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K’Naan and Nas: Two Ways to “Manage” a Music Career

Rick Tetzeli (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:42:36 AM

From one hip-hop artist, a leaked

email exposing the ugly, angry
side of the struggle between artist
and label. From the other, a frank
chat at the end of a long tour
about owning one's art and brand.
Two very different leadership
lessons.
The leak late last week of an
angry email from rapper Nas to
the folks running the label that
may or may not be putting out his
new record this winter, Def Jam
(subject: "Put my shit out!" -- text
below), is shocking mostly
because it was leaked at all. You
hear plenty of rumblings in the
press these days about artists
battling their labels (Lupe Fiasco's
Twitter-fueled protest outside of
his label, Atlantic, for example),
but you rarely get to see the
explosion up close. Then again,
it's a volatile time. Labels aren’t
making as much money, the
musicians aren’t making as much
money, and they scream at one
another as they flame out. Or until
the artist breaks free, a la OK Go
or Nine Inch Nails—and still,
with rare exceptions, doesn’t
make the money they would have
made under the old system.
There’s a third way to go, the
compromise route, which is what
Somali rapper K’naan is trying
with his label, Octone A&M.
K’naan has become friends with
Nas over the years, but instead of
dissing his label, he’s doing
everything he can to work with it and, he says, guide it. “I’m probably the best marketer in our group,” he told me over dinner K’NAAN page 3
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recently in Dublin, Ireland. He
was at the tail end of a European
tour, with little break between that
run and his new American tour,
which kicked off Saturday night
at Webster Hall in New York.
K’naan’s best-known song is
Wavin’ Flag, which formed the
basis of Coca-Cola’s $300 million
World Cup of soccer marketing
campaign. The partnership
between Coke, A&M/Octone, and
K’naan put the singer in the
middle of a bigger campaign than
he could ever have imagined.
After all, his first album, called
The Dusty Foot Philosopher, has
sold something like 20,000 copies
in the U.S., while his second,
Troubadour, has only recently
edged over 100,000. So when
Coke came calling, saying that
they wanted him to create a song
for the World Cup and tour the
world supporting their campaign,
he faced a real challenge: How to
make this a K’naan moment as
well as a Coke moment.
The first hurdle was his song,
"Wavin’ Flag." While Coke execs
loved its upbeat chorus, they
couldn’t reconcile the song’s
lyrics about poverty and
repression in Somalia with their
message of happiness and an
exuberant soccer moment. So they
proposed that he write another
anthem. He told them no, that
he’d rewrite "Wavin’ Flag." He
made it much more poppy, much
more celebratory, a song that truly
fits its name—"The Celebration
Mix of Wavin’ Flag"—and its
video, which shows K’naan and
many kids bopping around
beaches and playing the beautiful
game. “Writing a whole new song
for Coke would have been a
jingle,” he says. “By reusing
'Wavin Flag' I did a creative
remix. It was the pop music
version of my song.”
The World Cup campaign was
one compromise after another,
with a crazy 20-country touring
schedule, 15 versions of the
"Celebration Mix" created for
specific countries, like the
Mexican mix with David Bisbol,
or the Chinese mix with Jenny
Zhang. Throughout, K’naan did
his best to manage between Coke
and the label. “I think they
followed my lead, I was the silent
leader without showing that.
Everyone kind of knew what I
felt. There’s a difference between
self-marketing and marketing an
idea. I think they knew my belief
in my music, and followed that.”
He used Twitter to keep his fans
updated throughout the whole
tour, and is far more engaged in
that than most other artists. (After
he canceled a recent date in
Vancouver, he went back-and-
forth with upset fans so intensely
that at one point he tweeted, “I
may be a PR disaster.” He added,
“but I prefer being that than being
an inaccessible shell who doesn't
speak his mind.”) The touring
schedule during the World Cup
and after was crazy, and by the
time he hit Dublin he was so
exhausted that he was talking
about canceling dates and
promotion. But ultimately, he
says, because they fit his long-
term goal: “I’m not into
instantaneous gratification,
instantaneous success. I wanted
my audience to grow with me, so
I’m on a label that is truly into
artist development. It’s the only
label I know like that.”
It’s not sexy to write about an
artist who says stuff like that. But
what’s forgotten in all the
coverage of the music industry’s
decline is that this is what most
artists are doing: trying to create
and perform great music while
also trying to manage their
relationship with the label—a
corporate organization whose
time may have come and gone,
but who for now is still pretty
much the only hope for any band
looking to break big.
And then there's the Nas
approach. Here's his e-mail:
From: NasTo: LA Reid, Steve
Bartels, Steve Gawley, Michael
Seltzer, Joseph Borrino, Chris
Hicks Subject: PUT MY SHIT
OUT! Peace to all, With all do
respect to you all, Nas is
NOBODY's slave. This is not the
1800's, respect me and I will
respect you. I won't even tap
dance around in an email, I will
get right into it. People connect to
the Artist @ the end of the day,
they don't connect with the
executives. Honestly, nobody
even cares what label puts out a
great record, they care about who
recorded it. Yet time and time
again its the executives who
always stand in the way of a
creative artist's dream and
aspirations. You don't help draw
the truth from my deepest and
most inner soul, you don’t even
do a great job @ selling it. The #1
problem with DEF JAM is pretty
simple and obvious, the
executives think they are the stars.
You aren't…. not even close. As a
matter of fact, you wish you were,
but it didn't work out so you took
a desk job. To the consumer, I
COME FIRST. Stop trying to
deprive them! I have a fan base
that dies for my music and a RAP
label that doesn't understand RAP.
Pretty fucked up situation This
isn’t the 90's though. Beefing with
record labels is so 15 years ago.
@ this point I just need you all to
be very clear where I stand and
how I feel about "my label." I
could go on twitter or hot 97
tomorrow and get 100,000
protesters @ your building but I
choose to walk my own path my
own way because since day one I
have been my own man. I did
business with Tommy Mottola
and Donnie Einer, two of the most
psycho dudes this business ever
created. I worked well with them
for one major reason……. they
believed in me. The didn't give a
fuck about what any radio station
or magazine said….those dudes
had me. Lost Tapes is a
movement and a very important
set up piece for my career as it
stands. I started this over 5 years
ago @ Columbia and nobody
3
knew what it was or what it did
but the label put it out as an LP
and the fans went crazy for it and
I single handedly built a new
brand of rap albums. It's smart
and after 5 years it's still a head of
the game. This feels great and you
not feeling what I’m feeling is
disturbing. Don't get in the way of
my creativity. We are aligned
with the stars here, this is a
movement. There is a thing called
KARMA that comes to haunt you
when you tamper with the
aligning stars. WE ARE GIVING
THE PEOPLE EXACTLY
WHAT THEY WANT. Stop
throwing dog shit on a
MAGICAL moment. You don't
get another Nas recording that
doesn't count against my
deal….PERIOD! Keep your
bullshit $200,000.00 fund. Open
the REAL budget. This is a New
York pioneers ALBUM, there
ain't many of us. I am ready to
drop in the 4th quarter. You don’t
even have shit coming out! Stop
being your own worst enemy.
Let's get money!
For more on K'Naan's unique
path through the music industry,
pick up the November issue of
Fast Company, on newsstands
soon.
[Image Flickr user manumilou]
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The New Windows 7 Phones: All You Need to Know

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:34:51 PM

Microsoft's launch vessel for its

prestigious Windows Phone 7 OS
is one heck of a leaky ship: In the
hours before the event data on
handset after handset has leaked
out. Then MS revealed a total of
10 different handsets, destined for
30 nations worldwide. Here are
the ones worth knowing
about—and whether they might
chip away at iPhone's dominance.
Samsung Omnia 7 and Focus
The Omnia 7 is Samsung's
Windows 7 phone that's destined
for Europe. It has 4-inch screen
device, bearing that Super
AMOLED screen that people
have been banging on about for a
while--since it puportedly bests
the iPhone's IPS LCD unit (even
though he can just still read the
iPhone's display in sunlight, but
the OLED is a blank). Sadly it has
just a 1GHz Qualcomm chip as its
CPU, placing it as a late-arriving
competitor for this year's iPhone
4, with the new unit now only 6
months away. There's 8GB of
storage, and a 5-megapixel rear- depth--the thinnest Windows 7 cam that can shoot 720p video Telstra network. They're all and SRS Surround sound
facing cam with a flash that can phone (still 0.6 mm, or nearly 7% footage. It also streams DLNA variations on a theme that the technologied.
record 720p video. It's basically a fatter than the iPhone). content over your network to your Omnia and Optimus typify. The LG Quantum is a landscape-
slightly larger-screened iPhone LG Optimus 7 compliant media devices (such as HTC's Surround is a 3.8-inch format slider phone with full
copy. A 3.8-inch LCD screen with 800 a PS3) using a system dubbed WVGA unit with a 1GHz QWERTY keypad in a chiclet-
The Omnia's interesting because by 480 pixel resolution places this Play-to, that sounds like a Snapdragon CPU and that same 5- format that'll please many
AT&T is featuring the Samsung unit in even more direct competitor to Apple's upcoming megapixel camera resolution with physical keyboard fans. It's a
Focus, which seems to be competition with the iPhone's 3.5- AirPlay. 720p video powers. It sets itself quadband EDGE and triband
essentially the same phone, with inch 960 by 640 unit. There's HTC Surround, HTC Mozart, LG apart from its brother phones by HSPA handset with 16GB of
an AMOLED screen, re-housed in 16GB of storage aboard, Quantum being media-centric: The case has storage aboard, a 3.5-inch WVGA
a curvier frame and aimed at the Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi, compass, These devices all leaked out in an integrated kickstand, and the screen and the same 1GHz CPU
U.S. market. The presentation proximity and orientation sensors, different places, courtesy of pop-up sliding speaker system
made much of the Focus' 9.9mm and a rear-facing 5 megapixel AT&T's website and Australia's makes the most of Dolby Mobile NEW page 6
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The Last Frontier of Social Media: Unborn Babies
Simon Mainwaring (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:37:38 AM
The Next Web wrote an
intriguing post about the emerging
trend of parents creating social
profiles for their unborn children.
This is not limited to parents that
are social media devotees (guilty
as charged!) In fact, a study
published this week by Internet
Security Firm AVG states 5% of
babies under 2 have social media
profiles, 7% have an email
address, and 81% of two-year-
olds have a digital footprint (to
add it to the old school one you
made with his or her inky foot).
Parents generally do this to share
baby scans and information about
the pregnancy with friends and
family--a completely normal
instinct. But one can only imagine
where this will end.
Will parents start tweeting on
behalf of their unborn children in
a Star Wars-like prequel to the
birth? Will prospective parents
agonize over the type of language
their gestating child would tweet?
Or whether they can really friend
another embryo based only on a
fuzzy ultrasound?
Will twins, triplets and, dare I
say, octuplets be wise to carve out
their digital IP in advance of their
siblings by locking up twitter
handles, Facebook profiles,
YouTube channels, and URLs?
Will new parents at pregnancy
classes have to accept that while
they don't know each other, their
unborn children are already
"friends"? Or will Facebook
friendships forged in the second
trimester too often be lost in the
third due to chronic lack of sleep?
Will play dates be reduced to
stationary face-offs between to
two large bumps? And if one
unborn misbehaves or says
something inappropriate is it ok
for the parent to blame or "un-
friend" the as yet unborn child?
Will the scent of fresh diapers at
Gymboree classes be replaced by
an uneasy air of competition as to
who has the most pre-natal
friends? Will new mothers get
together to discuss their
pregnancies but instead merely
send clever tweets to each other
on their smart phones? Will
posturing for places in the "right"
pre-school become a function of
how many friends and followers
your newborn has?
Will the miracle of life be recast
as digital pre-life made flesh?
Business/ 5
The pride of parents knows no
bounds and that includes the
digital world. Ironically its that
same affection and desire
to"reserve a patch of the Internet
for their child" that makes parents
so protective of their children a
few short years later. As a parent I
marvel at the way digital
technology is changing my
daughters' lives. Equally
remarkable is how it is changing
our own.
Have you experienced a social
media and pre-natal collision? Or
met an unborn that stridently
social? Fire away with any stories.
Image Credit: AVG Blog
(Hat Tip to @cyharquail for
pointing out the
PimpMyUltrasound App.)
Reprinted from
SimonMainwaring.com
Simon Mainwaring is a branding
Will newborns receive gifts from consultant, advertising creative
other unborns or new borns? And director, blogger, and speaker. A
if so, do you have to send thank former Nike creative at Wieden &
you cards? But how do you know K e n n e d y , P o r t l a n d , a n d
what name to write--sorry--tweet worldwide creative director for
on the card if the unborn doesn't Motorola at Ogilvy, he now
have a name yet! consults for brands and creative
The possibilities are endless, companies that are re-inventing
maddening and a wonderful their industries and enabling
expression of the collision of positive change. Follow him at
timeless emotions and new SimonMainwaring.com or on
technology. Just look at the Twitter@SimonMainwaring.
PimpMyUltrasound app(above)
and know that social media
profiles for pets aren't far behind.
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NEW
NFL Employee Caught Scalping continued from page 4

and camera setups as the other its business integration will tickle
Tickets, Hawking Fake Jerseys phones here. It too supports the
same DLNA media-streaming as
the fancy of many an exec, the
actual hardware running these
Adam Fusfeld (Business the Optimus 7. first phones is going to be quickly
Insider) There're a bunch of other phones outclassed by the iPhone 5, and is
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:26:00 AM
too, with HTC's massive 4.3-inch already beaten by several Android
screened HD7 as one stand out, handsets (including some
NFL marketing agent Mike along with Dell's peculiar little megapixel camera monsters). Did
Ornstein plead guilty to two vertical-sliding QWERTY unit. MS set the bar too low?
felonies thanks to unlawfully So what can we learn from all Update: AT&T's Ralph de la
capitalizing on his insider access. this? Microsoft isn't as good at Vega showed the Samsung Focus,
SportsBusiness Journal broke the keeping control over its news HTC Surround and LG Quantum
story last week. sources (or actually doesn't care on stage during the MS press
League employees are permitted about leaks) as Apple does. Also event. He gave a little extra sizzle
to purchase a certain number of that there's going to be a relatively to the information we've already
Super Bowl tickets at face value. large clutch of phones available gathered about Windows 7
They are strictly forbidden from from October 21st, when phones, noting the minimum spec
reselling them. Ornstein bought Windows Phone 7 officially is a 1GHz processor (and side-
such tickets or overpaid other arrives--enough to meet a few stepping the fact that all three
employees for their allotment, and different price points and appeal phones actually operate at 1GHz)
resold them at a higher value to a broad swath of potential but his biggest piece of news was
between 1998 and 2006. smartphone customers. MS is that the three units that'll be on
Ornstein also produced fake taking the Android route to sale first all cost users $199. The
court testimony. Ornstein needed He's good friends with coach Sean compete with the all-singing, all- Focus will hit stores November
certificates of authenticity for
help from other league employees Payton and was often seen around d a n c i n g i P h o n e , a n d 8th, and the other two "a few
jerseys he labeled "game-worn."
--both in procuring the Super their locker room during last differentiating the different units weeks later".
The multi-million dollar sports
Bowl tickets, and in dealing with season's Super Bowl run. He with subtle end-user targeting To keep up with this news follow
memorabilia industry depends on
the "game worn" jerseys--to represented Reggie Bush during (media consumption on the me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
the trustworthiness of those
commit these crimes. Though his first two seasons in the league, S u r r o u n d , b u s i n e s s o n t h e
certificates to appraise collector
known, and well-liked, for his and signed him to $50 million Quantum). The core features of
items.
loyalty, Ornstein could crack worth of endorsement deals the phones are, however, very
He was charged with conspiracy,
under federal investigation and before he was ever drafted. similar indeed. And though
for secretly scalping the tickets,
name other names. Join the conversation about this Microsoft's UI is very slick, and
and mail fraud, for transmitting
It's also a near certainty that story »
the false documents. It's the
second time Ornstein has been
Ornstein was not the only league
employee to scalp tickets. Maybe
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charged with mail fraud during
his four decade tenure with the
he'll clue investigators to other Of Collusion Personality to Anything with These
potential cases. After all, his NFL • The Most Powerful Men In Pro
NFL.
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$350,000 from his illegal
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operations over the eight year
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period. He is forced to repay that Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:58:02 AM
Ornstein is most closely googly-eyed toys come with
sum as part of the guilty plea.
connected to the defending If there are any objects that you suction cups and hooks…
The most fascinating aspect of
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New Windows Phones Might Get Analyst Calls: ACLI, ADM,

People To Actually Buy U-Verse ANF, BLK, BP, COST, EMC,
FO, NE, PEET, UNFI ...
Mobile, Zune Pass (MSFT) Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) based on accelerating comps.
Matt Rosoff (Business Insider) phones will only be able to Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:00 AM • PerkinElmer ( PKI) was
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:07:37 AM download selected shows, and upgraded to equal weight from
only over Wi-Fi, not 3G. Filed under: Analyst Reports, underweight at Barclays.
Microsoft's former head of AT&T is offering 30-day free A n a l y s t U p g r a d e s a n d • Valeant ( VRX) was upgraded
consumer products, Robbie Bach, trials of U-Verse Mobile and a Downgrades, Archer-Daniels- t o m a r k e t p e r f o r m f r o m
often pitched the company's Zune Pass--Microsoft's M i d l a n d ( A D M ) , C o s t c o underperform at Wells Fargo with
strategy as "three screens and a subscription-based all-you-can- Wholesale (COST), Fortune a $26 to $28 valuation range.
cloud," and sketched out a vision listen music service--through Brands (FO), Abercrombie and • B l a c k r o c k ( B L K ) w a s
in which the company's online something called the AT&T Fitch (ANF), Analyst Initiations, upgraded to buy from hold at
services and software would work Entertainment Pack. EMC Corp (EMC) Deutsche Bank.
together on computers, TV sets, Bundling is the right strategy, as Analyst Upgrades
and mobile devices. The plan was $30 per month (the expected cost • Deutsche Bank upgraded EMC Continue reading Analyst Calls:
that consumers who added one for both services) is easier to ( EMC) to buy from hold after ACLI, ADM, ANF, BLK, BP,
service or platform would buy swallow when buried in a $100 channel checks indicated storage COST, EMC, FO, NE, PEET,
into others. cell phone bill than when billed demand remains solid. The firm UNFI ...
But until recently, it was just an separately. Then again, a lot of sees potential upside in 2011 from Analyst Calls: ACLI, ADM,
apple-pie-and-goodness talking customers ignore these free trials, the company's new products and ANF, BLK, BP, COST, EMC,
point, more theoretical than real. dismissing them as the kind of upped its target for shares to $25 F O , N E , P E E T , U N F I . . .
Windows Phone 7 could begin to crapware that's been shipping with from $20. originally appeared on
change that. Microsoft's already PCs for years. • BB&T upgraded American BloggingStocks on Mon, 11 Oct
been talking about the built-in Join the conversation about this Commercial ( ACLI) to buy with 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see
Bing search, Xbox Live game story » a $50 target based on pricing our terms for use of feeds.
service connection, and Zune See Also: leverage and cost reductions. Permalink| Email this| Comments
Marketplace for buying songs (not • OK Microsoft, Here's How To • Argus upgraded Abercrombie (
video, yet). Mediaroom IPTV platform. The Keep Your Pretty New Phones ANF) to buy with a $52 target
Today, Microsoft and AT&T service hasn't taken the world by From Flopping
announced another piece of the storm--there were only 2 million • Microsoft Must Make Its Own
puzzle: the ability to get U-Verse U-Verse customers in the United Phone If Wants To Make Money
Stubby Entrepreneur Cars - The
TV on Windows Phone 7 devices States at the end of 2009, and it's • Apple iPod Still Obliterating
from AT&T. not available in a lot of places, Microsoft Zune
'Nissan Townpod' is a Futuristic
U - V e r s e i s A T & T ' s I P T V including the New York metro
service, delivering TV and video region or Seattle. Creating a
Business Vehicle (GALLERY)
programming over a private mobile version of the service (TREND HUNTER - The Latest who can easily maintain a balance
Internet-like network, and it's could attract users outside of these Trends) between social and business life.
b a s e d o n t h e M i c r o s o f t coverage areas, although the Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:26:02 AM Being dubbed as the 'Nissan
Townpod,' the zero emission car
Nissan has designed a futuristic is designed…
car designed for enterprenuers
8 Business/ Technology/
Bain Capital to Acquire
Gymboree
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:30:00 AM
Filed under: Deals, Private
Equity
Early Monday morning, trading
was halted on Gymboree (
GYMB) after an announcement
that Bain Capital Partners would
acquire the children's clothing
company. Reportedly, the
definitive agreement calls for
Bain to pay $65.40 per share for
Gymboree, or $1.8 billion.
According to the terms of the
agreement, Gymboree
stockholders will receive $65.40
cash for each outstanding share of
Gymboree common stock owned.
This price is a 57.4% premium to
Gymboree's share price on
September 30, 2010 -- the date
Boston Properties Is in an Uptrend
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy,
Housing
I first discussed Boston
Properties( BXP) here on June 11,
2009, at a price of $48.89, and the achievement, given the nation's BloggingStocks on Mon, 11 Oct Designed as if it was just dug up the north of copenhagen.
commercial real estate play is still recent, deep economic downturn. 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see from the ground, this skull head Sendt fra min iPhone
laying the foundation for success. Boston Properties' high-quality our terms for use of feeds. has four USB hubs and the We may have to go up there and
Just put Boston Properties in the portfolio, combined with the fact Permalink| Email this| Comments carved…
category of a commercial real that only about 14% to 15% of
estate survivor -- no modest
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European Regulators to
Cap Bank Bonuses
Connie Madon
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:30:00 PM
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Goldman Realizes Their Employees Maybe
Didn't Read Foreclosure Documents Either,
Halts Foreclosures (GS)
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
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Goldman Sachs is now halting
foreclosures, the latest bank to
join Foreclosure-Gate scandal that
is causing loan-servicing banks to
investigate how foreclosure
documents were handled before
making any other moves to
proceed with foreclosures.
Litton Loan servicing said this
morning that they have suspended
proceedings "in certain cases
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Industrial designer Francisco
Lupin has designed a micro
turbine which will generate power
to lighten rural areas where there
are no access to electricity.
Named 'Hydro,' it consists a
number of micro…
Survey: Christianity 'Resilient' in
Unchurched Cities
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While it's no surprise that the
highest proportion of self-
identified Christians reside in the
South, a new survey reveals that
even in the most unchurched U.S.
cities, nearly three out of four
while it completes a review of its people say they're Christian.
procedures." According to Barna Group, the
Join the conversation about this most unchurched cities – where
story » around four out of ten adults have
not been to a religious worship
service in the last six months – are
San Francisco; Portland, Maine;
Portland, Ore.; Boston;
Sacramento; and Seattle. Many of
these cities also have the highest
percentage of atheists or
agnostics.
Yet in each of these cities, 68 to
76 percent identify as a Christian.
David Kinnaman, who directed
Agflation Continues the research project, concluded
that Christianity in America is
As Corn Prices Go "remarkably resilient and
mainstream."
Wild "Nearly three out of four people
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game) call themselves Christians, even
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:39:13 AM
among the least 'Christianized'
cities. Furthermore, a majority of
A day after some massive gains U.S. residents, regardless of
seen in ag futures, corn prices are location, engage in a church at
up again by over 5%. But, but, some level in a typical six-month
deflation! period," he said in the report
Join the conversation about this Monday.
story » "The real differences spiritually
between various regions are not
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so much what they call
themselves; the faith gaps are
more likely to be issues of belief,
practice, politics and spiritual
emphasis – how people think
about, prioritize and express their
faith."
Barna Group saw wide gaps
when it asked survey participants
specifics about their beliefs.
When asked to agree or disagree
with the statement "the Bible is
accurate in all of the principles it
teaches," nearly three-quarters of
residents in Charlotte, N.C., and
Shreveport, La., held Scripture in
high regard, according to the
research group. But just over a
quarter of residents in Providence,
R.I., and San Francisco agreed.
Regarding evangelism, a majority
of residents in Birmingham, Ala.,
(64 percent) and Charlotte (54
percent) said they agreed strongly
that a person has a responsibility
to share their beliefs with others.
Meanwhile, only 14 percent and
17 percent of Providence and
Boston populations, respectively,
agreed.
Politics was found to be another
significant faith gap. Practicing
Christians who are registered
Democrats are most likely to be
found in Shreveport (63 percent);
Harlingen, Texas(53 percent);
Lexington, Ky. (49 percent); and
Memphis, Tenn. (48 percent).
Practicing Christians who are
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affiliated with the Republican
Party, meanwhile, are most likely
to reside in Wichita, Kansas(54
percent); Springfield, Ill. (50
percent); Harrisburg, Pa. (49
percent); and Knoxville, Tenn.
(49 percent).
Other findings show that weekly
church attendance is highest in
Birmingham (67 percent), Baton
Rouge, La., (62 percent), Salt
Lake City (62 percent) and
Huntsville, Ala. (60 percent).
Notably, cities with the highest
proportions of Christians who
attend large churches (of 1,000 or
more people) include Las Vegas,
Orlando, Dallas, San Diego,
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla., and
Houston. Small church (100 or
fewer people) participation is
highest in Charleston, W. Va.;
Lexington, Ky.; Little Rock, Ark.;
Scranton, Pa.; Shreveport; and
Pittsburgh.
The results are based on nearly
40,000 telephone interviews
conducted over the last seven
years by Barna Group.
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New Mandela book offers personal portrait (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) more." choke his first wife. Instead, he degree, taken by correspondence development and other projects in
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:23:10 AM "Conversations" is best read as a said, she threatened to burn him while he was in prison. his name, switched in recent years
companion to "Long Walk," with a red hot poker. The editors of "Conversations" from a logo featuring Mandela's
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson which was in part calculated by "So I caught hold of her and promise the Mandela behind the face to one of his hands. That
Mandela failing classes, fussing Mandela and other members of twisted her arm, enough for me to public figure. But a tell-all would reflected his desire to shift the
over his children, fighting with his his African National Congress take this thing out," Mandela says. be hard to imagine from Mandela, focus from himself, and his
wife. party to stir support for anti- "The poker away," Kathrada who spent years as a secretive concern his legacy would mean
This is not the anti-apartheid icon apartheid activists as they stepped responds. underground ANC agent, and little if South Africans did not
of "Long Walk to Freedom," into new roles as leaders trying to Mandela: "That's all." knew throughout his 27 years in take it upon themselves to build
Mandela's 1995 autobiography. heal and develop a divided, Mandela has said his first wife prison that letters to even his their country.
"Conversations with Myself," impoverished nation. did not understand or support his closest confidants were being read "It is in your hands to create a
which goes on sale Tuesday in 22 As he puts it in "Conversations," political activism. A second and censored by apartheid better world for all who live in it,"
countries and 20 languages from an autobiography of "a freedom marriage, to Winnie Madikizela- authorities. Mandela said last year, calling on
Catalan to Turkish, presents a f i g h t e r m u s t i n e v i t a b l y b e Mandela, also ended in divorce. Mandela emerged from prison as people around the world to
more human Mandela, faults, i n f l u e n c e d b y t h e q u e s t i o n His anguish over sacrificing the most famous African leader of celebrate his July 18 birthday by
frailties and all. whether the revelation of certain family life to politics is a the 20th century, whose words doing good for others.
"Conversations" was compiled facts, however true they may be, recurrent theme of could have far-reaching impact. "Conversations" presents a
with the 92-year-old former South will help advance the struggle." "Conversations." giving him more reason to be Mandela more people may feel
African president's blessing by a Certainly, the possibility of "I love playing and chatting with guarded. But there are fascinating they can emulate. It ends with a
team of archivists, editors and violence within Mandela's first children, giving them a bath, glimpses of the inner man, and passage from his unpublished
collaborators who worked from marriage, to Evelyn Mase, who feeding and putting them to bed flashes of his celebrated humor in autobiography in which he insists
decades of notes, letters, recorded died in 2004, had no place in the with a little story, and being away "Conversations." he was never a saint — "Even on
conversations and other material. official autobiography. But it has from the family has troubled me He describes being taken from the basis of an earthly definition
In a foreword, U.S. President been raised elsewhere, including throughout my political life," he prison to a hospital to be treated of a saint as a sinner who keeps
Barack Obama writes that in "Young Mandela," an writes in a passage drawn from an for tuberculosis, and being on trying."
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Microsoft unveils new mobile platform, Windows
Phone 7 (AFP)
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:58:31 AM
NEW YORK (AFP) – Microsoft
unveiled a new mobile phone
operating system Monday in a bid
to regain ground lost to the
iPhone, Blackberry and devices
powered by Google's Android
software.
Microsoft chief executive Steve
Ballmer took the wraps off nine
mobile phones powered by
Windows Phone 7 (WP7) during
an event held at a loft in New
York's Chelsea neighborhood.
Ballmer said more than 60
mobile operators around the world
will offer the devices, made by
South Korea's Samsung and LG
Electronics, Taiwan's HTC and
US computer giant Dell, in more
than 30 countries.
"We have built a different kind of
a phone," Ballmer said. "We set
out to build a phone that was
thoroughly modern."
With WP7, Microsoft is
emphasizing personalization and
customization, the company's
CEO said.
"We focused on the things that
real people really want to use," he
added. "We really put our energy
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into bringing together the things
that you love."
Smartphones powered by WP7
will run email from various
services -- not just Microsoft's
Hotmail -- integrate calendars,
contacts and social networks and
allow for documents to be viewed,
edited and shared using Microsoft
Office.
WP7, which represents a shift for
Microsoft from the enterprise
market to the consumer, will also
allow users to tap into Microsoft's
Zune music player platform and
to access mobile versions of Xbox
360 games.
Joe Belfiore, the Windows Phone
corporate vice president,
demonstrated how the WP7-
powered phones integrates with
Zune and Xbox Live.
"My phone is like a giant virtual
jukebox," Belfiore said. "It's a
killer experience."
He said videogame publisher
Electronic Arts had signed on as a
WP7 gaming partner and gave a
short demonstration of a popular
EA title, the "Sims."
US telecom carrier AT&T
showed off three devices -- the
Samsung Focus, the LG Quantum
and the HTC 7 Surround -- that
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the United States, about the same
price as Apple's latest iPhone.
Another US carrier, T-Mobile,
will offer two WP7-powered
devices in November, the HTC
HD7 and the HTC Mozart.
Some of the smartphones feature
touchscreens like the iPhone
while others have keyboards like
the Blackberry from Canada's
Research In Motion.
WP7 is Microsoft's first
significant update to its mobile
operating system in 18 months
and its release comes on the heels
of the disastrous launch of a "Kin"
line of phones, which were pulled
from stores after just two months.
Though mobile makes up only
one percent of Microsoft's
revenue, the smartphone market is
growing by around 30 percent a
year and the software behemoth is
determined to remain a player in
the sector.
Analysts see WP7 as a potentially
make-or-break effort by the
company to remain relevant in the
highly competitive market.
According to technology research
firm Gartner, Microsoft's share of
the worldwide mobile operating
system market will fall to 4.7
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last year.
While Microsoft is lagging in the
smartphone race, Google's
Android platform is expanding
rapidly.
Android-powered smartphones
were the most popular among US
consumers over the past six
months ahead of the Blackberry
and the iPhone, according to a
study released last week by the
Nielsen Co.
Thirty-two percent of new
smartphone buyers in the United
States purchased a handset
running Android during the
period, Nielsen said, while 26
percent chose the Blackberry and
25 percent chose the iPhone.
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Windows Phone
7: Solid Platform,
Sorry Future
Matt Burns (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:16:47 AM
Oh Microsoft. I feel for you.
Windows Phone 7 might have
been a huge hit. It might have
been the true iPhone killer. It
might have even become the
dominant mobile platform. But it
won’t. It’s an iOS, Android and
BlackBerry world now and there
isn’t room for anyone else.
It’s too bad, really. Windows
Phone 7 looks great to me. I
believe Microsoft really nailed the
overall design philosophy behind
it. Windows Phone 7 is about
communication, not apps. That’s a
key difference and one that I, as a
Droid X owner, greatly appreciate
and understand. This platform is
in a way the Google of mobile
OSs in that it wants you to get
your information as quickly as
possible. Awesome, but it’s still a
few years too late.
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Vt. Ban on Religious

