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Reuters/Ipsos poll: Obama approval hits new low,
but Republicans catch blame too
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:32:59 AM
President Barack Obama’s
approval rating sank to a new
low of 45 percent, while his
disapproval rating rose to 52
percent, according to a Reuters-
Ipsos poll. It was the first time
more Americans disapproved
than approved of Obama in an
Ipsos poll since he became
president.
But Republicans had little to
crow about because they
were blamed more than
Democrats for Washington
being broken, according to the
August national poll.
Among registered voters the
readings were about even when
looking ahead to the November
midterm elections, with 46
percent likely to vote for
Republican candidates and 45
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percent for Democrats.
Unemployment topped the list
of economic worries with 92
percent of those surveyed
expressing concern.
The unemployment rate in June
and July was 9.5 percent.
“Ninety-two percent, that’s a
very, very high number,” Ipsos
pollster Cliff Young said.
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“We’re seeing (an interest in) a
jobs agenda that we haven’t
seen in almost two decades.”
Of those surveyed, 62 percent
believe the country is on the
wrong track.
And 78 percent believe
Washington was not
working effectively because of
fighting between the parties, for
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which 36 percent blamed
Republicans, 28 percent blamed
Democrats and another 28
percent blamed both parties.
Since late February, the biggest
shift has been the increase in the
number of people blaming both
parties.
On the extend vs. expire debate
about tax cuts enacted under
former President George W.
Bush, the poll showed that 49
percent want to extend those tax
cuts for all Americans, while 31
percent want the tax cuts to
expire for people earning more
than $200,000 a year.
The survey interviewed 1,063
adults Aug. 19-22 and had
a margin of error of 3 percent.
Photo credit: Reuters/Brian
Snyder (cutouts of Obama and
Republican Sarah Palin in shop
window in Edgartown,
Massachusetts)
The Best Line On
Fannie And Freddie
You'll Read All Day
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:41:01 AM
We won't hold it against you if
you skip over Bill Gross' 2000-
word essay on housing finance.
Tyler Cowen points to a great
line from economist Arnold
Kling:
Old consensus: we need
Freddie and Fannie in order to
make housing "affordable."
New consensus: we need them
in order to "prevent further
house price declines," in other
words, to make housing less
affordable.
Truth.
Don't miss: 15 reasons the
housing market is doomed >
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Washington Extra — Summer’s end
David Alexander (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 4:35:08 PM
Summer is clearly coming to a
close. Not only did children
head back to public school in
Washington Monday, but
everywhere you look people are
wrapping up old business or
preparing for a new start.
Vice President Joe Biden was
doing it. Speaking to Indiana
military veterans, he noted the
U.S. is on track to end its
combat role in Iraq at the end
of the month. And he pressed
Baghdad to form a government
six months after its election.
Some debates still linger,
though. Whether to extend the
Bush tax cuts to people earning
over $250,000, for example. The
biggest U.S. companies
stepped up their lobbying on
behalf of the breaks.
The wisdom of the
government’s big bank bailouts
is another lingering question.
Kansas City Fed President
Thomas Hoenig said the
bailouts lowered capital costs
for banks that are too big to fail,
making it more difficult for
their smaller rivals to compete.
You know what they say: You
can’t make an omelet without
cracking eggs.
But that’s the day’s other tale.
Here are our top stories…
Biden pressing Iraqi leaders to
form government
Vice President Joe Biden said
he is pressing Iraq’s leaders to
settle their differences and
form a government, almost six
months after the country’s
election and a week before the
scheduled end of the U.S.
combat mission. The Pentagon
plans to cut troop numbers in
Iraq to 50,000 by September 1
— from 176,000 at the peak of
the deployment after the 2003
invasion to topple dictator
Saddam Hussein.
For the full story by Patricia
Zengerle, click here.
U.S. business wants hearings
on Bush-era tax cuts
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The biggest U.S. companies
stepped up their lobbying to
block Democrats’ plans to let
taxes on wealthier Americans
rise at year’s end, asking
lawmakers not to cut short the
hearing process in Congress.
The Senate is set to take up
expiration of tax cuts on nearly
all individuals enacted under
former President George W.
Bush when it reconvenes in
September. The thorniest issue
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involves taxes for the top
income classes — families
earning at least $250,000 a year
— which President Barack
Obama and most Democrats
want to let expire.
To read the rest of this story by
Kim Dixon, click here.
FDA head says more egg
recalls possible
The Food and Drug
Administration commissioner
said there may be more recalls
of eggs in the salmonella
outbreak and the agency did not
yet know how the eggs and
chickens were contaminated.
FDA Commissioner Margaret
Hamburg said the U.S. is
probably involved in the largest
recall that has happened in
recent history.
For more of this story by
Tabassum Zakaria and Alina
Selyukh, click here.
Fed’s Hoenig: “too big to fail”
hurts small banks
The viability of community
banks is threatened by policies
that have conferred “too big to
fail” status on larger banks,
reducing their cost of capital,
Kansas City Federal Reserve
Samsung leaving the e-paper business, citing cost issues
Laura June (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:46:00 AM
Samsung Electronics
announced Monday that its
halting production of e-paper
due to cost issues. While
Bank President Thomas Hoenig
said.
For more by Carey Gillam and
David Lawder, click here.
From elsewhere…
AIG pays back $4 billion of
loan
Bailed-out insurer American
International Group Inc said it
paid back nearly $4 billion in
U.S. loans in its single largest
cash payment so far to reduce its
debt to taxpayers. The partial
repayment of a Federal Reserve
Bank of New York credit
facility came after International
Lease Finance Corp, AIG’s
aircraft leasing unit, sold $4.4
billion in debt to investors and
used the bulk of the proceeds
to repay $3.9 billion in
government loans three years
early.
For the rest of the story, click
here.
Big-spending novices now lag
in Florida campaigns
A pair of wealthy outsiders who
spent their way to prominence
in Florida’s Senate and
governor’s races now lag the
political insiders backed by the
party hierarchies in Tuesday’s
Samsung has yet to out an actual
device boasting e-paper, but did
show off a prototype late last
year which boasted a color
display. The official word from
Samsung itself is that it will not
actually exit the e-reader
primary election. The free-
spending novices, real estate
billionaire Jeff Greene and
healthcare multimillionaire Rick
Scott, held double-digit leads
over their opponents in July but
slipped steadily as their rivals
turned the spotlight on the
newcomers’ business dealings
and character.
To read more of this story, click
here.
Tiger Woods and wife Elin
divorce
The world’s No. 1 golfer Tiger
Woods and his Swedish wife
Elin Nordegren have divorced
following the sex scandal that
embroiled Woods late last year,
a statement from their lawyers
said.
For the rest of the story, click
here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason
Reed (Plate of eggs at a
Washington restaurant Monday)
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Michelle Obama, Laura Bush to
appear together at 9/11 memorial
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 10:19:01 PM
First lady Michelle Obama and
her predecessor, Laura Bush,
will appear together next month
in Pennsylvania at a ceremony
marking the ninth anniversary of
the Sept. 11 attacks.
Obama and Bush will
participate in ceremonies
honoring the victims of the
attacks, including the 40
passengers and crew killed in
the crash of United Flight 93,
the National Park Foundation
said in a statement on Monday.
“Their show of support honors
the lives and memories of these
40 heroes and everyone we lost
on September 11th, and serves
as a valuable reminder of how
important this memorial is to
preserve and share their story,”
National Park Foundation
President Neil Mulholland said.
United Flight 93, en route from
Newark, New Jersey, to San
Francisco, crashed into a field
near Shanksville, in western
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Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:30:00 AM
Right now, markets have
bounced back from their early
Pennsylvania. The passengers
and crew on the flight are
believed to have struggled with
the hijackers who had seized the
plane.
Three other hijacked planes
crashed into New York’s World
Trade Center and the Pentagon
outside Washington, killing
nearly 3,000 people.
The anniversary ceremony will
take place at a temporary
memorial. A permanent Flight
morning lows after and selloff
around the world, most notably
in Europe.
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Jim Cramer Sees a 'Very
Negative' Trend
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:30:00 PM
Filed under: Columns,
Financial Crisis
I didn't find this recap of Jim
Cramer's CNBC show
interesting because of his
recommendations. I found it
interesting because he talks of
an overall "bearishness of the
market." Cramer noted that this
bearishness began in the tech
sector, spread to retail, and is
now creeping into the food
sector.
93 national memorial is under He notes that it is "remarkable
construction and is expected to to see how little enthusiasm
be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011. there is ... even for companies
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U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2009); enthusiasm for good performers
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Bill Gross: We Need
Total Nationalization Of
Housing, And I'm Not
Just Talking My Book
Last week, Bill
BILL Gross
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Joe Weisenthal
plenty (Business
of eyebrows when he
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suggested that the government
ought to totally nationalize
housing finance, while
dismissing the idea that the
private sector could ever step up
to the plate and replace Fannie
and Freddie.
Naturally Gross -- who as head
of PIMCO is one of the biggest
investors in mortgage-backed
assets -- was dismissed for
talking his book (a frequent
charge).
In his latest monthly letter he
goes into more depth about his
views, and denies that he's just
taking the PIMCO line.
The first key to his argument is
that the private sector has failed
when it comes to housing
finance:
I proposed a solution that
recognized the necessity, not
the desirability, of using
government involvement, which
would take the form of rolling
FNMA, FHLMC, and other
housing agencies into one giant
agency – call it GNMA or the
Government National Mortgage
Association for lack of a more
perfect acronym – and
guaranteeing a majority of
existing and future originations.
Taxpayers would be protected
through tight regulation,
adequate down payments, and
an insurance fund bolstered by
a 50–75 basis point fee attached
to each and every mortgage.
Seemed commonsensical to me.
After all, Fannie and Freddie
had really blown up because of
the private/public nature of
their charter, which incentivized
executives and stockholders to
go for broke with the implicit
understanding that Uncle Sam
would be there as a backstop
should anything go wrong. If
you eliminated the private
incentive and provided a tighter
regulatory watchdog, we would
have no more “liar loans” or
“no docs” and a much sounder
foundation for future
homeowners and investors. The
private market, to my mind, had
really lost its claim as the most
efficient and judicious arbiter in
this particular case. Markets and
private incentives without
proper guardrails were as
threatening to a sound economy
in the 21st century as too much
regulation and government
ownership proved to be in the
1970s.
Next he offers some numbers to
back up the idea that the private
sector is bad in this regard:
In addition, my argument had a
practical/market-based logic to
it. Ninety-five percent of
existing mortgage creation over
the past 12 months were
government guaranteed. The
private market was nowhere to
be found because they charged
too much. It was the cost of
private origination and
securitization, perhaps more
than any other factor, that
justified government
involvement. Prime, but non-
conforming, mortgages
(jumbos, insufficient down
payments) were being purchased
by PIMCO in the hundreds of
millions of dollars every week,
but at yields of 6, 7, and 8%. If
that was the risk/reward
tradeoff, compared to FNMA
and FHLMC yields at 3.5–4%,
how could policymakers pretend
that the housing baton could be
quickly and cost-effectively
passed back to the private
market? Few, if any, could
afford a new home at those
interest rates. If you were a
believer in the dominance and
superiority of private markets,
how could you deny the signal
that markets were sending –
that the risk was too high given
the substantial losses of recent
years?
This is just weird. He argues
that higher cost of private
originations justifies
government involvement, rather
than concluding that
government involvement is
arbitrarily pushing the price of
home financing to sub-market
levels (and unsustainably so, as
Fannie/Freddie ended up
showing).
He then argues basically that
since the market has become
conditioned on government
finance, and that because
homeowner attitude has been
seared by the housing bust, we
must double down on
government guarantee of
housing:
My argument for the necessity
of government backing was
substantially based on this
commonsensical, psychological,
indeed sociological observation
that the great housing debacle of
2007–2010+ would have a
profound influence on
homebuyers and mortgage
lenders for decades to come.
What did we learn from the
Great Depression, for instance:
Americans, for at least a
generation or more, became
savers – dominated by the
insecurity of 20%+
unemployment rates and
importance of a return of their
money as opposed to a return on
their money. It should be no
different this time, even though
the Great R. is a tempered
version of the Great D.
Americans now know that
housing prices don’t always go
up, and that they can in fact go
down by 30–50% in a few short
years. Because of this
experience, private mortgage
lenders will demand
extraordinary down payments,
impeccable credit histories, and
significantly higher yields than
what markets grew used to over
the past several decades. Could
an unbiased observer truly
believe that housing starts of
two million or even one million
per year could be generated
under the wing of the private
market? In front of Treasury
Secretary Geithner and the
assembled audience, I said that
was impractical. Let me amend
5
that to “ludicrous.”
So in other words, private
sector financing is too expensive
(because the private sector
apparently sucks at it, not
because the private sector is
better at pricing risk
appropriately), and that because
homeowners have become
conditioned due to the bubble
and the bust, the government
must assume a greater role. And
oh, presuming that the
government ends its dual-
mandate (housing finance and a
profit motive) then we won't see
a repeat of the Fannie/Freddie
bust.
Here he spells it out most
clearly:
Policymakers not only have to
consider the future “flows” of
new mortgage originations, but
the existing “stock” of
mortgages already created.
FNMA and FHLMC either own
or have guaranteed $4.5 trillion
of the $11 trillion mortgage
market now on the books. As
the Treasury contemplates the
“transition” from Agency
conservatorship to either public
or private hands, how could
private market advocates
reasonably assume that pension,
insurance, bank, and PIMCO-
type monies would willingly
add nearly $5 trillion of non-
guaranteed, in many cases junk-
rated mortgages to their
portfolio? They would not. We
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Funny or Die Relies on Social Networks and Wit in Winging

Its Success
Vanessa Juarez (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:51:21 AM

BETWEEN TWO FERNS:

Galifianakis's funnyordie.com
talk show makes A-list guests
uncomfortable. | Photograph by
Armando Gallo/Corbis
Succeeds in the moment with a
blazing wit -- and a matching
business model.
Funny or Die CEO Dick Glover
has no idea what shows his site
will be featuring when you read
this. "Unless you tell me BP's
going to do another oil spill," he
says.
But he's not sweating it.
Founded in 2007 by Will
Ferrell, Chris Henchy, and especially the site's success with HBO." planned." As FoD shows every Galifianakis tells Ben Stiller that
Adam McKay, with funding the coveted demographic of 18- FoD is talking to YouTube day, nobody ever said you need people from the South are
from Sequoia Capital, Funny or to 34-year-old males. According about doing a Web series, but a plan. "stupid enough to go to your
Die has made agility its biggest to Glover, the site is cash-flow it's also flowering offline. Funny 3 to Watch Drunk History fucking movies." The Ed Hardy
asset. The site relies almost positive and "essentially break- or Die Presents was the highest- If Timothy Dickinson, the host Boyz
exclusively on one-off, zeitgeist even" as it generates in the "tens rated new comedy this winter on of the History Channel's Great L.A. meatheads Bobby Bottle
-driven comedy shorts, of millions of dollars in ad HBO and is returning for a and Telling Tales, got hold of a service (Nick Kroll) and Peter
spreading the word among its revenue" annually. second season. Over at Comedy bottle of scotch before taping, it Paparazzo (Jon Daly) are good
1.5 million Twitter followers Right now, FoD prides itself on Central, the sketch series Jon would go something like this. at solving mysteries and getting
and 1.1 million Facebook fans its ability to take videos from Benjamin Has a Van will air Look for Jack Black as Ben girls. These guys make the
to attract as many as 10 million conception to completion often next summer. A feature-length Franklin, Will Ferrell as dudes from Jersey Shore look
viewers a month who press play in just 48 hours and for as little film -- Funny or Die Presents Abraham Lincoln, and Don like amateurs. Thankfully, this
some 35 million times. "If as $2,000 (creators work Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Cheadle as Frederick Douglass. show is fictional and funny.
there's a formula, then you're basically for free in exchange Movie -- is currently in Between Two Ferns Even Ed Hardy designer
doing it wrong," Glover says. "It for exposure). "We just made it development. The plot is Zach Galifianakis's public- Christian Audigier is in on the
really is a social dynamic, being for fun," says Jennie Pierson of straightforward, Glover says: access- style interview series, joke.
part of folks' lives in a her video "The Amazing "Tim and Eric are given their where he belligerently confronts Read more of our Web Video
meaningful way." Adventures of David and first billion-dollar-budget his big-name guests, never gets package
Advertisers love those numbers, Jennie." "But it's what got us on movie, and things don't go as old. In one Webisode,
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Intel, Nokia Taking Smartphones Into A Whole New

Dimension: The Third
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) different bits of software, and
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:00:02 AM combined with touchscreen and
accelerometer sensors, 3-D
Smartphones have only become interfaces is one clever way to
powerful enough to display high connect the phone's user with
-quality 3-D graphics in the last the task they're trying to do. It's
couple of years. But Intel and much like the coming 3-D
Nokia have high hopes for the revolution in desktop computing
future of the technology. To this UIs.
end, they've just opened a new Smartphone paradigm leaders
research lab. It's all about Apple and Google are currently
"immersive" experiences. following a simplified 2-D
The Intel Nokia Joint interface, and Microsoft's
Innovation Center (INJIC) upcoming Windows Phone 7
officially opened its doors system even takes this notion to
today. There are actually three its flattest, most reductionist
parties involved in the new end. So Nokia and Intel are
enterprise: Chip-maker Intel, planning to steal a march on the
cell phone master Nokia, and technology that may succeed it.
the University of Oulu in north- There's just one question to ask
central Finland. Nokia, despite One particular target is the Intel- Nokia's SVP and CTO "3-D e n o u g h t o h a v e p o w e r f u l Nokia and Intel: It's fabulous to
i t s s l i p p i n g g r i p o n t h e Nokia collaborative OS Meego, technology could change the handsets that can do lots of sponsor deep-thinking research
s m a r t p h o n e ( a n d b e i n g as it "provides the greatest way we use our mobile devices "cool stuff" if they're too hard or l i k e t h i s , b u t w i t h t h e
completely sucker-punched by flexibility for developing new 3- and make our experiences with too frustrating to use. As traditionally slow-burning
t h e t o u c h s c r e e n p h o n e D e x p e r i e n c e s o n m o b i l e them much more immersive." smartphones get smarter-- nature of academic study, is it
r e v o l u t i o n ) d o e s l o t s o f devices," and this also explains Boil all this marketing speak potentially with next-gen low- really the right way to develop a
innovative research, and this the choice of Oulu, which has a down, and what do you get? power Intel chips inside--they'll new product that lots of your
new facility is destined to craft " f o c u s on f u t u r e Intel and Nokia have realized get better and better at graphics, future business may hinge on?
" c o m p e l l i n g m o b i l e u s e r telecommunications solutions" t h a t a c o m p e l l i n g u s e r and the platform is ripe for a 3- To keep up with this news,
experiences that could leverage and lots of "3-D interface e x p e r i e n c e i s c r u c i a l t o D UI. That's because the small follow me, Kit Eaton, on
t h e r a p i d l y i n c r e a s i n g expertise." achieving a success in the screen on smartphones needs to Twitter.
capabilities of mobile devices." According to Rich Green, smartphone game--it's not give access to a plethora of

Jennifer and Violet Head Out For an Evening Adventure

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:45:00 AM
Jennifer Garner flashed a smile
last night as she left her hotel in
NYC with her daughter Violet
Affleck. The actress and her
oldest child were out to run
errands together following their
fun weekend spent exploring the
city with Ben and Seraphina.
Jen and her girls have been in
the Big Apple for nearly a week,
after they recently spent time in
LA. The Garner-Affleck
foursome have been all about View 3 Photos ›
taking advantage of the Big
Apple during their stay, even
spending a kiss-filled day at a
children's museum last week.
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Hedge Funder's Desperate Attempt To Get A
Magazine To Reveal Its Source Is Futile
Courtney Comstock (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:47:57 AM
Right now Paul Singer, the
founder of $17 billion New
York hedge fund Elliott
Management, is seeking a court
order to get a magazine to hand
over e-mails and the name of its
source who gave the magazine
information contained in one of
the letters he wrote to his
investors.
The source - whoever gave the
letter to the magazine, AR
Alpha - is probably freaking out
right now.
But he or she or they shouldn't
worry, because there's good
reason to believe that this case
won't go any further and the
source will never be revealed.
One reason is that
(presumably), unless AR Alpha
hands over what Singer wants
soon, a judge will have to
legally require the fund to hand
over the source.
And that might never happen.
From the American Chronicle:
First Amendment lawyers
Street Chic: New York
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 5:00:00 AM
W h o : C e c e B a r f i e l d , Wear: Calypso dress, Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, Lisa Barfield
scoffed at the notion that Elliott
has legal grounds to force AR
to uphold the hedge fund's
confidentiality agreements.
"It just seems to me to be
colossal gall," said Chuck
Tobin, a media lawyer with
Holland & Knight in
Washington, who said New
York state has tough laws
protecting journalists from
revealing their sources.
Singer seems aware that he
architecture student
What: An elegant day look is
easily achievable; start with a
floor-length empire-waist dress.
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one of his letters.
But even if a judge orders the GLD)
magazine to reveal their source, Gregory White (Business
Simons still might not get what Insider)
he wants (emails and the name
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:30:00 AM
of the source). The AR Alpha
reporter might decide not to Right now, markets have
reveal the source. bounced back from their early
We wouldn't reveal anyone's morning lows after and selloff
name anyway. Put in AR around the world, most notably
Alpha's shoes, Business Insider in Europe.
would go to court and let the • Dow down 0.93%
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isn't taking legal issue (yet) with
Four months in jail wouldn't be
AR Alpha for publishing the
fun, but I'd do it. One, to keep
letter (the magazine hasn't
my source's trust. And two,
published it yet, but they will
that'd be a great story!
soon) - his lawyers advised
So Paul Singer, if all goes the
against it, says American
way it should,
Chronicle.
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BILL
continued from page 5

are in a bind, folks. Having
grown accustomed to a housing
market aided and abetted by
Uncle Sam, the habit cannot be
broken by going cold turkey
into the camp of private lending.
The cost would be enormous in
terms of yields – 300–400 basis
points higher than currently
offered, crippling any hopes of
a housing-led revival to the
economy.
And as for his own (lack of)
interest in this:
And why do I and PIMCO
support this view? Is it some
self-interested, money-making
plot to allow us to dominate the
bond market? Hardly. Any
investor would recognize that
it’s better to have a 6 or 7%
yield instead of 3–4%, so it
would be better for PIMCO to
let the Administration flood the
private market with non-
guaranteed, private mortgage
product and let us vultures feast
on the pickins. No, the self
interest rests on “Que” Street. If
the housing market continues to
be government dominated, then
the points from originations and
the fees for private insurance
would all of a sudden disappear.
The vested interest lies on Wall
Street, not Newport Beach or
Main Street. Try explaining that
to commentators intent on
returning to a free market
ideology that continues to serve
monied interests in the high
style to which they are
accustomed, but denies a
commonsensical, more tightly
regulated government
alternative for millions of
current and future American
homeowners. Jimmy Stewart
I’m not, and I won’t be going
back to Washington anytime
soon. If I did, though, I’d want
to visit those guys on “Que”
Street. “K pasa?” I’d say, and
then I’d ask if they slept well at
night.
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hearing today- Hollywood Life
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and American Idol?- The
Blemish

Toshiba Solves the Awkward 3-D Glasses Problem

Austin Carr (Fast Company) specific spot to see the extra Ultimately though, the only
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:55:12 AM dimension--but isn't that worth way to make 3-D televisions the
ridding the awkwardness of norm is to treat them like
Remember having to wear watching David Gregory's well- normal TVs. When HD and
those cheap, plastic frames to 3- coiffed hair pop out of the plasma came along, viewers
D movies? The ones that'd pinch screen on Meet the Press 3-D weren't required to buy
your nose throughout all four alone with sunglasses on? awkward peripherals to enjoy
hours of Avatar? Well soon, Other rival 3-D TV makers the technology. It's basically
those 3-D shades might be a pinned their hopes on 3-D why Virtual Boy never caught
thing of the past. glasses becoming the norm, or on.
J a p a n e s e e l e c t r o n i c s maybe even cool. But it didn't Toshiba seems to have figured
powerhouse Toshiba announced help that Peyton Manning and this out early in the 3-D TV
Tuesday it's developing 3-D Justin Timberlake looked like Panasonic couldn't make them solve the problem, and one race. Have fun catching up
televisions that won't require elderly Cadillac drivers when cool either. company created 3-D shades Panasonic and Sony.
glasses to work. The image wearing the wider-than-face [youtube 8Hbcg9b293I] that could be worn outside [Top image via Parade]
quality will be lower and the frames in Sony commercials. Several companies including movie theaters without
viewer will have to stand in a [youtube qEIj-wsUinc] Look3D tried stylish pairs to distorting vision.
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IBM Opens Corporate Subsidiary in Accra, Ghana

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast between IBM and local and resources, supporting them,
Company) organizations as part of IBM's and ultimately partnering with
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:06:52 PM Corporate Service Corps. IBM them, rather than bringing in
opened the Africa Innovation foreign experts in a linear
IBM's move signifies a growing Centre in Johannesburg, South transfer of knowledge process.
trend and a renewed insight -- Africa, in 2008 and has had its With Africa's own native mobile
t h a t A f r i c a i s r i c h w i t h eye on West Africa for several and telecommunications market
innovation hotspots. years. growing, IBM's gradual
IBM has launched an official The news reinforces a growing approach may just work for the
corporate subisidiary in Accra, t r e n d : A f r i c a i s t h e n e w long-term.
the capital of Ghana, as part of d e s t i n a t i o n h o t s p o t f o r [Image via Wikipedia/
its increasing focus on Africa as innovation hubs, as we touched Company the growing trends create its own innovation hub in Coolcaesar]
a destination for its tech, on in an interview with Erik among Africa's diverse informal the form of an imported Silicon
c o n s u l t i n g , a n d b u s i n e s s Hersman, of Ushahidi, recently. workers and what innovation Valley, the situation in West
services. The move is preceded And just yesterday, Steve looks like across the continent. Africa looks slightly different;
by gradual partnerships forged D a n i e l s s h a r e d w i t h F a s t While Chile is also trying to IBM is tapping into local talent

PricewaterhouseCoopers Strikes a GI Factory: Piloting the

Deal for Diamond Management
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discretionary item.
So, to deal with this, major
consulting operators are
consolidating. For example, Aon
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Arizona's Accidental Governor: Jan Brewer's Reinvention

