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Engineers rappel on Washington Monument to see quake damage

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Pakistan turns to China as ties with U.S. suffer Reuters

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WASHINGTON (AP) Engineers have begun attaching ropes to the top of the Washington Monument that they will use to rappel down the structure to check for cracks and other damage. By Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images The first of several highly specialized survey inspectors climbs atop the 555-foot Washington Monument to check for quake damage. By Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images The first of several highly specialized survey inspectors climbs atop the 555-foot Washington Monument to check for quake damage. [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content]
One engineer was seen emerging from a hatch at the top of the 555foot (170-meter) monument Tuesday. The exterior inspection of the monument is expected to last five days. It is part of a thorough assessment of damage caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the nation's capital on Aug. 23. The quake caused several cracks to form in the monument. Stones, mortar and other debris fell from its interior and exterior, and the elevator sustained damage. The monument has been closed to visitors since the earthquake, and there is no timetable for reopening it or completing repairs. Copyright 2011 The Associated [unable to retrieve full-text content] [unable to retrieve full-text content]
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Reuters Pakistan turns to China as ties with U.S. suffer Reuters Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks with China's Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu during their meeting at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad September 27, 2011. By John Chalmers and Chris Allbritton ISLAMABAD (Reuters)... Pakistan, China Hold High-level Security Talks Voice of America Pakistan turns to China as ties with US suffer Reuters India Pakistan vows support to China in terror fight San Francisco Chronicle Daily News & AnalysisAssociated Press of Pakistan all 383 news articles
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Border bill would expand Homeland Security powers

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Submitted at 9/26/2011 8:34:03 PM
By John S. Adams, USA TODAY Updated HELENA, Mont. Border security or federal land grab? 2007 photo by Robin Loznak, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune The Port of Sweetgrass in Montana borders Alberta, Canada. 2007 photo by Robin Loznak, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune The Port of Sweetgrass in Montana borders Alberta, Canada. That question is driving a heated debate over a controversial bill to give the Department of Homeland Security sweeping authority over federal lands within 100 miles of the U. S. border. The proposed National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act would let the agency waive 36 federal environmental protection laws in the name of better border patrols on public lands. Supporters say it would help U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents secure the nation's borders. Opponents say it would give
Homeland Security unchecked authority to disregard major environmental laws covering wilderness areas, national parks and wildlife refuges. Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg, one of 49 Republican co-sponsors of the measure, said: "The simple idea of the bill is to provide the border patrol with the same access on federal land that it currently has on state and private land. There is nothing about this bill that creates any new authority to intrude into the lives of Americans." Critics, including Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., say the bill would grant the federal government overreaching powers. "It's a federal land grab at its worst," Tester said. "I just can't see how any lawmaker would think it's a good idea to allow the Department of Homeland Security to make sweeping decisions about our land and ignore our rights without any public accountability." The bill would give the secretary of Homeland Security authority over federal lands within 100 miles of the U.S. international and
maritime borders for "activities that assist in securing the border (including access to maintain and construct roads, construct a fence, use vehicles to patrol and set up monitoring equipment)." The measure also waives the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the National Park Service Organic Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the National Historic Preservation Act and the Clean Air Act. Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler said the agency does not comment on the specifics of pending legislation. Kim Thorsen, deputy assistant secretary for law enforcement, security and emergency management at the U.S. Department of Interior, testified to
the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands that the Obama administration opposes the measure. "We believe that these two objectives securing our borders and conserving our federal lands are not mutually exclusive," Thorsen said in written testimony. "We can and should do both." Thorsen said the bill could cause "unintended damage to sensitive natural and cultural resources, including endangered species and wilderness." Zack Taylor, vice chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, said the core principles of border security are national security and public safety. He said no other laws including environmental protection should supersede those principles. "What has happened is the importance on the environment has come to rule everything else," Taylor said in an interview . "In our view, the people are more important than the porcupine or the wolverine or the wolf or the
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Shanghai subway trains crash; hundreds injured

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:46:49 AM
SHANGHAI (AP) A Shanghai subway train crashed into another that was stopped underground Tuesday, injuring more than 270 people in the latest trouble for the rapidly expanded transportation system in China's commercial center. AFP/Getty Images A family member and a rescuer, right, help a passenger out from the subway station after a train collision in Shanghai on Tuesday. AFP/Getty Images A family member and a rescuer, right, help a passenger out from the subway station after a train collision in Shanghai on Tuesday. The crash occurred after Shanghai Shentong Metro Group blogged that Line 10 was having delays due to equipment problems. The line opened last year and is one of the city's newest. At least 271 people were hurt, none seriously, said Xu Jiangguang, head of the city's health bureau. Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers, however, and 30 were being kept overnight for observation. "This is the darkest day ever for the Shanghai subway. Regardless
of the cause or responsibility, we are stricken with remorse for having caused our passengers injury and losses," the company said in an apology posted on its blog. "We want to deeply, deeply apologize." One train rammed into the back of another that was stopped between stations. Reports said problems with signaling equipment had prompted the line to switch to manual operations. The signaling equipment reportedly was the same as that used by high-speed trains that collided in July, killing 40 people and injuring 177 in a massive accident that exposed festering resentments over the huge costs of the country's massive buildup of its rail system, especially its highspeed lines. Authorities have not yet disclosed the results of an investigation into the cause of that accident, though state media cited officials as saying signaling equipment was thought to have been a key factor. Yu Guangyao, chairman of Shanghai Shentong, told reporters that Tuesday's accident also was linked to problems with signaling equipment. But he did not respond to questions over whether the equipment had also been at fault in previous less-serious accidents.
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Uncommon Knowledge Interview with Milton Friedman (Part Two)

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 2:01:00 AM
[T]he key feature of a libertarian view is that you should be free to do what you want provided you don't prevent other people from doing the same thing. And so the only case for government is when it is not feasible for market arrangements to make individuals pay, to compensate others for any harm they impose on them. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Is Obama Campaigning or Governing?

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:39:53 AM
In the negotiations leading to passage of the Budget Control Act in early August, liberals and Democrats complained that Obama was giving away too much, that he had been too conciliatory with Republicans. Obama should have been more combative and stood firm to his principles, they argued. Recently, however, Obama has been giving his liberal base what they have been asking for. With his jobs bill and deficit reduction proposals released this month, and his recent speeches, Obama has signaled that he has given up on trying to work with Republicans. I think he made it pretty clear he has chosen confrontation over compromise. He doesn't want to have negotiations any more with the congressional leaders of the Republican party. He has proposed plans he knows they are not going to pass. He's going around to all these swing states. His time negotiating with Republicans is done, A.B. Stoddard, columnist for The Hill, said on Fox News Sunday. Obama's jobs bill proposal, dubbed the American Jobs Act, was announced with much fanfare before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. His proposals included increased spending on infrastructure and schools, extending the payroll tax cut, and
a tax credit for businesses that hire new workers. Like us on Facebook At the time, Obama said that the bill would be paid for. When he announced his deficit reduction plan on Sept. 19, it turns out that his plan to pay for the bill is to have the super committee, created by the Budget Control Act, come up with a plan to pay for the bill. Many analysts consider the idea politically astute. It allows Obama to claim that his plan is paid for, but it also allows him to avoid making concrete suggestions for cutting the federal budget that could be politically unpopular. In his address to Congress, and his many stump speeches since, Obama repeatedly tells Congress to pass this bill, even as he has done little to work with Congress to pass the bill. The American Jobs Act provides a focus for his speeches as he travels the country. He can claim that he is building support for his proposal to get it passed in Congress, a legitimate presidential function. The reality, however, is that he is building support for his reelection, and there is no serious effort to pass the legislation. Obama would, obviously, like to blame Republicans for not passing his legislative proposals prior to the next election. The argument may become more difficult, however, when his own party in Congress has shown little interest in passing his proposals. Even in the Democratic-controlled Senate,
the American Jobs Act is a low priority. In yet another indication that the White House was never serious about actually passing the American Jobs Act, it never even worked with the Democratic leaders, or got their input, before announcing the proposal. Ironically, there are parts of the American Jobs Act and Obama's deficit reduction proposals that could garner Republican support. Obama has shown little interest, however, in working with Republicans any further. Obama proposed, for instance, reforming unemployment insurance based upon ideas implemented in Georgia. In a Sept. 18 interview on Fox News Sunday, House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that the plan sounds interesting and it is something that House Republicans are looking at. Both Obama and Republicans have also called for simplifying the tax code by getting rid of deductions and credits. At the same time, however, he called for additional tax credits in his jobs bill (for companies that hire veterans). Obama also asked Congress, during his jobs bill speech, to pass trade agreements with Panama, Columbia and South Korea, which is supported by most Republicans. The trade agreements cannot be voted on, however, until Obama sends them to Congress, something he has yet
to do. The agreements are also opposed by the congressional leadership of his own party House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.). The clearest indication, though, that Obama's jobs bill and deficit reduction package is designed more for his 2012 reelection campaign than an attempt to actually create jobs and reduce deficits is his much-hyped Buffett tax or millionaire's tax. Millionaires and billionaires should pay their fair share in taxes, Obama argues. The implication is that the United States does not already have a progressive tax system in which the wealthy pay a higher proportion of their wealth in taxes. Even The Washington Post, a liberal-leaning newspaper, noted that the wealthy already pay more in taxes than the poor and middle class (even after taking regressive payroll taxes into account). It may be an effective political argument, even if [taxing the wealthy more is] not really much of a problem, Glenn Kessler concluded. Obama's deficit reduction plan does not offer any details about how the millionaire's tax would actually work, which is further indication that it was designed as a stump speech rhetorical tool rather than an actual policy to be
implemented. Obama's jobs bill and deficit reduction proposals combined with his recent speeches, indicates that Obama's 2012 campaign is embarking on a new strategy to win reelection. During the debate over raising the nation's debt ceiling, Obama positioned himself as a centrist, between the Republicans and Democrats in Congress. This was similar to President Clinton's triangulation strategy that helped him win reelection in 1996. This month, however, Obama appears to have pivoted from Clinton's 1996 strategy to President George W. Bush's 2004 reelection strategy. Whereas Clinton's 1996 strategy was to gather the support of independents and moderate Republicans, Bush's 2004 strategy, masterminded by Karl Rove, was to mobilize his base Republicans and Republicanleaning independents. Bush mostly won by maximizing turnout of his base. Obama delivered a fiery speech given before the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining. Stop grumbling. Stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do, Obama proclaimed with the cadence of a black preacher. OBAMA page 11
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US Health Insurance Cost Rises Sharply, Study Finds - New York Times
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Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:52:11 AM
cost of family coverage has about doubled since 2001, when premiums averaged $7,061, By REED ABELSON Published: compared with a 34 percent gain September 27, 2011 in wages over the same period. The cost of health insurance for How much the new federal health m a n y A m e r i c a n s t h i s y e a r care law pushed by President climbed more sharply than in Obama is affecting insurance rates previous years, outstripping any remains a point of debate, with growth in workers wages and some analysts suggesting that adding more uncertainty about the insurers have raised prices in pace of rising medical costs. anticipation of new rules that A new study by the Kaiser would, in 2012, require them to Family Foundation, a nonprofit justify any increase of more than r e s e a r c h g r o u p t h a t t r a c k s 10 percent. e m p l o y e r - s p o n s o r e d h e a l t h In addition to increases caused by insurance on a yearly basis, shows insurers getting ahead of potential that the average annual premium c o s t s , s o m e o f t h e l a w s for family coverage through an provisions that are already in employer reached $15,073 in effect -- like coverage for adult 2011, an increase of 9 percent children up to 26 years of age and over the previous year. prevention services like The open question is whether mammogram screening -- have thats a one-time spike or the start contributed to higher expenses for of a period of higher increases, some employers. said Drew Altman, the chief The Kaiser survey includes both e x e c u t i v e o f t h e K a i s e r big and small companies using foundation. employer-sponsored coverage The steep increase in rates is representing about 60 percent of particularly unwelcome at a time all insured Americans of working w h e n t h e e c o n o m y i s s t i l l age. The annual growth in sputtering and unemployment premiums, according to the continues to hover at about 9 survey, had slowed in recent years percent. Many businesses cite the to 5 percent, rising just 3 percent high cost of coverage as a factor in 2010, in part due to the in their decision not to hire, and lingering effects of the recession. health insurance has become After years of double-digit increasingly unaffordable for increases, the moderation was a more Americans. Over all, the welcome relief.
The unexpected increase in premiums raises questions about whether health care costs are, in fact, stabilizing at all, as people have postponed going to the doctor or dentist and have put off expensive procedures. No one quite knows, said Mr. Altman. Throughout this year, major health insurers have defended higher premiums and higher profits saying that their expenses would rise once the economy recovered and people believed they could again afford medical care. The struggling economy will probably keep suppressing demand for medical care, particularly as people pay a larger share of their own medical bills through higher deductibles and co-payments, according to benefits consultants and others. About three-quarters of workers now pay part of the bill when they go see a doctor, and nearly a third have a deductible of at least $1,000 if they have single coverage, up from just one in 10 in 2006, according Kaiser. Although demand for care appears to be growing relatively slowly, insurers and benefit consultants also say prices for medical care continue to climb as prescription drug makers and hospitals charge more. If theyre a popular brand or anchor hospital, theyre going to
negotiate a significant increase if they can, said Edward A. Kaplan, a benefits expert with the Segal Company, which recently surveyed insurers about medical costs. The question for employers and insurers is whether the lackluster economy, as well as recent efforts by employer and insurers to better manage the medical care of workers, will keep premiums increasing at a more moderate level. Early responses to a survey by Mercer, a consulting firm, suggest employers are expecting the cost of providing health benefits to go up about 5 percent next year, according to Beth Umland, Mercers director of research for health and benefits. These companies may be factoring in the more pessimistic view of the economy, she said, where any recovery seems further off than it did a few months ago. Employers are reporting that their workers are using less medical care, said Ms. Umland, but they and insurers have been slow to estimate costs that reflect the lower demand. It always takes a while for underwriting to catch up with reality, she said. Some small business say they expect their premiums to moderate, but only because of changes in their work force partly caused by younger,
healthier employees that make it less likely that the companies will incur high medical claims. Up until last year, we saw very hefty increases -- double digits, said Heather Gombos, an executive for R. M. Jones & Company and affiliated businesses in New Britain, Conn. , a group that insures about 50 of its 80 employees. Family coverage is now running $12,000 a year, Ms. Gombos said, and she is waiting to see what rate increases her insurer proposes for the coming year. She thinks premiums will not rise as sharply in 2012. What it comes down to is weve had some good luck, she said. Some businesses say they anticipate relief from higher costs in the coming year for a variety of reasons. At Ogilvy & Mather, the New York advertising firm, the company believes its efforts to encourage wellness and better oversee its employees health through an on-site medical clinic are paying off. "We are not anticipating any cost increase for employer and employee," said Gerri Stone, the senior partner who oversees the firms benefits strategy. Ms. Stone acknowledged that the firms 3,600 employees were HEALTH page 10
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Greece On the Eve of Destruction

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 2:01:00 AM
Things are not looking good for Greece. It teeters on the edge of a catastrophic sovereign default on its $483 billion in government debt. The analysts are all saying hours or days now, instead of days or weeks. Even the more optimistic estimates can only push doomsday back to mid-October. Some of those analysts believe the financial collapse of Greece is inevitable. Bloomberg Businessweek quotes former British central banker Howard Davies saying, Its too late for Greece the Greek situation is tumbling out of hand, and I suspect Greece will not be able to avoid a substantial default. In order to bring its massive debt under control, the Greek government has implemented a number of austerity measures, which the New York Times describes as the dismantling of a middle-class welfare state in real time with nothing to replace it. Taxes have been increased, pensions and state salaries have been cut, and government employees have lost their jobs. The Greek population has not taken these measures very well. The Associated Press describes a rising tide of austerity strikes and ugly demonstrations: Athens metro, tram and suburban rail workers held a 24-hour strike, while buses and trolleys were to stop operating for several hours.
Airline passengers also faced delays as traffic controllers implemented work-to-rule action, refusing to work overtime. A 48hour strike by all transport workers is expected later this week. Greek police held their own protest, with the Special Guards unit hanging a giant black banner from the top of Lycabettus Hill in the capital reading "Pay day, day of mourning." [] Hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital's central Syntagma Square on Sunday night, scuffling briefly with police who pushed them back with truncheons and small amounts of tear gas. When your problem is insufficient Gross Domestic Product growth to cover social costs, general strikes might not be the wisest means of expressing displeasure but the hopelessly dependent population of Greece doubtless feels they have no other way to influence the government they have become entirely dependent on. Heres a little slice-of-life vignette of socialist collapse from the New York Times: Sitting in the modest living room of the home she shares with her parents, husband and two teenage children, Stella Firigou fretted about how the family would cope with the uncertainties of an economy crashing all around them. But she was adamant about one thing: she would not pay a
new property tax that was the centerpiece of a new austerity package announced this month by the Greek government. Im not going to pay it, Ms. Firigou, 50, said matter-of-factly, as she lighted a cigarette and checked her ringing cellphone to avoid calls from her bank about late payments on a loan. I cant afford to pay it. They can take me to jail. Ms. Firigou would probably consider it extremely impolite to ask how much shes spending on cigarettes, and the cell phone she uses to dodge her bill collectors. Thats how the spiritual degeneration of dependency works: youre entitled to various things, which are completely off the table when it comes time to discuss austerity. The money to pay your benefits is supposed to come from somebody else. How dare the government ask you to chip in! Later in the article, we learn that Firigou is a clerk at the local town hall, so it probably wont be hard for the government that provides her salary to find her, after she makes good on her threat to refuse paying the tax they have dared to demand. Of course, if enough people refuse to pay up, there might not be enough non-striking police left to arrest them. Another tax is supposed to be implemented through electricity bills, with the power shut off for those who refuse to pay but the powerful union that represents the workers
of the public power company has said it will refuse to cooperate, jeopardizing its implementation. This is how rotted civilizations collapse. The central premise of socialism is that the government can most wisely allocate resources to achieve the maximum social good. Americans receive regular doses of this thinking from their current President and his party. Greece is the inevitable final disintegration of that hollow promise, in which there is no longer any talk of allocation. Instead, the air is filled with angry non-negotiable demands. Greeks were told for generations that they deserved all sorts of things from their government. They listened, and made it politically impossible to do anything about austerity back in the days when it wouldnt have been quite as agonizing to implement it. When the State controls the economy hiring huge numbers of people, guaranteeing vast pensions, and promising elaborate welfare benefits everything goes bankrupt at once. There is no gradual process of individual companies realizing that their business models arent working, or their benefit plans are unsustainable. There are no little failures that could warn of greater danger to come. There are no small austerities to help the populace understand the true value of their labor, and undertake the difficult process of seeking out genuine opportunity, where
labor can be sold to those who truly value it. Lifestyles are not gradually adjusted when benefits are guaranteed in perpetuity. One day, it all stops working, all at once. Greece will stop working any day now, with consequences ranging from horrifying social unrest at home, to a series of financial dominoes falling throughout the Eurozone it has been plugged into a gigantic international money machine that looks like it might stop working all at once. Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said last week, People justifiably think the crisis is what were living now: cuts in wages, pensions and incomes, fewer prospects for the young. Unfortunately, this isnt the crisis. This is an attempt, a difficult attempt, to protect ourselves and avert a crisis. With all due respect to Mr. Venizelos, hes wrong. This is the crisis, and its been in progress for many years now. What will arrive no later than mid-October is the climax of that crisis, and the death of a system that could not survive it. A version of the same system holds sway over every Western nation, all of whom will go on believing they can never fail like Greece until several years after they have passed the point of no return. Socialist governments never discuss their illness honestly until they have reached their deathbeds, GREECE page 12
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A Flickr Founder's Glitch: Can A Game That Wants You To Play Nice Be A Blockbuster?
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Submitted at 9/27/2011 4:06:17 PM
Stewart Butterfield says it can. A decade ago, Stewart Butterfield and a team of cohorts were building a massive multiplayer online game (MMO) called Game Neverending. But they got sidetracked with a spinoff project-the photo-hosting site Flickr-which Butterfield and his cofounder Caterina Fake, sold to Yahoo in 2005. Now Butterfield and his original team are back with a new MMO-the descendent (in philosophy if not actual design) of the first one. Launching today, its called Glitch. And while its structured like a conventional online game (there are objects and skills to acquire, and levels to move through), its actual goal is more profound: To create a world where players actually start creating their own games--and thereby get back in touch with the kind of spontaneous, imaginative game-playing that comes naturally to children on playgrounds but that gets lost in adulthood. Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting--those are some of the best parts about being alive, Butterfield tells Fast Company.
We wanted to create a space to make that possible for people. That might sound idealistic and utopian (and, if youre an East Coaster, possibly even a little dippy). But Butterfield is confident that the game his team has created will appeal to enough people that it will not just bring in players, but that it will also generate the tens of millions of
dollars in revenue needed to give his companys investors a healthy return on their investments. As with all things transformative (or at least potentially transformative), its hard to describe Glitch because it doesnt immediately correlate to anything that already exists. But heres a stab. Glitch, like many online games,
is set in an imaginary world. Players create avatars and then use those avatars to wander through the world. There are tasks to perform, and for many of those tasks, you need certain skills and objects, which you have to spend time acquiring. You accumulate points along the way, and after you earn a certain number of points, you can move up to a new
level. At the same time, however, Glitch is a world that people can live in, the way they lived (or perhaps still live) in Second Life. Players can set up homes and businesses. They can throw parties. They can even tangle with the games in-world FLICKR page 11
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The Next Smartphone Revolution: Say Hello To Your New Personal Assistants
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 4:38:31 PM
When Google revealed some improvements to Android, we were excited about how speech recognition and synthesis seemed to be buried deeply in its code-full of promise. For various reasons, including fragmentation, it's never quite emerged as a game -changer. So now Apple's taking up the torch, and if rumors prove true it's not just adding speech tech to the iPhone... it's transforming the device into something new again, starting a whole new paradigm. If it works for Apple, expect others to follow. Get ready to meet your smart personal assistant. We've wondered for a while about how Apple was going to mix Nuance speech recognition tech with its iOS devices, and how the technology it acquired when it bought Siri(the firm behind an artificially inteligent assistant) would emerge. Now, courtesy of a hot tip from 9to5Mac, we know that Apple's "Assistant" is going to combine all of this tech into one powerful system, that runs throughout the upcoming iOS5--with some capabilities limited to the upcoming iPhone 5. Examples of the system include talking to your phone to set up an
alarm or reminder, requesting GPS directions using voice alone, sending text messages--basic interactivity in other words, but such that it renders the keyboard practically redundant. This is the sort of system that Google promised in Android.
And now we're seeing that Assistant has a whole other level: It also interfaces with WolframAlpha--Stephen Wolfram's "fact computer" that can intelligently understand dataspecific questions and return meaningful suggestions. This
means you could, ostensibly, ask your iPhone how many shopping days remain until Christmas, where the International Space Station is at that moment in time in its orbit, or how many Internet users are in China--and get almost instantaneous data fed back to you
from WA's computational systems. Though this sounds neat, relatively simple and perhaps handy, it's important to realize how significant a move this would be, because with billions of data NEXT page 10
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Angry, Stoned, Clueless Leftist Mobs 'Occupy Wall Street'

