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A new wind blowing through Senate on climate change?

Richard Cowan (Front Row Representative Michael Castle, the climate path of the Earth.”
Washington) who is in a surprisingly tough race Ditto Sharron Angle in Nevada,
Submitted at 9/14/2010 5:01:51 PM for the Republican nomination for who is giving Senate Majority
Delaware’s open Senate seat. Leader Harry Reid a tough race
For anyone mulling the chances Backers of legislation to mandate for re-election, was quoted
the U.S. Congress will pass a reductions in greenhouse gas saying: ”I don’t, however, buy
climate change bill next year, it pollution from smokestacks, such into the whole…man-caused
might be worth having a look at as carbon dioxide, thought they global warming, man-caused
Republican candidates who could had an excellent chance this year climate change mantra of the
end up serving in the Senate of passing a global warming bill left.”
starting in 2011. in the Senate, where Democrats These sort of statements from
That’s exactly what the liberal hold a large majority. But a bad potential senators might be one
Center for American Progress U . S . e c o n o m y a n d h y p e r - reason why Eileen Claussen,
Action Fund has done and if partisanship appear to have killed president of the Pew Center on
you’re an environmentalist, it’s prospects for the year. Global Climate Change, thinks it
not a pretty landscape. Republican victories on Nov. 2 could be some time before the
“Nearly all (Senate Republican could result in a much more United States Congress passes
candidates) dispute the scientific conservative Senate next year, comprehensive climate change
consensus that the United States with more senators questioning legislation. “I think most of the
must act to fight global warming whether human-induced global people who work on energy and
pollution,” the group writes in a warming is occuring. climate issues would say that the
posting. Here’s the center’s look at some warming.” saying, “I don’t think there’s the chances of passing a major
T h e c e n t e r h a s r e v i e w e d recent climate change quotes from Carly Fiorina, running against scientific evidence to justify it climate bill in the next couple
s t a t e m e n t s b y R e p u b l i c a n Republican candidates: liberal incumbent Barbara Boxer (man-made global warming). years are very, very small,”
candidates vying for the 37 Senate Joe Miller, who pulled off an in California: “I’m not sure,” Representative Roy Blunt, Claussen told a Washington
seats up for grabs this year and upset victory against Senator Lisa Fiorina was quoted saying when running for a Missouri Senate audience on Tuesday.
concludes that “remarkably,” only Murkowski in the Republican asked if climate change is “real.” seat, was quoted last year telling Photo Credit: Reuters/Marc
one of them “supports climate primary: “We haven’t heard In Florida, Marco Rubio was Human Events, “There isn’t any Serota (Tropical storm winds in
action.” That one is U.S. there’s man-made global quoted in the Tampa Bay Tribune real science to say we are altering Miami)

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O’Donnell slams Republican “cannibalism”
Deborah Charles (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:13:07 AM
Fresh off an upset victory in
Delaware, Tea Party candidate
Christine O’Donnell slammed the
Republican establishment for
“cannibalism” during the primary
election but predicted she could
win in the general election even
without their support.
O’Donnell, an upstart who
knocked off nine-term
Representative Michael Castle in
Tuesday’s Republican Senate
primary election, made the rounds
of the morning TV shows to tout
her victory against the mainstream
candidate.
She thanked former vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin
for her support, saying it helped
woo voters to her side.
Asked on Good Morning
America about the Republican
party’s decision not to give her
funds, O’Donnell said: “Well
that’s a shame. They never
thought that I could win this race
and I believe we can win without
them. I didn’t count on the
establishment to win the primary;
I’m not counting on them to win
the general. I’m counting on the
voters of Delaware.”
National and state Republicans,
worried that O’Donnell did not
have a chance to win the
November race for the Senate seat
long held by Vice President Joe
Biden, a Democrat, had pushed
hard in recent weeks to help
Castle.
Noting that many Republican
experts had predicted her to fall
easily to Castle, O’Donnell said
they likely had their pride hurt
this morning.
“I was ahead in the general
election according to Rasmussen
before this Republican
cannibalism started,” she said.
“So if they were serious about
winning, we could repair the
damage done and move forward
and that’s the challenge that I put
out to them. I truly believe we can
win.”
What do you think? Can the
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Republicans ignore claims of
cannibalism and decide to support
O’Donnell? Or has she just given
the Democrats their best chance to
retain the Senate seat?
For more Reuters political news,
click here.
Photo credit: Reuters/Tim Shaffer
(O’Donnell speaks at her victory
rally Tuesday night in Dover)
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Internet Explorer 9 Brings Apps to Microsoft Windows 7
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:33:55 AM
What are apps, other than tiny
colorful icons that provide rich,
interactive experiences on mobile
devices? Think about your
iPhone’s New York Times or
Facebook app. They don’t feel
like an installed program--they’re
much less clunky--nor a website,
which is anything but native.
Apps are some lighter in-between.
Now Microsoft is trying to bring
that same concept to Windows 7.
Today, the company launched
Internet Explorer 9, its latest
browser iteration, which fully
embraces HTML5. Boiled down,
HTML5 is the next version of
HTML, the backbone of Internet--
that is, the predominant computer
language developers use to build
Web pages. It boasts incredibly
strong media playback and
modern Web standards. Many--
including Apple--believe it could
one day replace Adobe Flash. But
for Microsoft, it has become a
vehicle for migrating apps to the
PC.
When IE9 officially launches
later today, it will do so along
with a slew of partners. Thanks to
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he can beat a level in one shot for you. (Who can't...
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flat, lowest-common denominator
experiences,” explains Gavin.
“With HTML5, you can make as
rich an experience as an app.”
Think of how companies can take
advantage of this new experience,
especially with pinning on
Windows 7. Hulu and eBay may
become items on your taskbar,
next to IE9 itself. For Microsoft,
this was the primary focus of IE9.
“The browser is the theater--not
the play, so how do we let the
browser get out of the way?” says
Gavin. “It’s no longer a matter of
opening Internet Explorer to get
here or there. Now, you can just
pin the app to your taskbar.”
For Windows 7 users, IE9
enables a new kind of desktop
client. It’s not about downloading
the power of HTML5, many of only now possible in HTML5 something on their iPad. "But it’s and installing a clunky program,
these partners from Amazon to with IE9. And Amazon has not. It’s a website,” Gavin says. or launching a prehistoric HTML
CNN are taking advantage of created a page that feels like a According to Gavin, Microsoft’s website. Microsoft wants its users
IE9’s optimized platform to create virtual bookstore, with access to aim was to create a site-centric, to have pin-and-click access, a
immersive app-like experiences. daily deals and other features not browser-centric, Internet concept that could heavily benefit
Rather than opening IE9 and through Windows 7’s jump-lists. Explorer that has revved-up businesses once HTML5 becomes
punching in an address, users may “For Amazon, we wanted to re- HTML5 support. Frame rates are ubiquitous.
soon be pinning these “apps” to imagine what shopping is online,” explosive--early comparison tests “The website has been promoted
t h e i r t a s k b a r . R e d b u l l , f o r says Ryan Gavin, senior director have showed big gains on Chrome to a first-class citizen,” Gavin
instance, will offer an interactive of IE9’s business and marketing. and Firefox--and high-def video is says.
social media page complete with He says that the response from handled beautifully, thanks to big
music and video. IMDB’s app those who've seen the Amazon tweaks to hardware acceleration.
will show off high-def trailers, demo say it feels like an app or “Websites used to have to be very
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How the New Twitter.com Gives Your Favorite App a Run for Its
Money
Gina Trapani (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:22:17 AM
Forget your favorite Twitter app:
the newly redesigned
Twitter.com's two panel layout
adds rich media, keyboard
shortcuts, infinite scrolling, and
conversations to what used to be a
plain old website. The redesign's
rollout began tonight. Here's a
preview of the new features it
gives you, in your browser--no
app required.
When you're logged in, the new
Twitter timeline offers a two
panel view.
Click on a tweet to expand a
panel to the right with its details,
including who was mentioned in
it, who retweeted it, and other
tweets from that user.
If a tweet contains a link to an
image or video from a supported
site like Flickr or YouTube, that
rich media will appear in the
tweet, no link-clicking required:
Lest you fear an unexpected
photo of a meat dress--or worse--
you can control whether or not
you see rich media from only your
friends, or from everyone. Head
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to the settings area to check the
"Show photos and videos from
everyone" box. By default, it is
unchecked.
As you use it, you'll discover
Twitter supports bits of media you
didn't expect--like full Flickr
photo sets.
In addition to embedding photos
and video, the new Twitter
surfaces lots of tweet metadata:
like a location map, list of people
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parse this page for content.
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mentioned in the tweet, replies to
the tweet, and the people who
retweeted in a tweet panel. It's
almost too much.
Click on any location to see a
map and tweets from there:
When you run across a tweet in
reply to someone else, the new
Twitter now displays the
exchange between those two
users, much like TweetDeck. But
unlike TweetDeck, the new
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Twitter only shows two tweets in
a conversation, so you won't see
the rest of the thread if a reply has
a reply.
Individual tweet pages also show
all the meta info and embedded
media:
Like Gmail (and before it, old-
school Unix text editor vi), the
new Twitter offers keyboard
shortcuts like j and k for next and
previous tweet, slash to search,
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and r to reply to a tweet. Tap the
question mark key to see a panel
of available keyboard shortcuts.
Tap the spacebar to scroll down
your timeline of tweets infinitely.
When you've selected a tweet you
want to know more about, tap
Enter to expand its right panel,
and shift+Enter collapse it.
Most Twitter users have been
using the web site to tweet
anyway. But the new Twitter.com
gives the rest of us a reason to
reconsider launching our favorite
desktop application. There are a
few things the new Twitter.com
doesn't do for power tweeters as
well as an app like TweetDeck or
Seesmic: such as manage multiple
accounts or schedule tweets for
future posting. Otherwise, the new
Twitter has some of the best app
functionality built into it, no
download required.
Related: Twitter Gets a
Makeover
Gina Trapani is glad the Web
isn't really dead. You can find her
tweeting via the Twitter Web site
as well as an assortment of apps
at@ginatrapani.
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Looxcie: Bluetooth Headset Camcorder is TiVo for Life

Austin Carr (Fast Company) Though many smartphones have
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:33:17 AM video recording, they're often
sitting in your pocket. It is
Ever see something you wish you Looxcie's TiVo-esque playback
had on film? Say, a miraculous feature that won't let you miss a
home-run in the ninth, or your moment (think: Sully landing the
baby's first steps? A new wearable plane on Hudson—or, yes, the
camcorder called Looxcie (look- undeniable naughty home movie
see) aims to capture all these applications).
shooting-star moments. Of course, there's always the
Looxcie($199) is a Bluetooth issue of style. Capturing video of
headset that features video your baby's first steps with
recording--but no record button. Looxcie means you're probably
Rather, the device is designed to wearing a Bluetooth headset
constantly capture video, which during your baby's first steps. It
can either be viewed live on one's means you're probably the kind of
smartphone, or saved to memory automatically saved to your late. With Looxcie, you capture shared via email, Facebook, person who wears a Bluetooth
if a YouTube-worthy event Android, and soon BlackBerry the moment as it happens." YouTube, or Twitter. It's the headset around-the-clock. But if
occurs. Like any Bluetooth and iPhone. What you see is what To store and record constantly, camcorder for the social media you're comfortable or shameless
headset, Looxcie fits snugly you record. Looxcie comes with 4GB of flash age--a device that captures tweet- enough to wear one in public,
around one's ear (it's a bit heavy), "How can I capture things and be memory and has a 4-hour battery size video which can immediately why not add a camcorder? Who
and can make and receive calls. fully present in the moment?" life when continuously recording be uploaded online. And in case knows what you might see.
But since the device is constantly says Bob Kron, Looxcie's VP of video. (Battery life is much longer the last 30 seconds wasn't enough, Check out the video quality
on and recording to a temporary marketing. "Everybody gets the when the camcorder is turned off.) users can always grab up to the below:
storage buffer, one must only hit splash, but nobody gets the whale- What's more, using the Looxcie last hour of footage through using [youtube ZlwU7HKcoYs]
the "Instant Clip" button, and the -you're always just a little bit too app, video clips can be instantly the Looxcie app.
last 30-seconds of footage is
5 iPhone-challenging
Who's Next? Speculating on Tech Takeovers smartphones
Steven Halpern safe bet is we're going so see Oracle might do next.
(BloggingStocks) nospam@example.com (Dory
Oracle ( ORCL) make some Continue reading Who's Next? Devlin, Shine staff)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:30:00 AM major moves (yes, probably more Speculating on Tech Takeovers (Financiallyfit on Shine)
than one major acquisition)," Who's Next? Speculating on
Submitted at 9/15/2010 12:44:24 AM
F i l e d u n d e r : I n t e r n a t i o n a l suggests tech sector expert Paul Tech Takeovers originally Not everyone has iPhone envy,
B u s i n e s s M a c h i n e s ( I B M ) , McWilliams. appeared on BloggingStocks on and it's a good thing because there
Research in Motion (RIMM), The editor of Next Inning Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:30:00 EST. are several smartphones that
Oracle Corp (ORCL), EMC Corp explains, "After all, even without Please see our terms for use of compete very nicely with the
( E M C ) , s a l e s f o r c e . c o m i n c Hurd at his side, Oracle founder, could become ravenous. feeds. Permalink| Email this| iPhone and all of its wonderful
(CRM) L a r r y E l l i s o n h a s b e e n a n "I think its probably a good idea Comments features and apps.
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and Hurd now paired, I think the Hurd on board I think the appetite
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Here Comes SuperCacao: Mars, Inc. Sequences the Cacao

Genome
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) cacao strains a la Big Corn. Incorporated. each year of chocolate, compared And there are benefits for
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:19:41 AM "In the past 10 years, we've Why would Mars Inc. invest $10 to 400,000 tons before the blight. consumers, too. In the future,
trained entire cacao breeder million in sequencing the cacao But that won't happen again. Shapiro imagines that scientists
Chocolate lovers, rejoice. A networks in West Africa and genome? In 1989, a nasty disease "Before putting a plant in the will breed cacao trees with higher
research team led by scientists at Southeast Asia to use genomic infected almost all of the cacao- ground, farmers will know if they levels of healthy flavenols. Cocoa
Mars Inc., the U.S. Department tools. We're ready to take these growing regions of Brazil, the carry traits that produces good butter, too, could get a healthy
of Agriculture--Agricultural modern tools and move forward world's second largest cacao quality, resistance, and yield," makeover.
Research Service (USDA-ARS), v e r y q u i c k l y t o d e l i v e r a producer. It was a terrifying explains Juan Carlos Motanayor, This has a positive domino effect
and IBM this week sequenced the sustainable future for [the world's] moment for companies that rely the leader of cacao scientific for Mars. Inc--and all chocolate-
genome of the cacao tree. Best of 6.5 million cocoa farmers," says on consistent chocolate research at Mars. By ensuring reliant companies. "It will help us
all, the whole genome sequence is Howard Shapiro, the global staff production, especially since Brazil diversity of strong cacao crops, to better prepare against disease
being released in the public officer for plant science and never fully recovered—it farmers can increase their yield
domain, so companies can't patent e x t e r n a l r e s e a r c h a t M a r s , produces less than 100,000 tons and protect against disease. HERE page 8
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Was Buying Microsoft Fed's New York Factory

the Right Move?
Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT),
Technology
I'm underwater on my Microsoft (
MSFT) position. I made some
initial purchases earlier in the year
at higher prices. Yesterday, I
decided to buy more to improve
my cost basis. It still isn't that
great; my average cost per share is
over $29. But I may buy more,
and I may sell some covered calls
against the position to further
improve the basis (assuming I can
find appropriate premiums).
Why did I buy more of the
software behemoth? Was it
because of the new blockbuster
Xbox 360 game Halo: Reach? Not
a chance. Even though the title
will sell a ton of copies, it doesn't
Shanna Orlich, The Other Woman Suing Goldman
Gauge Falls in September
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Before the Bell, Bad
News, Economic Data While NYSE Has No Comment
many want to believe that the On Chinese Travel
economy is turning around, the
Company UTA That May
constitute a trade-worthy catalyst. New York Federal Reserve Bank
It just won't have enough of a did little to convince the doubters. York Factory Gauge Falls in Be A Fraud (UTA)
financial effect. During September, the Empire September Gregory White (Business
Continue reading Was Buying State Index dropped to 4.1 from Fed's New York Factory Gauge Insider)
Microsoft the Right Move? August's reading of 7.1. This was Falls in September originally
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:52:00 AM
Was Buying Microsoft the Right far short of expectations, as well appeared on BloggingStocks on
Move? originally appeared on as the lowest level since July Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. The New York Stock Exchange
BloggingStocks on Wed, 15 Sep 2009. Please see our terms for use of has no comment on the listed
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our terms for use of feeds. Read| high as 31.9 in April and 19.6 in Comments (UTA) that appears to be a fraud.
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Microsoft- Xbox- Halo Reach- that growth is slowing, contrary to - Federal Reserve System- New company policy not to comment
BloggingStocks- Business what many experts want us to York- United States- on any investigations that may be
believe. BloggingStocks ongoing into companies listed on
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We are awaiting further comment
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Universal Travel Group is down

Sachs For Gender Discrimination (GS) massively on the news.