(Time.com)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) what local political wonks are given Brewer's previous looked like a major setback for championing a one-cent sales-
Submitted at 8/24/2010 8:15:00 AM calling Brewer 2.0. Once more a legislative attempts to create a the governor, turned into a tax increase (abhorred by most
fiscal conservative than a social lieutenant-governor position major political windfall for of her fellow Republicans) to
People in Arizona remember a one, she has decoded Arizona's because she did not feel that Brewer, political observers say. keep Arizona from going
different Jan Brewer from the political landscape and is riding being secretary of state qualified And now the one-liners have bankrupt, several versions of an
t o u g h - t a l k i n g R e p u b l i c a n the immigration issue, even someone to be governor.(The given way to a hard-line immigration bill floated around
governor at the center of the though it came to her almost by battle for Arizona: Will a border approach. the legislature under the
b i t t e r i m m i g r a t i o n d e b a t e accident. Now, "the potential for crackdown work?) Brewer, 65, grew up in watchful eye of state senator
swirling out of her state. If her to make a long-term impact If Brewer's rise sounds like the Hollywood and moved to Russell Pearce, a suburban
politicians have multiple lives, on Arizona is unprecedented," ultimate door prize in Arizona Arizona in 1970. She helped put Republican, former sheriff's
her previous ones showed a s a y s P h o e n i x - b a s e d G O P politics, think again: she her husband John through deputy and hard-liner on illegal
much more personable presence strategist Kevin DeMenna, who inherited a largely college to become a immigration. Those versions
- o n e p u n d i t c a l l e d h e r worked with Brewer at the state uncooperative state legislature chiropractor; at the same time, would coalesce into the tidal
"delightful." Not eloquent but senate.(See pictures of the Great and a $3 billion deficit. Arizona she became a churchgoing wave called SB 1070. Worried
engaging, not book-smart but Wall of America.) was second to California in Lutheran mother of three sons about the fate of the sales tax
pragmatic, Brewer would often It is an astonishing terms of having the largest debt (one died of cancer in 2007). and Arizona's budget, political
crack jokes in boring committee transformation for a woman obligation among the 50 U.S. She attended dental school at a observers say, Brewer had no
meetings when she was a state who holds the office of governor states, and the Republican- local community college, but choice but to attach herself to
legislator, trading punch lines by virtue of succession, not controlled capitol had its own before she could pursue her SB 1070 to avoid turning off
with another lawmaker who election, and is virtually assured plans for fiscal reform. Then dream of being a nurse, politics Republican voters.(See what
acted as the comedic foil. The of winning the Republican came Senate Bill 1070, the anti- intervened. Russell Pearce thinks of "anchor
exchanges reminded some of nomination once again in illegal-immigration law that Unhappy about the way her children.")
scenes with Lucy and Ethel in I T u e s d a y ' s g u b e r n a t o r i a l came in for immense national children's school was run, she And so, with the stroke of a pen
Love Lucy more than legislative primary. In early 2009, Brewer scrutiny and complaint because decided to run for a seat in the on April 23, she signed SB 1070
debate. was secretary of state and her of stipulations that critics said local school board. But then a into law and sailed into history.
"That's the Jan Brewer I had job was largely administrative would lead to racial profiling seat in her local legislative It has paid a huge dividend for
experienced that I think is more ("Did you fill out your voter and discrimination. district opened up, and Brewer her since then. A majority of
a t h e r c o r e , " s a y s B o b registration?" "Have you filed On July 28, a few hours after a opted for the state capitol voters broke with their GOP
Grossfeld, of Tempe, Ariz., a y o u r l o b b y i s t - r e g i s t r a t i o n federal judge temporarily instead to influence education elected leaders - who had
longtime Democratic strategist paperwork lately?"). But she blocked the most controversial policy. She became a member of largely decried the proposed
who is now the publisher of found herself entering the parts of SB 1070 from taking both houses of the Arizona sales-tax increase - and passed
ArizonaGuardian.com, which governor's office in place of effect the following day, Brewer legislature, the Maricopa the Brewer-backed proposal
covers the state capitol. "What Democrat Janet Napolitano, told local media the decision County Board of Supervisors with a 3-to-2 margin in a special
we're seeing now is a highly who left Arizona to become was just a "little bump in the (which governs unincorporated election in May. But even as she
manicured and choreographed President Barack Obama's road." She looked right into a parts of the Phoenix metro area) surged in popularity, she was
Jan Brewer - probably not Homeland Security chief. It was television camera and, without and, finally, won election as swept forward by a much larger
unlike a Sarah Palin, who was the fifth time in Arizona's breaking stride, demanded that Arizona secretary of state and controversy. The immigration
thrust into the national spotlight history that such a constitutional the federal government do its her succession to the governor's issue has pushed the fast-
and had never been there succession had taken place. It job managing immigration. The office.
before." Grossfeld is referring to was also an ironic outcome ruling, which at first blush Then, while Brewer was busy ARIZONA'S page 17
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4 people vie to be elected DC's shadow congressman (AP)
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 6:20:43 AM
WASHINGTON – Every two
years, voters here pick a shadow
congressman, a position with
little clout and one
responsibility: lobbying to make
D.C. the 51st state.
There's no salary and no ability
to vote in Congress, but four
residents still want the decades-
old gig that has few perks aside
from a basement office on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
The current office holder
proposes bringing attention to
Washington's plight by hoisting
a 51-star flag over the city
government building. His
challenger, a 25-year-old law
school student, plans a summer
lobbying campaign and says he
was put on the planet to win
statehood. The two Democrats
face each other in a September
primary and more candidates
will join in the November
general election. But many
voters are still in the dark about
the contest.
"What is a shadow
representative?" asked the
moderator at a recent candidate
forum. "What do you all do?"
Current shadow Mike Panetta
explains it this way: the person
lobbies to make D.C. a state, but
he and his challengers are
essentially running "to say who
is going to be the best volunteer
for the district."
The nation's capital already has
a member of Congress,
Democrat Eleanor Holmes
Norton. She has been the city's
delegate since 1991, but isn't
allowed to vote on the House
floor. To push for full
representation, city voters
created the shadow
representative position and two
"shadow senators" in the 1980s,
though only the representative is
up for election this year. The
idea wasn't new. A handful of
territories created similar
positions before becoming
states. Once their state was
admitted, the office holders
often became their state's first
real representatives.
D.C.'s 600,000 residents give it
a comparable population to
Wyoming, Vermont and North
Dakota, which each have two
senators and a congressman.
And the city was on the verge of
getting a voting seat in Congress
under a bill passed by the Senate
in 2009, but it stalled without
members of the House voting on
it.
Panetta, who was first elected
shadow in 2006, says it's not the
first time he's seen the district
disappointed. He sees the
position as a marketer for the
district's desires: getting voting
representation in Congress and
authority over its own laws and
budget, which Congress
currently must approve. But
Panetta, 39, is also a realist.
"I go with what is possible at the
time as far as statehood or
voting rights," said Panetta, who
has a job in marketing and
public affairs.
So far, his success has been
with humor. In 2005, before his
election as shadow, he created a
campaign to rename RFK
stadium "Taxation Without
Representation Field" to draw
attention to the city's lack of a
vote in Congress. In 2006, he
formed a D.C. Olympic curling
team. The team only went
curling maybe three times, but
they got quite a bit of press.
"They were poking fun at us,
obviously, but each of those
stories had our message," said
Panetta, who has also targeted
congressmen who don't support
D.C. rights with messages
against them in their home
states.
But don't expect to find him on
Capitol Hill, hobnobbing with
voting members.
"You don't need another guy up
there running around,
pretending to be a
congressman," Panetta said.
Panetta's Democratic opponent,
Nate Bennett-Fleming, accuses
him of not being aggressive
enough. A graduate of
Morehouse College in Atlanta,
he is finishing a law and
government program through
Harvard and the University of
California, Berkeley. He says
with the Democrats in control of
the House and Senate, now is
the time to get statehood for the
district.
"I view this as a time when we
can make a change, and we can
make history," said Bennett-
Fleming, who has interned in
Norton's office and worked on
John Kerry's 2004 presidential
campaign.
He wants to organize a
"Freedom Summer" in 2011
where residents would lobby for
statehood, and he would also
organize on college campuses.
Bennett-Fleming, who just
meets the age requirement to
run, says the job is for a young
person.
"I was put on this planet to win
statehood for the citizens of
D.C., and if I don't do it it won't
be done," he said during the
candidate forum.
The winner of the Democratic
primary on Sept. 14 will face
two opponents in November: the
green party candidate, a
grandmother, and a Republican
who is a retired congressional
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staff member. But three-quarters
of the city's registered voters are
Democrats, so the other
candidates are considered
longshots.
"My chances are not good,"
acknowledges Republican
candidate Nelson Rimensnyder,
who proposes making the
district a territory, which he says
would give it more rights, and
creating a D.C. delegate to the
Senate.
The district's only actual
representative in Congress,
Norton, says whoever the
winner is can help mobilize
residents and work with city
groups. And she doesn't mind
having an understudy.
"I wouldn't care," Norton said,
"if they deputized every resident
as a shadow."
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Exhibition looks at Jimi Hendrix's London years (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) living in Handel's house — but the 60s, equivalent to about 350 working men's clubs to the vast certificate gives the archetypally
Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:50:43 AM actually he was living next pounds a week today. Isle of Wight rock festival. In rock 'n' roll causes as "inhalation
door." By all accounts Hendrix 1967 he released the acclaimed of vomit" and barbiturate
LONDON – They were both Handel lived at 25 Brook Street enjoyed the domestic side of album "Are You Experienced?" intoxication.
immigrants in Britain who — a Georgian house in the tony London life — though the and soon was touring Wyatt said some of the
changed the face of music — Mayfair area — for 36 years appliances were not always up internationally, gaining fame for museum's supporters were
one with a harpsichord and a until his death in 1759. The to his modern American his innovative, heavily distorted skeptical at first about the
composer's pen, the other with museum devoted to his life uses standards. guitar style. Hendrix display. But he is
an electric guitar. the adjoining upstairs apartment "When they first moved in, "He was an absolute revelation struck by the similarities
George Frideric Handel and where Hendrix lived as offices. Hendrix was horrified to find a to everyone here," Wyatt said. between the two musicians.
Jimi Hendrix also shared an Museum curators hope to raise 1950s gas fridge, which he "It was like an earthquake "They were both great
address, living 200 years apart money to restore the apartment thought was the most old- rumbling through the music improvisers," he said — Handel
i n a d j o i n i n g 1 8 t h - c e n t u r y to its 1960s glory and open it as fashioned thing he had ever scene." on harpsichord, Hendrix on
London houses. Now, 40 years a permanent Hendrix exhibition. seen." Parker said. They bought "I think for Hendrix London guitar.
after Hendrix's death, a new For now, members of the public an electric one, as well as a was much more open — in He said that on the occasional
exhibition about his London will be able to visit for 12 days yellow Formica kitchen table. America he was too white for past openings of Hendrix's
years brings these two unlikely next month. They will have to Parker said Hendrix "was quite black music and too black for apartment, the guitarist's fans
neighbors together. use their imaginations to picture well known in John Lewis," the white music. Here there was a have sometimes stayed to listen
Hendrix, who came to London the small, whitewashed rooms venerable London department burgeoning blues scene that and learn about Handel.
as an ambitious but little-known with their utilitarian desks as store. wasn't that categorized." "We're hoping the exhibition
guitarist in 1966, was aware of they were then, decorated in "It's this other side of him you The Hendrix exhibition, which will open the road the other
his link to the musical past. He garish 60s style with red carpets don't really think about — Jimi runs to Nov. 7, is a bit of a way."
bought recordings of Handel's and turquoise velvet curtains, Hendrix shopping for carpets shock next to the muted gray __
"Messiah," and obligingly gave chock-a-block with guitars, and soft furnishings." walls, oil paintings and Online:
tours of his apartment to music amps, rugs and knickknacks. When he wasn't at home, harpsichords of the rooms http://www.handelhouse.org
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Philippine police admit blunders in hostage ordeal (AFP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) shortcomings in terms of mourned the victims, while avoided," the paper said. Wednesday a national day of
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:06:22 AM capability and tactics used, or media focused on the perceived Aquino acknowledged in a pre- mourning to remember the eight
the procedure employed, and we ineptitude of the Philippine dawn press conference Tuesday victims.
MANILA (AFP) – Philippine are now going to investigate police in handling the crisis. that the tragedy highlighted The gunman, former senior
police conceded Tuesday they this," Santiago said on local "The Philippine government.... I many flaws in the ability of inspector Rolando Mendoza,
had made blunders ending a bus television. can't accept this. Why did they Philippine security forces to hijacked the bus in a crazed
hijacking amid outrage over a He and President Benigno do this to us?" one survivor, handle hostage situations. attempt to clear himself of
bloody assault that was played Aquino promised to probe all identified as Amy Ng, told "There are a lot of things (that) charges of extortion that led to
out on live television and left aspects of the 12-hour ordeal, Hong Kong officials who visited resulted in a tragedy. Obviously him being discharged from the
eight Hong Kong tourists dead. which began when a disgruntled her at the Manila hospital where we should be improving," said police force in 2008.
Commandos fired dozens of sacked policeman armed with an she had been admitted, in Aquino, who took office less Mendoza, 55, had demanded
bullets into the bus and smashed M-16 assault rifle hijacked a bus comments shown on Cable than two months ago. that the ombudsman reopen an
its windows w i t h carrying 25 people, mostly News TV. One problem, he said, was the investigation into his case,
sledgehammers as they tried to Hong Kong tourists. "(The gunman) did not want to way the crisis played out which centred on accusations he
storm it, but were then forced to Hong Kong's Chief executive kill us. He only shot us after the through the media, with the tried to extort money from a
wait outside helplessly for over Donald Tsang expressed anger negotiations failed." gunman allowed to speak on man accused of drug trafficking.
an hour as the hijacker used his at the handling of the crisis and Ng said her husband and two radio and watch events live on Before being discharged, he
captives as human shields. insisted he get answers. daughters aged 21 and 14 were the bus's television, giving him was regarded as a model officer,
The standoff in Manila's tourist "We demand that the Philippine killed in the shoot-out, while her insights into police actions. once being named as among the
district on Monday finally ended authorities conduct a detailed 18-year-old son was in intensive But Aquino nevertheless top 10 policemen in the country.
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Study: Non-Profit CEOs See Boosts in Salaries

(Society) compensation is one of the key million salary given by the New high,” but said those receiving
Submitted at 8/23/2010 10:30:02 PM factors that will cause a donor York Philharmonic, the excessive pay are in the
not to support a charity,” $725,000 salary given by the minority.
The average salary for the chief remarked Charity Navigator Wildlife Conservation Society, “This study provides strong
executive officer of a large President and CEO Ken Berger, and the $1.0 million given by evidence that the majority of
charity in America increased w h o s e c h a r i t y e v a l u a t i n g the Scripps Research Institute. charity leaders are not
last year, with education-related organization is America’s Also noted was the $661,000 excessively compensated,”
charities seeing the biggest largest and most utilized. salary given by the YMCA of Berger noted.
boosts and religious charities “That is especially true now, Greater Houston and the The charity evaluator also Reese Witherspoon
seeing the smallest, according to given the recession’s impact on $648,000 salary given by the reiterated past recommendations
a n e w s t u d y b y C h a r i t y many donors’ own paychecks,” Education Media Foundation. made to charity boards to make Chills in LA and Will
Navigator. he added. “Donors want to Of the 3,005 charities included an independent compensation Stand Up 2 Cancer
On average, the salary for an know that their charitable in the study, 14 paid their top committee responsible for
education charity CEO was donations will go as far as Molly (PopSugar)
executive more than $1 million. reviewing the CEO’s
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percent from 2008) while the good works, rather than pad a expenses from $13.5 million to the CEO’s pay is appropriate.
salary for a religious charity CEO’s wallet.” $3.5 billion. This list is “We hope [this study] will Reese Witherspoon clutched
CEO was $90,000 (1 percent To keep extreme salaries from comprised of eight Education improve the public’s confidence her BlackBerry on her way to
more than the year before). skewing the data, only the charities; five Arts, Culture, in the charitable sector, while and from seeing friends in
Other salaries fell in between, median, or middle, value of Humanities charities; and one helping them to avoid rip-off Beverly Hills yesterday. She
though only religious charity C E O p a y w a s t a k e n i n t o Health charity. charities,” Berger added. traded in her recent favorite
CEOs had an average salary less account. Charity Navigator also The study also revealed that Charity Navigator's ratings are shrunken sweatshirt top for a
than $100,000 and a salary restricted its analysis to 3,005 106 charities paid their CEOs accessible at no charge at cute green shirtdress to greet the
increase of less than 4 percent. charities rather than all 5,500 in between $500,000 and $1 charitynavigator.org. high temperatures in California.
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forward button on the once
congenial conservative, forcing
her to evolve more quickly than
any high-profile politician in
recent memory. "I think the
recent incarnation is the
governor being focused in a way
she hasn't been focused before,"
says Grossfeld, who described
his relationship with Brewer as
civil during the time he worked
for the legislature's Democratic
majority in the early 1990s.
Brewer is reaping the benefits
momentarily interested.
But Brewer has surrounded
herself with people who are
helping her make her moment
last, such as lobbyist and
longtime state policy adviser
Eileen Klein, and Brewer's
longtime campaign consultants,
Chuck Coughlin and Doug Cole.
It seemed improbable at first.
Much of the country and liberal
media turned against her after
she signed the bill into law. And
when U.S. District Court Judge
WestGroup Research for the
Arizona Republic found that
support for SB 1070 was
strongest among more affluent
households, whites, Republicans
and older Arizonans; and
statewide support for the
legislation was 55%. Now,
conservative talk shows hail
Brewer as a hero. And,
according to Democratic analyst
Grossfeld, the rallying cry
"You're either for or against SB
1070" is quickly being
forum. But it isn't smart to
underestimate someone who's
been so lucky. Especially a
politician like Brewer who's
good at one-liners. "Good things
continue to happen to Jan
Brewer's political career,"
DeMenna says. "The question
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of governing a transient state
where long-term planning and
analytical thought rarely last
longer than a legislative session,
says GOP strategist DeMenna.
In fact, a regular legislative
session lasts for just four
months. The population seems
transient too: 1 in 5 Arizonans
has come from some other state.
DeMenna, who has more than
30 years of experience in
Arizona politics, says that it is
the kind of environment that
makes it easy to become the
person of the moment - because
the electorate is always only
Susan Bolton temporarily
blocked key portions of SB
1070, some people in Arizona
said it spelled certain doom for
Brewer's hopes for election in
November. But the decision also
gave her a huge shot at success.
The case may take years to
course through the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals to the U.S.
Supreme Court. This gives
Brewer longer playing time on a
hot-button issue that has the
numbers on her side - for now.
Polls in Arizona continue to
validate her stance on illegal
immigration. A recent poll by
translated into "You're either for
or against Jan Brewer."
Meanwhile, her competitors in
the Aug. 24 Republican primary
have been dropping out of the
race.
Her campaign is now focused
on her presumptive Democratic
opponent in November, Terry
Goddard. But the issue is
shifting too. It's now jobs, and
so Brewer's ads have her talking
jobs and show images of
Brewer's face on World War II's
"Rosie the Riveter." Goddard
wants to face her in a series of
debates - not her strongest
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Survey: 2 in 3 Say Religion Losing Influence on

American Life
(Society) say houses of worship should and Politics in general. down slightly from last year (47
Submitted at 8/23/2010 9:47:22 PM express their views on day-to- Though opinions regarding percent).
day social and political houses of worship and politics Another interesting finding of
Two-thirds of Americans (67 questions. But when it comes to change little since 2008, the the study is that, while the
percent) currently say that endorsing specific candidates percentages saying the public expressed reservations
religion is losing its influence on for public office, 70 percent of Republican and Democratic about churches’ involvement in How to Get the Best
American life, up from 59 A m e r i c a n s u r v e y e d s a i d parties are friendly to religion politics, there was widespread Color Out of Your
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July 2006, according to the favor of candidates during years. should be religious.
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less influence on American life religious group opposes such say the Democratic Party is percent disagree. the default "artistic" style for
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Big-spending novices now lag in Florida campaigns
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 7:54:45 AM
Healthcare multimillionaire
Rick Scott, candidate in the
Florida Republican governor's
race, in an undated photo.
Credit: Reuters/Courtesy of
Rick Scott, Republican, for
Governor
By Jane Sutton
MIAMI| Tue Aug 24, 2010
8:54am EDT
MIAMI(Reuters) - A pair of
wealthy outsiders who spent
their way to prominence in
Florida's Senate and governor's
races now lag behind the
political insiders backed by the
party hierarchies in Tuesday's
primary election.
The free-spending novices, real
estate billionaire Jeff Greene
and healthcare multimillionaire
Rick Scott, held double-digit
leads over their opponents in
July but slipped steadily as their
rivals turned the spotlight on the
newcomers' business dealings
and character.
"Money can only go so far,"
said Peter Brown, assistant
director of the Quinnipiac
University Polling Institute. "It
made two guys nobody ever
heard of front-runners. It can't
necessarily get you over the
top."
Greene spent almost $23
million in the run-up to the
primary, four times as much as
his rival, Representative
Kendrick Meek.
He now trails Meek by a dozen
points in the race for the
Democratic nomination for
Florida's open Senate seat,
according to a Mason-Dixon
poll of likely voters on
Saturday.
The winner will face
conservative Republican Marco
Rubio and Republican-turned-
independent Governor Charlie
Crist in the November election
to replace George LeMieux, the
Republican Crist appointed to
finish the term of retired Senator
Mel Martinez.
The race is one of a dozen toss-
up Senate contests around the
United States that could decide
the balance of power.
Republicans need to gain 39
seats in the House and 10 in the
Senate to win control of
Congress.
POLITICAL OUTLIERS
In the Republican governor's
race, Scott has spent $39 million
-- five times that of his rival,
Florida Attorney General Bill
McCollum -- but lags by nine
points, The winner faces
Democrat Alex Sink, Florida's
chief financial officer, in
November.
Neither Scott nor Greene has
ever held elected office. Both
were virtual unknowns in their
political parties and both are
relatively new to Florida.
"They're not just not members
of the establishment, they are
total outliers," said Mac
Stipanovich, a Republican
strategist and campaign manager
for former Governor Jeb Bush.
"They just came from nowhere,
opened their checkbooks and
attempted to buy the
nomination."
Both shot to prominence by
flooding the airwaves and
mailboxes with ads portraying
them as savvy businessmen who
built companies and fortunes
and could create jobs. They
spent their own money and said
they were not beholden to
special interests.
They seemed to be riding a
trend seen in California, where
two powerful Silicon Valley
businesswomen won Republican
nominations for governor and
the U.S. Senate after
capitalizing on their business
acumen and personal fortunes.
But strong early showings by
Green and Scott began to fade
as voters learned more about
them and the Democratic and
Republican party leadership
closed ranks around Meek and
McCollum.
Worried that the newcomers
would be a drag on their
respective tickets, party elders
ratcheted up their fund-raising
and other support.
Bush hit the campaign trail with
McCollum, who served 20 years
in Congress, while President
Barack Obama and former
President Bill Clinton stumped
for Meek, a four-term
congressman who holds the seat
his mother once held.
BACCHANALIA AND
FRAUD
Green, who ran unsuccessfully
for Congress as a Republican
when he lived in California,
became a billionaire by buying
credit default swaps that rose in
value when subprime borrowers
defaulted on their home loans.
Meek tagged Greene as a
"meltdown mogul" who profited
from middle-class homeowners'
misery.
Accounts surfaced of Greene's
lavish Los Angeles parties with
friends such as boxer Mike
Tyson and Hollywood madam
Heidi Fleiss, while former
employees told tales of
Bacchanalia aboard his yacht,
the Summerwind.
When a former deckhand said
Greene made a party trip to
Cuba, which would be a
violation of the U.S. embargo,
Greene said it had been a
humanitarian mission to Cuba's
Jewish community. His
spokesman later said the yacht
stopped at the communist island
because it had mechanical
problems.
McCollum pounded away at
Scott's record as chief executive
of Columbia/HCA, the hospital
chain that paid $1.7 billion in
fines to settle the largest
Medicare fraud case in U.S.
history.
Scott was never charged with a
crime but was forced out of the
company in 1997, leaving with a
reported $10 million severance
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payment and $300 million worth
of stock.
He said he knew nothing of the
fraud that occurred on his watch
but that raised doubts about his
leadership competency.
In a year when voters are
distraught about the economy
and fed up with government,
Greene and Scott both could
have won hands-down if they
were perceived as squeaky-
clean, said Brad Coker,
managing director at Mason-
Dixon Polling & Research.
"You can be an independent,
wealthy business person and get
elected to office but you have to
be seen as somebody who made
their money honestly and has
personal integrity," Coker said.
"Any whiff of bad character is
going to offset 99 percent of the
assets that you bring to the
race."
(Editing by Bill Trott)
Aug 24, 2010 11:43am EDT
Can someone please explain
how these Billionaires and
Millionaires are “poor”
Democrats when all we hear
about is the phony rant about
“rich” Republicans and big
business. Fact is folks, these
power hungry megalomaniacs
are the same in both parties,
they are all rich, and BOTH are
out to buy your vote.
Aug 24, 2010 12:24pm EDT
That is so true Cynicalme.
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Jimmy Carter expected to visit North Korea over U.S. prisoner

(Reuters: Top News) media reported that Gomes, 30, familiar with Carter, said Carter weapons ambitions in 1994 and exploding a bomb and sometime
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:26:14 AM had attempted to commit might take his wife and daughter North Korea continued to the overthrow can be stage by
suicide, just a few months after and was slated to leave within develop them. CIA agents disguised as
Former President Jimmy Carter being sentenced to eight years days. It is clear North Korea is religious zealots… Carter
speaks during an interview with hard labor. Carter has dealt directly with rhetoric personified. Even the should know he helped lure the
Reuters in Juba, south Sudan in U.S. government spokesmen North Korea in the past, and report of Gomes’ attempted Soviet Union to occupy
this April 13, 2010 file photo. declined comment on the analysts said the visit might suicide needs to be considered Afghanistan to oppose religious
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U.S. troops in Iraq below 50,000 as combat ends
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:54:16 AM
U.S. soldiers of the 1st
Battalion,116th Infantry
Regiment wait for their flight to
Kuwait, in the lobby of Tallil
A i r B a s e n e a r
Nassiriya,southeast of Baghdad,
August 15, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Thaier al-
Sudani
By Serena Chaudhry
BAGHDAD| Tue Aug 24, 2010
11:54am EDT
BAGHDAD(Reuters) - The
U.S. military said on Tuesday it
had cut its troops in Iraq to
below 50,000 before an August
31 deadline set by President
Barack Obama as he seeks to
keep a promise to end the war.
The withdrawal of 90,000-plus
soldiers, 40,000 vehicles and 1.5
million items from radios to
generators has progressed
steadily over the past months,
despite continuing violence and
a political impasse five months
after an inconclusive election.
Meeting the deadline allows
Obama to fulfill a pledge to end
combat operations and start
extricating the United States
from the war, which grew
deeply unpopular as casualties
mounted and costs soared.
Obama's Democrats are seeking
to retain control of Congress in
elections in November.
The U.S. military commander
in Iraq, General Raymond
Odierno, said troop numbers
were at around 49,700 and
would stay at that level for the
next year before a full
withdrawal by the end of 2011
agreed in a bilateral security
pact.
"My planning.. is it will stay at
that level through next
summer," Odierno told reporters
in Baghdad, adding that the
timeline would give the U.S.
Embassy the space it needed to
take over tasks still done by the
military.
"The war is not over. There is
still danger. There's still lots of
people who will attack our
forces, we all know that. Until
we get every last soldier out of
here, our commitment to this is
not over," Odierno said.
The end of U.S. combat
operations in Iraq comes 7-1/2
years after the invasion
launched by former President
George W. Bush to topple
Saddam Hussein.
More than 4,400 U.S. soldiers
have been killed since the
invasion.
At least 100,000 Iraqi civilians
have also died, according to
various counts, in sectarian
warfare unleashed between
majority Shi'ites and the
minority Sunni Muslims who
dominated the country under
Saddam, and in a fierce
insurgency.
Many Iraqis had hoped the
March 7 election would lead to
greater stability and prosperity
in a country hungry for
investment after decades of war
and sanctions.
Yet, more than five months on,
Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish
factions are still in talks to form
a coalition government, leaving
the country with a political
vacuum that insurgents have
tried to exploit through suicide
bombings and assassinations.
ASSIST ROLE
The six remaining U.S.
brigades in Iraq will move into
an advisory role on September
1, training and supporting Iraq's
army and police as they fight a
weakened al Qaeda-linked
insurgency.
Most U.S. military units began
switching their focus to training
and assisting Iraqi troops and
police when they pulled out of
Iraqi towns and cities on June
30, 2009, so there will be little
effective change on the ground
by September 2.
Odierno said he was confident
Iraq's political leaders would
eventually come to an
agreement on a government and
that its security forces were up
to the task of defending the
country.
He said it was time for Iraqis to
stop seeing the United States as
"100,000 guys running around
in uniforms, providing security,
occupying the country," but in
terms of the economic,
educational, diplomatic and
educational help it could give
them.
Obama has said no U.S. service
members will remain in Iraq by
January 1, 2012, even though it
will be impossible for Iraq to
stand up its own multi-role air
force and be fully ready to
protect its territorial integrity by
then.
But Odierno said if Iraq's
leaders asked the United States
to retain support personnel in
the country, or help it with air
defences, the request would not
be rejected out of hand.
"If they ask us we certainly will
consider it. But it's not going to
be 50,000 soldiers," he said. He
said numbers would likely be
similar to deployments in Egypt
and Saudi Arabia, where the
U.S. military has less than 1,000
personnel.
(Additional reporting by Khalid
al-Ansary and Michael Christie;
Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)
Aug 24, 2010 9:05am EDT
It doesn’t matter now if we win
the war or not. The victory here
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is that our troops are coming
home!
This should be something that
everyone can support. I hope
Republicans can put aside their
politics and thank Obama for
getting our servicemen and
women back safe & sound.
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Job fears grip voters as Obama ratings fall
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:23:58 AM
President Barack Obama (C)
speaks with employee Elaine
Hart as company Principal Luc
Brami watches on during his
visit to Gelberg Signs in
Washington, August 6, 2010.
Obama used the visit to
highlight job creation initiatives.
Credit: Reuters/Jason Reed
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2010 12:23pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) -
Almost three-quarters of
Americans are very concerned
about unemployment and more
people now disapprove of
President Barack Obama than
approve of him, a Reuters/Ipsos
poll found on Tuesday.
In grim news for Democrats
ahead of November's midterm
elections, 72 percent of people
said they were very worried
about joblessness and 67 percent
were very concerned at
government spending.
With congressional elections a
little more than two months
away, the poll showed 92
percent of those surveyed were
very concerned or somewhat
concerned about joblessness.
The U.S. unemployment rate
has been hovering near 10
percent all year, registering 9.5
percent in June and July.
Another bit of bad economic
news arrived on Tuesday when
the National Association of
Realtors reported that the sale of
existing homes plummeted 27.2
percent in July from the
previous month, a worse than
expected showing. The data is
one of several key indicators of
the health of the U.S. economy.
Obama's disapproval rating was
52 percent, overtaking his
approval rating for the first time
in an Ipsos poll. Only 45 percent
of people said they approved of
the president's performance.
That number, coupled with a
hearty 62 percent who think the
country is going in the wrong
direction, could spell trouble for
Democrats, who control both
chambers of Congress and the
White House.
While Obama has two more
years before facing voters in a
presidential election, all 435
seats in the House of
Representatives are up for grabs,
along with 37 Senate seats and
36 governors in November's
elections.
Typically in mid-term elections
-- when there is no presidential
race -- the party in power in the
White House suffers losses in
Congress.
The deep economic concerns
and voter anger about out-of-
control federal budget deficits,
has led to betting that
Republicans could take control
of the House and win a
significant number of seats in
the Senate.
Forty-six percent of registered
U.S. voters would likely vote for
Republican candidates in
November and 45 pct for
Democrats, according to the
Reuters/Ipsos poll, which
surveyed 1,063 adults and was
conducted August 19-22.
The poll has a margin of error
of 3 percentage points.
Aug 24, 2010 12:16pm EDT
Now lets see the approval
ratings of Republican senators
please.
Aug 24, 2010 12:20pm EDT
Finally the economy brings out
the true colors of Obama.
Wonder what the approving
45% are seeing.
Aug 24, 2010 12:21pm EDT
I’m surprised you didn’t bury
this news
Aug 24, 2010 12:28pm EDT
To fix this economy will take
major surgery. I think the
current Leadership has neither
the brains nor the ability to
attempt these changes. A lot of
businesses will have to be told
to manufacture in the US or
leave and survive in the world
market. Survival in the World
Market can be tough. This
president does not have the skill
or experience to make these
changes.
Aug 24, 2010 12:37pm EDT
There is a graph on the Wall
Street Journal showing that
every president since the
approval rating was created in
the late 30’s has been down
below 40% at some point.
http://online.wsj.com/public/
resources/documents/info-
presapp0605-31.html
Also on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
United_States_presidential_appr
oval_rating
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An Unalienable Right to Privacy

