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Dan Whitcomb (Front Row Meg’s agenda, and this is just Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM
Washington) the latest example.”
Submitted at 7/28/2010 3:19:49 PM Whitman, a billionaire who is
largely funding her own
Dipping and
In 2010 a candidate would be ill campaign and outspending Deflating
-advised to ignore the Internet, Brown, has already made an (AEI.Org: Articles)
especially if he or she wants to aggressive early push for Latino
Submitted at 7/28/2010 6:00:00 PM
reach younger voters who aren’t voters, making surprising
paying attention to more inroads with a traditionally Sorry, Readability was unable
traditional campaigns — or, Democratic constituency. Now to parse this page for content.
even worse, are tuning out it appears she’s going after Five Filters featured
politics entirely. another: young voters. article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
And Republican Meg Whitman, “Meg is targeting many an Easy Ride in the
the former eBay CEO who different constituencies in Independent. Available tools:
is running for California California and younger voters PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
governor against Democrat are part of that,” Pompei said. Term Extraction.
Jerry Brown, certainly isn’t the
Pompei says the first polling ad Whitman will address it in a “The number one issue facing
first candidate to advertise on
went live last night, popping up v i d e o t a p e d s p e e c h t o t h e young voters, like a lot of
Facebook in hopes of tapping Californians, is jobs, and Meg’s
on the Facebook pages of F a c e b o o k a u d i e n c e .
into its nearly 500 million users.
Californians over 18 and asking “The Facebook ads play an priority is getting them back to
But Whitman’s campaign says
t h e m t o c h o o s e o n e o f important role in our strategy to work.”
she has become the first political
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candidate to use “polling ads”
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on Facebook — or spots that
cutting state spending or fixing c a m p a i g n , ” P o m p e i s a i d . speaks to supporters in June
engage users, asking them to
education. “We’re using these innovative after winning the Republican
decide which issues they want to
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hear the candidate address.
a b o u t a w e e k , s h e s a i d , groundswell of support for
Campaign spokeswoman Sarah
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Washington Extra – Immigration and more

Simon Denyer (Front Row the salad green at upmarket the spill in the Gulf should be For more of John Crawley’s
Washington) store Whole Foods to an offended by what has been story, click here.
Submitted at 7/28/2010 4:51:38 PM audience of Iowa farmers. Nor presented,” said Republican IMF split in China yuan
does this match John Kerry’s Senator Lisa Murkowski. exchange rate debate
A v i c t o r y f o r t h e ridiculed attempt to order Swiss For more of this story by The IMF has softened its
administration, but another c h e e s e w i t h h i s P h i l l y Richard Cowan, click here. criticism of China’s currency
pyrrhic one? cheesesteak in 2003. Senator calls for probe of BP regime in recognition of
A judge in Phoenix blocked key Obama, let’s not forget, took tax plans Beijing’s efforts to free up its
parts of Arizona’s immigration R u s s i a n P r e s i d e n t D m i t r y A senator from Florida called exchange rate but the move
law just hours before it was to M e d v e d e v t o A r l i n g t o n for a congressional inquiry into showed a split among the
take effect today, supporting a institution Ray’s Hell Burger in BP Plc’s plan to use losses from Fund’s member countries. A
legal challenge from the Justice June, and he did at least take his the Gulf oil spill to reap $10 summary of an annual review of
Department. The decision is sub today “with everything” billion in tax benefits. Senator China’s policies described the
l i k e l y t o b o o s t O b a m a ’ s because he heard that “is the Bill Nelson said he wants a yuan as “undervalued,” a change
standing among Hispanics, who way to go.” Given his wife’s probe into whether BP, which from “substantially
have been disenchanted by his public campaign against obesity, announced on Tuesday a $32 undervalued,” which was used
failure to keep his promises on maybe this was one compromise billion charge linked to the clean by International Monetary Fund
immigration reform. But just the president was right to make. and leaves, and they come back -up, will be deducting legal chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn
like the president’s victories on Here are our top stories from bushier than ever. But let oil get e x p e n s e s r e l a t e d t o as recently as June.
healthcare and financial reform, today: into their roots and underground n o n d e d u c t i b l e f i n e s a n d For more of this story by Alan
this looks like another triumph Key parts of Arizona anti- reproductive systems, and they penalties, and whether BP Wheatley and Lesley
which may take some selling to immigration law blocked can wither and die. If the grasses should deduct the full cost of its Wroughton, click here.
the American public. Not only A judge blocked key parts of go, they could take parts of $20 billion clean up fund. Senate panel backs Yellen,
will Obama’s Republican and A r i z o n a ’ s t o u g h n e w Louisiana’s fragile wetlands For the full story by Kim Raskin, Diamond for Fed
Tea Party foes be further immigration law hours before it w i t h t h e m , w h i c h m e a n s Dixon, click here. The Senate Banking Committee
energized, but opinion polls was to take effect, handing a thousands of acres of productive Aviation bill prospects dim in approved the nomination of
show Arizona’s law was v i c t o r y t o t h e O b a m a and protective marsh could turn Congress three new members to the
supported by most Americans. administration as it tries to take into open water. Prospects that Congress would Federal Reserve’s board,
Elsewhere, New Jerseyites in control over the issue. To read Deborah Zabarenko’s enact a measure to overhaul including Janet Yellen for vice
t h e n e w s r o o m w e r e For more of this story by Tim special report from the Gulf, aviation programs dimmed chairman, clearing the way for a
disappointed today that Obama Gaynor, click here. click here. significantly as the House of final vote by the whole Senate.
only ordered half a Super Sub at For Steve Holland’s analysis, New Senate energy bill draws Representatives moved to attach If the nominees, which also
Tastee’s famous sandwich shop click here. wide criticism critical safety provisions to include Maryland regulator
in Edison. “When I was 20, I For key provisions of Judge R e p u b l i c a n s a n d s o m e separate, must-pass spending Sarah Raskin and MIT professor
could order a 12-inch,” the Susan Bolton’s decision, click moderate Democrats in the legislation. The action, by Peter Diamond, are approved by
president said. “I’m turning 49 here. Senate began picking apart a T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m m i t t e e the full Senate as expected, it
next week, which means just a Watching grass grow in the new energy bill that they Chairman James Oberstar and would bring the central bank’s
half.” Gulf, and cheering! complained goes too far in a v i a t i o n s u b c o m m i t t e e board up to full strength — with
But I am reassured by my Marsh grasses are the tough h o l d i n g o i l c o m p a n i e s Chairman Jerry Costello, all seven members in place —
colleagues this is not another guys of the plant world. Left responsible for accidents like signaled that negotiators remain for the first time since early
arugula moment, when Obama alone, they dominate coastal the massive Gulf of Mexico deadlocked on other proposals 2006.
was called elitist for marshes from Texas to spill. “I think people who are in the larger bill, with time to WASHINGTON page 3
complaining about the price of Newfoundland. Burn their stems very serious about responding to act dwindling.
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To read Pedro Nicolaci da
Costa’s story, click here. For
brief profiles on the nominees,
click here, and some questions
and answers on the confirmation
process, click here.
US durable goods orders fall,
business spending up
New orders for manufactured
goods like cars and planes fell
unexpectedly for a second
straight month in June, posting
the largest drop since August, in
a sign economic recovery
cooled in the second quarter.
For the full story by Lucia
Mutikani, click here.
Democrats tie Republicans to
Tea Party agenda
With memories of last year’s
bitter town hall meetings still
fresh, Democrats vowed to go
on the offense during the August
congressional recess and
aggressively link Republicans
with the conservative Tea Party
movement. Democratic leaders
said the Republican Party had
Obama settles for half a sub
Patricia Zengerle (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 7/28/2010 4:13:50 PM
Can half a super sub really be
considered super? And when is
half a loaf better than the
whole?
These questions came to
mind when President Barack
Obama visited a New Jersey
moved out of the mainstream to
adopt Tea Party goals like
privatizing the Social Security
retirement program, extending
tax breaks for the rich and
abolishing some federal
agencies.
To read more of this story by
John Whitesides, click here.
Advisory panel backs
AstraZeneca blood thinner merit
Advisers urged approval of a
potential blockbuster blood
thinner from AstraZeneca, a
victory for a company seeking
new drugs to offset expiring
patents on some of its older
medicines.
For the full story by Lisa
Richwine, click here.
What we are blogging today…
Lawmakers wonder, where did
our love go? with Turkey
It almost sounded as if U.S.
lawmakers felt jilted by
Washington’s long-time NATO
ally Turkey. “How do we get
Turkey back?” demanded
sandwich shop and showed
restraint by ordering half a super
sub — although he did ask
for everything on it saying he
had heard that “is the way to
go.”
“When I was 20, I could order a
12-inch. I’m turning 49 next
week, which means just a half,”
Obama said.
(Sounds like someone’s feeling
Representative Gary Ackerman
at a House Foreign Affairs
Committee hearing exploring
“Turkey’s New Foreign Policy
Direction.”
For the full blog by Susan
Cornwell, click here.
And some stories from
elsewhere in the country…
Voters favor better looking
candidates
Campaign managers and
strategists are often given credit
for a political candidate’s
election victory, but stylists and
image consultants should
receive the praise, according to
new research. A study by
political scientists at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) shows that
good looks boost a contender’s
chances at the polls in the
United States and other
countries.
Researchers use Twitter tweets
to measure moods
Twitter is for more than just
his age a bit, but he still has a
year before the BIG ONE).
Reviews on the Internet say the
Headline/ Economy/
tweeting. Using millions of
Twitter messages, or tweets,
from the popular social
networking site, researchers at
Northeastern University in
Boston have created a Twitter
Mood Map to measure the
moods of the nation. People are
happiest in the morning and in
the evening, with happiness
peaking on Sunday morning and
dipping Thursday night, they
found.
For the full story, click here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
Photo credit: Reuters/Henry
Romero (demonstrators
protesting Arizona immigration
law)
Super Sub with everything and
the tuna with provolone are the
star items on the menu at Tastee
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Kansas City Fed
Sees Pick Up In
Manufacturing
Calculated Risk (Money
Game)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:10:41 PM
Note: Usually I don't post all
the regional manufacturing
surveys, however with the
inventory adjustment over,
export growth appearing to
slow, and domestic consumer
demand sluggish, these surveys
might provide a hint of
weakness in the manufacturing
sector.
From the Kansas City Fed:
Tenth District manufacturing
activity rebounded moderately
in July
Read the whole post at
Calculated Risk >
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Sub Shop.
We’re wondering whether
POTUS would have been toast
at home if he had ordered the
full super sub, given his wife’s
public campaign to fight against
obesity…
Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin
Lamarque (Obama orders
sandwich)
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Even Obama didn’t make the cut for Isis Pharmaceuticals

Chelsea’s wedding (ISIS): Profits in the
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington) Human Genome
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:00:46 PM
Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks)
Friends of Bill and Hillary
Clinton who didn’t get invited to Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM

daughter Chelsea’s wedding

now have something to take the
sting off.
President Barack Obama didn’t
get invited either (and the
mother of the bride is a member
of his Cabinet).
Barbara Walters asked him
bluntly on ABC’s “The View”
whether he was invited to the
wedding of the year.
“I was not invited because I
think that Hillary and Bill
properly want to keep this as a
thing for Chelsea and her soon-
to-be husband,” Obama said.
And guess what? No one’s
getting an invitation to the
Obama daughters’ weddings
either (they’re 12 and 9 right
now). “I’m letting you guys
know now, you all probably will
not be invited to Malia’s
wedding or Sasha’s.”
Have boys entered the picture
yet? “Thankfully, NO,” Obama
says quite firmly.
The latest news is that the FAA
has declared a no-fly zone
over the Rhinebeck, N.Y., area
for a “VIP” from 3 p.m.
Saturday until 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Obama joked that if he were
attending the wedding, the
security would have been a
nightmare for the guests.
“I am not going and I have to
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The 15 Metro Areas With The Highest Foreclosure Rates

Isabelle Schafer (Money study released today by Nevada and Arizona. See who
Game) RealtyTrac, an online made the top of the list this
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:24:24 PM marketplace of foreclosure time. Click here to see the cities
properties. The company named >
Three-quarters of the big U.S. unemployment as one of the key Join the conversation about this
metro areas have increased their reasons for the increase. story »
foreclosures activities in the first The study ranks the top metro foreclosure rates. Most of them
half of 2010, according to a a r e a s i n t e r m s o f t h e i r are in Florida, California,
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The Future
Amazon Reveals
LooksSleeker,
Great For
Faster
the Ethanol
Kindle and
Boondoggle
New $140 Wi-Fi-
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(Business Insider)
wasteful pork, because Iowa has
an early primary, giving it an
outsized influence in selecting
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:17:17 PM

Company) presidential candidates, and has

(This guest post comes courtesy two crucial Senate seats as well.
of The Mad
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6 Business/
DoSomething Winner Returns to Save His Stricken Hometown
Emilie Luse (Fast Company)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:22:13 PM
After he graduated,
development major Mark
Rembert applied for the Peace
Corps, thinking he could help
developing countries strengthen
their communities. But when
his hometown's largest
employer shut its doors,
Rembert found that rural Ohio
needed him most.
DoSomething, headed by Fast
Company columnist Nancy
Lublin, has recognized five
young social entrepreneurs with
$10,000 grants--and one with a
prize of $100,000. Fast
Company will profile one of
these enterprising youth each
day this week. Click here to read
the other winners' stories.
Getting into the Peace Corps is
no small matter. The application
process is arduous, and has
become more competitive. In
the fall of 2008, the Peace
Corps said yes to Ohio native
and recent Haverford College
graduate Mark Rembert. Then
23, the activist and economic-
development major was looking
forward to traveling to Ecuador,
where he would pursue field
work helping rural villages with
asset-development. But news
from his native Ohio sent him in
a totally different direction.
That November, Rembert read
that DHL, the largest employer
in his hometown of Wilmington,
in rural Clinton County, was
shutting down. An estimated
8,200 residents in Clinton
County would soon lose their
jobs.
Instead of flying to Ecuador,
Rembert went home. "When
your community has 18%
unemployment, its hard to
justify going to [Latin America]
to help out," Rembert says. In
Wilmington, he found Taylor
Stuckert, another would-be
Peace Corps recruit, and
together, they started Energize
Clinton County (ECC), a not-for
-profit devoted to creating
green jobs, investing in
sustainable energy, and
marketing local industries and
businesses. His initiative earned
him a $10,000 Do Something
award, money that he says will
be plowed back into the
community.
With ECC, Rembert and
Stuckert are doing the same
thing they would have in the
Peace Corps: They have helped
a rural community take
advantage of resources it
already had. Though Clinton
County had been buoyed for
years by the massive DHL
facility, Rembert saw that his
region had many other strengths
it had previously ignored,
including a charming
downtown, an abundance of
farmland, and the benefit of
Ohio's tax incentives for green
businesses.
Forming a group of town
leaders charged with
understanding the red tape for
green industries, ECC
designated Wilmington a Green
Enterprise Zone, the first of its
kind in the nation. The move -
part marketing strategy and part
zoning ordinance-has helped
Wilmington secure Energy
Efficiency and Conservation
Block Grants from the federal
government's Recovery and
Reinvestment Act. These in turn
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have served to attract private
capital from solar energy
companies in his small town.
Part of Rembert's job is simply
to understand how
Wilmington's utilities work, to
make the job easier for
investors, he says: "We spend a
lot of time working with
utilities, so that when [solar]
companies come to town we can
tell them where to go."
Recently, ECC's efforts landed
Clinton County a Purchase
Power Agreement with Gaia
Energy USA to install solar
panels on the county jail. Gaia
will provide more than $300,000
in capital investment to install
65 kilowatts of panels. Once
installed, the panels could help
the county save more than
$25,000 a year on energy costs.
Meanwhile a project is being
seriously explored to make
poetic use of the abandoned
DHL facility by installing solar
farms on its roofs, while another
will use farmland in the county
for utility scale solar fields. If
successful, the later would
count as one of the largest solar
power sources east of the
Mississippi.
To spur green-job creation
through construction, ECC has
also focused on retrofitting
buildings. The organization
solicited help from a professor
at nearby Dayton University to
supply line-by-line energy
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No, You Shouldn't Wait To Start Using Social Media For Your
Business
Lisa Barone (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:05:00 PM
Earlier this week Forrester and
AdAge combined to give you
some really bad advice. I’m here
to make sure you don’t listen.
And to encourage you to do the
opposite.
On Monday AdAge commented
on the recent Forrester survey
that found just 4 percent of US
online adults have used location
based mobile applications, with
84 percent of respondents
saying they were unaware such
apps ever existed. Forrester
analyst Melissa Parrish declared
(and followed up) that, unless
you’re targeting affluent men
between the ages of 19 and 35,
you don’t belong on
FourSquare. You should forgo
all testing on location-based
marketing applications and wait
for them to gain more share.
Now, please take your club and
head back into your cave.
If it’s okay with the kind folks
at Forrester and AdAge, I’ll stay
exactly where I am. Thanks.
The numbers behind Forrester’s
study aren’t particularly
shocking. Yes, they’re currently
very low. I’d expect them to be
low. We’re talking about new
platforms that marketers aren’t
sure how to use just yet. But as a
marketer you should be able to
Business/ 7
cut through the hype to find the first method, you have time to
potential opportunity. Right now tweak and get back in the game.
is your chance to get into the If you wait, you may miss your
location-based marketing game chance altogether.
before it becomes overcrowded What bothered me about the
and filled with elbows. AdAge article wasn’t that they
Because it doesn’t matter what were encouraging marketers to
we’re talking about – if you sit hold back on location-based
back early on and wait for the marketing. It was that it
ship to fill up, don’t be surprised reemphasizes the mindset that
when that ship leaves your ass at it’s okay to sit on your hands
the dock. and wait.
I’m not going to lie, it seems • You can wait to start that
absolutely ridiculous to me that blog.
anyone in this space would • You can wait to create your
advise marketers take a “sit and Web site.
wait” approach to any new • You can wait to get involved
marketing application. It in social media, to build that
ludicrous that an analyst at a email campaign, to start your
never know what’s going to be • What opportunities could be
respected company would business.
the next Twitter. You never available in 3 months time? 6
decide to ignore an area being
know what’s going to pop. The months?
populated by vocal trendsetters. No, you can’t. Not if you’re
only defense you have is to • How are other brands trying
Wasn’t it the same early adopter trying to be successful.
claim your space and figure out to find success…how could that
demographic that started using Sitting back and waiting is
the game before everyone else be applicable to what you do?
Twitter 3-4 years ago? Hell, rarely the right approach to
does. • What is the cost of waiting?
wasn’t that the same anything, regardless of whether
No one would advise moving Why are you waiting? [Fear of
demographic that was first on we’re talking about business,
your entire budget over to ‘doing it wrong’ is not a reason]
the Web? How much would you finding a spouse or losing
location-based apps like
pay to go back and have hopped weight. The earlier you get in,
FourSquare, but if you plan on It’s completely possible that
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8 Business/ Culture/
Zynga, Playdom Have Got To Be Praying The
Feds Legalize Online Gambling
Nick Saint (Business Insider)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:10:00 PM
It looks more and more as if the
United States will pull the plug
on its ill-advised ban of online
gambling later this year. This
morning, the House Financial
Services Committee voted 41-22
in favor of a measure that would
regulate, but legalize online
poker and some other forms of
gambling.
It's an obvious move for the
federal government, which
could make money from taxing
the activity, and can't hope to
prevent it anyway. It would be a
huge win for online poker sites
that had their businesses
devastated by the 2006 ban.
Another, less obvious winner
from a repeal: social gaming
companies.
Zynga's Texas HoldEm [sic]
Poker is the most successful
Facebook game not named
FarmVille, and it's far from the
only gambling themed game on
the platform. Just today,
Playdom, fresh of its acquisition
by Disney, announced a branded
Genome Surprise: Guinea Pigs Have Ebola!
Brandon Keim (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM
Sorry, Readability was unable
poker game with World Series
of Poker.
Obviously, these games are
played with play money for
now, but a source close to
Zynga tells us the company is
keeping an eye on the
legislation, and that it would be
excited to move into real-money
poker given the opportunity.
Indeed, social gaming
companies would be crazy not
to take a look at this. The real
to parse this page for content.
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Facebook won't comment,
telling us that it's "too early to
speculate or get caught up in
hypotheticals." We think
Facebook could find a way to
keep gambling tucked away
without compromising its image
too much, and that the potential
revenue would be too great to
ignore.
But if Facebook does decide to
keep this activity off its site, it
will no doubt find itself in a
fight with developers that makes
the row over Credits look like a
minor scuffle. And it will be a
big opportunity for other social
gaming platforms.
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Facebook maintains a much
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more wholesome image than its
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Pandora Isn't
Worried About
Super-Hyped Spotify
William Wei (Business Insider)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:13:39 PM
Pandora founder Tim
Westergren isn't worried about
competition and that Spotify is
coming to America in the near
future.
"The average American spends
20 hours a week on it – listening
to music. Historically, about 3
of that is spent on music that
you own; so, on-demand let's
call it. And about 17 of it is
spent listening to radio," he
says.
Westergren thinks Spotify falls
into the 3 hour on-demand
category while Pandora helps
make up the 17 hours of radio
listening.
Watch the founder and Chief
Strategy Officer of Pandora talk
about the future of his company
and how music consumption
will change.
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Seventh Generation's Jeffrey Hollender Explains Why He's
Working With Walmart
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:30:26 PM
Earlier this week we discussed
the recent announcement that
Seventh Generation is teaming
up with Walmart in a strategic
partnership that will see the
green cleaning brand sell
products in 1,500 Walmart
stores. It's the most unlikely of
alliances, considering that
Seventh Generation's co-founder
has said in the past that "hell
would freeze over before
Seventh Generation would ever
do business with Walmart." But
at the same time, the partnership
has been a long time coming,
Jeffrey Hollender explains to
FastCompany.com.
"They aren't the same company
they were when I said what I
said," Hollender concedes. "I'm
the first one to admit that I was
naive in thinking it was
impossible for them to change."
Hollender's thinking has slowly
changed since meeting with
former Walmart CEO Lee Scott
in 2005. At the time, Walmart
was "fundamentally unwilling to
engage in dialogue with its
critics." But thanks to guidance
from Seventh Generation and a
slew of other organizations,
Walmart has slowly come
around--and in many cases, it
has bested its competitors in the
sustainability arena.
"I think that the fact that we
were as persistent for so many
years being engaged with
helping [Walmart] become more
sustainable helped contribute to
positive change, which led to us
reexamining and ultimately
changing our perspective,"
Hollender says.
Walmart still has a long way to
go, of course. The company's
Business/ 9
Sustainability Consortium is a
start, but Hollender has plenty
of other ideas on his wish list. "I
think there are huge
opportunities for them to push
companies to not include
chemicals that are proven to be
unsafe," Hollender says.
Walmart could also stand to
improve its abysmal labor
practices.
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DOSOMETHING
continued from page 6

audits on town buildings. The
service is key to helping
businesses and public works
invest in retrofitting, which
saves money and creates
construction jobs. "Since you
can't see energy and you can't
see the money leaving your
building, it's really difficult to
convince people to invest [in
retrofitting]," Rembert says.
"When we're armed with data,
it has a huge impact."
ECC has also designed an easy-
to use and professional-looking
online portal that promotes 170
locally owned businesses and
sends out a weekly e-mail
newsletter read by 1,000 people
every week. Thanks to a
renewed involvement, the
downtown commerce area has
been completely tranformed.
"When we were growing up,
downtown was dead. We went
to the strip, to Walmart-that's
where everyone was. Now
everyone wants to
downtown," says Rembert.
be
He senses that young American
designers, economists, and
urban planners have shown a
renewed interest in rural areas,
where projects are easier to
initiate and have a much larger
impact than in dense and highly
regulated city centers. His own
ECC is a remarkable case study
of development and planning
skills, which he intended for use
in third world countries, at
work domestically. "We ended
up realizing that a lot of the
principles used in the Peace
Corps-community asset based-
development-were what was
need in Wilmington."
His epiphany and his
subsequent follow-through
earned him not just the $10,000
prize but also a trophy given to
him live on VH1 by none other
than Megan Fox, who grew up
in eastern Tennessee. "I think
she's really passionate about
rural America," Rembert says.
Always on-message, he
believes he was especially lucky
to have been paired with the
actress-for exposure's sake: "We
have no doubt," he says, "that
our video has been viewed
many, many times."
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Educate Others Will Perez: Med
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Medicine” in Rural Haiti
Genzyme Lifted By
Takeover Speculation
Brent Archer (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM
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could make a formal takeover STARS (out of 5) buy ranking.
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How Oakland's Walmart-ization of Weed Could
Choke Out Small-Time Growers
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:35:30 PM
The closer marijuana comes to
full legalization status in
California, the more likely it is
that the plant will be treated like
any other crop--that is, as an
industrial cash cow that often
squeezes out small farmers. And
the marijuana industrialization
process is, in fact, already
beginning. Oakland, California,
became the first city this week
to allow large-scale industrial
marijuana cultivation.
As a result of the new policy,
four lucky Oakland marijuana
entrepreneurs will be allowed to
build growing facilities
measuring up to 100,000 square
feet--as long as they agree to
pay a $5,000 permit fee, a
$211,000 regulatory fee, and an
8% gross sales tax.
Locals are already jumping at
the opportunity. Jeff Wilcox,
one of the 192 applicants for the
newly minted permits, envisions
his seven-acre plot of land near
the Oakland waterfront
SEVENTH
continued from page 9
But as Hollender explains, the
Walmart of today is hardly
recognizable compared to the
Walmart of, say, 2006. "Our
conclusion is that they are doing
transformed into a pot growing
powerhouse. Wilcox was one of
the biggest proponents for the
new legislation, but there are
still no guarantees that he'll get
one of the permits. If he gets
one of the contracts, which are
set to be doled out in January
2011, crops could be ready for
harvesting as early as next June,
according to the San Francisco
Bay Guardian. Wilcox estimates
that his facility could produce
21,100 pounds of marijuana and
more than most. When we see a
potential partner exhibit the
amount of change that they've
exhibited over the past three
years or so, it warrants you to
$60 million in gross sales
annually.
Four growing facilities may not
force small growers to the
sidelines, but what happens
when the legislation inevitably
expands to include more
marijuana factories? Entire
California counties that rely on
marijuana cultivation for income
could be hit hard. In a recent
interview with SF Weekly, one
Mendocino county sheriff
acknowledges that the county
reevaluate your position."
Ariel Schwartz can be reached
on Twitter or by email.
Business/ 11
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continued from page 7
you’ll never do or accomplish
anything. It’s always too soon to
know for sure and not even the
most respected analysts can feed
you the right answers. You have
to do your research and decide
when it’s time to jump by
yourself.
What do you want to do that
you’re waiting on? What are
you waiting for?
Have a comment? Participate in
the discussion here.
Lisa Barone is the Chief
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12 Business/ Economy/
X Prize Foundation Unveils $1.4 Million Oil
Cleanup X Challenge
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:52:30 PM
The X Prize Foundation first
announced plans for a million
dollar oil spill X Challenge last
month. Today, the foundation
revealed the details of the $1.4
million Oil Cleanup X
Challenge, which asks entrants
to clean up the Gulf oil disaster.
It's a "flash prize", according to
Peter Diamandis, Founder &
Chairman of the X PRIZE
Foundation. That means entrants
need to work quickly, for
obvious reasons.
The competition, which is
The World's Richest Man Just Bought A $44
Million NYC Townhouse
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:10:03 PM
Carlos Slim was revealed as the
mystery man who paid $44
million for the Duke Semans
mansion at 1009 Fifth Ave --
right across from the Met -- on
Tuesday. That means the
World's Richest Man is moving
to New York, at least for a few
days a week.
Slim's new home is a 1901
beaux arts mansion, owned by
the Duke tobacco dynasty until
funded entirely by Wendy
Schmidt of the Schmidt Marine
Science Research Institute, will
offer $1 million to the first place
winner, $300,000 to the second
place idea, and $100,000 to the
2006 when it was purchased by
self-made fertilizer baron Tamir
Sapir. It features a doctor's
office in the basement, 12
bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, and 11
the best ideas will be built and
tested in a head-to-head
competition at the National Oil
Spill Response Research &
Renewable Energy Test Facility
(OHMSETT) in Leonardo, New
Jersey.
The winning idea won't just be
kept in a lab--the X Prize
Foundation is working with
companies like Shell to bring
solutions to the marketplace,
and fast. Check out the video
third place winner. Entrants will below for more details about the
be judged on a number of upcoming prize, and preregister
f a c t o r s , i n c l u d i n g c o s t , your X Challenge team here.
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scalability, oil recovery rate, and Ariel Schwartz can be reached
efficiency. Scaled versions of on Twitter or by email.
beaux arts trimming on the
walls.
But don't think this means
Manhattan real estate is soaring
back. Slim was able to knock $6
million off the asking price. And
it is definitely not the most
expensive home in the city. That
honor might belong to Phil
Falcone. Check out the most
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This Is The Only
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Watch On Why The
U.S. Is Just Like Japan
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:15:00 PM
Richard Koo has previously
warned about America
experiencing the Japanese
scenario. He's outlined how
what the United States is
experiencing is no different than
Japan's lost decade.
It is all about companies paying
down debt, rather than spending.
Even though they are getting
this cash for free from the
government, they are choosing
to deleverage rather than spend.
Individuals are making similar
decisions and it is forcing the
macro economy to remain very
slow moving.
This video of Koo explaining
this reality is vital viewing for
anyone trying to come to grips
with our deflationary reality.
From the Institute for New
Economic Thinking:
Check out Richard Koo's
awesome presentation on why
we're just like Japan >
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Valero Energy: Stock's
Lack of Progress Is a
Concern
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: Valero Energy
(VLO), Stocks to Buy The
shares of independent refiner
Valero Energy ( VLO), first
discussed here on April 20,
2009 at a price of $20.08,
continue to frustrate investors.
Refinery margins, which were
squeezed during 2008-2009, due
to the loss of more than 8
million jobs from the U.S.
economy -- many of those being
vehicle owners -- have started to
recover. Even so, the market has
not worked this new reality into
Valero's stock price yet.
Continue reading Valero
Top 5 Cleaning Tips
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM
Unless you're naturally a very
tidy person, it can be tough to
stay on top of all the little
cleaning tasks around your
home. A little procrastination,
and clutter takes over -- and
getting things back to their
original, spotless state can
quickly become an
overwhelming job. But with a
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ELCA Presiding Bishop Calls for
Immigration Reform in Letter to
Obama
(The Christian Post RSS Feed immigration reform.” become citizens, increase border
| Society) As part of the resolution, the security, and impose stricter
Submitted at 7/28/2010 10:52:45 PM denomination committed itself surveillance and laws against
to reuniting families and employers hiring illegal
On the heels of a global integrating the marginalized, immigrants.
Lutheran gathering focused on protecting the rights of people at Three-quarters of the Senate’s
the alleviation of hunger, the w o r k , a n d s u p p o r t i n g t h e Republicans, however, ended up
head of the Evangelical establishment of just and voting to kill the bill, which fell
E n e r g y : S t o c k ' s L a c k o f Lutheran Church in America humane enforcement, among 14 votes short of the 60 needed
Progress Is a Concern reiterated to President Obama other commitments. to limit debate and move it
Valero Energy: Stock's Lack of his denomination’s call for Lutherans believe that toward final passage.
Progress Is a Concern originally immigration reform. hospitality is a central value, Republican opponents
appeared on BloggingStocks on If Congress does not pass explained Hanson in his letter to denounced the bill as providing
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:00 EST. comprehensive immigration the president Tuesday. amnesty for the country’s illegal
Please see our terms for use of reform soon, state legislators However, while ELCA has a immigrants.
feeds. Permalink| Email this| and local governments will “robust commitment to effective In his letter, Hanson said his
Comments continue to take immigration advocacy," Hanson recognized denomination would continue to
Valero Energy Corporation- policy into their own hands, the “devastating consequences call for a comprehensive reform
BloggingStocks- Business- wrote ELCA Presiding Bishop o f a b r o k e n i m m i g r a t i o n of America's immigration
Valero Energy- Investing the Rev. Mark S. Hanson in a system” that the nation will have system while striving with
letter dated Tuesday, the last to continue to deal with without others to model and promote
day of the 11th Assembly of the a significant change in U.S. civil discourse on these and
w i d e r L u t h e r a n W o r l d immigration policy.
Federation. In his letter, Hanson told
other issues.
"We are a hopeful church and
few minutes every day (and "This would create an untenable Obama that a bi-partisan bill is we are committed to working
maybe a little help from your patchwork of differing local possible "based on efforts [of] for a better future for people
family) you can keep dirt and laws and produce confusion for only a few years ago." who migrate and for our
dust away, making your home a law enforcement officials and Back around the summer of country," he wrote.
more enjoyable place to live. lawfully present people, as well 2 0 0 7 , u n d e r t h e B u s h With 4.6 million members, the
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Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered

