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Michelle Obama joins stump on behalf of Democratic hopefuls
Andrew Stern (Front Row
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Submitted at 10/13/2010 9:10:40 PM
First Lady Michelle Obama
shook off the rust and hit the
campaign trail – at least the
campaign fundraising circuit –
ahead of the November midterm
elections.
Praising her husband’s
accomplishments in just a year-
and-a-half in office, she
urged supporters to “have his
back” by getting out the vote for
fellow Democrats so he can
pursue promised change with a
friendly Congress.
Republicans are expected to
make inroads in the November
mid-term election.
“This is my first day out on the
campaign trail. In fact, I haven’t
been on the trail since a little
campaign a couple of years ago,”
Obama told a well-heeled crowd
attending a $750-a-plate
fundraiser for U.S. Senate hopeful
Alexi Giannoulias.
She said she looked forward to
voting early Thursday in her
Chicago hometown, after a
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night’s rest “in my own bed.”
If she was out of practice after
two years off the campaign trail, it
didn’t show. While not rousing,
the first lady delivered on familiar
themes: the enduring struggles of
American families to put food on
the table, to get a good education
for their children, to get health
care.
She pledged support for military
veterans — an issue she has
adopted personally — but
acknowledged it might take
longer than one hoped to expand
job opportunities in what has been
an anemic economic recovery.
“For folks that are hurting, change
hasn’t come fast enough,” she
said. ”The truth is, it is going to
take a lot longer to dig ourselves
out of this hole … The truth is,
this is the hard part. It is.”
“That’s what Barack told us. He
said change is hard. Change is
slow,” she said.
“From our first days as a nation,
Americans always faced fear and
doubt. But as Americans we have
always gone past the cynicism
and moved forward. That’s what
we have to do now.”
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“We have come way too far to
turn back now.”
As she often did during the 2008
presidential campaign, she
shared personal stories about her
father’s struggles with multiple
sclerosis. This time, she referred
to how tired she gets as first lady,
saying she urges herself on by
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recalling how her father pushed to
get himself dressed and to
work despite the pain brought on
by his illness.
“He just kept on going. That’s
what I think about,” she said.
“Something else I do on those
tough days. I think about how we
felt on election night. We were
right here, right down the street,”
she said, referring to the victory
celebration attended by tens of
thousands in nearby Grant Park.
We were excited, we were
energized. Because we knew we
had a chance to change the world
for the better. The truth is, we still
have that chance.”
“I told you you have to have my
husband’s back,” she added. ”We
need you to find those folks that
are going to sit this one out …
They can’t just vote once and wait
for change. They have to vote
every time.”
Photo Credit: REUTERS/John
Gress (Illinois U.S. Senate
candidate Alexi Giannoulias with
Obama at Chicago fundraiser)
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Washington Extra – Slipping away

Simon Denyer (Front Row at election intended to make these entities
Washington) American voters unhappy at high less susceptible to promoting the
Submitted at 10/13/2010 5:32:01 PM unemployment are set to oust interests of a few participants to
Democrats from control of the the potential detriment of others,”
The Democrats’ chances of House of Representatives in SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro
retaining control of the House of November, a Reuters-Ipsos poll said.
Representatives are slipping projected. The national poll found For more of this story by
away. Our latest Reuters/Ipsos that Americans plan to vote for Rachelle Younglai, read here.
poll suggests that Republicans are Republicans over Democratic Senate poised to follow House on
poised to win around 227 seats candidates by 48 percent to 44 China yuan -Baucus
and Democrats about 208 seats in percent, an edge that will likely The Senate is poised to follow
n e x t m o n t h ’ s e l e c t i o n . give Republicans around 227 the House of Representatives in
Unemployment is top of the seats in the House to 208 for the passing legislation aimed at
agenda for voters, and there is no Democrats. pressuring China to raise the
good news coming on that front For more of this story by Steve value of its currency, Senate
between now and November 2 Holland, read here. Finance Committee Chairman
(the next reading on the jobless For a graphic showing the poll Max Baucus said in a speech in
rate doesn’t even come until the results, click here. the stumbling economy, U.S. clean energy sector buffeted Beijing.
Friday after the election). That For a factbox on Senate poll candidates in both parties have by U.S. election winds For more of this story, read here.
means there is very little chance averages from Real Clear Politics, launched a wave of new attacks In a large Atlantic City NATO facilitating Taliban
that Democrats can pull off a late click here. accusing rivals of helping ship conference hall bustling with contacts with Afghan govt
surge. States probe mortgage industry jobs overseas. The raging ad war entrepreneurs in the renewable NATO-led coalition forces in
Also slipping away is President practices reflects the high stakes for both energy sector, Parker Hadlock Afghanistan are facilitating
Barack Obama’s approval rating, All 50 U.S. states launched a parties in a campaign dominated offered a blunt assessment of the contacts in Kabul between senior
to a new low in our poll, with joint investigation of the mortgage by the high unemployment rate. A industry. “I am scared to death Taliban officials and the Afghan
much of the decline coming from industry, a move some experts recent poll found voters believe that I’ve spent a couple years of government, a senior NATO
his own Democratic supporters. fear may slow sales of foreclosed the shift of U.S. jobs to foreign my life dedicating a lot of time to official said. But the official, who
His handling of the economy homes and threaten the recovery countries was the biggest reason this business and it really isn’t spoke to reporters in Brussels on
remains a leading cause of the of the fragile housing market. The the economy has struggled. going to come together in my condition of anonymity, said
d r o p . A g a i n , a n y h o p e o f state attorneys general are looking For more of this story by John lifetime,” said Hadlock, an discussions were in their very
energizing the Democratic base at allegations some banks did not Whitesides, read here. advocate of wind energy. Political early stages and could not yet be
now looks slim. properly review files or submitted U.S. allows more ethanol in uncertainty is roiling an industry described as negotiations.
More interesting is the race for f a l s e s t a t e m e n t s t o e v i c t gasoline for newer cars once brimming with promise. For more of this story by Phil
control of the Senate. Ipsos says delinquent borrowers from their The U.S. government on For more of this story by Russell Stewart, read here.
t h e p o l l n u m b e r s s u g g e s t homes during a foreclosure crisis Wednesday approved a 50 percent Blinch and Ayesha Rascoe, read U.S. steps up military-civilian
Democrats will win 52 seats to 48 that is one of the most visible boost in the amount of ethanol in here. cyber defense coordination
seats for the Republicans, the wounds of the recession. gasoline for newer cars, a decision US SEC starts policing opaque President Obama’s
same margin predicted by the poll For more of this story by Corbett that could help Democrats in the derivatives market administration announced steps to
of polls compiled by Real Clear Daly and Elinor Comlay, click Midwest corn-growing states but The SEC took its first stab at boost civil-military coordination
Politics. But a number of races are here. be opposed by food companies, policing the $615 trillion over-the against cyber threats said to be
still very close. U.S. campaign taps fears about a u t o m a k e r s a n d -counter derivatives market with a mounting against sensitive U.S.
Here are our top stories from job outsourcing environmentalists. plan to mitigate conflicts of computer networks.
Washington today… Hoping to tap into deep voter For more of this story by Tom interests at venues that will handle
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A Social Security reality check for deficit hawks

Donna Smith (Front Row While they may not go on strike The survey of AARP members gradually rising to 67 from 65 supported private Social Security
Washington) or take to the streets in protest — who are likely to vote in the under current law, to as high as 70 investment accounts. Dozens of
Submitted at 10/13/2010 3:08:12 PM like is happening in France over a November 2, congressional years. The proposal worries many House Democrats signed a letter
plan to raise the retirement age elections showed that 60 percent older Americans, LeaMond said. to Obama saying they will oppose
President Barack Obama’s fiscal from 60 to 62 – older Americans would be less likely to vote for a “One of the things we’ve noticed any effort by the president or his
c o m m i s s i o n i s e x p e c t e d t o are more likely to show up at the candidate who would support is the tremendous concern of fiscal commission to cut Social
recommend changes to Social v o t i n g b o o t h i n N o v e m b e r cutting Social Security benefits to people over the age of 50 about Security.
Security to help reduce the deficit t h a n o t h e r g r o u p s . reduce the deficit. finding jobs and keeping jobs, While many older Americans
when it issues its report in early A new survey by the influential AARP Executive Vice President LeaMond said. oppose using Social Security to
December. But protests in France AARP, which advocates for older Nancy LeaMond said the survey With Democrats fighting to cut the deficit, the vast majority
over pension reforms there could Americans and has 35 million shows that older Americans see maintain their majorities in the are worried about the economy
serve as a reality check to U. S. readers for its magazine, shows Social Security as “their House of Representatives and and the gap between federal
deficit hawks who want to raise that lawmakers who embrace investment and their money.” Senate, many are affirming their revenues and government
the U.S. retirement age and make deficit reduction proposals that Deficit hawks have discussed commitment to protecting the 75- spending — 91 percent said they
other benefit changes to the include cuts for Social Security raising the Social Security year old retirement program and SOCIAL page 4
popular retirement plan. may do so at their own peril. retirement age, which already is bashing Republicans who have
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In a case with broad implications
for states with the death penalty,
the Supreme Court considered
whether a Texas death row inmate
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Hillary Clinton stops to see Bill’s
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Hillary Clinton, on her first visit
to Kosovo as secretary of state,
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now 12 feet high and a
shimmering gold — and
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likeness. She then plunged into
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82 percent are unhappy about the
current economy.
The survey involved telephone
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September with 1,000 AARP
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Humpback whale sets travel
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from Brazil to Madagascar,
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migrating mammal, researchers
reported. “While humpback
whales regularly travel 5,000 km
between breeding and feeding
grounds, they are commuters, not
adventurers,” the team wrote.
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Hiring Executives: If You've Never Done The Job, How Do You
Hire Somebody Good?
Ben Horowitz (Business Insider)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:59:08 AM
The biggest difference between
being a great functional manager
and being a great general
manager—and particularly a great
CEO—is that as a general
manager, you must hire and
manage people who are far more
competent at their jobs than you
would be at their jobs. In fact,
often you will have to hire and
manage people to do jobs that you
have never done. How many
CEOs have been head of HR,
Engineering, Sales, Marketing,
Finance and Legal? Probably
none.
So, with no experience, how do
you hire someone good? Step 1:
Know what you want
Step 1 is definitely the most
important step in the process and
also the one that gets skipped
most often. As the great self-help
coach Tony Robbins says: “if you
don’t know what you want, the
chances that you’ll get it are
extremely low.” If you have never
done the job, how do you know
what to want?
First, you must realize how
ignorant you are and resist the
temptation to educate yourself
simply by interviewing
candidates. While the interview
process can be highly educational,
using that as the sole information
source is extremely dangerous. In
particular, doing so will make
you susceptible to the following
traps:
• Hiring on look and feel— It
sounds silly that anyone would
hire an executive based on the
way they look and sound in an
interview, but in my experience
look and feel is the top criteria for
most executive searches. When
you combine a CEO that doesn’t
know what she wants and a board
of directors that hasn’t thought
much about the hire, what do you
think the criteria are?
• Looking for someone out of
central casting— This is the moral
equivalent of looking for the
Platonic Form of a head of sales.
You imagine what the perfect
sales executive might be like then
you attempt to match real-world
candidates to your model. This is
a really bad idea for several
reasons. First, you are not hiring
an abstract executive to work at
an arbitrary company. You must
hire the right person for your
company at this particular point in
time. The head of sales at Oracle
in 2010 would likely have failed
in 1989. The VP of engineering
at Apple might be exactly the
wrong choice for FourSquare.
The details and the specifics
matter. Second, your imaginary
model is almost certainly wrong.
What is your basis for creating
this model? Finally, it will be
incredibly difficult to educate an
interview team on such an
abstract set of criteria. As a result,
everybody will be looking for
something different.
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experts. If you know a great head
of sales, interview them first and
learn what they think made them
great. Figure out which of those
strengths most directly match the
needs of your company. If
possible, include the domain
expert in the interview process.
Finally, be clear in your own
mind on your expectations for this
person upon joining your
company. What will this person
do in the first 30 days? What do
you expect their motivation to be
for joining? Will they instantly
have 10 reqs to hire or will they
have 1? Step 2: Run a process that
figures out the right match
In order to find the right
executive, you must now take the
• Valuing lack of weakness rather The very best way to know what
k n o w l e d g e that you have
than strength— The more you want is to act in the role. Not
gathered and translate it into a
experience you have, the more j u s t i n t i t l e , b u t i n r e a l
process that yields the right
you realize that there is something action—run the team meeting,
candidate. Here is the process that
seriously wrong with every hold 1:1s with the staff, set
I like to use. Write down the
employee in your company objectives, etc. In my career, I’ve
strengths you want and the
(including you). Literally, been acting VP of HR, CFO, and
weaknesses that you are willing to
nobody is perfect. As a result, it is VP of Sales. Often CEOs resist
tolerate
imperative that you hire for a c t i n g i n f u n c t i o n a l r o l e s ,
strength rather than lack of because they worry that they lack The first step is to write down
w e a k n e s s . E v e r y b o d y h a s the appropriate knowledge. This what you want. In order to ensure
weaknesses; they are just easier to worry is precisely why you completeness, I find it useful to
find in some people. Hiring for should act—to get the appropriate include criteria from the following
lack of weakness just means that knowledge. In fact, acting is s u b - d i v i s i o n s w h e n h i r i n g
you’ll optimize for pleasantness. really the only way to get all of e x e c u t i v e s :
Rather, you must figure out the the knowledge that you need to • Will the executive be world
strengths you require and find make the hire, because you are class at running the function?
someone who is world class in looking for the right executive for • Is the executive outstanding
t h o s e a r e a s d e s p i t e t h e i r your company today not a generic operationally?
• Will the executive make a
w e a k n e s s e s i n o t h e r , l e s s executive.
important domains. In addition to acting in the role, it major contribution to the strategic
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direction of the company? This is • Will she be able to contribute to product training? Can she Is she totally plugged into the
the “are they smart enough?” the strategic direction of your describe it in detail? industry, how quickly can she Metric design
criteria. company in a meaningful way? • Does she have materials? diagnose? • Describe the key leading and
• Will the executive be an • Does she know your lagging indicators for your
effective member of the team? Does she know how to hire sales How effective is her sales rep competition? organization.
Effective is the key word. It’s people? evaluation model? • Does she know what deals you • Are they appropriately paired?
possible for an executive to be • What is her profile? • Can she get beyond basic are in right now? E.g. do you value time, but not
well liked and totally ineffective • Ask her to describe a recent bad performance? • Has she mapped your quality?
with respect to the other members hire • Can she describe the difference organization? • Are there potentially negative
of the team. It’s also possible for • How does she find top talent? between a transactional rep and an side effects?
an executive to be highly effective • What percentage of her time is enterprise rep in a way that Operational excellence questions • What was the process that you
and profoundly influential while spent recruiting? teaches you something? Managing direct reports used to design them?
being totally despised. The latter • How does she test for the • What do you look for in the
is far better. characteristics she wants with her Does she understand the ins and people working for you? Organizational design
interview process? outs of setting up a comp plan? • How do you figure that out in • Describe your current
These functions do not carry • How many of her current • Accelerators, spiffs, etc, etc the interview process? organizational design
equal weight for all positions. people want to sign up? Can you • How do you train them for • What are the strengths and
Make sure that you balance them reference them and validate that? Does she know how to do big success? weaknesses?
a p p r o p r i a t e l y . G e n e r a l l y , • Could you pass her sales deals? • What is your process for • Why?
operational excellence is far more interview test? Should you be able • Has she made existing deals evaluating them? • Why did you opt for those
important for a VP of Engineering to pass? much larger? Will her people be strengths and weaknesses (why
or a VP of Sales than for a VP of • Does she know how to hire able to describe that? Has she Decision making were the strengths more
Marketing or CFO. Develop sales managers? accelerated the close of a large • What methods do you use to get important)?
questions that test for the criteria • Can she define the job? deal? the information that you need in • What are the conflicts? How do
This step is important even if you • Can she test for the skills? • Does she have customers that order to make decisions? they get resolved?
never ask the candidate any of the will reference this? • How do you make decisions
pre-prepared questions. By Is she systematic and (what is the process)? Confrontation
writing down questions that test comprehensive on how she thinks Does she understand marketing? • How do you run your staff • If your best executive asks you
for what you want, you will get about sales process? • Can she articulate the meeting? What is the agenda? for more territory, how do you
to a level of specificity that will • Does she understand the differences between brand • How do you manage actions handle it?
be extremely difficult to achieve business and the technical sales marketing, lead generation, and and promises
otherwise. As examples, below I processes? sales force enablement without • How do you systematically get Describe both your process for
include questions that I wrote for • Does she understand prompting? your knowledge? promotion and firing
running the enterprise sales b e n c h m a r k i n g , l o c k o u t • Of the organization • How do you deal with chronic
function and operational documents, POCs, demos? Does she understand channels? • Of the customers bad behavior from a top
excellence. • Does she know how to train • Does she really understand • Of the market performer?
Questions for head of enterprise people to become competent in channel conflict and incentives?
sales force the process? Less tangible
Is she smart enough? • Can she enforce the process? Is she intense enough? Core management • Does she think systematically or
• Can she effectively pitch me on • What is her expectation of her • Will the rep in Wisconsin wake processes—please describe how one off?
her current company? team’s use of the CRM tools? up at 5 am and hit the phones or you’ve designed these and why? • Would I want to work for her?
• How articulate is she on the will they wake up at noon and • Interview • Is she totally honest or is she
company and market opportunity How good is her sales training have lunch? • Performance management bull shitty?
that you are presenting to her program? • Employee integration HIRING page 9
now? • How much process training vs Can she run international? • Strategic planning
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Future Shock at 40: The Tofflers Stir Up "Cyberdust" With New

Scenarios
Greg Lindsay (Fast Company) expect from the Tofflers and their reading CDO prospectuses--and
Submitted at 10/14/2010 1:04:52 PM acolytes: nanotech factories; the plane-crazy denziens of
quantum computing; resource FlyerTalk, who have developed
Carlos Slim Helú--the world's wars giving way to limitless fresh their own tools for prying open
richest man--Steve Case, and water and clean energy, and bio- airline reservation systems and
seemingly half the military- implants further blurring the line forcing industry executives to
industrial complex are gathering between man and machine. The accede to their demands. The
a t t h e C o s m o s C l u b i n Singularity may not be near, but biggest threats to national security
Washington D.C. this morning to it's coming. The remainder bears are "cyberdust" and "obsoledge."
honor the husband-and-wife testimony to the opportunities and Cyberdust is what data gathers
futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler vulnerabilities of a relentlessly while it sits on the military's and
on the 40th anniversary of their networked world. intelligence agenices servers,
first and most influential book, Here's a a sampling of what the collected but unanalyzed due to
Future Shock. Published under 40-year-old Future Shockers are the mounting data glut.
Alvin's name in 1970, Future predicting now: Crowdsourcing "Obsoledge" is knowledge that is
S h o c k a d d e d " i n f o r m a t i o n becomes ubiquitous, evolving into obsolete--an increasing hazard as
overload" and "prosumer" to the a h y b r i d o f n e t w o r k s l i k e the pace of everything, including
lexicon, along with its title--which Innocentive's and the tight-knit, change itself--accelerates.
refers to the culture shock that ad hoc communities seen in "There will be a lot of stuff we
results when the culture that's massively multiplayer games like just don't know," says Deborah
changing so fast it feels foreign is World of Warcraft. Technologies Westphal, the managing partner
your own. are no longer developed in-house. of Toffler Associates. "How do
Today's invitation-only event is Corporate R&D becomes hyper- you know what's true and what's
essentially a retirement party for s p e c i a l i z e d , a n d t h e m o s t non-true? How do you validate
t h e p a i r , s t r u c t u r e d a s a n successful become increasingly that? And cyberdust is just stuff
opportunity to reflect on their adept at integrating large problem sitting around, that we don't even
track record. And, as part of the -solver networks into their formal know is there. And that's the most
proceedings, Future Shock is organizations. "Answer seekers" dangerous kind. There's going to
revisited--and spun forward. are linked with "problem solvers" be an explosion of business
Many of the new Tofflerian across the globe. "Philanthro- opportunities in analyzing that
predictions are merely capitalists" and "hyper- data, and the military and
predictable: China will rise; cities e m p o w e r e d i n d i v i d u a l s " intelligence will have to figure
will grow; Social Security will accumulate wealth, networks, and that out.
cease to exist, and Iran's leaders resources that exceed those of Befitting a consultancy that
will remain irrational. Oh, and nation-states. Bill Gates, who will counts the Department of
"work will continue to expand to do more to eradicate malaria than Homeland Security among its
fill whatever time and space is any NGO or government, is an harbinger of the latter. inside companies and tell others clients, each of its predictions has
available." We should have example of the former, while Prosumers and "prosumption" will that they see. These are the security implications, including
known. Oscar Morales, the engineer who evolve into a form of radical descendants of Michael Burry-- nanotech surveillance devices and
O t h e r s c e n a r i o s a r e t h e used Facebook to organize million transparency, as the proliferation the Asperger's-enhanced recruiting spies through social
b r e a t h l e s s l y b l u e - s k y , -strong protests against the of industrial-strength analysis protagonist of Michael Lewis' The
tools mean individuals can peer Big Short, who spent untold hours FUTURE page 8
cornucopian forecasts you'd Colombian rebels of FARC, is a
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NPR: Love Ya, But You’re Wrong For Barring continued from page 7

networks, while quantum

Journos From Going To The Stewart/Colbert Rallies computing "could lead to either
the rebirth--or the end--of
Jeff Jarvis (Business Insider) like one. Citizens are involved in encryption as we know it."
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:06:00 PM their communities, part of their "We're going to be putting sensors
communities, so they can into our food, into our roads,
NPR has told its staff they may understand and serve those everything," says Westphal,
not attend the Stewart/Colbert communities. Journalists tried to conjuring the imagery of IBM's
rallies in Washington at the end of separate themselves from their "Smarter Planet" campaign. "And
the month. I think they’re terribly communities (and opinions) and what does the flip side to that
wrong here, following the that is much of the reason why Nirvana mean? We can have
journalistic worldview Jay Rosen journalists lost touch with how to cyber-attacks on my food? There
calls the view-from-nowhere to its serve them. It is time to get off the are huge vulnerabilities, without
extreme and forbidding fucking pedestal and return to the governments even understanding
employees to be curious. streets. And the Washington Mall. what the vulnerabilities are."
Or as I tweeted: So I guess NPR I suggest that NPR journalists In Future Shock, the Tofflers
reporters aren’t allowed to be should protest this order from hammered home the point that
*citizen* journalists. above. Use social media, folks, technology, culture, and even life
Oh, I understand the argument: and have an opinion about itself was evolving too fast for
NPR reporters are supposed to be opinions … or at least about governments, policy-makers and
objective and express no political curiosity. Start a Facebook page. regulators to keep up. Forty years
opinion and do nothing political. I Start a Twitter meme. Use all on, that message hasn't changed.
went to J-school, too. And we "The government needs to
And that’s OK. It’s time for hyperjournalistic NPR is being those new tools your bosses are understand the dependencies and
could argue the point as if in a
reporters to be open and honest. unjournalistic. Journalists, teaching you to tell your bosses the convergence of networks
freshman seminar. I say this is
But my real problem here is, properly empowered, are curious. about this new world you should through information," says
merely a lie of omission, telling
again, that NPR is forbidding its They want to know things. NPR be part of. Westphal. "And there still needs
reporters to *conceal* their
employees to be curious. There’s i s t e l l i n g t h e m n o t t o a s k This article was reprinted with to be some studies done around
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about Glenn Beck’s rally. That,
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the network explained, is because
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come on, we’re not that dumb.
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It’s because NPR people are not
merely showing up they might “ c i t i z e n j o u r n a l i s t s ” a n d a Success" With Their Rallies old rules don't apply for the
Beck people. NPR people are
have a forbidden opinion. newspaper person came the mic in Making Fun Of Him future."
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• Does she ask me spontaneous
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the company?
Assemble an appropriate
interview team and conduct the
interviews
The next step is to assemble the
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questions in mind:
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out whether or not the candidate
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internal or external people. They
can be board members, other
executives or just experts.
• Who do you need to support the
decision once the executive is on
board? This group is just as
important as the first. No matter
how great an executive is, they
will have trouble succeeding if the
people around them sabotage
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Facebook Is Worth $2.52, Twitter Only 43 Cents: Study

Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:55:15 PM
A new attempt to answer the
digital age's most burning
question--whether social media
drives sales--has also revealed an
atonishing fact about Facebook
and Twitter posts.
Sharing on Facebook is five
times more valuable than sharing
on Twitter, according to a new
study.
The data was collected by
Eventbrite, a "social event
discovery" engine that's changing
the way we find events, and
revolutionizing how event
organizers sell tickets online.
Essentially it's a social networking
tool for event listings--like
Ticketmaster, but good. When
users buy tickets on the site, they
can easily share the event
through various social media
channels. Users sifting through
events online can see which of
their friends are going to concerts
or conferences or cooking
classes. And event organizers,
thanks to Eventbrite's analytics
dashboard, can track all this data
in real-time. Organizers can
directly attribute ticket purchases
to a specific social distribution
channel--they can, for example,
compare the value of a Facebook
"Like" versus a tweet.
"It brings a level of business
intelligence to the ticketing
industry, which has really lacked
that," says Tamara Mendelsohn,
Eventbrite's marketing director.
"We track every sharing
mechanism--wall posts, tweets,
etc.--so we know how an event
has been shared, and can track the
resulting of ticket sales."
So imagine: Taylor Swift just
announced her fall tour. Whoa.
She'll be performing in your area.
You want to go, but aren't sure
who else is a fan. Calling up your
friends and asking whether they
want to hit up the Taylor Swift-
Mylie Cyrus extravaganza isn't
worth the potential
embarrassment. What do you do?
Enter Eventbrite, where you can
share the concert with your
Facebook friends and discover
which of your Twitter followers is
secretly a Swift fan.
For its report released today,
Eventbrite mined all this data over
the past several months, analyzing
how sharing an event through
social media translated into ticket
sales. On average, sharing an
event on Facebook translates to
$2.52 of ticket sales. On Twitter?
Just $0.43. Sharing through email
took second place at $2.34, and
even LinkedIn topped Twitter at
$0.90.
The great disparity between
Facebook and Twitter isn't
surprising. According to a recent
poll, users of Facebook have
physically met more than 88% of
their friends; on Twitter, users
have not physically met 48.2% of
their followers. So when Taylor
Swift announces her next concert,
you're far more likely to buy
tickets from a close friend's
Facebook post than a near-
stranger's tweet.
So ... anyone here up for the
Justin Bieber show next week?

Advanced Micro Devices Under Pressure Ahead of Q3 Earnings

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Walmart Doubling Sales of Produce From Local Farms

Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) sourced from one million small growing season is ideal."
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:57:25 PM and medium farmers, increasing On one hand, Walmart has
income of those small to medium crowded out many of the mom
It's becoming increasingly farmers by 10 to 15 percent, and and pop grocers that used to
difficult to villify Walmart, providing training to one million provide communities with local
despite its tendency to put smaller farm workers in sustainable produce. But the company's size
retailers out of business. The retail farming practices. Walmart also means that it can quickly change
giant last year unveiled an plans to invest over $1 billion in the entire agriculture system in
ambitious sustainability index for its global fresh food supply chain the U.S. and beyond. As long as it
its suppliers, and now the it's over the next five years. continues to wield its powers for
announced plans to double the Walmart is going so far as to good, we won't complain.
sales of fresh produce sourced expand certain cash crops in From the archives: The Wal-Mart
from local farms in U.S. locations entire regions of the U.S. "In the I You Don't Know
by the end of 2015. -95 corridor along the East Coast, and squash to take advantage of states have a long history of cash Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
The move is part of a larger set of there is a high concentration of the growing season beginning in crops such as tobacco and cotton, Twitter or by email.
global sustainable agriculture women and minority-owned Florida and moving northward," which are in decline. We are
goals unveiled by Walmart this growers that will benefit as we explained Leslie Dach, Walmart's replacing these with produce such
week. Other goals for 2015 expand purchases of vegetables, EVP of Corporate Affairs, in a as blueberries in Mississippi and
include selling $1 billion in food such as bell peppers, cucumbers media conference call. "The Delta Arkansas where the longer