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 2:01:00 AM
There were hordes of naked women, the kind of chicks that should never bare it all in public. Ever. There were illegal narcotics, mostly weed. Lots and lots of weed. There were police barriers broken, fistfights with law enforcement started, and an unseemly amount of patchouli. If youre thinking, Hmm, Jason, what youre describing must be a leftist protest, you are correct. Specifically, it was the gathering of unemployed Marxist sympathizers whove descended into NYCs financial district to organize sit-ins and marches under the banner of what theyre calling Occupy Wall Street. These fight the power wannabes made headlines over the weekend for their clash with the police, with more than 80 of them getting arrested for disorderly conduct, blocking traffic, and assaulting police officers. But like most leftist demonstrations, this army of Birkenstocks has no idea what it's supposed to be protesting and why. Take the protesters' chants, for starters. Courtesy of 77 WABC, heres what residents, taxi drivers, and tourists have been accosted with over the past week: The
Banks Got Bailed Out, We Got Sold Out. Listen for yourself: Protest Chant by HumanEvents Forget for a moment that these smelly nitwits are protesting TARP (the Troubled Assest Relief Program) that was adopted nearly three years ago (a little late, fellas), and never mind that Obama did bail out the rest of us with his stimulus, ObamaCare and other budget-
busting schemes ($4 trillion in new debt later, a total failure). Imagine the poor out-of-towners who just happen to be sightseeing in lower Manhattan only to encounter a gaggle of clipped-hair women sporting oversized midriffs and topless chests, spouting off mindless mantras. Welcome to the Big Apple! When I say these protesters really have no clue whats going on in reality, I mean it. Also courtesy
of 77 WABC, many of the demonstrators were asked what exactly they object to. Im not really sure. But then again, neither are they: Im here to help people ask the question, What are the ties between the monetary, financial and political systems of the whole world? exclaimed one dude. Were here to take back the company, er, country from the nations top 1% wealthiest
citizens, barked another. They bailed out the banks. They sold out the people! said one hemp lover. Listen and laugh! But dont laugh too hard. These people are eligible to vote. Sigh. Why Are You At 'Occupy Wall Street'? by HumanEvents It would be one thing if these organic granola crunchers were protesting all the bailouts and outof-control spending that has us drowning in red ink. But theyre not. In a Michael Moore-esque fashion, theyre picketing capitalism as the main culprit of our financial woes, oblivious to the fact that free markets and the Wall Street bailouts are not even in the same universe. In fact, this hopscotching B.O. brigade wants even more government spending, not less. One of the groups principles of solidarity includes a shout-out to collective responsibility, which is code for demanding that we subsidize every leftist pet project. Then theres the other plank that promises to fight against all forms of oppression, whatever that means. Truth be told, if these funky flower children were concerned about the economy and America becoming a bailout nation, theyd ANGRY, page 14
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points in WA and a smart voiceinterface, the iPhone becomes almost like a computer from a previously unseem future. Or maybe a science fiction story. As an example, check out the video of an interaction Arthur C. Clarke imagined between programmer Dr. Chandra and his SAL9000 computer: [ y o u t u b e 4UQvQvu8eL0#t=1m39s] Sources inside Apple are also suggesting that the way Assistant is coded means it can handle an almost conversational chat-essentially answering back to clarify data in the way SAL does in the clip above, perhaps to check which number for a contact to send an SMS to, or to verify which street name you're asking GPS directions to. We also think that voice controls are going to be integrated throughout the OS, so in theory you could ask your iPhone for a piece of data, then initiate a Skype call to a contact to discuss your thoughts, then compose an email to another contact...all just by talking. Which means your smartphone has become a genuine, semi-intelligent artificial personal assistant. As well as changing how you use the device as a typical consumer, this has all sorts of implications for business
users, particularly those who are habitually on the road. And remember that RIM is currently facing massive criticism for being fuddy-duddy and slow to adopt new technology in its enterprisefacing BlackBerry devices, with their keyboard-centric design. Picture what this capability may do for enterprise sales of the iPad 3 in early 2012. According to some technical thinking, many of these capabilities will be reserved for the upcoming iPhone 5, because it's said to have a much bigger onchip memory available for the processor (sporting 1GB of RAM instead of 512MB) and this is essential for it to handle the audio -processing and data-shunting that this voice-centric system will demand. But other news says that Nuance, the firm behind the crowd-sourced voice recognition tech that Apple's adopting, is opening up developer access to its core speech recognition systems for free, meaning that many apps may quickly integrate speech controls--and this may be possible on older iPhones, because Nuance's system relies on shooting audio samples off to the cloud to process. Apple is making good on decades of thought and promise, from its Knowledge Navigator concept
and even the too-early-to-market Newton device. Meanwhile, where Apple dots fresh footprints on a new technology beach, others follow the trail. Google's Android OS has, according to recent analysis, achieved a new success and grown so rapidly that over the last three months in the U.S. 56% of smartphones activated were Android powered, twice that of Apple's stable 28% share. Google is sure to follow Apple's lead into speech recognition to keep its devices competitive, and Androidpartnered firms like Samsung (which has a broad research history, including robotics) have already got varying degrees of speech recognition experience. All of which means that soon your smartphone will be much smarter than you thought, and you'll interact with it in ways that you never dreamed possible, much more than merely using it to speak to someone over the phone lines. Isn't it about time we renamed the things? "Phone" is becoming anachronistic. [Image: Flickr user br1dotcom] Chat about this news with Kit Eaton on Twitter and Fast Company too.
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relatively young and healthy, helping it avoid some of the sharp increases experienced by other businesses. "Weve never gone into the double digits," she said. Family coverage runs about $16,000 a year, she said. Insurers and benefits consultants say, however, it is difficult to predict whether health care demand will again take off when the economy rebounds or whether some other factor is at play. "Weve seen a moderation in the increase in health services, particularly in discretionary services," said Tom Richards, an executive with Cigna. While he attributes some of the moderation to the poor economy, he says the increase in cost-sharing by employees and programs that more closely monitor their health could be having a more permanent impact. The question, he said, is "what is the economy going to be and what is the new normal." Obama administration officials argue that new regulations are forcing insurers to be more circumspect about raising rates. Insurers seeking to raise premiums next year by more than the 10 percent maximum will have to publicly justify their rate increases, and the new law requires the companies to spend at least 80 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums on medical care. If they end up taking too
much in premiums, they will have to refund the money to consumers. But employers and others say much more still needs to be done to control overall costs, especially when workers wages are essentially flat. Of the $15,073 in average premiums paid for family coverage, Kaiser found that employees paid $4,129 towards the cost, in addition to whatever out-of-pocket costs they shouldered. Were going to continue to have this yawning gap, said Helen Darling, the chief executive of the National Business Group on Health, which represents employers that provide health coverage to their workers. Health care costs continue to climb much faster than overall inflation, she noted. The health economy acts as if its a boom economy, she said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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administrative bureaucracy (where Glitchs clever designers sometimes have civil servants playing FarmVille on government computers). And once people understand how the world works, they can even start hacking it to advance their own goals or create their own pseudo-games. In that sense, theres a Burning Man element to Glitch as well. We provide the raw materials and a stimulating environment, but its the players who bring the infinite world alive, shaping it with their imagination, Butterfield says. And also as with Burning Man, if youve never been inside Glitch before, its easy to think the place could get boring quickly, once the novelty wore off. (And there certainly will be a novelty factor-Glitchs mini-worlds are so gorgeously rendered that its worth it to dive in just to take a look around.) But apparently theres something about it that is connecting with players. About 27,000 people plunged into the game during the beta test, which started in April. And those players played an average of a little more than 21 hours over five months. Butterfield will have to ensure that user engagement remains
high if hes going to make the necessary returns for the Silicon Valley heavyweights--including Marc Andreessen, Accel Partners, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, former Groupon COO and Yahoo executive Rob Solomon, and Google+ product chief Bradley Horowitz--who have tossed almost $18 million at Tiny Speck, the parent company that is producing Glitch. Unlike many online games, especially those produced by FarmVille parent Zynga, Glitch doesnt sell virtual goods (like tractors or swords) inside the game to make money. I think its burning people out on a lot of those games, Butterfield says. Instead, Glitch will make money from selling outfits with which to decorate your avatar. It will also sell subscriptions, which give players access to a wider selection of outfits from which to choose. The idea that a game could make tens of millions of dollars off selling outfits seems preposterous until you remember that the business model behind many social games acknowledges that the key to success is not about getting everyone to fork over a certain amount of cash but rather to create things that the small proportion of users who shell out
vastly disproportionate amounts of money would want to buy. (On the other hand, those "superwhales," as they're called, also are often buying things that let them advance more quickly through the games, which is not an option in Glitch.) But the major key to Glitchs success, Butterfield says, will be to maintain World of Warcraftstyle engagement levels (some WoW players have been playing for years). And that will depend on whether the game hes created, which is about creating a space for other people to make up their own games, will actually resonate with players. Its possible it will. The penultimate goal in any game is referred to as the end-game. In a game like World of Warcraft, its often about conquering an opposing group or slaying a final creature. But in Glitch, Butterfield says, the people who get to the highest levels tend to do a lot of things for the lowest level players, kind of like potlatch culture. E.B. Boyd is FastCompany.com's Silicon Valley reporter. Twitter| Google+| Email
Liberal commentator Juan Williams agreed that Obama was in full campaign mode at the event in a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday. He's in the pulpit, he's before a black audience last night, and that's what they wanted. There's President Obama throwing red meat to the liberal base, and the reason he's doing it is because they are convinced on the left and at the White House the president has been fooled, he's been suckered. He's tried to negotiate and has run into total obstinacy from the Republicans. President Obama felt he had to appeal to independents by showing that he can be bipartisan and then he comes up looking like he got taken. So, the base wants him to fight, to be more aggressive, and that's what he's doing now. Stoddard thinks, however, that would be a bad reelection strategy. If the president doesn't get back to the table with House Speaker John Boehner and find a path to meaningful entitlement reform, which he was invested in in July, and has now abandoned, and really find a way to come up with a big deal, it will be very hard for him to convince Americans that he did everything he could next Spring, Summer and Fall and get reelected."
Obama supporters want to march, but they don't want to march to bipartisan cooperation when they see the president having to give up so much in pursuit of getting Republicans on board, Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said on ABC's This Week on Sunday. With Obama's approval rating hovering in the low 40's ( according to Gallup), his path to reelection is looking increasingly more narrow. Obama's campaign strategists may have calculated that the winning a few key states, such as Ohio, Florida and Nevada, has the greatest chance of success. And to do that, Obama needs his base liberals, young people, blacks and Latinos to turn out in high numbers. C o n t a c t : napp.nazworth@christianpost.co m This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The Romney campaign plans to enhance Ann Romneys role on the campaign trail starting next month, according to The Associated Press. This is good news for her fans. On Ann Romneys Facebook page, admirers are already calling her the "future first lady, saying, "She is a role model for young people in America." But the extent of Romneys involvement in her husbands campaign is questionable. Although Ann Romney has been through one presidential bid with her husband before, health problems seem to threaten her involvement in the 2012 race. On her 2007 website, Ann Romney, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, described her early experiences with the disease as a series of unexplainable trips, stumbles and
bumps. However, she managed her symptoms well enough to become a fixture in Mitt Romney's 2008 campaign. Following the election, she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. According to a press statement, Ann Romney underwent a lumpectomy. Still, Mitt and Ann Romney both confirm that she is "healthy. Ann Romney still has MS, but manages it through a combination of traditional and eastern medicines, Mitt said. As for the campaign, Mitt Romney said his wife was more excited to rejoin the campaign trail than he was. "She's convinced I gotta run," he told CNN in a February interview. Like us on Facebook Campaign advisers are also convinced that Ann Romney's influence can boost Mitts campaign. Mitt Romney is currently trailing frontrunner Texas Gov. Rick
Perry in the polls. Unlike Romney, Perry is an evangelical who touts his blue collar, working class roots. Ann Romney hopes that she can help people see her husband as more than a wealthy businessman. "The personal side; for me that's a very important role that I can fill trying to explain how we function as a family and how he is as a person," she told a GoUpstate video blogger. Some, however, have been critical of her earlier efforts. There was pushback after Mitt Romney appeared at a NASCAR racing event wearing a Bass Pro shirt and Gap skinny jeans purchased by wife Ann. "It's sort of contrived," says Brendan Steinhauser, a leading organizer for Tea Party group FreedomWorks. "I've seen the whole flying Southwest thing. It's just not believable." Ann Romney does, however, do a convincing job portraying Mitt
Romney as a great caregiver, husband and family man to social conservatives. Speaking of her husband's response to her MS diagnosis, Ann Romney told CNN, "I know Mitt as a person, a very good person. I've also seen him as a leader. I, for one, would like for him to lead this country, as president of the United States." Be the first of thousands of iPosters by sharing your news, views, and analysis. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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because it involves using unpleasant medical terminology, such as austerity. At this very moment, the Democrat Party in the United States is threatening to shut down the government because they dont want to make offsetting spending cuts for disaster relief funding. That
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce are partnering to give small businesses a leg up. As part of this Submitted at 9/27/2011 4:01:44 PM deal, Facebook will give out $10 Breaking news from your Fast million in free ads to 200,000 Company editors, with updates all small business starting in 2012, as day. announced on its Marketing page. Apple Event October 4. Apple Participating firms will also have has just sent out an invitation to access to a database of press to come to its event, "educational" resources to help suggesting it wants to "talk connect with customers (and iPhone." The event will happen at friends) and build their brand base Apple's Cupertino campus, as in many ways, including, not expected, and is scheduled for surprisingly, on Facebook itself. 10AM local time. --KE NS Google celebrates its 13th Before Tablet Release, Publishers birthday with a cake with 13 Back Amazon. Meredith, Hearst, candles on a Google Doodle. and Conde Nast have signed on to YouTube To Get Scheduled distribute their publications on Channels. YouTube will get Amazon's upcoming tablet, premium content on scheduled AllThingsD reports. According to channels starting in 2012. sources, the deals look a lot like Y o u T u b e a n d G o o g l e a r e the app ready for months, but division is profoundly disagreeing company made to distinguish the t h o s e w o r k e d o u t b e t w e e n finalizing contracts for the waited for the limelight...and this with the earlier statement, which device from its existing e-ink- publishers and Apple for the iPad. content, which will be showcased has prompted developer Jeff may have been responsible for a based e-readers, and yet still Content will look similar, with under categories like sports and Verkoyen to flee Facebook for slight drop in Apple's stock price. keeping aligned with the brand some tweaks and twists for the 7fashion, the Wall Street Journal Google, in disdain at the treatment Other thinkers suggest that even if image. Other sources, leaking at inch Amazon device, expected to of his code. --KE Apple is slowing Eastern iPad the same time, suggest that in be unveiled on Wednesday. --NS reports. --NS Analyst Confusion Over iPad. orders, it may be because its new format it'll look a lot like the --Updated 5:30 a.m. EST --Updated 10:00 a.m. EST Facebook iPad App Due At J.P. Morgan is in disarray after an Brazil-based Foxconn affiliate is Playbook. --KE Yesterday's Fast Feed: Jay-Z --Updated 7:00 a.m. EST Apple Event. The long-awaited Asia-based analyst with the on-stream. --KE Renaming NJ Nets?, Netflix Signs Facebook To Give Out $10 DreamWorks, Google+ Hangouts official Facebook iPad app is now company yesterday alleged Apple Kindle Fire: Amazon's Android was slashing iPad orders by 25%- Tablet. Amazon's upcoming tablet Million In Free Ads. Facebook, Hit iPhone, Wall Street Protestors set to be unveiled at the upcoming Apple event, at which the iPhone - w h i l e r e t a i n i n g i t s s a l e s is now reported as being called t h e N a t i o n a l F e d e r a t i o n o f Go Mobile, and more. 5 is expected. Facebook has had expectations. Now the U.S. the Kindle Fire--a decision the Independent Businesses, and the
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Washington Monument Closed 'Indefinitely' After Quake Damage

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(Reuters/Gary Hershorn) The White House is seen with the Washington Monument (L) behind it and the Jefferson Memorial (R) in Washington, May 1, 2011. (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) Runners start near the Washington Monument as they take part in the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run during the National Cherry Blossom Festival along the Tidal Basin in Washington, April 3, 2011. In August, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake caused more damage to the monument than had previously been disclosed. Video taken by a security camera during the earthquake showed the monument shaking violently and debris falling from the structure. The scene left visitors scared and running for cover, but there were no injuries caused by the incident. A copy of the video can be seen at http://www.nps.gov/wamo/ washington-monumentearthquake-update.htm. The external damage the
be staging sit-ins from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., to protest Obamas takeover of the health-care market, which is crippling job growth, creating more dependency on Uncle Sam, and adding to an already vast national debt. The roaming reefer smokers would then vocalize their opposition to Barack Obama monument suffered during the each exterior stone. earthquake was compounded by You can tap it lightly, and the squandering our tax dollars away internal damage. Large pieces of s t o n e d e n s i t y w i l l m a k e a on scandalous green groups such stone have fallen inside the definitive sound, Dan Gach, one as Solyndra. But no. That would be monument and an elevator inside of the rappelling engineers, the building is in need of repair. explained to The Washington r e a s o n a b l e . I n s t e a d , t h e s e peacenik pretenders are picking An official with the Park Service Post. said the elevator could not ascend He said engineers use the tapping fights with our men in Blue and to the top of the 555-foot tall method to detect problems. That then wailing like babies out of the monument and is now only able to area will just sound dead, Gach womb when they get blitzed in the face with a fresh can of pepper reach the 250-foot level. said. A preliminary assessment of the Construction of the historic spray. damage revealed some cracks in monument began on July 4, 1848, Mr. Mattera is the editor of the stone that allowed water to and was completed in December HUMAN EVENTS and the author penetrate the structure when 1884. It cost a little more than of Obama Zombies: How the Hurricane Irene passed through $1million to build. More than a Liberal Machine Brainwashed My W a s h i n g t o n d a y s a f t e r t h e half-million visitors tour the earthquake. This allowed a monument each year. substantial amount of water to Be the first of thousands of enter the structure. iPosters by sharing your news, But the worst damage occurred in views, and analysis. the pyramidium, which is the This entry passed through the pyramid-shaped capstone at the Full-Text RSS service if this is top of the monument. your content and you're reading it Like us on Facebook on someone else's site, please read (TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends) Daylight is visible at a number of the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentthe vertical joints where mortar is only/faq.php#publishers. Five Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:02 PM missing, Mall superintendent Filters featured article: A 'Malign Bob Vogel told The Washington Intellectual Subculture' - George ( TrendHunter.com) Traditional Post. M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , tales of fantasy and fright are Park officials said a rappelling Herman, Peterson, Pilger And adapted for the modern world by operation will begin immediately Media Lens. and will take about five days. Engineers will be harnessed and hang from ropes while they tap on
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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has repeatedly said he is not running for president. But one of his predecessors who has known Christie for decades says he is now at least thinking about it. Former governor Tom Kean told the National Review Online that the chatter around Christie's change of heart in recent days is "real." "He's giving it a lot of thought," Kean said."I think the odds are a lot better now than they were a couple weeks ago." Christie is scheduled to speak later Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. in remarks titled "Real American Exceptionalism." The news comes as front-runner Rick Perry continues to get poor reviews for his debate performances. The Texas governor himself jumped into the race after initially saying he was not interested. The chatter of Christie run may be just that. Kean, who would like to see Christie run, may have an
Company blamed the accident on Tuesday on a signal failure,... conservative views of the party. More Than 270 Injured in China I n N e w J e r s e y , h o w e v e r , Globe and Mail Subway Crash Voice of America Christie's approval rating has risen China metro crash injures 271 Subway crash puts China's sharply since he signed into a law Sydney Morning Herald beleaguered rail system back in a dramatic revamp of pension and Two metro trains collided in spotlight Globe and Mail health benefits for state workers Shanghai, injuring more than 270 China metro crash injures more in June. people, the city government said, than 260 Herald Sun About 54 percent of voters in his just months after a deadly high- BusinessWeek s t a t e n o w a p p r o v e o f h i s speed rail crash that shocked all 755 news articles interest in stirring up talk of performance as governor, while China. The Shanghai Metro 36 percent disapprove, according presidential campaign. "He is the best speaker I may have to a poll released Tuesday by ever heard in politics," Kean told Fairleigh Dickinson University the National Review, adding "a lot PublicMind. That's a 10 point of people are not satisfied with the increase from the 44 percent approval in May, when about 44 field." Republicans are clamoring for a percent also disapproved, and the candidate who will be able to highest approval rating for energize the base and beat Christie since taking office after President Obama in a general ousting former Democratic Gov. (World Politics Review: Articles calculus in determining energy election. Erstwhile front-runner Jon Corzine in 2009. - powered by FeedBurner) sources. Mitt Romney is widely seen as This entry passed through the This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is one of the strongest Republican The proposed Keystone XL Full-Text RSS service if this is candidates in a general election, your content and you're reading it pipeline, which would bring crude your content and you're reading it but the most conservative parts of on someone else's site, please read o i l f r o m C a n a d a ' s A l b e r t a on someone else's site, please read the party are less than thrilled the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- province to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwith a candidate who was once only/faq.php#publishers. Five has in many ways become ground only/faq.php#publishers. Five g o v e r n o r o f l e f t - l e a n i n g Filters featured article: A 'Malign zero in the U.S. debate over fossil Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Massachusetts. fuels, the environment and Intellectual Subculture' - George C h r i s t i e , a s g o v e r n o r o f M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , climate change. Perhaps most M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Democratic New Jersey, may run Herman, Peterson, Pilger And relevant, though practically absent Herman, Peterson, Pilger And into the same problem with Media Lens. from the debate, is the increasing Media Lens. Republican primary voters, who awareness that energy security tend to be have the most must be included as part of the
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WASHINGTON (AP) Engineers have begun attaching ropes to the top of the Washington Monument that they will use to rappel down the structure to check for cracks and other damage. By Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images The first of several highly specialized survey inspectors climbs atop the 555-foot Washington Monument to check for quake damage. By Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images The first of several highly specialized survey inspectors climbs atop the 555-foot Washington Monument to check for quake damage. One engineer was seen emerging from a hatch at the top of the 555foot (170-meter) monument Tuesday. The exterior inspection of the monument is expected to last five days. It is part of a thorough
assessment of damage caused by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that shook the nation's capital on Aug. 23. The quake caused several cracks to form in the monument. Stones, mortar and other debris fell from its interior and exterior, and the elevator sustained damage. The monument has been closed to visitors since the earthquake, and there is no timetable for reopening it or completing repairs. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. For more
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Why Brands Like Chevy, SNY, And Sports Authority Are Getting On Board With Grassroots Marketing
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name brands like Chevrolet, SNY, Topps and Sports Authority. Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:15:16 PM Here's the interview (edited for It's not enough to plaster ads all clarity an d length): over the place to get people's What are the strengths of attention. Marketers have to grassroots marketing and why engage their customers, and one should companies bother with it? particularly powerful way to do I think the biggest thing is that it t h a t i s t h r o u g h g r a s s r o o t s cuts through the clutter of media marketing. today. You have a million But what exactly is it? websites, a thousand TV stations. It's sponsoring community People in local communities dont programs, managing local events, feel like brands reach out and sending out teams to talk to engage them, and thats what people, giving away samples and grassroots marketing does. It much more. Grassroots is all gives a company, a big brand, the about is establishing a deep opportunity to create a local feel r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h l o c a l and engage their core consumer at communities, making them aware a passion point for them. of the brand and hopefully And why is a local presence connect with it. important? And that's something most Well, thats their consumer. To traditional ads just can't do. me, thats the biggest thing. Being W e s a t d o w n w i t h M a r c able to reach out and engage with Zwerdling, president and CEO of the people in your home town Generation Z Marketing, to talk goes a long long way. If youre a about what grassroots marketing Chevrolet dealer or whoever it is, why it's important to brands may be, to be able to go out and and what it takes to execute a shake somebodys hand and say, successful campaign. Hey, if youre ever looking for a Z w e r d l i n g ' s N Y C - b a s e d new vehicle, Id love to have you company is a sports marketing come in and wed love to talk to agency that focuses on grassroots you, that changes the dynamic. a n d e x p e r i e n t i a l m a r k e t i n g Everything is so impersonal these programs -- mostly in youth days. Youre getting e-mail blasts, sports -- and works with some big youre reading things on Twitter,
Facebook, whatever people are advertising on, or commercials on TVthe lost art of shaking someones hand and saying Hey, we actually care about you and your familyits gone. To me, youre really bridging the gap there. Whats the key to a successful grassroots marketing campaign? Knowing how to activate it. A lot of people go out and just try to do a large media blast through it, try to do an email campaign, but most of the people in any kind of grassroots marketing campaign, theyre volunteers, so you need to go the extra mile to make sure that youre reaching out to them and reaching out to them directly. They want to be affected, they want to feel like you care about them at the local level. Just sending an email blast out or putting a commercial on TV is not going to resonate, you need to establish something in the local community. Whats the hardest thing about actually facilitating a good campaign? Everyones a volunteer. These are people who are working or already have a full-time job, and running some kind of youth sports or local community group is
another full-time job for them. So, you cant call people 9-5, a lot of times youre calling people after 5 o clock after they get home from work or on the weekends. And again, theyre volunteers, you cant force them to do anything. So, those are some of the challenges that anybody faces when they start a grassroots marketing campaign. The big thing for us is that, because weve been doing it for so many years, we have relationships, and people know were bringing them good programs and theyre more likely to act on them. And thats the other thing: whenever we run a program, we make sure to sit down with our client and establish that we know what works, what doesnt work, and we give them the best guidance on that. What are the limits of grassroots? Can you base an entire marketing campaign solely on grassroots? I dont think you can spend a total media budget on just a grassroots campaign. I still think that you do need to advertise through the major means. A lot of times theyre two separate entities: a community marketing initiative is one thing, and thats one segment of the budget, and the major media stuff is a totally
separate entity within a company. A lot of times, they dont even talk. And some of that is you need to create some integration between your major campaigns down to the grassroots level. Chevy does a great job of that with their Chevy baseball. If you watch any of the Fox or ESPN telecasts, they always mention how they support youth baseball in communities. How has technology changed your field in the 10 years youve been doing this? Do you use the Internet to help facilitate your grassroots marketing? Its interesting: most of the people again, theyre volunteers, and theres a lot of people who are not web-savvy. We have some people who dont have email addresses. But we do do most of our correspondence over email, that has definitely changed. People are more likely to read their email and do things. But, we still have to call and follow up. Some people we send FedEx, mail down. We see more people using Facebook; Facebooks probably the biggest thing organizations have taken to. Its a great way for WHY page 18
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them to communicate with other members, they do send announcements and things like that through Facebook. Twitter is getting there, but not quite 100% with that. Slowly but surely, people are starting to become more technologically advanced, but theyre not to that level where you can communicate a full program through social media. Do you exclusively do marketing through sports? We have been mostly exclusively sports. Weve done other experiential marketing things, whatever kind of grassroots effort that might be, but for the most part we focus on sports. Its a great touch point: people have come to us with different ideas, whether its doing something with a dance school or something along those lines. But you need a brand who wants to spend in the space, and brands are willing to spend in the sports space, specifically baseball and soccer, a little bit in football, but those are the places that brands
are really excited to spend their money. There are opportunities to activate grassroots programs in different areas, but you need a brand to be interested. So what do you think the advantage is in using sports to do these things? It affects everybody in the community. I mean, so many kids play youth sports, its such a great passion point. We dont care about the elite athlete whos going on, even if its high school, maybe collegewe care about the kid who just loves to play baseball and wants to go out there, maybe isnt the best player in the world but theyre playing right field and theyre getting a bat or two a game. But they love it, and their parents love that theyre active in it, and its a great socialization opportunity for kids, so that to me is a core audience. The people who go on to play in championships and things like that: its terrific, we love to be a part of things like that, but thats not the focus of what were doing.
What do you think the next step is? What other places can you go besides sports to facilitate this kind of connection? I think there are community organizations out there, whether they be Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. Maybe some schools, eventually schools, because theyre looking for so much fundingtheyll eventually really start taking corporate sponsorships. I think thats going to happen, I know high schools are starting to adopt that in a big way. Just like the way municipalities have started selling sponsorships, I think schools eventually willbut thats going to take some time. What's next for Generation Z? A couple of categories that we see: insurance, a lot of people really want to be involved in grassroots. You have so many insurance agents out there, all the different offices, and again, how do they differentiate between their competitors. QSR is a big one. Weve actually had a lot of people talking about CPG companies
coming to us, a tie-in retailer to some of these programs. Whether it be a laundry detergent and WalMart or something along those lines. Convenience stores is another big one, making the convenience store kind of the premium postgame destination. Hardwood stores and hotels, travel. Please follow War Room on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: BRANDWASHED: Shocking Tricks Companies Use To Get Your Kids Hooked Conservative Moms Are Now Calling For A Boycott Of Ben & Jerry's "Schweddy Balls" Flavor Doritos Has A Secret Weapon For Its Sixth Annual Super Bowl Ad Contest
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BBC News Man dies in car factory incident BBC News A man has died in an accident at the Jaguar Land Rover car plant in Halewood, Merseyside. Graham Begley, 49, from Halewood, was seriously injured at the factory at about 20:00 BST on Monday. He died at Whiston Hospital later that night.... Worker killed in accident at Jaguar Land Rover factory Daily Mail Liverpool factory worker crushed at Jaguar Land Rover plant Click Liverpool Worker dies in car factory incident The Press Association Mirror.co.uk- Economic TimesManufacturer.com all 166 news articles
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Amazing Video Of Workers Rappelling Down The Washington Monument

Zeke Miller (Business Insider)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:15:11 PM
Workers are rappelling down the 555-foot Washington Monument today to survey damage caused by last month's East Coast earthquake. The National Parks Service announce Monday that it is keeping the obelisk closed indefinitely until repairs can be undertaken, The agency also released terrifying footage from inside the national monument during the quake, showing tourists being hit by debris and evacuating the evacuation deck 500 feet about
Washington. Watch the video below. The Washington Post is also carrying a live feed of the workers here: Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Here's The Terrifying Video From Inside The Washington Monument During The East Coast Earthquake SHUTDOWN SHOWDOWN: No Deal In Sight To Avoid Government Shutdown -- Again OBAMA: 'I Am A Warrior For The Middle Class'
TIMELINES: On Sept. 27, 1938, FDR appeals to what dictator not to invade Czechoslovakia?
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Although Hitler assures FDR that he intends to avoid another largescale war in Europe, in the end Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 Hitler ignores FDRs appeals and On Sept. 27, 1938, FDR appeals invades Czechoslovakia in March to what dictator not to invade 1939, which leads to World War Czechoslovakia? II. THEN NOW Sept. 27, 1938, United States Today, after 40 years under President Franklin D. Roosevelt construction, a memorial for FDR (FDR) writes a second letter to on the East River in New York German Chancellor Adolf Hitler I s l a n d i s f i n a l l y n e a r i n g a p p e a l i n g f o r a p e a c e f u l completion. The design for the resolution as Hitler threatens to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four i n v a d e t h e S u d e t e n l a n d o f Freedoms Park, which will cover Czechoslovakia. In a response to approximately five acres at the FDRs urging to engage in southern tip of the island, was one p e a c e f u l n e g o t i a t i o n s w i t h of the final designs by architect Czechoslovakia, Hitler expresses Louis I. Kahn. New York Citys his deep dissatisfaction with the economic woes shelved the Treaty of Versailles, which had project indefinitely in the 70s. ended World War I and given the But interest in the FDR memorial Sudetenland to the state of was reignited when a 2005 exhibit Czechoslovakia. Hitler believes of Kahns design for it garnered the territory belongs to Germany. public attention. The memorial is
slated to open in the fall of 2012. The name for the park is inspired by Roosevelts 1941 State of the Union Speech in which he named four freedomsthe freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of religion, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fearall of which were later incorporated into the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Ahmadinejad and Human Dignity

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By Hon. David Kilgour Created: Sep 27, 2011 Last Updated: Sep 27, 2011 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during the 66th UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Sept. 23, 2011. (Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/Getty Images) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told Iranians that Israels existence is counter to the dignity of all nations. What, however, is the condition of dignity across Iran? In mid-March, the UN Human Rights Council voted for the first time to appoint a special investigator to monitor Irans record. The resolution, cosponsored by governments from every region of the world, passed 22 to 7. UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoons report expressed serious concern about Tehrans record: ... increased executions, amputations, arbitrary arrest and detention, unfair trials, and possible torture and ill-treatment of human rights activists, lawyers,
journalists, and opposition activists. Ban deplored the persecution of Iranian minorities, including Arabs, Armenians, Azeris, Balochs, Christians, Jews, Kurds, and Bahais. Under Irans constitution, key members of the government, parliament, judiciary and military must be Shiites, leaving everyone else as inferior, facing harsh treatment whenever they practice their faiths openly. Kurds are barred from teaching the Kurdish language in regional schools. Sunnis must not build mosques in Tehran. Middle East/North Africa Uprisings Paul Salem, director of the Middle East Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, observed about events in the Middle East and North Africa: 'There are new revolutions and heroes to look up to ... and Iran is pass Iranian officials, as well as leaders of Iran -backed Hezbollah ... have taken a selective approach to the uprisings, cheering the movements in Egypt and elsewhere as an 'Islamic awakening,' while rebuking unrest in Syria as a plot by Israel and the West." An opinion piece in the Anatolia
Daily (Turkey) by Nir Boms and Shayan Arya noted that Ahmadinejad demands UN intervention for the UK riots, but not for the tragedy continuing across Syria, with a now estimated 2600 civilian protesters killed. They added, Turkey informed a UN Security Council panel that it seized a second cache of weapons that Iran was attempting to deliver to Syria, in breach of the UN arms embargo Today there are over 2000 political prisoners in jail (in
bottom. Women are absent in any of the senior, decision-making posts... Neda Agha Soltan became a symbol of Irans long history, culture and principled people. Her murder by a militia sniper on June 20, 2009 still haunts the world. Irans penal laws are contrary to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (not ratified by Iran), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Significantly, they also elicit protests from Islamic legal expertsboth Shiite and Sunni. While most countries are I r a n ) a n d t h e c r a c k d o w n banning the death penalty, Iran continues. Since most (are) ... still punishes by cutting off activists tracking human rights tongues, hands and feet, gouging violations, it is very difficult out eyes, and stoning to death. (tracking) all the prisoners... Next ... Ahmadinejad Record Nevertheless one human rights This entry passed through the coalition, Iran: All Rights Full-Text RSS service if this is Reserved?, produced a list of your content and you're reading it nearly 650 prisoners ... sitting in on someone else's site, please read jail while Ahmadinejad goes to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentg i v e l e s s o n s t o t h e U N . only/faq.php#publishers. Five I n s t i t u t i o n a l i z e d M i s o g y n y Filters featured article: A 'Malign In 2010, Amnesty International Intellectual Subculture' - George observed: (Iran) ... discriminates M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , against women from top to Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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World Bank to Provide $1.8 Billion for Africa Drought

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half a century. Approximately 13 million people Submitted at 9/26/2011 10:19:15 PM have been adversely affected by By Jack Phillips the drought, causing increasing Epoch Times Staff Created: Sep malnutrition, food insecurity, and 26, 2011 Last Updated: Sep 26, displacement. 2011 The United Nations has estimated T h e W o r l d B a n k r e c e n t l y that $2.4 billion is needed for approved a $1.8 billion aid immediate drought assistance, so package to support Somalia and even with the World Banks aid other countries reeling from there is still a gap of nearly $1 drought in the Horn of Africa. billion. In the statement, the The bank said in a statement that World Bank said some of the the money would be used to money would also be dedicated to provide humanitarian assistance c r e a t i n g a s u s t a i n a b l e for several million people in the e n v i r o n m e n t s o t h a t f u t u r e region, which is facing what is d i s a s t e r s w i l l n o t o c c u r . likely the worst drought in over We are confident that this
response package will help prevent an unraveling of the gains made so far, and position affected countries on a path to sustainable living, said Obiageli Ezekwesili, vice president of the World Bank for Africa. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Williams prison killing: jury out - The Australian

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Cash-for-vote: Advani's ex-aide Kulkarni arrested - Hindustan Times

Sydney Morning Herald Williams prison killing: jury out The Australian THE jury that will decide whether gangland boss Carl Williams was deliberately
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Ed Miliband: Labour needs to learn 'hard lessons' - The Guardian

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Telegraph.co.uk Ed Miliband: Labour needs to learn 'hard lessons' The Guardian Ed Miliband has warned Labour that it will have to learn "hard lessons" about its past mistakes and accept that it will have to work hard to win back the trust of the British people. In a stern message designed to show there is
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Tehelka Goa illegal mining: Cong says it will wait for PAC report Hindustan Times PTI With BJP demanding dismissal of Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat in the illegal mining case, Congress on Tuesday said it would decide on the course of action on the issue
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It was early August when Transport for London made its API, or data feed, available to developers as part of its open data policy. Today has seen the launch of what is claimed to be the first real-time bus countdown app, using this data. The iPhone app, called Bus Checker, is available through the iTunes App Store for 1.49 is designed for iPhones, iPads or iPod touch devices running iOS 4.0 or later. Created by (Nation - Google News) -year-old former doorman died in FatAttitude, it will provide live Rothbury in July 2010. The data for 19,000 bus stops across Submitted at 9/27/2011 5:08:22 PM hearing was told that Moat was... the capital. And if a bus is Irish Times Moat police had unauthorised diverted or cancelled, the traveler Raoul Moat death was suicide, tasers The Independent will get a notification. Continue inquest jury rules Gunman Raoul Moat's death was reading... BBC News suicide, inquiry rules AFP Inquest jurors have returned a Suicide verdict on killer Moat verdict of suicide in the death of The Press Association gunman Raoul Moat, who shot Metro- Sky News himself in the head after a six- all 113 news articles hour stand-off with police. The 37
by the Liberal National Party.... Anna Bligh stranded as postdisaster support surge washes away The Australian Ambulance queues normal: Bligh Brisbane Times Anna Bligh calls for tardy insurers to be shamed Courier Mail ABC Online- NEWS.com.auCrikey (blog) all 51 news articles
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Analysts: There's No Spectrum Shortage