(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Environment Minister Jim history of a crew of 60 men who abandoning the Investigator.
Submitted at 7/28/2010 8:24:21 PM Prentice said the British had to overwinter three times in The graves of three sailors
government has been notified the Arctic not knowing if they thought to have died of scurvy
TORONTO – Canadian that one of their naval were going to survive." have been marked off and will
archeologists have found a ship shipwrecks has been discovered, The Parks Canada team arrived be left undisturbed, said Bernier. Markets Find Footing,
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Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks that he was in the final leg of the ship had eventually sunk. the surface and all legal steps
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archaeology, said the HMS across North America. Investigator was found. remains protected. scare from earlier has passed.
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Faith Leaders Protest Arizona Immigration Law
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Some religious leaders from
Arizona and elsewhere are
coordinating nationwide protests
against the state’s new
immigration law, which takes
effect Thursday.(Photo: AP
Images / Eric Risberg)
Demonstators blocking Seventh
Street are surrounded by police
during an immigration reform
protest outside a federal
building in San Francisco,
Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
Beginning with a prayer vigil at
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in
Phoenix early Thursday
morning, faith leaders are
organizing prayers and rallies
into the weekend to denounce
SB1070 and call on Congress to
pass comprehensive
immigration reform.
“People are living in fear, afraid
to go to work and church, or to
leave their home at all,” said the
Rev. Trina Zelle, director of the
Arizona Interfaith Alliance for
Worker Justice and a
Presbyterian minister, to
reporters on Wednesday.
“SB1070 is dehumanizing and
violates our human rights,” said
Zelle, who helped lead Thursday
morning’s Phoenix prayer vigil.
“I believe it grieves God.”
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
signed SB1070, the toughest law
against illegal immigrants in the
nation, in April.
The most controversial part of
the law is allowing police
officers to stop and interrogate
people suspected of being illegal
immigrants. Opponents of the
law argue the policy would
promote racial profiling and
open the door to human rights
violations.
“As a Muslim, I can personally
attest to the destructive nature
on racial profiling on my
community,” said Hussam
Ayloush, executive director of
the Southern California Council
on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR), on Wednesday. “I
refuse to see this unjust and un-
American practice in the form of
SB1070. It is an ill-advised and
extremely ineffective way to fix
the country’s broken
immigration system.”
For now, at least, authorities
cannot question people’s
immigration status based on
suspicion. U.S. District Judge
Susan Bolton issued a
preliminary injunction
Wednesday that blocked several
of the law’s most controversial
provisions, including: allowing
the warrantless arrest of a
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decision is the beginning of a
lengthy legal battle that will
have “tremendous” impact
nationwide.
Gov. Brewer and Arizona State
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solicit or to perform work. and finally settle this problem." on Rise of the Apes with the
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conservative Christian legal s o m e o f t h e p r o v i s i o n s – the action, James was spotted
group, said the federal judge’s i n c l u d i n g t h e s o - c a l l e d taking a rest and catching up on
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E-reader News Edition
Special Report: A Mississippi Yankee in BP's battered court
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:36:38 PM
BP Managing Director Bob
Dudley poses for the media
outside BP's headquarters in
London July 27, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville
By Nick Carey and Matthew
Bigg
HATTIESBURG| Thu Jul 29,
2010 2:36pm EDT
HATTIESBURG Mississippi
(Reuters) - Bob Dudley is not
one to wear his disappointment
on his sleeve.
Even as a kid, "Bobby" as he
was then known "was
completely unflappable,"
remembers Charles Brent,
Dudley's hometown friend in
southern Mississippi in the
1960s.
If he tried out for a sports team
and got cut, he kept his
emotions in check. "Nothing got
him upset," said Brent, now a
neurosurgeon. "He was often on
the bad end of an injustice --
where someone was selected
instead of him. I never saw him
get angry or raise his voice. Or
disappointed."
Nearly four decades later Bob,
no longer Bobby, displayed a
similar lack of chagrin when
Tony Hayward was selected to
become chief executive of oil
behemoth BP Plc in 2007, even
though many deemed Dudley
well qualified to replace
outgoing boss John Browne.
"When Tony was appointed
CEO, he was humble, still
happy to serve the company as
he could," said Dr. Angel
Cabrera, president of the
Thunderbird School of Global
Management, a friend of
Dudley's. "There was no
acrimony between them."
"He's not the stereotypical
aggressive, know-it all CEO
type of guy," Cabrera added.
"He's a humble man."
Battered by months of blunders
and mishaps that began with the
April 20 explosion aboard its
Macondo well in the Gulf of
Mexico that killed 11 workers
and caused America's worst ever
offshore oil spill, BP said this
week Dudley would replace the
much-ridiculed Hayward in
October.
Supremely calm under pressure.
Approachable. Down to earth.
Well liked, even by those who
should by rights be his enemies.
He is also no stranger to hostile
environments, having butted
heads with an angry Russian
government while running a BP
joint venture in that country.
And, crucially, he's American -
one who often swam in the Gulf
as a child, according to Brent.
His parents kept a boat in
Biloxi, Mississippi.
BP is one of Britain's largest
firms, but has 40 percent of its
assets, 25 percent of its oil
production and 40 percent of its
shareholders in the United
States.
Of course, the company insists
that nationality was not an issue
in Dudley's selection. "Bob was
not appointed because he is
American, he was appointed
because he was the best
candidate," a spokesman said.
But oil analysts like Fadel
Gheit of Oppenheimer & Co say
that just as being an American
handicapped Dudley three years
ago, it has now played in his
favor with a company eager to
repair its badly tar-balled
reputation in the United States.
"Now, being an American, he's
the clear choice," Gheit said.
So far, residents of the Gulf
seem to have warmed to Dudley
-- who was brought into run
cleanup operations in mid-June
after a number of image-
damaging gaffes by Hayward, a
Brit.
"Hayward was inept at public
relations and speaking to people
in southern Louisiana," said
Richard Angelico, 66, of
Orleans Parish, Louisiana. "I
have not met Dudley but when I
see Dudley speak, he seems to
be a decent man. I think people
would be more comfortable with
someone running BP that is
from the Deep South."
But local boy or not -- Dudley
was actually born in New York
in 1956 -- BP's CEO-in-waiting
has a long list of challenges
ahead: the oil major must
permanently seal the Macondo
well, continue to clean up the
Gulf, deal with an unfriendly
Congress and the Obama
administration, plus fight off
more than 300 oil spill-related
lawsuits.
"Dudley's honeymoon period
will be over very quickly," said
Andrew Neff, a senior energy
analyst at IHS Energy. "If BP
doesn't kill that well officially
within the next two weeks,
people are going to get very,
very annoyed."
Dudley told National Public
Radio this week that as early as
Monday or Tuesday the well
"might be killed."
"There's no precision, there's
nothing guaranteed. I'm hopeful
and I do believe we've seen the
end of oil flowing into the
Gulf," he said.
Others say that what Dudley,
BP's senior management and
board of directors must do is
overhaul the firm's business on
many levels to convince an
angry public -- not to mention
policymakers and shareholders -
- that the company is finally
serious about avoiding future
disasters of this kind.
"What BP must show now is
leadership, not management,"
said Richard Torrenzano, CEO
of strategic communications
firm the Torrenzano Group.
"Bob Dudley needs to go down
to the Gulf as CEO and spell out
very clearly what he intends to
do differently."
WILD MAN OF THE WOODS
Hattiesburg today is the main
city in southern Mississippi, and
is nicknamed "Hub City"
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because it sits on a main road
and rail intersection.
A city of some 50,000 with the
sleepy air of many southern
towns, Hattiesburg boasts a
main street that combines
expansive plantation
architecture and more modern
buildings. Residents say the
railroad tracks running through
the town mark a significant
social dividing line.
Bedford Woods, the
neighborhood where Dudley
spent his formative years, is a
series of quiet streets with one
or two storey houses surrounded
by green gardens. The area was
a middle class and white
bastion.
Brent said their fathers both
taught science at nearby
University of Southern
Mississippi. They both swam
backstroke on a local team and
belonged to the boy scouts.
Their parents were also friends.
Dudley's father was a military
veteran and, according to Brent,
the son inherited his sense of
self-discipline from him.
After school, the pair chased
snakes in the woods but unlike
many southern families their
parents did not teach them how
to hunt.
Some others recall there was
little remarkable about Dudley.
"He was not a very memorable
fellow," said Robert Tatum, who
swam on the same swim team as
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Dudley and is now CEO of the
Tatum Development Corp,
based in the city.
But Brent describes a boy with
a well-developed sense of
humor. At a scout camp in a
forest south of Hattiesburg,
Brent said the two made Dudley
a costume to look like a
mythical, child-snatching "Wild
Man of the Woods."
One night, as Brent recounted
the Wild Man legend to younger
scouts around a campfire,
Dudley suddenly emerged in
costume from the woods and
tried to snatch one of the scouts.
For nights afterward the other
scouts were terrified, said Brent.
"He was always good for a
practical joke but there was
never anything malicious about
it," he recalled. "He would never
pick on someone. He was the
moral compass for our group."
Brent said they kept in touch
when Dudley moved away to
Illinois where he attended high
school, but they lost contact
when Dudley joined oil firm
Amoco Corp as a junior
executive.
Joel Johnson, now a general
civil practice attorney in
Hattiesburg, was also on the
swim team -- the Hub Fins --
and described Dudley as a
"natural built swimmer," tall for
his age, with a very slender
build.
Johnson remembers Dudley
being academically gifted but
humble. "He was a chess player
in a checkers playing town,"
Johnson said. "He didn't lord it
over anyone but he was
certainly very smart. If he's half
a good a person now as he was
when he was a kid growing up,
we are all going to be in good
shape."
Dudley grew up during the civil
rights era, a time of social
turmoil in Mississippi and
across the South. The white
supremacist Ku Klux Klan
murdered three civil right
workers in Mississippi's
Neshoba County in 1964, an
attack that shocked the country.
And in 1966, the Klan
firebombed the home of civil
rights leader, Vernon Dahmer,
just north of Hattiesburg.
Dahmer returned fire to hold off
the attackers while his family
escaped but he died in the blaze.
The killing sent shockwaves
through the city, according to
Bo Morgan, a young person in
Hattiesburg at the time. "The
civil rights movement and the
race issue changed everything,"
said Morgan, now a professor of
history at the University of
Southern Mississippi. "Most
people in the (black and white)
community were non-
combatants, going about their
business gawking at what was
going on but not active,"
Morgan said.
Brent said he and Dudley were
only dimly aware of events
swirling around them. But they
were at Thames Middle School
at the very start of its
desegregation, according to
Carroll Russell, the principal of
the school's elementary section
at that time.
"We didn't have any violence.
We had a period of adjustment,"
Russell said.
Brent said Dudley was
insulated from the conservatism
of the era because he was not a
native southerner and his
parents were part of an
academic enclave at the
university that was more
progressive in terms of politics,
race and religion.
FROM RUSSIA WITH
THREATS
Dudley joined Amoco in 1979
and prior to its takeover by BP
in 1998 his work took him to
Asia and to Moscow in the mid-
1990s.
As a BP executive, Dudley
returned to Russia in 2003
where he served as CEO of the
company's Russian joint venture
TNK-BP until 2008.
IHS' Neff said that the billions
of dollars in investments Dudley
oversaw while at the helm of
TNK-BP to upgrade outdated
refineries and boost production
were part of a long-term strategy
that is still paying off.
"To Dudley's credit, he
revamped and restructured TNK
-BP," he said. "The full effect of
that strategy has yet to be felt.
Some day, someone else will
take the credit for that success,
but the groundwork was laid by
Dudley."
It was also while in Russia,
however, that Dudley was
caught up in a nasty battle with
shareholders that would
eventually threaten his personal
safety.
The dispute erupted in the
summer of 2008 when four
Russia-connected billionaire co-
owners in TNK-BP -- Mikhail
Fridman, Viktor Vekselberg,
German Khan and Len
Blavatnik - accused BP of
seizing operational control at
TNK-BP and said they wanted
to fire Dudley because he was
siding with BP instead of
defending the interests of all
shareholders.
The oligarchs said they were
particularly unhappy about BP
slowing down TNK-BP's
expansion abroad and accused
Dudley of preferential treatment
of BP's secondees at TNK-BP.
BP and Dudley in turn accused
these Russian co-owners of
using political connections and
administrative pressure to
deprive foreign employees
including Dudley of their
Russian visas and oust them
from the country.
Though the exchange was
unpleasant, one of the oligarchs,
Fridman, appeared to harbor no
ill will toward Dudley. "If you
ask me about him as a person,
he (Dudley) is just a great guy,"
Fridman told Reuters during the
conflict.
The oligarch was much less
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complementary about BP's
headquarters and the new CEO,
Hayward. "There is a good
English word - arrogance ... we
have sensed this kind of
condescension for a long time,"
he said back then.
Dudley was forced to flee
Russia in 2008, and the
oligarchs and BP ultimately
clinched an amicable deal a few
months later. The agreement
was seen by most analysts as a
major victory for the oligarchs
as BP surrendered operational
and management control of the
venture.
"The fact that Dudley was an
American and relations between
the U.S. and Russia weren't that
great (in 2008) contributed, I
think, to his being forced to
leave the country," said Neff.
For a few months after he left
Russia, sources within BP said,
Dudley was forced to keep on
the move for his own personal
safety.
Dudley's wife Mary set up a
charity fund to help disabled
Russian orphans in 1998, called
Diema's Dream (
www.diemasdream.com). She
has continued with her charity
work despite her husband's
flight from the country.
Earlier this week, Russia's top
energy official Igor Sechin said
he welcome Dudley's
appointment as BP's CEO,
saying he valued him as a top
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BP spill cases head to court as Shell counts cost

