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Senate Democrats choose losers to lead John McCain, maverick

Joshua Spivak (Front Row
Washington) survivor
unofficial, was Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, who died in office
in 1924. Including both of those
conservatives.
The Democrats can take comfort
in the knowledge that it’s hard to
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:10:22 AM
Joshua Spivak (Front Row danger, McCain acted differently
men, of the Republicans’ 17 believe Reid’s leadership position Washington)
[Updated to correct date of leaders (one was only acting), will be what cost him his seat—he than the other officials. He tacked
Daschle defeat.] For the second only one lost his reelection would have been targeted Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:15:28 AM hard to the right, ignoring a
time in less than a decade, the campaign, James Watson of anyway. He was vulnerable torrent of criticisms from his what
Senate Democrats are finding Indiana in the FDR tidal wave of Nov 2, 2010 12:15 EDT he use to call his “base” – the
incumbent, and there is no reason
themselves with a leader facing 1932. In other ways, not so happy. In 2009, if you had asked the Tea media. He immediately took the
to think he would have received
political extinction. Tom Daschle, Five of their leaders have died in Party movement regulars who fight to his opponent, going very
any easier treatment from
Harry Reid’s predecessor as the office (as opposed to only one for their most hated Republican was negative, very fast. He called in
Republicans or conservative
leader of the Senate Democrats, the Democrats). the answer would have been John chits – including an endorsement
groups than Blanche Lincoln or
lost his own reelection race in There is no real explanation for McCain in a landslide. For years, from Sarah Palin. The result was a
Russ Feingold.
2002 in 2004, having become the Democrats’ willingness to McCain has been the man much crushing victory over a very well-
If Reid is out, the Democrats will
minority leader after the 2002 choose among the electorally of the Republican conservative known conservative. What’s
not be trying for a three-peat. His
elections. For Democrats, this is vulnerable—each leadership base loved to hate, thanks to his surprising is not that McCain
most likely successors, Chuck
not an unprecedented experience. election is unique and involves 2000 presidential run and his succeeded, it’s that others like
Schumer or Dick Durbin, both
In the 1950s, back-to-back personality issues that have apostasy on campaign finance and Murkowski and Castle didn’t take
reside in much safer seats.
Democratic leaders also lost their nothing to do with the history of o t h e r i s s u e s . M o v e m e n t notes.
Joshua Spivak is a senior fellow
seats. conservatives discussed a primary Joshua Spivak is a senior fellow
the office. But, there are at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for
Checking out the relatively short advantages to having a majority campaign in 2004. McCain’s at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for
Government Reform at Wagner
history of the Senate Leader leader from a swing state. Just by losing the presidential race to Government Reform at Wagner
College.
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2 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Here's The Secret Fed Minutes You WON'T See Tomorrow

Bruce Krasting (Business public debt. worrywart! go up, never down. Jobs will be less. Have we really considered
Insider) Hawk: Moderate: plentiful. Unemployment will fall. the implications of this? Should
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:06:00 PM Jeepers Ben! You’re talking a There is no loan demand. Not The economy will prosper. And I we do something much smaller;
QE-2 of $1.6 trillion! Think of the even for 4% mortgages. Who’s to will get my picture back on the say a limited program of only
We get the minutes of the Fed message you are sending! You say if we drive rates down cover of Time magazine. $500b? Should we hold back
meetings. I think we get the are debasing the currency by a another 20bp that this will change. Moderate: some of our remaining chips in
substance of what is discussed. very meaningful amount! The only thing that QE-2 will do Don’t we risk some distortions case we actually have a real
But I don’t think we get the full Moderate: is to enrich the banks at the in the bond market if we buy so emergency at some point?
story of what is said. I wonder if I’m supportive of Ben’s shock expense of savers. Is that a good much? There is only a bit over Hawk:
any of the conversation goes like and awe approach. But let’s agree trade off? $500b of ten year plus paper. And Yeah! I’m for a small program at
this: on one thing. We can’t announce Bernanke: you want to buy 1.6T? best. If we do it large we run the
Bernanke: that we are targeting inflation. We QE-2 will not destroy savers. It Bernanke: risk of oil going over 100 a barrel
While I do not see a double dip would create a risk of a run on will merely force them into It will become necessary for in just a few months. What would
in the next 18 months I am certain the dollar that we couldn't control. buying risky equities. As for the Treasury to guarantee the new that do for us? The trade deficit
that growth will be substantially Okay? financial getting fat; that is the debts of a number of states. would explode! Consumers would
below historic trend. For the Bernanke: plan. The more money they When that happens, we will put get squeezed. Bye bye Wal-Mart
e c o n o m y t o r e c o v e r a n d I agree to take this idea off the make, including Fannie and that paper on our POMO buy list. if we see $4 gas! We are taking a
unemployment to fall by a table at this time. But if we do not Freddie, the faster they can write In answer to your direct question; big risk with this.
meaningful amount GDP must be see growth I will bring back off their lousy loan portfolios. We yes I will buy short date paper. I Bernanke:
at least 4%. We will not get that. inflation targeting . It will be the can’t have strong growth without don't care what it takes. I have a Shock and awe, baby. Shock and
There is substantial risk that 2011 final arrow in my quiver. strong financials. That is just a snap answer to your every awe.
could see average growth of only Ben-Sheep #1: fact of life. objection! Bernanke-Sheep#3:
1.5%. I agree with Ben in every way! Moderate: Hawk: Love that shock and awe! Let’s
The economy is unlikely to get We should commit to a mega Don’t we just risk another Can we do that? I mean can we end this discussion. Ben has the
any support on the fiscal side. It is program now. If we do it small dangerous bubble? If we drive buy up State debt? votes he needs so you naysayers
a shoe-in that taxes on income we will not be able to do it again. stocks up they will just have to Bernanke: and party poopers really don’t
over $250k are going up. The There would be too much public fall when the process must end. I bought 1.5trillion of busted have a choice. It would look
stimulus money is running out opposition. Some of these investments you mortgage paper. I can buy much better in the press if we had
fast. There will be no new Hawk: are driving people into are trading anything I want. only one dissenter for this
stimulus from Congress. All of Are we so sure that we can at 2X’s sales or a 35PE. Moderate: important vote. Get on board or
the new Governors are going to reverse the effect of this? This Bernanke: QE was an appropriate and else. This is Ben’s World now!
look at the books and declare an much liquidity could turn on us Good point. My response is that successful response to the worst Bernanke:
emergency. Cut-backs in State very quickly. Ben has said he is “ QE is not temporary. It is recession since the Great Vote this my way! I want to see
budgets are a certainty in 2011. confident” this can be done. I permanent. In fact I would Depression. It was an emergency only one negative vote. My way
Therefore the Fed must shoulder have very serious reservations. advocate that the Fed acquire a measure to address emergency or the highway!
the complete burden of sustaining Ben-Sheep #2: minimum of 20% of debt AND conditions. We are not in an Join the conversation about this
growth. To do this we must take Fiddlesticks! The NY Fed did a agree to sustain it at that level as a emergency today. Our banks are story »
unprecedented risks. We must go 28-day reverse repo for $5b just % of GDP. As the economy flares not failing; as you say, they are
where no other reserve currency last month. The experiment up, we would buy more and more. making a bundle. We have to
central bank has gone in modern worked perfectly. That is your In that way QE is self-sustaining. remember that savers are also
history. We must monetize an roadmap of how QE will be We will never have a business consumers. We are taking their
additional 20% of outstanding reversed! Stop being such a cycle again. Markets will always income and they are spending
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Why Doesn't Steve Jobs Care About USB 3.0?

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:47:19 PM

Intel just revealed that its 2012

CPUs will include baked-in
support for super-speed USB 3.0--
the very same technology that
Steve Jobs recently said isn't
taking off due to...lack of Intel
support. What's going on?
Intel's processor development
trail leads to Chief River
Intel just revealed its plans for
the Chief River suite of CPUs, 22
nanometer chips based on the
upcoming Ivy Bridge architecture
and designed to succeed the
Huron River notebook CPUs.
They're slated for mid-to-late
2011 mass production, with the
first notebooks incorporating
them likely due in early 2012.
But Chief River includes one
thing Intel has deliberately shied
away from until now: Native USB
3.0 support. This is the super-
speedy, fiber optic-boosted
successor to the USB 2.0 ports and optimize their upcoming MacBook Air only had a single Interesting hey? Apple's CEO is Processor agnosticism
that probably litter the sides and machine designs. one. Apple's voice is increasingly revealing a plan to avoid USB 3.0 Yes, we can. Look at the iPhone
back of the computer you're Steve Jobs on USB 3.0 important in the industry, and in Macs for the immediate future, 4, the iPad and the Apple TV: As
reading this on right now. It's Apple is no stranger to with this move Apple is due to Intel's avoidance of the we've noted before, their secret
backwards-compatible, multiple proprietary connectors--the once- essentially saying that reliance on tech. True, Intel's news about sauce is the ARM-based A4 CPU
times faster than USB 2.0, and is popular FireWire standard had USB is a bad thing. Chief River does point to a 2012 thrumming away inside. It's not
pretty future-focused--external numerous benefits over USB Now it appears that Steve Jobs timeframe, during which time we Intel tech, it's Apple's own
hard drives that support the (including the ability to daisy- has delivered his opinion on USB can probably expect at least one refinement of a standard design,
protocol for speedier data chain devices) even while it never tech. In response to a direct email new generation of Macs to have and it frees up Apple from having
transfers are already on sale. But saw the same popularity. Apple is question from a consumer on the come and gone--leaving time for to laboriously trek along Intel's
Intel has deliberately avoided also pushing the miniDisplayPort matter, Jobs is reported to have 2012's MacBooks to possibly processor trail like every other
dedicated USB 3.0 support, standard for screen-to-computer replied over the weekend with the embrace USB 3.0. So "at this manufacturer.
preferring to promote its own connections with all its latest following characteristically time" is a pertinent phrase by Then look at the new MacBook
similar LightPeak technology. Macs. But the recent slew of Mac staccato response: Steve. But given the timing of the Airs. Wonders of device
Which makes Chief River a key portables typically have fewer "We don't see USB 3 taking off at news, can we detect a little love miniaturization, some folks say
piece of news for notebook ports than you'll find on Windows this time. No support from Intel lost between Apple and its main
manufacturers keen to simplify WHY page 8
notebooks, and the first-gen for example." computer CPU supplier?
4 Business/ Culture/
It's Okay That You're Not Voting Today
John Carney (Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:03:00 PM
Ed note: this post by former
Clusterstock editor John Carney
previously ran on November 3,
2008. It remains as true as ever,
so we are re-running it.
The odds are that you did not
vote today.
If you are anything like us, not
voting is a triumph of sense over
propaganda. We've received a
bunch of emails from friends and
concerned citizens urging us to
vote this way or that, for one
politician or his doppelganger.
Some have even implored us to
vote regardless of which
candidate we favor, out of some
sense of civic duty.
Yet we didn't vote. And neither
did most of you.
We all know that voting is
irrational. The odds of influencing
the outcome of an election are
vanishingly small. You are better
off being a free-rider on the votes
of others. What's more, the odds
that a candidate for whom you
vote will successfully carry out
policies that match your
preferences are even worse. For
many of the offices to which men
and women will be elected today,
you do not actually have any
preferences at all.
Voting can also be counter-
productive, which is what makes
those campaigns urging people to
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PopSugar (PopSugar)
vote so destructive. If you are
only so slightly informed about an
election that you need to be
convinced to vote, your
preferences are likely to be ill-
informed. You'll vote according to
heuristics--ethnicity, party lines,
for familiar names--that political
operatives can predict and exploit.
We're probably all better off if we
leave the voting to the informed
and committed.
Then again, informed voting may
be over-rated. Knowing a lot
about a candidate's positions and
current social problems may not
make you very good at choosing
between candidates. Campaign
promises are not a good guide to
political performance--they are
forward looking statements, after
all. And often 'informed voters'
are simply committed ideologues.
It's not clear that more informed
voting produces qualitatively
improved governance.
Voting is probably the least
effective way to make your
political preferences influence
elections. You'd do far more with
a bumper sticker, a chat with a
neighbor or a bar-side argument
over politics. So if you do have
strong preferences, by election
day it's already too late. The
uninformed mass of voters and
the ideologically committed have
already made up their minds. You
are already irrelevant.
Some democratic fanatics will
Heidi Klum tells us the best part
about her Halloween costume
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are lonely or elderly, voting might
be a good chance to meet people.
Lots of other people like you will
be gathered in one place. You
already have something in
common--you like to vote. Odds
are that this is a signal of all sorts
of other beliefs about life that you
also share with your fellow voters.
Often there is also free coffee at
voting places.
Just don't let anyone make you
feel bad about not voting. The
insistence that you have given up
some sacred right or failed to
performed a civic duty is the
clearest sign of someone who
either doesn't really understand
politics at all or was trying to
tell you that if you don't vote then people by the government in favor manipulate you. Feel free to
you give up your right to dissent of the well connected. You have encourage them in this disordered
against subsequent government not choice but to participate. The thinking by telling them that you
policies. I've never understood c o e r c i v e e l e m e n t s o f a would have voted if only they had
t h i s w e i r d p a r t o f p s e u d o - government captured by special reminded you earlier that it was
democratic theory. It certainly interests are present all around election day. It will drive them a
isn't part of the constitution of the you, conscripting the fruits of bit crazy to hear that if only they
United States, which preserves the your labor for their ends-- had worked harder at getting out
rights of free speech, free press p r o p p i n g u p f a l l e n b a n k s , the vote, you might have voted.
and petitioning the government e n g a g i n g i n f o r e i g n w a r s , And witnessing the irrationality
even for non-voters. If anything, sponsoring the destruction of your and mistakes of others is one of
the opposite should be true: by culture, and pure self-dealing by the fine pleasures of election day.
voting you are tacitly agreeing to politicians. It's easy to see why Join the conversation about this
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voluntarily participating in the There are also plenty of non-
inevitable exploitation of the political reasons to vote. If you
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Hugh Jackman, and more.
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Watch the Election in Real-Time Using Twitter, Google,
Facebook, Foursquare
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:36:20 PM
Today will likely turn out to be
one of the most dramatic mid-
term elections in recent memory.
Pundits will be performing
political theater across the
country, with network spin
doctors relying on scant
information or anecdotal evidence
to predict wins or qualify losses.
But you don't have to rely on their
spin any longer--nor must you
wait for polls to close or news
anchors to report results. In the
digital age, you can get a sneak
peek at how the election is
shaping up in real-time. Here's our
guide to following the mid-terms
on the real-time Web.
Foursquare
The geo-location app is tracking
check-ins at polling stations
across the country. Top locations
are being monitored, and a list of
total check-ins and venues are
being compiled as you read this.
Check-ins can be broken down by
city, district, as well as gender.
Don't forget to check-in when you
vote to earn a new Foursquare
badge.
Twitter
How Can I Tell If an Android App Is Malware? [Ask Lifehacker]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 9:00:00 AM
Dear Lifehacker,
On Twitter, the @ twittermedia is
aggregating tweets from top
election coverage. Hashtags #
ivoted will catalog the number of
voters on Twitter (it's remarkable
to watch this figure grow in real-
time: more than 1000 #ivoted
tweets have shot up in a few
minutes), while # votereport will
bring news about voter
experiences. The latter will be
compiled on Google Maps on
twittervotereport.com.
I remember reading about some
sketchy wallpaper apps, along
with other concerns about security
in Android's somewhat Wild-
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help identify key themes and
threads of conversation."
Google, YouTube, CBS
Google has created a beautiful
Elections Ratings system on
Google Maps based on some of
the top pollers in politics like Real
Clear Politics. The data shows a
state-by-state color analysis of
which states are leaning right, left,
or are still a toss up. The graphic
can be broken down by source,
state, and race (Senate, House,
Governor).
YouTube and CBS have also
partnered for live webcasts of
news coverage, and are asking
users to submit and vote on
questions (by comment or video)
that may be used during the
election coverage on CBS.
[youtube sUMXuTM_KLs] Crimson Hexagon, CNN Facebook, ABC
Most impressively though is the CNN is using Crimson Hexagon, Facebook has partnered with
New York Times amazing second the real-time analytics tool, to ABC for live streams of news
-by-second visualization of track all social media reaction to coverage, live updated comments
election tweets and retweets, candidates in real-time. We've and polls and questions from
which bubble up or down by already gave you a sneak peek at Facebook users, and best of all, a
candidate depending on their two highly volatile races, but to town hall at 7pm featuring
m e n t i o n s . T h e t w e e t s a r e CNN's Election Pulse to see the Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg,
organized chronologically, and data in real-time. Crimson will sister of Mark Zuckerberg.
can be broken down by politician feature a state-by-state breakdown Where will you be watching the
or party, to see tweets about a of online chatter about candidates, election tonight?
candidate, from a candidate, or based on keywords, hashtags, and
retweeted about a candidate. "statistical patterns of words to
keep my phone (and myself) safe
from bad apps in the Market and
West style app Market. How can I elsewhere? More »
6 Business/
What Happens to Marijuana Growers if Prop. 19 Passes?
[Updated]
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:18:54 PM
Proposition 19, California's
marijuana legalization
proposition, is on the precipice of
passing. The measure has allies in
groups like Parents for Addiction
Treatment and Healing and the
Service Employees International
Union, not to mention giddy
stoners everywhere. But the
proposition also has opponents in
groups like the California Beer &
Beverage Distributors, and oddly
enough, marijuana growers in
Mendocino and Humboldt
counties. Do growers actually
have anything to worry about?
Many growers reportedly fear
that legalization could shut out
existing farmers who run small-
time operations, shifting the
marijuana cultivation industry
from Northern California to the
Central Valley's "big agriculture"
complex, which already grows
much of the state's produce.
Growers can relax, claims Tom
Angell, a spokesman for the Yes
on 19 campaign. "There won't be
a big Phillip Morris-type
organization setting up shop until
federal policy changes," says
Angell. And considering that
Proposition 19 isn't universally
loved even in liberal California,
federal legalization probably
won't happen any time soon.
"If people are prepared to do hard
work, they can expand," Angell
says. And, Angell adds, all those
growers putting energy into
opposing Prop. 19 might consider
taking that momentum and
planning for a post-Prop. 19
world. In any case, the Obama
administration has said that it will
continue to prosecute growers if
the measure passes--so industrial-
scale outdoor growing might still
be difficult.
E-reader News Edition
Allen St. Pierre, Executive
Director of NORML, agrees that
growers won't have to worry if
Prop. 19 passes--but only because
the measure won't lead to real
legalization. "Prop 19 essentially
allows local jurisdictions in the
state to move in that direction
[towards legalization] if they want
to. It will create a patchwork in
the way that California has
WHAT page 7
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Seventh Generation Co-Founder Jeffrey Hollender
Fired By Company Board
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:24:35 PM
Seventh Generation co-founder
Jeffrey Hollender is, in our
opinion, a model green business
innovator. The subject of a Fast
Company article and one of the
Fast 50 honorees from 2004,
Hollender transformed Seventh
Generation from a small green
cleaning products company into a
mainstream cleaning player with
$150 million in annual revenue.
This week, the Seventh
Generation board voted to kick
Hollender out of the company.
What happened?
Marc Gunther of Greenbiz got a
hold of a letter recently sent to
Seventh Generation shareholders
and employees. The letter
explains: To a large extent,
present circumstances mirror
those at many other companies
whose founders have made the
decision to turn over the reins to
someone else. As organizations
grow, so do their managerial
requirements. Eventually these
increasing layers of complexity
demand the recruitment of
experienced professional
leadership whose abilities and
experiences are required to move
Take Fewer Wintertime Showers for Healthier Skin [Health]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 8:30:00 AM
forward. This is the crossroads at
which Seventh Generation now
stands.
It's a vague explanation, to be
sure, and Hollender hasn't yet
given his side of the story. But
Seventh Generation has recently
shown signs of plans for major
expansion. Chuck Maniscalco, a
former executive in charge of the
Quaker, Tropicana, and Gatorade
businesses at PepsiCo, was hired
by Seventh Generation as CEO in
June 2009 as part of a plan to
grow the company's revenue to $1
Hot showers and strong soap strip
natural oils and beneficial bacteria
from your skin. Combat the dry
billion (Hollender stepped down
from the position). Maniscalco
resigned in September, but stayed
at the company to help manage
the transition to a new CEO. Now,
in a complicated twist,
Maniscalco is a candidate for ...
his own job. (He has reportedly
clashed with Hollender in the
past.)
This all raises the ever-present
issue of whether growth can ever
be sustainable. Seventh
Generation has maintained its
integrity as an environmentally
skin and hair that comes with
responsible company even as it
has grown to the point that its
products can be found in your
neighborhood drug store. But in
order to expand further, Seventh
Generation seems to think that it
needs to dispose of the man who
infused the company with the
green business values that it
champions. Whether Seventh
Generation can retain those values
after Hollender's departure
remains unclear.
Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
Twitter or by email.
winter weather by decreasing the
number of showers you take.
More »
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WHAT
continued from page 6
regarding medical marijuana," he
explains. "Fifty percent of
counties allow medical
marijuana, and fifty percent don't.
There will still will be an artificial
price structure."
If Prop. 19 passes, California
could see the growth of an
entirely new generation of
growers. "It's also important to
point out that Prop. 19 gives
everyone the right to grow a five
by five foot marijuana garden on
their own property," Angell
explains. "So if people don't like
[larger growing operations], they
could just grow their own."
But growers shouldn't think the
good times will last forever,
according to NORML. If
California were to ever fully
legalizes marijuana regardless of
county preferences, prices would
plummet. "Anyone who has been
growing vegetable matter, drying
it out, getting 400, 500, or 600
dollars for an ounce...they should
rightly be concenred about the
end of that gravy train," St. Pierre
says. "The only reason why
anybody in the world would pay
that kind of money is because of
prohibition."
Ariel Schwartz can be reached on
Twitter or by email.
8 Business/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition
WHY
Smart Spending Was NOT A Key To continued from page 3

they're defining a new future for ability to be agnostic about the

The Giants' Success portable computing. But they use
old Intel CPUs, in some cases
actual CPU tech inside its future
computers. It could use Intel
Adam Fusfeld (Business slower than the preceding chips, it could use AMD chips. It
Insider) generation's chips. A problem? could go for CPUs with baked-in
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:00:06 PM
No, all the benchmarks suggest USB 3 support, choose a
that the new Airs have a design so dedicated IO chip, or avoid USB
In the golden age of baseball optimized that in real-use 3 entirely--its stance on wireless
analytics, teams jostle to hire performance they can even rival tech and USB ports on current
statistically savvy general the computing power of the Macs is a hint here. In several
managers capable of unearthing bigger MacBook Pros. Apple's years, it could even embrace the
the best bargains in the free agent essentially showing it can work next-gen ARM CPUs that may
market. Well, the World Series with what seems non-optimal tech sport 12 processor cores for on-
champion did the opposite of that, to achieve a powerful result. desk supercomputer-sounding
but still managed to win anyway. And there's another thing to think powers.
The Giants won the title this about here. Apple may not care Is Apple about to radically twist
season despite doling out huge about Intel at all in the future. It its future away from the way other
contracts to some of their least has a new OS due next year, and computer makers will do
productive players. the Mac App Store is imminent. business?
For example: Some thinkers online are To keep up with this news, and
• They paid starter Barry Zito suggesting that the code strategies more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
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Medco Health Solutions
Soars On Strong Q3
Earnings
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Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:40:00 PM
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Medco Health Solutions ( MHS-
option chain) shares are rising
today after the company reported
earnings this morning, posting a
third-quarter profit of $371.5
million, or 85 cents per share.
Excluding one-time items, MHS
earned 91 cents per share on
revenue of $16.32 billion.
Analysts had forecast a profit of
88 cents per share on revenue of
$16.14 billion. If you think that
the stock won't fall by too much
in the coming months, then now
could be a good time to look at a
bullish hedged trade on MHS.
MHS opened this morning at
$54.09. So far today the stock has
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BAC, LINN, ORCL
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Ground
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Stocks to Buy Are better days up
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Safeway reported third quarter
earnings per share of 33 cents,
two cents above the First Call 31-
cent estimate.
Sales growth in 2010/early 2011
will likely remain limited, due to
a slow recovery in California, a
key Safeway market, but it looks
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RENO, Nev. – A gunman bought
ammunition at a Walmart in
Nevada shortly before opening
fire on three co-workers in the
same store, authorities said
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Gillane was being held at the
Washoe County jail pending a
court appearance on attempted
murder and battery charges.
Police said he didn't have a lawyer
yet.
Gillane, 45, had been a Walmart
employee off an on for nine years
and most recently worked in the
store's receiving department.
Police initially said they thought
he had faced the loss of his job.
But Walmart officials said there
was no plan to fire Gillane on
Friday, Rafaqat said, and it was
unclear why managers were
confronted.
"Gillane indicated he had some
employment-related grievances
with Walmart," Rafaqat said.
"We're not at liberty to disclose
the specifics of the grievances."
Lorenzo Lopez, a spokesman for
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said the
company doesn't comment on
personnel matters.
"We don't have any information to
provide. There's an ongoing
investigation, so police will look
into the matter and determine
what issues there will be," he said.
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hallway and was shot, Pitts said.
Two other managers were shot
moments later in an attack
captured on surveillance tape.
Four shots were fired in all, and
one victim was struck twice.
Police arrived at the store within
two minutes, the chief said, and it
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France and UK plan unprecedented military
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LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) –
Britain and France will launch a
broad defense partnership on
Tuesday that includes setting up a
joint force and sharing equipment
and nuclear missile research
centers, a French government
source said.
Treaties to be signed by French
President Nicolas Sarkozy and
British Prime Minister David
Cameron at a meeting in London
will pave the way for an
unprecedented degree of military
cooperation between the two
neighbors.
The NATO allies, western
Europe's biggest defense spenders
and its only nuclear powers, have
a centuries-old history of military
rivalry and, more recently, have
differed sharply over issues such
as the Iraq war.
Their new partnership is driven
by the desire to maintain cutting-
edge military capabilities while at
the same time reducing defense
spending to rein in big budget
deficits.
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set up a joint brigade-sized army
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needed to take part in NATO,
European Union, United Nations
or bilateral operations, the French
source said.
British Defense Secretary Liam
Fox confirmed the outlines of the
agreement.
"We're talking about joint
expeditionary forces with our
forces in all three services
working together to develop
common practices, better inter-
operability, and to look to see
where we get better common
equipment," Fox told BBC
television.
"That makes perfect sense in a
world where resources are tight,
but our interests are increasingly
common, but not always the
same."
Cameron's government
announced two weeks ago it was
cutting Britain's 37 billion pound
($59.4 billion) defense budget by
8 percent in real terms over the
next four years to help rein in a
record peacetime budget deficit.
COOPERATING ON
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France's aircraft carrier Charles
de Gaulle and a British carrier that
is just being built will be made
compatible so that each country
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The ultimate aim is for the two
countries to coordinate so that one
carrier is at sea at all times.
The two countries will agree to
share nuclear warhead research
and simulation centers, the source
said. With nuclear missile tests
banned, sophisticated laboratories
permit both countries to test the
safety of their warheads.
"This signifies that we have
reached an unprecedented level of
trust," the French source said. "It's
this step taken in the nuclear
domain that allows us to go
further elsewhere."
The source said London and Paris
were negotiating with Airbus on a
deal to maintain their future fleet
of A400M military transport
planes. The contract is expected to
be signed at the end of 2011, he
said.
France will look at using some of
the spare capacity that Britain
expects to have in military
refueling planes once it takes
delivery of 14 new Airbus
tankers, the source said.
British legislators have criticized
Britain's 10 billion pound ($16
billion) contract to lease tankers
from an EADS-led consortium as
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allowing France some use of them
could mitigate this.
A top British military official has
said it would make sense for the
U.S. Air Force also to choose
EADS tankers, rather than ones
made by U.S. company Boeing.
Britain and France will work
together in developing technology
for future generations of nuclear
submarines, missiles, aerial
drones, maritime anti-mine
systems and military
communications satellites, the
source said.
They will also seek to strengthen
their cooperation in cyber security
and the fight against terrorism.
(Additional reporting by
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Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:57:00 PM
In a move curiously timed after
this morning's Wal-Mart/VUDU
news, Amazon has announced its
Disc+ program is growing, up
from around 300 titles last year to
more than 10,000 DVDs and Blu-
ray discs. If you not familiar,
Disc+ means that when you buy
the disc, not only is that shipped
to you, but you also get a free
downloadable copy to watch right
away. Check out the main site for
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could be watching The Girl Who
Played With Fire or Kick-Ass a
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Pop star Demi Lovato enters rehab for Twitter squeezing ads
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Republicans poised for big gains in elections
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:32:38 PM
Melese, 2, waits for his mother,
Julie Light-Orr, as she votes at a
polling place on Venice Beach in
Los Angeles, November 2, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON| Tue Nov 2,
2010 1:32pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - After
a long and bitter campaign,
Americans cast their votes on
Tuesday in elections that could
sweep Democrats from power in
Congress and slam the brakes on
President Barack Obama's
legislative agenda.
Anxiety over the stumbling
economy and discontent with
Obama have propelled
Republicans to the threshold of
huge gains that could give them a
majority in the House of
Representatives and perhaps even
the Senate.
"The Democrats' economic plan is
not working," said Peter Ruiz, a
Miami retiree who voted for
Republicans on Tuesday despite
backing Obama two years ago.
"We need to try something else."
Opinion polls and independent
analysts project Republican will
win at least 50 House seats, far
more than the 39 they need to take
control and topple Democratic
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from
power. More than 90 Democratic
seats are in danger, according to
the nonpartisan Cook Political
Report.
Republicans are also expected to
make big gains in the Senate. But
it will be more difficult for
Republicans to pick up the 10
seats they need for a majority.
The expectations of Republican
gains drove stocks higher on
Tuesday on hopes of a more
business-friendly Congress.
Polls will start to close at 6 p.m.
EDT (2200 GMT), but it will be
hours or possibly days before
results are known in many crucial
races.
All 435 House seats, 37 of the
100 Senate seats, and 37 of the 50
state governorships are at stake in
Tuesday's voting.
Obama won office two years ago
with the hope he could lead the
United States out of a deep
economic crisis, but persistently
high unemployment and a gaping
budget deficit have turned many
voters against him.
"People are just fed up with the
Obama administration -- that
'hope and change' thing," said
retail manager Nadine Leder in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who
planned to vote for Republicans.
The public disgust gave rise to
the Tea Party, a loosely organized
conservative movement that backs
smaller government, lower taxes
and reduced spending.
Republican control of even one
chamber of Congress would likely
spark legislative gridlock,
weakening Obama's hand in fights
over the extension of soon-to-
expire income-tax cuts and the
passage of comprehensive energy
or immigration bills.
GRIDLOCK AND MARKET
CHEER
"We can expect very substantial
Republican gains leading to super
-gridlock for two years," said
University of Virginia political
science professor Larry Sabato.
Stocks have been buoyed in
recent months by the expectation
of big Republican wins, since
investors tend to view GOP
policies as more favorable for
business growth. That trend
continued on Tuesday, even
though some research suggests
that stocks have languished in
periods of divided government.
Nov 02, 2010 1:34am EDT
“In an interview with a radio
show, Obama said he should have
called his political foes
“opponents” instead of “enemies”
in a radio interview he gave last
week.”
No no, he got it right. He most
definitely considers anyone who
disagrees with his policies an
enemy. Odd, but that seems to
include most of the people in the
United States.
Happy voting!
Nov 02, 2010 6:45am EDT
America, please don’t give up on
progress. We can’t afford to go
backwards. We have stopped the
economic free fall and are turning
the corner to recovery in less than
two years. It took Reagan six
years and much higher taxes to do
the same thing in a weaker
recession than this one. Vote
responsibly. Vote for Main Street,
not Wall Street. We have already
bailed them out once.
Nov 02, 2010 6:56am EDT
Obama is an enemy of
democracy. His choice of words
and other carefully orchestrated
empty rhetoric has no credibility.
He has “conned” Americans.
Hopefully, this election will
neutralize his powerbase and the
subsequent 2012 will take himout
of the White House and send him
back to the third world country of
his birthright. He can run for a
Kenyan government where he
belongs.
Nov 02, 2010 7:21am EDT
Americans have no patience.
Obama has always had a hard
road after 8 yrs of Bush. America
will get the government they
deserve these elections
Nov 02, 2010 7:26am EDT
This is a golden opportunity for
every patriotic American to vote
to power the Democrats both in
the House and Senate.By
gridlocking the legislature and the
executive the sufferers will be
those who pinned hopes on
functioning legislature and a
useful executive as would take the
leaky boat in bad waters to safer
ground.
No emotion or history might
matter now when parcels of doom
are directed at and the target
instability,confusion and distrust.
Yes,the fast speaking and faster
thinking President made a slip in
choosing an inappropriate word to
define his opponents.This does
not mean the whole bunch of
responsible and sensible voters
should treat him as the cause for
where they are. What matters is
where you want of be in the next
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few challenging years for the
entire global ecopolitics.
Nov 02, 2010 8:40am EDT
The way our once great country
has fallen prey to the robber
barons in corporate America is the
most disheartening aspect. It
doesn’t matter which party is in
control, the force operating the
meat puppets in government will
remain the same. Not one party
espouses the policies which serve
the American people over the
interests of greedy, talentless
business entities. Even while
government tramples the
individual, it also imposes harsh
restrictions on free enterprise to
stifle the individual from working
independently to live and survive.
The big breaks go to giant
corporations who pillage the
environment and rape the
individual citizen. The
abandonment of the American
worker in favor of cheap, less
skilled foreign labor could only be
accomplished with our
government working on behalf of
those larger corporate interests.
So,,bicker and argue over the
parties and their equally
devastating plans for our country.
In the end, we Americans never
vote in our own best interests.
Nov 02, 2010 8:46am EDT
@giveitthought – wow, you really
think you can reverse that idea
around, don’t you? Do you know
who came up with the acronym
RHINO??? I’ll give you a hint …
it wasn’t Democrats!
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As Options Narrow, Hu Jintao’s Successor Chosen
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 8:01:48 AM
China's top leaders, including
President Hu Jintao (front/R),
Premier Wen Jiabao (front/C) and
Vice President Xi Jingping (front/
L) applaud at the closing session
of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference in
Beijing on March 13, 2010.
(Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty
Images) Most people believe that
Xi Jinping was selected as Hu
Jintao’s successor due to a power
struggle, the compromise and
balance among different power
and interest groups in the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP). Many
also looked to Xi Jinping’s family
background, his princeling status,
his understated manner in political
circles, and even his wife’s
reputation and connections.
All of those factors probably
played a role, and all point out
that Xi Jinping fits the
requirements to be an heir. But
what is the requirement and
whose requirement is it?
Previously, answering these
questions was easier.
Mao’s Choices
Mao Zedong, the first-generation
leader of the CCP, had established
his absolute power, and there was
no doubt only he could appoint
his successor. Mao selected five
different successors. Before the
Cultural Revolution, he chose Liu
Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping.
During the Cultural Revolution,
Lin Biao, Wang Hongwen, and
Hua Guofeng.
Liu Shaoqi, who later became
Mao’s main target of the Cultural
Revolution and died in detention,
was hardly a successor because he
was almost the same age as Mao.
Lin Biao was the first one whose
appointment as Mao’s successor
was written in the Party Charter.
Lin Biao was the most important
supporter of Mao’s controversial
Cultural Revolution. After Lin’s
plane crashed in Mongolia, Mao
needed to select another
successor. Mao considered his
contribution to Marxism to be
“continuing the revolution under
the dictatorship of the proletariat,”
which was represented by the
Cultural Revolution. Wang would
continue the revolution but didn’t
have any support from the Party,
the government, or the military. If
Wang couldn’t survive after Mao
was gone, how could Wang
defend Mao’s legacy?
That’s the reason why Mao
finally abandoned Wang and
picked Hua Guofeng. Hua was not
the one that could continue his
revolution but was the one that
could survive much longer and
wouldn’t turn against Mao on this
issue. However, Deng Xiaoping
ousted Hua Guofeng by force,
more or less.
Deng’s Arrangements
Deng should not have had any
problem picking his own
successor. Hu Yaobang and Zhao
Ziyang were his right and left
arms during his economic reform,
even though they probably had
different opinions from his on
political reform.
By the spring of 1989, when the
students took to the Beijing streets
on the death of Hu Yaobang, the
differences between Deng and
Zhao Ziyang had become
intolerable. Deng urgently needed
someone as his successor who
would not turn against him
following the coming massacre.
Jiang Zemin was selected, not
because he was capable of
running the country but because
he was the only one at the
provincial level who had
suppressed the so-called
“bourgeois liberalization” at the
moment when the outcome of the
struggle in Zhongnanhai could not
yet be clearly seen.
Both Mao and Deng followed
hidden rules in handpicking a
successor: Choose the one least
likely to allow the blood debt that
is owed to be paid, or choose the
one least likely to turn against the
worst political burden.
Jiang’s Dilemma
The situation Jiang Zemin faced
was totally different. Deng not
only picked his own successor in
Jiang but also picked Jiang’s
successor, Hu Jintao, for him.
When Jiang was about to hand
over his power, he still didn’t
have the power to overturn
Deng’s choice of Hu.
Jiang allowed or even forced
everyone in the Party and the
government to become corrupt.
Just as Deng had his blood debt,
Jiang also had his—the
persecution of Falun Gong. Even
though he couldn’t choose his
successor, he still managed to put
enough of “his” men in the
standing committee of the
Politburo. Five of the nine
members in Hu Jintao’s standing
committee of the Politburo were
considered Jiang’s Shanghai gang.
Two others were not considered
part of the Shanghai gang but
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shared with Jiang his blood debt.
Wu Guanzheng, the former Party
secretary of Shangdong Province,
was responsible for the
persecution of Falun Gong in that
province when he was in charge.
Luo Gan had been in charge of
the nationwide persecution since
its beginning in 1999.
Settling on Xi
Jiang didn’t have the power to
arrange Hu Jintao’s successor for
Hu. But Hu also couldn’t appoint
his own successor as Jiang’s gang
and other interest groups shared
the political power with him.
Like Mao, Deng, and Jiang, Hu
has his own human rights
disasters: the Tibetans, the
Uighurs, victims of forced home
demolitions, and the continuing
persecution of Falun Gong. This
time, more than one group in
power needs the protection that
comes from collection of the
blood debt that is owed.
Further complicating the choice
of successor is how economic
advantage is tied to political
power.
Jiang created a new form of
political struggle: the economic
weapon. Jiang allowed or even
forced everyone in the Party and
the government to become corrupt
and then selectively used the
prosecution of corruption to
destroy his opponents or anyone
who refused to bow to him.
When he put Chen Xitong, the
former Party head in Beijing, in
jail on the charge of corruption,
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Staten Island Reads Chinese Poetry