Philip Berne (SlashGear) is ingrained in our subconscious
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:05:15 AM minds. Privacy is a feeling that
we have, not a right to be
With all the furor over privacy granted. A right, in our current
after Facebook introduced its situation, is a grant from the
new Places application, I started government. The government
to think about what privacy says we have the right to keep
really means as a concept. The from self-incrimination at trial.
reaction to Facebook Places ran Then, when we’re on the
a startling gamut. On one side witness stand and a prosecutor
people are screaming about asks us to bear witness against
George Orwell, whose book ourselves, we declare that right,
1984 is like the privacy junkie’s and the government backs off.
version of Hitler. It’s an Defining a virtue as a right is a
argument stopper. It’s also way of telling the government to
science fiction, but a sci-fi keep its hands off.
parable, at that. On the other Privacy is a state of mind, not a
side are those who are state of being. There are couples
completely indifferent to in New York City who feel they
Facebook’s privacy issues. are sharing a private moment on
These people don’t care and a crowded street corner. There
they don’t see the problem. are people in the Appalachian
[Image credit: Idea Grove] mountains who feel their
It seemed strange that the issue privacy is being invaded, even
could be so divisive. Isn’t there when they are all alone. Who is
an implied benefit to privacy? right? All of them, because
Don’t we all have in us some privacy is a feeling. It’s the
innate longing for privacy, and a satisfaction we take from being
resistance to intrusion? Even ourselves with weapons. We with states of mind, but the and penetrating as we deal with alone. When we are dissatisfied
more importantly, I wonder if have the right to privacy. But Declaration of Independence every day in our modern, digital with being alone, we feel lonely.
privacy is instrumental in the that’s not really true. First of all, sure does. In particular, the age. But clearly privacy wasn’t When we are satisfied, we feel
success of our democracy and the word privacy is never second sentence, which declares a primary concern. Except, in a private.
our civilization. Do we need mentioned explicitly in the U.S. that all men (I’m quoting, way, those unalienable rights The red herring of the privacy
privacy like we need freedom of Constitution, though there exists forgive the 300 year old sexism) seem to imply some right to argument is incrimination. This
speech, or freedom to petition a p a t c h w o r k o f l a w s t h a t have certain unalienable rights, privacy, don’t they? argument basically believes that
the government for a redress of together implicitly guarantee our which include life, liberty and Privacy is a form of freedom. privacy is unnecessary if you
grievances? rights to a private existence, to the pursuit of happiness. It’s a form of liberty. It’s a have nothing to hide. It’s the
Privacy is a strange concept. some extent. But there is no Why not include privacy? I’m happiness. There is no doubt easiest argument to make, and
We like to think that privacy is a clear definition of privacy. not naïve enough to suggest that that a feeling of privacy, a also the argument most ignorant
right granted to us as human That’s because privacy is not a our country’s founding fathers feeling of being free from of true human emotions. The
beings by our creator. We have right, it’s a state of mind. couldn’t have conceived of invasive and prying eyes, free worst part is when supposed
the right to freedom of speech. The Constitution doesn’t deal invasions of privacy as insidious from speculation and judgment, UNALIENABLE page 27
We have the right to defend
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Paid TV subscriptions dip for the first time
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:07:27 AM
Paid TV subscriptions fell for
the first time ever in the second
quarter of 2010 with cable
taking the biggest hit, according
to the research firm SNL Kagan.
A weak U.S. economy is the
main reason the firm cited for
the dip in subscriptions, as more
consumers look for ways to cut
down monthly expenses. Last
year's digital TV conversion
may have also played a role in
lower growth rates with some
people canceling service after
promotions on new digital TV
packages ran out, the firm said.
The entire paid TV industry,
which includes cable, satellite
and phone companies, lost
216,000 customers in the second
quarter. A year ago, the industry
gained 378,000 new customers,
according to SNL Kagan. Six of
the eight largest U.S. cable
operators reported their worst
quarterly video subscriber
losses. In total, cable lost
711,000 subscribers in the
quarter, the firm reported.
Meanwhile, satellite providers
DirecTV and DISH networks
added about 81,000 new paid
TV subscribers. And phone
companies, Verizon
Communications and AT&T
also gained 414,000 new
subscribers.
The dip in subscribers comes as
the paid TV business is trying to
find its footing in a market that
is rapidly changing toward one
that delivers more content over
the Internet and on different
devices rather than strictly on
the big screen in the living
room.
But analysts at SNL Kagan
were careful not to attribute too
much of the subscription loss to
a switch toward Internet TV.
"Although it is tempting to point
to over-the-top video as a
potential culprit, we believe
economic factors such as low
housing formation and a high
unemployment rate contributed
to subscriber declines in the
second quarter," SNL Kagan
analyst Mariam Rondeli, said in
a statement. "We are also seeing
churn resulting from the
broadcast digital transition,
which boosted video uptake
early last year, as many have
abandoned their paid
subscriptions once initial
promotional contracts expired."
Still, how people watch
television is changing. Young
people, especially, are watching
less traditional TV. A recent
Nielsen study shows that
audiences for broadcast
networks like ABC, Fox, NBC,
and CBS, which once dominated
television programming, are
getting older. Twenty years ago,
the median age for ABC viewers
was 37; today it's 51. Fox's
median age has also jumped,
from 29 to 44. And NBC and
CBS, which have always had
older viewers, are also seeing
the median age of their viewers
rise. [CBS is the parent
company of CNET.]
Instead, some people are
cutting the paid TV cord and
instead are watching more video
online. Some are watching it on
mobile devices and laptops,
while others are hooking
devices to their TVs and
streaming video directly to their
TVs. There are already several
over-the-top Internet video
options on the market, or
services that allow people to
view some TV programming
and movies over their home
broadband connections.
Netflix, which also rents DVDs,
is one of the fastest growing
video on-demand services on
the Net. The company's Internet
streaming service can be
accessed through a variety of
consumer electronics devices
including the $100 Roku box,
Samsung Blu-ray players, and
every major game console on
the market. It recently acquired
rights to movies from the
channel Epix, which is three
studios: Paramount, Lions Gate,
and MGM. The deal, which is
reported to be more than $1
billion for five years, will allow
Netflix to stream movies from
the Epix library to its 15 million
subscribers. The deal
significantly expands the Netflix
streaming library.
Netflix doesn't offer live TV
programming nor does it offer
recently broadcast TV shows,
but there are other options
available for consumers such as
Hulu, which is a joint-venture
among NBC Universal, Walt
Disney Compnay, and News
Corp. Hulu recently launched a
subscription service costing $10
a month that provides access to
premium TV and movie content.
The service is geared toward
offering online video on more
devices like iPhones and iPads
and even TVs.
Google is also expected to
launch new technology to make
it easier for people to watch
online video on their TVs. And
rumors has it that Apple is
working on a revamped
AppleTV product to also
provide TV streaming through
its iTunes service.
Cash strapped Americans seem
to be hungry for alternatives to
paid TV services. But content
owners are leery about shaking
up their business models too
much. While more content is
finding its way online every
day, content owners are still
holding the most valuable
content back or delaying online
releases in an effort to control
how their TV shows and movies
are distributed. These
companies generate much more
revenue from licensing content
to paid TV service providers
than they can offering the same
content online.
As a result, even though people
are eager to turn to the Internet
for TV, they still must sacrifice
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Some of the live content can be
viewed free via over-the-air TV,
but not everyone is able to get
those TV signals.
While it's still too early to say
that Internet TV will kill paid
TV, consumers are clearly
voting with their wallets. Some
paid TV companies realize they
can't fight the Internet trend, and
they're offering more ways to
watch content traditionally
delivered to set-top boxes and
TVs.
Comcast is trying to embrace
the new model with its TV
Everywhere initiative that
allows subscribers to watch
certain cable content on other
devices, such as laptops.
Verizon's Fios TV service will
also soon allow its subscribers
to take video-on-demand
content with them on the go on
all kinds of devices, including
mobile phones. Verizon even
plans to offer streaming live TV
on iPads and other devices in
the home.
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AT&T Dell Aero Android smartphone on sale today [Update:
1.5 Cupcake confirmed]
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:22:24 AM
Dell’s first Android smartphone
to reach the US, the Dell Aero,
has just hit the virtual shelves.
Priced at $99.99 with a new,
two-year AT&T agreement, the
Dell Aero has a 3.5-inch 640 x
360 touchscreen, 5-megapixel
camera, triband UMTS/HSPA,
WiFi and Bluetooth, and is
based on a 624MHz Marvell
CPU.
Video demo after the cut
There’s also a microSD card
slot – with a 2GB card
preloaded – together with a
Flash Lite browser, GPS/A-
GPS, quadband GSM/EDGE
and Android Market access.
Android itself has been tweaked
with Dell’s own enhancements,
and Quick Office, Facebook
with integrated calendar and
contacts, and Twitter will all be
preloaded.
As well as the contract option,
the Aero is available
commitment-free for $299.99.
Dell say it will also go on sale
through AT&T themselves
imminently.
Update: We’ve spoken to Dell,
and they’ve confirmed the Aero
is still running Android 1.5
Cupcake. They’re calling the
OS a “superset” of Cupcake,
however, due to their
modifications:
Dell developed a tremendous
amount of customization and
Technology/ 25
deliver the experiences that
matter most to customers.
Popular features Dell
incorporated on top of cupcake
include Microsoft email with
Active Sync, handwriting
recognition, one-click upload of
photos to social sites. We’ve
also pre-loaded popular
applications such as Facebook
with integrated phonebook and
calendar, added a connection
manager, and implemented
Search on the device or web.
Additional benefits for the Dell
Aero:
· Dell Aero comes with an
8x zoom with on-device photo
& video editing functionality
· Asynchronous BT/Wi-Fi
· Multiple widget support
· Sync with Windows
Media Player
· Desktop Suite Syncing
tool – includes syncing with
iTunes (Non DRM)
Press Release:
Dell Creates Freedom, Style
and Performance to Explore
Life’s Biggest Moments on New
3.5-Inch Android Smartphone
NEWS:
· Dell’s first U.S.
smartphone, the Dell Aero, is
available today in a polished
graphite finish at Dell.com/
mobile, by phone at 1-800-308-
DELL, and coming soon to
features on top of cupcake to AT&T page 26
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AT&T
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www.wireless.att.com. Dell
Chat representatives are
standing by 24 x 7 to answer
Dell Aero related questions.
· The Dell Aero is available
for $99.99 with new AT&T*
two-year contract†, and $299.99
without.
FREEDOM IS CALLING
Dell Aero, one of the lightest
multi-touch 3.5-inch Google
Android-based smartphones in
the U.S., is designed to deliver a
powerful, flexible, and
entertaining experience in a
stylish and compact design.
Packed with today’s popular
features, the Dell Aero will ship
with Quick Office, Facebook
with integrated calendar and
contacts, Twitter and additional
applications by Google,
including YouTube and Android
Market.
With AT&T’s Wi-Fi network,
and the nation’s fastest mobile
broadband network, today’s
social media mavens can
simultaneously make voice calls
and Tweet friends, post
Facebook updates, share
Simon Cowell Bans Auto-Tune on 'X-Factor'
Chris Harnick (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 6:00:00 AM
Filed under: TV News A
producer on Simon Cowell's'X-
Factor' has admitted to using
Auto-Tune, the pitch-correction
software that has become a
household name thanks to pop
pictures or browse the Web.
AT&T has the nation’s largest
Wi-Fi network with more than
20,000 U.S. hotspots.*
Dell is a member of the Open
Handset Alliance (OHA), a
group of technology and mobile
companies working to accelerate
innovation in mobility.
Together, the OHA created
Android, the first complete,
open and free mobile platform
to provide people a rich,
inexpensive and exceptional
mobile experience.
QUOTES:
“The Dell Aero is built with a
focus on style and performance
to help people find new ways to
connect with friends and express
themselves socially supported
by the nation’s fastest mobile
broadband network.” – Ron
Garriques, president, Dell
Communication Solutions
DELL AERO FEATURES:
· One of the lightest
Android smartphones in the
U.S., on the nation’s fastest
mobile broadband network
· Experience YouTube and
stars and most recently Antoine
Dodson and Auto-Tune the
News, to improve the sound of
auditioning contestants. Well, it
sounds like cheating to us.
In response, Cowell has banned
the software from 'X-Factor' --
both on the British version and
the upcoming American one.
other Flash content in nHD
· 5-megapixel camera with
8x zoom, flash, dedicated
camera key and advanced
shooting and editing capabilities
· Connect with friends with
one-touch access to social
networks
· Multi-task with GPS, plus
hands-free conversations
· Wi-Fi access at more than
20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots
with qualifying AT&T service
plan
D E L L A E R O
SPECIFICATIONS:
· Android platform
complete with Android Market
and Dell user interface
enhancements
· 3.5-inch (640 x 360p)
capacitive multi-touch display
with pinch-to-zoom
functionality
· Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/
EDGE (850/900/1800/1900
MHz)
· Tri-Band UMTS/HSDPA
(850/1900/2100 MHz)
· WiFi + Bluetooth
· 2 GB* on board user
"The integrity of the show is
accessible Micro SD with
expandable memory available
up to 32 GB*
· Full HTML Browser with
Adobe Flashlite
· GPS/A-GPS navigation
· POP, IMAP, Webmail
and Microsoft Active Sync E-
mail
Follow conversations in the
blogosphere: #DellAero
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phone is coming in 2010, and
may use platforms other than
Android
• US Dell Streak on sale July
28th [Update: pre-sale is back]
very important to him and so he
told production that Auto-Tune
cannot be used again. Simon has
banned producers from ever
using this software again," a
source told the Daily Mirror.
Here's what happened on the
British show: Contestant Gamu
Nhengu sang "Walking on
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 8:00:00 AM
Videographer, blogger, St.
Louisan, and all-around
innaresting fella Bill Streeter
had some nice things to say
about Woot in our past life in
the Gateway/Mound/Murder
City. But I swear that even if I'd
never heard of the dude, I'd still
rep this video where he uses
kinetic typography to bring the
"paper bag" monologue from
The Wire to life. Content, form,
and presentation unite in Bill's
capable hands. (There's some
pretty mild NSFW language, but
nothing you couldn't hear on
prime-time network TV.)
Paper Bag Monologue from the
Wire (Kinetic Typography)
from bill streeter on Vimeo.
Sunshine" to rave reviews and
made it on to the next round, but
according to Deadline
Hollywood, fans got suspicious
and took to Facebook to
complain.
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privacy advocates buy into this.
Take this counterproductive
story in Valleywag, for instance.
The author basically says that
Facebook’s check-in feature is
bad because you will get caught
lying to your girlfriend or
having an affair. Seriously.
That’s the best Valleywag could
come up with.
I dated a girl for a little over
two years from high school into
college. She broke up with me.
She was my first serious
girlfriend, and I was devastated.
The night she broke up with me,
I left my parents house in
Columba, Md and drove three
hours east to Ocean City, where
my parents own a rental condo.
The power and the plumbing
were shut down for the off-
season, but I just wanted to be
alone. It was 1994, so nobody
had cell phones. Escape was as
easy as simply telling a few key
friends not to call my parents
house looking for me. I spent a
night sitting on the balcony,
Microsoft threatens Halo: Reach players with 'permaban'
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:23:24 AM
Those who have downloaded
the recently leaked Halo: Reach
and plan to play it on Xbox Live
should beware: Microsoft will
act swiftly to remove you from
the online gaming service.
According to Stephen
Toulouse, Microsoft's director
staring at the ocean and writing
very, very bad poetry that
nobody will ever see. I was an
English major, and they don’t
sell clove cigarettes in
Maryland, so bad poetry was all
I had.
I just wanted some privacy. I
wasn’t doing anything wrong. I
didn’t want to be around anyone
I knew. I couldn’t find
happiness, I couldn’t avoid the
depression. Privacy was an
emotional state I was seeking,
not a legal right that I was trying
to protect.
I hate to use a traumatic
example, because a desire for
privacy doesn’t require trauma,
or illicit behavior, or anything,
really. It’s a desire to fulfill an
emotional need state.
I don’t have a problem with
Facebook’s Places check-ins
because they are simply another
form of sharing. If you want to
share information about
yourself, go right ahead. If I
enjoy that sharing, I’ll follow. If
of Policy Enforcement for Xbox
Live, Microsoft will
permanently ban anyone who
plays the leaked game on Xbox
Live.
"As with all unauthorized play
on Xbox Live, anyone playing
any unauthorized title runs the
risk of account 'permaban,'"
Toulouse posted on his Twitter
feed. "Remember, legit store-
not, I’ll unfriend you. When you
start sharing information about
other people, though, you have
to be more careful. I learned this
on Facebook very early when I
posted some pictures from an all
-night study session back in
college. Quite a few friends
were angry that I had posted
such unflattering images without
asking them, especially since I
had tagged the pictures for all to
see. Some of these people were
professionals in respectable,
semi-public positions. One is a
Rabbi; another is an aspiring
actor who has been in some
Hollywood movies.
These people have a vested
interested in controlling their
image. It was disrespectful for
me to step on their wishes and
their feelings by posting these
pictures. I was making decisions
for them, telling them how they
should present themselves. I was
telling them how they should
feel. There might be some
growing pains in the Facebook
bought copies run no risk of
ban. Keyword: unauthorized.
We have ways of knowing."
Toulouse didn't say if the
company had already banned
some players, but it's clear that
Microsoft is trying to act
quickly to limit the latest Halo
game's exposure to consumers.
Halo: Reach is scheduled to hit
store shelves on September 14.
Places feature, but in the end
we’re not talking about
strangers and enemies who are
out to destroy you. We’re
talking about friends. If we can’t
respect our friends’ feelings,
well, that’s why Facebook
created the concept of
unfriending.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Keep your filthy computer
habits secret: 3M’s Privacy
Filter
• NEC develops a “privacy
monitor” that doesn’t sacrifice
quality
• Privacy screen for your video
iPod
• Keep track of your passwords
with just a swipe of your finger
• Privacy Policy
Last week, copies started
cropping up on several peer-to-
peer file-sharing services. The
game is still available on those
sites, including The Pirate Bay.
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Popular Web Sharing Button AddThis Finally

Goes Mobile
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) The acquisition, said the mobile devices themselves,
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:32:29 AM Clearspring, would allow allowing you to privately share
AddThis to reach 300,000 the link with a friend whose
AddThis, one of the most publishers. That number has address is stored in your
p o p u l a r b o o k m a r k i n g a n d long since been surpassed.
sharing buttons on the Web, has Today, AddThis is installed on
contacts list instead of publicly
broadcasting it to the Web. Try
Where the
today released a new version of 1.5 million websites.
its sharing menu for the Apple Implementing the button is
iPad, the iPhone and Google easy, which is partially why it's
it Now: No Code Update
Needed
read or post a link to Facebook, You can see the demonstrations
Startups Are,
Android. Now, when you visit a been so successful. It's also
site from one of these mobile incredibly easy for the end user
for example. More often than of the new AddThis in these two
not, the link simply wouldn't get YouTube videos here and here.
By Zip Code
devices, tapping the button will to access as well. shared if the publisher didn't Audrey Watters
Alternately, you can try (ReadWriteWeb)
present a sharing menu that's From the company's website, have some kind of built in, AddThis yourself by tapping the
been built to specifically work publishers need only select their touchscreen-enabled tool for "Share" button below this post Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:33:34 PM

with the touch interface of your service and style of button in doing so already installed. from your mobile device. We
m o b i l e d e v i c e a n d b e t t e r order to get embed code ready Of course, in the grand scheme didn't even have to update our As part of our " Never Mind the
integrate with its functions, like for copying-and-pasting onto of things, one less link posted to code to make this happen - it Valley" series here, we often
the built-in email client. any website or blog. Those who Twitter is not a major issue, but just works. feature communities outside the
Sponsor choose to register with the it did make the mobile Web feel This is only one of the many Silicon Valley that have become
AddThis: Now Sharing with the service can also get built in more clunky and less developed u p c o m i n g " n e w f e a t u r e s , thriving centers for
Mobile Web, Too analytics, too. What's New? than its desktop counterpart. experiments and products that entrepreneurship. We've
You're probably know about Prior to today, however, AddThis aims to change that help to tackle the problem of profiled cities like Boston,
the AddThis button even if you AddThis was not well-designed with the button's new mobile m o b i l e s h a r i n g , " r e p o r t s Montreal, and Austin.
don't realize it - it's the orange for mobile use and touchscreens, f u n c t i o n a l i t y , w h i c h Clearspring's Justin Thorp via Sometimes we notice there's a
"Share" button that's nearly which is what makes this new automatically opens Web email. Dare we hope for flurry of startup activity in a
ubiquitous across the Web these release all that more exciting for browser windows for you, with dedicated native apps next? particular location that warrants
days. Acquired by the widget dedicated mobile users like default (but still editable) text Discuss coverage, and sometimes we're
creation platform company ourselves. On many websites, filled in. (And don't worry, pitched stories about these
Clearspring in late 2008, the it's been more difficult than there's no auto-tweeting/sharing locations. (And you should feel
button was already the most need be to find an easy way to here!) It also now integrates
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free to pitch us as to why your 1, you get complete CA 94104 - 87 companies -

Yahoo completes switch
city should be featured,
particularly if you're outside the
entrepreneurial saturation. I'm
going to guess that Boulder's
0.233 per person
CA 94105 - 173 companies - to Microsoft-powered
U.S.) But as great as these Entrepreneurial Density using 0.084 per person
sources for stories are, neither
offer any sort of scientific
this equation is somewhere
between 0.50 and 0.75, but this
CA 95113 - 24 companies -
0.044 per person
search
method for pointing to the cities is just a guess. I'm curious if MA 02142 - 73 companies - (CNET News.com) (build-your-own-search-service)
that are the best locations for anyone out there has a real way 0.032 per person Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:36:10 AM program, one of several Yahoo
startups. to calculate this." MA 02210 - 19 companies - search businesses that is being
Sponsor Responding to the challenge is 0.032 per person A week after it began shifting reworked or scrapped in the
In a blog post yesterday, VC Pete Warden, who has used Using his OpenHeatMap tool, to Bing for its search results, wake of the Bing shift.
Brad Feld wrote about the Crunchbase and US Census data there are, of course, maps of the Yahoo says it has finished the The plan is to also move Yahoo
"entrepreneurial density" of to provide an answer. information. And Warden has transition, at least for its main to Bing for paid search this fall,
Boulder, a city often noted as According to Warden's figures, open-sourced the code and the search results in the U.S. and however both companies have
being a startup hotbed. He the top zip codes for money data so that others can work Canada. said they are willing to postpone
writes,"Entrepreneurial density raised per person are: with it. The move comes more than a things until early next year if it
isn't just the "number of CA 94104 - $629m total - Warden admits that it's a "crude year after the Microsoft and seems the move would disrupt
entrepreneurs per capita", but $1,681,925 per person approach," but nevertheless, it's Yahoo reached a deal to partner the all-important holiday season,
it's the "number of people that CA 94304 - $2,822m total - interesting to see how the on search. There's still plenty of a p o i n t M i c r o s o f t s e a r c h
work at entrepreneurial $1,656,031 per person numbers may or may not patch work to do as the companies e x e c u t i v e S a t y a N a d e l l a
companies per capita." It gets CA 94105 - $972m total - our perceptions of work to shift the more reinforced on Tuesday.
even bigger when you include $472,540 per person entrepreneurial hot spots. complicated paid search part of "We continue to work hard on
students and calculate the MA 02142 - $1,013m total - Discuss the business and continue the the migration to AdCenter, and
"(number of people that work at $448,833 per person move internationally. are optimistic about completing
entrepreneurial companies + the IL 60606 - $739m total - In a blog post, Yahoo noted that this phase later this fall,"
number of students) per capita. $439,744 per person Bing is now powering Web, Nadella said in a blog post of his
As ED = ((entrepreneurial_emps And the top zip codes for image and video search for both own. "As we have said all along,
+ students) / adults) approaches company per person are: desktop and mobile searches. our primary goal is to provide
"The speed in which this was advertisers with a quality
New site: links.scripting.com completed is a testament to the transition experience in 2010,
great work and partnership while being mindful of the
(Scripting News) this little app might survive. Scripting News. Lots of links to between a number of Yahoo and holiday season."
I store all these links in a stuff with snarky comments. We Microsoft employees, the ranks This entry passed through the
Submitted at 8/24/2010 6:02:55 AM
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Hey I don't know why it took have a bookmarklet I use to where we began! The earth is senior VP Shashi Seth said in a is your content and you're
me so long to think to do this. create each link, even ones I round, so is time. Big wheel blog post. "With this week's reading it on someone else's site,
http://links.scripting.com/ create on my iPad, and because keep turning. Etc etc. milestone behind us, Yahoo will please read our FAQ page at
What it is -- Every link I've it needs to record info about the It gets built at least once a continue to drive technology fivefilters.org/content-only/
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when Oauthcalypse Day comes, it looks like the early days of working on figuring out the new I n d e p e n d e n t .
business model for its BOSS
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Self-cleaning solar panels field tested on Mars

(CNET News.com) commercial or residential
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:12:35 AM systems.
The growth of solar power
Cleaning thousands of solar creates a need for cleaning
panels could be done with a services and methods,
mini shock wave, rather than particularly for large-scale
manually washing each one, installations where investors Apture Highlights
according to a researcher. expect a certain output. For the
Boston University professor high-tech coating and sensor Brings Instantaneous
Malay Mazumder on Monday system to be used by Search To Any Web
presented details of a material commercial energy project Page
that can be used to automatically developers, it cannot add
clean solar photovoltaic panels Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
significantly to the maintenance
at the national meeting of the costs associated with panel Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:00:55 AM

American Chemical Society in cleaning.

Boston. This entry passed through the Apture, the startup that lets
Some of the thousands of solar Full-Text RSS service — if this online publishers enhance
panels at the Nellis Air Force is your content and you're content with rich media pop-ups
base in Nevada.(Credit: reading it on someone else's site, from a variety of sources based
SunPower) on the context of linked words
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Keeping solar panels clean is M a z u m d e r p r o p o s e d a n which was originally developed fivefilters.org/content-only/ and terms, is launching a nifty
serious concern, particularly for electrically sensitive coating for lunar and Mars missions, faq.php new plug-in today that brings
large-scale solar PV farms in which would be placed on the would remove 90 percent of Five Filters featured instantaneous search to content
dusty desert areas. The build-up glass of PV panels or a plastic a c c u m u l a t e d d u s t i n t w o article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets on the web.
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pollutants blocks the sun and dust concentrations would send "A dust layer of one-seventh of I n d e p e n d e n t . browser extension aims to plug
can significantly decrease the an electrical charge through the an ounce per square yard the “search leak” that the
output of solar panels. company says is taking place
material, causing a wave to d e c r e a s e s s o l a r p o w e r
Right now, solar farm operators ripple across the surfaces of the conversion by 40 percent," he with content on the web. Apture
clean panels with water, which panels and send dust to the said in a statement, adding that APTURE page 31
is a scarce resource in desert edges. the technique could be used in

Judge in Roger Clemens Perjury Case Issues Gag Order

A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 1:33:00 AM
Filed under: MLB PEDs
No more tweets from Roger
Clemens-- at least, none that
mention his perjury case.
U.S. District Court Judge
Reggie Walton issued a gag
order Monday that prevents
Clemens, potential witnesses
and lawyers "from making any
future statements about this case
to the media or in a public
setting outside the courtroom
that are substantially likely to
have a materially prejudicial
effect on this case."
A six-count indictment against
Clemens was unsealed by
prosecutors in Washington on
Thursday. Prosecutors allege
Clemens perjured himself and
obstructed justice when he
denied using performance-
enhancing drugs to members of
the House Committee on
Oversight and Government
Reform along with the
committee's staff in February
2008.
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Apture for Your Browser: Like
Augmented Reality for Web Pages
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:25:20 PM
Apture, the semantic contextual
search service that you can see
in action by highlighting any
word or phrase here on
ReadWriteWeb, today launched
browser extensions that will
allow you to dive deep into any
topic you discover on almost
any page around the web. (Try
it out by highlighting this name,
for example: Anna Frenkel.)
Called Apture Highlights, the
new plug-in is slammed right
now at launch and is performing
very slowly. (Update: Looking
better.) The company should be
able to scale up to fit the
demand soon, however, and
once it's working well it's
something you'll definitely want
to install. It's like Augmented
Reality for browsing the web.
See the demo video below.
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continued from page 30
highlights a search leak as when
a users is reading content, wants
more information about a
keyword or phrase and then
opens another browser tab to
search for the information on
Google, Bing or Yahoo. The
downside for the content
publisher is that the user
disengages with the actual
content by leaving the page.
Sponsor
When I first saw Apture several
years ago, it was a service that
required publishers to load up
linked-pop-up widgets with
multimedia of their own
choosing. The company has
removed that barrier to entry
entirely now with this new
release. Everything is
automated and it's available
almost everywhere.
Will users learn to use the
service though? It's definitely
new behavior to highlight words
and phrases in order to learn
more about them. It's outside
the usual flow of scroll, point
and click. If I told you the world
was your oyster, that layers of
multimedia explanation and
context lay behind every word
Apture Highlights allows you to
highlight any word or phrase on
a page and instantly bring up
search results in a window. The
startup brings results from 60-
plus sources including
YouTube, Twitter, Wikipedia,
Google and more for extra
context around content. The
browser add-on is currently
available for Chrome, Firefox
on the web and are now
accessible with a simple flick of
the wrist - could you develop a
new habit of lifting the covers to
look at it? If we users of the web
cannot learn such a small new
habit (and I'm honestly not sure
we can) even in exchange for
access to such an incredible
wealth of knowledge, then I'm
not sure what that says about the
future of software design,
interfaces and our networked
brains.
If I told you the world was your
oyster, that layers of multimedia
explanation and context lay
behind every word on the web
and are now accessible with a
simple flick of the wrist - could
you develop a new habit of
lifting the covers to look at it?
Now's your chance. Apture
Highlights is available now for
Chrome, Safari and Firefox.
Discuss
and Apple’s Safari browsers.
Apture has been offering the
technology for publishers such
as the Financial Times and
Reuters for some time now. But
this is new add-on represents the
startup’s first offerings for
consumers. And publishers say
that Apture’s plug-in increases
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Pandora Adds Genre-
Based Stations
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:56:24 AM say are already a big hit.
According to the company,
Just the other day, I introduced channels like "Today's Country"
m y m o t h e r t o m u s i c and "Today's Hip Hop and Pop
r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s e r v i c e Hits" are already on the top 100
Pandora. We'd been discussing "most frequently listened to
how my grandfather used to stations" on the site.
love listening to barbershop The channels will still allow for
music and she said she missed it personalization with the familiar
and would love to find a way to "thumbs up" and "thumbs
listen. Finding the music she down" buttons letting users
wanted, however, was not so shape the type of music they
easy, as we needed to find the want to hear.
r i g h t b a n d o r s o n g t h a t Michael Zapruder, a "senior
exemplified the music she music curator" with Pandora,
wanted to hear - it was a journey says the feature has been the
through Google, Wikipedia, subject of many requests.
AllMusic and a number of other "Our listeners have been telling
sites. us for a while that they'd like an
Today, Pandora will make this easy way to start a station from
type of musical browsing easier popular genres with the option
with the addition of station- to personalize the station from
creation based on musical there," Zapruder says in the
genres, instead of just bands or release. "We wanted to find a
songs. uniquely Pandora way to
Sponsor
address this consumer need so
With the new feature, you don't we created a number of genre
need to think of the type of stations that are carefully seeded
music you want to hear, pick the w i t h r e l e v a n t s o n g s a n d
band you think best represents constantly refreshed with new
that music, and then hope that releases."
Pandora feels the same way. A full list of channels will be
Instead, Pandora will let you available today on the Pandora
choose from more than 100 website. Discuss
channels and "micro-genre
stations", which the company
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Facebook iPhone app has 105m Moonfruit Raises $2.25

users?
Megan Lavey (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:30:00 AM
Facebook has posted some
pretty impressive numbers
regarding its mobile users
recently, including a developer
saying there are more than 150
million active mobile Facebook
users. The site itself has more
than 500 million members.
- 12 million are using the
Android client
- Nearly 59 million are using the
Blackberry client
- 105 million are using the
iPhone client*
- The rest are using clients built
for Palm, T-Mobile's Sidekick
and more.
*Note these numbers were
pulled at 11:20 a.m. EST and
are updated frequently.
Wait a minute ... 105 million?
Steve Jobs indicated at WWDC
Million To Accelerate Its DIY
probably count. The number Site Builder Internationally
provided by Facebook isn't the Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)
number of downloads the app Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:01:09 AM
has had, but the number of
people actually using it. The You would think most people growth. Moonfruit competes
client itself is still ranked among know how to get a simple web with Weebly, Yola and
the top 10 free App Store apps. site up and running these days Webnode, and many others that
Even so, a penetration rate just on something like provide services for building
hovering somewhere around 90 Wordpress, but the fact remains simple but elegant web sites, as
percent -- if you take into that millions of people don't opposed to blogs. Clearly its
account the number of iOS have these skills. As a result drag and drop Flash interface
devices sold since June and the Moonfruit, the web site building appeals to ‘design aspirers’ who
in June that the 100 millionth fact that there's not a Facebook business which has survived the want to customise their own site
iOS device (spanning iPhone, app for the iPad -- is a little hard dotcom bust to return in the age styles. Moonfruit is a real blast
iPad and iPod Touch) would be to swallow. of Web 2.0, is on a charge. It's form the past come good. It was
sold that month. With the flurry [via Mobile Entertainment] profitable, growing founded in the UK in 1999,
of iPhone 4 sales since then, it's TUAW Facebook iPhone app internationally and as a result went through the whole VC-
no surprise that there's more has 105m users? originally has chosen to fundraise to really backed-to-bust cycle but fought
than 100 million iOS devices appeared on The Unofficial take the market on. It's just back and now over 2.8m
out there in the wild. But are all Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, secured $2.25m from U.S. websites have been built using
o f t h e m r e a l l y r u n n i n g 24 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EST. investment bank Stephens. The its DIY software. But it
Facebook? Please see our terms for use of bank originally helped managed to re-invigorate it's
You can log into multiple feeds. Moonfruit to buy Gandi.net, the brand last year by being among
Facebook accounts from a Read| Permalink| Email this| domain registrar but since then the first to trend on Twitter for a
single iOS device, and those Comments Moonfruit has been spun out to laptop giveaway contest. Try
go for accelerated international that now.

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engagement, with interaction
with their site increasing by two
to three times when activated.
Apture says that publishers are
also increasing their search
volume and site page views by
driving traffic to related articles
for every search.
I’ve installed the add-on and
it’s actually very useful for
looking up keywords without
needing to leave the page or
article. And adding context to
content through search is
something that even large tech
companies like Yahoo are trying
to get into. Yahoo just released a
feature called Infinite Browse,
which will suggest searches for Launched in 2008, Apture has
specific terms around news raised$4.1 million in funding.
content. Similar to Apture, the CrunchBase Information
idea behind the new feature is to Apture Information provided by
allow readers to access related CrunchBase
content they would search for
without having to go to a
separate search portal and type
in the query.
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MacBook makeovers bring new life
to a couple of old laptops
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:00:00 AM
Last weekend provided not one,
but two opportunities for me to
do some upgrades to some "old"
MacBooks to bring 'em up to
workable condition. To start
with, one client of mine wanted
to get rid of an unused
MacBook, so I decided to
purchase it from her as a
machine for training. The other
client had one of the original
15" Intel Core Duo MacBook
Pros and doesn't want to spend
the money on a new machine. In
both cases, the machines were
running older versions of Mac
OS X, had insufficient RAM,
and had hard drives that were
both slow and small. The
following post is a textbook
example of how you can bring
new life to slightly old Macs by
just spending enough money to
upgrade the memory, OS, and
hard disk drive.
For the MacBook, I decided
that I wanted to max out its
RAM, add more hard drive
space, and speed up the hard
drive while I was at it. I wanted
to set up the machine with Mac
OS X 10.6 and a Boot Camp
partition running Windows 7,
with an alternative external boot
drive containing Mac OS X
Server 10.6. The machine's
initial setup: 2.4 GHz Intel Core
2 Duo (Penryn) CPU, 2 GB of
RAM, and a 160GB 5400 RPM
SATA hard disk. I chose to max
out the RAM to a total of 6GB,
purchase a 500GB 7200 RPM
drive for the internal drive, and
procure a USB 2.0 bus-powered
external shell for the existing
drive. This MacBook was also
running Mac OS X 10.5.8, and I
wanted to update it to the latest
version of Snow Leopard. Click
"Read More" to find out how
the upgrades went.
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Iomega pushes ahead with
USB 3.0 transition, promises to
keep drives at USB 2.0 prices
Donald Melanson (Engadget) in the first quarter of 2011. We
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:32:00 PM should note, however, that
plenty of retailers are already
Iomega's already begun its selling USB 3.0 eGo drives
transition to SuperSpeed USB now, but it seems that it'll take
3.0 hard drives, but it's making a until early October for the full
bit more news on that front line to make the jump and
today -- it's announced that it receive the aforementioned price
plans to keep all its USB 3.0 -match. Head on past the break
hard drives at USB 2.0 prices. for the complete press release.
As expected, that transition Continue reading Iomega
begins with its eGo line of pushes ahead with USB 3.0
portable hard drives, which are transition, promises to keep
officially set to be available this drives at USB 2.0 prices
October in 500GB and 1TB Iomega pushes ahead with USB
capacities, each of which will 3.0 transition, promises to keep
include Iomega's Drop Guard d r i v e s a t U S B 2 . 0 p r i c e s
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Twitter Confirms Bain Hire And

Nabs Another Googler (An Old
Costolo FeedBurner Chum)
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:59:01 AM