Scott M. Fulton, III (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:11:21 PM
The newly installed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said in October 2009, "We are fast entering a world where mass-market mobile devices consume thousands of megabytes each month. So we must ask: What happens when every mobile user has an iPhone, a Palm Pre, a BlackBerry Tour or whatever the next device is? What happens when we quadruple the number of subscribers with mobile broadband on their laptops or netbooks? The short answer: We will need a lot more spectrum." Yesterday, a systematic and mathematical analysis of U.S. spectrum allocation blatantly called Julius Genachowski's statement to the 2009 CTIA Wireless conference flat wrong. Sponsor Jason Bazinet and Michael Rollins of Citi Investment Research & Analysis concluded that only about 35.7% of spectrum set aside for wireless
communications, is being used for that purpose. What's causing the spectrum problems, Bazinet and Rollins believe, is not how much spectrum is being consumed but where it falls on the map, and who owns it. "We do not believe the U.S. faces a spectrum shortage," write the Citi analysts. "However, unless incumbent carriers accelerate their 4G migration plans, or acquire more underutilized spectrum, upstart networks - like Clearwire, LightSquared and Dish - could have a material speed advantage over incumbent carriers provided that they can clear meaningful hurdles for funding and distribution." A big chunk of the nation's wireless frequency spectrum, they argue, is presently held by companies that have no plans, immediate or otherwise, to monetize it. They tally that 538 MHz of wireless spectrum has been allocated to U.S. firms, though some 192 MHz is actually in use. And according to their calculation, at least 90% of that amount is used for 2G, 3G, and 3.5G communications. Those
older protocols are yielding transmission speeds of less than 1 megabit per second (Mbps) during peak usage hours. [Source: Citi Investment Research & Analysis] The chart above depicts spectrum usage by the major carriers and holding companies as of 2010; the dotted lines represent the excess amount that's allocated but not yet put to use. Note the huge space allocated to Sprint/Clearwire that's still "untamed frontier." Citi's calculations estimate that if carriers put all 538 MHz to use for 4G LTE transmission, those speeds could climb to 5 Mbps during peak hours, with only 10% simultaneous usage overlap
between carriers. [Source: Citi Investment Research & Analysis] Statistics used by the Citi analysts show the average data throughput for a 3G cell site to be 36 Mbps. A migration to HSPA+ technology (considered "3.5 G") boosts that speed to 63 Mbps. Full conversion to 4G LTE skyrockets throughput to 258 Mbps, and Rollins and Bazinet admit that number could be even higher if the promises of LTEAdvanced come to fruition by 2013. So what's the holdup? The Sprint /Clearwire partnership has the biggest share, with phone carriers AT&T and Verizon Wireless making do with less. 4G technology requires larger contiguous blocks (20 MHz) than earlier generations. So Verizon and AT&T have room maybe for two LTE carriers before they find themselves having to borrow space from their 3G and 3.5G allotments - a process which ends up making services in that older space slower. [Source: Citi Investment Research & Analysis]
While only a small percentage of wireless services use 4G today, Citi believes 4G could constitute as much as 57% of wireless traffic by 2015. A juggling process that anyone who's ever optimized a hard disk drive may appreciate, which would include the FCC expediting auctions in the existing space, would enable carriers to utilize as much as 280 MHz of allocated space (still only 52%) without the need to annex additional spectrum space. "One hundred percent conversion of 538 MHz allows carriers to offer 5 Mbps with 10% simultaneous usage during peak busy-hour. This speed allows for very robust mobile use and limited home use," the Citi analysts conclude. "Too much spectrum is controlled by companies that are not planning on rolling out services or face business and financial challenges. And, larger carriers cannot readily convert a substantial portion of their spectrum to 4G services, because most existing spectrum provides 2G - 3.5G services to current users." Discuss
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products poised to take advantage of the carrier's 20 Mbps-plus network speeds. Two smartphones, the Android Gingerbread-running HTC Amaze 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S II,
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New Delicious is a Bitter Disney to pair iPad, physical toys Disappointment

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that those qualities were appreciated in the relaunch. Quite the opposite. (No RSS feeds?!) Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:47:00 PM r e q u i r e s e v e n m o r e m e n t a l The concept of collections of What was once awesome and overhead than asking them to post websites ("stacks") doesn't feel useful is now filled with dogs in some tags when they bookmark a new or fresh anymore. Big costumes and photos of donuts. link. If all of that were automated pictures are nice but they're hardly Trailblazing social bookmarking and then users were prompted in new or fresh either. service Delicious relaunched this some Zynga-like way to joyfully Right: At least the default avatar morning under new management: offer annotation, that would be is cool. Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, interesting. It feels to me like in its effort to the co-founders of YouTube who Unfortunately, a lot of the best go mainstream, the new Delicious bought the neglected service from parts of the old site have been has lost or underplayed its Yahoo earlier this year. The plan lost. The most Popular links for a strengths and not yet shown us is to make the service appealing to tag are broken and there are no anything new that has worlda larger number of mainstream longer RSS feeds being made changing potential. Maybe it will u s e r s . S o f a r i t ' s p r e t t y readily available. come back as a result of the underwhelming. I don't like it. I want to like it, tagging that happens as stacks are When Yahoo bought Delicious but I don't so far. created. I don't know. years ago, I was disappointed it When news emerged that Yahoo I clicked through the Featured wasn't the Library of Congress was really done with Delicious Tags section of the site, then that made the acquisition. It was last December, I wrote about how clicked on Web 2.0 and you know that useful. Now this new extensively and strategically we what I found? A link to defunct Delicious looks like just another use it here at ReadWriteWeb. social browser Flock and a Web 2.0 startup. A tool that lets everyday people Mashable article about the top Sponsor organize links of interest to them Web 2.0 startups...of 2005. Oh The first steps taken in the and as a result create user- well. mainstreaming effort are the generated metadata, discovery Hopefully something good will introduction of "stacks" or topical p i p e l i n e s , r e s o u r c e s e a r c h come of it all. Or someone else bundles of links, and the addition powered by passive popularity - will capture and grow the dream of lots of images throughout the the power and potential of the that Delicious represented back in site. Asking users to curate whole n e t w o r k e f f e c t s i n t h e o l d the day. Or maybe we should all c o l l e c t i o n s o f l i n k s , a d d Delicious were amazing. just go grunt and Like things on intelligent annotation to those Unfortunately, it does not appear Facebook after all. Discuss links and put them in order all
with new games

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 1:00:00 PM
Disney is working on a new game system that'll pair physical toys with the iPad. Called Disney Appmates, the first example of these toys will use the characters from the Disney/Pixar movie Cars 2. The cars will interact with the iPad surface presumably using a capacitive interface and the iPad will display a moving track that responds to the car's input. In the game, the child guides the car across a virtual track; skidding across the mud, knocking over buildings and interacting with bystanders on the side of the road. As you would expect, the game is designed for the younger crowd. Children six and under who like cars, racing and hitting things should enjoy it. The game will launch with four vehicles including Lightning McQueen, Tow Mater, Finn
McMissile and Holley Shiftwell. Cars will be sold in packs of two for $20 and will unlock different game content. Disney will begin selling Appmates starting October 1 in both the Apple Store and the Disney Store. Disney to pair iPad, physical toys with new games originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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The secret numerology behind the iPhone event invitation

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
much more to this icon than meets the eye." The Clock icon -- "The hands of Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:30:00 PM the clock are pointing at both the It's been announced. number 10 and the number 12. Invitations to Apple's iPhone Actually, the second hand is also event on October 4th have been pointing at the number 12. Add sent out, and we asked famed those numbers up -- 12 + 12 + 10 n u m e r o l o g y e x p e r t H e l m u t -- and you get the number 34. Weltschmertz (see photo at right) This is very telling ... Steve Jobs' of the Koblenz Institute of birth mother Joanne Simpson was Numerology and Used Car Sales remarried to George Simpson to tell us exactly what the when she was 34 years old, which numbers and symbols on the proves that the government is invitation meant. Here's what Dr. covering up everything that Weltschmertz was able to surmise happened at Area 51 in 1966. But for TUAW: I digress. There's a progression The Calendar icon -- "Here, there. 3 ... 4 ... 5! Yes! The iPhone Apple is telling us that there will 5 will be announced!" be "tues" ("two" in some ancient The Maps icon -- "280 in the foreign tongue lost in history) shield on this icon is an obvious devices to be announced. The indication that iOS 5 will be number 4 is below the word released and has 280 new or Tuesday, indicating that both new improved features. The meaning iPhones are 'raised above' or more of the intersection of the yellow capable than the iPhone 4. Some and orange lines is also obvious to might say that this is indicating anyone with half a brain -- it the date of the event, but there's means that Apple's new products
will come in two colors, orange and yellow. The red pin signifies that this icon might fall off of the web page and someone stuck a pin into it to keep that from happening." The Phone icon -- "Ah, yes, the number 1. It can mean many things. One is the loneliest number, and its location on the upper right-hand corner of the icon has special meaning. That points to the northeast, and in the olden days of America, that's where witches were burned -- in the northeast part of the country.
It is obvious to anyone that there is magic and witchcraft involved in the design of the new phones. The green pinstripes on the background portend an event where all of the Apple executives will be wearing suits. The white phone icon even has deep meaning. Note that it looks exactly like a silhouette of a fetus, which points to the birth of a new era of technology, cheap beer, and world peace." Alrighty, then. We thank Dr. Weltschmertz for his, uh, insights into the Apple event invitation. The secret numerology behind the iPhone event invitation originally appeared on TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Colour coded bacteria reveal secret messages under UV light

Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:49:55 AM
Chemists from Tufts University in Massachusetts have created a biological "invisible ink" that uses
genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to convey secret messages. The process is called Steganography by Printed Arrays
of Microbes (SPAM), and here's
how it works. The team developed seven different strains of the E. coli bacteria that emit different colours -- under ultraviolet light -when they've grown. They can
then devise a coding scheme that uses pairs of colours to signify letters, numbers and symbols. Continue reading...
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The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline

John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:15:56 PM
publisher to used bookstore owner, Id be very worried. The time to pivot is now and its With the launch of the Kindle clearly already happening. While Fire tomorrow, I thought it would I will miss the creak of the be fun to write a little bit sci-fi Village Bookshops old church and imagine what the publishing floor, the calm of Crescent City market will look like in the next books, and the crankiness of the ten or so years. Im a strong Provincetown Bookshop, the time proponent of the ebook and, as has come to move on. Ive said again and again, I love 2013 EBook sales surpass all books but theyre not going to other book sales, even used make it past this decade, at least books. EMagazines begin cutting in most of the developed world. into paper magazine sales. As we well know, ebook sales are 2014 Publishers begin now outpacing hardback sales and subsidized e-reader trials. publishers are now crowing ebook Newspapers, magazines, and book n u m b e r s a l o n g s i d e t h e i r publishers will attempt to create traditional in-store sales numbers. hardware lockins for their wares. Soon those in-store sales numbers They will fail. will dwindle and disappear simply 2015 The death of the Mom because there will be no stores and Pops. Smaller book stores heavy readers, the folks who buy will use the real estate to sell genre fiction by the basket-full coffee and Wi-Fi. Collectable will be happy to head over to bookstores will still exist in the Nooks and Kindles, especially margins. when they drop below $99 (as 2016 Lifestyle magazines as they will this year). well as most popular Conde Nast If I were a betting man, Id wager titles will go tablet-only. quite a bit on these predictions. 2018 The last Barnes & Noble However, if youre currently in store converts to a cafe and digital the book sales racket from access point.
2019 B&N and Amazons publishing arms including selfpub will dwarf all other publishing. 2019 The great culling of the publishers. Smaller houses may survive but not many of them. The giants like Random House and Penguin will calve their smaller houses into e-only ventures. The last of the publisher subsidized tablet devices will falter. 2020 Nearly every middle school to college student will have an e-reader. Textbooks will slowly disappear. 2023 Epaper will make ereaders as thin as a few sheets of paper. 2025 The transition is complete even in most of the developing world. The book is, at best, an artifact and at worst a nuisance. Book collections wont disappear hold-outs will exist and a subset of readers will still print books but generally all publishing will exist digitally. [Image: Blend Images/ Shutterstock]
Chitika: Mac OS X market share jumps in September

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 PM
Chitika Insights grabs online advertising data to monitor and report on Internet trends, one of which is the market share of various computer operating systems. There was a surprise reported for Mac OS X in the latest report-- the market share for Apple's desktop/laptop OS climbed 1.039% from 9.6% to 10.6% in the month of September. That may not sound like much, but consider that a sustained increase over a full year would have Mac OS X gaining another 12% of the OS market. Of course, that's unlikely to happen, but it's good to see that the release of Lion propelled OS X adoption by a significant amount in just one month. Chitika: Mac OS X market share
jumps in September originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
How to (Peacefully) Improve Your Spouse's Credit Score

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By: Bill Rice Marriage often joins two very different people together: introverts and extroverts, frugal and spend-thrift,
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1000memories Expands Beyond Digital Memorials, Becomes A Facebook For The Past
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:13:47 AM
using it. In short, theyre making it a place to share all kinds of digital memories, not just those We first wrote about a service that concern the recent passing of called 1000memories back in July a loved one. 2010. The site was setting out to 1000memories cofounder Rudy address a topic that people dont Adler explains that as people go like to talk about, but is universal to create their digital memorials, all the same: when people pass they often pull out their old away, their friends and family shoeboxes full of photos and members like to remember them stumble across pictures of many and celebrate their memories. family members and old friends That can be difficult though not just the one who recently these people are often passed away. Theyd start separated by great distances, and uploading all of those to the site its hard to share antique photos as well, but so far 1000memories w i t h a l o t o f p e o p l e . S o hasnt offered a great way to do 1000memories created a service this. for digital memorials, where all of Today thats changing: these friends and family members 1000memories is launching a can upload their photos and share handful of new features that make their favorite memories in a single it better suited to share any sort of place. antique content with friends and N o w , o v e r a y e a r l a t e r , family. Another way to put it: the 1000memories is changing things service is now a social network up a bit. Dont worry, those for sharing memories. digital memorials are still a core The first feature that will help do feature of the site, and all of the this is a section called Shoebox, memorials that have been created which is a feed of everything arent going anywhere. But the youve uploaded to the site, and service is adjusting to better cater what your family and friends have to the way its users are actually shared as well. To help with this,
users will also be able to create memory pages (sort of like profile pages) for anyone, which you can link a piece of content to. And, finally, youll be able to set up a family tree that shows how each of these memory pages are linked. To facilitate the process, in the next few weeks the service will also be releasing an iPhone app: take a snapshot of an old photo or letter using your phones camera, and itll get uploaded directly to the service. This caused me to raise my eyebrows (Id think people would want to scan these old photographs to make sure theyre saved at maximum quality), but Adler says that the results are surprisingly good. He adds that the service was inspired to do this, because, again, its what its users are already doing. In a sense, 1000memories is setting out to become a Facebook for the past. In fact, Adler says that Facebooks recent launch of the Timeline will actually make things easier for them (itll make 1000memories easier to explain).
iPhone 5 incoming: Apple announces 4 October press conference

Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:21:36 AM
Apple has announced a press conference for 4 October -headlined "Let's Talk iPhone" -at which it is widely believe the iPhone 5 will be announced. It has also been suggested, and oddly corroborated by Apple
board member Al Gore, that two iPhones will be announced next month: one believed to be the flagship iPhone 5, but also an entry-level iPhone 4S. This would mirror the current iPhone 4/ iPhone 3GS offering. Continue reading...
6 Weird Ways to Boost Your Emergency Fund

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By: Kyle Taylor When I left home for college a few years ago, I left with a small
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Online daters reluctant to list political views

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:20:00 AM
Singles are more likely to admit they are overweight on their online dating profiles than to say they are politically liberal or
conservative, according to a study by researchers at Brown University, Penn State, and the University of Miami. Researchers say only 14 percent of online daters included "political interests" in their profile, which
ranked 23rd out of 27 interest
categoriesjust below "video interest. games" and above "business Full story at Futurity. networking" and "book club." More research news from top A higher income, education, and universities. degree of civil engagement (i.e., Photo credit: Fotolia volunteerism) increased the Permalink| Leave a comment likelihood of listing politics as an
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Apple hinting just one new iPhone on October 4?

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:09:02 AM
Apples iPhone event invite for next Tuesdays smartphone reveal may only have been in the wild for an hour, but that hasnt stopped the armchair analysts from digging through the graphics for clues. The Cupertino company is known for burying hints into its invites, and at first glance there are quite a few possibilities for this October 4 picture. Most notable, however, is the idea that Apple is hinting at a single new handset. The time and date icons are obviously a reference to the arrangements of the presentation keynote itself, which begins at 10am PT and is being held on Tuesday 4th. The map icon shows 1 Infinite Loop, the location of Apples campus next to Route 280. However, the 1 indicator for one missed call on the phone icon is what has soothsayers curious. Apple has previously been tipped as readying a pair of new iPhones for launch, a so-
called iPhone 4S to target the prepay market, and the true iPhone 5 which would have a bigger screen, considerably changed aesthetic and sit at the top of the range as a flagship device. That may not, in fact, be the case however, if the 1 does indeed refer to a single iPhone. Other rumors have suggested that the
iPhone 4S sightings are merely the new iPhone 5 hardware wrapped up in a familiar chassis so as to put leaky tipsters off the trail. No way of knowing for sure until next week, so join us at 10am PT on October 4 for the full SlashGear liveblog at http:// live.slashgear.com/! [Thanks to everyone who pointed this out!]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Start September 30 For October 7 Launch? iPhone 5 Not September 7, Now October 7? Rumor Leopard to launch October 26th Apple board member Al Gore says iPhones (plural) coming next month iOS 5 and iCloud may arrive on October 10 iPhone 5 tipped for October 1 Canada launch Apple sets Q4 2011 earnings call for October 18 iPhone 5 on sale October 14 in US, UK, Germany, France & Japan tips source Apple hinting just one new iPhone on October 4? is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
4 questions to ask before launching a fan community

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:48:00 AM
Brands that create successful fan communities do so by focusing more on their users than on their products, SmartBrief's Jesse Stanchak writes. Coca-Cola focuses on happiness, not soda; Slim Jim's community is founded on guy culture, not beefy snacks; and Kodak talks about photography and art, not just film. "There's a larger conversation out there that their brand can take part in, once they find the niche that grants them access," Stanchak writes. Full story at SmartBlog on Social Media by SmartBrief. More SmartBrief stories. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
British sitcom writer David Croft dies at 89 (AP)

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AP - Television writer David Croft, who helped create much-
loved British sitcoms such as "Dad's Army" and "Are You
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WooThemes Launches WooCommerce To Turn WordPress Sites Into Online Shops

Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:29:35 AM
5 Chicago Fed Charts That Reveal How The Midwest Is Leading The Manufacturing Recovery
Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:58:23 AM
The company is now focused on turning its themes into fullfeatured applications. To this end, WordPress theme provider W o o T h e m e s h a s d e v o t e d a WooThemes is launching a new d i v i s i o n o f i t s c o m p a n y , s e r v i c e t o d a y c a l l e d WooLabs, to creating new ways WooCommerce, which lets users to turn the themes into featurei n s t a l l a p l u g i n o n t h e i r rich platforms. E-commerce is the WordPress site in order to turn first offering from WooLabs. In that site into a professional e- the future, WooThemes plans to commerce storefront. The system launch an integration of the i n c l u d e s a p l u g i n a n d t h e SupportPress theme,which allows companys theme library, while anyone to sell premium suppor, as also offering multiple payment well as themes that offer the gateway options, settings for functionality of wikis and those c o n f i g u r i n g s h i p p i n g r a t e s , that resemble popular Web apps coupon support, email templates, like Basecamp, UserVoice and a reports panel to track sales and Quora. performance and more. The first of the WooThemes to The WooCommerce plugin is receive integration with the designed to work with the existing WooCommerce plugin are Statua, theme library that WooThemes which allows photographers to already provides. The company sell their prints online, and has over 50,000 paying customers Diner(integration arriving soon), who have downloaded its free which allows restaurants accept themes over 800,000 times. It also t a k e - o u t o r d e r s f r o m t h e i r serves as a premium theme w e b s i t e . provider to WordPress.com. WooThemes is certainly not the
only e-commerce platform company, but it wants to be one of the easier ones to use, both on the backend, through simplified controls, and on the frontend, through good design. The biggest competitor on WooThemes radar is Shopify, the popular online retail platform. But while Shopify is flexible and extensible, its not designed for WordPress sites and it requires a bit of tech savvy to use, the company feels. This launch comes after WooThemes decision earlier this year to refocus all its efforts on WordPress development going forward, citing a lack of knowledge about or passion for building themes for the likes of Drupal, EE or Magento. WooCommerce is launching today. The code is open source and can be found at http:// woothemes.com/woocommerce.
Manufacturing in the Midwest, is recovering faster than it is across the U.S. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released its Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index(CFMMI) today, which rose 0.6% in August to 85. And is up 7.6% from a year ago. This outpaces the national average as measured by the Fed's industrial production index for manufacturing (IPMFG), which increased 0.4% from July, and 4.2% from a year ago. Strength in three midwest sectors more than offset weakness in the resource sector. Auto sector production climbed 10.3% YoY and was up 0.8% in August from the previous month
Steel sector production surged 17.1% from last year and was up 0.8% in from July Machinery sector production jumped 12.8% YoY and was up 1.4% from July See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: The 10 Cities Where Home Sales Are Actually Bouncing Back Bad Economic Data Strikes Everywhere, As Europe Manufacturing Shows First Contraction In Over Two Years 17 Deteriorating US And European Manufacturing Indices In 2 Charts
DTotD: FIFA 12 has one-legged races

Brooks Peck (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:05:59 AM
To celebrate the release of FIFA
12 and the end of millions of social lives that were already nonexistent thanks to previous iterations of the game, today's DTotD takes a look at an exciting
feature in this year's edition. We've already seen the goofy results of the new Player Impact Engine, but another aspect of the game that should provide hours of
fun is the one-legged races. As painful as the one upturned leg hopping looks, it doesn't seem to interfere with a player's ability to control the ball or get a cross in.
So, one-legged races! Looks like fun. And as an added bonus, here's Xavi getting kneed in the head after missing a penalty...
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Boeing sends first 787 Dreamliner aircraft to ANA in Japan

Cory Gunther (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:56:53 AM
commercial jetliner on the planet offering all sorts of additions to passengers. From way more space Boeing has just signed and hand giving a comfortable ride, larger delivered the first ever 787 windows, bigger storage bins for Dreamliner aircraft to All luggage and more. We even told Nippon Airways in Japan. We you back in September Boeings cant really say hand delivered plans to use Googles Android OS because this aircraft is simply for touchscreen LCD devices massive. Its so big in fact, that behind every seat making this theyve even announced it twice. ride comfortable, and enjoyable B r i n g i n g y e a r s o f a i r c r a f t both. technology from Boeing into one This new wave of carbon fiber of the biggest, and most jetliners are quieter for technology filled planes to date. passengers, lighter, and use much Boeing handed over a ceremonial less fuel. We could go on for a key to ANA executives today while regarding all the technology after a nearly three year delay. in these new aircrafts as theyve T h e n e w 7 8 7 i s t h e f i r s t managed to pack quite a bit onto commercial airliner built using these massive jets. Boeing is said carbon fiber for its strong, and to deliver 12 more by March, lightweight capabilities. The 2011, and eventually fill the order Dreamliner is also the widest of 55 of these 787 Dreamliners
WiFi causes 737NG system glitches Boeing 727 Limo Boeing looks for non-NASA pilots for taking CST-100 to ISS Blimps may replace cargo jets for transporting products NASA Showcases Airplane Designs for 2025 Continental Airlines to offer Gogo Internet on flights Boeing sends first 787 Dreamliner aircraft to ANA in Japan is written by Cory Gunther& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
for ANA. The aircraft is said to enter service starting in November over in Japan. Who wants to give it a try? [ via Reuters] Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com
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Divorce And Hair Loss

Dave Golokhov (AskMen Latest Articles)
Well, heres one good measure of revenge if you happen to get divorced and shes going to take half your house, money and James Bond collection: Women who get divorced are more likely to lose hair.According to Case Western
Reserve University School of Medicine, women who get divorced are more prone to hair loss. So if shes going to take away a lot of things that make you happy when you split, karma is going to defend you by taking away some of those precious locks that shes incessantly grooming.The real culprit here is stress, and apparently whether or
not a woman is married is one of the highest contributors to it. To keep genetics out of it, the study
tested twins, and the number one external reason for womens hair loss turned out to be their marital
status.Overall, women who went through multiple marriages endured more hair loss than those happily married. Men catch a break on this one, as their hair loss patterns were unaffected by marital status. Continue Reading
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Hacker Finds Quora-like Financials Soar In Q&A Features in Google Early Trading (DB, GS, MS, BAC) Plus Code
Eric Platt (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:18:57 AM
Jon Mitchell (ReadWriteWeb)

Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:22:00 PM
A curious hacker named Matt Mastracci was diving into the Google Plus code yesterday, trying to turn on access to the new Circle-sharing feature, when he uncovered several new features apparently in the works. One, referred to in the source as "Google Experts," appears to be a Quora-like question and answer feature with the same posting, commenting and sharing features as regular Plus posts. Mastracci also uncovered Google Voice integration, which will not require phone numbers; new photo browsing options including photos from Messenger; new, clearly labeled privacy presets and a feature like Facebook's wall, letting users post on each other's profile without showing up in others' streams. Sponsor Part of the code for Google Experts Mastracci is co-founder at a social customer service site called
feel like painstakingly adjusting privacy settings, these four choices are clearly labeled and can be selected with one click. If Google does launch Experts as a Q&A service, it could have interesting implications for Quora, who just announced threading, voting, images and editing to its comments yesterday. These are major overhauls for the preeminent Q&A site, but they only bring it up to par with gri.pe, and he's a former Google Plus' commenting StumbleUpon employee. He's also features. If Google Experts has the developer of a Chrome the same posting mechanics as extension for Google Plus called Plus, it will launch with Quora's Replies and more. He shared his conversation features right out of discoveries in a blog post and the gate. Quora has excellent several subsequent posts on Plus. topical browsing and tagging, but He was able to turn on the privacy G o o g l e ' s p r e t t y g o o d a t and photo features and post UI i d e n t i f y i n g a n d s e r v i n g u p screenshots. relevant search results. This The new privacy presets range would be a neat move for Google from "Public on the web" to Plus, especially considering " L o c k d o w n , " w i t h t w o Facebook Questions' failure to fly. intermediate options. They're not If Google launches Experts as a optimal for all users, but the menu Q&A feature in Google Plus, Mastracci discovered includes would you use it? Discuss clear explanations of what each preset does. For users who don't
to 1,186. Analysts are attributing gains to optimism that Europe will attempt to meaningfully solve Across the floor banks are up debt solvency issues on the after the bell, with 31% of continent, particularly on the heed financial institutions posting gains o f S e c r e t a r y T r e a s u r y T i m upwards of 2% in the first 30 Geithner's comments last night. minutes of trading. Please follow Money Game on Deutsche Bank posted the largest Twitter and Facebook. gain, up $2.84, or 8.1%, to Join the conversation about this $37.99. Morgan Stanley added story $0.87, or 5.6%, to $15.41, See Also: Goldman is up $3.68, or 3.7%, to What Wall Street Sell Side $102.77, J.P. Morgan advanced Analysts Are Buzzing About $1.26, or 3.9%, to $32.88, Today Citigroup gained $1.21, or 4.4%, What Wall Street Sell Side to $27.90, and Bank of America Analysts Are Buzzing About improved $0.20, or 3.0%, to Today $6.78. Why Half Of The World's 'Safe The broader indexes were also Havens' Recently Collapsed up, with the Dow gaining 2.0% to 11,264, the Nasdaq up 1.65% to 2,558, and the S&P 500 up 2.0%
Woman who taught Emeril how to cook dies at age 79 (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:27:04 AM
celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse (EM'-ur-ul leh-GAH'-see) how to cook has died in Massachusetts.
AP - The woman who taught
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update goes live

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:55:38 AM
Windows Phone users: time to glue your eyes to your smartphone screen. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is headed out of the virtual door, with users of smartphones like the HTC HD7, Samsung Focus and Dell Venue Pro promised alerts on their device to flag up the newlyavailable update. If you cant wait to see the update icon, you can check how your particular carrier/manufacturer is doing on Microsofts Wheres my phone update? site. Currently, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and open-market phones are all listed as scheduling which is the phase prior to delivering; that, Microsoft reckons, will last at most 10
Windows Phone Marketplace open for Mango app submissions Windows Phone Mango update may slip to 2012; Could delay Nokia Windows Phone Mango Released To Manufacturing Windows Phone Marketplace Web Portal Preview Microsoft confirms Mango will be branded as Windows Phone 7.5 Windows Phone 7 Mango Coming September 1 business days. Outside the US, the majority of carriers are also in the scheduling phase. Although the alert is sent out OTA, Mango itself isnt; youll need to plug your phone into your PC or Mac and run the Zune software or Windows Phone 7 Connector software respectively. The app will perform a backup first, just in case anything goes wrong, and then download and install Mango. Microsoft says it will take around an hour to complete. So, exciting times for Windows Phone; were already keen on WP7.5 from our technical preview earlier in the year. Let us know in the comments if you get the update and whether youre finding Mango to be as juicy as promised or a little under-ripe. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Ballmer claims over 500 new features in Mango update for Windows Phone Windows Phone 7.5 Mango rolling out within next two weeks Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update goes live is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Tom Cruise's Next Leading Lady Is Jessica Chastain!