(Epoch Times | All headlines) China for a model United Nations (Annie Wu/The Epoch Times)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:22:21 AM trip, and the other a Chinese poet Within the shi and ci genres, there
herself. Lung publishes her poems were different names for the
A group of Staten Islanders on her blog, which is accessible to various types and structures of
gather together at one of Staten netizens in mainland China. poems. The jin ti shi(recent form),
Island OutLOUD's reading events Misty and Mysterious which Li Bai and Du Fu were
to read and discuss Chinese Isla Ng (C), a high school student particularly skillful in mastering,
poetry. (Annie Wu/The Epoch who recently visited China, co- was the strictest in terms of rules.
Times) Poets of the Tiananmen hosted the event along with her The most common form was the
S q u a r e M a s s a c r e e x i l e a n d mother, Joan Harrison (L). (Annie five- and seven-character poem,
classical Chinese scholars might Wu/The Epoch Times) The both of which were required to
not be your typical reading reading began with the more end in four or eight lines. The four
material, but for a group of Staten recent poets, many of whom were -lined poem is called a jue shi,
Island neighbors hungry to share exiled from China following the while the eight-lined poem is a lu
great works of world literature, Tiananmen Square Massacre on shi. Rhyme schemes also varied.
they were just the perfect subjects June 4, 1989. The two most In the lu shi, the last character in
for an afternoon of reading and prominent poets read were Bei all the even- and odd-numbered
discussion. Dao and Yang Lian, the former a lines of the poem must rhyme
According to their website, frequently named candidate for with each other (that is, ABAB).
Staten Island OutLOUD is a the Nobel Prize in Literature. Like the English meter, some
Others said Bei’s style reminded Tang Dynasty poets were masters
“ c o m m u n i t y d i a l o g u e a n d Both Bei and Yang were part of a types of shi poems specified a
them of the American Beat poets of the shi form, while in the Song
performance project” where new school of poetry known as pattern of flat and uneven tones
of the 1940s and 50s. Many also Dynasty, the ci genre flourished.
neighbors gather together to read the “Misty Poets,” so named for each line (Mandarin Chinese
noted that the nuances, The primary difference between
aloud and sometimes stage because of their use of hermetic consists of four tones, the first
complexities, and ambiguities shi and ci was that the ci was
readings of literature by writers of imagery and ambiguous syntax in classified as flat, the second to
intrinsic to the Chinese idiom meant to be sung to a tune with a
all cultures from the past to the their work. fourth as uneven) and which tone
must have been lost in translation. set melody, rhythm, and tempo,
p r e s e n t , r a n g i n g f r o m t h e The Misty Poets were formed as was rhymed throughout the poem.
Thus, they believed, they were not whereas a shi poem was not.
Declaration of Independence to p a r t o f a r e a c t i o n t o t h e Some shi poems required the
able to fully appreciate the artistry Oftentimes, the title of the poem
Zen poetry. Oftentimes, their suppression of artistic expression characters in each line to
in Chinese poetry. would be named after the tune,
choices of venue are scenic under Mao’s regime. The oblique correspond to each other in
Classical Elegance like Su Shi’s “Shui Diao Ge Tou.”
locations around the island. For a nature of the Misty school can be syntax. For example, if the third
Neighbors take turns reading Thus, many ci poems written by
reading of Moby Dick, for observed in Yang’s “Storkwinkel, character in the first line is a verb,
aloud works of literature from multiple poets could have the
example, they congregated at Fort Berlin,” which artfully captured the third character in each
around the world and spanning all same title.
Wadsworth, a favorite spot of the grim and somber in the first subsequent line must also be a
time periods. (Annie Wu/The In classical Chinese poetry, there
Herman Melville. two lines: “death’s play has verb.
Epoch Times) Afterwards, the exist rules that poets must strictly
On a late Saturday afternoon, a twisted your features no longer Ci poems have even more
group read poems by some of the adhere to. Much like sonnets in
dozen or so Staten Islanders people / remember one cry of a distinctions. A combination of a
most illustrious and celebrated the English tradition, both shi and
gathered at Tappen Park in frail child’s laughter and dread.” specific number of characters in
poets in Chinese literary history, ci poetry have specific
Stapleton for an intimate reading The Staten Island literary each line and a pattern of flat and
including Tang Dynasty poets Li requirements for the structure of
and discussion of Chinese poetry. enthusiasts speculated that the uneven tones constituted a ci pai,
Bai (also known as Li Bo) and Du the poem, including the number of
The event was inspired by two bleak, dark imagery in Bei’s and of which there were up to 800
Fu, as well as Li Qingzhao and Su characters within each line, the
local neighbors Isla Ng and Anna Yang’s poems was perhaps a different permutations. Ci poems
Shi (also known as Su Dongbo) of number of lines and stanzas in the
Lung, one a young high school reflection of their traumatic
the Song Dynasty. poem, and a specific rhyme STATEN page 20
student who recently visited memories of the June 4 massacre.
(Annie Wu/The Epoch Times) scheme.
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Yemen hunts bomb suspect, oil pipeline attacked

(Reuters: Top News) Ibrahim Sharqieh, Deputy The U.S. Treasury has blacklisted expert would go through so much scenarios here, one of them being
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:40:01 PM Director at Brookings Institute's Awlaki as a "specially designated trouble to smuggle a device onto a a black op that would be treason.
Doha Center, told Reuters. global terrorist." Earlier this year, plane and NOT set it off. It was That it comes up at all as a
A combination picture of Saudi The aim of the military operation the United States authorized the aboard planes, at any point it possibility is that the operation is
fugitive Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri in the provinces of Maarib and CIA to capture or kill him. would have a catastrophic effect just to pat. You know, real
as seen from a Yemeni police Shabwa, where oil and gas fields The two parcel bombs were to have it detonate. No way would terrorist operations kill, the fake
handbook of the most wanted of major international companies intercepted last week on cargo ANY terrorist put explosives on a ones to increase fear don’t,
terror suspects. are located, was to capture planes in Britain and Dubai and plane and not have it ‘try’ to go IMHO…
Credit: Reuters/Yemeni Police/ suspected bomb maker Ibrahim al are thought to be the work of al off. Our ‘experts’ can’t figure out Nov 02, 2010 9:30am EDT
Handout -Asiri, a Yemeni security official Qaeda's Yemen-based arm, al how it was supposed to detonate. HE IS DRIVING A CAB IN
By Mohamed Sudam said. Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula This is an impossible thing to say. NYC ALONG WITH OSAMA
SANAA| Tue Nov 2, 2010 The attack on the pipeline was in (AQAP), U.S. officials say. They do NOT know how bombs *We welcome comments that
1:40pm EDT Shabwa. Last week's plot deepened work? Terrorist DO know how advance the story directly or with
SANAA(Reuters) - Yemen The mission is also to catch the Western security fears focused on the make road side bombs, they relevant tangential information.
launched an operation on Tuesday U.S.-born radical preacher Anwar Yemen after AQAP claimed do not put them in the roads for a We try to block comments that
to arrest a Saudi bomb maker al-Awlaki, who is wanted by responsibility for a suicide bomb test run. Why even say it was put use offensive language or appear
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south of the country, where the the trial in absentia of al-Awlaki, Unmanned American drone wrong then he can give you any those of Reuters.
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Shooting reported at U.S. Coast Guard recruiting

office
(Reuters: Top News) The FBI currently is investigating the late evening or early morning something larger, like a small
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:07:20 AM a spate of shootings at military and no one has been injured. rocket or grenade launcher? I
buildings in the Washington area: Perren has said the FBI does not think that the FBI is mistakenly
WASHINGTON| Tue Nov 2, the Pentagon, a Marine Corps believe the individual involved making these vulnerabilities iPhone table
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Suspect package found at Merkel's continued from page 14

he set a precedent that is very corruption and to somehow keep

office dangerous for the stability of the
Party. Others also can use this
the Party going.
But the CCP is still a
(Reuters: Top News) day that bombs exploded at two Should be no surprise. It has been weapon against their opponents revolutionary and destructive
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:57:58 AM foreign embassies in Greece, with their way for centuries. GLK and competitors or even against organization that depends on
suspect packages found at other Report As Abusive Jiang himself. continuing conflict to keep it
A policeman stands guard in diplomatic missions in Athens. Nov 02, 2010 12:35pm EDT Hu Jintao used almost the same alive. That’s why, after the
front of the closed main gate of Greek police linked the attacks For the bigot who made the charge to put away Chen Liangyu, Cultural Revolution, there was the
t h e C h a n c e l l e r y i n B e r l i n , there to leftist guerrillas. comments below, killing millions the Party head of Shanghai, where Tiananmen Square massacre and
November 2, 2010. On Monday, a bomb exploded in of muslims by France, Italy, USA Jiang’s power is concentrated. the persecution of Falun Gong
Credit: Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch a n A t h e n s c o u r i e r o f f i c e and the Zionist State doesn’t help, In choosing a successor for Hu, even though most people, both
BERLIN| Tue Nov 2, 2010 wounding one employee, and killing civilians by the hundreds all the powerful Party groups, inside and outside China, thought
12:57pm EDT Greek police arrested two men of thousands in Iraq doesn’t help whether they began as princelings these were unreasonable and
BERLIN(Reuters) - German with two bombs, including one either… WWI, WWII, Dresden or as part of the Youth League unnecessary.
police found a suspicious package addressed to French President and Hitler were all Christians!!! group, need someone who can When the Party loses the fire of
in the mail at Chancellor Angela Nicolas Sarkozy. Justin2010 Report As Abusive protect them from the people struggle, it is dying no matter how
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Theater Review: ‘Wings’
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Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:01:00 AM
M A G N I F I C E N T
PERFORMANCE: Award-
winning Jan Maxwell appears in
her best role yet, as Emily Stilson
in Arthur Kopit's 'Wings.' (Joan
Marcus) NEW YORK—In Arthur
Kopit’s 1978 play Wings,
character Emily Stilson (Jan
Maxwell) is a wingwalker, one of
those intrepid souls who in the
1920s stood upon the wing of an
airplane when it was in flight.
(This, of course, was prior to the
jet airplane, but even so ...)
In the play, Emily, who has
suffered a stroke, must go through
the various stages of amazement,
anger, and determination to get to
the far side and eventual
resolution of her infirmity. That
she does so in the imagination,
mind, and body of a brilliant
actress makes for a moving and
exciting evening in the theater.
The character has suffered the
kind of stroke that has affected
both her speech and memory;
some of the most moving
sequences show Emily babbling
in gibberish, which she, however,
believes to be clear
communication. Fortunately, she
has the sympathy of a warm
therapist (January LaVoy) who
helps her through her period of
recovery.
Although several medical
personnel appear briefly, the play
is virtually a 65-minute
monologue, performed
impeccably by Ms. Maxwell, who
has appeared to notable effect in
many Broadway and off-
Broadway productions, and for
which she has won numerous
theater awards.
The current role of Emily Stilson
enables her to use all her creative
gifts. It may be called the role of a
lifetime. Director John Doyle has
done this actress and the
production a great service by
simply letting Maxwell take full
center stage in a chair facing
front, while peripheral activities
by the doctors and nurses—some
seemingly too loud and
violent—impede the character’s
sensitive perceptions.
Supporting the director’s stark
vision is fine technical support
supplied by Scott Pask’s
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deliberately severe set design,
Jane Cox’s lighting, Ann Hould-
Ward’s good costumes, Peter
Nigrini’s projections, and Bray
Poor’s original music.
Others in the cast are Michael
Warner, Adam Heller, Anne L.
Nathan, Beth Dixon, and Teagle
F. Bougere.
Take this opportunity to see a
remarkably gifted actress at the
top of her game in a play that
offers a unique handling of a
subject that is painful, but which
may come to affect more of us
and our loved ones than we would
care to know.
Wings
Second Stage Theatre
305 West 43rd Street
Tickets: 212-246-4422, 800-766-
6048 or www.2ST.com
Running time: 65 minutes
Closes: Nov. 21
Diana Barth writes and publishes
New Millennium, an arts
newsletter. For information:
www.diabarth@juno.com.
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As Europe’s Startup
Circuit Accelerates
Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:45:17 AM
Something has been happening to
the European startup scene in the
last couple of years, and it is
starting to manifest itself in an
upswell of networking the likes of
which I have not seen since I
started blogging full time for
TechCrunch way back in 2007.
From the primordial soup of the
developer community have
sprung up events for startups,
entrepreneurs and investors until,
finally, last weekend Europe
stumbled on the natural evolution
of all this networking: an event
which resembled and will
perhahps come to rival The Lobby
event in Hawaii. That’s an event
where tech entrepreneurs gather to
talk just amongst themselves for a
change, and hang out. And that’s
exactly what F.ounders, a new
invite-only event in Dublin, did
this past weekend. But let me
unpack this trend.
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were also classified by the length
of the poem and the number of
stanzas. For instance, a poem with
58 characters or fewer was a xiao
ling, and if it was separated into
two stanzas, it was called a
shuang diao.
There was also a classification of
musical style for the tune that the
Many at the reading commented
on the vivid imagery in the
classical Chinese poems, which
resembled paintings in its graphic
descriptions of nature. They also
noted that the classical poems
were easier to understand,
whereas the modern Chinese
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tempo speeds, the ling being the
fastest and the man the slowest.
Finally, there was a distinction
between poem styles, one called
the wan yue(graceful and
restrained) and the other hao
ways that revealed their
individualistic sensibilities.
Classical or modern, the readers
left with new insight into Chinese
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The gov’t is no longer of, by and
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Nov 02, 2010 9:28am EDT
Generally, Americans are thought
to be short on memory and easy to
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follies have conducted
themselves.
When i worked for the
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had to be rated at a sixth (6th)
grade mentality. (I directed a
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20 years until retirement) The
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WAKE UP AMERICA. Lets
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Google Voice Is Having Serious Trouble Making Outbound Calls.

This Is Bad.
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch) just keeps ringing forever — it interface (you enter the phone “We’re aware of the issue, which
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:01:06 PM never even gets to the recipient’s number you want to call, and it is affecting some Google Voice
voicemail. The worst part is that calls both your phone and your users, and are working on a fix.”
If you want to be a phone most people probably don’t even contact’s phone). This doesn’t This isn’t the first time Google
company you can’t go dead. realize that anything’s wrong, work at all. Voice has had issues with
Ever. People rely on their mobile because when you initiate a call it The only thing that does seem to reliability — it had a major outage
phones for everything these days, sounds like everything is working work is Google Voice’s back in April 2008, when it was
so when calls aren’t going fine because you still hear those integration with Gmail. Which is still GrandCentral. I’ve also
through it’s a really big deal. And familiar rings. great if you’re sitting at a encountered sporadic problems
as far as we can tell, Google We’ve tried a handful of different computer, and useless if not. over the last year that I’ve used it
Voice is currently having some setups to figure out what’s going The only consolation is that (though no worse than I used to
serious issues. on. We’re both on Nexus Ones, so inbound calls are still working. have from AT&T).
Both Michael Arrington and I use it’s possible (though unlikely) that Google is looking into the CrunchBase Information Google
does go through to the recipient,
Google Voice exclusively for our the problem is associated with this problem, and while it doesn’t Voice Information provided by
but it comes from a random
phone calls. And this morning, we handset in particular. Update: seem to be affecting all users, CrunchBase
number and when they go to pick
simply can’t place calls: we’ll dial Based on comments below it’s there are clearly a significant
up they hear silence.
a number, hear the familiar rings affecting other handsets as well. number of people having this
We also tried initiating a call
as we wait for our contact to When we place a call directly problem. Google has given us this
using Google Voice’s web
answer, and… nothing. The phone from our Nexus Ones, it actually statement:
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ASUS Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 ultraportable on sale now

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:05:09 AM

ASUS‘ appealing little

Lamborghini Eee PC VX6
notebook, which we took a shine
to back at the company’s holiday
showcase, has gone up for sale in
the UK. The 12.1-inch
ultraportable packs an Intel Atom
D525 dual-core 1.8GHz
processor, 2GB of RAM and
NVIDIA Ion 2 graphics with
Optimus support, along with a
250GB hard-drive and HDMI
connectivity.
Video demo after the cut
There’s also WiFi b/g/n,
Bluetooth 3.0 and 10/100
ethernet, along with USB 3.0 and
USB 2.0 ports, VGA, a multi-
format memory card reader and
audio in/out. ASUS squeeze in a
1.3-megapixel webcam and a 6-
cell battery apparently good for
up to 6hrs of runtime, too.
The ASUS Lamborghini Eee PC
VX6 is available in the UK from
today, priced at £499 ($799).
Press Release:
ASUS-Lamborghini Eee PC
VX6: Stylishly Fast by Name and
Stylishly Fast by Nature
ASUS launch ASUS-
Lamborghini VX6 ultraportable
with Dual Core Intel Atom D525
processor, NVIDIA Optimus Lamborghini and inspired by the delivers breathtaking graphics and travelling in style. travel from car to computer with
graphics and audio designed by superstar Murcielago LP640 audio at incredible speeds. Priced £499 inc VAT (SRP) and the Lamborghini-inspired design:
Bang & Olufsen ICEPower Roadster. The desirable combination of available from a range of retailers Co-branded with Lamborghini,
ASUS have today started the With the brand new, high style and performance plus a i n c l u d i n g the stunning Eee PC VX6
engines on their latest must-have performance dual core Intel Atom multitude of connectivity features www.pcworld.co.uk,MicroAnvika ultraportable takes inspiration
gadget – the ASUS-Lamborghini D525 processor, next generation including USB 3.0 and Express , www.ebuyer.com and from the Murcielago LP640
Eee PC VX6 ultraportable 12.1” NVIDIA Ion 2 graphics and Gate, make this miniature www.laptopsdirect.co.uk.
notebook, co- designed by NVIDIA Optimus technology it machine the perfect accessory for Add a touch of style to your ASUS page 23
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Roadster and epitomises the
magnificence and power of the
automotive star through a
combination of sleek lines, an
elegant glossy exterior in black or
white and the Lamborghini badge
adorning the lid. With a high-end
design inside and out, the Eee PC
VX6 commands attention and is a
covetable accessory for
enthusiasts of the iconic supercar
who want to turn heads both on
and off the road.
Satisfy the need for speed with
the latest generation Dual Core
Intel Atom D525 processor:
The ASUS-Lamborghini Eee PC
VX6 boasts a Dual Core Intel
Atom D525 processor – two 1.8
Ghz cores each with Hyper-
Threading Technology that will
be sure to leave rivals at the
starting line. The four parallel
processing threads deliver a
boosted performance within multi
-threaded software and lightening
fast response times within more
demanding applications.
Drive graphics and games into
the smoothest dimension with
next generation NVIDIA Ion 2
graphics:
Next generation NVIDIA Ion 2
brings eye-popping graphics to
the Eee PC VX6’s 12.1” high
definition screen, with
performance up to 60% faster
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This is the year – really, it is –
than that of previous-generation
NVIDIA Ion graphics. The result
is super- smooth gaming that will
keep pace with even the fastest
player once the heat is on.
What’s more – onboard hardware
decoding promises silky smooth
1080p HD video playback for
staggeringly crystal clear visuals,
making this ultraportable a true
winner for relishing good movies
on the move.
Enjoy sound as impactful as the
real Lamborghini with audio by
Bang & Olufsen Icepower:
Every motoring fan can
appreciate the ferocious sound of
a revving Lamborghini – and the
ASUS-Lamborghini VX6 has
equally outstanding audio to boast
about. With stereo speakers by
Bang & Olufsen ICEPower and
SRS Premium surround sound,
the tiny machine unleashes a mind
- blowing resonance which will
blow your ears away whether you
are enjoying music, movies or
games.
Keep on the road with up to 6
hours of battery life thanks to the
energy efficient NVIDIA Optimus
technology:
The ASUS-Lamborghini wields
NVIDIA Optimus – a highly
intelligent technology which
automatically optimises graphics
performance to suit the
that you're going to pull off a
applications being used – creating
a balance which improves energy
efficiency and maximises battery
life to delivery up to 6 hours of
uninterrupted computing.
Super-fast transfers, charging and
boot-up with a host of software
and connectivity:
The ASUS-Lamborghini VX6 is
packed full of software and
features to make computing life
effortless. With USB 3.0, data
transfer speeds via USB are up to
10 times faster than USB 2.0 and
allow it to re-charge mobile
devices in almost half the
previous times – even when the
netbook is switched off.
Bluetooth 3.0 support facilitates
low power wireless data transfers
from compatible devices at speeds
up to 24Mbit/s — perfect for
speedy music, video and photo
synchronisation with mobile
devices.
For users who live life on the go,
the dual-operating system Express
Gate offers the perfect way to
boot up in record time to access a
range of applications including
the Internet, email, music and
instant messaging.
meaningful, well-organized,
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Technology/ Finance/
How to Watch Election
Results Tonight Online
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:42:07 PM
After all the voting wraps up this
evening, the real fun begins -
watching the results come in.
Whether you want to sit around
and watch an auto-refreshing,
interactive map of election results
or feel the buzz of a live,
television broadcast, the Internet
has everything you need on
election night.
Here are a few ways to dig into
voting trends and tune into the
results as they start pouring in this
tonight.
Sponsor
If you don't own a TV (like most
of the RWW staff) but you still
want to watch live results, fret
not. YouTube has partnered up
with CBS News to live stream
election results and trends on
YouTube and Google starting
tonight at 9 p.m. ET. The live
video will be available at the CBS
News YouTube channel. And if
you can't wait until then, CBS is
already taking a look at election
trends with data from Google
Trends and Insights for Search.
Also joining in on the fun of
streaming live-video, the Wall
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Street Journal will be offering live
coverage starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Even Facebook is getting into the
election game this year, not only
pushing its users to vote, but
broadcasting live streaming video
coverage of election results
starting at 7 p.m. ET. You'll find
its coverage on the official
Facebook app.
For those of you who feel that
live video is old hat, there are a
number of online, interactive
maps and tools that put together
real-time results with spiffy
looking graphics and plenty of
information. The New York
Times, for example, has a great
election center that shows results
drilled down on a national map.
Talking Points Memo also has a
great interactive map of the
country showing senate, house,
governor and proposition results
on a state-by-state basis.
If you want to dig even deeper
into the election results, trends,
voting issues and more, the
Nieman Journalism Lab has a
great guide to old and new media
on election night, as does the
Media Decoder blog on the New
York Times. Discuss
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Food Industry Ripe For Disruption Sega: 'Never say never'

Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
article of clothing comes with a
back story."
There is already a growing
on Shenmue 3
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:00:12 PM
(CNET News.com) United States. And Sega decided
movement to quantify data about
The Internet of Things, when the way we live - and eat. From Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:50:22 AM to stop producing follow-up titles
objects in the real world are web apps like Health that continued the game's story
connected to the Internet, is Sega fans hoping to rejoin Ryo line. Since then, Sega has been
Month(which enables you to set
adding a whole lot more data to Hazuki in his fight to avenge his relatively tight-lipped about the
health goals and track them over a
the Web. The fascinating question father's death in Shenmue might possibility of releasing Shenmue
month, including dietary goals) to
is how that data will be used, by just have that opportunity. 3.
the self-explanatory
existing businesses and new Speaking to CVG in a recent But even a glimmer of hope that
TweetWhatYouEat. These apps
startups yet to emerge. Take the interview, Mike Hayes, the Shenmue may come back could
will become much more
food industry for example. With president of Sega West, said that be enough to excite the legions of
sophisticated once food
sensors, QR codes and RFID tags according to an IBM report, only businesses give consumers data there is a possibility that the fans hoping the game company
on food shipments, suppliers will 1% of foods entering the U.S. are from the supply chain. franchise could be making its way would revive the Shenmue series.
be able to monitor and optimize inspected. The report further The web site The Quantified Self, back to consoles. Those fans have been pressing
the delivery of food from the states that imports make up run by Gary Wolf and Kevin "While at present we have no Sega for years. In fact, one
place of production to its place of "nearly 60% of the fruits and Kelly, has more tips and tools for plans for the franchise [on next- petition on PetitionOnline has
c o n s u m p t i o n . I t ' s a n o p e n vegetables consumed in the U.S. consumers who wish to track and gen consoles]...the Shenmue nearly 64,000 signatures from
invitation for disruptive food and 75% of the seafood." legacy ignites a lot of passion folks hoping to see the franchise
manage the data about their lives.
businesses to utilize that data for Data about where food was As a diabetic (type 1), I'm more among fans. Never say never," he return.
competitive advantage. produced and how it has traveled careful than most people about told the gaming publication. With Sega finally saying it's
Of course, consumers stand to w o u l d i n c r e a s e c o n s u m e r what I eat. So I can't wait for the If Shenmue does come back, it possible, the chances of a new
gain too. Data from the food confidence about food safety. day when I'll be able to scan a would be a long time coming. The game in the franchise seem higher
s u p p l y c h a i n w i l l e n a b l e Given the choice of two similar food item with my smart phone original installment of the game than they have been in years.
consumers to more easily judge food products, but one has more and find out if it's a healthier launched in 2000 on the Sega This entry passed through the
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work for you. judgments. As the Christian Discuss
Food safety is the primary Science Monitor recently noted,
concern of consumers. Yet "every gadget, piece of food, or
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Smaato: U.S. Will Spend $5 Billion On Verify Gives Designers

Mobile Advertising In 2015 an Eight-in-One Toolkit
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:43:19 AM for Testing Ideas
Frederic Lardinois
Mobile advertising and ad (ReadWriteWeb)
optimization company Smaato is
releasing a new whitepaper today Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:20:00 PM

with some huge projections for

the mobile advertising industry. While the Web and the
According to Smaato, the US is limitations of most browsers for Verify Premium ($29 per
the second largest mobile sometimes limit what designers month) also get access to
advertising market globally in can do online, one advantage of demographic reports and the
terms of spending, falling just the Internet is that it allows them ability to link multiple tests
behind Japan. In 2010, Smaato to easily test different ideas and together. Pricing for the service
says US mobile advertising instantly get feedback for how starts at $9 per month for accounts
spending is expected to be worth well a specific design performs. that don't offer these premium
$797.6 million. For the US, this With Verify, interactive design services. ZURB also offers a 30-
equates to a little under 8,000 firm ZURB is now giving day free trial.
expected to grow in the next few While it’s still difficult to know designers an toolkit with eight With Verify, ZURB wants to
mobile advertising campaigns,
years. Because of the high just how huge mobile advertising different test for evaluating and give designers a toolkit that
and an average of 21.8 new
number of mobile users, the will become, we do know that the comparing their ideas based on allows them to quickly verify
campaigns per day. Smatto says
average mobile advertising market seems to be growing at a user feedback. specific ideas, but also gives them
that the U.S. mobile ad market
campaign spend is between fast rate as technology giants like Sponsor the ability to turn this feedback
will move closer to Japan (more
$75,000 – 100,000, which is much Apple and Google throw their ZURB's founder and "Chief into actionable reports. It's
than $1 billion in 2010) next year
higher than in other countries. hats in the ring via acquisitions. Instigator" Bryan Zmijewski important to note, too, that these
with a forecast of $1.24 billion for
And the report contends that the Steady increases in the use of "To truly design around the needs tools are not so much meant to be
2011 and $5.04 billion for 2015.
mobile advertising market is is smartphones, new innovations in of people, Verify blends both used for usability testing, but for
eMarketer released similar
still young and has not fully mobile ad formats and other quantitative and qualitative gathering design feedback and
findings a few weeks ago, but
matured. Smaato says that mobile factors are all contributing to feedback to help product teams enabling product managers,
Smaato’s finding are more bullish
has yet to penetrate over 50% of market that is growing like make faster and more informed design teams and marketers to
on projections for 2015.
the US mobile population in terms gangbusters. design decisions without having quickly test ideas and make
Here’s the reasoning. The
of advertising. As smartphone CrunchBase Information Smaato to fully implement ideas." design feedback an integral part
company says that US has over
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300 million active mobile
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more willing to shell out ad preference test and click tests, as
one-third use their mobile phone
dollars. well as a number of annotation-
to browse. This number is only
driven tests. Users who opt to pay
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Report: Chrome OS smartbooks coming this month