Humiliations Continue For Cleveland As LeBron Is

Cover Boy For 2011 Cavaliers Calendar
Dashiell Bennett (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:57:00 AM
Spotted in Cleveland-area stores
this week is a Cleveland Cavaliers
2011 team calendar featuring the
one and only LeBron James on
the cover.
Guess they didn't hear about "The
Decision."
Care to guess the name of the
calendar company that produced
and shipped this beauty back in
July? They're called Perfect
Timing, Inc.
It cost $14.99, but so far, there
have been no takers.
See why his return to Cleveland
is so anticipated >
Join the conversation about this
story »
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(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:05:38 AM
BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP,
Mich. – He's two decades past the
age when most Americans begin
receiving Social Security benefits.
And the Hot Kid's never been
hotter.
Elmore Leonard's 44th novel,
"Djibouti," hit shelves on
Tuesday, a day after he celebrated
his 85th birthday. And "Justified,"
the FX drama based on a Leonard
short story and for which he's an
executive producer, wrapped up a
critically acclaimed first season
earlier this year.
Surely, the octogenarian is ready
to slow down a bit.
"Nooooo," Leonard says when the
dreaded "r" word is uttered:
retirement.
"There's no reason to. This is the
most enjoyable thing I do," he
said during an interview at his
home in suburban Detroit. "I've
been doing it for nearly 60 years."
The numbers over that time are
staggering.
Besides 44 novels, Leonard has
written 32 Western short stories
and nine produced screenplays.
Seventeen of his books have
earned a place on The New York
Times list of best-sellers, and he's
had his work turned into 21
feature films, seven TV movies
and three series, the latest of
which is "Justified."
That show is at the forefront of
Leonard's thoughts these days.
He's writing again about U.S.
Marshal Raylan Givens, a
recurring Leonard character who
is the centerpiece of "Justified."
Leonard's plan is to send along
some of the material to the show's
producers in the hope it'll end up
on screen in the upcoming second
season.
"I have written him in two books
before and he can carry a book,"
he says. "There's no question
about that. But to get him into
situations that would work for
'Justified,' then I'm doing a little
bit more than writing a book. I
think they will use quite a bit of
it."
Leonard's writing process is the
same as it's always been.
He settles in at his home office
around 10 a.m. behind a desk
covered with stacks of paper and
books. He lights a cigarette, takes
a drag and sets about to writing —
longhand, of course — on the 63-
page unlined yellow pads that are
custom-made for him.
When he finishes a page, he
transfers the words onto a
separate piece of paper using an
electric typewriter. He tries to
complete between three and five
pages by the time his workday
ends at 6 p.m.
"Well, you've gotta put in the time
if you want to write a book,"
Leonard says of his shift work
that is befitting of his hometown's
standing as the nation's
automotive capital.
Leonard's father was a General
Motors employee who moved his
family to Michigan when the
future author was a boy.
It was here that he acquired the
nickname "Dutch" (which
survives to this day) after Emil
"Dutch" Leonard, a knuckleball
pitcher of the day. The
ballplayer's card sits in the writer's
study on one of the shelves lined
with copies of his books.
After college, Leonard wrote
advertising copy for Chevrolet
and Westerns on the side.
A decade later, he quit his job
and devoted himself to writing
full time. But with a family to
support, Leonard was forced back
into writing freelance advertising.
He kept at it, though, and his
breakthrough came in the 1980s
with "La Brava" and "Glitz,"
which landed him on the cover of
Newsweek.
Since then, Leonard has written
about a book a year. His most
recent work includes "The Hot
Kid," "Up in Honey's Room" and
"Road Dogs."
His latest, "Djibouti," features the
same deadpan dialogue,
unexpected plot twists and
morally ambiguous characters that
are the hallmarks of nearly every
Leonard effort, but the subject
matter and locale are a departure.
"Djibouti" follows an award-
winning documentary filmmaker
who heads to the Horn of Africa
to chronicle the activities of
Somali pirates. In true Leonard
fashion, each character has
motivations that aren't always
immediately clear and often lead
them to operate on the other side
of the law.
Leonard says it's his favorite
book so far.
But, he says, laughing, "the one I
always just finish is always my
favorite."
Leonard became interested in the
subject in recent years when he
came across news reports of
modern-day pirate activity.
"I thought, 'These guys are having
fun.' They're not hurting anybody.
They do have automatic weapons
and rocket launchers, but they
haven't hurt anybody yet," he
says. "They just climb aboard the
ship, which is unarmed always —
merchant ship — and take it over,
take it down to one of their ports
and anchor it there while they ask
for ransom."
Leonard swivels around in his
chair, snatches a copy of
"Djibouti" off a table, opens it to
the final page and reads the
closing 11 paragraphs.
When the last word is uttered, the
slender, bearded author slams the
book shut.
"It's all in fun, you know,"
Leonard says, cracking a smile.
The novel also meets Leonard's
word economy requirement.
He tries to keep books under 300
pages, and "Djibouti" checks in at
279.
"This one time, The New York
Times asked me if I would review
a Tom Clancy book. I said, 'How
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many pages is it?' And they said,
'Oh, it's only 400 and some.' I
said, 'I don't read books with more
than 300 pages.' So I got out of
that," he said.
One person who never wants to
get out of reading a Leonard novel
is Dennis Lehane, who has made
a name for himself by taking a
page out of the Leonard play
book: writing crowd-pleasing
crime novels ("Gone Baby Gone"
and "Mystic River") that end up
on the big screen.
Lehane says Leonard is as
relevant as ever.
"It's not just that he's prolific. It's
that he's prolific and there's been
no marked decline in quality,"
Lehane says. "His novels remain
almost unconscionably
entertaining and sharply written,
populated by characters I would
have loved to have met in the
local bar last night, even if they
would have mugged me as I left.
"There's a lot of superlatives you
could lay at his door, but the one
just about everyone I know agrees
on is this: 85 or no, he is still the
coolest writer working today."
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:05:05 AM
Submitted at 10/13/2010 5:08:37 PM … of liberty and order, seem to how “the turning of the hearts of longer held hope to convert his
me to only occur where people the disobedient to the wisdom of brother, who he described as as LOS ANGELES (Hollywood
WASHINGTON – Famed atheist take into their hearts the very, the just” could be obtained having "bricked himself up high Reporter) – Fox has picked up a
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lesser known atheist-turned- r e s t r a i n t w i t h o u t m u t u a l religion. instead of windows from which to rather provocative name won't last
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debated Tuesday over whether a Christian religion,” said Peter, remained resolute, saying that The two brothers are separated in Now dubbed the untitled Liz
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God. journalist and author of the book “a human sacrifice several today regard each other as and Dicks," the script is described
Christopher, the elder of the two The Rage Against God. thousand years ago vicariously “different people” with different as a "reverse 'Three's Company,'"
Hitchens, argued that civilization On Tuesday, journalists in the redeemed me.” He said he finds it lives, living in different continents The show is an ensemble comedy
can survive without God and D.C.-area crowded into the “contemptible” that some people (Christopher in North America centering on an optimistic
noted that millions of people in moderate-sized conference room think he might convert to and Peter in Europe). Midwestern woman who moves
modern societies today are living at the Pew Forum Religion & Christianity now that he is “If we weren't brothers we into a New York apartment with
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began his talk by discussing the brothers discuss the question “Can that he has not thought deeply Hitchens stated in an interview Screenwriter Meriwether has a
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Christian world, which has since God?” The Hitchens brothers existence of God, said Hitchens. It was not immediately clear how names. She previously sold a TV
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Poll: Catholics, Protestants Leaning Right in 2010
Election
(Society)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 8:13:14 AM
WASHINGTON – A new poll
reveals that Catholic voters,
generally the middle ground in the
religious political debate, are
moving toward the political right,
mirroring what pollsters believe is
the attitude of the general
population during this year’s mid-
term election.
New numbers, released by the
Public Religion Research Institute
Tuesday, show that 49 percent of
Catholic voters, both Latino and
white, say they are likely to vote
Republican.
“White Catholics seem mostly
like to throw their support behind
the GOP,” said Gregory Smith,
senior researcher at the Pew
Forum, at a press briefing
Wednesday.
And, as researchers believe that
Catholics, who make up a quarter
of the population, will mirror the
rest of the country this election
season, a boost in Catholic
support may be good news for
Republicans in more ways than
one. Smith said that Catholics
share the same stance on values as
does the average American.
“American Catholics considered
as a whole tend to look like
Americans like a whole,” he said.
The survey, conducted last
month, further reveals that no
more than four in 10 of any white
Christian group say they will vote
for or are leaning towards the
Democratic candidate in their
election district. Seventy-one
percent of white evangelical
voters and 55 percent of white
mainline Protestant voters favor
the GOP candidate.
When asked about specific
issues, a majority of the 3,013
surveyed adults say they would be
more likely to vote for a candidate
who supported health care reform.
Catholics, more so than
evangelical Christians, are more
likely to favor a candidate that
supported health care reform.
Catholics, like most Americans,
are also more likely to support
gay marriage. Nearly half of both
Latino and white Catholics favor
same-sex marriage over civil
unions and no legal recognition.
Meanwhile, the beliefs of white
evangelicals and black Protestants
have in general stayed the same.
At 58 percent, evangelicals
overwhelmingly believe no legal
recognition should be given to
same-sex marriage. The majority
of black Protestants are also
opposed to legal recognition.
There were some surprising
differences, however, among the
faith groups and their values.
Most white evangelicals (63
percent) say they are less likely to
vote for a candidate who supports
abortion rights. In comparison,
only 29 percent of black
Protestants, 24 percent of white
mainline Protestants and 38
percent of white Catholics say the
same. Overall, slightly more
American voters (35 percent) say
they would be less likely to back a
candidate who supports abortion
rights.
Additionally, at 43 percent,
evangelicals have the smallest
percentage of members who
support an increase in minimum
wage. Over 85 percent of black
Protestants support an increase in
minimum wage.
And while evangelicals are
divided on the issue of
immigration reform (48 percent
favor and 50 percent oppose), a
majority across the rest of the
religious groups support reform.
Nearly two-thirds of black
Protestants, 52 percent of
mainline Protestants and white
Catholics, and 87 percent of
Latino Catholics favor
immigration reform with a
provision for citizenship for
undocumented immigrants.
Also parting from white
evangelicals on many issues is the
younger generation of Christians.
Young evangelicals and
Protestants join with Catholic
believers in supporting gay
marriage, PRRI CEO and Founder
Robert Jones pointed out.
“Younger Catholics and younger
Protestants are more likely to
support gay and lesbian rights,“
Jones noted.
A wide generation gap is also
seen with the general American
population. Younger Americans
are about half as likely as older
Americans to say that America is
and has always been a Christian
nation (26 percent to 53 percent).
More than one in four young
adults say that America has never
been a Christian nation.
PRRI statistics are part of the
American Values Survey. The
survey is a national public opinion
poll of American attitudes on
religion values and politics. The
2010 survey is the third biennial
AVS.
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Israelis see Ahmadinejad preach on their doorstep
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AVIVIM, Israel (AFP) – Israelis
on Thursday watched as their arch
-enemy Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
addressed a rally near the border
with their country, which he has
repeatedly said should cease to
exist.
Ahmadinejad, who is on a two-
day trip to Lebanon, toured its
southern border region in a show
of support for the Shiite militant
group Hezbollah that was
slammed by the United States and
Israel as "provocative."
The heavily guarded border is
often seen as the front line in a
proxy war between Israel and
Iran, and Ahmadinejad is deeply
reviled in Israel for his
questioning of the Holocaust and
predictions of the country's
demise.
"It is a provocative and
destabilising visit," foreign
ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor
told AFP. "It appears his
intentions are blatantly hostile and
he is coming to play with fire."
It is "like a landlord visiting his
domain," Palmor said, while
another official said the move
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signified the final transformation
of Israel's northern neighbour into
an "Iranian client state."
Ahmadinejad came the closest he
has ever been to Israel, addressing
a rally of some 15,000 people just
four kilometres (little more than
two miles) from the border at Bint
Jbeil, a Hezbollah bastion
devastated during the 2006 war.
The sharp-tongued Iranian leader
was also due to visit the village of
Qana, targeted in 1996 and again
in 2006 by deadly Israeli air
strikes.
Around a dozen Israeli ultra-
Orthodox and Druze protesters
gathered on the border ahead of
the visit and released hundreds of
blue and white balloons, which
promptly blew backwards into
Israel.
"I came here despite the fact that
the government's position is to
ignore this visit," said Ayoub
Kara, a Druze MP from the
governing right-wing Likud party.
"I want to send a message from
here to Ahmadinejad, a message
from the Koran, and that message
is to pursue peace."
Nissim Fadid, an ultra-Orthodox
Jew, also addressed the Iranian
leader.
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peace, but we are not afraid of
anyone that wants to drive the
people of Israel from their land
that God has promised them," he
said.
Dozens of reporters gathered near
the border, where they could see a
gold-domed mosque decked with
flags in the distance on the
Lebanese side.
For some, the presence so close
of Israel's arch-foe was seen as a
unique opportunity not to be
missed.
"Human history would have been
so different if in 1939 a Jewish
soldier could have killed Hitler,"
Arye Eldad, an MP from the ultra-
nationalist National Union party,
said earlier this week.
"If Ahmadinejad is in the IDF's
(Israeli Defence Forces)
crosshairs for even one second...
he can't be allowed to return home
alive," he told the Ynet news
website.
Senior cabinet minister Silvan
Shalom dismissed such talk.
"We don't murder heads of states,
even if those states are totalitarian
states who seek to harm the state
of Israel," he told public radio.
Analysts said it was unlikely
Israel would be intimidated by the
visit.
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not pleasant for Israel," said Eldad
Pardo, an Iran analyst at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
"But there is no panic. They also
see the opposition inside
Lebanon."
Ahmadinejad's visit is seen as a
boost for Iran's Lebanese ally
Hezbollah, which fought a
devastating 34-day war with Israel
in 2006.
Hezbollah fired thousands of
rockets, many allegedly supplied
by Iran, into northern Israel.
During the conflict some 1,200
people in Lebanon, most of them
civilians, and around 160 Israelis,
most of them soldiers, were
killed.
Iran has been a major donor for
the reconstruction of southern
Lebanon following the month-
long war.
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A federal court has granted a prosecution, while they are While the city ordinance seeks to recognized that the plaintiffs must
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Disc-free Netflix streaming comes to PS3

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:40:24 AM
PlayStation 3 owners will soon
be able to stream Netflix without
inserting a disc.
Starting Monday, Netflix Instant
Streaming will appear on the
console's XrossMediaBar, console
maker Sony announced today. In
addition, the PlayStation 3 will be
the first Netflix-capable device to
boast support for 5.1-channel
surround sound on Netflix
content.
Sony said the free Netflix
application must be installed for
the disc-less streaming to kick in.
After that, PS3 owners will find a
new interface that includes search.
The company said that since the
app will run natively on the
console, people will be able to use
the analog stick on their
PlayStation 3 controller to move
the app around. Sony also said
that "dramatic improvements"
have been made on content load
times.
Previously, Microsoft's Xbox 360
was the only console offering
native Netflix streaming. Both the
PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii's
have required a disc to stream
Netflix.
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A team of researchers has
documented what it believes to be
the “oldest” embryo to date that
has resulted in a live birth.
The researchers – all but one
hailing from the Eastern Virginia
Medical School in Norfolk –
revealed the record-breaking
event in an article featured in the
latest issue of Fertility and
Sterility, the official journal of the
Society for Reproductive
Medicine.
According to the team, a 42-year-
old patient received the embryo
via anonymous donation from an
infertile couple that had conceived
by in vitro fertilization back in
1990. The embryo had been
frozen (cryopreserved) and kept in
storage for 19 years and 7 months
before being implanted in the
patient just last year.
In total, five embryos had been
thawed, but only two survived and
were transferred the day after.
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Nine months later, in May 2010,
the woman reportedly gave birth
to a boy weighing 6 lbs. 15 oz.
The other embryo did not survive
to full term.
“A singleton term pregnancy was
achieved with the delivery of a
healthy boy,” the team reported in
its report.
“To our knowledge this case
represents the 'oldest'
cryopreserved human embryos
resulting in a live birth to date,” it
added.
According to reports, the
previous record for the longest
frozen embryo to result in a live
birth was set in 2005 by a San
Francisco woman who was
implanted with an embryo that
had been frozen for 13 years.
Freezing embryos by suspending
them in liquid nitrogen is a
common procedure in fertility
clinics, but the length of time
frozen embryos can be stored
varies from country to country.
Aside from embryos, eggs,
sperm, and ovarian tissue can also
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attempts at becoming pregnant
without repeatedly having to give
samples or create embryos.
Recently, IVF pioneer Robert
Edwards was awarded the Nobel
Prize for Medicine for his work
leading to the first “test tube
baby” in 1978.
While many welcomed the news,
critics voiced their disapproval
because of the number of human
embryos that end up being
discarded or used in scientific
experiments.
“Without Edwards, there would
be no market for human eggs;
without Edwards there would not
be freezers full of embryos
waiting to be transferred to a
uterus, or, more likely, used for
research or left to die, abandoned
and forgotten about by all,”
commented Bishop Ignacio
Carrasco de Paula, president of
the Pontifical Academy for Life.
In the United Kingdom alone,
2,137,924 embryos were created
in British clinics between 1991
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were never used.
Furthermore, just four percent
resulted in live births.
For these and other reasons, the
Catholic Church remains
staunchly opposed to the
procedure. Protestants,
meanwhile, have been more
accepting.
The Christian Medical and
Dental Associations, for example,
declares in its ethical statement
that it approves of IVF in the
context of marriage but only when
done in a morally responsible
manner.
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THE US Department of
Agriculture's unexpected warning
that America’s production of corn
(elsewhere known as maize)
would drop by 4% in 2010 has
sent prices rocketing. They rose
by 8.5% on October 11th, the
biggest one-day rise in 37 years,
and by mid-week corn was
trading at $5.88 a bushel. The fact
that prices for other crops such as
soyabeans and wheat are also
bubbling makes it difficult for
farmers to judge which will be the
most profitable crop to sow for
next season, and that may hamper
an immediate supply response.
The concentration of farming in a
few big countries means that a
hungry world is dependent for its
food on stable production patterns
in a small number of places.
Whether Russian wheat or
American corn, problems in one
country can send shock waves
through global markets.
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Rescued Chile miners recover, face celebrity status

(Reuters: Top News) operation under the South Nonetheless, most of them are in the same small article This feat warrants as many pages
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:45:00 AM American nation's far northern coming along perfectly well," Oct 13, 2010 9:21pm EDT as they want to print!!!
Atacama desert, the miners were Montes said. Families were being They may have thanked God for Oct 14, 2010 8:48am EDT
Chile's President Sebastian Pinera hauled out one-by-one through allowed to visit in shifts. their deliverance, but it was It is the greatest rescue operation
(seated, 4th L) poses with the 33 2,050 feet of rock in a metal Still wearing dark glasses to entirely due to the men who ever seen by the entire world. The
rescued miners inside Copiapo capsule little wider than a man's protect their eyes from glare after coordinated and planned this patience and courage of the
Hospital, where the miners are shoulders. being trapped so long in near fabulous efforts: Chilean Miners is phenomenal. The
undergoing full medical With much of the world darkness, the miners received an government and the specialists President of Chile needs to be
examination October 14, 2010. t r a n s f i x e d b y t h e r e s c u e , invitation from Pinera to visit the who planned and executed this congratulated for being with
The 33 newly rescued miners celebrations erupted in Chile. The presidential palace toward the end fantastic feat. Miners all throughout. I hope all
recovered from their ordeal on miners set a world record for of the month. Would China do that for the of the Miners get well soon to
Thursday while also pondering survival underground and were Pinera, a soccer fan who also miners that annually get trapped have normal life.
the celebrity status they have welcomed as national heroes. plays the game, challenged the in their mines? Oct 14, 2010 10:00am EDT
gained following a more than two It took less than 22 hours from miners to a match against a team Oct 13, 2010 11:15pm EDT Is that hole still open so that
-month entrapment deep under a the time the first miner was made up of his cabinet. It is so wonderful to watch this Pelosi can go back down and get
remote desert. brought to the surface until the "The team that wins will stay in story of multi-national some samples, lmfao!
Credit: Reuters/Jose Manuel de la last one was pulled to freedom La Moneda (presidential palace). cooperation and world-wide *We welcome comments that
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Handout hours later, the last of six rescuers the mine," he joked. executed rescue. For once, a news relevant tangential information.
By Cesar Illiano and Terry Wade who had gone down the shaft to Despite the suffering they went story without hate, death, war or We try to block comments that
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Afghan Peace Council flexible on Taliban talks
terms
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:44:00 AM
By Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL| Thu Oct 14, 2010
12:44pm EDT
KABUL(Reuters) - The chief of
Afghanistan's High Peace Council
said on Thursday he is willing to
be flexible about tough
preconditions laid down by
President Hamid Karzai when he
and colleagues start trying to
mediate with Taliban insurgents.
Burhanuddin Rabbani, picked
this week to lead the council, said
there was growing understanding
in Karzai's government and
among Western nations of the
need to find a political settlement
to a war now in its tenth year.
Karzai, Afghanistan's leader
since the Taliban's ouster in 2001,
has long advocated talking to
insurgents but always said they
must first renounce violence, cut
ties with al Qaeda, and accept the
new Afghan constitution.
Washington has emphasized
similar conditions as its "red
lines" for the talks.
But Karzai said last week the
council has full independence and
authority in its efforts to start talks
with the Taliban, which some
council members see as a sign the
president is willing to endorse a
softening of terms for negotiation.
Rabbani said he would be willing
to compromise if the Taliban and
other militants would come to the
table.
"During the negotiations, it is
possible to show flexibility on
some issues which look
complicated and difficult,"
Rabbini said when asked whether
tough preconditions would
discourage the Taliban from
joining talks.
"Perhaps new issues will arise
during the negotiations to allow
us success."
NATO and Afghan officials have
confirmed preliminary contacts
between Karzai's government and
the Taliban, although a
spokesman for the insurgents has
dismissed reports of negotiations
as propaganda and rejected
Karzai's peace council. They
demand all foreign troops leave
before they will sit down for any
talks.
"Tough stances are part of
negotiations at the beginning
when issues are discussed by two
sides. We should not be
disappointed by such statements,"
said Rabbini, a former Afghan
president.
Rabbani, whose political faction
once fought the Taliban, said the
70-member council is still
drafting its strategy for starting
talks with the Taliban and other
insurgents.
EXPERIENCED NEGOTIATOR
Rabbani is seen as a mature,
skilled politician as well as an
experienced negotiator who may
be able to reach out to adversaries
across the complex network of
Afghan powerbrokers.
Like many of the Taliban,
Rabbani is an Islamic cleric and
held talks with some members of
the movement in recent years,
despite his forces helping
Washington in the Taliban's
ouster.
He was once the leader of a
powerful mujahideen party during
the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan in the 1980s, and
served as president in the 1990s
when mujahideen factions waged
a bloody war for control that
ended with the Taliban's rise to
power.
With the spread of Taliban
attacks, rising casualties, and
sagging support in Western
capitals for the Afghan war,
Karzai in June won approval from
a tribal gathering to form a High
Peace Council to seek a
negotiated end to the conflict.
The insurgency is now at its
bloodiest since 2001, despite the
presence of 150,000 foreign
troops, and there is a growing
sense both at home and among
many of Afghanistan's allies that
talks may be the only route to
peace.
(Editing by Patrick Markey and
Emma Graham-Harrison)
Oct 14, 2010 9:54am EDT
It may be an interesting ending,
while the USA spent billions of
dollars and many lives of
American young men and women
and other countries young people,
to see that America might be left
out of the picture and be told to
leave dragging their tail behind
them with nothing to show for
their effort but death and debt
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Grins and Gets
Fiery During War
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:00:00 PM
Reese Witherspoon looked red
hot in another sexy little dress and
angry once the cameras started
rolling on the set of This Means
War in Vancouver yesterday. Her
character seems to have a sassy
attitude and isn't afraid to show
skin while two hot guys fight it
out for her affection. In real life,
Reese only has romantic designs
on one man, her boyfriend, Jim
Toth, whom she jets home to visit
every weekend. She's also making
the trips back to see her two kids,
of course, including her injured
son, Deacon. Perhaps if she's able
to keep getting from Canada to
California so frequently, she'll be
able to squeeze in a trip to the
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Accused airline bomber waives right to Awesome: Verizon iPad

fast U.S. trial with Mi-Fi Coming
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:30:59 AM October 28th
In September, Abdulmutallab
fired his court-appointed lawyers
and raised the possibility of
The case is USA v
Abdulmutallab, 2:10-cr-20005,
U.S. District Court for the Eastern Marshall Kirkpatrick
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is pleading guilty to some charges. District of Michigan. (ReadWriteWeb)
shown in this booking photograph He was indicted in January on six (Reporting by Ben Klayman and
released by the U.S. Marshals counts, including trying to blow Ruchi Naresh in Detroit; Writing Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:10:19 PM

Service December 28, 2009. up the plane and attempted by Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by
Credit: Reuters/US Marshals murder. What do you get when you
Jerry Norton)
Service/Handout combine the fastest launching
He could face life in prison if *We welcome comments that
DETROIT| Thu Oct 14, 2010 convicted. Edmunds scheduled consumer electronic device of all
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12:30pm EDT time with a choice in data
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Nigerian man accused of trying to Nigeria, boarded a Northwest sharable wifi everywhere you go? Verizon said last week that the
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Abdulmutallab, on Thursday ignite a bomb sewn into his this morning that the iPad will be its offerings. The company has
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Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
else to raise with the court during e f f o r t s b y t h e O b a m a AT&T coverage is something to roll into a place with laptops
Catastrophe.
the pretrial conference, to which administration to strengthen U.S. people have long waited for. and no wifi and say "never fear - I
Abdulmutallab said, "No." Hopefully a Verizon iPad have a magic tablet, with Mi-Fi!"
airline security.
foreshadows a Verizon iPhone, Discuss
but even if that somehow weren't
the case - this iPad news alone is a
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Yahoo shares surge on prospect of

buyout
(Reuters: Top News) about a possible acquisition of steady at $14.18 and AOL shares
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:39:37 AM Yahoo. were up 2.6 percent at $25.77.
In a note to clients, Justin Post, (Reporting by Paul Thomasch,
A Yahoo! billboard is seen in an analyst with Bank of America editing by Matthew Lewis)
N e w Y o r k ' s T i m e ' s S q u a r e Merrill Lynch, said private equity *We welcome comments that
January 25, 2010. interest in Yahoo "makes sense" advance the story directly or with
C r e d i t : R e u t e r s / B r e n d a n considering its current valuation,
McDermid but added that finding a media
NEW YORK| Thu Oct 14, 2010 partner for a deal "could be
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PC vendor in the US
of Yahoo Inc jumped more than 9 experiences with Internet assets." standards. If you see a comment Victor Agreda, Jr. (TUAW) each Mac, likely the best in the
percent on Thursday, fueled by He added that the stock would be that you believe is irrelevant or Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:15:00 AM business, are helping line Apple's
the prospect that the Internet fairly valued around $18 a share inappropriate, you can flag it to coffers as well. While HP still
company could be the target of a and that investors should not our editors by using the report According to IDC, Apple's PC holds a comfy lead at the top, I'd
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source said on Wednesday that very preliminary discussions Catastrophe. Fortune suggested this week that least not while they still have a
several private equity firms have about acquisition scenarios. Apple may ship four million Macs commanding lead in MP3 players
approached media companies While Yahoo's stock jumped on in Q4. That's exuberant growth for and a sizable chunk of the
including News Corp and AOL Thursday, News Corp shares were a platform some called dead a smartphone market.
decade ago. Apple is the third largest PC
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5 GeoLocation Services for the Enterprise
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 1:00:00 PM
Consumer location based services
such as Foursquare and Facebook
Places are hot right now, but how
is location being used in the
enterprise? There are numerous
applications for location-based
technologies in the enterprise -
such as asset tracking, routing and
geo-fencing. Several companies
are working in this space now to
enable businesses to use location
for more than just marketing.
Here are a few that we've found.
Sponsor
LOC-AID
Since 2002, mobile phone
manufacturers in the US have
been required to include GPS
tracking for emergency location in
every phone sold. Until recently,
that information has been
available only to carriers and
emergency services. Customers
who wish to use geolocative
features in their phones have had
to either buy phones with special
GPS features, or install software
that can access cell tower
positioning information.
LOC-AID enables developers to
use carrier location information
for precise geolocation. LOC-AID
has partnerships with AT&T,
Sprint and Verizon to collect
location data from customers on
an opt-in basis. This means that
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developers can create geo-locative
application for any cell phone on
the above carriers, without the
need to install software on the
phones. Once users opt-in, LOC-
AID communicates directly with
carriers to receive location
information and makes it
available to developers, meaning
developers don't need to be able to
communicate directly with the
user's phone. That means users
with any phone on a supported
carrier can sign-up to have their
location tracked without installing
software on the phone itself.
There are several possible
applications, including:
• Asset tracking- Enterprises
could use SIM cards instead of
GPS chips for tracking the
location of equipment.
• Security- LOC-AID is
promoting the technology for law
enforcement to verify the location
of parolees who are required to
call in. In most cases, there is
voice recognition software in
place to verify the parolee is who
he or she claims to be, but
location verification has been
done with LoJack technology.
• Geofencing- Alerts can be sent
when a particular phone or SIM
card moves into or outside of a
designated area. This could be
useful for asset tracking, routing,
navigation, etc.
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miners and the heroic team that
saved them!
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Car
medical staff to locate medical
equipment within the hospital in
real-time and save time trying to
Maintenance
track objects down.
Ekahau is particularly interesting
Videos
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LoKast Maintenance Videos Playlist |
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application that allows you to Route4Me, a web and mobile app
in this playlist. There are 14
share files or links with other t h a t a t t e m p t s t o s o l v e t h e videos tagged "Car Maintenance"
users within a certain proximity of Travelling Salesmen Problem, just
most recommended videos
you. It's essentially an ad-hoc geo- released an enterprise edition. The • Fermentation
fencing application for Android free version allows users to plan
optimal routes with up to ten • Cruise Ships
and iOS. • Conspiracy Test
Although most of its use-cases stops. The enterprise edition
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a d v a n t a g e o f L O C - A I D ' s enterprise support for its full stack
technology. Ekahau of geospatial tools. It's also
Ekahau is Wi-Fi based location available in a fully hosted SaaS.
s y s t e m f o r p e o p l e , a s s e t s , OpenGeo is the geospatial project
inventory and other objects. For of OpenPlans and employees
example, Clarian Health recently many contributors to projects such
announced it will deploy Ekahau's as PostGIS, GeoServer and
real-time location service in its OpenLayers. Discuss
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Empire State Building refaced for savings

(CNET News.com) windows into super-insulating "The window retrofit is a key
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:32:18 AM windows. The team did this on milestone in the Empire State
site by separating out each Building project, already proving
The Empire State Building in window's components, then that buildings can be retrofitted
conjunction with the Clinton rebuilding them with the original efficiently and economically
Climate Initiative is hoping to panes of glass but including while providing rapid payback,"
lead the world in commercial special gas fill, new spacers, and a Malkin said.
energy retrofits b y layer of coated film suspended Commercial building retrofits
example.(Credit: Empire State between the two original glass could actually make a huge
Building Company) panes. difference in the United State's
One of the tallest buildings in the The removal and replacement energy consumption. A report
world, New York's iconic Empire work was done at night so as not released in July 2010 by Pike
State Building, hopes to once to disturb the building's workday Research calculated that if all U.S.
again lead the world by example. occupants or tourists, and took commercial buildings in existence
It was announced today that the about seven months to complete. as of 2010 were to be retrofitted
window phase of the iconic The window change will reduce for energy efficiency, the result
skyscraper's sweeping energy the solar heat gain of the building would be a savings of$41.1 billion
retrofit has been completed. by more than 50 percent and save a year in energy bills.
Does this mean the beloved Art an estimated $400,000 annually in This entry passed through the
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A workshop set up by Serious overseen by Johnson Controls, is LaSalle, and the Rocky Mountain in energy costs.
Materials, a tech company that just part of the Empire State Institute. Anthony E. Malkin, owner of the
develops sustainable green Building's energy retrofit The building has already been Empire State Building Company,
b u i l d i n g m a t e r i a l s , w a s renovation that was announced in awarded an Energy Star rating of said in a statement that he hopes
established on a floor within the April 2009 by New York Mayor 90 out of 100 for commercial the skyscraper will set an example
Empire State Building itself to Michael Bloomberg and President buildings. When the entire project for commercial buildings around
turn the existing dual-pane Bill Clinton. The project is a is completed, the Empire State the world.

Assign Best-By-Dates to Your Delegated Tasks [Delegation]

Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Poor communication is the to your tasks, coupled with an decrease time spent managing
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ViewSonic V3D241wm-LED LCD display offers AMD 3D for

£330
Chris Davies (SlashGear) James Coulson, European
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:57:09 AM marketing manager, ViewSonic.
“The V3D241wm-LED combines
ViewSonic has outed its latest 3D ViewSonic’s display pedigree
display, the V3D241wm-LED, a with advanced features like HD
24-inch LED-backlit monitor that and 3D, providing an immersive
comes with AMD certification viewing experience, but able to
and a pair of wired active shutter perform as a quality 2D monitor
glasses. Running at 1920 x 1080 when required.”
Full HD resolution, with a 5ms The V3D241wm-LED features
response time and 1,000:1 two SRS two watt speakers,
contrast ratio, the ViewSonic providing superior audio quality
V3D241wm-LED works with while also allowing users to
AMD’s 3D-capable Radeon maximise desktop space. The
GPUs. monitor has also been certified for
Connections include HDMI, DVI use with Windows 7, providing
and D-Sub, along with audio in/ true Plug and Play compatibility.
out, and there’s a USB port for In addition, the unit incorporates
hooking up the glasses. A LED technology with an Eco-
standard VESA mount on the mode options, which can reduce
back makes wall-mounting easier, power consumption by up to 50
and of course the display works in monitor has been certified by advantage of the monitor’s 120Hz corporate vice president, Sales, per cent over conventional
regular 2D mode as well as 3D. AMD for use with its Radeon™ frame rate and ultra-fast 2ms EMEA at AMD. “The ViewSonic displays.
The V3D241wm-LED is on sale range of graphics cards, ensuring r e s p o n s e t i m e . T h e u l t r a - V3D241wm-LED is an ideal For details on the new range of
now, priced at £330 ($529). maximum compatibility and ease responsive LED screen has a match for AMD Radeon graphics V i e w S o n i c L E D m o n i t o r s
Press Release: of use. The monitor includes a set brightness level of 300 nits and a cards, as it will enable one of the projectors please visit http://
ViewSonic brings 3D gaming to of wired active shutter glasses, contrast ratio of 20,000,000:1, most compelling stereo 3D www.viewsoniceurope.com/uk/.
the desktop with its 24” AMD- allowing users with a compatible providing a high level of detail experiences currently available.” Pricing and availability
certified LED monitor with computer to get started right out and colour reproduction. “With the quality of graphics in The V3D241wm-LED is
glasses of the box. “ViewSonic have been a great today’s films and computer games available immediately from all
14 October 2010 – ViewSonic Using the included 3D glasses, company to work with, and it is constantly on the rise, users are approved resellers for a SRP of
has launched its first 24” 3D-LED the V3D241wm-LED can display clear that they are dedicated to demanding display technology £330 including VAT.
monitor, the V3D241wm-LED, 3D games and movies without producing fantastic display that can do justice to this content
giving people the opportunity to any loss of quality by taking technology,” says Darren Grasby, at a reasonable price,” explains
watch 3D content in full HD. The

The Best Cooking and Recipe Apps for iPhone [Ios]