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:54:54 AM
Jessica Chastain will be Tom Cruise's next leading lady in his sci-fi film- Hollywood Reporter Sports Illustrated models Irina Shayk and Chrissy Teigen appear
in a video game- People Taylor Lautner really threw his weight behind Abduction despite its abysmal ratings- Lainey Gossip Rihanna goes topless and shocks a farmer on her video setHuffington Post Charlie Sheen settles his lawsuit
with Warner Brothers over Two
and a Half Men- Us Weekly Nancy Grace has a Dancing With the Stars wardrobe malfunction- TooFab Get some Shia in your house this week!- Rotten Tomatoes 90210's Gillian Zinser chats about her style- Wonderwall L Word star Leisha Hailey
escorted off Southwest flight for "excessively" kissing her girlfriend- Lifeline Live Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz has a baby boy- Zap2It Is Prince Albert already dating someone else?- Celebitchy
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Doha Is Dead - By Lawrence Herman and Gary Clyde Hufbauer

LAWRENCE HERMAN, GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/26/2011 5:54:21 PM
But do we really need multilateral institutions anymore to kick-start international trade? BY LAWRENCE HERMAN, GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER| SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 This past weekend, the world's central bankers and finance ministers gathered in Washington with the grandees of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for their annual meetings. Their attention was, quite naturally, focused on the European debt crisis. Officially, the world's economic leaders remained committed to concluding a global trade accord, although only the leaders of the developing world reiterated that commitment over the weekend. But instead of embracing old commitments, they should all recognize that those trade talks (the so-called Doha round) are dead, the negotiating agenda is out of date, and international business has moved on. Efforts to expand trade on other tracks, however, are far from dead. It would be difficult to repeat the string of multilateral trade successes that characterized the first 50 years after World War II. The achievements reflected a
confluence of circumstances that no longer exist: U.S. economic and military dominance and unrivaled political leadership of
the Western world, the weakness of the developing countries as a group, and, finally, the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. led-
coalition and the Soviet bloc, In the field of trade diplomacy, which paradoxically produced this era reached its apogee in the stunning achievements in DOHA page 37 multilateral diplomacy.
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Pennies from Heaven - By Charles Kenny

CHARLES KENNY (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/26/2011 6:19:42 PM
Is God to blame for the global market meltdown? BY CHARLES KENNY| SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 For many people, the wild fluctuations of global markets over the past few weeks were simply bad luck or a sign of the looming and dreaded double-dip recession. But for a large number of Americans, apparently, they were a sign from God. A recent survey by Baylor University shows that around 20 percent of Americans see God's hand at work in the economy -- even if they also strongly support a market free of all non-divine influence. "They think the economy works because God wants it to work. It's a new religious economic idealism," study co-author Paul Froese told USA Today. For these religious economic idealists, the connection between financial success and belief highlighted by the likes of television preachers Jimmy Swaggart and Joel Osteen makes perfect sense. And they've got a rich history of academics backing them up. Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, for example, has gained new popularity among economists trying to explain why some countries are rich and others poor. But before we begin a
search for an unindicted evangelist of the prosperity gospel to replace Ben Bernanke at the Fed, it might be worth having a closer look at the real relationship between God and mammon. Weber's theory goes like this: Protestants are upstanding and hardworking citizens because they want to make it clear that they are
part of the elect. They don't spend money on fripperies, because that would be a sign of Catholic indolence; instead, they invest and become even richer. Hence, Protestant Northern Europe became much richer than the Catholic South. Most recent reinterpretations of Weber downplay the Protestant-
Catholic distinction in favor of Christianity vs. the rest or even just the religious vs. the godless. The Baylor survey provides evidence that a number of Americans have some sympathy with a "neo-Weberian" view of the world that equates any kind of faith with wealth. People who strongly believe that God had a
plan for them were also twice as likely to support the idea that "success is achieved by ability rather than luck." But the Weberian worldview, it turns out, doesn't do a great job of explaining which people or countries are rich and which are PENNIES page 39
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All the King's Women - By Simon Henderson

SIMON HENDERSON (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/26/2011 6:01:46 PM
A royal decree allowing women the right to vote can't hide the decay in the House of Saud. BY SIMON HENDERSON| SEPTEMBER 26, 2011 Articles enumerating the advances in women's rights in Saudi Arabia have, until now, tended to be rather short. There simply hasn't been much to write about: Saudi women haven't had many rights, at least not in terms Westerners usually understand -the right to vote, the right to drive, or the right to travel without a male guardian. But with King Abdullah's royal decree on Sunday, Sept. 25, granting women the right to vote in municipal elections, there has now been a river of commentary placing this reform in the context of the upheaval elsewhere in the Arab world. This news, however, does not justify the tediously high word counts that the commentariat will undoubtedly reach over the next few days. King Abdullah's edict is certainly a change. It might even be progress. But some caution is necessary. Women will not actually be allowed to vote until municipal elections in 2015 -when they will also be allowed to
stand as candidates. In Saudi Arabia's nascent parliament, the appointed consultative council, change will come earlier: Women will be allowed to serve in the next session, which will begin in 2012. Don't Miss Hands Off the Wheel
The worst arguments against Saudi women drivers. By Cameron Abadi The delay might matter. King Abdullah is 88 years old and has a variety of ailments. He might not be around this time next year. His nominated successor, Crown
Prince Sultan, 87, is even less likely to be alive then; he currently resides in a New York City hospital and is believed to be terminally ill. The apparent next in line, the conservative Prince Nayef, likely has a different attitude toward women's rights. In
the past he has spoken out against the nascent campaign to allow women to drive. Saudi watchers, certainly including yours truly, didn't see this announcement ALL page 38
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1990s with the conclusion of the Uruguay round in 1994 and the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Since then, the international economic consensus has progressively disintegrated, with the Doha round as a notable casualty. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is another victim. In both cases, entrenched national interests and the rise of new powers with protectionist tendencies (Brazil, China, India, and South Africa) prevented meaningful compromise. The question is: Where do we go from here? The answer is to set aside grand global efforts and think small until conditions are more favorable. Trade negotiators should concentrate their efforts on two things: making progress on liberalizing trade through an expansion of smaller trade accords; and encouraging businesses, financial institutions, and other nonstate groups to reach their own trade-facilitating agreements. One path is to seek regional and bilateral agreements (often called preferential trade agreements, or PTAs). While purists decry the retrenchment from multilateralism, the good thing about PTAs is that they are built
on the same rules of trade enshrined in the original General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947) and repeated in the WTO (1994). The best among them go far further than the WTO in reducing border and behind-theborder barriers, both to trade and to investment. To be sure, this process creates a playing field tilted in favor of "insiders" and against disfavored "outsiders." But the tilt furnishes a strong inspiration for the "outsiders" to lower their own barriers and jump back into the world trade and investment game. All but die-hard purists call this a virtuous circle. Closely related to PTAs are subject-specific agreements between countries. An old example is the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which entered into force in 1975 with 10 members and now numbers 175. The latest example is the AntiCounterfeiting Trade Agreement, signed just a few weeks ago by 42 countries. After the dust from the Doha round settles, the WTO might get back in the negotiating game by serving as the umbrella organization for a series of plurilateral agreements, for example on the relation between trade rules and climate change, or on good practice with respect to
exchange rates or state-owned enterprises. Another way forward is to continue to advance global rulemaking at the nonstate level, led by business groups, financial institutions, and civil organizations. These morally binding understandings, even though they are not legally binding agreements, have emerged as a new source of rules, not as formal state-to-state treaties but as subordinate rules of great significance. There are many examples: the anti-corruption and corporate governance standards set by Transparency International, ethical standards for mining investments set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, various "green" certifications by NGOs involving trade in goods, the International Chamber of Commerce's rules governing letters of credit, the capital rules for banking promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements (Basel III), the standards for national securities regulation implemented by the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and so on. Such understandings have already developed their own momentum, as leading firms work out voluntary carbon emission and labor standards and as regulatory
bodies that issue patents or review drugs consult with one another. The point is that economic selfinterest can and does produce compromise and understanding as the search for systemic solutions continues. So though we may mourn the passing of the old multilateralism, exemplified by the Doha round, new modes of international cooperation are supplementing and gradually supplanting the older, higher-level efforts at treaty -making. While less dramatic, less known, and less newsworthy, these ties are binding a globalized world into bilateral, regional, and subject-specific commitments and generally accepted norms of business conduct. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Top 10: Green Choices That Will Improve Your Life

Jeremy Berger (AskMen Latest Articles)
This article is sponsored in part by Nissan & Fringe(What's this?) The world's getting snug. China and India each have more than a billion people. Farm-raised salmon is bad, but farm-raised tilapia is good. Meanwhile, you have enough problems just trying to remember your girlfriend's birthday. Behold the challenges of keeping the Earth clean and still keeping up with the demands of daily life. We have the top 10 green choices that will improve your life. They're simple and effective, and each will make you a better man. Continue Reading
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coming. King Abdullah's reputation as a reformer has dimmed in recent years. He doesn't seem to have the energy to push for the needed consensus in the royal family and, more particularly, from the kingdom's orthodox Sunni Islam clerical hierarchy. But the monarch did attempt to bridge these divides by painting the change as completely compatible with Islamic tradition. "All people know that Muslim women have had in the Islamic history, positions that cannot be marginalized," he said, going on to note women's contributions since the time of the Prophet Mohammed. This reform, however, was the exception rather than the rule. In fact, King Abdullah hasn't seemed to be making any decisions recently. A diplomatic friend recently described the monarch as "lucid for only a couple of hours a day." And last week, there was what seemed to be the height of Saudi indecision:
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was allowed to return home from a Saudi hospital after recovering from injuries sustained nearly four months ago -- despite an apparent agreement between Riyadh and Washington that, for the future good of troubled Yemen, this shouldn't happen. Whoever made the decision to ship Saleh back to Yemen is as of yet unclear, but credit for women's voting rights should probably be given to the king's daughter, Adila, who has been a known advocate of her gender's increased participation in public life, particularly driving, for several years. Adila was also seen as being the moving force in the 2009 appointment of Norah alFaiz as a deputy minister of education -- the first woman to achieve such prominence in government. But, apart from allowing Adila to speak out, King Abdullah himself has hardly been noted for behavior toward women that would pass for enlightened in
most other parts of the world. In my 1994 study of Saudi royals, "After King Fahd: Succession in Saudi Arabia," I included a cheeky footnote pointing out that then Crown Prince Abdullah had the full Islamic complement of four wives, "two of whom were semi-permanent and the other two 'rolled-over.'" Good taste inhibited me from including the same information in my updated 2009 study, "After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia." The king's replenishment of wives, however, is having a notable effect on the House of Saud's ever-growing family tree. The king's youngest son, Badr, was fathered when the monarch must have been in his late 70s. And I have since discovered that Sahab, the daughter who married (or was married off to) a son of Bahrain's King Hamad this summer, was only born in 1993, when King Abdullah would have been 70 years old. How did King Abdullah manage
to be so (pro)creative? No sniggering please but, via WikiLeaks, the State Department has provided us with a possible answer. A 2008 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh reports that King Abdullah "remains a heavy smoker, regularly receives hormone injections and 'uses Viagra excessively.'" So, the essential question remains: Is this the country Saudi women want to vote for? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
How Can I Make My Inkjet Printer Suck Less and Print Better? [Ask Lifehacker]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:00:00 AM
Dear Lifehacker, I've gone through at least 20 inkjet printers in my lifetime and they've all sucked. The ink is too expensive, the printers are built like they're made to break, the ink nozzles get clogged every few months, and I spend a fortune on paper. Is there anything I can do to make my inkjet printer suck less? More
See Angelina Jolie and Her Kids Leaving Gwen Stefani's After a Paint-Filled Playdate!
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:39:26 AM
Angelina Jolie rounded up her troops and left Gwen Stefani's London home yesterday evening following a massive playdate! Gwen's sons Zuma and Kingston
were able to let loose with Angelina's children Knox, Vivienne, Shiloh, and Zahara. The gang apparently got into some paint, as Vivienne, Shiloh, and Kingston all showed the aftermath on their faces. They even messed swords, going up to the house's around with Kingston's toy
windows to put on a show for photographers. Angelina and Gwen made sure the youngsters had dinner, and ordered takeout from Wagamama for everyone. Angelina brought her kids to Gwen's place during the afternoon when the sun was still up. Both
the Jolie-Pitts and the StefaniRossdales are currently in the UK at the moment. Gwen and Gavin Rossdale spend a few months of each year at their British home, while Angelina and Brad Pitt are abroad as he wraps up work on World War Z. View Slideshow
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poor. Economist Davide Cantoni of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, studied the Holy Roman Empire, where the Protestant Reformation began, to investigate whether regions that swung Lutheran developed faster than regions that swung to Rome. The answer: Not at all. And economists Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann of the Ifo Institute at the University of Munich argue that any link from Protestantism to wealth in Northern Europe is due not to the sense (or reality) of being elect, but to the fact that Protestants liked reading the Bible (encouraging literacy). Some have argued that choice of religion does matter -- it's just that Weber focused too narrowly on branches of Western Christianity. Marcus Noland of the Peterson Institute for International Economics uses global evidence to suggest that Buddhism or Orthodox Christianity may be your best bet if you want to see rapid economic growth. Countries with larger Buddhist and Orthodox Christian populations grew faster than the world average between 1913 and 1998, all else being equal. For others, the faith-wealth nexus isn't about what name you put on
your religion, but about the substance: For example, might those motivated by the fear of hellfire work harder and earn more? The Baylor study suggests that people who believe in heaven and hell are more likely to be satisfied in their jobs, committed to their organization, and motivated by their faith to pursue excellence at work. And these results are backed up by economists Robert Barro and Rachel McCleary of Harvard University, who have argued that countries where lots of people believe in hell see a growth rate higher by 1.0 percent per year. And yet, as economist Steven Durlauf of the National Bureau of Economic Research and colleagues have pointed out, the evidence of a link is far from clear -cut. Take one example: According to World Values Survey data, only 19 percent of Norwegians believe in hell, compared with 72 percent of Americans, and yet the World Bank suggests the average Norwegian has $5,000 more a year in income (not to mention the universal health care and long paid maternity leaves). The safest conclusion appears to be that there is no stable relationship between any
particular brand of religious belief and economic performance. The Baylor survey's results, meanwhile, suggest that those who strongly agree that God has a plan for them are about half as likely to earn more than $100,000 a year than those who strongly disagree -- evidence that some who assume God is on their side may be categorically mistaken. Given the widespread disdain for material possessions among religious figures from East and West, perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise. Being religious may well make you happier. And, if you pick right, it may make an afterlife far more pleasant. But don't expect it to make you -- or your country -- rich. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign (Holy Kaw!) Intellectual Subculture' - George M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:16:00 AM Herman, Peterson, Pilger And The threat of a negative Media Lens. stereotype increases mindwandering, which in turn can lead to a drop in performance, new research shows. Stereotype threat occurs when members of a stereotyped group are overanxious about confirming the bias against them, and consequently under perform in tasks and activities ranging from athletic events to aptitude tests. Our research shows that part of the reason stereotype threat can
Students who feel stereotyped fail to perform

impair performance is because it leads to distraction by thoughts completely unrelated to the task. This provides us with not only a richer understanding of stereotype threat itself, but also new insight into how its effects might be avoided," says Michael Mrazek, a doctoral student of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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CARLOS SLIM: Here's How To Fix The American Economy

Lloyd Grove (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:37:00 AM
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helwhose family fortune of around $74 billion makes him the worlds richest human (well ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on the Forbes list of billionaires--plays against type. I wanted to go to the restroom, but I will go now, the 71-yearold Slim tells me with a laugh, having sat down to a spur-of-themoment interview at the Metropolitan Club. This was after he patiently endured a lengthy black-tie dinner celebrating a creative leadership summit hosted by Canadian-born magazine publisher Louise Blouin. The mustachioed mogul, looking slightly rumpled in his tux, has shown up with his dashing nephew Roberto, but no entourage or security, to receive a Blouin Foundation Award for his philanthropic work. Our philosophy is you need to give non-profit money for health, nutrition, education, culture and sports, says Slim, who has funded his own foundations to the tune of $10 billion, has pledged another $100 million to a Clinton Global Initiative sustainable growth project, and forked over equally eye-popping amounts in
joint ventures with the likes of Microsofts Gates and Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad. You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And weve had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops. He adds: We do something more interesting: We do digital libraries and instead of lending books we lend laptopsYou need education, and at the end of the day, you need people to have jobs. And education now will come through technological means. You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university. Slim, who speaks heavily accented but serviceable English (which Ive taken the liberty of cleaning up here and there), also chatted about: his wish to increase his ownership stake in the New York Times(to which he lent $250 million in 2009 to help the paper through financial troubles); his love of the New York Yankees and his reasons for paying $44 million last year for the Doris
Duke mansion on Fifth Avenue; his policy prescriptions to fix the ailing American economy and stop the massive drug violence on the U.S.-Mexican border; and his claim that, contrary to widespread belief, he is by no means a monopolist in the lucrative Mexican telecom business. There are a lot of competitors. If you look, there is Nextel, Telefnica, all the TV companies together, Slim maintains, arguing that he owes his 70 percent market share to high quality of service and savvy marketing rather than preferential treatment from the Mexican politicians he takes very good care of financially. And we dont have the convergencewe cannot provide triple play [phone, Internet and cable], and we are monopolists? We operate in 20 countries, and if we were a monopoly with expensive and bad service, our customers would not be with us. We would not have their loyalty. In years past, Slim prided himself on never owning a residence outside Mexico, so I ask if hes planning to spend more time in New York now that hes bought himself an Upper East Side palace. No, no, no, Slim replies. It has six or seven floors. Do you think I will live in a house of seven
floors? I bought it to build apartments for renting or business. Ill be staying in a hotel, always. What about the Yankees? Slim is a rabid fan. Would he like to buy the team? No, he insists. I like baseball to enjoy. If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working. Its more fun to watch them play and watch Mariano Rivera [the star Panamanian relief pitcher] break records. Hes the best closing pitcher in baseball. Hes 41 years old. Its fantastic.How do we fix this recession? With the same things that were done in 2000 and 2001, when it was temporarily solved with big expenditures and very aggressive monetary and fiscal policy, he tells me. Aside from lowering taxes, we should be directing more money to the real economy, not to the financial economy. The volatility of the markets is so great that more is won or lost in a single day than in five years of accumulated interest. And thats not a good thing. I ask if he agrees with President Obamas so-called Buffett Rule, which would mandate that rich people like Warren Buffettwho benefits from a 15 percent tax rate because his money comes from capital gainspay at least the
same rate as their secretaries. I dont know what Warren Buffett pays, Slim says, but I think that the fiscal policy should be fair. You dont need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculationmeaning capital gains. Why should it be just 15 percent? Salaried people pay 35 percent. Why shouldnt that be paid on capital gains? Anything else? The welfare policies that you are followingyou and Europeare unsustainable, Slim argues. You cannot have people retiring at 60 years old and you cannot provide universal health care the way you do. Thats crazy. The focus should be the support of small and middle-sized business. That is where the employment is. And there should be investment in the real economy. Infrastructure is an example. And the best way to do that is with the private sector. Its more efficient. I ask what should be done about the terrible violence surrounding the illegal Mexican drug trade, with grisly murders in the tens of thousands. Its a problem coming from the United States, Slim says. Because of the demand? CARLOS page 44
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European Stocks Climb Most in 16 Months; Pimco's El-Erian Says "Europe Finally Gets It"; El-Erian is Wrong in Multiple Ways
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:53:00 AM
For three days European stocks have soared 7% with the beaten up banking sector up even more. This is the biggest rally since May 10, 2010. That rally did not hold, and while anything is possible, this rally is unlikely to hold either. In the meantime, enjoy the rally. European Stocks Climb Most in 16 Months Bloomberg reports European Stocks Climb Most in 16 Months Amid Effort to Contain Debt Crisis European stocks climbed the most in 16 months amid speculation policy makers will increase efforts to contain the regions sovereign-debt crisis. Rio Tinto Group led a rally in raw-material shares, surging 7 percent, as metal prices rose. BNP Paribas (BNP) SA and Societe Generale (GLE) SA, Frances biggest banks, soared more than 12 percent. MAN SE (MAN) rose 6.9 percent as European Union regulators cleared Volkswagen AG (VOW)s takeover of the truckmaker. The benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index climbed 4.4 percent to 229.88 at 4:36 p.m. in London.
Thats the biggest gain since May 10, 2010, when it jumped 7.2 percent after the EU unveiled a 750 billion-euro ($1 trillion) loan package aimed at controlling the debt crisis. The gauge has surged 6.8 percent over the past three trading days after falling to a twoyear low on Sept. 22. The Stoxx 600 fell 26 percent from this years peak in February through Sept. 22 as European and U.S. economic reports trailed forecasts, adding to concern that the global recovery is at risk. The decline left the measure trading at 9 times estimated earnings, the cheapest since March 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner predicted that European governments will step up their response to their regions debt crisis after a chiding from counterparts around the world. They heard from everybody around the world in Washington meetings last week, Geithner said on ABCs World News With Diane Sawyer program. Europes crisis is starting to hurt growth everywhere, in countries as far away as China, Brazil and India, Korea. And they heard the same message from us they heard from everybody else, which is its time
to move. Stocks Not Cheap For starters, stocks are not particularly cheap. Earnings in general will be worse than expected because consumers have increasingly thrown in the towel and much of the global economy is back in recession. Banks are still hiding losses, and European banks are way over-exposed to sovereign debt not remotely marked-to-market. While the 3-day euphoria spreads, I point out many times in the past six months where there have been 1- to 3-day rallies that all died. This time the market is giddy over EFSF leverage that the German parliament may not even approve, and the German supreme court says "not without a referendum". Please see Germany's Top Judge Throws Major Monkey Wrench Into Leveraged EFSF Machinery, Demands New Constitution and Popular Referendum for Further Powers for details. Europe Finally Gets It El-Erian Says " Europe Finally Gets It"What I learned in Washington is that Europeans finally get it, El-Erian, chief executive and co-chief investment
officer at the worlds biggest manager of bond funds, said in a radio interview today on Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt. They recognize they have deep problems and they recognize they need to do something about it. And now they are going back and will try to do something about it. This was a very important wakeup call for Europe. Talk is Cheap El-Erian says that European leaders are now "all saying the right things". What right things? There is bickering over bank capitalization ratios, bickering over how banks will be recapitalized, and bickering over whether or not Greece will default and if so what the haircuts will be. None of the talk regarding the currently hatched plan addresses haircuts that are coming. European leaders have their heads in the sand, or perhaps up Treasury Secretary Tim Geithners' ass as it was Geithner who actually hatched the ballyhooed leveraged bailout scheme. Yes, they have hatched a plan to use leverage, but that plan has enormous risks. Moreover, it is questionable at best the German supreme court will allow that plan
to stand. Even if the plan does stand, throwing trillions of Euros around just to prevent Greece from defaulting hardly seems like a sensible policy. The sensible policy would have been to let Greece default two years ago. Throwing Trillions of Euros is Not "Getting It" Europe does not "Get It", nor does El-Erian. In the end, ElErian is just another monetarist who thinks the answer to problems is sloshing around money, at taxpayer expense, to bail out banks and bondholders who should instead have to take losses for poor lending decisions. This is Not "Getting It". Rather it is "Going All In" instead of taking writeoffs that are going to happen anyway. Thus, El-Erian is wrong in more ways than one. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an EUROPEAN page 43
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Cash Crunch in China Picks Up Momentum; Chinese Economy "Teetering On the Edge"
Fundamentals I disagree with Martin about the fundamentals. I think fundamentals on China are Submitted at 9/27/2011 3:42:00 AM Todd Martin, an Asia equity Select Quotes horrible. I have been bearish on strategist at Societe General SA, Rishaad Salamat: "Are you commodities because China is talks about the outlook for China's saying at the moment that the overheating at a time global economy and credit market. Chinese economy is teetering on demand from Europe and the US Martin also discusses global the edge as a consequence of all will collapse. stocks and commodities. He this?" For further discussion, please see speaks with Rishaad Salamat on Todd Martin: "It's beginning to M i c h a e l P e t t i s : L o n g - T e r m Bloomberg Television's " On the look like that. There are signals Outlook for China, Europe, and Move Asia." that there is a cash crunch and it is the World; 12 Global Predictions The interview starts off with a picking up momentum. The written August 22. very weak idea "fundamentals offshore RMB market for one. Hopping into commodities or h a v e b e e n t h r o w n o u t t h e The repatriation of capital for two. commodity-related currencies window". However the analysis This could cascade into a property with a strengthening US dollar, gets much better as the video correction. Once that gets going, falling global demand, a potential progresses. Here are a few key you could probably get a lot of breakup of the Eurozone, a default ideas from Todd Martin. sellers jumping into the market." by Greece, etc, was a poor Rishaad Salamat: Is commodities investment idea. RMB offshore vs. onshore rate the worst asset class to be in, at Please see the link for a very nice is at a historic low. This shows the moment? discussion of 12 detailed ideas for Hong Kong or China mainlanders Todd Martin: "Commodities is the global economy. are hoarding cash, possibly to probability the worst asset class to This is what I said on August 22, repay debts. get hit. If you are in a business in response to the ideas of Pettis. The liquidation phase is seeing input prices fall and you Six Key Ideas concerning. Markets are looking h a v e s o m e p r i c i n g p o w e r into a deflationary abyss. downstream, then you could come China Will Slow Much More Recent capital inflows into out OK. Steel prices are still than China Bulls and Commodity China are misleading. It was not falling faster than iron ore, so that Bulls Think investment but rather mainland is still not one to be in yet. It's Non-food Commodities Take money repatriated to repay debt. pretty bloody. We are withing Big Hit Cash crunch in China picks up 15% of the bottom but the credit Eurozone Experiment Ends in momentum. We are going into a cycle concerns me." Breakup
new down phase and true credit cycle in China. That can take on a life of its own.
US Protectionism Takes Hold Deficit Countries Control Demand, Thus Have the Best Cards Disaster Hits BRICs Contrarian Thinking Except perhaps for points three and four (and perhaps for all six points) investors and analysts have taken the opposite view. Most are looking to buy the dip, invest in commodities, invest in commodity producing currencies, and invest in the BRICs. We did not have commodity producer decoupling in 2008 and there is no reason to expect it as debt-deflation plays out and China abandons its reckless investments in infrastructure. I suspect China slows sooner than Pettis thinks, but no sooner than the next regime change in China. Markets, however, may react well in advance. Global Deflationary Outlook Pettis does not use the word "deflation" in his writeup, but he describes a very deflationary global outlook complete with protectionism, beggar-thyneighbor policies, currency wars, and falling non-food commodity prices.
Pettis did not discuss energy, but the forces are clear: peak oil. vs. global slowdown. Given peak oil and the possibility of war over it, energy is a wildcard. China did not decouple in 2008 (except perhaps in reverse), and it will not be immune from this global slowdown either. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Germany's Top Judge Throws Major Monkey Wrench Into Leveraged EFSF Machinery, Demands New Constitution and Popular Referendum for Further Powers
Submitted at 9/26/2011 7:36:00 PM
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The major story of the day is the leveraged EFSF is dead without a popular referendum and a new German constitution says Germany's top judge. Please consider German turmoil over EU bail-outs as top judge calls for referendum Germany's top judge has issued a blunt warning that no further fiscal powers may be surrendered to Europe without a new constitution and a popular referendum, vastly complicating plans to boost the EU's rescue machinery to 2 trillion (1.7 trillion). Andreas Vosskuhle, head of the constitutional court, said politicians do not have the legal authority to sign away the birthright of the German people without their explicit consent. "The sovereignty of the German state is inviolate and anchored in perpetuity by basic law. It may not be abandoned by the legislature (even with its powers
to amend the constitution)," he said. "There is little leeway left for giving up core powers to the EU. If one wants to go beyond this limit which might be politically legitimate and desirable then Germany must give itself a new constitution. A referendum would be necessary. This cannot be done without the people," he told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. The extraordinary interview comes just days before the Bundestag votes on a bill to revamp the EU's 440bn bail-out fund (EFSF), enabling it to purchase EMU bonds preemptively and recapitalise banks. Carsten Schneider, finance spokesman for the Social Democrats, demanded that Chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schuble clarify their "true intentions " before the vote on Thursday. "A new multi-trillion programme is being cooked up in Washington and Brussels, while the wool is
being pulled over the eyes of Bundestag and German public. This is unacceptable," he said. Prince Hermann Otto zu SolmsHohensolms-Lich, the Bundestag's deputy president and finance chief for the Free Democrats (FDP) in the ruling coalition, expressed outrage over the secret plans. "Unless the German finance minister can give an immediate assurance that there will be no leveraged formula, I will not vote for this law. We might as well dispense with months of negotiations if all this means is that the Bundestag will be circumvented and served cold left -overs," he said. The accusation that German leaders are conspiring with EU officials to emasculate the Bundestag is highly sensitive, going to the core of the raging debate in recent months over EU encroachments on German democracy. The German court has already killed eurobonds. Now, if the top judge's call stands, leveraged EFSF just bit the dust
as well. Clearly the German court has had enough of Chancellor Angela Merkel, her cronies, and all the politicians who want to rob German taxpayers for their own agenda. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Jason Chen (Lifehacker) Pacific.
asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Apple Finally Confirms October 5 iPhone Event [In Brief]

Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:18:31 AM
TED: Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School Geoff Mulgan (2011)
(TEDTalks (video))
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:18:07 AM
Some kids learn by listening; to the Studio School, a new kind others learn by doing. Geoff of school in the UK where small Mulgan gives a short introduction teams of kids learn by working on
projects that are, as Mulgan puts it, "for real."
Apple's finally ended the speculation on when the iPhone event is going to take place (as well as the speculation on if it was taking place at all), but the guesses as to what's going into the phone will last until 10AM PT, October 4. More
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Because of everything. You stay with the money and the drugs. We stay with the weapons and the violence. And youre selling the weapons to the consumers in Mexico. And the retail price [of the drugs] is, I dont know how much bigger, lets say ten times in the U.S. what it is in Mexico. And that means the demand is here and the money is here. Its like what used to happen during prohibition in Chicago. You had a lot of violence there. Whats the solution? Follow the money. Would it help to legalize the drugs and, as with prohibition, eliminate the incentive for crime? It doesnt help, Slim says. It finishes. Not that hes necessarily suggesting that prescription. We dont know the consequences in health. How bad these drugs are, Slim says. But I think we should be doing more work together. Slims empire, though based on telecommunications, spans around 200 companies and 220,000 employees in such diverse
industries as hotels, banking, construction, cigarettes, softdrinks, mining, bicycles, airlines, railways and printing. But its his investment in the New York Timesof which he owns slightly more than 7 percent, with warrants to increase his holdings to 16 percent by 2015that has raised his public profile in the United States. I ask what his intentions are. Its a financial investment, says Slim, whose $250 million loan at 14 percent interest, to help the media company through some cash-flow problems, was paid back in full ahead of schedule. It was a very good sign when they paid back the loan early, and if I invest part of the payment or part of the interest, its because I think its a good company and a great brand. Now theyre doing buybacks and the dividend is so high, et cetera, and theyre managing the newspaper in a very good way. We are not speculating. We are there for a long time. But if the stock goes down more, it will be interestingbecause it will come
back more. What if they start writing critical articles about Carlos Slim? They have done that. Any reaction to the appointment of Jill Abramson as the new editor? Im sorry. Who? Obviously, some matters are below Slims paygrade. This post originally appeared on The Daily Beast. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The Guy Who Created Facebook's iPad App Just Quit Out Of Frustration And Took A Job At Google BBC Speechless As Trader Says: 'The Collapse Is Coming ... And Goldman Rules The World' Guess Who Made The Highest Bid For Hulu
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen Celebrate 50/50 With Anna Kendrick
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:08:30 AM
The stars of 50/50 gathered at NYC's Ziegfeld Theater last night in order to toast their East Coast premiere. Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt posed for photos with Anna Kendrick ahead of the screening, and then reconvened afterward for a bash at the Four Seasons restaurant. It's a big month for Seth, who's rumored to be tying the knot with longtime girlfriend Lauren Miller in the coming weeks. Lauren was on hand for his latest big evening, decked out in a pink plaid dress. Joe was apparently early for the whole affair and tweeted from his car beforehand. He wrote, "Not allowed to be early to a premiere.
So yeah, sitting in a parked car." His good humor was also in evidence during the film's junket up in Toronto. We caught a few minutes with the actor, and Joseph dished about The Dark Knight Rises, music, and more. View Slideshow
Morning tugboat notes