Vanity Plates
(Society) statements of affiliation with or Vermont’s ban on all religious
Submitted at 10/10/2010 12:25:21 PM affirmation of entities, causes, and messages in a forum it has
people. The state does not, otherwise broadly opened to
A federal appeals court ruled h o w e v e r , p e r m i t a n y comment on a wide variety of
Friday that faith-based lettering “combination[] of letters or subjects, including personal Windows Phone
on vehicle license plates is n u m b e r s t h a t r e f e r , i n a n y philosophy, affiliation, and belief,
a l l o w e d u n d e r t h e F i r s t language, to a ... religion” or serves not to restrict content but 7 launch day
Amendment, but emphasized that “deity.” instead to discriminate against ‘a
its ruling is limited to Vermont’s The judges also noted that the
ruling, saying "[t]here’s no reason
specific premise, [] perspective, app roundup
ban on religious messages.(Photo: state's rules against religious [and] standpoint,’” the court Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
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expression on vanity plates had wrote, “and, as such, is
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Corners intersection in Essex For instance, it said, "GENESIS" discrimination.”
"Accordingly, we reverse the With thousands of developers
Junction, Vt., Vt., Monday, June can appear on a license plates as “Christians shouldn’t be censored
judgment of the district court and churning out thousands of apps,
27, 2005. from expressing their beliefs
long as the driver insists it is a remand for further proceedings we've no doubt exploring the
In ruling in favor of Shawn reference to a rock group rather while others are freely allowed to
not inconsistent with this Marketplace is going to be a full-
Byrne of West Rutland, Vt., the than the Old Testament. express theirs,” said ADF Senior
Opinion," it concluded. time job for at least a day or two
three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. And it said Byrne had shown that Counsel David Cortman.
Friday's decision came nearly after you nab your Windows
Court of Appeals in New York his proposed license plate would Notably, however, the 2nd
two years after the case, Byrne v. Phone 7 device this fall -- but
reversed the decision of a federal have been approved if he had Circuit emphasized that its ruling
Rutledge, was argued before the with all the hullabaloo today, we
judge in Burlington, Vt., who given the state a secular meaning, was limited to the state's ban on
court. thought this would be a good
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Russian bank explains hiring of spy The Story Behind "Free

Anna Chapman (AP) Public WiFi" - It's Not
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) president of FondServisBank, but said Chapman's computer would Mike Melanson
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:35:31 AM until Monday there had been no link wirelessly to a laptop in the (ReadWriteWeb)
confirmation from the bank. minivan, using a built-in Wi-Fi Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:05:00 AM
MOSCOW – Russian spy Anna With her flaming red hair and chip. In the short time that the
Chapman has become the new penchant for posting sultry photos computers were close, they could You've probably seen it a
celebrity face of a Moscow bank. of herself on social networking transfer encrypted files between thousand times and even thought
FondServisBank, which works sites, the 28-year-old Chapman each other. "Hey, why not?" but it never
with Russian companies in the was the pinup girl for the 10 The FBI figured this out with seems to work. Don't worry -
aerospace industry, said Monday sleeper spies who were arrested in commercial Wi-Fi analysis you're not alone - and this
that it has hired Chapman to bring the United States this summer and software. weekend NPR ferreted out the
innovation to its information then sent back to Russia in a spy The Russian bank said it hoped it story behind the ever present and
technologies. swap. would be a "reliable partner" for never functional "Free Public
It did not escape Russians' She has avoided the media since Chapman in helping her realize WiFi".
attention that the initials of the her return, so when she showed her own projects, which include a Sponsor network can see it, luring other
bank, FSB, are the same as up at the launch site late Thursday book she is writing on the new Everywhere you go, there it users to connect. [...] Computers
Russia's main spy agency. it caused a sensation. She was possibilities offered by the is...but it isn't because the with the XP bug that try to
While it was not immediately wearing a bright red pea coat, Internet. government finally started connect to the Internet will
clear if the bank was genuinely which proved less than ideal attire As for the FondServisBank, it has offering ubiquitous WiFi for remember the name, create their
interested in her IT knowledge or for slipping through the crowd "acquired an exceptionally public use without you knowing. own ad hoc networks and entice
was just using her for her fame, unnoticed. creative and what is of equal Instead, it's a bug in Windows XP other users wherever they go.
Chapman's job description was Chapman refused to answer any importance multifaceted that started years ago and has Microsoft is aware of the issue
sure to amuse the FBI agents who questions before being hustled employee who is truly concerned spread computer to computer, like and says it has eliminated the
arrested her in New York after away by a burly man, but a about the fate of Russia." a virus. network in more recent versions
cracking her Internet code. photograph of her in her scarlet This entry passed through the Image via Defensive Computing/ of Windows. It also created a fix
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appearance last week at the Russia's best-selling newspaper. on someone else's site, please read expert Joshua Wright, the bug has Windows XP Service Pack 3 --
remote Baikonur cosmodrome for While working as a spy in the our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ been around for about four years but many people still haven't
the launch of Russian rocket United States, Chapman used her content-only/faq.php now and, although mostly updated their computers.
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anonymity, told The Associated little while later a minivan the FBI When a computer running an "default" and "hpsetup" networks
Press that Chapman was at knew was used by the Russian older version of XP can't find any that are so common may simply
Baikonur as an adviser to the official would drive by. The FBI of its "favorite" wireless be no-good, ad hoc networks too.
networks, it will automatically At least now we know we weren't
create an ad hoc network with the the only ones wandering around
same name as the last one it town in the dark as to how to
connected to -- in this case, "Free connect to this apparently free
Public WiFi." Other computers public resource. Discuss
within range of that new ad hoc
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Too much TV psychologically harms Exclusive: How copy and

children: study (AFP) paste work in Windows
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 2:38:29 AM
on a computer. Responses ranged
from zero to around five hours per
day.
to believe that upping physical
activity levels could counteract
the negative impact of watching
Phone 7
(CNET News.com) the devices for the common user,
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Hiding The children also completed a 25 TV or playing on the computer.
the TV remote and games console -point questionnaire to assess their And many parents and children Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:19:05 AM copy and paste is important
controller is a good thing to do to psychological state, and the time think that spending a lot of time because it is one of those "check
kids if it's the only way to limit t h e y s p e n t i n m o d e r a t e t o NEW YORK--Just after Steve box" features that users look for,
on the computer or in front of the
the time they spend in front of a vigorous activity was measured Ballmer finished up on stage, I even if they never make use of it.
television is OK if it's part of a
screen, according to a study u s i n g a d e v i c e c a l l e d a n cornered some of the development Originally, copy and paste was
"balanced lifestyle", the study in
published Monday. team members and got a look at not particularly high on the
accelerometer, which was worn Pediatrics says.
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China snubs Norway in Nobel Peace Prize row

(Reuters: Top News) party state, told his wife, Liu Xia, The China Daily, one of the manufacturing jobs to China thought.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:33:18 AM that the award was a tribute to government's main English- while China’s worldwide spying Oct 11, 2010 6:50am EDT
citizens killed when troops moved language mouthpieces, said the steals corporate technology and It looks like being afraid of
Protesters hold up placards with in to crush the protests, reports award was "part of the plot to state secrets as way of doing “China” is like being afraid of
i m a g e s o f j a i l e d C h i n e s e said on Monday. contain China" and the Nobel business. It is time to remind “The West”. I don’t think the
democracy activist Liu Xiaobo Although a final toll may never exposed "the deep and wide China that, like it or not, they rely people in the West hate the people
during a demonstration in Hong be known, estimates of those ideological rift between this on the rest of the world for their in the East, or vice versa, rather
Kong October 10, 2010. killed range from several hundred country and the West." improved standard of the haters in the East or West
Credit: Reuters/Bobby Yip to several thousand. China insists Liu, 54, has been a thorn in the living.China’s motives should would like you to think that
By Chris Buckley the reports are exaggerated. government's side since 1989. He always be viewed with a large everything is either black or white
BEIJING| Mon Oct 11, 2010 "This prize goes to all of those has been in and out of jail ever degree of skeptism for everything in order to enlist the majority to
10:33am EDT who died on June 4, 1989," he since for his campaigning for they do is with a “us versus them” be on their side. Fortunately, so
BEIJING(Reuters) - Beijing on told her, according to Norway's freedom of speech and political mind set. far, that hasn’t worked for very
Monday canceled a meeting with Dagbladet newspaper, citing a liberalization. Oct 11, 2010 5:32am EDT long. In the case of the
a Norwegian minister as Chinese message from Liu Xia after she Norwegian government officials Well, yes, I AM afraid of the Communist Party of China, they
officials bristled over the award of visited him in prison. said Fisheries Minister Lisbeth “rise of the Chinese model”. would like you to believe that
the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Liu Xia also said she had been Berg-Hansen had been told in Looking at human evolution from they speak for the majority of
dissident Liu Xiaobo. "put under house arrest," the Shanghai that she would no 10,000 years ago when we were people in China. I think it is more
Responses to the prize have laid Dagbladet reported, and Liu's longer be meeting Chinese all running around with clubs likely that they only speak for the
bare tensions between Beijing and lawyer, Shang Baojun, told counterparts for trade talks and an hitting out at anything that looked majority of the Communist Party,
its critics at a time of greater Reuters that he had been unable to analyst said more rebukes would like food, and comparing it with which from their seemingly
Chinese assertiveness over its contact her. likely follow. today when women can walk the vehement over-reaction to the
currency, international trade and Diplomats from the European Oct 11, 2010 2:08am EDT streets in relative safety and Nobel committee, seems be be
even geographical ambitions for Union as well as Australia and China would do well to everyone has the right to say what substantially less than the
territory in dispute with its Switzerland unsuccessfully tried remember their rise to wealth and they think without fear of being majority of Chinese citizens.
neighbors. to visit Liu Xia in her apartment power has a lot to do with incarcerated or even killed, I am Could be they sense a lose of
S t a t e - c o n t r o l l e d C h i n e s e on Monday but were stopped by a exporting to the West. If the West very happy with the development. control in this new internet age.
newspapers said the prize to Liu, plain clothes official who said he suddenly decided to be less of a The Chinese model, however, Oct 11, 2010 6:54am EDT
once reviled by Beijing as a w o r k e d f o r t h e a p a r t m e n t trade partner with China, China’s seems a step back to me. In fact, We, the Chinese, are SO
traitorous "black hand" behind the c o m p o u n d . high flying ways would nosedive considering how advanced the powerful, that the rest of the
1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy Chinese media reacted furiously into the dust bin.If this is the kind country was in the past, compared world lives in fear of us.
protests, showed a prejudiced on Monday to the Nobel Prize of intimidating stance China to many other parts of the world, China’s foreign policy.
West afraid of China's rising decision. wants to take, Western countries the fact that people can’t say Oct 11, 2010 8:56am EDT
wealth and standing. If Liu's calls for a multi-party should consider it a wake up call what’s on their mind without fear, China is doing just fine without
China's Foreign Ministry had d e m o c r a c y i n C h i n a w e r e to become a little more self reliant makes me think that their success Western pseudo-democracy. If
already called the prize an followed, said the Global Times, a industrial wise and put their own wouldn’t be a rise but a fall, a you have any doubt (probably
"obscenity" and blamed the popular Chinese-language tabloid: citizens back to work. For some huge step back in human engendered by biased articles in
Norwegian government, although "China's fate would perhaps be no reason China has come to think of development. Western capitalist media) then
Oslo has no say in who the Oslo- better than the former Soviet itself as indespensable. The truth Please, greedy and ignorant why not pay a visit to that
based Nobel committee awards it Union and Yugoslavia, and the is: If we don’t buy, China does’t business people all over the beautiful country and see for
to. country probably would have fly. Multi-national corporations world, save us from the rise of the yourself all the people there who
Liu, serving 11 years in jail for quickly collapsed." have been responsible, with the Chinese model, even if it means no more or less happy with their
campaigning for the democratic DEEP IDEOLOGICAL DIVIE help of the U.S. Congress, in the your profits will be less. Human
transformation of China's one- BETWEEN CHINA AND WEST wholesale shipping of industrial rights should trump greed, I CHINA page 19
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Microsoft launches new phones, available November 8

(Reuters: Top News) rivals who overtook it in the past games for the new phone software -ridden OS’s and bloated phone provider and there are to
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:06:53 AM few years. this holiday season. software… People don’t “trust” many subversions of its OS. In
"I've been looking forward to this Microsoft has a market share of you like they did, and you don’t other words, its identity is blurry.
The new Windows Phone 7 is d a y f o r s o m e t i m e , " s a i d only 5 percent in the global control (read: dominate) this Similar to what Windows Mobile
seen at the Windows Phone 7 Microsoft Chief Executive Steve smartphone market, according to market … went thru.
launch news conference in New Ballmer, showing off nine phone research firm Gartner, compared Oct 11, 2010 9:31am EDT Navigating thru Windows Phone
York, October 11, 2010. models at a launch event in New with 9 percent a year ago. Windows Mobile was the biggest 7 is intuitive, unlike Android (due
Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi York. Google's Android system has a 17 waste of money. Why would an to what I mentioned above). What
By Bill Rigby and Sinead Carew Ballmer, who has admitted that percent market share, jumping iPhone user go to MS after being I like about Windows Phone 7’s
SEATTLE/NEW YORK| Mon h i s c o m p a n y " m i s s e d a from only 2 percent a year ago. burned by their lame OS that UI is the minimal look, which in
Oct 11, 2010 12:06pm EDT generation" with its recent The market for multi-feature wasn’t ‘updateable’ in the past. my opinion is going to target the
S E A T T L E / N E W unpopular phone offerings, said phones that allow users to email, Very pathetic OS, that was for mature audience or the non-tech
YORK(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp the new phones would eventually surf the Web and play games, as sure. geeks.
unveiled a new line of phones be available from 60 mobile well as have access to music and How can MS compete against *We welcome comments that
running its Windows software on operators in 30 countries. video, is set to expand massively. Google’s free Android? The only advance the story directly or with
Monday, as it attempts to pull The first phone from AT&T, Gartner expects almost 270 sales point would be that it relevant tangential information.
back market share from Apple priced at $200, will be available million smartphones to be sold integrates natively with exchange We try to block comments that
Inc's iPhone and Google Inc's on November 8, said Ralph de la around the world this year, up 56 for Outlook users… Ah but Apple use offensive language or appear
Android system in the fast- Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility percent from last year. already does that. to be spam and review comments
growing market for multi-featured and Consumer Markets. In comparison, Gartner expects We predict Microsoft will frequently to ensure they meet our
"smartphones." The new range of phones, which only a 19 percent increase in continue to lose the desktop standards. If you see a comment
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Chile to start freeing miners at midnight Tuesday
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:26:27 AM
A frame grab shows trapped
miners as a drill bit of the T-130
drilling machine digs a 12-inch
guide hole at a garage next to the
refuge where 33 miners are
trapped deep underground inside a
copper and gold mine near
Copiapo September 17, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Chilean
Government/Handout
By Cesar Illiano
COPIAPO, Chile| Mon Oct 11,
2010 12:35pm EDT
COPIAPO, Chile(Reuters) -
Rescuers will start evacuating 33
trapped miners late on Tuesday
and have successfully tested a
capsule to hoist them to the
surface to end their two-month
ordeal, officials said on Monday.
The specially designed bullet-
shaped cage was lowered almost
the entire length of the escape
shaft without a hitch, Mining
Minister Laurence Golborne told
reporters.
Once the evacuations start, at
midnight on Tuesday (0300 GMT,
Wednesday), it will take 48 hours
to hoist the men up from inside
the caved-in mine half a mile
underground, he said.
Samsung Omnia 7 Windows Phone Launches Early
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Four rescuers will be lowered
down to help the miners prepare
to return to the surface from the
darkness of the tunnel they have
been trapped in since the August 5
collapse at the gold and copper
mine in the Atacama desert.
Rescue workers finished
reinforcing the escape shaft on
Monday morning. Engineers
decided to line only part of the
narrow, nearly 2,050 foot-long
(625-meter) shaft with metal
tubes, aiming to avoid any last-
minute disaster.
Rescuers installed the tubes to
head off the risk of rocks breaking
off the walls of the drill shaft and
blocking the exit of the capsule,
dubbed the "Phoenix" after the
mythical bird.
President Sebastian Pinera, who
has ordered a revamp of mine
safety regulations in the wake of
the accident, has said he plans to
visit the mine on Tuesday. One of
the 33 miners is a Bolivian
national, and Bolivian President
Evo Morales has vowed to visit
the mine for his rescue.
Rescue officials said they would
push ahead boring a separate shaft
with a rig usually used to drill for
oil as a back-up plan, just in case
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have halted a third drill.
In a country still recovering from
a devastating February
earthquake, celebrations broke out
across Chile when the drill boring
the escape shaft reached the
miners on Saturday.
PRAYERS, VIGILS, WAITING
More relatives of the miners
arrived at the settlement known as
"Camp Hope" near the mine
entrance on Monday morning as
they count down the hours amid
growing anticipation.
"I'm so tired. It's been far too
many days doing nothing, just
sitting waiting," said Alicia
Campos, whose son Daniel
Herrera is among the trapped
miners, as she lined up for a fish
sandwich at the tent settlement.
She wants her son to take up
another profession.
After weeks of prayers, vigils and
agonizing waiting, anxiety is
giving way to joy as wives,
parents and children count down
to reunions with their loved ones.
The men, who have set a world
record for the length of time
workers have survived
underground after a mining
accident, have been doing
exercises to keep their weight
down for their ascent.
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As a miner i must hope at this
late stage that all goes well, and
people will not become too hasty,
last thing needed now is an
accident caused by over
exuberance.
From the South Pacific, best
wishes to those miners below
ground.
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:15:10 AM
It’s been a long time coming and
it’s finally here: Microsoft has
released their eagerly-awaited
Windows Phone 7, a distinct
break from everything that came
before and a complete overhaul of
Microsoft’s aged OS.
Windows Phone 7 uses an
entirely new UI based around
“hubs,” points of activity on the
screen. Some hubs bring up email,
others bring up photos and games.
You can download TV from
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North Korea's heir debuts at giant military parade
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:32:44 AM
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il
(R) and his youngest son Kim
Jong-un (L) salute next to a
military official during a parade to
commemorate the 65th
anniversary of the founding of the
Workers' Party of Korea in
Pyongyang October 10, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Kyodo
By Benjamin Kang Lim
PYONGYANG| Mon Oct 11,
2010 6:32am EDT
PYONGYANG(Reuters) - North
Korea's leader-in-waiting, the
youngest son of ailing ruler Kim
Jong-il, took center stage during a
big military parade on Sunday,
making his first national
appearance in the secretive state.
Kim Jong-un stood near his
father on the dais, clapping and
saluting thousands of goose-
stepping soldiers, and reviewing
missiles, tanks and artillery
rockets.
The young Kim's prominent role
at the parade in Pyongyang's Kim
Il-sung Square marked his
military debut and showed his
The Era Of the Uber-Smartphone Is Here
John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:30:34 AM
One thing you’ll notice about this
crop of Windows Phone 7
handsets is the power of the
processor. Each one – almost ten
in all – run 1GHz+ Snapdragon
standing in one of the world's
largest armies.
Until his appointment as a
general last month -- along with
his naming to a key political post
-- little was known about the
young Kim other than that he was
educated in Switzerland.
"The future of our country is rosy
and bright because Kim Jong-un
was elected vice chairman of the
military commission of the
Workers' Party," said a
government official, who asked
not to be identified.
"We have a proverb in Korean
that great teachers produce great
students and great parents produce
great children.
"Kim Jong-il is healthy enough to
lead our country and to give spot
guidance in every field including
economic, agricultural, industrial,
military and arts."
Kim Jong-il, 68, is believed to
have suffered a stroke in 2008 but
he has shown no sign of losing his
grip on power and was
reappointed last month as
secretary-general of the ruling
Workers' Party.
He stood for over an hour during
processors. With the average
desktop or laptop processor
running at about 4GHz, we’re
talking about phones that have the
power of a half-decade old PC.
Yes, you could probably run
Crysis on these.
What does that mean for you and
the parade and waved to the
crowds, but limped noticeably and
reached to the balcony for
support.
State television broadcast the
parade live, giving North Koreans
their first real look at their next
leader, known only to be in his
mid- to late-20s.
A stable succession would be a
relief to North Korea's
economically powerful neighbors
-- China, South Korea and Japan -
- which worry that a regime
collapse could result in massive
refugee flows and domestic
unrest.
The young Kim, the third son of
the ailing leader, is poised to
continue dynastic rule in the
isolated state which also has
ambitions to develop nuclear
weapons.
SHOW OF STRENGTH
Among the guests at the parade,
the biggest in the North in years,
were foreign diplomats and
Communist Party officials from
China -- the destitute North's only
major ally on which it relies for
food and fuel aid.
Foreign media were also invited
me? Not much except some
to watch the parade which marked
the 65th anniversary of the
founding of the Workers' Party
and gave the world its first
independent look at the protege.
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government than I am with mine,
and who are very likely to be
working for a Western
corporation that has abandoned its
own land and people for the lower
labor cost and higher performance
of the Chinese labor force.
Oct 11, 2010 9:35am EDT
It is a shame that Nobel Prize for
Peace in these days is so political
not reflect what is going on in the
world.
Western world should respect
others to live in peace. Impose
your own thoughts on others
irregardless of its culture and
society is wrong and pitiful.
Why i did not see any justice for
British Empire invaded China for
waging opium war?
How come there is no justice for
Japanese cruelty durig the WW II
in Asia? We only hear is about
Hilter killed many jews but how
about the Japs killed millions of
Chinese and Asians? Is there any
justice?
I am proud to be an oversea
Chinese that China is strong and
powerful but I will not support
any use of its power to impose on
AT&T U-verse Mobile preview
Paul Miller (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:17:00 PM
We just got a look at U-verse
Mobile running live on Windows
Phone 7. It looks just like every
other Windows Phone 7 app, of
course, but it looks like AT&T
isn't cutting this thing off at the
knees content-wise. From the
others.
China eventually will be a
democratic society but now is not
time yet. Chinese culture and
education system is not ready for
the democracy.
To me democracy is real not like
in Taiwan which is corrupted by
money and local mobs. Japan is
almost dominated by one party
system means corruption and
connection.
Liu is only self serving does not
deserve the Peace Prize neither is
Obama -our own president. What
did they do for th eowrld peace?
nothing.
Oct 11, 2010 9:44am EDT
Chinese government’s statements
are always inverted. The Nobel
prize news has been totally
blocked inside China. They are
scared to death that Chinese
people might start talking about
what happened in 1989.
Oct 11, 2010 10:03am EDT
I am an Indian. I would not like
to see the kind of totalitarian
regime they have in China ruling
over me here in India; but our
democracy comes at a cost. Every
phone you'll have access to your
entire DVR for scheduling and
checking the program guide, and
you'll also be able to see any
episodes you have recorded on
your box. Within that view you
can find a subset of shows that
have been flagged by the content
providers to allow streaming (free Additionally, the phone can
- f o r - a l l S l i n g t h i s i s n o t ) . access a mobile version of U-
country has its priorities and
preferences – we have ours, the
west has a different set of
priorities and China has its own. It
is rather presumptuous of any
people, be it China or a western
country to assert that there system
should have universal application.
Oct 11, 2010 11:40am EDT
gwng99 played the card: The
mindset for the Han appears to be
that what happened in China
hundreds of years ago makes its
OK now for China to do anything
it wants to anyone it wants
anytime it wants, disregarding
clear rules and basic promises
made.
Let’s consider the China
engagement experiment a failed
one. China needs the USA way
more than the USA needs China.
Let’s dump China back in the
gutter where it turns out it appears
to belong.
Otherwise it appears generations
of hard-fought victories in labor
and consumer rights and human
rights will be kicked in the gutter
instead.
It’s a clear choice–which will it
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which should hopefully be
comparable to Zune or iTunes
offerings -- though we'll have to
see the specifics to find out for
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Suri Cruise Follows
Ballet With Ice Cream
in Katie's Arms
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:00 AM
Suri Cruise clutched her Baskin
Robbins ice cream while taking a
ride in mom Katie Holmes's arms
after ballet class in LA last week.
The girls are home in California
so Katie can shoot her new Adam
Sandler movie Jack and Jill, so
Suri is sticking around as well.
Katie is a bona fide movie star
these days, but she's also going
back to the small screen with her
History Channel series The
Kennedys. She perfectly
embodies Jackie O, which most of
you appreciate more than
Michelle Williams as Marilyn
Monroe. Meanwhile, Tom is far
away in Prague filming Mission:
Impossible 4, which has so far
meant lots of looks at his
impressive shirtless body.
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Windows Phone 7 Revealed: What You Need to Know
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:15:48 AM
Microsoft officially unveiled its
new mobile operating system,
Windows Phone 7, at a press
event held this morning in New
York City. CEO Steve Ballmer
described the new line of
Windows Phones as "different"
and more modern, in both design
and principles. With Windows
Phone 7, the focus is on how "real
people want to use their phones,"
he said.
Sponsor
Besides being different, a key
point Microsoft needs to drive
home if wanting to compete in a
crowded mobile landscape, there
was also a big focus on
personalization. "We also wanted
these to be wonderfully mine, or
yours, or yours, or the next
person. Here's my phone, the way
I've made it wonderfully mine,"
explained Ballmer. "My photos,
my email, my start screen, my
activities, my world... and of
course, my avatar." The Software
Microsoft Corporate Vice
President Joe Belifore described
the phone's final software as an
operating system that helps you
get things done. "We wanted to
figure out how to build a phone
that simplifies the basics," he said.
One of the ways WP7 achieves
this, explained Belifore, is
through the use of something
called Windows Phone Hubs.
These live-updating tiles display
on the Windows Phone 7
homescreen, alerting users to new
text messages, missed calls,
voicemails and more. But hubs
can deliver non-phone related info
too, like live Twitter and
Facebook updates, Internet news
and new photos uploaded by
friends. One hub even connects
the phone to Xbox LIVE,
Microsoft's online service for its
Xbox 360 gaming console.
The tiles can be moved around
and deleted, so as to allow
complete customization of the
homescreen. The Camera
Another major feature with the
new mobile operating system is
how the camera works. Instead of
having to launch an app, WP7
users will just press a hardware-
based camera button to snap a
photo. Then from within the
camera's onscreen interface, you
can access the photo gallery and
immediately upload those photos
to the cloud. Office Integration
Microsoft's Office software is
deeply integrated into the new
device. In the phone's mobile
version of Outlook, viewing
Office documents is supported
right from within an email, as is
standard on many of today's
smartphones. But editing Office
files is also supported, explained
Belifore, which is more of a
unique feature.
Outlook calendaring is available,
including free/busy information
and conflict detection, the ability
to accept meeting requests on the
device, different view options
(e.g. "today's agenda") and a one-
touch "I'll be late" button which
signals to meeting attendees that
time traffic updates.
The integrated Bing service itself
provides Web search, voice
search (via Microsoft's TellMe),
instant answers (short answer
search results for things like
airline flight info, sports scores,
etc.) and local search, the latter
demonstrated by way of a search
for a local restaurant and its
related reviews and star ratings.
From the reviews, another tap will
dial the restaurant's phone
number. The Hubs
There are six Windows Phone
Hubs that ship with the device,
which you can think of as
Microsoft's take on homescreen
widgets: the People Hub, Pictures
Hub, Music + Video Hub, Games
Hub, Office Hub and the
Marketplace.
The People Hub connects to
you're behind schedule. social networking services like
He also demonstrated how auto- Facebook and Twitter, pulling in
correction works - instead of status updates from friends and
a u t o m a t i c a l l y c h a n g i n g a providing contact info and phone
misspelled word, the OS offers numbers. Users can respond to
suggestions for word correction to updates, like sending a text
choose from. Bing Onboard message or commenting on a
Microsoft's Bing search engine, status update from here instead of
whose team recently gobbled up launching an app.
the group from Microsoft's Live The Pictures Hub displays photos
Labs, creators of SeaDragon, from your friends, including those
Photosynth and data visualization on Facebook. Here, users can
technology Pivot, is also baked share their own photos with
into WP7. friends or view and comment on
Addresses in emails or calendar friends' photos.
invites take you to Bing Maps, The Music + Video Hub connects
which also includes the traditional with Microsoft's Zune service
mapping application features like offering access to music, video,
search, walking and driving podcasts and FM Radio. The Hub
directions and more. It also offers supports both streaming and
street-level images, similar to downloads.
Google's Street View, and real-
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In the Games Hub, users can
customize their Xbox LIVE
avatar, send and receive gaming
invites to friends and, of course,
play games on the phone. Games
like The Sims 3 and Ilo and Milo
were demonstrated. Other launch
titles include Bejeweled, Uno,
Game Chest (a collection of card
and board games), CarenyVale:
Showtime, Halo:Waypoint,
Crackdown 2: Sunburst, Rocket
Riot, and more.
Windows Phone 7 will connect to
Xbox LIVE, allowing users to
earn achievements on the phone
and track their gamerscore.
The Office Hub offers mobile
versions of Office applications
including Microsoft Word
Mobile, Excel Mobile,
PowerPoint Mobile and OneNote
Mobile. SharePoint Workspace
Mobile 2010 allows business
users to access their company's
SharePoint workspaces from the
device.
The Marketplace has its own
Hub, where users can search and
download new apps.
Third-party developers can also
build their own Hubs using
Microsoft's provided development
tools. Apps
During the today's demo, Belifore
showed off some big-name apps
including those from eBay, IMDB
and AT&T's Uverse Mobile, a
media app. More apps are
showcased here including games,
an official Twitter app and others.
We're also aware of a Netflix app,
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Google's Self-Driving Car is Just the Beginning