Adam Dachis (Lifehacker) Cooking with your iPhone is a lot turning your iPhone into a pocket
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:00:00 AM tastier when you have the right sous chef. More »
recipes and culinary techniques. Here's our list of the best apps for
26 Technology/ Culture/
Teens Still Love Texting, But Mobile App Use is Growing
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:22:12 PM
New data from Nielsen out today
delves into the behavior of the
youngest mobile consumers: the
American teenager. The study
further solidifies what we've
known for some time - teens are
heavy-duty users of text
messaging services. No other
demographic group texts as much
as teens do, with an average of
3,339 texts sent and received per
month. (For girls, it's even higher
- 4,050 texts per month!)
But the study also revealed that
teens are now turning to mobile
applications, too, with 38% of
teens using downloadable apps
like those from Facebook,
Pandora and YouTube. And usage
in this area is growing, says
Nielsen.
Sponsor
Texting Still Popular, Usage
Increasing
Not surprisingly, Nielsen found
teens text a lot. Any parent who
doesn't have their child on an
unlimited texting plan is just
setting themselves for failure, it
Coco Rocha at Home
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 7:39:25 PM
I couldn't find the new November
issue of Vogue on the newsstands
today but I was able to console
myself with their new online
feature, APT with LSD. The
seems. According to Nielsen's
data, teens send out more than 6
messages per every hour they're
awake, an 8% increase since just
last year.
While females still text more than
males (4,050 compared to 2,539
texts, females vs. males), the teen
boys (ages 13-17) are still
outpacing the other male age
groups studied. Young adults
(ages 18-24) are in second place
magazine's chicest contributing
editor, Lauren Santo Domingo,
will take readers into the homes of
"some of Vogue's favorite people"
including fashion designers,
models, stylists, artists,
celebrities, and more. Up first is
the Gramercy Park apartment of husband, James Conran. She says
model Coco Rocha and her artist
E-reader News Edition
these data-ready phones comes
increased data usage. In this
young demographic group, 94%
of teens saying they're using
Internet, messaging, multimedia,
gaming and/or apps on their
phones.
In fact, this group has seen the
largest jump, year-over-year, in
data usage, going from 14 MB in
Q2 2009 to 62 MB in Q2 2010, a
fourfold increase. Males are
consuming more data than
females with 75 MB used vs. 53
MB for females.
Application usage among teens is
up, too, going from 26% last year
to 38% this year. The mobile Web
is used more than apps, however,
with 49% reporting they surf the
overall with 1,630 texts per also led to decreased voice usage. net on their phones.
month. Voice activity is down 14% from A note on methodology: Nielsen
Texting is also now the number last year. According to teens, surveyed 3,000 teens for this
one reason why teens say they get texting is easier (22%) and faster report and combined their answers
a phone, with 43% reporting this (20%) than making a phone call. with data from monthly phone
as their primary reason for mobile Data and Apps Usage Up Too bills of over 60,000 mobile
adoption. Safety, the number one With the ever-lowering prices of customers, a large enough sample
reason back in 2008, has now smartphones and more affordable to point to these behaviors and
fallen to second place with only data options, it seems that increases as definite trends.
35% citing this as the top reason. smartphones and "smarter" feature Discuss
The growth in texting as a phones are making their way into
communication mechanism has the hands of more teens. And with
she had help from an interior own apartment will be featured
designer but doesn't mention their but was told that it hasn't been
name. It looks more collected decided yet. I heard she had help
rather than decorated anyway due from Jacques Grange and I can
to all the treasures that Coco has only image that it is as chic and
picked up during her world travels stylish as her wardrobe!
for work. This was a fun debut Photos by Claiborne Swanson
and I can't wait to see who's up Frank for Vogue.com
next. I already asked if Lauren's
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Trainyard's tale on the App Store
Matt Tinsley (TUAW)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:00:00 AM
About four days ago, I was sitting
in a waiting room about to board a
train. Bored, and a little restless, I
pulled out my iPhone 3G to take a
look at the App Store and see if
there was anything new that I
could download to kill some time.
Recently, I'd almost given up on
visiting the App Store. With the
frustrating performance of my 3G,
downloading apps and using them
had become more of an endured
task than a pleasure. But, on this
particular day, I went straight to
the UK free download charts
hoping for a gem. My eyes
immediately scouted the star
ratings, and I was quickly drawn
to an app that I'd never seen
before called Trainyard Express.
I think, at the time, the app had a
four star rating, well above some
of its contemporaries that were
similarly placed on the chart.
Skipping over the blurb and
taking a quick look at the pictures,
I thought, this could be a game I
actually might enjoy. I like
puzzles, and I like trains. So,
since I was about to get on one, I
Wild World: Deja Vu Quiz
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:00:56 AM
If you've ever walked into a new
friend's home and felt that you'd
been there before, then you've
experienced déjà vu. If you've
downloaded the app.
To say the least, I was truly
surprised at what a fantastic game
I had found. I was totally
engrossed for the duration of my
journey, not to mention repeatedly
returning to the game in the
coming days. I enjoyed it so much
that I got my wife to download it,
too.
Why was I so pleased with the
ever walked into a new friend's
home and felt that you'd been
there before, then you've
experienced déjà vu. If you've
ever ... OK, that's enough. Is it
reincarnation? Is something
wrong with the brain? What's
game? Two major things struck
me. The first being that I was
bowled over by how good the
game actually is. To me, it's
engrossing, looks great, and is a
pleasure to play. And secondly, I
was delighted to have downloaded
a game for free that has so much
to offer. That is such a rarity these
days that it only reinforced my
positive perception of the game.
behind this eerie feeling?
Technology/ Culture/ 27
On Tuesday, Matt from Struct.ca,
the developer of the game, posted
the story(so far) of Trainyard.
Matt explains the journey he went
through in developing the game as
well as the highs and lows of
getting Trainyard discovered on
the App Store. Since I enjoyed
discovering the game for myself
Balabolka Enhances
so much, it's particularly Windows Text-to-Speech
interesting to read Matt's story of with Reading Styles and
Trainyard being discovered. Audio Export
So, grab a cup of coffee and take
five to read the blog post here.
[Downloads]
Then, go and try the free version Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
of Trainyard Express for yourself. Submitted at 10/14/2010 8:30:00 AM
If you like that, go and download
the paid version at just £0.59 - I Windows: Balabolka is a free
just did. application that supercharges text-
You can catch a demo video after to-speech in Windows. You can
the break. alter voices, pitch, cadence, and
Continue reading Trainyard's tale speed, import popular text formats
on the App Store and export the generated audio to
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Death Threats, Theft & Twitter: 24
Hours On the Beat
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:16:59 PM
The Greater Manchester police
force, one of the largest in the
U.K., is about half way through
an experiment in which the force
is publishing everything they do
for 24 hours on Twitter.
The force, facing "unprecedented
budget cuts", intends "to allow the
public to see what officers at one
of the largest UK forces face on a
daily basis" with the tweets but
apparently the force faces so
much that it goes well beyond
what Twitter allows.
Sponsor
The experiment started at 5 AM
GMT and it looks like they
quickly began running into rate
limit problems. Twitter tries to
stop users from overloading the
service by limiting the rate at
which they tweet. The@gmpolice
account has attempted to avoid
this issue by using three
accounts,@gmp24_1,@gmp24_2
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Two police staff from the force's
public relations department are
responsible for the tweets, which
are cataloging in near real-time all
999 emergency-line and
switchboard calls. So far, the
number of calls have been
overwhelming it seems, and the
staff have to continually switch
from one account to another to "
avoid Twitjail", or having the
account temporarily shut down
due to these rate limits. Rate
Limits and Innovation
Twitter's " rate limit" limits the
number of times a third-party
application can make requests via
the API in a given time period.
Tweets, however, are not
specifically rate limited, but
limited nonetheless. As
ReadWriteWeb's own Web guru,
Jared Smith, puts it, "It's likely
they are hitting the semi-hourly
tweet limit, which is fuzzy and
vaguely documented."
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for iPad
When rumor hit last year that Brett Terpstra (TUAW)
Twitter would be increasing the Submitted at 10/14/2010 1:00:00 PM
rate limit ten-fold, Marshall
Kirkpatrick argued that "current Edito is a new Markdown text
API limits are a constraint on how editor for iPad. It's a simple app
much analysis you can perform, that does one thing well, and that's
bake-down and present to your edit Markdown (a plain text
users". With all of the emphasis markup language with a simple
we put on the real-time Web, it syntax, which can render text to
feels like something is wrong if an myriad formats including HTML,
experiment as simple sounding as LaTeX, and PDF). It adds a few
this one needs multiple work- features to the mix:
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walls. This is it, right here - this is keyboard for Markdown syntax,
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the innumerable gems, but also • The ability to mail the plain text applications. Personally, I have a
gather all related tweets into one or HTML rendering of your wishlist.
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Discuss • A variety of CSS styles for Markdown editor for iPad
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Microsoft: Over 2 million U.S. PCs GE Acquires Smart Grid,

caught in botnets Specialty Software
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:36:44 AM
12.4 out of every 1,000 machines.
Altogether, Microsoft's
antimalware software found and
world in 2009 and 2010 and
resulted in the arrest of three men
in Spain.
Designers, Opal Software
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
More than 2 million PCs in the removed bots from 6.5 million Just this week, Microsoft
U.S., or 5.2 out of every 1,000, computers around the world in the launched a record number of Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:49:39 AM

were recruited into botnets during second quarter, twice as many as patches to fix 49 different security
the second quarter of 2010, for the same period in 2009, General Electric (GE) — one of
holes, including one used by the
according to a Microsoft report according to the report. the world’s largest, corporate
Stuxnet worm. formalizes an already strong
released yesterday. cleantech investors and acquirers
Botnets are networks of To better protect PCs from relationship. We are proud to be a
The company's ninth and latest unsuspecting computers, dubbed of cleantech companies — today
malware, Microsoft advises part of GE Energy.” The Australia
Security Intelligence Report zombies, that have been infected announced its acquisition of Opal
individuals and businesses to -based Opal Software team is
tracked the spread of botnets and by malicious software, or bots. Software, which designs software
make sure to update their PCs expected to improve GE’s Digital
malware infections detected and Cybercriminals control and use and provides engineering services
with the latest patches, download Energy business in the Asia-
removed throughout the world those computers through the bots that help electricity, gas and water
the latest antivirus definitions, and Pacific region by providing
during the first and second to launch spam, viruses, and utilities run their operations and
use strong and secure passwords. increased local workforce and
quarters of the year. The sheer phishing attacks against other PCs networks faster, and more
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The Cast of Chuck and Glee, David Arquette, Lenny Kravitz and
More in This Week's Fun and Funny Celebrity Twitter Photos!
PopSugar (PopSugar) sharing their pics on Twitter. to Paris and Chris Colfer spent e x c l u s i v e p h o t o s ! View
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:15:00 AM Before causing controversy on time with the Glee Cheerios. S l i d e s h o w ›
Howard Stern David Arquette Click through to see all the shots,
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For Eventbrite, Each Facebook Share

Is Worth $2.52
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) Eventbrite, or whether all
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:53:52 AM commerce sites can benefit from
social sharing. Companies should
How much is a shared link on start tracking revenue per social
Facebook worth? For online share and see where the money is
ticketing service Eventbrite, each coming from. My gut instinct is
time someone shares a link to a that Facebook will be more
paid event with their Facebook Facebook has an edge because it valuable for products which get a
friends it results in $2.52 worth of broadcasts to all your friends. On bigger boost when your real
ticket sales. In contrast, a Twitter average, each shared link on friends are using them, and
share is only worth $0.43, and a Facebook results in 11 new visits Twitter will compare better for
LinkedIn share is worth $0.90. to Eventbrite, compared to 7 visits other more general types of
S h a r i n g a n e v e n t t h r o u g h per share across all channels. products where people are just
Eventbrite’s email sharing tool is As CEO Kevin Hartz told me a l o o k i n g f o r a t r u s t e d
worth $2.34, almost as much as couple weeks ago when he recommendation based on topic
Facebook. On average, across all raised$20 million, Facebook now knowledge. Twitter might also
social channels, each share is sends more traffic to Eventbrite result in better clickthrough rates
Nokia N8 review
Vlad Savov (Engadget) key question today, as it was at
worth an average of $1.78 for than any other source, including for pure media sharing (i.e.,
Eventbrite. Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:00:00 PM the beginning, relates to that all-
Google. It is no wonder that advertising versus commerce). new software within: does
Events are inherently social, and Eventbrite is making a big push What’s your revenue per share?
The first time Nokia's N8-00 Symbian^3 succeed in elevating
if you know your friends are into social discovery, adding more Send me an email or share in
popped up on our radar was way Nokia's touchscreen experience or
going to go to an event you are Facebook hooks into its service. c o m m e n t s . C r u n c h B a s e
back in early February of this does it drag down an otherwise
m o r e l i k e l y t o g o a s w e l l . The more it can get people to Information Eventbrite Facebook
year. On that chilly, misty stellar combination of high-end
Facebook and email most closely share events, the more tickets it Twitter Information provided by
morning, we learned of a mythical parts? For that verdict and much,
match your real friends, so it sells. CrunchBase being capable of shooting 12 much more, join us after the
makes sense that those shares are The big question is whether this
megapixel stills, recording 720p break.
worth more in this context. But phenomenon is particular to
video, outputting via HDMI, and - Gallery: Nokia N8 first unboxing
- most importantly -- ushering in Gallery: Nokia N8 hardware
Joy and Whoopi Walk Off 'The View' the promised Symbian^3 touch
revolution. It's been a long road of
Continue reading Nokia N8
review
After Comment by Bill O'Reilly leaks, teasers, hands-ons, and
previews since then, but at long
last, the legend of the N8 has
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Opera 11 To Come With

Extensions: Calls For An
Interview And A Demo (TCTV)
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:21:01 AM

So browser extensions are finally

making their way to Opera’s
desktop browser product.
The next release thereof, Opera
11, will boast the welcome new
feature, although there’s no telling
when even the alpha version of
the browser will hit the Web
exactly (the word is “very soon”).
I caught up with Arnstein
Teigene, who is product manager
for desktop browser add-ons at support in its mobile browser
Opera, to ask him about the products in the future, as it is
forthcoming feature and what it apparently and oft-requested

Gran Turismo 5 Delay Due to Last- means for the company and the
Web as a whole.
One of the things I asked was
feature, but it doesn’t sound like
that’s coming anytime soon.
I also got a brief demo of Opera
Minute Executive Decision why it took Opera so damn long
to gain said extensions feature,
11 alpha in action, showing
functional third-party extensions
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) is “not happy.” And, as we reported yesterday, which I believe has been a from reddit, StumbleUpon and
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:14:07 PM According to Imasaki, the the Sony and Polyphony Digital fundamental part of modern Web Wikipedia. Check it out:
decision to delay the title even are now aiming for a holiday browsers for years now. CrunchBase Information Opera
After news broke yesterday that further was a last-minute decision season release of the title, As you can tell from the Information provided by
the prodigal racing simulator, made by the executive team, hopefully putting it on retail interview, the company’s also CrunchBase
Gran Turismo 5 would be delayed which includes the creator of shelves before the first of the new considering shipping extensions
yet again, the general consensus G r a n T u r i s m o , K a z o n u r i year. However, it looks like even
from fans was displeasure. Even Yamauchi, for the game. The that is still up in the air. Imasaki Online Features - October 2010
t h e m o s t d i e - h a r d o f G T developer of the title, Polyphony points out that Sony is now (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) on someone else's site, please read
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of the title, and added that Sony blue. Imasaki added that, “We’re idea when the game will release.
Computer Entertainment America not happy over here.” [ via CVG]
32 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Focus Design's SBU self-balancing unicycle hits 2.0:

faster, stronger, sleeker, zanier
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:15:00 AM
And here you were thinking
Focus Design had thrown in the
towel after producing just one self
-balancing unicycle. Silly you,
huh? Nearly two years to the day
after the aforesaid company
cranked out the goofiest
transporter since the Segway,
along comes the SBU v2.0 to
rekindle our hope in humanity.
According to the outfit, this
newfangled edition is sleeker,
safer and more powerful, and
better still, it should be "much
easier to learn." Focus is also
tossing out a somewhat
ambiguous guarantee, noting that
it'll most certainly be "an instant
month, with just $1,499 and a
willingness to try something your
mother wouldn't recommend
standing between you and... well,
something that your mother would
never recommend. Vid's after the
break. Nokia: N900
Continue reading Focus Design's
SBU self-balancing unicycle hits
MeeGo dual-boot
2.0: faster, stronger, sleeker, isn’t for consumers
zanier Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Focus Design's SBU self-
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:28:32 AM
balancing unicycle hits 2.0: faster,
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DC Fast Charger joins the ECOtality EV charging station fleet,

looks like a fuel pump
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:49:00 AM
You can't help but smile, can
you? ECOtality's latest entrant
into the rapidly expanding Blink
line of EV chargers looks awfully
familiar to avid motorists, and for
good reason. Designed to mimic a
conventional petrol pump, the DC
Fast Charger should blend right in
when installed in Best Buy
parking lots, gas stations and
beyond, with the company aiming
to get these positioned in a wide
variety of locations in order to
ease "range anxiety." We're also
told that motorists will eventually
be able to utilize the Blink
Network Smartphone Application
in order to locate the nearest
charging station and receive GPS
directions, and an RFID-enabled
payment system makes it easy to
drain your wallet, rejuvenate your
vehicle and get you back on the
open road. There's even a 42-inch
LCD on the top, and while it's
primarily engineered for ads and
information, we're sure a few wire
swaps would have your Xbox 360
displayed in no time flat. The DC
Fast Charger should be hitting 16
major American cities in the near
future, and there's a video after
the break to tide you over.
Continue reading DC Fast
Charger joins the ECOtality EV
charging station fleet, looks like a
fuel pump
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them and their open-source

smartphone in the cold. Now,
however, the official word from
Nokia has come through to The
Nokia Blog that consumers still
won’t be offered a dual-boot
option: it’s only intended for
developers to use.
“The Nokia N900 is used as
development hardware for
platform developers working with
MeeGo on ARM hardware
architecture. While the software
from the MeeGo project runs on
the Nokia N900 for development
purposes, Nokia does not intend
to provide a dual-boot OS option
to consumers in upcoming N900
commercial software releases as
we want to ensure that we provide
the best possible experience
designed for that device. The
meego.com blog post was
primarily targeted to the audience
reading the blog: MeeGo
developers.” Nokia statement
The news echoes official
BlackBerry Storm 3 not dead after all? Three models statements back in May which
amounted to much the same thing:
that there will be no commercial
tipped; PlayBook 2 in 2H 2011? MeeGo roll-out for the N900 in
the interests of maintaining the
Chris Davies (SlashGear) three BlackBerry Storm 3 devices, QNX is the same OS as is set to believe that RIM intend to bolster best, most stable experience on
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:34:34 AM a haptic touch model that has run on the RIM PlayBook tablet. the BlackBerry App World with Maemo. Disappointing, yes, but
indeed been cancelled, a non- Jefferies & Co. suggest the QNX titles, with the plan “to port we don’t doubt there’ll be plenty
Talk of the BlackBerry Storm 3s haptic version “with similar iPhone-like Storm 3 will drop a large portion of the Android of people going the developer
cancellation may have been thickness, more memory, and sometime in the first half of 2011, App Market onto QNX or to route with their N900 and loading
premature, according to analysts [BlackBerry 6]” which is still on while they also tip a second-gen virtualize it.” A RIM whatever ROMs are out there.
Jefferies & Co., who blame course for a release by the end of PlayBook 2 – with two screen spokesperson declined to
multiple SKUs of the third- November, and then a Storm 3 sizes and in 3G and 4G forms – comment.
g e n e r a t i o n t o u c h s c r e e n with a “new iPhone-like form due for release in the second half [ via IntoMobile]
smartphone for the confusion. factor, but slimmer,” that could of the year.
They claim RIM was working on run QNX. Meanwhile, the analysts also
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Submitted at 10/13/2010 6:00:00 PM Democratic seats that are rated as wins. Subtract the seven seats
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Fifty years ago this past October,
Vasily Grossman submitted for
publication the greatest Russian
novel of the 20th century. The
KGB immediately destroyed all
copies of what Grossman called
Life and Fate( Zhizn' i sud'ba in
Russian) except for two hidden by
his friends, and he died in 1964
without ever seeing his work
published. For more than a quarter
-century, the book was
unavailable in Russia. Finally, in
1988, it was embraced by the
cultural revolutionaries of
glasnost as they slashed and
burned their way through the
official narrative of Soviet
history, encrusted with 70 years of
lies. In their search for a usable
past, something not to be rejected
in disgust, not to shudder over,
but to cherish and be inspired by,
they were awed by the brave and
nearly lost attempts of their
fathers and mothers to imagine a
just and moral political order.
This being Russia, literature was
the first and the main resource of
the glasnost warriors. They
trafficked in great books, some
that had waited decades to be
read: Andrei Platonov's
Chevengur and The Foundation
Pit, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The
Gulag Archipelago, Anna
Akhmatova's Requiem. Yet even
in such august company,
Grossman's Life and Fate,
serialized in the popular literary
magazine Oktyabr, was instantly
recognized for its brilliance.
The commentary included with
the book's first complete Russian
edition in 1989 was titled "The
Spirit of Freedom" (" Dukh
svobody"). This was a remarkable
insight. For Life and Fate
continues to overwhelm and
wound through its characters'
heroic insistence on their freedom
to exercise moral choice, even in
the hells of Stalingrad, Treblinka,
and the Gulag, and among the
daily perils and humiliations of
life under Stalinism. Most of all,
the book is matchless in the
artistic power of its affirmation of
freedom as the essence of our
humanity--freedom that today, in
a Russia run by reincarnated KGB
officers, seems far more elusive
than when the book was first
rediscovered.
Consciously Tolstoy-like in its
sweep, Life and Fate was also
inspired by that great Russian
observer of everyday life and
"ordinary people," Anton
Chekhov, who was Grossman's
favorite writer.
Grossman lived the freedom of
which he wrote. One is
immediately struck by a complete
absence of internal censorship in
Life and Fate, written by an
author in the Soviet Union in the
1950s, some of it when Joseph
Stalin was still alive. What one
Soviet critic called a
"concentration of truth,
fearlessness, and inner freedom"
was likely without parallel in
Soviet Russian literature at the
time. In a still totalitarian Soviet
Union barely thawed from the
paralysis of Stalinist terror,
Grossman's book, as another
glasnost-era commentator put it,
was "the novel of a free man."
Grossman, who had been one of
Russia's most popular World War
II front-line reporters, as well as
the author of a fine war novel to
which Life and Fate is a sequel,
continued to behave like a free
man even after a member of the
magazine Znamya's editorial
board told him that his "harmful,"
"hostile" work would not be
published in less than 250 years.
So terrified were Znamya's editors
that they forwarded the
manuscript, post-haste, to the
authorities. The KGB searched
Grossman's apartment and took all
copies of the novel, along with
every page of the drafts and every
used sheet of carbon paper. None
of the seized materials would ever
be seen again. The 1988 magazine
publication was based on the only
two surviving texts: a final copy
and a draft, each kept hidden by a
different friend.
Grossman protested to Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev, and
that letter, too, was unprecedented
in its tone of address. "The current
situation is senseless," Grossman
wrote. "I am physically free, but
the book to which I have
dedicated my life is in jail--but it
is I who wrote it, and I have not
repudiated and am not repudiating
it.… I continue to believe that I
have written the truth and that I
wrote it loving, empathizing with,
and believing in the people. I ask
for freedom for my book."
In 1962 Grossman was granted
an interview with the Soviet
Union's final authority on such
matters, chief party ideologist
Mikhail Suslov. Suslov upheld
Znamya's verdict. Grossman
never recanted. He died in poverty
and obscurity two years later, on
Sept. 14, 1964. A few of his
stories were published in
newspapers and magazines over
the following three years, but after
1967, when the last vestiges of
Khrushchev's "thaw" were
completely extinguished by the
reigning Brezhnevism, even his
name was forbidden from being
mentioned in print, and it
remained so for the next 20 years.
In one of the first reviews that
followed the 1988 Oktyabr
publication, leading Soviet
literary critic Vladimir Lakshin
compared reading Life and Fate to
standing in a dense crowd inside
an immense, airy temple, listening
to the echoes of hundreds of
conversations. Twenty years later,
Harvard University's Stephen
Greenblatt would call the book a
"stupendous twentieth-century
heir" to War and Peace. Indeed,
the novel is teeming with at least
two dozen main characters and
scores of secondary ones.
Although centered on the Battle
of Stalingrad between fall 1942
and winter 1943, which Grossman
covered as a reporter for the main
military newspaper, Red Star, the
narrative spans almost the entire
Eurasian continent, from the
prisoner-of-war camps in Poland
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and Germany to the Gulag camps
in eastern Siberia, from Moscow
in the north to the ghettos and the
ravines with the remains of the
Ukrainian Jews in the south, from
the soldiers in the trenches to
Hitler's "field headquarters"
somewhere "on the border of East
Prussia and Lithuania" and Stalin
in the Kremlin. (In the chilling
Stalin pages, Grossman has the
desperate "Supreme Commander"
imagine that the Red Army's
catastrophic defeats in 1941 and
1942 were retribution for all those
he had killed or starved to death,
and then exult in the Stalingrad
triumph as his ultimate and
eternal vindication.)
Consciously Tolstoy-like in its
sweep, Life and Fate was also
inspired by that great Russian
observer of everyday life and
"ordinary people," Anton
Chekhov, who was Grossman's
favorite writer. In a passionate
soliloquy delivered by one of his
characters, Grossman extols
Chekhov as the "first democrat"
among Russian writers for his
"millions of characters" and his
attention to each of them. They
were unique human beings (
lyudi) to Chekhov, Grossman
continues, every one of them:
lyudi first--and only then "priests,
Russians, shopkeepers, Tatars,
workers." Chekhov was the
"standard-bearer … of a real
Russian democracy, Russian
freedom, and Russian human
dignity." To recover and maintain
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this Chekhovian freedom, "to be
different, unique, to live, feel, and
think in one's own, separate way,"
was the sole objective of and
justification for "human
associations," Grossman writes in
Life and Fate. Sometimes, he
continues, instead of a means for
strengthening a human
community, "race, party, and
state" become the end. " Nyet,
nyet, nyet! The sole, true, and
eternal objective of the struggle
for life is a human being, his
humble particularity, his right to
this particularity."
There was no doctrine, Grossman
believed, to which this freedom
and dignity could be sacrificed:
"I saw the unflinching force of the
idea of public good, born in my
country. I saw it first in the
universal collectivization. I saw it
in [the Great Purge of] 1937. I
saw how, in the name of an ideal
as beautiful and humane as that of
Christianity, people were
annihilated. I have seen villages
dying of starvation; I have seen
peasant children dying in Siberian
snow; I have seen trains carrying
to Siberia hundreds and thousands
of men and women from Moscow
and Leningrad, from all the cities
of Russia--men and women
declared enemies of the great and
bright idea of public good. This
idea was beautiful and great, and
it has mercilessly killed some,
disfigured the lives of others; it
has torn wives from husbands and
children from fathers."
It was in the ruthless casualness
with which individual freedom
was sacrificed to the state's
ideology that Grossman found the
key parallel between Stalin's
Soviet Union and Hitler's
Germany, which he juxtaposes
throughout the book. Even at the
height of Khrushchev's thaw, a
Russian commentator recalled a
quarter-century later, this
comparison was "beyond the
pale," "mortally dangerous," and,
to the censors, among the most
terrifying of the novel's many
heresies. (Grossman was also
almost certainly the first Soviet
writer to apply the adjective
"totalitarian" to Stalin's Soviet
Union--in a manuscript submitted
for publication in the Soviet
Union!) For Grossman, the
betrayal of the nascent Russian
freedom in 1917 by the Bolshevik
Revolution was Soviet Russia's
original and inexpiable sin. Dying
in a Gulag camp somewhere
above the Arctic Circle, an Old
Bolshevik confesses to a comrade
and a fellow prisoner: "I don't
want to say it; it is like a torture to
say it.… But this is my last
revolutionary duty, and I will do
it.… We have made a mistake.…
We did not understand liberty. We
crushed it.… Without liberty,
there is no proletarian revolution."
Yet to Grossman the spirit of
freedom was inextinguishable. A
Red Star correspondent from the
first to the last day of the
Stalingrad battle, Grossman
witnessed the "miracle of
Stalingrad" during which the Red
Army, its regiments sometimes
reduced to "dozens of soldiers,"
its positions incessantly bombed
and shelled, beat back Nazi troops
and tanks. "Stalingrad had a soul,"
Grossman concludes. "Its soul
was freedom."
For many, perhaps most, Soviet
soldiers, from whom Grossman
drew his characters, the freedom
for which they fought and died
was not freedom only from Nazi
slavery, but also from Stalinism.
Major Yershov, whose entire
family was exiled and died
somewhere in the northern
swamps, fights "for a free Russian
life." For Yershov, Grossman
wrote, the victory over Hitler
would be also the "victory over
those camps where his mother,
sisters, and father perished."
Away from the battlefields, the
spirit of freedom moved men and
women to brave informers
seemingly behind every wall and
around every corner, to defy the
executioners of SMERSH (the
"Death to the Spies"
counterintelligence service), to
risk arrest and the torments of the
Gulag for a word of truth, thrown
in the face of the "fear that
prevented humans from being
human." Grossman writes, "What
a horrible price people paid for a
few brave words uttered without
looking over one's shoulder." And
yet, here's one of the book's
characters, one Madyarov,
dreaming recklessly in front of
several friends:
Ah, dear comrades, can you
imagine what this is, freedom of
the press? When instead of the
letters of laborers to the great
Stalin, or the information about
the workers of the United States
entering a new year in an
atmosphere of despondence and
poverty--when instead of all of
this, you know what you find?
Information! Can you imagine
such a newspaper? A newspaper
that brings information?
"Swept up in this crazily unusual
talk," all in the room know what
they risk by not denouncing their
friend immediately, that very
night. "Oh, what the hell," thinks
the main character of Life and
Fate, the brilliant nuclear
physicist Viktor Shtrum, as he
walks home. "At least we have
spoken like human beings,
without fear, without hypocrisy."
"It seems to me that life could be
defined as freedom," Shtrum's
mentor, Academician Chepyzhin,
later says to the book's hero.
"Freedom is the main principle of
life. It is here that the borderline
runs: between freedom and
slavery, between dead matter and
life. The entire evolution of live
matter is the movement from a
lower degree of freedom to a
higher."
The "degree of freedom"
diminishes catastrophically for
Shtrum, a Jew, when he is
denounced for preferring the
"bourgeois" physics of Albert
Einstein to the "national Soviet
science." Although warned that
refusing to recant is "akin to
suicide," he does not attend the
meeting at his institute at which
he is expected to confess his
"deviations" and beg forgiveness.
Shtrum's phone goes silent. His
colleagues and friends cross the
street to avoid greeting him. He
expects, any second, the
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proverbial knock at the door
heralding his arrest. Yet, along
with fear, Shtrum is also filled
with an unknown thrill: the
freedom to resist. The terror that
permeated the lives of every
Soviet citizen, the awareness of
his own "pitiful powerlessness"
before the boundless and "lethal"
power of the state and its "all-
annihilating wrath," all seem to
have receded. In his exhilarating
liberation, Shtrum is no longer
afraid to say what he thinks.
Instead, he speaks to his wife and
daughter about the "unbearable"
mendacity of the newspapers and
of the insult of seeing
"ignoramuses with party
membership cards" direct science
and culture.
Then Stalin calls. Keenly
"interested in the division of
atoms' nuclei," the tyrant is
enthusiastic about Shtrum's work
in nuclear theory. The two-minute
phone conversation vaults the
ostracized physicist to the very
top of the Soviet state's science
conglomerate. His laboratory is
returned to him; his every request
for equipment or personnel is
granted immediately. His
"beloved science," that is, his life,
is given back to him.
Yet after a few weeks of triumph,
Shtrum starts to feel empty and,
stranger still, nostalgic for the
"lightness" that was his when the
phone did not ring and colleagues
and acquaintances pretended not
to see him. Those days now seem
so happy--"his head brimming
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with thoughts of truth, freedom,
God." There is a "piercing" sense
of loss. Something "precious" is
forever gone.
Nazism and Soviet totalitarianism
left Grossman little room for
maneuver. For those wishing to
affirm their freedom, Grossman
offered stark choices--narrow,
sharp, and often lethal, like a
dagger. Would he rethink them
today, first and foremost for his
own country, where, as in the
aftermaths of all great modern
revolutions, the moral fervor that
Life and Fate so powerfully
stoked two decades ago seems to
have been replaced by ubiquitous
cynicism?
In his classic study "Two
Concepts of Liberty," Isaiah
Berlin outlined two closely related
and mutually reinforcing but
distinct kinds of freedom:
"Negative" freedom is the
freedom not to be forced to do
what one does not want to do;
"positive" freedom is the ability to
act as one pleases. Coming to
Russia today, Grossman would
have found immense progress in
negative freedom, even under
Putinism. The heroes of Life and
Fate would have been delirious
with joy not to mouth inane
propaganda clichés, not to be
forced to swear public allegiance,
again and again, to the rulers they
despised. Fulfilling Madyarov's
dream, they would have read "real
news" in newspapers and
magazines, and the Shtrums of
Russia (if they weren't at MIT or
Berkeley) could have conducted
their research without fear of
ideological inquisition. One can
travel abroad, even to the West.
One can read (and watch)
whatever one wants! One can
even start one's own business!
But after a day or two, Grossman
would have sensed that something
was still very much amiss. The
power of the state has receded,
but it is still outside society's
control. Abetted by corrupt or
intimidated judges, bureaucrats
blackmail and shake down
entrepreneurs; traffic police
terrorize and extort motorists.
Having granted a great deal of
negative freedom, the Kremlin
still severely curtails the ability to
act positively as one wishes in
one's own affairs and, especially,
in the affairs of one's country--to
lay pipelines, to sell one's oil
company to whomever one wants,
to give millions to opposition
parties or charities of your own
choosing and not the
government's, to run for office.
It is not just the elite of Russia,
the oil barons like Mikhail
Khodorkovsky and the opposition
leaders like Garry Kasparov, who
cannot do as they wish. Perhaps
most of all, Grossman would have
been disheartened to see virtually
everyone not in the government's
employ forced to make
compromises with their
consciences. To pay bribes to tax
police and fire inspectors; to
kowtow to rapacious mayors and
governors. Not to cross the line, if
you are an investigative journalist
or newspaper owner--or be fined,
bankrupted, maimed, or even
killed. Not to start an opposition
party, run for office, run for the
Duma. Not to elect the governors
of one's province and,
increasingly, the mayors of one's
own city. It is these positive
freedoms, the freedom to do what
you want in your life, your
business, your town, and your
country, that the new middle-class
protesters have been demanding.
Grossman would have understood
and embraced that struggle.
***
Toward the end of Life and Fate,
Shtrum pledges to the memory of
his mother, killed by the Nazis in
a Ukrainian town, like Grossman's
own mother, who was shot with
thousands of the Berdichev Jews
on Sept. 15, 1941:
Everything in the world is
nothing compared to the truth and
purity of one little man--not the
empire, spread from the Pacific
Ocean to the Black Sea, not
science.… Every day, every hour,
year after year, one must fight for
one's right to be human, kind and
pure.… And if black times bring
an hour without hope, man should
not be afraid of death if he wants
to remain human.
So long as the world struggles
daily to save its humanity by
resisting the temptations of the
absolving certitudes of sectarian
or secular "isms," the "holy wars,"
the "verticals of power," or
"national security," Life and Fate
will continue to dazzle and inspire
--as unerring a moral guide today
as it was 50 years ago.
Leon Aron is a resident scholar
and Director of Russian Studies at
AEI.
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Amazing: The French Work The Least In The World But Are
Now Richer Than Almost Everybody
Vincent Fernando, CFA (Money
Game)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:00:00 AM
People like to make fun of France
for easy work days, frequent
protests, and a heavily state-
driven economy. Oh yeah and
they're a bunch of communists
disguised as socialists.
It's probably all true, but
whatever it is they're doing, they
must be doing something right.
That's because French wealth per
adult is now higher than
America's, as shown by the chart
from Econompic below. In fact,
it's also higher than in the UK,
Japan, and Germany. (Japan and
Germany don't even make the top
ten list despite their reputation as
workhorses)
Meanwhile, as you may recall,
the French also probably work the
fewest number of hours in the
world, but are luckily the most
productive people in the world
when they actually work.
Here's a little excerpt from UBS
last year as a refresher:
People work an average of 1,902
hours per year in the surveyed
cities but they work much longer
in Asian and Middle Eastern
cities... People in Lyon and Paris,
So French work the least while
enjoying one of the highest levels
of average wealth in the world. If
that isn't freedom then we're not
sure what exactly is.
Here's the Credit Suisse data used
in the chart above, sourced via
Zero Hedge:
Join the conversation about this
story »
by contrast, spend the least
amount of time at work according
to the global comparison: 1,582
and 1,594 hours per year
respectively.
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All 50 States Probe Foreclosure Fraud; Florida's 30 Second
"Rocket Docket" Hits Brick Wall of Suspensions; Emotions Run
High
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 7:02:00 PM
In the wake of massive
foreclosure fraud, attorneys
general in all 50 states have
launched a probe into problems
with documents used in
foreclosures. In response, Yahoo
Finance! reports States' Probe of
Foreclosures Could Force
Reforms
A joint investigation by every
state and the District of Columbia
could force mortgage companies
to settle allegations that they used
flawed documents to foreclose on
hundreds of thousands of
homeowners.
It could take months, at least, for
any settlement to be reached. But
legal experts say lenders could be
forced to accept an independent
monitor to ensure they follow
state foreclosure laws. The banks
could also be subject to financial
penalties and be forced to pay
some people whose foreclosures
were improperly handled.
For banks, "the most efficient
way for them to get out from
under this to settle across the
board," said Kathleen Engel, a
law professor at Suffolk
University in Boston.
A key question is whether state
investigators can persuade bank
employees to divulge some of the
industry's secrets, said Ray
Brescia, an Albany Law School
professor who has tracked the
mortgage crisis. Some mortgage
company workers could have a
powerful incentive to do so rather
than face criminal charges, he
noted.
"It's quite possible that there will
be insiders who come forward to
reveal the inner workings of these
"boiler room" foreclosure mills,
which likely won't be good for the
banks," Brescia said.
A lawsuit that Ohio Attorney
General Richard Cordray filed
this month against GMAC
Mortgage and Ally Financial
could preview things to come
around the country.
Cordray's lawsuit seeks to halt
potentially illegal foreclosure
practices. It also asks that a judge
stop sales of any foreclosed
homes involving paperwork filed
by a GMAC employee who
signed hundreds of faulty
documents. And it aims to toss
out foreclosure judgments on
homes that haven't yet sold.
The Ohio lawsuit also seeks
damages for consumers and civil
penalties of $25,000 for each
separate violation. If similar cases
were brought in all 50 states, it
could total billions of dollars in
damages and fines for lenders and
others involved in foreclosures.
The allegations raise the
possibility that foreclosure
proceedings nationwide could be
subject to legal challenge. More
than 2.5 million homes have been
lost to foreclosure since the
recession started in December
2007, according to RealtyTrac
Inc. Florida's Rocket Docket
Grinds to a Halt
Please consider Florida’s 30-
Second Foreclosure Dash Hits
Fraud Wall
Home to more foreclosures than
47 U.S. states, Florida sought to
clear out its backlog with a system
of special court hearings that
dispensed with cases quickly,
sometimes in less than a minute.
Homeowners like Nicole West
now threaten to slow that system,
Florida’s so-called rocket docket,
to a crawl. West, who has been
fighting to save her Jensen Beach
house from foreclosure, has
leveled a new allegation in her
three-year battle: the entire
process is based on fraud.
West said her case is rife with the
kind of flawed mortgage
documents that have caused
lenders including Bank of
America Corp. and JPMorgan
Chase & Co. to stop the process
of foreclosures and evictions
across the country. The banks said
they are investigating homeowner
charges like West’s that
signatures were forged and
documents were backdated.
Florida has the third-highest
foreclosure rate in the U.S. behind
Nevada and Arizona. One in
every 34 housing units -- double
the U.S. average -- was in the
foreclosure process or bank-
owned as of Sept. 1, data vendor
RealtyTrac Inc. said.
Florida’s legislature appropriated
$9.6 million this year to pay semi-
retired judges and case managers
to clear the backlog of
foreclosures. Some judges have
been churning through cases at a
rapid clip, such as those last week
in Tampa who considered dozens
of foreclosures per day,
sometimes in as little as 30
seconds.
The goal is to clear 62 percent of
the backlog by next July,
according to Craig Waters, a
spokesman for the Florida
Supreme Court. J. Thomas
McGrady, chief judge of Florida’s
Sixth Judicial Circuit, said he
once thought that was achievable.
Now that Charlotte, North
Carolina-based Bank of America,
New York- based JPMorgan and
Detroit-based Ally Financial Inc.
have put the brakes on
foreclosures or evictions to look
for irregularities, he said he’s
“very doubtful” his courts can
resolve that many cases. The
circuit, which covers the area
around Clearwater and St.
Petersburg, has a backlog of
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33,000 foreclosure cases, he said.
“All of a sudden all of these
issues pop up with the lenders,”
McGrady said in an interview at
his Clearwater office. “It’s going
to slow down the whole process
because there will be more
backlog. We’re still getting 1,000
cases a month.”
At the Clearwater court, lenders
as of yesterday had canceled more
than half of the 84 hearings to
approve foreclosures that were
scheduled for today, according to
Ron Stuart, a court spokesman.
Half of the 110 hearings
originally set to take place
tomorrow were canceled as well.
Emotions Run High
Without a doubt there is massive
foreclosure fraud. In case you
missed it please see
• Bank of America Halts
Evictions Nationwide; Senator
Reid Calls for More Suspensions
• Unclear Titles Will Sideline
Buyers of Foreclosed Properties
for Many Months
Get a Grip on Reality
Fraudulent foreclosure or not, it
is high time people like Nicole
West need to get a grip on reality.
The reality is she is facing
foreclosure because she is in
default. It is amazing how clowns
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Gallup Poll Shows Discretionary Spending at All Time Low;

