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CHINA: Rumors Spread That Central Bank Head Has

Defected
STRATFOR (Business has been blocked from Internet Exhibition. investigation and arrest of
Insider) search engines in China. Zhou is known to have lofty Wang Yi, the vice governor of
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:29:14 AM STRATFOR has received no political ambitions and is the China Development Bank,
confirmation of the rumor, and believed to be a close ally to along with several other
Rumors have circulated in reports by state-run Chinese former Chinese President Jiang officials in the financial circle.
China that People’s Bank of media appeared to send strong Zemin, as well as a core figure Currently, several financial
C h i n a ( P B C ) G o v . Z h o u indications that Zhou is in no for Jiang’s “Shanghai Gang.” scandals are still under
Xiaochuan may have left the t r o u b l e a t t h e m o m e n t . There has been no shortage of investigation, and it is likely
country. The rumors appear to However, the release of this rumors about Zhou’s possible that Zhou, as PBC governor and
have started following reports rumor and its dispersion level economic dialogue as well dismissal in the past five years, one of the most powerful
on Aug. 28 which cited Ming t h r o u g h o u t t h e p u b l i c i s as a meeting with an Italian a s h e i s b e l i e v e d t o b e economic players in the
Pao, a Hong Kong-based news significant, particularly as the delegation. Xinhua news agency associated with several high- country, could be associated
agency, saying that because of Communist Party of China reported that Zhou told the PBC level financial scandals. For with some cases. Therefore,
an approximately $430 billion ( C P C ) i s p r e p a r i n g f o r a Party Committee Enlargement example, Zhou was rumored to whether or not the rumor is true
loss on U.S. Treasury bonds, the leadership transition in 2012. meeting on Aug. 30 it should be under “shuanggui,” a form of at this time, the leaking of this
Chinese government may punish Chinese state-run media and “continue to implement justice house arrest administered by news is very likely to be
some individuals within the official government websites and strengthen legislative work the CPC, during the massive associated with a power struggle
PBC, including Zhou. Although have run several high-profile in the financial system.” Prior crackdown of Shanghai Party within the Communist Party’s
Ming Pao on Aug. 30 published reports about Zhou, which to this news, Zhou appeared at Secretary Chen Liangyu in economic hierarchy.
a report on its website indicating should be seen as an attempt to the 2nd annual conference of 2006, which was perceived in Read more: China: Rumors of
that the prior report was refute the rumors. The PBC the heads of the Chinese, the country as a crackdown of the Central Bank Chief's
fabricated by a mainland news website published two articles Japanese and Korean central the Shanghai Gang and part of Defection | STRATFOR
site that had attributed the false on its homepage reporting on banks held on Aug. 3, and his Hu’s effort to consolidate Join the conversation about this
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spread a r o u n d C h i n a Minister Shozaburo Jimi during F i n a n c i a l S y s t e m A n t i - rumor that he might have been
intensively, and Zhou’s name the third China-Japan high- corruption Construction detained following the
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How Founders Should Decide When It's Time To Sell

Eric Paley (Business Insider) ultimately conceded that he was assumed into the price. The
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:22:09 AM pressured to sell the company to question was how long it would
Amazon due to his investor’ s take the economic reality to
I’ ve been thinking lately about desire for liquidity. Finally my catch up with hope and help us
how founders should decide thoughts were advanced by the surpass the dilution adjusted
when it is time to sell their much covered decision of offer of $160MM?
startups and how to put aside the Foursquare to take capital rather Our best guess was three years.
different incentives that often than sell to Facebook or Yahoo. Our first year plan was $3MM
drive these decisions. The debate was fraught with in revenue and our second was
Large VC funds have a strong value judgments of whether they roughly $8MM. It would only
appetite to fund entrepreneurs would be selling it too early on be in our third year of sales that
that want to swing for the the one hand or irrational not to we’ d cross the $15MM in
fences. sell on the other. revenue we expected was
This was evident in Sand Hill Understandably, investor and necessary for reality to fully
Road criticisms of Aaron Patzer management self interest and catch up with hope to believe
for deciding to sell Mint for incentives are very much at play someone would possibly pay
only $170MM and the coining in the discussion of when to sell. more than $160MM for the
o f t h e t e r m “ T h e P a t z e r All of this talk of differing company. In other words, if we
P r o b l e m ; ” d e s c r i b i n g incentives has caused me to hit our plan for the next three
entrepreneurs that are viewed as revisit our sale of Brontes to 3M liquidity. only if we could clear that
years, our company would be
selling too early, where the in 2006. We did sell early, but I’ We did this by thinking hard hurdle.
worth roughly what we were
return looks great for the m convinced that we did not about the risk that we had in Now measure the progress of
being paid per share today. With
Founders and perhaps smaller only act on our own incentives. front of us versus the amount we the company. We felt we had
all the inherent risk in our plan
investors, but is disappointing I genuinely think that as a board were being offered for the game changing technology,
for the next three years, I still
for larger funds. company. Personally, I also which was deep and defensible.
we considered an objective view think that’ s a no brainer
This post was also influenced of when was the right time to considered the offer in the We had the potential to
scenario for selling.
by criticism I've heard of the sell the company. That is the context of the dilution we would completely shift the way a
Value creation at a startup is
East Coast, where entrepreneurs duty of loyalty which board face as we attempted to build market functioned. We had
non-linear. Startups have
and investors are viewed as members have to the company’ revenue and move to cash flow evidence the technology worked
inflection points where value
having less appetite for risk, s shareholders. A board member break-even. We had lots of and the system was in full beta
increases significantly and
selling startups early at the first should be explicit about his own clarity on that dilution, as we in a form that was pretty much
meaningful future progress is
good offer. Bill Warner has incentives, but put them aside to had a $25MM Series B finalized for go to market.
assumed into the price of the
shared some interesting thoughts attempt to objectively measure financing in escrow when we Clinical results might take a
company. These are peaks of
on this topic and calls for whether accepting an offer to sold. With a refresh of the while and have some rough
hope. Startups don't typically
Boston to strive toward more sell the company is the right option pool that amounted to patches, but experts would agree
appreciate in value against these
home runs in the interest of outcome for all shareholders. 40% dilution, which meant that from in-vitro quantitative
peaks simply by meeting a plan.
b u i l d i n g a h e a l t h i e r But how does a board member to our existing shareholders the measures that the system would
Reality needs time to catch up to
entrepreneurial ecosystem. figure out whether it is in the $95MM offer was the dilution work clinically.
the hope. Another major
Contrasted to the Patzer interests of the shareholders to adjusted equivalent to $160MM In other words, we were at a
inflection point needs to take
Problem and the calls for East sell? Ambitious startups have offer after our next round. In peak of hope. We were not
place to surpass that peak in
Coast entrepreneurs to aim for so much potential, yet are other words, existing going to be paid anything extra
order to get a meaningfully
grand slams, is the story of t y p i c a l l y b a c k e d w i t h shareholders would have the for early revenues. Such a
same return after the financing revenue ramp was already HOW page 4
Zappos, where Tony Hsieh e x p e c t a t i o n o f e v e n t u a l
E-reader News Edition Business/ 3

Facebook Places Leaks Around the World, World

Still Wary of Location-Statuses
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) It's simple: All you do is sign up particularly if you have a huge
for a U.S. hosted VPN, route network of friends and BP Report Points Finger
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:22:41 AM
your connection that way, and acquaintances on Facebook. at Own Engineers for
Facebook Places shook up the since your outgoing IP address The way to think about the Deepwater Blowout
location-gaming world last week now appears to be American to matter is like this: Even though
--in the U.S., but now foreign Facebook, you can use the the average person has no Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
folks are gaming the system to system. Your location can then pressing need to "hide" their
play, too. be established by GPS on your location from anyone, many Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:37:11 AM

Facebook's new location-based smartphone, and you can begin people may have good reasons
check-in game Places is U.S. " p l a y i n g " s i n c e F a c e b o o k to do so for at least some of the The explosion aboard the
only, for weak but relatively doesn't check your location is time, and then they'd be rightly Deepwater Horizon was caused
sensible reasons (to do with inside the U.S. The density of shy of using Places. And would by a BP engineering error, says
building up a core locations overseas users gaming the you care to tell your IT-enabled the firm's official report into the
database for global locations of system is pretty low, so the burglar that you're not at home? catastrophe. Although it is not
interest). But Facebook is a truly "playing" competitive aspect of One assertion, based on this due to be released for another
global entity, with its 500 Places is not going to be the thinking, is that the majority of ten days, the report says that an
million users distributed pretty same, but that doesn't seem to people who may use Facebook employee misread pressure data,
much around the entire planet-- matter to these intrepid location- won't use Places, which actually giving the go-ahead to replace
with a few notable exceptions-- fans. limits the power of the system. the drilling fluid with seawater.
and so keeping Places as an It's a big plus for Facebook that In fact, when the phenomenon As a result of using the lighter
American affair at first is a bit there's this much enthusiasm, of gets "old", and you lose the liquid, natural gas shot up the
of a thumbed-nose to the rest of course. And it's a sign that excitement of "checking-in", pipeline and exploded on the
the world. Except for those maybe the company needs to Facebook and services like rig, killing 11.
enterprising folks from overseas start thinking less like an the market, tied with its historic Gowalla are going to have to The 200-page report has been
locations who've been gaming American business, and more "screw you!" attitude of not think about models like compiled by BP's head of safety
the system and using virtual like a global one (assuming hard caring about user privacy, has Google's Latitude, which is a and operations, Mark Bly, who
private nets based in the U.S. to -headed Mark Zuckerberg can reignited the debate. Because permanent location-broadcaster. finds both BP and Transocean
access Places from their home be persuaded, that is). But systems like Foursquare are And with Facebook's reputation, jointly responsible for the
nation. there's a big question looming careful enough to only let you many users may be wary of disaster. Although BP initially
Several reports are showing that over the potential success of share your location with a small playing the game like that. tried to hold both Transocean,
Facebookers from as far afield Places in the short to medium group of people, should you To keep up with this news the firm operating the rig, and
as Australia are using VPNs as a term: Are people really excited choose to be wary. And while follow me, Kit Eaton, on Halliburton, the contractor,
sneaky way past Facebook's IP- about sharing their location in Facebook's places can be set up Twitter. responsible, the report reveals
based geolocking on its Places huge numbers? in this way, it may be fiddly to that Halliburton had in fact
services on the iPhone app and This issue has popped up deal with Facebook's famously warned BP of a potential
through touch.facebook.com. before, but Facebook's entry to labyrinthine privacy settings-- blowout. BP's two partners have
both claimed in front of federal
investigators that they were
following BP's designs and
directives on the rig.
4 Business/ E-reader News Edition
HOW
continued from page 2

higher price. The right question
is how far away is that next peak
and how much dilution will be
endured in that time.
Based on this thought process, I
think a rough and somewhat
objective rubric can be
established for when to sell:
based on your plan, how long
will reality take to catch up with
the hope? Time is an important
measure of risk in that startup
visibility rarely stretches beyond
12 months. When an offer,
based on reasonable multiples,
is compensating a company for
the past year's performance,
selling is about liquidating the
asset. When a company is being
paid a standard multiple against
a high confidence next year
plan, selling is still largely about
liquidity but does offset a year
of risk in the plan. When that
multiple is applied to the next
two years of risk, the board
should be giving very strong
consideration to selling. At three
years, I think it really is a no
brainer.
Hard to know, but I'd guess that
the Patzer Problem was more
about VC interests than whether
it was a no brainer for
shareholders, on a dilution
adjusted basis, to sell Mint for
$170 million. I wonder how
many years of Mint's plan they
were being compensated ahead
of. Probably they were at a
peak of hope. If so, it was a
good time to sell.
Note: Obviously, this is a rough
rubric and it is difficult to
determine fair multiples for any
early stage company. Also, it
can be argued that most of the
shareholders are usually
represented at the board level
and therefore board members
are justified in largely acting in
their own best interests. I’ m not
as big a fan of that argument,
because most companies are
started with some friends and
family capital, which is not
represented on the board. Also,
employees must be considered.
Of course, price is only one
consideration when it comes to
selling a company, particularly
for the employees. These issues
are highly complex and the post
is a simplification, but I believe
the key point is to get beyond
the discussion of individual
interests and get an objective
view of the offer measured
against the risk.
This post originally appeared at
Anything's Possible and is
republished here with
permission.
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Intel Offers Investors a
Safe Bet
Gary E. Sattler
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:30:00 AM
Filed under: Deals, Internet,
Competitive Strategy, Intel
(INTC), Stocks to Buy,
Technology
Many investors seem to be
taking lightly the recent
acquisition of McAfee by Intel
Corp. ( INTC). In fact, they
seem bewildered by the move.
Why in the world would a
maker of chip sets want to own
a data security software
provider? Let me tell you why.
The days when we subscribed
to a third-party service to
download those clunky security
patches will soon be gone -- and
not missed. Those annoying
downloads and incessant
updates will go the way of the
dinosaurs. Intel is preparing for
the next generation of data
security. Soon your data security
will be provided as an integral
part of your data handling and
communication devices. It will
finally be manufactured right
into your chip sets. That's the
way it should have been long
ago.
Continue reading Intel Offers
Investors a Safe Bet
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Genzyme Rejects Sanofi-Aventis's Buyout Proposal

Mark Fightmaster SNY offered $69 per GENZ turned down the offer, noting Aug 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please
(BloggingStocks) share, which is slightly more that SNY was undervaluing the see our terms for use of feeds.
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GENZ's Friday close. The total Continue reading Genzyme Comments
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(GENZ) Over the weekend, $18.5 billion. Proposal BloggingStocks- Company-
French pharmaceutical firm Although the offer isn't much Genzyme Rejects Sanofi- Business
Sanofi-Aventis ( SNY) made its more than Friday's close, it is Aventis's Buyout Proposal
attempt to take over biotech firm 38% higher than GENZ's July 1 cropped up about a potential originally appeared on
Genzyme ( GENZ) official. close. This is when speculation buyout offer from SNY. GENZ BloggingStocks on Mon, 30
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Chiquita Goes Carbon Neutral, Harnesses Fruit Power With

New Biodigester
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:38:44 AM
The fruit giant innovates for a
better planet.
Chiquita has announced the
release of an innovative
biodigester in Costa Rica that
will improve fertilizer, reduce
energy consumption, and
provide a sustainable energy
source for its operations. The
company behind the famous
blue and yellow sticker found on
your bananas and pineapples
(along with their newly
introduced green Rainforest
Alliance sticker) is at work on a
wide-sweeping sustainability
plan.
Corporate Responsibility
Officer, Manuel Rodriguez,
states, "This technology enables
us to harness the full energy
potential of fruit materials that
previously could not be
captured. It provides a
sustainable energy source for
our facility, nutrient rich
fertilizer for local farmers and
filters processing water. It
benefits our company, our
communities and our planet.
The Biodigester is the latest
demonstration of Chiquita's
global citizenship and our drive
to incorporate sustainability into
everything we do."
Echoing Green Award
recipient, AIDG(Appropriate
Infrastructure Development
Group) says of biodigesters, "As
waste is processed in a
biodigester, it is sterilized by
methane-producing bacteria and
the high-methane environment;
over 90% of protozoa, cysts and
The Chiquita biodigester has
essentially created a "carbon
neutral circulation process,"
according to the press release,
by taking extra fruit material
and excess water from its
operations that is then used by
their facilities and local farmers.
And no electricity is used, in
what they call a "unique gravity
utilizing design."
You go, Costa Rica. With your
new biodigester and Happiest
Country ranking, your capital,
San Jose, may just be on track to
disease-causing bacteria, such as
becoming an international Fast
E. Coli, are killed." According
City.
to AIDG, biodigesters don't
[Image via Andy Robinson]
function too well in colder
climates, which won't be a
problem in Costa Rica.

Climate Change Is Worse Than We Thought

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast flying less, turning off the lights of Mt Pinatubo, every 18 have on the planet, leading
Company) more often, and more -- but months to reduce temperatures many scientists and policy-
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:32:34 AM even with the most severe and delay ice-cap melt and sea- makers to shy away from their
treatment for the global threat, a level rises," The Ecologist use. But without taking those
New research indicates that new report from the Proceedings reports. Other options include risks, we are forced to innovate
d r a s t i c a p p r o a c h e s t o t h e from the National Acadmey of installing mirrors in space and with the approaches we do know
problem are too risky. Sciences of the United States of afforestation. All of the above are safe. They may be more
The challenge of climate America says that repairing the fall under the category of mundane, but at least there's no
change and its warrior activists damage will prove extremely "geoengineering." "injections" involved.
have asked many things of us -- difficult and non-cost-effective. Geoengineering approaches are [Image Via Nasa Images]
changing to energy-efficient Severe treatment would mean particles equivalent to a major risky and raise several questions
lightbulbs, biking to work, injecting "sulphur dioxode volcanic eruption, such as that about what effects they will
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Saut: Ignore Bond Yields And The Hindbenburg Omen,

Copper Says No Double Dip Is Coming
Joe Weisenthal (Business same "Hindenburg Omen" from plus to minus; indeed,
Insider) question, it is typically the Ride My See-saw. However,
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:44:57 AM wrong question! Meanwhile, the over the last 16 mid-term
Moody Blues have been elections the stock market has
Jeff Saut, the strategist from p l a y i n g o n T h e S t r e e t o f never made a new reaction low
Raymond James, is sounding Dreams, and the song - Ride My post election day.
bullish again. See-saw - as the equity markets And don't look now, but our
While the various markets can have been "dancing" to that energy analyst John Freeman's
certainly do ANYTHING, it's song buffeted by deflationary proprietary model has registered
typically not the snake you see worries from the bond market. a buy signal on the Exploration
that bites you; and currently the The counterpoint to those lower suggesting no economic double- weakness, as well as the & Production (E&P) stocks (see
media is replete with stories bond yields is the metal with a dip. Reinforcing that view is the improvement in the LIBOR-OIS chart).
about the Hindenburg Omen. Ph.D. on the economy, namely Bloomberg Financial Conditions spread. All of this has caused Join the conversation about this
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Murdoch And The BBC: They Both Lose
Michael Wolff (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:38:09 AM
The MacTaggart lecture is one
of the high points of the British
media calendar. The climax of
the Edinburgh International
Television Festival, held each
year as an adjunct to the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and
organized and sponsored by the
Guardian, the MacTaggart is a
purposeful dispensing of ritual
and propriety. The gloves come
off. Every year, it seems, the
AMD drops the ATI brand
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Walmart (WMT): An Canadian Pacific Railway: Hurricane Earl

strengthens to
'Essential Investment' Slowing Economy Category 3 storm
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growth portfolio and the largest Continue reading Walmart ( CP), which I first discussed business news, news alerts,
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Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:01:31 PM
KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq – A
$40 million prison sits in the
desert north of Baghdad, empty.
A $165 million children's
hospital goes unused in the
south. A $100 million waste
water treatment system in
Fallujah has cost three times
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As the U.S. draws down in Iraq,
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projects. More than $5 billion in
U.S. taxpayer funds has been
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more than 10 percent of the
$53.7 billion the US has spent
on reconstruction in Iraq,
according to audits from a U.S.
watchdog agency.
That amount is likely an
underestimate, based on an
analysis of more than 300
reports by auditors with the
special inspector general for
Iraq reconstruction. And it does
not take into account security
costs, which have run almost 17
percent for some projects.
There are success stories.
Hundreds of police stations,
border forts and government
buildings have been built, Iraqi
security forces have improved
after years of training, and a
deepwater port at the southern
oil hub of Umm Qasr has been
restored.
But even completed projects for
the most part fell far short of
original goals, according to an
Associated Press review of
hundreds of audits and
investigations and visits to
several sites. And the verdict is
still out on whether the program
reached its goal of generating
Iraqi good will toward the
United States instead of the
insurgents.
Col. Jon Christensen, who took
over as head of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers in Iraq this
summer, said it has completed
more than 4,800 projects and is
rushing to finish 233 more.
Some 595 projects have been
terminated, mostly for security
reasons.
Christensen acknowledged that
mistakes have been made. But
he said steps have been taken to
fix them, and the success of the
program will depend ultimately
on the Iraqis — who have
complained that they were not
consulted on projects to start
with.
"There's only so much we could
do," Christensen said. "A lot of
it comes down to them taking
ownership of it."
The reconstruction program in
Iraq has been troubled since its
birth shortly after the U.S.-led
invasion in 2003. The U.S. was
forced to scale back many
projects even as they spiked in
cost, sometimes to more than
double or triple initial
projections.
As part of the so-called surge
strategy, the military in 2007
shifted its focus to protecting
Iraqis and winning their trust.
American soldiers found
themselves hiring contractors to
paint schools, refurbish pools
and oversee neighborhood water
distribution centers. The $3.6
billion Commander's
Emergency Response Program
provided military units with
ready cash for projects, and paid
for Sunni fighters who agreed to
turn against al-Qaida in Iraq for
a monthly salary.
But sometimes civilian and
military reconstruction efforts
were poorly coordinated and
overlapped.
Iraqis can see one of the most
egregious examples of waste as
they drive north from Baghdad
to Khan Bani Saad. A prison
rises from the desert, complete
with more than two dozen
guardtowers and surrounded by
high concrete walls. But the
only signs of life during a recent
visit were a guard shack on the
entry road and two farmers
tending a nearby field.
In March 2004, the Corps of
Engineers awarded a $40
million contract to global
construction and engineering
firm Parsons Corp. to design
and build a prison for 3,600
inmates, along with educational
and vocational facilities. Work
was set to finish in November
2005.
But violence was escalating in
the area, home to a volatile mix
of Sunni and Shiite extremists.
The project started six months
late and continued to fall behind
schedule, according to a report
by the inspector general.
The U.S. government pulled the
plug on Parsons in June 2006,
citing "continued schedule slips
and ... massive cost overruns,"
but later awarded three more
contracts to other companies.
Pasadena, Calif.-based Parsons
said it did its best under difficult
and violent circumstances.
Citing security concerns, the
U.S. finally abandoned the
project in June 2007 and handed
over the unfinished facility to
Iraq's Justice Ministry. The
ministry refused to "complete,
occupy or provide security" for
it, according to the report. More
than $1.2 million in unused
construction material also was
abandoned due to fears of
violence.
The inspector general
recommended another use be
found for the partially finished
buildings inside the dusty
compound. But three years later,
piles of bricks and barbed wire
lie around, and tumbleweed is
growing in the caked sand.
"It will never hold a single Iraqi
prisoner," said inspector general
Stuart Bowen, who has overseen
the reconstruction effort since it
started. "$40 million wasted in
the desert."
Another problem was
coordination with the Iraqis,
who have been left with health
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facilities that would cost at least
as much as the Americans spent
to complete. One clinic was
handed over to local authorities
without a staircase, said
Shaymaa Mohammed Amin, the
head of the Diyala provincial
reconstruction and development
committee.
"We were almost forced to take
them," she said during an
interview at the heavily fortified
local government building in the
provincial capital of Baqouba.
"Generally speaking, they were
below our expectations. Huge
funds were wasted and they
would not have been wasted if
plans had been clear from the
beginning."
As an example, she cited a date
honey factory that was started
despite a more pressing need for
schools and vital infrastructure.
She said some schools were left
without paint or chalkboards,
and needed renovations.
"We ended up paying twice,"
she said.
In some cases, Iraqi ministries
have refused to take on the
responsibility for U.S.-funded
programs, forcing the
Americans to leave abandoned
buildings littering the landscape.
"Initially when we came in ...
we didn't collaborate as much as
we should have with the correct
people and figure out what their
needs were," Christensen said.
He stressed that Iraqis are now
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – A
new video of 33 men trapped in
a mine under Chile's Atacama
Desert shows them sending
greetings to their families,
talking about how they are
doing better since receiving
food and breaking into tears as
they talk about loved ones.
In the video released Sunday,
the men are shirtless because of
the heat in the mine and wearing
what look like white surgical
pants, special clothing sent
down to help keep them dry.
Most are upbeat, expressing
gratitude to their families and
the rescuers for the support they
are receiving via handwritten
notes sent to them through three
small bore holes. Authorities
also send food, water, medicine
and other goods to them through
the three holes.
But when it comes time to
speak about their wives and
children, many of the men break
down.
"I'm sending my greetings to
Angelica. I love you so much,
darling," says 30-year-old
Osman Araya, as his voice
chokes and he begins to cry.
"Tell my mother, I love you
guys so much. I'll never leave
you, I will fight to the end to be
with you."
Araya and 32 fellow miners
were trapped by the Aug. 5
collapse of the main shaft of the
San Jose gold and silver mine in
northern Chile. They only
gained contact with the outside
after 17 days — during which
they rationed 48-hours' worth of
food and dug for water in the
ground. On Monday, the men
will equal a mark set by three
miners who survived 25 days
trapped in a flooded mine in
southern China last year. Few
other rescues have taken more
than two weeks.
In the video, one miner explains
to the family of 28-year-old
Ariel Ticona that he didn't want
to appear on camera —
apparently because he is shy —
but that he was sending his love
to them and that, according to an
unidentified speaker, he "is
super happy and he is super,
super, super well!"
The latest video, in contrast to
the first 45-minute video
released by the government on
Thursday, shows little of the
men's surroundings. Instead, it
appears meant as a video
postcard for loved ones, as each
of the 12 men who speak to the
camera are given about 30
seconds to talk.
At one point, the camera pans
to a larger group of men, and
several animated, joking voices
can be heard throughout the
tape.
One unidentified man, who
squints in the light shone on his
face as do most of the miners,
said he is thankful "for all your
efforts out there."
Another man shown says he is
doing much better because of
the food and water the miners
have received.
The miners will have to aid in
their own escape by clearing
thousands of tons of rock that
will fall as a rescue hole is
drilled toward them.
"The miners are going to have to
take out all that material as it
falls," Andres Sougarret,
Codelco's head engineer on the
operation, told The Associated
Press Sunday in a phone
interview.
After drilling three small bore
holes in recent weeks to create
lines of communication with the
miners and deliver basic food
and medicine, Chile's state-
owned Codelco mining
company will begin boring a
rescue hole Monday afternoon
that will be wide enough to pull
the men up through 2,300 feet
(700 meters) of earth.
The first step will be to drill a
"pilot hole" similar in size to the
other three. Then much larger
machine cutters will slowly
grind through that hole, forcing
crushed rock to fall down into
the mine shaft area near the
trapped men.
Failure to keep the bottom clear
of debris could quickly plug the
hole, delaying a rescue that
officials say could take three to
four months.
In all, the trapped miners will
have to clear between 3,000 and
4,000 tons of rock, work that
will require crews of about a
half-dozen men working in
shifts 24 hours a day.
The men have basic clearing
equipment, such as wheel
barrows and industrial-sized
battery-powered sweepers,
Sougarret said. The hole will
likely end up several hundred
yards (meters) from their living
area in the mine's shelter, giving
the men room to maneuver and
store the rocks, he added.
Sougarret declined to estimate
how long the work would take,
saying it would depend on how
each step went.
Once drilling begins, the team
will have to decide whether to
fit the wider hole with metal
casing, often used to seal a hole
and prevent collapses in the
walls.
"We may not have to use it in
this case because the rock is
really high quality, really
strong," he said.
On Sunday, Mining Minister
Laurence Golborne reiterated
the government's estimate of
three to four months to rescue
the men, rejecting local reports
citing engineers who said it
could be done in much less time.
Golborne said that experts had
analyzed 10 different methods
to get the men out, will continue
to study other options, but that
"nothing has yet been found that
will be quicker."
Normally, after completing a
pilot hole, the opening is
enlarged by drilling from the
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bottom up. The drill, hanging at
the bottom of the pilot hole, is
reached through existing shafts
in a mine and then fitted with
the machine cutters, which then
blast through rock as they are
raised.
In this case, however, there is
no way to get those large cutters
to the bottom of the mine; if
there was a hole large enough to
reach it, the men would already
have been rescued.
Araya said that knowledge
gained drilling the initial holes,
which are between 20 and 100
yards (meters) from the shelter,
would give the team digging the
rescue hole a head start. For
example, while penetrating rock,
the circular motion of the bits
causes the drill to veer right. In
this case, the especially hard
rock exaggerates that, making
constant correction necessary,
he said.
From the moment the mine
collapsed, the trapped men have
had a central role in keeping
themselves alive — getting to
the safety chamber, rationing
food and keeping order with
extraordinary discipline.
Still, many questions remain.
What physical and mental
condition will the men be in
when they are called on to help
save themselves?
"We will keep them alive, in
good shape and health," said
Golborne. "That is something
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Work of Humanitarian Agencies Praised on 5th Anniversary of
Katrina
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Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:21:00 AM
Five years after Hurricanes
Katrina devastated New Orleans
and the Gulf Coast, survivors
and those working on their
behalf say work is far from
finished.(Photo: AP Images for
Rebuilding Together / Cheryl
Gerber)
Volunteers work with
Rebuilding Together's Fifty for
Five, in which volunteers from
around the country came to
rebuild 50 homes in five days in
the Gentilly neighborhood of
New Orleans, Thursday, August
26, 2010. Rebuilding Together,
a national non-profit, created
Fifty for Five to commemorate
the fifth anniversary of
Hurricane Katrina and has
rebuilt more than 750 homes in
the Gulf Coast since 2005
But they are also emphatic that
what progress has been made is
in great part due to the support,
funding and labor of the U.S.
faith community and of
humanitarian agencies, reports
one such organization – Church
World Service.
"If it weren't for the volunteers
and agencies who assisted me, I
don't know where I would be,"
said Gloria Mouton, 62, whose
home in New Orleans East was
among those repaired by
volunteers from across the U.S.
during the 2009 CWS
Neighborhood New Orleans
ecumenical project.
While saying that the city "is
nowhere where it should be five
years later," with many areas
still dotted by empty or
overgrown lots, Mouton praised
the efforts that allowed her to
return to her home after two
years of living in Georgia with
family as she waited to return to
New Orleans.
"This is home, where I want to
be," the retired government
employee said, adding that the
work of volunteers "came out
real nice."
In restoring Mouton's and other
homes, CWS worked in
partnership with the local New
Orleans long-term recovery
organization the Crescent
Alliance Recovery Effort, and
with volunteer teams
coordinated by ten of CWS U.S.
member denomination s
providing the labor.
Founded in 1946, Church
World Service is a cooperative
ministry of 36 Christian
denominations and
communions.
"I never realized there were that
many people such big hearts,"
Mouton told the ecumenical
agency.
Another survivor, Christopher
Weaver, 48, agreed, and praised
the efforts that allowed him to
return to his home in New
Orleans East.
"There are people who showed
me a new way of life," the self-
employed cook said of the work
of volunteers and CWS-
supported agencies that repaired
his residence. "It was powerful
to see these things happening."
From individual churches who
opened their doors to shelter
survivors to faith-based
humanitarian agencies and
regional long-term recovery
organizations, the faith response
saved lives, say those who have
worked tirelessly in the five
years since Katrina and Rita hit
the region.
"Absolutely," said Jessica
Vermilyea, the Louisiana-based
state director for Lutheran
Disaster Response and Lutheran
Social Services Disaster
Response. "It saved families. If
it hadn't have been for that
response, I don't know what
would have happened."
And Ellenor Simmons, who
helps oversee long-term
recovery projects for the United
Way of the Greater New
Orleans Area, said the faith
community was “remarkable.”
“Absolutely remarkable in every
way they could be," she added.
Despite the praises, there is still
much hurricane recovery work
that needs to be done and still
people in the region living in
temporary housing.
And while there is still a sense
of remarkable rebuilding
overall, life is not what it was.
"There is a 'new normal,'"
Simmons told CWS.
"Five years later, long-term
recovery groups continue to
assist people with unmet needs,"
added Simmons' United Way
colleague, Benita Corley.
Still, many in New Orleans and
the Gulf Coast have expressed
gratitude for the combined
efforts of local, regional and
national organizations.
"If it was not for the
collaboration of those local,
regional and national long-term
recovery organizations, many
individuals would not be living
in safe, sanitary and secure
housing,” Corley noted.
On Sunday – five years after
Katrina hit New Orleans' Lower
9th Ward to Biloxi, Miss. – a
number of special ceremonies
were planned in honor of the
dead and to focus on rebuilding
and moving on. In New Orleans,
the bells will toll at St. Louis
Cathedral. Meanwhile, in the
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Lower 9th Ward, a "healing
ceremony" and march were
planned.
More than 1,800 people along
the Gulf coast died in the 2005
storm, mostly in Louisiana. And
more than 80 percent of hard-hit
New Orleans was flooded.
According to a poll released
Thursday by the nonpartisan
Pew Research Center, 7 in 10
Americans, or 69 percent, think
progress has been made in
rebuilding New Orleans and the
Gulf.
Among people in the South -
which includes Gulf Coast states
- 75 percent say progress has
been made.
The poll also found that 57
percent say the country has not
improved its disaster
preparations. Just 38 percent
said the country is more ready
than it was.
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closely involved in all projects.
The U.S. military pinned great
hopes on a $5.7 million
convention center inside the
tightly secured Baghdad
International Airport compound,
as part of a commercial hub
aimed at attracting foreign
investors. A few events were
held at the sprawling complex,
including a three-day energy
conference that drew oil
executives from as far away as
Russia and Japan in 2008, which
the U.S. military claimed
generated $1 million in
revenues.
But the contracts awarded for
the halls did not include
requirements to connect them to
the main power supply. The
convention center, still requiring
significant work, was
transferred to the Iraqi
government "as is" on Jan. 20,
according to an audit by the
inspector general's office.
The buildings have since fallen
into disrepair, and dozens of
boxes of fluorescent lightbulbs
and other equipment
disappeared from the site. Light
poles outside have toppled over
and the glass facade is missing
from large sections of the
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Fire boat response crews battle
the blazing remnants of the off
abandoned buildings.
Waste also came from trying to
run projects while literally under
fire.
The Americans committed to
rebuilding the former Sunni
insurgent stronghold of Fallujah
after it was destroyed in major
offensives in 2004. The U.S.
awarded an initial contract for a
new waste water treatment
system to FluorAMEC of
Greenville, S.C. — just three
months after four American
private security contractors were
savagely attacked. The charred
and mutilated remains of two of
them were strung from a bridge
in the city.
An audit concluded that it was
unrealistic for the U.S. "to
believe FluorAMEC could even
begin construction, let alone
complete the project, while
fierce fighting occurred daily."
The report also pointed out
repeated redesigns of the
project, and financial and
contracting problems.
The Fallujah waste water
treatment system is nearly
complete — four years past the
deadline, at a cost of more than
three times the original $32.5
million estimate. It has been
shore oil rig Deepwater
Horizon, off Louisiana, in this
handout photograph taken on
April 21, 2010 and obtained on
April 22, 2010. Picture taken
scaled back to serve just a third
of the population, and Iraqi
officials said it still lacks
connections to houses and a pipe
to join neighborhood tanks up
with the treatment plant.
Desperate residents,
meanwhile, have begun
dumping their sewage in the
tanks, causing foul odors and
running the risk of seepage,
according to the head of
Fallujah's municipal council,
Sheik Hameed Ahmed Hashim.
"It isn't appropriate for the
Americans to give the city these
services without completing
these minor details," Hashim
said. "We were able to wipe out
part of the memories of the
Fallujah battles through this and
other projects. ... If they leave
the project as it is, I think their
reputation will be damaged."
By contrast, the Basra
children's hospital — one of the
largest projects undertaken by
the U.S. in Iraq — looks like a
shining success story, with
gardeners tending manicured
lawns in preparation for its
opening. But that opening has
been repeatedly delayed, most
recently for a lack of electricity.
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projected to be completed by
December 2005 for about $50
million. By last year, the cost
had soared above $165 million,
including more than $100
million in U.S. funds, and the
equipment was dated, according
to an auditors' report.
Investigators blamed the delays
on unrealistic timeframes, poor
soil conditions, multiple
partners and funding sources
and security problems at the
site, including the murder of 24
workers. Bechtel, the project
contractor, was removed
because of monthslong delays
blamed on poor sub-contractor
performance and limited
oversight, the special inspector
general's office said. A Bechtel
spokeswoman, Michelle Allen,
said the company had
recommended in 2006 that work
on the hospital be put on hold
because of the "intolerable
security situation."
In an acknowledgment that they
weren't getting exactly what
they hoped for, Iraqi officials
insisted the label "state of the
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giving them the facility. It was
described as a "modern pediatric
hospital."
The hospital's director, Kadhim
Fahad, said construction has
been completed and the
electricity issue resolved. "The
opening will take place soon,
God willing," he said.
Residents are pleased with the
outcome. One, Ghassan
Kadhim, said: "It is the duty of
the Americans to do such
projects because they were the
ones who inflicted harm on
people."
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Popular conservative
broadcaster Glenn Beck is not
among the 20 or so percent of
Americans who believes that
President Obama is a Muslim.
“I'm taking his word that he is a
Christian,” said Beck this past
week on his self-titled cable-
news show. “But here's where it
falls apart for many Americans:
It's a Christianity that most
Americans just don't recognize.”
The television and radio
personality went on to examine
past statements made by the
president and prominent
individuals who have been close
to him over the course of his
life, such as his former pastor,
Jeremiah Wright; his close
personal friend, Richard Pfleger;
and his spiritual adviser, Jim
Wallis.
“You have to learn his
(Obama’s) theology. Learn his
influences. Learn who he has
surrounded himself with his
whole life. More knowledge, not
less. More access to
information, not less,” Beck
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And after going over a few
clips, the broadcaster concluded
that Obama’s theology is not
Muslim. But neither is it
Christian.
“It's a perversion of the gospel
of Jesus Christ as most
Christians know it,” Beck
asserted. “But as usual, the
media won't look at any of those
facts because most people in the
media don't have any idea what
Christianity really is.”
Ironically, Beck’s theology has
also been a point of debate –
especially as the broadcaster’s
popularity among conservatives
continues to rise.
When Liberty University in
Lynchburg, Va., tapped Beck to
address its graduating class a
few months back, officials at the
evangelical school were strongly
criticized for the move as Beck
had “settled on Mormonism” –
formally the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints – in
1999 after marrying his second
wife.
While Mormon conservatives,
socially, are comparable to their
evangelical counterparts,
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Aside from rejecting the Trinity
and their belief in many gods,
Mormons believe their prophet,
Joseph Smith, was “the only
man that has ever been able to
keep a whole church together
since the days of Adam,”
according to the Mormons’
History of the Church.
Mormons also reject the
validity and veracity of the
Bible, believing that the proper
translation of what God wants
believers to know is found in
another source – the Book of
Mormon.
“Mormonism and Mammonism
are contrary to the gospel of
Jesus Christ,” remarked Dr.
Russell Moore, dean of the
School of Theology and senior
vice-president for Academic
Administration at The Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Ky.
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is widely regarded by Bible-
centered Christians as either a
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or – at best – a newly developed
Abrahamic religion, some
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slightly apart from his Mormon
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Jim Garlow, lead pastor of
Skyline Wesleyan Church in La
Mesa, Calif., said this past week
that he interviewed people who
have talked specifically with
Beck about his personal
salvation – persons “extremely
well known in Christianity”
“[A]nd they have affirmed
(using language evangelicals
understand), ‘Glenn is saved,’”
Garlow reported in a five-page
memo. “He understands
receiving Christ as savior.”
But many conservative
evangelicals, such as SBTS’s
Moore, could argue otherwise.
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Hammer, Cooperates
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BlackBerry E-Mail
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“>BlackBerry maker has
provided the Indian government
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Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi

(Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Netanyahu distanced himself year hiatus. comment when asked by
Submitted at 8/29/2010 5:03:13 PM from the comments and said The Iraqi-born cleric has made reporters about Yosef's sermon.
Israel wanted to reach a peace similar remarks before, most Netanyahu and Abbas are due
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An deal with the Palestinians that notably in 2001, during a to resume direct peace talks in
influential Israeli rabbi has said would ensure good neighborly Palestinian uprising, when he Washington Thursday, the first
G o d s h o u l d s t r i k e t h e relations. called for Arabs' annihilation such negotiations in 20 months Jake Gyllenhaal Picks
Palestinians and their leader "The comments do not reflect and said it was forbidden to be in a peace process that commits Up the Scruff Where
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that is happening in parallel
while we are digging the larger
hole."
Other steps are being taken to
keep the men as strong as
possible — physically and
mentally.
Telephone wire was being
snaked down one of the bore
holes on Sunday, and Golborne
said that within a few hours one
representative from each family
would be allowed to talk to one
of the miners — the first verbal
communication they would
have. Until now, handwritten
notes have been passed through
tubes sent up and down the bore
holes.
Physically, many of the men
have severe skin irritations from
the hot, wet conditions
underground and were sent
special clothing that dries
quicker and also small mats to
sleep on so they don't have to
rest directly on the damp
ground.
For now, the men have some
time to prepare before they start
the arduous task of hauling
away the rock that stands
between them and freedom, but
questions remain.
Sougarret, the operation leader,
said it will be one to two months
before large quantities of rocks
start falling. Can the men do
such hard labor for a couple
months just on food that will fit
down the narrow tubes? And
then there is what will be a
harrowing rescue: each man will
be pulled up through the 26-inch
(66-centimeter) hole in a tube, a
ride that will take about an hour
each.
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As U.S. withdraws, Iraqis still live in crisis

(Reuters: Top News) daughters and his wife. it impossible to get work and starved of investment after years."
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:45:43 AM "They (politicians) fight over slide into poverty. Aid workers decades of war and sanctions. FRAGILE SECURITY
positions and have no idea what say many Iraqi women are But it will be years yet before While violence has ebbed from
Members of a poor family are we eat and drink and where we falling into the hands of sex oil revenues start to soar, and the height of sectarian warfare
seen at their makeshift house in live," he said, gesturing toward traffickers in the Middle East. the political impasse and fragile in 2006-7, bombings and
Baghdad August 28, 2010. the ceiling, made of tin and At the camp in Chukook, where security have kept potential non- killings are still a daily
Credit: Reuters/Thaier al- covered in cloth. local official Amer Kareem oil investors waiting on the occurrence and fears have
Sudani "We hope that with the U.S. estimates 3,150 families live on sidelines. grown that the political vacuum
By Serena Chaudhry and troops pulling out things will be what used to be an empty plot Many displaced Iraqis cannot after the election and U.S. pull-
Khalid al-Ansary better, but I am afraid that it owned by the army, there is no afford to return to their old back will be exploited by
BAGHDAD| Mon Aug 30, may not and that people may plumbing -- a hole in the ground neighborhoods. Their insurgents.
2010 10:45am EDT kill each other." serves as a toilet. Electricity abandoned homes have been The volatile security situation is
BAGHDAD(Reuters) - Kareem Many Iraqis fear the reduction comes from a small generator. stripped of electric cables and also the biggest challenge
Hassan Abboud's family of in U.S. troops and their full DONORS CUT BACK furniture by looters, doors humanitarian organizations face,
seven share a two room house in withdrawal next year will re- Aid workers fear that when the smashed in by U.S. troops often delaying the delivery of
a makeshift squatter camp in the ignite sectarian bloodshed. United States officially ends its looking for weapons and aid and preventing aid workers
m a i n l y S h i ' i t e d i s t r i c t o f They also feel let down by their combat mission in Iraq on windows shattered by bombs. from visiting camps.
C h u k o o k i n n o r t h w e s t e r n leaders, who are stuck in a August 31, Iraq's humanitarian Displacement and Migration Um Younis, 36, one of many
Baghdad. Sewage muddies the political deadlock almost six crisis will be forgotten as Minister Abdul-Samad Sultan widows in the Chukook camp
dirt road outside. months after an election that attention shifts elsewhere. said helping the displaced go who are now in charge of their
The 59-year-old fisherman and produced no outright winner and Daniel Endres, the UNHCR home was mainly a matter of households after losing their
his family were forced to move as yet no new government. representative in Iraq, said money. husbands during the war, says
there four years ago when The United Nations refugee donors had already started to "If there was more support and she has received little help.
sectarian violence between agency, UNHCR, says the Iraq disengage from Iraq, especially more financial compensation, "No government officials have
majority Shi'ites and once w a r p r o d u c e d t h e w o r s t Europe. the problem would be solved visited the place," she said,
dominant Sunnis raged in Iraq, humanitarian crisis in the "The funding that the U.N. 100 percent," he said. wiping away tears with the
set off after the 2003 U.S.-led Middle East since 1948, when alone would require this year The UNHCR, which built sleeve of a black Islamic abaya.
invasion that toppled dictator half the Arab population of would be about $264 million around 10,000 houses last year "It never crossed my mind that
Saddam Hussein. Palestine fled their homes after and right now we have $120 to help address a shortage of an one day my life would end like
As U.S. combat operations the creation of Israel. million. We don't even have half estimated 1.5 million homes in this."
come to a close on Tuesday 7-1/ According to the UNHCR, 1.5 of what we actually would need Iraq, said it only managed to (Additional reporting by Aseel
2 years after the invasion, million people are displaced ... I'm worried about next year in build 6,000-7,000 homes this Kami; Writing by Serena
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis inside Iraq, of which 500,000 particular," he said. year. Chaudhry; Editing by Michael
like Abboud, who fled mixed- are squatting in camps or public "The perception is still that Iraq Endres said it was crucial Christie)
sect neighborhoods at a time buildings. In Baghdad, 200,000 is a middle income country that donors continued to contribute. Aug 30, 2010 10:49am EDT
when bodies were piling up in people live in 120 camps. has oil revenues and therefore "Statistics show that the I hope that we are not leaving
the streets overnight, are living There are also hundreds of there are more pressing majority of post-conflict too soon. These poor people
in squalor. thousands of Iraqis abroad, situations." situations crunch back into need some relief from all the
"We are waiting for a good man mainly in neighboring Jordan Iraq has the world's third- conflict within seven years," he blood shed they have witnessed.
to govern us. To look after the and Syria. largest oil reserves and signed a said. "And very often you can *We welcome comments that
helpless," said Abboud, who Still too scared to go home, series of deals with oil majors to trace it back to a lack of advance the story directly or
sees a grim future for his three Iraqis who fled the war face develop its oilfields, seen as attention or no sustained support U.S. page 16
grandchildren, his two widowed trauma and hardship. Many find crucial to re-building a country in these critical post-conflict
16 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition
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Lessons Learned from a Failed Acquisition

Audrey Watters Sponsor sorry," telling Backblaze it failure of a merger is whether
(ReadWriteWeb) The Backblaze Story would need to restructure in the teams trust each other. Start
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:17:08 AM As Budman explains, when order to finalize the deal. early. Partner. Meet live. Talk to
Backblaze received the first Backblaze balked, and said no. references. Do whatever it takes
While a successful exit in the acquisition offer, the company And with that, writes Budman, to make sure both sides trust
form of an acquisition may be had already discussed internally "We were roughly back to each other. If either side doesn't,
the goal for many startups, the the three scenarios: The first: where we were six months no amount of legalese in a
experiences of Backblaze, an the offer would be too low, and earlier." The Lessons Learned contract will help."
online back-up and storage Backblaze would not accept it. On one hand, that's not a bad • Getting acquired is expensive
startup, demonstrate how time- The second: the offer would be place to be. Backblaze is • Find great advisers
consuming, challenging, and something the company would profitable and cash-flow • Know your wants and
expensive the process can be, consider but wouldn't be thrilled profitable. The company has a walkaways up front
particularly when, as was the with. And the third and best Budman's blog post explains in service that customers love. But • Require quick movement
case with Backblaze, things fall scenario: an offer the company great detail (with the names of as Budman notes, so much time
apart. would accept. the prospective buyers was spent on the acquisition The Backblaze post is worth
Backblaze was in the process of As the first offer fell into that obscured) the steps in the very negotiations that other aspects reading in its entirety,
negotiating an acquisition with first category - and after some lengthy negotiation and due of building the business might particularly for first-time
one of its partners and then with negotiations into the second diligence process. And "very have been ignored. entrepreneurs or those with
another business. Both deals c a t e g o r y - B a c k b l a z e lengthy" may be the key phrase Budman admits that there are limited experiences with
fell through, and Backblaze a p p r o a c h e d s o m e o t h e r here, as Budman notes buyer far more "lessons learned" than company acquisitions.
CEO Gleb Budman penned a companies to see if they were kept delaying the signing of a one post can hold, but offers Photo credits: Flickr user Sam
b l o g p o s t c h r o n i c l i n g t h e interested in making an offer as definitive agreement until on the these five pointers: Discuss
process to offer some insights well. And sure enough, another Monday following the end of
and lessons learned for other company made an offer that sat the exclusivity extension, the • Build trust."Ultimately, the
companies entering the process. better with the startup. CEO called with an "I'm sooo difference between success and
E-reader News Edition Technology/ 17

Clearwire out Rover pre-pay WiMAX with Rover Puck mobile

hotspot
Chris Davies (SlashGear) simultaneously, has a 100ft PUCKS AND STICKS
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:43:34 AM range and 4hr battery life; it Friends with Benefits
recharges via USB. If you’re Rover’s flagship device is the
C l e a r w i r e h a s o f f i c i a l l y tempted, and don’t mind paying Rover Puck: an ergonomically
launched Rover, their pay-as- for a year’s worth of service designed portable Wi-Fi hotspot
you-go 4G mobile broadband upfront, you can get the Rover that lets you share broadband
service, which offers unlimited and 12 months WiMAX for access, or “Puck”, with up to
WiMAX data for either $5 a $500 (saving $100) by using the eight devices at home, out on
day, $20 a week or $50 per coupon code “Crazy”. the town or nearly anywhere the
month. Two modems will be Press Release: feeling strikes you. The Rover
a v a i l a b l e f o r t h e R o v e r Clearwire Introduces Rover: Puck can easily slip into a purse
packages, a USB model called Instant Gratification to the or backpack and serve as an on-
the Rover Stick and priced at Internet Addicted the-go broadband access point
$99.99, and a 4G mobile hotspot Nation’s First Pay-As-You-Go for devices such as laptops,
called the Rover Puck, which 4G Mobile Broadband Service netbooks, the iPad(TM), the
can share a single WiMAX Unlimited Usage for Just $5/ iPod touch(R), smartphones,
connection with up to eight day, $20/week, $50/month PSP(R) systems, game consoles,
WiFi-connected users and is Redefines “Friends with and Wi-Fi enabled digital
priced at $149.99. Benefits” with Rover Puck(TM) cameras, among others. Users
The network is targeting Rover Rover Stick(TM) Available for CLEAR stores, Best Buy stores important new business have the option to connect up to
a t y o u n g u s e r s w a n t i n g Those With Commitment Issues and select independent wireless opportunity for Clearwire as we eight Wi-Fi enabled devices
c o n n e c t i v i t y w i t h o u t KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug 30, dealers in Houston and St. continue to extend our simultaneously.
commitment, and as such they’ll 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Louis. leadership in mobile The Rover Puck features
be offering pay-as-you-go top- Clearwire Corporation “Simple, commitment-free broadband.” mobile download speeds of
ups both online and – in $20 and ( N A S D A Q : C L W R ) t o d a y wireless services are wildly “The opportunity for pay-as-you three to six mbps, with bursts
$50 denominations – in select u n v e i l e d R o v e r ( T M ) : t h e popular with the Gen Y crowd, -go mobile broadband should over 10 mbps (up to 4x faster
stores. New owners of either nation’s first pay-as-you-go 4G and Rover provides them with not be underestimated,” said than conventional 3G), using
modem will get two day’s mobile broadband service for the first pay-as-you-go Carrie MacGillvray, program Clearwire’s 4G network. The
inclusive use, so they can figure tech-savvy Gen Y customers. unlimited mobile internet manager and wireless analyst at Rover Puck is available today
out whether they’ll want to take The Rover brand is designed for offering at 4G speeds,” said IDC. “Prepaid – or pay-as-you- for $149.99 (plus tax).
advantage of the 14-day no- digitally addicted youth who Mike Sievert, chief commercial go – data provides an option for Going Solo
hassle return policy. refuse to settle for long-term officer for Clearwire. “We’ve consumers to experiment with The Rover Stick(TM) is a
Neither the Puck or the Stick contracts, overpriced internet built Rover from the ground up the power of mobile broadband personal 4G USB modem that
have 3G to fall back on, so if service, or speeds slower than with products, pricing and without being saddled with a connects any notebook, laptop
you’re not in a CLEAR-serviced w h a t t h e y ’ v e b e c o m e features designed specifically to two-year commitment. A or desktop to the Rover 4G
area then these aren’t the a c c u s t o m e d t o a t h o m e . serve a younger market who prepaid mobile broadband Service. The Rover Stick is
devices for you. The Rover Rover is available in all of knows how you get connected is service can offer consumers the compatible with MacBook(R)
Puck supports WiFi b/g/n with Clearwire’s 49 4G markets just as important as where. ability to access and share and MacBook(R) Pro laptops
WEP/WPA/WP2 encryption, across the U.S. at rover.com. Expanding our offers to meet Internet service, at home or on
c a n o p e r a t e t w o S S I D s Rover is also available at this underserved segment is an the go, in an affordable way.” CLEARWIRE page 18
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continued from page 17
using Mac OS X, as well as
netbooks and notebooks running
Windows(R) XP, Windows
Vista(R) and Windows(R) 7.
Offering the same super-fast
internet speed as the Rover
Puck, the Rover Stick is
available today for $99.99 (plus
tax).
No Commitment Issues
New users receive two free
days of service to ensure
Rover’s metro-focused 4G
coverage fits their mobile
lifestyle. Rover has a 14-day no-
hassle return policy for any
device purchases made on
rover.com or in CLEAR stores.
Rover is priced at $5/day, $20/
week, or $50/month for
unlimited 4G internet usage.
Depending on the retail channel,
customers will be able to
purchase a Rover Re-Up PIN
code or physical Rover Re-Up
card in $20 or $50
denominations. Rover Re-Up is
available online at rover.com, at
all retail outlets carrying the
Rover Puck or Rover Stick, as
well as at Rover Re-Up specific
retail locations. Rover does not
require a credit card to activate
service and is designed to bring
broadband internet to a new
audience.
GENERATION Y
The Rover brand is designed
for a demographic that has
grown up in a wireless world.
They manage their life through
the internet, and their devices
signify status. Rover provides
products and service to meet
their need for all things internet.
“Rover’s target audience has
never known life without
internet. They love their devices
and they want as much speed
and capacity as possible,
without the limits and
commitments of most mobile
options,” said Seth Cummings,
GM, Rover. “Rover offers
iconic devices along with
straight-forward pricing, and
plans where unlimited truly
means unlimited. It is not in
Rover’s DNA to be
constraining, confusing or
complex.”
MARKETING CAMPAIGN
Launch campaign
Rover’s initial communications
will showcase the dramatic
ways in which 4G mobile
broadband can change human
behavior in previously
unimagined ways. More
information is available at
www.evology.com.
Life @ 4G
Rover.com invites users to
experience “Life @ 4G.” Rover-
sponsored athletes and music
artists will be profiled, showing
how Rover influences their
careers and lives as they live
Life @ 4G. Sporting a Rover
wingsuit, base jumper JT
Holmes, who travels up to 150
mph during freefall proximity
flying, lives life with the Rover
Puck and no strings attached.
Rover Activity Badges
Rover believes in loyalty, and
will introduce a badging system
that rewards users for
participating in Rover activities.
For example, the “Trendsetter”
badge recognizes early adopters
of Rover in each market, and the
“Friends with Benefits” badge
acknowledges users who refer
friends to the Rover service.
Badges have become wildly
popular on location-based apps
and are expected to resonate
with the youth consumer and
motivate usage.
THE BIG PICTURE
4G Network of Networks
Rover is the newest brand
connected to the Clearwire 4G
network, joining brands which
include CLEAR(R), Sprint 4G,
Comcast High-Speed 2Go, Time
Warner Cable Roadrunner 4G,
Best Buy Connect and Cbeyond.
Today, the Clearwire 4G
“network of networks” is
available in select cities
throughout the United States,
where approximately 56 million
people live.
Detailed coverage maps of
service availability can be found
at www.rover.com/coverage.
For press, broadcast and
bloggers: Video footage can be
linked from www.youtube.com/
rover4g. Product and brand
images and company logos can
be downloaded from the
Clearwire Newsroom at
www.clearwire.com/newsroom.
To subscribe to Rover RSS
news feed, click here.
For more information about
Rover, visit www.rover.com.
Clearwire company information
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A Scruffy Robert
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Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:00:00 AM
Robert Pattinson didn't attend
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rounds; he started the evening at
the Soho House before moving
on for more partying at
Trousdale. He held down the
fort in California while Kristen
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Argentina. Robert didn't have
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ago when he was spotted
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Polar Rose Shuts Down Its Flickr/Facebook