Marshall Kirkpatrick earth, but sometimes it's hard to recommendations based on that available by sensors and cameras
(ReadWriteWeb) remember that - they can seem so data. on cars. Real-Time Data
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:57:53 AM ubiquitous. It's hard to know whether The real-time Web has been
As widespread and significant as Google's self-driving cars ought to mistakenly characterized as
Google announced this weekend they are, though, automobiles be called recommendation nothing but a stream of Tweets
that it has developed a car that can themselves have been to date technology based on big data, or and Facebook updates.
Communication, Culture &
drive itself. A small fleet of the relatively unconnected to each whether this is going beyond Just as real-time automated
Technology professor Michael
vehicles has logged more than other. They are big, dumb, fast- recommendation and into trading has changed the stock
Nelson, the former director of
1,000 miles of entirely automated m o v i n g h u n k s o f m e t a l . directive commands. market forever, real-time delivery
Internet Technology at IBM, and
driving and 140,000 miles of Essential, in fact, to keep apart Big data is, in large part, about of big video and sensor data to
the former director of Technology
driving with only occasional from one another as they hurtle decision making. A Google self- and from the cloud and the car on
Policy with the Federal
human intervention. down the highway. driving car will make it easier to street will change driving forever.
Communications Commission, in
It's a development of historic "Your car should drive itself," make decisions about the Accident avoidance is the most-
a February report by The
significance: few events have G o o g l e C E O E r i c S c h m i d t important parts of driving by obvious example, but there are
Hammersmith Group. "At that
changed the experience of life on f o r e s h a d o w e d i n a p u b l i c automating the parts that don't others. Google spokespeople
time, it was difficult to imagine
earth as much as last century's statement last week, days before require human decision-making. have talked about car-sharing
that plastics could be in every-
proliferation of hundreds of the Google self-driving car was As Michael E. Driscoll wrote this programs that drive cars to the
thing. If you look at information
millions of automobiles. The unveiled. "It's amazing to me that spring,"...as information location of a would-be user on
processing in the same way, you
automobile was a revolution in we let humans drive cars. It's a generating processes become command, avoiding the inefficient
begin to see the vast range of
personal autonomy, but it came bug that cars were invented before more frictionless -- as humans use of valuable parking spaces in
objects into which logic,
with great costs. Now we've computers." have been excised from every neighborhood. Presumably
processors, or actuators could be
entered an era when that personal The instrumentation and information read-write loops -- those vehicles could predict where
embedded."
autonomy will become automated networking of previously offline the velocity and volume of data in they are most likely to be needed,
Big Data
and some of the automobile's objects, like cars, buildings, roads the world is increasing, and at an based on real-time data about
How is Google able to drive a
costs could be mitigated as a and more, may represent the next exponential rate... existing behavior.
car? In part because its software
result. As a technologist, I find it big stage in the evolution of "As the Big Data stack matures, Ultimately, though, real-time will
has access to an incredible
h e l p f u l t o u n d e r s t a n d t h e technology. A network-connected tools that help manage the be most evident when you're in
amount of very detailed data:
emergence of the fabled self- car in particular - primarily workflow from data to analytics the car and it makes decisions
maps of the world, speed limit
driving car as a convergence of navigated by artificial intelligence to visualizations, and ultimately to based on surrounding
information, live video of a car's
three trends: the Internet of able to leverage a world of data decisions, will be critical. circumstances as they unfold.
surroundings, sharp computer
Things, Big Data and Real-Time hosted in the cloud - promises big Someday, creating and sharing a History
vision analysis of what that live
Technology. Those trends are gains in safety, efficiency and data analysis through a web The point is, trends like the
video contains and big-picture
poised to go far beyond a self- quality of life for everyday dashboard should be as easy as Internet of Things, big data and
data about an emerging network
driving car. drivers. writing a blog post. Until that day, real-time data are poised to impact
of cars in motion on the road.
Sponsor This product illustrates the there's plenty of work to keep us the human experience in many
Multiply that by not just one car,
Above: Video by Robert Scoble. potential for what's called the data scientists well-employed." different ways. Their
but countless cars throughout our
The Internet of Things Internet of Things in a big way, Or managing the data through convergence in the sci-fi scenario
roads and you've got a whole lot
The personal automobile was but it should be understood in the automobile navigation, as the case of self-driving cars is the example
of data being processed.
invented near the end of the 19th context of the much larger trend. may be. It's not hard to imagine that will be most evident to
Where there are network-
c e n t u r y a n d p o p u l a r i z e d "Trying to determine the market new, self-driving automobiles everyday people.
connected devices, there are
t h r o u g h o u t t h e 2 0 t h - size of the Internet of Things is competing in the market based on The consequences of such a
waves of data made available.
approximately 600 million now like trying to calculate the market their navigation algorithms or the technology on the psychology of
Where there is big data, there are
traverse a world of roads. There for plastics, circa 1940," says ways they enable human drivers
opportunities for pattern analysis, GOOGLE'S page 22
is 1 car for every 11 people on G e o r g e t o w n U n i v e r s i t y to relate to all the rich data made
rational decisions and
22 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

The Art & Science of Music Recommendation Engines

Mike Melanson of a science and the other, a bit programming experience," Sasse the right time."
(ReadWriteWeb) more of an art, thought there's a told us. "It's a really tricky problem and
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 PM science and art to each. Pandora According to Sasse, Slacker takes it's wickedly hard to make it
& Musical DNA Pandora has a a much more hands-on, curation- work," said Westergren. "Tastes
I don't know about you, but if I catalog of more than 750,000 based approach to music are so individual, it really takes a
ever have to listen to that same, songs - far fewer than you might recommendation. Its stations, combination of different methods
12-song playlist on the local see with streaming music services rather than being created on-the- together."
classic rock station ever again, I like MOG, Napster or Rdio. Each fly according to algorithmically In the end, both services come
might go completely insane. song is reviewed by a member of comparing musical down to a common element - the
Thankfully, we live in the modern Pandora's review team and characteristics, are programmed wisdom of the crowd. As more
age of music recommendation characterized according to nearly much like radio would be, on and and more data is collected from
engines, where I can simply ask 400 musical attributes before hour-by-hour basis. users, the services become
for a stream of music that lies being added to the Music Genome "[DJs] have specific control over increasingly refined.
somewhere between Wilco and Project. The project is "the the exact songs and what the Sasse said that, for Slacker
Weezer and, voila! underlying backbone" behind rotation looks like," said Sasse. Radio, the job of the DJs is to
We spoke with Pandora founder Pandora, Westergren told us. "As the community interacts with bring emerging content to the top,
Tim Westergren and Slacker But how do we get from this to those stations, we start to see how but the "next step is for the
Radio VP of marketing Jonathan the songs being streamed over
your playlist to male vocalists, but those songs are being received, community as a whole to drive
Sasse to find out a little bit more your headphones? According to
if you continue over time to w h e t h e r t h e y ' r e g e t t i n g a that content."
a b o u t w h a t g o e s i n t o t h i s Westergren, the Music Genome
thumbs-down female vocalists, disproportionate amount of likes For Pandora, Westergren noted
seemingly effortless and unending Project provides a sort of "musical
the system is designed to pick up or dislikes, and it starts to affect the more than 6 billion pieces of
flow of personally catered music. DNA," and from there the site is
on this pattern and cater your the DJs." Art or Science? "thumb feedback" that he says
Sponsor constantly trying to shape what it channel accordingly. Slacker In the end, while Pandora appears gives the service "a huge amount
The State of Recommendation plays next according to your
Radio - Let Someone Else Do It to take a more scientific approach of insight" that he says isn't
Engines is a sponsored content tastes. On Pandora, users can with its genome project and general, but rather contextual.
For You
series by BT Buckets, a leader in provide feedback in the form of
Slacker Radio takes a decidedly Slacker Radio looks to keep the So, if your well of music
p e r s o n a l i z a t i o n a n d o n s i t e thumbs-up and thumbs-down to
different approach to music art of the DJ alive, neither appears recommending friends has finally
behavioral targeting. Check out influence the songs the site plays.
recommendation with its catalog to be simply one or the other and run dry, fear not because there's
their solutions. "Over time, we try to figure out of more than 3.5 million songs. both face the same problem - an army of trained DJs and music-
Both Slacker Radio and Pandora the patterns in your thumbing,"
According to Jonathan Sasse, a creating a custom stream of music categorizing musicians ready to
work to do the same thing - said Westergren. "It's really trying
senior VP of marketing at Slacker catered to the individual. recommend that next band to rock
provide users with an unending to replicate the knowledgeable
Radio, the biggest component of "One big challenge is if you have your socks off. And if you don't
stream of music catered to their record store guy - the human who
t h e s e r v i c e i s i t s " h a n d extremely eclectic taste," said like it, you can just give it a
tastes in order to help them knows what you like and don't
programmed" genre channels. Sasse. "If you take a collection of thumbs-down and see what's next.
discover and listen to music they like."
These channels are created by a r t i s t s t h a t h a v e n o t i e s Discuss
like - but they go about it in Giving a thumbs-down to a Joni
people with "extensive radio whatsoever, it can be challenging
different ways. One is a bit more Mitchell tune, then, won't limit to decide what to play for you at
GOOGLE'S
continued from page 21

autonomy, the ecology of negligence behind the wheel, will technology trends throughout our change the human experience in
transportation and urban planning be profound. lives. B e y o n d o u r c a r s , many, many ways in the relatively
and the million-plus lives lost Even more profound, though, automation and real-time analysis near future. Discuss
every year due to human will be the spread of these same of data-rich environments could
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 23

Pogoplug Pro packs onboard WiFi and $99 price tag

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:16 AM

The bright pink Pogoplug has

been updated to the far more
somber Pogoplug Pro, with the
new model getting a slick black
chassis and integrated wireless.
Still priced at just $99, the
Pogoplug Pro can connect up to
four USB 2.0 devices to your
network – now either via the
wired ethernet connection or
using WiFi – and share their
contents locally and across the
internet.
There’s also printing support,
thanks to the most recent
firmware update, which allows
you to hook up a USB printer and
send files not only from your PC
or Mac but from your smartphone.
The company has apps for
iPhone, iPad, Android,
BlackBerry and Palm to remotely
access files and multimedia
content shared using the Pogoplug
Pro.
The new version is available
now, priced at $99, and will be on
sale through Pogoplug’s own
online store and at Best Buy latest version of the company’s Pogoplug device in their home or generation Pogoplug, including About Best Buy
stores. If you’ve got an original award-winning multimedia office, and is available from any the ability to connect up to four With operations in the United
v2 Pogoplug, you can always add sharing device. The Pogoplug Pro Internet enabled device, including USB drives and to print from any States, Canada, Europe, China,
wireless using the company’s delivers even more flexibility to apps for the iPhone, Android, mobile device. In addition, Mexico and Turkey, Best Buy is a
USB WiFi b/g/n stick. store, access, and share personal iPad, BlackBerry, and Palm. Pogoplug Pro adds built-in multinational retailer of
Press Release: content from anywhere on the “Pogoplug is a great option for wireless connectivity. Owners technology and entertainment
Pogoplug Unveils Latest Version Internet. those who want to quickly and can place the device anywhere in products and services with a
of Award-Winning Product Pogoplug allows users to easily securely share personal files over their home without having to commitment to growth and
Pogoplug Pro is Available in Best and securely access, share, and the Internet,” said Ross Rubin, physically connect it to their innovation. The Best Buy family
Buy Stores Today stream their personal content from executive director of industry router. of brands and partnerships
San Francisco, CA, October 11, anywhere, without uploading. analysis at The NPD Group. Pogoplug Pro is available today collectively generates more than
2010 – Cloud Engines, Inc, today Content remains safely on USB The Pogoplug Pro includes all of in Best Buy stores and online for
announced Pogoplug Pro, the hard drives connected to the the popular features of the second $99 (MSRP). POGOPLUG page 26
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Windows Phone 7 debuts: One phone won't rule them all

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:51:40 AM

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

shows off nine handsets from the
likes of Dell, HTC, Samsung, and
LG at the launch of Windows
Phone 7.(Credit: Bonnie Cha/
CNET)
NEW YORK--If Apple CEO
Steve Jobs has spent the past few
years pitching the iPhone as the
ultimate, universal mobile device,
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's
answer with his company's
Windows Phone 7 OS, is the
opposite.
There is, Ballmer subtly implied
at today's formal unveiling of
Windows Phone 7 here, no such
thing as one phone for everyone--
but there can be one operating
system.
"Everybody should be able to take
a look at a Windows Phone and
say, 'I can represent me in this
device,'" Ballmer explained.
To that end, there are nine
Windows Phone 7 devices that Five of the phones were nature of the Google-built an unusual combination of invested three years ago) that
will be available in the U.S., from previewed to some extent on Android open-source software. buzzwords that Microsoft hopes pulls photo tags from the social
manufacturers Dell, HTC, Monday. For AT&T, there's the Or, as Twitter user @DerickP put will convey that it offers an network into the contacts file (or
Samsung, and LG. "You see business-friendly LG Quantum, it while watching live coverage of environment that's highly "people hub" as Windows Phone
phones with keyboards," Ballmer the media-heavy HTC Surround the event, a "happy medium" customizable yet uncluttered and 7 calls it). Microsoft Office was a
said, gesturing to a row of all nine (an early fan favorite with its between "iDictatorship" and stitched together with a common big item, too, with a slick
devices in front of him. "You see Dolby Surround Sound speakers), "Androidarchy." feel. PowerPoint demo E-mail was
phones like the LG phones that and Samsung Focus, all available Indeed, ultra-customization and Close ties to existing Microsoft touted as functional for both
can play to TV, you'll see super November 8. For T-Mobile there's personalization--while products, from Bing search to business and personal use, with
beautiful screens like the beautiful the HTC HD7 and Dell Venue maintaining a level of practicality Bing Maps to Xbox games the audience getting a kick out of
screen on this Samsung...very Pro, coming later in the season. and simplicity--was central to the (including an EA Mobile the "I'll be late" button attached to
large screen as you see on this With Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7 launch pitch. partnership to bring Xbox Live- Outlook calendar items. Copy-
HTC device right here and of Microsoft aims to offer a middle Ballmer said that the two core key enabled games to the phone) and paste is on the way in early 2011,
course rugged, for-the-hardest-use ground with more flexibility than phrases to the development of the Zune music, were played up too, much to the chagrin of some
-type phones like this Dell Apple's dominant iOS and more operating system were "always as was a tight integration with
device." certainty than the open-ended delightful and wonderfully mine," Facebook (in which Microsoft WINDOWS page 30
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Slacker radio app, a pre-loaded T-
Mobile TV app on select devices
and Fandango app. No word yet
on the exact number of apps
available at launch. Copy & Paste
When Microsoft announced that
copy & paste was not going to be
initially available on the new
phones, there was a big outcry.
Today, Microsoft said that the
feature would be available "in
early 2011" via a software update.
The Hardware
Windows Phone 7, like Android,
will ship on a variety of hardware
devices from multiple
manufacturers. There will be nine
phones arriving by WP7's
November U.S. launch date (WP
7 will debut in some European
markets on Oct. 21, however).
Devices from HTC, LG, Samsung
and Dell will be available. The
form factors will vary, with some
phones offering keyboards,
phones with very large screens
and even a ruggedized device for
heavy-duty users like the one
from Dell.
For hardware specs and reviews,
see Engadget. Mobile Operators
Windows Phone 7 will arrive on
60 mobile operators worldwide in
30 countries including AT&T and
Curvy Christina
Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:06:13 PM
Curvy girls rejoice! Harper's
Bazaar has chosen Mad Men star
Christina Hendricks as their
T-Mobile in the U.S., Orange,
SingTel, Telstra, Telus,
Telefonica, Vodafone and more.
AT&T
President and CEO of AT&T
Mobility and Consumer Markets
Ralph de la Vega also spoke on
stage at this morning's event. He
said that the network, known best
as the sole iPhone carrier in the
U.S. was committed to offering
customers a wide range of
devices. Regarding WP7, he said
AT&T "knew this was going to be
a winner."
According to de la Vega, AT&T
will launch three WP7 devices,
the LG Quantum, featuring a full
QWERTY keyboard for $199.99,
the HTC Surround with 16 GB of
onboard storage, 5 megapixel
camera and two Dolby Surround
Sound speakers, also $199.99 and
finally, the Samsung Focus, with
a super AMOLED screen,
Snapdragon CPU and 8 GB of
onboard storage, again for
$199.99.
The Samsung will be available on
November 8th, the others a "few
weeks" later, but no specific
launch date was given.
AT&T also announced Uverse
Mobile for Windows Phone 7
November cover girl. I'm
especially impressed because we
customers, which will be
available for a monthly fee.
Everyone at Microsoft Gets a
Phone Noted at the bottom of one
of Microsoft's WP7 press releases
is news of Microsoft's internal
commitment to Windows Phone.
"[Microsoft] has arranged for
every full-time employee
worldwide to be able to switch to
the new phone as soon as it
launches in their market," it says.
While that's obviously great news
for employees, it's also an
indicator of how much Microsoft
wants and needs the new OS to
succeed. By offering everyone at
the company a phone, Microsoft
is, to some extent, making all
employees accountable for the
phone's future. "There's so much
more of Microsoft we've got to
bring out in the phone," says
corporate vice president of
Windows Phone engineering at
Microsoft Terry Myerson. "We've
got a lot of work to do."
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Technology/ Culture/
Seeking Alpha Launches
An “App Store” For Web
-Based Investing Tools
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:18:48 AM
Stock market news and
discussion site Seeking Alpha this
morning debuted a suite of
investing tools dubbed “Seeking
Alpha Investing Applications” in
an effort to help its community
manage, track & analyze their
investments on-site.
The new Investing Applications
Store counts 27 third-party apps at
launch. All of the tools presented
by Seeking Alpha are web-based
(but not mobile) which, when
added to a user’s account, become
part of his or her personalized
experience across the entire site.
Seeking Alpha vets thousands of
articles from financial bloggers,
then edits, tags and organizes
those articles and brings the top
25% to its audience via the SA
site.
With the addition of the investing
tools directory, investors can
access applications to help them
manage their portfolios, discover
and research new investing ideas,
and get in-depth analysis of stocks
and exchange-traded funds.
The available applications cover
a broad range of investment needs
including equity research, stock
screeners, portfolio management
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tools, charting, ETF analysis,
asset allocation, alerts, company
modeling, news and more. Apps
are either free of charge, premium
(with an average price of $15 per
month) or freemium (premium
with a free trial period).
Seeking Alpha has also launched
an API, enabling third-party
developers to get their financial
applications in front of SA’s
audience relatively quickly (devs
get a standard 70% cut of the
revenues). Seeking Alpha’s
audience is quite sizeable, too –
the site welcomes 3.5 million
visitors per month, according to
the company, and over 560,000
people have signed up to use the
site to date.
Seeking Alpha was originally
launched in early 2004 by founder
and CEO David Jackson. The
company has raised over$7
million in venture capital from
investors like DAG Ventures,
Benchmark Capital and Accel
Partners.
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Nokia shipping C7, its second Symbian
3 phone
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:54:52 AM
Nokia's C7 smartphone(Credit:
Nokia)
Nokia today began shipping its
new C7 smartphone around the
world.
The follow-up to the recently
launched N8 smartphone, the C7
is Nokia's second phone powered
by its new Symbian 3 mobile
operating system.
The 3.5-inch glass touch-screen
is an active-matrix OLED that
offers 640x360 pixel resolution.
The C7 offers an 8-megapixel
camera that can shoot stills and
high-definition video. Bluetooth
3.0 connectivity and 8GB of
memory are part of the package as
well.
But the real focus of the new
phone is social networking.
The C7 can display multiple
home screens to receive live
updates from Facebook and
Twitter and provide quick access
to certain e-mail accounts, such as
Ovi Mail, Yahoo Mail, and
Windows Live Hotmail. You can
customize the home screen to
display different widgets,
including news, weather, e-mail,
and contacts. A locations widget
Pasta Whistle
thinkpossitive (Featured Blog
Posts - My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 6:30:00 AM
can pinpoint your location, which
you can then share with Facebook
friends.
As with Nokia's other
smartphones, C7 customers can
tap into the company's Ovi Store
to download apps.
"Designed specifically with the
style-conscious consumer in
Now this could drive moms
crazy! Two designers, Elan Leor
and Eran Lederman in Tel-Aviv,
have created pasta that functions as a whistle! The pasta is capable
mind, the Nokia C7 also brings
excellent social networking
abilities, making it perfect for
people who want to check in and
stay up to date," Jo Harlow, head
of smartphones at Nokia, said in a
statement.
Nokia is running a contest to kick
up interest in the phone.
Following the C7's launch, the
company will choose five of the
most active users on its Nokia
global Facebook page. Those five
finalists will be provided with a
C7 to put together a party using
different social networks. The one
who generates the greatest amount
of coverage will win a C7 for
themselves and 20 of their friends.
The C7 has a $466 price tag,
though price and availability will
vary by region and carrier.
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HTC HD7 Hands On [Video]

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) back, though, we got the distinct
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:59:50 AM impression that, under the wrong
circumstances and pressure, it
At the top of HTC’s hill, with its could be easily broken away from
nicely fitted crown, is the its home. But, that seemed to be
successor to the HD2 in more the only bad part in our initial
ways than one: the HD7. hands on. The screen’s
Featuring Microsoft’s mobile touchscreen is very responsive,
Operating System, Windows and we were able to fly from
Understanding the Food
Phone 7, the HD7 features some screen to screen without issue. Group Pyramid and How
of the same specifications as its Check out the full picture gallery to Use It For Better Eating
previous iteration, which launched below, and feast your eyes on the [Food]
in the United States in a coupe of largest Windows Phone 7 device
different models, but the (at launch). Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
differences in the mobile OS and Relevant Entries on SlashGear Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:00:00 AM

its functionality make the device • Hands-on with the new iMac
have a fresh breath of new life. • OptiWind Mouse – The ‘Cool’ The food pyramid was designed
The HD7 features the same large display in its own right is the back. You’ll be able to record Mouse for Hot Hands to offer an easy-to-understand
4.3-inch WVGA LCD capacitive pleasantly surprising. As for the 720p HD video with that camera, • Helio Ocean Unboxing Video look at healthy eating, but for the
touchscreen display. But, while other features people should too. and Initial Impression average person it's too simplistic,
the screen is large, and the colors expect when the HD7 launches In our initial hands on, we noted • A first look at the Sidekick ID vague, and sometimes way off.
are nice enough, in this day and later this year for T-Mobile USA, that the device feels great in the • F a s t - d r y i n g H a n d s w i t h Here's how food pyramids work
age with Super AMOED and here in the states, you’ll get the hand. Truthfully, it feels almost D y s o n ’ s A i r b l a d e and how you can actually use
other high-end displays, it just same 1GHz Snapdragon processor more streamlined than the HD2, them in your day-to-day eating.
feels like the display on the HD7 under the hood, as well as the and the whole thing just feels More »
isn’t “advanced” enough. Not that almost standard 5MP camera on great. As for the kickstand on the
it’s a bad thing, as the device’s

TUAW First Look: AUDIOPRESS for iPhone

Steven Sande (The Unofficial the information is streamed to you news in less than three minutes. Podcasts are... podcasts. You can TUAW TUAW First Look:
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) on demand. "MyUpdates" will be other, either import your own podcast AUDIOPRESS for iPhone
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:00:00 AM AudioArticles are professional personalized audio updates. subscriptions from iTunes or add originally appeared on The
audio recordings of print articles. There's only one source right them from within the app. I was Unofficial Apple Weblog
AUDIOPRESS is a new app and At the time I was testing the app, now: the local weather updates for happy to see that the TUAW (TUAW) on Mon, 11 Oct 2010
free audio digest service available t h e A U D I O P R E S S w e b s i t e U.S. cities from the National Talkcast shows up in the list, and 09:00:00 EST. Please see our
on iPhone that is designed to showed only one source -- the Weather Service. You can add the of course, I added it to my terms for use of feeds.
create a custom "radio stations" Associated Press -- and that update to your list by city name, playlist. There are a lot of Read| Permalink| Email this|
for you to listen to on your device. source wasn't working. But the zip code, or current location, then different podcast categories Comments
Y o u a d d A u d i o A r t i c l e s , idea is great; any time you want to receive a frequently updated, 15- available, with "Mac Fanatics"
"MyUpdates," Podcasts, and hear short news bites, you listen second current weather brief and being one of them. Cool!
Radio Stations to a playlist, then to the channel and get the latest forecast. Gallery: AudioPress Screen Shots
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LG Optimus 7 Hands On
Evan Selleck (SlashGear) handset, we weren’t able to, as
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:09:58 AM there weren’t any DLNA devices
around. At first glance and usage,
So far, the devices featuring the LG Optimus 7 is a strong
Microsoft’s brand new mobile contender for your attention and
Operating System, Windows money, as it’s another high-end
Phone 7, have been all top-notch
in their manufacturing. The
device featuring Windows Phone
7 to stand out amongst the pack.
Moleskine x Pac-
OEMs have obviously put a lot of
effort into making the top-end
Check out our full hands on Man
gallery below.
devices that Microsoft expected John Shark (Featured Blog
Relevant Entries on SlashGear Posts - My Modern Metropolis)
for their brand new mobile OS, • Optimus actually produces
and LG is no different. While it something tangibly real Submitted at 10/11/2010 3:00:00 PM

may not look as shiny or flashy as • Optimus Maximus plays with

some of the other Windows Phone
7 devices, once you get the device
in your hand, it’s a different story.
It’s surprisingly nice. The top
panel of the handset is angled,
which makes for a complete
package that fits nicely into the
hand.
You’ll find a 3.8-inch WVGA
capacitive touchscreen on the
Optimus 7, and even if it is the
company’s entry into the
Windows Phone 7 market, it
features the same specifications as
every other device, in all of the
right areas. You’ll find a 5MP
camera on the back of the device,
and the 1GHz Snapdragon
processor under the hood. The
device is fast, just like every other
device we’ve had the pleasure of a
crowd in Moscow Moleskine celebrates the 30th
• Sub-$500 Optimus Maximus anniversary of Pac-Man, pop-
keyboards coming soon culture icon of the Eighties with
brief hands on. Moving through the launch of a limited-edition
• Optimus Popularis Images
window animations and changing series, featuring pixelated cover
Make an Appearance Online
applications is easy, almost art and mini-stickers.
• Optimus Mini 3 becomes Mini
seamless. Moleskin
2×3
Interestingly enough, LG is the via [ ViaComIT]
only manufacturer to include a
DLNA application. Unfortunately,
while we would have loved to test
it out in our early preview of the

HTC 7 Mozart Hands On

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) just like every other Windows Mozart is designed to be HTC’s • HTC Mozart and HD7
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:49:41 AM Phone 7 device that has been “music-centric” device, and with smartphones surface
announced and unveiled today. a name like that, it’s probably • HTC Mozart (aka Euro HTC
HTC’s offerings for Windows The Mozart features a 3.7-inch fitting. So far, HTC is at the top of Schubert) Windows Phone 7
Phone 7 started at a high note, and WVGA LCD TFT capacitive their game with their Windows handset leaks
they’re continuing on their ride t o u c h s c r e e n , a n d a 1 G H z Phone 7 devices. Check out the • HTC September 15th
with the Mozart. When we picked Snapdragon processor under the full gallery below of our initial smartphone launch could be
it up, it felt comfortable in the h o o d . U n l i k e s o m e o f t h e hands on. Android or WP7
hand, and it’s CNC “unibody” previously released devices, the Relevant Entries on SlashGear
aluminum constructions made us Mozart actually holds an 8MP • HTC Mozart WP7 specs leak:
think back to the HTC Legend. camera on the back of the device, 1GHz, 8MP with Xenon & Super
The Mozart may not be the with a Xenon flash. In our early at the top of their manufacturing LCD
biggest of the bunch, but it hands on with the device, we game, as the device feels solid in • HTC 7 Mozart clears GCF with
certainly packs in the features, could tell that HTC is still keeping the hand, yet not too heavy. The Euro 3G support
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GDC Online 2010: Interview with

