employee
4.) Personal Trainer
3.) Artist
2.) Chest Physician
1.) Debt Recovery Agent
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Kate Moss Takes a Load Dancing's Maksim Chmerkovskiy:

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Dancing with the Stars' Maksim
Kate Moss continued her fun Chmerkovskiy is crossing his
times at Paris Fashion Week this fingers for a Mirrorball trophy —
morning by turning out to support not elimination.
her good friend John Galliano at Contrary to a Life & Style report
his Dior show. She was decked that said that the Dancing pro
out in her trademark black, but hopes to get booted because
fellow attendee Rachel Bilson partner Brandy is a diva,
opted for a dress in bright red. Chmerkovskiy tells TVGuide.com
Kate's arrival ended in a fight that the pair get along
between photographers, but things "wonderfully."
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said of the flashbulbs, "It's not so of partying with Jamie Hince at
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just that I can't see anything." masquerade ball. so that people will believe me, but around and talk all the time and a little too much. It did nobody
Kate went from sitting in the front we have a great relationship," he have so much in common. If they any favors and turned into a
row to backstage, where she says. "I really like Brandy. I don't air that, great. If they don't, that's malicious rumor."
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had a bunch of extremely clever 500,000,000 users, it is one of the
clues for opening up a social fastest growing networks in the
space that every kid (anyone SORKIN page 40
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history of man. That
undergraduate is now a
billionaire, multiple times over.
He is the youngest billionaire in
the world.
In 2009, Aaron Sorkin (“Sports
Night,” “The West Wing”) got
(yes, the same word) the idea to
write a script for a movie about
this new social network. Here’s
the important point: He made it.
As with every one of his
extraordinary works, Sorkin
crafted dialogue for an as-yet-not-
evolved species of
humans—ordinary people, here
students, who talk perpetually
with the wit and brilliance of
George Bernard Shaw or Bertrand
Russell. (I’m a Harvard professor.
Trust me: The students don’t
speak this language.) With that
script, and with a massive hand
from the film’s director, David
Fincher, he helped steer an
intelligent, beautiful, and
compelling film through to
completion. You will see this
movie, and you should. As a film,
visually and rhythmically, and as
a story, dramatically, the work
earns its place in the history of the
field.
But as a story about Facebook, it
is deeply, deeply flawed. As I
watched the film, and considered
what it missed, it struck me that
there was more than a hint of self-
congratulatory contempt in the
motives behind how this story
was told. Imagine a jester from
King George III’s court, charged
in 1790 with writing a comedy
about the new American
Republic. That comedy would
show the new Republic through
the eyes of the old. It would dress
up the story with familiar
figures—an aristocracy, or a
wannabe aristocracy, with grand
estates, but none remotely as
grand as in England. The message
would be, “Fear not, there’s no
reason to go. The new world is
silly at best, deeply degenerate, at
worst.”
Not every account of a new
world suffers like this. Alexis de
Tocqueville showed the old world
there was more here than there.
But Sorkin is no Tocqueville.
Indeed, he simply hasn’t a clue to
the real secret sauce in the story
he is trying to tell. And the
ramifications of this
misunderstanding go well beyond
the multiplex.
Two lawsuits provide the frame
for The Social Network. One was
brought by Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss, twins at Harvard
who thought they had hired
Zuckerberg to build for them what
Facebook would become. The
other was brought by Eduardo
Saverin, Zuckerberg’s “one
friend” and partner, and
Facebook’s initial CFO, who was
eventually pushed out of the
company by Silicon Valley
venture capitalists. These cases
function as a kind of Greek
chorus, setting the standards of
right, throughout the film. It is
against the high ideals they
represent that everything else gets
judged. And indeed, the lawyers
are the only truly respectable or
honorable characters in the film.
When they’re ridiculed or insulted
by Zuckerberg, their responses are
more mature, and better, than
Zuckerberg’s. (If you remember
the scene in “The Wire” where
Omar uses his wit to cut the
lawyer to bits, that’s not this
film.) The lawyers here rise above
the pokes, regardless of the
brilliance in Zuckerberg’s charge.
This is kindergarten. They are the
teachers. We’re all meant to share
a knowing wink, or smirk, as we
watch the silliness of children at
play.
In Sorkin’s world—which is to
say Hollywood, where lawyers
attempt to control every last scrap
of culture—this framing makes
sense. But as I watched this film,
as a law professor, and someone
who has tried as best I can to
understand the new world now
living in Silicon Valley, the only
people that I felt embarrassed for
were the lawyers. The total and
absolute absurdity of the world
where the engines of a federal
lawsuit get cranked up to
adjudicate the hurt feelings
(because “our idea was stolen!”)
of entitled Harvard
undergraduates is completely
missed by Sorkin. We can’t know
enough from the film to know
whether there was actually any
substantial legal claim here.
Sorkin has been upfront about the
fact that there are fabrications
aplenty lacing the story. But from
the story as told, we certainly
know enough to know that any
legal system that would allow
these kids to extort $65 million
from the most successful business
this century should be ashamed of
itself. Did Zuckerberg breach his
contract? Maybe, for which the
damages are more like $650, not
$65 million. Did he steal a trade
secret? Absolutely not. Did he
steal any other “property”?
Absolutely not—the code for
Facebook was his, and the “idea”
of a social network is not a patent.
It wasn’t justice that gave the
twins $65 million; it was the fear
of a random and inefficient
system of law. That system is a
tax on innovation and creativity.
That tax is the real villain here,
not the innovator it burdened.
The case for Zuckerberg’s former
partner is stronger, and more
sensible and sad. But here again,
the villains are not even named.
Sorkin makes the autodidact Sean
Parker, co-founder of Napster, the
evil one. (No copyright-industry
bad blood there.) I know Parker.
This is not him. The nastiest
people in this story (at least if
Sorkin tells this part accurately)
were the Facebook lawyers who
show up in poorly fitting suits and
let Saverin believe that they were
in this, as in everything else they
had done, representing Saverin as
well. If that’s what actually
happened, it was plainly
unethical. No doubt, Saverin was
stupid to trust them, but the
absurdity here is a world where it
is stupid to trust members of an
elite and regulated profession.
Again, an absurdity one could
well miss in this film between all
the cocaine and practically naked
twentysomethings.
But the most frustrating bit of
The Social Network is not its
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obliviousness to the silliness of
modern American law. It is its
failure to even mention the real
magic behind the Facebook story.
In interviews given after making
the film, Sorkin boasts about his
ignorance of the Internet. That
ignorance shows. This is like a
film about the atomic bomb which
never even introduces the idea
that an explosion produced
through atomic fission is
importantly different from an
explosion produced by dynamite.
Instead, we’re just shown a big
explosion ($25 billion in market
capitalization—that’s a lot of
dynamite!) and expected to
grok(the word us geek-wannabes
use to show you we know of what
we speak) the world of difference
this innovation in bombs entails.
What is important in
Zuckerberg’s story is not that he’s
a boy genius. He plainly is, but
many are. It’s not that he’s a
socially clumsy (relative to the
Harvard elite) boy genius. Every
one of them is. And it’s not that
he invented an amazing product
through hard work and insight
that millions love. The history of
American entrepreneurism is just
that history, told with different
technologies at different times and
places.
Instead, what’s important here is
that Zuckerberg’s genius could be
embraced by half-a-billion people
within six years of its first being
launched, without (and here is the
critical bit) asking permission of
anyone. The real story is not the
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invention. It is the platform that
makes the invention sing.
Zuckerberg didn’t invent that
platform. He was a hacker (a term
of praise) who built for it. And as
much as Zuckerberg deserves
endless respect from every decent
soul for his success, the real hero
in this story doesn’t even get a
credit. It’s something Sorkin
doesn’t even notice.
For comparison’s sake, consider
another pair of Massachusetts
entrepreneurs, Tom First and Tom
Scott. After graduating from
Brown in 1989, they started a
delivery service to boats on
Nantucket Sound. During their
first winter, they invented a juice
drink. People liked their juice.
Slowly, it dawned on First and
Scott that maybe there was a
business here. Nantucket Nectars
was born. The two Toms started
the long slog of getting
distribution. Ocean Spray bought
the company. It later sold the
business to Cadbury Schweppes.
At each step after the first, along
the way to giving their customers
what they wanted, the two Toms
had to ask permission from
someone. They needed permission
from a manufacturer to get into
his plant. Permission from a
distributor to get into her network.
And permission from stores to get
before the customer. Each step
between the idea and the customer
was a slog. They made the slog,
and succeeded. But many try to
make that slog and fail.
Sometimes for good reasons.
Sometimes not.
Zuckerberg faced no such barrier.
For less than $1,000, he could get
his idea onto the Internet. He
needed no permission from the
network provider. He needed no
clearance from Harvard to offer it
to Harvard students. Neither with
Yale, or Princeton, or Stanford.
Nor with every other community
he invited in. Because the
platform of the Internet is open
and free, or in the language of the
day, because it is a “neutral
network,” a billion Mark
Zuckerbergs have the opportunity
to invent for the platform. And
though there are crucial partners
who are essential to bring the
product to market, the cost of
proving viability on this platform
has dropped dramatically. You
don’t even have to possess
Zuckerberg’s technical genius to
develop your own idea for the
Internet today. Websites across
the developing world deliver high
quality coding to complement the
very best ideas from anywhere.
This is a platform that has made
democratic innovation
possible—and it was on the
Facebook platform resting on that
Internet platform that another
Facebook co-founder, Chris
Hughes, organized the most
important digital movement for
Obama, and that the film’s petty
villain, Sean Parker, organized
Causes, one of the most important
tools to support nonprofit social
missions.
The tragedy—small in the scale
of things, no doubt—of this film
is that practically everyone
watching it will miss this point.
Practically everyone walking out
will think they understand genius
on the Internet. But almost none
will have seen the real genius
here. And that is tragedy because
just at the moment when we
celebrate the product of these two
wonders—Zuckerberg and the
Internet—working together,
policymakers are conspiring
ferociously with old world powers
to remove the conditions for this
success. As “network neutrality”
gets bargained away—to add
insult to injury, by an
administration that was elected
with the promise to defend it—the
opportunities for the Zuckerbergs
of tomorrow will shrink. And as
they do, we will return more to
the world where success depends
upon permission. And privilege.
And insiders. And where fewer
turn their souls to inventing the
next great idea.
I had always hoped (naively, no
doubt) that this point would be
obvious to the creators of film. No
field of innovation is more
burdened by the judgments of
idiots in the middle than film.
Scores of directors have watched
in horror as their creativity gets
maimed by suits-carrying-focus-
groups. I had thought that if only
these creators would let
themselves understand the ethic of
Internet creativity—where the
creator gets to speak directly to an
audience, where an audience is
brought on stage, and talks
back—they would get it. And if
they did, that there might actually
be a chance for this understanding
to be shown in one of the only
ways this culture understands
anymore—through film. Indeed,
as I walked into this film
unprimed by early reviews, I had
hoped, “West Wing” fan-boy that
I am, that of all the storytellers in
Hollywood, Sorkin was most
likely to get it.
He didn’t. His film doesn’t show
it. What it shows is worth
watching. But what it doesn’t
show is an understanding of the
most important social and
economic platform for innovation
in our history.
Zuckerberg is a rightful hero of
our time. I want my kids to
admire him. To his credit, Sorkin
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gives him the only lines of true
insight in the film: In response to
the twins’ lawsuit, he asks, does
“a guy who makes a really good
chair owe money to anyone who
ever made a chair?” And to his
partner who signed away his
ownership in Facebook: “You’re
gonna blame me because you
were the business head of the
company and you made a bad
business deal with your own
company?” Friends who know
Zuckerberg say such insight is
common. No doubt his handlers
are panicked that the film will
tarnish the brand. He should listen
less to these handlers. As I looked
around at the packed theater of
teens and twenty-somethings,
there was no doubt who was in
the right, however geeky and
clumsy and sad. That generation
will judge this new world. If, that
is, we allow that new world to
continue to flourish.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at
Harvard Law School and the
director of the Edmond J. Safra
Foundation Center for Ethics.
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On Friday's CSI: NY, lab rat
Adam Ross gets his moment to
shine when an online relationship
puts him right in the middle of a
murder investigation.
When Adam ( AJ Buckley) meets
a French beauty on a video dating
website, they instantly connect. "I
melt. My character literally falls
in love through the screen, and
tragically as he falls in love, she
dies right in front of me," Buckley
tells TVGuide.com.
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Adam, Mac ( Gary Sinise) and
the rest of the team must first
figure out if the murder was real
or some twisted Internet snuff
film. Through the investigation,
Adam has the rare chance to get
out of the lab, which also leads to
a physical altercation.
"He gets in a fight with someone,
and I hold my own, which is
good," Buckley says with a laugh.
"Adam's always kind of the brunt
of the joke. You push him and
push him and push him, but if you
push a nerd to certain level, they
snap. And for some reason they
always know kung fu or they have
some sort of Jedi training.
[Adam's] got a great right hook.
Any criminal out there — watch
out."
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But because Adam is so
personally connected to the case,
he also oversteps his boundaries.
"He goes against Mac's orders,"
Buckley says. "I do get
reprimanded. ... But at the same
time, Adam... has to stand up at
some point, and I think this
season, in the writing, Adam's
really started to evolve. I'm seeing
new layers of Adam that I've
never seen before."
Buckley says he hopes this
episode is the beginning of his
character getting more involved
outside the lab. "My track record
of times when I come out of the
lab is pretty tragic," Buckley says.
"I come out and [there's] a cloud
over me, and the world kind of
explodes. But I think it's time for
him to come out and get a tan and
interact with some people."
CSI: NY Returns on a new night
with a new face
As for the show's new home on
Friday nights, Buckley says he's
excited to be paired with the Tom
Selleck-fronted Blue Bloods. In
fact, he's got some ideas about
how the shows can work together.
"I think my uncle should be
Magnum P.I.," Buckley jokes. "I'll
grow a mustache. That's the
crossover right there!"
CSI: NY airs Fridays at 9/8c on
CBS.
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My Generation
Thursday night brought bad news
for most of this season's freshman
series, while Jersey Shore
continued its strong run with a
new series high.
ABC's My Generation was the
worst of the new series, drawing a
dismal 3.8 million viewers and
dropping 30 percent in the adults
18-49 demographic, according to
overnight Nielsen estimates. My
Generation is now the lowest-
rated freshman series on the four
major broadcast networks.
First-year workplace comedy
Outsourced dropped to 5.7
million, falling 22 percent in the
demo from last week. But the
show was still ahead of its fellow
NBC comedies 30 Rock(5.6
million viewers) and
Community(4.5 million viewers).
The Office led the Peacock with
7.3 million viewers, while The
Apprentice was NBC's least-
watched show at 3.7 million
viewers.
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week,$#*! My Dad Says fell 20
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Theory(13 million viewers). CBS
won the night overall, as CSI and
The Mentalist were steady with
13.3 million viewers and 14.6
million viewers, respectively.
Despite Generation's weak start,
ABC placed second for the night,
as Grey's Anatomy drew 12.2
million viewers, winning the 9/8c
time slot in the demo. Private
Practice drew 8 million viewers to
round out the night.
Fox placed fourth behind NBC,
with Bones drawing 9.6 million
viewers and Fringe pulling in 5.4
million viewers. The CW
followed with Vampire
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How can drivers deal with heavy rain and flooded roads?
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Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:10:13 PM
How can drivers deal with heavy
rain and flooded roads?
Heavy rain has left a large
portion of the country drenched,
presenting new hazards for
motorists. Here in New England,
we have had trees down and roads
flooded making getting to the
office and test track a challenge.
Further south, conditions are even
worse with deep water causing
significant automotive damage.
A question we’re hearing a lot
this week: How can drivers deal
with heavy rain and flooded
roads?
No matter the scenario, survival
is always aided by planning. It
starts with a well-maintained car
equipped with antilock brakes and
stability control, two proven
systems that can save lives by
keeping the car under control and
on the road. Antilock brakes work
by rapidly pulsing the brakes,
enabling the driver to press down
on the brake pedal with full force
and retain the ability to steer
while rapidly decelerating.
Without ABS, brakes can lock up
when pressed hard, leading to an
uncontrolled skid and longer
stopping distance. Stability
control uses the ABS system to
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counteract sliding motions, dramatic actions can exacerbate lubricants, and threaten
helping the car remain on the the situation. mechanical systems, often without
road. (Learn more about car It is important to note that all leaving outward signs. It can take
safety.) As the only part of the vehicles can hydroplane in the months for incipient corrosion to
car that touches the road, tires are rain. The conditions may vary, but find its way to the car's computer
another key factor. Quality tires there should be no doubt that this systems or air-bag controllers.
with decent tread-life remaining is a real risk. Slow down, and take A rainy day can quickly turn
can route water through grooves, your time. dangerous. By keeping your
enabling the tire to contact, and This week, some areas have vehicle properly maintained and
thereby “hold”, the road. Monthly experienced true flooding. Bear in exercising caution while driving,
tread inspections can inform when mind that six inches of water will you can minimize your risks
To ensure good visibility, we
the tires warrant replacement, well reach the bottom of most behind the wheel. Of course, if
advise you replace your
in advance of the federally passenger cars causing loss of conditions are so bad you have to
windshield wipers every six to 12
mandated tread-wear indicators. control and possible stalling. The think through these tips again,
months. In between wiper
In most states, tires are legally Federal Emergency Management perhaps it is best that you wait out
changes, you may restore some
worn out when their tread depth Agency (FEMA) advises that a the storm.
function by cleaning the blades.
reaches 1/16 inch (or 2/32 inch as foot of water will float many — Jeff Bartlett Next Steps
(See our wiper ratings.)
found on standardized tread-depth vehicles, and two feet of rushing • Tire Buying Advice:
During the storm
gauges). The easiest way to water can carry away most • Types of Tires|
Water makes roads slick,
measure this, if you don't have a vehicles including SUVs and • Tire Features|
necessitating care and lower
gauge, is to hold a penny upside pickup trucks. • Tire Brands
speeds to ensure reasonable
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braking distances and handling.
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As speed increases, so does the
new tires. But using a penny everyone out immediately. The view and compare all Tire
risk of hydroplaning—a situation
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water effectively, and loses
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contact with the road surface,
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depends on many factors, such as
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weight.
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When hydroplaning, it is usually
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best to keep the tires straight and
replacement tires. (See our tire car market. Flood damage can
ease off the accelerator. Sudden,
buying advice and ratings.) ruin electronics, contaminate
46 Products/ Sports/
Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4GB Media Player
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 12:00:05 AM
Just Pray They Haven’t Found
Your LiveJournal Yet
“Your qualifications are
impeccable, Ms. Howe. But let’s
talk about a certain Facebook
posting from November 2007,
shall we?”
“Uh, I’m sorry, I don’t know what
you mean.”
“Let me refresh your memory. At
9:23 PM on Thursday, November
15, 2007, you – or someone with
access to your Facebook account,
but let’s not embarrass ourselves
with that dodge – posted the
following: ‘OMG 30 Rock’s even
funnier when I watch with my
friend Cheeba.’ Do you deny
posting this, and further, do you
deny using the term ‘cheeba’ as a
euphemism for an illegal
substance?”
“Uh, well, I don’t remember
exactly, but -”
“No, I’m sure you don’t.”
“Well, uh, look, I was
unemployed at the time, and, you
know, I just didn’t think it would
be a big deal… but I’ve, uh,
learned my lesson. Totally. I’ll
submit to a drug test any time,
except that I’m really busy for
the next 30 days.”
“Duly noted. Let’s move on. On
August 3, 2006, you posted a
photo to your Flickr account
depicting yourself drinking what
appears to be a bottle of Smirnoff
Twist Arctic Berry, an alcoholic
beverage. Furthermore, the photo
is labeled ‘Chillin’ at the dog
fight’. Two questions, Ms. Howe:
how old were you when that
photo was taken in 2006?”
“Um, 20. And a half. 20-and-a-
half.”
“And at the time that photo was
taken, did you support illegal
dogfighting?”
“Only by betting on it. And
paying admission to get in. And
occasionally disciplining some
misbehaving dogs for my friend
Wayne Wayne. I’m through with
that now, though. That Michael
Vick bust was a real wake-up
call.”
“I’m sure it was. Now, another
item. During 2005, under the
‘Likes’ section of your Friendster
profile, you listed the following
items as ‘Like’: ‘sharing
needles’; ‘spreading computer
viruses’; and ‘selling confidential
and proprietary information to my
boss’s competitors’. Care to
explain, Ms. Howe?”
“I was just a mixed-up kid. A
confused, strung-out kid who
caused millions of dollars’ worth
of electronic infrastructure
damage. We’ve all been there,
haven’t we?”
“At least one of us has. Finally,
Ms. Howe, a revelation of more
recent vintage. A posting to
Blippy indicates that you
purchased a Sandisk Sansa Fuze
4GB Media Player from
Woot.com on October 1, 2010. Is
this true?”
“Yes, I did, but what’s wrong
with that?”
“Nothing at all, Ms. Howe.
Nothing at all. Your choice of the
Sansa Fuze clearly indicates that
you understand how to look
beyond hype and hipness when
making your purchases. This
eminently affordable 4GB player
offers the same music and video
playback functions as the big-
name players. Indeed, its drag-
and-drop file-loading ability is
considerably easier and less
encumbered with DRM nonsense.
Congratulations, Ms. Howe.
Anyone savvy enough to buy a
Sansa Fuze is someone we’d be
happy to have on our team.”
“Wow. Seriously? Even after, you
know, all that other stuff?”
“Well, your patronage of a bottom
-feeding degenerate outfit like
Woot.com doesn’t speak well for
you. But sometimes we have to
dig through the animal droppings
to find the gourmet coffee, don’t
we?”
“Thank you, sir. I- I don’t know
what to say. If there’s anything
else you need from me, just let me
know.”
“Actually, there is. Do you know
where I can get my hands on
some of that ‘cheeba’ you
mentioned? All this electronic
spying is really stressing me out.”
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Don Hasselbeck to Ex
-Players: You Blew
Your Own Chances
David Steele (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:28:00 PM
Filed under: Giants, Patriots,
NFL Injuries, NFL Labor
Negotiations WALTHAM, Mass.
-- While discussing his
experiences with concussions
during his football career,
including nine years in the NFL,
former Patriots and Giants tight
end Don Hasselbeck took time out
Friday to lambaste several of his
retired brethren for their
"whining'' about the lack of help
they are getting for their post-
retirement health issues.
These issues, Hasselbeck told a
conference of medical
professionals and academics on
athletes and head trauma in the
Boston suburbs, were exactly the
same ones he and others involved
in the NFL Players Association
were addressing in the 1970s and
'80s -- but ones that the majority
of players ignored, tuned out or
actively avoided.
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Fall chores that'll have you singing the mow better

