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Rick Perry's wife defends him on Iowa campaign trip

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takes arrows because they want to knock him out from that Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:33:00 AM position," Perry is quoted as Texas Gov. Rick Perry's wife, saying. "I think that's why he's the Anita, defended her husband and target." decried the intense scrutiny of the Rick Perry, who leads national GOP presidential campaign as she polls for the GOP nomination, is swings through the crucial state of trying to regain his footing after Iowa. last week. His performance at the "I thought I was pretty seasoned, d e b a t e i n O r l a n d o w a s h i s but I never thought I'd see weakest of three since joining the anything like this," she said today, race in August, prompting the according to a story in the Des conservative National Review to Moines Register. proclaim in an editorial that it was Perry stood by her husband's last "close to a disqualifying two debate performance, telling the hours for him." Westside Conservative Club that The Perrys have been married for the governor will be "better 28 years and Rick Perry has been prepared next time" for the jabs running for political office for coming from his rivals. much of that time. Anita Perry, a "Honestly, I'm going to speak nurse by training, helped her frankly from my heart, I think he husband as he climbed from the [unable to retrieve full-text content]
state Legislature to agriculture commissioner and then lieutenant governor, before becoming governor in 2000. She told her husband to get out of his "comfort zone" and seek the presidency. Last year, the Texas first lady told The Dallas Morning News during his re-election campaign that she's not a "vote changer or a vote getter or anything like that" but she's willing to do what's needed to get
her husband elected. Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, will make her first Iowa campaign trip of the political season next week. Marcus Bachmann, husband of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, sent out a fundraising pitch today saying, "My wife needs your support." 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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Longtime fugitive U.S. hijacker caught in Portugal

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ALMOCAGEME, Portgual (AP) A 1970s militant who carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in U.S. history lived for decades in an idyllic Portuguese hamlet near a stunning beach with his Portuguese wife and two children, his neighbors said Wednesday. By Francisco Seco, AP A woman who said she was Maria Do Rosario Valente, the wife of fugitive George Wright, outside the house where neighbors said Wright lived in Almocagema, near Lisbon. By Francisco Seco, AP A woman who said she was Maria Do Rosario Valente, the wife of fugitive George Wright, outside the house where neighbors said Wright lived in Almocagema, near Lisbon. George Wright, 68, worked odd jobs around Almocageme, 28 miles west of Lisbon, most recently employed as a nightclub bouncer, said two neighbors who spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared being ostracized for speaking out. Wright, taken into custody Monday at the request of the U.S. government, also spoke very good Portuguese, they said, adding that
his children were now in their 20s. A woman who answered the door at his home in Almocageme told an Associated Press correspondent she had no comment and then closed the door. Wright used the alias of Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos, U.S. officials said, and townspeople in Almocageme knew him as "Jorge" and "George." Almocageme gas station attendant Ricardo Salvador said Wright had business cards which gave his first name as George and many locals called him that. Most locals questioned by the AP said they assumed Wright was African, not American. "He was a very nice guy," Salvador said. "He used to wave as he drove past and I'd shout out, 'Hey, George!'" A fingerprint on a Portuguese ID card was the break that led a U.S. fugitive task force to Wright, who was arrested by Portuguese authorities and is being detained in Lisbon. Wright was convicted of the 1962 murder of gas station owner Walter Patterson, a decorated World War II veteran who was shot during a robbery at his business in Wall, New Jersey. Eight years into his 15- to 30year prison term, Wright and three
permitted by Algeria's Socialist government to open an office of the Black Panther Movement in that country in 1970. The Algerian president at the time professed sympathy for what he viewed as worldwide liberation struggles. The hijackers had identified themselves to the airplane other men escaped from the Bayside State Prison farm in passengers as a Black Panther Leesburg, N,J., on Aug. 19, 1970. group, police said at the time. The FBI said Wright became They said the hijackers smoked affiliated with an underground marijuana continuously during the m i l i t a n t g r o u p , t h e B l a c k flight. Liberation Army, and lived in a At the request of the American "communal family" with several government, Algerian officials returned the plane and the money of its members in Detroit. In 1972, Wright dressed as a to the U.S. They briefly detained priest and using an alias the hijackers before allowing hijacked a Delta flight from them to stay. Coverage of the Detroit to Miami with four other hijackers' stay in Algeria said BLA members and three children, their movements were restricted, including Wright's companion and and the president ignored their calls for asylum and requests to their 2-year-old daughter. After releasing the 86 other return the ransom money to them. passengers in exchange for a $1 The group eventually made its million ransom delivered by an way to France, where Wright's FBI agent wearing only swim associates were tracked down, trunks, as per the hijackers' arrested, tried and convicted in demands the hijackers forced P a r i s i n 1 9 7 6 . T h e F r e n c h the plane to fly to Boston. There government, however, refused to an international navigator was extradite them to the U.S., where taken aboard, and the plane was they would have faced longer flown to Algeria, where the sentences. Wright remained at large, and his hijackers sought asylum. The group was taken in by case was among the top priorities American writer and activist when the New York-New Jersey Eldridge Cleaver, who had been Fugitive Task Force was formed
in 2002, according to Michael Schroeder, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, which worked with New Jersey's FBI and other agencies on the task force. The New Jersey Department of Corrections (DOC) brought along all its old escape cases when the task force began operating, Schroeder said, and investigators started the case anew. They reviewed reports from the 1970s, interviewed Wright's victims and the pilots of the plane he hijacked. They had ageenhanced sketches made and tried to track down any communications he may have made with family in the U.S. An address in Portugal was one of several on a list of places they wanted to check out, but Schroeder said there was nothing about it that made it seem especially promising. "It was another box to get checked, so to speak," he said. That changed last week, when details started falling into place with the help of Portuguese authorities. "They have a national ID registry," Schroeder said. "They pulled that. That confirmed his print matched the prints with the DOC. The sketch matched the LONGTIME page 4
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Lawyers offer theories of Michael Jackson's death at trial

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LOS ANGELES Cardiologist Conrad Murray's "incompetence and unskilled acts" caused Michael Jackson's death from a drug overdose in June 2009, the prosecutor in the doctor's homicide trial told jurors in an opening statement Tuesday. Pool photo by Al Seib Conrad Murray listens to the prosecution's opening arguments in his involuntary-manslaughter trial in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Murray's chief defense lawyer offered a competing vision, saying a drug-addicted Jackson killed himself in the bedroom of his mansion as he tried desperately to get some sleep. Jackson fatally created "a perfect storm in his body" by ingesting the powerful anesthetic propofol with lorazepam when the doctor was absent from the bedroom, Houston attorney Ed Chernoff said. Muray, 58, who was hired as Jackson's $150,000-a-month personal physician for an impending London concert series, is charged with involuntary manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he would face up to four years in prison and loss of medical licenses in California, Texas and Nevada.
Jackson's parents, Katherine and Joe Jackson, sat together in second-row seats in the courtroom with the entertainer's sisters, Janet, La Toya and Rebbie, and brothers Jermaine, Randy and Tito. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor has said he expects the trial to last five weeks. By Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images Demonstrators hold signs outside the Los Angeles Courthouse during opening statements for the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray on Tuesday. Outside the courthouse, nine Jackson fans hoisted anti-Murray placards with messages such as "Justice for Michael." One wore a yellow T-shirt referring to "Dr. Death." Four supporters of Murray also had signs. One said "We support you. We love you, Dr. Murray." Three TV cameras in the courtroom televised the trial live, not showing the jurors' faces. Prosecutor David Walgren told the jury of seven men and five women that, at Jackson's behest, Murray had treated the singer for insomnia for two months with nearly nightly injections of propofol. Murray administered the drugs although he was not an anesthesiologist and was not even a board-certified cardiologist,
negligence" and "extreme violations" of medical standards in using propofol for insomnia and administering it outside an operating room, Walgren said. The doctor also was negligent in failing to have proper monitoring and resuscitation equipment, and for "abandoning" his patient to make phone calls for 45 minutes, Walgren said. "Misplaced trust in the hands of the prosecutor said. He said Murray "deceived" Conrad Murray cost Michael paramedics and emergency room Jackson his life" at age 50, doctors by omitting propofol Walgren said. The defense has said other when asked what drugs he had doctors prescribed propofol to given Jackson. Chernoff said the defense would Jackson for years. rely on scientific experts to show Walgren played for the jury a conversation with Jackson that that "zero propofol" was in Murray recorded a month before Jackson's system when the doctor Jackson's death. Slurring his left the bedroom proof that words, Jackson said he wanted Jackson "did an act that caused his fans at the upcoming concert to own death." c o n s i d e r h i m " t h e g r e a t e s t Quoting Murray's statements to entertainer in the world" and said police detectives two days after he would give millions of dollars Jackon's death, but not telling from concert proceeds to a jurors that they would hear from p r o p o s e d M i c h a e l J a c k s o n the doctor himself, Chernoff raised the possibility that Murray children's hospital. Murray knew Jackson's health will not testify. He said patients of was in danger but continued to Murray will testify to the doctor's order large shipments of propofol generous, ungreedy character. In a poignant moment, jurors saw for him, Walgren said. a videotape of Jackson's final Referring often to Murray's salary, he implied that the doctor rehearsals as he sang The Way acted out of greed. He originally You Make Me Feel and Earth asked for a $5 million-a-year Song. The first prosecution witness, contract, Walgren said. Kenny Ortega, co-director and Murray was guilty of "gross
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picture on his ID card." By the weekend, U.S. authorities were on a plane to Portugal. And Monday, Portuguese police staking out Wright's home found him. Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said Wright was arrested for purposes of extradition on the New Jersey homicide charge. He would serve the remainder of his sentence if returned to the U.S., she said. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
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US senator presses Obama for views on China yuan bill - Reuters

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How Starbucks Transformed Coffee From A Commodity Into A $4 Splurge

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 3:17:50 PM
Stanley Hainsworth has been a catalyst for the great brands of modern times. He was creative director at Nike and then Lego. He was vice president global creative at Starbucks in an era when the coffee purveyor was experiencing phenomenal growth. Starbucks has been hailed, acknowledged, and praised again and again for its excellence in branding and marketing, in creating a branded experience that can satisfy the connoisseur, bring in new converts, be accessible to all, and irresistible in its appeal. Stanley defined the very feel of Starbucks in an era when the brand was becoming a cultural icon. Stanley has a reputation for being extremely rigorous in his work, comprehensively rethinking brands when necessary, and helping them to expand into new areas of endeavor while remaining true to their original identity. As he had done at Nike, he helped Lego expand into entertainment properties that allowed the company to gracefully enter the brand multiverse. At Starbucks, he created an innovative criteria of five filters--handcrafted, artistic, sophisticated, human, and
enduring--that defined the work for the company. Stanley's extraordinarily thorough approach to design and branding is complemented by an equally good nature; he has been a revered colleague and mentor at the companies where he worked. With such an extraordinary range of experience, Stanley has become ever more articulate about
how brands work, and he has now devoted himself at Tether to invigorating existing brands and crafting new ones. Having guided brands at companies that have gone through dramatic growth spurts--or needed to move on to a new phase--he has compelling thoughts about how brands stay relevant and authentic as they get older and grow. Many brands
have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation. Finding themselves disoriented, they must reassess. "In order for brands to recapture their spirit, they almost always go back to their core," he says. Authenticity in branding requires a step by step, measured methodology that doesn't veer from a brand's key
identity. Certain brands have not been able to articulate that, and Stanley's comment about Microsoft never having told its story was wonderfully sharp. In this interview, Stanley reveals his secrets about the magic that helped to create a brand that conquered the world. The HOW page 6
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sensation that is Starbucks required elements of wisdom, integrity, showmanship, and intelligence. I got the sense talking with Stanley that each of the points he made--about Starbucks and other topics--could be explained in even greater detail. Each could have its own commentary in which Stanley unfolds, like an accordion, the full three-dimensionality of his experience and insight. Stanley speaks here about the importance of vision. It is a theme that can't be emphasized enough. Nike had vision. Starbucks had vision. Stanley shares an insider's view of the Starbucks's history, and it's interesting to learn that even Starbucks CEO Howard Scultz didn't fully realize his company's potential for growth. But he had a vision, and he, like the leaders of Nike, were relentless in bringing this to fruition and using it to craft the brand experience. Rigor in matching the vision to the brand experience is essential, and that must define every brand touchpoint. As Stanley says, "No one is going to pick up your product and try it if they don't want to buy into the experience." The man has vision. Stanley, how would you define "brand"? A brand is an entity that engenders an emotional connection with a consumer. What do you mean by an "emotional connection"? Consumers emotionally connect with brands when the brands
repeatedly provide something that the consumer wants, desires, or needs. Let's return to the moment a person first realizes they have to make a choice between coffee brands or soda brands or shampoo brands. How do people really make choices? Do you think people are conscious of the processes they use? I think the best brands are those that create something for consumers that they don't even know they need yet. A coffee brand like Starbucks created something people didn't know they needed. Same with Nike. Who knew we needed a high-end performance running shoe? I think when people are surprised or delighted by how a brand can change their lives by just making it a little bit better--or a little bit more fun or a little more performance-oriented--that's when they start creating a connection with that brand. The concept of a person not knowing that they need something is a fascinating one. Clearly, there were millions of coffee shops all over the world before Starbucks launched its particular brand of coffee shop. How do marketers create desire for something that consumers don't know they need? I think great brands create the "end state" first. When launching a new product, marketers are not very specific about how a product actually works. They express more about the result. They talk about what you will feel or what you will be like if you choose to
engage with that brand or that product. The Apple commercial in 1984 was a great example of this. There was very little about the product in the spot. It was all about the aftereffect of the product. During your tenure at Starbucks, how deliberate were the choices that the Starbucks marketing team was making? Were they very intentionally creating a scenario and an environment that people would want to experience? I think it was very deliberate from the beginning. When Howard Schultz first came to Starbucks, he wasn't the owner of the company. He joined a couple guys that had started the company. He went over to Milan and saw the coffee culture and espresso bars where people met in the morning. He saw how people caught up on the news while they sat or stood and drank their little cups of espresso. That inspired the vision he crafted from the beginning--to design a social environment where people not only came for great coffee, but also to connect to a certain culture. Howard was very wise in knowing that Starbucks was not the only company in the world to make great coffee. On the contrary, there are hundreds of other companies that can make great coffee. So what's the great differentiator? The answer is the distinction that most great brands create. There are other companies that make great running shoes or great toys or great detergent or
soap, but what is the real differentiator that people keep coming back for? For Starbucks, it was creating a community, a "third place." It was a very conscious attribute of the brand all along and impacted every decision about the experience: who the furniture was chosen for, what artwork would be on the walls, what music was going to be played, and how it would be played. Did Howard anticipate that Starbucks would grow as quickly as it did and become as pervasive? Was his goal to create a global brand? I think the vision was always for Starbucks to become a global brand. There were big ambitions from the beginning. I once asked Howard how it felt to have thousands of people here in our offices, and thousands of people in thousands of stores all over the world working for the brand. He just looked at me and shook his head and said, "I had no idea that it could become this." Over the course of your career, you've worked in three different companies that have an iconic role in our culture. With two of them, Starbucks and Nike, the products are sold at a very high premium. Both organizations have taken commodity products and turned them into desirable, sexy, coveted products that incite enormous loyalty and an almost zealotlike behavior. Do you see a common denominator in the way these products are marketed? Would you say that there's
something that these companies have in common that has generated this fervor? What I observed working in both companies is the rigor and unfailing attention to the product, and the unbelievable energy spent on creating the brand experience. I describe it as experience first and product second, because no one is going to pick up your product and try it if they don't want to buy into the experience. This experience comes through the advertising, the retail environment, and the online experience--every single brand touchpoint. There is a very intentional effort to inspire people to get caught up in that experience and say, "I want to try that"-whatever that thing happens to be. What is the most important aspect to consider when creating a brand? For me, it's all about having a story to tell. This is what will enable you to create an experience around the brand. What do you mean by "a story"? Every brand has a story, whether it's the founder's story or the brand's reason for being. Some brands have never told their story well, or have lost their story. Microsoft is a good example of a brand that's never told its story well. It's a huge consumer product software platform, a mega conglomerate, and there's no love there. There's no emotional story to rally around. The Bill Gates story is such an incredible story, HOW page 7
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but it's never really been expressed by the brand. It's really interesting to watch brands get older, and gain more competitors in the marketplace, and struggle to stay relevant. Look at Levi's or Gap or any of the great American brands that have gone through these struggles. Look at Starbucks! In order for brands to recapture their spirit, they almost always go back to their core. They seem to forget for a while, then remember, "Oh yeah, we're a coffee company!" Then they get rid of the movies and the spinning racks filled with CDs and start focusing on coffee again. What if the brand manager of Kraft American cheese asked you to develop its story? How do you create a story if something is essentially manufactured? You go back to the essence of the brand. Why was it made? What need did it fill? Go back to the origins of a brand and identify how it connected to consumers and how it became a relevant, "loved by families" product. What were the origins of this story? Whether we're talking about Tropicana orange juice or Kraft American cheese -- these products were all created to fill a niche. Why? That's where you'll find your story. What would likely be the next step after defining or developing a story? You develop a story, and then you start to identify who the consumers are. Who are you talking to? How are you going to
talk to them? How are you going to tell your story to them? What are your opportunities or your channels through which you can tell that story? Do we need to design some new products, or do we need to redesign our existing products because they aren't true to our story? Or maybe you determine that your products are fine, but you haven't been talking to your consumers in the right way, so it's a communication issue. Examine every touchpoint and look at how you can tell one clear, consistent story. People who aren't very experienced with branding, or are new at it, sometimes feel that they can get away with something being off-brand. But I think that genuinely good branding involves an examination of every single way the brand, the product, and the experience is viewed. Everything that you do, everything you release, everything you say -- everything is the cumulative expression of your brand. What made you decide to work with brands in the first place? As an American, my earliest days were immersed in brands. Brands became my acquaintances and friends as I grew up. When I got old enough to understand what was going on, I couldn't help but wonder about all that power. What brands did you have emotional connections to when you were younger? I think boys always remember their first really nice pair of running shoes. Mine were Adidas.
I remember them exactly--I remember what they smelled like, what they looked like. I remember every single detail about them. What made you want those shoes? I loved the look of them. I even remember going to buy them. I had earned money mowing lawns. I went to the sporting goods store in Benton, Kentucky, the nearest town that had a sporting goods store--the little town where I grew up didn't have one. I looked at the shelf, and those were the shoes that called out to me. Even now, when I go into sporting goods stores or shoe stores now and see the huge wall of shoes, I see that one style of shoe -- Adidas still makes them -- and I have a deep connection to them. How did you feel when you first put on that first pair of shoes? I felt like I had joined another world. I didn't know it at the time, but I had joined the world of consumers. Suddenly, I liked the feeling of earning money, of buying something, and then enjoying it. That started my dangerous journey of buying footwear and apparel over the years. Did that experience of wearing the shoes -- which you had wanted so badly -- make you feel better about yourself? Yes. Yes. Yes. Why or how do you think that happens? If the brand has been advertised widely, then you've just bought your way into a world that you've only seen from the outside. The
experience is like when there's a club that you keep walking by, and you finally enter that club, and now you're a part of it. Do you think that there's any danger in that? That's what brands play on. It's part of our nature to want to be accepted. Yet, at the same time, we have this desire to feel like we're different from everyone else -- which is the complete opposite of that yearning for acceptance but is nonetheless relevant. I found that strategy particularly intriguing -- when brands create things that make you feel like you're different from everyone else. I remember being in London in the 1970s and first seeing punks in Trafalgar Square. They had their hair "Mohawked" up, and they wore jackets covered in safety pins. I couldn't help but imagine them at home, preparing themselves to go out, in order to look very different from anyone in their household or in their neighborhood. But once they were out, they looked exactly like everyone else in Trafalgar Square. No matter how hard we try to look different, we almost always still look like someone. Once a lot of people get access into an exclusive club, the original members get turned off and leave to find another smaller, more exclusive club to join. I have often wondered if I should feel guilty because of my role in this. On the one hand, it is disturbing, but on the other hand, I admire it. But as much as I believe in this, I
also realize that no one has to have those products. You can live without them -- they're not essential to life. I've probed deep in my soul to see if I felt bad doing this work, but I never have. I have never felt guilty. Are you somehow disappointed that you don't feel guilty? No. I've come to the conclusion that it's like entertainment. If I write a book or make a movie, I'm going to promote the hell out of it. It's the same thing in any arena. I make a shoe, and I'm going to promote it and try to get people to buy it. It's all part of making a living. Some people sell coffee, some people sell bread, some people sell shoes, some people sell toys. I remember leaving work several years ago, when I was still at Starbucks. I felt so good after a whole day of working with everyone and critiquing everything. At the end of the day I suddenly realized, "Wow, I am really good at this." I knew I could make emotional connections between consumers and products and brands and things. I've achieved a level of expertise in the same way that a doctor or an accountant who practices for many years gets really good at what he does. We practice for years and years and years, and we learn all of the techniques. And then we make up new techniques and new ways to do things. And we get really, really good. HOW page 20
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Even Those Cleared of Crimes Can Stay on FBI's Watch List - New York Times
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By CHARLIE SAVAGE Published: September 27, 2011 WASHINGTON The Federal Bureau of Investigation is permitted to include people on the governments terrorist watch list even if they have been acquitted of terrorism-related offenses or the charges are dropped, according to newly released documents. The files, released by the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act, disclose how the police are instructed to react if they encounter a person on the list. They lay out, for the first time in public view, the legal standard that national security officials must meet in order to add a name to the list. And they shed new light on how names are vetted for possible removal from the list. Inclusion on the watch list can keep terrorism suspects off planes, block noncitizens from entering the country and subject people to delays and greater scrutiny at airports, border crossings and traffic stops. The database now has about 420,000 names, including about 8,000 Americans, according to the statistics released in connection with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. About 16,000
people, including about 500 Americans, are barred from flying. Timothy J. Healy, the director of the F.B.I.s Terrorist Screening Center, which vets requests to add or remove names from the list, said the documents showed that the government was balancing civil liberties with a careful, multilayered process for vetting who goes on it and for making sure that names that no longer need to be on it came off. There has been a lot of criticism about the watch list, claiming that it is haphazard, he said. But what this illustrates is that there is a very detailed process that the F.B.I. follows in terms of nominations of watch-listed people. Still, some of the procedures drew fire from civil liberties advocates, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which made the original request and provided the documents to The New York Times. The 91 pages of newly disclosed files include a December 2010 guidance memorandum to F.B.I. field offices showing that even a not-guilty verdict may not always be enough to get someone off the list, if agents maintain they still have reasonable suspicion that the person might have ties to
terrorism. If an individual is acquitted or charges are dismissed for a crime related to terrorism, the individual must still meet the reasonable suspicion standard in order to remain on, or be subsequently nominated to, the terrorist watch list, the once-classified memorandum says. Ginger McCall, a counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said: In the United States, you are supposed to be assumed innocent. But on the watch list, you may be assumed guilty, even after the court dismisses your case. But Stewart Baker, a former Homeland Security official in the Bush administration, argued that even if the intelligence about someones possible terrorism ties fell short of the courtroom standard of beyond a reasonable doubt, it could still be appropriate to keep the person on the watch list as having attracted suspicion. Mr. Baker noted that being subjected to extra questioning or even kept off flights was different than going to prison. The guidance memo to F.B.I. field offices says someone may be deemed a known or suspected terrorist if officials have particularized derogatory information to support their
suspicions. That standard may be met by an allegation that the suspect has terrorism ties if the claim is corroborated by at least one other source, it said, but mere guesses or hunches are not enough. Normally, it says, if agents close the investigation without charges, they should remove the subjects name as they should also normally do in the case of an acquittal. But for exceptions, the F.B.I. maintains a special file for people whose names it is keeping in the database because it has decided they pose a national security risk even they are not the subject any active investigation. The F.B.I.s Terrorist Screening Center shares the data with other federal agencies for screening aircraft passengers, people who are crossing the border and people who apply for visas. The data is also used by local police officers to check names during traffic stops. The December memorandum lays out procedures for police officers to follow when they encounter people who are listed. For example, officers are never to tell the suspects that they might be on the watch list, and they must immediately call the federal government for instructions. In addition, it says, police officers and border agents are to
treat suspects differently based on which handling codes are in the system. Some people, with outstanding warrants, are to be arrested; others are to be questioned while officers check with the Department of Homeland Security to see whether it has or will issue a detainer request; and others should be allowed to proceed without delay. The documents show that the F.B.I. is developing a system to automatically notify regional fusion centers, where law enforcement agencies share information, if officers nearby have encountered someone on the list. The bureau also requires F.B.I. supervisors to sign off before an advisory would warn the police that a subject is armed and dangerous or has violent tendencies. The F.B.I. procedures encourage agents to renominate suspects for the watch list even if they were already put on it by another agency meaning multiple agencies would have to be involved in any attempt to later remove that person. The procedures offer no way for people who are on the watch list to be notified of that fact or given an opportunity to see and challenge the specific allegations EVEN page 19
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How Robots And Social Entrepreneurs Can Work Side By Side To Fix The World
Alexa Clay and Jon Camfield (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 3:48:41 PM
To break out of the mismanaged systems in which we find ourselves, we could turn to robots, whose cold logic would override our selfish needs. Or we could turn to social entrepreneurs, who work outside the system to find new solutions. A few years ago in the wake of the failure of governments to sign an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in Copenhagen, we fell into a discussion on fixing the system: Lets get computers to do it for us. We mixed a sort of tragedy of the commons scenario with some basic understanding of game theory to construct a fantasy in which some sort of super computer installed just outside the conference would be programmed to determine the appropriate binding greenhouse gas reduction targets that each nation would need to adopt. You could program preference functions for each nation, skipping the bureaucratic headache of international diplomacy, and arrive at an agreement. Problem solved. The rationality and fairness that a computer could idealistically dispense around a climate change agreement is offered as a direct
critique of the fragility of human beings to manage and govern systems. This thought quickly snowballed. We could outsource many more challenges of systems governance to actors capable of making the changes we need, the
changes that are in the best interest of society. The strength of bot-managed decision-making is that it can be reduced to rules and hard logic, where human decision-making, built on top of evolutionary
quirks, habits, and imitative behaviors, may provide a strong veneer of logic, but is susceptible to these underpinnings, as well as bureaucratic and social pressures. In short, the social contract, invented in the early
days of democracy, may not be enough of a policing mechanism anymore. The crisis in the financial system shows how corporate interests HOW page 12
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Property Rights For Sale, Inquire With the EPA

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 2:05:00 AM
The machinery of Big Government grinds an Idaho couple into the mud. 09/28/2011 In 2005, Mike and Chantell Sackett bought a piece of land in Idaho, and set about building a modest home on their $23,000 lot. The dreadful flaming eye of the Environmental Protection Agency soon turned upon them, and they were told their little half-acre parcel of land, which is located about five hundred feet away from a lake, was a federally protected wetland. If youre familiar with the EPA, you can guess what happened next. As Bloomberg Businessweek reported in April 2011: The Sacketts say they were stunned. The owners of an excavation company, they had secured all the necessary local permits. And Chantell Sackett says that before work began, she drove two hours to Coeur dAlene, Idaho, to consult with an Army Corps of Engineers official. She says the official told her orally, though not in writing, that she didnt need a federal permit. We did all the right things, she says.
The EPA issued an order requiring the Sacketts to put the land back the way it was, removing the piles of fill material and replanting the vegetation they had cleared away. The property was to be fenced off and the Sacketts would be required to submit annual reports about its condition to the EPA. The agency threatened to fine them up to $32,500 a day until they complied. There is something dreadfully wrong with our government when people who own an excavation company can get past the local permit offices, and the Army Corps of Engineers, and still break the law in a manner that should be punished by five-figure daily fines. At this point, the Sacketts entered one of those delightful regulatory mazes lined with the bones of American liberty and prosperity. Complying with the EPAs demands would cost them an estimated $27,000, and the result would be a $23,000 slice of carefully restored, utterly useless land. Defiance would bury them under those gigantic daily fines. They wanted to contest the agencys wetlands designation in court, having obtained certifications from a biologist and a soil expert that their property
was not a wetland but discovered that only the EPA could initiate such a proceeding, and they didnt feel like nipping over to the courthouse to get the ball rolling. If the Sacketts wanted to jumpstart the court case, why, all they had to do was plunk down a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a permit from the EPA, and when the agency denied it, everyone could repair to the courthouse and bust out their soil samples. In other words, Americans have God-given property rights, which they are free to exercise at the EPAs convenience, provided theyre willing to fork over thirtytwo thousand dollars per day while they wait. All to determine the fate of a property worth less than one days non-compliance fine. The EPA assures us this is reasonable, because the fines are accrued until court actions are decided. Oh, well, thats totally different, then! Youre allowed to assert your property rights at the EPAs convenience, and take your chances in court provided youre ready to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in accrued non-compliance fees if you lose. That sounds like a fair and reasonable procedure for a middle -class couple trying to build a
three-bedroom house on half an acre of land to follow! Its hard to understand why theyre complaining. According to Businessweek, the EPA does this up to 3,000 times per year. The Sacketts got some help from the Pacific Legal Foundation, and their case has finally arrived at the Supreme Court, four years after they started laying the foundation of their new home. Of course, the Obama Administration opposes them, as the New York Times reports: The Obama administration stated in its brief that appeals courts have "uniformly concluded" that the Clean Water Act provisions in question do not violate the due process clause because EPA must file suit in federal court if it wants to enforce compliance. Righto! The EPA can drop a compliance order on anyone it wants, whenever it pleases; wait as long as it wants, accruing fines at the rate of over thirty thousand dollars a day; and then bring its victims into court to play some really high-stakes poker. Or you could just walk away from your piddly little $23,000 plot of land without a fight, pony up $27,000 to make it look nice for the EPA, and build your dream house someplace else. Thats due
process, just like the Founding Fathers intended! Businessweek notes that some environmental advocates believe the agency made a mistake in letting a case with such appealing plaintiffs reach the Supreme Court. So property rights and the due process of law should be reserved for appealing people who tug heartstrings when they file high-profile court cases? The EPA as we know it needs to be torn down root and branch. Maybe a court decision in the Sacketts favor can help get that vitally needed landscaping project under way. Update: The Pacific Legal Foundation has produced a video about the Sackett case. It helps to see them. These are real people, not statistics to be tallied up on the EPA's next request for a budget increase. 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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Amazon Takes on Apple iPad With Kindle Fire Tablet - Fox News
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Amazon.com The Amazon Kindle Fire, a $199 tablet PC based on the Google Android operating system that analysts say could be a serious threat to the Apple iPad. NEW YORK The tablet wars are finally heating up! Putting to rest the endless speculation, Amazon on Wednesday officially introduced not one, not two, but four new Kindle devices. The company aims to lock up the e-reader market with an entry-level $79 Kindle, and to do what countless tech companies have failed at: building a color tablet device at a reasonable price that can compete with Apple's wildly successful iPad. The Kindle Fire is that gadget. It's designed mainly as a media consumption device rather than a touch computer and it undercuts Apple's iPad by hundreds of dollars$199 compared to $500 for an iPad. It will go on sale November 15. The Fire has a 7-inch color display, weighs just 14.6 ounces, and has a color touch screen. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos emphasized the device's ability to play video from Amazon's streaming Prime service, play
MP3's from the Amazon store, and load Web pages more quickly by leveraging Amazon's cloud services. Online storage for movies, books, and music will be free for Kindle Fire owners, extending storage beyond the device's built-in 8GB of memory. Like current Kindle books, movies will also sync
between devices wirelessly so that user can pick up watching a movie from where they left off on another device, such a set-top box like the Roku. Amazon makes several devices that include 3G cellular connections, but the initial version of the Fire will be Wi-Fi only. While the Fire is smaller than the
iPad with its 10-inch screen and it doesn't have a camera, the tablet is much lighter so that it can be comfortably held in one hand. And it supports all the popular video formats, including Adobe's Flashsomething Apple refuses to do. Taking another jab at Apple, Bezos showed one slide of an Apple USB cable, promising
that the Kindle Fire would do away with the cords and would update wirelessly The Fire uses a dual-core processor and the latest version of Google Android software and looked zippy in hands-on demonstrations. Apps will also be AMAZON page 19
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can override banks social contract with society. Additionally, the complexity of the financial crisis meant that no one actor was solely responsible, and so the risk of what was happening at an aggregate level was not properly registered. Certainly bots can have their own glitches.There is the problem of runaway," a weakness of complex systems. They can feed on their own complexity and wobble out of control. The Flash Crash of 2010, for example, in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged about 1,000 points, was a result of computerized high frequency traders exiting the market because they were triggered by a mutual funds unusual selling. Here, our only response is by introducing mechanisms into systems that offer self-correction. Learning networks, for example, which detect anomalies and react to them. However, bots can also act as good agents for systems governance as long as two principles are in place: transparency and trust. First, if we are to depend on bots to manage these complex systems then this management must be transparent for anyone to inspect, challenge, and improve. Secondly, the trust in the system must
similarly be distributed. We are long past the days where any one entity could simply say trust me. The bots must act within a trust framework, where any agent in the system can begin to assign trust values to other agents. Add back in transparency, and you get a web of trust which scales rapidly without the need for any central trusted-by-default agent. But robots aren't the only things that can disrupt the system with a new kind of logic. There is already one agent of systemschange thats working outside the traditional methodology in a way that can effect drastic change: social entrepreneurs. The social entrepreneur is, like a robot, another type of actor accustomed to operating in complex environments. Social entrepreneurs tackle major social issues and offer new, innovative ideas for wide-scale change. They seek out what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to take new leaps. In this way they are both the destabilizing element and the control system. Ashoka Fellow Gary Slutkin, for example, is a social entrepreneur working to eradicate the norm of violence in the most dangerous urban neighborhoods in the
United States by conceptualizing and treating violence as an infectious disease. His CeaseFire program identifies those who have been most infected by urban violence and treats this core group, in order to stop the transmission of violence to others. CeaseFires treatment is based on a corps of violence interrupters, former perpetrators of violence now employed to disrupt armed conflicts and educate the community about the consequences of violent behavior. Overall, 84% of Ashoka Fellows like Gary have changed a system at a national level within 10 years of their election to the fellowship. These systems changes occur across five dimensions: changing the rules that govern our societies (public policy and industry norms), redefining interconnections in market systems (market dynamics and value chains), transforming the meaning of private versus citizen sector (business social congruence), fully integrating marginalized populations (full citizenship and empathetic ethics), and increasing the number of people who are problem-solvers (culture of changemaking). This movement away from a centralized decision-making body is the key to future systems governance. And this environment
of decentralized management is one where social entrepreneurs and bots both thrive. So rather than putting our faith in governments and institutions that are meant to be guardians of social systems--whether they be financial systems or our climate change system--we should develop confidence in the democratizing agency offered by social entrepreneurs and bots. Jon Camfield is the Technology Strategist for Ashoka Changemakers. When the robots take over, he'll still find joy in being a technology for development geek, gardening, homebrewing, salsa dancing, cooking, and being a husband and all-around dork. Not in that order. Alexa Clay is the Director of Open Growth Advisory, a consulting division of Ashoka Changemakers. She is an economic historian turned futurist and enjoys the company of both social entrepreneurs and robots. More information about Ashoka Changemakers can be found here. [Image: Flickr user andreavallejos]
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Jimmy Choo aims for 50 new Chinese stores by 2016