(Reuters: Top News) court, or courts, should oversee a new one. said. Analysts say the Colombia affected by oil, according to the
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:12:23 PM hundreds of spill-related suits by ASSET SALES business is worth $1.5 billion to latest U.S. government reports.
injured rig workers, fishermen, Reporting second-quarter $2 billion. Environmentalists have said it
Drill ships and response vessels investors and property owners. profits -- which doubled from a RELIEF ON THE WAY could be years before some Gulf
work in the Gulf of Mexico off Potentially adding its name to year ago -- Dutch-based Shell Incoming Chief Executive Bob beaches are declared free of
the Louisiana coast line while the line of claimants, Royal said it expected to take another Dudley said BP would stay toxic pollutants.
attempting to drill relief wells at Dutch Shell Plc idled seven rigs charge related to the drilling involved with the cleanup long The spill has caused nearly 10
the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and took a $56 million charge moratorium in the third quarter, after the well was finally times as many beach-closing
wellhead July 27, 2010. related to the drilling ban on although in some cases rig plugged, expressing optimism and public health advisories this
Credit: Reuters/Sean Gardner Thursday. Saying the ban would owners such as Transocean and the environment would recover. year than last, the Washington-
By Quentin Webb and Tom reduce its production by almost Noble Corp were bearing the "It is possible that as early as based Natural Resources
Hals 3 million barrels this year, the lion's share of the costs. Monday or Tuesday this well Defense Council said on
LONDON/WILMINGTON| company did not rule out BP, which has created a $20 might be killed," he told Wednesday.
Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:12pm EDT reclaiming the cash from BP. billion fund to compensate National Public Radio on BP, whose stock has lost about
LONDON/WILMINGTON Shell, one of the biggest oil companies and individuals Wednesday. 40 percent of its market value
Delaware (Reuters) - The tide of p r o d u c e r s i n t h e G u l f o f affected by the spill, declined "There's no precision, there's since the blast, gained 1.4
lawsuits unleashed by BP's oil Mexico, said it had idled rigs comment on compensating Shell nothing guaranteed. I'm hopeful percent in London by about
spill in the Gulf of Mexico r a t h e r t h a n m o v e t h e m although executives at the and I do believe we've seen the 1400 GMT.
breaks into an Idaho courtroom elsewhere because the ban's six- London-based group believe it end of oil flowing into the (Additional reporting by Tom
o n T h u r s d a y , j u s t a s t h e month duration meant it was not is not liable for damages Gulf," he added. Brown in Miami; Quentin Webb
company's rivals are counting profitable to redeploy them to resulting from the ban. Early next week BP will start in London and Joseph Chaney in
the cost of a ban on offshore other areas. Like BP, Shell said it was its latest effort to plug the Hong Kong; Writing by Michael
drilling. The environmental havoc seeking to sell assets -- but in gusher, called a "static kill", Shields; editing by Sara
Attorneys hoping to lead the wreaked by the explosion that Shell's case these would come pumping drilling-mud and Ledwith)
legal fight against BP are set to killed 11 workers could take as an exit from low-margin cement into the well. By mid- Jul 29, 2010 8:04am EDT
descend on Boise, Idaho, to years to reverse. The worst businesses. BP is seeking the August, it should have If Dudley could seal this dang
address a special judicial panel offshore oil spill in U.S. history funds to help pay spill costs. completed a relief well to thing up for good in his first
considering how to bring order has wrecked the Gulf's fishing Planning to hive off $30 billion intercept the ruptured one, week….that would bode well
to the hundreds of civil lawsuits and tourism industries. of assets, BP pushed ahead to which it hopes will be the for BP stock
spawned by the spill after a rig A temporary cap has halted the sell assets in Vietnam, Colombia ultimate solution for the leak. Jul 29, 2010 11:10am EDT
explosion on April 20. gusher a mile below the sea's and Venezuela. It agreed a $7 Although the flow of oil has As usual, the parasites
"There will be more lawyers in surface while crews try to plug billion sale of oil and gas fields been stopped for about two (lawyers) are the only true
that courtroom than exist in the the well for good next week. to Apache Corp last week and weeks, experts say the clean-up winners in this case.
e n t i r e c i t y o f B o i s e p u t The disaster has posed a huge has hired advisers to sell assets operation will take months. The The gov. should put in place a
together," Mark Lanier, a challenge for U.S. President in Colombia and Vietnam, major oil slicks appear to have court that looks at the merits of
Houston-based lawyer who B a r a c k O b a m a , w h o s e according to separate sources. dispersed and experts are each case (most will be
plans to attend the hearing, administration has tried to halt Russia's TNK-BP, of which BP analyzing the extent of pollution groundless i suspect, else they
joked this week. "It's going to be deep-sea oil drilling until the owns half, said it was in the sea. will have gone via the claims
a circus. causes of the BP spill are clear. considering buying BP's An area of nearly 60,000 square process), and limit the
Seven U.S. federal judges will A U.S. court overturned a six- Venezuelan assets. miles (150,000 sq km) of Gulf compensation lawyers get from
convene more than 2,000 miles month moratorium imposed BP hired Barclays Capital to of Mexico waters is closed to this. No lawyer should be paid
from the Gulf's oil-smudged a f t e r t h e s p i l l b u t t h e sell its Colombian assets, two fishing and more than 600 miles SPILL page 23
shores to consider which U.S. government is fighting to instate people familiar with the matter of coastline in four U.S. states is
20 News Wire/
Weakened Arizona immigrant rules still draw protests
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:12:58 PM
A Honduran migrant waits for a
train in Tultitlan, state of
Mexico on his way to the border
with the United States July 28,
2010.
Credit: Reuters/Eliana Aponte
By Carolina Madrid and Tim
Gaynor
PHOENIX| Thu Jul 29, 2010
3:12pm EDT
PHOENIX(Reuters) - Police
arrested at least 30 protesters
who took to the streets of
Phoenix on Thursday after
Arizona adopted a new
immigration law, even though
its most intrusive provisions had
already been blocked by a U.S.
court.
Hispanic and labor activists,
delighted by Wednesday's last
minute ruling, pushed ahead
with protests in central Phoenix,
chanting, banging drums and
blocking a street to challenge
the law's remaining measures
aimed at illegal immigrants.
Tensions over the law inflamed
a national debate over
immigration, which has festered
for decades and promises to play
into the elections in November,
when President Barack Obama's
Democrats are fighting to retain
control of Congress.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
was expected to file an appeal to
the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco later
in the day to reinstate the
provisions, heralding a long
legal fight that is expected to
reach the Supreme Court.
Analysts said the ruling by a
U.S. District Court judge on
Wednesday would "at least hit
the pause button" for as many as
20 other states around the
country where Republican
lawmakers are considering
similar rules to those in the
Arizona law.
"If the Supreme Court upholds
the injunction that will most
likely put a real damper on any
potential legislation," said Mark
Jones, a political scientist at
Rice University in Texas.
The Republican-controlled state
legislature passed the law three
months ago to try to drive nearly
half a million illegal immigrants
out of Arizona, and stem the
flow of human and drug
smugglers over the border from
Mexico
In a victory for Obama, who is
trying to reassert federal
authority over the issue, a U.S.
District Court judge on
Wednesday granted an
injunction against the most
controversial elements, which
had drawn wide popular support
in this state bordering Mexico.
The blocked provisions
included one that required a
police officer to determine the
immigration status of a person
detained or arrested if the officer
believed they were not in the
country legally.
HAVE TO CARRY
DOCUMENTS
Immigrants would also have
been required to carry their
documents at all times and
undocumented workers would
have been forbidden to solicit
work in public.
Measures not subject to the
stay, and which went into effect
on Thursday, included offenses
making it illegal for drivers to
pick up day laborers from the
street and to transport or harbor
an illegal immigrant.
The law is popular with a
majority of Americans and 65
percent of Arizona voters,
although opponents charge it is
unconstitutional and would lead
to discrimination against
Latinos, and Latino-looking
Americans.
Late on Wednesday, the U.S.
House of Representatives
approved a $701 million
package aimed at bolstering
security along the U.S. border
with Mexico, funds Obama
sought earlier in the year as the
fight in Arizona over illegal
immigration grew.
The money, which includes
$208 million for 1,200
additional border patrol agents
deployed to the southwest
border, must still be approved
by the Senate and it was not
clear if that would happen
before the chamber's summer
recess that begins late next
week.
Several hundred activists rallied
in central Phoenix, blocking the
street outside a sheriff's office.
A group also obstructed the
entrance to a jail in the city
center, to protest the remaining
measures in the law, known as
SB 1070.
A Reuters witness saw police
arrest more than 30 activists,
including elderly women. The
protesters offered no resistance
and police led them away in
plastic handcuffs.
"MORE TOOLS FOR COPS"
"We welcome the fact that the
judge blocked some of the
provisions in SB 1070 but ... we
are continuing action to overturn
the rest of the law, " said Pablo
Alvarado, executive director of
the National Day Laborer
Organizing Network.
"Today is going to be worse that
yesterday because there will be
more laws on the books, more
tools for cops," he said.
Scores of day laborers set out to
seek work at informal day labor
sites in Phoenix, despite the new
provision making it illegal for
drivers to stop for them.
"We're not criminals, we're not
hurting anyone ... We wish
people would know that," said
Franco Escamilla, an
undocumented laborer from
Mexico said as he waited
outside a Home Depot store in
Phoenix.
A sheriff known for his tough
approach to illegal immigrants
in the Phoenix area, said he
would push ahead with a crime
and immigration sweep as
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planned on Thursday.
"It's business as usual for this
sheriff's office," Maricopa
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
(Writing by Tim Gaynor;
Additional reporting by David
Schwartz in Phoenix and Jeremy
Pelofsky in Washington; Editing
by David Storey)
Jul 29, 2010 12:12am EDT
Following the thinking of this
judge and the US Attorney, we
citizens of the United States
should no longer be required to
carry our driver’s licenses while
driving. If the government will
not require legal or illegal aliens
to carry identification, then how
can the government reasonably
require that of citizens?
Jul 29, 2010 12:29am EDT
“The number of requests that
will emanate from Arizona as a
result of determining the status
of every arrestee is likely to
impermissibly burden federal
resources and redirect federal
agencies away from the
priorities they have established,”
Apparently doing what is right
depends on how hard it is to do.
Thank god our Service
Members don’t have this same
point of view.
Jul 29, 2010 12:32am EDT
Today the Federal Court “shot
Down” part of Arizona’s new
State Immigration law. The part
that the Feds say is “profiling”.
Do not make me laugh. OK If a
police officers pulls over a car
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professional with vast
experience in Russia.
"We have developed good and
warm relations during his time
in Russia. He knows the Russian
market well," Sechin, who is
infamous among the Russian
media for making sarcastic
comments, said through a
spokesman.
In June, Sechin shocked BP
hours before a meeting with
Hayward by telling reporters he
knew the CEO would resign and
was keen to hear the name of his
successor.
'SPINE OF STEEL'
Interviews with colleagues in
Russia and elsewhere show
Dudley is held in high regard
within the company.
"He was an extremely fair and
friendly person who didn't have
favorites or made someone feel
like a pariah," said one former
colleague, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
"In 2007, when rumors emerged
that he was competing with
Hayward for the CEO job at BP,
people really freaked out. No
one wanted him to leave," said
another.
A former colleague in London
said that Dudley "has a spine of
steel," adding: "People have no
idea the pressure he was under
in Russia. It was extraordinarily
difficult,"
With his thinning, grey-blonde
hair and calm manner, Dudley
seems a little older than his 54
years. On a conference call with
reporters after his appointment
to the post of CEO this week,
his demeanor was described
personable and unrushed.
But Oppenheimer & Co's Gheit
says it would be a mistake to
confuse good manners with
weakness. "He has a mild
manner and nice smile, but he's
a tough guy," he said. "He's not
a pushover. He stood up to the
Kremlin and the Russian
government, head to head.
Finally they had to take his visa
away."
'THE GANG THAT
COULDN'T SHOOT
STRAIGHT'
By the time Dudley was
brought in to take charge of BP's
Gulf of Mexico cleanup
operations, Hayward's handling
of the crisis had come under
sustained, withering fire.
It was not just that the company
had consistently underestimated
the flow of oil in the sea-- up to
60,000 barrels per day until the
well was capped on July 15. But
it also kept raising its estimate.
On May 14, Dudley, at that
point BP's director for the
Americas, contributed to that
process when he told MSNBC
that a figure of 5,000 barrels per
day was "a good estimate" and
that calculations of up to 70,000
bpd were "scaremongering."
It became clear with time that
Hayward and the company's
handling of the spill, combined
with the fact BP was officially a
foreign company -- regardless of
who actually owned the stock --
had left the oil giant in a public
relations quagmire that only got
worse.
"There was some ill advised
xenophobia and a lack of
understanding here about what
BP was trying to do," Neff said.
"But there was a series of
mistakes made by BP along the
way."
Strategic communications
expert Torrenzano described the
management of BP as having
lurched from one fiasco to
another. "Talk about a gang that
couldn't shoot straight," he said.
Hayward helped compound the
damage to BP's reputation with
a remark saying he wanted his
"life back," which was received
poorly by relatives of those who
died in the April 20 explosion
and those in the fishing and
tourism industries on the Gulf
whose livelihoods had been
destroyed.
"It kind of infuriated me when
he said he wanted to get his life
back to normal," said Clifford
Montecino, 66, a resident of
Marrero, Louisiana. "What
about our lives? We're not
getting them back."
Hayward further exacerbated
the problem when he was seen
taking time off from leading
efforts to seal the well to go
sailing.
As the public mood soured,
U.S. politicians began referring
to the company as British
Petroleum, a name BP ceased
using a decade ago. BP came
under increasing pressure to
make a change in its executive
suite. John Hofmeister, former
president of Royal Dutch Shell's
U.S. operations and author of
"Why We Hate the Oil
Companies," said Hayward's
ouster was inevitable, given the
seriousness of the spill.
"The fact that he was in the
chair at the time, it was his
company, on his watch, that
committed this great offense and
tragedy," he said. "That just
wears very thin on a company's
credibility."
"There has to be a response, and
the response is generally a new
person to take it from there."
In a conference call on July 27,
Hayward told reporters it was
"not possible for the company to
move on in the United States
with me remaining as the face to
BP."
'PEOPLE SEE YOU AS MUD'
There were apparently other
candidates for the top spot
besides Dudley. Andy Inglis,
head of BP's core exploration
and production division, and
Iain Conn, head of refining and
marketing, were supposedly
contenders.
But sources at BP said no one
else was ever seriously in the
running to become CEO.
For a start, both Inglis and
Conn are British, an accident of
birth that did not serve Hayward
well.
The fact that the Macondo
21
disaster happened within Inglis'
division made him an untenable
choice, while Conn, a former oil
trader with a clipped accent,
didn't seem like the right profile
for the job of burnishing BP's
image.
"If ever there were a question as
to whether BP would sell off its
American operations and cut its
losses, based on its choice of
CEO the answer is no," IHS'
Neff said.
David Weaver, former
managing director of BP
Northern European Gas and
Power described Dudley as
"very much an Anglicized
American." "He's a fixer," good
at cutting through company
politics, Weaver said. "Even in
confrontations, he didn't get
excited."
In a conference call with
reporters this week, Dudley said
he "did not seek out his job. I
was asked to step into these
shoes."
By all accounts, Dudley has his
work cut out for him now.
"How long does it take to repair
your reputation in a market
where people see you as mud?"
asked Richard Champion, a fund
manager at Principal Investment
Management, a BP shareholder.
"It's going to be a long time."
BP has not just to worry about
the cleanup, and making sure
the well is secure. The U.S.
Department of Justice is
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Unemployment claims fall, but still elevated
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:38:35 AM
A sign in the window of a
restaurant that is hiring is seen
in San Francisco, June 3, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Robert
Galbraith
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON| Thu Jul 29,
2010 12:38pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) -
New claims for unemployment
benefits slipped last week, but
stayed at a stubbornly high level
that underscored the labor
market recovery was having
trouble gaining traction.
Initial claims for state
unemployment aid dropped
11,000 to 457,000, the Labor
Department said on Thursday, a
touch more than the fall to
459,000 that financial markets
had forecast.
Analysts say new applications
for jobless benefits, which have
trended sideways for much of
this year, have to drop to a
400,000-450,000 range to signal
sustainable jobs growth.
"The labor market is steadying
but at a relatively high level of
unemployment. It offers a hint
of improvement in labor market
conditions," said John Lonski,
chief economist, Moody's
Investors Service, New York.
"Nevertheless, jobless claims
remain quite elevated, and
suggest labor slack persists."
Stocks on Wall Street briefly
edged higher after the data as
investors drew some comfort
from the report and strong
corporate earnings from Exxon
Mobil Corp. But share prices
were lower by midday as
technology shares fell.
Prices for safe-haven U.S.
government bonds rose.
Sluggish jobs growth, marked
by a 9.5 percent unemployment
rate, is the biggest obstacle to
the economy's recovery from the
most brutal recession since the
1930s -- a recovery that has
shown signs of wilting in the
last couple of months.
President Barack Obama,
struggling in polls as Americans
worry about the weak recovery,
is pressing for approval of a $30
billion plan to help small
businesses and create jobs. The
plan was blocked in the Senate
by Republicans on Thursday.
While growth in the United
States appears to be taking a
breather, recovery in some parts
of Europe is back on track after
being shaken by a sovereign
debt crisis.
Euro zone economic sentiment
rose strongly this month to a 28-
month high and unemployment
in Germany fell to its lowest
level since November 2008.
The upbeat European data lifted
the euro to a 12-week high
against the U.S. dollar.
SLOWING GROWTH
A U.S. government report on
Friday is expected to show
growth slowed to a 2.5 percent
annual rate in the second quarter
from a 2.7 percent pace in the
first three months of the year.
The moderation will likely
reflect a step back in consumer
spending and factory output, and
a wider trade gap.
The slowdown in
manufacturing, which has led
the recovery that started in the
second half of 2009, likely
persisted this month as most
regional surveys have shown a
pullback in activity.
However, a survey of
manufacturing activity in the
nation's Central Plains and
eastern Rocky Mountain region
released on Thursday showed a
strong rise for July.
The slowdown in economic
activity bodes poorly for the
jobs market.
"With claims (for jobless aid) at
these levels the 200,000-plus
increases in private payrolls that
we need to see in order to bring
unemployment down quickly
just aren't going to happen any
time soon," said Ian
Shepherdson, chief U.S.
economist at High Frequency
Economics in Valhalla, New
York.
With unemployment high,
consumer spending has been
tepid and home foreclosures
have remained elevated.
Foreclosures rose in three of
every four large U.S.
metropolitan areas in the first
half of this year, likely ruling
out sustained home price gains
until 2013, real estate data
company RealtyTrac said on
Thursday.
Unemployment was the main
culprit driving foreclosure
actions on more than 1.6 million
properties, the company said.
In the week ended July 17, 4.57
million people were still
receiving jobless benefits after
an initial week of aid, up 81,000
from the prior week. The
continuing claims data covered
the survey period for the
government's July household
survey, from which the national
unemployment rate is derived.
"We expect the July household
survey to show a rise in the
jobless rate to 9.6 percent," said
Mike Englund, chief economist
at Action Economics in Boulder,
Colorado. The rate stood at 9.5
percent in June.
(Additional reporting by Lynn
Adler and Richard Leong in
New York; editing by Todd
Eastham)
Jul 29, 2010 10:05am EDT
This sounds like a “feel good”
article for the Obama
administration and his campaign
to get a better public image
before the November elections.
If jobless claims have really
fallen, why did congress just
approve the extension of
unemployment benefits for 2.5
million people?
Jul 29, 2010 10:13am EDT
Only a liberal outlet will say
that there is a ray of hope. A ray
of hope is November victories in
November.
E-reader News Edition
Jul 29, 2010 10:24am EDT
The stock market is up because
of a 2.2% drop in claims? And
new claims are running just
under a half a million per
WEEK? You have to be
kidding. What are those boys
smoking?
Jul 29, 2010 10:26am EDT
Definitely a feel-good article.
One reason claims dropped is
because folks run out of
benefits. The extension does not
help those who have exhausted
their benefits. The media won’t
tell you that. Although I do
think we need optimistic stories,
this one is just fluff. You want a
real look at unemployment, type
in “unemployment map” in
YouTube.
Jul 29, 2010 11:30am EDT
I wish I could believe what is
being said, but I can’t. Too
many foreclosures and people
without jobs to believe the
information provided.
Unfortunately, I’ve come to the
point where I don’t trust my
own government, so anything
that is said by it is basically
suspect.
Jul 29, 2010 12:42pm EDT
“Jobless claims fall, raise
optimism for recovery”
Why do supposedly reputable
news outlets like Reuters write
such nonsense as the above
headline? AP has already sold
its soul to the Obama
administration (must have way
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continued from page 19
more than 10k no matter what
happens
Jul 29, 2010 11:13am EDT
if dudley can seal this in his
first week, it will be down to the
work done by the workers, who
have been there all along. unless
of course dudley is related to
god, or has out of this world
powers where just by the power
of his thoughts he can seal this
well.
Jul 29, 2010 12:04pm EDT
Is this not criminal:
After the rig explosion and
sinking, the mile long
collections riser pipe crashed to
the seabed floor crimping above
the BOP and leaking oil. All that
was necessary was to remove a
flange held by 6 hex bolts
removing the broken riser and
attaching a new flange and riser
pipe to surface collection. This
act could/would of stopped the
so called “oil leak” and this
environmental disaster .
Any replacement of broken
riser and flange and subsequent
riser to collection at surface
would have indicated the real
spill rate and total oil spilled –
BP after 2 days or 92 days – for
the sake of avoiding fines they
caused this monumental disaster
..
I have been proposing stop leak
solution and others relating to
oil collection and sealing the
well for months to BP and
multiple print/broadcast
media…
Here is difinitive proof that BP
, gov and print/broadcasting
media was informed(at least by
me) of fix to replacing flange
and broken pipe months ago..
www.infrastructuresolutionsmag
.com/node/891#comment-22
Please broadcast that this
disaster was avoidable – there is
no media print / broadcast
telling this incredible story –
help
Jul 29, 2010 1:23pm EDT
I hear tell that some are calling
it a “Circus”
Kevin Costner, a star, but
evidently some one with an
education in engineering comes
out from the wood work stating
he has the answer. I won’t pass
judgment though as I do not
know this person that well.
If you ask me this will have
fine makings for those disaster
films.
The true Disaster here is
Ecological, Environmental and
Human based we will not see
the long term effects until babies
are borne , and or new health
concerns start showing up in
children of the local area.
This isn’t the end, but the
beginning.
Google the MSDS sheets for
Crude better yet, here take a
look at this.
http://www.martinmarietta.com
/products/MSDS-CrudeOil.pdf
So there you have the facts
staring you down at what has
been unleashed in the gulf.
This isn’t what is being
reported.
Chronic Effects/
Carcinogenicity: Benzene is on
the NTP, OSHA and IARC
carcinogen lists. The IARC and
the EPA have
determined that benzene is
carcinogenic to humans (Group
1 Carcinogen). Chronic
inhalation of certain levels of
benzene causes
disorders in the blood in
humans, including leukemia
(cancer of blood forming
organs). Benzene specifically
affects bone
marrow (the tissues that
produce blood cells). Aplastic
anemia, excessive bleeding, and
damage to the immune system
(by changes
in blood levels of antibodies
and loss of white blood cells)
may develop. Several
occupational studies suggest that
benzene may
impair fertility in women
exposed to high levels.
However, these studies are
limited due to lack of exposure
history, simultaneous
exposure to other substances,
and lack of follow-up.
listed as a carcinogen by the
NTP, IARC, or OSHA.
However, repeated skin contact
by laboratory mice produced
skin tumors.
The tumors reduced in
occurrence when the animals’
skin was washed between
applications.
Benzene: This product may
contain 0 – 0.1% benzene.
ACHIH TLV TWA: 0.5 ppm /
STEL: 2.5 ppm
MSHA and OSHA PEL
TWA:10 ppm / STEL: 25 ppm /
Peak:50 ppm, 10 minutes
Exposure Routes: Inhalation,
skin absorption, ingestion
Target Organs: Hematopoietic
(blood forming) system,
lymphatic system, nervous
system, reproductive system
I am sorry but I don’t want a
lawyer determining what ill
effects people have or may not
have in the future.
There is the Ugly nature of the
beast. its not just the crude but
everything with in that toxic
soup.
Sure, it may appear to be going
away, the color that is. but, it is
not, it is only changing
its…assault tactics .
I posted the truth and parts of
the MSDS.
I shared nothing but facts and I
hope this gets posted for all to
see and to learn.
I am not here to create a panic,
but to inform and to educate at
what is really at steak.
So what needs to be done is that
the MSDS needs to be placed on
front page of every news article,
placed in every news media
outlet and forced up on us until
we are sick of hearing it or until
it sinks in to our think skulls that
23
the real disaster has not yet
begin to unfold.
The “Ugly Monster” hasn’t
gone away just because the leak
has stopped. Its injuries haven’t
yet been seen or felt.
And in the future when your
kids can’t bear children, or
come up with cancers, or the
fish become to toxic to eat,
you’ll say to yourself.. Some
one talking about this a Few
years ago. Who was it?
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and makes the observation that
my eyes tend to floaty and my
motor skills a little shaky and
when he ask me to get out of the
car I walk with a waddle. Would
it be “profiling” if He ask me If
have been drinking? Well you
say that’s different. Well, what
If I told you I have a
Neurological disorder and walk
with AFO leg braces under my
pants. Oh It is OK to do it to me
about being a drunk driver but
not to Hispanics who show “red
flags” of being Illegal? How
about this, an illegal alien can
come into America carrying
drugs when he see a border
agent he runs back toward
Mexico while shooting guns at
the border agent. Now when that
border agent shots back and hits
him in the butt, The agent get
prison time and everyone is
defending the illegal drug
smuggler. Then when we see a
Phone video of an American
Shot in the back handcuff? What
is in the KOOLAID people?? I
am Celeste Cortes the wife of
Primitivo Cruz who is part of
the Juarez Cartel. My husband
and his buddy has America in
his pocket. In fact my Husband
has a warrant from Florida for
Violation Of probation on child
rape but YOU Americans pay
for his court appointed attorney
that got him Visitations, and
reunification with my children
after we escape from the Juarez
Cartel. The United States want
my children to be Juarez Cartel
members despite they do not
want to be. WHAT IS IT
AMERICA? Why do you cater
to my husband and his
compadres WHY? To see the
Documents that verify YOU the
tax payer pay for this fugitive’s
attorney
that got him Visitation then
reunification services with the
two minor children all will a
Fugitive click
h e r e h t t p : / /
floridafugitive.yolasite.com/
Jul 29, 2010 12:51am EDT
The ruling regarding the
Arizona law is supported by
over 65 percent of the American
people. Our voices are yet once
again not being heard. We must
let our elected officials
understand through the vote this
November 2010 that we are
watching them, that we are not
happy with the fact that some of
us must abide by the law and
while others do not. We must
send a strong message that we
will not tolerate business as
usual and high unemployment
for the past 2 years while at the
same time companies hire
illegal aliens/foreign citizens to
take our jobs. Now is the time to
send a message to Washington
that we will not stand for this
regardless of which party you
are affiliated with. Together as
Americans we will move this
country forward!!!
Jul 29, 2010 1:09am EDT
ok people just think for one
minet (ya mt spelling stinks but
do you think I.G.A.S.
presonaly lets start another war.
Just give every one a gun when
the dust settles if you are
standing you win.
but that would be wrong
becouse the gov. would not be
IN CONTROL, BOHO peaple
please put your big girl pents on
and DEAL WITH IT !!!!!!!!!!!!
get my thoughts hint hint hint
HELLO if the gov. douse not or
can not deal with the problume
or well isue then maby it is time
thaty the state gov should
declare a state of emergency and
(if i am not wrong) deal with it i
do belave that thay have that
abillity and as for the puplic
defender YOUR NEXT get it
ARIZONA get a grip and DO
WHAT YOU NEED TO………
if not for your self than for the
rest of the country. Aventualy
you will get help trust me peaple
will go to your side and help
even if it is for free….
Jul 29, 2010 1:17am EDT
P.S. i need work. callup yor
national guard and send out a
help wanted notice ( how dous it
go)send it thay will come…
i do not know if you have the
law that letts you keep the funds
that you find on drug dealers but
i would use that to pay for your
gi’s and hired help you might be
serprized at the money you
bring in i hear that ther is a lot
of denero flotin around………..
Jul 29, 2010 1:21am EDT
This was perhaps the greatest
victory for criminals in the
history of civilization. Imagine,
all this great America for the
taking and partnership with the
President. It’s like Meyer
Lansky’s dream (Godfather ll)
on steroids.
I hear the administration is
thinking of pulling the FBI
resources from federal bank
robberies too. After all, it takes
enormous effort and risk to track
down all those thieves…and its
just money.
Jul 29, 2010 1:31am EDT
Our immigration system is
broken and needs fixing. This is
the responsibility of the US
Congress and not the State of
Arizona or the County Sheriff.
Immediately, some
administrative relief could be
given pending legislative
solution of the problem.
Referring to people as illegal is
incorrect and morally repugnant.
Jul 29, 2010 1:34am EDT
YA the vote did you all know
that the vote is done by (the
electoral vote to make it shorf
When you cast your vote you
JUST SUGGEST to your
E-reader News Edition
congresmen and the electoral
sys. that that is what you whant
them to do BUT and i do mean
BUT it DOUSE NOT MEAN
THAT TRHAY HAVE TO DO
AS YOU VOTED…….. please
check it out I could be wrong
but think if i am not……. what a
drag……I have only voted
twice in my life becouse of that
and it did not make a difference.
Irest my case.. COMMENT
ANYONE??????????
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investigating the disaster and
there is pressure in Congress to
investigate BP's role in the
release last year by Scottish
authorities of Libyan
intelligence officer Abdel Basset
al-Megrahi, who was convicted
of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am
flight 103 over the town of
Lockerbie.
The company has to manage all
this while seeking to offload $30
billion in assets to pay for the oil
spill and emerge as a leaner
company.
"BP is trying to demonstrate
(with Dudley's appointment)
that it knows mistakes were
made and that it is working to
rectify them," said Rachel
Ziemba, senior research analyst
for China and the oil exporting
economies at Roubini Global
Economics in London. "This is
all part of their efforts to shore
up their finances and deal with a
number of regulatory issues."
The company's investors are
also unhappy, not least because
Who's bringing what? Divvyus helps you sort it out
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they have seen 40 percent wiped
off the value of their holdings
since the rig at the Macondo
well went up in flames.
A second-quarter loss of $17
billion after $32 billion in
charges related to the oil spill
hasn't helped.
Torrenzano of the Torrenzano
Group said that after a July 27
conference call announcing
Dudley's appointment, investors
he had spoken to were
unimpressed that board
chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg
only stuck around for just a few
questions.
"I spoke to several investors
after that call and they felt the
chairman should have said much
more," he said.
"As an organization they have to
start thinking about what they
do and what will happen as a
result."
BP's safety record even prior to
the Macondo well explosion
was relatively poor and several
analysts said Dudley must
having a dinner party, or a
picnic, or going camping, or any
other real-world situation where
you're grouping together your
resources?
That's where Divvyus comes in
handy. It lets you manage some
of the chaos of assigning to-dos,
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implement real change at BP in
order to turn the firm around.
"He really has to shake up this
company. Heads must roll,"
Oppenheimer & Co's Gheit said.
"People who were in charge, the
people who had line
responsibility, in my view
should all be sacked."
Gheit also noted that when
Hayward took over, he vowed to
have a "laser focus" on safety in
the wake of an explosion at a
Texas City, Texas, refinery in
2005 that killed 15 workers.
"Obviously that turned out to
not be the case," Gheit said.
"This time around, Bob Dudley
cannot just use the same
playbook and say this is going
to win the game. You have to
have new players and a new
playbook."
(Writing and additional
reporting by Nick Carey,
additional reporting by Tom
Bergin in London, Kristen Hays
in Houston, Dmitry Zhdannikov
in Moscow and Rachelle
There's no registration required,
you just need to send out the
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whomever you send it to can
claim a task with their name, as
well as make additions or
subtractions to the master list.
There are a few features I'd
love to see make it into the next
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only hope, is doing the exact
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yourselves obsolete, not to
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another blip in the helter skelter
economic picture.
Jul 29, 2010 1:24pm EDT
If you have a full time job, hold
onto it with all your might.
Jul 29, 2010 1:28pm EDT
As we move forward, the first-
time claims for unemployment
benefits are almost FORCED to
decline. It has ABSOLUTELY
NOTHING to do with job
growth or job creation. It is
simply a reflection of the fact
that the pool of people from
which people are laid off is
getting smaller.
There are simply fewer people
TO lay off.
The economy is in the tank and
it’s going to STAY in the tank
for a number of years – perhaps
a decade or more.
Jul 29, 2010 1:36pm EDT
The only economic indicator
that means anything to real
people in the real world is
employment/unemployment.
Zara's Finally entering the World of E-Commerce
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:41:00 AM
People stopped asking when
Zara and H&M (the industry's
biggest holdouts) would let
The number of first-time claims
for unemployment benefits has
been averaging around
450,000+ per week. That
number is destined to gradually
decrease. Unfortunately, it
won’t be due to any kind of
recovery. It will simply be a
reflection of the fact that the
pool of employed people from
which workers are laid off will
become increasingly smaller. At
the same time, after their 99
weeks are up, those who were
collecting unemployment will
no longer be counted.
Very convenient if you’re
trying to make a case for
recovery.
There are a lot of well-educated
ignorant people running around
loose out there and many of
them think they are gurus in
strategy and planning. Judging
from the debris, most of them
have aren’t as good as their
posturing.
customers shop online, but it
looks like the former's finally
taking the leap.
If you go to Zara.com, a banner
flashes "Shop Online" starting
September 2nd before it
automatically feeds into the
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YouTube bumps video
limit to 15 minutes
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Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:13:34 PM
Long-video makers can rejoice,
as YouTube has extended the
allotted time of user uploads
from 10 to 15 minutes.
According to a Thursday post
on YouTube's blog, increasing
the limit was the most requested
feature by YouTube users,
though it had to be put on hold
while the company worked on
other projects and behind-the-
scenes infrastructure. In March,
for instance, the company
announced that 24 hours of
video was uploaded every
minute. That's up from around
six hours just three years ago.
Given the new limit, that's a
metric that's likely to keep on
growing.
When YouTube first launched
in 2005, users could actually
upload clips that were longer
than 10 minutes, though without
limits it was easy to upload full-
length, copyrighted content.
sale...that you can't shop).
There aren't any details, but the
following countries are listed:
France, Germany, Italy, UK,
Portugal and Spain. The US is
conspicuously missing and other
Europe-based stores (Topshop,
E-reader News Edition
YouTube responded by creating
the limit, as well as adding new
account types like "director,"
"comedian," "musician," and
"guru," which would require a
few extra steps of registration,
but remove the time limit
altogether. The rest of the
YouTube population simply got
around the limits by splitting up
shows into 10-minute chunks,
which would work until
YouTube's content filters
flagged it as a violation.
YouTube says users who had
previously uploaded content that
was too long will have to delete,
then re-upload it. The company
is also running a promotion
called "15 minutes of fame"
which will feature 15-minute
videos shot by users who use the
"yt15minutes" tag.
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online services so it's worth
crossing your fingers for a faster
turnaround in Zara's case.
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The jailbreaking exemption has its limits

(CNET News.com) Foundation, which submitted jailbreak. Anyone else who copying or modification. modification of its firmware in a
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:45:23 PM the request for exemption, provides material assistance to a Without fair use, the copyright jailbreaking damaged the market
proposed several legal consumer wishing to switch holder might refuse permission for its products. In rejecting that
Editors' note: This is a guest justifications for jailbreaking, carriers could still be subject to or charge too high a price for argument, the Copyright Office
column. See Larry Downes' bio arguing that circumvention of civil or criminal charges under such uses, which have important has taken a significant step in
below. Apple's technology did not the DMCA. social value. In some cases, fair moving the fair-use balance
The U.S. Copyright Office on c o n s t i t u t e c o p y r i g h t Still, the exemption is an use allows for uses that might be back in the direction of
Monday granted an exemption infringement in the first place. important development in fair authorized but for which the consumers. With regard to
to users who install unapproved The Copyright Office rejected use costs associated with negotiating anticircumvention technology,
applications or switch carriers all of these arguments, however, Despite the narrow ruling, the permission are higher than the the safety valve is now opened,
on their smartphones. That act, approving the jailbreaking Copyright Office's acceptance value of the use. at least a little wider.
when applied to the Apple exemption on the narrow ground of a fair-use argument Since the 1980s, however, U.S. Apple can appeal the
iPhone, is often referred to as of "fair use." represents a significant change courts have generally taken a rulemaking...somehow
"jailbreaking." Technically speaking, a "fair in the law. In many respects, fair dim view of the fair-use Although the Copyright
Apple and others have argued use" violates the rights of the use is an important limit to defense, accepting arguments Office's decision constitutes the
that such activities violate copyright holder. But such uses copyright, one that has existed from rights holders that nearly end of its rulemaking process,
provisions of 1998 revisions to are excused as having minimal in one form or another since the any copying or modification Apple and other parties affected
federal copyright law known as negative impact on the rights very beginnings of copyright unduly damages the future by the new exemptions can ask
t h e D i g i t a l M i l l e n n i u m infringed. In the case of iPhone law in 18th century England. market for their works. that the rule be overturned. An
Copyright Act, specifically firmware, for example, the Since copyright grants a Only the customer can perform Apple representative declined to
provisions that forbid the Copyright Office found that powerful set of monopoly rights the jailbreak. Anyone else who comment on whether the
circumvention of security while jailbreaking modified the to the author or a work provides material assistance to a company planned such an
technologies a copyright holder software without authorization, (including a monopoly on consumer wishing to switch appeal, saying only "the vast
uses to ensure that its software that modification affected fewer modified versions of the work carriers could still be subject to majority of customers do not
i s n o t m o d i f i e d w i t h o u t than 50 bytes of an 8 million and other adaptations), civil or criminal charges under jailbreak their iPhones, as this
permission. byte program, or only a economists worry about the DMCA. can violate the warranty and can
The Copyright Office rejected 1 6 0 , 0 0 0 t h o f t h e w o r k . potential abuses. As with any In a 1985 case, for example, the cause the iPhone to become
those arguments, finding instead Likewise, the Copyright Office monopoly, the normal market U.S. Supreme Court rejected a unstable and not work reliably."
that modification of Apple's found that jailbreaking for the forces that set price based on fair-use defense from The According to EFF Civil
firmware constituted a "fair use" purpose of switching from an supply and demand are Nation magazine, which Liberties Director Jennifer
under copyright law. Opponents authorized carrier to another suspended, giving monopoly excerpted without permission Granick, the most likely form of
of strong copyright and the c a r r i e r w a s p r i v i l e g e d b y holders the incentive to set less than 400 words from appeal would be for Apple to
DMCA's anticircumvention a n o t h e r p r o v i s i o n o f t h e prices too high. That is why, in President Gerald Ford's 500- file a lawsuit in federal court,
provisions in particular have copyright law, which allows most other contexts, page memoir. Because the quote claiming that the rulemaking
hailed that decision as a modifications to software monopolies, however achieved, described Ford's pivotal violated provisions of the
dramatic victory. But the e s s e n t i a l f o r i t s u s e . are illegal. decision to pardon former Administrative Procedures Act.
extensive coverage of this But the "essential use" Fair use is the key safety valve President Richard Nixon, the The APA governs rulemaking
decision has largely ignored exemption applies only to the that ensures that copyright court agreed with the publisher actions across the federal
i m p o r t a n t l i m i t s t o t h e actual owner of the device. holders do not unduly restrict that the excerpt was likely to bureaucracy.
Copyright Office's decision that Third parties are still prohibited the market for their works. It reduce the number of copies of Under an APA lawsuit, Granick
are well worth exploring. from offering "circumvention allows, for example, for short the book it could sell. confirmed, a judge would
Fair use is a limited exception services." This means that only quotations in reviews, parodies Apple had similarly argued to JAILBREAKING page 28
T h e E l e c t r o n i c F r o n t i e r the customer can perform the of the work, and other limited the Copyright Office that the
28 Culture/ E-reader News Edition
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review both the form and
substance of the Copyright
Office's decision under an
"arbitrary and capricious"
standard. In essence, that would
require Apple to prove that the
Copyright Office's interpretation
of the DMCA is not a rational
reading of the law or court cases
that have already reviewed it.
This is one of the most
restrictive standards of review
that courts apply, making it
difficult, though not impossible,
to prevail.
However, it is unclear if, in
fact, that or any other appellate
process would apply. Several
legal scholars with whom I
spoke were unaware of any
successful challenges to DMCA
exemptions made by the
network, when circumvention is
accomplished for the sole
purpose of lawfully connecting
to a wireless communication
network."
In its briefs defending the
Copyright Office, the
Department of Justice argued
that the APA did not apply to
the Copyright Office because it
is an arm of Congress and not an
administrative agency. But
according to EFF's Granick,
TracFone abandoned the case.
There is no reported opinion that
indicates the trial court ever
made any determination as to
how, if at all, exemptions could
be challenged.
An appeal by Apple or any
other party to the jailbreaking
exemption would, at a
though estimates put the number
of U.S. customers who have
done so at 400,000.
While the company strongly
objected to the exemption and
may, as noted, have an avenue
to appeal the decision, Apple
has much more effective means
of protecting the iPhone from
unapproved applications and
from use on unauthorized
networks.
Most important, the contract
between the company and the
user forbids jailbreaking.
Violating that provision of the
contract voids any warranties
and would still constitute a
breach of contract the company
could enforce in court. (The
parties to a contract can waive
many rights the law might
modified, and certainly nothing
that requires Apple to make
changes to its software, if
unapproved applications crash
or otherwise damage the device.
Finally, as several
commentators have noted,
disconnecting an iPhone from
the authorized AT&T network
doesn't necessarily make the
device compatible with another
carrier. The phone is designed to
work only on networks that
support the GSM standard.
Although GSM is a popular
Ronnie Wood's
standard, iPhones that have been
successfully jailbroken cannot,
Going to Ohio
for example, operate on
Verizon's CDMA network.
to Show His Art
The Copyright Office's decision ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
to deem jailbreaking a fair use
under copyright law represents Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:05:00 PM

Copyright Office in the 12 years
since the law was enacted. (The
DMCA requires the Copyright
Office to consider applications
for exemptions every three
years.)
In fact, there is only one case I
could locate that even attempted
to overturn a DMCA exemption.
Following an earlier review
process, in 2006, TracFone
Wireless challenged the
Copyright Office's grant of an
exemption for programs that
enabled "wireless telephone
handsets to connect to a wireless
telephone communication
minimum, be plowing new legal
grounds and would inevitably
lead to further appeals to higher
courts. That process could take
years, during which a court may
or may not issue an injunction
blocking application of the
exemption.
DMCA was the least effective
arrow in Apple's quiver
Although jailbreaking by end
users is now a legally protected
form of copyright infringement,
the EFF's victory may prove to
be pyrrhic. To date, Apple has
made no effort to enforce the
DMCA to prohibit jailbreaking,
otherwise give them.)
The company can also
implement technical measures to
limit or otherwise disable the
use of unauthorized
applications. One easy way for
the company to stop jailbreaks,
for example, would be to
condition updates to the
firmware on proof that the
product has not been modified
without permission, or to reset
the device to factory defaults as
part of any update procedure.
There is also nothing to stop
Apple from modifying the
firmware so that it doesn't run, if
an important milestone in the
ongoing battle to adapt the law
for the Digital Age. But it is
hardly the end of that struggle.
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Last year, Rolling Stone Ronnie
Wood collaborated with Liberty
of London on a limited edition
run of scarves and t-shirts, this
year he's going even deeper with
a solo art show.
The guitarist will exhibit 30
paintings, seven works of mixed
media and 22 drawings done in
both pen and pencil. He's not
showing in London, or even
New York, but Ohio. The
Butler Institute of American
(which he's not) Art will host
the show starting September
10th.
He says he's been painting
longer than he's been playing
guitar, so his Ohio-based fans
can expect some expert brush
strokes.
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Another Major University Enrolls in Microsoft's