(CNET News.com) Google reportedly plans on selling juggernaut while expanding into
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:56:20 AM a Chrome OS smartbook (an ill- nearly anything it thinks possible.
defined term that seems to reflect He has previously written about
Smartbooks running Chrome OS an improved Netbook) under its Apple, the traditional PC industry,
could arrive this month.(Credit: own brand, similar to what it tried and chip companies. E-mail Tom.
Google) to do with the Nexus One. CEO This entry passed through the
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launch Chrome OS systems in Web Store, which will help make the "fall," but most observers have expanding world of Google, as the
December, Digitimes said. the smartbooks more attractive expected the company to get most prominent company on the
One interesting tidbit is that with additional apps outside of the everything out before the official Internet defends its search

Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 Clears FCC Gauntlet, Heading

to T-Mobile
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:13:13 PM
While AT&T and T-Mobile are
sharing the Windows Phone 7
love this holiday season, and
carriers like Verizon and Sprint
are left to wait until 2011 to
launch their own handsets, it
looks like one major name is on
its way to the Magenta network
shortly. Courtesy of the FCC, it’s
been discovered that the Dell
Venue Pro has just cleared the
process with T-Mobile USA 3G
(1700MHz). which we went over last month. src="http://asset.slashgear.tv/
The model name of the device is For T-Mobile customers, there’s sgplayer.swf"
V02S, and there’s no denying that rumors floating around that the width="580"
the device is certainly the Venue Venue Pro could launch on the height="361"
Pro. This particular handset network November 8th, when allowscriptaccess="always"
features Microsoft’s upcoming AT&T will be busy launching allowfullscreen="true"
Windows Phone 7 mobile their own Windows Phone 7 flashvars="config=http://
Operating System, and features a handsets. It’s just a rumor for asset.slashgear.tv/
portrait slider, with a full physical now, but with the FCC clearance, sgtv.php?vkey=feab575962e78e0
QWERTY keyboard underneath. at least it’s a possibility. 06250"
The Venue Pro also has a 4.1-inch Hopefully it makes it by the />
capacitive touchscreen, and the holiday shopping season, at least. [ via unwiredview]
1GHz processor under the hood. details here, so it looks like you’ll You can check out the hands-on
Unfortunately, the FCC filing just have to be happy with our video below.
doesn’t give us any other juicy hands-on time with the device, name="SGTV"
E-reader News Edition
Sega’s Shenmue 3 Could be Coming Eventually
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:03:56 PM
For the gaming community, it’s
easy to fall in love with one
particular title, and get attached to
not only the characters, but also
the story. For fans of the series
Shenmue, which debuted for the
Sega Dreamcast years ago, it was
easy to become immediately
enthralled with the life of Ryo
Hazuki, and the search for his
father’s killer. The original title
was a hit on the Dreamcast, but its
sequel, Shenmue II, didn’t see as
much success on Microsoft’s
original Xbox, so Sega pulled
development on the title. But, it
looks like the third installment
could be a real possibility.
Speaking with CVG, President of
Sega West Mike Hayes said that
while the company is not planning
on releasing anything on the
current generation of consoles
available now, that doesn’t mean
that the company has completely
forgotten about the franchise.
“While at present we have no
plans for the franchise [on next-
gen consoles], the Shenmue
legacy ignites a lot of passion
among fans. Never say never.”
So, we can’t expect it to hit any
time soon, but at least we know
that Sega isn’t sitting there,
listening to all of the fans cry out
for a game and completely
ignoring them. With petitions
floating around the Internet, all of
which asking Sega to bring back
Hazuki to consoles, it’s no
surprise that Sega wouldn’t want
to miss the chance of raking in the
money from a high-profile release
as Shenmue. And, for gaming
enthusiasts who are still waiting
to end the conflict between the
main character and Lan Di, the
man who killed Hazuki’s father, it
looks like the resolution of the
series is still coming soon. Of
course, soon is a relative term.
[ via CVG]
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Keepin' it real fake:
iPod nano doesn't need
a logo, thank you
Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:47:00 PM
To be honest, this took a little
longer than expected. The above
faux iPod nano is a pretty decent
copy, lookswise, anyway. While
we don't know its name or full
specifications, we do know that it
comes in both 1.5 and 1.8-inch
touchscreen varieties (presumably
resistive). It apparently has both
an external speaker and an SD
card reader. We don't know where
you'll ever find one or how much
it's likely to cost, but if you do
track these down, we'll take one in
that gray color, please.
Keepin' it real fake: iPod nano
doesn't need a logo, thank you
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Dell Buys Boomi - Is an Acquisition Salma Celebrates Her

Spree on the Way? New Series at Dinner
Alex Williams (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:07:14 PM network is increasingly porous.
The data center is networking
many to come:
"Integration vendors who can
connect cloud to on-premises are
With Her Man
Katie Henry (PopSugar) hit Ugly Betty. The program, an
Dell is buying Boomi, an SaaS with the cloud. At this point, it's a a key component in any vendor's
provider that provides services for race to control how that transition strategy to master the cloud. Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:00:00 PM adaption of Argentina's Los
moving applications to the cloud. happens. It's where we see almost Dell's move shows it has an Roldan, was picked up by ABC. It
Terms of the deal were not a l l o f t h e l a r g e v e n d o r s Salma Hayek joined François- centers on a working-class man
intention to move towards the
disclosed. Henri Pinault and Ralph Lauren who saves the life of a stranger,
establishing a foothold. VMware, cloud and will continue to acquire
Boomi has made a name for itself Microsoft and a host of others are for dinner celebrating the end of only to have his own day-to-day
key pieces such as CEP engines,
in that sweet spot where cloud offering ways to be that bridge. Women's Wear Daily's annual changed by the experience. No
big data solutions, and semantic
computing meets the enterprise. That's critical for Dell, which has CEO Summit. Francois-Henri word on if Salma will appear on
web players. Other area that will
It's a fitting acquisition for Dell. it to move beyond the PC and into spoke to a crowd of business the show, but she's front and
be important will come from
provides the company with a way the world of tablets and cloud- people earlier in the day, but he's center in her just-released on
medium as well as large scale
to go deeper into the enterprise based operating systems. not the only one with a head for DVD movie Grown Ups.
analytics, and storage. Let's see
stack and be the company that Ray Wang, an analyst with the deal making in their family. View 5 Photos ›
what they do next."
provides the systems for Altimeter Group, said the Salma is planning to bring another
What do you think? What does
i n t e g r a t i n g w i t h t h e c l o u d . acquisition signals the Boomi telenovela series to the US,
this acquisition signal for the
Sponsor following in the footsteps of her
acquisition may be the first of cloud computing world? Discuss
And why is this important? The
Dell to acquire
Following Zynga’s Footsteps, EA Signs Five Year cloud integration
Deal With Facebook To Use Credits company Boomi
(CNET News.com)
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) number of popular social games the to the Credits game Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:17:27 PM
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:53:06 AM on Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, and considering its presence in the
other social networks, including social gaming ecosystem. Zynga’s Dell is beefing up its cloud
Following in the footsteps of Pet Society, Restaurant City, deal was announced in the Spring strategy by acquiring Boomi.
Zynga, Electronic Arts has just Country Story and Who Has The of this year, and Playdom, Boomi is a Pennsylvania-based
announced that it has entered into Biggest Brain? CrowdStar and RockYou signed company whose platform
a five-year strategic relationship Pet Society and Restaurant City similar partnerships in July. connects cloud-based applications
with Facebook. Similar to the are two of the top 10 games on I’m also wondering if this with those that are "on-premise"--
Zynga deal, Facebook Credits will Facebook measured by daily announcement could somehow be or not in the cloud. Its technology
become the exclusive payment active users, and EA also operates related to a rumored new social is described as "integrating
method in EA games on soccer and football games on the gaming portal that Facebook is set applications by allowing easy
Facebook. social network. Other Facebook to announce in mid-November. transfer of data between cloud-
EA, which owns Zynga games under the EA brand CrunchBase Information Playfish based and on-premise applications
cute a better deal on advertising
competitor Playfish, will enter include Monopoly and Pogo. Information provided by with no appliances, no software,
with the social network, as was
into a 70-30 percent revenue share While EA is giving 30 percent of CrunchBase and no coding required."
rumored to be the case with the
for Facebook Credits, according its Credits revenues to Facebook,
Zynga deal. EA’s relatively late to DELL page 29
to a release. Playfish operates a it’s likely that the company has
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Table Connect for iPhone
Brings iPhone’s Interface to 58
-Inch Multitouch Table [Video]
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:27:44 PM
The iPhone’s 3.5-inch display is,
at least to Apple, big enough for
normal every day usage. And
there’s probably hundreds of
thousands of folks out there who
would agree with that (even if
larger screen devices are
becomingly increasingly popular),
but sometimes you just want to do
your photo viewing on something
bigger. And not just bigger, but
something you can still interact
with in the same way you would
with your iPhone. Luckily, the 58-
inch multitouch table exists, and
it’s the real deal.
There are two guys in the video,
which you can see in all of its
glory below, and they show you
just how well the huge “table”
works. As you can see, by
plugging in the iPhone, and
Technology/ 29
Marshall goes from amplifying music
for the masses to private headphones,
earphones
Sam Abuelsamid (TUAW) Minor apparently has a unique
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:00:00 PM Ear-Click design that helps keep
the buds in your ear canal when
When people think of the name you're working out. No other
Marshall in the context of music, details are available, but we'd
they often picture stacks of wager that both units will be
amplifiers that are meant to pricier and better sounding than
amplify the sound of guitars so the white buds that came in that
that anywhere from dozens to
hundreds of thousands of people
iPod or iPhone package.
[via iPoddNN]
can hear it. Now Marshall is
going from spreading the music to
Marshall goes from amplifying
music for the masses to private
keeping it private.
On November 15, Marshall will
headphones, earphones originally
appeared on TUAW on Tue, 02
running an application, you can n t r o d u c e i t s f i r s t s e t o f
i cans dubbed Major and in-the-ear Nov 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please
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through pages on the Springboard, models, an over-the-ear set of 1/4-inch plug and urethane pads.
and even opening up the photos DELL
application. The only way to continued from page 28
make it work is through the CEO Michael Dell telegraphed transaction were not made public. Full-Text RSS service — if this is
connected cable, as WiFi isn’t the move this morning when he Boomi President and CEO Bob your content and you're reading it
supported. told an audience in Hong Kong Moul said his company is on someone else's site, please read
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perfectly possible that someone but was repeatedly outbid by rival integration solution in the SaaS
could dupe the world with some Hewlett-Packard before finally and cloud computing industry," he
work. If it is real though, the admitting defeat. said in a prepared statement.
translation from the iPhone to the Financial details of the Boomi This entry passed through the
table is great. Check out the video
below to see it in action.
[ via MacStories]
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Europe drops €22M into

Symbian, Harrods shopping
spree seems inevitable
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:09:00 PM

Don't count the Symbian

Foundation out just yet, because
the European Commission has Isla Fisher Steps Out
emerged like a knight in shining in Paris With Olive
armor thanks to a €22 million
public / private joint investment and Her Newborn!
iPad nabs 95.5 percent of and a new consortium of some 24
organizations awkwardly called
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)

tablet market SYMBEOSE: "Symbian - the

Embedded Operating System for
Europe." Needless to say, it seems
computing, and broadening the
platform's hardware ecosystem,
among other things. Oh, and new
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:00:00 PM

Isla Fisher had a helping hand

Sam Abuelsamid (TUAW) from the Android camp is the new yesterday as she headed out in
like some of the higher-ups across Air Jordans would be nice. For
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:30:00 PM Samsung Galaxy Tab, which is Paris with two strollers. Her
the continent are feeling a little Christmas, maybe.
just going on sale in Europe now oldest, 2-and-a-half-year-old
It should come as a surprise to no and coming to North America in emotional about the hometown [Thanks, Ronald]
Olive, was helped into her pram
o n e s t h a t t h e A p p l e i P a d the next couple of weeks. The platform -- especially now that it's Europe drops €22M into
by a nanny, while Isla was
completely dominates the tablet Samsung will be followed by starting to take a lot of heat -- and Symbian, Harrods shopping spree
responsible for steering her
computer market right. After Android, WebOS and Blackberry have thrown some skin in the seems inevitable originally
youngest child. Isla and her
nearly a decade of availability, entries in the coming months. By game to keep things interesting. appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02
husband, Sacha Baron Cohen,
Windows-based tablets have the end of the first quarter of 2011 For its part, the Foundation says Nov 2010 13:09:00 EDT. Please
have yet to publicly confirm the
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Dell Venue hits FCC again, this time The Jumbo Jerker: Upgrade an
with a soothing 1700MHz aroma Old Desk by Expanding the
Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Streak got approval in an AWS Surface [Featured Workspace]
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:20:00 PM version that has yet to see the Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
light of day, so we wouldn't call
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:00:00 AM
We've already seen one variant of this a slam dunk for retail
the Dell Venue -- formerly availability... but it's a start. Just because you hate a few
Thunder-- pass through the FCC, Dell Venue hits FCC again, this things about your desk doesn't
but that was a WCDMA Band II / time with a soothing 1700MHz necessarily mean you have to
V version ripe for use on AT&T, aroma originally appeared on scrap the whole thing and start too-small IKEA Jerker desk into a
Rogers, Bell, and Telus. What Engadget on Tue, 02 Nov 2010 over. Today's featured workspace jumbo-sized one. More »
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7.02 Million Loans Are Now Delinquent Or In Foreclosure

Calculated Risk (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:30:38 PM
LPS Applied Analytics released
their September Mortgage
Performance data today.
According to LPS:
• The average number of days
delinquent for loans in foreclosure
is now 484 days
• In five judicial states (NY, FL,
NJ, HI and ME), the average
exceeds 500 days
• Over 4.3 million loans are 90 foreclosure process.
days or more delinquent or in
foreclosure For a total of 7.02 million loans
• New problem loans (60+ days delinquent or in foreclosure.
delinquent) are back on the rise This is similar to the quarterly
data from the Mortgage Bankers
This graph provided by LPS Association.
Applied Analytics shows the Join the conversation about this
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another 3.84 are in the foreclosure days delinquent.
foreclosure, and total non-current
process for a total of 13.11 • 2.32 million loans 90+ days
mortgages.
percent. It breaks down as: delinquent.
According to LPS, 9.27 percent
• 2.64 million loans less than 90 • 2.05 million loans in
of mortgages are delinquent, and

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32 Economy/
What Is Quantitative Easing?
Business Insider (Money in their present loan portfolio.[1]
Game) "Quantitative" refers to the fact
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:49:28 PM that a specific quantity of money
is being created; "easing" refers to
A q u i c k r e f r e s h e r f r o m reducing the pressure on banks.[2]
Wikipedia, in case you're not However, another explanation is
quite sure but don't want to sound that the name comes from the
dumb by asking... We published Japanese-language expression for
this originally back in August. "stimulatory monetary policy",
Quantitative Easing which uses the term "easing".[3]
The term quantitative easing(QE) Quantitative easing is sometimes
describes a form of monetary colloquially described as "
policy used by central banks to printing money" although in
increase the supply of money in reality the money is simply
an economy when the bank created by electronically adding a
interest rate, discount rate and/or number to an account. Examples
interbank interest rate are either of economies where this policy
at, or close to, zero. has been used include Japan
A central bank does this by first during the early 2000s, and the
crediting its own account with U n i t e d S t a t e s a n d U n i t e d
m o n e y i t h a s c r e a t e d e x Kingdom during the global
nihilo("out of nothing").[1] It then financial crisis of 2008–2009.[
p u r c h a s e s f i n a n c i a l a s s e t s , edit] Concept
including government bonds and Ordinarily, the central bank uses
corporate bonds, from banks and its control of interest rates, or
other financial institutions in a sometimes reserve requirements,[
process referred to as open market citation needed] to indirectly
operations. The purchases, by influence the supply of money.[1]
way of account deposits, give In some situations, such as very
banks the excess reserves low inflation or deflation, setting
required for them to create new a low interest rate is not enough to
money by the process of deposit maintain an adequate money
multiplication from increased supply, and so quantitative easing
lending in the fractional reserve is employed to further boost the
banking system. The increase in amount of money in the financial
the money supply thus stimulates s y s t e m . [ 1 ] T h i s i s o f t e n
the economy. Risks include the considered a "last resort" to
policy being more effective than increase the money supply.[4][5]
intended, spurring hyperinflation, The first step is for the bank to
or the risk of not being effective create more money ex nihilo("out
enough, if banks opt simply to of nothing") by crediting its own
pocket the additional cash in order account. It can then use these
to increase their capital reserves funds to buy investments like
in a climate of increasing defaults government bonds from financial
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institution, the institution's bank
account is credited directly and
their bank gains reserves.[6] The
increase in deposits from the
quantitative easing process causes
an excess in reserves and private
banks can then, if they wish,
create even more new money out
of "thin air" by increasing debt
(lending) through a process
known as deposit multiplication
and thus increase the country's
money supply. The reserve
requirement limits the amount of
new money. For example a 10%
reserve requirement means that
for every $10,000 created by
quantitative easing the total new
money created is potentially
firms such as banks, insurance this is that investors will swap to $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 . T h e U S F e d e r a l
companies and pension funds,[1] other investments, such as shares, R e s e r v e ' s n o w o u t - o f - p r i n t
i n a p r o c e s s k n o w n a s " boosting the price of these and b o o k l e t M o d e r n M o n e y
monetising the debt". i n c r e a s i n g w e a l t h i n t h e Mechanics explains the process.
For example, in introducing its economy.[6] QE can also help in A state must be in control of its
QE programme, the Bank of reducing interbank overnight own currency and monetary
E n g l a n d b o u g h t g i l t s f r o m interest rates, and thereby policy if it is to be able to
financial institutions, along with a encourage banks to loan money to unilaterally employ quantitative
smaller amount of high-quality higher interest-paying bodies. easing. Countries in the
d e b t i s s u e d b y p r i v a t e More specifically, in terms of the eurozone(for example) cannot
c o m p a n i e s . [ 6 ] T h e b a n k s , l e n d i n g u n d e r t a k e n b y unilaterally use this policy tool,
insurance companies and pension commercial banks, they use a but must rely on the European
funds can then use the money practice called fractional-reserve Central Bank to implement it.[
they have received for lending or banking whereby they abide by a citation needed] There may also
even buying back more bonds reserve requirement, which be other policy considerations.
from the bank. The central bank r e g u l a t e s t h e m t o k e e p a For example, under Article 123 of
can also lend the new money to p e r c e n t a g e o f d e p o s i t s i n the Treaty on the Functioning of
private banks or buy assets from "reserve",[ citation needed] which the European Union[7] and later
banks in exchange for currency.[ c a n o n l y b e u s e d t o s e t t l e Maastricht Treaty, EU member
citation needed] These have the transactions between them and the states are not allowed to finance
effect of depressing interest yields central bank.[7] The remainder, their public deficits (debts) by
on government bonds and similar called "excess reserves", can (but s i m p l y p r i n t i n g t h e m o n e y
investments, making it cheaper does not have to be) be used as a required to fill the hole, as
for business to raise capital.[7] basis for lending. When, under
Another positive side effect of QE, a central bank buys from an WHAT page 33
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WHAT
continued from page 32
happened in Weimar Germany
and more recently in
Zimbabwe.[1] Banks using QE,
such as the Bank of England, have
argued that they are increasing
the supply of money not to fund
government debt but to prevent
deflation, and will choose the
financial products they buy
accordingly, for example, by
buying government bonds not
straight from the government, but
in secondary markets.[1][7][ edit]
History
Quantitative easing was used
unsuccessfully[8] by the Bank of
Japan(BOJ) to fight domestic
deflation in the early 2000s.[9]
During the global financial crisis
of 2008, policies announced by
the US Federal Reserve under
Ben Bernanke to counter the
effects of the crisis are a form of
quantitative easing. Its balance
sheet expanded dramatically by
adding new assets and new
liabilities without "sterilizing"
these by corresponding
subtractions. In the same period
the United Kingdom used
quantitative easing as an
additional arm of its monetary
policy in order to alleviate its
financial crisis.[10][11][12]
The European Central
Bank(ECB) has used 12-month
long-term refinancing operations
(a form of quantitative easing
without referring to it as such)
through a process of expanding
the assets that banks can use as
collateral that can be posted to
the ECB in return for Euros. This
process has led to bonds being
"structured for the ECB"[13]. By
comparison the other central
banks were very restrictive in
terms of the collateral they accept:
the US Federal Reserve used to
accept primarily treasuries (in the
first half of 2009 it bought almost
any relatively safe dollar-
denominated securities); the Bank
of England applied a large haircut.
In Japan's case, the BOJ had been
maintaining short-term interest
rates at close to their minimum
attainable zero values since 1999.
With quantitative easing, it
flooded commercial banks with
excess liquidity to promote
private lending, leaving them with
large stocks of excess reserves,
and therefore little risk of a
liquidity shortage.[14] The BOJ
accomplished this by buying more
government bonds than would be
required to set the interest rate to
zero. It also bought asset-backed
securities and equities, and
extended the terms of its
commercial paper purchasing
operation.[15][ edit] How
• The national bank declares an
extremely low rate of interest, for
example 0.5%.
• The national bank credits its
own bank account with money
created from 'thin air' through
lending interests.
• The newly created money is
then used for buying government
bonds from financial firms such
as banks, insurance companies
and pension funds.
[ edit] Risks
Quantitative easing is seen as a
risky strategy that could trigger
higher inflation than desired or
even hyperinflation if it is
improperly used and too much
money is created.
Some economists[ who?] argue
that there is less risk of such an
outcome when a central bank
employs quantitative easing
strictly to ease credit markets (e.g.
by buying commercial paper),
whereas hyperinflation is more
likely to be triggered when money
is created for the purpose of
buying up government debts (i.e.
treasury securities) which in turn
can create a political temptation
for governments and legislatures
to habitually spend more than
their revenues without either
raising taxes or risking default on
financial obligations.
Quantitative easing runs the risk
of going too far. An increase in
money supply to a system has an
inflationary effect by diluting the
value of a unit of currency. People
who have saved money will find it
is devalued by inflation; this
combined with the associated low
interest rates will put people who
rely on their savings in difficulty.
If devaluation of a currency is
seen externally to the country it
can affect the international credit
rating of the country which in turn
can lower the likelihood of
foreign investment. Like old-
fashioned money printing,
Zimbabwe suffered an extreme
case of a process that has the
same risks as quantitative easing,
printing money, making its
currency virtually worthless.[1][
edit] Origin This section needs
additional citations for
verification.
Please help improve this article
by adding reliable references.
Unsourced material may be
challenged and removed.(July
2010)
The original Japanese expression
for "quantitative easing" (, ryteki
kin'y kanwa), was used for the
first time by a Central Bank in the
Bank of Japan’s publications. The
Bank of Japan has claimed that
the central bank adopted a policy
with this name on 19 March
2001.[16] However, the Bank of
Japan's official monetary policy
announcement of this date does
not make any use of this
expression (or any phrase using
"quantitative") in either the
Japanese original statement or its
English translation.[17] Indeed,
the Bank of Japan had for years,
and in an article published in
February 2001 had claimed that
"quantitative easing … is not
effective" and rejected its use for
monetary policy.[18] Speeches by
the Bank of Japan leadership in
2001 gradually, and ex post,
hardened the subsequent official
Bank of Japan stance that the
policy adopted by the Bank of
Japan on March 19, 2001 was in
fact quantitative easing. This
became the established official
view, especially after Toshihiko
Fukui was appointed governor in
February 2003. The use by the
Bank of Japan is not the origin of
the term "quantitative easing" or
its Japanese original (ryoteki
kinyu kanwa). This expression
had been used since the mid-
1990s by critics of the Bank of
Japan and its monetary policy.
33
The earliest written record of the
phrase and concept of
"quantitative easing" has been
attributed to the economist Dr
Richard Werner, Professor of
International Banking at the
School of Management,
University of Southampton(UK).
At the time working as chief
economist of Jardine Fleming
Securities (Asia) Ltd in Tokyo,
and noted for his 1991 warning of
the coming collapse of the
Japanese banking system and
economy (reference: Richard A.
Werner, 1991, The Great Yen
Illusion: Japanese foreign
investment and the role of land
related credit creation, Oxford
Institute of Economics and
Statistics Discussion Paper Series
no. 129), he coined the
expression in an article published
on September 2, 1995 in the
N i h o n K e i z a i
Shinbun(Nikkei).[19]
According to its author, he used
this phrase in order to propose a
new form of monetary stimulation
policy by the central bank that
relied neither on interest rate
reductions (which Werner
claimed in his Nikkei article
would be ineffective) nor on the
conventional monetarist policy
prescription of expanding the
money supply(e.g. through
"printing money", expanding high
powered money, expanding bank
reserves or boosting deposit
aggregates such as M2+CD—all
of which Werner also claimed
would be ineffective). Instead,
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Werner argued, it was necessary
and sufficient for an economic
recovery to boost ‘credit
creation’, through a number of
measures. He estimated in this
article that the incipient bad debt
problem of the Japanese system
(i.e. including future bad debts)
amounted to about ¥100 trillion,
or 20% of annual Japanese GDP,
and that this had increased banks’
risk aversion. The subsequent
slowdown in bank credit
extension was the major problem,
because commercial banks are
the main producers of the money
supply, through the process of
credit creation. He thus
recommended as a solution
policies such as direct purchases
of non-performing assets from the
banks by the central bank, direct
lending to companies and the
government by the central bank,
purchases of commercial paper
(CP) and other debt, as well as
equity instruments from
companies by the central bank, as
well as stopping the issuance of
government bonds to fund the
public sector borrowing
requirement and instead having
the government borrow directly
from banks through a standard
loan contract. All of these,
Werner claimed, would stimulate
credit creation and hence boost
the economy. Many of these
policies have recently been
adopted by the US Federal
Reserve under Chairman
Bernanke, who was familiar with
the debate on Japanese monetary
policy, under the expression of
"credit easing".
However, while Werner used and
explained the concept of credit
creation in his article, he chose
not to use it in the article’s title,
as too few readers would be
familiar with it and alternative
expressions were associated with
flawed or failed policy
prescriptions. Werner preferred
to coin a new phrase. In his
subsequent writings, including
his bestselling book on the Bank
of Japan ( Princes of the Yen, M.
E. Sharpe, and his 2005 book
New Paradigm in
Macroeconomics: Solving the
Riddle of Japanese
Macroeconomic Performance,
Palgrave Macmillan), Werner
argues that the Bank of Japan’s
usage of his expression
‘quantitative easing’ may be
misunderstood. While suggesting
it was adopting the policy
suggested by a leading critic, the
Bank of Japan implemented the
standard monetarist expansion of
bank reserves and high powered
money, which Werner had
predicted would fail. It is not
obvious why the Bank of Japan
chose to use Mr Werner’s
expression, and not the already
existing and widely used
expressions ‘expansion of high
powered money’, ‘expansion of
bank reserves’ or, simply,
‘money supply expansion’, which
more accurately describe its
adopted policy at the time.[ edit]
Comparison with other
instruments[ edit] Qualitative
easing
Willem Buiter has proposed a
terminology to distinguish
quantitative easing, or an
expansion of a central bank's
balance sheet, from what he terms
qualitative easing, or the process
of a central bank adding riskier
assets onto its balance sheet:
Quantitative easing is an increase
in the size of the balance sheet of
the central bank through an
increase it is [ sic] monetary
liabilities ( base money), holding
constant the composition of its
assets. Asset composition can be
defined as the proportional shares
of the different financial
instruments held by the central
bank in the total value of its
assets. An almost equivalent
definition would be that
quantitative easing is an increase
in the size of the balance sheet of
the central bank through an
increase in its monetary liabilities
that holds constant the (average)
liquidity and riskiness of its asset
portfolio.
Qualitative easing is a shift in the
composition of the assets of the
central bank towards less liquid
and riskier assets, holding
constant the size of the balance
sheet (and the official policy rate
and the rest of the list of usual
suspects). The less liquid and
more risky assets can be private
securities as well as sovereign or
sovereign-guaranteed
instruments. All forms of risk,
including credit risk (default risk)
are included.[20][ edit] Credit
easing
In introducing the Federal
Reserve's response to the 2008-9
financial crisis, Fed Chairman
Ben Bernanke was keen to
distance the new programme,
which he termed " credit easing"
from Japanese-style quantitative
easing.In his speech, he
a n n o u n c e d : “ O u r
approach—which could be
described as "credit
easing"—resembles quantitative
easing in one respect: It involves
an expansion of the central bank's
balance sheet. However, in a pure
QE regime, the focus of policy is
the quantity of bank reserves,
which are liabilities of the central
bank; the composition of loans
and securities on the asset side of
the central bank's balance sheet is
incidental. Indeed, although the
Bank of Japan's policy approach
during the QE period was quite
multifaceted, the overall stance of
its policy was gauged primarily in
terms of its target for bank
reserves. In contrast, the Federal
Reserve's credit easing approach
focuses on the mix of loans and
securities that it holds and on
how this composition of assets
affects credit conditions for
households and businesses.[21]”[
edit] See also
• Fiat currency
• Debasement
• Economic history of Japan
• Economy of Japan
• Open market operations
• Money supply
• Money creation
• Inflation hedge
• List of economics topics
• List of finance topics
• ZIRP
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noreply@blogger.com (Michael Republicans’ fiercest, biggest- Republican-controlled House or agreeing to unionization through Watchdog"Your Eyes on
Shedlock) (Mish's Global spending opponents in this year’s Senate would probably block a card check. He has also criticized California". Greenhut is one of the
Economic Trend Analysis) campaign, laying out more than labor-backed bill that would give two policies that are favorites of writers.
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:10:00 PM $200 million in hopes of firefighters and police officers in construction unions: the Davis- Local Level Politics
I n r e s p o n s e t o E l e c t i o n safeguarding the Democratic every state the right to unionize. Bacon Act, which requires that Mayors in cities across the
P r e d i c t i o n s - H o w B i g t h e majorities in the House and “We fear that the Republicans are contractors on federal public country are beginning to learn that
Blowout? I received a fair number Senate. on the march, and that’s why works projects pay workers the towing the Public union line is
of comments from cynics who So it should be no surprise that we’re doing everything we can to prevailing wage, usually near the going to be a liability.
say the "election just does not Republicans, who appear to stand stop them,” said Gerald W. union wage, even if they are not Propositions in California cities
matter, that nothing will change". a good chance of winning control McEntee, president of the unionized; and project labor to rein in union excesses are
Sadly, this defeatist attitude is of the House or the Senate, are American Federation of State, agreements, which tend to tilt the taking shape in a big way, no
part of the reason we are in this signaling that they plan to push County and Municipal awarding of federally financed doubt with the help of people like
mess. bills and strategies to undermine Employees, which is spending construction projects toward Jack Dean and Steve Greenhut.
To be sure, we are not going to labor’s political clout and its $91 million in the two-year unionized contractors. Public State Level Politics
see a return to a gold standard as a ability to grow. campaign cycle. Unions Have Bankrupted Cities Chris Christie is a shining star.
result of this election. We are One bill that is popular among “Most certainly, the issue of card and States He stands above all the rest when
unlikely to rewrite healthcare until Republicans would prohibit check will be dead,” said Doug It is undeniable that public leading the way on unions and
it blows sky high (but that may be employers from ever agreeing to Heye, a spokesman for the unions and their overly generous fiscal sanity. I backed him form
sooner than anyone thinks). Nor u n i o n i z a t i o n t h r o u g h “ c a r d Republican National Committee. pension plans have bankrupted the beginning.
will we eliminate the Fed. And check,” a process often used “That will be a victory for cities and states. It is important, Before the election, cynics told
unfortunately, we will not stop today in which an employer businesses large and small.” indeed it is crucial that Congress me it would not matter. They
war mongering. recognizes a union as soon as a Mr. Heye said that many address this issue. were wrong. It certainly did
Those are certainly very majority of workers sign pro- Republicans were likely to We should not fear a rollback of matter. The proof is now obvious.
important issues, but they are not union cards — without holding a support legislation that would bar labor "rights". Rather, we should Pension Plans $3 Trillion in the
the only issues. At stake is the secret-ballot election. Another unions from spending members’ fear NOT rolling back labor Hole
crucial direction of the country in bill would severely crimp labor’s dues on politics unless members "wrongs". Public pension plans are $3
regards to critical issues that campaign spending by barring first “opted in.” Under current We simply cannot afford another trillion in the hole. For details,
desperately need a different unions from using any portion of law, unions can spend a 2 years of Obamanamics with his please see Interactive Map of
direction. a union member’s dues for member’s dues on politics unless public union pandering. Public Pension Plans; How Badly
For example, Cap-and-Trade is political purposes unless the the member first opts out, a little- Bringing Public Union Issues to Underfunded are the Plans in
dead. That is a good thing. Many m e m b e r f i r s t g i v e s w r i t t e n known procedure that few the Forefront Your State?
of Obama's socialist policies are p e r m i s s i o n . workers have followed. I am grateful for those like Jack Please look at that map and tell
dead in the water as well. The A Republican-led House or If the Republicans win control of Dean at Pension Tsunami and me the election does not matter.
following headline highlights one Senate is expected to be more the House, Representative John Steve Greenhut have brought Pensions are the single largest
key issue of critical importance. eager than a Democratic- Kline, a Minnesota Republican, these issues to the public's issue cities and states face.
Labor Unions Fear Rollback of controlled one to approve free is expected to succeed George attention. Republicans taking over state
Rights if G.O.P. Wins trade agreements that unions Miller, a Democrat from San Please see Book Review: Five legislatures, state governorships,
Please consider Labor Unions oppose, and to be more reluctant Francisco, as chairman of the Thumbs Up for Steve Greenhut's and Congress will help resolve
Fear Rollback of Rights if G.O.P. to enact stimulus plans that unions House Education and Labor Plunder! if you have not done so. this issue.
Wins have supported, like the recent bill Committee. Then read the book if you haven't! Governor Chris Christie is
Organized labor is deeply that gave states $26 billion to Mr. Kline is chief sponsor of the I assure you it will open your leading the way.
worried about what happens after help save the jobs of teachers, Secret Ballot Protection Act, a eyes as to what is happening and Krugman Whining a Sign of
Tuesday. By many measures, p o l i c e o f f i c e r s a n d o t h e r bill with 115 House co-sponsors the importance of these battles.
labor unions have been the g o v e r n m e n t e m p l o y e e s . A that would bar employers from Also check out Cal MID-TERM page 39
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Here's The Secret Fed Minutes You WON'T See Tomorrow