Trends Support Double-Dip Theory
noreply@blogger.com (Michael spending is significantly more are being floated out there, like
Shedlock) (Mish's Global sensitive to job market conditions two percent (characterized as
Economic Trend Analysis) than is upper-income spending. In price stability?). This will be the
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:35:00 AM this regard, the September decline justification for more
In a trend that may be telling for in lower- and middle-income “quantitative easing”. Buying
the upcoming holiday shopping spending may reflect the sharp more Treasury securities may
season Gallup reports Lower- and increase in unemployment over push rates even lower, but to what
Middle-Income Spending Lowest the same period and continued end? The impact on home sales
Since January '08 Lower- and high underemployment levels. will surely be minimal. With
middle-income Americans' self- Further, the lagged effects of mortgage rates at record low
reported average daily spending in continuing high and increasing levels already, even lower rates
stores, restaurants, gas stations, unemployment are probably yet to are unlikely to invite new entrants
and online averaged $48 per day be fully felt. to the market. Of course, there
during September -- down $6 On the other hand, upper-income may be other “agendas” such as a
from August and $16 from July. spending tends to be more weakening of the dollar and
Consumer discretionary spending responsive to the "wealth effects" the beneficial effect of increasing income barely scraping by on 0% support for asset prices. This is
by these Americans making less associated with higher stock and upper-income spending. interest in there savings accounts very dangerous as hundreds of
than $90,000 a year is now at its commodities prices. Although Regardless, Gallup's September and CDs. billions of dollars are being
lowest level since Gallup began upper-income spending hasn't spending and jobs data suggest NFIB Gets it correct “allocated” based on false prices
daily tracking in January 2008, as been increasing in response to the that the possibility of a double-dip Here is an appropriate snip from (interest rates). The charade can’t
the recession was just getting best September on Wall Street in is no longer negligible. Congress NFIB Small Business Trends for be maintained forever and
underway. 71 years -- at least to this point -- needs to show the same sense of October Continue to Show No weakening the dollar only invites
U p p e r - I n c o m e S p e n d i n g upper-income Americans have urgency as the Fed concerning Recovery, Inflation Not a Threat; others to join the party. And lost
R e m a i n s E s s e n t i a l l y F l a t maintained their spending, while what it can do for jobs and the Fed Governor Hoenig Blasts in all of this focus on credit is the
U p p e r - i n c o m e A m e r i c a n s that of other Americans has economy when it convenes in its Bernanke's QE Strategy loss of hundreds of billions in
reported spending an average of declined. planned lame-duck session after Every month I report on NFIB interest rate income for savers.
$118 per day in September -- up Given this context, the recent the midterm elections. small business trends and every Certainly their spending has been
$9 from August but virtually the Federal Reserve discussions about Quantitative Easing No Solution month it looks like a broken curtailed as a result. Every dollar
same as they spent in June and another round of quantitative There is no merit in Quantitative record. October is no different. a borrower saves from some sort
July. Spending among this group easing seem to make a lot of Easing. The last thing we need is Please consider NFIB Small of refinance deal is a dollar of
making $90,000 or more annually sense. The Fed needs to do another stock market bubble just Business Trends for October. interest income lost to savers.
is not much different from the everything it can to keep the U.S. to keep upper income groups Inflation Not A Threat Even lenders will lose income as
$114 they spent in September economy from experiencing spending. Inflation? Not a threat. Far more loans with interval rate re-sets
2009. Only once -- in May -- has another decline in economic Moreover, QE has given support owners have cut prices than raised will be set based on historically
2010 upper-income spending activity -- a so-called double-dip. to commodity prices even though them for 21 months in a row. very low Treasury rates (lowering
exceeded the 2009 "new normal" While it is not clear that this Fed it has done nothing, nor will it do Deflation? It certainly feels that net interest margins). No wonder
upper-income spending range of effort will help the overall anything for prices received by way to a quarter of the owners confidence is low and uncertainty
$107 to $121 per day. economy in the immediate term, small businesses for their goods reporting price declines for the is high, it is hard to make sense
Spending Trends Could Mean anticipation of it has Wall Street and services. goods and services they produce of this. Gallup's modeling of
Double-Dip surging and the dollar Gallup, like the Fed, ignores the and sell, and apparently a majority trends is highly likely to be
Gallup modeling suggests that plummeting. In theory, the other side QE. Forcing interest at the Federal Reserve are now GALLUP page 43
l o w e r - a n d m i d d l e - i n c o m e resulting wealth gains could have rates low damages those on fixed worried. New “inflation targets”
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Ceridian Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI) Declines Second

Month, GDP Estimate Sinks to .7% to 1.7%; Recovery Grinds to a
Halt
noreply@blogger.com (Michael anemic 0.7 percent to 1.7 percent, available, our PCI-based GDP
Shedlock) (Mish's Global below the PCI's previous 1.5 to forecast for growth in the 3rd
Economic Trend Analysis) 2.5 percent estimate reported last quarter of 2010 has sunk to an
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:09:00 AM month (which at the time anemic range 0.7% to 1.7%.
Ceridian reports PCI Declines for approximated the consensus The declines in the PCI in the last
Second Consecutive Month in economic view). The PCI forecast two months suggest that the
September of the Federal Reserve's monthly industrial production growth for
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Industrial Production (IP) index September will be very close to
Commerce Index™ (PCI) by (to be released later this month) zero, with even odds of a negative
UCLA Anderson School of a l s o s i g n a l s I P g r o w t h f o r number.
Management, adjusted for season September to be very close to zero Year-over-year growth in the PCI
and for monthly workdays, fell with an even odds chance for a has continued to fall since May’s
0.5% in September after falling negative number. exceptional number of 9.0% —
1.0% in August. "The PCI tells us that inventory is 8.6% in June, 8.0% in July, 6.0%
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of s t a l l e d o n t h e n a t i o n ' s in August and now 5.8% in
Commerce Index™ (PCI), a real- thoroughfares. The good months momentum as PCI-based recessionary months of December September. With the three-to-one
time measure of the flow of goods of growth are now seemingly in forecasts for Q3 GDP and Sept. IP 2009 and January 2010. relationship between the PCI and
to U.S. factories, retailers, and our rear view mirror," said Ed near new lows. October PCI The PCI began 2010 strongly GDP growth in recessions and
consumers, fell .5 percent in Leamer, chief PCI economist and Report with growth of the first quarter r e c o v e r i e s , t h a t 6 % f i g u r e
September after falling 1.0 director of the UCLA Anderson There are more charts and compared with the fourth quarter translates into 2% GDP growth,
percent in August, which is the Forecast. "Our economy's loss in analysis in the Ceridian-UCLA of 2009 equal to 9.7% at an far below what is needed for a
f i r s t t i m e t h e i n d e x h a s traction is alarming and for the Pulse of Commerce Index™ annualized rate. But the second healthy job market.
e x p e r i e n c e d a c o n s e c u t i v e ‘Cassandras of the double-dip,' October PDF quarter growth compared with the ...
monthly decline since January may foretell a coming decline in September Decline Means first was 6.2% annualized, and But most importantly there is an
2009. Furthermore, August and GDP and spike in unemployment. Minimal Third Quarter GDP now the third quarter is only 2.1% ominous bending of the PCI at the
September 2010 together However, with residential Growth. above the second. In other words end of the series with the third
produced the worst combined two investment, consumer durables, The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of throughout the year, growth of the quarter returns now fully in.
- m o n t h d e c l i n e s i n c e t h e business spending, and other Commerce Index™ (PCI) by PCI has moved inexorably less The graph includes a trend line
recessionary months of January component indicators already at UCLA Anderson School of and less, edging toward zero. labeled “Full Employment GDP”.
and February 2009. or near record lows relative to Management, adjusted for season Last month, with two of the three We seem to be slipping farther
The decline indicates four GDP, it remains unlikely that we and for monthly workdays, fell months of the quarter recorded, from that trend as the recovery
consecutive months of limited to will experience an outright 0.5% in September after falling we reported that “the PCI is grinds to a halt. There are many
no increases in over the road decline into recession." 1.0% in August, which was the currently consistent with a GDP additional charts and data analysis
m o v e m e n t o f p r o d u c e , r a w Pulse of Commerce (PCI) Chief first time we have experienced a growth number for the current in the report. Inquiring minds will
materials, goods-in-process and E c o n o m i s t E d L e a m e r a n d consecutive monthly decline since quarter in the disappointing range want to give it a closer look.
finished goods since the PCI Ceridian's Craig Manson say January 2009. August and of 1.5-2.5%, which approximates Recovery Grinds to a Halt
peaked in May 2010. Moreover, economy has stalled citing second September together this year have well the current consensus view This recovery is on its last legs,
the PCI forecasts GDP growth in consecutive monthly drop in produced the worst combined two of the economy.” Now that the
the third quarter of 2010 at an indexed activity; economy lacks CERIDIAN page 42
-month decline since the full quarter of PCI data is
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Geithner's Search for Scapegoats Avoids the Harsh continued from page 41

assuming you believe there was a

Truth No One Wants to Hear recovery and not a mirage caused
by unsustainable stimulus. Even if
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Group of 20 nations began in d e b t . T h e r e i s n o p a i n l e s s to go away if only China would there is no double-dip, GDP of
Shedlock) (Mish's Global Washington last week, Geithner solution! Anyone who promises float the Yuan. 2% is the stall rate, consistent
Economic Trend Analysis) warned of a “damaging dynamic” one is an idiot or a charlatan. Well Geithner's head is up his ass with no job growth.
Submitted at 10/14/2010 7:58:00 AM o f c o m p e t i t i v e c u r r e n c y Republicans Need to Admit US because none of this will go away As weak as the 3rd quarter looks,
Instead of admitting the United weakening that could limit global Cannot Afford to be World's as long as the US looks for indications are that the 4th quarter
States' role in the global economic growth and said “more and more Policeman scapegoats instead of admitting will be worse. I still expect new
mess, Geithner Signals China countries face stronger pressure to Regardless of what Republicans reality. That reality is we are on highs in the unemployment rate.
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Government To Sell Its Gold Now would bail out their own stupid
mistakes.
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continued from page 40
Social Security for nearly six comparison isn't particularly
government is experiencing some
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44 Economy/ Culture/
Here's That Devastating Report On
Bank Of America That Everyone Is
Talking About Today (BAC)
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:05:52 AM
Editors note: This was originally
published yesterday, but continues
to get plenty of attention today,
and was just referenced by David
Fasber on CNBC. Without further
ado...
Earlier, we wrote about Felix
Salmon's contention that there's a
new mortgage fraud scandal that
has the potential to dwarf
Goldman's ABACUS dealings. In
this fraud scenario, banks took
advantage of their information
advantage and sold CDOs with
mortgages they knew to be bad
without clear representation to
investors.
In August, Manal Mehta and
Branch Hill Capital put together a
presentation targeting Bank of
America's potential exposure to
this mortgage fraud, as well as
other problems in the mortgage
market.
The presentation comes to a
pretty damning conclusion: Bank
of America's exposure could
nearly halve its share price.
It's all about what capital Bank of
America has in reserve for the
scenario of mortgages having to
come back on its balance sheet.
The breakdown does not detail
what exposures Merrill Lynch
may add to Bank of America's
problem.
When Will the Great
Zombie Bubble Burst?
Gavin Edwards (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 6:00:00 AM
Here’s a no-brainer: The zombie
infestation, both at the box office
and on book shelves, meant it was
only a matter of time before the
critters shuffled over to the small
screen. And shuffle they have,
with not one but two new
miniseries set to air in October.
IFC’s Dead Set is a British
import, chronicling an undead
uprising from the point of view of
the last uninfected people in the
UK: contestants on the reality
show Big Brother. AMC’s The
Walking Dead, brought to you by
*Note: This presentation was sent S h a w s h a n k R e d e m p t i o n
to his by Manal Mehta, and we do s c r e e n w r i t e r - d i r e c t o r F r a n k
not know what positions he, or his Darabont, follows a group of
firm, have in Bank of America or s u r v i v o r s t r a v e l i n g t h e
any other mentioned party. postapocalyptic American South
Therefore, we'd assume they have and trying not to lose their
a position. Click here for the minds—literally.
presentation > But is there more to this trend
Join the conversation about this than meets the gouged-out eye?
story » Horror maestro Stephen King
once theorized that zombie
movies reflect mindless
consumerism, making them more
popular in boom economic times.
Meanwhile, vampire flicks tend to
rise when the markets go down
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like the sun. (More recently,
financial columnist Bruce Watson
put some meat on that idea,
suggesting the US market is not
bear versus bull, it’s zombie
versus vamp.)
Wired did its own data analysis
and that theory didn’t hold
water—or blood. Zombie
franchises continued to spike even
when the Dow plummeted in
2008, and they’ve kept going.
This can mean only one thing: a
zombie bubble. Better TiVo these
new shows before the zombie
crash.
Chart Credits: Night of the
Living Dead, The Return of the
Living Dead: Everett; 28 Days
Later: Peter Mountain;
Zombieland: Blu-ray/DVD Sony
Home Entertainment; Dead Set:
IFC; The Walking Dead: Scott
Garfield/TWD Productions
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:00:56 AM

One of the more unusual things

to come out of the Cold War was
the doctrine of mutual assured
destruction(MAD). Unusual,
insane — one of those really. The
MAD doctrine pretty much served
as the fulcrum for the precarious
balance between the Soviet and
American poles and kept one side
from annihilating the other.
Tags: cold war, Israel, Palestine,
Waltz with Bashir, mutal assured
destruction
It’s podcast goodness time! This
week on the Stuff You Should
Know podcast program, we
covered a couple of topics dealing
with women. They were pretty
different, but about women all the
same.Tuesday’s show was on
roller derby, a sport that was
invented in the 1950s, died in the
1970s, 80s and 90s, and has been
reborn in a big way here in the
new millennium. Back in the day,
it was more of an endurance
competition. The inventor realized
pretty quickly that people banging
into one another was a little more
exciting though, and roller derby
evolved pretty quickly into more
of a contact sport.
craze of the 1920s and 30s. The nature and something from the were so darn popular. My favorite about a new communal shelter by
Tags: podcast, roller derby,
first roller derby took place in the mystical realms of the unknown. thing about the octopus? Australian designer Esan
polygamy
[...] Well, sort of. Tuesday’s show was Tags: podcast, octopus, hypnosis Rahmani. The structure is made
Having researched for the Roller
Tags: roller derby, dance all about one our favorite sea If you ever find yourself down entirely of bamboo, which was a
Derby episode SYSK released this
marathons, crazes creatures, the octopus. We’ve and out in East Timor or the good choice by Rahmani, since it
week, I can tell you that the sport
How about a little podcast gotten some good feedback from Marshall Islands, look for this was designed for impoverished
where things like a participant
goodness wrap-up? other folks who also claim that the gigantic structure and you’ll know groups in the Pacific Rim, where
might be called “roughly the size
This week on the Stuff You octopus is their favorite sea you’ve found a place with food bamboo grows aplenty.
of the state of Rhode Island,” (see
Should Know podcast program, creature. We had n idea these and water. The people over at STUFF page 48
below) came from the marathon
we covered something from amazing eight legged bags of ink DesignAddict posted a cool article
46 Culture/
18 Emotional Photos from the Chilean Miners Rescue
alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 5:30:00 AM
If you're like me, you sat riveted
in front of your television for
about the last 24 hours. Watching
the dramatic rescue of 33 trapped
miners was no doubt a worldwide
event and one that we'll always
remember. We celebrate their
return from the depths of earth
and we stand in awe at the
incredible, coordinated effort by
the international rescue team.
The last miner out was shift
foreman Luis Urzua who said this
immediately after his rescue, "We
have done what the entire world
was waiting for. We had strength,
we had spirit, we wanted to fight,
we wanted to fight for our
families, and that was the greatest
thing."
Flickr has a good compilation of
behind-the-scenes photos as well
as up-close shots. Compiled, here,
are some of the most emotionally
gripping moments from the
unbelievable experience.
First Rescue Specialist is
Lowered
Manuel Gonzalez, a rescue
specialist from Codelco, will be
the first rescuer lowered by the
Phoenix 2 rescue capsule into the
hole.
Technical Expert Arrives at the
Bottom
President Sebastian Piñera and
Mining Minister Laurence
Golborne shake hands after
Roberto Rios, a technical expert
arrives at the bottom of the hole
where the 33 trapped miners wait
for their exit at the San Jose mine
near Copiapo, Chile on October
12, 2010.
A Family Waits in Anticipation
President Sebastian Piñera and
Minister of Mining Laurence
Golborne stand with the family of
Florencio Avalos while waiting
for the trapped miner to exit
inside the Phoenix 2 rescue
capsule.
Florencio Avalos Becomes First
Miner Rescued
Florencio Avalos, 31, becomes
the first miner to exit the Phoenix
rescue capsule after an accident
trapped 33 miners for 68 days in
the San Jose mine near Copiapo,
Chile the night of October 12,
2010.
Florencio Avalos' Warm
Embrace
Second Miner is Rescued
Mario Sepulveda, 39, is the
second miner to leave the San
Jose mine with the Phoenix rescue
capsule.
Mario's Cheer
Third Miner and Chilean
President Embrace
Juan Illanes, 51, hugs President
Sebastian Piñera, becoming the
third miner to be freed from the
San Jose mine.
Sixth Miner Emerges
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The sixth miner to emerge from
the San Jose mine was Osman
Araya, 29.
Oldest, Ninth Miner Collapses
Mario Gomez, 59, is the oldest
and the ninth of thirty-three
miners being liberated from the
collapsed San Jose mine.
Ninth Miner Approaches His
Wife
Mario Gomez, 59, is seen here
approached by his wife.
Eighteenth Miner's Wife Prays
Esteban Rojas wifes pray for a
succesfull rescue end from the
San Jose mine.
Twenty-seventh Miner Rescued
Franklin Lobos, 53, becomes the
twenty-seventh rescued miner
from the San Jose mine.
Final Rescue
Chilean president Sebastian
Piñera hugs Luis Urzua, the last
miner out of the rescue hole at the
San Jose mine near Copiapo,
Chile on October 13, 2010.
Chilean President and Last Miner
/Chief Supervisor Sing the
National Anthem
Chilean president Sebastian
Piñera sings the national anthem
with chief supervisor Luis Urzua,
the last miner out of the rescue
hole.
Photo credit: Hugo Infante/
Government of Chile.
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AOL + Yahoo = Really?
John C Abell (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:41:00 AM
America Online's chairman and
chief executive, Steve Case, left,
and Time Warner's chairman and
chief executive, Gerald Levin,
shake hands before a news
conference Monday, Jan. 10,
2000, in New York. Time Warner,
the world's largest media and
entertainment company, was
being acquired by America Online
for about $166 billion in stock in
what would be the biggest
corporate merger ever. (AP file
photo/Kathy Willens)
AOL swallowed up the much
larger Time Warner back before
the boom went bust— we all
know how that went. Now there is
talk of a reprise of sorts: That the
now-again independent AOL will
acquire the much-larger Yahoo.
The Wall Street Journal is
reporting that AOL and a handful
of private equity firms are
cooking up — something.
Nobody’s talked to Yahoo yet, the
Journal reports, but there’s been a
lot of chatter among the interested
parties to combine AOL with
Yahoo in some way, or take
Yahoo private. By all means read
the Journal article for the detail on
various and sundry possibilities,
which are too numerous and
arcane to re-word.
Neither company commented for
the article, of course, and the
Journal says anything, including
nothing, is possible at this early
stage of the plotting.
But Yahoo shares are up 9
percent in early trading. AOL is
up as well, as is Alibaba, the
Chinese internet firm in which
Yahoo has a 40 percent stake.
Yahoo’s market cap is about 7
times that of AOL, but with
additional backing and some kind
of plan it wouldn’t be impossible
to alter Yahoo’s financial future,
in theory. Sometimes two smaller
entities can combine to make both
stronger — Thomson + Reuters
equaled Bloomberg’s market
share — or to make survival
possible — Sirius + XM radio
reinvigorated the nascent satellite
radio business.
But the one-time mightiest
internet titan has been battling
shareholder ennui and anger ever
since former CEO Jerry Yang
shunned what even then seemed
like a substantially fair offer from
Microsoft in a bid to remain
private. Yang’s successor, the tart
-tongued Carol Bartz, has added
spice to the company’s public
posture but hasn’t turned things
around, and top executives are
now leaving.
Despite its collection of the many
of the most visited sites on the
internet — and the continued
ability to drive significant traffic
Culture/ 47
to other sites — the parade seems
to have moved on. Yahoo ceded
search supremacy to Google ages
ago and, whatever else you have,
search remains the dominant entry
point to the web.
As for AOL? We asked what Tim
Armstrong was thinking when he
jumped from Google to run the
once dominant internet on ramp.
Even a decade after the AOL/
Time Warner debacle we’re
wondering about the wisdom of
the whole media giant thing that
still seems to appeal to some C-
level types. But combining forces
on ads, especially as mobile takes
off, wouldn’t be a bad way to stay
in the game — even if together
they’d still be running second to
Google.
Follow us for disruptive tech
news: John C. Abell and
Epicenter on Twitter.
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Tags: design, Bamboo, Oceania,
East Timor, impoverished
Back when I was a little raver kid
in the 1990s, I was really into this
UK group called Altern8. Altern8
had this thing where they wore
dust masks, and I too wore them,
usually with Vick’s VapoRub
smeared inside. It was nice. It’s a
pretty short leap, you can
understand, from dust mask to [...]
Tags: steampunk, Military, raves,
Vick's VapoRub
Steve Ignorant, the frontman for
the anarchist punk band Crass
counseled in the song “Big A
Little A” that when dealing with
the authorities, “silence is a
virtue, use it for your own
protection.” Those wise words are
lost on “the mentally impaired,
the mentally ill, the young and the
easily led,” according to a New
York Times article on a recent
study out of the University of
Virginia School of Law that found
at least 41 confessions given by
inmates at correctional facilities
have been overturned later by
DNA evidence.
Tags: dna, wrongful convictions,
false confessions, Innocence
Project, Milgram experiment
Howdy folks! You know, it’s
tough to come up with new ways
to address you people each week.
I was trolling my brain and
realized that I’ve never used
“howdy” before. Seems like a
crime. So howdy! This week on
the Stuff You Should Know
podcast program, Dr. Clark and I
discussed two topics that we both
found pretty fascinating. One took
me by surprise, and the other was
just plain awesome.
Tags: cave biology, spelunking,
caves, biospelelogy
The Corn Refiner’s Association,
the lobby group that represents
the huge factory farm
conglomerates that brought us
high-fructose corn syrup, has
devised a genius plan. Since the
group is concerned that the
general public may be
misunderstanding high-fructose
corn syrup, they’re going to just
change its name. Henceforth, high
-fructose corn syrup will be
referred to as “corn sugar.”
Tags: High Fructose Corn Syrup,
corn sugar, corporate propaganda,
marketing, marshmallows
Greetings, people of planet Earth.
Here on the Stuff You Should
Know podcast program, Josh and
myself tackled a gruesome topic,
and one that you deal with quite a
bit if you’re prone to travel.
Tuesday’s show on crime-scene
clean-up was pretty darned
interesting I think. This is a job
that’s not for the faint of heart, but
there is a lot of money to be made
if you run you own operation. The
process involves a lot more than
scrubbing blood from a floor.
Tags: customs, crime-scene clean
-up
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Top 10 Space Conspiracy
Theories
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:00:56 AM
If the venerable television series
"Star Trek" has taught us one
thing, it's that the holodeck will
never wor-k properly and you
should never go in there. -But if
it's taught us two things, the
second must be that space is the
final frontier. Even when we've
managed to learn everything there
is to know about Earth, there will
still be mysteries to explore in
space. Are there intelligent
species living far beyond our solar
system? What exactly is dark
matter? Could wormholes hold
the secret to faster-than- light
travel?
The answers to these questions --
and others that we haven't thought
of yet -- await us in space. But-
some people believe that groups
of powerful i-ndividuals already
know secrets about space the rest
of us don't. Here we enter the
realm of conspiracy theories.
These theories range from
educated guesses to wild
speculation. Some also feature a
cast of colorful characters,
including secret governments and
hyperintelligent alien species.-
-Keeping in mind that the truth is
out there -- the guiding principle
of another science-fiction
television series -- we'll explore
10 of these space conspiracy
theories. Prepare yourself, for
once you learn, you can't unlearn.
Let's begin.-
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'South Park' Fights 'Jersey Shore' Invasion (VIDEO)

Oliver Miller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 8:05:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
Replay'South Park' is never shy
about taking on controversial
topics. So it make sense that the
show would tackle the most
divisive cultural issue of them all. very clear.
We are referring, of course, [Warning: Spoiler alert.]
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separates viewers into two
opposing camps. People either
Parker and Matt Stone made their
love 'Jersey Shore' or they hate it.
feelings about the 'Shore' very,
And 'South Park' creators Trey
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Flash In The
Brain Pan:
Nanopath
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:45:00 AM

Nanopath has very simple

instructions. Chart a path to the
exit, make it as short as possible,
and don't get near the light. But
whatever, we're not going to listen
to some video game that doesn't
even know us. You can't control
us, Nanopath! We do what we
want!
Okay, well, sure, we died pretty
Verizon to Sell Apple's iPad. Is The iPhone Next? quickly, but we died FREE. That
counts for something in our book.
Brian X. Chen (Wired Top CDMA technology, which is not operating officer, in a press See Also: Anyway, be aware that Nanopath
Stories) compatible with the current iPad release. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com involves planning skills and later
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:30:00 AM hardware, hence the need for a AT&T, too, will begin carrying 3 This entry passed through the levels force you to bring strategy
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(Verizon’s network is based on said Tim Cook, Apple’s chief Verizon iPhone more probable.
50 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

You Have An iPad? Big Deal. Obama Has an iReggie

John C Abell (Wired Top tells the New York Times‘ Peter Follow us for disruptive tech
Stories) Baker for a profile in the news: John C. Abell and
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:51:00 AM newspaper’s Sunday magazine. Epicenter on Twitter.
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all in one place,” the president Shortly after he was sworn in that coveted e-mail address? Playbook

Crochet Animal Sculptures (7 total)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My Sculpture and was the overall skeletons. These realistic
Modern Metropolis) Gold Award winner for the Art of sculptures reflect the region of
Submitted at 10/14/2010 3:00:00 PM Giving show at Saatchi Gallery. East Midlands in both symbol and
Take a look, below, to see some materials. The Lionheart's three
If you thought crochet was only a of her work. lions crest is created using locally
hobby for grandmothers, you Richardson is currently working sourced Swaledale wool,
haven't seen Shauna Richardson's o n a m a j o r c o m m i s s i o n t o celebrating their rich textile
crochet animal sculptures. With a celebrate London 2012. Called heritage. The installation is
background in conceptual art, Artistst Taking the Lead, it's a estimated to take two years to
Richardson has been making major project developed by Arts complete. In the spring of 2012,
waves as a 'crochetdermist.' The Council England in partnership the three lions will travel around
UK-based artist uses thick and with London 2012 and the arts East Midlands in a custom-built
coarse wool to create intricate councils of Northern Ireland, the nine English regions, and in one of the finalists. Called the glass exhibition vehicle.
sculptures that look like they Scotland and Wales. Twelve the nations of Scotland, Wales Lionheart Installation, it will Shauna Richardson
belong more in a museum than in commissions have been awarded and Northern Ireland. feature three thirty foot hand-
grandma's smelly house. to create 12 new works of art Out of over 2,000 submissions, crocheted lions sculpted out of
Richardson recently won Best across the country; one in each of Richardson's work was chosen as polystyrene and set around steel
E-reader News Edition Politics-Left/ Gaming/ 51

Paladino in the U.S.A.