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British shoe brand planning to open 50 new stores in China by 2016.
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Amazon's Kindle Fire: 7-Inches, Wi-Fi, No 3G And No Camera But Just $199
Nidhi Subbaraman (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 2:53:13 PM
Breaking news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Amazon's Android Tablet Revealed. Moments before an official press event, Amazon executives have revealed details about the company's longexpected tablet PC: It's called Kindle Fire, as rumored, and is a 7-inch color LCD machine that lacks 3G, a camera and a microphone, but comes with WiFi like its older Kindle e-reader cousins. As expected, the reduced specs let the device significantly undercut Apple's iPad entry price of $500 with a $199 price ticket. A 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime is included. It's also said the firm will release a $79 entrylevel e-ink Kindle device. --KE Intel, Samsung Bet On Tizen Over Meego. MeeGo, formed in 2010 when Intel's Moblin OS merged with Nokia's Maemo, will soon experience a merger of its own. Limo and Linux are combining MeeGo with Limo to create Tizen--a new, open-source competitor against Android. Tizen will launch in 2012, will run on tablets, smartphones, smart TVs and more, and will be HTML-5 and web-friendly. --NS
--Updated 9:30 a.m. EST Microsoft Signs Mammoth Licensing Deal With Samsung. It looks like another coup for Microsoft's killer legal team. The new deal between the two companies will earn Microsoft royalties on the sale of all Samsung phones and tablets that run Android, Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith tweeted
today. --NS --Updated 8:50 a.m. EST Groupon Launches Deals Within Deals. A new Groupon feature, "Groupon Rewards," will soon become available to businesses on Groupon. Groupon Rewards will be premium deals which customers can "unlock" after they've spent a predetermined amount at, say, their favorite
restaurant. After they spend an intial amount at that business, Groupon will prod them with a message that tells them how far away they are from a Groupon Rewards card, TechCrunch reports. --NS --Updated 7:15 a.m. EST Bloomsbury's Zombie E-Book Plan. Bloomsbury, which recently began its first release of Harry
Potter e-texts via Pottermore.com, now has a plan to bring out of print books "back from the dead" and will be aggressively releasing them as e-editions. Its the first purely digital imprint for the historic publisher, and will concentrate on out of print editions where the English AMAZON'S page 18
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Facebook to Form a PAC; Will Promote 'Value of Innovation'

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to be a political force. Facebook co-founder Hughes Submitted at 9/27/2011 10:16:27 PM coordinated President Barack Obama's online campaign in the (Photo: REUTERS/Jim Young) 2008 presidential election, putting President Barack Obama attends a the Illinois Senator on the map in town-hall meeting at Facebook a big way. Since winning the headquarters with CEO Mark election, Obama has met with Zuckerberg in Palo Alto April 20, Facebook CEO Zuckerberg at 2011. least twice once during a meeting with tech industry leaders The company confirmed that it and again during a town hall has filed the necessary paperwork meeting at Facebook's Palo Alto, to create a PAC and has reserved Calif., headquarters. the domain names FBPAC.us and Republicans are also using FBPAC.org, according to The Hill Facebook to network, along with newspaper. the site's 800 million other users A spokesperson told the w o r l d w i d e , a n d t o h o s t publication, "FBPAC will give discussions. GOP Congressmen our employees a way to make E r i c C a n t e r ( V a . ) , K e v i n their voice[s] heard in the political McCarthy (Calif.) and Paul Ryan process by supporting candidates (Wis.) took questions at Facebook who share our goals of promoting headquarters Monday in a town the value of innovation to our hall meeting similar to the one economy while giving people the hosted for Obama. power to share and make the Like us on Facebook world more open and connected." Facebook has also employed a Since Facebook's founding in number of former White House 2004 by Harvard University officials. Former Clinton White students Mark Zuckerberg, Chris House official Sheryl Sandberg Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and serves as the company's chief Eduardo Saverin, the company operating officer. Former George has grown slowly, but surely W. Bush deputy chief of staff Joel
Kaplan heads Facebook's Washington office. Former Obama administration staffer Marne Levine is Facebook's vice president of global public policy. The Facebook PAC may become an outlet for these and other employees to promote political candidates and political causes. Facebook COO Sandberg recently held an exclusive, $35,800-per-couple dinner for Obama's re-election campaign. Hughes held a dinner in his home earlier this year to rally New York politicians to approve gay marriage in the state. The Facebook PAC will likely be a tool through which Zuckerberg can advance his goal of open information sharing. Facebook is spending a total of $550,000 in lobbying expenses this fiscal year to weigh in on a number of issues including privacy regulations. Facebook began lobbying operations in 2009. Facebook and other companies, including Microsoft and the Toy Industry Association, are currently arguing for selfregulation, rather than
government regulation, of compliance with new child privacy rules proposed by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC regulations are aimed at toughening restrictions on online behavioral advertising targeting America's youth. Microsoft and rival company Google both have PACs. Google employees donated $570,000 to its PAC, Google INC. Microsoft employees donated a whopping $722,000 to its MSPAC. Time will tell how much Facebook PAC will raise in employee donations. 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.
Many observers today view Pakistan primarily in terms of terrorists and the Taliban. Yet, despite their lethality, these groups have so far remained limited to Pakistan's periphery. In contrast, attention paid to the rest of Pakistan has been sparser. In fact, no tribal insurgency can defeat Pakistan's army and overthrow the state. Rather, discontent in the interior is the surest way to destabilize the country. 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.
Smart Ways to Make Money With Your Car

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In today's uncertain economy making some extra income by launching a side business may
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Romney Uses Social Media to Hit Perry on Immigration

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 2:01:00 AM
In response to Texas Gov. Rick Perrys debate performance, the campaign for the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, has released a video that attacks Perrys greatest policy weaknessimmigration. Perry quickly rose to front-runner status almost as soon as he entered the Republican primary, provoking Romney to finally go on the offensive against one of his opponents. In the most recent debate in Florida, Perry performed poorly. His delivery was shaky, and even worse, he made several comments that have angered the conservative base that had previously been supportive, specifically his comments about immigration. Romneys video clearly plays upon that debate performance and targets Perrys comments about illegal immigration that were so offensive to many conservatives. It only adds to the relentless attacks that Perry has received during and after each debate on the Gardasil injections, Social Security, and now immigration. Romneys minute-long video, called "They Agree," shows how Perry agrees with a number of Democrats, including President Obama and Democrat Gov.
done without the middlemen and journalists that act as the gatekeepers. Perrys campaign has also been on the offensive against its chief rival, trying to paint Romney as a flip-flopper and a man who is hiding his record. Perry released a video this week called "Words Have Meaning," which pointed out how some favorable comments about Romneys Massachusetts health care plan were deleted from the paperback edition of his book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. With Herman Cain winning the Florida straw poll, in which Perry finished a distant second, Perrys star has been fading fast. Romneys relentless attacks against his greatest opponent in the primary have been both carefully crafted and directed to hit him from both left and right. It is leading many conservative Martin OMalley of Maryland, on educate children that come into opposing them is heartless. base supporters and activists to immigration. our state for no other reason than Besides the effective attack, look for a different candidate that During the debate, Perry made that they have been brought there, R o m n e y s c a m p a i g n speaks to their values. very deliberate comments about by no fault of their own, I dont demonstrated that it can adroitly You can watch Romneys video why he supported public funds think you have a heart, said use social media to get a message here: going to the college tuition of Perry. out to the public. The video was Jarrett Stepman is a staff writer at illegal immigrants, which were Perrys answer on immigration put in an ad on Twitter that can Human Events and graduate of played during Romneys video in may help him in the general reach a large, engaged audience. UC Davis, where he studied b e t w e e n c l i p s o f O b a m a election, but the base of the Using this technology effectively Political Science. Follow Jarrett essentially saying the same thing, Republican Party is unlikely to be will be vitally important to every o n T w i t t e r . and OMalley talking about why pleased with a candidate that presidential campaign in the years J S t e p m a n @ e a g l e p u b . c o m he likes Perrys immigration seems to be suggesting that t o c o m e , a n d w i l l a l l o w views. amnesty programs for illegal candidates to go straight to a large ROMNEY page 16 If you say that we should not immigrants are a positive and that number of people. This can be
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Mitt Romney presses on as Chris Christie fever rages - Los Angeles Times
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campaign. Who knows? Maybe he decides to get in. I cant Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:26:46 AM control what other folks are going Right now, its not easy being to do. Mitt Romney. Every time he turns To that end, Romney said to Joe around, conservatives are looking S c a r b o r o u g h a n d M i k a for someone new to embrace, Brzezinski, he isnt looking to someone Who Isnt Him. This shift his strategy. week, following Rick Perrys I know I could get a quick bump partial implosion at the Orlando at the polls by saying some GOP debate, the hot ticket is outrageous and incendiary things Chris Christie. which draw a lot of attention, he Wednesday, Romney on his said, but in the final analysis I game face when asked about think people will move toward the Christie, who continues to deny person they think will get the hes running even as calls from economy going again and who s o m e i n t h e R e p u b l i c a n understands the challenges establishment grow louder and A m e r i c a f a c e s . louder. Initially, he suggested to While Perry's struggles have had the crew on MSNBCs Morning some in the party casting about Joe that the media was just for a new Savior of the Month, stirring up trouble, but soon were Christie to jump it, it's likely became more Zen about the whole h e c o u l d h a r m R o m n e y ' s thing. prospects as much as anyone's. Thats your business. Youve got Both would chase after the same to fund some excitement, youve k i n d o f n o r t h e a s t e r n a n d got to have some intrigue, midwestern Republican voter who Romney said, adding that Christie might be less interested in Perry. was likely just mustering support Romney returned to his persistent f o r h i s 2 0 1 3 N e w J e r s e y theme: banging President Obama g u b e r n a t o r i a l r e e l e c t i o n on his handling of the economy.
He doesnt understand how the private sector works, Romney said. He doesnt understand why a big business like GE decides to build a factory outside the U.S. He thinks if you have cash on your balance sheet that means you are going to hire people. No, you hire people if you have customers. He said that Obama, with his recent turn toward a middle-classversus-millionaires stratagem, is trying to separate the haves from the have-nots. And he suggested his time as governor of Massachusetts was a political asset because it showed he could work with Democrats, something that Obama hasnt done with Republicans, he said. (And Perry hasnt had to do in Texas.) I had to learn how to find people across the aisle who shared some of my principles and views, he said. Thats the electability argument. And its one Romney is likely to return to as long as polls continue to show him as the only GOP
contender who runs neck-andneck with the president. Despite his talk of the high road, however, Romneys campaign is still getting down-and-dirty when it comes to Perry and his stance on immigration. His campaign released a new video that lumps Perrys support of in-state college tuition for the children of illegal immigrants with Obama and Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley. The video features OMalley (who could be running against Christie in 2016, but here we go, getting ahead of ourselves) praising Perrys position on tuition. Here's the new anti-Perry spot: 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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Hometown friend who inspired Emeril dies at age 79 (AP)

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Obama Health Care Reform Not Delivering on Promises

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Third toddler in a week killed in driveway tragedy - The Australian

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(Photo: REUTERS/Eric Thayer) An emergency room sign is seen at Methodist Hospital in Peoria, Illinois March 30, 2011. Annual premiums for employersponsored health insurance increased to $15,073 this year, up 9 percent from 2010, according to the Kaiser study. That follows several years of relatively modest increases in premiums. Some health care industry analysts say that health insurers have hiked premiums this year in anticipation of new regulations imposed by the Obama health care law that, starting next year, will require them to justify any increase of more than 10 percent. Moreover, provisions of the law that already have taken effect, including mandated coverage for adult children up to 26 years of age and such preventive procedures as mammogram
screening, have driven up health care costs for a number of employers. The net result is that the run up in health insurance premiums this year has been significantly higher than the modest 2.1 percent increase in workers wages; higher than the 3.2 percent increase in inflation. Thats the very last thing American employers and employees needed this year, said Kaiser President and Chief Executive Officer Drew Altman. This years 9 percent increase in premiums is especially painful for workers and employers struggling through a weak economy, he said. Like us on Facebook What remains to be seen, Altman added, is whether that 9 percent increase in premiums is a onetime spike or the start of a period of higher increases. If its the latter, that bodes ill for both currently employed and the unemployed. As it is, many employers cite the
increasing cost of providing health insurance for workers as one of the main reasons they are reluctant to hire additional workers. And if a period of higher increases is underway, even the currently employed are in danger of losing their jobs across many industries. That is not the scenario President Obama laid out when pushed the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act through Congress in 2010, over the near unanimous objection of Republicans. Even now, the White House predicts that the average family of four will save as much as $2,300 on their health insurance premiums in 2014 compared to what they would have paid without the presidents health reform. The administration also continues to stand behind a dubious estimate by the Congressional Budget Office that the Obama health care law will reduce the deficit by $210 billion this decade and by more than $1 trillion the
following decade. The American public has grown increasingly skeptical of the claims the president has made on health care, as borne out by an August poll conducted by Kaiser. Some 44 percent of respondents had an unfavorable opinion of the Obama health care law compared to 39 percent who were favorable. Some 33 percent said their families would be worse off under the presidents putative reforms compared to 24 percent who said they would be better off. 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.
New Zealand Herald Third toddler in a week killed in driveway tragedy The Australian POLICE have urged parents to be vigilant when driving near young children following the death of a toddler yesterday after he was run over by the family car, the third such case in a week. The threeyear-old boy died after his mother accidentally... Boy, 3, dies after mum reverses car New Zealand Herald Toddler dies under horrified mum's car in Rushcutter's Bay The Daily Telegraph Tragedy strikes again as threeyear-old killed by car at home Herald Sun ABC Online- Sydney Morning Herald- Cumberland Courier Newspapers all 128 news articles
LunchBeat invites Swedes to dance in the daytime

organised a daytime disco to dance at in your lunch hour. It's Nightclubs are for the night-time, called LunchBeat. hence the name, but a group of The event runs monthly in three Swedes led by Molly Rnge has cities so far -- Gothenburg, Malm and Stockholm. The idea
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language rights have reverted to the author or their estate. --KE Tech Giants To Give New York $4.4 Billion Boost. The New York computer chip industry will see an investment of $4.4 billion from five technology companies. IBM will contribute $3.6 billion, and will be joined by Intel, (Christianpost.com > Politics) experienced," Christine Owens, competing against tens and Samsung, GlobalFoundries, and executive director of the National sometimes hundreds of people for t h e T a i w a n S e m i c o n d u c t o r Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:58:58 AM Employment Law Project, told every available job opening, it is Manufacturing Company, creating The job creation bill President Bloomberg News. u n j u s t f o r e m p l o y e r s t o 2,500 tech jobs, and keeping Barack Obama has introduced to Like us on Facebook discriminate against those who are 2,500 more in the state, the New York Times reports. This plan Congress includes a provision that Owens related a story of a unemployed." would make it unlawful for telephone company in Atlanta that The Labor Department reports ties in well with New York's c o m p a n i e s o f 1 5 o r m o r e ran a help wanted ad, which t h a t 1 4 m i l l i o n p e o p l e a r e growing nanotechnology industry, employees to deny employment explicitly requested that only the unemployed and 43 percent of and New York Governer Andrew based on the knowledge that the employed apply. She did not those, six million people, are Cuomo's hope is that the two applicant had been unemployed, identify the company. c l a s s i f i e d a s l o n g - t e r m industries will play together according to The New York Michael J. Eastman, executive unemployed, who have been out nicely. --NS Fortune Releases Kindle Ebook Times. director of labor law policy at the of work for 27 weeks or more. On Jobs. The latest book about Advocates for the unemployed U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Of the 14 million unemployed, are applauding the provision, opposed the provision, saying, 4 . 5 m i l l i o n h a v e b e e n Apple cofounder and ex-CEO while business groups and their "We do not see a need for it." unemployed for a year or more. S t e v e J o b s i s a r e p o r t i n g allies see it as unnecessary and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) T h e a v e r a g e d u r a t i o n o f compendium released by Fortune, counterproductive. agreed. He rejected the plan on unemployment is 40 weeks, the pulling in 17 news stories from Unsuccessful job applicants the basis that the provision would longest in more than 60 years. the magazine that ran between could sue and recover damages establish the unemployed as a Be the first of thousands of 1983 and 2011. All About Steve for violations, just as they have "protected class." iPosters by sharing your news, has been released as an ebook for sale only through the Amazon been able to do for discrimination He argued to The New York views, and analysis. based on race, color, religion, sex Times that the proposal, if passed, This entry passed through the Kindle Store in advance of today's or national origin. would encourage litigation. Full-Text RSS service if this is Amazon's press event, where The provision would also prevent "If you're unemployed and you go your content and you're reading it job notices from explicitly to apply for a job, and you're not on someone else's site, please read excluding the unemployed, with hired for that job, see a lawyer. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentphrases like "Jobless need not You may be able to file a claim only/faq.php#publishers. Five apply." because you got discriminated Filters featured article: A 'Malign "This is a practice that, regardless a g a i n s t b e c a u s e y o u w e r e Intellectual Subculture' - George (Yahoo! News: Obituaries) of its magnitude, adds to the unemployed," said Gohmert. M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:39:26 AM d i f f i c u l t y t h a t m i l l i o n s o f In support of the measure, Rep. Herman, Peterson, Pilger And AP - Claude Kirk, a flamboyant unemployed workers are facing R o s a D e L a u r o ( D - C T ) Media Lens. self-promoter who became today in navigating the toughest commented, "In a tough job Florida's first Republican job market any of us has ever m a r k e t , w h e r e w o r k e r s a r e
attendees expect to see their launch of the first Amazon tablet, the Kindle Fire. --NS Google Rents Space For London Tech. Google is set to open a technology startup space for small tech companies in London. Google has leased the offices, worth 25,000 square feet over seven floors, until 2022, and will use it to build relationships with U.K. tech and media companies, Bloomberg reports. Also part of its expansion overseas, Google announced yesterday that it will build new data centers in Hong Kong, Taiwain, and Singapore. -NS --Updated 5:30 a.m. EST [Image credit: Flickr user Randy Pertiet] Yesterday's Fast Feed: Don Draper Pitches Facebook Timeline, Apple iPhone Event October 4, iPad Order Confusion, Fire: Amazon's Tablet Named, and more.
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available for the device, but Amazon is clearly focused on tying its own services into the tablet. This is an end-to-end service, Bezos emphasized in his presentation in New York City. He touted not only the book store but the Amazon Prime service, which offers streaming movies and programs for an annual $79 subscription. So far, Amazon has lined up some big content providers, including Fox for movies, but still lacks the catalog depth of competing Netflix. According to Amazon, it is still interested in having a Netflix app on the Kindle Fire, as well as other popular competing services, such as Pandora. Such apps are not available yet, however. The other three Kindles that Amazon introduced today are based on the black-and-white E Ink displays. The Kindle Touch 3G uses infrared senors for touch, and thus eliminates the tiny keypad below the screen. It includes free wireless 3G data service, which will work in over 100 countries, for just $149. The Kindle Touch model is identical but lacks the free 3G service,
relying on Wi-Fi instead, for just $99. Finally, the new Kindle e-reader does away with the touch and 3G features, using Wi-Fi and a directional pad insteadit will costs just $79 and is available now. We're going to sell many millions of these, Bezos beamed. Amazon is clearly planning to use the popularity of its Kindles to break into other markets. Not only is streaming video a focus of the Kindle Fire, but Amazon plans to push its AmazonLocal deals across all the devices. The service offers special deals on everything from concert tickets to dancing lessons, taking aim at competing Groupon, which is getting media coverage due to its forthcoming IPO. While Amazon's Kindle announcements today could set off a price war with Barnes & Noble and its color Nook, it's questionable whether Apple will respond by lowering the price of its iPad or introduce newer models before the end of the year. One thing is certain: At these prices Amazon is bound to light up the e-reader and tablet markets
this fall. Related Stories Targeting Apple's iPad, Amazon.com to Sell Kindle Fire at $199 Apple Already Fearing Amazon Tablet Launch? It's Official: Apple Sends Invites for October 4 iPhone Event Related Slideshow Let the Tablet Wars Begin: Best (and Worst) of 2011 From Androids to Apples, from Samsung, RIM and more, 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Related Video Amazon to Unveil New Tablet FBNs Robert Gray on Amazons plans to announce its new tablet computer on Wednesday. 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.
against them. Chris Calabrese, a counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, called the watch list system a Star Chamber a secret determination, that you have no input into, that you are a terrorist. Once that determination is made, it can ripple through your entire life and you have no way to challenge it. But Mr. Healy said the government could not reveal who was on the list, or why, because that would risk revealing intelligence sources. He also defended the idea of the watch list, saying the government would be blamed if, after a terrorist attack, it turned out the perpetrator had attracted the suspicions of one agency but it had not warned other agencies to scrutinize the person. Mr. Healy also suggested that fears of the watch list were
exaggerated, in part because there are many other reasons that people are subjected to extra screening at airports. He said more than 200,000 people have complained to the Department of Homeland Security about their belief that they were wrongly on the list, but fewer than 1 percent of them were actually on 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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Precisely for that reason, you were brought in by Pepsi to resuscitate Gatorade after a failed brand reinvention. What did you do to resuscitate it? I borrowed a lot of what I learned from my years at Nike. Gatorade needed a culture of innovation. For the last few years, their only innovation was related to introducing new flavors. That's not innovation. They needed to start creating products again that showed that they were the leader in both hydration and in sports drinks. I came in and developed a strategy to help them do that. I worked directly with the CEO to design a new identity for the brand, as well as for the products. Then I created the overall brand guidelines. It was a great experience. What's it like to start working with a brand when it's in the middle of a disaster? You only have one place to go, and that's up. Are they bringing back the Gatorade name? The G logo is being used in the same way as Nike uses its swoosh. Gatorade is the name of the brand and the company, and the G is the
equivalent of the swoosh. The company had gone a bit overboard when it got rid of the Gatorade moniker, and now it's coming back to help reidentify the brand. Did you do a lot of market research in the process of working on this project? Yes, we did a lot of market research. It was interesting coming to this considering my background at Nike, where ideas were validated by gut instinct, not the consumer. Wow, that's amazing. Starbucks was pretty much the same way. As Howard Schultz used to say, "If I went to a group of consumers and asked them if I should sell a $4 cup of coffee, what would they have told me?" Both Starbucks and Nike have modified their position on market research now, and do more of it, but they aren't like a P&G-type organization where they do heavy -duty qualitative and quantitative market research. When I left Nike, that type of validation was foreign territory for me. I had to learn it all afterwards. What do you think of the state of
branding right now? I think branding has become a consumer-friendly word. It's being used in political campaigns, and it's being used in the boardroom. Schools have even started to talk about branding. On the one hand, there's a danger the word will become watered down and less meaningful than it has been in the past. On the other hand, it will be fascinating to see how communicators use this opportunity. We have the ability to lead this cultural shift, and I hope we can do it before the term "branding" becomes just another generic, overused, and misunderstood word. Reprinted with permission from BRAND THINKING by Debbie Millman, Allworth Press. For more leadership coverage, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. [Image: Flickr user jakeliefer]
What America's FAVORITE Brands Are Saying About Business And The Economy
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Consumers continue to be depressed about the economy. However, retailers expect earnings pressure to ease. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's retail research team prepared a report examining profit margins for key US retailer companies to get a gauge of sentiment. While margin pressure will remain during balance of the year, production costs should ease in 2012. Jewelers and department stores are better off for now. Most retailers admitted to being cautious of the uncertain economy and the volatility in the stock market. But overall, said they haven't really felt the impact on sales yet. Macy's "... We are cognizant of the less than ideal economic backdrop, as well as the price increases coming in some parts of our business. Having said that, we have great momentum with so many merchandise categories Filters featured article: A 'Malign performing well and our initial Intellectual Subculture' - George experiences with price increases M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , have proven to be generally Herman, Peterson, Pilger And consistent with our expectations Media Lens. in terms of the unit sales." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch Saks
"With the recent increased volatility and downturn in the financial markets and the overall uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, we're approaching the fall season a bit more cautiously and we'll continue to be very strategic with our expense capital and inventory spending, making investments in areas with the most potential for profitable growth." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch Nordstrom "We're mindful of the economic challenges facing all of us. However, we know from previous experiences that our customers remain receptive and we're able to evolve with them and provide a compelling reason to buy something new." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: The 18 Cities Where Housing Prices Are Getting Destroyed Everything You Need To Know About The Richmond Fed's Manufacturing Report 5 Chicago Fed Charts That Reveal How The Midwest Is Leading The Manufacturing Recovery
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10 Demands Being Made By The Wall Street Protesters

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Reebok Is Shelling Out $25 Million For Falsely Advertising Its Butt-Toning Shoes
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causes here were less abstract. These were not Americans Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:51:29 AM decrying foreign policy. They Plagued by media coverage w e r e A m e r i c a n s i n d e b t , alleging a lack of focus or agenda, Americans out of work. This 'day the ongoing Wall Street protests of rage' was inspired by personal have now produced at least one injustices, best illustrated by provisional list of demands. anecdote rather than data." Smash The grievances, collected by an the Wall Street bull n+1 writer, range from the vague The bull is the embodiment of the and impossible to the specific and power and influence of the pragmatic. The people behind the financial industry--smashing it l i s t d o n o t c l a i m t o b e would be a symbolic victory for representative of the protesters as the "whatever 'Wall Street' is, I'm a whole, but it's a start. against it" crowd. Check out the full n+1 piece for a SOURCE: n+1 refreshing, honest take on the Repeal the Citizens United protests. The writer acknowledges Supreme Court ruling that let that participating feels somewhat corporations give more money to like a "clich," but makes a good politics point about the sentiment behind The list-makers reached a the movement: consensus that this was their most "Compared to other large-scale important demand: "It would protests Id attended in my ostensibly create a more truly l i f e t h e W T O p r o t e s t i n democratic political climate, Washington D.C. in 2000, various through which our other demands antiwar protests throughout the could be met." early aughtsthe aggravating (Last year's Citizens United
Supreme Court decision made it dramatically easier for corporations and unions to funnel money into political campaigns.) SOURCE: n+1 Widespread debt forgiveness Student loan burdens are the ruin of many young American financial lives. Not gonna happen. SOURCE: n+1 See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: Queens Councilman: Wall Street Protestors Need To Find Jobs 13 Fun Things To Do On Wall Street After Getting Laid Off The Occupy Wall Street Protestors Are Starting To Get Foul
proclaimed another. Well, the FTC didn't agree, and it cost Reebok millions. The FTC just announced that This hefty settlement shines more Reebok has agreed to a $25 light on competitor Sketchers, million dollar settlement over its whose Shape-ups product makes Easytone and RunTone products, similar claims and has been taken which the company has long to court over them. A 2010 classclaimed in its advertising that they action lawsuit calls into question would strengthen and tone your the clinical studies its claims are legs and butt, according to based on. And earlier this year, a AdAge. woman sued Sketchers claiming The money will be placed in a that they can actually cause fund to be paid out to all the folks serious injuries. NOW SEE: 14 that bought products from the two False Advertising Scandals That lines. Cost Brands Millions > Reebok's claim was that the shoes Please follow War Room on cause your muscles to work Twitter and Facebook. harder, so you naturally get toned Join the conversation about this just by walking. You were also story supposed to increase your muscle See Also: mass, since your legs and butt 23 Hilarious Unfortunatelycontain some of the largest Placed Ads muscle groups, according to the Why Brands Like Chevy, SNY, Examiner. And Sports Authority Are Doing It promised 28% better workout Grassroots Marketing for your glutes, and 11% more The 10 Coolest Ads Ever To toning for your legs and calves. Appear In Times Square "A better butt with every step," said one of the Easytone slogans. "Nice booty, great sole,"
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ALMS Media Package Paying Off