Bruce Krasting (Money Game) public debt. reversed! Stop being such a We will never have a business remember that savers are also
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:06:00 PM Hawk: worrywart! cycle again. Markets will always consumers. We are taking their
Jeepers Ben! You’re talking a Moderate: go up, never down. Jobs will be income and they are spending
We get the minutes of the Fed QE-2 of $1.6 trillion! Think of the There is no loan demand. Not plentiful. Unemployment will fall. less. Have we really considered
meetings. I think we get the message you are sending! You even for 4% mortgages. Who’s to The economy will prosper. And I the implications of this? Should
substance of what is discussed. are debasing the currency by a say if we drive rates down will get my picture back on the we do something much smaller;
But I don’t think we get the full very meaningful amount! another 20bp that this will change. cover of Time magazine. say a limited program of only
story of what is said. I wonder if Moderate: The only thing that QE-2 will do Moderate: $500b? Should we hold back
any of the conversation goes like I’m supportive of Ben’s shock is to enrich the banks at the Don’t we risk some distortions some of our remaining chips in
this: and awe approach. But let’s agree expense of savers. Is that a good in the bond market if we buy so case we actually have a real
Bernanke: on one thing. We can’t announce trade off? much? There is only a bit over emergency at some point?
While I do not see a double dip that we are targeting inflation. We Bernanke: $500b of ten year plus paper. And Hawk:
in the next 18 months I am certain would create a risk of a run on QE-2 will not destroy savers. It you want to buy 1.6T? Yeah! I’m for a small program at
that growth will be substantially the dollar that we couldn't control. will merely force them into Bernanke: best. If we do it large we run the
below historic trend. For the Okay? buying risky equities. As for the It will become necessary for risk of oil going over 100 a barrel
e c o n o m y t o r e c o v e r a n d Bernanke: financial getting fat; that is the Treasury to guarantee the new in just a few months. What would
unemployment to fall by a I agree to take this idea off the plan. The more money they debts of a number of states. that do for us? The trade deficit
meaningful amount GDP must be table at this time. But if we do not make, including Fannie and When that happens, we will put would explode! Consumers would
at least 4%. We will not get that. see growth I will bring back Freddie, the faster they can write that paper on our POMO buy list. get squeezed. Bye bye Wal-Mart
There is substantial risk that 2011 inflation targeting . It will be the off their lousy loan portfolios. We In answer to your direct question; if we see $4 gas! We are taking a
could see average growth of only final arrow in my quiver. can’t have strong growth without yes I will buy short date paper. I big risk with this.
1.5%. Ben-Sheep #1: strong financials. That is just a don't care what it takes. I have a Bernanke:
The economy is unlikely to get I agree with Ben in every way! fact of life. snap answer to your every Shock and awe, baby. Shock and
any support on the fiscal side. It is We should commit to a mega Moderate: objection! awe.
a shoe-in that taxes on income program now. If we do it small Don’t we just risk another Hawk: Bernanke-Sheep#3:
over $250k are going up. The we will not be able to do it again. dangerous bubble? If we drive Can we do that? I mean can we Love that shock and awe! Let’s
stimulus money is running out There would be too much public stocks up they will just have to buy up State debt? end this discussion. Ben has the
fast. There will be no new opposition. fall when the process must end. Bernanke: votes he needs so you naysayers
stimulus from Congress. All of Hawk: Some of these investments you I bought 1.5trillion of busted and party poopers really don’t
the new Governors are going to Are we so sure that we can are driving people into are trading mortgage paper. I can buy have a choice. It would look
look at the books and declare an reverse the effect of this? This at 2X’s sales or a 35PE. anything I want. much better in the press if we had
emergency. Cut-backs in State much liquidity could turn on us Bernanke: Moderate: only one dissenter for this
budgets are a certainty in 2011. very quickly. Ben has said he is “ Good point. My response is that QE was an appropriate and important vote. Get on board or
Therefore the Fed must shoulder confident” this can be done. I QE is not temporary. It is successful response to the worst else. This is Ben’s World now!
the complete burden of sustaining have very serious reservations. permanent. In fact I would recession since the Great Bernanke:
growth. To do this we must take Ben-Sheep #2: advocate that the Fed acquire a Depression. It was an emergency Vote this my way! I want to see
unprecedented risks. We must go Fiddlesticks! The NY Fed did a minimum of 20% of debt AND measure to address emergency only one negative vote. My way
where no other reserve currency 28-day reverse repo for $5b just agree to sustain it at that level as a conditions. We are not in an or the highway!
central bank has gone in modern last month. The experiment % of GDP. As the economy flares emergency today. Our banks are Join the conversation about this
history. We must monetize an worked perfectly. That is your up, we would buy more and more. not failing; as you say, they are story »
additional 20% of outstanding roadmap of how QE will be In that way QE is self-sustaining. making a bundle. We have to
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noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:41:00 PM
A few months ago when some
thought it was possible the
Republicans might take the house,
I thought the odds were about
75%. In early July I had it at 60%.
Today there is little question the
Republicans will win the House.
The only question now is "How
big will the blowout be?"
Battle for the House
Real Clear Politics shows the
Battle for the House like this.
Note that Republicans will
control the house even if they lose
all 44 tossup seats, provided they
win 56 of the 61 Republican
leaners and likely seats.
To be sure, the Republicans are
unlikely to win every seat they are
leaning or likely, but the same
holds true for the Democrats.
Moreover, surprises are far more
likely to go to the Republicans.
For example, I think Doug Cloud
has a better than even shot at
winning Washington District 6
even though RCP has that race
marked as "Likely Democrat".
To make a final prediction, I
went through all 44 tossup
elections giving the Democrats
the benefit of the doubt anytime
they were consistently ahead,
regardless of how little (as long as
it was consistent). I treated
Republicans the same. That
methodology awards 15 seats to
the Democrats and 9 Republicans.
That leaves has 20 genuine
tossups where there were no polls,
the polling data extremely old, or
polls were inconsistent or with
huge swings. Assuming the
incumbent will win about 2/3 of
those seats I will award 14 to the
Democrats and 6 to the
Republicans.
House Prediction
224 + 15 of 44 tossups would be
239. That is a pickup of 61 seats.
To go out on a limb and factor in
complete surprises that I believe
will go Republican, I will add 3
more to the total.
My final prediction then is 242
Republican seats, a pickup of 64.
Battle for the Senate
Real Clear Politics shows the
Battle for the Senate like this.
Once again I am willing to give
the leaners to each party. With
only 7 Tossups remaining I will
call each one.
The Incumbent is listed first.
CA: Barbara Boxer (D) Wins
over Carly Fiorina (R)
CO: Michael Bennet (D) Loses to
Ken Buck (R)
IL: Alexi Giannoulias (Open D)
Loses to Mark Kirk (R)
NV: Harry Reid (D) Loses to
Sharron Angle (R)
PA: Joe Sestak (Open D) Loses
to Pat Toomey (R)
WA: Patty Murray (D) Loses to
Dino Rossi (R)
WV: Manchin (Open D) Wins
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I am going with two lagging in Halloween Blowout
the polls: Florida and Oregon, on
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
hopes of a huge Republican
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If correct, that is a pickup of My prediction then is 32
another 5 seats. Kate Hudson was decked out in
Republican, 17 Democrat, 1
I will go with that as my final Independent another all white ensemble
call. yesterday to run errands in LA.
That is a big pickup from the
S e n a t e P r e d i c t i o n - 5 0 current 26-24 edge to the She checked things off her to-do
Republicans 50 Democrats Democrats. list after a fun-filled weekend of
The polls show a very slight lead Because this is a census year, the celebrating Halloween by hosting
for Murray, but I believe Rossi Gubernatorial races take on extra her annual star-studded party. It
will pull it out. It is possible but I i m p o r t a n c e . I t i s q u i t e was her boyfriend Matt Bellamy's
d o n o t t h i n k l i k e l y , t h a t advantageous to control the first time at her party, and he got
Republicans will win one of the governorship in redistricting to see many of her famous pals
other two races. decked out in elaborate costumes.
years. These pickups will
Battle for Governors Kate and Matt will be able to
certainly help Republicans.
Real Clear Politics shows the Mike "Mish" Shedlock enjoy even more time together
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Three Reasons Why Markets Will Correct After QE2, No Matter

What
Zarathustra W. (Money Game) expected some $250bn to $2 it does not really matter if the
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:10:19 PM trillion, with the average prediction of the size of QE2 is
expectation of about $80-100bn correct. As long as the market
The US GDP number was out per month. Let us just assume the reacts, analysts will make up
yesterday. I trust many people e x p e c t a t i o n o f t h e a v e r a g e some stories after that.
have talked and written about that, investors in the market is in-line I agree that the stock markets are
so I am not going to repeat. I will with these dealers, what will at a rather high level. The global
turn to quantitative easing. As the happen? economy is not doing well, and
Fed will have their FOMC In scenario 1, as my friend said, there are risks all around. I
meeting next week, all investors investors will be disappointed. cannot see the reason why the
will be nervously looking at the That is a no-brainer, of course if stock markets are doing so well,
actual scale of QE2. the actual number is less than while the economy is still
A friend of mine told me a rather expected, investors will be upset, struggling to recover, except that
amusing arguments on what will and stocks will drop, commodities there are a lot of liquidity. Instead
h a p p e n a f t e r t h e F O M C will drop, and US dollar will rise. of making whatever QE2 amount
announcement. Here are 3 In scenario 2, there should be as bad news, I guess there will be
scenario: little impact theoretically, if the some nasty stuff which the market
1. No QE2, or QE2 less than expected amount of QE2 has been has ignored for two months, and it
expected fully discounted. But there is a correct at such high level: His conclusion: no matter how will come back and bite us again (
2. The scale of QE2 as expected catch: the stock markets have In scenario 3, this is the most much money the Fed put in, the example).
3. The scale of QE2 larger than been rallying for almost two interesting part. If the actual QE2 stock markets have to correct. Join the conversation about this
expected. months. If the actual QE2 cannot is larger than expected, he said, That is a rather amusing story »
First of all, how much of QE2 do provide surprise on the upside, he the market will probably think argument. But indeed, for the
people really expected? It seems could not see how the market “hm… it looks like the Fed thinks financial markets, sometimes it is
the opinions are rather divided, as would react in a neutral way, that the economy is very bad!”. not about the actual numbers.
Reuters poll showed that dealers because the markets are poised to The stock markets will drop. Rather, it is about the story. Now
MID-TERM
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Change in the Right Direction
One way you know the election
matters is by the amount of
whining Paul Krugman does.
That whining gets louder each
day. He wants more big
government and more spending.
It's not going to happen, thanks to
this election.
It should be crystal clear this
election is about bailouts and
fiscal spending. Conservatives
have had enough. Sure there will
be waste. However, there will be
far less waste with the incoming
Congress than the outgoing one.
Unfortunately, the one thing this
election will not do is create jobs
overnight. Yet in Congress, and in
numerous state and local elections
across the country we are slowly
taking a step in the right direction
when it comes to fiscal madness.
It's a start, but an important start.
If more cynics would stop
bitching and moaning that nothing
will change and start actively
helping those like Jack Dean and
Steve Greenhut to spread the
word, while backing candidates
like Chris Christie wherever they
are, we would be even further
along with this effort.
So yes, this election does matter.
Don't let anyone tell you
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Chris Whalen on Troubled Banks "Bank of America
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crisis is, the Wall Street Journal
reports Number of the Week: 107
Months to Clear Banks’ Housing
Backlog
107: How many months it would
take to sell banks’ current and
shadow inventory of foreclosed
homes.
Banks’ vast pile of foreclosed
homes doesn’t appear to be
diminishing. That’s a troubling
sign for the future of the housing
market.
Over the past six months, that
number has actually risen. Banks
managed to pare down the
shadow inventory, but largely by
taking possession of foreclosed
homes. As of September, they
owned nearly 994,000 foreclosed
homes, up 21% from a year
earlier. The shadow inventory
stood at 5.2 million homes, down
7% from a year earlier. Grand
total: 107 months of inventory.
Taking possession does not
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Could a Cellphone Call From Yemen Blow Up a Plane?

Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 9:32:00 AM

White House counterterrorism

adviser John Brennan says that a
pair of bombs shipped to the
United States from Yemen were
supposed to detonate aboard the
airplanes carrying them. The
bombs, hidden in printer
cartridges, were hooked up to
cellphones without SIM cards,
The New York Times reports
today, so calling the phones
during intercontinental travel
couldn’t have set them off. And
experts point out that calling a
phone to activate a bomb aboard a
plane is one of the least efficient
detonation methods that terrorists
targeting aircraft can choose.
“They couldn’t call,” says Roger
Cressey, a former
counterterrorism official in the
Clinton and George W. Bush
administrations now with
Goodharbor Consulting. If the
terrorists used a regular cellphone
to call an airplane-borne bomb
from a great distance, it probably
wouldn’t be able to reach a tower boom,” he says. also said the bombmakers would the phones hooked up to the enough in theory to control a
that could bounce a signal to the A Pentagon adviser who rely on the phone’s alarm to explosives in the printers housing bomb using a cellphone, as
phone — though it’s not specializes in stopping improvised trigger the explosion. the bombs would have enough insurgents in Iraq demonstrated
impossible. More likely, Cressey bombs — and who would only That still relies on two key battery life not to die out before for years with their improvised
speculates, the bombmakers talk on condition of anonymity — assumptions. First, that the any such alarm trilled. explosive devices. Hook a battery
would have timed the phone’s cautions that a satellite phone terrorists had reliable-enough It’s not yet clear why the bombs charge up to a cellphone’s
alarm to go off, triggering the would have the signal strength to information about the airborne didn’t explode; an investigation of standard motor — which spins
bomb. “If they set the alarm, say, reach the phone packed into the methods of shipping used by the printer-bomb plot is still when someone calls or the alarm
two days in advance, and they had printer-bomb. But keeping that FedEx and UPS, the two carriers ongoing. Brennan said on rings — and then rig the battery to
confidence how it was shipped phone ready to receive calls chosen to unwittingly transit the television yesterday that the an explosive substance. Instant
and packed to the U.S., then “increases your risk of detection bombs. (Presumably, they could “sophisticated” bombs were “ able bomb.
they’d have confidence about from the device, because you’re track the movements of their to be detonated at a time of the
where it would be when [it went] emitting a signal.” The adviser parcels online.) And second, that terrorists’ choosing.” But it’s easy COULD page 42
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Despite that, it’s “pretty damn
hard” to succeed at a mail-borne
intercontinental bombing, says a
former intelligence official who
requested anonymity because he’s
still a government employee:
“You stick it in the mail, it goes
on a plane, the plane’s gonna fly,
but you better hope it goes off.”
U.S. officials have been cautious
about attributing responsibility for
the plot to al-Qaeda. But if al-
Qaeda is the culprit, the Pentagon
adviser says, the terror group is
showing “declining capability.”
Hijacking multiple aircraft on 9/
11 is much more complex than
trying — unsuccessfully — to
blow up a pair of passenger or
cargo planes.
Of course, it’s possible that the
bombs had redundant triggering
mechanisms in case of initial
failure. In that case, the terrorists
might have had provided the
bombs’ cellphone number to U.S.-
based operatives to call when the
packages arrived. Even so, the
phone would have to have
sufficient power to set the
explosion in motion — and the
terrorists would have incurred the
risk of emitting a signal from the
bomb-phone. “In sleep mode,
you’d have enough time, maybe
24 to 48 hours” to get the charge
going, Cressey says. No wonder
the terrorists apparently opted for
the industry shipping leaders.
The logistical difficulties in
setting off the bomb might
strengthen the theory that the
printer-bomb plot was a terrorist
test run — a theory that took a hit
now that ABC News reported
there already was a probable test
run for the bomb plot in
September. Then again, the chief
bombmaker for al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, Ibrahim
Hassan al-Asiri, has failed to kill
anyone in his two previous high-
profile bombing attempts: the
thwarted Christmas Day attack,
which failed to detonate; and the
near-miss 2009 attempt on the life
of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence
chief.
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Anchorage, is packed for a
campaign event. About 50 people,
mostly women, are bustling
around and chatting about
immigration reform, education,
and, occasionally, how extreme
the Tea Party movement is. One
person sits in the back of the room
reading about the foreclosure
crisis. The attendees are from
numerous ethnic groups;
everything from Spanish to
Somali is being spoken. If the
stereotypical Alaskan is supposed
to be a flannel-wearing, gun-
totting, conservative male, you
won’t find him here.
Around 4 p.m., the main
attraction arrives: Republican
Senator Lisa Murkowski. She's
wearing jeans and a yellow fleece
jacket, and she has the
comfortable air of someone
surrounded by old friends. She’s
here to address what she calls her
“diversity coalition,” a group of
supporters that will mostly be
reaching out to minority voters in
the lead-up to Tuesday. When she
speaks to the crowd, Murkowski
avoids controversy and keeps
things friendly. She doesn’t bring
up the DREAM Act, for instance,
which would provide young
undocumented immigrants a path
to citizenship. (Murkowski missed
a vote on it in September.)
Instead, she uses the word “unity”
and speaks a little bit of Spanish.
She talks about the importance of
bringing jobs to the state through
the highway reauthorization bill
and says government is about
"how we unite our families, how
we provide for education for our
young people, [and] how we
provide for health care."
It’s all a part of her strategy to
keep her job. In August,
Murkowski unexpectedly lost the
GOP primary to Joe Miller, a self-
proclaimed “constitutional
conservative and Sarah Palin-
backed candidate." Though
Murkowski’s job approval rating
has hovered around 70 percent in
recent years, an advertising blitz
from the Tea Party Express that
cast her as too liberal, combined
with an anti-abortion ballot
measure that brought out the
state’s most conservative voters,
ended up pushing Miller to
victory. Now, Murkowski is
trying to hold onto her seat
through an intensive write-in
campaign—a rare but always
uphill battle in a big, statewide
election. (No senator has won via
write-in since Strom Thurmond in
South Carolina in 1954.)
To win that battle, Murkowski is
focusing on constituents like those
in her diversity coalition:
moderate voters from varied
backgrounds who are less
concerned with whether the
Obama administration should
have tackled health care reform
than with whether their local
communities are getting the
economic support they need.
Given that Miller, with his healthy
dose of Tea Party anger, wants to
wean the state off federal funding,
and that her Democratic
opponent, Scott McAdams, is a 40
-year-old relative unknown,
Murkowski’s tack just might give
her the steam she needs to be able
to pull this unlikely campaign off.
While the term“grassroots” gets
tossed around a lot at El Tango,
Murkowski’s campaign operation
is more complex and well-oiled
than that. She had about $1.2
million going into the general
election, and many of her backers
are in positions of influence:
mayors, non-profit leaders,
corporate types. Her campaign
has attracted industry groups, like
the United Fishermen of Alaska;
she spent last Friday night with
Alaska Airlines’ pilots. Then,
there are the state’s Native
corporations, which banded
together to form a Super PAC that
can independently spend an
unlimited amount of money on
pro-Murkowski ads.
And yet, being a write-in
candidate has enabled Murkowski
to push a more maverick, middle-
of-the-road image of herself:
Before being a Republican, or an
Obama opponent, she’s an
Alaskan. She hasn’t really gone
after the president much since the
primary, and, although she
initially pushed back against
Miller’s attacks that she was too
liberal, she now mostly says that
Miller is too extreme.
She’s spent a lot of time at events
like the diversity coalition
gathering, reaching out to voters
looking for a lawmaker who
knows what Alaska’s various
communities need and how to get
it. Taking a few lessons from the
late Ted Stevens, Murkowski is
presenting herself as a master of
pothole politics in a state that
seems to have more potholes than
roads—and not having to carry
the banner of the Republican
Party has only helped her put
pragmatism before partisan
wrangling.
Members of the diversity
coalition have produced voting
guides in Russian, Gambian,
Hmong, and Tagalog, among
other languages, to promote
Murkowski among the state’s
many ethnic groups. Murkowski
and her husband, Verne Martell,
have appeared on local
Telemundo programming. And
her outreach goes further: After El
Tango, she swaps her fleece for a
black satin jacket to make
appearances at a NAACP dinner
and a silent auction for the
Abused Women's Aid in Crisis
(AWAIC), where she courted
some moderate Democratic
supporters. (Her husband,
constantly at her side in a suit,
sports taupe rubber Crocs.)
Murkowski's relationship with
AWAIC is especially strong: She
co-sponsored the Violence
Against Women Act when it was
reauthorized in 2005 and attached
federal funding for AWAIC to
last year’s appropriations
bill—even though she ultimately
voted against the final version. So
she’s well-received at the auction.
“Let’s just say I already voted,
and you have to spell this
candidate’s name,” says an
Anchorage official who has
previously donated to the Alaska
Democratic Party. He says that, in
addition to pulling in most
independent and undeclared
voters, who make up the majority
45
of the state’s electorate,
Murkowski will also attract
Democrats who want “anyone but
Miller” and don’t think McAdams
can win.
Indeed, Murkowski’s practical,
moderate messaging seems to be
working among plenty of voters
from all walks of life. When
asked why they support her, many
people bring up their personal
experiences with Murkowski. One
woman at the diversity coalition
event discusses the senator’s work
to secure visas for new Alaskans.
Also at El Tango, Carol Ashlock,
an independent voter who has
printed 1,000 shirts that said “Too
Legit to Quit,” talks about
recycling projects that Murkowski
has helped push through
Congress. Then there’s Umulkher
Samatar, a Somali immigrant who
says that she thinks Murkowski’s
Republican opponent cares too
much about ideology and not
enough about state services. “I’m
not a political person. … Joe
Miller, we know he’s very, very
conservative. We know he’s not
going to fight for minorities or
immigrants. Health,
education—he wants to cut all the
federal funding for minority
groups. Forget it,” Samatar says.
But messaging isn’t the only
important part of Murkowski’s
campaign. There’s the matter of
her unusual name. For a write-in
vote to count, the candidate’s
name has to be spelled correctly.
This will be a big challenge,
especially for Alaskans who have
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learned English as a second wearing black t-shirts that feature have risen in the past month, and Murkowski has to hope that she’s
language. Making it tougher still, the letters “MUR,” a cow with the Bill Clinton is now making put in enough effort for the Selita
at the urging of rightwing radio letter “K” on its hide, and a pair robocalls on his behalf. Helmses of Alaska to go her way
host and Miller supporter Dan of skis. And the candidate doesn’t Murkowski’s challenge until the on Tuesday. She’s certainly
Fagan, more than 150 Alaskans pass up a chance to remind people polls close on Tuesday remains sparing no energy in trying to
signed up as write-in candidates to get their letters correct: She navigating the space between her convince these voters who’ll
last week just to bury wraps up her speech at the two opponents. She’s banking on make a last-minute decision that Transcripts from
Murkowski’s name on the list that restaurant by asking if her name is presenting herself as more she’s the right choice, the Supreme Court's violent
will be available at polling really that hard to spell. In unison, moderate than Miller, but more practical choice, the effective
stations. her supporters shout, “M-U-R-K- well-known and connected than choice. Toward the end of the game case available now
The campaign is hoping O-W-S-K-I.” McAdams. And she’s hoping to NAACP dinner, the last leg of her Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Murkowski gear will help Whether Murkowski’s efforts to attract voters like Selita Helms, long and varied Saturday Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:05:00 PM
minimize misspellings that could promote a moderate who attended the NAACP dinner campaign swing, Murkowski
lead to tossed ballots. El Tango’s message—and her unusual with Murkowski. (Although the addresses the banquet hall. The You've read about the stakes,
tables are covered with blue name—will succeed isn’t clear. senator has only a 57 percent speech sounds like an abridged you've read about the procedure--
wristbands that show the Dave Dittman, an Alaska pollster, voting record with the group, she version of the one she delivered to now it's time to read about exactly
candidate’s name and an oval, has her in the lead with 37 percent won points when she strongly the diversity coalition. Instead of what went down in the hallowed
which must be colored in on of the vote; Miller is at 27 condemned the Tea Party Express “unity,” though, the audience halls of the U.S. Supreme Court
voters’ ballots. The campaign percent, McAdams at 23). Public after one of its leaders used racist hears about “equity” and “parity.” earlier today, when
says it has made 50,000 of them Policy Polling, however, has language to disparage the Murkowski closes by saying, “I representatives from the
in total. They’ve also distributed Miller ahead with 37 percent, and NAACP.) look forward to working with you Entertainment Software
25,000 pens bearing the same Murkowski tied with McAdams at Helms, who puts on gospel for a long time.” Association and the state of
information and the exhortation, 30 percent. Miller has been the productions in Anchorage, doesn’t Alexandra Gutierrez is a reporter California butted heads over the
“Fill it in. Write it in.” All this subject of steady bad press, and know who she’ll vote for on based in Aleutian Islands. contentious Schwarzenegger v.
material is allowed in voting even the National Republican Tuesday. But she’s sure it won’t EMA case. The Supreme Court's
booths according to the state’s Senatorial Committee has be Miller. “He lies. We all have official website recently posted a
anti-electioneering laws, so long expressed concern about his skeletons in our closets, but he complete transcript of the oral
as it isn’t blatantly flashed around. chances. But his dedicated just lies about it.” She thinks that arguments from both parties --
Some supporters have made their conservative base might be large Murkowski is a more moderate you can pore over an embedded
own gear. At a back table at El enough to take the race. option—but, then again, she version of it below.
Tango, there are four women Meanwhile, McAdams’s numbers thinks the same of McAdams. The 72-page document is quite a
read -- we'll update this post
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or not original cast member Marg quotes with commentary
Sally Kirkland and Robert Helgenberger will really leave at
Knepper the end of the season, as she from the NBA Jam guy
Working on a television show announced earlier this year. "You Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
can be much like being an agent know what, anything's possible.
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:50:00 PM
or a spy — all information is on a But I wouldn't consider a full
need to know basis, and you have season," she tells TV Guide We're still pouring over the
to be extremely good at keeping Magazine. Her change of heart transcripts from today's
secrets. So when the Academy of may have something to do with Schwarzenegger vs. EMA case,
Television Arts & Sciences Catherine's recently improved and as we discussed it, we
brought together a group of private life. "It's funny, I've said I decided our enthusiasm for the
primetime crime fighters, TV want a love interest on the show judges' utter contempt for the
Guide Magazine took the since Season 2, and my last Schwazenegger side's argument
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information about upcoming something going on there," she quotes from NBA Jam announcer
p l o t l i n e s a n d c h a r a c t e r that Nichols was not hired to next few episodes, stuff that I read laughs. "They've given me some Tim Kitzrow.
development. replace former Minds' cast and was like, 'Whoa,'" he says. more interesting things to do this Enjoy.
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Take Two: Whole
Guiding Light Alum Robert Newman Goes Wheat English Muffin
& Whole Wheat Bagel
Primetime On Criminal Minds (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Michael Logan (TVGuide.com: wanted me to cut it even shorter.
Breaking News) It's good to have an excuse to do While similar in fat, iron, and
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:45:00 AM something extreme like this — sodium, whole wheat English
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Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:23:00 PM
Anderson Cooper
Here's a breakdown of what kind
of 2010 midterm elections
coverage you can expect and
where:
ABC
8/7c: Co-anchors George
Stephanopoulos and Diane
Sawyer will interrupt the Dancing
With the Stars results show with
live updates.
9:30/8:30c: Vote 2010, also
hosted by Sawyer and
Stephanopoulos, will include a
panel of correspondents and
political experts who will weigh
in on the results as they come in.
ABC News will also live-stream
the content online.
CBS
9/8c: CBSNews.com will
webcast coverage.
10/9c: CBS News Campaign
2010 will be anchored by CBS
Evening News host Katie Couric,
Bob Schieffer and Jeff Greenfield,
and will be simulcast online.
NBC
9/8c: Decision 2010 will be
anchored by Brian Williams,
David Gregory and Tom Brokaw.
Also contributing will be NBC
correspondent Andrea Mitchell,
Savannah Guthrie, and
Washington bureau chief Mark
Whitaker. Chuck Todd, NBC
News' political director and chief
White House correspondent, will
conduct live results analysis.
CNN
7/6c: Election Night in America
will include Wolf Blitzer as
anchor. He'll be joined by
Anderson Cooper, Candy
Crowley, John King and Soledad
O'Brien. More importantly,
they've ditched the holograms for
a new toy: an interactive election
matrix that displays real-time
party gains and losses, tracking
the possible shifts in the balance
of power.
See it in action here:
Embedded video from CNN
Video
Fox News
9/8c: America's Election
Headquarters will be lead by Brit
Hume and Fox News contributors
Juan Williams and Karl Rove.
Martha MacCallum and Bill
Hemmer will cover exit polls on
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an interactive touch screen. A
rotating panel of contributors will
include Sarah Palin, Mike
Huckabee and Newt Gingrich.
Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and
Greta Van Susteren will also
weigh in. To brush up before
heading to the polls, check out the
network's interactive map that
shows the current party divide and
breaks down the polling numbers
for all the closest races.
MSNBC
6/7c: Decision 2010 will be
anchored by Keith Olbermann,
Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow,
Lawrence O'Donnell and Eugene
Robinson.
Whose coverage will you be
watching?
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make sense for consumers who
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The other car may be an SUV or
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Plug-in hybrids vary greatly in
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Plate - Jeff Kellogg, First Base -
Gary Darling, Second Base - John
Hirschbeck, Third Base - Sam
Holbrook
Research Notes
How the Giants beat Cliff Lee
again in Game 5: - Lee had better
command than during his Game 1
start, throwing 65 percent of his
pitches in the strike zone
compared to 53 percent in Game
1. However, for all the quality
strikes Lee's flashed this season,
the pitch that cost him Game 5
was just the opposite of that - a
cutter that was supposed to be on
the outside corner that came back
right over the heart of the plate.
Edgar Renteria made him pay for
it, sending the pitch over the left-
center field fence. It was only the
third homer all year by a right-
handed hitter off Lee's cutter - the
first of which that was left over
the middle of the plate. - In the
seventh, the inning in which the
Giants broke through for three
hits and three runs, they had
success by being aggressive. Lee
threw 20 pitches that inning and
the Giants swung at 14 of them
(70 pct), the second highest
percentage of any inning in Game
5. Cody Ross and Juan Uribe,
who had the two hits to set up the
homer, were particularly hungry,
swinging at eight of the nine
pitches they saw.
Lincecum is the 4th NL pitcher
with at least 10 K, allowing 3 hits
or fewer and 1 ER or fewer in a
World Series game.
How Tim Lincecum dominated
the Rangers, giving the Giants
their first World Series title since
1954: - Since changing the grip on
his slider in early September, the
pitch has been Lincecum's new
best friend. He's been relying on it
more frequently with increased
success and Game 5 was no
different. He threw 26 sliders,
second-most this season to only
his Game 1 start, when he threw
35. Eighteen of the 26 sliders (12
for strikes) came early in the
count, as Lincecum paired it with
his fastball to get ahead. Overall,
the Rangers swung at the pitch 14
times, missing on an incredible
nine of those swings (64 pct,
season avg 31 pct). Tim
Lincecum's Slider Since Changing
Grip Before After Pitch pct 9.6
18.8 Opp BA .208 .148 Miss pct
28.2 34.7 K pct 27.6 35.1
>>Changed grip before
September 12 start - For his out
pitch, Lincecum went to his bread
and butter: the changeup. Hitters
were 0-for-10 against his change
with two strikes, including eight
of his 10 strikeouts, which tied a
season high. He had outstanding
command of the pitch as he got
Rangers hitters to expand their
strike zone all night. Seven of his
eight strikeouts on the change
came on pitches out of the zone,
with six of those seven coming
down in the zone. - Lincecum's
devastating off-speed stuff was so
effective, thanks to, at least in
part, an improved fastball he
showed in Game 5. His fastball
averaged 92 MPH, only the third
time since July 15 he's averaged
92 or higher. Of the 46 fastballs
he threw, 29 were in the strike
zone (63 pct), his best since
September 18. Since his dominant
start in Game 1 of the NLDS,
opponents were hitting .440
against Lincecum's fastball. On
Monday, showing improved
velocity and command, hitters
were just 1-for-8.
The Giants won 6 games this
postseason scoring 3 runs or
fewer. That ties the 1972 Athletics
for the most wins scoring 3 runs
or fewer in a single postseason.
Cliff Lee finished the postseason
with 47 strikeouts, tied for the
second-most in a single
postseason, trailing Curt
Schilling's 56 K's in 2001.
Tim Lincecum wins his 4th game
of the postseason. He passes
Christy Mathewson (1905) for the
most wins by a Giants starter in a
single postseason. Of course,
Mathewson got all 3 of his wins
in the World Series. Lincecum
won 2 games in the World Series.
The only other Giants starters to
win 2 games in a World SEries
are Mathewson (1905), Rube
Marquard (1912), Carl Hubbell
(1933) and Phil Douglas (1921)
6th HR this postseason for
Nelson Cruz, breaking the
Rangers record for most HR in a
postseason ( Juan Gonzalez and
Josh Hamilton have 5). He also
ties Juan Gonzalez for the most
career postseason HR in Rangers
history.
Edgar Renteria is the 6th SS with
a go-ahead HR in the 7th inning
or later of a World Series game.
Matt Cain went 21 1/3 IP without
allowing an earned run this
postseason, the 3rd-most IP in a
single postseason without
allowing an earned run:
Mitch Moreland's single in the
6th inning was his 13th as the No.
9 batter in the postseason. That
ties the postseason record for
most hits by a No. 9 hitter. Bucky
Dent (1978), Alfonso
Soriano(2001) and Adam
Kennedy(2002) also had 13 hits.
Edgar Renteria becomes the 5th
shortstop to win the World Series
MVP:
Edgar Renteria became the fourth
player in MLB history to win the
MVP of one World Series and
make the last out of another.
The Rangers offense just never
found its groove in the World
Series:
Tim Lincecum ties the all-time
record for most strikeouts in a
World Series-clinching game with
10. He's the first to do it since
Bob Gibson in 1967:
Andres Torres had a double in
the 2nd inning. Its his 4th straight
game with an extra-base hit, tying
the Giants postseason record.
Edgardo Alfonzo(2003), Rich
Aurilia(2002), Jeffrey Leonard
(1987) and Irish Meusel (1921)
also have 4-game streaks.
Pat Burrell: 2nd Giant with 4 K
in a World Series game, joining
Josh Devore (1911, also in 4 AB)
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Associated Press
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Say Hey.
Say World Series champions.The
prize that eluded Willie and Barry
for so long finally belongs to the
San Francisco Giants, thanks to a
band of self-described castoffs
and misfits and their shaggy-
53
haired ace. Tim Lincecum, Edgar
Renteria and the Giants won the
title Monday night, beating the
Texas Rangers 3-1 in a tense
Game 5 and taking the trophy
home to the city by the Bay for
the first time. More World Series
Coverage
ESPN.com
An unlikely cast of characters
brought the Giants their first
World Series championship since
moving from New York, Jayson
Stark writes. Story
Tim Lincecum has fashioned a
Giant-sized legacy, adding a
World Series-clinching gem in
Game 5, Jerry Crasnick writes.
Story
The Giants' title vanquished years
of torment and brought honor to
great San Francisco teams of the
past, Jim Caple writes. Story
Two World Series losses could
mark the end of hired gun Cliff
Lee's brief run with the Rangers,
Gene Wojciechowski writes.
Story
• Neyer: Giants are worthy
champs
• Nelson: MVP Renteria delivers
again
• Stats & Info: Giants do it in style
• FanGraphs: Should've walked
him
ESPNDallas.com
Cliff Lee and the Rangers are a
match, even if they didn't get it
done against the Giants, Richard
Durrett writes. Story
Despite fizzling out at the end,
the Rangers started something
special in 2010, and the future is
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bright, writes Jim Reeves. Story
• Caplan: Weak bats doom
Rangers
"San Francisco is going nuts,
we're going nuts and it feels really
good," closer Brian Wilson said.It
was an overdue victory. Willie
Mays led the Giants to their
previous crown in 1954, four
years before they moved West.
After that, they never quite got it
done despite the likes of baseball
giants Barry Bonds, Juan
Marichal and Willie
McCovey."This buried a lot of
bones -- '62, '89, 2002," Giants
general manager Brian Sabean
said, ticking off losing Series
appearances. "This group
deserved it, faithful from the
beginning. We're proud and
h u m b l e d b y t h e
achievement."Lincecum
outdueled Cliff Lee in a matchup
that was scoreless until Renteria
earned the Series MVP award by
hitting a stunning three-run homer
with two outs in the seventh
inning. Nelson Cruz homered in
the bottom half, but Lincecum
returned to his wicked self and
preserved the lead.Lincecum won
this game of Texas Hold 'em,
beating Lee for the second time in
a week. He gave up three hits over
eight innings and struck out
10.The two-time NL Cy Young
winner arrived at Rangers
Ballpark wearing a bow tie, as if
he was going to a party. He had
one on the mound, for sure."Pretty
collected. I was very poised out
there. From the first inning on my
adrenaline kind of just dissipated
and I was able to calm down," he
said.Wilson pitched a perfect
ninth for a save, completing a
surprising romp through the
postseason for a pitching-rich
team that waited until the final
day to clinch a playoff
spot.Wilson struck out Cruz
swinging to end it, turned toward
center field and crossed his wrists
in front of his chest as he does
after all his saves."All the experts
out there picked us last," Huff
said. Normally rough and tough,
he teared up.Manager Bruce
Bochy enjoys calling his Giants a
ragtag bunch. Maybe Renteria,
Cody Ross, Huff and Freddy
Sanchez fit that description. Cut
loose by other clubs this season
and before, they all wound up in
San Francisco.But the foundation
of this team -- for now, for the
foreseeable future -- is totally
home grown, built on a deep,
talented and young rotation, a
rookie catcher with huge star
potential and their funky closer.
Both Sides Of History
Edgar Renteria became the fourth
player in MLB history to win the
MVP of one World Series and
make the last out of another.
Postseason History Player MVP
Last out Edgar Renteria 2010
2004 Ron Cey 1981 1978 Pete
Rose 1975 1972 Bobby
Richardson 1960 1964
powered by"For us to win for our
fans, it's never been done there,
and with all those great teams,"
Bochy said.Bonds spent 15 years
wearing the black and
orange."There is no city that
deserves this championship
more," Bonds said in a statement.
"I grew up watching my dad and
godfather as Giants, lived out my
dream playing in the same
uniform in front of the best fans in
the world and I just witnessed the
Giants winning the World Series.
I am ecstatic for the team, the city
and all the fans -- you truly
deserve it."Renteria reprised his
role of postseason star. His 11th-
inning single ended Game 7 of the
1997 World Series and lifted
Florida over Cleveland. Forget
that he made the last out in the
2004 Series that finished Boston's
sweep of St. Louis -- this
journeyman's path led to another
title, helped by his go-ahead home
run in Game 2."It was a tough
year for me," the oft-injured
shortstop said. "I told myself to
keep working hard and keep in
shape because something is going
to be good this year."A team
seemingly free of egos did
everything right to take the lead.
Ross, the surprising MVP of the
NL Championship Series, stayed
square and hit a leadoff single and
Juan Uribe followed with another
hit up the middle.That put a
runner at second base for the first
time in the game and brought up
Huff, who led the Giants in home
runs this year. So what did he do?
He expertly put down the first
sacrifice bunt of his career. On
Strike
Cliff Lee finished the postseason
with 47 strikeouts, tied for the
second-most in a single
postseason, trailing Curt
Schilling's 56 K's in 2001.
Most Strikeouts
Single Postseason Year Player
Strikeouts 2001 Curt Schilling 56
2010 Cliff Lee 47 2003 Josh
Beckett 47 2001 Randy Johnson
47 1998 Kevin Brown 46
powered by Lee struck out Pat
Burrell to keep the runners put,
but Ross began hopping home as
soon as Renteria connected,
sending a drive that kept sailing
and landed over the left-center
field wall."It was a classic
pitchers' duel down to that home
run. Nobody in this room is more
disappointed than I am," Lee
said.And just like that, all the
Giants' past troubles seemed like
ancient history.Bonds, Mays and
several other former San
Francisco stars are still a part of
the Giants family.Bonds got a
hallowed home-run record, but
questions persist about alleged
steroids use. He visited the Giants
clubhouse during the Series and
got a big hand from fans when he
took his seat at AT&T Park.His
godfather, the 79-year-old Mays,
was supposed to throw out the
ceremonial first ball but the Say
Hey Kid was absent because of
illness.The Giants won their
previous title when they played in
New York at the Polo Grounds.
That's where Mays raced back for
perhaps the most famous catch of
all time.They moved West in
1958 and had tried ever since to
escape a sort of big league
Alcatraz -- the place where teams
get stuck for decades as also-rans.
The Red Sox and White Sox got
free, not so the Cubs and
Indians.So clang the cable car
bells. Loudly, too. Baseball's best
play by the Bay.Exactly when
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these Giants turned into world
beaters is hard to say. Trailing
San Diego by 7½ games in the NL
West on July 4, they meandered
in the wild-card race until the
stretch run, winning the division
and finishing 92-70.Come the
playoffs, they became dangerous.
Any well-armed team is. Start
with Matt Cain-- three postseason
starts, a 0.00 ERA. Throw in
Lincecum, the two-time Cy
Young winner. Add Madison
Bumgarner, the 21-year-old
rookie who helped blank Texas in
Game 4."This doesn't make sense.
You don't realize it. It's something
that's surreal. But that's what we
are, World Series champs," Cain
said.San Francisco posted a trio of
one-run wins in the opening round
that sent Atlanta manager Bobby
Cox into retirement, then stopped
the two-time defending NL
champion Phillies in the
championship series. Those wins,
like this one, came on the road.In
the Year of the Pitcher, the World
Series proved the oldest adage in
the game: Good pitching stops
good hitting, every time.
Lincecum and the team with the
best ERA in the big leagues
completely shut down Josh
Hamilton and the club with the
majors' top batting average.Texas
hit just .190 in the five games and
was outscored 29-12."They beat
us soundly," manager Ron
Washington said. "They deserve
it."Texas became the latest Series
newcomer to make a quick exit.
Houston (2005) and Colorado
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Team Stat Comparison
HOU
IND 1st Downs 19 24
Passing 1st downs 10 15
Rushing 1st downs 7 8
1st downs from Penalties 2 1
3rd down efficiency 3-11 7-15
4th down efficiency 0-1 1-1 Total
Plays 59 74 Total Yards 291 366
Passing 183 259
Comp-Att 22-38 26-45
Yards per pass 4.8 5.8 Rushing
108 107
Rushing Attempts 18 28
Yards per rush 6.0 3.8 Red Zone
(Made-Att) 1-2 2-4 Penalties 5-30
9-69 Turnovers 2 0
Fumbles lost 1 0
Interceptions thrown 1 0
Defensive / Special Teams TDs 0
1 Possession 23:35 36:25
Passing Leaders Houston C/ATT
YDS AVG TD INT RATING
Schaub 22/38 201 5.3 1 1 70.2
Indianapolis C/ATT YDS AVG
TD INT RATING Manning 26/45
268 6.0 2 0 89.9
Rushing Leaders Houston CAR
YDS AVG TD LG Foster 15 102
6.8 1 33 Ward 2 5 2.5 0 5
Indianapolis CAR YDS AVG TD
LG Hart 12 84 7.0 0 35 Brown 9
16 1.8 0 5
Receiving Leaders Houston REC
YDS AVG TD LG TGTS
Johnson 7 106 15.1 1 28 10 Foster
9 65 7.2 0 14 9 Indianapolis REC
YDS AVG TD LG TGTS Garcon
7 78 11.1 0 18 11 Tamme 6 64
10.7 1 26 9
Research Notes
NEXT-LEVEL: Among Matt
Schaub's 70 incomplete passes
through the Texans' first six
games this season, only 13 of
them were on balls that were
underthrown (18.5 percent).
Schaub underthrew his targets
seven times (50 percent of
incompletions) on Monday night
including a second-quarter
interception returned for a
touchdown by Kelvin Hayden.
NEXT-LEVEL: Eighty-nine
percent of Peyton Manning's pass
attempts this season have come
with at least five defensive backs
on the field, by far the highest
percentage in the league. Monday
night was extreme even by those
standards, as the Texans put five
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or more DBs on the field for
EVERY ONE of Manning's pass
attempts.
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Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS -- Peyton
Manning did some extra work
Monday night. He threw a lead
block. He ran for a first down, and
he kept the Colts' makeshift
offense chugging along as the
Colts got past Houston 30-17.So
just like that, the defending AFC
champs are back on top of the
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There was plenty to learn from
the Colts' victory over the Texans,
ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky
writes. Blog
• B l o g : R a p i d
Reaction"Whoever's in there has
to somehow find a way to do the
job. It's not always going to be
pretty or perfect, but you've just
got to keep grinding," Manning
said. "That's kind of the word we
use. Just keep grinding and trying
to make some plays."Manning has
made his share of plays over the
years, and his latest effort
certainly was no different.Though
the Colts (5-2) were missing All-
Pro tight end Dallas Clark,
receiver Austin Collie and
running back Joseph Addai with
injuries, Manning made sure his
teammates didn't miss a beat.
Mike Hart ran for a career-high 84
yards and barely missed scoring
his second career touchdown.
Jacob Tamme, similar to Hart
making his first career start,
caught six passes for 64 yards and
h i s f i r s t c a r e e r
touchdown.Manning, meanwhile,
went 26 of 45 for 268 yards with
two TDs.But it wasn't just the new
guys making plays -- or only the
offense. Reggie Wayne caught a
touchdown pass. Manning rushed
for a first down for the first time
in nearly two years, then threw
the lead block on a first-down
catch-and-run by Pierre Garcon in
the third quarter."It was a screen,
and Pierre has that ability to cut
back," Manning said. "I think
Pierre really did all the work.
Let's take it for what it really was
-- it was a good run."But that's
how important Monday's game
was to the Colts, who evened the
season series with Houston (4-3).
Fast Facts
• Peyton Manning improved to 7-
0 in his career at home on
Monday Night Football, while the
Texans are 0-9 all-time on the
road against the Colts.
• Jacob Tamme is the 27th player
to catch his first career TD pass
from Manning.
• In two games this season,
Manning threw the ball 102 times
against the Texans.
• Dwight Freeney, who had zero
sacks in his last four games, had
two Monday and has 15.5 sacks in
his career against the Texans.
-- ESPN Stats & Information
Indy's defense repeatedly
pressured Houston quarterback
Matt Schaub and forced him into
a series of mistakes including an
interception that was returned for
a touchdown.The louder-than-
normal crowd created problems
for Schaub hearing play calls,
barking out signals to teammates,
and just trying to make plays. The
2009 NFL leader in yards passing
finished a horrible first half 5 of
15 for 37 yards with one
interception and a rating of 14.6
as he tried to dodge defensive
ends Robert Mathis and Dwight
Freeney. They still combined for
three sacks.Schaub was better in
the second half, finishing 22 of 38
for 201 yards with one TD. But
the damage was already done."In
the first half, we didn't do a thing.
We dug ourselves a hole," Schaub
said. "It's a hole you don't want to
be in to any team in this league,
especially with this team and the
defense they have."The Colts took
control quickly.Manning took
them 78 yards on the second
series, throwing a 2-yard TD pass
to Tamme to make it 7-0.On the
second play of the second quarter,
the maligned defense gave Indy
the play it desperately needed.
Kelvin Hayden jumped in front of
Kevin Walter, picked off Schaub's
pass and sprinted 25 yards to
make it 14-0."It was a huge part in
the game," Colts linebacker Gary
Brackett said. "Obviously, a big
momentum swing for us. Great
play by him, great read, finishing
the deal, catching that ball,
scoring." Neil Rackers banked in
a 53-yard field goal to get
Houston within 14-3 with 12
minutes to go in the half, but that
was merely a speed bump for
Manning.He took them 36 yards,
running off nearly all of the half's
final six minutes before Adam
Vinatieri booted a season-long 48-
yard field goal to make it 17-3 at
halftime.Manning didn't stop
there.After converting a third-and-
10 early in the second half,
Manning threw a screen pass to
the right to Garcon, who cut all
the way across the field and
followed No. 18 for a 14-yard
gain and a first down.Four plays
later, Manning took the more
conventional route by throwing a
flanker screen to Wayne, who
sprinted 15 yards to make it 24-
3.It was that kind of night for the
Texans, who got a 30-yard TD
pass from Schaub to Andre
Johnson and a 6-yard TD run
from Arian Foster to make it 27-
17 early in the fourth quarter.That
was as close as the Texans got."It
was a collective effort of
mishaps," Johnson said after
hurting his right ankle on the TD
catch. "Everybody was taking
turns making mistakes. We had
mental lapses, when you have
those things, you're not going to
win."Manning made sure of
it.Game notes
Former Colts coach Tony Dungy
was inducted into the team's ring
of honor at halftime. He received
a standing ovation and hugged
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highlights of their Super Bowl
title were shown. ... Houston
dropped to 2-16 against the Colts
and is 0-9 at Indy. ... Texans left
tackle Duane Brown gave up a
sack in the first quarter to Freeney
after returning from a four-game
suspension for violating the
league's banned substance policy.
... Hart will have an MRI on his
injured ankle.
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Report: Randy Moss of Minnesota Vikings lashed out at locally-

catered team meal
ESPN.com news services the New England Patriots a month Mortensen talks about his list of use against the Vikings. He also available for around $450,000 and
(ESPN.com) ago. teams that could make a claim on expressed his admiration for the Moss could choose the team he
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:14:30 PM "This decision was made based on former Vikings WR Randy Moss. Patriots. would like to join.
what we thought was in the best Mort also says the Redskins "I'm definitely down that we lost Various league sources told
Updated: November 2, 2010, i n t e r e s t s o f t h e M i n n e s o t a coaches haven't been happy with this game. I didn't expect we'd ESPN NFL Insider Adam
1:14 PM ET Vikings, both in the short and Donovan McNabb's practice lose this game," Moss said. "I Schefter that the Washington
Randy Moss, who is expected to long term," coach Brad Childress habits for some time. don't know how many more times Redskins, Chicago Bears, St.
be waived by the Minnesota said in a statement. "We wish A source who was at a team I'll be in New England again. But Louis Rams, Miami Dolphins,
Vikings on Tuesday, may have Randy the best as he moves meeting on Monday, in which I leave coach Belichick and those Oakland Raiders, Kansas City
alienated some teammates when forward in his career." Childress informed the Vikings guys with a salute: 'I love you Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, New
he roundly criticized a post- Moss' name did not appear on the that Moss would be leaving, said guys. I miss you. I'm out.' " York Jets and even the Patriots
practice meal in front of the local league's official waiver report it was clear the coach was On Monday, Childress disagreed are among the teams possibly
restaurant owners who catered it, Monday, but he could be awarded referring to Moss' criticism of the with Moss' assertion that the interested in claiming Moss.
Yahoo! Sports reported. to another team as early as locker-room meal when he said Vikings ignored the receiver's Sources close to the situation told
Every Friday, the Vikings invite Wednesday. "This just doesn't fit with how we advice. Schefter that Vikings owner Zygi
a local establishment to cater the The player who witnessed Moss' treat people, how we talk to "I think we did a pretty good job Wilf is angry that his team plans
team's post-practice meal. Last f o o d t i r a d e c a l l e d i t " a n people and how we act," of heeding it, both offensively and to waive a player he wanted in
Friday, it was a St. Paul restaurant uncomfortable moment," adding according to Yahoo! Sports. defensively," Childress said, Minnesota. Wilf played a major
-- a favorite of former Vikings that he felt Moss deserved to be Moss' perceived lack of effort in according to the Minneapolis Star role in the re-acquisition of Moss
center Matt Birk-- that served cut after the incident, Yahoo! the Vikings' last two games and Tribune. "He gave us some and is unhappy with the way
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JaMarcus Russell works out for continued from page 54

(2007) got swept in their first away.Many years ago, one swing
Washington Redskins as Donovan appearances, Tampa Bay (2008)
stuck around for just five games.
of the bat prompted a call that
resonates throughout Giants
The AL champion Rangers history and beyond."The Giants
McNabb takes high road became the first team since 1966
to get shut out twice in a World
win the pennant! The Giants win
the pennant! The Giants win the
ESPN.com news services road, saying: "Coach makes the the Raiders. Series, with big hitters Hamilton, pennant!" announcer Russ Hodges
(ESPN.com) decisions. I can only say how I "I don't think you consider anyone Vladimir Guerrero and Cruz left shouted over and over after
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:34:08 PM feel and what I feel think is best just based off of talent," Kyle taking half-swings or flailing Bobby Thomson launched "The
for me." Shanahan said after the workout. wildly.Hamilton, the probable AL Shot Heard 'Round the World" in
Updated: November 2, 2010, Later, McNabb said: "I'm just "Everyone in the NFL's pretty MVP, went 2 for 20 with one 1951.Time to redo that cry: The
1:34 PM ET ready to move on, focus on what I talented. [It's] other stuff that RBI."We just got cold at the Giants win the Series! The Giants
Quarterback JaMarcus Russell have to do after the bye week." really separates you. He is very wrong time with the bats," he win the Series! The Giants win
worked out for the Washington Meanwhile, Russell, the former talented, so I think he can said.The Rangers' franchise the Series!Game notes
Redskins on Tuesday as he looks No. 1 draft choice of the Oakland overcome some of the stuff that wrapped up its 50th season Renteria went 7 for 17 (.412)
to resurrect his NFL career. Raiders, was on the field looking he struggled with. I don't really overall, in good hands with Nolan with a Series-leading six RBIs. ...
At the same time, the Redskins for a job. He was one of 20 know that personally, but if he Ryan as president and part-owner. At 2 hours, 32 minutes, it was the
continued to try to explain why players the Redskins worked out looks like he's in good shape out If only Big Tex could teach his fastest Series game since Game 4
their incumbent starter, Donovan on Tuesday. Several Redskins here and he's working, and that's team to hit, too.By the final out, in 1992 between Toronto and
McNabb, was pulled in the fourth players Tweeted that Russell was all you can evaluate. Sometimes Ryan sat there glumly as did the Atlanta, according to STATS
quarter of Sunday's game against at practice. when guys do get a second team's No. 1 fan, former President LLC. ... Burrell was 0 for 13 with
Detroit. Offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan said: "We'll opportunity, they can change their George W. Bush.The Giants won 11 strikeouts in the Series.
Kyle Shanahan, the head coach's evaluate him and everyone else stripes." their sixth title overall, joining the Copyright by STATS LLC and
son, said that McNabb had been out there." The Redskins broke for their off likes of Christy Mathewson, Mel The Associated Press
hampered by bad hamstrings and Russell was released by the week vacation Tuesday -- and not Ott and John McGraw as champs. ARLINGTON, TX -
was told in advance that he could Oakland Raiders in May, and an a moment too soon. The five-day They also helped ease the gloating NOVEMBER 01: Manager Ron
be pulled from the game. Alabama grand jury declined not break is exactly what's needed to that blew from across the Bay, Washington of the Texas Rangers
Head coach Mike Shanahan has to indict Russell last week on a settle things down after a dizzying where the Oakland Athletics won pitches batting practice to his
given a variety of explanations for felony drug possession charge three days of quarterback drama. three straight crowns in the mid- players...(Photo by Ronald
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would have run the two-minute 4th holiday. in 1962. In 2002, Bonds & Co. led
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Zenyatta Rocks 'n' Rolls to Date With San Francisco Parties Its
History at Breeders' Cup Heart Out
Jon Weinbach (FanHouse Lisa Olson (FanHouse Main)
Main) Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:47:00 PM

Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:14:00 PM

Filed under:@gallery, Horse
Racing, Sports Business and
Media
LOS ANGELES -- It reads like a
cliched Tinseltown script. There's
a music mogul, a model, a
Vietnam vet, a salty sidekick, and
a God-fearing, battle-scarred best
friend who's looking for one last
hurrah. They all orbit around one
majestic female, a superior athlete
whose dramatic flair and camera-
friendly personality has energized
a downtrodden sport. And in the
final act, our heroine faces off
against the world's best
competitors -- all men -- in a
showdown with history.
Of course, it's all true. And
fittingly, Zenyatta - the star of this
tale, and horse racing's best story
in decades - lives at a place called
Hollywood Park.
Filed under: MLB SAN
FRANCISCO -- "You go, girl!"
And with that simple utterance,
more than five decades of
heartache and frustration yielded
to jubilation and exhilaration,
because there on the large TV
screens was Tim Lincecum--
"Timmy," to one and all -- being
hoisted atop the shoulders of his
teammates, his long, glorious hair
fluttering, his right index finger
In a Deadspin era of loutish supporting her Saturday in what pointed upward, his legacy as one
athletes, lewd text messages and will likely be her final race, the $6 of this city's toughest, most
litigious team owners, Zenyatta's million Breeders' Cup Classic at charismatic sporting characters Castro over to the orange-bathed
climb to the top of thoroughbred Churchill Downs in Louisville, cemented forever. Civic Center, from Nob Hill to
racing feels out of place, like a Ky. Zenyatta has been tabbed as Inside The Midnight Sun, a noted China Basin, it was impossible
relic from a more innocent sports the 8-5, morning-line favorite gay bar in the heart of the Castro not to get a contact high. Sure, the
world. There's no drug scandal or from post eight in the 12-horse district, there were joyous tears sweet smelling wafts from
cheating accusation lurking on the field. and spontaneous hugging of unchecked imbibers intensified
periphery. There are no agents, "We all want to win, but we don't s t r a n g e r s a n d f e r v e n c y the rush - San Franciscans party
marketing representatives or mind getting beat by her," Hall of epitomized, scenes replicated exactly like you think they would,
corporate sponsors involved. And Fame trainer Bob Baffert told throughout the Bay Area Monday no matter how Proposition 19
even rivals admit that they'll be reporters last week. night after the San Francisco fares -- but this buzz was all
Giants won their first World natural, born out of the magical
Series championship since ride the Giants took their fans on
moving here in 1958. these last few nutty weeks.
Everywhere you went, from the

LaMichael James on the Run to Heisman

David Whitley (FanHouse Main) candidate for the office of operative, I'd recommend the really born in a Kenyan mosque. The grim voiceover would ask,
Heisman Trophy winner.
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:45:00 PM James campaign go negative. Dig up his mugshot after being "If we can't trust this man not to
That goes against most current Trot out a commercial showing arrested for possession of stolen buy a hot computer, can we trust
Filed under: Auburn, Oregon, p o l l s , w h i c h i n d i c a t e C a m Newton's five ridiculous property. Re-enact the Gainesville him not to sell the Heisman?"
Heisman In honor of this week's Newton will win unless somebody interceptions. Have anonymous police knocking on the door and
election, I'd like to state that discovers he once dated Christine sources tell Politico that Newton's Newton tossing a computer out
LaMichael James is the best O'Donnell. If I were a political birth certificate is fake and he was the window.
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Retailers: Gran Turismo 5 to miss Christmas release