Newtoy's David Bettner Another 'smash and grab'
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
pioneering"freemium" titles on
the App Store, using in-app
Bettner said. "It's this magic thing
that I can do to speed things up." hits Portland Apple
purchases to fund a free-to-play Players have been split on the use
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:00:00 AM
Farmville-style game.
Last week, during GDC Online in Bettner told me that We Rule was
of microtransactions in App Store
titles like that, but Bettner said the
reseller
Austin, Texas, I saw a panel run the product of two companies, not model very much appeals to Steven Sande (The Unofficial five other times.
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) As reported by Portland TV
by Newtoy's David Bettner. Later just a work-for-hire. "It was a fun iPhone developers -- "the total
in the week, Bettner himself met collaboration with Ngmoco," he lack of friction" on in-app Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 PM station KGW, MacPac owner
up with me to talk about the said. "It was not the typical purchases makes it easy to sell Randy Feldman and his staff had
company and its popular Games publisher/developer kind of a items in-game. One sign of the continuing just finished renovating the
With Friends titles for the iPhone. relationship. It was more of a TUAW GDC Online 2010: popularity of Apple's product line d i s p l a y s i n t h e s t o r e l a s t
Though the company is doing collaboration of ideas." The idea Interview with Newtoy's David is the fact that some people will Wednesday. The criminals got off
great with its own App Store for "mojo," the in-app product Bettner originally appeared on go to extraordinary (and illegal) with display MacBooks, iPads,
games (Words With Friends has that pushes We Rule's gameplay The Unofficial Apple Weblog measures to procure the products. a n d d e s k t o p m a c h i n e s , b u t
over 10 million downloads and a forward, actually drove the whole (TUAW) on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 That image at right? It's from a Feldman says his main concern
surprisingly active user base), the project, both from a design and a 10:00:00 EST. Please see our security camera video showing a might be "losing an insurance
first game that I asked about was monetization standpoint. "It was a terms for use of feeds. full-size gray pickup truck with a company."
a c t u a l l y W e R u l e . N e w t o y fantastic sort of thing where as Read| Permalink| Email this| diamond-plate toolbox in the back [via MacObserver]
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and it's become one of the you're like oh, I get this now, " a store. hits Portland Apple reseller
TUAW has published a number originally appeared on The
Dispatch From the Knife’s Edge of stories throughout 2010 talking U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
James Kirchick (The New a b o u t v a r i o u s b u r g l a r i e s , (TUAW) on Mon, 11 Oct 2010
relayed to me on the small screen soccer and field hockey with the
Republic - All Feed) robberies, and "smash and grabs" 12:00:00 EST. Please see our
of his mobile phone, is blurry and detached cranium, shouting
targeting Apple Stores and other terms for use of feeds.
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:00 PM the sound quality is poor. But I excitedly throughout as they kick
resellers. The victim this weekend Read| Permalink| Email this|
can nonetheless decipher what is and smack it with sticks. The clip
The man tells me that the severed happening. A group of men are was Portland, Oregon-based Comments
lasts no more than 20 seconds.
head is Kyrgyz. The video, playing a macabre combination of MacPac, which has been hit by
destructive drive-through theft
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Samsung Omnia 7 first
hands-on!
Vlad Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:47:00 AM
Samsung's Omnia 7, ladies and
gents. The only Super AMOLED
in Microsoft's launch Windows
Phone 7 stable, the Omnia 7 looks
appropriately vibrant and richly
saturated. To be perfectly fair, we
didn't note a major advantage in
using its display relative to the
other WP7 devices, but that's
more a mark of distinction on the
other phones on show here. The
hardware really is looking
polished to perfection. The Omnia
7 isn't really breaking with that
trend, with a remarkably
lightweight body that combines
straight lines with a nicely curved
back that sits well in the hand.
The power/lock button is
curiously positioned on the side of
the device, but all points of input
seemed to perform very nicely
once you know where they are.
The depressed Windows key is
basically identical to the iPhone's,
dare we say it, iconic home
button. As to performance, we've
nothing to say that we haven't said
about the other WP7 launch
devices, it's blindingly,
ridiculously, delightfully quick.
Gallery: Samsung Omnia 7 hands
-on
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Stanley Kauffmann (The New
consumers who were hoping it burner than they would at, say, an Republic - All Feed)
would be available at launch. Android event.
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:00 PM
"The user experience is consistent The message from Microsoft: We
and delightful, and we think that's have everything for you right
The Girl
one of the things that we think here.
Olive Films
people are really going to like," This entry passed through the
Heartbreaker
Joe Belfiore, corporate vice Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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president in charge of the your content and you're reading it
A film about a child that is not
Windows Phone program, said as on someone else's site, please read
intended to charm us is brave. The
he explained that "hundreds of our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Girl, from Sweden, scorns the
thousands" of developers were content-only/faq.php
idea of charm and bravely
working on applications for the Five Filters featured article:
concentrates on the life of a nine-
OS. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-
year-old simply as a life. (We
A few third-party applications Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
don’t even learn her name.) We
were showed off, like eBay, Catastrophe.
are left at the end with a sense of
IMDB, Netflix, and a smattering
experience, not some sort of
of music apps that tie directly into
benevolence.
the Zune-powered music "hub,"
but apps took far more of a back
Agnostic about gay marriage
(The Economist: Daily news view places him in a minority. For who attend church less than once
and views) the first time since the Pew a week.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 2:57:19 AM Research Centre began More Daily charts
conducting polls on the subject in This entry passed through the
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acceptable and that he would veto whom are now in favour, and that
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Wootcast for 10/11/2010
Woot (Woot! - One Day, One In this week's Woot video job? Carry an ID badge we mean,
Deal) podcast, Mortimer vents about not play with stuffed monkeys.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 AM having to carry an ID badge. Do
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Pogoplug Pro enables remote access to four USB
hard drives, adds inbuilt WiFi
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 PM
Hey, Cloud Engines -- don't say
we never told you pink was a bad
idea. The next generation
Pogoplug has launched this
afternoon, bringing with it a
refreshing color change and a
badly-needed WiFi module
within. For all intents and
Technology/ Culture/ 31
Kristen Stewart Holds on
Tight to Smiley Robert
Pattinson In a Cab
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:14:00 AM
Robert Pattison and Kristen
Stewart shared a laugh in the
backseat of their taxi after an
evening out in LA last night. She
touched his leg during a sweet
moment of almost-PDA with a
friend crowded into the cab with
them. Rob and Kristen kicked off
their weekend with a stop at the
Thompson hotel roof bar after her
interview on The Tonight Show.
She's currently promoting
Welcome to the Rileys, an
independent film which premiered
at Sundance and will be out in
theaters at the end of the month.
Next up Robert and Kristen will
purposes, the Pogoplug Pro readily available. The inclusion of Pogoplug Pro enables remote transform back into Twilight
(which, oddly enough, is a WiFi enables users to set this up access to four USB hard drives, mode, so no more blonde hair for
consumer device) has four USB wherever their hard drives are adds inbuilt WiFi originally Miss Stewart. Their costar Peter
ports and allows all four of 'em to (rather than where their router is), appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 F a c i n e l l i s a i d h e r e a d t h e
be accessed remotely so long as and if you're sold already, you can Oct 2010 12:00:00 EDT. Please Breaking Dawn script and it's
your ISP provides a suitable snag one today at Best Buy (in- see our terms for use of feeds. awesome, though we still have
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Cost of War Since 2001; Federal

outlays and revenues, 1940-2015
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 10/10/2010 12:46:00 PM
The National Priorities Project
has some interesting charts and
graphics on the US budget.
Federal outlays and revenues,
1940-2015
The following chart shows
federal outlays and revenues from
1940 to the proposed levels in
2015. The difference between the
two equals the federal deficit or
Apple trademarks surplus.
Aside from specific policy
initiatives, spending grows over
"There's an app for that" time in order to accomodate a
larger economy and population.
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial other computer and electronic Though many federal programs
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) communication networks; retail were cut during the 1990s, the
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:00 AM store services featuring computer outlays continued to increase as future medical costs of injured globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
software for use on handheld more people retired and Social soldiers, the countless wrecked com
Apple has been awarded a mobile digital electronic devices Security payments grew. Recent lives of US soldiers and the lives Click Here To Scroll Thru My
trademark for the phrase, "There's and other consumer electronics." growth in spending is due in large of millions of innocent civilians Recent Post List Mike
an app for that." The tagline has Congratulations to both Apple for part due to increases in military killed in the needless war in Iraq. "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
been used to promote the App their new trademark, and to me spending. Bear in mind, I do not support the investment advisor representative
Store and iOS devices almost for avoiding a lame "there's an Federal outlays and revenues, social agenda of the National for SitkaPacific Capital
since their inception, and has app for that" joke. 1930-2015 as a percentage of the Priorities Project. However, I Management. Sitka Pacific is an
really caught on. From tech TUAW Apple trademarks GDP would rather see any spending in asset management firm whose
articles to jokes told around the " T h e r e ' s a n a p p f o r t h a t " The following chart shows the US than the needless goal is strong performance and
water cooler, many people have originally appeared on The federal outlays and revenues from destruction of lives and property low volatility, regardless of
adopted the phrase. Unofficial Apple Weblog 1930 to the proposed levels in around the globe. market direction. Visit http://
The trademark, which Apple filed (TUAW) on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 2015 as a percentage of gross The US cannot afford to be the www.sitkapacific.com/
for on December 4th, 2009, 11:00:00 EST. Please see our domestic product (GDP). world's policemen, and even if we account_management.html to
covers "Retail store services terms for use of feeds. Viewing federal spending and could, I still would not support learn more about wealth
featuring computer software Read| Permalink| Email this| revenues as a percentage of GDP such needless destruction. management and capital
provided via the Internet and Comments indicates how large or small It's time to declare the war won preservation strategies of Sitka
government is in relation to the and bring back all the troops. Pacific.
economy. Mike "Mish" Shedlock
Bring the Troops Home Now! h t t p : / /
Those costs do not include the
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PBoC Researcher says China Should "Set Red Line for Yuan
Appreciation at 3%"; IMF Participants Pledge to "Create Reports"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael cooperation, yet did little to show volatility. India may also The fact that Ukraine will follow of a possible 3% cap could be
Shedlock) (Mish's Global how they would alter their ways intervene to “prevent the South Korea, Poland, and Brazil China's way of setting
Economic Trend Analysis) beyond agreeing to let the IMF to disruption of the macroeconomic in setting capital controls (with expectations deliberately low,
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:48:00 PM study the matter. situation,” Reserve Bank of India Japan, the US, Europe, and China with a planned reversal coming at
In spite of ongoing currency Days after Brazilian Finance Governor Duvvuri Subbarao told all at each other's throats) is a an opportune time later.
wars, there are no surprises to Minister Guido Mantega set the reporters. clear indication of global currency However, moves of 20% or even
report from G-20 participants at t o n e f o r t h e g a t h e r i n g b y Unable to find common ground stress. 8% are highly unlikely to be in
the IMF's annual meeting. Indeed, declaring a “currency war” was themselves, governments agreed Something is sure to blow sky the cards.
I c a n n o t r e c a l l e v e r b e i n g underway, officials held their the IMF should serve as currency high, but what and when is still For more on economic tensions
surprised by major agreements at traditional battle lines. U.S. cop by preparing reports which not clear. and currency wars please see
any IMF or G-Whatever meeting. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. show how the policies of one China to Cap the Yuan's Rise at 3
Y e a r i n a n d y e a r o u t t h e Geithner and European Central economy affect others. The Percent • Prepare for Currency/Trade
achievement is the same, a pledge Bank President Jean-Claude studies will focus on the U.S., All the pressure being applied to Wars; How Might China Respond
to cooperate more. This year we Trichet were among those to China, the U.K. and the euro area. China is likely to be futile given to US Tariffs?
see a slight twist: the G-20 agrees signal irritation that China is “The need to have this kind of that a Chinese Central bank • Global Competitive
to have the IMF to create reports restraining the yuan to aid exports spillover report has been researcher says China must cap Debasement; Currency Wars
on the U.S., China, the U.K. and even as its economy outpaces discussed for months and now it’s yuan rise this year China need not Begin; Message of Gold
the Eurozone. those of other G-20 members. part of our toolbox,” IMF worry about whether U.S. • Trichet's Exit Strategy Trapped
Translation: The talks failed. “Global rebalancing is not Managing Director Dominique lawmakers label the country as a by PIIGS; Currency Tensions
Bloomberg reports Finance progressing as well as needed to Strauss-Kahn said. Preparing currency manipulator and should Continue to Build; China Tells
Chiefs Fail to Resolve Currency avoid threats to the global Reports Useless instead halt the yuan's rise at an EU to Stuff It
Spat as G-20 Splits economic recovery,” Geithner Brazil set the tone for the appropriate time, said Wang
Leaders of the world economy said. “Our initial achievements meeting with complaints about Yong, a professor at the central It will be interesting to see how
failed to narrow differences over are at risk of being undermined by currency wars, but Brazil can bank's training school in Congress responds to news of a
currencies as they turned to the the limited extent of progress scream its wants but no one can Zhengzhou, Henan province, possible 3% cap on Yuan
International Monetary Fund to toward more domestic demand- force China (or any other according to the Securities Times. appreciation. With an election
calm frictions that are already led growth in countries running country), to do anything. "This is the red line for yuan coming up, followed by a lame-
sparking protectionism. external surpluses and by the Since the IMF cannot set or appreciation," he said, referring to duck session, China may have
Exchange rates dominated the e x t e n t o f f o r e i g n - e x c h a n g e enforce policy decisions, it was a 3 percent rise. correctly calculated Congress will
I M F ’ s a n n u a l m e e t i n g i n intervention as countries with known in advance the whole "Once the line is crossed, it means not do anything, at least for at
Washington on concern that undervalued currencies lean conference was a waste of time the yuan's exchange rate will be least 3-4 months.
officials are relying on cheaper against appreciation.” and money. derailed from the normal track Regardless, tensions beneath the
currencies to aid growth, risking Some forms of protectionism The main "achievement" is the G and the government should surface continue to mount. All it
retaliatory devaluations and trade may already be on the rise. -20 countries all agreed to have intervene in the market in a timely may take to see some very unwise
barriers. China was accused of Ukraine’s Deputy Premier Serhiy the IMF prepare reports. Sheesh. manner," Wang added. Adding legislation is a few more bad job
undervaluing the yuan, while low Tigipko said in an interview in What a waste of money. What Fat to the Fire reports and unemployment rising.
interest rates in the U.S. and other Washington that his country may good is yapping and preparing The yuan has risen 2.3% this Mike "Mish" Shedlock
rich nations were blamed for follow South Korea, Poland, reports when no one will act on year, certainly not the 20-40% h t t p : / /
flooding emerging markets with B r a z i l a n d o t h e r e m e r g i n g those reports? that Congress and Geithner wants. globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
capital. markets in introducing capital Capital Controls, Constant Thus, limits of 3% are likely to com
Finance ministers and central controls to prevent short-term Bickering are Signs of Increasing infuriate Congress. PBOC page 35
bankers pledged to improve investments from fueling currency Stress Bear in mind that announcements
34 Economy/
The American Consumer Needs To Wake Up And Realize He's
Got Money To Spend
James Cooper (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:07:11 AM
Given that households account
for 70 percent of all spending in
the U.S. economy, consumer
psychology tends to get a lot of
attention, especially now.
Readings on consumer confidence
have plunged in recent months,
signaling that people feel lousy
about the economy and have little
faith that things will turn around
any time soon. But that doesn’t
necessarily mean that consumers
are about to short circuit the
economic recovery.
More important to the outlook for
consumer spending are income,
credit, and wealth and each has
shown improvement through the
third quarter. Modest job gains are
generating income growth. Credit
is flowing more freely to
households, as consumers cut
back on debt with a lot less pain
than many analysts had expected.
Plus, stock-market gains in the
third quarter have been an
important wealth booster.
Consumers don’t always behave
the way they say they feel.
Contrary to earlier fears that
consumers were about to abandon
the recovery, spending continues
to grow at a steady, albeit modest,
clip. Although confidence
readings are about where they
were more than a year ago, when
consumer spending was
contracting, household outlays in
the third quarter appear to have
grown close to the first-half pace
of about 2 percent. That’s one
reason many economists are
taking a second look at their
forecasts for third-quarter GDP
growth. “We see considerable
upside risk to our forecast of 1.5
percent growth,” says economist
Sam Coffin at UBS, admitting
that 3 percent for the quarter is
not out of the question.
Consumer spending is holding up
partly because of continued
gradual improvement in the job
markets. Overall payrolls fell by
95,000 workers in September, the
Labor Dept. said last Friday, but
excluding fewer Census workers
and declines in state and local
government payrolls, private-
sector jobs increased by 64,000
last month with small upward
revisions to July and August
gains. Monthly increases in
private industry jobs have
averaged 77,000 since April.
Although that’s a lukewarm pace,
employment income has
accelerated, reflecting longer
work hours and modest growth in
hourly pay. In the past six months,
private-sector earnings from
wages and salaries grew at a 4.2
percent annual rate, compared
with no growth at all in the
previous six months. Payrolls are
still not growing fast enough to
dent the unemployment rate,
which held at 9.6 percent in
September, but the renewed
downtrend in weekly jobless
claims, which tend to foreshadow
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can meet eligibility requirements.
The 30-year fixed rate in the
weekly Freddie Mac survey fell to
4.27 percent on October 7, down
nearly a full percentage point
since April, and applications to
refinance rose about 70 percent
over that period. Any new round
of Treasury securities purchases
by the Federal Reserve, which
looks increasingly likely, would
push rates down even further.
Although low appraisal values,
low credit scores, or
unemployment are preventing
many homeowners from
refinancing, Berner estimates that
refi activity is still giving
households a $10 billion to $15
labor market trends, suggests Buoyant car buying is one sign billion annual windfall.
stronger job gains in coming that cheaper and more accessible Household balance sheets also
months and a further pickup in credit is helping to lift consumer received a boost from the stock
income growth. spending, as households get a market last quarter. The broad
Gains in employment income are little better grip on their finances. Wilshire 5000 stock index rose
partly responsible for the steady Through the second quarter the 11.1 percent during the third
growth in consumer spending, cash needed to meet monthly quarter, reversing almost the
including Thursday’s better-than- payments on consumer credit and entire 11.5 percent drop during
expected September sales reports mortgages fell to 12.1 percent of the second quarter, when worries
from the nation’s chain stores. A after tax income, according to about European banks and a U.S.
survey by Thomson Reuters Federal Reserve data, the lowest double-dip recession spooked
showed that 75 percent of stores debt service burden in more than investors. That decline resulted in
beat analysts’ expectations last t e n y e a r s . “ W e t h i n k t h a t a $1.5 trillion loss in household
month, amid growing optimism A m e r i c a n c o n s u m e r s a r e net worth, which was fully
that holiday sales will show deleveraging their balance sheets replenished last quarter. In the
improvement over last year. Plus, and rebuilding savings faster than past year and a half, according to
car sales rose to an 11.8 million expected,” says Morgan Stanley Federal Reserve data, households
have regained more than $6
annual rate in September, the best economist Richard Berner.
monthly showing since the Record-low mortgage rates are trillion of the $17 trillion in
temporary cash-for-clunkers spike helping the deleveraging process wealth lost during the recession.
last year, and a pace that puts car by setting off a refinancing boom, A lot of recent consumer angst
AMERICAN page 35
sales on a clear uptrend. at least among homeowners who
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4 Reasons Why Foreclosure-Gate Will continued from page 34

appears to center around uncertainty subsides,” says

Only Be BAD For Home Prices
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:51:00 AM
Earlier Henry Blodget argued
that at least in the very short term,
foreclosure-gate could provide a
lift to home price, as the (de facto)
moratorium would stem the flood
of foreclosures on the market. Of
course, he acknowledged they'll
all come to market in the long-
term, so for sellers this might be a
good window to get out.
Here are some reasons why there
may be no silver lining at all:
• Foreclosure-gate is making
BUYERS nervous: Suddenly,
buyers are terrified that they could
buy a home which they might not
be able to get into. You might go
buy a home that's currently on the
market, and then end up waiting
for months as paperwork issues
get dealt with. It might be a better
to just wait this period out.
• Buyers aren't fools, they know
the foreclosures will come
eventually: Housing may not be
the most efficient market, but if
everyone knows that a flood of
foreclosures is coming down the
pike, that will have a depressant
effect.
• This will make banks even
more hesitant to lend: This crisis
could cause even more damage to
bank balance sheet. What's that
going to do to mortgage
availability?
uncertainties about future tax
rates. In an unusual divergence,
economist Theresa Chen at
Barclays Capital. However, any
confidence among higher-income substantial gains in optimism will
households, which are more likely depend on further improvement in
to be adversely affected by an the labor market and in household
expiration of the Bush tax cuts, finances, which so far at least are
fell sharply in September, moving in the right direction.
according to the Reuters/ Join the conversation about this
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while attitudes of lower-income
households actually improved.
“We expect confidence to begin
to edge higher once political
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Alessandra Ambrosio Spotted Posing in a Tiny Bikini

Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:30:00 AM
Alessandra Ambrosio flashed her
famous smile during a Victoria's
Secret photo shoot in St. Barts
yesterday. She posed in a few
different bikinis and embraced
this season's leopard print trend.
The perfectly bronzed and toned
model is coming off Fashion
Weeks in both NYC and Paris,
though there is rarely a long break
between her beachy getaways.
She often brings along her
husband and daughter to make
work into a family vacation when
she's done posing for the cameras.
The annual VS runway show is
around the corner, though this To see more of Alessandra, just
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:00:56 AM
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stars live on through DVDs and
cable reruns. But the stars on this
list died before completing a
project, leaving directors in an
emotional and logistical bind, and
forever attaching a dark footnote
to a movie's history. In some
cases the movie was canceled, in
others the star was recast, while in
others production moved forward
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:01:01 PM apartment buildings." Billy chose interesting to find out.
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I'm counting down the days until bumps" by coating them in shiny Billy moved things around. In
B i l l y B a l d w i n : T h e G r e a t dark brown paint. some photos, the desk is placed in
American Decorator is published "It occurred to me that this was front of the windows and in
later this month but until then, I'm strictly a city room, full of shine: others, a sofa has been placed in
making due with my old copy of the floor, the walls, the windows. that area.
Billy Baldwin Decorates. His So I added more shine: a varnishy In the beginning of Billy Baldwin
own studio apartment on East 61st eighteenth-century painting of Decorates is the following quote,
Street where he lived after his dogs, a wonderful Korean lacquer "only your eye can tell you what
retirement in the early 1970's is screen, and a few strategically you will be happy with. Today,
one of my all time favorite places mirrors. I put all my books thank goodness, we are more
interiors. Except for a few on tall brass bookshelves-the concerned with the personal than
elements and the old photography, warm glint of the brass become with perfection." But it's clear to
it still looks good today. terribly important in the dark loved the texture that it and the one for sleeping above. The sofa see that Billy apartment was
Billy Baldwin says in the book, room." The Porter Etageres are crackled black Portuguese table, is really a twin bed in disguise. pretty darn perfect!
"the best decoration in the world available through Ventry Ltd. as and the Korean screen added to Billy added rugs for softness and "A person with a real flair is a
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Chic in Paris: Dries Van Noten Men's Store

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Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:12:02 PM
I would like to think that if Diana
Vreeland was alive today, she
would greatly approve of the new
Dries Van Noten men's store in
Paris. The shop, located at 9 quai store which was once an office. coexists with a Jean Cocteau
Malaquais, is two doors away Even though the space is now drawing and an Anthony van
from his gorgeous women's devoted to men's clothing, the Dyck painting that hangs on a
boutique and was until recently an designer has also filled it back up wood panel from the 1960's that
art gallery. What I love the most with carefully chosen art, antiques was bought in Brussels. Oh, and
is that Dries and his architect Gert and furnishings from every time the clothes aren't too shabby
Voorjans kept the original red/rust period and style. A metal Italian either.
and replicated it the back of the
colored lacquer from the 1970's coffee table by Gabriells Crespi
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Marx and Spencer

E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New disclose the sources of their war is bringing a certain clarity to and the conservatism of Dwight
Republic - All Feed) money means voters have to politics. It is also another piece of Eisenhower or even Ronald
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:00 PM operate in the dark. evidence for the radicalism of the Reagan. The 2010 right actually
The "logic" behind Citizens current brand of conservatism. imagines a return to the times
WASHINGTON—The 2010 United is that third-party spending This, in turn, is forcing Democrats prior to the New Deal and Teddy
election is turning into a class can't possibly be corrupting. The to defend a proposition they have Roosevelt's Square Deal, the
w a r . T h e w e a l t h y a n d t h e five-justice majority declared that been committed to since the days heady days before there were laws
powerful started it.
Keep Your Computer This is a strange development. "this court now concludes that
independent expenditures,
of Franklin Roosevelt but are
often too timid to proclaim: that
on wages and hours,
environmental concerns and
Active Sans Software President Obama, after all, has i n c l u d i n g t h o s e m a d e b y
been working overtime to save corporations, do not give rise to
government has a legitimate and undue economic concentration.
necessary role in making The country doesn't need this
with a Watch [Video] capitalism. Wall Street is doing corruption or the appearance of economic rules to protect class war, and it is irrational in
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) just fine and the rich are getting corruption. That speakers may individuals from abuse. any case. Practically no one, least
richer again. The financial reform have influence over or access to It has thus been both entertaining of all Obama, is questioning the
Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:30:00 AM
bill passed by Congress was elected officials does not mean and educational to watch basics of the market system or
If you have an analog watch and moderate, not radical. that those officials are corrupt. Republican Senate candidates in proposing anything more than
a laser mouse you can easily keep Nonetheless, corporations and And the appearance of influence Connecticut, West Virginia, somewhat tighter economic
your computer "active" by setting affluent individuals are pouring or access will not cause the Alaska, and Kentucky grapple regulations—after the biggest
the mouse on top of the watch, no tens of millions of dollars into electorate to lose faith in this with the impact of their bad- financial collapse since the Great
software or computer tweaking a t t a c k a d s a i m e d a l m o s t democracy." mouthing of minimum wage laws. Depression—and rather modest
necessary. More » exclusively at Democrats. One of You can decide what's more Conservative academics have tax increases on the wealthy.
the biggest political players, the stunning about this statement, its warred against the minimum wage But even these steps are
Columbus Day: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, naivete or its arrogance. ever since FDR declared the Fair apparently too much for those
Celebrating Columbus accepts sources.
money from foreign If one side in the debate can
overwhelm the political system
Labor Standards Act of 1938
perhaps "the most far-reaching
financing all the television ads,
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Day in Sports History The chamber piously insists that with clandestine cash, which is program, the most far-sighted themselves: Who is paying for
Hal Spivack (FanHouse Main) none of the cash from abroad is what's now happening, is there program for the benefit of this? What do they really want?
going into its ad campaigns. But any doubt that the side in question workers that has ever been And who gave them the right to
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:21:00 AM
without full disclosure, there's no will buy itself a lot of influence? adopted here or in any other buy an election?
The United States celebrates way of knowing if that's true or If that's not corruption, what country." E.J. Dionne, Jr. is is a
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No More Arcs
Rochelle Gurstein (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:00 PM
Can history come to an end?
Arthur Danto has written of art
entering a “post-historical” phase;
he believes that the history of
modern art as moving toward a
state of abstraction has been
fulfilled—indeed, internally
exhausted. Since the 1960s, this
particular “narrative,” as he calls
it, has come to an end, even as the
art world continues to exist, even
to flourish. Although I don't like
the phrase “post-historical,” I
think Danto is right. I had not,
however, considered this idea in
relation to history understood in
its traditional sense as the actions
of great men and nation building.
But, a few weeks ago, the
unnerving thought that this kind
of history had come to an end
confronted me.
My husband and I were standing
at the busiest traffic circle in
Paris, the Place de L'Etoile, in
front of the Arc de Triomphe,
which, as I learned from the
guidebook that I was reading
aloud to him, was the largest
triumphal arch in the world (165
feet tall), which meant that it was
larger than any of the ancient
triumphal arches still standing in
Rome that were undoubtedly its
inspiration. Reading that
Napoleon dreamed of erecting a
triumphal arch to the glory of the
French army in 1806 following
their victory at Austerlitz—a
dream that would not be realized
until 1836 when the arch was
completed two decades after
Napoleon's final defeat and
exile—did not surprise me. But I
thought our guidebook was off the
mark when it described the
project as "grandiose" and
attributed it to Napoleon's
"megalomania." Instead, as I told
my husband, raising a triumphal
arch that would surpass in scale
and magnificence the triumphal
arches of antiquity was testimony
to the hold of the ancients
(especially the Romans) on the
imagination and aspirations of
modern people living before the
twentieth century.
This longstanding but now
unintelligible ambition to rival the
ancients helps to explain why
Napoleon and his architect Jean
Chalgrin ever conceived of such a
project. It also explains why
Napoleon's administrators did not
hesitate to draw up a list of the
most revered ancient sculptures in
Italy to be confiscated and
installed in the Musée Napoléon
(today's Louvre) and then to
orchestrate triumphal processions
of the plundered treasures into
Paris. My husband and I both
recalled our sense of disbelief
when a number of years ago we
had read of one such ceremonial
march where looted works from
Rome—still packed in their
crates—were met by cheering
crowds in Paris on July 27, 1798,
the fourth anniversary of the fall
of Robespierre.
The idea of erecting the grandest
triumphal arch in the world would
continue to excite the imagination
of later French rulers. According
to our guidebook, in 1823, work
which had stopped after the defeat
of Napoleon began anew when
Louis XVIII dedicated the arch to
his victorious armies returning
from Spain. In 1832, the architect
G. A. Blouet took charge and four
years later Napoleon's dream at
last became a physical reality
during the reign of Louis-
Philippe, who dedicated the
monument to the glory of France's
armies. We learned that Blouet
also supervised the elaborate
decoration that we were trying to
take in, which was not so easy,
given all the traffic; and that the
massive marble sculptures, bas-
reliefs, and frieze were executed
by the most eminent sculptors of
the day and that these carved
figures memorialized the most
important triumphs of Napoleon's
armies. We could see a row of
shields above the attic storey, but
it was only when I continued
reading that we learned they were
inscribed with the names of
battles of the Republic and the
Empire, not all of which were
victories. I also read that the
names of hundreds of generals
who took part in these campaigns
are inscribed on the inside walls
of the arches and that those who
gave their lives are honored by
having their names underlined. As
for Napoleon, our guidebook
informed us, in 1840, the funeral
procession bearing his ashes
passed beneath the arch.
The magnificent Arc de
Triomphe first envisioned by
Napoleon and his architect
Chalgrin was thus complete, but
as long as the French remained
powerful actors in world politics,
this iconic edifice of the nation's
glory, it seemed to me, was still
open to future additions. And so
we read that following World War
I, the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier was placed beneath it, the
flame burning continuously since
November 11, 1923. And that
following World War II, a plaque
was placed at the foot of the
Tomb representing the insignia of
SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force),
dated August 25, 1944, marking
the liberation of Paris. And then
the account stops. It was at that
moment that I was struck by the
question: has nothing of political
importance happened since World
War II? Did history in
France—and perhaps Western
Europe as a whole—the history of
great men, nation-building, and
empire effectively end with the
barbarism of World War II? Was
the Arc de Triomphe, I asked my
husband, now finally complete?
Not that that would be a bad
thing, he responded. After all, he
said, the two twentieth-century
additions to the monument no
longer memorialize the names of
fallen heroes or revolutionary
battles; instead we have the
commemoration of the
dehumanizing anonymity of war
in the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and of the brutal fact that
France and much of the world had
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been occupied by Nazi Germany.
We both thought of the many
photos and newsreels we had seen
over the years of the German
army victoriously marching under
the Arc de Triomphe and down
the Champs-Elyseés. We spoke
about these phantom images as
we walked down the still grand,
frantically busy avenue, with all
its ridiculously enticing fancy
shops and restaurants and cafes.
My husband was certainly right.
But the question did not yet feel
settled: Was Paris—the
West—now done, now
completed? Was its vitality more
in the past than in the present?
This, we asked ourselves, as we
strolled in one of the most perfect
cities in the world, a monument to
the energies of eighteenth and
nineteenth-century neoclassical
imaginings, which conjured into
existence not only the Arc de
Triomphe but also a Pantheon that
surpassed the one in Rome in
scale, mass, and grandeur, not to
mention the imposing, rational
order of Baron Haussmann's
redesign of the city during the
Second Empire. And then there
were all those other breathtaking
edifices—the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, the Sainte Chappelle, the
Louvre, the Eiffel Tower. … But
we had seen no architectural
projects of comparable magnitude
or ambition that belong to our
own time. The only new structure
that caught our attention was the
glass pyramid addition to the
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Louvre, but it felt as if it had been
given permission to appear in that
noble company on the strictly
utilitarian grounds of crowd
control.
It was then that I asked my
husband if he thought anything
could be added to Paris. If new
streets were built, what
contemporary names could be
found to compete with the
existing street names that
announce the great figures of the
past—all those poets, novelists,
philosophers, scientists, inventors,
statesmen, kings, saints, even if
there is something poignant in
that the names of the scholars that
grace the street signs in the area
surrounding the university also
have their achievement and dates
in parentheses, not only now-
obscure grammarians like
L'Homond, but also "Jean
Cauvin" (John Calvin) who is
identified as a theologian.
We did not have much better luck
when we tried to think of some
grand political event that has
happened recently in the West.
The international financial
swindle and its continuing
devastating aftermath came to
mind as did the unification of
Europe under the euro. But these
seemed to us to fall more in the
realm of economics than in
politics. We of course recognized
that the collapse of the Soviet
Union and the seemingly
miraculous end of the Cold War
were of enormous historical
significance. We both recalled our
admiration for those courageous
men who led Poland’s Solidarity
movement in its early days, but as
we talked about what followed, it
appeared to us that the demise of
the Soviet empire turned out to be
more of an economic triumph of
the ideology of abundance and
consumerism over the scarcity
produced by a command economy
than the political triumph of
liberal democracy over
communism that Francis
Fukuyama prophesied in his End
of History.
We were trying to come up with
a recent event in the West that
resembled the Civil Rights
movement of the 1960s—those
terrible, inspiring images of
courageous men and women
being pushed down by the force
of water hoses and attacked by
police dogs, being beaten and
arrested as they peacefully
assembled or marched for the
right to vote, all those soaring,
profoundly humane speeches of
Martin Luther King in the fight
for justice, the kind of coming
together of political energies that
has moved us whenever we have
watched documentaries that
memorialize them. After we
paused to look into the window of
a particularly exquisite shop and
then continued our stroll, I asked
my husband why this kind of
mass, sustained, organized
political action is nowhere to be
seen in America or in Western
Europe just as the periodic
revolutions, restorations, and
radical political reorganizations
that convulsed France over its
long, bloody century of nation-
building only seem to occur
elsewhere these days, typically in
former Eastern bloc or Arab or
Asian countries whose national
history is still in formation. Even
the murderous, criminal bombings
of September 11 and the
devastating wars that have been
their consequence, it seemed to
me, felt like they have had and
will have a far larger place in the
history of Iraq and of Afghanistan
than in U.S. history. We both
thought of the hideous pictures of
the victims of suicide bombings in
the streets of those places that we
so often see in the back pages of
The New York Times and how
little is asked of us—Bush's
stunning answer to the question of
what we could do after September
11, "Go shopping," and the
pathetic signs in our NYC subway
cars, "If you see something, say
something."
That we were speculating about
the history of the West coming to
an end amid the
fantastic—decadent—luxury of
the Right Bank was not lost on us.
All that is left, I announced to my
husband, at least to those who still
have money these days, is
consumption and private
pleasures, leisure and tourism.
This thought was long familiar to
me—as a historian, I am fully
aware of the historical
developments that made the
private sphere the locus of
individual happiness—but in
lovely, perfected Paris, it hit me
with greater intensity. I
understood better than ever before
what Hannah Arendt meant when
she wrote about the undermining
of the civic humanist idea of
politics—the exercise of civic
liberty by participating in self-rule
among equals—by "the rise of the
social": "We see the body of
peoples and political communities
in the image of a family whose
everyday affairs have to be taken
care of by a gigantic nationwide
administration of housekeeping."
This debasement of our shared
public life was brought back to
me with depressing force the
other day when I was reading the
response to a question at a staged
"Town Hall" meeting by President
Obama, the one political figure in
recent times who had stirred so
many hopes and aspirations:
"There are a whole host of things
we've put in place to make your
life better." Then, as reported by
The New York Times, “he cited
his health care bill, a financial
regulatory overhaul measure that
imposed tough requirements on
credit card companies; an
education bill that increased the
availability of student loans."
41
Such programs are of course
worthy; the fair distribution of our
nation’s riches, especially today
when this distribution has never
been more obscenely skewed in
favor of the wealthy, is what all
right-thinking people must fight
for. But, at the same time, as I
recalled our walks through Paris, I
couldn’t help thinking that
victories in this arena will never
inspire anyone to dream of
erecting a triumphal arch in our
capital city that will rival the great
triumphal arches of ancient Rome.
Such dreams, I finally understood
and not without a touch both of
nostalgia and relief, can only
belong to those who still have
grand capital cities to build.
Rochelle Gurstein, a monthly
columnist for The New Republic,
is the author of The Repeal of
Reticence: America's Cultural and
Legal Struggles over Free Speech,
Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and
Modern Art. She is currently
writing a book on the history of
aesthetic experience tentatively
entitled Of Time and Beauty.
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Laura Ling to Host New E! Show
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:26:00 AM
Laura Ling
TV journalist Laura Ling, who
was held in North Korean
captivity last year, will host a one-
hour news show on E!, The New
York Times reports.
Set to premiere Dec. 8 and a
departure from the network's
gossip-heavy fare, E! Investigates
will explore more serious issues.
The first two episodes will focus
on teen suicide and the lives of
military wives.
North Korean leader pardons
imprisoned U.S. journalists
"I don't know if I can be all
things, but I want to be a lot of
different things for the young
people who watch E!" Ted
Harbert, chief executive of E!'s
parent company, Comcast, told
the Times.
Future episodes will revolve
around famous missing persons
cases and lottery winners.
Lisa Ling among loved ones
pleading for U.S. journalists'
release
"The fact that E! is committed to
this type of show — that they
believe that their audience is just
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Keck's Exclusives: Smallville's Lois Exclusive: Daniel Benzali