Facial Recognition Service
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:12:15 AM
Polar Rose, a Swedish-based
facial recognition startup
launched in summer 2007, is
shutting down its consumer-
facing service which allowed
users to tag people in photos
anywhere on the Web. Last
spring, the innovative company
introduced facial recognition to
popular photo-sharing site Flickr
by way of a third-party browser
plugin. With the plugin
installed, Polar Rose users could
tag their Flickr photos with the
names of their Facebook
contacts and then alert those
friends on Facebook that they
had been tagged. It also
organized Flickr photos into
during the Mobile World
Congress last February has been
"phenomenal." These include
the company's flagship
FaceCloud server platform,
mobile face recognition library
FaceLib and FaceCore, a core
face detection and recognition
module for deep integration and
other use-cases.
Unfortunately, the company has
not been able to focus on the
service at polarrose.com due to
the popularity of these back-end
applications and products. The
Polar Rose service hasn't seen a
new release in ages and support
requests on GetSatisfaction have
basically been ignored. "The
site, as it stands today, is not up
to the standard we set for it
when we launched," admits
It's a shame to see such a
compelling and interesting
service disappear, but Polar
Rose has had stiff competition
in the consumer space as of late.
Google introduced facial
recognition functionality into its
Picasa photo-sharing service, a
Flickr competitor. Windows
Live Essentials introduced facial
recognition into its latest
release. Also, Face.com, a facial
recognition technology
company, introduced multiple
Facebook apps in 2009,
including Photo Finder, a facial
scanning service for tagging
unidentified photos of Facebook
friends, and later Photo Tagger,
an app which automates the
application called Augmented
ID which employed Polar Rose's
facial recognition technology in
an app that recognized people
through a mobile phone's
camera in real-time. Earlier this
year, the app was re-branded as
Recognizr and the company
announced plans to ship the app
as an Android application in a
matter of months. That deadline,
sadly, has since come and gone.
As for Polar Rose, it's no longer
alone in the licensing game,
either, when it comes to facial
recognition technology. Rival Street Chic:
Face.com launched APIs(tools
that allow developers to
incorporate the technology into
New York
their own applications) back in ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
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pages by person and could
recognize people automatically
in later uploads.
Unfortunately, this and all other
end user-focused services are
being terminated as the
company switches its focus to
its series of facial recognition
products. Says Polar Rose's
Thijs Stalenhoef, the service
was "fun while it lasted."
Sponsor
Polar Rose Says Goodbye to
End Users, Hello to Products
According to Stalenhoef, the
response to the facial
recognition products introduced
Stalenhoef.
But instead of bringing on new
staff to help better manage the
consumer service, the company
has decided to shut it down
entirely. The company will close
the service on PolarRose.com on
September 6th, 2010 at which
point all user accounts and
corresponding data, including
images downloaded from
Facebook and Flickr, will be
deleted. The tags sent to Flickr
and Facebook, however, will
remain in place. Competition for
End Users Ramped Up Over the
Years
tagging process. And Facebook,
as CEO Mark Zuckerberg
recently revealed, hosts five to
six times more photos than all
competing photo-sharing
services combined.
Meanwhile, Polar Rose may be
finding its niche as the
technology behind the next great
facial recognition service or
application. For example, last
summer Polar Rose partnered
with Swedish software and
design company The
Astonishing Tribe to create an
augmented reality concept
of testing, have already been
used to power marketing
campaigns by Orbit gum and
Axe deodorant. Future plans
could involve charges - no word
yet on that. In any event, despite
losing the end user service at
PolarRose.com, having multiple
companies vying for dominance
in the facial recognition space
will ultimately be a win for
consumers - at least those who
aren't creeped out about the
technology in the first place.
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RIM sidesteps BlackBerry ban in
India
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:29:44 AM
Research In Motion the maker
of the popular BlackBerry
smartphone has averted yet
another ban of its email and
messaging service, according to
news reports Monday.
The Indian government said it
will not shut down the service
for at least another 60 days as it
evaluates proposals that RIM
has offered that will allow the
government to monitor wireless
subscribers' communications.
Indian officials said earlier this
month that the company had
until the end of August to come
up with a solution that would
allow Indian officials to monitor
emails and other electronic
messages from BlackBerry users
in the country.
One of the latest proposals
likely includes RIM placing one
of its servers in India.
"It was also decided that the
D e p a r t m e n t o f
Telecommunications would
study the feasibility of all such
services being provided through
a server located only in India,"
Onkar Kedia, a spokesman for
the federal Ministry of Home
Affairs, said in a statement.
RIM has been working with
Indian officials to come up with
a solution since earlier this
month, when the government
threatened to shut down the
service over security concerns.
Last week RIM suggested
creating an industry forum to
address the government's
concerns. In this forum RIM and
other mobile companies would
work with the Indian
government to support "the
lawful access needs of law
enforcement agencies, while
preserving the legitimate
information security needs of
corporations and other
organizations in India."
RIM has faced threats of bans
in other countries as well,
including Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates. RIM
averted a ban in Saudi Arabia by
supposedly cutting a deal with
Saudi officials, which reportedly
also includes putting a server in
Saudi Arabia that will allow the
security officials to monitor
communications.
RIM has been adamant that it
has not compromised its core
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India that RIM maintains a
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lawful access requirements that
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for specific countries," the
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Governments in countries
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threatening to ban the service
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say they are concerned that the
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BlackBerry, which features
a computer and a headset for Skype says that approximately
stronger privacy safeguards than
VoIP calls. Users can receive 37% of Skype users reported
competing devices, could be
and manage inbound calls from that they use Skype for business
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AMD Retiring ATI Brand
Ben Bajarin (SlashGear)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:41:27 AM
Today AMD announced that
they are retiring the ATI brand
entirely from their branding and
marketing. This is a move that
I have been expecting for some
time now since it has been one
of the more prominent
discussions at the last few AMD
Analyst Summits I have
attended.
It has become blatantly clear
over the past few years that the
“speeds and feeds” marketing
by manufacturers of personal
computers was becoming less
relevant to the decision making
process of mainstream
consumers. This is why both
AMD and Intel are taking very
different approaches with their
partners on how to position and
market to consumers.
In my briefing with AMD about
this brand transition they
explained that they were very
sensitive to the ATI brand and
the loyalty to the brand that has
been established through the
years. For this reason they
performed extensive market
research before making this
decision. They explained to
Technology/ 21
What Do You Think the
integrating the GPU onto the
CPU. This new architecture
combines the best of ATI and
Future of the Workplace
AMD into a single architecture.
The consolidated branding of Will Look Like?
the ATI Radeon and FirePro Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
brands under AMD will Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:27:00 AM
hopefully create a much cleaner
me that their research yielded consumer brand as it relates to We kicked off the week last
the following results: their Fusion architecture. Monday with an article on
-The AMD preferences triples The bottom line is consumers improving IT worker morale.
with awareness of ATI + AMD p u r c h a s i n g d e c i s i o n s a r e This week we'd like to get your
merger evolving and have become more thoughts on what changes we'll
-The AMD brand is stronger focused on what they want their see in the workplace of the
t h a n A T I v s . g r a p h i c s computer to do for them. Of future, both good and bad. For
competitors course the components example, earlier this month
- Radeon and FirePro brand a c c o m p l i s h t h i s , h o w e v e r Gartner released a list of ten
awareness and consideration is consumers are more aware of changes the workplace will see • Hyperconnected
very high what they want the computer to in the next 10 years. What do • My Place
This move fits what AMD is do than what the computer has you think about Gartner's list,
t r y i n g t o a c c o m p l i s h b y inside. and what changes do you expect Phil Wainewright has a pretty
s i m p l i f y i n g t h e b r a n d i n g Relevant Entries on SlashGear to see? good take on Gartner's list,
s c h e m e s f o r c o n s u m e r s • Gateway CEO retiring early Sponsor distilling it down to three meta-
h o p e f u l l y m a k i n g t h e next year Above: A vision of the office of trends:
purchasing decision easier. • AMD to drop the ATi brand the future from 1964, via Tales • Hyperconnectedness
Eliminating logo overload and • ATI Gets Assimilated into of the Futures Past section on • Swarming
focusing more on what the AMD’s Brand work. Below, an vision of the • Spontaneity
product can do is the right • Tag Heuer announces mobile office of the future from 2009,
approach for the mainstream phone in 2008 via Microsoft Office Labs. Will Do you see any other trends in
consumer segment. That is in • HTC offers handsets in China the latter look as retro in the the work place? What
essence what their VISION under its own brand future as the former? technologies do you see driving
campaign is all about. Here are Gartner's ten trends: these trends? What long-term
This move is also important as • De-routinization of Work impacts do you think the
AMD rolls out their Fusion • Work Swarms ongoing global recession will
Architecture where they will be • Weak Links have?
• Working With the Collective Either comment here, or e-mail
• Work Sketch-Ups your thoughts to
• Spontaneous Work klint@readwriteweb.com. We'll
• Simulation and highlight the best responses in a
Experimentation post later in the week. Discuss
• Pattern Sensitivity
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Digg User Rebellion Continues: Reddit Now Rules the Front

Page
Frederic Lardinois
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:02:37 AM
Reddit has taken over the front
page of Digg. If Kevin Rose and
the rest of the Digg team
thought that a long weekend
would be enough to calm the
furor over the latest changes to
the popular site, they were
clearly mistaken. Not only did
Digg's users declare today "quit
Digg day," but in order to
protest Digg's new auto-
submission system, users are
now upvoting every Reddit
story on the site. These stories
are being submitted to Digg by
Reddit itself through the auto-
submission system.
Sponsor
A sample of current Digg
comments:
• Digg is dead long live Reddit
• AWESOME! MORE
REDDIT ARTICLES IN TOP
NEWS! Kevin, why don't you own content. The new
just redirect the whole site to submission system, however,
Reddit? now encourages publishers to
• Suicide is an understatement. submit their own stories and
Digg committed DIGGICIDE! many are doing so. The fact that
Long live reddit. a link to Leo Laporte's Google
Buzz stream appeared on the
It's not unusual for a site to Digg front page earlier this
experience a significant user weekend was apparently the last
backlash after a major redesign. straw for many.
By announcing the redesign It remains to be seen what the
during the big Digg party at Digg team can do to turn things
SXSW in Austin earlier this around. While many users are
year, the company tried to unhappy about the site simply
soften the blow. Over the last not working properly, the main
few weeks, Digg also opened up reasons for the current backlash
the beta version of the new site involve the fundamentals of the
to a very large number of Digg v4 redesign. For now, the
testers. By the time the site one site that is definitely
submission system. Not only of well-known publishers
finally went live for everybody profiting from Digg's troubles is
does this new system take away (including ReadWriteWeb and
last week, though, the backlash Reddit.
power from Digg's most active most of our direct competitors)
was almost immediate. Image used courtesy of Media
users, but in the eyes of many of to submit their feeds early on
When we talked to Digg's then- Caffeine. Discuss
them, it also currently favors big during the beta test.
CEO Jay Adelson at SXSW, he
publishers like the BBC, For years now, Digg's
noted that Digg was quite aware
Engadget, Wired and College unofficial etiquette stated that
that some of its users would not
Humor. Digg invited a number users should never submit their
be too happy with the new

TUAW's Daily App: No, Human

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial and explore the Universe, and The gameplay is simple but fun, (Knowing humans as I do, I'm TUAW TUAW's Daily App:
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) the Universe, in turn, has and the graphics are guessing that they won't get the No, Human originally appeared
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:00:00 AM decided that's not a good idea. minimalistic but quite stylish. lesson.) All in all, No, Human is on The Unofficial Apple
So, you're actually playing There are 50 levels to go an inventive title that's worth the Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 30
No, Human is an intriguing a g a i n s t h u m a n s ( w h o a r e through, and while they're pretty US$1.99 on the App Store. It's Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please
little morsel of gameplay for lobbing fiery meteors out into quick plays, there is a high score not really innovative in any see our terms for use of feeds.
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humans are planning to go out rockets. more levels on the way. through and figure out.
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Mac 101: Comprehensive Mac
system information
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:00:00 AM
More Mac 101, our series of
tips and tricks for novice Mac
users.
Last week we pointed out some
documents Apple has made
available for storing important
information on your Mac.
Information that you might need
when talking to a repair tech or
Apple Genius. In that post,
TUAW reader Tom pointed out
another way to generate a
thoroughly comprehensive
report of similar information
without all that pesky "writing."
Basically, it's a printout of all
the information that's stored in
System Profiler. Here's how to
do it. From the Apple Menu,
select About this Mac. A new
window appears. Click More
Info to launch System Profiler.
From there, select print and
watch as your Mac prepares the
System Profiler info for
printing.
You'll notice that it's taking a
long, long time. That's because
Aug. 30, 1954: Ike Inks Nuke Law
David Kravets (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 6:00:00 AM
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there's a huge amount of
information being compiled.
Aside from the basics that we
addressed last time, it's grabbing
every error log entry, vitals on
every app you've got installed,
network information and a
whole heck of a lot more. When
I ran this report the resulting
document was 2.7MB and 500
pages!
So don't print. Unless you're at
work. I kid!
Instead, you can save to PDF,
encrypt it with a tool like Knox
and store it in a safe location.
Note that some of the
information will change
between the time you create the
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Google Invests $86
Million In Low-Income
Housing
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:55:08 AM
Google is partnering with U.S.
Bancorp Community
Development Corporation housing aspect is in line with
Google’s social initiatives. As
(USBCDC), a division of U.S.
Bank; to create an $86 million an added bonus, the company
will be able to offset its federal
apps and log reports. Also, Low-Income Housing Tax tax liabilities over several years
Apple's forms make it much C r e d i t ( L I H T C ) f u n d . with these credits.
easier to get to the information According to a release issued The housing complexes being
you're likely share with a tech. today, the funding will be used built with the fund include a
Finally, much of the information towards the construction and range of one to four-bedroom
in this report is sensitive and operation of 480 affordable apartments, and offer a shared
you'll want to keep it away from rental housing units for low laundry facility and community
less-than-savory characters. income families and senior
gathering area; effectively
It's overkill, but someday you citizens in seven communities creating 500 new units of
might need something in that t h r o u g h o u t t h e W e s t a n d affordable housing. The release
report to revive an ailing M i d w e s t . says that Google has also
machine. It’s unusual for a technology
recently invested in two other
TUAW Mac 1 0 1 : company to get involved with low-income housing projects for
Comprehensive Mac system these types of loans; banks and senior citizens, one in the San
information originally appeared insurance companies usually Francisco Bay community of
o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e help fund these credits. While Sunnyvale, and the other in the
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Lockheed Martin and Kaman's unmanned helicopter wins

military contract (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:26:00 AM
When developing an unmanned
vehicle there are two paths to
choose from: create an entirely
fresh design with no room for a
carbon-based pilot, or simply
take an existing craft and make
it self-sufficient. That's the
direction Lockheed Martin
chose for its submission to the
the joint Army Marines
Autonomous Technologies for
Unmanned Air Systems
(ATUAS) program, and it
turned out to be a winner. The
idea is to create an autonomous
helo that can resupply military
forces, and Lockheed Martin
started with a Kaman K-Max
cargo chopper (demo'd after the
break), capable of lifting
6,000lbs plus one pilot -- who
was made optional. This
customized K-Max can place its
cargo within a 10 meter drop
zone after flying 200km or
more, but a principle advantage
of this submission is that you
can still put a pilot in there and
use it like a traditional heavy
lifter, while the competition
from Boeing was a bespoke
UAV with no room for
meatbags. It's unclear when
exactly this sentient K-Max will
be hitting battlefields, but
hopefully the Army and Marines
come up with some other,
rewarding jobs for their pilots,
because between this and the
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Roadmap released earlier this
year that particular job market
could be getting tight.
Update: Bo from Lockheed
Martin wrote in to let us know
of a different video we've added
after the break featuring higher
production values, more guitar
solos, and plenty of autonomous
cargo liftin'.
Continue reading Lockheed
Martin and Kaman's unmanned
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ShowUHow Scores $3 Million Series Show Time may be the
A Backing For Video Instruction
Guides
Lora Kolodny (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:28:31 AM
Media and communications
fund Syncom Venture Partners
annonuced a series A
investment of $3 million in
ShowUHow, a San Diego based
business that could make the
traditional instruction manual
obsolete.
ShowUHow provides official
online video instruction guides,
web-based sales and customer
support tools. ShowUHow’s
clients make and sell products
that are advertised as “some
assembly required,” or that
general consumers may find
complex, initially.
According to the company’s
Brilliant Back-to-School Cars
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include brands sold at BestBuy,
CostCo and ToysRUs within the
categories of consumer
electronics, toys, outdoor
recreation and furniture.
Other providers of online
instruction manuals, like
NeedInstructions.com, offer
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Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:00:00 AM
There's no shortage of apps to
wake you up in the morning.
Show Time may be the most
extensive, and it has a wicked
sense of humor as well.
The app handles multiple
alarms and has 25 ambient noise
selections to put you to sleep, or selection of sounds is limited,
you can choose something from and there aren't nearly as many
your iTunes collection. There clock styles.There isn't an iPad
are 58 versions of clock faces, version, but there should be.
all in horizontal or vertical Check out the gallery for a peek
layouts. The alarm clock goes under the hood.
off even if your phone is set to Gallery: Show Time screen
silent, and you can shake the grabs
clock to change the color of the TUAW Show Time may be the
display or to snooze the alarm. mother of all alarm clock apps
Some of the sound choices are a originally appeared on The
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there is a lite version, but the
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TUAW Tips: Designing covers for
the iBookstore
Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:00:00 AM
For budding novelists, one of
the most exciting things about
Apple's iBookstore is the chance
to self-publish their writing and
have it potentially available to
the 100 million people that own
iOS 4 devices. A novel is a
daunting task, and once the
writing is done, the hard part is
over ... kinda. There are still two
things you need to do: get your
book on the iBookstore and
make sure it has a compelling
cover. We've told you before
how to go about self-publishing
on the iBookstore, but one thing
that many writers are left
pondering is what to do about
the cover for their novel.
Google and Arcade Fire Team for
HTML5 'Experience'
Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:41:00 AM
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-- at least at first, and especially
on the iBookstore. The cover is
what is going to get people to
click on your book to learn more
about it when they are scrolling
through a list of 25 books on a
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accessories leak
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:47:00 AM
Apple’s iPod event is almost
upon us – make sure to join us
at 10am PST on Wednesday
September 1st for the traditional
SlashGear liveblog at http://
live.slashgear.com/– but the
leaks keep on coming to tease
what might make its debut at the
show. Ali Baba’s listings have
turned up another batch of
supposed sixth-generation iPod
nano cases, complete with cut-
outs for the usual dock
connector, 3.5mm headphone
socket, and what looks to be
space for the new square
display.
They’ve also got a screen
protector for that display,
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pictured with a mock-up of the
iPod nano itself. We doubt
that’s an actual Apple-produced
screenshot, however; surfing
with Safari on a tiny, 1.7-inch
display doesn’t seem much fun,
and there’s still no word on
exactly how it will be
controlled.
[ via Gizmodo]
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• Second Red iPod Nano
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• That scratched first gen iPod
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• 8GB iPod Nano gets the Pink
treatment
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Fraunhofer working to make HD video
conferencing a little less laggy
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:04:00 AM
The early days of VOIP calling
required a lot of patience, as the
half-second or more delay
between you speaking and your
conversation partner receiving
often turned the convo into a
start and stop mess. Those days
are gone for voice, but we're
right back there again when it
comes to HD video calls.
However, random product
researcher Fraunhofer is
working on a new device to kill
the lag and speed up your two-
way monologues. It's basically
an encoder card able to do
hardware squashing of HD
video via H.264 and audio via
AAC, not unlike the sort of tech
Skype requires for its SkypeHD-
compatible video cameras.
Fraunhofer's tech is also said to
remove boomy room echoes and
even handle network hiccups to
keep you streamin' in style. The
result is said to be sub-100ms
lag, which would be more or
less playable for a shooter.
Expect more on this
development soon from IFA.
Continue reading Fraunhofer
working to make HD video
conferencing a little less laggy
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Street artist Probs created this
neon wall mural as a tribute to
Daft Punk and their involvement
in the upcoming Tron2 movie.
The piece was completed in
London at the International
Meeting of Styles event, which
featured over 50 aerosol artists
from across the world for a day
of color and creativity.
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Samsung Galaxy S update to Froyo

leaks
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:42:00 AM
Far be it from us to use a screen
shot as proof that Android 2.2
has been ported to a particular
device -- they're impossibly easy
to 'shop and hack, after all -- but
there's a groundswell of
information today that a legit
build of Froyo is in the wild for
the Samsung i9000, better
known as the Galaxy S. Early
indications are that the build and
the update process aren't without
their issues, suggesting we
might be looking at a beta
release -- but if you've got a
European version of the phone
and you have no desire to wait
for Samsung or your carrier to
give you a proper build with
proper instructions, this is your
best bet at the moment (and it
seems that GPS performance is
improved at least a little bit).
Owners of Vibrants and
TeuxDeux Updates with Easier
Captivates in the US need not
apply here since the model
Navigation and "Someday"
numbers differ, but we're
foolishly hopeful that Sammy
Task Management [Updates]
can bust all of these updates out Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) webapp has improved a lot since
in rapid-fire fashion. Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:05:00 AM then, making navigation easier,
[Thanks, Frederik] offering organizing columns for
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iPhone 4 proximity sensor won’t be fixed in iOS 4.1

Chris Davies (SlashGear) activate the iPhone 4s issues are Apple’s latest woe
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:59:27 AM touchscreen and trigger phantom • Apple offers up iOS 4.1 Beta
keypresses that could mute or 2 for devs
Apple’s promised fix for the end the call – was confirmed a • Next generation iPhone 4G
i P h o n e 4 s t e m p e r a m e n t a l work-in-progress by Apple CEO front panel leaked
proximity sensor won’t be Steve Jobs back in July. • YouTube comes to the
included in the upcoming iOS It seems that aspect of iOS 4.1 iPhone; plus more official
4.1 firmware release, according isn’t quite ready for prime-time, pictures
t o A p p l e A u s t r a l i a however, despite earlier rumors timescale for the fix, leaving handsets will be patched. • Your iPhone knows when it
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LG E720 with Android
leaks: it's no Galaxy S
killer
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:51:00 AM
The great thing about Android
is that it does a reasonably good
job scaling from the high end of
the hardware spectrum all the
way down to the lowest of the
low -- and it's on that cautionary
note that we show you this
alleged LG E720 that popped up
on a Polish site over the
weekend. We're apparently
looking at a Froyo-equipped
device featuring a 3.2 inch
display -- which we're fairly
certain will fall short of WVGA
resolution -- along with
Qualcomm's midrange
The Folly of Subsidizing
Unemployment
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Submitted at 8/29/2010 6:00:00 PM
Congressman John Boehner
recently suggested that President
Obama replace his top economic
advisers. I think he may have a
point. The economic "recovery"
has been disappointing, to put it
mildly, and it has become
increasingly clear that the blame
lies with the policies of the
Obama administration, not with
those of its predecessor.
In general, the current
administration has been too
focused on expanding
government, redistributing more
from rich to poor, and
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stimulus package as cost-
ineffective. In particular,
whatever tax reductions were in
the package did not involve the
cuts in marginal income tax
rates that encourage investment,
work effort and productivity
growth.
Now the administration wants
to kill the 2003 income-tax cuts,
at least the parts that reduced
marginal income tax rates for
high-income earners and for all
recipients of dividend income.
This proposal is particularly
disturbing because the 2003 law
was George W. Bush's main
economic achievement; unlike
most of Mr. Bush's policies, this
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I don't usually spend much time
disagreeing with people I mostly
agree with, but a column in
National Review by the Cato
Institute's Michael Tanner--my
old boss and an all-around great
guy--presents a chance to talk
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about why Social Security
reform has proved to be such a
difficult task for those who
believe in free markets and
individual choice.
Here's where I agree with Mike:
"Given their large lead in
current polls, it is perhaps
understandable that Republicans
don’t want to risk offending
voters, particularly seniors, by
wading back into the Social
Security thicket. But they are
making a mistake." He's right: If
you run on nothing, you'll
receive a mandate to do just
that. Voters need to hear a
realistic discussion of how to fix
Social Security and other
entitlement programs.
But Mike also argues that
conservatives shouldn't give up
on Social Security personal
accounts: "By taking personal
accounts off the table,
Republicans may be boxing
themselves into a very bad
corner. There are, after all, only
three options for Social Security
reform: raise taxes, cut benefits,
or switch to personal accounts."
These choices mimic those laid
out by President Clinton in
1998, although at the time
Clinton was arguing for
investing in stocks through the
Social Security trust fund, not
personal accounts.
The only way personal accounts
could fix Social Security on
their own is if accountholders
gave up benefits far in excess of
the taxes they put into accounts.
Here's the problem: Personal
accounts are a valid choice, and
one I've supported in the past
and continue to support. But
accounts aren't exclusive to tax
increases or benefit cuts; they
don't, as I'll explain, reduce the
need for these other choices.
One problem for the Bush
administration's reform drive in
2005 was that many
congressional Republicans had
bought into the idea that
accounts reduce or eliminate the
need for tax increases or benefit
cuts. Finding out they don't may
have taken some wind out of
their sails. Because of this,
combined with some pretty
shameless demagoguery from
the left, Bush’s reform ideas
didn’t even come up for a vote.
President Bush's 2001
Commission to Strengthen
Social Security (on which I was
a staffer) wrote that once the
program began to run payroll-
tax deficits--something that
happened this year--
policymakers would face
difficult choices to raise taxes,
cut benefits, reduce other
programs, or increase the budget
deficit. All these claims are true.
Also true, however, is a
statement the supercilious
younger me made to one of my
fellow staffers: With personal
accounts, we face the same
choices, only sooner. If workers
invest part of their Social
Security taxes in personal
accounts, they could indeed earn
higher returns and generate
higher benefits without taking
more risk. But diverting taxes to
accounts leaves the program
short of what is needed to pay
benefits to today's retirees. To
cover these "transition costs,"
we would need to generate new
revenues for the program, either
by raising taxes, cutting other
programs, or borrowing.
But once transition costs are
accounted for, the total rate of
return on a personal-accounts-
based program would be about
the same as the current system.
Social Security's overall rate of
return stinks because (a) we paid
early generations far more in
benefits than they paid in taxes,
meaning that later generations
must make up the difference;
and (b) we didn't save the trust
fund, meaning taxpayers must
"repay" something that was
supposed to have been an asset.
These acts can't be undone:
We're stuck with them.
Also unchanged would be the
program's financing shortfall,
even assuming that account
holders gave up a share of their
traditional benefits. A pay-as-
you-go program like Social
Security is always in the hole,
such that each generation honors
the benefits of the preceding one
while hoping their own claims
will be honored by the following
generation. No generation can
break away from this cycle
without either ponying up extra
cash (tax increases) or
defaulting on its promises
(benefit cuts). Neither solution
is costless.
Now, we could come out ahead
if transition costs were funded
by cutting other government
spending, which at the margin
certainly produces benefits
below its costs. But we could
reap those gains by cutting
government spending in the
absence of Social Security
reform; in any case, few reform
proposals have presented a
credible way to ensure that non-
Social Security outlays are
reduced. The most likely path is
simply increased debt.
The only way personal accounts
could fix Social Security on
their own is if accountholders
gave up benefits far in excess of
the taxes they put into accounts.
For instance, individuals might
put half their taxes into an
account but give up all their
traditional benefits. This would
fix Social Security, but it’s not
clear that most (or even many)
workers would take the deal.
You might come out ahead if
you got solid investment returns,
but you could also fall far short.
This is just asking accounts to
do more than they reasonably
can.
That's why most personal-
account plans have worked in
two stages: First, do whatever is
needed to fix the current system
--cut benefits, raise the
retirement age, whatever. Then,
offer the option of accounts on
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relatively favorable terms. This
approach is fine, but it’s not the
easiest to defend politically.
Why? First, you have to admit
that the accounts themselves
won’t fix the program. Second,
you’ll be attacked for the extra
costs--usually borrowed--that
would be incurred during the
transition period. Third, you'll
be criticized for putting Social
Security benefits at the whims
of the stock market. You can
respond to these attacks
credibly, but you will be
spending a lot of time on the
defensive. As much as I support
accounts philosophically, I'm
not sure the political cost-
benefit analysis weighs out in
their favor, given all the other
difficult choices we face on
entitlements and the budget.
So in the end, the choices
basically do come down to
lower benefits or higher taxes.
No one thinks we should cut
benefits for true low earners,
who need the safety net that
Social Security provides. But
there's no reason middle and
high earners should derive so
much of their retirement income
from the government. The real
divide over Social Security
policy is that the Left wishes to
charge higher taxes on higher
earners in order to pay higher
benefits to higher earners. The
Right should respond that these
Americans can, should, and will
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From Alaska to Australia, Voters Surprise the Establishment

(AEI.Org: Articles) boundaries with Canada and parties seek the votes of five local pundits expected. David Cameron since the
Submitted at 8/29/2010 6:00:00 PM Russia. Independents while Labor has The key votes against Labor in election in May is getting wide
Both the Aug. 21 federal the support of the one Green Australia and against approval for its 25 percent cuts
In this tumultuous political election in Australia and the candidate elected. Murkowski were cast in fast- in most departments’ spending.
year, the latest sharp surprises Aug. 24 primary in Alaska were In Alaska, Miller's narrow lead growing areas--in semitropical The Canadian government
come from the far reaches of the n o t s u p p o s e d t o p r o d u c e of 1,668 votes may vanish as at Queensland in Australia, in the headed by Conservative Stephen
A n g l o s p h e r e , A l a s k a a n d surprises. One reason: Both least 7,600 absentee and mail Matanuska and Susitna Valley Harper seems firmly in power in
Australia. have economies relatively ballots are counted. (including Sarah Palin’s a country that has long seemed
These were lands to which untroubled by the financial Whatever the final outcomes, Wasilla) in Alaska. well to the left of the United
Capt. James Cook voyaged even crisis and recession. there are lessons to be learned. We see there what we saw in States.
a s t h e s e a b o a r d A t l a n t i c The results in Australia and One is that the current the Massachusetts special "The educated class" in Sydney,
colonists were rebelling against Alaska are congruent with unpopularity of leftist parties in Senate election in the suburban Melbourne and Washington, at a
king and Parliament in London. developments elsewhere in the the Anglosphere (Republicans rings around Boston that depend loss to understand this, is
Cook's charts of the southern Anglosphere. lead Democrats by a record on the private sector rather than furiously denouncing fellow
coast of Australia are still in use In Australia the Labor margin in polls on voting for the government and universities: a citizens as bigots. That makes
and he sailed from there to government headed by Julia U.S. House) are not just a massive repudiation of the no more sense, and wins no
Hawaii and then through the Gillard (after the intraparty reaction to bad economic times. liberal policies of what New more votes, than blaming
Bering Strait to the ice-choked ouster two months before of Australia's Labor party was hurt York Times columnist David Captain Cook.
A r c t i c S e a . Y o u c a n s e e Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) by its attempt to slap a 30 Brooks calls "the educated Michael Barone is a resident
splendid murals of his voyages was expected to cruise to percent tax on the mining class." fellow at AEI.
in the Captain Cook Hotel in victory, as Australian parties industry. Voters evidently And we did not see any sign in Photo Credit: iStockphoto/Mark
Anchorage. have after one term in understood that soaking the rich Australia or Alaska of the Evans
A u s t r a l i a j o i n e d t h e government since 1930. The would hurt just about everyone. cultural issue card can trumping This entry passed through the
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Sarah Palin accurately noted, Postal and provisional ballots supporting spending on local Anglosphere. The British
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Physicians, Others Chime in on Who's to Blame for Rising