James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:30:00 PM

Today was the day we were

supposed to finally, maybe play
Gran Turismo 5-- not even
Walmart, it seems, can get over
the latest delay. A search for the
game today on the retailer's site
turned up an "In Stock" result
(pictured above); though clicking
through to the product prompted
only a pre-order option.
While there remains no definitive
release date for the comically-
delayed sim racer, a Sony
representative reiterated in a
statement to Joystiq today that the
publisher is "still aiming for this released on Tuesdays -- just like placeholder release dates for Sony can pull off a last-minute
holiday" to launch GT5. Sony has today -- in the U.S. And though GT5(whereas GameFly is sticking miracle.
backed up this target window by Amazon appears to be acting on a with "TBD," for now). Continue reading Retailers: Gran
recently updating retailers, which date provided by the publisher, Technically, you can get away Turismo 5 to miss Christmas
passed the information along to Sony confirmed December 31 is with extending the holiday season release
their customers. Specifically, just a placeholder. "As far as the into early January, and by all Retailers: Gran Turismo 5 to miss
Amazon has notified GT5 pre- Amazon date goes," a Sony accounts, GT5 is still on track to Christmas release originally
orderers of a "new delivery representative told us, "retailers meet this rather dubious date appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02
estimate based on the new release have arbitrary dates that get listed range. According to retailer Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please
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Although there are exceptions completely driven from their side under the Christmas tree, or from
(first-party Nintendo games tend [...] A placeholder if you will." any other location their loved
to be released on Sundays), Similarly, GameStop and Target ones might stack their presents
almost all video games are now list January 1, 2011 this holiday. Unless, of course,
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Fable 3 fixes incoming,
Lionhead asking for bug
submissions
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 2:10:00 PM
One expects to come up against
all manner of opposition when
attempting a violent overthrow of
a monarchy, but game-crashing
technical issues shouldn't be one
of them. An update on Lionhead's
official blog has revealed that the
developer is currently working on
a patch for a few known Fable 3
issues, and is also seeking bug
submissions from the game's most
attentive players. You might take
umbrage over having to do QA
for a game you spent 60 American
dollars on, but, think of it this
way: You can pretend like you
just won Season 3 of The Tester.
The blog post also contains a
workaround for folks who are
having trouble transferring their that gets me going -- ignorance.
hard-earned gold over from the
Fable 3 Kingmaker App over to
the game itself. No, throwing your
smartphone at your Xbox 360 as
hard as you possibly can, hoping
the gold will transfer over in the
ensuing collision, is not the
solution.
Fable 3 fixes incoming, Lionhead (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
asking for bug submissions Submitted at 11/2/2010 7:52:58 AM
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Permalink| Email this| Comments insiders are privately high-fiving
I love reading Paul Krugman's blog
posts
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:13:32 AM
Krugman is a Natural Born
Blogger in every sense of the
term.
You can tell that just from
reading his blog. It's especially
important because he's blogging at
nytimes.com. In that sense what
he's doing is very subversive
because he's an expert writing
without interpretation by a
middleman, a reporter. There's no
one between him, the expert, and
me, a person who wants access to
his expertise.
He's a Source that Goes Direct.
I especially go for his angry
pieces (like this one). What makes
Krugman angry is the same thing
Ignorance is the practice of
ignoring. To be ignorant is not the
GOP Outsmarted Democrats in
Spending
begin to flood in, Republican
each other over their execution of
a politically risky strategy that
enabled them to outflank their
Democratic counterparts,
transforming this election cycle
Gaming/ Featured/ Politics/
same thing as being stupid. Albert
Einstein was surely ignorant of
some things.
We all do it. The world is too big
and complex to pay attention to
everything, no matter how smart
you are.
Ignorance becomes negative,
however, when you ignore things
that are important. Ignore the
pedestrians in the crosswalk as
you drive through it -- that's
seriously ignorant, for you and for
the pedestrians. Ignore that a
weak dollar must be balanced by a
strong currency somewhere is
ignorance. It's just math. There's
no way around it.
The same kind of reasoning
applies to various systems. The
news system is rebooting. That's
the premise of a lot of my
thinking. The political system is
not rebooting the way I hoped it
into a category 5 anti-Democratic
hurricane.
As first reported Monday in The
Rothenberg Political Report,
sources at the National
Republican Congressional
Committee are saying they took a
roll of the dice and opened their
wallets early, spending heavily in
rural, less-expensive media
markets while Democrats opted to
hold on to their cash for a last-
61
would. We're still voting against
our interest, we're still giving
money to people who use the
money to buy votes so that they
can take even more money etc etc
We'll see tomorrow how bad it is,
but they say it's going to be pretty
bad.
I think the systems are linked.
The smarter the news system is
the smarter the political system
can be. And the converse is true
as well, until the news system gets
smart, the political system can't.
That's why the smart anger at a
leading news place like the Times
is a very positive sign. Krugman
himself is good news.
We have to care enough to not be
ignorant of our interests. We're
not there yet. But there are
hopeful signs.
minute advertising push in the
closing weeks of the election.
According to a Roll Call analysis,
Republicans had spent $11.3
through the independent-
expenditure arm of the National
Republican Congressional
Committee (NRCC) as of Sept.
30, compared to $4.1 million for
Democrats. It now appears that
GOP page 62
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continued from page 61
Democratic strategy has
backfired.
This was reflected in the FEC
filings that showed the NRCC
with just $19 million left in its
coffers, compared to $41.6
million remaining for the
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee.
Rothenberg reports that there
were 16 races in which the NRCC
had spent at least $300,000 by the
beginning of October. Democrats,
by contrast, had invested that
much in only five contests.
Details of the tactics that
Republicans used to set up a
potential landslide are just
beginning to emerge. A high-level
NRCC source tells Newsmax that
the GOP, which had substantially
less money to spend than did
Democrats, perfectly executed the
political equivalent of an NFL
flea-flicker pass in the way it
allocated its money.
"We always knew we would be
outgunned by the Democrats," the
source says. "So we decided to
make a calculated risk and take
advantage of the environment. We
believe it has paid off."
By investing substantial dollars
early in races that weren't even
thought to be up for grabs as of
September, Republicans were
essentially able to expand the
playing field and gain momentum.
As Democratic strategists looked
at their political maps, they saw
race after race flipping from
"Leaning Democratic" to "Toss-
Up." That meant that once
Democrats did begin doling out
money, those funds had to be
spread over a much larger number
of races.
Also, as Republicans saw their
opportunities increasing even in
districts with strong Democratic
incumbents, they were energized
and more likely to support the
GOP campaign as it gathered
momentum.
Of course, many other
contributing factors are in play:
The moribund economy, ethics
charges against high-profile
Democrats, the disparity in party
enthusiasm, the rising
unpopularity of House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, and the continual
activism of grass-roots
conservatives.
All of these elements played an
important role in aggravating an
already negative election cycle for
Democrats.
But the ultimate impact of the
GOP's financial Hail Mary pass is
reflected in analysts' projections
for a GOP gain of between 50 and
60 seats in the House and up to 8
seats in the Senate. Analysts see
the 10-seat Senate pickup needed
to take over the upper chamber as
unlikely, but not out of the
question, depending on the
strength of Tuesday wave.
Ed Goeas is a partner in the
Alexandria, Va.-based Tarrance
Group, a polling and consulting
firm that is aiding Republicans in
nine gubernatorial races, five
Senate races, and 65
congressional races this cycle.
Goeas credits several leading
Republican organizations with a
high-stakes bet that early media
buys would expand the number of
vulnerable Democrats. Goeas
singled out the NRCC, the
National Republican Senatorial
Committee, and the Republican
Governors Association for praise
in their tactics and strategies,
which capitalized on voters'
frustration with Democratic
policies.
Had Republicans miscalculated,
they could have been left with
empty pockets in the vital closing
days of the 2010 midterm
election. Instead, Democratic
incumbents throughout the
country are struggling to stave off
election upsets.
"They have won their bet,"
independent analyst and publisher
Stuart Rothenberg recently
declared.
Goeas tells Newsmax: "They've
been very professional, very
smart, and used the environmental
almost in a jujitsu-type move,
using the weight of that
environment to increase their
opportunities. And I think you're
going to see the results of that
tonight."
GOP strategists are saying that
had Democrats opened the purse
strings early they could have
taken some races off the board by
solidifying the advantage many
incumbents appears to enjoy even
two months ago. Democrats
wanted to save their ad dollars for
the waning weeks of the
campaign, however, when they
could be sure the voting public
was paying attention.
"When you have a bad
environment," GOP consultant
Brad Todd told Rothenberg,
"waiting does not preserve your
options. It just forces you into
unacceptable and more expensive
choices later."
Democratic operatives, not
surprisingly, are pushing back
against the notion that they
somehow blundered in their
approach to the campaign.
"The DCCC's discipline has been
important," Democratic consultant
David Dixon told Rothenberg.
"It's rare you get a knockout
punch in September. Our
candidates left on the table late –
those in 46 to 44 [percent] races –
need a strong endgame TV play."
That the second-guessing has
already begun over how
Democrats handled the campaign
is just another indication off the
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structural problems they faced.
Goeas tells Newsmax that GOP
strategists deserve kudos for their
tactics, which obviously have paid
off.
"The fact that we are going into
Election Day with clearly 100
congressional races that are very
much in play, I think a lot of
credit has to go to them," Goeas
says, adding: "Clearly this is the
kind of campaign cycle that
makes us look a lot smarter than
what we are, and makes
Democrats look at lot dumber
than what they are."
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Feminist Backlash? College Women Want to Be Is Charlie

Treated Like Princesses Crist
Eleanor Clift (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:40:00 AM
scarves in state schools, it's
heartening to see how seamlessly
a college class of middle-class
dependent?" Fiske-Rusciano
gently probed. "Since he's paying
for everything, maybe you don't
paying your way is the one that
punctures the fantasy that a man
will always be there to take care
Married?
Max Strasser (Politics Daily)
Contributor I was at Rider kids modify their behavior to need such a high-paying job?" of you. As these women study
University in New Jersey last respect different customs, and That of course was the thinking their opposite numbers in Iraq, Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:34:00 AM

week and sat in on a global how open they were to a guided before the women's movement they are also exploring their own
studies class that has a video link- discussion, suspending value Charlie Crist, the current
fought for a level playing field, customs and traditions, and
up with Kufa University in Najaf, judgments and debating back and Republican governor of Florida, is
even if it meant giving up the sometimes their reactions puzzle
Iraq. The link failed the day I was forth among themselves. running for Senate as an
perks of being the fairer sex. One those who remember fighting over
there but the professor used the independent after losing the
Professor Roberta Fiske- young woman flared at the notion these issues of money and
time to discuss the focus of the Rusciano has conducted similar Republican primary to tea-party-
that being treated like a princess chivalrous behavior and thinking
class, which is about what v i d e o c o n f e r e n c i n g w i t h backed candidate Marco Rubio.
might mean accepting something they had been resolved.
constitutes a civil society, and American University in Cairo, Crist and Rubio are in a close
less in her career. "I'm a triple I visited this global studies class
how the two campuses might put and finds it a really useful tool to three-way race with Democratic
major," she declared, "but I still in my role as a fellow with the
their ideas together to help form promote understanding between four-term Congressman Kendrick
like being treated like that." Some Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
one. She started by asking what cultures. She encouraged the Meek. As part of a Politics Daily
minor dissent followed, with one Foundation, which brings people
the Rider students admired most students to think about what series providing background
student warning that it's fine to be from various walks of life to small
about the structure of Iraqi constitutes a civil society, and the about the major candidates in
on a pedestal, but if you get liberal arts campuses with the
society, explaining to me that qualities they quickly settled on 2010, here are answers to some
knocked off, you could be the goal of enlightening the students,
their counterparts in this exercise were close family ties, with access frequently asked questions about
victim of an honor killing. and fortunately the lessons work
are all women and all wearing the for all to education and health Crist's life. Is Charlie Crist
Several women students gave both ways. I thought of these
traditional head covering, or hijab, care (with health care considered married? Yes. Who is Charlie
what sounded like testimonials to students during Saturday's rally on
that identifies them as Muslims. Crist's wife? Crist's wife is Carole
a human right). So far, so good, I the practice of having the guy the National Mall to "Restore
It was an unseasonably warm day thought. These students are Crist (nee Carole Oumano),
pick up the check. One said it's a Sanity and/or Fear," when I saw a
in late October and a technician building a list that indicates their formerly Carole Rome. How old
form of disrespect to the woman if sign that said, "Palin, O'Donnell,
t r i e d i n v a i n t o g e t t h e idealism is alive and well. is Charlie Crist's wife? Carole
the guy doesn't pay, or at least Bachmann -- For this I burned my
international connection up and Encouraging the students to dig Crist is 41. She was born Oct. 20,
make the offer. The handful of bra?"
going. Sometimes a sandstorm deeper than generalities, the 1969. What does Charlie Crist's
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being wry of course, as only
York about building an Islamic want to be treated like a princess. tenure at the company, Carole
Ephron can, but of all the
cultural center near Ground Zero, That comes at a cost." Rome helped transform the
symbolic behaviors that define the
or the French banning head " B e c a u s e y o u b e c o m e relationship between the genders, CHARLIE page 64
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catalog into one featuring more
form-fitting costumes. She is no
longer employed at Franco
American but still does consulting
work for the family company.
Carole Crist also holds numerous
assets thanks to her first husband,
Todd Rome. She also engages in
some philanthropic work. How
long have Charlie Crist and his
wife been married? Crist and his
wife have been married for almost
two years. The couple wed on
Dec. 12, 2008, in St. Petersburg,
Fla., Gov. Crist's hometown. How
and when did Charlie Crist and
his wife meet? Crist met Carole
Rome in September 2007 when
they were seated next to each
other at a dinner to discuss
Republican fundraising at the
upscale Italian restaurant
Campagnola in Manhattan. The
couple hit it off immediately and
started dating. Nine months later,
on July 3, Crist asked Rome to
marry him. He gave her a
sapphire engagement ring. Were
either Charlie Crist or his wife
married before? Both Crist and
his wife were married before. In
1979, when Crist was a 23-year-
old law student at Cumberland
School of Law in Birmingham,
Ala., he married Amanda
Morrow, a sorority girl from Palm
Beach County, Fla. Crist and
Morrow divorced eight months
later. Carole Crist was married to
Todd Rome, the CEO of Blue Star
Jets, for 14 years. Does Charlie
Crist have any children? Crist
does not have any children of his
own, but his wife Carole Crist has
two children: Skylar, 12, and
Jessica, 14, from her first
marriage to Todd Rome.
Also see:
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Submitted at 11/2/2010 8:10:09 AM
Tuesday, 02 Nov 2010 01:10 PM
So much for taking the high road.
President Barack Obama already
is putting a kibosh on the potential
for bipartisan cooperation after
Republicans take over the House
and possibly the Senate in today’s
elections, Politico reports.
years trying to defeat me, as
Obama is telling his supporters opposed to trying to move the
that he needs people in Congress
country forward," Obama told
"who want to cooperate." But then radio host Steve Harvey in an
he says Republicans don’t fit that
interview broadcast Tuesday
bill. That doesn’t exactly pave the morning.
way for the White House and new
Experts say what Obama should
Congress to work together.
"Their [Republicans’] whole OBAMA: page 66
agenda is to spend the next two

Roseanne Cash to John Boehner: Stop Using Dad's Name as a

'Punchline'
Tom Diemer (Politics Daily) epithet for Boehner: "you asshat." that she says her father gave her
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:09:00 PM It seems the Ohio lawmaker has and told her to learn when she
been firing up Republican crowds was a teenager infatuated with the
Correspondent Roseanne Cash, of late, Politico reports, by asking: Beatles.
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McDonnell on VP Short
List for 2012
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 7:44:33 AM
Tuesday, 02 Nov 2010 12:44 PM
Republican Virginia Gov. Bob
McDonnell appeared at
fundraising events for GOP
candidates around the country in
recent weeks, helping to bring in
more than $2.5 million. That work
could help launch him to a vice
presidential bid in 2012 and
perhaps a run for the presidency
after that, The Hill reports.
McDonnell’s fundraising efforts
have come on behalf of a dozen
gubernatorial candidates, four
Senate candidates and every
major Republican campaign
committee, according to a
spokesman for the governor.
In his home state of Virginia,
McDonnell has raised money and
campaigned for nine Republican
House candidates. His star hasn’t
risen as high as New Jersey Gov.
Podcast: Eric Metaxas on 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet,
Spy'
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:14:00 AM
Columnist I know it's Election
Day, but the first polls won't close
for many hours.
So take a few minutes away from
the hustle and bustle of campaigns
and listen to today's very special
podcast with Eric Metaxas, author
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Democrats Fight for Role in Minority
Leadership
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 8:19:43 AM
Tuesday, 02 Nov 2010 01:19 PM
Once congressional Democrats
finish taking in today’s whipping
at the hands of their Republican
opponents, they will start to fight
C h r i s C h r i s t i e ’ s , w h o l i k e among themselves. The disputes
McDonnell was elected last will focus on congressional
December. But the Virginia leadership positions, The Hill
governor is clearly in ascendancy. reports.
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Scientists May Have Discovered a Cure for the Common Cold

(and Lots of Other Viruses)
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science virus has a chance to take over the
- New Technology, Science cell.
News, The Future Now) The research further speculates
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:00:26 PM that that TRIM21 protein could be
Virus Attack! Virus (purple) used as a sort of booster shot,
circulating in the bloodstream perhaps delivered through a nasal
recognised by antibodies (yellow) spray (we do love inhalable
of the immune system The medicine). The scientists have
Independent A new virus-killing only experimented on cultured
technique could hit the market in human cells, not whole animals,
just a few years but are very confident that this
Any immunology textbook will kind of medicine could boost the
tell you that once a virus enters a cells' own defenses and give them
cell, the only way to knock that the ability to kill viruses even
virus out is to kill the entire cell. after they've entered the cell.
But a new study from the Assisting the cell's natural
Laboratory of Molecular Biology defenses allows the cell to remain
at Cambridge has shown a way to functional after it's destroyed a
kill a virus from within the cell, body's last chance to eliminate a mechanism can be enhanced further notices that there's an virus--the best kind of medicine.
leaving the virus defeated and the virus is before it enters a cell-- through external means, making interloper (the virus) attached to it These scientists believe that this
cell victorious and intact. This once it's inside, it's game over. the cells even stronger. --which, according to the strict sort of cure could be ready to go
could be huge--not just a cure for You can kill the cell, but doing Antibodies in the bloodstream bouncer-like rules of the TRIM21 to clinical testing in as few as two
the common cold, but for all kinds that too often is harmful to the attach themselves to free-floating p r o t e i n , i s n o t a l l o w e d . to five years--not soon enough to
of other viruses as well. body's health. But this new study viruses, and are taken intact with (Antibodies can't roll one-virus stop the onset-of-winter colds
T h e s t u d y , w h i c h w i l l b e shows that the body actually has the virus once it enters into a cell. deep, is what I'm saying.) The we're all about to contract, but
published this week in the its own in-cell defense mechanism Before that virus gets a chance to TRIM21 protein then triggers the encouragingly soon nonetheless.
Proceedings of the National that can attack viruses once hijack the cell, a naturally cell's defense mechanisms, which [ The Independent]
Academy of Sciences, tackles a they've entered a cell--and they're occurring protein called TRIM21 can destroy the virus in as little as
fundamental of immunology. It h o p e f u l t h a t t h i s d e f e n s e recognizes the antibody, and one or two hours--long before the
has long been assumed that the
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The International Space Station Has Been Continuously Inhabited
for Ten Years Today
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:56:46 AM
ISS Above Earth The station as
seen from space shuttle Discovery
in March 2009. NASA
Today marks the 10th
anniversary of human habitation
at the International Space Station,
meaning that as of this week,
humans have been living in space
for more than two decades. That's
a pretty impressive statement
when you think about it.
The ISS has been continuously
lived in since Nov. 2, 2000, when
Expedition 1 commander Bill
Shepherd and flight engineers
Sergei Krikalev and Yuri
Gidzenko became the first
residents. Since then, 200
explorers have visited, 15 nations
have contributed modules and
hardware, and more than 600
experiments have been conducted,
according to NASA.
The ISS is by far the biggest man
-made satellite to ever orbit Earth;
it is easily seen with the naked
eye, and its solar panels can be
seen through an amateur
Science/ 67
Federal Space Agency, the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency
and the Canadian Space Agency.
Astronauts aboard the station are
continually conducting
experiments in several fields,
including the effects of
weightlessness on plants and
animals; how fluids and materials
behave in microgravity; and the
long-term health effects of living
in space.
But the ISS' greatest
achievements may be yet to come.
In February, astronauts will install
the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
-02, designed to detect dark
matter and uncover the secrets of
the origins of the universe. The
station is built to last through
telescope. h u m a n s w o u l d h a v e l i v e d shield and one of its main solar 2020, and beyond that, its future
Last week, the ISS finally continuously in space since the panels. The US planned to launch is anyone's guess - it could be
surpassed the former Soviet first Bush administration. a new station, Freedom, in the turned into a a base camp for
Union and then Russian space The first space station, the US' 1980s, but budget constraints expeditions to the moon or Mars,
station Mir as the longest lived-in Skylab, didn't last long - it was in nearly killed it. After the Soviet crew quarters for an asteroid
station. Mir was occupied for a Earth's orbit from 1973 to 1979 Union fell, President George mission, or it could become a
total of 3,641 days, from Sept. 8, and it was visited by crews just H.W. Bush and Russian President huge piece of space junk.
1989 to Aug. 28, 1999, according three times, in 1973 and 1974. Boris Yeltsin agreed to cooperate In honor of 10 years, here are
to Roscosmos. A 15-month gap S k y l a b w a s p l a g u e d w i t h in space, and the ISS was born. some of the ISS' greatest hits and
separated the end of space station problems from the beginning; it It's a compendium of five space our fondest memories of our
Mir and the beginning of the ISS - was heavily damaged during agencies: NASA, the European peaceful outpost in space.
were it not for that window, launch, losing its micrometeoroid Space Agency, the Russian
68 Science/ Health/ E-reader News Edition

Pump-Powered Antennas Could Combine Basketball and

Replace Metal Communications Arrays Yoga Moves
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Clay Dillow (Popular Science - all that metal that high can of the, the operator can
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Aboard oceanfaring vessels, real time, so SSC Pacific sought a way can transmit and receive left hand on the floor (or on a
estate is naturally limited. But to erect a quick, temporary anywhere from 2 to 400 mHz, basketball) about 12 inches ahead
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s a r e v i t a l , antenna that could just as easily though much smaller streams can of your right foot. Lift your leg
p r e s e n t i n g s o m e t h i n g o f a be dismantled. be used for varying other parallel to the floor, keeping your
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necessary for long-range (and Future: New Flat Antennas Can potentially replacing its 80- ready to look up. Hold for two
often encrypted) communications. Work As Satellite TV Signal antenna arrays with just ten of the minutes.
So U.S. Navy R&D lab SPAWAR Receivers Sensor Networks in seawater antennas operating at Why: Develops your
Systems Center Pacific (SSC Buildings Could Use AC Ducts as various frequencies to cover the concentration, stretches the
Pacific) engineered a clever Huge, Building-Wide Antennas entire spectrum currently served. hamstrings, opens the hips, and
scheme to turn the ocean's most Tags Technology, Clay Dillow, And with a tested range of 30 strengthens the back muscles.
a b u n d a n t r e s o u r c e i n t o antennas, communications, miles, the antennas can go the DOWN DOG Why: Opens up your hips,
communications equipment, defense, military, naval sea distance as well. Outside of How: Keeping your feet hip- helping work the adductor and
making antennas out of geysers of systems, naval warfare What they military use, the antennas could width apart, bend down and place abductor muscles while also
seawater. came up with is little more than serve as compact emergency your hands shoulder-width apart. working your core and stretching
SSC Pacific (SPAWAR, by the an electromagnetic ring and a antennas for civilian watercraft, Step your feet away from your the lower and upper back. Related
way, is short for Space and Naval water pump. The ring, called a communication systems on hands to form an upside-down V. articles:
Warfare) was looking for a way to current probe, creates a magnetic offshore oil rigs, or on land using Lengthen through the shoulders. Bikram Yoga
reduce the antenna loads on those field through which the pump saltwater streams enclosed in Hold for at least one minute. Pilates For Meatheads
huge mast arrays you see on most shoots a steam of seawater (the tubes. Repeat five times. Best No-Weight Workout Ever
naval warships (the typical vessel salt is a key ingredient, as the tech [ SPAWAR via Make] Why: Helps stretch the [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
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Recipe Makeover: Chicken Fingers

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)

Leaving the deep fryer in the

ditch, we create a crunchy new
version of a fast-food staple that
adults (and kids) will love.
Photography John Autry and
Randy Mayor, Styling: Cindy
Barr, Food Styling: Charlotte
Autry and Kellie Gerber Kelley
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• Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4 Sure, too
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70 Health/
Be a Finisher
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 5:00:00 AM
by Roy S. Johnson| Print Article|
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You know the guy. He's full of
ideas. Big ideas. Conquering-the-
world-and-make-millions ideas.
He's going to lunch a company
and run a marathon. He's going to
lose 25 pounds and write a book.
He's either going to ask out the
hot girl in marketing or propose to
his longtime girlfriend.
He might actually sketch out
some business ideas and print up
business cards. He might start
working out and going for runs
some mornings. He might change
his eating habits and even lose a
few pounds. He might start a book
treatment. And he might work up
the nerve to say hi to the
marketing babe or to start looking
for rings.
Months later? He's still doing the
same dead-end job. He has
stopped running regularly and is
getting soft around the middle.
The book treatment is still a one-
pager.
And both the hot babe and the
girlfriend have moved on.
The guy is a classic Starter, and
unfortunately there are a lot of
guys like him out there.
Starters are great at the gun, but
they never finish the race.
They're talkers, not doers.
They're creative thinkers who
couldn't turn their thoughts into
anything tangible, workable, or
sellable—in other words, anything
real—even if the prize was a date
with Eva Mendes.
There are plenty of reasons
Starters can't finish. Often their
ideas sound good but fall apart
because they haven't thought
through the realities. I've lost
track of the number of people
who've come to me pitching a
new print or Web-based
magazine. But after I've asked
about their competitors, their
endemic advertisers (and why
they'd advertise with them instead
of their competition), their
business model, and how much
capital they would need before
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Next, come up with a bigger idea
("I'm going to reduce my body fat
by 5 percent," or "develop a
business plan or book proposal").
Now make it happen. Finish it.
Soon you'll be able to go all
Usain Bolt—exploding out of the
blocks and powering across the
tape with your Big Idea.
Be a Finisher. Strike a pose. You
win.
Onward,
Roy S. Johnson
Men's Fitness
Editor In Chief
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How to Make It
1.) Remove the chicken from the
fridge and pat dry. 2.) Prepare the
spice rub: In a small bowl,
combine the cumin, paprika,
coriander, oregano, cayenne, 1/4
tsp of the oil. Coat the chicken
with the spice mixture, then set
aside to marinate for 10 minutes.
3.) Make the yogurt sauce:
Combine the yogurt, 1/4 tsp
kosher salt, and lemon juice;
cover and set aside. 4.) Whip up
some tomato relish: In a food
processor, combine the garlic,
plum tomatoes, parsley, and
remaining 1/4 tsp salt and pulse to
coarsely chop. 5.) Heat a grill pan
over medium heat; brush with the
remaining tsp of oil. When the
pan is hot, cook the chicken until
the meat is cooked through, 2 to 3
minutes per side. 6.) Warm the
minute per side. When done, fill
each pita with a chicken breast
and top with tomato relish and
yogurt sauce.
Nutritional Breakdown
Per serving
Calories: 419
Protein: 41 g
Carbs: 44 g
Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 7 g
Rub On Flavor
Mixing together your favorite
spices and rubbing them on prior
to cooking is an easy, low-cal way
to cram meat with in-your-face
flavor. A few rules: Add a dash of
oil, lemon juice, or vinegar to the
rub to help the spices stick; allow
1 to 2 tbsp of rub per pound of
meat; and for max flavor, cover
the meat with plastic wrap and let
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Facebook and Electronic Arts Sign Social Gaming Pact

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Theology and environmentalism