Here's why Bronte Capital's John
Hempton thinks UTA might be
Courtney Comstock (Business compensation, promotions, Lisa Parisi, the third, was named
Insider) fraudulent >
business opportunities, and a managing director in 2003.
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Today three women brought a Orlich, pictured, was/is an story »
lawsuit against Goldman Sachs associate who trades distressed
for discriminating against women credit. who's leading the lawsuit, brought
in performance evaluations, She joins Christina Chen-Oster, today in Federal Court.
Once Again, Bulls Can't Be Held Down
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game) It keeps feeling as though stocks clawing back to close to even.
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:04:30 AM are due for some kind of fall, Join the conversation about this
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and climate change. We hope to
Park51 Imam Says Proposed Site Not Sacred
(Society)
be in business 100 years from
now, and this is a way to Submitted at 9/14/2010 2:17:57 PM
guarantee our future," Shapiro
says. The proposed site for the Islamic
[ Cacao Genome Database] center and mosque near the
Ariel Schwartz can be reached on former World Trade Center is not
Twitter or by email. sacred, says the Muslim cleric
who envisioned the
project.(Photo: AP Photo / Craig
Ruttle)
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf,
executive director of the Cordoba
Inside the World's Initiative, addresses the Council
on Foreign Relations, Monday,
Most Opulent Sept. 13, 2010, in New York.
Rauf is now in the midst of a
Private Jets polarizing political, religious and
Pete Brook (Wired Top Stories) cultural debate over his plans for a
multi-story Islamic center that
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM
will feature a mosque, health club
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claim it is hallowed ground is …
it doesn’t make sense – it doesn’t
add,” said Rauf at the office of the
Council on Foreign Relations, a
New York-based think tank. “So
9 Stars Who Turned Down Memorable Roles
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) for the part, but they're often not
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM the director's first choice. Most
celebs have turned down more
It seems that the actors cast in roles than they've taken, some
o-ur favorite movies are perfect with regrets but many with thanks
let’s clarify that misperception.”
Rauf, in his remarks at the CFR,
sought to portray himself as an
average American who fights
against a common enemy –
Muslim extremists. While
extremists try to spread the idea
that there is a war between
Muslims and non-Muslims, Rauf
said the “real battle” is between
moderates of all faiths and the
extremists of all faiths.
“We must not let the extremists –
whatever their faith, whatever
their political persuasion – hijack
the discourse and hijack the
media,” said the imam.
The soft spoken and not easily
riled cleric is at the center of an
international controversy
involving a proposed Islamic
center two blocks away from
Ground Zero. The project has
received support from President
Obama and New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but
was criticized by former
Republican Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich, 2008 Republican
vice presidential candidate Sarah
Palin, and former U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton, among others.
Proponents of the center argue
that Muslims have the right to
build their houses of worship
wherever they want, just like
to their lucky stars.
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Service poll released Monday.
Notably, the poll also found 76
percent of Americans support the
building of a mosque in their own
local community, suggesting that
Americans are not anti-Islamic
adherents of other faith traditions.
but sensitive about building the
Rauf also argues the center will be
mosque near the 9/11 crash site.
a symbol of America’s religious
During his appearance at the
tolerance and will help fight al
Qaeda and other extremists’ claim
CFR, Rauf said he was “exploring
all options” and “everything is on
that America is at war with Islam.
But opponents of Park51 contend
the table” as he and the projects’
leaders try to “resolve this crisis,
that while developers have the
defuse it.” But the imam resisted
right to build the center near
offering details of what options he
Ground Zero, doing so would
was considering, including
work against its mission to
whether he is willing to move the
promote understanding between
the West and Muslim world. They
center.
“The world will be watching what
point out that the proposed center
has not brought healing but rather
we do here,” he said. “Let us
therefore reject those who would
division and vitriolic debate.
use this crisis … for political gain
According to a New York Times
poll released earlier this month,
or even for fame.”
two-thirds of New Yorkers –
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Special Report: Blue-collar, unemployed and seeing red (Reuters)
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Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:09:33 AM
FERNDALE, Michigan (Reuters)
– Scott Stevenson was only 10
years old when he first heard
grown-ups voice the gloomy
words that, in retrospect,
predicted the disappointing arc his
life has taken.
"I remember them actually telling
us that our generation would be
the first not to be better off than
our parents," said the 39-year-old
Stevenson. "It was fifth grade and
I remember thinking, 'How do you
know?'"
Three decades later, the
pessimistic prognostication he
was so quick to dismiss as a boy
now seems, as he put it, "like a
prophecy."
Stevenson is one of the 14.9
million U.S. workers who are
officially jobless, according to the
latest statistics from the U.S.
Department of Labor. More
depressingly, he is also among the
6.2 million unfortunate enough to
have been that way for 27 weeks
or more -- a beleaguered cohort
that the government dubs the
"long-term unemployed."
Over the past four years,
Stevenson has lost almost
everything. His $38,000-a-year
factory job as well as the three-
bedroom home it helped him buy
are gone. Two years ago, when
his mortgage company finally
foreclosed on him, he moved into
the basement of his parents' home.
"I hate it," he said. "It's driving
me nuts. I'm almost 40 years old
and I'm not able to take care of
myself. But I don't have any other
option."
In June, after 99 weeks on the
dole, his unemployment benefits
ran out. He hasn't had to sell his
truck and work tools -- yet -- and
he recently picked up some
temporary contract work that put
a little cash in his pocket. But he
spends most of his days at his
parents' home, trawling the
Internet for jobs that don't pan out
or playing computer games --
"anything," he said, "that doesn't
cost money."
On warm days, he takes his bike
out for a ride around the
neighborhood. It's an older
subdivision than where he lived,
filled with solid-looking but
modestly sized brick homes.
It sits alongside I-696, a highway
dedicated to Walter Reuther, the
union organizer whose strikes
against Ford Motor Co and
General Motors in the early 1940s
forced the U.S. car industry to
recognize the United Auto
Workers union. In the process,
Reuther helped produce this
country's blue-collar, middle
class, a group whose prosperity
helped shape the post-war U.S.
economy and was, for decades,
the envy of workers worldwide.
Reuther died in 1970 and the
dream he helped create began
unraveling soon thereafter as
employment in manufacturing --
the sector that, together with
construction, reliably sustained
the blue-collar middle class --
steadily shrank.
But the U.S. recession and the
nearly simultaneous restructuring
of the auto industry have
delivered the most savage one-
two punch that class has absorbed
in a generation. Of the more than
8 million U.S. jobs lost in the
downturn, nearly half were in
either manufacturing or
construction -- higher-wage
sectors that traditionally provided
entry-level jobs that turned into
well-paying careers jobs for
people like Stevenson, whose
formal education stopped after
high school.
In a midterm election year, where
the economy is issue No. 1, his
plight and that of millions of men
and women like him helps explain
the sagging support for President
Barack Obama's Democratic
party, which is expected to see its
majorities in the House of
Representatives and Senate
eroded in the November 2 vote.
One of the people voting
Republican that day will be
Stevenson's mom, 63-year-old
Joan Stevenson. The daughter of a
machinist and a self-described
"Jack Kennedy Democrat," she
voted for Obama in 2008 but has
been disappointed by how little
his administration's polices have
helped unemployed workers like
her son.
"The Democratic Party isn't what
it used to be for us," she said.
"The philosophy used to be if the
Democratic Party was in power
everybody got a piece of the pie,
and if the Republicans were in
power the rich got a piece of the
pie. Now, nobody is getting a
piece of the pie."
'TOUGH TIME FOR SOME
TIME TO COME'
Unfortunately, economists,
executives and other labor-market
watchers say many of the jobs lost
in the downturn, particularly in
manufacturing, are never coming
back.
That's because in spite of the
downturn, and in some cases
because of it, companies have
continued to invest in labor-
saving, productivity-enhancing
technology here in the United
States as well as offshore high
volume, low-margin and labor-
intensive work abroad.
"It's competitive forces and
technology that (are) taking those
jobs and reducing them in both
quantity and complexity," said
Jeff Joerres, the chief executive of
global employment services
company Manpower Inc.
And while the construction
market will eventually rebound,
employment in the sector is
unlikely to ever return to the
record levels seen at the height of
the housing bubble. "What seems
very likely," said Gary Burtless,
an economist at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C.,
"is that those people who made
their living in construction and in
manufacturing are going to have a
tough time for some time to
come."
Prospects for workers like
Stevenson will be "much, much
worse," according to Burtless.
That's because the anemic labor
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market is forcing unemployed
workers with college educations
to settle for jobs that don't require
their degrees.
Right now, those are just about
the only kinds of jobs that seem to
be out there, according to a recent
analysis of Bureau of Labor
Statistics data by the National
Employment Law Project. The
study, released just before Labor
Day, found that while jobs paying
$17.43 an hour or more accounted
for nearly half the positions lost in
the downturn, they have
accounted for just 5 percent of
those created in the recovery.
Most of the new jobs are
concentrated below $15 an hour
and in service industries like retail
sales, food preparation, waste
removal, or health-care.
It's not that jobs aren't being
created in manufacturing -- they
are. But they are fewer in number
and either pay far less than the
jobs of old or require technical
skills. Landing such work is often
impossible without certifications
from groups like the
Manufacturing Skills Standards
Council and the National Institute
for Metalworking Skills, which
can entail rigorous and lengthy
course work.
The upshot, says Joerres, is that
the relatively easy path blue-collar
workers traveled for two
generations to reach the middle
class, a path that created millions
of consumers with the purchasing
power to buy the goods that U.S.
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companies produced, is narrowing
if not altogether disappearing.
The changes are affecting U.S.
corporate culture, where Joerres
said "we're seeing a bifurcation
between entry-level jobs and
management." But the
implications extend well beyond
the manufacturing industry and
the Midwest states of Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois
where it is concentrated.
' B R O A D - B A S E D
I M M I S E R A T I O N '
In a speech in Michigan in
August, Narayana Kocherlakota,
the president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,
drew attention to one of the great
ironies of the current recovery:
While the number of job openings
has risen by about 20 percent over
the past year, the U.S.
unemployment rate has gone up,
not down. "Workers want to find
work," he said, "but can't find
appropriate jobs."
The reason, Kocherlakota went
on to explain, is that there is a
fundamental mismatch between
employer needs and worker skills.
"It is hard to see how the Fed can
do much to cure this problem," he
said. "Monetary stimulus has
provided conditions so that
manufacturing plants want to hire
new workers. But the Fed does
not have a means to transform
construction workers into
manufacturing workers."
But even if the Fed could
perform that magic, those
manufacturers that are hiring
again aren't creating anywhere
near enough jobs to re-employ the
more than 2 million workers they
laid off during the downturn,
never mind the 2 million
construction workers who have
lost their jobs.
Sherle Schwenninger, an
economist at the New America
Foundation, a progressive policy
group in Washington, worries that
the prolonged joblessness for blue
-collar workers that mismatch
implies will swell the country's
permanent underclass,
disconnecting millions more
Americans from the mainstream
and making them more prone to a
litany of social ills.
"That should be quite disturbing
to Americans," he said. "They
lose their social capital, they lose
their skills, they lose their
confidence and -- as we've seen
with regard to black males in
certain locales -- you have a
coarsening of the social fabric, a
breakdown of community and
increasing resort to criminal and
anomalous behavior simply
because people aren't part of a
healthy economic and social
community."
Even workers lucky enough to
have kept their jobs -- or found
new ones -- are feeling the effects
of these blue-collar blues in the
form of suppressed wage growth,
economists say. As a result,
Lawrence Mishel, the president of
the Economic Policy Institute, a
liberal research group in
Washington, D.C., predicts the
coming years will be marked by
what he calls "broad-based
immiseration."
"The story isn't who is being left
behind," he said. "The story is
everybody is being screwed."
'IT WAS ALL HERE'
Stevenson was born in 1971 and
grew up in the suburb of Ferndale,
where I-75 and I-696 freeways
cross just north of Detroit, a
community that was chock-a-
block with tool-and-die shops,
iron works, coil makers and other
small manufacturers tied to the
region's all-powerful auto
industry.
"Up to 10 years ago, you could
have had anything made within 45
minutes of the intersection of I-75
and I-696," Stevenson said. "It
was all here. It was booming."
The buildings that housed them
are still there along commercial
streets with names like 9 Mile and
John R, reminders of those good
old days. But most now sit vacant
with FOR LEASE and FOR
SALE signs.
Stevenson's father worked as a
pipefitter at Ford; his mother was
a clerk at the local office of the
automobile club. Nearly every
household in the neighborhood
was connected to the car business.
"I'm so Detroit I bleed motor oil,"
Stevenson said.
He attended high school in
neighboring Hazel Park, where he
worked on the yearbook and hung
out in the school's new media lab,
shooting short video sketches
inspired by the TV program
"Saturday Night Live" with
friends.
After high school, Stevenson
went to a trade school hoping to
become a broadcaster. But entry-
level opportunities in a big media
market like Detroit were few and
he quickly fell into the trades.
Since then, he's done it all, from
digging ditches and running
blueprints to welding heavy
equipment and repairing hydraulic
and pneumatic equipment.
"If I'd grown up in California, it
probably would have been
completely different because of
Silicon Valley," he said. "If I'd
grown up in Washington, I
definitely would have been
looking at Microsoft as opposed
to Ford, GM or Chrysler.
Location kind of dictated where
you went."
But instead of experiencing a
rising standard of living over time
like his dad, who worked at a
number of smaller manufacturers
before getting into Ford,
Stevenson has suffered setback
after setback in his career.
Gone was the security and
stability his father knew. "When
the work was there," Mike
Stevenson, 66, remembered, "you
could say, 'I don't want to work
for you anymore,' walk out the
door and have a job down the
street."
In its place was a more cut-throat
environment -- "They had their
boot on your neck and were
yelling, 'Get it done, get it done,
get it done. Now get out,'" Scott
Stevenson said -- with no benefits,
few breaks and frequent layoffs.
Still, he managed to buy his first
new vehicle when he was 29 --
the 2000 Ford Ranger pickup
truck he continues to drive today.
Five years later, he bought a
house about 40 miles away from
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Ferndale for $130,000. And in
2006, he had his best year ever,
earning $38,000 a year at a plant
that built material handlers for
GM. But he accomplished that by
clocking 15 to 20 hours of
overtime almost every week, a
schedule that left him little
personal time.
"One of the reasons I'm not
married is I've always been
working," he said. "Or not
working. You're either 60 hours a
week or not at all."
But beginning in 2007, "it went
straight downhill." First the
overtime disappeared. Then the
job vanished, too. Stevenson was
able to cobble together some
temporary work but when the real
estate bubble popped and pulled
the world into a financial crisis,
even that dried up.
Two years ago, as Stevenson was
falling further and further behind
on his mortgage payments and the
bank was beginning to foreclose
oh him, a tornado touched down
nearby. "I was half hoping the
half-dead tree I had in the
backyard would fall on the house
so the insurance would pay for it
and I'd get out," he said. "But it
didn't happen. As far as I know,
the tree's still there mocking me."
Stevenson insists he holds no
grudge against the business
community for its unwillingness
to hire. "I understand they have to
hoard the money because they
don't know what's coming around
the corner," he said. "They
wonder what DC's going to do. ...
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They know healthcare reform is
around the corner. Everybody's
real tentative."
And even though he's been forced
to move back in with his parents
and has virtually no income, he
opposes Obama's proposal to let
some tax cuts for the wealthy,
dating back to George W. Bush's
presidency, expire at year's end in
order to raise revenue and reduce
the deficit.
"How is more people, keeping
more of the money they earn, bad
for the economy?" he said. "The
answer is -- it's not."
Perhaps most surprisingly,
Stevenson says he's worried
Obama and the Democratic
Congress may move to extend
unemployment benefits past 99
weeks early this fall in an effort to
curry popular support ahead of the
midterm vote.
"That could be the October
surprise," he said, "to try to buy
people's votes."
DOING MORE WITH LESS
In the two years since he lost his
job, millions of manufacturing
workers have joined Stevenson on
the unemployment line as
companies in the sector responded
to the downturn by slashing their
payrolls with unprecedented
speed.
In 2009 alone, the sector laid off
11.4 percent of its total workforce
-- the largest one-year percentage
drop in manufacturing
employment since the Great
Depression, dwarfing even the
10.4 percent drop seen in 1945,
when America's victorious
industrial war machine throttled
back production.
Over the past year, industrial
America has rebounded. Leading
manufacturers like General
Electric Co, United Technologies
Corp, Caterpillar Inc, Honeywell
International Inc and Ingersoll
Rand Plc have posted stronger-
than-expected profits. And some,
like Caterpillar, which laid off
30,000 workers worldwide in
2008 and 2009, have also begun
hiring again.
But a couple of things are
happening simultaneously that
dim the prospects even further for
manufacturing workers like
Stevenson idled in the slump.
First, the embrace of lean
manufacturing techniques and
investment in labor-saving
technology -- both of which
continued despite the slump --
means the industry does not need
as many workers here as it did in
the past. As Doug Oberhelman,
the new chief executive of
Caterpillar, told investors in New
York this summer, "we will do
more for less."
Second, when manufacturers
decide they do need workers, they
don't always need them here.
Caterpillar, for instance, says it
hopes to rehire a total of 9,000
workers before year's end. But
only a third of the promised jobs
will be inside the United States as
the company continues to align its
manufacturing footprint and
headcount with its sales, 62
percent of which now come from
overseas.
Third, the work that remains here
in the United States often requires
more technical skills than the
manufacturing jobs of old.
Consider, for instance, the job of
a machinist. True, the basic job
function hasn't changed:
machinists produce precision
metal parts. But the drills, lathes
and mills and other tools they use
on the modern factory floor are
almost always computer
numerically controlled -- CNC for
short -- and only as precise as the
instructions provided by their
operators.
As a result, machinists today not
only need to be able to write basic
computer programs -- they're
expected to be able to
troubleshoot those programs, and
rewrite them if necessary, if they
encounter problems during
production.
"They're massively better
educated, massively better trained
and massively more productive
today than they were back in the
old days,' said Mike Montgomery,
an economist at IHS Global
Insight. Stevenson's mom puts it
more bluntly. "You can't sweep
the floor any more without a
PhD," she said. "That's what he's
up against."
Of course, some corners of U.S.
manufacturing are doing worse
than others. Companies that make
the big, pricey products that the
blue-collar middle class once
purchased with their better-than-
average wages and played with on
the weekend -- the heavyweight
motorcycles, the aluminum
fishing boats, the campers and
motorhomes -- continue to suffer.
Two prominent companies in the
space, Harley-Davidson Inc and
Brunswick Corp, have spent the
last few years radically resizing
their manufacturing operations for
what is likely be the new normal
in the United States -- one that
reflects the downward mobility of
the blue-collar middle class. They
are, in essence, hacking away at
their traditional customer base.
That's having a ripple effect on
employment up and down their
supply and distribution networks.
Judith Crocker, who works for an
industry-supported group that
helps retrain industrial workers in
northeast Ohio, where
manufacturing employment
tumbled nearly 40 percent over
the past 25 years, sums it up well.
She talks about the effect the 2005
closure of Ford's Lorain Assembly
Plant, outside Cleveland, had on
local workers and the lifestyles
they once considered their blue-
collar birthright.
"If you knew somebody at 17, you
could get in there and you could
work for 30 years, work on the
production line, make a good
leaving, live the American
dream," she said "In the Ford
plant, thousands of the workers --
my guess is probably a third of
them -- barely finished high
school. And they didn't have to.
They made a great living. They
had an RV. They had a boat. They
had this and that. Those jobs are
gone."
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
FAULTED
Manufacturing executives like
Ron DeFeo, who runs Terex
Corp, and labor union chiefs like
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Bob King, the new head of the
UAW, rarely see eye to eye. But
ask them to assess the federal
government's response to the
unemployment crisis, and their
responses are remarkably
consistent -- and not just in the
critical tone they take.
Both fault lawmakers, including
President Obama, for failing to
make job creation the No. 1
priority over the past two years
and insist Washington, D.C. could
have put millions of construction
and manufacturing workers back
to work by funneling more money
into infrastructure improvements.
In early September, Obama
belatedly signaled his support for
some added infrastructure
investment along the lines that
DeFeo has urged and King has
marched for. But his proposal,
outlined in a Labor Day speech in
Milwaukee, falls short of what
even leading members of his own
party have advocated.
A year ago, the so-called
transportation bill, the legislation
used to pay for the country's
bridges and highways and rail
network that comes up for
renewal every six years and
typically wins bipartisan support,
expired -- smack dab in the
middle of the worst downturn
since the Great Depression.
The chairman of the House
Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee, U.S. Rep. James
Oberstar (D-Minn.), proposed
increasing spending on roads,
bridges and high-speed rail to
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$500 billion during the next six
years, up from about $286 billion
over the past six years and 10
times the $50 billion that Obama
proposed in his Labor Day
speech.
Such an outlay would be
welcome news for the
construction industry, where one
in five workers is jobless. But it
would have also bolstered the
fortunes of equipment
manufacturers like Terex,
Caterpillar and Deere & Co -- and
the thousands of smaller
manufacturers who supply them --
by showering money on the
construction contractors who are
their customers, and who have
been reluctant to buy new earth-
moving equipment ever since the
housing bubble popped.
"It's in the American historical
experience," said Schwenninger at
the New America Foundation,
referring to President Franklin
Roosevelt's massive Works
Progress Administration, a
Depression-era effort that
funneled $11.4 billion -- about
$166 billion today -- into the
economy and provided jobs and
income to millions of unemployed
by putting them to work building
highways, bridges and other
public projects.
"A major commitment to public
infrastructure investment would
have the benefit of reversing a lot
of those employment trends," he
said. "But it would also provide
the foundation for a broader-based
economy to work and function
because whether it's the electrical
grid or relieving traffic congestion
or putting in new hydroelectric
plants, they all make it easier for
business to grow and create both
profits and jobs."
But because funding for
Oberstar's bill would have come
either by raising the federal fuel
tax, which has been unchanged
since 1993, or through some other
tax, toll or fee, the Obama
administration chose to play it
safe, politically if not
economically.
Already focused on reforming
Wall Street and healthcare, the
White House failed to line up
behind the Oberstar bill and
instead backed a temporary
extension. Its thinking was that it
could take Oberstar's bill up once
the midterm elections were behind
and its majorities in the House
and Senate reseated.
But with Republicans, who are
focused on slashing the deficit
and cutting taxes, now widely
expected to gain ground in the
November 2 vote, an ambitious
highway bill along Oberstar's
lines now looks dead in the water.
In the meantime, the agenda
Obama has pursued has alienated
many business groups, making it
unlikely that he'll be able to build
support for any second stimulus
after the midterms.
Schwenninger says Obama
miscalculated, focusing on reform
ahead of recovery. "They wanted
to capitalize on what political
capital they thought they had. And
they virtually destroyed that and
in the process created big
obstacles to economic reform," he
said.
'DOING PRETTY WELL'
No section of the country has
been more buffeted by the
changes sweeping U.S.
manufacturing than the Midwest,
home to the largest concentration
of factories making everything
from passenger cars and
commercial trucks to construction
equipment and food products.
The irony is that as the sector's
profit rebounds, employers here
complain they can't find enough
qualified workers -- despite the
millions of former manufacturing
workers desperate for a job. The
problem, Crocker said, is the gap
between the legacy skills most
unemployed manufacturing
workers have and the skills
employers are looking for.
To help bridge that cap, groups
like the National Association of
Manufacturers are working with
community colleges around the
country to develop programs to
give workers the skills and
certifications employers want
today.
One of them is offered outside
Cleveland at Lorain County
Community College. Originally,
the idea was to provide a
vocational training path to new
high school graduates who weren't
interested in college. But in places
like Lorain, where the closing of
the Ford plant five years ago was
just the latest in a series of
layoffs, closures and
retrenchments by industrial firms,
that's been a hard sell.
"Manufacturing is still the big dog
around here," said Greg Krizman,
who works with Crocker and is
helping the college on the
program. "But one of the
challenges we have here in
northeast Ohio is how to get kids
motivated into wanting to have
careers in manufacturing given
the fact that in every family
there's probably been some
brother, sister, uncle, father,
mother who has experienced a job
loss and doesn't speak kindly of
the industry."
The program has been having
more success with laid-off
workers like Mark Lute, a 48-year
-old electrician who lost his job at
Republic Engineered Products, a
maker of axles, drive shafts and
suspension rods, after 22 years.
Lute is now enrolled in a two-
year program at Lorain, where
he's learning wind turbine
maintenance and automation
robotics, a program that has
forced him to brush off his math
skills and put in as many hours at
school as he once did the foundry.
Halfway through the two-year
program, Lute says he's
discovered that people can be
retooled, too.
"I didn't think I would be able to
comprehend, absorb it and retain
it," he said in late August, as
classes began again after the
summer break. "But I'm doing
pretty well."
Kelly Zelesnik, the dean of
LCCC's engineering technologies
department, which oversees the
program, says the school also
offers an intensive, four-month
program called "Transformations"
that gives laid-off workers "the
core technology skills they need
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to find a job quickly." The
program, which meets 40 hours a
week for between 16 to 18 weeks,
has been able to place 95 percent
of its graduates with new jobs in
the area within three months of
graduation because it provides
employers with exactly what
they're looking for.
"When you spend millions of
dollars on a machine that does
four things, and improves your
productivity and accuracy, you
can't just hire somebody out of
high school who can't even do the
computations to do the setup,"
said Crocker. "You want someone
highly skilled, very technical,
very knowledgeable."
'TIME TO MOVE ON'
Back in Detroit, Stevenson has
despaired of finding full-time
work in the manufacturing sector.
With the car industry staggering
through a second year of
lackluster sales, and the
bankruptcies of two of the city's
Big Three automakers still fresh
in his mind, he says he thinks it
will be 10 years, at best, and
probably more like 15 years,
before the industry starts hiring
again.
Prosperity may eventually return
to Detroit and the rest of the
industrial Midwest, he said, but
"it's going to skip over my
generation."
He has always dreamed of
starting his own company, making
the BMX bikes he loved as a child
and continues to ride today. "Lack
of money and fear of the
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paintings adorned the walls of the
set of "The Cosby Show" and
whose strikingly colorful images
depicted tender moments in black
family life, has died. She was 59.
Honeywood died Sunday in a Los
Angeles hospital after a two-year
battle with cancer, one of her
cousins, Jennell Allen, said
Tuesday.
Raised in Los Angeles,
Honeywood earned a master's
degree from the University of
Southern California and worked at
the Joint Educational Project,
teaching art to minority students.
As a young artist in the 1970s,
Honeywood began reproducing
her bold acrylic paintings on
greeting cards. It was these that
ago, he said. Now his
circumstances make it impossible.
"Of course it's sad," she said. "We
lived in the best of times. And you
caught the eye of Bill Cosby's absolutely brilliant," Cosby said. So he's thinking about going back want your children to go on to
wife, Camille, and the couple "Forms and attitudes in human to the media trade school he bigger, better things. That's why
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Scott Stevenson stands outside
the locked gate of a shuttered
small manufacturing plant he once
worked at in Ferndale, Michigan,
August 31, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Rebecca Cook
By James B. Kelleher
FERNDALE, Michigan| Wed
Sep 15, 2010 9:27am EDT
FERNDALE, Michigan(Reuters)
- Scott Stevenson was only 10
years old when he first heard
grown-ups voice the gloomy
words that, in retrospect,
predicted the disappointing arc his
life has taken.
"I remember them actually telling
us that our generation would be
the first not to be better off than
our parents," said the 39-year-old
Stevenson. "It was fifth grade and
I remember thinking, 'How do you
know?'"
Three decades later, the
pessimistic prognostication he
was so quick to dismiss as a boy
now seems, as he put it, "like a
prophecy."
Stevenson is one of the 14.9
million U.S. workers who are
officially jobless, according to the
latest statistics from the U.S.
Department of Labor. More
depressingly, he is also among the
6.2 million unfortunate enough to
have been that way for 27 weeks
or more -- a beleaguered cohort
that the government dubs the
"long-term unemployed."
Over the past four years,
Stevenson has lost almost
everything. His $38,000-a-year
factory job as well as the three-
bedroom home it helped him buy
are gone. Two years ago, when
his mortgage company finally
foreclosed on him, he moved into
the basement of his parents' home.
"I hate it," he said. "It's driving
me nuts. I'm almost 40 years old
and I'm not able to take care of
myself. But I don't have any other
option."
In June, after 99 weeks on the
dole, his unemployment benefits
ran out. He hasn't had to sell his
truck and work tools -- yet -- and
he recently picked up some
temporary contract work that put
a little cash in his pocket. But he
spends most of his days at his
parents' home, trawling the
Internet for jobs that don't pan out
or playing computer games --
"anything," he said, "that doesn't
cost money."
On warm days, he takes his bike
out for a ride around the
neighborhood. It's an older
subdivision than where he lived,
filled with solid-looking but
modestly sized brick homes.
It sits alongside I-696, a highway
dedicated to Walter Reuther, the
union organizer whose strikes
against Ford Motor Co and
General Motors in the early 1940s
forced the U.S. car industry to
recognize the United Auto
Workers union. In the process,
Reuther helped produce this
country's blue-collar, middle
class, a group whose prosperity
helped shape the post-war U.S.
economy and was, for decades,
the envy of workers worldwide.
Reuther died in 1970 and the
dream he helped create began
unraveling soon thereafter as
employment in manufacturing --
the sector that, together with
construction, reliably sustained
the blue-collar middle class --
steadily shrank.
But the U.S. recession and the
nearly simultaneous restructuring
of the auto industry have
delivered the most savage one-
two punch that class has absorbed
in a generation. Of the more than
8 million U.S. jobs lost in the
downturn, nearly half were in
either manufacturing or
construction -- higher-wage
sectors that traditionally provided
entry-level jobs that turned into
well-paying careers jobs for
people like Stevenson, whose
formal education stopped after
high school.
In a midterm election year, where
the economy is issue No. 1, his
plight and that of millions of men
and women like him helps explain
the sagging support for President
Barack Obama's Democratic
party, which is expected to see its
majorities in the House of
Representatives and Senate
eroded in the November 2 vote.
One of the people voting
Republican that day will be
Stevenson's mom, 63-year-old
Joan Stevenson. The daughter of a
machinist and a self-described
"Jack Kennedy Democrat," she
voted for Obama in 2008 but has
been disappointed by how little
his administration's polices have
helped unemployed workers like
her son.
"The Democratic Party isn't what
it used to be for us," she said.
"The philosophy used to be if the
Democratic Party was in power
everybody got a piece of the pie,
and if the Republicans were in
power the rich got a piece of the
pie. Now, nobody is getting a
piece of the pie."
'TOUGH TIME FOR SOME
TIME TO COME'
Unfortunately, economists,
executives and other labor-market
watchers say many of the jobs lost
in the downturn, particularly in
manufacturing, are never coming
back.
That's because in spite of the
downturn, and in some cases
because of it, companies have
continued to invest in labor-
saving, productivity-enhancing
technology here in the United
States as well as offshore high
volume, low-margin and labor-
intensive work abroad.
"It's competitive forces and
technology that (are) taking those
jobs and reducing them in both
quantity and complexity," said
Jeff Joerres, the chief executive of
global employment services
company Manpower Inc.
And while the construction
market will eventually rebound,
employment in the sector is
unlikely to ever return to the
record levels seen at the height of
the housing bubble. "What seems
very likely," said Gary Burtless,
an economist at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, D.C.,
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"is that those people who made
their living in construction and in
manufacturing are going to have a
tough time for some time to
come."
Prospects for workers like
Stevenson will be "much, much
worse," according to Burtless.
That's because the anemic labor
market is forcing unemployed
workers with college educations
to settle for jobs that don't require
their degrees.
Right now, those are just about
the only kinds of jobs that seem to
be out there, according to a recent
analysis of Bureau of Labor
Statistics data by the National
Employment Law Project. The
study, released just before Labor
Day, found that while jobs paying
$17.43 an hour or more accounted
for nearly half the positions lost in
the downturn, they have
accounted for just 5 percent of
those created in the recovery.
Most of the new jobs are
concentrated below $15 an hour
and in service industries like retail
sales, food preparation, waste
removal, or health-care.
It's not that jobs aren't being
created in manufacturing -- they
are. But they are fewer in number
and either pay far less than the
jobs of old or require technical
skills. Landing such work is often
impossible without certifications
from groups like the
Manufacturing Skills Standards
Council and the National Institute
for Metalworking Skills, which
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can entail rigorous and lengthy
course work.
The upshot, says Joerres, is that
the relatively easy path blue-collar
workers traveled for two
generations to reach the middle
class, a path that created millions
of consumers with the purchasing
power to buy the goods that U.S.
companies produced, is narrowing
if not altogether disappearing.
The changes are affecting U.S.
corporate culture, where Joerres
said "we're seeing a bifurcation
between entry-level jobs and
management." But the
implications extend well beyond
the manufacturing industry and
the Midwest states of Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Illinois
where it is concentrated.
' B R O A D - B A S E D
I M M I S E R A T I O N '
In a speech in Michigan in
August, Narayana Kocherlakota,
the president of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,
drew attention to one of the great
ironies of the current recovery:
While the number of job openings
has risen by about 20 percent over
the past year, the U.S.
unemployment rate has gone up,
not down. "Workers want to find
work," he said, "but can't find
appropriate jobs."
The reason, Kocherlakota went
on to explain, is that there is a
fundamental mismatch between
employer needs and worker skills.
"It is hard to see how the Fed can
do much to cure this problem," he
said. "Monetary stimulus has
provided conditions so that
manufacturing plants want to hire
new workers. But the Fed does
not have a means to transform
construction workers into
manufacturing workers."
But even if the Fed could
perform that magic, those
manufacturers that are hiring
again aren't creating anywhere
near enough jobs to re-employ the
more than 2 million workers they
laid off during the downturn,
never mind the 2 million
construction workers who have
lost their jobs.
Sherle Schwenninger, an
economist at the New America
Foundation, a progressive policy
group in Washington, worries that
the prolonged joblessness for blue
-collar workers that mismatch
implies will swell the country's
permanent underclass,
disconnecting millions more
Americans from the mainstream
and making them more prone to a
litany of social ills.
"That should be quite disturbing
to Americans," he said. "They
lose their social capital, they lose
their skills, they lose their
confidence and -- as we've seen
with regard to black males in
certain locales -- you have a
coarsening of the social fabric, a
breakdown of community and
increasing resort to criminal and
anomalous behavior simply
because people aren't part of a
healthy economic and social
community."
Even workers lucky enough to
have kept their jobs -- or found
new ones -- are feeling the effects
of these blue-collar blues in the
form of suppressed wage growth,
economists say. As a result,
Lawrence Mishel, the president of
the Economic Policy Institute, a
liberal research group in
Washington, D.C., predicts the
coming years will be marked by
what he calls "broad-based
immiseration."
"The story isn't who is being left
behind," he said. "The story is
everybody is being screwed."
'IT WAS ALL HERE'
Stevenson was born in 1971 and
grew up in the suburb of Ferndale,
where I-75 and I-696 freeways
cross just north of Detroit, a
community that was chock-a-
block with tool-and-die shops,
iron works, coil makers and other
small manufacturers tied to the
region's all-powerful auto
industry.
"Up to 10 years ago, you could
have had anything made within 45
minutes of the intersection of I-75
and I-696," Stevenson said. "It
was all here. It was booming."
The buildings that housed them
are still there along commercial
streets with names like 9 Mile and
John R, reminders of those good
old days. But most now sit vacant
with FOR LEASE and FOR
SALE signs.
Stevenson's father worked as a
pipefitter at Ford; his mother was
a clerk at the local office of the
automobile club. Nearly every
household in the neighborhood
was connected to the car business.
"I'm so Detroit I bleed motor oil,"
Stevenson said.
He attended high school in
neighboring Hazel Park, where he
worked on the yearbook and hung
out in the school's new media lab,
shooting short video sketches
inspired by the TV program
"Saturday Night Live" with
friends.
After high school, Stevenson
went to a trade school hoping to
become a broadcaster. But entry-
level opportunities in a big media
market like Detroit were few and
he quickly fell into the trades.
Since then, he's done it all, from
digging ditches and running
blueprints to welding heavy
equipment and repairing hydraulic
and pneumatic equipment.
"If I'd grown up in California, it
probably would have been
completely different because of
Silicon Valley," he said. "If I'd
grown up in Washington, I
definitely would have been
looking at Microsoft as opposed
to Ford, GM or Chrysler.
Location kind of dictated where
you went."
But instead of experiencing a
rising standard of living over time
like his dad, who worked at a
number of smaller manufacturers
before getting into Ford,
Stevenson has suffered setback
after setback in his career.
Gone was the security and
stability his father knew. "When
the work was there," Mike
Stevenson, 66, remembered, "you
could say, 'I don't want to work
for you anymore,' walk out the
door and have a job down the
street."
In its place was a more cut-throat
environment -- "They had their
boot on your neck and were
yelling, 'Get it done, get it done,
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get it done. Now get out,'" Scott
Stevenson said -- with no benefits,
few breaks and frequent layoffs.
Still, he managed to buy his first
new vehicle when he was 29 --
the 2000 Ford Ranger pickup
truck he continues to drive today.
Five years later, he bought a
house about 40 miles away from
Ferndale for $130,000. And in
2006, he had his best year ever,
earning $38,000 a year at a plant
that built material handlers for
GM. But he accomplished that by
clocking 15 to 20 hours of
overtime almost every week, a
schedule that left him little
personal time.
"One of the reasons I'm not
married is I've always been
working," he said. "Or not
working. You're either 60 hours a
week or not at all."
But beginning in 2007, "it went
straight downhill." First the
overtime disappeared. Then the
job vanished, too. Stevenson was
able to cobble together some
temporary work but when the real
estate bubble popped and pulled
the world into a financial crisis,
even that dried up.
Two years ago, as Stevenson was
falling further and further behind
on his mortgage payments and the
bank was beginning to foreclose
oh him, a tornado touched down
nearby. "I was half hoping the
half-dead tree I had in the
backyard would fall on the house
so the insurance would pay for it
and I'd get out," he said. "But it
didn't happen. As far as I know,
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the tree's still there mocking me."
Stevenson insists he holds no
grudge against the business
community for its unwillingness
to hire. "I understand they have to
hoard the money because they
don't know what's coming around
the corner," he said. "They
wonder what DC's going to do. ...
They know healthcare reform is
around the corner. Everybody's
real tentative."
And even though he's been forced
to move back in with his parents
and has virtually no income, he
opposes Obama's proposal to let
some tax cuts for the wealthy,
dating back to George W. Bush's
presidency, expire at year's end in
order to raise revenue and reduce
the deficit.
"How is more people, keeping
more of the money they earn, bad
for the economy?" he said. "The
answer is -- it's not."
Perhaps most surprisingly,
Stevenson says he's worried
Obama and the Democratic
Congress may move to extend
unemployment benefits past 99
weeks early this fall in an effort to
curry popular support ahead of the
midterm vote.
"That could be the October
surprise," he said, "to try to buy
people's votes."
DOING MORE WITH LESS
In the two years since he lost his
job, millions of manufacturing
workers have joined Stevenson on
the unemployment line as
companies in the sector responded
to the downturn by slashing their
payrolls with unprecedented
speed.
In 2009 alone, the sector laid off
11.4 percent of its total workforce
-- the largest one-year percentage
drop in manufacturing
employment since the Great
Depression, dwarfing even the
10.4 percent drop seen in 1945,
when America's victorious
industrial war machine throttled
back production.
Over the past year, industrial
America has rebounded. Leading
manufacturers like General
Electric Co, United Technologies
Corp, Caterpillar Inc, Honeywell
International Inc and Ingersoll
Rand Plc have posted stronger-
than-expected profits. And some,
like Caterpillar, which laid off
30,000 workers worldwide in
2008 and 2009, have also begun
hiring again.
But a couple of things are
happening simultaneously that
dim the prospects even further for
manufacturing workers like
Stevenson idled in the slump.
First, the embrace of lean
manufacturing techniques and
investment in labor-saving
technology -- both of which
continued despite the slump --
means the industry does not need
as many workers here as it did in
the past. As Doug Oberhelman,
the new chief executive of
Caterpillar, told investors in New
York this summer, "we will do
more for less."
Second, when manufacturers
decide they do need workers, they
don't always need them here.
Caterpillar, for instance, says it
hopes to rehire a total of 9,000
workers before year's end. But
only a third of the promised jobs
will be inside the United States as
the company continues to align its
manufacturing footprint and
headcount with its sales, 62
percent of which now come from
overseas.
Third, the work that remains here
in the United States often requires
more technical skills than the
manufacturing jobs of old.
Consider, for instance, the job of
a machinist. True, the basic job
function hasn't changed:
machinists produce precision
metal parts. But the drills, lathes
and mills and other tools they use
on the modern factory floor are
almost always computer
numerically controlled -- CNC for
short -- and only as precise as the
instructions provided by their
operators.
As a result, machinists today not
only need to be able to write basic
computer programs -- they're
expected to be able to
troubleshoot those programs, and
rewrite them if necessary, if they
encounter problems during
production.
"They're massively better
educated, massively better trained
and massively more productive
today than they were back in the
old days,' said Mike Montgomery,
an economist at IHS Global
Insight. Stevenson's mom puts it
more bluntly. "You can't sweep
the floor any more without a
PhD," she said. "That's what he's
up against."
Of course, some corners of U.S.
manufacturing are doing worse
than others. Companies that make
the big, pricey products that the
blue-collar middle class once
purchased with their better-than-
average wages and played with on
the weekend -- the heavyweight
motorcycles, the aluminum
fishing boats, the campers and
motorhomes -- continue to suffer.
Two prominent companies in the
space, Harley-Davidson Inc and
Brunswick Corp, have spent the
last few years radically resizing
their manufacturing operations for
what is likely be the new normal
in the United States -- one that
reflects the downward mobility of
the blue-collar middle class. They
are, in essence, hacking away at
their traditional customer base.
That's having a ripple effect on
employment up and down their
supply and distribution networks.
Judith Crocker, who works for an
industry-supported group that
helps retrain industrial workers in
northeast Ohio, where
manufacturing employment
tumbled nearly 40 percent over
the past 25 years, sums it up well.
She talks about the effect the 2005
closure of Ford's Lorain Assembly
Plant, outside Cleveland, had on
local workers and the lifestyles
they once considered their blue-
collar birthright.
"If you knew somebody at 17, you
could get in there and you could
work for 30 years, work on the
production line, make a good
leaving, live the American
dream," she said "In the Ford
plant, thousands of the workers --
my guess is probably a third of
them -- barely finished high
school. And they didn't have to.
17
They made a great living. They
had an RV. They had a boat. They
had this and that. Those jobs are
gone."
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
FAULTED
Manufacturing executives like
Ron DeFeo, who runs Terex
Corp, and labor union chiefs like
Bob King, the new head of the
UAW, rarely see eye to eye. But
ask them to assess the federal
government's response to the
unemployment crisis, and their
responses are remarkably
consistent -- and not just in the
critical tone they take.
Both fault lawmakers, including
President Obama, for failing to
make job creation the No. 1
priority over the past two years
and insist Washington, D.C. could
have put millions of construction
and manufacturing workers back
to work by funneling more money
into infrastructure improvements.
In early September, Obama
belatedly signaled his support for
some added infrastructure
investment along the lines that
DeFeo has urged and King has
marched for. But his proposal,
outlined in a Labor Day speech in
Milwaukee, falls short of what
even leading members of his own
party have advocated.
A year ago, the so-called
transportation bill, the legislation
used to pay for the country's
bridges and highways and rail
network that comes up for
renewal every six years and
typically wins bipartisan support,
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expired -- smack dab in the
middle of the worst downturn
since the Great Depression.
The chairman of the House
Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee, U.S. Rep. James
Oberstar (D-Minn.), proposed
increasing spending on roads,
bridges and high-speed rail to
$500 billion during the next six
years, up from about $286 billion
over the past six years and 10
times the $50 billion that Obama
proposed in his Labor Day
speech.
Such an outlay would be
welcome news for the
construction industry, where one
in five workers is jobless. But it
would have also bolstered the
fortunes of equipment
manufacturers like Terex,
Caterpillar and Deere & Co -- and
the thousands of smaller
manufacturers who supply them --
by showering money on the
construction contractors who are
their customers, and who have
been reluctant to buy new earth-
moving equipment ever since the
housing bubble popped.
"It's in the American historical
experience," said Schwenninger at
the New America Foundation,
referring to President Franklin
Roosevelt's massive Works
Progress Administration, a
Depression-era effort that
funneled $11.4 billion -- about
$166 billion today -- into the
economy and provided jobs and
income to millions of unemployed
by putting them to work building
highways, bridges and other
public projects.
"A major commitment to public
infrastructure investment would
have the benefit of reversing a lot
of those employment trends," he
said. "But it would also provide
the foundation for a broader-based
economy to work and function
because whether it's the electrical
grid or relieving traffic congestion
or putting in new hydroelectric
plants, they all make it easier for
business to grow and create both
profits and jobs."
But because funding for
Oberstar's bill would have come
either by raising the federal fuel
tax, which has been unchanged
since 1993, or through some other
tax, toll or fee, the Obama
administration chose to play it
safe, politically if not
economically.
Already focused on reforming
Wall Street and healthcare, the
White House failed to line up
behind the Oberstar bill and
instead backed a temporary
extension. Its thinking was that it
could take Oberstar's bill up once
the midterm elections were behind
and its majorities in the House
and Senate reseated.
But with Republicans, who are
focused on slashing the deficit
and cutting taxes, now widely
expected to gain ground in the
November 2 vote, an ambitious
highway bill along Oberstar's
lines now looks dead in the water.
In the meantime, the agenda
Obama has pursued has alienated
many business groups, making it
unlikely that he'll be able to build
support for any second stimulus
after the midterms.
Schwenninger says Obama
miscalculated, focusing on reform
ahead of recovery. "They wanted
to capitalize on what political
capital they thought they had. And
they virtually destroyed that and
in the process created big
obstacles to economic reform," he
said.
'DOING PRETTY WELL'
No section of the country has
been more buffeted by the
changes sweeping U.S.
manufacturing than the Midwest,
home to the largest concentration
of factories making everything
from passenger cars and
commercial trucks to construction
equipment and food products.
The irony is that as the sector's
profit rebounds, employers here
complain they can't find enough
qualified workers -- despite the
millions of former manufacturing
workers desperate for a job. The
problem, Crocker said, is the gap
between the legacy skills most
unemployed manufacturing
workers have and the skills
employers are looking for.
To help bridge that cap, groups
like the National Association of
Manufacturers are working with
community colleges around the
country to develop programs to
give workers the skills and
certifications employers want
today.
One of them is offered outside
Cleveland at Lorain County
Community College. Originally,
the idea was to provide a
vocational training path to new
high school graduates who weren't
interested in college. But in places
like Lorain, where the closing of
the Ford plant five years ago was
just the latest in a series of
layoffs, closures and
retrenchments by industrial firms,
that's been a hard sell.
"Manufacturing is still the big dog
around here," said Greg Krizman,
who works with Crocker and is
helping the college on the
program. "But one of the
challenges we have here in
northeast Ohio is how to get kids
motivated into wanting to have
careers in manufacturing given
the fact that in every family
there's probably been some
brother, sister, uncle, father,
mother who has experienced a job
loss and doesn't speak kindly of
the industry."
The program has been having
more success with laid-off
workers like Mark Lute, a 48-year
-old electrician who lost his job at
Republic Engineered Products, a
maker of axles, drive shafts and
suspension rods, after 22 years.
Lute is now enrolled in a two-
year program at Lorain, where
he's learning wind turbine
maintenance and automation
robotics, a program that has
forced him to brush off his math
skills and put in as many hours at
school as he once did the foundry.
Halfway through the two-year
program, Lute says he's
discovered that people can be
retooled, too.
"I didn't think I would be able to
comprehend, absorb it and retain
it," he said in late August, as
classes began again after the
summer break. "But I'm doing
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Kelly Zelesnik, the dean of
LCCC's engineering technologies
department, which oversees the
program, says the school also
offers an intensive, four-month
program called "Transformations"
that gives laid-off workers "the
core technology skills they need
to find a job quickly." The
program, which meets 40 hours a
week for between 16 to 18 weeks,
has been able to place 95 percent
of its graduates with new jobs in
the area within three months of
graduation because it provides
employers with exactly what
they're looking for.
"When you spend millions of
dollars on a machine that does
four things, and improves your
productivity and accuracy, you
can't just hire somebody out of
high school who can't even do the
computations to do the setup,"
said Crocker. "You want someone
highly skilled, very technical,
very knowledgeable."
'TIME TO MOVE ON'
Back in Detroit, Stevenson has
despaired of finding full-time
work in the manufacturing sector.
With the car industry staggering
through a second year of
lackluster sales, and the
bankruptcies of two of the city's
Big Three automakers still fresh
in his mind, he says he thinks it
will be 10 years, at best, and
probably more like 15 years,
before the industry starts hiring
again.
Prosperity may eventually return
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Tea Party win hurts Republicans' Senate chances

(Reuters: Top News) had rushed in recent weeks to help Representatives and governor's Democratic seats to reclaim the Sep 14, 2010 10:36pm EDT
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:09:37 AM Castle, worried O'Donnell could races. Senate, and Delaware was once The tea party will undo the
not win the November race for the In New Hampshire's Republican considered to be safely in the Republicans. im for a three party
Delaware Republican senatorial Democratic Senate seat long held Senate primary, former state Republican column with Castle as system, but I believe it will be like
candidate Christine O'Donnell by Vice President Joe Biden. attorney general Kelly Ayotte, the candidate. Without Castle, Ross Perot, the Democrats will be
gesture while speaking about "The people of Delaware have who had been endorsed by former Democrat Chris Coons, a county beneficiaries of the Tea Party’s
w i n n i n g i n t h e R e p u b l i c a n spoken. No more politics as Republican vice presidential executive, becomes at least a desire to put out such polarizing
primary at her campaign victory usual," O'Donnell told supporters candidate Sarah Palin, led Tea slight favorite to win the Senate and unexperienced candidates ie
e v e n t i n D o v e r , D e l a w a r e , at a victory rally. "The cause is Party-backed lawyer Ovide seat in November. Nevada.
September 14, 2010. restoring America." Lamontagne. O'Donnell also was The Delaware primary fight had Sep 14, 2010 10:37pm EDT
Credit: Reuters/Tim Shaffer Castle is the eighth Senate backed by Palin. gained new urgency after last It has become clear that there is a
By John Whitesides candidate supported by the The Tea Party movement won month's upset of Republican split in our political system. The
WASHINGTON| Wed Sep 15, national Republican campaign another high-profile race in New Senator Lisa Murkowski of Tea Party has splintered off from
2010 10:09am EDT committee to lose a primary this York, where political newcomer Alaska hammered home the point the republican party, and gone
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A year and the result was perhaps Carl Paladino easily beat the that no incumbent was safe in a hard right and the current
conservative "Tea Party" favorite the biggest display yet of anti- establishment choice, former U.S. year when seven had lost administration and some of the
knocked off the establishment Washington anger. Representative Rick Lazio, in the congressional primaries. democratic party have swerved
choice in Delaware's Republican The string of victories by Tea Republican gubernatorial primary. Democrats hope the Republicans' hard left but they don’t have a
Senate primary election on Party candidates was fueled by Paladino, who pledges to spend shift to the right and the moniker like The Tea Party does
Tuesday, dealing a blow to the broad voter dissatisfaction with up to $10 million of his own nomination of outsider candidates and no, “Fascist” fits The Tea
party's chances to recapture the President Barack Obama and money, will be a huge underdog in Nevada, Kentucky, Colorado Party far better than it does the
U.S. Senate in November. government in Washington, and in the November race against and elsewhere will help them in socialists.
Upstart Republican candidate left Republicans in turmoil. Democrat Andrew Cuomo. November by alienating I am not fortunate enough to hold
Christine O'Donnell scored the "Delaware Republicans chose an U.S. Representative Charles moderates and energizing a degree in political science, but
biggest in a string of Tea Party ultra-rightwing extremist who is Rangel of New York, a veteran of Democrats in those crucial races. to me it seems that we are on the
upsets this year over nine-term out of step with Delaware values," 40 years in the House, survived a Polls show tight Senate races in verge of a civil war if this severe
Representative Michael Castle, a said Democratic Senator Robert Democratic primary challenge all those states. split continues, and does not result
popular former governor and one Menendez, who leads the party's despite an ethics scandal. He Senate Democratic leader Harry in a tea party victory in
of the last Republican moderates campaign committee. awaits trial by his House Reid, considered politically dead November.
in Congress. The Republican Senate campaign colleagues on 13 alleged earlier in the year, is in essentially The Tea Pparty see the Obama
The loss by Castle, who had been committee issued a terse one- violations of House rules. a dead heat with Tea Party- administration as a mortal threat.
expected to cruise to victory in s e n t e n c e s t a t e m e n t o f In the Washington, D.C., favorite Sharron Angle in Nevada, That is not a metaphor I mean it
Delaware's November 2 election, congratulations on O'Donnell's Democratic primary for mayor, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll “literally”.
gave Democrats new hope in the win. O'Donnell shrugged off the challenger Vincent Gray defeated on Tuesday. Sharron Angle has said quite a
state and bolstered their chances likelihood the committee would incumbent Adrian Fenty. The rise of the Tea Party few times what I am certain many
to retain control of the Senate. not spend any money on her. Republicans are threatening to generated high Republican are thinking. That they might have
A Tea Party favorite was a close "They don't have a winning track turn voter worries about the turnout in the primaries and to “exercise their 2nd amendment
second as votes were being record this season," she told CNN. economy and Obama's leadership created a broad advantage for rights”.
counted in New Hampshire's FINAL PRIMARY DAY into big gains in November that Republicans in enthusiasm about Google her statement regarding
Republican primary and another The contest in Delaware could give them control of the voting, which Democrats fear the 2nd amendment.
Tea Party-backed candidate easily highlighted the final day of House and perhaps even the could crimp their turnout. Sep 14, 2010 11:14pm EDT
won New York's Republican primaries before November, with Senate, once considered a (Additional reporting by Basil Extreme right? Just because we
gubernatorial race. voters in seven states choosing longshot. Katz; Editing by Christopher
National and state Republicans nominees for the Senate, House of Republicans must pick up 10 Wilson and Bill Trott) TEA page 23
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Japan intervenes to drag down yen and warns of more

(Reuters: Top News) official would not rule out Noda, who will reportedly keep INTERVENTION The central bank may follow up
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:27:30 AM currency intervention in European his post after a cabinet reshuffle, Estimates varied on how much with additional steps such as
hours and said Tokyo was ready indicated Tokyo acted alone. Japan had spent in its first buying more government debt,
A foreign exchange broker to step into markets in New York Noda said he was in contact with intervention in the foreign economists said.
watches a television (bottom) hours if necessary. authorities overseas, and analysts exchange market since 2003- LONG BATTLE?
showing the Japanese yen's Even as the dollar surged as expected Japan to be spared 2004, when it forked out 35 Analysts doubted whether Kan's
exchange rate against the U.S. much as 3 percent on the day international criticism. trillion yen ($409 billion). government was ready for a
dollar before the Finance Ministry against the yen, doubts about the But a European Union source Traders cited market estimates protracted battle with markets
intervened in the currency market ultimate effectiveness of Japan's said Japan had not even informed that Wednesday's efforts similar to the 15-month yen
while the current rate flashes unilateral yen selling spree the Europeans, or the United amounted to around 1.5 trillion selling spree earlier this decade,
above him in Tokyo September abounded. States, about the intervention. yen ($17.67 billion). since that campaign proved
15, 2010. Japan intervened in the A 15-month solo effort by U.S. officials at the Federal Unlike in previous forays, the ineffective at halting the yen's
currency market on Wednesday S w i t z e r l a n d t o w e a k e n i t s Reserve and the Treasury declined Bank of Japan will not drain the strength for long.
for the first time in six years, currency did little to tame the immediate comment. money flowing into the economy "The amount of intervention isn't
selling yen to stem a rise in the Swiss franc, and European Union The EU offered some sympathy as a result of the yen selling, likely to be as much as Japan was
currency that is threatening a o f f i c i a l s w a d e d i n t o s a y for Tokyo's plight, saying too sources familiar with the matter spending the last time it
fragile economic recovery. coordinated action always proves rapid yen appreciation could said. intervened, so it won't be enough
Credit: Reuters/Yuriko Nakao more effective. threaten economic recovery. But a That indicated the central bank to stop dollar/yen from falling. It
By Charlotte Cooper and Shinji Aside from apparently acting top official said coordinated plans to use the sold yen as a is also unlikely that other
Kitamura alone, Japan faces the stiff task of action would have been better. monetary tool to boost liquidity countries will co-operate," said
TOKYO| Wed Sep 15, 2010 trying to put a halt to yen strength "Unilateral actions are not the and support the economy. Junya Tanase, currency strategist
10:27am EDT while other major central banks appropriate way to deal with Authorities that sell their own at JP Morgan in Tokyo.
T O K Y O ( R e u t e r s ) - J a p a n such as the Federal Reserve may global imbalances," Jean-Claude currencies to weaken them often Japan need only look to
i n t e r v e n e d i n t h e c u r r e n c y be considering additional steps to Juncker, chair of the Eurogroup of issue bills to "sterilize" the funds Switzerland. The Swiss franc shot
markets on Wednesday to sell yen ease policy that could weigh on euro zone finance ministers, said and keep the excess money from to a record high against the euro
for the first time in six years and their respective currencies. when asked about Japan's becoming inflationary. In Japan's two weeks after the country's
promised more to come in a bid to " I t i s f a r l e s s c l e a r t h a t intervention. case, it wants to promote inflation central bank ended a 15-month
stop its relentless rise from intervention will be effective in a Euro zone sources said earlier since the economy has been policy in June 2010 of weakening
threatening a fragile economic world of zero interest rates and this month that there had been no dogged with deflation for much of its currency.
recovery. excess liquidity, but we think that discussions of European support the past decade. Finance minister Noda declined
Fresh after victory in a party it still makes sense for Japan to for potential action by Japan, a "The government's aim, and the to say if authorities had bought
leadership contest, Japan's Prime take action to try to arrest yen clear signal that coordinated help aim of authorities in general, is to dollars. But two traders said the
Minister Naoto Kan appeared to strength," said Richard Jerram, would not have been forthcoming. add monetary injections to the Bank of Japan, which acts on the
be stepping up efforts to wrench c h i e f A s i a e c o n o m i s t a t Analysts doubt other countries economy," Callum Henderson, ministry's behalf, appeared to
the country out of deflation by Macquarie Securities in Tokyo. would help Japan soften the yen global head of foreign exchange have bought dollars around 83
targeting yen strength, which has ALL ALONE? because they need weaker strategy with Standard Chartered yen at the start of the intervention.
weighed on stock prices and The dollar was up 3.1 percent at currencies to boost exports and in Singapore, told Reuters Insider. "We will take decisive steps if
corporate profits. 85.63 by 1230 GMT (8:30 a.m. growth. Intense pressure from "Unsterilized intervention should necessary, including intervention,
K a n t o l d r e p o r t e r s t h a t EDT), on track for its biggest Washington on China to let its be yen-negative, it should be very while continuing to closely watch
Wednesday's intervention had had daily gain in nearly two years. It currency strengthen also makes bullish for higher risk assets, very currency market moves from now
some effect but the government fell to a 15-year low beneath 83 attempts by major economies to bullish for stocks in Japan and on," Noda told reporters.
was watching foreign exchange yen overnight, which prompted dampen their currencies obviously it should add to the Wednesday's action pleased
moves with a sense of urgency. Tokyo to act. particularly sensitive. impact of the intervention of the
A Japanese senior government Finance Minister Yoshihiko U N S T E R I L I S E D yen," he said. JAPAN page 23
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Clinton warmly endorses Netanyahu and Abbas

(Reuters: Top News) Speaking after she met Israeli have said they would quit the Mitchell said they discussed (contiguous Palestine state) plus a
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:17:27 AM President Shimon Peres, Clinton negotiations if building resumes. several core issues and were big pile of cash seems fair.
described Netanyahu and Abbas Palestinians say the settlements, convinced a deal was possible Then fix the borders so they
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as sincere and serious and urged built on land they want for a state, within a year. cannot steal any more (and watch
(R) shakes hands with Israel's them to seize what she called "a would deny them a viable and The status of Jerusalem, the fate out they don’t steal the rest of the
F o r e i g n M i n i s t e r A v i g d o r moment of opportunity" despite contiguous country. of Palestinian refugees, the water while that’s going on).
Lieberman as they stand on a deep pessimism about the U.S. Netanyahu, whose coalition borders of a future Palestinian Sep 15, 2010 10:33am EDT
balcony during their meeting in goal of resolving the conflict's government is dominated by pro- state and security arrangements If she says so and the other party
Jerusalem September 15, 2010. main issues within a year. settler parties, said Sunday he are the main issues that the two is right on business then this is a
Credit: Reuters/Yossi Zamir/Pool In the Gaza Strip, run by Hamas would not extend the construction leaders would have to resolve to good news. We must all be happy
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to Detroit and the rest of the
industrial Midwest, he said, but
"it's going to skip over my
generation."
He has always dreamed of
starting his own company, making
the BMX bikes he loved as a child
and continues to ride today. "Lack
of money and fear of the
unknown," stopped him 20 years
ago, he said. Now his
circumstances make it impossible.
So he's thinking about going back
to the media trade school he
attended two decades ago --
though he understands that
industry is in as much flux as the
car business.
"It's time to move on," he said.
"There comes a time, like with the
house, when you just have to cut
loose. It didn't work."
His dad tries to put the situation
in perspective, pointing out that
some of his friends have stories
that are more tragic. "I know guys
at Ford who had to adopt their
grandchildren because their kids
just couldn't cope," he said.
But for his mom, Stevenson's
predicament and the predicaments
of the millions of U.S. workers
just like him are that much harder
to watch because of how much
easier things seemed for workers
not so long ago.
"Of course it's sad," she said. "We
lived in the best of times. And you
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what can you do? You just have
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Some posters here will blame
unions and others will blame
multinational corporations. They
will be both right and wrong. The
problem is in allowing either
group to become all-powerful.
Allowing unions to prevent
workers from being moved
around a factory as conditions
demand is suicidal. Allowing
corporate executives to plunder
the piggy bank and outsource jobs
to countries under slave labor
conditions is also suicidal.
It is time to admit that
globalization was a bad idea.
Americans cannot possibly
compete with people making 1/10
of their wage and working as
virtual slaves. We need to divide
the world into three partitions.
The first category is friends:
Canada, Mexico, the European
Union, Australia, and a few
others. The second category is
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follow the example of the EU
which appears to want to invite
every nearby country into their
union, even countries like Turkey
which have almost nothing in
common with the EU.
Competitors should be treated on
a case-by-case basis. In 2008,
China exported to us six times as
much we exported to them. This
relationship has never worked to
our benefit and must be
terminated. We should negotiate
an agreement where China opens
its markets, with tariffs tied
directly to verification. Trust, but
verify.
We must renegotiate our
involvement in the WTO to only
include our friends. China has
used the WTO solely to its benefit
and that must stop.
As for the many Americans who
have out-of-date skills for our
brave new world, we need a JFK-
esque vision of putting American
workers in jobs by the end of the
decade. This will involve the
government giving tax breaks for
education. The H-1B and L-1 visa
programs must be terminated and
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Submitted at 9/15/2010 11:00:00 AM
This makes my green heart
happy. Above is a video of the
Einstein Newton emulator
running on an iPhone 4. Newton
OS lives!
Sort of. You'll notice that it's kind
of slow for now, though the
project's developers say speed will
improve. Still, it's a full Newton,
with hand writing recognition and
everything. They also intend to
get it working on the iPod touch
and iPad. If you want to get your
hands on things right now, the
source code is available here.
Developer Matthias Melcher says
he's going to submit the emulator
to the App Store, but he's not
holding his breath.
Congratulations to Matthias for
the successful port, Paul Guyot
for writing the emulator in the
first place (and keeping it open
source) everyone who contributed
to the project. I hope to have this
on my own iPhone 4 soon.
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want to only spend what we can
afford? Because we want to come
home from the war? Because we
want to spend money on
taxpayers instead for foreigners?
Expect to see your neighbors and
friends support the Tea Party –
who doesn’t have a soldier Over
There, a friend or family member
in prison from the archaic Drug
War, or an empty wallet from
throwing trillions of dollars at the
military industrial complex.
Sep 14, 2010 11:21pm EDT
We don’t need a third political
party, we need a second one,
hopefully the conservative Tea
Party. Then we’ll have a choice,
and our Constitution and its
limitations on the federal
government can be restored.
Sep 15, 2010 12:12am EDT
All people are born alike – except
Republicans and Democrats. ~
Groucho Marx
Sep 15, 2010 12:17am EDT
Voting is like Driving. To go
forward you must select ‘D’. To
go back, select ‘R’.
Sep 15, 2010 12:21am EDT
I’m so glad I’m moving out of
the U.S.
I can no longer stand living in a
nation so polarized by stupid
inane politics, a country that lacks
little in the way of helping its
citizens but kowtows to big
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business and political interests,
that spies heavily on its own
citizens, charges exhorbitant fees
for things, charges costly fees for
higher education, no health care
for all, etc.
I know live in a nation that has
free higher education, national
health care, low unemployment,
but still honors freedom of
speech, freedom of expression,
freedom of religion. This nation
doesn’t spend a fortune on the
military, doesn’t wage wars in
countries where it should not
meddle, and uses that savings to
fund national health care and
national education. My taxes have
gone down and my level of living
has gone up since leaving the U.S.
Good riddance.
Sep 15, 2010 1:16am EDT
Looks like the democrats have
hired people to copy and paste
information all over the web to
demonize the Tea Party.
Reuters please look at
LoneTinaja’s strange indentation
and delete the post
Sep 15, 2010 2:05am EDT
@ Gina B
Welcome to the crowd…. I
moved out 25 years ago because it
was already obvious then, that
about 30% of the country was
fascistic. Even where I lived in
the Northeast. Aggressive
With almost an endless amount
of soda brands out there, Coke
wanted to stand out from the
crowd. What did they do? They
stupidity.
The Tea Party is nothing more
than a rehash of the Know
Nothings, driven by lies and
paranoia. And the fact that they
can get anywhere is the saddest
part. But the USA chose
feudalism in the 80s and hasn’t
turned back since. Time to leave.
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JAPAN
continued from page 20
Japanese exporters, many of
whom had expected the yen to
average 90 per dollar this fiscal
year.
"We applaud the move by the
government and the Bank of
Japan to correct the yen's
strength," Japan's No. 2
automaker Honda Motor Co. said
in a statement.
Honda has penciled in 87 yen per
dollar in its estimates for the fiscal
year to March 2011.
Kan was re-elected as ruling
party leader on Tuesday,
decisively fending off a challenge
from powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa,
an outspoken advocate of
intervention.
"There were views in the market
that Kan was more tolerant of a
higher yen and the yen rose after
he won the ruling party leadership
vote yesterday," said Yasuo
Yamamoto, senior economist at
Mizuho Research Institute.
"The government probably
wanted to stamp out those views.
But the question is: Will the yen
stop rising from here? It's not
clear."
The Japanese currency's rise has
brought it closer to its record peak
of 79.75 per dollar set in 1995 and
has weighed on the Tokyo stock
market's Nikkei average, which
climbed 2.3 percent on news of
the intervention.
pyramid display. What happened
next? Coke Zero reported a 13%
sales increase in stores that
participated. Nice.
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Additional reporting by Tara
Joseph Hui in Hong Kong;
Writing by Kevin Plumberg;
Editing by Mike Peacock)
Sep 14, 2010 10:19pm EDT
Well done BOJ, but it’s going to
be a long and winding road. You
cannot fight or reverse market
forces. Good luck.
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How secure is your e-mail password?