blues come spring
Consumer Reports Shopping other maintenance, mix the proper -behind and riding mowers.
Blog (Consumer Reports) amount of fuel stabilizer with Gas and oil. If you hadn’t already
Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:48:51 PM fresh gas in a gas can and fill the added fuel stabilizer, do it now
tank to the top. and run the engine dry. Replace
Fall chores that'll have you Clean the underside. Many new the fuel filter. And while you also Shaun White
singing the mow better blues mowers have a washout port, need to change the oil, flipping Skateboarding trailer
come spring If you've never added which can prevent buildup of isn’t required; every lawn tractor teaches us how to pop
fuel stabilizer to the gas you put grass clippings. Whether or not and zero-turn-radius mower has a
in your lawn mower, like the 53 you’ve been cleaning the deck, way to drain oil. ollies on the Wii
percent of gas-mower owners we you’ll need to spray or scrape off brought indoors over the winter; Air filter. If your carburetor’s air David Hinkle (Joystiq)
surveyed, chances are you had any remaining clippings to check the manual for temperature filter is paper, replace it. If it’s Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:40:00 PM
some trouble starting your mower prevent rusting. (An old bristled specifics. foam, wash it in soap and water.
last spring. You may also have pot scrubber might do.) Spraying Other chores. Spark plugs don’t Rinse and squeeze it dry. Check Christian Slater made it look
had trouble if you hadn’t replaced the cleaned, dried deck with need replacing once a your owner’s manual: Some easy, but it actually takes a lot of
the air filter or at least checked the silicone spray can help prevent year—typically, it’s every 100 suggest you also, at this point, oil practice to become an awesome
spark plug, among other tasks we future buildup. hours of operation. But most of us a foam filter with engine oil. If so, skateboarder. And that's what this
consider vital to making mowers Change the oil. Chances are don’t keep track. (An hour meter, squeeze the filter dry again before new Shaun White Skateboarding
last. You don’t want to go through you’ll need to flip the mower available at your local home you reinstall it. trailer is all about: introducing
that again, right? (with the gas tank empty) to drain center or parts supplier, can help, Electrical. Remove the battery, you to the Wii controls so you can
Owners of lawn tractors tend to the oil. Look for the designated but so can a stop watch and a and keep it charged over the eventually gleam cubes like a pro.
take better care of their machines, mark on the dipstick while memo pad.) Early fall is a good winter using a trickle charger. Continue reading Shaun White
probably because they cost refilling, as too much oil can be as time to get your blade sharpened, —Ed Perratore Skateboarding trailer teaches us
significantly more. But whatever bad for the engine as too little. since repairmen aren’t yet fixing More on mowers: If you’ll be in how to pop ollies on the Wii
type of mower you use for your You can take used oil to a local people’s leaf blowers or snow the market for new cutting gear, Shaun White Skateboarding
lawn, in most parts of the country service station or recycling center throwers. Also, check your see our buying advice for lawn trailer teaches us how to pop
it’s almost time to put it away for for disposal. owner’s manual for how often to mowers and tractors. Subscribers ollies on the Wii originally
the season. Here’s what to do: Charge the battery. If you have replace the air filter and, if your to ConsumerReports.org can view appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Oct
Walk-behind mowers an electric mower, or even just a mower has one (few do), the fuel our Ratings for push mowers, self 2010 16:40:00 EST. Please see
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keep your mower in a dry its ability to fully recharge will mowers in only a few ways. Ratings, buying advice and
basement, run the engine till it’s diminish gradually before failing Changing spark plugs and reliability on hundreds of
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Some B-list groceries get an A in taste White House outlines 62-

and affordability
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Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:46:53 PM
Some B-list groceries get an A in
taste and affordability Here in
mpg fuel economy
standards for 2017-2025
soup. Yet our latest taste-off
found that Albertsons peanut
butter was similar in quality to
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Skippy; Target’s Market Pantry Blog (Consumer Reports)
ketchup was as good as Heinz.
Overall, national brands won Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:47:08 PM

suburbia grocery shopping is part seven of the 21 matchups and

necessity, part social outing. With White House outlines 62-mpg
store brands won three. For the
retailers offering samples of fuel economy standards for 2017-
rest, the store brand and name
cheeses, aged beef and baskets of company. “We do feel that the brand were of similar quality. 2025
broken cookies, shoppers mingle rarity of impulse buying is Almost any store-brand product The Obama Administration today
announced that it is working on lower increases of 3 percent a
and munch their way through relatively recent since the top is worth trying. What have you year, which could reach an overall
stores. It may seem like they’re reason for purchasing on impulse got to lose? You might not know setting new fuel economy
standards for cars that will start in fleet average of 46 mpg and cost a
meandering aimlessly, but the is a sale,” says Ann Hanson, that most grocers offer a money- less eye-popping $770 per
mission remains: Bring home the author of the report, in an e-mail. back guarantee if their products the 2017 model year.
The new standards ( pdf) could vehicle.
food. “A very cost-conscious consumer don’t meet your expectations. The new standards will follow a
Those free samples and dazzling is emerging from the recession.” Find out more by reading our rise by as much as 6 percent a
year thereafter, reaching 62 mpg dramatic increase in fuel economy
displays are tempting but a recent Making a list and buying only report, “ Store brands vs. name standards passed last year for the
report found that it may take more what you need can save you brands.” The price study is by model year 2025.
In a joint press release by the 2012 to 2016 model years, going
than a fancy presentation for money, and so can store-brand available to subscribers. from today's 27.5 mpg average for
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They Also Serve Who Only Snuggle Ducks

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 11:35:00 AM
People think our monkeys are
harsh and jaded from years of
working in advertising. So any
chance we have to show off their
softer side, we're takin' it. This
could be why we were all so
pleased when Anthony and Kaela
wrote in to let us know about,
well, this:
This little black duckling is brand
new to the world, and due to
circumstances, he's without any
relatives at all. Anthony and
Kaela took it upon themselves to
give the poor little duckling one
of our monkeys so that he'd have
something to snuggle. You can
see for yourself, the idea worked
out just fine. He blends in pretty
well so we highlighted him for
you below.
If these pictures aren't enough
cute for you, Anthony has offered
us use of his webstream for some
award-winning duckling-on-the-
spot coverage. He can't always be
sure when it will be up
(apparently his cats have final cut)
but give it a try anyway. This little
duck is pretty darn adorable.
PS: Anthony's user name is
Acipolone, and he's looking for
name ideas. Maybe for the
monkey, maybe the for duck, it
really depends on what you offer.
Feel free to make any suggestions This Week In The
in the comments! He'll be
checking in, and we assume he'll Future, September
let you know what he likes best.
ADDENDUM: Anthony sent us a
27-October 1, 2010
much better, non-webcam photo <a
of the duck. Isn't he cute? href="http://www.baarbari
an.com/">Baarbarian&l
t;/a> (Popular Science - New
Technology, Science News,
The Future Now)