Healthcare Costs
noreply@blogger.com flagrant example, a patient paid deny them. I simply do not pages about over-testing. damn about healthcare costs
(Michael Shedlock) (Mish's $60.00 per month for his know. Moreover, I do not know I have a little aphorism that I because they and their families
Global Economic Trend medications that he could get for if buying drugs from Canada is believe sums up the failure of pay next to nothing with
Analysis)
90 days for $40.00 if he did not against any state laws. I did American health care: 30% of deductibles that are next to
Submitted at 8/29/2010 10:23:00 PM use his employer paid insurance. check and I do not see health care delivered was never nothing. Taxpayers pick up the
I received a lot of emails in That is $180 instead of $40! complaints against Canada necessary and 30% of necessary cost.
response to Who's to Blame for The insurance company walks Meds, so that is a good sign. health care is never delivered. Democrats also did not want to
Rising Healthcare Costs? Some away with the money on the Another physician Chimes In "MB" Cost of Illegal Aliens upset the unions.
reader suggestions might save back of the patient in all of "MB" MD writes .... "JC" writes ... Republicans refused to allow
you some money. these instances. I find this way Hello Mish I know a nurse in a major competition between states or
Overpaying for Generics over the top in the ethics I am a long time reader and metro area and she deals with cheaper drugs coming in from
"Dr. P" a front line working department. have written previously. I am the illegal immigrants flooding Canada.
family physician for 30 years To your health, also a physician. into her hospital emergency State governments pander to
writes .... Dr P. Drugs from Canada Your post regarding health care room every day. They come unions and also act to restrict
Hello Mish "CB" writes ... costs hits close to home but I with their diagnosis in hand competition.
Thank you for exposing some Hello Mish think you have missed the real from the country they left. The insurers bribed both
of the many scams on health Keep up the good fight. crux of the issue. I will not Major metro hospitals are parties to get what they wanted
care insurance. Here is another I want to let you know, pretend that I can offer a magnates for illegal aliens out of the legislation.
example of industry wide however, that Americans can comprehensive review in a short coming to the US for free Other Notables
ripoffs: buy drugs from Canada - as email. There is more than medical treatments.
Many generic medications now individuals. No bulk purchasing enough blame to go around. In my post of who is to blame I • Lobbyists for pharmaceutical
cost $4.00 for 30 days or $10.00 for resale is allowed, but to get Who shares the blame? came up with this list. companies, lobbyists for
for 90 days without insurance. one's own drugs at a big Insurers, the Congressmen So Who's To Blame? insurers, lobbyists for lawyers
Sadly, many mail in companies discount (like I do), the place to they've bought and the so tort reform is not passed, etc.
require patients to pay a $15.00 check out is called Canada Americans who can look only at • Obama • Local Governments for
- 30.00 dollar co-pay for 90 days Meds. Their phone number is 1 the fact that they can get mostly • Congressional Republicans pandering to unions.
for the same drugs. 877 542 3330. I save 50%. I pay free care (Medicare and • Democrats • Fear Mongers who talk of
Just this week one of the mail directly for them, so trying to Medicaid recipients, • Insurers "death squads" every time a
in companies informed a patient buy from Canada under an government employees and a • Public Unions discussion comes up regarding
of mine that they will be only insurance plan might not be decreasing number of lucky • State Government health care rationing.
filling the prescriptions for 30 possible. I don't know. beneficiaries of large corporate • Organized religion for
days and will require a $15.00 The drugs I get from Canada policies) and many of my peers President Obama just wanted a fighting to keep brain-dead
co-pay monthly for a medication M e d s c o m e f r o m o t h e r who are paid per service bill. He did not really give a z o m b i e p a t i e n t s a l i v e a t
which is only $4.00 per month. countries, and are usually made regardless of need, benefit or damn what was in it, as long as enormous expense. A nurse
My patients were surprised in India, but they are the exact outcome. it did not upset public unions. friend of mine told me how hard
when I told them to just go to a same thing and I've been taking One need only look at the Moreover, Obama sold the it is to "pull the plug".
local pharmacy and not use their them for years now with no ill enormous amount of waste in youth vote right down the river. • The public at large for
insurance. One patient had 4 effects. the system in regards to gross There is nothing but pain for obesity, poor eating habits,
medications he was paying more CB I cannot and do not vouch and repeated over-testing to no them.
than double for. In the most for the above claims nor do I patient benefit. I could write Public unions do not give a PHYSICIANS, page 36
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CHINA: Rumors Spread That Central Bank Head

Has Defected
STRATFOR (Money Game) trouble at the moment. 2006, which was perceived in
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:29:14 AM However, the release of this the country as a crackdown of
rumor and its dispersion the Shanghai Gang and part of
Rumors have circulated in t h r o u g h o u t t h e p u b l i c i s Hu’s effort to consolidate
China that People’s Bank of significant, particularly as the power ahead of the 2007 power
C h i n a ( P B C ) G o v . Z h o u Communist Party of China transition. There was also a
Learn Which Eggs are
Xiaochuan may have left the ( C P C ) i s p r e p a r i n g f o r a rumor that he might have been Safest to Eat During
country. The rumors appear to leadership transition in 2012. detained following the the Recall [Health]
have started following reports Chinese state-run media and investigation and arrest of
on Aug. 28 which cited Ming official government websites banks held on Aug. 3, and his Wang Yi, the vice governor of Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Pao, a Hong Kong-based news have run several high-profile most recent public appearance the China Development Bank, Submitted at 8/30/2010 7:40:00 AM
agency, saying that because of reports about Zhou, which was Aug. 10 for China’s along with several other
an approximately $430 billion should be seen as an attempt to F i n a n c i a l S y s t e m A n t i - officials in the financial circle. The way our industrial farm
loss on U.S. Treasury bonds, the refute the rumors. The PBC c o r r u p t i o n C o n s t r u c t i o n Currently, several financial operations work these days, an
Chinese government may punish website published two articles Exhibition. scandals are still under outbreak of salmonella and
some individuals within the on its homepage reporting on Zhou is known to have lofty investigation, and it is likely recall of half a billion eggs isn't
PBC, including Zhou. Although Zhou’s meeting with visiting political ambitions and is that Zhou, as PBC governor and such amazing news. What eggs
Ming Pao on Aug. 30 published Japanese Financial Services believed to be a close ally to one of the most powerful are safe to eat, and how? Here
a report on its website indicating Minister Shozaburo Jimi during former Chinese President Jiang e c o n o m i c p l a y e r s i n t h e are a few tips. More »
that the prior report was the third China-Japan high- Zemin, as well as a core figure country, could be associated
fabricated by a mainland news level economic dialogue as well for Jiang’s “Shanghai Gang.” with some cases. Therefore,
site that had attributed the false as a meeting with an Italian There has been no shortage of whether or not the rumor is true
i n f o r m a t i o n t o M i n g P a o , delegation. Xinhua news agency rumors about Zhou’s possible at this time, the leaking of this
rumors of Zhou’s defection have reported that Zhou told the PBC dismissal in the past five years, news is very likely to be
spread a r o u n d C h i n a Party Committee Enlargement a s h e i s b e l i e v e d t o b e associated with a power struggle
intensively, and Zhou’s name meeting on Aug. 30 it should associated with several high- within the Communist Party’s
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Goodbye to Berlin
Noam Scheiber (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:00 PM
In early February, the top
financial officials of seven
major industrialized countries
gathered in Canada to mull the
state of the world economy. To
grease their interactions, the
Canadians had created an
intimate setting in Iqaluit, an
Inuit town near the Arctic
Circle. A planning document
waxed on about fireside chats at
a cozy inn and decreed that the summiteers matching parkas.
attire would be casual. It touted
an array of cultural activities to
supplement the official meetings
and even promised the
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One In Six Americans Now Receives Government
Aid
Vincent Fernando, CFA
(Money Game)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:10:00 AM
The number of Americans
receiving financial aid from the
government has soared since the
financial crisis, and this fact is
frequently used as evidence of
American failure.
The Drudge Report highlights
today that 'one in six' Americans
are now receiving government
aid, which is truly a shocking
statistic. Programs such as
Medicaid are already
overwhelmed, and new health
laws haven't even taken effect
yet:
USA Today:
"Virtually every Medicaid
director in the country would
say that their current enrollment
is the highest on record," says
Vernon Smith of Health
Management Associates, which
surveys states for Kaiser Family
Foundation.
The program has grown even
before the new health care law
adds about 16 million people,
beginning in 2014. That has
strained doctors. "Private
physicians are already indicating
that they're at their limit," says
Dan Hawkins of the National
Association of Community
Health Centers.
Yet when reading headlines
about benefits, one needs to
make the distinction between
'Americans in need' and
'Americans receiving benefits'
when passing judgement. This is
because the surge in benefits
recipients is a combination of
both economic weakness and
the expansion of benefits
eligibility in order to support
Americans during the crisis.
More than 40 million people
get food stamps, an increase of
nearly 50% during the economic
downturn, according to
government data through May.
The program has grown steadily
for three years.
Caseloads have risen as more
people become eligible. The
economic stimulus law signed
by President Obama last year
also boosted benefits.
"This program has proven to be
incredibly responsive and
effective," says Ellin Vollinger
of the Food Research and
Action Center.
Close to 10 million receive
unemployment insurance, nearly
four times the number from
2007. Benefits have been
extended by Congress eight
times beyond the basic 26-week
program, enabling the long-term
unemployed to get up to 99
weeks of benefits. Caseloads
peaked at nearly 12 million in
January — "the highest numbers
on record," says Christine
Riordan of the National
Employment Law Project,
which advocates for low-wage
Economy/ Culture/ 35
workers.
Thus had many programs not
been expanded, far fewer
Americans would be 'on
benefits'. However, this
OpenHeatMap Turns
wouldn't mean that less
Americans would be in need. Your Data into a Custom
This is a key distinction to be Heat Map [Maps]
made in understanding these Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
figures.
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:30:00 AM
Politics aside, from an
investors' view, if you believe OpenHeatMap takes your
that the extension of benefits standard, not exactly eye-
was a necessary source of catching spreadsheet data and
economic support during the maps it out across any
crisis, then you shouldn't be geographic area, giving you
shocked by the number of better context and a far more
Americans receiving benefits... interesting presentation. More »
while you should be shocked by
the number of Americans in
need.
This is because the growing
number of recipients is a factor
of economic support packages at
work in the economy. The
questions going forward are
how many of these recipients
are truly in need, to what degree
are benefits helping Americans
re-allocate their skills into the
evolving economy, and how can Big Technology Grows
we keep emergency programs More Desperate (PAR,
from living longer than they
DELL, HP)
should. But in the near-term,
don't mistake the treatment for Scott Raynovich (Money
the illness. Game)
Join the conversation about this Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:57:00 AM
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With HP upping its bid to $30
in the bidding war with Dell for
storage networking 3Par, it's
starting to send the sign that big
technology companies are
desperate. It's looking more like
they are stuck. They can't grow
internally, so they have to look
outside for growth.
Actually, if you think about it,
it's quite absurd: Just a few
months ago, 3Par was $10 a
share. It's now nearly tripled.
And why? Simply because
somebody decided they had to
have them, like they'd found the
perfect house in the middle of
the housing bubble.
The trend toward consolidation
and giant companies eating up
newer companies in the search
for growth and innovation is an
old one in technology, but it
seems to becoming a bigger
component of growth for the
largest global technology
companies, who have lost their
ability to launch new
technology. This certainly
PHYSICIANS,
continued from page 33
smoking, etc.
Case for Rationing
At some point the system just
has to say no. Spending
hundreds of thousands of dollars
to extend someone's life by
three months is simply not
rational. Nor is spending
hundreds of thousands of
dollars when the odds of success
appears to be the case with
players like HP, Dell, Microsoft,
and Cisco. The new innovation
is not coming from within, it's
coming from outside.
Does that mean we have a
massive boom ahead of us in
technology? Well, it's actually
already been happening over the
last 5 years. Think of Oracle
buying Siebel, SAP buying
Sybase, and Microsoft trying to
buy Yahoo(and failing). Even
Google has gotten into the act,
as you can see their growth
strategy is focused on M&A
through purchases such as
YouTube, AdMob, and Slide.
And Cisco has been active in the
video space, buying Scientific-
Atlanta, WebEx, Tandberg and
today putting forth a smallish
deal with the purchase of
ExtendMedia.
Why is it that big companies
have such a hunger to acquire?
Part of the reason is for
whatever reason, it becomes
harder and harder for them to
are slim. Yet every time the
discussion comes up, political
hacks start screaming about
"death squads".
Other than the public at large,
everyone has a vested interest in
not fixing the system. It is pretty
tough to get reform when nearly
every major industry group is
against anything and everything
that is likely to do any good.
innovate as they get larger.
Cisco has always been an
acquisition-driven company, but
that activity appears to have
accelerated in recent years. Most
of the company's new product
has come from big acquisitions -
- they have not been very
successful at internal product
development for the last five
years.
Does this mean you run out and
buy smaller technology
companies that are going to be
gobbled up? You'd have to do
that very selectively.
Technology shares have
appreciated rapidly, and actually
the data show that M&A booms
typically come when markets
are frothy, not when they are
down.
Don't believe me? Look at the
M&A frenzy at the top of the
technology and telecom bubble
of 1999/2000. There was also a
mini boomlet in M&A from
2005-2007.
Yes, this seems conterintuitive,
If additional comments come
in, worthy of posting, I will add
an addendum.
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but it's true. James Stewart of
the Wall Street Journal
supported this argument with a
very well thought out column
earlier this week.
So be wary the M&A trend. It's
could be heading in the opposite
direction of the market. And
those smaller firms that could be
gobbled up are getting richer
valuations. Yes, I think more
deals are on the way, but some
careful anlaysis and careful
examination of valuation should
precede which stocks get
pegged as takeover candidates. I
am doing more research and will
write some more about this next
week.
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Cancer, But Has a Sense
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Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:02:00 AM
Oliver Platt describes his new
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Outstanding Lead Actress in a on stage to gush about her win January Jones, Elizabeth Moss, up your home. Independent.
Comedy Series, still maintained for Temple Grandin. The stars Christina Hendricks, Kiernan We've been knocking down
that she's not even funny. The were soon off to make the after Shipka, David Strathairn, Al
ensemble cast of Mad Men was party rounds, so stay tuned to Pacino, Claire Danes, Matthew
lead by January Jones, the get the inside scoop from across Weiner, Robert Morse, John
adorable young actress Kiernan Hollywood! Also, make sure to Slattery, Jon Hamm, Bryan Batt
Shipka, Christina Hendricks,

Beautiful Oil Paintings by Sas Christian (10 total)

Marica (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:30:00 AM
Born in 1968, Sas Christian is
an artist from London. She is
greatly inspired by anime and, her signature big eyes. “Fast Forward” (and Sas
in her oil paintings, likes to “Bleak Midwinter” Christian in the picture)
portray “weepy girls, punk, “Takes a Lickin’” "Enough"
catholic, damaged but not “Hacker” "Supernature"
broken girls, yet intelligent and “Home Again” "Entwined"
independent.” I really like the way she paints expressions and “It’s A Sugar Fix, Honey”
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What the Naked Eye Cannot See (20 photos)
alice (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 6:30:00 PM
Back Dive
Intrigued by what he could not
see, Harold Edgerton made it his
life's mission to analyze motion
and extend our perception of
time. He was an inventor as well
as an MIT professor who was
credited for taking the
stroboscope from the lab to the
forefront of our creative
consciousness. Combining the
David Beckham Divides Time
Between His Teams and the Boys
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:00:21 AM
David Beckham kept himself
busy Saturday, starting his
afternoon at an LA park with his
sons Brooklyn, Romeo, and
Cruz. The foursome then headed
to browse at an Adidas store,
and next David went solo to
watch as his LA Galaxy
teammates played the Kansas
City Wizards. David's squad
ended up losing 2-0, but he still
happily posed with fans
afterward. Yesterday, David
continued the sporting fun by
reuniting with Gordon Ramsay
stroboscopic process with the
camera’s flash, Edgerton was
able to photograph an entire
range of movement that
previously could not be seen by
the naked eye. Suddenly, the
invisible became visible, and we
were able to experience a milk
drop's beautiful coronet, an
amazing arc of a golf swing and
a bullet's immense power as it
cut through everything from
playing cards to a fruit's core. public's imagination. He showed
The genius of it all is that u s h o w s c i e n c e , a r t a n d
Edgerton's photos engaged the photography could intersect,
to take their kids to an Angels
baseball game. This was David's
latest weekend full of
socializing, after he recently
cozied up to Victoria and
showed off his hot shirtless
body during a day at the beach
in Malibu with friends. It'll soon
just be David and his boys at
home in California, though, as
Victoria's expected to head to
NYC for Fashion Week and
Fashion's Night Out- we'll be
there celebrating the stylish
evening as well, so don't forget
to enter for a chance to meet
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen at
their Elizabeth and James pop-
up shop!
To see more photos of David
and the boys, just read more.
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leaving us with a new sense of Antique Gun Firing
reality. Most of all, though, he Wheel with Square
made the ordinary Coin Toss
extraordinary, taking simple Fanning the Cards
objects or movements and Cutting the Card Quickly
turning them into indescribable Death of a Lightbulb
showcases of art. Bullet Through Three Balloons
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Gary Graham Finally

Launches E-Commerce
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:47:00 AM

There's no time like fall

(especially pre-Fashion Week
fall) to finally launch e-
commerce. Designer Gary
Graham's online store opens this
What We'd Wear From morning. The above pieces, as
well as the rest of his fall
collection, will be available.
Istanbul Fashion Week The site will also include a
journal-like blog from Graham
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion with always flattering primary with inspiration images,
Blogs) colors (and black). sketches and twists on styling
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:33:00 AM Meanwhile, Zeynep Erdogan's his collection. He expects and patched pockets, available
hands-covered romper's just contributions from friends and in brown and sand, $975.
While we came home from begging for a stage appearance collaborators, too. Bottom row from left: Twill
Istanbul with textiles and evil on Katy Perry, but we'd wear it Above, from left, five button Coat with 3/4 sleeves, $1,025;
eyes, there were a few outfits we poolside. Bora Aksu mixed leather and lamb fur coat, 100% Sleeveless silk dress available in
wanted to will from the runway l a c e , z i p p e r s a n d e n d l e s s silk patterned lining, $3775; black and red, $688.—Sydney
into our suitcase. Designers like textures for a collection of Antique handkerchief print Wasserman
Bora Aksu and Gil Agis (a feminine party dresses and chiffon dress with ties, $850;
Costume National alum) sent Ozlem Suer showed an entire Oversized vest with cap sleeves
colorful collections down the collection of fantastical prom
runway, which was housed in dresses on an island in the
the stunning Taskisla Technical middle of the Bosphorus. The
University. fluffy white creations were
Zeynep Tosun's multi-colored made even more surreal by the
s h e e r c o l l e c t i o n w a s t h e models wearing stilts, but with a
highlight for most of the visiting few inches off the hem and a
press -- she worked the lingerie pair of casual sandals they'd slip
trend into something wearable, easily into real life.
and minus a print or two stuck
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'Mad Men' Mondays: ‘Waldorf Stories’
Matt Zoller Seitz (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:00 PM
This is the new column in
TNR’s weekly series of"Mad
Men" episode recaps. Caution:
It contains spoilers. Click here
for last week's review.
"You've crossed the border from
lubricated to morose," Joan told
Roger in this season's sixth
episode, "Waldorf Stories." Her
polite but firm kiss-off nicely
summarized the hour's dramatic
trajectory, which showcased a
fair amount of drinking by
Roger and some Under the
Volcano-level boozing by Don,
plus brief side-trips into alcohol-
related blundering by supporting
players (notably an off-the-
wagon Duck's heckling of the
Emcee at the Clio Awards
ceremony). Although “Mad
Men” has never been coy about
showing the destructive effects
of alcohol (the often-
unremarked flip side of the
show's celebration of Rat Pack-
era tipsy cool), this episode
went much further, into The
Lost Weekend territory.
As written by Brett Johnson
and Matthew Weiner and
directed by Scott Hornbacher,
the episode was mainly about
two things: drinking, and the
professional evolution from
student to mentor. Are these
subjects connected? Yes,
loosely. They're both about
control. (Interesting that the two
"big breaks" shown in this
hour—Roger's hiring of Don
and Don's hiring of Roger's
trophy wife's cousin—were both
sparked by a mentor's potent
stew of inebriation and guilt.)
Don started to lose control of
himself at some point during the
awards ceremony (luckily for
him, there were no speeches).
Then he made an ass of himself
at a subsequent meeting with the
Life cereal people, plagiarizing
a rejected job applicant's tired
"Cure for the common [blank]"
line when his original pitch
didn't fly. And you notice how
Don's introductory remarks at
the meeting about the nature of
nostalgia cannibalized his own
celebrated pitch from Season
One about the carousel? That's a
pickled self-styled artiste's
version of working the "Cure for
the common [blank]" phrase
over and over again. And Don's
borderline-frenzied recitation of
alternate catchphrases sounded
very much like an alcoholic
mentally running through a list
of possible excuses for letting
someone down—the smooth
babbling of a hustler who's
willing to say whatever it takes
to get him out of the jam he's in.
And the next few days were (for
Don as well as the viewer) a
blur. Don got soused at the Clio
after-party and took home a
female employee from another
firm ("Is he attached?" the
woman asked Roger. "To that
glass he is," Roger replied.)
Then he woke up 18 hours later
with a different woman, a
waitress who called him Dick
and whose name Don surely
wouldn't have remembered if he
hadn't spotted the tag on her
uniform. (The transition from
one woman and one day to
another made brilliant use of
time-lapse photography, turning
Don's experience into one big
blur.) Then he missed a
scheduled trip to watch his kids,
a promise he forgot that he'd
broken until Betty called to ask
where the hell he was.
Don, a visionary who ended last
season at the peak of his powers,
is now on the brink of decline.
He's barely hanging on to
everything he worked so hard to
build. But his behavior this
week was a nadir. When is this
man not drinking? And he’s not
the only character struggling to
deal with the changes in his life.
His mentor, Roger—who, as we
saw in some deft flashbacks, did
not so much discover Don when
he was a salesman at a fur
company as unintentionally give
him his first advertising job—is
in the twilight of his career,
standing on the sidelines
watching a younger generation
of talent pull in clients and win
Clios. And behind Don is a
younger generation still,
represented by Pete and Peggy,
both of whom bluntly asserted
themselves this week and
demanded that their older
colleagues treat them with
respect—or at the very least
acknowledge their contributions.
Pete was furious when he
learned that his onetime rival
Ken Cosgrove had been invited
to rejoin their firm, and dressed
down Lane Pryce (rightly so) for
going behind a partner's back.
Pete may be a priggish little
jerk, but he's right about a lot of
things, including the fact that
he's entitled to more deference
than Roger, Don, and Lane often
give him. Peggy, meanwhile,
was assigned by a drunk, curt
Don to work up ideas for a new
account with Stan, a sexist pig
of an art director. Peggy quickly
tired of being treated as a
second-class citizen, and of
Stan's bragging about nudism
and his ogling of Playboy
magazine, and pushed him to
join her in a au naturel
brainstorming session—a
gambit that produced no usable
material, but which at least put
Stan in his place. Most
memorably, however, Peggy
showed up at Don's place near
the end of the episode and raked
him over the coals for having
been AWOL for several days. It
was the strongest scene yet
showcasing Peggy's sense of
self-worth, and the steel spine
that it gives her.
Last night's “Mad Men” had a
subtext, too—the meaning and
value of awards. It explored this
topic with a light, clever
sensibility that contrasted
sharply with the sardonic
Politics-Left/ 43
attitude of Weiner's last TV
venue, “The Sopranos” (which
at one point showed a down-on-
his luck TV writer trying to
pawn an Emmy award, only to
be told that it was worthless).
“Mad Men” took home its third
consecutive Emmy as best
dramatic series last night, along
with an award for best original
dramatic script. Judging from
this week’s sobering tale of
drunken excess, however, I
doubt Weiner and company are
in danger of getting full of
themselves. We learned that
awards are a big deal and not a
big deal; that winning or not
winning an award has no effect
on the quality of the work, and
that it can singlehandedly
change a firm's fortunes; and
that the recognition of
governing bodies is ultimately
less important than the respect
that mentors give to their pupils,
and the honor that the pupils
bestow on their teachers by
doing good, original work over
a long span of time. All things
in moderation.
Matt Zoller Seitz is a
contributor to Salon and the
founder of Slant's “ The House
Next Door,” wh ere he has
written extensively about“The
Sopranos” and other series.
For more TNR, become a fan
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Twitter.
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It’s the Politicking, Stupid!

E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New e x c e p t i o n a l — a n d Obama's mistake is captured by the long run. mainstream conservative
Republic - All Feed) d i f f i c u l t — t i m e s . that disdainful reference to He and his party are often opponents. He has thus left
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:00 PM Yet the challenging nature of "politicking." In a democracy, defensive when it comes to himself and his Democratic
the times does not explain all separating governing from saying what they really believe: allies with weak defenses
W a s h i n g t o n — P r e s i d e n t the president's struggles. It's true "politicking" is impossible. that government, well-executed, against a tide of economic
Obama's address to the nation that his accomplishments will "Politicking" is nothing less is a positive good; that too much melancholy.
on Iraq this week underscores h a v e i m p o r t a n t l o n g - t e r m than the ongoing effort to economic inequality is both It is too late to turn this election
the agony of his presidency, and effects, even if they have not persuade free citizens of the dysfunctional and unjust; that into a triumph for the
its core political problem. resolved the country's central merits of a set of ideas, policies capitalism has never worked administration, but not too late
Seen from the inside, the c o n c e r n : t h e c o n t i n u i n g and decisions. Voters feel better without regulation and a strong to salvage his party's
administration is an astonishing sluggishness of the economy. about politicians who put what dose of social insurance. They congressional majorities. Given
success. Obama has kept his But Obama and his party are they are doing in a compelling no longer dare talk about public dismal Democratic expectations,
principal promises and can take also in a hole because the context. Citizens can endure enterprise, a phrase my friend that would now be rated as a
credit for achievements that president has chosen not to setbacks as long as they believe Chris Matthews reminded me of victory. But doing so will
e l u d e d h i s D e m o c r a t i c engage the nation in an extended the overall direction of the recently, visible in our great require Obama to think anew
predecessors. dialogue about what holds all government's approach is right. state universities, our best public about what "politicking" really
He pledged to have all combat his achievements together, or Franklin D. Roosevelt was a schools, our road and transit means, to pick more than
troops out of Iraq by the end of w h y h i s a t t i t u d e t o w a r d genius at offering such systems, and in the research and tactical fights with his
this month and, as Obama will government makes more sense reassurances, which is why his development that government adversaries, and to lay out,
remind us on Tuesday, he's than the scattershot conservative fireside chats are the stuff of finances in areas where there is without equivocation or
accomplished just that. attacks on everything political legend. Ronald Reagan no immediate profit to be made. apology, where he is trying to
C o n g r e s s e n a c t e d a Washington might do to never stopped campaigning for The Obama press office, I move the country. It's just too
comprehensive health care bill i m p r o v e t h e n a t i o n ' s l o t . his conservative vision because know, can send me speeches bad he didn't start earlier.
and a sweeping reform of how There was a revealing moment he was determined to leave where he has made some of E.J. Dionne, Jr. is is a
the financial system is regulated. in early August when Obama behind a thriving conservative these points. But the president's Washington Post columnist, a
His rescue of the American auto told an audience at a Texas movement. Roosevelt and efforts to lay down a consistent senior fellow at the Brookings
i n d u s t r y w o r k e d , f o i l i n g fundraiser: "We have spent the Reagan both changed the rationale, argument and Institution, and a professor at
predictions that he'd run GM last 20 months governing. They country's underlying philosophy have been sporadic. Georgetown University. He is
and Chrysler as if they were s p e n t t h e l a s t 2 0 m o n t h s philosophical assumptions. He has created a vacuum, filled the author of, most recently,
arms of Chicago's Democratic politicking." Referring to the Despite occasional forays into by the wild charges of Glenn Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith
machine. There are many other impending elections, he added: this realm, Obama has created Beck, the disappointment of and Politics After the Religious
legislative and administrative "Well, we can politick for three the impression that he is taking progressives who emphasize Right.
a c t i o n s t h a t , i n n o r m a l months. They’ve forgotten I things one decision at a time, what he hasn't done, and the (c) 2010, Washington Post
circumstances, would loom know how to politick pretty without a passion for how he tired "government is always the Writers Group
larger if these were not such good." would like the country to look in problem" rhetoric of his
E-reader News Edition
Roush Review: The Emmy Awards
Matt Roush (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:50:00 AM
Jimmy Fallon
Dare I say it? This year's Emmy
Awards show was almost, gasp,
Emmy-worthy (well, up until
that deadly stretch in the back
half; kills the show every time).
And with a surprising number of
first-time winners, a few of
them quite surprising and even
for the most part surprisingly
satisfying, it rarely felt like a
retread of past seasons.
Want more Matt Roush?
Subscribe to TV Guide
Magazine now!
Bravo to a great freshman TV
class for giving the voters
something and someone new to
honor: Modern Family, Glee,
Eric Stonestreet, Jane Lynch,
Edie Falco, and so on. And
bravo to host Jimmy Fallon and
his ad hoc Glee- inspired
ensemble (including a
splendidly hammy Jon Hamm,
getting dance tips from Betty
White) for delivering a killer
and multi-network-inclusive
opening production number.
They were "Born to Run," even
Kate Gosselin, and the show's
first hour ran like a rocket, as
major comedy and drama
winners took to the stage.
The Emmy producers' recent
strategy to bundle the awards by
genre has really paid off with a
more instantly compelling show.
Unfortunately, the "pod"
devoted to movies and
miniseries tends to grind the
show to a halt — it might as
well be called the HBO hour,
because that's where HBO
wracks up most of its gold these
days — although at least this
year we had the refreshing
spontaneity of the real Temple
Grandin in the house exulting
over the multiple wins for her
excellent HBO biopic.
Fallon was an affable and hard-
working host, killing in his
music parodies but dying any
time he turned to that awful
gimmick of Twitter-izing the
presenter intros. He kept the
show moving well enough — it
actually ended on time — but
once again, Ricky Gervais
upstaged everyone with his
inspired shtick, arranging for
beers to be served to the
audience while discovering a
watchcry mantra in the name of
one of the nominees: Bucky
Gunts (who ended up winning
for directing the Winter
Olympics opening ceremonies).
"We're all Bucky Gunts here,"
crowed Gervais. (Why couldn't
he have been this funny when
actually hosting the Golden
Globes? Was it the beer?)
Congrats to all of the night's
Bucky Gunts.
Especially in the comedy
categories, where deserving first
-timers ruled (favoring the
broadcast networks, while cable
once again dominated in
drama): Modern Family beating
TV/ 45
(i.e., the late-night category),
dashing hopes that Conan
O'Brien's short-lived Tonight
Show would pull an underdog
upset and give Team Coco
something to crow about on the
very network that treated them
so wrong. And Mad Men won
its third consecutive Emmy for
best drama (for a knockout third
season), while Breaking Bad's
Bryan Cranston also three-
peated in the ultra-competitive
lead actor category. (Those
streaks could end next year, as
HBO is about to re-enter the
drama field in a big way with
Glee for the top prize, but am not funny," which isn't t h e u p c o m i n g B o a r d w a l k
otherwise splitting in the entirely true. She is, however, Empire leading the charge.)
supporting categories — the fierce. Not much to argue with The biggest drama shocker was
g r e a t J a n e L y n c h w o n a s here. without question Kyra
expected, and Eric Stonestreet The night's first major upset Sedgwick's win (in her fifth try)
emerged triumphant from his came as The Amazing Race was for The Closer, upsetting the
crowded-with-co-stars field — unseated after seven straight h e a v i l y f a v o r e d J u l i a n n a
as Glee's Ryan Murphy won for wins in the reality-competition Margulies of The Good Wife.
directing (the pilot) while category. The new champ: (She got her moment in the
Modern Family's Steve Levitan Bravo's Top Chef, and I was spotlight later, presenting pal
and Christopher Lloyd won for glad for the Magical Elves and former ER co-star George
writing (the pilot). In the lead producers, who pioneered one of Clooney with his humanitarian
acting categories, The Big Bang my favorite types of reality award.) Sedgwick's hugely
Theory's Jim Parsons finally show (with Project Runway, entertaining and very broad
won for his genius work as b e f o r e t h e n a s t y s p l i t t o performance on The Closer is
Sheldon Cooper — now the Lifetime). I worked with these the kind of work that rarely gets
E m m y s n e e d t o s t a r t guys once upon a time on Emmy love — just ask Angela
recognizing the series itself. another show, and can attest Lansbury, who spent 11 years
And Edie Falco made history as they're as classy an act as you'll not winning for Murder, She
the first person to win lead find in this biz. And Top Chef is Wrote— but Brenda Leigh
acting honors in both comedy quite the tasty treat, so good for Johnson is an indelible character
and drama — this year for them. in TV's most dominant genre,
Showtime's Nurse Jackie, a It wasn't a washout for all and I'm glad she finally got her
show some might argue is more longtime winners. The Daily due. Although maybe not at the
dramatic than comedic. In her Show won its eighth in a row for ROUSH page 47
speech, Falco herself insisted, "I variety/music/comedy series
46 TV/ E-reader News Edition