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No network wanted to serve the ALMS fanbase. The #45 Flying Lizard Porsche The presence of Peugeot and chases the #55 BMW around Turn Audi boost ratings for the season 10 at Sebring. Great GT action is opener and closer, Sebring and a prime attraction of ALMS Petit Le Mans. (Peugeot Sport) racing. (James Fish/The Epoch The American Le Mans Series Times) ALMS had started introduced a unique multiexperimenting with online platform media package for 2011, broadcasting in 2010, offering and took a lot of heat from fans two of its longer endurance races and teams about it. on the Internet, while hiring With eight of the seasons nine famed sports documentary races complete, it appears that the company Intersport to produce series made the right call. With two-hour docu-dramas about one raceand one of the those races which were aired a biggestleft on the schedule, the week later. series expects to double its TV Heading into 2011, ALMS put audience compared to the year together what will likely be the before. media format soon used by every According to figures released by sport outside of baseball, football, Edward Triolo, Vice President of and basketball: a combination of ALMS Integrated Marketing live Internet coverage and taped, Communications, 2.2 million edited cable and over-the-air households watched the first six broadcasts shown in optimized races of 2011, compared to 1.7 timeslots. million watching the first seven The possible downsides were races of 2010. many: for one thing, Internet TV Don't Miss Petit Le Mans Petit is just starting, and not everyone Le Mans, the final race of the has or knows how to use the America. (Jean-Francois Monier/ hardware. Also, not every fan has 2011 season, features the best of race day. Add to that the as-yet- Triolo said. t h e N i o r t h A m e r i c a n a n d unreleased numbers from the With NASCAR losing viewers AFP/Getty Images) The American b r o a d b a n d I n t e r n e t . M o s t European teams going head to immensely popular Baltimore and the recently reorganized Le Mans Series found itself in a important, advertisers arent yet head in a ten-hour endurance street race and the six-hour IndyCar struggling for ratings, bind after the 2010 season. The convinced that the Internet offers race.The race starts Saturday, Oct. Laguna Seca enduro, plus the ten- A L M S i s t h e o n l y N o r t h series had been broadcast live on sufficient exposure to justify 1 at 11:30 a.m. ET. Watch live on hour Petit Le Mans, which has American racing series actually SPEED-TV, with select races on investing in sponsorship. ESPN3.com, or catch the race vastly increased appeal because it adding viewers right nowproof CBS. For 2011, the networks The ALMS plan cleared the recap Sunday, Oct. 2, on ABC at features the biggest European that its media gamble is paying refused to devote the airtime; no economic hurdle: by moving from network wanted to devote three, S P E E D ( a b o u t 7 7 m i l l i o n 4 p.m. Tickets are available teams as well as the Americans, off. six, or twelve hours to a single households) to ESPN (about 100 through the Road Atlanta website and together with the more Multi-Platform Media Gamble modest internet viewing totals, we Petit Le Mans will offer fans event. Half-hour reality shows million households) the series or via phone at 770.967.6143, or 1.800.849.RACE. Tickets will expect the year-to-year totals to their only chance to see the new were cheaper and safer than ALMS page 23 also be available at the gate on be double the audience of 2010, Audi R18s racing in North twelve-hour live race broadcasts.
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significantly increased market penetration. Further, ESPN is the gold standard of cable sports; being on ESPN raised the series profile immediately. The increase in market penetration and stature made up for the lower ad returns from the web. Live Versus Taped Exotic prototypes seen in no other North American series draw fans to ALMS. (Regis Leferbure/ Dyson Racing) Another part of the gamble was the reliance on taped, edited race programs on ABS and ESPN. This was a calculated gamble: some of ESPNs most popular programming is taped and edited, and casual fans likely wouldnt miss the edited caution laps. Corvette Racing's pair of CR-6 ZR1s are fan favorites. (James Fish/The Epoch Times) Of course, hardcore fans demand live, flag-to-flag coverage of every race, which is now only available via the Internet. There was a lot of resistance among the diehards initially, but most seem to have adapted; while the picture quality isnt always highdefinition, the coverage is complete.
Also, ALMS made an ingenious move: the series hired the tremendously popular British commentary crew from Radio Le Mans, headlined by John Hindhaugh. Hindy as his fans call him, is deeply knowledgeable and also incredibly enthusiastic: he injects excitement into every broadcast. A measure of his popularitybefore ALMS hired Hindhaugh, many fans would watch the SPEED video and listen to Radio Le Mans for the better commentary. Hiring Hindy made the transition for TV to Internet hugely more palatable for the serious fans. Numbers Tell the Story ALMS offers multi-class racing in the Le Mans tradition; purposebuilt prototypes and modified street cars share the track, providing constant action. (James Fish/The Epoch Times) Racing is a numbers game: tenths of seconds on track, hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a car, a hundred million households getting the race broadcast. The success or failure of the ALMS media plan comes down to numbers. Three classes of cars squeeze
under Sebring's Budweiser bridge. (James Fish/The Epoch Times) The numbers say, Success. While the Internet adds only a few tens of thousands of viewers (so far,) it has kept the hardcore fans satisfied. More important to the long-term health of the series, the switch to ABC and ESPN has exposed the series to a wider audience, and to an audience not necessarily looking for racing. Classic GT battles: the Risi Ferrari 458 chases the Flying Lizard Porsche into Turn 11 at Sebring. (James Fish/The Epoch Times) New fans are what every series needs; pleasing existing fans is important but attracting new fans is essential. Based on TV numbers, ALMS seems to be attracting new fans. Equally important, the series needs TV exposure to attract sponsors. Sponsors are the sole source of income for the teams; no sponsors, no racing. Further, races need sponsors; having title sponsors ensures that the track owners make a healthy profit. When the new media plan was first announced, critics (including some teams) complained that no sponsors would be interested in the series; since it was no longer
live on TV, the series would be invisible, some predicted. Quite the opposite; the series has gained viewers and increased its exposure. The hardcore fans are mostly happy with the live Internet broadcasts, and the TV broadcasts this year are more popular than the lives broadcasts of past seasons. It will take a few years before people start praising ALMS for its new media package, but if the series figures are accurate and the trends continue, other sports will be bragging about creating their own ALMSstyle media 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.
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Sydney Morning Herald Bolt shocked by court finding against him Ninemsn Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has called a court finding against him "a sad day for free speech". Mr Bolt says on the front page of the Herald Sun he "cannot believe it's come to this" after the Federal Court found that he breached the Racial... Bolt unrepentant but slur victims hail victory Sydney Morning Herald Federal Court ruling against Andrew Bolt does not ban debate, says Judge Herald Sun Bolt brands discrimination ruling 'anti-free-speech' ABC Online The Australian- Hawkesbury Gazette- International Business Times AU all 428 news articles
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smoothly. Frost cake. Sprinkle on maple pecan crunch. Maple Pecan Crunch By Sandra Shields 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly Epoch Times Staff Created: Sep packed 28, 2011 Last Updated: Sep 28, 1/2 cup chopped pecans 2011 1 tablespoon melted butter A pumpkin spice cake covered 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup with brown sugar frosting and 1 teaspoon cinnamon sprinkled with sweet maple pecan 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves crunch. (Sandra Shields/The 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg Epoch Times) 1 tablespoon flour Combine all Pumpkin spice cake is an elegant ingredients and place on a fall harvest cake perfect for parchment-lined baking sheet, entertaining. It is covered with a spreading out evenly. brown sugar frosting and topped Bake at 350 F, turning the crunch with a maple pecan crunch. The over a couple of times during pecan crunch can be made a baking until brown and crispy, couple of days ahead of time. The approximately 1015 minutes. cake can also be made ahead and Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. completely. Wrap in plastic wrap Remove crunch from oven and frozen, and then assembled when Grease, flour, and line two 8-inch until ready to use, or freeze if not cool. Keep in an airtight container needed for an easy but spectacular until ready to use. Can be made cake pans with parchment paper. using within two days. dessert. Pumpkin Spice Cake three or four days ahead of time. Sift all the dry ingredients Brown Sugar Frosting 2 cups cake flour together twice. Using an electric 1 cup unsalted butter, room This entry passed through the 2 teaspoons baking powder Full-Text RSS service if this is mixer, cream butter and sugar temperature 2 teaspoons cinnamon together, adding the eggs one at a 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly your content and you're reading it 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg on someone else's site, please read time and mixing well between packed 1/2 teaspoon baking soda the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contenteach one. Add the dry ingredients 3 tablespoons molasses 1/2 teaspoon salt alternating with the milk, starting 1 tablespoons pure vanilla extract only/faq.php#publishers. Five Pinch of cloves a n d e n d i n g w i t h t h e d r y 1 1/4 cup confectioners sugar, Filters featured article: A 'Malign 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room Intellectual Subculture' - George ingredients. Mix in pumpkin. sifted temperature Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Divide batter between both pans 1 tablespoon cream 1 1/3 cups brown sugar, firmly and bake for 2530 minutes. Cool Beat all ingredients in electric Herman, Peterson, Pilger And packed cakes in pans for 10 minutes and mixer until smooth and creamy. Media Lens. 2 large eggs then turn out on racks. Remove Add a small amount of cream if 1/2 cup milk parchment paper and cool cakes frosting is too stiff to spread 1 1/4 cup canned pumpkin
Newman family firm a 'bid to gain from misery' The Australian

Submitted at 9/28/2011 3:32:28 PM
Brisbane Times Newman family firm a 'bid to gain from misery' The Australian THE company set up by Campbell Newman's wife and her family is pushing ahead in its bid to secure Queensland government contracts in the wake of a politically explosive and unsolicited pitch for $30 million a year in disaster recovery work.... Premier Anna Bligh and five frontbenchers to take up separate trade missions... Courier Mail Frontrunner Newman must come clean: Bligh Sydney Morning Herald I 'had no knowledge' of family's $30m flood pitch: Newman Brisbane Times NEWS.com.au- ABC OnlineHerald Sun all 134 news articles
Protesters plan to occupy London Stock Exchange

Matthew Sparkes (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
A group of protesters are organising an occupation of the London Stock Exchange to bring
attention to what they see as unethical behaviour on the part of banks, following a similar
demonstration on Wall Street.
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Two Tibetan Monks Self- William Hague: Euro is a burning building Immolate in Religious - BBC News Rights Protest
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Submitted at 9/28/2011 4:32:50 PM
the Dalai Lama." Firemen and public security agents rushed to Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:21:35 AM the scene. China's state-run T w o T i b e t a n m o n k s s e t mouthpiece Xinhua has reported themselves on fire Monday in an that the two monks had been apparent plea for religious taken to a hospital and were in freedom and an end to Chinas stable condition and that an continued vilification of their investigation was underway. spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, an The ruling Communist Party overseas Tibetan rights group and ( C C P ) h a s i n t e n s i f i e d i t s media reports have said. attempted brainwashing of The two are teenagers between Tibetan monks this year, calling the ages of 18 and 19 and self- it"Patriotic Education." Monks are immolated in Sichuan Provinces u r g e d t o s i g n d e c l a r a t i o n s Aba Prefecture, according to s u p p o r t i n g t h e C C P a n d reports and the Britain-based Free slandering the exiled Dalai Lama. Tibet group. One of the monks is A no-interest loan is offered to believed to have died at the scene monks who refuse to return to the and the second still moving after monastery, which is rejected as a the fire was extinguished. They bribe by those Tibetans who were then taken away, but they remain firm to their faith. have been identified as Lobsang Monk Kalsangs brother had died Kalsang and Lobsang Konchok of this past March in his own selfthe Kirti monastery. immolation. BBC News reported The monks set themselves ablaze t h a t m o n k s f r o m t h e s a m e after waving the banned flag of monastery had been sentenced to Tibet and crying out, "Long Live 10 years in prison for assisting
with the self-immolation. March was the third anniversary of the 2008 Tibetan protests in the capital of Lhasa which drew international attention. A issue that divides Communist authorities and Tibetans is whether the Dalai Lama can choose his own successor or whether the officially atheist regime will make the selection. The exiled leader, 76, hopes to live to 90 but has been ailing recently. 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.
BBC News William Hague: Euro is a burning building BBC News UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has said the euro is "a burning building with no exits" for some of the countries which adopted the currency. Mr Hague first used the expression when he was Tory leader in 1998 - and
said in an interview with the... Hague: The euro is a burning building with no exit Spectator.co.uk No exits from euro turmoil: Hague Harrow Observer Hague tells Germany: 'You're going to subsidise Greece for the rest of your life' Politics.co.uk San Francisco Chronicle- Wall Street Journal all 49 news articles
Ed Miliband makes highrisk speech to Labour conference - The Guardian

Submitted at 9/28/2011 4:44:59 PM
Telegraph.co.uk Ed Miliband makes high-risk speech to Labour conference The Guardian Ed Miliband has promised to rip up decades of irresponsible "fast buck" capitalism in the most radical analysis of Britain's plight offered by any Labour leader since 1945. In a high-risk speech
to the Labour conference in Liverpool, Miliband presented... Live: Labour Party conference BBC News Balls hints at graduate tax plan The Press Association Labour Party Conference 2011: as it happened 27 September. Telegraph.co.uk Metro- The Independent- Daily Mail all 2,357 news articles
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11 more bodies found as flood water recedes in Orissa, toll 38 - Daily News & Analysis
government cancelled Dussehra holidays for personnel engaged in... Orissadiary.com Flood death toll mounts to 38 11 more bodies found as flood Business Standard water recedes in Orissa, toll 38 Orissa floods recede, death toll at Daily News & Analysis 80 Hindustan Times Place: Bhubaneswar | Agency: Orissa flood toll mounts to 38 PTI Rescuers today recovered 11 The Hindu bodies after water receded from IBNLive.com- Times of Indiathe inundated areas of Orissa Economic Times taking the toll in the second spell all 43 news articles of flood to 38 as the state
Submitted at 9/28/2011 4:14:23 PM
2G: Was the magnitude overstated at 1.76 lakh cr? - IBNLive.com

Submitted at 9/28/2011 4:19:13 PM
Moneycontrol.com 2G: Was the magnitude overstated at 1.76 lakh cr? IBNLive.com New Delhi: The magnitude of the 2G scam which got defined by the CAG's assertion of a presumptive loss of Rs 1,76000 crore is now under threat. Documents accessed by network 18 show that the CAG
overruled its own auditor's figure of 2600 crores,... How did CAG arrive at Rs1.76 lakh crore for 2G scam, asks Congress Daily News & Analysis CAG overestimated Rs 1.76 lakh crore 2G loss? Zee News 'CAG's initial 2G loss was only Rs 2645 crore' India Today Moneycontrol.com- SamayLive all 9 news articles
Dynamite the levees: Amazon's triple threat to undercut the consumer biz
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:00:00 AM
Retail chief condemns DMDK gets head start as alliances fall apart in Tamil tax proposal - The Nadu - Economic Times Press Association
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(SRC), called the Scottish Government's public health levy... Submitted at 9/28/2011 4:30:00 PM 'Fixated individuals' threatening BBC News Holyrood, MSPs told stv.tv Retail chief condemns tax Scotland in the grip of depression proposal Scotsman The Press Association Business calls for clarity on tax The head of a retail industry BBC News lobby group has attacked an Herald Scotland- Aberdeen Press "illogical" plan to tax large stores and Journal- Healthcare Today that sell cigarettes and alcohol. all 429 news articles Ian Shearer, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium
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The Hindu DMDK gets head start as alliances fall apart in Tamil Nadu Economic Times CHENNAI: Just over a hundred days ago, the Left parties in Tamil Nadu were hailing the success of their alliance with the AIADMK as "a great victory", while the beaten DMK-Congress combine
was still publicly putting on a facade of apparent unity.... Now, CPI also wants to ally with DMDK Times of India Local body polls: CPI to join third front The Hindu DMDK claims third front in TN IBNLive.com Hindustan Times- Zee NewsDeccan Herald all 50 news articles
The advantage traditional paperbased media has always had over electronic media is that the consumer doesn't have to bear the cost of the technology up front. If you buy a book or a magazine, the technology that enables its production and transmission is already built in. The cost of the device can turn an electronic media gadget into a prestige device, like Apple's iPod or iPad. But it's nevertheless a hurdle for customers. $500 for an iPad or $400 for the firstgeneration Kindle is a lot of cash to drop for folks who want to read. It's also a levee bottling up a torrent of content that can be sold and delivered over those devices. Continue reading...
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Sponsor Post: How to Prevent Facebook Fan Exodus

RWW Sponsor (ReadWriteWeb)
website banners because we see good ROI by getting as many eyeballs as possible on an ad at Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:00:00 PM once. But effective social media Editor's note: We offer our long- doesn't work that way: It's a term sponsors the opportunity to friendly conversation, not a soap write posts and tell their story. box. These posts are clearly marked as It's often not for lack of trying written by sponsors, but we also that social campaigns come up want them to be useful and short, although we certainly can interesting to our readers. We blame too much misdirected hope you like the posts and we e f f o r t . A s J o s h u a R o s s o f encourage you to support our Fleishman Hillard points out, sponsors by trying out their s e v e r a l t o p b r a n d s h a v e products. abandoned literally dozens of When it comes to social media, failed social sites since social traditional marketers are strangers media came into vogue. On a i n a s t r a n g e l a n d . D e s p i t e recent project, he found that a companies' drive to be more client had close to 150 Facebook social, a recently released study pages, over 65 YouTube channels, shows that 40% of a brand's and 100 Twitter feeds. "Every Facebook page fans "unlike" them executive is being asked to define s o o n a f t e r a p r o m o t i o n a l their social media strategy (or just campaign ends. And even within "do something") and the drumbeat the most "liked" fan pages, user is relentless," Ross said. engagement is abysmal. Of The go-to "something" for many Eminem's 41.5 million fans, only brands is to offer special deals and 575 actively engage with the freebies in exchange for a "Like" page. or follow. Although a great place So how do successful brands to start, long term success and keep that 40% happy and coming impressive ROI requires a broader back? Let's look first at those who strategy, otherwise fans will take go wrong. your offerings and run (read: Sponsor "unlike" or "unfollow"). Ross As the cheerleaders of our recommends developing a Social brands, we're accustomed to Media Architecture for your brand loudly shouting our messages to bring "harmony, utility, and through TV, radio, print ads, and durability" to a company's online
presence. "One of the inspiring effects of the social web is that it exerts a selection pressure on organizations to return to the days of the neighborhood store, where business was founded on relationships and reputation as much as it was on advertising and brand, where the social contract was as important as the business contract," he said. Compelling social brands begin with a sense of purpose and thrive because they have something to talk about and share with a natural community (and potential customers). Adidas has mastered this by focusing on several key communities of interest on Facebook: Running, Football, and Fashion. Ruben Quinones of Path Interactive points to Starbucks as one of the social media marketing
leaders we can learn from. At a time when sales started slipping for the first time in history back in 2008, Starbucks launched mystarbucksidea.com, a forum for customers to vent their frustrations, and submit their own ideas to improve the Starbucks experience. Whether it's on Twitter, Facebook, mobile,or their own social network, Starbucks provides the right mix of social that naturally leads to interaction and an improved experience," he said. Quinones helps brands crack the Facebook feed by focusing on this right mix. "There is some great content out there, but not all of it is intended to be social, while others are not leveraged enough," he said. "And there are those that do a really good job of engaging, but are hurting their cause by broadcasting every single piece of content that comes out of their site along with their other updates. " A brand's editorial team needs to determine a coherent content strategy to avoid spamming, and thus turning off, followers and fans. Frequency of content is key. "For example, if an organization created a video highlighting a branding initiative, it may not hurt to "broadcast" it via your social channels. However, if there were 10 pieces
of content about this same product launch that was hitting all your channels, then the audience might surrender to messaging fatigue. If that one piece of content was mixed in with several great pieces of content that provided some educational, entertainment, exclusive value to their audience, then that one "broadcast" piece of content would not only be more likely to be viewed, but accepted." Another essential content consideration: Facebook's EdgeRank. The higher your page's EdgeRank, the more likely it is to show up in a fan's News Feed. Help yourself out by publishing content that encourages interaction: polls, links, photos (users tend to click to see larger versions), and videos. Make sure to update frequently, as posts can get easily lost in the stream of activity. Quinones, Ross and dozens of other marketing thought leaders will dive deep into these issues and more at the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo New York this October 10-13. Come see them by registering now with code RWW20 to save 20% off all conference passes. Discuss
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My Favorite Collaboration Apps

Pam Baker (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:00:00 PM
Crocodoc allows you and your collaborators to add comments, drawings, doodles, highlights, and Collaboration apps are not new o t h e r m a r k u p s t o W o r d but they are gaining prominence d o c u m e n t s , P o w e r P o i n t in this brave new world where presentations, images (photo or crowd-sourcing trumps individual graphic), PDF forms and other pontification. Leaders such as documents. You can embed Google Docs have already gained documents on a website or blog or notoriety but the purpose here is simply share them privately. to share information about great Documents are displayed in your collaboration apps that may not be browser and no Flash or plugins as well known but are certainly a r e r e q u i r e d . F i l e s c a n b e worth knowing about. password protected and Here's a lineup of my favorite encrypted, all free of charge. apps that will help you collaborate C r e a t e l y m a k e s o n l i n e not only around documents but diagramming and design work with video too. And many of them easy. You and collaborators can are also free, too. use it for flowcharts, UI mockups, Sponsor UML diagrams, network and rack diagrams, wireframes, mind maps, Teamviewer tops this list c h e m i s t r y l a b d i a g r a m s , because of its versatility in fishbones, organization charts and everything from desktop sharing SWOT tables, to name but a few. (even through firewalls) to It has an extensive library of browser-based presentations. The object sets and templates that app is free to all non-commercial make the highly intuitive effort users and well worth the cost (a even easier. The personal version one time fee for as low as $750) is free for sharing up to five f o r m a n y b u s i n e s s u s e r s , diagrams, and fees start for as low considering it also provides as $5 per month per user. simple click connections between Cozimo allows creative teams to team partners and secure instant collaborate on images, documents messaging. A very comprehensive and videos. Its synchronized tool that's incredibly easy to use. video feature keeps all the editors
and collaborators perfectly synched in real-time. You can draw directly on the images, leave post-it like comments, and easily access the automated project tracking to stay up-to-date on changes and communications. It works in any flash-related browser. Its one of the few apps that allows you to work easily with multi-page PDFs and vector rendering for Adobe Illustrator and CAD files. The personal version is free, and paid versions start at $29 per month. Onehub is a great file sharing app that excels in sending, receiving and tracking large file transfers. Invitation and comment emails can be branded either to reflect the company or the project's name. The app sends email as
directed by users to invite new collaborators, share comments on items, post a new message, or simply to disseminate daily notifications. Virtual workspaces can be easily customized. Users typically set up one work space pre project or department but workspaces can be used in any way that works for the user. The free version includes 2 GB of storage and paid plans start at $29 per month. Wizehive Project Management provides private workspaces, file sharing, and detail and activity tracking. It works very well with projects that have lots of participants and tons of details to worry about. Additional tools are offered to help with specific project verticals, i.e. contests, scholarships, and grants. The free version includes three workspaces, and paid plans start at $24 per month.
MeeGo becomes a no-go as Linux Foundation touts Tizen

Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:29:00 AM
Discuss
"Engineering support" is to continue, but Intel, the Linux Foundation and Samsung have confirmed that MeeGo is now a no-go. The Linux Foundation today announced a new operating system called Tizen, which it says "will support multiple device categories, such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks, and in-vehicle infotainment devices". And it will replace MeeGo. "Intel will fold its ongoing MeeGo development efforts into the new Tizen project," Wired.co.uk was told by Samsung. Continue reading...
Kids Will Be Skeletons [Video]

Jason Chen (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:00:00 AM
Mogwai is great. Not only are
they a great band in general, they worked with Clint Mansell on the fantastic soundtrack to The Fountain, which is one of my
They also made a very good track to work along with back in 2003 called Kids Will Be Skeletons. favorite movies for many reasons. More
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A Look at Phabricator: Facebook's Web-Based Open Source Code Collaboration Tool

Joe Brockmeier (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:00:00 PM
It's been out for a while, but hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Facebook released Phabricator earlier this summer, an open source collaboration tool for development teams. It's an early release, but already in use by more than 500 engineers at Facebook for normal review, development and sharing of code. Development of Phabricator is spearheaded by Facebook's Evan Priestley and is being done on (where else?) the Phabricator.org Web site. Sponsor What is Phabricator? Phabricator is Facebook's inhouse suite of Web applications for its engineers to write, review and share source code. It includes workflow tools, utilities and more. Actually, Phabricator does go beyond the Web with a set of command-line tools called Arcanist. Developers can use it to
run unit tests, merge changes, check for syntax errors in code and even extend Arcanist to add new commands. Some of the noteworthy components in Phabricator include Maniphest, Herald and Diffusion. Maniphest is a take on bug tracking that might be a bit more user friendly than entrenched open source tools like Bugzilla. Herald is a tool that allows developers to create filters to notify them when objects are created or updated. For example, if you want to be notified of revisions even if you're not on the CC list. Diffusion is Phabricator's repository browser for exploring Git and SVN repositories, and it may be adding Mercurial support in the future. One thing that's interesting, however, is that Phabricator has no real-time chat features at all. Instead, developers are directed to IRC to discuss issues with Phabricator. Phabricator is self-hosting, so if you want to jump into Phabricator
going? The roadmap and status document on Phabricator.org tries to answer that. According to the roadmap, the current focus is feature buildout. This includes things like adding support for Mercurial, and improving Maniphest, Phriction and Projects. Farther out, there's consideration for building importers to grab information out of other bug trackers and code review tools. While it could make adoption of development you can just log into Phabricator easier, it also could be Phabricator.org with a GitHub or "a massive timesuck." Why is Facebook account. This also lets lowering the barrier to adoption interested developers get a look at e a s i e r ? T h e r e ' s s o m e Phabricator without actually consideration of Phabricator's having to install it themselves. mission in the roadmap and But if you really want to dig in w h e t h e r F a c e b o o k m i g h t and host your own, it's on GitHub eventually want to develop a now. It is in an early release state, revenue model around it. There's however. Phabricator is under the n o t a l o n g - t e r m v i s i o n f o r Apache 2.0 license, so companies P h a b r i c a t o r y e t , b e y o n d should be able to use it for nearly improving the tool, but don't be any project without much worry surprised if you start hearing a lot over licensing issues. more about it as it matures. The Road Ahead Discuss The big question on my mind about Phabricator is where is it
Picture-Perfect Mobile Covers The Camera iPhone Case Protects Gadgets with a Vintage Feel (TrendHunter.com)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:33:02 AM
( TrendHunter.com) The traditional iPhone can now simultaneously be both a camera and a phone with the Camera iPhone Case. The design protects mobiles in a woody, stylish way, and lets users enjoy their love for photography...
BP and Transocean argue over fresh Gulf of Mexico oil 'leaks'

Rowena Mason (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
The US Coast Guard has warned causing a new round of fingerthat more oil may have leaked p o i n t i n g b e t w e e n B P a n d from the Deepwater Horizon rig, T r a n s o c e a n .
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The Kindle Fire Pulls All Of Amazons Cloud Media Onto A Tablet
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:06:00 AM
3rd Generation Kindles Get A New Name, Discounted Prices

Chris Velazco (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:23:53 AM
Today, at an Amazon event in New York City (read our liveblog), Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle Fire, a new media tablet that pulls together all of Amazons media services from the cloud. These include 18 million digital books, movies, songs, magazines, apps, and games. The $199 Kindle Fire is designed to tap into all of the digital media products and services Amazon has been building for the past few years: Amazon Web Services, Instant Video, Kindle Books, Amazons MP3 music store, cloud storage, and Android app store. Oh, and its got a brand new Amazon Silk mobile browser that takes advantage of EC2 to load pages faster on the device. When Amazon was designing the Fire, CEO Jeff Bezos says they asked themselves, Is there some way we can bring all of these together into a remarkable product offering customers will love? You can read Kindle books on the Fire, but if that is all you need it for you will probably better off
like crazy, so one has to wonder why the discount on the previous model wasnt more drastic. It getting a$99 Kindle Touch. The affordable price. If Amazons new slew of seems possible that Amazon could F i r e i s f o r r e a d i n g , p l u s W e a r e b u i l d i n g p r e m i u m keyboard-less Kindles leaves you slash prices closer to the holiday everything else. All of your products at non-premium prices, feeling frightened and confused, season in an attempt to own to the media is backed up and synced Bezos repeated a few times during youve still got time to pick up eReader market at all price points, wirelessly in the cloud. You can his presentation. His message one of their soon-to-be classic but that would likely jeopardize delete it and get it back when you seemed to be that in an Amazon models. The 3rd generation sales of newer models. want, notes Bezos. world you can have the best of K i n d l e ( w h i c h h a s b e e n Amazon could also be running Just as the Kindle includes both. retroactively renamed the Kindle low enough on existing Kindle Whispersync for books, which Crunchbase Keyboard) is enjoying a bit of a stock that theyre in no rush to allows you to pick up reading no AMAZON price drop on Amazon.com as we sell through them. Why sell a matter what device you are using, speak. perfectly good Kindle for the Fire does the same thing for Company: Amazon Website: The Kindle Keyboard with s o m e t h i n g l i k e $ 5 0 w h e n movies. You can begin watching a m a z o n . c o m L a u n c h D a t e : Special Offers has dipped from its warehouse space isnt an issue on your tablet and then continue S e p t e m b e r 2 8 , 1 9 9 4 I P O : usual price down to $99, while the and people are more than happy to on your laptop or Internet- N A S D A Q : A M Z N spiffy 3G version is currently pay $99? connected TV. The Kindle Fire Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is a selling for $139. Given that the This is all speculation of course, relies on WiFi, a 3G version was leading global Internet company newly-announced Kindle with but the point remains: those of not announced. The device ships and one of the most trafficked Special Offers is already available you who prefer your Kindles with on November 15. I n t e r n e t r e t a i l d e s t i n a t i o n s for a remarkable $79, only keyboards may want to head over The Kindle Fire is pretty much as worldwide. Amazon is one of the hardcore keyboard fanatics need to Amazon and check things out. weve been describing it. The first companies to sell products apply. After all, who knows how many Fire has a good chance at being deep into the long tail by housing The new Kindles price point was more they have to sell? the best Android-based tablet out them all in numerous warehouses clearly intended to move units of the gate. Not just because of and distributing products from the fine-tuned software, but m a n y p a r t n e r c o m p a n i e s . because of all the media you can Amazon directly sells, or acts as a get on it. Of course, it makes it platform for the sale of a broad really easy to buy all of that range of products. These include media from Amazon. But just as books, music, videos, consumer Apple builds superior product by e l e c t r o n i c s , c l o t h i n g a n d i n t e g r a t i n g t h e s o f t w a r e , household products. The majority (TEDTalks (video)) 2008 to film the national hardware, its Web-based store, so of Amazons... Learn more elections. What he saw there too is Amazon trying to do the Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:13:24 AM taught him new lessons about same thing. And all at an Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian democracy -- and about himself. filmmaker, came to Ghana in
TED: Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana - Jarreth Merz (2011)
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Make Facebook Look More Apple is second Like MySpace With Timeline "coolest brand" Cover Photos From FBCovers in UK survey
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:21:46 AM
to send you emails. But MyFBCovers offers a somewhat frightening look into the future of Last week, Facebook introduced Facebooks design. one of the boldest makeovers to Essentially, MyFBCovers is a the Facebook profile page since wallpaper site for Facebook the companys launch with the Timeline Cover photos. Its not new Facebook Timeline. The entirely remarkable in and of updated profile provides a deeper itself, and will likely be just one l o o k i n t o y o u r p a s t , w i t h of many similar sites to appear. navigation that lets you time But its one of the first out of the travel back through the previous gate, targeting those of you months and years spent on experimenting with the developer Facebook. build of the Facebook Timeline. ( The most noticeable and eye- And we know you are). catching change to your Facebook The site provides two styles of profile, however, is not the banners. The first style offers the Timeline navigation its the traditional, wallpaper-esque large banner-sized photo thats photos featuring animals, cartoon displayed at the top of the page images, nature scenes, sports, where, as of today, a series of schools, companies, celebs, and smaller profile pictures appear. dozens of other categories. The But what if you dont have a good other style lets you build banners photo to feature there? Thats containing a collage of photos where the newly launched Cover from your own Facebook albums. photo resource at MyFBCovers The results are a little icky, in my comes in. opinion. Where Facebook profiles To be clear, were not exactly o n c e l o o k e d c l e a n a n d recommending this site, which is minimalistic in their design, the buggy, ad-filled and whose new banner photo especially Facebook app requests permission when its a wallpaper-like picture,
make your profile page look more like MySpace than like Facebook. FBCovers even insists on putting its little tag on the photos bottom -right corner, so you can tell others exactly how you junked up your profile. And like every other Cover photo change, the news is posted to your Facebook News Feed so your friends can like and comment on the picture. I get that a lot of people will find FBCovers and similar services handy. I know that not everyone has a professional-looking, quality photo they want to feature big and bold on the top of their Facebook profile page. But I saw what my friends did to their MySpace profiles back in the day, and frankly, a lot of people out there have very bad taste. How much longer till were presented with bikini-clad women, Lady Gaga tributes, crass cartoons, photos of beer, stupid quotes and other such nonsense? Oh, starting today? Awesome.
Dave Caolo (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:00:00 AM
A new survey from CoolBrands finds that Aston Martin is the "coolest" brand in the UK, with Apple in second place. You can't really compete with James Bonds's car, can you? How does one define "cool," especially in a survey? The BBC explains the researchers' definition: "Stephen Cheliotis, chairman of the CoolBrands Expert Council, said: 'Cool is subjective and personal. But being identified as a Cool Brand by the British public and a panel of influential opinion formers implies it is a brand that most Brits wish to own. 'Votes are based on a wide criteria of factors but these brands are clearly delivering cool in the eyes of consumers and influencers
alike,' he said." Other tech brands in the top ten were Bang & Olufsen, BlackBerry, Google and YouTube. Harley-Davidson was in the third spot, just behind Apple. Apple is second "coolest brand" in UK survey originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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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Amazon quotes Kindles with Special Offers pricing, prompts International ire
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:55:46 AM
Amazon has quietly pushed its Special Offers across the new Kindle range, with prices quoted by CEO Jeff Bezos for all the new models taking into account the adsupported discounting. Without Special Offers, pricing on the entry-level Kindle Touch jumps by $40, in fact. However, the focus on Special Offers has inadvertently led to frustration, as international customers find pricing for versions of the new Kindles outside the US is considerably higher than Bezos suggested. Without the Special Offers
discounting on the Kindle Touch 3G, the ereader is $189, while the entry-level Kindle jumps from $79 to $109 if you dont agree to allow adverts on your homescreen. In fact, only the Kindle Fire doesnt seem to come with an advert option, though theres the possibility of promotions being injected into the Kindle Silk browser system. Outside of the US, however, things are not so clear cut. With Special Offers not yet being an international service, that only leaves the non-subsidized pricing available; in the UK, for instance, the entry-level Kindle is 89 ($139) with WiFi only, and theres no sign of the Touch or
Keyboard Amazon Sells Millions of Kindles in Just 73 Days, Publicly Thanks Purchasers Amazon confirm International Kindle DX is coming Amazon Kindle Gets Scrabble as First Third-Party Paid App Kindle breaks sales record during November Amazon quotes Kindles with Special Offers pricing, prompts International ire is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Touch 3G models. The Kindle Keyboard is still on sale in the UK, but the Kindle Fire is not. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Amazon axe US-only Kindle,
international Kindle now $259 Kindle 3G with Special Offers slices off $25 in return for ads Amazon has sold millions of Kindles Kindle 3 becomes Kindle
Twitter prepares for iOS 5 launch