Cloud
Audrey Watters schools and universities are the management and support of
(ReadWriteWeb) making the transition. multiple devices - both the
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:08:55 PM Upgrading to the Cloud school's and student and
Shawn Ellis, University of faculty's, and the increasing
As part of its annual Financial Georgia's Director of Client expectation and demand that
Analyst Meeting today, S e r v i c e s a n d S y s t e m work can be undertaken
Chrome Dev Channel
Microsoft is touting its cloud A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , s a y s t h e collaboratively. Enables Extension Sync
momentum and announcing university has been assessing There's also the expectation by Default [Updates]
s e v e r a l n e w h i g h - p r o f i l e upgrades to its calendar and among university students that
customers who've selected the messaging system for some Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
are cost prohibitive, says Ellis, student government play some
company's cloud computing time. Prior to the move to role in these sorts of decisions. Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:30:00 AM
who now envisions that IT staff
services: Dow Chemical, Hyatt Live@edu, the university had a Microsoft's announcement
and resources can be better Reader choebear writes in to
Hotels & Resorts and the very low email storage quota, a today follows on the heels of
utilized by moving the point out that if you're using the
University of Georgia. Dow separate calendar system, and no Google's announcement last
university to Live@edu. Dev channel of Google Chrome,
Chemical and Hyatt Hotels & online collaboration software. month that Iowa and Colorado
Meeting IT Requirements, you no longer need to use the
R e s o r t s h a v e a d o p t e d Live@edu addresses these gaps, join Oregon in adopting Google
Meeting Teachers' and Students' command-line switch to enable
M i c r o s o f t ' s B u s i n e s s providing faculty and staff with Apps for Education, Google's
Expectations extension sync in
Productivity Online Suite and a hosted Exchanged solution, 25 cloud-based service for schools.
While Exchange hosting is by Chrome—extension syncing is
the University of Georgia has GB of online storage with And while Microsoft and
no means new, Cameron Evans, now enabled by default. To use
selected Microsoft's Live@edu S k y D r i v e , a n d o n l i n e Google continue to vie for
Microsoft's National and Chief it, just open Chrome's Options/
service. collaboration and document contracts with school districts
Technology Officer, agrees that Preferences and head to the
Sponsor sharing via Office Web Apps. and universities, this growing
moving email management off- Personal Stuff tab. Looks like
The 85,000 students, faculty While the University of interest from more and more
premise is still a relevant and this actually happened earlier
and staff at University of G e o r g i a f e l t p r e s s u r e d t o educational institutions in both
pressing concern for many this month and it slipped past us,
Georgia join the over 11 million u p g r a d e i t s a n t i q u a t e d company's services
schools and universities. In but the default integration likely
s t u d e n t s a n d e d u c a t o r s messaging and calendaring demonstrates that the schools
addition to the pressure to save means extension syncing is
worldwide who have adopted options, it was, like most are recognizing the major
money, schools also have to getting closer to the stable
Live@edu, a strong indication educational organizations, benefits - in terms of cost,
address questions of security release, which is great news.
t h a t d e s p i t e t h e c o m m o n financially constrained in doing infrastructure, and pedagogy - of
and privacy (including CIPA More »
concerns about privacy and so. The costs of building and moving to the cloud. Discuss
requirements at the K-12 level),
security in the cloud, that many maintaining an internal solution

Lauren Conrad Grabs an Old Costar and Heads For the Hills
PopSugar (PopSugar) Canyon. LC tweeted about She brought a girlfriend along, hoping Lo Bosworth gets home
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:30:00 PM Frankie's weighted vest - see though, to go casual for a recent in time to watch.
what she and other celebs were shopping session. While LC and View 2 Photos ›
Lauren Conrad and Frankie up to in our weekly Twitter Frankie's show is over for good,
Delgado were together in LA roundup! Frankie and LC caught she's looking forward to the new
yesterday for a hike in Runyon up during their exercise session after bonding at The Hills finale. Jersey Shore tonight and is
30 Technology/ Culture/
Why Apple's "walled garden" is a good idea
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/29/2010 3:00:00 PM
Filed under: iPhone, iPad Many
developers and users of Apple's
iOS devices bemoan the "walled
garden" of the App Store
approval process, but it appears
that the company's measures
have prevented mass data theft
from iPhones, and iPads.
At the Black Hat security
conference being held in Las
Vegas this week, mobile
security firm Lookout
announced that an app
distributed in Google's Android
Market had collected private
information from millions of
users, then forwarded it to
servers in China. Worse than
that, the exact number of
affected users isn't known, since
the Android Market doesn't
provide precise data. Estimates
are that the app was downloaded
anywhere from 1.1 million to
4.6 million times.
The app appeared to simply
load free custom background
wallpapers, but in fact collected
a user's browsing history, text
messages, the SIM card number,
Resume Interrupted Downloads with BitTorrent [Shortcuts]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:00:00 AM
and even voice mail passwords,
and then sent the data to a web
site in Shenzen, China.
This is different from the recent
AT&T website leak that could
have let a hacker access 144,000
iPad 3G user email addresses,
since in this case the data theft
actually did happen, was being
perpetrated by malicious
hackers, involves much more
personal information, and
affected many more people.
While lots of us are pretty big
BitTorrent users, we still use our
browser to manage most of our
So what's the difference
between the security
methodologies used by Google
and Apple? Apple approves iOS
apps only after they've gone
through a strict (and frustrating
to developers) process, while
Google's Android Market
simply warns the user that an
app needs permission to perform
certain functions during the
installation. iOS apps must be
signed by an Apple-created
certificate, which means that
malicious developers have a
harder time distributing malware
anonymously.
Lookout also noted that iOS
remains virus-free, since third-
party apps can only be
distributed through Apple's
heavily-moderated App Store,
and the apps run in a sandbox
environment where they can't
affect the system. Lookout chief
executive John Hering said that
"he believes both Google and
Apple are on top of policing
their app stores." It's just those
odd cases where apps don't do
what they're advertised to do
that can cause problems for
users.
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Android Spyware: Millions ClearCam goes legit,

Downloaded Thievish Wallpaper will increase image
App (Updated) resolution at a price
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb) Project, an ambitious project to Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:53:00 PM track the behavior of 300,000 Apple Weblog (TUAW))
applications. Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:00:00 PM
Mobile security firm Lookout Lookout may also be
announced today at the Black announcing other Android Filed under: iPhone ClearCam
Hat security conference that security risks at the conference. has been around for a while, and
millions of Android users had Another mobile security I first took a look at it more than
downloaded a wallpaper app company, Smobile Systems a year ago. It was a clever app
that sends user information to a warned against this very that had two modes. One mode
unknown site in China, reported scenario last month in a report took a series of four pictures in
VentureBeat. Concerns about titled Threat Analysis in the rapid succession, and then it
app access to private Android Market. saved the best and sharpest one the 3GS and the iPhone 4, and it
information were raised last actually steal info like voicemail Analysts have been split over in your photo library; the other requires iOS 4.
month, but this may be the first passwords. the enterprise-readiness of mode took six images together The app is similar to the
instance of Android malware in Sponsor Android 2.2. Jack Gold, of J. and stacked them in order to original version, although now it
the wild. Android's enterprise- The app, Jackeey Wallpaper, Gold Associates, has argued that increase resolution and reduce chooses the best shot out of
readiness has been controversial transmits a users' SIM card t h e l a c k o f s u p p o r t f o r noise. In practice, it meant that three instead of four. For the
in analyst circles. Update: n u m b e r , s u b s c r i b e r enterprises to manage what apps the old 3G 2MP camera became stacking or enhanced mode, it
Lookout contacted us with the identification, and, if it's been users install on their Android the rough equivalent of a 4MP still takes six images and then
following clarification: The app programmed into the phone, handsets should be one of many camera. aligns and processes them.
does not actually steal users v o i c e m a i l p a s s w o r d t o deal-breakers for Android The app had been pulled from Gallery: ClearCam example
SIM card numbers or voicemail www.imnet.us, a web site adoption in the enterprise. This the App Store for a while -- the images
passwords. Instead, the app owned by someone in Shenzhen, would seem to validate his SDK did not allow access to raw TUAW ClearCam goes legit,
transmits the device's phone China. It had been reported that claims. iPhone images (only will increase image resolution at
number, subscriber identifier the app also collected browsing Perhaps in response to the compressed images), which a price originally appeared on
(e.g. IMSI), and the currently history and text messages, but Smobile report, Google released meant it was impossible to run The Unofficial Apple Weblog
entered voicemail number on Lookout has clarified that this is a k i l l s w i t c h f u n c t i o n t o any enhancement algorithms on (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Jul 2010
the phone. This is an important not correct. remotely delete malicious the data. The SDK now allows 12:00:00 EST. Please see our
distinction for Lookout, because The app asks permission to applications. The company for access to those terms for use of feeds.
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m a l i c i o u s . I t i s c e r t a i n l y information would be sent to a scheduled for termination. ClearCam has returned as a
suspicious, but it is important to third-party. Lookout found the Discuss regular iPhone app. It runs on
clear up that they did not app as part of its App Genome
32 Technology/ Culture/
Fox News: Apple Is The New Religion And The
Pope Is Scared
MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:20:43 PM
Jesus. Maybe literally.
Fox News has a long and
illustrious history of saying
some fairly outrageous things. A
story today on FoxNews.com
may be one of the best yet —
certainly from a tech
perspective.
The post entitled “ For Apple
Followers, It’s a Matter of Faith,
Academics Say” argues that
while people may joke about
Apple being a religion
(JesusPhone, etc), to some, it
may actually be a religion.
Better, they wonder if Apple
shouldn’t pursue that path.
Here’s Fox News’ keys as to
why Apple is similar to a
religion:
• Apple’s creation story
epitomizes the humble garage
origin of its technology — not
unlike the humble manger of
Jesus’ birth.
• Apple CEO Steve Jobs is
perceived as a messianic leader
who was fired but rose again to
save the company.
• Apple has traditionally had an
Gadget and Gear Deals of the Day [Dealhacker]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
and cameras are but a few of the
deals in today's Dealhacker
Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:00:00 AM
roundup. Come for the cheap
Discounted laptops, phones, tech gear, stay for the pile of
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author can’t understand why
people continue to buy iPhones
even though they don’t work.
Therefore, Apple must be a
religion. “ It’s not a matter of
Clever Overhead
rationality, it’s a matter of
faith,” the author argues. Storage Hack Bolts
Meanwhile, back on the planet Containers to Your
Earth, the story remains the Garage's Ceiling [DIY]
same. The iPhone 4 does indeed
have an antenna issue, but it’s Adam Pash (Lifehacker)
not a major issue in real world Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:30:00 AM
use. If it were a major issue, the
millions of people who have Smart DIYer Tluweyen details
bought the device over the past how to mount storage containers
month would be returning it en to the ceiling of your garage—a
masse. If something doesn’t perfect project for households
work, you return it — it’s that desperate for more storage space
simple. That isn’t happening. that don't have a lot of extra
So which argument makes more room in the garage. More »
sense? Are the returns not
evil archenemy, the Devil, as
represented first by Microsoft
that means Apple.
The story goes on to wonder if
flowing in because it’s really not
a big deal — and overall the
Joe Zee
and now by Google. Apple — not some crazed Apple
fanboys, mind you — might
iPhone 4 is the best smartphone
out there? Or is it because Apple
Challenges Elmo
Yes, Apple’s start in a garage is apply for religious status in the is a religion?
[photo: flickr/ roblisameehan]
to a Dance Off
very similar to Christ’s birth. future. “ Indeed, it would be ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
They also note that the Pope is interesting if Apple were to CrunchBase Information Apple
Blogs)
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because he once rhetorically future.“ by CrunchBase Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM
asked if a savior was needed in a Naturally, the main impetus
This video doesn't need much
modern wired world. Clearly, behind this farce is that the explanation, but that's our own
Joe Zee inside the Abominable
Snowman outfit (and yes that's
really Elmo).
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Y Combinator Backed GazeHawk
Heatmaps With Web Cams
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:19:43 PM
You’ve normally got two
choices in site heatmapping
(figuring out where eyeballs
land on your site), you can
either buy costly specialized
equipment ($40K) or pay a
consultant to use their own
equipment, which costs upwards
of $5K. Y Combinator funded
GazeHawk has figured out a
more pared down and
innovative solution; Why not
use webcams?
Co-founded by Brian Krausz
and Joe Gershenson, newly
launched GazeHawk is less
expensive than most already
existing eyetracking services at
1/10 the price. And
heatmapping, something that
required custom hardware and
bringing people into a lab, now
requires simple consumer
hardware and proprietary
software.
GazeHawk has its own network
of test subjects; All you need to
do as a website owner is give
them a url or a screenshot and
Video: Jennifer Garner Leads a Church of Extras in "The Wave" Wearing
a Wedding Dress!
Molly (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:45:00 PM
Jennifer Garner takes a break
Weary readers have learned to
ignore ads, especially those
placed in the bottom right
corner. Say Krausz,“People are
so good about identifying ads
nowadays that if anything looks
like one you lose the entire
area.” Below is a GazeHawk
heatmap of our homepage —
most notably people are looking
at our story rotator, ING ads and
you get back a site map of the
not our events stuff. So quick
most active viewed places on
look to the bottom right! Look!
your website, instead of having
Aside from being fascinating,
to got through the unwieldly and
accurate heatmapping is crucial
costly processes described
to informing online ad
above.
placement, cost per click and
Though similar in concept to
cost per impression are just not
UserTesting, GazeHawk is
as accurate when measuring
disruptive in the sense that
brand conveyance. For those
we’ve never seen a low-cost,
interested in trying it out,
low-effort eye tracking service
GazeHawk is offering a 50%
before. According to Krausz,
discount for TC readers, just
GazeHawk’s future plans
enter TECHCRUNCH10 at
include a number of extra
checkout.
features, better visualizations,
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allowing people to use their
GazeHawk Y Combinator
own test viewers, and eventually
Information provided by
expansion in to the UX industry
CrunchBase
— Creating product based on
tester feedback, i.e. what
people want to see.
from filming a wedding scene
for Arthur by leading a crowd of
extras in the wave! Watch how too on PopSugar Rush!
cute she is and Russell's there
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Google Adds Maps to
Mobile Ads
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 3:21:21 PM
Earlier this year, Google added
clickable phone numbers to its costing anything more for the
mobile ad offerings, making it advertiser. Advertising with
easier for smartphone owners to location extensions on mobile
connect with businesses when devices is also great value
performing local searches. because you're only charged
Today, the company has when a user clicks to call the
business or clicks to visit your
extended this feature by adding
website. You are not charged
inline maps to business listings
when users click to expand the
on mobile websites and apps in
map or gets directions. The cost
the Google Display Network.
of a click to call your business
So now, when you're looking
will be the same as the cost of a
for the nearest pizza place and
click to visit your website.
you don't feel like waiting for
Enrolling in the programming
delivery, you're just one click
involves a simple three-step
away from getting directions
process for advertisers, which is
from your current location in
detailed in the blog post.
Google Maps.
Now that a phone call or
Sponsor
driving directions are only a
According to Dai Pham, a
click away, there's just one thing
member of the Google Mobile
left to consider - who's going to
Ads marketing team, a benefit
go pick up the pizza. Discuss
of this feature for advertisers is
that it's value added without
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YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15

Minutes
Jason Kincaid (TechCrunch) able to increase the upload limit
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:23:00 PM today.
Content ID is YouTube’s
For years, YouTube has automated system that can
allowed its users to upload identify and flag videos that it
however many videos they
Compact Productivity:
suspects contain copyrighted
wanted, but with a catch: unless content. YouTube works The Walk-In Closet
you were part of one of directly with parters to get Workspace [Featured
YouTube’s special partner material like TV shows and Workspace]
programs, no video could be movies, which it can crosscheck
more than 10 minutes in length. again whenever a user uploads Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Today, YouTube is changing their video. And it works really, Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:00:00 PM

that: it’s boosting the maximum really quickly (often before your
upload length to fifteen minutes, video is even finished People often joke that their
giving the site’s millions of processing). The owners of the office is so small it feels like
amateur directors a bit more leg copyrighted content can then they are working in a closet.
room. choose if they want to have the This well laid out and organized
YouTube imposed the 10 offending video pulled, or if home office actually is in a
minute restriction to help cut they want to run their own ads closet. More »
back on piracy (of course, it’s case, but it’s good to know that o t h e r p o w e r f u l t o o l s f o r a g a i n s t i t . H o p e f u l l y a s
always been possible to simply YouTube is actively working to copyright owners. Now, all of C o n t e n t I D b e c o m e s m o r e
string together multiple 10 extend it. In its blog post, the major U.S. movie studios, advanced and YouTube’s library
minute clips to create a longer YouTube explains why it can music labels and over 1,000 of content to check against
video, but that’s harder to finally make the change: other global partners use
expands, it will be able to ditch
distribute and has a worse Well, we’ve spent significant Content ID to manage their
the time limit entirely.
viewing experience). Obviously resources on creating and content on YouTube. Because of CrunchBase Information
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going to be irritating in some Content ID system and many technological efforts, we are by CrunchBase

T-Mobile's apparent myTouch 3G HD gets spied from the rear

Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:27:00 PM
So, how do you feel about the
look of this myTouch 3G HD
we've been seeing this week?
Haven't formed a complete
opinion yet? Well, maybe this
new shot -- seemingly of said
phone's backside -- will help. As
we've seen on past models, the
rear features a tastefully-sized
myTouch logo, lending a dose
of credibility to the picture that
seems to have been covertly
snapped off a monitor where the
render was being shown. In
other words, we don't have
much reason to doubt this thing
-- and considering that the
Vibrant isn't a member of the
myTouch line, T-Mobile's
overdue for a refreshed non-
QWERTY Android device in
that segment of the market.
Should be an interesting few
months for these guys, no?
T-Mobile's apparent myTouch
3G HD gets spied from the rear
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Apple Investigating Issues With iOS A Must-See Video of

4 on iPhone 3G, Users Have Few Microsoft's Street Slide, Better
Than Google Street View
Options Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Mike Melanson disabling the Spotlight search
(ReadWriteWeb) feature, in conjunction with a " Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:34:37 PM

Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:25:29 PM double hard reset", can help

Microsoft Research
performance immensely. Doesn't that just make you feel
demonstrated a new street-level
When we looked at adoption of There is also a way to like a whole new world of
image viewing option that
the latest iPhone operating downgrade your iPhone 3g to possibilities are opened up?
knocks the socks off of Google
system, iOS 4, last week, we iOS 3.1.3, the final operating There's no word whether or
Maps Street View this week at
suggested that one reason 49% system release of iOS 3 before when this feature will be added
the SIGGRAPH conference in
of users had yet to update might Apple moved on to iOS 4. to Bing, but if it is - I'm going to
Los Angeles. Called Street
be "that some of the iPhones And finally, Joel Evans writes try to train myself to use Bing
Slide, the technology allows
running iOS 3 are doing so for ZDNet that there is a last Maps instead of Google Maps.
users to zoom out from the fish-
because iOS 4 would slow their performance and battery life resort - complain enough until Blogger Keir Clarke hacked
b e g a n p e p p e r i n g t h e Apple just replaces your iPhone eye pannable photos you see on
phone down." together some proof of concept
standard street view options and
After seeing site after site blogosphere and Apple Support 3G with one running the old OS. demos similar to this yesterday,
instead see a series of flat
reporting issues with iOS 4 on Forums. According to Apple, According to multiple reports, using Google Maps, photoshop
panoramic photos stitched
the iPhone 3G, the Wall Street "iOS 4 works with iPhone 4, Apple Stores had a stash of old and jQuery. They're not bad for
together like a timeline.
Journal is reporting that Apple iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G", i P h o n e 3 G s t o o f f e r a s a few hours of work!
It's a little hard to describe, but
has finally caught on to the issue but some users are disagreeing replacements and told one From these sorts of experiments
check out the video below. In
and "is looking into the matter." with that, saying that the latest customer that "Apple was to the work of Open Heat Map
OS not only slows down their working on a 'fix', so stay addition to being less
Sponsor and Tableau that we've
disorienting than zooming
From the beginning, users were p h o n e b u t m a k e s t h e m tuned". highlighted here, it's exciting to
around inside Street View, the
told that a number of features e s s e n t i a l l y u n u s a b l e . Hopefully, Apple will come up think about where all this
open space opened up for
would be missing from iOS 4 on While there is no news beyond with a more sustainable fix, malleability of maps could lead.
annotation in Street Slide is very
the iPhone 3G - most notably Apple "looking into" these such as offering an updated Discuss
nice.
multitasking - but no mention of issues, there are a few options version of iOS 4 for the 3G or, if
Sponsor
performance issues were ever for iPhone 3G owners who have nothing else, a way for users to
made. Soon after 3G owners already made the upgrade. simply downgrade to iOS 3.1.3.
b e g a n u p d a t i n g t o i O S 4 , First, LifeHacker points to this Discuss
however, complaints about tip on Gizmodo, which says that
Video: Remembering Lorenzen Wright
Elie Seckbach (FanHouse Blotter Elie Seckbach, the Police are investigating the couple past interviews with
Main) Embedded Correspondent, death of former NBA player Wright.
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:01:00 PM brings his exclusive video Lorenzen Wright. For his Check out the video below.
reporting to FanHouse. Check friends and family and fans this
Filed under: NBA Police back regularly for more videos. is a terrible loss. Here are a
36 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

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App Review: Hexaphone Daily Buzz: President

Keith M (The Unofficial Apple
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Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:00:00 PM
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38 Technology/ Culture/ Food/
A look inside the Magic Trackpad
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:00:00 AM
Filed under: Hardware It's so
thin and barely there. What
could be inside Apple's Magic
Trackpad? The folks at iFixit
took theirs apart, photographing
and describing each component
in great detail. Here's what they
found.
Inside there is, well, not a
whole heck of a lot. A large
spacer prevents the user from
pressing down hard enough to
damage the small logic board.
That board is connected to the
trackpad itself via two
"ridiculously thin" ribbon
cables, which are glued into
place. They used a hot air gun to
soften the adhesive. So, tread
very lightly if you plan to
remove these.
Speaking of the board, the gang
found that it holds a Broadcom
BCM2042 for Bluetooth
connectivity and a Broadcom
BCM5974 touch screen
controller chip (the same on
used in the iPhone, iPod touch
and MacBook Air). A SST
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EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow,

loads of new features and fixes in store?
Chris Ziegler (Engadget) bunch of changes, too, including We're pulling for you, EVO
Submitted at 7/29/2010 3:18:00 PM a host of new preloaded owners.
widgets, a flashlight mode for Gallery: EVO 4G getting
We're not certain that this date the camera's LED flash, light- Android 2.2, loads of new
is going to hold -- things like a s s i s t e d 7 2 0 p v i d e o , a n d features and fixes tomorrow?
this have an uncanny tendency "improvement" to the quality of EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update
to slip at the last possible said video capture (something starts trickling out tomorrow,
moment -- but we're at least we specifically complained loads of new features and fixes
hopeful to see some internal a b o u t i n o u r r e v i e w ) . in store? originally appeared on
Sprint communication that Unfortunately, it looks like the Engadget on Thu, 29 Jul 2010
they're trying to get the EVO 4G hotspot hack might be sealed off 15:18:00 EDT. Please see our
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though -- they're making a a s a " h i g h p r i o r i t y f o r identify the week of August 1 as spectacularly bad happens.

Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads

Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch) become geo-enabled when Google says that mobile ads consumer. And the click-to-call
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:00:23 PM viewed in mobile browsers or that offer a location generally option is key. Local merchants
apps. A little double-arrow will see an average 8 percent love getting calls from
Google’s mobile ads are open up the ad and show the increase in click-through rates customers. In addition to
becoming more location-aware. business pinned on map with over plain-vanilla mobile ads, targeting by location, of course,
Today, Google is introducing two big blue buttons to get and click-to-call mobile ads see Google also targets mobile
mobile display ads for both the directions or call the business. a 6 percent increase in clicks. display ads contextually and by
iPhone and Android phones Google will only charge for Mobile ads such as these could device. CrunchBase Information
which can be geo-targeted. calls or clicks. open up new marketing Google Information provided by
Advertisers will be able to check Google already offers so- opportunities. Seeing a business CrunchBase
a “ l o c a t i o n e x t e n s i o n f o r called“location extension” ads first time it is expanding the on a map makes it less abstract.
display” box and their ads will for mobile search, but this is the concept to mobile display ads. It literally grounds the ad for the

Ole and Lena ride again

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 7:17:12 AM
Some people don't care for
them, but I love Ole and Lena
jokes.
Here's a good one.
Ole was going on a business
trip to St Cloud but it was
cancelled at the last minute
cause the Minnesota Twins
made it to the playoffs.
He's lying in bed before going
to sleep when the phone rings.
He listens, gets up to look out
the window then returns to the hangs up.
phone. Lena asks: Who was that Ole?
He says in an irritated way: Ole: Oh Sven yust vants to
"How should I know, it's a know if the coast is clear.
thousand miles away!" and
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Sarah Palin's
New Book
Cover Revealed
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 9:21:26 AM

Thursday, 29 Jul 2010 02:21

PM
The cover photo for Sarah
Palin's new book is a portrait in
red, white, blue and gray.
The Alaska ex-governor and
former Republican vice
presidential candidate is
photographed in close-up,
wearing a gray sweater and
American flag pin, which
matches her flag bracelet. Her
book, "America by Heart:
Reflections on Family, Faith and
Flag," comes out in November.
HarperCollins, which also
published Palin's million-selling
"Going Rogue," revealed the
cover design Thursday.

Think City electric car gets bigger American © Copyright 2010 The
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Ener1, a new lithium- managed 43.5 miles with 38 Think City electric car gets an Easy Ride in the
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President Obama
Talks to the Women of
'The View' (VIDEO)
Bob Sassone (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 7:43:00 AM

Filed under: TV Replay

President Obama made his
much talked about appearance
on'The View'(weekdays on
ABC) this morning, and the
President and the five women
(Barbara Walters was on the
show too) actually got to talk
about a mixture of the fluffy
(bike-riding with his kids) to
talk about healthcare, the feud
between the right and the left
Droid 2 manual leaks, teaches you everything you and FOX News and current
unemployment numbers.

need to know about a phone you don't have The latter topic was something
that co-host Elisabeth
Hasselbeck seemed to take issue
Chris Ziegler (Engadget) Droid 2 is taking, so if you're skin as the Droid X, complete Droid 2 manual leaks, teaches
with. This was an appearance
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:57:00 PM looking at getting this thing in with the Swype-enabled (and you everything you need to
that probably was more
the next few weeks, you might presumably multitouch-enabled) know about a phone you don't
You know the drill: blurry shots want to start skimming the interesting than some viewers
soft keyboard for those times have originally appeared on
of phone get leaked... user's documentation so there aren't thought it would be. He was
when you're too lazy to pull out Engadget on Thu, 29 Jul 2010
manual gets leaked... excited a n y e m b a r r a s s i n g n e w b i e welcomed cordially but was
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Interesting, impractical iPhone Superfast Summer

concept lamp
Keith M (The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Accessories,
iPhone
And you thought using an
iPhone as a flashlight was
crazy...
Apparently the above image is
just a concept for a flexible
iPhone dock that one can easily
bend into the form of a lamp.
Obviously, the screen is bright
enough to give enough light for
a small desk area, but is it at all
practical? Of course it's not. It
should be using the iPhone 4
and its much brighter back-
facing LED!
To me, the stand looks much
too narrow to be practical as an
iPhone stand, never mind as a
lamp. Still, I've seen crazier
things being done with the
iPhone when one is in a pinch.
[via Obama Pacman]
TUAW Interesting, impractical
iPhone concept lamp originally
appeared on The Unofficial
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Archive 1887’s Iggy Pop Tees Debut at Barneys

ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion How does it feel to have your upscale store. And Simon What’s a trend that you’re on
Blogs) face emblazoned on T-shirts at Doonan's a talent, so that’s nice board with?
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:17:12 AM Barneys? too. Skaters look good.
Well, it’s nice to be on a shirt, I wouldn’t like it if I didn’t still And what’s a trend that you
Barneys shoppers and die-hard you know? There was a cartoon have blood and drama in my wish would disappear?
I g g y P o p d e v o t e e s f o u n d years ago in The New Yorker life. That would suck if it was The ethnic reinterpretations
common ground last night when and the joke was taking place in just this—if this was all there is. don’t look too good. Click here
Archive 1887 launched a line of a boardroom, and there was a But it’s okay. for more info on Archive 1887.
t-shirts featuring vintage images kid delivering a sandwich with How would you describe your —ERIN CLEMENTS
of the inimitable rock icon. an Iggy shirt on. I was like sense of style these days? Photo: Getty Images
Here’s what Pop had to say “Yeah!” Things like that are I like a look that’s kind of fresh
about it when we caught up with thought provoking. Barneys is wouldn’t put our albums in and innocent, but not like you
him at Chelsea’s Barneys Co- kind of nice because in that shirt stores then. So now at least the give too much of a shit, not
Op. t h e r e , I w a s 2 4 a n d t h e y picture is in a real store—an trying too hard.
44 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Bill Gross Ponders "Deep Demographic Doo-Doo"

noreply@blogger.com States, for example. Lacking an Flashback Sunday, January 10,
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's accelerating population base, all 2010: Pimco's Paul McCulley
Global Economic Trend developed countries promoted Wants Japan To Go "All In"
Analysis)
the financing of more and more In spite of the complete failure
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:23:00 AM consumption per capita in order of Keynesian and Monetarist
Bill Gross usually writes an to maintain existing GDP policies of Japan over two
interesting column provided you growth rates. Finally, in the decades, amazingly Paul
s k i p o v e r t h e f i r s t f e w U.S., with consumption at 70% McCulley wants Japan to go
paragraphs of introduction. His of GDP and a household sector "All In".
August Investment Outlook deeply in debt, there was “Japan’s problem is deflation,
regarding p o p u l a t i o n nowhere to go but down. not inflation as far as an eye
demographics is no different. Similar conditions exist in most can see,” wrote Paul McCulley,
Please consider Private Eyes. developed economies. a member of the investment
Our modern era of capitalism The danger today, as opposed committee, and Tomoya
over the past several centuries to prior deleveraging cycles, is Masanao, the head of portfolio
has never known a period of that the deleveraging is being management for Japan, in a
t i m e i n w h i c h p o p u l a t i o n attempted into the headwinds of report on the Web site of
declined or grew less than 1% a a s t r u c t u r a l d e m o g r a p h i c Newport Beach, California-
year. Currently, the globe is downwave as opposed to a fewer vacations, less emphasis abetted by a slower-growing based Pimco. “An ‘all-in’
adding over 77 million people a decade of substantial population on conspicuous consumption population nor by cyclical reflationary policy is what is
y e a r a t a p a c e o f 1 . 1 5 % growth. Japan is the modern-day and no new cars every few policy errors that thrust needed.”
annually, but slowing. example of what deleveraging in years. Healthcare is their Keynesian consumption The BOJ may also consider
Observers will point out, as the face of a slowing and now primary concern. These aging remedies on a declining promising to refrain from
shown in the following chart, negatively growing population trends present a one-two consumer base. Current deficit raising interest rates until
that global population growth can do. negative punch to our New spending that seeks to maintain inflation becomes
rates have been declining since The preceding analysis does not Normal thesis over the next an artificially high percentage of “meaningfully positive,”
1970 with no apparent ill even begin to discuss the aging 5–10 years: fewer new consumer spending can be McCulley and Masanao said.
effects. True, until 2008, I o f t h i s s l o w e r - g r o w i n g consumers in terms of total compared to flushing money Definitions of Insanity
suppose. The fact is that since population base itself. Japan, population, and a growing down an economic toilet.
the 1970s we have never really Germany, Italy and of course number of older ones who don’t Keynesian Stimulus is Money • In One Sentence: Insanity is
experienced a secular period the United States, with its spend as much money. The Flushed Down the Toilet doing the same thing over and
during which the private market boomers moving toward their combined effect will slow Please read that last paragraph over and over and expecting
could effectively run on its own 60s, are getting older year after economic growth more than closely. Here is the key sentence different results each time.
engine without artificial asset year. Even China with their otherwise. " The New Normal will not be • In Two Words: Paul
price stimulation. The lack of previous one baby policy faces a PIMCO’s continuing New aided nor abetted by a slower- McCulley
population growth was likely a similar demographic. And while Normal thesis of deleveraging, growing population nor by • In One Word: Keynesianism
s i g n i f i c a n t f a c t o r i n t h e older people spend a larger reregulation and deglobalization cyclical policy errors that thrust • In Another Word:
leveraging of the developed percentage of their income – produces structural headwinds Keynesian consumption Monetarism
world’s financial systems and that is, they save less and that lead to lower economic remedies on a declining
t h e b a l l o o n i n g o f t o t a l eventually dissave – the fact is growth as well as half-sized consumer base." Japan has already gone "all in".
government and private debt as that they spend far fewer dollars asset returns when compared to If anyone needs to read that It has tried everything under the
a percentage of GDP from 150% per capita than their younger historical averages. The New paragraph, it is none other than
Normal will not be aided nor PIMCO's Paul McCulley. BILL page 46
to over 300% in the United counterparts. No new homes,
E-reader News Edition Economy/ 45

