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Dodd Rejects Carter Criticism of Ted Kennedy

Thomas Ferraro (Front Row that debate," Dodd said in Dodd, a member of the Senate
Washington) standing up for the liberal icon since 1980, having earlier served
Submitted at 9/20/2010 6:35:50 PM who died last year of brain in the House of Representatives
cancer. "I think he did the best he for six years, said he has no
U.S. Senator Chris Dodd on could in '79." regrets about leaving Congress
Monday came to the defense of President Barack Obama signed and not seeking another term.
his old buddy, the late Senator into law this year legislation "People have said to me, 'Do you
Edward Kennedy, against new K e n n e d y h e l p e d i n s p i r e t o have any second thoughts?' (about
criticism by former President overhaul the U.S. healthcare retiring from Congress).'"
Jimmy Carter. system and provide coverage to "I say, 'The only second thought I
Dodd rejected Carter's charge millions of uninsured Americans. have had is how impressed I am
that Americans could have begun Carter, in an interview that aired with the first thought I had" to
enjoying the benefits of sweeping o n S u n d a y o n C B S ' s " 6 0 finally leave Washington, Dodd
healthcare long ago if Kennedy Minutes," said such legislation said with a broad grin and a
hadn't stopped a plan by Carter in could have become law decades chuckle.
1979. ago if Kennedy hadn't opposed his Married with two young
Speaking at the Reuters Summit, proposal. daughters (ages five and nine),
Dodd declared, "All I can say is "It was his fault. Ted Kennedy and Carter, who lost the 1980 Dodd said other factors, too -- Dodd, 66, said he hasn't decided
that no one cared more about the killed the bill," said Carter, who election to Republican Ronald unrelated to Kennedy -- led to the what he will do next, but a major
i s s u e " o f h e a l t h c a r e t h a n survived a challenge by Kennedy Reagan. failure of Carter's health plan. factor is his family.
Kennedy, a fellow Democrat. f o r t h e 1 9 8 0 D e m o c r a t i c "To this day I think President "At the time ... you had 22 percent For news from the Reuters
Dodd said Kennedy admitted to p r e s i d e n t i a l n o m i n a t i o n . Carter believes that he lost that inflation, you had gas lines going Washington Summit, click here.
missed opportunities in his long Carter gave the interview in election in 1980 because of the everywhere," Dodd said. "The Photo Credits: REUTERS/Kevin
crusade to provide healthcare to discussing his new book, White challenge Teddy posed to him," idea that healthcare was going to Lamarque(Senate Banking
all Americans, but didn't see his House Diary, a personal account Dodd said. be a major debate in '79 is sort of Committee Chairman Chris Dodd
f a i l u r e t o b a c k C a r t e r ' s of his presidency. "I don't subscribe to that," Dodd selective history. I don't think speaks at the Reuters Washington
unsuccessful bid as among them. Dodd noted that "there was a lot said. "I think there were a lot of there was any room for that Summit Sept. 20, 2010)
"I will take the Kennedy side of of bitterness" between Kennedy other factors." debate in '79."

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Washington Extra – Gridlock and the fiscal deficit
Simon Denyer (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 8:16:55 PM
The term gridlock may have first
entered the vocabulary during the
1980 New York transit strike,
reportedly coined by “Gridlock
Sam” Schwartz, chief traffic
engineer in the city’s transport
department. In those days it was
definitely not something to aspire
to. It is a different story in 2010.
“Gridlock’s not all bad,”
Republican Senator Richard
Shelby told the Reuters
Washington Summit today, citing
the need to “slow things down”
politically. His fellow Senator
and Tea Party champion Jim
DeMint would probably go even
further.
But is that really what lies in
store after the midterm elections?
Republican and Democratic
speakers on the first day of the
summit agreed on one thing above
all else: that the other party is to
blame for the lack of
bipartisanship in Washington.
But is there any room for
common ground if Republicans
gain more power after November?
There was not much sign of it
today, except on the need to get to
grips with the country’s medium-
to long-term fiscal problems.
The big question is how to go
about it. Republicans, of course,
would like to see a radical and
immediate overhaul of
government spending. Senator
John McCain also returned to a
favorite theme to argue that
Republicans need to listen to the
Tea Party and put an end to
“corruption” in Washington, the
system of earmarks and “pork”
attached to almost every piece of
legislation.
White House Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs, for his part, would
not be drawn on how Democrats
would like to tackle the deficit,
but did say the president would
put some ideas and issues on the
table after the elections — “and
we’ll see if the Republican Party
is serious about meeting him
halfway.”
One way or the other, this is
shaping up to be one of the most
interesting debates of the second
half of the Obama presidency.
Here are our top stories today…
Reuters Summit – Deficit may be
rare consensus issue
Political gridlock looks inevitable
with a Republican resurgence in
November’s congressional
election but compromise is
possible in one vital area —
cutting spending and the massive
budget deficit, speakers told the
Reuters Washington Summit.
For the full story by John
O’Callaghan, click here.
Reuters Summit - Key senator
wants to reopen Wall Street bill
Republicans will reopen the
broad Wall Street reform law and
overhaul the newly created
consumer protection bureau if
they regain control of Congress
after the November elections, a
leading lawmaker said. Richard
Shelby, the top Republican on the
powerful Senate Banking
Committee, said lawmakers must
revisit the legislation enacted this
summer, which is the broadest
overhaul of financial rules since
the Great Depression.
For the full story by Dave Clarke
and Rachelle Younglai, click here.
For more on Shelby’s remarks
about how Federal Reserve
Chairman Bernanke supports
privatizing Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac, click here.
Reuters Summit – U.S. parties
will struggle to cooperate –
pollster
President Barack Obama and his
Democrats are likely to suffer a
repeat of former President Bill
Clinton’s defeat by Republicans at
midterm elections in 1994. But
that’s where the similarities end.
Clinton turned that vote loss
around and tacked to the center,
working with the Republicans in
Congress on welfare reform. He
won re-election two years later.
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violating the new law.
For the full story by Tom
Doggett and Susan Cornwell,
click here.
For more highlights from Reuters
Washington Summit, click here.
Obama says China has not done
enough on yuan
President Barack Obama said that
China has not done enough to
raise the value of the yuan,
keeping up tough American
rhetoric on Chinese policy as
lawmakers weigh new legislation
to punish Beijing. A bipartisan
group of former cabinet officials
warned Congress, however, that
action against China for not
But the political climate now is letting its currency rise faster
more polarized and it will be could backfire on the United
difficult for Obama’s Democrats States.
t o w o r k w i t h r e s u r g e n t For more on Obama’s comments
Republicans, pollster Cliff Young a b o u t h i s a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ’ s
of Ipsos Public Affairs told the economic policies, click here.
Reuters Washington Summit. Recession ended in June 2009:
For more of the story by Alistair NBER
Bell, click here. The recession ended in June
Reuters Summit – U.S. lawmaker 2009, making it the longest
wary of Chinese oil firms downturn since the Great
Wary that Chinese oil companies Depression of the 1930s, the
could be undermining new U.S. National Bureau of Economic
sanctions against Iran, the Research said. The NBER,
chairman of the House Foreign considered the arbiter of U.S.
Affairs Committee said he would recessions, said it chose that
push the Obama administration to month based on examination of
i n v e s t i g a t e . R e p r e s e n t a t i v e data including gross domestic
Howard Berman told the Reuters p r o d u c t , e m p l o y m e n t a n d
Washington Summit that he and p e r s o n a l i n c o m e .
the top Republican on the foreign For more on the story, click here.
affairs committee, Ileana Ros- Homebuilder sentiment stays in
Lehtinen, will meet administration doldrums
officials soon over concerns Home-builder sentiment
foreign oil companies, some of
which have U.S. subsidiaries, are WASHINGTON page 3
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McCain to Gaga: I’ll save my talking
for the Senate
Andy Sullivan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 4:25:32 PM
Don't expect Senator John
McCain to respond to critical
Twitter comments from pop star
Lady Gaga as the U.S. Senate
girds for a showdown over gays in
the military.
"I only Twitter with Snooki, as
you know," McCain said Monday
at the Reuters Washington
Summit.
The Senate is expected to take up
the hot-button issue on Tuesday,
and McCain said he expects to
focus his efforts on the floor of
the Senate, not the popular
microblogging service.
But he says the gay-friendly pop
star and her followers are
welcome to weigh in.
"I welcome her in the debate, I
welcome all of her young fans
into the debate," McCain said.
"It's good to have lots of people
involved.
With mere weeks until the Nov. 2
congressional elections,
Democrats are hoping to rescind a
ban on gays serving openly in the
military -- a policy known as
"Don't ask, don't tell" -- by
including it in a bill that outlines
the Pentagon's spending priorities.
McCain and other Senate
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(Scripting News)
Republicans say it's a nakedly
political ploy to fire up a key
segment of the Democratic base,
and are seeking to block the bill
on the grounds that Congress
should wait until the Pentagon
finishes up its review of the issue
in December.
That doesn't sit well with Lady
Gaga, who said via Twitter last
week that McCain was trying to
"hijack our debate" and urged her
followers to lobby for the bill's
passage.
McCain has used Twitter to
interact with young celebrities
before. This past spring, he sent a
message to Snooki, the tanned
reality-TV star of "Jersey Shore"
fame, after she complained about
tanning bed taxes.
The show website has the latest
episode, which is worth a listen,
"I would never tax your tanning
bed!," he wrote.
Most political observers expect
Republicans to roll up big gains in
the elections, but McCain
cautioned that sideshows like this
one could have unexpected
repercussions among those voters
who have not yet decided how to
cast their ballots.
"They're watching Lady Gaga
attacking me on 'Don't ask don't
tell.' I think we are really in
danger of counting chickens
before they hatch," he said.
For more Reuters Washington
Summit news, click here
Photo credit: Reuters/Kevin
Lamarque
WASHINGTON
continued from page 2
remained stuck at a 1-1/2-year
low in September, the latest
suggestion the sector is in for a
painful and prolonged climb back
to health. The National
Association of Home Builders and
Wells Fargo said that their
Housing Market Index for single
family homes held for the second
straight month at 13 — the lowest
level since March 2009.
For more of this story by Corbett
B. Daly, click here.
Bailout cop expands staff as
TARP expires
The Treasury’s $700 billion
bailout fund officially expires in
two weeks, but not for Neil
Barofsky, the top cop for the
Troubled Asset Relief Program.
He’s hiring new staff and opening
four regional branch offices to
pursue TARP-related fraud cases
and monitor remaining taxpayer
investments for years to come.
For the full story by David
Lawder, click here.
Report criticizes FBI probes of
activists
The FBI improperly launched
investigations of U.S. activists
after the September 11 attacks,
miscast peaceful protests as acts
of terrorism and in one case
prompted FBI Director Robert
imho.
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Mueller to provide inaccurate
testimony to Congress, the Justice
Department said.
For more of this story by David
Morgan, click here.
House Republicans set to unveil
agenda Thursday
Republican leaders in the U.S.
House of Representatives plan to
announce their “governing
agenda” on Thursday, just weeks
before the Nov. 2 congressional
elections that they hope give them
control of the chamber now held
by President Barack Obama’s
fellow Democrats, aides said.
For the full story by Thomas
Ferraro, click here.
For more stories from our
Washington correspondents visit
www.reuters.com and stay
informed.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Kevin
Lamarque (House Foreign Affairs
Committee Chairman Howard
Berman (D-CA);Senator John
McCain (R- AZ) speak at the
Reuters Washington Summit Sept.
20, 2010.)
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If Democrats hold US House, Pelosi
seen concentrating power-lobbyist
Jeremy Pelofsky (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:20:48 PM
If Democrats are able to hang on
to the U.S. House of
Representatives in the November
2 elections, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
will likely be able to concentrate
her power because there will be
fewer conservative Democrats
giving her a hard time on critical
votes, according to top senior
lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce.
Political prognosticators have
said that Republicans are within
striking distance of taking control
of the House in November, with
Republicans needing a net gain of
40 seats and polls showing them
closing in on that target.
"She'll have a much more
cohesive conference than she has
now because it's the middle that's
anticipated to get cratered in this
election," Bruce Josten told the
Reuters Washington Summit.
"Most of the seat losses
anticipated come from the people
that are the hardest votes to get on
party-line unity votes."
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Gregory White (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:51:23 PM
Pelosi has had a tough time over
the last few years holding onto
votes from conservative
Democrats, like the Blue Dog
Democrats who have lobbied hard
to ensure most legislation does
not add to the bloated federal
deficit.
"She'll have a lot less negotiating
to have to do, she'll have a
stronger more cohesive
conference, oddly enough, than
what she has had," Josten said,
adding a cautionary note that
Markets have moved upward
after stagnating this morning,
supported by accommodative
language by the Fed on future
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Web Video Is The New Television