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 7:45:18 AM
Good morning! Woke up early and got in a 7AM ride.
Was a good time because I caught a huge cruise ship coming into port. I had caught the tail ends of a few of them but never one full-on. Got off the trail at the 46th St port, where the Intrepid is
docked, and went all the way out
on the pier and got some pics. That picture doesn't really capture the enormity of it. Here are some closeups that attempt to give a sense of perspective. And here's a romantic picture of a
tugboat in NY Harbor just for kicks. Map: 1 hour, 8 minutes; 11.78 miles.
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How To Seduce Her

David Wygant (AskMen Latest Articles)
Firefox 7 Available Now, Offers Improved Memory Handling and Boosted Speed [Updates]
Alan Henry (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:45:00 AM
The No. 1 mistake men make is that they feel a need to talk dirty to women in order to get them turned on. Men will spend days thinking about what the right sexual words are to say, how to say them and the mechanics behind why they should be saying it.Do you want to know how to seduce her? You have to believe that you're the best lover that she will ever have. With every woman I've have ever slept with, I have always believed that I will be her best lover -- period. The first kiss Youve got to pay attention to the details, and it all starts with the first kiss. After I go in for the first kiss, I always like to leave her wanting a little bit more. Thats confidence, guys. When she feels like you want more, take it back a step. When she feels like you know exactly what you're doing, she will get really turned on.The first kiss is nothing more than a peck on the lips, then pulling back and making direct eye contact with her. When I do finally kiss her, I always feel out and match her kissing style. I'll make sure that my tongue moves just the way her tongue moves, whether its hard or soft, a bit rough, or more reserved and gentle. This way she feels like shes actually
Win/Mac/Linux: Firefox 7 surprised us in our latest round of browser speed tests, and this morning, Mozilla transitioned it from beta to official release. The new version's biggest improvement is in memory handling, which the Mozilla team being kissed by a guy who is in tune with her. Touching her When I touch her, I do so very slowly, and I pay close attention to detail. Its all about the seduction process. The slower I seduce and the more patient I am, the more shes going to open up sexually. I always make sure that her pleasure comes first. When I know that I am going to have sex with a woman for the very first time, I'll make sure that she climaxes first. I'll usually go down on her, then I'll look up at her as I am going down and ask her how she likes it. Faster or slower? More pressure? Are you enjoying it? Its for her pleasure, but a lot of it is because Ive got my ego, too. I want to learn everything that turns her on. Most of the time, she will say, I like it exactly the way you're doing this. The reason is because she knows that, above all, she feels safe in my presence and that she can express herself sexually. When it comes to seducing her, the key is to get her to feel comfortable and not forced, coerced or guilted into sex. What she really wants is to feel comfortable around you. She wants to feel safe. So how about the dirty talk? It's part of being able to open up sexually like never before in an intimate relationship. To me, its really important, but it has to be done right. Once I get to know her, I'll ask her, What do you like sexually? What fantasies would you like to pursue? What do you think about when you masturbate? More on how to seduce her, next... Continue Reading
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Komisarjevsky Jurors See Photos Of Petit Girls' Bedrooms - Hartford Courant

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Waterbury Republican American Komisarjevsky Jurors See Photos Of Petit Girls' Bedrooms Hartford Courant Jurors in the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky viewed photos Tuesday morning of evidence police found and processed while investigating the deadly 2007 Cheshire home invasion.... Audio Tape of Accused Killer
Gives Chilling Account of Deadly Connecticut Home... Fox News Fire photos of Petit bedrooms shown at Komisarjevsky trial WTNH Komisarjevsky jurors see photos of Petit girls' burned bedrooms (with photos) Torrington Register Citizen Waterbury Republican American - Meriden Record-Journal all 414 news articles
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Greek PM appeals for German debt funds

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:32:48 AM
George Papandreou admits mistakes but tells business leaders in Berlin that funding will help move Greece forward. Last Modified: 27 Sep 2011 13:32 Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has appealed to German business leaders to maintain their support for his country in the face of a crippling debt crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the same conference, said her country would "do everything we can" to aid the Greek recovery and restore market confidence by boosting demand. Papandreou, who spoke in Berlin on Tuesday before talks with the G e r m a n chancellor, said Greece had made mistakes in the past but would repay all of its loans. He assured investors that their money would be used to take the country forward, citing laws and reforms the country has made in a bid to explain why Greece deserved help. "If people feel only punishment and scorn, this crisis will not become an opportunity, it will become a lost cause. And we are determined to make this a success," he said. He told a conference of business leaders that Greek politicians and
the people were making "superhuman" efforts to get on top of the crisis but warned that it would take time. Tackling the deficit Merkel is due to meet Papandreou for talks later on Tuesday, as part of European efforts to tackle the massive deficit in Greece. However, analysts say the talks may not yield much more than giving Papandreou an idea of where the continent's wealthiest country stands on Greece's future. Meanwhile, stock markets in Europe opened positively, with most indices up more than two per cent. Across the globe, Asian markets rebounded on Tuesday, with Hong Kong closing up more than four per cent, as a European deal to help the eurozone out of its crisis began to take shape. Stung by criticism for failing to stem the debt crisis, European policymakers have been working on new ways to stop the fallout from Greece's near-bankruptcy from inflicting more damage on the world economy. Al Jazeera's Samah el-Shahat discusses the debt crisis Analysts say a bailout fund of about $2.7 trillion would be needed if the crisis spreads to Italy and Spain, with some media outlets reporting that the eurozone was debating an increase in the fund to that amount.
But German officials have downplayed talk of any quick and dramatic change of course in tackling the debt crisis, such as further increasing the size of the $595bn rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility. Berlin underlined its attachment to its often-criticised step-by-step approach, with Wolfgang Schaeuble, the finance minister, insisting on Monday that there was no plan to boost the fund's war chest. "We are giving it the tools so it can work if necessary," he said, referring to the new powers allowing the fund to lend to countries such as Italy even before they hit cash flow crises. "Then we will use it effectively but we do not have the intention of boosting its volume." Merkel has dismissed talk of allowing a controlled default of Greece, insisting instead on the step-by-step implementation of decisions already taken - a plan in which investors are losing faith. Her meeting Papandreou comes ahead of a parliamentary vote in Germany on approving plans to beef up the rescue fund. Al Jazeera's Tim Friend, reporting from Athens, Greece, said Merkel is the eurozone leader with the most clout, due German's financial might. "Merkel has problems of her own with her domestic audience," our
corresondent said. "The Germans increasingly don't like the thought that they are bailing out countries, particularly Greece, that they suspect haven't looked after their own finances well enough in the past. "There's an element of public relations going on here Papandreou being seen to make the effort and Angela Merkel being seen to be stern with him and keeping him on track with Greece's austerity package. "But the real issue is that Greek people are running out of hope. And they cant see any light at the end of the tunnel." Greek austerity plan In July, when it became clear that Athens needed more help, eurozone leaders agreed on a second bailout, although several aspects of that $11bn deal still need to be finalised. The Greek government's new measures to secure the release of vital aid include a new property tax to be paid through electricity bills to make it easier for the state to collect, as well as pension cuts and more tax hikes. On Tuesday night, politicians are expected to approve the deeply unpopular property tax bill, which electricity company workers have threatened not to collect, as they say the power utility should not be used as a tax collection system. Greeks have been outraged by the new steps, as they come on top of
previous austerity measures which failed to sufficiently reduce the country's budget deficit. Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer, reporting from Berlin, said: "Greece is sticking to the plan and working with the IMF, EU and ECB and does not want to default". Debt inspectors from the IMF, European Commission and ECB, known collectively as the troika, are expected to return to Athens this week to resume a financial review suspended earlier this month amid talk of delayed implementation of reforms. But no specific date has been set for their return, and the European Commission made clear on Monday that no decision on releasing the funds would be reached during a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg next Monday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Typhoon Nesat batters Philippines

Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:36:33 AM
crushed by a collapsed structure in Manila, while a baby fell into a raging river in an eastern At least 16 people killed as p r o v i n c e . powerful storm spreads extreme More than 100 other people were weather and causes severe floods rescued, including fishermen in Manila. Last Modified: 27 Sep whose boats capsized in rough 2011 16:36 Al Jazeera's Marga seas after ignoring warnings not Ortigas reports from Manila on to set sail, he said. t h e d e v a s t a t i n g i m p a c t o f Nesat slammed into the main Typhoon Nesat island of Luzon before dawn, Typhoon Nesat has smashed into bringing maximum sustained the Philippines, leaving at least 16 winds of up to 140km an hour and people dead, with the capital gusts clocking in at 170km an Manila enduring waist-deep hour. floods, blackouts and dramatic It later weakened while slicing storm surges. through Luzon, but dumped heavy The Philippines is hit by about 20 rains throughout the day across major storms annually, many of the whole island that is home to them deadly, but the government about 48 million people. s a i d N e s a t w a s o n e o f Damage in Manila the strongest the country had Parts of the capital, a sprawling faced this year, with its rain and megacity of more than 12 million, wind path twice as big as average. endured major flooding, with "This storm is very intense, the some of the worst impacts seen rain is strong and winds are around the historic bayside area. powerful ... we are hearing of Huge waves crashed into Manila rivers about to burst their banks, Bay's seawall, sending water and there are evacuations ongoing spraying over into the picturesque in different areas," civil defence Roxas Boulevard and closing one chief Benito Ramos told the AFP of the city's main arteries to news agency on Tuesday. traffic. "We do not have exact figures on The ground floor of Manila how big the damage is ... as the Hospital, which sits on the storm is still battering us." boulevard facing the bay, was Ramos said four of the dead were submerged in knee-deep waters,
forcing medical staff to relocate patients to the second floor, radio station DZBB said. The five-star Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel, located on the bay, was also evacuated, while the US embassy was partly submerged, according to rescue workers. Nearly two million households suffered power outages in the capital and surrounding areas, according to the Manila Electric Company, and many people remained without electricity by nightfall. Amid the chaos, all schools were suspended and government offices were closed, while dozens of domestic flights in and out of the capital were cancelled. The Philippine Stock Exchange suspended trading, and Manila's main elevated railway system ground to a halt due to power failures. Mass evacuations A controlled release of water from the Angat Dam in Bulacan province just north of Manila on Tuesday flooded around 25 towns, provincial governor Willy Alvarado said, though there were no reports of casualties. "We will continue evacuating people into the night," he said on state radio.
The state weather bureau said Nesat was expected to blow into the South China Sea by Wednesday, although bad weather would likely persist for most of the week. The agricultural provinces of Isabela and Aurora in the east of the country, among the Philippines' leading rice producing areas, were the most heavily affected initially, the state weather bureau said. Isabela Governor Faustino Dy said about 1,400 people had been relocated to 17 evacuation centres from four coastal towns in his province to avoid powerful storm surges. About 110,000 residents had already been evacuated from several flood prone towns in Albay, another eastern province, on Monday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Prospect Park Announces New Home for 'All My Children' & 'One Life to Live'
Chris Harnick (AOL TV)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 7:50:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Prospect Park has announced the new home for'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live': The Online Network, TOLN for short. TOLN is currently set for launch in January 2012, which confirms soap fans will have to wait another couple of months for the return of 'All My Children.' When it debuts, 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' will be the tentpole programs, with other firstrun shows in the comedy, drama and scripted genres joining the two soaps. "We are creating TOLN to conveniently deliver fans of quality television long form programming anytime and anywhere," Prospect Park founders Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz said in a statement. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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Israel okays new buildings in east Jerusalem

Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:11:55 PM
Construction of 1,100 housing units cleared, despite Palestinian demands for settlement freeze to renew peace talks. Last Modified: 27 Sep 2011 17:11 Netanyahu has refused to halt settlement building despite repeated calls from Palestinians [Reuters] Israel's government has granted the go-ahead for construction of 1,100 new housing units in illegally occupied east Jerusalem, raising already heightened tensions fuelled by last week's Palestinian move to seek full UN membership. Israel's interior ministry said on Tuesday that the homes would be built in Gilo, a Jewish enclave in southeast Jerusalem. It said construction could begin after a mandatory 60-day period for public comment, a process that is largely a formality. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as their future capital. They have demanded that Israel halt all settlement construction in east Jerusalem and the adjacent occupied West Bank - territories captured and illegally occupied by Israel since1967 - as a condition for resuming peace talks. Israel says all of Jerusalem, home to Jewish, Muslim and Christian holy sites, is part of its capital and will not be divided. Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, swiftly condemned the
Israeli decision, saying it amounted to "1,100 no's to the resumption of peace talks." He urged the United States, Israel's closest and most important ally, to change its position and support the Palestinians in their quest for UN membership. With peace talks stalled for the past three years, the Palestinians last week asked the UN to recognise an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. The US opposes the measure and
has vowed to veto the request in the Security Council. Like Israel, the US says a Palestinian state can only be established through negotiations. In an interview published Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he would not freeze settlement construction again. Speaking to the Jerusalem Post, he said that a 10-month moratorium on new construction last year failed to yield results. He said he saw no need for another freeze.
Netanyahu says negotiations should begin without any preconditions. 'Counterproductive' The European Union's chief diplomat on Tuesday lamented Israel's green-light to expand the Gilo settlement and urged the government to reverse its decision. "It is with deep regret that I learned today about the decision to advance in the plans for settlement expansion in east Jerusalem, with new housing units in Gilo," said Catherine Ashton,
EU foreign policy chief. "This plan should be reversed. Settlement activity threatens the viability of an agreed two-state solution and runs contrary to the Israeli-stated commitment to resume negotiations," Ashton told the European parliament. She recalled that the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers - the EU, Russia, the UN and the US have pleaded with Israelis and Palestinians to "refrain from provocative actions" if talks are to resume. Richard Miron, spokesman for UN Mideast envoy Robert Serry, said the Israeli decision was "very concerning'' and ignored the Quartet's appeal. "This sends the wrong signal at this sensitive time,'' he said. Meanwhile, the US state department said it was deeply disappointed by Israel's decision to expand its settlement and called the move "counterproductive". This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster demo available now

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 PM
NBC to Stream 'Up All EXCLUSIVE: 'Extreme Couponing' Night' and 'Whitney' Season 2 Sneak Peek Before Network Air
Jean Bentley (AOL TV)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:15:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews, Fall TV TLC's latest reality hit,'Extreme Couponing,' returns Wed., Sept. 28 at 10 PM ET for its second season. Judging from AOL TV's exclusive sneak peek at the episode, the conscientious couponers profiled this time around will be even more extreme than those featured in Season 1. April, a stay-at-home mom of seven teenagers, stores her goodies in her basement, which she refers to as "the bunker."
Two important Xbox accessories will enhance your enjoyment of a new demo available on Xbox Live right now: a Kinect (required) and a child (optional). The demo of Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster will probably be a more magical, heartwarming experience if you experience it with an authentic youngster, but we won't Chris Harnick (AOL TV) on Yahoo. look askance at you if you take a Though her 500 jars of pasta Submitted at 9/27/2011 7:30:00 AM This follows a similar strategy de facto adults-only trip into the sauce and 300 bottles of barbecue used by other networks. Fox storybook world. sauce are out in the open, the junk Filed under: TV News, Fall TV released the first episode of 'New Your Kinect may look askance at food is stacked in a locked room NBC will stream'Up All Night' Girl' on iTunes, Hulu, Fox On- you, however, if you get too close she calls "the cookie jar." and'Whitney' before they hit the Demand, and on star Zooey to the TV or step outside its view. Lest you think April's shopping network. D e s c h a n e l ' s b l o g Sesame Street: Once Upon a habits parallell that of a hoarder's, In a new partnership with Yahoo, HelloGiggles.com. Despite the Monster demo available now she outlines the difference this week's new episodes of 'Up widespread viewing,'New Girl' originally appeared on Joystiq on between her organized stockpile All Night' and 'Whitney' will debuted to solid numbers, even Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST. and a hoarder's -- a layer of dust. debut online Tues., Sept. 27. doing better than its lead-in 'Glee.' Please see our terms for use of "Dust is the dividing factor," she According to the Hollywood Permalink| Email this| Linking feeds. says. Reporter, previous episodes of Blogs| Comments Permalink| Email this| Comments Check out AOL TV's exclusive both series will also be streamed look at the'Extreme Couponing' Season 2 premiere below. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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Can you still trust John Deere?

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wrong and to ask the questions owners and consumers might ask. We also spoke with Kawasaki, Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:54:59 AM which makes the engine involved Can you still trust John Deere? in the breaking fans. What we Nothing runs like a Deere, says found suggests that Deere is John Deeres slogan. And for taking some smart steps to y e a r s , C o n s u m e r R e p o r t s address the problems and prevent rigorous tests and brand-repair them from reoccurring. But our surveys have consistently borne research also indicated that the that out for the companys lawn engine-fan problem could affect tractors, which have been tops in other equipment from some CRs performance Ratings and commercial brands. r e v i e w s a n d i n o u r a n n u a l Engine-fan failures reliability surveys. Thats why we Something in the mix went were especially surprised by three awry, is how Greg Weekes, a recent recalls of Deere tractors J o h n D e e r e g r o u p p r o d u c t announced by the Consumer marketing manager, described Product Safety Commission in w h a t w e n t w r o n g w i t h t h e just three days. composite cooling fan on the The recalls affect seven models Kawasaki FS541V engines used of John Deere lawn tractors and in Deeres X300, X300R, and more than 55,000 machines X304 Select Series tractors. overall, and include hardware K a w a s a k i h a d m o d i f i e d i t s failures for the tractor brakes and engines to comply with the latest blade-braking system along with r e s t r i c t i o n s f r o m t h e an engine fan that breaks, causing Environmental Protection Agency the engine to overheat and o n e n g i n e e m i s s i o n s , s a i d possibly catch fire. The Deere- Weekes. He confirmed that the related recalls were based on fan design hadnt been changed, information Deere reported to the but that the problem lay in a CPSC on its own and came only faulty batch of fans from a days after the companys oldest supplier. factory celebrated its 100th Of about 36,500 lawn tractors anniversary. sold nationwide at John Deere After we reported on the recalls, dealers between September 2010 Consumer Reports interviewed and July 2011, the recall notice representatives from John Deere reported 163 failures, including to better understand what went 83 incidents of engines melting or
was of roughly 15,500 John Deere model D100, D110 (photo), D120, and D130 lawn tractors sold nationwide at Deere dealers, Home Depot, and Lowes from December 2010 through September 2011. The hardware used to hold the mower bladebrake assemblies on the mower engine fires and one minor burn decks was breaking. A similar injury. The repair is freeJohn recall, in which hardware used to D e e r e s a i d t h a t i t s d e a l e r hold the brake assembly to the technicians can do the repair on t r a n s m i s s i o n w a s b r e a k i n g , the homeowners premises or will resulted in the recall of 5,200 units sold pay for transporting the tractor to D 1 0 0 nationwideexcept in the dealer if necessary. Kawasaki sells the same engine C a l i f o r n i a a t J o h n D e e r e to other outdoor-equipment dealers, Home Depot, and Lowes manufacturers, including Exmark from October 2010 through and Bob-Cattwo commercial September 2011. About 1,920 brands. While there have been no D100 models fall under both other recalls related to this engine, recalls. Kawasaki has issued a service According to John Deere, the b u l l e t i n t o i t s d i s t r i b u t o r s stray bolts had broken loose instructing them to replace the b e c a u s e o f h y d r o g e n assembly, at company expense, embrittlementa manufacturing when a unit is taken into the shop defect that can occur during the for any reason. Our advice to baking process when bolts and lawn pros: Take Kawasaki up on other fasteners are electroplated for corrosion resistance. After the its free offer. process, the metal fasteners Brake and blade-brake failures Two of the John Deere recalls became brittle and snapped when resulted after sharp-eyed staffers t i g h t e n e d . T h e p r o b l e m i s spotted fallen bolts in both the especially hard to spot, says assembly area and on a warehouse Deere, since breakages can occur floor, where the tractors awaited a s l o n g a s 4 8 h o u r s a f t e r shipment. That, once Deere assembly. The company told us it contacted the CPSC, ultimately i s m o v i n g t o a p r i c i e r resulted in two recalls. One recall manufacturing process for its
fasteners to preclude further hydrogen embrittlement. What to do Consumer Reports has tested and recommended three of the recalled John Deere models: the X300, X304, and D110(a CR Best Buy). We bought our test models before the problems first arose and found no such issues during our tests. The three recall notices list serial numbers for the models included. John Deere is sending letters to all registered owners. You can also call the company at 800-537-8233 or visit www.johndeere.com for more information. The free repair applies no matter where you purchased your tractor, including Home Depot or Lowes, where Deere has posted recall notices. Given the well-defined nature of the problems and Deeres proactive approach, Consumer Reports will continue to recommend these models. Well also continue to test new models and to monitor both the manufacturer and our brand-repair histories. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Buckycubes 125-Piece Magnetic Set - 2 Pack

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:05 AM
Bizarroballs Far away, in an office on a planet that looks a lot like ours, except with corners Bad morning, Kram. Me must have listen with you! OK, Asil. Me am your supervisor, so me must do everything you say. Lower management have issues with your performance. Say you too productive at work. What me do right? You get too much work done. File too many reports, enter too many data. We am tired of you not wasting time. You not even play with Buckycubes. Company provide you whole case of rare Bizarro-Earth magnets. Now, months earlier, Buckycubes am sitting unopened. You not build any shapes. You not spend any time just kneading them with your toes. We am starting to think you care about job. Me am sorry. Me am compelled to get work done. It am lifelong non-dysfunction. Sanity am no excuse. This very unserious anti-matter. Expectations for someone in your position very low. We must take inaction when you exceed them.
And why you not eat Ikilas yogurt in fridge? We all know you am one who didnt eat it. Me not know what come under me. Me see yogurt and could resist eating it. Me know such behavior acceptable. Me make sure it happen again. First, me end with your appearance. Why you am wearing collared shirt and pleated khakis? This am office. We must maintain unprofessional appearance. Me can do worse. Yesterday me will wear mesh muscle shirt, sequined thong, ski boots, and novelty tam with fake dreadlocks hanging from it. Me not sorry. It am too early for that. Dirty up your desk. Payroll will send you first paycheck. You am hired! Warranty: 90 Day Woot Limited Warranty Condition: New Recommended for Ages 14+ Product Warning: KEEP AWAY FROM ALL CHILDREN! Do not put in nose or mouth. Swallowed magnets can stick together across intestines causing serious infections and death. Seek medical attention if magnets are swallowed or inhaled. Buckycubes should be kept away from electrical or magnetic devices, including but not limited
to credit cards, hard drives, or pacemakers. If a Buckycubes should become damaged or cracked, discontinue use immediately. Features: 250 Powerful Rare Earth Magnets Cubes Buckycubes are even easier than Buckyballs to pick up Bend em. Fold em. Slide em. Glide em. Stack em to the ceiling, build buildings, or simply fidget for fun Watch new dimensions unfold as each cube snaps into place just the way you want it to Can be shaped, molded, torn apart and snapped together in unlimited ways Buckycubes are all about fun and require little more than kneading them in your hands Make sculptures, puzzles, patterns, shapes, stick stuff to the fridge, or even invent a new game Each set contains 125 powerful Rare Earth Magnets Each Buckycube has two poles one side repels, the other attracts Includes a Quick Start Sheet to help you get started making basic shapes Real Actual Field Tests: Buckycubes cousin, BuckyBalls Buckycubes in Action
Additional Photos: Ummm not sure what this is supposed to be 3 Diamonds Cube Cross Square Wheel Thing Towers Triangle Tower Multiplier ZigZag Package Contents Packaging In the box: (2) Maxfield & Oberton 125Piece Buckycubes Rare Earth Magnets Cubes (2) Carrying Case (2) Quick Start Guide Recall Notice: Maxfield & Oberton voluntarily recalled Buckyballs High Powered Magnets earlier last year because their packaging was labeled Ages 13+ and this did not meet the mandatory toy standard F96308. The firm received only two reports of ingestion and there are no known resulting injuries. Click here for more information. Discuss this product Price: $24.99 I want one!
Photos: President Obama visits to Colorado throughout the years - Denver Post
Submitted at 9/27/2011 4:17:56 PM
Reuters Photos: President Obama visits to Colorado throughout the years Denver Post (Denver Post Photo/ Craig Walker) President Barack Obama take off his jacket as he starts to answer questions during a townhall meeting at Central High School, in Grand Junction, Co. About 600 people who have been selected through a lottery for a 75... OH DAMN! Obama Gets Heckled In Hollywood And Called The Anti-Christ ( PHOTOS x... Global Grind all 813 news articles
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'L Word' Actress Says She Poll: 28% Of Americans Who Take Prescription Meds Resort To Was Scolded By Southwest Staff For Kissing Girlfriend Risky Behavior To Save Money
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Consumer Reports believes that doctors should be more proactive in thinking about the impact of Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:30:00 AM medical care on their patients' With the economy and job finances. For example, the survey market still stuck in "blargh," found that not all doctors are m o r e p e o p l e a r e m a k i n g routinely prescribing generics, potentially dangerous decisions w h i c h c a n l e a d t o a h u g e about their health care, all in the difference in cost to the patient. name of stretching their dollar just "Doctors need to be stewards of a little bit farther. their patients' resource concerns," O u r s u r v e y i n g s i b l i n g s a t says John Santa, M.D., M.P.H., Consumer Reports have just director of the Consumer Reports released the results of their annual Health Ratings Center. "When prescription drug poll and found you walk into your doctor's office, that 48% of Americans currently you are a patient, first and taking prescription medicines foremost, but you are also a answered that they had cut health- consumer, and your doctor should care costs by, among other things, be tuned into this, especially putting off doctor's visits or during these tough times." medical procedures, declining Other survey highlights: tests, or ordering cheaper drugs *While generics account for the from outside of the U.S. Even majority of prescriptions among more alarming, this is up 9% from those taking drugs regularly, 39 just one year earlier. percent of Americans reported a Additionally, 28% of people concern or misconception about taking prescription meds have generics. gone even further to save money, *Despite the costly burden of engaging in potentially dangerous prescription drugs, very few b e h a v i o r l i k e n o t f i l l i n g a doctors raise the issue of cost prescription (16%), taking an d u r i n g t h e i r m e e t i n g s w i t h expired medication (13%), or patients. Only 5% of patients skipping a scheduled dosage f o u n d o u t t h e c o s t o f a without asking a doctor or prescription drug during a doctor pharmacist (12%). visit, while nearly two-thirds
(64%) first learned about cost when picking up their medicine at the pharmacy. *88% of Americans who take a prescription drug harbor some misgivings about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the prescribing habits of their doctors. Nearly three-quarters (72%) agreed completely or somewhat that pharmaceutical companies have too much influence on the drugs that doctors prescribe. Just over half (52%) agreed that doctors are too eager to prescribe a drug rather than consider alternate methods of managing a condition. And 49 % agreed that the drugs that doctors prescribe are influenced by gifts from pharmaceutical companies. For the full survey results, go to ConsumerReports.org/health. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:17:21 PM
Leisha Hailey, actress and former star of the Showtime's The L Word says she was given a talking -to from a Southwest Airlines flight attendant after the employee deemed a smooch between the actress and her girlfriend was unfriendly for the family environment. The actress and her girlfriend were set to fly from from Baltimore to St. Louis on Monday, but they claim that a mid -flight kiss resulted in being scolded a flight attendant. Hailey Tweeted, "I have been discriminated against by @SouthwestAir... Flt. attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok.... Since when is showing affection toward someone you love illegal? I want to know what Southwest Airlines considers as 'family.' I know plenty of wonderful same-sex families I would like to introduce them to. Boycott @SouthwestAir if you are gay. They don't like us." In a statement, Southwest says the flight attendant's actions had nothing to do with the couple being lesbians:
We received several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive... Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender... The conversation escalated to a level that was better resolved on the ground, as opposed to in flight. In response, Hailey Tweeted, "I didn't realize a small peck on the lips is regarded as excessive and never once did your stewardess mention other passengers." Leisha Hailey, 'L Word' actress, scolded by Southwest Airlines for kissing her girlfriend[NY Daily News] Leisha Hailey, 'L Word' actress, kicked off Southwest flight for kissing girlfriend[Washington Post] From ConsumerReports.org: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Senators say OnStar data More Groupon collection invades privacy Employees Sue Over
Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:14:59 AM
Senators say OnStar data collection invades privacy Several U.S. senators have voiced concerns about privacy after news that OnStar's new terms and conditions of service will share GPS tracking and other data from vehicles, even if owners no longer subscribe to the service. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) says that the new policy by OnStar is a blatant invasion of privacy. Senators Chris Coons (DDel.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) have also spoken out about privacy concerns in regard to OnStar's recent policy changes, which take effect in December. Schumer also called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate OnStar's planned policy changes. The changes that OnStar, GM's telematic service, notified subscribers about, include the following: "We may share or sell anonymized data (including location, speed, and safety belt
usage) with third parties for any purpose..." "Unless the Data Connection in your Vehicle is deactivated, information about your Vehicle may continue to be collected even if you do not have a Plan." A spokesman for the General Motors subsidiary told Wired that OnStar does hear from organizations requesting access to such information. OnStar officials also told news outlets that maintaining the wireless connection, in part, makes it "easier to re-enroll" the vehicle into the telematic service, and the data OnStar collects has not been sold to a third party. Yet. After news outlets covered the policy changes, OnStar responded by saying: OnStar has and always will give our customers
the choice in how we use their data. Weve also been very open with our customers about changes in services and privacy terms. A video posted on YouTube by OnStar features Joanne Finnorn, vice president of subscriber services at OnStar, explaining the changes. As we previously reported, Although "anonymized data" is said to be stripped of any information that can be used to tie specific data to a specific OnStar user, some members concerned about personal privacy are questioning how that works. Senator charges GM's OnStar invades privacy[USA Today] OnStar Privacy Statement (Effective as of Dec. 2011)(PDF) [OnStar.com] OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service[Wired] Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
Unpaid Overtime
Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 PM
Groupon was hit with a second employee lawsuit alleging that the company failed to pay overtime. It's only the latest in a series of major setbacks for the social coupon site casting its future into doubt. PaidContent reports the class action lawsuit asserts that the employees who were "dealvetters," who reviewed the contracts with merchants, routinely worked over 40 hours a week and were not paid overtime. That would be a violation of Federal employment law. That lawsuit is on top of the one filed in August that would cover over 1,000 Groupon salespeople. They also seek overtime pay. Recently the company's COO and sales chief left. Its IPO was put on hold because the company used an accounting method to determine its income called "CSOI," or "consolidated segment operating income." This method is not used by any other firm. It just happened to exclude its two
biggest costs, the costs of marketing and getting customers. Between that, these lawsuits, the firm raising $950 million and paying out $810 million of it in bonuses to it's top dogs, you have to wonder how much longer they can keep it up. I never got into Groupon myself. I've been around people who were using Groupons and even benefited from some of their free food and whatnot, but I've never bought a Groupon. I prefer to go to places that I like or sound good based on my taste, and not pick because there's a deal to get me there. Groupon Hit With New Lawsuit[PaidContent] This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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The Debunker: Ken Jennings vs. Map Myths, Part 4