(CNET News.com) at stake in e-mail accounts. Use of middle name, address and phone other hangouts in the immediate
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM weak password-reset security numbers. He found additional vicinity, said Thompson, who also
questions is believed to have addresses on 123people.com. is chair of the RSA Conference.
Call me your e-mail security allowed someone to access the On Intelius.com, another site that "The longer you lived at an
guinea pig. Yahoo e-mail account of a Twitter offers some basic information for address, the more interesting
The other day I was talking to employee last year and then use free but charges for additional those searches are," he said.
H u g h T h o m p s o n , a d j u n c t that to access the person's Google data, he came across other people Then he used Ancestry.com to
professor of software security at Docs account where there was with the same last name who were search on one of the names linked
Columbia University and founder sensitive corporate information. supposedly associated with me to me and that he suspected was
of consultancy People Security, In agreeing to the project, and their ages. (Most but not all of my mother because of the
about his research related to Thompson had already done some the information uncovered in this associated ages. "Your mother is
online privacy and he mentioned homework and had a list of experiment was accurate.) By the most interesting relative for us
how easy it can be to hijack specific security questions that the comparing information on the to look up because her name
someone's e-mail account. So, I m a j o r W e b - b a s e d e - m a i l various sites and cross checking typically tells us what your
challenged him to try to steal providers use. The questions purported relatives and addresses, maiden name is, but it also is a
mine. include a mix of preference Thompson was able to guess gateway to find out who her
Over the course of an hour, I questions, like what is your Finally, there are the questions which state I grew up in and what parents were," Thompson said. "If
watched as he mined the Internet favorite book, musician, town, t h a t p e o p l e d o n ' t u s u a l l y cities I have lived in. we know their names then we
for information about me that and restaurant. Easy questions as remember or tend to have handy Then Thompson called in the big know what your mother's maiden
could be used to reset passwords they may seem on the surface, so they are less likely to choose guns--Ancestry.com. The site, name was."
on Web-based e-mail services, they are subject to change as them. These include what is your which is designed for people A common address between
plucking tidbits from a variety of peoples' tastes change. For primary frequent flier number or creating family trees and doing mother and subject also indicates
search and other sites to create instance, you are likely to have a library card number. genealogy research, pulls data the childhood home address.
quite a surprising dossier. I different favorite movie every Armed with a list of common from a host of public databases "That's valuable for password
decided to share the experience couple of months or at least likely questions from Gmail, Yahoo, and provides more information reset questions that ask what
(with a few omissions) in the to forget what your original Live Mail and AOL, Thompson than the free searches on the other street you grew up on," he said.
hopes that other people will test answer was. These aren't always knew what information to look sites but charges a subscription, of "Then you can search the
how easily they could be stalked easy for a stalker to find either, f o r . U s i n g a W e b - b a s e d course. There is also a 14-day trial addresses for the schools that are
online so they can better protect unless the target happens to be a conferencing system, I was able to offer. nearby and then go on
their e-mail and other Web blogger who shares a lot of watch his screen as he traversed On Ancestry.com he had to guess Classmates.com and bring up
accounts. personal information. It's the same the Internet. His first stop was at the birth year after learning my teachers by year at that school."
Hugh Thompson wasn't able to for the category I'll call "firsts," Google where he typed in my first age on a different site but not Thompson then went back to
hijack my e-mail account and such as what was your first pet's and last name. (All Thompson knowing the exact date and took Google to see if I had a resume
steal my identity, but he did show name, teacher's name or job. knew about me at the onset was an educated guess at the city of online, but that proved to be a
h o w e a s i l y i t c o u l d b e Then there are the fact-based my first and last name and that I residence too. Voila! Up came a dead end. Resumes have a wealth
done.(Credit: RSA Conference) questions that are easier to find work at CNET.) birth date, a bunch of previous of personal information, including
Access to an e-mail account from public databases, such as the Thompson went straight to my addresses, and even at least one e-mail addresses, phone numbers,
opens up access to all sorts of hospital you were born at, the LinkedIn profile where he learned phone number. addresses and college. Outdated
other information that could be street you grew up on or the town, where I went to college and Someone could easily take the resumes are even more valuable,
used to steal someone's identity your first phone number, high d e t a i l s o f m y p a s t w o r k address information to figure out according to Thompson.
and drain bank accounts, open up school you attended, last four experience. He then searched for a n s w e r s t o s o m e o f t h e Following the e-mail trail
credit cards, and even take out digits of your Social Security me on a people search engine preferential security questions by Satisfied with the amount of
loans in their name. number, mother's birthplace and called Pipl.com and came across using Google Street View to
It's not just personal information grandfather's occupation. references for city, state, age, zoom in on bars, restaurants, and HOW page 30
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'Social Network' weaves a complex Web (review)

(CNET News.com) She's telling him that even if he An early montage depicts it best. storytelling.
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM isn't really guilty of anything, his As Harvard students socialize and And "The Social Network" is
past actions (drunkenly and chatter in their dorm rooms, drink indeed very much a piece of tense
"When (Hermes) had driven away publicly blogging about an ex- and dance at parties, and strive to entertainment, rather than a
the cattle of Apollo and had been girlfriend, making a joke about scale the storied university's well- documentarian take on the
caught in the act, to win pardon comparing the appearances of established social ladder, company. The film throws
more easily, at Apollo's request he girls on Harvard's campus to farm Zuckerberg is at his computer, viewers smack into the action,
gave him permission to claim the animals) are enough for the building a predecessor to with Zuckerberg and his girlfriend
invention of the lyre." members of a jury to complete the Facebook that let undergraduates in a rapid-fire argument that's
--The Astronomica of Pseudo- circuit with their own details, to click to rank the appearances of nearly drowned out by the drone
Hyginus (2.7) explains the birth of somehow provide enough wiring their fellow classmates based on of the bar that they're in, and is
d e c e p t i o n , a n d i n t e l l e c t u a l to turn a disparate set of facts and pictures gleaned from online "face unapologetic about jumping back
property plot points into a coherent book" directories. He's hacking and forth between the main
"For those of you addicted to illumination of a narrative. The their lives with beer in hand, narrative, which takes place in the
FarmVille as much as I am there jurors would see what he put mischievously unmaking and winter of 2003-2004 and
is a glitch in the game that gives online (and later regretted) and it remaking their social world as courtroom scenes that were set at
you free cows." would shape their opinions of they know it: Loki at work. a later date. The pace and
-- A much-read how-to on the Zuckerberg regardless of what he According to Facebook, "The substance of the dialogue offers
Facebook Platform's biggest says in court. Social Network" itself is a little time to blink.
runaway success creation myths. After all, the film
This is key. "The Social creation myth on behalf of Tawdry on-campus shenanigans
In one scene in David Fincher's Network" is a thought-provoking, is itself a creation tale of
Fincher and Sorkin (and Ben that were arguably gratuitous
new film "The Social Network," a c e r e b r a l t r e a t i s e - - p e r h a p s , Facebook, as penned by
Mezrich, author of "The details in Mezrich's book--lingerie
retelling of the early days of unfortunately, too brainy for mass screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and
Accidental Billionaires," the book -clad coeds gyrating on mahogany
Facebook that opens in wide -market success--on the ambiguity crafted for the screen by Fincher.
upon which its storyline was tables of one of Harvard's finals
release in the U.S. on October 1, of friendship, identity, and social And in this interpretation,
based). Disputed facts and clubs, the frequent bong hit in the
c o m p a n y f o u n d e r M a r k status. It's about how we see Zuckerberg himself really is the
situations in the book and film background--become an almost
Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is ourselves and how the world sees devil--or, to delve more into the
have already been parsed and re- tongue-in-cheek pastiche of
given a bit of insight on behalf of us, and how these two forces can Intro to Mythology class you
parsed ad nauseam, and collegiate life against which
one of his lawyers (Rashida find themselves at odds. It's about might recall from college, more
Facebook's gelid reception toward Zuckerberg begins to construct his
Jones) as he's faced with a million the truly weird coexistence of the "trickster god" than the devil,
the film has been enough to grand vision. Ivy Leaguers, of
-dollar lawsuit from college rapid, unprecedented change ("It a Hermes or Loki with little
satisfy any Silicon Valley gossip course, are chiseled and beautiful.
classmates who claim that he stole won't be finished, that's the regard for the status quo, as
for the season. That's not the A scene set at the prestigious
t h e i r i d e a f o r c r e a t i n g a n point," Zuckerberg says of his preoccupied with unmaking as
point. Every detail in "The Social Henley Royal Regatta in the U.K.
exclusive social network for iterative vision of Facebook) with with creating. He's devious,
Network" could be pulled from uses tilt-shift cinematography to
Harvard University students. unflinching permanence: another obsessively surveying the world
the transcripts of public court make buildings and boats look
"Creation myths need a devil," character, a fictionalized version around him and scheming as to
records--and, indeed, much of it is like toys in a storybook imagining
s h e s a y s , e x p l a i n i n g t o of the aforementioned ex- how he can lay his own
--and the film would regardless be of old-school competition, athletic
Zuckerberg her recommendation girlfriend, says to Zuckerberg of framework on top of it, unafraid
inflected with the artistic direction prowess, and social status.
that the lawsuit be settled rather the blog posts about her, "The to cast others aside when they
of Sorkin and Fincher. Fincher's So we have our creation myth,
than taken to trial. threaten his vision--like the
Internet's not written in pencil, it's "The Social Network" would be a one about a company that
The poster for Columbia Pictures' written in ink." onscreen version of spurned
very different film from Steven continues to rapidly grow and
'The Social Network,' starring It seems consciously meta for the Facebook co-founder Eduardo
Spielberg's or Wes Anderson's. change and alter the world around
actor Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook c h a r a c t e r s i n " T h e S o c i a l Saverin, in an impressive
It's not a matter of fact versus
CEO Mark Zuckerberg. performance by British actor 'SOCIAL page 31
Network" to be talking about fiction, it's about the nature of
Andrew Garfield.
26 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

HTC debuts Android phones, Sense Web service

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:34:45 AM

HTC CEO Peter Chou shows the

new Desire HD, left, and Desire
Z, at their launch in
London.(Credit: Stephen
Shankland/CNET)
LONDON--Rising mobile phone
HTC began an effort to rise
further on Wednesday--and not
just with phones.
The Taiwanese company
introduced two Android phones,
the Desire HD with a large 4.3-
inch screen and the and Desire Z
with a flip-out hardware
keyboard. Both set to arrive in
October in Europe and Asia; the
Desire Z will arrive in North
America later this year.
Like Apple, Samsung, and many
other competitors, HTC is trying
to differentiate the products
through software and services,
though. The phones come with an
updated version of HTC's Sense
user interface and tie in with the
new HTCSense.com Web site
designed to augment its phones'
abilities.
HTC's approach makes the
company's technology a hub of
people's use of their phones,
potentially elevating the company
from a hardware maker that just
sells a phone to a service provider
with whom customers have an
ongoing relationship.
The HTCSense.com site, for
example, lets people log in
remotely to forward mobile phone v i d e o s , r e c o r d g e o g r a p h i c phone. Also remotely, a person retrievable, issue a custom lost- altogether.
calls to their office phone, search b o o k m a r k s t h a t H T C c a l l s can make a misplaced phone ring and-found message on the screen
text messages, back up photos and footprints for later use on the and, for phones that are less or wipe the phone's data HTC page 29
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Nokia Launches Check-ins on Ovi Maps, Takes Location and
Privacy Seriously
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:12:59 AM
Nokia debuted a new feature for
its Ovi Maps service at this week's
Nokia World 2010 event in
London: check-ins. But,
thankfully, the company isn't
hopping on the bandwagon of
location-based social sharing with
its own self-branded service (also
known as "yet another social
network I have to sign up for.")
Instead, Nokia is taking the idea
of location seriously, enabling
real-time social sharing privately
between friends or, with just a tap,
to your social networking services
of choice.
The service integrates with both
large global networks like
Facebook and Twitter, but also
smaller, more regionally focused
networks like China's RenRen and
Germany's StudioVZ.
More importantly, though, the
issue of privacy has been
thoughtfully addressed.
Sponsor
Location and Privacy
Nokia's check-in feature doesn't
run in the background, like its
competitor Google Latitude,
which automatically updates your
location as you move about town.
Collars are Less Dangerous for Cats Than You Think [Pets]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:00:00 AM
Instead, users who want to check
in using Ovi Maps have to start
the process manually each and
every time.
Nokia's check-in service is also
not trying to compete with the
numerous location-based
applications already in existence,
like the game-based networks of
Gowalla and Foursquare or the
more mobile shopping-focused
apps like Topguest and Shopkick.
Ovi Maps is just about sharing
location - not rewards, coupons,
badges or stamps. It lets you
quickly and easily tell your
friends where you are and it even
works via SMS and email to alert
friends who are not Ovi Maps
users.
Perhaps its best feature, though,
is the delete button.
While you can't delete an
individual update, you can, with a
touch of a button, delete all your
location-based data from Nokia's
Ovi servers. This should alleviate
some people's concerns about
location-sharing and the potential
threat to privacy it invites. Could
your location-based data be
accessed by unknown parties,
mined for cyber-stalking
purposes, or might you just not
want Nokia to have this data on
Fewer than two percent of lost or
wayward cats ever make it from a
shelter back to their owners, while
Technology/ Culture/ 27
than an oversight. Location is Not news and information to rural
a Craze, It's the Future users in emerging markets where
For Nokia, location isn't just the only Internet device is a
about getting hip to the latest handheld phone and TV,
trend to hit the tech world. The newspapers and radio may not be
company sees location as playing accessible, the idea of making the
a larger role in the future of services not just geographically
mobile. "Social location is the focused, but also hyper-local,
new connector," said Nokia's Tero based on an end user's current
Ojanpera, EVP in its Services location is intriguing.
division, referring to Nokia's That's further down the road,
company slogan "connecting though, for the company. For
people." now, the company is content to
hand? If so, then Ovi Maps' check In emerging markets, Ojanpera bring the check-in feature to the
-in service may appeal as it lets says the benefits of socially 20 million+ people who have
you use location-sharing, but shared location are the same, but downloaded Ovi Maps across 78
privately. the usage is different. For countries worldwide. Check-ins
Users can also choose to push example, a user in an undeveloped will be available on both the new
their data out to larger social region may still want a mapping Symbian^3 devices like the N8
networks like Facebook and service, but instead of having and older touchscreen devices
Twitter or even smaller, regional directions that read "turn right" at running Symbian^1.
ones, if they prefer, by tapping some road, it may use a notable In addition to check-ins, Nokia's
those options on screen during a landmark as the indicator of Ovi Maps service has also gained
c h e c k - i n . O n e o d d m i s s i s where the route changes. gesture control, real-time traffic
Foursquare integration, which is Another example the company is information, plus alerting and
d o u b l y o d d s i n c e N o k i a i s currently pondering is how it informational features for
simultaneously launching its own could location-enable its Ovi Life available parking, speed traps and
Foursquare app built using the tools for end users, this being the gas station locations. It now
service's APIs (developer tools). content suite covering health care, includes maps of public transport
When asked if Foursquare would a g r i c u l t u r e , e d u c a t i o n a n d in 85 cities, as well. The new
arrive in future iterations of the entertainment. Although the tools version of the service is now
service, cagey execs would only already offer locally relevant available for download here in
reply, "we'd like that." This seems content, they're not actually beta format.
to point to some technical foul-up location-based services yet. But Discuss
somewhere along the line rather since they're designed to bring
15-19 percent of dogs do. The study finds mostly unwarranted.
difference? Cat owners' fear of More »
collar problems, which a new
28 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

Twitter Aims to Duplicate YouTube's Success

Richard MacManus redesign and more about re- Web where people can consume
(ReadWriteWeb) positioning Twitter as a source of the "tweets" of the small
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:37:13 AM content. In other words, Twitter is percentage of users who like to
moving away from the read/write produce content. YouTube has
Yesterday Twitter announced a model that has been so integral to With YouTube translated this into a very
major redesign of its homepage. t h e s c a l i n g o f o t h e r w e b That term 'destination site' takes successful web service, which far
The new twitter.com is designed c o m p a n i e s . us back to the dot com era of the eclipses what Twitter has so far
to make it easier for mainstream Facebook has become a Web, where the vast majority of achieved.
people to consume content on phenomenon because its hundreds people consumed content but Next Stop For Twitter: YouTube-
Twitter. "You don't have to of millions of users both read and didn't produce it. After that, of Like Scale
course the read/write web came It seems like a natural evolution Intel's Clamshell
tweet," said Twitter co-founder write content on the site. As an
Evan Williams at the press example, all of my immediate along and we got services like for Twitter, to scale up its Classmate PC now more
gathering yesterday, "any more family now uses Facebook - but YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, m a i n s t r e a m u s e r b a s e l i k e rugged and longer-lasting
than you have to make a webpage not one of them uses Twitter. And Delicious, Wikipedia, Facebook... YouTube did. That doesn't mean
and Twitter. When Twitter first that it's any less of a 'read/write' Ross Miller (Engadget)
to use the Web." In other words, that in a nutshell is the problem
Twitter wants to emphasize the for Twitter. became popular with the early service, because the core principle Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:22:00 AM

content consumption aspect of its Twitter's solution is to tell people adopter set in 2007, it was mostly of the Read/Write Web has
u s e d a s ( a n o t h e r ) s o c i a l always been that it democratizes Don't expect any new swivels
service and de-emphasize the like my family: hey, we know (ahem, Dell), but Intel's education
production part. you're confused about why people networking tool. production tools. YouTube made
But it turns out that, in Twitter's it easy for anybody to upload their -focused Classmate PC
Twitter is doing this because it want to "tweet" what they're nonetheless learned a few new
has struggled to get normal doing during the day. But did you case, the usage patterns of early own videos to the Web, like
a d o p t e r s w a s N O T a g o o d Twitter has made it easy for tricks at this year's IDF 2010.
everyday people to tweet. But know that you can follow what First up is battery life, a six-cell
there is hope for Twitter yet, Lady Gaga has to say, or see indicator of how mainstream users anybody to broadcast their
would use the service. Unlike thoughts in 140 characters or less. lithium-ion energy source "so
because YouTube has proven that breaking news from CNN, or find students may be able to work all
a Social Web service can have a out about breaking news before it with Facebook, where mainstream That a much smaller percentage
users in 2010 do pretty much the of YouTube or Twitter's user base day long on a single charge" also
consumption focus and still hits the TV networks -- and so on. helped by the latest 45nm Intel
achieve mega success. Twitter is Evan Williams noted yesterday same thing on the site as the early wants to take advantage of those
US college users did in 2005 production tools, compared to Atom processor (we're pretty sure
trying to take its site to YouTube's that Twitter.com accounts for that means Pine Trail and not that
level of popularity. 78% of Twitter use, with 14% of (only with much less "poking"), Facebook or even Flickr, doesn't
Twitter's mainstream users do not mean that it has less chance of other newcomer). There's
Sponsor users going to Twitter via its additionally more ruggedness in
The Twitter redesign makes the mobile website. Many power share the need of early adopters to success. YouTube has proven that
tweet at regular intervals. the form factor, allowing for
s e r v i c e m o r e a p p e a l i n g t o users of Twitter use third party it can take a 'more read than write' added protection on 70cm "desk
consumers, for example by applications like TweetDeck and YouTube is perhaps a good service to the highest level of
example of what Twitter is aiming popularity. Now Twitter is trying heights" drops, increased water
integrating photos and videos. It Seesmic to consume tweets. Most resistance of at least 100cc of
also sports a sleeker look, akin to of those power users are probably t o b e c o m e . T h e a p p e a l o f to do that too.
YouTube when it launched in Let us know if you agree with liquid, and an antimicrobial
the iPad version of Twitter which producing tweets too (although coating for a cleaner environment.
launched recently to mostly we have no statistics about that). 2005 was that people could this analysis in the comments.
upload their own videos to the Discuss Intel's Clamshell Classmate PC
positive reviews. The implication is clearly that now more rugged and longer-
Twitter Now More Read Than Twitter.com has become a hugely Web. But nowadays most of its
users just consume videos and lasting originally appeared on
Write popular destination site for many Engadget on Wed, 15 Sep 2010
I n e s s e n c e , y e s t e r d a y ' s millions of consumers. aren't uploading them. Likewise,
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HTC
continued from page 26
"We are extending the HTC
experience beyond the phone,"
HTC Chief Executive Peter Chou
at the launch event here.
Chou is happy with the prospect
of being in the thoughts of his
customers. "We want people to
view HTC as a global brand,"
Chou said, adding that research
shows awareness of the HTC has
doubled in the last year.
HTC's Desire HD, left, and
Z(Credit: HTC)
HTC has been making phones for
years, but it was Google's Android
operating system that put the
company on the map and fulfilled
some of its brand-name
ambitions.
Other companies have produced
increasingly competitive Android
phones--Samsung's Galaxy S and
Motorola's Droid X being recent
examples--but HTC has
maintained its position of strength
by pumping out a profusion of
models. Many are modest
variations of a common design,
but HTC clearly has pushed ahead
as well.
Along with HTC's Android
success came a lawsuit from
iPhone maker Apple, though. It's
something of a replay of Apple's
unsuccessful case against
Microsoft for the Macintosh's
"look and feel" appearing in
Windows, but this time alleging
patent infringement rather than
Online Features - October 2010
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
Sorry, Readability was unable to
copyright infringement.
New phones
The Desire Z uses a new
800MHz Qualcomm 7230
processor and has a 3.7-inch
screen, and the Desire HD as a
1GHz Qualcomm 8255 processor
and a 4.3-inch screen. Both
screens have 800x480-pixel
resolution, Android 2.2, and a fast
-boot feature to power up in about
10 seconds, said HTC Chief
Marketing Officer John Wang.
As one might expect, the Desire
HD can shoot high-definition
video with a 720p resolution
using its 8-megapixel camera. It
also can display that video on an
attached TV using the DNLA
home-networking technology,
including the use of Dolby
surround sound.
The Desire Z also can shoot HD
video with a 5-megapixel camera.
The Desire Z is designed with a
thin screen that flips into a
recessed area, moving the
physical keyboard closer to the
same plane as the touch screen.
This eases the difficulties of
touching both, HTC argues.
"Some people want that
dependable hardware keyboard,"
said Horace Luke, HTC's chief
innovation officer.
New Sense interface
The Sense UI adds a number of
features to the stock Android
operating system from Google,
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photos.
New features in Sense include a
locations application for finding
nearby attractions and using
footprints; the ability to apply
effects to photos such as fisheye-
lens distortion or an aged sepia-
tone look; and a built-in e-reader
application powered by Kobo's
bookstore service.
The new Sense also has
navigation improvements. People
can cache maps on the phone,
which speeds up zooming and
panning operations, Wang said. A
built-in compass helps people get
their bearings when they're trying
to figure out which way is which
at an unfamiliar location. And
when a call comes in while a
person is using driving directions,
the call notification nudges aside
only the bottom portion of the
map instead of hiding it
altogether.
HTC also tries to centralize
communications through its own
interface. A unified inbox lets
people sort messages by top
contacts or unread e-mail, for
example. And the FriendStream
application offers a multifaced
view of social-network activity
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Vodafone is among those who'll
offer the new Android phones--
exclusively in the case of Spain,
Australia, and Turkey.
"Our partnership over the last two
years with HTC ahs been really
productive," said Patrick
Choumet, Vodafone's global
director of terminals, at the event.
HTC helps Vodafone fulfill its
ambition to spread smartphones
far and wide--models that
command premium rate plans
with data access. Use of online
map service has increased 88
percent in the last year, and use of
social-network sites has doubled,
Choumet said.
"The smartphone era we saw
coming for a few years is now
very real," he said.
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IBM Buys OpenPages
To Spice Up Its Business
Analytics Portfolio
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:28:23 AM
IBM has agreed to purchase
OpenPages, a privately-held
software company based in
Waltham, MA that helps
companies identify and manage
risk and compliance activities
across the enterprise through a
single management system.
Financial terms were not
disclosed, and the acquisition is
subject to regulatory clearances
and other customary closing
conditions. The acquisition of
OpenPages expands IBM's
business analytics capabilities to
support compliance and risk
management processes. Following
the close of the acquisition, IBM
intends to integrate OpenPages
within IBM's Business Analytics
software portfolio.
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HOW
continued from page 24
biographical information he had
accumulated on me, Thompson
then decided to see what e-mail
addresses he could find. Since e-
mail services allow you to reset
your password by sending a
message to your alternate e-mail
address, getting the earliest e-mail
address for someone is key
because that is the one most likely
to offer up security questions. If
it's a school e-mail address, that is
even better because those security
questions are likely to be the least
secure, he said. The idea is to
follow the trail of e-mail
addresses as far back as possible.
Corporate e-mail addresses,
meanwhile, aren't much help
because they typically reset
passwords internally through the
corporate IT department.
Since I was in school before e-
mail was popular (now you know
I'm no spring chicken!) there was
no school e-mail address for me.
If there had been one, Thompson
said he would have searched for
the school on Classmates.com and
checked for the domain there and
guessed what my e-mail address
would have been. He also could
have looked for public records
associated with possible student
loans to get an e-mail address that
way, he said.
Thompson guessed that I would
have a Gmail address and that as
No more Twitter apps
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:55:16 AM
Every so often I get asked to look
an early adopter it would follow a
particular, simple format. But
when he tried to reset the
password, the system offered to
have password reset information
sent to my alternate e-mail
address or phone number. Gmail
provided enough of the other e-
mail address to figure it out and a
few letters of the cell phone that
could be compared against phone
numbers uncovered on the people
search sites. He then would have
had to hack my cell phone or
otherwise get physical access to it
in order to get to the text message
and choose the password he wants
in order to hijack my account.
Thompson and I ran out of time,
but I went ahead and finished the
process and tried to reset the
password on my alternate e-mail
account. I struck gold--from an
attacker's point of view--in that it
did ask security questions instead
of referring me on to yet another e
-mail address. But two of the
three questions it asked (which I
must have created) were unlikely
to appear in any public databases
and were not based on
preferences. I'd share them with
you, but then I'd have to kill you.
(Just kidding. See below for some
suggestions.)
The third security question asked
was (yikes!) my mother's maiden
name, which Thompson had not
at a Twitter app. I usually look, good they'd be better without the
and usually am depressed by what connection to Twitter. At least
I see. they'd be more honest.
They're all scams. If they're any I don't like calling software or
yet uncovered but would have
eventually if we had had more
time.
I compared the accurate
information uncovered by
Thompson with the list of about
30 or so security questions that
the e-mail providers offer as
default questions and found that
about eight of them would have
easily been answered and another
four probably could have been.
Phew! Safe enough--for now
Because of the time constraint
and the fact that I write about
computer security issues and am
thus more likely to be more
security-conscious, Thompson did
not hijack my e-mail account. But
the experiment was fascinating,
nonetheless. It showed how easily
a stranger can dig up all sorts of
information on someone. And it
showed just how easy to guess
many of the password-reset
security questions are.
Thompson recommends that
people conduct this experiment on
their own identity to see what the
results are and how secure their e-
mail accounts are. And I would
suggest the same. Then, either
choose the safest default questions
or, better yet, create your own, if
that is an option.
When selecting a question option,
think of an event in your life or a
fond memory that is not going to
be found on a public document
and which you won't likely forget.
Choose something that you
haven't exposed to the public in a
blog, Facebook posting or other
online site. And think about
specifics related to that memory,
like a person, place or thing.
Avoid referencing anything that
can change over time such as a
preference or feeling. Then set the
question based on that.
When I realized the amount of
information Thompson had
amassed on me in a relatively
short period of time, I was
shocked and a little nervous. It's
fine for someone I trust to be
trawling the Internet for details of
my personal life, but if he could
do this so could someone else.
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that about the Twitter API.
In any case, I don't expect to see
any compelling Twitter apps from
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Tupalo Partners With
CityGrid Media For U.S.
Expansion, Goes Up
Against Yelp
Steve O'Hear (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:24:49 AM
Vienna-based social yellow pages
startup Tupalo(a European
competitor to Qype) has launched
in the U.S. in partnership with
CityGrid Media, a local media
company "connecting the millions
of businesses and customers on
the web." As a result, Tupalo
now offers over 1 million
business listings across the U.S.,
adding tens of thousands more on
a daily basis. This, of course, also
pits the startup against the major
local (and International) player
Yelp.
here-out.
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it while still generating an
unheard-of sense of permanence
and public narrative. And we have
our Hermes in Zuckerberg; plus,
there's a set of blue-blooded twin
Apollos in antagonists Cameron
and Tyler Winklevoss (played
with camera tricks by actor Armie
Hammer), eventual members of
the Olympic crew team prone to
both utterances of law-abiding
mannerliness ("We are gentlemen
of Harvard!") and what they
believe to be noble aggression
("Let's freakin' gut that little
nerd!").
Then there's Zuckerberg's
kindred spirit in Napster co-
founder Sean Parker (a
surprisingly good performance by
erstwhile boy-band singer Justin
Timberlake), an entrepreneur
prone not only to deceit and
pranksterism but to ribald
hedonism and wild, sometimes
questionable tales of his own past
in Silicon Valley. He can shape-
shift in the manner of traditional
lore, morphing from broke Palo
Alto couch-crasher to man of the
hour with martini glass in hand. In
Fincher and Sorkin's retelling,
Parker is the Digital Age's
Jessica Simpson Brings Eric Back For More NYC Romance
Molly (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:00:00 AM
Jessica Simpson and Eric
Johnson stepped out of their hotel
in NYC yesterday. The two are
back in the city after spending
most of last week there, but taking
original trickster.
But here's where Zuckerberg
comes in. The real-life
Zuckerberg, as tech news
aficionados are likely aware,
abides by a credo of "real
identity": On Facebook, you're
supposed to share your real name,
your real photographs and
statistics, accompanied by digital
simulacra of your real-world
social connections. It seems to
leave little room for a shape-
shifter like Timberlake's Parker--
but in reality, it just wrests that
shape-shifting from your own
control, and leaves your identities
open, often full of gaps, for others
to complete the picture. Facebook
executives like to say that you
have control of your own identity
on the social network and perhaps
that's true. But you've never had
complete control over what others
think of you, and merely by
sharing snippets of your life
online (regardless of the platform
or outlet) you're setting that lack
of control loose in a public or
semi-public space.
And so Zuckerberg has rendered
the majority of Facebook's 500
million-plus members into public
off on Friday and enjoying an
antiquing adventure elsewhere.
She's promoting her new denim
line with a fan event at Macy's
tonight, and we got an inside look
at the line when she styled her
closest pals. Eric has become the past months, while she
Jessica's constant companion over
figures for the first time, open to
the judgments, interpretations,
and prejudices of an entire planet-
-just as Zuckerberg himself has
now been depicted and
mythologized by Fincher and
Sorkin. He's not happy about it.
There are also real consequences
for the rest of us, some critics of
Facebook say. "I care deeply
about the culture of the Web, and
am concerned that many of the
decisions Facebook makes are
detrimental to its culture,
particularly when Facebook
inadvertently imposes an extreme
set of values on its users without
adequately communicating the
consequences of those choices,"
dot-com thinker Anil Dash wrote
in a recent blog post explaining
his view that socioeconomic
advantage or disadvantage may
weigh heavily on how the
information we share online can
affect us.
So we, too, have to consider the
questions: Are our Facebook
profiles our own "creation myths,"
or are they the platform-- pun
intended--from which others can
devise their own impressions of
us? How "real" is the
Zuckerbergian manifesto of "real
identity" if everyone's
interpretation of everyone else is
different? And it's the world that's
still evolving on behalf of this
new "digital mythology," in which
anyone can have a hand in the
building of another person's
narrative, that "The Social
Network" at once encapsulates
and previews.
It's a world that's exciting and
scary. And if you made it this far,
you win a prize in the form of the
Short Version of this "Social
Network" review: four out of five
stars.
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reportedly had a falling out with
Ken Paves. Hopefully, the
longtime best friends will patch
things up and until then, she
seems very happy with her guy.
Some of you worry Jess is putting
herself out there too much with
her frequent romantic twitpics,
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Count The Beats: First look at Amidio's Seline HD

app for the iPad
Matt Tinsley (The Unofficial musicians to find depth in the
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) experience. By implementing
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM dozens of algorithms to analyze
the melody being played, Seline
The guys over at Amidio Inc ( HD will subtly introduce
Touch DJ / Noise.io) have character and expression to your Chrome and Firefox 4
recently released their latest app input. For example, play an Beta 6 Push Critical Bug,
for the iPad, Seline HD(US$5.99). intensive solo where you land up
Seline HD is a musical holding the final note, Seline HD Security Fixes [Updates]
instrument designed for will detect this passage and add a Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
performance and composition of subtle vibrato to that final note, as Submitted at 9/15/2010 5:40:00 AM
music on the iPad. One of its key a finishing touch.
features is to make easy the To top it all off, Seline HD is Mozilla and Google made some
creation of complex melodies, equipped with a full range of quick moves last night to patch up
while accompanying those recording possibilities, including their browsers. In Chrome's camp,
melodies with big sound scape direct recording to .wav files. a batch of bugs went down, but
type pads. With 20 built-in factory voices also a high-level Mac security
With Its all new ergonomically (flutes, bowed strings, reeds, flaw that Google hasn't released
designed interface, the ioGrid, synth leads and more), and 9 details for. On the Firefox side,
Seline HD makes playing music a
each finger being responsible for to control a center, 2 semi-tone, drone voices, we're looking lots of small stuff was cut down in
breeze, literally, without the strain
its own column. As a result, up or down pitch bend, while forward to spending some quality Firefox 4 Beta 6, but a major fix
(RSI, anyone?).
i n t e r e s t i n g p l a y i n g a n d going left or right will add manual time with Seline HD. should prevent Mac users from
Seline HD's intuitive
improvisational input possibilities vibrato. There's also note shift, up After the break, check out Seline experiencing white shading over
CrystalClarity HD sound engine
occur, but more importantly, the or down buttons, to create great HD's tutorial video, Seline HD web pages that prevents typing,
analyzes what you are playing to
added comfort of knowing you trill sounds, and, in addition to being used by The iPad Orchestra due to a plug-in handling error. In
add subtle nuances to your strokes
will never hit a wrong note. In this, the joystick on each side and Jordan Rudess, of Dream both cases, grab the update as
of genius. And the keys are
your face, music teacher! calibrates the attack of the notes T h e a t e r , p l a y i n g a p i a n o soon as you're able. [ Chrome
designed to be suitable for players
But the playing doesn't end there. being played. To add a luscious accompanied by Seline HD. Releases, Beta 6 release notes, via
with all hand sizes, according to
Some well thought out features background to your melodies, TUAW Count The Beats: First CNET, CNET] More »
Amidio's press release.
enhance your Seline HD skills activate the Drone (chorded synth look at Amidio's Seline HD app
So, how do you play? You lay
even more. Aiming for the center pads). Analyzing what you are for the iPad originally appeared
your hands down on the keys, like
of each key (in a column) will playing, the Drone will add sound on The Unofficial Apple Weblog
you're about to play a piano. A
provide maximum volume, while s c a p e b a c k g r o u n d s t o y o u r (TUAW) on Wed, 15 Sep 2010
fully adjustable 16-note scale is 09:00:00 EST. Please see our
aiming slightly off center, and to m e l o d i e s .
divided between your left and
the edges, will provide less. In Using Amidio's CrystalClarity terms for use of feeds.
right hand, odd and even notes
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IE9 Product Boss Hachamovitch: “Our Goal Was To Have The

Sites Shine Through” (TCTV)
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) using all the PC and we are especially for IE9. When you
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:25:43 AM putting the site at the center of the visit each of these sites, the button
design,” says Hachamovitch. background colors change to
Today, after many previews, “Our goal was to have the sites match Amazon gold or CNN red
speed tests, and leaked videos, shine through.” to match the site. And when you
Microsoft will be finally unveiling One of the first things you notice pin that site to the taskbar and
the full public beta of Internet about IE9 is how barebones it hover over it, a customized list of
Explorer 9. I recently sat down looks. The semi-transparent options pops up such as creating a
w i t h D e a n H a c h a m o v i t c h , chrome around the browser is wishlist or playing a stream of
Microsoft’s general manager in designed to disappear. There are songs.
charge of IE9, who took me very few buttons because people Finally, Hachamovitch addresses
through some of the main features don’t use them. According to the need for sites written in
of the new browser and sat down Hachamovitch, for instance, only HTML5, CSS3, and friends, all of
for the TCTV interview above. 25 percent of people ever use the which IE9 supports, to get to the
IE9 is built for speed, it takes home button. Instead of the usual point where they can use the same
advantage of the latest HTML5 Microsoft feature overkill, IE9 markup language no matter what
a n d o t h e r m o d e r n W e b removes features and refreshingly browser visitors are using. Today,
technologies, and makes a point simplifies the experience. If you that is simply not the case.
of stripping away all unnecessary go by pixel count, IE9 gives more able to show one extra Tweet any other app. “The other guys CrunchBase Information
UI elements. The IE9 browser real estate to sites than either because it didn’t waste as much I’d characterize as being browser Windows Internet Explorer
will only work on Windows Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. To space at the top with a clutter of centric,” says Hachamovitch, “we Information provided by
computers, but it takes advantage illustrate this, Hachamovitch toolbar menu items. are going to be site-centric.” CrunchBase
of the graphics processor for o p e n e d e a c h b r o w s e r i n a IE9 also uses the entire desktop Microsoft is launching with a
hardware acceleration and the different window and pointed to its advantage. Any page or tab slew of partners from A to Z,
multiple cores in most PCs to them to Twitter. In a window the can be pinned down to the taskbar including Amazon, CNN, and
offload different tasks. “We are same size as all the rest, IE9 was at the bottom and launched like Jango, to tune their sites