Yesterday, we first reported the

news that Twitter had hired
Adam Bain away from News
Corp. to be their new president
of revenue. Today, Twitter is
confirming the news noting that
Bain will be the president of
“global revenue”. They’re also
touting another hire: Brent Hill,
Google’s former head of
financial services in the
midwest. He’ll be Twitter’s new
director of sales for the central
(United States) region.
We already talked about why
Bain’s hire seems like a good
one for Twitter — as President
of Fox Audience Network
(FAN), he was able to pump
money out of the mostly dismal
group of digital products at
News Corp. Hill’s hiring,
meanwhile, follows the hiring
earlier this month of Dan
Coughlin from Facebook to
head sales on the East coast, and
Amanda Levy from Yelp to
head sales on the West coast.
Twitter’s sales team now spans
Raytheon's 'pain ray' to be installed
in LA County jail, Charlie Sheen
contemplating move to Portland
Laura June (Engadget)
scale riot recently broke out,
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:09:00 PM injuring more than 20 people
and lasting well over an hour.
the U.S. promotions and deals that bring Raytheon's been cranking on its Now, we're in no position to
Here’s Twitter COO Dick value to both users and an 10,000 pound Silent Guardian form an opinion about whether
Costolo’s canned statement on increasing number of brands. for years now, and we always the pain ray is going to help
today’s announcements: Speaking of Costolo, the Hill try to keep abreast of its... situations like these or not, but
With Adam and Brent joining hiring must be particularly progress. The device, popularly we're pretty sure of one thing:
the team, we now have senior pleasing for him because before known as a 'pain gun,' is a non- it'll likely have little to no effect
sales executives from a wide Google, Hill was the vice lethal weapon designed to the next time Britney Spears is
spectrum of industry leaders, president of advertising services deliver an overwhelming heat to brought in.
i n c l u d i n g F o x , G o o g l e , at FeedBurner — the company say, members of a mob scene or Raytheon's 'pain ray' to be
Facebook and Yelp, comprising Costolo co-founded and sold to rioters at a prison, causing an installed in LA County jail,
our leadership team. We expect Google in 2007 for$100 million. immediate flight response. The Charlie Sheen contemplating
this team to build on our already Air Force, which helped test the move to Portland originally
strong momentum in providing device, has assured the world of appeared on Engadget on Tue,
its safety, and recently the 24 Aug 2010 12:09:00 EDT.
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WSJ says iPads gaining acceptance
in corporations
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:30:00 PM
The past few weeks have been
fascinating for Apple watchers.
The business press has been
reporting that the brand,
formerly a pariah in the
buttoned-down world of
corporate IT, is now being
accepted with open arms. We
had a story yesterday about the
growth of Mac sales in the
government and enterprise
markets, and now the Wall
Street Journal is reporting on
how the iPad is finding a home
in the business world.
In the WSJ Tech piece, reporter
Ben Worthen notes how the
iPhone was banned by
companies when it first came
out in 2007 for being
inappropriate for the workplace.
The iPad, however, has been
quickly embraced by
companies.
One such success story cited in
the WSJ piece talks about
Chicago-based law firm
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
LLP. The company pre-ordered
10 iPads prior to the release of
the device in April so that they
could learn how iPads could be
used with the company's internal
systems. The technology
department at the firm now
supports more than 50 attorneys
with iPads, and they plan on
issuing iPads as a less-expensive
alternative to laptops soon.
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acceptance in corporations
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TDAmeritrade Introduces Currency
Trading Because Investors Are Bored Out
Of Their Wits Trading Stocks (AMTD)
Joe Weisenthal (Money
Game)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:40:00 AM
Here's your real story of the
day.
On top of its existing options
platform, TD Ameritrade is
introducing forex and futures
trading for its retail clients
(they'll bbe able to trade these
things from the company's
ThinkOrSwim platform).
The reason is that investors are
bored out of their minds trading
stocks. Stocks are now totally
correlated with each other, and
the only action is at the macro
level.
Seriously, when you have the
yen trading like a biotech stock
35
waiting for FDA approval,
THAT's where at home
investors are going to want to
be.
So is the TD Ameritrade news
indicative of peak-macro? Does
this mean, in a contrarian way,
that stock-picking is about to
come back?
Seems doubtful. As long as
more and more of the economy
is under the grip of the
government, then it's the
government-level where the
action is going to be, and that
means trading currencies, or if
you do trade stocks, trading
them in relation to currencies.
Join the conversation about this
story »
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Samsung Galaxy Tab gets officially teased

[Video]
Chris Davies (SlashGear) SlashGear will be at IFA 2010
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:12:18 AM next week, and you can bet the
Galaxy Tab is high on our list of
Samsung has kicked off a pre- gadgets to check out.
IFA 2010 teaser campaign for Relevant Entries on SlashGear Lady Gaga Topples
their much-leaked Galaxy Tab • Samsung Galaxy Tab spotted
Android 2.2 tablet. The on Australian outing [Video] Britney As Queen
promotion– which • Samsung Galaxy Q Of Twitter
currently consists of the video QWERTY Android phone due
you can watch after the cut – in US by end of 2010 Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
makes official some of the • Samsung Galaxy S torn down Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:04:15 AM
details we’ve already heard so and snapped
far, including the OS version, 7- L a y a r , t h o u g h w e ’ d h o p e AllShare DLNA app shown • Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S Oh, glorious day. Britney
inch touchscreen and video call Samsung would be doing some running on the slate. Pro gets detailed Spears is no longer the Queen of
f u n c t i o n a l i t y , a s w e l l a s work on making apps suit the According to previous rumors, • T-Mobile Samsung Vibrant Twitter. She has been toppled
previewing some new abilities. larger-scale display – together the Samsung Galaxy Tab will pictured ahead of July 21st from her thrown. A cultural
Video after the cut milestone? Perhaps. But wait.
with snapshots of Google Maps have a 3.2-megapixel camera debut?
That includes augmented reality Navigation and Samsung’s own and a 1GHz ARM11 CPU. LADY page 37
– perhaps through an app like

Patents hints at iMac Touch and touchscreen MacBooks

Keith M (The Unofficial Apple iMac as well. OS first.
Weblog (TUAW)) Apple is clearly driving very TUAW Patents hints at iMac
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:00:00 PM quickly toward mass adoption Touch and touchscreen
and integration of its iOS MacBooks originally appeared
With the sweet glass-fronted, software, and these patents on The Unofficial Apple
LED-backed displays on the certainly support that. As far as Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 24
newer MacBooks, Apple the "iMac Touch" patent, Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please
seemed a step closer to giving apparently you'd get the best of see our terms for use of feeds.
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devices. Patently Apple has on the orientation of the display, Obviously there are many this seems a very logical update.
recently unearthed a couple of the iMac would switch between Apple patents reported that Though it makes sense we could
Apple patent filings that seem to Mac OS and iOS. Lay it flat, never will see the light of day, see the same thing in a
point in that direction, not just you get iOS. Stand it up, you get but I believe this one has some MacBook update, I'd say we'll
for MacBooks, but for a future Mac OS. meat to it. For an iMac refresh, see an iMac sporting this dual-
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LG C900 WP7 phone gets September 28th launch
tip from Bluetooth SIG
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:42:09 AM
The AT&T branded LG C900
Window Phone 7 handset looks
to have acquired a tentative
release date, with the Bluetooth
SIG listing the QWERTY slider
as due for launch on September
28th. In fact, three versions of
the C900 are suggested: the
C900N, C900k and C900B,
presumably catering to the
various UMTS/HSPA bands in
the Asia, Australia, Europe,
North America and South
America regions the Bluetooth
SIG says the LG handset will
LADY
continued from page 36
The new Queen of Twitter is
Lady Gaga. Is that any better?
At least she is more
entertaining, or at least more
self-aware.
Sometime last night, her
highness Lady Gaga passed
Britney in Twitter followers.
She currently has 5,777,492 to
Britney’s 5,721,702. And she
gloated appropriately enough
via Twitter and the odd
YouTube video below.
There are currently only five
people with more than five
eventually arrive in.
The C900 leaked last week,
though so far there are no
definitive specifications for the
handset. We do at least know
that it will support Bluetooth
million followers on Twitter
(Lady Gaga, Britney, Ashton
Kutcher, Ellene Degeneres, and
Barack Obama). Justin Bieber
will soon join them. The top ten
people on Twitter are all
celebrities, as is most of the top
50. Twitter is mainstream, and
has been for a while. But which
of those celebrities is able to
rally their followers the best to
actually do something—whether
that is buying albums and
concert tickets or rallying
behind a cause?
A2DP for wireless stereo – no
great surprise there – and of
course there are the obvious
hardware details: a physical
home button and touch-sensitive
back and search keys, and what
In a way it is appropriate that
LAdy Gaga is now at the top of
Twitter. It is the ultimate
medium for constant self-
promotion.
The Queen is dead. Long live
the Queen.
CrunchBase Information
Twitter Information provided by
CrunchBase
looks to be a well-spaced
QWERTY keyboard.
[ via Phone Arena]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• LG C900 Breaks Cover,
Featuring Windows Phone 7 and
AT&T Branding
• Wii Price and Launch Date:
Coming This September
• Sony Xperia X1 delayed in
the U.S.
• Walmart iPhone 3G 8GB &
16GB on sale Dec 28th
• LG E900 Windows Phone 7
smartphone gets video demo
Technology/ TV/ 37
What's On Tonight:
'Melissa and Joey,'
'White Collar,' 'Rescue
Me,' 'Big Lake'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 7:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews
Here's tonight's lineup of new
shows and events (all times
Eastern). Check your local TV
listings for additional
information.
* = Series/Season Premiere
** = Series/Season Finale
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'Wipeout'
NBC:'Minute to Win It'
ABC Family:'Melissa & Joey'
Cartoon Network:'Unnatural
History'
DIY:'Rescue Renovation'-- 8:30
start
ESPN:'30 for 30'*
History:'Jefferson'-- A profile
on Thomas Jefferson; two hours
VH1:'Behind the Music'--
Profile on singer Fantasia
The rest of the schedule and the
later night talk shows after the
jump.
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Democrats and the "Evil Eye"
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 6:00:00 PM
Much attention has been paid in
recent days to a poll by the Pew
Forum on Religion and Public
Life showing that 18 percent of
Americans incorrectly believe
that President Obama is a
Muslim. But the results of
another Pew poll on religion
released last December were far
more shocking. It turns out that
36 percent of Democrats claim
to have communed with the
dead, and that 19 percent
believe in casting a curse on
someone using the "evil eye."
Think about that: According to
Pew, more Democrats believe in
the "evil eye" than Americans
believe Obama is a Muslim.
The fact is you can find 20
percent of people anywhere who
believe in almost anything. As
The Post's Aug. 22 Outlook
section noted, 20 percent of
Americans believe that space
aliens have made contact with
humans on Earth.
The poll on Obama's religious
affiliation probably would have
been a one-day story had the
White House not launched a
surprisingly aggressive defense
of the president's Christian bona
fides. The White House
immediately put out a statement
declaring "President Obama is a
committed Christian, and his
faith is an important part of his
daily life." We soon learned
from White House officials that
the president reads a daily
devotional on his BlackBerry
each morning and that he dialed
three Christian pastors to pray
with him on his birthday. The
White House even made one of
those pastors, Joel Hunter,
available to the media to discuss
Obama's Christian journey.
Obama should be a lot more
worried that more than half the
country thinks he's a socialist
than that a small fraction of the
country believes he's a Muslim.
Clearly the White House is
worried by the poll results. And
it should be worried--but not for
the reasons it seems to think. It
should be concerned that, after
watching the president in office
for a year and a half, many
Americans still don't know who
Obama really is--and that a
growing number have concluded
that he does not believe what
they believe.
Rather than trying to convince
Americans that Obama is indeed
a practicing Christian, White
House officials should be doing
some deep thinking about why
the president's job approval
rating has flipped--with most
polls showing that more
Americans now disapprove of
his performance in office than
approve of how he's doing.
Strong majorities now
disapprove of his handling of
many of the issues driving key
congressional races in 2010--
such as the economy, health
care, the deficit and
immigration. A recent
Democracy Corps survey found
that about six in 10 likely voters
believe President Obama is "too
liberal" and that he is a "big
spender"--and 55 percent say
that "socialist" is a fair
description of him.
Obama should be a lot more
worried that more than half the
country thinks he's a socialist
than that a small fraction of the
country believes he's a Muslim.
After just 19 months in office,
Obama has so alienated the
American people that some of
his fellow Democrats are now
distancing themselves from him
as Election Day approaches.
Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) is
airing a television ad in his
reelection campaign in which he
declares, as an image of Obama
appears on the screen, that he
does not work for the
"Washington crowd." Georgia
Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Roy Barnes decided
to campaign 100 miles away
rather than welcome the
president to his state, declaring,
"I'd rather be with these folks, if
you want to know the truth. I'm
not running for governor of
Washington, D.C. I'm running
for governor of Georgia." Even
Obama recognizes that he's
become radioactive. At a recent
White House lunch with
Democratic House members in
tough reelection fights, he
promised to help their
campaigns--by staying away.
These Democrats don't want
Obama to stay away because
people think he's a Muslim--
they want him to stay away
because people think he's taking
the country in the wrong
direction. They know that come
November, voters will be
making decisions based on their
negative perceptions of the
runaway spending he has
unleashed, the failure of his
stimulus to create jobs or
improve their lives, and the
health-care bill he rammed
through Congress. Making his
religion more conspicuous will
not change this. The problem for
Obama is not that Americans do
not know about his faith in God-
-it's that they do not share his
faith in government.
Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
fellow AEI.
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A Litmus Test for Yemen

(AEI.Org: Articles) ministry claimed it foiled. commitment to combating al- terrorists, all to no avail), so an
Submitted at 8/23/2010 6:00:00 PM Majali also played a key role in Qaeda, which will thereby also extradition of Majali to France
the October 2002 attack on a evaluate the U.S.'s current seems highly unlikely. But
The Obama administration's French oil tanker, the Limburg, strategy, will be to see what Yemen should, at a minimum,
strategy to combat one of the a strike reminiscent of the USS happens to Majali now. If keep Majali in custody, charge
m o s t d a n g e r o u s a l - Q a e d a Cole attack. Yemen certainly Yemen is a genuine partner in him for terrorism-related crimes,
franchises in the world, al- d e s e r v e s s o m e k u d o s f o r the war on terror, it will allow convict him, and follow through
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula arresting this dangerous and U.S. and European interrogators on his sentencing this time. Any Bill Gross: We Need
(AQAP), revolves around the hardened terrorist, but how the to have access to Majali. He failure to do so--especially if Total Nationalization Of
trust it has put in the Yemeni Yemeni government handles most likely has critical Majali once again becomes a
government to kill or capture Majali now that he is in custody knowledge of the dynamics of free man--will expose Saleh's
Housing, And I'm Not
AQAP leaders, operatives, and should be the primary concern AQAP, the role of U.S. born true colors in the war against al- Just Talking My Book
facilitators. I have pointed out in o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in the Qaeda and should force the U.S. Joe Weisenthal (Money
this forum that the Yemeni g o v e r n m e n t . group, the whereabouts of other to reconsider its approach to Game)
government's ties with terrorists If Yemen is a genuine partner senior operatives, and future combating al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:23:00 AM
run deep, but the U.S. hopes that in the war on terror, it will allow plots. Such vital intelligence Chris Harnisch is an analyst
its $150 million per year in U.S. and European interrogators could significantly enhance U.S. and the Gulf of Aden team lead Last week, Bill Gross raised
military assistance will convince to have access to Majali. efforts in combating AQAP and for the Critical Threats Project plenty of eyebrows when he
the regime of Ali Abdullah Yemeni security forces initially deterring future attacks. at AEI. suggested that the government
Saleh to change its ways and arrested Majali in late 2003, and The Yemeni government could Photo credit: CIA World ought to totally nationalize
fight al-Qaeda. Late last week-- a Yemeni court sentenced him also show its commitment to the Factbook housing finance, while
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an attack against the British h i m w h e n h e p l e d g e d t o extraditions (the U.S. has Independent. In his latest monthly letter he
embassy in December 2009, relinquish his ties to al-Qaeda. requested the extradition of goes into more depth about his
which the Yemeni defense A true litmus test of Saleh's several Yemeni-American views, and denies that he's just
taking the PIMCO line.
The first key to his argument is
that the private sector has failed
when it comes to housing
finance:
I proposed a solution that

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Dissent at the Fed, 7 of 17 Express Reservations about QE;

Appeals Court Refuses Fed's Motion to Dismiss Bloomberg's
Freedom of Information Request
noreply@blogger.com camps. In one camp, Mr. initiatives, deemed the latest backstopping all losses at Quantitative Easing Spur
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Dudley, and the presidents of move premature because, Fannie and Freddie could Inflation? Job Creation? Credit
Global Economic Trend the Boston and San Francisco though the Fed was lowering mortgage paybacks be construed Expansion? Do Anything?
Analysis)
Fed banks, Eric Rosengren and 2010 growth estimates, it wasn't as tightening. The same applies written on August 6, before
Submitted at 8/24/2010 1:23:00 AM Janet Yellen, were distressed significantly ramping down its to any balance sheet assets paid Bernanke opted for constant
Beneath the surface of a 9-1 that the Fed was far from its estimates for growth in 2011 back because of favorable garbage.
vote in favor of continued o b j e c t i v e s of low and beyond. Two other frequent bond market conditions. Appeals Court Refuses Fed's
quantitative easing, 7 of 17 Fed u n e m p l o y m e n t a n d s t a b l e dissenters, Thomas Hoenig of Indeed, the Fed should be Motion to Dismiss Bloomberg's
officials at the last FOMC i n f l a t i o n . Kansas City, and Jeffrey Lacker thrilled to get rid of garbage on Freedom of Information Request
meeting had at least some Richard Fisher, president of the of Richmond, Va., also its balance sheet at a time when In other Fed news, Bloomberg
reservations about Bernanke's Dallas Fed, and others expressed objected. Fed governor Betsy mortgage rates are dropping. reports Fed Loses Bid for
policy. a concern that Fed moves might Duke, a former commercial Exit Strategy Blown Review of Bailout Disclosure
The Wall Street Journal reports be ineffective, arguing that banker, also expressed Note how the Fed blew a Ruling
Fed Split on Move to Bolster b u s i n e s s e s w e r e n ' t u s i n g reservations, according to chance at an exit strategy An appeals court refused to
Sluggish Economy already ample, cheap credit to participants. Fed Worried handed to them on a silver reconsider a decision
The Aug. 10 meeting of top fund investments because they Balance Sheet Might Shrink platter. They are unlikely to be compelling the Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve officials was were uncertain about many Too Fast so lucky down the road. Board to release documents
among the most contentious in other problems, including The concern of Bernanke and Quantitative Nothingness vs. identifying banks that might
Ben Bernanke's four-and-a-half government deficits and new other Fed officials was the Quantitative Easing have failed without the U.S.
year tenure as central bank financial regulations. Fed's balance sheet might shrink I discussed the FOMC decision government bailout.
chairman. With the economic Narayana Kocherlakota, too fast. According to the New in Quantitative Nothingness The full U.S. Court of Appeals
outlook unexpectedly darkening, president of the Minneapolis York Fed, as much as $340 and the Yield Curve's Reaction in New York, in a docket entry
the issue was a seemingly Fed, argued that a large part of billion would be paid back Bernanke's pledge to hold the dated Aug. 20, denied a May 4
technical one: whether to alter today's unemployment problem including $55 billion Fannie Fed's balance sheet constant is request by the Fed to review a
the way the Fed manages its is caused by issues the Fed can't and Freddie mortgages. certainly a new twist. However, three-judge panel’s unanimous
huge portfolio of securities. solve, such as the mismatch A shrinking portfolio in the given that quantitative easing March 19 decision requiring the
At least seven of the 17 Fed between the skills of jobless face of slowing economic will not do a damn thing as agency to release records of the
officials gathered around the workers and the skills that growth amounted to discussed in Quantitative unprecedented $2 trillion U.S.
massive oval boardroom table, employers wanted. "The Fed "prematurely applying the Easing Take II; Uncharted loan program begun primarily
made of Honduran mahogany does not have a means to brakes" according to New York Territory it is silly to think that after the 2008 collapse of Bear
and granite, spoke against the transform construction workers Fed President William Dudley. Quantitative Nothingness will Stearns Cos.
proposal or e x p r e s s e d into manufacturing workers," Excuse me for asking but how do anything. Unless the court stays its
reservations. At the end of an Mr. Kocherlakota said in a the hell does repayment of When the equity market will decision, the Fed will have
extended debate, Mr. Bernanke speech after the meeting. Fannie and Freddie loans (with figure this out remains a seven days to disclose the
settled the issue by pushing The president of the consumers refinancing at lower mystery, but the treasury market documents. In the event of a
successfully to proceed with the Philadelphia Fed, Charles rates) constitute tightening? seems to have figured it out stay, the central bank and the
move. Plosser, who has had misgivings Only in the perverted world of already. For still more on the DISSENT page 45
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recognized the necessity, not
the desirability, of using
government involvement, which
would take the form of rolling
FNMA, FHLMC, and other
housing agencies into one giant
agency – call it GNMA or the
Government National Mortgage
Association for lack of a more
perfect acronym – and
guaranteeing a majority of
existing and future originations.
Taxpayers would be protected
through tight regulation,
adequate down payments, and
an insurance fund bolstered by
a 50–75 basis point fee attached
to each and every mortgage.
Seemed commonsensical to me.
After all, Fannie and Freddie
had really blown up because of
the private/public nature of
their charter, which incentivized
executives and stockholders to
go for broke with the implicit
understanding that Uncle Sam
would be there as a backstop
should anything go wrong. If
you eliminated the private
incentive and provided a tighter
regulatory watchdog, we would
have no more “liar loans” or
“no docs” and a much sounder
foundation for future
homeowners and investors. The
private market, to my mind, had
really lost its claim as the most
efficient and judicious arbiter in
this particular case. Markets and
private incentives without
proper guardrails were as
threatening to a sound economy
in the 21st century as too much
regulation and government
ownership proved to be in the
1970s.
Next he offers some numbers to
back up the idea that the private
sector is bad in this regard:
In addition, my argument had a
practical/market-based logic to
it. Ninety-five percent of
existing mortgage creation over
the past 12 months were
government guaranteed. The
private market was nowhere to
be found because they charged
too much. It was the cost of
private origination and
securitization, perhaps more
than any other factor, that
justified government
involvement. Prime, but non-
conforming, mortgages
(jumbos, insufficient down
payments) were being purchased
by PIMCO in the hundreds of
millions of dollars every week,
but at yields of 6, 7, and 8%. If
that was the risk/reward
tradeoff, compared to FNMA
and FHLMC yields at 3.5–4%,
how could policymakers pretend
that the housing baton could be
quickly and cost-effectively
passed back to the private
market? Few, if any, could
afford a new home at those
interest rates. If you were a
believer in the dominance and
superiority of private markets,
how could you deny the signal
that markets were sending –
that the risk was too high given
the substantial losses of recent
years?
This is just weird. He argues
that higher cost of private
originations justifies
government involvement, rather
than concluding that
government involvement is
arbitrarily pushing the price of
home financing to sub-market
levels (and unsustainably so, as
Fannie/Freddie ended up
showing).
He then argues basically that
since the market has become
conditioned on government
finance, and that because
homeowner attitude has been
seared by the housing bust, we
must double down on
government guarantee of
housing:
My argument for the necessity
of government backing was
substantially based on this
commonsensical, psychological,
indeed sociological observation
that the great housing debacle of
2007–2010+ would have a
profound influence on
homebuyers and mortgage
lenders for decades to come.
What did we learn from the
Great Depression, for instance:
Americans, for at least a
generation or more, became
savers – dominated by the
insecurity of 20%+
unemployment rates and
importance of a return of their
money as opposed to a return on
their money. It should be no
different this time, even though
the Great R. is a tempered
version of the Great D.
Americans now know that
housing prices don’t always go
up, and that they can in fact go
down by 30–50% in a few short
years. Because of this
experience, private mortgage
lenders will demand
extraordinary down payments,
impeccable credit histories, and
significantly higher yields than
what markets grew used to over
the past several decades. Could
an unbiased observer truly
believe that housing starts of
two million or even one million
per year could be generated
under the wing of the private
market? In front of Treasury
Secretary Geithner and the
assembled audience, I said that
was impractical. Let me amend
that to “ludicrous.”
So in other words, private
sector financing is too expensive
(because the private sector
apparently sucks at it, not
because the private sector is
better at pricing risk
appropriately), and that because
homeowners have become
conditioned due to the bubble
and the bust, the government
must assume a greater role. And
oh, presuming that the
government ends its dual-
mandate (housing finance and a
profit motive) then we won't see
a repeat of the Fannie/Freddie
bust.
Here he spells it out most
clearly:
Policymakers not only have to
consider the future “flows” of
41
new mortgage originations, but
the existing “stock” of
mortgages already created.
FNMA and FHLMC either own
or have guaranteed $4.5 trillion
of the $11 trillion mortgage
market now on the books. As
the Treasury contemplates the
“transition” from Agency
conservatorship to either public
or private hands, how could
private market advocates
reasonably assume that pension,
insurance, bank, and PIMCO-
type monies would willingly
add nearly $5 trillion of non-
guaranteed, in many cases junk-
rated mortgages to their
portfolio? They would not. We
are in a bind, folks. Having
grown accustomed to a housing
market aided and abetted by
Uncle Sam, the habit cannot be
broken by going cold turkey
into the camp of private lending.
The cost would be enormous in
terms of yields – 300–400 basis
points higher than currently
offered, crippling any hopes of
a housing-led revival to the
economy.
And as for his own (lack of)
interest in this:
And why do I and PIMCO
support this view? Is it some
self-interested, money-making
plot to allow us to dominate the
bond market? Hardly. Any
investor would recognize that
it’s better to have a 6 or 7%
yield instead of 3–4%, so it
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Economist Forecast; Treasury Yields Hit New Lows
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:36:00 AM
In yet another clean sweep, the
third in a week or so, sales of
existing homes dropped twice as
much as expected, worse than
every economist forecast, to a
15 year low. Inventory soared to
12.5 month, the highest since
1999. Treasury yields plunged
with yield on the 10-year note
falling as low as 2.50 and the 2-
year note hitting a new all-time
low at .47%.
Please consider Sales of U.S.
Existing Homes Drop More
Than Forecast Sales of U.S.
previously owned homes
plunged 27 percent in July,
twice as much as forecast,
evidence foreclosures and
limited job growth are
depressing the market.
Purchases plummeted to a 3.83
million annual pace, the lowest
in a decade on record keeping
and worse than the most
pessimistic forecast of
economists surveyed by
Bloomberg News, figures from
the National Association of
Realtors showed today in
Washington. Demand for single-
family houses dropped to a 15-
year low and the number of
homes on the market swelled.
A tax credit of up to $8,000
boosted sales earlier in the year,
pulling forward demand and
indicating additional advances
will prove difficult. Mortgage
rates at record lows have
provided scant relief to the
industry as unemployment
hovers close to 10 percent,
foreclosures hold near record-
highs and the economy cools.
“This is a devastating reading on
the U.S. housing market,” said
Derek Holt, an economist at
Scotia Capital Inc. in Toronto.
“There’s such an inventory
overhang, it shows there will be
pressure on prices” in the
months ahead.
The pace of existing home sales
is the slowest since comparable
records began in 1999.
Purchases of single-family
homes dropped to a 3.37 million
annual rate, the lowest since
May 1995.
Range of Forecasts
Economists projected sales
would fall 13 percent from
June’s previously reported 5.37
million pace. The agents’ group
revised the June sales figure
down to 5.26 million. Estimates
in the Bloomberg survey of 74
economists ranged from 3.96
million to 5.3 million.
Previously owned homes make
up about 90 percent of the
market.
The number of previously
owned homes on the market
rose 2.5 percent to 3.98 million.
At the current sales pace, it
would take 12.5 months to sell
those houses, the highest since
at least 1999 and compared with
8.9 months in June. The months’
supply of single-family homes
at 11.9 months was the highest
since 1983, the NAR said.
Extend and Pretend
The only thing this
administration knows how to do
is extend and pretend. The latest
gimmick offered on August 11,
2010 is HUD Offers Interest-
Free Loans to Reduce
Foreclosures.
The Obama administration will
offer $1 billion in zero-interest
loans to help homeowners
who’ve lost income avoid
foreclosure as part of $3 billion
in additional aid targeting
economically distressed areas.
The Department of Housing
and Urban Development plans
to make loans of as much as
$50,000 for borrowers “in hard
hit local areas” to make
mortgage, tax and insurance
payments for as long as two
years, according to a statement
released today. The Treasury
Department will also provide as
much as $2 billion in aid under
an existing program for 17 states
and the District of Columbia,
according to the statement.
The initiatives will help “a
broad group of struggling
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borrowers across the country Lasting Improvement for 9
and in doing so further Months
contribute to the
administration’s efforts to Recession Never Ended
stabilize housing markets and As I said in 3rd Quarter GDP
communities,” Bill Apgar, Likely Negative, Recession
HUD’s senior adviser for Never Ended...
mortgage finance, said in the While some people still think
statement. Fool's Offering vs. the odds of a double dip
Free Rent recession are close to zero,
Anyone going $50,000 deeper ironically, the only reason they
in debt to "save" their existing may be right is if the first dip
underwater home is a complete never ended.
fool. On the other hand, anyone Amazingly, economists are still
who takes the cash as an offer clinging to estimates of 2.5%
for free rent with a plan to and up.
declare bankruptcy and walk- So expect to discover the vast
away later just may be thinking majority of economists will be
clearly. surprised at the forthcoming
Thus, it is likely that the fool in downward revisions, even after
this case is the Obama we point these things out well in
administration. The only thing advance and repeat them.
this stupid program will do is The ECRI is still touting the
waste taxpayer money while "flattening" of the Weekly
pushing foreclosures into the Leading Indicators (WLI) at -
future. 10. With the collapse in treasury
Meanwhile the number of yields, a print of -500,000 on
negative surprises continues weekly claims, and a god-awful
unabated. Philly Fed report, let's watch
Recent Surprises the next few weeks. I suspect
this "flattening" period will soon
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M a n u f a c t u r i n g E s t i m a t e ; Nearly every economist has
Median Forecast +7 Actual been Fooled by Stimulus even
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Global Economic Trend RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, very, very long-term process.” Excuse me for asking but ... can't exceed 2.5% for a couple
Analysis)
California-based data company. Consumer spending rose 1.6 Small Businesses are Not Hiring of years? What about a decade
Submitted at 8/23/2010 9:13:00 PM Federal efforts to help have had percent in the second quarter, - Why Should They? (or on and off for a decade)?
I am reasonably certain that the little success. Of 1.31 million down from 1.9 percent in the As is typical of most If you have come to the
economy is still in recession. If loan modifications started under previous three months. economists, Behravesh displays conclusion that we are going to
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the NBER to decide), the Home Affordable Modification and appliances fell 1.7 percent leap of faith. unemployment for a decade,
pending disaster in housing and Program, 48 percent were to an annual pace of $256.5 Structurally High you have come to the right
commercial real estate will seal canceled by the end of July, the billion in June from a 2010 high Unemployment for a Decade conclusion. Ask yourself: Is
the double-dip deal. Treasury Department said Aug. in April, according to the Guy Lebas, chief fixed-income that what the stock market is
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Clearing House Association
LLC, an organization of 20
commercial banks that joined
the Fed in defense of the
lawsuit, will have 90 days to
petition the Supreme Court to
consider their appeal. The
Clearing House has already said
it will ask the high court to rule
on the case.
“We are reviewing the decision
and considering our options for
appeal,” David Skidmore, a Fed
spokesman, said.
At issue are 231 “term sheets”
documenting Fed loans to
financial firms during 2008. The
records, which include the
banks’ names, the amounts
borrowed and the collateral
posted in return, were originally
requested by late Bloomberg
News reporter Mark Pittman
through the Freedom of
Information Act, which allows
citizens access to government
papers.
The amount the Fed and the
U.S. government lent, spent and
guaranteed to stem the recession
and rescue the banking system
peaked in March 2009 at $12.8
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trillion, most of it following the
September 2008 bankruptcy of
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Fox News, a unit of New York
-based News Corp., also sued
the Fed to force the release of
loan documents for transactions
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appears to be where this lawsuit
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Should the Fed does deliver
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Unveiled
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never was a "recovery" by any
rational measure. The alleged
recovery was nothing more than
inventory replenishment fueled
by massive and unsustainable
government spending waste
with additional trillions of
taxpayer dollars handed out in
bank bailouts.
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:47:35 AM
As U.S. treasury yields sink
further, the 10-year even broke
below 2.5% today, U.S. stocks
are taking it on the chin. Fund
flows continue to massively
favor bonds over U.S. stocks.
Yet as U.S. stocks struggle to
hang on, it's peculiar how some
stock markets are on fire these
days.
For example, Indonesia's stock
market hit a new high just a few
days back. Other Southeast
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10 Tips from Happy People Lunchbox Makeovers

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Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:00:00 AM report increased levels of pinning down what happiness is throughs, and lunch table swaps
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Stockholm, instead of
stretching out a series of runway
shows, presentations, and parties
over a drawn-out week, packs a
wallop of well-edited Swedish
designers into a manageable
three-day schedule.
Some of the highlights include
Carin Wester, above, whose
runway show was open to the
public. Wester sent out a ‘70s
inspired collection of lace
pieces, sheer dresses, and
cropped tops that would be
perfect for frolicking in the
fields of the (unfortunately very
brief) Swedish summer.
Cheap Monday's show was held
at a dramatic location right on
Stockholm harbor, and also was
Germany to Put Up Facebook Wall
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Anyone who's ever been a part
of an employee hiring process
knows just how standard it is to
Google someone and check out
anything and everything that
pops up. Pages on social
networking sites that might be
available due to a friend of a
friend are also fair game. The
German Parliament is making
open to the public. The show
opened with the signature call of
Shabba Ranks' "SHABBA!" and
continued with more Jamaican
dancehall, as models emerged in
the latest denim trends and clear
plastic boots.
Dagmar, who also produced a
some noise about the subject
because it thinks that it might be
inappropriate for employers to
look on these social networking
pages when making their
judgments about potential hires.
Germany's Interior Minister,
Thomas de Maizière, has drafted
a new law that specifically bans
potential employers from
checking out an applicant's
Facebook page but allows novelties like drunken photos or
perusal of sites like LinkedIn, questionable Wall messages.
which have no platform for Given the many upsides (did
runway show at Amsterdam
Fashion Week, put together a
nice presentation in a Stockholm
courtyard. The line displayed
their favela-inspired collection
of neon knits and pastels tied up
on a clothesline, with a
Brazilian band providing
entertainment, and weak
Caipirinhas for calories.
Hope's floppy leather
mushmouth hats continued the
trend of leather accessories and
camel that we've noticed
throughout the Scandinavian
fashion weeks, but the floor-
length leather skirts had a
softness and ease of movement
that was surprising.
The last show was off-site, by a
brand called Rodebjer—yet
another Scandinavian label to
tongue-tie us Americans. The
yacht-inspired collection
featured luxurious fabrics with
generous cuts and enormous,
Sunday-best sunhats.
— Phil Oh
you know your potential
employee raises abandoned
puppies?) and downsides (did
you know her usual bar order is
a personal bottle of Patrón?) of
being able to find out so much
about a person, is it really fair to
ban access of potentially
pertinent information? Or
should the images and wall
posts be considered "private"
since you technically need to be
granted permission to access
Facebook pages?
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10 Quirky Facts
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Wandering through a modern
grocery store, it's easy to forget
there was a time when all food
was local. People baked their
own bread, churned their own
butter and slaughtered their own
chickens, or else they bought
these staples from a small, local
supplier.
Now, markets are filled with
pre-sliced bread, packaged
butter and portioned chicken,
not to mention potato chips, ice
cream, cookies and frozen pizza,
all mass-produced in factories
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The German cabinet is set to
vote on the law tomorrow, but in
the mean time: Would it be a
win for the potential employee,
who retains the right to keep
silly photos on the internet? Or
a loss for the potential
employer, who deserves the
chance at a solid hire?
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Paris Hilton Introduces New Flipping Out Over Jenni Pulos