New York Mets to remove Jerry Manuel, GM Omar Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:31:38 PM
This Week In The Future,
September 27-October 1, 2010
Minaya, sources say Baarbarian
Once again, it's This Week In
Adam Rubin (ESPN.com) permission has been requested to postseason in only one of his six any money. The guaranteed The Future. Six articles from this
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:15:17 PM officially speak with successors full seasons on the job despite portion of his contract expires at week on PopSci are immortalized
and no replacement will be annually having one of the highest season's end. While team officials on this lottery ticket. Can you
Updated: October 1, 2010, 4:44 immediately installed. payrolls in the National League. have been complimentary of identify all six?
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General manager Omar Minaya "I have not discussed anything," Thursday's loss to the Milwaukee Adam Rubin covers the Mets will be chosen to win a copy of
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United States rallies in rain-delayed Ryder Cup
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:10:07 PM
Updated: October 1, 2010, 4:43
PM ET
NEWPORT, Wales -- The
opening matches in the Ryder
Cup, delayed more than six hours
by rain and a water-logged Celtic
Manor golf course, took a turn in
favor of the U.S. when play
resumed in the late afternoon.
With play halted by darkness, the
Americans lead in two matches,
the Europeans lead in one, and the
fourth is all square. Play will
resume at 8 a.m. local time; 3 a.m.
ET on Saturday. More from the
Ryder Cup
The Americans got wetter, then
better on Day 1 of the Ryder Cup.
ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski
looks at how it all happened.
Story
Combine rain, wardrobe
malfunctions and a fired-up fan
base and you have a most unusual
day at the Ryder Cup , as
ESPN.com's Bob Harig details.
Story
• New schedule for weekend
The U.S. had only one problem
with its rain gear on Friday at the
Ryder Cup. It rained, as
ESPN.com's Rick Reilly knows
all too well. Story
As the conclusion of a sloppy
Friday, Lee Westwood and Martin
Kaymer are 1-up on Dustin
Johnson and Phil Mickelson
through 12 holes. The Americans
were 3-down through six holes
before rallying to get closer.
Stewart Cink and Matt Kuchar of
the U.S. lead Europe's Rory
McIlroy and Graeme McDowell 2
-up through 11 holes. The
Americans were 1-down when
play was halted, but Cink made
five birdies in the first 11 holes to
turn the match around.
Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker
were all square with Ian Poulter
and Ross Fisher of Europe
through 10 holes. The Americans
trailed for the first seven holes,
but Stricker won the eighth with a
birdie and Woods birdied the
ninth to give them the lead.
Rookies Jeff Overton and Bubba
Watson of the U.S. lead their
match with Luke Donald and
Padraig Harrington 1-up through
eight holes.
Rain, however, dominated the
day. Play was under way for
about two hours, but the water
overtook the golf course and play
was halted at 9:45 a.m. local time,
4:45 a.m. ET. Workers scurried
around the greens using squeegees
to push the water off, but fairways
finally made it impossible to find
a dry spot to hit from even when
taking relief.
"It was tough day, a tough start,"
American captain Corey Pavin
said. "Obviously I'm pleased with
the way U.S. came back and
performed this afternoon. I'm very
proud of the guys."
His European counterpart, Colin
Montgomerie, took heart from
Poulter rolling in a clutch 15-foot
putt at the 10th just before the last
light faded away, giving the home
team a bit of a boost. The
Englishman turned toward what
was left of the gallery and
pumped his fist defiantly.
"We had a good first hour of play
or something, and then that two
hours of play there was obviously
in the Americans' favor," Monty
said. "But at the same time, there's
no match that is anymore than 2
up or 2 down, so everyone is still
in the game." Keep up on the Cup
Follow all of the action with
updates and commentary from
ESPN.com golf blogger Jason
Sobel, live from Celtic Manor in
Newport, Wales. Analysis
• Hole-by-hole scores
• Note: ESPN will televise
Saturday's play from 3 a.m. ET to
8 a.m. ET. NBC will pick up
coverage at 8 a.m. ET. NBC will
television Sunday's play
beginning at 4 a.m. ET until the
conclusion of play.
The Twenty Ten course, which
was built especially for the Ryder
Cup, has a complex drainage
system that allows the water to
flow off quickly. But first, it had
to stop raining. Officials said they
already had contingency plans to
extend the event until Monday.
However, in an attempt to get the
matches in by Sunday night, the
second session will now include
six foursomes matches (alternate
shot). The third session will have
two foursomes (alternate shot)
matches and four fourball
matches.
That will be followed by 12
singles matches. Saturday's
forecast is favorable; Sunday,
however, is predicted to be rainy.
The last time weather delayed a
Ryder Cup match was in 1997 at
Valderrama in San Roque, Spain.
Friday, forecast called for the
rain to move out by early
afternoon, but that didn't pan out.
Officials pushed back two
deadlines for getting the course
back in shape.
If play continues into Monday, it
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has to be completed by 6:43 p.m.
local time (which is sunset).
Whoever leads in completed
matches at that time would win
the Ryder Cup; any matches
remaining on the course would be
considered halved.
The players, meanwhile, headed
back to the clubhouse and tried to
pass the time during the delay.
The European team took to
Twitter, sending out photos of
teammates sleeping and the team
playing Tiger Woods golf on an
Xbox.
The Americans came back to the
course with new rain suits.
Several players complained that
the rain suits they had been
wearing -- which featured their
names and USA on the back --
were not repelling water.
PGA of America spokesman
Julius Mason said that officials
went to the merchandise tent
during the rain delay at Celtic
Manor and snatched up as many
suits as they could find.
The rain gear ordered by U.S.
captain Pavin was made by Sun
Mountain. Mason says team
officials were disappointed with
how they worked, and bought new
ones made by ProQuip. Mason
says there were only enough for
the players and caddies. The new
suits have only a Ryder Cup logo
-- the European Ryder Cup logo at
that (there are separate ones for
each team) -- without any special
markings for a U.S. uniform.
"We were disappointed with the
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performance of them, and we just
fixed it," Pavin said. "They were
not doing what we wanted them to
do, so we went out and bought
some more waterproofs."[+]
Enlarge
AP Photo Workers at Celtic
Manor try to clear water off the
first fairway.
The Europeans couldn't resist
poking a little fun at the
Americans' plight.
"Just have to say our waterproofs
are performing very well!"
McIlroy tweeted.
Playing in a driving rain from the
start, the Europeans opened
quickly, leading in three of the
four best-ball matches when play
was halted.
The Americans got off to a shaky
start, missing the fairway with
five of their first six tee shots.
Mickelson was the only one to hit
it where he wanted -- and he flew
his next shot over the green.
"The first thing I need is to find a
hair dryer," said Kaymer.
"It's a shame," U.S. assistant
Bobby Cox Retiring? It's Hard to Believe
Terence Moore (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:01:00 PM
Filed under: Braves ATLANTA -
- Sorry, but I don't believe this is
it for Bobby Cox. I've never
believed it. I've been around the
guy for much of his three decades
managing in the major leagues
captain Jeff Sluman said. "There's
10 years of planning that went
into this, and we're held hostage
by the weather."
The U.S. hoped the delay might
stem the European momentum, or
at least clear out the nasty
weather. European captain Colin
Montgomerie felt his team had an
edge playing in damp conditions.
"It's not fun for anyone, agreed,"
Monty said shortly after the
opening shot. "But it's probably
less fun for the Americans. In
America, when it rains it usually
thunders, too, and you can't play. I
just hope it doesn't get so bad, the
course gets so water-logged, that
we can't play."
That's just what happened.
"If this was any other golf
tournament, it would have been
stopped earlier," said Thomas
Bjorn, an assistant captain for the
Europeans. "It's too wet to really
continue. We're in a situation
where people are considering
dropping from fairways into the
rough. Then it just becomes a bit
that has included 25 years with
the Atlanta Braves, and I know so
many things to be true.
For instance: Baseball is Cox's
oxygen.
Billy Martin. Sparky Anderson.
Joe Torre. I've covered several
managers of note through the more than this baseball lifer who
years, but I've never seen anybody isn't averse to arriving six, seven,
enjoy everything about managing
silly."
The atmosphere was electric
shortly after sunrise -- well,
assuming it rose behind the thick,
gray clouds -- as thousands of
umbrella-toting fans chanted
"Ole! Ole! Ole!" in hopes of
spurring on a European team that
featured six rookies. An
amphitheater-style stadium was
built around the first tee, allowing
2,000 fans to watch the opening
shots.
Information from The Associated
Press is included in this report.
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Knowshon Moreno for
second week in row
ESPN.com news services out by McDaniels earlier in the
(ESPN.com) week. The coach has watched
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Knowshon Moreno(hamstring) Harris(knee) also is expected to
and Spencer Larsen(ankle) have be back on the field in a starting
been ruled out for Sunday's game role.
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Friday. and The Associated Press was
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eight hours before the first pitch.
He spends that whole stretch in
uniform just -- well, just because.
Not only that, there never has
been anybody better than Cox at
the combination of Xs and Os and
inspiring players.
He's the all-time perfect manager.
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US Ryder Cup Team Rallies From
Rain-Battered Performance
Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:20:00 PM
Filed under: Ryder Cup
NEWPORT, Wales -- The path to
the 2010 Ryder Cup title will
wind through puddles, mud and a
drenching. At 9:45 Friday
morning on the weather-
tormented countryside of South
Wales, only two hours after best-
ball play got the 38th biannual
competition under way, a morning
-long rain reached the saturation
point.
So did the U.S. team.
As the United States celebrated
2008 Ryder Cup success at
Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville,
Ky., losing European captain Nick
Faldo words were, "See you at
Celtic Manor in two years, and
remember to bring your
waterproofs."
If only the Americans had
listened, there is no telling how
much more they might have
squeezed out of Friday's weather-
shortened first day. But, after
trailing early before first-session
matches were rain delayed for
about seven hours and 15 minutes,
the U.S. will gladly enjoy holding
the lead in two matches, being all-
square in another and trailing in
only one when darkness ended the
day with no official results
decided.
It's easy to figure out why.
The Americans looked all but
ready to be washed away.
"It was a tough day, a tough start
with the weather," U.S. captain
Corey Pavin said. "Obviously, I'm
very pleased with how the U.S.
team came back. I'm very proud
of the guys."
You bet he is.
Pavin and his wife, Lisa, unveiled
the team wardrobe last month to
much fanfare. They proudly spoke
of taking on the Ryder Cup
captaincy as a team. Lisa Pavin
handled the wardrobe
responsibilities, so her husband
was able to focus on the other
captain-related tasks.
Rain Wreaks Havoc on Ryder
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Early reviews gave America's
fashion sense passing grades for
the style and colors of the shirts,
pants and sweaters combinations.
Too bad the rain suits failed to,
well, you know, repel rain.
NCAA denies North Carolina
Tar Heels' appeal for Kendric
Burney, Deunta Williams
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:11:46 PM
Updated: October 1, 2010, 4:11
PM ET
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The
NCAA has denied an appeal to
shorten suspensions for North
Carolina cornerback Kendric
Burney and safety Deunta
Williams.
Burney was suspended six games
and Williams four for receiving
improper benefits connected to
several trips, including to
California to visit a former North
Carolina player.
Burney also went on trips to
Atlanta and Las Vegas linked to
former college player Chris
Hawkins, whom the NCAA has
said qualifies as an agent.
The school made its appeal
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Spokesman Steve Kirschner also
says an NCAA investigator
returned to campus Wednesday
and Thursday to participate in the
school-led investigation into
possible academic violations.
Most of those cases are being
handled by the student judicial
system.
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Borderlands 'Claptrap' DLC review: They, robot
T. Michael Murdock (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:20:00 PM
I have a long list of my favorite
robots, but here are the top five:
Old Bob from Disney's The Black
Hole, Marvin from Hitchhiker's
Guide, Daleks from Doctor Who,
Keanu Reeves (he's The One,
which makes him, like, king of
robots) and the many Claptraps
from Borderlands. Every single
entry on this list has put me
through the full gamut of
emotions at one time or another,
be it laughter, annoyance, anger,
tears, boredom or whatever other
emotions humans have. That
proves, scientifically, that robots
make things better.
Blizzard bans over 5,000 StarCraft 2 cheaters
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:00:00 PM
You guys just couldn't listen,
could you? You're way too cool to
heed the warning issued by
Blizzard a few weeks ago -- you
know, the one that said that
StarCraft 2 hackers and modders
were about to feel the crushing
blow of the permabanhammer? As
you might have expected, that
wasn't an idle threat. Blizzard
recently announced on the game's
official blog that it had banned
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Badlands and the loading screen -
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reskinning bandits and skags alike
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Borderlands 'Claptrap' DLC JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
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throughout your days on Pandora Claptrap (INAC) -- your old can have a certain spark that
makes them addictive. There's just
an unidentifiable ... something
that nobody else has been able to
safe, and secure online-gaming crack that makes those minigame
experience for legitimate players collections absolutely delightful
is a top priority for us, and we'll even to people who desperately
be continuing to keep watch on want to hate them.
Battle.net and take action as Wii Party is a glimpse into what
needed." Keep it legit, friends -- Nintendo minigames would be
we'd hate for you to join the ranks like without that spark. They all
of the damned. work, they all show plenty of
B l i z z a r d b a n s o v e r 5 , 0 0 0 polish, and the controls are totally
StarCraft 2 cheaters originally functional in every single case.
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Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/30/2010 6:33:50 PM
A strange confluence of events. I
was writing a series about
rebooting RSS. Then I had a bike
accident that left me dazed and in
pain. One evening I woke up and
found I could sit for a few hours
in front of the computer without
pain. That was pretty cool,
because even lying in bed was
excruciating. My poor body was
in need of some rest.
Programming could provide it.
So there I was in front of the
machine. Now what? I could write
some code. But what?
I had been playing with long-
polling for instant outlining, with
excellent results. I wonder if the
same could be done for feeds. I
had found an OPML file on the
NY Times site with all their feeds,
so I hooked it up to River2. Now I
had a relatively realtime flow of
every story from the Times. So I
wrote a minimal server that would
wait until something new showed
up and then return it. (Later I
wrote a filter that eliminated
duplicate titles, so even if a story
appeared in two feeds it would
only be shot out through the hose
once.)
A small embellishment, let the
caller give me a "seed" that
indicated where he left off. If any
new items came in while he was
processing the last ones I
returned, he wouldn't miss any.
Every packet includes a seed
which you can send back to me.
Then I wrote a client. Then I
added another stream, and
broadened my client so it could
handle multiple streams.
The result is a nice sweet little
protocol that behaves like two
familiar things:
1. A long-poll server.
2. RSS.
It's pretty cool. Let me know if
you're writing some scripts to test
it out. The format is described
below.
Here's an example of a query:
http://hose.scripting.com/
?name=nytimes&timeout=3.
Click the link. It'll just sit there
till it times out after 3 seconds or,
if a new item comes in before the
timeout, it will return with that
item.
Here's an example of a response
with some items. There are two
forks to the XML, items and
metadata.
items are just a series of RSS
items (or Atom entries, for feeds
that are in Atom format).
However we add three elements
to each item, feedUrl, feedTitle
and feedLink. My app, on the
other end of the hose, needed this
info. Seemed reasonable to
provide it since I had it there.
In metadata, there are two
elements, now -- might add others
in the future. seed is the one you
need to include as a parameter in
your next call. If the seed returned
is xxx, then your next call would
be http://hose.scripting.com/
?name=nytimes&seed=xxx.
The seed is supposed to be
opaque, that is -- you shouldn't
expect to understand its structure,
but you can see mine is pretty
straightforward. It's a walk of the
hierarchy in my object database.
Year-month-day-serialnum. So
2010-09-30-00651 is talking
about the 651st news item on Sept
30 (today).
One more thing, I wrote a handler
that returns the current seed in
case you want to start off with a
seed. You don't have to, but your
code might be a little simpler if
you have it to start out with. http:/
/hose.scripting.com/seed
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Rasmussen: Feingold Now
Trails GOP Opponent Johnson
in Wisconsin Senate Race
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 9:29:13 AM
Friday, 01 Oct 2010 02:29 PM
Republican Ron Johnson and
incumbent Democrat Sen. Russ
Feingold have been jockeying for
position throughout much of the
course of the election season in
their U.S. Senate race and, after a
period of running virtually neck
and neck, Johnson appears to be
pulling away down the home
stretch toward Nov. 2. Those stats
moved the contest from a tossup
to leans Republican in Rasmussen
Reports rankings of power. just after his decisive win in the
It’s no fluke, either, because GOP primary. The latest numbers
RealClearPolitics’ average of signal a continuing deterioration
polls, which includes not only in Feingold's support after it held
Rasmussen but also CNN/Time steady at 46 percent in surveys
and Daily Kos/PPP stats, gives from May through August.
Johnson a comfortable 9.4 percent Support for Johnson ranged from
lead. 44 percent to 48 percent in the
The new Rasmussen numbers same period but has been
come from a Sept. 29 statewide increasing gradually in recent
telephone survey of 750 likely weeks.
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Review of The Social Network Christian and Republican?