Augen Android netbook hits Kmart

Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:53:08 AM
Back in July we mentioned that
the Augen Android tablet called
the Gentouch had hit Kmart at a
price of $149. That tablet now has
an Android netbook sibling on
Kmart for a little more green. The
netbook is called the Augen 10.2-
inch Netbook PC Powered by
Android.
You can pick the thing up for
$189.99 and it has a decent
feature set for the price. The
machine runs Android 2.1 and can
surf the web, check email, and do
other general computer work
assuming you can find apps to
support the kind of work you want
to do. The 10.2-inch screen has a
resolution of 1024 x 600.
The processor brain is an ARM11
running at 800MHz. The machine
has 256MB of RAM and has 2GB
of internal storage. The keyboard
is 93% full-size and the little rig
has integrated WiFi and a SD card
slot good for cards up to 32GB.
Power comes from a rechargeable
2100 mAh battery and the
machine weighs 1.8 pounds. It
even comes with a leather carry
case.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• Augen Gentouch 78 $149
Android tablet headed to Kmart
• Augen The Book LCD ereader
on sale for bargain $90 [Update:
Reviewed!]
• Kmart decides to stock only
standalone HD DVD players, no
love for Blu-ray
• Kmart denies snubbing Blu-ray,
still isn’t selling standalone
players
• Sony PS3 Slim $299.99
preorders being taken by Kmart
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Google Health Gets A Wellness Makeover, Now
Integrated With Fitbit And CardioTrainer
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:43:04 AM
Google Health, which enables
you to store and manage all your
health information in one place on
the Web, is getting a much-
needed redesign and feature
upgrade today. And Google,
which launched Google Health in
2008, has partnered with popular
mobile health app CardioTrainer
and personal health and wellness
monitoring device Fitbit to
integrate data from these
applications into your Health
profile.
Via a new dashboard, Google
Health will now organize all of
your health and wellness (i.e.
fitness) information in one place.
The new platform will give
provide graphs on your progress
with weight loss goals, and you’ll
be able to create custom trackers
for wellness issues like dietary
habits, daily sleep, frequency of
exercise, pregnancy or even how
many cups of coffee you drink a
day.
Additionally, you’ll be able to
Set Up Google Calendar Desktop Notifications
Through Chrome [Notifications]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:30:00 AM
If Outlook's attention-grabbing
desktop pings are the main reason
now keep a journal on progress
for wellness goals for health
conditions. And Google is
upgrading content integration for
Google Health, allowing users to
access content links for each
medical condition, medication or
lab result users input in their
Google Health profile. Past
medical history or conditions can
you stick with it, Google Calendar
might surprise you. After enabling
a Labs feature and a Chrome
setting, you can get similar
notifications so you don't miss
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into your Google Health profile.
Google says that in the two
weeks since CardioTrainer’s
integration went live, the app’s
developer WorkSmart Labs says
that users uploaded more than Pick the Desk Shape Best
150,000 workouts to Google Suited for Your Space and
Health. This data can then be
Workflow [Workspace]
mashed up with medical data that
users input to Google Health. Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Of course, one the keys to the Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:30:00 AM
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are partnerships with insurance Most people pick their desk
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And Google is partnering with Stanford, University of Pittsburgh
TechCrunch50 startup Fitbit, Medical Center (UPMC) and
which develops a wearable device Sharp HealthCare. Last year,
that captures health and wellness Google announced a partnership
data such as steps taken, calories with CVS to import prescription
burned and sleep quality; and d a t a i n t o t h e p l a t f o r m .
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Nokia and Intuit
Announce Partnership for
Mobile Marketing
that meeting (or lunch outing). Services
At Nokia World 2010 in London,
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Nokia's EVP (ReadWriteWeb)
of Mobile Phones,
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Mary McDowell, brought Intuit's
Global Business Division
president Alex Lintner on stage
for an announcement regarding a
new partnership between the two
companies. The partnership is a
strategic alliance for a first-of-its-
kind service designed to help
McDowell referred to this suite of
services as an "app." The app will
connect businesses to potential
customers over multiple channels,
including social networking
services like Facebook and
Twitter, as well as SMS and
email. Location-based services
worldwide will help increase
Compostable food
customer loyalty and sell more
phones. For Intuit, it's about packaging on its way to
bringing their experience with
small business-focused products
like QuickBooks to a new market.
Europe
The offering is set to launch in (CNET News.com)
the 4th quarter of this year with a Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:26:32 AM

small business owners around the
world increase revenues through a
mobile marketing service
offering. This service will include
a combination of offers,
advertising and location-based
features that will direct customers
to where they can find products to
buy in their own neighborhoods.
According to McDowell, the
partnership will increase foot
traffic to small businesses that
adopt the service by at least 10%.
Sponsor
Specifics about how the
technology will be implemented
and distributed were not delved
into in any detail, but at one point
'Outlaw' Premiere Review: This Whole
Court's Out of Order
Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 4:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Fall
TV, Stay Tuned NBC's new
Jimmy Smits vehicle is called
'Outlaw.' I guess the title
'Contrived, Irritating Star Vehicle'
just wasn't as catchy.
You may have gathered that I end up going wrong every fall and
found 'Outlaw' to be a waste of mid-season, when when the
time, but it's actually a misfire
will also play a role, which will be
tied into Nokia's Ovi Maps,
something which McDowell said
will be an important part of the
new offering.
Businesses are hungry for tools
that increase customer loyalty and
increase sales, but often don't
have the technological
infrastructure to support this, the
execs explained in their joint
presentation. That is, businesses
in emerging markets don't
necessarily have PCs, they have
phones.
For Nokia, providing a valuable
service like this to the estimated
500 million small businesses
that illustrates several things that
larger rollout following in 2011.
There are currently 1.3 billion Candy wrappers made from
Nokia devices in use today and Cereplast's bioresin.(Credit:
the company announced new Cereplast)
products this week running an Europeans will soon be able to
updated mobile operating system throw their candy wrappers into
the composting bin.
(OS), Symbian^3. Nokia execs
said yesterday they expect to sell U.S.-based bioplastics producer
Cereplast announced Wednesday
50 million smartphones running
the new OS. Symbian is also a that its patented bioresin will soon
be used to make food packaging
current mobile market share
leader, with 40% of the for a variety of foods in Europe.
The company signed a
worldwide smartphone market.
Discuss multimillion-dollar deal to supply
its Cereplast Compostables 7003
bioresin to Sezersan Ambalaj, one
of the leading producers of food
packaging for Europe. Sezersan,
which is based in Turkey, will use
the resin to produce completely
biodegradable food-packaging.
The bioresin is starch-based and
can be created from corn, wheat,
tapioca, or potato starches,
networks roll out half a dozen m a k i n g i t 1 0 0 p e r c e n t
shows that make similar mistakes. biodegradable, compostable, and
Someone call the TV police, s u s t a i n a b l e , a c c o r d i n g t o
because they're going to have to C e r e p l a s t .
cite 'Outlaw' (which premieres Starting in December, Cereplast
10PM ET Wednesday, then will ship 100 to 150 metric tons of
moves to 10PM ET Fridays) for its bioresin per month to a
the following crimes: production plant in Turkey.
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material that can be made either
semi-transparent or opaque
depending on food companies'
individual packaging needs.
Cereplast is probably best know
for its development of
biodegradable cornstarch-based
disposable cups, plates, and
spoons for which its CEO
Frederic Scheer was the subject of
a Sundance Channel documentary
film short.
Of course, Cereplast is not the
only one touting the joys of bio-
based disposables. In February,
for example, scientists from the
Imperial College London
announced they had developed a
sugar-based polymer that could be
used to make food packaging. The
packaging is not only
biodegradable, but could even be
edible.
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Form Fields: Clearly Identifying the Road Tested: The Withings

Limits Scale, an Apple accessory
Ben Barden (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:30:00 AM
choose, the fonts that the user has
on their computer, and the screen you can stand on
resolution or zoom settings they Steven Sande (The Unofficial weight information, or you can
The question of how big a form select, you may find that one field Apple Weblog (TUAW)) visit the main Withings website to
field should be isn't just about size doesn't work for everyone. Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:00:00 AM view the same data on your free
how much you can type into the Usually it's best to leave a bit of account.
box. It's also about how it looks, extra space without making the In the Apple accessory The scale measures and
and whether the user understands field appear to be far bigger than ecosystem, there are thousands of calculates your weight, fat mass,
how much they can type in before it needs to be. Don't Make Fields different items for the Mac, and BMI (Body Mass Index), and
they hit the end of the box. Too Small iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Out of then it transmits that information
If you've ever filled in a form On the other hand, if you need to that huge world, I can think of to the Withings servers via a Wi-
where it's not obvious how much type a long comment into a tiny only one accessory that you can Fi connection to your network.
you can type in, it can become a box, that's just as frustrating. actually stand on -- The Withings Within a very short amount of
very frustrating experience. something that works best for the Anything that requires a fair
C o n n e c t e d B o d y time, that information can either
What should you consider when user? Use Maxlength and Size amount of explanation should Scale(US$159.00). I've had the be accessed privately via a variety
setting up a form for users to fill Use "size" to change how large a really use rather than. But then pleasure of using one of these of methods or can be sent to the
in? field appears on the screen, and there's an added problem, as you
internet-connected scales for world via Facebook, Twitter, or a
Sponsor use "maxlength" to limit the c a n ' t l i m i t t h e n u m b e r o f
about a year now, and I find it to blog widget.
Profile Fields: An Example number of characters. Example: characters in a textarea as you can
be a help in my daily battle Gallery: Withings Connected
Take a look at the following This doesn't work on a though - with an input field. between being a foodie and trying Body Scale
screenshot: more on that in a moment. Limiting the Size of a Textarea to maintain a decent weight. TUAW Road Tested: The
See the problem? All the fields Don't Make Fields Too Big Here's some JavaScript that Although the Withings Scale can W i t h i n g s S c a l e , a n A p p l e
appear to be the same size, but In the above screenshot, postcode allows you to limit the size of a be used with any computer, I like accessory you can stand on
when you type into the box, that's and telephone number require less textarea. You'll need to be using to think of it as an Apple originally appeared on The
actually not the case. characters than the name and jQuery to get this working.
accessory, since I can use my U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e W e b l o g
A designer may prefer to make address. If all the fields have a You can use the code in the Mac, iPhone, and iPad in various (TUAW) on Wed, 15 Sep 2010
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Master of Color (12 pieces)

Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:30:00 PM
Joshua Petker uses color better
than any other modern pop artist
of this generation. In his latest
body of work, the Los Angeles-
based artist explores the way
humans use color to manipulate
their physical appearance in order
to transcend their reality.
Petker suspends his female
figures between intense color
fields and quiet spaces of
monochrome. He liberates them
from the confines of everyday
life, while setting them free in a
color-laden world of his own
imagination.
Here are some pieces from
Petker's solo show, "We're Not as
Colorful as We Think We Are,"
currently taking place at San
Francisco's Shooting Gallery. The
exhibition is comprised partly of
mixed media on canvas (acrylic,
gouache, and ink), and partly of
gouache and ink on paper.
Joshua Petker and Shooting
Gallery
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HTC Desire Z hands-on [Video] Homemade

Chris Davies (SlashGear) bigger chassis and a more spread-
out keyboard. The E7s keys have
Tomato Sauce
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:58:48 AM
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
an edge over those of the Desire
If the Desire HD is HTC’s uber- Z’s, but we’re not sure that’s
multimedia phone, the HTC This Italian staple uses flavorful
enough to pull users over to
Desire Z is their business monster. plum tomatoes, which are easy to
Symbian^3 from Android 2.2
We’ve been asking the company find year round. We tossed the
Froyo. We’ll have to spend hands
to produce a new hardware sauce with spaghetti but you can
-on time with both to figure out
QWERTY device for twelve easily substitute with your
the compromises and whether
months now, and they’ve favorite noodle. Finish the dish
they’re worth it, but as a
certainly delivered: the Desire Z’s with a little Parmigiano-Reggiano
mainstream QWERTY
‘board is finger-friendly, snappy for an easy crowd pleaser. Next
smartphone the Desire Z has us
and slotted into a handset that still Step 1: Score
very excited indeed.
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features, including being able to for instance, is now sticky: once compare the Desire Z to Nokia’s • August US launch for HTC Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
rearrange homescreen panes you load it, if you tap the home E7, announced at the first day of Desire confirmed Catastrophe.
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“helicopter view”, easier widget rather than to the basic Android Obviously the Nokia is bigger – [Video]
management, and of course the homescreen. A minor tweak, but with a 4-inch display rather than a
new navigation package which an important one to those trying to 3.7-inch panel – and that means a

Did iOS 4.1 introduce in-car USB playback problems for you?
Darren Murph (Engadget) crackling or random disconnects know it's impossible for the Did iOS 4.1 introduce in-car
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:01:00 AMwhen piping audio from their software engineers at Cupertino to USB playback problems for you?
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As with almost any software dock connector. We've tested two adapter out there, but we're on Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:01:00
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HTC Desire HD hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:40:16 AM
We’ve just grabbed some hands-
on time with HTC’s new Desire
HD, the company’s new 4.3-inch
flagship, and we’re very
impressed. Built around a huge
WVGA display – the same as US
users have been enjoying up until
now in the shape of the EVO 4G–
it’s a solid, hefty chunk of a
smartphone thanks to the metal
construction.
It’s also fast: basically you’re
looking at an EVO 4G inside, too,
though lacking the WiMAX radio
of course. Instead you get UMTS
/HSPA+, along with WiFi b/g/n
and Bluetooth, together with the
usual GPS/A-GPS which HTC
leverage with their new
navigation package that comes as
part of the updated Sense. The
CPU is Qualcomm’s 1GHz
Snapdragon, and there’s an 8-
megapixwl camera with dual-
LED flash.
Unlike the EVO 4G, the Desire
HD does away with the
removable battery door – instead
you get a small hatch into which it
slots, like on the Legend – and it
adds up to a thinner, more pocket-
friendly handset. Think more like
come to a final conclusion about
the smartphone, but right now it
feels like everything European
customers have been looking on
in envy about in the EVO 4G,
only with the potential for broader
4G connectivity using HSPA+
(rather than WiMAX).
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• HTC Desire Hands-on Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:00:00 AM
• August US launch for HTC
the HD2, sizeable but slender.
Desire confirmed Nope, this isn't a movie
The touch sensitive buttons are
• HTC Legend, Desire & HD adaptation(though I'd like to play
responsive, and the fast-boot is
mini preorders tip April 12th that game, too). Instead, it's a
very impressive: in under 10
release physics puzzler that has you
seconds the Desire HD went from
powered off to running and ready tossing little rocket-riding guys
around planets of various sizes,
to make calls.
We’ll need to spend more time
with the Desire HD before we can TUAW'S page 39

Russian dual-display 4G Android prototype gets video demo

Chris Davies (SlashGear) Unfortunately, beyond what we • Android touchscreen prototype:
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:44:21 AM can glean from the few lingering Live pictures & video demo!
shots of the prototype itself, • Entourage eDGe gets software
S e l d o m d o w e w i s h w e details are in short supply. The demo [Video]
understood Russian as much as front screen isn’t shown turned • Entourage eDGe dual-screen
we do today. A video demo of on, but the curved rear looks to be Android ebook reader gets video
what looks to be a dual-sided 4G an e-paper panel of some sort. hands-on
smartphone – we’re guessing a Android is mentioned in the • Kohjinsha dual-display netbook
prototype at this stage, and YouTube description, which detailed in video demo
probably non-functional at that – cheers us up as the last Russian ambitious concept that will never Relevant Entries on SlashGear
has emerged, apparently being 4G device we saw – the HTC make it to market, so don’t get too • ODROID Android prototype
demonstrated by two besuited MAX 4G– had to make do with excited. shows up again in PMP demo
Russians. Windows Mobile 6.5. Still, [ via Recombu] [Video]
Video demo after the cut there’s every chance that this is an
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with gravitational effects to was more about random

match. The graphics are simple
but effective, and the game is
surprisingly forgiving -- you get
as many chances to try and throw
the little guys around as you need,
but fewer tries means a better
score. There are 80 levels to go
through, but play will go pretty
quickly. This game has "just one
more try" written all over it.
It's only 99 cents on the App
Store, and for a cheap, physics-
based thrill, it delivers. There's
also an iPad version available(also
for 99 cents) if you'd rather play it
there. It could probably be a little
Nikon D7000 DSLR more polished (there were times
when I thought the puzzle solving
placement rather than actual trial
and error), but when you do
finally figure out the solution of
where to throw your little guy in
between the planets, it always
ends up being very satisfying.
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UnlessSPRINT
you're page
a huge
40 fan of

hands-on 10 Recession-proof Businesses

Richard Lai (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:35:00 AM
In case you haven't heard this
morning, Nikon's just lifted the
curtains on its 16.2 megapixel
D7000 imager for the "social
photographer" market, and
naturally, we had to get our hands
on it. This dual SDXC-wielding
DSLR closely resembles the
slightly lighter D90, but the little
superficial tweaks didn't escape
our eyes: the first thing we
noticed was that the continuous
shooting option button --
previously on right-hand side of
the top screen -- has been
transformed into a secondary dial
on the left. We found this to be
slightly fiddly as we had to press
on a tiny neighboring unlock
button to rotate said dial. There's
also a new live view switch and
video record button (à la D3100),
which are more intuitive than the
D90's configuration. As for
ergonomics, the D7000's grip is
also very comparable with the
D90's, except we prefer the latter's
for its longer piece of rubber grip
to cover the full length of our
right thumb. More after the break.
Gallery: Nikon D7000 DSLR
hands-on
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(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) 2007-2009, however, rewrote the [sources: Burt].
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM rules about recessions. Many Then again, what do the experts
economists are now saying that know? As you'll see from the first
At the time of this writing, the there's no longer such a thing as a item on our list of 10 recession-
United States economy is in a recession-proof business. The best proof businesses -- listed in no
deep and prolonged recession. If that employees can hope for is a particular order -- changing
we've learned anything from past recession-resistant job [source: consumer tastes can result in
financial slumps, we know that Chase]. "sweet" profits. Read on to find
unemployment soars during these Every sector of the economy is out more.
periods as businesses close doors going to take a hit as consumers This entry passed through the
or cut costs to ride out the rough slash spending, banks freeze Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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During recessions, job security to find a solution. The trick is to on someone else's site, please read
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traditionally defined as industries recession, experts say, is to find a Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
that either thrive during rotten career that shows long-term Catastrophe.
economic times or at least survive growth potential, is immune from
unscathed. outsourcing and isn't tied to the
The global financial crisis of f i c k l e t a s t e s o f c o n s u m e r s
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Sprint's Everything plan, it looks
as if Verizon's BlackBerry Curve
3G is the one to get-- unless you
enjoy spending $20 more (on
contract) for the same thing on
Sprint, that is. Just hours after Big
Red announced that the 9330
would soon be coming its way, in
flies Sprint to play copycat. The
Curve 3G is the same as it ever
was, boasting BlackBerry OS 5, a
trackpad / QWERTY layout, two
megapixel camera, 802.11b/g
WiFi, GPU, dedicated media keys
512MB of Flash memory, a
microSD / SDHC slot (2GB card
bundled in) and a couple of color
options (graphite gray and royal
purple). Sprint's keen on you
knowing that this here phone will
be eligible for an upgrade to
BlackBerry OS 6 in early 2011,
but you can go ahead and grab
one starting September 26th.
Continue reading Sprint gets a
BlackBerry Curve 3G of its own,
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John Hickey (FanHouse Main)
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Tim Gunn on His 'Gossip Girl' Soros: The U.S. Filed under: Cubs, FanHouse
Exclusive CHICAGO -- It seems
Cameo: Taylor Momsen's 'Pathetic,' Economy Is "Blah" as if the Chicago Cubs can scratch
Fredi Gonzalez off their
Everyone Else Is a 'Delight' Gregory White (Money Game) b u t n o t p o s i t i v e i t w o u l d managerial wish list as they
experience a true double dip into search for a full-time replacement
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:25:00 AM
Jean Bentley (TV Squad) recession. for Lou Piniella.
Submitted at 9/15/2010 5:45:00 AM George Soros said the state of the In an effort to stimulate the A major league source told
U.S. economy was "blah" in a economy, Soros suggested further FanHouse Tuesday that the Cubs
Filed under: TV News By now, c o n v e r s a t i o n o r g a n i z e d b y s t i m u l u s t h a t t a r g e t e d had reached out to Gonzalez, the
the contestants on'Project T h o m p s o n R e u t e r s a t t h e infrastructure and education, in an deposed Florida Marlins manager,
Runway' know better than to NASDAQ this morning. effort to grow the economy now with an offer of a job interview.
ignore the advice from wise sage The famed investor and political and positively benefit it in the Gonzalez, the source said, told
Tim Gunn. So perhaps advocate called into question the long term. the Cubs thanks, but no thanks.
notoriously independent'Gossip U.S. political environment and its In regards to further actions by On the face of things, it's odd for
Girl' 17-year-old star Taylor preoccupation with austerity over the Fed, Soros said a second an unemployed manager to turn
Momsen will listen to Gunn's further stimulus. round of quantitative easing is down an interview. But Gonzalez,
guidance as well. Soros said that the U.S. was unlikely to be effective due to a who used to be the third base
When making a cameo
her lines; and she didn't even have coming off a "super bubble" lack of demand in the economy. coach under Bobby Cox in
appearance on 'GG''s fourth
that many. I thought to myself, scenario, and that it would take Check out the George Soros super Atlanta, is widely believed to be
episode this season, Gunn the extreme frontrunner in the
'Why are we all being held time to repair the errors of the team set to re-write economics >
observed Momsen's bratty past 25 years. Join the conversation about this Braves' competition to replace
hostage by this brat?' "
behavior firsthand."What a diva!" He was certain that the U.S. story » Cox, who has already announced
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Lessons of 9/11 Ignored, and Filibuster Follies

(AEI.Org: Articles) unconstitutional rule in place, and the odds are it will focus on sleeping on cots and disrupting money where its mouth is, being
Submitted at 9/14/2010 6:00:00 PM held one brief hearing in the Washington and the branches of their schedules and lives. In the willing to make serious and
House Judiciary Committee on government. If the country ends Civil Rights era, Southerners extended sacrifices to achieve its
This column is mainly about the the broader issue, failed to hold up with Congress decapitated and wanted to take to the floor and goal. That means first shifting the
Senate, but I have to start the first promised hearings in the Rules under a form of martial law, talk for hours and hours, to burden--two-fifths of the Senate
column after the 9/11 anniversary Committee, and not considered at history will judge them all dramatize to their constituents that needed to continue debate, rather
in a different way. all the flaws in presidential harshly. they would go to any length to than three-fifths needed to end it.
It is now nine years--nine full, succession or the complete lack of On to the main topic. I wrote a protect their "way of life." I am open to a variety of ways of
long years--since that great a plan for the Supreme Court. The piece on the filibuster in the New Now, where most filibusters are doing so; one idea from
catastrophe that came within an onus is on Speaker Nancy Pelosi York Times over the recess, and simply to gum up the works, or Congressional rules guru Steve
inch of devastating Congress and (D-Calif.), House Majority Leader people can't stop talking about it are invoked by individuals or Smith of Washington University
leaving the country potentially Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), House (I know, I used that line once small coteries for parochial is to require, after a first motion to
w i t h o u t i t s f i r s t b r a n c h o f Judiciary Chairman John Conyers before, but I can't help myself.) In purposes, there is no desire on the continue debate is approved by
government for months. In nine ( D - M i c h . ) , C o n s t i t u t i o n the Times piece, I focused on the part of most of those in the more than two-fifths of the
years, Congress has done nothing Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold desirability of putting the onus for minority to talk at all. They prefer Senate, that the presiding officer
positive to protect itself or the Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Rules extended debate where it belongs- to raise the bar effortlessly and call for a vote on the underlying
other branches from potential Committee Chairwoman Louise -on the minority trying to keep make the majority jump through motion if no senator seeks
disaster wrought by a terrorist Slaughter (D-N.Y.), and all have debate going, not on the majority impossible hoops to try to end recognition to speak. This would
attack. failed miserably in a high- trying to end it. It would be nice if debate, including on widely force filibustering senators to
Five of the nine years were under fiduciary responsibility to their the Senate under its existing rules supported measures and actually debate, where now, if no
R e p u b l i c a n r u l e , a n d I own institution. could just call the bluff of nominations. Go around-the- one speaks, the presiding officer
appropriately excoriated then- The Senate actually did better filibusterers and go around-the- clock, and the minority only needs just ends the session.
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), under the Republicans, thanks to clock, bringing the place to a halt. a couple of its senators to stay on There are other ways to compel
then-Judiciary Chairman Jim the leadership of then-Judiciary But to do so now, when filibusters the floor and prevent unanimous filibustering senators to stay in the
Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and then- C o n s t i t u t i o n S u b c o m m i t t e e are used and threatened routinely consent agreements while chamber during around-the-clock
Rules Chairman David Dreier (R- Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) for bills and nominations major regularly noting the absence of a sessions, and ways to adjust
Calif.) for their obduracy and and the involvement of his and minor, is not workable. quorum and forcing the majority antiquated rules to reduce the
wrongheaded focus. Their actions ranking member Russ Feingold I believe in a role for an intense to come to the floor to keep the purely dilatory tactics. There is no
a m o u n t e d t o a b l a t a n t l y (D-Wis.). But Feingold, now the minority that cares deeply about session going. reason to require that bills and
unconstitutional House rule chairman of the subcommittee, an important issue being able to The fact is that it is extremely amendments be read in their
altering the clear requirement for has done nothing with the issue have the ability to filibuster, but it difficult under the rules to force entirety if there is a rules
a majority of the body to make a since, and the Senate Democratic should have to put its proverbial minority members to debate on requirement to have them
quorum, and a ridiculously sloppy leaders Harry Reid (Nev.) and money where its mouth is, being and on; the vaunted "two-speech" published in advance online; there
and unrealistic bill to force Dick Durbin (Ill.) have been willing to make serious and rule has lots of loopholes, is certainly no real reason
e x p e d i t e d e l e c t i o n s - - s h a m AWOL, just like their Republican extended sacrifices to achieve its especially on bills, and there are anymore to enable committee
elections, in fact, that would leave predecessors Bill Frist (Tenn.) goal. too many other ways to stretch out sessions to be blocked when the
no time for voters to choose and Mitch McConnell (Ky.). Especially after the 1975 rules the time and make the threat of Senate is in session, and of
candidates or have any real It is sad that no one in leadership change that moved the bar from calling an around-the-clock course, there is no reason that
campaigns--in the event of a seems to feel any responsibility two-thirds of the Senate present session an idle one. there should be any filibusters on
catastrophe. for the future of their own and voting needed to invoke I believe in a role for an intense motions to proceed, or thirty
Well, we have now had four institution and its place in the cloture to three-fifths of the whole minority that cares deeply about additional hours of (usually) non-
years under Democratic rule, and Constitution. The chance of Senate, there was no effective an important issue being able to debate allowed after cloture is
Democrats have done nothing at another deadly terrorist attack in way to keep all the minority have the ability to filibuster, but it
all. They have shamefully left the our lifetimes is very, very high, members on or near the floor, should have to put its proverbial LESSONS page 42
42 Policy/
When Policies Flop, Political Enthusiasm Wanes
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 6:00:00 PM
Two sets of numbers tell you a
lot about an important difference
between election year 2008 and
election year 2010.
In 2008, 37 million Americans
voted in Democratic presidential
primaries and just under 21
million voted in Republican
presidential primaries. One reason
for the difference was that the
Republican nomination was
decided earlier. But even counting
only the early contests,
Democratic turnout was 26
million and Republican turnout
was 17 million.
This year it's different. Only 13
million Americans have voted in
Democratic primaries held before
Sept. 1, according to Curtis Gans
of the Center for the Study of the
American Electorate. During the
same period, 17 million voted in
Republican primaries.
As Gans points out, that's
historic. Democratic primary
turnout has been higher than
Republican primary turnout in
every off-year election since
1930.
That Republican margin may
narrow a little as the returns from
this week's primaries come in
from states like New York,
Massachusetts and Maryland,
which have a lot more registered
Democrats than registered
Republicans. Yet in California,
where Democrats have a similar
registration edge, almost as many
Republicans showed up as
Democrats.
Enthusiasm is not aroused simply
by a stirring speech. It's aroused
by seeing your ideas and policies
work out the way you expected.
What we're seeing here is a
change--a sea change--in the
balance of enthusiasm. That's
been critical in a decade in which
turnout in presidential years
increased from 105 million to 122
million to 131 million.
Republicans had a narrow
advantage in the balance of
enthusiasm in 2002 and 2004.
Democrats had a wider advantage
in 2006 and 2008. Now
Republicans clearly have a wide
advantage and have a good
chance to sweep the elections six
weeks and six days from now.
Democratic strategists hope that
Barack Obama can rekindle some
of the enthusiasm that was so
apparent two years ago. Liberal
columnists have cheered his
slashing attack on House Minority
Leader John Boehner and his
denunciation of proposals to
maintain the tax cuts on those
earning more than $250,000.
I doubt that it will be that easy.
Enthusiasm is not aroused simply
by a stirring speech. It's aroused
by seeing your ideas and policies
work out the way you expected.
Or, perhaps even more, it's
aroused by seeing your political
adversaries' ideas and policies fail
to work out the way they
expected. In that case, you're
usually pretty sure your
alternatives will work out better--
and you're enthusiastic about
trying them. Consider
Republicans during the second
term of George W. Bush. Rescue
efforts in New Orleans and
military efforts in Iraq didn't
produce anything like the positive
results Republican-leaning voters
expected. Republican
congressional majorities seemed
to be producing nothing but big
spending (the bridge to nowhere)
and scandals.
When the world isn't responding
as you hoped and expected, you
tend to stop paying attention. You
stop watching the news and
maybe even get a life.
Democrats in the past 20 months
have seen Obama fail to produce
the hope and change they
expected. It seemed so easy to call
for withdrawal from Iraq and
Afghanistan, for shuttering
Guantanamo, for trying al Qaeda
terrorists in civilian courts. But
none of those things has
happened.
Neither has Obama ended the ban
on openly gay men and women
serving in the military. He
continues to oppose same-sex
marriage while Dick Cheney
backs it.
Meanwhile, the vast increases in
government spending in the
stimulus package and Obama
budgets have done little to
produce a robust economic
recovery, and the health care bill
jammed through a reluctant
Congress has failed to produce the
widespread gratitude that Obama
said we should expect.
For upscale Obama supporters,
these economic policies were
expected to be, in Pat Moynihan's
elegant phrase, boob bait for the
bubbas. But the bubbas didn't take
the bait.
So just as the world stopped
working as Republicans expected
in 2005, the world stopped
working as Democrats expected in
2009.
You can see this in last week's
report from the Pew Research
Center for the People and the
Press. It found that in 2008, 67
percent of liberal Democrats said
they enjoyed the news a lot, while
just 45 percent say so today. In
contrast, 57 percent of
conservative Republicans say they
enjoy the news a lot today. The
interesting question is whether
they will continue to do so if and
when Republicans win majorities
and share responsibility for
governing again.
Michael Barone is a resident
fellow at AEI.
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invoked.
I don't want to see a majority-
dominated Senate, or a Senate that
is a smaller version of the House.
I am very much aware the
majority can and does abuse its
authority by shutting out the
minority, filling the amendment
tree not just to try to reduce the
number and role of filibusters but
to prevent any embarrassing
minority amendments. The
minority should have some
weapons at its disposal to make
high-handed majority actions
suffer consequences. But the way
the Senate operates now is
dysfunctional and costly, to the
fabric of the institution, to quality
and timely policymaking, and to
the hundreds of fully qualified
and vetted people left unfairly
twisting in the wind awaiting
confirmation to executive or
judicial nominations.
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(AEI.Org: Articles) 1972-1976, writes that Carter's "The New Deal coalition is called magazine. According to Beinart,
Submitted at 9/14/2010 6:00:00 PM magnetism was so powerful, he the 'New Deal coalition' and not the Obama congressional
could conduct "personal political the 'Great Depression coalition' coalition appeared as enduring as
"Surely the Lord sent Jimmy baptisms" with voters. for a reason," says political FDR's. Youngsters seemed like a Kingdom Hearts: Birth by
Carter," the Rev. Martin Luther And there was no shortage of analyst Jay Cost. FDR offered a pot of electoral gold, because the Sleep 'Final Mix' shakes
King Jr.'s father proclaimed at the conjecture that Obama--a.k.a. "the winning political program. Carter under-30 vote went for Obama by
1976 Democratic convention, "to One" --was sent by the Lord to his offered sanctimony, arrogance, a margin of 2 to 1. Harold
up Japan this winter
come on out and bring America chosen people, "the ones we've and the sense that he bit off more Meyerson celebrated that Obama's Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
back where she belongs." been waiting for." than he could handle. appeal to the young would usher Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:40:00 AM
Carter campaigned on his In an article partially headlined, If the name Barack Obama hasn't in a renewed popularity for
personal religiosity far more than "On Carter: 'Country is Ready' for sprung to mind yet, you must be socialism. E. J. Dionne insisted The latest issue of Jump
any other president since World the Hope He Stirs," U.S. News & staying in the same bunker where that the millennials were the next magazine has details on the next
War II. In an interview with Pat World Report (which wasn't much of the Democratic "New Dealers." Kingdom Hearts release. In
Robertson on the Christian always a college-ranking guide) leadership is holed up. That's all somewhere between typical Square Enix fashion,
Broadcasting Network, Carter interviewed Brandeis political Obama's campaign was dubious and ludicrous now. As Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
explained that "secular law is scientist Thomas Cronin, who Carteresque on several fronts. The the Los Angeles Times reported is getting a "Final Mix" version in
compatible with God's laws," but explained that "Carter's coalition consummate outsider, Obama over the weekend, "Obama's Japan this winter. As with
if the two were in conflict, "we is more of a personal matter." promised a transformational coalition is frayed and frazzled." previous "Final Mix" games, this
s h o u l d h o n o r G o d ' s l a w . " Voters are attracted to his presidency, a new accommodation Independents defected long ago, re-release includes all the content
Robertson endorsed Carter. So did "engaging personality and to his with religion, a new centrism, a and young people are heading for from the North American version
Lou Sheldon of the Traditional smile, his centrist tone." Some in changed tone. And there was no the door, less interested in the of the game, including English
Values Coalition, who said, "God the Democratic party hoped that shortage of conjecture that Obama next New Deal and more voices and the sticker system.
has his hand upon Jimmy Carter Carter's stunning success in the --a.k.a. "the One" --was sent by interested in a job. And every day Previous "Final Mix" editions
to run for president." South and with the more socially the Lord to his chosen people, Obama seems more like the have featured hidden teasers for
Though it is hard to fathom conservative evangelical vote was "the ones we've been waiting for." Lord's unwitting herald of the upcoming games in the franchise.
today, given that Carter is one of a sign that the Democrats had The Carter-Obama comparison is revolution to come. ( Birth by Sleep, for example, was
the dullest personalities in truly reclaimed the center--and the not new. Rich Lowry of the Jonah Goldberg is a visiting initially teased in Kingdom Hearts
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44 Economy/
Currency Intervention Madness; Japan Intervenes to Weaken the
Yen; Selected Quotes
noreply@blogger.com (Michael week, instead saying that
Shedlock) (Mish's Global Japanese officials should do what
Economic Trend Analysis) they can to help their economy
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:45:00 PM grow.
After months of attempting to Recent Japanese data have
t a l k t h e Y e n d o w n , J a p a n pointed to the expansion losing
Intervenes First Time Since ’04 to momentum. The government
Rein in Yen. yesterday revised its July
Japan intervened in the foreign- industrial output figures to show
exchange market for the first time that output fell rather than
since 2004 after a surge in the yen increased from a month earlier.
to the strongest against the dollar Japan’s economy expanded at a
in 15 years threatened to stunt the 1.5 percent annual rate in the
nation’s economic recovery. second quarter, less than half the
Finance Minister Yoshihiko pace of the previous period, and
Noda confirmed the intervention, consumer confidence slid to a
speaking to reporters today in four-month low in August. Is
Tokyo. He said Japan contacted Currency Manipulation OK or
other nations about the step, Not?
without specifying that today’s Both China and Japan are
measure was taken unilaterally. intervening in the Forex markets
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito for the same reason, to strengthen
Sengoku said the ministry exports and stimulate the
considers 82 per dollar to be the e c o n o m y .
line of defense, after it reached a Pardon me for asking the obvious
high of 82.88 earlier today. question but it needs to be asked:
Japan hadn’t intervened to sell Why does Geithner give the green
yen in the foreign-exchange light for Japan to intervene in the
market since 2004, when the yen currency markets but China is
was around 109 per dollar. The threatened with a currency
Bank of Japan, acting on behest of manipulator label for doing the
the Ministry of Finance, sold 14.8 same thing?
trillion yen in the first three Boosting the Dollar
months of 2004, after record sales Please consider a few select
of 20.4 trillion yen in 2003. Noda quotes from the New York Times
didn’t say how much was used in article Japan Moves to Boost the
today’s action, while that figure Dollar
will be released at a later date. JOHN VAIL, CHIEF GLOBAL
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy STRATEGIST, NIKKO ASSET
F. Geithner declined to comment MANAGEMENT
about the prospects for currency "Clearly the U.S. is not going to
intervention in an interview last b e t o o f r i e n d l y t o w a r d s i t
E-reader News Edition
starting in August, attempting to
prop up the dollar.
Japan halted its currency
intervention in March of 2004
according to the International
Herald Tribune article EU
officials soften stance on yen's
weakness.
Yen vs. Japan's Intervention 2003
-2004
click on chart for sharper image
If ever there was proof of the
although they may not argue too INVESTMENT STRATEGIST, a b s u r d i t y o f c u r r e n c y
much about it in that Japan is a MITSUBISHI UFJ MORGAN interventions there it is. Ironically
big customer for its Treasury STANLEY SECURITIES the Yen started plunging shortly
securities." "The size of the currency market after Japan stopped trying to force
"I'm not sure we are going to see a is no longer small enough for down the value of the Yen. It has
major weakening of the macro intervention to change the trend in been proven time and time again
statistics in Japan, but if we do the yen. I am interested in seeing that currency intervention does
that would obviously help weaken how the government would not work. Yet, somehow it is
the yen, but exports were quite announce its stance and its "good for the government to show
strong in July both on a nominal approach to support the economy. its strong stance".
and real basis so it's a bit of a "If they intervened, it was good Line of Defense
quandary for Japan." for the government to show its click on chart for sharper image
"But the biggest problem for strong stance but the market is too Note that the "Line of Defense" is
Japan is not the U.S. cross rates, big for the intervention to change right near the 1995 high.
it's the Korean won, and the the yen's trend." Sheer Madness Intraday Intervention in Action
K o r e a n w o n h a s j u s t b e e n Takao Hattori says that the Forex click on chart for sharper image
ridiculously weak. Yet G20 market is too big for intervention Some might think the above chart
officials have yet to really to work but "it was good for the shows that intervention works. It
pressure Korea on this at all, government to show its strong doesn't except possibly in the very
which I think is really to Japan's stance". short term.
detriment." Bang for the Yen Excuse me for asking but how In 2008 the Fed intervened
If Japan's exports have been can it be good policy to take multiple time to support Fannie
strong, why does Japan need to actions that cannot work? Mae. In one such move, the share
weaken the Yen to boost exports? Prior Currency Intervention price doubled from $7 to $15 in
If the Problem for Japan is the Madness less than a week on a short
Korean won, what the heck is P l e a s e c o n s i d e r C u r r e n c y squeeze. A couple months later
Japan doing buying dollars? It I n t e r v e n t i o n A n d O t h e r Fannie Mae collapsed to a buck.
certainly would get a lot more C o n s p i r a c i e s . Central banks cannot change the
bang for the Yen buying Won. .... Note those numbers. Japan CURRENCY page 45
TAKAO HATTORI, SENIOR spent hundreds of billions in 2003
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CURRENCY
59% of Canadians Live Paycheque-to-Paycheque; continued from page 44

prevailing trend.
Implications of a Canadian Housing Bust; How Assuming Japan was going to
have a "line of defense", one near
the 1995 is a spot where there
Sound are Canadian Banks? would be technical resistance
anyway. If the Yen does drop in a
noreply@blogger.com (Michael system, a less leveraged corporate in Canada to "walk away". See until it does. When it does matter, sustained way, it will not be
Shedlock) (Mish's Global sector and a relatively strong A u s t r a l i a n L e n d e r s L e a r n it will be sudden and irreversible because of the intervention, but
Economic Trend Analysis) fiscal position”. Nothing from US Housing Bust: (as is typical of every illiquid rather because the Yen had outrun
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46 Economy/ Gaming/
Swiss Trade Unions Make A Politically Shocking
Demand: A Two-Tiered Franc
Bruce Krasting (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:31:21 AM
The Japanese have finally
stepped up to the plate in support
of a weaker Yen. They spent
$10+ billion buying dollars and
got two big figures in the FX rate
for their effort. I doubt that it will
last for a week.
With the Japanese hand being
played out the market will be
looking at the other “Strong”
currency, the CHF. If the market
can’t make money selling dollars
(and Euros) for Yen then it is
likely that the market will turn its
full attention on the Swissie.
The 1.30 exchange rate for the
EURCHF is already hurting Swiss
exporters, farmers and tourism. It
is likely to get worse before it gets
better. With that in mind I thought
it was interesting to see that the
Swiss Trade Union, “SGB” is
calling for the Swiss National
Bank to either step up its
intervention efforts or establish a
two tier exchange rate system.
From NZZ today:
The monetary authorities should
intervene directly in the foreign
exchange market, SGB
representatives demanded on
Wednesday before the media.
Export companies should also
switch to a special rate euro
against Swiss francs.
This kind of talk will make the
SNB chief Philipp Hildebrand
quake. He knows that he/the SNB
is functionally powerless to stop
the appreciation of the Franc. In
the biggest days of intervention
they were doing 1-2 billion of
sales. How big is the market? The
SNB estimates it is 250b a day.
Conclusion? The SNB does not
stand a chance.
The SNB reserves are in dollars,
Euros and gold. At this point they
are taking big losses on their
currency holdings. The numbers
to be announced soon could push
another 8 billion Francs for the
quarter. There is a limit to what
the SNB can absorb. And the
market knows it.
With this in mind the notion of a
two-tiered FX rate makes some
sense. The free rate would be
allowed to float wherever the
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copy the Swiss move and we
would be looking at a major
breakdown in global trading.
From these types of steps global
recessions are born.
Two Worlds 2
But the flip side is will tiny
Switzerland roll over and let the
continues
global markets dictate their Sordahon's Journey
economy? That would seem Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
unlikely as well. So something
Submitted at 9/15/2010 10:00:00 AM
has to give. The most unlikely
outcome is that the Swissie We can't blame you if you
weakens against the dollar and the immediately glaze over when you
major crosses. see the words "Two Worlds," but
We are going to hear more if so, you've been missing one of
protectionist talk in the coming the funniest and most honest
days. The Japanese have said advertising campaigns in the the
(through last night’s intervention) history of video games. We're not
that they do no want to import sure if the self-effacing
more global deflation. So they "Sordahon's Journey" is going to
markets might take it. Exporters
have teed this up. Where it goes convince us to buy Two Worlds 2,
would have access to a subsidized
is anyone’s guess. But there are but it's certainly helping us to
rate from the SNB and thus
very few soft landing scenarios forgive SouthPeak for Two
would be largely insulated from
out there that I can think of. Worlds 1.
market gyrations. The SNB would
If (when) the EURCHF gets to The fourth installation of the
have losses to be sure. But those
around 1.25 there will be some series is upon us just after the
losses would go directly to the
action. If it is first renewed break -- and you can only find it
exporters and not the speculators
intervention and that proves both on Joystiq! Here are parts one,
in the FX markets. In that sense it
costly and a failure the talk of a two and three if you need to catch
is not a hard sale to the Swiss
two-tiered franc will come on the up.
people. The flip side is that a lot
table. I doubt the Swiss are just Continue reading Two Worlds 2
of the Swiss want a stronger
going to sit there and get rolled continues Sordahon's Journey
franc. They can travel outside the
over. The Great Sucking Noise Two Worlds 2 continues
country and shop at a much
will get much louder if that should Sordahon's Journey originally
cheaper cost.
be the result. appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 15
To me the idea of a two-tiered
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20 Signs That The American Consumer Is Now