Steve Rosenbaum (Business But Web video isn't television. lame sitcoms. Rather, people are
Insider) It's something else entirely. And engaging in the kind of
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:00:00 PM in the past 5 years, from 2005 to accelerated innovation that Chris
2010, as Web video has moved to Anderson is seeing across
Video overwhelms the Web. And become the fastest growing and disciplines.
it should. most prevalent form of traffic He says two things are fueling
There is plenty of evidence to emerging on the Web, something this acceleration: Revelation and
suggest that the Internet, at one else happened. Motivation.
time the plumbing that connected Web video abandoned TV. As Anderson explains it:
pages of text and occasional There are plenty of examples of " Revelation: for the first time,
images, is rapidly transforming this — but the perhaps most people can see what the very best
itself to be a network of video dramatic one is the growth of people across the globe are
publishing and viewing. TED Talks. TED Curator, Chris capable of. A world of possibility
At first glance, this seems quite Anderson, calls this emergence opens up. Motivation: if you can
terrible. Crowd Accelerated Innovation. do something innovative and
But in fact the emergence of the His thesis is that Web video special, you get thousands of
Video Web is critically important, accelerates the cycle of humans people viewing your work and
i n t e l l e c t u a l l y e x c i t i n g , a n d creating, sharing, and iterating. talking about you. It's
entirely inevitable. Three things have changed in intoxicating. And it's driving
There are historic reasons why past five years — the combination hundreds and hundreds of hours
we fear video. For most of us who is like rocket fuel for Web video. of effort from potential
grew up on Batman, or Gilligan's 1. Cameras. Web video cameras innovators across the globe."
Island, or Charlies Angels, we've are now standard fare on cell So, the future of Web video
known that TV was at best junk phones. FlipCams are cheap and ISN'T more of the same. In fact,
food... and at worst, a cognitive record remarkable HD video. The all signs point to the fact that it is
cancer. sales of Digital SLRs (DSLR's) something quite different and
In recent years, television has put high quality camera with and iPad have made Web video Of course, there can't only be quite wonderful.
become far less benign, filling interchangeable lenses in the viewing far more ubiquitous. But winners. Skirky says we've got extra brain
hours with a grim view of our hands of mid-budget pro-sumers. the barrier between the Web and The broadcasters and cable power to put to work. Anderson
world with programs like Fear 2. Bandwidth. Back in 2005, the living room flatscreen is about companies that have for decades says as we see each others
Factor, Big Brother, or the Jersey broadband was still elusive for to burst wide open. With boxes been able to be the exclusive innovation —in the global
Shore. As television increasingly many Web surfers. And video like Roku, Boxee, and distributor of video via closed language of images and sound —
dominates our leisure and screen just wasn't a very good experience AppleTV(2) on the way, viewers one-way networks are now we 'step up our game' in a
time, it has continued to spiral on dial up. Now, video moves are going to be able to choose starting to feel the sands shift friendly competition that
down toward base human fears with rare buffering as users find between broad Web video under their feet. accelerates innovate, and honors
and car-wreck peeping tom they are able to get a HD offerings, and more limited cable/ It seems that humans would innovators.
voyeurism. experience with relative ease. entertainment packages. And 'over rather watch interesting, thought Now, for those of us who grew
When it came along in 2005, 3. Distribution. YouTube was the top' solutions like Netflix provoking, potentially interactive up on TV that was 'bad for us' —
YouTube could have been viewed i m p o r t a n t i n b r e a k i n g t h e make the Internet to flatscreen video content. As Clay Shirky so the idea that Web video could
as an accelerator of this trend monopoly that broadcast and option all the more reasonable. extraordinarily explains in his actually make us smarter seems a
toward trivial amusement and cable had over video distribution, The trifecta of change — book Cognitive Surplus, the extra bit hard to accept. Yet, the
video junk food. Certainly, but since 2005 more and more Cameras, Bandwidth,and brainpower we have is no longer massive video viewing of TED
squirrels on skate boards didn't distribution solutions have come Distribution promises a future being relegated to 'coach potato'
qualify as hight art. on line. Devices like the iPhone where change happens quickly. activities of mindless viewing of WEB page 8
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Indian Trade Agreements Could Choke AIDS Drug Lifeline

Jenara Nerenberg (Fast rose from four to ten; while the thriving ARV production
Company) number of drugs supplied rose industry. The study thus suggests
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:38:32 PM from 14 to 53," SciDev.net that the international community
reports. Beating out all other ensure the maintenance and
New numbers reveal just how competitors on price, India's continuation of India's ARV
dependent the world really is on ARVs are the top choice for some productions as they exist now.
India's cheap anti-retroviral drugs, countries, revealing just how "The proposed EU/India free trade
but free trade agreements with the innovative the South Asian nation agreement ... will be catastrophic.
EU could bring catastrophic has become in the pharmaceutical It will deprive hundreds of
changes to developing nations. i n d u s t r y a n d j u s t h o w thousands or even millions of
India is the primary supplier of interdependent countries are to people in developing countries
anti-retroviral (ARVs) AIDS literally keep their citizens alive. from having access to new life-
drugs in middle and low-income The massive, low-cost ARV saving medicines—a problem that
countries. And a report from the production industry in India has will become even more acute as
Journal of the International AIDS been made possible by the resistance to currently used
S o c i e t y r e v e a l s j u s t h o w country's patent laws. "Indian antiretrovirals increases," said
catastrophic it would be if laws did not grant patents on a Treatment Access Campaign
somehow that supply were to get product, but only on a process to researcher, Marcus Low.
cut off due to political, trade, or make it, which helped its drug inefficiency--but in a way it does sees those laissez faire patent laws We'll watch these developments
disaster-related causes: In some firms to make cheaper versions reveal how India's leaders have as a good thing. India is in closely, but mostly with hope that
countries, up to 90% of children and improved formulations using allowed a sector to rise up and ongoing discussions with the someone, if not India, is able to
with AIDS are dependent on alternative methods," SciDev.net make the entire country World Trade Organization and the keep pumping out those life-
India's cheap, generic drugs. reports. This may not sound like competitive on an international EU, but there is fear that saving drugs.
Between 2003-2008, "the number innovation--as opposed to simply scale. increased patent requirements [Image by Damien Persohn]
of Indian firms supplying ARVs lax policies or government But not everyone in the world may dismantle the country's
Here's a map of the
Oracle, Hurd and HP Have a Kumbaya Moment wireless dead zones in
San Francisco. Every one
Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks) CEO, Larry Ellison. Kumbaya Moment originally
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:30:00 PM But alas, Oracle, HP and Hurd appeared on BloggingStocks on is AT&T.
have settled things up. Basically, Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:30:00 EST. (Business Insider)
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have been fun to watch a legal compensation. Mark Hurd- Hewlett-Packard- zones in San Francisco.
slug-fest between Oracle ( ORCL) It was probably inevitable for Larry Ellison- Oracle- Oracle TechCrunch says every one is
and Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) over HP. The company had an iffy case Corporation AT&T. AT&T disputes that.
Mark Hurd. Hey, it may have -- in light of the pro-employee Continue reading Oracle, Hurd Join the conversation about this
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Hurd. There would have also been and Oracle have been long-time Oracle, Hurd and HP Have a
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Buying Used Hybrids Is Better Bang for Your Buck, Says Blue
Book
Jenara Nerenberg (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:24:39 PM
Think again before you shell out
all that cash for the shiny new
green car.
Looking for that perfect hybrid to
show off how green conscious
you are? Well, Kelley Blue Book
wants to caution you against
buying that shiny new car, in the
interest of maximizing your
purchases. They've indicated in
their new report that buying used
hybrids will serve you better in
the long-run. Here's why.
"Today, Kelley Blue Book is
seeing values for hybrid vehicles
drop off, underperforming the
overall market and shedding the
premium over non-hybrid
compact alternatives," the press
release reports. "Steady gas prices
have been the main factor
contributing to the lack of demand
for hybrid vehicles," the report
continues.
The report indicates that used
vehicles offer a solution to the
value versus environmental
considerations. "For the Civic
Hybrid, the break-even point is
realized just shy of five years
down the road as opposed to the
sixteen years required for a new
purchase." So there you go--buy
used hybrids at around 60,00
miles and Kelly Blue Book says
you'll have the best of both
worlds.
But, they caution, "When buying
used, consumers should consider
purchasing the hybrid alternative
of an existing nameplate as
opposed to an all-hybrid vehicle
like the Prius, since it takes twice
as long to recover the hybrid
premium for a Prius as opposed to
a Honda Civic Hybrid in the used
market."
The hybrid car may soon become
irrelevant in the face of
competitive innovations on the
part of gas-powered cars. The
entrance of hybrids into the
national car market has forced gas
-powered cars to innovate, which
is never a bad thing.
"Technological improvements
have helped to put the fuel
economy of some new gasoline-
powered vehicles on par with
many existing hybrids."
The Ford Fiesta and the
Chevrolet Cruz are both expected
to perform at 40 miles per gallon,
for example, which may prove
hybrids to be less relevant
products, except for the die-hard
greenies. But in this economy,
dollars may speak louder than the
call to green.
[Top image via flickr/ Argonne
National Laboratory; Bottom
image via flickr/ mil8]

AT&T to Lose 1.4 Million iPhone Users to Verizon?

