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Saudi Arabia: Iran Must Pay for Alleged Plot - Voice of America
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passports who was arrested at New York's John F. Kennedy Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:59:13 AM International Airport on Saudi Arabia has vowed that Iran September 29. The officials must "pay the price" for an named the second suspect as alleged scheme to assassinate the Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based Saudi ambassador to the United member of the Iranian Quds force States, as U.S. and British who remains at large. officials say they are discussing a Britain's government said push for a new round of sanctions Wednesday it is consulting with against Tehran. the U.S. and others about Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, a imposing new sanctions against f o r m e r a m b a s s a d o r t o Iran for its role in the alleged Washington, said Wednesday the assassination plot. b u r d e n o f p r o o f w a s U.S. officials said Wednesday "overwhelming" and "clearly they are working toward an s h o w s o f f i c i a l I r a n i a n international response to what responsibility" for the plot. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden The U.S. Justice Department has called an "outrageous act." U.S. a c c u s e d t w o I r a n i a n s o f Ambassador to the U.N. Susan conspiring with elements of the Rice is in New York individually Iranian government to kill the briefing other U.N. Security Saudi ambassador to Washington, Council members about the Adel al-Jubeir. alleged plot. Officials Tuesday identified one Iran has denied the plot suspect as Manssor Arbabsiar, a accusations. Iran's ambassador to h o l d e r o f I r a n i a n a n d U . S . the United Nations has sent a content] [unable to retrieve full-text
letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon voicing Iran's outrage over the allegations. In Tehran Wednesday, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called the U.S. accusations a "childish game." Iran's Press TV says Tehran has summoned the Swiss diplomat about the United States' assassination allegations. U.S. interests are represented by the Swiss embassy in Tehran because the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with Iran. Officials say the arrested IranianAmerican unknowingly hired an informant of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to carry out the plot, believing the informant had ties to Mexican drug cartels capable of killing the Saudi ambassador. They say Arbabsiar confessed to making a $100,000 down payment on the scheme with a price tag of $1.5 million. [unable to retrieve full-text
A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama was first briefed on the issue in June and directed his administration to provide all necessary support to the investigation. Mr. Obama praised the disruption of the alleged attack as a "significant achievement." Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. Follow our Middle East reports on Twitter and discuss them on our Facebook page. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens. content]
Taiwan, China agree to sign nuclear agreement Taipei Times

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U.S. aims to punish Iran for Saudi envoy plot

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"This really, in the minds of many diplomats and government officials, crosses a line that Iran WASHINGTON (AP) The needs to be held to account for," Obama administration plans to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham leverage charges that Iran plotted Clinton told The Associated Press to assassinate Saudi Arabia's in an interview Tuesday. She said ambassador to the United States she and President Barack Obama into a new global campaign to want to "enlist more countries in isolate the Islamic republic. working together against what is By Elizabeth Williams, AP In becoming a clearer and clearer this courtroom sketch, from left, threat" from Iran. defense attorney Sabrina Shroff, Britain's government said defendant Manssor Arbabsiar, and Wednesday it was consulting with an unidentified federal marshal sit the U.S. and others over new before Judge Michael Dolinger international sanctions against for the arraignment of Arbabsiar Iran. "We would support any on Tuesday. measures that help hold Iran accountable for its actions," said By Elizabeth Williams, AP Steve Field, spokesman for In this courtroom sketch, from British Prime Minister David left, defense attorney Sabrina Cameron. S h r o f f , d e f e n d a n t M a n s s o r Vice President Biden said in a Arbabsiar, and an unidentified nationally broadcast interview federal marshal sit before Judge Wednesday morning that the M i c h a e l D o l i n g e r f o r t h e United States was working with arraignment of Arbabsiar on o t h e r n a t i o n s , s a y i n g " i t ' s Tuesday. critically important that we unite U . S . o f f i c i a l s s a y t h e the world in the isolation" of administration will lobby for the Tehran. imposition of new international Biden said the aim of sanctions as well as for individual coordinating with other nations is nations to expand their own to ensure that "whatever action is penalties against Iran based on ultimately taken that it's not the allegations that Iranian agents United States versus Iran." He tried to recruit a purported called the purported plot "really member of a Mexican drug cartel over the top." to kill the Saudi envoy on Clinton and other U.S. officials American soil. said the alleged plot is a gross
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violation of international law and further proof that Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, a label Washington has for decades applied to the Iranian government. The officials said it also underscores concerns that despite its denials Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian atomic energy program. "The idea that they would attempt to go to a Mexican drug cartel to solicit murder-for-hire to kill the Saudi ambassador? Nobody could make that up, right?" Clinton said shortly after U.S. prosecutors accused two suspected Iranian agents of trying to murder Saudi envoy Adel Al-Jubeir. The purported plan was to carry out the assassination with a bomb attack while Al-Jubeir dined at his favorite restaurant. Obama called al-Jubeir on Tuesday to declare that the foiled assassination plot was a "flagrant" violation of U.S. and international law, the White House said. The president expressed solidarity
with Saudi Arabia and said he was committed to ensuring the security of diplomats in the United States. White House press secretary Jay Carney disclosed broad outlines of the call in a statement. Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, called the Justice Department's claims a "childish game." "These are cheap claims. By giving it a wide media coverage, it was evident that they are trying to cover up their own problems," Larijani told an open session of the parliament Wednesday. "They (Americans) suffered a political stroke and learned that they had begun a childish game," he said. "We have normal relations with the Saudis. There is no reason for Iran to carry out such childish acts." In New York, Alireza Miryousefi, head of the press office of the Iranian mission to the United Nations, sent SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon a letter "to express our outrage" over the allegations. "The U.S. allegation is, obviously, a politically-motivated move and a showcase of its long-standing animosity toward the Iranian nation," the letter said. The State Department late Tuesday warned Americans around the world of the potential
for terrorist attacks against U.S. interests. It said Iranian-sponsored attacks could include strikes in the United States. In the AP interview, Clinton predicted an Iranian denial, but added: "We want to reassure our friends that the complaints against Iran are well-founded." Saudi Arabia is the main Sunni Muslim power center in the Middle East, and the one most closely allied with the United States, Iran's declared enemy. Iran is the most powerful and influential Shiite Muslim state. The two have long vied for power and influence across the region. Saudi Arabia and other countries like Bahrain have accused Iran of trying to create dissent in their countries this year, during democracy movements across the region. But it is not clear what motive Iran might have had for trying to kill the Saudi official. An assassination might have ignited anti-American sentiment in Saudi Arabia and beyond by highlighting the close relationship, which is one explanation for Iran's alleged involvement. Yet Iranian fingerprints on the killing surely would have meant retribution that Iran's military is ill-prepared to U.S. page 4
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Hurricane Jova lashes Mexican resorts, villages

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knocked out by the hurricane. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Jova's maximum MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) sustained winds were near 100 Hurricane Jova slammed into mph when it hit, but it weakened Mexico's Pacific coast as a steadily as it moved inland and Category 2 hurricane early winds and it was down to tropical Wednesday, swamping beach storm force by late morning, with towns and causing floods in the winds of 65 mph by 10 a.m. mountains above before dropping Still packing heavy rains, to tropical-storm force as it swept Tropical Storm Jova passed past Puerto Vallarta. within about 12 miles of Puerto Find your local weather with The Vallarta, where officials piled W e a t h e r C h a n n e l z i p - c o d e sandbags and tarps across the lookup: beach volleyball court that will be AFP/Getty Images used in the Pan American Games A s a t e l l i t e i m a g e s h o w s that start Friday. Hurricane Jova over Mexico Heavy rain fell in Manzanillo, W e d n e s d a y m o r n i n g . J o v a Mexico's second-biggest non-oil barreled into Mexico's Pacific cargo port, flooding some streets coast late Tuesday, unleashing and highways. The port was torrential rains and threatening closed to navigation because of devastating mudslides. the storm. The storm toppled trees, knocked Callers told local station Radio out power and flooded streets Turquesa that water was several along the coast, which is studded feet deep in some neighborhoods with beach towns and anchored and schools, some used for b y t h e m a j o r s e a p o r t o f shelters, were closed for the day. Manzanillo, but the full extent of The hurricane center in Miami damage was still unclear early warned that the storm surge could Wednesday. cause significant coastal flooding One man was injured when he a l o n g t h e 2 1 0 - m i l e s t r e t c h fell while trying to repair his roof between Manzanillo and Cabo during the storm, but there were Corrientes, which is southwest of no immediate reports of deaths, the resort city of Puerto Vallarta. said civil defense duty officer Up to 20 inches of rain could fall Francisco Garnica. Power and on isolated areas as Jova moves communications in many of the inland, the center said. towns along the coast had been Before nightfall Tuesday,
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marines visited flood-prone areas in Manzanillo to advise people to leave. They found a home for elderly people whose homes were already flooded and evacuated dozens of people to stay with relatives, Adm. Jaime Mejia said. Forty others were evacuated in the nearby town of Tecoman, he said. Some people vowed to ride out the storm, while others took refuge at shelters in towns like Jaluco, just inland from the beach community of Barra de Navidad. "My house has a thatch roof, and it's not safe," said Maria de Jesus Palomera Delgado, 44, a farmworker's wife who went to an improvised shelter at a grade school in Jaluco, along with her 17 children and grandchildren. "The neighbors told us the house was going to collapse" if hit by the hurricane, she added as the children slept nearby on folding cots packed into a classroom. In an another classroom, migrant farmworker Rufina Francisco Ventura, 27, fed her 2-month-old son. She said she had left the ranch where she plants chiles and tomatoes planning only to pick up some free blankets, but shelter workers "told me I shouldn't leave here, because it's going to hit hard." Jalisco state authorities evacuated about 200 people to shelters by Tuesday and issued alerts over
loudspeakers placed in communities along the coast, telling people to take precautions as the hurricane approached, state civil defense spokesman Juan Pablo Vigueras said. The state had 69 shelters ready, he said. Authorities also set up shelters for residents of inland towns, where the mountainous terrain could cause flash floods and mudslides, which often pose the greatest dangers in hurricanes. The Mexican army said it had assigned about 1,500 soldiers to hurricane preparedness and relief efforts. By late Wednesday morning, Jova was centered about 15 miles east of Puerto Vallarta and it was moving to the north at about 6 mph. It was expected to hit the states of Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit the hardest. About 183,000 people live in the center of the storm's projected path, said Laura Gurza, chief of the federal Civil Protection emergency response agency. The hurricane was expected to be dissipating by the time the Pan American Games start Friday in nearby Guadalajara. A new tropical depression formed to the southeast, with maximum sustained winds near 35 mph, and the hurricane center said it could become a tropical storm later in the day.
The system caused heavy rainfall in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. Chiapas and neighboring Guatemala are particularly vulnerable to flash flooding and mudslides, because of their mountainous terrain and numerous small Indian villages perched on hillsides. The depression was centered about 40 miles from the Chiapas coast and was moving north near 5 mph. The hurricane center said the depression's center was expected to approach the coast Wednesday evening. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Irwin lost some strength farther out in the Pacific with winds near 40 mph. While it was expected to move east toward land, forecasts indicated it probably wouldn't make landfall. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George HURRICANE page 4
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meet. The U.S. criminal complaint said the Iranian plotters hired a wouldbe assassin in Mexico who was a paid informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and told U.S. authorities all about their plot, which they code-named "Chevrolet." Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, was charged along with Gholam Shakuri, who authorities said was a Quds Force member and is still at large in Iran. The Treasury Department listed addresses for Arbabsiar in two Texas cities the Austin suburb of Round Rock and the Gulf city of Corpus Christi and prosecutors say he frequently traveled to Mexico for business. FBI Director Robert Mueller said many lives could have been lost. But Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said no explosives were actually placed and no one was in any danger because of the informant's cooperation with authorities. Shortly after the announcement, the Treasury Department announced economic penalties against Arbabsiar and four Quds Force officers it says were involved. The Quds force is a feared special operations wing of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard military unit. The Obama administration has [unable to retrieve full-text content]
often said that no option is off the table with Iran, a position that a U.S. official said had not changed Tuesday. But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the policy publicly, said the emphasis now is on increasing diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran. Clinton said the U.S. was still willing to talk to Iran about addressing concerns over its nuclear program, but made clear Tehran would have to prove it was interested in such a discussion. The alleged target was Al-Jubeir, a commoner educated at the University of North Texas and Georgetown University who was foreign affairs adviser to Saudi King Abdullah when he was crown prince. A month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in which 15 of the 19 Arab hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, Abdullah sent al-Jubeir to the United States to rebuild Saudi Arabia's image here. He was appointed ambassador in 2007. The Saudi Embassy said in a statement that it appreciated the U.S. efforts to prevent the crime. "The attempted plot is a despicable violation of international norms, standards and conventions and is not in accord with the principles of humanity," the statement read. The complaint alleges this past
spring that Arbabsiar approached the DEA informant, who he believed was associated with a well-known Mexican drug cartel with access to military-grade weapons and explosives and has a history of assassinations. Justice Department officials say Arbabsiar initially asked the informant about his knowledge of plastic explosives for a plot to blow up a Saudi embassy. But through subsequent meetings in Mexico over the past six months in which they spoke English, secretly recorded for U.S. authorities, Arbabsiar offered $1.5 million for the death of the ambassador. He eventually wired nearly $100,000 to an account number that the informant provided, authorities said. Arbabsiar was arrested Sept. 29 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and was ordered held without bail during his brief first court appearance Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors said he faces up to life in prison if convicted. The complaint said that after his arrest, Arbabsiar made several calls to Shakuri in which they discussed the purchase of their "Chevrolet," and Shakuri urged Arbabsiar to "just do it quickly." No one answered the door Tuesday at Arbabsiar's two-story home, decorated for Halloween, at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Austin suburb of Round Rock. A
neighbor said he frequently saw Arbabsiar walking around smoking cigarettes and talking on a cellphone in a language the neighbor did not understand. Public records show Arbabsiar has been married at least twice and has a history of arrests in Texas for offenses that include evading arrest and theft. David Tomscha told The Associated Press in an interview that he and Arbabsiar once owned a used car lot together in Corpus Christi, Texas. Tomscha said Arbabsiar was likable, but a bit lazy, and "sort of a hustler." Biden appeared Wednesday on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's The Early Show and NBC's Today show. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Uncommon Knowledge Interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (Part Three)

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This healthcare issue is a product of several flaws, unintended consequences, from government policy which has given rise in this third party payment system where you do not know what things costand you do not care what they cost because someone else is paying for the bills You need to reconnect the producer and the consumer, the provider and the patient into relationships where there is a real shopping incentive. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Christmas Day underwear bomber pleads guilty

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Judge Nancy Edmunds called a 45 -minute recess to take up an important matter. By David Ashenfelter and Tresa When Abdulmutallab returned, Baldas, Detroit Free Press his standby defense lawyer, Updated Anthony Chambers, said his client Accused underwear bomber had decided to plead guilty. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Abdulmutallab read from a pleaded guilty to eight criminal statement saying he was guilty charges, including conspiring to under U.S. law, but not under commit terrorism, in major Islamic law, for the crimes surprise on the second day of his charged. He said he tried to carry trial. out the bombing in retaliation for U.S. Marshals Service via Getty the murder of innocent civilians in I m a g e s U m a r F a r o u k Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Isreal Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty and elsewhere by the United Wednesday to attempting to blow States. up Northwest 253 flight as it was He warned the U.S. that, if it landing in Detroit on Christmas continued to murder innocent day in 2009. Muslims, a calamity would befall the U.S. U.S. Marshals Service via Getty By Jerry Lemenu, AP Images In this courtroom drawing, Umar Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Farouk Abdulmutallab sits next to pleaded guilty Wednesday to Anthony Chambers, a lawyer who attempting to blow up Northwest is assisting in Abdulmutallab's 253 flight as it was landing in defense in court in Detroit on Detroit on Christmas day in 2009. Tuesday. The guilty plea came on the "If you laugh at us now, we will second day of his criminal trial in laugh at you later," he said. U.S. District Court in Detroit. He said committing jihad against No sooner had court started, than the United States is one of "the
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most virtuous acts" a Muslim can perform. Edmunds set sentencing for Jan. 12. Abdulmutallab faces a mandatory 30 years in prison, but could get life for some of the charges, which include conspiring to commit terrorism and using a weapon of mass destruction. He pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christmas Day 2009 with a bomb concealed in his underwear. The bomb misfired, passengers and crew wrestled him to the ground and he was taken into custody when the plane landed in Detroit. Along the way, told several people, including FBI agents, what he had done, according to an
opening statement Tuesday by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel. Edmunds called in the jury after Abdulmutallab was led out of the courtroom and advised them what had happened. She said jurors could talk to reporters if she wanted. She assured jurors again that their names would not be released to the public. Outside the courthouse, Abdulmutallab's lawyer, Anthony Chambers, said he hadn't his client to plead guilty. "It's disappointing," he said, adding that he never wants a client to plead guilty to charges that could result in a life sentence. He said Abdulmutallab made the decision on his own and announced it this morning. He said he thinks he had a viable defense to some of the charges, adding that he questions whether the aircraft was damaged by the bombing attempt. He said the guilty plea enables his client to get on with the rest of his life and read a statement in court to explain his actions. For
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Interview: Robert Jeffress Refuses to Back Down on 'Mormonism Is a Cult'

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What this real debate is over the exclusively of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. CP: In your opinion, are some (Photo: First Baptist Church of people losing sight of the fact that Dallas via The Christian Post) other religions may not worship Robert Jeffress, pastor of First the same God or know Jesus Baptist Church of Dallas. Christ as the Son of God and that Jesus Christ is the only way to Jeffress came under intense fire Heaven? since last Friday for saying Like us on Facebook Mormonism is a theological Jeffress: Absolutely, and that is cult while talking to reporters at why this debate is so insidious the Values Voter Summit that about all of this. We sometimes attracted all the major Republican use the same terminology but it presidential candidates and over has vastly different meanings and 3,000 conservative voters. He told I just really encourage people now reporters that while he thought that they know Mormonism is a former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt theological cult, to go ahead and Romney was a good and moral do the research on their own. family man, he is not a born-again After my appearance the other follower of Jesus Christ and that night on Anderson Coopers show Texas Governor Rick Perry, who on CNN, I had a lady called me is a professed Christian, would be from Virginia to tell me that she a better GOP nominee. grew up in the Mormon church The following are excerpts from and that everything I said was the interview: absolutely true, that Mormonism C P : F r o m a t h e o l o g i c a l is a cult and not to back down and standpoint, why is it difficult for keep telling the truth and thats the secular world to understand what I am doing. the term cult? CP: When looking back, after all Jeffress: People have said to me the controversy that the term that if I had not used the term cult has generated, if you had it cult, then none of this would to do over again, would you still have happened. Thats not true. use the word cult to describe What is really most offensive to Mormonism? people is the idea that not Jeffress: First of all, my use of everyone is going to heaven that that term was not in introducing not all belief systems lead to God. Rick Perry. When I introduced the
governor I never used the word cult, Mormonism, nor did I mention Mitt Romney. This occurred afterward when a reporter asked me the question, Whats the problem with Mormonism? Thats when I went into an explanation and said Mormonism is a cult and I went on to explain what I meant by the term; that it is a theological cult and what that means. Of course, that never made it on the news. So, I stand by every word I said and I wouldnt change a thing. CP: Lets assume Gov. Romney won the Republican nomination. I heard you say in another interview that you would support him if he and President Obama were running against each other. Jeffress: Well, I said I would probably vote for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama because I believe that while a candidates faith is one consideration, its not the only consideration. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion. CP: Assuming Mitt Romney who is a professing Mormon was to be elected president, what would be the biggest danger to the Christian community if he endorsed pro-life
and traditional family issues? Jeffress: Somebody stopped me in the hallway of the hotel in Washington where we were staying and said, My problem with Mitt Romney is not that hes a Mormon, its that he is not good enough of a Mormon. My own problem with Mitt Romney is given his past views on abortion (Romney previously stated he was in favor of abortion when he was Governor of Massachusetts, before later changing his position. He is now pro-life) this tends to indicate he may not be a very devout Mormon so Im not worried that much about a member of a so-called theological cult being a leader of our country, other than the fact I think its preferable to have a competent Christian over a competent nonChristian. CP: Dr. Jeffress, if one of your church members stopped you in the hallway and asked you what qualities you felt were most important to consider when voting for the President of the United States, how would you respond? Jeffress: Actually, I talk about this at length in my new book Twilights Last Gleaming: How America's Last Days Can Be Your Best Days that will be released in January, and I talk about what criteria Christians should use when evaluating a candidate. Is
the candidate a Christian? Do they integrate their faith with their practices? What are their views of the constitution? What about their moral character? I think all of these are considerations when electing any candidate. CP: Do you see the qualities in a candidate you just mentioned being a major factor in the next presidential election? Jeffress: I actually do. I think there is a reason that both elite Republicans like Karl Rove and others in the Republican establishment and those in the liberal establishment are both using my comments to try and discredit Rick Perry. They want Mitt Romney as the nominee but for very different reasons. Republicans like Karl Rove really believe that Romney is more electable that Perry in a general election. Democrats want Romney as the nominee because they think hes going to be a weak candidate against President Obama. I fully believe that if Mitt Romney is the nominee, that the liberal media will unleash like they have already done a few months ago I believe they will go after Romney based on his Mormon faith. I think they will talk about the relationship of Mormonism and racism and its INTERVIEW: page 14
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Herman Cain's 9-9-9 Plan Under Attack at GOP Debate

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(Photo: REUTERS / Scott Eells) Republican presidential hopeful businessman Herman Cain speaks as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney listens at the Republican presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire October 11, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS / Adam Hunger) Television host Charlie Rose (R) opens the Republican presidential debate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire October 11, 2011. From left clockwise are former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (RMN), Texas Gov. Rick Perry, businessman Herman Cain, former Massachusetts Governor U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), former Pennslyvania Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. Cain's 9-9-9 economic plan would scrap the current tax code and replace it with a nine percent corporate tax, nine percent income tax and nine percent sales tax. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said her main concern with the plan was that it
opens a new revenue stream, a national sales tax, and those taxes could be raised over time. Bachmann also got the audience laughing when she joked about turning 9-9-9 upside down to form 666. When you take the 9 -9-9 plan and you turn it upside down, I think the devil's in the details. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum said the main problem with Cain's plan is it cannot pass Congress. How many people here are for a sales tax in New Hampshire? Raise your hand, Santorum asked the audience. No audience members within view of the television cameras appeared to raise their hand. There you go, Herman, Santorum said to Cain. That's how many votes you'll get in New Hampshire. Cain responded, Therein lies the difference between me, the nonpolitician, and all of the politicians. They want to pass what they think they can get passed, rather than what we need, which is a bold solution. Like us on Facebook Texas Governor Rick Perry, who performed poorly in the previous two debates, seemed tired and fumbled his words on some of his answers. His campaign team assured the press that he would be better prepared and more rested
for this debate. Perry's energy level, however, still seemed low. What we need to be focused on today is not whether we're going to have this policy or that policy. What we need to be focused on is how we get America working again, Perry said before explaining his energy policy. Perry had been criticized in previous debates for not having an economic plan. Tuesday's debate was focused solely on economics. Yet, Perry still had few details on his economic agenda, except to say a plan would be forthcoming and he wanted to develop America's energy resources. We are sitting on this absolute treasure trove of energy in this country, Perry said, and I don't need '9-9-9,' we don't need any plan to pass Congress, we need to get a president of the United States that is committed to passing the types of regulations, pulling the regulations back, freeing this country to go develop the energy industry that we have in this country. Throughout the debate, the questions remained strictly focused on the economy even though there had been much discussion of Romney and former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman's Mormon faith over the past few days. There was also an assassination attempt on a Saudi
Arabian diplomat earlier Tuesday. The debate format was also unique in that all the candidates were seated together at a large table rather than standing behind a podium. For part of the debate, candidates were able to ask another candidate a question. The two front-runners, Romney and Cain, received the most questions. Perry used the opportunity to again point out the similarities between Romney's health care reforms in Massachusetts and the Affordable Care Act, passed under Obama. One of Romney's economic advisers had claimed that the two laws were the same, according to Perry. Romney defended himself, in part, by attacking Perry's record as governor of Texas. We have less than 1 percent of our kids that are uninsured. You have a million kids uninsured in Texas a million kids. Under President Bush, the percent uninsured went down. Under your leadership, it's gone up, Romney said. Santorum spoke about poverty and how it relates to two-parent households. You want to look at the poverty rate among families that have two, a husband and wife, working in them? It's 5 percent today. A family that's headed by one
person? It's 30 percent today. We need to do something. We need to talk about economics, the home the word 'home' in Greek is the basis of the word 'economy.' Calling the home the foundation of our country, Santorum went on to say, We need to have a policy that supports families, that encourages marriage, that has fathers take responsibility for their children. You can't have limited government, you can't have a wealthy society, if the family breaks down that basic unit of society. And that needs to be included in this economic discussion. The debate was co-sponsored by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, an organization devoted to reducing the nation's debt burden. Commercials from the foundation were run during the breaks showing schoolchildren in a classroom teaching about the dangers of too much debt. If you just used spending cuts, the entire budget would have to be cut by 31 percent draconian cuts that would threaten defense and the social safety net. The only solution is a bipartisan, long-term plan that kicks in when our economy is stronger, one commercial said. All of the Republican presidential HERMAN page 15
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This post originally appeared on Slate. HANOVER, N.H.--When you hold a debate at a boardroom table, the business guys are going to do well. Mitt Romney and Herman Cain were the winners at the Bloomberg/Washington Post debate Tuesday night at Dartmouth College. The eight candidates sat "in the round," discussing only the economy, which gave Romney a chance to repeat with force the things he says every day on the campaign trail. He spoke confidently about his business career and experience. Cain was amiable, as always, and took every opportunity to mention his " 9-9-9 plan." After this debate, it's fair to say this plan would be his answer to questions about trout fishing. This was the first Republican debate after the Great Flirtations. There are no more saviors coming in the Republican Party--Chris Christie, who announced last week he would let this cup pass, endorsed Romney on Tuesday afternoon. If the alternatives to Romney don't perform better, Republicans should just get it over with and start learning to love him. With Christie endorsement,
Romney looks like frontrunner Romney, Christie repeat calls for Perry to repudiate pastor Rick Perry has the background and the money to be the alternative to Romney, but he didn't do much for himself at this debate. For long stretches he seemed to slide under the dining room table. When he spoke, even about an energy plan he is supposed to roll out in the coming days, he was vague and full of platitudes. At such moments, he seemed to be in need of an energy plan. Perry is running on his success creating jobs in Texas, and this debate could have been an opportunity to give his campaign a boost. He'll have to make his opportunities in the coming days instead, using his campaign cash to introduce himself to voters as someone a lot more like them than the polished Mitt Romney. Perry's road to the nomination is probably through the gut. It's hard to make that kind of connection with voters from behind a polished wood table--and time is running out to make any connection at all. Cain is a one-note wonder. This is his strength and his limitation. For those who like Cain, he reminded them all the reasons they do. He skips past questions and concerns with confidence: There is no problem, he shows as
much as says, that can't be solved with a good aphorism and good cheer. He doesn't sound like a politician or a pointy-headed intellectual. When asked about the Federal Reserve Board on which he once sat, he didn't even sound that knowledgeable. But does Cain have a second act? Is there more to life than 9-9-9? Moderator Charlie Rose tried to get at the magic behind Cain by asking whose economic advice he relies on. Cain cited Rich Lowrie, a mysterious figure who helped him on his tax plan. When Romney seemed to pat Cain on the head, suggesting the economy needed solutions a little more complicated than Cain's slogan, it probably drove voters to Cain-We've seen what the experts can do, Mr. Romney!--but at some point Romney's point will hold. There are serious questions about Cain's plan, and he can't dismiss them with a smile. Republican debate: Winners and losers Romney says he can work with "good" Democrats Romney: "I'm not worried about rich people" Romney turns "Romneycare" question back on Perry Gingrich: Fire Bernanke, imprison Dodd and Frank Huntsman mocks Cain 999 plan as price of pizza
Romney had to defend his support for TARP, which won't help him with Tea Party activists. Then again, they don't like him anyway. He is helped in that Gingrich and Cain also supported the bailout. Cain repeated Romney's answer that TARP was not a bad idea but was poorly executed. At times Cain, who endorsed Romney in 2008, feels like he's vying to be Romney's running mate. He's taken on Perry on his hunting camp and said that he could not consider being Perry's running mate because of his positions. Of all the candidates, it's Newt Gingrich, the self-appointed ombudsman of these debates, who seems to be having the best time. A question is posed and-- kapow!-he just wallops the first straw man he can find. Hippie protesters who don't clean up after themselves, dumb questions from the media, the stupid congressional supercommittee sequestration process: Often none of it has anything to do with anything, much less the questions he was asked, but he's having fun. And sometimes he's right on the nose-- particularly on the supercommittee. A few more performances like this and he could be the place those nonRomney votes that have moved from Bachmann to Perry to Cain
might land for a day or so. Since the last debate, the early primary and caucus states have moved up their contests by about a month. There is no evidence that has quickened the pulse of Romney's competitors to knock him down. In the portion of the evening where they could pose questions to one another he got four, the most of anyone, but it gave him only more free time to repeat his forceful positions. Romney appeared to react to the compressed calendar by looking to the general election, talking repeatedly about the middle class. More and more, unless one of his opponents steps up, it looks like Romney is going to be the one sitting at the head of the Republican family table in November. More from Slate: Romney shows his liberal side What Happened to Columbus Day? Why Do Italians Put Up With Silvio Berlusconi? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George NEW page 10
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President Obamas $447 billion jobs bill failed in a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday night despite weeks of his begging lawmakers to pass this bill now. The procedural vote required 60 yeas to pass but failed mostly along party lines, with two Democrats, Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana, siding with Republicans 50 to 49. In one final delay, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) went so far as to allow the vote to go on for more than two hours to allow Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D.-N.H.) enough time to fly back to Washington from an awards ceremony she was attending in Boston to vote for the plan. And although Senators Joe Lieberman (I.-Conn.), Jim Webb (D.-Va.) and Joe Manchin (D.W.Va.) sided with Obama in Tuesday nights cloture vote to cut off the filibuster, all stated they would not vote in favor of final passage for Obamas bill in the future. Out of respect for the principles of free and open debate, I will be voting to proceed to debate on the American Jobs Act, Webb said. However, I cannot support final passage of the bill in its current form. Republicans labeled Obamas bill
a permanent tax hike for a temporary spending bill, while Democrats have delayed voting on the measure for weeks knowing that they didnt have enough support to pass it and that it would embarrass the White House. This is not about a victory for President Obama, it is about a victory for unemployed people across the country, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D.Ill.) said during a floor speech prior to the vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) called the package another failed stimulus bill, and said defeating it is the only way we can get Democrats in Washington to finally abandon this failed approach to job creation. That stimulus bill cost taxpayers $825 billion, and yet three years later, there are 1.5 million fewer jobs, McConnell said. Thats the clearest proof it was a monstrous failure." By proposing a second stimulus, Democrats are showing the American people that they have no new ideas for dealing with our jobs crisis, McConnell said. Todays vote is conclusive proof that Democrats sole proposal is to keep doing what hasnt workedalong with a massive tax hike that we know wont create jobs. Obama tried to rally support for
the Occupy Wall Street brigade tried to disrupt work in one of the congressional office buildings as a show of support for the Obama administration. A half-dozen activists were arrested by Capitol Hill Police for unlawful conduct, and others were escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building after shrieking and shouting slogans in the buildings cavernous atrium, and attempting to unfurl banners from a balcony calling for an end to war, and People for the People." Audrey Hudson, an awardwinning investigative journalist, is a Congressional Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS. A native his bill just hours before the vote, s e n a t o r s t o d e c l a r e t h e i r of Kentucky, Mrs. Hudson has t e l l i n g a c r o w d o f u n i o n independence from this kamikaze worked inside the Beltway for nearly two decades -- on Capitol supporters in Pittsburgh that our political strategy. economy needs a jolt. Obama originally proposed Hill as a Senate and House The Senate of the United States paying for his program through a spokeswoman, and most recently has a chance to do something, combination of tax increases on a t T h e W a s h i n g t o n T i m e s right now, by voting for the families making more than covering Congress, Homeland American Jobs Act," Obama said. $250,000 and eliminating so- Security, and the Supreme Court. This is gut-check time, Obama called loopholes for the rich. Follow Audrey on Twitter and said. Democrats reworked the plan to Facebook. In an e-mail to supporters before levy a 5.6% surtax on those This entry passed through the the vote began, the Obama earning more than $1 million. Full-Text RSS service if this is campaign accused Republicans of Still, Reid was not hopeful he your content and you're reading it voting down his plan for political could convince his entire caucus on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentpurposes, and urged them to call to hold the party line. Congress and voice their support. To get all my senators to agree only/faq.php#publishers. Five Their strategy is to suffocate the that I can take a break to go to the Filters featured article: A 'Malign economy for the sake of what they bathroomI cant quite get that, Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, think will be a political victory, Reid said last week. the e-mail said. Theres still Some 100 protesters from Herman, Peterson, Pilger And time for principled Republican antiwar groups and an offshoot of Media Lens.
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misdemeanor. The court dropped the misdemeanor charge against Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:00:12 AM 10 of the 11 ministers Tuesday. One of ministers pled guilty and (Photo: REUTERS / Lucas paid a $50 fine. Jackson) Members of the Occupy Despite his brush with the law, Wall St movement hold signs Nelson is urging religious leaders aloft while demonstrating on Park to get involved in other protests, Avenue as they walk past a namely the "Occupy Wall Street" doorman working outside the protests. home of developer Howard "One of the things I am convinced Milstein during a march through of is that faith has a role to play in the upper east side of New York t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f t h e s e October 11, 2011. The Occupy movements," he said. That role, Wall Street movement took Nelson said, is one of moral and protests to the New York homes ethical authority. He observed that of super-wealthy executives on there is no discipline in the T u e s d a y a s r a l l i e s a g a i n s t framework of the OWS protests. economic inequality were planned "I don't always get that there is a this week for over 50 U.S. college commitment to nonviolence," he campuses and in several cities told The Christian Post. around the world. On Tuesday morning, the Boston Police Department moved in on The Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, O c c u p y B o s t o n p r o t e s t e r s , director of the Presbyterian clearing away tents and arresting Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public 100 resisters. Veteran protesters Witness, was one of 11 ministry chanted "We are the veterans of leaders arrested July 28 after the United States of America" and ignoring calls to leave the Capitol " S h a m e ! S h a m e ! S h a m e ! " Rotunda and charged with a according to The Washington
Post. Like us on Facebook District of Columbia police also arrested six Occupy D.C. protesters this week after they began chanting loudly in the U.S. Senate's Hart office building. The individuals occupying the city and town squares around the country as part of the leaderless movement seem to be protesting several different things. However, a statement that has emerged from the mass of protesters proclaims that the overall aim is to be to combat "corporate greed and corrupt politics." Nelson and the other 11 other leaders from the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish traditions protested earlier this year at the Capitol as a part of the Faithful Budget Campaign. The campaign sought to encourage the administration and Congress to protect domestic and international programs for the poor. The Presbyterian leader said he identifies with the frustrations of the OWS protesters. "There are
people who are angry because they may not be able to go to school ... angry because they have been locked out and left out for years," he explained. However, he fears that without proper leadership and focus, the protesters may descend into violence. "When we begin to talk about a constitutional right to protest ... there will be a time where people will resist," Nelson predicted. When protesters begin to resist, he fears, "We could be looking at a Tunisia or Egypt." Nelson clarified that religious leaders should not get involved to control the movement, but to model to participants how to express themselves through nonviolent means. He recalled how Martin Luther King Jr. helped African Americans living in the civil rights era express their frustrations through peaceful means. Similarly, Nelson believes Christian leaders can help protesters utilize peaceful means
of getting the message across such as letter-writing campaigns, visits with officials and prayer vigils. He reminded believers that the role of Christians is to be a consciousness to the government and also a consciousness to the people. Nelson told CP he believes that the OWS protests are important because they are, in his view, not an issue of entitlements, but rather an issue of how do we hold this country together." Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Accounts Locked Down After PlayStation Network Breach, Virgin Atlantic Will Fly On Waste Gas, RIM Server Outage Continues
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Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. RIM's Woes Hit Americas. RIM, already battling service outages across one half of the world, has issued a statement that its server problems are now also affecting some users in South America. -KE --Updated 9:40 a.m. EST iCloud, iOS 5 Grab Begins Today. iCloud, Apple's data cloud -based data service, is due to launch today, along with its newest mobile operating system, iOS 5. Apple may have geared the iCloud to draft everyone into it, but even if they didn't, both the iCloud and new OS are likely to get a warm reception. The adoption rate for iOS 4 after it rolled out was staggeringly high, with 53% of iPhone users up to date with the even latest version of the software, when Technologizer checked in January. --NS --Updated 7:10 a.m. EST Google honors clay animation pioneer Art Clokey's 90th birthday in today's Google
Doodle. New Breach Locks Out 93,000 PlayStation Network Users. Sony suspended 93,000 Sony PlayStation accounts after hackers tried to gain access to their servers. Sony said that credit card numbers linked to those accounts were not at risk, but locked out the accounts anyway, sending password reset notifications to the affected users by email. Beginning in April this year, Sony suffered several major breaches on its game servers, which caused it to shut down for over a month. -
-NS BlackBerry Outage Continues, RIM Speaks. A "core switch failure" beginning Monday this week, and a subsequent "large backlog" of data slowed down browsing and brought messaging to a halt for BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Latin America. RIM, not new to public struggles, kept mum about the issue at first, then issued a statement late on Tuesday night (BST), explaining the problem, the Guardian reports. Meanwhile,
according to the New York Times momentum is building for the breakup of the company. --NS Virgin Atlantic Will Run On Waste Gases. Virgin Atlantic is partering with a New Zealand energy company called LanzaTech to convert waste gases from steel manufacture into a fuel for their aircrafts. Reusing gases that would otherwise hit the atmosphere would lower the company's carbon footprint. The duo will begin work on setting up the tech in India first--as one of the world's biggest steel
producers, it has plenty of waste gases to spare. The technology can be applied to 65% of the world's steel mills, Virgin Atlantic told the Wall Street Journal. In June this year, to decrease its dependence on fossil fuels, the company invested $1.4 billion on an ultra-efficient engines. --NS Updated 5:45 a.m. EST Yesterday's Fast Feed: Zynga Announces Game Network, FBI's Billion-Dollar Biometric Database, Walmart And Facebook Go Local, and more.
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Nissan's 10-Minute Car Charger Could Change The Electric Vehicle Landscape
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:49:32 AM
What if EVs could be charged up in the time it takes to go to the bathroom and grab a convenience store snack? Electric vehicles may be cleaner than gasoline-powered cars and cheap to charge, but they come with a major downside: It takes a
lot of time to juice them up. But what if EVs could be charged up in the time it takes to go to the bathroom and run into a convenience store for a snack? Nissan is reportedly working on a charger that can juice up an EV in just 10 minutes. It's the kind of thing that could move EVs from the fringe squarely into the mainstream.
As it stands, charging times for EVs vary from up to eight hours all the way down to 30 minutes (to charge a vehicle like the Nissan Leaf to 80% capacity). Ultra-fast chargers are generally not installed in homes because of the large amount of electricity they require. Now, apparently Nissan and Japan's Kansai University have
figured out how to shave the charging time down to just 10 minutes by using a capacitor electrode made of tungsten oxide and vanadium oxide (instead of carbon, which is used in today's chargers) to improve power. According to the New York Daily News, the 10-minute battery charger doesn't have significant impact on voltage or battery
storage capacity. Details are scant, and Nissan has yet to return our request for comment. And apparently, it will take at least a decade before the technology can be commercialized. But it wouldn't be too out of the blue--Nissan recently unveiled a smaller, NISSAN'S page 13
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5 Tips On Using Instagram To Delight Your Customers