Completely Tapped Out
Michael Snyder (Money Game) are desperately hoping that we
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:09:00 AM can crank up the consumer debt
spiral one more time, but tens of
Many economists have been millions of Americans are already
mystified that even though the in debt up to their eyeballs. The
recession is "over", American
consumers have not opened their
reality is that you just can't
squeeze blood out of a rock.
Jamaican
wallets and started spending
again like they normally do at the
end of a recession. News report
But that doesn't mean that the
politicians running for office in Goat Curry
November won't try to convince (Simply Recipes)
after news report has encouraged us that this thing can be fixed if
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:54:19 PM
Americans to grab their credit we will just elect them and their
cards and to head out to the stores buddies. We will be told that the Goat meat is the best! Please
and start spending again, but it right combination of tax cuts and/ welcome Hank Shaw as he takes
just is not happening. Click here or government spending programs us through a wonderfully spicy
to see the signs > will get us on the right track. way to prepare goat. ~Elise
So why are things different this Sadly, though, the U.S. What are we going to do with this
time? Well, for one thing there is government and our state and goat? Elise asked. Her
a lot of fear in the air. Poll after local governments are all acupuncturist Steve had given her
poll after poll shows that faith in drowning in debt too. There is an entire front shoulder of a goat
the economy has collapsed and enabled many of us to pursue the humanity only dreams of. But not much more they can do for from a local farm.
that large numbers of Americans American Dream and to live far unfortunately, no debt bubble the economy. Even the Federal Why not goat curry? It was one
fear that things are going to get beyond our means, but that lasts forever. Reserve is about out of of my favorite Jamaican foods
even worse for the economy doesn't last forever. Now tens of Now the consumer debt bubble in a m m u n i t i o n a t t h i s p o i n t . growing up in New Jersey, along
soon. But for millions of other millions of Americans are America has started to pop, and The truth is that the U.S. with those awesome meat patties
Americans there is another completely and totally tapped out. many are wondering what is economy is a dead horse and it the street hawkers would sell on
problem - they couldn't spend But without the return of the going to fuel the U.S. economy if just does not want to get up and corners in New York City. Rich,
more money if they wanted to. voracious American "consumer" A m e r i c a n c o n s u m e r s a r e start running once again. You can filling and spicy, goat curry (often
The truth is that living on credit there is not going to be a full unwilling or unable to do it any only push a debt bubble so far, made with beef back then, when
for decades has caught up with us economic "recovery". longer.
and it looks like we may have goat was a little harder to find in
as a nation. Americans are For decades, the American The truth is that a very large
reached our limit. Click here to NYC) was just as good on a hot
absolutely drowning in mortgage consumer has always returned p e r c e n t a g e o f A m e r i c a n s see the signs > day as a cold one.
debt, car loans, credit card debt with a vengeance. Continually consumers is either incredibly Join the conversation about this Continue reading "Jamaican Goat
and student loan debt. As wages expanding debt loads have fueled scared or totally broke or both. story » Curry" »
h a v e s t a g n a t e d , c r e d i t h a s a level of prosperity that most of Many economists and politicians
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Make HDR Photos on Android Phones World's

How-To Wiki (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM
landscapes filled with deep, rich
color.
This is what happens with the
features.
But now that HDR is going
mainstream, look for Android
Android. Among its myriad of
features (including tap-to-zoom)
is an HDR setting that, like Photo
Sexiest
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iPhone camera's new HDR
compositing, except it's all
developers to start filling in the
gaps, particularly once the Froyo
Enhance, uses tone-mapping to
fake the HDR look. Sportscaster
The latest iOS update (version automatic. When you take a update is available on more The results are more surreal and (Mensfitness.com)
4.1) for iPhones comes with a picture, the iPhone processes Android phones. than the natural-looking iPhone or Submitted at 9/15/2010 5:00:00 AM
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E-reader News Edition
Smart Scale Crunches Numbers to
Keep You Thin
Steven Leckart (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM
Beyond calorie counting, regular
exercise or counter-intuitive
strategies like the "Cookie Diet,"
one of the easiest ways to boost
your chances of losing and
maintaining weight is ... a scale
(duh). Self-tracking can be
tedious, though, especially if
you're keeping tabs on a number
of metrics. Hence, automation is
as good as it gets.
The Wi-Fi Scale from Withings
isn't the only web-connected
digital scale on the market, but for
now, it's the best we've stepped
on. Aside from weight (to a tenth
of a pound), the scale immediately
calculates Body Mass Index and
fat/lean mass (based on
measurements like height, which
you self-report upon signing-up
online). Nice part is that if your
computer's not on, the scale will
save data and upload it— in a
matter of seconds — next time
you log on. Better part is that
multiple people (read: your
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I carefully organized my coupons
and remembered to bring them
with me when I went grocery
roommate who borrows
everything) can use the scale, too.
If your weights are very similar
and the scale isn't sure who's who,
the data will be attributed
separately to an "unknown" user
for you to claim and add to your
user name. (Our account tracked
three separate people, and only
one weigh-in was unclear).
Sleek, sexy and simple, the
online interface not only lets you
quickly chart trend data for all of
the metrics and set and track
specific goals, but publish and/or
share data in a multitude of ways
including Twitter, Google Health
and Training Peaks, which allows
you to log workouts. Speaking of
which, there's no reason you have
to be tethered to a desktop to
check out your progress.
Withings' free iPhone app is a
particularly solid approximation
of the browser experience.
Portrait shows you the numbers
by day. Turning the phone to
landscape gives you a chart of
your weight over time. After all,
knowing really is half the battle.
WIRED Minimalist digital
shopping this week. My reward
was about a 10 percent savings off
my total bill, and I was pleased
with that. A couple of years ago, I
would have taken that savings and
t r e a t e d m y s e l f t o a l i t t l e lunch out at work. But now? That
something -- a gourmet coffee, bit of savings translated to a few
Culture/ Finance/ 49
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Take Boston Together at
display is easy-to-read (large Fenway Premiere of The Town!
digits) and bright (backlit). Molly (PopSugar)
Modern design lines and slim-and Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM
-trim. Display turns off to indicate
measurements are complete. Price Even historic Fenway Park got
has dropped $20 in the last year. red carpet ready for the Boston
TIRED Glass is streak-prone and premiere of Ben Affleck's second
hard to clean (even with Windex!) directorial project, The Town, on
Noticeably larger square-footage the Red Sox home field last night.
than a lot of analog scales. PlasticBen had the support of his cast,
feet bottoms look cheap and come along with his friend, and fellow
with adhesive that's weaker than Beantown native, Matt Damon.
Harold Wormser (front middle). While the stars of the film were
It's still $160. dressed up, Matt and pregnant to see a reflection of its values.
• Manufacturer: Withings Luciana looked ready for a New York doesn’t so much care
• Price:$160 ballgame in jeans. Blake Lively's about a New York movie. . . But
• boyfriend Penn Badgley joined Boston knows. Boston knows if
her for the journey up from NY you’re from there. . . It means
This entry passed through the after Regis and Kelly yesterday something to them."
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Five Filters featured article: LA with their daughters, though
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- she stopped by TIFF with him last Images include: Ben Affleck,
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer weekend. Ben recently spoke Matt Damon, Chris Cooper,
Catastrophe. about what it means to make Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy
Boston films, saying,"Boston is a Renner, Jennifer Westfeldt, Blake
place that - and I was the same Lively, Penn Badgley
way, living there - that likes to see
itself reflected, likes its own, likes
more groceries in the cart -- and,
apparently, that's the new norm
for a lot of people.
50 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Banksy's Back with 3 New Pieces!

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My known as the pinnacle of street art your mark and then they scrub it
Modern Metropolis) and his small pieces regularly off. I mean, most of it is just
Submitted at 9/14/2010 7:00:00 PM command six figures. As he says, designed to look good from a
"When the paintings suddenly moving vehicle. Not necessarily
Wooster Collective has tipped us started going for, like, really big in the history books," he says.
off to three new Banksy pieces! money it definitely weirded me "But maybe all art is about just
Recently, Banksy gave the Sun out, and I kind of went away to trying to live on for a bit. I mean,
newspaper a rare interview, where the middle of nowhere and I they say you die twice. One time
he talked openly about his teenage s t o p p e d m a k i n g a n y m o r e when you stop breathing and a
g r a f f i t i y e a r s a n d a b o u t paintings. But... er... the whole second time, a bit later on, when
developing his own style. He time the auction houses were just somebody says your name for the
attributes a few, key events in his selling paintings that I'd done last time."
career, like sabotaging the launch years before and sold for not Wooster Collective and The Sun
of Paris Hilton's music album and much money. Or paintings that I can't help feeling it was a bit Most of all, we love Banksy's Other Banksy Art:
staging an exhibition in LA with a traded for a haircut or, yer know, easier when all I had to compete humorous and refreshing take on Top 12 Banksy Pieces of 2010
live elephant, to bringing him a an ounce of weed and they were against was a dustbin down an art. Peace vs. Love by Banksy
good amount of notoriety and going for like 50 grand. It's great, alley rather than, you know, a "Graffiti's always been a Banksy Hits Toronto (3 pieces)
fame. I guess, when your paintings are Gainsborough or something." temporary art form. You make Banksy Hits San Francisco! (5
Today, Banksy's pieces are hanging up in a museum. But I pics)

NYFW: Chris Benz Spring 2011

Habitually Chic (Habitually
Chic®)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 6:21:58 PM
So I went to the Chris Benz
spring 2011 presentation
yesterday and a reality television
show broke out. I'm teasing but
only slightly. Presentations are
different from fashion shows in
that the models stand on raised
platforms and the guests walk past
them to admire the clothes. That
is, if you can see them behind all
the photographers. Add in some
celebrities and it becomes a bit of
a mad house. But it was worth it
because the clothes at Chris Benz
were really pretty, fun and flirty.
"It's time to have fun again with
fashion," the designer declared. "I
just wanted to make great clothes
for going out." I also love what
Chris's website says about his
style. "The Chris Benz girl is an
ageless sophisticate, a reckless
preppy who desires nothing more
than to 'keep dancing.' Her style
projects the collection's sense of
perfect imperfection: the elegant
tomboy with a feminine touch,
equally at home at the Cafe Flore
as she is in the Bowery, she is
playfully imprudent and always
precise."
On hand to help celebrate and
congratulate the designer were
many of his friends including
Rachel Zoe stylist Brad Goreski
who I was lucky to chat with
amidst all the chaos. I can tell
you that he is one of the nicest
people I have ever met in fashion.
Also in attendance were Kelly
Osbourne, Jessica Szohr, Carmen
Electra, Denise Richards, Susan
Sarandon and her daughter Eva
Amurri. (You can see all the
photographic eveidence on
Twitter.) I can tell you that a good
time was had by all and I can't
wait for spring to arrive to wear
these fabulous fashions!
Jessica Szohr, Chris Benz, Brad
Goreski, Allison Pill, Mickey
Sumner
Photos by Heather Clawson for
Habitually Chic
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5 Future Technology Gisele and Adorable Baby Ben

Myths
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM
inherently inexact, but it is
possible to make some informed
guesses. Of course, it's also
Have $16 Million More Reasons
to Cheer For Tom Brady's Patriots
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 6:00:00 AM

What will the world look like 10 possible to argue the opposite
years from now? Forty years from point of view regarding the reality Gisele Bundchen carried Ben out
now? Will the continuation of of some of these technologies, but
Moore's Law eventually allow us in these cases, there's enough
of the car in NYC yesterday.
After helping kick off NYFW by
When Is the
t o h a v e a s o c i e t y r u n b y evidence out there, particularly
automated robots? Will we have from experts, to diagnose them as
hitting the catwalk at the big
Fashion's Night Out runway Right Time
show, Gisele has been laying low
conquered global warming and myths.
celebrate as a people as we Let's start with one of the great rather than gracing the many red
carpets around the city. She also
to Refinance?
approach the much-vaunted fabled machines of the post- player in the NFL, which nospam@example.com
prospect of the singularity? Some industrial age: the flying car. had a familial crisis to attend to perfectly matches Gisele's status (Quizzle.com) (Financiallyfit on
futurists, the people who deal in This entry passed through the when her husband Tom Brady as the world's number one earning Shine)
this kind of speculation, have Full-Text RSS service — if this is was involved in a car accident in supermodel. Next up, Tom will be
Submitted at 9/14/2010 5:24:47 PM
made predictions of this nature, your content and you're reading it Boston last week. He walked coming to join her in New York By: Kristie Lorette, Quizzle.com
but there are also those who say on someone else's site, please read away unscathed and bounced back when his Patriots take on the Jets As mortgage rates hover at
these forecasts are inaccurate. In our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ by signing an enormous contract this Sunday and hopefully we'll historical lows, many
this article, we'll take a look at content-only/faq.php extension with the NE Patriots get a glimpse of his gorgeous wife homeowners are running out to
some popular ideas about the Five Filters featured article: and leading the team to a victory and their cutie son cheering him refinance. But the benefits of
future of technology that are Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- in their first game of the season. on from their box. refinancing vary depending on
likely myths. Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Tom's new deal reportedly came View 2 Photos › your personal situation. The right
Predicting future trends or Catastrophe. with a$16 million signing bonus
time for your neighbor or family
developments, especially in a making him the highest paid
member may not be the right time
dynamic field like technology, is for you. Learning how to analyze
your home loan situation is key
Jennifer Aniston Sports Shorts in Georgia Amid a and will help you decide if
refinancing makes sense for you.

Trio of Romance Rumors Here are two big considerations:

Molly (PopSugar) perfectly sun-kissed body well. Atlanta though he adamantly

Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:00:00 AM
Jennifer Aniston cracked a smile
as she carried her salad on the set
of Wanderlust in Atlanta on
Monday. She's been in Georgia
filming the dramatic movie for a
few weeks and the Southern heat
looks like it's treating her
While Jennifer spends time far denied a rekindled romance last
away from LA, rumors about her month. Whatever the case,
love life are going strong. Her Jennifer seems happy to be hard at
date with Cougar Town's Josh work and we're excited to see her
Hopkins was apparently just as on the season premiere of Cougar
friends, but there are reports that Town one week from tonight!
she's involved with Lindsay View 5 Photos ›
Lohan's ex Harry Morton. There's the latest being that they met up
also the usual John Mayer stories, when his tour swung through
52 Politics-Left/
The PICTURE: Nerd Rules
Jed Perl (The New Republic -
All Feed)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:00:00 PM
( Click here to see a slideshow of
these stunning tools and charts.)
When material culture really
matters, there is something
dematerialized about its
materiality. Most people will
agree that a beautifully designed
chair—or a beautifully designed
pair of scissors—has an aura
about it. The truth is that no
purely utilitarian analysis can
describe the cultural significance
of a man-made object, even the
most blandly utilitarian one. Poets
and painters understand this. So
do the smartest historians,
curators, and collectors.
In the past few weeks I’ve kept
coming back to a couple of
remarkable new books. They have
set me to thinking about the
suggestivity of material culture.
Andrew Alpern, an architect, has
produced a lavishly illustrated
guide to his collection of
d r a w i n g s
instruments—compasses,
protractors, sectors, and the like,
many dating back to the
eighteenth century—and the result
is a hymn to the exactitudes of
architectural practice. There can
be a sneaky—and sometimes even
a subversive—luxuriousness
about these tools. In
Cartographies of Time: A History
of the Timeline, the historians
Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony
Grafton have made a fascinating
narrative out of changing
representations of the idea of
historical time. They have woven
their text through a series of eye-
catching reproductions of more
than six centuries worth of printed
and drawn timelines. (The design
of some of these diagrams and
charts involved precisely the
drawing instruments that interest
Alpern.) Cartographies of Time,
which is among other things a
study in styles of diagrammatic
analysis, underscores the poetic
colorations that shape and
sometimes perhaps even define
our sense of history. Both
Alpern’s instruments and
Rosenberg and Grafton’s
diagrams underscore a modernist
belief that form, while following
function, is also an expression of
feeling, although the feelings are
not necessarily easy to describe.
There is a psychology and also a
sociology of style, manifest in the
way that a tool is shaped or a
diagram is organized.
I know there are some
communities within our
technophile culture, I’m not sure
how large or how small, that take
a particular interest in
technologies past. You see this in
the vogue for Victoriana that has
overtaken bohemian Brooklyn
and its various outposts and
colonies. Taxidermy is having a
revival. Nineteenth-century men’s
clothing and furnishings are all
the rage. Enormous maps and
charts, designed to hang in public
school classrooms, are popular at
the flea markets. Indeed,
Cartographies of Time has its
origins in a feature that Rosenberg
worked on for Cabinet, the
quarterly review with offices in
Brooklyn that mixes art and
history and the history of science
to achieve a brainy stylishness
that is well nigh irresistible. The
hipster appeal of both these
books, and I would not
underestimate it, has nothing to do
with hipster lite; it’s the real
McCoy, grounded in scholarly
avidity and original thought. Both
volumes might be described as
salutes to the nerd imagination
through history. That the authors
may themselves be a bit nerdy
makes them especially
sympathetic to the material they
are presenting.
Alpern’s book certainly has the
perfect nerd title on its dust
jacket: Catalogue of the Andrew
Alpern Collection of Drawing
Instruments at the Avery
Architectural and Fine Arts
Library Columbia University. The
instruments—made of brass,
nickel silver, steel, silver, and
ivory—come in elaborate sets.
While here and there, especially
on some French eighteenth-
century models, you find bits of
playful engraved decoration, what
is compelling is the severe, proto-
modern, form-follows-function
precision of these objects. Alpern,
a serious collector, likes to have
his instruments in complete sets in
mint or near-mint condition, and
that means many of them are in
their original containers. There’s a
particular charm about the
eighteenth-century sets, which
were packed away in a compact
box, shaped like a flatted-out
covered cup, known as an étui.
Compared to the larger collections
of instruments produced in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, arranged in rather
somber cases with dark interiors,
there is a coziness about the
eighteenth-century sets, a sense of
the architect as a figure who is
still slightly casual, sitting down
to work whenever and wherever
inspiration strikes, removing his
instruments from an étui made of
wood or silver, covered in leather,
shagreen, or tortoise shell. Some
story about the shifting nature of
professional identity can be read
through these instrument cases,
the earliest of which have an
aristocratic swagger that shifts to
a cooler sort of professionalism in
the nineteenth century. When I
study the close-up photographs in
Alpern’s book, I sense the
physicality of the draftsman’s
work, the manipulation of lines to
make forms, the envisioning of
the three dimensional in two
dimensions. There is even an
instrument known as an
ellipsograph, which, as Alpern
explains, “permitted circles to be
drawn in perspective (where they
are actually ellipses, but perceived
by our brains as circles if the rest
of the drawing is properly in
perspective).”
Perspective—our perspective on
world history—is the subject of
Rosenberg and Grafton’s
easygoing, brainy Cartographies
of Time, a book that bears
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comparison with two of my
favorite illustrated volumes of all
time: Mario Praz’s Illustrated
History of Furnishing(1964) and
A. Hyatt Mayor’s Prints and
People: A Social History of
Printed Pictures(1971). What
Rosenberg and Grafton have in
common with Mayor and Praz is a
feeling for the poetic powers of
material culture, for the way that
stylistic evolutions express
changing worldviews. By looking
at timelines and how their shape
and form have morphed over the
years, Rosenberg and Grafton
manage to describe the evolving
physiognomy of the historical
imagination. This book does for
timelines what Grafton’s glorious
The Footnote: A Curious History
did for footnotes. It takes
intellectual confidence to
compose a text that partners with
pictures without overwhelming
them—that allows the images to
dance and sing. Mayor and Praz
had that confidence. So do
Rosenberg and Grafton.
Rosenberg and Grafton are
formalists, at least up to a point.
“Addressing the problem of
chronology,” they write, “and
especially the problem of visual
chronology, means going back to
the line, to understand its
ubiquity, flexibility, and force. …
Our idea of time is so wrapped up
with the metaphor of the line that
taking them apart seems virtually
impossible.” The challenge here
becomes to see how many ways
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the idea of time and the metaphor
of the line can be wrapped
together. We find that history has
been represented through parallel
columns, concentric circles,
checkerboards, and flow charts,
with each linear structure yielding
its own emotional and intellectual
implications, ranging from cool
and classical to jumbled, chaotic,
even expressionistic. Perhaps a
romantic sense of history has
rarely been as tellingly
encapsulated as in Edward Quin’s
An Historical Atlas, first
published in 1828. Here maps of
the world as it was known to
Europeans at particular periods in
history are surrounded by dark
storm clouds, with the clouds
gradually rolled back to reveal
more and more brightly
illuminated terrain. It’s the
revelation of historical time as
Caspar David Friedrich might
have conceived it. Flash forward
to the twentieth century, and
you’ll meet The Histomap, a long,
unfolding chart, published by
Rand McNally after a design by
an amateur historian, John Sparks.
Here the flowing streams of
various cultures, each stream
defined by a different band of
brilliant color, convey a
swaggering optimism. Rosenberg
and Grafton quote Herbert
Spencer, whom Sparks apparently
admired, explaining that “when a
man’s knowledge is not in order,
the more of it he has, the greater
will be his confusion of thought.”
Cartographies of Time, from
beginning to end, is about our
perennial attempts to bring order
to disorderly experience.
The elegance of many of the
engraved plates in Cartographies
of Time and the chaste beauty of
the instruments in Alpern’s
collection suggest a mastery of
experience. For some, all of this
can be counted as a prehistory to
the elegance of the iPhone, and
they are not entirely wrong. What
of course worries some of us
about the wired world is that it
may tend to alienate the
imagination from artisanal
experience—although the more
deeply you understand the new
hardware and the new software
the less true that may be, I’m not
sure. The eighteenth-century
fellow with his drawing
instruments in their spiffy
shagreen case surely had
something in common with the
twenty-first century architect
sketching on his iPad. And
anybody as obsessed with
diagrams as some of the
seventeenth-century antiquarians
featured in Cartographies of Time
would have shouted for joy had
they been able to time travel to
the twenty-first century and take a
crash course in the new
technology. But if you want to
imagine the past as prologue, you
also have to entertain the thought
of the present as epilogue. Can the
artisanal imagination outlive
artisanal practice? And without
the artisanal imagination can the
creative imagination survive?
Such are the larger questions that
are provoked by these voluptuous
volumes in which—nifty
thought—the nerds rule.
Jed Perl is the art critic for The
New Republic.
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Graduate Student Breaks
Jeopardy Record
Natalie Abrams (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:06:00 PM
Roger Craig
Remember, Ken Jennings:
Records were made to be broken.
Roger Craig, a graduate student
at the University of Delaware,
broke the one-day winnings
record on Jeopardy! Tuesday.
Check out videos of Jennings on
Jeopardy
Craig, whose Final Jeopardy bet
of $30,000 sealed the win, earned
a total of $77,000, edging out the
$75,000 record set by Jennings
during his now famous Jeopardy
run. comparison, Jennings, who
The final category was "Literary competed in 74 games, earned a
and Movie Title Objects," with total of $3.02 million.
the clue being: "The inspiration This entry passed through the
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The New Season in Review: Outlaw, Survivor, Just Desserts
Matt Roush (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:28:00 AM
Jimmy Smits, Jimmy Johnson
The new Wednesday TV
schedule is still a week or two
away from taking its final fall
shape, but there's plenty to talk
about regarding tonight's lineup.
A number of reality competition
shows are taking a final bow —
America's Got Talent, Big
Brother, MasterChef and classic
Top Chef— but let's discuss the
new.
Want more TV News and
Reviews? Subscribe to TV Guide
Magazine now!
And let's get the bad news out of
the way first. Here's how I wrote
about NBC's new legal drama
Outlaw(getting a sneak preview
tonight at 10/9c before being
rightfully banished to the Friday
wastelands) in TV Guide
Magazine's Fall Preview issue:
"Guilty by reason of inanity.
Every fall there's at least one
What were they thinking? stinker,
and despite the charisma Jimmy
Smits brings to any project, this
supremely preposterous and
preachy legal melodrama wins the
booby prize."
To elaborate: Outlaw isn't a
Western, but I suppose calling it
Maverick would be even more
confusing. That's the reputation of
Cyrus Garza (Smits), a gambling
and womanizing though
constitutionally conservative
Supreme Court justice who
abruptly quits the bench to start a
private practice (with the help of
his young, callow clerks) to
counter-intuitively combat the
system and fight for the little guys
who get caught in the cracks. If
you can swallow the full-of-itself
premise — I can't — you might
still choke on the clichés as each
episode tackles a red-flag issue in
the hokiest, most manipulative
and least convincing way
imaginable.
In the second episode, the team's
insufferably snarky-sexy
investigator ( Carly Pope)
mutters, "My mind can't process
anything that earnest." I'm with
her.
On a more interesting note, CBS
is shaking up the first hour of
Wednesday prime time by
relocating Survivor from
Thursdays to the time period
where it originally aired 10
summers ago, changing the face
of prime-time TV (for better or
worse, depending on your tastes).
Still a powerhouse, Survivor
presents a reality logjam opposite
the CW's America's Next Top
Model(which tonight asks the
models to expose their inner
demons with body paint) and,
starting next week, Fox's Hell's
Kitchen.
Survivor gets off to a promising
start this week with an evocative
new setting (Nicaragua) and the
provocative gimmick of
separating the tribes by age. Will
wisdom (if that's what comes with
age) prevail over youthful (some
might say arrogant) bravado?
Adding to the conflict: a new
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testant notes, unlike their
compatriots in the savory world,
you can't keep tasting and revising
as you go. At some point, you
have to put the damn thing in the
oven and take your chances.
After one episode, I'm hooked, in
part because my sweet tooth and
inner drool engine couldn't get
enough. The real challenge for
viewers (well, me anyway) will be
to get through an episode without
raiding the freezer or pantry for an
accompanying treat. Just Desserts
may not add much to your life,
but it could do real damage to
your waistline if you're not
careful.
device, the "Medallion of Power," something Jeff Probst once (Final observation: Despite how
whose attributes I won't spoil here advised in an interview. "You this column makes it look, I
except to note that when it's actually listened to something I haven't become a reality turncoat.
introduced, Jeff Probst goes all said?" Probst marvels. I'll have something good to say
Monty Hall and plays "Let's Make I don't know about outwit or again about scripted series. Soon.)
a Deal" with it. outlast, but that's certainly a way Outlaw premieres Wednesday, 10
The tribes are also rocked by the to out-butter-up your host. Nicely /9, on NBC, and will move to its
s h o w ' s m o s t r e c o g n i z a b l e played. Friday (10/9c) time period Sept.
celebrity player ever, former NFL The night's other significant 17.
coach Jimmy Johnson, who reality newcomer is Bravo's latest Survivor premieres Wednesday,
repeatedly insists to his unsettled tasty spin-off, Top Chef: Just 8/7c, on CBS
fellow contestants that "I'm here Desserts, which premieres at 11/ Top Chef: Just Desserts
for the adventure," declaring he 10c immediately following the premieres Wednesday, 11/10c, on
doesn't expect anyone to hand him Singapore-set climax of the Bravo, and will regularly air
a million dollars. Whether they current Top Chef season. Pastry, Wednesdays at 10/9c
accept this strategic "Hail Mary" we're told early on, is as much Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
remains to be seen. science as art. "It's not all fondant now!
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Survivor: Nicaragua's Battle of the Ages

Rob Moynihan (TVGuide.com: often get this many good older of the game, "an early sign that
Breaking News) people," says host Jeff Probst, the young tribe is quite cocky,"
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:28:00 AM who's entering his 21st season of Probst says. "In most cases on
snuffing torches. "We actually Survivor, I would still say that the
Survivor: Nicaragua have a tribe that's strong enough youth probably have an
Huddled under the jungle canopy t h a t t h e y c a n c o m p e t e a n d advantage, but with this group, I
on Nicaragua's Pacific coast, a colorful enough that the audience think the older people do."
burly Massachusetts fisherman, a will root for them." Back at the Espada camp,
dog trainer from the South and a The colors definitely shine Johnson finishes his strategy
former Yahoo! executive gather brighter on the older Espada tribe session as the castaways place
around a fire pit for the pep talk of (Spanish for "sword"), with ages their hands on top of each other in
their lives. In the middle of the ranging from 41 to 67. Donning a the center of the huddle and let
half-circle sits legendary former cowboy hat and boots, Wendy out a cheer of unity. Tomorrow,
NFL coach Jimmy Johnson, DeSmidt-Kohlhoff, a 48-year-old Johnson will move from the
whose famously coiffed hair — r e t i r e d A r m y o f f i c e r f r o m sidelines into the middle of the
which he admits will "get messed Fromberg, Montana, openly field and try to lead his team to
up sooner rather than later" — has admits to having some unique victory, seemingly unconcerned
finally met its match under the dietary habits. "I do like to eat with the generation gap he's
Central American heat and roadkill!" she exclaims proudly. the beach," Probst says. "Our contains some formidable players facing. "For someone my age, I'm
humidity. It's the day before And Dan Lembo, a 63-year-old challenge department has come up sprinkled into the usual batch of in as good a condition as I can
Survivor: Nicaragua's first real-estate executive from with some inventive ideas that are wannabe actors and models. get. The only thing I'm in it for is
immunity challenge, and the Watermill, New York, who goes fair, still take skill and still take Brenda Lowe, a spunky 27-year- the adventure."
coach is in his element, presenting b y t h e n i c k n a m e " M r . strategy. They're going to be the old paddleboard company owner Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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Magazine now! of the game: the challenges. Even with the spotlight on the tribe makes a controversial Catastrophe.
"Finding the old tribe is what kick "It's way less physical this season, Espada, the younger La Flor tribe decision regarding the Medallion
-started this idea because we don't so there will be no wrestling on (Spanish for "the flower") of Power in the opening minutes
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Survivor Fights Age with Age for New Season

Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com: How fame helped Jimmy little rice, it equates to a spoonful
Breaking News) Johnson play Survivor of rice a day per person. It's not
Submitted at 9/14/2010 9:13:00 PM "Old vs. young really came out of much," he says. "Going into the
the fact that when we were in the season, a big concern for us was
Jeff Probst middle of our first round of making sure that they did have
On TV, a decadelong-year run casting, we started noticing that enough food that they could live
can be both a blessing and a curse. we had more good, older people and I'm not being sarcastic. We're Tom Colicchio
It's a time for celebration and than we did younger people," he really aware that we can't push
nostalgia, but also possibly a time says. "On one hand, it was really them too far." Talks About the
for trying to make the old formula exciting and on the other hand, it's Despite these tweaks and
look new again. a big challenge because Survivor adjustments, no particular location 'Top Chef' Finale
Wrapping its 10th year on the air is so physical already that we had or special medallion will be able Joel Keller (TV Squad)
and its 21st season, Survivor is to find ways to make the shows to elevate the new season like a Submitted at 9/15/2010 5:00:00 AM
fighting age with, well, age — fair so that the 70-year-old guy strong cast can. 'Nicaragua' has a
pitting old players against young can take on the 19-year-old lot to live up to after last season Filed under: Features, Celebrity
contestants in the series' latest arc. college athlete. That was the big welcomed back 20 of the game's Interviews
Check out photos of the Survivor: challenge, but I think we figured biggest names and became one of The 'Top Chef' season finale is
Nicaragua castaways it out." the most acclaimed editions in upon us, and, despite what many
"We're in our 21st season, and Despite this throwback, the game "We're going to post them online recent memory. (including me) think has been a
you have to evolve with the show will introduce two new elements and the audience will be able to "The contestants are going to have disappointing season, it looks like
and with the audience. Survivor in the form of the Medallion of try to figure out what it means," to make the difference. We don't the cheftestants have finally
started with small little twists and Power and a new style of hidden Probst says. "We'll see if it works. have a twist that can compare decided to step it up and produce
they became more popular, and immunity clues. It could be a complete disaster. to'Heroes vs. Villains,' and we consistently good food.
now the twists are a big part of the The Medallion of Power will give You never know until you try it." knew that. That's as big as it gets," "Quite frankly with this finale,
show. We owe it to the audience one tribe a clear advantage in Probst says his favorite alteration Probst says. "They're either going overall was better than any finale
to continue to twist it up," host immunity challenges. However, for the new season is the locale to carry the show on their backs we've had," executive producer
and executive producer Jeff once the medallion is used, the change. After shooting Seasons or they won't." and head judge Tom Colicchio
Probst tells TVGuide.com. opposing group will automatically 19 and 20 back-to-back in Samoa, This entry passed through the told me on Monday. Yes, the final
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question what's new this year." Survivor: Nicaragua pits old far. on someone else's site, please read Kelly's elimination -- have
True Survivor fans know even against young But Nicaragua proved a huge our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ impressed the usually impassive
this latest maneuver has been The hidden immunity clues will challenge for the castaways, content-only/faq.php judge that much.
done before — old vs. young was be written using hieroglyphic thanks to a heavy rain season and Five Filters featured article: The lush Singapore location has
the big game-changer in Season clues, a possible nod to Survivor a scarcity of food. Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- helped, of course, and it seems
12 for Survivor: Panama. Probst legend Russell Hantz, who "We're going to give them a little Reporting of Falluja's Cancer that the prospect of one of the
insists the decision was dictated managed to find an impressive rice, because they would not be Catastrophe. finalists getting sick (if you see
as much by the casting process as number of immunity idols without able to go without it. When I say a the ads for the finale, you'll know
the producers. any clues in Seasons 19 and 20. who) did little to dampen his
enthusiasm.
We talked about the unexpected
events of the finale -- he didn't
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Paging Dr. Brady!
Christopher Knight Checks In
to 'The Bold and the Beautiful'
Michael Maloney (TV Squad)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 4:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features, Celebrity
Interviews'The Brady Bunch' is
back ... sort of.
Mom Carol, a.k.a. Florence
Henderson is on this season
of'Dancing With the Stars.' Susan
Olsen(Cindy) recently did an
episode of 'The Young and the
Restless.' And, now, Christopher
Knight, who played mischievous
middle child Peter, is set to debut
on'The Bold and the Beautiful.'
Knight will play Dr. Andrews,
pediatrician to Owen and
Bridget's baby, making his 'B&B'
debut Weds., Sept. 15, on CBS.
TV Squad chatted with Knight
about his return -- yes, return -- to
soaps, his favorite episode of 'The
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“Wow, Mr. Rutledge! I never
knew your company had a giant
see-through elevator that could
fly!”
“Oh, Chuck, my boy, there are
many things about this company
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Because you’ve won, you see?
You’ve won! Okay, here’s your
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“Oh, it’s your wife. Checking in
on FourSquare. I should do that
too, right now. Say, is she mayor
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Tom's general frustrations with
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guess now… well, it can’t be
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“What? Where’s the irony in
judging process. He also dropped
a hint or two about next season,
helped. Anyway, I’m not looking
at her. I’m looking at what’s
that?”
“This is Texas, Chuck. We don’t
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she’s a red one! Look at that
lovely USB/TV Out interface! Bet
she’s learned a lesson, right?”
“Mr. Rutledge, that makes no
sense at all. I know from my
research that a Polaroid 14MP
Digital Camera with 5x Optical
Zoom has 64 MB of internal
flash memory and can handle a
4GB SD card or a 32GB SDHC
card, and that’s great for people
who might know where to score
some cheap 2GB SD cards, but
what does all that have to do with
an MP3 player?”
“Well, Chuck, I thought a clever
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the answer by now. Ooo, wait!
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how she chirped every time she
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Doesn’t she look nice?”
“Mr. Rutledge, I really think we
need to talk about what you’re
doing here. I mean, technically,
there are some real issues
involved in turning children into
cameras as punishment. Plus, you
invited them on this tour in the
first place. It was in all the papers
and everything. Aren’t people
going to notice that all these kids
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My ARM! Let go! You’re hurting
me!”
“Don’t miss this one, Chuck! See
that? It’s mean ol’ Red Wiener. I
hear he was named after his
grandfather, who was also called
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“Mr. Rutledge, I don’t think I
want to be in this elevator any
more. I want to go home.”
“What? Chuck, is something
wrong? Feeling sad? Maybe
feeling a little… BLUE?”
“Well, I guess I am a bit… oh, no!
No! Mr. Rutledge, no! I don’t
want to be a Blue Polaroid 14MP
Digital Camera with 5x Optical
Zoom!”
“Too bad, sonny, we got a
shipping schedule! At least you’re
not winding up an HD
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Chuck. Because I like you, you’re
going FedEx Ground. Besides, it
won’t be so bad. Think of how
clear you’ll see the world with
that 14MP resolution!”
“Mr. Rutledge! Mr. Rutledge! I’m
changing! I can feel myself
changing! No! Nooooo!”
“Sorry, Chuck. I really was going
to give it all to you. But… well,
you shouldn’t have checked in on
FourSquare. My wife’s just really
picky about that sort of thing.”
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Carb coma at the nation’s health-
research epicenter
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Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:32:07 AM
Carb coma at the nation’s health-
research epicenter At the end of
day 2 at the health-journalism
fellowship I’m attending at the
National Library of Medicine in
Bethesda, I am again wowed by
the amazing breadth of
information these guys put
out—with sometimes as few as
three people working on a
website. I’ve been struck by how
the enthusiastic staff tries to
anticipate the needs of the people
using each information resource,
whether it’s a concerned dog
owner looking up toxic pet
products or the parents of a
newborn with triple X syndrome
in need of guidance and advice.
Lest you think this is a puff post,
though, I’ve also been struck by
how utterly unhealthfully I’ve
eaten since I arrived at this most
esteemed of health-research
institutions. In the building
cafeteria yesterday morning, I
couldn’t find skim milk to put in
my coffee, and was struck by the
startling amount of heavy-looking
pasta dishes put out for lunch
(though they had some healthier
sandwich and salad offerings,
too). The program leaders have
graciously provided snacks for us:
mostly bagels, muffins, and
cookies. And at the lunch
Tuesday, hosted by the National
Center for Biotechnology
Information (umbrella division for
PubMed, MedlinePlus, and more),
I found a table full of…pizza.
Lots of pizza. And no sides,
unless you count soda.
The irony wasn’t lost on the
health journalists. We spent half
of our first afternoon at a
presentation on obesity, diabetes,
and energy imbalance (too many
calories in, too few out), which
contributes to both. We have all
read studies on Americans’ diet
deficits, the burden of obesity on
the health system and people’s
quality of life, and the crucial role
fresh produce and lean protein
play in keeping us all healthy.
Then we visit the preeminent
medical library in the world and,
in two days, eat a month’s worth
of carbs.
I see my gut-expanding
experience here as a microcosm
of the problem with the way we
eat in the U.S. We can talk all we
want about fresh foods and five a
day but when less nutritious stuff
is at arm’s reach (and cheap), and
the good stuff requires all kinds of
extra maneuvers to obtain, it’s not
hard to predict the outcome.
Finding a healthier meal would
have required me to walk out of a
meeting and embarrass my hosts
and myself in hopes of finding a
turkey sandwich and maybe a
piece of fresh fruit.
Imagine how much easier it
would be to eat healthfully each
day if the good stuff was right in
front of you, and you had to go
out of your way to find the pizza,
the fast food, the refined carbs.
Here’s some interesting food for
thought: The senior NLM official
who led the lunch meeting didn’t
lay a finger on the pizza. He
feasted on a bag of fresh,
delicious-looking fruit he’d
brought from home. Smart guy.
— Jamie Kopf Hirsh, associate
editor
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Make it a Double Down
of Class
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) saturated fat.
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:00:00 AM How do you get people excited
about the same corporate image
The folks over at KFC have a without investing in a new
problem. First off, they want you s p o k e s p e r s o n l i k e P a m e l a
to forger that KFC stands for Anderson? You appeal to the
"Kentucky FRIED Chicken," most natural and salient desire of
because that sounds unhealthy. children everywhere: drawing
How we've reached a point in corporate mascots!
America where a company can That's right, through the end of
just change its name to initials and September you can sketch your
hope people don't notice the own portrait of Colonel Sanders
difference is beyond me, but that's a n d s u b m i t i t t o K F C t o
not the point. win...uh...$1100. Apparently that's
The problem is that young adults $100 for each of the secret
don't recognize Colonel Harland ingredients. I mean, hey, a
Sanders, the deceased founder and thousand bucks is nice, but c'mon.
now animated spokesman for What's that after taxes? $500,
KFC restaurants. maybe? I guess KFC's hurting
While you or I might think worse than I thought.
children not knowing fast food Still, the winning artist will get to
pitchmen by heart would be a sign p a i n t a B R A N D N E W
of progress, the good people at PORTRAIT of the Colonel using
KFC see that at a pretty big issue p a i n t c o n t a i n i n g K F C ' s
and have launched an all-out blitz trademarked secret 11 herbs and
to get kids "Talkin' 'Bout the spices. And, presumably, the
Colonel." (I'm trademarking that blood of chickens.
phrase now before they swipe it.) I say let them do whatever they
Now at first I thought this was want so long as they don't
like a Neighborhood Watch thing, resurrect his zombified corpse like
y'know? But it turns out, KFC they did Orville Reddenbacher.
wants children to be aware of That said, how would YOU depict
Colonel Sanders because they Colonel Sanders? Good-natured
think kids will inexplicably grandpa in a seersucker suit? Or
develop positive feelings towards c a r n a g e - c l a d c o n q u e r o r o f
a man who looks like a plantation cluckery? Let us know in the
owner from Roots and who sells comments!
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Automotive X Prize: Winners to be Bedbugs: Why New York

announced tomorrow is the city that never
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The winners of the Automotive X Tracer. Assuming validation went