E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New year. We are emerging from the their respective successful runs produced piles of plans and
Republic - All Feed) worst economic crisis since the for the U.S. Senate in 1998 and proposals. The main critique of
Submitted at 10/13/2010 11:00:00 PM Great Depression, and we could 2000. With the region's voters still his thick policy book is that it
be using this year's political facing economic travail and high looks weightier than it is because
NEW YORK —Having long debate to clarify the choices we property taxes, Paladino could it has wide margins—a very mild
been one of the proud tough guys face. Instead, we have simple fury have become their tribune this riposte by the standards of this Red Dead Redemption's
of New York politics, Andrew against "big government" and time. year's campaign.
Cuomo, the state's attorney taxes with little discussion about Instead, even Republican Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito, 'Undead Nightmare'
general, finds himself with a how much government we want, politicians are fleeing him. Kemp a Democrat who represents the begins October 26
Republican opponent in this year's or how we are going to pay for Hannon, a veteran state senator upstate cities of Utica and Rome, JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
governor's race who makes him it—and candidates talking about from Long Island, declined to can reel off a long list of issues of
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:39:00 PM
look like St. Francis of Assisi. Speedos and witches. This is the endorse Paladino in a debate concern to her region from the
To call Carl Paladino brash and a year in which we seem to be earlier this month. At the time, property tax to the need for "value Is Red Dead Redemption getting
loudmouth understates the case. defining our democracy down. Hannon recalls, he said that "I -added manufacturing" to a bit stale? It's going to be a lot
The New York Daily News has As for Paladino, he tried again shared his goals of cutting taxes, investments in transportation—all more stale come October 26 -- so
t a k e n t o r e f e r r i n g t o t h e Tuesday to get out of the mess cutting expenses and getting jobs in the context of a disastrous state stale it's rotten, in fact. That's
Republican nominee as "Crazy created by his gay comments, ... but we'll see where he goes." fiscal situation. when all the deceased cowpokes,
Carl," and his latest series of asking "for forgiveness on my Where Paladino has gone since Paladino has made it all but banditos and even varmints rise
outbursts demonstrated why. poorly chosen words." But his has only made Hannon more wary impossible to discuss such from their graves in the Undead
Appearing before a group of latest sally was only part of a long of embracing him. "Not only has matters, but he has done one Nightmare DLC.
orthodox rabbis in Brooklyn on series of self-inflicted tribulations. he offended people," Hannon useful thing in demonstrating that The pack will run you $10 on
Sunday, Paladino declared that he They include a Godfather-like said, "but he's addressed issues there are limits to how far anger Xbox 360 and PS3, and will give
didn't want children "brainwashed threat he made to a reporter—"I'll that are not on the top of people's alone can take you, and to how you "5-12 hours" worth of zombie
into thinking that homosexuality take you out, buddy"—and a minds." Cuomo, in the meantime, much wackiness even a fed-up -shooting, coffin-burning, ex-
is an equally valid and successful series of racist and sexually has built a formidable list of electorate will tolerate. horse-riding fun. For more
option—it isn't." graphic private e-mails that Republican supporters, including E.J. Dionne, Jr. is is a information about what you'll
Then, in trying on the "Today" became public. Assemblywoman Dede Washington Post columnist, a actually be doing (besides
show on Monday to make things The odd thing is that were Scozzafava, whose GOP senior fellow at the Brookings screaming in a gentlemanly
better, he made them worse. He Paladino a trifle more restrained campaign in a special Institution, and a professor at Southern accent), we invite you to
spoke of how "disgusting" he had and less eager to pick dumb congressional election last year Georgetown University. He is the peruse our preview.
found a gay pride march he had fights, his "I'm mad as hell" was torpedoed by dissident author of, most recently, Souled Gallery: Red Dead Redemption -
seen, in which marchers "wear approach could have found conservatives. Out: Reclaiming Faith and Undead Nightmare (NY Comic
these little Speedos and they grind traction, particularly upstate. The Cuomo, the son of a former Politics After the Religious Right. Con)
against each other." cities, towns and villages dotted governor, might seem the ultimate (c) 2010, Washington Post Red Dead Redemption's 'Undead
The venerable tabloid Daily across that part of New York have insider. But both Andrew and his Writers Group Nightmare' begins October 26
News couldn't resist the headline: been ailing economically for two father Mario have a habit of For more TNR, become a fan on originally appeared on Joystiq on
"Carl Rages Against Guys in decades, in some cases more. looking at the world from the Facebook and follow us on Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:39:00 EST.
Speedos, Gay Grinding." Upstate's economic troubles outside in, and Andrew has been Twitter. ELECTION 2010 >> Please see our terms for use of
American politics has come to a l l o w e d D e m o c r a t s C h u c k running as an outsider with feeds.
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contemplate this strange political formerly Republican territory in government. He has also
52 TV/ Gaming/
Community Blasts Off Into the (Simulated) Final
Frontier
Adam Bryant (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:37:00 AM
Community
Community creator Dan Harmon
knows that "Modern Warfare,"
Season 1's action-movie-spoofing
paintball episode set a new
standard for the show, and he's
not daunted by trying to top it.
"The camera doesn't necessarily
have to stay on campus this
season," Harmon tells
TVGuide.com. And in Thursday's
episode (8/7c on NBC), it won't,
as Greendale's study group goes
to outer space — sort of.
Check out photos of the
Community cast
Facing stiff competition from a
rival community college that is
about to launch a simulated space
program, Dean Pelton ( Jim Rash)
forces the study group to pre-
emptively stage Greendale's own
space simulation. Abed ( Danny
Pudi) and Troy ( Donald Glover)
take the lead in a satire of Apollo
13 and other space movies when
the simulator is towed away with
everyone but Abed locked inside.
"Before the season even started,
the big question was: How are we
going to beat the paintball
episode? " Glover says. "And the
joke I think was to say ... 'Maybe
we send them to space.'
Dan, being the genius that he is ...
works out a way to send them to
space."
Harmon accepts the compliment.
"Every show is good at something
and one of things I'm most proud
of is doing the wider range of
stuff while still maintaining
believability," he says. "I'm most
excited by the fact that right
toward the end [of Season 1], the
big picture started to come
together in terms of the show's
versatility. It's not that you're just
conceptual or you're Salisbury
steak and peas. I've always found
that it's possible to have a show
where you can watch stuff
through a variety of lenses
because the characters themselves
are so real.
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"Fifteen or 20 percent of Season 1
was stuff you don't remember
because it was us trying really
hard to do a TV show that played
by the rules. We might as well
have spent that percentage of our
first season doing paintball, and
now that we can do that, we are
doing that. We're really coming
out swinging."
Indeed. Shortly after the space
spoof comes a zombie-themed
Halloween episode. And the
show's Christmas episode will be
done completely in Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer-style stop-
motion animation. "I don't fear
doing it too much because I feel
like you can always pull back,"
Harmon says. "What I do fear is
not doing it enough, and I hope to
find out how much is too much."
Glover thinks Harmon's use of
Abed's character, who relates to
other characters through TV and
movie references, helps the
audience accept such heightened
situations. "Abed [is] the voice of
the audience. He keeps us fair. He
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can do it better than anyone else.
So he uses Abed to get the Split/Second
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combat it."
Community plans stop-motion
going for $20
animated Christmas episode
Still, the show hasn't attracted
at Best Buy
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Big Bang Theory. But Glover Best Buy is selling Split/Second
doesn't worry. "If you make a on Xbox 360 and PS3 for only
delicious cake and it's awesome, $20. It's a great game, so it
and the crust is perfect and the shouldn't take you very long to
icing [and] everything about it is decide to pick it up. Like, not
really delicious... and only two even a few seconds. Or maybe
people eat it and they love it, just one second. It should take,
that's enough for me," he says. "I like, no time to make this
know that we're making a good decision. Is there anything less
product." than a second?
How far might the show go in the Split/Second going for $20 at
future? "If I fly this ship to the Best Buy originally appeared on
center of the sun and the entire Joystiq on Thu, 14 Oct 2010
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5 Things to Know About The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:12:00 AM
The Real Housewives of Beverly
Hills
Beverly Hills may be just a few
hours away from Orange County
— where Bravo's Real
Housewives franchise was born
— but the country's most famous
zip code couldn't be more
different. The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills, the sixth location of
the reality series, promises bigger
houses, faster cars and more star
power than ever before. There's
plenty of drama too. Get to know
the newest Housewives with our
easy guide.
Meet the cast of The Real
Housewives of Beverly Hills
5. Beverly Hills is a whole new
ballgame. Yes, the houses in
Orange County are huge and the
parties in New York City are
glamorous, but the combination of
ridiculously opulent real estate
and the entertainment business
make Beverly Hills a killer
combination. "It's a higher-profile
lifestyle, of course, with the
houses, the glitz and the
glossiness," Housewife Lisa
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"I don't think we disappoint with
that one," VanderPump says. Kyle
Richards acknowledges that the
season took a toll on her
relationship with her sister. "It
ended up being a con for sure, but DIY or no? 4
we're sisters at the end of the day
and I'm sure eventually things will times it's better
be OK," she says.
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sophistication, glamour. It's Doing things on our own always
unstoppable. Beverly Hills is a sounds like a good idea. We’ll
VanderPump tells TVGuide.com. Grammers' split is just one of brand unto itself."
save money, we tell ourselves,
4. Expect celebrity cameos many instances the camera The Real Housewives of Beverly
and get the satisfaction of
galore. Housewives Kim and Kyle caught. "I was really surprised at Hills premieres Thursday at 10/9c
accomplishment. But the truth is
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Exclusive: Jillian Michaels Fights
Back Against Critics
Carita Rizzo (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:58:00 AM
Jillian Michaels
Anyone who's watched an
episode of The Biggest Loser
knows you don't mess with Jillian
Michaels. But on October 13,
Canadian self-proclaimed fitness
expert James Fell called the
reality TV star "an actress playing
the role of fitness trainer on TV"
in a Los Angeles Tim es op-ed
piece, deeming her on-air and
DVD techniques "unsafe training
practices."
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Now Michaels is fighting back,
calling the accusations
outrageous. "I've never met [Fell]
but it's not him that I'm upset
with, it's the Los Angeles Times,"
she told TV Guide Magazine at
the Guess T-Shirt launch party for
the Soujourn Project on October
13. "I expect an organization like
the Los Angeles Times to do their
due diligence. It's not hard to look
into my background and discover
that I have two current
certifications, I have a continuing
education program for trainers
with AFFA, and I've been a
trainer since I was 17 years old."
Michaels, best known for the
tough love she and fellow trainer
Bob Harper show the overweight
contestants on the NBC hit, has
recently been scrutinized in the
media for her fitness brand that
includes DVDs, supplements and
diet pills. "[Criticism] is par for
the course. It's par for the course
to have haters," she says. "Like
the James guy—God bless, I hope
you become very successful. But
the LA Times has a responsibility
to report the truth. They can
Google me. It's not that hard."
She says she will fight the
publication for publishing the
piece. "I am going to pursue The
Los Angeles Times aggressively,"
she says. "It's a sad day when an
organization resorts to defamation
and libel to sell papers. And at
some point you just have to say,
what is the world coming to?"
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:15:00 AM
John Noble
Now that the (supposedly) late
William Bell has named Walter
the sole owner of Massive
Dynamic on Fringe, it's time for
our favorite mad scientist to set up
shop at his brand-new lab.
"I'm interested to see where
they're taking this," admits John
Noble of his alter ego's propensity
for creating chaos in even the
most controlled environment. "It
could be a dangerous toy in the
hands of Walter." Especially since
Dr. Bishop still fancies his
together." And when he does,
hallucinogens, which leads to an we're sure Walter has something
awkward — and hilarious —
in his medicine cabinet to help
situation tonight as a whacked-out him feel all better.
Walter addresses his staff.
Fringe airs Thursdays at 9/8c on
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What's On Tonight: 'Jersey Shore,'
'The First 48,' 'The League,' 'The
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 7:35:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews Here's
tonight's lineup of new shows and
events (all times Eastern). Check
your local TV listings for
additional information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
# = New Day/Time
Another member of the 'Real
Housewives' franchise rears its
ugly head tonight with the
introduction of the Beverly Hills
housewives.
8:00 to 9:00
AAA study says parents are not
exposing teens to full driving
experience
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:27:34 AM
AAA study says parents are not
exposing teens to full driving
experience
Parents play a large role in
teaching their teens to drive, but a
new study by the AAA
Foundation for Traffic Safety
finds that in the first year of the
supervised driving phase, teens
are not fully exposed to all driving
experiences. Nearly half of
parents surveyed after the year-
long learner’s stage reported that
there was still at least one
condition in which they didn’t
feel comfortable letting their teen
CBS:'The Big Bang Theory' drive on their own. However,
and'S--! My Dad Says' more than a third allow their teen
FOX:'Bones' to receive a license within a
NBC:'Community' and'30 Rock'-- month of eligibility.
30 Rock goes live tonight Further, one in three parents
PBS:'This Old House Hour' didn’t think their teen was ready
Food Network:'Good Eats'-- 8:30 to drive unsupervised in heavy
start highway traffic, and one in five
HGTV:'Property Virgins' and'My didn’t feel comfortable with their
First Place' teen driving in heavy rain.
The rest of the schedule and the The study used in-vehicle
late night talk shows after the cameras for four months to
jump. monitor 50 North Carolina
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throughout the year-long learner’s
period to gauge their observations
and experiences. The AAA report
was released in advance of
National Teen Driver Safety
Week, which is October 17-23.
The amount of weekly driving
practice by the families ranged
from 20 minutes to five hours;
Sixty-eight percent of parents
reported that their busy schedules
limited the time they had to drive.
Most of the teens drove on the
same routes and didn’t experience
more challenging situations.
During this phase, AAA
recommends that parents lead
their teen to practice driving in a
variety of situations, such day,
night, traffic, various weather
conditions, and rural and urban
roads. There's no substitute for
experience, which is why we
strongly suggest sending teenage
drivers to an accredited driving
school.
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Motor vehicle crashes are the
leading cause of death for
teenagers. In 2008, over 1,300
teens drivers died, but nearly
3,500 deaths resulted from these
crashes. Almost all states have a
form of graduated licensing
programs. Most states require at
least six months of supervised
driving and some a full year.
If you have a teen learning to
drive, it’s important for parents to
invest the time and share their
"wisdom" especially during this
learners phase. It’s the early stage
that is most crucial as it sets the
foundation for a teen’s future
driving habits.
— Liza Barth
Related:
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Brett Favre would consider sitting if elbow worsens
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 5:09:05 PM
Updated: October 13, 2010, 6:09
PM ET
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Brett
Favre's latest problem is his
elbow.
With the NFL investigating
whether he sent lewd photos of
himself to a Jets game hostess
while he played for New York in
2008, Favre said Wednesday that
his cherished, league-record
streak of 289 straight starts could
be in danger if the pain in his right
elbow gets any worse. Mike &
Mike in the Morning
ESPN NFL analyst Jon Gruden
says Vikings QB Brett Favre
looks like he's not having any fun
because he isn't. Favre's arm hurts
and his team has a ton of injuries.
The 41-year-old quarterback did
not practice with the Vikings on
Wednesday, preferring to rest the
tendinitis that flared up noticeably
on Monday night in Minnesota's
29-20 loss to the Jets.
"I don't want to play just to play,"
Favre said. "It's kind of a funny
injury. It could flare up and get
worse."
It's even more adversity for Favre
this season, which so far has been
anything but a repeat of last year's
charmed run to the NFC title
game.
Commissioner Roger Goodell
said Tuesday there is no timetable
for completing an investigation
into a Deadspin report that Favre
sent inappropriate messages and
photos to Jenn Sterger in 2008.
And the Vikings are off to a 1-3
start heading into what they call a
must-win game against the Dallas
Cowboys on Sunday.
"I don't rank them," Favre said on
Wednesday when asked how the
allegations measure up to other
issues he's dealt with in his career.
"I'm thrilled to be here and have
an opportunity to lead this team to
the Super Bowl. ... There's still a
lot of football left. I feel very
confident in a lot of ways.
"You go through different things
in your life. Football is a very
tough sport, mentally and
physically. Last year was great.
Almost too great. But I woke up
this morning and was very eager
to get over here. Moreso than last
year at this time, to get this back
on track. I feel confident that [the
team] will right itself in the end,"
he said. Favre vs. Cowboys
Brett Favre began his career by
losing his first seven starts vs. the
Cowboys, including three playoff
games. With a win Sunday, it will
be Favre's first time beating the
Cowboys in consecutive games.
Brett Favre: Career vs. Cowboys
Reg Season Postseason W-L 2-6 1
-3 Comp pct 58.7 57.3 Pass yds
PG 212.1 270.8 TD-Int 13-6 9-5
Pass rtg 82.4 87.8
powered by
In 20 years in the NFL, Favre has
been through tough times before.
From his addiction to painkillers
early in his career, to his wife
being diagnosed with breast
cancer and through the death of
his father, Favre has always
managed to keep his focus on the
game, often delivering some of
his best performances along the
way.
"I think he's really handling it
well. I really do," said Vikings
kicker Ryan Longwell, a close
friend of Favre's from their days
together in Green Bay. "The guy
is so resilient and has his priorities
straight, and I think in the midst
of a tough, tough situation, across
the board, I think he's handled it
really well."
Favre said on Wednesday that it
was his elbow, not the
investigation, that hampered him
against the Jets.
He completed 14-of-34 passes
and grabbed his arm several times
as he tried to rally the Vikings. He
threw three touchdowns in the
second half but also sealed their
fate with an interception that was
returned for a touchdown late in
the fourth quarter.
Coming off the most accurate
season of his career, Favre missed
several wide-open receivers on
throws "that I could have made
blindfolded" were it not for the
pain in his elbow.
"You're not going to make every
throw but I would have made
some of those throws," Favre said.
He insisted yet again that the
allegations from a Deadspin
report played no factor in his
performance. Favre said his
preparation and focus "may even
be better" now than it's ever been.
Vikings coach Brad Childress
said he's "worried about both"
Favre's physical condition with
the elbow injury and his mental
state with the investigation
ongoing. But he also said that he
feels that way about all of his
players after the slow start for a
team that began the year with
Super Bowl aspirations.
"I am not overly concerned about
where he's at with whatever he's
got going on in his life," Childress
said. "I don't mean to minimize it.
It is what it is. But I see a guy that
is here ready and prepared and
doing the work. I don't see ill
effects from that."
His teammates are rallying
around their leader, the man they
prodded to return for one more
run at a title. Seifert: Would Favre
Sit Willingly?
Now that Brett Favre has overtly
connected his recent inaccuracy to
the onset of elbow tendinitis,
ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert has a
question: Who would make the
decision to pull him from the
lineup if it continues to impact his
performance? Blog
"I respect the guy so much, and
I've seen him go through a lot
over the 14 years we've been
together," said Longwell, who
was one of three Vikings to visit
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Favre in Mississippi in August.
"And certainly we realize he stuck
out his neck for us when we went
down there and we certainly are
not going to turn now at this
point."
The Vikings host the struggling
Cowboys on Sunday and then
have games at Green Bay and at
New England to finish a brutal
four-game stretch.
Favre said he will "be smart"
with his practice reps this week to
rest his elbow as much as
possible, all while trying to
quickly forge a connection with
new receiver Randy Moss.
He feels "very good about the
preparation" this week to face a
desperate Cowboys team that
needs a win as much as the
Vikings do.
As for the investigation, said
Childress on Monday night: "We
can't afford to have it carry over
the rest of the season."
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Associated Press
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Sources: Vincent Jackson, Logan Mankins to report to Chargers,
Patriots on advice of National Football Players Association
Chris Mortensen (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:43:04 AM
Updated: October 14, 2010,
10:43 AM ET
Restricted free agents Vincent
Jackson and Logan Mankins both
will report this season to their
respective teams, the San Diego
Chargers and New England
Patriots, upon recommendation
from the National Football
Players Association, according to
several sources.
Under this scenario, Jackson will
report to the Chargers by Oct. 31
and Mankins will report to the
Patriots by Nov. 16 to earn an
accrued season and secure
unrestricted free agency in 2011.
Jackson's reporting deadline is
earlier because the Chargers
elected to place him on roster
exempt, meaning Jackson must sit
out three unpaid games before he
is eligible to receive the necessary
six paid games to earn his sixth
accrued season.
Neither Jackson nor Mankins
could be reached for comment.
Their agents, Neil Schwartz
(Jackson) and Frank Bauer
(Mankins), declined comment.
Jackson and Mankins were
among the players caught in
significant changes because of an
uncapped year that moved
unrestricted free agency from four
years to six years. Jackson and
Mankins became part of a large
class of restricted free agents
when their contracts expired after
their fifth season (2009). Both
declined to sign their restricted
free agent contract tenders, a
requirement before players can
report to their teams.
In a related development, NFLPA
general counsel Richard
Berthelsen recently sought
clarification on the reporting dates
because the NFL constitution has
a by-law that states clubs have an
option not reinstate a player who
reports after Tuesday's trade
deadline. That created a potential
conflict with the labor agreement,
which states that a player who has
not signed a contract by the
Tuesday following the 10th week
of the regular season would be
ineligible to play that year.
Jeffrey Kessler, chief outside
legal counsel for the NFLPA,
confirmed that he was asked by
the union to clarify the potential
conflict.
"The issue arose, we had a
discussion and the league quickly
agreed that the CBA supersedes
the constitution on any potential
conflicting provision," Kessler
said.
"Yes, that's correct," confirmed
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello via
email. "In the CBA, a restricted
free agent has the right to accept
his tender and report to the club
any time up until the Tuesday
after week 10 (Nov. 16, 4 p.m.
ET) of the regular season, whether
or not the club requests or agrees
to his reporting."
Berthelsen asked Kessler to get a
clarification because the league
constitution that governs its 32
member clubs addresses the status
of specific absent players in by-
law 17-13: "All players in
categories of Reserve/Retired,
Reserve/Did Not Report, and
Reserve/Veteran Free Agent
asked to Re-Sign will continue to
be prohibited from being
reinstated in the last 30 days of
the regular season. Additionally,
no player in such category shall
be reinstated between the trade
deadline of the applicable season
and the normal 30-day deadline
unless the club initiates the
reinstatement request and the
commissioner approves it."
The union wanted pre-emptive
clarification in case one of the
clubs attempted to use the
constitutional by-law to prohibit
Jackson and Mankins from
reporting because it did not want
to have file a grievance to a
Special Master, creating further
delay.
Kessler would not confirm that
the union has recommended
Jackson and Mankins report in
time to get their sixth accrued
season in the event there is no
labor agreement. That would
allow teams to impose the
restricted contract tenders on them
in 2011, per the current CBA.
The same sources strongly
reaffirmed Jackson and Mankins
will follow the NFLPA's
recommendation and report to the
Chargers and Patriots by their
respective deadlines to ensure
unrestricted free agency in 2011.
Jackson would miss his unpaid
games of Oct. 31 (vs. Tennessee),
Nov. 7 (at Houston) and Nov. 22
(vs. Broncos) because of his roster
-exempt status before he can be
paid for the final six games,
starting Nov. 28 (at Indianapolis).
The Chargers have a bye in week
10.
Mankins would have to report by
the final deadline of Nov. 16,
making him eligible to be paid
and play in the final seven games
because the Patriots had their bye
in week five. The Patriots opted
not to place him roster exempt, as
the Chargers did with Jackson.
Both players can be traded by
Tuesday's 4 p.m. deadline if they
are willing to sign their contract
tenders. Jackson would have to sit
out the first three games with his
new team under his roster-exempt
status before being eligible to
play.
Jackson was able to serve a three-
game suspension to begin the
season for violation of the
personal conduct policy after
being convicted of a second DUI
even though he is not under
contract.
The Chargers receiver, a Pro
Bowl selection in 2009, is not
facing an automatic year
suspension under the substance
Sports/ 59
abuse policy -- the next alcohol or
drug violation under a specific
disciplinary scale, would cost
Jackson four game checks.
Jackson is being tested randomly
several times per month under the
policy.
By Jackson and Mankins earning
a sixth accrued season, the only
way the Chargers and Patriots can
restrict their free agency in 2011
would be to place a franchise tag
on them next February at a
considerably higher guaranteed
value than the restricted contract
tenders. A transition tag also
would be available for the
Chargers and Patriots instead of
the franchise tag, but the teams
would not receive any draft pick
compensation and would only
have right of first refusal on any
contract the players signed with
another team.
Chris Mortensen is a senior NFL
analyst for ESPN.com.
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Yankees will start Phil Hughes in for WWE Stars Luna
Game 2 Vachon, Lance Cade
Adam Rubin (ESPN.com) Hughes in Game 2, followed by about the outing, but it was our Brandon Stroud (FanHouse
Andy Pettitte in Game 3 on first time seeing him, and we said, Main)
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Updated: October 14, 2010, Burnett in Game 4. day.'"
11:03 AM ET By Adam Rubin In the Yankees' division series Mike Myers carried the no-hit bid Filed under: Pro Wrestling The
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Archive Pettitte started Game 2 on the Blalock led off with a double and of former WWE star Luna
NEW YORK -- New York road, with Hughes pitching the scored Texas' lone run on Ian Vachon reveal her cause of death
Yankees right-hander Phil Hughes clincher at Yankee Stadium the Kinsler's ensuing single in the to be an overdose of painkillers
pitched 6 1/3 no-hit innings at following game. Yankees' 10-1 victory, which was and anti-anxiety medication,
Texas as a rookie in 2007, in his Hughes had better numbers on Hughes' first major league win. according to TMZ.com. The
second major league start. That the road this season: a 3.47 ERA In three career games at Texas District Six medical Examiner's
feat, and his success on the road, and five homers allowed in 70 (two starts), Hughes has tossed a office in Florida made the
will be enough to earn him a start innings, versus a 4.66 ERA and combined 15 1/3 scoreless innings determination and her death has
help our former talent who may
in Game 2 of the American 20 homers allowed in 106 1/3 while limiting the Rangers to been ruled an "accidental
have substance abuse problems,
League Championship Series in innings in the Bronx. three hits and four walks while overdose."
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rehabilitation at no cost to them.
After meeting with scouts and departed with his no-hit bid intact Adam Rubin covers Major San Antonio, Texas, announced
... Ultimately however, stars in
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"A lot of athletes have enlarged
Andy Pettitte pitching in Game 7. good pitches to hit," Teixeira said. Catastrophe. away in August.
hearts," Zimmerman said. "The
After CC Sabathia starts Friday's "I think his curveball was pretty WWE's spokesman Robert
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Broadcaster Bob Uecker needs 2nd Marcus McNeill,

surgery on heart Chargers Agree to Five-
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:12:13 AM
Uecker returned to the booth in
July after his first surgery that
replaced his aortic valve, aortic
broadcasting Brewers games this
year. He's also known for his
work in commercials, the TV
Year, $48 Million Deal
J.J. Cooper (FanHouse Main)
Updated: October 14, 2010, root and part of his ascending sitcom "Mr. Belvedere," the
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MILWAUKEE -- Brewers radio bypass. many appearances on "The

announcer Bob Uecker needs He acknowledged his doctors Filed under: Chargers, NFL Free
Tonight Show Starring Johnny
surgery on his heart again after a weren't thrilled about his decision Agency Chargers left tackle
Carson."
tear was discovered at the site of to come back so quickly and Marcus McNeill held out for the
Uecker also underwent heart
his valve replacement. first two weeks of the season
joked that he let them throw out surgery in 1991 and made a full
The team says Uecker will have the first pitch for his first game because he wanted a long-term
recovery in about five weeks. He
the surgery on Tuesday that will back to persuade them. contract extension. But in the end,
received the Hall of Fame's Ford
be performed by the same doctors Doctors believe the recent tear he got what he wanted by
C. Frick Award for broadcasting
who did his initial procedure on that requires the second surgery is showing up.
in 2003.
April 30. Uecker's recovery time due to a staph infection that he On Wednesday, McNeill signed a
Copyright 2010 by The
is expected to be at least eight acquired roughly six weeks after new five-year deal worth up to
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Reporting of Falluja's Cancer he is considered above average
statement. "I look forward to fully recover, after which he will free agent. Even after he reported,
Catastrophe. for the position.
being ready to go well before be back to life as usual." he had to miss three more games
(without pay) because the Now that the deal has been
Spring Training in Arizona." Uecker finished his 40th season agreed to, the fair question to ask
Chargers had suspended him for
failing to report. He will make his is why it couldn't have been
2010 debut this weekend, which is worked out five weeks ago.
none too soon for San Diego. His McNeill's absence is one of the
replacement, Brandyn reasons the Chargers are currently
Dombrowski has been shown to 2-3, in a three-way tie for second
be over his head -- he's given up in the AFC West.
4.5 sacks in the Chargers' first
62 Sports/ Gaming/
Report: NFLPA Tells
Logan Mankins, Vincent
Jackson to Report
J.J. Cooper (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 10:56:00 PM
Filed under: Chargers, Patriots,
NFL Free Agency, NFL Rumors,
Sports Business and Media, NFL
Labor Negotiations Apparently,
the NFL Players Association has
decided that Patriots guard Logan
Mankins and Chargers wide
receiver Vincent Jackson's 2010
seasons shouldn't be a complete
washout.
ESPN is reporting that the
NFLPA has advised both Mankins
and Jackson to report in time to
play in the final six games of the
season. By doing so, both will
earned a sixth "accrued season"
and will be eligible for
unrestricted free agency next year.
Otherwise, they would not be
eligible for unrestricted free
agency, unless the NFL and
player's union reached a new
collective bargaining agreement
that reverted to the old rules,
under which four seasons was
enough to become a free agent.
Mankins and Jackson were among
the players affected by the new
rules for 2010 that added two
years to the amount of time a
player needed to become an
unrestricted free agent.
ESPN also reported that Jackson
and Mankins are expected to
listen to the NFLPA's advice.
Jackson would have to report by
Oct. 31 and Mankins would have
to report by Nov. 16. Jackson has
to report earlier than Mankins
because he has to sit out a three-
game suspension the Chargers
imposed when he didn't report.
The Chargers had a second
holdout, but left tackle Marcus
McNeill has recently reported and
will make his 2010 debut this
weekend.
FanHouse Roundtable: Is
Season Over for
Cowboys-Vikings Loser?
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:57:00 AM
Filed under: Bills, Cowboys, Jets,
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FanHouse Exclusive, NFL
Quarterbacks, NFL Predictions,
NFL Analysis
The Cowboys and Vikings were
supposed to be on cruise control,
collectively running roughshod
over the NFC on their eventual
way to a matchup in the NFC
championship game.
Instead, each team is limping
along at 1-3 - the Vikings having
the added distraction of the Brett
Favre sext scandal and the
Cowboys seemingly finding
different ways to lose each week -
- heading into their meeting
Sunday at Mall of America
Stadium.
Meanwhile, another quarterback
that knows a thing or two about
controversy - Ben Roethlisberger-
returns to the field when the
Steelers host the Browns. What
kind of reception can Big Ben
expect from the fans in
Pittsburgh? And does
Roethlisberger's return put the
Steelers on par with the Jets and
Ravens in the AFC?
Our group of NFL experts pulls
up a chair at the FanHouse
Roundtable to weigh in on the
Cowboys and Vikings, Favre and
Roethlisberger and other league-
wide hot topics as we head to
Week 6 of the NFL season.
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Linkin Park DLC, album
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Guitar Hero and DJ Hero
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:00:00 PM
You're seething with angst that
can only be expressed through rap
-rock. Activision completely
understands. That's why the
company is releasing a six-pack
of songs from Linkin Park's new
"A Thousand Suns" album (cover
image above) on October 19 as
Guitar Hero DLC. In addition, a
set of three remixed Linkin Park
songs will be available this winter
in DJ Hero 2.
If you'd like to hear the rest of
that album, you can get a free
copy with orders of Guitar Hero:
Warriors of Rock or DJ Hero 2
from Amazon, between "12:01am
PST on October 17 and 11:59pm
PST on October 23." This is the
second free album to be bundled
with Warriors of Rock! In the
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The date for Bit.Trip Fate
is October 25
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 1:00:00 PM
It's not the October 18 release
date we expected, but it is
"thereabouts," as Gaijin Games'
Alex Neuse put it. Bit. Trip Fate,
the fifth entry in the outrageously
difficult WiiWare game series,
will be released in North America
on October 25, for 800 Wii Points
($8).
Fate is "a much darker episode in
our hero's life," Neuse said in the
release date announcement, "and
is full of depressing themes,
dreary hidden messages, sad
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Perfect 10 for Microsoft ad Beautiful weekday bike