Danielle Staub on Her Real Housewives of New Jersey

Castmates: "They Will Be Exposed"
Kate Stanhope the truth at all times, at all times, Check out videos from Real
(TVGuide.com: Breaking and when I do so, and it's not Housewives of New Jersey
News) directed at just me, people seem TVGuide.com: There is a part
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:28:00 AM to fly off their handles, and with you and Jacqueline Laurita
Danielle Staub that's what I did. You want to in the reunion where you guys
Love her or hate her, you're still call it button-pushing, call it talk that gets a little emotional.
talking about Real Housewives button-pushing, but I call it Did you ever believe the two of
of New Jersey's Danielle Staub. speaking the truth and having you would be able to work
W h e t h e r i t ' s h e r w e l l - people to react to it. through everything after you
documented showdowns with Danielle Staub exits Real were so close previously?
her reality series castmates, her Housewives mid-reunion Staub: What people might have
ambiguous sexuality or her TVGuide.com: Was there a part forgotten, is that because we
questionable past, the 48-year- of you that didn't want to go to were so close, because we
old mother of two has never the reunion? What were your genuinely cared for one another,
been one to shy away from the thoughts going into the taping we were very emotional about
spotlight. After the hair-pull about what you wanted to say? hurting one another at a certain
heard round the world, the Staub: You know what I point as well. It hurts when
reunion that brings all four learned a long time ago from hide all of their faults behind you that didn't want to go? somebody you care about is
c a s t m a t e s u n d e r o n e r o o f these castmates of mine? Never mine. And then it comes down Staub: There's always hesitation attacking you. When she started
promises to be one heck of a go into anything expecting to be to the truth. The truth is if four when I know they're going to be playing the character that she
riot. "At the reunion, people will heard, because you won't. They of them are speaking at the same there. During the season, I did and she started really
be shocked. I think the cast all make it a point to talk over time I'm trying to talk, guess didn't tape but only three times coming after me, and so did her
should be ashamed," Staub tells you. I just go in, I say a prayer what, I don't get heard. ... All with them. So yeah, there's family, including her daughter,
TVGuide.com. We also talked with my team and I hope for the anyone is hearing is them definitely hesitation. But I didn't via internet, via everything, I
with her about how the reunion best and I hope to get out because they shut the "F" up to have to worry about any never responded to any of their
got so out of hand, how her without physical harm done to let me say anything. ... Big physical harm being done to me messages ever. ... It was hurtful
castmates will be exposed and m y s e l f , a n d I ' m n o t scope of things is that their days this time because Bravo was to me to see my friend, not the
those rampant rumors about e x a g g e r a t i n g . are limited. They will be way ahead of me and had armed others, I don't care about the
Season 3. TVGuide.com: Do you think exposed. They are a bunch of guards there. It wasn't me that others, to see my friend really
TVGuide.com: A lot of the they didn't listen to you because fakes and frauds. Teresa set this up this time.. ... Say wishing me such harm, I think
Housewives reunions are filled they don't want to listen or [Giudice]'s in the midst of it what you want about me, you that is where the emotions come
with arguments, but how did because they're scared of what now and I can't elaborate on don't see me chasing or in.
this get physical and so out of you have to say? that, but, geez, the news is. ... attacking any other human being TVGuide.com: There is no
hand? Staub: I think its combination You can only say so much. ever. ... I have said things, we official word about Season 3, so
Danielle Staub: I think I'm of things. They're afraid of What did they say about me? have all said things, but if you why are there reports saying you
going to stand by what I always being exposed and they know Court documents don't lie? It's compare what I said about them were fired?
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people that aren't used to having even if it's not me. There's only into a situation like that when its compared to what they're
themselves called out. I speak so much editing you can do to 3 against 1? Was there part of saying. DANIELLE page 47
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expense of Margulies or Friday
Night Lights' sublime Connie
Britton or even January Jones
for her career-high work as
Betty Draper during a season of
marital dissolution. (Jones did
distinguish herself as the night's
most awkward presenter,
alongside John Krasinksi.)
Side note: If you want to see
why anyone makes a fuss about
The Closer, watch this week's
first-rate episode, where
Sedgwick displays some truly
disturbing grit.
The most pleasant surprise in
the drama field was Aaron
Paul's supporting win for
Breaking Bad. He was riveting
all season and holds his own
aside the remarkable Cranston.
And as much as I admire
Cranston's work, which like the
show gets richer by the season, I
had hoped the voters would
spread the wealth to one of his
fellow nominees. It seems
incredible that Jon Hamm,
Michael C. Hall and Hugh
Laurie are still Emmy-less. Kyle
Chandler or Matthew Fox would
have been nice surprises as well.
The quirkiest win: Archie
Panjabi for The Good Wife, a
classic "supporting"
performance in that she has
created an exotic scene-stealing
character with Kalinda that you
always want more of and to
know more about.
A few final thoughts:
If one of the benefits of an
Emmy win is to raise a show's
profile, the night's biggest
winner was probably HBO's
Temple Grandin, which took
home five on-air awards. It's on
DVD, so rent it, Netflix it, find
it On Demand, do whatever it
takes. The movie is that
brilliant, and so is Claire Danes.
Quite a few Twitter-ites
complained about the
unfortunate omission of the
gifted writer/producer David
Mills (most recently of Treme)
from the In Memoriam montage.
The Twitter-verse also appeared
split regarding Jewel's
accompanying dirge. Some
found it moving, others regarded
it as slow death. I'm on the
fence, although I don't much
like when anyone or anything
pulls focus from the actual clip-
reel honor roll.
Best filmed piece: The Modern
Family riff that included a
cameo from Family Guy's
Stewie, a 3D Sofia Vergara and
George Clooney (who declared
himself a fan of the show while
backstage) in multiple
combinations, ending up
sandwiched in bed between
Mitchell and Cameron.
It was a great night for Modern
Family, but also a strong night
for rewarding much of the best
of TV, and (imagine that) an
above-par Emmys show.
Bucky Gunts FTW!
So if you're reading this, you're
no doubt like Jimmy Fallon,
who kicked off the night by
declaring, "I love TV. I love
watching TV." (He had me at
"TV.") So what did you think of
the winners, losers, the show
itself?
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know where that comes from.
I've never been fired. ... I don't
know how those things happen.
It does kind of crack me up.
Who is to say any of us have
made a decision? I don't think
they've even discussed any of
that. For me personally, I'm just
looking to survive the next
couple of weeks with the
reunion.
TVGuide.com: Looking back at
the season, what was the hardest
thing to watch or the most
difficult revelation for you?
Staub: You know I have been
put through so much by these
castmates this season, they can't
hurt me. Anything I saw this
season didn't hurt me, didn't
affect me. I'm not going to let it.
I'm bigger than that. I've grown
so much. I'm very comfortable
with who I am, and if people
don't want to be around that and
47
see me for who I am, then don't.
But they still keep talking about
me. Love me or hate me, you're
still talking about me.
Part 1 of The Real Housewives
of New Jersey reunion airs
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With anticipation of tonight's
big announcement of Dancing
with the Stars new cast, regulars
Cheryl Burke, Derek Hough,
Maksim Chmerkovskiy and new
host Brooke Burke, walked the
Entertainment Tonight Emmy
after-party red carpet last night
to promote Season 12 of their
hit reality show.
Burke, a former winner,
admitted "all the rumors seem to
be true" regarding the new cast.
Most notably, there has been a
huge buzz surrounding DWTS'
most controversial rumored cast
member, Jersey Shore's Mike
"The Situation" Sorrentino.
When asked why the show's
producers are interested in
Sorrentino, Burke pondered, "I
think last season kind of proved
reality shows and tabloids play a
big part of it. Casting is a big
part of the success of the show.
Everybody seems to be talking
more about The Situation than
anybody else. I guess it makes
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Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 6:00:00 AM
Filed under: TV News There
was some sad casting news this
week, including a former big
star downgrading to recurring
status, and another younger star
choosing to leave'One Life to
Live.'
For all the news, read what's
been happening around the dial
in our weekly soap casting wrap
-up.
Bye Bye, Buddy
Brandon Buddy has decided to
leave 'One Life to Live,' and the
character of Cole Thornhart will
be exiting with him (meaning,
no recasting plans). This isn't
the first time Buddy has
announced his intention to leave
'OLTL." Two months ago, the
actor used Twitter to say that he
was moving on. As SoapCentral
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Make that a completely
unhinged Ari. We didn't see this
one coming and its impact was
all the better for it. Ari blew up
at Amanda Daniels during his
that the Emmys awarded 'Mad
Men' best drama series for the
third year in a row, the show
was using the 6th Annual
American Television
as a centerpiece for a terrific
Commercial Awards, the Clios,
quiet-time dinner with Mrs. Ari
in front of the Lords of
Hollywood on this week's
episode of'Entourage.'
Everyone got to see the boorish
and sexist behavior of Ari up
close as he demeaned Amanda
over the release of the Lizzie
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Don. And the present Don has
yet to get a handle on some
demons that are starting to creep
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Sanyo 52”
120Hz 1080p
LCD HDTV
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Checking In
Hi there, citizen. My name is R.
Scott Franklin and I just became
mayor of your house. May I
come in?
Sorry, friend. I’m afraid I can’t
“get off your porch” before you
“call the cops”. As you can
clearly see by taking a look at
my phone, I have a duty to this
house to fulfill. Now, if you’ll
excuse me…
Yikes. Already I can see we’re
going to have to work at
streamlining the infrastructure
around here. Your furniture is
sprawling out of control. Looks
like you’ve got some traffic
problem getting in and out of
the bathroom over here. Let’s
take a look in the fridge. Oh my.
I don’t know how anyone could
expect small businesses to put
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without a decent place to get
something to eat. Looks like
I’ve got a lot of work ahead of
me.
First things first, though. We
need to start getting more people
interested in bringing their
resources into your home. By
the looks of your entertainment
center, I imagine tourism around
here is negligible at best, huh?
No worries. As my first act as
mayor, I’m going to authorize
the purchase of a Sanyo 52”
HDTV to help turn this house
around. With all the sporting
events, movies, and other media
you’ll be able to watch on this
Full HD 1080p LCD high-
definition television, I’m willing
to bet visitors will start coming
by in droves. All we need is a
few digital components to
connect via the 3 HDMI inputs
and some digital cable and this
wall-mountable wonder will
help us turn things around here
in no time. And now that I’m
thinking about it, we may want
to grab a slightly smaller Sanyo
HDTV for Bedroom County.
I’m sure the budget can handle
it. If not, I’ll just raise taxes.
Now then, let’s get started on
our first budgetary committee
meeting so that I can see what
I’m dealing with. Where do you
keep your account records?
Please, sir. Enough with the
threats. I know you may not
have voted for me, but let’s not
make this any more difficult. I’d
really hate to become mayor of
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Improved label warnings
coming for contacts cleaner
Clear Care On the heels of
hundreds of reported complaints
to the Food and Drug
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Institute for Safe Medication
Practices(ISMP) is reporting a
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attachment of the contact lens
holder to the bottle in order to
use the solution.
We’ve previously made the
argument that look-alike
containers can lead to mistakes.
Seeing all multipurpose cleaning
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"It’s an easy mistake to make"
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ago. “The bottle came with a
little cardboard collar that says
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eye,' but it can easily be
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Roger Clemens to play in golf tournament after

federal arraignment, report says
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pay some percentage of the
$3.825 million remaining on
Ramirez's two-year, $45 million
contract, depending on the
quality of the prospect.
Another league source, also
speaking on the condition of
anonymity, said the Dodgers'
preference at this point is to
simply allow Ramirez to go to
the White Sox as a waiver
claim, in which case the White
Sox would be responsible for
the entire $3.825 million. The
Dodgers have had that option
available to them ever since the
White Sox secured waiver rights
to Ramirez on Friday.
The White Sox have until 1:30
p.m. ET on Tuesday to complete
a trade with the Dodgers.
It is the White Sox, the second
source said, who want the
Dodgers to take a prospect in
exchange for cash to cover a
percentage of the money still
owed Ramirez. The source
either wouldn't or couldn't
identify the prospect in question.
Karabell: Manny Should Thrive
in Chicago
ESPN.com senior writer Eric
Karabell looks at Manny
Ramirez's fantasy value with his
expected move to the Chicago
White Sox. Blog
With the Dodgers slipping
further out of contention for a
playoff spot after losing two of
three to the Colorado Rockies
this weekend, club officials
apparently decided to go ahead
and part ways with Ramirez at a
point when it still will save them
a considerable amount of
money.
The arrival of Ramirez comes
at a key time for the White Sox.
The 38-year-old Ramirez likely
would become the designated
hitter in Chicago, especially
considering his recent fragile
history. He returned August 21
from his third stint on the DL
this year.
The White Sox have lost nine
of 14 and 13 of 20 to fall 4½
games back of AL Central-
leading Minnesota with three
games left in the season series
between the teams. Interestingly
enough, the first two stops on
their 10-game trip are Cleveland
and Boston, two of Ramirez's
former clubs.
Ramirez already has played at
Boston this season. As a
member of the Dodgers, he was
5-for-12 a home run over the
Green Monster in a three-game
series in June.
Ramirez didn't start any of his
final four games with the
Dodgers. He pinch hit in the top
of the sixth inning of Sunday's
10-5 loss to the Rockies but was
ejected from the game after one
pitch when he argued a called
strike that appeared to be a few
inches off the outside corner.
That apparently was his final act
in a Dodgers uniform.
Ramirez is batting .311 this
season with eight homers and 40
RBIs, but has played in just 66
games due to injuries.
The 12-time All-Star became a
fan favorite when he arrived in
Los Angeles, with a section of
seats named in his honor at
Chavez Ravine and wigs that
mimicked his dreadlocks
suddenly becoming fashionable.
Ramirez performed so well
down the stretch during his first
season in Los Angeles that the
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year, $45 million contract.
The injuries and last season's 50
-game suspension following a
failed drug test soured his stay,
and Ramirez hasn't spoken to
reporters since spring training,
when he said this would be his
final season with the Dodgers.
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D o d g e r s f o r
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said.
In a conference call with Bay
Area reporters Sunday night,
Cable delivered the potentially
alarming news, saying Campbell
had an MRI and X-rays and
would be further evaluated this
week.
The Raiders did not consider
the stinger that knocked
Campbell out of the preseason
loss to the 49ers to be serious,
Cable said.
The Raiders open the season in
two weeks at Tennessee. It
appears to be too early to project
whether Campbell will be ready
to play against the Titans.
If Campbell can't play, Bruce
Gradkowski will get the call to
open the season.
Campbell was taken off the
field on a cart after being hurt
on a sack by Travis LaBoy in
the second quarter. He was
down for about five minutes.
"Usually I recover pretty fast,"
Campbell said after the game.
"Right now there's no timetable.
The thing is just to improve and
continue to keep getting better.
We don't know the timetable or
anything, but at the same time, I
haven't really missed any time
before."
Gradkowski was a sparkplug
for Oakland in his preseason
debut against San Francisco on
Saturday night after Campbell
was hurt. Gradkowski gave
Oakland's struggling offense life
last season when he took over
for JaMarcus Russell.
Still, Gradkowski has had
trouble staying healthy.
Cable also said running back
Michael Bush will undergo a
procedure on his broken left
thumb. Bush was still expected
to be Oakland's starter this
season, partly because he is
more durable than Darren
McFadden, who missed the first
two preseason games with an
injury, and Cable said Bush
could play against the Titans.
The injury outbreak to
Oakland's skill-position players
extends to No. 1 receiver Chaz
Schilens, who will return from
the arthroscopic knee surgery he
had last week in three-six
weeks. That makes Schilens
questionable for the season
opener, which will be played 19
days after his procedure.
In still more injury news, center
Samson Satele will return to
practice Monday after missing
the past week with a sprained
ankle. Rookie Jared Veldheer
got mixed reviews from Cable
for his performance against the
Niners.
"I saw a guy playing center for
the first time in this league,"
Cable said. "You got to learn
where to put his helmet a little
bit more consistently. When he
did, it was pretty good stuff. So,
there's a lot to grow on. It was
actually a pretty good effort by
him."
Veldheer will work at both left
tackle and center this week,
where he is expected to be the
backup at both positions.
Cornerback Chris Johnson is
also expected to practice after
missing the past two games with
a hamstring injury. Johnson,
who was limited in practice last
week, is competing with
Stanford Routt for the starting
spot across from Pro Bowler
Nnamdi Asomugha.
55
Defensive tackle Desmond
Bryant(hyperextended elbow)
and cornerback Joey
Thomas(concussion) are day to
day with injuries sustained
Saturday. Defensive linemen
Jason Richardson (knee) and
Alex Daniels(hamstring) will
likely not play in the exhibition
finale Thursday against Seattle.
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Billl Williamson and The
Associated Press was used in
this report.
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US Open 2010 Roundtable: Looking
Into Flushing's Crystal Ball
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 10:25:00 PM
Filed under: U.S. Open The
2010 U.S. Open at Flushing
Meadows is upon us. Last year,
Melanie Oudin made a miracle
run to the quarters while Serena
Williams took a bizarre exit
after a foot fault in the semis
sparked a tantrum directed at the
line judge. Well, this year
Serena's on the sideline for a
foot injury and the same line
judge is back on the court.
The irony there is a whole
different story, so we'll get right
to the FanHouse tennis team's
U.S. Open predictions. Sleeper
picks to watch, stars who could
struggle, and of course, our
winner picks.
DARK HORSE
Sounds ridiculous to call one of
the best players of all time a
dark horse, but no one takes
Venus Williams seriously as a
major threat anymore. She's 30
and hasn't been able to
consistently string together
enough good matches since
spring. But she has a great draw
and lots of support. Andy
Roddick has a great, great draw.
His first big-boy opponent is
Novak Djokovic. Roddick owns
him. Don't think Roddick will
win, but the semis are realistic.
-- Greg Couch
Elena Dementieva on the
women's side. Motivated in the
big tournaments, likes New
York. For the men, David
Nalbadian looks like he has
some fight left.
-- Chris Botta
Look for Roddick to advance
into the semifinals. He has not
been there since 2006 at the
U.S. Open. 17th-seeded Nadia
Petrova of Russia will make an
appearance in the semifinals for
the first time at the U.S. Open.
-- Hal Spivack
She hasn't played since
Wimbledon, but the hard courts
of the U.S. Open are perfectly
suited for Venus Williams.
She'll also be fighting hard for
the Williams' name since sister
Serena can't play. On the men's
side, Mardy Fish has slimmed
down and in injury free for the
first time in a while. His success
since Wimbledon has been
fantastic and it could continue
for the next two weeks.
-- Knox Bardeen
It's hard to call Mardy Fish a
dark horse after he has won two
events since Wimbledon and
just lost to Roger Federer in the
Cincinnati final. The American
is playing spectacular tennis on
the hard court and he'll continue
that in Flushing.
-- Chris Sesno
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Antonio Bryant cut by Cincinnati
Bengals after struggling in camp
despite $8 million guaranteed
James Walker (ESPN.com) Owens to a one-year deal at the
Submitted at 8/30/2010 7:31:29 AM start of camp to replace Bryant
in the starting lineup.
Updated: August 30, 2010, 8:31 Owens quickly developed into
AM ET the Bengals' top receiver in
T h e C i n c i n n a t i B e n g a l s preseason. Bryant missed all
released receiver Antonio four preseason games because
Bryant, the team announced of the knee problem. Bryant said
Sunday. Walker: Strange From the muscles around the knee
Start weren't strong enough to let him
The Bengals have done some cut at full speed.
odd things over the years, but Also on Sunday, the Bengals
signing Antonio Bryant in put safety Gibril Wilson on
March and releasing him before injured reserve with damaged
the regular season is near the top ligaments in his left knee and
of the list, writes ESPN.com's waived rookie long snapper
James Walker. Blog Mike Windt.
• Blog network: NFL Nation James Walker covers the AFC
Bryant was a major North for ESPN.com.
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four-year, $28 million contract Insider Adam Schefter and The
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Tiger Woods Eases Corey Pavin's
Ryder Cup Dilemma
Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 8:30:00 PM
Filed under: PGA, Ryder Cup,
FedEx Cup Matt Kuchar
defeated Martin Laird on the
first playoff hole Sunday to
begin the PGA Tour's
FedExCup series with a victory
at the Barclays. That was good
for him.
Tiger Woods shot a closing 67
to finish T12 and that's great for
U.S. Ryder Cup team captain
Corey Pavin.
European captain Colin
Montgomerie announced his
final selections Sunday -- Luke
Donald, Padraig Harrington and
Edoardo Molinari-- and they
came with more than a fair bit of
second guessing. Pavin next
week must round out his 12-man
roster with four at-large
His middle two rounds were not
nearly so strong. A second-day
73 and Saturday's third-round 72
left him 7 under and five strokes
short of the playoff.
All the same, Woods' golf is
interesting again. And
promising.
More: Final Barclays
Leaderboard| Photos
"If I would have putted like I
did today in the middle two
rounds I would be up there,"
Woods said Sunday after play
invitations, and while the
was completed at Ridgewood
American captain denies any
CC in Paramus, N.J.
foregone conclusions, of course
"That's what you have to do.
he wants Woods on his team.
And I putted good the first day
Now the door is open to make it
and I putted good today. The
happen with no controversy
middle two rounds I didn't.
attached.
Consequently, I shot myself out
Woods started The Barclays by
of it."
shooting 65, his low round of
the year. He finished with a 67.
Sports/ 57
Antonio Bryant Proves
to Be Costly Error for
Another NFL Team
Chris Burke (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:30:00 PM
Filed under: Bengals, NFL
Analysis The list of NFL teams
in need of receivers seems to
grow by the day. St. Louis
suddenly has to replace Donnie
Avery, who was placed on
injured reserve after hurting his
knee Thursday night. San Diego
might still be forced to find
someone to take Vincent
Jackson's spot, if he's traded or
continues his holdout. The Jets
could use some depth while
"Our opposition is you can't cut
Santonio Holmes serves his four
a guy if he's hurt. We know
-game suspension, Seattle wants
what the rules are. We expect to
another veteran, the Redskins
be paid his salary for the year,"
and Bears have question marks -
- the list goes on and on. Bryant's agent, Lamont Smith,
told the Enquirer. "He
But here's a little tip for all of
those teams: Don't bother understands what his rights are.
calling Antonio Bryant. It's not We've talked about it over the
worth it. Just ask Cincinnati. last three weeks and he
The Bengals released Bryant on understands it's a business."
Sunday, a little less than six Smith told the Enquirer that the
months after handing out an Bengals didn't approach him to
inexplicable four-year, $28 discuss an injury settlement and
million contract to the 29-year- that a grievance would be filed
old receiver -- including about to get Bryant's $1.55 million in
$7 million in guaranteed money, base salary for 2010.
according to the Cincinnati More: Bengals Release Bryant
Enquirer. Bryant will try to Due to Balky Knee
recoup even more of that Discuss: Did Bengals Make a
original contract, too. Mistake?
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This Year's Open to Settle the Federer-

Nadal Debate ... or Will It?
Greg Couch (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 7:59:00 AM

Filed under: U.S. Open The

arrow keeps changing direction
on the Rafael Nadal-Roger
Federer rivalry, even though
they rarely play each other. Or,
is it the Federer-Nadal rivalry
now?
Each time it shifts, it has a once
-and-for-all feel to it. It is a
declarative statement finalizing
an argument. A few months
later, it switches back.
Or maybe it switches in just a
few weeks.
It has led to a complete tangle
going into the U.S. Open, which
starts Monday. So the belief is
that Federer is the greatest
player of all time, but Nadal is
the greatest of this era, which,
uh, includes Federer. When
Nadal was the best in 2008,
Federer was done. In 2009,
Federer was the best ever and
Nadal's expiration date was
close.
But things have flip-flopped so
fast the past eight weeks that we
have a new dynamic in the
greatest individual rivalry in
sports. Early July, Nadal won
Wimbledon, after having won
the French Open, and bypassed
Federer for good. End of
August, Federer has all the
momentum, and most people
think he'll win the Open over
Nadal, who is ranked No. 1 and
is the No. 1 seed.
I think I'm getting a headache.
Volition's top changes
between Red Faction:
Guerrilla and Armageddon
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:57:00 AM
During a recent presentation of
Red Faction: Armageddon, we
asked what the designers at
Volition felt were the top five
changes made from Guerrilla to
the latest installment. Red
Faction: Guerrilla stood out as
one of our favorites in 2009, so
we were interested to see if
Volition would be covering up
the same blemishes that we'd
had in mind. You'll find the
answers from RF:A's Lead
Level Designer, Jameson Durall,
after the break.
Continue reading Volition's top
changes between Red Faction:
Guerrilla and Armageddon
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Team17 wriggles free from third-
party publishers
James Ransom-Wiley
(Joystiq)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 11:25:00 AM
Having released only two
boxed retail games in the past
three years, Worms developer
Team17 has been working
toward total independence from
third-party publishers. That
moment has arrived for the
studio, which has repositioned
itself as an independent digital
publisher, reports MCV. "We
have no ambitions to return to
retail publishing," co-founder
Martyn Brown told the site.
Gaming/ Politics/ 59
New York Imam:
Politics Behind Mosque
Opposition
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against other groups, including
Submitted at 8/29/2010 7:01:35 PM
Jews and Roman Catholics.
Monday, 30 Aug 2010 12:01 He made the comments in an
AM interview published Monday in
The imam spearheading a the Abu Dhabi-based newspaper
proposed Islamic center near the The National.
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Pressure Grows to Fire Alan Simpson