Becomes Isis!
William Keck (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:10:00 AM
Smallville
Smallville may make us wait
until the bitter end to see Tom
Welling in his Superman suit, but
on the October 22 episode we'll
get to see Lois costumed as
another Superfriend. An ancient
artifact transforms the reporter
into the Egyptian goddess Isis,
who has powers that rival both
Clark's and Green Arrow's.
"She's thousands of years old,"
says Erica Durance, whose Lois
has previously dressed as a
gladiator, French maid and
dominatrix. "The guys just kind of
look at me now and laugh."
In the episode, Isis attempts to
sacrifice Clark and use his body
as a vessel to revive her
mummified lover Osiris, while
Daily Planet reporter Cat comes
to suspect Lois is the Blur. On the
November 12 episode, Teri
Hatcher, who played Lois on the
1990s version Lois & Clark,
appears as Lois' dead mom in a
videotaped message.
"Lois is dealing with how she fits
into Clark's life now that she
knows his secret, so [viewing the
tape] helps her," says Erica. Adds
Teri, "I'm at a place where I feel a
lot of sentimental attachment to
that character, to the show, to the
genre of that timeless story, so I
was really flattered that they
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First seen December 6, the
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Marries
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Spy Kids star Alexa Vega has
gotten married, her rep tells
TVGuide.com.
The 22-year-old actress wed
longtime boyfriend, Napoleon
Dynamite producer Sean Covel, at
the Homestake Opera House in
Lead, S.D., on Sunday.
Spy Kids director Robert
Rodriguez walked Vega, who
wore an Ian Stewart gown, down
the aisle. Vega's sister, The Good
Wife's Makenzie Vega, was a
bridesmaid, while Austin Butler,
Vega's former Ruby & The
Rockits co-star, served as ring
bearer. Guests included Wilmer
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This is the first marriage for
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North Carolina Tar Heels loses Marvin Austin, Greg
Little and Robert Quinn for season
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:31:38 AM
Updated: October 11, 2010,
12:31 PM ET
North Carolina has lost defensive
tackle Marvin Austin, wide
receiver Greg Little and defensive
end Robert Quinn to college
football's player agent scandal.
North Carolina announced it had
dismissed Austin from the team,
while the NCAA said Little and
Quinn have been ruled
permanently ineligible by its
student-athlete reinstatement staff.
All three were implicated in an
agent scandal for accepting
impermissible benefits, and Little
and Quinn were additionally cited
for lying to investigators.
North Carolina said it based its
decision on Austin on information
gathered as part of its joint
investigation with the NCAA.
UNC athletic director Dick
Baddour and football coach Butch
Davis were expected to address
the decision at a regularly
scheduled news conference at
11:30 a.m. ET.
"It's a sad day when three young
men are no longer able to
represent their school based on
actions they have taken and
decisions they have made contrary
to NCAA rules," Baddour said in
a prepared statement.
"Unfortunately, they made serious
mistakes in judgment in accepting
extra benefits and then not being
truthful with our staff and NCAA
representatives."
"As an institution, we must learn
from these mistakes and work
with the NCAA and others who
love the game of football to repair
the environment in which they
occurred," Baddour said. "College
football is a wonderful game, but
we need to closely examine and
address the agent-related
problems. The University of
North Carolina pledges to do all it
can to do that."
The NCAA said Little and Quinn
were ineligible because they
violated rules governing agent
benefits, preferential treatment
and ethical conduct, saying they
each accepted jewelry, travel
accommodations and other
benefits. According to facts
submitted by the university, Little
took nearly $5,000 worth of
benefits and the value of Quinn's
total exceeded $5,600.
The NCAA found unethical
conduct charges against Little and
Quinn for providing false and
misleading information, saying
they were not truthful during three
separate interviews with
university and NCAA
enforcement staff members.
North Carolina did not seek to
have Austin reinstated by the
NCAA.
The NCAA is also looking into
allegations that a tutor who used
to work for Davis wrote papers
for a number of Tar Heels players,
including Austin, Little and
Quinn.
Austin had been suspended from
the team since Sept. 1 for
violating unidentified team rules.
None of the three has played in
games this season due to the
probe.
Austin, Little and Quinn were
among 13 North Carolina players
who were held out of the Tar
Heels' season-opening game
against LSU for violations of
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NCAA later suspended
cornerback Kendric Burney for
six games and safety Deunta
Williams for four for receiving
improper benefits.
Austin, Little and Burney were
among six players who opted in
January to return for their senior
seasons instead of entering the
NFL draft, while Quinn, a junior,
is widely considered to be a high
first-round pick.
The NCAA first visited the
campus in July focused on
whether Austin and Little
received improper benefits from
agents.
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Press was used in this report.
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BCS projections: Boise State, Oregon in top spots, Hackathons

No. 1 Ohio State fifth
ESPN.com news services
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:12:51 AM
consensus No. 3 Boise State.
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and Ohio State at .8421. The first official BCS standings Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:54:15 AM

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Updated: October 11, 2010, points behind Oklahoma. Bronco looking to celebrate Ohio State's Sunday on the "BCS Countdown Disclaimer: Hackathons are
11:12 AM ET Mike & Mike in Busting? first AP No. 1 ranking since the Show" at 8:15 p.m. ET on ESPN. good, and the people who run
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ESPN college football researcher projected what the BCS standings But Ohio State coach Jim Tressel BCS standings is one-third USA to reflect negatively on any of
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Jed York: Winless San Francisco 49ers Caleb King of Georgia
will still win NFC West
Adam Schefter (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:27:08 AM
Updated: October 11, 2010,
12:35 PM ET
Even though the San Francisco
49ers are one of the NFL's three
currently winless teams and mired
in last place in the NFC West,
owner and president Jed York
predicted they are going to
bounce back in historical fashion.
"We're going to win the division,"
York predicted Monday morning
in a text to ESPN. NFC West
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The 49ers fell to 0-5 after losing
27-24 at home to the Philadelphia
Eagles on Sunday night.
If the 49ers do win the division,
Bulldogs being held on arrest
they will make history. Under the
NFL's current playoff format
adopted in 1990, no team ever has
opened the season 0-5 and
reached the playoffs, no less win
its division. If the 49ers are going
to reverse the trend, they need to
start doing it Sunday against
Oakland, which is 2-3 after
ending a 13-game losing streak
against the San Diego Chargers.
But consider that the 49ers have
played only one divisional game,
at Seattle in the opener, and still
have five more games left against
the NFC West teams they are
trying to bypass. Arizona is in
first place in the division with a 3-
2 record, Seattle is 2-2 and St.
Louis is 2-3.
Plus, in the weakest division in
football, the 49ers' schedule in the
final 11 games is not exactly
daunting.
San Francisco hosts Oakland,
plays at Carolina, plays Denver in
London, has a bye, hosts St. Louis
and Tampa Bay, travels to
Arizona for a Monday night game
and then plays at Green Bay,
returns home for Seattle, plays at
San Diego and at St. Louis, and
finishes the season at home
against Arizona.
Adam Schefter is ESPN's NFL
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Mark Schlabach (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:49:55 AM
Updated: October 11, 2010, 9:49
AM ET
Georgia running back Caleb King
was being held in the Athens-
Clarke County jail on Monday for
an outstanding warrant for failing
to appear in traffic court in a
neighboring county, a Walton
County (Ga.) sheriff's official
said.
A warrant was issued for King's
arrest by the Walton County
sheriff's office in August after he
failed to appear in probate court
for an outstanding traffic
violation.
King is the school's 11th football
player to be arrested this year.
Coach Mark Richt is aware of the
situation and gathering
information, school spokesman
Claude Felton told The
Associated Press. The school may
have an update later Monday on
King's status for this week's game
against Vanderbilt.
King led the Bulldogs with 58
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over Tennessee this past weekend,
which snapped Georgia's four-
game losing streak. For the
season, he ranks second on the
team with 228 yards and one
touchdown.
Last month, Richt dismissed
freshman Demetre Baker from the
team following a drunken driving
arrest. Richt would not confirm
the team had a "zero tolerance"
policy for further arrests, but said
"I think all of our guys understand
that they need to behave."
Mark Schlabach covers college
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Charlie Davies Fined, Rays Sell 5,000 Additional Seats for

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the weekend of Oct. 2-3. And he gave away tickets to their regular
may face even more trouble for season home finale, but seats for
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and after his arrest. the 2010 season are so coveted the
Davies in even hotter water. Le t e a m r u m m a g e d t h r o u g h
Davies was arrested in Jura, an
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reportedly had his license to buy tickets, according to the the first two games of the ALCS
his questionable judgment than Rays announced Monday. About
confiscated. Tampa Tribune. The Rays had with the tarps on, they came off
his exploits on the field. Last fall 5,000 additional seats -- most with
Davies later claimed, however, sellout crowds of more than for Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS
he was involved in severe car partially obstructed views -- will
that he wasn't the driver of the car. 35,000 for their first two ALDS against the Red Sox and the first
accident that killed another be available at $30 a pop for
According to the U.S. national games -- both losses -- but two games of the World Series
passenger. Davies wasn't driving, Tuesday's do-or-die Game 5
team forward, he switched places removing the tarps should push against the Phillies.
b u t t h e w o m a n w h o w a s Division Series game against the
with FC Sochaux defender capacity at the Trop past 40,000.
reportedly had been drinking. Rangers.
Jacques Faty because Faty feared The Rays made the same move to
Davies broke curfew and was out Fans were lining up at the
his license was already suspended
at around 3 a.m. just two nights
and that he'd be jailed for the
before the U.S. played a World
offense. The pair was concealed
Cup qualifier in Washington, DC.
by the SUV's tinted windows.
If true, that decision could land
52 Sports/ Gaming/ E-reader News Edition

Marvin Austin Dismissed

From UNC Team
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:23:00 AM

Filed under: UNC Marvin Austin

has been dismissed from the
North Carolina football team as a
result of the team's player agent
scandal. Two other players, Greg
Little and Robert Quinn, were
ruled permanently ineligible by
the school's student-athlete
reinstatement staff.
According to the school, the
truthful with our staff and NCAA
decision was based on
information gathered via a joint
investigation with the NCAA.
representatives."
"As an institution, we must learn
N-Space 'down, but definitely not out,'
"It's a sad day when three young
men are no longer able to
from these mistakes and work
with the NCAA and others who
love the game of football to repair
announces layoffs
represent their school based on JC Fletcher (Joystiq) not out"): a deal with an that use to buy many games every
the environment in which they
actions they have taken and Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:30:00 AM(unspecified) licensor fell year now buy a few AAA titles,
occurred," Baddour said. "College
decisions they have made contrary through, and no other publishers supplementing their need with
football is a wonderful game, but Developer N-Space, perhaps best were found to help support the
to NCAA rules," UNC athletic games that are free or cost less
we need to closely examine and known for the GameCube title company's ongoing projects,
director Dick Baddour said in a than a pack of gum. Anything in
address the agent-related Geist, is working on DS versions which include "7 titles this year
prepared statement. the 'middle' is struggling." That
problems. The University of of both Call of Duty: Black Ops (plus an iOS game we'll be
"Unfortunately, they made serious "middle" includes the Wii and
North Carolina pledges to do all it and GoldenEye 007. A company announcing next week), 5 of
mistakes in judgment in accepting DS, where N-Space releases the
can to do that." working on high-profile names w h i c h w e r e a p p r o v e d i n
extra benefits and then not being majority of its products. The 3DS,
like those doesn't seem like a S e p t e m b e r . " he said, is "a brave new world the
likely candidate for financial O'Leary lamented the changing publishers are excited about but
troubles. That's exactly what CEO state of the games industry in his also very cautious to enter."
Dan O'Leary announced on the message. "Huge budget titles have N-Space 'down, but definitely not
developer's blog this weekend, to sell massive numbers to return out,' announces layoffs originally
though he declined to offer a a profit and the App Store has appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 11
significant number. disrupted our industry in the same Oct 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please
The reason for the layoffs (which way iTunes changed consumer see our terms for use of feeds.
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AT&T finally dates U-verse on Xbox 360, coming
Friday
Christopher Grant (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:15:00 PM
Nearly four years after
announcing that the Xbox 360
would support Microsoft's IPTV
Mediaroom platform, and nine
months after demoing AT&T's U-
verse service running on the
gaming console, AT&T has just
announced "the Oct. 15 launch of
U-verse TV on Xbox 360 for U-
verse customers." Want to watch
the U-verse service in your
gaming dungeon, but don't have
an extra receiver? Since the
service requires an existing TV
box in the household, that's about
the only scenario (bedroom
maybe?) we can imagine this
being useful. If you do sign up,
you get the undeniably cool
benefit of being able to "receive
ilomilo exclusive to AT&T Windows Phone 7 devices
Christopher Grant (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:00:00 AM
During the unveiling of Windows
Phone 7 - happening live right
now!- Microsoft veep of
Windows Phone Joe Belfiore took
the opportunity to show off some
games. One of those games was
the Microsoft Game Studios-
chat and game invitations from
friends through Xbox Live while
watching live TV." Or you could
wait until early next year and snag
Hulu Plus.
Not so fast! In order to get U-
verse on your Xbox 360, you'll
need to first figure out what kind
published (and therefore Xbox
Live and Windows Phone
exclusive) ilomilo which Belfiore
announced would be "available
exclusively on AT&T phones."
Our comrades at Engadget share
our sentiment exactly: "Whoa,
that is weird."
It could be argued that all iPhone US since, well, it's only available
games are AT&T exclusive in the through AT&T; however, for
Gaming/ 53
installation of the service. If
you're already a subscriber,
Engadget reports that you'll need
to buy the $99 kit and shell out
$55 for "installation." Again, that
installation is loading software on
your internet-connected game
console.
So it's not as impressive as it
sounded in 2007, sure. But who
knew we'd have streaming Netflix
and Hulu in the future?
AT&T finally dates U-verse on
Xbox 360, coming Friday
o f c u s t o m e r y o u a r e . N e w originally appeared on Joystiq on
customers will need to order the Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:15:00 EST.
$99 Xbox kit (which doesn't Please see our terms for use of
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software onto your Xbox during
multi-carrier phones running on 7 gaming experience.
lots of different pieces of ilomilo exclusive to AT&T
hardware, the introduction of Windows Phone 7 devices
carrier exclusivity is a slippery originally appeared on Joystiq on
slope. And does that mean that Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:00 EST.
just the mobile version is Please see our terms for use of
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later today on the Windows Phone
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Stuck in Twitter, like the frog in

boiling water
(Scripting News) features that were central to my
Submitted at 10/10/2010 12:51:25 PM adopting it in the first place. The
ability to hack my own stuff in
I'm sure a lot of people would roll there. The level playing field
their eyes and shake their head where I could be as influential as
when they read that Bob the greatest media celebrity. The
Woodward, a famous Washington level playing field relative to
political writer, said that he isn't Yahoo and Google and all the
on Twitter. "I'm not sure what it other Giants of the Valley. These
is," he said. "Part of my problem are all lost, they were things I
with the media is the impatience came to depend on, and now that
of speed which drives everything. they're gone, like my friend Jay --
As you know, I do long form. On I'm not happy. And as with Jay,

Halo: Cryptum novel by T w i t t e r , y o u c a n d o 1 4 0 whatever those may be. They it's my fault for believing, for no
characters."
Amen brother!
never say, so we believe what we good reason, that things would
want to believe. But their lawyers more or less stay as they were.
Greg Bear launching in I mention this for tomorrow's make them tell the truth. They can The only way to get what we
Rebooting the News podcast, do whatever they want, whenever want is to make the stuff work the
where I hope to discuss this with they want for whatever reason, way we want it to work. We can't
Jan. 2011 J a y a s a f o l l o w - u p t o h i s and they don't have to tell us. In wait for Silicon Valley to do that
comments, two weeks ago, about other words, our interests and for us, because they will never do
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) controlled galactic genocide. An h i s d i s a p p o i n t m e n t t h a t theirs are not very well aligned. it. It's not in their nature.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:00:00 PM unabridged audio book will also FriendFeed isn't keeping their I cheered for Woodward the way So mazel tov to Woodward. Keep
be available at the same time as s y s t e m r u n n i n g . A c t u a l l y an addict cheers for someone who your writing yours, and don't give
Halo: Cryptum, the first Halo the novel, so go ahead and play disappointment is too mild a was smart enough never to smoke it away so cheap.
n o v e l i n a p l a n n e d t r i l o g y Reach while your ears read the word. Jay is pissed. I said that it's the first cigarette, or take the first And in the meantime, I keep
exploring the Forerunners, will be book. The full cover of Halo: his own damn fault for believing hit of coke or smack. I am stuck looking for ways to get out of the
published in January 2011. Cryptum can be found after the that FriendFeed was creating a in Twitter, like the frog in the predicament that I find myself in.
Announced in April of 2009, the break. service for him. They weren't. boiling water. I notice it's getting
n o v e l w i l l b e w r i t t e n b y Continue reading Halo: Cryptum They were creating a service to uncomfortable as they pull back
acclaimed, hard science fiction novel by Greg Bear launching in s e r v e t h e i r o w n p u r p o s e s ,
author Greg Bear, who is best Jan. 2011
k n o w n f o r h i s n o v e l s E o n , Halo: Cryptum novel by Greg
Darwin's Radio and The Forge of Bear launching in Jan. 2011
God. originally appeared on Joystiq on
Bear's trilogy will be the first Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST.
major work to take on the story of Please see our terms for use of
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Carl Paladino Softens Remarks on Homosexuality, but Says

Children Can Be 'Brainwashed'
David Gibson (Politics Daily) frank to the point of volatility. and it was handed to a staffer and to go there and watch a couple of "Mr. Paladino's statement displays
Submitted at 10/11/2010 7:01:00 AM Paladino also had controversial it was put into the [text]. I crossed grown men grinding against each a stunning homophobia and a
remarks that he did not deliver, it out. " other. I don't think that's proper. glaring disregard for basic
N e w Y o r k ' s R e p u b l i c a n writing at one point in his "That group gets to write the It's disgusting." equality," Vlasto said in a
candidate for governor, Carl prepared speech: "There is comments they want you to Paladino's campaign manager, statement. "These comments
Paladino, on Monday attempted to nothing to be proud of in being a make?" Lauer asked? Michael R. Caputo, told The New along with other views he has
clarify remarks he'd made the dysfunctional homosexual" and "No," Paladino responded. "It was York Times on Sunday that the espoused make it clear that he is
previous day a b o u t being homosexual "is not how with a discussion, but then they candidate employs a gay man on way out of the mainstream and is
homosexuality, telling Matt Lauer God created us." went too far in the discussion and his campaign staff and said his unfit to represent New York."
on NBC's "Today" show that In the "Today" show interview, I crossed all that stuff out. The views reflect those of the Catholic Caputo disagreed. "The majority
discrimination against gays "is Paladino said he is not anti-gay only part that I said was what you Church. of New Yorkers agree with him,"
horrible. It's terrible." and that he would "absolutely" just quoted me" on about children "Carl Paladino is simply he said of Paladino's views on
Paladino, a Tea Party favorite, on recruit gays to work in his being brainwashed. expressing the views that he holds homosexuals and gay rights.
Sunday had sharply attacked administration. "You name it. Asked to clarify the reference to in his heart as a Catholic," Caputo Polls have shown 58 percent of
homosexuality in a speech to Wherever their expertise may be, homosexuality equating with told The Times. "Carl Paladino is New Yorkers favor gay marriage,
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn even w e ' l l p u t t h e m i n o u r "dysfunction," he replied, "I did not homophobic, and neither is which Paladino says he opposes.
as the tragedy of gay bullying has g o v e r n m e n t . " not say that. It's unacceptable." the Catholic Church." Polls have also shown Cuomo
riveted the nation and a day after Asked about the "brainwashed" In his remarks Sunday, the Caputo continued that line in expanding his lead on Paladino
three gay men were tortured in the remark, he said that comment had Republican also had harsh words remarks to CNN. after the gap had closed last
Bronx because of their sexual "to do with schooling children. for his Democratic opponent, "Carl Paladino's position on this is month to six points.
orientation. My feelings on homosexuality are Attorney General Andrew exactly equivalent to the Catholic Paladino's own personal life has
Speaking to an enthusiastic unequivocal. I have absolutely no Cuomo, for marching in this Church," Caputo said. "And if been an issue in the campaign. He
crowd at Congregation Shaarei problem with it whatsoever. My year's gay pride parade. "[T]hat's Andrew Cuomo has a problem has raised charges about Cuomo's
C h a i m i n t h e t r e n d y a n d only reservation is marriage." not the example we should be with the Catholic Church's sex life that he now admits are
traditional Williamsburg section He said that "children should not showing our children," he said to position on abortion and unsubstantiated, while Paladino is
of Brooklyn, where hipsters live be exposed to that at a young age. applause. homosexuality, he needs to take it married but has a 10-year-old
cheek by jowl with Hasidic Jews, They don't understand this. It's a He added: "And don't misquote up with his parish priest." daughter from an affair with a
Paladino was talking about the very difficult thing. And exposing me as wanting to hurt homosexual Paladino's comments drew a former employee of his. He has
importance of not "pandering to them to homosexuality, especially people in any way. That would be harsh rebuke from the gay also admitted to sending out
the pornographers and perverts" at a Gay Pride parade, and I don't a dastardly lie. My approach is community. obscene and racist e-mails.
when he continued on to the issue know if you've ever been to one, live and let live." "His words foster a climate of This entry passed through the
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"I just think my children and your and they grind against each other. Paladino took another swing at his helping heal the city of its your content and you're reading it
children would be much better off It's just a terrible thing." opponent: "I was trying to define wounds," Michael Silver, on someone else's site, please read
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option -- it isn't," said Paladino, Paladino said, "That section of my children to a Gay Pride parade? . . Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto Catastrophe.
who has a reputation for being presentation was written, okay, . I don't think it is proper for them blasted Paladino's comments.
56 Politics/ E-reader News Edition
Book Thrown at
Why Joe Scarborough Matters Obama at Campaign
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily) must be something to it." pundits discuss the issue this want to claim their shows are Event? Apparently So.
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:36:00 AM Erickson makes a vital point. week. "balanced." But the difference
While other conservative voices Scarborough has also helped between these folks and Tom Kavanagh (Politics Daily)
It's become fashionable for some a r e f a r m o r e b e l o v e d b y provide a vital platform for New Scarborough is that when the Submitted at 10/11/2010 11:03:00 AM

conservatives to say that former conservatives (for the red meat Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose pressure gets tough, these folks
Congressman Joe Scarborough t h e y c h u r n o u t d a i l y ) , toughness and willingness to often cave in. That's not Morning Editor
isn't really"one of us." Scarborough's role is arguably just stand up to New Jersey's teachers' Scarborough. He's frequently Did someone throw a book at
But in my estimation, Joe as important -- and clearly more unions, has inspired many outnumbered by his ideological President Obama during his
S c a r b o r o u g h , n o w h o s t o f difficult. (It's one thing to be a conservatives. adversaries by a 3- or 4-to-1 radio appearance at a campaign rally in
M S N B C ' s " M o r n i n g J o e , " conservative radio host who sits Ironically, Scarborough gets in -- but he doesn't back down. Philadelphia on Sunday? And did
arguably does more to advance comfortably inside the protective trouble for a consistent adherence To be sure, Scarborough's one attendee attempt to streak at
conservative ideas than many of confines of a radio studio, to his conservative positions, and conservatism isn't 100 percent the event in an effort to win a
the most celebrated conservative deciding which topics are worthy for being intellectually honest. doctrinaire, but that doesn't supposed $1 million prize?
voices in America today. of discussion. But what For example, on Monday explain the haters. Like Apparently so, at least insofar as
Primarily this is because -- unlike Scarborough does day in and day Scarborough was also critical of Scarborough, Ann Coulter also the book-throwing is concerned.
many popular conservative voices out is go head-to-head against Connecticut Senate candidate questioned the Afghanistan War -- CBS's Mark Knoller wrote on
-- Scarborough isn't just preaching liberals -- on their own turf -- and Linda McMahon's role in running and she even spoke to a gay group Twitter late Monday morning that
to the choir. he usually wins.) the controversial World Wrestling recently. Coulter's brash style has the Secret Service "says this
D e s p i t e t h e f a c t t h a t And for his efforts Scarborough Entertainment. probably saved her. Too often, we morning it was aware of the book
conservatives now have their own r e c e i v e s l i t t l e p o s i t i v e Many conservatives, if they were put symbolism over substance. In thrown at Pres. Obama yesterday"
media outlets, like it or not, the reinforcement from conservatives. honest, would no doubt have a terms of ideology, Coulter and but that, after interviewing the
mainstream media still matter. Nevertheless, Scarborough problem with the WWE's content, Scarborough may be equally "overexuberant" book thrower, it
And as media bias expert Bernard continues to push back against which is typically violent and conservative. But he has a serious, "deemed there was no threat
Goldberg has noted, while most liberal narratives. On Monday, for often sexual. But many moderate temperament, while intended - he just wanted Obama
r e p o r t e r s h a v e a l i b e r a l example, Scarborough mocked conservatives would be loath to Coulter's style is in-your-face. My to have a copy of his book." No
worldview, most also attempt to t h e D e m o c r a t s ' t r a n s p a r e n t criticize the GOP nominee just guess is audiences assume arrest was made.
report fair and accurately. For this attempt to change the subject of weeks before her election. Not Coulter's brashness equates her The Associated Press, the
reason, Scarborough serves a vital November's elections to how the Scarborough. In this case, he's not steadfast philosophy. Philadelphia Inquirer and
function, providing "insiders" Chamber of Commerce is taking a GOP "team" player. This gets In today's world, style often Washington Post made no
with an intellectually honest and "secret foreign money." him in trouble with the right, but I means more than substance. mention of any such
reliable conservative perspective Showing a clip from Sunday's would argue that his willingness This entry passed through the developments in their original
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producers in America wake up saying to him, " Is that the best I can't blame conservatives for our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Daily's Alex Wagner reports. But
to," says Erick Erickson of the you can do?," Scarborough made being gun shy. In truth, there have content-only/faq.php video on Gawker.com shows an
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concern about something the t h e e l e c t i o n a s a p o l i t i c a l shows as mere tokens, who have Reporting of Falluja's Cancer after he concludes his speech.
Democrats are doing, then the gimmick. My guess is that poisoned the well. These so-called Catastrophe. A photo appearing in the British
talking heads and news producers Scarborough's comments will conservatives serve the role of tabloid the Daily Mail shows a
are willing to consider that there influence how other writers and "useful idiots" for liberals who book very clearly passing behind