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 AM
Every Tuesday, we ask Jeopardy! know-it-all Ken Jennings to blow our minds by debunking a cherished myth that everybody knows even though its dead wrong. Since Kens new book Maphead, about geography nerds, is in stores now, we pulled him away from the gazetteer long enough for him to demolish four incredibly wrong facts about geography. Map Myth #4: The Sahara Is the Worlds Largest Desert. I know you want to appeal to a map here, Sahara-defenders. Look at its huge beigeness! Its like, half of Africa, the second-biggest continent! Saharan is actually a dictionary word meaning vast, desert-like. How could it not be the biggest? But heres the rub: a geographers definition of desert has nothing to do with temperature, or sandstorms, or
cacti, or dudes on camels, or any of that stuff. If you want to be a desert, all you have to do is not rain. The general rule of thumb: if less than ten inches of precipitation falls somewhere in a year, then its a desert. And the Earths driest continent gets much less than that only eight inches annually at its wettest spots, along
the coast. Yes, the worlds biggest desert is actually chilly Antarctica. Much of the Antarctic interior gets only a couple inches of snow a year, and cold air carries so little moisture that the relative humidity can be as low as 1% . If youre going to the South Pole, bring Chapstick. So whats the Sahara then the
worlds largest sandy desert? Nope, thats another misconception. Most of the Sahara is a rocky plateau, not a sea of dunes. (The Arabian Desert is the worlds largest sandy desert.) The Sahara is usually called the worlds largest hot desert. I know it must hurt the locals to have to agree to this asterisk, but what can they do? Antarctica is two million square miles bigger than their puny runner-up desert. It beats the Sahara cold. Quick Quiz: What fictional alien planet is named for the southernmost province of the Saharan nation of Tunisia? Ken Jennings is the author of Brainiac, Ken Jennings's Trivia Almanac, and the new Maphead. Follow him at ken-jennings.com or on Twitter as@KenJennings. Photo by Flickr member http2007, used under a Creative Commons License.
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Disney AppMATes: Toy cars that come to life on the iPad

look easy to use. And there's a lot of replay potential in the virtualworld connection, to which new Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:34:23 AM content can be added endlessly. Disney AppMATes: Toy cars The big question, though, is that come to life on the iPad whether mom and dad want to Kids love tablets. Some toy share their expensive iPad for kids companies, such as Vtech, to play on. No doubt anticipating LeapFrog, and Fisher-Price, are potential hesitation on parents' responding to this love by retailers). Each of the Cars 2 toys part, Disney also announced a creating tablet-toy hybrids (and has sensors on its base that very well padded iPad case, also we plan to test these in the near identify it uniquely to the iPad. To with a Cars 2 theme ($49, coming future). But Disney and Spin play with the cars on the tablet, this fall). Master are taking a different and you download a free app and Subscribe now! creative tack with AppMATes: "a simply place the toy on the S u b s c r i b e t o new line of toys that comes to life screen. You can then explore, ConsumerReports.org for expert Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) digitally when used with an Apple race, and perform missions in the Ratings, buying advice and Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:30:00 PM iPad," for ages 4 and up. virtual world of Radiator Springs r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f The AppMATes toys are Disney- by moving your car around. (See products. Update your feed Though reports from February of a planned film adaptation of Pixar Cars 2 characters; they the embedded video below for a preferences Techland's then yet-to-be-released come two at a time in a $19.99 demo.) zombie title Dead Island were package (available in October at AppMATes are inexpensive and struck down by the studio, Apple stores and other mass legitimate plans for the movie were revealed earlier today. Lionsgate announced in a press release that it's currently in the early development stage of a Dead Island feature, with producers Sean Daniel ( Tombstone, Dazed and Confused) and Stefan Sonnenfeld attached. The press release mentions the game's first, Cannes-winning trailer will serve as the film's
Dead Island film optioned by Lionsgate, based on the trailer

"primary creative inspiration," adding that the movie will adopt the commercial's "focus on human emotion, family ties and nonlinear storytelling." Also, it's a horror movie from Lionsgate, so we're betting you'll get to see the insides of hastily removed human body parts. Continue reading Dead Island film optioned by Lionsgate, based on the trailer Dead Island film optioned by Lionsgate, based on the trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Eric Wilbur's Boston Sports Blog - Boston Globe

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over the same period it has taken the Red Sox to win six games. Six. This will go down as the worst At 56-104, the Houston Astros collapse in Boston sports history. have the worst record in all of It's worse than 1978. Major League Baseball. They It's worse than the Bruins in have won 13 times since Aug. 27. 2010. Even the Braves, suffering their It's worse than anything we've own historic wild card collapse in ever witnessed. the National League, have three The Red Sox' wild card lead is m o r e w i n s t h a n B o s t o n i n gone, and so with it the faith of a S e p t e m b e r . f a n b a s e t h a t h a s b e c o m e All hype. No substance. increasingly agitated with the Heads are going to roll over this, ineptitude it is forced to witness because the Red Sox are not on a nightly basis. They told you making the playoffs despite they would be fine. Dustin having had a nine-game lead in Pedroia told you not to panic. The the wild card collapse earlier this team urged you to buy a brick. month. The Rays are a good, but At least in 1978 the Red Sox not sizzling, 15-10 this month, whipped off eight straight wins at and yet have managed to close a the end of the season to force the nine-game gap. That's unheard of historic one-game playoff against not only in the wild card era, but the Yankees at Fenway Park. This in baseball history in general. sack of overrated paychecks hasn't Tampa Bay faces a Triple-A won back-to-back games in a Yankees lineup the next two month. nights while the Red Sox throw A month. Erik Bedard and the Artist Since Hurricane Irene, the Red Formerly Known as Jon Lester in Sox have managed to win all of Baltimore, which is now 4-1 six games. Think about the against Boston in September. magnitude of that. The state of Maybe Buck Showalter had Vermont has managed to re-build something there earlier this year. significant stretches of secondary I t ' s e a s y t o s p e n d m o n e y . highways damaged by the storm Spending it wisely is something
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:34:52 AM
else entirely, and the Red Sox have puked out millions of unforeseen dollars to nowuntradeable commodities like John Lackey and Carl Crawford. What's this winter's "splash" you ask? A whole lot of people getting fired. The Red Sox gave it all away, and it's going to take months to sift through the fallout. Terry Francona doesn't deserve to go unless a small piece of this is his enabling of his players. Theo Epstein has helped build a solid crop of homegrown stars, but the next person who gives him a checkbook for the free agent market needs to be committed to Arbour. Maybe the Cubs opening allows him to leave gracefully in lieu of the gorilla suit. In all honesty, it's probably his best move, because nobody in the front office, one that delivered two World Series titles, mind you, is ever going to live this down. Nor should they. The players have quit, and finally the fans understand. The last time Boston saw these Red Sox, they were booed off the field following another loss to the team that will now likely knock them out of the playoffs for good. Boston has
managed to win once since then, in 14 innings. Forget about heart. Forget about makeup. How about simple competence? The Red Sox haven't shown that for a month going now. Red Sox fans don't wonder if the team can win any longer, but how it is going to lose next. Last night it was the Great Robert Andino's inside-the-park home run that magically disappeared out of Jacoby Ellsbury's glove. Tonight...who knows? It's like playing Red Sox Collapse Bingo. Let's go with Marco Scutaro error in the seventh. If you're Red Sox ownership, where do you go from here? Simply opening up the checkbook isn't going to work anymore, particularly after last winter's translucent ratings grab. If they really want to fix things, it's going to take a lot of Stevie Johnson work, in that they're going to have to eat money, and a lot of it. Again. There's only so much of that process you can witness as a fan before a disgusted nature begins to overcome you. The status quo is unacceptable for next season. Unfortunately, so are many of the moves the Red Sox are backed
into thanks to financial ineptitude. The Bruins responded from their epic collapse by winning the Stanley Cup just 13 months later. The 1978 Red Sox rebounded by winning the World Series...26 years later. The 2011 Red Sox are not only the biggest choke jobs this city has seen, but they may be the end of this team as we've known it in the John Henry era. The collapse is all but complete, and it will go down in history not only for its epic nature, but for the contemptible way the team went down. With a whimper. Bricks on sale now. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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What the tape saw: Houston Texans at New Orleans Saints

Doug Farrar (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:12:20 AM
A few reflections on the New Orleans Saints' 40-33 Sunday win over the Houston Texans Houston Texans The Texans have a very dynamic front seven and they move it around a lot Wade Phillips runs a lot of 5-2 and fourman fronts as he did in Dallas. However, the primary reason they're vulnerable against the run is that there's nobody on that front you really need to double-team. Shaun Cody is the primary nose tackle, and while he's a good player, there aren't many guys up the middle standing 6-foot-4 and weighing 301 pounds. Phillips had a very rare player in Dallas in Jay Ratliff, who could command constant double teams from anywhere in the front (including over center), despite having Cody's approximate dimensions. But that's Ratliff a very special player. On the other side, the Texans' offensive line is a thing of beauty. There are always more bad offensive lines than good ones, because it takes a while to blend talent and continuity in a way that works consistently. The Texans have put together a line that looks like an Alex Gibbs
seminar come to life. Inside and outside zone, influence blocking, slide left and right, inside cutblocking, handing off defenders in short spaces this line does all the little things well. Losing fullback Vonta Leach to the Baltimore Ravens was supposed to be a big personnel hit, but the team as adjusted with different concepts including tackle pulls to being extra support into the
backfield. If you're an O-line junkie and you're not watching the Texans, you're missing out. There are quarterbacks I think of as "in the box" players i.e., they tend to fall apart to a greater or lesser degree when there's pressure around them, they have to improvise outside the pocket, or their planned route concepts are altered. I would include Kyle Orton and Matt
Ryan in that group of very good quarterbacks who tend to struggle when disaster strikes, and I'd say that Houston's Matt Schaub is another example. New Orleans Saints People talk about Green Bay's Jermichael Finley and San Diego's Antonio Gates as the ultimate matchup nightmare tight ends, but we'd better start including Saints second-year man
Jimmy Graham on that list pretty soon. The former Miami basketball star has really started to shred defenses since Marques Colston was hurt and he was asked to play more of a role. He's that typical tight end who's too big for most safeties and too fast for most linebackers, but the X-factor here is his root strength. ON one WHAT page 60
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Eagles' Michael Vick says he was hit late, NY Giants say they did nothing illegal, won't apologize - New York Daily News
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Michael Perez/AP Michael Vick tries to scramble away from Jason Pierre-Paul in Philly's loss to the Giants Sunday. The Giants feel Michael Vick's pain. They just won't apologize for causing it. They know they hit the Eagles quarterback a lot on Sunday and they admitted that was absolutely their intention, but after looking at the film Monday morning the Giants defenders insisted they did nothing illegal. Vick may believe, as he claimed on Sunday, that he was the victim of too many unpenalized late hits during Big Blue's 29-16 win in Philadelphia, but the Giants disagree. To them, pummeling the opposing quarterback is just part of their game. "I don't think any of us have to apologize for the way we hit him," said defensive end Dave Tollefson. "I don't think we did anything cheap. I know he was upset, but everything to me looked like it was pretty clean." "I understand his frustration," added defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka. "Nobody wants to get hit that many times. I just feel like
if you're going to be the kind of guy who's going to be able to tuck the ball and run, once you put the ball away, they can't protect you as a quarterback anymore. You give that right up." That was the crux of the Giants' argument, that Vick's ability to be a dual threat and willingness to
leave the pocket put a legal target on his back. They only sacked him once, but they appeared to take every opportunity to give him an extra push, slap or shot after he threw a pass whenever they could. They did not draw a penalty for any hit on Vick.
as he broke his fall. At first the Eagles believed Vick's hand was broken, though Monday they announced it had been bruised. Canty said that regardless of the result, the hit was clean. "No, I didn't think there was anything wrong with the hit when it took place. I didn't think there was anything wrong with the hit after looking at it again today," Canty said. "We're not trying to play dirty or anything like that. We're trying to hit him legally. It's unfortunate he got banged up, but it is what it is." Tom Coughlin agreed and said that hitting the quarterback "goes both ways." He mentioned an unpenalized facemask on Eli Manning on Sunday as an example. Of course, that's just one play compared to more than a dozen times the Giants seemed to put an extra hit on Vick. None of them were late, Vick's frustration seemed to boil according to the Giants. And over at one hit in particular: a Kiwanuka said if Vick wants to third-quarter shot from Chris blame someone, he should point Canty on which the defensive to his own line or perhaps Andy tackle appeared to hammer the Reid's plan. quarterback on the chin with the "He has a case with his team," c r o w n o f h i s h e l m e t . V i c k Kiwanuka said. "I think they have grabbed his head after the play, EAGLES' page 59 but he also injured his right hand
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Perry urges Obama to halt air rules - Houston Chronicle

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AUSTIN, Texas Texas Gov. Rick Perry asked President Barack Obama to use his executive authority to prevent or delay implementation of stricter pollution standards, saying they will have an immediate and devastating effect on the state. The standards have stirred up Texas largest energy companies, which say they dont have adequate time to meet the deadlines without shutting down plants and jeopardizing the reliability of Texas electric grid. Implementation of the rules starts Jan. 1. In the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Perry said the implementation of the Cross State Air Pollution Rules will have an immediate and devastating effect on Texas jobs, our economy and our ability to supply the electricity our citizens, schools and
employers need. Perry released the letter as he tries to shore up support among conservatives in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. The White House said the new standards will save lives. We stand behind common sense, vital Clean Air Act protections for public health and clean air, White House spokesman Clark Stevens said. This rule will prevent over 34,000 premature deaths each year and ensure that American families arent suffering the consequences of harmful air pollution generated far from home. The new clean air rules are designed to significantly reduce smog and soot pollution by requiring 27 states, including Texas, to decrease smokestack emissions. The new guidelines apply to sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, which mostly come from coal-fired
plants. Texas has 19 coal-fired power plants more than any other state and plans to build nine more. It is one of the few states still adding coal-fired plants and releases more air pollutants than any other state. Most other states are building generation plants that use sources other than coal, particularly natural gas. On Sept. 12, Texas largest electricity producer, Luminant, said it would shut down two coalfired power units and lay off hundreds of workers if the new rules were enforced, even after the EPA offered to help the company meet the tougher standards. Mr. President, you have recently proclaimed that your administration is committed to creating jobs, Perry wrote. These rules do not create jobs. They are a job killer in Texas, and they must be stopped. Texas, faced with a growing population, few new energy
sources and hot summers, has been vocal in its opposition to the regulations since they were announced in July. The state has asked a federal appeals court to review the rules. 9-26 Perry Letter to Obama Perry has used the new rules as fodder in his long-standing accusation that the EPA under Obama meddles in state affairs, lays down expensive regulations during tough economic times and is forcing companies to cut jobs to offset the cost of complying with environmental rules. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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to figure out a way to get better schematics to deal with that. I just feel like it's a double-edged sword. That's one of their greatest weapons and it's also one of their greatest downfalls, the fact he is such a good runner and does put it away so fast and people can get to him."
And against a defense as aggressive as the Giants'... well, what did Vick expect? "Go back and watch some other games. We're trying to hit the quarterback no matter who it is," Tollefson said. "That's our job. And to finish. We're trying to finish plays. A big thing that not a
lot of people talk about is getting in the quarterback's face and not letting him step up and throw. It's not all about sacks, which are huge, obviously. It's about getting in the quarterback's face and letting him know that you're there." This entry passed through the
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Teeing Off: Tackling the Cristie Kerr-Solheim controversy

Shane Bacon (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
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hole of her match, is halving the match appropriate, or is that just the pains of competition? Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:04:58 AM Busbee: Women's golf? I thought Welcome to Teeing Off, where Tiger's new caddy was the story Devil Ball editor Jay Busbee and of the weekend! WHAT KIND head writer Shane Bacon take a O F A W O R L D A R E W E day's topic and smack it all over LIVING IN? Anyway, yeah, the the course. Suggest a future topic Solheim was outstanding, and it b y w r i t i n g provided far more riveting jay.busbee@yahoo.com, or hit us viewing in the media center than o n T w i t t e r a t @ j a y b u s b e e shots of whiteboards calculating and@shanebacon. Today, we talk FedEx Cup points. Absolutely about the Solheim Cup, and what what women's golf needed, in so we would have done if we had many ways. been in the position of the Now, to your point: this is one of Europeans that had to take a full those ugly loophole things where point when Cristie Kerr had to the rules don't give any leeway. withdraw because of injury. There's no provision for anything Bacon: Mr. Busbee, while you less than a one-point award. And were enjoying the exciting FedEx I'm going to venture a potentially Cup playoffs, a strange thing unpopular thought: there shouldn't happen; women's golf became the be. Yes, it's kind of a BS way to story of the weekend. But what's a handle an unfortunate situation, golf tournament without some but isn't that part of the risk of controversy. On Sunday, Cristie competition in any sport? The Kerr had to concede her match Patriots don't get the right to count before It started due to a wrist their touchdowns double if Tom injury, giving the Euros a full Brady's injury replacement scores p o i n t , b u t s o m e t h i n k t h a t them; the Yankees don't get two shouldn't have been the case. free runs a game if Derek Jeter is Without Kerr playing a single out with injury (though I'm sure
But, I have to ask, does winning like that take anything away from the Euros? With a split in that match, the final match would have had to finish, and things would have been that much closer. Busbee: It would take something away from the Euros if there'd been anything within their control --if, say, a European fan had interfered with a shot or a European player had complained to officials or something like that. In this case, no--it's the breaks of the game, so to speak. It's a testament to golf that there aren't more cheating allegations, both have been proposed by underhanded dealings and so forth ESPN). There is indeed a layer of that wreck the game, as you have honor in golf, and perhaps a half- in other sports. I mean, they're point tally for injury withdrawal is there, but not so much that they a solution, but just like you don't change the entire complexion of want to lose on a cheap play, most the sport. people wouldn't want to win on Bacon: I think no matter what, one either. And now you're away, we can all agree that the fact that sir. we're seriously debating about Bacon: I have to agree with you. women's golf is a very good thing It sucks to win when your for the sport, and for us. Now, opponent misses a two-footer, but, back to that Tiger-caddie business well, no it doesn't. Winning is ... winning, and in sports, you take it anyway you can.
catch, he dragged the 6-foot-7, 290-pound Mario Williams about five yards, which should be nightmare fuel for opposing defensive coordinators. His fourth -quarter touchdown, where Texans safety Glover Quin looked like a five-year-old trying to cover him, should add to the oncoming legend. The Saints had issues covering tight ends with Jonathan Vilma out of the game, but one thing that Houston's opponents need to watch going forward is how they use fullback James Casey out of the backfield as a receiver. They line to run twoback shotgun and roll Casey out into the flats and seams in kind of a hybrid H-back role, and the Saints didn't really have an answer for it. That's a great way to get multiple with your tight end looks and expand your passing offense. New Orleans is still getting young cornerback Patrick Robinson up to speed, but the real coverage liability is safety Roman Harper he's great as a blitz weapon, but in any kind of coverage, he's a mixed bag at best. We talk a lot about how great Drew Brees is, but the thing that impresses me most about him is his ability to process information in a big hurry under pressure ht'e kind of the AntiSchaub on that regard. His thirdquarter touchdown pass to Robert Meachem was a great example, Under pressure and rolling right, WHAT page 61
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Brees threw a perfect strike to Meachem in a place where the ball was either going to be caught by his receiver or fall incomplete. Johnathan Joseph had great coverage, but the throw was too good. More and more, I'm coming around to the idea that processing speed is the main attribute a quarterback must have. Arm strength, mobility, accuracy these are all great things. But as
defenses become faster and more complicated every day, the quarterback who can read and adjust at the millisecond level is worth millions more to his team than the one who can't.
New York smiles

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girlfriend. Gorgeous and statuesque. Poised. Lovely. And cute too. She had it all. When Snarling is a way of life in NYC. we'd go to parties together, I liked Really. It's not an urban myth. A to hang back and watch all the lot of people snarl. guys swarm around her. All Now I'm aware it has something smiles, offering to do things for to do with who you are, what kind her, get her things. When she of package you come in. went out in the world, it looked I once had a very beautiful like a smiling, happy, pleasing
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place. We had discussions about this. I swear she didn't believe me when I said it wasn't like this for everyone. And some days in NYC when I have good hair, I get looks that are almost smiles, but not quite. That's why the times when people NEW page 62
UltimatePointer files patent lawsuit against Nintendo, and, uh, everyone else
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 1:00:00 PM
It's been kind of a while since Nintendo was sued by someone for purportedly infringing on existing patents, but UltimatePointer LLC is doing just that in a complaint filed just under two weeks ago. The Texas-based LLC claims that Nintendo's Wiimote conflicts with its own patent(no. 7,746,321) for an "Easily Deployable Interactive Direct-Pointing System and Presentation Control System and Calibration Method Therefor." While UltimatePointer's patent
was filed way back in May of 2005, it didn't actually receive official status until June of 2010 -approximately four years after Nintendo launched its Wii console in North America. Bizarrely, UltimatePointer is also suing, like, everyone else even remotely involved with the Nintendo Wii. The complaint notes that the various retailers listed (in addition to Nintendo of Japan and Nintendo of America) are liable due to sales association. In so many words, the retailers were involved in the "making, using, importing, and/or selling" of Wii "systems, games, and
related accessories (the 'accused products')," and therefore are just as liable for patent infringement as the hardware manufacturer. Even more bizarrely, the list of
defendants includes a scattershot of retail chains in the United States that sell various Wii hardware, including places like QVC and Tiger Direct, but not,
say, Amazon or NewEgg. The complaint doesn't request a specific award should UltimatePointer succeed, instead asking that Nintendo of America pay "a reasonable royalty" due to the alleged infringement, in addition to lawyers/court fees and "enhanced damages" owed. UltimatePointer files patent lawsuit against Nintendo, and, uh, everyone else originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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are nice are so special. I went for a couple of slices of pizza at a store on University Place yesterday, and the cashier was all smiles. Of course I beamed back, thanked her, and we had a little conversation. Nothing important. But I remembered the smile. It more or less made my day. I try as best I can to offer a smile, most of the time. After all, if you're getting snarled at all day, who can blame the other person for being in a foul mood. You have a chance to make someone's day every time you go out. And don't just reserve it for people
who are attractive to you. Make an effort to expand your horizons and everyone else's. Sure, the smile could be misunderstood, but then -- what are you actually risking? (And if it's too risky -stay safe!) This isn't one of those heavy pieces with an unobvious suprise ending. The ending is this. When (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks someone gives you a happy look, powered by FeedBurner) appreciate it, and try, when you can, to return the favor. FeedBurner makes it easy to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers. Learn more about syndication and FeedBurner... Current Feed Content Online Features - October 2011 Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 Best Healthy Salmon Recipes Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 The Best Gluten-Free Foods Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011
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04:00:00 -04:00 Monkey Bread Lightened Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 2011 Taste Test Awards: Artisanal Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 Snack Recipes for Kids Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 04:00 Superfast Sausage, Tomato, and Arugula Fettuccine Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 10-Minute Wine Matchmaker Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 Vegan Recipes Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 6 Steps to Better Stir-Fries Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 -04:00 Cooking with Pumpkin Posted: Mon, Sep 26 2011 04:00:00 04:00 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
iPhone 5 to Be Announced on October 4th

Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:08:13 AM
iPhone 5 Announcement Invite Apple After a surprisingly long wait ( iPhones have in the past been announced in June), Apple just
issued invitations to an event in which the next iPhone, it is heavily hinted, will be announced. Current rumors suggest the usual hardware boosts (probably 1GB of memory, a better camera, and maybe the dual-core A5 processor used in the iPad 2), possibly the phone's history (from 3.5-inch to first change in screen size in the 3.7- or 4-inch), and a not-
inconceivable expansion to all four major wireless carriers. (We remain dubious that Apple will embrace 4G in any form, however --Apple's notoriously strict battery life concerns do not mesh well with the accepted severe battery drain given by 4G.) Check back here for more info as the phone's
announcement and then launch gets nearer. [via Gizmodo]
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IBM Patents a Mapping Algorithm To ReRoute Drivers Along Retail-Heavy Roads

Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:53:52 AM
Which Way To Go? mroach via Flickr With connectivity and smarter planning, intelligent cars promise to cut congestion, make roads safer and generally improve the whole experience of getting behind the wheel. But nobody said it was all altruistic. IBM has apparently patented a couple ideas for earning fees by monitoring driver activity. One plan would encourage drivers to take different routes that bring them past certain retail establishments - if, that is, the retail establishments want to pay for it. And another plan discusses charging bad drivers a toll for behavior like tailgating. IBM's Smarter Traffic division has a few research programs devoted to planning driving routes depending on congestion and other factors. One such app, which we discussed this summer, uses GPS to monitor a driver's habits and road sensors to check traffic, and recommends the best route. But this patent application suggests that someday, it may not actually be the best route for you, unless you're actually craving Starbucks when your car just
happens to reroute you past one. "Conventional route planning systems determine optimal routes based on different preferred conditions, including minimizing travel time or minimizing the distance traveled," the patent application explains. "By focusing on optimal route determination, the known route planning systems fail to consider non-optimal routes whose presentation to travelers may have value to other parties." The system would work by collecting fees from retailers,
which would then be used to assign a preferential weight for certain way points along a given route. IBM software would figure out a new route that incorporates that way point, and present it to the driver as the "recommended route." This sub-optimal route couldn't be too inconvenient - the patent application discusses limiting how far out of the way a recommended route could go - but it might not be the most direct route, nor the fastest. If the driver does actually take the fee-inspired
route, then IBM could levy an additional fee for this successful misdirection. As of Tuesday morning, IBM had not responded to a request to discuss the patent application. A reader at Slashdot noticed the application Monday. It was filed nearly two years ago, but became public earlier this year. Another application filed by the same team, which includes IBM inventors in Colorado, Michigan, New York and Virginia, also involves fees depending on driver
behavior, but this time for drivers themselves, not retailers. It would use proximity sensors to determine the distance between your car and another, and it would monitor how many times you get too close, accounting for things like gridlock. It would also monitor your braking and acceleration habits and average speed. The system could even retrieve your driving history, and use all this data to calculate whether to charge you a toll for your driving behavior. Good drivers could get a rebate. "Charging the variable toll provides an incentive to the driver to encourage driving that does not include tailgating or a disincentive to the driver to deter tailgating," the application says. Of course, these are just ideas at this point. Programs that could do all of this would require the cooperation of many companies beyond IBM, from GPS device makers to the automakers themselves, so they're likely a long way from reality. But it's an interesting reminder that increasingly intelligent cars could have some drawbacks as well as benefits. [ Slashdot]
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Video: Watch the JSF's New Cruise Missile Acquire and Engage a Naval Target
Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:54:14 AM
Incoming via YouTube We hear so many negative things about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program these days: cost overruns, missed deadlines, technology failures, etc. So it's nice to see a video of a small piece of the larger JSF initiative moving forward--and moving quickly. It's not part of the plane itself, but a stealthy cruise missile developed by Norway's Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, and it's looking for a ship to sink.
The Naval Strike Missile is a fire -and-forget cruise missile--that is, you preprogram the missile with a target, and it finds its own way there. The 900-pound NSM is super-nimble and equipped with
Zechariah 8:21 (09-27-11)

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The inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, "Let us go at once to entreat the LORD and seek the LORD Almighty. I myself am going." Zechariah 8:21(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... This Messianic message from Zechariah anticipates the day of
Ever stood in the department store staring at what appear to be the exact same sweaters only to find one cost $39 and the other $150? You couldnt tell the difference, but your wallet would have. The restaurant business is no different except that its your waistline that pays the price. And the LORD's redemption. Many know and follow him. Let's ask those who do not know you, but a c c o r d i n g t o s o m e r e c e n t different peoples, from all over others to join us in going to the who are seeking you. Give me disturbing numbers, were paying the world, will come looking for great celebration of grace and eyes to see them, ears to hear their a lot. the great mercy of God. God's salvation at his return! My cry, and wisdom to know how to Even as restaurants offer a wider people will have one key phrase Prayer... Loving Father, I seek share your grace. Use me to s e l e c t i o n o f l i g h t o p t i o n s , on their hearts: "Let's go seek the your presence daily in my life. prepare them to meet you at the Americans continue to choose presence of God. I'm going; why Without your guidance, love, great Day of Redemption that is p o o r l y , o f t e n b e c a u s e o f don't you join me?" As believers, holiness, and truth, I would be lost coming with your Son. In the ignorance. A 2008 poll of New we know Jesus has come, has and confused. Knowing that my name of Christ Jesus my Lord. Y o r k e r s s h o w e d t h a t w h e n presented with four meals from died, and has been raised from the destiny is with you, I look Amen. each of four restaurants less than dead. We know Jesus is returning forward to seeing you face to face 20% of people could correctly with salvation for all who truly as your child. Please lead me to WAYS page 65
GPS and other inertial and terrainbased systems that allow it to hug the contours of a coastline, cruise just above the surface of the ocean, or negotiate terrestrial terrain at very low radar-evading
altitudes. The NSM is expected to be a regular payload aboard the F-35 Lightning II when it finally enters service, and if the video below is any indication it will be a formidable adversary. Watch as the missile is launched from a California test range, "sea-skims" low across the Pacific, flies low over an island, and then acquires its target on the far side. Not to give the ending away, but this naval vessel doesn't stand a chance. [ SmartPlanet]
7 Ways to Save 700 Calories