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interesting content (employees, old ads, fashion show backstage shots, bouncy castles, piles of TInstagram is an app that allows shirts) captured with a point of users to take, adjust, and share view and an editorial eye. photos--pretty simple and For brands to be successful on straightforward. Despite (or Instagram, they have to get past maybe because of) its simplicity, their inherent interest in selling Instagram has gotten a lot of and instead get interested in: traction in the time its been Having a distinctive view of the available, to the tune of 150 worldCultivating a unique visual million photos uploaded(that's 15 senseCapturing things that are every second), all from a single interesting to the brand and to the platform--the Apple iPhone. The core target customerTraining your really powerful aspect of the app eye for what makes for a great, is the ability to share, like, and provocative, engaging comment on other peoples imageWhen in doubt, entrusting photos. In other words, it's the work to someone in the another social network. organization that has the above! And just like Facebook and By adopting these rules, brands Twitter before it, various brands will find that Instagram (and have discovered Instagram and other social tools) will become are using it to connect. Some n e t w o r k : I t s a b o u t b e i n g approach is no more interesting powerful ways of attracting, forward-thinking brands are interesting, not about pushing than listening to a person at a growing, and engaging an already on Instagram: Starbucks, products. party yammer on and on about increasingly visually sophisticated GE, Sharpie markers, Brisk Iced Some of the brands currently on themselves and their job. populace. Tea, and Red Bull. All are Instagram are using it the way Its probably not surprising that For more leadership coverage, exploring whether creating and brands used the Internet in 1999, s o m e o f t h e b r a n d s u s i n g f o l l o w u s o n T w i t t e r a n d posting pictures can build their as a way of "digitalizing" their Instagram best are fashion brands: L i n k e d I n . relationship with customers, but marketing materials. Follow some Bergdorfs, Burberry, Gucci, and [Image: Courtesy Burberry] some are doing it better than brands and all youll see are T h r e a d l e s s - - t h e y r e a l l o n others. The best brands using picture after picture of their Instagram and I follow all of Instagram have learned whats p r o d u c t s a n d t h e i r b r a n d them. Their photo streams are true of success on any social m a t e r i a l s . T h a t o l d - s c h o o l more than just product shots:
cheaper quick-charging EV station--and if the reports are true, the new charger could truly revolutionize the automotive landscape. Consider: All-electric vehicles would finally make sense for long trips. Because while EV owners now have to sit around and wait potentially for hours while their vehicles to charge up--not exactly an ideal setup for a road trip-Nissan's charger could allow them to quickly juice up and go during a quick rest-stop break (assuming that the new charger becomes widespread). There might still be range anxiety, but there won't be any more charge anxiety. Hydrogen fuel cell charging stations can already do this--they can give vehicles enough hydrogen to drive off in just three minutes. But automakers have invested heavily in EV technology, and chances are that there will be far more electric cars on the road in 10 years than fuel cell powered ones. In the meantime, plug-in EVs may be the way to go for people who often travel long distances-and we can hope that another manufacturer comes up with a charging breakthrough that can be commercialized in less than a decade. [Image: Wikipedia] Reach Ariel Schwartz via Twitter or email.
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Will Ex-Gov. Crist Run for House as a Dem?

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won by conservative GOPer Marco Rubio. But reports of wife Carole's party Published reports this week that change has led to speculation Florida's former first lady Carole Crist himself will do the same and Crist has changed her voter take on Young, who turns 82 in registration to Democrat has December and is the most senior fueled speculation that her Republican in Congress. husband, former Republican- "I saw Gov. Crist in West Palm turned-independent Gov. Charlie Beach this month at the funeral of Crist, will make a comeback next Claude Kirk [Florida's first yearas a Democratic candidate R e p u b l i c a n g o v e r n o r s i n c e against 42-year Republican Rep. Reconstruction, who died at 85]," C.W. Bill Young in the Sunshine a longtime Palm Beach Gardens State's 10th District. GOP activist who requested No one has been able to confirm a n o n y m i t y t o l d H U M A N anything so far about the plans of EVENTS. "He sure looked like Crist, who left the Republican he was running for something." Party while governor last year to Crist enraged fellow Republicans run unsuccessfully for the Senate in '09 by endorsing the President's as an independent. The race was stimulus package and publicly
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embracing Obama during a Florida visit. Coupled with other nonconservative stands such as his championship of global warming control, Crist was the underdog in most polls against
Rubio in the GOP Senate primary until he decided to go rogue and run as an independent Since losing to Rubio, the former governor has joined a personal injury law firm in St. Petersburg
and teaches law at Stetson University School of Law. Few who know the former state legislator, state attorney general and governor believe he can stay out of the political arena for long. John Gizzi is Political Editor of HUMAN EVENTS. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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past treatment of blacks and so forth. They are waiting for Mitt Romney to become the nominee before they unleash those attacks. You wont see President Obama doing this; the media will do it for him. CP: The issues weve discussed, such as the differences between sociological and theological cults, are rather deep issues that are sometimes challenging for Christians to understand. Of all the interviews you have done, what is it that you believe people
need to understand and what would you like to communicate that would best summarize the issue? Jeffress: What I would like to say and have said is that a persons faith does matter. I would also like to say that a persons religion having no part in which candidate we vote for is ridiculous. Our faith is the very essence of who we are. And its certainly a factor in choosing a candidate. This is where I may disagree with other prominent theologians who
seem to think that a persons faith should not be criteria for selection. It was John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and I quote, We have the duty and privilege in this Christian nation to select Christians as our rulers. A candidates faith in not the only consideration, but should be a major consideration in electing the President of the United States. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it
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Ex-police officer admits 300 million VAT fraud
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By MATTHEW DOLAN DETROITThe U.S. government's terrorism case against the so-called underwear bomber ended abruptly Wednesday when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty in federal court to all eight counts against him, authorities said. Mr. Abdulmutallab, a 24-year-old Nigerian, was accused of trying to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 with a bomb sewn into his underwear. The plot raised questions about airline security and counterterrorism efforts after the attacks of September 2001. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan confirmed the plea. The son of a wealthy bank owner,
Mr. Abdulmutallab faced counts including the attempted murder of the 278 other passengers and 11 crew members aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life in
prison. Associated Press Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich in December 2009. U.S. officials have linked the alleged plot to Anwar al-Awlaki, an al Qaeda leader killed late last month in a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike in Yemen. The trial against Mr. Adbulmutallab began in Detroit on Tuesday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Steve Jobs Was Robbed At Gunpoint In A Pizza Parlor (AAPL)

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FOR SALE: Saddam Hussein's Butt Cheek

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he doesnt get along with people very well, hes very independent Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:06:21 AM minded. It rubbed against people. For all that's already been written So they put him on the night shift about the life of Steve Jobs, more alone." and more new details keep Jobs and Wozniak used to sell surfacing. "blue boxes," devices that hacked In an excellent interview with payphones and let you make free Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, calls Dan Lyons(famous for his Fake "I didnt do it to make money but Steve Jobs blog) pulls some just to build a device to explore it, interesting details from a man not to save money on phone calls. who has known Jobs almost his I was so honest I would not use entire life. the blue box to make longRead on for 8 things we learned distance calls. But I wanted to after reading it, then head over to play pranks, like route signals Lyons's site to read the full around the world and make them interview for yourself. When he come back to the phone next to was hired at Atari, Steve was so me. We did prank calls. I would intense that they put him on the call a hotel in Paris and make a night shift by himself reservation. At the dorms in "Steve saw [my design of] Pong Berkeley we would go door-toand ran down to Atari and showed door selling blue boxes. One it to them and they hired him. hundred and fifty bucks was the W h e t h e r t h o u g h t h e h a d price." participated in the design, I dont Wozniak prank-called the know and I could not care less. Vatican and pretended to be They offered him a job and put Henry Kissinger him on the night shift. They said "We were doing a demo of a blue
box in a dorm room. I called Italy, then asked for Rome, then asked for the Vatican. I told them I was Henry Kissinger calling from a summit meeting in Moscow. It was 5:30 in the morning in Italy. They told me to call back in an hour. I did, and I spoke to a bishop who said he had just spoken to Henry Kissinger in Moscow." See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: Mystery Solved! Here's Why Steve Jobs Could Drive Around Without License Plates On His Car Here's Why Steve Jobs Wore A Black Turtleneck And Jeans Every Day THE APPLE INVESTOR: The Board Struggles With Dawn Of A New Era
This is not the type of item you see hit the auction market on a daily basis. A bronze buttock from the statue of Saddam Hussein, which was famously toppled in Baghdad after U.S. troops invaded in 2003 is about to be sold to the highest bidder, AFP reports. How did the notorious backside get from Iraq to Britain, where it will be auctioned? AFP explains: A former soldier from Britains elite SAS regiment retrieved the two-foot (0.6-meter) wide piece of history and took it back to Britain shortly after U.S. marines dragged the statue down on live television. Nigel Spud Ely, now 52, was working with media covering the
fall of Baghdad at the time. He said the marines gave him permission to remove the buttock using a hammer and a crowbar. The resulting chunk is about two square feet, and is expected to sell for around $15,400 at the Oct. 27 sale by Hansons Auctioneers in Derby, England. Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: This Roy Lichtenstein Painting Could Fetch A Record Breaking $45 Million At Auction At This Point, Rich Chinese Collectors Are Breaking Auction Records On A Weekly Basis Meet The Former I-Banker Who Made Millions Selling Something Called 'Snake Serum'
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putting up that you think should have a subdomain of occupyweb.org pointing to it, post a note here with a pointer to the
app. Say what subdomain you'd like to see mapped to it, like hello.occupyweb.org. I'll map it as soon as I can. Obvious caveats for
spam sites, or overtly commercial or political sites. Thinking of apps that cover the OWS movement in a neutral way.
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Ecuador Invaded New Jersey Last Night And Handed The U.S. Soccer Team Another Loss
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The next World Cup is three years away, but the international soccer schedule is still filled with big time qualifiers and friendlies. These games aren't important enough to garner mainstream attention. So do they bring out the same pageantry and passion we see every four years at the World Cup? The United States played Ecuador in a friendly last night outside Newark, New Jersey. We went to the game to see how deep the passion ran. What we found was a ton of American and Ecuadorian diehards who treated the game like any big international match.
Here are we are Harrison, New Jersey where burnt-out warehouses double as MLS advertisements Right away we notice a TON of Ecuador fans. They go all out, even though this is just a friendly This little guy's head barely peeks out over his many Ecuador scarfs See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: SATELLITE PHOTOS: Check Out Your Favorite MLB Stadiums From Up Above Here Are This Week's Winners And Losers In Sports NFL Betting Prediction: Our Picks For Every Game This Weekend
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UK Flying Further Into Biofuels Controversy

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By Simon Veazey UK National Editor Created: Oct 12, 2011 Last Updated: Oct 12, 2011 It didnt take long for flight TOM 7446 to get into trouble. As it headed to Lanzarote from Birmingham last week, the first commercial UK flight run on biofuel soon entered the cloud of controversy surrounding biofuels. Slammed by some environmentalists as a "greenwash" PR stunt used to garner greater subsidies, airline Thomson stoutly defended their flight as a small step in the right direction. But PR stunt or not, the Thomson flight nonetheless represents the gathering velocity of the UK airline industrys biofuels programme against the continual drag of an anti-biofuel lobby. A British Airways flight arrives at Heathrow Airport on March 28, 2007 in London, England. Heathrow airport is one of the busiest airport's in the world, handling 67.5 million passengers in 2006. Greenhouse gas emmissions from aircraft will have to be curbed if the UK is meet its targets to cut carbon emmisions by 2050. (Matt Cardy/ Getty Images)
Environmental lobbyists who once advocated for the use of biofuels a few years ago began to switch sides, calling for governments and fuel companies to abandon their biofuel programmes, saying that growing crops from which to harvest the oil that makes the fuels causes
more harm than good, not only damaging local environments, but also wrecking livelihoods and pushing up global food prices. But proponents say biofuels need time to develop their ecocredentials, and that the arguments against them are too short-sighted, simplistic, and
unrealistic. Biofuels expert Geraint Evans says that biofuels are a long-term project that needs to be built step by step. We have to be careful not to sacrifice the good for the perfect, he says, conceding that there are issues around biofuels, but insisting that they can be
addressed by going forward steadily, not backtracking. We have to be careful not to sacrifice the good for the perfect Evans is head of Biofuels and Bioenergy at the UKs National Centre for Biorenewable Energy, Fuels and Materials (NNFCC), which supports companies, government, and other organisations. It describes itself as the UKs leading authority in biorenewable technologies and their applications. He says that as we become increasingly decarbonised in the future, air travel will constitute proportionately more and more of the nations carbon footprint. For airplanes, they need a dense liquid fuel, so weve got to start today to get to somewhere by say 2050. Otherwise you are going to end up with aviation not being decarbonised. According to Evans, the challenge is to get not only the technology progressing, but also getting the air industry biofuels infrastructure up and running. We need fuel that we can essentially drop into the existing fuel supplies, because the airplanes come from here, there and everywhere and need to refuel at Heathrow. If you only have a special fuel FLYING page 21
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Telescopic Time Machine Sees Back Into Age of Reionization

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rather than matter being absorbed into black holesthe two main hypotheses proposed to date. Artist's impression of galaxies "The detailed analysis of the faint less than a billion years after the light from two of the most distant big bang, when the universe was galaxies we found suggests that still partially filled with hydrogen the very first generation of stars fog that absorbed ultraviolet light. may have contributed to the The VLT is probing this energy output observed," said important phase of the early Eros Vanzella at the INAF Trieste universe by studying the light Observatory in the release. from some of the most distant "These would have been very galaxies ever detected. (ESO/M. young and massive stars, about Kornmesser) The European five thousand times younger and Southern Observatory's (ESO) one hundred times more massive Very Large Telescope (VLT) has than the sun, and they may have detected the most distant galaxies been able to dissolve the in our early universe, between 780 primordial fog and make it million and a billion years after transparent." the big bang. To confirm this theory, highly An international team of accurate data to show the stars can astronomers has been using the produce the requisite energy is VLT for the last three years to needed from space telescopes or investigate the reionization the ESO's Extremely Large period, when the first stars and Telescope, which is due to galaxies formed, exciting the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica to see how long after the big bang million years old, this neutral become operational early next primordial fog of hydrogen gas, (INAF) Rome Astronomical they appeared, and ordered them hydrogen was quite abundant, decade. and allowing ultraviolet light Observatory in a press release. to create a timeline showing how filling from 10 to 50 percent of The findings will be published in "The differences between the their light evolved over time. t h e u n i v e r s e ' v o l u m e , " s h e the Astrophysical Journal. could pass through. "Archaeologists can reconstruct a galaxies tell us about the changing T h e y a l s o d e t e r m i n e d continued. "But only 200 million This entry passed through the timeline of the past from the conditions in the universe over reabsorption of hydrogen into years later the amount of neutral Full-Text RSS service if this is hydrogen had dropped to a very your content and you're reading it artifacts they find in different this important period, and how intergalactic space. layers of soil. Astronomers can go quickly these changes were "We see a dramatic difference in low level, similar to what we see on someone else's site, please read the amount of ultraviolet light that today. one better: we can look directly occurring." the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentThe researchers located the was blocked between the earliest "It seems that reionization must only/faq.php#publishers. Five into the remote past and observe the faint light from different Lyman-alpha line of five remote and latest galaxies in our sample," have happened quicker than Filters featured article: A 'Malign galaxies at different stages in galaxiesa powerful ultraviolet said lead author Laura Pentericci astronomers previously thought." Intellectual Subculture' - George cosmic evolution," said project emission line generated by of INAF Rome Astronomical The ultraviolet radiation that cleared the fog may have come TELESCOPIC page 20 leader Adriano Fontana of the h y d r o g e n g a s . T h e y t h e n Observatory in the release. determined each galaxy's redshift "When the universe was only 780 from the first generation of stars,
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Everlasting Principles of Chinese Medicine

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as good as Western medicine. Since yin, yang, and the five elements are the manifestation of Throughout history, over the Taos principles on a certain thousands of years, no matter level, within this level, no matter what disease, Chinese medicine how things may change, they all has not changed its principles of originate from yin, yang, and the yin and yang in treating illnesses. five elements. As a result, yin, (KanZongGuo.com) yang, and the five elements can Chinese medicine has been resolve anything on this level. around much longer than what is According to traditional Chinese documented. It is said that the culture, principles like these are Yellow Emperors Inner Canon( not under the control of human Huangdi Neijing) has been around beings but were passed down by more than 2,000 years, and some divine beings. This is why even say more than 3,000 years. Chinese medicine has been There are many more books, such sustained for thousands of years as Typhoid Fever and Shen Nong and is everlasting. Ben Cao Jing. However, no Source: en.kanzhongguo.com/ matter how many books there are, h e a l t h _ s c i e n c e / superficial. For example, what immediately its inner meanings. their contents have not deviated ingredient in a particular formula Peoples daily activities and everlasting_principles_in_chinese from the principles of yin and is effective instead of what the b e h a v i o r w o u l d f o l l o w t h e _medicine.html yang. interactions among yin, yang, and principles of the Tao: They did This entry passed through the Throughout history, over the five elements are. Thus, good deeds and accumulated Full-Text RSS service if this is thousands of years, no matter your content and you're reading it todays Chinese medicine is not virtue. what disease, Chinese medicine nearly as good as it was in ancient C h i n e s e m e d i c i n e t h e o r y on someone else's site, please read has not changed its principles of times. o r i g i n a t e d f r o m t h e T a o . the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentyin and yang in treating illnesses. What is the foundation of Therefore, its yin, yang, and the only/faq.php#publishers. Five Due to the rapid development of Chinese medicine? It is the Tao. five elements are the foundation Filters featured article: A 'Malign modern empirical science, people People in modern times know of Chinese medicine. If Chinese Intellectual Subculture' - George try to understand the principles of very little about the Tao, but there medicine were to deviate from the M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , yin, yang, and the five elements as are many explanations. principles of the Tao, it would be Herman, Peterson, Pilger And philosophical concepts, but fail to In ancient times, human nature lost. Similarly, if we use modern Media Lens. apply them. was good. If one just mentioned s c i e n c e t o g u i d e C h i n e s e Today, the study of Chinese the word Tao, people knew medicine, the results will not be medicine includes only the
No violation of Rule Curve in Hirakud reservoir, says govt - Business Standard

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Orissadiary.com No violation of Rule Curve in Hirakud reservoir, says govt Business Standard Contrary to the allegations hurled by the Opposition political parties on mismanagement of the Hirakud reservoir system, the state government has clarified in its report that there has been no violation of the Rule Curve and water levels in the... Orissa government submits report to Governor, dismissed mismanagement of... Economic Times Orissa replies Governor, says no need to set up panel IBNLive.com Orissa Intellectuals, activists raise concern over report of plans to build... Orissadiary.com Reuters AlertNet all 5 news articles
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that you have at Heathrow only, thats not going to work. Right now, the biofuel available for jet fuel produced from vegetable oil is not efficiently produced, both increasing the potential environmental impact and falling short of the supply levels needed. But the technology coming down the line has the potential to reach much higher levels of yield and have less impact on the environment, according to Evans. The problem with using vegetable oil is that there is not enough of it about, he says. Its the only way we can make renewable mid-distillate at the moment. All sectors are looking to make a mid-distillate at the
moment, thats with heating, power, transport. Theres demand in the power sector because they use diesel, as well as road and rail. The problem is that it doesnt grow in great volumes per sector. The yield is typically 12 tonnes per hectare. The highest is 5 tonnes. But waiting in the wings are biomass (waste) and algae. Last year British Airways announced that it would be building a state-of -the-art biofuel site in Londons east end. But instead of using vegetable oil, it will convert waste materials destined for landfill into aviation fuels. This latest advancement adopts an older technology once used to convert the energy in coal to gas
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Crinkled Callout Campaigns - These Shera Sound-Proof Walls Ads Make Noises Fall Flat (TrendHunter.com)
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Maya relents, gives permission for Advani rally Hindustan Times

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In Nigeria, Militancy Raises Specter of Civil War

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the Niger Delta (MEND), based in the country's oil-rich south, both threatened to disrupt the festivities PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- with violence. Boko Haram had On Oct. 2, Nigeria celebrated the already made it clear that it was 51st anniversary of its freedom capable of attacking Abuja on from British rule. A large gala Aug. 26, when it exploded a bomb was planned in Abuja, the fast- at the United Nations building growing Nigerian capital located there, killing 23. And just a week in the center of the country. before the scheduled gala event, a But, days before the celebrations, bomb scare at the country's Boko Haram, a Muslim extremist N a t i o n a l A s s e m b l y s e n t group based in the country's north, lawmakers scrambling for safety. and the Movement to Emancipate ... Subscribers receive:
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Over the Horizon: U.S. Drone Use Sets Global Precedent

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Inside the flat where Joanna Yeates was killed by Vincent Tabak - Telegraph.co.uk
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Is the world about to see a "drone race" among the United States, China and several other major powers? Writing in the New York Times, Scott Shane argued that just such an arms race is already happening and that it is largely a result of the widespread use of drones in a counterterror role by the United States. Shane suggests that an international norm of drone usage is developing around how the United States has decided to employ drones. In the future, we may expect that China, Russia and India will employ advanced drone technologies against similar enemies, perhaps in Xinjiang or Chechnya. Kenneth Anderson agrees that the drone race is on, but disagrees about its cause, arguing that improvements in the various drone component technologies made such an arms race inevitable. Had the United
States not pursued advanced drone technology or launched an aggressive drone campaign, some other country would have taken the lead in drone capabilities. So which is it? Has the United States sparked a drone race, or was a race with the Chinese and Russians inevitable? While there's truth on both sides, on balance Shane is correct. Arms races don't just "happen" because of outside technological developments. Rather, they are embedded in political dynamics associated with public perception, international prestige and bureaucratic conflict. China and Russia pursued the development of drones before the United States showed the world what the Predator could do, but they are pursuing capabilities more vigorously because of the U.S. example. Understanding this is necessary to developing expectations of what lies ahead as well as a strategy for regulating drone warfare. ... Subscribers
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prepares for a carbon tax blitz - NEWS.com.au
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BBC News Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prepares for a carbon tax blitz NEWS.com.au The Opposition react as Foreign Minister Rudd congratulates the PM on passing of carbon tax legislation. See Sophie Mirabella's expulsion from the lower house
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Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat