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Rick Scott, Alex Sink Locked in Tight
Race for Governor in Florida
Bruce Drake (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 12:07:00 PM
Contributing Editor Republican
Rick Scott holds a statistically-
insignificant 50 percent to 47
percent lead over Democrat Alex
Sink in the Rlorida governor's
races, according to a Rasmussen
Reports poll conducted Oct. 7.
The margin of error is 4 points.
Rasmussen's latest result is
somewhat the reverse of a Mason-
Dixon Research survey conducted
Oct. 4-6 that had Sink, the state's
chief financial officer, ahead of
Scott, a former health care
executive and political newcomer,
by 44 percent to 40 percent. The
margin of error in that poll was
also points.
Scott is seen favorably by 49
percent and unfavorably by 44
percent, while Sink is regarded
unfavorably by 58 percent and
favorably by 45 percent.
In Rasmussen's Sept. 1 poll, Sink
had been viewed favorably by 54
percent and unfavorably by 35
percent with 11 percent not
knowing enough about her to be
sure of their opinion, suggesting
that negative ads launched against
Sink by Scott have had an effect.
Mason-Dixon's Brad Coker told
the Orlando Sentinel, in analyzing
his firm's poll results, that Scot's
ads questioning Sink's banking
background and performance as
chief financial officer was causing
voters to rethink their choices.
The Miami Herald said four of six
ads that Scott has aired since his
upset victory in the GOP
gubernatorial primary have been
based on opposition research
against Sink that revived a variety
of allegations about her.
See also: Florida Election:
Pragmatism on Both Sides
Undermines Party Loyalty
On Sink's side, she has released
eight ads during the general
eletion campaign with four taking
aim at Scott. The ads have
questioned his integrity and his
efforts to link Sink to President
Obama, whose popularity has
dropped in the state. One ad asks
why Scott ``thinks running for
governor is all about President
Obama.''
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the president's head, though the
clarity -- such a sharp image
would require a very fast shutter
speed -- is not the only reason to
doubt its authenticity: the
background behind the president
is quite different from the
background in the video, and the
president's shirt appears to be
different from the one he has on
in other images -- his sleeves are
rolled up to a different height.
Gawker also published a photo of
the "streaker," though it's
provenance also seems dubious.
Gawker cites a Weekly Standard
blogger saying the stunt "captured
the attention of . . . an Associated
Press photographer," but the
photo is credited to Joey "Boots"
Bassolino, whose name does not
appear in connection to the AP in
any other references sought in a
Google search. Another blogger
calls Bassolino a co-conspirator in
the plot to win $1 million from
Akli David, said to be the son of a
Turkish Coca-Cola bottling
company owner. David reportedly
has offered the money to any
prankster who appears naked
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within eyesight and earshot of the
president, with "Battlecam.com"
written on his chest while
chanting the name of the website.
According to Wikipedia, David is
himself a "self-confessed
prankster . . . notable for his
heavy usage of social media, such
as his own site FilmOn," of which
Battlecam is an arm.
Whom to believe in all this? Hard
to say, as the incidents could be
just another example of the hard-
to-pin-down reality of the digital
world, in which drawing attention
to oneself is sometimes the
highest order of business.
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Istook: Obama’s about
Fear not Hope
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 5:39:30 AM
Monday, 11 Oct 2010 10:39 AM
President Obama is relying on
scare tactics to frighten
Americans into voting for
Democrats, says Ernest Istook, a
former Republican congressman
from Oklahoma who is now a
distinguished fellow at The
Heritage Foundation. That’s a
way to divert attention from
White House failures, he writes
on
Politico.
“More and more, President
Obama relies on projecting fear
rather than hope,” Istook says.
“He creates a series of bogeymen
to argue against. His obvious goal
is to convince Americans that the
alternatives are even worse than
his own failed policies.”
Istook says Obama is trying to
put the blame on his predecessor.
“He rails against former President
Bush. He denounces the eight
years that preceded his election.
He paints business, bankers, even
the Chamber of Commerce as
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W.Va.’s Manchin: Nuke
Obamacare
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 6:09:10 AM
Monday, 11 Oct 2010 11:09 AM
West Virginia’s Democratic
Senate candidate Joe Manchin
(pictured) has gone from
approving the new healthcare law
to saying he would support repeal
of it if the law can’t get it fixed.
That’s what he told Fox News,
The Hill reports.
Manchin’s change of heart may
villains. Obama sees bogeymen reflect that fact that’s dropped
everywhere. His style depends on behind Republican John Raese in items -- that's a pretty good darn
imaginary monsters under the the race. start."
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Some Democrats are calling for
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ways, and the kind of attacks that
most Americans are rejecting and
it one of the reasons they are in
such trouble in this election,"
Gillespie said.
"This kind of intimidation to
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Psalm 62:8 (10-11-10)

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Trust in him at all times, O
people; pour out your hearts to
him, for God is our refuge.
— Psalm 62:8(NIV) Thoughts on
Today's Verse... It is so hard to
share the secrets of our hearts
with anyone. We want to keep our
secret failings, embarrassments,
and sins hidden. We fear that
others would reject us and we
would shame ourselves if anyone
knew the secret sludge in our
hearts. But hidden sin is only
hidden from us. It is not hidden
from our Father. Hidden sin
festers in our hearts and drives a
wedge between us and the God
who would forgive us and
empower us to triumph over it. If
only we would pour out our hearts
to him knowing that he longs to
be our refuge. My Prayer...
Loving Father and Holy God,
today I want to confess to you
several things on my heart.
Father, I am afraid for others to
know that I have ... (confess your
most secret and shameful sins to
God). Holy God, I have sinned
and ask your forgiveness for ...
(confess those sins that others
may not see as all that important,
but that Satan uses to diminish
your allegiance to God). Eternal
Lord, I get anxious about ...
(confess those things that make
you worry and place them in
God's hands). You alone are my
refuge and strength. I trust these
confessions with you and ask that
you strengthen me by the power
of your Holy Spirit to not fall into
these same traps again and again.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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Space Agency's Planck satellite
produced a high-resolution dust
map. The ultimate goal of the
project is to map the cosmic
microwave background, the
electromagnetic leftovers of the
universe's violent beginning.
Since warm dust grains emit
microwaves, Planck made its map
simply to see what's behind the
dust. Cosmologists usually
consider the dust-emitted
microwaves to be "noise" that
obscures their data, worth
analyzing only to erase from their
measurements of the cosmic
microwave background. But for
other astronomers, interstellar
dust is useful in its own right.
Some of them plan to use the
interstellar-dust data to study the
Milky Way's magnetic field, the
origins and behavior of which are
not well understood. Others, like
Bruce Draine of Princeton
University, will study the size
distribution and composition of
the grains themselves. "The
universe is beautiful," Draine
says, "and one of the things that
makes it beautiful is the dust."
The Life of a Dust Grain
1. INSIDE THE STAR
Astronomers don't know the
identity of all the interstellar dust
factories, but they do know that
red giants-stars of up to eight
solar-masses in the final stages of
their life-generate quite a bit of
dust. Dust components, such as
carbon and oxygen, are made
deep in the star's core when
helium atoms fuse together.
2. ON THE STAR'S SURFACE
Convection within the red giant
dredges the new proto-dust atoms
from the core up to the surface.
The conditions and elements
present in the stellar atmosphere
will dictate the chemical
composition of the dust. Then the
star's pulsations and winds fling
those atoms into space.
3. IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE
As the atoms continue to drift
through space, they cool and
condense into dust grains. From
there, new dust grains will float
out into the cosmos, where they
may collect into very small rocks,
then asteroids, then planets. In
July, planetary scientists
announced two candidate dust
particles from the Stardust
spacecraft, which returned to
Earth in 2006 after seven years of
collecting dust samples in space.
This will bring the total number of
dust grains currently in human
possession to three. Finding even
one requires a painstaking search
of Stardust's particle trap using a
microscope. The first dust
particle, also captured by the
Stardust experiment, was
announced in March. Of the three,
two of the particles are
magnesium-rich, while the third is
carbon-based. FAQs
IS INTERSTELLAR DUST
VISIBLE FROM EARTH?
Yes! On a clear night far from
city lights, stargazers can see dark
patches within the smooth band of
the Milky Way near the
constellation Cygnus. Those
patches are ribbons of dust that
block the stars behind them.
HOW DOES IT AFFECT THE
GALACTIC ENVIRONMENT?
Dust grains are the building
blocks of planets. They also shield
gas clouds from starlight and, by
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keeping those clouds cool, allow
that gas to condense and make
new stars. "It's like an
ecosystem," says Gillian Knapp,
an astronomer at Princeton. "It's
the little stuff that matters, and
how it evolves together."
Essential Jargon
Interstellar Medium: What
astronomers call all that stuff
between the stars. Dust grains are
only about 1 percent of its mass,
with hydrogen accounting for 80
percent and helium providing
most of the rest.
Interstellar Dust: Dust grains are
agglomerations of atoms,
including carbon, silicon, oxygen,
magnesium and aluminum.
Silicon-rich grains make up about
70 percent of the dust inventory,
and carbon-rich grains constitute
the remainder.
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Revealed: Google's Car Fleet Has Been Driving Around
Unmanned For 140,000 Miles Already
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
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News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:58:56 AM
Stanford's Pikes Peak-Climbing
Audi TT-S Stanford University
has a long tradition of building
autonomously navigated cars, like
this Audi TT-S designed to race
the famous Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
Now, researchers from Stanford
and Carnegie Mellon University -
itself no stranger to building
autonomous vehicles - have
teamed with Google to build a
fleet of robotic vehicles that
negotiate traffic without human
intervention.
When it comes to artificial
intelligence Google has a head
start, what with all that free data
we give them every time we
search for a 30 Rock clip. So
perhaps it's no surprise that the
search giant is the latest enterprise
to pursue a future where cars
drive themselves via complex,
decision-making artificial
intelligence software. Over the
weekend it was revealed that
Google has seven test cars that
have driven 1,000 miles each
without any human intervention
whatsoever.
Of course, the cars aren't exactly
driverless. There is always
someone sitting behind the wheel,
ready to seize control should
something go awry. There's also a
passenger, a technician to monitor
the navigation system and ensure
the software is running smoothly.
But the cars do pretty much all of
the work - one of them even
negotiated San Francisco's
famously treacherous Lombard
Street (that steep stretch of
pavement that's more or less a
series of sharp switchbacks). If
you count up all the miles that
required only occasional human
intervention, the cars have logged
some 140,000 miles altogether.
The cars are years from
commercialization and mass
production obviously, but
Google's effort is just the latest in
a series of attempts to create safer,
more efficient passenger vehicles
that move people around
autonomously. An Italian team is
currently en route from Italy to
Shanghai in a pair of electric-
powered driverless vans, and
DARPA's Grand Challenge has
produced a handful of promising
software and vehicle designs.
In fact, the Stanford Professor
behind the team that won the
second DARPA Grand Challenge
with the Stanley robot car is the
brainpower behind Google' fleet
of artificially intelligent
automobiles (he's also a Google
engineer). That fleet is made up of
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six Toyota Priuses and one Audi
TT.
The idea behind all of this, of
course, is to make roadways safer
and reduce energy costs. A fleet
of shared smart vehicles means
cars could be summoned only
when they are needed rather than
being owned (and parked) by each
individual. Robot drivers also
react faster than humans - who are
increasingly distracted by a
growing cacophony of
technological noise in our cabs -
have 360-degree vision, and
remain sober and alert even after
weddings and football games.
And if roadways were packed
with automated, networked robo-
cars rather than angry, lane-
weaving, stop-and-go drivers,
traffic would move more
efficiently as well.
Ambitious predictions say self-
driving autos could be deployed
in the next eight years. Getting
them certified for the road and
brought within the letter of the
law is going to cause unenviable
headaches along the way, but the
end result could be a complete re-
engineering of car culture
beginning before the decade is
out.
[ New York Times]
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Video: Virgin Galactic's Enterprise Makes Maiden

Manned Flight
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
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Now)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:55:23 AM
Gliding Home SpaceShipTwo
glides to a landing in the Mojave
Desert. Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic's space plane
made its first manned glide flight
on 10/10/10, proving the
spaceship's airworthiness and
further paving the way for future
space tourism trips.
The W-shaped VSS Enterprise
separated from its mothership
Sunday around 45,000 feet. Test
pilot Pete Siebold and co-pilot
Mike Alsbury safely glided to a
landing at Mojave Air and
Spaceport, Virgin Galactic said.
Check out the video below.
The carbon-fiber plane is a direct
descendant of SpaceShipOne, the
Burt Rutan creation that won the
Ansari X Prize.
In a press release, Siebold said
the plane was "a joy to fly."
The Enterprise is one of the
world's highest-altitude gliders,
and is also capable of reaching
Mach 3 speeds in order to rocket
into space.
In the weeks prior to the flight,
mothership WhiteKnightTwo (this
one is called Eve) flew 40 flights,
including four captive-carry
flights, to make sure systems were
functioning properly.
Sunday's flight was designed to
test Enterprise's flight profile;
Siebold and Alsbury tested the
vehicle's handling and stall
characteristics, stability and
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Apple Awarded Trademark for “There’s an App for That”

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Help Her Love Football
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Submitted at 10/11/2010 3:00:00 AM
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If your wife or girlfriend gives
you a hard time whenever the
game's on, don't sit back and take
it. Go on the offense—teach her
the sport. She's probably really
never given it a chance, says
Natalie Jahnke, a center for the
Lingerie Football League (LFL)
Champion Los Angeles
Temptation. "Most women are
intimidated by football because
they don't know anything about
it," she says. Here's all the tutorial
you need.
Her Problem: Doesn't Understand
the Rules of the Game
Your Play: Keep your
explanation quick and simple.
"Use general terminology and
don't overcomplicate the sport,"
Jahnke says. Give her the basics,
plus something she can
immediately watch for, like first
downs.
Her Problem: Can't Tell the
Players Apart
Your Play: Pick up an issue of
Star magazine and figure out
which players are dating celeb
actresses and models. "See
number 25. He's the one who
broke up with Kim." "Number
12? He's the one who had a baby
with Gisele."
Her Problem: She Gets Impatient
and Bored
Your Play: Break the game time
down—for real. "When she sees
10 minutes on the clock, she
expects it to take 10 minutes,"
says Jahnke. If she knows the last
half of the game is really going to
take 90 minutes or more, she can
just relax and get into it. To help
draw her in, amp up the drama.
Tell her about rivalries between
players and teams, or the
importance of a specific win.
Exaggerate as much as you can. If
you make it sound like a soap
opera, you may be able to hook
her interest.
Her Problem: You're a Pig When
You Watch
Your Play: Vegging on the couch
with snacks is meant to be messy.
Still, take five minutes during the
first half and throw away your
trash. Take the dishes to the sink.
After the game, spend another
five cleaning up. If she has to do
it, she's just going to resent
you—and football.
Her Problem: You Seem to Care
More About the Score Than
About Her
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the northern regions of Argentina.
"The primary active ingredient in
aspidosperma is yohimbe,"
explains Roberta Anding, RD,
ADA spokesperson and sports
dietitian for the Houston Texans.
What it'll do for you: There isn't
enough information to know for
sure how AQBE works but it has
been used around the world to
treat asthma, lung disorders,
coughs, fevers and other
conditions. AQBE, and
specifically yohimbe, is most
often touted for treating erectile
dysfunction and aiding fat loss.
• Erectile dysfunction In some
Your Play: Get her invested in countries, the extract is used as a
the game's outcome. Tell her that prescription drug to treat erectile
if your team wins, you'll go out to dysfunction. A 2002 study in
celebrate. Or get her rooting for Germany found that pro-erectile
the other side. If her team is ahead effects of the bark extract may
at the half, she gets a back rub. If predominantly be caused by the
your team is winning, she has to yohimbe. But it's unclear if the
reciprocate. If you're bold, up the yohimbe is enough on its own to
stakes! Related articles: help.
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•
Suggested intake: There is not
enough information to determine
the appropriate range of doses for
quebracho. Herbal remedies often
suggest dosages of 50-250
milligrams—dosage should
depend on your age, health and
other conditions.
Some weight loss drugs (such as
Hydroxycut Hardcore) contains
the extract. If you opt to take
them, follow relevant directions
on product labels and consult your
doctor before using.
Associated risks/scrutiny:"There
can be significant side effects
including arrhythmia, seizures and
high blood pressure," Anding
says. People with high blood
pressure or kidney disease should
avoid products containing
yohimbe. There's also some
concern about combing the extract
with stimulants or antidepressant
variations in blood pressure.
"This product has the potential to
cause harm and should really be
avoided," warns Anding.
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Bobby (GetReligion) homosexuality. point.)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:23:15 AM The posted video contains about And don’t misquote me as
60 seconds of what Paladino said: wanting to hurt homosexual
Carl Paladino, New York’s We must stop pandering to the people in any way. That would be
R e p u b l i c a n g u b e r n a t o r i a l pornographers and the perverts a dastardly lie. My approach is
candidate, made the rounds today who seek to target our children live and let live. I just think my
of major network morning shows. and destroy their lives. I didn’t children and your children would
His appearances on ABC’s“Good march in the gay parade this year be much better off and much more
Morning America,” CBS’“Early — the gay pride parade this year. successful getting married and
Show” and NBC’s“Today” came My opponent did, and that’s not raising a family. And I don’t want
amid a furor over remarks he the example that we should be them to be brainwashed into
made — and didn’t make — s h o w i n g o u r c h i l d r e n , a n d thinking that homosexuality is an
Sunday to Orthodox Jewish certainly not in our schools.(The
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Pod people: On converts to atheism