California Approaches "Fiscal Meltdown"; Schwarzenegger

Declares Fiscal Emergency; Fort Worth Texas Ponders
Scrapping Defined Benefit Pension Plans
noreply@blogger.com Controller John Chiang has personal income tax collection. Association of Professional City Council members are
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's warned he may again need to In the declaration, Scientists. Political Ploy or Act considering doing away with a
Global Economic Trend issue IOUs to pay bills if the Schwarzenegger ordered three of Sanity? guaranteed pension for newer
Analysis)
impasse continues into days off without pay per month The unions accuse employees as the council
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:25:00 PM September. beginning in August for tens of Schwarzenegger of playing struggles to bring Fort Worth's
Governor Schwarzenegger has “Every day of delay brings thousands of state employees to politics. Here's the real story: He spending in line with the drop in
once again furloughed workers, California closer to a fiscal preserve the state's cash to pay had 8 years to get rid of unions taxes.
declaring California is in a fiscal meltdown,” Schwarzenegger its debt, and for essential and failed to do so. He is not No decisions have been made.
emergency. Excuse me for said in a statement today. “Our services. playing politics now, he played And Assistant City Manager
asking but when has California cash situation leaves me no California's budget is five them before, being too spineless Karen Montgomery said the city
ever not been in a state of fiscal c h o i c e b u t t o o n c e a g a i n weeks overdue, joining New to take on the unions until would still have to deal with a
emergency? furlough state workers until the York among big states with recently. big backlog in pension costs
B l o o m b e r g r e p o r t s Legislature produces a budget I spending plans yet to be Now he is a lame duck. Let's even if the council decides to
S c h w a r z e n e g g e r O r d e r s can sign.” Fiscal Emergency approved, and Schwarzenegger hope the next governor has more cut benefits. But pensions have
Furloughs Amid California California Style and top lawmakers are at an common sense. Don't count on been a sacred cow among state
Budget Impasse California The Business Spectator reports impasse over how to balance the it. After all we are talking about and local governments, and few
Governor A r n o l d California state of fiscal state's books. California where pandering to others have even discussed
Schwarzenegger ordered more emergency: Schwarzenegger Analysts say it could be several unions is the best way of getting cutting them.
than 150,000 state workers to California Governor Arnold more weeks before the elected. By law, the city can't change
take three days of mandatory Schwarzenegger declared a state Republican governor and By the way, can someone even the benefits that it's already
unpaid time off to conserve of emergency over the state's leaders of the Democrat-led tell me why California has an paying retirees or those that it
cash. finances yesterday, raising legislature reach an agreement, a "Association of Professional has promised to employees who
The executive order, effective pressure on lawmakers to delay that threatens to lower the Scientists"? Is there anything in have worked long enough to be
Aug. 1, stipulates that the negotiate a state budget that is state's already weak credit California that is not unionized? vested in the pension system.
furloughs will end when a more than a month overdue and rating, now hovering just a few The solution is privatize Also, police and firefighter
budget for the fiscal year that will need to close a $US19 notches above "junk" status. everything, putting people like pensions are guaranteed under
began July 1 is enacted, the b i l l i o n ( $ A 2 1 . 3 b i l l i o n ) Schwarzenegger's new furlough Patty Velez out on her ass where labor contracts.
governor’s press secretary, s h o r t f a l l . order was instantly condemned she has to do some real work The city could be forced to pour
Aaron McLear, said in an e- The deficit is 22 per cent of the by labor officials as a political instead of preying on taxpayers tens of millions of dollars into
mail. It comes after government $US85 billion general fund ploy. for more unjustified union the pension system over the next
workers endured furloughs over budget the governor signed last "To once again force state benefits. The same applies to the few years, and pension costs are
almost 12 months that ended July for the fiscal year that employees to take unpaid prison guards and every other a major contributor to Fort
June 30. ended in June, highlighting how furloughs is just another California union as well. Worth's projected $73 million
California began its fiscal year the steep drop in California's punitive measure by Governor Common Sense in Fort Worth budget gap.
without a spending plan after revenue due to recession, the Schwarzenegger because he Please consider Fort Worth "This is the elephant in the room
Schwarzenegger and Democrats housing slump, financial market couldn't impose minimum council considers eliminating for not only this budget but all
remained deadlocked over how turmoil and high unemployment wage," said Patty Velez, guaranteed pension for newer CALIFORNIA page 49
to fill a $19.1 billion deficit. have slashed its all-important president of the California workers
46
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continued from page 44
sun for two decades including
Keynesianism, Monetarism,
and selling its own currency to
sink it. All it has to show for its
efforts is a massive pile of debt
equaling 227% of GDP.
Amazingly, some people have
learned nothing from two
decades of complete failure.
Send a Message to McCulley
I am glad to see Bill Gross
admit that McCully advocates
"flushing money down an
economic toilet" because that is
exactly what McCully has
proposed on numerous
occasions. My question now is
"How long it will take for Gross
to relay the message to
McCulley?"
Now, if we can only get the
message to Obama, Geithner,
Krugman, Barney Frank, Nancy
Pelosi, and all the other
Keynesian clowns perhaps it
would do some good.
That said, I do have one point
of contention with Gross:
Demographics or not,
Keynesian stimulus never
works. The idea one can spend
one's way to prosperity is
preposterous. As Japan has
proven, attempts to do so in
tantamount to a can-kicking
escapade at best, and an
unsustainable Ponzi scheme at
worst. I lean towards the latter.
Not once do any of the
Keynesian clowns ever address
the question "What happens
when the stimulus runs out?"
Keynesian Definition of
Temporary is Forever
Take note of the $8,000
housing tax credits. Demand
picked up and then subsequently
collapsed. What next? Do we
buy everyone a house whether
they need one or not?
That is essentially what
McCulley suggested when he
asked for Japan to go "All In".
That is what Krugman and
others are suggesting still.
Geithner portrays it as
"temporary".
The Keynesian definition of
temporary is "until it works". In
other words "forever" because
lunacy cannot and will not work
in a sustainable fashion. It only
appears to work for short-term
durations.
The classic example is the
Greenspan induced housing
bubble. Unemployment dropped
to record lows , GDP soared, but
in the end the bubble collapsed.
That is what "All In" does.
Demographic Analysis
While I commend the
viewpoint of Bill Gross, it is
hardly revolutionary except
perhaps of his implied criticism
of McCulley.
Thursday, May 01, 2008:
Demographics Of Jobless
Claims
Structural Demographics Poor
Structural demographic effects
imply that prospects in the full-
time labor market will be poor
for those over age 50-55 and
workers under age 30. Teen and
college-age employment could
suffer a great deal from (1) a
dramatic slowdown in
discretionary spending and (2)
part-time Boomer reentrants
into the low-paying service
sector; workers who will be
competing with younger
workers.
Ironically, older part-time
workers remaining in or
reentering the labor force will be
cheaper to hire in many cases
than younger workers. The
reason is Boomers 65 and older
will be covered by Medicare (as
long as it lasts) and will not
require as many benefits as will
younger workers, especially
those with families. In effect,
Boomers will be competing with
their children and grandchildren
for jobs that in many cases do
not pay living wages.
Consider what such a decline
in US GDP growth and its
multiplier effect could mean for
Asian growth, global trade,
demand for commodities, and
growth elsewhere in the world
(BRIC).
The world equities markets
have barely begun to discount
the increasingly likely severe
deceleration in US and world
GDP growth ahead, including
the secular Boomer drawdown
of accumulated wealth of the
past 25 yrs. Monday, August 31,
2009: Spending Collapses In All
Generation Groups
Boomer Statistics
• $400 Billion: Amount that
E-reader News Edition
will come out of annual U.S. about debt in general. Because
consumption as thrifty boomers of lower incomes and tighter
push savings rate from 1% to lending standards, it is unlikely
nearly 5%. that Generation Y will be either
• 47%: Boomers share of able or willing to carry debt
national disposable income in burdens to sustain a strong
2005 before the bubble burst. recovery.
Boomers contributed only 7% to Distortionary vs. Inflationary
national savings. Bernanke can flood the world
• 2.4%: Forecasted GDP with "reserves" and indeed he
growth over the next three has. However, he cannot force
decades as boomers ratchet banks to lend or consumers to
back. GDP has grown 3.2% a borrow.
year since 1965. Here is a simple analogy that
• 69%: Portion of boomers everyone should be able to
aged 54 to 63 who are understand: You can lead a
financially unprepared for horse to water but you cannot
retirement. make it drink. And if the horse
• 78%: Boomers' share of GDP does not want to drink, it was a
growth during the bubble years waste of time and energy to lead
of 1995 to 2005 the horse to the water.
Yet every day someone comes
T h o s e s t a t s a r e f r o m a up with another convoluted
McKinsey study, and there is theory about how inflationary
nothing remotely inflationary this all is. It is certainly
about boomer demographics. "distortionary" in that it creates
N o r i s t h e r e a n y t h i n g problems down the road and
inflationary about Generation X prolongs a real recovery by
demographics. Generation X's keeping zombie banks alive (as
have seen boomers blow it. By happened in Japan). However, it
sharply curtailing spending, is not (in aggregate) going to
generation X at least has chance cause massive inflation because
t o r i g h t t h e s h i p b e f o r e it is not spurring the creation of
retirement. It's too late for most new debt. Recognition Phase
boomers. Time ran out. I have been talking about these
Now consider generation Y trends for quite some time. The
with 19% of the population. fact that Bill Gross is discussing
Think the income levels of these trends now is part of the
generation Y are going to catch "Recognition Phase".
boomers or generation X? Bear in mind that Robert
When? Prechter figured this out decades
Finally, think about tightening
lending standards and attitudes BILL page 49
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Email from FedUpUSA regarding Afghanistan
noreply@blogger.com
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's
Global Economic Trend
Analysis)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:58:00 AM
In response to Afghanistan is a
"Lost Cause"; Leaked
Documents Show Futility of
Afghanistan War I received an
email from Stephanie Jasky,
founder of FedUpUSA.org. Her
son is currently in Afghanistan.
Stephanie writes .... Hello Mish,
Just wanted to say thanks for
the balanced and objective view
on Afghanistan. My son is on
the front lines with the 101st
Airborne (Infantry). He’s been
there since the first week in
May.
The things I could tell you
would make your hair stand on
end. What civilian leadership,
with some complicity of
military leadership is doing to
our young men and women is
repulsive.
The war is getting a little more
coverage in the media now, but
for a while there, it looked like
all these fine men and women
would be led to their deaths and
no one would even know.
It has been hard as a parent
(and there are MANY of us) not
able to speak up. Most people
have no idea what it is like to
live 24/7 being terrified of the
doorbell ringing.
Thanks again for the article on
Afghanistan. The more people
talk about it, the better chance
something will be done.
Stephanie S. Jasky, Founder,
Director - FedUpUSA.org
Troops Do Not Support The
Mission
Several people have informed
me that OPSEC bars the military
from saying things like "Troops
Do Not Support The Mission"
no matter how true that might
be. Thus, all those stuck in
Afghanistan, not supportive of
the mission, wanting to speak
their minds have no means of
doing so.
Worse yet, inability to speak
ones mind not only applies to
military, but their family's
ability as as well. I am not just
talking about sensitive data like
troop, size, location, strength,
etc, but simple matters of
freedom of speech as to whether
or not troops believe in what
they are doing.
Freedom of speech means
nothing anymore. It's the new
American way.
The Vietnam Afghanistan Song
Well, come on all of you, big
strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help
again.
He's got himself in a terrible
jam
Way down yonder in Vietnam
Afghanistan
So put down your books and
pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta
fun.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a
damn,
Next stop is Vietnam
Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to
wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
Come on Wall Street, don't be
slow,
Why man, this is war au-go-go
There's plenty good money to
be made
By supplying the Army with
the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if
they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Viet Cong
Taliban.
And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a
damn,
Next stop is Vietnam
Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to
wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
With thanks to Country Joe and
the Fish I wonder "Where are
the protest songs?" Are
boomers too worried about
stock market and housing prices
to care if our youth is getting
slaughtered?
What ARE we there for
anyway? Oil? Empire Building?
Obama's Reelection Bid? All
Three?
By the way, I neither endorse
nor denounce other positions of
FedUpUSA.org. I have not
followed them closely enough to
know. Rather, and as always, I
support specific policies on a
case by case basis. In this case
we both seem to agree on the
need to get the hell out of
Afghanistan.
The best way to "Support the
Troops" is to not put them
needlessly in harm's way in the
first place. It's time to declare
the war won and bring them
home.
President Obama has been a
huge disappointment in regards
to war, torture, Guantanamo
Bay, and of course the economy.
Youth of America, are you
paying attention?
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
h t t p : / /
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t.com
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Recent Post List Mike "Mish"
Shedlock is a registered
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representative for SitkaPacific
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Pacific is an asset management
firm whose goal is strong
performance and low volatility,
regardless of market direction.
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'The Real L Word' Cast
Teases More Nudity,
Sex - TCA Report
Kelly Woo (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: TV News, Fall TV
Viewers will get to see a lot
more of the ladies of
Showtime's 'The Real L Word'
in the last three episodes of their
first season.
"You'll see several sexual
situations and some nudity,"
said a sly Whitney Mixter.
Episode 7, in particular, "is
epic," teased Rose Garcia.
'Real L Word' cast members
Mixter, Garcia, Jill Goldstein,
Mikey Hoffman, Tracy Ryerson,
Nikki Weiss were joined by
executive producers Ilene
Chaiken and Jane Lipsitz on a
panel at the Television Critics
Association press tour. The
group previewed the rest of the
season, which Chaiken
promised will bring some of the
"shock value" that was a
hallmark of her scripted series,
'The L Word.'
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48 Economy/ TV/
America Wake Up: Deflation Is Here, We're Just
Like Japan, Except We're Much Worse
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:57:00 PM
Today we got the news that the
Fed's James Bullard thinks the
U.S. is heading for a
deflationary period. He's not the
first to suggest this. Richard
Koo has been on it for months(if
not years) warning that the U.S.
could turn into Japan, with a lost
decade, as our free money
spigot produces nothing but
stingy corporate chiefs cutting
costs and paying down debt.
Combining this with Niall
Ferguson's analysis that the U.S.
is an empire on the wane, at the
risk of collapsing under the
weight of its own interest
payments, and we have a
potentially devastating scenario.
The reality is right now the
government has tried nearly
everything to spur growth.
They've lowered interest rates to
near zero, continued quantitative
easing programs, and instituted
fiscal stimulus. All that has done
is created a larger debt burden
on the U.S. government and
made sure we didn't slip into
unemployment oblivion. That
debt burden is only going to get
bigger, as the government will
need to keep spending through
the period when corporates are
paying down debt to keep
people in jobs and tax receipts
coming in.
But those tax receipts will not
be able to keep up with the
massive growth in the
government deficit and, more
importantly, interest payments.
Which means that, according to
Ferguson, the U.S. government
could be spending more on
interest payments than the
military by the end of the
decade. The final insult could be
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Asia and the Middle East, the
most costly venues. Their power
will be ceded to an emerging
India, wealthy Gulf states, and a SomethingPitchy
rising Iran.
In East Asia, the U.S. is already
Backstage With the
managing a retraction. South Idols: Casey James and
Korea is sliding towards China, Michael Lynche
noting that they both share an (VIDEO)
interest in containing the
madness in North Korea. Andrew Scott (TV Squad)
And in Europe, Russia, Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:31:00 AM
Germany, France, and the UK
are learning to manage a new Filed under: Celebrity
balance on the continent. Interviews SomethingPitchy's
This retraction will be the result backstage interviews with
of a reduction in U.S. military the'American Idol' top 10
spending and rising continues today with hunky
expenditures by powers like rocker Casey James and the
a failed bond auction, or a always hilarious Michael "Big
China, India, and Brazil.
downgrade in the U.S. credit Mike" Lynche.
Right now the debate in
rating, but the damage will be First up, we found out how
government is still centered
done long before then. Casey is feeling after battling
around simple arguments like
Richard Koo is right, the U.S. is allergies at the start of the tour,
austerity v. stimulus or deflation
a lot like Japan. But the U.S. is how he picked his tour set list
v. inflation. But what America
also the U.S. and it has a much and, in an impulsive move from
needs to wake up to is that it is
different position in the world host Andy Scott, just how tall he
managing the fall of an empire,
than Japan did in the 1990s. really is.
and that wisdom lies somewhere
The global U.S. empire, and by Then, Gaby sat down with Big
at the center of the debate, not at
empire we mean its military Mike to talk about his hilarious
either end. Check out Niall
presence at every corner of this tour video series, Late Night
Ferguson's guide to sovereign
Earth, will be changing. It will Sandwich, Aaron Kelly on
debt and empires >
not be everywhere all at once. Redbull and, yes, Tim Urban's
Join the conversation about this
You will see the U.S. pull back pecs. (We had to sneak that in
story »
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CALIFORNIA
continued from page 45
future budgets," Mayor Mike
Moncrief said.
Montgomery suggested moving
new employees and perhaps
even unvested employees to a
"defined contribution" plan. The
specifics of the plan haven't
been determined, but
Montgomery suggested a range
of options, including annuities
or accounts similar to a private-
sector 401(k).
That would be a game-changer
for municipal employees, who
often stay in their jobs because
of the pension and other
benefits.
"In our current pension,
employees cannot outlive their
benefit," Montgomery said. "In
a defined contribution, that risk
is on the employee to manage
their money until they die."
Employees, including the police
and firefighters associations,
have argued to keep the pension
system as it is. A committee
made up mostly of employees
recommended that the city
contribute an additional 6
percent of payroll to the
pension, which would fix the
Octopus Picks Juan Manuel Marquez to Beat Juan Diaz
Lem Satterfield (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:56:00 PM with the idea during a
Filed under: WBA, WBO, setting up Saturday night's Juan
Golden Boy Promotions
LAS VEGAS -- When Richard fight, he said "the line went
shortfall in a few years. Finally!
At long last a major city in the
US (Fort Worth has a population
in excess of 600,000) is
considering doing what
desperately needs to be done:
killing defined benefit pension
plans for public workers.
Instead, the union suggests "an
additional 6 percent of payroll to
the pension, which would fix the
shortfall in a few years". Where
would that contribution come
from? Taxpayers of course. Will
it fix the system? No, it will not
fix the shortfall because of
insane pension plan
assumptions.
The only solution is to kill these
plans right here, right now.
Unfortunately, such action will
not fix the problem of unfunded
plans for current vested
employees, but it is a major step
in preventing further buildup of
a fiscally insane proposition.
If unions had any common
sense they would embrace, not
fight these decisions. The reason
of course is the only other
solution for cities would be to
resolve these difficulties by
Schaefer, Golden Boy
Promotions' CEO, first came up
conference call with officials
Manuel Marquez-Juan Diaz
declaring bankruptcy, putting
accrued benefits at risk.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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t.com
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Recent Post List Mike "Mish"
Shedlock is a registered
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Pacific is an asset management
firm whose goal is strong
performance and low volatility,
regardless of market direction.
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management and capital
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silent."
BILL
continued from page 46
ago, far before most anyone
else, indeed far too soon to do
him or anyone else any good.
Consumers figured it out a year
ago. Mainstream media of
which Bill Gross is an early
practitioner is just starting to
catch on. Bill Gross is behind
bloggers, but he is far ahead of
most of his peers.
By the time mainstream media
fully embraces these trends we
will be two thirds through it.
Such is the nature of the game.
Brutal Combination
Please note that it is not
demographics per se that is
doing us in, but rather enormous
amounts of consumer debt (as a
result of decades of Keynesian
and Monetarist stimulus) in
conjunction with unfavorable
demographics and global wage
arbitrage that is doing us in. Bill
Gross missed this essential
point.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
"I said, 'We should use an
octopus to pick the winner,' and
the line went silent as if to say,
'Well, now, he's really lost it,' "
recalls Schaefer. "They were
like, 'What are you talking
about?' And I had to explain,
Sports/ 49
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t.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.
V i s i t h t t p : / /
www.sitkapacific.com/
account_management.html to
learn more about wealth
management and capital
preservation strategies of Sitka
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because I'm a big soccer fan,
that in the World Cup soccer
tournament, they used an
octopus to pick the winners, and
he was very accurate."
50 Culture/ TV/ E-reader News Edition

Talk Turns to Twilight at the CBS 10 Medieval Torture

TCA Party For Ed Westwick, Devices
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
AnnaLynne McCord, and More! Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM
diabolical barbarity … as the
extraordinary variety, and what
may be termed the artistic skill,
PopSugar (PopSugar) Californication, as she chats up -The Middle Ages stands out as they displayed. They represent a
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:00 PM her new show Hellcats- there's one- of -the most violent eras in condition of thought in which
lots more to come, so stay tuned history. This epoch, lasting men had pondered long and
After a full day at the TCA to Buzz on Twitter for updates roughly 1,0-00- years, from the carefully on all the forms of
panels, the stars of CBS, CW from the panels! 5th century to the 15th-, was a suffering, had compared and
and Showtime stepped out for time of great inequality and combined the different kinds of
their star-studded bash. Ed brutality in much of Europe. torture, till they had become the
Westwick was a treat to chat To see more from the CBS What really sets this time apart most consummate masters of
with as he represented the party, just read more. is the ghoulish inventiveness their art, had expended on the
Gossip Girl cast. He was eager connection after appearing in View 35 Photos › that gave rise to a plethora of subject all the resources of the
to talk about the fate of Chuck the spoof Vampires Suck, and torture methods. There were utmost ingenuity, and had
B a s s a n d e v e n s h a r e h i s he revealed that he read the first I m a g e s i n c l u d e : D a v i d many grounds for torture during pursued it with the ardour of a
thoughts on Robert Pattinson of Stephenie Meyers's books "as Duchovny, Jerry O'Connell, LL the Middle Ages -- religious
passion."
and Kristen Stewart. The cast of research." Matt hasn't had the Cool J, Ashley Tisdale, Oliver fervor and criminal punishment
In this article, we will explore a
90210 took a break from their chance to meet Rob, but he H u d s o n , E d W e s t w i c k , come to mind -- but why would
collection of the most heinous
busy Summers to attend as well. would love to one day. AnnaLynne McCord, Gabourey a person take the time to invent torture devices ever invented.
AnnaLynne McCord has had a Jerry O'Connell, meanwhile, Sidibe, Michael C. Hall, Matt a device designed to maim?
We begin on the next page.
great few months of traveling took a break from promoting Lanter, Shane West, Maggie Q, In his 1975 b-ook "A History of
Five Filters featured
with her boyfriend Kellan Lutz, The Defenders to gush about his Chris O'Donnell, Eva LaRue, Torture in England," L.A. Parry
article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
but it turns out that Eclipse life with the twins and wife, Patricia Arquette, Samantha attempted to explain this bizarre
an Easy Ride in the
wasn't her favorite blockbuster Rebecca Romijn. He says that Harris, Laura Linney, Tom phenomenon:
Independent. Available tools:
of the season - it's a tie between being a dad of girls is the only Selleck, Shenae Grimes, Sela -"...What strikes us most in
PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Inception and Iron Man 2 way to go! David Duchovny and Ward, Leah Remini considering the mediaeval Term Extraction.
because of their two amazing Ashley Tisdale also turned out tortures, is not so much their
lead actors! Her costar Matt for the celebration, and he's
Lanter has his own Twilight busy today with a panel for

What's On Tonight: 'Project Runway,' 'Jersey Shore,' 'Burn

Notice,' 'Futurama'
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 7:30:00 AM
Filed under: TV Previews
Here's tonight's lineup of new
shows and events (all times
Eastern). Check your local TV CBS:'Big Brother' late night talk shows, after the
listings for additional DIY:'This New House'* jump.
information. HGTV:'My First Place' and'My Permalink| Email this| Linking
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8:00 to 9:00
'Jersey Shore.' Nuff said. The rest of the lineup, and the
E-reader News Edition
News Bites: Lara's No
Playgirl, But Lindsay
Lohan's An Artist
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:19:20 AM
Lara Stone's suing French
Playboy(that's the classy one)
for publishing nude pictures of
her without her consent. It's
easier to find a naked picture of
Lara than a clothed one, but she
doesn't want you finding them
in there! { BBC}
Gwyneth Paltrow reveals a
handful of her favorite beauty
products in today's GOOP,
including Bobbi Brown's
concealer and Tom Ford's
velvety lipsticks. { GOOP}
This clutch is either perfectly
nautical or slightly too literal,
either way it's big enough for
summer's necessities. {
StyleBakery}
Lindsay Lohan's keeping busy
making art in jail. { MTV}
Is fall's camel the perfect
science.newsriver.org
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:50:29 AM
Earlier this month I reported on
bloggers leaving
scienceblogs.org because the
publisher sold a presence on the
site to bloggers from PepsiCo.
One of the rationales for
canvas for pastel makeup? Or is
the idea a guaranteed disaster? {
Guardian}
A man bought a set of negatives
at a garage sale for $40. Turns
out their Ansel Adams' long lost
prints and probably worth about
$200 million. {
FabulousOnABudget}
Photo via French Playboy
bundling all the science
bloggers together in one place
was the synergy that comes
from aggregation. Of course,
with RSS you can achieve the
same effect, without putting
them all on the same server. So I
put it on my to-do list to set up yesterday I had some time to do
an science blogs aggregator, and it, so here it is.
Zac Efron Talks About His 10 Things to
Strip Club Visit - He's All Know About
Grown Up Now or Still TMI? Yogurt
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:00:00 PM
Zac Efron paid a visit to Jimmy
Kimmel Live in LA last night to
promote Charlie St. Cloud.
Conversation turned towards
Zac's personal life, and he
confirmed rumors about a recent
visit to a NYC strip club with
pal Corbin Bleu. Zac joked that
it wasn't exactly what he'd
expected, but he apparently did
get the okay from girlfriend
Vanessa Hudgens before
heading in. The mature tale
comes at just the right time, as
Zac hopes that moviegoers will
see him as more of a dramatic
actor than teen heartthrob. So,
watch the clip below and tell us
what you think about Zac's strip
Culture/ Featured/ Food/
club story- he's all grown up
now, or it's still TMI?
View 5 Photos ›
Zac Efron Talks About His
Strip Club Visit - He's All
Grown Up Now or Still TMI?
He's all grown up now - It's
totally legal and he's just having
fun. Still TMI - Regardless of
age, I don't want to hear about
strip club fun.
http://science.newsriver.org/
As always, the OPML for the
site is public so if you want to
feed it into your aggregator
you're welcome to. You should
reimport the OPML from time
to time, or ask your aggregator
developer to do it for you --
because that list will be updated
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'Top Secret America'—A Bust
Richard A. Posner (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 7/28/2010 11:00:00 PM
In late July the Washington
Post published an ambitious
report on U.S. national security
intelligence that we are told had
taken the Post’s staff two years
to complete. The project was led
by two competent and
experienced reporters, Dana
Priest and William Arkin, and
the report has received an
enthusiastic press. Having
written about national security
intelligence in books like
Countering Terrorism: Blurred
Focus, Halting Steps(2007), I
was looking forward to reading
the Post’s report.
The report is, in fact, a
disappointment. It is descriptive
rather than analytic, and the
description is based entirely on
two types of data, neither of
which contributes to an
understanding of the nature and
problems of the nation’s
intelligence system. The two
types are statistics indicating the
size and organizational
complexity of national security
intelligence, and expressions of
exasperation at that size and
complexity by former or current
insiders.
The statistics are not broken
down by each of the principal
domains of national security
intelligence, and so the reader is
given no sense of the actual
structure of the intelligence
system. Five aspects need to be
distinguished. The first is
routine military
intelligence—military
intelligence unrelated to
ongoing combat. The military
has to keep tabs on the
capabilities, deployments,
intentions, and so forth of the
armed forces of foreign
countries even when it is not
fighting them. Second, there is
combat intelligence, which at
present is focused on
Afghanistan but extends to other
areas as well, such as Iraq,
Yemen, and the Philippines.
This second area of military
intelligence overlaps the third
and fourth domains of national
s e c u r i t y
intelligence—counterterrorist
intelligence conducted abroad
and at home, the latter
complicated by sensitivities to
potential violations of privacy
and civil liberties. Last, and
overlapping all the others, is the
traditional kind of foreign
intelligence conducted by the
CIA, which includes wide-
ranging intelligence analysis,
recruitment of foreign agents,
counterintelligence, and
paramilitary operations in
support of U.S. foreign policy.
Merely counting the number of
people, parking spaces, square
feet of building space, and other
countables lovingly recited in
the Post‘s report conveys no
useful information and will
impress only naïve readers who
have somehow failed to realize
that the U.S. government and its
major components are huge. The
report conveys the impression of
mindless growth in intelligence
personnel, contractors, and
facilities since the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001.
But that was a watershed event
that justified expanding the
intelligence system. Before the
attacks there was little concern
with terrorism, and after there
was and there continues to be
acute concern, along with
virtually continuous warfare in
central Asia and enhanced
concern with the nuclear threats
posed by North Korea and Iran.
The report, because it makes no
effort at meaningful
disaggregation of the statistics
of expansion, does not indicate
how much of the recent growth
in our intelligence facilities and
personnel is legitimately
responsive to threats to national
security that have emerged (or
first been recognized) since 9/11
and how much is waste
engendered by political,
commercial, and bureaucratic
exploitation of people’s fears.
Several of the “wow” statistics
highlighted in the report are
completely meaningless. One is
the number of persons—more
than 850,000—who have top-
secret clearances. A top-secret
clearance is required for all sorts
of activities that have nothing to
do with intelligence, such as
advanced weapons research,
high-level military command,
and the management of the
nation’s nuclear arsenal. (A
cafeteria worker in a weapons
factory might require such a
clearance.) It is well known that
overclassification is rampant,
and so the number of top-secret
clearances may well be
excessive. But the figure casts
no light on overclassification of
intelligence.
Another meaningless figure is
that more than 1,200
government organizations are
involved in national security
intelligence. The number was
arrived at by dividing agencies
that have intelligence duties into
their constituent units. Any large
organization contains a large
number of organizational units.
That doesn’t mean the
organization is unmanageable,
which is the inference that the
study invites the reader to draw
from the number of units.
Similarly meaningless is the
large number (almost 2,000) of
companies that have contracts
with one or more intelligence
agencies. They are suppliers of
equipment, personnel,
information, and expertise to the
agencies. There is nothing
unusual or untoward about a
large enterprise—such as the
conglomeration of U.S.
intelligence agencies—having
thousands of suppliers.
The overarching theme of the
study is that the intelligence
system is too large. But in
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emphasizing sheer size, the
study reflects a lack of
perspective. Although the
national security state has about
100,000 employees and annual
expenditures of $75 billion,
IBM has four times as many
employees and yearly costs
approaching the same amount.
Is IBM too large? Is $75 billion,
which is roughly one-half of one
percent of the nation’s Gross
Domestic Product, too much to
spend on the full range of
intelligence activities in which
the world’s most powerful and
globally committed nation—a
nation at war and struggling
against terrorism on many
fronts, including the home
front—is compelled to engage?
The second type of data in the
Post report is not statistical; it
consists rather of anecdotes in
which present or former
members of intelligence
agencies, or officials who
interact with the agencies,
express exasperation at the gaps
and redundancies in the
intelligence system and at the
impossibility of sorting and
analyzing the staggering amount
of intelligence data that the
system collects every minute of
the year. Although anecdotes are
not analysis and do not reveal
the scope and gravity of
problems, the problems revealed
by the anecdotes that pepper the
Post report are real. But they are
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Protesters Arrested in March Against Arpaio's Office