David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding (Eat This, Not That)
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identify the most calorie-dense foods. In one instance, only 7% of those polls picked the Quiznos Tuna Melt as the unhealthiest of four options from the chain. In another striking piece of research, a report in the American Journal of Public Health found that customers guessing the calories of fettucine alfredo, chicken fajitas, and a patty melt with fries underestimated by an average of more than 700 calories per meal. If you eat out once a week and miscalculate by that much, youll add 10 extra pounds in a year. Restaurants arent making it easy, thats for sure. If you want to know what youre eating, you have to navigate a restaurants labyrinth-like website to unearth the nutrition numbers, and whos going to do that before you go out? Weve tried to make a few simple decisions for you. Here, we offer seven easy ways to cut those 700 calories from your meal. Fast Food Burger EAT THIS McDonalds Big Mac 540 calories 29 g fat (10 g saturated) 1,040 mg sodium NOT THAT Sonic SuperSonic Double Cheeseburger (w/ mayo) 1,270 calories 87 g fat (34 g saturated) 1,500 mg sodium AND SAVE 730 calories While these are both double-patty burgers with cheese, Sonics version steps on the scale at
nearly double the weight in grams. Thats thanks largely to thicker slabs of meat and a hefty smearing of mayo. Meanwhile, the Big Mac uses thinner patties that add up to a light, yet stillprotein-rich 3 ounces, and a relish -derived special sauce that is far less fattening than Sonics dressing. AVOID THESE GAS-STATION PITFALLS! The price of gas is through the roof, but the cost of gas-station food can be even worse for your waist. Arm yourself by learning about the best and worst foods found at your local convenience store. Asian Dish EAT THIS Panda Express Broccoli Beef (with a side of mixed veggies) 165 calories 4.5 g fat (1 g saturated) 970 mg sodium NOT THAT P.F. Changs Beef with Broccoli 870 calories 36 g fat (12 g saturated) 4,719 mg sodium AND SAVE 705 calories P.F. Chang lets the sodiumsaturated sauces rain down upon most of its dishes. This is one of the worst. Two days worth of the salty stuff in one sitting not to mention 8 times the fat of Panda Express, which exhibits more restraint with the sodium and oil. SURVIVING THE STEAKHOUSE: Eating red meat out can go nutritionally wrong in a heartbeat. But the right cut and cooking method can ensure you
get the protein and zinc without all the fat and calories. Learn these and other tips with the 10 Ways to Eat Healthily at the Steakhouse. Salad EAT THIS California Pizza Kitchen Chinese Chicken Salad 617 calories 1 g saturated fat 2,532 mg sodium NOT THAT Applebees Oriental Grilled Chicken Salad 1,290 calories 79 g fat (12g saturated, 2.5 g trans) 2,290 mg sodium AND SAVE: 723 calories CPKs salad menu is for the most part a section to be skipped, but this selection steers clear of trouble by using only cabbage, lettuce, carrots, scallions, and cilantro as its base. Topped off with grilled chicken, this veggieheavy meal is far superior to Applebees version of a Far East salad. The Neighborhood Bar & Grill tosses its lettuce with crispy noodles read: dipped in fattening oil that not only add in a deadly level of trans fats but also deliver an extra 20 grams of carbohydrates compared to the CPK edition. Just watch your sodium intake the rest of the day. The Kitchens is way too high. Fish Dish EAT THIS Olive Garden Parmesan Crusted Tilapia 590 calories 10 g saturated fat
910 mg sodium NOT THAT The Cheesecake Factory Herb Crusted Filet of Salmon 1,400 calories 48 g saturated fat 1,240 mg sodium AND SAVE: 810 calories From where The Cheesecake Factorys extra calories are derived is tough to tell. They dont provide ingredient lists. But this selection probably suffers from the same problems as the rest of the menu: excess applications of cheap oils and butters. Olive Garden bakes its crusted tilapia and plates the fish with veggies, shaving nearly two days worth of saturated fat off the Factorys numbers. STEALTH HEALTH: Restaurants offer some of the most calorie-dense, fat-festooned meals around. But there are some hidden gyms. Learn about the 20 Surprising Healthy Restaurant Foods. FEAR THE FRANKENSTEIN FOOD: Each year the scientists seem to go more mad and concoct ever-more-dangerous food fare. No, this isnt like the grapple the grape-apple marriage. Think grilled cheeses used as buns around a hamburger patty. Check out that and other monsters in the Craziest Food Creations. Chips and Dip EAT THIS On the Border Guacamole with Chips 660 calories 23 g fat (5 g saturated) 680 mg sodium
NOT THAT Chilis Hot Spinach & Artichoke Dip 1,610 calories 103 g fat (42 g saturated) 1,610 mg sodium AND SAVE: 1,180 If you require a dip for an appetizer, opt for guacamole. With avocados packing in hearthugging unsaturated fats and veggies vaulting the vitamin levels through the roof, this dip reigns supreme over any spinach & artichoke dip, which despite its name is mostly cream, cheese, and butter. Pizza EAT THIS Pizza Hut Pepperoni Personal Pan Pizza 610 calories 26 g fat (10 g saturated) 1,410 mg sodium NOT THAT Uno Deep Dish Prima Pepperoni Pizza 1,830 calories 126 g fat (36 g saturated) 2,910 mg sodium AND SAVE: 1,220 calories Its not like Pizza Huts personal pan pizzas are to be idolized, but compared to most any of Unos deep-dish offerings, the Huts individual pies are dietary divas. The difference is in the depth of the crusty crater, which in Unos case holds seemingly endless layers of molten cheese. BOTTOMS UP: Beer gets a bad wrap in America. Heck, its half the name of an unattractive belly. WAYS page 67
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Employer Survey Shows Big Jump In Health Insurance Premiums

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:56:00 AM
There was good news and bad news in this year's annual survey of employer health benefits by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust. The good news: An estimated 2.3 million young adults under age 26 have been added to their parents' health plans as a result a provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. That's even more than the number estimated recently by the Census Bureau or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the bad news is pretty bad. Premiums in 2011 jumped by 9 percent, with the average price for employer-provided family coverage topping the $15,000 mark for the first time. Ouch. Even worse, says Drew Altman, Kaiser Family Foundation president and CEO, is that the increase comes at a time "when wages aren't going up, and in fact wages are actually declining in real terms, and that means that the increase is especially painful this year for working people."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it's not at all surprised by the increases. "Unfortunately, as we highlighted for the country and for our members during the legislative debate, the health reform law will do nothing to control costs and instead will drive premiums higher," said Katie Mahoney, the chamber's executive director for health policy. But Altman says that while the survey methodology doesn't allow Kaiser to determine the exact the reasons for the premium jump, one thing is clear: The health law is not the main culprit. Opponents of the measure "blame everything on what they call Obamacare, including the weather," he says. But he says the foundation's best estimates from the survey are that the costs of the benefits already in effect largely the young adult coverage and new preventive care without copays are responsible for between 1 and 2 percentage points of the 9 percent increase. He says the rest may have been the result of insurers gearing their premiums "to an expectation that the use of health services would
go up because of an economic recovery that was starting and then it didn't happen." For its part, the health insurance industry group America's Health Insurance Plans, or AHIP, issued a statement about the survey trying to take the blame off of its members. Among other things, AHIP says underlying medical costs are continuing to rise and that the recession has led to "a workforce that is older and has higher healthcare costs." On the other hand, there may be reason to believe that Altman is right that this year's increase was pegged to health care utilization increases that failed to materialize. The evidence is today's announcement by the White House increases in premiums for the closely-watched federal worker health insurance program for next year will average only 3.8 percent. That's barely half of this year's 7.3 percent increase. Meanwhile, one of the other major trends in the survey is the rapid movement toward plans with high deductibles, with or without some sort of savings account from which people can
pay health expenses. More than half of all workers in businesses with fewer than 200 workers are now in health plans with deductibles of more than $1,000. And more workers are in plans with a $1,000 deductible and some sort of savings account than are enrolled in an HMO. "There's a big argument among experts about whether these (highdeductible plans) are good for people or bad for people," says Altman. "But one thing we know they are; they're cheaper. As a result, he says, there's a major shift going on, almost under the radar. "Health insurance is becoming less and less comprehensive with these highdeductible plans." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Washington State Raises Bar For Parents To Skip Kids' Vaccinations

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Submitted at 9/27/2011 9:06:00 AM
iStockphoto.com Saying no to vaccines is getting harder in Washington state. The vast majority of parents get their kids vaccinated, but a persistent minority decline to do so. Their reasons vary: Some continue to worry about a link with autism even though research supporting a connection has been completely discredited. Others are concerned about side effects, or they say they don't believe that the diseases the vaccines prevent are really all that serious. Persuading recalcitrant parents is a problem that public health advocates continue to wrestle with. While less than 1 percent of WASHINGTON page 67
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children between 19 and 35 months old didn't receive any vaccines last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the figures for noncompliance are much higher in some pockets of the country. In Washington state, for example, 6 percent of kids received exemptions from state laws requiring children to be vaccinated in order to attend school; county rates ranged from 1.2 percent to a whopping 26.9 percent. Now, a new Washington state law is getting attention as an example of how to encourage more parents to vaccinate their kids. The law, which took effect in July, requires parents who don't
want to meet state immunization requirements for school to obtain a certificate of exemption from a licensed health care provider. The certificate verifies that the pediatrician or other health care provider has discussed the benefits and risks of vaccines with the parents. State laws vary widely on how easy they make it for parents to get vaccine waivers, and some have implemented requirements similar to Washington, says Dr. Douglas Diekema, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "What we know is that the more rigorous you make it to get an objection approved, the higher the vaccination rate," he says. Simple steps such as asking
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But some brews arent that bad for you (and some can even help maintain a healthy heart.) Find out more information in the Best and Worst Beers in America. Tacos EAT THIS Chipotle Crunchy Chicken Tacos 490 calories 21 g fat (8.5 g saturated) 1,050 mg sodium NOT THAT Chilis Crispy Chicken Tacos (w/ o the rice & beans side) 1,340 calories 71 g fat (20 g saturated)
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Nirvanas landmark album, Nevermind, Vevo will air a performance starting this afternoon. The concert first aired on Sept. 23 on VH1, VH1 Classic, and Palladia. The concert was filmed in 1991 at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle. Vevo has been offering two songs, Breed and Territorial Pissings, in advance of this exclusive stream. The entire show will play commercial 3,120 mg sodium Full-Text RSS service if this is free on a continuous loop, with an AND SAVE: 850 calories your content and you're reading it encore performance on Oct. 31, Its not hard to see the difference on someone else's site, please read the anniversary of the concert. in these two Mexican dishes. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentCheck out the clip of Breed Chipotle sticks with grilled only/faq.php#publishers. Five above. chicken, fresh salsa, and cheese Filters featured article: A 'Malign Nevermind came out on Sept. 24, inside a corn shell. Simple. Intellectual Subculture' - George 1991 on Geffen Records, and has Chilis, on the other hand, fries its M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , been credited with being the sonic chicken, piles on bacon and Herman, Peterson, Pilger And touchstone of the 1990s. cheese and drizzles thick ranch Media Lens. Universal Music will release dressing on top of it all for a final several deluxe editions of the product containing more fat, album beginning Tuesday, saturated fat, and sodium than including Live at the Paramount anyone should have in an entire on Blu-ray, DVD, and as part of a day. larger box-set featuring the This entry passed through the digitally remastered album as well additional b-sides and rarities. The performance is thought to be
parents to talk to a pediatrician or get a form filled out can give vaccination rates a shot in the arm. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Vevo Brings Classic Nirvana Concert to the Web

Todd Olmstead (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:46:57 AM
Nirvanas only concert shot on 16mm film. Theres also a special 20th anniversary website where fans are encouraged to share their photos, videos and memories of the band. The site also features a slick interactive timeline of the albums history. However, you can only visit the website by logging in with Facebook Connect. Many media outlets have been covering the anniversary of the landmark album, including Spin Magazine, with a tribute album featuring covers by contemporary artists. Was Nevermind a big album for you? Tell us your Nirvana memories in the comments. More About: Music, nirvana, vevo, Video For more Entertainment coverage: Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Entertainment channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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What Putins Return to the Presidency Means

Ariel Cohen (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:18:46 AM
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putins return to power means stabilityand stagnationfor Russians and a tough counterpart for both America and Russias neighbors. Putins nomination to the Russian presidency means that he may become the longest-serving Russian leader since Joseph Stalin, who ruled for almost 30 years. Putin, who has held power since 2000, may stay at the helm for two more terms of six years eachi.e., until 2024. Moreover, if current President Dmitry Medvedev then assumes power, the tandem (as Putin and Medvedev are collectively known) may rule until 2036. Russia may then face the tradeoff of stability and stagnation. Medvedev, who in 2012 will rotate to become Putins prime minister, is talking about broad modernization, including the direct election to the Council of the Federation and the upper house of the Parliament and
building the knowledge economy in Russia. Yet during his presidential term, he has accomplished little. Putin is talking about selectively importing Western technologies necessary to make Russian defense and energy industries stronger. This is a traditional Russian catch-up modernization model, which was in place at least since Peter the Great. Political modernization will be a challenge under Putins presidency. This is regrettable but not surprising. For over three centuries, importation of Western institutions to Russia produced a transformation, which made such political contraptions barely recognizable. Under the czars, after the 1905 revolution, political parties were tiny and impotent. The parliaments (Dumas) almost never had a true lawmaking function. They have become at best talking clubs. In the Soviet era, the Supreme Soviet became a rubber stamp for most egregious legislation. The evolution of the postcommunist Duma and presidency is a sad testimony to the same
process. As before, the allpowerful executive branchbe it the czar, the secretary general, president, or prime ministermore often than not rules by an ukaz, or fiat. In fact, these Western-sounding and -looking pseudo-institutions such as courts, political parties, and the bicameral parliament made the managed democracy into another term for autocracymore stagnant, stable, and barely capable of deceiving both the Russians and the foreigners. After all, isnt Russia going to have the Duma and presidential elections? Yet the outcome of these elections is well -known in advance. As the late Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin famously quipped, Whichever party we build, the outcome is always the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Russian legal and political institutions may have similar frameworks and names as those in the West, but their function and content are often antithetical to their Western counterparts. Russia has been a conundrum for
Western policymakers for centuries. Yet the Obama Administration claimed great progress in its reset policies with Russia by establishing friendly relations between President Obama and his Russian counterpart. As The Heritage Foundation continuously warned, these policies will be severely challenged as Putin returns to power. The Administration claims many accomplishments, including Russias assistance in building the Northern Distribution Network to supply NATO troops in Afghanistan, cooperation on the Iran sanctions in the U.N., and arms control. Yet on other key issues, such as NATO and missile defense, the chasm is deep. Furthermore, the Administration considerably toned down its support for Russias neighbors seeking Western orientation and alliances, de facto recognizing the Russian sphere of privileged interests there. With Putin returning (and Medvedev shunted to the Prime Ministry, essentially an economic management slot), Obama and his
possible successor, just as other world leaders, will have to deal with Putin. Among the G-8, the Russian leader will become the longest serving, armed with the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world and having Russias massive economic resourcesincluding the $400 billion cash cushion, oil and gas reserves, and the raw materials cornucopiaat his beck and call. For the U.S. and the West, as well as for Russias neighbors, the future lengthy Putin rule is going to be a tough challengeand a rocky ride. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Free Speech Triumphs Over Irvine 11

Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
that the protest by theIrvine 11(one student agreed to community service earlier in the Submitted at 9/26/2011 11:45:25 PM proceedings and was not subject Last Friday, in a resounding to the final judgment) had been victory for free speech rights, a c a r e f u l l y p l a n n e d , n o t i n g j u r y c o n v i c t e d 1 0 M u s l i m that emails exchanged among students for disrupting Israeli members of the Muslim Student Ambassador Michael Orens Union prior to their demonstration speech on February 8, 2010 at the revealed students were aware they University of California, Irvine. could be arrested. They further The jury also convicted the argued that the orchestrated students of conspiring to disrupt d i s r u p t i o n a m o u n t e d t o the ambassador because they censorship, infringing on the stood up, one after the other, and rights of the 700 people who had shouted prepared statements, such gone to the event to hear Mr. asYou, sir, are an accomplice to Oren. The program was cut short genocide! and propagating as a result of the heckling, despite murder is not an expression of repeated calls from campus free speech, which elicited officials for the students to cheers from supporters. Orange behave. County Superior Court Judge Defense attorneys contended that Peter J. Wilson sentenced the there were no specific rules for d e f e n d a n t s t o 5 6 h o u r s o f free speech, and that while the community service and three s t u d e n t s m a y h a v e b e e n years of informal probation, discourteous, that discourtesy did which could be reduced to one not rise to the level of breaking year if the defendants complete the law. Lawyer Reem Salahi, their community service by r e p r e s e n t i n g t w o o f t h e January 31, 2012. Each student d e f e n d a n t s , c l a i m e d t h e was also ordered to pay $270 in demonstration was modeled after fines. Wilson noted that the a series of protests at UC Irvine defendants actions did not merit and elsewhere, during which j a i l t i m e b e c a u s e t h e y students shouted down lecturers, were motivated by their beliefs but werent arrested. She further and did not disrupt for the sake of claimed the demonstration never disrupting. intended to halt Orens speech Prosecutors in the case contended entirely. Both the prosecuting and
before he could finish his lecture. Unsurprisingly, the verdict, which elicited gasps and some crying from the approximately 150 relatives and supporters of the defendants present in the court room, was branded an expression of religious bigotry. This is yet another reaffirmation that Islamophobia is intensely and extensively alive and thriving in Orange County, said Shakeel Syed of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. I believe this will be used as precedent now to suppress speech and dissent throughout the country. This is the defending attorneys used pie delighted the jury saw this the b e g i n n i n g o f t h e d e a t h o f charts to demonstrate how much same way we saw it, he said, democracy. Father Wilfredo time the students spent disrupting noting that the defendants action Benitez, rector of St. Anselm of M r . O r e n , h o w l o n g t h e i r amounted to a hecklers veto of Canterbury Episcopal Church in supporters cheered in response, M r . O r e n s f r e e s p e e c h Garden Grove, agreed. This a n d h o w l o n g t h e I s r a e l i rights. Defense attorney Dan attack against Muslim students ambassador spoke, in order to Stormer disagreed. You cannot and the Muslim community is an prove whether or not the lecture convict people in this country attack on democracy. Its an s u f f e r e d a s i g n i f i c a n t based on the content of their attack on all of us, he said. Its disruption. speech, he contended. Thats an attack on all those people who A jury of six men and six women one of the basic principles of our believe in the U.S. Constitution deliberated for two days before society. Wagner countered that it and freedom of speech. Rev. reaching their verdict. After it was was not the students speech that Sarah Halverson of Fairview rendered, they left the courtroom warranted a conviction, adding it Community Church in Costa via a back door, escorted by wouldnt have mattered if the Mesa claimed that Islamophobia sheriffs deputies. They refused to defendants had read from the is alive and well in Orange answer questions from reporters. phone book, or shouted Mickey County. Assistant District Attorney Dan Mouse. It was their conduct, he Wagner expressed his satisfaction argued, which resulted in Mr. w i t h t h e o u t c o m e . W e r e Oren being forced from the stage
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President Ali Abdullah Saleh Returns to YemenCant Take a Hint

Morgan Roach (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:02 PM
President Ali Abdullah Salehs return to Yemen on Friday after four months in Saudi Arabia has sparked renewed violence after protestors launched demonstrations against the government that were violently repressed. Since the beginning of the uprising last January, Yemenan already volatile and poor countryhas plunged deeper into chaos, dividing the country and creating a power vacuum for al-Qaeda. On Sunday, Saleh attempted to appease protestors, promising elections and a peaceful transfer of power, as he promised many times before but failed to deliver. The opposition movement immediately rejected his option and demanded Saleh step down. Despite Salehs repeated calls for a cease-fire throughout the uprising and most recently this past weekend, Yemens
Revolutionary Guard (led by Salehs son and heir apparent) opened fire on protestors, killing dozens. Salehs calls for peace and negotiations combined with brutal crackdowns by security forces give protestors little confidence in the regime. The continued violence has divided Yemens capital city of Sana between regime supporters and the opposition movement. Neighborhood street battles and firefights among opposing groups have escalated. Part of the city is occupied by militiamen belonging to the Ahmar family and troops loyal to General Ali Moshen, a respected military figure and defector from the regime, while other neighborhoods are controlled by Saleh loyalists. Salehs return surprised the international community and crushed expectations that the embattled leader would soon step down. Last week, negotiations with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) collapsed when Saleh refused to transfer
presidential powers to Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour al -Hadi. Saleh has repeatedly announced his intent to resign, only to renege on his decision. Throughout the crisis, the Obama Administration has relied on the GCC to negotiate Salehs transition. According to U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, We want to see Yemen move forward on the basis of the [GCC] proposal, whether Saleh is in or out of the country. While its important for the Administration to give political support to the GCC and encourage a peaceful transition of power, the United States must prepare for the consequences of a widening security vacuum. As Yemens security forces divert their attention from hunting down members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to shooting protestors, security is destabilizing in the south. AQAP is estimated to have 300 militants in the southern provinces of Jouf, Marib, and Shabwa, and The Wall
Street Journal reports that Zinjibar, the capital city of Abayan province, is already occupied by Islamist militants. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia fear that the uprising will empower AQAP and endanger strategic interests in the region. As both countries have been targets of AQAP attacks and rely on oil shipping routes through the Red Sea, further policy coordination and intelligence sharing is integral to ensuring the al-Qaeda threat does not expand. Yemens vulnerability to terrorism has also spurred the enlargement of intelligence operations based in the Horn of Africa. Expanding on its success using drone technology in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the intelligence community is constructing drone bases in Ethiopia, the Seychelles, the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti. Last summer, drone attacks killed and wounded a number of terrorist targets in Somalia and Yemen.
After 33 years, Salehs days as head of state are numbered. His former allies and even his own Sanhan tribe have turned against him. Saleh has proven that he is not a good faith negotiator and is incapable of running his country. Despite its continued protests, Yemens opposition movement is fractured. Rival clans throughout Yemen are fighting for influence, and AQAP is setting up shop in the south. The longer Saleh clings to power, the quicker Yemen will drift into failed state status. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Documents Show ATF Bought Guns with Taxpayer Money to Give to Drug Cartels
Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:30:34 AM
New revelations in the ongoing Fast and Furious investigation show that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) used taxpayer money to buy assault weapons that they then passed on to Mexican drug cartels. Sources have also claimed that ATF superiors ordered surveillance teams to stop tracking weapons once they were in the cartels possession. In June 2010, according to documents obtained by Fox News, undercover ATF Special Agent John Dodson purchased six AK-style CAI Draco 7.62x39mm handguns with cash provided to him by the ATF. Under orders from superiors, he then delivered the weapons to an agent for a Mexican drug cartel, with the understanding that that agent would remove the weapons serial numbers and bring them into Mexico. David Voth, ATFs group supervisor in Phoenix, signed off on the operation and even provided a signed letter for Dodson to show proprietors of a pair of gun stores where the weapons were purchased. The guns will be used byDodson in furtherance of his official duties,
Voths letter states. Fox also reports that Voth explicitly obstructed surveillance efforts designed to track the six weapons he had authorized Dodson to purchase and hand off to cartels. According to sources directly involved in the case, Dodson felt strongly that the weapons should not be abandoned and the stash house should remain under 24hour surveillance. However, Voth disagreed and ordered the surveillance team to return to the
2. ATF made its best efforts to track weapons once they fell into cartel hands, but simply didnt have the resources. These revelations show that, at least in some instances, ATF officials themselves suspended surveillance of individuals transporting Fast and Furious guns into Mexico. These facts will likely spark more questions about the operation and ATFs role in it. Look for two groups to be asking a whole lot more questions of the Bureau during the coming week: the Mexican government, which is already furious and will likely wonder why the federal government would ever purchase weapons for a cartel; and congressional investigators, perhaps more likely to get answers to that question. office. Dodson refused, and for ATFs role in the Fast and Furious This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is six days in the desert heat kept the operation. house under watch, defying direct 1. ATF was a passive observer, your content and you're reading it orders from Voth. simply tracking weapon purchases on someone else's site, please read A week later, a second vehicle and transportation that would the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contents h o w e d u p t o t r a n s f e r t h e have taken place in their absence. only/faq.php#publishers. Five weapons. Dodson called for an There were some instances of gun Filters featured article: A 'Malign interdiction team to move in, store owners being given the go- Intellectual Subculture' - George make the arrest and seize the a h e a d b y f e d e r a l o f f i c i a l s M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , weapons. Voth refused and the determined to see guns fall into Herman, Peterson, Pilger And g u n s d i s a p p e a r e d w i t h n o the hands of cartel operatives, but Media Lens. surveillance. ATF involvement never reached These revelations are important, the level of actually buying the since they undercut a pair of guns and handing them off to official narratives regarding cartels until now.
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The Gold Bug Bailout

David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 8:13:37 AM
As some may know, my late mother was a very well-known broadcaster on Canadian radio and TV. Early in her amazing career, she received a call from a company I believe it was VISA inviting her to sign up as a commercial spokeswoman. She refused. When she told the story to my father, he asked, How much did they offer? She answered, We didnt get that far. This anecdote became a family joke in the coming years. As my father often said, contra George Bernard Shaw, its a very different thing to turn down $5,000 than to turn down $5 million. I think of this story every time I see a conservative radio or TV host pitching for gold. To lend your reputation to a product is already a heavy responsibility. Its even heavier to lend your reputation to a specific financial investment, whether it is Florida real estate, Eurobonds, or gold. Like all commodities, gold is
volatile. Unlike, say, soybeans, or even silver, the gold market is small enough to be manipulated by deep-pocket insiders. There is also the further difficulty that the form of investment most accessible and seemingly affordable to the small investor gold coins happens to be the costliest in reality, subject to markups that often rise 30% over the intrinsic value of the metal. And yet radio talkers who hold
themselves out as the arbiters of principle who urge their listeners (as I heard Mark Levin last night) never to read the hated Main-Stream Media but to trust only themselves and other information sources that also happen to depend heavily on advertising from gold dealers these talkers have pushed and pushed and pushed this one particular investment on people who may not be very well
positioned to absorb a loss. Since the advertising often mentions that financing is available, some of these small investors likely bought on margin. For margin buyers, the comical promise that gold has never been worth zero can easily prove false and worse than false. Yet there is some good news for these small good buyers: Senators Mike Lee, Jim DeMint and Rand Paul have authored a bail-out for
them. The three conservative senators have co-sponsored legislation to exempt gold and silver coins from capital gains tax. This measure wont do much for those whose gold investments prove outright losers. But it will at least cushion the disappointment for those whose investments have fallen short of the hoped-for gains, even as shrewd hedge funds that bought gold futures, rather than the clunky solid stuff, have realized vast gains in large measure thanks to the tragically abused trust of talk-show listeners in their bought-and-paid-for gurus. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Useful Idiots Stockholm Syndrome

Robert Spencer (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay. They would remind us in other parts of the Submitted at 9/26/2011 11:55:46 PM world and the conditions that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, the Iranians and others experience in leftist American hikers who prisons in the U.S. We do not unwittingly ventured across the believe such human rights Iran/Iraq border and were violations on the part of our convicted of espionage and government justify what has been imprisoned for two years in Iran, done to us. Not for a moment. have been freed and at a press However, we do believe these conference Sunday, revealed that actions on the part of the U.S. they were none the wiser for their provide an excuse for other ordeal. governments, including the They indulged in some moral government of Iran to act in equivalence: Two years in prison kind. is too long, and we sincerely hope It is clear from this that Shane for the freedom of other political Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Code Iranian hostility toward the United Bauer, like Barack Obama, Ron prisoners and other unjustly Pinks manipulative propagandist States is similarly irrational and Paul and so many others on all imprisoned people in America and C i n d y S h e e h a n , h a r d - L e f t unjustified proved unfounded. For p o i n t s a l o n g t h e p o l i t i c a l Iran. They assured the right- America-hating pseudo-scholar above all, Bauer said: The only spectrum, believes that the actions thinking world that their hearts Noam Chomsky, and the addle- explanation for our prolonged of the United States provoke (obviously not their minds) were brained actor/activist Sean Penn. detention is the 32 years of mutual Muslims to behave badly, and that in the right place: said Bauer, Bauer appeared to be on the hostility between America and if the U.S. would only behave The irony is Sarah [another hiker verge of an independent thought Iran. decently, then the Muslims would who was freed earlier], Josh and I w h e n h e s a i d : W e w e r e The only explanation? Really? calm down, and a new era of oppose U.S. policies towards Iran convicted of espionage, because Well, actually in other remarks peace would dawn. While this which perpetuate this hostility. we are American. Its that simple. Bauer made it clear that he view is common among followers They thanked some of the No evidence was ever presented thought that America was more of Paul on the Right, it is much worlds leading enemies of against us. That is because there is culpable than Iran: In prison, more prevalent on the Left, and freedom and Useful Idiots for no evidence and because we are every time we complained about indeed forms the underlying f i g h t i n g f o r t h e i r f r e e d o m , completely innocent. But any our conditions, the guards would assumption of all of Obamas including Venezuelan dictator hope that he might realize that the i m m e d i a t e l y r e m i n d u s o f foreign policy. Hugo Chavez, limousine leftist
Helping Islamists Take Syria

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/26/2011 11:50:59 PM
The U.S. is calling on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to step down and is increasingly persuaded that the uprising against his rule will be victorious. As the world wonders who will replace the regime, an Islamistdominated group called the Syrian National Council is being embraced by Turkey and the Obama administration State Department. Genuine secular forces, meanwhile, are being left to the wayside as they struggle to save their country from both Assad and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has stated, We have a desire to coordinate the position of the opposition. With support from the Turkish government and a nave U.S. State Department, it HELPING page 74
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can achieve this objective. On September 15, opposition activists formed the Syrian National Council in Istanbul, the latest in a long list of umbrella groups to be formed since the uprising began. Ammar Abdulhamid, a secular democratic activist based in the U.S., published a list of some of the members. Of the 71 named, 34 are Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood has not officially joined the alliance, but many members of it have. The composition of the Syrian National Council is frightening other opposition groups who do not want Syria to become the next Gaza Strip. A leader of the leftist
Kurdish Party said,Turkey supports the Islamists in Syria and puts them out front. These Syrian opposition meetings in Turkey prevent the creation of a democratic, pluralistic Syria in which the rights of the Kurds are constitutionally protected and they are recognized as the second largest ethnicity in the country. Shockingly, the U.S. State Department and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Hamas-tied front for the Muslim Brotherhood, are together supporting the Syrian National Council. On September 24, the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR held a townhall event featuring a
member of the SNC and Frederic C. Hof from the State Departments Office of the Special Envoy for the Middle East. This isnt the first time the U.S. has supported the Islamist opposition in Syria. Files released by WikiLeaks show that the State Department funded the Movement for Justice and Development. The group split from the Muslim Brotherhood and was described in the files as liberal, moderate Islamists who sought to marginalize the Brotherhood.
Miliband makes 'new bargain' pledge