Tom Taulli (BloggingStocks) the fall-out. AT&T to Lose 1.4 Million
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:00 PM Take Credit Suisse analyst, iPhone Users to Verizon?
Jonathan Chaplin. He has been originally appeared on
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debate anymore. Now, Wall Street It's definitely a serious number. Verizon?
analysts are trying to figure out Continue reading AT&T to Lose

They're Furious At Bernanke In Tokyo Right Now

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Visa's “Wave to Pay” Offers Transit Purchases via iPhone Swipe

Austin Carr (Fast Company) testing prepaid cards. Though the access. These tap-and-go
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:58:22 PM NYC trial has been open for payments have been available for
several months, thanks to Visa months, but have gained little
Paying for your subway ride may joining the pilot, microSD- traction among commuters due to
soon require just a wave of your enabled smartphones can now be a lack of education about the
iPhone rather than a swipe of a used to make payments. Visa has product, security concerns, and
metro card. worked with contactless solutions slim availability (PayPass
Visa announced today initiatives firm DeviceFidelity to bring this MasterCards are required).
in New York and California to functionality to the iPhone. Using If Visa can make its new
create more convenient payment Visa’s payWave technology, technology known to riders,
experiences for riders of mass smartphones with embedded chips especially the fact that it is
transit. The company is aiming to are converted into payment available in smartphones as
integrate VisaNet, its electronic d e v i c e s t h a t c o m m u n i c a t e trusted and ubiquitous as the
payment system, to let commuters securely with card readers at fare iPhone, then metro cards may
avoid the hassle of digging gates. Commuters will now only 28 subway stations in New York. Visa isn’t the first company to soon be a thing of the past.
through a wallet or pocket book have to wave their iPhone or Additionally, more than 10,000 employ pay-wave technology. [youtube ysNHvadhpSM]
for cash as the subway pulls away BlackBerry to gain access--no cabs are already equipped with Citigroup is testing a pilot called [youtube of2GBIqP9eA]
from the station. more fumbling for money or Visa payWave terminals, enabling PayPass with MasterCard, which
The New York pilot program is metro cards. p a s s e n g e r s t o p a y w i t h enables riders to wave certain
more promising than L.A.’s, Currently, the pilot will be smartphones in taxis as well. credit cards and Nokia phones for
where the company is simply available on trains, buses, and at
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GMAC Investigation Signals Possible
Next Meltdown
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And Now Brazil Is Getting Serious
About Weakening Its Own Currency
Edward Harrison (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:55:00 PM
Brazilian officials are getting
more serious about curbing the
real’s strength. First the central
bank appears to have stepped up
the amount of intervention and
has been conducted two auctions
a day to buy dollars since Sept 8.
Local contacts estimate
intervention to have run $1 bln a
day for most of the last week. To
put that in perspective, in the Jan-
Aug period, the central bank
appears to have bought about
$18.6 bln. That compares to $7.3
in the same period last year.
Second, finance officials have
threatened to intervene in the
futures market-reverse currency
swaps. These were last conducted
in May last year. Third, Finance
Minister Mantega yesterday
authorized the sovereign wealth
fund to buy dollars.
Given the widening interest rate
differential between the US and
Brazil, the cost of intervention is
becoming more expensive. Brazil
issues bonds to finance its fx
purchases. This is contributing to
its growing budget deficit, which
reached an 8-month high in July.
At the same time, growth
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Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:45:00 PM
differentials and strong currency
is contributing to the yawning
current account deficit, which is
approaching record levels.
In addition to official words and
deeds, the other factor that may be
working to dampen demand for
the real is concern about the share
sale of the Petrobras. It is
preparing for a BRL78 bln share
offering. However, given its
investment plans, many observers
expect the oil company to have to
tap the bond market too. This is
appears to be weighing on PBR
bonds more so than share prices.
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Ga. inmate attempts suicide
hours before execution
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Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:31:48 PM
ATLANTA – A Georgia death
row inmate is in a hospital after
attempting suicide hours before
his scheduled execution.
Attorneys for Brandon Joseph
Rhode filed an emergency motion
to delay the Tuesday execution
after the 31-year-old tried to take
his own life. The motion to the
state Supreme Court said Rhode is
"incompetent" and putting him to
death would violate the
Constitution's ban on cruel and
unusual punishment.
Georgia Department of
Corrections spokeswoman
Sharmelle Brooks said Rhode was
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transferred to a hospital Tuesday
morning after an "incident" took
place but would not elaborate.
Rhode was sentenced to die in
2000 for killing Steven Moss, 37,
his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-
year-old daughter Kristin during a
burglary of their central Georgia
home.
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Twitter's New Mouse-Over Feature Is
a Widely Abused Security Loophole
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:33:52 PM
Twitter's fallen prey to hackers
seduced by its growing
popularity: It has a wicked
security loophole for visitors to its
newly refreshed website--all it
requires you to do is drift your
mouse pointer over a malicious
link. It's being widely abused.
The hack is pretty simple: All it
needs is an embedded link in a
tweet. When you visit anyone's
profile that contains the tweet--
either as an official or unofficial
"RT" retweet--by going to the
relevant page on Twitter.com and
then let your mouse pointer move
over the link, Twitter's code
currently attempts a quick
preview of the contents of the
link. And voila! Instead of
directing you to where you think
you may be going, you could end
up with a porn site on your screen.
But there's some big potential for
abuse here: By redirecting you to
a site that contains malicious
code, hackers could plant a virus
on your machine (particularly if
you're an unwitting victim, or if
you're not so Net-savvy), or at the
least some persistent spam
advertising pop-ups may be
launched.
Twitter is certainly aware of this
"mouseover" issue (we've emailed
them to check on this) and is
probably preparing a fix. Until
they do there are two easy ways to
avoid the problem--don't click on
a link that looks wrong somehow
(some of the more jokey tweets
that exploit the loophole conceal
the text of a link behind a colored
bar, or have extremely large or
small font sizes) or simply to
avoid going to Twitter.com and
use a third party client to access
your Twitter feed, like many
people do anyway.
The biggest take-away from this
news is that now that Twitter is
gaining such a big following
online, and is emerging as a
powerful and useful tool for all
sorts of different reasons, it's
going to attract the attention of
hackers and coding ne'er-do-wells
the world over.
To keep up with this news,
follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter.
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Hurricane Igor hits Canada with heavy rains (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Emergency and Fire Services California. Newfoundland. One local family had to be
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:14:09 PM office said more than 30 Royal Canadian Mounted Police Igor left behind power outages, rescued overnight from a flooded
communities had declared a state Sgt. Wayne Edgecombe said grounded boats and downed trees home, said Gregorio Perez, a local
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland – of emergency and that they were heavy rains that flooded a key in Bermuda and kicked up civil protection officer. Civil
Hurricane Igor pelted eastern investigating reports that a man bridge in southern Newfoundland dangerous surf on the U.S. Protection Director Francisco
Canada with heavy rain Tuesday, was swept out to sea in eastern have left the Burin Peninsula's Atlantic coast. After brushing past Cota Marquez said shelters were
flooding communities, washing Newfoundland. Shea said 19 20,000 residents cut off from the Bermuda, which escaped major being prepared but there were no
out roads and stranding some c o m m u n i t i e s w e r e i s o l a t e d rest of the province. Edgecombe damage, Igor veered away from evacuations yet.
residents in their homes. In the because of washed out roads. said roads all over the peninsula the United States, but forecasters Only light rain fell Tuesday
Pacific, a mild tropical storm Marystown Mayor Sam Synard have been washed out or said it could still cause high surf morning, but winds kicked up 6-
formed and was expected to cross said the storm was overwhelming submerged, but so far there have and dangerous rip currents along foot (2-meter) waves.
the Mexican resort area of Baja his community's capacity to cope. been no major crises. U.S. beaches. Meanwhile far out in the
California later in the day. "We've never seen such a violent About 20,000 people live on the A 21-year-old man died while Atlantic, Tropical Storm Lisa
The Canadian Hurricane Centre storm before," he said. "We've Burin Peninsula. surfing in the storm-churned formed early Tuesday with winds
said Igor had transformed into a lost sections of our main roads, Igor doggedly maintained waves off Surf City, North near 45 mph (75 kph). The storm
"post-tropical" storm, which has a completely washed out to sea." maximum sustained winds near Carolina, where he was pulled was located about 530 miles (850
d i f f e r e n t s t r u c t u r e f r o m a Keith Rodway, a member of the 80 mph (130 kph). On Tuesday, from the water Sunday afternoon. kilometers) west-northwest of the
hurricane but still packs the same Clarenville town council, said the storm center was about 75 Last week, high surf kicked up by Cape Verde Islands off the coast
punch. The storm was battering parts of his town had to be miles (120 kilometers) north- Igor swept two people out to sea of Africa.
Newfoundland, on Canada's evacuated. northeast of St. John's, in the Caribbean — one in Puerto ___
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change in classification does not sustained winds near 40 mph (65 the U.S. National Hurricane Across Los Cabos — a string of Martinez in Cabo San Lucas,
reflect a downgrade in the storm's kph), but was expected to weaken Center in Miami said. Mexican resort towns at the tip of Mexico contributed to this report.
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SPIN METER: Largest tax increase ever? Not quite (AP)
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Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:00:43 PM
WASHINGTON – The
expiration of Bush-era tax cuts in
January has sparked a partisan
bickering match this election
season, and much of the rhetoric
from both Democrats and
Republicans is misleading. Here's
a look at three prominent
arguments, sorting the spin from
the facts:
___
THE SPIN:
Republicans warn that America
faces the largest tax increase ever
if Congress doesn't extend the tax
cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003,
which are due to expire in
January.
"Democrats in Washington are
now plotting the largest tax
increase in history," says the
website for Republicans on the
House Ways and Means
Committee. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-
Utah, makes a similar claim in a
press release, and so does Rep.
Tom Price of Georgia, chairman
of the Republican Study
Committee.
___
THE FACTS:
Few members of Congress want
to let all the tax cuts expire.
Republicans want to extend all the
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tax cuts, and President Barack
Obama — along with Democratic
leaders in Congress — want to
extend them for individuals
making less than $200,000 and
married couples making less than
$250,000.
But what if they don't reach an
agreement — a distinct possibility
— and the result is that all the tax
cuts expire?
The potential tax increases would
be significant if Congress does
not act, affecting taxpayers at
every income level. But by most
measures, they wouldn't be nearly
as big as those imposed during
World War II.
If all the tax cuts expire, the
government would collect about
$198 billion more in revenue in
2011 and $295 billion more in
2012. Over the next decade, taxes
would go up a total of about $3.9
trillion, according to the
nonpartisan Joint Committee on
Taxation, which provides the
official estimates for Congress.
That would be equal to about 2
percent of the nation's Gross
Domestic Product each year, the
most common measure used by
economists.
The Revenue Act of 1942
increased taxes by slightly more
than 5 percent of GDP, and the
Revenue Act of 1941 increased
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Department research paper.
To measure it another way, the
1942 tax increase accounted for
more than 71 percent of federal
revenues, while next year's
potential tax increase would raise
revenues by less than 10 percent.
Republicans argue that the dollar
amount of next year's potential tax
increase would be the largest,
even taking into account inflation.
That's true, but it doesn't take into
account population increases —
the population in 1942 was less
than half of what it is today — or
the size of the economy.
___
THE SPIN:
Democrats argue that
Republicans want to add $700
billion to the national debt over
the next decade by extending tax
cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
"We can't give $700 billion away
to some of America's wealthiest
people," Obama said Monday.
"We've got to make sure that we
are responsible stewards for our
budget."
___
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low-income workers would add
more than $3 trillion to the
national debt over the same
period.
The government's official budget
projections envision all the tax
cuts expiring in January because
that is what current law says.
Making all the tax cuts permanent
would add about $3.9 trillion to
the national debt over the next
decade.
Obama's plan would cost a little
more than $3 trillion over the next
decade, about $700 billion less
than the Republican plan.
___
THE SPIN:
Republicans say small businesses
would be hurt by Obama's plan to
let tax cuts expire for individuals
making more than $200,000 and
couples making more than
$250,000; Democrats say few
small businesses would be
affected.
___
THE FACTS:
Both sides make valid points on
the small business debate, though
neither side tells the full story.
Most small business owners
report income from their
businesses on their individual
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income tax returns, paying taxes
at the same marginal rates as
everyone else. Just under 750,000
taxpayers who report business
income would get a tax increase
under Obama's plan, according to
the Joint Committee on Taxation.
That's about 3 percent of the
people who report business
income, which is why Democrats
say few small businesses would
be affected.
However, those taxpayers who
would see an increase account for
half the business income reported
on individual returns, about $500
billion in income. Republicans
argue that those business owners
— the ones making the most
money — are more likely to hire
workers than small business
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Islam Expert Not Shocked by Disappearance of