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) supporters. controversy, saying he has "had the commission is becoming a with reporters Friday, feminist
Submitted at 8/30/2010 2:35:03 AM "The problem lurking over all of my size-15 feet in my mouth a campaign issue, with the groups said the program is in
this is President Obama. I find it time or two." Democratic Senate nominee in good shape and that it is not the
Pressure is growing on the deeply disturbing that he has not The apology was posted on the Kentucky, Jack Conway, using main driving cause of short-term
White House to fire one of fired Alan Simpson," Terry commission's website. But it the incident in a campaign deficits or long-term debt.
President Obama's co-chairmen O ' N e i l l , p r e s i d e n t o f t h e was not accepted by feminist fundraising plea last week, and "We all know what drives the
of his deficit commission after National Organization for groups and a growing number of Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, Arizona deficit. Virtually the entire
he sent a verbally abusive e-mail Women, said Friday. "President members of Congress. Still, it's Democrat and a leader of House deficit over the next 10 years is
to a seniors advocate last week - Obama should have stepped up not clear how much their anger liberals, saying it will provoke caused by the combination of
and opponents warn he had and said, 'I know women elected will achieve. voters to go to the polls. the economic downturn, the
d i s c r e d i t e d t h e e n t i r e me to this office, and I know One test will be whether any of Mr. Grijalva also said he's seen Bush tax cut and the two wars,"
commission's work. Simpson has gone beyond the Mr. Simpson's fellow a shift in support from members said Kim Gandy, vice president
Women's groups, senior citizen pale and needs to be removed.' " commission members call for of Congress, and said he thinks of Feminist Majority.
advocates and Democratic In an e-mail Monday to Ashley him to go. None had done so by Congress would defeat any Because of the economic
members of Congress say they Carson, executive director of the Friday. effort to alter Social Security. downturn, Social Security is
are disappointed that the White Older Women's League, Mr. Republican congressional aides The commission, expected to taking in less in payroll taxes
House has not moved to dismiss Simpson blasted her for a said targeting Mr. Simpson produce a report after than it is paying out in benefits.
former Sen. Alan Simpson after newspaper column she wrote doesn't make sense, since the November's elections, is only The program is expected to be
t h e R e p u b l i c a n v u l g a r l y earlier this year in which she commission doesn't have much advisory, but House Speaker in the red through 2011, then
described Social Security and attacked Mr. Simpson for choice but to look at Social Nancy Pelosi, California rebound for several years, then
accused the seniors advocate of sexism and arguing that cuts to Security - particularly with the Democrat, and Senate Majority go back into annual deficits in
"babbling into the vapors." Social Security will hit elderly other constraints on the Leader Harry Reid, Nevada 2015, according to the
W i t h D e m o c r a t s a l r e a d y women particularly hard. commission. Democrat, have said they will program's actuarial report
preparing to try to make Social In his e-mail, Mr. Simpson said Mr. Obama has said he won't bring the recommendations to released earlier this month.
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week that Mr. Simpson will not Park, Mr. Simpson apologized Social Security benefits or delay Part of the debate is over the
be fired - angering some who for the "anguish" he caused and the eligibility age. extent of the Social Security
should be among Mr. Obama's acknowledged his history of Now, thanks to Mr. Simpson, problem. On a conference call
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Beck: Possible 650,000 Attended
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Submitted at 8/29/2010 3:26:44 PM
Sunday, 29 Aug 2010 08:26
PM
One day after the massive
“Restoring Honor” rally in
Washington D.C., both
organizer Glenn Beck and
pundits from all over the map
debated the size of the crowd.
Beck himself estimated the
crowd numbering between
300,000 and 650,000 during an
interview on “Fox News
Sunday.” Others ranged
downward but generally
reported that the crowded at
least topped 100,000 people.
Beck said the event, meant to
honor the U.S. military, was not
supposed to be political, and for
the most part, politics were left
out of the conversation.
"The message I was trying to
send was be your highest self
and stand in the burning bush,
stand in the fire, because that's
the only thing that's going to
save us," he said. "I've come to
the place where I believe there's
no way to solve these problems,
these issues ... unless we solve it
through God, unless we solve it
through being our highest self,
and that's a pretty tall order."
Beck also told Fox host Chris
Wallace that he wanted to
amend his now notorious
statement that President Barack
Obama is a racist.
"I have a big fat mouth
sometimes and I say things, and
that's not the way people should
behave," Beck said. While he
didn't apologize he said he
regretted saying a year ago that
Obama has a "deep-seated
hatred for white people" because
it's not accurate.
"I didn't understand, really, his
theology," Beck added. "I think
that it is much more of a
theological question that he is a
guy who understands the world
through liberation theology,
which is oppressor and victim."
Beck described liberation
theology, which teaches that
salvation for the individual is
dependent on salvation for the
collective through economic and
social justice, as the message
that was preached by Obama's
ex-pastor, Rev. Jeremiah
Wright.
"I'm not judging (Obama) for
that," he said. "I'm not
demonizing it. I disagree with
it."
Beck, a Mormon, said most
Christians don't believe in
liberation theology.
"That is a direct opposite of
what the gospel is talking
about," said Beck."It's Marxism
disguised as religion."
Beck noted that the Founding
Fathers warned that if people
turned from God, the country
would be at risk.
"Let's take them as people who
knew what they were talking
about. Let's try the whole
turning back to God thing and
see what happens," he said.
Meanwhile, the number debate
over crowd size raged on at
various websites on Sunday.
What’s the big deal over
numbers? Estimates are
politically charged and can
signal either the gravitas of a
major movement in the making
or a protest that has lost its
steam.
In Beck’s case, though, few
observers on either end of the
political spectrum saw it as
anything but a major event for
the tea party movement and
conservative politics in general.
No matter what the actual
numbers, Beck sent a clear
signal to Washington and the
Obama administration that the
grassroots anger over the
direction of government has to
be taken seriously.
“Neither Democrats nor
Republicans can afford to ignore
the antiestablishment fervor
displayed Saturday during
Beck's rally that took on the
tone of an evangelical revival,”
the Associated Press reported.
“Billed as a nonpolitical event,
it nevertheless was a clarifying
moment for those curious as to
what clout an anti-Washington
sentiment could have on
midterm congressional elections
in November.”
U.S. Park Police, burned by
previous controversies, no
longer makes crowd estimates.
So there are no official estimates
of crowd size at events on the
National Mall.
So here are the leading
estimates from major media:
• CBS News took a scientific
approach, commissioning a
crowd estimate by the company
AirPhotosLive.com. The
network reported that
AirPhotosLive estimated the
crowd at 87,000 people. But
they noted that with a margin of
Politics/ 61
error of 9,000, “between 78,000
and 96,000 attended the rally.”
• The NBC Nightly News
estimated the number of people
in attendance as “tens, perhaps
hundreds of thousands.”
• The Washington Post noted
that Beck told the crowd
Saturday that he had heard “it
was between 300,000 and
500,000." It offered no protest
to that but in several stories used
the phrase “tens of thousands.”
Both The New York Times and
the Associated Press used
similar phrasing.
• Fox News in its own coverage
offered that “hundreds of
thousands of Americans,” at the
event.
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Fuel For The Road

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To get the best results from
your training, you need to eat
like an athlete. Eat a healthy
breakfast within 15 minutes of
waking up each day and then eat
small meals every three hours
thereafter. Each meal should
consist of a protein source and a
fruit and/or vegetable. The
protein serving should be about
the size of your palm.
At least three of your meals
should include a starchy
carbohydrate. The best sources
are brown rice, oats, whole-
grain wheat bread, oatmeal,
potatoes, and sweet potatoes.
Include a few servings of fat
each day as well, mainly from
unsaturated sources like olive
oil, flaxseeds, nuts, and
avocados. Below is a sample
day's menu.
Meal 1: Oatmeal, 1 scoop whey
protein powder and blueberries
Meal 2: 2 hardboiled eggs,
banana, almonds
Meal 3: Turkey sandwich on
whole-grain toast and a salad
with olive oil
Meal 4: Yogurt and an apple
Meal 5: Chicken, steak, or fish,
broccoli and brown rice or sweet
potato.
Meal 6: Cottage cheese and
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Gray Matter: In Which I Fully Submerge My
Hand In Liquid Nitrogen
Theodore Gray (Popular
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Now)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:41:58 AM
Protected By Science My hand
is like a red-hot poker to the
liquid nitrogen, but an insulating
layer of nitrogen gas forms- a
phenomenon known as the
Leiden-frost effect- keeping my
hand safe and warm for a
fraction of a second. Mike
Walker A layer of bubbles
protects the flesh from liquid
nitrogen, though only for a split
second. Need proof? Watch the
video
When I first saw this
photograph of a man's hand
submerged in liquid nitrogen at
somewhere below -320° F, my
immediate thought was, "That
guy must be crazy! One second
in that stuff, and you're
shopping for new skin!" My
shock was tempered only
slightly by the fact that it was
my hand, and we'd taken the
picture just a minute earlier.
I hadn't realized that my hand
was quite so deep into the
liquid. Amazingly, I barely felt
the cold at all. My skin didn't
get hurt for the same reason that
water droplets dance on a hot
skillet. An insulating layer of
steam forms almost instantly
between the water and the
metal, keeping the droplets
relatively cool as they float for
several seconds without actually
touching the hot surface. To
frostbite would have set in.The
phenomenon is called the
Leidenfrost effect (after Johann
Gottlob Leidenfrost, the doctor
who first studied it in 1756). I'd
known about it for years, but
when it came time to test it in
real life, I have to admit that I
used my left hand, the one I'd
miss less.
I drew the line at another
classic example of the effect.
According to the books, it's
possible to stick a damp finger
directly into molten lead without
getting burned, if you do it fast
enough. After some
consideration, and remembering
the times I've been burned by
molten lead, I decided that it
probably wouldn't make a very
liquid nitrogen, flesh is like that good picture anyway.
skillet-a surface hundreds of ACHTUNG! Do not try this. If
degrees above its boiling point. liquid nitrogen soaks into your
So the moment my hand clothes, you will not be
touched the liquid, it created a protected by the Leidenfrost
protective layer of evaporated effect, and you can get frostbite
nitrogen gas, just as the skillet very quickly.
created a layer of steam. That
gave me just enough time to put
my hand in and pull it out again.
Any longer than that, and
Science/ 63
Immortalize Yourself In
Music: Have Your
Remains Pressed As a
Vinyl Record
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
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Now)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:43:35 AM
Rest In Vinyl AndVinyly.com
For those who can't afford to
have their ashes sent to space or
who may not like the notion of
being screwed into the ground
post-mortem, here's another
solution: have your ashes
pressed into a vinyl record and
spin for all eternity.
For about $3,000, your
cremated remains, parts of your
remains, or your pet's remains
can be immortalized in a limited
-edition run of 30 records. In a
24-minute segment, you can
record your final thoughts or
your favorite songs, or you can
pay extra to have a UK band
write a song for you.
The company, And Vinyly,
says you can "live on from
beyond the groove."
IMMORTALIZE page 64
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IMMORTALIZE
continued from page 63
UK record-label founder Jason
Leach, who is also part of a
couple techno groups, came up
with the idea after
contemplating his own
mortality, according to Wired
UK. His mother started working
at a funeral home, and he saw a
TV program that showed
someone in the U.S. putting
ashes into fireworks.
The basic package, which costs
$3,000, includes standard "Rest
In Vinyl" artwork decorating up
to 30 albums, with audio
provided by you. For extra fees,
you can add in exclusive
artwork, where UK artist James
Hague adds your ash to the
paint; original music by artists
on Leach's record labels; and
even worldwide distribution in
record stores.
The Web site is a bit cheeky --
it includes a link to a
"raveyard," which simply shows
a bunch of headstones splashed
in pulsating color.
But it's a unique way to spend
eternity once you shuffle off
your mortal coil. Hey, you can't
do it with an MP3.
[ Wired UK via Fast Company]
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Submitted at 8/30/2010 4:00:00 AM know if there's a better natural that comes from core strength.
mover on the circuit. Staying on When he changes shirts on the
by Ivan Lendl top requires mental fitness, court, what jumps at you is his
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played today, you would be guy and still lose a match [to well.
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Healthy Foods that Can Kill You

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) glycoalkaloid, can occur when the roots still contain a
potatoes are exposed to too significant amount of natural
When you're making a salad much light. The green color just poison and long-term exposure
with fresh greens from your under the skin strongly suggests to this raw food can lead to
garden, steer clear of rhubarb that toxic build-up may have deadly consequences. The
leaves. occurred. If you notice a slight proper processing of cassava
Photo: Image Source/Getty green layer just under the potato includes drying, soaking in
Images skin, cut away the green water, rinsing or cooking very
Click to Enlarge portions of the potato skin soon after it is harvested.
Most everyone admits that they before cooking and eating; there “Wild” Mushrooms
don’t eat enough fruits and is no need to discard your Most people know that many
vegetables but before you start favorite tuber since the non- varieties if mushrooms are toxic.
trying to increase your daily green portion is safe to eat. It is This does not include cultivated
intake, there are a few things recommended not to consume wild mushrooms that you find at
you should know, especially if potatoes with a bright green the grocery store. The problem
you like to grow-your-own food layer just under the potato’s skin is that there is no easy way to
or if you're a start-from-scratch since it may cause headache, distinguish a poisonous from
cook: some of the healthiest nausea, fatigue and GI issues. nonpoisonous wild mushroom.
vegetables have relatives that You can avoid this problem by Plus, you can't make toxic
could kill you. storing potatoes in a dark, cool, mushrooms nontoxic by
Seeds, Pits & Kernels dry place. cooking, canning, freezing, or
The unsavory seeds, pits, and Raw Red Kidney Beans any other means of processing.
kernels of some of our favorite Raw, uncooked, almost The only way to avoid
fruits and vegetables contain a impossible to eat, and certainly mushroom poisoning is to not
naturally occurring substance not very tasty, red kidney beans, eat wild mushrooms.
called amygdalin which in large contain a natural toxins called is a reason that rhubarb sold in One of the most consumed Kyle Shadix
amounts can be fatal since lectins. With many Americans your grocery store is sold carbohydrates in the world, This entry passed through the
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Another common toxin found If you are an adventurous with fresh greens from your malnourished. The toxin is
in our kitchens includes potatoes gardener, be aware that rhubarb garden, steer clear of rhubarb primarily found in the leaves
t h a t h a v e t u r n e d g r e e n . leaves are not the healthy bitter leaves. which protects it from being
S o l a n i n e , a n a t u r a l green you might assume. There Raw Cassava eaten by insects or animals, but
66 Religion/
Getting (civil) religion
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:12:00 AM
TMatt already looked at some
early coverage of the “Restoring
Honor” rally held in
Washington this weekend. I
went down to the Lincoln
Memorial to catch part of it but
couldn’t even come close to
hearing, much less seeing, what
was going on. But I did meet a
ton of people. It was a
completely different event than
the tea parties I’ve seen. Last
September, there was a huge
gathering in D.C. of people
upset at the size and scope of the
federal governemnt. This was
even before health care
legislation was signed into law.
The protesters carried thousands
upon thousands of creative and
witty signs and it was really
something to see. I was pretty
sure I’d never seen a protest
with so many employed people,
or so many people who had
children. And grandchildren.
This past weekend’s event was
just dramatically different. It
also had more post-college
attendees than a typical protest.
But there were literally no signs.
And there were no politics, if by
politics we mean discussion of
the current administration or
Congress, pending or passed
legislation, and what not. So it
was just tons of people coming
together to talk about faith and
values. It was the biggest civil
religion event I’d seen since the
2008 Obama campaign.
I’m highly sensitive to civil
religion, working on a book
about it, in fact. So my ears
pricked up when I heard (in the
only snippet I heard and, so help
me, I may have gotten this
wrong) Glenn Beck say
something about how the
Constitution and Declaration of
Independence are “sacred texts.”
Now, depending on how strictly
or loosely you define “sacred,”
that may hit you differently. But
that’s pure American civil
religion. When I watched this
Reason video, I heard much
more civil religion. About how
“our faith has driven us to
become the greatest people the
world has ever known” …
“Faith is in short supply. To
restore America, we must
restore ourselves. We must
rediscover the values and
principles that the Founders
established. We must restore the
faith that once guided us.” It’s
faith language, but without any
doctrinal specificity, a lowest-
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walked home, I heard part of a
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
speech that was a powerful
mixture of Christian sermon and
American politics.
So I was curious to see how
well the media “got” the civil
religion angle. And in some
cases, they did great. I thought
Jon Ward at the Daily Caller
understood it with his article
headlined “In front of historic
crowd on the Mall, Beck makes
plea for spiritual renewal and
self-government.” Here’s a
portion:
Beck’s presupposition was that
America is at a crisis point and
its citizens are in danger of
losing their power for self-
government because they have
grown lazy and apathetic and
allowed it to atrophy.
“America is great because
America is good … America is
only what we choose her to be,
we as individuals must be good
so America can be great,” he
common denominator deity (if said. “We’ve grown tired.
such a thing is possible). We’ve grown weak. We’re
Now, while I’m no fan of civil dividing ourselves. There is
religion myself, this language growing hatred in the country.
parallels a lot of the language We must be better than what
you hear from any successful we’ve allowed ourselves to
American politician. President become. We must get the poison
Obama’s campaign rhetoric and of hatred out of us. No matter
s o m e o f h i s s p e e c h e s a s what anyone might say or do, no
president have been full of civil matter what anyone smears or
religion references. As I visited lies or throws our way … we
the Lincoln Memorial yesterday, must look to God and look to
I was reminded of how our 16th love.”
President was the master of the GETTING page 69
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In Big Easy, a slow revival
Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 7:55:07 AM
In my 20-year reporting career,
I’ve covered wildfires, floods
and tornadoes. In 1995, I heard
the explosion at the bombed
federal building in Oklahoma
City and raced that direction.
Never, though, had I seen the
kind of devastation that
followed Hurricane Katrina five
years ago.
I first viewed the disaster scene
from the air as I joined a church
relief group assessing damages
days after Katrina struck. I
didn’t make it into New Orleans
city limits until a few months
later, and even then, I was
overwhelmed by what I saw.
In one column, I described the
scene this way:
The view on the ground
revealed miles and miles of
debris — miniature mountains
of tree limbs, mattresses, broken
chairs, smashed toy robots and
mildewed stuffed animals piled
high outside thousands of
homes.
Equally striking were the bright
red X’s painted on each front
door, showing the date inspected
by search teams and the number
of bodies, if any, found inside.
Since 2005, I have returned to
New Orleans a handful of times,
most recently to work on a five-
year anniversary package for
The Christian Chronicle. Each
time I go back, I am struck by
the progress — remarkable
progress, in many ways — the
Crescent City has made. Still,
and you already know this if
you caught any of the media
coverage this weekend, the Big
Easy has not made it all the way
back.
Given my personal connection
to New Orleans (and really, you
can’t experience the spirit of the
people there without feeling a
personal connection), I was
interested in reading the
coverage of the “faith angle” as
that city reached another
milestone anniversary of Aug.
29, 2005. In advance of
President Barack Obama’s visit
to mark the anniversary Sunday,
a bit of controversy emerged
over an abortion-rights president
speaking at a Catholic university
(see reports by Fox and Time),
but nothing rising to the level of
a full-scale Notre Dame furor.
More interesting to me are the
stories of how the city’s faithful
have weathered the storm.
Unfortunately, the main
Associated Press story on
Sunday’s anniversary gave short
shrift to religion, except for this
small section:
Members of First Grace United
Methodist Church in mid-city
New Orleans celebrated the
city’s renewal. Church
membership, once down to 50
people, now stands at 180,
Pastor Shawn Moses Anglim
said.
“After every flood, there is
going to be a rainbow,” he said.
Church member Martha Ward,
a 69-year-old anthropologist at
the University of New Orleans,
told the congregation that
Katrina and the ensuing
evacuation are the reason she
married her longtime boyfriend.
“This church is a miracle. It’s
the face of New Orleans,” she
said, referring to the
multicultural congregation that
attends the church.
There’s one big number
missing from that first
paragraph. Where did church
membership start? Were there
500 members before Katrina?
300? That’s important
information. Moreover, the
description of the church as “a
miracle” certainly seems to lend
itself to more elaborate
exploration.
Later in the story, there’s this:
Since Katrina struck on Aug.
29, 2005, the Lower 9th Ward
has seen thousands of volunteers
help gut homes, clean up yards
and rebuild homes and
businesses. It also has become
the focal point in an effort since
Katrina to make the city more
eco-friendly. Groups like Global
Green USA, the Sierra Club and
movie star Brad Pitt have helped
make the Lower 9th Ward into a
greener neighborhood. A new
eco-friendly village is sprouting
near the Industrial Canal
floodwall that broke and there
are several groups making the
Lower 9th Ward the focus of
environmental plans. Recently, a
plan was announced to build a
community center, using U.S.
Department of Energy funds, in
the neighborhood where people
can also learn about climate
change.
OK, we’ve got thousands of
volunteers gutting homes,
cleaning up yards and rebuilding
homes and businesses. But why?
Could their faith have anything
to do with it? I know from my
own reporting that people of
faith played a tremendous role
in New Orleans’ recovery
(which is not to imply that every
volunteer was motivated by a
belief in God). But unlike
Global Green USA and the
Sierra Club, churches and faith-
based organizations merit no
specific mention in the AP
roundup. That’s a shame.
I did come across a couple of
Katrina-related stories that I
would encourage GetReligion
readers to check out. I’ll save
the best for last.
First, The Times Picayune,
New Orleans’ Pulitzer Prize-
winning hometown newspaper,
featured a compelling piece on
some of the city’s cultural
touchstones swept away by
Katrina:
Whatever the reason, New
Orleanians seem to have an
almost sacred attachment to
clubs, bars, po-boy shops,
churches, schools and
playgrounds.
“Tradition is a cultural heirloom
that people in this community
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will pass from one generation to
the next,” said Xavier
University sociologist Silas Lee.
“And they can be very
aggressive about protecting
some aspects of tradition.”
I chuckled at the sacred
attachment to churches ( who
woulda thunk it?), but the piece
contains a revealing look at
what happened to some of New
Orleans’ historic Catholic
churches as a result of the
storm:
Some New Orleans institutions
survived Katrina just fine, only
to become collateral damage in
the aftershocks that followed.
Take St. Henry’s Catholic
Church, padlocked by the
Archdiocese of New Orleans in
2008 as part of a vast
reorganization after Katrina.
Defiant parishioners, already
coping with the painful loss of
homes and family members,
drew a line in the sand.
“It was sad because so many
people had such deep roots
there,” said Alden Hagardorn, a
leader of the resistance
movement, which staged a
lengthy sit-in to keep the 153-
year-old church open. “So many
of our older parishioners who
had been baptized at St. Henry
wanted to be buried there.
“A lot of us felt offended and
some drifted away from their
faith. After the shock and anger
wore off, there were feelings of
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Hey, what was said at the rallies?
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 5:54:24 PM
Once upon a time, I had one of
the best seats at the
famous“Stand in the Gap” rally
held on the National Mall in
1997 by the Promise Keepers
organization, since I served as a
kind of religion-news color
commentator for MSNBC —
the only network that covered
that massive event from dawn to
dusk.
At the end of the day, several
things intrigued me.
First of all, it was obvious to
me that hardly any of the
journalists present gave a flip
what anyone on the stage was
saying. Everybody was there to
cover the interactions that they
hoped took place between the
counter-demonstrators and the
men, young and old, for what I
called the “Woodstock of the
charismatic renewal
movement.”
Alas, all the men wanted to do
was sing and pray. Bummer.
Since hardly anyone in the
press was listening, few people
noticed that (a) many of the
speakers were Democrats of
color and (b) that hardly anyone
was taking potshots at President
Bill Clinton. In fact, most of the
rhetoric that day stressed that
the nation’s problems most
pressing problems were moral in
nature and, thus, couldn’t be
solved with legislation. There
was a profound sense of
disappointment in the air that
day with politics in general. If
anyone needed to be worried, I
said on the air, it was Newt
Gingrich and the GOP
leadership since many of the
keepers sounded like they were
upset with Beltway politicians
— period.
So what does this have to do
with the Glenn Beck rally
yesterday at the Lincoln
Memorial?
Probably very little, since (a) I
know next to nothing about
Beck (I have never seen his
show) and (b) I don’t know
much about what happened at
his big show since the main
story in the Washington Post
about this event offers next to
nothing in terms of content from
any of the presentations. Honest.
Please read the thing for
yourself.
Conservative commentator
Glenn Beck on Saturday drew a
sea of activists to the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial, where he
championed a religious brand of
patriotism and called on the
nation to recommit itself to
traditional values he said were
hallmarks of its exceptional
past.
On the anniversary of Martin
Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a
Dream” speech, steps away
from where it was delivered,
Beck and fellow “tea party” icon
Sarah Palin staked a claim to
King’s legacy and to that of the
Founding Fathers. They urged a
crowd that stretched to the
Washington Monument to
concentrate on the nation’s
accomplishments rather than on
its psychological scars.
“Something that is beyond man
is happening,” Beck said.
“America today begins to turn
back to God.”
Boy howdy, I can really sink
my teeth into that. Later on, we
get this chunk of content:
Beck, a Fox News host, has
developed a national following
by assailing President Obama
and Democrats, and he warned
Saturday that “our children
could be slaves to debt.” But he
insisted that the rally “has
nothing to do with politics. It
has everything to do with God,
turning our faith back to the
values and principles that made
us great.”
King’s niece Alveda King, an
anti-abortion activist, addressed
Beck’s rally with a plea for
prayer “in the public squares of
America and in our schools.”
Referencing her “Uncle
Martin,” King called for
national unity by repeatedly
declaring “I have a dream.”
So Alveda King spoke ( video
here)? That’s interesting,
although I think it is a bit
narrow to call her an anti-
abortion activist — period. I am
sure that she considers herself
both an ordained minister — so
this reference should, under
Associated Press style, refer to
her as the Rev. Alveda King—
and a human-rights activist. She
is a former legislator in Georgia,
too, elected as a Democrat. (
Here is a piece that she wrote
before the rally.)
By the way, if African-
Americans are conservative on
life issues, does that cancel out
everything else that they do?
Curious.
The key for journalists, once
again, is not what anyone
actually said at the Beck rally or
at the counterpoint rally led by
the Rev. Al Sharpton — who is
allowed, unlike King, to retain
his ordination. What really
matters, you see, is the political
implications of these events.
Quoting lots of religion talk
might warp the template
prepared in advance for the
coverage.
One more detail struck me.
The simultaneous rallies
rendered the country’s political
and racial divisions in stark
relief.
Sharpton drew a mostly black
crowd of union members,
church-goers, college students
and civil rights activists. …
The Beck crowd, meanwhile,
was overwhelmingly white, and
many in the crowd described
themselves as conservatives
with deep concern about the
country’s political leadership
and its direction.
OK, I like the attempt to give us
a bit of insight into the
composition of the Sharpton
crowd. But where is the similar
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information about the faithful in
the Beck congregation? Any
church-goers? College students?
Any Catholics? Conservative
Jews? Human rights activists on
issues such as international
slavery, sexual trafficking,
hunger, the right to life, etc.?
Were the folks in one crowd
worried about politics and the
folks in the other crowd
unconcerned about that subject?
Enough. Once again, I wish I
knew more about what people
on both sides actually said. I’d
like to make up my own mind, if
possible, about the content of
both events.
It also sounds, to me, that if
anyone should be concerned
after the Beck event, it should
be the whole Vice President
Dick Cheney wing of moral
libertarians who are not all that
interested in social and religious
issues. Right? Also, does this
mean that the Tea Party
Movement’s leadership is
slightly out of touch with its
own base, in terms of thinking
that economic issues are all that
matters?
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Beck made clear that he was
not advocating for any one
religion. He brought a group of
clergy onto the stage and
encouraged those at the rally
and watching online or on TV to
“go to your churches, your
synagogues, your mosques,
anyone who is not preaching
hate and division, anyone who is
not teaching to kill another
man.”
“These men and women don’t
agree on fundamentals. They
don’t agree on everything that
every church teaches,” Beck
said of the clergy behind him on
stage. “What they do agree on is
God is the answer.”
Ward got very detailed,
explaining Beck’s Mormonism
and the particular religious
views of many of the speakers.
Other media outlets completely
missed the subtext and details
that could help clarify just what,
exactly, was happening in
Washington this weekend. A
GetReligion reader sent in this
Associated Press story that
failed to mention or even allude
to civil religion once. And it
also never mentioned anything
about Glenn Beck’s faith. It’s
headlined “Beck rally signals
election trouble for Dems” and,
you will not be surprised, it
interprets the day’s events
through the typical political
prism:
Neither Democrats nor
Republicans can afford to ignore
the antiestablishment fervor
displayed Saturday during
Beck’s rally that took on the
tone of an evangelical revival.
And then there was this attempt
to explain:
The tea party is essentially a
loosely organized band of anti-
tax, libertarian-leaning political
newcomers who are fed up with
Washington and take some of
their cues from Beck. While the
movement drew early
skepticism from establishment
Republicans, these same GOP
powerbrokers now watch it with
a wary eye as activists have
mounted successful primary
campaigns against incumbents.
The Beck rally further
demonstrated the tea party
activists’ growing political
clout.
If the GOP is able to contain
and cooperate with the tea party,
and recharge its evangelical
wing with Beck-style talk of
faith, it spells the kind of change
Ratliff and others like him are
searching for.
See, the thing that was so
interesting about Saturday’s
event is that it felt like a
different set of people who are
fed up with Washington than the
group that had been protesting
previously. It is true that the
earlier tea party protests were
libertarian-leaning. (And I can
spot libertarians in their natural
environment up to one mile
away.) This was not a libertarian
event. I am unclear as to how
much overlap there is between
this group and the other groups.
I remember last year people kept
wanting me to write about the
religious angle to the 9/12 rally
and I kept explaining that there
wasn’t one. Well, there was a
huge (civil) religion angle at this
event.
Anyway, it’s hard to trust a
reporter to get the political
nuance when he doesn’t even
note that Beck is a member of
the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. Needless to
say, the term “evangelical” isn’t
usually used in close proximity
to that church. And it wasn’t just
an oversight since later the
reporter writes:
Beck, who speaks openly about
his Christian faith on his radio
and cable news shows, relied
heavily on religion during his
speech, perhaps offering up a
playbook for tea party activists
and Republicans this November.
Now, if you want to have a fun
comment war, open up the
question of whether Mormons
are Christian. We will not be
doing that here so if you’re
inclined to debate the issue, find
another venue! In any case,
Mormons call themselves
Christian. Most Christian church
bodies, whether progressive or
traditional, would not. I’ve
thought a lot about this issue,
having family members who are
Mormon or have converted from
Mormonism. It’s a contentious
topic which requires a good deal
of understanding of theology,
history, the importance or
unimportance of creedal
confessions, etc. Obviously
reporters aren’t going to get into
all of that. I think that the best
option when writing stories is to
explain the debate in the briefest
of terms or to simply describe
people as members of whatever
church or group they are.
Mormon, evangelical,
Presbyterian, charismatic, etc.
But this AP story managed to
treat the hot topic like it wasn’t
an issue at all. Perhaps that’s
because the reporter, Phil
Elliott, is a political reporter
unaware of all of these nuances.
But any further treatment of this
topic could use the help of a
religion reporter to navigate
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embarrassment that the church
hierarchy had turned its back on
them.”
Finally, The New York Times
paints a marvelous portrait of
the long, slow return of New
Orleans’ black churches. It’s a
1,000-word feature that seems to
use every word to disclose
important, insightful detail:
NEW ORLEANS— Five
minutes past 9:30 a.m. on a
Sunday this month, which is to
say five minutes past the time
the worship service was
supposed to start, Shantell
Henley pushed open the front
door of her pastor’s house in the
Lower Ninth Ward. She entered
the living room to find a gospel
song playing on the stereo, two
ceiling fans stirring the sticky
air and 25 folding chairs for the
congregants waiting empty.
“Am I late?” she asked the
pastor, the Rev. Charles W.
Duplessis.
“No,” he replied, smiling.
“We’re Baptists.”
His joke, though, could not
dispel the truth. The problem at
Mount Nebo Bible Baptist
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Church had nothing to do with Ordinarily, I’d ask for a source