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Flood inquiry to sit in Gympie Ninemsn

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German state admits spying on citizens with trojan software

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Govt initiates process to extradite Iqbal Mirchi - Times of India

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Dale Farm Travellers lose eviction battle in high court - The Guardian
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Indian Express Govt initiates process to extradite Iqbal Mirchi Times of India PTI | Oct 12, 2011, 08.42AM IST NEW DELHI: A day after Iqbal Memon alias 'Iqbal Mirchi' was arrested in London, India said the process involving extradition of the close aide of underworld don
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Several German state officials have confirmed that they have sponsored a piece of software described as a "federal trojan" that can be used to spy on citizens. The trojan, referred to as Bundestrojaner ("federal trojan") or R2D2, was first discovered by German hacker group Chaos Computer Club. They claim in a report that the German government developed the software to gather information from target computers, including screenshots, keystrokes, and audio from VOIP calls. CCC says that the trojan even has a "backdoor" that lets additional software to be installed and executed. Continue reading...
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HTC Titan Review

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Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:47:41 AM
Rarely does a gadgets name quite so well describe its nature, as is the case with the HTC Titan. A huge 4.7-inch display packed into a battleship-strong metal chassis, the TItan is an unapologetic slab of Windows Phone 7. Question is, can Mango provide sufficient sweetness to balance the Titans brutal charms, or are HTCs big ambitions in for an equally big fall? Check out the full SlashGear review to find out. Hardware We cant fault HTCs industrial design or build quality: the Titan is one of the companys most cohesive, solid handsets of the past year. The matte-finish black metal casing and bevelled toughened Gorilla Glass fascia come together beautifully, and the various logos and branding are discrete and thankfully chromefree. If the Sensation XL the Titans Android-based equivalent is the attention-seeking cousin then the Titan is the reserved, more timeless family member. Its undoubtedly a large phone 131.5 x 70.7 x 9.9 mm and 160g but the combination of curves and angles in the sides mean it fits into average sized hands reasonably well. Physical controls are limited to power/standby on the top edge alongside a 3.5mm headphone jack then a volume rocker and a camera shortcut on the right edge, along with the touch-sensitive back, Start and
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sync duty on the lower left edge, and you get two cameras: 8megapixels on the back and 1.3megapixels on the front. Inside theres a 1.5GHz singlecore processor, 50-percent faster than the original HTC HD7, paired with 512MB of RAM and 16GB of onboard storage (of which 12.63GB is user-available). Microsoft still refuses to allow expandable memory, so that twelve gigs and change are your lot, too. Connectivity includes triband UMTS/HSPA (up to 14.4Mbps downloads and 5.76Mbps uploads, network permitting), WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, while the usual bevy of sensors GPS, gyroscope, G-sensor, digital compass, proximity and ambient light are all onboard. No NFC theres currently no Windows Phone support for it anyway and no FM radio, but the only lingering frustration is the absence of 1080p Full HD video recording. The 8-megapixel camera is limited by the processor and software, and as such 720p is all youll squeeze out of it. Display Titan is an apt name when you consider the size of the display. Under that slab of toughened glass is a 4.7-inch Super LCD panel, the largest on an HTC Windows Phone handset so far, and in fact making the Titan the biggest phone running Microsofts platform. Its a bright screen with decent viewing angles and the colors look great, but the resolution is a
disappointment. Windows Phone currently limits support to WVGA, which means despite the Titans potential for packing in the pixels, youre actually stuck with 800 x 480. Considering qHD is already becoming the benchmark of sorts for high-end Android smartphones, that the iPhone has had 960 x 640 since the original iPhone 4, and were now seeing high-end Samsung and LG handsets with 1280 x 720 displays, on paper its easy to dismiss WVGA. That would be premature, though. No, it may not have as many pixels as rivals, but the Titan does a fair job with whats on offer. The biggest issue is fonts, with some crunchiness or fuzziness around the edges noticeable in places, emphasized by Windows Phones starkly minimal UI. Our main frustration is the sense of wasted potential: with the same resolution as the smallest Windows Phone on the market, youre getting no more emails, homescreen tiles or app graphics in view at any one time. Theyre just stretched bigger. Software and Performance The HTC Titan runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Microsofts latest update to its smartphone OS and the biggest single change to the platform since it debuted a year ago. Weve already reviewed Mango comprehensively, and its worth reading our full coverage to get up to speed with where Microsofts software holds up and where it still shows its naivety. Windows Phone 7.5 Mango
Review: In terms of modifications and tweaks, HTC is more limited in its options than on its Android range. The Titan gets the HTC Hub, the companys corralled collection of weather animations, news, stock updates and some promoted app downloads, while Photo Enhancer, Connected Media, Locations, Notes and HTC Watch are all preloaded. Its the latter which will probably be the big draw for Titan buyers, the oversized display working well with HTCs streaming media service. Unfortunately, unlike with the HD7, theres no flip-out kickstand to prop the Titan up for hands-free viewing. Third-party software through the Windows Phone Marketplace remains a sparser selection than for Android or iPhone, though there are official Twitter and Facebook apps which are at least two important boxes ticked for consumer appeal. Performance from the 1.5GHz processor is slick, with menus and lists scrolling lag-free, image and webpage pinch-zooming smooth and no issues with the speed at which apps and webpages load. Mango brings its own performance improvements too, and the combination of software refinements and the boosted processor add up a device that had trouble handling whatever we threw at it. Microsoft has said it is confident that Windows Phone on a single-core is just as fast as rival platforms on dual-cores, and right now that doesnt seem too
unbelievable. Camera HTCs cameras have been hit and miss in recent months, with some handsets offering excellent stills and video like the myTouch 4G Slide, for instance and others proving less impressive. The Titans 8-megapixel backside illuminated (BSI) sensor, paired with an f2.2 wide-angle lens and dual-LED flash, falls in happily among the better of the companys offerings. Windows Phone offers a small range of options, including some basic special effects, and theres a new Burst Mode that fires off multiple frames in rapid succession so that you can pick the best. Face detection and tap-to -focus work as expected, and the two-stage camera shortcut button press halfway to lock focus, fully to fire off the shot is useful if a little too high up the side of the phone to be entirely easy to press without stretching your finger. The end result are clear, colorrich but reasonable accurate stills, with the Titan grabbing shots quickly after you hit the button and Windows Phone neatly filing them off to the side of the screen so you can keep shooting. Best results are, unsurprisingly, in daylight, though the Titan can get washed out with particularly bright scenes. Low-light performance is only fair, with the BSI sensor doing a better job than other phone cameras weve seen but still lacking the dusk/night skills of a dedicated camera. The dual-LED flash is bright but that
can add up to overpowering at times, with closer subjects washed out and the background cast into murky gloom. The front-facing camera may offer 1.3-megapixels, up from the VGA resolution on many rival devices, but its still better suited to impromptu video calls at least if there was a way to make them, since Windows Phone lacks a native app for that than stills. As for video recording, while Full HD would be nice were limited to 720p on the Titan. Continuous focus and stereo audio recording are both options the former on by default, the latter off and happily theres now a save settings option which locks your choices in. Previous Windows Phones would reset you back to the VGA quality option (as well as lose any other settings changes youd made) each time you reopened the camera app. HTC Titan 720p HD video sample: The resulting clips are good, with the heft of the Titan meaning its easier to keep it stable than with lighter phones. Again, the camera prefers natural lighting though you can use the LED flash as a video light and theres some blurring at times, but its nonetheless reasonable for a phone. Phone and Battery Voice calls on the Titan proved solid, with little in the way of hiss or fizz, and the earpiece cranks up to suitably booming levels. The speakerphone, meanwhile, is HTC page 30
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Microsoft, Hortonworks to Integrate Hadoop with Windows Server

Scott M. Fulton, III (ReadWriteWeb)
Business Intelligence tools. "It is important for us to integrate this distribution in with the Submitted at 10/12/2011 12:00:00 PM Windows infrastructure, to Just last week, ReadWriteWeb's provide the security capabilities, J o e B r o c k m e i e r a s k e d a n d the management capabilities, and answered the question, " Who the performance characteristics wrote Hadoop?" That's the cloud that our customers expect," database framework that scales Leland continues. "We will huge datasets over multiple integrate the Hadoop distribution clusters, distributed under the with Active Directory for security Apache v2 open source license. and data access control, with our As of this morning, Cloudera and management stack to provide the other members of the Hadoop greater manageability - to really community have a new neighbor. make it a first-class citizen of our Hortonworks is now coalescing data platform." SQL Server 2012 with Microsoft to distribute a new marches in alongside the elephant Hadoop distribution for Windows Incidentally, just as a little aside, Server and a Hadoop service for today is the day Microsoft Windows Azure. This news from formally announces SQL Server the PASS Summit for SQL Server 2012, for availability within the in Seattle. first half of that year. With the Sponsor extent of Community Technology "Hadoop has grown to be a Preview rollouts (formally known compelling platform for managing as "public betas") between now and processing types of data that and general availability (GA), it's were born in, and live outside, the probably safer to focus on spring traditional database management than winter. "Denali," as SS 2012 system environment," Doug was called, has already undergone Leland, general manager for three CTP stages. Still, the first product management for SQL CTP of the Hadoop distro and Server, tells RWW. "But they Azure service will share the want to be able to bring that into roadmap with SS 2012. their data platform environment." One of the new RDBMS' most Microsoft's plan is to make intriguing new features is a rapid Hadoop data accessible through data discovery tool, formerly Windows Azure cloud-based called "Crescent" but which today deployments, as well as enable it has been dubbed PowerView. to be analyzed with the company's Taking a cue from the Metro style
from them, you can either a) bring it into a SQL Server environment using connectors; or b) drive analysis across it using our BI tools. We are providing the flexibility to customers to choose the tools they use for the job." Hadoop's data warehousing system is called Hive, and it utilizes a kind of SQL-like language called HiveQL for queries and analysis. Microsoft will be producing an ODBC for Web apps on the upcoming driver that extends its own Windows 8, PowerView utilizes existing query systems to Hive. its own class of apps, if you will, This way, Doug Leland tells us, that Microsoft is calling insights. users will be able to execute direct They're minimally adorned charts Hadoop queries from Excel, that offer flexible representations PowerView, and the already of databases that are sensitive to announced forthcoming BI plugtouch, and more adaptable to in for Excel called PowerPivot. tablet-based use cases. The necessary Hadoop "Crescent" has been actively connectors for the existing SQL tested since late last year. But Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server today, we're learning for the first Parallel Data Warehouse, are now time that SQL Server will extend complete and are being released insights to Hadoop data sets. So today. "We're opening up a the same visibility tools that scenario for bidirectional data Microsoft is introducing today for movement between Hadoop and SQL Server data will also apply to SQL Server, as well as for BI, so Hadoop. you can run analysis straight "Whether you call it unstructured, across data living in Hadoop." 'big data,' - these terms are Microsoft, the new elephant in the somewhat descriptive, but also room misnomers. We are providing the This is all being made possible capability to manage and process through a strategic partnership it where it lives," states b e t w e e n M i c r o s o f t a n d Microsoft's Leland. "Once you've Hortonworks, which is a provider discovered interesting insights o f c o m m e r c i a l H a d o o p
distributions spun off from Yahoo last summer, and the company which last week claimed an elephant's share of the credit for contributing to the Hadoop code base. "They are going to be lending us their guidance and technical expertise, and working with us to help accelerate the delivery of our distribution for Windows Server and the service for Windows Azure," states Leland. He adds that the company promises to fully interact with the Hadoop development community, which will mean contributing any innovations made to Hadoop back to the Apache Software Foundation. "The changes that we make, including developing the distribution for Windows, will be proposed back to Apache for inclusion in the core trunk. Our commitment is for compatibility and interoperability, and to do so through open contributions." CTP of the Hadoop service for Windows Azure will begin before the end of the year, says Leland, while CTP for Hadoop for Windows Server will begin next year. Whether Hadoop management will be implemented as a role for Server Manager, for instance, has yet to be determined, and may be decided during the CTP process. Discuss
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How 3LM Brings Smarter Security to the Android Ecosystem

Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:30:00 AM
with that. They do not have the resources, especially in a BYOD environment, to look at every new E a r l i e r t h i s w e e k , m u c h - device that is coming from every anticipated Android security carrier every month." BES For startup 3LM finally came out of Android its hiding place and launched its If you are familiar with the mobile enterprise system. 3LM BlackBerry Enterprise Server, you was started by Tom Moss who are probably familiar with the first was Google's Android team part of what 3LM is trying to do. before spinning off 3LM, which, It does not deviate much from the ironically, was acquired by general goals of enterprise M o t o r o l a , w h i c h w a s t h e n security programs to manage acquired by Google. security and device management. Moss jokes that he has been The only difference between 3LM demoted twice. "I work for a and its RIM counterparts is that it wholly-owned subsidiary of a is a lot harder to lock down wholly-owned subsidiary," Moss Android than it is BlackBerry. said to ReadWriteWeb at CTIA in "What is new and exciting about San Diego yesterday. Moss's enterprise mobility is that it is vision for enterprise mobility is really moving past telephony and m o r e c o m p r e h e n s i v e a n d email," Moss said. "That is advanced than any other singular e s s e n t i a l l y w h a t e n t e r p r i s e solution that can be found on the mobility was -- making calls and market. sending work emails and maybe a Sponsor couple calendar contacts that were "iOS has a consistent story across just an extension of the email." d e v i c e s . B l a c k B e r r y h a s a 3LM provides Android devices consistent story across devices. with full encryption for device Android does not," Moss said. memory and the SD card. It can "So, even if an OEM makes a white list/blacklist applications really secure one device or even access to corporate resources and three or four devices, they will be provides both selective and full competing with IT and talk about device remote-wiping capabilities. this, that and the other thing. We D o n o t w a n t F a c e b o o k f o r are talking about 10 to 12 new Android sniffing at your corporate Android devices every month. IT data on an employee's device? is not going to be able to keep up 3LM can provide that along with
any way that can be imagined. Be that setting permissions, disabling it or completely erasing it. We have seen MAM services before with companies like App47, but it looks like 3LM gives a much finer layer of control of how enterprise applications are managed in a corporate bring-your-own-device landscape. "App management for us, instead of the object being the device that you are managing, the second the ability to erase that corporate o b j e c t i s t h a t y o u m a n a g e data from afar without actually individual apps," Moss said. "For touching the employees private example, I am an enterprise, I apps. 3LM offer traditional device have a sales team, I want to make management where each device sure that all the sales guys have can provide its own virtual private three corporate apps that we built network (VPN) and be tracked as ... in one setting I can push those a network endpoint. apps overt the air. No user action To a certain extent, this is Mobile necessary." The Challenges Device Management 101. It is not Behind Android what excites Moss but it is what Moss admits that the technical enterprises need as a starting point challenges behind instituting what in mobile security. Yet, that is just 3LM does are not that daunting. the start of what 3LM is doing. The technical solutions exist with M o r e G r a n u l a r i t y : M o b i l e various MDM or BES solutions, Application Management but none have been able to tie the If MDM is the outside-in Android ecosystem together. approach, MAM is the inside-out "iOS has a consistent story across a p p r o a c h . W e h a v e s e e n devices. BlackBerry has a enterprise mobility move passed consistent story across devices. just the MDM solutions as the Android does not," Moss said. nature of mobile data has evolved. "So, even if an OEM makes a A system administrator can reach really secure one device or even into a employee device and three or four devices, they will be manage any application in almost competing with IT and talk about
this, that and the other thing. We are talking about 10 to 12 new Android devices every month. IT is not going to be able to keep up with that. They do not have the resources, especially in a BYOD environment, to look at every new device that is coming from every carrier every month." That is what 3LM has done. The company has 12 Android original equipment manufacturer partners. Moss has convinced these 12 OEMs that it is in their best interest to have a single security vendor platform solution than it is to go it alone. "It really stems more from policy than technology," Moss said. "What we needed to do was explain to our OEM partners that they would each individually sell more Android devices to the enterprise by coming together on a common security platform, which is 3LM, rather than if they were competing individually." Samsung, the largest Android OEM in the ecosystem, is not a partner of 3LM. So far, Samsung is going it alone on the enterprise side with its partners in Cisco and Sybase. If Android really wants to unseat RIM and the iPhone in the enterprise market, it is going to need Samsung to be on board with a unified solution like 3LM. Discuss
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BlackBerry service issues spread to U.S. and Canada

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complaining of e-mails being delayed and sent in batches. One user in the Boston area said he B l a c k B e r r y s u b s c r i b e r s began seeing e-mail delays early throughout the world continued to Wednesday morning. And when experience disruptions in service batches of e-mail arrived, they for a third consecutive day as were about three hours old. problems with Research In Earlier RIM blamed the Motion's equipment in its data disruption to service that affected c e n t e r s a p p e a r s t o n o w b e Europe, the Mideast, India, Latin a f f e c t i n g N o r t h A m e r i c a n America and Africa on a failed subscribers as well. switch and backup. The company Customers using Research In said the problem had been fixed. Motion's BlackBerry smartphones But it also added that it might take in Europe, the Middle East, and some time to work through the Africa experienced an e-mail, backlog of data, which had not yet messaging and Web surfing been sent to subscribers' devices. outage on Monday. The problems E-mail started to trickle in for continued Tuesday with only some users late Tuesday. s p o t t y a c c e s s t o e - m a i l , "Although the system is designed BlackBerry Messenger, and Web. to failover to a backup switch, the At first the problems only affected failover did not function as subscribers mainly in Europe, the previously tested," the company Middle East, India and Africa. explained in a statement on But the issues spread to other Tuesday. "As a result, a large parts of the world including parts backlog of data was generated and of South America. And on we are now working to clear that Wednesday morning customers in backlog and restore normal the U.S. and Canada also began service as quickly as possible. We
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apologize for any inconvenience and we will continue to keep you informed." It's not yet clear clear whether the issues plaguing customers overseas is what is also affecting service in North America. A RIM representative was not available for comment regarding disruptions in the North America. BlackBerry users in Canada and parts of Central and South America also suffered service disruption last month, when RIM's e-mail and messenger services were down. RIM's BlackBerry network architecture is its strength as well as its biggest weakness. Unlike other smartphone platforms, RIM routes all e-mail and messaging traffic through its BlackBerry servers in network operation centers throughout the world. This centralized architecture for the service means that additional encryption and security can be added to the messages that traverse the network. And for
many corporate customers, this added security is the main reason they use the service. But the architecture also means there are single points of failure throughout the network. This means that when there is a major infrastructure disruption, it can affect entire regions of service, potentially knocking out service for tens of millions of customers. By contrast competing smartphones, such as the iPhone and Google Android devices, do not suffer from the same types of outages because there is no single point of failure in the network. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Designer Jlan van der Wiel from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam has created a stool by drawing a magnetised plastic up using several large magnets. Van der Wiel designed a dedicated machine for the task, involving a wooden frame with a set of fifteen plate magnets -- five each exerting their power onto three metal cups -- which could be drawn up and down. Below the magnets is a large, shallow bowl, into which is poured the ferrous plastic material. Continue reading...
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Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices

Daniel P. Dern (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 12:00:00 PM
If you need to access WiFi hotspots or other WiFi services, you know by now that they are plentiful. And while many of them are free, many are fee-based. Rather than paying for each hotspot, consider an aggregator. Hotspot aggregators like can help reduce these costs, by charging a single fee for access to tens of thousands of national and global hotspots (along with providing hotspot-locating and login tools, and additional security). Sponsor The big cheese for aggregated WiFi these days is Boingo.com, offering service for individuals and companies. iPass.com offers access not only to WiFi but also to 3G, Ethernet, and even dialup... but iPass doesn't sell retail to individuals, only to companies and resellers, and the iPass web site doesn't readily burp up resellers catering to the single-
user markets. AT&T and other mobile broadband providers have been partnering with various hotspot providers, e.g., with Starbucks, Panera, McDonalds, offering their broadband customers free WiFi access -- which makes sense, since it removes load from their cellular networks. And some of the wired broadband providers have made deals with WiFi providers for their users. Daniel Dern is an independent technology and business writer, who has written one Internet user guide, and thousands of features, reviews and other articles for various technology and business publications, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief at Internet World magazine, and editor of Byte.com. His blog can be found at http:// www.tryingtechnology.com/ and he can be reached at dern@pair.com. Many-to-most of these are the hotspots that Boingo and iPass are
aggregating; so depending on where you're going, and who your wired or wireless provider is, you may already have access. There used to be bunch of other WiFi, 3G, and dial-up aggregators, but most of them have been cyber-toast for years now. The only likely other suspect I can find is Trustive.com, which offers a mix of pre-paid minutes and monthly subscription plans for WiFi, 3G, and combination. However, Trustive is Europebased; their WiFi map claims less
than 1,600 hot spots in the United States... and their pre-paid minutes plan appears to start at 15 pounds for 150 minutes. While contractless, Boingo has historically had only per-month plans. However, recently Boingo has added additional plans, and additional ways to purchase service. For iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPad Touch), Boingo now offers Boingo Wi-Fi Credits. Boingo Wi -Fi credits is a pre-pay plan... and you purchase credits via your iTunes account -- a one-hour session is $1.99, a ten-pack costs $19.99 and you get you an eleventh credit free. Of course, if you're going to be using several hours of Boingo service, it makes sense to simply buy a month's worth of service, since the mobile plans start at $7.95 per month. Discuss
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grade HD video conferencing application for mobile devices on Tuesday, targeting the growing number of tablets equipped with front-facing cameras. Available for the iPad, the Motorola Xoom,
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impressively loud though unsurprisingly trades volume for clarity at the top end. The Titan seemed reluctant to display as strong a WiFi signal as Android devices on the same wireless network, but had no problems actually maintaining the connection in our experience. HTC suggests users will see up to 410 minutes 3G talktime (up to 710 minutes GSM) or up to 460 hours 3G standby (up to 360 hours GSM) from a single charge of the replaceable 1,600 mAh battery. Given the big screen and the faster processor, we expected the Titan to get breathless midway through the afternoon, but the smartphone surprised us with its longevity. Despite internet use, voice calls, push email being turned on, some photography and use of Bing Maps, we still reached the end of the day without seeing a battery warning. WrapUp The Titan is a phone of surprises. The big display leads you to expect a similarly impressive resolution, but HTC doesnt deliver that; on the flip-side, it also leaves you cautious about
battery life, but the Titan had no trouble there. Windows Phone is still a relatively new OS, but with the Mango update its already impressive. We know some still arent keen on the pared down UI, but Microsofts design language is consistent and a welcome change from what quickly seem overstylized competing platforms. Unfortunately the Windows Phone Marketplace is still a corner store to its rivals superstores, and that shortage of apps remains a turn-off to many. That, and the fact that the Titan may simply be, well, too titanic for some are the biggest issues HTC faces. Still, the company offers the smaller Radar if big isnt your idea of beautiful. Those willing to grapple with the Titan, however, will find plenty to like. Build quality is second to none, the display delivers for multimedia and the camera is certainly one of HTCs best. Windows Phone, meanwhile, remains the smartphone wildcard, but we wouldnt doubt Microsofts commitment to it. Things will see another shake-up when Nokia unveils its first
Windows Phones later this month, but until then the HTC Titan takes a place very near the top of the pile. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com HTC Titan but is it time to change the design? AT&T Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash plus HTC Titan due Q4 Titan Luggages X2 Flash 18 Laptop Case VZW getting UTStarcom XV6800/HTC Titan HTC Titan hands-on [Video] MSI Titan 700 low-cost MiniITX PC Blizzard Entertainment Confirms MMO Codenamed Titan Raining Methane on Titan, Saturns Largest Moon HTC Titan Review is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
CEOs From Evernote, Adly, CloudFlare, Graphic.ly & More Join Advise.me Team
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:00:02 AM
applications from interested companies. Thats 200 more than it had received by the end of Startup accelerator Advise.me is September. 200 every 2 weeks? on a roll, having already increased Not bad, not bad at all. its seed funding size and its The organization will reveal its advising team only a week after first company on Tuesday, but its launch. Today, its adding six a company Advise.me is building more high-profile executives to itself. (Hmm?) Stay tuned. the team, including CEOs from Crunchbase notable startups like Evernote, ADVISE.ME Adly, CloudFlare, Graphic.ly and more. Company: Advise.me Website: Todays new additions include advise.me the following: Advise.mes program is offering Phil Libin, CEO at Evernote a slightly different take on startup Arnie Gullov-Singh, CEO at advising than some of the others Adly in the space. Instead of a Matthew Prince, Co-Founder classroom approach, each startup and CEO at CloudFlare receives one-on-one support from M i c a h B a l d w i n , C E O a team of 2 to 7 industry experts at Graphic.ly who have experience thats Rob Bailey- VP of Business relevant to the startup theyre Development at SimpleGeo paired with. That not only Christian Reber, Founder & improves the quality of the advice CEO at 6Wunderkinder the team can give, but the advisors can also help startups by Advise.me, whose Global connecting founders to the S t a r t u p I n i t i a t i v e p r o g r a m appropriate industry contracts. encourages companies from all Learn more parts of the world to apply, has now received more than 400
Holly Madison's Vegas

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Tagattitude Launches Dear Aunt NFC2.0 Technology (And TUAW: Help me No, Its Not Actually NFC) iMessage my wife
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
provider, but a B2B company that works with telecoms, banks and Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:06:00 AM other financial services providers. Paris-based Tagattitude, an When integrated into their own electronic transactions company, s o l u t i o n s , N F C 2 . 0 u s e s a i s t o d a y a n n o u n c i n g t h e combination of an app, an availability of something it calls inaudible super-sonic signal, and NFC2.0, which is a software- software at the point-of-sale or based NFC-like service. Similar p o i n t - o f - t r a n s a c t i o n . T h e to the technology known as NFC, company currently supports all o r n e a r f i e l d web-connected POS terminals and communication, Tagattitudes is working with NCR to support solution also lets you make ATMs. contactless transactions over short Although you may not have distances. But with NFC2.0, no heard of them, Tagattitude has special hardware is required, and been involved in the financial i t w i l l w o r k o n a n y m a j o r services industry since 2005. The smartphone platform, including company was founded by CEO Android, iOS, RIMs BlackBerry Yves Eonnet, an electronic and Nokias Symbian. banking expert, and Herve The technology is not only Manceron, an expert in telecom. It technically different from NFC, a already has solutions deployed in hardware-based technology, its over 30 countries worldwide, use cases are different as well. In primarily developing markets addition to point-of-sale (POS) where bankless customers pay transactions (the primary focus for for goods at point-of-sale, pay NFC), NFC2.0 can be used for e- each other, or pay their bills using commerce transactions, person-to- their mobile devices. In these p e r s o n p a y m e n t s , i n - a p p cases, the companys patented payments and more. NSDT and TagPay technology is Tagattitude, to be clear, is not a used. With NSDT, audible music, consumer-facing technology not super-sonic audio as on
smartphones, is used to facilitate the transaction. The new NFC2.0 technology has already been integrated into the companys TagPay application (a demo client app is here on iTunes), Tagattitudes mobile payments platform, previously only available for feature phones. Because the companys customers are primarily banks or financial services institutions, theres no change in terms of where financial data is stored. Unlike mobile wallets (NFC or otherwise), your credit card information isnt being saved to your device its on the banks own servers. NFC2.0 (or, in the case of feature phones, NSDT) simply connects your phone to that data using an audio signal. Today, Tagattitude is also making an SDK available to mobile app developers who want to integrate the technology into their own applications, starting with iOS, and soon Android, expected by year-end. The other platforms will be supported by Q1 2012.
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Dear Aunt TUAW, One iMessage"feature" is that messaging can be started on one device and picked up from another device, like from iPhone to iPad. My wife and I share an iTunes account so that we don't have to pay for apps twice, or worry about signing into different accounts. Will sharing an iTunes account across two iPhones mess with our ability to text to each other with iMessage? Thanks! Your loving nephew, Toby Dear Toby, Fear not. Your store account is distinct from your iMessages account. You can create separate Apple IDs for iMessage so you and your wife can pseudo-text back and forth. You will, however, require two email addresses. Select Settings > Messages > Receive At and create a new Apple ID specific to those
addresses. Hugs, Auntie T. Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me iMessage my wife originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Former Salesforce CTO Craig Weissman Joins Benchmark As EIR; Will Focus On Big Data Opportunities
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Peering into EVs (photos)

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Chatter. In fact, Weissman says he built much of Force.com. Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:59:21 AM Prior to Salesforce, Weissman After Accel nabbed Salesforce worked at data warehousing and exec and Chatter creator Chuck enterprise company Epiphany, He Ganapathi as EIR a few months was one of the early engineers and ago, another Salesforce exec is w a s t h e a r c h i t e c t o f t h e heading to the venture world. c o m p a n y s m e t a d a t a a n d Craig Weissman, Salesforces configuration system and a f o r m e r C T O , i s j o i n i n g designer of its query engine. In Benchmark Capital as its latest fact, it was Weissmans work at Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Epiphany that first caught Weissman, whose focus on Benchmark General Partner Peter B e n c h m a r k w i l l b e i n t h e Fentons eye. enterprise and big data space, has Fenton says that for the EIR been working in enterprise position, the firm is bullish on software for the past 16 years. For bringing in great technical, the past eight years, Weissman hungry founders and talent and has been a key engineering lead p r o v i d i n g t h e m w i t h t h e for the CRM giant, joining the autonomy and resources to create company when it only had 10 a company of importance. For developers in 2002. example, current Facebook CTO As CTO, Weissman oversaw the and former Googler Brett Taylor technical direction of all of was an EIR at Benchmark when S a l e s f o r c e . c o m s p r o d u c t s he began to develop FriendFeed. including the enterprise Cloud Fenton says that Weissman fits Computing platform Force.com as this mold perfectly, brining well as the companys other e x t e n s i v e i n s i g h t i n t o t h e products Sales Cloud, Service architectures of software and C l o u d , D a t a b a s e . c o m , a n d modern cloud-based applications.
Not only will Weissman be able to create a valuable new company, he explains, but his experience and knowledge will also be immediately valuable to the majority of our portfolio companies. As for what Weissman plans to develop, he says that as a data guy hes inherently interested in exploring how companies can use data more strategically. Theres a new class of applications based on data warehousing technology, and most enterprise software revolves around a database, he explains. There are a number of areas where innovation is possible, says Weissman, including where this data is located and what will allow the enterprise to process massive amounts of data. Specifically, Weissman says that he is intrigued by the vertical approach to creating a company, and is exploring ways in which these data technologies can be used in particular areas of the enterprise.
question the industry is facing is whether and when a broader set of drivers will start to buy plug-in The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf vehicles beyond early adopters. are the vanguard of a wave of October 12, 2011 7:43 AM PDT plug-in electric vehicles coming Photo by: Martin LaMonica/ to market over the next several CNET years. Early next year will see the | Caption by: Martin LaMonica arrival of the Plug-in Prius and the This entry passed through the Ford Fusion Electric and then Full-Text RSS service if this is there is the recently announce all- your content and you're reading it electric 2013 Chevy Spark. See on someone else's site, please read related article: EVs meet the 'real the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentcar' test with ease. only/faq.php#publishers. Five How are the sales of the Volt and Filters featured article: A 'Malign Leaf? So far, the two companies Intellectual Subculture' - George have sold less than 10,000 units, M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , but executives from GM and Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Nissan expect to sell out the first Media Lens. two years of production. The
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Well-known anti-communist activist dies in Romania (AP)