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:11:56 PM
drama there, not even much
humor. (Lessig, a lawyer, is
embarassed for the lawyers in his
Alabama Candidate
I waited to see the new Facebook
movie until it was released, so I
review of the movie.)
7. I would have loved to have
Discovers It's No Joke
took off this afternoon and saw it known more about Zuckerberg. David Gibson (Politics Daily) being satirical as a way of saying
at the Union Square multiplex people "shouldn't judge your faith
a tiny bit of it right, but most of it He was of course the main, most Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:29:00 PM
along with a packed house of interesting character. I don't think by your party affiliation."
is a Hollywood fantasy.
other rain-soaked New Yorkers. R e l i g i o n R e p o r t e r T h e Alabama Republicans didn't find
5. I was at Harvard, believe it or they got Sean Parker right. (I've
A few observations. Democratic candidate for attorney it funny.
not, when all this stuff was met him, he's a pretty smart guy,
1. It's a very watchable movie, general in Alabama says he was "That's not a good subject to joke
supposed to have taken place. It's nowhere near as simple as the
but what would you expect from joking to make a point. about," said Republican Party
more a testimony to how much I character in the movie.)
Aaron Sorkin. It flowed like a 8. Some parts of what they State Republicans say he smeared spokesman Philip Bryan.
was not part of mainstream life at
double episode of The West reported on were real enough. The a l l C h r i s t i a n s w h o v o t e Added state GOP chairman Mike
Harvard that I had no idea what
Wing. Nothing as great as the best programmers with headphones Republican -- and there are a Hubbard: "Alabamians hold their
was going on with Facebook. I
West Wing dialog, though. k e e p i n g t h e world from plenty of those in Alabama. individual faith dear, and James
didn't hear about it until I visited a
2. It was probably too much to interfering, that's real. I'd love to The quotation in question, Anderson has stooped to a new
campus in North Carolina.
ask that the movie have the bite according to The Montgomery low to question the Christianity of
6. I'd love to know what really see someone make a movie of
and wisdom and depth of The A d v e r t i s e r , c a m e w h e n all those who vote Republican."
happened with Eduardo, the other Microserfs someday, though it
Fight Club, since both movies Democratic AG nominee James Faith is an issue that drives
founder. I don't believe for a would be a bit dated by now, that
were directed by David Fincher. Anderson spoke at the Sept. 14 Alabama politics, with candidates
minute that Facebook's lawyers story capture the real experience
Fight Club was a great movie. luncheon meeting of the Cherokee vying to see who can name the
pulled such a fast one on him. of creative people in the tech
3. The Social Network is not a County Democratic Club. Ten Commandments or who reads
They have no incentive to do it. world. Obviously what happens at
great movie, and despite what Anderson told the group: the Bible more literally.
And the Winkelvii didn't really Facebook (the real one) is
some people say, it will not make "You have people who say, 'How This entry passed through the
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4. Having lived the Silicon Democrat?' Well I don't know on someone else's site, please read
think they were idiots. Not much Social Graph.
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Democrats Trying to Change Filibuster Rules Risk Being Called

Hypocrites
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) During a news conference on used the filibuster to slow or stop 1975. The Constitution says the required to break a filibuster over
Submitted at 10/1/2010 8:31:10 AM May 17, 2005, Obama invoked Republican legislation when they Senate can change its rules after the course of successive votes.
his experience as a constitutional held the minority. each two-year cycle, which can Merkley, however, declines to
Democrats could be labeled law professor as he assailed the Repealing or modifying the used to tweak the minority’s say what specific change he plans
hypocrites if they move forward Republican effort as a violation of filibuster would harm Democrats ability to obstruct.” to vote for in January. But he
with a plan to change filibuster 200 years of Senate precedent. if they ended up in the minority The senator cites the increasing suggests throwing a bone to the
rules in January, some political “What the constitution essentially again, Dodd says. votes on ending debate, known as minority party by allowing it to
o b s e r v e r s w i t h h i s t o r i c a l says is that not only does the Nonetheless, Merkley tells cloture, since the Senate reduced offer a guaranteed number of
memories believe. Senate have the power to advise Newsmax he still wants to change the number of votes from 67 to 60 amendments as an incentive to
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., told and consent, but the very structure the filibuster. in 1975. According to the U.S. operate in a more bipartisan
an audience at the liberal Center of the Constitution would argue Senior GOP senators tell Senate website, 27 cloture votes fashion.
for American Progress this week t h a t t h e m i n o r i t y p a r t y i s Newsmax they will not allow occurred in the 94th Congress Meanwhile, the Heritage
that the filibuster could be on the empowered to force majorities to Democrats to change the filibuster following the rule change, and Foundation’s Darling puts the
chopping block in January if c o m e t o s o m e f o r m s o f rule, and they will not try to that number reached an all-time problems at the Democrats’ feet,
Democrats retain control of the accommodation,” Obama said. change it themselves to thwart the high in the 110th Congress with saying: “The Democrats have had
Senate. “And that’s what we’re asking for Democrats If they regain control 112 cloture votes. Seventy-five a 60-vote majority for much of
The very idea has others crying here.” of the Senate in January. such votes have taken place this Congress, and they only have
foul. Darling contends that changing “No! no! no! that will not during this Congress. themselves to blame if they didn’t
“The Democrats are completely the filibuster rule would transform happen,” says a senior GOP Merkley also alleges that pass legislation that they wanted
duplicitous on this issue,” says the Senate into a miniature senator who asked not to be Republican senators have placed to pass.”
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vigorously defended the filibuster be a mistake. when I worked here in ’75-’76,” The Oregon senator endorses a
during the 2005 fight over Dodd reminded the Senate Rules Merkley says. “The problem can proposal Sen. Tom Harkin, D-
eliminating the filibuster of and Administration Committee be solved by plans to wrestle with Iowa, made last spring that would
judicial nominees. Wednesday that Democrats have the rules that were last changed in reduce the number of senators
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NY's Cuomo: Infidelity Claims in Gov Race Hurtful Pot Possession in

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) 2005. dirty. It does this state a Conservative Party endorsed Calif Now like
Submitted at 10/1/2010 11:32:29 AM Paladino subsequently got into a
much-publicized dustup with a
disservice."
Paladino's angry, take-no-
Paladino this week.
"He would not be able to govern Speeding Ticket
Friday, 01 Oct 2010 04:32 PM New York Post reporter who prisoners campaign style has New York state. New York state, (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
N E W Y O R K ( A P ) — pressed Paladino for proof of his brought a seismic jolt to a in my opinion, would shut down Submitted at 10/1/2010 11:28:04 AM
D e m o c r a t i c g u b e r n a t o r i a l allegations. Paladino said he gubernatorial campaign that had if he were governor," Molinaro
candidate Andrew Cuomo said would substantiate his claim at looked for months as though it said. Friday, 01 Oct 2010 04:28 PM
Friday that allegations about some point during the campaign. would be a cakewalk for Cuomo, Cuomo, for his part, refused to SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
marital infidelity leveled at him But in an interview published the state attorney general who had say whether Paladino was Possessing up to an ounce of
by his Republican rival had hurt Friday in The Buffalo News, run a cautious campaign that temperamentally fit for office. marijuana in California is now no
Cuomo's family and further turned Paladino said he has no evidence suggested inevitability. Cuomo "The voters will decide if he more serious than getting a
off voters from politics. that Cuomo had been unfaithful. seemed momentarily knocked off should be the governor of the state speeding ticket.
"Let's not degrade the process and Paladino said he had simply been his game after Paladino's decisive of New York," Cuomo said. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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should be talking about them and fathering with a mistress. "It's not to "clean up Albany with a broadcast, rewritten or infraction, with a maximum
not us," Cuomo said. that I was accusing him," Paladino baseball bat." redistributed. punishment of a $100 fine.
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Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F. are turned off. It's exactly why necessary to manage New York's POT page 58
Kennedy. The couple divorced in people say politics is negative, it's record budget deficit. The

Rush Limbaugh Does 'The Family Guy'

Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:07:00 PM
Columnist Rush Limbaugh is set
to make an appearance -- well, his
voice anyway -- on Fox's
animated show "Family Guy."
And it looks pretty darn funny.
The video below includes clips of
the episode, as well as a fit-
looking Limbaugh discussing
with "Family Guy" creator Seth
MacFarlane why he accepted the
invitation to be the voice of the
Rush character. Essentially,
Limbaugh argues that you've got
to be able to laugh at yourself. As
Limbaugh says, "the show is
irreverent and makes fun of
everybody."
This is true. The show, like
"South Park," tends to mock both
political sides fairly equally.
Still, it is interesting that
Limbaugh would choose to go on
"Family Guy." Limbaugh is a big
supporter of Sarah Palin, and as
recently as February, Bristol Palin
called the show's writers "
heartless jerks" for an insensitive
joke about Sarah Palin's special
needs son, Trig.
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but the law would save the state to the spike in misdemeanor
Supreme Court Justice courts money.
"In this time of drastic budget
marijuana arrests in the state in
recent years.
Mary Winter (Politics Daily) cuts, prosecutors, defense "Californians increasingly
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:03:00 PM
attorneys, law enforcement and recognize that the war on
the courts cannot afford to expend marijuana is a waste of law
Assistant Managing Editor limited resources prosecuting a enforcement resources," said Dale
President Obama was on hand crime that carries the same Gieringer, director of the
Friday to witness the formal punishment as a traffic ticket," the California chapter of the National
investiture of Elena Kagan, the governor said in a statement. Organization for the Reform of
112th Supreme Court justice and The bill authored by San Marijuana Laws and co-author of
the fourth woman to be named to Francisco Democratic Sen. Mark the state's landmark medical
the high court. Leno was supported by the marijuana law.
Kagan repeated the oath of office Judicial Council of California — Authorities made more than
as she took her seat on the court, the official policymaking body of 61,000 arrests for marijuana-
wearing a black robe she received the court system — and by the related misdemeanors in 2008, the
as a gift from her former California District Attorneys latest year for which data exists,
colleagues at Harvard Law Association. California Department of Justice
School. California's major police records show.
The event in the Supreme Court next couple of years include York Times reported. associations all opposed the In the prior decade, such arrests
chambers was largely ceremonial, Arizona's immigration reform For Obama, Friday's 2 p.m. legislation. averaged about 48,000 until 2006,
as Kagan officially was sworn law, California's ban on same-sex ceremony followed a much Opponents said reducing when the figure exceeded 50,000
into office nearly two months ago marriage, and states' challenges to different gathering earlier in the possession to an infraction would for the first time.
after the Senate confirmed her 63- the U.S. health care reform law. East Room of the White House, discourage people cited for the © Copyright 2010 The Associated
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Harvard Law School and until woman in the court's history, "incomparable leader . . . who we measure passed in 2000. redistributed.
recently the nation's solicitor Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, will miss very much." Emanuel is The governor signed the pot law This entry passed through the
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describing the system in the
International Journal of
Astrobiology.
It involves a .4-inch-wide copper
wire pointed at the sun, and
attached to a solar sail. The wire -
which can range in length from
980 feet to more than half a mile -
would generate a magnetic field
that would capture electrons from
the solar wind. The particles
would be funneled into a spherical
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other readers, Nancy Pelosi,
George W. Bush, or anyone at all)
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Renewable Energy Source
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Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Brian Klutch A (fairly) easy mod Ink's ability to operate without a University want to use solar wind
Catastrophe. makes any netbook ready for the backlight. Installation takes only to power the entire world. A
beach about 15 minutes, with no special humongous solar sail could be
It's rare that the first people who connections or software needed. used to harvest the power of solar
get to use a ground-breaking Right now, the display costs $275 winds, generating 1 billion billion
t e c h n o l o g y a r e t h i r d - w o r l d at MakerShed.com, so it's still gigawatts of electricity. The
students and home tinkerers. But a best for early adopters or people problem is figuring out how to get
receiver, which produces a new type of LCD, which requires who often use their netbooks the power back to Earth.
current. less power than conventional outside. As production ramps up, A solar wind power satellite, or a
Some of this electricity would be displays and is viewable even in though, expect the cost to drop Dyson-Harrop satellite, after the
used to power the electron- bright sunlight, was originally quickly. Soon we'll all enjoy scientists who invented it, would
harvesting magnetic field. The developed by the company Pixel computing out in the sun without provide 100 billion times as much
rest would power an infrared laser Qi for the One Laptop Per Child breaking the bank. power as the Earth currently uses,
beam, which would be pointed at project and is now available as a as Discovery News points out.
collectors on space stations, DIY replacement screen for Researchers from Washington
power bases or Earth. Satellites netbook computers. State University published a paper
could be placed anywhere in the
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could be placed anywhere in the
solar system, and networks of
satellites could combine to
generate terawatts of power, the
researchers say.
The system would be cheaper
than installing solar panels in
space, because copper is cheaper
than photovoltaic cells, according
to International Business Times.
The main problem is getting all
this energy back to the planet.
Satellites would have to sail tens
of millions of miles away from
Earth in order to capture enough
power, but even the most
powerful laser beams would
scatter over such great distances.
The laser would spread to
thousands of miles wide,
according to John Mankins,
president of solar power
consulting firm Artemis
Innovation. He is quoted in New
Scientist saying you would need
"stupendously huge optics, such
as a virtually perfect lens between
maybe 10 to 100 kilometers (6.2
to 62 miles) across," to capture
the laser.
Researchers would have to
design a more focused laser
before solar wind satellites could
be deployed, acknowledges to
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a co-
author of the paper.
Still, the idea seems worth
exploring - the solar wind is a vast
source of energy, so why not try
to capture some of it? If it could
solve the world's energy problems
for good, it's worth a closer look.
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tangy counterpoint of the tomato.
It's delicious, but a serving has
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Disc-Shaped Balloon Could Transport Whole