tmatt (GetReligion) learning more about it. Passion I hope GetReligion readers are
Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:28:12 AM drives people to knowledge. giving this new project a try. It’s
The same thing is true with easy to simply click the “direct
We have another podcast up and atheists. Most of them have been download” link and listen to the
running. This one is a follow-up raised in a faith tradition and then short program right on your
chat, with me this time around, they have chosen — for reasons computer. We are coming soon to
about the new wave of data from of experience, reading, academics, iTunes, as well. Hang in there
the Pew Forum on Religion & etc. — to convert to a faithless with us. Written by: tmatt on
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equally valid or successful option.
It isn’t.
Several media outlets reported
that Paladino’s prepared text also
included this statement, which he
omitted:
There is nothing to be proud of in
being a dysfunctional
homosexual.
CNN reported:
“That’s not how (God) created
us,” the prepared remarks
continued, though Paladino did
not say those words.
The New York Times’ coverage
of the remarks— which its
reporter did not witness firsthand
— originally ran under this
headline:
Paladino Attacks Gays in
Brooklyn Speech
However, Paladino’s spokesman
— in the same Times article —
said the candidate was “simply
expressing the views that he holds
in his heart as a Catholic.” So, is
this is a Paladino attack on gays
or a candidate’s statement of his
religious beliefs?
By the way, that headline no
longer accompanies the online
version of the article. It has been
changed to this:
Paladino Laces Speech with
Antigay Remarks
Still, the top four paragraphs of
the Times story — as I type this
post — have the sequence of
Paladino’s statement out of order:
The Republican candidate for
governor, Carl P. Paladino, told a
gathering in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, on Sunday that children
should not be “brainwashed” into
thinking that homosexuality was
acceptable, and criticized his
opponent, Attorney General
Andrew M. Cuomo.
Addressing Orthodox Jewish
leaders, Mr. Paladino described
his opposition to same-sex
marriage.
“I just think my children and your
children would be much better off
and much more successful getting
married and raising a family, and
I don’t want them brainwashed
into thinking that homosexuality
is an equally valid and successful
option — it isn’t,” he said,
reading from a prepared address,
according to a video of the event.
And then, to applause at
Congregation Shaarei Chaim, he
said: “I didn’t march in the gay
parade this year — the gay pride
parade this year. My opponent
did, and that’s not the example we
should be showing our children.”
Newsday.com reported that Mr.
Paladino’s prepared text had
included the sentence: “There is
nothing to be proud of in being a
dysfunctional homosexual.” But
Mr. Paladino omitted the sentence
in his speech.
If somebody at the Times would
click the video to which the paper
itself links, they’d figure out that
they have the third and fourth
paragraphs out of order. Then
again, even getting that sequence
fixed wouldn’t explain why they
bury Paladino’s prefacing remark
— that he doesn’t want to hurt
homosexual people in any way —
while focusing on the rest of what
he said. And, of course, what he
didn’t say.
Most media also linked
Paladino’s remarks to recent cases
of anti-gay bullying and suicides.
CNN referenced the cases starting
in its sixth paragraph:
The candidate’s remarks came a
day after New York police
announced the arrest of an eighth
suspect in a series of brutal, anti-
gay hate crimes against four men.
The incident last weekend
involved three victims being held
against their will by as many as
nine assailants who beat them in a
vacant apartment and sodomized
two of them, police said. A fourth
victim was beaten and robbed in
connection with the attacks.
Given that Paladino says he was
making a blunt statement of
Catholic beliefs, is it fair to link
his comments with physical
attacks by thugs?
On CBS today, Paladino said he
deserves an apology from media
that reported remarks he did not
make:
Paladino said it wasn’t his
intention to add fuel to the fire of
gay hatred.
“This thing was highlighted only
because of the words that were on
a written statement that I did not
speak. I crossed them out. They
were unacceptable to me and
that’s the only reason we are
talking about it today because
those words were given by
someone to the press and the
press, in their own pariah way,
needed to write something … so
that’s why this thing gets like
this.”
But Paladino stood by the rest of
his comments.
“I want to clearly define myself. I
have of no reservations about gay
people at all, none, except for one
thing, their desire to get married.
… I feel that marriage is only
between a man and a woman.
Very clearly, I wanted to state
that.
“Now, in addition, I have a
nephew and … I have people
working for me who are gay.
Never had a problem with any of
them, never had a problem in any
sense with their lifestyle and
we’ve talked about it often. … I
talk to them about the
discrimination that they suffer and
I’m sensitive to it.
From a journalistic standpoint, I
have no problem with the media
reporting the full prepared
statement that a rabbi apparently
handed out. In a statewide race for
governor, the full statement —
what was said and what was not
— is newsworthy. But context —
both on who wrote the original
statement and why Paladino chose
not to use parts of it — is crucial
to fair, responsible reporting.
The New York City reports I
have read failed to give any
details on why Paladino would
have made such a statement to
Orthodox Jews. Kudos to the
Buffalo News for providing a bit
of religious insight:
The Republican made his
E-reader News Edition
comments as he met with
Orthodox groups at the Karlsburg
Synagogue and Kohel Adas
Kasho, both in Brooklyn.
Caputo said the meetings were
part of an attempt to introduce
Paladino to Orthodox Jewish
leaders who agree with him on
issues such as marriage equality
and abortion.
“There’s some kind of misnomer
out there that the Jewish
community is a Democratic
voting bloc,” he said. “It’s a very
diverse community with diverse
political thoughts.”
Caputo pointed to the staunch pro
-life and anti-gay marriage
positions held by some Orthodox
rabbis.
“That creates an opening for us,”
he said.
This is a breaking story. It’ll be
interesting to see how the
religious angles develop, if at all.
Comment away, but please stick
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Brad A. Greenberg this, especially when they deal Jews have historical
(GetReligion) with intersection of religious and hypochondria; we throw around
Submitted at 10/10/2010 6:06:26 PM ethnic identity. this terminology in a free and easy
And what about when the way.”
No, not adultery. We’re talking criticism is of Israel, as in the But just because something is
about anti-Semitism and the photo shown here, which I shot tasteless and stupid doesn’t
m e d i a ’ s l a c k o f n u a n c e i n during Palestinian Awareness mean it’s anti-Semitic. For
reporting on it (or allegations of Week at UC Irvine? I’d say it’s example, last week Rick Sanchez
it). anti-Semitic, but others would say called Jon Stewart a ‘bigot’. That
Why? Because it’s a worthy point it is a criticism of a political was crass, rude and
of discussion in the wake of Rick entity. Nothing about that image unsophisticated — but anti-
Sanchez’s anti-Semitic implosion, says the Jewish state should be Semitic? Sanchez further asserted
just as it is whenever there much wiped off the map, though there that Jews have a lot of power and
ado about whether a high-profile are students at UCI who have said influence in the media. If we’re
outburst was anti-Semitic. Think that, which makes the bloody flag honest, that’s probably true (I
Helen Thomas or John Hagee or more troubling. haven’t run the numbers) — but is
Jesse Jackson or, for you God Anti-Semitism is a difficult it anti-Semitic to say so?
Blog readers, the Rev. Eric Lee. subject for anyone to cleanly Danielle goes on to answer yes,
The comments to my Rick define. It’s particularly so for me but it’s not so much because of
Sanchez post left me wondering b e c a u s e , w h i l e I ’ v e b e e n what Sanchez said as it is how he
just how the media should deal subjected to anti-Semitism, I said it. (I can hear my wife saying
with perceived, even clear, anti- haven’t lived as a Jew. The that, and I finally understand what
Semitism. Here’s one from closest I may have gotten was it means.) That was part of my
Norman responding to questions interviewing an anti-Semitic point when I responded to
about whether Sanchez’s rant that academic without explaining that comments by saying that there is
Jon Stewart and Jews like him run it’s complicated. nothing wrong — in fact, it’s
CNN and other major media So I’m going to defer to my old healthy — to discuss the role of
outlets: colleague Danielle Berrin, who Jews in the media … if it is done
Jews may not be presently writes the Hollywood Jew blog sincerely and without malice.
oppressed, but the idea that Jews for The Jewish Journal. Last What makes anti-Semitism such
covertly control the country/world week, she wrote a wonderful blog a challenging thing for journalists
through media dominance is an post titled “ The Jews who cried to address is just how amorphous
anti-Semitic sentiment, and a ‘anti-Semite.’” She pegged the its characteristics can be.
legitimate cause for concern when post to a lecture by Stuart question of what one means by Daily Beast recently charged a The point is, there’s a difference
it crops up. Schoffman, a visiting fellow from ‘anti-Israel.’ A great many Jewish Jewish character on “Glee” with between being anti-Semitic and
Did Sanchez say this? I think so. T h e H a r t m a n I n s t i t u t e i n and Israeli Zionists are opposed to being anti-Semitic. Why, because being offensive or insulting. For
You could parse words and say Jerusalem. In it, Danielle offers many policies of the Israeli he’s obnoxious? Masturbates in what it’s worth, Rick Sanchez
that Fr. Coughlan never explicitly some helpful insights for people government regarding the public? Tried buying a girlfriend? seems to be as confused as to
engaged in anti-Semitism, but we writing about anti-Semitism. Palestinians. This obviously does If this is the 21st century criteria what constitutes a ‘bigot’ as Jews
all know better. Read between the “ O n e a s p e c t o f J e w i s h not make them anti-Israel.” for anti-Semitism than no wonder are about what constitutes anti-
lines here. We all know better. (over)sensitivity is the question of The impulse to label any we Jews think everything is anti- Semitism.
I wish we did. But that says whether anti-Israel equals anti- criticism of Jews ‘anti-Semitic’ Semitic. One Jew, two opinions. One anti-
nothing of how reporters should Semitic,” Schoffman wrote. becomes even more obvious when “We have become, as a people,
deal with incendiary issues like “Which immediately raises the confronting Hollywood extremely sensitive to [anti- TALKING page 68
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#ad#Ashjian denied the allegation issued a formal, unified statement Republican political consultant “People are disgusted with both
and confidently talked the talk, against him, and the Independent Ryan Erwin agrees Ashjian is part campaigns, which is just how
Can a fake Tea Party candidate labeling himself a patriot who was American party tried but failed to of the dynamic and says he thinks Reid wants it,” said Ralston. “I
derail the bid to unseat Harry not a politician and referring to have him removed from the voters need to realize that a button think ‘none’ might pull around
Reid? Reid as “an enemy of the state.” ballot. -push for Ashjian is a wasted five percent or so. Any higher
T he outcome of the nation’s Claiming that a conversation with With Ashjian’s most recent vote. than that is a real big problem for
marquee Senate race may hinge family and friends sparked the victory in court, last week’s Wall “There is an important role for Angle.”
on the number of votes that go to notion to start up a third party, he Street Journal profile calling him legitimate third parties to play, but #ad#Ralston thinks the potentially
a man who cleverly co-opted the said he did it in part because the a “maverick” and a “wild card,” this one is a sham that just lethal combination of votes to
Tea Party name and has been tea-party movement had been “co- and Sharron Angle’s attempt to capitalized on a popular name,” Ashjian and the “none” category
c a l l e d e v e r y t h i n g f r o m opted by Republicans.” talk him out of the race -- in a said Erwin. “A vote for Ashjian is are the whole ballgame for Reid.
“opportunist” to “egomaniac” to In answer to questions about private meeting that was secretly neither a vote for the Tea Party “It's the only way he can win,” he
“whack job.” business and personal financial recorded and released to the press agenda nor its movement, because said.
In mid-February, Jon Scott difficulties, including IRS liens, -- the potential Senate-race spoiler he is simply not credible or History supports the view.
Ashjian -- a man with no known contractor’s-board complaints and is still alive and well. affiliated with any of the official Consider the case of John
ties to the tea-party movement, a l a t e r s u s p e n s i o n o f h i s Engaged voters of any political Nevada Tea Party groups,” he Ensign’s narrow loss when he
other than a claim to have c o n t r a c t o r ’ s l i c e n s e , a n d a persuasion can probably be relied said. challenged Reid back in 1998.
attended a Las Vegas rally in bounced check, Ashjian said the upon not to punch the ballot for #PAGE#To add injury to insult, it Voter turnout was over 400,000;
April 2008 -- registered the name reports either were untrue or Ashjian, but veteran political is not just Ashjian who threatens roughly 19,000 votes went to
Tea Party of Nevada with the would be resolved. journalist Jon Ralston agrees he to hurt Angle’s chances and hand “none” or to third-party
Nevada Secretary of State as a Some were; some were not. could still be a big factor in the the race to the Reid. A recent candidates; and Reid won the
political party. Ashjian vowed to pour millions electoral equation. CNN poll showed one in ten election by just 428 votes.
A few weeks later, Ashjian made into the race; he never did. Yet he “My instincts tell me Ashjian will voters going with the “none of Reid is hoping to tread a
his first television appearance on has marched on, undeterred and only get one or two percent of the these candidates” category over similarly narrow path to victory
the statewide political talk show flinging around flamboyant vote,” said Ralston in an interview Angle or Reid. this year, and has to hope that as
Face to Face. Interested observers rhetoric at every turn. with Battle ’10. “But being right Ralston said he thinks it’s many voters as possible are fooled
tried to determine if Ashjian was Tea-party types around the state under Angle on the ballot, with possible the “none” category by Ashjian.
the real deal or, as some had disavowed him, and independent his identification as the Tea Party could earn significant support but --- Elizabeth Crum covers this
speculated, an agent of espionage groups vowed to stop him with candidate, and his name ID now also added that it may be far less - year’s Nevada races at NRO’s
who had been recruited by Reid to legal challenges. In early March, up because of press coverage of - if people overcome their disgust Battle ’10 blog. Elizabeth Crum
siphon votes from the Republican m o r e t h a n 2 0 c o n s e r v a t i v e the secret meeting with Angle, it with both major candidates and
nominee in November. grassroots and tea-party groups might be higher.” decide not to waste their votes.
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Author Peter Wehner talks with
NRO.
T wo former aides in the George
W. Bush administration have
collaborated again, this time on
the new book, City of Man:
Religion and Politics in a New
Era.
Michael Gerson is former policy
adviser and chief speechwriter to
President Bush. Peter Wehner is
former deputy assistant to the
president and director of the
White House Office of Strategic
Initiatives. Gerson is now a
nationally syndicated columnist
and Wehner is a senior fellow at
the Ethics and Public Policy
Center.
Wehner talks City of Man, St.
Paul, Jesus as philosopher, and
the fierce urgency right now with
National Review Online’s
Kathryn Jean Lopez.
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Has
the City of Man rejected the City
of God?
PETER WEHNER: Well, the
City of Man will never fully
reflect the values of the City of
God -- and in some instances it
will actively oppose them. That
has been part of Christian
teaching since Jesus walked the
earth. Those who attempt to usher
in the Kingdom of God in this
world have often left it in much
worse shape than they found it.
We should reject utopianism in all
its variations and manifestations;
it often leads to shattered hopes
and shattered lives, to prison
camps and gulags.
#ad#At the same time, some
forms of government express
principles that more closely
approximate the values of the City
of God than do others. Our book
is based on an explicit
assumption: Politics matters
because political acts have
profound human consequences. It
makes a huge difference whether
people live in freedom or
servitude, whether the state is a
guardian or an enemy of human
dignity.
So the two cities are always in
tension -- and the challenge is to
fight for principles that further
human flourishing and human
excellence without succumbing to
fanciful hopes and utopian
dreams.
LOPEZ: Why is the City of Man
relevant to someone following
politics in October 2010?
WEHNER: Because the
relationship between faith and
politics is a perennial one; it
mattered at the American
founding and it matters to this
day. It’s a topic every generation
needs to come to terms with. And
the outcome of that grappling can
have profound effects, for good or
for ill.
I also believe it’s important for
people of faith to think through
first principles, such as what the
role and purpose of the state
should be in our lives. We devote
an entire chapter to that subject,
which certainly has bearing on
politics in 2010.
In politics, it’s quite easy to
become reactive, to deal with
issues as they arise. Having
served in the Reagan
administration and the Bush
White House, I understand all
that. You don’t have the luxury of
conducting college seminars when
you’re at the center of political
power. You have to deal with
events as they come.
At the same time, it’s important
to step back and to think through,
in a careful way, core principles --
for example, to think about how
order, justice, virtue, and
prosperity might manifest
themselves in the era in which we
live. And for Christians it’s
important to reflect on what
Augustine called a “theology of
history,” which helps us place
ourselves and our political debates
within the right context.
LOPEZ: How much of City of
Man comes from lived political
experience, especially in the
White House?
WEHNER: A fair amount of it
does, actually. Mike and I have
been close to political power, and
I think we can testify to both the
good and the bad of politics, to its
possibilities and its limitations.
A quick story that bears on this.
We were working in the White
House when the 9/11 attacks
occurred; in fact, I attended the
7:30 a.m. senior staff meeting that
morning and sent an e-mail to
Mike reporting on what
transpired. I began my e-mail this
way: “Very little of note
happened.” Four minutes later
American Airlines Flight 11 flew
into the North Tower of the World
Trade Center. We use that episode
to segue into a discussion on why
the moral duties placed on
individuals are, in important
respects, different from the ones
placed on the state. None of us
was in a mood to turn the other
cheek in the aftermath of 9/11 --
and we explain why that didn’t
violate our consciences as
Christians.
I want to add one other thing: For
me, it’s been an ongoing
challenge to engage in spirited
and intense debates, ones that I
care deeply about, without
dehumanizing the opposition or
becoming uncivil. I’ve tried to
stay on the right side of that line
over the years, but it can be tough
-- and I’m sure some of those on
the receiving end of my
commentaries would argue that
from time to time I’ve crossed the
line. I’ll leave that to others to
decide; my point is simply that the
temptation is real and that, as a
Christian, you need to try to guard
against it. We’re candid about that
in City of Man, and we offer some
specific thoughts on how to deal
with it.
LOPEZ: “Christians have often
done politics poorly. So do most
other groups in our democracy.
The answer is to do politics better.
Political engagement is not a
luxury. The fighting of raging
fires requires not contemplation
but a fire extinguisher. Urgency
can involve errors, and these
should be admitted and corrected.
But, as G. K. Chesterton said,
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‘Even a bad shot is dignified
when he accepts a duel.’” Did you
two have anything specific in
mind when you wrote that?
WEHNER: We did. James
Davison Hunter wrote a recent,
well-received book, To Change
the World, in which he argues that
Christians should be “silent for a
season” and “learn how to enact
their faith in public through acts
of shalom rather than to try again
to represent it publicly through
law, policy, and political
mobilization.”
Professor Hunter is a serious
scholar and a thoughtful man; I
agree with many parts of his
book. But I think he’s quite wrong
in counseling Christians to be
“silent for a season.” Mike and I
argue that at any given moment in
a democracy, great issues of
justice and morality are at stake.
The idea that people of faith can
take a sabbatical from politics to
collect their thoughts and lick
their wounds is a form of
irresponsibility. It is, in fact, an
idea that could only be embraced
by comfortable Christians.
Especially for the poor and the
vulnerable, there is no sabbatical
from the failures of politics.
LOPEZ: What’s “the new era”?
What marks its beginning? What
are the signs of it?
WEHNER: In important respects,
the old model, as embodied in the
religious right, is passing away.
Some of its key figures -- people
such as D. James Kennedy and
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Jerry Falwell -- have literally
passed from the scene. Others,
like Pat Robertson and James
Dobson, are less influential than
they were. So there is a
generational shift that’s occurring.
But we also know from survey
data that many Christians who are
politically and theologically
conservative have turned against
the brand of politics practiced by
religious-right leaders. Many
conservative Christians are
looking for a new model of social
engagement; they want their
leaders to display a lighter touch,
a less desperate and anxious spirit,
and a more gracious tone.
Focus on the Family is an
interesting illustration of this
point. Jim Daly has replaced
James Dobson -- and Daly has
said that, for him, it’s more about
having a conversation with people
than it is confrontation with them.
There’s certainly a difference in
approach between Daly and
Dobson.
#page#
LOPEZ: So what is “the religious
right” today? Does it exist?
Should it exist?
WEHNER: It’s probably best to
disaggregate several things.
Conservative Christians remain
politically potent and engaged.
We don’t see any signs of a full-
scale withdrawal from politics and
the culture. Yet a redefinition of
sorts is occurring. Institutionally
and generationally, we’re seeing a
passing of the baton. Evangelical
Christians who share many of the
stands of the “religious right” on
policy matters don’t want to
associated with the tone and
approach we saw during its
heyday. They don’t like it when
people say, as one prominent
pastor did, that “what Nazi
Germany did to the Jews, so
liberal America is now doing to
evangelical Christians.” Many of
them are uncomfortable with a
Christian “scorecard.” And they
certainly don’t like it when Jerry
Falwell declared, with Pat
Robertson, that 9/11 was God’s
judgment on America. That is a
theological error, a category error,
that we think is significant and,
for many people, alienating. Now,
many of these things happened
years ago -- but over time these
things add up.
LOPEZ: What exactly is political
theology? And whose political
theology rules?
WEHNER: It’s a shorthand
description for how people of
faith view politics. As for whose
political theology rules: It’s an
open question, which is one of the
reasons Mike and I wrote City of
Man. We wanted to offer up our
views on what some of the
precepts and principles ought to
be in sorting through that
question. We haven’t written a
definitive account by any means -
- but we do think we’ve laid out
some useful thoughts on how
religious believers can better
understand their obligations as
citizens of a modern constitutional
republic.
LOPEZ: I’ve seen City of Man
described as an evangelical book,
but you sure do quote a lot of
Catholics. To what extent is it a
book for anyone who takes
religion seriously?
WEHNER: We sure do quote a
lot of Catholics, and that’s not
accidental. There are obviously
important theological differences
between Catholicism and
evangelical Protestantism. But the
Catholic Church has a great deal
to teach evangelicals when it
comes to how to engage politics
and the culture -- to do so in a
way that’s both effective and
faithful.
Among the things evangelicals
can learn from Catholics is that
instead of serially reacting to
issues as they arise, it’s crucial to
stand back and analyze how we
should approach politics based on
a cohesive Christian worldview.
Catholicism has helped deepen
our nation’s understanding about
the proper role of government
based on the principles of
subsidiarity and solidarity with
the poor. The encyclicals of John
Paul II were extraordinarily
impressive documents, both
theologically and politically. They
had a formative influence on
Mike and on me. Our view is that
the Catholic Church, while a
flawed institution, has shown an
impressive understanding of the
proper role of government and the
relationship between Christianity
and politics.
LOPEZ: “Politics and governing
are fraught with temptations and
dangers. There are plenty of
people who bring dishonor to the
enterprise. But there is also
something ennobling about it
when done properly.” I couldn’t
help but think of these coming
elections when reading that. Does
the Tea Party get that in a
renewing way?
WEHNER: I hope so. The Tea
Party has been a positive and
powerful force in American
politics. It’s evidence of a
broader, organic, and powerful
uprising against contemporary
liberalism. The Tea Party
movement is composed of people
who want to stop, and then roll
back, the Obama agenda. And I
think that’s all to the good.
Skepticism toward government is
warranted and legitimate; that’s
especially the case now.
At the same time, contempt and
outright hostility toward
government can be unwarranted
and counterproductive. We’ve
seen government policies succeed
on an array of issues, from crime
and welfare to progress on
education to the surge in Iraq. It
was Burke, who in many ways
was the founder of modern
conservatism, who said that God
instituted government as a means
of human improvement. He was
also a great advocate of reform --
and a great champion of political
parties, by the way. The Tea Party
movement would be helped if the
spirit of Burke animated it.
LOPEZ: Is there some kind of
awakening going on?
WEHNER: I don’t think so.
What we are seeing is actually a
fascinating phenomenon:
Theologically conservative
evangelical and Pentecostal
churches are growing at the very
same time that the number of
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secular Americans -- those who
claim not to believe in God or at
least to have no religious
preference -- is also rising. This
makes for a complicated situation
-- rising secularism and rising
orthodoxy. Tim Keller -- an
exceptional minister, an
outstanding theological mind, and
good friend of ours -- writes about
this in the foreword to our book.
LOPEZ: You write an awful lot
about family. On one level are
you tempted to get everyone to
stop debating politics and
watching Fox News and take care
of that instead? Because only then
will we get the rest right?
WEHNER: No; in fact, we argue
more nearly the opposite.
Obviously it’s crucial to
strengthen the institution of the
family; so many contemporary
social problems are the product of
the breakup of the American
family. But one of the ways you
ameliorate the problems caused
by family breakdown is through
politics, through wise government
policies.
One of the arguments we make in
City of Man is that public policies
in the area of crime, welfare, and
drug use helped improve the lives
of people in ways that were
significant. New York City under
Mayor Giuliani was transformed
in important ways. And it didn’t
happen by accident or by
disengaging; it happened because
lawmakers put into effect policies
that made a world of difference.
Wise reforms can be a moral
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enterprise.
This works the other way as well.
The first “no fault” divorce law
was signed into law in 1970 by
Ronald Reagan, who was then
governor of California. Within
just seven years, 47 out of 50
states had repealed fault grounds
for divorce. This amounted to a
revolution in social policy; in less
than a decade, the entire legal
divorce structure was
fundamentally changed. The way
Americans viewed divorce
changed as well. Prof. William
Galston, a top domestic adviser to
President Clinton and a man for
whom I have great regard,
concluded that the switch in the
law led to a measurable increase
in the divorce rate. So laws matter
and politics matter, including
when it comes to the family.
LOPEZ: How has the abortion
debate changed? How might it
continue to?
WEHNER: It has, and in City of
Man we argue that this ranks
among the great achievements of
the religious right. After Roe v.
Wade was decided in 1973, the
New York Times editorialized
that the abortion debate was now
settled. It absolutely was not, in
large measure because of the
religious right. Given the cultural
forces arrayed against pro-life
Americans -- from the legal
system to elite culture, to a broad
social ethic of autonomy and
convenience -- this is a
remarkable achievement.
Consider this: In 2009, more than
50 percent of Americans called
themselves “pro-life” -- the first
time a majority of adults in
America identified themselves as
pro-life since Gallup began asking
this question 15 years ago.
This debate will continue to favor
those championing a culture of
life, in part because science and
medical technology are friends of
the pro-life movement. It’s
impossible to see a sonogram and
deny the humanity of an unborn
child.
#page#
LOPEZ: How does the Left
misunderstand religion and
politics?
WEHNER: They assume religion
is, in every instance, a negative
influence on politics. That’s just
empirically wrong. And many of
those comprising the Left not only
disdain religion in general and
Christianity in particular, they
believe religious arguments and
motivations are themselves
illegitimate. They argue they
ought to have no place in
democratic discourse. This view
would of course eviscerate some
of the most powerful and
important arguments that can be
made on behalf of human rights
and human dignity. Can you
imagine the abolition and civil-
rights movements -- or the
Declaration of Independence --
stripped of religious influence?
LOPEZ: Having some
Washington experience as you do:
What’s the best recipe for getting
the religion and politics mix right,
in a real, practical way?
WEHNER: It’s a complicated
question. The short answer, I
think, is historical awareness,
Biblical and constitutional
grounding, reflection, and study,
and a willingness to examine and
re-examine our views in light of
shifting circumstances. And let
me speak for myself here: It’s
important to approach this issue
with the recognition that my faith
is more important than my
politics; doing so helps prevent
religion from being used as a
means to serve narrow political
ends.
The author Sheldon Vanauken
was caught up in the antiwar
movement in the 1960s. Christ, he
wrote, would surely want him to
oppose what appeared to
Vanauken to be an unjust war.
“But the Movement,” he said,
“whatever its ideals, did a good
deal of hating.” And that isn’t
quite what Jesus had in mind. The
mortal danger of social action,
Vanauken warned, was making
God secondary, which in the end
is to make Him nothing at all.
Those words, that warning, have
stayed with me from the moment I
read them.
LOPEZ: Are there any politicians
on the scene now who especially
seem to get this right?
WEHNER: Let me mention two
individuals for whom I have
worked: George W. Bush and
William Bennett.
President Bush showed deep
human sympathy for those
suffering and in need -- and he
used the power of his office to do
something about it. I think history
will say about Bush that he
liberated millions of people in
foreign lands and, through his
AIDS and malaria initiatives,
saved millions of lives. As
president, he respected different
religious faiths and understood
their power to do good even as he
was deeply committed to
pluralism and tolerance. He
showed that in the aftermath of 9/
11, with his outreach to Muslim
Americans. And George W. Bush
is also a man of grace. When a
senior aide left the White House
and later wrote a book that was a
betrayal, the president pulled
aside his key advisers and told
them to show grace, not
retribution, for this particular
person. Not many presidents -- in
fact, not many individuals --
would have done such a thing.
Bill Bennett has been a mentor
and close personal friend since the
1980s. He’s a deeply committed
conservative, as you know -- but
when Pat Robertson sent out a
letter in 1987, declaring “The
Christians have won!” Bill rightly
criticized Robertson. He knew
this was dangerous stuff. Bill’s a
man of great intellect and learning
-- and political courage, too. Over
the years he’s made powerful and
compelling arguments, informed
by his Catholic faith, in defense of
tradition and virtue. He’s
withstood withering criticisms.
But he never bent; he held shape.
Neither man is perfect; none of
us is. But I’ve been able to
observe them up close in some
pretty challenging circumstances -
- and I’ve learned a great deal
from them. In some respects
they’re very different individuals.
But I admire the heck out of both
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men. And they walked the faith/
politics tightrope pretty well.
LOPEZ: Why are you so fond of
the Founders in this respect?
WEHNER: Because they
provided brilliant insights into
these matters. What emerged from
their thinking was this central
insight: While government ought
to be respectful of religion, it
should not get into the business of
endorsing or favoring one religion
over another. America was not
founded as a Christian nation
precisely because the Founders
were informed by a Jewish and
Christian understanding of human
nature. Since people are
autonomous moral beings created
in God’s image, freedom of
conscience is essential to their
dignity. At least where the federal
government was concerned, the
Founders asserted that citizens
should be subject to God and their
conscience, not to the state.
Historically, this disestablishment
of religion has served the
Christian faith well, preserving it
from being corrupted and tainted
by political power.
LOPEZ: Why did you find
yourselves writing a lot about St.
Paul?
WEHNER: More than any other
New Testament figure, he laid out
a Christian view of the purpose of
government -- to restrain evil and
promote justice. Rulers are God’s
servants, St. Paul wrote; civil
government itself was established
by God. Christ Himself did not
lay out a political philosophy per
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Academia’s Hate-America Presses
John Perazzo (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:40:34 PM
The extreme left-wing bias of
American academia is well
documented. Thus, it is not at all
surprising that our nation’s
university presses – nonprofit
publishing houses that are
ideological extensions of their
parent institutions– invariably
serve as platforms for the
dissemination of far-left dogma.
Each year, they produce hundreds
of tracts extolling the virtues of
pacifism, radical
environmentalism, open borders,
and socialism, while delivering an
endless stream of literary assaults
on capitalism, American culture,
and Western civilization
generally. Because these books
carry the implied intellectual
legitimacy of the colleges and
universities with which their
publishers are associated, their
influence on policymakers,
opinion leaders, and even the
general public can be considerable
– even though the sales of such
books are, by industry standards,
typically meager.
Whereas commercial publishers
focus on producing books that
will have broad popular appeal
and generate profits, university
presses deal mainly, though not
exclusively, in scholarly works
(monographs) that are geared
toward a small audience of
specialists in certain concentrated
fields of research. A large
percentage of these books are sold
in hardcover editions to libraries.
The American Association of
University Presses (AAUP), under
whose umbrella these academic
publishing houses are counted,
currently includes 125 members,
of which 95 are affiliated with
public and private research
universities in 40 separate U.S.
States and Canada. The remaining
30 are situated variously in
Belgium, China, Egypt, Ireland,
Italy, Jamaica, Japan, and the
Netherlands.
In 2005, the most recent year for
which a complete set of statistics
is available, AAUP members
collectively published 10,159 new
book titles, an average of 81 titles
per publisher. That same year,
AAUP members reported$267
million in total book sales, an
average of $2.1 million per
publisher and $26,370 per title. At
an average per-copy sale price
of$41, the typical university-press
title sells approximately 643
copies. All told, book and journal
sales account for about 85 percent
of AAUP member revenues.
Another 10 percent comes from
the publishers’ respective parent
institutions (which, in the case of
public universities, means
taxpayers), and the remaining 5
percent derives from government
and foundation grants.
A survey of the books that
university presses across the U.S.
are currently featuring in their
catalogs and on their websites,
reveals a host of titles promoting
doctrinaire leftism in a variety of
disciplines:
Environmentalism
A particularly hot topic for
university presses nowadays is
global warming. In Worst Case
Scenarios, published by Harvard
University Press, author Cass
Sunstein– President Obama’s
regulatory “czar” – discusses
how Americans ought to prepare
for the looming disaster called
“climate change.” Another newly
released Harvard production is an
update of Spencer Weart’s The
Discovery of Global Warming,
“revised throughout to reflect the
latest science and with a new
conclusion that shows how the
scientific consensus caught fire
among the general world public.”
That description, in light of the
devastating “ Climategate”
revelations about the global-
warming crowd’s deliberate
falsification and concealment of
inconvenient evidence, is nothing
short of delusional.
Approaching environmentalism
from a different angle is Images
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of the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, a University of Alaska
Press book that presents an
“emotionally evocative and
beautifully fierce” collection of
“lyrical essays and stunning
panoramic photographs” paying
“homage to a vast and remote
land that remains untamed by
technology and undisturbed by
human development.” The book’s
purpose is to argue against U.S.
oil drilling in Alaska’s ANWR
region by tugging on readers’
heartstrings rather than by
engaging their brains.
Baylor University Press,
meanwhile, has blended
environmentalism with religion in
T h e B i b l e a n d
Ecology:Rediscovering the
Community of Creation. Here,
author Richard Bauckham takes
issue with the biblical “mandate
of human dominion given in
Genesis 1,” which, he writes, “has
too often been used as a
justification for domination and
exploitation of the earth’s
resources.” Taking up a similar
theme is Baylor Press’s Greening
Paul:Rereading the Apostle in a
Time of Ecological Crisis. This
book aims “to read the Pauline
literature from an ecological
perspective,” challenging the
Bible’s “anthropocentric
worldview that gives humanity
license to exploit the earth for our
benefit.”
Islam
While university presses may be
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Federal Fat Cats
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:31 PM
To Democratic officeholders
(and, alas, Bush-Rove-Hastert
Republicans) greed is good when
it flows from Washington, D.C.
‘I did not run for office to be
helping out a bunch of, you know,
fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,”
President Obama told CBS’s 60
Minutes. He also has decried the
“arrogance and greed” and
“excess greed, excess
compensation” of America’s
business executives.
Top Democrats like Obama
constantly denounce private
avarice. But when the fat cats are
feds, not financiers, they go silent.
To leading Democrats,
government greed is good.
#ad#Just as Wall Street and
corporate America relentlessly
pursue profits, Congress and
federal bureaucrats possess a
ravenous hunger for tax dollars to
fuel lavish spending schemes,
underwrite generous public
salaries and benefits, and seize
increasing power. Post–Bush-
Rove Republicans should
condemn government greed non-
stop until November 2 -- and then
excise this cancer.
These days, the wallets of many
American taxpayers feel like
helium balloons. Yet Washington
always wants more.
Despite the votes of unanimous
Republicans and 39 rebellious
Democrats, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s far-left House of
Representatives ran home on
September 29 to campaign for
reelection without renewing the
2001 and 2003 tax cuts. A
Democrat-led lame-duck
congressional session may vote to
tax “the rich” -- specifically,
individuals who earn north of
$200,000 annually and married
couples who make above
$250,000. If so, the top tax rate
would rise from 35 percent to
39.6 percent. Remember: These
disgusting plutocrats are expected
to pay higher taxes and
simultaneously hire jobless people
and, thus, lower the
unemployment rate closer to the
7.4 percent that Obama inherited.
Furthermore, the capital-gains tax
could jump from 15 percent to 20
percent (rising to 23.8 percent in
2013, thanks to Obamacare), and
the dividend tax could soar from
15 percent to 39.6 percent. This
also would snatch growth capital
from the productive sector.
The death tax -- now dead --
could be resurrected at 55 percent
on estates exceeding $1 million.
Any American who prefers to die
without enduring a Democrat-led
grave robbery has until New
Year’s Eve to stop breathing.
The National Taxpayers Union
estimates that if key Democrats
prevail, they would slam this
sickly economy with at least $678
billion in higher taxes. “These tax
-rate hikes won’t just hit Wall
Street reptiles or madcap
heiresses,” says NTU’s executive
vice president, Peter Sepp.
“They’ll throw a haymaker at the
wallets of urban professionals,
small-business owners, doctors,
would-be entrepreneurs, and
others who just might help the
economy get back on its feet.
Even a Keynesian ought to
understand this. After all, as our
recent statement from 313
economists supporting extension
of all the tax cuts noted,
‘Households earning more than
$210,000 account for one of every
three dollars in consumer
outlays.’”
#page#Meanwhile, as Americans
miss mortgage payments, shutter
businesses, and abandon their
dreams, it’s happy hour for
government employees. What
reformist governor Chris
Christie(R., N.J.) properly calls
“shared sacrifice” means
something completely different in
Washington: There, the American
people sacrifice, and the proceeds
are shared among the feds.
#ad#As the Heritage Foundation
calculates, between January 2008
(one month after the start of the
Great Recession) and July 2010,
private-sector employment shrank
by 7,837,000 positions, or 6.8
percent. However, federal civilian
employment grew by 198,000
positions, or 10 percent, not
counting temporary Census
workers. In 2009, the Bureau of
Economic Analysis reports,
private-sector salaries and
benefits averaged $61,051. The
federal-civilian figure was
$123,049 -- more than double.
Also, the Office of Personnel
Management found that between
December 2007 and June 2009,
the number of federal employees
earning at least $170,000 zoomed
93 percent. Obama, like Bush
before him, lets the federal
Leviathan act like a Rottweiler at
doggie day care.
As if devouring your money were
not enough, Washington also
sticks its collective snout
everywhere. The feds have
ordered New York City to change
250,900 street signs from ALL
CAPS to Caps and Lower Case,
supposedly because
BROADWAY is tougher to read
than Broadway. Rather than invite
D.C. to SHOVE IT, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg rolled over
and appropriated $27.6 million to
obey Washington’s latest edict.
This sum could have paid 219
rookie cops their $41,975 starting
salaries for three years.
Washington dictates showerhead
water pressure, limits the capacity
of flush toilets, and essentially
will ban Edison-style light bulbs
as of 2014. (Thank you, G. W.
Bush, for signing that junk
legislation.)
Republicans should reject the
Bush-Rove-Hastert era’s
spendthriftiness and instead --
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boldly, loudly, and consistently --
demand a federal hiring freeze
and at least a 25 percent cut in the
overall federal-civilian payroll.
(While counterterrorists should
enjoy generous pay, the
Agriculture Department’s director
of the Executive Secretariat
should not.) If Republicans secure
Congress, they should curb
Washington’s power lust by
voting to repeal Obamacare and,
if that triggers a veto, defund this
new entitlement. A GOP
Congress then should order Uncle
Sam out of America’s showers,
lamps, and commodes. And the
2001 and 2003 tax cuts should be
made permanent so that this
melancholy economy can sing
again.
As many Republicans apparently
have remembered, government
should serve Americans, not the
reverse. We the people should
explain this to Washington
Democrats, loudly and clearly,
four Tuesdays hence.
— New York commentator Deroy
Murdock is a nationally
syndicated columnist with the
Scripps Howard News Service
and a media fellow with the
Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution, and Peace at Stanford
University. Deroy Murdock
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se; it was left to St. Paul, among
others, to interpret Christian
ideals in the context of his time,
which of course was during the
reign of the Roman empire. As a
Christian you cannot engage the
issue of politics and the role of
government without dealing with
St. Paul’s thinking.
LOPEZ: Did George Bush get a
bad rap for naming Jesus as his
favorite philosopher?
WEHNER: I think so. His answer
was much more personal than
theological. But Jesus articulated
a view of ethics, human nature,
and human dignity that left an
important, and I think quite
positive, imprint on President
Bush -- to say nothing of the
Western political tradition. The
words and example of Jesus
helped shape President Bush’s
views in valuable ways. You
could do a whole lot worse than
Jesus as your favorite
philosopher, that’s for sure.
LOPEZ: Who is yours? You
quote more than a few in the
book.
WEHNER: I’m partial to
Abraham Lincoln, James
Madison, and Edmund Burke --
each of whom was not strictly a
philosopher; they were also
statesmen. They were individuals
of action as well as reflection.
And they each, in their own ways,
based their political views on a
deep understanding of the human
condition and the importance of
justice. “Justice is the end of
government,” Madison wrote in
the Federalist Papers. That’s right
-- and figuring out how to
advance justice in the real world,
in the rough and tumble of
politics, is a difficult and
endlessly fascinating thing. I also
think Martin Luther King Jr. was
one of our nation’s most eloquent
and effective advocates for the
American ideal. His “Letter from
Birmingham Jail” is a masterpiece
of American political and moral
thought.
#page#
LOPEZ: Did you and Gerson
disagree at all during the course of
writing this book?
WEHNER: Not really. Mike and
I are very close friends, and we
were colleagues in the White
House. In our political
commentaries, we sometimes
emphasize different things and
come at things from slightly
different perspectives. But our
views align for the most part --
and in writing this book, we
didn’t encounter disagreements of
any sort, really. That may be in
part because this is a subject
we’ve talked about and wrestled
with many times over the years. I
hope we’ve refined each other’s
thinking during that time. And
Mike has been a person who I’ve
often gone to for wisdom and
counsel on these matters, not to
mention other matters, and he’s
never let me down.
LOPEZ: Why is it a worthwhile
and important book now? Who is
the audience for this?
WEHNER: First and foremost,
it’s addressed to people who care
about what will emerge in the
wake of the religious right --
people who are interested in the
principles that ought to guide our
engagement. How can religious
people exercise influence while
maintaining their integrity? What
tone should they be known for?
Which causes and issues, both at
home and abroad, ought to be part
of the new agenda? Those are the
kinds of issues we take up -- and
we think they’ll interest readers.
But more broadly our audience is
anyone interested in how political
theology affects American
politics.
LOPEZ: Is there anything in this
book that’s controversial? That
you hope will get debated or
otherwise talked about in the short
or long term?
WEHNER: I suppose that we
learn from some of the mistakes
of the religious right.
Mike and I argue that despite
some significant contributions --
the role it played in ending
evangelical Christianity’s political
isolation, its strong stand on
behalf of the unborn, and its firm
support for Israel, among others --
the religious right committed
some serious theological errors.
They include the belief that
America is the “new Israel” -- a
covenant community on the
model of ancient Israel. We
disagree with those who believe
that the Scriptures provide a
governing blueprint. The religious
right was also seen by many as an
appendage to a political party, in a
way that hurt Christianity itself.
Beyond that, the apocalyptic tone
sometimes employed by leading
religious and political leaders
revealed, I think, a belief that
everything hinged on the success
or failure of a particular political
movement. In 2008, an influential
religious and political figure put it
this way: “The future of our
children and grandchildren hangs
in the balance.#...#Will they
inherit an America based on our
Judeo-Christian heritage or will
they inherit a secular, godless
society where individual
responsibility and freedom have
disappeared?”
One of the things I’ve learned
from wiser people than myself is
that, as Christians, our job is to be
faithful, not necessarily to be
successful. That ultimately rests
with the Lord, who is the author
of history and not indifferent to
what unfolds. I’ll grant you that
this isn’t always easy to
remember; in the intensity of the
moment, our vision can become
blurred. We can lose our way.
And we can hold too tightly to the
things of this world. But if we can
keep our eyes fixed on the true
object of our faith, we can avoid a
lot of errors and missteps along
the way. And from time to time
we can do some real good, too.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez is an
editor-at-large of National Review
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Can Skinflint
Mitch Daniels Win
the Presidency?
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:00:47 PM
The Indiana governor would
bring long-range planning to the
White House.
I t’s an ornate office in Indiana’s
beautifully maintained mid-19th-
century capitol, but the 49th
governor of Indiana, Mitch
Daniels, is not dressed to match
the setting. He’s just returned
from spending the night in
Princeton, Ind., staying at a
constituent’s house -- as he often
does around the state -- and he’s
dressed in a work shirt and jeans.
I’ve known Daniels since he was
a staffer for Sen. Richard Lugar in
the 1980s, and for years he struck
me as one of the least likely
candidates for public office. He’s
got strong, mostly conservative
convictions; he doesn’t suffer
fools (and elected politicians)
gladly; he doesn’t care if others
don’t like him. All those
characteristics were on display
when he ran the Office of
Management and Budget for
George W. Bush between January
2001 and June 2003.
#ad#But when he returned to
Indiana from Washington, he
started his campaign for governor,
and he was elected with 53
percent of the vote in 2004. After
four sometimes controversial
years as governor -- he sold off
the North Indiana Toll Road and
persuaded the legislature to
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distressed by the dangers of
climate change, they are
apparently unconcerned about any
threat from radical Islam. Indeed,
the University of Chicago Press
has published The Fear of
Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of
Civilizations, wherein author
Tzvetan Todorov “argues that the
West must overcome its fear of
Islam if it is to avoid betraying the
values it claims to protect.”
Meanwhile, the Canada-based
University of Alberta Press has
published The Contemporary
Arab Reader on Political Islam,
billing it as “the perfect starting
point for students and academics
looking to understand ‘Political
Islam’ in contemporary Arab and
Muslim societies.” The book’s
editor, Ibrahim Abu-Rabi’, is an
anti-Semitic demagogue who says
that “the Nazi Holocaust has been
“exploited fully” by “the Israeli
Zionist state since 1948”; that
Jews seek to frighten the
Palestinians with the implied
threat of a “mini holocaust” which
may be carried out against the
latter; that “militarism” has
“defined the nature of the Israli
state from 1948 until the present
time”; and that “Israel has
exploited Judaism in a very
negative and violent way” in
order to advance its own “project
of hegemony and project of
dispossession of the Palestinian
people.” Abu-Rabi’s book
features the work of such
luminaries as: (a) Abdullah
Azzam, the late Muslim scholar
who was an influential figure in
the Muslim Brotherhood, a leader
of Hamas, and a mentor to both
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-
Zawahiri; (b) Sayyid Muhammad
Hussain Fadlallah, a Shiite
spiritual leader of Hezbollah; and
(c) Ahmad Bin Yousuf, a political
advisor to Akram Haniyya, who
served as an advisor to the late
terrorist Yasser Arafat.
Immigration
Regarding issues on the home
front, immigration occupies the
thoughts of many in the scholarly
community. The University of
Arizona Press, for example, has
recently published several books
on the topic. One of these, Dead
in Their Tracks, focuses on what
it terms “America’s killing field”
– that portion of the Arizona
desert where many Mexicans, in
the process of trying to sneak
across the U.S. border in pursuit
of “a better life,” have died of
heat and sun exposure, making the
region “the deadliest immigrant
trail in America today.” Crossing
with the Virgin elaborates on this
theme, urging readers to “see past
political positions to view
migrants as human beings,” and
lamenting that “over the past ten
years, more than 4,000 people
have died while crossing the
Arizona desert to find jobs, join
families, or start new lives.”
Similarly, Between The Lines– a
“collection of letters between
undocumented immigrants in
California and their families back
home” – seeks to put “a human
face” on illegal immigration, a
topic which too often “has been
presented as a monolithic
abstraction” rooted in “political
rhetoric and fear.”
Capitalism
In contrast to the presumably
benign trend of illegal
immigration, capitalism,
according to the scholar-authors
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of America’s university presses,
poses a grave threat not only to
our nation but to the planet at
large. From Predators to Icons, a
new release by Cornell University
Press, contends that ruthless
“predation” traditionally has been
the key to economic success in
United Stated States. Another
Cornell title – an updated edition
of Jennifer Clapp’s Toxic
Exports– asserts that as a result of
“investment relations in the
context of a highly unequal
world,” business firms in “rich
industrialized countries” routinely
ship “toxic waste and hazardous
technologies” to “poor countries”
that are “ill equipped to manage
the materials safely.” In a glowing
review of the book, UC Santa
Cruz professor Ronnie Lipschutz
lauds Clapp for having exposed
the ugly truth about the
“hazardous wastes generated by
contemporary industrialism and
capitalism.”
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Morning Bell: If You Cant Beat Them, Silence
Them
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:47:08 AM
Posted October 11th, 2010 at
9:47am in Rule of Law Print This
Post
The Progressive Movement is
desperate. The 2008 election was
supposed to be the dawn of a new
liberal era. An enlightened
bureaucratic elite in Washington
was supposed to enact a broad and
transformative agenda that would
save the economy, return the
nation to prosperity, and
legitimize big government for a
generation.
But only the enactment of the
agenda occurred, without any of
the promised benefits. President
Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus
and trillion-dollar health care
entitlement are now law. The
leftist bureaucrats have been
empowered … but their policies
have failed. Health insurance
premiums are rising, poverty is
up, and the nation’s
unemployment rate hovers near
10%.
Faced with the obvious failure of
their policies, the left is now
desperately seeking to avoid
accountability by blaming others.
So President Barack Obama told a
crowd in Philadelphia this
weekend that “special interest
groups” like the Chamber of
Commerce are “spending
unlimited amounts of money on
attack ads.” The President
continued: “It could be the oil
industry. It could be the insurance
industry. It could even be foreign-
owned corporations. You don’t
know because they don’t have to
disclose. … Now, that’s not just a
threat to Democrats – that’s a
threat to our democracy.”
The President may say he is only
interested in disclosure, but his
policy prescription does not
accomplish that. When Sen.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
introduced the DISCLOSE Act to
the Senate he gave away the real
aim of the bill. “The deterrent
effect should not be
underestimated,” Schumer said.
And just what does the left want
to deter Americans from doing?
At the House committee
DISCLOSE Act markup, Rep.
Michael Capuano (D-MA) said: “I
have no problem whatsoever
keeping everybody out [of
elections]. If I could keep all
outside entities out, I would.”
The President is not interested in
educating the American people by
making everyone disclose their
donations. He is only interested in
silencing his opponents. That is
why unions were specifically
exempted from the DISCLOSE
Act as were a slew of other
interest groups.
On Face the Nation this Sunday,
CBS host Bob Schieffer
confronted White House Senior
Adviser David Axelrod about a
New York Times article showing
that White House charges of
“secret foreign money” “stealing
our democracy” were completely
baseless. Schieffer asked: “If the
only charge, three weeks into the
election that the Democrats can
make is that there’s somehow this
may or may not be foreign money
coming into the campaign, is that
the best you can do?”
Axelrod went on to contend that
it is the responsibility of those the
White House accuses to prove
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they aren’t breaking the law. This
morning, NBC’s Chuck Todd
described Axelrod’s answer as
“McCarthy-esque” on Daily
Rundown.
Yes. Baseless charges about
foreigners stealing democracy is
the best the left can do. Their
policies have completely failed
and they are afraid of being held
accountable. The President’s
response is to try and use the
power of the federal government
to deter all dissent. If there is a
threat to our democracy in this
election, it is not coming from the
Chamber of Commerce.
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Accelerated Jihad continued from page 74