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) Gutierrez, who ran from Zacatecas, Mexico, who is that federal immigration law federal immigration laws.
Submitted at 7/29/2010 9:42:16 AM unsuccessfully for governor in living in Phoenix on a work trumps state law. But the key Kris Kobach, the University of
2002, was among them. permit, said she heard about the sponsor of Arizona's law, Missouri-Kansas City law
O p p o n e n t s o f A r i z o n a ' s Marchers chanted "Sheriff Joe, ruling on a Spanish-language Republican Rep. Russell Pearce, professor who helped write the
immigration crackdown went we are here, we will not live in news program. said the judge was wrong and law and train Arizona police
ahead with protests Thursday fear," and among the crowd was "I was waiting to hear because predicted the state would officers in immigration law,
despite a judge's ruling that a drummer wearing a papier- we're all very worried about ultimately win the case. conceded the ruling weakens the
delayed enforcement of most the mache Sheriff Joe head and everything that's happening," In her temporary injunction, force of Arizona's efforts to
law, and dozens of people in dressed in prison garb. said Rivera, who phoned friends Bolton delayed the most crack down on illegal
Phoenix were arrested after Arpaio vowed to go ahead with and family with the news. "Even contentious provisions of the immigrants. He said it will
peacefully confronting officers a crime sweep targeting illegal those with papers, we don't go law, including a section that likely be a year before a federal
in riot gear. immigrants. It was Phoenix out at night at certain times required officers to check a appeals court decides the case.
Gov. Jan Brewer called U.S. police who made most the early there's so much fear (of police). person's immigration status "It's a temporary setback,"
District Judge Susan Bolton's arrests, but other protests were You can't just sit back and while enforcing other laws. She Kobach said. "The bottom line
Wednesday's decision halting planned later in front of a relax." also barred enforcement of parts is that every lawyer in Judge
the law "a bump in the road," county jail. In New York City, about 300 requiring immigrants to carry Bolton's court knows this is just
and her spokesman said they'd "My deputies will arrest them immigrant advocates gathered their papers and banned illegal the first pitch in a very long
appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit a n d p u t t h e m i n p i n k Thursday near the federal immigrants from soliciting baseball game."
Court of Appeals in San underwear," Arpaio said, courthouse in lower Manhattan. employment in public places — Opponents of the law said the
F r a n c i s c o l a t e r T h u r s d a y . referring to one of his odd New York City Councilman a move aimed at day laborers ruling sends a strong message to
Outside the state Capitol, methods of punishment for Jumaane Williams, a first- that congregate in large numbers other states hoping to replicate
hundreds of protesters began prisoners. "Count on it." generation Caribbean-American, in parking lots across Arizona. the law. Lawmakers or
marching at dawn, gathering in Arizona is the nation's epicenter told the crowd: "We won a The judge also blocked officers candidates in as many as 18
front of the federal courthouse of illegal immigration, with slight battle in Arizona, we've from making warrantless arrests states say they want to push
where Bolton issued her ruling m o r e t h a n 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 got to continue with the war." of suspected illegal immigrants. similar measures when their
on Wednesday. They marched undocumented residents. The In Los Angeles, about 200 "Requiring Arizona law legislative sessions start up
on to the office of Maricopa state's border with Mexico is protesters invaded a busy enforcement officials and again in 2011.
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who awash with smugglers and drugs intersection west of downtown agencies to determine the "Surely it's going to make states
has made a crackdown on illegal t h a t f u n n e l n a r c o t i c s a n d Los Angeles. immigration status of every pause and consider how they're
immigration one of his signature immigrants throughout the U.S., Police shut down the person who is arrested burdens drafting legislation and how it
issues. and supporters of the new law intersection of Wilshire lawfully present aliens because fits in a constitutional
At least eight protesters say the influx of illegal migrants Boulevard and Highland their liberty will be restricted framework," Dennis Burke, the
approached a police line and drains vast sums of money from Avenue and diverted traffic while their status is checked," U.S. attorney for Arizona, told
a l l o w e d t h e m s e l v e s t o b e hospitals, education and other away after demonstrators moved said Bolton, a Clinton The Associated Press. "The
arrested. A group of about two services. into the street and sat down at administration appointee who proponents of this went into
dozen protesters then sat down The ruling was anxiously about 10 a.m. Thursday. was assigned the seven lawsuits court saying there was no
in the middle of the street or awaited in the U.S. and beyond. The protesters chanted, "These filed against Arizona over the question that this was
refused to leave, and police About 100 protesters in Mexico are our streets" during the law. constitutional, and now you
arrested them as well. City who had gathered at the raucous demonstration. Police Other provisions that were less have a federal judge who's said,
Earlier, three people were U . S . E m b a s s y b r o k e i n t o say there have been no arrests. contentious were allowed to 'Hold on, there's major issues
detained at the courthouse after applause when they learned of Bolton indicated the take effect Thursday, including with this bill.'"
apparently entering a closed-off the ruling via a laptop computer. government has a good chance a section that bars cities in PROTESTERS page 55
area. Former state Sen. Alfredo Mariana Rivera, a 36-year-old at succeeding in its argument Arizona from disregarding
54 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Dumb Power
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Republicans’ refusal to raise The study found that the top last year was not big enough to I’m a chronic optimist about
Republic - All Feed) taxes on families earning more 400 households "paid 16.6 keep unemployment from rising America. But we are letting
Submitted at 7/28/2010 11:00:00 PM than $250,000 a year into an percent of their income in to over 9 percent. stupid politics, irrational ideas
election issue. If Democrats go federal individual income taxes But this is not actually an on fiscal policy and an
Washington–Can a nation into a headlong retreat on this, in 2007, down from 30 percent argument against the stimulus. antiquated political structure
remain a superpower if its they will have no standing to in 1995." We are talking here On the contrary, studies undermine our power.
internal politics are incorrigibly govern. about truly rich people: Using showing that the stimulus We need a new conservatism in
stupid? The simple truth is that the 2007 dollars, it took an adjusted created or saved up to 3 million our country that is worthy of the
Start with taxes. In every other wealthy in the United States–the gross income of at least $35 jobs are very hard to refute. It’s name. We need liberals willing
serious democracy, conservative people who have made almost million to get into the top 400 in much easier to pretend that all to speak out on the threat our
political parties feel at least all the income gains in recent 1992, and $139 million in 2007. this money was wasted, daft politics poses to our
some obligation to match their years–are undertaxed compared The notion that when we are although the evidence is influence in the world. We need
tax policies with their spending with everyone else. fighting two wars, we’re not overwhelming that we should moderates who do more than
plans. David Cameron, the new Consider two reports from the supposed to consider raising have stimulated more. stick their fingers in the wind to
Conservative prime minister in Center on Budget and Policy taxes on such Americans is one Then there’s the very structure calculate the halfway point
Britain, is a leading example. Priorities. One, issued last sign of a country that’s no of our government. Does any between two political poles.
He recently offered a rather month, highlighted findings longer serious. Why do so few other democracy have a And, yes, we need to reform a
brutal budget that includes from the Congressional Budget foreign policy hawks powerful legislative branch as Senate that has become an
severe cutbacks. I have doubts Office showing that “the gaps in acknowledge that if they lack undemocratic as the U.S. embarrassment to our
about some of them, but at least after-tax income between the the gumption to ask taxpayers to Senate? democratic claims.
Cameron cared enough about richest 1 percent of Americans finance the projection of When our republic was created, E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
reducing his country's deficit and the middle and poorest American military power, we the population ratio between the ejdionne(at)washpost.com.
that alongside the cuts, he also fifths of the country more than won’t be able to project it in the largest and smallest state was 13 E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of
proposed an increase in the tripled between 1979 and 2007,” long run? -to-1. Now, it’s 68-to-1. the recently published Souled
value-added tax from 17.5 the period for which figures are And if we are unwilling to have Because of the abuse of the Out: Reclaiming Faith and
percent to 20 percent. Imagine: available. a full-scale debate over whether filibuster, 41 senators Politics After the Religious
a fiscal conservative who really The other, from February, used nation-building abroad is getting representing less than 11 percent Right. He is a Washington Post
is a fiscal conservative. Internal Revenue Service data to in the way of nation-building at of the nation’s population can, columnist, a senior fellow at the
That could never happen here show that the effective federal home, we will accomplish in principle, block action Brookings Institution, and a
because the fairy tale of supply- income tax rate for the 400 neither. supported by 59 senators professor at Georgetown
side economics insists that taxes taxpayers with the very highest Our discussion of the economic representing more than 89 University.
are always too high, especially incomes declined by nearly half stimulus is another symptom of percent of our population. And (c) 2010, Washington Post
on the rich. in just over a decade, even as political irrationality. It’s you wonder why it’s so hard to Writers Group
This is why Democrats will be their pre-tax incomes have entirely true that the $787 get anything done in
fools if they don’t try to turn the grown five times larger. billion recovery package passed Washington?
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continued from page 52
also well known, rather than
having been discovered,
Watergate-fashion, by The
Washington Post. The problems
are more difficult to solve than
the Post report, which attributes
them to incompetence and
giantism, lets on.
One of the problems is the
number of different intelligence
databases and the difficulty of
searching across them, or in
other words of pooling the
information in them. It’s not like
searching on Google, which will
scan many thousands of
databases for the answer to your
query. Wouldn’t it be great if
thousands of intelligence
analysts could search all the
intelligence system’s databases
Google-fashion? No it wouldn’t
be, because if one of those
analysts was a foreign agent,
deeply disgruntled employee, or
lunatic, he could and might
reveal to the world all the
intelligence data, techniques,
analyses, names of agents, etc.
possessed by the United States.
There is a difficult tradeoff
between the interest in security,
which argues for bulkheads
between intelligence databases
and for high standards for
granting security clearances, and
the interest in making data
accessible to all intelligence
personnel who could use the
data effectively to warn, to
recruit, to advise, and so forth.
No doubt the right tradeoff
between security and
accessibility is not being struck.
For all the good reasons for
limiting access to intelligence
databases even within the
intelligence system, there are
bad reasons that exert strong
pressure on intelligence
officials. Information is power,
and agencies are reluctant to
share their best information with
each other, because the recipient
may be able to use the
information to pull off—and get
credit for—an intelligence coup.
And agencies that take a chance
on greater openness are sure to
be blamed if a breach of security
results but are unlikely to
receive full, or maybe any,
credit if taking the risk results in
an intelligence success. Success
has a thousand fathers and
failure has a scapegoat.
As a result, the standards for
security clearances and for
access to databases of sister
intelligence agencies (or sister
units within the same agency)
are set too high. Making the
right tradeoff is a problem in
coordination, and it has long
been recognized that
coordination is the Achilles’
heel of our intelligence system.
Before the system was
revamped in 2004, the head of
the CIA doubled as the overall
coordinator of the 16 or so
federal agencies that constitute
the intelligence system.
(Actually state and even some
city intelligence services should
be counted as part of the overall
national system, along with the
security offices of major banks
and other large corporations.)
Running the CIA was a full-time
job and so the coordination
function was slighted. The 2004
reform separated the jobs by
creating a Director of National
Intelligence, but confusingly
made him not only the system
coordinator but also the nation’s
chief intelligence officer,
responsible for advising the
President and other senior
officials on substantive
intelligence matters. This
required a large staff and made
him a rival of the director of the
CIA and triggered turf wars that
continue to this day. James
Clapper, who has been
nominated to be the Director of
National Intelligence in
succession to Dennis Blair,
appears to recognize the
problem and to be determined to
devote himself and his staff to
coordination, leaving the
director of the CIA to be the
nation’s chief substantive
intelligence officer—which is as
it should be.
The glitzy Post report—with its
video clips and color charts, its
padding (a typically empty
sentence is “Trees, walls and a
sloping landscape obscure the
NSA’s presence from most
vantage points, and concrete
barriers, fortified guard posts
and warning signs stop those
without authorization from
entering the grounds of the
largest intelligence agency in
the United States”), and its
dizzying context-free statistics
(as in: “From the road, it’s
impossible to tell how large the
NSA has become, even though
its buildings occupy 6.3 million
square feet—about the size of
the Pentagon—and are
surrounded by 112 acres of
parking spaces”)—is intended to
awe the reader and make him
feel privy to deep secrets that
only a big news room could
unearth. In fact, it contributes
little to the understanding and
improvement of the intelligence
system.
Richard A. Posner is a judge on
the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit and a senior
lecturer at the University of
Chicago Law School.
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But a lawmaker in Utah said the
state will likely take up a similar
laws anyway.
"The ruling ... should not be a
reason for Utah to not move
forward," said Utah state Rep.
Carl Wimmer, a Republican
from Herriman City, who said
he plans to co-sponsor a bill
similar to Arizona's next year
and wasn't surprised it was
blocked. "For too long the states
have cowered in the corner
because of one ruling by one
federal judge."
——
Contributing to this report were
Associated Press Writers
Michelle Price, Paul Davenport
and Jacques Billeaud in
Phoenix, and Sara Kugler
Frazier in New York.
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Fred Thompson: Extend the Bush Tax Cuts
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:43:21 AM
Former Tennessee Republican
Sen. Fred Thompson is working
with the League of American
Voters to extend the Bush tax
cuts of 2001 and 2003.
Taxes next year will revert to
the rates in place before the cuts
unless Congress acts. President
Obama has proposed preserving
the tax reductions for those with
income of less than $200,000
but letting them lapse for
everyone above.
Thompson and the League of
American Voters have launched
a campaign, including ads and a
petition drive, to sustain the tax
cuts for everyone.
“We’re asking people to sign up
[at renewthetaxcuts.com] to let
people in Congress know that
we’re insisting that tax cuts be
renewed,” the 2008 presidential
candidate told Newsmax.TV.
“We face perilous times in our
country now. The economy is
down, and we can’t move totally
in the wrong direction, which is
what allowing the tax cuts to
expire would constitute.”
Dropping the cuts would
depress the economy further,
which is why Senate Budget
Committee Chairman Kent
Conrad, D-N.D., and Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke support keeping them,
Thompson says.
“You don’t raise taxes in a
recession.”
Much of the problem lies with
Obama, he says. “The president
has an ideological intensity
about him that’s unprecedented.
That’s what these tax increases
are about.”
The administration knows that
no reputable economist would
support the idea of raising taxes
in a down economy, Thompson
says.
“Yet they would hope to further
divide the American people,
play into people’s envy and
anger against 2-3 percent of the
people,” Thompson said
referring to the wealthy people
that would be hit with a tax
increase.
“So we cut off our nose to spite
our face.”
That’s because many of those
who would pay higher taxes are
successful small business
people.
“Only an ideologue would force
something like that through at a
time like this,” Thompson said.
That ideology is displayed
throughout administration
policy, such as healthcare and
financial regulation reform.
The new healthcare reform law
is unconstitutional, he says. “For
the first time in the history of
our country, the federal
government is requiring people
to purchase a service [health
insurance] from a private
individual,” Thompson said.
He scoffed at the White
House’s attempt to label the
mandatory purchase of health
insurance as a tax.
“The president said he wouldn’t
raise taxes on the middle class,
but now he’s trying to claim it’s
tax to make it constitutional,
because they don’t think the
commerce clause will carry it
through the courts.” The
constitution gives the federal
government power over
interstate commerce.
The Democrats’ policy moves
give the Republicans a good
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chance to regain control of the
House and perhaps even the
Senate in November’s elections,
Thompson says.
And Obama may well end up a
one-term president.
“His idea is to let Congress take
its lumps,” Thompson said.
“Even if he loses both houses,
the pattern will be to follow Bill
Clinton, who lost Congress but
came back and got re-elected.”
But Clinton succeeded by
moderating his views and
working with Republicans on
balancing the budget and
passing welfare reform.
“I don’t see that it’s in Obama to
do that. I don’t see that his left
wing will allow him to do that.
They’re upset as can be now
about him not being far enough
to the left.”
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Liberals’ Deficit Chicken Is Taxpayers’ Soaring Eagle

J.D. Foster (The Foundry: result of a shortfall in revenue people agreed with them and
Conservative Policy News.) but is due instead entirely to an wanted higher taxes, the hikers
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:00:47 PM attempt by Obama and friends to would not hesitate to bring
increase the size of government legislation to the floor of the
Posted July 29th, 2010 at substantially and permanently. House to jack up those taxes to
1:00pm in Entitlements Print Whereas federal spending as a fund even more government
This Post share of our economy is spending. Why, then, has the
Liberals are desperate to bully typically just above 20 percent, imperial Speaker Nancy Pelosi
or chide the rest of the country under Obama’s budget it hits (D–CA) not brought the bill to
into accepting massive new 25.1 percent, according to his the floor of the House? Why has
taxes to support the recent own numbers, and stays around no Senator brought such an
federal spending surge. Many 23 percent for the balance of the amendment or bill to the floor of
opponents who resisted the decade. the Senate.
spending on the grounds that it Those who fight tax increases Why? Because the American
increased the budget deficit are are not weak or hypocritical people would ship them to the
n o w b e i n g c a l l e d d e f i c i t about the budget deficit. The dustbin of history in one
chickens because they oppose deficit is dangerously high and election. And that is why the
the tax hikes needed to pay for must come down, or else we risk Democratic leadership has said
all that spending. This is a a fiscal crisis, as a recent it will deal with the expiration
p a r t i c u l a r l y n a u s e a t i n g Congressional Budget Office of the 2001/03 tax relief after
development as the charge (CBO) report makes clear. But the election—so the voters
comes from those whose actions there is a higher priority than won’t know how much the
prove they care not one whit reducing budget deficits caused Democrats intend to contravene
about the nation’s finances. by excessive spending, and that the American will when voters
Nauseating or not, however, is to protect taxpayers from the go to the polls. They say there’s
there is no reason to cave to insatiable appetite of the federal
rates on small business are which the CBO warns. This no secret plan to raise taxes.
such frail bric-a-bracs. Goliath. Lower taxes would precisely those that would do would be a victory for the They’re planning on it. They’re
E v e n u n d e r n o r m a l allow individuals to keep more
great harm to the economy now economy, for workers, and for trying to keep it a secret. Who’s
circumstances, at just over 18 of their own property. It’s their really the chicken now?
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Keep the Internet Free of the U.N.

Brett Schaefer (The Foundry: noted by McDowell, the ITU is
Conservative Policy News.) a different beast. U.S. objections
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:00:29 PM could and, likely, would be
overridden by vote in the
Posted July 29th, 2010 at international organization at the
2:00pm in American Leadership behest of countries bent on Earthworm Jim
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An op-ed in The Wall Street
controlling the Internet to
address their concerns.
HD wriggles onto
Journal by Robert McDowell, a
commissioner of the U.S.
In general, the Obama
administration has been less
PSN August 3
Federal Communications protective of the freedom of the Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Commission, warns that a FCC Internet than the Bush Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:20:00 PM