Buildings To Remote Areas
Julie Beck (Popular Science - miniature remote-control version
New Technology, Science of the disc, named Betty. At three
News, The Future Now) meters across, Betty is capable of
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:39:29 PM carrying slightly more than half a
Skylifter's Disc Shaped Balloon kilo, but her primary function is to
Skylifter
Australian aeronautical firm
show how the design functions.
The firm plans to build a full-
When
Skylifter has come up with a
better way to transport heavy
sized prototype of the balloon
over the next three years. If all
Dieting
equipment to remote areas that are
beyond the reach of railways,
goes well, before long, Skylifter's
flying saucer could be delivering Doesn't Work
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saucer. e x i s t i n g h e a v y t r a n s p o r t miles. The disc also behaves as a locations, or just acting as a flying
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Public Citizen and EPI on Trade and Employment

Bryan Riley (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:00:44 PM
Posted October 1st, 2010 at
4:00pm in American Leadership
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Reports from the Economic
Policy Institute (EPI) are being
misrepresented by leftist
organizations like the AFL-CIO
and the Alliance for American
Manufacturing. The purpose of
these misrepresentations? To
create a false and misleading
picture of the relationship
between international trade and
employment. Close examination
reveals that trade deficits are not
to blame for the high level of
unemployment in the United
States.
EPI has released several studies
on job displacement triggered by
international trade. Job
displacement consists of a person
moving from one job to another,
and is not to be confused with job
loss. For example, 10,000 people
leaving their jobs as burger-
flippers to become surgeons or
engineers would be reported by
EPI as 10,000 displaced U.S. jobs.
EPI clearly states that its research
on job displacement due to the
trade deficit does not show net job
losses: “[E]stimates of jobs
displaced by growing trade
deficits are not a declaration of
exactly how many more jobs the
economy would have today if
these deficits had not grown.”
(Emphasis in the original.)
Trade deficits do not drain dollars
from the U.S. economy, as EPI
explains: “As the trade deficit
grows, dollars piled up by our
trading partners come back to the
U.S. economy, and this increases
the supply of funds available for
U.S. business and households to
borrow.”
Public Citizen agrees that imports
do not reduce U.S. employment:
“Trade affects the composition of
jobs, not the total number.” EPI
researchers should be quite upset
at the misuse of their job-
displacement studies to suggest
otherwise.
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Where it comes from: Casein
protein powder is simply the
dehydrated, supplemental form of
casein. Caseins are phosphorus-
containing proteins and make up
80 percent of the protein in cow's
milk (the other 20 percent of
protein is made up of whey
proteins). "So even though cow's
milk contains both casein and
whey, casein is often called milk
protein," explains Sarah Currie,
RD and personal trainer for New
York City-based Physical
Equilibrium LLC. Casein as a
powder is used to make workout
protein shakes and comes in a
variety of flavors.
What it'll do for you:"There aren't
necessarily benefits of casein
protein powder," cautions Currie,
"especially since most people's
protein needs can be met with
food alone." However, some
people think casein is a superior
protein supplement and a handful
of studies could sway the jury:
• Helps build muscle mass In a
recent study, 17 men drank two
protein shakes a day—either right
before and after their workout
sessions or at least five hours after
their training. When measured 10
weeks into the study, the men
who flanked their workouts with
shakes built almost twice as
muscle than the other men.
Another study, this time
performed at Baylor University,
found that men who drank a
casein protein shake (blended
with whey) for 10 weeks gained
significantly more muscle mass
than the subjects who consumed a
whey protein shake without
casein.
• grow, they must be stimulated
• Speeds up muscle recovery time
Casein powder moves through the
digestive tract slower than whey
protein and can take up to seven
hours to fully digest. Since the
majority of muscle repair and
regrowth happens when the body
is asleep—and casein powder has
such a long digestion time—it's
ideal to take the powder before
bed and is known as a "night
time" protein. This way, the body
gets a slow release of protein
throughout the night and can aid
in muscle recovery.
Suggested intake:"Rarely is
protein supplementation necessary
in a healthy diet," notes Currie.
"Amino acids supplied by protein
supplements offer no special
benefits beyond what food can
supply." Currie insists that eating
extra protein to promote muscle
growth is a myth: "For muscles to
physically and receive adequate
protein, not excessive. Any
macronutrient (protein, fat,
carbohydrate) in excess will be
stored as fat."
Currie (along with many other
experts we've talked to)
recommends getting your casein
dosage by eating food. It's found
in milk and any foods which
contain milk such as butter,
cheese, ice cream and yogurt.
"When people have a hard time
meeting their protein needs with
food (the critically ill, strict
vegetarians, body builders,
pregnant women in their third
trimester, etc) then a protein
supplement may be necessary, but
that's usually on a case-by-case
basis," says Currie. If you fall in
that category—or want to take
casein protein powder
supplements anyway—make sure
you're buying a label from a
reputable company. Assuming the
supplement is legit, casein protein
powder shouldn't be different than
how it's found in its natural form
in milk.
Associated risks/scrutiny: Over-
consumption of casein and
proteins can strain kidney
function and lead to dehydration,
slowed digestion and fat
storage—the body will convert
excess protein to fat if it can't use
it.
Casein allergies are common but
are not to be confused with a
lactose intolerance. Minor casein
allergy symptoms include rashes,
stomach cramps, bloating, hives
and stomach pains.
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There are numerous surgical
options out there for people who
need to lose lots of weight, such
as gastric bypass or Lap-Band.
But if you're just looking for a nip
or tuck, there are other ways to
get it. Here are four of the newest.
VASER HI-DEF
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How it's done: Doctors use a
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technology pregnant women use
to see their baby, but it's tweaked
to dissolve the fat surrounding
specific muscle groups (your body
gradually absorbs and passes the
"melted" fat). "We use your
muscle structure as a template to
sculpt your new shape," says John
A. Millard, M.D., a Denver plastic
surgeon and founder of the
Advanced Body Sculpting
Institute. The torso takes about
four hours, arms or legs will only
take about two hours.
Cost:$2,500-$5,000 for arms or
legs, $7,500-$15,000 for the core.
Recovery time: Two to three
days, but you'll generally be out
of the gym for two to three weeks,
minimum. Bruising and pain are
minor, though. In fact, Millard
says the discomfort is no more
than what you might experience
following an intense workout.
VELASHAPE
How it's done: A combination of
radio waves and infrared light
beams shrink fat cells and tighten
the skin. "Most people say it feels
like a warm massage," says Yan
Trokel, M.D., a New York City
cosmetic surgeon and founder of
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FIREFIGHTER
Great for: Backdraft lovers
Average starting earnings:
Around $45,000, higher in big
cities like Los Angeles, Chicago,
and New York
The job: If you can take the heat,
fighting fires can one of the most
rewarding jobs around.
Requirements vary by
municipality, but one thing's for
sure: You've got to be in peak
condition mentality as well as
physically. In addition to a written
exam, a typical physical test may
require you to drag a 165-pound
dummy around an obstacle course
or climb 180 steps in three
minutes, while wearing 50 pounds
of weight.
LIFEGUARD
Great for: Strong swimmers
Average starting earnings:$8 an
hour
The job: You You must first pass
the American Red Cross
Lifeguard Training. Prerequisites
include the ability to swim 500
yards continuously and retrieve a
weight from the bottom of a 10-
foot deep pool. Getting a tan and
being around bikini-clad babes are
just added bonuses.
PERSONAL TRAINER
Great for: Devotees of our MF
Trainer section
Average starting
earnings:$30,000 per year in most
parts of the country with the
potential for much more once you
build up a regular clientele
The job: You've been spotting
your training buddy for
years—might as well get paid for
it, right? Start by strengthening
your credentials—get certified
through an accredited
organization such as NSCA,
NASM, ACSM, or ISSA. Most
gyms require at least one form of
national certification. A CPR
certificate is standard. And it
helps to intern under a respected
strength coach.
UPS DELIVERY DRIVER
Great for: Lifters with excellent
driving (and people) skills
Average starting earnings:$28 an
hour
The job: Newbies must undergo a
month of field training, where
they get classroom and on-the-job
training, which includes
navigating the UPS van through
cluttered streets and tight alleys. It
pays well and features great
benefits (senior drivers get nine
weeks of paid leave). Added perk:
a daily workout, since you're
constantly lifting, lowering, and
carrying deliveries that average
about 70 pounds. The fact that
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There is, however, one small
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catch: The Lumix Phone is
Panasonic has just officially destined for Japan. Regardless, its
announced that a Lumix Phone is Japanese release potentially
on the way. Details are set to be indicates that the Lumix Phone
released on October 5, giving us will eventually head west, so let’s
the whole weekend to speculate not let a little geography derail us
on what this device will be from some healthy speculation.
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the YAN Center for Corrective
and Cosmetic Surgery. You may
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treatments, says Trokel.
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area
Recovery time: None
CARBOXYTHERAPY
How it's done: Your skin is
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body's production of collagen,
which aids in removing the
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between four and 12 treatments,
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Cost:$200 per session per body
area.
Recovery time: None
ZELTIQ
How it's done: Fat cells are
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from the cold. Over time, the
body flushes them out through
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Cost:$500-$700 per body area.
Recovery time: Less than a day.
"Most patients are in and out with
minimal downtime," says Jason
Pozner, M.D., medical director of
the Sanctuary Medical Aesthetic
Center in Boca Raton, Fla.
Wondering if these procedures
are right for you? We asked
Richard A. Baxter, M.D., a
spokesperson for the American
Society of Plastic Surgeons, what
you should keep in mind before
signing up.
PROS:
• With the exception of VASER
Hi-Def, most procedures are
minimally invasive.
• Relatively quick recovery.
• Treatments may help you lose
fat in areas that you haven't been
able to hit through diet and
exercise.
CONS:
• Some of the procedures are
experimental and haven't been
well tested.
• Results may not be permanent.
• There's a risk for side effects,
including everything from
temporary nerve damage with
Zeltiq to skin burns with VASER
Hi-Def. And if your doctor isn't
highly skilled, procedures
involving any type of sculpting
may not look entirely lifelike.
Interesting fact: Americans spent
$10 billion on plastic surgery last
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Blessed are you when people
insult you, persecute you and
falsely say all kinds of evil against
you because of me. Rejoice and
be glad, because great is your
reward in heaven, for in the same
way they persecuted the prophets
who were before you.
— Matthew 5:11-12(NIV)
Thoughts on Today's Verse... For
most who can read this Internet
message, the sentiments of this
verse seem foreign. But among
those who closely study
persecution, believers in Christ
are enduring perhaps the greatest
amount of persecution in the
history of Christianity. For those
of us who live in cozy places
where belief is tolerated and
Christians are just considered
"unhip" or a bit out of touch, we
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make enough of a distinction from
our culture to be noticed, even if
it's a bit unfavorable. But at the
same time, we need to pray for
other believers throughout the
world who are undergoing the
wrath of hell for the faith. My
Prayer... Great Deliverer, we have
many who call on your name with
faith in Jesus who face
persecution and hardship every
day. I pray that they will not lose
heart and give up their
confidence. I pray that you will
bring deliverance from this time
of persecution. I pray that their
sufferings will be the source of
powerful witness so others will
come to see the great value of
Jesus and our allegiance to him.
This I pray in Jesus' precious and
holy name. Amen.
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Lift For Your Body Faith of (all) the Steelers

(Mensfitness.com) Bobby (GetReligion) brutality. It is such a part of the
Submitted at 10/1/2010 5:00:00 AM Submitted at 10/1/2010 11:01:33 AM Steelers’ culture that Polamalu
and other defensive backs pray in
by Sean Hyson| Print Article| Sorry, Tim Tebow. a huddle between each series.
Email to Friend You’re apparently not the only Back in the locker room, a small
All men are not created equal—at person of faith in the National carton of scripture books, entitled
least when it comes to our ability Football League, headlines to the “Our Daily Bread,” sits on a shelf
to get strong and lean. Some guys contrary notwithstanding. next to a box of footballs.
simply have more potential for The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Now, that’s a compelling lede. It
building muscle or burning fat r e c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d a n , u m , makes me want to read the rest of
than others. But with the right interesting feature on the faith of the story. Or so I thought at the
approach, everyone can make the Pittsburgh Steelers with this beginning.
progress. Identify your body type headline: The story loses steam quickly,
below, then follow the tips for NFL players still turn to religion even as it keeps going for 1,300-
making the most of it. for solace plus words. The problem is
ECTOMORPH The top of the story: simple: Too much information, all
The build: Skinny, with long Adoring fans carried star safety strung together under the general
limbs and a narrow torso. Small Troy Polamalu on their shoulders heading of “Steelers and faith.”
boned. — passing him off, one to Keep reading, and tell me if the
Tendency: You produce muscle another, as though they could live constant zigs and zags don’t make
slowly but stay lean fairly easily. through his efforts. for an annoyingly confusing set of
Strategy: Rest as needed between Such adulation during the parade X’s and O’s.
sets. You won't be able to handle hard—overtraining is your body's more on lifting days and fewer downtown honoring the Steelers After that nice intro with
much intensity when you start biggest weakness. other days. Related articles: after their victory in Super Bowl Polamalu, he’s pretty much
training, and you need more Diet move: Eat clean. You should Build a Bigger Chest XL in 2006 might have given benched for the rest of the game
recovery time. Lift three days a be able to stay big and lean with 101 Ways to Lose Your Gut someone else a bloated sense of — er, story — never to be heard
week and limit cardio activity. minimal effort. Sculpt Her 5 Favorite Body Parts entitlement. from again.
Diet move: Eat big. You need ENDOMORPH [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and Polamalu? He flew to Greece, We move from the Greek
l o t s o f c a l o r i e s t o b u i l d The build: Heavyset, with shorter more] living for four days in a 1,500- Orthodox player to a generic,
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S t r a t e g y : E x e r c i s e have the potential to be jacked, Catastrophe. that fulfillment like what God assault twice in an eight-month
conservatively. You will grow but no one will see it if your could provide for me.” period. But we get no details on
with almost any style of training. muscles are always covered in Polamalu is one of several the church, and once again, it’s a
Just don't get cocky and work too lard. Cycle your carbs, eating Steelers who make religion and drive-by account of a player’s
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But, but, but … Blagojevich!