'Draw Muhammad' Cartoonist
(Society) Wagner. stand up?!” adds.
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:28:40 PM Last Wednesday, Seattle Weekly Her cartoon was much gentler In 2006, a series of Danish
editor-in-chief Mark Fefer than the images that her cartoons depicting Muhammad
A Christian expert on Islam is not announced in the paper that “Everybody Draw Muhammad caused protests and riots
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In fact, Dr. William Wagner, relocate, change her name and no temporarily ban the social depicted the Muslim prophet Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:18:00 PM
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Muslims Propose Dialogue on Park51 Center
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Muslim leaders, including some
representing large organizations,
issued a statement Monday calling
for a week of dialogue next month
on the divisive Park51 project.
The hope for the interfaith
dialogue is to help end growing
anti-Muslim rhetoric in the nation
over the proposed Islamic center
and mosque near ground zero.
The Week of Dialogue is
scheduled for Oct. 22 to 24,
during which mosques across the
nation are encouraged to open
their doors to non-Muslims.
“And that’s why we’re opening
this to a true and open
conversation among Americans
on how to shape this project to
reflect what America is,” said
Nihad Awad, head of the Council
on American Islamic Relations,
while standing in front of the
proposed site for Park51 on
Monday.
Other signers of the statement
included the leadership of the
Islamic Society of North America,
the Islamic Leadership Council of
Metropolitan New York, and the
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North America Imams Federation.
The developers of Park51 did not
attend the conference.
In the statement, signers agreed
that Muslims have the
constitutional right to build the
center at the proposed site and
they expressed support for
Park51. But they also recognize
the strong public opposition to the
center and hope to defuse the
tension through dialogue.
According to a New York Times
poll last month, two in three New
Yorkers – including many who
support the proposed Islamic
community center and mosque
near Ground Zero – say leaders of
the project should find a location
further from the 9/11 crash site.
And 57 percent of Americans
overall oppose allowing the center
to be built two blocks from the
former World Trade Center,
according to a recent Public
Religion Research Institute/
Religion News Service poll.
But Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the
visionary of the project, recently
argued that moving the center
would be dangerous to national
security because extremists would
take the move as proof that the
button, and features a floating
message actions toolbar like the
browser-based mobile Gmail
webapp. The bigger news, though,
is that Google's releasing Gmail
directly to Android Market, where
it'll be a separate download that independently of Android itself.
can be revved with new features That's a pretty great move, as
United State is against Islam and
use the issue as a recruiting tool.
Shaik Ubaid, a participant of the
conference, used the same
reasoning to explain his support.
“Once it became a rallying cry for
extremists, we had no choice but
to stand with Feisal Rauf,” he
said, according to The Associated
Press.
However, Richard Land,
president of the Southern Baptist
Convention’s Ethics & Religious
Liberty Commission, disagrees
with Rauf and said he finds the
argument “offensive.”
“I don’t think most Americans are
willing to let religious zealots
who don’t have any regard for
human life to dictate to them in
the United States what decision
we are going to make about
religious freedom and where
places of worship are located,”
Land told The Christian Post.
Land and most critics of the
Park51 project agree developers
have a right to build the center
near ground zero. But they argue
that just because developers have
the right does not mean it is a
wise move to make. Critics argue
such a center near the former
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Justin Bieber makes the teens
to promote understanding
scream with his performances at
between the West and Muslim
the VMAs and on his sold-out
world. The proposed center has
tours, and many a young heart
not brought healing but rather
may have been broken today
division, they say.
when pictures surfaced of the
The proposed $100-million, 13-
singer kissing his rumored
story Islamic center is expected to
girlfriend in the back of a Honda.
include a swimming pool, cultural
The recipient of Justin's affections
center, culinary school,
was sixteen-year-old performer
restaurants, bookstores, and
Jasmine Villegas, who previously
interfaith prayer space.
opened for him during a few
Earlier this month, Rauf insisted
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Renowned geneticist and theistic
evolutionist Francis Collins was
among the hundreds, if not
thousands, of Christians who set
apart time Monday to pray for
prominent atheist Christopher
Hitchens.
But while many prayed for the
polemic author to fight off his
esophageal cancer and for the self
-described “anti-theist” to get
right with God, Collins said he
prayed for wisdom for both him
and his friend, whom he met a
few years ago for an “intellectual
joust.”
“My prayer is not so much for a
supernatural intervention – as a
physician I have not seen
evidence for such medical
miracles in my own experience,”
wrote Collins in a special piece
for the Washington Post that was
published on “Everybody Pray for
Hitchens Day.”
“Instead I pray for myself and for
Christopher along the lines of
James 1:5,” added the world
renowned geneticist, citing a
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but it seems like lately they can
verse in the Bible that states, "If
any of you lacks wisdom, let him
ask God, who gives generously to
all without reproach, and it will be
given him."
Since it was revealed in June that
Hitchens was diagnosed with
esophageal cancer – the same
cancer that killed his father –
Collins said he reached out to the
God Is Not Great author and his
wife, and has met with them
several times since.
“As the Director of the National
Institutes of Health, I am in a
position to be aware of new
developments in the diagnosis and
treatment of cancer,” reported
Collins, who successfully led
efforts to map the human genetic
code before being tapped by
President Obama to lead the
nation's premiere medical
research agency.
“Advances are occurring with
great rapidity as technologies
arising from the success of the
Human Genome Project are
making it possible to get a
comprehensive understanding of
what drives malignancy,” added
Collins. ”The ability to match
do no wrong. My October 2010
issue arrived today and I've
already found myself drooling
over everything. What I love
most about Bazaar is that they
always feature reasonably priced
cancer drugs to the characteristics
of an individual tumor is growing
rapidly.”
Noting that Hitchens’ cancer had
already spread to regional lymph
nodes, Collins acknowledged that
Hitchens’ situation is “very
serious” and has a “poor
prognosis.”
Pursuing “all avenues of
intervention, even if experimental,
would be highly advisable,” he
added.
While Collins is by no means the
typical Christian given his work,
his belief in evolution, and his
defense of embryonic stem cell
research, the physician's
relationship with Hitchens still
came as a surprise to many given
Hitchens' "militant" brand of
atheism.
But for those who are surprised
by how an anti-God intellectual
and a pro-God man of faith could
become friends, Collins suggested
that, despite the current political
climate in Washington, not
everyone who disagrees with you
is your enemy.
Furthermore, Collins noted how
Hitchens’ “sharp intellect” has
fashions that I can afford actually
challenged his own defense of the
rationality of faith to be more
consistent and compelling.
"As iron sharpens iron, so one
man sharpens another," he said,
citing Proverbs 27:17.
And despite Hitchens’ "enfant
terrible" reputation, Collins
testified to Hitchens’ “warm
humanity.”
“And his willingness to be utterly
open and transparent about his
cancer diagnosis provides a
breathtaking window into his
personal integrity,” he added.
As for Hitchens, the bestselling
author has expressed similarly
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practice any particular faith,
support allowing student speakers
to offer a prayer at public school
events, a survey found.(Photo: AP
Photo / The Ames Tribune,
Michael L. Palmieri, file)
This Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002
file photo shows Ames Middle
School students as they unload
from buses on the first day of
school in Ames, Iowa.
Overall, 80 percent of those who
responded to a poll by the First
Amendment Center said they
think student speakers should be
able to give a public prayer. Also,
the majority (59 percent) of those
who said they do not practice
religion support allowing student
speakers to pray at school events.
“Clearly most Americans want to
keep government out of religion,
but they don’t see an expression
of faith by a student at a public
school event as a violation of the
separation of church and state,”
said Ken Paulson, president of the
First Amendment Center.
He added, “Public school
students actually enjoy quite a bit
of religious freedom on school
grounds, but high-profile battles
over commencement ceremonies
and other schoolwide events have
left the opposite impression.”
The national survey, conducted
by The Pert Group between July
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28 and Aug. 6, is based on
telephone surveys with 1,003
adults. The First Amendment
Center has conducted surveys on
the state of the First Amendment
annually since 1997.
In addition to public school
prayer, the poll also found that
more than three-in-four
Americans support the
proclamation of a National Day of
Prayer by Congress or the
president.
The finding is encouraging to
supporters of the NDOP given a
U.S. district judge’s ruling earlier
this year that deemed the day is
unconstitutional because it
seemingly amounts to a
government call to religious
action. Not long after the ruling,
the Pentagon rescinded its
invitation to evangelist Franklin
Graham to speak at its NDOP
event over concerns about his
remarks about Islam. To many
NDOP supporters, the court ruling
and the Pentagon decision, taken
together, seemed to signal an
attack on public prayer in
America.
“This situation that has come up
in the past several weeks serves as
another reminder of the relentless
assault against our religious
liberty and should remind all
Americans to be even more
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President Obama continued the
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prayer day. company, FeedBurner, to Google.
The latest poll on the first He’s now the COO at
amendment also found 53 percent Twitter–undeniably one of the
believe the U.S. Constitution hottest Web companies in the
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Americans want deficit cut even in tough economy