any Baptist indifference to
punctuality and everything to do
with Hurricane Katrina, even as
to back up such a sweeping
claim. In this case, I think I’ll
just shake my head and agree.
Going “Nativist”
Ann Coulter (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:05:41 PM

its fifth anniversary on Aug. 29 Written by: Bobby on August

approached.
This was my favorite
paragraph:
As every level of government
has failed to restore more than a
fraction of former residents to
habitable homes, the black
churches have tried desperately
to return through a combination
of sacrifice, insurance and
charity. And anyone with an
even cursory understanding of
African-American life knows
that without vibrant churches,
the Lower Ninth can never truly
rise again.
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“Nativism in American politics
has become so rampant that it is
considered scandalous in
Republican circles for a judge to
acknowledge paying any
attention to foreign courts and
their legal rulings.” — New
York Times editorial, Aug. 3,
2010
The New York Times runs this
same smug editorial every few
months — at least I think it’s the
same editorial — to vent its
spleen at conservatives who
object to American judges
relying on foreign law to
interpret the U.S. Constitution.
But when it comes to anchor
babies, The New York Times
and the entire Democratic
establishment plug their ears
and hum rather than consider
foreign laws on citizenship. (For
more on this, see “Mexican
immigration law versus U.S.
immigration law.”)
Needless to say, America is the
only developed nation that
allows illegal aliens to gain full
citizenship for their children
merely by dropping them on
U.S. soil.
Take Sweden — one of the
left’s favorite countries. Not
only is there no birthright
citizenship, but even the
children of legal immigrants
cannot become Swedish citizens
simply by being born there. At
least one parent must be a
citizen for birth on Swedish soil
to confer citizenship.
(Applicants also have to know
the lyrics to at least one ABBA
song, which explains why you
don’t see groups of Mexicans
congregating outside Ikea
stores.)
Liberals are constantly
hectoring Americans to adopt
Sweden’s generous welfare
policies without considering that
one reason Sweden’s welfare
policies haven’t bankrupted the
country (yet) is that the Swedes
don’t grant citizenship to the
children of any deadbeat who
manages the spectacular feat of
giving birth on Swedish soil.
In Britain, only birth to at least
one British citizen or the highest
class of legal immigrant, a
“settled” resident with the right
to remain, such as Irish citizens,
confers citizenship on a child
born in England. And if the
British birthright is through the
father, he must be married to the
mother (probably a relic from
Victorian times when marriage
was considered an important
institution).
Even Canada, the country most
similar to the United States,
grants citizenship upon birth —
but excludes the noncitizen
parents of anchor babies from
receiving benefits, such as
medical care, schooling and
other free stuff given to
Canadian citizens.
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David Horowitz Debates the Ground Zero Mosque
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Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:10:11 PM
The following is a debate
between David Horowitz and
Daniel Luban reprinted from
Tabletmag.com.
When Daniel Luban published
an essay in Tablet Magazine last
week finding resonances
between what he called
Islamophobic opposition to the
Park51 Islamic center and past
anti-Semitism, one comment on
the piece jumped out at us.
“This article is in serious
denial,” began a brief, angry
response from David Horowitz,
the conservative intellectual and
activist and the author, most
recently, of A Cracking of the
Heart, a book about his
daughter. We invited Horowitz
and Luban to extend their debate
about Luban’s theory. Here is
their exchange.
MARC TRACY, Tablet
Magazine: David, in your
comment on Dan’s piece, you
said that “Jew hatred is part of
the gospel of Islam and the
practice of all Muslim states in
the world today.” By contrast, a
premise of Dan’s article is that
there are in the world a
relatively small group of
Islamists—fundamentalists who
subscribe to a violent, anti-
Semitic, mutant strain of
Islam—and, for the most part,
ordinary Muslims who do no
such thing, and that, contrary to
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the arguments of writers like official opposition from the
Andrew McCarthy, most Islamic world. This is a
American Muslims are not reasonable indication that these
Islamists. How do you respond open calls are the tip of a very
to that? Is the problem with ugly iceberg of Jew hatred that
Islam or with Islamists? And if runs the length and breadth of
it’s with Islamists, how Muslim ummah. There are some
influential are Islamists in 57 Islamic nations in the world,
America? Are the people behind and not one of them has
the Islamic center Islamists? condemned these genocidal
DAVID HOROWITZ: Like proclamations. Au contraire.
many Jews who are in denial They have added their own
about the existential threat to condemnations of Israeli crimes
Israel and to Jews generally in hundreds of U.N. resolutions
from the Islamic world, Daniel they sponsored. But there is not
Luban thinks that the radical, a single U.N. resolution
Jew-hating element in Islam is condemning 60 years of terrorist
and the attacks ranged from a aspire to kill them. The charter
relatively small, and acts by Palestinians and Arabs,
low 10 percent, or 150 million o f t h e I s l a m i s t t e r r o r
consequently the threat is a beginning with the creation of
Muslims, to 50 percent, or 750 organization Hamas calls for
pathology, which people like the Fedayeen in 1949. Not a
million (the latter figure coming Israel’s extinction in the name
him call “Islamophobia.” single one.
from a poll conducted by Al of Allah, while the head of
Among such deniers there is a The same silence over
Jazeera). These cannot be Hezbollah, the largest terrorist
notable absence of attention to genocidal intentions blankets
dismissed as insignificant army in the world, armed with
what the Islamic world actually virtually all the mosques in
minorities, even if reduced by a 30,000-plus rockets courtesy of
does and says in relation to Jews America, at least 80 percent of
factor of 10. Syria and Iran, has called for the
or how seriously Muslims take which are funded by the rulers
The Iranian dictator Mahmoud liquidation of Israel and the
the word of their God, who of Saudi Arabia, the most
Ahmadinejad—head of a nation extermination of the Jews.
refers to Jews as “apes and pigs” bigoted promoter of jihadism
of 70 million and a man who That’s the open and frank
and calls for their extermination and its Jew-hating ideology in
claims to speak in the name of admission side of the ledger, the
(as per this infamous and well- the world today. The same can
Islam—has called for wiping millions of Muslims with
known saying of the prophet: be said of the principal Muslim
Israel from the face of the earth, genocidal designs on the Jews.
“The day of Judgment will come organizations in the United
a comment seconded by a Copping to genocide by the way
when Muslims fight the Jews States, the Muslim American
f o r m e r p r i m e m i n i s t e r o f is something that Hitler never
and kill them”). Here are some Society, the Islamic Society of
M a l a y s i a . L e a d e r s o f t h e dared to do. He thought it
corrective observations: North America, the Muslim
Palestinian Authority on the prudent to keep the Final
After the Sept. 11 attacks there Public Affairs Council, and the
West Bank are openly opposed Solution hidden until it was a
were several public opinion Council on American-Islamic
to the existence of the Jewish fait accompli, lest he incite
surveys conducted in the Relations.
state, officially celebrate mass civilized opposition to his plan.
Muslim world about Muslim All of these organizations are
murderers of Jewish civilians as In contrast, the demand for a
views of Osama Bin Laden and elements of the Muslim
“martyrs” and “saints,” and run second Holocaust has been
his terror war against “crusaders Brotherhood network, which
a school system that teaches trumpeted from the Islamic
and Jews.” The number of DAVID page 72
kindergarteners to hate Jews and rooftops, and there has been no
Muslims who supported Osama
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spawned al-Qaida and Hamas.
(CAIR is a direct spinoff of
Hamas.) None of them have
condemned Hezbollah and
Hamas or their patrons in
Teheran. The same is true of the
Muslim Students Association,
representing most Muslim
students in American
universities, which is also a part
of the Muslim Brotherhood
network. The Muslim Students
Association is currently
conducting a nationwide
campaign to support the Islamic
crusade to eliminate the Jewish
state, which it refers to as
“occupied Palestine.” When I
confronted a former officer of
the Muslim Student Association
on the University of California,
San Diego, campus and asked
her if she were for or against a
genocide of the Jews she said,
“For it.” Refusal to condemn
Hezbollah and Hamas, which in
my experience is universal
among Muslim Students
Associations, is tantamount to
such an endorsement. (You can
see our exchange here.) The
same Judeophobic campaign is
now a principal focus of the
secular left, although these
secularists don’t seem to fully
grasp the implications of their
support. All these elements are
also supporting the Ground Zero
mosque whose leader also finds
Islamic terrorism “too complex”
to condemn.
These are troubling indicators
of evil afoot. Dismissing them
as figments of a conspiratorial
paranoia is a sign of intellectual
bankruptcy and a form of
psychological denial. It is not an
argument that anyone, let alone
a Jew, should take seriously.
DANIEL LUBAN: David
Horowitz’s response to my
article is primarily devoted to
reciting a familiar litany of
examples of anti-Semitism in
Muslim-majority countries.
Many of his arguments in this
regard are cherry-picked or
otherwise misleading, but I
won’t spend time answering
them, for they are irrelevant to
the point of my piece. My
argument was not about
attitudes toward Jews in Syria or
Saudi Arabia, but about attitudes
toward Muslims in America.
Even if I were to concede all of
Horowitz’s arguments about the
prevalence of anti-Semitism in
Muslim-majority countries, this
would not answer the central
question, which is whether the
theories of the American “anti-
jihadi” movement are a sane
response to the situation in
which we find ourselves. If they
are not, if—as I argued—they
represent a kind of bigotry and
paranoia akin to anti-Semitism,
Know-Nothingism, or
McCarthyism, it is not
particularly relevant whether
equally paranoid or odious
views are prevalent elsewhere in
the world.
For Horowitz’s defense of the
“anti-jihadis” to hold water, he
needs to show not merely that
many Muslims in other
countries hold objectionable
views, but that Muslim-
Americans are actually engaged
in the kind of conspiracy against
the United States that people
like Andrew McCarthy and
Pamela Geller posit. On this
count, his arguments are
remarkably thin. The primary
piece of evidence he offers to
show that most Muslim-
Americans are genocidal anti-
Semites is that not enough of
them for his liking are willing to
publicly denounce Hamas and
Hezbollah as terrorist groups.
One does not need to be fond of
either group to notice how shaky
the logic is here. Peter King, the
hawkish New York
congressman who has been a
leader of the anti-mosque
campaign, is a longtime
apologist for the IRA, and I
similarly imagine that it would
be nearly impossible to get New
York Jewish politicians like
Sen. Chuck Schumer or Rep.
Anthony Weiner to publicly
label as “terrorists” Zionist
militant groups like the Irgun or
the Stern Gang. What follows
from this? That King, Schumer,
and Weiner are terrorist
conspirators against the United
States? I suspect the reason that
even many Muslim-Americans
who privately abhor Hamas and
Hezbollah’s attacks on civilians
are reluctant to “denounce”
them to David Horowitz is that
they realize, correctly, that he
will simply pocket these
denunciations and use them in
the service of a broader
Likudnik agenda that they find
abhorrent.
The YouTube video that
Horowitz posts is
unintentionally revealing in this
regard. A UCSD student
confronts Horowitz over his
allegation that her campus
Muslim Students Association
has financial ties to terrorist
groups and presses him to
provide some evidence for this
claim. Rather than doing so,
Horowitz—who is nothing if not
a savvy showman—quickly
changes the subject to the
student’s own personal attitudes
toward Hamas. Of course,
whether an individual college
student is willing to publicly
denounce Hamas has nothing
whatsoever to do with the
factual question of whether the
UCSD student association has
financial links to terrorist
groups, which Horowitz is
content to insinuate without
providing any evidence.
To determine whether people
like McCarthy and Geller
represent a measured response
to a real threat or a hysterical
response to a conspiracy of their
own imagining, it might be
helpful to examine the central
claims that they make. Let’s
leave aside the most obviously
insane bits (Bill Ayers is the real
author of Obama’s memoir;
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Malcolm X is Obama’s real
father) and focus on their views
about the Muslim threat to the
United States. Does Horowitz
really believe that the goal of
the large majority of Muslim-
Americans is “to supplant
American constitutional
democracy with sharia law”?
Does he really believe that
Muslims who privately live
according to religious values
within their own communities
are doing so purely
instrumentally, as a way to take
over the country and impose
these values on everyone else?
Does he really believe that the
president is a “neocommunist”
who is secretly working in
cahoots with these Islamists to
implement a shared totalitarian
vision in the United States?
If he genuinely does believe
these things, I admit that there
simply isn’t much more that I
can say to him. But if he
doesn’t—as I suspect he
doesn’t—then I have to wonder
how he feels about the fact that
these views and those similar to
them are rapidly becoming
ubiquitous on the American
right. Many hawks seem to feel
that the Pamela Gellers of the
world may be nutty and
misguided, but that they make
useful shock troops for fighting
these political battles, so it’s
best simply to hold one’s nose
and make good use of them. It
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Personal Accounts Are No Cure-All

Submitted at 8/30/2010 3:00:57 AM
out by President Clinton in fellow staffers: With personal holders gave up a share of their the deal. You might come out
1998, although at the time accounts, we face the same traditional benefits. A pay-as- ahead if you got solid
How conservatives should think C l i n t o n w a s a r g u i n g f o r choices, only sooner. If workers you-go program like Social investment returns, but you
about Social Security reform. investing in stocks through the invest part of their Social Security is always in the hole, could also fall far short. This is
I don’t usually spend much Social Security trust fund, not Security taxes in personal such that each generation honors just asking accounts to do more
time disagreeing with people I personal accounts. accounts, they could indeed earn the benefits of the preceding one than they reasonably can.
mostly agree with, but a column Here’s the problem: Personal higher returns and generate while hoping their own claims That’s why most personal-
in National Review by the Cato accounts are a valid choice, and higher benefits without taking will be honored by the following account plans have worked in
Institute’s Michael Tanner -- my one I’ve supported in the past more risk. But diverting taxes to generation. No generation can two stages: First, do whatever is
old boss and an all-around great and continue to support. But accounts leaves the program break away from this cycle needed to fix the current system
guy -- presents a chance to talk accounts aren’t exclusive to tax short of what is needed to pay without either ponying up extra -- cut benefits, raise the
about why Social Security increases or benefit cuts; they benefits to today’s retirees. To cash (tax increases) or retirement age, whatever. Then,
reform has proved to be such a don’t, as I’ll explain, reduce the cover these “transition costs,” defaulting on its promises offer the option of accounts on
difficult task for those who need for these other choices. we would need to generate new (benefit cuts). Neither solution relatively favorable terms. This
believe in free markets and One problem for the Bush revenues for the program, either is costless. approach is fine, but it’s not the
individual choice. administration’s reform drive in by raising taxes, cutting other Now, we could come out ahead easiest to defend politically.
Here’s where I agree with 2 0 0 5 w a s t h a t m a n y programs, or borrowing. if transition costs were funded Why? First, you have to admit
Mike: “Given their large lead in congressional Republicans had But once transition costs are by cutting other government that the accounts themselves
current polls, it is perhaps b o u g h t i n t o t h e i d e a t h a t accounted for, the total rate of spending, which at the margin won’t fix the program. Second,
understandable that Republicans accounts reduce or eliminate the return on a personal-accounts- certainly produces benefits you’ll be attacked for the extra
don’t want to risk offending need for tax increases or benefit based program would be about below its costs. But we could costs -- usually borrowed -- that
voters, particularly seniors, by cuts. Finding out they don’t may the same as the current system. reap those gains by cutting would be incurred during the
wading back into the Social have taken some wind out of (If you’re willing to wade government spending in the transition period. Third, you’ll
Security thicket. But they are their sails. Because of this, through some math, this paper absence of Social Security be criticized for putting Social
making a mistake.” He’s right: combined with some pretty by Olivia Mitchell, Stephen reform; in any case, few reform Security benefits at the whims
If you run on nothing, you’ll shameless demagoguery from Zeldes, and John Geanakoplos is proposals have presented a of the stock market. You can
receive a mandate to do just the left, Bush’s reform ideas pretty much the canonical credible way to ensure that respond to these attacks
that. Voters need to hear a didn’t even come up for a vote. treatment.) Social Security’s non–Social Security outlays are credibly, but you will be
realistic discussion of how to fix President Bush’s 2001 overall rate of return stinks reduced. The most likely path is spending a lot of time on the
Social Security and other Commission to Strengthen because (a) we paid early simply increased debt. defensive. As much as I support
entitlement programs. Social Security (on which I was generations far more in benefits #page#The only way personal accounts philosophically, I’m
#ad#But Mike also argues that a staffer) wrote that once the than they paid in taxes, meaning accounts could fix Social not sure the political cost-
conservatives shouldn’t give up program began to run payroll- that later generations must make Security on their own is if benefit analysis weighs out in
on Social Security personal tax deficits -- something that up the difference; and (b) we accountholders gave up their favor, given all the other
accounts: “By taking personal h a p p e n e d t h i s y e a r - - didn’t save the trust fund, traditional benefits far in excess difficult choices we face on
a c c o u n t s o f f t h e t a b l e , policymakers would face meaning taxpayers must “repay” of the taxes they put into entitlements and the budget.
Republicans may be boxing difficult choices to raise taxes, something that was supposed to accounts. For instance, #ad#So in the end, the choices
themselves into a very bad cut benefits, reduce other have been an asset. These acts individuals might put half their basically do come down to
corner. There are, after all, only programs, or increase the budget can’t be undone: We’re stuck taxes into an account but give lower benefits or higher taxes.
three options for Social Security deficit. All these claims are true. with them. up all their traditional benefits. No one thinks we should cut
reform: raise taxes, cut benefits, Also true, however, is a Also unchanged would be the This would fix Social Security, benefits for true low earners,
or switch to personal accounts.” statement the supercilious program’s financing shortfall, but it’s not clear that most (or PERSONAL page 80
These choices mimic those laid younger me made to one of my even assuming that account even many) workers would take
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What Women Want -- for Real
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:24 PM
The new feminism of life as it
is really lived.
C ould politics end the mommy
wars?
What mommy wars, you ask?
One short answer is: the ones
that make for awkward silences
at cocktail parties when a
woman is asked what she does
and she responds that she raises
her children. The feminist
revolution would have us
believe that’s undignified.
#ad#That’s bunk. It always has
been.
With the increased media
presence of women of all
political stripes, especially in
politics -- as candidates, as tea-
party players and participants --
that lie is being exposed in a
whole new mainstream way,
crowding out the delusion of the
lamestream (to borrow one
woman’s word). Exposing that
lie in a reasoned, well-
researched, sober way was the
goal of a panel presented by the
Susan B. Anthony List in
Manhattan on the 90th
anniversary of the enactment of
the Nineteenth Amendment,
which granted women the
constitutional right to vote.
At the heart of the
reasonableness of it all was, as
moderator Helen Alvaré of
George Mason University put it,
“women’s lived experience.”
You can only mess with reality -
- and the natural law -- for so
long before your feminist
fantasy is revealed to be misery.
The event, billed as “A
Conversation on Pro-Life
Feminism,” was both a primer
on its existence and an attempt
to replace the conventional
approach to so-called women’s
issues. Women are not and
never have been a monolith,
period, never mind a monolithic
voting bloc.
And it was a real conversation.
One aiming for real answers
about real life, embracing just
that. Not life as Ms. and
academy radicals portray it.
W. Bradford Wilcox of the
University of Virginia got to the
heart of this mythological
mommy war pitting stay-at-
home moms against so-called
working moms (I say so-called
because they are all actually
working), continuing the
discussion with me after: “Many
in the media and academy think
working women are one way,
and that stay-at-home wives and
mothers are another way. This
overlooks the fact that many
women who work outside the
home would like to work less or
not at all. That is, they are
working because they feel they
have to, not because they want
to.
“This is particularly true for
women who self-identify as
gender traditionalists -- who
believe men and women are
fundamentally different, and
that men should focus more on
breadwinning and women
should focus more on
homemaking -- or maternalists -
- who believe that infants and
toddlers do best when they are
cared for by their mother. It is
also more likely to be true for
women who have children
currently in the home.”
Where is he getting this
alternative to the conventional
media/political/cultural
understanding of the world?
Wilcox bases his analysis on the
2000 National Survey of
Marriage and Family Life,
which, he explains, “indicates
that, among married mothers
with children in the home under
18, only 18 percent of married
mothers would prefer to work
full-time; by contrast, 46 percent
would prefer to work part-time,
and 36 percent would prefer to
stay at home. Clearly, the most
popular option for married
mothers is part-time work,
whereas only about one-fifth of
these mothers would prefer to
work full time.”
If it becomes tolerable, even in
supposedly sophisticated circles,
to admit the obvious -- that men
and women are fundamentally
different -- those numbers may
even increase.
Feminists claim to be all about
choice, yet many women in our
feminist paradise seem to be
doing what they really wouldn’t
choose to do, given other
options. Most working women
would like to work fewer hours
and be home with their kids.
According to Wilcox, “74
percent of married mothers who
are working full-time would
prefer to work fewer hours or
not at all.”
#page#About half of American
women, says Wilcox, are
“adaptive”: They “have interests
in both work and family, and . . .
they seek to scale back their
work when they have children in
the home -- especially infants
and toddlers. But when they
don’t have children, or their
children are older, adaptive
women are often interested in
working outside the home on a
full-time basis. So their
orientation to work and family
shifts over the life course, and
according to the needs of their
children.” So they’re not stay-at-
home moms or working moms:
They’re women who do what’s
best for them and their families
at a given time. They “don’t fit
the standard conservative stay-at
-home model or the liberal full-
time-working-woman model.
For that reason, they are often
invisible in media and academic
debates about work and family.”
#ad#Neither political party, says
Wilcox, addresses these issues
in a clear way. “This is
particularly unfortunate when it
comes to poor and working-
class families, who are more
likely to have wives and
mothers working many more
hours than they would like to. . .
. Poor and working-class
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families are much more likely to
break up than are affluent
families, where women have
more choices when it comes to
juggling work and family,” he
says.
Like a woman who goes from
the PTA to being mayor of
Wasilla? Wilcox does see this
adaptiveness in some of the
women we’ve been seeing this
cycle. He points to Nikki Haley
in South Carolina, Stephanie
Herseth Sandlin in South
Dakota, and Michele Bachmann
in Minnesota. “These are
candidates who have pursued a
variety of work-family strategies
in their effort to realize their
dual commitments to family and
public life over the years. And
they don’t fit neatly in any
boxes,” he says.
Wilcox tells me that “both
parties could do a lot more to
make it easier for women to
realize their ideal work-family
strategies by promoting public
policies that encourage flexible
work arrangements,
dramatically expand the child
tax credit, and add more off-
ramps and on-ramps for women
who are seeking to move out of
or into the workforce.”
Will this authentic view of
womanhood usurp the old
political archetypes of what
women want? The conversation
has begun to rise above self-
identified feminists’ assertions
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Ground Zero Mosque: It’s Not the Location, It’s the Sharia
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:34 PM
We will pray every day to was a flaming, smoking ruin -- communities more leeway to pants that women are caught
condemn the souls of September Rauf told CBS’s 60 Minutes: “I judge among themselves, wearing. “It’s my obligation as a
What’s most worrisome is 11’s 19 evil perpetrators. May wouldn’t say that the United according to their laws.” Sharia leader to help the people so they
Imam Rauf’s dedication to they roast in Hell forever, each States deserved what happened, relies on the Koran, Hadith, and won’t suffer in the afterlife,”
Islam’s repressive laws. morning hotter than the last. but the United States’ policies other Islamic texts to punish West Aceh regent Ramli
L ocation, location, location. We will pray every day for the were an accessory to the crime offenders, too often with Mansur said in August 18’s
So far, the Ground Zero r a p i d d e f e a t o f a l - Q a e d a , that happened.” sentences that stink of the 7th Jakarta Globe. “Besides, when
mosque controversy has focused Hamas, Hezbollah, and other • Rauf said in 2005 that “the century A.D. women don’t dress according to
excessively on its proximity to v i o l e n t , I s l a m i c - e x t r e m i s t United States has more Muslim • A Saudi sharia court is seeking sharia law, they’re asking to get
the scene of the September 11 t e r r o r i s t g r o u p s . blood on its hands than al-Qaeda a hospital to enforce its penalty raped.”
massacre. The Park51 Islamic We will pray every day for has on its hands of innocent non against an unidentified man who • Once a Muslim, always a
center would stand 560 feet Islam to be a faith equal -- but -Muslims.” Never mind the paralyzed Abdulaziz al-Mutairi, Muslim, according to sharia.
from that revered site. Would not superior -- to other religions millions of Muslims whom 22, in an assault with a meat “Muslim jurists are unanimous
moving it 5,600 feet away calm that people freely may choose to America has liberated, or at cleaver. Under sharia’s “eye for that apostates must be
this storm? practice. least tried to rescue from an eye” principal, Judge Saoud punished,” the Muslim
Perhaps, but far more important We will pray every day for the tyranny, in Afghanistan, Bosnia, bin Suleiman al-Youssef wants Brotherhood’s influential
is what would happen inside this freedom, equality, and longevity Iraq, Lebanon, and Somalia. to paralyze the attacker by spiritual leader, Sheik Sheik
m o s q u e . T h a t o u g h t t o of every human being -- America assisted millions more severing his spinal cord. To Yusuf al-Qaradawi, declared
determine if it should be even regardless of belief, gender, or Muslims after the 2004 Indian their credit, Saudi doctors so far about Islamic converts to other
closer to Ground Zero, or if it sexuality. Ocean tsunami and is aiding have refused to cooperate in this faiths. The Qatari said these
even should open anywhere in We invite Jews, Christians, non Muslims today in flood-ravaged carnage. “apostates must be executed.”
America. -believers, and everyone else to Pakistan. #ad#• Under Iran’s Islamic law, • Even snacking can be deadly
#ad#Imagine if the mosque’s join our efforts. And we humbly • Rauf has repeatedly refused to the Guardian reports, twelve under sharia. In November
imam said this: ask to pursue them adjacent to identify Hamas as a terrorist women and three men face 2004, a 13-year-old Iranian boy
Our mosque will be the world where radical Islam committed group. death by stoning for adultery. violated the Ramadan fast. He
headquarters of a new Islam that its greatest modern atrocity. #page#• Most worrisome, Rauf After international criticism, received 85 lashes, which killed
is at peace with the 21st century May the light of our example embraces sharia, the Iranian jurists recently him.
and that strives to do for Islam drive the darkness from that fundamentalist Islamic law announced that several of these Does Imam Rauf embrace such
what Martin Luther did for day. responsible for too much of individuals instead would be brutality? Who knows? But the
Christianity in 1517. That’s If this mosque’s imam preached Earth’s totalitarian barbarism. hanged. fact that he wants the U.S. to be
when he nailed his 95 Theses to these sentiments, many -- and “What Muslims want is to • Since Muslims implemented “sharia compliant” rather than
t h e d o o r o f W i t t e n b e r g , perhaps most -- Americans ensure that their secular laws are sharia in northern Nigeria in sharia-free should worry every
Germany’s Castle Church, would agree that his antidote to not in conflict with the Quran or 2000, at least twelve people liberty-loving American.
l a u n c h e d t h e P r o t e s t a n t al-Qaeda’s poison could stand the Hadith, the sayings of have received death sentences While America battles militant
R e f o r m a t i o n , a n d h e l p e d 56 feet from the scene of its Muhammad,” Rauf wrote in an for homosexuality and adultery. Islam, should a pro-sharia
Catholicism correct its excesses. most heinous crime. Instead, April 24, 2009, Huffington Post Most of these, however, have mosque be allowed on our soil?
We will pray every day to save d o u b t s g r o w a b o u t t h e essay titled “What Sharia Law Is been commuted to mere jail The First Amendment may
t h e 2 , 7 5 2 i n n o c e n t s o u l s moderation of Imam Feisal All About.” Rauf added: “What time. permit sharia advocacy, much as
slaughtered at the World Trade Abdul Rauf’s voice. It seems Muslims want is a judiciary that • Since January, women in West counseling Marxism-Leninism
Center in the name of a militant more likely that the words above ensures that the laws are not in Aceh, Indonesia, must wear remained legal even as
Islam that we wholeheartedly would leave him tongue-tied. conflict with the Quran and the long skirts rather than jeans or Americans shivered through the
r e j e c t a n d e n d e a v o r t o • Just 19 days after September Hadith.” He also has written that trousers. Police enforce this GROUND page 81
overcome. 11 -- while Ground Zero still he wants to give “religious rule, sometimes by cutting the
76 Politics-Right/ E-reader News Edition