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Submitted at 10/12/2011 5:06:36 AM
communist activist who helped Romania's push toward democracy, has died. He was 94.
AP - Ion Diaconescu, an anti-
Pop culture charts

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iPad mini offers small price not small screen tips analyst
Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:09:30 AM
and talking with component suppliers there are rumblings of a cheaper, not smaller, iPad mini Here we go, the furor over the for 2012. White expects that the iPhone 4S isnt yet done and cheaper iPad will land during the already the next round of Apple first few months of 2012 and be rumors are floating by. The latest followed later by a feature rich rumor isnt of the next iPhone, but iPad 3. of a future iPad that is supposedly White has stated that the coming to fight the Kindle Fire expectation is that the iPad mini a n d i t s $ 1 9 9 p r i c e p o i n t . would come in somewhere in the According to this rumor there is mid to high $200 range. We an iPad mini coming in 2012. The wonder if the iPad mini may be source is specific on the mini something like an iPad 2 with though. 8GB of storage with the iPad 3 According to Brian white, an coming for the high market. This a n a l y s t w i t h T i c o n d e r o g a is what Apple does with the securities who has been touring iPhone 4 and 4S for instance. That Chinese manufacturing faculties said, the original iPad didnt stay
yet functional MP3 player Asus Nova P22 small 2-liter PC NewerTech debuts Guardian Maximus mini RAID solution Lian Li trots out PC-Q11 mini chassis Oversized iPod touch PMP/ tablet hybrid tipped ahead of iPad 3 iPad production on track, claim Apple suppliers iPad mini offers small price not small screen tips analyst is written by Shane McGlaun& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
around after the iPad 2 surfaced any longer than it took to clear stock. [ via AppleInsider] Relevant Entries on
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RIM working to fix BlackBerry network crash 'as quickly as possible'

Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:43:00 AM
BlackBerry creator Research in Motion has said that the ongoing network blackout -- which has entered its third day -- was the
result of a switch failure and the company is working to "restore normal service as quickly as possible." BlackBerry services like email and BBM (an instant messenger
India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina late Monday 10 October. RIM told frustrated users that the problem was cleared the service) initially went down in following morning, but the issues Europe, the Middle East, Africa, continued unabated. Continue
reading...
Feel Good Lost [Video]

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Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:00:00 AM
I'd never heard of Broken Social Scene's Feel Good Lost until our friends at Revision 3 (those guys
who help us with the Lifehacker Show) recommended it, but a quick jaunt through the album
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Best Buy to offer full iPhone 4S lineup

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and Verizon Wireless. Preorders started last Friday, while the phone itself will go on Best Buy is offering the iPhone sale at Best Buy stores and other 4S in all models across all three outlets this coming Friday, carriers.(Credit: Best Buy) October 14. Apple's iPhone 4S has already But the retailer is also offering a secured a home for itself on the carrot stick to customers who'd be shelves at Best Buy. perfectly happy with an older The retail chain's iPhone 4S Web model iPhone. page shows that it will sell all An 8GB iPhone 4 can be picked three flavors of the new phone up for $99 with a two-year (16GB, 32GB, and 64GB) at the c o n t r a c t . T h e 8 G B 3 G S i s standard retail prices of $199, supposed to be free on contract, $299, and $399, respectively, and according to TechCrunch and in both black and white. Best Buy other tech news sites. But Best will also offer prospective iPhone Buy's Web page currently shows 4 buyers a choice among the three it as selling for $49. We've major carriers--AT&T, Sprint, reached out to BB to confirm the
Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:11:26 AM
3GS price. Though the iPhone 4S disappointed many who were eagerly anticipating an iPhone 5, that hasn't stopped people from
ordering the phone in droves. First -day preorders hit a record of 1 million, compared with 600,000 for the iPhone 4. Sprint sold out of the 16GB iPhone 4S only a few
days after the preordering started. Best Buy joins retail rival Target in selling the new phone. But Target is trying to lure in customers by offering a credit for those who trade in their iPhone 4 or 3GS for the iPhone 4S. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
AshPuppie burns your dogs turds to ash

Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:31:18 AM
I have heard of some crap concept products before, but this one is seriously crappy. The product is called the AshPuppie and it comes from a firm called Paulee CleanTec. I am sure this is a gag of some sort, but on the chance its real and the fact that its literally a product for dealing with turds Im totally writing about it. We used to have a dog long ago and picking up the poo from in the yard was a job I loathed. I dont care if there is a bag
between your hand and the poo, its still disgusting to have to pick it up. The AshPuppie(if that is its name, the maker calls the thing AshPoopie at times) scoops the poo for you and then you press a button and turns into odorless ash. This has to be fake, it uses some sort of capsule to burn the poo according to the description. Granted this is a concept product so it may be far enough out there that it has a little nuclear reactor inside to burn the poo. The company says that it will come to market by Q1 2012. [ via Dvice] Relevant Entries on
makes cooking hotdogs a little easier The Sun Pod, bake away all that pretty skin with style Touch & Glide Iron by Oliso AshPuppie burns your dogs turds to ash is written by Shane McGlaun& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved. SlashGear.com SG Comics Presents: Angry Turds No Vibrating Pet Massager for my dogs! Coming Soon: Monty Python Cow Tossing for your iPhone Another coffee warmer/cooler hits the market! The Hotdoll; your puppys new sex doll The Hot Diggity Dogger
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AirPort Utility for iOS is a network admin's dream

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:00:00 AM
Over the years, I've run the AirPort Utility on my Mac more times than I've wanted to. Usually I'm at a client's office, trying to troubleshoot a network issue. Now life has just gotten a bit easier for network admins -- the AirPort Utility for iOS(free) is now available on the App Store. The app is designed to manage all Apple Wi-Fi network base stations, including the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule. If you're used to using the AirPort Utility for Mac, then you'll have no issues at all with the new iOS utility. The design is extremely simple and easy to understand. When you launch the app, you're immediately greeted with a
diagram depicting the Internet and any base stations on your network. Tap any specific base station to begin; you must enter any passwords that you're using to protect the device (you DO have passwords set up, don't you?).
Once you've done that, life is good. As you'll see in the gallery, there's a ton of information you can view and edit. I won't go into too many details about the utility, but be sure to take a look at the gallery to see everything that you can accomplish. Basically, it's everything you can do with the Mac app, neatly distilled into a very usable and comprehensive tool. Well done, Apple! Gallery: AirPort Utility for iOS AirPort Utility for iOS is a network admin's dream originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Heart-Wrenching Children Canvases - The Jonathan Darby Artworks Have a Strong Cultural Message (TrendHunter.com)
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One-of-a-kind ejector seat office chair

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Report suggests Android app downloads will overtake iPhone by summer

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:30:00 AM
June 2012 is the date that monthly Android App downloads will exceed monthly iOS app downloads says Xyologic, a German company that indexes both the Android Market and iOS App Store. Currently, iOS has about 1.45 billion downloads each month, while Android has 640 million. Assuming Android continues its meteoric rise and iOS's growth stabilizes, both platforms will have a staggering 3.2 billion downloads per month in June 2012. At this point,
Android will begin to eclipse iOS. Xyologic also predicts Android will surpass iOS in the total number of downloads sometime in mid-2013. Predictions like this are fun to
ponder, but you have to remember they are based on the assumption that Android will continue to climb exponentially and iOS will slow down slightly. This may not be the case. Google is
increasingly facing legal action over Android and is rumored to have delayed the rollout of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich due to patent issues. If Google is stymied from introducing important upgrades in a timely manner, then it will not have the momentum to surpass iOS. Report suggests Android app downloads will overtake iPhone by summer originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
The Difference Between Novices and Experts [SelfAssessment]

Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:30:00 AM
If you'd like some confirmation or at least indication that you're growing in expertise, take a look at the kind of feedback you most respond to and look for. One study found that as we go from novice to expert, we start focusing on more negative feedback. More
European Markets Go Nuts As EFSF Ratification Looks Assured

Simone Foxman (Money Game)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:57:13 AM
European markets were up across the board today, as Slovakia's opposition party leader announced that he had struck a deal with the failed government to pass a plan
to expand the European Financial Stability Facility. DAX: 2.02% CAC 40: 2.42% FTSE 100: 2.36% French banks also posted big gains off the news, perhaps on the hope that they could be recipients
of an EFSF bank recapitalization plan. SocGen: 6.09% Credit Agricole: 2.59% BNP Paribas: 5.67% The euro rose 1.10% against the dollar today. Please follow Money Game on
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Republican Debate a "Nine-Dimensional Truth-Stretching Wonder"; Perry and the "Pinocchio Test"
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Mitt Romney, as president would take it upon himself to label China a currency manipulator, with all the bad Submitted at 10/12/2011 1:29:00 AM Tuesday evening I had the consequences thereof. displeasure of watching the Mitt Romney repeated his Republican debate. Here are the pledge for a strong military which lowlights. of course means wasting more money we do not have on Herman Cain touted his "9-9-9" p e r p e t u a l w a r - m o n g e r i n g . economic tax plan at every Everyone treated Perry as if he conceivable opportunity as if was irrelevant (which he probably nothing else mattered. is given numerous recent bouts Most of the other candidates with foot-in-mouth disease). trashed "9-9-9" at every chance, However, irrelevant is better than enough to make the debate a "nine ignored. Perry (unlike Paul) got to -dimensional wonder". speak. He just never said anything Mitt Romney sounded like worth hearing. "Slick Willie" tiptoeing around Obamacare, for and against it. Romneys Advisers Met With Romney would abolish Obama to Help Craft Obamacare even though his plan O b a m a c a r e while Governor of Massachusetts Fox news reports Romneys was the basis for Obamacare. Advisers Met With Obama to Ron Paul seldom got to speak. Help Craft Obamacare It was as if he did not exist. When Three of Mitt Romneys advisers he did speak, in the candidate-to- went to the White House at least a candidate questioning, Ron Paul dozen times in 2009 to consult on had his facts wrong about things t h e f o r m e r M a s s a c h u s e t t s Cain said about the Fed. Cain governors health care plan that blasted Paul in response. President Obama used as a model In a moment that should be for his initiative -- now a federal enough to make anyone with law that all the Republican economic sense keel over in presidential candidates want to a g o n y , C a i n p r a i s e d A l a n repeal. Greenspan. Good grief. White House spokesman Josh
by $1 trillion, while Texas Governor Perry said he would make America energy independent. Former pizza executive Herman Cain pledged Earnest told reporters Tuesday he to present a balanced budget a was "not in a position to comment year after taking office. on specific meetings." But in a Those are among the statements remark that won't help Romney in by the White House contenders h i s p u r s u i t f o r t h e 2 0 1 2 that strayed from the truth as the Republican nomination, Earnest candidates sought to distinguish repeated that Obama took cues themselves on jobs and the f r o m t h e M a s s a c h u s e t t s economy, the focus of the debate legislation. at Dartmouth College in Hanover, Romney also worked closely New Hampshire, sponsored by with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy B l o o m b e r g N e w s a n d T h e on the Massachusetts health care Washington Post. Bloomberg plan and Kennedy was the lead cites more truth-stretching than I author of the national legislation. can excerpt, but the article is K e n n e d y h a d s a i d t h a t t h e worth a read. Romney plan was a model for the How Accurate is Rick Perrys national one. Republicans Stretch New Ad about RomneyCare? Truth in Debate The Fact Checker investigates Bloomberg reports Republicans Rick Perrys new ad about Mitt Stretch Truth in Debate Salvos on Romney and RomneyCare Jobs, Health Care Texas Gov. Rick Perry launched Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and the an ad Monday attacking Mitt other Republican presidential Romney on the healthcare-reform candidates stretched the truth on law that not so affectionately health care, job creation and the b e a r s h i s n a m e a m o n g deficit in a debate last night as conservatives. The overall theme they attacked each other and of the ad--that Romneys health President Barack Obama. care law is intellectual father of Romney, a former Massachusetts Obamas law--is correct. But then governor, said Obamas health- it goes even further than that. care law would increase spending The ad, strikingly similar to a
Hollywood movie trailer in terms of its quality and dramatic effect, paints RomneyCare as an economic disaster similar to the way conservatives portray Obamas national healthcare law. (Much of Obamas law has not been implemented yet, so that is a bit premature.) The ad also flashes images of Obama, Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, delivering an almost subliminal message that Romney is akin to those liberal icons. Weve already scrutinized Perrys attack on the Romney book edits, so we wont spend any more time on that. Suffice it to say we awarded three Pinocchios to the Texas governor for manufacturing a phony issue. The Perry campaign deceives the audience by chopping off the footage at exactly the right moment from the Dec. 16, 2007 interview on Meet the Press. If the campaign had aired a few more seconds of the interview, viewers would hear Romney reject a national mandate and jump into his usual spiel about states tackling rising health care costs through reform plans of their own. REPUBLICAN page 38
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The Pinocchio Test Perrys ad relies on a pair of studies from a group with a predictable agenda: fighting new taxes and healthcare reform. That doesnt mean the reports are false, but it does suggest theyre slanted. Its not the worst sin a candidate could commit, and in fact is fairly typical in these kinds of attack ads. But the Texas governor also gets bad marks for his deceptive use of the snippets from Romneys book and interview with Russert. Much as Romney dislikes to admit it, his law helped set the intellectual underpinings of Obamas law. But Perry puts his foot on the scale by manipulating the Russert video and recycling the discredited material about Romneys book. We dont do half -Pinocchios, but the ad leans more toward three than two Pinocchios. Three Pinocchios Significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions. For an explanation of the Pinocchio Scale, please see About the Fact Checker The debate itself was painful enough to watch. A little factchecking after the debate made the debate even more distasteful. Governor Veto Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico, and arguably the
best Republican candidate for president, was not invited to the debate. Johnson served as governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, where he made a name for himself as a staunch libertarian. His antiinterventionist foreign policy, his support for gay rights (he has said he supports gay unions, suggesting the government shouldn't be involved in marriage at all), and his support for marijuana legalization have drawn comparisons to Republican Rep. Ron Paul, another possible 2012 presidential contender. While his position on those issues sets him apart from most other candidates, Johnson holds up his record as governor of New Mexico as proof of his smallgovernment, fiscal conservative credentials. He pointed out in his statement today within two terms as governor, he erased New Mexico's budget deficit and reduced the state workforce by over 10 percent. "Saying no to waste, corruption and political games is easier than you think," Johnson said. He also pointed to his record of vetoing hundreds of bills that passed through the New Mexico legislature, which earned him the nickname "Governor Veto." That nickname, coincidentally,
draws another comparison to Paul, who's known in the House as "Dr. No" for voting against so many bills. "America needs a 'President Veto' right now," Johnson said in his statement today, "someone who will say 'no' to insane spending and stop the madness that has become Washington." Wikipedia offers these facts on Gary Johnson. Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, former Governor of New Mexico, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, and is known for his low-tax libertarian views and his regular participation in triathlons. Founder of one of New Mexico's largest construction companies, Johnson entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 on a conservative, low-tax, anti-crime platform. He beat incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King by 50% to 40%. He cut the 10% annual growth in the budget by using his gubernatorial veto on half of bills in the first six months. His use of the veto over his two terms gained him the nickname
"Governor Veto". He sought re-election in 1998, winning by 55% to 45%. In his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms, as well as campaigning for marijuana decriminalization. During his tenure as governor, he adhered strictly to an anti-tax, anti -bureaucracy program, and set state and national records for his use of veto powers: more than the other 49 contemporary governors put together. Term-limited, Johnson could not run for reelection at the end of his second term. A fitness enthusiast, Johnson has taken part in several Ironman Triathlons, and he climbed Mount Everest in May 2003. He announced his candidacy for President on April 21, 2011. Instead of someone like Ron Paul or Gary Johnson we face a possibility of disastrous foreign policy decisions by Mitt Romney. For details on the major mistake Romney's trade wars would bring, please see ... Trade War Threat Looms Once Again; Senate Takes Up Bill to Punish China for Manipulating Currency; How Many Jobs Would Tariffs Create? Ben Bernanke Fans Fires of Protectionist Legislation to Senate Joint Economic Committee;
Expect Global Depression if Obama Signs On This country desperately needs an anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy, antipublic-union candidate who will bring the troops home and otherwise let people make their own lifestyle choices in peace. We have two potential candidates, Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, but neither has a chance. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Slovak Prime Minister Threatened to Resign if EFSF Failed to Pass; It Failed to Pass, What's Next?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
blocked by the libertarian Freedom and Solidarity party. Its leader led by Richard Sulik, who has made clear his distaste for a Submitted at 10/11/2011 10:44:00 PM Iveta Radicova, prime minister of bailout he feels will be costly to Slovak said she was prepared to Slovakia, the second-poorest step down if her coalition failed to member of the eurozone, and end approve the EFSF. The vote up helping wealthier Greece, a failed. OK prime minister, how c o u n t r y h e s a y s i s s i m p l y about that resignation? bankrupt and unable to repay any The Financial Times reports aid. Slovak PM in quit threat over Speaking before Monday's eurozone vote. Slovakia's prime m e e t i n g o f t h e f o u r - p a r t y minister on Monday threatened to coalition, Mr Sulik said that his resign in a last-ditch attempt to party had not shifted its longpersuade a junior coalition partner standing opposition to the EFSF, to back additional powers for the and that he would not feel eurozone's 440bn bailout fund. responsible if the government fell Iveta Radicova said she was over the issue. Without his 21 w i l l i n g t o t i e a p p r o v a l o f MPs, the coalition does not have enhancements to the European enough votes in the 150-seat financial stability facility to a parliament to vote through the confidence motion ahead of a EFSF extension. c r u c i a l v o t e i n t h e S l o v a k "A responsible decision is now parliament on Tuesday. Officials needed on how to proceed next," told the Slovak news agency that Ms Radicova, leader of the centreshe was also prepared to step right coalition, told reporters. If down if her coalition failed to Ms Radicova fails to secure Mr approve the EFSF. Sulik's support, the government Talks aimed at breaking the could turn for help to Robert Fico, political deadlock in Bratislava the leader of the left-wing over the bailout fund broke down opposition SMER party, who has o n M o n d a y e v e n i n g . said he would support EFSF, but Parliamentary approval is being at the price of the government
dissolving itself. Slovakia Votes Down EFSF Expansion Plans The BBC reports Slovakia votes down eurozone bailout expansion plans Slovakia's parliament has voted against measures to bolster the powers of the eurozone bailout fund, seen as vital in combating the bloc's debt crisis. The governing coalition had linked the vote to a confidence motion and as a result has effectively been toppled. The measure failed to pass by 21 votes, but that result had been anticipated after a junior party in the centre-right coalition said it would abstain. The Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party said it was opposed to Slovakia's taxpayers being asked to cover the debts of richer countries. Many Slovaks feel their country the second poorest in the eurozone - should not have to bail out countries like Greece. Government officials said they would try to pass the EFSF expansion package in a second vote with support from the opposition, but no date has been fixed for that vote.
The socialist opposition Smer party - which also abstained - is expected to support the move but may make stringent demands including fresh elections. Following the vote, Smer said it was up to the four parties in the toppled coalition to approach it with offers. "We're saying 'no' to a rightist government, but we're saying 'yes' to the rescue fund," Smer leader Robert Fico said during the debate. Rob Cameron at BBC news offers this opinion: As one by one the rest of the eurozone ratified the proposals and the debt crisis deepened, most of the coalition came around. Except Richard Sulik, leader of the neoliberal Freedom and Solidarity party, and his 21 MPs. Some placed their hopes in Robert Fico, former prime minister and leader of the leftist opposition. But Mr Fico sensed an opportunity to wound and perhaps bring down the government, hastening early elections he is likely to win. What will happen next? A second vote will probably be held within days. With Mr Ficos's support that vote is likely to succeed. Finland
caved in on collateral demands. Slovak will likely cave in as well. It would be fitting if Slovak stands in the way, but I doubt it does. However, I suspect this is the end of the line for Eurozone bailout increases, at least bailouts that require a vote. There is simply too much opposition everywhere to do any more. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Russia's Capital Flight CITI: We Just Checked Problem Is Worse Out Hong Kong Women, Than You Think And This Is What We Saw
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It appears that, as Julia Ioffe wrote in Foreign Policy a couple of weeks ago, this capital flight Mamta Badkar (Money Game) significant leading insights into luxury brands." Russia's capital flight problem and lack of investment may be the positive and negative brand Source: Citi Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:53:00 AM traction can be garnered through And the 130 women interviewed was shown to be worse than real problem in Russia at the Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui is local residents themselves, not wanted more lifestyle brands in previously thought last week moment. The money from natural when the Central Bank showed resources within Russia will only t h e f o u r t h f a s t e s t g r o w i n g l e a s t d u e t o t h e h i g h Hong Kong shopping district in the world and sophistication of the HKSAR Shoppers wanted more stores the 2011 total had reached $49.3 go so far -- and members of the elite are starting to notice. is a shopping destination in the consumer. " from Abercrombie & Fitch, GAP, billion. region. So retailers keep an eye on HKSAR - Hong Kong Special H&M, Zara, Marks & Spencer, Now, Igor Yurgens, Chairman of Please follow Europe on Twitter shopping trends in the region. Administrative Region UNIQLO, Accessorize, American the Management Board at the and Facebook. Citi analysts went to Hong Kong Source: Citi Eagle, Club Monaco, and French I n s t i t u t e f o r C o n t e m p o r a r y Join the conversation about this D e v e l o p m e n t ( I C D ) , h a s story and found that mainland tourists 54.5% of women interviewed Connection. confirmed that he feels the figure See Also: are as likely to drive local retail as prefer shopping in malls to Source: Citi the locals. independent stores See the rest of the story at for 2011 will be $60 billion in WHAT?! Aide Admits Putin capital outflow, rather than the Didn't Find Priceless Greek They interviewed 130 female " Our respondents preferred to Business Insider Treasure Hong Kong residents about their shop mostly in Central district Please follow Money Game on $30 billion predicted. Y u r g e n s , s p e a k i n g i n a n Chechen Leader Throws Lavish prospective purchases. They malls (54.5%), and this didnt Twitter and Facebook. interview with Valdai Club, Birthday Party With Jean-Claude found their favorite brands based seem to fit at all with some local See Also: on packaging, and in-store brands strategies of having Liz Claiborne Sells Namesake points towards Russia's instability Van Damme And Hilary Swank experience. But more importantly, independent stores in more out-of- Brand to J.C. Penney for $288M as a reason investors choose to HAPPY BIRTHDAY VLAD: they were very likely to buy the-way locations. Clearly, being Citi Presents The Complete take money out of the country, in How Putin's Biggest Fans Have luxury goods over the next year, located in shopping malls has a Economic Outlook For The Entire particular the lack of a predictable Celebrated His Birthday tax burden, quality human capital despite the economic doom and significant impact on margins, World gloom. Here's an excerpt. Hong although again given that we The 15 Stocks That Everyone Is and skilled labor. Kong is still the go-to retail center clearly identified one retail market Shorting Right Now for luxury goods in Asia rather than luxury goods vs. "Received wisdom heralds the lifestyle, we would think that the Mainland tourist as the driver of opportunistic lifestyle retailer local retail, but we argue that would be keen to be amongst the
Majority of FTSE 100 firms ignore 'women on boards' targets

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The majority of Britain's biggest companies have so far ignored calls to set targets for boosting the
number of women they have on according to experts. their boards - increasing the risk of mandatory EU quotas,
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Daiquiri Recipe
hand into something palatable. Then, legend has it, Cox Krist introduced the drink to an Articles) American Navy admiral. This was the time of the Spanish-American swanksalot/ Flickr" /> War, and the Navy had a base It's the weekend, which means near Daiquiri. The admiral we're back at the bar with introduced the drink to his AskMen's resident bartenders, military drinking buddies and Josh and Luke. They're both other assorted bigwigs back in skilled at their trade, but between Washington D.C.The drink caught them runs the age-old schism of on among the political set and was bartending: Should you drink the finally made popular for the "original" version or a recent mainstream in Havanas El innovation? We won't pick sides, Floridita bar a few decades later. but it's worth doing lots of Fast forward to the 1940s, when experimenting to figure out who's friendly relations with Cuba, a right. josh, the traditionalist: The ration on homegrown grains best way to drink rum Rum, lime because of WWII and the rise of juice, sugar: Does it get more tropical chic all conspired to make Caribbean than that? Of course, the Daiquiri de rigueur.Famous many Daiquiris these days contain Daiquiri lovers include men-ofice, but back when British sailors many-appetites JFK and Ernest were fighting off boredom and Hemingway, who supposedly scurvy, fresh water was the only downed 16 Daiquiris in one thing theyd add to their sitting at the El Floridita. punch.Necessity is the mother Although too much usually isnt o f i n v e n t i o n , a n d w i t h t h e enough for us, we cant imagine Daiquiri, its hard to think of a what kind of sour stomach Papa drink that better combines easily H e m i n g w a y h a d t h e n e x t found local ingredients -- if morning.See, despite the sugary youre in the tropics, at least. The concoctions sold at tourist bars aforementioned sailors used the today, the perfect Daiquiri is a sugar and lime juice to make their balance of tangy lime, the sharp bad rum drinkable and get a good sweetness of rum and the sugar d o s e o f v i t a m i n C i n t h e that mellows it all. Some say any process.The first time this drink kind of rum is good for a Daiquiri, was actually called a Daiquiri was but we say clear is best. Besides, in early 1800s Cuba when an most rum thats not clear has A m e r i c a n m i n i n g e n g i n e e r coloring that doesnt belong in a (Jenning Cox) living near Daiquiri booze bottle in the first place.If Beach either copied the local rum you want to get all sophisticated, cocktail or mixed what was on we like the rhum agricole out of
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Martinique -- Neisson and JM are solid choices. Theyre a little sharper and more angular than many rums but go superbly with the lime and take to the sugar like theyre going home again. At this point, youre basically drinking a TiPunch (short for petit punch), the French take on the Daiquiri.No matter what you call it, drunken sailors, Ernest Hemingway and drunken politicians cant be wrong. The Daiquiri in its purest form is the best way there is to drink rum. Classic Daiquiri 1 1/2 oz light rum 3/4 oz lime juice 1/4 oz sugar syrupCombine all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake and pour into a cocktail glass. luke, the radical: trust the experts (like Hemingway) It's interesting that Josh brings up Hemingway's sour stomach in singing the praises of the traditional Daiquiri, because it was actually the old boy's gastric health that led to one of the most important improvements
in the cocktail's history, the development of the Hemingway Daiquiri.While the Hemingway Daiquiri is not a recent innovation, it's not as widely known as it should be, as your average drinker probably still thinks of a Daiquiri as a cloyingly sweet, beach-resort-style frivolity. So I'd say it counts as nontraditional for our purposes here. It's the version of the Daiquiri you're likely to be served at better craft cocktail bars, however, and there's nothing very complicated about it, so you can easily replicate it at home.As the story goes, in the 1940s, Hemingway contracted diabetes, likely from his, well, Hemingwayesque appetites. As a result, drinking so much sugar in his favorite drink started to seem like a bad idea, which is probably the only healthy decision that dude ever made. His bartender at El Floridita in Havana devised a version of the cocktail that would
solve the sugar problem by substituting in Maraschino liqueur, giving it a less sugary sweetness and a more complex, nutty character, and balancing the lime with grapefruit juice for a less sour, but still fresh and bitter, citrus component. Easier on the pipes, yes, but also a lot more interesting on the palate.Another added bonus to this version is that it's typically served strained into a coupe glass, as opposed to over crushed ice, which in my opinion is just a waste of glass space, and too often ends up making a drink too cold and watery. Nonetheless, frozen versions of many cocktails are coming back into fashion of late, so you can play around with ice to your taste. But it's important to make sure if that you're using really cold stuff that won't dilute the drink and not letting the water overpower the ingredients you really want to be focusing on.If you consider yourself in Hemingway's drinking class (and who doesn't from time to time), you'll want to ask for a Papa Doble, which is essentially just a version of this cocktail with double the rum. Hemingway Daiquiri 2 oz white rum oz grapefruit juice oz Maraschino liqueur oz lime juiceShake with ice and strain into a coupe glass. Continue Reading
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Sexual Confidence: Doc Chaves

Dr. Hernando Chaves (AskMen Latest Articles)
Sexual Confidence And Sealing The Deal Dr. Chaves, After a long and difficult relationship and breakup, I have come to a low point in my life. My problem is I haven't had sex in a very long time and now I am gun shy and have no confidence. I have had several occasions where I could've sealed the deal but haven't pursued them because I am worried about making a fool of myself. I don't know what to do to get my confidence back and was wondering if you had any advice.Thanks,Sam Forget penis size, money and power. The real deal when it comes to being sexually attractive to women is confidence. Its an intoxicating aphrodisiac many women respond to. Im glad youre looking at your confidence level and willing to make changes to get there. I wont lie to you: gaining confidence is a tough but worthwhile fight. First off, ask yourself what has given you confidence in the past. There has to be something -- an activity, a talent, a hobby, a personal
attribute or strength. Make a list of these things, expose yourself to them and remind yourself or who you really are and the areas youve felt confident in. Its time to harness that confident energy from all those past possibilities. You dont find confidence in a can (sorry, beer drinkers and fans of liquid courage); you have to get out there are create confidence. Ive found that receiving positive feedback from these confidencebuilding activities also lifts our self-esteem. Achievement creates confidence. Success creates confidence. In addition, challenge yourself in ways that build your self-worth. Start working out and notice that as your physique improves, so does the perception of yourself. Those endorphin and physiological boosts help our mental and physical outlook, too. Its not just our body; our minds can use improvement. Think selfhelp books. Challenge yourself with simple yet obtainable goals and highlight your success. Maybe you overcame your karaoke fear or did some public speaking. All I know is, confidence comes in mysterious ways. Also, ask your friends to help out. Every once in a while,
a professional. Theyre simply obstacles and roadblocks to confidence. It never hurts to brush up on your sex technique either. Knowing ways to please women through unique oral skills, finger magic or intercourse can increase how you feel about yourself in the bedroom. Ive read so many books on sex that the issue of performance is no longer something on my mind before sex. Be well prepared. One visualization technique Ive used with clients is having them Ill turn to a colleague or a friend mention you had opportunities but imagine and process sexual for a little confidence boost and didnt seal the deal. Try to interactions. I have them visualize support. An answer to a simple forget about sealing deals and romantic interludes, specific question like "What do you like focus on the success you had -- sexual behaviors or hardabout me?" or "Why am I your namely, that she enjoyed your p o u n d i n g s e x c a p a d e s i n friend?" can go a long way, company, wanted to sleep with preparation for the real thing. Just assuming they do like you and you and that you spent a good remember to visualize successes give you a positive answer. I amount of time connecting with and positive sexual interactions learned early on that certain someone on a positive level. On a to maximize the confidence you people are better to ask than self-growth level, its time to stop gain. Im sure that once you take others. For example, asking these avoiding the roots of your the plunge and play hide the tip questions to my booze-guzzling confidence issue and get deep into again, youll dive right in and guy friends usually backfires the core of your fears. Is it pick up where you left off: as a when compared to a female performance anxiety? Fearful of sex-loving guy.What does Doc friend, a woman who is interested not getting or maintaining an Chaves recommend for reader No. in dating me or an articulate erection? Are you afraid of 2? That's next... colleague. So far, we havent g e t t i n g a t t a c h e d o r h u r t Continue Reading mentioned a lick about sex emotionally? Get these fears out because sexual confidence often of your mind and process them, begins outside the bedroom. You either by yourself, with a friend or
Hundreds march against 'corporate greed' in New York City

Telegraph Staff (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march up New York's Fifth and Park Avenues to
protest against corporations and banks profiting from the financial crisis.
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Amazing animal-inspired inventions!