(Reuters: Top News) believe persistently high Reuters Washington Summit on You don’t really need a who support them don’t have a
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:15:00 PM unemployment is a sign that Monday there would be an “meaningful” effort right now. clear thought in their head.
something in the economy is attempt to work with Republicans. We’re just a little bit of the way Sep 21, 2010 12:41pm EDT
A man looks over employment broken, the poll found, and only "On fiscal restructuring, the through a $800B+ stimulus bill While reducing the deficit is
opportunities at a jobs center in 22 percent thought it was part of president will put some ideas and that contained at most $200B that important for the longer term,
San Francisco, California, in this the natural economic cycle. some issues on the table and we'll does any good for anyone. You doing it during a recession is
February 4, 2010 file photo. "The message from Obama and see if the Republican Party is could have just left out the other unwise. The principal harm in a
Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith/ Democrats on job growth and serious about meeting him $600B with literally the only deficit is crowing out private
Files government spending is not halfway," Gibbs said. effect on the country being a borrowers, which is not a problem
By John Whitesides resonating with Americans," said "There is no doubt that we are $600B lower deficit. Taking even during our current period of very
WASHINGTON| Tue Sep 21, Ipsos pollster Julia Clark. "The going to have to make, Democrat the most symbolic, empty step to slack loan demand. Beyond that,
2010 2:15pm EDT economy is the number one issue, and Republican, some choices on reign in what ever is left, even just tax cuts work better than
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A and more people are in line with the medium- and long-term fiscal a little bit, would signal the “stimulus”, provide more
majority of Americans prefer Republican rhetoric on this than picture," Gibbs said. electorate that the country may economic activity for a given
cutting the deficit to increasing with the Democrats." The sour public mood and low not be under the complete control deficit incrase, and are less
government spending as a way to The poll showed national support approval ratings for Obama have of a bunch of crooks and buffoons wasteful.
improve the tough economy and for Democrats and Republicans helped move Republicans into after all – and that perception is Sep 21, 2010 12:42pm EDT
believe a more balanced budget essentially tied six weeks before position to make big gains in by far the most significant reason Cutting the deficit will be a
would help create jobs, a Reuters the election. Congress, where they are the economy isn’t recovering. bandage at most because we do
Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday. The number of people who threatening to gain control of the People and businesses are making not have the money to pay
The poll results could bolster believe the country is on the House of Representatives and a conscious, and completely existing debt and would need to
Republican calls for spending cuts wrong track dipped 1 percentage perhaps even the Senate. rational, decision not to spend, borrow still, to pay existing debt.
and put pressure on President point to 61 percent. Sep 21, 2010 12:24pm EDT invest, or hire, as a direct result of Great documentary: The Crash-
Barack Obama and Democrats to Support for Obama and his While cutting the national debt is the fact that if things don’t The Coming Financial Collapse of
work with Republicans to reduce fellow Democrats has been hurt an absolute imperative for the change, we’re in for pain on a America. Very interesting
the $1.47 trillion deficit after the by high unemployment, which long-term economic health of the scale that will make 2008 seem especially because of when it was
N o v e m b e r 2 c o n g r e s s i o n a l stood at 9.6 percent last month, US, make no mistake that like losing a nickel down a storm filmed.
elections. and by their support for an meaningful efforts to cut the drain. Sep 21, 2010 12:46pm EDT
Obama's public approval rating economic stimulus package and deficit will result in spectacular Sep 21, 2010 12:39pm EDT JackMack you are completely
edged up to 47 percent, compared other costly measures that have economic pain in the short term, Best way to cut the deficit is to incorrect. The huge interferrance
to 45 percent in an August poll, not eased joblessness as they with quite literally tens of eliminate the bush tax cuts. While by the government is what is
while 50 percent disapproved of promised. millions of jobs lost. it would be an unpopular decision causing the prolonged recession –
his job performance, down from The poll of 1,161 adults, If 60% of Americans believe that because noone wants to imagine and yes we are still in a
52 percent last month, the poll including 993 registered voters, “reducing the fiscal gap” will that their taxes would increase, it recession… wall street being
found. was conducted Wednesday “create jobs,” they are in for a would cut the deficit by up to one- happier a recession pull out does
W i t h e c o n o m i c w o r r i e s through Saturday and has a brutally painful wakeup call. half according to estimates. If the not make, its main street people,
dominating the run-up to the margin of error of 2.9 percentage Sep 21, 2010 12:35pm EDT Republicans and Conservatives main street is the only factor that
e l e c t i o n s , 5 7 p e r c e n t o f points for all adults and 3.1 Congress should pass a law that want to reduce government matters.
A m e r i c a n s w a n t t h e U . S . percent for registered voters. makes the banksters reduce the spending and cut the deficit, why There is no global economy –
government to cut the deficit in DEFICIT HOPE? deficit… or at least pay for any to they rally against eliminating only local economies having
hard economic times while 39 Both parties have said they will and all future stimulus and/or the tax cuts which would do the foreign goods and having foriegn
percent support deficit spending address the growing budget deficit extend unemployment-health- very thing they want? It is proof countries using dollars only
to stimulate the economy. after the election. White House insurance subsidies. that American politicians run on
Three quarters of Americans spokesman Robert Gibbs told the Sep 21, 2010 12:37pm EDT sound bites and that most people AMERICANS page 21
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Fed lays groundwork for possible further easing
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:47:49 PM
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman
Ben Bernanke arrives to testify
before a House Financial Services
hearing on the ''Monetary Policy
and the State of the Economy'' on
Capitol Hill in Washington, July
22, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young
By Mark Felsenthal and Pedro da
Costa
WASHINGTON| Tue Sep 21,
2010 2:47pm EDT
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The
Federal Reserve on Tuesday
inched closer to fresh steps to
bolster a sluggish U.S. recovery,
saying it stood ready to provide
more support for the economy and
expressing concerns about low
inflation.
The U.S. central bank's policy-
setting panel made no shift in
monetary policy at the end of a
one-day meeting, keeping
overnight interest rates near zero,
but it opened the door wider to
pumping more money into the
economy.
"The committee will continue to
monitor the economic outlook and
financial developments and is
prepared to provide additional
accommodation if needed to
support the economic recovery
and to return inflation, over time,
to levels consistent with its
mandate," it said in a statement.
After its meeting on August 10,
the Fed had simply said it would
"employ its policy tools as
necessary."
The Fed underscored its concerns
over slowing inflation in its
statement on Tuesday, saying the
underlying rate of inflation was
below levels consistent with its
mandate for price stability and
full employment.
"With substantial resource slack
continuing to restrain cost
pressures and longer-term
inflation expectations stable,
inflation is likely to remain
subdued for some time," it said.
U.S. stock prices rose after the
statement, while prices for U.S.
government debt fell, likely
reflect some disappointment the
Fed did not move more
decisively. The dollar extended
earlier declines against the euro.
"The Federal Reserve has taken
another step, albeit a half step, in
recognizing the unusually
sluggish economic and
employment outlook and related
need for additional policy
measures," said Mohamed El-
Erian, co-chief investment officer
at bond fund PIMCO.
Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bank President Thomas Hoenig
dissented for a sixth consecutive
time, reiterating his view that the
central bank could allow its
balance sheet to shrink and that a
vow -- repeated on Tuesday -- to
keep borrowing costs
exceptionally low for an extended
period was no longer warranted.
After cutting the overnight
federal funds rate to near zero in
December 2008, the Fed launched
an asset-buying program in a
further effort to lower borrowing
costs and help the economy.
In the end it bought $1.7 trillion
in longer-term U.S. government
debt and mortgage-related bonds.
The Fed's easy money policies
and the prospect of further easing
have driven up the value of
currencies in other countries,
including Japan and Brazil, as
investors moved out of the dollar
in search of higher returns.
Japan intervened last week to
weaken the yen, which had surged
to a 15-year high against the
dollar, and emerging markets are
seeking ways to control huge
capital inflows.
The painful U.S. recession ended
in June 2009, but the recovery has
lost momentum this year with
growth tapering to an anemic 1.6
percent annualized rate in the
second quarter.
Other economic data over the
summer also proved surprisingly
weak, prompting analysts to cut
their growth forecasts for the
second half of the year. A Reuters
poll on September 8 found
analysts looking for growth in the
third quarter to come in at just a
1.8 percent rate.
Sep 21, 2010 9:36am EDT
please, no more “pumping”!!!!!
Let America get what its been
asking for, they think little
government intervention is the
answer to this unprecedented
economic event.
Sep 21, 2010 10:41am EDT
What is fuzzy about the Math??
The Fed doesn’t yet realize we
are in the 3rd Great Depression??
(1893, 1929 & 2008)
Even the Old Money Families of
the Federal Reserve System have
to run out of money sometime??
Sep 21, 2010 11:10am EDT
Treasury needs a taxpayer “Bail-
In.” We need this system to
improve before we can fix it. We
need taxation based on a “tax
bond” that returns based on tax-
base improvements or keeps what
it needs to pay some bills to
leverage a better future. We also
need to go to 32 hour work weeks
to add employees and allow more
family time. Other options would
be far worse. Scientifically we
need a competitive base to grow
and yet protect innovation with
protections. Survival of the fittest
won’t work when you need a
Doctor, Plumber, Electrician,
Grocer, etc. and this is worth
protecting.
Sep 21, 2010 11:50am EDT
I believe that banking institutions
are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies. If
the American people ever allow
private banks to control the issue
of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will
grow up around [the banks] will
deprive the people of all property
until their children wake-up
homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered. The issuing
power should be taken from the
banks and restored to the people,
to whom it properly belongs.
I know, I know – this will never
happen until we are totally out of
b u s i n e s s –
railroadingamerica.com
News Wire/ 19
Sep 21, 2010 11:57am EDT
the fed will talk in circles and
then do noting as usual…
Sep 21, 2010 2:37pm EDT
With the prospect of deflation,
monetary policy alone without
strong fiscal policy has a marginal
effect in stimulating the economy.
The Feds choice is limited.
However, cutting out the stalled
banking system and applying QE
directly to businesses they have
the best chance of creating a
beneficial shock to the system and
some measure of sustainable
growth. You might be interested
in this article in The Wall Street
Challenger:
h t t p : / /
thewallstreetchallenger.com/Index
/
Monetary_Policy_Prescription.ht
m
The Federal Reserve provision of
liquidity did spur consumption,
investment in some class of assets
(e.g. equity) and generated
positive economic momentum.
However, a weak labor market
indicates that the quantitative
monetary policy easing was not
strong enough to boost prices and
keep economic momentum going.
Sep 21, 2010 2:56pm EDT
usa needs to stop printing money
and create jobs by making money
circulate more, instead of sitting
in the pockets of 10 % richest part
of population. to do this it needs
to make it expensive to hold the
money waiting for the other 90%
population to go bust and make
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Helicopter crash makes 2010 worst year of Afghan continued from page 19