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Really.
A few observations.
riders, they're missiles.
It also works because it doesn't
mention the competition. It isn't
about the competition. It's saying -
- hey -- we've been paying
don't admire. Apple made it about
that. I bought a Droid because
they had something Apple didn't -
ride
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They should have started running attention, even though we haven't a time when iPhones seemed
these ads before their rollout. had a product you lust for, we The rain they were forecasting
wimpy and locked-up and
Would have made the Ballmer know what's going on. went away and today was a
unreliable. Now with the iPhone
interviews go better. gloriously beautiful autumn day in
It answers the "Microsoft is 4, Apple is selling luxury. And as
The ad works because it says clueless" challenge. NYC. Temp in the high 60s, light
always selling Apple.
something we all feel about Of course it says nothing about breeze, very light traffic on the
Microsoft needs to tell us what A group of walkers comes by
phones, even if sometimes we're the phone. trail. Virtually ideal biking
we're buying when we buy when I'm stopped at the
the ones bumping into people. It's If the product sucks the ad is for conditions.
Microsoft. They're beginning to turnaround point. One of them
annoying when people walk naught. But you sort of suspect I have a new bike meditation. I
say something here. We're buying says, if you're walking next to the
around with their mind and eyes they wouldn't have gone to the am not the fastest biker on the
someone who is like us. Patient river, it's a river walk. Case
elsewhere. trail, I am the safest. I go through
trouble to create such an excellent but getting kind of fed up. Really. closed! Said like a true New
You even see assholes riding ad for a shit product. the dangerous intersections slowly
Maybe their phone reflects Yorker. I took a picture as they
their bikes at full speed reading But that's not the first thing we and carefully. If, as I'm entering a
reality. Or maybe that's really-ity. went by, along with a biker who
their phone, hands totally off the need to know. We don't want to major danger spot, I find myself
Good work! was cursing them for taking up
handlebars. They aren't bike buy a phone from someone we behind a slow cyclist or two, I
patiently fall in behind them. the whole path with their
Sorry folks, but if someone is philosophizing.
I want a server rack in a (small) box going down I'd rather it not be me.
The bike is holding up well.
The map shows that the ride was
52 minutes, 8.94 miles.
(Scripting News) and there would be no ports, The river looks glassy and sunny
Submitted at 10/14/2010 8:55:22 AM except for Ethernet, which would today.
basically be the internal bus
Tomorrow is moving day, and
I'm moving to an apartment with
FIOS. 25 megabits up and 25
protocol for the box. One jack for
Internet, one for power, and say
up to 15 additional CPUs (the box
How 'Common Sense
megabits down. Welcome Davey
to the 21st Century. Finally. So all
would come with one CPU on
board). Then I could have a small Issues' Could Beat
of a sudden I'm thinking about server farm running from a corner
what kinds of services I can run
out of my apartment with my
of my desk in my crowded
Manhattan apartment with great
Democrats
symmetrical Internet connection. Internet access. Matt Lewis (Politics Daily) helping Republicans win elections
That's all well and good, but this Think of it as a fractional Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:34:00 PM this November.
is a NYC apartment, so it's small. Linux? And wouldn't it be great if horsepower server rack... Among the organizations flying
That led me to this question -- you could buy a small box that I know I'm dreaming. No such Columnist While the below the radar this year is
what's the smallest computer you had slots, and in each slot you thing exists. But what if! controversial "outside group" Common Sense Issues, a
can buy that can run an off-the- could put a complete computer? American Crossroads has been 501(c)(4) grassroots issues
shelf OS like Windows, Mac or The box would take care of power getting a lot of attention lately, advocacy organization that played
they are merely one of the groups a key role in helping Mike
(albeit one of the best-funded
groups) playing a major role in HOW page 65
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Sharron Angle vs. Harry Reid: No Sign
of a Break in This Deadlocked Race
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 12:01:00 PM
Contributing Editor A New York
Times headline says it all
Thursday on the Nevada Senate
race when it comes to describing
the bottom line of the many polls
matching Democrat Harry Reid
against Republican Sharron
Angle: "For Reid, No Shaking
Tea Party Challenger."
In the last 20 polls listed by
RealClearPolitics.com, the biggest
margin between the two was 5
points, and was 3 points or less in
18 of those surveys.
So, it is no surprise that the latest
Mason-Dixon Research poll
conducted Oct. 11-12 for the Las
Vegas Review-Journal has Angle
leading Reid by a bare 47 percent
to 45 percent, with 4 percent
preferring neither or some other
candidate and 4 percent
undecided. (That's one reason
why Suffolk University pollsters
said in their survey released
Wednesday that controversial Tea
Party of Nevada candidate Scott
Ashjian could make a difference
in the outcome despite his paltry 2
percent showing).
The result doesn't change much if
undecideds are pressed to make a
choice: Angle gets 48 percent to
Reid's 46 percent.
HOW
continued from page 64
Huckabee win the 2008 Iowa
caucus.
(Groups organized as a 501(c)(4)-
type format do not have to
disclose their donors or
dispursements. According to the
IRS, they may "engage in some
political activities, so long as that
is not its primary activity." Zeke
Swift is the group's president, and
former political director for the
National Republican Senatorial
Committee, Patrick Davis, serves
as executive director).
Aside from backing conservative
candidates, Common Sense Issues
has recently launched a new
effort, encouraging candidates to
sign a pledge to oppose (and
Both Reid and Angle get equal salvos Reid and Angle have been attempt to stop) taxpayer funding
backing from members of their hurling at each other, 64 percent of abortion. Rep. Roy Blunt of
own parties, while Angle has a of voters said they were not an Missouri (who is running for the
m o d e s t a d v a n t a g e a m o n g important factor at all in swaying U.S. Senate) and Sen. David
moderates, leading Reid by 48 their vote. Vitter(R-La.) are among the latest
percent to 40 percent with the Follow Poll Watch on Twitter candidates to sign the pledge.
remainder undecided or preferring Visit the Poll Watch Home Page Meanwhile, the group is running
other choices. The margin of error and see all the latest polls in one radio ads in several states. In
is 4 points. place South Dakota, for example,
Eighty-one percent of supporters Read Politics Daily's 2010 Common Sense Issues launched
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Murkowski's write-in campaign.
Here's an excerpt of the script:
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Doc:This, uh...Lisa Murkowski's
office?
Bitsy:Yessir! How may I help
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me....afraid she didn't hear them
during the Primary...
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'Draft Chris Christie for President'
Website Launched
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:24:00 AM
Columnist On the heels of his
presidential straw-poll victory at
the Virginia Tea Party
convention, a new website has
been launched urging New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie to run for
president.
The Draft Chris Christie for
President site is the work of
former New Jersey Republican
Assembly Executive Director
Donald Sico. According to a news
release, Sico has no affiliation
with Christie or the New Jersey
GOP.
The site, which is little more than
a splash page, encourages
supporters to fill out a contact
form. By collecting the names and
contact information of Christie
supporters, the site's organizer
hopes to demonstrate to Christie
that there is a large contingent of
citizens who want him to run.
"We have to make him run
because, quite frankly, he is the
right person for the job at the right
time. America has never needed
someone with his fiscal common
sense than she does right now,"
Sico says.
Presumably, these same
supporters could also be tapped to
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House, they will impeach
President Obama, according to
Jonathan Chait of The New
Republic. “They won’t do it right
away. And they won’t succeed in
removing Obama -- you need 67
Senate votes,” Chait writes. “But
if Obama wins a second term, the “The Sestak pseudo-scandal
House will vote to impeach him disappeared because there was no
before he leaves office.” process to drive the story forward.
As evidence, he cites Rep. Had Issa been running the
Darrell Issa’s, R-Calif., remarks Oversight Committee, it would
support a Christie campaign if he kicking the can down the road), that the Joe Sestak scandal was an have been the subject of hearings
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Ohio Democrat Driehaus Says Party Sabato Sticks with 47

Cut Off Funds After He Made 'Tough Seats for GOP
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Votes' Submitted at 10/14/2010 5:33:31 AM

Tom Diemer (Politics Daily)

Thursday, 14 Oct 2010 10:33
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:11:00 AM AM
Political guru Larry Sabato is not
Correspondent Rep. Steve ready to change his Crystal Ball
Driehaus has accused the projection of +47 Republican net
fundraising arm of his own party House seats, according to a
of skipping out on his race after centerforpolitics.org report. "We
the Democratic Congressional made this prediction prior to
Campaign Committee pulled Labor Day, and we were the first
more than $524,000 in planned to say definitively that, in our
television advertising in the estimate, the new House would be
Cincinnati-area district. controlled by the GOP. At the
In a new video, Driehaus says he time, our number startled many,
"had the guts" to take on tough though it now seems less
votes on health care, the economy gain a one-seat majority. For now,
surprising with just 19 days to go we are raising (by one seat) the
and "standing up to Wall Street." in the campaign," the University
It was the right thing to do, he "who didn't have the guts to take still supporting the congressman's likely Republican Senate gain,
the tough votes." ground operation, aimed at getting of Virginia professor noted. from +7-8 to +8-9."
says, but "now the DCCC is Nonetheless, Sabato pledges that
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68 Politics/ Daily Word/ Science/
Emanuel-Backed House
Dems in Danger of
Defeat
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 5:53:02 AM
Thursday, 14 Oct 2010 10:53
AM
After the 2006 mid-term
elections, Rahm Emanuel was
hailed as a political genius. Under
his leadership, the Democratic
Congressional Campaign
Committee helped provide the
backing for many Democrats to
achieve victory, as the party took
the House back from Republican
control, Politico reports.
Now, Emanuel has just left the
White House to run for mayor in
Chicago, and many of his star
candidates from 2006 are about to
exit town too, swept out by the
Republican onslaught.
Of the 30 Democrats who took
over Republican-occupied seats in
2007, only one, Rep. Joe
Courtney of Connecticut, is in a
safe position to be re-elected, says
star political analyst Charlie
Cook.
Of the other 29 seats,
Republicans already took back
three in the 2008 election, and
Democrats are in severe danger in
the remaining 26.
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Barbour as RNC Chief
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 6:07:10 AM
Thursday, 14 Oct 2010 11:07
AM
Several influential Republicans
reportedly are going to ask
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
to opt for chairman of the
Republican National Committee
rather than running for president
in 2012. A prominent Republican
described the “Draft Haley” plan
to Politico.
“The view is that he’s not made a
decision,” the source said. “We
wanted to give him something
else to think about.”
Story continues below video.
Barbour may be reluctant to
choose the RNC over a bid for the
Romans 12:2 (10-14-10)
(Verse of the Day)
Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of
your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God's
will is -- his good, pleasing, and
perfect will.
— Romans 12:2(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... Don't be
molded by the world. Wow, isn't
that a tough one to obey. It's a
reminder that what we think is
viewed as a top potential
presidential contender. The GOP
bigwigs hope to convince him that
he’ll have a bigger effect on the
party at the RNC and that if
another Republican is elected
president, he might get an
attractive position in the new
administration.
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one of the places of greatest
spiritual warfare. Sloppy thinking
is more than sloppy; it's
dangerous because we are fed
messages constantly that distort
God's truth and holy values. But
rather than being incensed by the
world acting like the world, let's
be transformed by renewing our
minds and doing what Paul said
he did -- take every thought, every
word, captive for Christ. We often
think a tithe is giving ten percent
of our money, but an even more
vital tithe is giving ten percent of
E-reader News Edition
Slovenian Robot Punches
Humans in the Arm, to
Test Pain Thresholds
(Supposedly)
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:26:17 AM
A robot in Slovenia is bringing
the pain in name of science,
repeatedly punching human
research subjects in an effort to
see just how much of a beating
they can take. As New Scientist
points out, this is a stark violation
of Asimov's first law of robotics,
but the scientists behind the study
say the point of the study is to
better define that rule. After all,
how can a robot be expected not
to adhere to the law ("a robot may
not injure a human being") if it
doesn't first know the boundary
between harmful and harmless?
SLOVENIAN page 69
our totally undivided thought time
to the things of God! My Prayer...
O Lord, please guard my soul
from pride, my heart from
callousness, and my mind from
too much focus on unimportant
things and not enough on your
things. Teach me in my heart
what it means to be about my
Father's business, especially in the
world of my thoughts! In the
name of Jesus, my greatest
example of one who knew and
lived your will, I pray. Amen.
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SLOVENIAN
continued from page 68

Using a powerful Japanese-built
industrial robot, researchers at the
University of Ljubljana are
conducting the study on their own
arms. Using two different tools -
one blunt and one sharper - the
robot struck each participant a
total of 18 times at different
impact energies. The subjects
were then asked to rank the
degree of pain on a scale ranging
from "painless" to "unbearable."
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pain threshold, robotics, robots By
doing so, the researchers hope to
arm future robots with a sense of
what kinds of motions and
impacts cause varying degrees of
human pain. As robots become
more uniquitous, it's inevitable
that they'll be interacting with
human more often and in closer
quarters. The robot in the study
was actually programmed to move
toward a certain point in space
beyond the human arm, pushing
the arm aside as it moved, the idea
being that a robot and human
working in close proximity will
eventually come into contact and
the robot needs to be aware of its
own strength and the human's
tolerance for it so no one meets a
mechanically violent end.
Most of the subjects described
the robots jabs as mildly to
moderately painful, so it seems
the robot is playing nicely
enough. And while it might seem
silly or even simplistic to sink
research dollars on a people-
punching robot, the field of
human-robot interaction is
actually quite challenging. Israeli
researchers are offering a cash
prize for the best robotic hand
capable of performing a
handshake, a task that sounds
simple but in reality is seriously
complex. If we're going to live
side-by-side with our future robot
companions, we'll first have to
teach them how to be a little more
like us. AI Tweets "Little Beetles Is An
[ New Scientist]
Arthropod," and Other Facts About
The World, As It Learns Them
Julie Beck (Popular Science - NELL's Twitter Feed NELL, the
New Technology, Science self-teaching artificial intelligence
News, The Future Now)
TWEETS page 70
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:31:37 AM

Video: Japanese Fembot Learns to Sing By Mimicking Pop Stars

Rebecca Boyle (Popular croons, even mimicking the facial Masataka says he believes the
Science - New Technology, expressions of the human singer. entertainment industry must
Science News, The Future Researchers used a real singer as embrace robots if they are ever to
Now)
a model, recording her every become widely accepted.
Submitted at 10/13/2010 4:24:00 PM move as she sang. "We hope the entertainment
HRP-4 Diva via YouTube The Masataka Goto, who leads the industry will be able to make
HRP-4 can exactly imitate a Institute of Advanced Industrial widespread use of robots," he
human performance -- well, Science and Technology's media says.
almost exactly interaction group, explains that Lady Gaga, I hope you're
Using breath-analysis software researchers developed a software listening.
a n d m o u t h - m o v e m e n t program called VocaListener to [ DigInfo]
observations, engineers in Japan synthesize notes, and a program movements of the real singer. Like robotic shape-note singing,
have taught a robot how to sing. called Vocawatcher to analyze a The team even helped the fembot the robot learns where sounds will
The divabot, an HRP-4 with a singer's facial tics as she belts out breathe realistically, by modeling emerge. It can reproduce them
creepily realistic tilting head, a tune. The robot's head therefore the breath sounds of various using Vocaloid software
blinks and opens her mouth as she follows the roll, pitch and yaw people. developed by Yamaha.
70 Food/
TWEETS
continued from page 69
at Carnegie Mellon, has a Twitter
account and knows how to use it
For the last 10 months, Carnegie
Mellon University's Never-Ending
Language Learning System, or
NELL, has been continuously
searching the web for text patterns
and grouping them into different
semantic categories, a system that
closely mimics the way humans
learn. But NELL has adopted
another human behavior as well:
tweeting everything she does.
When she learns a new fact,
NELL adds it to her online
database, and tweets her
discoveries, so you can follow her
progress. For example, today she
learned that the phrase "dem
franchise boys" fits in the
category of "music artist."
NELL's knowledge base currently
consists of around 440,000 facts,
with around 87 percent accuracy.
Many of her tweeted lessons
demonstrate amazing analytical
capabilities - she was able to get
"tool" from "Anchor Fixing Self
Tapping Screw Bolts." The New
York Times recently published an
in-depth look at exactly how
NELL learns these things.
NELL isn't perfect though. And
thank goodness, because that
means we get some pretty
adorable not-quite-there-yet
tweets, such as: "I think "chicken
recipe time" is a #condiment" and
"I think "anonymously" is a
#fish." NELL's followers can
tweet corrections to her and help
her improve her associations.
Check out her feed or browse her
whole knowledge database to see
more.
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Taste Test: The Best Orange Juice
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
We tried 9 brands of the pulp-
free variety.
Photo: Randy Mayor
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Nothing compares to the flavor of
fresh-squeezed orange juice from
fruit in its prime for a very good
reason: A fair amount of
processing goes into not-from-
concentrate OJ. Most cartons
contain the pooled juices from
oranges harvested anywhere from
Florida to Brazil, squeezed,
pasteurized, and stored for up to a
year. That's why, when we threw
a glass of the fresh stuff into the
tasting, it was unanimously
picked as the favorite. But among
the boxes are some C) brands of pulp-free, 100 percent
RUNNER-UP: Tropicana Pure pure squeezed orange juice, none
standouts—and they turned out to
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Video: Water Droplet Bounces Off a

Superhydrophobic Nanotube Array
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 9:01:13 AM
Water Meets a Superhydrophobic
Surface
Hydrophobic materials have all
kinds of practical applications,
from creating surfaces that never
have to be cleaned to making
supertankers and container ships
glide more efficiently through the
water. But practical applications
aside, this amazing video--
showing the crazy, beautifu; ways
water droplets interact with a
carbon nanotube array --might be
mistaken for art rather than
science.
Five Creative Uses For Pumpkins
Shot with a high-speed camera at
various frame rates, the precisely
controlled water droplets were
launched at the nanotube arrays at
different velocities and at
different impact angles. The first
segment of the video shows a
simple 30 microliter droplet of
water striking the array at two
different speeds. At a slower 1.03
meters per second the droplet
bounces off the nanotubes almost
completely intact; at increased
velocity it breaks into several
smaller droplets and scatters in
different directions.
But the really interesting
segments of the video come later
when the researchers start playing
with the tilt and the shape of the
nanotube array. We don't want to
spoil the climactic ending, but it
involves two identical 14
microliter droplets rushing toward
each other like star-crossed lovers
racing across a field of tiny
nanotubes. Who says science
lacks romance?
[ arXiv] Ndamukong
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name is pronounced "en-DOM-ah
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You'll be saying it a lot for the

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NDAMUKONG
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next several years. Here, we talk
with the big guy about his training
regimen, the transition between
college and the pros, and what
drives him to be a dominate force
on the gridiron.
What's your favorite lift?
I love squats. It just makes you
feel strong, especially when you
go heavy. During [my senior]
season, I squatted 460 pounds and
around 315 using bands for more
resistance. Sometimes I use
chains to make the top of the lift
more difficult.
You posted impressive results at
the NFL Combine: 32 reps in the
225-pound bench press test, and a
vertical jump of 35.5 inches. How
did you train for that?
I wanted to get back into what I
call my "sexy"—that means more
"cut up." I was at Michael
Johnson Performance down in
Texas for about six weeks, then
back in Lincoln, Nebraska, for our
pro day. There's really nothing
secretive about my training—I did
a lot of squats, bench presses, 60-
yard shuttle runs, and sprints.
What was the toughest part about
transitioning from college to the
pros?
Just making sure you were
getting in the weight room,
especially since you're on your
own and you don't have a coach
bearing down on you. Not that I
ever needed that [extra push]. For
me, it's very simple. I like being
in the weight room. I like being
strong and knowing that I put in
the time to be strong.
If we looked inside your fridge,
we'd find . . . ?
Absolutely nothing. I've been
traveling so much, all you'd find
is juice. But the last meal I
cooked, let's see, was salmon,
asparagus, and rice. Good carbs,
good protein—I naturally eat
well.
What motivates you?
To be the best. I also think about
my family, I just want to put them
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Horsepower: 288
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NISSAN LEAF
Horsepower: 107
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Anticipation has been building
for the release of Nissan's first all-
electric, zero-emission car. It's
here, and it's surprisingly
affordable. Although the Leaf has
a downside—it gets only 100
miles per charge—Nissan says
you'll soon be able to charge at
home, at work, and on the road, so
that limited range shouldn't slow
your roll too much. A full charge
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:58:52 AM
Popular barcode-scanning,
comparison shopping iPhone app
RedLaser has just been updated
with support for QR code
scanning.
eBay-owned Occipital released
the new version of the application
earlier this morning, also piping in
eBay and Half.com listings for
product barcode scans — a nice
verge of becoming a breakout
bonus of the June acquisition.
trend in the U.S. In 2010, we’ve
RedLaser[iTunes link] has
already seen a number of creative
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over the years.
1.) Body-weight training. Back in
the 1950s, Dickstein noticed the
gym crowd was divided into two
camps—lifters and Broadway
dancers. The latter did more
gymnastics-type exercises with
parallel bars and rings. They also
stretched. "The rest of us thought
it was a waste of time," he says.
"But those dancers had abs. They
were the only guys who had
symmetrical bodies."
2.) Supplements."The old-time
workout guys were on vitamin E,
which was considered good for
the heart and brain." Drinking
carrot juice was also popular, as
were protein shakes. Abe
Goldberg's gym even mixed
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before it became a health-club
mainstay. "They always had raw
eggs, ice, bananas, and
strawberries."
3.) Fight Training. Punching a
bag, skipping rope, and medicine-
ball training have all become
common sights in gyms. "A lot of
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Obama’s faith-based office criticized

Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:27:47 AM

Before we discuss a new story

about problems at President
Obama’s faith-based office, a bit
of context. While funding of
religious non-profits did not begin
with President Bush, he really
took that ball and ran with it. he
created the first White House
office of Faith-based Initiatives.
While the office itself doesn’t
administer funding — it was
designed as a policy shop — it
worked on getting all the needed
regulations in at each agency so
that grants could be distributed to
religious groups. The actual funds
were — and continue to be —
disbursed through agency
grantmaking offices that are
separate from the White House.
For political outreach to religious
groups, the Bush White House
also kept a liaison to religious
groups.
The complaints about Bush’s
faith-based office being too
political under Bush were usually
based on something like this: The
faith-based office would go
around to various parts of the
country and give workshops on
how to apply for government
funds. Some people said the faith- beneficiary of a federal grant except in terms of whether there when President Obama needed TMatt noted last week. It’s not
based office was visiting along with the director of the faith was some dangerous political political help for his unpopular that there hasn’t been any
congressional districts that were -based office. Sometimes huge motive underneath. health care legislation. And it coverage but, unlike during the
in play and that the presence of grants went to religious groups Under President Obama, the faith happened a few weeks ago for the previous administration, it’s just
these White House folks was whose leaders had spoken -based office has been used same reason. In fact, the evidence been shockingly blase and
intended to change votes. Or favorably of President Bush. You literally to call up religious suggests that political outreach to unconcerned. Different partisans
sometimes Republican get the idea. And reporters leaders and ask them for their religious allies has been the main defend one office over the other,
incumbents would visit a faith- covered it heavily and were support. This has happened function of the office. The media
based charity that was the OBAMA’S page 76
almost unable to discuss the office repeatedly. It happened last year have largely yawned at this, as
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OBAMA’S
continued from page 75
of course. The media seem to be
in one camp. Last year around this
time, the Pew Charitable Trusts
found that President Obama’s
“faith-based initiative has so far
generated little of the contentious
press coverage associated with
Bush’s effort.” The situation has
not equalized.
But the use of the office for
political help isn’t the only
newsworthy issue. I’ve heard
from more than a few reporters
frustrated with the lack of action
and information coming from
director Joshua DuBois, pictured
here. It’s almost impossible to
find out what, if anything, the
office has done in a non-political
sense. In July, Washington Post
reporter Michelle Boorstein
actually put out an APB to readers
for information on what’s
happening in the office in terms of
policy and implementation.
It’s very difficult to report when
you’re not in good
communication with the office
you’re trying to cover. So I was
very pleased to see Adelle Banks
at the Religion News Service
write up a piece headlined “
Critics waiting for action from
faith-based office:”
Six months after advisers turned
in 164 pages of recommendations
to the White House’s faith-based
office, thorny church-state
questions remain unanswered and
some critics say the office has
been used to push the president’s
health care reform.
Much of the work done by the
White House Office of Faith-
based and Neighborhood
Partnerships has been low profile,
and successors to the blue-ribbon
advisory panel that ended its work
in March haven’t been named.
Outsiders say whatever progress
has been made has been done too
quietly and that the White House
has dragged its feet on a promise
to change Bush-era rules that
allow federal grant recipients to
hire and fire based on religion.
The article backs up the claims
with many quotes from people
who served on the task force.
They’re friends of the
administration, but they’re
concerned at the lack of non-
political action. It includes the
perspective of DuBois, who says
he has started implementing at
least half of the 64
recommendations made by the
panel, although we don’t get
specifics. He’s quoted making
vague statements throughout the
piece but it seems like Banks
really tries to nail him down a bit.
And when he waffles, she simply
quotes him that way:
He said the announcement of a
new set of advisers, which took
longer than he expected, should
occur “pretty soon.”
RNS also got access to an
internal memo showing that the
office is working on an executive
order dealing with internal
reforms. DuBois says that it will
be finalized … “soon.”
There is this paragraph, which
needs better sourcing:
The office’s low profile has
allowed it to fly below much of
the political chatter in
Washington, until recently when
critics charged it was adopting the
same practices that dogged the
office under former President
George W. Bush.
I’m a long-time critic of the
presidential faith-based office. I
could rant on my own views
against the office for hours. I
think it’s bad for the government,
for religious institutions and for
people who don’t fancy funding
religious groups they disagree
with. But I don’t think the above
paragraph is accurate. Critics
aren’t charging it with adopting
the same practices that Bush did.
The charges against the two
offices are substantially different.
RNS explains the current issue —
the use of the office to ask clergy
to be “ validators” of the health
care legislation that a majority of
the country wants repealed.
DuBois strongly rejected the
criticism, and said such outreach
would continue.
“It is reflective of an important
shift from the previous office and
those officials … that really saw
faith-based organizations only as
recipients of dollars and cents as
opposed to important partners on
nonfinancial issues, like sharing
health care information,” he said.
It would really be helpful in a
story like this to balance out that
quote or give an opportunity to
respond. Again, I’m absolutely no
fan of this office for a million
reasons, but the reality of the
Bush office — particularly under
its last director — was all about
partnering with faith-based
organizations. The first years
were about changing the
regulations to allow religious
groups to compete for government
grants, implementing the initiative
in cabinet agencies, and helping
launch faith-based offices at the
state level. They expanded the
office to include international aid.
And then they focused on helping
the religious groups build their
capacity, expanding partnerships
between the government and the
non-profits and trying to think
more strategically about how to
address some large problem —
such as the recidivism rate in the
prison population.
I happen to oppose all these
things and find them a horrible
increase in the size and scope of
government — but the way the
media covered what that office
did bore very little resemblance to
what the office actually did. I
actually spoke with some people
who worked in that office and
they told me that they could never
get the media interested in their
projects such as the Prisoner
ReEntry Initiative, a work
program that showed a recidivism
rate among participants that is
half the national average. Or the
Access to Recovery program that
worked with more than 400
nonprofit partners to provide
substance abuse support to
200,000 people. The program
showed a higher-than-average
reduction in alcohol and drug use.
Or the President’s Malaria
Initiative, a $1.2 billion program
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that used faith-based and
community organizations to
educate African community
leaders and mobilize grassroots
volunteers.
If there is anything like this type
of program emphasis happening
in the current faith-based office, I
will eat my shoe. I mean, I don’t
think they even have the capacity.
Whatever else might be said about
Bush’s faith-based office, it was
led by policy wonks. DuBois is a
campaign operative. I think
they’ve basically just made their
faith-based initiative office their
political outreach arm.
Anyway, the rest of the story
includes an update on the big
“hiring” issue. The update,
according to DuBois, is that there
is no update. Religious groups
that hire only coreligionists can
continue receive federal funds.
So all in all, a very helpful story
that shows readers what is — or
isn’t — happening in this office.
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Got news? Bible studies (plural) in mine?

tmatt (GetReligion) their families. When the mine collapsed, three Still, I wonder if there were faith-
Submitted at 10/13/2010 8:10:43 PM Marcelo Leiva, a Baptist pastor, of the miners — including centered tensions down there,
and Jose Henriquez, one of the Henriquez — were Christians. under all of that rock. Previous
I don’t know about you, but I had miners, had never met before the Since then, two more of them stories mentioned a “spiritual
assumed that the spiritual leaders mine collapse. Instead, they have have made professions of faith. leader” among the miners named,
of the trapped miners in Chile communicated in handwritten “It was Jose who made the request 62-year-old Mario Gomez, the
would be Catholics. That was true letters and in a single, brief phone that an evangelical pastor come to group’s oldest member. The
of some, but not all. conversation. A half-mile of rock minister to the miners and their Vatican sent 33 “mini Bibles,”
I guess I was — in an earlier has separated them. But despite families,” said Bryan Wolf, an and 33 rosaries down the small
post— guilty of tunnel vision. the physical distance, the two International Mission Board hole that served as a literal and
In other words, I didn’t take into Chilean evangelicals developed a (IMB) missionary serving in spiritual lifeline to Gomez and the
account the religious changes special friendship. Vallenar, Chile. other miners.
sweeping through Latin America. Henriquez has been an Now, did anyone else raise their So I’ll ask: How many Bible
Then again, it is more than encouragement to his co-workers eyebrows while reading that? studies were being held down
possible that lots of other folks in as they struggled to stay positive You see, while these stories are there? Were there tensions
the mainstream press missed an during their confinement. An part of a feel-good media festival, between the believers? Was there
interesting angle on this story, evangelical Christian, he held these Baptist Press stories raise an spiritual unity among the
too. daily Bible studies for the miners interesting question — one I had diversity? Maybe there was both?
Anyway, I had not heard of the as rescue efforts developed on the not thought of before. Sounds like a story to me, maybe
Rev. Marcelo Leiva, a Baptist surface. There were only three Christians even a complex story, at that.
pastor, and miner Jose Henriquez When Henriquez requested an buried down in that mine? Or Written by: tmatt on October 13,
Gonzalez until today. A Google evangelical pastor to aid the were there only three evangelical 2010.
News search indicates that I am miners and their families at the and/or Baptist believers down This entry passed through the
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The Pelosi Machine