Pug Mugsy, Calls the Cops Steve Gutierrez
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Molly (PopSugar) Jenni Pulos
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:15:00 AM
She Plays
Herself, aka real-estate mogul
Paris Hilton had a very special Jeff Lewis' long-suffering
buddy, her newly adopted assistant and constant target of
rescue pug Mugsy, along for a abuse on Flipping Out(Tuesday,
Fred Segal shopping spree in 9/8c, Bravo). "It's only because I
Beverly Hills yesterday. The want her to grow and improve,"
little guy helped Paris pick out says Jeff.
far more clothes than she could into her home, but thankfully Where You've Seen Her
c a r r y , s o a n a r m y o f the cops were quick to arrive Though she's made a couple
saleswomen followed them out and take care of the matter. scripted appearances ( Charmed,
with her many bags. Paris Mugsy may not be much of a Girlfriends), it's her real-life
planted a sweet kiss on Mugsy guard dog, though he's certainly quiet dignity that's won us over. defined by what other people included," she hints. "There will
before she was off to spend the a comforting cuddle partner "People think they know you say. You're defined by who you be a firing this year."
evening in the recording studio. after Paris's rough morning. [when you're on a reality show], are and what you do," she says. Subscribe to TV Guide
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The Movie Review: ‘If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t

Rise’
Matt Zoller Seitz (The New stand for and what it actually use private developments built public housing project, St. with unforeseen, far-reaching
Republic - All Feed) does. One example is the cheap, in their place—a land-grab that Bernard’s, was torn down after a consequences. But because
Submitted at 8/23/2010 2:31:03 PM shoddy levees that collapsed some interviewees say wouldn’t unanimous council vote. The they’re caused by institutions
before the hurricane made have happened if so many poor, most unnerving image in the rather than by nature, and
Spike Lee's wonderful 2006 landfall (a fact irrefutably black residents hadn’t been subsequent demolition montage because the guilty parties are so
documentary When the Levees proved in video surveillance driven from the city by the is a wide shot of a steam shovel numerous and often
Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, footage used in a successful flood. picking through rubble; it looks camouflaged, it’s hard to fix
wasn’t just about Hurricane class-action lawsuit against the Lee insists that many of the like a grinning steel mantis. blame—and perhaps the sheer
Katrina. Rather, it explored the Army Corps of Engineers). changes in New Orleans, The citizens’ protests against pervasiveness of rotten behavior
s o c i a l i n e q u i t i e s t h a t t h e Another is the BP spill, a crisis including the mixed-use assorted outrages—the over time implies collective
hurricane laid bare, and the which Lee depicts as potentially developments, have been aimed government’s grotesque responsibility. Corrupt police
incompetence, confusion, greed, far worse than the flood—a at middle-class to wealthy mishandling of the flood and the officers, deceitful developers,
and stupidity that made a poisonous murk spreading along (white) people, and have driven oil spill, and its mismanagement nest-feathering politicians, inept
terrible situation worse. His the gulf coast, killing hope up rents to the point where poor of the rebuilding effort; real regulators, media outlets that
latest effort, If God Is Willing a l o n g w i t h w e t l a n d s a n d residents dispersed to Texas and estate developers’ merciless treat official misconduct as
and Da Creek Don't Rise, which wildlife. Lee sees the two other states can’t return to New p u s h t o w a r d today’s news and forget to do
premieres on August 23and 24, disasters as sharing a common Orleans even though many want gentrification—prove largely follow-ups—it’s impossible to
c a s t s a c o l d e y e o n t h e origin: the rush for short-term to. (The low-income homes that futile. Why? Lee’s pessimistic keep track of all the people who
opportunism that followed in the personal gain by a select group were meant to “replace” the old (or perhaps realistic) summary bear partial responsibility for the
wake of Katrina, finishing with leading to long-term societal public housing look like flimsy recalls a prescient routine by ongoing, multifaceted
a devastating hour about the BP damage. oversized doghouses—a sad George Carlin: we don’t really catastrophe in New Orleans and
oil spill and the political and And those are just the major retreat from the sturdy brick have a democracy in this the Gulf region. Few will admit
economic forces that allowed it horrors. Lee draws our attention structures built under the country, we have owners. And a smidge of responsibility, much
to happen. It has a south-of-the- to many smaller ones, such as administration of Franklin the people theoretically less apologize. Perhaps, Lee
Mason/Dixon-line storytelling the replacement of Big Charity, Delano Roosevelt.) “Creek” entrusted with defending us suggests, the entire country is
style—a fondness for rococo the public Louisiana State devotes a long, furious section against the machinations of responsible, or should consider
details and digressions, a U n i v e r s i t y - r u n t e a c h i n g to the Big Charity hospital those owners always seem to itself responsible, for this self-
leisurely sense of pacing, and a hospital, with a new public- controversy, pointing out that end up protecting the owners’ enriching, self-destroying
generosity of spirit that leavens private hospital to be built in a the drive to save it united interests. (Some of the most culture of selfishness, which
Lee’s justified outrage. It seems neighborhood full of historic residents that wouldn’t infuriating footage in Creek predates Katrina by at least two
less like a postscript to “Levees” (mostly middle-class) homes otherwise have had much in shows an angry throng of centuries.
than a second chapter in a s e i z e d t h r o u g h e m i n e n t common, and drove them en citizens being illegally locked Like Levees, Creek is filled
powerful and probably still- domain.Lee treats this as a stand masse to City Hall. They might out of a December 20, 2007 with talking heads—rich,
unfinished masterwork. -in for New Orleans itself, and as well have wished upon a star council vote to demolish the middle class, and poor people;
T a k e n t o g e t h e r , t h e t w o for America’s disturbing habit for all the good it did them. “I’m housing projects, then getting soldiers, journalists, teachers,
documentaries are mournful of erasing its own past. Another sick of you white liberals acting pepper-sprayed, Tasered and environmental experts, urban
epic poems about the absence of similar, localized tragedy is the like you feel our pain!” a beaten by police after refusing planners, historians, shrimp
responsibility and decency in demolition of public housing woman shouts at the council to leave. fishermen, actors, musicians,
America—about the gap projects damaged in the during a meeting just days All these man-made events, the
between what America claims to hurricane, with so-called mixed- before New Orleans’ largest film argues, are disasters, too, MOVIE page 53
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neighborhood activists. All offer
unique perspectives on what
went wrong in America during
and after Katrina, and what's
still going wrong. There are
sections about New Orleans’
troubled school system, its
floundering public health care
system, and the plight of
residents displaced to other
states, the tenure of New
Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, and
President Obama’s response to
the BP oil spill. Lee and his
editors have amassed an
awesome amount of data, but
they've organized it in a way
that feels organic, one specific
incident or problem or anecdote
flowing naturally (at times
imperceptibly) into the next.
Creek also puts the lie to the
notion that Lee is a one-sided
filmmaker who goes into every
subject with his mind made up.
Like Levees—and for that
matter, like Do the Right Thing,
Clockers, and Lee's other good
fiction films— Creek has a
strong point-of-view. But Lee
doesn’t omit or distort opinions
that complicate his own. Film
critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once
wrote that Do the Right Thing
isn’t about either/or, but both/
and. Lee’s documentaries about
the post-flood American south
operate in the same spirit.
The opening section about the
New Orleans’ Saints’ Super
Bowl victory, for instance,
sweeps us up in the rejuvenating
joy that the team’s triumph
inspired—but then it backs off
and reminds us that the Saints
are just a sports team, and that
their win is ultimately a
distraction from the city’s
problems. Every section of
Creek is likewise committed to a
mature, prismatic view of life.
You may think you know where
Lee is going when he starts each
section, but you don’t.
Witnesses describe C. Ray
Nagin as a barely-competent
mayor handpicked by the city’s
white business elite, and as an
unlikely hero doing an amazing
job under impossible
circumstances, and both
perceptions are allowed to stand.
Our current president is likewise
portrayed as doing everything
he can and pathetically little.
The documentary decries the
white thugs who treated the
hurricane as an excuse to hunt
black folks, then goes on to
concede that black-on-black
crime in post-Katrina New
Orleans is a far worse problem
than white vigilantism. When
Federal Emergency
Management Agency Michael
Brown appears on-camera, you
naturally expect Lee to lump
him in with the rest of the Bush
administration’s devious
bumblers, as he more or less did
in Levees. What you get instead
is a tough yet compassionate
portrait of a man who was
unprepared for his job,
floundered during a crisis, dared
bitch to his superiors about their
own incompetence, and got
hung out to dry. Brown reveals
that mere moments before the
president infamously grinned on
camera and told him he was
doing a heckuva job, he’d been
griping to Bush backstage about
the executive branch’s lame
response. Which means the
compliment was actually a
punishment for not knowing his
place. (Brown claims that if you
watch the clip closely, you can
see him trying not to wince.)
Like many auteurs, Lee likes to
announce his presence behind
the camera, often with awkward,
off-putting results. But although
Lee personally conducted the
interviews in these
documentaries, you hear his
voice off-camera only when you
need to hear a question in order
to make sense of a subject’s
answer, or when a subject says
something so striking and odd
that any reasonable person
would interrupt to ask a follow-
up. Here, as in Levees, he’s
mostly invisible, with one very
conspicuous exception: the
lengthy closing credits montage
which finds many of Lee’s
people (and Lee himself) saying
their names and occupations
while holding picture frames
around their faces. This is
definitely a section that could
have been cut for time, but I
loved it. It’s both visually
playful and revealing of the
filmmaker’s storytelling style,
which singles out individuals
while keeping the larger
panorama in mind.
The reportorial and explanatory
sections of “Creek” are
impressive. And yet the film
becomes truly great in the visual
vignettes cut by supervising
editor Sam Pollard and scored
by Lee’s regular composer,
trumpeter Terence Blanchard, a
New Orleans native who also
appears on-camera in both
documentaries with his
cantankerous mother,
Wilhelmena, a flood survivor.
53
Splicing together similarly-
themed shots—images of eerily
isolated front stoops where
housing projects once stood,
backed by bleakly amused,
“What did you expect?” noir-
jazz; snippets of underwater
surveillance camera footage of
oil gushing from the BP pipeline
scored to funereal organ
music—Lee, Pollard and
Blanchard distill the
documentary's themes and
feelings into cinematic arias.
These montages are often
disquieting, sometimes
upsetting. But they’re conceived
with such wit and passion that
watching them is an elating
experience.
Matt Zoller Seitz is a
contributor to Salon and the
founder of Slant's “ The House
Next Door.” He writes‘Mad
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Getting to Know Covert Affairs'

Christopher Gorham
Joseph Hudak (TVGuide.com: working with another strong
Breaking News) leading lady: Piper Perabo.
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:34:00 AM "Meeting her sealed the deal,"
Gorham says of his decision to
Christopher Gorham take the role of Auggie, a
Auggie Anderson — the girl- character he views as a rarity.
crazy CIA agent on USA's new "He is simultaneously a tech
spy-games hit Covert guy, a disabled vet and an
Affairs(Tuesdays, 10/9c,
USA)— may be blind, but TV
fans sure have gotten an eyeful
incessant womanizer. That's a
combination you don't see a
lot!" So to speak.
Emmy Picks: Best Lead
of the actor who plays him. In
the past six years, Christopher
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Gorham has starred in as many This entry passed through the Joel Keller (TV Squad) Recreation'
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not so much. He was the titular is your content and you're Edie Falco had submitted the
human computer in Jake 2.0, the reading it on someone else's site, Filed under: Emmys, Features pilot for 'Nurse Jackie,' it hit me
black sheep in a family of docs Betty. (For the record, he says, please read our FAQ page at With the Emmy awards less that she didn't get nominated for
in the short-lived sitcom Out of " I r e a l l y a g r e e d w i t h t h e fivefilters.org/content-only/ than a week away, I'm the show last year. Since the
Practice, a young M.D. in audience — once Henry had a faq.php continuing to pick who I think pilot aired about a week after
Medical Investigation and the baby with another girl, you Five Filters featured should and who I think will win the 2010 eligibility period
secret killer on Harper's Island. didn't want to see Betty raising article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets the major awards. started, the Academy has had
B u t m o s t f a m o u s l y , h e someone else's kid.") an Easy Ride in the Yesterday, I discussed the Best well over a year to ruminate
romanced one Betty Suarez Now Gorham is thrilled to be I n d e p e n d e n t . Lead Actor in a Drama over Falco's strong out-of-the-
(America Ferrera) on Ugly category. Today we look at the gate performance in that pilot,
comedy side of the ledger and where the entire web of lies
the Best Lead Actress in a Jackie has set up get revealed in
Comedy category. a quick 30 minutes. Considering
Nominees: her Emmy history -- seven
Toni Collette, 'United States of nominations, three wins -- it's
Tara' very easy to see Falco standing
Edie Falco, 'Nurse Jackie' on stage with the Emmy this
Tina Fey, '30 Rock' year.
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Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:25:00 AM
Alicia Coppola
Looks like Skeet Ulrich won't
be the only former Jericho star
fighting crime in Los Angeles
this season: Alicia Coppola has
signed on to guest-star on a
Season 2 episode of NCIS: Los
Angeles, TVGuide.com has
learned exclusively.
Fall Preview: Get scoop on
your favorite returning shows
Coppola will play FBI agent
Amy Rand, an expert on
kidnapping cases. Described as
athletic, determined and
authoritative, she works with the
NCIS agents to find a victim to
prevent a killing spree.
Besides her role as IRS agent
Mimi Clark on Jericho,
Coppola, 42, has appeared on
such shows as CSI, Two and a
Half Men and American
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Oprah Winfrey
Previews Her Show's
Final Season
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Oprah
Winfrey's last season hosting
her iconic talk show might
inspire a stroll down memory
lane to reminisce about
favorite'The Oprah Winfrey
Show' episodes of yore, but
that's nothing compared to the
flashback some of her staffers
have been experiencing over the
Dreams. Coppola's character is your content and you're past few months.
could recur. Her first appearance reading it on someone else's site, Winfrey told TV Guide that, for
is slated to air in October. please read our FAQ page at the past nine months, teams of town where there were no black
NCIS: Los Angeles promotes fivefilters.org/content-only/ employees have been examining people allowed and a guy was
Eric Christian Olsen to series faq.php more than 5,000 hours of using the N-word with me. I'm
regular F i v e F i l t e r s f e a t u r e d footage the show has filmed going to do a tour of the new
NCIS: Los Angeles returns with article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets over the past 25 years to pick Forsyth County with him. I'm
back-to-back episodes Tuesday, a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e out some memorable moments also going to go back to
Sept. 21 at 9/8c on CBS. Independent. to return to. Williamson, West Virginia,
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Martin Short's Wife Dies at 58 Honda Civic Hybrid

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Nancy Dolman and Martin

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according to the Los Angeles
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See celebrities we've lost this update brings fuel-economy
year complaints
Dolman died Saturday at the Honda has issued an update for
couple's Pacific Palisades home, 2006-2008 Honda Civic
Hybrids to address premature In our testing, the Civic Hybrid
but no cause of death or any
to raise her family. is your content and you're failures of the expensive hybrid got an excellent 37 mpg overall.
additional details have been
The couple had three children: reading it on someone else's site, battery system in its cars. Dropping to 27 mpg represents
released. The Saturday Night
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star, 60, married Dolman in
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1980. The couple met in 1972
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while working together in a
Short is up for an Emmy for his article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets logic of the later model 2009 Our reliability data shows Civic
Toronto production of Godspell.
role in Damages. a n E a s y R i d e i n t h e and 2010 Civic Hybrids. Hybrids and other hybrids to be
Dolman appeared in a recurring
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Soap in 1981 and retired in 1985
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economy since the update; some with their hybrid batteries.
say up to 10 less mpg. Our reliability data on first-
Honda says that the cars’ EPA generation Honda Insights,
ratings of 40/45 mpg (city/ shows a higher than average
highway) do not change, and number of electrical problems,
that fuel-economy-conscious some of which are related to the
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Sony introduces two unique SLR-like cameras plus an SLR

Terry Sullivan (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 6:26:09 AM

Sony introduces two unique

SLR-like cameras plus an SLR
Sony's new a33 and a55 include
a new technology called
Translucent Mirror Technology,
which Sony says allows "the
camera to operate its AF system
simultaneously while recording
an image—a process no other
DSLR has ever been able to
realize before."
Photo: Sony
Sony has just announced two
new SLR-like cameras with new
technology and a unique design.
The 16-megapixel alpha SLT-
A55 and the 14-megapixel alpha
SLT-A33 digital cameras
include non-moveable
translucent mirrors that both
reflect the image and let it pass
through to the camera's imaging no other DSLR has ever been Sony alpha a55 digital camera. through-the-lens viewfinder is alpha A560 ($750 with the 18-
sensor. This is unlike any SLR, able to realize before." Photo: Sony why we consider them SLR-like 55mm and $650 body only),
which must flip up the (non- In plain English, this means that Unlike all SLRs, these two new models and not SLRs.) Like all which replaces the A550. For
translucent) mirror for the the new models should be able Sonys will not have through-the cameras in the Alpha series, the first time in a Sony SLR, it
sensor to capture an image. And to continuously and quickly -lens viewfinders, but will both accept all Alpha series SLR includes full HD-resolution
other SLR-like models have no focus the lens, allowing them to instead include a high-quality lenses without an adapter, unlike video recording. It also includes
mirror at all. Both new Sonys continuously refocus during fast 1.1-million-dot electronic Sony's NEX series of cameras, many features found on its
use large, APS-sized sensors bursts of still-image shooting or viewfinder. This is similar to the which require one. predecessor, plus sweep
like those found on both SLRs video capture (which is full HD- one found on the first SLR-like The A33 will cost $750 with an panorama, 3D sweep panorama,
and SLR-like cameras. resolution, AVCHD video). For camera, the Panasonic G1, 18-55mm lens or $650 body multi-frame noise reduction and
So why use a translucent mirror example, the A55 can capture which displays the same image only and be available in quick AF liveview modes found
at all? According to Sony, 10 frames per second and the captured on the image sensor. September. The A55 will cost on other Sony models.
which maintains these models A33 seven. Sony says that when Both cameras will also have a 3 $850 with an 18-55mm lens or Sony also announced three new
are, in fact, SLRs, the "reason you're using these burst modes, -inch swiveling LCD with $750 body only and be available prime lenses:
for the translucent mirror is to the camera will refocus, if it 921,000 dots, which should in October. • Carl Zeiss 24mm f/2 lens,
allow the camera to operate its needs to, more quickly and make them quite sharp. (The Also, Sony has introduced a
AF system simultaneously while accurately than any SLR. The fact that the cameras have no new SLR, the 14-megapixel SONY page 58
recording an image—a process
58 Products/
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Woot (Woot! - One Day, One
Deal)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 12:00:25 AM
Wrapping Things Up
Time now for another episode
of “Cooking Through The Pain”
with your host, Stacy
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Hey, everyone. Sorry if I seem
pretty down for my big Super
Summer Fun Time Grilling
Party episode. This was going to
be a really great episode, too,
one where we forget about all
those stupid men that have
broken our hearts and get back
to basics with our best
girlfriends by cooking up some
fantastic food with our 24 pack
of TrueFire Gourmet Cedar
Wraps and some frozen
margaritas by the pool. Well,
when the host’s own best friend
Heather, excuse me, EX-BEST
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an email cancelling on you,
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much of a coward to use a
phone to tell you she isn’t
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gourmet presentation, too, if, of
course, you don’t find yourself
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of thing. Say, maybe we can
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$1,250.
• 35mm f/1.8 lens, $200.
• 85mm f/2.8 lens, $250.
All the lenses will be available
in October.
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Warning: The Mercedes-Benz C63
AMG may be addictive
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 7:06:05 AM
Warning: The Mercedes-Benz
C63 AMG may be addictive
When it comes to sportiness,
Mercedes-Benz, renowned icon
of the solid and the sedate,
typically plays second fiddle to
archrival BMW. Not so with the
C63 AMG. With this car,
Mercedes lets its hair down.
The C-Class is Mercedes’
smallest sedan, but with this
special model, it gets the
company’s largest V8 engine.
That’s a formula that worked
magic in the 1960s, launching
the muscle car era, and it is a
strategy that still fuels
excitement today. The
transformation is managed by
AMG, a wholly owned
speedshop that modifies Benzes
into fierce, high-performance
monsters, much like BMW’s M
division.
To sample the fun factory’s
latest creation, we borrowed a
C63 from Mercedes-Benz for a
fee. This 2011 example had the
optional AMG Development
package that adds 30
horsepower to the standard 451
horses. It also adds $6,050 to the
$58,200 base price.
But that’s not the main story
here.
This AMG is all about the
exhilarating driving experience.
Handling is superlative with
exquisite steering, brake feel,
and body control. Sometimes
stuffing a big V8 in a smallish
car makes it nose heavy. Not so
here. The C63 feels just about
perfectly balanced. Piloting it at
our track with the stability
control system switched off was
such a delight that it ought to
come with a surgeon-general’s
warning. Admittedly, in the real
world, that ESC system can
provide a welcomed measure of
safety.
The V8 is a normally aspirated
powerplant that delivers
abundant thrust at any rpm and
emits a bark that means
business, reminiscent of a
Corvette. The C63 may be a
four-door sedan, but it could
shame some dedicated sports
cars. Even the seven-speed
automatic, the only tranny
offered, doesn’t take away from
the thrill. Furthermore, unlike
many other fire-breathers, the
C63 doesn’t beat you to death
with a harsh ride or excessive
cabin noise.
Despite its extreme capabilities,
it isn’t a cop magnet. From the
outside, this stealth fighter looks
much like a regular C300 and it
blends right in with civil
society. Still, it should also
come with a PG rating. More
like PG-35. This bad boy
requires a responsible adult at
the helm.
Needles to say, we loved this
car. And not to worry, we
replaced those tires before we
gave the car back.— Gabe
Shenhar
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New Intel dual-core
Atom processor promises
more powerful netbooks
Jeffrey Fox (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 6:00:29 AM
New Intel dual-core Atom
processor promises more
powerful netbooks
Intel just announced that a
variety of netbooks running a
new, dual-core processor (the
Atom N550) are available in
stores. This announcement gives
a potential boost to netbooks at
a time when the iPad has been
giving them stiff competition.
We'll buy and test netbooks that
include the new processor as
soon as we can. Based on the
information provided by Intel,
we'd expect those models to
offer better performance than
their predecessors, though how
much better remains to be seen.
We'd also expect their battery
life to be comparable to the
battery life we've seen on past
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netbooks(Ratings available to
subscribers), typically in the
range of 6 to 9 hours.
Stay tuned for detailed results
when we have put new netbooks
through our lab tests.
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One Man's Trash

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Submitted at 8/23/2010 3:30:00 PM
There's a certain amount of
trust that come with about
twelve years of friendship. So
when my best friend Dave says
to me, "Dude, I need some help
dragging this thing out the alley
and into my girlfriend's house,"
I don't even bother saying no. I
just ask for enough time to
finish my beer while secretly
hoping it's not a deer cadaver
this time.
We stare at his latest find for a
few minutes before he sighs and
says, "Gosh DANG. Isn't it
gorgeous? I'm telling you, man,
nature's pretty rad, huh?"
"It's a branch, Dave. A very
large, possibly termite-ridden
branch."
"BAH!" He bats away my
pessimism with a wave of his
hand. "That thing's a reading
light if I ever saw one. Come on.
I need to get this inside before
Amy gets home."
"Right. Because it'll be harder to
see how bad an idea this is when
it's inside her bedroom rather
than next to the dumpster the
local pee-bums like to vomit in."
"EXACTLY."
This is the main difference
between he and I. Whereas I
normally view the world as one
ever-growing Katamari of doom
and disappointment, Dave sees
something awesome in
everything, even the stuff that
rolls as ninja swords, telescopes,
and makeshift megaphones,
she's created an entire series of
little scenes within each tube.
In this modern age of Internet
searches, receiving the local
phone book on your doorstep
seems like a waste anymore.
Alex Queral, on the other hand,
sees them as an opportunity to
create some incredible sculpture
work.
Sure, it makes a decent, if non-
environmentally friendly way of
carrying your drink, but I reckon
most people wouldn't think of
taking a pen to Styrofoam cups
for reasons other than writing
their name on it. Cheeming
Boey, however, has turned the
other people might throw away. average coffee container into a
That's a pretty enviable talent to c a n v a s f o r s o m e a m a z i n g
have, I say. Take the following drawings that sell for hundreds
three artists, for instance. on Etsy. Considering the cups
One hopes the idea for these may last for over five hundred
toilet roll dioramas didn't come years, that may not be a bad
from Parisian artist Anastassia investment.
Elias being trapped in a
bathroom for hours with no way
to finish up her "business".
Instead of seeing empty paper
Rajon Rondo believes
he's on the bubble for
last cut from U.S.
national team
Chris Sheridan (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:32:18 AM
Updated: August 24, 2010,
11:32 AM ET
ATHENS, Greece -- Somebody
is going to get cut from Team
USA after Wednesday night's
exhibition game against Greece,
and Rajon Rondo has no
illusions about where he stands.
"I think I'm on the bubble,"
Rondo said Tuesday. "Just
looking at the obvious -- I got a
DNP last game. That pretty
much speaks for itself."[+]
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Chan Gailey lectures teens for heckling Buffalo Bills players

Associated Press players during training camp, Gailey then told them that Bills starting job he lost last season. reading it on someone else's site,
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US Presswire Rajon Rondo,
right, could find himself on the
outside looking in on Team
USA's roster.
After losing his job as the
starting point guard to Derrick
Rose last weekend in Madrid,
Rondo's stock has fallen to the
point where it now appears he is
third on the point guard depth
chart behind Rose and Russell
Westbrook.
But Rondo is not the lone
player on the bubble, a fact
Danny Granger acknowledged.
"I just think it really depends on
what the coaches want from the
team," Granger said at the
OAKA Arena after the
American team practiced in the
very same building where the
2004 Olympic team received
their bronze medals. "If we take
more of a defensive approach, I
could be [on the bubble]. If we
take more of an offensive
approach, then it's different. It
just depends on what they want
to do."
Coach Mike Krzyzewski said
he will go with the same starting
lineup against Greece that he
used in Sunday's one-point
victory over Spain, using Rose
at the point, Chauncey Billups at
shooting guard, Kevin Durant at
small forward, Andre Iguodala
at power forward and Lamar
Odom at center.
Coach K also said he would try
to give all 13 players some
playing time, as long as
circumstances permit it.
When pressed on who may or
may not be on the bubble,
Krzyzewski gave a very strong
indication that Stephen Curry is
not.
“ shots and free throws -- he was
Just looking at the obvious -- I
got a DNP last game. That
pretty much speaks for itself.”--
Rajon Rondo
"It's not so much what Rajon
has to show, it's what our team
needs. We've found a good
lineup, and the international
game is so different from the
NBA game, you can ask any of
these guys," Krzyzewski said.
"Part of it is to make sure that
we try not to have two non-
shooters out on the court, and
there's the physicality, too.
"Derrick right now being with
Chauncey is a good
[combination], and Stephen, he
provides a different thing,
because if they are going under
[screens] and they keep going
under on him, then he has a 3.
So it forces another team to
change the way they defend our
team. So it's things like that, and
how we feel strategy-wise
what'll be best for the team."
Rondo played poorly (1 of 4,
two points, one assist, four
turnovers) in the Americans'
game against Lithuania on
Saturday in which they failed to
establish a fast pace and scored
just seven points in the first
quarter. Rondo and Tyson
Chandler were replaced by Rose
and Odom in the starting five
the following night against
Spain.
Rondo's knack for rebounding
works in his favor, but his
inability to consistently hit jump
5 of 19 (26 percent) in the NBA
Finals -- are two of the factors
working against him.
Another is the team's lack of
size.
Odom, Chandler and Kevin
Love are the only players who
play power forward or center on
their NBA teams, which has
forced the Americans to use
Granger, Rudy Gay, and
Iguodala at the 4 spot from time
to time.
Also, despite the fact that
Billups and Curry are playing at
shooting guard, both are the
primary ballhandlers on their
NBA teams, as are Rose,
Westbrook and Rondo. And a
team with five point guards
(along with a sixth guard in Eric
Gordon, who has been one of
the most consistent players in
practice) could be viewed as a
team with a key structural flaw.
"I'm confident," said Love, who
sat out Sunday night's game
against Spain after sustaining a
mild concussion the previous
night against Lithuania when he
tried to draw a charge and
banged the back of his head
against the floor. "I've been
playing well in practice. I'm just
hoping I get the opportunity, but
I know there's a lot of great
players that have a chance to
make the [last] spot."
"But as far as the front line, I
think a lot of people are saying
we're thin. Even the coaches are
saying that," Love said.
Whoever gets cut will be
notified late Wednesday night
after the game against Greece
and will be given a one-way
plane ticket back to the United
States. The remaining 12 players
will travel on to Istanbul, where
Team USA opens play in the
World Championship on
Saturday night against Croatia.
"It's what's best for the country,"
said Rondo, who said his DNP-
CD (did not play -- coach's
decision) Sunday was his first
since his rookie NBA season.
"It's part of it. We knew coming
in it was still tryouts until we
make the team that goes to
Turkey."
Chris Sheridan covers the NBA
for ESPN.com.
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:14:14 AM
Updated: August 24, 2010,
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The
New York Jets and All-Pro
center Nick Mangold have
agreed on a new seven-year deal
worth a maximum of $55
million, a league source told
ESPNNewYork.com Monday.
The new contract could be
signed as early as Tuesday.
Mangold decided to participate
in training camp while awaiting
a new deal, unlike cornerback
Darrelle Revis, who did not join
the team in Cortland, N.Y., on
Aug. 1 and whose negotiations
became frayed. When Jets coach
Rex Ryan was asked Monday if
there was any word on any other
contract negotiations, he
sounded skeptical.
"That'd be news to me," Ryan
said. Jets blog
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million if he plays this season talking about football, Mangold