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green, efficient form of building in Africa. Submitted at 10/12/2011 6:18:00 PM Termites live in termitaria Join BBC Earth on Facebook for towering nests commonly called exclusive content or to join our anthills. The ability of termites fantastic nature discussions! to control the temperature in these Last week, BBC Earth joined in mounds has led to the building of the global celebration of World one of the most green examples of Animal Day 2011. This got us architecture in the world. thinking about some of the The Eastgate Centre in Harare, amazing things animals do and Zimbabwe, has no conventional what weve learnt from nature. air conditioning or heating but Heres a blog post from last year temperature is controlled year that talks about just that round using techniques from the A m a z i n g a n i m a l - i n s p i r e d termites. inventions Inside the mounds termites farm By Arj Singh a fungus, which is their primary Passive Cooling An office source of food, and it must be building inspired by termite kept at 87 degrees F while the mounds temperature outside can range The best way to save our planet from 35 degrees F at night and might be to learn from the animals 105 degrees F during the day. that have lived here harmoniously Amazingly, the termites manage with it for millions of years to do this by constantly opening The humble termite may still and closing heating and cooling pose a threat to wooden buildings, vents in the mound over the but their home has inspired a new, course of a day. The hard-working
termites are constantly opening new vents and closing old ones to keep the temperature regulated. The mainly concrete Eastgate Centre works in a similar way. Outside air that is drawn in is either warmed or cooled by the building mass depending on which is hotter, the building itself or the air. It is then vented into the buildings floors and offices before exiting via chimneys at the top. Eastgate uses less than 10 per cent of the energy of a normal building of its size, and the owners have saved $3.5 million just because they didnt have to install air conditioning. It also means the tenants pay rent thats 20 per cent lower than in neighbouring buildings. And its all thanks to the termite! Check out the rest of the story on the BBC Earth blog. Permalink| Leave a comment
Emma Stone joined fellow Hollywood starlets like Jessica Alba, Amber Heard, Rashida Jones, and Katie Holmes for Giorgio Armani and Vanity Fair's private dinner in LA last night. Super stylist Rachel Zoe was decked out in black to pose before the exclusive meal. It was Katie's latest outing with the brand after attending many of its shows over the years. Katie Holmes's wedding dress was even Armani! There were plenty of men represented, too: Adam Brody dressed up for the event as did Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, newly single James Marsden, and Darren Criss. It was a date night for Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham as well as J. Edgar star Armie Hammer and his wife Elizabeth Chambers. Emma attended after a long day on the set of The Gangster Squard with
her two-time costar Ryan Gosling - the duo also acted together in Crazy Stupid Love. Katie Holmes, meanwhile, has been hanging out on the West Coast and shopping with her daughter, Suri Cruise, following their weekend visit to Tom Cruise on the Pittsburgh production site of One Shot. The debut of Katie's next acting gig is coming up, too, when the Halloween episode of How I Met You Mother, in which she plays the infamous "slutty pumpkin," finally airs. View Slideshow
AIM member suspected, not Gay rights pioneer Frank charged in killing dies (AP) Kameny dies at 86 (AP)
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AP - An 87-year-old woman suspected of being involved but never charged in the 1975 killing
of a fellow American Indian Movement activist in South Dakota has died in a western Nebraska nursing home, a funeral home said Tuesday.

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AP - Frank Kameny, who became a pioneer in the gay rights movement after he was fired from
his job as a government astronomer in 1957 for being gay, has died at his home in Washington. He was 86.
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Minka Kelly and Derek Jeter Spotted Together in Miami

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Bikini-Clad Kate Beckinsale and Len Wiseman Enjoy Sexy PDA-Filled Getaway!
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Did Minka and Derek get back together?- Lainey Gossip DWTS sends home another contestant- People Find out what will likely be Sandra Bullock's next roleHuffington Post Kris Humphries gets mad at Kim Kardashian for acting like a princess- Us Weekly Find out which Real Housewife just got engaged!- TooFab Leonardo DiCaprio lands himself on an impressive list of films- Rotten Tomatoes Clooney to receive actor of the year at Hollywood Film AwardsHollywood Reporter Betty White is still hot after all these years- Wonderwall
Matt Damon's Liberace movie is heading to HBO!- Lifeline Live Why did Mischa Barton do this disgusting photo shoot?- Zap2It Which Kardashian is becoming a fashion kopy kat?- The Daily Beast Kristen Stewart says all her teachers failed her- Celebitchy
Kate Beckinsale adjusted her bikini bottoms on vacation in Mexico with husband Len Wiseman yesterday. Kate and Len spent their Summer and early Fall together in Toronto working on the remake of Total Recall, which she is starring in and he's directing. Now that they've finished up work on that highly anticipated project, it may be time to shift focus to one of their favorite holidays. Kate, Len, and her daughter, Lily Sheen, go all out for Halloween, and some of their couple and family costumes have included Frankenstein and his bride, Superman and Wonder Woman, and a devilish trio. We're excited to find out what they pick
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out this year, and, in 2012, we'll be seeing Kate in a number of sexy getups. She'll be back in her skin-tight Selene outfit for Underworld Awakening and kicking ass in Total Recall, and we'll see a slightly different side to her when she joins up with Mark Wahlberg in Contraband. View Slideshow
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Brother of 'Apprentice' Star Omarosa Murdered

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brother of reality star Omarosa has been murdered. According to TheWrap, Jack F i l e d u n d e r : T V N e w s , Manigault was murdered in what's Celebrities and Gossip The being described as a "deadly
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lover's quarrel." Manigault was
shot in the head on Sun., Oct. 9 in Youngstown, Ohio. The police report says Manigault was asleep with his girlfriend when her exboyfriend, 22-year-old Marco
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Hamas and Israel confirm prisoner swap

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Celebrations in Jerusalem and Gaza follow deal to free Gilad Shalit in exchange for release of 1,027 Palestinians. Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 09:51 Scenes of celebration in the Gaza S t r i p a n d i n Jerusalem have greeted the annou ncement of a landmark Palestinian -Israeli prisoner-swap deal. More than 1,000 Palestinians are to be freed in exchange for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, who has been held for more than five years, under the deal announced on Tuesday. Shalit was captured by Hamas, the Palestinian faction which governs Gaza, in a cross-border raid in 2006. The Israelis have said he will be released within days. The Israeli cabinet approved the deal after a late-night meeting, with 26 ministers voting in favour and three opposing it. Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, confirmed in a televised address from Damascus, Syria, that 1,027 Palestinians in Israeli prisons would be released in exchange for Shalit. "This is a national achievement that we should be proud of," Meshaal said. Reacting to the announcement, Palestinians poured out onto the streets in Jabaliya, a refugee camp in Gaza, where celebratory gunfire
and car horns could be heard all around, Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston said. "It's really important to remember that the first part of the siege on Gaza really started after the capture of Gilad Shalit and intensified after Hamas won the elections and took power in Gaza," she said. "The people in Gaza have had very much to bear the brunt of the capture of Shalit with a five-yearlong siege, which means they haven't been let out of Gaza, exports and imports have been severely restricted, and for some time hardly anything was allowed in." In two phases Meshaal said the detainees will be freed in two phases: the first phase will see the release of 450 "in one week", which include all Palestinian women currently in Israeli jails, and in the second phase another 550 will be freed "in two months". From the 450, 131 will be returned to Gaza, while 110 will be sent home to the West Bank. Six are Israeli Palestinians. Another 203 remaining prisoners will be deported, with 40 barred from Israel and the Palestinian territories. Al Jazeera's senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discusses the prisoner-swap deal The list of 1,027 includes 315 prisoners who have been sentenced to life, the result of negotiators giving "priority to
those who have spent over 20 years" in jail, Meshaal said. "We were very keen for this deal to include prisoners from across different categories, from different age groups and from the West Bank and Gaza, from Jerusalem and the Golan [Heights]." He also stressed that the deal reflected the unity of the Palestinian people, and vowed to fight until "the day all Palestinians imprisoned in Israel are freed". Two prominent Palestinian prisoners - Marwan Barghouti, the influential Fatah leader, and Ahmed Saadat, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - will not be released as part of the swap deal, Yoram Cohen, the head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service, said. Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, told Al Jazeera that while not all of the demands have been met, Hamas has "succeeded in reducing the number of people who will be deported or expelled" from the West Bank to Gaza or abroad. "We succeeded in pushing Israel backwards in order to accept our conditions," he said, referring to prisoners Israel has labelled as "dangerous". "This has given us hope and more power in that we have to continue our efforts in order to release all our prisoners from Israeli jails." Egyptian mediation Meshaal's address came soon after that of Binyamin Netanyahu,
the Israeli prime minister, in which he said "our son will be home in the coming days" in reference to Shalit. Negotiations were initiated in Cairo on Thursday under the mediation of Egyptian security and intelligence officials, and an agreement was signed earlier on Tuesday, Netanyahu said. Later in a tweet, Netanyahu thanked "the Egyptian government and its security forces for their role in mediation and concluding the deal". Meshaal also thanked Egypt, as well as Qatar, Turkey, Syria and Germany which he said had all been involved in the negotiations. Israel had made previous attempts to free Shalit through a prisoner swap with Hamas, but talks became bogged down over disagreements about who Israel might free, with both sides blaming one another. Egypt is lapping up all the credit and praise, at a time when the interim ruling military council has been facing much criticism from its public, Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reported from Cairo. "In previous times when we felt very close to a Shalit deal especially a year ago - the major sticking point was that the Palestinians felt it was the Egyptians who had faltered on what they offered Israelis," she said. "But the Arab Spring in Egypt has changed dynamics to a point where both the sides felt they
could deal with the Egyptians." The authorities in Cairo knew how important it was for them to have this kind of trust, and they could expect to make a lot of political capital out of the deal, she said. 'Unifying moment' Reporting from Jerusalem, Al Jazeera's Cal Perry said both Meshaal and Netanyahu had said "oddly similar things". "They both said that this deal was a unifying moment, both claiming a victory in their own right," he said. The swap deal comes at an opportune moment for Netanyahu, who is struggling with his country's deteriorating relations with Cairo, he said. Second, as prime minister of a country where military service is mandatory, Netanyahu had been under immense pressure from the Shalit family to secure his release, he said. "Every Israeli rallies around the armed forces here and nationally it's a huge issue - Shalit, the man himself, has become the issue," Al Jazeera's Perry said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, HAMAS page 46
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Myanmar starts to release prisoners

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after giving interviews to foreign media criticising the nation's former military rulers for being Dissident comedian among first slow to respond to Cyclone to be freed as part of amnesty Nargis, which left nearly 140,000 announced by the authorities for people dead or missing. thousands of detainees. Last He was convicted of causing Modified: 12 Oct 2011 07:37 public alarm and illegally giving M y a n m a r h a s r e l e a s e d information to the press. Zarganar, a prominent comedian Freedom for political detainees and dissident, as part of an has been anticipated as part of a m n e s t y f o r t h o u s a n d s o f liberalising measures since prisoners that is expected to Myanmar's long-ruling military include a number of political government handed power in detainees. March to a military-backed Ma Nyein, Zarganar's sister-in- civilian administration. law, told AFP news agency: "I Estimated at 2,000, political have talked to him. He is free detainees include journalists, pronow." democracy activists, government He was among the first batch of critics and monks involved in anti p r i s o n e r s t o b e f r e e d o n -government protests in 2007 and Wednesday. members of Burma's ethnic Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar groups fighting for greater opposition leader, said "so far as autonomy. we have heard about 100 political Altsean Burma, a human rights prisoners have been released. We o r g a n i s a t i o n , c a u t i o u s l y h o p e m a n y m o r e w i l l b e welcomed the prisoner amnesty, released...I'm really thankful for w i t h D e b b i e S t o p a r d t h e i r the release of political prisoners." spokesperson, telling Al Jazeera: Myanmar's President Thein Sein "We need to see reforms not just had on Tuesday signed an order to based on the release of prisoners free 6,359 inmates who are old, but a cessation of military disabled, unwell or who had influence as well." shown good "moral behaviour". 'Promising signals' Zarganar was detained in 2008 Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu
Kyi, said: "We welcome the amnesty announcement. This is very good news and we hope that many political prisoners will be among those freed." Relatives of political detainees were excited by the announcement, but wary, given that they could not be sure who would be among those released. Thein Sein instituted an earlier amnesty soon after taking office, but it included just a few dozen political detainees. Justin Wintle, author of the Perfect Hostage, told Al Jazeera the release is aimed at convincing western powers to ease sanctions. "Things have been changing in Myanmar. There is a new guy at the top. But the question is whether he is just a pragmatist or is he genuinely committed to reform. There are signs: he had a face to face meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, something that his predecessor had resolutely refused to do. "I think the Burmese government is fairly committed to seeing if they could have sanctionsEuropean and American-lifted. And I think there is a mood change there." Hillary Clinton, the US secretary
of state, said her country was encouraged by "promising signals" of political reform in Myanmar, but it is too early to announce steps Washington might take in response. In an interview with Reuters news agency on Tuesday, she said: "We want to see actions. If they are going to release political prisoners, that would be a very positive sign." The release of political detainees has been a key concern of the US, which has been seeking to reengage with Myanmar after isolating its former military government with political and economic sanctions over its poor record on human rights and democracy. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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CNET Peering into EVs ( photos) CNET The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are the vanguard of a wave of plug-in electric vehicles coming to market over the next several years. Early next year will see the arrival of the Plug-in Prius and the Ford Fusion Electric and then there is the recently... and more
TED: Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee - Ian Ritchie (2011)
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Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:17:11 AM
Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts
telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide Web. Ian Ritchie was there. And
... he didn't buy it. A short story about information, connectivity and learning from mistakes.
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Deadly car bombings strike Baghdad

Submitted at 10/12/2011 6:13:49 AM
At least 20 people dead and scores wounded in apparently coordinated attacks across the Iraqi capital. Last Modified: 12 Oct 2011 11:13 The Ilaam neighbourhood in southern Baghdad was the site of an attack on a police patrol on Wednesday [Reuters] At least 20 people have been killed and up to 83 others wounded in a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital, according to the country's interior ministry. In one of Wednesday's attacks, a suicide bomber reportedly drove a car filled with explosives into a police station in Baghdad's central Alwiya neighbourhood, killing at least six people including four policemen.
"The scene was horrific,'' Salim Ghadban, who told the Associated Press news agency he was having breakfast when he heard a loud explosion. "We saw terrified people, some injured, running in our direction, and we rushed to the attacked police station to see burned bodies and charred cars. We helped cover the burnt bodies until the ambulances arrived.'' A second bomber blew up his car outside a police building in the northwestern Hurriya district, killing at least five people, the Reuters news agency says. A third attack targeted a police patrol in the southern Ilaam district, killing at least three, police say. Another blast struck the convoy of a federal police colonel in the north of the city, killing one and
injuring 12 people. Qassim al-Moussawi, Baghdad's military spokesman, blamed alQaeda in Iraq for the attacks and said they were an attempt to show people that the group was still active.
"Every three months or so, alQaeda mobilises all its resources to launch such attacks in one day to say that [it] is still able to attack and threaten security posts," he said. The attack in Hurriya was
especially unusual because the neighbourhood is almost entirely surrounded by blast walls, and access is tightly restricted through just four entrances staffed by the Iraqi army. The apparently co-ordinated attacks were the worst to hit Baghdad since August 28, when a suicide attack blamed on al-Qaeda at the city's biggest Sunni mosque killed 28 people. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Builder Must Pay $625K In Fines For Allegedly Violating Clean Water Act
Phil Villarreal (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:15:00 AM
One of the country's largest homebuilders stands accused of running afoul of Clean Water Act requirements at 278 sites in 14 states and must shell out a $625,000 fine. The government
accuses the Ryland Group of leaking pollutants into stormwater and messing up procedures involving pollution prevention, inspections and permits. According to the Florida Independent, the settlement requires Ryland to obtain proper permits, complete pollution prevention plans and inspections
for all its sites and document any problems it finds. The company also has to train managers and contractors and submit compliance reports to the Environmental Protection Agency, which says that in forcing Ryland to change its ways will reduce the company's sediment discharges in
stormwater runoff by 261 million pounds. Homebuilder to pay $625K fine; chunk of that coming to Florida[The Florida Indepdendent] This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read
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'Revenge' Star Emily VanCamp Talks Wanting a Polygamist Love Triangle & a 'Dexter' Crossover
Maggie Furlong (AOL TV)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 6:00:00 AM
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Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, The Show Girl, Fall TV Emily VanCamp might be out for'Revenge' as the jilted Emily Thorne (nee Amanda Clarke) on ABC's new drama (Wednesdays, 10PM ET), but in real life she's all about coming up with funny scenarios for the series. I caught up with her to preview this week's episode, and we veered right off into a polygamist solution to her onscreen love triangle. She also explained why she wants Dexter Morgan -- yes, Michael C. Hall's serial killer from Showtime's 'Dexter' -- to make a guest appearance. She also had some nice things to say about her 'Revenge' co-stars, including Madeleine Stowe, who plays Hamptons queen bee (and Emily Thorne's main target) Victoria Grayson. "It's kind of ridiculous," Thorne said. "I'm
completely aware and completely grateful, just so everybody knows." Keep reading for more guest-star scoop and a tease about next week's game-changing fifth episode, titled 'Guilt.' Will Emily finally give that hit list of hers a rest? Not so fast ... Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
Associated Press, 10.12.11, 09:48 AM EDT ALAMEDA, Calif. -- The Oakland Raiders will honor Hall of Fame owner Al Davis at their first home game since his death last weekend. Raiders CEO Amy Trask said Tuesday that the team will "honor and pay tribute" to Davis throughout Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns. There are no specific details about what is planned. Davis died Saturday at age 82. He had been part of the organization for all but three of Maureen Ryan (AOL TV) envisioned as a 13-hour saga the team's 52 seasons as either ( a c c o r d i n g t o a F o x coach, general manager or owner. Submitted at 10/12/2011 6:30:00 AM representative, the show's 2-hour Copyright 2011 The Associated Filed under: Reality-Free, Stay season finale airs Dec. 19). Any Press. All rights reserved. This Tuned Thanks for all the great episodes beyond that would be material may not be published, questions you sent in for this part of a hypothetical second broadcast, rewritten or round of Ask Mo. I picked a season, but the network hasn't yet redistributed. bumper crop to take on this time. decided whether to order a season This entry passed through the Let's get right to it, shall we? 2. Given the show's high cost and Full-Text RSS service if this is Jamilbhatti0782: Do you think relatively modest ratings, the jury your content and you're reading it 'Terra Nova' will be picked up for is still out on whether we'll get a on someone else's site, please read a full season? second season of dinosaur drama. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentMo says: Production wrapped Permalink| Email this| Linking only/faq.php#publishers. Five last week on the first season of the Blogs| Comments Filters featured article: A 'Malign dino drama, which was always Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Motorola XOOM 10.1 32GB Android Tablet with Wi-Fi

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with my pals while hiding under many different assumed names. We can even use the 720p video Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:30:20 AM capture to video chat! Until they Copywritings A Dangerous Gig catch me, that is. Because once Xoom, Xoom, Xoo wait, what you cross a powerful corporation, do you mean by Thats someone they never stop until youre elses jingle, huh? dead. Can you own music, man? Can Anyway, its too late for me, but you own the sky? What lawyers not for you. Remember two gonna come down from some things: never steal another crazy magic dreamland and tell companys jingle, even if its me I cant sing, man? I got a song funny, and always have a in my head and I want to be free! Motorola XOOM 10.1 32GB X O O M ! X O O M ! Android Tablet with Wi-Fi in XOOOOOOOM! Yeah! All right! your knapsack in case you need to Let your freak flag fly! disappear. Now, if youll excuse oh, hang on, Ive got a letter. me, two mean looking guys in RX Hmm. Well, it seems like you -7s just pulled up outside. I think really can own music. And now I really gotta zoom. Authorized Ive got an injunction and I owe f o r S q u a r e T r a d e E x t e n d e d several million dollars to a car W a r r a n t y company. Well, looks like its a Warranty: 1 Year Motorola life on the run for me! Thankfully Condition: Refurbished Ive got a Motorola XOOM 10.1 Features: 32GB Android Tablet with Wi-Fi 1 0 . 1 m u l t i - t o u c h , H D so I can keep reading my email on w i d e s c r e e n the go. 1GHz NVIDIA dual-core The multi-touch HD display processor gives me access to 150p per inch 3 2 G B i n t e r n a l m e m o r y , video, and the Android 3.1 memory expansion via microSD system makes it so easy to get card ( card not included) apps from the Android Market. Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) Plus the Motorola XOOM 10.1 Adobe Flash Player 10.2 32GB Android Tablet with Wi-Fi Front-facing 2-megapixel has a microSD slot, an HDMI camera / Rear-facing 5-megapixel audio/video output port, 32GB of camera with LED flash internal memory, and 802.11n Wi 720p video playback & video -Fi, so Ill be able to check in capture
802.11n Wi-Fi networking Expanded Bluetooth features mouse, keyboard, shortcut keys HTML5-based Android Webkit browser Battery life for up to 10 hours of Wi-Fi internet browsing Scrollable and stacked widgets Google Talk with Video Chat The Details: Motorola XOOM boasts a dualcore processor with each core running at 1GHz, 10.1-inch widescreen HD display, and ultra -fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking Offers support for Adobe Flash Playerenabling you to view the web without compromise Video chat on Google Talk with any other Google Talk-enable device (smartphone, tablet, PC) Googles Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) operating system offers a multi-touch, holographic user interface Features the latest Google Mobile innovations, including Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction, access to over 3 million Google eBooks and Google Talk with video and voice chat Front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video chats over Wi-Fi via Google Talk, as well as a rearfacing 5-megapixel camera (with LED flash for stills) that captures
video in 720p HD The 10.1-inch display delivers console-like gaming performance on its 1280 x 800 pixel display, and it features a built-in gyroscope, barometer, ecompass, accelerometer, and adaptive lighting for new types of applications 32GB internal memory, memory expansion via optional microSD cards 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi networking Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming Access to personal and corporate e-mail HD 720p video playback HDMI audio/video port enables you to output pictures, slides and videos in HD quality (720p) via HDMI cable (HDMI cable not included) 3250 mAh battery for up to 10 hours of Wi-Fi Internet browsing With five customizable home screens, you can easily access your favorite live widgets or application shortcuts Onscreen keyboard has also been redesigned to make entering text fast and accurate on larger screen sizes Scrollable and stacked widgets let you scroll or flick through content within the widget itself, on the home page, without opening the application
Unobtrusive notification system displays icons for different notifications (messages, downloads, system updates, etc.) in the lower right corner; just touch the digital time display to open the entire notification panel Desktop-like web browser (HTML5-based Android Webkit) with tabbed browsing and Chrome bookmark sync Android Market for Android 3.1 is your one-stop-shop for eBooks, games, and applications Data encryption ensures the privacy and security of data on your tablet Support for the new Android Market Movie rentals service with thousands of titles available for immediate viewing Full support for the new release of Adobe Flash Player 10.2 delivering significant performance enhancements when viewing rich Flash content on the web Resizable widgets to enable further customization of your home screen Support for USB-connected peripherals and accessories such as keyboards, mice, game controllers and digital cameras Expanded Bluetooth features to support Bluetooth headsets in Google Talk video chats and Bluetooth mouse support in MOTOROLA page 52
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Flip MinoHD 4GB Camcorder w/Image Stabilization (3rd Gen - Newest)

the crotch with wiffle ball bats with my flip-out USB arm directly into a PC or Mac for Submitted at 10/12/2011 7:34:17 AM editing or archiving. Ive felt the Shouldnt That Say Final tears of people watching videos Generation? of their loved ones fall on this 2 Well, this is it, Flip MinoHD anti-glare color display of mine. 4GB Camcorder. You got any last Ive helped children say hello to words? the grandparents that live I I just want to say thank you thousands of miles away with my to everyone whos ever stuck up easy-to-use, touch-sensitive, for me in the past, especially all backlit buttons. I am compact, I those nice people who have given am rechargeable, and I am worth me such nice reviews. Im glad I something to someone in this could bring you a little bit of joy world, discontinued or not. in my short time in the tech Im sorry. I didnt mean to get world. carried away like that. I just I You know, when youre a Flip just wanted to say how much it MinoHD 4GB Camcorder with means to me that you guys here at Image Stabilization like me, you Woot! are giving me one more hear a lot of things. Stuff like chance to shine. sniff It means a Hes outdated or What do I lot. Authorized for SquareTrade need something like him for when Extended Warranty Ive got a camera phone? Well, Warranty: 1 Year Flip sometimes you hear it so many Condition: New times that you begin to think its Features: true. But deep down, I always Shoot up to 1 hour of incredible knew better. I was I AM a 720p HD video dedicated video capturing device P r e - l o a d e d F l i p S h a r e and nothing anyone says can software makes it simple to change that. My 4GB of built-in organize, edit and share your memory for shooting up to 1 hour videos of incredible 720p HD video? The sleek and slim design fits in That means something to a lot of any pocket or purse so you can p e o p l e ! I v e t r a n s f e r r e d carry it anywhere weddings, funerals, birthday Power on, press record and start parties, and sometimes just stupid filming its that simple high-quality H.264 videos of Comes with 4GB of built-in grown men hitting each other in memory; no additional memory
needed Charge the internal Lithium-ion battery through the built-in USB arm; also recharges quickly when connected to Flip Video Power Adapter (not included) Watch your videos on the 2 anti-glare color display Connect the flip-out USB arm directly into your PC or Mac to launch pre-loaded FlipShare software Use FlipShare software to organize and edit your videos, capture photos, add your own music, and create custom movies Watch your videos on your HDTV by connecting your MinoHD to your HDTV with the Flip Video Cables HDMI(not included) or wirelessly through FlipSare TV (included) Features a flat-back panel with touch-sensitive, backlit buttons Records high-quality H.264 videos that are compatible with most video-playing applications, including Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player and iTunes Video: 16:9 widescreen, HD 720p (1280 x 720) at 60 frames per seconds (fps) progressive scan; recorded as MP4 files Organize your videos by dragging and dropping into folders youve created, or use the automatic date-stamped folders Create video greeting cards or use the Magic Movie feature to
make movies with the click of a button Capture photos using the easy Snapshot feature: You can grab a still-image photo from any of the 60 frames that comprise each second of your video Share videos privately using FlipShares attachment-free email or by creating Flip Channels; post publicly with direct video shares to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Dimensions: 3.94 x 1.97 x 0.63 Users Guide Additional Photos:
Lens Type: Fixed Focus (1.5m to infinity) Aperture: f/2.4 (fast lens for great results in low-light environments) Zoom: Smooth multi-step 2x digital Interface: 8 Buttons (Power, Play, Delete, Record and 4 way navigation) PC Connection: Built-in flip-out USB arm (up to USB 2.0 speed) Battery Life: Up to 2 hours of use between charges Tripod Mount: Yes Operating Systems: Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Mac OSX
Software: Pre-loaded FlipShare software Minimum Requirements: PC: 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor Windows XP SP2 with 512 MB of RAM, Vista or Windows 7 Specifications: Internal Memory: with 1 GB of RAM 4GB (1 hr) Screen Size: 2.0 USB 2.0 port (transflective TFT) Screen Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels Mac: Video Resolution: 1280 x 720 1.66 GHz Core Duo or faster pixels Frame Rate: 60 frames per processor second (constant frame rate, Leopard 10.5 or Snow Leopard p r o g r e s s i v e s c a n ) I m a g e 10.6 1 GB RAM Stabilization: Yes Video Bitrate: USB 2.0 port 8.8Mbps (average auto adaptive algorithm) Video Format: In the box: H.264 video compression Flip M3160B MinoHD 4GB 1 AAC audio compression FLIP page 52 Saves as MP4 file USB Arm Extended HDMI Port & Tripod Mount Power Button Package Contents Packaging
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HP Pavilion Dual-Core AMD Phenom II Desktop