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Internet access could lead to trend is exacerbated by the PS3 owners who've been
international regulation of the possibility of ITU oversight of jealous of nearly every other
Internet by the International the Internet. platform's chance to get their
Telecommunications Union. State interference with the Web honor or interest,” or “spreading Keeping the Internet free of hands on the unbridled power of
The ITU, a largely autonomous is spreading. From Iran to North rumors.” Government regulation U.N. oversight is paramount to "puh-laaazmuh" will be pleased
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technology issues. Tuesday, August 3.
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As McDowell observes, many For instance, the Chinese censor and otherwise regulate freedom on the Internet less sure So, what bonus features has
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to an unregulated Internet and paper on its Internet policy in decade. The U.S. has been able political pressure, censorship, version of the game as an
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Chevy Volt: Cheap at Half the Price Graham: End Birthright
Mike Brownfield (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:30:20 AM
You can buy a lot of car for
$41,000. A BMW. A Mustang
GT convertible. Even a
Mercedes. Or you could shell
out for a brand-spanking-new
electric-powered Chevy Volt
and do your part to “save the
environment.” Government-
owned General Motors is
counting on the government to
encourage you to do the latter.
According to a New York
Times report, GM spokesman
Greg Martin said in an e-mail:
Policy makers can do their part
to speed the market acceptance
of these vehicles as part of a
much broader energy policy that
sends a market/economic signal
that places a premium on fuel
efficiency. Could a carbon price
be a part of such a policy? Yes.
As well as consumer tax
incentives.
Those tax incentives are already
coming to bear, at least for the
Volt. Barron’s reports that with
a federal subsidy, the Volt’s
price could be as low as
$33,500, after a $7,500 tax
subsidy financed by the
American taxpayer under
President Barack Obama’s
stimulus bill. That might sound
a bit more affordable, but the
Citizenship for Illegals'
Children
subsidy masks the true $41,000
cost. If you contrast that with
other new offerings (take the
highly fuel efficient,$13,320
Ford Fiesta, for example), that’s
a steep price.
But your bottom line doesn’t
matter to the eco-left. For them,
less isn’t more. More is more.
More regulations. More taxes.
Less money in your pocket.
What additional energy costs
might you expect to see from
this Congress? Take the
Waxman-Markey jobs-killing
environmental legislation.
According to Heritage research,
the bill would cost a typical
family of four $829 per year in
additional energy-based utility
costs, increase gasoline prices
by 58%, and increase average
household electric rates by 90
percent.
There are other ways your tax
dollars are being spent to bring
electric cars to market. Apart for
the government offering tax
incentives to encourage you to
buy electric vehicles, the U.S.
government has also shelled
out$2.4 billion in grants for
advanced battery and vehicle
manufacturing. The government
may be a major consumer of
those vehicles, and it may foot
the bill for creating
infrastructure needed to charge
them. The kicker? Even with all
that money being spent, electric
cars may not succeed, at least
according to one electric vehicle
battery manufacturer. The New
York Times reports:
One battery manufacturer,
Boston-based A123Systems, has
received hundreds of millions in
government aid to set up a new
plant in Livonia [Michigan]. Les
Alexander, the company’s
general manager of government
solutions, said federal spending
on manufacturing and research
is helping, but “if we do not
have the vehicles being built, or
customers buying those
vehicles, it’s a risk that this
industry will go away.”
That’s one expensive ride for
what could be a very short trip.
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Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:54:25 AM advantage of the current rule,
coming here simply to have
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., children, Graham says.
may introduce a constitutional “It's called ‘drop and leave,’" he
amendment so that illegal said.
immigrants’ children who are “They cross the border, they go
born in the United States no to the emergency room, have a
longer automatically become c h i l d , a n d t h a t c h i l d ' s
citizens. automatically an American
Any child born in the United citizen. That shouldn't be the
S t a t e s i s n o w e n t i t l e d t o case. That attracts people here
citizenship under the 14th for all the wrong reasons.”
amendment. The immigrant debate has taken
But Graham doesn’t think that on added urgency now that a
privilege should be extended to federal judge has granted a
children of the 12 million illegal preliminary injunction against
immigrants living here. the strongest sections of
“I'm a practical guy, but when Arizona’s controversial new
you go forward, I don't want 20 immigration law.
million more 20 years from Republican Arizona Gov. Jan
now,” he told Fox News. Brewer has vowed to fight the
“I want to be fair. I want to be d e c i s i o n . A r e c e n t C N N /
humane. We need immigration Opinion Research poll shows
policy, but it should be on our that 55 percent of Americans
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Celebrate Manufacturing Workers,
Too!
Bryan Riley (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:00:09 PM
Posted July 29th, 2010 at
3:00pm in American Leadership
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If Congressman Peter Defazio
(D–OR), sponsor of the End the
Trade Deficit Act, had grown up
in Kansas instead of
Massachusetts, he might have
learned a valuable lesson from
an association called the Kansas
Agri-Women.
In 1978, this group started
placing billboards across the
state proclaiming, “One Kansas
farmer feeds 55 people + YOU.”
The Agri-Women regularly had
to update their billboards as
farmers became more
productive. Each year, one
Kansas farmer could feed more
people than he could the year
before.
By 1999, the billboards
advertised that one Kansas
farmer feeds 128 people—plus
you. Eventually, rather than
continually having to update the
billboards as farmers kept
getting better at their jobs, the
group changed the text to read:
“One Kansas farmer feeds more
than 128 people.”
Compare the Agri-Women’s
approach to Defazio’s recent
lament: “The U.S. has lost
3,718,000 manufacturing jobs
since 1998.” But as previous
Heritage Foundation studies
have shown, those jobs were
lost because U.S. manufacturing
workers, like the farmers praised
by the Kansas Agri-Women,
kept getting more and more
productive.
After accounting for inflation,
manufacturing output was 1.9
percent lower in the recession
year of 2008 than in 1998.
While American manufacturing
workers produced almost as
much in 2008 as in 1998, it took
fewer of them to do it. A U.S.
worker who made about
$23,000 worth of manufactured
goods in 1998 produced
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Danny Spiegel (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:55:00 AM
David Hasselhoff
In commercials for the Comedy
Central Roast of David
Hasselhoff(airing Sunday,
August 15, 10/9c), the actor
gamely acknowledges the
abundance of material that is
likely to be slung at him at the
legendary no-holds-barred
event: Knight Rider, Baywatch,
the undying devotion of his
German fans to his music and,
of course, "the video." That's the
infamous clip from 2007 in
which one of Hasselhoff's two
daughters pleads with her
shirtless, intoxicated father to
stop drinking, all while he
munches on a hamburger. It will
all be easy fodder for confirmed
roasters like Pam Anderson(a
roast victim herself in 2005),
George Hamilton, Hulk Hogan,
Jerry Springer as well as ringers
like Jeffrey Ross, Lisa
Lampanelli and the roastmaster
himself, Family Guy's Seth
MacFarlane. So the question
remains — with that type of
ammunition waiting, why do the
roast? Here, Hasselhoff spoke to
TV Guide Magazine by phone
and addressed that obvious
inquiry as well as who will not
be at the roast and how he looks
back on his departure from
America's Got Talent.
TV Guide Magazine: How did
this roast come about?
Hasselhoff: I have a new
manager, Larry Thompson, and
this manager was also involved
with a couple of people that
were roasted before, namely
Joan Rivers and William
Shatner. [But originally] they
asked me to roast Pamela
Anderson [in 2005]. And just
because I knew it was going to
be so brutal, I decided to lay low
on that one.
TV Guide Magazine: So why
do this one, though, where
you're the target?
Hasselhoff: My kids are the
ones who inspired me to do it,
because they said, "Dad, this'll
turn the whole thing around and
let people know how we feel
and where we're at with this
disease." And I said, "Right on,
girls. If I've got your approval,
let's go." And so this is not
really scary to me because it's
really an opportunity for me to
get up and say, "Well, you
wanna play? I can play too and
I'm ready." I know it's gonna be
brutal, [but] I know it's gonna be
funny [and] no one makes more
fun of himself than me.
TV Guide Magazine: Have you
spoken with Pam Anderson
about her experience?
Hasselhoff: I did speak to her
and I really can't tell you what
she said but I had already
convinced myself that I wanted
to do it before that. I think she
came across really great on that
show. I think that everybody
else kinda came across as kinda
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show called Huge on the ABC came out, which was completely
Family; she's the breakout star illegal and completely a private
of that show. My other daughter tape.
Taylor-Ann is pursuing her TV Guide Magazine: There
dream as a singer with Haley, have been reports even this year
and they're part of the A&E about some alcohol related
show [ Meet The Hoffs, which things. Where you are now?
premieres in the winter]. It's Hasselhoff: I'm in a bedroom
really about their struggle to with my dog. Where are you?
find themselves as daughters of TV Guide Magazine: I'm at my
The Hoff, and their music career desk, actually.
and how hard they're working at Hasselhoff: Good. Are you
it and how difficult it is sober?
sometimes to be the daughters TV Guide Magazine: I am.
of a celebrity. Hasselhoff: Good. So am I. For
TV Guide Magazine: But are me it comes down to a simple,
you concerned about how your really corny phrase, "Baby it's
stupid. You know? And she rose daughters will react to the roast? one day at a time." And it really
above it and I thought it Hasselhoff: My daughters are is. And I look at every day as an
elevated her status, especially in gonna be in the front row and opportunity. I turn it over to
my eyes. they said, "Bring it on." They're God in the morning and say,
TV Guide Magazine: You ready. They've got something to "Let's have a fantastic day and
sound ready, but be honest, are say to everybody as well. keep me away from you know
you a little bit nervous? TV Guide Magazine: Are they what and let's move forward."
Hasselhoff: You know, buddy, going to be speaking? And the more I do that the less I
when you're living in my shoes Hasselhoff: It remains to be have anything to do worry
and you're laying in a hotel seen. Watch the show. The about. So I'm doing great.
room in Romania [in 2007] and Hoffs are ready. TV Guide Magazine: In terms
you've gone out to dinner with a TV Guide Magazine: Which of the roasters, will KITT
leading lady and then they run means it will be happening, possibly be showing up and are
the tape [on TV] and put right? you afraid of any secrets he
Romanian subtitles on it, the Hasselhoff: I don't really know. might spill?
world can't get much lower than To be honest, I have not opened Hasselhoff: I heard that KITT
[ t h a t ] . A n d i t w a s r e a l l y or closed the door. They will be was in rehab. And hopefully I'll
exacerbated by selling tickets participating in some respect. be able to get him out for the
more than anything, not about And I told them it's gonna be show. He's in the same place as
helping David Hasselhoff or brutal, you have to be ready. the General Lee. He's had a real
helping any alcoholics out there. And they said, "Dad, we are so problem [being a] one-hit
It just takes away from the ready." Because they are so wonder and it's difficult for him
wonderful life that we're having p i s s e d o f f a b o u t w h a t ' s to get another job because
right now with my daughter happened to me and what's everyone identifies him as
Haley being successful on a happened to them at school and READY page 63
the perception of why that thing
62 TV/ Food/
Top Chef's Andrea: "I Should Have Stolen the
Pea Puree"
Gina DiNunno (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:34:00 PM
Top Chef, Andrea
During this week's Top Chef
power-lunch elimination
challenge, a container of pea
puree took center stage as the
cheftestants and viewers were
left to wonder if Alex actually
stole the side dish from Ed and
passed it as his own.
TVGuide.com spoke with
eliminee Andrea Curto-
Randazzo to get her take on the
matter and why she found it
"very weird" that the three
people closest to the pea drama
wound up in the top three. Plus:
Find out which critique she says
was a "bunch of bologna."
Top Chef's Tom Colicchio:
Toby "didn't have the most
authoritative voice"
TVGuide.com: Let's talk about
the allegedly stolen pea puree
dish that everyone is talking
about.
Andrea Curto-Randazzo: I
guess I should have stolen the
pea puree — I could have won!
[ Laughs] All I know is Ed was
missing puree and Alex had it. I
never saw [Alex] make it. I
never saw it go into the blender.
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I just know it wound up on his something you don't really care
plate. Did I actually see the for, it shows. I just think that's a
stealing of it? No, I was way too bunch of bologna. I cook food
busy with my own dilemmas. It all the time that you might not
was a very weird situation ...
that the people in the top three
be fond of, but know how to
handle properly and treat well, Anadama
— not saying that they did or and it comes out beautifully.
did not deserve to be there, but
in the way it was orchestrated
TVGuide.com: What's next for
you?
Bread
— were the person with the pea Andrea: Right now, my (Simply Recipes)
puree, the person who lost the husband and I are heading up Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:40:27 AM
pea puree, and the [friend of the] The Water Club, a new
person who lost the pea puree. restaurant in North Miami Have you ever had Anadama
Maybe they were hoping more Beach. It's been open about a bread? It's a traditional dark
drama would unfold there month and is a big project for yeast bread from New England.
because Tiffany — and I love us. We still have our catering Please welcome Hank Shaw as
her — never holds back. And I company and run a café at the he shares the recipe for this
know she was biting her tongue. delicious loaf he made for us the
body of work, and I know what Fairchild Tropical Garden. We
That's all I can say about that. other day. ~Elise
awesome chefs they are. So I'm are trying to sell [our restaurant]
TVGuide.com: So why did you My mum was never much of a
saying the two of them were Talula, and we've been trying to
put vanilla in a savory dish? baker, but she used to tell us
way more awesome than some do that a couple years now — to
Andrea: It's something I've about a bread she loved back at
people who weren't in the relocate it from South Beach.
done before, and it did work. home on the North Shore of
bottom. I know you want me to W e ' d l i k e t o p u t i t i n a
There are other factors involved Massachusetts called, oddly,
pick out certain people, but I'm neighborhood that's maybe not
[and that's] probably why it anadama bread. Apparently the
not one to do that. At this point, as seasonal and with a regular
didn't work. Just those old tale is that Anna was a
the viewers can decide who local following. And then I've
circumstances — they're not fishermans wife who fed her
s h o u l d b e t h e r e a n d w h o got my family thing going on
your normal in-your-kitchen with three girls. So I'm always beau little more than cornmeal
shouldn't.
circumstances. It just didn't turn porridge sweetened with
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KITT. It's tough for him.
TV Guide Magazine: Are you
prepared for lots of people
playing off the title of your
former show America's Got
Talent?
Hasselhoff: I'm sure there'll be
stuff about whether Hoff's got
talent or not. But I've been
dealing with whether I've got
talent my entire life and ended
up with a legendary show called
Knight Rider, that's still out
there, and the number one
watched show for 11 years in
syndication, Baywatch, and nine
million records. And the funny
part about it is I'm still
apologizing for the shows and
they're still running. In the end, I
got the last laugh on that one
[re: America's Got Talent]. In a
way, it's funny because when
negotiations broke down and we
all kind of decided "Well, this is
not gonna work anymore," I was
very happy to move on. It was
taking up an amazing amount of
time. But I found out that I
really missed the show and I
missed working with — I can't
believe I'd say this — Pierce and
Sharon because we had so much
fun fighting that it really became
almost the center of the show as
opposed to which crazy act was
up there. But it's doing well and
I wish them all well.
TV Guide Magazine: As you
said your daughters are going to
be there, but will there be any
other family members
attending?
Hasselhoff: I purposely told my
Dad not to come. He's 85 and I
don't think it would be his cup
of tea. I have four sisters [and]
I'm sure at least one or two of
them will be there.
TV Guide Magazine: Right, but
Mel Gibson will not be there,
correct?
Hasselhoff: Um...
TV Guide Magazine: I'm
joking.
Hasselhoff: Ya know what Mel
does...It's his life and if he
shows up I think it would be
terrific.
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Save the Manuals!
The virtues of shifting
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Save the Manuals! The virtues
of shifting gears yourself Car
and Driver has started a
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called, not surprisingly, “ Save
the Manuals!” I couldn’t agree
more. We’ve found in our
testing that manual
transmissions typically use
about 10-percent less fuel than
their automatic counterparts and
allow cars to accelerate quicker,
as well. Plus, the best manual
transmissions can make the
driving experience much more
fun and engaging. All of this,
and you save money, too --
opting for a manual
transmission typically cuts about
$1,000 off the sticker price.
Sadly, fewer Americans learn
to drive stick shifts each year,
the sales figures of manual-
shifting cars continue to
dwindle, and the skill of rowing
through the gears is fast
becoming a lost art. Manual
transmissions are disappearing
from entire market segments.
Today, they’re mostly found in
only smaller or sporty cars.
Our tests show that there
remains a performance
difference between automatics
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and manuals. One example is
our tested Volkswagen Jetta
TDI. It was equipped with a
dual-clutch six-speed automated
manual gearbox, technology that
is touted to be very efficient.
Thus equipped, the Jetta
returned 33 mpg overall in our
tests. However, when we later
tested a Golf TDI equipped with
a conventional six-speed
manual, it got 38 mpg overall--
matching the fuel economy of
Honda’s CVT-equipped Insight
hybrid.
But the extra 5 mpg is not the
entire difference. Opting for the
manual made the car quicker,
more fun to drive, and about
$1,000 cheaper than the
automatic. (The Golf is a
hatchback version of the Jetta,
and our test cars weighed in
within 75 lbs. of each other).
And it isn’t just diesels that
benefit. We have tested several
similarly equipped vehicles--
identical all except for the
The price you pay for a bad back
rss@consumerreports.org
(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:16:04 AM
The price you pay for a bad
back Back pain is not only
painful, it’s expensive. The
average back-pain sufferer—or
his or her insurer—spent about
$1,600 on it in 2007, including according to a recent report for
about $1,150 for doctor visits the Agency for Healthcare
and $450 for medications, R e s e a r c h a n d Q u a l i t y .
choice of transmission. (The
Mini Cooper/Clubman was the
exception; the Clubman is a bit
longer and heavier, but both had
the same engine.) As the table
below shows, getting a manual
can yield big improvements
acceleration and fuel economy.
Model Fuel economy overall-
manual Fuel economy overall-
automatic 0-60 mph (sec)-
manual 0-60 mph (sec)-
automatic Ford Focus SES 29
26 9.0 10.1 Honda Accord LX-P
(4-cyl.) 26 23 8.4 9.8 Honda
Civic EX 31 28 8.6 10.1
Mazda3i 30 27 8.6 9.6 Mini
Cooper/Clubman 33 29 9.1 10.5
Scion xD 34 29 9.0 9.7 Subaru
Forester 2.5X 24 22 9.1 10.4
There are downsides to stick
shifts. Congested traffic
conditions can make rowing a
manual and working a clutch
pedal a tedious chore. Manual
transmissions do have a learning
curve, but like riding a bike, it
becomes natural after a few
days. While starting out on hills
can be a bit nerve-wracking at
first, many modern manuals
have a hill-holder function so
you don’t roll backwards.
So if you are looking to shave
some money off the purchase
price of your new car, save fuel,
and have a more enthusiastic
driving experience, consider
doing the shifting yourself with
a manual transmission. Buying
making this choice, you will
help save the manuals.— Jake
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Altogether, the 27 million
people who experienced the
pain that year spent more than
$30 billion seeking relief.
Unfortunately, the AHRQ study
doesn’t tell us if the patients got
their money’s worth. But it’s
likely that a good deal of them
found little relief. Others
probably would have gotten
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Recall: Toyota Avalon
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Consumer Reports Shopping
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Submitted at 7/29/2010 8:42:56 AM
Recall: Toyota Avalon and
Lexus LX for steering problems
Toyota is voluntarily recalling
373,000 2000-2004 Toyota
Avalon sedans and 39,000 2003
-2007 Lexus LX 470 SUVs for steering shaft condition on 2003
-2007 Lexus LX 470 in which
steering problems.
The Avalon recall is to address the snap ring on the shaft may
disengage when the vehicle has
the possibility that the steering
lock bar could break due to an impact to the front wheels
like hitting a pothole.
improper casting. A crack may
develop on the surface and Lexus dealers will replace the
snap ring and install a newly
expand after repeated lock and
unlock operations. This could designed component to prevent
separation of the steering shaft
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KISS-brand TVs; shooting flames
are optional
Paul Reynolds (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:05:04 AM
KISS-brand TVs; shooting
flames are optional A company
called RTC is selling a line of
LCD TVs
featuring the brand name of
"KISS," the music group.
Photo: RTC
For KISS fans not yet willing or
able to confront their own
mortality by buying a $4,500
KISS Kasket coffin, there's a
new way to show your love for
the band: a limited-edition line
of KISS-brand HDTVs.
The TVs, manufactured by a
company called RTC, are 1080p
LCD models with LED
backlights and 120Hz
technology. The TVs come in
32-, 40- and 46-inch screen
sizes, with prices ranging from
$800 to $1,400. According to
There Are No Cures for This Doctor's Ills
David Whitley (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:58:00 AM
Filed under: College Hockey
As the point man for saving
cancer patients, Dr. Tedd
Collins was described as a Man
on a Mission.
Now people are wondering
whether Collins' true mission
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better on their own. And treatment might be necessary,
sometimes all it takes is
removing your wallet from your
and when it’s best to simply
wait the pain out. When
like it costs $200 for a five-year back pocket. That’s just how treatment is needed, the Ratings
plan, though I didn't spend the back pain is. It is a notoriously can help make sure you get the
time to see exactly what was tricky condition to diagnose and most for your health-care
covered. But KISS the band has treat. Research suggests that dollars.
been touring for 36 years; if the people respond differently to the — Kevin McCarthy, associate
sets last even a third that long, various treatments, which editor
my guess is that buyers will be include exercise, medications, If you need help treating your
happy. surgery, and alternative back pain, take a look at what
—James K. Willcox Next Steps therapies such as acupuncture worked for our readers and what
• TV Buying Advice: and spinal manipulations. An t o c o n s i d e r
the KISS TV website, the sets • Types of TVs| article in the July 29th New if you're considering surgery.
have a "diamond-plated look to • TV Features| England Journal of Medicine, Subscribe now!
the casing" and embossed KISS • TV Brands for example, found that while S u b s c r i b e t o
logos on each side; every time acupuncture may be helpful for ConsumerReports.org for expert
you turn on the set, you'll be All TV Ratings Subscribers can some, it hasn’t proven itself Ratings, buying advice and
treated to an eight-second image view and compare all TV more effective than sham reliability on hundreds of
of the band. Only 15,000 KISS Ratings. Recommended TVs acupuncture in trials. And products. Update your feed
H D T V s w i l l b e m a d e Look at the ones that we chose people who get either real or preferences
worldwide, the website claims. as the best of the best. Subscribe sham acupuncture tend to fare
The TVs come in collector's now! better than those who get no
edition packaging, and include S u b s c r i b e t o treatment at all.
free shipping within the U.S. ConsumerReports.org for expert Use our treatment
You can buy the TVs via RTC's Ratings, buying advice and R a t i n g s ( a v a i l a b l e t o
w e b s i t e , a n d a n e x t e n d e d reliability on hundreds of s u b s c r i b e r s ) t o s e e w h e n
warranty is offered on the TV; products. Update your feed
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was to help patients or himself. Collins has dropped on Mandi. worst of all, somebody might
The Connecticut Attorney People may smell a scam and think the Schwartz family, Yale
General Richard Blumenthal is want nothing more to do with it. and everybody who rallied for
investigating two charities I wouldn't blame them after her cause is in on the swindle.
Collins set up to aid Mandi revelations of Collins' wheeling The fact is Collins has made
Schwartz(pictured right) and dealing came out this week. them all victims.
She's a Yale hockey player who It could hurt the last-minute Thanks, Doc.
is battling leukemia. Her quest search for a suitable donor for
to find a bone-marrow donor has If it rings a faint bell with you, Mandi. It could hurt fundraising
been one of the year's biggest that's part of the problem efforts on behalf of her and
heart-tugging stories. similar cancer victims. And
68 Sports/
Source: Roy Oswalt waives no-trade Baltimore Orioles hire
clause for trade to Philadelphia
Phillies
Jayson Stark (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:12:39 PM
Updated: July 29, 2010, 3:23
PM ET Scott Van Pelt
Jayson Stark says Roy Oswalt
plans to accept his proposed
trade to the Phillies. Stark also
covers Cliff Lee, Fausto
Carmona, Jake Westbrook,
Adam Dunn and Derrek Lee.
Roy Oswalt has officially
accepted his proposed trade to
the Philadelphia Phillies, a
baseball source familiar with the
discussions said Thursday.
A source said after considering
his options and speaking with
friends familiar with the Phillies'
situation, the Houston Astros'
staff ace waived his no-trade
clause in order to be dealt to
Philadelphia.
The Astros will pay $11 million
of the approximately $23
million that the 32-year-old
right-hander is guaranteed
through 2011, sources said.
Oswalt did not demand that his
2012 mutual option for $16
million be picked up by the
Phillies, a baseball source told
ESPN.com's Amy K. Nelson.
Instead, if either he or the
Phillies chose not to pick it up,
Buck Showalter as
manager
his $1 million buyout will
increase to $2 million.
If Oswalt or the Phillies decline
to exercise the option, then the
pitcher will make $18 million
next season. But both Oswalt
and the Phillies must agree on
the option for 2012 for him to
stay with the team that season,
the source told Nelson.
In return for Oswalt, the Astros
would get back left-handed
starter J.A. Happ and two
prospects, according to sources.
Decade of Dominance
Since breaking into the big
leagues in 2001, Roy Oswalt has
143 victories -- 28 more than
any other NL pitcher. And his
1,593 strikeouts are the most for
any NL pitcher with 100 starts
since 2001. Category Oswalt NL
Rank Wins 143 1st ERA 3.24
5th Strikeouts 1,593 1st Innings
1,958 2/3 2nd
Although the Phillies prospects
have not been publicly
identified, sources said the
Astros will receive outfielder
Anthony Gose as part of the
deal. Gose is currently at Class
A Clearwater in the Florida
State League, where he was
batting .263 with a team-high
110 hits.
Sources said the Astros have
pressed hard for first baseman
Jonathan Singleton, considered
the team's best minor league
hitting prospect.
Singleton is currently at Class
A Lakewood in the South
Atlantic League, where he was
hitting .312 with 18 doubles and
12 home runs as of Thursday.
The agreement on trade terms
was first reported by KRIV-TV
in Houston.
The Astros were off to a
National League-worst 14-27
start when Oswalt asked for a
trade May 22. As of Thursday,
he was 6-12 with a 3.42 ERA.
He was scheduled to start Friday
against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Coincidentally, Happ was
scheduled to start Friday for the
Phillies against Washington.
For his career, Oswalt is 143-82
with a 3.24 ERA.
Jayson Stark is a senior
baseball writer for ESPN.com.
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Tim Kurkjian (ESPN.com) Rangers. He helped rebuild the
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:15:21 PM Yankees into a power after a
down period, and he was the
Updated: July 29, 2010, 3:15 primary builder of the fledgling
PM ET By Tim Kurkjian Arizona Diamondbacks in 1997;
ESPN The Magazine that team won the World Series
Archive with Bob Brenly at the helm in
The Baltimore Orioles have 2001, a year after Showalter was
hired ESPN analyst Buck fired.
Showalter as their next manager, In 2004, he led the Rangers to
the team announced Thursday. 89 wins, 19 more than when he
Showalter's first game as took over two years earlier.
manager will be Tuesday night Showalter will have work to do
against the Los Angeles Angels, in Baltimore, which hasn't
the first game of a seven-game fielded a winner since 1997 --
homestand. the team's last playoff
The Orioles, a major league- appearance -- and faces the
worst 31-70, fired manager daunting prospect of rebuilding
Dave Trembley on June 4 and while competing with the deep-
replaced him with Juan Samuel pocketed Yankees and Boston
on an interim basis. Red Sox in the AL East.
Former Indians manager Eric The Orioles are a major-league
Wedge, former Texas Rangers worst 18-33 at home.
and New York Mets manager Tim Kurkjian is a senior
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Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey Magazine.
and Samuel interviewed for the Five Filters featured
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Family says body is Lorenzen Stars Hope to Follow

Wright's; homicide possible Coyotes', Texas Rangers'
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Press that the body is Wright's
and they are mourning his loss.
Kings and most recently the
Cleveland Cavaliers with 17
Success in Uncertain Times
The 34-year-old Memphis games in the 2008-09 season. Susan Slusser (FanHouse
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:33:00 PM
Main)
native was last seen July 18. His Wright left the University of
Updated: July 29, 2010, 1:33 family filed a missing persons Memphis early for the NBA, Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:27:00 PM

PM ET report with police July 22. and the Clippers made him a
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Memphis The Memphis Police lottery pick with the No. 7 Filed under: Stars, NHL
police say they are investigating Department is leading the selection overall. Economics DALLAS --
the discovery of a body that investigation but has provided He averaged 8 points and 6.4 Bankruptcy and team ownership
family members have said is little information about the case rebounds in 778 career games. uncertainty -- suddenly, that's
missing former NBA player or how the victim died. A Information from The the unexpected path to the
Lorenzen Wright as a homicide. statement from the department Associated Press was used in postseason.
Police have not confirmed that Thursday said it has "some of this report. "It's the trend!" Stars general
identity publicly, but The t h e f i n e s t h o m i c i d e Five Filters featured manager Joe Nieuwendyk joked.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis) investigators" working on the article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets Dallas is dealing with one of
cited law enforcement sources case and will release details an Easy Ride in the t h o s e s t r a n g e b a n k r u p t c y large additional payroll outlays.
as saying the body is indeed later. Independent. Available tools: summers such as the one But all Nieuwendyk has to do
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Wednesday in a wooded area in NBA for the Los Angeles Term Extraction. ownership group is up in the air, conference rival Coyotes, who
southeast Memphis. Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, and financial matters are
STARS page 70
Relatives tell The Associated Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento complicated, hindering any
Stephen Strasburg of
Myrtice Landers, Ex-USF Employee, Says School Washington Nationals
placed on 15-day
Covering Up NCAA Violations disabled list with
shoulder inflammation
Brett McMurphy (FanHouse her as a scapegoat. including my superiors and have been investigated by the
Main) Landers, 52, an employee with employees of the compliance NCAA for approximately the ESPN.com news services
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:53:00 AM the university for 29 years, filed division of the athletic past eight months." (ESPN.com)
a formal charge of racial department that were It was eight months ago -- on Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:22:52 PM
Filed under: USF TAMPA, Fla. discrimination with the Florida unreported, and in some Nov. 18 -- FanHouse reported
-- Myrtice Landers, a former C o m m i s s i o n o n H u m a n instances, actually covered up several alleged violations Updated: July 29, 2010, 2:22
University of South Florida R e l a t i o n s . by the department. involving the men's basketball PM ET
academic adviser, who was fired An African-American, Landers "I feel as though I have been program. Based on FanHouse's WASHINGTON -- Rookie
this month, filed a racial alleges in the complaint that she singled out as the only non- report, the NCAA sent an right-hander Stephen Strasburg
discrimination lawsuit against was terminated, in part, because student African-American investigator to the Tampa, Fla., has been placed on the 15-day
the university Thursday, she has "knowledge of athletic department employee campus, but ultimately let USF disabled list by the Washington
claiming the school is covering numerous NCAA violations and made a scapegoat for "conduct its own inquiry."
up NCAA violations and using committed by white employees, ongoing NCAA violations that STEPHEN page 70
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Nationals because of
inflammation in his pitching
shoulder.
Thursday's move is retroactive
to July 22, a day after he made
his last appearance. The No. 1
overall pick in the 2009 amateur
draft was scratched minutes
before he was to make his 10th
major league start Tuesday,
because his right shoulder felt
stiff while he was warming up
in the bullpen.
Strasburg is 5-2 with a 2.32
ERA, 75 strikeouts and 15
walks in 54 1/3 innings since
making his major league debut
June 8.
By sending Strasburg to the
DL, they are able to activate left
-hander Scott Olsen, out since
May with a shoulder injury.
Olsen is to start Washington's
game against Atlanta on
Thursday.
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had one of their best seasons
ever even as their bankruptcy
issues were continuing, and
closer to home, the Texas
Rangers, who are in first place
in the American League West.
The Stars and Rangers are in the
same boat -- their upheaval was
due to the failures of the same
ownership group, headed up by
Tom Hicks. But Texas is
steaming toward what looks like
its first playoff appearance in a
decade.
"No doubt, we're certainly
keeping an eye on the success
they've had," Nieuwendyk told
FanHouse on Thursday
morning. "We'd like to follow in
their footsteps."
Super Street Fighter IV
3D Edition vs. Street
Fighter IV on iPhone:
FIGHT!
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:50:00 PM
Capcom opened a site for Super
Street Fighter IV 3D Edition, its
SUPER page 71

Preview: Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock

Andrew Yoon (Joystiq) But maybe all you want from do the work. The fact sheet
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:20:00 PM Guitar Hero is a "story" and the describes it as a "journey from
ability to bust through the five- the infamous stage of CBGBs to
It seems silly to describe the s t a r r a n k i n g s y s t e m . 3 2 x the molten lava fields of rock
"new features" that have been m u l t i p l i e r a n d 6 0 s t a r s , treachery ... to help the Demi-
added to Guitar Hero: Warriors Y E A H ! ! ! God of Rock take down 'The
of Rock without acknowledging You could argue that Warriors Beast' and save rock 'n roll."
the basic stuff the franchise still of Rock isn't regressive; it's an Tim Schafer would be rolling in
doesn't get right. For example, homage to the franchise's his grave(if he were dead).
do you want to see the difficulty o r i g i n s , a c e l e b r a t i o n o f Continue reading Preview:
of a song before jumping into it hardcore guitar music. The 90 Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock
in campaign mode? Nope, you songs included on the disc Preview: Guitar Hero Warriors
can't do that. Want to filter and support drums and vocals, but of Rock originally appeared on
sort songs by multiple criteria? it's clear what the focus of the Rock ups the ante by including Quest Mode, narrated by KISS' Joystiq on Thu, 29 Jul 2010
Forget about it. Compared to game is: being a guitar hero. If the entirety of Rush's "2112"-- Gene Simmons. While I could 13:20:00 EST. Please see our
Rock Band 3's feature set -- the franchise's penchant for as a final boss, of course. rant about how it feels like it terms for use of feeds.
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"Pro" mode -- it's clear that your strumming skills, you'll be Rock's big new feature is a year old boys, I'll let Activision C o m m e n t s
Activision has been surpassed. glad to know that Warriors of
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Metroid: Other M's latest Japanese
trailer beams in
Randy Nelson (Joystiq)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 3:20:00 PM
We can't tell you everything
that's being said in this newest
trailer for Metroid: Other M--
not because we're jerks and
don't want to, but because it's in
another language. Japanese, to
be specific. Thankfully, the
characters introduced during this
montage of CGI and in-game
footage have their names kindly
provided in English. Names like
Lyle Smithsonian, Adam
Malkovich and Brad "U.S."
Treasury. (Only one of those is
made up.)
There's also a look at some
good old fashioned gameplay,
from Other M's first 45 minutes
or so, but also in later, more
planet-y environments. The
purpose of most of it is to show
Samus using the various beams
at her disposal -- plasma,
grappling and the like. If you're
more of a still-image person,
Nintendo has also released some
new shots from the game, which
lands on August 31, including
the really cool box art we won't
be seeing in the States. Check
'em out below, and watch the
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upcoming 3DS Street Fighter looking different. Given the
game, featuring several new relatively low texture detail,
screenshots. We thought we'd though, this looks like
take the opportunity to compare something that could be possible
the graphics in this handheld on a handheld system. Compare
version to the existing Street the two games yourself in our
Fighter IV on iPhone. galleries.
However, there's not much of a Gallery: Super Street Fighter IV
comparison. The iPhone Street 3D Edition (7/29/10)
Fighter uses pre-rendered 2D Gallery: Street Fighter IV
sprites based on the console/ (iPhone)
arcade game's 3D models, for a Super Street Fighter IV 3D
look reminiscent of Killer Edition vs. Street Fighter IV on
Instinct. The 3DS game, on the iPhone: FIGHT! originally
other hand, appears to use lower appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29
-detail versions of the actual 3D Jul 2010 13:50:00 EST. Please
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these are early screenshots, and
the final game may come out
trailer beyond the break.
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Continue reading Metroid:
Other M's latest Japanese trailer
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Kindle is OK
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 7:03:37 AM

The iPad with its Kindle app

got me interested in reading on a
tablet again.
But it's summertime, and I'd
rather read in the park, or on a
bench looking out over the
Hudson.
The iPad doesn't work for
outdoor reading if there's any
sun at all.
Further, I have a backlog of
unread books I bought on
Amazon, and I don't see why I
should replace them (or if I can)
using Apple's store. Reading isn't about tech prowess
I already buy a lot of stuff from or the shiniest gadget.
Apple, and I don't like how they The Kindle is lighter, works in

Woohoo! Vanquish has 'Casual Auto' push around app developers and
content companies. We're
more places, has longer battery
life, better connectivity, and has
the biggest base of content. Plus
talking about First Amendment
and 'God Hard' modes stuff here. So I vote with my
dollars, and feel good about it.
they have been very smart about
making their content available
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) "Once you get your target on the Vanquish also includes an on every device known to man,
So a couple of weeks ago I
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:50:00 PM enemy, the rest is easy as pie," unlockable "God Hard" bought a Kindle DX, and I think including Apple's.
Mikami said in the blog post difficulty. "I think our fans will it's a great product. Bottom-line: Don't worry about
Vanquish is following in the announcing the mode. "I'm sure get where this one is going," When I read on tech blogs that the Kindle.
s t i l e t t o - h e e l f o o t s t e p s o f saying it that way makes it Mikami teased. We suspect Kindle is a goner, I think these
Platinum's last action game, sound totally uninteresting, but apocalyptic beatdowns are to be people must not read very much.
Bayonetta, in a couple of when you actually give it a shot, found within this mode.
interesting ways. First, the the tempo it gives the game play Woohoo! Vanquish has 'Casual
Shinji Mikami-designed shooter will make you jump up and say, Auto' and 'God Hard' modes
is being outfitted with an 'Woohoo!'" That's the other way originally appeared on Joystiq
o p t i o n a l " C a s u a l A u t o " in which Vanquish echoes on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:50:00
difficulty level, much like Bayonetta: exclamations. It's EST. Please see our terms for
Bayonetta's"Easy Automatic" "Woohoo!" from the player, use of feeds.
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a good time. 'Wuhhh!!'"
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Harold McGee, Food Science Guru, Turns His Attention to

Serious Drinking
Paul Adams (Popular Science lecithin, which cause the
- New Technology, Science champagne's foam to strengthen
News, The Future Now) and grow, so pouring fizz onto
Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:26:14 AM bitters can be a messy
Good Froth and Bad Froth The proposition, releasing too much
drink on the left was shaken CO 2 from the drink too soon.
with egg white; the one on the Instead, Saunders suggests, fill
right with gelatin. The two were the flute first, then gently gently
equally frothy just a moment add a bitters-saturated sugar
before the photo was taken. Paul cube and serve. Make the Most
Adams At a cocktail convention, of Hidden Flavor
McGee and other experts McGee cited some useful
unleash a cutting-edge arsenal information for cocktail
of handy science inventors about how the brain
The annual Tales of the perceives flavor. For one thing,
Cocktail convention happened if there's sugar present in a
again in New Orleans last week, cocktail, the brain will find the
I seem to recall. And drink more aromatic than an
somewhere between the identical drink with less sugar.
sazeracs and the rusty nails, I That's an evolutionary
attended a series of enlightening adaptation, he theorizes: we are
seminars (each accompanied by much more interested in items
appropriate cocktails, of course). that provide more life-giving
Harold McGee, author of On calories.
Food and Cooking and probably Also, in strong drinks (above
the most famous name in food o f e x p e r t s d r o p p e d s o m e since it foams better warmer; minty taste you're after. A better 2 0 p e r c e n t a l c o h o l ) , t h e
science, was present at Tales for fascinating and useful tidbits of then chill the drink. A shaker approach is to just gently concentrated ethanol can form
the first time, to lend his cocktail science. Here are some made of silver produces a softer, muddle or abrade the surfaces of large clusters, or micelles, that
expertise to a deserving cocktail highlights. Froth Your Drinks more delicate foam because of the leaves, without rupturing are dispersed in the water phase.
world. He sat on a panel with Right the metal's interaction with the their whole structure. Avoid
Aroma molecules can hide
Audrey Saunders, celebrated When shaking up a drink that egg. Get the Best Mint Flavor Overexciting Your Champagne
inside these clusters, becoming
owner of New York's Pegu you want frothy, egg white is McGee revealed that mint, and To make a champagne cocktail, trapped, and thus making the
Club, and Tony Conigliaro, who your friend, since its proteins o t h e r p l a n t s i n t h e s a m e as we all know, you put a sugar drink seem less aromatic and
p u s h e s t h e f r o n t i e r s o f bond together permanently to botanical family, such as basil, c u b e a t t h e b o t t o m o f a flavorful to the drinker. Diluting
molecular mixology at London's g i v e s t r u c t u r e t o a f o a m . store their delicious aromatic champagne flute, shake a few the drink helps the alcohol
69 Colebrooke Row. Over the Gelatin, the protein more compounds in little hairs and dashes of Angostura bitters onto clusters break up, freeing the
course of 90 minutes, during commonly used in culinary organs on the bottom surface of the cube, then fill the glass with tasty aroma molecules. (In the
which Pegu's head bartender foams, tends to melt after a their leaves. If you crush the c h i l l e d champagne.
Times this week, McGee writes
Kenta Goto mixed illustrative while, since its protein bonds entire leaf, you'll extract the U n f o r t u n a t e ly, as Goto
drinks for the audience, the trio only temporarily. Shake the egg generic grassy flavors from demonstrated, bitters is full of HAROLD page 76
white at room temperature first, inside the leaf as well as the s m a l l m o l e c u l e s , s u c h a s
74 Science/ E-reader News Edition