Mollie (GetReligion) An editor didn’t respond but the orders. But there is a movement Vatican decreed in July that
Submitted at 10/1/2010 6:37:28 AM article’s author Dawn Reiss did against the no-women rule, one ordaining female priests was a
weigh in. Here’s how she that began eight years ago when a ‘grave’ crime, on par with
A few days ago, we looked at the r e s p o n d e d t o h e r c r i t i c s : cluster of renegade male clerics pedophilia.” No, I’m not joking.
really bad story Time put out on Hi. I’m the journalist who wrote (including a European bishop And I’m not sure how Lazarus
female priests. It was just a bad the story you are discussing. As whose identity the female priests applies to Kandra’s critique,
story, no way around it. It had Votaire [sic] would say, “I won’t reveal in order not to risk which is fair, calm and comes
spelling errors, usage errors, disapprove of what you say, but I his excommunication) ordained from someone who spent 26 years
inaccuracies and factual errors. It will defend to the death your right the first women. Now, in Jacko’s at CBS News.
used weasel words. It managed to to say it.” hometown of Chicago, three In fact, the response is so weak
not find a single proponent of the For the record, I have more than women have entered into the that it actually surprises me. The
historic Christian position despite a decade in the business and have priesthood.” critique is straight-forward and
being over 1,200 words long. So covered a variety of topics from I encourage open commentary. I seemingly easy to understand. Her
we weren’t the only folks who life in the slums of Cambodia to might add that the gospel today response indicates either that she
t h o u g h t t h e a r t i c l e w a s the trial of Rod Blagojevich and pointed to the story of Lazarus, doesn’t care or doesn’t understand
problematic. one of Maya Angelou’s lone about how everyone should be what people were complaining
Over at Beliefnet, Deacon’s interviews in her home in Harlem. treated with respect, decency, and about. I’m not sure which one is
Bench blogger Greg Kandra said I certain [sic] did do my due without hatred. more troubling. Written by:
that the article was disappointing diligence as a journalist. The The defense, which begins and Mollie on October 1, 2010.
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Mother Teresa, pray for the copy desk
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:00:07 PM
Hey working journalists! What
we have here is a laugh-to-keep-
from-crying correction classic.
First, a bit of context. Back when
I was one of the senior reporters
at the Rocky Mountain
News(RIP), all of the beat
reporters had to take turns doing
general assignment work on the
weekends. One of the Saturday
stories that happened year after
year, of course, was the regional
finals for the Scripps Howard
National Spelling Bee.
One year, I drew that assignment
(which was actually a lot of fun,
including a nice religion angle).
Before I went out to cover the
event, a veteran editor pulled me
aside and gave me a great and
timely warning. DO NOT DARE,
she said, misspell a word in a
story about the spelling bee. If
you do, your telephone will melt
down. You will hear about that
mistake for the rest of your life. I
avoided that trap.
So, does anyone remember that
post the other day ( it’s still
getting comments) about the U.S.
Religious Knowledge Survey,
from the folks at the Pew Forum
on Religion & Public Life?
It goes without saying that the
New York Times joined legions
of other newspapers in covering
the story, including the following
paragraph:
Among the topics covered in the
survey were: Where was Jesus
born? What is Ramadan? Whose
writings inspired the Protestant
Reformation? Which Biblical
figure led the exodus from Egypt?
What religion is the Dalai Lama?
Joseph Smith? Mother Theresa?
In most cases, the format was
multiple choice.
Well, over at The Atlantic, Erik
Hayden noticed that the online
version of this story has been
revised to include this addition at
the end:
Correction: September 29, 2010
An article on Tuesday about a
poll in which Americans fared
poorly in answering questions
about religion misspelled the
name of a beatified Roman
Catholic nun and Nobel Peace
Prize winner. She was Mother
Teresa, not Theresa.
As Hayden noted, in a very low-
key way:
Unfortunately for the Times
editors, the article misspelled the
renowned Catholic nun Mother
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Teresa’s name as Mother
“Theresa.” That the error
ironically occurred on an article
touting religious literacy will no
doubt leave some of the Time’s
detractors gleefully passing along
the correction. …
Consider it done, even though
your GetReligionistas do not
enjoy knocking the Times, in part
because the newspaper has such
an excellent history of printing
corrections (attention Washington
Post editors).
However, let me take this
opportunity to issue a challenge. I
am still reading reports on this
Code name
latest wave of Pew data and I
hope others out in GetReligion-
Esther
reader-land are doing the same. If Mollie (GetReligion)
you find other interesting Submitted at 10/1/2010 12:02:21 PM
corrections in stories about the
U.S. Religious Knowledge One of my favorite religion
Survey, by all means share them. stories this week was this New
Now, let’s see. Are their any of York Times tale of intrigue and
the usual horrible tmatt typos in computer coding. I know I’m
this post? Written by: tmatt on always calling for more and/or
October 1, 2010. better coverage of the role
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clues that have emerged as
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a specific kind of command
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Esther is also known as
Hadassah, see, and that means
“Myrtle.” And “guava” appears in
the code, too — also part of the
myrtle family. So if you know the
Book of Esther, this is just a
fascinating read. But that’s the
problem. Here’s how the story
from Esther is told later in the
article:
The Book of Esther tells the story
of a Persian plot against the Jews,
who attacked their enemies pre-
emptively.
Except that it doesn’t. I don’t
want to quote from the entire
Book of Esther, although I’m
tempted to quote from my
children’s Arch Book version.
Here’s how it goes:
Esther, who has no parents and is
being taken care of by her cousin
Mordechai, is chosen as a new
queen for King Ahasuerus.
Mordechai discovers a plot to
assassinate Ahasuerus, thereby
foiling it. But Ahasuerus’ right-
hand man Haman doesn’t like
Mordechai because he won’t bow
down to him. Haman plots to kill
all Jews in the empire and
Ahasuerus grants this, not quite
realizing what he’s getting into or
that Esther and Mordechai are
Jews. A date is chosen.
Mordechai finds out but Esther
can’t go directly to the king so she
hatches an elaborate plan
involving multiple feasts.
Ahasuerus finds out that
Mordechai was the one who
foiled the plot against his life. He
finds great favor with Mordechai,
obviously. So at a banquet soon
after, Esther reveals that she is
Jewish and that Haman is trying
to exterminate her people. Haman
is killed and while the decree
against the Jews isn’t rescinded,
they’re allowed to defend
themselves. And they do, killing
many attackers and Haman’s
sons. They don’t plunder their
opponents and Mordechai is given
a prominent position in the King’s
court. From that position, he
institutes an annual
commemoration of the delivery of
the Jews.
And that’s how you get the
celebration of Purim.
Anyway, that’s not a pre-emptive
attack. That’s simply being
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faith — about as deep as the
Texas Longhorns’ offense this
season. (Sorry, Sooner fan here,
and I couldn’t resist that.
Oklahoma 42, Texas 7 in the Red
River Rivalry in Dallas on
Saturday. But I digress …)
And, of course, a story trying to
pack in everything imaginable
about faith in the NFL must
include former Indianapolis Colts
coach Tony Dungy, who is known
for his evangelical Christianity,
and oh yeah, that No. 25 draft
pick of the Denver Broncos.
(Hmmmmm, was there another
Heisman-winning, Jesus-loving
quarterback picked higher in that
draft? But I digress again …)
Back to the story: The Tribune-
Review piece even manages a
Brett Favre reference, and that’s
totally fine since the source is the
Catholic bishop of Pittsburgh.
The problem is, this story is like
going to an all-you-can-eat
cafeteria. You keep piling food on
your plate. You stuff it all down
your throat. And when you’re
done, you have a yucky feeling,
wishing you’d been a bit more
careful in picking and choosing
your meats and veggies.
That’s how I feel about this story.
There was a lot of potential for a
nice piece of sports/religion
writing. But the quarterback tried
to do too much and overthrew the
receiver in the end zone.
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awaiting the election results so advocates in key positions through the Gulf, the media were action. The 1969 Santa Barbara
they can try and “ figure out how throughout the federal flooded with stories of the oil spill and fabled Cuyahoga
The environmental movement to redeploy” in the new political government, and President Obama potentially disastrous economic River fire helped galvanize the
needs a reality check. landscape. even named an energy and and environmental consequences modern environmental movement
C lean Energy Works is closing It wasn’t supposed to be this way. climate “czar” in the White of BP’s negligent rig and spur passage of the Clean
up shop. Formed to push climate Green groups were ecstatic after House. Environmentalists were management. Environmental Water Act. Images of abandoned
and energy legislation through the 2008 elections. They had the poised for aggressive legislative groups couldn’t have asked for a barrels oozing hazardous waste
Congress, the coalition of 80 largest Democratic congressional and regulatory action. better example of the nation’s and the contamination of homes at
environmental, labor, and other majority in years and aggressively And then there was the BP oil environmental failures -- more Love Canal drove enactment of
progressive groups is sending its pro-regulatory committee chairs. spill. For weeks on end the nation fuel for the regulatory fire. the federal Superfund statute. The
members home empty-handed. T h e O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n was transfixed by the Deepwater #ad#In the past, environmental
Disoriented and dejected, Clean d e p l o y e d e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s t Horizon blowout. As oil spread disasters spurred legislative SORRY page 70
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Justice and the New Black Panthers

Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:00:31 AM
which the defendants are black. came to be treated as politically by changing the statutory of the people who have been
The department, Coates said, different -- entitled to in equality language, it took a pass and appointed to run the department
It’s past time to tear down the believes the Voting Rights Act in the form of a unique political instead made sure DOJ would and the division.
whole politically correct edifice of protects black, but not white, privilege. “Majority-minority” unequivocally insist on race- Congress, too, could step up to
affirmative action and racial voting rights. legislative districts that ensure the driven districting maps, the plate. In an important 2009
preferences. Racial double standards at the election of black (and, after 1975, overturning court decisions that decision, Chief Justice John
C hristopher Coates has been the Justice Department: shocking Hispanic) candidates became a would have limited DOJ’s power Roberts strongly hinted on behalf
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ news. Or is it? federal mandate. These districts, to insist on racial gerrymandering. of the court that it was time to
most-wanted man. Last Friday, It certainly should be. But in fact, which Justice Sandra Day Thus, the Voting Rights Act has, revise the statute. But
the commission finally got him. if racial double standards indeed O’Connor called “segregated,” in fact, become a statute whose congressional action is unlikely.
Bravely defying an order of the d r o v e D O J ’ s d e c i s i o n t o protect minority voters’ key provisions are used to protect How many politicians will
Department of Justice, Coates substantially drop the case against “candidates of choice” from only minority voters. Indeed, only cheerfully risk being accused of
appeared before the commission the New Black Panther Party, as electoral defeat, giving these once has any provision of it been turning the racial clock back -- of
to testify on the New Black Coates asserted, the department voters a sheltered status enjoyed used to suggest otherwise -- and racism, in effect?
Panther Party case, which has was simply taking one more step by members of no other groups. only in a lower court. The act and And so we are left with the hope
provoked such interest -- at first along a sad road we have long #page#A sheltered status for its enforcement have become that the Supreme Court will
only in the conservative media, been traveling. minorities is of course what all suffused with race consciousness. finally reject the unequal
but now, after his testimony, with The authors of this article have affirmative-action policies With the New Black Panther protection that has long been built
a front-page, above-the-fold story both made our careers opposing provide -- not just in voting, but in Party case, there is now another into voting-rights law. Two cases
in the Washington Post. racial preferences -- in education, contracting and employment and new element. The racial double challenging the constitutionality
#ad#A former chief of the voting hiring, contracting, and voting education, too. standards that run through of a key element in the statute
section in DOJ’s Civil Rights rights. And federal law -- and, in For the most part, the Supreme redistricting decisions have now have recently been filed, and
Division, Coates had inside many places, state and local law, Court has signed onto that been extended to a voter- down the road the Justice
knowledge that the commission too -- is rife with them. Race- understanding of the Voting intimidation case. But that only Department may be forced to treat
was eager to hear. It was seeking conscious provisions appear to be Rights Act, in particular. For a makes a larger point: When white and minority voters equally.
an answer to a core question in programmed into the computers while, in a few cases, it flirted statutes, judicial decisions, and a Oh, there is one more hope:
the case: Why did the Justice of most of the Hill staffers who with abandoning its commitment bureaucracy are all steeped in a Elections have consequences, and
Department decide it sufficed to craft legislation; the judiciary has to what the ACLU had called race-conscious culture, inevitably politicians will listen to voters if
obtain an injunction against only long borne much of the blame; “max-black” districting, but the that culture comes to govern they speak loudly enough. Most
one Panther -- King Samir and federal bureaucrats in this limits to its willingness to do so decision making in new race- Americans are appalled not only
Shabazz, the man with the area have never been colorblind. were apparent in a 2006 decision related areas. It is a metastasizing by the notion of unequal
nightstick? The injunction forbids Most Americans probably believe involving Texas congressional cancer. enforcement of voter-intimidation
Shabazz to display a weapon that the Voting Rights Act has redistricting. If the Holder Justice Department cases, but by the whole politically
within 100 feet of an open polling provided equal protection for #ad#That same year, on the came to believe -- as some black correct edifice of affirmative
place on any election day in minority and white voters alike. assumption that today’s more politicians and many voting-rights action and racial preferences that
Philadelphia -- but only until Would that it were so! Alas, the “subtle” forms of white racism scholars on both the Left and the has been constructed over the
November 15, 2012. And no historical story does not fit that required ever more aggressive Right do -- that America has years. It should never have been
penalty was imposed on his pattern: We are stuck with, countermeasures, Congress changed and race-conscious built, and, surely, it is long past
companion, Jerry Jackson, or on instead, the evolution of the revised a crucial provision in the strategies built into voting-rights time to begin tearing it down.
the organization itself. statute from a pure anti- statute to ramp up the race- law have become an anachronistic — Abigail Thernstrom is the
Coates delivered a simple discrimination law to one that has conscious legal standards that holdover from a bygone era, it can author, most recently, of Voting
message: The Obama Justice b e c o m e a n i n s t r u m e n t f o r were built into the law beginning make its views clear. We strongly Rights — and Wrongs: The
Department is not interested in a f f i r m a t i v e a c t i o n . in the 1970s. Given a chance to doubt it will do so, however,
aggressively pursuing cases in Beginning in the 1970s, blacks recognize an altered racial climate given the ideological background JUSTICE page 71
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1989 Exxon Valdez spill
prompted adoption of the federal
Oil Pollution Act and empowered
environmentalist groups to push
for more stringent reforms to the
Clean Air Act in 1990. And yet
the response to the Gulf oil spill
has been . . . nothing. Congress
may yet eke out a modest energy
bill, but no transformative
environmental legislation is in the
offing.
What happened? Some blame the
political power of big polluters,
others point to the economy. No
doubt the nation’s economic woes
played a role, lessening the
public’s appetite for expansive
governmental initiatives of any
sort.
Environmentalists sought
unsuccessfully to repackage
desired measures as economic
stimulants. “Green jobs” were all
the rage among political elites, but
the public wasn’t sold. The
environmental movement had
overestimated its political pull and
salesmanship skills.
Walter Russell Mead argues that
the environmental movement has
become a victim of its own
success. Environmentalists began
as progressive Davids taking on
industrial Goliaths. Now,
however, the established
environmental movement is a
Goliath all its own. In Mead’s
formulation, Bambi had become
Godzilla: “The greens didn’t fail
because they were too loyal to
their ideals; they failed because
they lost touch with the core
impetus and values of the
environmental movement. Bambi
wasn’t crushed by Godzilla;
Bambi turned into Godzilla, and
the same kind of public
skepticism and populism that once
fueled environmentalism have
turned against it.”
There are elements of truth in
Mead’s thesis. Washington’s
environmentalist lobby has indeed
become “the voice of the
establishment.” But the
environmental movement’s
problems run even deeper than its
detachment from its grass-roots
origins. All too often, the
professional environmental lobby
puts left-wing ideology and
partisanship ahead of ecological
protection.
#page#
The Washington-based
environmental establishment has
tied its fortunes to the left wing of
the Democratic party and wholly
embraced a doctrinaire
progressive ideology. Although it
was Republican presidents who
signed most major environmental
statutes into law, environmental
groups have made no real effort to
find common ground with
conservatives in nearly 20 years.
The Bush administration had
barely taken office before the
direct-mail campaigns began,
warning of a “war on the
environment.” Admittedly the
Bush administration was not
particularly interested in
environmental initiatives, but
Greens had plenty of
opportunities to marry
environmental gains to
conservative principles, such as
through the adoption of property-
based fishery-management
systems and the removal of
regulatory barriers to
environmentally friendly
technologies; environmentalist
leaders were uninterested. They
elected instead to play the
constant opposition, raising
money and sounding alarms --
forestalling meaningful
environmental progress on many
fronts for eight years. If
Republicans manage to take over
Congress, as some expect, there’s
no reason not to expect a repeat
performance.
#ad#The environmental
movement’s problems go beyond
its partisan orientation. Name any
environmental problem, and the
answer is always the same:
Increase the size of government.
Every ecological concern is an
excuse for greater governmental
control over the nation’s
productive capacity. If regulation
is insufficient, spend more money.
If that doesn’t work, just regulate,
tax, and spend some more. Even
where government programs or
policies are themselves the source
of environmental harm, the stock
environmentalist answer is to add
yet another layer to the regulatory
layer cake.
Regulations don’t hamper only
big industry, but progressive
startups as well. Regulation at all
levels of government can stymie
the development of alternative
energy sources and the adoption
of environmentally friendly
technologies, but few
environmental leaders urge
regulatory reform. Wind power
may be important to reducing
greenhouse-gas emissions, but
what major environmental group
fought to streamline the
permitting process so that major
projects don’t get held up for
years (like Massachusetts’s Cape
Wind)?
Some environmentalists sought to
sell a cap-and-trade climate bill as
a market-oriented approach to
pollution control. Yet the actual
legislation was a sprawling mess,
larded up with special-interest
giveaways and massive regulatory
initiatives. The House-passed
climate legislation would have
imposed new regulations
throughout the economy, from
product design to the energy
supplies, and inserted the federal
government into building codes
and local land-use decisions.
Global warming is supposed to be
the mother of all environmental
problems, yet the House of
Representatives produced a bill
more about expanding federal
regulatory authority and
manipulating energy markets than
reducing the threat of climate
change.
Two decades after the fall of the
Berlin Wall, leading
environmental thinkers have yet
to learn the lessons of
Communism’s fall. The dominant
green fantasy remains that
ecological central planning can
succeed where economic central
planning failed. This is madness.
If central planners lack the
information and ability to manage
economic concerns, how could
they ever account for ecological
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concerns? Economic central
planning is impossible; ecological
central planning is harder still.
The environmentalist love affair
with big government leads to
counterproductive policies and
alienates large portions of the
electorate. Americans may
support environmental protection,
but they don’t support a massive,
overweening regulatory state. If
the only Green answer to
ecological concerns is yet more
government control of private
economic activity, many
Americans will turn away.
This year the environmental
movement suffered a tremendous
political defeat -- some would
even call it a reckoning. If, as
expected, conservative
Republicans make substantial
gains in November, Green
standing will only get worse. This
presents environmental leaders
with a decision -- whether it is
more important to advance
environmental protection or
remain a handmaiden to the
Democratic party and wedded to a
statist progressive ideology.
Given the reality of environmental
problems in the 21st century,
more than the fate of a political
movement is at stake.
-- Contributing editor Jonathan H.
Adler is professor of law and
director of the Center for Business
Law and Regulation at the Case
Western Reserve School of Law
and author or editor of four books
on environmental policy. Jonathan
H. Adler
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fictitious Teldar Paper of Wall union leaders, whose pleas went seeks trade sanctions so stiff and Elections. She is an adjunct
Street-- the subject of Gekko’s unheeded. NewPage pocketed severe that both the Chinese and scholar at the American
For Ohio Democrats, hypocrisy infamous “Greed Is Good” speech more than $300 million in federal Indonesian governments are Enterprise Institute and vice chair
never sleeps. -- NewPage is owned by a handouts while still posting losses guaranteed to dispute them, even of the U.S. Commission on Civil
I n a statement, the AFL-CIO rapacious hedge fund that is in the hundreds of millions of before they take effect, at the Right s. R oger Clegg is vice
compared gubernatorial candidate forcing the company to downsize, dollars -- and quarterly losses World Trade Organization. president and general counsel at
John Kasich and several Ohio kill jobs, shut down plants, and increased by 60 percent even Retaliatory tariffs—which are the Center for Equal Opportunity
Republicans to Gordon Gekko, bully other companies out of its while its sales increased. This sure to follow should Strickland in Washington, D.C. Abigail
the fictitious Wall Street villain market -- all in the name of higher while its CEOs (it has had five of get his way—could threaten Thernstrom Roger Clegg
played by Michael Douglas in profits. them in the past four years, only thousands of American jobs and
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and its The hedge fund in question is one of whom lasted a full year) hurt millions of American
recently released sequel. “These none other than Cerberus Capital walked away with multimillion- consumers, in Ohio and around
Wall Street cheerleaders -- John Management, a firm last seen dollar severance packages. Other the country. SORRY
Kasich, Rob Portman, Steve driving another of its companies - high-level executives banked #ad#NewPage is the very type continued from page 70
Chabot, Tom Ganley, Bob Gibbs, - Chrysler -- into bankruptcy. Like millions of dollars in bonuses. and model of a self-interested
Jim Renacci and Steve Stivers -- its management of Chrysler, Which brings us to Strickland’s corporation that puts profit above
have voting records that would C e r b e r u s ’ s o w n e r s h i p o f testimony. Contra his anti- all and isn’t ashamed to take
make Gekko drool,” the union NewPage has been nothing but
bosses huffed. “Whether it’s trouble -- but that didn’t stop Ted
direct ties to corrupt Wall Street Strickland from going to Capitol
corporate rhetoric in this
campaign, Strickland is in fact
lobbying for political protection
political favors and government
handouts in the course of doing
business. That Strickland would
First
corporations, taking hundreds of Hill to lobby on its behalf.
t h o u s a n d s o f d o l l a r s i n Following a business model that
for NewPage in the form of new
protective tariffs tailored to ensure
go to back for such a corporation
at all—much less defend it, by Lunchlady
contributions from Wall Street could be charitably described as its interests. In doing this he risks name, in federal Submitted at 10/30/2010 1:00:58 PM
firms, or general unethical and “strangle the supply of paper in not only his carefully cultivated testimony—while selling himself
greedy business practices, these o r d e r t o f o r c e u p p r i c e s , ” image as an anti-corporate as the blue-collar champion of the A ttention poor people: Michelle
candidates rightfully earn the title NewPage was a leading liquidator crusader but also (and more working class is remarkable. That Obama wants your lunch money.
of Gordon Gekkos of Ohio.” of jobs during the 2008 recession. important) undermines the United he does so while his allies First ladies, out of whatever
#ad#Ironically, just a week before It shut down six paper-making States’ credibility as an honest compare his opponent to Gordon latent royalist instincts fester in
the AFL-CIO attack, Ohio’s facilities in 2008 and refused to partner in international trade Gekko, who would be right at our body politic, are expected to
incumbent governor, Democrat sell two formerly profitable plants relationships. home in NewPage’s executive take up warm-and-fuzzy crusades
T e d S t r i c k l a n d , w a s i n to an eager buyer -- thereby #page#In his testimony, suite, suggests that he is either -- Laura Bush and her worthy
Washington seeking special reducing the supply of paper in Strickland had this to say about immune to irony or believes Ohio literacy projects, Just Say No, etc.
favors to protect a corporation the marketplace. the paper companies he was voters to be deaf, dumb, and -- in order that the plebs do not
whose actions could come right But NewPage wasn’t content hoping to save: illiterate. “Money never sleeps,” mistake them for Marie
out of an Oliver Stone fever shutting down its own plants. It Strickland made his case in terms according to Gordon Gekko. Antoinette. Mrs. Obama’s project
dream. That company, which actually went to the trouble of of saving Ohio jobs and workers Neither does hypocrisy. has been childhood nutrition:
Strickland mentioned by name in buying other plants just to shut from the ravages of unfair -- Mytheos Holt covers Ohio for making kids eat their spinach and
his testimony, is NewPage, an them down, too. These moves international trade, but what he National Review Online’ s Battle’ keeping them off the McNuggets.
Ohio paper company. And like the attracted wide condemnation from failed to mention was that he 10 blog. Mytheos Holt #ad#While her husband’s
signature health-care legislation
already is reshaping the way
iconic fast-food giant McDonald’s
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Claim Check Needs to Do Fact Checks