Prize are due to be announced Bedbugs: Why New York is the
off without a hitch, X-Tracer is a
Thursday in Washington, D.C., city that never sleeps Bedbugs
shoe-in for that $2.5 million prize
bringing to a close an intense race to see who could complete f o r i t s e n c l o s e d e l e c t r i c have quickly become a worldwide
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The awards ceremony is
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The department offers a guide for
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In short order, the Internet has
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sites that allow consumers to self-
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of the most comprehensive is The
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As Consumers Union has noted
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In Which We Anger Halo Fanboys and Shaquille O'Neal Sued

Praise Sid Meier for Computer Hacking,
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:00:00 PM Destruction of Evidence
the Space Age, thanks. Oh, wow,
you get to run AND shoot? That
must be tough to manage to do at
everything and win" game mode.
That sounds fun...for you.
And you can stay up all night Will Brinson (FanHouse Main)
For those of you who might not the same time! I'll be exploring a playing "marathon" Halo matches
be "in the know," there's some uniquely-crafted world, building if you like, but I can play all night Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:43:00 AM

rather huge video game news and managing cities, seeking out and not even complete one game.
brewing today. Something I'm resources, navigating trade routes Filed under: Celtics, NBA Police
Turn-based strategy of this
sure we can all agree will be and diplomacy all while forging Blotter Shaquille O'Neal is being
complexity requires time; it
eating away the hours of our lives an army to take care of any gung- sued in Dade County, Florida, by
requires a LOT of time.
for the next year or so at least. Of ho leaders who think they like the a former employee of his, Shawn
Come to think of it I'm not sure
course I'm talking about- Darling.
look of my uranium deposits. that's a win in my column. Oh
What? Halo Reach? Oh, is that Wow, you get a Deathmatch! This type of thing (people suing
well, either way I'm going to see a
out already? I don't really care, How innovative! I can only think rich, famous people) happens
lot less sunlight starting next
but you go have fun. I'm talking of 20 or 30 other FPS games every single day. But the details
Tuesday!
about Civilization 5... of Shaq's lawsuit aren't your
offering such a unique game Now you know what we'll be
First of all, I think it's adorable mode! Maybe there's even a flag average, every day civil complaint
busy playing. Got a better game?
that you're so excited about your for you to capture! Let's see, I can from an ex-employee.
Willing to challenge us in empire conspired with former members
little Halo game with your cute win a game through war, culture Radar Online reports that Darling
building? Wanna plug your "totes of law enforcement to help plant
guns and adorable aliens; that's and trade, diplomacy, completing is suing Shaq for some pretty
awesome cave" in Minecraft? Let child pornography on Darling's
neat. Really. If you need me, the space race, or completing the heavy stuff: computer hacking
us know in the comments below. computer, that Shaq tried to break
though, I'll be leading an entire Utopia Project. But you have fun and destruction of evidence. ( A
PDF of the public document is into Darling's voicemail account,
civilization from the Stone Age to with that incredible "shoot that Shaq destroyed evidence by
here.)
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Reggie Bush decides to forfeit 2005 Heisman Trophy

ESPN.com news services know that any young man honored to have been in the 2005 One of the marketing agents,
(ESPN.com) fortunate enough to win the Heisman campaign with such a Lloyd Lake, sued Bush, trying to
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:37:00 AM Heisman enters into a family of talented athlete." recoup nearly $300,000 in cash
sorts. Each individual carries the During a Monday morning and gifts. Bush was supposed to
Updated: September 15, 2010, legacy of the award and each one interview with Hannah Storm on give a deposition in the case but
10:37 AM ET is entrusted with its good name. ESPN's "SportsCenter," Young never did and eventually the case
Running back Reggie Bush has "It is for these reasons that I have said he wouldn't turn down the was settled with Bush never
d e c i d e d t o h a n d o v e r t h e made the difficult decision to trophy if Bush lost it. having given his side of the story
Heisman. forfeit my title as Heisman winner "I definitely want it, I definitely publicly.
Under pressure since his award- of 2005." want it,'' said Young, who guided It took four years for the NCAA
winning 2005 campaign at USC The NCAA passed down heavy Texas to the national to complete its investigation.
was vacated, Bush said in a sanctions on USC relating to championship. "But he won it fair When it finally handed down its
statement on Tuesday that he will improper benefits received by and square definitely, and it's punishment in June, it was harsh.
forfeit the Heisman Trophy. More Bush and basketball player O.J. much respect to Reggie, man. He The NCAA cited USC for a lack
from ESPN.com Mayo. The Heisman Trust was had a great career and he's already of institutional control. Its report
USC didn't need to hear from scheduled to meet on Tuesday, won a Super Bowl before me. I'm cited numerous improper benefits
Reggie Bush on Tuesday. It but it was not clear if Bush was on already mad about that. for Bush and Mayo, who spent
already admitted he wasn't the the agenda. The group has been "But at the same time I am just one year with the Trojans.
rightful owner of the award when reviewing whether Bush should definitely happy for him, man, The penalties included the loss of
it shipped back its copy of the have his award taken away. More Podcasts » and he is definitely the Heisman 30 football scholarships over three
trophy nearly two months ago, "For the rest of my days, I will It's the first time college Trophy winner for that year. But years and vacating 14 victories in
writes ESPNLosAngeles.com's continue to strive to demonstrate football's top award was returned if they send it over to me I am not which Bush played from
Mark Saxon. Story through my actions and words by a recipient. One of the few going to say no to it," Young said. December 2004 through the 2005
Bush is now the first Heisman that I was deserving of the guidelines given to Heisman Allegations that Bush and his season. USC beat Oklahoma in
Trophy winner to surrender the confidence placed in me by the Trophy voters is that a player family had received hundreds of the BCS title game on Jan. 4,
award. That's not the interesting Heisman Trophy Trust," Bush's must be in compliance with thousands of dollars in gifts from 2005, and won 12 games during
part. The interesting part is trying statement continues. "I would like NCAA rules to be eligible for the two California-based marketing Bush's Heisman-winning 2005
to find deeper meaning in his to begin in this effort by turning a trophy. agents were first reported by season, which ended with a loss to
statement, writes ESPN.com's Ted negative situation into a positive The eight-member Heisman Yahoo Sports in September 2006, Texas in the 2006 BCS title game.
Miller. Blog one by working with the Trustees Trophy Trust, based in New York, months after Bush had already After the 2009 season, coach Pete
"One of the greatest honors of my to establish an educational had said it would have to consider been drafted No. 2 overall by the Carroll left to take over the Seattle
life was winning the Heisman program which will assist student- what to do about Bush, who won Saints.[+] Enlarge Seahawks.
Trophy in 2005," the statement athletes and their families avoid in a landslide vote over Texas Joe Robbins/US Presswire "It is my hope that this situation
released by the New Orleans some of the mistakes that I made. quarterback Vince Young. Reggie Bush's electrifying serves as a teachable moment to
Saints reads. "For me, it was a I am determined to view this "The Heisman Trophy Trust will performances for USC landed him all involved, especially for the
dream come true. But I know that event as an opportunity to help issue a statement in due course," t h e 2 0 0 5 H e i s m a n , b u t h e young athletes and university and
the Heisman is not mine alone. others and to advance the values Trust president Bill Dockery said forfeited the award Tuesday. high school administrators of
Far from it. I know that my and mission of the Heisman Tuesday. "Until that time we have The NCAA and Pac-10 began tomorrow," Carroll said in a
victory was made possible by the Trophy Trust." The Doug Gottlieb no further comment. investigating Bush and the USC statement.
discipline and hard work of my Show " J u s t h e a r d a b o u t R e g g i e s football program soon after, and In July, USC replaced athletic
teammates, the steady guidance of Bruce Feldman drops by to Heisman," Young posted on his the running back immediately director Mike Garrett with Pat
my coaches, the inspiration of the provide some perspective on Twitter account. "Reg will denied any wrongdoing. Haden, and one of the first moves
fans, and the unconditional love Reggie Bush's decision to forfeit continue to be the 2005 Award But Bush never met with
of my family and friends. And I his 2005 Heisman Trophy. recipient and I will continue to be i n v e s t i g a t o r s . REGGIE page 65
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Padres survive Rockies to hold first in NL West
Associated Press (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:09:44 AM
Game Information Stadium
Coors Field, Denver, CO
Attendance 40,532 (80.3% full) -
% is based on regular season
capacity Game Time 3:04
Weather 85 degrees, partly cloudy
Wind 6 mph Umpires Home Plate
- Jeff Nelson, First Base - Mark
Carlson, Second Base - Jeff
Kellogg, Third Base - Larry
Vanover
Associated Press
DENVER -- Heath Bell found a
way to get out of trouble and give
the San Diego Padres some
breathing room. Bell induced a
game-ending double play with the
winning run on first, pinch-hitter
Matt Stairs hit a two-run homer in
the eighth and the Padres hung on
to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6
on Tuesday night to maintain their
lead in the NL West. Fast Facts
• The Padres won back-to-back
games against the Rockies for the
first time this season. The Padres
lead the Rockies by 3 1/2 games
in the NL West.
• Carlos Gonzalez went 3 for 4
with a double and three RBIs.
He's hitting .361 with eight extra
base hits and 18 RBIs vs. San
Diego this season.
• Jon Garland allowed four hits
and three runs (1 ER) in seven
innings to win for the first time in
his last four starts.
• Matt Stairs hit his 22nd career
pinch-hit home run
• Heath Bell picked up his 42nd
save, the second straight season
he's had that many saves.
• The Rockies have lost two
straight after winning their
previous 10 games.
-- ESPN Stats & Information That
win, coupled with San Francisco's
1-0 loss to Los Angeles, and San
Diego suddenly had a a 1 1/2-
game cushion in the division.The
Padres couldn't have picked a
better time to win their first series
against the Rockies this season,
taking the first two of this pivotal
three-game set."Every game is big
one this time of year. Every team
will tell you that," Padres manager
Bud Black said. "The Rockies are
tough and they're especially tough
at home."The Rockies, who had
their 10-game winning streak
Sports/ 63
halted the night before, tumbled
again, dropping them 3 1/2 games
behind San Diego. They remain 3
1/2 games behind Atlanta in the
NL wild-card race after the
Braves were beaten 6-0 by
Washington."We're not done by
any stretch of the imagination,"
Rockies manager Jim Tracy said.
"We still have got baseball left to
play. It's still all in front of us."It
was all in front of the Rockies in
the ninth. They scored two runs,
had runners on first and second
PADRES page 65
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New York Jets lose
Green Bay Packers place RB Ryan Grant on season- lineman Kris Jenkins
for 2010 with ACL tear
ending IR Rich Cimini (ESPN.com)
ESPN.com news services this is something we have to deal my spirits WILL stay high." first-round pick in the 2007 draft Submitted at 9/15/2010 7:32:52 AM
(ESPN.com) with and move forward from as a The injuries come at two of the who has played in only 13 regular
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:49:42 PM team," general manager Ted thinnest positions for the Packers, -season games in his first three Updated: September 15, 2010,
Thompson said in a statement. who have been tabbed as a years after a series of back 8:32 AM ET By Rich Cimini
Updated: September 15, 2010, "Our medical people will do a favorite to reach the Super Bowl. problems. ESPNNewYork.com
12:49 AM ET great job with Justin and Ryan, The Packers had only backup McCarthy had said Harrell would Archive
MILWAUKEE -- Green Bay and we expect each to make a full running back Brandon Jackson be placed on injured reserve. He FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Kris
Packers running back Ryan Grant recovery from their injuries." and fullback John Kuhn on the is under contract through 2012. Jenkins' season is over
is out for the season with a right Packers coach Mike McCarthy roster as replacements for Grant "It's difficult when you lose prematurely -- again. In 2009, it
ankle injury, a significant blow to said Monday that Grant's injury before signing Nance. players to injury. We felt like lasted six games. This time, six
the team after he piled up 1,200 involved ligament damage. Jackson, a second-round pick out Justin was going to make a plays.
yards in each of the past two More tests had been scheduled of Nebraska in 2007, played well contribution to our team," Let the Albert Haynesworth
seasons. for Tuesday, and the results in Grant's absence on Sunday. He Thompson said. "The timing of speculation begin.
Grant, who was injured in weren't encouraging enough to try rushed for 63 yards on 18 carries his injury and the way it occurred The New York Jets' nose tackle
S u n d a y ' s w i n o v e r t h e to bring Grant back this season. and caught two passes. Kuhn was unfortunate." tore the anterior cruciate ligament
Philadelphia Eagles, will require "Guess everyone has heard the added a touchdown in the third Wynn was the first of two sixth- in his left knee Monday night and
surgery to correct a torn ligament news," Grant posted on his quarter on Sunday. Jackson knew round picks by Green Bay in 2009 will have season-ending surgery.
in his ankle that will leave him on Twitter account. "Frustrating, he would be the starter for at least and played in 11 games as a An MRI Tuesday morning
crutches for 10 to 12 weeks, a disappointing, all the normal a week on Monday, but didn't rookie last season. He was confirmed the team's fears.
source told ESPN NFL Insider emotions." know the extent of Grant's injury. released by the Packers in the Because it's the same knee that
Adam Schefter. Grant, who is in the third year of "I started in '07, and [my family] final roster cutdown earlier this required reconstructive surgery
Grant is likely to fly to New York a four-year contract, was wearing just kept telling me, be patient, be month. last October, Jenkins' career could
to visit a doctor for a second a protective walking boot on his patient, your time is coming. And Information from The Associated be in jeopardy.
opinion. right foot after the injury and said now that it's here, I know my wife Press was used in this report. "Obviously, that's going to be a
FoxSports.com first reported that after Sunday's game that his ankle is just excited," Jackson said. "I'm This entry passed through the huge blow for us," coach Rex
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Haden made was returning USC's
copy of Bush's Heisman Trophy.
"It's never a good thing to give a
Heisman back," Haden said
Tuesday. "But at the end of the
day, USC did the right thing when
we gave our Heisman back and
now Reggie did, too."
Haden also said: "It was a very
noble thing for Reggie to do. In
my opinion, he made the right
decision. It was a thoughtful
decision by Reggie."
Bush's decision ends four years
of questions, debate and turmoil
surrounding allegations that
tainted one of the great
performances in college football
history.
"I think it's a sad day, that's the
way I feel about it," said former
Nebraska quarterback Eric
Crouch, who won the Heisman in
2001. "Having to actually be the
first time in the history of the
award that someone has given it
back ... I don't know if he actually
had to. Maybe this is on his
terms."
Eddie George, the 1995 Heisman
winner from Ohio State, felt the
same way: "I don't think he
should've gave his Heisman away.
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Quarterbacks Amidst a barrage of
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notable critic, taking exception to
comments New York Jets great
I think it's a shame that it's come
to this for Reggie."
USC won 34 straight games and
two national titles during Bush's
sensational three-year career.
In 2005, he was spectacular,
running for 1,740 yards, scoring
18 touchdowns and helping the
Trojans reach the national
championship game against Texas
and Young.
When it came time to award the
Heisman, Bush ran away with the
vote. He received 784 first-place
votes, the third-most in the history
of the award, and finished 933
points ahead of the Texas star.
"It doesn't matter if he gives it
back. Everyone still knows
Reggie Bush was the best player
that year. Look at the runs. He
was clearly the best player,"
former Nebraska flanker and 1972
Heisman winner Johnny Rodgers
said.
But it was Young who came
away with the biggest prize. He
had one of the greatest games in
college football history and scored
the winning touchdown with 19
seconds left in Texas' 41-38
victory at the Rose Bowl.
Meanwhile, Bush's most
Joe Namath made about the New
York offense following the Jets'
10-9 loss to the Baltimore Ravens
Monday night.
Namath tweeted following the
game that the Jets' offense, which
managed just six first downs, was
t o o c o n s e r v a t i v e , t o w h i c h Post, "Joe likes to sling it because
Sanchez said to The New York that's kind of the offense they had
memorable play from the title
game was an ill-advised lateral
that resulted in a USC turnover.
"I don't think of that season any
different," said current USC coach
Lane Kiffin, who was an assistant
on the 2005 team. "I think of that
season as a great year until the
last six minutes of the game,
when we had a two-score lead and
blew it away."
As for Bush's decision to forfeit
the Heisman, Kiffin said: "I'll
respect any decision that Reggie
made and I'm sure it was
extremely hard for him. Talking
to him earlier in the process -- I
didn't speak to him today -- this
has been extremely difficult on
him and is something that has hurt
him a lot. This is just more icing
on the cake for him."
Kiffin downplayed the effect the
news had on the Trojans, but did
note that the program continues to
feel the burden of the NCAA
sanctions.
"This has nothing to do with this
team," Kiffin said. "It has nothing
to do with the direction of the
program.
"That's the past; obviously we're
suffering from it. We're moving
forward and trying to make the
best of the situation."
Bush jumped to the NFL as a
junior after the Rose Bowl and
was drafted by the Saints.
As a pro, he's had some brilliant
moments and has been a
productive player. However, so
far, he has fallen short of
becoming the star he was
projected to be.
"Now that this is behind me I look
forward to the future and winning
more awards and championships
here in New Orleans! Who Dat!"
Bush tweeted. Information from
The Associated Press was used in
this report.
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running game, and we would
never want to abandon that."
During the game, the Post
reported that Namath, who never
called out Sanchez by name,
instead criticized head coach Rex
Ryan and offensive coordinator
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with one out and Bell teetering on
the brink of a blown game.But
Bell got Eric Young Jr. to ground
sharply to shortstop Miguel
Tejada, who ranged to his left and
stepped on second before firing to
first and getting the speedy Young
by a step."For us to win the first
game was really big, and to come
in and win a game like this,
especially me not having it," Bell
said. "I mean, they were rallying
back and they seemed like they
had my number, but I made a
good pitch at the end. ... It's
definitely a big win for us."Bell
has been brilliant in recent weeks,
previously saving 28 straight. His
29th in a row, though, wouldn't be
easy.He got off to a good start
when he was summoned into the
game with two outs in the eighth
with the Rockies threatening. Bell
ended the inning by getting hot-
hitting Troy Tulowitzki to fly out.
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"We need more offense." Namath
also wrote that the Jets were
"playing with a conservative play
calling style, which falls on the
shoulders of the coaches."
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When Jenkins went down last
season in Week 6, general
manager Mike Tannenbaum tried
to trade for Dallas Cowboys nose
tackle Jay Ratliff. He ended up
standing pat, which worked out
nicely. Even without their
massive run-stuffer in the middle,
the Jets still finished No. 1 in total
defense.
"We've got to find a way to
overcome it, just like we did last
year," Ryan said.
The Jets are down to four veteran
defensive linemen: Shaun Ellis,
Mike Devito, Sione Pouha and
Vernon Gholston, a converted
linebacker. They have Matt Kroul
and Marcus Dixon on the bench.
In the preseason, they lost Ropati
Pitoitua(Achilles tendon) to a
season-ending injury.
Depth is an issue. Because they
fancy themselves as a Super Bowl
-caliber team, even though it
wasn't evident in the season-
opening loss to the Baltimore
Ravens, the Jets might be tempted
to make a quick-fix move.
Another player who might be
available is the Cleveland Browns'
Shaun Rogers, who has a high
salary and off-the-field issues.
This was a devastating blow for
Jenkins, 31, who felt rejuvenated
after several months of rehab on
his knee. He dropped more than
30 pounds in the offseason,
mostly on a cookie diet, and
reported to camp in terrific shape.
With a healthy Jenkins and the
return of cornerback Darrelle
Revis, a camp holdout, the Jets
felt they had the makings of a
historic defense.
But on their sixth defensive play,
in the first quarter, Jenkins was
involved in a pileup while
tackling Le'Ron McClain. He left
the game and didn't return. After
the game, the Jets anticipated the
possibility of a season-ending
injury, with one source telling
ESPNNewYork.com there was a
50-50 chance it would end his
season.
The previous injury to that knee
also involved the ACL. It was
repaired last October with a graft,
using a tendon from his
hamstring. During the latter stages
of his rehab, Jenkins admitted he
had fleeting thoughts of
retirement. He decided to play
after discussing it with his family,
acknowledging that he probably
wouldn't be able to handle another
rehab.
It's also possible the Jets may not
want him back at his current
salary. He's due a $1 million
roster bonus, plus a $3.75 million
salary in 2011, and it's unlikely
they will want to pay that much to
a player who will have missed 25
of his past 32 games.
It's too bad because, at his best,
Jenkins was a dominant player.
"He's a big, powerful man that's
athletic," Ryan said. "There aren't
too many people walking the face
of the earth that are like that."
Rich Cimini covers the Jets for
ESPNNewYork.com.
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his fist as he left the mound.In the
top of the ninth, Nick Hundley
had a sacrifice fly to make it a 7-4
game.Bell needed it as he was
shaky in the final frame, allowing
an RBI double to Melvin Mora
after Todd Helton led off the
inning with a double. Pinch-hitter
Jay Payton later singled in a run
as well, making it a one-run game
and bringing the fans to their feet
in hopes of another late-inning
comeback.He walked pinch-hitter
Jason Giambi before quashing the
Rockies' comeback and quieting
the stunned crowd."I just felt like
today was one of those days that I
just didn't feel like I had my 'A'
game," Bell said. "I probably had
my 'B' or 'C' game, and when you
have your 'B' or 'C' game, you've
got to figure out a way to get
people out. I managed to make a
couple of good pitches and get
myself out of the jam."Stairs
added some valuable insurance
with his major-league best 22nd
pinch-hit homer of his career in
the eighth."Hurt an awful lot,"
Tracy said of Stairs' homer. "It
really did." Jon Garland(14-11)
snapped a three-game slide,
allowing three runs -- one earned -
- and four hits. He also helped
himself at the plate, going 2-for-2
with a walk and a double.The
Rockies had another rough outing
from a starter as Jason
Hammel(10-8) struggled all night,
giving up four runs and a season-
high 10 hits in four innings, his
shortest outing since late
June."The Padres were prepared
for me," Hammel said. "I think I
got ambushed tonight. They came
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notes
Helton hit his 526th career
double in the ninth, tying him for
34th place with Dave Parker on
the all-time list. ... Three of Stairs'
four homers this season have
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... Padres SS Tejada and OF Ryan
Ludwick each added RBI singles
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Networks' Game of Hot Warren Spector's visually striking

take on Disney's ancient rodent
Potato With US Open Ninja Gaiden 3 mascot, Epic Mickey, finally has
an official release date. As

Final Disrespects Tennis announced revealed in a recent Entertainment

Weekly article and confirmed to
us by Disney, the paint-stained
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by the networks? Over two days platformer will be released in
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and three networks, no one would North America on November 20. (
series. Today's reveal is the first
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Open, Sports Business and Media CBS: I don't want it, you take it. Gaiden 3 during a behind-closed since that time. make its way to Continental
Tennis takes quick hands, ESPN2: No way, you take it. door event today (in conjunction Update: GamePro confirms the Europe on November 25 and to
i n c r e d i b l e a n t i c i p a t i o n a n d ESPNClassic: But we have with TGS), r e p o r t s reveal went down at a private the UK the following day.)
coordination, flexibility and the celebrity bowling! V i d e o G a m e r . c o m . T h e event hosted by Team Ninja, and Entertainment Weekly also
willingness to be humiliated over Rafael Nadal was on the verge of announcement was accompanied adds that Ninja Gaiden 3"is so procured a new trailer for the
and over again while retaining making history, as the networks by a teaser image showing blood- e a r l y i n d e v e l o p m e n t , t h e game, which you can find posted
your focus and determination. kept telling us for two weeks. He soaked franchise protagonist Ryu developer only showed journalists just past the jump. Of all the
And that's just what it takes to be was winning his first U.S. Open, Hayabusa removing his mask. pieces of promotional material
a piece of concept art" (above; see
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from home. But in the second set Monday, it image represents themes that will Continue reading Ninja Gaiden 3 feel like this one might be the
It takes a gymnast to be a tennis started raining. And CBS decided be explored in the new sequel: announced most deserving of its "Epic"
fan. it was done with tennis for the both the "human side" of Ryu and designation.
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Tom Tancredo Surges in
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whispered to the gathered masses encouraged guys like me to write Twitter will work with their URL- Poll for Colo. Governor
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one I wanted to ask. Here goes... make it do. So I did. What's the greener pastures. Maes. Both trail John
Ev, what's so special about point if you don't continue to Tom Tancredo may be a third- Hickenlooper, a Democrat with
Dailybooth, DeviantArt, Etsy, party candidate for Colorado 46 percent support in the survey
governor, but he's no longer of 750 likely Colorado voters.
coming in third. Mr. Tancredo, a former
Mr. Tancredo surged ahead of congressman and outspoken critic
GOP candidate Dan Maes in a
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of illegal immigration, received
more good news Tuesday when a
state judge ruled that he may
remain on the November ballot as
a candidate from the American
Constitution Party. Two
Republican voters had filed a
lawsuit saying he violated state
election law because he was a
member of the GOP until July.
Colorado law states that third-
party candidates must be
registered with the party by the
first business day of January in
the year they plan to run. But the
law also says that political parties
may set their own standards for
selecting candidates.
"Huge victory today," Mr.
Tancredo said. "I will be on the
ballot in November."
Two weeks ago, Mr. Maes held
24 percent of the vote in the same
poll, with just 14 percent of voters
for Mr. Tancredo. Since then,
however, Mr. Maes has been
dogged by accusations that he
exaggerated his credentials when
he said he was an undercover
agent on a Kansas police force.
"In those two weeks since Labor
Day, Maes has been accused of
padding his resume, which is
always a negative with voters,"
pollster Floyd Ciruli said.
"Meanwhile, you have Tancredo
picking up the endorsements of a
number of Republicans."
The Tancredo campaign released
last week a list of Colorado
Republicans who have decided to
cross party lines and support his
candidacy. The list includes
former Rep. Bob Beauprez and 16
current or former state legislators.
Rep. Steve King, Iowa
Republican, also has endorsed Mr.
Tancredo.
Maes spokesman Nate Strauch
chalked up Mr. Tancredo's jump
in the polls to a spate of negative
news stories.
"There's no candidate in the world
who could have undergone the
onslaught Dan Maes has been
under and not have it have an
effect on the polls," Mr. Strauch
said. "We expect this is the nadir.
The Denver Post has spent all its
bullets."
He predicted that Mr. Maes'
numbers would rise in the next
round of polls. "Usually third-
party candidates fall off as the two
majority party candidates pull
away as the election draws
nearer," Mr. Strauch said.
Unlike most third-party
candidates, however, Mr.
Tancredo has amassed a larger
war chest than his Republican foe,
and he's already invested some of
it in an ad attacking Mr. Maes.
The television spot, released
Tuesday, features Republican
activist Freda Poundstone, who
said she lent Mr. Maes $300 to
pay his mortgage earlier this year
but that he used it as a campaign
donation.
"Dan Maes not only conned me
out of my money, he lied to me
about his background, and he
deceived my friends and myself
about his conservative principles,"
Mrs. Poundstone says in the ad.
"I've had so many people call me
and ask: What kind of man would
do that to an 83-year-old lady?
"I don't want that to happen to the
voters of this state," she
concludes.
The Maes campaign also
neglected to report the $300
contribution. Mr. Strauch said the
failure to report was a mistake
made by the campaign's previous
treasurer, and that the campaign
has refunded Mrs. Poundstone's
donation.
As for the ad, "It's extremely
unfortunate that Tom feels the
need to attack a fellow
conservative instead of focusing
on the tax-and-spend liberal in the
race," said Mr. Strauch.
He's referring to Mr.
Hickenlooper, the front-runner
whose candidacy has taken a back
seat to the soap opera playing out
on the Republican side of the
race.
"I saw someone write that
Tancredo is now the leading loser,
because he may be ahead of Maes
but they're both losing to
Hickenlooper," said Mr. Ciruli.
"They're basically dividing the
Republican base."
Mr. Tancredo and Republicans
repeatedly called on Mr. Maes to
drop out of the race after he won
the primary against the embattled
former Rep. Scott McInnis, whose
campaign foundered in the wake
of plagiarism charges.
When Mr. Maes refused, Mr.
Tancredo entered the race
anyway, saying that the
Republican candidate was "no
longer viable."
A newcomer to politics, Mr.
Maes tripped up early with
campaign reimbursement
violations that cost him $17,500
in fines.
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Political analyst Karl Rove says
Christine O’Donnell’s victory
over longtime Rep. Mike Castle in
the Republican Senate primary in
Delaware is a “true upset” that
toppled one of the state’s “most
beloved political figures.”
But Rove, a former adviser to
President George W. Bush, also
said tea party favorite O’Donnell
has a “checkered background”
and won’t be able to win when
she faces Democrat Chris Coons
in the November general election.
Story continues below video.
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s
Fox News show on Tuesday
night, Rove said of all the
perceived upsets in this year’s
primaries, “This is the
inexplicable one. Christine
O’Donnell has come in here at the
very end of the campaign and
there’s a huge turnout in
Delaware tonight. The total was
estimated to be 30,000 people
going into the primary and it’s
come out 56,000.
“She has dealt a defeat to one of
the state’s longest and best known
and thought to be most beloved
political figures, a former
governor and nine-term
Republican congressman in Mike
Castle.
“So this is the one that is unusual
because this is not a campaign
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that has been going on for a year
where you had one candidate that
was consistently doing better than
the other, as in the case of Rand
Paul, and there were not deep
family and tribal disputes as we
had in Alaska between Miller and
Murkowski, and we didn’t have a
candidate who sort of committed
political suicide by saying things
that got him into trouble with the
voters.
“Instead we have a true upset,
with somebody with little money,
little track record. I think this is
really more about Mike Castle’s
voting record than about the
appeal of Christine O’Donnell.”
Referring to O’Donnell’s
“checkered background,” Rove
said: “How does she make her
living? Why did she mislead
voters about her college
education? How come it took her
GOP Senate Committee Won't Back O'Donnell
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Some might view it as sour
grapes, but the National
Republican Senatorial Committee
contends it’s just politics: It won’t
send money to tea party fave
Christine O’Donnell for her
campaign as the GOP nominee for
the U.S. Senate from Delaware
because it doesn’t think can beat
the Democrat. The committee’s
decision to withhold its cash
comes despite the fact that
nearly two decades to pay her
college bills so she could get
degree?
“This was about Mike Castle’s
bad votes. It does conservatives
little good to support candidates
who at the end of the day, while
they may be conservative in their
public statements, do not evince
the characteristics of rectitude and
truthfulness and sincerity and
character that the voters are
looking for.”
Rove pointed out that there have
been questions about O'Donnell's
finances, and some of her
allegations against Castle.
Hannity fired back that he
interviewed her about all of those
things.
"Did you ask her about the people
who were following her home to
her headquarters?" Rove asked,
adding: "There are just a lot of
O’Donnell rode the tea party
wave and Sarah Palin’s
endorsement to an upset victory
over Republican establishment
candidate Rep. Mike Castle in the
primary Tuesday.
O'Donnell's reaction: So what,
she seemed to say on ABC's
"Good Morning America." today.
"That's a shame, but they never
thought I could win this race, and
I believe that we can win without
them," O'Donnell is quoted as
saying on The Hill's Blog Briefing electable."
Room.
Later, she said, "They also said tries to get the most bang for its
that Ronald Reagan wasn't
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nutty things she's been saying.
“I’m for the Republican, but I
have to tell you we were looking
at [picking up] eight or nine seats
in the Senate and we’re now
looking at seven to eight, in my
opinion. This is not a race we’re
going to be able to win.”
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scientists announced today they
have completed a preliminary
genome sequence for the cacao
tree.
OK, maybe it's not that
monumental; new genomes are
sequenced all the time. But this
one is special - cacao is no
ordinary plant. Who cares about
the corn genome when you can
study chocolate instead?
The genome sequence, which
enters the public domain today, is
the result of a partnership among
a few unlikely bedfellows: Mars
Inc., maker of M&Ms, Milky
Way bars and other treats; the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Agricultural Research Service;
and IBM. The trio hopes
international agricultural
researchers will immediately start
refining the sequence. As with
any gene mapping project,
decoding the complete genome
will take some time.
In a twist, the New York Times
reports that a competing team, led
by Mars rival Hershey, is also
working on its own genome
sequence. That team won't discuss
its findings until they are
published in a scientific journal,
however.
The Mars team's preliminary
results will be available via the
Cacao Genome Database, to
ensure that the data remains
perpetually patent-free. The
Times quotes Hershey's team
saying they will also make their
sequence available, but won't
restrict patents.
Mars hopes its $10 million
investment will pay off
eventually, said Howard-Yana
Shapiro, the firm's global staff
officer of plant science and
research.
"Although it may not benefit the
bottom line in the short term, in
the long run, it will ensure
mutually beneficial results for the
company, cocoa farmers and tree
crop production in key regions of
the world," he said.
Genome sequencing takes plant
breeding and cultivation to a new
level. Armed with information
about a plant's genetic code,
scientists can more easily search
for genes that produce desirable
traits for boosting yields and
disease resistance. And, of course,
ensuring genetically engineered
chocolatey awesomeness.
Juan Carlos Motamayor, senior
cacao scientist at Mars, said
breeders have been studying
cacao genes for about 20 years.
The genome sequence will help
researchers determine specific
links among genes, genetic
markers and certain traits, he said.
Despite its importance to 6.5
million farmers worldwide, cacao
is considered an "orphan crop"
because it is not as well studied as
corn, rice or soy.
"We needed to narrow down the
location of the genes, or narrow
down the correlation between
markers and traits, so we could do
a market-specific selection more
efficiently," Motamayor said.
Fungal resistance is a key issue in
cocoa production, for instance -
fungal diseases have cost the
cocoa industry $700 million a
year for the past 15 years. Brazil
was the world's second largest
cocoa country, producing over
400,000 tons per year, until a
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fungus infected almost all of its
crops. Now, 70 percent of the
world's cocoa comes from Africa,
and Ivory Coast is the world's
biggest producer.
Researchers want to guard
against further losses (if not
chocolate hoarders) by identifying
genes that confer disease
resistance. It would also be nice to
know which genes control traits
like yield and flavor.
IBM researchers used the Blue
Gene supercomputer to analyze
the genome, and advances in the
mapping process allowed
researchers to finish their work
three years ahead of schedule.
While a sustainable supply of
chocolate might be less crucial
than, say, corn, let's be honest -
it's a bit more exciting. Thanks,
science!
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NASA's Next-Gen Spacelaunch System Could Launch Scramjets
from a Massive Railgun
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
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News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 3:30:44 PM
Firing Scramjets from Railguns
NASA/Artist concept
With the Space Shuttle program
winding down, both NASA and
several commercial ventures are
developing next-gen rocket
technology that will hurl the next
iteration of space vehicles into the
sky. But NASA acknowledges
that rockets aren't the only - or
even the best - way to get into
space.
Engineers at the space agency's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida
are exploring future space launch
schemes that could see spacecraft
flung into the heavens by a
massive railgun or launched to the
upper atmosphere aboard
supersonic scramjets. Or, even
cooler: both.
If space launches are anything,
they're expensive. As such, launch
vehicles that are reusable (like the
space shuttles) are key to keeping
costs under control. One such
scheme for reusable launch craft
involves ferrying payloads to the
upper limits of the atmosphere
aboard scramjets, those air-
compressing, high-speed jets with
theoretical top speeds more than
four times faster than the fastest
air-breathing jet engines.
In such a scheme, a payload
vehicle (holding, say, a satellite)
would piggyback to high altitude
aboard the scramjet, which in
theory could reach near-orbital
speeds. From the upper
atmosphere, the payload vehicle
would launch from the scramjet
propelled by something akin to
the second stage of a booster
rocket, putting the satellite or
even a manned vehicle into orbital
space without the incredible thrust
needed to launch it from the
ground.
But how does NASA plan to get
the scramjet to the supersonic
speeds necessary for sustained
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chemical energy needed to fire a
rocket booster. Once a scramjet is
moving fast enough, the jet engine
would take over and propel it
spaceward.
For now rockets are still NASA's
principle launch vehicles, so don't
expect any spacecraft-hurling
railguns or regular hypersonic
flights to the edge of space in the
immediate future. But these
technologies already exist in some
nascent form or another. Both
NASA and DARPA have been
dabbling in scramjet technology
for years, creating a vast body of
knowledge and data for engineers
to build upon. For their part,
railguns have been around for
nearly a century. All the
flight? Picture a huge railgun
technologies involved need
rising from the ground at
further refinement, but none are
Kennedy Space Center. Using an
out of reach.
electrified track stretching for
Put another way: NASA is
miles, the track would use a
dreaming up massive railguns to
magnetic field (or perhaps gas
launch hypersonic space vehicles
propulsion, or even magnetic
into the atmosphere at blinding
levitation - this stuff is all still
speeds. What's not to like?
very much on the drawing board)
[ NASA via Space.com]
to accelerate scramjets to
otherworldly speeds without
expending the huge amounts of
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Seeking a Better Living Laboratory, Researchers

Create the First "Artificial" Ovary
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
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News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 4:15:54 PM
Artificial Ovaries Top row: The
honeycomb theca cells begin to
envelop the human eggs. Bottom
row: The artificial ovary at two
days and five days. Carson Lab /
Brown University
While trying to create a better
synthetic environment in which to
study how ovarian cells develop
and interact, a Brown University
researcher and her colleagues
have created the first working
artificial ovary. Using special "3-
D Petri dishes" and samples of
donor cells, the team has already
created an artificial organ that has
carried human eggs through to
maturity.
To do so, they had to coax the
three main cell types found in the
human ovary into particular three-
dimensional structures. The
means for doing so were found in
a special moldable agarose gel,
dubbed 3-D Petri dishes, that
encourage cells to grow into
certain shapes and structures.
The researchers first created
honeycomb-like structures out of
donated theca cells, one of the
main cell types found in the
ovary. Once in a honeycomb
arrangement, the voids in the
structures were filled in with
granulosa cells along with human
oocytes (those are the eggs, you'll
recall from biology class). In just
a few days, the artificial cellular
structures had enveloped the egg
cells, essentially becoming a
functioning ovary.
The eggs then matured from a
young state to full maturity,
demonstrating that the structures
aren't only good for
experimenting with ovarian cells
but also for clinical use. So while
the artificial organ can be used as
a living laboratory for research on
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An Imam’s Credibility Problems