Mollie (GetReligion) to all tea partiers, whether or not interprets such contemporary
Submitted at 11/1/2010 7:54:02 PM they’re skeptics about climate struggles as battles between the
change. Here’s the evidence for competing secularized religions of
It’s no secret that the mainstream this “article of faith” claim: economics and environmentalism.
m e d i a h a v e s t r u g g l e d t o Skepticism and outright denial of The outcome will have
understand what’s happening global warming are among the momentous consequences for us
politically in the country right articles of faith of the Tea Party all. This deep book probes
now. You could say they’re more movement, here in Indiana and beneath the surface of the two
Stewart/Colbert than Tea Party. across the country. … movements rhetoric to uncover
They’re just not terribly well [A]ccording to a New York Times their fundamental theological
suited to understand or explain /CBS News Poll conducted this commitments and visions.
how, exactly, the Republicans month. The survey found that The book’s author Robert H.
likely are about to retake the only 14 percent of Tea Party Nelson was one of the panelists at
House of Representatives. supporters said that global the event I attended. He made me
Sometimes when reporters try to warming is an environmental laugh when he told me that the
make sense of the phenomenon, it problem that is having an effect economists all embrace his idea
creates funny results. This New now, while 49 percent of the rest that environmentalism is a
York Times report tries to blame of the public believes that it is. theology with it’s own creation
one Democrat’s campaign trouble More than half of Tea Party myths and apocalyptic scenarios,
on climate skeptic rubes who are supporters said that global high priests and piety. But they all
motivated by Scripture alone. The warming would have no serious get confused when he points out
article reminds you why it’s effect at any time in the future, that economists have their own
important to have reporters who while only 15 percent of other “invisible hands,” consumerist
understand a bit about religion or Americans share that view, the meta-narratives and high priests,
at least reporters who try to poll found. too. Likewise, the
u n d e r s t a n d a b i t a b o u t t h e Oh, so you’re saying that some environmentalists see faith and
language people are using. The percentage under half of Tea religion in everything the
piece definitely reads more like Party supporters think that global economists say, but have a much
“ g o t c h a ” q u o t e - g r a b b i n g warming will have at least some harder time accepting that their
journalism than a journalistic serious effect in the future. Some own views could be described
effort at understanding what article of faith, there, ascribed to theologically.
voter’s think about, say, cap and by all (or half, whatever). So discussions of religious
trade. Religious metaphors are great to book description here: temperatures will be worth the aspects of our guiding belief
But that’s not even why I bring use if they fit. But “article of The present debate raging over high costs. Questions of the true systems are great — but they’re
t h e s t o r y u p . T h e s t o r y i s faith” is a term with, you know, global warming exemplifies the and proper relationship of human more complex than this article
headlined “Climate Change Doubt an actual meaning. And it doesn’t clash between two competing beings and nature are as old as hints at and they work on all
Is Tea Party Article of Faith.” An fit in this case. public theologies. On one side, religion. Today, environmentalists sides, to boot. Written by: Mollie
article of faith, eh? So the Tea Now having said that, this does environmentalists warn of certain regard human actions to warm the on November 1, 2010.
Party movement has articles of g i v e m e a n o p p o r t u n i t y t o catastrophe if we do not take steps climate as an immoral challenge This entry passed through the
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of it? And one of these is doubt in E n v i r o n m e n t a l R e l i g i o n i n with whether the benefits of economic growth and other
climate change? This will be news Contemporary America. Quick actions to prevent higher human benefits. Robert Nelson THEOLOGY page 73
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kind of election going on today. today that you thought was
The word on the street is that all haunted by religion, even if the
kinds of terrified, emotional, reporters and commentators didn’t
angry people are going to march openly connect what they were
into polling places and destroy the saying with moral, religious and
era of hopeful, rational, optimism
that has ruled our great land for
cultural issues (since those do not
matter in this election)?
October
the past 18 months or so. At least, the way, it is not a good idea — in is haunted by language that for I’ll be much more lenient than
that’s just what I read in the this age of robotic political many implies a clash between normal today about allowing
papers.
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telephone campaigning — to have reason, logic, science, sanity ( c o m m e n t s a b o u t t h e i s s u e s Submitted at 11/2/2010 3:00:07 AM
Religion is not supposed to be a a registered Democrat and a p a g i n g J o n S t e w a r t ) a n d a themselves, but I WILL INSIST
major factor in the elections this registered Republican living in the caricature of religious faith. The that comments be based on Election fatigue, Fort Hood
time around, unless there was same household. The Mattinglys story contains the thought for the specific items of news coverage. reconsidered, and more.
been a secret meeting in which of Ferndale are getting about 30 day, from President Barack Whenever possible, please offer a Election non-fever This being
Tea Party libertarians have robot calls a day. Ugh. Obama. Why will the Democrats URL that points toward a media October of an even year, I’m
conspired with Theocrats and we Where was I? For many weeks have a rough day? In the end, it source. going to grumble about election
just haven’t heard about it. Keep n o w , t h e m a i n s t r e a m - n e w s all comes down to evolution: Now, back to work. What was it fatigue, right? You bet!
NPR turned on today, just in case. template for election coverage WEST NEWTON, Mass. — that the alleged Father Guido It’s just fatigue, mind, not a
Still, anyone want to bet that, h a s , o f c o u r s e , b e e n t h a t President Barack Obama said Sarducci said when he gave the chronic cynicism. The struggle to
once again, the Pew Forum on Americans are afraid and angry Americans’ “fear and frustration” fake benediction before the two control what Chinese people call
Religion & Public Life ( paging and, thus, have become irrational. is to blame for an intense midterm fake news superstars launched tian xia da shi-- “great matters
John Green) or some other This powerful template has been election cycle that threatens to into their non-partisan rally? under heaven” -- is nothing a
respected group will find that two i n e f f e c t s o l o n g ( W e e k l y derail the Democratic agenda. Photo: Anyone recognize this grown-up person should ignore or
of the top three or so indicators on Standard survey here) that I am “Part of the reason that our thread? Written by: tmatt on take lightly. I know which side
how people voted as (a) how often convinced that most mainstream politics seems so tough right now November 2, 2010. I’m on, and I want it to win. It’s
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I’ll start it off, offering my own f o l l o w i n g s t o r y f r o m T h e for this open thread: republic, I can’t help thinking that
l a u g h - t o - k e e p - f r o m - c r y i n g Politico— a story that does * Have you seen any evidence of being too interested in politics is
p e r s p e c t i v e a s a c u l t u r a l l y specifically address religion, but a new template for coverage,
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the sign of a disordered digestion.
In any case, I think we’re drifting
into a zone of what in the
Margaret Thatcher years we used
to call TINA: There Is No
Alternative. Our economic
situation is going to be so
chronically bad, even without
unexpected shocks -- which there
will surely be-- that any
administration of any stripe will
have to carry out much the same
policies. That this election will be
as consequential as my colleagues
tell me, I therefore doubt.
It’ll be fun to watch so many
liberals being turned out of office,
though. As Oscar Wilde said of
the death of Little Nell, you’d
have to have a heart of stone to
read about it without laughing.
Destroying the evidence I waxed
indignant about our PC military in
the October 22 broadcast of Radio
Derb. The topic here was the
destruction of two videos a soldier
took of the Fort Hood massacre.
The soldier took the videos with
his cell phone, but an NCO
ordered him to erase them:
Under cross-examination, Pfc.
Lance Aviles told an Article 32
hearing that his non-
commissioned officer ordered him
to destroy the two videos on Nov.
5, the same day a gunman
unleashed a volley of bullets
inside a processing center at the
Texas Army post.
A military reader objects:
You note that PFC Aviles was
told by his NCO to destroy the
videos on the day of the shooting.
The terminology of “ his NCO”
instead of “ an NCO” indicates
that the NCO in question was his
squad leader or otherwise first-
line supervisor . . . For a PFC, that
position would usually be filled
by a Sergeant or Staff Sergeant,
though in some cases it could be a
Corporal.
Since the shooting occurred in
the afternoon, that leaves less than
12 hours for “the Army” to
discover the existence of the
videos, run that up the chain to the
Pentagon, and return a decision to
destroy evidence back to the first
line supervisor of PFC Aviles.
Nothing in garrison ever works
that fast. Ever. Actually, nothing
on the battlefield ever works that
fast either.
Your assumption that “the Army”
ordered the videos erased is
simply silly. This is clearly a case
of an NCO taking matters into his
own hands.
There are several valid,
reasonable reasons for that NCO
to do such a thing that spring to
my former NCO mind.
The first is that on a battlefield,
taking pictures of one’s fellow
soldiers being slain is a total No-
Go. Any NCO in today’s Army
will have at least one (likely
more) combat tours in either Iraq
or Afghanistan. They would be
well trained in keeping their
people in line on things like this.
A combat vet of either of those
two theaters is going to think a
guy shooting at them shouting
“Allahu Akbar” is a combat
situation -- they will not think that
it is a law-enforcement matter that
requires evidence to be preserved.
The second is that PFC Aviles
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were about to deploy. The NCO some others) in mind, I’ll allow the end of his movies, seemed to
might have realized that the video this is not the most probable me, even then, to violate the laws
in question would result in PFC hypothesis, though I won’t allow of probability. (The laws of
Aviles being pulled into all sorts that it’s impossible -- not after biology are what he was actually
of hearings and Court Martial listening to the diversi-babble of violating; but I wasn’t yet up to
proceedings. Which would mean Casey, Roughead, and Bolden. speed on biology.)
that PFC Aviles would not be in I’m now putting the probabilities And no, it wasn’t the slapstick: It
Afghanistan doing his job. Maybe for those four explanations at, in was him. I loved Abbott and
the NCO wanted to keep his order, 20-30-10-40; but I’m Costello, the little we could see of
squad fully staffed. It sucks to receptive to further input from them in 1950s England. Perhaps it
think about, but 13 KIAs are a other readers who know the was foreordained that I’d become
done deal; that NCO needs to military and its methods, and will an American. No, that can’t be it
think about the coming rotation record them on the Corner. either: Jerry Lewis left me cold.
and how many KIAs will occur if #ad# Obituaries of the month (1): So, come to think of it, did
the unit is short one medic. Norman Wisdom I got a Charlie Chaplin.
Some quick Googling shows me surprising number of e-mails from I think I’m seeing a common
that you were just reading people asking me why I wasn’t thread there. The Daily Telegraph
verbatim from AP, UPI, etc., but openly in mourning for Sir obituary says that the appeal of
please, in the future, do some factNorman Wisdom, who died Wisdom’s humor “transcended
checking with someone who has October 4. cultural boundaries.” He was a
an understanding of military terms Several reasons, the two foremost huge star in Albania, apparently:
and structures . . . just aim before
being (a) I didn’t think anyone in “Wisdom was the only Western
you shoot. the U.S.A. would know who I was actor whose films were allowed to
I think this reader has the bettertalking about, and (b) I never be shown in Albania under the
of me here. Let’s break it down. found Wisdom the least bit funny. dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.”
#page#There are four That second reason is the case Jerry Lewis and Charlie Chaplin
possibilities. In descending order even though Wisdom’s popularity likewise transcended those nasty,
(my order) by deplorability: peaked in 1950s Britain, when narrow, provincial “cultural
• News went up to some officer and where I was a kid. At that boundaries.”
level, and the order to destroy age, your undeveloped infant Yes, that’s where they all lose
came down from that level. sensibilities are supposed to yield me. I think cultural boundaries
• The NCO acted on his own easily to slapstick humor. Well, are, on balance, a good thing, not
initiative, having been mine didn’t -- not to Wisdom’s to be lightly transcended.
brainwashed by the military’s PC antics anyway. Even as a preteen I Obituaries of the month (2):
ethos. thought he was just trying too Benoît Mandelbrot Mandelbrot
• The NCO acted on his own hard. was much more my cup of tea,
initiative, out of concern “to keep The pathos of the tears-behind- though I suppose if you want to
his squad fully staffed.” the-clown-face schtick also nitpick you could say that math
• The NCO acted on his own escaped me, or perhaps just went transcends cultural boundaries
initiative, out of respect for deadagainst the grain of my nascent better than anything. (Me: Yes,
comrades. reductionism: If you’re so sad, but you’re not supposed to find it
what are we all supposed to be funny.)
I was assuming (1) when I made laughing about? And the idea of OCTOBER page 75
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Mandelbrot’s 1982 book The
Fractal Geometry of Nature was
that highly peculiar thing, a math
bestseller. (Sound of Derb’s teeth
grinding.) We mathephiles were
of course clued into him long
before that. He got our attention
with a 1967 article titled “ How
Long Is the Coast of Britain?,”
which #page#Martin Gardner
picked up for his Scientific
American column. The answer to
the title question, Mandelbrot
explained, is: It depends how long
your measuring stick is. A
coastline is an example of what he
later christened a fractal-- a figure
that is similar to itself at any level
of magnification.
Any math geek who could get
near a computer in the mid-1970s
was generating fractals -- in my
case on good old green-line stock
paper, and on company time
(sorry, guys). It was painstaking
work, but irresistibly riveting.
Nowadays I suppose you can just
go on YouTube and bring up the
Mandelbrot Set in full color and
living motion . . . yep. Where’s
the challenge in anything
anymore?
#ad# Freedomnomics I see
they’ve made a movie out of
Freakonomics, the 2005 bestseller
in which “a rogue economist
explores the hidden side of
everything.” I read the book when
it came out and remember being
underwhelmed . . . but then, I
think economists are all half-crazy
anyway. (Though not the same
half in all cases.) The movie
opened October 4 on 20 screens,
says IMDb.
Fair enough, I suppose, since the
public seemed to like the book.
But now some conservative
filmmaker (ha ha ha ha ha!)
should riposte with a movie from
John Lott’s 2007 counter-blast to
Freakonomics, Freedomnomics.
Yeah, Lott’s an economist too,
and half-crazy like the rest of
them, but my kind of crazy. (He’s
also an occasional NRO
contributor-- Hi, John!)
Poetic negativity Three years ago
in this space I boasted of having
found the most depressing poet
ever to have set pen to tear-
stained paper, at least in the
English language.
I hadn’t cast my net wide enough.
The October 25 issue of The New
Yorker(apologies to the lady who
e-mails in every time I mention
that magazine, complaining that I
should not be sullying my pure
conservative soul with such a
filthy leftist production: I only
buy it for the cartoons, Ma’am!)
has an article in the books section
on the Italian poet Giacomo
Leopardi (1798–1837). A new
translation of Leopardi’s verses
has just been published, and
Adam Kirsch is reviewing it.
Leopardi is the supreme poet of
passive, helpless suffering -- a
writer who constantly reiterated . .
. his conviction that in human life
“there is everything to be endured,
nothing to be done.”
Yesss! Where has this guy been
all my life?
In Leopardi’s “Night Song of a
Wandering Shepherd in Asia” . . .
death is simply the last act in the
pageant of pointless misery that is
our existence. . . . To find
Leopardi’s equal in nihilism, one
would have to turn to
philosophers like Schopenhauer
or Nietzsche, both of whom
admired his work.
Or Derbyshire, who already
admires it just after reading
Kirsch’s review!
Dante . . . wrote that the worst
suffering is to recall happy times
when you are miserable. To
Leopardi, remembering the
miserable times is its own kind of
happiness.
Uh . . .
In his last poem, “Broom,” he
offers his grandest statement on
human fate, comparing mankind
to the tenacious shrub, la ginestra,
that springs up in the volcanic ash
around Mt. Vesuvius.
That’s his grandest statement,
note. But what was the source of
all this unhappiness? Well, he was
a hunchback and “suffered from
poor eyesight and mysterious
nervous maladies.” Poor guy. Any
love life? Nope, “except for the
few unrequited loves recorded in
his poems, and he probably died a
virgin.” (At age 38.)
Rough childhood? Looks like:
“His father . . . was authoritarian
and overprotective to a degree
that now seems almost
unbelievable . . . His mother,
Adelaide, was more dreadful still,
thanks to her religious fanaticism .
. .” And yet: “What makes the
torment of adult life complete is
the contrast it offers to the
happiness of childhood.” Go
figure.
#page# Down Memory Lane (by
bus) We’re getting blasé about
public debt. You can open any
page of any newspaper nowadays
and find a story about some state,
city, or public authority suddenly
discovering (really? you can’t
spot a thing this size coming at
you from a mile away?) a tsunami
of red ink. Here’s a random one
from the October 21 New York
Post: MTA crippled by $28B
debt. That’s the Metropolitan
Transit Authority, which runs all
the buses and trains in and around
New York City. The Manhattan
Institute’s Nicole Gelinas, one of
the best investigative reporters
walking the earth today, has some
background here.
This kind of thing makes me
want to go back to bed and hide
under the covers. What an unholy
mess we’ve made for our kids to
sweep up!
For a just barely more socially
acceptable alternative to hiding
under the bed covers, there is
always the option of wallowing in
nostalgia. As everyone of a
certain age can tell you, Western
Civ. peaked in the early 1960s.
It’s been pretty much downhill
since then. Philip Larkin nailed it
as only a poet can: “Life was
never better than / In nineteen
sixty-three.” That was the year I
left home and went to college in
London.
#ad#One year earlier than that, in
1962, London Transport -- the
MTA of that time and place --
produced the best promotional
movie ever made by a transit
authority. (Not, I’ll admit, a
crowded field.) LT have put it on
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their website, where you can
watch it. The movie’s name is “
All That Mighty Heart” -- a line
from a Wordsworth sonnet, as
anyone with a grade-school
education in 1962 England could
have told you. The movie closes
23 minutes later with an even
more atmospheric sonnet: Thomas
Hood’s “ Midnight.” In between
you get a day in the life of the
city, with a gentle emphasis on
the work of the transit authority.
Nostalgia? Oh boy. Here is
London as I recall my first
acquaintance with it, a mere 20
years on from Orwell’s
observation of “crowds in the big
towns, with their mild knobby
faces, their bad teeth and gentle
manners.” The teeth are actually
pretty good; but this is a
promotional movie, and anyone
showing much tooth display is an
actor. The young women are
slight and pretty in their big skirts
and cardies, just as I remember
them. (When did everybody get so
fat?) The middle-aged women still
wear hats, as do the older men.
Hats -- I’m talking real hats, not
baseball caps -- were well on the
way out, a social change usually
blamed on John F. Kennedy, but
with causes probably deeper.
Even more evocative than the
sights are the sounds: the fruity
tones of John Slater introducing
Housewives’ Choice, a music-
request program for housewives --
which is to say, heteronormatively
married females brutally excluded
from the workforce by the
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Submitted at 11/2/2010 3:00:37 AM
Predicting tonight.
W e asked election experts and
poll watchers for their best
guesstimates as to who pulls it
off, who doesn’t, and how the
likes of MSNBC and the New
York Times may try to explain it
all away. Enjoy. But only if you
vote!
Gary Andres
Today’s election results will
represent a historic repudiation of
President Obama and his allies in
Congress. Never in recent history
have the American people swung
so quickly and boldly against a
president and his party. Obama’s
highly partisan, big-government,
“Washington knows best”
approach has been rejected, and
the voting today will prove it.
#ad#America wants a presidential
“midterm correction.” And since
Obama would not change course,
voters will do it for him.
Here’s what I expect. In the
House, Republicans will gain 55
net seats. In the Senate,
Republicans will pick up nine
Democratic seats (Arkansas,
North Dakota, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Washington,
Pennsylvania, Nevada, Illinois,
and Colorado) and lose none.
The Democrats’ losing
Washington State will be one of
the big surprises of the night.
Here’s one more big (potential)
surprise. If the GOP gains nine
seats, the Senate could be evenly
divided in January. But Senator
Joe Lieberman may decide to
caucus with the Republicans,
giving them the 51st vote to
organize the Senate. Probably
won’t happen, but it is fun to
think about.
The New York Times and
MSNBC will quickly haul out two
bogus explanations:
1. Obama failed to communicate.
2. Angry, reactionary Tea Party
voters account for Republican
gains.
Both are wrong. Here is the
reality. Obama’s governing style
and policy substance were at odds
with both his campaign promises
and the preferences of the center-
right country he leads. He needs
to admit that to save his
presidency.
One final cautionary note to
Republicans: Stay humble in
victory. For many of the
independent voters who swung
your way, today’s win was more a
reaction against Obama and the
Democrats than an embrace of
your policies.
And with Obama still in the
White House for the next two
years, add a new category to your
definition of victory -- stopping
him from doing more damage.
That may be the best you can do.
Make sure voters understand that.
-- Gary Andres is vice president
of public policy and research at
Dutko Worldwide.
Michael Graham
Predicting even a single GOP win
in Massachusetts is risky. And
yet, I’m predicting two.
Massachusetts, which hasn’t had a
GOP congressman since Bill
Clinton’s first term, will send two
to Washington. Unfortunately, I
don’t know which two. On the
ground, it looks like Sean Beilat
really has caught the Scott Brown
magic, but the more realistic
choices are Jeff Perry in the open
10th seat and Jon Golnik over
Nikki Tsongas. Or it could be Tea
Party–backed Marty Lamb’s
underfunded insurgent campaign
against “Friend of Fidel” Jim
McGovern.
Does it sound like I’m wimping
out? I am.
#page#But I will boldly predict
that Baker will win and return the
governorship to its rightful place:
the hands of a liberal
Massachusetts Republican.
Furthermore, I’ll predict a sweep
in the swing state of New
Hampshire -- U.S. Senate and
both congressional seats. And
Patrick Kennedy will become the
second son of Camelot this year to
be replaced in Washington by a
Republican when John Loughlin
wins RI-1.
You want bold? How about my
fellow tea partiers Miller, Angle,
and Rubio all headed to the U.S.
Senate? Or congressional lifer
John Spratt losing in my home
state of South Carolina?
Or Carl Paladino and Christine
O’Donnell walking hand in hand .
. . wait!
#ad#My meds just kicked in. I’m
OK now.
As for the media coverage, I
expect to see the word “tantrum”
a lot. Also, I predict that before
the polls close in Indiana,
someone on MSNBC will be
arguing that Democrats lost for
not being bold enough, not going
far enough, and not being as
liberal as the American people
wanted.
That person stopped taking his
meds a long time ago.
-- Michael Graham hosts a radio
talk show.
Steven F. Hayward
At the American Political
Science Association's annual
meeting in D.C. over Labor Day, I
predicted a 60-seat GOP pickup in
the House, mostly as a way of
baiting folks into giving the
extreme optimistic case for 60 or
more (only a few takers), but
mostly expecting -- and receiving
-- the rationales for a more
conservative prediction. Well, if
the last generic poll numbers are
correct, 60 seats looks like a floor.
I guess I’ll go with Henry Olsen
on 64 seats, but am very tempted
to offer 70. And if the GOP really
does net 70 House seats, then
they’ll probably take the Senate,
too.
The biggest upset of the night
will be Tom Tancredo’s winning
the Colorado governor’s race. The
biggest disappointment of the
night -- though not unexpected --
will be Jerry Brown’s returning to
the governor’s office in
California. This will not only
demonstrate the declining
marginal utility of huge campaign
spending, but will also be one
more refutation of the view that
the public wants more senior
business executives in political
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office. (Doubly true if Fiorina
loses the Senate race.) But here’s
my most fun prediction: If Brown
wins, and if Obama’s popularity
continues to decline, Brown will
run against Obama in 2012. It’s
his kind of thing. He wouldn’t
care if he started a war between
his supporters and the Democratic
party’s crucial minority
constituency groups.
Over the last couple weeks, the
liberal narrative has begun to
coalesce: The GOP was due for a
big night, with at least 40 to 45
seats due to come back to them
for all the usual reasons of the
economy, the GOP’s
underperforming in 2006 and
2008, and so forth. Thus, a 55- or
even 60-seat gain is really nothing
special. “Don’t over-interpret the
election results,” say Arianna and
her chorus. I hope the liberals do
indeed comfort themselves with
this line, which reminds me of Tip
O’Neill’s remark in 1980 that the
election was not an affirmation of
Reagan’s conservatism, but
merely a rejection of the
incompetent Jimmy Carter. There
was some truth to that, of course,
but in thinking they could go on
with liberalism as usual,
Democrats were in retreat for
much of the 1980s. Not until Bill
Clinton and the DLC pulled the
party to the right was it able to
win the White House again. Will
a new DLC rise out of the ruins of
today?
-- Steven F. Hayward is the F. K.
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More Rocket, Less Docket

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prisons -- as if the 20 percent clip that the package was headed their toward that theory. On Sunday, screening systems and other anti-
he optimistically pegs for way aboard a UPS plane. The Mr. Brennan indicated that he was terror redundancies. Until now,
How to bring justice to al-Qaeda terrorists returning to the jihad Brits were thus able to seize the inclined to agree. attacks have failed, barely, thanks
in the Arabian Peninsula. (i.e., one in five go back to mass- explosive at the East Midlands In either event, al-Qaeda was to good fortune and terrorists’
‘W e need to bring him to justice murdering Americans) were airport (near Leicester). The UAE again using airplanes to kill incompetence. While this most
as soon as we can.” In a Fox something to crow about. authorities grabbed the other civilians. And PETN has become recent attack was stopped, the
News interview Sunday, that was To the contrary, for those of us device at a FedEx packaging something of a signature for invaluable intelligence
John Brennan, President Obama’s inclined to view al-Qaeda as an center. AQAP and al-Asiri. It was used responsible for that was, notably,
top counterterrorism adviser, enemy rather than a cabal of Both bombs featured the when they trained Umar Farouk the old-fashion kind: human
talking about Ibrahim Hassan al- d e f e n d a n t s , j u s t i c e i s b e s t explosive known as PETN Abdulmutallab in Yemen and then beings with inside information
Asiri. He is the chief explosives achieved with Predator drones. (pentaerythritol tetranitrate). More tasked him to bomb a plane over who alert agencies about ongoing
designer for Osama bin Laden’s Missile strikes better reflect due is publicly known about the Detroit on Christmas. In addition, plots and, perhaps, enable them to
franchise in Yemen, al-Qaeda in process -- the process that is due - device seized in the UAE. at the Washington Times, Bill target electronic eavesdropping
the Arabian Peninsula. - for jihadists who target civilians Ostensibly, it was an ordinary Gertz and Eli Lake have raised a more precisely.
Late last week, AQAP was foiled in wartime. Hewlett-Packard printer, but very interesting possibility: #ad#This is why official
in what intelligence services Quite clearly, killing civilians is PETN was secreted in the toner Intelligence officials now believe commentary about “bringing
theorize is the third attempt to still al-Qaeda’s modus operandi. cartridge. It was designed to be AQAP was probably behind the terrorists to justice” is
bomb American targets in the last Last week’s operation involved triggered by a cell phone. But the downing of another UPS cargo counterproductive. Some
year. The incident is unlikely to two bombs secreted in packages phone component did not include plane -- one that crashed in Dubai terrorists may be captured under
have much impact on Tuesday’s sent from Yemen via air courier. a SIM card. That indicates the on September 3, killing two crew circumstances in which trying
U . S . e l e c t i o n s , w h i c h a r e One traveled on civilian passenger bombers were relying on the cell members. A PETN bomb in the them in court makes sense --
dominated by economic concerns. flights to Qatar and then on to the phone’s internal clock -- i.e., the cargo bay rather than an particularly if they are part of U.S.
Still, Mr. Brennan’s comment United Arab Emirates. That bomb rigged to be detonated by a accidental on-board fire was the -based jihadist conspiracies
seemed strangely political, a means it was missed by screening timer alarm rather than a phone likely cause. catalyzed by Islamist ideology.
marker put down in a debate sure procedures, such as they are, in call. AQAP also used PETN in an Because most such groups lack
to intensify over the next two Sanaa and Doha. Though the This raises a nagging question for August 2009 suicide bombing. ties (beyond like-mindedness) to
years -- between President Obama suspect package was finally investigators. Much has been The target was Mohamed bin al-Qaeda, they can be prosecuted
and his Republican rivals, and d i s c o v e r e d i n t h e D u b a i , made of the fact that the packages Nayaf, the top Saudi without disclosing intelligence
between administration officials screening technology did not were addressed to Jewish targets counterterrorism minister. At the about al-Qaeda. But when it
themselves. catch it there, either. The plot was in Chicago, including a time of the unsuccessful comes to the terror network with
#ad#No doubt we’d all like to see thwarted by human intelligence. synagogue that serves a gay-and- assassination attempt, the which the nation remains at war --
“justice” for al-Asiri. We just We know that because of the lesbian congregation, the website kingdom’s interior ministry had pursuant to Congress’s
have very different ideas about other bomb package, which was for which received some just begun a crackdown on al- authorization of military force --
what is just. When Obama routed through Europe. German unexplained heavy traffic from Qaeda -- arresting dozens of the specter of trials can only
officials speak of “bringing officials say they were tipped by Egypt recently. Yet, if the bombs suspected terrorists and raiding discourage cooperation from the
terrorists to justice,” they mean S a u d i i n t e l l i g e n c e , w h o s e were not to be set off by phone their hideouts. foreign intelligence services.
prosecuting them in civilian trials. informant reported that two calls once they got to their #page#The use of PETN is The latest plots against America
So oriented is Brennan toward bombs were being sent to the intended targets, the significance alarming, and not just because it and the West reaffirm that the
this line of thinking that he earned United States from Yemen. One, of those targets diminishes. The ties a string of attacks to a very threat to our security comes
some unwelcome notoriety a few the Germans realized, had already use of timers makes it probable determined, elusive enemy. PETN mostly from places -- Yemen,
m o n t h s b a c k f o r f a v o r a b l y come to and gone from Cologne that the devices were intended for also combines high explosive northwest Pakistan, Somalia --
comparing the recidivism rate of by the time they figured out what detonation while on the planes en intensity with low detection where U.S. intelligence
released enemy combatants to that happened. But agents were able to route from Yemen. British potential. It has repeatedly
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Election-watching with Jay Cost
Submitted at 11/2/2010 3:00:49 AM
NRO picks the brain of a
professional horseracer.
J ay Cost is a professional
horseracer, politically speaking,
so he’s exactly who you want to
be talking to on Election Day.
National Review Online’s
Kathryn Jean Lopez asks Cost, a
staff writer for The Weekly
Standard, about the midterms.
LOPEZ: Why does this generic-
ballot talk matter?
COST: It gives us a good sense
of the partisan orientation of the
electorate. The Gallup
organization has been doing
generic-ballot polling since the
1950s, and their final generic-
ballot number has proven to be
extremely accurate.
#ad# LOPEZ: So it’s blowout
time for the GOP?
COST: In all likelihood. Consider
the following: The pre-election
ABC News/ Washington Post poll
came back with the Republicans
+4. Good, but not great. But in
1994, it came back with
Democrats +2! We’re seeing that
in poll after poll -- something
between six and nine points
bigger than 1994.
LOPEZ: However big the win,
what’s the message to the GOP?
What’s the mandate?
COST: Grow the economy, grow
the economy, grow the economy.
The electorate has handed the
Republican party an enormous
opportunity to get back to its
historic roots and what I would
call the McKinley-Coolidge-
Reagan wing of the party -- a
chance to build a broad electoral
coalition based upon conservative
economic ideas that deliver
prosperity. That’s the No. 1
mandate.
Incidentally, that was Obama’s
mandate in 2008, but he took it to
be that he was the next Franklin
Roosevelt. I don’t know why he
thought this, considering he won
only 52.9 percent of the vote,
which is less than George H. W.
Bush did. Obama pretended he
was there to implement New Deal
Mach 2, and that’s a big reason
the GOP is where it is right now.
LOPEZ: The supposed dean of
political reporting in Nevada has
called the Reid–Angle Senate race
for Reid. Should I be worried?
COST: No. There’s been a lot of
heat in Nevada the last few days,
but very little light. Example: All
the talk about how the Democrats
should be pleased with the early-
voting numbers is based on
incomplete data and faulty
comparisons. In reality, the early-
voting numbers look good for the
GOP.
LOPEZ: Lisa Murkowski --
seriously?
COST: We’ll see. Write-in
campaigns are easier said than
done. Just ask Rep. Shelley
Sekula-Gibbs. Oh, wait . . .
LOPEZ: Biggest surprise you’re
expecting?
COST: Dennis Kucinich will
lose.
#page# LOPEZ: Hardest loss for
Democrats? Can that even be
narrowed down?
COST: Probably Harry Reid,
another Senate majority leader
who loses in large part because
he’s identified with the majority
party. Democrats should take that
as a sign about the limits of the
liberal program’s appeal, but they
probably won’t.
LOPEZ: Speaking of hard losses,
how did Russ Feingold fall so
behind?
#ad# COST: How? He’s up for
reelection in the Midwest in 2010!
I doubt very much the Democrats
will win any gubernatorial or
senatorial contests in the
Midwest. Plus, Feingold is
probably to the left of today’s
Wisconsin. It might be the
birthplace of LaFollette
progressivism, but even so,
George W. Bush fell just 11,000
votes short in 2004. I’d say
Wisconsin is about a D+2 state
and Feingold is more like a D+15
senator.
LOPEZ: Does the Tea Party have
staying power?
COST: I’m not sure. I don’t
know what to make of the Tea
Party. What is it? It’s not an
organization like the AARP or the
AFL-CIO. There are no costs to
claiming to be a member. It’s not
even like a political party, where
you signal to the state that you
belong to it. You can wake up in
the morning as a tea-partier and
go to sleep at night as a non-tea-
partier. My feeling is that “Tea
Party” has really been a way for
fiscal conservatives to
communicate with each other.
They’ve had to do that because
the word “Republican” has been
run through the mud. If one fiscal
conservative says to another, “I’m
a Republican!” that doesn’t
convey much information
anymore. But say, “I’m a tea
partier,” and that is packed with
information.
So my feeling is that if the
Republicans in Congress redeem
themselves over the next two
years, fiscal conservatives will
once again feel all right calling
themselves Republicans, and the
“Tea Party” label will fade. That
would be a good thing, as it
means that they have regained
control over the Republican party.
LOPEZ: What will you be
watching for tonight as returns
come in?
COST: Indiana comes in first
tomorrow night, so my early race
to watch (beyond the Indiana 2nd,
8th, and 9th districts) is IN-1. It’s
a D+8 district that Pete Visclosky
is not going to lose, but if it’s
around 55 percent, that will be a
sign that something is brewing.
The Indiana 1st is basically Gary
and a few nearby rural counties.
Gary is heavily Democratic and
the rural counties are heavily
Republican. If Gary doesn’t turn
out and the rural counties do, it’ll
make for a (relatively) close race.
Also important here is that the
GOP candidate has raised just
$10,000. Politics1.com calls him a
“carpenter and frequent
candidate.” People who vote for
him are not doing so because they
know him, but because they are
either (a) Republican or (b) really,
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really angry at the Democrats.
#page# LOPEZ: Is election night
like Christmas Day for you?
COST: It’s like Christmas with
Charlie Manson! It’s crazy.
LOPEZ: How did you get into
this business of horseracing?
COST: In 2004, I got tired of all
the spin coming from the usual
mainstream media outlets. We’re
hearing a lot of the same thing
this year: “The Dems are beating
the GOP in the ground game!”
“Polls are undercounting
Democratic cell-phone voters!”
“The youth vote will surprise
everybody!” I got tired of yelling
at the TV and started to blog, as
an outlet. I’m quantitatively
inclined, so I started digging
through the voting records and the
polling to offer pushback on the
MSM spin. It took off, I suppose,
because I had questions that I
wanted to answer for myself, and
it turned out that readers were
interested in the answers, too.
#ad# LOPEZ: Folks are already
looking at the next election. I
think it’s a silly game, but let me
ask anyway: Who comes out of
this looking the best on the GOP
side?
COST: Ultimately, Republicans
need to look at 2012 as an
opportunity to rebuild fully that
McKinley-Coolidge-Reagan-style
coalition. For that, I think they
need to look to somebody who
articulates conservative principles
but has broad appeal. I like three
potential candidates, and wish all
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oppressive patriarchal conspiracy.
(The first caller, name of Elsie --
when did we stop naming our
daughters Elsie? -- requests “a
gay tune.” John gives her Johann
Strauss’s “ Tritsch Tratsch
Polka.” Why not Tchaikovsky or
Benjamin Britten?) We also get
the even fruitier tones of Jack de
Manio announcing something or
other, then the fine old rustic buzz
of cricket commentator John
Arlott.
It’s all so heartbreakingly
English. The transit workers, who
greet each other by name when
changing shifts, are Bill, Bob,
Tom, and Ted. Strangers are
addressed as “chum” or “love,”
depending on sex . . . sorry,
“gender.” The advertisements are
so diffident you wonder why
anyone bothered to buy anything:
“More and More People Prefer
Senior Service” (a brand of
cigarette). It’s still Orwell-land,
more or less: a nation with plenty
of squabbles, tensions, and
injustices, but long familiar with
itself, at ease in its own skin. A
nation, not just a place, which is
all England is today.
Now I will go and hide under the
bedclothes.
( Footnote: Those two transit
workers in the canteen at 11m10s:
If they’re not engaged in adultery,
they’re doing a darn good
imitation of it.)
Spotting a Carrington Event No,
nothing to do with Lytton
Strachey’s gal pal. A Carrington
event happens when the sun ejects
a huge cloud of electrically
charged gas that then hits the
Earth’s magnetic field, causing it
to wobble and pulse. A moving
magnetic field of course induces
electric currents in any conducting
material -- a handy thing to know
if you want to generate electricity
in a cable you’ve set up, but not
so good when it’s happening to all
the conducting material on Earth,
including earth.
#page# The Carrington event was
in September 1859. It was
observed by British solar
astronomer Richard Carrington:
hence the name.
Skies all over planet Earth
erupted in red, green, and purple
auroras so brilliant that
newspapers could be read as
easily as in daylight. Indeed,
stunning auroras pulsated even at
near tropical latitudes over Cuba,
the Bahamas, Jamaica, El
Salvador, and Hawaii.
Even more disconcerting,
telegraph systems worldwide
went haywire. Spark discharges
shocked telegraph operators and
set the telegraph paper on fire.
Back in 1859 we weren’t much
invested in electricity, and
electronics hadn’t even been
thought of. The occasional fire in
a telegraph office was just a
nuisance. Nowadays a Carrington
event on the 1859 scale would
bring down civilization. What are
the odds of one? Nobody knows.
#ad#NASA has a project called
Solar Shield that might at least
give us a few hours’ warning that
the blob is on its way. I’d go so
far as to say that this project alone
might justify NASA’s existence.
Though of course it doesn’t
compare in importance to
NASA’s primary mission: to
make Muslims feel good.
(Hat tip to FuturePundit there.)
Math Corner The solution to last
month’s puzzle is here.
For this month, here’s a news
story from the London Sunday
Times October 31 edition:
Burma’s military dictators have
turned to soothsayers, astrologers
and numerologists to help secure
victory in national elections next
Sunday [i.e. November 7].
Citizens were bewildered when a
new national flag was hoisted on
Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. -- a highly
auspicious moment as the digits
of the day, the time and the year
all add up to three, and together
equal the lucky number nine.
Digits of the day (2 + 1 = 3), the
time (3 = 3), and the year (2 + 0 +
1 + 0 = 3) . . . yep, it all works
out.
I’m not going to get into why
nine is lucky in Burma. Perhaps
there’s an echo of it in the
traditional Chinese kowtow,
where you kneel down three
times, knocking your head on the
floor three times at each kneeling.
In China, though, the lucky
number in popular superstition is
eight, not nine. You should have
seen New York’s Chinatown on
Aug. 8, 1988: Everybody
launched a new business that day
-- you couldn’t see Mott Street for
bunting.
In Haitian voodoo I believe two
is the lucky number: The late
Papa Doc Duvalier’s limousines
all had number plates with
nothing but twos on them. I bet he
partied like crazy on February 2.
Or perhaps not; Papa Doc didn’t
look like much of a party animal.
Perhaps he just had 22 political
prisoners garroted for his dinner-
time entertainment.
In the Anglosphere, the lucky
number is seven, I forget why.
The three-times-three business
does have some purchase in the
West, though: Think of the wind
chords that interrupt the allegro in
the overture to The Magic Flute.
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(They’re at 3m18s in this clip, and
recur later in the opera,
presumably part of the Masonic
symbolism the whole thing is
loaded with.)
Okay, okay, here’s the puzzle.
What’s the probability that the
particular hour passing over us
satisfies the “Burmese
condition”?
Let me be more explicit. We’ll
consider only years in the range
from a.d. 2001 to a.d. 3000.
That’s 1,000 years even. Multiply
by 365, that’s 365,000 days. Add
250 for the years divisible by four
(2004, 2008, 2012, . . . 3000), it’s
365,250 days. Subtract for the 8
century years when you don’t get
a leap day on the Gregorian
calendar (bypassing 2400 and
2800, when you do), and I think
the final total is 365,242 days.
Multiply by 24 and you have
8,765,808 hours.
How many of those hours -- and
then, what proportion -- satisfy
the Burmese condition? Use a
twelve-hour clock, since that
seems to be the one favored by
the Burmese junta. John
Derbyshire
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Bin Laden’s Iranian Protectors