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
panicking about the upcoming increase in traffic. It's been slowly beefing up its servers and Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:15:00 PM infrastructure over the past year. The launch of iOS 5 is right "During the last nine months, around the corner and Twitter is there's been more infrastructure gearing up for an onslaught now changes at Twitter than there had that the social network will be been in the previous five years at integrated into iOS. So how is the company," says Abbott in an Twitter preparing to avoid a day- interview with GigaOM. l o n g f a i l w h a l e w h e n i O S And Twitter seems confident that launches? iOS 5 owners will not A c c o r d i n g t o T w i t t e r ' s significantly increase the number engineering VP Michael Abbott, of tweets flowing through the t h e s o c i a l n e t w o r k i s n o t network. Even if it does, Twitter
"simplified experience" we all know and love. Twitter prepares for iOS 5 launch originally appeared on TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments can handle the load as it is already processing over 230 million tweets per day, up from 60 million last year. Abbott also confirms that, even with mounting pressure form Facebook and Google +, it's not going to change the premise of its network anytime soon. Twitter will remain focused on the
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Kindle Touch 3G hands-on

Vincent Nguyen (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:39:13 AM
than the freshly-christened Kindle Keyboard (aka the old Kindle 3) but the best thing we can say is Amazons shift from keyboards that you quickly lose sight of the to touch isnt quite wholescale, device itself and focus on the but fingers are definitely the way screen. forward for the new Kindle range. The touch navigation with the Weve just grabbed some hands- majority of the display used to on time with the Amazon Kindle move forward through ebooks, Touch and Touch 3G at the and a narrow strip on the left of it retailers launch event today, and to move back works well, and theres a lot to like about how page refreshes are fast (for E Ink c o m p a c t t h e e r e a d e r s h a v e technology, anyway). The onbecome now that theyve shed the screen keyboard is no worse than physical boards. the underwhelming buttons were The dimensions on paper 6.8 x on the Kindle 3, and the UI has 4.7 x 0.4 inches belie how the been cleaned up a little too. Kindle Touch actually feels in In short, its what we like about your hands. Its an ounce lighter Kindle the focus on reading
Amazon Kindle DX shipping June 10th: first come, first served Amazon quotes Kindles with Special Offers pricing, prompts International ire NOOK Beats Kindle For The Very First Time On Consumer Reports NOOK Touch Bluetooth discovered; runs Amazon Kindle app [Video] Amazon Kindle DX Video hands-on with less of the surrounding clutter. Check out the hands-on gallery for more. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com $99 Kindle Touch plus Kindle Touch 3G official Kindle 3 becomes Kindle Keyboard $79 Kindle revealed Kindle Touch 3G hands-on is written by Vincent Nguyen& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Amazon Kindle Fire eyes-on [Video]

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Amazon isnt letting us get particularly hands-on with the Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:22:23 AM Kindle Fire, with security at the Amazon has made the Kindle NYC event playing over-cautious Fire official, and weve just with the new slate. Still, its grabbed some up-close time with definitely compact and the IPS the new touchscreen tablet at the display though only 1024 x 600 retailers launch event. Already resolution is bright and colorup for pre-order and shipping rich. The Gorilla Glass, making November 15, the Kindle Fire is its first appearance on a Kindle, based on Android but hides its might also mean you can drop the roots well, with Amazon more Kindle Fire into a bag without a i n t e r e s t e d i n p u s h i n g i t s case. multimedia credentials, super-fast Well not know for sure how Silk surfing the with new Silk browser, handles and how the rest of the and ereading of course. Check out heavily modified OS holds up to more hands-on details after the proper use until Amazon relaxes a cut. little and lets us play properly.
International ire Amazon Kindle Fire official: $199 7-inch iPad rival Amazon to unveil Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday Amazon confirm International Kindle DX is coming Kindle breaks another record and can still get here for Christmas Amazon Kindle Fire eyes-on [Video] is written by Vincent Nguyen& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Until then, check out the demo video and live photos. Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Amazon Silk browser revealed
$79 Kindle revealed Amazon will replace Kindle 2 screens for free Amazon quotes Kindles with Special Offers pricing, prompts
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Cool Bananas SmartShell complements your Smart Cover in TPU

Samuel Gibbs (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:30:00 AM
The Cool Bananas SmartShell Case for the iPad 2 is a TPU Smart Cover-compatible back cover for the iPad 2 that's available in five different colors. Coverage The SmartShell provides good all -round coverage including complete bottom, top and side edge protection. There are, of course, the usual cut outs to allow for access to the power button, microphone, headphones port, camera, volume buttons and switch as well as the speaker and dock connecter port on the bottom edge. The SmartShell covers over the bezel on the front of the iPad 2 with a small lip that extends onto the glass boarder of the screen by about 1mm meaning you can lay it flat on the deck without
touching the glass. Thickness and material Cool Bananas have chosen to use TPU for the SmartShell, which is just over 1mm thick and has a textured feel to the back that reminds us of new car seat leather -- a not unpleasant feel to the back of your iPad. The TPU is well
Verdict The Cool Bananas SmartShell Case is a simple TPU skin that covers all the right areas, feels great in the hand and comes in enough colors, including transparent, to complement your Smart Cover. If you're looking for a TPU skin as a companion to your Smart Cover, the SmartShell deserves to be up near the top of your list and will set you back approximately US$26 plus shipping and handling. Cool Bananas SmartShell complements your Smart Cover in TPU originally appeared on manufactured with smooth edges TUAW - The Unofficial Apple and feels tough and durable. Weblog on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 While it's not going to absorb 11:30:00 EST. Please see our much impact energy, it will terms for use of feeds. certainly keep scratches at bay Source| Permalink| Email this| and provide you with a decent non Comments -slippery feel. Gallery: Cool Bananas SmartShell
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Wilson Greatbatch dies, invented pacemaker (AP)

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AP - Wilson Greatbatch, whose invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker has kept millions of hearts beating in rhythm, died Tuesday. He was 92.
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Disaster Politics - By Julia Ioffe

JULIA IOFFE (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 5:33:03 PM
The real story behind Putin's return to the throne: Russia is headed for economic catastrophe, and nothing he does can stop it. BY JULIA IOFFE| SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 MOSCOW On Saturday afternoon, Vladimir Putin announced that he would finally sync reality with formality and become Russia's actual president yet again. Once the initial sting wore off -- Putin seems on track to rule as long as Stalin -- cooler heads began to prevail. This will bring clarity and end the schizophrenia of the tandem contradicting itself, the thinking went. Putin was talking like he understood reform was necessary -- and even doubters had to admit that he was the only person with the political capital to accomplish it. Just two days later, however, the ground shifted yet again. Dmitry Medvedev, coming off a couple of really bad days, very publicly fired the finance minister, Alexei Kudrin: perhaps the one person in the Russian government whom Western investors see as credible, the one who saved Russia when the bottom dropped out in 2008, the one holding the Russian government back by the scruff of the neck from total economic disaster. Kudrin's abrupt firing stunned everyone and completely destroyed the thesis that Putin's
announcement would calm down Russia and its uneasy economy. Everyone knew there were power struggles going on behind the curtain, but rarely have there been so many elbows and knees jutting through, and, in recent weeks,
actual people flying out. What is going on? In short, no one really knows. But one thing is clear: Putin's return is not going to usher in a new reign of stability. If anything, the system is as unstable as it's ever been, and no one can
tell when -- or into what form -- it will settle. And with the country's most competent economic official heading for the door while Russia stares down the barrel of another massive recession, it's probably not going to be anything good.
After Putin's surprise announcement on Saturday, everyone was asking: Why so soon? The substance of the announcement, of course, DISASTER page 37
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Down with Mubarak, Long Live Mubarakism? - By Ty McCormick

TY MCCORMICK (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 4:31:07 PM
Are the remnants of Hosni Mubarak's regime about to make a stunning comeback? BY TY MCCORMICK| SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 CAIRO " Yasqot, yasqot hokem el a'skar!" shout protesters marching down Talat Harb Street in central Cairo. "Down, down with military rule." It is a stifling September evening and the demonstrators, most in their early 20s, look tired. Their ranks are thinned and their voices strained; it has been a long, hot, and disappointing summer for Egypt's activist community. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the military junta in power since President Hosni Mubarak's ouster on Feb. 11, has struggled to meet the demands of Egypt's emboldened populace and has reverted, instead, to the familiar tactics of repression. Related Shake It Up Cairo's spray-painted walls are still ablaze with revolutionary fervor "I never thought that seven months after Mubarak's [departure], I'd be chasing after my friends in prisons, military detention facilities, and, in some cases, military trials," said Noor
Ayman Nour, a political activist and the son of presidential candidate Ayman Nour. "I've been attending demonstrations since I
was 14 years old, and the most violence I have endured and witnessed has been since Mubarak stepped down."
Speaking out against the military, dangerous game. But many which came to power in a 1952 activists say it has gotten riskier coup that unseated Egypt's last DOWN page 38 monarch, has long been a
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surprised almost no one. It's been clear for months that Putin was positioning himself, via motorcycle gangs and half-naked girls, for a comeback. But the timing was shocking. Going into the United Russia party congress, the conventional wisdom was that nothing about the presidency would be announced. It was too soon to hobble Medvedev, too soon to end the intrigue that only reinforces Putin's position as the country's arch arbiter. If you recall, last time around this announcement came in December; so why September, a full six months before the presidential elections? One explanation is the impatience of elites, evidenced by a growing unrest in the system that culminated with the implosion of the Right Cause project less than two weeks ago: Mikhail Prokhorov, the Kremlin-curated party's leader, bucked control and publicly slammed the very secretive curator of Russian politics, its eminence gris: Vladislav Surkov. It was a major, messy fail for the Kremlin, and it deepened the sense that the system has ossified to the point of inoperability. The other, perhaps more urgent, explanation is the impatience of the market. At least $50 billion have leaked out of Russia this year. That's just one of many miserable economic indicators that point to big trouble ahead: the ruble at a two-year low, sliding domestic stock indexes, a budget that could barely be balanced
even if oil were still at $116 a barrel (today, it's $107). Siberian oil fields are in decline, it'll be decades before Arctic drilling comes online, and the center of world oil production is shifting increasingly to the Americas. Then there's the looming economic crisis in Europe scraping at the door. None of it, frankly, looks very good. So Putin's goal on Saturday may have been to step in and put a firm hand on the wheel, to assure everyone that the system was in fact functional at such a sensitive moment. The day before, behind the scenes of the first day of the convention, one of his strategists told a European news channel, "It's not the time to experiment with big political change in times of such economic uncertainty." Putin's return for, potentially, 12 years was supposed to signal an end to talk of such an experiment. The speeches he made at the conference -- including the one about government's duty to give " bitter medicine" -- were supposed to reassure foreign investors that he would implement urgent reforms. (Or, as the famous Kremlinologist Olga Kryshtanovskaya told me the other day, "Modernize or die.") And for a day or so, this strategy seemed to be working. People spoke of clarity, of stability, of concrete reforms. "Putin is a person of balance; he is constantly balancing the conservative with the liberal," said Kryshtanovskaya. (Putin is, in fact, a Libra.)
"During [Putin's] first two terms, there was so much money that the feeling was, why do you need anything like political parties?" Nikolai Petrov, a political analyst at Moscow's Carnegie Center, told me after Putin's speech. "Now the situation is more complex and the system has to become more complex to accommodate it, and Putin can do it more effectively. And when the system lines up under him, you get rid of the complexity and decoration that was making it ineffective." The Kudrin fracas completely turned this notion on its head. On Sunday morning, Moscow awoke to the news that Kudrin, in Washington at the time, had already started fulminating against the swap, which would make Medvedev his new boss instead of Putin. "I do not see myself in a new government," Kudrin said to reporters. "The point is not that nobody has offered me the job; I think that the disagreements I have [with Medvedev] will not allow me to join this government." On Monday, before a meeting of the Kremlin's Modernization Committee, Medvedev -- who had long clashed with Kudrin on budget issues, particularly increased military spending, which Kudrin has been staunchly against for years -- awkwardly, angrily read out a nasty pink slip from his iPad screen. Kudrin's departure set off a new round of conspiracy-theoryspinning (was he just trying to swipe at Medvedev for taking a
job many thought would be his? Was this a long-term strategy to become head of Russia's central bank?), until Tuesday night when he issued a new and more broadly explanatory statement to the press. He revealed that his kamikaze statement in Washington had been carefully considered. He also admitted that, due to his long-running fiscal conflict with the Kremlin, he had handed in his resignation to Putin back in February. Putin rejected it, telling Kudrin he was needed for the election season. So, basically, Kudrin left when he felt the election season was over: the day Putin announced his return. "On September 24, the power structure in our country was determined for a long time to come," Kudrin wrote. "And I determined things for myself, too, after explaining my position." What was his position? "Over the course of several months, despite my numerous -- and public -objections, there were decisions made vis-a-vis the budget that, without a doubt, increased the risk to the budget," Kudrin wrote. These, he added, would then spread to the rest of the domestic economy. The whole situation, it turns out, was far simpler than anyone had thought: Kudrin was just fed up and, quite likely, did not want to be held responsible for a policy he couldn't control, especially on the eve of another economic meltdown. Kremlinology had become its own obfuscation. And now it looks like we're set to miss
the biggest story in many, many years: The rigid system is teetering, and its key components are breaking down. Oil money is running out, the economy is sputtering, social discontent is growing, all of the massive problems that the Kremlin first threw money at and then ignored in favor of pointless political intrigue are coming home to roost. And the charades that the Kremlin used to be so skilled at pulling off in order to release political pressure are now falling flat because very senior-level participants are, essentially, defecting. There have been two such implosions in the last 10 days and, given the fact that they've only made the system more untenable for those who remain, there's no reason that they'll stop. Things are eerily simple this time around because things are eerily grim. As for why Medvedev had to fire Kudrin even though Kudrin has publicly criticized him before, that's simple, too. Kudrin -probably intentionally -- hit Medvedev at his weakest moment, which is why much of Medvedev's rant was about the fact that "No one has abolished discipline and subordination." "Anyone who doubts the course of the president or the government can openly appeal to me with a proposal," Medvedev went on. "But I will put an end to any irresponsible chatter -- up until DISASTER page 39
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since the 18-day uprising that unseated Mubarak and left the SCAF at the helm. "I understand that there is a risk," said Ahmed A., a protester who asked that his full name not be used. "Many people have been arrested, but I cannot let [Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein] Tantawi and the Army kill the revolution." Tantawi, who is chairman of the SCAF and Egypt's de facto ruler, was Mubarak's longtime defense minister. As head of the SCAF, he has dissolved the parliament, overseen a nationwide referendum that amended Egypt's 40-year-old constitution, and acquiesced, if somewhat begrudgingly, to trying Mubarak and some of his top officials. The field marshal's rule is absolute, however, and few mechanisms exist for holding him accountable. In such an environment, Tantawi has found it expedient to crush protests and stifle dissent, giving rise to fears that he and other members of the SCAF may not return willingly to the barracks. The SCAF's insistence that harsh tactics are necessary to "ensure life goes back to normal," as Tantawi's colleague, Maj. Gen. Adel Emarah, put it in April, has left many activists as angry as they are unconvinced. As Nour explains, "Because they say they protected the revolution, [the SCAF] claims that everything they do is legitimate." This includes silencing critics and continuing to beat and detain activists. "For me, the revolution began after Mubarak left. The first
18 days were the uprising; now is the revolution." Crackdown on activists and the press Mubarak may be gone, but many of his repressive policies remain. Since coming to power, the SCAF has tried almost 12,000 civilians in military tribunals -- more than the number who faced military trials during Mubarak's 30-year presidency, according to Human Rights Watch. In such trials, "there is no procedure at all," said Ahmed Yousry, a researcher at the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, an Egyptian law firm that works on human rights issues. "They just catch you in the street at a protest or something. Then you sit in jail until you face a military court, where the judge can sentence you to whatever he wants -- five, 10 years. Whatever. There are no eyewitnesses, no nothing." Many who have found themselves in front of military tribunals were arrested because they dared to speak out against the military leaders. In April, blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of "insulting the military." His crime was documenting the series of abuses meted out by the SCAF against civilian protesters. Asmaa Mahfouz, another prominent activist, is awaiting trial on charges of "insulting military rulers and calling for armed operation" after making inflammatory remarks on her Facebook page. On Sept. 11, Egyptian security
forces stormed the headquarters of Al Jazeera Live Egypt, an affiliate of the Doha-based news outfit of the same name, and arrested one of the channel's engineers. The official explanation offered by the SCAF was that the channel lacked a license to operate, but there is little doubt that Al Jazeera's meticulous coverage of street protests was the real motivation behind the raid. More concerning was the extension on Sept. 21 of Egypt's decades-old emergency law, which permits authorities to arrest and detain anyone without levying charges. The controversial law, which was one of the core grievances identified by those who participated in the Jan. 25 uprising, has actually been expanded since the SCAF took control and now encompasses such minor infractions as striking or causing traffic disruptions. It will now be in place until 2013. Meanwhile, Egypt's State Security Investigations Service -the notorious mukhabarat, or intelligence, arm of the Interior Ministry and supposedly disbanded in March -- has been reconstituted as the "National Security Force" and continues to snuff out public discourse. "The same intervention into universities that we saw under Mubarak is there -- writing secret reports on faculty members and their political affiliations," said Khaled Fahmy, chair of the history department at the American University in Cairo (AUC). "The endemic culture of corruption is still very much intact in the
Interior Ministry." The Sept. 24 deportation of Marie Edmee Josette Duboc, a French scholar and a recently hired member of AUC's sociology department, is only the latest example of this kind of interference. According to Ahram Online, a state-owned media outlet, Duboc's previous research on the Egyptian labor movement was the likely cause of her deportation. The logic of force Why are Egypt's military rulers so anxious to control the political environment? The answer is probably parliamentary elections, slated to get under way sometime in November. With substantial economic interests at stake -between 5 and 40 percent of Egypt's GDP is controlled by the military -- the specter of democracy is deeply unsettling to Egypt's generals. As a result, "SCAF is offering the people a choice between repression and chaos," Fahmy explained, noting that the revolution was a rebellion against this equation. Nour had a similar take: "People are made to regret any positive action they take by suffering from 'instability' that is, in some cases, manufactured by SCAF.... I would not be surprised if there was a lot of violence and bloodshed [in the run-up to elections] in order to discourage people from wanting democracy." The military leaders have also drafted the new election law with an eye for resurrecting the system that allowed them to prosper for the last half-century. In particular,
the stipulation that one-third of seats be contested by independent candidates -- recently reduced from one-half in response to pressure from a wide crosssection of political parties -- is a thinly veiled attempt to allow members of Mubarak's reviled National Democratic Party (NDP) to re-enter parliament. And with significant pockets of NDP support remaining, especially in Egypt's impoverished and largely tribal hinterland, there is a very real possibility that remnants of the old regime could make a political comeback. But other than being against democracy, the SCAF has failed to present Egyptians with a clear vision of what it stands for. Its decrees have been haphazard and its policies shortsighted at best. As Fahmy mused somewhat ruefully, "SCAF doesn't have any grand ideas about where Egypt should be in five or 10 years. It is an alarming, inconsistent, and incoherent policy to say the least." 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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May 7," he said, referring to his last day in office. In the meantime, everything's still more unstable than ever. Today came the news that the number of Russians living below the poverty line increased by over 10 percent in just the first half of this year. And Kudrin is still out of a job: evicted from his official dacha, a photo of his boxed-up office surfacing on Twitter. While Kudrin packed his things, Medvedev was in Cheliabinsk, watching a military training exercise. Military spending, he said afterward, would always "be the government's highest priority.... Whoever doesn't agree with this can go work somewhere else. That's an order!" And so
Kudrin did, perhaps because he discovered that there's only so much you can do to save a sinking ship, no matter how many guns it has. 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.
Wait, Was First-Half GDP A Lot HIGHER Than The Official Numbers?
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
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global financial markets. Investors have rightly worried Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:40:41 AM about the possibility of recession Interesting note from Deutsche given the fact that H1 real GDP Bank's Joe Lavorgna (yes) ahead averaged less than 1%. But what of tomorrow's GDP revision: if the economy actually was not as -------weak in the first half of the year We get the final revision to Q2 a s t h e G D P d a t a s u g g e s t ? real GDP this morning, although Interestingly, the income side of technically it is not final as the the economy suggests this could data will remain prone to revision be the case. next year when the Bureau of Along with GDP, the BEA also E c o n o m i c A n a l y s i s ( B E A ) publishes GDI or gross domestic conducts its annual revisions. income. In theory, nominal GDP Recall what happened on July 29: and nominal GDI should be equal, we learned that Q4 2010 and Q1 as the former represents the 2011 real GDP were much weaker expenditure side of the economy, than what had been previously and the latter represents the reported: Q4 2010 GDP was income side of the economy. revised down to +2.4% from When a household or business +3.1%, and Q1 2011 real GDP spends money, it counts in GDP. was revised down to +0.4% from That money, however, is income +1.9%. Moreover, the BEA to the entity receiving it. In reported Q2 real GDP at practice, there are large +1.3%it has been revised down differences quarter to quarter in to +1.0% since then. A much the performance of GDP and GDI. weaker growth profile along with This is known as the statistical weakening momentum was a discrepancy. For example, in Q1 catalyst for the risk off trade in 2011, nominal GDP grew +3.1%
compared to +5.2% in nominal GDI. In Q2 2011, nominal GDP grew +3.5% compared to +4.1% in nominal GDI. If we assume the income data are more accuratemore on this below, then it would imply real GDP gains of +2.5% and +1.6% in Q1 and Q2 2011, respectively. Note that we are assuming an unchanged GDP deflator. Why might the income data be better? The income data are based on tax receipts, and we know that households and businesses do not pay taxes on phantom income. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The 15 Most BIZARRE Economic Indicators What Divorce Rates Tell Us About The Economy Here's The Euro-TARP Bazooka Europe And The IMF Are Discussing Right Now...
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Chris Christie Mulls Presidential Run; Independents Key to Election, and Christie can Rally Independents
noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 2:29:00 AM
Over the past week or so I have seen several stories about the possibility of Chris Christie running for president. Here is one such story from today from CBS News Political Hotsheet: Chris Christie confidante says N.J. gov. mulling WH run 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." Republicans are clamoring for a candidate who will be able to energize the base and beat President Obama in a general election. Erstwhile front-runner Mitt Romney is widely seen as one of the strongest Republican candidates in a general election, but the most conservative parts of the party are less than thrilled with a candidate who was once governor of left-leaning Massachusetts.
Christie, as governor of Democratic New Jersey, may run into the same problem with Republican primary voters, who tend to be have the most conservative views of the party. In New Jersey, however, Christie's approval rating has risen sharply since he signed into a law a dramatic revamp of pension and health benefits for state workers in June. About 54 percent of voters in his state now approve of his performance as governor, while 36 percent disapprove, according to a poll released Tuesday by Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind. That's a 10 point increase from the 44 percent approval in May, when about 44 percent also disapproved, and the highest approval rating for Christie since taking office after ousting former Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in 2009. Kean Confirms Christie Boomlet: Its Real The National Review Online reports Kean Confirms Christie Boomlet: Its Real Former New Jersey governor Tom Kean, who has known Chris Christie since he was a teenager and remains an informal adviser, tells National Review Online that the governor
is very seriously considering a presidential bid. Its real, Kean says. Hes giving it a lot of thought. I think the odds are a lot better now than they were a couple weeks ago. Christie remains undecided, Kean says, but is listening closely to pleas from party leaders. The chance for a Jersey guy to rise, Kean says, is not something Christie has sought. But now, with the field up for grabs, he is actively mulling a late entry. More and more people are talking to him, Kean says. Hes getting appeals from major figures around the country. Kean, for his part, is also encouraging the firstterm Republican to jump in. He is the best speaker I may have ever heard in politics, he tells me. In an era when most people suspect that politicians read polls and then tell you what they think, people dont believe hes that kind of a fellow, Kean says. He tells you what he thinks, period. We like that around here. A lot of people are not satisfied with the field, Kean says. I know hes getting advice from all sides. In coming days, hes not going to tease anybody. If circumstances do change and
Kean makes no predictions hes not going to hide it. Unsatisfactory Field I'm not satisfied with the field. I think it's safe to say independents in general are not satisfied with the field. I back Ron Paul but do not think Paul can win. Furthermore, I may write in Ron Paul even if he does not win the nomination. That is how much I dislike the rest of the Republican field. My position was the same in 2008. I could not stomach a McCain/Palin ticket. I wrote in Ron Paul. However, if Christie is the nominee, I will do whatever I can to help the Governor. In spite of long-odds Christie has helped turn the state of New Jersey around. Moreover, he has above a 50% rating in spite of the fact that he has stepped on many unions toes. I see no indication that Christie is beholden to banks, and he certainly is not beholden to unions. Independents Need Someone to Rally Around It is highly likely independents will swing the next election. They voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008 and abandoned Democrats in the mid-term
elections. Can independents rally around Mitt Romney? I can only speak for myself, not independents in general. I can't support Romney. Nor can I support Perry who has made an enormous number of gaffes recently, anyone of which can sink him in the general election were he to win the nomination. On the other hand, Chris Christie is honest, does not mince words, is not beholden to anyone and has a tremendous fiscal track record in New Jersey. If he can stay away from the political hotbed issues of abortion by taking a modest, middle-of-the-road stance, that too would help him with independents. Light My Fire The Republican nominee will capture the far-Right vote. They are not going to vote for Obama, nor will they stay away from the election. Thus, it would be a serious mistake for Republicans to rally around a far-Right platform when it may cost them dearly with independents. A fiscal conservative like Christie can light a fire with independents in a way the other CHRIS page 43
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Merkel Prepares Market for Bigger Haircuts; Split opens Over Greek Bail-Out Terms; Needs vs. Fantasies
night. Merkel added that she "cannot anticipate the result of the troika." Greece "will not get back on its Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:37:00 AM French and German banks know feet without a serious reduction in a good deal when they have one. debt," said Ottmar Issing, a They have one in the 21% former chief economist of the h a i r c u t s t h e y " v o l u n t a r i l y " European Central Bank, who has accepted. The problem is even served as an adviser to Merkel in 5 0 % h a i r c u t s a r e l i k e l y the past. insufficient. The bondholders are Athens needs to see its debt cut upset at this reality. Tough. "at least 50 percent, probably Yahoo! Finance reports Merkel more," Issing was quoted by says Greek bailout terms may be Germany's Stern magazine. changed German Chancellor Germany's banking association Angela Merkel hinted that the insisted there was no need to second Greek bailout package renegotiate the terms of the might have to be renegotiated second bailout package. Banks in a m i d i n c r e a s i n g m a r k e t Germany and France are among speculation Wednesday that the biggest holders of Greek European leaders want to force bonds. private holders of Greek bonds to A default by Greece or another take bigger losses. country would send shock waves Merkel didn't rule out altering the through the global economy, terms to the euro109 billion ($148 particularly in Europe, authorities billion) package, saying the fear. Banks would suffer such decision must be based on how large losses on government bonds Greece's debt inspectors, the so- they hold that they would cut off called troika, judge Athens' recent credit to the wider economy and austerity efforts. cause a new, sharper recession. "So we must now wait for what Needs vs. Fantasies the troika finds out and what it The banking industry says there tells us: do we have to renegotiate is no "need" to change the terms. or do we not have to renegotiate?" Of course there is a need to she said in an interview with change the terms. Banks are not Greece's ERT television Tuesday going to be paid back what they
are owed. Let's not confuse "needs" with pie-in-the-sky fantasies. Split Opens over Greek Bail-Out Terms The Financial Times reports Split opens over Greek bail-out terms A split has opened in the eurozone over the terms of Greece's second 109bn bail-out with as many as seven of the bloc's 17 members arguing for private creditors to swallow a bigger writedown on their Greek bond holdings, according to senior European officials. The divisions have emerged amid mounting concerns that Athens' funding needs are much bigger than estimated just two months ago. They threaten to unpick a painfully negotiated deal reached with private sector bond holders in July. While hardliners in Germany and the Netherlands are leading the calls for more losses to be imposed on the private sector, France and the European Central Bank are fiercely resisting any such move. They fear re-opening the bond deal could spark renewed selling of shares in European banks, which have significant holdings of Greek and other peripheral eurozone debt.
Senior European said there was significant division over the move to re-open the bondholders' deal, which could trigger a bigger and earlier restructuring of Greek debt. Even within Germany, officials are split over whether to press for a bigger "haircut" for private sector creditors. Under the terms of the July bailout, bondholders agreed to trade about 135bn in bonds that come due through 2020 for new, European Union-backed bonds that would not be repaid for decades. This deal implied a haircut of 21 per cent for bondholders, but many German officials say they were forced to agree a deal that was too beneficial for the banks. Take the Loss One look at the DAX, or European bank stocks suggests major shock waves have already been felt. More are coming. However, the shock waves would have been far less had banks, the ECB, and the EU accepted realistic losses two years ago and simply let Greece default. Losses will now be four to 10 times as large, depending on how much more money everyone is willing to throw at the problem. Thus, upping the ante to shelter
bondholders from losses was exactly the wrong thing to do then, and it is still the wrong thing to do today. Barry Ritholtz had an excellent article on this theme just today: Take The Loss. The fear should have been in hiding losses not taking them. Unfortunately, I expect some wishy-washy compromise will up the losses one reportedly "final time" to 30-35% not the needed 60% or so. It won't work. Hiding losses by not reporting them only makes matters worse. 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 MERKEL page 42
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Brazil Seeks to Tax Derivatives; No BRIC Decoupling