has hip surgery under his current deal. But he
didn't think it was ultimately
said he'd be happy to play center
long-term for the Jets, which is
ESPN.com news services first reported that Rice had signed free agent receiver Javon fruitful on anything but a something Ryan can get behind.
(ESPN.com) surgery. It is expected that Rice Walker on Tuesday. personal level. "He's a tremendous player
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:29:55 AM will miss the first half of the Walker, whose only Pro Bowl "We talked," Mangold said. "I obviously and that would be a
season. season came in 2004 with the would say being in the same huge thing for our franchise,"
Updated: August 24, 2010, Rice went to his first Pro Bowl Green Bay Packers when Favre situation I didn't feel that we Ryan said.
12:29 PM ET in 2009, catching 83 passes for was his quarterback, hasn't had a should be taking advice from Ryan has referred to Mangold
Brett Favre's top target had hip 1 , 3 1 2 y a r d s a n d e i g h t 1,000-yard receiving season each other." as the best center in the NFL.
surgery Monday and might miss touchdowns. He was just as since 2006 when he was with Mangold declined to talk about "He can handle nose tackles,
the first half of the 2010 season. good in the postseason, with 10 the Denver Broncos. the negotiations, based on and that's where it starts now
Sidney Rice, who missed all of receptions for 184 yards and Walker, however, clashed with advice he got from his agents, with all these 3-4 teams I think,"
training camp with a hip injury four touchdowns. Favre before he left the Packers but he did talk about his Ryan said. "It could be every
s u f f e r e d i n t h e N F C Severe migraines have also in a trade after the 2005 season. decision to come to camp after team in our division playing a 3-
Championship Game, was at the c a l l e d i n t o q u e s t i o n h o w Walker, who has played with considering a holdout as early as 4 and you better have a center
Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., effective Percy Harvin, the Green Bay, Denver and the minicamp. who can match up with these
on Monday and underwent Vikings' second-leading receiver Oakland Raiders in 83 career "[Holding out] didn't fit my nose tackles."
surgery. in 2009 and the NFL's Offensive g a m e s , h a s 3 1 c a r e e r personality," Mangold said. "It's Jane McManus is a columnist
Rice told ESPN's Rachel Rookie of the Year, will be in touchdowns -- 20 thrown by not me, it's not who I am, and for ESPNNewYork.com. Rich
Nichols in a text message that his second season. Favre. it's not what I do." Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com
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Note to Nationals: Save Baseball, Shut Stephen
Strasburg Down
Kevin Blackistone (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 9:20:00 PM
Filed under: MLB
WASHINGTON -- In Stephen
Strasburg's last start on
Saturday, when he was pulled in
the fifth inning after grimacing
after a thrown pitch, more
people than there were seats for
crammed into the Phillies'
Citizens Bank Park. Even in
Philadelphia -- which leads the
National League in attendance --
that was worth noting.
It just didn't measure up to
Strasburg's feat in his first road
start in early June at moribund
Cleveland, where he attracted an
Indians baseball crowd that was
Is It a No-No to Utter the Words 'No-Hitter' on the Air?
Ed Price (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: MLB Fans, Sports
Business and Media
With two out in the bottom of
the sixth inning on June 6, with
the Yankees' Javier Vazquez
pitching in Toronto, YES
Network broadcaster John
Flaherty said something on the
air about Vazquez he never
would have said to Vazquez as a
twice as big as usual.
That second winning start,
sensational too, was enough to
get Strasburg etched in the
public psyche, where he wound
up selling more jerseys in his
first month in the big leagues
teammate.
"This is the point in the
ballgame, Bob, you start
thinking about the possibility of
a no-hitter," Flaherty said,
addressing play-by-play man
Bob Lorenz. "Two out here in
the sixth, he has not given up a
hit yet."
Yes, Flaherty used baseball's
version of the N-word: no-hitter.
"I wouldn't have said it to him,
but I would have said it to the
than any player ever. It all got
him, the Nationals' rookie
pitching sensation, emblazoned
on the of "Sports Illustrated"
above the headline "National
Treasure."
But I was left wondering
guy sitting next to me on the
bench," Flaherty, a former big-
league catcher, told FanHouse in
recalling the moment. "I
Sports/ 63
Monday at Nationals Park,
where the Nationals announced
they were placing Strasburg on
the disabled list for the second
time in less than a month,
whether Strasburg might turn
into a national disaster.
"The story with Stephen is,"
Nationals general manager Mike Kurt Warner Reaffirms
Rizzo said before Monday's
game, "he had pain in his Retirement via Twitter
elbow." as Cards Look Awful
The elbow. That's what Tommy Chris Harry (FanHouse Main)
John surgery ultimately fixes.
(Pardon my pessimistic alarm, Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:03:00 AM
but I grew up here rooting, as
Filed under: Arizona Cardinals,
best one could, for the Senators,
NFL Quarterbacks Two things
and with nothing except lousy
we know for sure about Kurt
returns.)
KURT page 64
hitter going.' "
With so many no-hitters, and
close calls, this season,
broadcasters' superstitious sides
have been tested.
In the end, they are determined
to either avoid the jinx or ignore
it.
wouldn't say anything to him,
but when you're having a
conversation about it, you
definitely say, 'Oh, he's got a no-
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Warner after his former team's
Monday night mess.
Warner is learning how to use a
Mac.
And he ain't coming back.
While the Warner-less Arizona
Cardinals were flailing away on
offense during their 24-10
preseason road loss at
Tennessee, the ESPN "Monday
Night Football" crew couldn't
help but wonder whether the
former Cards star and two-time
NFL Most Valuable Player was
watching -- or cringing -- at
what Matt Leinart and the rest
of the Arizona offensive unit
StarCraft features in
University of Florida's
'21st Century Skills' course
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
was doing.
Make that not doing.
As in, no points for the starting
unit for the second straight
week.
Warner, who retired during the
offseason after leading Arizona
to a second straight NFC West
title, was playing around on
Twitter earlier in the evening,
asking friends for help with
iMovie in trying to splice
together some clips from a
speech.
STARCRAFT page 65
Newsmax Endorses McCain in
Arizona Race
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 4:36:51 AM
Senator and 2008 presidential
candidate John McCain squares
off today against challenger J.D.
Hayworth in the Arizona
Republican primary.
Newsmax believes Sen.
McCain deserves re-election.
McCain has voted consistently
on the conservative side on
important issues — he has never
supported a broad-based tax
hike, has voted for all
conservative Supreme Court
nominees, and has a long pro-
life record.
He also maintains
unquestionable credibility on
national security and has
demonstrated his leadership by
encouraging the “surge” of U.S.
forces in Iraq.
And, as it turns out, he has a
better record than Hayworth on
controlling federal spending.
Hayworth, a six-term
congressman and former talk
radio host, is not the man to be
in the Senate at this moment.
We have been impressed that
John McCain, almost from day
one of President Barack
Obama’s administration, has
been a leader opposing Obama’s
radical agenda.
McCain led GOP opposition to
Obama’s economic stimulus
package. He staunchly opposed
Obama's and the Democrats’
healthcare reform plan, and has
defended Arizona’s tough new
law seeking to rein in illegal
immigration.
Even before Obama and the rise
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has been an outspoken critic of
pork-barrel spending used by
both Republicans and
Democrats.
Today he supports making the
Bush tax cuts permanent. He has
also won the backing of the
National Rifle Association.
America lives in dangerous
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Korea have been growing more
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It seems games are seeping fully online class -- requires

even further into our education
system. We've already reported
the inclusion of Portal in the
coursework at Wabash College,
and now we learn that the
University of Florida is offering
a class in StarCraft-- 21st
Century Skills in
Starcraft(EME2040). The
course, taught by doctoral
student Nathaniel Poling, uses
Blizzard's classic RTS to impart
students with skills in the areas
of "critical thinking, problem
solving, resource management,
and adaptive decision making."
Poling told Technology Review
that StarCraft requires players to
manage "a lot of different units
and groups of different
capacities," a skill that translates
in real world business. The
course -- the university's first
students to play the game, watch
recorded matches, and write
papers "which emphasize
analysis and synthesis of real/
game-world concepts." Oh, the
class also has no final exam and
does count toward a student's
GPA. In other words: enroll in
this class now.
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New Silver Lining chapter out in September, old King's Quest

games on GoG now
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 1:00:00 PM
Phoenix Online Studios
announced that the second
chapter of its Activision-
approved(ish) free King's Quest
game, The Silver Lining, will be
released next month. In a post
on the game's site, Phoenix's
Cesar Bittar notes some of the
improvements that have been
made based on feedback from
those who played the first game. the same price. We'll warn you
Thanks to you, Episode 2: Two now: these games look and
Households will have better sound quite vintage.
pathfinding, the option to switch New Silver Lining chapter out
between "extended" and "short" in September, old King's Quest
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Boehner Sees 'Ongoing Economic Uncertainty' Knocks Obama for
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) law, arguing that some hasn't worked." funding the opposition to a
Submitted at 8/24/2010 7:10:29 AM requirements are a heavy The speech was short on details proposed Islamic center near the 'Dignity' Remark
imposition on small businesses. about the Republican agenda, site of the Sept. 11 terrorist (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:43:05 AM
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House Republican leader John more pressing," said Boehner, month. should be investigated," Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 08:43
Boehner on Tuesday urged who promised that he would run Democrats dismissed Boehner's Boehner said. "The American AM
President Barack Obama to things differently if Republicans prescription as a politically people are concerned about this. New York Rep. Charles Rangel
support an extension of tax cuts capture control of the House in motivated plan that would hurt No one doubts the right of these has shot back at President
and to fire key economic the fall and he is elected the already sluggish economy. people to build a mosque where Barack Obama's recent
advisers, arguing that more than Speaker. "It calls for fiscally reckless they see fit. But just because comment that he "end his career
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Cleveland, Boehner said Obama president's economic stimulus Hollen, D-Md., his party's Associated Press writer Julie hasn't "been around long enough
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In National Parks, Technology Saves Lives, But May Also Put
Them At Risk
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 4:15:04 PM
Buffalo Jam Buffalo jams are a
common problem in
Yellowstone National Park.
Technology would be of little
use in this scenario. via flickr/
ellenm (CC licensed)
The best way to enjoy a
national park, in my opinion,
involves little more than a tent,
hiking boots and a hydration
pack - the only gadgetry I bring
is a digital camera. This Luddite
sensibility is not shared by many
of my fellow park-goers, of
course. As The New York
Times reported this weekend,
modern technology has gotten
some national park visitors in
trouble, meaning added work
and added risk for rescue crews
and park rangers.
With Labor Day approaching,
it's worth keeping in mind that
technology, while great, cannot
always save us. In national
parks, it might actually make
things worse.
Kyle Patterson, spokeswoman
for Rocky Mountain National
Park, a quick drive west of
Denver, explains: "We have
seen people who have solely
relied on GPS technology but
were not using common sense or
maps and compasses, and it
leads them astray."
Rather than come prepared,
inexperienced hikers plan to rely
on their gadgets - GPS devices,
cellphones, what have you - to
save them. They know they can
use a cell phone to call for help,
so they may take greater risks.
And when they do seek rescue,
they often take it to extremes: In
one example, a lost hiker in
Grand Teton National Park
called for help, and asked her
saviors to bring hot chocolate.
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phone that a woman had fallen
while hiking in the backcountry
on the park's west side. She was
brought out by a horse. And
finally, at 2:15, someone used a
cell phone once again to call for
help from a beginner-level lake
trail, where a woman had fallen
and broken an ankle.
Technology might have saved
these hikers' lives, or at the very
least serious injury if they had
been forced to hike out or spend
the night in the mountains.
Without cell phones, it's likely
that they would not have found
help for several hours - a major
problem if they were
unprepared.
But that's just it. People are
increasingly relying on
technology, rather than training
and preparation, to cover their
backs when they push
themselves too far. An
inexperienced hiker might be
T h e T i m e s r e c o u n t s t h e this month highlight this fact. excited about his new handheld
incredible story of a man hiking Aug. 11 was a busy day at GPS, so he takes it into the
i n t h e G r a n d C a n y o n ' s Rocky Mountain, according to backcountry, but forgets the
backcountry with two teenage 9News in Denver: essentials: Water, a compass and
sons. He pressed an emergency At 9 a.m., someone used a cell a map. (And, of course, warm
button on his personal GPS phone to call for help from just clothing, food, etc.) Then what
device, summoning a helicopter, below the summit of 14,255- happens when his batteries run
but declined to board when it foot Longs Peak, where a out?
arrived because water was all he woman had injured her knee. Not to sound all Boy Scout-y,
wanted - the canyon water Other climbers helped her down but it's best to be prepared for
"tasted salty," he said. to the Boulder Field (around any scenario, and to avoid
Of course, technology can be a 12,760 feet), where a helicopter depending on technology. It's
literal lifesaver. Three separate picked her up. Then, at noon,
incidents in one park on one day rangers were notified by satellite NATIONAL page 69
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A Sensor That Tracks Cosmic Particles Could Spot Hidden
Nuclear Threats Before They Cross Our Borders
Mark Wolverton (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:08:11 AM
How To Find a Dirty Bomb: As
muons pass through the top and
bottom detectors, their path
builds a view of suspicious
objects. Graham Murdoch
Smuggling a nuclear weapon
into the U.S. is distressingly
simple-all someone needs is a
truck full of watermelons.
Regulations prohibit using high-
power x-rays on perishables,
and Geiger counters don't beep
alerts because the juicy fruit
absorbs radiation. But a new
drive-through detector takes
advantage of cosmic rays to
locate any nuclear material, no
matter how cleverly hidden.
Only a few percent of the 15
million or so cargo containers
that enter the country every year
are screened for nukes, a
number that Congress mandates
must be 100 percent by 2012.
That benchmark is impractical
using today's tech, however.
Standard detectors can miss
NATIONAL
continued from page 68
great that Americans are
enjoying our national parks -
July was a record month for
visitors at Yellowstone,
nuclear material hidden behind
lead or steel, and naturally
radioactive cargo such as kitty
litter gives false positives,
requiring a labor-intensive hand-
search.
A new detector from Decision
Sciences, a security company in
California, sees through
anything and can scan a semi in
less than a minute. It tracks
muons, cosmic particles
according to the Times - but
here's hoping our gadget-loving
lifestyle doesn't ruin the
experience.
constantly bombarding Earth.
Muons penetrate everything but
are deflected more by heavy
atoms such as uranium and
plutonium. The detector tracks
these deflections.
The company finished lab tests
this spring and is now building
detectors to deploy at several
ports in the next year. "As long
as it works quickly enough, it
should fit the bill," says Robert
[ The New York Times]
Dynes, a physicist at the
University of California at San
Diego who reviewed radiation
detectors for Homeland
Security. Tests indicate that the
device should be speedy on real
cargo, says Decision Sciences's
chief technology officer, Allan
Wegner. And it's nearly
foolproof. Wegner can't go into
detail about its weaknesses (for
obvious reasons), but he assures
Science/ 69
us that kitty litter and
watermelons will no longer
threaten national security. How
It Works
• As muons come from the sky,
they pass through the top
detector, the truck and the
bottom detector. The muons
create ionization trails in the
scanner's gas-filled detector
tubes, which sensors record.
• Heavy atoms, such as uranium
and plutonium, deflect muons
more than lighter ones do. If the
angles of muons' entrance and
exit paths vary by a wide magin,
nuclear material could be
present.
• The detector also senses
gamma radiation, which the
computer combines with muon
data to build a 3D view of
suspicious muon-scattering
objects, alerting customs agents
exactly where to search.
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Put an End to Mindless Snacking
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 5:00:00 AM
by Alina Zolotareva
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We snack a lot more than we
think. Over time, even
occasional snacking can take a
toll on our waistlines. Luckily,
making a few small changes in
our daily habits can stop—and
even reverse—this diet damage.
Cornell Professor Brian
Wansink, author of Mindless
Eating: Why We Eat More Than
We Think, and president elect of
the Society for Nutrition
Education, offers up five tested
ways to break your snacking
habits and help get you on your
way to a lean, healthy body.
• DRINK WATER"It's very
easy for us to confuse
dehydration with hunger," says
Wansink. "We know our body's
craving something and we just
assume it's food, but frequently
it ends up being liquids,
especially in active people. I
would guess seven times out of
10 what they think of as hunger
is really just a slight
dehydration." You don't
necessarily have to drink pure
water, but make sure the
beverage is low in caffeine and
sodium. "Caffeine and sodium
dehydrate you even more,
giving your mouth a feeling of
thirst, which can lead you to
snack," warns Wansink.
• DON'T MAKE IT EASY
Mindless munching is often a
result of easy snack-access. To
slow yourself down, Wansink
suggests making snacking a
challenge. "Put in some
interruption that can make you
think twice about how much you
want to snack. If there's a bowl
of candy sitting at your desk,
you don't think twice, it's there.
But if you put barriers in your
way, it'll really test how much
you want this." There's proof in
the pudding. In a study Wansink
did with a candy dish, office
workers ate 125 calories less
when the dish was just 6 feet
away from them than when the
dish was at arm's distance.
Those seemingly trivial 125
extra cals can add up to a
whopping 11 lbs in just one
year.
• MAKE TRADEOFFS A great
way to reduce careless snacking
is to make up some sort of
condition every time you have
cravings. "For example, you can
have anything you want from
the vending machine if you are
going to work out that day, or if
you have a light dinner,
something where there's some
sort of trade off that you have to
make," suggests Wansink. "If
you regularly stop by 7-11 on
the way home and buy a
Slurpee, start taking an
alternative way home to reduce
that temptation. Or say 'I can get
that only if I run an important
errand on the way home.' That
way, you break that habit, or
diminish it so that you're at least
getting something done when
you snack."
• DON'T BURY THE
EVIDENCE Some guys like to
stuff their empty bags of chips
and candy wrappers into the
very bottom of the trash in an
attempt to forget that they ate
them at all. Don't hide the
wrappers! Leaving the candy
wrappers on your desk at work
or the chicken bones on your
plate during the football game is
a good way to remind yourself
to slow down. Wansink also
suggests staying mindful of this
when you drink: "When you're
partying with other guys and
you're having fun, it's often easy
to forget how much a person's
drank, whether it's beer or soda.
An easy way to keep track of
things is to put the bottle-top in
your pocket. That way, once you
feel them, it'll remind you how
many you've had that night. It's
an easy way to keep track of
something that it's easy to lose
track of."
• HAVE YOUR CAKE, BUT
SKIP THE BREAD Eating out
at restaurants can easily throw
off your weight loss goals.
Thankfully, there are easy tips
we can follow to eat well and
still enjoy ourselves. "First, we
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backfire in the long run. Finally, Hometown: Lisle, Ill.
remember this rule of thumb Age: 24
when eating out at a restaurant: Height: 6'1"
limit yourself to the entree and Weight Before: 205 lbs
just two other things—it can be Weight After: 165 lbs
two drinks, a dessert and a roll, Some guys are lucky: They're
or it could be 2 rolls—it just blessed with good genetics that
can't be all of the above." allows them to eat whatever
they want without gaining
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Interesting Facts About Sex
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:00:00 AM
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Did You Know?
— The average American man's
erect penis is five to seven
inches long with a
circumference of four to six
inches, according to The Kinsey
Institute.
— 46% of women would give
up getting laid for two weeks
rather than logging off the
Internet for the same amount of
time, according to a survey
conducted by Intel.
— Want the ultimate orgasm?
Abstain from any sexual activity
at all for three weeks. That's the
amount of time it takes for your
testosterone levels to peak and
boost your libido, according to a
study published in the World
Journal of Urology.
— There are 500-1,000 deaths
per year from autoerotic
asphyxiation. that's equal to the
numbers of murders in New
York City each year.
— Spain, Brazil, and Italy
produce the best lovers, reports
global research site
OnePoll.com. The worst?
Germans, who women dubbed
"too smelly." Englishmen were
too lazy, and Swedes finished
too quickly. As for the Yanks?
They landed somewhere in the
middle.
— Forget hitting the shower
after a romp — 36% of people
under the age of 35 go right onto
Facebook and Twitter,
according to consumer
electronic site Retrevo.com.
— 11% of guys say they use sex
to relieve stress.
— You help her get a good
night's sleep. University of
Pennsylvania researchers claim
that women in stable
relationships get better shut-eye
than single women do.
— More than one in three
women are having sex at least
three times every week. Not
quite one in four men (28%) are
as lucky.
— Not going out as much? 32%
percent of men say they are
masturbating more since the
recession.
— Sex-related entertainment
(porn mags or videos, strip
clubs, escort services, phone
sex, sexting, etc.) has taken the
plunge with the economy: Forty
-two percent of guys cut it from
their budget entirely.
— Women are having sex 17%
more often than the average
guy.
— One in three men and women
are completely satisfied with
their sex life. (Alas, the same
number of both sexes think their
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on 30 pounds of fat. He dropped
10 that summer but gained it all
back the next semester—the
beginning of a vicious cycle.
It wasn't until a game of pickup
basketball his senior year that
Hillesland knew he had to lose
the weight. struggling to move
his 205-pound body up and
down the court, he was winded
after five minutes. Later, he
compared high school photos
with what he saw in the mirror
and was shocked. "I couldn't
believe how far I'd let myself
go," he says.
The next day, Hillesland turned
to one of his friends, a personal
trainer, and began a four-day-a-
week lifting program, based on
key moved like the bench, squat,
and deadlift. But he knew lifting
alone wouldn't make him lean,
so he retooled his diet as well. "I
kicked fast food and
immediately felt much better."
Finally, the guy who used to
dread even short sprints began
running regularly on a treadmill
a few days a week.
In the beginning, he covered
just a single mile. Yet he kept
on, dutifully logging his
progress on a spreadsheet
Little by little, Hillesland
gained endurance, working up to
running 20-plus miles a week. "I
discovered I enjoyed running
and set a goal to complete a half
marathon," he says. Last
Health/ 71
August, he did just that. And
now at 165 pounds, with less
than 6% body fat, Hillesland
sees even bigger
accomplishments on the
horizon. Forget finish lines, he
says. "I don't see an end point. I
just want to keep going and
going."
John's Tip: Never Give Up
"Getting in shape and becoming
healthier—successfully meeting
my goals to get fit—has carried
over into other aspects of my
life. At work I'm unfazed by
tasks that used to seem
daunting. Socially, I'm more
confident. It all comes from
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word! This is a term that is
constantly abused by hollow
folks on the left as well as on
the right, usually when they are
trying to stick it to an opponent
without needing to take any
stands on controversial issues —
religious, cultural and moral
issues, most of the time — that
might upset a few voters or
(let’s face it) journalists.
Thus, we have “values” voters.
Thus, we have Democrats who
can sail into blue-collar,
Catholic neighborhoods and talk
about their “values” without
having to answer real questions
(see John Edwards). Thus we
have Republicans who can visit
religious congregations and
ominously say that Democrats
do not have “values,” while also
managing to avoid taking stands
on the same issues ( see Rudy
Giuliani).
Meanwhile, there are journalists
who throw the term around, as
well, often when trying to avoid
covering any messy social or
cultural issues.
What in the heckfire does the
word “values” mean, anyway?
To see a classic example of this
syndrome, check out this A1
story from The Washington
Post, focusing on a high-profile
congressional race out in the
wilds of America’s high, high
plains. The fun starts in the
flashy headline: “In South
Dakota, Democrats’ own ‘mama
grizzly’ vs. ‘the next Sarah
Palin.’ “
Let’s start right at the vague,
mushy top:
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — As
South Dakota’s lone House
member, Rep. Stephanie
Herseth Sandlin (D) wants each
of her votes to reflect the
wholesome, conservative values
of this rural rectangle of a state.
So she has artfully tailored her
record: no on the health-care
overhaul; no on the Wall Street
bailouts; no on the cap-and-
trade energy bill. She’s a proud
Democrat, she says, but a
prouder South Dakotan.
Still, there is that one vote
Herseth Sandlin cast, the aye for
California Democrat Nancy
Pelosi as speaker, that her
opponent has hammered her on.
“I believe the U.S. House of
Representatives is the people’s
house. It is not Nancy Pelosi’s
house,” Herseth Sandlin’s
Republican challenger, state
Rep. Kristi Noem, told an
applauding crowd at the
fairgrounds recently during their
first debate of the campaign.
A big Republican wave may be
coming in November. And
despite distancing herself from
her party’s policies, despite
touting her independence and
moderation, Herseth Sandlin
could be washed away by the
simple fact that she has a “D”
after her name. Throughout the
Midwest and South, dozens of
her fellow centrists are also
imperiled by the backlash of
voters threatening to take out
their disdain for President
Obama and the direction he has
taken the country on anyone
who is a Democrat.
So what we have here is a
“mama grizzly” Democrat from
the heartland who is up against a
talented young female who the
Post calls “authentic, tall and
lean, soft-spoken but tough, an
unabashed conservative who
rarely strays off script. She’s a
made-for-Fox News star in her
own right.”
Sandlin “grew up on a farm,”
readers are told, while Noem
“runs a ranch. She rides horses,
herds cattle, hunts elk (with a
bow), shoots prairie dogs (with
a rifle) and skins pheasants.”
Naturally, some have already
labeled Noem the “next Sarah
Palin.”
Despite that barrage, this race is
apparently all about the
economy, not the headline-
making social issues that tend to
come wrapped in religious
questions. It’s a race about
“values,” but we are given no
information whatsoever about
the hot-button issues that, in the
past, have most divided the
“values voters.”
This race is all economics, all
the time. Maybe.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the
photo package that accompanies
this piece includes a huge image
(see image No. 9 in this
collection) of Noem leading a
small circle of her family
members in prayer. Republicans
do that, it seems.
What about Democrats? There
is one photo ( online only, No.
23) of Sandlin at home in which
a cross is hanging in the
background. Is this relevant?
Could be, since the Post, more
than anything else, wants its
readers to know that she has the
“values” thing down and is a
centrist or right-wing Democrat.
So why is Noem viewed as an
alternative?
A quick glance at Sandlin’s
profile at The Daily Kos
provides lots of information
about her Blue Dog streak.
However, a story about the race
in Politics Daily provides a
slightly different view of the
subject. The sarcastic first quote
is from the Republican’s
campaign manager.
… Noem is aggressively
contesting the incumbent’s
claim to conservatism. Noem’s
counter talking point? That
when voters realize how Herseth
Sandlin votes, they won’t like it.
“The fact that Herseth Sandlin’s
voting record — 95 percent of
the time with [Speaker Nancy]
Pelosi — is something that
really resonates with South
Dakotans,” Josh Shields said
sarcastically. …
Abortion and other social issues
may also play a role in the race.
Noem is supported by such
conservative groups as
Concerned Women PAC, the
Susan B. Anthony List, and
FRC Action PAC, while Herseth
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Sandlin has previously been
backed by the liberal, EMILY’s
List. Another wild card is that
South Dakota’s Republican Sen.
John Thune is running
unopposed this year. Thune has
plenty of money anyway, and
seems happy to share his bounty
with Noem.
Thune, of course, is a superstar
among conservative voters.
So where do the two candidates
fit into this “values” scene, in
terms of the tricky political
issues that come wrapped in
language about faith, morality
and culture? In other words, is it
relevant which pews these two
women occupy, when they
choose to occupy a pew? Might
that information offer a clue or
two about this side of the
campaign?
To tell you the truth, I could not
find out where Noem goes to
church. I would predict that she
attends an evangelical
megachurch of some kind, if
such things exist in the Dakotas,
based on the nasty comments
about her faith and lack of
intellect on liberal weblogs.
Sandlin, on the other hand, is
clearly identified with the First
Lutheran Church, Brookings,
S.D., which is part of the
progressive — some would
simply say liberal— Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America.
So here is the bottom line, for
me: “Values” talk is almost
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AP’s tour de force on the Roman Missal
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 11:05:24 AM
Anyone who understands
religion news at the level of
pews and altars understands that
few stories matter more to
dedicated readers, and appeal
less to mainstream editors, than
stories about changes in the
books, laws and traditions that
shape how people worship.
Want to start a war? Arguments
about sex will stir things up, but
if you really want to touch
people at the local level all you
really need to do is change their
prayer books and hymnals.
Obviously, this is especially true
when you are covering the
ancient, liturgical traditions, but
the“worship wars” in modern
megachurches tug at the
heartstrings in a similar fashion.
Thus, the biggest possible story
one could imagine on this
subject in the context of North
America, the story that would
impact the most people, would
be a story about a complete
revision of the English
translation of the Roman Missal.
And the story about this subject
that would read by most
newspaper readers — since few
local editors are going to gear
up for early coverage on this
topic — will be the report
produced by the Associated
Press.
Thus, it is important that the
following basic AP story on this
subject functions as a kind of
press release for critics of the
Vatican and the new English
translation of the Roman Missal,
which will reach worshipers at
the beginning of the pre-
Christmas season of Advent in
2011.
What would you expect in such
a story?
* A quote from the omnipresent
Father Thomas Reese of
Georgetown University, the
patron saint of mainstream
journalists in need of a quick
quote that is, roughly 90 percent
of the time, critical of the
Vatican.
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Check. In fact, Reese is granted
the first direct quote in the story.
* Defenders of Rome are
allowed only bland, vague, dull
paraphrased quotations in
defense of their actions.
Check. The story does not
contain a single direct quote
from a Catholic expert who
defends the new Roman Missal.
* Material produced by an
outspoken bishop who was on
the losing side of the
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ecclesiastical wrestling match
that produced the new texts. If
possible, he should be cited in a
way that identifies him as an
expert on the topic, yet without
clearly identifying his partisan
role in the debate.
Check. Check.
Put it all together and you have
something that looks like this, in
the body of the AP story that ran
in newspapers from coast to
coast.
Pope John Paul II announced
the new missal in 2000 and it
was first published in Latin in
2002. It’s the first significant
change in the English translation
since the Mass was first
celebrated in English after
Vatican II in the 1960s, said the
Rev. Thomas Reese of the
Woodstock Theological Center
at Georgetown University.
“It will impact every Catholic in
every parish because they will
have to learn new responses in
place of the ones they have been
using since Vatican II,” Reese
said. “I believe that the new
translations are a step
backwards and confusing to the
people in the pews.”
Proponents of the new missal’s
translation into English have
said its language is more poetic
and true to the spirit of the
original Latin. Critics contend
the translation is too literal and
includes too many theologically
complex terms.
Bishop Donald Trautman of
Erie, Pa., who formerly ran the
U.S. bishops liturgy committee,
criticized the new translation as
“slavishly literal” during a
lecture last year at The Catholic
University of America in
Washington, D.C.
Let’s see. And what kinds of
changes would critics want
cited?
Prayers offered by the priest
will include more complex
terms such as “consubstantial,”
“inviolate,” “oblation,”
“ignominy” and “suffused.”
Critics like Bishop Trautman
argue that Jesus Christ taught in
the language of the common
man and, further, that Vatican II
reforms that first allowed the
Mass to be translated from Latin
to the vernacular are being
unraveled by the more
complicated words used in the
new translation.
In response, readers receive
another vague paraphrase from
supporters of the new version,
who are not — again — named
or quoted.
It’s a clean sweep, a tour de
force.
Readers seeking more
information about this press
release can go directly to one of
its likely sources, the PrayTell
weblog produced by the St.
John’s School of Theology and
Seminary. A sample of its
criticism can be found at this
edgy FAQ.
Those seeking a length defense
of the new Missal — including
plenty of links to voices on both
sides of the debate — can check
out this essay at the Adoremus
Bulletin website. The official
website on the transition,
offered by the U.S. Catholic
bishops, can be found here.
For a coverage that offers the
mirror image of the AP report,
readers might want to check out
this Catholic News Service
report, which includes the
following material which I am
sure could have been used in the
Associated Press story as quick
and easy commentary from the
other side.
At several points during the
Mass, for example, when the
celebrant says, “The Lord be
with you,” the people will
respond, in a more faithful
translation of the original Latin,
“And with your spirit.”
The current response, “And
also with you,” was “not meant
as ‘you too’ or something like
‘back at you,’” Father Richard
Hilgartner, associate director of
the USCCB Secretariat of
Divine Worship, told Catholic
News Service. Rather it is “an
invocation to the priest as he
celebrates the Mass, a reminder
that he is not acting on his own,
but in the person of Christ” — a
distinction that the new
language will highlight, he said.
I hope that GetReligion readers
will help me spot any significant
follow-up coverage in the
mainstream media. Might I
suggest setting a Google News
alert for these terms — “Roman
Missal,” “Latin” and, of course,
“Reese.”
In conclusion, may I offer an
old joke that, on this occasion,
will almost certainly be quoted
by activists on both sides of the
Roman Missal debate (as
opposed to its popularity for
several decades on the Catholic
traditionalist side of the aisle):
“What is the difference between
a terrorist and a liturgist?
“You can negotiate with a
terrorist.”
Photo: The second photo is of
St. John’s Abbey in
Collegeville, Minn., which is
linked to the school of theology
and the seminary. Written by:
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always worthless. Actual
information about a range of
“values issues” — from
economic justice to education,
from abortion to the death
penalty — is much, much better.
“Religious left” vs. “religious
right” in a values showdown?
That could be an interesting and
important story. That story
would also require some
specific questions in order to
produce some hard facts.
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Missing voices in the stem cell debates