Joseph Klein (FrontPage by the New York Post and on the American Society for the 9/11 that American foreign policy
Magazine » FrontPage) “O’Reilly Factor.” It seems that Advancement of Muslims. was an “accessory” to the “crime”
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:04:12 PM Imam Rauf has been hanging Moreover, Khan has preached at of 9/11.
around with one of those Truthers least a couple of times at the When asked to comment on his
Every time the Ground Zero who claims that the 9/11 attacks former Burlington Coat Factory newly revealed close association
mosque’s Imam Faisel Abdul were an “inside job” by the U.S. where the proposed mega mosque with a 9/11 Truther, Imam Rauf –
Rauf tries to convince us of his g o v e r n m e n t a n d c o r p o r a t e and Islamic community center is who has been making the rounds
good intentions, more disturbing America, for which Muslims have planned to be built. on CNN, ABC, and before the
information about him comes to been made the scapegoats. Perhaps hanging around with a 9/ Council on Foreign Relations –
light that undercuts his credibility. This Truther’s name is Faiz K h a n w e r e p a r t n e r s i n t h e 11 Truther helps explain Imam suddenly clammed up.
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the notion that eating out in the
U.K. capital was something to be
endured rather than enjoyed. And
yet while nineties and naughties
London served as the showcase
for every major cooking trend to
emerge from the global kitchen,
the one cuisine typically bypassed
by British culinary fashion was
British food itself.
Not anymore: Recent years have
seen an explosion of interest in
Britain's native ingredients and its
classic dishes, timed perfectly
with the more general rise of the
seasonal, organic, and local food
movement. In February,
Yorkshire rhubarb joined the
ranks of Parma ham and
Roquefort cheese as one of the
regional specialties to be given
"Protected Designation of Origin"
status by the European Union.
And the nationwide supermarket
chain Waitrose will soon offer six
types of heritage apples grown on
its Hampshire farm. What's more,
Waitrose made a multimillion-
pound investment in Duchy
Originals, the U.K.'s most famous
organic food brand, founded by
Prince Charles, with plans to
increase the range to 500 organic
British-produced products. (Not
that U.K. shoppers are restricted
to buying organic only from the
heir to the throne: High-street
supermarkets sell an impressively
wide range of organic foodstuffs.)
London chefs have been quick to
pick up on the trend, naming
British ingredients wherever
possible on their menus. Take
Konstam, which aims to source its
ingredients within the area
covered by the Tube subway
network, producing such dishes as
charcoal-grilled leg of Amersham
lamb and roasted Waltham Abbey
chicken sandwiches. Roast,
meanwhile, takes its inspiration
(and some of its sourcing) from its
location overlooking foodie
mecca Borough Market, offering
the likes of Cornish pollock, a
sustainable alternative to cod.
You'll even find English sparkling
wines on its list, which bear
comparison with the best in the
world—not so surprising,
considering the vineyards of
southern England have growing
conditions similar to those of
Champagne, France. Try a bottle
of Nyetimber Classic Cuvée 2003,
which has beaten Champagne in
blind tastings (though be warned
that its high price matches that of
French fizz).
Richard Corrigan is the chef
behind Corrigan's Mayfair, the
place for superb game, meats, and
the finest fish and shellfish from
around the British Isles. You'l see
when you sample the Elwy Valley
lamb or pan-roasted Cornish
scallops with sweet corn and foie
gras.
London dining isn't all about
hyper-local food, though.
Centuries of immigration
combined with Londoners'
seemingly insatiable hunger for
culinary experimentation means
that, from Afghan to Australian,
the city is a melting pot of global
cooking. Many consider the city's
top ethnic eatery to be Benares, a
Michelin-starred Indian restaurant
in Berkeley Square where Chef
Atul Kochhar's refined use of
spicing brightens dishes such as
tandoor-roasted pigeon breasts.
Kochhar's regular television
appearances have made him the
poster boy for Indian cooking, and
his more casual Colony, in chi-chi
Marylebone, has been one of the
hottest openings of 2010, serving
a short and snappy menu of high-
end small plates—think tandoori
monkfish with crab
vermicelli—in plush
surroundings.
For many Brits, though, "going
for an Indian" still means a cheap
and cheerful curry-house where
you bring your own booze. For
that, pick up a bottle of Kingfisher
beer and head to the East End,
bypassing touristy Brick Lane in
favor of Tayyabs, an explosively
spicy taste of multicultural
London that's as famous for its
marinated lamb chops as for the
queues for one of its tables. If you
simply can't be bothered to wait in
line to eat, nearby newcomer
Needoo Grill is owned by a
former Tayyabs manager and
serves a similar lineup of curries
and kebabs offered at bargain
prices.
One upside of the economic
downturn has been a revival of
traditional comfort classics. After
all, London's captains of industry
don't want to eat fussy sauces
made out of foam when the
financial system is imploding
around them. Instead they're
tucking into rib-sticking Scotch
eggs, roast chicken, or a mixed
grill, all on the menu at current
hot spot Dean Street Townhouse.
Launched at the end of 2009 by
the owners of Soho House and
Caprice Holdings (the team
behind celebrity favorites The Ivy
and Scott's), its A-list clientele
mingles over good-value British
food in surroundings that look
like the perfect French brasserie.
While expense-account fine
dining may remain in good
health—March saw the launch of
Gordon Ramsay's Pétrus, which
offers more than 30 vintages of
iconic Bordeaux—recession-hit
Londoners can now get top-end
food at knock-down prices.
Leading the way are business
partners Anthony Demetre (chef)
and Will Smith (front-of-house)
of Arbutus and Wild Honey,
where classical French technique
is applied to cheap and (what
some may consider)
unfashionable cuts of meat with
sublime results, like ox tongue in
a celeriac rémoulade.
"It's not just a credit crunch
tactic," Demetre explains. "I've
always enjoyed cooking with
ingredients that are seasonal and
sometimes a bit neglected by
other chefs because they aren't
prime cuts, such as lamb breast,
mutton, and oxtail. They've got
great taste, and they translate into
slightly lower prices on the
menu."
Meanwhile, at the Giaconda
Dining Room, just off Charing
Cross Road, savvy Aussie chef
Paul Merrony turns out braised
tripe with chorizo, butter beans,
and paprika for less than £12
(about $18): not bad in a city
where £20 is routine for a main
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For a sense of the real edge in
London eating, check out the
city's fast-expanding underground
restaurant scene, where diners pay
to eat at someone's home. Queen
of the supper club is a food
blogger known as "Ms Marmite
Lover," who was inspired to start
cooking for paying guests after
visiting the paladares of Havana,
and has been running the popular
Underground Restaurant from her
apartment in north London since
2008.
Explaining her motivation, she
says, "I wanted to put my money
where my mouth is and have
people come to my house and
taste what I was writing
about—turn the virtual into the
real." Diners sit at shared tables
eating off her collection of
vintage crockery, and are treated
to an ever-changing menu with a
decidedly British bent (a recent
meal ended with bergamot posset
with candied thyme).
Food isn't the only place where
Londoners are pushing
boundaries. Tony Conigliaro was
crowned International Bartender
of the Year in 2009. The
showcase for his wizardry is 69
Colebrooke Row. Upstairs from
the 40-seat bar is a laboratory of
centrifuges, water baths, smoke
guns, and sous-vide machines
where Conigliaro invents new
recipes and methods. "We look at
the structure of old-style drinks
and develop new processes to
achieve a modern approach," he
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says. Signature libations include
the Somerset Sour, garnished with
small balls of apple infused with
hay essence, and a vintage
Manhattan made with bourbon,
vermouth, and bitters aged in the
bottle on the premises to create
the smoothest version of the drink
imaginable.
You'll find bartender Nick
Strangeway manning the
downstairs bar at Hix, where he
resurrects historic British drinks
such as Lamb's Wool, a 17th-
century combo of apple purée and
India pale ale. Brian Silva at
Rules offers a perfectly formed
list of just 10 drinks in London's
oldest restaurant (founded in
1798). Cutting-edge techniques
with one eye on tradition: You
can't get more London than that.
BREAKFAST AT LANTANA
Breakfast in London used to
mean parting with big bucks in a
hotel dining room or having your
clothes absorb the smell of
cooking fat over a "full English"
in a greasy spoon. No more: Over
the last two years, a new breed of
"cool caff" has appeared. Leading
the way is Lantana, opened by
Shelagh Ryan after she moved to
London and couldn't find the sort
of laid-back, quality café of her
native Australia. Dishes like
sourdough toast with roast
tomatoes, basil, and shaved
Parmesan or corn fritters stacked
with crispy bacon, arugula, corn
salsa, and lime aioli—which
inspired our lightened
version—give Londoners a taste
of why Sydney is the brunch
capital of the world.
Go there: Lantana
Make it at home: Corn Fritters
with Roasted Tomatoes and Lime
Aioli recipe
LUNCH AT TERROIRS
Maybe it's the sort of attention-
deficit disorder that comes from
living in a city with 7 million
inhabitants, but Londoners can't
get enough of tapas-sized
plates—especially from a cuisine
not usually served in mini
portions. Polpo is modeled on a
Venetian wine bar where diners
enjoy anchovy and chickpea
crostini and octopus salad. At
Terroirs, the French bistro
furnishings are the background for
tapas-sized plates of charcuterie
and seafood, like the recipe
below.
Go there: Terroirs
Make it at home: Skillet-Cooked
Shrimp with Romesco Sauce
recipe
DINNER AT HIX
Mark Hix has three restaurants to
his name in London, but it's Hix
that's grabbing attention
now—not only for the fact that
Hix's artist chums such as Damien
Hirst have provided pieces for the
decor, but also for its simply
served, utterly indulgent dishes
made from rigorously sourced
native ingredients. Cornish fish
soup with Julian Temperley's
cider brandy might be followed
by Ayrshire veal stew with
Mendip snails and January king
cabbage. Traditional British
comfort is found in Hix's upscale
take on fish, chips, and mushy
peas.
Go there: Hix
Make it at home: Chunky Fish
Fingers with Pea and Mint Puree
recipe
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Bing to Add Facebook
“Like” Data to Search?
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:56:32 AM
Can data from Facebook’s
increasingly ubiquitous “Like”
buttons give Microsoft an
advantage in the search wars?
The software giant may be
banking on it, as AllThingsD
reports the two companies are
“deep in talks” about expanding
with Google, however. The
their search partnership.
company signed deals with both
Such a move wouldn’t be a huge
Microsoft and Google to make
surprise. Ever since Facebook
information like public status
introduced its Like buttons there’s
updates available as the two tech
been speculation about a grander
giants launched their own real-
plan to organize the web around
time search products last year.
Likes instead of links. With the
The possibility of additional
button now in use by hundreds of
cooperation may be growing less
thousands (if not millions) of
likely though as Google’s
publishers, that possibility is
revamped social strategy takes
quickly becoming more of a
shape.
reality.
We’ll obviously be tracking this
The even more intriguing part,
story and will update with any
however, would be Facebook
additional information.
offering up this information to
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Bing, and in turn giving Microsoft
microsoft, Search
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lipid that's synthesized naturally
by the intestines.
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The presence of OEA is higher
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The Push-Up Challenge
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Pushups may be the best chest-,
shoulder-, and arm-building move
around, and blasting out 100 reps
in one shot says a lot about your
strength and endurance. Here's a
plan to get you there, no matter
how low your current pushup
power is.
Start by figuring out how many
pushups you can perform with
good form. This is your current
max. Every two weeks, take two
days off and then retest your max.
Workout 1: Monday, Wednesday,
Friday
Perform four times your max
number of reps, taking as long as
you need to do so. It's OK if
subsequent sets have fewer reps
than your max.
Workout 2: Tuesday, Thursday,
Saturday
Set an alarm to go off five times
throughout the day (every two to
three hours is fine). Each time it
sounds, hit the deck and do two
Iran’s bondage of the press
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 4:52:34 PM
Pastor Terry Jones’ decision to
call off his September 11 Koran
burn has not stopped violent
protests among some Muslims
across the world. A Lutheran
church in Pakistan was destroyed
by a bomb. Kashmir protests left
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13 dead. In Tehran, protesters are
calling for the death of Jones.
But I wanted to highlight this
New York Times story by Robert
F. Worth for what I thought was a
helpful and informative lede:
DAMASCUS, Syria — Iran’s
supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, delivered a fiery
address on Monday accusing the
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United States government of
orchestrating desecrations of the
Koran by right-wing American
Christian groups last weekend,
Iranian state news agencies
reported.
The speech appeared to be part of
an effort by Iran’s hard-line
leaders to amplify Muslim outrage
over scattered gestures to burn or
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tunes. Then, get frisky in a spot
you've never tried before: the
shower, the kitchen, a guest
bedroom, the garage—anywhere
but your usual places.
Turn in Early
One reason sex is so good on
vacation is that you get to catch
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Stay in on a Friday night and
cancel all your plans for Saturday
morning. Go to bed early (we
didn't say you have to sleep!),
then stay in bed late the following
agenda-free morning.
Take a Few Erotic Risks
Forget your inhibitions and
experiment. Try new positions,
toys, props, even a blindfold or
some light bondage. Be free and
adventurous. In other words, act
tear pages of the Koran, in the
wake of the threat — later
withdrawn — by Terry Jones, a
Florida pastor, to burn the Koran
on the anniversary of the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks.
In Tehran, about 1,000 protesters
chanting “Death to America” and
“U.S. pastor must be killed”
clashed with the police and threw
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stones at the Swiss Embassy,
Reuters reported. The Swiss have
handled American interests in Iran
ever since the United States
severed diplomatic relations with
Tehran after the 1979 Islamic
Revolution.
I’m not saying that there’s any
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excuse for some of these violent
protests, but it certainly helps to
understand that the Iranian
government is lying about what’s
going on. And leading with that
angle is appropriate. There’s a
much larger story about how news
and other information is
distributed and understood in
other countries. It really helps to
just get some basic facts.
The story notes that Indian-
controlled Kashmir has even
blocked Iran’s state-owned Press
TV since it’s already dealing with
angry protests (see above). The
Ayatollah also blamed “Zionist
think tanks” that he claimed
control the military and
government. He said the U.S.
government is “attacking … the
foundation of Islam and the Holy
Koran.”
Although this Times story has the
proper angle, in my view, we
could really use some more
information in follow-up stories
— about what the Ayatollah
means and how his remarks are
interpreted by protesters.
And the picture for this post is of
Muslims burning an American
flag outside the American
Embassy in London on September
11. Certainly the Ayatollah can
not be blamed for that. Much
more follow-up needed. Written
by: Mollie on September 14,
2010.
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Comes a Horseman
Submitted at 9/15/2010 3:00:37 AM
threatening to pack the Court with
a new, more loyal majority of
From the Sep. 20, 2010, issue of justices. The judiciary avoided the
NR. embarrassment of an expanded,
F ranklin Roosevelt’s clash with politically neutered Court when
the Supreme Court is one of Justice Owen Roberts switched
history’s greatest legal dramas, sides in 1937, leading to a series
but it has generated an unfair and of decisions upholding the New
misleading mythology. In this Deal.
legend, the Court greeted the New #ad#This account further holds
Deal with a blast of reactionary t h a t t h e j u s t i c e s o p p o s i n g
decisions in 1935 and 1936 -- R o o s e v e l t - - t h e “ F o u r
invalidating, among other things, Horsemen”: George Sutherland,
the National Industrial Recovery Willis Van Devanter, James
Act (NIRA) and the Agricultural McReynolds, and Pierce Butler --
Adjustment Act (AAA) -- to
which Roosevelt retaliated by COMES page 79

The Deadly War against DDT

Submitted at 9/15/2010 3:00:20 AM
that it could kill insects without -- and also endangering human carcinogen” and banned it for sparks outrage about the
any harm to humans. It was health. The National Academy of virtually all uses. The ban on unforeseen consequences of a
In its two decades of widespread introduced into widespread use Sciences, the American Medical DDT was considered to be the scientifically ignorant chemical
use, DDT saved more lives than during World War II and became Association, and the U.S. surgeon first major victory for the witchhunt, one that has caused
any other man-made chemical. the single most important general were among those who environmentalist movement in the untold human suffering and
A remarkable new documentary pesticide in maintaining human dismissed these charges and came United States, and countries billions of deaths, primarily
tells the story of how political and health for the next two decades. out in support of continuing to use around the world followed among children. While any man-
ideological forces combined to The scientist who discovered the DDT to fight disease and protect America’s lead. on-the-street interview will yield
ban a widely and safely used insecticidal properties of DDT, crops. A federal hearing was held In Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), DDT an overwhelming majority of
chemical, DDT, leading to a surge Dr. Paul Müller, was awarded the on the safety of DDT, and in April spraying had reduced malaria negative comments about DDT --
of malaria deaths in developing 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology 1972 Judge Edmund Sweeney cases from 2.8 million in 1948 to a “highly toxic, killer chemical” --
countries like Kenya, Indonesia, or Medicine for his work on DDT. concluded that not only was DDT 17 in 1963. After spraying the reality is that DDT has saved
and India. (In the 1940s and 1950s the safe, but it was an essential stopped, malaria cases rose more lives than any other man-
3 Billion and Counting, which c h e m i c a l w a s t h e “ s e c r e t ” chemical. Two months later, the sharply, reaching 2.5 million over made chemical.
p r e m i e r e s t h i s F r i d a y i n ingredient in a popular new head of the Environmental the next decade. -- Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan is
Manhattan, was produced by Dr. cocktail, the Mickey Slim: gin, Protection Agency, William Scientists have never found an president of the American Council
Rutledge Taylor, a California with a pinch of DDT.) Ruckelshaus -- who had never effective substitute for DDT -- on Science and Health. Elizabeth
physician who specializes in In 1962, Rachel Carson’s lyrical attended a single day’s session of and so the malaria death rate has M. Whelan
preventive medicine. His film will but scientifically flawed book, the EPA’s hearings and admitted kept on soaring.
both shock and anger you. Silent Spring, argued eloquently, that he had not read the transcripts In his dissection of the rise of the
#ad#DDT was first synthesized in but erroneously, that pesticides, -- overturned the judge’s decision, environmental movement and the
1877, but it was not until 1940 especially DDT, were poisoning declaring, without evidence, that fall of science, Dr. Taylor not
that a Swiss chemist demonstrated both wildlife and the environment DDT was “a potential human only educates us, but he also
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were wedded to the cruel, sink-or-
swim philosophy of Social
Darwinism; “thoroughly
deluded,” in the words of
Harvard’s Robert McCloskey; and
clinging to “the brave old world
of their youth.” To legal historian
Peter Irons, they “recognized only
the ‘liberty’ of powerful
corporations and sweat shop
owners,” and to UCLA’s Kenneth
Karst they used “constitutional
legerdemain” to impose a “root-
hog-or-die theory of capitalist
enterprise” on the Constitution.
Others portray the Horsemen as
motivated more by personal
hostility to Roosevelt than by
ideology. Jeff Shesol’s new book,
Supreme Power: Franklin
Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court,
for example, barely glances at the
legal arguments the justices found
persuasive, instead painting the
entire affair as a political clash
between compassionate idealists
and icy reactionaries. His
adjectives are telling. Justice
Sutherland was “stalwart,”
“harsh,” and “devastating,”
unable to “contain himself” --
while liberal darling Louis
Brandeis was a “strenuous”
champion of “social reform and
social justice” who, “battling
injustice and corruption#...#stood
above reproach” and even bore a
“likeness to Lincoln.”
All this is tame compared with
the rhetoric of the time. Howard
Lee McBain, the Columbia
professor who coined the term
“living Constitution,” described
the anti–New Deal decisions in
1936 as “judicial supremacy at its
worst.” Harvard professor
Thomas Reed Powell thought the
Court was “pick[ing] new, strange
clubs out of the air to swat
anything that it doesn’t like.” The
deeply partisan Felix Frankfurter
called its decisions “intellectual
frivolity” that “reinforced” his
doubts about “the capacity of
[the] Court and the Constitution to
satisfy the needs of our national
life.” Irving Brant, whose 1936
Storm Over the Constitution
featured a foreword by future vice
president Henry Wallace, argued
that the Court’s lack of
“sympathy” with “the striving of
the people for well being” made it
“a stimulus to fascist or
communist revolt.” He proposed
appointing a new liberal majority
of justices, although he
facetiously distanced himself
from the court-packing threat in a
footnote that recommended
against expanding the Court,
“even though Lincoln did it.”
Such language only caricatures
what was actually a complex
series of legal crises. Attorney
Dean Alfange came closer to the
truth when he wrote in 1937 that
the New Deal’s “one guiding
principle” was “wholesale and
pervasive governmental
interference with all branches of
private business,” which required
a “readjustment of constitutional
values.” That “readjustment”
meant bending the Constitution,
whose authors tried to hamper
government’s expansion, to
accommodate a spectrum of
initiatives that often stifled
economic recovery, destroyed
crucial resources, and favored the
same “economic royalists”
Roosevelt excoriated. These
schemes were executed by a
horde of new bureaucracies, each
brandishing unprecedented power
to redistribute wealth, confiscate
property, and dictate industrial
production. The 1935 decisions
invalidating them were firmly
grounded in precedent and in the
text and history of the
Constitution. The judiciary’s
eventual capitulation was the final
act in a decades-long shift in
political philosophy, generating a
new federal government unlike
anything the Founders
contemplated.
#page#One factor the mythology
overlooks is that two of the era’s
most important decisions -- Home
Building & Loan Association v.
Blaisdell and Nebbia v. New York
-- came in 1934, years before the
court-packing plan was proposed.
These cases remade American
constitutional law, abandoning
longstanding doctrines that had
been reaffirmed only a few years
earlier.
#ad#In 1923, Justice George
Sutherland authored the decision
in Adkins v. Children’s Hospital,
which concerned a law that forced
employers to pay women $71.50
per month. Because this law
applied only to women,
businesses hastened to replace
them with less expensive men.
Indeed, such laws were
championed by male-dominated
unions hoping to block
competition for jobs. Washington,
D.C., elevator operator Willie
Lyons made only $35 a month,
but she liked her job, and when
the law threatened her with
termination, she challenged it in
court. She faced an uphill battle,
thanks to a 1908 precedent,
Muller v. Oregon, which upheld
similar laws on the theory that
women were incapable of
negotiating with male bosses
about pay and hours, and needed
government “protection.”
Sutherland and his colleagues
essentially overruled Muller. The
“great -- not to say revolutionary -
- changes which have taken
place” since 1908 -- particularly
the Nineteenth Amendment -- had
reduced such differences “almost,
if not quite, to the vanishing
point.” Women “are legally as
capable of contracting for
themselves as men,” and to
abridge that liberty arbitrarily was
to deprive Lyons of due process
of law. Acknowledging that “the
liberty of the individual to do as
he pleases, even in innocent
matters, is not absolute,”
Sutherland held that “freedom of
contract is, nevertheless, the
general rule and restraint the
exception; and the exercise of
legislative authority to abridge it
can be justified only by the
existence of exceptional
circumstances.”
Incensed progressives accused
Sutherland of ignoring the
“realities” of capitalist oppression,
but more significant were the
words of Thomas Reed Powell,
who condemned the notion that
freedom is the rule and restraint
the exception. “No such doctrine
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is stated in the Constitution,” he
insisted. Restrictions had “long
since become the rule, and
freedom the exception.”
Progressives regarded this point
as critical, because requiring
government to demonstrate
“exceptional circumstances” to
justify restricting economic
choices would hamper its ability
to restructure the economy and
redistribute wealth.
Nine years later, Sutherland
authored another decision that
enraged progressives. In New
State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, the
Court invalidated an Oklahoma
law that prohibited selling ice
without first getting permission
from a committee of
representatives from the state’s
existing ice companies. The
restriction did not protect
consumers -- ice selling was “an
ordinary business,” and there was
no evidence that ice sellers
exploited or defrauded customers.
Instead, the rule protected
established companies against fair
competition -- unconstitutionally
restricting entrepreneurs’ liberty
a n d e r e c t i n g a
“monopoly#...#against, rather
than in aid of, the interest of the
consuming public.”
In one of his most famous
dissents, Justice Brandeis likened
states to laboratories that should
be allowed to “remould, through
experimentation, our economic
practices and institutions to meet
changing social and economic
needs.” But Sutherland replied
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that whatever “experimental”
latitude states enjoyed, “there are
certain essentials of liberty with
which the state is not entitled to
dispense in the interest of
experiments.” Government could
not use “the theory of
experimentation” to censor
newspapers or persecute citizens
on the basis of religion, and the
right of entrepreneurs to go into
the ice business was “no less
entitled to protection.”
#page#These cases obstructed two
of progressivism’s main goals.
Adkins held that government must
have good reasons before limiting
personal freedom, while
Liebmann barred social-
engineering experiments that
violated individual rights. These
decisions were rooted in the due-
process clause, which since the
Founding era had been interpreted
as barring arbitrary legislative
acts, or legislation that simply
favored one group over another
without actually promoting the
public welfare. This
understanding of the due-process
clause was most famously
expressed in Daniel Webster’s
1818 argument in Dartmouth
College v. Woodward, in a
passage that courts quoted
repeatedly throughout the next
century. “Everything which may
pass under the form of an
enactment,” argued Webster, “is
not, therefore, to be considered
the law of the land.”
#ad#Quoting the 18th-century
jurist William Blackstone, he
explained that a law “is a rule: not
a transient sudden order from a
superior, to, or concerning a
particular person; but something
permanent, uniform, and
universal.” Legislation
confiscating an individual’s
property or merely benefiting one
group of lobbyists over another
“does not enter into the idea of
municipal law: for the operation
of this act is spent [on one person
or class] only, and has no relation
to the community in general.” For
a legislature to exert power in this
way -- for the personal benefit of
the lawmaker or his allies --
would be to act arbitrarily; to
exert its mere will. But the due-
process-of-law clause allows
states to act only pursuant to law--
that is, general rules serving the
public good. In 1874, less than a
decade after the Fourteenth
Amendment added a new “due
process of law” clause to the
Constitution, the Court held that
states could not take property
from some citizens to benefit
others because such legislation
was not “law,” but “a decree
under legislative forms.”
Legislation restricting freedom
only to enrich a particular faction,
or lacking any basis other than
legislative say-so, abridges liberty
without due process of law.
Progressive-era lawyers
recognized that this legal doctrine
was among the most serious
obstacles to redistributive
legislation. They therefore
formulated a theory that the due-
process clause required only fair
procedures, and that the
constitutional prohibition on
legislative arbitrariness -- which
they derisively labeled
“substantive due process” -- had
been concocted by “activist”
judges who merely enforced their
individual political views from the
bench. The judges of a previous
generation would have been
stunned by this accusation, but by
the 1930s, it had become common
in the legal academy and among
younger lawyers. The clash
between the two interpretations of
the due-process clause would
form one of the central dramas of
the New Deal decade.
Two years after Liebmann,
Sutherland and his colleagues
watched as the Court reversed
course. The case involved a law
that restricted banks’ ability to
recover property from those who
defaulted on their mortgages.
When the Depression hit
Minnesota, defaults were so
numerous that foreclosure sales
drove down land values, leaving
debtors owing large amounts even
after their land was auctioned.
Angry mobs disrupted sales and
marched menacingly on the
capital. Socialist governor Floyd
Olson threatened that if the
legislature did not “make ample
provision for the sufferers in this
state,” he would “declare martial
law” and send “provost guards” to
arrest “a lot of people who are
now fighting the [debtor-relief]
measures because they happen to
possess considerable wealth.”
Soon after, the legislature
unanimously approved a law
allowing judges to add a year to
the period during which residents
could redeem mortgaged property.
The law also let judges void a
foreclosure sale and order a new
one if the price was “inadequate.”
#page#But the Constitution
explicitly bars states from
“impairing the obligation of
contracts,” a prohibition adopted
in response to uprisings like the
1786 Shays’s Rebellion, in which
farmers mobbed foreclosure sales,
closed courts, and demanded
“debtor stay laws” like that
enacted in Minnesota. Laws
limiting lenders’ ability to recover
from defaulting borrowers dry up
credit and stifle economic
expansion, which is why James
Madison described them as
“wicked” and “contrary to the
first principles of the social
compact.” Even law professor
William Prosser, who helped
Minnesota legislators write the
law, confessed in 1934 that the
contracts clause “was inserted in
the Constitution for the purpose of
preventing precisely [this] type of
legislation.”
#ad#When a bank foreclosed on
the Blaisdell family’s boarding
house, they sought to extend the
redemption period. The judge
refused, finding the law
unconstitutional, but the
Blaisdells appealed, and the
Supreme Court upheld the law in
a 5–4 decision. Admitting it could
not be reconciled with the
Constitution, Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes
nevertheless held that the law was
justified by the economic
“emergency.” It was “no answer,”
he claimed, “to insist that what
the provision of the Constitution
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meant to the vision of that day it
must mean to the vision of our
time.” To say “that the great
clauses of the Constitution must
be confined to the interpretation
which the framers, with the
conditions and outlook of their
time, would have placed upon
them” simply “carrie[d] its own
refutation.”
This was fallacious: The theory is
not self-refuting, and Hughes’s
assertion was no argument to the
contrary. It hardly answered
Sutherland’s dissenting
observation that “if the contract
impairment clause, when framed
and adopted, meant that the terms
of a contract for the payment of
money could not be altered . . .
because of an economic or
financial emergency, it is but to
state the obvious to say that it
means the same now.” Claiming
that this “carries its own
refutation” ignored the need for
serious analysis; it really meant
the Court would ignore the
Constitution’s words and let states
impair contracts so long as their
actions were “reasonable.”
Blaisdell permanently crippled
enforcement of the contracts
clause. Only six years later, the
Court allowed states to alter
contracts even in non-emergency
situations. After all, “the
weakness in the financial system
brought to light by that
emergency remains.” To this day,
states enjoy broad power to
rewrite contracts whenever their
actions are “reasonable,” which
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essentially means, whenever
legislators think doing so would
be a good idea.
Nebbia was even more extreme.
In 1933, the New York legislature
responded to falling milk prices
by making it a crime to charge
less than nine cents per quart.
Rochester grocer Leo Nebbia was
convicted of selling two quarts of
milk and a loaf of bread for 18
cents. Arguing that states had no
authority to set milk prices, he
appealed, relying on the 1877 case
of Munn v. Illinois, which
allowed states to dictate prices
only in special types of industries.
But the Court overrode Munn and
declared that from then on states
could “adopt whatever economic
policy may reasonably be deemed
to promote public welfare.#...#If
the laws passed are seen to have a
reasonable relation to a proper
legislative purpose, and are
neither arbitrary nor
discriminatory, the requirements
of due process are satisfied.”
This was the birth of the “rational
-basis test,” the legal standard
courts still use to evaluate laws
limiting economic freedom or
property rights. Under this test,
such restrictions are presumed
constitutional, meaning that a
plaintiff challenging them must
prove there is no “reasonably
conceivable state of facts” to
support them. This alone is
absurd, since it is impossible to
prove a negative. But it gets
worse: Courts don’t require the
law to accomplish the
legislature’s purpose, or even that
there be any factual basis for the
law. Legislative speculation
suffices. As a federal judge once
wrote, this test “invites us to cup
our hands over our eyes and then
imagine if there could be anything
right with the statute.” It’s no
wonder laws virtually never fail it.
#page#The theory behind such
extreme leniency is that
legislatures are competent to
regulate economic affairs, and
anyone objecting to such
regulations should lobby the
legislature rather than seek
judicial protection. But when a
law abridges a person’s freedoms
of speech or religion, he isn’t
forced to ask lawmakers to repeal
it; he can rely on constitutional
protections. Nebbia denied similar
protections to those wishing to
exercise economic liberty, even
though they have no better chance
of persuading legislators than do
political or religious minorities.
Minimum-price rules,
occupational-licensing
requirements, and similar laws
benefit politically influential
companies that invest billions in
obtaining legislation that blocks
competition from politically
disadvantaged entrepreneurs.
Nebbia ignores this reality, and
works like a ratchet by which
legislatures continually tighten
controls over private economic
decisions -- and courts refuse to
loosen them.
#ad#Nothing illustrates the
boundless power Nebbia gives
legislatures more clearly than the
law challenged in that case -- a
law that forbade grocers to lower
prices during the Depression’s
dreariest days. If such laws are
rational, it’s hard to imagine what
would be irrational. Indeed, a
dissenting Justice McReynolds
likened the minimum-price rule to
a law requiring homeowners “to
pour oil on their roofs as a means
of curbing the spread of fire.” By
forcing judges to blind themselves
to economic realities, the
newfangled “rational basis”
theory actually meant legislatures
could act irrationally.
Nor, McReynolds observed, was
this temporary. If cheaper milk --
the natural consequence of
supply’s outstripping demand --
qualified as an “emergency” that
justified the expansion of
government power, then
“whenever there is too much or
too little of an essential thing --
whether of milk or grain or pork
or coal or shoes or clothes --
constitutional provisions may be
declared inoperative.” Thus the
judicial abdication represented by
the rational-basis test would
obliterate constitutional limits on
state power, leaving Nebbia and
his customers unprotected against
legislatures that could restrict
their freedom for irrational or self
-interested reasons, or no reason
at all.
Nebbia and Blaisdell reoriented
constitutional law along long-
rejected progressive lines. It’s
little wonder the conservative
justices were distressed. Despite
their reputation as cold Social
Darwinists, their views had
nothing to do with Darwin; they
were drawn from the tradition of
Founding-era classical liberalism.
Yet progressives contended -- as
political scientist Alpheus Mason
wrote in 1933 -- that the
“eighteenth century individualistic
philosophy of rights and property
is no longer a creed adequate for
modern life.” Blaisdell and
Nebbia seemed to ratify the new,
collectivist future.
But progressive celebrations
didn’t last long. Only a year later,
the Court made another about-
face. The case was Schechter
Poultry v. United States, and it
involved a New York slaughtering
company charged with violating
the National Industrial Recovery
Act. A centerpiece of the New
Deal, the NIRA aimed to
transform American industry into
a collection of cartels, allowing
bureaucrats to plan the economy
and, supposedly, prevent
unforeseen downturns. Business
leaders were invited to draft
“Codes of Fair Competition,”
fixing prices, restricting output,
and excluding unapproved
competitors. The Codes were then
promulgated by the president
without congressional oversight.
Merchants were soon being
prosecuted for lowering prices.
Jacob Maged of Jersey City was
jailed for charging 35 cents for
pressing pants, when the Cleaners
and Dyers Code dictated a price
of 40 cents. Pennsylvania battery
manufacturer Fred Perkins was
sentenced for paying his
employees 20 cents per hour
when the law required a wage of
40 cents. Cleveland dry cleaners
Sam and Rose Markowitz were
jailed for offering customers five-
81
cent discounts.
#page#The poultry industry’s
code required chicken farmers,
among other things, to implement
a policy called “straight killing,”
which blocked shoppers from
choosing which bird to buy.
Roosevelt’s “Brains Trust”
believed that freedom of choice --
which they called “selective
buying” -- often left butchers
holding scrawny chickens nobody
wanted. If customers were instead
forced to pay a flat rate and take a
randomly selected chicken,
impoverished farmers would be
subsidized and “overproduction”
would fall.
#ad#In Schechter, the Court
unanimously concluded that the
NIRA unconstitutionally gave the
president legislative power
because the vague term “fair
competition” was defined solely
by his decrees, each bearing the
force of law. The NIRA also
exceeded Congress’s commerce-
clause authority. The Schechter
brothers stored and sold their
chickens within New York’s
borders, and the fact that the
chickens were shipped from out
of state did not bring them within
federal jurisdiction. “Where the
effect of intrastate transactions
upon interstate commerce is
merely indirect, such transactions
remain within the domain of state
power,” the Court held. “If the
commerce clause were construed
to reach all enterprises and
transactions which could be said
to have an indirect effect upon
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great money in North Dakota, castigation out. unfairly allotted, ill gotten, and ill As a materialist he judges equity
rather less so in Manhattan or the There also seems to be little spent, and therefore should not be in life by income. Thus he sees
If you make more than $250,000 Bay Area. appreciation of how one creates entirely one’s own. Surgeons in the government’s proper moral
a y e a r , y o u ’ r e g r e e d y a n d Furthermore, most of these upper wealth -- not surprising, since countries without socialized obligation not as ensuring equality
undeserving — unless you’re -income earners are the owners of Obama and his economic medicine, he has told us, make out of the starting gate, but as
addressed as Mr. President. small businesses, which simply architects are mostly salaried money by gratuitously slicing off guaranteeing that we all reach the
S ince the moment he announced calibrate proposed taxes in terms elitists who have spent much of limbs or ripping out tonsils. High finish line at the same exact
his presidential candidacy, Barack of money not available to hire their lives on various tenured earners can go to Vegas or the moment.
Obama has waged a tireless, now employees and buy equipment. In government payrolls. Almost Super Bowl without thinking Abroad, this same notion of
four-year-long spread-the-wealth contrast, the president assumes none were entrepreneurs who had twice about it, given the enforced equality explains our
campaign against the more that a hardware-store owner or a built businesses from nothing. superfluity of their riches. “I do new foreign policy. The bowing,
affluent. small manufacturer already The result is that Obama has little think at a certain point you’ve the apologies, the
He drew his mythical them/us concedes that he makes too much insight into the mentality of a made enough money,” the contextualization of America as
line at $250,000 in annual money. The idea seems to be that, businessperson, whose values and president pontificates -- a neither exceptional nor especially
income: If you went into the dark in penance, he will cut his profit world view are antithetical to variation on his earlier lament that moral, the cold shoulder to
territory above that level, all sorts margin and, for the public good, those of the salaried and tenured the Supreme Court had never Europe and the emphasis on the
of promised punishments would will gladly pay more of what employee who accepts stability demanded “redistributive Pacific and on the Arab and
kick in. At various times his profits remain to an Ivy League and a monthly check as he does change.” Where that “certain Muslim worlds -- all that assumes
administration has called for technocracy that knows far better the changing of the seasons. But point” rests, we do not know, an anti-imperialist and anti-
higher income taxes on this group, than he how to spend his ill-gotten to the self-employed, the world is though we suspect it is high capitalist world view.
health-care surcharges, and revenue on others more deserving. an often hostile place in which a enough to allow vacationing at the Abroad, as at home, wealth is not
removing the caps on income Obama, the supposedly savvy bad back, a chance fire, an Costa del Sol and Martha’s a result of risk, luck, talent, or
subject to Social Security payroll p o l i t i c i a n , o d d l y h a s l i t t l e unethical employee, a wrong Vineyard. mastery of capitalist practices. A
taxes -- all to be added to higher appreciation of the psychology of guess, or a national recession can In his mind, government simply nation is not necessarily wealthy
state and local taxes. And, of business. Millions of job creators destroy years of hard work in a cannot allow one person to make or poor depending on the degree
course, higher capital-gains and still have only a vague idea of the blink. $10 an hour digging a ditch, and to which it adopts proven
inheritances taxes as well. net effect of Obama’s policies -- #page# another $300 an hour sitting successful formulas that ensure
# a d # T h e p r e s i d e n t i s n o t except that they will probably Nor do the Obamians appreciate behind a desk closing a deal. The private property rights,
interested in nuances. He does not mean less profits, and they are that the possibilities for wealth old tragic justifications of the transparency in the judicial and
care that 40 percent of Americans being enacted in a punitive spirit creation are infinite: The more inequality in compensation financial sectors, free markets,
pay no income taxes, or that the for past sins. rewards the audacious see, the inherent in capitalism -- one rises low taxes, sober accounting
top 1 percent of earners pay 40 Obama’s policies are also seen as more they take risks to turn ideas up the job chain, and recompense practices, consensual government,
percent of aggregate collected malleable and predicated on into new products and services. is not rigid and fixed; the separation between religion and
income-tax revenue. Yet many of notions of social justice rather That energy enriches us all. successful entrepreneur takes state, and meritocracy in lieu of
the people in these brackets were than on absolute adherence to the Instead, there is now the return of more risk, may have greater skills tribal preference.
not always so rich and probably law -- as in the reordering of the the old peasant mentality of a and education, can create more Most students of such matters
won’t be for long. Top incomes Chrysler creditors and the recent limited good. With a finite pie, wealth for others, is luckier, more know all this to be true as they
a r e t r a n s i e n t . M i l l i o n s o f threats against health insurers who one slice to someone must mean motivated, or healthier, accepts compare South Korea with its
Americans strive to reach them do not toe the federal line. one less to someone else. The more stress, does not necessarily northern counterpart, the old East
for a few years to provide for Employers are human. Call them relative wealth of a few, not want the more moral or enjoyable Germany with the old West
retirement, or college expenses, in greedy, undeserving of their absolute wealth for all, is what life -- mean little to the Germany, Cubans in Miami with
the expectation that they will fade profits, and prone to party at matters. therapeutic Obama. His those in Cuba, China in the 1960s
quickly. A quarter of a million Vegas -- and in hurt they will sit #ad#Implicit here is Obama’s Manichean world is fixed: suspect
dollars in annual compensation is on their money and wait such progressive notion that wealth is rich and noble poor. OBAMA’S page 88
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Merrily We Don’t Roll Along