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage track them down if necessary. son, has also said that about 30 of
Magazine » FrontPage) These frequencies could allow the his family members are in Iran
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:40:43 PM world’s most wanted man’s and have actually been abused.
location to be determined within Saad Bin Laden, Osama’s oldest
A senior NATO official made one square mile. In late 2006, son and key member of Al-Qaeda,
headlines last week when he said Parrot learned from the smuggler left in September 2008 (although
t h a t m e m b e r s o f P a k i s t a n i that Bin Laden was moving from he may have returned) and more
intelligence were helping hide his safe haven in Tehran to an recently, the former chief
Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al- area in Zahedan closed off for him spokesman of Al-Qaeda,
Z a w a h i r i i n n o r t h w e s t e r n to go hunting with his falcons. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, also left
Pakistan. It seems that everyone is Zahedan has been identified as Iran. The Treasury Department
focused on hunting for Bin Laden g r o u n d s w h e r e A l - Q a e d a has blacklisted Al-Qaeda
in the Afghanistan-Pakistan n e t w o r k s o p e r a t e f r o m . members in Iran that it says have
border areas, but much more Journalist Ken Timmerman arranged for the Iranian safe
p r e c i s e a n d m u l t i - s o u r c e d interviewed a U.S. intelligence harbor of family members of high
intelligence, including eyewitness official who confirmed that an -level Al-Qaeda operatives
testimony, places the terrorist intelligence report had been including those of Bin Laden and
m a s t e r m i n d s i n I r a n . A n d distributed at this time based on Zawahiri.
according to a documentary, the electronic intercepts that an A spokesman for the Green
government stopped a plot to nab individual of special importance Movement in Iran named Mohsen
him there. was moving from Tehran to t h e t e a m t o c o n t a c t t h e Omar Bin Laden has said that up Makhmalbaf has also confirmed
In the film Feathered Cocaine Zahedan and that hundreds of i n t e l l i g e n c e c o m m u n i t y , to 40 members of the Bin Laden that Bin Laden is in Iran, saying
about the falcon trade in the thousands of acres had been communication that included a family are living under house “there is absolutely no doubt
Middle East and Asia, the leader closed off for him. Whoever the May 2007 letter to CIA Director a r r e s t i n T e h r a n a n d a r e about this.” He said that he is
of the Union for the Conservation visitor to Zahedan was, he was so Michael Hayden and an offer to constantly monitored by the living in a safehouse near Karaj
of Raptors, Alan Parrot interviews important that powerful Arabs provide the government with Revolutionary Guards. He said close to Tehran. He also says that
a falcon smuggler who agreed to who regularly went to the area to footage from an unmanned aerial the compound where they live M i r - H o s s e i n M o u s a v i , t h e
anonymously tell his story after go hunting were denied entry vehicle they were going to use to includes a tennis court, swimming presidential candidate who ran
one of Parrot’s men saved his life. while he was there. confirm the information. Loftus pool, computers, videogames, and against Ahmadinejad and is now a
He claims to have met Bin Laden Parrot and his colleagues passed was firmly told to drop the plans. they are otherwise treated well, top opposition leader, told him
s i x t i m e s i n I r a n b e t w e e n this information to the intelligence Parrot says that when Bin Laden such as being allowed to go that he went on a tour with Iranian
November 2004 and October community with no response. He travels, the Iranian regime places horseback riding along the government officials in 2006 to an
2007 as Bin Laden is known to be began assembling a team of his family on house arrest to c o a s t — a k e y d e t a i l t h a t Al-Qaeda and Taliban camp near
a fan of falconry. The first f o r m e r s p e c i a l o p e r a t i o n s guarantee that he comes back. Bin corroborates the treatment Parrot Karaj where they were on a
meeting was near Baluchistan and p e r s o n n e l t o a c t o n t h e L a d e n a n d h i s f a m i l y a r e s a y s O s a m a B i n L a d e n i s hunger strike to protest the food
later meetings were at a safehouse intelligence and use the radio protected but are also imprisoned receiving. Notably, one of Bin they were given. “They were half
north of Tehran and in Mashhad. frequencies to capture Bin Laden, and controlled to a degree because Laden’s daughters escaped the p r i s o n e r s , h a l f g u e s t s , ”
The smuggler provided Parrot b u t F B I a g e n t s s a i d t h o s e of that protection. This may sound compound and left the country Makhmalbaf said, which is the
with the frequencies of the radios involved would be arrested for fanciful, but two of Bin Laden’s after going to the Saudi embassy same description given by Bin
that Bin Laden attached to the violating the Neutrality Act. sons have confirmed this element and another son left in December Laden’s sons and Parrot.
back of the falcons so he could Attorney John Loftus was used by of the story. 2009. Khalid Bin Laden, another
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Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute.
#page# Andrew Langer
Net gain for the GOP of 62 seats
in the House, ten seats in the
Senate, and 16 state legislatures. I
don’t make specific predictions on
races, because I have the record of
being a jinx.
However, I will make one bold
prediction. In addition to the other
major leadership defeats for the
Democrats, Charles Lollar will
stunningly defeat Steny Hoyer in
Maryland, because of strong
African-American crossover in
Prince George’s County.
#ad# New York Times headline
f o r W e d n e s d a y
morning:“Republican Tidal Wave
Averted: GOP Falls Far Short of
100 Predicted Seats”
-- Andrew Langer is president of
the Institute for Liberty.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Republicans win 80 pickups in
the House.
Republicans pick up nine Senate
seats.
Boxer goes, Murray goes,
Feingold goes.
I think Frank goes. I think
Kucinich goes.
Wow.
Possible MSNBC & Co. spins: 1)
The Tea Party didn’t really win,
because John Boehner has been in
Congress for 18 years (never
mind that he's been sounding like
the Tea Party since last winter and
has a record that fits their mood).
2) The Politico’s “everyone on the
right smells Sarah Palin’s political
blood” storyline. 3) Karl Rove
bought the election after writing
George Bush’s book. 4) Rush
Limbaugh orchestrated this all.
These spins will all be wrong.
New York Times headline:
“Republican Women Win,
Women Hurt the Most.”
-- Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-at
-large of National Review Online.
John J. Miller
1. Republicans will win control
of the House, picking up 56 seats.
They’ll gain eight Senate seats,
with D-to-R victories in Arkansas,
Colorado, Illinois, Indiana,
Nevada, North Dakota,
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Conservative favorite Marco
Rubio will prevail in Florida. So
will Joe Miller in Alaska, Rand
Paul in Kentucky, and Rob
Portman in Ohio. Republicans
Carly Fiorina of California,
Christine O’Donnell of Delaware,
John Raese of West Virginia, and
Dino Rossi of Washington will
come up short.
2. The biggest surprise of the
night will take place on ESPN2,
as Arkansas State avenges last
year’s loss by beating Middle
Tennessee.
3. MSNBC will devote at least
one segment of its Election Night
coverage to allegations of voter
fraud.
-- John J. Miller is national
correspondent for National
Review and the author of The
First Assassin.
#page# Ed Morrissey
I believe this will be a huge
victory for Republicans. They will
pick up 65 House seats and nine
Senate seats, and Tom Emmer
will score an upset in the
Minnesota gubernatorial race over
Mark Dayton. The national wave
will create a bounty of surprises,
but look especially for a Dino
Rossi victory in Washington and
the defeat of Jim Oberstar in what
has been a safe Democratic
district since 1947 in Minnesota.
The New York Times will attempt
to spin the depth of the loss with a
headline like, “GOP gains less
than expected -- Democrats
breathe sigh of relief.” Expect at
least one MSNBC host to blame
voter intimidation for the bad
results.
-- Ed Morrissey writes at
HotAir.com.
#ad# Dana Perino
House pick-ups: 53; Senate pick-
ups: nine. Barney Frank loses to
Sean Bielat. And Carly Fiorina
wins over Barbara Boxer.
MSNBC: DARK DAYS AHEAD
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-- Dana Perino is former White
House press secretary for Pres.
George W. Bush.
John J. Pitney Jr.
Republicans net 60 seats in the
House, nine in the Senate.
Longshot pick for the night:
Fiorina edges out Boxer in The Electric Myth: Lack
California. Whatever else
happens, however, it’s a dead- of Consumer Demand
bang certainty that Democrats will Killed the Electric Car
be much stronger in the Senate Nicolas Loris (The Foundry:
than in the House. They will Conservative Policy News.)
either have a narrow majority or a
minority large enough to sustain Submitted at 11/2/2010 10:00:58 AM
filibusters and presidential vetoes.
“Don’t wanna lose it, it’s electric!
Over the past few years,
(Boogie Woogie Woogie)” Those
academics have criticized the
lyrics (from Marcia Griffiths’
Senate’s “un-democratic”
song “Electric Boogie,” better
character, attacking the filibuster
known as “the Electric Slide
and even bemoaning the body’s
song”) are quite indicative of the
very existence. So here’s the
Obama Administration’s position
safest prediction of all: As the
on the electric car. No matter how
academics realize that the Senate
much the market and consumers
provides opportunities for fighting
reject the electric car, the
the Republican agenda, the
government will continue to push
institution will suddenly regain
forward with subsidies to produce
their favor.
and purchase the vehicle. Charles
-- John J. Pitney Jr. is Roy P.
Lane wrote about the electric car
Crocker Professor of American
in Saturday’s Washington Post:
Politics at Claremont McKenna
[The ad campaign] asks
College. NRO Symposium
consumers to make an economic
and technological leap of
faith—just as both GM and the
firm’s biggest backer, the Obama
administration, have invested,
financially, politically and
psychologically, in plug-in
hybrids and other electric
vehicles. How else to explain the
fact that both Washington and
Detroit persist in their costly
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electric-car project despite

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage size this year is.”
Magazine » FrontPage) mounting evidence that the
On such an occasion, it’s worth vehicles serve no particular
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:50:53 PM examining the facts on the ground purpose, environmental or
in the key races which have economic?
If there is an overriding theme to captured the attention of the Lane points to a study from J. D.
the election that will be decided nation and what their likely Power and Associates that says
today, it can be expressed in one outcomes will be: there will be very little demand
simple word: extremism. On the Nevada Senate– If Sharon Angle for electric vehicles over the next
Republican side, candidates for holds on to her slim lead over decade, even with lucrative
national office have taken incumbent, Majority Leader Harry federal handouts. If coal produces
advantage of the growing Reid, she will have written the the electricity that powers the
discontent with the Obama playbook for how a “Tea Party electric vehicle while it runs, the
administration’s ambitious agenda candidate” can defeat an reduction in greenhouse gases is
and, as importantly, its lack of entrenched D.C. insider. Angle’s negligible. Other environmental
results. Characterizing the campaign has skillfully managed headaches include how to depose
administration as extreme has to parry Reid’s attempts to paint of exhausted batteries. The lack of
been the go-to strategy for the her as a dangerous, far-right nut- charging infrastructure presents
GOP, and Democratic candidates case, but this one will go down to another problem.
have been easily impugned by the wire. It’s still too close to call, Even so, just how much are
association. While some but most polls put Angle in the electric vehicles running on actual
Democrats have tried to move lead. electric? The Chevy Volt, touted
t o w a r d t h e c e n t e r , t h e y ’ v e campaigns understand that. The controlling the Senate as well. Delaware Senate– This is the as the electric vehicle that could
incurred the wrath of their party trick in 2010 has been to define Yet, the root-cause of this mid- antithesis of the Nevada Senate revolutionize the auto industry,
for daring to do so. Obama and what constitutes extremism. Is the course correction isn’t so much race, albeit in a far different isn’t all that electric. Investor’s
Democratic National Committee federal government running up about rebellion on the Right as it environment. Democrat Chris Business Daily covered this last
c h a i r m a n T i m K a i n e h a v e trillions of dollars in debt and is about apathy on the Left, or at C o o n s i s s e t t o t r o u n c e week:
doggedly pursued a “stay the taking over the health care system l e a s t a m o n g l e f t - l e a n i n g Republican Christine O’Donnell, Advertised as an all-electric car
course” strategy which, if the extreme? Or are citizens who independents. According to who entered the raced a deeply that could drive 50 miles on its
polls are to be believed, is a protest such actions and support Gallup, the average Republican f l a w e d c a n d i d a t e . G r a n t e d , lithium battery, GM addressed
message that has fallen entirely candidates dedicated to rolling candidate has a fifteen percentage youthful pronouncements about concerns about where you plug
flat with the electorate. The most back those actions the real point lead against his or her witchcraft and masturbation the thing in en route to grandma’s
effective Democratic strategy in e x t r e m i s t s ? L i k e b e a u t y , D e m o c r a t i c o p p o n e n t . T h i s shouldn’t matter in an ideal world, house by adding a small gasoline
this election cycle has been to extremism is in the eye of the suggests that apathy and doubt but they do in the real world. engine to help maintain the charge
invoke the specter of right-wing beholder. have infected a substantial portion O’Donnell was a long-shot at best on the battery as it starts to run
extremism, which can be effective If the polls are to be believed, of the very electorate that swept in Delaware and, unfortunately down. It was still an electric car,
(although not always) when the this election will see the most Barack Obama into power. The for the GOP, it doesn’t look like we were told, and not a hybrid on
GOP opponent is a so-called “Tea d r a m a t i c s h i f t i n p o w e r i n spread is unprecedented. As t h e u n d e r d o g w i l l p u l l a steroids.
Party” candidate. American history. Republicans Gallup observed: “Republicans triumphant upset in this election. That’s not quite true. The
The average American is made seem to be assured of winning a usually turn out at higher rates gasoline engine has been found to
very uncomfortable by extremes majority in the House, and have than Democrats, so the margin’s be more than a range-extender for
on either side of the political a n e v e n - m o n e y c h a n c e o f expansion is not unusual, but its the battery. Volt engineers are
spectrum and the people who run now admitting that when the
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capabilities are paltry. We are

Concern About Obamacare’s Consequences deeply dependent on foreign
services. Those services know full
Kathryn Nix (The Foundry: exchanges and come out even, well that our civilian due-process
Conservative Policy News.) after paying the $2,000-per- rules make it very tough to
Submitted at 11/2/2010 1:00:56 PM employee penalty, Tennessee conceal intelligence methods and
would save $146 million. sources. Our allies will be less apt
Posted November 2nd, 2010 at S a v i n g s d o n ’ t c o m e f r o m to tell us secrets if they fear we
2:00pm in Health Care Print This reductions in the cost within the cannot keep secrets.
Post health care system. The new The more savvy Obama officials
Imagine that one day, your boss health law will actually drive know that. They also know that
takes you out to coffee. You offer insurance premiums higher. the history of bringing Yemen-
to pick up the tip as a Instead, “savings” are solely based terrorists to justice is not a
contribution. The two of you head attributable to the taxpayer- happy one. For example, Jamal al-
down the street and are faced with funded subsidies. Obamacare Badawi, the brains behind the
quite the conundrum: two coffee won’t make insurance any October 2000 U.S.S. Cole
shops to choose from! Both offer cheaper—someone else will just bombing that killed 17 U.S.
a delicious cup of joe for the same be picking up part of the tab. sailors, is at large now -- after
price, but in front of one, a There are approximately 170 multiple “escapes” from Yemeni
benevolent gentleman who calls insurance in the state exchanges. program that adds substantially to m i l l i o n A m e r i c a n s w h o s e custody, the last one occurring
himself Uncle Sam (weird, right?) To keep employers from dumping it. But our recent health reform employers provide them health after that government purported to
offers you a coupon for 50 percent coverage, the new law includes a has created a situation where there insurance. If a significant portion sentence him to death. Yemen
off, so both you and your boss “firewall”: a penalty of $2,000 for are strong economic incentives for of them lose their employer refused to transfer him and his
will save. Which coffee shop do e m p l o y e r s w h o d o n ’ t o f f e r employers to drop health coverage coverage, the subsidies could cost confederates to the United States
you think your employer would coverage and the requirement that altogether. The consequence will taxpayers approximately $1.4 for trial.
take you to? individuals have no offer of be to drive many more people trillion over 10 years. And wouldn’t you know it: The
This is not a trick question. The adequate employer coverage to than projected—and with them, This post was co-authored by lone suspect thus far detained by
scenario described above captures qualify for a subsidy. But the much greater cost—into the Charlie Adair. President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s
how employers are likely to react subsidies are so generous that in reform’s federally subsidized This entry passed through the hapless regime in connection with
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Bredesen (D–TN) explained neutral, pay the penalty, and still insurance through exchanges are our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ engineering student Hanan al-
recently in The Wall Street save. If enough employers do this, extraordinarily attractive. content-only/faq.php Samawi, whose phone number
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subsidies for low- and middle- Americans understand that we can salaries by enough for employees waiting for Yemen to crack the
income Americans to purchase ill afford another entitlement to purchase coverage in the case. Like most of our “allies” in
that part of the world, Yemen has
a rabidly anti-American
population, and its tottering
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vehicle’s lithium-ion battery pack production or the government

Tait Trussell (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) runs down and at speeds near or bailout but rather how bankruptcy
above 70 mph, the Volt’s gasoline forced the automaker to
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:28:11 PM engine will directly drive the front restructure. Making a product no
wheels along with the electric one wants to buy is how GM got
In an expensive, multi-faceted motors. That’s not charging the into this mess, and now the
campaign, the Department of battery—that’s driving the car. government’s doing its job to
Health and Human Services Lane adds: ensure it will happen again.
(HHS) is trying mightily to Fine print on the Volt ad Lane sums it up nicely:
convince senior citizens that promises just “25–50 miles of The Obama administration’s
ObamaCare is full of “exciting electric driving in moderate commitment of $5 billion in loans
new changes to improve your conditions.” Translation: Much of and grants for electric cars is the
health care now and in the the time the car will be running on biggest taxpayer rip-off since corn
future.” HHS Secretary Sebelius gas, just like ones that cost far, far -based ethanol. It benefits no one
has fretted, “We have a lot of re- less than the four-seat Volt’s price but a few well-to-do car buyers
education to do.” of $33,500 (after a $7,500 federal and politically connected
The “re-education” campaign to tax credit). companies. Any “green” jobs
change minds and sell Medicare The story is similar across the these rent-seeking firms create
and ObamaCare to highly pond. British consumers bought a will vanish when consumers reject
skeptical seniors started last grand total of 55 electric cars last their products and/or the subsidies
summer when HHS sent out a
the Annual Coordinated Election liberal Democrats who drafted the year out of over 2 million vehicles cease.
slick, four-color, four-page folder
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claimed, “The Affordable Health
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and increased quality health care.”
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In recent weeks, a promotional
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TV commercial features an aging
viewpoint. It explains that if a adjustments, including having to happy and it throws a bone to a
Andy Griffith plugging
senior is considering a Medicare raise premiums or increasing struggling automaker working to
ObamaCare and promising “More
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good things are coming” from the
aware that if you become unhappy even being driven out of business. Yandle’s bootleggers and Baptists
health law. The commercials cost
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$3 million to taxpayers. Poor
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Andy had a stroke not long ago.
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MADP stands for Medicare with added choices. “Private” and
organization, called the Medicare
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Rights Center has sent out what it
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calls “A Resource for
market, the guide says, has been control by bureaucracy feels just
Journalists.” The seven-page
“ s t r e a m l i n e d . ” T h a t ’ s a right to them.
packet is all about the fall open
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Israel’s Warning
P. David Hornik (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:45:59 PM
While these days the focus is
understandably on Al Qaeda,
alarming news has also surfaced
about Hezbollah, the Shiite terror
group that is clustered near
Israel’s border and has taken
control of Lebanon.
The French daily Le Figaro
reports that Hezbollah’s arsenal
now numbers 40,000 missiles, and
that the organization fields over
10,000 fighters. Le Figaro also
gives details on three Hezbollah
units tasked with maintaining and
transporting the missiles, and on
Syria’s close involvement in the
whole enterprise.
The article says that last January
one of the three, Unit 108—in a
move picked up by U.S.
intelligence—received a delivery
of 26 Syrian M-6002 missiles
somewhere between Damascus
and the Syrian-Lebanese border.
While Unit 108’s main barracks
are near that border, it also has a
base near Damascus Airport for
handling weapons shipments from
Iran.
Le Figaro quotes the French
Defense Ministry as saying Israel
might strike Unit 108’s sites in
Syria.
The paper also says the Syrian
army has its own Scud missile
base near Damascus. And while
Syria denies having supplied
Hezbollah with Scuds, satellite
images seem to show Hezbollah
operatives being trained in their
use at the base.
Ron Ben-Yishai, veteran military
analyst for Israel’s largest daily
Yediot Aharonot, ascribes much
significance to the report and
writes that “whoever provided [
Le Figaro] with sensitive
intelligence information” had
reasons for doing so.
One of those reasons, Ben-Yishai
says, is:
to slam the facts in the face of
international public opinion, so
that the UN, the West, Arab states
and the global media won’t
pretend to be surprised if and
when Israel undertakes powerful,
destructive strikes. Such actions
would target the immense rocket
and missile arsenal in Lebanon, as
well as the states that contributed
to establishing it, that is, Lebanon
and Syria.
Ben-Yishai goes on to note that
in recent months Israel has been
conveying that point to the
international community,
including declassified maps of
how Hezbollah stores weapons
near schools, hospitals, and homes
in southern Lebanese villages.
Hezbollah thereby wants to make
it hard for Israel to attack the
targets, while also setting Israel
up for “war crimes” accusations if
it does.
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government walks a tightrope
between losing lavish American
aid and being overthrown for
seeming too cozy with
Americans.
Thus the most interesting of the
weekend’s developments:
President Obama may be leaning
toward extending his Pakistan
strategy to Yemen. That would
mean covert operations designed
to kill AQAP operatives, directed
by the CIA and the White House,
not the Pentagon and the Justice
Department.
This would be good politics. It
would enable the president to
show anti-terror toughness,
putting distance between him and
his hard-Left supporters, who
prefer indictments to drones. It
might also remind voters that he
has kept his promise to attack
terror sanctuaries in Muslim
countries with which the U.S. is
formally at peace -- a promise
over which Sen. John McCain
ridiculed him for showing
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insufficient deference to the
sovereignty of fabulous allies like
Pakistan, which cashes American
checks while safeguarding
Taliban chieftains.
Far more important, though, a
covert-ops campaign could
effectively address a militant
threat, without trials and without
enmeshing the United States in
yet another thankless, ruinously
expensive nation-building project
in a hostile Islamic basket case
where Iran is making mischief.
In bringing that kind of justice,
Obama would find plenty of
Republican support. Terrorists on
the wrong end of a missile tend
not to return to the jihad.
– Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior
fellow at the National Review
Institute, is the author, most
recently, of The Grand Jihad:
How Islam and the Left Sabotage
America. Andrew C. McCarthy
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three would run: Mitch Daniels, the liberals to back him, and he
Cybersecurity Bobby Jindal, and Mike Pence.
Mitch Daniels is my Number One
might also get those conservative
Democrats who gave Obama such
Paul Rosenzweig (The at this point, with a bullet. a headache in the Ohio,
Foundry: Conservative Policy In terms of the horserace, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia
News.) everything depends on whether primaries.
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:00:03 PM
Sarah Palin runs. If she does, Plus, the divisive nature of the
Posted November 2nd, 2010 at there will be a mad scramble 2008 electoral results makes for
1:00pm in Protect America Print among the rest of the candidates terrific opposition research for
This Post to be “the Anti-Palin.” And I anybody thinking about
As Congress gets ready to return think ultimately the 2012 nominee challenging Obama. Anybody
from its election break for a short is that person. who wants to run could dive into
lame duck session it faces many LOPEZ: Will Obama get a the data and put together a
pressing issues (taxes and the primary challenge? strategy -- all his weaknesses on
budget to name just two). Some COST: If it looks like he will his own side are plain to see in the
on Capitol Hill are hoping to lose, yes. The Democrats are way voting returns from 2008. They
include comprehensive too divided internally to unite could call me, incidentally. I
cybersecurity legislation on the behind somebody who looks like know all his electoral weaknesses
list of things to do. Others think a loser. I don’t think it will be and would be happy to help!
that the chances of legislation this Hillary Clinton, but somebody Just kidding.
year are slim. could put together a peculiar left- — Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-
remain—most notably where everyone should be disappointed.
Those who counsel caution are u l t i m a t e a u t h o r i t y f o r But for now the time is not ripe right coalition against Obama. at-large of National Review
correct. Cybersecurity legislation cybersecurity operations should and Congress would be wise to Suppose Howard Dean runs, Online. Interview
is too important to hurry. As a be housed within the Federal g i v e t h i s i s s u e i t s f u l l claiming to be the representative
panel of speakers made clear g o v e r n m e n t . I t m a t t e r s , c o n s i d e r a t i o n n e x t y e a r . of “the Democratic wing of the
during a session at The Heritage p r o f o u n d l y , w h e t h e r t h e This entry passed through the Democratic party.” He could get
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Votes For Tacos Is A No-No

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Submitted at 11/2/2010 11:00:04 AM

According to their website,

California Tortilla is offering a
“FREE” taco today for anyone
that wears an “I VOTED” sticker,
says they voted, or screams “I
love election day.”
That last option, screaming “I
love election day,” is the only
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thing keeping California Taco
from violating the law. 42 USC
the Story of Romance Gone
1973i(c) reads:
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residence in the voting district for Facebook’s effect on — and role
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employees paid leave while they offering coupons for food in
eligibility to register or vote, or visualization from infographic we have explored the negative
vote are not prohibited. Such exchange for votes, the candidate
conspires with another individual wizard David McCandless is effects of Facebook on one’s
things are given to make it easier herself taped a phone message to
for the purpose of encouraging his making its way around the web, romantic life, as well as how
to vote, not to induce them to push the offer to people in her
false registration to vote or illegal depicting the most common times some people use the social
vote. For an offer or payment to district. Both acts are illegal if
voting, or pays or offers to pay or a year that people break up — via networking site to end things.
violate 1972i(c), it must have true.
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What to Consider When Building an In-House Social Media Team
Amy-Mae Elliott (Mashable!)
Submitted at 11/2/2010 12:34:01 PM
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Building any kind of team is a
challenge, but pulling together the
people who are going to represent
your company in the social media
arena is a particularly tricky task.
What is the ultimate purpose of
your social media team? Do you
hire experts from outside the
company or utilize existing
employees? What do you look for
in a social media executive?
We talked to professionals who
have gone through the process —
from big global businesses to
small companies — to try and
find some answers to these
questions.
Have a read of their advice and
let us know any useful
experiences you’ve had in the
comments below. 1. Set Clear
Goals
Before you consider the question
of who, you need to have already
established the answer to why?
“Firstly, before you set up a team,
you have to be clear who you
want to talk to and engage with
and what your internal goals are,”
says Jakub Hrabovsky, head of
web relations for Vodafone UK.
“Is your main aim to entertain and
engage, or are you considering
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using social media as a sales Vodafone’s Hrabovsky, you will already have mastered the
channel? You should be clear on might be able to utilize existing appropriate way to behave and
what you want to measure. internal experts. build relationships within several
Engagement levels, buzz and “Ideally your social media team networks. They will also tend to
sentiment or an increase in the should include people who have be natural conversationalists and
number of sales — or perhaps had social media experience and passionate about a personal area
both?” it’s very likely these are already in of interest, actively engaging in
Hrabovsky also points out that your organization. The advantage conversations and networks
your social media team members is that internal hires know the around that, possibly even writing
will also need to be able to help company’s products and services, a personal blog.”
customers — they may be the which is crucial for responding Even our own community
point of call that connected with the speed and accuracy the manager at Mashable, Vadim
consumers head to. “If you’re a social media/online environment Lavrusik, advocates hiring
communicate in a way that shows
consumer-facing organization, requires.” evangelists.
the personality of your company,”
you should include a customer Studard agrees. “The people you “Hire people that practice what
says Kristen Studard, social media
care element to complement your want on your social media team they preach,” Lavrusik says. “This
coordinator at Threadless.
social engagement team as well.” are the same people you’d want can be grabbing people internally
“At Threadless we’re a very
2. Create a Social Media Policy talking about your brand at a party who understand the company and
friendly laid-back company and
First — naturally social people who would do well to represent it, but
we’re very excited about our
Every company with a presence love your brand. Find the social also from outside the company
products, which is why we use so
in the social space should have a media-savvy people who already who would be great advocates of
many exclamation points in our
social media policy, even if it’s work for you and are passionate the company, product or platform.
tweets and status updates.”
just a few lines advising about your brand and you’re onto Hiring people who love the
If you are going down the
employees how you’d prefer they something.” company that they represent will
friendly, excited, exclamation
reference your brand online. Dell has likewise had success usually make them more
points route with your social
Creating a social media policy with recruiting from within the knowledgeable of the company’s
media policy, then be sure to hire
before you get a team in place ranks. Kerry Bridge, head of inner workings, making them
people who will find it easy to
will help you in deciding who to digital media communications for strong candidates to represent it in
express themselves that way; if
employ to implement it. Dell’s EMEA & global public the social space.” 4. Essential
you’re aiming for a more staid,
“Be sure you have a social media sector, shares her experiences: Skills to Look For
professional approach, then don’t
policy in place, so that your team “We have found many Dell Passion for the brand and
pick someone who can’t pen a
is clear on how the company employees who were already knowledge of the social space
line without adding a smiley at the
wishes to be portrayed in the participating in social media in aren’t the only qualities that you
end. 3. Should You Recruit
space. A social media policy their personal lives also had the need to look out for; there are
Internally or Externally?
should be available to all staff desire and ability to listen and other skills that a social media
The biggest question facing
too,” advises Dave Delaney, engage on behalf of Dell, too. exec should boast.
anyone working to create an in-
marketing specialist, online Social media enthusiasts exist “A social media team should have
house social media team is
communications and promotions within every organization and at least one person that knows
whether you should pull people
at Griffin Technology. common traits make them easily their numbers and stats. Stats are
from other areas of the
“You should first consider how identifiable. crucial in not only measuring
organization — after all, they
you want your brand represented. “Firstly, these people will be performance or ROI, but also in
know the brand — or turn to
Your social media team is going ‘early adopters’ of social media. understanding your community
outside “experts” who have a
to be speaking for your brand, so They will be actively using
great grasp of the social space. WHAT page 90
it’s important that they are able to multiple social media tools and
In an ideal world, says
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and what they respond to, what
works for them,” says Lavrusik.
“Ideally, everyone on the team is
comfortable enough to handle
data and stats that are presented to
them and be able to interpret what
they mean.”
Bridge suggests considering the
main functions of the job, when
considering who might fill that
role.
“Social and communication skills
need to be accompanied with
business skills, which will differ
depending on what business
objectives you are looking to
achieve. Common skills to look
for would be customer advocacy,
writing skills, editorial planning
and reporting,” says Bridge.
“For example if you are looking
for someone to engage with
customers on blogs and Twitter,
then the customer listening and
engaging skills would be
paramount, however if you were
looking for a blog manager, then
editorial and writing skill should
be prioritized,” says Bridge.
You also want people who pay
great attention to detail and have
the ability to manage several
things at once. Patrick Parker,
social media coordinator at
Courant.com says, “Social media
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at the same time,” says Lavrusik.
“You want people who are
obsessed with detail but at the
same time can be highly efficient
and productive,” says Lavrusik.
“That’s a tough balance. You
want someone who pays attention
to the detail of their content,
strategy, message and projects,
but also someone who can do it
quickly. There’s nothing worse
than having someone who writes
sloppily and is updating a social
profile with grammatical and
punctuation errors. Platforms like
Twitter aren’t just micro-
blogging, [they're] micro-
publishing.” 5. Stay Committed
Finally, remember creating your
policy and building up your team
are just the beginning. You need
to be thinking long term.
“The most important thing is
commitment,” says Hrabovsky.
“Social media and online
engagement isn’t something you
can turn on and off at your
discretion. Once you start
listening and talking to your target
audiences, they will expect you to
be there for them every day, and
to be successful you have to do
just that. Don’t build a faceless
presence — select the right people
for the job, because they will be
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possibly even further training,
something that Dell is committed
to.
“At Dell we send interested
employees back to school: Social
Media and Communities
University,” says Bridge. “After
they are given an overview of our
principles and policies, employees
decide which tools will enable
them to have better connections
and conversations with our
customers. Social media gives
Dell more opportunities to listen,
connect and engage than ever
before.”
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