As Debris Threatens ISS, NASA Releases Top-Ten List of

Space Junk Culprits
Clay Dillow (Popular Science - Fengyun fiasco is hands down the Iridium-Cosmos smash up.
New Technology, Science the largest single contributor to With so much junk up there, the
News, The Future Now) the growing space junk crisis. DoD has even warned of a
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:27:57 PM NASA has identified some scenario in which such a
Orbital Debris The dots on this 19,000 objects larger than four massive collision could trigger a
NASA-generated chart represent inches that are running loose in cataclysmic chain reaction in
known pieces of large orbital orbit at extremely high rates of which one impact begets
debris. NASA The Fengyun s p e e d j u s t w a i t i n g f o r a another and then another until
satellite that China blew up in f u n c t i o n i n g s a t e l l i t e , a entire orbits are unusable.
2007 is space enemy number spacecraft, or the ISS to get in Unlikely, sure, but some insist
one their paths. Of those, 2,841 are it's possible. The good news is
NASA has been tracking a thought to have come from the we're working on the problem.
piece of space junk on course destruction of Fengyun 1C. Northrop Grumman is working
for a near collision with the Most of the garbage hurtling with DARPA to develop a
International Space Station this through space belongs to China ground-based radar system to
week, but while the agency and the Soviet Union, the report help track space debris from the
continues to monitor the debris - s a y s , t h o u g h W e s t e r n ground, and the U.S. Air Force
- a leftover from China's commercial interests and space is planning to launch a Space-
brilliant shooting down of the agencies also shoulder their Based Space Surveillance
Fengyun 1C weather satellite shares of the blame. Some of the satellite in the near future that
during a missile test in 2007 -- blame can even be divvied up; will help direct traffic in space.
R u s s i a n F l i g h t C o n t r o l last year an operational Iridium Agency's Envisat Earth for 150 years. The danger isn't Assuming, of course, a piece of
authorities have issued an all- c o m m u n i c a t i o n s s a t e l l i t e observation satellite goes that the massive satellite might orbiting junk doesn't knock it
clear, saying an avoidance collided with a spent Russian defunct in three years, the ESA slam into the ISS -- the chances clean out of the sky.
maneuver will not be necessary. Cosmos spacecraft, spawning will be the proud owner of the of that are quite slim. But if it [ Space, Network World, Voice
This month, NASA's Orbital nearly 2,000 pieces of smaller largest and most dangerous collides with another large piece of Russia]
Debris Program Office released debris. piece of junk out there: a nearly of junk at high speed -- say, a
d a t a n a m i n g t h e t o p t e n But Europe could soon take the 9-ton, $2.9 billion piece of rocket stage or another retired
incidents contributing to the top spot on the space junk tally. orbiting detritus that won't be satellite -- the impact could
s p a c e j u n k p r o b l e m . T h e When the European Space pulled into Earth's atmosphere release 10 times as much junk as
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X-Prize Challenge Offers $1.4 Million for
Revolutionary Oil Cleanup Tech
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 2:26:44 PM
The Spill is Capped, but the Oil
Remains NASA
From the people that brought
you private spaceflight and
super-fuel-efficient automobiles
comes the $1.4 million Wendy
Schmidt Oil Cleanup X
Challenge. X-Prize officials
announced today a $1 million
purse for the team that can
demonstrate the most efficient
method of capturing crude oil
from the ocean surface.
Inspired, of course, by the
ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico --
which as of this writing appears
to still be contained -- the new X
Challenge aims to provide
impetus for both venture capital
and innovative talent gravitate
toward next-gen oil cleanup
technology.
"The devastating impact of the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill will
last for years and it is inevitable
that future spills will occur --
both from wells and from
transport tankers," stated X-
Prize Chairman Dr. Peter
Diamandis at this morning's
official announcement of the
prize in Washington, D.C.
The challenge will be a two-
stage affair. Phase one calls for
Science/ 75
demonstration of the technology
in action. Competitors won't
actually take their ideas to the
Gulf for testing -- all evaluations
will take place at the National
Oil Spill Response Research &
Renewable Energy Test Facility
(OHSMETT) in New Jersey.
But with any luck some of that
technology will make it to the
field eventually. The team with
the single best technology will
receive a $1 million prize purse,
with second and third place
taking home $300,000 and
$100,000 respectively.
The prize's namesake and
benefactor, Wendy Schmidt, is
the wife of Google CEO Eric
those vying for the prize to put Schmidt and the philanthropic
their technical approaches to the force behind a handful of
problem before a panel of c h a r i t a b l e f o u n d a t i o n s ,
judges that will evaluate them including the Schmidt Marine
for feasibility, cost, scalability, Science Research Institute,
environmental impact, and the which she co-founded with her
degree to which the technology husband.
improves over current methods
like skimming and booms.
Phase two, of course, is the
76 Health/ E-reader News Edition
HAROLD
continued from page 73

about other instances of diluting
for flavor.) Chilling the drink
also makes the alcohol more
soluble in water, and likewise
frees trapped aromatics. That's
why putting a couple of ice
cubes in a glass of neat whisky
does so much for the drink's
taste. A Well-Aged Cocktail
Finally, Tony Conigliaro
demonstrated a little trick he's
been doing for a few years:
mixing cocktails, putting them
in bottles, and sticking them in a
cool cellar for six months or
more. (At this point, Kenta Goto
obligingly poured out a round of
Cuban rum cocktails thus aged.)
The drink had a magnificent
round, integrated flavor,
although it would have been
interesting to taste an unaged
sample for comparison.
When spirits age in wooden
casks, the majority of the
changes that take place are due
to the liquor's complex
interaction with the wood,
which gives it color and flavor.
But when drinks are aged in
glass bottles, they don't interact
with the inert container. So
what's happening? McGee
explained that, left to its own
devices, a spirit will age
regardless: sulfur compounds in
the drink oxidize, and alcohols,
acids, and aldehydes react
together, losing their harsh
edges and producing aromatic
esters. A Stirring Experiment
After the McGee seminar,
PopSci fave Dave Arnold took
the stage for his own seminar,
The Science of Stirring, which
was nothing more nor less than
a detailed analysis of how
stirring a drink with ice
compares to shaking it (last year
he taught The Science of
Shaking). Six skilled stirrers
(including McGee, who
volunteered from the audience)
stood on the stage, mixing
drinks in vessels Arnold had
fitted with thermocouples, while
the six drinks' temperatures
were plotted live on a giant
projection screen.
The liquid nitrogen was brought
out at some point as well, to
demonstrate that there is indeed
such a thing as a cocktail that's
too cold. And that was just one
morning of the week-long
conference. We're lucky we
survived.

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By Manipulating Condensation Conditions,
Researchers Create Room-Temperature Ice
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:23:46 AM
Room Temperature Ice As
temperature decreases the
relative humidity close to the
surface increases and water
adsorbs on the surface similar to
the way ice does. Chemical
Physics
In a breakthrough so hot it's
cool, Spanish researchers have
figured out how to make water
freeze at room temperature. By
artificially manipulating the
mechanisms by which water
condenses in the atmosphere,
the researchers found a means to
trigger ice formation at far
higher temperatures than water's
usual freezing point, a
development that could lead to
better artificial snowmaking,
more efficient ice skating rinks,
and better freezer technology.
The sin of sexual immortality?
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 7:08:10 AM
A reader sent in this video from
an award ceremony for the
Heartland regional Emmy’s. In
the longer clip(a portion of
which is excerpted here for your
viewing pleasure), there are all
sorts of nominees from my
native state of Colorado. I guess
The prevalent school of thought
regarding ice formation used to
dictate that hexagonal structures
similar to that of natural snow
and ice were the best candidates
to induce freezing or to trigger
rain. The research team at
Spain's Centre d'Investigació en
Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
we’re Heartland.
Anyway, among the various
awards distributed, there’s one
given for Performer/Narrator of
a broadcast segment. The first
two nominees are for performers
with KAKE-TV in Wichita and
Plum TV in Telluride. But the
winner is one Vida Urbonis with
KRDO-TV. Congratulations
Ms. Urbonis!
decided to test this theory on a
m i n e r a l n a m e d
"Frankdicksonite," or barium
fluoride (BaF 2).
Frankdicksonite has the desired
hexagonal structure, but the
Spanish team found it to be a
less-than-ideal ice-nucleating
material. Except for when its
The awards ceremony features
a clip from the winning entry in
which we hear narrator Urbonis
say:
“Mike Jones, a gay escort, came
out with allegations of gay sex
and drugs …
Haggard initially denied the
charges but later admitted to the
sexual immortality.
He received a payment of
structure has imperfections.
When BaF 2 has surface defects,
its ability to spur condensation
greatly improves. At the point of
the surface defects, water tends
to form tiny two-dimensional
icy patches even under normal
ambient conditions.
The finding could swing open
the door for a new kind of
synthetic, environmentally
friendly material that spurs ice
formation at higher
temperatures. The team is
currently working on just such a
material, with hopes of later
creating what they call
"intelligent surfaces" that can
manipulate water in specific
ways.
[ Eurekalert]
$300,000 from New Life. He
and his family then moved away
and agreed to lay low.”
Now, I don’t think that Haggard
admitted to what Jones claimed,
per se, so the use of “the” is
misleading.
But what was that? Did
someone just get a narration
Emmy for claiming that Ted
Haggard admitted to sexual
Science/ Religion/ 77
A Video Game
Controller that
Stimulates with Hot and
Cold Sensations
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:45:19 PM
Controllers Get Temperature
Sensitive Tech Tokyo
Metropolitan University
First we got wireless video
game controls, then motion
sensing controllers, and now
even a controller-free video
game interface. But the next
stage of human-computer
interaction could be controllers
that add hot and cold sensations
to users' simulated experiences.
An experimental new video
game controller just revealed at
VIDEO page 78
immortality?
Oy vey! Written by: Mollie on
July 29, 2010.
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Israel’s Jewish question

Brad A. Greenberg largely because of it’s potential explosive global crisis over record. come from mixed parentage.
(GetReligion) consequences for American Jewish identity — a huge, snow- First the story from The New The law would have tried to
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:43:47 PM Jews and future American Jews. balling disaster that is ripping York Times: make conversion easier by
What is at stake, as David Israeli-Diaspora relations. The bill that so angered granting conversion powers to
There have been a lot of stories Horovitz, editor in chief of the I’m not to keen on doing a American Jewish leaders was local rabbis across the country, a
in the past week about the Jerusalem Post, wrote, is the general survey of all this actually aimed at making group considered closer to their
c o n v e r s i o n b i l l t h a t w a s very connection between Israel coverage. Instead, I’d like to conversion easier for the communities.
steamrolling through the Israeli and the Jewish Diaspora — a compare two stories from two 300,000 Israelis among the 1 But after objections from the
parliament, the Knesset, before very, very, very important publications that really should million who moved to Israel ultra-Orthodox, the bill formally
being tabled for the next few relationship for American Jews, get this story right. One is from from the former Soviet Union in placed authority for conversion
months. Few prospective laws in and an even more important one the paper of record for Los the 1990s. Those Israelis are in the hands of the chief
the Middle East draw much for Israelis. Angeles’ Jewish community; the not, by Orthodox rabbinic law,
attention, but this one did, What we are facing is an other is just from the paper of considered Jewish because they ISRAEL’S page 80
80 Religion/
ISRAEL’S
continued from page 79
rabbinate and declared Orthodox
Jewish law to be the basis of
conversion, making Americans
fear that their more lenient
conversion processes would be
invalidated. …
Rabbi David Schuck of the
Pelham Jewish Center in
Westchester County, N.Y., said
of the religious conversion bill,
“It spits in the face of Diaspora
Jews in particular, and if passed,
it would be an acquiescence of
the majority of Israeli Jews to a
fundamentalist interpretation of
Judaism.”
That’s easy enough to
understand, and the NYT’s
Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan
Bronner does well to close this
context-filled story with the
aforementioned comment from
the JPost’s Horovitz. Bronner
also mentions something that
I’ve noted before when
discussing issues of Jewish
identity and that unresolvable
question:
The question of “who is a
Jew?” is as old as the state of
Israel. The more liberal forms of
Jewish practice advocated by
the Reform and Conservative
movements, with which most
American Jews are affiliated,
have never taken root here.
Israel has left liturgy in the
hands of the Orthodox, with
most Israeli Jews leading almost
completely secular lives,
seeking out rabbis only at birth,
marriage and death.
I’ve spent eight days in Israel,
and it doesn’t even take that
long to recognize how secular
most of Israel is. (Remember
that story about long beards and
black hats?) But Bronner, who
had a son in the IDF, has been
there much longer, and it shows
in this story.
Now let’s see how handicapped
Jonah Lowenfeld, my
replacement at The Jewish
Journal of Greater Los Angeles,
for which I write The God Blog,
was by being stuck stateside.
After leding with the “who is a
Jew?” question, Lowenfeld
wrote in this past week’s cover
story, “ The Israeli Conversion
Bill: What it means and why
everyone’s so mad”:
There is much confusion about
what the Chief Rabbinate of
Israel (Amendment —
Jurisdiction Regarding
Conversions) Bill, 5770-2010
does and does not say. Some
observers wonder what — if any
— practical impact it would
have if passed. …
Few people can say exactly
what the Rotem bill will do. “If
you were to read a translation, it
would be baffling,” said Rabbi
Uri Regev, CEO and president
of the Israeli educational and
advocacy organization Hiddush,
which is dedicated to “Freedom
of Religion and Equality.”
According to Regev, Rotem’s
three-page bill claims to
accomplish two things: “One, to
provide greater availability of
conversion venues for the new
immigrants — namely
authorizing more rabbis, and
among them hopefully some
lenient rabbis to do
conversions.” The bill’s other
stated aim, Regev said, is to
address “the phenomenon of
rabbinic courts that hold that
Orthodox conversions are null
and void.” …
Nobody knows what will
happen if the bill passes. The
former Soviet Union olim are
“clearly not particularly
religious,” Regev said, “and
clearly not going to be
particularly adherent to
mitzvot,” which would make it
unlikely that they would convert
within the rabbinate’s Orthodox
framework. “Fewer and fewer
immigrants are interested in
conversion,” Regev said, “on
two counts: One, they realize
what kind of hoops they will
have to go through.” Also,
“They realize that it’s really a
conditional status,” Regev said
of the status of even Orthodox
converts in Israel today — one
that can be revoked at any time.
Secondly, “They realize that life
really isn’t impossible for them
without conversion,” Regev
said. “They have become
accustomed to living their lives
without going through
conversions.”
Lowenfeld’s story is much
longer than Bronner’s, but
captures less of the dynamic in
Israel. It was also hamstrung by
an earlier deadline that predated
the tabling of the bill.
Lowenfeld did, however, offer
more perspectives from the
American Jewish community,
nationally and in Los Angeles,
and captured the most important
aspect of this bill:
Uncertainty.
No one really knows what this
bill would mean, particularly for
American Jews who have gone
through the more lax conversion
processes of Conservative,
Reform and other non-
traditional strains of Judaism.
I guess we may find out if the
conversion bill is resurrected in
2011. Written by: Brad A.
Greenberg on July 29, 2010.
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Blago’s ‘deep
and abiding
faith in God’
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
(GetReligion)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 10:37:01 AM
When I was still living in the
Chicago suburbs, every time
Rod Blagojevich, eyes were
rolled. Who could believe that
the great people of Illinois voted
him into the highest position in
the state not once but twice?
As you might recall,
Blagojevich was arrested on
federal corruption charges in
2008. Now he stands trial, and
the jury began deliberations
yesterday.
Politico released a quickie from
Andy Barr that leaves much to
be desired. He quotes
Blagojevich as saying his fate is
now “in God’s hands,” before
quoting more from the press
conference.
Blagojevich said he has put his
faith in 12 members the jury
currently deliberating his fate.
“[The jurors] are the ones who
will decide and make the
decision,” he said. “Patti and I
have great confidence and faith
in their judgment, common
sense and decency. And
ultimately in the final analysis
Patti and I always have a deep
and abiding faith in God.”
The end.
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But what exactly is that faith in
God is Blagojevich talking
about?
I would’ve expected a little bit
more from the Chicago Tribune,
with the headline “‘Ultimately,
it’s in God’s hands,’
Blagojevich says.” But the paper
added nothing but a brief
mention of the remarks, even
though it’s the focus of the
headline.
The Chicago Sun-Times took
almost the exact same angle:
“Case is ‘in God’s hands,”
Blagojevich says.” The paper
uses the buzz words for the
headline without explaining it
further.
Flash back to 2008 and you’ll
find a few reports about his
Serbian Orthodox faith. Here’s
one of the first ones by Kate
Shellnut for the Windy Citizen
where she gives some historical
background.
As a child, Blagojevich
attended Old Holy Resurrection
Serbian Orthodox Church on the
Northwest Side, where he sang
and played in the orchestra
along with his brother Robert,
the Chicago Sun-Times reported
in 2006. Old Holy Resurrection,
in Logan Square, is one of about
ten Eastern Orthodox Churches
in that area, catering to the city’s
Serbian, Romanian, Belarusian,
Ukrainian and Greek Orthodox
populations.
Blagojevich now lives in
Ravenswood Manor, but he said
during an interview for his run
for governor that he currently
doesn’t attend a single church
regularly. Still, as the son of
Serbian immigrants to Chicago,
he remains an icon for the
Serbian-American population
and remains active in their
religious community. Back in
April, he visited a Serbian
Orthodox monastery and parish
in the Third Lake, a northern
suburb.
Mary Houlihan also did some
reporting for the Chicago Sun-
Times on the reaction from the
Serbian Orthodox community.
Remember this quote from Ari
Goldman last year?
As Rabbi Allen Schwartz of
Manhattan recently told his
congregation, the Madoff
scandal broke just as the scandal
Blagojevich scandal was
breaking in Illinois. “Did you
ever see a reference to
Blagojevich’s religion?” the
rabbi asked. “Yet we kept
seeing Madoff described as
Jewish.”
Now there’s no need to
reference Blagojevich as
Serbian Orthodox in every story,
but when referencing his quotes
about his faith, it seems
necessary. Written by: Sarah
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YouTube Increases
Video Time Limit to 15
Minutes
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:40:04 AM
Good news for everyone out
there who’s ever thought to
themselves: “A 10-minute video
of my cat eating ribs on the
kitchen floor is just too short.”
YouTube announced today that
it has increased its upload limit
from 10 minutes to 15 for non-
chosen videos will be featured
partners. So get kitty lookin’
on the YouTube homepage.
pretty and start rolling!
We wonder what effect — if
So why add the extra five-spot
any — this new time limit will
now? Well, on the YouTube
have on initiatives like YouTube
blog, the video-sharing site
Leanback. Do you think the
explains that it’s been beefing
extra five minutes will equate to
up its copyright protection tools
better content, or merely more
of late, i.e. the Content ID
room to rant about video games,
system(which lets copyright
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HOW TO: Implement Google Font API on Your Website

Jacob Gube (Mashable!) website, chances are that already Google fonts are open source There are two steps for using
Submitted at 7/29/2010 12:14:58 PM have the necessary knowledge and have been vetted by Google. Google Font API.
of getting Google fonts to work. This means that you can sleep The first step is to reference the
This series is supported by Ben And if you don’t, grab one of better at night and not worry CSS stylesheet you need within
& Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s your geeky friends for five about whether you’ll get in your HTML document; more
new line-up of Fair Trade and m i n u t e s a n d a s k t h e m t o trouble for using a font you specifically inside the tags
frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn implement Google Font API for weren’t supposed to be using. found towards the top. This
more about it here. you. How It Works: @font-face There are also technological reference should be in all web
Update: Google has just made Google Font API uses a CSS advantages for using Google pages that will use the font(s)
this process significantly easier property called @font-face. If Font API versus serving the font you request from Google Font
with the launch of its Font you haven’t heard of it before, files yourself. Google’s API.
Previewer. don’t worry, most people infrastructure is highly regarded This will be a cinch if you use a
For years, we’ve been stuck haven’t — you don’t need to be for your desktop applications — i n t h e I T w o r l d f o r i t s content management system or
with the same old fonts: Arial, familiar with it to use Google may not be allowed. extraordinary uptime and ability blogging platform such as
Georgia, Verdana, Times New Font API. Google Font API solves all of to withstand high levels of site WordPress because you only
Roman — web-safe fonts that a @font-face allows you to use these issues. Benefits of Using traffic. The company is a have to do this once using your
majority of web users have f o n t f i l e s ( t h e y h a v e f i l e Google Font API pioneer and leader of website site’s theme template.
installed on their computer. extensions like .otf and .ttf) just Using Google Font API is a performance — developing best If you have a static HTML
But lately, the web design like in desktop applications such great solution for avoiding the p r a c t i c e s a n d t o o l s f o r website, then you’ll have to plug
community is abuzz — and the as Microsoft Word or Adobe many problems that exist when improving page response times, in this code on all web pages, or
source of the excitement is Photoshop. u s i n g @ f o n t - f a c e i n y o u r creating new standards and if you have a global CSS file,
around web fonts. "Web fonts" The issue with @font-face has website. Firstly, the web service protocols to improve Internet you can use the @import CSS
is a generic term that refers to been that the various kinds of simplifies the implementation of speeds, and leading initiatives property within it.
the method of serving font files web browsers require different web fonts. With only one line of for making the web faster. In In the example below, the tag
— the same type of files you font file types. For example, code to reference the font you addition, if a user has visited is where you are referencing
have installed on your computer Internet Explorer requires an want to use and some basic another website that uses Google API. The href value is
— to your website visitors so .eot file (embedded open type), CSS, you can get yourself set up Google Font API, they might the most important —
that you can guarantee they’ll while browsers like Firefox in a matter of minutes. No need already have the font you need FontName is the font we want to
have the appropriate type faces need an .otf (open type font) to worry about web browser i n t h e i r b r o w s e r ’ s c a c h e , use in our web page. You can
you want displayed on your web file. Thus, developers have quirks, dealing with multiple speeding up the page response replace the FontName value
pages. come up with workarounds to t y p e s o f f o n t f i l e s , o r times of your web pages. with one of the supported fonts,
In this guide, we’ll discuss a implement @font-face in such a understanding how @font-face Perhaps the biggest benefit of which you can find in the
way of implementing web fonts way that works on all browsers, works — Google Font API all of this is that it’s free. There Google Font Directory.
u s i n g f r e e w e b s e r v i c e s like employing conditional CSS handles all of that for you. are no prerequisites (such as Home Page
collectively called Google Font that serves the appropriate file T h e f o n t s a r e o f f i c i a l l y having to sign up or supply an e- />
API. type depending on the user’s supported in all major browsers mail address) to using Google The second step is to use CSS
If you have any tips to add on web browser. like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Font API. How to Use Google to specify how we want to use
using Google Font API, be sure Another issue with using @font and Safari — which in turn Font API the font we’ve requested.
to leave them in the comments. -face is the licensing of the fonts suggests that other less popular Google Font API is Let’s say that we want to use
Google Font API Basics themselves; it’s a gray-area w e b b r o w s e r s ( w h i c h a r e documented well, but let us the FontName font on all
The API is easy to use and legal issue where using a font oftentimes based on major cover the fundamentals of paragraph tags in our web
requires no programming skills file on your website — even browsers) will support it as i m p l e m e n t i n g i t o n y o u r HOW page 84
w h a t s o e v e r . I f y o u r u n a though you have purchased it well. website. Basic Usage
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HOW TO: Enhance Your Online Presence with Video
Zachary Sniderman
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 1:56:06 PM
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Video is a tricky spot for most
blogs and personal sites,
especially when that video is
meant to represent you. While
everyone likes to watch videos
(just look at the exponential
growth and popularity of
YouTube), it’s a little more
difficult to create, edit and host
your own videos. This isn’t to
say incorporating a video into
your online presence is an
impossible feat, but to do it
properly requires some digital
finesse and forethought.
Technically speaking, simply
making a video is pretty easy.
Hit the record button, stand in
front of the camera, turn the
lights on and say something.
Instant video. Unfortunately,
that alone won’t make it a good
video.
Video is about content and
production: What’s in it, and
how it’s presented. For most
personal blogs, it’s more
important to provide great
content (some of the most
popular viral videos have some
of the shoddiest production
values), but much depends on
what you want your video to
accomplish. Is it an online
resume? Clips of your work?
Or just something funny for
your audience to chew on?
Below we’ve got some quick
tips on how to enhance your
online presence with video.
Utilize Video Resumes and
Introductions
Using video resumes and
introductions is a great way to
make a first impression. It’s also
a great way to shoot yourself in
the foot. You could be (and
probably are) intelligent,
charismatic, ambitious, and
attractive, and thankfully, a
good video will help you stand
out. But beware, a bad video
could hide your best
characteristics.
Most sites give general, but
useful tips on how to set
yourself up for success if you’re
going to create a video resume.
Be organized, dress
professionally, speak clearly —
all things your parents told you
to do and all things you would
do in a real interview. The tips
are general because you need to
tailor your resume, and video,
for each job application.
A video introduction, a brief
video embedded into your
homepage, uses many of the
same concepts. It is intended,
however, to give a general
impression of who you are:
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unwarranted concern. If you’re a the same patience as any other
pro, odds are you’ve already medium (you wouldn’t post a
built out a video section on your blurry or embarrassing profile
site. For amateurs, think of your pic, right?).
clips as a great way to get Your best bet is to think of
crowdsourced feedback. video as an extension of your
Add a comments section below portfolio, a video cover letter
your videos, and encourage where you can share a little bit
responses to your work. You’ll of who you are. It’s certainly not
Your motivations, passions, and find that readers will often give required, but a video done well
what readers can expect from good criticism if you ask for it can do a lot to enhance your
your site. If someone clicks on in a courteous and honest way. online presence.
your video, it’s because they Of course, there will always be Let us know how you are using
want to see you, the person trolls. But odds are high that online video to showcase your
behind the site. you’ll get more useful feedback work or interests in the
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pages.
We would use the following
CSS:
p{
font-family: 'FontName';
font-size: 12px;
} (italic or i), bold (bold or b), and
For those not very familiar with
CSS, it helps to read it out loud
in plain English to understand
what’s going on. What the code
above is saying: "All
[p]aragraphs should use the font
of ‘FontName’ with a size of
12px." Requesting Different
Styles of a Font
Now that you’re familiar with
the basic format of making a
request to Google Font API,
let’s explore some advanced
ways of making requests.
By default, you will get the
normal style of a particular font.
But what if you wanted to use
and display another style, such
as italics or bold?
Easy. You just add a colon (:) at
the end of the font’s name
followed by the style you want.
And if you need more than one
style, you just separate them
with a comma (,).
For example, if you want the
italics and bold version of
FontName, then your reference
becomes:
The styles you can use are italic
bold italic (bolditalic or bi).
Requesting Multiple Fonts
Oftentimes, you’ll want more
than one font. There’s no need
to make multiple references if
this is the case. All you have to
do is append your request with
an | symbol followed by another
font name.
Let us say you wanted the bold
italic version of FontName and
the italic style of
AntotherFontName; our link
would be:
That’s all there is to it! Tools
for Working with Google Font
API
Google has created some tools
for helping you work with the
Google Font API, including the
Font Directory, Previewer and
Web Font Loader. Learn more
about each specific tool below.
1. Google Font Directory
The Google Font Directory lists
all the available fonts you can
use. There are currently 18 fonts
available, such as Droid Sans,
Molengo, and Nobile. Clicking
on each font preview will reveal
more information about it,
including the designer of the
font, the license type of the font,
a description for you typophiles
out there, the entire character
set, and more. Additionally,
clicking on the "Get the code"
tab shows you the code that you
can copy and paste to get the
font to work. 2. Google Font
Previewer
The Google Font Previewer
tool lets you experiment with
each font. You can tweak font
characteristics such as size, style
(variant), and spacing. Once you
like what you see, it spits out the
code you need to use in order to
render the Google font exactly
the same way as your preview.
3. Web Font Loader
For web developers needing
more control of their Google
fonts, there’s a JavaScript
library that you can use. It gives
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Kanye West Raps at Twitter HQ,
Tweets a Whole Lot [VIDEO]
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 7/29/2010 11:12:13 AM
It seems that Kanye West is
doing a tour of the Silicon
Valley’s nerd hubs. After
freestyling over at Facebook
headquarters in Palo Alto,
California, the other day — and
subsequently joining Twitter
yesterday — he jammed on over
to Twitter Central and treated
Biz Stone and Co. to a
performance as well.
As we pointed out yesterday,
Kanye West has an almost
embattled relationship with the
micoblogging service. Last year,
he busted out with the following
rant on his blog — which now
only yields an“Error 404 when
you try to locate it. Regardless,
here it is:
“I DON’T HAVE A F*CKING
TWITTER… WHY WOULD I
USE TWITTER??? I ONLY
BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT
I’M UP TO IN THE FIRST
PLACE. I’M ACTUALLY
SLOW DELIVERING
CONTENT BECAUSE I’M
TOO BUSY ACTUALLY
BUSY BEING CREATIVE
MOST OF THE TIME AND IF
I’M NOT AND I’M JUST
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noting once — in the midst of a
LAYING ON A BEACH I torrent of tweets — “awwwww
W O U L D N ’ T T E L L T H E man this is addictive I might get
W O R L D . E V E R Y T H I N G in trouble on here!!!!” So much
THAT TWITTER OFFERS I for only blogging “5%” of what
NEED LESS OF. THE PEOPLE he’s up to.
AT TWITTER KNOW I When we wrote about his
DON’T HAVE A F*CKING e n t r a n c e o n t o T w i t t e r
TWITTER SO FOR THEM TO yesterday, West had around
ALLOW SOMEONE TO POSE 20,000 followers — now he has
AS ME AND ACCUMULATE 228,862.
OVER A MILLION NAMES IS What do you think of the
I R R E S P O N S I B L E A N D rapper’s reversal of his previous
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