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Submitted at 9/26/2011 10:27:43 PM
27 Sep 2011 Labour will offer a "new bargain" to the people of Britain to end the "fast buck" culture of the last 30 years and reshape society so that hard work and responsibility are rewarded, the party's leader Ed Miliband has said. In his keynote speech to Labour's conference in Liverpool, Mr Miliband said he wanted to become Prime Minister so he can "write a new chapter in our country's history". Launching a scathing attack on "unjustified rewards" at the top of
companies, asset-stripping "predators" in business and bankers who profited even as their mistakes caused economic meltdown, Mr Miliband said that a Labour government would use tax breaks, regulation and contracts to reward firms which contribute to their community. And he said he was determined to reform the welfare system to ensure that it pays to work, to end "cosy cartels" which set top pay, break up the "rigged market" which allows energy companies to charge high prices and rebalance Britain's economy away from the reliance on financial services and towards production and
manufacturing. Against the backdrop of opinion polls suggesting voters do not see him as a potential prime minister, Mr Miliband sought to shake off the legacy of the last two Labour leaders to hold power, telling the conference: "I'm not Tony Blair. I'm not Gordon Brown either... I'm my own man and I'm going to do things my own way." And he declared that he was ready to take risks to break away from the "something for nothing" culture which has taken root in Britain over the past three decades and created a "quiet crisis" where those who do the right thing no longer believe they will be
rewarded for it. After the banking crash, MPs' expenses scandal, phone-hacking and the summer riots in England's cities, it was now a once-in-ageneration "moment when we need to change the way we do things", he said. The "fill-your-boots" approach of bankers and high finance, the "something for nothing" promises of celebrity culture and the "takewhat-you-can" mentality of innercity gangs do not represent the true values of the British people, said Mr Miliband. "It will be a tough fight to change Britain. But I'm up for the fight: The fight for a new bargain.
"A new bargain in our economy so reward is linked to effort; A new bargain based on your values so we can pay our way in the world; A new bargain to ensure responsibility from top to bottom," he added. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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How Phones Are Changing Healthcare In Africa

Zachary Sniderman (Mashable!)
The Praekelt Foundation has a variety of products designed to promote mobile penetration and Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:22:58 PM universal health in Africa. A slew of mobile initiatives are TxtAlert, for example, is a mobile revolutionizing the way that tool that sends unique, automated healthcare is delivered in Africa SMS reminders to patients on a n d o t h e r d e v e l o p i n g chronic medication. This reminds communities. While much has them to take their medication or b e e n m a d e o f t h e m o b i l e perform other necessary tasks. A revolution in North America, special tool, called Please Call phones are even more important Me allows patients to call their in developing communities where doctors even if they dont have they are sometimes the only way any airtime available by pinging for people to share and receive their doctor who then calls back. information. Young Africa Live is a digital Health and healthcare have forum where African youths can always been a huge concern in share stories and get information Africa, especially when doctors about HIV and AIDS. It also has and hospitals can get isolated in helpful numbers and contact remote areas where care is often details for HIV and AIDS-related most needed. organizations. The goal is to Mobile has been the answer in destigmatize the diseases while many cases. In 2010, mobile also providing clear facts and phones represented more than support groups for African 90% of all telephone lines in youths. The portal also features Africa with market penetration live chats with doctors and expected to pass 50% of the relationship experts. Health p o p u l a t i o n . S o m e o f t h e eVillages c o n t i n e n t s m o s t a d v a n c e d The Robert F. Kennedy Center markets have already hit nearly a n d P h y s i c i a n s I n t e r a c t i v e 100% penetration, according to l a u n c h e d H e a l t h e V i l l a g e s Developing Telecoms. Mobiles (pronounced healthy villages) big and only getting bigger. Here to arm doctors in underserved we take a quick look at four regions with inexpensive phones mobile campaigns changing the and high-powered diagnosis tools. way that doctors operate in The program will deliver those Africa. Praekelt Foundation doctors and healthcare workers
doctors if patients are actually taking their meds, and creating local databases via mobile to improve on-the-ground care. The alliance staunchly believes in open communication and is working to develop interoperable technology that any organization can use. Medic Mobile Medic Mobile is all about patient -to-doctor care. The SMS-based platform allows patients to get home-based care even if they cant be physically visited by a caregiver. The organization launched a pilot program in with new and refurbished mobile The mHealth Alliance is like the Malawi which, in six months, devices preloaded with clinical A - T e a m o f m o b i l e h e a l t h s a v e d t h e c l i n i c a l s t a f f a n decision support reference tools initiatives. It draws together some estimated 1,200 hours follow-up like drug guides, medical alerts, of the largest companies and time and more than $3,000 in fuel journal summaries and references organizations to further health in and transportation costs. In pulled from Skyscape, a medical d e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s . I t s addition, more than 100 patients reference app company. founding members include The received treatment for TB after Health eVillages has already run UN Foundation, the Rockefeller their symptoms were noticed by pilot programs in Haiti, Kenya, F o u n d a t i o n , t h e V o d a f o n e the community and reported by Uganda and the Greater Gulf Foundation and U.S. Presidents text message. Coast. It will be rolling out in Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, More About: africa, health, earnest in Fall 2011. It estimates the GSM Association and HP, healthcare, Mobile, Social Good For more Mobile coverage: that there are more than 1 billion among others. people worldwide living in Some of the alliances projects Follow Mashable Mobile on underserved areas and nearly one- i n c l u d e S M S - b a s e d d r u g - Twitter third of countries are low on counterfeit checker developed by Become a Fan on Facebook skilled healthcare workers. The HP, communications systems that Subscribe to the Mobile channel phones will not only reach new connect patients to their doctors, Download our free apps for areas but hopefully improve the send SMS alerts on the spread of Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad quality of care offered. mHealth local diseases, a SIMpill, a sensoAlliance equipped pill bottle that informs
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Microsoft Unleashes Windows Phone Mango

Ben Parr (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:01:29 PM
Suicide verdict on killer Moat

Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:33:12 AM
Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the newest version of its smartphone software. Mango, first introduced in May, comes with a slew of new features designed to improve the user experience. Our top goal was product satisfaction, Microsofts Aaron Woodman told Mashable. The updated OS includes several upgrades to its suite of communication tools. Microsoft has improved the communication hub of Windows Phone. It supported Facebook and Windows Live integration before, but Mango adds support for LinkedIn and Twitter as well. You can check out your friends social updates while browsing through your contacts. Microsoft has developed advanced algorithms for matching Twitter and LinkedIn handles to contacts in your phone. Microsoft is also introducing upgraded Groups features, including the ability to send instant messages to small groups, and threaded conversations for Facebook and Windows Live messaging, in addition to SMS. Apps are getting the bulk of Microsofts love, though. The upgraded OS is designed to make
accepted X12 Taser shotguns which were only licensed for testing in the UK. It was the first 27 Sep 2011 time firearms officers had seen A jury at the inquest of cornered the weapons. killer Raoul Moat, who blasted The shotguns were used because himself in the head with a sawn- they fired XREP cartridges over a off shotgun, has returned a longer range than conventional unanimous verdict of suicide. handheld Tasers. Police fired shotgun Tasers as he Two were fired - one round hit prepared to kill himself in his forearm, the other missed Rothbury, Northumberland, in and moments later he put a bullet July last year, but the round had through his brain. no effect on him, the three-week Remarkably, he still had a pulse inquest at Newcastle Crown Court when he arrived at Newcastle heard. General Hospital some 30 miles Windows Phones 30,000+ apps sharing (tethering) to Windows The 37-year-old ex-doorman was away, despite the unsurvivable more discoverable, useful and Phone devices. Carriers will surrounded by police marksmen brain injury. The Independent Police accessible. To that end, Microsoft control the introduction and and negotiators tried for six hours to get him to surrender but he was Complaints Commission has has introduced a web version of pricing for these two features. Windows Marketplace so that Mango introduces more than 500 determined not to go back to cleared officers involved in prison. Moat's death of any wrongdoing. users can browse apps from the changes in total. The inquest heard that the aim This entry passed through the desktop. Its improved Live Tiles Microsoft hasnt been selling as will deliver richer information many Windows Phones as itd was to incapacitate him, allowing Full-Text RSS service if this is from apps. Not only that, but like, but with Nokias Windows officers to make an arrest, but that your content and you're reading it users can create multiple Live Phones slated to hit the market by in all likelihood there was little or on someone else's site, please read Tiles from the same app. For the end of the year, it could soon no electrical discharge needed to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentlock up his muscles. only/faq.php#publishers. Five example, if you love Glee, you see a boost. Moat was on the run after Filters featured article: A 'Malign can now pin that show from What do you think of Windows Netflix to your home screen. Phone? Can Microsoft compete shooting his ex-girlfriend Sam Intellectual Subculture' - George Windows Phone is also getting a with Apple and Google? Let us Stobbart, executing her new M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , l o n g - n e e d e d f e a t u r e : a p p know what you think in the boyfriend Chris Brown, and then Herman, Peterson, Pilger And blinding Pc David Rathband after Media Lens. multitasking. Now switching apps comments. doesnt automatically close the More About: microsoft, windows he declared war on police. app you were previously using, p h o n e , w i n d o w s p h o n e 7 , Officers were offered and and its easier to switch between W i n d o w s P h o n e M a n g o them. The new OS introduces Visual Voicemail and Internet
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'Dark day' as BAE axes 3,000 jobs

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long-term future." The biggest job cuts will be at sites in Warton and Samlesbury in 27 Sep 2011 Lancashire and at Brough, Defence giant BAE Systems has although staff will also be hit at confirmed that almost 3,000 posts t h e f i r m ' s h e a d o f f i c e i n are to be axed on a "dark day" for H a m p s h i r e . British manufacturing. Labour leader Ed Miliband told Sites across the country will his party's annual conference that suffer cutbacks, while the firm BAE Systems had been "sold signalled the end of production at d o w n t h e r i v e r " b y t h e its factory in Brough, Yorkshire, Government, which is cutting which currently employs 1,300 back on defence spending. workers. The Government said everything Unions and politicians attacked would be done to help those the firm for the way the grim affected by the announcement, but news had leaked out over the past unions warned that so many job three days, saying workers had cuts threatened the UK's skills been treated "appallingly". base. Ian King, chief executive of BAE Unite union national officer Ian Systems, said: "Our customers are Waddell said: "It's a dark day for facing huge pressures on their thousands of skilled men and defence budgets and affordability women across the country and it has become an increasing priority. i s a d a r k d a y f o r B r i t i s h Our business needs to rise to this m a n u f a c t u r i n g . " c h a l l e n g e t o m a i n t a i n i t s Business Secretary Vince Cable competitiveness and ensure its said: "This news from BAE
Systems will be a serious knock to the individuals and communities affected. "My officials and the BIS (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) local teams are already in touch with the company, local authorities and local enterprise partnerships to make sure that everything possible is done to help those affected at Brough, Warton, Samlesbury and other sites." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Early Mango users can upgrade directly to RTM build, won't have to roll back to NoDo
Amar Toor (Engadget)
is indeed the case, adding that the update (available in Zune) only offers support to devs who used Over the weekend, the folks over t h e W i n d o w s P h o n e b e t a at Windows Phone New Zealand program. Still, that's pretty discovered the "Mango Friends reassuring news for all those who and Family Bundle: Pre-Cleanup" jumped on the Mango train a little -- the first in a series of two bit early. refreshes that promise to clear Early Mango users can upgrade away any beta updates ahead of directly to RTM build, won't have Mango's long-awaited rollout. At to roll back to NoDo originally the time, it seemed like this tool appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 w o u l d a l l o w d e v e l o p e r s t o Sep 2011 12:47:00 EDT. Please upgrade to the RTM build of the see our terms for use of feeds. OS, without rolling back to NoDo P e r m a l i n k W M P o w e r u s e r , and losing all of their text W i n d o w s P h o n e messages or app data. Now, NZ|@BrandonWatson (Twitter)| Redmond's own Brandon Watson Email this| Comments has confirmed via Twitter that this
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Nothing seems to provoke President Obama more than being challenged by the progressive base. Maybe that's why it's a tactic that works. Remember when you believed that if we just elected enough Democrats to Congress and took the White House, we could take this country back? We could stop giving tax breaks to people who didn't need them so that we would have a shot at creating jobs, providing for those in need, and still break even. We could end government-inspired discrimination against people because of the way they look, who they love, or where they were born. And we could actualize "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," to quote Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. That was 2008. As Keith Harrington, an environmental activist, wrote last month: Three years ago, I spent a number of weekends going door to door in Virginia urging people to vote for our president. In that campaign I found a sense of pride, a sense of excitement, a sense of energizing virtue.
This weekend, I spent a good chunk of time training to do civil disobedience at President Obama's door in the desperate hope that he'll fulfill the promise that drove me onto the streets for him in 2008. And in so doing I've found the same sense of pride, the same excitement, and the same energizing sense of virtue that I did three years back. Harrington is one of more than a thousand Americans who traveled
from every corner of the country - California, Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont - to sit for arrest in front of the White House over the course of two weeks toward the end of August. But his actions and those of his fellow activists embody a realization that many progressives have had: It wasn't enough to elect historic Democratic majorities to Congress and place a Democrat in
the Oval Office. This was a revelation that began to dawn on many gay rights advocates sometime in 2009. I'm not exactly sure why we were one of the first progressive constituencies to conclude that we needed to make our voices heard loud and clear to President Obama and Democratic lawmakers -- that we needed to let them know in no uncertain terms that we weren't going to sit by quietly while they
abandoned campaign promises only to reemerge like an impulsive suitor come 2012. Maybe it's because we were tired of paying the same taxes and not being able to pursue our happiness with equal fervor. Maybe it's because for decades we had been told by Democrats, "Elect us and we'll help you," yet we had only seen discriminatory POLITICS page 79
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measures like "Don't ask, Don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act enacted into law. Maybe it's because once your intelligence has been insulted flagrantly enough and your humanity denigrated deeply enough, you've got nothing left to lose. Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough. And that's why LGBT activists started handcuffing themselves to the fence that forms the perimeter around the White House, showing up at presidential events and sometimes shouting down Obama -- even at fundraisers for progressive allies like California Senator Barbara Boxer. In fact, nothing seems to provoke the president more than being challenged by the progressive base. After studying Obama as a member of the press corps for nearly four years, the only time I have seen the fire of true indignation flare in his eyes is when he feels as though the left is questioning the authenticity of his progressive ideals. To be candid, not all gay rights advocates agreed with these tactics -- some found them unseemly. But in retrospect, "Don't ask, Don't tell" was essentially the only piece of legislation passed during President Obama's first two years to address the concern of a specific progressive constituency. The one exception to that rule was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that relaxed the statute of limitations on when women could
file a complaint for not being compensated at an equal level to men. That sailed through Congress in the first couple weeks of Obama's presidency. The politics of ensuring women equal pay for equal work was a no -brainer for Democrats. But the politics of climate change, immigration reform, enabling labor unions to organize, ensuring access to abortion, and advancing LGBT equality -- those issues proved tricky. Lawmakers and the White House -- which had enormous sway over the congressional agenda in Obama's first two years -- needed to be convinced that they were worth the effort. Before they would act, they needed to see that the progressive left could be just as loud and boisterous and electorally essential as the conservative right. And that's what some queer activists set out to prove. The lessons of that effort were not lost on advocates from other communities. Although immigration activists staged some direct actions during the 111th Congress, they have ramped up their aggressive efforts in recent months. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago was arrested in July along with 11 other activists during a 1,000-person protest outside the White House in Lafayette Park. Their beef? President Obama's deportation rates were exceeding those of President Bush's and he passed the milestone of one million people deported by mid-
September. The day before the arrests, Obama had tried to explain in a speech to members of the National Council of La Raza -the nation's largest Latino group -that he couldn't change the laws by himself, he needed the help of Congress. But Obama's words were met with a new twist on a familiar refrain. "Yes, you can! Yes, you can!" they shouted at the president. To those of us in the LGBT community, it was a familiar conversation. The administration would tell us that they had no choice -- they had to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). They didn't have the executive authority to change the trajectory of the issue alone, they said. And they did defend it. For two years, they filed brief after brief in support of the law only to be skewered time and again by the blogosphere, grass roots activists and even the mainstream press. Eventually, they realized that there was a bigger political cost to defending the constitutionality of the law than there was to abandoning the effort. After Obama earned great adulation for repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell" -there was virtually no downside -White House advisors decided LGBT equality had more popular support than they had thought and rightly concluded that getting a black eye every time they filed a new brief defending the offensive law hadn't been worth the headache. So it also wasn't particularly
surprising to some LGBT activists when the president and his advisors discovered that they did indeed have the "prosecutorial discretion" to suspend deportations of immigrant youths who pose no threat to public safety. The Department of Homeland Security is now in the process of reviewing 300,000 deportation proceedings one-byone to determine whether they should move forward. The White House suddenly found that power just a few weeks after the president's La Raza appearance, the widely publicized arrests in front of the White House, and amid polling that showed Obama's numbers tanking among Latinos. And then came what's known as the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would provide a pathway for some of the dirtiest oil on the planet (known as "tarsands") to be piped down from Canada through the U.S. to the Gulf of Mexico. There's just two problems: 1) this isn't your average oil -- this particular type of oil is so dirty that one of the top climatologists in the world, NASA's Dr. James Hansen, has said that fully tapping into the tarsands would amount to "game over" for the planet; and 2) no one seems to have a handle on how to clean up spills from this type of oil even as the first section of the pipeline, which opened just last year, has already had 14 spills. That seems particularly worrisome to people from Nebraska, as the pipeline would pass through the state's largest source of drinking water.
The good news, if there is any, is that the decision to let the project proceed resides solely with President Obama. He has to approve the pipeline in order for it to move forward, which means this will be a moment of truth for him. Since Democrats abandoned the climate bill in 2010, this will be the most telling environmental test of his presidency heading into the 2012 election cycle. And so a cadre activists, led by leading environmentalist Bill McKibben, flew in to be arrested in an elaborate protest that unfolded in front of the White House during the last couple of weeks of August. The group ranged from 80-year-old grandmothers to former Obama for America youth organizers (including Obama's top '08 youth lieutenant, Courtney Height). When all was said and done, the U.S. Park Police had processed about 1,252 arrests, leading organizers to bill it as "the biggest act of civil disobedience in the history of the climate movement." "We're being as polite as can be -even to the president," McKibben wrote in an essay shortly after being freed from a two-day jail stint. "Instead of saying, 'We won't vote for you if you do the wrong thing,' we're saying, 'Think how charged-up your supporters will be if you do the right thing.' That's a good political argument, I think -- one look at the 2010 elections demonstrates the problem of a demoralized base." POLITICS page 82
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Obama backer: Enough with the class-warfare rhetoric

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
and as the President said those millionaires and billionaires. The real rift in philosophy though Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:05:58 AM is do you want the Government to Ted Leonsis owns a sports- create jobs and stimulate the entertainment conglomerate that e c o n o m y o r d o y o u w a n t includes three major-league sports Americas small business to be t e a m s , a m a j o r v e n u e i n the engine of growth? Washington DC, as well as a Economic Success has somehow number of Internet ventures. Hes become the new boogie man; vice-chairman emeritus of AOLs some in the Democratic party are board, which last year purchased now casting about for enemies Huffington Post. Hes also a big, and business leaders and anyone big donor to the Democratic Party who has achieved success in and its candidates, including terms of rank or fiscal success is Barack Obama, for whom Leonsis being cast as a bad guy in a black h a s a l r e a d y m a x e d o u t h i s hat. This is counter to the contributions in this cycle and did American Dream and is really the same in 2008. turning off so many people that That was in June, however, love American and basically carry before Obama decided to shift to our country on their back by the Left and start indulging in paying taxes and by employing class-warfare, soak-the-rich people and creating GDP. rhetoric in order to bolster his This is a bad move all designed sagging ratings and change the by some pollster who said this is dynamic of the 2012 race. Leonsis the way to get votes during the rerips Obama for demonizing the election. It should be stopped. We successful in a lengthy rant at his should be healing and creating website: teams NOT dividing and pitting I say this as I read all of the people against one another. rhetoric about Class Warfare, the Well, congratulations to Leonsis rift that is being created between for finally discovering the real economic middle and lower class rift in philosophy between
central planners and free-market advocates. The next question will be, Why do you keep donating money to the central planners? Take a look at the candidates supported by the Leonsis household over the last three cycles, and youll see classwarfare stalwarts like Al Franken, Niki Tsongas, Jim Moran, and John Sarbanes along with Barack Obama, to the full legal maximums. Thats why Leonsis gets a Captain Louis Renault award for this complaint in particular: I voted for our President. I have maxed out on personal donations to his re-election campaign. I forgot his campaign wants to raise $1 billion. THAT is a lot of moneymoneymoneymoney! Money still talks. It blows my mind when I am asked for money as a donation at the same time I am getting blasted as being a bad guy! Hopefully, this is a Road to Damascus moment for Leonsis and some of his colleagues, but the class-warfare rhetoric has been employed by Obama ever since he co-opted John Edwards
campaign strategy in 2007 to campaign from Hillary Clintons left. Leonsis could have discovered that he and his fellow entrepreneurs (Id recommend reading Leonsis biography at the site to get a sense of his accomplishments in that area) were being demonized all along by the very people whose campaigns he funded. Theyre probably shocked, shocked that it took Leonsis this long to be shocked, shocked that Democrats are fundamentally hostile to the free-market principles that allowed him to create his fortune in the first place. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Perrys decadesold barb about Carolina barbecue comes back to bite him
Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:25:13 AM
Dont mess with North Carolinians and their barbecue. Pick a side, maybe East v. West, vinegar v. tomato, whole hog v. pork shoulders but, whatever you do, dont just dismiss the meat of the matter as flavorless. Thats what Rick Perry did in 1992 and hes still paying a price. Apparently, in 1992, when Perry was Texas agriculture commissioner and the city of Houston hosted the Republican National Convention, he tried Eastern North Carolina BBQ from Kings of Kinston and reacted to it with this:Ive had road kill that tasted better than that. Last week, Raleigh News and Observer staffers Rob Christensen and Craig Jarvis served up the decades-old quote in a quick blog post and North Carolinians are none too pleased with Mr. Perry at the moment. Presumably, Perrys a fan of Texas barbecue inexplicably made with beef but thats no redeeming quality in the eyes of NC residents, who reject even the slightest variations from the triedPERRYS page 81
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and-true rival recipes that made the state famous for its BBQ. Even South Carolinians mustardbased BBQ sauces dont impress their northern neighbors. Beefbased barbecue? Forget about it. Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top anyway, but prior to the 14th it considering how well Romney is Plus, as Kings owner Wilbur Picks) looked like an update every two projected to do there, but Florida King quipped, [Perry] has or three days was more or less the requires the state party to submit Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:45:48 AM admitted to eating road kill, and norm. Facebook postings were names of all candidates by the end Who says the mainstream media somewhat less prolific, tending of October, and Palin cant skip knowing what it tastes like. How doesnt pay attention to Sarah towards reaction to significant Florida and expect to compete for can this person possibly judge any Palin? The New York Times events, so the nearly two-week the nomination. Even if Palin food? Michael Shear notices that Palin drought of posts is less of an makes that deadline, its awfully Incidentally, Im with the North has become strangely quiet over anomaly. There was a similar gap late even for someone with as Carolinians here. I grew up in the last couple of weeks, even in July, for instance, and a ten-day much of a national following as Oklahoma, but I never tasted real w i t h t w o b i g R e p u b l i c a n gap in August. Im not certain she undoubtedly has. Those b a r b e c u e u n t i l I m o v e d t o presidential debates in that period, about the relative spacing between deadlines mean much more than Arkansas. Im a Razorback, including one partnered with a Fox News hits, but perhaps any sudden silence by Palin on people, and, in Gods excuse Tea Party organization. Has Palin someone more attuned to it can commentary, if indeed she has me, Hog country, barbecue started working on a new say whether a week off is unusual gone silent in a deliberate manner comes only from pigs. But does any of this actually venture? especially since it appears that at all. And so far, I dont see any matter, politically speaking? It In the meantime, her Twitter feed Palin may be using the time now real indication either way of what and Facebook page have gone to focus attention on legal action Palins decision will be in the next just might. The L.A. Times, on barbecue backlash: silent for the last 10 days. Her over Joe McGinness book. couple of weeks. Holy Smoke co-author John Web site has not been updated I m n o t s u r e w h e t h e r t h e Update: From Dr. Allecon in the recently. And Ms. Palin has not absences are terribly significant. comments: This just in, non- Shelton Reed, a retired University appeared on Fox News for a In fact, Id question the premise. candidate doesnt do something. of North Carolina sociology professor, said Monday that week, since before the last If Palin wanted to jump into the More to follow. Indeed. Republican presidential debate. race, Id expect her to start This entry passed through the people in his state do not mess In a letter to donors late last b u i l d i n g s o m e r h e t o r i c a l Full-Text RSS service if this is around with this form of cooking. week, Tim Crawford, the chief of momentum rather than go silent. your content and you're reading it Barbecue, he said, is the third her political action committee, That may not include Fox News, on someone else's site, please read rail of North Carolina politics. wrote that Ms. Palin was on the which would certainly resist that the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Dont laugh. In 1984, Democrat Rufus verge of making her decision of kind of a strategy, but one would only/faq.php#publishers. Five Edmisten, while running for whether or not to run for office. think that Palin would increase Filters featured article: A 'Malign The last tweet from her account her Internet engagement activities. Intellectual Subculture' - George governor, happened to call was on September 16th, and that However, Shear is certainly M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , barbecue that damnable stuff. was just to note an update to her correct that Palin is approaching a Herman, Peterson, Pilger And H e l o s t , a n d b l a m e d h i s intemperate description of last Facebook posting from the decision point. He shrugs off the Media Lens. barbecue. Recently, in a letter to 14th. Palins Twitter account is Utah ballot deadline for entering supporters about the 2012 not usually a beehive of activity the race as mainly irrelevant, Democratic National Convention coming to Charlotte, N.C. first
lady Michele Obama mentioned the southern hospitality, diversity and of course, great barbecue. That landed with a thud. It is well known in North Carolina that Charlotte does not have great barbecue. Even the News & Observer said if she knew of a good barbecue place in Charlotte to please let them know, said Reed. Its a little early to make predictions, but lets put it this way: Barack Obamas victory over John McCain in North Carolina was razor thin49.9% to McCains 49.5%. If Obama loses the state in 2012 well, could have been that barbecue snafu. See? Southerners of which Carolinians are in some ways the epitome take food very seriously. P.S. Shameless plug for a friend: If youve never tried Pork Barrel BBQ sauce, buy it! Youll like it. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
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Whether McKibben and his cohort will succeed in convincing President Obama that approving the pipeline is bad politics remains to be seen. The shortterm benefits of pleasing big oil companies and spurring job creation may be too appealing, as evidenced by Obama's recent retreat on new air pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. But the activists' task is to keep him focused on the pipeline's long-term consequences -- for the planet, for his reelection campaign, and ultimately for his legacy. Now some progressives may find it a disheartening realization that politicians -- even progressive ones -- rarely if ever stand on principle. In fact, Obama's smashing electoral success in 2008 was partly tied to his ability to convince people that he would. But politicians are inevitably politicians. They drop anchor in
the safe harbor of the status quo and are not easily loosed. That is exactly why activists are such a necessary and indispensable part of the political system. At the very moment that a promising politician gets elected, a true activist's work has only just begun. And it seems to me that advocates across the progressive spectrum are increasingly reaching this conclusion after a two-year parade of disappointments from the party they labored to place in power. It turns out the "change we can believe in" must come from within. It starts, by necessity, as a yearning that gives rise to a voice, which gives way to disenchantment, and even to unrest, if unanswered. When the "Don't ask, Don't tell" repeal was finally certified on September 20, queer rights advocates had at least the beginnings of an answer to their yearnings. Make no mistake -- it
is only a speck of light on the horizon for the movement. But it felt like the beginning of dawn -the start of a new era fulfilling the promise of America for the GLBT movement. And as young as that day is, at least it has begun for us. Many of our progressive sisters and brothers are still groping in the dark. Image credit: REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens.
Windows Phone 7.5 'Mango' update begins rolling out today

Brad Molen (Engadget)
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already has a Windows Phone, however: Microsoft confirmed to us that Internet Sharing -- the long -awaited mobile hotspot functionality -- will not be available for existing devices. There's no word on if this will be offered through a future update or if it's a permanent deal, but at least it's only a single thorn in an entire rose garden of good news.
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computer, load the Zune client and there should be a lovely message waiting for you. As It's raining Mango, Hallelujah! always, don't feel too discouraged Windows Phone 7.5 is now if your device isn't available right officially ready to get pushed to away, since these rollouts have a existing devices, and in a big way. habit of taking a bit of time to get Taking lessons Microsoft learned to everyone. from the update debacle that was In addition to the rollout, the NoDo, the company's eager to do Web Marketplace will also make a much more efficient (and quick) its debut, giving Windows Phone job of rolling out its latest users the opportunity to do what revamp. While Redmond didn't Android users already enjoy-- the offer any exact details on which ability to surf for apps online and phones would be the lucky have them downloaded directly on recipients right away, it'll be the phone with no sideloading k e e p i n g t h e m a s s e s p o s t e d required. There's one bit of sad through its " where's my phone news to relay to anyone that update" page. If your handset is WINDOWS page 82 listed, hook it up to your
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Xiaomi Phone review

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is officially offering its free software for 12 well-known Submitted at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 PM Android handsets, including the Any seasoned Android enthusiast HTC Desire, Samsung Captivate would have no doubt come across and Motorola Droid. Of course, Xiaomi Corporation's MIUI at we'll also have the Xiaomi Phone some point. For those who on the list when it launches in haven't, here's a quick intro: MIUI China next month. is a heavily customizable Android Using Foxconn's tooling and ROM based on the works of I n v e n t e c ' s m a n u f a c t u r i n g CyanogenMod(at least on the resources, the aptly named driver level, so we've been told), Xiaomi Phone is the company's and currently the Chinese startup first attempt at developing its own
hardware, and boy, it's done one helluva job here with the specs: a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260 SoC (note that this isn't just an overclocked 1.2GHz chip), 1GB RAM, 4GB ROM, eight megapixel camera and the usual wireless bundle including WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS (plus the rare GLONASS). By now you must be thinking: surely there must be a tradeoff somewhere for that tempting price of 1,999
($310)? Read on to find out if this is the case. Gallery: Xiaomi Phone review Continue reading Xiaomi Phone review Xiaomi Phone review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

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