What America's Hottest Brands Are Saying About This Economy

Mamta Badkar (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:03:00 AM
instance, Brazil just proposed a 30% tax (IPI) on any car mfr. with less than 80% of its parts made in Brazil. China's auto mfr. Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:38:00 AM In response to Europe Plans to PAC has given up on opening a Tax Stock and Bond Transactions factory in Brazil, after this special .1%, Derivatives .01% Despite tax nonsense was announced. US Objections; Expect More Other companies are trying the Crashes Should it Pass I received judicial system to cancel this tax. a response from a reader in Brazil Keep in mind that import cars in about BRIC decoupling (more Brazil cost already 3 times more specifically, the lack thereof). than at its country of origin. And LTBR writes ... the place is full of imports, since Hi Mish, it's a land of wannabes who love Brazil is also trying to push a tax to live beyond their means. on derivatives. However, the Another problem with taxing opposition is faking outrage. They derivatives, which you have will pass, for sure, because those mentioned, is that exporters use it crook politicians never met a tax to hedge their exports. Since they didn't like. Brazil is a large net exporter, that I think that Brazil is freaking out, tax will eat a big chunk of because they know that China's exporter's profits. All to fund economy is about to crash. I've welfare for buying votes from the noticed that lately Brazil is trying poor or to transfer taxes to their to collect money with taxing political parties, unions, and about anything, fearing that corporate cronies. C h i n a ' s b u b b l e a n d t h e Here's the link to the article about commodities party is ending. For taxing derivatives in Brazil, if you
want to read on Google Translate: Opposition wants to hear before voting Mantega IOF derivatives Regards, Long time Brazilian reader with degree from American B-School. 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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Consumers continue to be depressed about the economy. However, retailers expect earnings pressure to ease. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's retail research team prepared a report examining profit margins for key US retailer companies to get a gauge of sentiment. While margin pressure will remain during balance of the year, production costs should ease in 2012. Jewelers and department stores are better off for now. Most retailers admitted to being cautious of the uncertain economy and the volatility in the stock market. But overall, said they haven't really felt the impact on sales yet. Macy's "... We are cognizant of the less than ideal economic backdrop, as well as the price increases coming in some parts of our business. Having said that, we have great momentum with so many merchandise categories performing well and our initial experiences with price increases have proven to be generally consistent with our expectations in terms of the unit sales." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch Saks
"With the recent increased volatility and downturn in the financial markets and the overall uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, we're approaching the fall season a bit more cautiously and we'll continue to be very strategic with our expense capital and inventory spending, making investments in areas with the most potential for profitable growth." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch Nordstrom "We're mindful of the economic challenges facing all of us. However, we know from previous experiences that our customers remain receptive and we're able to evolve with them and provide a compelling reason to buy something new." Source: Bofa Merrill Lynch See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. See Also: The 18 Cities Where Housing Prices Are Getting Destroyed 5 Chicago Fed Charts That Reveal How The Midwest Is Leading The Manufacturing Recovery Everything You Need To Know About The Richmond Fed's Manufacturing Report
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Republicans can't. Battle for the Middle Not much is known about Christie on other than Fiscal issues. He can easily put together a platform that would appeal to everyone but unions, the far-Left, and the far-Right. The far-Right will vote for Christie 8-days a week. The farLeft and unions will vote for Obama 8-days a week. The middle, not the Left or Right is where the battle will be won or lost. All we need now is a decision from Christie to throw his hat in the ring with a strong, fiscally conservative message, and middle -of-the-road ideas elsewhere. If Christie does that, he will not only ignite enthusiasm, he will win the nomination and the general election as well. 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.
Here's Why Deutsche Bank Slashed Expectations On 16 Chinese Banks

Eric Platt (Money Game)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:28:01 AM
Photos: Andy Rooney retiring from '60 Minutes' - Denver Post

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 3:27:44 PM
Deutsche Bank cut earnings expectations and price targets on 16 Chinese banks this morning citing growing concerns with its small and medium enterprise (SME) loan portfolio. Analyst Tracy Wu said a significant increase in days to collect accounts receivables would cut annual cash profits by 34%.. " We lower our earnings forecasts and target prices by 30% for banks to reflect our worst case [non-performing loan] ratio of 3% by 2013 and ex-growth assumptions," said Wu. However, Wu maintains Buy or Hold ratings on most of the banks, which still have an average 30%
upside to the new target price. Only Shenzhen Development Bank Co. saw it's price target get a boost, albeit a modest one. Goldman Sachs just took a tour of China and had other interesting stories to tell. Click here to see what they found > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: GOLDMAN: We Just Visited China, And This Is What We Saw Why The Demand For Offshore Yuan Suddenly Disappeared What Wall Street Sell Side Analysts Are Buzzing About Today
Photos: Andy Rooney retiring from '60 Minutes' Denver Post 20, 2005 file photo, CBS "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney is shown in New York. CBS announced Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011 that Rooney will make his final appearance on "60 Minutes," on Sunday's broadcast. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file) In this 1978... and more
All-natural nanosponge captures and stores CO2

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Because the porous crystalsknown as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)are made Nanostructures made of sugar, from all-natural ingredients and salt, and alcohol are able to are simple to prepare, they have a effectively detect, capture, and significant advantage over other store carbon dioxideand are MOFs that, while also effective at themselves carbon-neutral. adsorbing carbon dioxide, are
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:32:00 AM
usually prepared from materials
derived from crude oil and incorporate toxic heavy metals. We are able to take molecules that are themselves sourced from atmospheric carbon, through photosynthesis, and use them to capture even more carbon dioxide, says Ross S. Forgan, a
postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Northwestern University Permalink| Leave a comment
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Bloody Mary Recipe

Krist Articles) Luke O'Neil and Josh (AskMen Latest
It's the weekend, which means we're back at the bar with AskMen's resident bartenders, Josh and Luke. They're both skilled at their trade, but between them runs the age-old schism of bartending: Should you drink the "original" version, or a recent innovation? We won't pick sides, but it's worth doing lots of experimenting to figure out who's right. Josh, the traditionalist: Nutrition + Booze, An Elegant Solution Variously described as the most foodie and the most complex of all the cocktails, its a salty, peppery pick-me-up: The perfect antidote to the boozy malaise best exemplified in Johnny Cashs version of Sunday Mornin Comin Down.The origin of the Bloody Mary name came from Queen Mary of England -- she had a penchant for setting ablaze people that she didnt like. As for the drink itself, some say it was invented for hardpartying writers like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald at a Parisian bar favored by expat Americans.Fernand Petiot, the bartender at Harrys New York
Bar in Paris, started serving a much simplified version of what we now call the Bloody Mary. He mixed equal parts vodka and tomato juice in a big glass. Although, as far as hangover remedies go, it worked, its not the culinary concoction we know and love today. Harrys, by the way, is the reputed birthplace of a slew of classic cocktails -- the sidecar and French 75, most notably.At this point, things become less clear. An old-timey actor by the name of George Jessel claims he invented the Bloody Mary, and Petiot, relocated to New York, says that its here that he improved on the original recipe (which he admitted in print might have been Jessels) by adding the black pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. The whole garnish thing, its not clear when that started, but at the very least, many mixologists these days garnish with a stalk of celery and a lemon. But weve seen all kinds of veggie garnishes, including green beans and asparagus.Weve heard stories of serious drinkers claiming they drink at least one Bloody Mary a day so that theyll at least have some sort of nutritional intake.By the way, its not true that if you say Bloody Mary in the mirror five times the
wicked queen appears. If, however, you pull that same trick in front of a bartender, five Bloody Maries will appear. And that, friends, is the power of magic. Classic Bloody Mary recipe 1 oz vodka3 oz tomato juice1 pinch each of salt and pepper1 dash Worcestershire sauceA generous squeeze of lemon1 stalk celeryCombine all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker; shake and strain into a highball glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with a celery stalk. Luke, the radical: Jack it up with bacon, tequila and chilies If you've been taking our advice in this column about how to change up some of your old favorite recipes, there's a chance you've had to do a lot of experimenting, or as other people might call it, drinking too
much.Whoops.Naturally, there's only one real cure for that: staying hydrated and getting some rest, neither of which are any fun at all. That's where the Bloody Mary comes in. Its not only a classic, well-loved cocktail, but also a surprisingly functional one.One of the best parts of dealing with a Bloody Mary is that since it has so many moving parts, there are an almost infinite number ways you can tweak it to your own taste. Start with the base spirit. Who says it has to be vodka? In fact, using something like gin will brighten the aromas and add depth of flavor with its berry and spice taste. In a similar vein, tequila adds a peppery blast of heat to the boring old vodka template. If you want to get even more authentically Mexican, you can
mix up a Michelada, which substitutes a light, Mexican-style beer into the mix, with tomato juice, hot sauce, lime juice, and a salted rim.Chopping up green chilies, jalapenos or any other type of fresh hot pepper will give the drink a potent kick in the pants. Adding a dollop of horseradish is an absolute must for a lot of hardcore Bloody Mary drinkers out there, and it's an acquired taste that we've, well, acquired. You might also consider bringing a savory beef element into the recipe. Beef bullion or a standard beef base usually work, but in recent years, inventive bartenders have been serving up bacon-infused vodkas in their Bloody Mary. You can totally do this at home. The basic idea is to let bacon sit in the bottle with the vodka for a few weeks, wait until the fat separates, strain it out of the liquid, and what you're left with is a smoky, meat-flavored spirit. If your morning is anything as bad I'm guessing, getting those extra hearty calories in while you're drinking a little hair of the dog may just be the variation you need. Continue Reading
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Complete Fall Style: On The Fly

Farah Averill (AskMen Latest Articles)
This article is sponsored in part by INC International Concepts(What's this?) Be sure to check out all the looks you need to complete your seasonal wardrobe by visiting our 5 Essential Looks For Fall.Men who are always on the move face particular challenges when it comes to dressing stylishly. You need pieces that can survive your activity-packed days but that also work wherever your travels take you. Here we help you put together a fall ensemble that can keep up with your hectic lifestyle. So whether you're weaving in and out of traffic on your Vespa, hopping on the subway or walking and enjoying the crisp fall air, these pieces will enable you to pick up and go quickly, while looking great all day long. INC jacket with zipper Probably the most versatile casual jacket for fall, a zippered topper looks hot over virtually any T-shirt or sweater. This cropped model from INC features an asymmetrical zipper and a snap-button collar that give it the look of a leather
sweat while lending a dose of unfussy chic to an ensemble, thanks to their striped pattern. Slip one under anything from a slick zip jacket, a cozy hoodie, a smart blazer, a rustic denim jacket or a polished trench to bring some preppy cool to all your outfits. Buy it now Sneakers Another handy item for the man about town is footwear that is both practical and stylish. These leather and canvas sneakers from Hugo Boss are an excellent choice for shoes that can stand up to a motocross jacket, but for a pants for roaming around the city. busy day but enhance your look at fraction of the price. It also has At the same time, their dark t h e s a m e t i m e . T h e w e l l three zippered pockets so you can rinse and slim, tapered cut mean cushioned footbed on these keep all your valuables close. they can transition easily into l i g h t w e i g h t s h o e s p r o v i d e Plus, when you're crunched for night. So all you have to do is sufficient support to enable you to time and have an evening event swap your daytime jacket for a be on your feet for extended that requires a little dressing up, blazer, and you're set for an p e r i o d s o f t i m e , a n d t h e keep the jacket on, and simply evening of adventure. Buy it now contrasting panels give these switch your jeans for a pair of T-shirt No man's wardrobe is shoes a sporty, cool vibe. Plus, simple dark gray or black dress complete without a pile of V-neck because they're white, these shoes pants and slip on some leather T-shirts. Refresh your stock with will mix well with a variety of loafers. Only at Macy's. Shop INC these tees from Sons of Intrigue, casual ensembles that take either now. Jeans When you live life in available in black, gray, white, jeans or cargo pants as their the fast lane and your final and blue. A cotton composition starting point. Buy it now The destination is always unknown, with a hint of spandex makes final pieces to top off our on-theyou need pants that can go from these tees comfortable as well as fly complete fall style, next... morning errands straight through ensure a flattering fit. What's Continue Reading dinner. With their whiskering and m o r e , t h e s e T - s h i r t s a r e fading in all the right places, these immeasurably useful as a first jeans from INC are ideal casual layer, because they will absorb
How Alcohol Affects Your Decision-Making Process [Health]

Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 8:30:00 AM
A night of heavy drinking can lead to a morning of heavy excuses. One common favorite? "It was the booze." But health blog the Body Odd points out a new study from that University of Missouri College of Arts and Sciences that suggests that you're actually quite aware of your alcohol-infused decisions, so booze might not be able to legitimately take the blame anymore. More
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Top 10 Elite Job Interview Questions

Nate Steere (AskMen Latest Articles)
This article is sponsored in part by Porsche(What's this?) There is an old guideline for good writing: Show, don't tell. What this means is that the best authors don't tell the reader information directly. They don't explicitly spell out what a character's personality is. Instead, they reveal information through dialogue, and place the character in situations where that character's morals and mindset can show through. Showing a character to readers is generally better than just dumping their personality on the reader. In many ways, the same is true of interviewing. A skilled interviewer will get the interviewee talking about themselves in ways that reveal
their abilities and disposition. This style of interviewing tells them more about the job applicant, and it's a much more honest picture, too. Asking an interviewee What are your weaknesses? will always earn you a canned speech, but getting them telling a story will often give insight into their work style and
potential shortcomings. So, if better interviewing leads to better hires, it's no shock to learn that the world's elite companies ask some unusual, effective questions. Read on as we look at 10 of the top questions asked by companies that shape the world around us. Continue Reading
Engineers shrink nonlinear laser down to nanoscale

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Wenshan Cai, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:35:00 AM Those ones and zeros are just a By harnessing plasmonics to switch; one is on, zero is off, intensify light, engineers have adds Cai. As more energyc r e a t e d a n u l t r a - c o m p a c t , efficient optical information nanoscale light source with both transport is rapidly gaining in optical and electrical functions. importance, it is not a great leap The device could ultimately find to see why devices that can a p p l i c a t i o n s i n d a t a convert electrical to optical communications. signals and back are of great M o s t o f t h e m a s s e s o f value. information and social media Full story at Futurity. interaction we send through our More research news from top data centers, and the future data universities. we will someday create, are Photo credit: Mark Brongersma, saved and transmitted as electrical Stanford University energyones and zeros," says Permalink| Leave a comment
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Gwyneth Paltrow Celebrates 39 With a Birthday Stroll Alongside Apple and Moses
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:24:20 AM
Robert Pattinson Takes His Scruff Northward to Toronto

Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:23:52 AM
Gwyneth Paltrow was out in NYC yesterday on her 39th birthday with her kids Apple and Moses. Seven-year-old Apple toted a Hello Kitty purse while 5year-old Moses was content to play with two toy figurines. In honor of Gwyneth Paltrow turning 39, we took a look back at some of the highlights from her jetsetting life. She marked the occasion by having a special dinner on Monday with husband Chris Martin and their pals Jay-Z and Beyonc Knowles. Jay-Z and his pregnant wife sat down for a Spanish meal with Gwyneth and Chris at Tertulia in the West
Robert Pattinson rocked a beard and carried his own bag yesterday when he touched down at the airport in Toronto. Canada has become a familiar place for Rob after shooting many movies there. The most recent was Cosmopolis, Village. Gwyneth was happy for which brought Robert and director all the love on her big day. She David Cronenberg together over tweeted last night, "Thank you for the Summer. David has been busy all of my happy birthday wishes, most recently making the press just read so many. You guys make rounds on behalf of his soon-to-be my life great, thank you." View -released A Dangerous Method, starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Slideshow Knightley, and Michael Fassbender. It's rumored that Robert is back north of the border to do more work with David.
DroidSheep Brings FiresheepLike SessionHijacking to Android Devices [Video]

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:30:00 AM
Their time together will be short lived, though, since David is due back in NYC next week for a reunion with Michael and the Lincoln Center Film Festival. View Slideshow
Android: It was only a matter of time before an app like previously mentioned Firesheep came out for mobile devices to further prove how insecure many popular sites are. Like Firesheep, DroidSheep DROIDSHEEP page 48
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux Cuddle Up in New Terry Richardson Photos!
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:25:56 AM
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux kissed and hugged while doing a mini photo shoot for pal Terry Richardson on Tuesday in
NYC! It was just before the duo headed over to Jen's Five premiere, and she was in the same lacy tank and vest combo. We spotted both Justin and Terry at the screening, and the photographer even made the
rounds with his own new
girlfriend, Audrey Gelman. Jennifer was busy saying hello to many of the women with whom she worked on the Lifetime piece. She made sure, though, to introduce Justin to all of her business contacts. They called it a
night on the early side, but not until after Jennifer told us on the red carpet that her favorite part of being in the Big Apple again is "the people." View Slideshow
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Philippines tackles typhoon devastation

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:53:11 AM
Government begins clean-up and damage assessments after Typhoon Nesat leaves at least 21 people dead and dozens missing. Last Modified: 28 Sep 2011 14:53 The government estimates that 195,705 individuals across 38 provinces were affected by the typhoon [AFP] The Philippines government has began a clean-up of flooded areas and assessments of damage, including to the key rice crop, a day after destruction from Typhoon Nesat left behind at least 21 people dead. Financial markets, government offices and some schools reopened on Wednesday after being closed by the typhoon, and train services resumed after power supplies were restored in the capital. The death toll had been raised from seven on Tuesday evening, and there were still 35 people missing, the national disaster agency said in a morning update as the typhoon moved over the South China Sea and towards northern Vietnam and southern China.
There were more than 65,800 people in about 190 evacuation centres across the country, and many others sought refuge with friends and family, the agency added. It put initial estimates of damage at $2.3m, including extensive damage to agriculture. The Department of Agriculture said it may also release its preliminary damage estimates on Wednesday. The agency estimated that
195,705 individuals across 38 provinces were affected by the typhoon. Crops damaged The storm passed across the Cagayan Valley, which was expected to account for about 10 per cent of the country's fourthquarter rice crop. The government had cut rice imports this year to about 860,000 tonnes from a record 2.45 million tonnes in 2010, amid plans to
"People have to realise now, with the changing climate, typhoons are getting stronger, the pull of the monsoon is getting stronger," Graciano Yumul, Department of Science and Technology Undersecretary, said in a television interview. The sea wall at Manila Bay was badly damaged by strong storms, which swamped Roxas Boulevard and other waterfront areas. As Nesat departed, weather o f f i c i a l s s a i d that another storm was developing in the Pacific Ocean that could pick up strength and become a typhoon as it approaches north Luzon. "Our initial track line shows it may hit northern Luzon. But it may be too early to tell because it make the country self-sufficient in might still change course," Yumul its national staple in coming said. years. This entry passed through the But any major damage to crops Full-Text RSS service if this is could force it to import more your content and you're reading it supplies, at a time when rice on someone else's site, please read prices are rising. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentThere was flooding across only/faq.php#publishers. Five provinces in the north of Luzon, Filters featured article: A 'Malign the Philippines' main island, and Intellectual Subculture' - George authorities maintained warnings M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , o f s t o r m s u r g e s a n d f l a s h Herman, Peterson, Pilger And flooding. Media Lens.
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Barroso: Greece will remain in the eurozone

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Head of the European Commission says Greece will remain in 17-nation bloc but must meet its reform commitments in full. Last Modified: 28 Sep 2011 15:04 Merkel has offered 'all necessary help' to Athens in a bid to lessen further damage to the rest of Europe [Reuters] Greece will remain in the eurozone but must meet its reform commitments in full, Jose Manuel Barroso, the head of the European Commission, has said. In an annual address to the European parliament on Wednesday, Barroso countered persistent talk of Athens leaving the 17-nation bloc, saying: "Greece is, and will remain, a member of the euro area." But "Greece must implement its commitments in full and on time," he stressed, pledging also that Europe would not let Athens down. "In turn, the other Euro area members have pledged to support Greece and each other," he said. International auditors were reported to be heading to the Mediterranean state to scrutinise new austerity measures they must endorse for Athens to meet its debt obligations. The "troika" audit team from the European Commission, European Central Bank (ECB) and IMF is expected to begin arriving on Wednesday and launch talks the
day after on the Greek government's plan to deepen budget cuts and raise new taxes. This will allow Athens to meet its commitments under a second aid programme that EU leaders
agreed in principle in July that also touched off a new cycle of strikes and protests. However, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has suggested that parts of the new $148.6bn
rescue package for the debt-laden country could be reopened, depending on the outcome of the troika's audit. "We have to wait and see what the troika ... finds and what it will tell
us [whether] we will have to renegotiate or not," she told Greek state television NET, without elaborating. BARROSO: page 51
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New draft resolution drops demand for immediate sanctions against Damascus in bid to gain Security Council support. Last Modified: 28 Sep 2011 05:47 Five Western nations softened their sanctions call against Syria to gain support in the UN Security Council [Reuters] Western powers have dropped earlier calls for immediate sanctions against Syria by the UN Security Council in the face of veto threats from China and Russia, as activists reported more civilian deaths in the country. Put together by Britain, France, Germany and Portugal, with backing from the United States, the scaled-back draft resolution, which was obtained by reporters on Tuesday, is aimed at breaking a deadlock at the Security Council. The resolution, if passed, would have the 15-nation council voice "grave concern" at the situation in Syria and demand "an immediate end to all violence". "If you look at that resolution, really what it appears to be doing is buying time," Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, speaking from Amman, Jordan, said. If Damascus fails to heed the council's demands, the Security
Council would still "adopt targeted measures, including sanctions", the resolution says. Last month, an earlier draft resolution was circulated, calling for sanctions against Bashar alAssad, influential members of his
family and close associates. It said at the time that the drafting countries wanted a vote as soon as possible, but that vote never came. Veto-wielding council members Russia and China, as well as
Brazil, India and South Africa, opposed the previous European and US draft sanctions resolution. Western diplomats said that the new resolution would hopefully be more palatable to those five nations, also known as the
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Second bailout Germany has repeatedly said negotiations about the details of the second rescue deal can begin only when the troika says Greece has qualified to receive a fresh, sixth tranche under the first bailout agreed back in 2010. The second bailout aims to ease Greece's debt burden by imposing a 21 per cent loss on private Greek bondholders. However, many economists believe that a 50 per cent loss is necessary to make the country's debt viable. London's Financial Times newspaper reported that a split had opened in the eurozone over the deal. Quoting senior European officials, it said as many as seven of its 17 countries argued that the private bondholders should swallow bigger writedowns. Hardliners in Germany and the Netherlands were leading the calls for bigger writedowns but meeting fierce resistance from France and the ECB, which feared more selling of shares in European banks with big Greek bond holdings, it said. Germany's Bundestag (lower parliament) will vote on Thursday on widening the scope of the European Financial Stability
Facility bailout fund, as agreed by the EU leaders on July 21. Merkel faces a revolt within her conservative camp and may have to rely on support from the opposition Social Democrats and Greens to get the measure approved, damaging her authority. Preparing to strike In Greece, taxi drivers, bus and tram operators and tax collectors prepared to strike for a second day on Wednesday, with rail and metro workers promising to join them. Al Jazeera's Tim Friend, reporting from Athens, said: "The tax collectors are now on their second day of action. It is particularly ironic keeping in mind the Greek prime minister was in Berlin assuring the German leader that Greece would be a more dynamic economy, given that that no taxes were being collected at home." Politicians opened the way to the troika visit on Tuesday by passing a property tax bill. The tax will put further pressure on many Greeks already suffering from several waves of belttightening amid an economic downturn heading into its fourth year. Prime Minister George Papandreou's 154 Socialist
deputies forced the measure through in the 300-seat parliament on Tuesday. Police dispersed thousands of protesters with tear gas in Athens's Syntagma Square, centre of anti-austerity protests that culminated in bloody clashes with police in June. "I've been trying to find a job for a year now and it's impossible,"Maria Kappa, a graduate of the School of Philosophy in Athens, said. "I don't see the rich people hurt by this austerity, it's always the poor who have to pay." Global recession fears Inertia in implementing the bailout deal coupled with European leaders' inability to erect a wider safety net have stoked fears a Greek default could bring down other eurozone states such as Italy and Spain and trigger a new global recession. Angry at the Greek government's slowness in starting reforms, the troika quit talks with Athens this month and threatened to shut off funding unless it mended its ways. Evangelos Venizelos, the finance minister, has since drafted a plan to catch up on the delays, which have put the government behind on a goal to cut the budget shortfall to 7.6 per cent of gross
domestic product this year. In the accelerated strategy, the government will cut the 730,000 public workforce by a fifth, reduce the public wage bill by 20 per cent, as well as lower overall pensions by four per cent in addition to a 10 per cent cut already agreed in previous plans. It will also now extend the new real estate tax until 2014, two years longer than originally planned, after the troika judged Greece's estimate that it would raise $2.7bn a year to be two times too high. The EU and the IMF say Greece has been focusing too much on one-off tax measures to plug its budget gap rather than streamlining the administration and cutting spending. 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.
'Glee' Adds New Character to Stir Up Relationship Trouble

Chris Harnick (AOL TV)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 7:00:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV News, Fall TV Looks like there could be trouble for two lovebirds on'Glee.' According to TVLine, Grant Gustin, a theater actor, has been cast as Sebastian, a gay Dalton Academy Warbler who has his eye on Blaine (Darren Criss). The report describes the character as the "male version of Santana." Yep, he may be the scheming type. "Thanks for all of the support from my new followers," Gustin said on Twitter."Buckling up for what is sure to be a crazy ride! #Glee" Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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measures. "We want to send a strong and unified message to ensure that the Assad regime does not remain deaf to the demands of the international community," a European diplomat told the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity. "We want to get the council to approve something quickly," another diplomat said, adding that the new draft was "pretty threatening". The second diplomat said the Europeans hoped to be able to get the council to approve the new draft resolution very soon, possibly within the next 24 hours. Separately, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that the BRICS, which US and European diplomats say are becoming increasingly obstructionist, were not looking for fights but wanted multilateral solutions to urgent problems. 'Continued crackdown' Meanwhile, rights groups said that violence on the ground was continuing. Syrian forces killed at least six
civilians in raids on dissidents on Tuesday, according to the London -based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Three civilians were killed and seven others were injured during an assault by the army and security agents against the Homs district of Bayada," it said. The attack came after soldiers who had abandoned the government forces burned a tank in the area, the rights group said. Government forces killed two civilians during raids in the northern town of Jabal al-Zawiya, and another civilian was killed and five wounded in a dawn operation in southern Daraa province, where the protests began in mid-March. Powerful guns, some mounted on tanks, were used on people in Rastan, Talbisseh and Tir Maala, all in central Homs province, the Observatory added. "At least 20 people were wounded, seven seriously, when soldiers using heavy machine guns on tanks began to open fire at sunrise in Rastan," it said. The Local Co-ordination Committees, which organise
protests on the ground, reported a "massive deployment" of security forces in Rastan. The opposition Syrian National Council, meanwhile, announced plans to meet in Istanbul this weekend to try to unify the fragmented coalition. "We will meet on October 1 and 2, in principle in Istanbul," spokeswoman Bassma Kodmani told reporters. "Then we will talk about setting up committees." The council, which was set up in August, consists of 140 people. Half of them live in Syria and their names have not been made public for security reasons. 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.
Number of Gay Characters on TV Declines

Chris Harnick (AOL TV)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 6:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV News The number of gay characters on broadcast TV shows is down, according to a new report from GLAAD. And in a surprising turn, Fox has become the most LGBTinclusive TV network, toppling ABC. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance's "Where We Are on TV" report found that the overall number of LGBT series regulars on scripted TV is down to 2.9 percent. It was at 3.9 percent during the 20102011 season. "While the number of LGBT characters is down, some of the most popular shows with critics and viewers such as 'Glee,' 'True Blood' and 'The Good Wife' weave storylines about gay and lesbian characters into the fabric of the show," Mike Thompson, acting president of GLAAD Acting, said in a statement. "Whether it's the growing
household of Mitchell and Cameron on 'Modern Family' or the recent wedding of Callie and Arizona on 'Grey's Anatomy,' Americans expect to see the diversity of our country represented in their favorite programs and that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people." Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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'Nikita' Guest Star Devon Sawa Talks Owen's Return and a Potential Romance with Alex
Laura Prudom (AOL TV)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 6:00:00 AM
New 80-inch Sharp LCD TV is "viewmongous"

Consumer Reports News (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:52:03 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Features, Celebrity Interviews The last time we saw Devon Sawa's rogue agent Owen on'Nikita,' he was preparing to go AWOL to try and wean himself off a dangerous, performanceenhancing drug masterminded by Division. When the troubled assassin returns in this week's episode (Fri., Sept. 30, 8PM ET on The CW), he'll be seeking Nikita's ( Maggie Q.) help in tracking down the doctor who created the regimen, and will inevitably find himself drawn into her latest mission to take down the corrupt government agency. And did we mention he'll be wearing a tuxedo? We caught up with Sawa to preview Owen's return, hear his favorite part of shooting the show
and learn what he thinks of the enthusiastic fan support for a romance between his character and Alex ( Lyndsy Fonseca) -even though the two haven't actually met yet. Join us after the jump for more. Mild spoilers ahead. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
New 80-inch Sharp LCD TV is "viewmongous" Apparently determined to distance itselfboth figuratively and literallyfrom its competition, Sharp is unleashing an 80-inch monster-sized LCD TV, which will arrive in stores sometime in the next week or two. Some might consider the price to be equally Brobdingnagian, at $5,500. The TV, which bears Sharp's entry-level 632U-series designation (80LE632U), is billed as the largest LED-backlit LCD available to date. Even though it lacks some features found on step -up models, it includes 120H antiblur technology, built-in Wi-Fi, and Sharp's suite of Internet services, including streaming movies from CinemaNow, Netflix, and Vudu. The TV also has Sharp's Aquos Live online support service, which allows a remote technician to control the TV via the Web to troubleshoot problems, help with setup, and fine-tune picture settings for optimal performance. One unusual quirk of the TV something unique to Sharp is that while it includes a full-array
LED backlight, it lacks local dimming, a feature that allows zones of the TV to be controlled separately. So some areas of the screen can remain dark while others are illuminated. We've seen full-array backlights with local dimming improve contrast and black levels, something we don't expect to find with this set. This model also doesn't include Sharp's four-color Quattron technology, a feature on most step-up sets. During a press conference in New York City yesterday, the new 80-inch TV positively dwarfed a 55-inch model, not surprising since it has more than double the screen area of the smaller model. Although the set's $5,500 price tag seems high given the typical $1,000 to $1,400 pricing for current 55-inch LCD TVs, it wasn't too long ago that a 50-inch 1080p plasma cost more than $3,000. Despite the gigantic screen size, Sharp claims the 80LE632U costs only $22 a year
to run, although Sharp may calculate energy costs differently than we do. For example, we estimate the 70-inch LC70LE733U set will cost about $51 a year to operate during normal use. If the size and the price of the 80inch set are a bit too much for your room and budget, Sharp also announced during the event a new 70-inch model (LC-70LE632U) in the series, which carries a suggested retail price of $3,299. We expect both TVs to sell for a bit less than the announced prices when they become available at retailers including Magnolia, HH Gregg, and P.C. Richard. With its largest TVs, Sharp's strategy seems to be to introduce the most basic model first. We expect to see other 80-inch sets later this year that include step-up features, including Quattron color, local dimming, 240Hz technology, and eventually, 3D capability. The company says it will debut an 80-inch version bearing its new flagship Elite badge sometime in 2012. 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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Turns Out In The Future, Some People Are Famous For SIXTY Minutes
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Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:00:00 AM
schedule, ignoring when other people complain, charging ahead, sticking to your guns, telling This weekend, a man is leaving yourself the right people will one television. A man who did many day understand? Dude, that's just things in his life, and yet, will a few Pixies lyrics in the profile a l w a y s b e r e m e m b e r e d f o r short of a Metafilter regular, and essentially filling time. A man you started doing this in 1973! who saw what was a traditionally You're every blogger's older serious niche and said "No! I'm brother, every commenter's urgoing to bring humor instead! But document, and it's time someone not edgy humor that could offend told you to your face. So how people! Instead I'm going to take about after all the attention dies the much harder route and keep down you stop by the offices and things PG-13, and keep going we can have a little party in your even when everyone on the planet h o n o r ? Y o u k n o w , a l i t t l e makes fun of me and calls me r e t i r e m e n t B B Q ? lame! And only when they've We're not kidding, Andy, we'll given in and I've outlasted like set it up. Give us a call, you can everybody on the staff, only come out to HQ and we can fire THEN will I walk away! As a up the grill. Toon knows this champion!" place where he can buy habanero Andy Rooney. Today we Woot vodka shots, and wow, man. We bloggers name you our brother. can't handle them ourselves, but More inside. you probably have a stomach of We know, we know, other steel. Everybody forgets you bloggers are too self-centered to started as a reporter in World War admit you invented the art. But II. One of only eight guys chosen talking to yourself on a regular to cover that first bombing raid
into Germany, then you kept going, from the concentration camps to occupied Paris just as it was being liberated. Listen, you want to tell us some of those stories while we cook, we're not gonna complain. And speaking of stories, what about when you got home? You wrote for TV in the 50s, when that was a top-of-the-line job! Two hits, one of them a number one show, then zip, right back to serious news as easy as you please. And we're not talking Nancy Grace news, we're talking the Edward R. Murrow era. Did Damon Lindelof ask to do a Frontline after he finished on Lost? Man, when you walked out of that, you could have done ANYTHING with your career! It was 1973, and people like you were rock stars! But instead, you chose to annoy America every Sunday night. Your opening act? A guy so serious he scared Presidents! Andy, that had to be at least as hard as making fun of
coffee machines and Roombas. But you found a way. No matter how many counterculture comics took potshots at you for your personal style of wit, you just kept right on going. Now they're all dead from drug overdoses, and you're still center stage! You've even inspired your very own YouTube game! Can chubbo-hipster Seth Rogen say that? Of course he can't, Andy Rooney. Because he's not you. Maybe people didn't always find you funny, but that's not the end of the world. You're still makin' 'em laugh at least once a week, same as us. Naturally it's a little worse for us because we publish daily, but if our numbers are right, that's a 28% success rate, and that's still statistically significant! It's just not worth listening to the nay-sayers and mathematicians who point out how you divided wrong. It's about being true to you. Yes, we've also said some dumb things we've had to apologize for
later, but that's the cost of exploring, right, man? When you're dealing with comedy at our level, what you say isn't always what you really believe deep down. Or is it? Guess that's something we can debate while the burgers are cooling. Hey, if you want corn, speak up, Matt's making a grocery run. Andy Rooney, you set the standard for us noisy folks online. Without you, there might be no place for comedy that's just good enough, happening where people don't actually want it to be, overstaying its welcome and never thinking before it hits post. Even if those other websites act like they don't owe you a thing, we'll try to keep following in your footsteps as best we can. But remember, brother, if retirement doesn't work out, you'll always be family to us jerkfaces here at Woot. And we hope you'll stop by for the cookout.
Amazon Kindle family portrait

Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Kindle. And, in the middle, the $199 Kindle Fire tablet. So, which would you rather? If you need And golly, don't they look proud. more help deciding, check out the On the left, the new $99 Kindle gallery, which features the thirdTouch. On the right, the new $79 generation Kindle thrown into the
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Cobb Portable Stainless Steel Grill & Smoker

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there. Not grill while driving. Well first of all, neither of us work for Cobb, so lets not jump Grill is my Copilot to conclusions about what they Oh sorry honey, the passenger meant based on our preconceived seats actually taken by Cobb notions about the nature of Portable Stainless Steel Grill & grilling. I mean, they made it Smoker. Youll have to sit in the virtually smokeless after all. Who back cares about smoke? People in What are you talking about? small, enclosed spaces. Second, Well, you know, I was thinking, grills and cars are basically your mothers house is a two hour kindred spirits. For example, you drive, and theyre expecting us can customize your car with sweet there at around noon. Well, that add-ons and options, just like you would have meant I would have can customize your grill. had to get up early to get the But thats not a reason why you kebabs cooked just right, and need to grill in the car. Its a theyd be cold by the time we reason why you think you can. arrived. Then it hit me: the grill is Fine. Why dont you give me one portable and can cook for 3 hours good reason why I shouldnt. at a time! Ill skewer-up some Just one? Well, for starters, it has meat and veggies, toss on a few to be illegal jalapenos for spiciness, and get Oh yeah? Then how come I can some grilling done on-the-go! search the entire state of Floridas Um, Charlie, thats crazy! Department of Motor Vehicle Really? Then whats your website without finding any solution, Janice? mention of Cobb Portable I dont know, grill when we get Stainless Steel Grill & Smoker? there? I think thats what they Well, it would probably be mean when they say portable: covered under distractions or bring it somewhere and use it some other blanket term
Shush, Janice! BE QUIET! The less I know, the less they can hold against me! Warranty: 2 Year Cobb America Condition: New Features: Distinctive stainless steel design that is built to last Convection cooks for 3 hours at up to 450 degrees on only 8-10 charcoal briquettes Cool to the touch on the outside, can be used on any surface Virtually smokeless as fat and juices drip away from coals Ultimate addition to any boat, RV, camp site or apartment balcony Versatile - grills, smokes, bakes, roasts, fries, and boils Instruction booklet includes cooking recommendations, safety advice, how to get the best cooking out of the Cobb Easy to clean design is compatible with most dishwashers Cooking surface: 114 square inches Dimensions: 13(H) x 13(W) x 13(D)
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Lockout Videos: Willis Reed has a lot going on, and he uses AlkaSeltzer
Kelly Dwyer (Y! Sports Blogs Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:20:45 AM
You know, it's been a rough day here at BDL. We spent a good chunk of the morning working on a lockout post that still boiled down to an exaggerated shrug of the shoulders. I mean, until something actually moves, what's the point of reading more tea leaves? And, apologies for the cliched transition, but it did end In the box: (1) Cobb Portable Convection up turning out that Earl Clark Grill & Smoker (Choose: Silver, probably did like Chinese food, so that post was ruined. And then Black or Red) there was the case of Jamario Dome Cover Moon's rap video, which is too Grill Grid NSFW to post here. Also, Kobe Fire Grid Bryant is not going to Italy, Inner Sleeve people. Outer Casing After all of that, we need some Lifting Fork relief. And this is where New Carrying Bag York Knick Hall of Famer Willis Instruction Booklet Reed, with his jersey clearly on backwards, comes to help. With a Discuss this product tablet or two of Alka-Seltzer: Price: $69.99 I want one! And you want to know why I'm taking Alka-Seltzer? Thanks to Posting and Toasting for the find.
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Amazon introduces $199 Starbucks Customer: Excuse Me, But My Kindle Fire tablet
service. The tabs include a Video one that takes you to the Amazon Instant Video service, where you Submitted at 9/28/2011 8:51:36 AM can stream free videos from the Amazon introduces $199 Kindle selection offered free with Fire tablet membership in Amazon Prime, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos today which is offered free for 30 days announced at an event in New with the device (and otherwise York the company's longcosts $79 a year). anticipated tablet, the Kindle Fire, a p p s f r o m t h e A n d r o i d The Fire also features an which boasts a 7-inch screen and Marketplace to the Fire. Like the impressive carousel atop the will sell for $199. That price is Nook Color, the Fire has a screen. Resembling the album less than competing 7-inch tablets "curated" selection of apps culled flow display option for iTunes, it from major brandsand is lower from those in Amazon's own apps allows you to flip through the than the $250 price tag that was store for Android devices. most recent content or apps you widely predicted by industry The device also promises to sync have accessed. analysts before today's event. It content across all platforms for Bezos also unveiled what he said will ship on November 15. movies, meaning, says Bezos, that was technology that accelerates As expected, the Fire is an you could begin watching an mobile Web browsing, through a Android-based Wi-Fi-connected Amazon Prime movie on the Fire browser known as Amazon Silk. device with 8GB of storage and a and continue on your TV when It lives partly on the Fire, he said, weight of 14.6 ounces; that makes you get home, by accessing the and partly on Amazon's servers. it a little heavier than the 7-inch movie through the set or other That will allow Web content to be Samsung Galaxy Tab and a little device, such as a Web-connected served up more quickly, amazon lighter than the Barnes & Noble Blu-ray player. The Fire will also claims. Nook Color, the tablet-like 7-inch feature full-color magazines, like The tablet joins two e-book color e-book reader. It runs on a the Nook Colork does. readers unveiled by Amazon this 1-GHz dual-core processor. The devices interface is distinct morning, a t ouchscreen Kindle The device emphasizes the from that of most Android tablets. and a new standard Kindle at $79. content and services that Amazon The home screen features a series Subscribe now! sells, including books (of course) of tabs (Newsstands, Books, S u b s c r i b e t o as well as video and music; Music, Video, Docs, Apps, Web) ConsumerReports.org for expert Whisper Sync, Amazon's wireless that facilitate access to Amazon Ratings, buying advice and delivery, will now work with a n d e v e n p e r s o n a l c o n t e n t , r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f music and video, too. Unlike including that which you may products. Update your feed Android-based tablets, however, have stored on Amazons Cloud preferences you can't download any or all
Name Is Not "Bit*h"

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:30:00 AM
For some reason, some folks in the food service biz never learn the lesson that they shouldn't vent their anger at a customer by insulting them on a receipt, to-go pack or in this case, a Starbucks cup. "I was shocked. I didn't understand why they would do that," says a 'Bucks customer who claims a staffer at the coffee colossus scrawled what appears to be the word "bitch" on the cup holding her caramel frappuccino. "[M]y name is not bitch," she explains to WABC-TV. "it's Vicki." She says the incident was the result of her and her coworkers making light of a mistake the Starbucks staffer had made. And when she got back to her office, that's when she noticed the fiveletter word scribbled on her cup. When she complained to the Starbucks, a manager gave her vouchers for free coffee. But she
says that when she was leaving, another employee said, "Some people will do anything to get a free cup of coffee." WABC went to the Starbucks and talked to a manager who says he wasn't there on the day in question but that he had heard about it and "It was a mistake." A rep for Starbucks HQ told WABC, "We have apologized numerous times for this unfortunate misunderstanding." Meanwhile, the woman says she has no intention of using the vouchers. B-word written on woman's Starbucks cup[ABClocal.go.com] 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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Recall: 131,300 pounds of Teen Freed From Coke Machine He Tyson ground beefE. Tried To Steal From coli contamination
Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
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Recall: 131,300 pounds of Tyson ground beefE. coli contamination Tyson Fresh Meats is recalling approximately 131,300 pounds of ground beef products sold at Kroger because of possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The Ohio Department of Health notified FSIS on Sept. 26, about cases of E. coli illnesses in that state. The on-going investigation involved collecting leftover ground beef from the patients' homes, which tested positive for E. coli. The ground beef products may already be in consumers' freezers. The products have a Best Before, or Freeze By date of Sept. 12, 2011, and establishment number 245D along the package seam. All of the recalled products were produced on Aug. 23, 2011. The following products are subject to the recall: 5-pound chubs of Kroger-brand
ground beef packed in 40-pound cases containing eight chubs. Cases bear product code D-0211 QW. These products were shipped to distribution centers in Indiana and Tennessee. 3-pound chubs of Butcher's Brand ground beef packed in 36-pound cases each containing 12 chubs. Cases bear product code D-0211 LWIF. These products were shipped to distribution centers in North and South Carolina. 3-pound chubs of a generic label ground beef packed in 36-pound cases each containing 12 chubs. Cases bear product code D-0211 LWI. These products were shipped to distribution centers in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on FSIS' website. E. coli is a bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration, and in severe cases, kidney failure. The very young, very old and persons with weak immune systems are the most susceptible to foodborne illness. Individuals concerned about an illness should contact a health care provider. Consumers with questions about the recall can call the company 866-328-3156. For food safety questions in general go to Ask Karen, the FSIS virtual representative. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 888-674-6854 is available in English and Spanish. Tyson recalls beef sold at Kroger[YourHoustonNews.com] 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
The recession continues to inspire people to do stupid crap to avoid paying money. This week's case in point, the teen who got stuck in a Coke machine after he tried to get a free can of soda. Have you ever wondered if CocaCola machines were "hackable?" That if you just jigged your hand up in there the right way you might get a free soda? Probably not, if you've ever seen someone restocking one and seen how the mechanism works. One teen tried his luck and ended up having to be freed by the fire department with "specialist tools" after getting his whole arm stuck up the soda slot. Stuff.co.nz reports that this week a teen was "extricated" from the jaws of the Coca-Cola machine after he unsuccessfully tried to steal a can of Coke. A local resident who watched the rescue process said that it involved two
fire trucks an an ambulance. "In between it all we've got two rubbish trucks trying to load bins in the street. It was classic, because who arrived next? The Coca-Cola truck," he told stuff.co.nz. He added,"I feel sorry for the boy, but you've got to laugh." So much for "opening happiness." Sorry kid, no global recession is worth getting your arm stuck in the clamps of giant, unfeeling, metal monster. Auckland teenager freed from v e n d i n g machine[Stuff.co.nz](Thanks to Gareth!) 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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Lime Mexican Grill Turns Arizona Immigration Controversy Into Marketing

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
in Arizona. So we came here instead." We've reached out to Lime for Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:15:00 AM comment to see if the restaurant Among the many hot-button plans on doing more ads like this debates of the last few years has or if it's just a one-off thing. If been the state of Arizona's they ever get back to us, we'll be controversial proposals to deal sure to update. w i t h t h e i s s u e o f i l l e g a l This entry passed through the immigration. But while both sides Full-Text RSS service if this is of the debate take the topic very your content and you're reading it s e r i o u s l y , t h e f o l k s a t on someone else's site, please read Southeastern restaurant chain the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentLime Mexican Grill have decided only/faq.php#publishers. Five to have some fun with it. Filters featured article: A 'Malign Jay Busbee (Y! Sports Blogs O v e r a t R e d d i t , a r e a d e r Intellectual Subculture' - George Yahoo! Sports) submitted the above photo of a M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , new Lime eatery in the Orlando Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:21:55 AM area. The huge banner outside the Media Lens. NASCAR released its 2012 restaurant reads "So authentically Sprint Cup schedule at noon on Mexican we couldn't open a store Wednesday in a flurry of publicity and a Twitter live Q&A, of all things, and for those fans who are sick of change, this was your moment: the 2012 sked looks almost exactly like the 2011 one. Sure, there are a few dates changed here and there. The (- Bing News) information that he most certainly Daytona 500 will run on Feb. 26, isn't going to give and opinions the first time it hasn't run on Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:00:37 AM Presidents Day weekend in four that he will never share. Andy Reid has been a convenient It isn't a pretty face; at once decades. Phoenix and Vegas will and a predictable piata in the smug, sarcastic, and exasperated, run a week later. Daytona's aftermath of the Eagles meltdown but it is one he has perfected after summer event and Kentucky will against New York on Sunday. The terrible losses. He's had some switch dates. And Texas will run public face of the team brings it practice. Then he takes the a week later in the spring. o n h i m s e l f , o f c o u r s e . H e e n s u i n g c r i t i c i s m w i t h t h e Kansas Speedway is the only real becomes snippy and impatient EAGLES page 60 with those trying to elicit
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change; as it's undergoing a repaving next year, its spring date moves from June to April, and its fall date will be switched with that of Talladega. For a complete look at the schedule, click here. Broadcast-wise, we're looking at a similar routine as well: the first 13 races on Fox, the next six on TNT, and the final 17 on ESPN/ ABC. Speed will cover the Duels at Daytona and the All-Star Race. There are no start times yet; those will be announced later. Also later will be the Nationwide and Trucks schedules, which are likely to have more significant changes than the Sprint Cup level. Food for thought: it's less than five months to the 2012 Daytona 500.
Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 bundle swoops onto Amazon.de

Christopher Grant (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:00:00 PM
Eagles coach Andy Reid still issuing non-denial denials Philadelphia Daily News
When we first saw this Batman: Arkham City Xbox bundle, outed by Amazon Germany, we assumed it was the fancy custom console given away to one lucky PAX-goer; instead, this bundle includes a 250GB matte black Xbox 360, the usual headset and controller, and a copy of the game. At 279.99, that puts this console at just a 30 premium over the unBatman'd Xbox offering. Though it may not have a fancy paint job, it respects the fact that we're not all Bruce Wayne. Batman: Arkham City Xbox 360 bundle swoops onto Amazon.de originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Cardinals beat Astros 13-6, tied with Atlanta for NL wild-card lead - Orlando Sentinel
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brink of what not so long ago seemed like an improbable goal. "It's kind of fed us here the last HOUSTON (AP) After St. few days, 120 years of baseball Louis was swept by the Los and this is one of those historic Angeles Dodgers in late August, runs to tie," La Russa said. "But Cardinals manager Tony La Russa there's a different story between thought his team would fall short tying and finishing it off. So of the postseason once again. tomorrow we'll see if we can go Less than a month later, the take another step." Cardinals are tied with Atlanta for The Cardinals trailed 5-0 early the NL wild-card lead. and appeared to be headed for a P i n c h - h i t t e r R y a n T h e r i o t second straight loss to the Astros. delivered a tiebreaking two-run But St. Louis scored five times in triple in the seventh inning, the fourth and erased a 6-5 deficit leading St. Louis to a 13-6 victory with a four-run seventh. over the Houston Astros on Lance Berkman hit a two-out Tuesday night. single and scored on Allen Craig's The sliding Braves lost 7-1 to tying double. Craig entered in the Philadelphia, sending the race for third inning when Matt Holliday the NL's final playoff spot to the departed with discomfort in his last day of the regular season. If right hand. t h e t e a m s a r e t i e d a f t e r Yadier Molina walked before Wednesday's game, St. Louis will Theriot hit his clutch triple to host a one-game playoff on make it 8-6. Thursday night. Nick Punto, who had four hits, "Yeah, when we got swept by the doubled in Theriot in the seventh Dodgers," La Russa said when and had a solo homer in the ninth. asked if he doubted his team Craig padded the lead with a three could make such a run. "When I -run homer to the Crawford Boxes saw our schedule I said: 'We in left field in the eighth. could finish under .500 if we don't " Y o u p l a y a l l y e a r f o r a n start getting it back together.' And opportunity to play in October," we did." Theriot said. "So it's a good St. Louis has won 21 of 29 games feeling to know that we put since that sweep, moving to the ourselves in a spot that we could
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Berkman singled with one out, and the runners advanced on a wild pitch by Henry Sosa. possibly do that, to do what we've Craig then walked before Molina done this last month and keep singled in a run and Schumaker cleared the bases with a double to playing." Eduardo Sanchez (3-1) struck out center, chasing Sosa. David two in 1 1-3 innings for the win in Carpenter came in and allowed a game that included seven Jon Jay's tying sacrifice fly later Cardinals relievers following an in the inning. early exit by Jake Westbrook. It The Astros scored four times in was Sanchez's first appearance the third. Brett Wallace had a two since June 12 because of a -run single and Paredes added a two-run triple that rolled up on the shoulder injury. Skip Schumaker drove in three corner of Tal's Hill in center field. runs in the fourth, and Berkman Bogusevic was disappointed that had three hits and scored three Houston let its early advantage times. The crowd booed loudly slip away. when Berkman, the longtime "It's not over in the third or fourth Astros star, scored in the seventh. inning, and we knew there was The Astros jumped on Westbrook still a lot of baseball yet to be for seven hits and five runs in 2 1- played," he said. "We tried to add on and hold them off, but it didn't 3 innings to take the early lead. Enerio Del Rosario(0-3) yielded work today." two hits and three runs for the Cardinals star Albert Pujols got hit on the right elbow by a ball loss. Brian Bogusevic singled to start that glanced off his bat for a foul t h e A s t r o s ' f i f t h b e f o r e in the seventh. He writhed in pain consecutive walks loaded the for a minute before trainers came bases. Bogusevic scored when a n d c h e c k e d o n h i m . H e Jimmy Paredes grounded into a continued his at-bat after a short double play, giving Houston a 6-5 delay, flew out to left field and played the rest of the game. lead. David Freese walked to start the NOTES: Holliday returned to the big fourth inning by St. Louis. Cardinals on Saturday after missing nine games with a tendon
injury on his right middle finger. La Russa said he wouldn't start on Wednesday. ... Cardinals SS Rafael Furcal, who left Monday's game in the fifth inning with tightness in his left hamstring, was held out. La Russa said Furcal would not return for Wednesday's game, but he wasn't sure about his availability if the Cardinals play past that game. ... Houston closer Mark Melancon and his wife Mary Catherine had a girl named Brooklyn Marie on Tuesday. ... Chris Carpenter pitches for the Cardinals against Brett Myers in the regular-season finale on Wednesday. Myers has won four straight games and has a 1.24 ERA in his last five starts. Carpenter is 7-5 in his career against the Astros, but hasn't won in Houston since 2005. 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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stoicism of a former offensive lineman who accepts that pain and punishment are part of the job. Reid's philosophy on how to handle this stuff is one of the reasons players like to play for him. He will do everything he can not to show them up, and if that means bending or breaking the truth in the message he sends to the paying public, that's fine, too. Last week, for example, when asked if the same three linebackers would be starting for the Eagles against the Giants, Reid paused and said, "Um, yeah," neglecting to add they all would be starting in different positions, a fact that reporters were very shortly going to find out for themselves on the practice field and in the locker room. Whatever he thought that bought doesn't matter. He just couldn't help himself. So, anyone who still believes some magically formulated question will open up Reid - like a T.S. Eliot cat that begins to speak upon hearing its secret name hasn't been paying attention. Fans who rail against the local media for not "holding his feet to the fire," a favorite if trite complaint, should try it themselves sometime. This is an obdurate man with asbestos feet. Far beyond the failings of the players, who are trying their best, Reid's biggest gripe, if he were ever to voice it, should be the failings of the organization that put together the roster. If the Eagles aren't good enough this
season, it won't be because Reid goes for it on fourth down (although that was a dumb one), or because he wastes timeouts, or because he selects an offensive line coach as his defensive coordinator, or throws too often, or any of the litany of standard criticisms. He has done those sorts of things for 11 years and, like it or not, won a lot of football games. If the Eagles aren't good enough, it will be because they aren't good enough, and much of that will rest with the organization that declared itself "all in" during training camp. If the front office and personnel department were all in for the praise, those folks have to be all in for the criticism, too. A great example will be on display again Sunday when Michael Vick, swollen hand willing, takes the field against the 49ers. Reid was hooted at a year ago when he said having both Vick and Kevin Kolb was a "great situation," or a "great problem to have," or whatever it was he said. We might be about to learn how great it actually was. The team traded away Kolb in a training-camp deal that was universally applauded, getting cornerback Dominique RodgersCromartie and a second-round draft pick from Arizona. Not satisfied with that, the front office got smarter still and signed free agent cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, a move that turned Rodgers-Cromartie, a career starter, into a situational player for
the nickel and dime defenses. (The second-round pick could prove useful, but this isn't exactly the time for the front office to crow about finding gems in the draft.) A good part of how well the Eagles would do this season was being gambled on the premise that Vick would stay healthy. How's that going so far? If Vick misses significant time this season - and it's certainly trending that way the Eagles will be left with an inexperienced Mike Kafka or a gimpy Vince Young, who sources say has not been a playbook maven. Neither alternative looks promising at the moment. Individually, either the trade for Rodgers-Cromartie or the signing of Asomugha made sense. But now that one-sixth of the salary cap is tied up at the cornerback position, it doesn't look as smart to have done both and to have left other areas of the roster in such tenuous circumstances. Those were showy moves, though, and the clicking of the chips as they were pushed into the pot certainly sounded good. The defense, despite those additions, is weak at safety and linebacker, as previous "finds" aren't working out. Castillo can probably do a better job of masking those weaknesses, but he can't run for his players and he can't tackle for them. As was the case in the fourth quarter when the Giants picked apart the Eagles, sometimes better players play better. It doesn't get more
basic than that. What does that leave? It leaves Andy Reid, his face growing increasingly red, avoiding or giving non-answers to questions that he doesn't like. Maybe someday he'll break down and say what Tampa Bay coach John McKay said when asked about his team's execution. "I'm in favor of it," McKay said. Don't hold your breath for that. Instead, Reid will merely sigh, throw another sandbag on the foxhole, and take all the responsibility. He has company in there, though, even if none of them are sticking up their heads right now. Contact columnist Bob Ford at bford@phillynews.com or @bobfordsports on Twitter. Read his blog, "Post Patterns," at www.philly.com/postpatterns. Read his past columns at www.philly.com/bobford 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.
Photos of rope and pantyhose used to tie up Petit girls shown in court - CBS News
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Surging Rays top Yankees, remain tied with Red Sox - San Francisco Gate
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reeling Red Sox held off the Baltimore Orioles 8-7. If the teams remain tied after Chris O'Meara / AP Wednesday night's season finales, Tampa Bay Rays' Matt Joyce, they will meet in a one-game right, celebrates with teammate playoff at Tropicana Field on B.J. Upton after Joyce hit a Thursday afternoon. seventh-inning, three-run home "We have to focus on ourselves ... run off New York Yankees relief play our game and not worry pitcher Rafael Soriano during a about the other side of it," baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 27, manager Joe Maddon said. "That 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla. will eventually take care of itself." ( 0 9 - 2 8 ) 0 0 : 5 2 P D T S T . Matt Joyce and Ben Zobrist PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- homered, the bullpen shut down The Tampa Bay Rays are loose the Yankees after starter Jeremy and raring to go, ready to work Hellickson pitched six strong overtime if necessary to win innings, and the Rays kept the the AL wild card. score close by turning the third "Whatever it takes," designated triple play in franchise history. hitter Johnny Damon said. "It's Throw in Joyce, whose three-run been a fun ride and hopefully it homer wiped out a 3-2 deficit in continues." the seventh playing on an The Rays' improbable bid for a injured foot and that the Rays third playoff berth in four years were without Casey Kotchman comes down to the final day of a f t e r t h e f i r s t b a s e m a n the regular season after Tuesday experienced tightness in his chest night's 5-3 victory over the New and was taken to a hospital for York Yankees left them tied for tests, and no wonder Tampa Bay the wild card with Boston. The feels it has no limits.
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"All the indicators are there, let's just keep pushing," Maddon said. "When those things kind of show up, it really promotes even more fight, I think. There's more of a believability about the moment." Joyce's homer off former teammate Rafael Soriano (2-3) was the All-Star's first in more than three weeks. Zobrist hit a two-run drive off Bartolo Colon in the second, and the Rays kept the Yankees from busting the game opened with the triple play that bailed Hellickson out of a bases-loaded jam in the sixth. "Everybody's thirsty for offense, and we'd like to score more," Maddon said. "But we're built around pitching and defense." Jake McGee (4-2) pitched one scoreless inning to get the win. With a crowd of 22,820 standing and cheering, Kyle Farnsworth got the final three outs for his 25th save in 31 chances. The victory was the fourth straight for Tampa Bay, which trailed the Red Sox by nine games before battling
back into the wild-card race. Russell Martin hit a solo homer for the Yankees in the third, but also grounded into the triple play that prevented them from building on the 3-2 lead Nick Swisher gave them with a RBI double. The Yankees, who clinched the division title and homefield advantage throughout the AL playoffs last week, rested Derek Jeter and plan to play most if not all of their regular lineup again on Wednesday. Manager Joe Girardi remained undecided on a starting pitcher for the finale, but it figures to be a reliever. Tampa Bay will go with All-Star lefty David Price, who's 12-13 after finishing second in balloting for the AL Cy Young Award a year ago. The Rays said he's up to the task. "I always have the utmost confidence when David pitches. I really do," Maddon said. "Every time he pitches we feel like we're going to win that night. I know some things have not necessarily
gone his way this year, but in a very tight moment, you always feel very comfortable about how David will pitch." Despite squandering their big lead with a miserable September, the Red Sox are excited about still having a chance to make the postseason on the final day. "I think it's really good for baseball (but) not so good for my stomach," Boston manager Terry Francona said. "It's exciting. If you don't want to show up (Wednesday) and play, you've got no pulse." 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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Obama to court: Keep bin Laden photos secret USA Today

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PSA: Four Swords LA Noire hits PC on Anniversary Edition Nov. 8 in US, Nov. 11 out now worldwide in EU; specs revealed
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:30:00 PM
What, those 10 free NES games aren't tiding you over? Well Nintendo's got another present for you, 3DS owners, with today's free release of The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition. Oh, and this one benefits you too, DSi owners. In addition to the multiplayer-only content, of which the game was exclusively composed on the Game Boy Advance, Four Swords on the 3DS comes with a brand new single-player section. Nintendo's weekly eShop update usually takes place on Thursdays in North America, so it's unclear
whether the full update will arrive early today or if Four Swords will launch all by its lonesome (though the latter seems more likely as of now). As the game will only be available for a limited time(from today until Feb. 20, 2012), we can't help but wonder why you're not already downloading it. Get to it! It's free! Gallery: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition PSA: Four Swords Anniversary Edition out now worldwide originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Rockstar revealed this morning that its crime drama slash adventure game, L.A. Noire, will become available on PC in North America on November 8, and in Europe on November 11, nearly six months after it debuted on consoles. There's no mention of a Mac port, but it is launching on OnLive the same day, allowing Mac gamers one potential avenue into this gritty city. The "Complete Edition" was handled by Rockstar Leeds (
Liberty City Stories), and adds 3D support, includes all the DLC missions, and asks for a lot in terms of recommended specifications. Head past the break for the full rundown. Continue reading LA Noire hits PC on Nov. 8 in US, Nov. 11 in EU; specs revealed LA Noire hits PC on Nov. 8 in US, Nov. 11 in EU; specs revealed originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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developer. He and Blake Ross got Firefox started. And he did the iPhone app for Facebook. S o m e t i m e s I t h i n k o f In his latest piece, he takes the collaborative development as a web apart, and claims we can game of ping pong. I pick up a rebuild it without HTML. Of paddle, and my partner picks one course I agree. I've been working up too. He hits the ball over the on RSS and OPML for a long net. I hit it back. Ping. Pong. Back time. These are very much weband forth. able technologies, though it might Joe Hewitt and I have been not be so clear about RSS. Want a talking on and off for about five demo? Do a view-source on my years. There's a pretty big age RSS feed and see the links to the difference, I'm a generation older OPML source for each blog post. -- but there's a lot of similarity in That's not HTML. You could do a thinking. Except in politics. Joe is whole browsing experience for a frequent commenter here, and Scripting News without touching most of his comments make me a single HTML file. I've been wish he'd start his own blog. I've wanting Joe and others to take a asked many times. look at that for a while. I think Now he has started his own blog. maybe now they will. One can If you read Scripting News you hope! should also be reading Joe's blog. And I have a new format that I J o e i s a n a c c o m p l i s h e d think of as Rivers of JSON. You
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can have a peek at it by doing a view-source on one of the HTML rivers that my River2 software publishes. You won't see any data in there. The HTML is just a way of browsing the data behind it which is all JSON. You can think of the format as a super-RSS in JSON. It's got the content of many RSS feeds in it. But the elements would be familiar to anyone with experience working with RSS. There's an example of what Joe is talking about. No surprise that the ideas interlock, because we've been doing verbal ping pong for a few years. My work is pretty far along. And he got me to roll up my sleeves and bake JSON into my world. So it's all sitting there waiting for him to take up a software ping pong paddle and hit the ball back over the net.
Hands On: Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet and Cheaper, Smaller, Touch-Based Kindles
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Finally! Israel Creates a Rat Cyborg

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Via Popular Science: The day when doctors can patch up the human brain with electronics, cyborg-style, hasnt dawned just yet. But if the rats at Tel Aviv University are any indication, that day may not be so
very far away. Researchers there have developed a synthetic cerebellum that has restored lost brain function in rats, demonstrating that artificial brain analogs can potentially replace parts of the brain that arent functioning properly. Paging officer Alex Murphy. The teams synthetic cerebellum is more or
less a simple microchip, but can receive sensory input from the brainstem, interpret that nerve input, and send the appropriate signal to a different region of the brainstem to initiate the appropriate movement. Right now it is only capable of dealing with the most basic stimuli/response sequence, but the very fact that
researchers can do such a thing marks a pretty remarkable leap forward. . . Let slip the Mossads cyborg rats of war! Greg Pollowitz 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/content-
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City (which we live-tweeted-check out@PopSci for more), Amazon announced its new family of Kindles, and it's probably the biggest, or at least most visible, update in the line's history. The three new "traditional" Kindles continue Amazon's trend of "cheaper and smaller," including two touchbased Kindles (one Wi-Fi-only and one 3G-enabled) and one ridiculously cheap non-touch version. But the big news: Amazon's first tablet, a 7-inch model called the Kindle Fire that's priced low enough in the tablet marketplace to ride alongside the batteries and gum in the impulse buys section. First, the three Kindles: The Kindle Touch and Touch 3G all maintain the Kindle's 6-inch E-Ink Pearl screen, which we very much like. The touch system is set up in a slightly different way than other touch-based ebook readers like those from Sony; it's divided up so that most of the screen is dedicated to the "next page" function. You tap a narrow section of the left-hand side of the screen to go to the previous page, and a narrow section along the top of the screen for the menu. Amazon promises that the method
they've used to enable touch, using infrared sensors, won't give the screen an uncomfortable reflectivity like some other touchbased readers. The touch versions are $150 for worldwide 3G, and $100 for Wi-Fi-only--if you're okay with suffering through ads. Without ads, that price is $140 for Wi-Fi-only and $190 for 3G. There will also be a crazy-cheap non-touch Kindle, equipped instead with a five-way directional pad and the usual forward/backward buttons. This is actually not a bad idea for those who don't want to muck up a screen with fingerprints, or who don't feel the need for every gadget ever to be touchscreened. It'll sell for $79, and is available today. The interface of the new Kindles is different than the older models; they rely more on book cover images than text lists, for touchability's sake. In our time with them, they seemed just as easy to use as the older Kindles. But the big news is the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet similar to Barnes & Noble's very successful Nook Color. It runs Android 2.3 (not 2.1, as suggested by earlier rumors), though you don't really get a sense of Android anywhere on the device. To say the interface
has been "overhauled" isn't quite right; it's been replaced wholesale with an interface that caters to Amazon's various services, like the MP3 Store, Instant Video, and, of course, Kindle Store. It looks like it'll run Android apps from Amazon's Android Store, but the web browser is actually one of the more interesting parts of the whole device. The browser is brand-new, made by Amazon from the ground up, and will be called Amazon Silk. It works sort of like Opera Mobile, in that it does a lot of the heavy lifting in Amazon's own massive servers rather than on the device itself. For example: It'll sense your reading habits, and predict which web page you're likely to click next, and load that page before you even try to click it. So page two of that great PopSci piece you're reading? Already loaded. That's awesome. Desktop browsers like Chrome already utilize this feature for faster performance, but on a mobile tablet, it's critical. The rest of the OS looks sort of like a bookshelf, with your recently-clicked apps, magazines, books, videos, or whatever else in a sleek carousel that you swipe through. Above that are the basic
categories: Newsstand (for magazines), Books, Music, Video, Docs, Apps, and Web (the aforementioned Amazon Silk browser). It is lightning fast to use, and the browser is definitely quick, though we'll have to do more testing with a slower connection to really see how well Amazon's offloading works. But it's important to remember that this is not regular Android: there's no drop-down notifications shade, no home/menu/search/back buttons, and no home screens. The Fire itself has a 7-inch IPS display, like the iPad, but really more like the BlackBerry PlayBook, which shares an original manufacturer and looks very much the same. It's not showy; matte black border, matte grey back, no visible buttons. It's got 512MB of memory and a dual -core processor (which makes it very snappy to use), but it's also got some limitations. No cameras, no 3G, no microphones.
FYI: Can Wireless Electricity Kill People?