Submitted at 10/14/2010 3:00:02 AM
some of the unpopular legislation serious ethics charges. In fact, the lack of civility has been than once about Pelosi’s use of
she engineered. Rangel remained the country’s apparent. Attacking former her Catholicism in politics. Did
Rochelle Schweizer discusses LOPEZ: How much of chief tax writer until he stepped president George W. Bush as you find that an important aspect
She’s the Boss. November, nationally, will be down in March 2010. When incompetent and dangerous, of Pelosi’s speakership to cover?
‘W e are in the midst of a battle about Nancy Pelosi? Republican majority leader Tom saying he has no judgment -- SCHWEIZER: While I do not
over the ideas that are going to SCHWEIZER: I think that the DeLay was admonished by the that’s way beyond just falling question Pelosi’s personal faith, I
govern our lives.” That’s how outcome of the election will not same committee in 2004, Pelosi short. It is designed to inflict do think it’s important for people
Rochelle Schweizer explains the only be a referendum on President said the very next day: “Mr. damage. Sometimes her strategy to understand the theological
importance of her new book on Obama but also on Nancy Pelosi DeLay has proven himself to be isn’t so watertight, as when she gymnastics she performs to justify
the women of the hour in the and the Left’s agenda, which they ethically unfit to lead the party.” got entangled in her political public-policy positions that are in
House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. have successfully pushed, to some #page# LOPEZ: You accuse her hypocrisy concerning the direct conflict with her faith. It
The book is She’s the Boss: The extent, onto the electorate. of hypocrisy. Isn’t that what we’re waterboarding scandal. She goes to the essence of how she
Disturbing Truth about Nancy President Obama is certainly an all usually accused of when we charged that such a practice -- operates to further her agenda.
Pelosi, published by Penguin’s ideological liberal, but Pelosi is fall short of our ideals? which she later revealed she knew She has received papal lectures,
Sentinel imprint, and she talks the tough, brass-knuckled political SCHWEIZER: Pelosi’s about -- was a moral blot on the but that has not in any way forced
about it here with National boss who has been able to hypocrisy is not just a matter of Bush administration. Again, her her to retreat from her radical
Review Online’s Kathryn Jean strategize and then execute the her falling short. Of course we all hypocrisy was a means to her views on abortion, gay rights, and
Lopez. agenda. So, yes, this is about fall victim to hypocrisy in the ends. stem-cell research. Pelosi has
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: The Nancy Pelosi. pursuit of our ideals. For Pelosi, LOPEZ: Is Nancy Pelosi treated said, “[My parents] didn’t raise
very last sentence of your book LOPEZ: Has Nancy Pelosi done her hypocrisy is a means to her differently by the media because me to be the speaker. They raised
asks, “Is the House that Nancy what she said she would do as ends. She has used this tactic, she’s a she? me to be holy.” She says that her
Pelosi built ready to collapse?” speaker? Cleaning the swamp flawlessly at times, in pursuit of SCHWEIZER: The media treats upbringing included working on
What’s your answer? comes to mind#...# her agenda. Consider her calls to Nancy Pelosi differently because the side of the angels with her
ROCHELLE SCHWEIZER: It SCHWEIZER: No, I don’t have everyone included in the she espouses an agenda that they parents. What is dangerous in her
c e r t a i n l y l o o k s t h a t N a n c y believe the speaker has followed health-care debate. She told agree with. They may cloak their rhetoric is that she sees, much as
Pelosi’s House is pretty shaky and through with her calls to “drain Politico in July 2009, “Every deferential treatment of her in a the late Sen. Ted Kennedy did,
about ready to collapse. But let’s the GOP swamp.” The swamp is single person in America is an manner to reflect the fact that she that a sort of “heaven on earth” is
not count her out yet. messier than ever. She vowed to expert on his or her heath is a woman. But regardless of her possible if lawmakers will just act
#ad# LOPEZ: What does that clean up the Republicans’ culture care.#...#We have to listen to gender, their project is to ignore progressively and pass bills that
House look like? of “corruption, cronyism, and everybody.” But it became clear and shore up both her agenda and will right all the injustices we
SCHWEIZER: Pelosi’s House is incompetence” with her ambitious she didn’t want to listen to anyone her strong-arm methods. Pelosi have caused by our sinful nature.
showing a lot of wear right about a g e n d a . T h i s i s w h a t t h e who opposed her plan when she has been quoted as saying, “If you #ad#As I write, “In this way a sort
now. She has been pounding the Democrats ran on in 2006 rather tried to quell the town-hall take the knife off the table, it’s not of ‘societal salvation’ becomes
gavel for the last four years, and than clear policy issues. The protesters. She was very clear very frightening anymore.” That possible for those willing to join
some of the legislation -- the result, under Pelosi’s leadership? about how much “everybody” is hardly something Newt with the people ‘working on the
stimulus economic-recovery plan, Spending that is out of control; a would be involved: We would Gingrich or even Jim Wright side of the angels’ (a.k.a.
cap-and-trade, health-care reform massive health-care bill that was learn more about the final would have gotten away with. leftists).” She claims she prefers
-- was passed without bipartisan passed behind closed doors with package once it was enacted. And if Sarah Palin were speaker to decouple religion and politics.
support. Thus, her strategy has provisions (a Pelosi method) that #ad#She also claimed that her of the House, we would certainly Yet when it is politically
made it difficult for some of her include, among others, expanding new majority would be see an intolerant media. Their advantageous for her to do so, she
vulnerable, moderate colleagues Medicaid and fining those who characterized by “civility, posture toward a woman with sprinkles her speeches with
t o g o h o m e t o f a c e t h e i r choose not purchase insurance; honesty, and fiscal Palin’s views would be combative scriptural references. She framed
constituents. They are being held a n d t h e s p e a k e r ’ s b l a t a n t responsibility.” In truth, there has and hostile.
responsible for their votes on sidestepping of Charlie Rangel’s been little fiscal responsibility and #page# LOPEZ: I’ve written more PELOSI page 82
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Jim DeMint: Senator Tea Party
Submitted at 10/14/2010 3:00:16 AM
Adapted from the Feb. 22, 2010,
issue of NR.
W hen Sen. Jim DeMint of South
Carolina decided to endorse Pat
Toomey's GOP primary challenge
to Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania
last year, plenty of Republicans
seemed eager to denounce him for
shrinking the party. “Some
conservatives would rather lose
than be seen as compromising on
what they regard as inviolable
principles,” grumbled Texas
senator John Cornyn, who heads
the National Republican
Senatorial Committee (NRSC).
Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine
contributed an op-ed to the New
York Times. GOP moderates, she
warned, “often get the distinct
feeling that [they’re] no longer
welcome in the tribe.” Even
DeMint’s fellow travelers at the
editorial page of the Wall Street
Journal piled on: “Republicans
shouldn’t follow South Carolina
Senator Jim DeMint and welcome
Mr. Specter’s defection as an
ideological cleansing.”
#ad#If DeMint once looked like a
crotchety conservative who was
satisfied to serve in a dwindling
and disgruntled minority, he now
appears more like the prophet of a
coming resurgence. Not long ago,
many Republicans would have
been content to pick up a mere
handful of Senate seats in the
midterm elections this year. That
began to change with Scott
Brown’s startling special-election
victory in Massachusetts. Today,
there’s talk of sweeping gains not
just for the GOP in general, but
specifically for the conservatives
within it. Since I wrote this article
at the beginning of the year,
DeMint and his endorsements
have become more and more
influential. His backing of
Christine O’Donnell in Delaware
marked the end of an
extraordinary primary season for
the South Carolina senator.
Even if Republicans don’t take
control of the chamber -- a hard
task, even in a favorable political
environment -- they could give
Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid and other Democrats a
genuine scare. DeMint’s
particular gamble in Pennsylvania
may pay off handsomely: In
January, a Rasmussen poll of
likely voters showed that Toomey
has surged from underdog to
favorite. He currently leads Rep.
Joe Sestak, who defeated Specter
in the Democratic primary, by six
points.
“This is part of an American
awakening,” says DeMint. “If
people want to take back their
government, they can do it. No
state is out of play.” DeMint is
now positioning himself as the
Great Awakener -- a national
leader of a highly decentralized
tea-party movement whose
activist energy may hold the key
to turning 2010 into another 1994
for the GOP.
The 58-year-old DeMint grew up
in Greenville, S.C., with a single
mother who operated the DeMint
Academy of Dance and Decorum
in their house. When one of her
students lacked a partner, his
mother would ring a bell. This
was to summon DeMint, who
would have to fill in, even if it
meant dancing with a man.
“Scarred me for life,” he jokes.
Later, DeMint became the
drummer for a rock-and-roll cover
band called Salt & Pepper, so
named because half of its
members were white and half
were black -- a bit of integration
in a South Carolina that was still
escaping the legacy of Jim Crow.
“I could have been a rock star,
except I had no voice or talent,”
says DeMint. He did, however,
have a first-rate cackle: When his
band performed the beach-rock
classic “Wipe Out,” originally
recorded by the Surfaris, DeMint
provided the wild laugh that kicks
off the song.
DeMint earned degrees at the
University of Tennessee and
Clemson, joined an advertising
company, and eventually founded
his own marketing firm. He says
he was too busy to think about
politics -- it rarely entered his
mind. “I had kids and a business,”
he says. “I didn’t even know who
my congressman was.” Then,
toward the end of the 1980s, he
ran a focus group that asked the
residents of a public-housing
development to describe the
challenges they faced. “One
woman told us, ‘Stop paying our
babies to have babies,’” he
recalls. It dawned on him that
many social ills were the
unintended consequences of
government policies.
#page#A few years later, in 1992,
Bob Inglis walked into his office.
They didn’t know each other, but
Inglis was thinking about running
for Congress, and he sought
DeMint’s advice. They struck up
a friendship, and DeMint became
an adviser. Inglis won and served
three terms. When he stepped
down in 1998, DeMint decided to
pursue the vacant House seat. “I
was 47 years old and I had never
run for anything,” he says. (The
memoir-like first chapter of his
recently published book, Saving
Freedom, is called “From Normal
to Politician.”) During the GOP
primary, he campaigned for
abolishing the tax code,
privatizing Social Security, and
passing a right-to-life amendment.
He finished second -- and did well
enough to force a runoff, which
he won against a candidate who
was seen as a favorite of religious
conservatives.
#ad#In the House, DeMint earned
a reputation as a free trader, even
though he hailed from a state
whose representatives
traditionally had pushed for textile
protectionism. He says that his
trade votes -- for presidential
trade-promotion authority and
closer ties with China -- were
some of the most difficult he has
cast. “Voters had a very negative
perception of trade,” he says. “I
took a lot of heat.” This regional
apostasy earned him a primary
challenger in 2002. DeMint
survived that threat and made
good on a promise to serve no
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more than three terms.
In 2004, he ran for the Senate.
Once again, he finished second in
the GOP primary, behind former
governor David Beasley, and
went on to win a runoff. Then he
captured the seat that retiring
Democrat Ernest Hollings had
occupied for nearly four decades.
This year, DeMint is running for
re-election and does not appear to
face serious opposition.
As a senator, DeMint has
compiled one of the most
conservative voting records in
Washington. The American
Conservative Union gives him a
lifetime rating of 98.4 percent. No
other senator has a higher mark.
In August, a reporter for the New
York Times sneered at him as “a
back-bencher with little influence
in Washington’s corridors of
power” -- a sure sign that his
influence was in fact growing.
The criticism came in the wake of
a mini-controversy in which
DeMint demonstrated a knack for
getting under the skin of
Democrats, including President
Obama.
Last summer, on a conference
call with conservative activists,
DeMint discussed ways to block
the nationalization of health care.
“If we’re able to stop Obama on
this, it will be his Waterloo, it will
break him,” he said. An audio clip
of the comment became a
sensation on left-wing blogs. The
White House had a fit -- or at least
thought it had found a useful
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Infrastructure Bill Gone Wild
Submitted at 10/14/2010 3:00:23 AM
The uses and abuses of
infrastructure legislation.
P resident Obama just called for a
$500 billion infrastructure plan.
“Investing in infrastructure is
something members of both
political parties have always
supported,” he said. But
insufficient funding isn’t the only
thing holding up repairs. Before
Obama throws more money at
infrastructure -- and speaks on
behalf of both parties -- he should
look at the war surrounding the
FAA Reauthorization Act of
2009.
The bill, which should be a
routine matter, is being delayed
(note the year) by a vicious fight
between FedEx on one side, and
UPS and the Teamsters on the
other. The battle -- which has
come into the public eye thanks to
FedEx’s aggressive campaign to
“stop the Brown Bailout” -- is a
perfect example of how
congressional regulations, labor
unions, and even corporate
headquarters can conspire to
distort free enterprise.
#ad#The trouble goes back to
Calvin Coolidge’s presidency. By
1926, the U.S. had seen decades
of bloody labor agitation, and
railroads had become crucial to
the nation’s infrastructure. These
two facts put together created a
problem: Striking workers at a
single local rail branch could hold
the nation hostage by shutting
down all thru-traffic. In response,
Congress passed the Railway
Labor Act (RLA), which forbade
rail workers to strike or organize
locally (i.e., at individual
branches), made unionization
difficult, and required that labor
disputes be resolved through
mediation.
In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt
signed the National Labor
Relations Act (NLRA), which
dramatically limited the actions
employers could take against
unionization -- but Congress and
FDR specifically roped rail
workers off from the NLRA,
preserving the original RLA rules
for them. Indeed, the RLA’s strict
governance of railroad labor was
considered so important that FDR,
of all presidents, extended it to the
industry that was quickly
replacing railways in vitality to
the national infrastructure:
airlines.
The different standards created
by these hoary bills have just now
percolated into the nasty “Brown
Bailout” conflict. The problem is
that FedEx’s labor relations fall
mostly under the business-
friendly RLA, while UPS’s fall
almost entirely under the union-
friendly NLRA. The reason is
historical. “UPS started out as a
trucking company, and FedEx
started out as an airline,” explains
Jim Berard, spokesman for Rep.
Jim Oberstar (D., Minn.), who
chairs the House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee.
Even today, 85 percent of FedEx
packages travel by air at some
point before delivery, while the
same percentage of UPS packages
travel by truck only. FedEx keeps
most of its truckers under the
RLA by separating trucks that
carry express mail -- i.e., ones
whose parcels just came off a
plane -- from pure ground-
delivery trucks. This cleverness
lets FedEx classify most of its
truckers as airline workers
(participants in the delivery of air
mail), keeping them out of the
NLRA’s, and the Teamsters’,
grips.
Nonetheless, as Berard says, the
two companies are “basically
doing the same thing” today and
should be treated the same way
under the law. Historically, FedEx
has agreed: In the 1980s and
1990s, when UPS tried to be
reclassified under the RLA, citing
its somewhat expanded air
operation, FedEx supported the
effort, even though it would have
made UPS a greater competitive
threat.
But the Teamsters and their allies
defeated UPS’s effort in
Congress. So, some claim, UPS is
resorting to a more cynical
strategy: If the company can’t
restore parity by making itself
more competitive, at least it can
cripple FedEx -- with the
Teamsters’ help.
UPS’s weapon is a few
paragraphs that Oberstar added to
the FAA Reauthorization Act.
The legislation is here, and --
though it’s hard for anyone not on
the Infrastructure Committee to
decode -- it would essentially
place FedEx’s relations with its
truckers under the NLRA, giving
the Teamsters an entrance and
would-be strikers a chance.
Oberstar claims that his provision
isn’t for UPS, but for the workers
within FedEx’s own ranks. A
member of Minnesota’s peculiar
Democratic-Farmer-Labor party,
he’s a leftist in the old style, some
might say a union hack. “He is the
son of a labor leader on the Iron
Range of Minnesota. He himself
worked on the iron-ore mines of
Minnesota,” says Berard. “He
carries a United Steel Workers
card. His father was buried with
his union contract in his pocket.
You’re damn right he sympathizes
with labor.” Berard claims the
Oberstar office receives -- “on a
weekly basis” -- calls from FedEx
workers who support the
legislation.
#page#Oberstar’s labor-populist
bona fides and Teamster
sympathies are authentic. But
Oberstar also -- and this is
something Berard doesn’t
advertise -- receives more money
from UPS than any other
congressman.
On the other side of the Capitol
Building and political spectrum,
Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar
Alexander, both Republicans from
Tennessee, have countered
Oberstar. Thus far, they’ve
prevented the bill’s passage by
threatening a filibuster. Corker
explains that he’s consistently
supported equal treatment for the
two companies under the law: “I
offered UPS that if they wanted to
change things, they could alter the
law to compete the way FedEx
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does. We shouldn’t use legislation
to force a company to come under
different labor standards which
would change their business
model. This is a move by unions
to take advantage of a law that
ultimately will pass.”
#ad#Does Corker feel this way
because he’s a champion of free
enterprise? Partly. But it’s hard
not to suspect that FedEx’s
headquarters in Memphis might
also have something to do with
the Tennessee senators’
supererogatory efforts. In fact, it’s
hard to find any legislator who’s
involved in this debate who
doesn’t have an interest on his
side.
As the FAA reauthorization
remains in limbo, FedEx and UPS
are engaged in public-relations
warfare. The companies have
spent about $13 million total on
their advertising and lobbying
campaigns, according to UPS
spokeswoman Kara Ross.
FedEx’s campaign, Brown
Bailout, has a website, a blog, a
Facebook account, a Twitter
account, and kitschy videos on
YouTube. The name is somewhat
disingenuous. As Jim Berard says,
“They call it the ‘Brown Bailout.’
That’s pure propaganda. We’re
not giving money to UPS.”
The Teamsters’ Blogwatch,
meanwhile, reminds us that
“FedEx Drivers Aren’t Pilots,”
links us to satirical videos, and,
somewhat spontaneously,
connects the Koch brothers to
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The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
Jamie Glazov (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 11:30:58 PM
Frontpage Interview’s guest
today is Jay Bergman, a Professor
of History at Central Connecticut
State University, where he teaches
Russian and modern European
history. He received his
bachelor’s degree from Brandeis
University and his M.A., M. Phil.,
and Ph.D from Yale University.
He is the author of Vera Zasulich:
A Biography, published by
Stanford University Press; and
articles in Russian intellectual
history. He is also on the Board
of Directors of the National
Association of Scholars, a
nationwide organization of
professors committed to reasoned
scholarship, intellectual diversity,
and nondiscrimination in faculty
hiring and student admissions. His
newest book is Meeting the
Demands of Reason: The Life and
Thought of Andrei Sakharov,
published by Cornell University
Press.
FP: Jay Bergman, welcome to
Frontpage Interview.
Let’s begin with what inspired
you to write Meeting the
Demands of Reason.
Bergman: As a historian of
Russia, I have been intrigued by
the degree to which certain critics
of the Soviet Union, referred to as
“dissidents,” resembled the so-
called intelligentsia of
prerevolutionary Russia, the
members of which condemned the
tsarist regime for failings similar
to those the dissidents found in
the Soviet one. This resemblance
seemed to me particularly striking
in the case of Andrei Sakharov,
who, along with Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, was the most
prominent dissident and among
the best known in the West. And
since none of the existing
biographies of Sakharov analyzed
his ideas in any serious and
systematic way, I thought I should
write a biography that did.
FP: Tell us about Soviet
dissidence, what spawned it and
what its character and objectives
were.
Bergman: By the term one means
a particular kind of opposition to
the Soviet system that emerged in
the late 1960s, continued through
the 1970s, and ended in the mid-
1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev’s
p o l i c i e s o f
perestroika(reconstruction) and
glasnost’(openness) incorporated
aspects of this opposition and in
the process rendered it largely
moot. Substantively, Soviet
dissidence was marked by its
rejection of the political status
quo in the name of human rights,
by which the dissidents meant
moral and philosophical
principles that were timeless,
universal, and absolute. In this
respect the dissidents resembled
not only the intelligentsia of
nineteenth century Russia but also
the Enlightenment of eighteenth
century Europe, to which many
characteristics of the intelligentsia
can be traced.
What caused the dissident
movement to emerge was the
desire of the Soviet leadership, for
ideological as well as political
reasons, to modernize the Soviet
economy and society while at the
same time maintaining its
monopoly of political power. The
first objective requires that those
who were pursuing it – such as
the nuclear physicists who, like
Sakharov, were conscripted to
develop thermonuclear weapons
for the state – be granted
vocational autonomy; the
weapons the physicists designed
would not work if the government
intervened in their construction.
But because vocational autonomy
or freedom can cause those who
enjoy it to demand political
freedom – something the Soviet
leadership could not grant – these
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physicists were in fact secluded
from the general population in an
installation surrounded by barbed
wire and guarded by security
personnel carrying guns. It is true
that similar precautions attended
the American nuclear project at
Los Alamos. But there the reason
for these precautions was to
prevent scientific information
from leaking; in the Soviet Union
there was the additional reason
that freedom is contagious. If
nuclear physicists can enjoy
vocational freedom, why can’t
everyone enjoy it? And if
everyone is granted vocational
freedom, why can’t everyone
have political freedom as well? It
was because the leaders of the
Soviet Union had no real answers
to these questions that some
Soviet citizens like Sakharov
became dissidents.
At first the dissidents mostly
demanded that the Soviet system
be reformed, rather than
transformed or destroyed, and that
they participate, along with the
government, in this endeavor.
But because the Soviet leadership
was so intent on preserving the
existing system, which by the
1960’s provided it with privileges
as well as political power, it could
not agree to either of these
demands. Like the tsars who
preceded them, the Soviet leaders
viewed the Soviet people, even
the most gifted intellectually and
artistically, as children, too
immature and irrational to share
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health care as an ethical issue,
quoting from the book of
Hebrews. She set up climate
change similarly, referring to the
Old Testament as her guide and
inspiration. She said, “To minister
to the needs of God’s creation is
an act of worship. To ignore those
needs is to dishonor the God who
made us.” So, if you don’t agree,
you are a sinner. There is no room
for honest policy disagreements.
But there is even more to her
scriptural references. Her father,
“Big Tommy” D’Alesandro,
taught her that politics is a game
of numbers and coalitions. She
realizes that “the Faithful,” what
Bill Clinton’s pollster Stanley
Greenberg calls white Christians,
can pose a serious threat to her
radical agenda. She needs to try to
close “the God gap” -- the large
variance between political
identification and regular church
attendance.
LOPEZ: You argue that she is
not an ideologue -- but is she not
responsible for a most left-wing
House?
SCHWEIZER: I do argue that at
her core she is not an ideologue.
Undoubtedly, she spells out a
worldview that is consistently to
the left of the American public’s.
That is her message, and one that
I believe she supports. But there is
more. Pelosi is foremost an
operational woman who treats
politics mainly as the ability to
raise money and in turn gain
access to resources. She is a
product of her liberal base. She
understands that her message
needs to reflect her fundraising
base and her voter base. To raise
the unprecedented amounts of
money she has, she has had to
keep the sources she taps happy
with her message. It is her
consistent, reliable views on the
issues that keeps the money
geyser gushing that lead to power
and ultimately to control.
LOPEZ: How is the House
different under Nancy Pelosi?
What is this “boss politics” you
write of?
SCHWEIZER: First of all, her
leadership and power are clear.
Pelosi understands that the more
centralized the control, the greater
the influence of the power broker.
Richard Cohen wrote that during
the health-care debate, Pelosi
“centralized perhaps
unprecedented control in the
speaker’s office.” Camille Paglia
used the words “hard-won, trench
-warfare win” to describe the
speaker’s success in the
November 2009 health-care push,
and described Pelosi’s tactics this
way: “Even a basic feminist
shibboleth like abortion rights
became just another card for
Pelosi to deal and swap.” There is
more than a little Machiavelli in
Pelosi. She doesn’t care if she’s
liked.
Second, loyalty is rewarded, even
when it doesn’t make sense. This
was evident during her support for
the late Jack Murtha for majority
leader over rival Steny Hoyer. For
a political boss, loyalty is at a
premium, even if it means
supporting someone who has had
numerous ethical scrapes. Third,
she has been able to convince her
colleagues to go along with her
big-government plans even in the
midst of a recession. She cut
enough deals to narrowly pass her
climate-change bill as well as the
massive health-care-reform
legislation -- even when her
colleagues were looking at polls
that showed more than 50 percent
of Americans wanted to shelve
health-care reform. Members of
her House have described her
leadership abilities. According to
the Los Angeles Times, one of
those members called her style
“kid gloves and a hidden stiletto.”
#page# LOPEZ: Do you have a
top-three list of evidence of
“machine fatigue”?
SCHWEIZER: Top three signs of
machine fatigue:
1. The trouble she is in has
become public. Just recently, 47
of her members fired off a letter
to her indicating that they are
ready to side with Republicans on
extending tax rates on capital
gains and dividends. And Pelosi
has admitted her vulnerability.
She commanded her troops to
divvy up their funds and charged
those members in safe districts to
send checks to vulnerable
candidates to save her majority.
#ad#2. Some Democrats are not
only running from her but running
against her. Last month, Indiana
Democratic congressman Joe
Donnelly distanced himself from
her agenda when he charged in a
campaign ad that the climate-
change legislation was “Nancy
Pelosi’s energy tax.”
3. A recent USA Today/Gallup
Poll found that 56 percent of those
asked still disapprove of the
health-care overhaul. The
taxpayer understands the heavy
cost of funding the Left’s machine
and doesn’t want to pay the price.
LOPEZ: Why do bamboo mats --
which I have no objection to -- in
the Longworth House Office
Building café matter?
SCHWEIZER: I mentioned the
bamboo mats to cement in the
mind of the reader Pelosi’s overall
plan to use taxpayer funds to
enforce her greening measures
and to pay for her front-line battle
against global warming.
According to a story in E, an
environmental magazine,
taxpayers got to pay for a “Green
the Capitol” initiative that
includes “consultations” with all
7,000 Washington-based
employees as well as carbon
offsets to deal with the House’s
greenhouse gas emissions. Yet
Pelosi fires up her jets for failed
overseas climate summits,
nonstop trips to California, and
numerous congressional
delegations that have included
enormous in-flight expenses.
LOPEZ: How did John Dingell
get on Nancy Pelosi’s bad side?
SCHWEIZER: John Dingell
found himself in Pelosi’s
crosshairs for a couple of reasons.
First, he was not green enough for
her on environmental issues. The
needs of his constituents in
Detroit were in conflict with
Pelosi and her allies’ plans for
legislation on climate change and
their desire to tax carbon
emissions. Pelosi took him on
early, and the outcome of a fuel
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bill in 2007 made it clear that she
won that battle. By November
2008, Dingell had been booted out
as Energy and Commerce
Committee chair, and Henry
Waxman, a close Pelosi ally,
replaced him. She needed
Waxman to push through her
flagship issue, climate change.
Dingell made another tactical
error. During the epic battle
between Pelosi and Steny Hoyer
for Democratic whip, Dingell
supported Hoyer. Pelosi didn’t
forget Dingell’s disloyalty and
sent a $10,000 check from her
massive war chest to his primary
opponent.
#page# LOPEZ: How did you
come to write a book about
Pelosi? It’s a hard thing to do,
isn’t it, when the subject and her
intimates aren’t going to talk to
you?
SCHWEIZER: After observing
Pelosi, especially during the past
four years, I found it surprising
that so little had been devoted to
covering her ascent. Here we had
a woman who had broken the
marble ceiling, and, beyond a few
biographies, there wasn’t a work
that explored how she had done it.
And there was scant information
that in any manner took a more
critical approach.
#ad# LOPEZ: Why is this book
important now?
SCHWEIZER: We are in the
midst of a battle over the ideas
that are going to govern our lives:
whether it will be Pelosi’s vision
of utopia -- government solutions
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villain. Obama quoted the line in
a speech and condemned it as an
example of irresponsible
Republican obstructionism. A few
of DeMint’s colleagues suggested
that he stick to a script that called
for criticisms of congressional
leaders such as Reid and Speaker
of the House Nancy Pelosi, but
not Obama, who at the time was
seen as bulletproof. DeMint
ignored their advice. “My point
was that we could break his
momentum, his rampaging agenda
toward overspending and debt,”
he says. “I wanted to stop the
president so that he would work
with us rather than steamroll us.”
The skirmish over this metaphor
seems only to have energized the
South Carolinian. On September
12, when a swarm of tea-party
activists descended on
Washington, DeMint was the only
senator to address them.
“Welcome to Waterloo!” he said
to a cheering crowd. “We must
stop this government takeover of
health care.”
#page#DeMint has opened other
fronts in his fight against the
Obama administration. One is in
Honduras, where a constitutional
crisis led the military to depose
the president last summer.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
called it a “coup.” DeMint, who
serves on the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, wasn’t so
sure. But he didn’t have any
special expertise in Honduras or
its laws. A member of his staff
suggested that he contact a
Honduran-American whom many
conservatives in Washington
already knew, at least by
reputation: Miguel Estrada.
President Bush had selected him
for the federal bench in 2001, but
Democrats filibustered his
nomination. Estrada, a U.S.
citizen, lived in Honduras until he
was 17. Now a lawyer in private
practice, he was following events
in his native land closely.
#ad#DeMint and Estrada had not
met previously, but soon Estrada
found himself in the senator’s
office. They pored over Honduran
legal documents, which Estrada
had located on government
websites and translated. Estrada
persuaded the senator that the
Hondurans had ousted their
president legally, in order to
prevent a despotic power grab.
“We did our homework,” says
DeMint. Yet the Obama
administration continued to
criticize what had taken place.
DeMint responded by blocking
confirmation votes on a pair of
nominees: Arturo Valenzuela for
assistant secretary of state for
Western-hemisphere relations and
Thomas A. Shannon for
ambassador to Brazil.
Then, in September, DeMint
planned his own fact-finding
mission to Honduras -- only to
find himself thwarted by Sen.
John Kerry, the Massachusetts
Democrat who heads the Foreign
Relations Committee. Even
though the committee’s
Democrats had spent record
amounts on their own
international travel (according to a
Boston Globe analysis), Kerry
refused to release funds for
DeMint’s trip. DeMint went
anyway, under the auspices of
Senate minority leader Mitch
McConnell, a Kentucky
Republican. “When we got down
there, it was obvious that this was
no military coup,” says DeMint.
“We didn’t see soldiers patrolling
the presidential palace.” The spat
with Kerry generated additional
publicity for DeMint and his
views on what was happening in
Honduras.
The story has a happy ending.
Hillary Clinton and the State
Department eventually came
around, however grudgingly.
DeMint let the votes on
Valenzuela and Shannon go
forward. Honduras held new
elections in November and
inaugurated a new president in
January, with the approval of the
U.S. government. “The senator
kept the administration honest,”
says Estrada. “He was
invaluable.”
DeMint’s next dustup with the
White House came in the
aftermath of Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab’s failed attempt to
blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner
on Christmas. DeMint had
prevented a vote on Erroll
Southers, Obama’s nominee to
head the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA), on the
grounds that Southers had refused
to answer questions about plans to
unionize airport screeners. After
the bomb plot, liberals hoped
DeMint would cave in to a public
that demanded the swift
confirmation of a TSA chief.
DeMint went through another
round of criticism from all of the
usual sources -- a New York
Times editorial called his position
“wrongheaded” and “destructive”
-- but he held firm. On January
20, Southers pulled his name from
consideration.
This was the day after Brown’s
victory in Massachusetts. If the
timing wasn’t a sheer
coincidence, it was an early
indication of how much
Washington’s political dynamics
changed when the GOP cracked
the Democrats’ 60-vote
supermajority in the Senate. In the
months ahead, DeMint probably
will pick new battles with the
Obama administration -- but his
greatest influence may come in
shaping the course of the 2010
Senate elections. His objective is
not merely to defeat Democrats,
but to elect conservatives.
#page#He’ll do it through the
Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF),
the political-action committee he
founded in response to recent
GOP failures. “I was one of the
top fundraisers for the NRSC,”
says DeMint. “But when I’d make
phone calls, people kept telling
me that they weren’t going to give
another dime until Republicans
started acting like Republicans.”
DeMint figured they would give
to conservatives, however, and he
was right: In 2009, the SCF raised
more than $1.3 million, which it is
now directing toward
conservatives within the
Republican party, often to the
consternation of the GOP’s
Washington establishment.
#ad#The first sign of DeMint’s
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willingness to buck his more
cautious colleagues came when he
decided to support Toomey over
Specter. A few weeks later, on the
day the NRSC formally endorsed
Florida governor Charlie Crist for
his state’s Republican Senate
nomination, DeMint met with
Marco Rubio, who had already
announced his candidacy. “When
I heard Marco talk about his
principles, it was clear to me that
this was someone we would want
here in the Senate,” says DeMint.
Crist, by contrast, had warmly
endorsed Obama’s stimulus
spending and even hugged the
president at a political rally.
Rubio was little known, even
though he had served as speaker
of the house in Florida’s
legislature. One survey showed
him trailing Crist by 35 points.
DeMint endorsed him anyway. “A
lot of people thought I was crazy,
but I may have caused others to
give Marco a look,” he says.
That’s exactly what happened.
Rubio grabbed the spotlight in a
primary contest that Crist thought
he had locked up. Polls now show
Rubio more than ten points ahead
of his rivals, Democrat Kendrick
Meek and Crist, who is running as
an independent.
DeMint ruffled feathers in other
campaigns. In California, he
backed Chuck DeVore, a GOP
state assemblyman, even though
many Republicans had gotten
behind former Hewlett-Packard
CEO Carly Fiorina. (Former
congressman Tom Campbell was
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Morning Bell: The Tea Party Is Here to Stay
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
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Today, The Heritage Foundation
released its 2010 Index of
Dependence on Government. This
annual report tracks the growth of
dependence-creating federal
programs, programs that crowd-
out what was once America’s
great civil society. At one time,
social obligations and services
were carried out by community
groups, family networks and even
local governments. Now, an ever
growing and ever more
unaccountable federal
bureaucracy undermines our spirit
of self-reliance and self-
improvement by making more and
more Americans dependent on
Big Government. In 2010, we
witnessed a record-breaking surge
in American dependence on the
federal government including:
• Government support for
dependent persons has grown
from $7,293 per person in 1962,
to $31,950 per person today
(adjusted for inflation).
• 132.5 million Americans either
pay no income tax or live in a
household that pays no income
tax. This is up from just 34.8
million in 1984.
• Social Security, Medicare and
Medicaid eat up 41% of all non-
interest federal program spending.
Unchecked, this will grow to 62%
over the next decade.
Not all dependence is bad. As
Heritage Foundation Center for
Data Analysis director Bill Beach
writes: “People spend most of
their childhoods utterly dependent
on their parents, and many people
will rely on caregivers during
their last years. Dependence on
family, neighbors, fellow
members of community groups,
and—yes—local government is
the normal, everyday stuff of
life.” But dependence on the
federal government is
categorically different. Federal
government aid does not
strengthen communities and
families: just look at how the
federal welfare system
undermined family structures and
hollowed-out communities for a
generation.
Worse, federal government
programs quickly become a drain
on the vitality of the nation.
Jonathan Rauch explains in his
book, “Government’s End”: “By
definition, the power of
government to solve problems
comes from its ability to reassign
resources, whether by taxing,
spending, regulating, or simply
passing laws. But that very ability
energizes countless investors and
entrepreneurs and ordinary
Americans to go digging for gold
by lobbying government. In time,
a whole industry – large
sophisticated, professional, and to
a considerable extent self-serving
– emerges and then assumes a life
of its own. This industry is a drain
on the productive economy, and
there appears to be no natural
limit to its growth.”
But there is still hope for our
country: the Tea Party.
Decentralized and skeptical of
central authority, the Tea Party
offers baffled politicians and
lobbyists no one to co-opt. Sally
Oljar of Tea Party Patriots
recently told Rauch: “Our real
mission is education and
providing resources to grassroots
activists who want to return the
country to our founding
principles. We recognize that’s
going to require a cultural change
that will take many years to
accomplish.”
The Heritage Foundation fully
supports their endeavors and
believes the Tea Party movement
is here to stay. Heritage
Foundation president Ed Feulner
and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
write in today’s Politico:
Americans have been
disappointed by leaders in both
parties who campaigned to right
past wrongs and then, after getting
to Washington, cared more about
power than promises. Tea party
supporters care more about
principle than party labels or
politics. … [T]he tea party has
roots that are deeper and aim
higher. Deeper because it is
within the best tradition of
popular movements in our history
— from the Great Awakening that
gave rise to the American
Revolution to the conservative
revival that helped elect Ronald
Reagan. Higher because it aims to
recover our moral compass,
bequeathed by our Founders and
preserved ever since.
… Gates told reporters that
Some past grass-roots
movements have succeeded, and
others have failed. Success comes
because the energy of the moment
is translated into a lasting,
governing philosophy consistent
with the settled opinions of the
American people. On this score,
prospects look good. The tea party
isn’t about to go away after the
November elections. Its powerful
message of limited government is
likely to remain a sharp thorn in
the side of those in both parties
who want to continue politics as
usual.
As The Daily Caller notes today:
“The Heritage Foundation think-
tank has made it clear: they may
be an established conservative
organization, but they’re with the
Tea Party activists who’ve risen
up to protest Washington’s old
ways.” The only way for us to end
the era of big government
dependency is to fight against it
together. As Ed Feulner would
say: “Onward!”
Quick Hits:
• According to the TARP
Congressional Oversight Panel,
the Treasury Department has
escaped transparency by using
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outside contractors to execute the
Wall Street bailout.
• According to the actuary for the
Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid, Obamacare will force
seniors to pay more for their
Medicare Advantage plans.
• Defense Secretary Robert M.
Congress, not a federal judge in
San Francisco, should decide the
fate of the “don’t ask, don’t tell”
law and not before the Pentagon
completes a study of the impact of
lifting the ban.
• In this weekend’s New York
Times magazine, President
Obama admits that at the time he
signed his failed $862 billion
economic stimulus into law, he
did not know that “there’s no such
thing as shovel-ready projects.”
• The Heritage Foundation’s
Brian Riedl fact checks Paul
Krugman’s claim that “There
never was a big expansion of
government spending.”
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Another Mortgage Mess continued from page 82