Submitted at 10/12/2011 6:34:45 AM
Are you ready for some HPs?! Cause were about to have a glut of them. Are you sick of desktop PCs bringing the WootOff to a grinding halt as you wait for someone to shell out a few hundred bucks on some refurbished HP merchandise? Well, have we got terrible news for you! Since HP announced theyre giving up on tablets, PCs, and the like, we only have to assume people are going to be looking to offload stuff like this refurbished HP Pavilion Dual-Core AMD Phenom II Desktop PC with a quickness. And who has two thumbs and loves selling overstock electronics crap? THESE guys! (imagine us pointing at ourselves with our thumbs) Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty Warranty: 90 Day HP Condition: Refurbished Features: AMD Phenom II Dual-Core Processor Get powerful 64-bit performance with 6GB DDR3 system memory 1TB SATA hard drive
The SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe technology lets you create custom, silkscreenquality labels and artwork directly onto LightScribe-enabled CD and DVD discs 15-in-1 memory card reader makes it easy to transfer photos, music, and other files to and from your digital camera and other peripheral devices Also features Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n networking for a fast web connection
PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333) Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered Supports 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB DDR3 DIMMs Video Graphics Type: Integrated graphics using ATI Radeon 4200 Integrated graphics: concurrent use of the the DVI and VGA ports is supported Sound/Audio Audio CODEC: ALC888S-VD Number of channels: 8 Maximum sample rate: up to 192,000 Hz Support: One SPDIF digital connection Networking Type: 802.11 T e c h n i c a l S p e c i f i c a t i o n s Wireless b/g/n PCI-E Mini Card Motherboard Type: N-Alvorix- Interface type: PCI-e half-length RS880-uATX Form factor: uATX mini card Data transfer speeds: up Chipset: AMD 785G Memory t o 1 5 0 M b p s T r a n s m i s s i o n sockets: 4 x DDR3 Front side bus standards: 802.11 b/g/n Supported speeds: 1333/1066/800MHz antenna connections: 1 Operating Processor socket: AM3 Expansion band: 2.4 GHz Supported security Slots: 1 PCI Express x16 slot for protocols: WPA / WEP LAN: 10graphics card Base-T Technology: PCI Realtek 3 PCI Express x1 slots RTL8105E Data transfer speeds: 1 PCI Express x1 minicard slot up to 10/100 Mb/s Transmission Processor Type: AMD Phenom II standards: 10-Base-T Ethernet x2 521 Operating speed: Up to 3.5 Hard Drive Size: 1 TB Interface: GHz Number of cores: 2 Socket: SATA Transfer rating: 3.0 Gb/sec AM3 Bus speed: 4000 MHz HT3 Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM CD/ TDP: 65W Memory Amount: D V D D i s c D r i v e T y p e : 6GB Speed: PC3-10600 MB/sec SuperMulti DVD Burner Drive T y p e : D D R 3 - 1 3 3 3 M e m o r y Interface: SATA Data buffer U p g r a d e I n f o r m a t i o n D u a l memory: 2 MB minimum Disc channel memory architecture diameter: 120 mm Media Card Four DDR3 DIMMs 240-pin Reader Type: 15-in-1 Multimedia sockets (2 occupied) Card Reader Supports: Secure PC3-8500 (DDR3-1066) Digital (SD)
Mini Secure Digital (mini-SD) Multi Media Card (MMC) and MMC DualVoltage Reduced-Sized Multi Media Card (RS-MMC) MMC 4.0 RS MMC 4.0 RS-MMC DualVoltage Memory Stick (MS), including MS-DUO, MS-PRO, MS-PRO DUO, MS-Memory Select Function, MS ULTRA II, MS ROM Magic Gate MS, Magic Gate MS Pro, Magic Gate MS-DUO, Magic Gate PRO DUO Compact Flash (CFI), (CFII) IBM Microdrive (MD) Smart Media (SM) xD Picture (xD) Computer Case Type: ATX Height: 38.81 cm (15.28 inches) Width: 17.50 cm (6.89 inches) Length: 40.99 cm (16.14 inches) Power Supply: 250W I/O Ports Front: USB 2.0: 2 Microphone: 1 Headphone: 1 Back: One VGA port Four USB 2.0 ports One RJ45 10/100 Mb/s LAN Center/Subwoofer-out Rear speaker-out Line-in Line-out Mic-in Side speaker-out One DVI-D port Keyboard Type: HP USB wired keyboard
Interface: USB Cable length: 1.8 meters (70.8 inches) Dimensions: 1.29 H x 6.19 W Special buttons: Volume control Mouse Type: HP USB Optical Mouse Interface: USB Cable length: 1.8 m (6 feet) Buttons: Left, right, and clickable scroll wheel Software Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit); Service Pack 1 CD/DVD Burning: Cyberlink Power2Go Entertainment, Music & Games: Windows Media Player HP Games HP Netflix Hulu Desktop Productivity: Microsoft Office Starter 2010 PDF Complete Support: HP Help & Support Center HP Support Assistant HP Update HP Vision Hardware Diagnostic Tools Recovery: HP Recovery Manager Networking & Internet Solutions: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Adobe Flash HP Linkup In the box: (1) HP P7-1007C Desktop AMD Phenom II x2 3.5ghz/6GB/1TB/ W7HP Discuss this product
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addition to additional shortcut keys with the Bluetooth keyboard Picture transfer protocol feature support to enable easier transfer of photo files to your PC without the need for drivers Additional Photos: Bottom Profile (I/O Ports) Back Profile Rear-Facing Camera Lens & Flash, Speaker, Power Button Protected microSD Slot Package Contents Packaging Technical Specifications: Android Platform: Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) Camera: 5MP Web Cam: 2MP Digital Zoom: Yes Flash: Dual-LED Focus: Automatic Music Player: Android Music Video Capable: 720p video playback Video Capture: 720p Playable Formats: AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, ACC+ Enhanced, OGG, MIDI, AMR NB, AAC+ Streaming Media: Audio, Video, Internet Radio
Video Editing Software: Movie Studio Email: Corporate Sync, Google Mail, POP3/IMAP (embedded), Corporate Directory Lookup (GAL) Instant Messaging (IM): Google Talk Wi-Fi: 802.11a /b/g/n Bluetooth Technology: Stereo Bluetooth technology 2.1+EDR+HID Web Browser: Android HTML Webkit, Tabbed browsing, Chrome bookmark sync, Incognito mode, Form autofill Synchronization: Corporate Sync, GOTA Connector Type: Micro USB; HDMI out Data Transmission Rate: USB 2.0 GPS and Location Services: eCompass, aGPS (assisted) with Google Maps, Google Latitude, Google Maps Street View, barometer Headset Jack: 3.5mm Wallpapers: Preloaded and downloadable, Live wallpaper Power: Battery Type: 24 Whr Browsing Over Wi-Fi: up to approx 10 hrs MP3 Playback: up to approx 3.3 days Standby time: up to approx 14 days Video Playback Time: up to approx 10
hrs Internet and Games: Web Access: Wi-Fi Games: Cordy, Dungeon Defenders Adobe Flash Player: Adobe Flash 10 Player Android Market: eBooks, games, movie rentals and applications Google Mobile Services: Gmail Google Maps (version 5.0) Google Talk with Video Chat Google eBooks YouTube Interface: LightResponsive Display Custom Navigation: 5 fully customizable home screens Pinch to zoom Touch screen Virtual Keyboard: Portrait and Landscape Voice Commands Built-In Microphone Physical: Display Size: 10.1" WXGA (1280 x 800 pixels; 150 pixels / inch), HD 720p Weight: 25 ounces (708 grams) Dimensions: 9.8"(H) x 6.6"(W) x 0.5"(D) (249.1 x 167.8 x 12.9mm) Antenna Type: Internal Form Factor: Tablet Materials and Finish: Anodized aluminum and soft touch
Productivity and Software: Calculator Calendar Airplane Mode Applications: QuickOffice Viewer Clock with Alarm Technology: Memory: 32GB on board Processor Speed: 1GHz Dual Core Accelerometer: Yes Sensors: Proximity, ambient light, barometer, gyroscope In the box: Motorola XOOM 10.1 32GB Wi-Fi Android Tablet 3250 mAh Lithium-Ion Battery (installed) AC Adapter USB Cable Quick Start Guide User Manual Discuss this product Price: $349.99 I want one!
Max From Blue Tax Responds To Worst Ad Nomination

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:31:19 AM
In the two years we've been running the Worst Ad In America awards, we've received responses from nominated companies that ranged from the defensive to"it wasn't us." But this is the first time we've actually received a response from an animated character. After finding out he was nominated in the Most Irritating Animated Character category, Max, the squeaky-voiced, lefthanded spokesthing for Blue Tax released the following statement to Consumerist: I am shocked and touched to hear MAX page 54
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Amazon offering Battlefield 3 PC download for $42

Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
downloadable PC version of Battlefield 3. The online retailer currently has that version of the I f y o u ' r e a f a n o f b o t h game on sale for $41.99. intangibility and thriftiness, Continue reading Amazon Amazon's got a pretty stellar o f f e r i n g B a t t l e f i e l d 3 P C d i s c o u n t g o i n g o n t h e download for $42
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377,775 pounds of ground BlackBerry service outage may be beef recalled for E.Coli spreading worldwide danger
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Submitted at 10/12/2011 7:59:59 AM
377,775 pounds of ground beef recalled for E.Coli danger The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a warning yesterday. More than 188 tons of ground beef are being recalled by Commercial Meat Co. in Los Angeles because of possible contamination with the E.Coli bacterium. The ground beef, which was produced from Sept. 7 to Oct. 6, was mainly shipped to restaurants in California and Nevada as well as "one federal establishment in California" says the FDA. However, routine monitoring of products from Commercial Meat revealed the E.Coli bacteria in bulk packages of ground beef, including patties, taco meat and
beef chili products. No injuries have been reported so far, but the FSIS warns that the E.coli bacterium can cause illness, including bloody diarrhea, dehydration, and in severe cases, kidney failure. Foodborne illnesses can be especially dangerous for the very young, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems. Food safety experts, including those at Consumer Reports, recommend that consumers continue to follow best food safety practices when handling
raw meat. Harmful bacteria are typically killed at high temperatures (160-degree Fahrenheit or higher), so experts continue to advise consumer to avoid under-cooked meats, at home or when ordering at a restaurant. For more tips, see Consumer Reports' Food Safety Guide which includes How to avoid the most dangerous food-prep mistakes and outlines the nine foods to handle with extreme care. California Firm Recalls Ground Beef Due to Possible E.Coli O157:H7 Contamination[USDA FSIS] Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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BlackBerry service outage may be spreading worldwide Wireless e-mail and textmessaging service woes have been reported recently for BlackBerry smart-phone users in Europe, the Middle East, and Asiabut they may not be limited to just those parts of the world. Several websites are now reporting similar BlackBerry service interruptions in North America. A Canadian news site reports that BlackBerry users "have been cut off from the smartphone's messaging, e-mail and Internet services." And writers with Time's Techland blog said they have been experiencing "numerous outages" today at its New York City headquarters. According to BlackBerry's Facebook page: The messaging and browsing delays being experienced by BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, Brazil, Chile and Argentina were caused by a core switch failure within RIMs infrastructure. Although the system is designed to failover to a back-up switch, the failover did
not function as previously tested. As a result, a large backlog of data was generated, and we are now working to clear that backlog and restore normal service as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we will continue to keep you informed. BlackBerry's Facebook page BlackBerry Service Update[BlackBerry UK] BlackBerry service outage spreads to Canada[CP24] BlackBerry outages spread to North America[Reuters] Three-Day BlackBerry Outage Finds Its Way into the U.S.[Time Techland] Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Report: Some Sony Walmart Launching 3500 Bravia TVs pose Store-Specific Facebook Pages To Promo Local Deals potential fire hazard
Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
enter your ZIP, "Like" your nearest local Walmart, and then Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:00:00 AM they start hitting you twice a week The one major criticism I've with deals just for that store. always leveled at Walmart is that It's clearly a move to get into the the chain is just too small. If they same territory that Groupon and were really doing things right, all L i v i n g S o c i a l h a v e b e e n our cities would be enclosed and penetrating with their super-local connected in one long continuous focus. And I guess if you already Walmart where all our desires can like shopping at Walmart, and you be met at everyday low prices. To don't mind them getting access to edge closer to that utopia, y o u r F a c e b o o k p r o f i l e Walmart is launching several new information for their giant data Facebook pages. 3,500 of them. and marketing monster, this app is Each is pegged to a specific local a digital way to find out about store and will serve up deals just deals. But I don't think they're for that store. really taking full advantage of the Direct Marketing News reports Facebook platform. What they that Walmart is deploying to need is their own Farmville-style visitors to its main Facebook page game where you earn more action a "My Local Walmart" app. You points by redeeming coupons in
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Report: Some Sony Bravia TVs pose potential fire hazard Reports are circulating this morning that Sony has recalled 1.6 million flat-panel Bravia TVs sold in several countries since 2007, because a faulty component in the backlight system may overheat, potentially causing the television to melt or catch fire. Other outlets, including the U.K.'s TechRadar.com, say that this is not a recall, but that Sony said there is a problem with overheating components and is offering free inspections of potentially affected Bravia sets. We've reached out to Sony to confirm and will update the post with the company's reply. Sony recalled certain LCD TVs after a September incident in which a customer noticed a small fire and smoke. Eleven incidents have been reported in Japan since 2008. The recall of some 40-inch Bravia LCD models was first announced in Japan, but will affect consumers in the U.S. and U.K. as well because the televisions were sold worldwide. Affected models, according to the
website Product Reviews, include the following: KDL-40D3400, KLD-40D3500, KDL-40D3550, KDL-40D3660, KDL-40V3000, KDL-40W3000, KDL-40X3000 and KDL40X3500. The affected model numbers do not appear in our LCD TV Ratings, available to subscribers. Sony Recalls 1.6 Million Bravia TV Sets Because of Fire Risk[Bloomberg Businessweek] Sony denies Bravia TV recall, but admits fault issue Sony Bravia recall: List of KLD40 Model numbers affected[Product Reviews] Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Bud Cauley will be one of the Fall Series best stories

Jay Busbee (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:08:35 AM
One of the underappreciated elements of golf is the way that such a buttoned-down, exclusive sport has left a small back door unguarded, a way for anyone with enough talent and determination to make it onto the sport's grandest stages. This is nowhere more apparent than at the U.S. Open, where, in theory, you or I could tee it up. But it also holds true later in the year, where players whose names you've never heard can come from nowhere (or college, whichever) and play themselves right onto the PGA Tour. Earlier this year, Bud Cauley was a junior at the University of Alabama. And earlier this month, he was an undistinguished pro who appeared headed straight for Q School. Funny what one tournament can do, huh? Cauley, age 21, finished solo
third at this past weekend's Frys.com, snagging a $340,000 paycheck and vaulting up to 114th on the money list. The top 125 get their Tour card for next year without having to mess with the horrors of Q School. (And you thought a hot dog was the best story.) And all of a sudden, the Fall Series has its annual hero-tobe.
Hallberg and a couple guys named Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. ( Charles Howell III also parlayed two years' worth of special exemptions into his card.) And he'll have done it in fewer chances than anyone but Tiger and Phil. After debuting at the U.S. Open (nice bow), he's only missed one cut in seven total tournaments. Cauley's play in the Frys got him into the McGladrey this week, and he ought to get into the seasonending Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney on a sponsor's exemption. And so far, everything's rolling his way; on Last year's No. 125 was Troy the rigors of qualifying school. Tuesday, he tweeted that he got a Merritt with total earnings of And even if he drops out of the hole-in-one during practice. "Now $786,977. In 2009, Jimmy Walker top 125 and stays in the top 150, I need one thurs!" he added. held that spot with $662,683. he can skip right to Q School Cauley ought to make it, but even Right now, Cauley is at $671,150, Finals. if he doesn't, he's put a charge which would equate to the 114th If he's able to get his card on into this year's Fall Series. It's spot on the money list. s p o n s o r ' s e x e m p t i o n s a n d proof that a guy doesn't need to be What's the significance of qualifiers, he'd be only the sixth The Next Tiger, or even Tiger reaching the top 125? Simple: he player to do so without hitting Q himself, to be a great story to gets passage onto the Tour next School, the AP notes, after Ryan watch. year without having to go through Moore, Justin Leonard, Gary
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Tigers' Victor Martinez homers, hurts himself, as Detroit takes Game 3 of ALCS, 5 -2 from Rangers - New York Daily News
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Kevork Djansezian/Getty Detroit's Jhonny Peralta celebrates his solo home run in the sixth inning of Game 3 of the ALCS. TIGERS 5, RANGERS 2 DETROIT- Victor Martinez had just slugged a home run that tied the score in the fourth inning of a tight Game 3 Tuesday night, but this wasn't your ordinary dugout celebration. Martinez, his joy .muted by pain, slammed his helmet to the floor after wincing repeatedly while rounding the bases. Teammates watched with worry plastered on their faces as Martinez went into the dugout tunnel. But for once in this AL Championship Series, the Tigers dodged their own team theme. Injuries have hurt them all series Magglio Ordoez is already out and Delmon Young's side was too achy for him to play Tuesday night, further weakening a thin lineup - but Martinez remained in the game, and the previously dormant Detroit hitters kept whaling away at Ranger pitching. The result was a 5-2 Tigers victory behind a superb outing from starter Doug Fister. The win
in front of 41,905 at Comerica Park pulled Detroit to within one game of the Rangers, who lead the best-of-seven series, two games to one. "I'm thrilled the way we played," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said.
"We're tough. Our guys are playing with pain and some injuries. What he (Martinez) went through, he played the game unbelievable." Miguel Cabrera doubled in the tiebreaking run on an 0-2 pitch
was 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Fister, who allowed two runs and seven hits in 71/3 innings, got a standing ovation when Leyland took him out of the game with one out in the eighth inning. He doffed his cap as he departed, .delighting the towel-waving crowd. "It gives me goose bumps to remember walking off on that," Fister said. Leyland called Martinez's injury an "intercostal muscle" and admitted he was "very concerned" when his DH got back to the dugout. "We'll see," Leyland said. "Obviously, I think he'll be OK. He got through it (Tuesday night) and hopefully he'll be able to get through it. And if he can't, you know what, we'll play somebody else. That's who we are. That's what you do this time of year." Martinez, for his part, didn't sound concerned. "The only way I don't play (in Game 4 Wednesday) is if I wake up and I'm dead," said Martinez, from Colby Lewis in the fifth who walked and flied to center in inning and hit a mammoth homer his two at-bats after the homer on an 0-2 pitch by Koji Uehara to that tied the score at 1. pad the lead in the seventh. Once Martinez's teammates Jhonny Peralta homered on the realized he was going to stay in, first pitch of the sixth, and Austin TIGERS' page 57 Jackson, struggling all postseason,
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The Shutdown Corner Podcast: Pittsburgh Steelers LB Lawrence Timmons

Doug Farrar (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
team up with Dick's Sporting Goods and their 'October The Power of Pink' campaign Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:59:42 AM benefitting the National Breast We were happy to speak with Cancer Foundation," he said in the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker press release. In honor of Breast Lawrence Timmons this week, Cancer Awareness Month, Dick's just after he subbed for injured Sporting Goods stores is featuring teammate James Harrison at the various pink ribbon products from ROLB spot in Pittsburgh's 38-14 partner brands at their retail stores win over the Tennessee Titans. a n d o n l i n e a t We talked about Lawrence's www.DicksSportingGoods.com/ p r o g r e s s i o n a s a m u l t i - pink. In addition, to further dimensional defender since the support Breast Cancer Awareness, Steelers drafted him in the first Dick's Sporting Goods is donating round in 2007, but he had $250,000 to the National Breast something else on his mind, and Cancer Foundation. we were pleased to let him share You can also do your part to it. show your support for National Lawrence is working with Dick's Breast Cancer Awareness month Sporting Goods in a new breast by uploading your photo to the cancer campaign. "I'm proud to Endless Ribbon application at
www.Facebook.com/ DicksSportingGoods. By doing so, your profile photo will be connected to all others who uploaded photos, creating an endless pink ribbon of support. In our podcast with Lawrence,
we discussed the campaign, how the Steelers started out rough with a loss to the Baltimore Ravens and rebounded to stand at 3-2, how he developed his technique as a 3-4 inside linebacker, his relationship with defensive
coordinator Dick LeBeau, and why people should still take the Steelers seriously as a Super Bowl contender. Left-click below to listen, or right -click to save the /mp3 file to your hard drive. You can also pick up this podcast, and all our podcasts, on the Shutdown Corner iTunes feed(in iTunes, go to "Advanced/ Subscribe to Podcast," and paste this link in: http:// ysportspods.podbean.com/ category/shutdown/feed/). The Shutdown Corner Podcast: Pittsburgh Steelers LB Lawrence Timmons
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the homer gave them an even bigger jolt. "That shows a lot," Cabrera said. "That shows he's got a big heart." Added Jose Valverde, who closed the game with a scoreless ninth: "I'm watching the game from the bullpen and it looked like he was hurt. Everybody's so nervous, because everybody knows Ordoez is down for the year. We don't want one more guy hurt. Victor's a tough player." The Rangers elected to pitch to
Cabrera, by far the Tigers' most dangerous hitter, with two out and runners on first and third in the fifth and the first baseman slammed an 0-2 pitch into the right-field corner for an RBI double that made it 2-1. Texas manager Ron Washington said he didn't want to walk Cabrera to load the bases, even if the hobbled Martinez was next. "The (go-ahead) run is already at third base," Washington said. "I'm not going to do that."
All the offense was plenty for Fister, who Leyland said "put on a pitching clinic." Fister gave up a run in the first inning but shut down the Rangers until the eighth. And the Tiger hitters, who entered just 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position and went 2-for-7 in Game 3, kept swinging all night. "It was great," Leyland said. "(Fister) was just what the doctor ordered. You find a way to win somehow." This entry passed through the
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Heres an early look at North Carolinas redesigned jerseys

Jeff Eisenberg (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
are identical to the previous ones in front but feature an aerographic design in back incorporating the Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:58:58 AM Old Well, an outline of the state Anytime North Carolina messes and a basketball. The graphics on with its iconic argyle-trimmed the back are similar to ones Duke, basketball jerseys, the changes Texas, Kentucky and other Nike inevitably inspire a polarizing schools have worn the past two or reaction among Tar Heels fans. three years. The latest modification is no Reaction to the jersey redesign exception even if it's more of a has not been positive among tweak than a drastic makeover. North Carolina fans on Twitter or #UNC jerseys, but they'll look North Carolina announced Tar Heels-themed online forums. nice with a net hanging around Tuesday that the new jerseys it Wrote one fan:"Hopefully a them next April." will unveil at its "Late Night with temporary experiment." The discontentment among North Roy" celebration on Friday night Tweeted another:"Hate the new
Carolina fans is certainly no surprise, but they should probably be thankful the latest jersey modifications aren't as appalling
as the school's previous attempts. The last time the Tar Heels attempted a major redesign in 1999, the school infamously replaced the "North Carolina" on the front with an interlocking NC logo only to switch back the following season due to extreme backlash. Then there were the illfated silver jerseys without a stitch of Carolina blue that the school unveiled in February 2010 in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Air Jordan brand. Those were abominations. This is more of a slight misstep.
Daytona USA coming to PSN, XBLA in late October

Ludwig Kietzmann (Joystiq)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 12:10:00 PM
into the mountain. Years after arcade-perfect ports provided the ultimate incentive to Way back in 1993, you braved get a console, Sega is bringing the suspiciously dim lighting and an "original" Daytona USA to the unpleasant, smoky aroma to see North American PlayStation Sega's "Model 2" chipset in action Network on October 25th, and to at your local arcade. Its first Xbox Live Arcade the following game, Daytona USA, looped you day. Europe will see it in "late i n w i t h i t s f a n c y t e x t u r e s , November," Sega says. Ten bucks blistering 60 frames-per-second gets you "classic retro graphics" graphics and oh my god there is a presented in HD, widescreen giant Sonic the Hedgehog carved format, steering wheel support (all
in Karaoke Mode ... it says here. "Let's go away," indeed. Daytona USA coming to PSN, XBLA in late October originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments wheels for Xbox 360, and only Logitech GT Driving Force on PS3) and eight-player online racing. Oh, and this version of Dayyyyytoooonnaaa helps you entertain guests with the game's wonderful, unbearable soundtrack
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Brilliant 10: Sun Diver

Lauren Aaronson (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Here's why Anderson Silva landed the cover spot on UFC Undisputed 3
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
dudes. Continue reading Here's why Anderson Silva landed the cover Fans of the franchise elected to spot on UFC Undisputed 3 place pro pugilist Anderson Silva Here's why Anderson Silva on the cover for THQ's UFC landed the cover spot on UFC Undisputed 3 earlier this week. Undisputed 3 originally appeared Why was he chosen for this on Joystiq on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 prestigious position, you might 11:50:00 EST. Please see our ask? Pay attention to the video terms for use of feeds. above -- particularly the parts Permalink| Email this| Comments where he kicks the crap out of
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instrument that will get closer to the sun than ever before. The Solar Probe Cup will scoop up bits of the sun's corona and solar wind to continuously measure its Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:08:57 AM Flying a heat-resistant probe near speed, temperature and density. the sun will reveal the physics of T h a t i n f o r m a t i o n w i l l h e l p solar plasma astrophysicists investigate why In July 2010, a colleague rushed the corona's plasma gets so hot-it into Justin Kasper's office at the can reach a million degrees-and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for how the plasma turns into a Astrophysics, in Cambridge, millionmile-per-hour solar wind, Massachusetts. He showed Kasper and what that mysterious puff a telescope video of something might be. "Who knows what we they had never seen before: a can't make out because we're just comet crashing into the sun. The too far away?" Kasper says. sight was amazing. But what The Solar Probe Cup will ride on grabbed Kasper's attention was NASA's first solar mission, called the moment before impact, when Solar Probe Plus, in 2018. When a surprising cloud puff indicated it reaches the sun, it will have to that the comet had hit unobserved withstand temperatures of up to material. 2,550F. Kasper and his team To answer, among other have begun upgrading a questions, what caused the cloud conventional ion detector by puff, Kasper is designing an shrinking the plasma-collection
cup (so that it will absorb less heat) and etching sturdier grids out of melt-resistant tungsten and sapphire. Once the Cup takes off, the datacrunching begins. Kasper has several theories about the plasma movements his detector could uncover, but sometimes even the best theories can't anticipate what the actual conditions in the plasma will be. "We're trying to build instruments as capable as we can," Kasper says, "because very rarely do we find what we were expecting. That's part of the fun." Read more about the molecular filmmaker, the butterfly pharmacist, and the rest of our Brilliant 10.
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Did politics just change?

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silos to have the independence we'll need, imho. If the economics of politics were Going back to before Dean For really changing now, it would be America, I was hoping that, with a predictable part of the usual the advent of the Internet, the technology cycle, written about economics of elections would here many times. First with a new change. I got close to the Dean technology the users need training people, but they either didn't see wheels. Limits that make it easy the possibility, or felt it was too to approach. For that you need early, or felt they couldn't afford companies. But their utility to be an experimental campaign. diminishes as two processes But with Occupy Wall Street, it converge: would be wholly inconsistent to 1. New people come of age, to use their presence on the Internet whom the technology is natural. to raise money to buy ads on They don't have to unlearn an old television. If they did that, we way of doing things. And other would need to start an OOWS to users gain experience. What was occupy them. once strange and different is now Look at all the attention this normal and familiar. leaderless movement has 2. The technology is better managed to draw to itself, without understood by developers, and any kind of a media budget. And I they are able to make software h a v e a f e e l i n g t h i s i s j u s t simpler without giving up power. beginning. Hopefully we will T h i s a l w a y s h a p p e n s a s a build d e c e n t r a l i z e d technology matures. communication networks that If politics has changed, it's now allow ideas to be distributed in the domain of tech, completely. instantaneously without being You won't use the web to raise controlled by Time-Warner, News money to buy television ads. Corp, Comcast, or even Google, Instead, money raised on the Twitter or Facebook. Of course Internet will stay in the Internet, we already have the technology, h e l p i n g t o b u i l d t h e it's just what the Internet already communication systems we need does. But we have to build a not just to get candidates elected, critical mass outside the corporate but also to govern. Obama could
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have figured this out, but he didn't. In the new politics, you campaign 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, world wide. The American president has to communicate with citizens of India, Malaysia, China, Russia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America, not just the people in the 50 states. Public opinion is now a world wide force. And communication isn't just getting your message out. If Obama had been listening he might have heard that many of us trust the Republicans a lot less than he did. He might have had a better feel for the crisis happening with users of real estate, not just developers and financiers. It was naive of the President to think that, once elected, he could ensconce himself in the gridlock and somehow his charm would overcome Republican barriers. They weren't charmed by him, and they saw his reliance on charm as a weakness, and took advantage of it. Had Obama kept his army of discourse mobilized, developed it, we would be able to now tell him exactly what to do to get us out of the ditch he drove us into. Instead, as usual, he's focused on
raising money so he can buy TV ads to get re-elected. This does us, you and me, absolutely no good. They never get around to following the lead of the voters. They have no way to hear the voters, yet. But I think that's what OWS could lead to. BTW, I saw an ad on the web yesterday for Google Ads that said a good ad is just information. Glad they finally got around to that. The next step, for them is to realize (if they don't already realize it) that their search engine and ad engine are in direct conflict. The better search is the less people need ads. Google's future, if it all shakes out as it should, is as limited as the advertising-based political industry. PS: I was thinking about two people as I wrote this: Doc Searls and Nicco Mele. Both live in Boston. We should all get lunch sometime. PPS: Of course I was also thinking of the absolutely beautiful little girl with the handdrawn Tax The Rich banner. There's so much love in that image!
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Working on the linkblog box

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Submitted at 10/11/2011 5:49:53 PM
As I work on the design of the blog, it's been really interesting to get feedback from people who are serious readers of this blog. I feel like it's the first time in the many years this blog has been running that it is enough under control that we can start to have a serious discussion about how it works. Gives you an idea of what kind of haze we operate in in Internet land. One of the reasons I decided a number of years ago to S L O W D O W N and start re-doing everything in my toolkit, one piece at a time, and this time really understand how the bits work together. I still don't really understand, but it is now possible to talk about it, some more. Anyway... I just did some work on the linkblog in the right margin here. 1. I made the first word in the box "linkblog" so there's no doubt what you're looking at. One bit of feedback I got was that people didn't know it was the linkblog. Totally makes sense. Unless they
were reading on the day the feature came online, how would they know. And I'm not entirely sure I even wrote it up. All of a sudden one day there are links in the right margin. Who gives them much though. 2. I removed the Last updated time in the upper right margin, the one that applied to the content in the left column. It was completely non-obvious, in fact it sort of implied that it applied to the linkblog. Oy. Anyway, now the time does apply to the linkblog. I know this may screw up your reading habits, but it's in a good cause, imho. 3. I put a gray background behind it so it appears different from everything else on the page. 4. Added a mini XML icon at the bottom. Now you can easily find the linkblog feed. It won't work in Google Reader, I can tell you that right off the bat. Most of the items have descriptions and no titles. GR doesn't like that. Until they fix this bug, the feed won't work there. And if you think you can do a transformation on the feed perhaps with Yahoo Pipes to make it work in GR, go for it.
Publish a link to your version of my linkblog feed, and I'll link to it right here. BTW, if you look at the RSS in that feed, you'll see a bunch of new stuff from the "microblog" namespace. It describes the
archive for the feed, so you can get back to every item ever published in it. I hope this becomes widely used by other tools. Using RSS as an archive format for all kinds of blogging is a perfect use for the format, which was designed to mirror the content of a chronologic website (i.e. a weblog or blog). I also include the full link, because we live in an era of linkshortening. If rot ever becomes a problem with these links, it'll be good to have the full links around too. I hope to be able to address some other longterm limits of RSS, for example, we need a way to do feed-level redirects. Always have. I plan to provide a mechanism for that. Now the question is what to do about the blogroll. Note that it is also available in the World Outline. This is the next thing to think about folks. All this shit has a life "over there" too. Whatever that means. (Mwhahahaha.)
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Brilliant 10: The Computational Contortionist