Lizzie Schiffman (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:52:56 AM
Shock and Awe Nikola Tesla in his Niagara Falls lab with his coils, which could discharge millions of volts and send electricity through the air Bettmann/Corbis Probably not. Even when it's nipping at our toes, wireless electricity is pretty safe. In 1899, Serbian engineer Nikola Tesla built a 142-foot-tall, 12-millionvolt electric coil in Colorado Springs and transmitted electricity wirelessly across 25 miles, illuminating 200 lamps with the charge. After he flipped the switch, flashes of lightning leaped from the coil, but no one was harmed. Tesla's experiment proved that the Earth itself could be used to conduct electricity, no wires necessary. He also experimented FYI: page 65
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BullDog: A Bigger, Scarier Version of BigDog Gets Closer to the Battlefield

Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:30:03 AM
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Boston Dynamics' BullDog The LS3 can haul up to 400 pounds for 20 hours straight. Boston Dynamics That fun video of the BigDog robot we shared last week may have been impressive, but apparently the robot is about to be eclipsed by another member of its own family. Boston Dynamics is building a bigger, sturdier version of the military's future trusty companion, and will likely unveil it within a few months. The company's founder and president, Marc Raibert, shared the LS3 robot's progress Tuesday at a keynote speech at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Apparently LS3 (Legged Squad
Support System) has been nicknamed BullDog, according to IEEE Spectrum. Alas, no fun video yet, as Boston Dynamics is apparently waiting for permission from DARPA to release it. BullDog, like BigDog, is designed to carry hundreds of
with electromagnetic induction, a phenomenon discovered 70 years before Tesla's experiments by the English scientist Michael Faraday. In electromagnetic induction, an oscillating magnetic field around an electromagnet produces a current in a nearby conductor-in effect, the current jumps the gap. falls over. BullDog will also have While it is airborne, electric greater navigational autonomy energy exists as a magnetic field. Magnetic induction is used today than BigDog, IEEE says. The most significant change may in the contact plates on electric be that it's significantly quieter toothbrushes, transmitting a than BigDog, which is quite charge from the plastic-wrapped obnoxiously, buzzingly loud: charging station to the battery Granted, a prancing, unstoppable inside the brush. In 2006, Marin Soljacic, a four-legged metal beast probably doesn't need stealth to look p h y s i c s p r o f e s s o r a t t h e awesome and surprise the enemy. M a s s a c h u s e t t s I n s t i t u t e o f BullDog is a 30-month, $32 T e c h n o l o g y , s e n t w i r e l e s s m i l l i o n p r o j e c t f u n d e d b y electricity across a room to light a DARPA's Tactical Technology 60-watt bulb. Soljacic used Office and the U.S. Marine Corps electromagnetic induction, but Warfighting Lab. The project with a twist. By tuning the started in early 2010, so we sending and receiving coils in his electromagnetic field to resonate pounds of gear for armed forces, a n t i c i p a t e a f u l l u n v e i l i n g at the same frequency and engage ambling over rough terrain and s o m e t i m e n e x t y e a r . Until then, content yourselves only at that frequency (the way following humans without glass will shatter when struck by complaint. The larger version will with some of BigDog's greatest sound waves of just the right carry 400 pounds, last 24 hours adventures. pitch), the current is focused and [ IEEE Spectrum] and carry enough fuel for a 20bypasses everything else, humans mile trek. It will also be able to included. Resonant coupling, as jump over obstacles, and more Soljacic's process is known, is far easily regain its footing after it more efficient than Tesla's attempts, and safer too. Soljacic has a company called WiTricity, and he can now send 3,000 watts across a room-or a garage, since 3,000 watts can charge an electric car. Have a science question you've FYI: page 66
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Trudeau Was a Disaster for Canada

David Frum (FrumForum David Frum)
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shrugging off the inconvenient fact that separatism raged for another two decades, that a second referendum in 1995 proved even closer than the first and that in the end separatism was quelled not by Trudeau-style constitutional amendments but by economic and demographic change inside Quebec itself. If Pierre Trudeau had spent his entire life as an international playboy instead of just the first half of it the story would have ended in almost exactly the same TRUDEAU page 67
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1 Peter 3:18 (09-28-11)

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Just cold, hard facts! But we know differently. Underneath this statement of grace lies the broken For Christ died for sins once for heart of God, the sacrifice of all, the righteous for the heaven, the brutality of unrighteous, to bring you to God. supposedly religious men, and the 1 Peter 3:18(NIV) Thoughts on searching love of our God who Today's Verse... It sounds so would not abandon us to the cruel simple and straightforward, "Deathmaster." For those who d o e s n ' t i t ? K i n d a l i k e t h e knew animal sacrifice, with its n e w s p a p e r h e a d l i n e a b o u t high personal cost and animal someone dying we don't know. sacrifices, this verse is more than
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On September 27th, I debated Lawrence Martin at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa to debate the resolution that Pierre Trudeau was Canadas most disastrous prime minister. The This entry passed through the following is the text of my Full-Text RSS service if this is opening statement: your content and you're reading it Under the strict rules of debate, on someone else's site, please read my opponent can win if he proves the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- that Trudeau was something less only/faq.php#publishers. Five than a disaster for Canada: a Filters featured article: A 'Malign misfortune or even merely a Intellectual Subculture' - George disappointment. I hope you will M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , hold him and Trudeau to a Herman, Peterson, Pilger And higher standard. I hope you will require him to prove that Pierre Media Lens. Trudeau was affirmatively a good thing for Canada, actually a successful prime minister. If so, he cannot possibly win. My answer then, which Ill repeat again tonight, was that on the a headline: it is a "graceline." say what I feel. But even in this contrary, Pierre Trudeau did more Once for all -- no more sacrifices realization, I know the gift of your than almost anyone in Canada to needed. Bring you to God -- no Spirit ensures that you hear my strain and break national unity. more distance, no intermediaries words and my heart. Every good Through his own tactlessness and between God and us. Jesus is and lasting thing I have comes a r r o g a n c e , h e c o n s i s t e n t l y heaven's open door and God's from your grace. Please receive aggravated the problem. In order open heart saying, "Come home; my undying love and my heartfelt to justify his own mishandling of we've been waiting for you." My praise for all you are, for all you the national unity issue, Trudeau Prayer... What words, O gracious have done, and for all that you in his retirement concocted a Father, can I use to express my will be. In Jesus' precious name I ridiculous story that separatism had been defeated by him in 1980 appreciation for your sacrifice and pray. Amen. TRUDEAU page 66 grace? I have none sufficient to Wed, Sep 28 2011 04:00:00 04:00 10 Snack Mix Recipes Posted: Wed, Sep 28 2011 04:00:00 04:00
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way, except very possibly sooner. Debating this resolution in Toronto against Professor John English, I was very struck that my opponent readily conceded that Pierre Trudeau was a very poor manager of the Canadian economy. Professor English argued more strenuously that Trudeaus foreign policy record was not as bad as it looks. Ill take up that issue later. Professor English hung everything on Pierre Trudeaus alleged services to national unity. He described Pierre Trudeau as a very flawed man who also happened to be the savior of his country. Canada today is a very successful country. It has suffered less from the global economic crisis than any other major economy. So Canadians may be tempted to be philosophical about disasters in their own past. Hasnt all come out right in the end? But I want to stress: Canadas achievement overcoming Trudeaus disastrous legacy should not inure Canadians to how disastrous that legacy was. Three subsequent important prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper invested their energies cleaning up the wreckage left by Pierre Trudeau. The work has taken almost 30 years. Finally and at long last, nobody speculates any more about Canada defaulting on its debt, or splitting apart, or being isolated from all its major allies. Yet through most of the adult
lives of most people in this room, people in Canada and outside Canada did worry about those things. And as you enjoy the peace, stability and comparative prosperity of Canada in the 2010s just consider this is how Canadians felt in the middle 1960s. Now imagine a political leader coming along and out of ignorance and arrogance despoiling all this success. Not because the leader faced some overwhelming crisis where it was hard to see the right answer. But utterly unnecessarily. Out of a clear blue sky. Like a malicious child on the beach stomping on the sand castle somebody else had worked all morning to build. That was the political record of Pierre Trudeau. ** Pierre Trudeau took office at a moment when commodity prices were rising worldwide. Good policymakers recognize that commodity prices fall as well as rise. Yet between 1969 and 1979 through two majority governments and one minority Trudeau tripled federal spending. In 1981-82, Canada plunged into recession, the worst since World War II. Trudeaus already big deficits exploded to a point that Canadas lenders worried about default. Trudeaus Conservative successor Brian Mulroney balanced Canadas operating budget after 1984. But to squeeze out Trudeau-era inflation, the Bank of Canada had raised real
interest rates very high. Mulroney could not keep up with the debt payments. The debt compounded, the deficits grew, the Bank hiked rates again and Canada toppled into an even worse recession in 1992. Trudeaus next successors, Liberals this time, squeezed even tighter, raising taxes, and leaving Canadians through the 1990s working harder and harder with no real increase in their standard of living. Do Canadians understand how many of their difficulties of the 1990s originated in the 1970s? They should. To repay Trudeaus debt, federal governments reduced transfers to provinces. Provinces restrained spending. And these restraints had real consequences for real people: more months in pain for heart patients, more months of immobility for patients awaiting hip replacements. If Canadas health system delivers better results today than 15 years ago, its not because it operates more efficiently. Canadas health system delivers better results because the reduction of Trudeaus debt burden has freed more funds for healthcare spending. Pierre Trudeau was a spending fool. He believed in a state-led economy, and the longer he lasted in office, the more statist he became. The Foreign Investment Review Agency was succeeded by Petro-Canada. Petro-Canada was succeeded by wage and price controls. Wage and price controls were succeeded by the single
worst economic decision of Canadas 20th century: the National Energy Program. The NEP tried to fix two different prices of oil, one inside Canada, one outside. The NEP expropriated foreign oil interests without compensation. The NEP sought to shoulder aside the historic role of the provinces as the owner and manager of natural resources. Most other Western countries redirected themselves toward more fiscal restraint after 1979. Counting on abundant revenues from oil, the Trudeau government kept spending. Other Western governments began to worry more about attracting international investment. Canada repelled investors with arbitrary confiscations. Other Western governments recovered from the stagflation of the 1970s by turning toward freer markets. Under the National Energy Policy, Canada was up-regulating as the US, Britain, and West Germany deregulated. All of these mistakes together contributed to the extreme severity of the 1982 recession. Every one of them was Pierre Trudeaus fault. ** Pierre Trudeau had little taste for the alliances and relationships he inherited in 1968. His spending spree did not include the military. He cut air and naval capabilities, pulled troops home from Europe, and embarked on moraledestroying reorganizations of the military services. In 1968, Canada was a serious second-tier non-
nuclear military power. By 1984, Canada had lost its war-fighting capability: a loss made vivid when Canada had to opt out of ground combat operations in the first Gulf War of 1990-91. Something more was going on here than a left-of-center preference for butter over guns. Throughout his life now better known than ever thanks to John English Pierre Trudeau showed remarkable indifference to the struggle against totalitarianism that defined the geopolitics of the 20th century. Indifference may be too polite a word. Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. If not proNazi, he was certainly antiBritish. As a young student, we learn from John Englishs biography, he wrote a play heavily seasoned with anti-semitic themes, and he opposed the entry of Jewish refugees into Canada. After the war, Trudeau traveled to Josef Stalins Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Maos murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators. The Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik scathingly recalled Trudeaus 1971 prime ministerial visit: Trudeau visited the Siberian city of Norilsk and lamented that Canada had never succeeded in building so large a TRUDEAU page 69
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States Must Return Obamacare Grants, Pursue Own Health Care Reforms
Edmund Haislmaier (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:30:10 AM
Many state lawmakers are concerned that if their states accept Obamacare grant funding, they will be implementing policies counter to the states best interests. In any battle, it is wise to pick targets strategically. Obamacare is a many-headed monsterits funding is not one block grant. Conservatives should focus on refusing federal funding for elements of Obamacare that are integral to the legislations design and have significant policy consequenceswhile giving lower priority to funding that doesnt meet both of those tests. The Obamacare grant programs now attracting the most attention are the three related to creating health insurance exchanges: Exchange planning. The first program offered exchange planning grants of $1 million per state. Every state except Alaska applied for a planning grant, though Florida, Louisiana, and New Hampshire subsequently returned theirs. However, the only obligation for states that accepted planning grants is to submit a report to the Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS). Some of those reports (which will be public documents) could further highlight the problems and disruptions Obamacare will cause. Early innovator. The second program offered early innovator grants, which HHS awarded to seven states (Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Wisconsin). Those were grants of $6 million to $54 million to develop prototypes of the information technology infrastructure needed to implement Obamacare. New governors in Kansas and Oklahoma have, wisely, returned those grants. The remaining five states should do the same, though that is unlikely given the political makeup of most of them. Exchange establishment. The third and most significant program offers exchange establishment grants. HHS is offering these grants in two levels, with opportunities for states to apply each calendar quarter through June 2012. Unlike the exchange planning grants, these require action. States accepting exchange establishment grants must commit to achieving specified milestones in implementing Obamacares exchange design and related provisionsmost notably the
Medicaid expansion, new subsidy program, and insurance market regulations. Obamacares exchanges present state lawmakers with a dilemma. The legislation designed them to control access to state Medicaid programs and to implement federal health insurance regulations, but then gave states the option of creating the exchanges themselves or letting federal officials do so. Naturally, state lawmakers, even ones opposed to Obamacare, are looking for ways states can control the exchanges (thus retaining at least some control over their Medicaid programs and insurance markets) and limit Obamacares cost and damage. Initially, while HHS was still deciding how to implement the legislation, a narrow window of opportunity existed for states to pursue a pushback strategy of creating a restricted exchange and requiring it to contract with the states Medicaid program and insurance department to perform the eligibility, enrollment, and insurance regulation functions that state lawmakers seek to retain control of. HHS effectively closed that window in its proposed exchange regulations issued in July. In its exchange establishment grant application, HHS requires a
state to submit not only a letter of intent and support from its governor, but also (a) a letter of support from the State Medicaid Director agreeing not to duplicate efforts between the Exchange and State Medicaid office and to work with the Exchange on developing shared functionalities, and (b) a letter of support from the State Insurance Commissioner agreeing to work with the Exchange on implementation and to coordinate efforts as appropriate. The combined effect of these regulations and grant requirements are that a state would have to agree to surrender any last vestiges of meaningful control over how Obamacare is implemented. Thus, a state would now have no more real control over an exchange it set up than over one HHS established. While just 24 months remain until exchanges must open for business, HHS has made little discernable progress toward creating federal fallback exchanges. Consequently, at this point the best course of action for states is to neither apply for nor accept exchange establishment grant funding. Instead, state lawmakers should pursue their own patient-centered, market-based reforms separate from and independent of
Obamacare, using only privatesector or state resources. In particular, state lawmakers interested in creating a definedcontribution option for employment-based coverage should ensure that any exchange or clearinghouse to handle the administrative functions does not receive federal funding. Conservatives should similarly review their approach to other grant programs in Obamacare. For example, states should refuse HHSs health insurance premium review grants. Obamacares premium review provisions are bad policy and a political tool for blaming insurers when Obamacare drives up coverage costs. Obamacare gave HHS authority to require insurers to report premium data and to name and shame rate increases, but did not empower HHS to block premium increases. Only state i n s u r a n c e regulatorsimplementing state lawscan do that. Thus, these grants are intended to make HHSs job easier (by requiring states to give HHS state insurance data), and to co-opt state insurance departments into denying rate increases HHS deems unreasonable. STATES page 73
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city so far north unaware, or unconcerned, that Norilsk had been built by slave labor. Its telling I think that Trudeau came to the edge of endorsing the communist coup against Solidarity in Poland in December 1981. Hours after the coup, Pierre Trudeau said: If martial law is a way to avoid civil war and Soviet intervention, then I cannot say it is all bad. He added Hopefully the military regime will be able to keep Solidarity from excessive demands. Let that disgusting remark be remembered forever. The man who began his career despising Churchill ended by shrugging off Lech Walesa. Yet it was upon the Canadian nation that Trudeau inflicted his greatest harm. ** When Pierre Trudeau was elected prime minister in 1968, Canada faced a small but militant separatist challenge in Quebec. In 1970, that challenge erupted in terrorist violence: two kidnappings and a murder of one of the kidnapped hostages, Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. Trudeau responded with overwhelming force, declaring martial law in Quebec, arresting dozens of people almost none of whom had any remote connection to the terrorist outrages. The arrests radicalized them, transforming many from cultural nationalists into outright independentists. As he did
throughout his career, Trudeau polarized the situation multiplying enemies for himself and unfortunately also for Canada. At the same time, Trudeau lavished economic benefits on Quebec at the expense of Englishspeaking Canada. Unsurprisingly, English-speaking Canada resented this favoritism with the result that Trudeau polarized English Canadian politics too.In 1968, Trudeaus Liberals won 27 seats west of Ontario. In 1980, they won 2. Im always glad to see the Liberals lose a seat. But a political system in which each of Canadas two main parties piles up huge super-majorities in one region of the country while being blanked out of another is not healthy. Trudeaus provocative policies failed to achieve their stated goals. They failed to prevent the election of a separatist government in Quebec in 1976, eight years after Trudeau started saving the country. They failed to prevent a referendum in 1980, 12 years after Trudeau started saving the country. To win his referendum, Trudeau promised Quebec constitutional changes to satisfy Quebec nationalism. Instead, he delivered a package of constitutional changes that tilted in exactly the opposite direction. The government of Quebec refused to ratify the new constitutional arrangement, opening a renewed opportunity to separatists and bequeathing a nightmare political
problem to Trudeaus successors. For the next 15 years, Trudeaus successors had to grapple with the consequences of Trudeaus constitutional bad faith. Aggravating their difficulties was Trudeaus other legacy: his disastrous debt. In the early 1990s, Canada looked like an over -mortgaged property. Many Quebeckers who might have wished to remain inside an economically successful Canada saw in separatism an inviting opportunity to escape a burden and start fresh. Its not a coincidence that separatism truly ebbed only as the debt burden was overcome and as quitting Canada, not staying, began to look like the losing economic proposition. Defenders of Trudeaus disastrous governance habitually rally around one great accomplishment: the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Well, Herbert Hoover had some excellent wilderness conservation policies, but we dont excuse the Great Depression on that account. Would it really have been so impossible to achieve a Charter of Rights without plunging Canada into two recessions, without wrecking the national finances, without triggering two referendums, without nationalizing the oil industry, without driving not only Quebec but also Alberta to the verge of separation. To me, one story will always sum up Pierre Trudeau.
1979. Trudeau had lost that years election. His career seemed finished. Reporters awaited in the driveway of 24 Sussex Drive as he stepped into his gull-winged vintage Mercedes to speed away into history. One shouted: Mr. Prime Minister any regrets? Pierre Trudeau pondered. He remembered something that Richard Nixon had said after losing the California governors race in 1962 and revised Nixons words to his own very different purpose. Yes, he said. I regret I wont have you to kick around any more. Its long past time that Canadians in turn resolved: no longer to be posthumously kicked by this bad man and disastrous prime minister. I ask you to vote yes to the resolution. 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.
The Book of Life

Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:54:59 PM
Tevi Troy (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Reprinted from JewishIdeasDaily.com. The High Holy Days are traditionally a time for introspection. Even the sturdiest soul must pause with trepidation over the more harrowing passages in the somber liturgy of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Who shall live, and who shall die? Who in his time, and who not in his time? Who by fire, and who by drowning? Wrestling with such questions is nothing new in Judaism, but this year, by coincidence, two newly published books, though vastly different in character, jointly aid in the search for meaning that is the watchword of the season. In another set of coincidences, both books are by laymen rather than scholars or rabbis, and both BOOK page 70
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Look Before You Regulate: Measuring the Costs of Financial Rules

David C. John (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
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Proposed regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are required to include an economic analysis Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:30:37 AM You would think that any that provides a clear justification regulation that could affect a for the new requirements that major part of the economy and includes the economic impact and cost industry and/or consumers cost of compliance. As a result, millions of dollars to comply with earlier this year a federal court would be based on rigorous and struck down a proposed SEC rule consistent economic analysis. requiring corporations to provide A f t e r a l l , h o w e l s e w o u l d certain shareholder groups that regulators know the actual effect w i s h t o n o m i n a t e d i r e c t o r of their proposals and whether the candidates access to their proxy proposed solution at least equals statements, stating that the compliance costs? economic analysis supporting the Unfortunately, this level of draft regulations failed to measure economic analysis is not required the cost of the rule to companies. for most financial regulatory Requiring that any proposed a g e n c i e s , w h i c h h a v e b e e n regulation be accompanied by swamped trying to issue all of the substantive economic analysis, hundreds of rules required by the including a cost-benefit analysis, DoddFrank bill. The act imposed would reduce the number of unrealistic guidelines that the poorly considered regulations. financial regulators have tried to Senator Richard Shelby (RAL) meet, the result being a series of wants to impose just such a poorly considered, unrealistic s t a n d a r d o n t h e f i n a n c i a l proposals. In most cases, the regulators and would go a step e c o n o m i c a n a l y s i s t h a t i s further by also requiring new supposed to quantify the cost and rules to include a study of its b e n e f i t s o f t h e p r o p o s e d impact on both economic growth regulations has been of such poor and jobs. His new bill, the quality as to be worthless. Financial Regulatory
laymen are active in American politics. The first is Joseph Liebermans The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath; the second is David Horowitzs A Point in Time: The Search for Redemption in This Life and the Next. Lieberman is coming to the end Responsibility Act, would also the bill would mandate that a rule of a tumultuous and reverberant block rules where the compliance does not take effect if its costs political career that saw him arrive in the U.S. Senate in 1988; costs exceeds its benefits: outweigh its benefits. T h e F i n a n c i a l R e g u l a t o r y This type of economic analysis run and lose as the Democratic Responsibility Act of 2011 would should have been required for all Vice Presidential candidate in the ensure that all financial regulators r e g u l a t i o n s , f i n a n c i a l o r 2000 national election, the closest conduct comprehensive and otherwise, for the last several in our lifetimes; be expelled by transparent economic analysis in decades. The fact that it is not his own party for his maverick advance of adopting new rules. explains many of the regulations views on foreign policy, in This analysis will help regulators that have appeared and been particular his steadfast support and the public think through what implemented over the last several f o r G e o r g e W . B u s h s e a c h r u l e i s i n t e n d e d t o years. Shelbys efforts to apply it determination to stay the course in accomplish and what the costs of to financial regulators is a good Iraq; return victoriously to the achieving those objectives are. It step toward less regulatory burden Senate as an Independent in 2006; sets forth the factors that agencies and would force those agencies to and receive serious consideration must consider in their analysis, c o n s i d e r i m p l e m e n t a t i o n a s a p o t e n t i a l G O P V i c e allows the public to comment, and strategies that reduce the cost that Presidential candidate in 2008. requires the agency to revisit the business must bear. The next step One is tempted to speculate on effectiveness of the rule five years s h o u l d b e t o i m p o s e t h i s t h e c o n n e c t i o n b e t w e e n after it takes effect. The bill requirement on all regulators. L i e b e r m a n s s o u l - t r y i n g would also establish a council of This entry passed through the peregrinations in the political chief economists to bolster the Full-Text RSS service if this is wilderness and the impulse to quality of economic analysis your content and you're reading it compose a book on that sheltered being conducted and to ensure on someone else's site, please read island of respite, contemplation, that the financial regulators work the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- and prayer that is the Jewish t o g e t h e r t o u n d e r s t a n d t h e only/faq.php#publishers. Five Sabbath. But he himself draws no aggregate effects that financial Filters featured article: A 'Malign such connection, being content regulations are having on the Intellectual Subculture' - George instead with a few tales of how economy. Through a judicial M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , he has coped with the inevitable review mechanism, the bill would Herman, Peterson, Pilger And c o n f l i c t s b e t w e e n t h e requirements of Sabbath ensure that the agencies take their Media Lens. observance and his sometimes new economic analysis urgent legislative responsibilities. requirements seriously. Finally, Mostly, though, he focuses on the BOOK page 72
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State of Endless War

Daniel Greenfield (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:56:25 PM
In his UN speech, Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority used the word peace twenty-eight times. We believe in peace, he said. But what sort of peace he believes in is another matter. Abbas began his statehood campaign with the Mother of Martyrs, a mother of seven imprisoned terrorists, four of them murderers, two of whom were involved in suicide bombings, one of whom was a member of Hamas. One of her sons, Nasser Abu Hmeid, specialized in decapitating fellow Arab-Muslims who were enemies of Fatah. Hmeid had been jailed for murdering nine Arabs, and was released in 1999 as part of a peace deal. He joined the Palestinian police forces as an interrogator and then moved on to the notorious Tanzim unit, which was responsible for numerous murders of Israeli civilians. Two years later, Israel finally arrested him and shoved him back into prison. This is the real face of the proposed Palestinian state. A brutal totalitarian regime funded by US money and dedicated to the
murder of political opponents and the genocide of the Jewish people. Abbas speaks of peace at the UN We extend our hands to the Israeli government and the Israeli people for peace-making but to the home crowd, the message is quite different. On Al-Jazeera, Fatah Central Committee Member Abbas Zaki explained the reasoning: When we say that the settlement should be based upon these borders, President Abbas understands, we understand and everyone knows that the greater goal cannot be accomplished in one go. If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, evacuates the 650,000 settlers, and dismantles the wall
what will become of Israel? It will come to an end. If we say that we want to wipe Israel out its not acceptable policy to say so. Dont say these things to the world. Keep it to yourself. But many of his compatriots arent keeping it to themselves. A recent poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion showed that while Hamas popularity isnt as high as it used to be, the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs agree with its genocidal charter. 80 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: For our struggle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and
grave reinforced by successive battalions from the multifarious Arab and Islamic world, until the enemies are defeated and Allahs victory prevails. 73 percent agreed with the genocidal Hadith quoted in the Hamas charter: The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. While a majority was in favor of diplomatic negotiations, it was also against two states for two peoples. The majority favored a one-state solution that would destroy Israel and opposed a twostate solution that would allow them to coexist side by side. And by a factor of two to one, they agreed with the statement that: The real goal should be to start with two states but then move to it all being one Palestinian state. When three quarters of the population believes that there is a religious mandate to kill the Jews, it follows that two thirds will believe that negotiations are only a means of achieving the destruction of Israel.
Obamacare Has Arrived in the Supreme Court

Hans von Spakovsky (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:00:08 AM
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) stole a march on the Obama Administration this morning by filing a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court appealing the 11th Circuits Obamacare decision. The Department of Justice (DOJ) had announced on Monday that it was not going to ask all 11 judges of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to review en banc the August 12 decision of a threejudge panel of the 11th Circuit that found the individual mandate unconstitutional. This opened up a path to an appeal by DOJ to the Supremes. However, with this petition, the NFIB jumped ahead of Eric Holders slow-moving DOJ ( which until Monday had done everything it could to slow-walk this case filed by 26 states and the NFIB). The NFIB is obviously not appealing the three-judge panels opinion about the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate. But the NFIB is appealing the portion of the panels decision that held that the unconstitutional individual mandate could be severed from the Obamacare legislation. OBAMACARE page 73
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Iranian Navy Coming to a Shore Near You?