Mollie (GetReligion) opponents of that practice seem get a balancing perspective in researchers could do as they
Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:00:42 AM like they were opposed to all there. As it is, everything is pleased, but federal funding is
stem cell research. So first off, I weighted heavily in favor of the the cornerstone of such basic
Reuters has a story about a U.S. simply want to thank Reuters for ruling. We get good information biological research.
district court ruling that may clearly explaining that the about the Dickey-Wicker I think that the latest science
interest GetReligion readers. injunction in question deals with Amendment that bans the use of suggests that most of the
The lede explains what’s going human embryonic stem cell federal funds to destroy human promise comes from adult stem
on best: research. These are helpful
A U.S. district court issued a details. And the lede is just
embryos. And we get a nice
timeline of when this became a
cells and induced pluripotent
stem cells, not from embryonic
Ghosts in a
p r e l i m i n a r y i n j u n c t i o n o n nicely written — it’s clear, to
M o n d a y s t o p p i n g f e d e r a l the point, and gets the most
funding of human embryonic important details up high.
problem and of Obama’s moves
in support of stem cell research
that destroys embryos. There’s
stem cells. I’m not sure if the
above paragraph makes that
clear. And, in fact, this is at the
breast milk
stem cell research, in a slap to Now, you don’t have to be
the Obama administration’s new C a t h o l i c o r r e l i g i o u s l y
even a nice discussion of how
the plaintiffs overcame legal
root of the issue since the stem
cell researchers who filed the fatwa
guidelines on the sensitive issue. traditional to oppose stem cell objections to whether they had suit did so on the grounds that Mollie (GetReligion)
U.S. District Judge Royce research that destroys human standing to bring the suit. the NIH guidelines violate the Submitted at 8/23/2010 4:14:57 PM
Lamberth granted the injunction embryos but those groups have But there’s precisely no law and also harm their work
because he found that the carried a lot of water in the comment from people who because they direct limited There were two stories out of
doctors who challenged the ethical battles over the practice. don’t believe the NIH guidelines funding away from the more Saudi Arabia last week that
policy would likely succeed Indeed, the story explains that violate federal law. Certainly promising research. begged for more detail. The first
because U.S. law blocked they brought the suit: there’s someone outside of the Still, a pretty good story from told of a judge who asked
federal funding of embryonic The suit against the National administration who could speak Reuters that I hope will be hospitals if they could sever a
s t e m c e l l r e s e a r c h i f t h e Institutes of Health, backed by to this. So while the story does a updated with some perspective man’s spinal cord in order to
e m b r y o s w e r e d e s t r o y e d . some Christian groups opposed great job of getting religion, it from those who defend stem cell paralyze him as punishment for
“(Embryonic stem cell) research to embryo research, had argued really does need some more research that destroys human injuries he inflicted during a
is clearly research in which an the administration’s policy balance. I’d be certain to point it embryos. Written by: Mollie on fight. In many cases the stories
embryo is destroyed,” Lamberth violated U.S. law and took funds out if it went the other way — August 24, 2010. didn’t highlight the judicial
wrote in a 15-page ruling. The from researchers seeking to failing to get the religious voice. This entry passed through the principle that motivated the
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appeal his decision or try to And some of these people are cut and dry as the story makes it is your content and you're adherence to “an eye for an eye”
rewrite the guidelines to comply quoted in the article. Reuters seem. reading it on someone else's site, judicial code. Or even if they
with U.S. law. tried to get the White House, the There is this odd paragraph: please read our FAQ page at mentioned the principle, they
I remember the time when Justice Department and NIH to Many stem cell researchers fivefilters.org/content-only/ didn’t include a healthy
reporters had trouble using any comment but they all deferred or objected, saying they could not faq.php discussion of the theology
modifier when talking about refused. Having covered the do work needed to fulfill the Five Filters featured underlying it or the various
stem cell research. By failing to federal government for many promise of the powerful cells, article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets interpretations of it.
explain that it was the research years, this is not surprising. which can give rise to all the an Easy Ride in the Another story managed to miss
that destroyed human embryos Still, I really wish the story tissues and cells in the human Independent. the religion angle as well. The
that was controversial, it made would have done something to body. Privately funded headline in the Los Angeles
Times was:
SAUDI ARABIA: Cleric who
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urged grown men to drink breast
milk of unrelated women taken
off air
No more fatwas for Sheikh
Abdel Mohsen Obeikan, the
Saudi cleric and royal court
adviser who earlier this year
earned notoriety for rolling out
an eyebrow-raising religious
decree that called on women to
give men breast milk to avoid
illicit mixing.
Saudi authorities on
Wednesday reportedly pulled
the plug on Obeikan’s radio
program “Fatwas on Air,” a
daily morning show in which
Obeikan would go on air and
issue fatwas — religious rulings
— to the public on various
matters.
Taking the sheikh off air
appears to come as part of Saudi
king Abdullah’s recent
clampdown on the nation’s
fatwa bazaar.
The story includes a few more
paragraphs but nowhere do we
get any understanding of why
the cleric might even be opining
Cops, and Robbers
Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:00:09 AM
From the Aug. 30, 2010, issue M i c h i g a n d e r s t h e u n i o n ’ s
of NR.
I n July, the Fraternal Order of The billboards warned that
Police Lodge 103 in Bay City, unlike Bay City’s finest, city
Mich., used funds from its dues- hall couldn’t prevent residents
paying members to erect a pair from being “Beaten,” “Shot,”
of billboards -- one on Saginaw “Stabbed,” or “Robbed,” and
and Columbus, another on confronted passers-by with an
on men drinking breast milk.
The reader who submitted the
story asked:
How can you spend this many
words on something like this
and not even MENTION that a
man who drinks a woman’s
breast milk is unable to marry
that woman in (at least some
interpretations of) Islam? I
mean, for Pete’s sake, four
seconds with Google can give a
reporter at least a start on what
they need to know on this.
It turns out that the discussion
has a history that goes back to
the earliest days of Islam. At
least some interpretations of
Islam believe that the drinking
of a woman’s breast milk turns
the relationship into a parental
one that then makes her sexually
forbidden to him. To not
mention that this is a heated
point of discussion in some
interpretations of Islam leaves
the cleric looking like he’s off
his rocker. In fact, the question
about what the drinking of a
woman’s breast milk means
Euclid near Fisher -- designed to
instill fear in the 35,000
officers were sworn to protect.
aren’t unheard of.
On this online forum asking for
clarification of whether it’s
permissible for a husband to
drink his wife’s breast milk, we
get a response citing various
scholars saying various things.
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
retells stories from during the
lifetime of Muhammad
contemporaries about differing
opinions being offered even
then before suggesting that the
practice is permissible.
Another quoted Islamic scholar
recommends against the
practice:
Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior
lecturer and an Islamic scholar
at the Islamic Institute of
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, adds:
The wife’s breast milk is
intended for the baby, and not
for the husband to consume.
Although the husband is
allowed to suck on it gently, he
is not allowed to draw the milk
in. According to some scholars,
if he were to do so it would
endanger the marriage
image of a masked man pointing
an automatic pistol at them.
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-sector unions -- which include
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relationship — if done five
times. The Prophet (peace and
blessings be upon him) said,
‘Avoid that which is doubtful’,
for, ‘thereby one keeps his
honor and religion intact.’
It’s easy to just point and imply
silliness. It’s much more
difficult to explain at least some
of the theological context. For
more information about the
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deadline for the cuts, having
struck a tentative deal at the
eleventh hour. The other seven
were hit with layoffs --
including the police, who saw
five officers pulled from their
force of 57, and who were given
until the end of August to ratify
new contracts if they didn’t
want the reduction in force to
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Ayn Rand
and Whittaker
Chambers
Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:00:01 AM
With a word on Atlas Shrugged
in the contemporary scene.
I n writing “ The Greatly
Ghastly Rand” for NR’s current
print issue, I wanted to evaluate
Ayn Rand foremost as an artist,
applying the simple standard,
“Does this inspire me? Do I like
what this woman is showing me
of her soul?” This is more or
less the standard Rand would
have applied to herself. As I
noted, she asserts in her
Fountainhead introduction that
her purpose as a writer is “the
projection of an ideal man.” She
goes on to explain that “any
didactic, intellectual or
philosophical values” in her
novels are only a means to that
end, and that her goal “is not the
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become permanent.
It’s a story that is playing itself
out in cities, counties, and states
across the country. Hoboken,
N.J., is planning to lay off 18
cops, eliminate top-brass
positions, and civilianize a
number of non-patrol police
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philosophical enlightenment of
my readers” but “the portrayal
of Howard Roark [or the heroes
of Atlas Shrugged]” -- Rand’s
brackets; she is quoting herself -
- “ as an end in himself.”
#ad#Whittaker Chambers, in
reviewing Atlas Shrugged, was
instead concerned with Rand as
a political thinker. He is fairly
explicit about this: “ Atlas
Shrugged can be called a novel
only by devaluing the term. It is
a massive tract for the times. Its
story merely serves Miss Rand
to get the customers inside the
tent, and as a soapbox for
delivering her Message.” He
then details his objections to the
Message -- and here I think he
does her an injustice.
The crucial passage:
It is when a system of
materialist ideas [Chambers has
just claimed that Rand presents
“a forthright philosophic
materialism”] presumes to give
positive answers to real
problems of our real life that
mischief starts. In an age like
ours, in which a highly complex
technological society is
everywhere in a high state of
instability, such answers,
however philosophic, translate
quickly into political realities.
And in the degree to which
problems of complexity and
instability are most bewildering
to masses of men, a temptation
sets in to let some species of Big
Brother solve and supervise
them.
One Big Brother is, of course, a
socializing elite (as we know,
several cut-rate brands are on
the shelves). Miss Rand, as the
enemy of any socializing force,
calls in a Big Brother of her own
contriving to do battle with the
other. In the name of free
enterprise, therefore, she plumps
for a technocratic elite (I find no
more inclusive word than
technocratic to bracket the
industrial-financial-engineering
caste she seems to have in
mind). When she calls
“productive achievement”
“man’s noblest activity,” she
means, almost exclusively,
technological achievement,
supervised by such a managerial
political bureau. She might
object that she means much,
much more; and we can freely
entertain her objections. But, in
sum, that is just what she means.
For that is what, in reality, it
works out to. And in reality, too,
by contrast with fiction, this can
only head into a dictatorship,
however benign, living and
acting beyond good and evil, a
law unto itself.
The basic error is to say that
Rand wants her own species of
Big Brother to “solve and
supervise” the problems of
complexity and instability. This
simply is not so. It is true that
her “prime movers” withdraw
from society in order to
effectuate the collapse of the
“looters”; in this sense they “do
battle” with the “socializing
elite.” But they fight precisely
against the idea that any person
or persons should be granted
Big Brotherly responsibilities.
They oppose, precisely, the
“suprevis[ion]” of a “managerial
political bureau.” Their message
throughout, to borrow Rand’s
formulation, is: “Hands off!”
#page#
Chambers is fair enough to
continue: “Of course, Miss Rand
nowhere calls for a dictatorship.
I take her to be calling for an
aristocracy of talents. We cannot
labor here why, in the modern
world, the pre-conditions for
aristocracy, an organic growth,
no longer exist, so that the
impulse toward aristocracy
always emerges now in the form
of dictatorship.” But I think he
is still mistaken, and his diction
misleading. Aristocracy is an
arrangement in which certain
persons have a political right to
rule other persons
exploitatively. Any such
arrangement would be abhorrent
to Rand’s heroes. It will
admittedly be the case, in a free
society of freely transacting
individuals, that those of
superior talent enjoy a greater
share of material abundance and
influence. This outcome will be,
in fact, an organic growth. But it
is far from aristocracy, and to
wield influence is not to rule.
Chambers’s elision of these
ideas is a surprising piece of
sloppiness from so intelligent a
writer.
#ad#There is an argument to be
made that the line between the
informal influence of a Google
Inc. and the formal power of a
“managerial political bureau” is
becoming ever blurrier, but
Chambers does not make it or
anticipate it. Instead he holds
that capitalism is necessarily
materialist and that a
“materialism of the Right” must
culminate in something like
Hitler’s National Socialism. I
believe those claims to be false,
and Chambers’s whole way of
thinking about these issues
strikes me as quaintly Marxian -
- in both its conception of
capitalism and its invocation of
historical inevitability. The
latter pops up again and again
throughout the review, every
time Chambers says, effectively,
“I don’t care what she claims to
advocate -- this is what it must
come to in practice (but you’ll
have to take my word for it).”
While I find Rand’s
evangelistic atheism off-putting
in the extreme, I believe
Chambers is also wrong to claim
that her system is “a forthright
philosophic materialism.”
Insofar as I am familiar with her
writings and public statements,
she had nothing kind to say
about materialists. Certainly she
rejected much that
conventionally accompanies
materialism; for example, she
believed in the freedom of the
will in contradistinction to
causal determinism. And a
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minor theme of Atlas Shrugged
is that its heroes, though
denounced as materialists, are
more capable of enjoying
spiritual pleasures (“spiritual”
here understood in a non-
religious sense -- she has in
mind the capacity e.g. to love, or
to feel profound aesthetic
appreciation) than are their
denouncers. I think the correct
assessment is that Rand rejected
any division at all between body
and mind, material and spiritual
(another instance of her
indebtedness to Nietzsche,
which Chambers perceptively
noted). Here is one of Atlas
Shrugged’s heroes, Henry
Rearden, making the point, as he
realizes that he was wrong to
accept the label “materialist”
and feel guilty for being one:
I damned the fact that my mind
and body were a unit, and that
my body responded to the
values of my mind. I damned
the fact that joy is the core of
existence, the motive power of
every living being, that it is the
need of one’s body as it is the
goal of one’s spirit, that my
body was not a weight of
inanimate muscles, but an
instrument able to give me an
experience of superlative joy to
unite my flesh and my spirit.
Despite his errors, Chambers
succeeded brilliantly in
diagnosing Rand’s attitude. He
is absolutely right that the
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functions. Akron, Ohio, is
eliminating holiday overtime
pay for emergency-service
workers and reassigning a
number of police to school
districts, where costs can be
“shared.” East St. Louis, Ill.,
one of America’s most
dangerous cities, is trying to
stave off police and fire
reductions in force with
accounting tricks such as salary
deferrals. In perhaps the most
dramatic example, the gang-
ridden city of Oakland, Calif.,
laid off 80 police officers -- a
full 10 percent of its force -- in
an effort to balance the city
budget.
Everywhere, cash-strapped
councils and legislatures in the
second year of post-crisis
America are struggling to bring
outlays in line with a shrunken
and stagnant revenue base after
decades of metastasizing growth
in public-sector labor costs. And
they are being forced to take a
hard look at their salary and
pension obligations to police
and firefighters -- obligations
that are both prime drivers of
structural deficits and as close a
thing as there is in local
governance to a sacred cow.
And the fuzz aren’t taking it
lying down. In Akron, Fraternal
Order of Police local president
Paul Hlynsky has engaged in a
public war of words with mayor
Don Plusquellic, accusing him
of lying and negotiating in bad
faith. In a move to rival that of
the Bay City police union,
Oakland police chief Anthony
Batts responded to the layoffs
by ticking off a list of 44
situations to which his reduced
force would no longer be able to
respond -- and it wasn’t just cats
up trees and noise-ordinance
violations. The list included
felonies like burglary and grand
theft, extortion and fraud.
#page#Throughout these crises,
the unions have succeeded in
casting the choice as one
between public safety and
layoffs, avoiding reductions in,
or even talk of, their extravagant
compensation packages.
According to the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, in 2008,
state and local governments
spent $1.1 trillion on public-
employee compensation, a
number that accounts for fully
one-half of their total spending.
State and local employees earn,
hour for hour, 34 percent more
in wages than do workers in the
private sector, and enjoy far
more generous health-insurance,
sick-leave, and pension benefits.
#ad#The public/private disparity
is especially stark when one
focuses on public-safety
compensation in places such as
Oakland; police and firemen
have accounted for about 75
percent of expenditures from the
city’s general fund over the last
five years. Average total
compensation for an officer in
Oakland -- a city in which the
median family earns $47,000 --
is $162,000 per year.
As with most public-sector
workers, a major -- and opaque -
- piece of emergency-services
compensation comes in the form
of lifelong pensions.
“Public-safety workers tend to
receive the most generous
public-employee pensions,” says
Josh Barro, a Manhattan
Institute fellow and expert on
state and local finance. “They
are based on a significantly
shorter career -- it is not atypical
to see police and fire pensions
based on 20 years of service --
and they also tend to be more
generous as a percentage of
salary.”
Other laws make the payouts
even more generous. In New
York, for instance, a
“presumptive disability” law
makes it easy for firemen to
secure lifetime, tax-free
pensions at three-quarters pay;
when examining a fireman for
the purpose of determining
whether he has a work-related
disability, a doctor is required to
start with the assumption that
certain illnesses are job-related
even if there is no evidence that
they are. A fireman from a
Bronx ladder company who
develops a lung disorder will
qualify for disability retirement
even if it’s unclear whether he
developed his impairment from
smoke inhalation on the job, or
from his two-pack-a-day
cigarette habit.
The “presumptive disability”
bonanza is sometimes
exacerbated by abuse. In July,
the New York Post told the
story of John C. McLaughlin, a
55-year-old former FDNY
lieutenant who retired in 2001
with an $86,000-a-year
disability pension, after it was
determined that he was an
asthmatic with diminished lung
capacity. This despite the fact
that McLaughlin is an
accomplished triathlete who
regularly competes in long-
distance races.
McLaughlin is hardly alone. An
astonishing 80 percent of 2010
FDNY retirees have qualified
for disability benefits.
#page#How did police and fire
unions score such a sweet deal?
Part of it is institutional. Since
public-safety unions can, by
law, virtually never strike,
nearly all of them take
advantage of their right to force
“interest arbitration,” wherein
an ostensibly neutral third party
settles contract disputes between
labor and government. As such
arrangements became
commonplace through the 20th
century, police and fire unions
began to see their compensation
rise faster than that of non-
uniformed public employees.
The availability of legally
binding arbitration meant that
unions had less incentive to deal
directly with their government
employers, while elected
officials facing angry voters
could blame expensive
79
settlements on the imposition of
the arbitrators.
#ad#The effect of forced
arbitration on the fiscal health of
local government is starkly
illustrated in a recent
comparative study of Fairfax
County, Va., and Montgomery
County, Md., undertaken in a
refreshing Washington Post staff
editorial from May:
Virginia law denies public
employees collective bargaining
rights; that’s helped Fairfax
resist budget-busting wage and
benefit demands. As revenue
dipped two years ago, Fairfax
officials froze all salaries for
county government and school
employees with little ado. By
contrast, Montgomery leaders
were badly equipped to cope
with recession. County
Executive Isiah Leggett took
office proposing fat budgets and
negotiating openhanded union
deals.#...#Then, as economic
storm clouds gathered, he
shifted gears and cut spending --
while still trying to appease the
unions.
Notoriously, one such deal
guaranteed almost $300 million
in pension benefits over 40
years to thousands of employees
based on salary increases they
never received. The giveaway
became known as “Phantom
COLAs,” for the cost-of-living
raises that were never paid. And
even when Montgomery’s
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Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:00:00 AM
The Obama administration
fesses up to another bank bailout
under HAMP.
C an I let you in on something
hilarious going around the
Internet these days? No, I’m not
talking about the Double
Rainbow video. I’m talking
about the reaction -- just as
amusing, though not nearly as
joyful -- of a number of left-
wing political bloggers and
commentators to the discovery
that the administration’s
foreclosure-mitigation program
was actually a slow-motion
bailout for Fannie Mae, Freddie
Mac, and the banks, and not
really designed to help
underwater borrowers at all.
Imagine Neo’s reaction when
he’s told what the Matrix is,
only pretend that the Matrix was
something that was obvious all
along, and you’ll get why I’m
laughing.
The program’s intention was
clear from the outset, as the
editors of National Review
Online noted when it was
announced 18 months ago:
So, cui bono? Put simply, this
program is designed to benefit
Fannie and Freddie
shareholders, not the great
majority of Americans
struggling with their mortgages.
The only loans that can be
restructured are those held in
Fannie/Freddie portfolios or
securitized by the twins. Just in
time to benefit from a
refinancing boom, Fannie and
Freddie plan to raise their fees
to as high as 3.5 percent on
April 1. (Note that date,
taxpayers, and ask yourselves
who is being played for the
fool.) And only a tiny slice of
homeowners will be eligible —
those who are in relatively weak
positions (house payments
exceed 31 percent of gross
income) but not too weak (house
payments do not exceed 38
percent of gross income) and
who are, despite their mortgage
difficulties, still creditworthy
enough to pass bank
underwriting standards. Fannie
and Freddie get new capital,
new income, and better loans in
their portfolios. Most
homeowners get nothing, and
taxpayers get the bill.
At the time, a lot of supporters
of the administration argued that
only heartless Republicans and
conservatives would oppose
such a well-intentioned and
generous program to keep
struggling borrowers in their
homes. The plan was the subject
of CNBC commentator Rick
Santelli’s famous rant, which
drew angry condemnation from
liberals and kicked off the tea-
party movement that continues
to drive them insane.
It turns out that conservatives
were right: The program was
full of bad incentives for
borrowers and backdoor bailouts
for banks. Neil Barofsky, the
special investigator in charge of
overseeing TARP spending,
recently blasted the Home
Affordable Modification
Program (HAMP): “The
American people are essentially
being asked to shoulder an
additional $50 billion of
national debt without being told
. . . how many people Treasury
hopes to actually help stay in
their homes as a result of these
expenditures,” Barofsky’s report
stated. The report also noted that
HAMP “has not put an
appreciable dent in foreclosure
filings,” because, among other
reasons, “the number of trial and
permanent modifications that
have been cancelled
substantially exceeds the
number of homeowners helped
through permanent
modifications.”
But the real eye-opener for left-
wing supporters of the program
came when a handful of
financial bloggers posted write-
ups of their visit to the Treasury
Department last week. Treasury
Secretary Tim Geithner and Co.
had invited these bloggers to a
private briefing as part of the
department’s outreach efforts
leading up to its big seminar on
the future of housing finance.
One of the subjects the bloggers
and the Treasury officials
discussed was HAMP.
According to blogger Steve
Waldman’s write-up, Treasury
officials were “surprisingly
candid” about the program’s
failures:
The program has gotten a lot of
bad press in terms of its Kafka-
esque qualification process and
its limited success in generating
mortgage modifications under
which families become able and
willing to pay their debt.
Officials pointed out that what
may have been an agonizing
process for individuals was a
useful palliative for the system
as a whole. Even if most HAMP
applicants ultimately default, the
program prevented an outbreak
of foreclosures exactly when the
system could have handled it
least. There were murmurs
among the bloggers of “extend
and pretend”, but I don’t think
that’s quite right. This was
extend-and-don’t-even-bother-to
-pretend. The program was
successful in the sense that it
kept the patient alive until it had
begun to heal. And the patient of
this metaphor was not a
struggling homeowner, but the
financial system, a.k.a. the
banks.
In a word, duh. It’s not like no
one saw this coming. We did
(see above). But here’s the
funny part: Many left-wing
commentators apparently trusted
the administration’s good
intentions to the point of being
“shocked” by these revelations.
#page#Duncan Black, who
blogs as Atrios, wrote,
“Conning homeowners by
announcing a government
program designed to help them
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when in fact it was designed to
help the banksters is, in my
world, ‘cruel.’”
Mike Konczal at Rortybomb,
who attended the briefing,
wrote, “The narrative seemed to
change from helping
homeowners to spacing out the
foreclosures. I asked them to
repeat it, because the idea that
billions of taxpayer dollars are
being spent to smooth out
foreclosures for banks struck me
as new narrative -- it’s explicitly
extend-and-pretend, and also
fairly cynical.”
But my favorite was economist/
blogger Brad DeLong, who
summed up his blindsided take
with the headline: “Department
of ‘Huh?!’: HAMP Edition.”
Huh? What? Obama effectuated
a “cynical” and “cruel” bailout
of Fannie and Freddie under the
guise of a compassionate
mortgage-modification
program? The mind reels! The
heart aches! What else has he
lied to us about?
It’s actually worse than all that.
The administration’s program
created an incentive for
underwater borrowers who
weren’t yet behind on their
mortgage payments to fall
behind on purpose in order to
qualify for a modification under
HAMP. An aide to a Republican
congressman tells NRO,
“People who could have made
their mortgage payments end up
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Inventing Moderate Islam
Submitted at 8/24/2010 3:00:00 AM
It can’t be done without
confronting mainstream Islam
and its sharia agenda.
‘S ecularism can never enjoy a
general acceptance in an Islamic
society.” The writer was not one
of those sulfurous Islamophobes
decried by CAIR and the
professional Left. Quite the
opposite: It was Sheikh Yusuf al
-Qaradawi, the Muslim
Brotherhood’s spiritual guide
and a favorite of the Saudi royal
family. He made this assertion
in his book, How the Imported
Solutions Disastrously Affected
Our Ummah, an excerpt of
which was published by the
Saudi Gazette just a couple of
months ago.
This was Qaradawi the
“progressive” Muslim
intellectual, much loved by
Georgetown University’s
burgeoning Islamic-studies
programs. Like Harvard,
Georgetown has been purchased
into submission by tens of
millions of Saudi petrodollars.
In its resulting ardor to put
Americans at ease about Islam,
the university somehow
manages to look beyond
Qaradawi’s fatwas calling for
the killing of American troops in
Iraq and for suicide bombings in
Israel. Qaradawi, they tell us, is
a “moderate.” In fact, as Robert
Spencer quips, if you were to
say Islam and secularism cannot
co-exist, John Esposito,
Georgetown’s apologist-in-
chief, would call you an
Islamophobe; but when
Qaradawi says it, no problem --
according to Esposito, he’s a
“reformist.”
And he’s not just any reformist.
Another Qaradawi fan, Feisal
Rauf, the similarly “moderate”
imam behind the Ground Zero
mosque project, tells us
Qaradawi is also “the most well-
known legal authority in the
whole Muslim world today.”
#ad#Rauf is undoubtedly right
about that. So it is worth letting
it sink in that this most
influential of Islam’s voices, this
promoter of the Islamic enclaves
the Brotherhood is forging
throughout the West, is
convinced that Islamic societies
can never accept secularism.
After all, secularism is nothing
less than the framework by
which the West defends
religious freedom but denies
legal and political authority to
religious creeds.
It is also worth understanding
why Qaradawi says Islam and
secularism cannot co-exist. The
excerpt from his book
continues:
As Islam is a comprehensive
system of worship (Ibadah) and
legislation (Shari’ah), the
acceptance of secularism means
abandonment of Shari’ah, a
denial of the divine guidance
and a rejection of Allah’s
injunctions. It is indeed a false
claim that Shari’ah is not proper
to the requirements of the
present age. The acceptance of a
legislation formulated by
humans means a preference of
the humans’ limited knowledge
and experiences to the divine
guidance: “Say! Do you know
better than Allah?” (Qur’an,
2:140) For this reason, the call
for secularism among Muslims
is atheism and a rejection of
Islam. Its acceptance as a basis
for rule in place of Shari’ah is
downright apostasy.
Apostasy is an explosive
accusation. On another
occasion, Sheikh Qaradawi
explained that “Muslim jurists
are unanimous that apostates
must be punished.” He further
acknowledged that the
consensus view of these jurists,
including the principal schools
of both Sunni and Shiite
jurisprudence, is “that apostates
must be executed.”
Qaradawi’s own view is more
nuanced, as he explained to the
Egyptian press in 2005. This, I
suppose, is where his vaunted
reformist streak comes in. For
private apostasy, in which a
Muslim makes a secret, personal
decision to renounce tenets of
Islam and quietly goes his
separate way without causing a
stir, the sheikh believes
ostracism by the Islamic
community is a sufficient
penalty, with the understanding
that Allah will condemn the
apostate to eternal damnation at
the time of his choosing. For
public apostasy, however,
Qaradawi stands with the
overwhelming weight of Islamic
authority: “The punishment . . .
is execution.”
The sad fact, the fact no one
wants to deal with but which the
Ground Zero mosque debate has
forced to the fore, is that
Qaradawi is a moderate. So is
Feisal Rauf, who endorses the
Qaradawi position -- the
mainstream Islamic position --
that sharia is a nonnegotiable
requirement. Rauf wins the
coveted “moderate” designation
because he strains, at least when
speaking for Western
consumption, to paper over the
incompatibility between sharia
societies and Western societies.
#page#Qaradawi and Rauf are
“moderates” because we’ve
abandoned reason. Our opinion
elites are happy to paper over
the gulf between “reformist”
Islam and the “reformist”
approval of mass-murder
attacks. That’s why it matters
not a whit to them that Imam
Rauf refuses to renounce
Hamas: If you’re going to give a
pass to Qaradawi, the guy who
actively promotes Hamas
terrorists, how can you complain
about a guy who merely refuses
to condemn the terrorists?
When we are rational, we have
confidence in our own frame of
reference. We judge what is
moderate based on a detached,
commonsense understanding of
what “moderate” means. We’re
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not rigging the outcome; we just
want to know where we stand.
If we were in that objective
frame of mind, we would easily
see that a freedom culture
requires separation of the
spiritual from the secular. We
would also see that sharia --
with dictates that contradict
liberty and equality while
sanctioning cruel punishments
and holy war -- is not moderate.
Consequently, no one who
advocates sharia can be a
moderate, no matter how well-
meaning he may be, no matter
how heartfelt may be his
conviction that this is God’s
will, and no matter how much
higher on the food chain he may
be than Osama bin Laden.
Instead, abandoning reason, we
have deep-sixed our own frame
of reference and substituted
mainstream Islam’s. If that
backward compass is to be our
guide, then sure, Qaradawi and
Rauf are moderates. But know
this: When you capitulate to the
authority and influence of
Qaradawi and Rauf, you kill
meaningful Islamic reform.
There is no moderate Islam in
the mainstream of Muslim life,
not in the doctrinal sense. There
are millions of moderate
Muslims who crave reform. Yet
the fact that they seek real
reform, rather than what
Georgetown is content to call
reform, means they are trying to
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Guest Blogger: Re-imagining America’s Business School

Curriculums
Ed Piper (The Foundry: How have they prepared addressed in business degree
Conservative Policy News.) themselves for these traditional programs. Again, I would
Submitted at 8/24/2010 9:00:13 AM roles? Most have earned challenge anyone to find a
undergraduate degrees and business management course
Posted August 24th, 2010 at advanced degrees/MBA’s in that incorporates ICS/NIMS into
10:00am in Protect America business, finance, accounting, its course design or business
Print This Post IT, and marketing. These curriculum!
Approximately 90 percent of academic credentials help them In order to develop a true
America’s infrastructure is d e v e l o p t h e t r a d i t i o n a l culture of homeland/hometown
privately owned and yet the knowledge, skills, and abilities security and critical
primary focus of homeland required to succeed in leading a infrastructure preparedness
security educational programs in business or nonprofit entity. As within the private and nonprofit
the U.S. has been directed an adjunct professor who has sectors, it is imperative that
toward local, state, federal t a u g h t b o t h b u s i n e s s America’s colleges and
government, and military management courses and universities re-imagine their
employees. In addition, most of security courses for over 15 business school curriculums by
t h e h o m e l a n d s e c u r i t y years, I continue to find it integrating business continuity,
educational programs on college shocking to observe that it is crisis management, and
campuses are located within the s t i l l p o s s i b l e t o e a r n a n homeland security courses and
criminal justice or security undergraduate or graduate modules into existing business
studies degree programs. The degree in business without ever courses. Additionally, these
challenge we must now face is taking a course in business curriculums should require a
how to best develop a culture of continuity, crisis management, basic understanding of critical
c r i t i c a l i n f r a s t r u c t u r e terrorism, security management, infrastructure preparedness prior
preparedness within the private or homeland security. Ironically, to graduation.
sector—one that will allow us to it is the graduates of these Security has attempted to b u s i n e s s m a n a g e m e n t As an adjunct professor who
effectively mitigate, prevent, business programs who one day address the issue of critical experience to advise private has taught both business and
prepare, respond to, and recover will be the senior decision- infrastructure preparedness by business leaders on how to best security management courses
from all hazards including acts makers deciding on how the sending government liaison incorporate security practices I’m recommending that the
of terrorism. organization will use its employees to the private sector. into existing business processes following courses incorporate
The question we must ask resources and finances to protect These employees endeavor to and operations. DHS has also emergency preparedness and
ourselves is: Who provides the the people, properties, profits, not only make organizations advocated the use of ICS/NIMS homeland security content:
leadership to direct the spending a n d a s s e t s o f t h e i r o w n m o r e a w a r e o f t h e i r as the standard emergency 1. Strategic management
of resources of the multiple o r g a n i z a t i o n / s e g m e n t o f responsibilities for emergency response system for both the courses must include modules
entities that compose our America’s infrastructure. How preparedness/infrastructure public and private sectors. The t h a t a d d r e s s t h r e a t a n d
privately owned infrastructure? can they be expected to make protection, but to discuss how system emphasizes the strategic v u l n e r a b i l i t y a s s e s s m e n t s .
The answer of course, is the t h e p r o p e r d e c i s i o n s o n they can best realize this goal. roles of operations, logistics, SWOT analysis would have a
CEOs, CFOs, and COOs of infrastructure preparedness It’s always a challenging role p l a n n i n g , f i n a n c e , a n d new meaning;
A m e r i c a n b u s i n e s s e s a n d without the proper education? for government employees administration. These are the
nonprofit organizations. The Department of Homeland without any private sector exact elements traditionally GUEST page 88
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Little Lies of the Mosque