smooth out the state’s time-zone

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage them to stay at his home when
Magazine » FrontPage) boundaries -- he was reelected by
they were caught. Al-Qaeda’s 58 percent to 40 percent in 2008,
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:50:30 PM branch in Yemen has recruited up even as Barack Obama was
to three dozen former convicts carrying the state.
The director of the National who converted to Islam and its As much as any American
Counterterrorism Center, Michael American leader, Anwar al- politician of his generation, he’s
Leiter, told the Senate Homeland Awlaki, is inspiring jihadists proved that cutting spending and
Security Committee on September throughout the West. gaining a reputation as a skinflint
22 that the number of terrorist Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate is good politics.
plots against the U.S. is in Somalia, has recruited around Now Daniels is being mentioned
increasing. Al-Qaeda and its 20 Somali-Americans in as a presidential candidate, and he
affiliates are focusing on smaller Minnesota and at least 14 doesn’t deny that he’s thinking
but more frequent attacks that are Americans have been arrested or about it. He’s been holding
harder to prevent and Westerners, indicted for supporting the group. dinners with national policy
including Americans, are being One of the writers for experts in Indianapolis, much as
recruited for them. This change RevolutionMuslim.com, the George W. Bush did in Austin,
will make it easier for the enemy radical American-Muslim website Texas, a dozen years ago.
to unpredictably strike at “soft” increasing. A study by the RAND detonate a bomb in his underwear that threatened the lives of the And he says that, if he runs, he’ll
targets at a time when the U.S. is Corporation concluded the same, on an airliner as it landed in c r e a t o r s o f S o u t h P a r k f o r be a different kind of candidate.
already in a recession. documenting that 10 of the nearly Detroit. And on May 5, 2010, d e p i c t i n g M o h a m m e d , w a s As for “the federal fiscal picture --
“[Plots against the homeland] 30 homegrown terrorist plots Faisal Shahzad, an American arrested in July for planning on and why don’t we have the
have surpassed the number and since 2001 occurred in 2009 citizen of Pakistani origin, tried to joining the affiliate. Most recently philosophic debate tomorrow -- as
pace of attacks during any year a l o n e . T h e s t u d y ’ s a u t h o r detonate a car bomb in Times on August 4, a man in Chicago for today, can we agree that the
since 9/11,” Leitner said. He attributes this rise to a “dramatic Square. This does not even was charged with planning to join arithmetic doesn’t work? We’re
added that the threat is becoming increase” in the jihadist presence include the arrests of other the group’s ranks in Somalia. Al- going to have higher and higher
“far more complex” and that Al- on the Internet, especially of chat Americans supporting terrorist Qaeda’s North African affiliate, levels of debt.”
Qaeda and its affiliates have an rooms and websites in English. groups or even actively planning Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb He goes on. “This is a survival-
“increasing ability to provide A review of 2009 and 2010 thus attacks out. has also recruited Americans. A level issue for the country. We
training, guidance, and support for far shows the fruits of this Al-Qaeda’s affiliates have seen a Texan who moved to Spain was won’t be a leader without major
attacks against the U.S…” The evolving threat. On June 1, 2009, sharp improvement in their ability arrested on September 28 for change in the federal fiscal
tempo is increasing not only a Muslim convert carried out a t o r e c r u i t A m e r i c a n s . I n sending money to the terrorist picture. We’re going to have to do
because of a switch in tactics but shooting at a military recruiting December 2009, five Americans group but subsequently released fundamental things you say are
because of an increase in strength. center in Little Rock, Arkansas from the northern Virginia and by the Spanish judge due to a lack impossible.”
The effectiveness of Al-Qaeda that killed one soldier. On Washington D.C. area were of evidence. His passport was He believes that “Democrats are
and its affiliates is enhanced by November 5, Nidal Malik Hassan arrested in Pakistan as they confiscated and he is required to better positioned to do this, but
t h e g r o w i n g n u m b e r o f opened fire on his colleagues in traveled to North Waziristan’s report to the police on a daily they’re not going to lead. This
homegrown jihadists. The Obama the U.S. military at Fort Hood in terrorist camps. The uncle to one basis. will probably be a Republican
Administration has privately Texas, killing 13. On Christmas of the recruits belonged to Jaish-e responsibility.” To do what
concluded that the radicalization Day, a Nigerian named Umar -Mohammed, a group with links exactly?
o f M u s l i m - A m e r i c a n s i s Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to to Al-Qaeda and was allowing To propose “fundamental
changes in entitlements and in the
size and scope of the federal
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Iran Willing to Resume Nuclear Talks: Expect Rope

-a-Dope Diplomacy
James Phillips (The Foundry: agencies to reveal Iran’s nuclear
Conservative Policy News.) secrets. He also indicated Iran had
Submitted at 10/11/2010 10:00:29 AM taken action to protect its nuclear
program from cyber-sabotage.
Posted October 11th, 2010 at Meanwhile, Iran’s surrogate
11:00am in American Leadership terrorist group in Lebanon,
Print This Post Hezbollah, today called for its
Iran’s embattled regime Saturday supporters to turn out at a giant
announced that it is ready to rally next week to greet President
resume talks about Iran’s illicit
nuclear activities, which have
Ahmadinejad on his October 13-
14 visit to Lebanon. The Iranian
Remembering
triggered four rounds of U.N.
sanctions. Foreign Minister
leader has said that he will tour
Lebanon’s southern border with
an
Manouchehr Mottaki said that
“We think late October or early
Israel, a highly provocative act in
view of his repeated statements
Executioner
November will be an appropriate calling for Israel’s destruction. Humberto Fontova (FrontPage
date for the talks by the Iran’s future plans undoubtedly Magazine » FrontPage)
representatives of Iran and 5+1 Crowley said. advancing its uranium enrichment will be signaled more accurately Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:15:11 PM
countries,” (the five permanent A l t h o u g h t h e O b a m a efforts. But Iran’s nuclear by Ahmadinejad’s visit to
members of the U.N. Security Administration is ever ready to program also has been beset by Lebanon than by another round of Forty-three years ago this week,
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is ready to hold talks, all they Tehran hopes that dilatory activities of “nuclear spies” but on Che’s face as the victims were
need to do is pick up the phone diplomacy may help create the claimed that the regime had tied to the stake and blasted apart
and set a date,” U.S. State illusion of progress and forestall arrested several Iranians who had by the firing squad,” said former
Department spokesman P.J. future sanctions, buying time for been paid by western intelligence Cuban political prisoner Roberto
Martin-Perez, “you saw there was
something seriously, seriously
wrong with Che Guevara.” As
commander of the La Cabana
execution yard, Che often
REMEMBERING page 80
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Israel’s Irresponsible Opposition
P. David Hornik (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/10/2010 11:25:21 PM
Even a one- or two-month
extension of Israel’s ten-month
settlement moratorium, senior
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
announced on Sunday, wouldn’t
suffice. Nothing less than a total
freeze throughout the duration of
Israeli-Palestinian talks would be
acceptable.
Erekat was adding some spice to
an international full-court press on
Israel. On Friday, the Arab
League, meeting in Libya—not
exactly a beacon of advanced
values—gave backing to
Palestinian Authority president
Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to
conduct the talks without a
settlement freeze. The league also
handed the Obama administration
a further month to try and break
the Israeli-Palestinian impasse
over the freeze.
That month, of course, could get
the administration past November
2 without appearing responsible
for a foreign policy failure if the
talks-over-the-talks come up
empty at the end.
The facts of the case are quite
straightforward. If the Palestinians
really wanted the state that
President Obama and so many
others presume to be their most
cherished aspiration—despite
having rejected every offer of a
state since 1937—they could have
joined talks with Israel at least
since its settlement freeze began
in November last year. Even if the
PA leadership had done so, there
would still be the facts that: Gaza
is controlled by Hamas, which is
dead-set against the talks; and PA
leaders Abbas and Salam Fayyad,
even if they genuinely wanted a
deal, have little power and face
staunch opposition to even talking
with Israel in PA circles as well.
And yet, also on Sunday, another
voice was added—from within
Israel—to the Arab, Palestinian,
American, and European pressure
on Israel to make concession upon
concession as a condition for
CAN
continued from page 77
government.” Because “the
machine is going TILT.”
He thinks voters may be ready to
support such changes because
they’ve had searing experiences
with debt, and their lives are
changing. Younger people may be
ready to accept lower Social
Security benefits for high earners
because they’ve seen that some
companies’ new hires aren’t
getting the pensions and benefits
their elders got. “There’s nothing
radical about this. It’s already
happened all over the place.”
He’s also got some more short-
term proposals -- a payroll-tax
holiday to stimulate the economy,
reviving the presidential power of
impoundment (that is, not
spending money Congress has
appropriated), and a moratorium
on federal regulations.
#page#As OMB director, Daniels
engaging in talks at all. It was the
was on the National Security
voice of Israel’s opposition leader
Council, and as governor he’s
and former foreign minister, Tzipi
visited Indiana troops around the
Livni.
world. He says, “It’s important to
Asserting that Israeli prime
support the commander in chief”
minister Benjamin Netanyahu
on Afghanistan. But he’s open to
should give in to the pressure and
cuts in defense spending beyond
extend the freeze, and accusing
those Defense Secretary Robert
him of causing a fight with the
Gates has imposed. “No question
Obama administration out of fear
that the system is rigged to
of fighting with his own right-
overspend,” he says, “like health
wing cabinet ministers, Livni said
care. No question that defense
in a TV interview: “For me, a
dollars could be spent better.”
moratorium has nothing to do
with ideology. What are a few
buildings compared with the
people’s desire for peace?”
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“But back to not becoming
Greece,” he says. “Can we
continue with every mission
we’ve assigned the military
indefinitely? Is every one
essential to the safety of
Americans?”
#ad#“The answer may be yes,” he
concedes, “but you may have to
stop doing some things
completely. We are now
borrowing the entire defense
budget from international
investors.”
You can almost see the green
eyeshade as he speaks. It’s been
noted that Daniels is short and
balding (with a comb-over), and
that he speaks with just a bit of a
Southern country twang (he
moved to Indiana from Tennessee
and Georgia at age ten) -- hardly a
glamorous candidate.
“I’m not a long-range planner,”
Daniels says, when asked if he’s
running. “I play the ball where it
is.” But if he runs, he promises to
be more of a long-range planner
than any presidential candidate we
have ever seen.
--- Michael Barone is senior
political analyst for the
Washington Examiner. © 2010,
The Washington Examiner.
Michael Barone
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REMEMBERING FUN
continued from page 78 continued from page 80

shattered the skull of the
condemned man (or boy) by firing
the coup de grace himself. When
other duties tore him away from
his beloved execution yard, he
consoled himself by viewing the
slaughter from afar. Che’s second
-story office in Havana’s La
Cabana prison had a section of
wall torn out so he could watch
his darling firing-squads at work.
Even as a youth, Ernesto
Guevara’s writings revealed a
serious mental illness. “My
nostrils dilate while savoring the
acrid odor of gunpowder and
blood. Crazy with fury I will stain
my rifle red while slaughtering
any vencido that falls in my
hands!” This passage is from
Ernesto Guevara’s famous
Motorcycle Diaries, though
Robert Redford somehow
overlooked it while directing his
heart-warming film on Guevara.
The Spanish word vencido, by
the way, translates into “defeated”
or “surrendered.” And indeed, the
“acrid odor of gunpowder and
blood” very rarely reached
Guevara’s nostrils from anything
other than captured prisoners —
often defenseless men and boys at
close-range. Carlos Machado was
15 years old in 1963 when the
bullets from the firing squad
shattered his body. His twin
brother and father collapsed
beside him from the same volley.
All had resisted Castro and Che’s
theft of their humble family farm;
all refused blindfolds and all died
sneering at their Communist
murderers like thousands of their
valiant countrymen. Viva Cuba
Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo
Comunismo!“The defiant yells
would make the walls of La
Cabana prison tremble,” wrote
eyewitness to the slaughter,
Armando Valladares.
As history shows, the one
genuine accomplishment in Che
Guevara’s life was the mass-
murder of defenseless men and
boys. Under his own gun, dozens
died. Under his orders, thousands
were slaughtered. Murder was
Che’s one true talent. At
everything else, he failed
abysmally.
secure social network for kids on
this list. In order to sign their
children up, parents need to
submit their credit card
information to verify their identity
and they must submit three mug
shots (taken with a webcam) of
their child for the site’s records.
As with every site on this list, I
was still able to create a profile as
an adult and therefore browse
friends in “my grade,” which I
selected as seventh. Unlike the
other sites, however, the What’s
What team had discovered my
adult presence (via those mug
shots) within about six hours and
blocked my profile.
While children are free to interact
with people they don’t know, they
can’t make friends with people
who are out of their age group (in
their grade or one grade below or
above theirs) without parental
permission. Beyond this, the
network functions much like the
others: users can exchange
messages, make friends, join and
create groups, and view their
friends’ profiles. Parents can edit
or delete their children’s profiles
at any time, and everything posted
on the site is monitored.
The intended age group for the
site is between 8 and 14, which
seems realistic given that two big
draws of social networking — the
ability to “make friends” with
new people and share your
thoughts with others — are
retained. 3. ScuttlePad
To sign up for ScuttlePad, kids
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5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children

Sarah Kessler (Mashable!) on a social media site. “heart it,” buy and send gifts responsibility for what I say on
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:51:40 AM Clearly children want to use using a virtual currency (the twist Togetherville.”
social media, and the evidence is that parents give the currency to Togetherville’s target age group
If you have young children on suggests that they will do so their children free of cost as is under 10, which makes pre-set
Facebook or MySpace, they despite COPPA or the many “allowance”), and share videos comment options like “Hampsters
shouldn’t be — at least legally. justified parental fears that helped and other parts of the site with are so CUTE!” understandable.
The Children’s Online Privacy create it. Parents can, however, their friends. The site also facilitates parents’
Protection Act ( COPPA) prevents make the experience safer by Where the site departs from participation in their children’s
websites from collecting personal directing their children to one of Facebook puts many parents’ introduction to social media by
information about children who these five age-appropriate social minds at rest: no outside links, no encouraging parent-child
are under the age of 13 without networks. 1. Togetherville unapproved friends, and no interaction. Not only can parents
their parents’ permission. Parents can sign up their children private conversations. In order to view their child’s social network
Many children bypass this law, by using their own Facebook post original comments instead of activity, but they can also post
friends from their own Facebook
even on sites that enforce it, by accounts to create a profile for pre-set options, children must messages to his or her wall,
profiles, and sending e-mail
simply adjusting their birthday. In their kids on this Facebook-like agree to this code of conduct: “I allocate “virtual allowances,” and
invites, children have access to
a recent study by the Kaiser site. Once parents have selected agree to not say anything mean or send virtual gifts. 2. What’s What
selected YouTube videos, games,
Family Foundation, 75% of friends for their children by hurtful, not say embarrassing This site is probably the most
and creative projects. The site has
seventh through 12th graders searching other students at their things about myself, my friends,
other features that mirror
surveyed said they had a profile child’s schools, adding family or my family, and take FUN page 80
Facebook, like the ability to
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HOW TO: Manage Your Presence on Google Maps
Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 8:44:44 AM
This post originally appeared on
the American Express OPEN
Forum, where Mashable regularly
contributes articles about
leveraging social media and
technology in small business.
Did you know you can use
Google Maps to promote your
business? Many of the features
that you might normally associate
with Yelp are actually included in
what Google calls Place Pages.
And since they’re integrated
tightly with the hugely popular
Google Maps, you won’t want to
ignore them.
Even if Google already lists you,
you’ll want to claim your page
and make sure all the information
is accurate. Either creating a Place
Page for your business or
acquiring its existing one is easy
if you know how to do it.
Below is an introduction to using
Google’s provided tools to
incentivize would-be customers or
clients to stop by. It will get you
started with managing your
presence on Google Maps, but for
the deeper cuts you might
eventually want to refer to
Google’s vast guide to Google
Places. Claim Your Listing
The first step is to check whether
your business is already listed on
Google Maps. Simply go to the
Google Maps website and search
for your business. If it comes up,
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click on its placemark or listing in print it off and bring it when they remember: These search analytics
the left panel. In the pop-up that visit. reflect a period of 30 days ending
appears, you’ll see an option to It’s also possible to make your about 48 hours ago. That is to say,
“Edit” the business details (it business stand out from the crowd you won’t see any changes right
might be hidden behind a “More” on Google Maps using away. So be sure and give Google
link). Click it. advertising. You can either use time to collect the necessary data
If the business is unclaimed, Google’s AdWords program or a before making judgments!
anyone can edit the details. Think relatively new tool called “ Tags.” If you’ve already begun
of it like Wikipedia. Since you’re The latter makes your business managing your business’s
planning on curating your stand out on the map by marking presence on Google Maps, add
presence on Google Maps, click it with a very noticeable yellow your own tips in the comments
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Windows Phone 7 Smartphones Revealed [PICS]
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/11/2010 9:18:28 AM
Microsoft, its partners — handset
makers Dell, HTC Corp., LG and
Samsung — and mobile operators
such as AT&T, Deutsche
Telekom AG, O2 and Orange,
have unveiled nine smartphones
based on Microsoft’s new mobile
operating system, Windows
Phone 7.
We’ve already seen the
prematurely leaked specifications
of Samsung Omnia 7 and LG
Optimus 7. These two handset
makers have launched two more
Windows Phone 7 devices:
Samsung Focus and LG Quantum.
Dell has joined them with Dell
Venue Pro, and HTC has
launched four completely new
devices: HTC 7 Surround, HTC
HD7, HTC 7 Trophy, and HTC 7
Mozart.
The announced devices will be
available “in the holiday 2010
timeframe.”
Check out a gallery with some of
the new handsets, as well as a list
of the new devices and the mobile
operators that will sell them,
below.
Samsung Focus
The Samsung Focus has a
480x800 4-inch screen, a 1 GHz
Qualcomm processors, 5-
megapixel camera capable of
720p video and a battery life of up
to three hours of talk time and 10
days of standby time.
LG Optimus
The LG Optimus 7 (or LG E900)
sports a 3.8-inch 480x800
resolution screen, a 5-megapixel
camera with LED flash and
autofocus (capable of 720p video)
and a 1 Ghz processor. It will be
available in many countries
around the world.
Samsung Omnia
HTC Surround
The HTC Surround features a
slide out Yamaha speaker with
surround sound and 16GB or
internal storage. It also has a 1
Ghz Qualcomm processor, a
480x800 3.8-inch screen and a 5-
megapixel (with flash and
autofocus) camera capable of
720p video. It features four hours
of talk time and up to 11 days of
standby time.
LG Quantum
The LG Quantum has a
horizontal QWERTY keyboard, a
5-megapixel camera, 720p video
and a 480x800 3.5-inch screen. It
also has a 1 Ghz Snapdragon
processor. The phone features
seven hours of talk time and up to
19 days of standby time.
Dell Venue Pro
The Dell Venue Pro has a vertical
QWERTY keyboard, a 480x800
4.1-inch screen, a 5-megapixel
autofocus camera with 720p
video, up to seven hours of talk
time and 14 days of standby time.
HTC HD7
The HTC HD7 features a
480x800 4.3-inch screen, a 1 Ghz
Qualcomm processor, a 5-
megapixel camera with dual-LED
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provide their birthday, favorite
Germany color, first name, and parent’s e-
Orange mail address, and they’re not
HTC 7 Mozart, including France, allowed on the site until their
United Kingdom parents approve it. Once logged
Samsung OMNIA 7, including in, they’re free to post messages,
France, United Kingdom make friends, upload photos, and
SFR make comments — but with a
HTC 7 Trophy, France catch. All comments on the site
Samsung OMNIA 7, France need to follow a given format and
flash, capable of 720p video. It Movistar use a given set of words.
features six hours of talk time and LG Optimus 7, Spain Messages are composed within
up to 13 days of standby time. HTC HD7, Spain the framework, “I’m click, click,
HTC 7 Trophy Samsung OMNIA 7, Spain click,” with each click leading to a
HTC 7 Mozart Deutsche Telekom AG choice of words. Photos are
LG Optimus 7Q HTC 7 Mozart, Germany manually approved by ScuttlePad,
The LG Optimus 7Q looks like it Samsung OMNIA 7, Germany and only first names are used on
is the world version of the LG Vodafone the site.
Quantum. Like the Quantum, the HTC 7 Trophy, including The comment outline feature
Optimus 7Q has a 3.5-inch Germany, Spain, United Kingdom makes the site more secure.
480x800 resolution screen, a 5- LG Optimus 7, including Realistically, anyone of any age,
megapixel camera with autofocus Germany, Italy, Spain, United with any malicious intention,
and LED flash (capable of 720p Kingdom In Asia Pacific: could sign up, but it’s hard to do
video) and a 1 Ghz processor. SingTel much damage with the pre-set
Windows Phone 7 Devices and HTC HD 7, Singapore communication options.
Mobile Operators In North LG Optimus 7, Singapore Similarly, it’s impossible to cyber
America: Telstra bully or even really hurt anyone’s
AT&T HTC 7 Mozart, Australia feelings using the preset options.
HTC Surround, United States LG Optimus 7Q, Australia On the other hand, this feature
Samsung Focus, United States Vodafone can be restricting to the point of
LG Quantum, United States HTC 7 Trophy, including making the online experience dull
T-Mobile USA Australia Reviews: Australia to older kids. The site is intended
HTC HD7, United States More About: microsoft, windows to teach children ages 6 to 11
Dell Venue Pro, United States phone 7 about how to use a social media
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LG Optimus 7, Canada Twitter be most engaging, however, for
América Móvil • Become a Fan on Facebook kids on the younger end of that
LG Optimus 7, Mexico In • Subscribe to the Mobile channel age group. 4. giantHello
Europe: • Download our free apps for Parents can verify their identities
O2 iPhone and iPad and sign their children up for
HTC HD7, United Kingdom, giantHello by either providing the
last four digits of their social
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security number or by charging
one cent to a credit card. Beyond
that, the site provides the social
networking experience that comes
closest to mainstream social
media networks, making it more
appealing to older children who
want more autonomy than is
allowed on some of the other
sites.
Profile pages function much like
a Facebook wall: friends can
leave comments, children can
update their status, and activity on
the site — like joining groups —
is reported on their page. Children
also have options to send private
message, upload photos, and join
the fan pages of celebrities like
the Jonas Brothers and Ryan
Seacrest, which are updated via
the celebrities’ Twitter feeds.
As far as the social media
experience goes, giantHello parts
from its mainstream counterpart
by removing the “search for
friends” function. Children need
to either invite friends via an e-
mail or print out as page with an
invitation code to give them.
Therefore, they can’t make
friends with people who they
don’t know. 5. Skid-e Kids
Skid-e kids relies on staff
moderators for most of its security
features: if a comment is flagged
by a filter for inappropriate
language or disclosure of
personally identifiable
information, it is sent to human
moderation; all photos are
checked by a moderators; users
submit articles and stories for a
“written by you” section that are
edited for inappropriate language
and personal information before
they’re posted; and interest group
pages are moderated.
Unlike most sites, parents and
children both are encouraged to
create profiles on the same
network. Users can exchange
messages, update their statuses,
upload video (which needs to be
approved before it is posted), and
compete against each other for
high scores on any of the free
games on the site. Unfortunately
most of these games are prefaced
by ads, and although they are
advertised as educational, it’s
hard to see how something like
“Powerpuff coloring” fits this
description.
The advantage of this site,
especially for older children, is
that much of the moderation is
provided by the site itself. Parents
aren’t required to constantly
check in or approve decisions, but
can instead focus on interacting
with their children on the same
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network. More Parenting
Resources from Mashable:
- HOW TO: Help Your Child Set
Up a Blog
- The Case For Social Media in
Schools
- Social Media Parenting: Raising
the Digital Generation
- 20 Fantastic Free iPhone Apps
for Parents
- Top 7 Sites for Parenting How-
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