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/27/2011 11:55:03 PM
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The top Iranian naval commander is vowing to send the countrys warships into the Atlantic Ocean and, specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. The Iranian navy is no match for the U.S., but Irans move into the Western Hemisphere poses a major asymmetrical threat to the country. Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders, the Iranian state media quoted Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari as saying. He rejected the possibility of a direct hotline between the U.S. and Iran, saying, When we go to the Gulf of Mexico, we will establish direct communication with them. In the view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the illegitimate presence of the U.S. in the Persian Gulf makes no sense.
The Iranian naval chief bragged about the presence of vessels in the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea and the Bab elMandeb. The end goal is to have a naval presence in all open seas, including the Atlantic Ocean. In March, he said the Iranian navy would deploy beyond the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman in 2012. Iran has been aggressively building a presence in the Western Hemisphere. It is allied
to Hugo Chavezs government in Venezuela, where Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have a presence. They are collaborating on their nuclear programs, and Venezuela has agreed to allow Iran to construct a base for medium-range ballistic missiles on the Paraguana Peninsula. Hezbollah is spending $500,000 to set up operations in Cuba. Three operatives have arrived from Mexico, and another
23 are on their way. Hezbollah also has a presence in the TriBorder Area between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, and is working with drug lords in Mexico. It is very conceivable that Iranian warships will be allowed to dock in Venezuela, Cuba or perhaps another Latin American country. The commanders comments show that Iran aspires to be a global power and seeks to directly threaten the U.S. The preamble of the Iranian constitution says the regime is committed to the establishment of a universal holy government and the downfall of all others. A website tied to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei claimed that the U.S. is trying to hijack the Arab Spring and spark a Sunni-Shiite religious war. It said Iran must respond to the Saudi and Bahraini royal families oppression of Shiites. There is indeed a better solution: crush the snakes head (America), the website said.
ultimate meaning of the Sabbath in his own life as an Orthodox Jew and as an American. Though produced with the assistance of David Klinghoffer, a professional writer, The Gift of Rest is quintessentially Lieberman. Conversational, humorous, and at the same time morally serious, it is redolent of the spirit of a witty and well-educated man who has been blessed with a strikingly equable temperament. The book follows in sequence the stages of the Sabbath itself, from prior preparations on Friday afternoon all the way through to the concluding Havdalah service after sunset on Saturday. In each section Lieberman intersperses information about the laws, rituals, and customs pertinent to that aspect of the day with anecdotes about his own habits of celebrating it. Each Friday, for example, he buys flowers for his wife, Hadassah; during the Sabbath itself, he will not so much as wear a watch, lest he be distracted by reminders of the scheduled rigidity of his work week. In a chapter titled Sunrise, Sunset: Intimacy, Human and Divine, he muses suggestively on the traditional injunction that husbands and wives make a point of cohabiting on the Day of Rest. A bit of a how-to manual, the book also has consciously universal implications. At the end of each chapter, Lieberman offers practical hints for how all persons, Jew and Gentile alike, can bring a BOOK page 73
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The NFIB is asking the Court to overrule this holding, since Congress itself deemed [the mandate] essential to the Acts new insurance regulations. Given that the 11th and 6th Circuits have issued directly conflicting final judgments about the facial constitutionality of [Obamacares] mandate, the case is one that the Court should obviously take up given its interest in eliminating conflicting opinions in the courts of appeal. What also differentiates this particular case from the many other lawsuits that have been filed against Obamacare is the all star lineup of Supreme Court litigators that the NFIB and the 26 states have lined up to argue their case before the Supreme Court. It includes Michael Carvin, a former DOJ official who has argued (and
won) numerous cases before the Court; Gregory Katsas, a former DOJ official who was a clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas; Kevin Marshal, another former DOJ official and Thomas clerk; Hashim Mooppan, a former Justice Antonin Scalia clerk; and Randy Barnett, a nationally recognized constitutional scholar and professor at Georgetown. The lawyers for the states include Paul Clement, former Bush Administration Solicitor General; Lee Casey, another former DOJ official who clerked for Alex Kozinski, who is now the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit; and David Rivkin, another Supreme Court litigator with wide experience in the government, including in the White House and the DOJ. The government lawyers in the
DOJs Office of the Solicitor General who will be arguing the constitutionality of Obamacare will have their work cut out for 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.
little more of the Sabbath into their lives. As he writes at the outset, the Sabbath is a gift from God that I want to share with everyone who reads this book, in the hopes that they will grow to love it as much as I do. Lieberman loves it, clearly, for itself alone and because it is a proven pathway to discovering the purpose of life on earth. As a deliberately modest reflection on that pathway, The Gift of Rest is worthy of its subject: a wise, measured, and joyful exercise. A bracing if far less upbeat exercise awaits readers of David Horowitzs A Point in Time. This is the last in a trilogy of brief books on the theme of mortality, his own included, that Horowitz has published in recent years, the
earlier two being The End of Time(2005) and A Cracking of the Heart(2009). The author on display here may seem unrecognizable to followers of the gifted and voluble polemicist who has battled mightily against the pernicious influence of the American Left on American politics and culture. But the same David Horowitz has composed A Point in Time, a deeply thoughtful, at times lyrical meditation that is serious without a hint of solemnity, and quietly but powerfully moving.
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To protect the integrity and independence of their insurance departments, state lawmakers should decline premium review grants. Five states (Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wyoming) have not applied for those grants, and two others (Florida and Oklahoma) have since returned them. The remaining states should also return their grants. In the end, avoiding grants with significant policy strings attached, while important, is only part of the task for state lawmakers
opposed to Obamacare. They should also be pursuing their own agenda of patient-centered, market-based reforms that will constitute the replace part of repeal and replace. Given that the political, judicial, and logistical impediments to implementing Obamacare are actually increasing over time, those alternatives might be needed sooner than anyone expected. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read
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5 Tips for Getting Celebrities Involved With Online Cause Campaigns

Zachary Sniderman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:32:17 AM
The Stars of Social Good Series is supported by CITGO and the Fueling Good Campaign, helping to change the world through contributions to local charities. Its one thing to say that celebrities can help non-profits raise money and awareness. Its another thing to actually call a celebrity like George Clooney or Brangelina and get them onboard. As much as the debate rages for and against celebrities getting mixed up with charities, there is a fine art to getting them involved in the first place. Mashable spoke with two non-profits with an amazing track record of grabbing top talent. Malaria No Mores Comedy Fights Malaria managed to snag dozens of celebs, including jokesters from The Office and musicians like John Mayer. DoSomething.org has had similar success getting a cadre of celebs including Usher, Rihanna, Olympic athletes, Lennox Lewis and more. So howd they do it? Read on for some tips on how to get celebrities involved with your online charitable work and make a difference. 1. Do Your Homework This is one of those tips that everyone knows and nobody does.
Do your homework doesnt just mean figure out who is the most famous celebrity but figuring whom to approach and how to approach them for success. When you reach out, you need to be really specific as to why youre reaching out, says Joel Goldman, Malaria No Mores director of entertainment industry relations (read: celeb guru). For example, Goldman keeps an eye out for any celebrities traveling to Africa whom he could approach about issues surrounding malaria. The best way to reach celebs is still to send emails and place calls to their representatives, but a pitch that clearly explains the goals of the campaign and why that particular celebrity is a great fit have a better chance at success. The more research you do and the more detailed the pitch, the more success youll have. Doing your homework and really knowing the right person for the right campaign is so important, says DoSomething.orgs Editor-In -Chief Betsy Fast. [Celebrities] are just way, way too busy to deal with a request that isnt really suitable. 2. Find New Talents Celebrities come in all shapes and sizes, so reach out to a range of people, from A-listers to Blisters to even hometown heroes who can really evangelize your cause. A lot of times my best
lister, you may not be able to rely on him or her to continue to carry the torch for you. To wit, both Fast and Goldman are putting together a Celebrity Corps for their respective charities. The idea is to have a group of spokespeople that the charity can call on across several genres. By having a mix of athletes, musicians, actors and personalities, the charities can break into an equally large range of demographics to drum up support. 4. Are Celebrities For Everyone? advice is not to go for the obvious So what do you send? Every Having a celebrity sponsor rarely that everyone is sending invites pitch will be different, but both hurts a cause, but the time and to, like George Clooney or Goldman and Fast advocate for energy needed to maintain that Angelina Jolie, Goldman says. I precision and persistence. For relationship can stretch smaller try to find fun people across a every yes I get, I probably got organizations. Celebrities arent a different spectrum. about 10 nos, Its a lot harder necessary part of the non-profit world, even though they can That strategy helped Malaria No than it looks, Goldman says. More bag a ton of top-rate Its important to reach out to a deliver big results. comedians like BJ Novak and Ed l a r g e n u m b e r o f p o t e n t i a l A lot of the decision comes down Helms, instead of just aiming for celebrities, but make sure that to scale and being reasonable with one or two mega-stars like Robin each one will actually fit into your w h o y o u a p p r o a c h . L a r g e Williams. I dont try and campaign. I think press and organizations like Malaria No discount anybody thats trying to donors really see when people just More or DoSomething.org can get involved, Goldman says. sign their name to something as reach for the Ushers and John There are additional benefits to opposed to when theyre really Mayers of the world, but local groups might have just as much, if reaching for new talent, says Fast. committed, Goldman says. Up and coming stars are loyal Its a similar problem for Fast: not more success by finding and more flexible, time-wise. And Its important to be able to back s p o k e s p e o p l e t h a t s p e a k because they have more time, up why a particular celebrity is on specifically to their audience. Its theyre better able to understand it. It could be because the name is not just about celebrities that I [the charity]. They can take so huge and anything that his or like, Fast says. You really have another five minutes to learn her name is associated with does TIPS page 76 about the cause. 3. The Pitch well. But with a super-duper A-
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The New Facebook: How to Take Control of Your Privacy

Sarah Kessler (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:49:56 AM
Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features. And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as theyre consuming media. But to Facebooks credit, it has tread into a new level of sharing with some caution. In many ways, its privacy settings are more accessible. A new private activity log, for instance, allows you to review all past activity in one place to easily hide it from your Facebook Timeline, change the privacy setting on individual stories or delete posts altogether. If youre bothered by some new features, however, it might take a couple of clicks that are less than intuitive to opt out of them. Heres how to avoid three of the new Facebooks potential privacy concerns. Your Friends See What You Watch, Listen to and Read Adding an App to Your Facebook Timeline Whenever an app wants to add updates to your Facebook Timeline, this box will appear. Controlling Who Sees Your
Activity Clicking the people icon next to "This activity is visible to:" lets you control who will see your activity from the app. You can share your activity with the Public, Friends or specific Friend Lists. Custom Privacy Settings for Gestures If you click "Custom", you get more privacy options, including the ability to block certain people from seeing your activity. Only Me Privacy If you feel uncomfortable sharing your activity from the app, you can select "Only Me". This means that your will see your activity from the app on your Timeline, but no one else will. Through partnerships with more than a dozen companies, Facebook has added TV, movies and music. You can, for instance, watch a movie from Netflix or stream a song from Spotify without leaving your News Feed. The Washington Post has also created social reader apps that encourage users to connect with each other around the news from its content partners and discover content from friends. Other publications have built similar experiences. After you connect to any of these apps, however, it will by default publish your activity to friends
do the same for your running habits. This doesnt mean that youre about to get slammed with a ton of notifications from your friends FarmVille games though. Automatic updates will be posted to the news ticker and observable in real time, but the News Feed is still reserved for important events. How you can opt out: The easiest way to control who can see updates from individual apps is the app setting page. Its now more important than ever to read an apps permission news tickers. In some cases, it settings page for apps and edit screen carefully before you will automatically create a box in settings specific to that app. You authorize it, as that permission is your Timeline that outlines the can set the option, Who can see not on an action-by-action basis content youve been consuming. posts and activity from this app? anymore. Weve asked Facebook If youre not ready to announce to either public; friends of friends whether apps that have already that you listen to Justin Bieber on a n d n e t w o r k s ; f r i e n d s a n d been authorized on your profile repeat or just finished an article networks; friends of friends; will need to ask for permission about the top 10 quotes from the friends; specific people; or just before they can start posting season premiere of Gossip Girl, yourself. Apps Can Share Your activity automatically. We will update this article when we hear t h i s m i g h t s t r i k e y o u a s a Activity Without Asking problem. With the new Facebook Open back. Your Default Timeline How you can opt out: While Graph, apps no longer need to ask Makes It Easy to See What a many of these apps have not yet permission each time they post to Dork You Were been released, the good news is your wall. Instead, apps detail When you get the new Facebook, that those that have been released exactly what type of information your Timeline will automatically seem to provide sufficient opt-out will be shared the first time it asks populate. If youve been a longm e c h a n i s m s . W i t h t h e for permission and, after you time user, this means that a whole Washington Posts social reader, a g r e e t o t h e t e r m s , c a n array of past bad hairstyles that for instance, theres a Mark as automatically update your profile. formerly resided on page 30 of Unread button at the end of each Kobos new e-reading app, for your photos are now featured on article that will remove it from all instance, will tell your friends your front page. Since Facebook streams. when youre reading and what NEW page 76 You can also go to Facebooks youre reading. Nike+s app will
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Want to Get Into the Guinness Book of World Records? Play Some iPhone Games
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to understand your target audience and find celebrities that are appealing to them is it appropriate for that shelter in Idaho to be making an ask for Ashton Kutcher? Id say no, but there might be a smaller celebrity that could be so helpful and be Ben Parr (Mashable!) really loyal. 5. Is It Worth It? Celebrity spokespeople are a Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:01:05 AM blessing and a curse: A great Achieving a high score in your relationship can bring in favorite mobile game could soon tremendous results, but a poor earn you a spot in Guinness relationship can also cause undue World Records. headaches and stress. Still, Thanks to a partnership with Goldman and Fast say that their Kiip, a startup that provides realcelebrity ambassadors have world rewards for in-game helped their cause. To me, its achievements, Guinness will kind of sad as a personal begin listing the most talented opinion that we need someone mobile game players in future on [the Ellen DeGeneres Show] to editions of its famous world say something but thats what record book. Every Kiip-enabled our society is. We care about what game will be tracked and has the we care about and what the people potential of becoming a world competition for the popular achieve a world record motivate we see on TV care about, record. Kiip will maintain the iPhone game Mega Jump. The you to play an iPhone or Android Goldman says. But he stays leaderboards that determine the person who achieves the highest game more? Let us know in the optimistic: If you work in a nonworld record holders. profit and want to make a score between September 28 and comments. At Kiip, weve built an entirely October 3 will be placed in the More About: aming, Gaming, difference, celebrities are just a n e w a d m o d e l a r o u n d 2012 Guinness World Records guinness world records, iphone, great tool to do that. Series achievement moments, Kiip 2012 Gamers Edition for The Kiip, mobile gaming Supported by CITGO and the CEO Brian Wong told Mashable. Highest Score Achieved on Mega For more Entertainment NEW As a network, we wanted to find Jump. coverage: continuous ways to accelerate The partnership is a big win for Follow Mashable Entertainment continued from page 75 highlights friends who were growth and to broaden the brand Kiip, whose network of games on Twitter tagged in many of the same of Kiip to be more than just continues to expand. While it was Become a Fan on Facebook r e w a r d s , b u t t o b e s i m p l y nice to win some Pop Chips for Subscribe to the Entertainment photos as you, its likely that your exes will be featured prominently rewarding. We wanted to find the previous in-game achievements, channel ultimate recognition for the having the chance to win a world Download our free apps for too. moments that fuel our network. record will likely take game Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad How to opt out: Its easy to delete individual stories from your A n d w h a t c o u l d b e m o r e engagement to a whole different Timeline by clicking the droprecognizing than a world record. level. down menu in the upper rightTo kick things off, Guiness and Would having the opportunity to hand corner of a box and selecting Kiip are launching a five-day Hide from Timeline. A good
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way to review all of your past information at once is through a view activity tab at the top of the Timeline. This tab is only visible to you and allows you to easily delete or adjust privacy settings for individual stories that have been posted since you began using Facebook. NEW page 77
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Your main privacy setting (public, friends or custom) only applies to new posts. Old posts that were not shared publicly will remain private, but if youve updated your setting from a more public setting to a more private setting, the posts that were created when you used the more public setting are still public. To restrict the visibility of your entire
Timeline in this case, there is a separate setting that you must select. Go to your privacy setting page and select Limit the Audience for Past Posts. More About: Facebook, facebook timeline
Spurs given 'take it or leave it' ultimatum by Boris over stadium plan
Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 6:43:47 AM
Murdoch sued by phone-hacking suspects over 'unfair dismissal'

Tom Harper (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 2:14:13 AM
Two suspects in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal are suing the Murdoch media empire for unfair dismissal, it emerged today. Ian Edmondson, a former assistant editor at the NoW, has lodged a claim against News International at east London employment tribunal. The 43-year-old was sacked in January just as Scotland Yard began a new inquiry into phonehacking at the defunct Sunday tabloid. The disclosure came as it emerged another phone-hacking suspect, Neville Thurlbeck, is also suing News International for unfair dismissal. In July, the
Standard revealed that the former NoW chief reporter was still on the company payroll - three months after he was arrested by Scotland Yard. Now it is understood News International has ended all financial support to both Edmondson and Thurlbeck, which is thought to have triggered the claims. News International chairman James Murdoch is under increasing pressure amid claims he knew of a "smoking gun" email sent to Thurlbeck in 2008 that suggested phone-hacking went beyond a single rogue reporter at the tabloid. The correspondence, dubbed the "For Neville" email, is alleged to be a transcript of a voicemail hacked into by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and
Boris Johnson today issued Tottenham Hotspur with a remarkable "take it or leave it" ultimatum to convince the football club to stay in north London. The Mayor gave Spurs chief Daniel Levy a stark warning that there is "no more money available forwarded to the former chief he was unfairly dismissed because from the public purse" to fund their regeneration plan. reporter by a junior journalist. of his status as a whistleblower. It emerged in a civil action If Thurlbeck wins the case he As the two sides met for crunch brought by football union boss will be entitled to damages. talks, he called on the club's Gordon Taylor which forced the Normal compensation for unfair chairman to accept a 17 million disclosure of documents that dismissals is capped at 68,400. package from City Hall and suggested phone-hacking was A News International spokesman Haringey council and drop a court widespread. refused to comment. The two battle to gain control of the Former NoW editor Colin Myler journalists did not respond to Olympic stadium. Mr Johnson says the money and ex-legal chief Tom Crone calls. both told MPs this month that This entry passed through the offered will allow Spurs to press they informed Mr Murdoch of the Full-Text RSS service if this is ahead with the 400million "For Neville" email when they your content and you're reading it redevelopment of White Hart a d v i s e d h i m t o s a n c t i o n a on someone else's site, please read Lane rather than continue a mammoth confidential settlement the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- judicial review over the 2012 with Mr Taylor. only/faq.php#publishers. Five arena, which has been awarded to Detectives from Operation Filters featured article: A 'Malign West Ham United. Weeting arrested Edmondson and Intellectual Subculture' - George A deal is on the table that will Thurlbeck in April on suspicion M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , mean the Mayor's office will of illegally intercepting voicemail Herman, Peterson, Pilger And p r o v i d e 8 . 5 m i l l i o n f o r regeneration around the new messages. Yesterday, the pair had Media Lens. 56,250-seat stadium development. their bail extended until March. Mr Johnson's senior aides, Sir At an employment tribunal on Edward Lister and Sir Peter Friday, Thurlbeck will argue that SPURS page 78
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Jobless to go to the back of queue for council housing

Laura Roberts and Nicholas Cecil (Evening Standard News)
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by the rules and are responsible, get fair access to housing in this country." In his speech to the Labour Submitted at 9/28/2011 6:32:34 AM Laura Roberts and Nicholas Cecil conference, party leader Ed 28 Sep 2011 Miliband also vowed to end the Unemployed people will be sent "something for nothing culture" to the back of the queue for and wants people who work or council housing under a London volunteer to get priority over scheme set to be copied across the benefit claimants on housing lists. country. Richard Blakeway, Boris Westminster is prioritising those Johnson's housing adviser, said: with jobs as it bids to bring down "The Mayor supports anything its housing benefit bill. Adults which promotes people to get into who have been in work for two work while balancing this with years- or actively seeking a job - the responsibility to help the most will leapfrog those on the dole. vulnerable." The Coalition is The Government immediately imposing new caps of 400 a praised the scheme. Politicians week on housing benefit and of from the three main parties are 26,000 a year on overall benefits warning that the multi-billion- per household, though, this policy pound benefits bill has to be cut. could be weakened slightly. Housing minister Grant Shapps Ministers argue that people living told the Standard: "Hardworking on benefits should not be handed families instinctively know that state payouts allowing them to the 'something for nothing' culture live in homes which working has to end and so it's right that families can only dream of buying councils are able to reflect local or renting. priorities in their housing policy." But housing charities and some With other town halls expected to senior MPs are warning that the follow Westminster's lead, he measures could drive thousands of added: "Local authorities of all families out of central London p o l i t i c a l p e r s u a s i o n s a r e and unfairly penalise people introducing measures to ensure languishing on the dole despite that people who work hard, play wanting to find work.
Condemning the Westminster scheme, Alastair Murray, deputy director for Housing Justice, said: "Our concern is that housing is a basic human right and shouldn't be contingent on someone's capacity to earn a living. "Quite a lot of homeless people do work but the kind of work they are able to do is quite unstable so they may not be eligible. There is a danger of stigmatising people who are already vulnerable." He stressed that some people could be denied council homes because they could not provide the necessary paperwork to show they were working. The two year stipulation for being in work could also prove controversial. Under the Westminster plans, up to 800 people in work, and their families, could benefit while a similar number of unemployed people would be shunted down the waiting list. From January the council will give 50 points when assessing housing list criteria for people who have been in work for more than two years, or at least looking for a job for the same period, or who have been resident in the borough for more than a decade.
This compares with between 200 and 250 points for medical needs and 100 to 300 for being in overcrowded accommodation. Jobless adults, with no children, no medical needs and not in overcrowded accommodation would be put at the bottom of the list. Westminster council's cabinet member for housing and corporate property, Jonathan Glanz, said the scheme "acknowledges and rewards" people who are "contributing to the economy". He added: "Westminster has gone from having 48 per cent of people in social housing not working to 68 per cent. We have got so many people not working that it gives worklessness an attractiveness as a way of life." 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.
Rogers, today met Tottenham chiefs and insiders said there was hope that a deal would be reached. A source close to the negotiations said: "There is an extremely generous deal on the table. This is a sizeable chunk of public money. We cannot understand why the club is dragging its feet if it claims to be committed to the area. "If they don't take it we will start exploring other options and talking to other people." Haringey council would provide a further 8.5 million for improvements around the new ground - meaning the club would be relieved of the "planning gain" requirements that are often associated with large scale developments. The club was last week given official planning permission to go ahead with the project by Haringey, but is still pressing ahead with a court battle over the award of the Olympic Stadium. In a significant intervention Mr Johnson today told the Standard: "Tottenham Hotspur has long been an integral part of the community and by staying true to its roots the club now has the power to revolutionise an area of the capital that has been neglected for far too long. Last month's riots were a telling reminder of just how important it is for Spurs to press ahead with the development at Northumberland Park and to help kick-start a much wider SPURS page 79
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regeneration project that would create jobs and give Tottenham the economic boost it deserves. "The club knows there is no more money available from the public purse and I sincerely hope that they accept the offer we have made. It is not just in the best interests of Tottenham Hotspur and the fans of this great London club, but of the wider north London community. " City Hall and Spurs were extremely close to reaching a settlement with City Hall but it fell through just before last month's High Court hearing at which the club was given permission to launch a full judicial review. That hearing is currently still scheduled for October 18. A Tottenham source said today's meeting "is part of several taking place". Questions and Answers What are Spurs' plans?
The club hopes to build a 56,250seat "silver ring" stadium. Twothirds of the new structure will be built around the old one while matches continue for two years, before games would switch to a pitch in the new, unfinished stadium as work is completed. Why have the parties not been able to reach an agreement? The argument centres on the decision to hand the 2012 Olympic stadium to rivals West Ham after the Games. The Premier League club sought a judicial review after the Olympic Park Legacy Company awarded West Ham preferred bidder status for the 486million stadium this year. Spurs believe a move to the Olympic Stadium would be more affordable than staying in north London. What is Boris Johnson's involvement? Mr Johnson has seemed keen for
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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
were born. And we could actualize "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow Nothing seems to provoke and our planet began to heal," to President Obama more than being quote Democratic presidential challenged by the progressive nominee Barack Obama. and Democratic lawmakers -- that base. Maybe that's why it's a tactic That was 2008. As Keith Harrington, an we needed to let them know in no that works. uncertain terms that we weren't Remember when you believed environmental activist, wrote last going to sit by quietly while they that if we just elected enough month: abandoned campaign promises Democrats to Congress and took Three years ago, I spent a number o n l y t o r e e m e r g e l i k e a n the White House, we could take of weekends going door to door in impulsive suitor come 2012. this country back? We could stop Virginia urging people to vote for Maybe it's because we were tired giving tax breaks to people who our president. In that campaign I of paying the same taxes and not didn't need them so that we would found a sense of pride, a sense of b e i n g a b l e t o p u r s u e o u r have a shot at creating jobs, excitement, a sense of energizing happiness with equal fervor. providing for those in need, and virtue. Maybe it's because for decades we still break even. We could end This weekend, I spent a good had been told by Democrats, g o v e r n m e n t - i n s p i r e d chunk of time training to do civil "Elect us and we'll help you," yet discrimination against people d i s o b e d i e n c e a t P r e s i d e n t because of the way they look, POLITICS page 80 who they love, or where they POLITICS page 79
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we had only seen discriminatory 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 midSeptember. 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 POLITICS page 81
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EPAs greenhouse gas science didnt follow its own peer review procedure, IG says
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greenhouse gases, Inhofe said. This report confirms that the endangerment finding, the very Submitted at 9/28/2011 11:05:28 AM foundation of President Obamas The data process used to arrive at job-destroying regulatory agenda, the administrations determination was rushed, biased and flawed. It that greenhouse gases endanger calls the scientific integrity of the public health and welfare EPAs decision-making process violated the Environmental into question and undermines the Protection Agencys own peer credibility of the endangerment review procedure, a new report finding. from the EPA Office of the Inhofe lambasted the EPA for its Inspector General reveals. failure to adhere to its own rules, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), outsourcing the science to the ranking member of the Senate UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Committee on Environment and Climate Change and refusing Public Works, requested this to conduct its own analysis of the report in April, asking that the science in the period leading OIG determine whether the EPA up to its final endangerment followed key federal and Agency finding. regulations and policies in The endangerment finding is no developing and reviewing the small matter: Global warming technical data used to make and regulations imposed by the support its greenhouse gases Obama-EPA under the Clean Air endangerment finding. Now, Act will cost American consumers Inhofe is calling for a series of $300 to $400 billion a year, hearings to further investigate the significantly raise energy prices, IGs findings. and destroy hundreds of The Daily Callers Caroline May, thousands of jobs. This is not to with more: mention the absurd result that I appreciate the inspector general EPA will need to hire 230,000 c o n d u c t i n g a t h o r o u g h additional employees and spend investigation into the Obama- an additional $21 billion to E P A s h a n d l i n g o f t h e implement its [green house gas] e n d a n g e r m e n t f i n d i n g f o r regime. And all of this economic
problem of a demoralized base." 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 pain is for nothing: As EPA creation may be too appealing, as Administrator [Lisa] Jackson also evidenced by Obama's recent a d m i t t e d b e f o r e t h e retreat on new air pollution Environmental and Public Works] s t a n d a r d s p r o p o s e d b y t h e committee, these regulations will E n v i r o n m e n t a l P r o t e c t i o n have no effect on the climate. Agency. But the activists' task is You know what doesnt cost to keep him focused on the consumers billions of dollars each pipeline's long-term consequences year, raise energy prices or -- for the planet, for his redestroy hundreds of thousands of election campaign, and ultimately jobs? Yep, you guessed it for his legacy. drilling for natural gas. Just ask Now some progressives may find t h e P e n n s y l v a n i a n s w h o v e it a disheartening realization that benefited from all the activity politicians -- even progressive surrounding the Marcellus Shale. ones -- rarely if ever stand on Yet the GOP has the rep as the principle. In fact, Obama's anti-science party? Ill never smashing electoral success in understand it. 2008 was partly tied to his ability P.S. You know that big building to convince people that he would. pictured in the thumbnail to this But politicians are inevitably post? HQ of the EPA? I cant help politicians. They drop anchor in but wonder how its heated the safe harbor of the status quo This entry passed through the and are not easily loosed. That is Full-Text RSS service if this is exactly why activists are such a your content and you're reading it necessary and indispensable part on someone else's site, please read of the political system. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentAt the very moment that a only/faq.php#publishers. Five promising politician gets elected, Filters featured article: A 'Malign a true activist's work has only just Intellectual Subculture' - George begun. And it seems to me that M o n b i o t S m e a r s C h o m s k y , advocates across the progressive Herman, Peterson, Pilger And s p e c t r u m a r e i n c r e a s i n g l y Media Lens. 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.
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Axelrod slams GOP candidates

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Submitted at 9/28/2011 10:25:08 AM
Richly ironic: Yesterday in New Hampshire, David Axelrod criticized the economic proposals of the current GOP candidates as tired, saying they are based on the same principles that caused the countrys economic troubles in the first place. This isnt new wine and old bottles, Axelrod said. This is old wine and old bottles. Old wine and old bottles? And he wasnt talking about Obamas jobs plan? Since when did stimulus spending become a new and innovative solution to a down economy? But Axelrod didnt stop there. In an interview with the Associated Press, he took direct aim at frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. National Journal reports: He criticized Perry for flaunting his record in Texas while the state has the highest rate of uninsured residents and some of the worst schools in the country, and
Romney for attempting to define himself as an outsider. I dont know how you define a professional politician, but running for office off and on for two decades seems to qualify, Axelrod said. Axelrod should be a little more careful: His comments only call to mind all the experience Obama still lacks namely, in the private sector. Mitt Romney might not be quite the outsider he portrays himself as, but hes turned a few bucks for profit. Axelrod claims he knows Obamas reelection will be an uphill battle he said it would be a titanic struggle but not even that magnitudinous phrase captures the full extent of the challenge in front of the incumbent. We have the wind in our face because the American people have the wind in their faces, Axelrod said. So this is going to be a titanic struggle. But I firmly believe were on the right side of the struggle. What he doesnt understand is that, to many Americans, the
administration is the wind in our faces. No wonder Generic Republican repeatedly beats Obama in hypothetical poll match -ups. Once the GOP coalesces around its candidate no matter who it is that Republicans momentum will really mount. And if every criticism Obamas team lobs at his opponent can be turned around on him, he wont be able to weaken the GOP nominee much at all. Its time for some new wine and some new bottles and that means change. It swept Obama into office and it could sweep him out. 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.
FBI informant smuggled Fast & Furious guns across border

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 9:45:58 AM
The more Congress looks into the ATFs Operation Fast and Furious, the more embarrassing it gets. The ATF launched OF&F to track how guns got across the border to Mexico. As it turns out, all they needed to do was ask the FBI and the DEA: An FBI/DEA confidential informant helped smuggle firearms from the ATFs Fast and Furious gun-trafficking surveillance operation to drug cartels in Mexico, according to evidence compiled by congressional investigators. The investigators said the informant obtained the weapons from Manuel Celis-Acosta, considered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to be the biggest fish of 20 individuals indicted in Fast and Furious. At the same time the informant was receiving large amounts of official law enforcement funds as payment for his services, they said. Congressional investigators believe the informant was working with U.S. law enforcement over a two-year period, beginning in early 2009, and often contacted DEA agents such as Jim Roberts, the resident
agent-in-charge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to pass on information to these agents about Mexican drug cartels. The revelations were contained in a letter Tuesday from Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, to Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. They contend that had the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration told the ATF about the informant, Fast and Furious would have been shut down much earlier. If this botched operation hadnt created such deadly havoc, it would be hilarious. The ATF is tasked with stopping illegal gun sales, so of course they generate thousands of illegal gun sales in order to stop more of them. The FBI and the DEA want to stop cartel business across the southern border, so of course they have an informant who facilitates it. And when it turns out that the FBI/ DEA plant is moving the very weapons that the ATF was supposed to be tracking, no one in any of the agencies apparently knows what the other agencies are doing. Is this a government operation, or FBI page 83
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what? Maybe the best change we can make to stop illegal gun sales and keep them from flowing over the border is to disband the ATF. 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
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Amazon Kindle (2011) impressions

Brian Heater (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:35:00 PM
Price was one of the reoccurring themes at today's Amazon event in New York City, and nowhere was that factor more present than with the new Kindle. At $79, this truly is an entry level device, and certainly the company made some sacrifices to hit that price point -most obviously, the reader doesn't have the touchscreen featured in both the Kindle Touch and the latest Nook and Kobo devices -though like those products, the Kindle did lose its physical
keyboard, giving it a much smaller footprint than the last generation. In place of the infrared touchscreen are a series of buttons: Home, Menu, Keyboard and Back. In the middle is a toggle button that lets the user scroll through menus -- that activity can be performed pretty quickly with the physical buttons, and flipping through pages is not problem with the familiar page buttons on either side of the screen. Where one really misses the presence of touch, however, is with the on-screen keyboard -typing is performed by clicking
one's way through the virtual keyboard, a familiar task for anyone who has ever entered their name at the beginning of a video game with a console controller.
Of course, typing is a secondary task on a device like this, so for many users this may well not be a deal-breaker. For those who foresee the need for such
functionality, however, $20 will buy you an upgrade to the Kindle Touch. Gallery: Kindle 2011 impressions Continue reading Amazon Kindle (2011) impressions Amazon Kindle (2011) impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments
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Amazon Kindle Touch impressions (video)

Brian Heater (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/28/2011 12:10:00 PM
One of the three major devices launched at today's Amazon event, the Kindle Touch is aimed firmly at the latest touchscreen Nook and Kobo devices. Like those readers, the new Kindle is based around an infrared touchscreen, in the place of a physical keyboard, making the device a good deal smaller than the Kindle 3. The touchscreen is
fairly responsive, and the thing flips through pages quickly with a swipe or a tap, refreshing about once every six pages or so, a rate about on-par with that of its chief competition. A task like performing a search on the other hand, requires a much larger screen refresh -- still, activities like these and typing are performed quite quickly for an EInk device. The search function itself is rather precise, letting the user locate instances of things like
character names throughout a text. In all, it looks as though Amazon has produced a worthy competitor to the space-leading touch devices
-- and the $99 / $149 price tags for the WiFi and 3G versions certainly don't hurt. Check out a video of the device after the
break. Gallery: Kindle Touch impressions Continue reading Amazon Kindle Touch impressions (video) Amazon Kindle Touch impressions (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| | Email this| Comments

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