rewards for investing in the

war bussines with some real jobs
created. this is same for europe.
(Reuters: Top News) cast. nationalities of the dead. This war is Bush’s mess, Obama *We welcome comments that
Submitted at 9/21/2010 10:37:56 AM That would be the lowest number Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, a or whoever else comes in will advance the story directly or with
of voters out of all four elections spokesman for the governor of have to clean it up just like the relevant tangential information.
Soldiers with the 101st Airborne held since the Taliban was ousted southeastern Zabul province, said economy and US perception We try to block comments that
Division shield themselves from in 2001. The ballots now have to the aircraft came down there. U.S. around the world use offensive language or appear
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Nolen in the Arghandab Valley Kabul, for a final tally. One ISAF service member, an only one oligarchic party with two standards. If you see a comment
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KABUL| Tue Sep 21, 2010 weekend poll and was considering VIOLENCE UP SHARPLY between them so there is no the comments do not represent
11:37am EDT extending Tuesday's deadline for ISAF said there were no reports difference either between Bush those of Reuters.
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supports bloat and bad behaviour
by our government. Reduction,
reduction, reduction – is the way
to heal any household and get it
into a happy healthy place. Our
house is going bankrupt – feeling
good about today JackMack will
only result in feeling far worse
tommorrow.
Yes I do understand the handouts
will end – guess what – that’s the
way to stimulate people to get up
and take care of business –
handouts encourage nothing.
Sep 21, 2010 12:51pm EDT
Reminds me of another AP-Ipsos
poll in which one-third of
Americans said they believed in
ghosts and UFO’s.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/
0,2933,305277,00.html
Or that 20% of Americans
believe Pres. Obama is Muslim.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/
18/AR2010081806913.html
The Ultimate Sex Quiz
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Making love. A roll in the hay.
The mattress mambo. Doin' the
deed. What is there to say about
sex? It fuels entire industries,
destroys political careers and
results in a whole lot of babies. Earn a point for every right
Ready to test how much you answer! Save your score at the
know about sex? As Marvin Gaye end of the quiz.
would say, let's get it on.
Sep 21, 2010 12:52pm EDT
Print money. That is what we are
doing. The treasury is buying
“bad loans” treasury debt with
printed dollars. If we just printed
out a few trillion of them we
would reduce foreign companies
positions of influence on us since
they would not have as much of
our debt. True our personal net
worth would be lower by a few
percentages, but if your personal
debt is in stock and other
instruments you could avoid that.
The reduction in our national debt
per capita would outweigh the
short term disparities and personal
income loss due to the resulting
inflation. Plus we would be forced
to make our own goods since
foreign imports would become
cost prohibitive along with the
cost of outsources labor.
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Mac Pro 2010 Review