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be there at ten. You need the movies, that’s our motto here in backwards.” follow.”
work.” Tinseltown. Mission to Moscow, “Like Merrily We Roll Along!” “Which he’ll then overcome,
David Axelrod doesn’t like the Next, I called my agent. “What The North Star, The Boy from said the Exec, the last Sondheim right?” asked Axelrod. “Or
ending of this Obama biopic. do you know about this?” I asked Stalingrad, Reds—” fan on earth, except for Frank already has overcome. Because
W hen you take a pitch meeting him. I could feel my excitement rising: Rich. we’re telling this
in Hollywood, you’re generally “Nada,” he said. “You’re flying “ Red Dawn.” “Right,” I said, not wanting to backwards#...#which means that
pretty sure who’s going to be in blind, Dave. Just don’t blow it. #ad#The room fell silent for a blow my surprise twist just yet. the adversity really comes first
the room. First, of course, there’s You need the work” moment. Axelrod glared at me; “Exactly like Merrily but without, and then#...#I’m confused.”
you -- or, in this case, me, since I parked in the VIP lot, tossed the the Exec stared at his shoes. you know, the music. A “That’s why we get Chris Nolan
“you” don’t have access to Fox or Prius’s keys to the envious “Right,” he said. “What we’re screenplay based on the book of a to direct,” I said, hoping they’d
Warner’s the way I do. Then attendant, and strode into the interested in is a new kind of musical that was based on a play get it now. “Sure, he’s done that
there’s the Exec, also known as meeting with confidence. The first subliminal campaign film, one —” Batman jazz, but you just know
the “Suit” or, in plain English, the person I saw was: that uses the earlier pro- “Like Chicago!” exclaimed he’d jump at the chance to redo
Guy Who’s Going to Say No to David Axelrod. The media genius proletarian cinema classics -- did I Axelrod, who certainly knows Memento, only this time with a
Y o u r M o v i e . H e o r s h e i s behind the Emperor Barack mention that my mother used to Chicago. twist.”
g e n e r a l l y a t t e n d e d b y t h e Hussein Obama II, Lord of the work for PM in New York? -- as All I had to do now was ride the Axelrod was staring at me with
Assistant, whose job it is to sit Flies, Keeper of the Hoops, the touchstones for a new theater wave of excitement and — presto! those basset-hound eyes. The
there and say nothing unless V a c a t i o n e r - i n - C h i e f , a n d of and for the common man —” — I’d sell it in the room. Exec was sitting bolt upright in
spoken to and, in any case, to Protector of the Holy Cities of “Sorry, Jake,” I heard myself #page#“First we get the guy who his chair. The Assistant had
have absolutely no opinion about Chicago and Honolulu. “Jake saying, “but no way am I wrote the original to direct. Then, become totally invisible. “What’s
anything. Sometimes there’s a Lingle!” I exclaimed, then nearly rewriting Barton Fink.” we take the same basic script, the twist?” whispered the Junior
third fellow, the Junior Assistant bit my tongue off when I realized “Hear the man out, Kahane,” said which involves a man desperately Assistant Who Writes Things
Who Writes Everything Down, in that I’m the only one who calls the Exec. “We’re talking double searching for the truth about his Down, so caught up in the
case the Exec is too ADD-led to Axelrod “Jake Lingle,” my pet your quote on this project, with a past, and what brought him to his moment that he forgot he wasn’t
remember anything after the name for journalists who work guaranteed rewrite whether we current low estate —” supposed to even breathe. “I
meeting, or was on the phone the both sides of the street. It’s fire you or not.” “I love it,” said both Axelrod and mean, that whole movie was a
whole time you were making your actually flattering, since I suppose Axelrod continued: “Something the Exec simultaneously. “Real twist.”
pitch. Sometimes your agent I could call him “ Mr. Peachum,” that speaks to a new generation, triumph-of-the-human-spirit I paused for dramatic effect, then
comes along, although most of except that nobody’s seen The born in this century, almost, with stuff.” let them have it: “The movie’s not
them have seen enough train Beggar’s Opera since the late 18th a knowledge of movies that “We start with our hero’s moment backwards at all,” I said. “We tell
wrecks in their lives to forgo the century. stretches all the way back to just of maximum triumph, with him it straight: The Hero springs fully
pleasure, and would rather be at “I understand you’re the best in before the millennium. In other basking in the adulation of an formed from the head of his
Orso’s on Third having lunch, the business,” said Axelrod words, your usual target adoring crowd. We go the whole media adviser, then slowly
except that Orso’s is now closed. coolly, brushing his comb-over to audience.” nine yards, Corinthian columns, diminishes in stature until, at the
#ad#So imagine my surprise one side to reveal the sweaty brow “In short, a total rip-off,” said the the works.” end, he’s just a little man with big
when, on no notice, I got called beneath, “and not afraid to speak Exec. #ad#“I can see the poster from my ears sitting in front of ugly brown
into a special meeting last week at truth to power.” I thought for a moment, which is house in Trousdale Estates,” said curtains and a great big empty
a studio I won’t name. “What are “ Always ready to help the party twice the usual amount of time I the Exec. desk, reading a Teleprompter into
w e p i t c h i n g ? ” I a s k e d m y in any way I can,” I replied give to my pitches. And then I had “Then hubris sets in. Like a Hero the ether, with nobody paying
manager. helpfully. it. in a Joseph Campbell story, he attention. Think Redford in The
“Beats me,” she said. “It’s their #page#The Exec, his job safe for “I’ve got it,” said I. wins his heart’s desire -- a Candidate but with BlackBerrys.
meeting.” another two hours, beamed as he “Awesome,” said the Exec. fundamental transformation of his He’s a metaphor for our time, a
“Why me?” turned to Axelrod, who said: “What’s the hook?” world -- but in so doing, sows the
“Sometimes miracles happen. Just “Peace, bread, and socialist-realist “We appear to tell the story seeds of the adversity that will MERRILY page 87
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interstate commerce, the federal
authority would embrace
practically all the activities of the
people.”
Eight months later, the Court
decided United States v. Butler,
striking down the Agricultural
Adjustment Act. That act taxed
agriculture businesses and
redistributed the proceeds to
farmers who agreed to plant less,
the idea being that when farmers
planted less, prices would go up.
This time, Roosevelt’s lawyers
did not rely on the commerce
clause; they pointed to Congress’s
taxing power instead. This, too,
the Court rejected. Taxes were for
raising revenue, not for the mere
“expropriation of money from one
group for the benefit of another.”
The Constitution limited
Congress’s power to national
matters, but if it could exploit the
taxing power to regulate local
activities, then it could regulate
“all industry throughout the
United States.”
That November, Roosevelt was
reelected in America’s largest
landslide, which simultaneously
evicted all but a tiny minority of
Republicans from Congress.
Within weeks, he unveiled his
court-packing plan.
It was not popular, even with
Democrats. Columnist Walter
Lippmann spoke for many when
he warned that New Dealers “will
make the greatest mistake of their
lives if, while they are in power,
they destroy the defenses they
will desperately need when in the
course of human events the
people turn once more the other
way.” FDR pressed on, but the
controversy was suddenly
rendered moot when on March 29,
1937, the Court decided West
Coast Hotel v. Parrish, overruling
Adkins and upholding a minimum
-wage law for women. “Liberty
under the Constitution” is
“necessarily subject to the
restraints of due process,” wrote
Chief Justice Hughes, “and
regulation which is reasonable in
relation to its subject and is
adopted in the interests of the
community is due process.” The
decision gave lawmakers
immense discretion to prevent
“the exploitation of a class of
workers who are in an unequal
position with respect to
bargaining power and are thus
relatively defenceless against the
denial of a living wage.”
Unsurprisingly, Sutherland
dissented. The minimum-wage
law did not protect the public
from fraud or accidents; it was
“simply and exclusively, a law
fixing wages for adult women
who are legally as capable of
contracting for themselves as
men.” The restriction deprived
women of liberty, not for their
benefit -- “the ability to make a
fair bargain, as everyone knows,
does not depend upon sex” -- but
for the benefit of a privately
interested faction, and was thus an
arbitrary breach of the due
process of law promised by the
Constitution. If government could
enact such legislation, then “the
right to make any contract in
respect of wages will have been
completely abrogated,” and
politicians could set pay rates at
will. Seven decades later,
Washington prescribes not only
minimum wages, but even the
sick leave, parking spaces, and
types of chairs that workplaces
must provide.
#page#A month after Parrish, the
Court pushed Congress’s
commerce-clause power far past
the line drawn in Schechter. In
N.L.R.B. v. Jones & Laughlin
Steel, it upheld the National Labor
Relations Act, which restricts
businesses’ freedom to hire and
fire workers, even in industries
operating only within state
boundaries. Congress could
regulate such local matters to
prevent “industrial strife,” which
was “a matter of the most urgent
national concern.” Justice
McReynolds would have none of
it. If the commerce clause meant
this, he warned, Congress could
control even trivial activities that
might have some indirect
economic effect. “Almost
anything -- marriage, birth, death
-- may in some fashion affect
commerce.” He suggested some
absurd potential consequences: “If
a man raises cattle and regularly
delivers them to a carrier for
interstate shipment, may Congress
prescribe the conditions under
which he may employ or
discharge helpers on the
ranch?#...#May arson of a factory
be made a Federal offense
whenever this would interfere
with [the flow of commerce]?”
The enactment of federal labor
and anti-arson laws in the
following decades answered
McReynolds’s rhetorical
questions.
#ad#Justice Van Devanter
resigned that June, and by the
time the most famous New Deal
case, United States v. Carolene
Products, ordered courts to uphold
“legislation affecting ordinary
commercial transactions” in all
but the rarest cases, the revolution
was essentially over. The
judiciary had yielded to a new
jurisprudence that expanded
Congress’s commerce-clause
powers and diluted the due-
process clause’s prohibition
against legislative arbitrariness --
at least where economic matters
were concerned.
Historians still debate whether
the Court surrendered to FDR’s
court-packing threat or the 1936
election, or the legislation that
replaced the NIRA and AAA was
simply more restrained. But it’s
clear that, however dramatic, the
era’s constitutional transformation
was not unforeseen. Nor was it
simply the pragmatic resolution of
a political tussle between
compassionate liberals and
heartless conservatives. The Four
Horsemen drew from a long line
of precedent -- some quite fresh --
that correctly restrained
government power and protected
economic freedom in ways
incompatible with Roosevelt’s
plans. Moreover, their
forebodings proved justified: The
theories the Court embraced in
1937 sapped state autonomy,
fostered a federal bureaucracy
totally alien to the Founders’
vision, and abandoned individual
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liberty to the arbitrary will of
legislatures. Today, government
limits economic freedom in
countless anti-competitive ways --
requiring even florists and interior
decorators to undergo years of
expensive education and
confiscating property virtually
without restraint. Indeed, when
the Court ruled in 2005 that states
could condemn homes and give
the land to private developers, it
drew straight from the New Deal
cases: Courts review eminent
domain under a “deferential
standard,” wrote Justice Anthony
Kennedy, that “echoes the rational
-basis test used to review
economic regulation.”
Justice Sutherland and colleagues
warned that, while ignoring or
loosening constitutional limits
might seem profitable in the short
run, every lapse furnished a
precedent for further expansion,
and that the bureaucratic
machinery created during the
1930s would eventually entangle
every aspect of economic life. It’s
sad their warnings went
unheeded.
— Timothy Sandefur is a
principal attorney at the Pacific
Legal Foundation and author of
The Right to Earn a Living(Cato
Institute, 2010). This article
originally appeared in the Sep. 20,
2010, issue of National Review.
Timothy Sandefur
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School Choice Missing In Obama Address
Lindsey Burke (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/14/2010 4:30:39 PM
Students and teachers at Julia R.
Masterman Laboratory and
Demonstration School began the
school year with the ultimate back
-to-school pep rally on Tuesday.
President Obama delivered a
speech to students at the highly-
ranked Philadelphia magnet
school, which was named a 2010
national “Blue Ribbon School.”
Last year, the president delivered
a back-to-school speech about the
importance of staying in school
and the merits of education, topics
he reprised in this year’s address.
Last year’s protocol included a
letter from Education Secretary
Arne Duncan to schools
nationwide, complete with lesson
plans for teachers. Of course, the
lesson plans created a firestorm of
backlash from critics, and we
haven’t seen a repeat this year.
Even absent federally-crafted
lesson plans, however, the Obama
administration’s larger plans for
reshaping the country’s education
system are worrisome. In fact, if
the administration has its way,
schools across the country will
soon be required to teach
according to a set of national
education standards and tests.
National standards and tests
would be a significant federal
overreach into states’ educational
decision-making authority. But
through the administration’s $4.35
million “Race to the Top”
competitive grant program, which
provided grants to 11 states and
the District of Columbia to
implement prescribed education
reforms, states have already
begun adopting national
standards.
To be in contention for a Race to
the Top grant, states had to
indicate that they would move
toward adopting national
standards and tests. And with
most states facing severe budget
shortfalls, the chance to win
hundreds of millions of dollars in
new grant money was enough for
many to sign on to the proposal.
But several states have refused to
sign on to the standards, which
were developed by the National
Governor’s Association and the
Council of Chief State School
Officers. But for the states not
enticed by a RTT grant, the
administration has indicated that
they will tie access to Title I
money for low-income schools to
adoption of the standards.
If they succeed, the
administration will have
orchestrated a significant federal
overreach into what is taught in
local schools. They will have
done so without a single vote in
Congress, bypassing normal
legislative procedure, and without
input from parents and taxpayers.
If national standards and tests
become reality, parents will lose
one of their most powerful tools
when it comes to directing their
children’s education: local and
state control over academic
content and standards. As if a
distant bureaucrat in Washington
knows what’s best for — or is
significantly vested in — the
educational well-being of
individual students.
The kind of data national
standards and tests will make
available will be far more useful
to bureaucrats than to parents.
What parents need most is
transparency about all the existent
data that’s collected, and, most
importantly, the power to act on
it.
We won’t gain educational
opportunity and accountability by
further centralizing educational
power in Washington. This has
been the trend for the past four
decades, with little if anything to
show for it. Despite decades of
increasing federal control over
education and a tripling of per-
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pupil expenditures, reading
achievement has flat-lined, and
graduation rates are the same
today as they were in 1970.
If the president were truly
interested in raising academic
achievement and providing
educational opportunity, he would
have told students today how he
plans to empower their parents to
make the educational decisions
that will lead to a future full of
opportunity.
Sadly, President Obama’s track
record thus far on school choice is
dismal. He is phasing out the most
successful school voucher
program in the country — the
D.C. Opportunity Scholarship
Program — because powerful
special-interest groups, such as
teachers’ unions, oppose it. For
scholarship students in
Washington, D.C., listening to the
president’s speech may well have
been a painful reminder that in
most parts of the country, school
choice is still an option only for
those who can afford it.
The administration certainly
deserves credit this year for
encouraging states to lift caps on
charter schools and to have open
discussions about merit pay and
tenure reform. But for those
students in Philadelphia, and
across the country, not lucky
enough to enroll in a Blue Ribbon
school (such as the one where Mr.
Obama made his speech), the best
back-to-school message they
could hear would be one that
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What’s Scarier Than Cap and Trade? A Renewable Electricity

Standard
Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: Culver of Iowa and Don Carcieri why would you think an increase
Conservative Policy News.) of Rhode Island, leaders of the in spending would get it going?
Submitted at 9/14/2010 5:01:22 PM bipartisan Governors’ Wind Why would it have any impact
Energy Coalition, stressed the other than an immediate short-
Posted September 14th, 2010 at need for a federally mandated term impact limited to the people
6 : 0 1 p m i n E n e r g y a n d RES: who receive the money? Why
Environment Print This Post Governors from California and would it get the whole economy
For the past year, the phrase “cap Oregon to Minnesota and Maine going again? Think of having a lot
and trade” was as taboo as using agree that among the best ways to of wet wood and trying to get it
Lord Voldemort’s name in J. K. address these issues is to harness going by lighting newspaper as
Rowling’s Harry Potter series. the economic and environmental kindling. There’s a fire for a
Wizards scared of the Dark Lord benefits of domestic renewable while, while the newspaper is
referred to Voldemort as “He- electricity production. The way to burning. But once the newspaper
Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.” For do that is by passing a strong is consumed, the wood hasn’t
those hoping to pass cap and R e n e w a b l e E l e c t r i c i t y caught. Even burning a lot more
trade, it became “The-Energy- Standard—to ensure rapid growth newspaper (bigger stimulus
Policy-That-Will-Create-Jobs.” of the nation’s wind and other package) isn’t going to get the
But opponents correctly labeled renewable electricity sources. We wood dry enough to catch fire.
cap and trade a significant tax, are today sending a letter to with cheap electricity, it wouldn’t According to a new Heritage Subsidies, mandates, and special
and the bill died in the Senate. In Senate leadership, urging the need a mandate that forces Foundation study, if Congress preferences for uncompetitive
fact, congressional votes on cap prompt adoption of a strong production. Though the source of implemented a 22.5 percent RES sources of energy are worse than
and trade are a major talking point national RES. wind and solar energy is free, by 2025, household electricity burning newspaper. Because these
on campaign ads—ads that vilify A strong RES must be the power delivered from these prices would jump 36 percent and policies kill more jobs than they
Members who voted for the cornerstone of our nation’s new sources is very expensive. The industry prices by 60 percent by create, the fire will never be as big
Waxman–Markey cap-and trade- clean energy economy. It won’t flow of wind is erratic and 2035. There would be 1 million as it could be.
bill last year. Cap and trade has mean just wind farms in Iowa or uncertain, which means that the fewer people working on average This entry passed through the
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than cap and trade is that it has maintenance of these facilities. rippling effects throughout the Russ Roberts wrote a criticism of
cap-and-trade-sized costs and The truth of the matter is that if economy. More expensive electric stimulus spending in general that
bipartisan support. In a September wind energy could compete in the bills force businesses to make applies here:
12 Politico op-ed, Governors Chet market and provide consumers production cuts and reduce labor. When the economy is broken,
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MERRILY
Morning Bell: The Obamacare and Obama Tax Hike continued from page 83

hymn to the human condition, a

Double Whammy on Seniors sign of the diminishment of
leadership in the post-&^%$-Bush
Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Medicare Advantage Payments, drop from 10 million today to just shareholders by paying dividends era, a cautionary tale about the
Conservative Policy News.) that is demonstrably not true for 7.4 million in 2017. are penalized. As Heritage fellows power of the media, and —”
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:34:24 AM millions of senior citizens. The Obama Tax Hikes’ Impact Rea Hederman and Patrick Tyrrell Without a word, Axelrod got up
Medicare Advantage (MA) plans on Seniors: The top tax rates on detail, companies will therefore and left the room. For a moment,
Posted September 15th, 2010 at are the private insurance options qualified dividends are scheduled pay out less in dividends. Retirees nobody said anything. Then the
9:34am in Entitlements, Health a v a i l a b l e t o M e d i c a r e to jump from 15 percent to 39.6 who rely on dividend income Exec spoke.
Care Print This Post beneficiaries. In 2006 (the latest percent on January 1, 2011. The from stocks will then see their “You’re fired,” he said.
No demographic was more figures available), Medicare left will claim that these tax hikes annual income decline. For tax In a flash, the assistants were
opposed to Obamacare’s passage covered only 59 percent of will only soak the rich while year 2010, seniors are almost ushering me toward the door, and
and no group wants to see the law traditional beneficiary health care lower-income Americans will twice as likely to report dividend I hadn’t even finished my Diet
repealed more than America’s expenses. Ninety-one percent of enjoy a free ride. This is false. income on their tax returns as any Coke yet. “But, but,” I cried, “I
s e n i o r s . T h e y k n o w t h a t all Medicare beneficiaries have Higher taxes on dividends will other demographic group. Low- thought you wanted me to speak
Obamacare used Medicare as a s o m e s o r t o f s u p p l e m e n t a l reduce the value of all corporate income households are also more truth to power!”
piggy bank to transfer half a coverage. Obamacare is going to stocks traded in U.S. markets, likely to own dividend-paying As I lay sprawled on the
trillion dollars out of Medicare, change all that. regardless of who owns them. s t o c k s t h a n h i g h - i n c o m e sidewalk, I could hear his answer:
not to shore up Medicare’s The new law imposes deep cuts According to some estimates, the households. They will all be “What, are you stupid? This is
solvency, but to spend on a new in the payment rates for MA tax hike on dividends would cause victims of the Obama Tax Hikes. Hollywood.”
government program. As if that plans, beginning with a payment stock prices to drop by more than The imminent threat to senior — David Kahane continues to
were not enough, now President freeze in 2011. In addition, the $211 billion. The reduction in citizen’s health care will only be believe in himself and in his
Barack Obama wants to raise other indiscriminate payment cuts share values would happen almost resolved once Obamacare is talent, even if nobody else does.
taxes on the dividend payments to hospitals and health care immedi-ately at the beginning of repealed. And the only way to To prove they’re all wrong, he’s
that millions of seniors depend on providers will also get passed on 2011, or whenever Congress p r o t e c t s e n i o r ’ s r e t i r e m e n t written a new book, Rules for
for their livelihood. American to MA plans as well. Book and makes clear it will allow the rate savings is to reject the Obama Tax Radical Conservatives, which will
seniors are beginning to wonder Capretta calculate that the average to rise. Seniors hold the most Hikes. be published by Ballantine Books
when they’ll stop being target #1 nationwide per capita reduction in stock of any demographic group, Quick Hits: on September 28. You can tell
of President Obama’s economy- the value of coverage for MA and so the Obama tax hike is a direct This entry passed through the Dave he’s right, as usual, by
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repeatedly promised Americans would have occurred without the seniors also rely heavily on our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Kahane
that if they liked their current new law. Faced with these cuts, dividends to supplement their content-only/faq.php
health plan, they could keep it. MA plans will be forced to raise Social Security income. And Five Filters featured article:
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Book and Ethics and Public leave the market entirely. The taxed at a much higher rate than Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
Policy Center fellow James President’s own Medicare chief capital gains (as they would be Catastrophe.
Capretta detail in their new actuary estimated that the number after the Obama Tax Hikes),
a n a l y s i s o f R e d u c t i o n s i n of seniors with MA plans will companies that return value to
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OBAMA’S
continued from page 82
with the country of the new
millennium, an oil-poor Chile
with an oil-rich Venezuela, or free
-market Israel with statist Egypt.
Not Obama.
#page#
In contrast, in his view,
oppression and exploitation better
explain wealth and poverty. The
United States is wealthy largely
because of profits from past
exploitation -- slavery, racism,
class prejudice, theft of land from
Native Americans, and robber-
baron policies abroad that stole
the resources of other nations. We
owe the world contrition, not
guidance about how to emulate
our success.
Once again, in the peasant view
of a limited world, wealth is
finite: If we have three-car
families, people in a basket case
like Zimbabwe pay for our excess
by having none. To suggest that
Zimbabwe’s problems are entirely
its own doing, and are not
connected to post-colonial trauma
or to exploitative wealth creation
by the West -- and that with
radical social, cultural, political
and economic changes Zimbabwe
could easily be another
Switzerland (which lacks
Zimbabwe’s natural resources) --
is to reject almost all that Obama
has learned from his teachers and
friends, and as an astute navigator
in the world of identity politics.
#ad#Finally, note that crucial to
this equality-of-result world view
is the notion of exemption. Where
Michelle chooses to vacation,
how many holes of golf Barack
plays, what sort of home they
insist on buying, how they travel
abroad and the influence they
enjoy as emissaries of a wealthy
capitalist United States -- all this
is not contradictory to what is so
easily mandated for others.
Our progressive elites are
educated almost as gods. They are
prepped to bring about change for
less astute and sensitive others. To
the degree they are accorded and
enjoy privilege, it is simply a
necessary means to an end --
better homes, transportation,
leisure, and material
appurtenances are not matters of
enjoyment, but are the needed
tools to more efficiently enact
social change. A tax-avoided $7
million Kerry yacht allows the
anointed senator the necessary
recharging to repeal the
pernicious Bush tax cuts that
“those” over $250,000 enjoy at
the expense of others. The
restorative sanctuary of a John
Edwards or Al Gore mansion is
integral to obtaining social justice
or a greener future for the less
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counterpart. Persistent tax
cheating by members of
Congress, and by grandees like a
tax-raising Treasury Secretary
Geithner or would-be HHS
secretary Tom Daschle, is merely
a series of accounting errors.
To expect otherwise would be to
ask the indoor pigs of Animal
Farm not to don clothes and walk
on two legs as they sacrificed to
ensure that the animals outside the
farmhouse window were properly
equal -- or else.
-- NRO contributor Victor Davis
Hanson is a senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, the editor of
Makers of Ancient Strategy: From
the Persian Wars to the Fall of
Rome, and the author of The
Father of Us All: War and
History, Ancient and Modern.
Victor Davis Hanson
How Iran Kills
Americans
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) HOW page 89
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HOW
continued from page 88
Five Iranian companies in
Afghanistan are paying Taliban
militants over $200 per month
with bonuses of $1,000 for killing
an American soldier and $6,000
for destroying a U.S. military
vehicle. The ideological
differences and past tension
between Iran and the Taliban have
not stopped them from allying
against a common enemy,
allowing the Iranian regime to
help kill American soldiers with
little consequence.
Most shockingly, the Iranian
companies fund the Taliban using
foreign aid. They win
construction contracts and then
place the money in corrupt
Afghan banks, including one that
is tied to President Karzai’s
brother. The money then leaves
Afghanistan for Tehran and Dubai
and comes into the Taliban’s
hands through the unregulated
hawala networks. The Iranian
financing is so large that one
Taliban money-handler claims he
alone has collected nearly
$80,000 in the past six months.
Iran’s bounties may not be a new
development, as a U.S.
government document released by
WikiLeaks reported that Iran had
a bounty of $1,740 for the death
of every Afghan soldier and
$3,841 for the death of every
Afghan official in February 2005.
Pakistan’s offensives in the Swat
Valley and South Waziristan have
made the Taliban more reliant
upon Iran for support. One “senior
insurgent in Kunduz” told a
British newspaper that “day by
day the Iranian border becomes
more important for us, especially
now in Pakistan there are many
problems for the Taliban.”
Another commander admitted that
they were working with the
Iranians, saying “Our religions
and our histories are different but
our target is the same. We both
want to kill Americans.”
Taliban commanders have also
confirmed that Iran is running a
training program for them. The
Iranians pay for hundreds of
Taliban fighters to make a
wintertime trip to Iran’s camps in
Zahedan, a location known to also
be a safe haven for Al-Qaeda. For
the first month, they learn how to
attack convoys and escape
capture. In the second, they are
taught on how to do maximum
damage with improvised
explosive devices and in the third
and final month, they are
instructed on attacking military
outposts. The State Department
says that the Iranians have been
training the Taliban since at least
2006.
In March, it was reported that
over 10 tons of weapons had been
seized coming into Afghanistan
from Iran over the previous year.
Iranian arms caches of RPGs,
explosively-formed projectiles,
C4 explosives, surface-to-air
missiles, and all sorts of other
weapons continue to be
discovered throughout the
country, much of which has the
words “Made in Iran” brazenly
imprinted on them. Some have
argued that the Iranian weapons
come from the black market and
are not shipped on orders of the
regime. Afghan intelligence
estimates that 60 percent of the
weapons it has seized from Iran
are supplied directly by the
government, putting that notion to
rest. The real percentage is likely
higher as the Iranians can use the
black market to disguise their
activity.
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Google Goes Mysterious
for Agatha Christie’s
Birthday
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) bestselling author, having sold
Submitted at 9/15/2010 8:54:55 AM more than 2 billion copies of her
books in 44 languages (puts Stieg
Today’s Google logo (or Google Larsson’s success on the Kindle
Doodle, as the company calls its in perspective, doesn’t it?).
everchanging logo) is one of the Google often highlights famous
most elaborate we’ve seen: It’s a writers with its logo; it even had a
m u r d e r s c e n e w i t h o n e o f series of UFO-related doodles
Google’s o’s depicting a lady celebrating the work of famous
lying dead in the middle of a science fiction author H.G. Wells.
room full of other characters. The logo is currently visible in
But who’s the murderer: the the UK, Ireland, and several other
butler, the elegantly attired countries, but not in the U.S. To
woman, the gentleman, or the see it, click here.
stable boy? There’s only one More About: Agatha Christie,
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The Sharon Statement and the Growth of

Conservatism
Matthew Kuchem (The “conservative” in those years, but
Foundry: Conservative Policy he word and, more importantly,
News.) the movement are now far-
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:06:07 AM reaching.
Posted September 15th, 2010 at YAF’s success is not solely
10:06am in First Principles Print attributable to its individual
This Post leaders or particular victories, but
Fifty years ago in Sharon,
Connecticut, a group of crack
conservative leaders developed
to its dedication to the core
principles of the Sharon
Statement—and of America. The
Islam’s
The Sharon Statement and formed
Young Americans for
conservative movement cannot
hope for success apart from that Burning
Freedom(YAF). The succinct same commitment to its core
statement of these teens and
twenty-somethings encapsulated
principles.
Matthew Kuchem is currently a
Rage
the chief truths of America: member of the Young Leaders Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
freedom of the individual, limited Program at the Heritage
government, the free enterprise stories. modern conservative movement Foundation. For more information
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:45:42 PM

system, strong national defense, The conservative movement to the principles of the American on interning at Heritage, please
and the genius of the Constitution. continued to grow since the founding. While the Sharon visit: http://www.heritage.org/ In this supposedly enlightened,
A r m e d w i t h t h e S h a r o n signing of the Sharon Statement, statement focuses upon the about/departments/ylp.cfm modern world of ours, many
Statement, the Young Americans and conservatives continue to outworkings of liberty and self- This entry passed through the people take a perverse pride in
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territory. Besides launching their guidance. Earlier this year, a Statement harkens back to the your content and you're reading it beliefs that other people hold
new publication, The New Guard coalition of conservative leaders Declaration of Independence and on someone else's site, please read dear. Judaism and Christianity are
and successfully fighting liberals s i g n e d T h e M o u n t V e r n o n to the basis of human freedom: our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ among the most popular targets of
in academia, they took the Statement, named after the home the laws of nature and nature’s content-only/faq.php today’s iconoclasts, embodied in
communists head on. YAF out- o f A m e r i c a ’ s f i r s t h e r o o f God. Five Filters featured article: the stupidity of Andres Serrano’s
demonstrated them at the White freedom, George Washington. These core ideas coupled with Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- “ Piss Christ” through the deadly
House, thwarted an American The Mount Vernon Statement youthful energy have become a Reporting of Falluja's Cancer serious Zionist conspiracy
manufacturer’s trading with echoes the same fundamental powerful force for good in Catastrophe. theories that permeate the highest
Communist Romania, and held a p r i n c i p l e s t h a t t h e S h a r o n America. Although the principles levels of the United Nations. Yet,
successful national signature drive Statement enumerated half a have not altered since 1960, the somehow Jews and Christians
that helped shoot down the century ago. endure these slings and arrows,
political landscape certainly has. remaining confident and secure in
nuclear test ban treaty in 1963. More importantly, it grounds the People rarely used the word
And those are just a few of the their faith in spite of the insults.
At the other end of the spectrum,
we have one major religion in the
world so terribly insecure about
itself that it cannot bear the
ISLAM’S page 91
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The Obamacare Inquisitions continued from page 90

slightest provocation, no matter to set off a firestorm of righteous

Michelle Malkin (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) how obscure or tenuous the indignation. The fact that this one
source is. Rather than holding that book, and only this book, could
Submitted at 9/14/2010 11:10:53 PM religion – Islam – accountable for provoke such a ludicrously
maintaining a skin so thin that it disproportionate reaction ought to
Health and Human Services encroaches upon the freedoms it tell us much more about the
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is supposedly hold so dear, the Left people who believe in that book
just the latest creepy keeper of the continues to enable a hyper- than it does about the people who
Obamacare enemies list. The sensitive Muslim worldview. question its authenticity and
White House has been keeping According to the Left, Muslims authority. Bible burnings, for
tabs on individual and corporate are a particularly aggrieved part example, are not uncommon. Last
critics of the federal health care of the victim class and thus the year an equally obscure preacher
takeover for more than a year. It regular rules of public discourse in North Carolina announced his
started with the health czar’s do not apply when they express intention to burn copies of the
Internet Snitch Brigade. their grievances. History tells us Christian Holy Book on
Remember? that leftists aren’t doing anyone Halloween. The United States has
Last August, the White House any good, not Muslims and officially confiscated and burned
Office of Health Reform called on certainly not the civilized world, Bibles in Afghanistan. Such
its ground troops to report on by according Islam this special incidents didn’t result in
fellow citizens who talked smack status. Christians storming the streets,
about the Democratic plan. Team The firestorm of controversy that howling in outrage or threatening
Obama issued an all-points surrounded the ultimately violence. Such plans were instead
bulletin on the taxpayer-funded unrealized plans of an obscure met with a shrug, because the
White House website soliciting Florida pastor to burn a few faithful were confident enough to
informant e-mails: video singling out conservative o n l y i m a g i n e t h e l e v e l o f
copies of the Qur’an was truly say that such misguided actions
“There is a lot of disinformation Internet powerhouse Matt Drudge. justifiable outrage had your remarkable, without any analog in ultimately don’t matter.
about health insurance reform out W h y ? B e c a u s e h i s w e b s i t e predecessor asked Americans to the modern world. If Terry Jones
there, spanning from control featured a video compilation of forward e-mails critical of his had announced an intention to put
of personal finances to end of life Obama and other Democrats — in policies to the White House.” The any other book in the world to the
care. These rumors often travel their own words — exposing the flagging operation was shut down, torch, no one would have taken
just below the surface via chain “public option” as a Trojan Horse b u t a p l e t h o r a o f f e d e r a l any notice, much less threatened
e m a i l s o r t h r o u g h c a s u a l for government-run health care disclosure exemptions protect the
conversation. Since we can’t keep and the elimination of private Obama administration from
track of all of them here at the industry. revealing what was collected, who
White House, we’re asking for The Obama dog whistle rang out was targeted and what was done
your help. If you get an email or loud and clear: Report online w i t h t h e “ f i s h y ” d a t a b a s e
see something on the web about dissidents immediately. information.
health insurance reform that Calling on the White House to In February, the White House
s e e m s f i s h y , s e n d i t t o cease and desist, GOP Sen. John coordinated a demonization
flag@whitehouse.gov.” Cornyn pointed out that “these campaign against Anthem Blue
T h e n - h e a l t h c z a r o f f i c e actions taken by your White C r o s s i n C a l i f o r n i a f o r
spokeswoman Linda Douglass House staff raise the specter of a r a i s i n g r a t e s .
appeared in an accompanying data collection program. … I can
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Top 10 Twitter Tips for Bands, By Bands
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/15/2010 9:18:22 AM
Listen up, bands: Twitter is more
than just a place to wax poetic
from the tour bus and gripe about
broken guitar strings (and/or
dreams) — it can also help you
promote your music and connect
with your fans.
While you don’t have to go all
Kanye with your Twitter stream,
hooking up to the micro-blogging
site can add a whole new
dimension to your act.
We talked to a ton of bands —
from up-and-comers like The
Limousines, to indie darlings like
The Thermals, to established
artists like Pete Yorn and Ben
Folds — about how they use
Twitter, and compiled the
following list of tips and tricks.
Got some more clever musical
uses for Twitter? Be sure to share
your pro tips in the comments
below. 1. Build a Fan Base
So you’re just about to burst on
the scene, showering the populace
with your synth-heavy, electropop
goodness. How do you go about
capturing the attention of those
who will make or break you: your
future fanbase?
According to Brian Levine,
manager and social media
consultant for the emerging act
Bananas for Mowgli, “Up and
coming bands with little to no
released music are able to take
advantage of Twitter by aligning
themselves with artists who share
a similar fan base or aesthetic.
First thing you should do is start
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following these people as well as “Twitter Czar” as Westin Glass of Twitter-organized shows by the
the most relevant taste makers in The Thermals deems himself. If local authorities before rocking
your genre or ’scene’ if you will. fans can tell you’re having fun via out. 7. Retain Your Independence
Use Twitter management tools to your tweets, they’re much more When you’re in the public eye,
expand your network and be in apt to engage with you (and attend most of what you say and do goes
the right circles.” shows, buy records, join a cult in through a kind of filter, which
That’s what Levine is doing right your name, etc.). makes it hard to retain some
now for Bananas for Mowgli, “Last May, when we were doing measure of indie cred. Remember
whose debut album drops on our spring tour, we were posting Hanson? The teen pop group from
October 26. 2. Collaborate on our Twitter and we were just 1997 who took the world by storm
Do you follow some awesome going crazy on there,” Glass says. with their jam “MMMBop?” Of
band on Twitter that you would “One of us would be sitting in the course you do. Don’t front. We all
kill to jam with? Why not tweet at front of the van and one of us had that tape.
“We used something called
them? It can’t hurt. You never would be sitting in the back of the Back in the day, Hanson was
‘Tweet for a Track,’” he says.
know who’s going to be down to van and we’d be just like just signed to Mercury Records. But
“Fans can — for the cost of one
hook up with you — especially if posting all kinds of crazy inside after Mercury got swallowed by
tweet — [get the song]. It gets
you don’t try. Eric Victorino of jokes, nicknames for all the Island Def Jam in the merger of
reposted on their Twitter to all
The Limousines was able to score people in the band. We were just PolyGram and Universal in 1998,
their followers, and they get the
a kind of collaboration with DJ trying to make each other laugh Hanson left and put out their third
single. No money changes hands,
Samantha Ronson by merely by posting all sorts of weird stuff release, Underneath, in 2004 on
but we get to reach as many
paying attention to mentions of that probably made no sense to their own label, 3cg Records.
followers as possible.” 4. Get
his band on Twitter. anyone, but people seemed to like They’ve been indie ever since,
Your Fans to Promote For You
“We keep tabs on who’s talking it…. I just post jokes and song releasing their latest album, Shout
Similar to trading a tweet for a
about [us] and who’s mentioning lyrics from ‘90s epic hit songs, It Out, this year.
tune, crowdsourcing your fans
us,” Victorino says. “Samantha pictures of Axl Rose and, I don’t “[Twitter] allows you to take out
when it comes to promotions can
Ronson and Lindsay Lohan were know, just whatever.” 6. Organize the middle man,” Taylor Hanson
also be a boon. Brian McClelland
both talking about us once, so we an Aftershow tells us. “If we had had Twitter
of He Whose Ox Is Gored told us,
just reached out to them, like, According to Jon Foreman of [back when we started], it would
“[Our Twitter following] really
‘Hey, hi.’ And from that came — Switchfoot, “The best music have moved us even more rapidly
did pick up once we started
I wouldn’t say a friendship — but happens after the show.” Foreman toward the idea that has made it
talking with people, and it’s kind
just sort of an e-mail conversation often uses Twitter to organize said possible for us to continue as a
of snowballed from there…
with her. And whenever aftershows. He merely sends out a band, which is, in part, that direct
We’ve been getting some radio
Samantha would go DJing, we’d time and location, and the crowds connection with your fans…. And
play, so we’re going to go on our
give her a new track.” 3. Trade a come running. Most of the time, with Twitter, it’s really about,
Twitter and do merch giveaways
Track For a Tweet they’re totally lo-fi, with just an ‘how do you make that
to people who call up and request
Are you a smaller band with a acoustic guitar — but the connection?’ …. It would have
a song.” Get He Whose Ox Is
pretty strong fan base? Well, use audience can number up to 500 been a really key component for
Gored’s new single, “Cloven
the hell outta them, we say — but fans. us, probably moving faster toward
Hoof” here. 5. Have a Personality
give them something in return. Recently Foreman had a run-in being independent. Because it
Yeah, your lyrics may be tight
Paul Lamontagne of Bearstronaut with the cops in Florida after they would have even further
and your beats danceable, but that
used Twitter as both a method of broke up one of his on-the-fly empowered and encouraged us by
doesn’t mean you’re socially
releasing the band’s new single, “ gigs. What’s more rock ‘n’ roll being able to communicate with
literate. Pick the wittiest member
Shannon,” [click to download] than that, really? Still, Foreman is
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Morning proactive with them, regardless of
changing label structures and
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!) Twitter desktop clients irrelevant developer kit for its popular corporate mergers.” 8. Share
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Google’s Core Products to “generate iOS applications.” In While we wouldn’t suggest
This series is brought to you by Become More Social, Says CEO other words, one of the most giving followers a flipbook of
HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G Google may not launch its social popular and advanced 3D engines your life, sometimes a picture can
phone. Only from Sprint. The network, tentatively titled Google used by console and PC video — to be totally cliche — be worth
“First to Know” series keeps you Me, by the end of this year after games will soon be used to a thousand words. “I enjoy putting
in the know on what’s happening all. We can, however, reasonably produce graphically impressive up pictures of [my] kids doing
now in the world of social media e x p e c t t h a t n e w s o c i a l iPhone, iPod touch and iPad things because it humanizes [me]
and technology. components will be added to the games. just enough with photographs
Welcome to this morning’s company’s existing line of without getting too much closer,”
edition of “First To Know,” a products and services in the near Series supported by HTC EVO Ben Folds tells us. “It’s a pretty
series in which we keep you in the future. 4G mean world out there sometimes,
Voice call logs of the minors,
know on what’s happening in the “We’re trying to take Google’s This series is brought to you by it’s kind of nice to make someone
whom he met through a
digital world. We’re keeping our core products and add a social HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G a little more human.”
technology interest group in the
eyes on three particular stories of component.” CEO Eric Schmidt phone. Only from Sprint. The Folds also includes his wife,
Seattle area.
interest today. revealed at the company’s “First to Know” series keeps you Fleur, on the action. “[Fleur] feels
In a statement to Gawker, Google
Twitter Unveils New Web Zeitgeist conference on Tuesday. in the know on what’s happening like she can provide another angle
confirmed that Barksdale was
Interface “If you think about it, it’s now in the world of social media to it,” he says of his wife, who
fired “for breaking Google’s strict once ran the main newspaper in
At its press event Tuesday, obvious. With your permission, and technology.
internal privacy policies.”
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“Crash the Super Bowl” contest,
weeks. quality can get better,” he added. search, social media, twitter “We’re actually going to make a
Pepsico is once again inviting
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• Epic Games announced that the Everyone loves a good contest —
-rich interface “effectively makes Gtalk chat transcripts and Google
it combines fierce, tooth-and-nail
competition with prizes. What
could be better than that? If
you’re edging up to an album
release or a tour, a contest can be
a great way to drum up some
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drops on September 28. “So I was was a lot of anticipation around it folds, earlybird, hanson, music,
like, ‘Make a poster everyone, it and the fact that they were doing a pete yorn, social media, taylor
will be fun.’ It’s cool that people live stream on YouTube and hanson, the thermals, twitpic,
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is still under contract to the
offered solely by AT&T. I also
don't like the fact that the iPhone
is only three years old and there
are at least seven versions of it
available. None of operate well on
their current server. This is the
primary reason customers are
using the option not to buy the
iPhone. The iPhone 4 hasn't been
available but a few months and
has already been recalls on the
device because of antenna
problems and signal strength.
While competitors have leased
smart phones with few problems
because they take the time to
research and fix problems
properly. My suggestion stop
releasing product that is faulty
and develop smart phones that are
durable. My one big issue with
AT&T is why can't customers get
better service. It seems to me that
with the millions being paid to
AT&T annually they could build
better towers to increase signal
strength to lessen the irritation of
dropped calls in coverage areas.
My last issue on this subject at
this. Why release new versions of
the iPhone with only minor
improvements from its
predecessor? In my opinion this
seems wasteful especially since
each iPhone is valued at around
$200/$400 just for the device not
to mention the monthly contract
somewhere between $100/$150 to
use the device. My point being for
that kind of money I want quality
customer service from both the
cell phone designer and the
service provider. Report Abuse
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minutes ago I love my iPhone 4. I
upgraded from the 2nd version
though. If you have the 3rd then
don't bother because it's not that
different. As for other phones, I
played on my dad's Droid for a
few hours trying to set him up
with apps and such. I found my
iPhone to be more user friendly (I
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