intended to control people’s lives

Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:00:54 AM
the product of the shared interests foreclosure cases since 2008 implements of torture: Fannie and -- or the vision the Founding
of local governments that treat could have predicted this Freddie, whose enormous clout Fathers had, people living freely
T he scandal at the center of our titling fees as one more cash cow scenario. (A very similar situation could be used to bully the banks. and determining their destiny in a
latest mortgage mess is not the in the golden herd and parochial is likely to play out among credit- This “solution” would do little or nation of unlimited opportunity.
“robo signers” who played fast business interests, such as title- card defaulters: The bill-collector nothing to alleviate the threat of a LOPEZ: What can conservatives
and loose with the affidavits insurance companies, that profit law firms that buy defaulted debt second financial crisis; it would learn from your book?
submitted in foreclosure cases. It from the inefficiency of our at pennies on the dollar from be merely punitive. In any case, SCHWEIZER: Conservatives
is that after years of propping up a n t i q u a t e d s y s t e m . A s t h e credit-card issuers are no more the banks risk taking another should first of all be encouraged
the banks and the alleged reform t u r b o c h a r g e d s e c u r i t i z a t i o n ready to show their paperwork beating, either from government by it. There is definitely machine
of the financial system under the process crashes into the crude title than the mortgage servicers in the strong-arming or from the fatigue. When conservative ideas
Dodd-Frank bill, we still are -recording system, thousands of foreclosures cases.) unraveling of mortgage-backed are heard accurately, they sell
teetering on the same precipice foreclosure cases are stalled The Left already is presenting securities, which will dump a load well; when Democratic goals and
upon which we found ourselves in because it is proving difficult or this as a case of the wicked of bad loans back onto their ideas (especially Pelosi’s brand)
the wake of the Lehman Bros. impossible to prove who actually bankers fraudulently throwing books. become clear, public opinion
collapse: Enormous amounts of owns the title to a particular families out of their homes and How bad a beating? Nobody turns against them. So, instead of
toxic mortgage-backed securities house, and who therefore has onto the street. That does not knows. It could be mild, or it campaigning on the issues, they
remain on the banks’ books at standing to sue for foreclosure. seem to have happened: The vast could be catastrophic. The critical are once again, as in 2006, trying
imaginary valuations while prices One possible result of this mess majority of people who have been issue of oversight-- gathering to “dig up dirt” on the Republican
for the $1.3 trillion in mortgage- is that billions of dollars in foreclosed upon are in fact not intelligence about the financial candidates. The modus operandi
backed securities are crashing, securitized mortgages, many of making their mortgage payments; system rather than attempting to for the Democrats: If you can’t
i n s p i r i n g “ t o o b i g t o f a i l ” them low-quality subprime loans, in the tiny number of cases in micromanage it -- has been win the argument, change the
institutions to seek special could end up back on the balance which homeowners have been comprehensively neglected by the subject.
political favors. Fannie and sheets of the banks that sold them, foreclosed on wrongly, it seems to Obama administration, which Conservatives can also learn that,
Freddie are poised to insert setting the American financial have been from genuine error came into power on a slick of for the Left to impose their
themselves into the mix for system up for a replay of 2008. rather than malfeasance. (It goes Goldman Sachs money and little agenda, they need operational
political purposes, and normal T h e g o v e r n m e n t - s p o n s o r e d without saying that these appetite for intelligent, market- people like Pelosi who have
financial processes are grinding to enterprises, Fannie Mae and homeowners should be made oriented reform. While the access to vast resources. Their
a halt as both regulators and the Freddie Mac, either insure or own whole and their grossly negligent Democrats have been frittering success is not based on their
banks themselves put a hold on most of the mortgages in the tormentors punished civilly or away time and energy on non- agenda alone.
f o r e c l o s u r e s . M e a n w h i l e , country, and the two politically criminally, as appropriate.) But issues like executive LOPEZ: Is there a non-right-
t h o u s a n d s o f w o u l d - b e connected firms still enjoy the the Obama administration has a compensation and risible non- wing audience for it?
homebuyers have been cast into outrageous privilege of unlimited new Consumer Financial performing initiatives like the SCHWEIZER: Hopefully there is
limbo because it is no longer clear financial backing from the U.S. Protection Bureau at its disposal, Home Affordable Mortgage a broader audience for She’s the
that they can legally take g o v e r n m e n t . O n c e a g a i n , with left-wing scold Elizabeth Program, the deeper problems, as Boss. It offers insight into Pelosi’s
possession of the foreclosed taxpayers face the prospect of Warren waiting in the wings to usual, have been ignored or formative years, her grooming
properties they are buying. being on the hook. run it, and some Democrats misunderstood by the law and her calculated ascent. I would
Didn’t we just do financial The Obama administration was already are arguing that the professors and career politicos guess there are many Democrats
reform? warned months ago that the administration should use this who have installed themselves as right now who are not too happy
#ad#The United States has a 21st- foreclosure system was in trouble mess to twist the arms of regents of the nation’s financial with Nancy Pelosi.
c e n t u r y s y s t e m f o r t r a d i n g and chose to do nothing in mortgage lenders until they offer system. The Editors — Kathryn Jean Lopez is an
mortgage-backed securities but a response. But anybody who noted the significant writedowns of editor-at-large of National Review
19th-century system for keeping the rise in lawyers invoking the principal and interest that the Left Online. Interview
track of actual house titles. That is “show me the note” defense in has been after since 2008. Their
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LIFE
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in governance. And because the
dissidents were demanding, in
effect, that they be treated as
adults, their demands had to be
rejected, their movement stopped,
and their leaders jailed, exiled, or
consigned to psychiatric hospitals
for mental illnesses that were
entirely nonexistent. In this
effort, after more than a decade in
which the number of dissidents
actually increased, the
government was finally, in the
early 1980s, successful. But to
the extent that Gorbachev’s
reforms, beginning in 1985-86,
were influenced by the dissidents,
as I think they were, the dissident
movement can be said to have
enjoyed a posthumous
vindication.
FP: What led Sakharov to
become a dissident?
Bergman: Sakharov’s parents
were insufficiently alienated from
the existing political order to be
intelligenty(the Russian word for
members of the intelligentsia).
Nevertheless, they cultivated
several of the qualities the
intelligentsia possessed, and
passed them on to their son: an
aversion to self-promotion and
personal vanity; a respect for
individual excellence; a firm
belief in the primacy of ideas; and
an ethos of “moral wholeness”
requiring the application of moral
principle to every aspect of life.
What caused this ethos of self-
perfection that Sakharov inherited
to crystallize in a rejection of the
political status quo was the
treatment he received at the
installation in the early 1950s. On
the one hand, he and the
physicists he worked with were
allowed to discuss political issues
freely, and could even read
George Orwell’s novel 1984, as
direct a condemnation of Soviet
communism as has ever been
written. On the other hand,
Sakharov’s request that his input
be considered in deciding how
exactly the weapons he designed
should be used was rejected by his
superiors in the political
leadership.
Their rejection was driven home
to Sakharov most forcefully in
July 1961, at a meeting in the
Kremlin at which Sakharov and
the other scientists present were
expected to inform the Soviet
leadership of their progress in
developing the weapons it
demanded. During the meeting,
Sakharov passed to the Soviet
premier, Nikita Khrushchev, a
note objecting to the atmospheric
testing of nuclear weapons, which
the latter at the time considered
necessary. A few hours later, at a
formal dinner, Khrushchev
exploded. Very angrily he told
Sakharov, in so many words, to
mind his own business: he and the
other scientists, Khrushchev
insisted, should limit themselves
to making weapons; their political
superiors in the Kremlin would
decide how to use them. In his
memoirs Sakharov describes this
occasion as one of “the principal
turning points” of his life.
FP: What were the human rights
Sakharov championed as a
dissident? How were they like the
values and principles espoused by
the so-called intelligentsia in
Russia of the 19th and early 20th
centuries? How did Sakharov
avoid the zealotry and fanaticism
that characterized many members
of the intelligentsia, especially
after the emergence of a
revolutionary movement in Russia
in the late 19th century?
Bergman: The human rights
Sakharov championed most
passionately and consistently
included the right to choose one’s
place of residence, which caused
him to support the Soviet Jews
who wished to leave the Soviet
Union for Israel or the United
States. Another was the right to a
presumption of sanity, which
precluded the government’s
policy of incarcerating dissidents
in psychiatric hospitals, where
KGB agents disguised as doctors
dispensed highly toxic drugs that
reduced some of those they
treated to a vegetative state. Yet
another was the right of everyone
to due process in the
administration of justice. Also
worth mentioning among the
human rights Sakharov demanded
was the provision of education,
housing, and adequate medical
care to go along with the
intangible civil liberties, such as
freedom of speech, that Western
conceptions of human rights tend
to emphasize. And because
Sakharov, like the intelligenty
who preceded him, considered the
human rights he favored to be
universal, in the sense of
transcending national borders, he
believed he had the right, and
indeed the obligation, to protest
their violation wherever they
occurred. As a result, Sakharov
condemned – to cite just a few
examples — South African
apartheid, Iraqi persecution of the
Kurds under Saddam Hussein,
and the Khmer Rouge for its
genocide against the people of
Cambodia.
Sakharov avoided the zealotry
and fanaticism you mention in
your question by never
subordinating his respect for the
individual – which was implicit in
his belief that every individual
possessed a dignity and self-worth
that were inviolable — to his
desire to serve all of humanity.
As a result, unlike the Bolsheviks
and the other revolutionaries who
emerged out of the intelligentsia
in the late nineteenth century,
Sakharov never apotheosized any
collective entity such as the
proletariat or believed that the
perfection of humanity as a whole
justified using force and coercion
to achieve it.
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also in the race.) In Texas,
DeMint called for the election of
Michael Williams in the event
that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison,
then a candidate for governor,
made good on a promise to resign
from her office. (She did not.) He
searched for other opportunities as
well. It was possible to imagine
the SCF backing insurgent
Republicans in Colorado,
Delaware, Kentucky, New
Hampshire, and elsewhere. “In
November, the country will move
back toward conservative
principles,” says DeMint. “We
don’t have to settle for
milquetoast Republicans who
don’t care about anything but
getting elected -- and we’ll be
kicking ourselves if there are
states in which we don’t run real
conservatives.”
A year and a half ago,
Republicans were despondent
about their electoral prospects.
Last summer and fall, they turned
hopeful. Now they’re bullish. If
2010 turns out to be the kind of
year they currently anticipate, Jim
DeMint and his conservative
allies may enjoy the last laugh.
Don’t be surprised if it sounds
like the manic start to that song he
used to play years ago -- “Wipe
Out.”
— John J. Miller is National
Review’s national correspondent.
This article originally appeared in
the February 22, 2010, issue. John
J. Miller
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Tony Blair: I Love America
Helle Dale (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/14/2010 11:00:52 AM
Posted October 14th, 2010 at
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Anyone who picks up the U.S.
edition of former British Prime
Minister Tony Blair’s brand new
political autobiography, A
Journey: My Political Life, will
understand why Americans came
to admire and trust Blair as a
leader and an ally during the
tough early years of the war in
Iraq. It is also clear why Blair
became so controversial at home,
and this is not just because he
staunchly supported a military
engagement that came to be
unpopular with many Britons.
While some of Blair’s
countrymen have ambivalent
views about the United States,
Tony Blair really gets it when it
comes to Americans. In the
stirring introduction to the U.S.
edition of his book, he explains
why the United States is
exceptional among the countries
of the world. He provides an
extraordinary testimonial to the
American character. And, no, the
intro does not appear in the
British edition of the book.
“I love America,” Blair writes, a
feeling that matured after he left
office and had the chance to meet
Americans of every stripe outside
the Washington circle of power.
Interestingly for a Labor
politician, of the three U.S.
Presidents he worked with—Bill
Clinton, George W. Bush and
Barrack Obama—he gives the
Republican his strongest
endorsement. While Clinton and
Obama are praised for their
intellectual capacities, Blair
admires George Bush’s
directness, his “strength and
integrity,” and sense of right and
wrong. That strength is also what
Blair finds characteristic about the
American national character. He
writes:
American is great for a reason. It
is looked up to, despite all the
criticism, for a reason. There is a
nobility in the American character
that has been developed over the
centuries, derived in part no doubt
from the frontier spirit, from the
weaves of immigration that form
the stock, from the circumstances
of independence, from the civil
war, from a myriad of historical
facts and coincidences. But there
it is. . .
That nobility isn’t about being
nicer, better or more successful
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America Exceptional, the first
publication in the Foundation’s
Understanding America series:
America is an exceptional nation,
but not because of what it has
achieved or accomplished.
America is exceptional because,
unlike any other nation, it is
dedicated to the principles of
human liberty, grounded on the
truths that all men are created
equal and endowed with equal
rights. These permanent truths are
‘applicable to all men and all
times,’ as Abraham Lincoln once
said.
Let’s hope that someone in the
than anyone else. It is a feeling President of the United States is White House leaves a copy of
about the country. It is a devotion falling so desperately short on Tony Blair’s book on President
to the American ideal that at a appeals to the national ideal. Obama’s desk in the Oval Office.
certain point transcends class, While Tony Blair clearly believes M a y b e h e w i l l a c c e p t t h e
race, religion or upbringing. That the United States is exceptional, argument that America really is
ideal is about values; freedom, the President Obama appears not to exceptional when such testimonial
rule of law, democracy. It is also s h a r e t h i s v i e w . R o u t i n e l y comes from abroad.
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Joseph Stalin.
And while Oberstar claims that
the provision originated with
FedEx’s own workers, UPS
doesn’t exactly hide its
enthusiasm. “This is leveling the
playing field,” says Ross, the UPS
spokeswoman. She calls the
legislative status quo an
“earmark” for FedEx.
I ask her if UPS would be
satisfied with moving in the
opposite direction -- i.e., getting
more of its workers governed
under the RLA. “That would be
unfair to all other [shipping
companies]. It makes sense to
move it the other way,” she says,
breaking with UPS’s line from the
1990s.
UPS has a point: FedEx does
have an unfair, legally buttressed
advantage. Fairness, fairness,
fairness -- this is Oberstar’s,
UPS’s, and the Teamsters’
ostensible motive and mantra.
FedEx has a different one:
competitiveness. History, says
spokesman Maury Lane,
demonstrates FedEx’s willingness
to compete. During UPS’s efforts
to change the ways its labor
relations are governed, “we would
offer, and many members of
Congress would offer, for them to
be governed under the RLA, but
they’ve been held hostage by the
Teamsters,” Lane says. He says
it’s absurd to claim that the
provision was requested by
FedEx’s own workers: “Are
people really clamoring for
unionization at a company that’s
been on Fortune’s best places to
work every year it’s been
published?”
The economic concerns extend
far outside of FedEx. “A
disruption like what happened in
1997 would be catastrophic for
this stumbling economy. UPS
went on strike 15 days, killed 1.5
million businesses, and did $15
billion in economic damage,”
Lane says. “[The proposed policy]
is a backdoor attempt to destroy
reliability, which is the kingmaker
of the express service. If you
don’t have reliability, people
won’t pay for express.” Lane also
points to recent examples of anti-
competitive behavior destroying
industries: “That’s what the Big
Three did, and that’s why two out
of three are getting wiped out by
others.” Lane senses a trend that’s
“almost un-American, when the
principles of competition are
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hampered.”
Fairness is confronting
competition. In a free market, the
two go together. But in today’s
bureaucratized capitalism, we’re
stuck so deep in red tape and
special interests that they are
often at odds. And it’s not just
government or big labor’s fault;
corporations sometimes find that
they can profit more through
bureaucratic manipulation and
rent-seeking than through
participating in the free market.
As Senator Corker says, “This is
what, in many ways, turns the
American people off to
Washington. They see a piece of
legislation that’s designed to do
something, but some powerful
member of Congress uses the
legislation to accomplish another
end, so one business can change
the business model under which New, Useful Tool to
another operates. It’s why they
don’t trust us.”
-- Matthew Shaffer is a William
Keep Up with the Health
F. Buckley Fellow at the National
Review Institute. Matthew Shaffer Care Lawsuits
Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: lawsuits with 21 different states as
Conservative Policy News.) plaintiffs, but it is difficult to find
all the different court documents
Submitted at 10/14/2010 10:00:48 AM
and key arguments for the
Posted October 14th, 2010 at ongoing cases. The Independent
11:00am in Health Care Print This Women’s Forum, a nonprofit
Post group supporting limited
Since the passage of the Patient government and economic
Protection and Affordable Care freedom, has just launched a new
Act, states and individuals have Web site that will track the
been on the offensive against the numerous ongoing court cases
new law and many are following against Obamacare.
in the footsteps of Virginia and Healthcarelawsuits.org provides
Florida. easy access to the facts behind the
Obamacare is now being NEW, page 91
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When Mullahs Prepare for Nuclear War
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 11:40:40 PM
A top advisor for Iran’s Defense
Minister, Alireza Saeidabadi, has
published an article calling on the
government to prepare for nuclear
war. Its publication on a Ministry
of Intelligence and Security
website means it is an analysis
that the government wants
distributed and it is likely a
preparation for the day when Iran
declares that escalating threats
require it to build nuclear
weapons.
“But if the United States launches
an unconventional attack, Iran
needs to respond with a nuclear
strategy,” Saeidabadi writes. His
analysis focuses on a potential
nuclear strike on Iran by the U.S.
or Israel, but the vague term of
“unconventional attack” is of
special concern. The Iranian
regime has consistently accused
the U.S., Israel and other
countries of sponsoring terrorism
on its soil, actions which could
conceivably be described as an act
of “unconventional” warfare
justifying a nuclear response.
Saeidabadi’s call to prepare for
such a confrontation implies that
Iran needs to assemble the
capacity to quickly produce
nuclear weapons, if not actually
build them.
Saeidabadi’s analysis is helping
the regime set the stage for when
it will declare that its “civilian”
nuclear energy program must be
converted into a weapons program
in order to protect itself. This has
been the strategy all along. As far
back as January 27, 1992, a
scientific advisor to President
Rafsanjani flatly stated, “We
should like to acquire the
technical know-how and the
industrial facilities required to
manufacture nuclear weapons,
just in case we need them. This
does not mean that we currently
want to build them or that we
have changed our defense strategy
to include a nuclear program.” In
other words, the creation of nukes
isn’t completely ruled out, it’s just
a matter of if and when they are
necessary.
More recently in September
2009, President Ahmadinejad
struck the same tone. When a
reporter asked if Iran would ever
build a nuke, he said “We don’t
need nuclear weapons. Without
such weapons, we are very much
able to defend ourselves.” The
reporter followed up by saying,
“people will remark that you did
not say no.” Ahmadinejad’s final
response on the matter was “You
can take from this whatever you
want, madam.”
Article 10 of the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty allows
signatories to withdraw from the
treaty if “extraordinary
events…have jeopardized the
supreme interests of the country”
and build nuclear weapons if they
give 90 days notice. Iran will
likely exercise this option in order
to say it is acting legally in the
hopes of giving Russia, China and
other friendly countries some
leverage with which to oppose
U.N. action. The regime may even
use an Israeli strike on its nuclear
facilities as its pretext. This move
would also help Iran shift the
blame for its withdrawal to the
West and especially Israel.
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The 2010 Index
of Dependence
on Government
Patrick Tyrrell (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 7:00:08 PM
Posted October 13th, 2010 at
8:00pm in Ongoing Priorities
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The Heritage Foundation’s 2010
Index of Dependence on
Government, published today,
showcases the disturbing trend of
Americans becoming more
dependent on their government –
via their fellow non-dependent tax
paying Americans – than ever
before.
• The surge in the Index of 13.6%
over last year takes the Index to
an all time high.
• Government support for
dependent persons has grown
from $7,293 per person in 1962,
to $31,950 per person in 2009,
both amounts expressed in 2005
dollars.
• Many Americans pay no federal
income tax for the dependency
related programs they use. 132.5
million Americans do not pay
income taxes and do not have a
head of household paying income
taxes in their household. This is
up from just 34.8 million in 1984.
• And three entitlement programs,
Social Security, Medicare, and
Medicaid eat up 41% of all non-
interest federal program spending.
Unchecked, this will grow to 62%
over the next decade as 10,000
2010 page 91
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Afraid of the Republican “Avalanche”
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/13/2010 11:45:42 PM
There are a few things suspicious
about George Soros declaring that
he’s going to “sit out” the 2010
election, as The New York Times
blogger Sewell Chan described.
“I’m not in a position to stop it,”
the billionaire financier said of
expected Republican gains at the
ballot box. “I don’t believe in
standing in the way of an
avalanche.” He is, of course,
correct in saying that he’s not in a
position to stop the coming shift
in political power. Not even
Soros’s pockets are deep enough
to divert America’s attention
away from the bumbling and
bullying that have defined the
Obama administration and the
Democrat-controlled Congress.
But sit it out? To believe this, one
would have to: a) take Soros at his
word, and b) believe that it’s
possible for Soros not to influence
an election in the United States —
impossible, given what we know
about him.
Consider the latter point first.
Perhaps Soros won’t be funneling
tens of millions of his own dollars
directly through the many
organizations that he sustains, but
that’s not to say that the tentacles
of the leftist para-political
leviathan that Soros helped create
during the Bush administration
will suddenly be stilled. The
Democracy Alliance is still out
there, hammering away for leftist
causes and candidates.
Moveon.org hasn’t actually
“moved on” — it’s currently
trying to raise a “…massive
volunteer army to stop the
Republican takeover of Congress
and save our progressive heroes.”
Media Matters for America will
continue its relentless assault on
conservatives, conservative
causes, commonsense and – while
they’re at it – literary quality.
These and dozens of other like-
minded organizations that Soros
nurtured, directly, and indirectly,
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exist because of the mad
Hungarian’s bizarre obsession
with George W. Bush. Except for
Soros’s admitted willingness to
spend his last dollar in order to
defeat Bush, many of these arms
of the Left’s political empire
would not exist and none would
be nearly as influential.
In his misguided, brilliant way
Soros, more than anyone else, has
helped build a network of
intertwined, supposedly
grassroots organizations that, in
aggregate, comprise a single-
mined virtual leftist organization.
And, in the grand tradition of
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Soros
believes that he can remake the
world into a better place. To be
fair (and less satirical) some of the
billionaire’s efforts to help
impoverished people in the third
world can truly be characterized
as philanthropic and apolitical.
But, when it comes to influencing
policy within his adopted country,
there’s nothing apolitical about
the way that George Soros
operates in the United States.
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different legal challenges to
Obamacare. Obamacare is being
fought on all sides, with states
leading the legal battle.
• Under “ the cases,” users may
choose a state from a dropdown
menu or click on “all cases” to see
a full list of the state-by-state
legal challenges.
• Under “ at issue,” the most
commonly cited constitutional
provisions in the lawsuits are
provided.
• “ The timeline” traces back the
challenges since the passage of
Obamacare and provides
information about when cases
were filed and all following
actions taken by the courts.
• The site also has a blog to stay
up to date and for reaction to
recent court rulings.
The site features an interactive
2010
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baby boomers retire every day.
The problem caused by
unsustainable promises of
entitlement benefits to millions of
Americans will not go away of its
own accord. In fact, the IMF
predicts that U.S. public-sector
debt (federal plus state) will equal
100 percent of the U.S. gross
domestic product by 2015 unless
the annual deficits are
immediately cut by an amount
equal to 12 percent of GDP. 100
percent of the dollar value of
map that shows states with active
lawsuits or other health care news
dealing with Obamacare. By
clicking on a state with an active
lawsuit, visitors to the site can
find a summary of what the
lawsuit is about and recent
developments with the case. For
states that are not involved in the
lawsuits, the site provides a
summary of the news in that state
regarding implementation and
other changes stemming from the
new law.
As the battle between
government authority and state
sovereignty wages, Americans
must be able to follow this fight
o n a l l f r o n t s .
Healthcarelawsuits.org empowers
Americans to obtain vital
information on the new law’s
legal journey through the court
system.
everything produced in the whole
country will be owed! It is no
wonder that so many Americans
feel the need to turn this ship
around.
The images coming out of France
and other parts of Europe today
and over the past few weeks are a
harbinger of what the U.S. will
eventually face when entitlement
reform is eventually forced on us
by the end of the long debt train
line that America has been riding
for so long. An army of
dependents will be angry. The
Co-authored by Derek Pyburn.
Derek Pyburn is currently a
member of the Young Leaders
Program at the Heritage
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French workers who are being
asked to retire at 62 instead of 60
years old are angry now. Who
knows how millions of Americans
will react if the federal
government is forced to reduce
the aid currently flowing from
dependency creating programs.
It is better to cut spending by 12
percent of GDP per year today
than to suffer the financial and
political repercussions that will
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Wilders’ Trial: Win One,
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in Amsterdam on various charges
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of offending Muslims,
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freedom fighter Geert Wilders
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won one victory and suffered one
defeat. This is welcome news for
Wilders personally, since any
acquittal moves him closer to the
end of these nightmarish
proceedings; however, the
ominous implications of his trial
in general for the freedom of
speech were reinforced on the
same day, and those implications
could have deleterious effects far
beyond the Wilders trial itself.
First, the good news: public
prosecutors Birgit van Roessel
and Paul Velleman noted that the
statements for which he is on trial
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referred to Islam and the Qur’an,
not to Muslims as people –
although they did add in the
politically correct observation that
Wilders’ statements might
nevertheless hurt Muslims’
feelings. Despite that assertion, in
a burst of logical thinking unusual
in these proceedings, they
recommended that since Wilders
was speaking about Islamic texts
and teachings and not Muslim
people, the charge against him of
group defamation should be
dropped.
That was good as far as it went,
although Wilders still faces
charges of incitement that are as
dangerous as they are vague. The
danger of such charges was
thrown into vivid relief Tuesday
by a chilling statement that the
prosecutors made: that Wilders
will not be allowed to defend
himself from charges of inciting
hatred by arguing that what he
said was true. Said van Roessel:
“You can expect a politician to be
aware of the impact of his words
and in any case, the legal limit
may not be crossed, no matter
how important it may be to
address supposed problems and to
contribute to matters of general
interest.”
So if the truth is not deemed to
“address supposed problems and
contribute to matters of general
interest,” then it may not be
spoken. The truth is now
inadmissible in Dutch courtrooms
– a chilling reality with likely
reverberations far beyond the trial
of Wilders himself.
CSS Inventor Talks About the Web’s
Visual Future [VIDEO]
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
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Software and the inventor of CSS,
a few weeks ago. It was a pleasure
and an honor to speak with one of
the true web pioneers.
Mr. Lie spoke with us about the
history of CSS and why it’s
important. He also showed us
some of the new features that are
in the CSS3 spec, like rounded
corners, inset text and drop
shadows. We’ve been writing
about some of these new features,
including the tag and web fonts
over the past few months and
we’ll continue to touch on more
and more of these trends. Now
that the elephant in the room
(Internet Explorer) is finally
embracing the modern web,
thanks to the new IE 9,
implementing these features
makes more and more sense.
If you want to learn more about
CSS3, you can check out some of
these resources:
• 7 Awesome CSS3 Techniques
You Can Start Using Right Now–
In this post, we cover some really
cool CSS3 techniques you can
start using today.
• HTML5 for Web Designers–
This book by Jeremy Keith is a
great way for web designers to get
usable information about HTML5
and CSS3. It’s a terrific read and a
great addition to any web library.
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DIY or no? 4 times it's better to pay a pro
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Submitted at 10/14/2010 4:07:46 PM
by Farnoosh Torabi for CBS
MoneyWatch.com
Doing things on our own always
sounds like a good idea. We’ll
save money, we tell ourselves,
and get the satisfaction of
accomplishment. But the truth is
that we often end up spending
more money and time.
The folks at CouponSherpa
recently released a rundown of
products and services they say are
less expensive to buy than to do it
yourself. Here are four times they
say you are better off paying for a
pro - unless, of course, you are
one.
1. Auto Oil Change
For the inexperienced, changing
your oil is not only physically
difficult - especially without
ramps and other equipment - but
also environmentally unfriendly.
(Do you know how to recycle
your oil? We thought not.)
“That’s the biggest problem,”
says Kate Forgach, an editor with
CouponSherpa. ”Many cities and
counties don’t allow consumers to
dispose used oil down sewers or
in the trash, as we did in the past.
The oil now must be brought to
recycling centers or city dumps,
where consumers are often
charged to leave it.” It’s a hidden
cost many of us may not
understand up front. There’s also
the issue of time and possible
frustration. “Most people also
don’t want to hassle with
accumulating enough oil to make
the trip and expense worthwhile.
Unless you have multiple vehicles
and are a real do-it-yourselfer, it’s
just easier to leave the entire mess
to a quick-lube center,” says
Forgach.
The average price for a
professional oil change runs from
$25 to $45, depending on the type
of oil used and additional services
thrown in by the servicing
company, according to
CouponSherpa. DIY costs,
including oil, air filter, etc., will
average $20 to $30, depending on
the same factors - plus the cost of
getting rid of the oil.
2. Formal Printing Jobs
Another thing that sounds
cheaper than it is: printing
invitations, posters and other print
jobs at home. What you’re not
considering, though, is the cost of
ink. “Major manufacturers often
break even or lose money on
printers, but they more than make
up for it with ink cartridges priced
more dearly than caviar,” says
Forgach.
A good exercise, if you’re not
convinced, is to calculate the cost
per page. “Consult the printer
manual to determine a base rate of
pages per cartridge, divide this
rate by the cost of each cartridge
[and] add in the cost of paper, test
runs and errors,” says Forgach.
Don’t forget time and frustration,
either, she adds.
3. Selling Valuable Personal
Items
If you’re trying to offload
collectibles, vintage clothes or
antique furniture, you may be
better off with help from a
professional seller, who can help
you better appraise the item and
match your product to the right
buyer - all to earn the best and
fastest return. Yes, you will pay a
commission - but you may be able
to pocket more money this way,
says Forgach: “I just went through
this process with several
collectible pieces of movie
memorabilia left me by my father,
including an original Laurel and
Hardy movie script. I had no idea
how to price these items, much
less find the appropriate target
audience.”
Find a professional reseller,
consignment store, antiques dealer
or estate sale company in your
neighborhood to help you
appraise and connect you with
buyers. Ask friends and family for
referrals.
4. Taxes
“The IRS commissioner doesn’t
even do his own taxes,” says
Forgach. While it’s not always
best to hire a tax professional,
sometimes, if your financials are
relatively complex, it can be
worth the investment. For
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example, if you own business, are
self-employed, own several
properties or actively trade stocks.
Bonus Tip: Replace or Repair?
One more place where we’re
often inclined to be penny-wise,
pound foolish: repairs. For most
small appliances, it’s cheaper to
replace it than to buy the
replacement part or get a repair
cost estimate from the
manufacturer, says Forgach. Parts
are hard to find and costly. And
even though some major
manufacturers offer repairs, it’ll
cost you: To replace a 50-cent
gear on a coffeemaker, for
instance, KitchenAid charges an
average of $100 plus shipping
(both ways), says Forgach. “If
you’ve owned the appliance for
several years, you have to
consider whether that one repair
will ensure many more years of
service.”
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