Vincent Nguyen (SlashGear) We then booted into Windows 7
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:38:42 PM Ultimate 64-bit using Boot Camp,
and the Mac Pro scored 11,451.
Apple’s updated 2010 Mac Pro Loading Windows in Parallels –
line was a long time coming, but which allows you to run both Mac
it certainly addressed would-be and PC apps at the same time –
buyers’ key complaint: the choice saw a Windows 7 Geekbench
of processors. Now offering score of 6,017, while scores using
everything from a single Intel VMware ranged from 5563 to
Xeon through to a pair of six-core 6017. It should be noted that
chips, the new Mac Pro range these virtualization scores were
claims to be “the most powerful, calculated when Parallels and
most configurable Mac ever.” VMware were running in four
We’ve had a dual-processor core mode; although they scored
quadcore Mac Pro on the higher when using all eight cores,
SlashGear test bench for a couple that leaves no resources for the
of weeks; check out our full host OS and isn’t advisable in real
review after the cut. -world applications.
Our review unit slots into the In contrast, Lenovo’s hefty
middle of the updated Mac Pro ThinkStation C20 workstation,
range, with two of Intel’s 2.4GHz with its 8GB of DDR3 memory
quadcore Xeon E5620 CPUs, and dual 2.66GHz Xeon X5650
6GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory processors scored 19,565 in
and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 connectors. As for audio, there’s Each bay has a drive carrier that a It’s common for Mac Pro owners Windows 7 Professional. You
1GB video card. With a 1TB a digital optical input and output, standard SATA 3Gb/s drive clips to spend at least part of their time pay considerably for those extra
7,200rpm hard-drive it comes in plus analog in/out on the rear into, before slotting – cable free – in a dual-booting or multimode 5 , 0 0 0 p o i n t s , h o w e v e r ,
at $3,499 – for $1,000 less you panel, and a headphone socket on into place. Our review unit had a environment, depending on the considering the ThinkStation C20
can have a single 2.8GHz Xeon the front (along with two each of single 1TB drive, but you can software tools they’re reliant on, is a $6,774 machine (almost
quadcore and half the memory, the FireWire and USB ports). specify up to 8TB of traditional and so we felt this would give a double what Apple is asking for
while for $1,500 more there’s the We’d love to see USB 3.0 or even HDDs or up to four 512GB SSDs more balanced view of the this Mac Pro).
dual 2.66GHz hexacore Xeon eSATA there too, but sadly Apple and an optional RAID controller desktop than OS X figures alone. We then turned to PCMark
flagship. Still no Blu-ray – not hasn’t seen fit to install them in for drive redundancy (RAID We started out with Geekbench, a Vantage, which runs in Windows
even the option – so it’s a t h i s p a r t i c u l a r M a c P r o levels 0, 1, 5 and 0+1 supported). synthetic test of processor and 7 rather than OS X and rates a
standard 18x SuperDrive, four g e n e r a t i o n . Slick design, a sensible layout memory performance. Tested system across seven categories
PCI Express 2.0 slots, five USB Take off the side panel – an easy and plenty of ports are no use at natively in OS X 10.6.4 Snow (Memories, TV and Movies,
2.0 ports and four FireWire 800 t a s k w i t h t h e f l i p - u p ( a n d all if the core system doesn’t hold Leopard (with the latest patches Gaming, Music, Communications,
ports. Networking options lockable) latch on the back – and up its end of the bargain, and and updates installed), the Mac Productivity and HDD) and then a
include two-gigabit Ethernet Apple’s unusual interior layout is happily the 2010 Mac Pro is P r o s c o r e d 1 4 , 3 7 8 . I n final score. We tested the Mac
ports, Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi a/b/ revealed. Everything is sectioned c a p a b l e o f s o m e s e r i o u s comparison, a 2009 Mac Pro – Pro three times in all, using Boot
g/n. off, with the processors and crunching. We performed some with a single Xeon 2.66GHz Camp, Parallels and VMware, and
There’s no shortage of graphics memory at the bottom in a pullout of our benchmark testing natively processor but 12GB of DDR3 had pretty consistent results
choices, either: the Radeon HD tray, the PCI Express 2.0 slots in in OS X, and then other elements memory, a configuration costing across all batches. In Boot Camp,
5770 has Dual-Link DVI port and the middle, and then the four 3.5- in Windows 7 Ultimate running in roughly the same as the machine
p a i r o f M i n i D i s p l a y P o r t inch hard-drive bays slung above. either Parallels or Boot Camp. in today’s review – scored 9,600. MAC page 28
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Shuttle Discovery hauled to launch pad for final flight
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:51:30 PM
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER,
Fla.--The shuttle Discovery,
mounted atop a mobile launch
platform carried by an Apollo-era
crawler transporter, was hauled to
the launch pad last night for work
to ready the ship for blastoff
November 1 on its 39th and final
flight.
With launch pad 39A visible in
the distance, the shuttle Discovery
departs the cavernous Vehicle
Assembly Building for its final
trip to the firing stand. Launch is
targeted for November 1.(Credit:
William Harwood/CBS News)
The 3.2-mile trip from the
Vehicle Assembly Building to
launch complex 39A began at
7:23 p.m. EDT and was
completed at 1:49 a.m. Tuesday
when the mobile launch platform
was reported "hard down" on its
support pedestals at the oceanside
pad. With good weather expected,
engineers delayed rolling a
protective gantry around the
vehicle to give Kennedy Space
Center workers a chance to visit
the pad and enjoy an unobstructed
view of NASA's most experienced
orbiter.
On Saturday, the Rotating
Service Structure, or RSS, will be
retracted again for "family day" at
the Florida spaceport, when
workers will be allowed to bring
their families out for a launch pad
drive-by and tours of other shuttle
facilities.
"The first thing we're going to do
is get all the systems connected up
so we can start validating the
systems, the boosters, the tank
and the orbiter, make sure we
have communications back to the
firing room and so forth," said
Stephanie Stilson, the engineer in
charge of Discovery's ground
processing.
"A little bit different for us is
we're going to leave the RSS
retracted all day (Tuesday) and let
employees come out and take
pictures, which is something new
we have not done before. So that's
a great opportunity for the
workforce. After we do our
picture taking, we'll roll the RSS
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February 26 on a mission to
deliver a $2 billion particle
physics experiment to the space
station, along with additional
supplies and equipment. Program
managers are hoping NASA's
2011 budget will include funding
for a final flight by the shuttle
Atlantis next June. The Senate
version of the budget includes
funding for the mission but the
House version would require
NASA to pay for it.
Either way, shuttle mission STS-
133 will be the final flight for
Discovery, NASA's third shuttle,
which first took off in August
1984.
"I try not to think about it being
the end for Discovery, but I do
feel a bit sad, mainly because of
the friends I've made on the team
and the fact that in the future a lot
of those friends won't still be
working with me directly," Stilson
told reporters late yesterday.
back to the mate position and get the shuttle's processing and to set Despite the prospect of looming
busy doing all the systems a n o f f i c i a l l a u n c h d a t e i s layoffs at the Florida spaceport,
checkout and testing. Family day, scheduled to begin October 19. Stilson said she has no concerns
Saturday, we're going to retract it As of this writing, launch is about the quality of the processing
back. The next big event is the targeted for 4:40 p.m. EDT on team's work.
payload coming out on the November 1. Docking with the "I was concerned about that with
seventh (of October)." International Space Station is October (layoffs) coming up and
Shuttle Discovery, mounted atop expected November 3, with with the way things are with the
launch pad 39A.(Credit: William spacewalks on tap November 5 workforce," she said. "But I've
Harwood/CBS News) and 7. Undocking is expected really just seen people stay very
Discovery's crew--commander a r o u n d 5 : 4 0 a . m . E S T o n focused and very upbeat...Some
Steven Lindsey, pilot Eric Boe, November 10, with landing back folks have left, they've taken other
Michael Barratt, Nicole Stott, and at the Kennedy Space Center opportunities, folks I wish could
spacewalkers Timothy Kopra and around 10:39 a.m. on November have stayed. But the folks behind
Al Drew--plans to strap in for a 12. them are stepping up and filling in
dress-rehearsal countdown N A S A p l a n s t o f o l l o w the gaps and working well
October 15. An executive-level Discovery's mission with the
SHUTTLE page 24
flight readiness review to assess launch of shuttle Endeavour
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Activision Says Blocking Violent Video Games
from Minors Goes Against Free Speech
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:10:47 PM
Violent video games aren’t new.
And the fight against them has
been robust, igniting every so
often as a new game is released
and gets brought to the forefront
of media as an exceptionally
violent or explicit title.
Arguments vary, but the main gist
is that video games shouldn’t be
considered art, and ultimately
there should be a way to ban the
most heinous titles from getting
into the hands of those who
shouldn’t have them. In this case,
a California law that blocks the
sale of violent video games from
minors is being heard by the U.S.
Supreme Court on November 2nd,
and the video game industry is
beginning to join forces to fight it,
including Activision Blizzard.
In the year 2005, California
passed the aforementioned law,
which banned the sale of “violent
and inappropriate” video games to
minors. Back then, the video
game industry stepped in yet
again, challenging the law, saying
that it violated the First
Amendment. The bill was
subsequently blocked by a U.S.
District Court in the same year,
and then again by the U.S.
Appeals Court in 2009. But now
the United States Supreme Court
has agreed to hear the case, and it
will take place on November 2nd,
2010. Because of this, Activision
Blizzard has moved forward and
filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief,
which shows Activision Blizzard
is on the side of the video games
industry. The industry, as a whole,
is also being supported by 10
State Attorneys General,
according to Activision.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
had this to say about the situation:
“Our First Amendment has
survived intact for 219 years amid
far greater technological,
historical and social challenges.
The argument that video games
present some kind of new
ominous threat that requires a
wholesale reassessment of one of
our nation’s most treasured
freedoms, and to take that
freedom away indiscriminately
from an entire group of our
population based on nothing but
age, is beyond absurd.” This was
part of an official statement
Kotick made. Kotick’s company
is about to release a Mature-rated
title, Call of Duty: Black Ops,
which will probably break records
in sales when it releases later this
year.
The argument isn’t new, but the
combatants tend to be. Even if
familiar faces show up, the fight
has been fought before. And, as
Kotick pointed out, it’s the same
fight that’s been brought against
other media outlets, like TV,
music, books, and comic books.
In the end, freedom always
prevails, and that should make the
video game industry confident in
their motions, as well as the
outcome.
A rating system is in place for
video games, and has been for
several years. Ranging in stages,
you can find titles for “Early
Childhood,” all the way up to
“Adults Only.” This rating system
is implemented to help parents
understand the content of the
game, so that they can make an
informed decision about whether
or not they should allow their
child to purchase the title.
Furthermore, many retailers
around the country already
enforce the rating system, and will
not sell Mature titles to kids under
a certain age.
This is a war that’s probably
never going to stop. Even if it
quiets down over time, there will
always be another video game
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together. I've been very impressed
by the contractor workforce as to
the way they've handled it."
She said shuttle program
managers are "keeping a very
close eye" on flight safety, telling
the team "that if at any point in
time anybody feels that we're not
in a good place, we will stop and
redirect and start over if we need
to."
"But right now I have no fears of
what we've done so far with the
that gets released that will make team we have now, and I have no
parents and organizations out concerns about what we'll do in
there raise their eyebrows, and the future," she said. "If we get to
start raising their voices about a point where something is not
how video games are pointless going the way it should, we know
and empty. However, there are to stop and take care of it."
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able to buy M-rated games than R
-rated movies
• Manhunt 2 is still too violent
for UK
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Big New Wireless Spectrum Expected to Open for