Morning Bell: Why Does Louisiana Think This is Obama’s

Katrina?
Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Louisianans disapprove of human impact in terms of the year, President Barack Obama the oil ban and let Louisiana
Conservative Policy News.) Obama’s actions in the small businesses and jobs. issued 108 declarations—the heal.
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:18:32 AM aftermath of the spill by a 61%- President Obama’s oil drilling 12th highest in FEMA Quick Hits:
32% margin, but a majority, ban is set to end on November history—without the occurrence • Faced with mounting debt and
P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k O b a m a 54%, believe that President 30, but hopefully the White of one hurricane or other major looming costs from Obamacare,
finished-up his 10-day vacation George W. Bush did the better House will begin to show some disaster. In the first three many local governments are
on Martha’s Vineyard yesterday j o b o f h e l p i n g L o u i s i a n a understanding of how the Gulf months of 2010, President closing their hospitals.
by flying down to New Orleans through Katrina? The answer economy works by ending the Obama has issued 32 • Aging baby boomers who
where he gave a speech at was given by Louisiana Gov. ban before that. But don’t hold declarations, which puts him on fought nuclear power a
Xavier University marking the Bobby Jindal (R) shortly after your breath. President Obama pace for 128 declarations for the generation ago feel the battle is
fifth anniversary of Hurricane the President’s Xavier speech made no mention of his oil year—the sixth most in FEMA starting all over again.
K a t r i n a . T h e P r e s i d e n t when Jindal told reporters: “The drilling ban in his Xavier history. • According to USA Today,
specifically linked the 2005 experts all agree, we can end speech. And the mainstream There are two pernicious effects record numbers of Americans
disaster with the region’s most this moratorium before six media is intent on letting him from this dependency: 1) states are dependent on government
recent troubles telling the months. Let’s put our people get away with it. Brian Williams and localities lose their disaster anti-poverty programs.
audience: “Even as you’ve been back to work.” interviewed President Obama response capabilities since they • Small businesses have put
buffeted by Katrina and Rita, The moratorium Gov. Jindal for NBC News last night and believe the federal government hiring on hold until there is
even as you’ve been impacted was referring to was President asked only two questions about will bail them out: 2) FEMA some policy stability in
by the broader recession that has Obama’s job-killing oil drilling the oil spill and another about becomes distracted by routine Washington.
devastated communities across moratorium which was put in the economy, but made no disasters instead of focusing • The progressive coalition
the country, in recent months place a full month and a half mention of the oil ban. their resources on truly national Health Care for America Now is
the Gulf Coast has seen new after the Deepwater Horizon rig The President’s oil drilling threats. Let’s save FEMA and fighting hard to help reelect
hardship as a result of the BP exploded on April 20. The moratorium aside, there’s its resources for the Hurricane lawmakers who voted for
Deepwater Horizon oil spill.” e x p e r t s G o v . J i n d a l w e r e another larger lesson from both Katrinas and place the burden of Obamacare, but they are
Obama then rattled through all referring to was the Bipartisan Katrina and the Deepwater spill: responding to routine natural refusing to talk about it.
that has administration has done Policy Center which issued a the federal government can disasters back in the hands of
for the Gulf since the oil spill report to the President’s national better defend the homeland states and localities. This entry passed through the
before concluding that the o i l s p i l l c o m m i s s i o n l a s t domestically by returning power The Obama administration’s Full-Text RSS service — if this
legacy of Katrina must be “not Thursday recommending that to states and localities. For far approach to the fallout from its is your content and you're
one of neglect, but of action; not t h e b a n b e l i f t e d . J i n d a l too long states have grown oil drilling ban illustrates why reading it on someone else's site,
one of indifference, but of c o n t i n u e d : dependent on FEMA for their that local approach is a better please read our FAQ page at
empathy.” I don’t think they understood disaster response capabilities. one. Gov. Jindal explained: “In fivefilters.org/content-only/
B u t i f t h e O b a m a how the energy industry worked As we wrote in April: the beginning, the faq.php
administration has treated New – I think they really thought that In the short span of 16 years, administration suggested people Five Filters featured
Orleans with action and not the rigs could simply flip a the yearly average of FEMA file BP claims with article:"Peace Envoy" Blair Gets
neglect, with empathy and not switch. I hope [they] now have a declarations has tripled from 43 unemployment claims. We an Easy Ride in the
indifference, then why does the better understanding of what’s under President George H. W. made it clear that people want to Independent.
latest survey from Public Policy at stake, the jobs that are at Bush to 89 under President go back to work.” Less
Polling, a liberal polling firm, stake. Until they came down Clinton to 130 under President dependency. More work. The
s h o w t h a t n o t o n l y d o here, they didn’t understand the George W. Bush. In his first Obama administration must end
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Encouraging Developments from the Edges of the

Anglosphere
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:00:07 PM
export trade with China; seat majority in Parliament. Constitution put no limits on proposal putting restrictions on
Alaska’s 700,000 people, as Postal and provisional ballots Congress’s ability to make laws. abortion brought out voters for
Restive Alaskans, Aussies Sarah Palin accurately noted, are still being counted, as both She won votes from Alaska whom Murkowski’s pro-choice
challenge elite assumptions. l i v e i n a s t a t e t h a t h a s parties seek the votes of five insiders and Alaska Natives for stance was a liability.
I n this tumultuous political boundaries with Canada and independents, while Labor has supporting spending on local The results in Australia and
year, the latest sharp surprises Russia. the support of the one Green programs, but not as many as Alaska are congruent with
come from the far reaches of the Neither the August 21 federal candidate elected. local pundits expected. developments elsewhere in the
Anglosphere -- Alaska and election in Australia nor the In Alaska, Miller’s narrow lead The key votes against Labor in Anglosphere. The British
Australia. August 24 primary in Alaska of 1,668 votes may vanish as at Australia and against coalition government headed by
These were lands to which were supposed to produce least 7,600 absentee and mail Murkowski were cast in fast- David Cameron since the
Capt. James Cook voyaged even surprises. One reason: Both ballots are counted. growing areas -- in semitropical election in May is getting wide
a s t h e s e a b o a r d A t l a n t i c have economies relatively Whatever the final outcomes, Queensland in Australia, in the approval for its 25 percent cuts
colonists were rebelling against untroubled by the financial there are lessons to be learned. Matanuska and Susitna Valley in most departments’ spending.
king and Parliament in London. crisis and recession. One is that the current (including Sarah Palin’s The Canadian government
Cook’s charts of the southern #ad#In Australia, the Labor unpopularity of left parties in Wasilla) in Alaska. headed by Conservative Stephen
coast of Australia are still in use, government headed by Julia the Anglosphere (Republicans We see there what we saw in Harper seems firmly in power in
and he sailed from there to Gillard (after the intra-party lead Democrats by a record the Massachusetts special a country that has long seemed
Hawaii and then through the ouster two months before of margin in polls on voting for the Senate election in the suburban well to the left of the United
Bering Strait to the ice-choked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) U.S. House) are not just a rings around Boston that depend States.
A r c t i c S e a . Y o u c a n s e e was expected to cruise to reaction to bad economic times. on the private sector rather than “The educated class” in Sydney,
splendid murals of his voyages victory, as Australian parties Australia’s Labor party was government and universities: a Melbourne and Washington, at a
in the Captain Cook Hotel in h a v e a f t e r o n e t e r m i n hurt by its attempt to slap a 30 massive repudiation of the loss to understand this, is
Anchorage. government since 1930. The percent tax on the mining liberal policies of what New furiously denouncing fellow
A u s t r a l i a j o i n e d t h e new leader of the conservative industry. Voters evidently York Times columnist David citizens as bigots. That makes
Anglosphere when the British Liberal party, Tony Abbott, was understood that soaking the rich Brooks calls “the educated no more sense, and wins no
established a convict settlement considered too extremist to win. would hurt just about everyone. class.” more votes, than blaming
there in 1788, and Alaska joined In Alaska, Republican senator And Labor’s attempt to put And we did not see any sign in Captain Cook.
when Secretary of State William Lisa Murkowski was expected burdens on carbon use, rejected Australia or Alaska that the -- Michael Barone is senior
Seward purchased it from to easily win renomination over in the Australian Senate, was a cultural issue card can trumping political analyst for the
Russia in 1867. Fairbanks lawyer and political liability, even in the country other issues. Australia’s Abbott Washington Examiner.© 2010
Today they are commonwealths newcomer Joe Miller. with the world’s highest was supposed to be unelectable the Washington Examiner.
with economies thriving on But the voters had other ideas. incidence of skin cancer. because of his opposition to Michael Barone
mining and oil. Australia’s 22 In Australia, the Liberals and Murkowski was hurt by her abortion; turns out that wasn’t a
million people have a massive Labor are both short of the 76- assertion in a debate that the problem. In Alaska, a ballot
78 Politics-Right/ E-reader News Edition

Obama’s Backdoor Amnesty Follows A Pattern of Disrespect

for Our Laws
Ernest Istook (The Foundry: declares ICE’s unwillingness to Then there was Attorney-
Conservative Policy News.) act on local arrests of illegals General Eric Holder’s
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:00:45 AM unless they are accused of announcement that federal law
serious offenses like felonies or against marijuana would not be
Posted August 30th, 2010 at D U I ’ s ; a s e c o n d m e m o fully enforced in states with so-
11:00am in Protect America, announces that thousands of called (and loophole-ridden)
Rule of Law Print This Post pending deportations will be medical marijuana laws. He
President Barack Obama lets d i s m i s s e d b e c a u s e t h e ignored the Supreme Court
people break laws that he defendants don’t face serious ruling ( Gonzales v. Raich,
doesn’t like. The latest example charges–if of course you don’t 2005) that those state laws were
is his backdoor amnesty for count immigration violations. overridden by the federal
thousands of illegal immigrants, From Houston comes word that prohibition.
as a still-fuzzy but insidious immigration lawyers have been Whether the issue is
picture is emerging. “stunned” when they arrive in immigration, voting rights, drug
Obama shows a pattern of court only to learn that the laws, or anything else, there’s an
refusing to enforce laws (or government was dismissing even greater threat involved in
refusing to permit states like their cases, part of a systematic the Administration’s approach.
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Religious Freedom and a Mosque
Bill Warner (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:04:06 PM
One of the most common
arguments of the supporters of
the Ground Zero mosque
includes religious freedom as
guaranteed by the First
Amendment. Religion is seen as
the framework to support
building a mosque and
community center near the site
of the former World Trade
Towers. Is this really about
religion? Step back and look at
the controversy. Do you feel
like you are taking part in a
religious exercise or a political
fracas?
There is a vast confusion about
what a religion is and is not.
Currently the operative rule is
that anything associated with
Islam is a religious affair where
all of the freedom of religion is
applied to the action or event.
Islam’s actions are religious and
if you oppose it, you are an un-
American bigot.
It is time to stop and take a look
at what we mean by a religion.
There are about as many
Buddhists in America today as
there are Muslims. When was
the last time you remember a
Buddhist demand of any kind?
Do Buddhists set up councils to
shape the textbooks and demand
Buddhist finance? Does the
government make a big
announcement when Buddhists
are appointed to high posts? Are
there even any Buddhists in any
White House appointments? Do
Buddhists complain? Never, for
these are political actions, and
Buddhism has almost no
political outreach. Buddhism in
Politics-Right/ 79
then that demand is political.
Most people think that the
Koran is a religious text.
Instead, 64% of the text (by
word count) is about non-
Muslims, who are called Kafirs.
The Koran is fixated on Kafirs
and makes many demands on
them. Not the least is that Kafirs
submit to the rule of Islamic
Sharia law. Ultimately Sharia
law is the pure expression of
Islamic politics and it
completely contradicts our
Constitution and the Bill of
Rights. Under Sharia there is no
freedom of speech, wives may
be beaten and apostates
murdered.
Mohammed had little success
with Islam until he transformed
it into a political system. He
America is purely religious, not There is a practical working preached the religion of Islam in
political at all. d e f i n i t i o n o f r e l i g i o n a s Mecca for 13 years and made
Yet the media and the Internet compared to politics. Religious about 150 converts. He left
are consumed by talk and practices are done by those who Meccan and moved to Medina.
argument about Islam. The follow that religion and are In Medina he turned to politics
discussion is never about how motivated for achieving paradise and jihad. In the last 9 years of
many rounds of prayer to do or and avoiding hell. Outsiders are h i s l i f e , M o h a m m e d w a s
whether a certain food is not involved in those religious involved in an event of violence
halal(religiously proper). No, acts. If it is about going to on the average of every 6 weeks.
t h e f o c u s i s a l w a y s o n heaven and avoiding hell, then it The political method persuaded
something that non-Muslims are is religious. However, if the every Arab to convert to Islam.
to do to accommodate an religion makes a demand on The religion did not succeed; it
Islamic religious practice. those outside of its own group, was politics that made Islam
powerful.
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DAVID
continued from page 72
seems to me that there is
something very dangerous in
this logic, and that the anti-
jihadis—egged on by
conservative elites like Newt
Gingrich, Bill Kristol, and
Horowitz himself—are leading
the country into a very ugly
place.
MARC TRACY: David, I think
Daniel is conceding—or if not
conceding, at least saying that
for the sake of argument he
would concede—your point
about Muslim anti-Semitism in
other parts of the world, but he
is challenging you on the
question of Muslim anti-
Semitism in the United States
specifically. Can it happen here
and does it happen here? Is the
mosque a manifestation of it, or
a potential manifestation?
DAVID HOROWITZ: Daniel
Luban has failed to understand
my comments and therefore
dodged the issue between us. A
sign held up at the counter-
demonstration by supporters of
the Ground Zero mosque
summarizes the real nub of our
contention: “Groundless Fear Is
the Real Enemy.” Is it?
WHAT
continued from page 74
as to women’s desires. May it
continue and bear fruit. And,
whoever wins or loses, this is a
whole new playing field in
politics, one that more
accurately reflects who
American women actually are
The point of my response was
not that there is “anti-Semitism”
and not just “in Muslim
countries” but that there is a
global Muslim movement for a
genocide of the Jews, beginning
with the destruction of the
Jewish state; and that this
movement was spawned by the
Muslim Brotherhood and is
supported by the major Muslim
organizations in the United
States including the main
supporters of the Ground Zero
mosque, and wittingly or
unwittingly, enabled by their
allies on the political left.
Luban does not challenge a
single fact I presented, which
shows how deaf, dumb, and
blind critics of the “anti-
jihadis,” as Luban calls us, can
be. Luban studiously ignores the
elaborate documentation of the
political beliefs and aims of the
Muslim Brotherhood network
and of Islam itself, which we
have presented and instead
attempts to draw ludicrous
parallels designed to show a
moral equivalence between
Jewish and Muslim terrorists
and their apologists. The
and, yes, what they really want.
The American woman wants to
annihilate this idea that career is
everything. She wants a life. She
wants life. And she wants help
in being adaptive, not pressure
to be something she’s not.
difference is obvious to all but
the politically obtuse. When
some Jews commit acts that are
heinous, Jews condemn them,
they don’t build $100-million
monuments on or near the site
where the crimes were
committed. Only Islam would
build a mosque—the Dome of
the Rock—right on top of the
holiest place of another religion
and then name a terrorist army
(the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
after it. The silence of the
central organizations of the
Muslim world both here and
abroad in the face of atrocities
committed in the name of their
God and their refusal to
condemn by name those who
commit them is both deafening
and telling; and the failure of
Daniel Luban and the left
generally to appreciate this is
ominous for Americans and
Jews.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez is editor-
at-large of National Review
Online. She can be reached at
klopez@nationalreview.com.
This column is available
exclusively through United
Media. For permission to reprint
PERSONAL
continued from page 73
who need the safety net that
Social Security provides. But
there’s no reason middle and
high earners should derive so
much of their retirement income
from the government. The real
divide over Social Security
policy is that the Left wishes to
charge higher taxes on higher
earners in order to pay higher
benefits to higher earners. The
Right should respond that these
Americans can, should, and will
respond to lower benefits by
saving more on their own.
An approach that would give
many of the benefits of personal
accounts with fewer downsides
is to fix Social Security’s
finances on the benefit side, by
increasing the retirement age,
reducing benefits for middle and
higher earners, and potentially
reducing COLA payments to
account for the CPI’s
overstatement of inflation. Then,
to make up the difference in
benefits, institute universal
401(k) or IRA accounts. Taxes
wouldn’t increase, total
retirement income would
approach the levels promised
or excerpt it, please contact
Carmen Puello at
cpuello@unitedmedia.com.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
E-reader News Edition
under current law, and
individual retirement wealth
would be increased. Under the
circumstances, I’d call that a
win.
The short story is that the
government should focus on
those things only government
can do, such as the transfers to
lifetime low earners that Social
Security provides. Individuals
and markets should do what
they do best, which includes
ordinary retirement saving for
middle and high earners. That’s
a decent recipe for social policy
to begin with, and even more so
given the multi-trillion-dollar
budget shortfalls we face.
— Andrew G. Biggs is a
resident scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute. Previously
he was the principal deputy
commissioner of the Social
Security Administration and, in
2005, he worked at the White
House National Economic
Council on Social Security
reform. Andrew G. Biggs
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Transcending the Becklash
Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 8/29/2010 11:15:47 PM
It’s remarkable that one man
with a microphone talking about
God and American values could
inspire such paranoia. Yet,
many on the Left didn’t bother
to listen to what Glenn Beck had
to say on Saturday during his
“Restoring Honor” rally in
Washington, D.C., instead
allowing their fear and loathing
of the popular political
commentator decide what his
real message just had to be.
Glenn Beck tried to stretch out a
hand across the political divide
and liberals smacked it aside.
There’s no doubt that Glenn
Beck can say outrageous things
at times or that he is often
overtly theatrical when he
delivers his message. Glenn
Beck would be the first to admit
it. He recently backtracked on
his assertion that President
Obama is a racist, for example.
“I have a big fat mouth
sometimes and I say things, and
that’s not the way people should
behave,” Beck was quoted as
saying in a Fox News story. He
added that he regrets saying a
year ago that Obama has a
“deep-seated hatred for white
people” because it’s not
accurate. Beck’s over-the-top
style annoys liberals, most of
whom can’t seem to come to
grips with satire in any form, but
his large and loyal audience
enjoys the show. On Saturday,
Beck abandoned any hint of
theatrics, satire and hyperbole,
using the rally to deliver a
personal, heartfelt message.
He called upon everyone,
liberals and conservatives alike,
to love their political enemies
and to look to God for guidance.
His focus, like that of the rally
itself, was on God, country and
honor. He paid tribute to
America’s everyday heroes,
both in the military and in
civilian life. He raised more
than $5 million for the Special
Operations Warrior Foundation.
For years, Glenn Beck has been
working hard to help transform
America and refocus the debate
over our future among
Americans. He has used every
trick in the book in that effort,
from blackboards to blubbering,
from hyperbole to history
lessons. On Saturday, America
saw another side of Glenn Beck;
a man as passionate about his
cause as ever, but whose passion
on this day was for
reconciliation and redemption
under the watchful eye of a
merciful and just Creator.
Politics-Right/ Social Media/ 81
GROUND
continued from page 75
Cold War. Nevertheless, there is --- New York commentator
no excuse for leaders like Deroy Murdock is a columnist
Gotham mayor Michael with the Scripps Howard News
Bloomberg and President Service and a media fellow with
Obama (before his spectacular the Hoover Institution on War,
flip-flop) to applaud a mosque Revolution and Peace at
that would enshrine the Stanford University. Deroy
grotesque and deadly doctrine of Murdock
sharia. Even 5,600 miles away,
such a facility would not be far
enough from Ground Zero.
HOW TO: Respond
when Social Media
Attacks Your Brand
Stephanie Marcus
(Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 10:08:49 AM
This post originally appeared
on the American Express OPEN
Forum, where Mashable
regularly contributes articles
about leveraging social media
and technology in small Social media disasters occur for
business. a number of reasons, the first
For all the praise that brand being that your company
advertisers have for social probably messed up. It may not
media, they must be aware that have been intentional, but
it’s very much a double-edged something, somewhere down
sword. And for all the free the line, went wrong enough for
marketing, advertising and someone to complain and it was
brand promotion via Facebook, enough for others to vocalize
Twitter, Foursquare, and other that complaint en masse. One
platforms used to help build an mistake is all it takes for social
identity and relationship with media to turn against your
your customers, it can just as brand.
quickly turn on you and your
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brand.
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HOW
continued from page 81
No one is perfect and you can’t
expect to please everyone all the
time, so the best trick is to be
prepared for how to handle
things if your company finds
itself under attack in the social
realm. Here are three examples
of companies who were attacked
by social media and how they
handled, or should have handled
the situation. Learn from their
mistakes or successes so you
can stay on social media’s good
side. 1. Ann Taylor
This past July, LOFT, a brand
owned by Ann Taylor Inc.,
posted photos on its Facebook
page of a tall, blonde model
wearing LOFT’s new silk cargo
pants, with a click-to-buy link in
the captions.
What happened next is a perfect
example of how social media
can suddenly turn on you, even
when you’ve done nothing
“wrong,” or seemingly out of
the ordinary. Fans of the brand
complained that while the pants
looked good on the model, they
weren’t so flattering on anyone
who wasn’t 510 and stick thin.
Fans requested that LOFT
prove their pants could look
good on “real women.” And
they did. The following day, the
company posted photos to
Facebook again, this time with
their own staff posing in the
pants. The “real women” came
from different company
departments and ranged from a
size 2 to size 12, and in height
from 53 to 510.
What to Learn from Ann Taylor
This is a perfect example of
how to turn a possible threat via
social media into an
opportunity. Ann Taylor had the
good sense to stop the attack
before it escalated. Here
customers had a direct and valid
complaint about a product and
how it was featured. The
company did the best thing
possible, they stayed calm and
listened to the comments. They
took the comments into
consideration and came up with
a constructive resolution.
By responding to Fan requests
to post photos of women of
different sizes wearing the
pants, the company proved that
they really do listen and care
about their customer concerns,
and they were able to back up
the product. It’s a double win
for Ann Taylor as they actually
gained customer support, while
avoiding a potential disaster. 2.
Southwest Airlines
This past February, Southwest
Airlines kicked director Kevin
Smith off a flight from San
Francisco headed to Los
Angeles for being too fat. Smith
had apparently failed the
armrest test, meaning that
because he couldn’t fit between
the two armrests, he would have
to purchase an extra seat. Since
he was flying standby and the
plane was full, there were no
extra seats for him to purchase
and he was asked to get off the
plane, and was offered a $100
voucher by the airline, but the
incident was far from over.
While it’s somewhat refreshing
that Southwest provides the
same customer service to all
their customers regardless of
their level of fame, it might not
have been the best idea to tick
off someone who is very vocal
on Twitter and has 1.6 million
followers.
Smith countered that he wasn’t
large enough to be the safety
risk Southwest claimed he was,
and he tweeted up a storm that
caused a social media disaster.
According to Position², a search
and social media marketing
firm, in a span of six days, the
incident generated 3,043 blog
mentions, 5,133 forum posts and
15,528 tweets.
For their part, Southwest was
quick to respond — 16 minutes
after Smith’s first tweet
regarding the incident, they
tweeted: “@ThatKevinSmith
hey Kevin! I’m so sorry for your
experience tonight! Hopefully
we can make things right, please
follow so we may DM!”
Of course, it didn’t stop there as
Smith continued rant-tweeting
about six tweets for every one
response from the airline. The
tweets finally stopped as
Southwest posted the whole
story, including a briefing of a
later conversation with Smith,
explaining to others what had
happened on the plane, and the
company’s explanation for why
it happened, which included an
apology.
What to Learn from Too Fat to
Fly
Southwest had a plan, which is
something that is necessary if
you want to avoid being burned
by social media. They
monitored their online presence,
quickly identified a problem
brewing, and responded in a
quick and friendly manner.
Because of this, many of the
responses on their own blog
were sympathetic to the
company’s side of the incident.
Not only did the company
apologize, but they offered a
refund as they had clearly
embarrassed a customer. But
they also made sure to take the
opportunity to restate their
police of requiring larger
customers to purchase two seats,
so as to make people understand
why the incident occurred in the
first place.
Make sure your company is
alert and monitoring your
presence on social media sites,
and make sure you are ready
with a plan to remedy the
situation. Here, responding
quickly saved the company a lot
of time and effort later. 3.
Pretzel Crisps
Most recently Pretzel Crisps
launched an ad campaign in
New York City with four
slogans, including “You can
never be too thin.” The
campaign launched in early
August with that slogan gracing
bus shelters and ad stands and
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caught the attention of the
blogosphere after a photo was
posted online.
The photo was re-posted to the
women’s blog Jezebel and was
followed by condemning posts,
tweets, and videos from other
bloggers. In fact, I was one of
the people who vocalized a
problem with this particular
campaign. The slogan the
company picked is a
“thinspiration” motto used by
the pro-anorexic community,
and was called “irresponsible”
and accused of promoting
unhealthy weight loss.
The company responded first
on Twitter to offended tweeters
with replies of, “Thin just
happens to be a good word to
describe the shape of our
product.” As outrage escalated
the VP of Marketing
participated in interviews with
bloggers and explained, that
they were a small company and
simply wanted to launch an ad
that would grab people’s
attention. As bloggers continued
to post, a video made its rounds
of one New Yorker’s protest
calling the ads a “disgrace” and
listing facts about eating
disorders.
The same day, Pretzel Crisps
sent out an e-mail to bloggers
thanking them for their
feedback, as well as tweeting,
“We didn’t intend to advocate
unhealthy weight loss with our
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HOW
continued from page 82
ads. Thanks to all for the
feedback. The ads will be taken
down asap.”
The blogosphere rejoiced
feeling that they actually
accomplished something, only
to learn that the company
replaced the offending ad with
another play on a pro-anorexic
slogan, “Tastes as good as
skinny feels,” from the initial
campaign.
Further outrage from bloggers
was met this time with the brush
off: “While dialoging with
some of the bloggers, I
mentioned that ‘you can never
be too thin’ was just one of four
tag lines that we had running
throughout the city…The only
one that people commented on
was the ‘too thin’ ad. So we
removed them and replaced
them with one of the other
three.”
The ultimate fallout from the
campaign is still yet to be seen,
and many blog commenters
agree that it was probably the
company’s goal to anger people
and get the free publicity. But is
free publicity really worth
tweets like, “Congratulations;
you have ruined your product
for me forever with your pro-
ana ad slogans. It’s too bad–I
loved you,” and “How can you
people sleep at night? No matter
how you may try to justify it,
you are promoting eating
disorders.”
Finally, a week later the
company agreed to take down
all the offending ads.
What To Learn From
Pretzelgate 2010
For all intents and purposes,
Pretzel Crisps did a great job of
responding to a social media
attack on their product. They
directly and individually
responded to complaints over
Twitter, and made themselves
available for interviews.
The company offered their
reasoning, and then listened to
the reaction of the blogosphere.
They took responsibility, they
apologized, and they swiftly
took action to fix the problem.
And then they messed up: they
lied. They lied and they refused
to understand why their other ad
was just as offensive as the one
that had been taken down. The
company claimed they didn’t
receive any negative reaction
towards the other campaign
slogans, which simply wasn’t
true.
If you want to maintain
integrity, you need to be honest
and transparent, and if you’re
not, your customers won’t want
anything to do with you.
Honestly is the best policy.
Your company needs to be open
and take cues from its
customers, and know when it’s
time to quit.
These three case studies
illustrate how your brands
should (or should not) handle a
social media crisis. Let us know
which tips you’ve learned along
the way in the comments below.
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Stories You May Have Missed
Samuel Axon (Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:22:11 AM
Did you have a good weekend?
Well, Foursquare sure did!
That and other news can be
found in this roundup of stories
you might have missed on
account of enjoying time off
with family or friends. We want
to make sure you don’t pass
over important news and
resources, so we collect them
each Monday — take it all in
with your coffee today.
This week we have stats about
surprising social media use by
older adults, an update on
Reddit’s financial drama, news
about Google’s coming video
rental service, and plenty of fun
stories and features — one
involves a cat and Twitter. You
know you’re curious.
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• Older Adults Nearly Double
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With Owner via Twitter
• 10 Incredibly Inspirational
Moments on YouTube
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Soon, You’ll Be Able to
Play “Starcraft 2 from
Your iPhone or iPad
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 8/30/2010 8:58:39 AM
Playing popular strategy game
Starcraft 2 using an iPhone or
even an iPad sounds like a
usability nightmare, but
developer Daniel Hellerman is
planning to make it happen
regardless of the potential
issues.
Hellerman is working on an
completely compatible with
iOS application called the
Starcraft 2.” Furthermore, the
Starcraft 2 Gameboard that will
site claims the application is
let you fully control Starcraft 2
“not a hack” and “does not
from your iPhone or iPad,
modify any game files
complete with “mini-map
whatsoever.”
control, detailed unit statistics,
The app should become
and easy touch access to the
available in September. What do
game’s most important hotkeys
you think: Will it be possible to
and macros,” he claims.
Blizzard, the company that play Starcraft 2 from your
develops the popular Starcraft iPhone or iPad? Could such an
game franchise, is known for application be useful or is it just
promptly shutting down third- a gimmick?
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The Next “Oxford English

Dictionary” Could Be Online-Only
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) declining retail sales while
Submitted at 8/30/2010 9:43:47 AM boasting that online sales are on
the rise.
Bad news for everyone out The news that the OED3 might
there who was eager to hold the exist solely in the online realm
third edition of the Oxford will likely add more credence to
English Dictionary(that the idea that the publishing
exceedingly portable 20-volume industry could be undergoing a
set of wordy goodness): Thanks massive change due to the rise
to the rise of the Internet, the of e-readers and devices like the
next OED will probably be iPad. Still, the final decision is
online-only. that make up OED3 seems a bit, still 10 years away, and a lot can
Granted, OED3 is still about a well, like an unnecessary happen in a decade.
decade in the making (according massacre of trees. Images courtesy of Flickr,
to The Telegraph, a team of 80 Oxford University Press, which greeblie
l e x i c o g r a p h e r s h a v e b e e n prints the dictionary, will still More About: amazon, barnes
working on it for the past 21 continue to publish the slimmer and noble, books, e-readers,
years), but seeing as how the Oxford Dictionary of English, ipad, Kindle, MARKETING,
OED has never posted a profit however, which should set your money, nook
since its inception back in 1879, mind at ease if you’re one of For more Tech coverage:
the move to online-only seems those folks who likes to keep a • Follow Mashable Tech on
like a long time coming. giant dictionary on a pedestal in Twitter
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dictionary (which came out in The future of book publishing • Subscribe to the Tech channel
1989) has been online for about has become obfuscated this past • Download our free apps for
10 years now and garners about year, as big companies like iPhone and iPad
2 million hits per month from Amazon reported that Kindle
subscribers. Add to that a sales have been outstripping
plethora of online dictionary hardcover book sales and
sources, and the stack of books B a r n e s & N o b l e p o s t e d