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Conservative Policy News.) ground.
Submitted at 10/1/2010 1:30:26 PM Waxman–Markey did not provide
solutions for these serious
Posted October 1st, 2010 at problems facing carbon capture.
2:30pm in Energy and Here again, the Heritage analysis
Environment Print This Post recognized the obvious in its
Claim Check, which supposedly
fact checks public statements,
employs the different-must-be-
assumptions. That so many other
analyses jointly make unrealistic Obama’s
assumptions doesn’t make those
wrong-theory in dismissing a
Heritage analysis because it is an
assumptions realistic.
Perhaps the silliest part of the
Sudan
“outlier.”
It seems that many forecasters in
Washington are more afraid of
critique in Claim Check is to look
at the cost impact of cap and trade
just for the first year of
Challenge
Stephen Brown (FrontPage
being alone than they are of being implementation. In 2012, Magazine » FrontPage)
wrong. That is, they would rather Waxman–Markey would hardly
Submitted at 9/30/2010 11:15:52 PM
be wrong with everybody else be up and running. All analysts
than right by themselves. One agree that the major impacts come In little more than a hundred days
such case is the set of assumptions further down the road—the bill President Barack Obama will face
underlying estimates of economic cuts CO2 year after year for possibly the greatest foreign
impacts of the Waxman–Markey next two decades. Given the not one commercial-scale coal- nearly 40 years. To claim that a policy challenge of his presidency
cap-and-trade legislation. history of the past three decades, fired power plant that captures minor impact in the first year is when southern Sudan votes
Most of the analyses of even this assumption is heroic. and stores its carbon emissions. indicative of the legislation’s January 9 on whether to establish
Waxman–Markey based their cost Assuming Waxman–Markey There are small-scale pilot plants impact is grossly misleading. an independent country. If the
projections on the following would lead to 100 new plants is in the works. However, even if the Heritage stands by its analysis black African, predominantly
assumptions: not more realistic, no matter how technology is worked out, there that Connecticut ratepayers would Christian and animist South
• A virtual doubling of nuclear many analysts make that would still be a 30 percent energy see large increases in their electric decides in the upcoming
power output over the next 25 assumption. penalty and the need to dispose of bills under a cap-and-trade regime referendum to separate from the
years, That there is the potential for a 15–20 super tankers of liquid like Waxman–Markey. Arab and Muslim North, as is
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does business -- by causing the
company to consider revoking
health-insurance benefits for some
30,000 hourly burger-slingers and
fry-guys -- Mrs. Obama’s project
would keep nefarious fat-filled
hamburgers and the like out of
school cafeterias by establishing
stricter federal rules about what
may be served in schools.
A bill realizing her vision passed
the Senate and went to the House,
where it currently is foundering in
budgetary bickering. The first
lady has lobbied hard for the bill,
but seems to be losing the fight.
Democrats being Democrats, the
legislation enabling Mrs. Obama’s
crusade was built from the
Obamacare blueprint: a host of
regulations combined with a slop-
pail of taxpayer-funded
sweeteners with which to bribe
the institutions affected. (The
public schools are one of the
nation’s largest employers of
Democratic voters, and therefore
command rich tribute.) So what’s
the holdup? The shocking, record-
setting deficits already run up by
the Obama-Reid-Pelosi axis of
fiscal incontinence has been
earning the Democrats some
richly deserved bad press, and so
some $2 billion in spending cuts
was needed to offset the nutrition
program’s expense. Congress
found them in the food-stamp
program, which was targeted for
$2 billion in cuts from a
supplemental fund designed to
offset the expense of rising food
prices. Since there hasn’t been
much inflation of late -- two
cheers for the Great Recession! --
the appropriators figured that
Americans receiving food stamps
didn’t really need the extra
money, which amounts to about
$59 a month for a typical family
of four.
The food-stamp reductions were
Democrat-style “cuts,” meaning
that they would take place, if at
all, in some hypothetical
legislative future. But they were
enough to derail the bill in the
House. Odds are the money would
have been added back in at some
point, regardless, but the exercise
does offer an insight into the
present state of the Democratic
mind. If you want an excellent
and brief lesson in everything that
is wrong with the American
welfare state and with Obama-
style bobo liberalism, consider
this: Money was about to be taken
out of the hands of poor
Americans thought to be having
trouble finding enough to eat in
order to fund a program that
would subsidize already over-
subsidized government schools --
including wealthy suburban
schools -- so that they might eat
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more of what Michelle Obama
wants them to eat and less of what
she doesn’t. This is politically of a
piece with Obamacare’s
“individual mandate,” through
which Democrats propose to solve
the problems of uninsured
Americans by levying fines on
them until they not only have
bought insurance but have bought
insurance of the kind President
Obama and his colleagues think
they should buy. The
metaphorical “Nanny State”
grows more literal every year.
It has been a poor showing all
around, and Mrs. Obama’s
program deserves to fade into
legislative oblivion. The federal
government almost always does
more harm than good when it
attempts to insert itself into public
-school matters, which are far
better handled at the state and
local level. The more the federal
Rick Warren: A Shill for
government involves itself in
funding local school activities, Terror
including lunches, the more it Joe Kaufman (FrontPage “As-salamu Alaykum. I come to
assumes a license to micromanage Magazine » FrontPage) you today deeply humbled and
local school affairs. The first lady Submitted at 9/30/2010 11:20:47 PM honored by this invitation. I truly
should tend her own garden and mean that. I applaud your courage
allow the local lunch lady (whose A plethora of terror-related for inviting an Evangelical pastor.
professional expertise is not in the individuals surrounds the profile Thank you.” This was the opening
law but in lunches) to tend hers. of Pastor Rick Warren on the statement of Rick Warren, the
The Editors “Speakers Corner” of the official leading pastor of the influential
website of the Islamic Society of Southern California Saddleback
North America (ISNA). He is Church, as he stood in front of the
fully aware of how he is being attendees of ISNA’s 46th Annual
portrayed on the site (as this Convention in July 2009.
author has had correspondence He spoke these words as he stood
with his office regarding the at the podium emblazoned with
matter) but refuses to demand its ISNA’s logo, an image that, for
deletion and offers no apology for many, is a symbol of terror and
its existence. Pastor Warren has RICK page 75
become a shill for Islamic terror.
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Marriage Goes Down, Poverty Goes Up
Rachel Sheffield (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 4:00:36 PM
Posted October 1st, 2010 at
5:00pm in Family and Religion
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An increasing rate of young
adults in the United States seems
to have cold feet when it comes to
marriage.
For the first time in recent
history, adults between 25 and 34
years of age who are single
outnumber their peers who are
married. On top of this, the
number of married adults in 2009
reached a historical low.
Conor Doughtery, reporting on
new Census numbers in The Wall
Street Journal, writes:
In 2009, the proportion of adults
25 to 34 who had never been
married was 46.3%, compared
with 44.9% for those who were
married. …
The precipitous drop in marriage
rates has pushed the proportion of
married adults to 52% in 2009,
the lowest in more than 100 years
of statistics.
But the decline in marriage isn’t
simply something for wedding
dress manufacturers and florists to
bemoan. The plummeting
marriage rate has severe
consequences for the entire
nation.
Hand-in-hand with the declining
marriage rate comes an increasing
number of children born outside
of marriage. And having a child
outside of marriage is one of the
greatest predictors of poverty and
being on welfare. A child born to
a single mother is six times more
likely to live in poverty than a
child born to married parents, and
80 percent of long-term poverty
occurs in single-parent homes.
Unfortunately, Census data show
that the rate of children born
outside of marriage now stands at
40 percent, the highest ever in
U.S. history. This number is even
greater for Hispanics and African
Americans, at approximately 50
and 70 percent, respectively.
Considering the strong correlation
between single motherhood and
poverty, this growth in out-of-
wedlock childbearing is tragic.
Married fathers are one of the
greatest protections against child
poverty. If single fathers married
the mothers of their children,
nearly two-thirds of poor, single-
mother families would be pulled
out of poverty. On the other hand,
over 40 years of increasing
federal and state spending on
welfare programs for the poor
have been ineffective at helping
people into self-reliance.
If Americans are serious about
assisting people out of welfare
and into dependence—or helping
people avoid welfare altogether—
it is absolutely necessary to
strengthen the institution of
marriage. Fortunately, there are
steps that we can take to do this.
First, the federal government
should reduce marriage penalties
in current welfare programs.
Second, existent programs
targeting young adults in low-
income communities should
promote marriage and educate
them about the negative
consequences of having a child
outside of marriage.
When marriage breaks down,
children, communities, and
taxpayers feel the consequences.
A strong nation is built on strong
marriages. It’s time policymakers
made the vow to promote this
vital institution.
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Submitted at 9/30/2010 11:30:55 PM
NATO helicopter gunships
recently made an incursion into
Pakistani territory, pursuing
Taliban fighters who had
conducted an attack in
Afghanistan and fled back into
Pakistan, believing themselves to
be safe there. They were
mistaken, and they paid for their
underestimation of NATO’s
willingness to hunt them down
with their lives. Pakistan
protested.
The problem is that if the
Pakistanis cannot curtail free
movement by the Taliban across
their border with Afghanistan,
then NATO is going to have to do
it for them. It is plain and simple:
the U.S. cannot win in
Afghanistan until the Taliban is
denied safe harbor. So the missile
and gunship attacks into Pakistan
must continue, not only to deny
the Taliban their sense of
impunity along the border, but
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Comprehensive Peace Agreement
(CPA), which called for the
referendum. U.S. Secretary of
State Hilary Clinton alluded to
this when she told the Council of
Foreign Relations recently the
North-South situation was “a
ticking time-bomb of enormous
consequence.
“ B u t t h e r e a l
problem,” Clinton said, “is what
happens when the inevitable
happens and the referendum is
passed and the South declares
independence?”
War is the answer, if
the Khartoum government’s past,
and present, actions are anything
to go by. Since independence
from Great Britain in 1956, the
South has already fought two
wars against the North to protect
its people from Arab oppression
and atrocities.
Southern Sudan, an area of
227,000 square miles and about
11 million people, was once one
of the main sources of slaves for
the Islamic world. When the first
civil war broke out shortly after
independence from Great
Britain in 1956, this barbaric
practice, fuelled by the Arab
world’s new oil wealth, soon
reappeared. This first North-South
conflict ended with a peace treaty
in 1972, but not until 500,000
people, mostly southern
Sudanese, had died.
The second Sudanese civil war,
which ended with the 2005 CPA,
began in 1983 when
the Khartoum government
discarded the 1972 peace accord
and made Sharia the law of the
land and Arabic the country’s
only official language. The
southern Sudanese heroically
fought this attempt to force them
to become Arab and Muslim,
leading the North to declare jihad
against its southern citizens in
1989.
In this second round of civil
strife, the Sudanese Arab gave full
vent to his hatred for the Sudanese
black African, embarking on a
policy of genocide that presaged
Darfur. Two million people died
in the renewed conflict –again,
mostly southern Sudanese — and
another four million were
displaced while large parts of
southern Sudan were devastated.
Under the CPA, 200,000 black
southern Sudanese, captured
during slave raids, were allowed
to return home. One of them,
Francis Bok, now an American
citizen, told his story in Front
Page Magazine of working ten
years from age seven as a child
slave for a cruel master.
The Government of South Sudan
(GOSS) under Salva Kiir, a
Catholic, is already preparing for
“when the inevitable happens” by
having a new national anthem
composed and, more importantly,
forging closer links with
neighboring black African
states, Uganda and Kenya. The
latter has allowed weapons
destined for the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army(GOSS’s military
force) to cross its territory and has
sent officials to Juba, southern
Sudan’s capital, to help with the
transition. It is also building a
new seaport to accommodate the
expected increase in commercial
activity from the new state.
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continued from page 73
stealth jihad.
ISNA is an American arm of the
Muslim Brotherhood. It was
founded in 1981 by a group of
individuals which included the
North American leader of
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Sami al-Arian.
In 2007 and 2008, ISNA was
named by the United States
Justice Department as a willing
participant in the financing of
millions of dollars to Hamas.
All of this and much more had
been made public prior to Pastor
Warren’s invitation to speak at
ISNA’s convention, but all of it
was ignored.
At the convention, Warren’s
fellow speakers included: Siraj
Wahhaj, an “unindicted co-
conspirator” of the 1993 World
Trade Center bombing; Zulfiqar
Ali Shah, the former South Asia
Director of KindHearts, a Hamas
fundraising group that was shut
down by the FBI in February
2006; and Naeem Muhammad, a
U.S. staff member of Islamic
Relief, a “charity” that the Israeli
government has claimed is a front
for Hamas.
Did Warren vet the other
speakers at the event? If he did,
like with ISNA’s terror-related
past, the concerns were willfully
ignored.
And today, he continues to ignore
the problems with ISNA, as a
photo of him along with his
biography are featured
prominently on ISNA’s official
website, within what the group
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calls its “Speakers Corner.”
That makes Mr. Warren a current
assigned speaker for ISNA, a
designation that he seems to have
absolutely no problem with.
In an e-mail addressed to this
author, dated February 1, 2010,
Warren’s Chief of Staff at
Saddleback, David Chrzan, had
the following to say regarding
Warren’s status on ISNA’s site:
“The website you reference lists
Pastor Warren as one of the
speakers at the 2009 ISNA
Conference held in Washington
DC this past July. Pastor Warren’s
bio on the site does not represent
an endorsement of ISNA or its
activities, but rather as one of the
speakers who was invited to
address the conference.”
It has now been well over a year
since ISNA had its 2009 annual
convention. Indeed, ISNA
concluded its 2010 convention
this past July 5th. So if Warren’s
portrait was just about the 2009
event, why is it still there?
Of course, having one’s picture
on the ISNA site is more than just
the remnant of a one-off speaking
engagement. It’s an
acknowledgement from those
whose photos are displayed that
ISNA is somehow a legitimate
institution that should be
supported.
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also to make it clear to Pakistan
that NATO will no longer tolerate
an open border.
How much can change in only a
few days.
Early Thursday, local time, there
was an incident. As of yet, the
reports are unclear as to what
exactly transpired. It has been
reported that NATO helicopters
traveling inside Pakistani airspace
while engaging militants firing
mortars into Afghanistan were
fired on by Pakistani forces in
what has been termed “warning
shots.” The NATO aircraft,
reported to be American Apaches,
returned fire, inflicting casualties
on the Pakistani forces. While
there has been no confirmation of
a friendly fire incident by either
the United States Government or
by the NATO military command
in Afghanistan, it has been
obliquely substantiated by a
NATO statement offering
“sincere condolences to the
Pakistani military and the families
of those who were killed or
injured.”
If these facts prove accurate, this
is a most unfortunate event, with
lessons to be learned by both
sides. Clearly, better
communication, leading to
increased situational awareness as
to the location of each other’s
forces, might have served to avert
this incident. Further, the wisdom
of Pakistan firing warning shots
towards powerful friendly aircraft
that are engaged in battle with
hostile ground forces is something
to be carefully reconsidered.
Beyond the specifics of this
incident, however, are the rather
serious consequences: Pakistan
has shut down one of the two
routes through its territory that
NATO uses to provide overland
supply to its forces in
Afghanistan. It must be recalled
that NATO is currently waging an
offensive against the Taliban and
al-Qaeda remnants in
Afghanistan, and now is an
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awkward time to cope with a
supply disruption.
The loss of the supply route
through Pakistan’s territory is
serious, but not fatal. NATO can
continue to sustain its forces in
Afghanistan, though at greater
cost and inconvenience. More to
the point, however, is the fact that
this incident threatens to crack
open the tense relationship
between Islamabad and
Washington. Pakistan is a nation
with serious internal divisions,
with the military, civilian
government and intelligence
service all pursuing their own, not
always compatible, agendas. The
result in a hydra-headed beast of a
country that is both our ally and
enemy.
Questions of Sovereignty
on China’s National Day
Dean Cheng (The Foundry: assessing prospects for the future.
Conservative Policy News.)
For both China’s Asian neighbors
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:11:48 PM and the United States, this
pricklier and more aggressive
Posted October 1st, 2010 at approach to border disputes is
3:11pm in American Leadership troubling. Chinese decision
Print This Post makers appear to have concluded
On the 61st anniversary of the that its combination of greater
founding of the People’s Republic economic wherewithal and
of China (PRC), China’s borders growing military capability allow
appear to be under more pressure Beijing to dictate the resolution of
than at any time since the end of border disputes in its own favor.
the Cold War. This is not because This Chinese approach clearly
of external threats to China, but ignores the equities of its
due to greater Chinese neighbors. Just as important given
assertiveness in various territorial the array of U.S. alliances in the
disputes. Consequently, as the region, it raises the potential for
dust settles from the recent Sino- U . S . - C h i n e s e
Japanese confrontation over the confrontation—Note the various
Senkakus islands, decision-
makers throughout Asia are QUESTIONS page 77
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Sins of the Kim Clan
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/30/2010 11:25:07 PM
A few years ago, NASA put
together a wonderful composite
portrait of planet Earth: a map of
the world at night as viewed from
space. In that mosaic, clusters of
light stand out against the
darkness in those places where
human-beings have gathered to
live and work in significant
numbers. In Asia, one particular
exception to this rule stands out.
Only a few feeble rays of light
escape that portion of Asia
between the 38 th parallel and the
Yalu River. Symbolically, the
Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea, better known as North
Korea, thus remains lost in the
darkness that has shrouded its
people for over sixty years.
North Korea is tragically unique
in many ways, and the way that its
leaders have combined
communism with cultism is
unprecedented in the modern
world. The nation has known but
two chiefs since its creation after
World War II: the “Great Leader”
Kim-Il Sung and his son, the
“Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il who
took over after the elder Kim died
in1994. Said to be ailing, the sixty
eight year old Kim Jong Il seems
to be trying to put his house in
order before he takes his place on
the Great Politburo in the Sky. By
elevating his sister Kim Kyong
Hui and his third son Kim Jong
Eun to the ranks of four star
generals, the Dear Leader
reinforced yet again what really
matters in North Korea. What
happens to that nation’s cowed,
impoverished populace is of no
importance to its leaders. What
really matters is the fate of the
Kim clan.
By all accounts, conditions
within North Korea are horrific.
According to CIA data, its
average per capita income in the
DPRK is about $1,900 per year.
Famine is rampant, despite
billions in international aid. Every
year, ordinary North Koreans try
to flee the nation in droves. Many
young women leaving the country
end up in China, where they
become prostitutes or are sold into
“marriages.” In either case, those
women who are able to escape
into sexual slavery count
themselves lucky, for they have at
least escaped starvation. This is
the legacy of a nation that has
been run “of the Kims, by the
Kims and for the Kims” for over
half a century.
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U.S. declarations of support for problems, lest the Senkakus and
Japan in the Senkakus dispute. the Spratlys be associated in
The United States is therefore future years with other historic
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One can only hope that all the
region’s leaders are successful in
peaceably resolving these knotty
Amazon and Pampers
Bring Diaper Shopping to
Facebook
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/1/2010 3:01:52 PM
As individuals spend more and
more time on Facebook, big
brands looking to leverage that
time are integrating more features
and services into their Fan Pages.
Proctor & Gamble just launched
a new e-commerce tab on its
Pampers Fan Page, offering
consumers a way to shop for
diapers without ever leaving the
off Facebook — but the
site.
technology that powers the new
We’ll admit that we have a hard
Pampers web store has potential.
time feigning enthusiasm for
online diaper shopping — on or AMAZON page 78
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AMAZON
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Proctor & Gamble partnered with
Amazon and used its recently
revamped WebStore e-commerce
platform to power the Facebook
app. That means that item
selection, descriptions, reviews
and checkout options are all
handled by Amazon.com. The
only real differences between a
Facebook app and a standard
Amazon WebStore
implementation is that the
Pampers store takes place inside
the fan page.
Pampers is the first P&G brand to
use e-commerce within its fan
page, but the company’s press
release indicates that it looks
forward to rolling the capabilities
out to other P&G brands in the
future.
TechFlash asked Amazon
spokeswoman Tracy Ogden about
future plans for WebStore
integration with Facebook, and
while the company didn’t
comment, citing its policy of not
discussing future plans, this is
definitely a feature that fits into
the rest of the Amazon WebStore
and Amazon Marketplace Web
Service ecosystem.
Pampers may be the first example
of an Amazon-powered web store
on Facebook, but it’s hardly the
first e-commerce example. At the
beginning of the summer, Disney
rolled out an app on its Toy Story
3 fan page that allowed users to
buy movie tickets and invite
friends to various screenings.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has
also integrated movie ticket
purchase options into the Fan
Pages for some of its films,
including Eat Pray Love and
Resident Evil Afterlife.
Likewise, other e-commerce
platforms like ShopTab,
Payvment and BigCommerce
offer their own shopping solutions
for businesses and brands.
Still, Amazon remains a major
player in the e-commerce and
fulfillment space. Many
businesses build either their own
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custom Amazon WebStores or use
Amazon for fulfillment or
payment processing.
If the P&G fan page is indicative
of a future product vertical, and
we think it is, this could mean big
things not just for bringing e-
commerce to Facebook, but for
expanding the reach of Amazon
WebStores.
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Connected TV: The New
Battle for Your Living
Room [INFOGRAPHIC]
Christina Warren (Mashable!) from the comfort of the couch,
Submitted at 10/1/2010 2:40:28 PM without expensive HTPC setups
or complicated software. The
After years of false-starts and not battle for the living room is finally
-quite-there implementations, it here.
appears that the connected TV Three of the big contenders in
revolution is upon us. Finally, this space are the new Apple TV,
consumers will have access to the upcoming Boxee Box, and the
affordable technology that will let recently updated Roku XDS. All
them access web content and CONNECTED page 79
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