<p>Ryan Bradley</p> (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:06:04 AM
Rendering complex objects realistically requires a whole new kind of geometry When Eitan Grinspun's adviser at the California Institute of Technology asked him to help develop a better way to model how cans bend when crushed, the young mathematician did not think it would be a major project. "He lured me into something that took years and years," says Grinspun, now at Columbia University. But the journey to model a crushed Coke can ended with an entirely new field of geometry. Differential geometry can describe how the curves and surfaces of a given object will bend and crease. The problem, Grinspun says, is "that differential geometry is built for smooth surfaces with infinite detail."
Computers can process only a finite amount of detail. For example, to describe a circle, computers must divide that circle into a series of connecting short sides-the greater the number of sides, the smoother the circle. Describing all of the curves and creases in a crushed can accurately takes a huge amount of processing power, so Grinspunone of only a couple of mathematicians in the field with a background in computer scienceset about translating the theorems into a more elegant set of instructions for the computer, allowing existing processors to break the infinite into discrete units far more efficiently. Grinspun's method works by
concentrating on the places where most of the movement will occurin the case of the Coke can, the areas where it folds as it crumples. "There are a lot of flat regions where not much is happening," he says. "If a computer spreads its attention equally, it's not going to the interesting parts, where cracks are forming." Once Grinspun and his colleagues established this new approach, which they call discrete differential geometry, the queries from physicists, engineers and animators started arriving. Disney and Weta Digital use his theorems to make fabrics and hair move more convincingly. Physicists at MIT have created origami out of
small sheets of plastic and water drops. Engineers can now far more accurately predict how cables will fall to the seafloor. "For me, [this field] is a playground," he says. "I get to take any interesting physical problem-say, spaghetti movement. Toss it in the air, and it falls on the ground and it twists and coils. Why does it move that way?" In this video, a team of researchers use Grinspun's flexible strand technology to create capillary-powered origami. Read more about the molecular filmmaker, the butterfly pharmacist, and the rest of our Brilliant 10.
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Scottish Doctors Use Ultrasound to Heal Broken Bones
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Morning Bell: Obamas Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat

Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Barack Obama was made aware of in June of this year. It is being reported that following the charges against Iran, the Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:18:10 AM Yesterday, America learned that Obama Administration is seeking Iran conspired to launch a terrorist t o u s e t h e d e v e l o p m e n t a s attack in Washington, D.C., with leverage to unite the world a p l a n n e d a s s a s s i n a t i o n o f against Iran, with Vice President the Saudi ambassador and bomb Biden saying, Thats the surest attacks on the Saudi and Israeli way to be able to get results. embassies. U.S. authorities Meanwhile, Secretary of State disrupted the plot and have Hillary Clinton remarked that the brought charges against the men plot crosses a line that Iran needs who planned to carry out the to be held to account for. Iran, attack, but the audacity of Irans however, crossed the line long actions highlights a disturbing ago, be it the countrys rogue truth: The Obama Administration pursuit of nuclear weapons, its has done far too little to deter calls for the eradication of Israel, state-sponsored terrorism, and it its support of terrorism, its has utterly failed to confront the m e d d l i n g i n I r a q , o r i t s Iranian threat. interference with the movement Not one month ago, Iranian toward democracy in the Middle President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad East. Even without yesterdays stood before the United Nations c h a r g e s , t h e O b a m a General Assembly in New York Administration has had plenty of City and delivered a speech rife reason to take the lead on with hatred of the United States, confronting the Iranian threat, but September 11 conspiracy theories, it has utterly failed to do so. anti-Semitism, and Holocaust On June 28, 2011, the White denials. His diatribe at the U.N. House released its new National has become an annual ritual, but Strategy for Counterterrorism. as we learned yesterday, this The 19-page document makes years performance occurred all exactly one reference to Iran. The while Ahmadinejads government s u b j e c t o f s t a t e - s p o n s o r e d was seeking to attack the United terrorism is virtually ignored. In Statesa fact that President August, The Heritage Foundation
Counterterrorism Task Force criticized the Administration for failing to address the threat: The Presidents strategy pays insufficient attention to statesponsored terrorism, which will increasingly be a major force to be reckoned with. Iran is one of the most prominent and aggressive state sponsors of terror and its protegesboth Hamas and Hezbollahrepresent potentially grave threats. In addition, transnational criminal cartels in Mexico are increasingly taking on the character of terrorist networks. Now we see that those criticisms are well-founded, and the threat of Iran launching a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland very nearly became a deadly reality. The Heritage task force wrote that its a threat that cant be ignored: The iron triangle of statesponsored terrorismIran, Hamas, and Hezbollahis potentially as significant a threat to U.S. interests as a reconstituted alQaeda. Iran remains the worlds foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Breaking the triangle apart can only be accomplished by bringing freedom to the people under the tyranny of the leadership in Tehranchange that has to come from within the
country. The Obama Administration, to date, has pursued the Obama Doctrinea foreign policy that calls for the United States to engage with its enemies instead of confronting the threat of statesponsored terrorism head on. Its an attitude and a posture that has been pervasive in President Obamas rhetoricabjuring American exceptionalism, passing on the opportunity to speak loudly to promote the spread of democracy in the Middle East, failing to condemn Syrian President Bashar al-Assads ruthless regime, offering weak support to Israel and failing to condemn those who threaten the countrys very existence, and presenting a face of international accommodation and ambivalence. Obamas strategy invites aggression and leaves the American people less secure as a result. The Administration must finally change direction. Heritages James Carafano writes that it should take strong measures to respond to Irans actions, including conducting a proportional military response against suitable, feasible, and acceptable targets (in many ways
the situation is similar to military operations conducted against al Qaeda in Pakistan). It should impose and enforce the strongest sanctions, target public diplomacy to expose the regimes human rights abuses, reduce Irans meddling in Iraq, and rescind and rewrite its counterterrorism strategy. The time for flowery speeches and benevolent engagement with Americas avowed enemies is over. President Obama must wake up to the fact that Iran and countries like it pose a very real threat to America, its friends, and its allies, and it must take proactive action to protect itself from those who seek to do it harm. Quick Hits: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Tymoshenko Verdict May Push Ukraine Toward Russia

Anatoly Khomenko (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:00:56 AM
Today, a regional court in Kyiv has found Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ukraines former prime minister and leading opposition figure, guilty of abuse of office stemming from her role in the 2009 UkraineRussia gas deal. The sentence includes a sevenyear prison term with an additional three-year prohibition to hold political office, as well as the stipulation that she must pay $190 million in compensation to Ukraines gas monopoly Naftogaz. Tymoshenko herself, her supporters, and even her criticsas well as European leaders and legal expertsview the prosecution and the sentence as a political vendetta. This decision has spawned public outcry and protests by Tymoshenko supporters. Nearly 800 of the former prime ministers supporters have set up tents in front of the court protesting the verdict while facing pro-government demonstrators and over 1,100 policemen. Opposition leaders, however,
claim that there are plans to disperse the protesters forcefully. Tymoshenko herself decried the decision as evidence of blatant corruption of the judicial system. It is not Judge [Rodion] Kireyev but President [Victor] Yanukovych who is handing down the verdict, she said. Tymoshenko promised to appeal the verdict both in Ukrainian courts and the European Court of Human Rights. The controversial and heavyhanded handling of the Tymoshenko case has found no support in the international community, either. European politicians attempted to reach out to the Ukrainian president even before the verdict was meted out, but the effort was in vain. John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Deputy Program Director of Amnesty International, called the charges against Tymoshenko attempts to criminalize decisions that she made in the course of her work. This is likely to open the door for declaring Tymoshenko a political prisoner. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero lamentedthe degradation of the rule of law in Ukraine.
The trial has damaged not only Ukraines reputation as a democratic country but also bilateral and multilateral relations with its neighbors. The verdict effectively removes Tymoshenko as a candidate for the upcoming 2013 presidential elections. This has placed EUUkraine relations in jeopardy, particularly the negotiations on the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area. As the Member of the European Parliament Jacek Emil SaryuszWolski of Poland commented, In the European Parliament, I dont see the slightest chance of any ratification of any document between the European Union and Ukraine in the present circumstances. I think that today Ukraine does not deserve mention of membership perspective. This is unfortunate, as close integration is in both Europes and Ukraines interests. Only Moscow wins from the chill in EuropeUkraine relations, as it is readying to push Kyiv into the membership in the Russiandominated Customs Union. Additionally, Russian officials expressed concern that the verdict may be used as a pretext to renegotiate (or violate) still
valid, legally binding agreements between [Russian-owned gas company] Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukraine. Yanukovich called the verdict regrettable and acknowledged the international implications. He expressed hope that the upcoming changes in the Ukrainian criminal code may soften Tymoshenkos punishment. The Parliament, however, dominated by Yanukovichs Party of Regions, voted last week against the amendments that would decriminalize her offense, casting doubt on the presidents suggestions of clemency. Even if the appeal succeeds, however, the damage to Ukraines reputation has already been done. Ukrainian officials chose to go through with the trial despite the questionable nature of the offenses and the evidence presented in court and warnings of serious diplomatic repercussions from international experts even before the case went to court. The lost faith in their commitment to democracy and rule of law in Ukraine and abroad will be difficult to restore. The Tymoshenko affair may alienate Ukraine from Europe and
push it closer to Russia. Mykola Tomenko, currently the leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, as her political party is known, said that they will appeal for international sanctions on Ukrainian officials involved in the case. Neither Europe nor the United States needs a second repressive regime, like Belarus, in Eastern Europe. U.S. officials should condemn the recent developments, and engage the government of Ukraine in a way that would encourage a return to democratic consolidation rather than promote alienation and further backsliding away from democracy. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Thwarting Irans Chilling Terror Plot

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
conceived, sponsored and was directed from Iran by top officials. He pointed out the Submitted at 10/11/2011 11:45:59 PM chilling nature of what the The Obama Administration is Iranian government attempted to accusing the Iranian regime of do here. being behind a foiled plot to kill In the early part of spring, the Saudi ambassador on U.S. soil Manssor Arbabsiar was asked by and to bomb the Saudi and Israeli his cousin, a senior Revolutionary embassies. The Iranians sought to Guards official, to recruit a use the Mexican drug cartels as Mexican drug trafficker to kidnap cover, allowing them to wage war the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. while hidden in the shadows. If In May, Arbabsiar made contact this is what Iran is willing to do with someone who he thought without nuclear weapons, what was a member of the Zetas drug will the regime do when it gets cartel in Mexico. Thankfully, that the bomb? person was an informant for the M a n s s o o r A r b a b s i a r , a Drug Enforcement Agency. The naturalized citizen, was arrested plot changed from a kidnapping to o n S e p t e m b e r 2 9 a t J F K an assassination. Gholan Shakuri International Airport, which was and another Revolutionary Guards ironically the target of another official met with Arbabsiar in Iran terrorist plot in 2007 with strong and approved the bombing of a connections to Iran. A member of restaurant where the Saudi the Iranian Revolutionary Guards ambassador often ate. Had this elite Al-Quds Force, the regimes plot gone through, Americans at primary arm for covert operations, the restaurant would have been was also charged. This second killed and wounded. individual, Gholan Shakuri, is in The Iranians agreed to pay the Iran. informant $1.5 million, beginning Attorney General Eric Holder left with payments of $100,000 in no room to doubt the Iranian July and August. Presumably, this regimes role in the terrorist plot. would be shared amongst the He said the terrorist operation was other Zetas members that would
take part in the operation. The Iranians also offered to provide tons of opium for the drug cartel that could be resold on the black market. As the plot progressed, there was discussion about bombing the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington D.C., as well as in Argentina. On October 5, Shakuri became impatient and told Arbabsiar, just do it quickly, its late. It is unclear why the Iranians hatched the plot at this time. It is possible that the timing had something to do with a looming confrontation between Iran and
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. In the spring, a proxy war seemed ready to erupt in Bahrain, where the pro -American, Sunni Royal Family was fighting off an uprising by its majority-Shiite population. The Iranians explicitly threatened Saudi Arabia for supporting the Bahraini Royal Family, and even began recruiting martyrs to go fight in the Gulf country. The crisis came to a head in May when Iran dispatched a flotilla to Bahrain and the Gulf Cooperation Council said it would not allow it to enter the waters. Ultimately, Iran backed down.
The assassination plot also may have been a reaction to a revelation from documents released by Wikileaks. In November 2010, Wikileaks revealed that the Saudi ambassador urged the U.S. to attack Iran and cut off the head of the snake. The plot makes the words of Robert Noriega, a former U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, seem prescient. In testifying to the House Homeland Security Committee in July, he predicted that Hezbollah would carry out an attack in the Western Hemisphere if it was confident that Irans fingerprints could be hidden. If our government and responsible partners in Latin America fail to act, I believe there will be an attack on U.S. personnel, installations or interests in the Americas as soon as Hezbollah operatives believe they are capable of such an operation without implicating their Iranian sponsors in the crime, Noriega said.
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Cains Economic Plan Dominates GOP Debate

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Submitted at 10/11/2011 11:44:46 PM
Businessman Herman Cain catapulted to the top tier in the race for the GOP presidential nomination after his surprise Florida straw poll victory, and he is now feeling the heat. His economic plan, dubbed 9-9-9, received the most attention in last nights debate, with former Senator Rick Santorum and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann leading the charge against it. There were no major stumbles by any of the candidates in this last debate, and there were few fireworks as they sat around a circular table to discuss the economy. Herman Cain received the most attention and aptly handled criticism of his 9-9-9 plan, which calls for a 9% national sales tax, 9% corporate income tax and 9% personal income tax. Cain had serious momentum going into the race, with most polls showing him a close second to Mitt Romney or even slightly ahead. One poll shows him with an eight-point lead in Iowa, and another has him ahead of Romney by one point in
South Carolina. When a moderator from Bloomberg said that the news service doubted whether 9-9-9 would raise revenue, he humorously responded, The problem with that analysis is that its wrong. He also joked about the complexity of Mitt Romneys 59-point economic plan. His plan was challenged by Santorum and Bachmann, with the former saying it wont pass Congress and the latter having a stand-out moment when she said, Turn 9-9 -9 upside-down. The devil is in the details. Both cautioned against giving the federal
candidate could win. Overall, Romney probably did not gain or lose from the event. There were no big moments, but he did earn an applause when he said, If youre not willing to stand up to China, youll get run over by China. There is no reason to believe that Rick Perry stopped his slide in the polls. He spoke without passion and failed to have a stand-out moment. He is trying to own the issue of energy independence, calling it a new Declaration of Independence, and urged domestic production. His comment about the need for a government the power to balanced budget amendment was implement a national sales tax, well-received, but this does not and that concern will resonate differentiate him from the field. with voters. He struck Romney hard on his Mitt Romney performed well and health care plan in Massachusetts, spoke smoothly about the but Romney came prepared to economy and his record. Leading highlight differences between his up to the debate, he had kind plan and President Obamas. It is words for Herman Cain, probably unlikely that Perry won any new because his ascent helps split the supporters during this debate, and field that is trying to become the ascent of other candidates will Romneys alternative. One poll continue to take a toll on his shows Romney with a three-point numbers. He remains in the lead in Iowa because of this second-tier. division. He was also endorsed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, inarguably one of the most coveted endorsements a
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Responding to the Mullahs Jihad in America

Lisa Daftari (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/11/2011 11:41:00 PM
After recovering from the shock of the foiled Iranian terror plot, the real questions emerge: (1) How prepared are we for future attacks? (2) How likely is it that more attacks will be launched? And most importantly: (3) How will the U.S. now respond? The plot clearly demonstrates the Iranian regimes disposition toward the United States. Had the Iranians been successful in their planned executions, it would have been a large-scale terror attack on U.S. soil. They might not have succeeded this time, but now we must worry about their next plan and whether it will be carried out by Iranians or by copycat terrorists. If the Iranian regimes sole goal was to knock out the Saudi ambassador, Adel Al-Jubeir, they could have done so in an easier place with less security, vigilance and national intelligence. They could have followed him to an obscure venue. Yet they chose to make a point. They chose to carry out the attack on U.S. soil, to
Court Considers Case of Student Expelled from Counseling Program for Unwillingness to Affirm Homosexual Relationships
Thomas Messner (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:09:09 AM
bomb the Israeli Embassy and to kill some American citizens while they were at it. Even if the U.S. calls this an act of war, the American government cannot respond as such. In the case of Iran, the U.S. still maintains that all options are on the table, which acknowledges the option of a military attack. But it would help us to focus more on the other options, namely, nonmilitaristic aggression, even though many believe sanctions have not been effective in
Last week a federal appeals court heard arguments in an important religious freedom case known as Ward v. Wilbanks. The case illustrates how sexual orientation nondiscrimination policies can c o m b a t i n g t h e I r a n i a n Lastly, and most importantly, the impose government burdens on government. There is evidence to U.S. should not forget the easiest religious and moral conscience prove that sanctions have in fact a n d m o s t p o w e r f u l t o o l i n and create serious civil society choked off the regime in various combating the Iranian regime: its conflicts. Julea Ward was a student in the ways. However, in order to truly 70 million disenchanted people. graduate counseling program at benefit from sanctions, the U.S. While the Mullahs regime in would have to better enforce Tehran may have deep support, Eastern Michigan University. She t h e m , a p p l y t h e m m o r e both financially and through an claims that she was expelled from strategically in areas such as extensive network of clergy and t h e p r o g r a m a f t e r s h e banking and travel and to freeze Revolutionary Guardsmen, the conscientiously objected to assets. people of Iran and their desire to counseling a potential client The U.S. could also employ the break free from this tyrannical seeking assistance regarding a help of other nations who have regime is far more widespread homosexual relationship. ducked out of the responsibility of a c r o s s a l a r g e a n d v i b r a n t According to Wards attorney: Rather than allow Julea to refer a punishing this global enemy. p o p u l a t i o n . potential client to another qualified counselora common, COURT page 69
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No Disrespect But
David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
Socialism-lite, and Rush gave a pretty tepid defense of him as well. There is no candidate that Submitted at 10/12/2011 7:48:53 AM can pull both sides together. The I read this blog daily, and Anybody but Romney wing of yesterday (for the first time in a t h e G O P h a s t r i e d T r u m p , LOOOOONG time) I listened to Bachmann, Perry, and now Cain. Rush when I was in the car. After Romney can get the 25-30% of seeing the dichotomy, I really the primary voters, and thats dont think that theres any way about the ceiling What happens the GOP can win in 2012 Im w h e n t h a t 7 0 - 7 5 % o f t h e pretty certain that if Romney Republican Party is told to vote doesnt win the nomination, DF f o r a c a n d i d a t e t h a t t h e y (and people of like mind) will a b s o l u t e l y d e s p i s e ( s h o u l d probably just sit home or *gasp* Romeny win the nomination)? actually vote for Obama again. The Democrats tried this in The flip side is that theres such 2004 They went with the safe, vitriol about Romney from the far dependable, more electable hardline right that I cant see them John Kerry over Howard Dean, voting for him either. Caller after the party faithful sighed and c a l l e r r e f e r r e d t o h i m a s reluctantly pulled the (D) lever
but there was no enthusiasm, no outpouring of support, no anything. I honestly dont think that there is a candidate who can energize both sides of the GOP right. Whichever candidate wins (Romney, or anti-Romney) will get 50% support, at best. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
7 Top Journalists to Subscribe to on Facebook

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Submitted at 10/12/2011 11:10:11 AM
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professional practice to best serve clientsEMU attacked and questioned Juleas religious beliefs and ultimately expelled her from the program because of them. Ward also refused to undergo a remediation program that, she states, was designed to change her belief system as it relates to counseling about homosexual relationships. Her attorney says that Ward would have gladly counseled the client herself had the topic focused on any other matter. However, Ward realized that she
could not affirm the clients homosexual relationship without violating her religious beliefs regarding extra-marital sexual relationships. Cases like Wards illustrate how nondiscrimination laws and other state-imposed burdens can transform culture wars into conscience wars. To ease such conflicts, public officials should protect religious freedom and respect moral conscience on highly controversial issues such as sexuality. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
Facebook continues to emerge as an excellent tool for journalists, most recently with the addition of Facebook Subscribe. The feature is beneficial for many reporters and editors who are using the platform for sourcing stories, posting links to articles and connecting with audiences. Though Facebook Subscribe has implications for all types of users, its rapidly taken off with the journalism community. It allows your content and you're reading it journalists to intimately reach on someone else's site, please read their audiences without the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- discomfort of accepting friend only/faq.php#publishers. Five requests from people they dont Filters featured article: A 'Malign know personally. Intellectual Subculture' - George Check out the slideshow for a M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , look at seven journalists we enjoy Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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5 Tech Innovations That Could Change the Developing World

Zoe Fox (Mashable!)
worlds cheapest tablet, Aakash, priced at just $35 for students with government subsidies or $60 The Global Innovation Series is in stores, which the government supported by BMW i, a new hopes will reduce the digital concept dedicated to providing divide between rich and poor. mobility solutions for the urban If that price roughly one-tenth environment. It delivers more the cost of the cheapest iPad t h a n p u r p o s e - b u i l t e l e c t r i c doesnt sound accessible enough, vehicles it delivers smart t h e I n d i a n g o v e r n m e n t i s mobility services. Visit bmw- distributing the first 100,000 units i.com or follow@BMWi on of the Android-powered tablet to Twitter. college students for free, Reuters Across the developing world, reports. The rich have access to new technologies are helping to the digital world, the poor and distribute resources for education, ordinary have been excluded. connectivity and health far and Aakash will end that digital wide. Innovators are finding ways divide, said Kapil Sibal, Indias to make technology cheaper and minister of communications and therefore accessible to millions information technology. previously excluded by high The tablet was developed by costs. DataWind, a small British Affordability is often the greatest company, with researchers from hurdle to overcome in products t h e I n d i a n I n s t i t u t e o f from sanitation devices to tablet Technology. In addition to fitting computers, mobile phones to solar the price to the budget of middle panels. class Indians, the device was Take a look at these five tech tested playing two hours of video breakthroughs and how they are at 118 degrees Fahrenheit to helping to level the playing field replicate the oppressive heat of in developing countries. 1. northern Indias summers. 2. Inexpensive Tablets Inexpensive Laptops One week after Amazon released One Laptop Per Childs XO and the Kindle Fire, the first tablet Intels Classmate PC share a computer to present a serious c o m m o n m i s s i o n : B r i n g i n g threat to Apples iPad, another children access to education historic tablet was released. On through computer ownership. the other side of the world on Both programs distribute rugged, October 5, India launched the a f f o r d a b l e l a p t o p s t o
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Today, Vodafone 150 can claim that title, selling a mobile phone for just under $15. While the phone is not feature-rich, it offers voice calling, text messaging and s c h o o l c h i l d r e n a c r o s s t h e mobile payments, and it will have an enormous impact on those who developing world. Intel developed a suite of have never before connected by e d u c a t i o n a l s o f t w a r e t o mobile. A slightly more expensive accompany the little blue laptop, Vodafone 250 model is available which costs between $400 and with an FM radio and color $500 each to distribute. These screen. programs enable teachers to The phone was launched in 2010 communicate with their students in India, Turkey and eight African through web-based applications. nations. Of course, entering into The computer features a swivel these new markets meant a lot of screen, essentially converting the work to extend the mobile laptop into a touch-tablet. Its coverage area by the provider. 4. durability was tested by baking it Alternative Energy SunSaluter, winner of the in an oven and placing it in a Startups for Good challenge, aims freezer. Similarly, One Laptop Per Child to bring solar panels to villages in donates rugged, low-cost laptops the developing world that have that dont even require an electric never had access to electricity. outlet. The $200 computers are While solar energy is a hot topic distributed to students between across the world, its expense has ages 6-12, so that they are prevented deeper penetration. integrated into their early Eden Full, a mechanical education. Take a look at the engineering undergraduate at video above to learn more about Princeton University, developed t h e n o n - p r o f i t s w o r k . 3 . solar panels that optimize energy Inexpensive Mobile Phones collection as they rotate to face As mobile phone ownership the sun for as much time as r a p i d l y s p r e a d s a c r o s s t h e possible each day. The system developing world, many have costs just $10 and uses 40% fewer tried to create the worlds panels than typical solar energy cheapest cellphone even t h a n k s t o i t s r o t a t i o n s . 5 . Venezuelas president Hugo I m p r o v e d S a n i t a t i o n Bill Gates emphasized the Chavez.
importance of sanitation improvements when he pledged to reinvent the toilet for the developing world. The computer innovator has a point. According to water.org, one billion people dont have access to clean water, and 2.5 billion people dont have improved sanitation. So it should come as no surprise that improving sanitation is key to the progress of developing countries. While cheap laptops and tablets are certainly exciting, some of the life improving technologies in the developing world dont even require electricity. Last year, Indias Tata Chemicals released the Tata Swach(the Hindi word for clean), an affordable water filter (priced at around $21) that uses nanotechnology, requires no electricity and meets the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys sanitation standards. The filter is made of rice husk ash (the natural byproduct of making polished rice) and fine nano-silver particles to prohibit bacteria growth. Using the filter prevents against waterborne bacteria and viruses. When Swach was released, Tata said only 6% of urban households and 1% of rural households in India were using water purification devices. TECH page 71
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Sony Locks Down Thousands of PSN Accounts as it Fights New Attack

Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:46:24 AM
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Sony has locked down 93,000 user accounts across the Sony Entertainment, PlayStation and Sony Online Entertainment networks in response to an attempted hacker attack. Hackers attempted to log in to a massive number of accounts with user ID and password combinations obtained from an unknown third-party source, according to Philip Reitinger, chief information security officer at Sony. Of those attempts, 93,000 were successful and have since been locked down. Reitinger says only a small fraction of those accounts showed additional activity prior to being locked and are under further investigation. He stressed that users credit card information is not at risk, and that the company will reimburse anyone who had unauthorized purchases made on their account. SEE ALSO: PlayStation Network Outage: The Real Costs [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Ezekiel 38:23 (10 -12-11)

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Affected users will receive further instructions on reinstating their accounts via email, Reitinger said. He urged all users to have separate log-in credentials at various online services and sites to better protect their information going forward. The last major attack on the network, in which the account information of 77 million users was compromised, brought down the entire PlayStation Network for several weeks last spring. The episode cost Sony an estimated
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I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Ezekiel 38:23(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... In a time when God's people were in shambles physically and spiritually, he promises judgment -- judgment on them and their oppressors. But he also reveals why. He will show his greatness and holiness so they will know him, YAHWEH -- God of "his people" and also of all nations. I would love for God to show his greatness and holiness in our day, wouldn't you? To have God
honored for who he is and what he has done would be marvelous. May that day come quickly! My Prayer... Father, as your flawed and mortal child, I do fear your bold revelation of yourself. We humans are mortal and frail in comparison to your blazing glory. But I have confidence in my relationship with you through Jesus, and dear Father, I want you honored and your name revered in my day. I am tired of hearing your name used in vain and your glory profaned. Exalt yourself before the nations! Reveal your holy majesty so that everyone will know that you are the only true and living God! In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
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Frozen in time: The flat where Joanna Yeates died

Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 2:06:41 AM
Liam Fox's friends claim Werritty took advantage of him

Joe Murphy, Political Editor (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 1:55:53 AM
Jurors today visited the flat where Joanna Yeates was strangled to death by her next-door neighbour Vincent Tabak. Like a moment frozen in time, her home has been poignantly preserved with personal belongings and Christmas decorations since the day she was killed in December. The 25-year-old landscape architect's size five running shoes and snow boots are in the yellow painted entrance hall. There were also two litter trays for her cat Bernard, coats are hung up on the pegs - everything is spotless. This was the sight which greeted the Bristol crown court jury as, for 22 minutes, they examined every part of the Bristol flat she shared with boyfriend Greg Reardon. First they were brought into the hall where Mr Reardon first suspected something terrible may have happened to Miss Yeates, pictured, while he had been away visiting his parents. The jury was taken into the living room where a roll of unused wrapping paper lay under a table,
as well as an unopened box of Christmas crackers and shelves adorned with tinsel. In the kitchen they looked through the window where, it is believed Miss Yeates first saw Tabak that night - minutes before he entered the flat and strangled her as she fought back desperately. The jury was also briefly shown the garden flat where Tabak, 33 a Dutch engineer, lived with his girlfriend Tanja Morson. Earlier, amid a heavy police presence, Mr Justice Field led the six man, six woman jury panel as they retraced her steps through the Clifton district of the city. The sombre day started when they filed onto a coach outside court for the short journey to the flat. They passed the Bristol Ram pub where Miss Yeates had spent the early part of the evening of her life drinking and laughing with work colleagues. Police cordoned off the street to keep press and public well back as the jurors, lawyers, court officials and Mr Justice Field took in the surroundings. Before the visit, the judge told them: "Various things will be pointed out to you. If you don't quite follow what you are being
asked to look at or you miss something you may ask for clarification but you must not ask any other questions." The walk to her flat had taken her only 25 minutes even in the snow and ice of winter. The court convoy, escorted by police outriders, stopped regularly as a police officer on board pointed out every CCTV camera which had filmed her last walk. They also stopped outside the Tesco Express where Miss Yeates bought the mozzarella and basil pizza which mysteriously disappeared from her flat after the killing. There was another stop outside the store which was once Bargain Booze where she bought two bottles of cider. Outside the flat a couple going to a Christmas party at the house are said to have heard her screams as she was strangled by Tabak. But William Clegg, QC, defending, has told jurors that the couple were standing too far away from the alleged murder scene. "The defence are going to suggest that it is by no means certain that the scream that was heard was connected to this event at all because of the distance involved and the timing," he said. Later jurors were taken under
police escort to the secluded country lane in North Somerset where her body was found on Christmas Day. Tabak has admitted manslaughter but pleads not guilty to murder. The court has heard she put up a desperate fight for life as Tabak inflicted 43 separate wounds. He then packed her dead body in the boot of his car and went to Asda to boy rock salt, beer and crisps. At the supermarket he texted girlfriend Tanja Monson, who was at an office party, that he was "bored." Later that night he drove to the lane near Failton and dumped the body before picking up Miss Morson and acting as if everything was normal. The case continues. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Friends of Liam Fox today launched an outspoken attack on his best man Adam Werritty, describing him as "a Walter Mitty figure" who took advantage of the minister's friendship. "It is clear that Werritty was masquerading as something he was not," said a friend. "He was hanging around and popping up in places, trying to be part of a group. This guy was clearly a Walter Mitty figure." Mitty was the tragi-comic fictional character created by James Thurber, who indulged in fantasy. Dr Fox is under mounting political pressure to explain why he met Mr Werritty 40 times since becoming Defence Secretary, including for dinners with a senior US general, and meetings with an ambassador and foreign dignitaries. Mr Werritty, whose sources of funding are unclear, met Dr Fox 18 times during trips abroad and spoke of flying first class, implying that he spent tens of thousands of pounds in expenses. It now appears that the minister's key defence against Labour claims that the relationship LIAM page 73
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seemed improper is that he did not know or approve of Mr Werritty describing himself as his adviser and feels that his friendship was taken advantage of. "It's fair to say that he [Fox] was naive about Adam," said a friend of the minister. "Adam did arrive in certain places and took advantage of his friendship with Liam. It will be a very different friendship in future." The Evening Standard has called and left messages for Mr Werritty over several days, asking him to give his account of the story but has not yet received a response. Dr Fox is being supported by his wife Jesme, a fellow doctor, who is in London with him. In other developments today, Dr Fox angrily hit out at claims that he had "something to hide" in his private life following reports that the Conservative Party misled the media about the presence of another man in his flat when it was burgled last year. Reports at the time said Dr Fox was alone when his London flat was broken into during the general election. But the minister has confirmed that he had a friend staying in the guest room. "As I told the police at the time, a friend was staying in the guest
room," Dr Fox said in a statement. "My wife was stranded in Hong Kong due to the ash cloud. For the sake of clarity, it wasn't Adam Werritty. "I was a victim of a violent crime and I'm appalled at being portrayed as having something to hide." He later pulled out of a keellaying ceremony in Barrow tomorrow for "logistical" reasons and from a press conference in Paris. Allies say that gossip about his sexuality is part of a "hate campaign" and unfair. Employment minister Chris Grayling acknowledged that "the gossip is certainly circulating" but stressed that Dr Fox and his wife had always appeared to him "a very happily married couple". Key questions Who has paid money to Adam Werritty or donated money to The Atlantic Bridge think tank since Dr Fox became Defence Secretary? Did Mr Werritty work for business clients and did he provide them with briefings on defence matters, strategic thinking or political issues in return? Did any clients of Mr Werritty or donors to his office have financial interests or companies that could
have benefited from access to Dr Fox's thinking? Was Mr Werritty a "political lobbyist", as his former girlfriend believed, and did he influence government policy-making in any way. Was it part of his job to introduce people to the Defence Secretary? Did Dr Fox maintain Mr Werritty as an informal adviser because he did not trust the regular civil service or for some other reason? Were any payments made by wealthy donors recorded with Ministry of Defence civil servants to protect the minister from allegations of impropriety? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Video of the Day: Elizabeth Warren Is Out for Revenge