Syed Kamran Mirza Cordoba. They built a mosque around the world.
(FrontPage Magazine » over the rubble of a Catholic 2. Recruits for jihadi
FrontPage) church as a symbol of their terrorists in the Muslim and non
Submitted at 8/23/2010 11:11:47 PM triumph over Spanish infidels. A -Muslim world will rampantly
It would be a mortal mistake for mosque over the ruins of the increase. Also, this mosque will
America to allow the Ground WTC would likewise be a clear become a Islamic proselytizing
Zero mosque to be built. Like it victory over American infidels. center, and a breeding ground
or not, this mosque will serve as This has been the practice and which will spread “stealth jihad”
an iconic symbol of Islamic tradition recorded in ancient in America.
victory. It will be seen by Islamic history. The Islamic 3. This mosque will act as a
Islamic jihadists around the Prophet and his disciples all did “Grand Mosque” at the heart of
world as a humiliating defeat the same whenever they invaded infidel America. It will be a 21st
dealt to American infidels by and defeated any non-Muslim century Trojan horse from
Islam. nation. The first thing they did which Sharia law (Islamic
Islam, in a serious sense, is a was erect a mosque. Islamic draconian law) will spread with
religion of great deception. Caliph Omar invaded and a speed of epidemic proportions
Imam Feisal and his Islamic o c c u p i e d J e r u s a l e m a n d — in America, as well as
gang, the American Society of immediately erected the al-Aqsa elsewhere in the Western world.
Muslim Advancement (ASMA), Mosque (Dome of Rock) over 4. The American “war on
a r e n o e x c e p t i o n s . M a n y the rubble of the Jewish Temple terror,” which has lasted ten
Westerners appear to have a Mount of Solomon. Imam Feisal long years, cost trillions of
monumental confusion about the and his ASMA want to do much the rest of the planned Ground intending to use the 9/11 dollars, and sacrificed tens of
real purpose of this mosque. the same thing. Zero monument complex. If that mosque as a springboard for thousands of lives, will be a
Because of a lack of knowledge Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, head ever becomes a reality, the proselytizing Islam to America. total loss. Victory of al-Qaeda
in Islamic history, they are o f t h e A S M A , i s u t t e r l y entire Muslim world will be However, the English title of the jihadists will be declared
unable to understand exactly deceiving New Yorkers by his rejoicing as the ultimate winner. same book is “What’s Right throughout the entirety of the
why Muslims are planning to Islamic tactics of lies and T h e C o r d o b a m o s q u e , with America is What’s Right Muslim world.
erect it just a few yards from the deception. He is lying only to symbolizing the victorious with Islam.” This is exactly the Imam Feisal is perpetrating
9/11 site. achieve Islamic dominance. Islamic flag, will have been kind of technique of Islamic Islamic deception with the
M a y o r B l o o m b e r g , t h e Allah duly permits Muslims to hoisted over the ruins of the deception used by all so-called bogus claim of promoting
downtown community, and the “lie and deceive” all infidels in i c o n i c W T C , w h i c h w a s moderate Muslims used only to “interfaith tolerance.” Islam is
American Left have no idea why order to spreading Islam, the d e s t r o y e d b y t h e I s l a m i c fool Westerners. one of the most intolerant
Islamists are so insistent upon only religion accepted by Allah soldiers of Allah. Here are some of the most religions in the world. It does
erecting this Islamic flag over for all mankind (Qur’an-3:85). Imam Feisal’s 2004 book was important implications of this not recognize any other religion
the ruins of the WTC and over It is most important to focus on titled, in Arabic, “The Call From mosque: on earth. Hence, interfaith
the graves of 3,000 innocent one very pertinent aspect of this the WTC Rubble: Islamic 1. A mosque near the WTC relations between Islam and
dead Americans. They hardly controversy. This conniving Da’wah From the Heart of destruction will give electrifying other religions are a pure farce.
understand the significance of Imam has declared that the America Post-9/11.” The title propaganda and triumphant That Islam “is a religion of
the name “Cordoba House,” G r o u n d Z e r o m o s q u e suggests Rauf is humiliating or victory to all Muslims of the peace” is the boldest lie one can
which Imam Feisal initially construction will be completed denigrating the loss of American w o r l d , a n d i t w i l l s u r e l y hear repeated. Gullible Muslims
selected for the mosque. Ancient by 2011—meaning this Islamic life by referring to the scene as embolden the very jihadi-spirit can be peaceful, but Islam is a
Muslims once invaded and victory flag would be raised “rubble.” By using the Islamic and fanaticism of al-Qaeda in all
word Da’wah (call) he is other Islamic terrorist centers LITTLE page 84
occupied the Spanish city of much before the completion of
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Morning Bell: Getting Our China Priorities Straight

Conn Carroll (The Foundry: citizen of Mississippi. China’s industrial complex and administration’s efforts to recent two, the 2008 and 2009
Conservative Policy News.) GDP per capita, by comparison, achieving an anti-access, area- engage China on“the global reports, indicate a worsening
Submitted at 8/24/2010 8:17:12 AM is still only about 15 percent of denial capacity that will further climate change crisis.” That’s situation.
the U.S. level, about the same as limit American commanders’ right: the Obama administration There is a disconnect between
Posted August 24th, 2010 at El Salvador. options in Asia. believes global warming is more the marginal role that human
9:17am in American Leadership This is not to say the United More troubling, however, was important than human rights. rights currently plays in
Print This Post States should be turning a blind what the report did not focus And even when they do discuss America’s China policy and the
Last week, the establishment eye to China’s rise. In another enough on: the threat to Taiwan. human rights, the Obama State Department’s exhaustive
media played up reports that development from last week, There is little discussion of the administration’s priorities are annual report that catalogs
China surpassed Japan as the this one virtually ignored by the Taiwan military structure or its highly suspect. After the May China’s human rights abuses.
world’s second largest economy e s t a b l i s h m e n t m e d i a , t h e equipment. Indeed, it is striking 2010 U.S.–China Human Rights The Obama Administration
as measured by gross domestic Department of Defense released how the 2010 report avoids Dialogue, Assistant Secretary of should make defense of
product (GDP). Contrary to the its annual Military and Security making any overall assessment State for Democracy, Human universal liberties, not global
amount of attention it received, Developments Involving the of how the security situation in Rights, and Labor Michael warming or berating Arizona, a
the development is not as People’s Republic of China. the Taiwan Straits is developing. Posner told reporters that the central part of U.S. public and
important as it was made to According to the report, the If anything, while this year’s U.S. side brought up the private diplomacy with the
sound. First of all, if the PRC People’s Liberation Army report is perhaps the most Arizona immigration law, People’s Republic of China
reported its economic data (PLA) official budget, which extensive official discussion of presumably to put the Chinese at (PRC).
accurately, China probably has enjoyed double-digit annual the PLA and China’s security ease, even though the Chinese Quick Hits:
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viciously violent religion. truth about Qur’an right here.

Radical Islamists (pure
Muslims) are some of the most
intolerant people on earth. The
Qur’an is replete with Allah’s
clarion call to kill all non-
Muslims. Readers can find the
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Fake Hate Crimes: An Islamist Weapon
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 8/23/2010 11:59:04 PM
Over the recent Fourth of July
weekend, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (
CAIR) interviewed attendees of
the 47th annual Islamic Society
of North America ( ISNA)
convention about their
experiences in dealing with
“Islamophobia.” Shortly
afterwards, on July 6, CAIR
called on the FBI to investigate
an act of arson at a Georgia
mosque, saying that hate crimes
were increasing because of a
“vocal minority in our society
promoting anti-Muslim
bigotry.” The Islamic Circle of
North America ( ICNA) referred
to it as one of the “incidents of
Islamophobia [that] are on the
rise in this country.” However,
police later arrested a Muslim
suspect.
As Daniel Pipes has
documented for years, Islamist
organizations in the West are
quick to label crimes as anti-
Muslim hate crimes as part of
their effort to make Muslims
feel under attack and to paint
themselves as Muslims’
protectors. For example,
immediately following the Fort
Hood shooting, CAIR asked
Muslims to respond by donating
to it. “We need financial help to
meet these crises and push back
against those who seek to score
political points off the Muslim
community in the wake of the
Fort Hood tragedy,” the
fundraising pitch read. To no
one’s surprise, an anti-Muslim
backlash did not ensue.
Cutting through the propaganda
requires understanding the ways
in which crimes are
misrepresented as hate crimes
— and why. There are two main
culprits to consider: Muslims
who stage fake hate crimes and
Islamist organizations that seek
to exploit them.
Why would anyone fabricate a
hate crime against himself or his
mosque? History indicates a pair
of common motives.
In some cases, the faker has an
obvious political goal of
demonstrating the supposed
prejudice against Muslims. A
classic example occurred in
2008, when a 19-year-old
female Muslim student named
Safia Z. Jilani at Elmhurst
College in Illinois claimed that
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book’s “dictatorial tone” is
now.” Ramjanally later was
“much its most striking feature.”
arrested for faking the crime. He is right about its “overriding
Furthermore, last year in arrogance,” its “shrillness,” its
Australia, a prominent imam, “dogmatism.” He is right that
Taj Din al-Hilali, told police Rand tends to think “little about
that his mosque had been people as people,” but “a great
vandalized. When confronted deal in labels and effigies.” And
with the security tape, which I would go so far as to say that
shows that he is the one who Rand, given the chance, might
kicked in the door, he insisted well have been a totalitarian.
that it had been manipulated. More: She might have felt -- as
In other cases, individuals are Chambers puts it -- that “right
driven to fabricate hate crimes reason itself” enjoined her
not for political reasons, but to tyranny. The crudity of her
cover up more mundane reasoning, and her use of it to
criminal activity. Take the justify her hatreds, is on
she had been pistol-whipped in a bizarre story of Musa and Essa
campus restroom by a male who Shteiwi, Ohio men who received prominent display in the gas-
chamber scene I discuss in my
then wrote “Kill the Muslims” media attention in 2006 after
on the mirror. The alleged attack reporting several attacks on their essay. All of the train’s
passengers are deemed
occurred just hours after she store, the third being with a
spoke at a “demonstration called Molotov cocktail. A fourth “responsible” and even “guilty”
for the regnant political order,
to denounce the anti-Islamic “attack” then occurred, when an
slurs and swastika she had explosion was set off and badly and therefore deserving of their
deaths, even though the degree
discovered … in her locker.” A burned the father and son,
week later, however, authorities injuries from which they later to which they could in fact have
been responsible or guilty is
determined that none of this had died. CAIR highlighted it as a
taken place and she was charged h a t e c r i m e . H o w e v e r , highly variable: A playwright
and a mother married to a low-
with filing a false police report. investigators found that the two
Similar incidents recently had set off the explosion or mid-level bureaucrat (as well
as her children!) are lumped
unfolded overseas. A Muslim themselves after they poured
community leader in London gasoline in preparation for together with a high government
official. Rand enjoys killing
n a m e d N o o r R a m j a n a l l y another staged incident and one
reported that he had been of them foolishly lit a cigarette. them all.
#page#
kidnapped by members of the The pair had hired a former
quasi-fascist British National employee to carry out the Yes, Ayn Rand had the
temperament of a totalitarian.
Party; he also said that he had previous attacks as part of an
received death threats and his insurance fraud scheme. But to make this criticism fairly,
one must concede that insofar as
home had been firebombed. His Now let us turn to the motives
claim received widespread of groups such as CAIR for that temperament became
dominant -- as it did in her
attention, causing him to boast, exaggerating the prevalence of
“I have got the whole UK hate crimes against Muslims.
Muslim community behind me AYN page 89
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teachers agreed to give up cost-
of-living raises last year, about
two-thirds of them continued to
receive step increases of up to 4
percent.
As a result of their different
collective-bargaining policies,
the two demographically similar
jurisdictions have “parted
ways.” Montgomery County is
“lurching under the weight of
irresponsible governance,
unsustainable commitments and
political spinelessness,” while
Fairfax, “though facing tough
choices[,]#...#has a brighter
future.”
But beyond institutions,
political -- and even cultural --
norms play a role in the special
status of police and fire
compensation. For one thing,
cops and firemen are swing
voters.
“Their unions are more
powerful in the sense that they
are more politically heterodox,”
says Barro. “Teachers’ unions
are nearly unanimous in their
political support for Democratic
officeholders. Fire and police
unions split their loyalties more,
and are therefore in a better
position to extract support from
politicians.”
“Republicans don’t view it as a
waste of time to try to make
police unions happy,” he adds.
#page#And if public-safety
workers are split in their
political allegiances, the elected
class is unified in its deference
to men and women in uniform,
especially after a decade whose
defining acts of heroism were
performed by cops and firemen
from New York and New
Jersey. Politicians are loath to
be seen as trying to nickel-and-
dime our heroes.
Legislators have been able to
see the sense through the
sentimentality before, most
notably in the case of education
policy, where the elite
consensus -- from editorial
boards to the Obama
administration -- is moving
away from teacher hero-worship
and the fetishization of things
like class size (a preoccupation
that happened to pad the coffers
of the unions) and toward
teacher accountability. But
fiscal crisis notwithstanding,
this has yet to happen in public
safety.
#ad#Instead, public-safety
unions have been able to buffalo
the public into thinking that
keeping the peace requires
breaking the bank. What the
public sees is scary billboards
and lists of unenforceable
statutes, and not, for instance,
the fact that the Oakland Police
Department backed out of a job-
saving deal that would have
required officers to make a mere
9 percent pension contribution,
because the city could guarantee
only one year, and not three,
without further layoffs.
That police unions say they
want to avoid layoffs yet act so
as to make them necessary
should leave little doubt that
their priority is to preserve the
privileges of their vested senior
members at the expense of both
the rookies who are usually first
out the door and the
communities they serve.
In solving the immediate crisis
posed by the unions’
intransigence, state and local
governments facing structural
deficits must be allowed to
lower labor costs without
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endangering public safety -- by
reducing compensation across
the board instead of laying off
staff. In most jurisdictions,
governments can’t renegotiate
the terms of existing union
contracts, even in fiscal
emergencies. This must change.
Better yet, states should follow
the lead of Virginia and ban
collective bargaining by public
employees.
We must take care that public-
safety workers are not allowed
to hide behind the badge. That
they are our heroes does not
excuse them from taking part in
the difficult choices that must be
made to restore solvency to state
and local governments. If the
unions won’t let them, and the
elected class won’t make them,
then the citizenry must shame
them. Somebody must watch the
watchmen.
— Daniel Foster is news editor
of NRO. This article first
appeared in the Aug. 30, 2010,
issue of National Review.
Daniel Foster
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Hate Speech from the Ground Zero Mosque Imam

Jamie Glazov (FrontPage may remember that the US-led
Magazine » FrontPage) sanctions against Iraq led to the
Submitted at 8/23/2010 11:50:10 PM death of over half a million Iraqi
children. This has been
Frontpage Interview’s guest documented by the United
today is Pamela Geller, founder, Nations. And when Madeleine
editor and publisher of the Albright, who has become a
popular and award-winning friend of mine over the last
weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She
has won acclaim for her
couple of years, when she was Bursting
Secretary of State and was asked
interviews with internationally whether this was worth it, said it Obama’s
renowned figures, including was worth it.
John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat We all know what a profoundly Housing Bubble
Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and misleading statement this is. It is B.J. Bethel (FrontPage
many others, and has broken curious that Rauf makes no Magazine » FrontPage)
numerous important stories — mention of the 270 million
Submitted at 8/23/2010 11:12:14 PM
notably the questionable sources victims of over a millennium of
of some of the financing of the jihadi wars, land appropriations, The collapse of the Obama
Obama campaign. Her op-eds cultural annihilation and administration’s mortgage relief
have been published in The the “moderate” Ground Zero that belie his moderate image enslavement. Nor does he say program comes at a time when
W a s h i n g t o n T i m e s , T h e mosque Imam Feisal Abdul and raise serious questions anything about the recent establishment Democrats are
A m e r i c a n T h i n k e r , I s r a e l Rauf. A new audio has surfaced. about what the mega-mosque s l a u g h t e r b y M u s l i m s o f refusing to acknowledge the
National News, Frontpage Tell us about it and when was it will really be standing for once Christians, Hindus, Jews, and failure of government to spur
Magazine, World Net Daily, and recorded. it is up and running in lower non-believers in Indonesia, economic growth. What’s
New Media Journal, among Geller: Thanks Jamie, the Manhattan. Thailand, Ethiopia, Somalia, worse, the administration’s
other publications. She is the co- audiotape, segments of which Like Osama bin Laden and Philippines, Lebanon, Israel, Keynesian acolytes are
author (with Robert Spencer) of a r e available a t other jihadis, Rauf blames Russia, China. Rauf’s words beginning to call for more new
t h e n e w b o o k , T h e P o s t - AtlasShrugs.com, was recorded America and sees America as m a n i f e s t n o c a n d o r , n o spending, even in light of the
American Presidency: The on July 12, 2005. It’s a speech more evil than the terrorists. w i l l i n g n e s s t o a d m i t t h a t program’s collapse.
Obama Administration’s War on Rauf gave at The Bob Hawke Here is what he says about how M u s l i m s h a v e e v e r d o n e The mortgage program was
A m e r i c a ( f o r w a r d b y Prime Ministerial Centre in the U.S. is worse than Al- anything wrong. He shows none initiated in February 2009, less
Ambassador John Bolton). Australia. The speech reveals Qaeda: of the mutual respect and than a month after Obama took
FP: Pamela Geller, welcome to that he is not even close to being We tend to forget, in the West, readiness to take responsibility office. It offered $75 billion to
Frontpage Interview. the “moderate” that the media that the United States has more that we might expect from homeowners who saw their
I would like to talk you today always portrays him as being. Muslim blood on its hands than someone with such a reputation home values fall far short of the
about the discovery of more This speech Rauf delivered al-Qaeda has on its hands of as a “moderate.” money they owed to banks for
e x t r e m e a n d t r o u b l i n g contains numerous statements innocent non-Muslims. You loans. Another $200 billion was
statements that have come from guaranteed to corrupt
government entities such as
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,

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2. International business
courses must address the impact
of terrorism and all hazards
preparation and response in their
design;
3. Logistics and supply chain
courses must have modules on
supply chain security and
compliance with U.S. and
international security
requirements;
4. Human resource courses
must integrate security
management issues into their
curriculum to include workplace
violence, domestic and
international terrorism, and
emergency management;
5. There should be mandatory
courses in business continuity,
crisis management, and the
basic principles of homeland
security to include ICS/NIMS.
Business schools that do not
have qualified faculty members
to address these special topic
courses should allow business
students the opportunity to take
these courses within other
departments(criminal justice,
security studies, and homeland
security programs) located
either within the university or at
nearby educational institutions;
and
6. In order to better protect
business entities from cyber
attacks, students should be
required to complete a basic
course in IT security/
information assurance.
The benefits of requiring
America’s business schools to
take a leadership role in
integrating critical infrastructure
preparedness courses into
existing business curriculums
should be obvious. This return
on investment will allow the
private sector to develop a new
group of leaders who are better
prepared to make well-informed
decisions on the allocation of
corporate resources and monies
needed to better protect the
private infrastructures of the
United States. Leading
practitioners from the field of
applied behavioral science and
organizational development
have estimated that it takes
approximately 5 years to change
the culture of an organization. If
we could convince the deans of
America’s business schools to
take the actions necessary to re-
imagine business management
curriculums with the previously
prescribed homeland security
oriented courses we would be
well on our way to developing a
culture of critical infrastructure
preparedness and protection by
the year 2020.
Ed Piper is an Adjunct
Professor Johns Hopkins
University/Carey School of
Business.
The views expressed by guest
bloggers on the Foundry do not
necessarily reflect the views of
the Heritage Foundation.
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which fostered much of the
housing and bank crises in the
purported interest of social
justice. These government
institutions offered loans for
little to no down payment with
promises of continuing and
unending equity. When the
housing bubble burst, so did this
promise to homeowners; they
were forced into foreclosure or
into the arms of a government
bailout.
But for many, a bailout hasn’t
come. It was reported this week
that nearly half of those who
were part of the mortgage
program have been forced to
drop out due to an inability to
provide proper documentation,
including proof of employment.
Such documentation is lacking
because many homeowners,
thanks to 10-percent national
unemployment, have no jobs.
The program has continued to
complicate a housing mess that
has roots as far back as the
Carter and Clinton
administrations.
This news should alarm the
administration and encourage it
to take an immediate pro-growth
stance toward the economy, but
most indications are that it
won’t. Some Democrat
politicians are calling to make
the Bush tax cuts permanent or
to institute other pro-growth
solutions, such as temporarily
suspending payroll taxes.
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However, this sensible approach
runs contrary to the background
of administrations officials, who
are short on real-world private
sector experience, and long on
the teachings of economists like
Paul Krugman.
To understand the economic
priorities of the administration is
to understand Krugman. The
mortgage program is rife with
the tendencies of his type of
economics. The New York
Times columnist and Nobel
prize-winning economist has led
the call for more spending, and
even a second stimulus,
claiming the first one wasn’t
effective enough — despite the
failure of the initial program.
He’s attacked more libertarian
suggestions, such as Rep. Paul
Ryan’s economic roadmap, with
farcical claims of budgetary
malfeasance and improper
scoring.
Ryan has refuted all of these
claims, but this surely won’t
curtail Krugman’s weekly
screeds in the New York Times,
which are often low on facts and
ideas, and replete with ad
hominem. His approach to
economics and opinion writing
is best illustrated in his book
“Conscience of a Liberal.”
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private conduct befitting a cult
leader -- it would not have been
in harmony with her philosophy.
***
A final, brief word about Atlas
Shrugged in the contemporary
political scene. There are indeed
parallels. For example, Henry
Rearden, who owns steel mills
and has invented a new alloy, is
required by the government to
sell his eponymous metal to all
comers. This is not exactly the
same as, but not altogether
different from, our
government’s command that
health insurers provide coverage
to all. Or consider this bit of
dialogue:
“They’re not laws, they’re
directives.”
“Then it’s illegal.”
“It’s not illegal, because the
Legislature passed a law last
month giving him the power to
issue directives.”
#ad#The characters could easily
be talking about our treasury
secretary’s vast to-be-specified
powers under the new financial-
regulation bill -- or any other
“progressive” law empowering a
regulatory class to legislate.
In some of its satire as well --
and Rand can be quite funny as
a satirist -- Atlas Shrugged
seems timely. “An atmosphere
suggesting the kind of meeting
where a presiding body puts
something over on a mentally
retarded membership” could
serve as a characterization of
Nancy Pelosi’s procedural
gymnastics; its hyperbole would
emphasize an important truth.
But the parallels should not be
overstated. There are two huge
differences between our world
and the world of Atlas
Shrugged. The first is one of
degree: Rand’s looters are trying
to Sovietize the United States,
whereas Obama & Co. would be
content to remake us as a
European-style social
democracy. There are good
reasons to object to both, but it
would be a tremendous mistake
to ignore the differences
between them, and promoters of
Atlas Shrugged should be
consciously on guard against
implying that Obama favors the
former.
The second difference is one of
motive. There is no room at all
in Atlas Shrugged for the idea
that its policymakers are acting
on good-hearted but misguided
principles. They are parasites,
plain and simple, aware of their
evil even if they take pains to
hide it from themselves (this in
fact confirms their awareness),
which is why Rand is happy to
hurl them all -- if I may quote
Chambers a final time -- into
“one undifferentiated
damnation.”
Quite apart from its colossal
artistic defects, then, Atlas
Shrugged’s power as an anthem
against President Obama’s
agenda seems to me to be highly
limited, and I think those of us
who oppose that agenda would
be unwise to push it as our
manifesto.
— Jason Lee Steorts is
managing editor of National
Review. Jason Lee Steorts
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three months behind, and they
can never recover from the
penalties and late fees, so they
end up in worse shape than if
the program had never existed
from the outset.”
The aide, who works on
constituent issues, says, “I’ve
had at least one case where the
person gets a letter saying that
they qualify for HAMP, and
from their point of view, it
would really help them out if
they were able to qualify for a
lower payment, but if they had
to make the payment they were
making, they could have done it
by cutting back on other parts of
their life.
“Then at the end of the process,
they’re denied the modification,
and they’re three months behind
on their mortgage,” he says.
Why have so many been denied
modifications? According to
ProPublica’s Ryan Knutson, it’s
because“the Treasury
Department . . . encouraged
banks to start trials quickly,
89
causing banks to make trial
offers to people without fully
vetting their eligibility, and
ultimately letting in many
homeowners who were destined
to fail.”
But from the banks’ point of
view, even if many of these
borrowers end up in foreclosure,
at least the program juiced a few
trial payments out of those who
had stopped making payments
altogether. And it eased the
crush of foreclosures for awhile,
giving Fannie, Freddie, and
other financial institutions room
to breathe. It was designed, as
Treasury officials are now
candidly admitting, to help
banks, not homeowners.
Supporters of the program are
shocked by this turn of events.
They wouldn’t be, if they had
listened to us.
-- Stephen Spruiell is a National
Review Online staff reporter.
Stephen Spruiell
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invent something that does not must snuff them out, lest their
at Bushehr currently exist.
#ad#Real reform can also be
reforms “spread like wildfire in
a field of thorns.”
James Phillips (The Foundry: found in some Muslim sects. Today, “moderate Islam” is an
Conservative Policy News.) The Ahmadi, for example, hold illusion. There is hardly a spark,
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:00:30 AM
some unorthodox views and much less a wildfire. Making
reject violent jihad. Witness moderation real will take more
Posted August 24th, 2010 at what happens: They are brutally than wishing upon a star. It calls
11:00am in American persecuted by Muslims in for a gut check, a willingness to
Leadership Print This Post Pakistan, as well as in Indonesia face down not just al-Qaeda but
Iran on Saturday began fueling and other purported hubs of the Qaradawis and their sharia
its Bushehr nuclear power plant, moderation. campaign. It means saying: Not
a process that is likely to take Meanwhile, individual Muslim here.
many days. The reactor’s reformers are branded apostates, — Andrew C. McCarthy, a
operations must then be tested meaning not only that they are senior fellow at the National
before it starts producing discredited, but that their lives Review Institute, is the author,
electricity, which is expected in are threatened as well. The most recently, of The Grand
about two months. Russia’s signal to other Muslims is clear: Jihad: How Islam and the Left
Rosatom state nuclear power Follow the reformers and Sabotage America. Andrew C.
company, which built the Israeli preventive attack to serve as a defense umbrella for experience the same fury. As McCarthy
reactor, has assigned Russian d e s t r o y I r a n ’ s n u c l e a r all freedom-loving nations in the Qaradawi put it in the 2005
technicians to jointly operate the infrastructure. Iran’s Defense face of world aggressors. We interview, public apostates are
reactor for several years, as M i n i s t e r , A h m a d V a h i d i , don’t want to attack anywhere, “the gravest danger” to Islamic
Iranian technicians gradually warned Israel against such an Iran will never decide to attack society; therefore, Muslims
gain full control over the attack: “We may lose a power anywhere, but our revolution
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businesses, a Foursquare
strategy makes a lot of sense.
But what about brand promotion
in general, say in the
entertainment or publishing
worlds? With Foursquare, it’s
not about linking users back to
your site or products, but
creating a new location-based
product that has value for fans
and followers. Here’s how five
big brands are attempting to
connect location to their online
social presences. 1.
Recommendations with
Personality: Bravo
In the television industry,
Bravo was one of the first
networks to get on board with
Foursquare, and 50,000 of its
fans have followed so far. The
network’s programming is a mix
of food, fashion, and reality
drama, and the TV personalities
and hosts that viewers love are
the ones making
recommendations on
Foursquare.
Restaurant, shopping, and hotel
suggestions reinforce Bravo’s
image as a network of culture
experts, and the personalities
who leave tips through the brand
add that bit of personal flavor or
sass that draws viewers to the
shows in the first place. Fans
don’t follow for Bravo per se;
they’re following to see where
Top Chefs and Millionaire
Matchmakers spend their time
in New York and LA. 2.
Restaurant Reviews: Zagat
If there was ever a brand made
for Foursquare, Zagat is it. The
30+ year-old publication is the
go-to guide for restaurant and
hotel reviews, and their embrace
of numerous social media
channels is noteworthy.
Zagat uses Foursquare the way
many individual users do — by
leaving food-related tips about
locations. And Zagat is not city-
specific. You’ll find foodie tips
from Los Angeles, to New
York, to Cambridge, MA.
Zagat’s Foursquare account is
an obvious way to reinforce
everything the brand is known
for, and perhaps tap into a new
demographic of diners who may
be reluctant to carry around a
paperback guide in addition to
their smartphones. 3. Celebrity
Sway: MTV
While we may not yet live in a
world where celebrities want
fans to know their locations in
real-time, filtering their favorite
places through an over-arching
brand is a good start.
Fans can keep tabs on the
favorite haunts of stars from
Jersey Shore and The Hills,
driving the social connection to
these personalities beyond the
TV and into The Real
World(pun intended).
Not only can users see where
the stars have been, but what
they did, enjoyed, and
recommend. And there’s
always the possibility that
visiting a bar frequented by a
celeb increases your chances of
meeting him or her. That aspect
is certainly part of MTV’s
Foursquare appeal. 4. Urban
Exploration: New York
Magazine
New York Magazine uses
Foursquare to drive home its
coverage of city-specific
culture. This account is about
much more than just food. It
targets the social New Yorker
with tips on retail stores, bars,
and public spaces.
The tips not only offer details
on pricing and goings-on, but
provide links back to the
magazine’s website for deeper
coverage. In this regard, New
York Magazines’ approach to
Foursquare is akin to the Twitter
strategy of many publishers,
with the added value of location.
5. Edutainment: The History
Channel
Staff at The History Channel
know what their viewers are into
— it’s fairly obvious, given the
namesake. So while Foursquare
doesn’t offer much in terms of
driving traffic to a program or
website, locations are fostering
an interesting kind of brand
engagement here.
The account leaves tips at
various sites, including
interesting historical
background on the locations. It’s
trivia, but with a real-world and
educational context. For
instance, did you know that the
Wabasha Street Caves in St.
Paul, MN are man-made
sandstone mines that date back
to the 1840s, and were opened
as a restaurant and night club in
the 1920s?
This is a clever use of indirect
marketing. The History Channel
doesn’t have to promote its
shows or link back to content to
remind fans why they enjoy the
programming. More than
47,000 followers are already
enjoying the historical tips left
by the account, since its launch
in April. Conclusion
The trouble with emerging
networks like Foursquare is that
users and big brands alike are
having difficulty sticking with
it. In all of the examples above,
you can see that brand
representatives jumped into the
checkin game with vigor early
on, but eventually updated the
accounts less and less — some
have not added tips for months.
For now, location services are
still an ancillary part of many
social media strategies, but they
won’t be forever. Many predict
that when cultural acceptance,
mainstream social integration,
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Annie Lennox & Judy McGrath to Speak at
Mashable & 92Y Social Good Summit
Adam Hirsch (Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:38:53 AM
Musician Annie Lennox and
MTV CEO Judy McGrath have
joined the lineup to speak at the
Mashable & 92Y Social Good
Summit on September 20 in
NYC.
Lennox and McGrath join CNN
founder Ted Turner, (RED)
CEO Susan Smith Ellis, and a
host of thought leaders for a
groundbreaking conference at
the intersection of digital media
and philanthropy.
The Social Good Summit, one
of the few public events being
held during UN Week, is all
about solutions. Every speaker
will explain how digital media
and innovative ideas can
combine to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs), the UN’s framework
for creating a safer and healthier
world for us all. With a 900-
strong live audience, global
livestream and national media
partners, we’ll share these
solutions with the goal of
encouraging even more.
We’re also pleased to announce
that a livestreaming partnership
with Livestream.com will
ensure that the talks are
available in real-time to a global
audience. Tickets on Sale Now
Date: Monday, September 20,
2010
Time: 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. ET
Location: 92nd Street Y, New
York City
Tickets: On sale for $85
through 92Y. 92Y is a nonprofit
partner and will receive 100% of
the ticket sales.
Sponsorships are available;
p l e a s e e - m a i l
sponsorships@mashable.com.
Goals of the Summit include:
• Raise awareness for the
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs)
• Discover and encourage
solutions for the MDGs
• Create opportunities for
public engagement
• Showcase solutions and
innovative approaches
Confirmed agenda includes:
• Ted Turner, Chairman of
Turner Enterprises, Inc.
• Susan Smith Ellis, CEO of
(RED)
• Annie Lennox, UNAIDS
Goodwill Ambassador
• Judy McGrath, CEO, MTV
Networks
• Ray Chambers, UN Special
Envoy for Malaria
• Chris Hughes, Founder, Jumo
• Howard Warren Buffett,
Policy Adviser in the Executive
Office of the President of the
United States
• Jessica Jackley, Founder/CEO
of ProFounder and Founder/
Former CMO Kiva
• Adam Conner, Associate
Manager, Public Policy of
Facebook
• Oren Jacob, Executive
Producer, “Ready, Set, Bag!” –
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Pandora Adds “Genre” Option to
Station Creation
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/24/2010 10:12:34 AM
Update: A few commenters
mentioned that they have had
access to genres for a while.
This is partly true. According to
a Pandora representative: “A
limited number of Genres were
an option as a pre-existing
station, but they were never a
personalized seed, like an artist,
song or composer could be.
Now Pandora is allowing genres
to be a seed for a personalized
user station for the very first
time. The difference is the
ability to customize/personalize,
as well as more current content
and chart toppers within these
genres. This change was really
driven by user feedback.”
Ever surf on over to Pandora to
create a new station and find
yourself stumped as to what
artist or song to create a playlist
around? Well, now the Internet
radio service has added a new
option for less decisive users:
Genre.
Until today, Pandora has been
all about music discovery —
creating meticulously curated
stations around certain
musicians, songs and
composers. Well, according to
Senior Music Curator Michael
Zapruder, “Our listeners have
been telling us for a while that
they’d like an easy way to start a
station from popular genres with
the option to personalize the
station from there. We wanted
to find a uniquely Pandora way
to address this consumer need so
we created a number of genre
stations that are carefully seeded
with relevant songs and
constantly refreshed with new
releases.”
Now users have the option of
listening to everything from
genre stations like “Today’s
Hits” and “Today’s Country”
(which are some of the most
popular stations already) to
micro-stations like “Christmas
Blues” and “Today’s College
Indie.” There are more than 100
micro-stations in all. (We’ll see
how curated these genres
become over time — I was a bit
distressed that the first song that
came up for “Today’s
Alternative” was The
Offspring’s “Come Out and
Play.” I was not aware that
“today” was 1994…).
With this move, Pandora joins
the ranks of the majority of
music discovery services and
Internet radio sites, which
already offer the “Genre” option
— including Last.fm, YouTube
Music and Songza.
What do you think of Pandora’s
decision to add genre to the
mix? Does it make it easier to
find new music? Or does it cut
down on the degree of
specialization that the service
has come to be associated with?
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