Chris Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:34:59 AM contract is you take a hunk of that This video seems both to mock and pay forward for the next kid and support Elizabeth Warren's who comes along." bid for Senate in Massachusetts. Warren, a former Harvard It's pretty effective in both professor who designed and departments. helped launch the Obama According to the video's administration's Bureau of YouTube page, activist Eddie Consumer Financial Protection, Geller wrote and directed it. announced last month that she Actress Molly Erdman nails will challenge Sen. Scott Brown Warren's pursed, furrowed visage (R-Mass.) in 2012. Warren and sense of injustice, rehashing released this video Sept. 14: the point Warren made in August Video credits: EddieMGeller/ about nobody in American getting YouTube, Elizabeth Warren for rich on his/her own: Massachusetts "You built a factory out there? This article available online at: Good for you," she says. "But I http://www.theatlantic.com/ want to be clear: you moved your politics/archive/2011/10/video-ofgoods to market on the roads the the-day-elizabeth-warren-is-outrest of us paid for; you hired for-revenge/246553/ workers the rest of us paid to This entry passed through the educate; you were safe in your Full-Text RSS service if this is factory because of police forces your content and you're reading it and fire forces that the rest of us on someone else's site, please read paid for. You didn't have to worry the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentthat marauding bands would come only/faq.php#publishers. Five and seize everything at your Filters featured article: A 'Malign factory, and hire someone to Intellectual Subculture' - George protect against this, because of the M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , work the rest of us did." Herman, Peterson, Pilger And She continues: "Now look, you Media Lens. built a factory and it turned into
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London paying price of cuts as one in ten is jobless

Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Business Editor (Evening Standard - News)
concerned about these figures and painfully aware of the challenge to create jobs and opportunities in the capital. Submitted at 10/12/2011 3:53:44 AM One in ten Londoners is out of " T h a t i s w h y t h e M a y o r work, shock figures have revealed champions the great wealth - the worst unemployment rate creators of the capital, has since 1997. delivered more than 28,000 The "devastating" jobless figures apprentices and channelled 50 published today raised the spectre million of European funding to of a slide back into recession. The help those not in education, economic slowdown and public employment or training. He will sector job cuts were blamed for a continue to encourage employers 2 8 , 0 0 0 r i s e i n t h e L o n d o n in London to do all they can to unemployment total to 425,000, offer jobs, apprenticeships and or just over 10 per cent, in the work experience." three months to August. Tessa Jowell, Labour's TUC general secretary Brendan spokesman for London, said: Barber said: "This unemployment "Today's figures, which show the crisis is state sponsored, and areas number of unemployed people in like London are paying a heavy London rising to 425,000, one in price." The London total is rising ten Londoners, are devastating. faster than most other regions of Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder the country with a jobless rate of the Kids Company charity, said second only to the North East, the rising jobless tide meant it was according to the figures from the more important than ever for the Office for National Statistics. It Government and councils to was last at 10 per cent in February invest in support for young 1997. people. A spokesman for the Mayor of She said: "It's not just the lack of London said: "We are very jobs that's the problem, it's the
need to do something to sustain people's resilience when they're unemployed that is so important." Unemployment rates for the ten worst hit boroughs Newham 14.4 per cent Barking & Dagenham 12.4 per cent Tower Hamlets 12 per cent Hackney 10.8 per cent Waltham Forest 10.7 per cent Haringey 10.6 per cent Brent 10.3 per cent Enfield 10.1 per cent Lewisham 9.9 per cent Southwark 8.9 per cent Figures for March 2011; Source: ONS This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Archos 80 G9 review
Dana Wollman (Engadget)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 12:00:00 PM
As far as tablets go, a couple of interesting things are going to happen between now and the holiday season. One, we're going to see a glut of smaller 7- and 8inch tablets running Honeycomb (like this, this and this) hit the market. And if the Kindle Fire and Acer Iconia Tab A100 are any indication, they're going to be cheaper, making slates palatable to folks who previously couldn't bring themselves to spend $500 on a plaything. The Archos 80 G9, then, is the perfect specimen
on both counts. Here you have an 8-inch tablet running Android 3.2 with a kickstand and full-sized UBS port -- costing just $300 for the base model ($270, even, on sites like Amazon). So how does it stack up against other diminutive, aggressively priced tablets? Let's see. Gallery: Archos 80 G9 review Continue reading Archos 80 G9 review Archos 80 G9 review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments
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Issa subpoenas Holder, DoJ for full documentation on Fast & Furious
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
admission that Obama was involved in it. Otherwise, Congress has the right to demand Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:45:15 AM testimony and documentation Word leaked yesterday that Rep. from the Department of Justice as Darrell Issa would subpoena p a r t o f i t s o v e r s i g h t Attorney General Eric Holder and responsibilities for the executive the Department of Justice for the branch, especially since the DoJ complete set of unredacted relies in part on Congressional documents relating to Operation authority. Thats not at all like Fast and Furious. Today, Issa the controversy over the dismissal tells Holder, Youve been of US Attorneys in the Bush served: administration, who are appointed The subpoena covers a great deal by the President and serve at his o f s p e c i f i c c o m m u n i c a t i o n , pleasure, which actually did relate indicating that the chair of the to executive privilege in political House Oversight and Government decisionmaking. Reform Committee has specific If Obama wanted to play it smart, intentions for the data. Either hed release everything in a rush, that, or Issa has just decided to get in front of the cameras, and follow the redactions to see where accept Holders resignation they lead, which might not be a whether it has been offered or bad strategy, either. I suspect that not. Issa will eventually get the this is a lot more than just a documents, and the longer Obama fishing expedition, however. delays the inevitable in regard to So whats next? Presumably both the documents and Holder, Holder will fight the subpoena in the closer to election time this will court, but hes going to have to all play out. If Obama was really claim executive privilege to quash smart, hed do all that late on it and that opens up a real can Friday afternoon. of worms. So far there has been In accordance with the attached no direct connection to Barack schedule instructions, you, Eric H. Obama to Fast and Furious, but in Holder Jr., are required to produce order to shield communications all records in unredacted form from people on this list, the described below: administration will have to claim All communications referring or that it will infringe on Obamas relating to Operation Fast and ability to get advice on this Furious, the Jacob Chambers case, subject which will mean an or any Organized Crime Drug
Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) firearms trafficking case based in Phoenix, Arizona, to or from the following individuals:
Section. 2. All communications between and among Department of Justice (DOJ) employees and Executive Office of the President a. Eric Holder Jr., Attorney employees, including but not General; limited to Associate b. David Ogden, Former Deputy Communications Director Eric Attorney General; Schultz, referring or relating to c. Gary Grindler, Office of the Operation Fast and Furious or any Attorney General and former other firearms trafficking cases. Acting Deputy Attorney General; 3. All communications between d. James Cole, Deputy Attorney DOJ employees and Executive General; Office of the President employees e. Lanny Breuer, Assistant referring or relating to the Attorney General; Presidents March 22, 2011 f. Ronald Weich, Assistant interview with Jorge Ramos of Attorney General; Univision. g. Kenneth Blanco, Deputy 4. All documents and Assistant Attorney General; communications referring or h. Jason Weinstein, Deputy relating to any instances prior to Assistant Attorney General; February 4, 2011 where the i. John Keeney, Deputy Assistant Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Attorney General; Firearms and Explosives (ATF) j. Bruce Swartz, Deputy Assistant failed to interdict weapons that Attorney General; had been illegally purchased or k. Matt Axelrod, Associate transferred. Deputy Attorney General; 5. All documents and l. Ed Siskel, former Associate communications referring or Deputy Attorney General; relating to any instances prior to m. Brad Smith, Office of the February 4, 2011 where ATF Deputy Attorney General; broke off surveillance of weapons n. Kevin Carwile, Section Chief, and subsequently became aware Capital Case Unit, Criminal that those weapons entered Division; Mexico. o. Joseph Cooley, Criminal Fraud 6. All documents and Section, Criminal Division; and, communications referring or p. James Trusty, Acting Chief, r e l a t i n g t o t h e m u r d e r o f Organized Crime and Gang I m m i g r a t i o n s a n d C u s t o m s
Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata, including but not limited to documents and communications regarding Zapatas mission when he was murdered, Form for Reporting Information That May Become Testimony (FD-302), photographs of the crime scene, and investigative reports prepared by the FBI. 7. All communications to or from William Newell, former Special Agent-in-Charge for ATFs Phoenix Field Division, between: a. December 14, 2010 to January 25, 2011; and, b. March 16, 2009 to March 19, 2009. 8. All Reports of Investigation (ROIs) related to Operation Fast and Furious or ATF Case Number 785115-10-0004. 9. All communications between and among Matt Axelrod, Kenneth Melson, and William Hoover referring or relating to ROIs identified pursuant to Paragraph 7. 10. All documents and communications between and among former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., former Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, ISSA page 79
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Democrats Lag in Recruiting Latino Candidates

Josh Kraushaar (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:51:09 AM
In 2012 and beyond, the party's success will depend on support from the growing Hispanic vote. So why aren't more Latinos running for office as Dems? President Obama's numbers are cratering with nearly every demographic, but the latest Gallup weekly tracking poll shows his approval dropping most steeply among Latinos. It portends poorly not only for the president, but for a Democratic coalition that increasingly depends on their strong support. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: GOP Candidates: Don't Blame Wall Street for the Economy Perry on the Ropes? Perry Attends Post-Debate Frat Party Obama's support among Latinos dropped 20 points since his election, with only 47 percent of Latinos approving of his job performance, according to the poll. In 2008 Obama won 67 percent of the Latino vote; House Democrats took 60 percent amid a drubbing in the midterms. As National Journal reported last week, the recession has hit Latinos particularly hard. And Obama hasn't spent much political capital on immigration reform
even though it is a top priority for Latino groups. Talk to enough Democratic strategists about the 2012 landscape and one sees the problem extends beyond the presidency. They say a dearth of viable statewide Latino candidates is hurting the party's chances. Only two such candidates are running next year: New Mexico Auditor Hector Balderas, who was rebuffed by much of the
establishment that prefers Rep. Martin Heinrich; and retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, whose Senate campaign in Texas has been virtually silent since he announced his candidacy in May. Balderas has a good shot of knocking off the presumably better-funded Heinrich in the primary because the majority of New Mexico's Democratic electorate is Latino. Sanchez is a different story. Although he may
win the nomination, party officials harbor few illusions about the general election prospects of the former Iraq commander of coalition forces under George W. Bush. He's looking less like a Tony Sanchez, the Texas businessman who gave Rick Perry a run for his money in the 2002 gubernatorial campaign, and more like a candidate who simply is not ready for prime time.
Their challenges are not lost on national Democrats and contrast with Republican efforts to spotlight their newly elected Latinos, who are emerging as possible presidential running mates. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio dismisses vice-presidential talk, but would be a logical running mate for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Beyond DEMOCRATS page 79
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GOP Presidential Hopefuls: Don't Blame Wall Street

Catherine Hollander (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 8:35:26 AM
Who was responsible for the economic crisis? At Tuesday's debate, Republican presidential candidates pointed to the federal government and congressional Democrats From left to right: Rep. Barney Frank, former senator Chris Dodd, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke A former senator, a Massachusetts congressman and a professor who was brought into the federal government by former President George W. Bush were the primary targets of the Republican presidential candidates at Tuesday's debate on economic issues. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Perry on the Ropes? Perry Attends Post-Debate Frat Party Dems Lagging in Hispanic Recruitment Despite the populist movement sweeping the country embodied in the tea party and Occupy Wall Street sympathizers protesting on the campus of Dartmouth College, where the debate was held, the financial sector got off easy. And President Obama got relatively few mentions compared to the unlikely trio who became the
focus of the GOP contenders' ire. Former Sen. Chris Dodd (DConn.) and Rep. Barney Frank (D -Mass.) architects of last year's financial reform bill, and--most of all--Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the brunt of the Republican hopefuls' blame for the flailing economy recovery. An early question about whether Wall Street executives should have gone to jail for the damage they inflicted on the economy
quickly morphed into criticism of the environment created by the politicians who, according to the GOP candidates, allowed the country to reach the brink of financial crisis--or failed to walk it back to sturdy ground. Mitt Romney patronized the president, saying he's over his head on economic issues. Rick Perry attacked, calling the president a "job killer." But just two of the eight candidates
mentioned the president in their closing remarks. Instead, Dodd, Frank, and Bernanke were painted as the embodiment of everything that's wrong with Washington. Bernanke--a Republican--faced particularly harsh criticism. Romney, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul each said they didn't support Bernanke's actions as Fed chair. Gingrich called him "disastrous."
Romney took care to separate Bernanke from former President George W. Bush and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson when he said the 2008 bailout was necessary to prevent a complete meltdown of the financial system. "No one likes the idea of a Wall Street bailout," Romney said when asked about the actions taken by the three men. But Bush GOP page 80
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Is Perry finished?
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
down Romneys. Carney says the campaign will air TV ads soon he wont say precisely when Submitted at 10/12/2011 9:05:30 AM but vows most will be positive ads That question comes to us from introducing Perry to voters. Byron York, but its probably Compounding the bad news for being asked around many a Perry was the fact that Romney breakfast table this morning had another strong night. Talk to among Republican households. Republicans who dont like Last nights debate performance Romney, who would like to see a was another disappointment serious conservative emerge to not as bad as Rick Perrys challenge Romney, and they still previous debate, but clearly c o n c e d e t h a t t h e f o r m e r inadequate in comparison to the Massachusetts governor seems in others on the stage. If you dont full command of himself, his trust my judgment, let me refer program, and his performance. you to an expert: Romney has participated in six After the debate, Perry seemed to Republican debates this year, and concede that he wasnt looking to despite his obvious weaknesses stand out. the greatest being his I just try to get up every day and Massachusetts universal health do my job, and debates are not my care plan he has not suffered strong suit, the Texas governor any serious setbacks. And on told reporters following a post- Tuesday night, in particular, he debate party at a Dartmouth w a s r i d i n g h i g h , h a v i n g fraternity house. announced earlier in the day that Keep that in mind while reading he had received the endorsement Byrons critique: of popular New Jersey Gov. Chris If Tuesday nights debate had Christie. really been a make-or-break test, David Carney, the top Perry aide, then Rick Perrys candidacy believes it still is. Ultimately, would be broken. Of course, the battle for the nomination will Perry is still in the race, and he be, I think, between Mitt Romney has time though not a lot to and someone else, David Carney recover. He also has a lot of said after the debate. Our goal is money, about $15 million, to buy to make us that someone else. television advertising that could The question after Tuesday night both bolster his image and tear is whether Perry did anything at
the debate to make progress toward that goal. The answer best expressed by Perrys own not my strong suit comment appears to be no. So then the question is really this: how much do debates matter? After all, Perry seems to handle all other aspects of campaigning superbly. He raises money by the bucketload and uses it efficiently, with a very low burn rate. He is expert at retail politicking of the kind that the Midwest and South demand. Perry handles himself well in interviews, although we havent yet seen a major network interview yet. On top of that, he has the Texas job record on which to run, although certainly with enough issues from eleven years of running Texas to rightly concern small-government advocates but those voters would certainly see him as a better alternative than Mitt Romney on those points, too. Id guess that debates matter, matter significantly, and probably more than they should. Presidents dont engage in formal debates in their four-year terms unless running for re-election, after all, but they do give voters a sense of whether a candidate has enough command of issues and rhetoric to succeed in Washington. It comes down to confidence and trust, and
voters will not have much confidence in a candidate who bumbles through a series of debates. Perry could be a member of Mensa and that would still not eliminate the perception that hes just not intellectually up to the task of discussing policy after these last three debates. Not even $15 million will erase that perception at this point, no matter how many positive ads Team Perry runs ads which should already have been running, by the way. That money isnt meaningless, at least not yet. Perry has a debate in six days that could repair some of the damage done already, but his time is running out. And if he himself doesnt have confidence in his ability to debate the issues toe to toe with Romney, Cain, and the other Republicans, then perhaps we know how this will turn out already. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Schumers strategy to turn the ailing economy into a Tea Party recession
Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 10/12/2011 10:25:18 AM
As Allah wrote of last nights Senate vote to block the presidents jobs bill, the outcome was just about as perfect as it could have been for the president, whose jobs package loaded as it was with tax hikes Republicans were bound to reject out of hand wasnt designed to pass in the first place. The vote last night provides the basis for Democrats to blame Republican obstructionism for the next 13 months of a slow-to-no recovery and blame em they will. But they wont just blame Generic Republicans. As the Senate now lays its plans to vote piece by piece on the American Jobs Act, Democrats are tightening their message against the Tea Party. According to a memo now circulating from New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumers office, Democrats consider the Tea Partys growing unpopularity as the GOPs Achilles heel and theyll exploit that for all its worth. An excerpt from the memo: SCHUMERS page 80
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and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious or any OCDETF case originating in Arizona. 11. All communications sent or received between: a. December 16, 2009 and December 18, 2009, and; b. March 9, 2011 and March 14, 2011, to or from the following individuals: Emory Hurley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; Michael Morrissey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; Patrick Cunningham, Chief, Criminal Division, Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona; David Voth, Group Supervisor, ATF; and, Hope MacAllister, Special Agent, ATF.
b. Emory Hurley, Assistant United States Attorney; c. Michael Morrissey, Assistant United States Attorney; and, d. Patrick Cunningham, Chief of the Criminal Division. 13. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual; Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer; and, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz. 14. All communications sent or received between August 7, 2009 and March 19, 2011 between and among former Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual and any Department of Justice employee based in Mexico City referring or relating to firearms trafficking initiatives, Operation Fast and Furious or any firearms trafficking case based in Arizona, or any visits by Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer to Mexico. 15. Any FD-302 relating to 12. All communications sent or targets, suspects, defendants, or received between December 15, their associates, bosses, or 2010 and December 17, 2010 to financiers in the Fast and Furious or from the following individuals investigation, including but not in the U.S. Attorneys Office for limited to any FD-302s ATF the District of Arizona: Special Agent Hope MacAllister a. Dennis Burke, former United provided to ATF leadership States Attorney; during the calendar year 2011.
16. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) referring or relating to targets, suspects, or defendants in the Fast and Furious case. 17. Any investigative reports prepared by the FBI or DEA relating to the individuals described to Committee staff at the October 5, 2011 briefing at Justice Department headquarters as Target Number 1 and Target Number 2. 18. All documents and communications in the possession, custody or control of the DEA referring or relating to Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta. 19. All documents and communications between and among FBI employees in Arizona and the FBI Laboratory, including but not limited to employees in the Firearms/Toolmark Unit, referring or relating to the firearms recovered during the course of the investigation of Brian Terrys death. 20. All agendas, meeting notes, meeting minutes, and follow-up reports for the Attorney Generals Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys between March 1, 2009 and July 31, 2011, referring or relating to Operation Fast and Furious.
21. All weekly reports and memoranda for the Attorney General, either directly or through the Deputy Attorney General, from any employee in the Criminal Division, ATF, DEA, FBI, or the National Drug Intelligence Center created between November 1, 2009 and September 30, 2011. 22. All surveillance tapes recorded by pole cameras inside the Lone Wolf Trading Co. store between 12:00 a.m. on October 3, 2010 and 12:00 a.m. on October 7, 2010. Note: As far as I know, there is no relation between myself and the Michael Morrissey listed in the subpoena. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
diversifying the ticket, he is a charismatic conservative who could rally the base. Others in the mix: Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, who was one of the first governors to endorse Perry and has tried playing kingmaker with his state's third-in-the-nation nominating contest; and popular New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, who would be the first Latino woman on a national ticket and would be the first woman to sit a heartbeat away from the presidency. All three hail from battleground states. This background makes the news coming out of Arizona significant. President Obama is recruiting Richard Carmona, who was President George W. Bush's surgeon general, to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Jon Kyl, according to The Arizona Republic. Carmona has yet to bite. Direct presidential involvement in an under-the-radar Senate race is unusual--especially when another Democrat, former state party chairman Don Bivens, is already running. Obama's involvement strongly suggests that the White House is acutely aware of the need for Democrats to have a Latino candidate running for statewide office--at a time Republicans will be showcasing their own talent. As a former Bush administration official who later spoke out against the Republican administration's policies on stem cell research, climate change, and DEMOCRATS page 80
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By linking the GOP to its extreme Tea Party fringe, Democrats can bolster the prospects for the presidents jobs ideas, or at least make clear who is responsible for the stalling of the recovery. Democrats can make this link by branding the school of thought that resists against any jobcreation measures as Tea Party economics. The opponents of the Presidents jobs proposals should be invoked as Tea Party Republicans. If their obstruction continues, it will risk a Tea Party recession. The memo employs its own strategy, referring repeatedly to Tea Party economics and to Tea Party Republicans. It also drives home that the debt ceiling debate did more to damage the Tea Party brand than it did to damage the brand of establishment Republicans or Democrats. Thats disappointing, given that many Tea Partiers originally demanded Cut, Cap and Balance in return for a debt
ceiling increase and the final deal that emerged was a far cry from that. In other words, in the midst of that debate, Tea Partiers in Congress compromised every bit as much or more as any other contingent in Congress. But Democrats will only be successful at demonizing the Tea Party if Tea Partiers cease to make the case that has always been at the core of the Tea Party movement. It boils down to this: The $14,695,102,108,238 debt is an enormous drag on the economy and it costs jobs. When debt reaches 90 percent of GDP (ours is higher than that!), the economy loses about 1 percent of growth each year. That translates to 1 million jobs annually. Republicans rightly voted against the American Jobs Act last night because the first stimulus was a miserable failure and because more spending will just add to the debt thats dragging down the economy in the first place. Yes, the presidents plan was paid for with tax hikes. But Barack
Obama has yet to be serious about a long-term plan to cut spending. Democrats are fond of saying that Republicans oppose revenues, that theyre not open to any tax hikes whatsoever. But Republicans have introduced tax reform proposals that would close tax loopholes on the corporate side just as the president says he wants (but hasnt substantively done anything to bring about, probably because that would affect his ability to engage in crony capitalism). What Republicans opposed last night are tax hikes to fund more spending totally unaccompanied by any deficit and debt reduction plan. Whats so wrong with that? What Schumers memo underscores is the need to take the case to the American people from which the Tea Party emerged, after all. Hate to say it, but the president has done an effective job doing just that with the AJA. According to a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, the American people trust the
president on the issue of jobs more than they trust Republicans by a 49 percent to 34 percent margin. Before he toured the country to tout his jobs package, Americans trusted Obama and Republicans about equally on the issue of job creation. The president is able to make his bill sound sensible, but only when Republicans fail to unmask it for what it is a second stimulus, as likely to be only about as successful as the first. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
and Paulson's actions were necessary to stop the downward spiral of the economy, Romney said. He pointedly did not name Bernanke, and he said he would not reappoint him. Gingrich said the U.S. wasn't any better prepared for an economic crisis because the same people who helmed the last are still in charge. But none of the candidates offered a plausible alternative when asked who they would rather have steering the economy as Fed chair or presidential advisors. Jon Huntsman said his father, a septugenarian entrepreneur, would give the best advice. "I wish we could find Milton Friedman again," Romney said of the celebrated conservative economist who died in 2006 at age 94. Cain said 85-year-old Alan Greenspan, who retired as head of the Federal Reserve in 2006, was the most successful chairman in recent years, and GOP page 81
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abstinence-only sex education, Carmona is exactly the type of candidate who could unite Democrats, appeal to Latinos, and pick up moderate Republicans. Obama's reelection team also has been routinely highlighting Arizona as a state it feels it can win, thanks to the growing number of Hispanic voters. What would it say about Obama's own prospects in Arizona if Democrats
don't have a credible candidate to run in a winnable Senate seat? But Arizona-based Democratic strategists aren't nearly as optimistic about Obama's prospects in the Grand Canyon State. Its economy is struggling and many white voters are still mad that his administration sued to prevent the state's immigration law from taking effect. Making matters worse is the
escalating Operation Fast and Furious scandal. In a botched mission, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives sent guns to Mexico that wound up being used in gruesome crimes, including by the group responsible for the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The scandal reminds white voters of the region's security problems and turns off Latinos who are
infuriated that the misguided operation led to the deaths of dozens of Mexicans. In the long term, Republicans' punitive policies on illegal immigration could backfire and are deeply unpopular with Latinos. If Democrats boost Latino registration and turnout, the state could be competitive. But Arizona Democratic strategists say the landscape is not
favorable now, especially with the recession exacerbating anti-illegal immigrant sentiment. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, once a popular governor, skipped the Senate race --in large part because of the blowback against the administration after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against DEMOCRATS page 81
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added that he has identified two candidates "waiting in the wings" to lead the central bank, but refused to name them when pressed. Equally surprising was that some candidates didn't rule out another bailout if the economy takes a turn for the worse. Asked what he would do if the euro crisis deteriorated and the U.S. and global financial system seemed to be on the brink of meltdown, Romney said he "would take action to keep that from happening." The candidates may come off as tone-deaf to a population frustrated with Wall Street's
seeming ability to avoid punishment, again and again, while continuing to engage in many of the same behaviors that got the U.S. into the crisis in the first place. "Virtually every American has a reason to be angry," Gingrich said. Yet voters would have been hard-pressed to find that anger reflected Tuesday on the debate stage at Dartmouth College. Image credit: Alex Brandon/AP (Frank), Liz Lynch/ National Journal(Dodd), Chet Susslin/ National Journal(Bernanke) This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/10/gop-
presidential-hopefuls-dont-blamewall-street/246536/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Arizona's immigration law. She'd have trouble winning elective office again in Arizona. That political dynamic hinders Democrats' recruitment and leaves Carmona as their last best chance to make inroads in the state--and to land a marquee Latino recruit. The irony is the president may not be the best salesman for the job. Image credit: Abdel Magid alFergany/AP This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2011/10/ democrats-lag-in-recruiting-latino -candidates/246538/
This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
LG Doubleplay packs dual screens, likes being different

Sharif Sakr (Engadget)
Sprint and Verizon confirm iPhone 4S Micro SIM unlock for international travel (update: Sprint remains locked)
If you SPRINT page 82 4 on own an iPhone Zach Honig (Engadget) AT&T, using the device while
give you quick access to your apps -- although we're hoping there's more to it than that. The We double-took when we noticed roadmap indicated an imminent this strange little handset on T- November 2nd launch for $150 on Mobile's leaked fall roadmap contract and it surely won't be under a ' Flip II' codename, and long before get some hands-on now it's emerged in some press time. Til then, we'll just try to shots with a doubly playful new imagine the ergonomics. moniker and a touch more clarity. LG Doubleplay packs dual We can see a five megapixel rear screens, likes being different camera with LED flash, a front- originally appeared on Engadget facer of unknown resolution, and on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:35:00 what's reported to be a 320x480 EDT. Please see our terms for use HVGA main display. We know of feeds. Permalink| PocketNow| very little about the secondary Email this| Comments display except that it seems to
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traveling internationally means paying sky-high roaming fees, jailbreaking or limiting data use to when you're on a WiFi network, either with a public hotspot or through a service like Xcom Global. Verizon iPhone 4 owners, however, don't have the option of GSM roaming at all, and can only make calls and use cellular data in countries that support CDMA. All that changes with the iPhone 4S, however -- Macworld has confirmed that Sprint will sell its version of the device with the Micro SIM slot unlocked, with Verizon offering free unlocking to customers after the first 60 days of service. iPhone 4S owners will then be able to purchase a Micro SIM overseas, allowing them to access data and make calls at local rates, for a fraction of what it would cost to roam. AT&T
iPhone 4S owners won't have this option, however, so if you make frequent trips overseas, this benefit alone may be enough to justify purchasing the phone through Sprint or Verizon, saving some users hundreds or thousands of dollars in international roaming fees. Update: Our source article was incorrect, and Sprint has told us that its SIM will not be unlocked, adding that the card will not even be removable. Our SIM does not come out of the device - I believe the same is true of Verizon's iPhone but you would need to confirm that with them. Customers can sign up for one of our international rate plans and use this phone all over the world. When traveling internationally, there is a setting that must be turned on within the
device to connect to GSM. The phone will work with a SIM that is provided within the device out of the box. International voice and data charges are on a pay-as-yougo basis and vary based on the country where the customer is using their phone; a list of rates is available at www.sprint.com/ international.[Thanks, Julio] Sprint and Verizon confirm iPhone 4S Micro SIM unlock for international travel (update: Sprint remains locked) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink 9 to 5 Mac| Macworld| Email this| Comments

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