Internet of Things This Week
Marshall Kirkpatrick based on tracking changes to the analog to digital means a much
(ReadWriteWeb) activities of our devices. That smaller buffer of spectrum needs
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:04:35 PM might mean faster detection of to remain unused for fear of
problems in a city, and it might interfering with broadcasts.
The FCC will meet on Thursday m e a n g r o c e r y s t a p l e s a r e These days wireless spectrum Sarah Jessica Parker
to vote on a proposal to open up a automatically put on your online isn't just used for broadcast
larger swath of wireless spectrum grocery list when your refrigerator anymore. It's also used for
Adds Star Power to the
to licensing than was opened at senses that you're all out. Most communication, between people Burberry Front Row
the dawn of TV remote controls, likely, it will mean that the and between machines. PopSugar (PopSugar)
baby monitors, cordless phones activities we engage in socially Last month, leading wireless
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:30:00 PM
and wifi networks. The most and individually will become industry analyst Chetan Sharma
likely candidates to fill that new monitorable via online portals, released a report finding that more Today's Burberry show during
spectrum are connected devices, where we can track progress, be network connected devices came London Fashion Week brought
or the Internet of Things, which notified of alerts and receive got too many people staying in online with AT&T and Verizon
your rented house? out more big names, with Sarah
are now coming online faster than recommendations based on past last quarter than did new human Jessica Parker joining Anna
new human subscribers to leading b e h a v i o r a n d c u r r e n t Such possible indignities are a subscribers.
minor risk, compared to the Where data can be transmitted, it Wintour, Cat Deeley, and Emmy
mobile phone networks. circumstances. winner Aaron Paul from Breaking
"This will also be a platform for Above: IBM's video introduction possible political and civil can be analyzed - and where data
liberties consequences of a world can be analyzed, patterns and Bad. Sarah Jessica and Anna were
innovators and entrepreneurs," to the Internet of Things. Privacy together yesterday as well to
F C C C h a i r m a n J u l i u s Concerns of connected devices. Almost no thresholds can be detected.
one appears to have begun those Where patterns and thresholds can remember their close friend
Genachowski told the New York Some critics fear that this Alexander McQueen at his
Times in an in-depth report last instrumentation of everyday conversations, yet the technology be detected, services can be
moves forward. A Platform memorial service at St. Paul's
week. "There is every chance of objects could come hand-in-hand invented based on those patterns Cathedral. SJP's in the midst of
this leading to the development of with a growth of surveillance of DC based reporter Edward Wyatt and thresholds. Where a new
calls Thursday's vote to open the greenfield of data emerges as the the stylish fun in England after
o n e o r m o r e b i l l i o n - d o l l a r our activities, locations and more. making cameos in the front row
industries." Beyond the possible The technology is moving ahead spectrum virtually guaranteed in foundation for new inventions, we
his Times write-up. He focuses may find a new and important during New York's version.
economic impact, the move may much faster than policies, or even PopSugar UK and FabSugar UK
h a v e s u b s t a n t i a l c u l t u r a l discussions, about privacy and on the potential creation of super- p l a t f o r m f o r e c o n o m i c a n d
powerful Wifi networks. "The c u l t u r a l i n n o v a t i o n . have the scene there covered, so
consequences, as the spectrum is user control over data. make sure to stay tuned to their
opened up through which our Who owns the data your washing stronger, faster networks will What devices would you like to
extend broadband signals to see intrumented and brought on sites and Twitter for celeb and
refrigerators, toasters, exercise machine publishes to the web? runway news!
equipment and city streets can It's handy that a website may be bypassed rural areas and allow for line? Those conversations will
publish data about their activities able to recognize what kind of smart electric grids, remote health l i k e l y b e g i n t o d r a w m o r e
to the internet. washing machine you have and monitoring and, for consumers, attention if the FCC votes as
wireless Internet without those expected on Thursday. Discuss To see more from London
Sponsor when it may be in need of repair, including Alexa Chung and SJP
Why will people want that data to but what happens if your landlord annoying dead zones," he writes.
The new spectrum is available watching the show, just read
be published online? Because notices you've been doing a lot of more.
when it is, services can be built laundry lately and asks if you've because TV's transition from
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More Early Facebook IMs And Emails Surface: “A
Sucker Born Every Day”
Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:21:35 PM
More instant messages and
emails have surfaced from the
early days of Facebook, adding
some more color, but few new
major details, to the contentious
relationship between Mark
Zuckerberg and one of his
Harvard co-founders, Eduardo
Saverin. The IMs and emails
were published today by Silicon
Alley Insider, which also
published much more
inflammatory early Zuckerberg
IMs last May, including the
famous IM where a young Zuck
calls the first Harvard student
users of TheFacebook.com “dumb
f@%ks” for trusting him with
their personal information.
This set of IMs deal more with
the break-up of Zuckerberg’s
business relationship with
Saverin, a wealthy fellow Harvard
student who put in the first
$15,000 into a joint bank account
to pay for TheFacebook.com’s
servers and handled the business
side of things. He eventually got
cut out of the company (although
he is still one of its largest
shareholders), and began
spreading tales about Facebook’s
early days which turned into Ben
Mezrich’s mostly-fictional book
the Accidental Billionaires and,
now, the movie The Social
Network. While the book and the
movie portray Zuckerberg as an
evil nerd, the actual history is
more mundane. The new SAI
IMs even make Zuckerberg look
more sympathetic than Saverin.
For instance, in one IM exchange
which took place between
Zuckerberg and another friend in
January 8, 2004, the friend called
Saverin a “sucker” for paying for
the servers. But Zuckerberg
didn’t take the bait, instead he
shrugged it off, admitting he
didn’t really know anything about
business:
Zuckerberg: Eduardo is paying
for my servers.
Friend: A sucker born every day.
Zuckerberg: Nah, he thinks it will
make money.
Friend: What do you think?
Zuckerberg: Well I don’t know
business stuff
Zuckerberg: I’m content to make
something cool.
Later, once Zuckerberg, co-
founder Dustin Moskovitz, and
the early team moved to Palo Alto
for summer break while Saverin
decided to get a job at Lehman
Brothers in New York City
(where he was also selling ads for
Facebook), the tension between
the two began to mount. In one
email, Zuckerberg chided Saverin
for starting a separate Web job
board project on the side and
having the gall to advertise it on
Facebook:
You developed Joboozle
knowing that at some point
Facebook would probably want to
do something with jobs. This was
pretty surprising to us, because
you basically made something on
the side that will end up
competing with Facebook and
that’s pretty bad by itself. But
putting ads up on Facebook to
advertise it, especially for free, is
just mean.
Zuckerberg re-incorporated
Facebook, which effectively
diluted Saverin’s ownership
position and allowed Facebook to
progress without Saverin’s
signature for every financial
decision. Finally, in an IM with
Moskovitz, Zuckerberg defended
his decision to remove Saverin
from any operating role at the
company because he thought
Saverin was doing a lousy job:
I maintain that he fucked
himself…He was supposed to set
up the company, get funding, and
make a business model. He failed
at all three…Now that I’m not
going back to Harvard I don’t
need to worry about getting
beaten by Brazilian thugs.
The falling out between Saverin
and Facebook has been well-
documented before in books like
Accidental Billionaires and David
Kirkpatrick’s more-accurate The
Facebook Effect. But don’t cry
for Saverin, he still owns about 5
percent of Facebook, which will
probably end up making him the
most accidental billionaire of all.
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Matt Damon Grabs a
Brew in Boston as He
Preps to Pilot 30 Rock's
Premiere
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Matt Damon caught up with
some old friends in Boston last
night to toast the launch of
Samuel Adams's new beer. The
actor is spending some time in his
native city, where he joined his
pal Ben Affleck at the Fenway
Park premiere of his new movie
The Town last week. Ben's latest
project ended up taking the top
spot at the box office last
weekend, but beyond his buddy's
success, Matt has a lot to
celebrate. Not only is his wife
expecting their fourth child, but
his return to 30 Rock as the pilot
Carol airs Thursday night. He's
also gearing up to host the star-
studded annual gala for children's
charity ONEXONE in NYC next
month.
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Cray taps Nvidia chips for large supercomputer
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:33:28 PM
Cray will put Nvidia graphics
processors in future large-scale
supercomputers, the companies
said today.
The announcement follows this
summer's jump to the No. 2 spot
in global rankings of China's
Nvidia-equipped Nebulae
supercomputer.
At Nvidia's 2010 GPU
Technology Conference today in
San Jose, Calif., supercomputer
leader Cray announced that it is
developing supercomputers that
can use Nvidia Tesla 20-Series
graphics processing units.
"We're putting this technology--
the next generation of Nvidia
Tesla--in our large XE6 systems,"
Barry Bolding, vice president of
Cray's products division, said in a
phone interview. Cray's largest
system, Jaguar, at the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, based on
processors from Advanced Micro
Devices, is currently ranked No. 1
in the world, according to the Top
500 list.
Nvidia Tesla graphics chips are
in the current No. 2 ranked
supercomputer(Credit: Nvidia)
Cray, which already uses Nvidia
GPUs in its low-end desktop
supercomputers, is targeting
Nvidia's supercomputer-specific
Tesla processors for accelerating
"modeling code" for scientific
applications in its Cray XE6
product line, according to
Bolding.
"We're doing this because Nvidia
is starting to produce accelerators
(GPUs) that are useful to our
customers. They've done some
enhancements that go beyond a
normal graphics accelerator. A
couple of years ago, those
(Nvidia) GPUs did not have
functionality that was appealing to
our customers."
Bolding continued. "What we'll
see first is the data centers that
run a few key applications on the
accelerators. The data center that
has to run 500 applications?
That's the data center that won't
move over to accelerators," he
said.
An interesting sidelight to all of
this is that Nvidia's chips, in
supercomputer parlance, are
classified as vector processors--
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Strikingly
Beautiful Framed
Staircase (4 pics)
Eugene (Featured Blog Posts -
My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 6:00:00 PM
Designer Stuart Haygarth, in
collaboration with framing
company John Jones, created this
strikingly beautiful staircase using
the same type of processors Cray partnering on a team that was 31 types of frames in various
u s e d i n i t s e a r l i e s t recently awarded a $25 million colors, sizes, and styles.
supercomputers, dating back research grant from the Defense In total, the frames' profiles reach
decades. Advanced Research Projects over 650 yards (600 meters) in
"A GPU accelerator is really no Agency, or DARPA, as part of its length and feature hundreds of
different than a vector processor. Ubiquitous High Performance individual pieces, cut, mitred,
A n d w e k n o w t h a t v e c t o r Computing program. joined, sanded, and colored in
processors in their heyday could Correction at 11:45 a.m. PDT: special finishes – including gold
n o t r u n e v e r y a p p l i c a t i o n The Nvidia Tesla chips will be leaf.
efficiently. There's going to be a used initially in XE6 systems not The marble staircase is part of the
set of applications that will be C r a y ' s J a g u a r s y s t e m , a s V&A museum, one of the hubs
phenomenal on GPU accelerators o r i g i n a l l y s t a t e d . for this year's London Design
and a set of applications that are This entry passed through the Festival.
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MAC
10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics continued from page 22

using the full 6GB of RAM, the Pro – does still rankle a little,
to a Non-Gaming Service PCMark score was 8,377, with
particularly strong scores in
given rival PCs have offered both
for some time now.
Audrey Watters c o m p l e t i n g c e r t a i n t a s k s , " Communications and Gaming. If you’re involved in frequent
(ReadWriteWeb) suggests Feinleib. In Parallels, with 4GB of the video, audio or image editing,
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:21 PM • Make the virtual real. Feinleib RAM assigned, the system scored however, or any sort of CAD or
recommends adding sound and 8 , 6 8 9 o v e r a l l , w i t h other processor-intensive
Game mechanics have become a visual effects to make the virtual Communications and HDD ahead. application, then the Mac Pro
popular way of increasing user experience more "real." Finally, in VMware, the PCMark deserves serious consideration.
engagement and pushing user • Social proof. Make users' score was 8,066 with Music and Strong performance not only in
adoption, referral and retention, actions visible to those in their HDD leading the way. It’s OS X but when running Windows
and many startups have sought networks so that they can, for important to remember that, in 7 – particularly in Boot Camp –
ways to incorporate game example, see that everyone else both virtualization setups, the offers the best of both worlds for
mechanics into their sites. has upgraded or bought the software is emulating hardware so the platform agnostic, and while
In a recent blog post, David s p e c i a l f e a t u r e d i t e m , f o r the GPU performance is less than the Mac Pro’s upfront sticker
Feinleib, a partner at Mohr • Gifting and reciprocation. example. when running a native OS. The price may seem high, compared to
Davidow Ventures, lists the Feinleib points to the importance • Create scarcity. Create items Mac Pro fell behind the C20 by native Windows machines of
following 10 ways to incorporate of giving and receiving gifts, that are only available for a 1,400-2,000 points in these similar build construction it’s
game mechanics into a non-game noting the social pressures to limited amount of time or offers situations, but it’s still an actually surprisingly competitive.
service: reciprocate. He suggests letting that expire after a short while. impressive showing considering For those who want the very
Sponsor high status users give away • A/B test and track the metrics. both the price difference and the highest performance, the dual
something to others (for free), and Adding game mechanics to your fact that the PCMark testing was hexacore Mac Pro is an expensive
• Your service: the game. argues that others will return gifts site isn't as simple as merely done in the Apple machine’s non- option, but this midrange model
Feinleib suggests that if you start (that they must buy). adding a few badges or titles. standard OS. arguably delivers the best balance
thinking about your service as a • Hybrid monetization."Let your You need to make sure to analyze Day to day, then, there’s little of crunching power and price.
game, you will identify some of users choose how they want to the responses from users so that you can throw at the Mac Pro and Relevant Entries on SlashGear
t h e w a y s i n w h i c h g a m e pay you: with their time or with you can target the games and the expect to slow it down. We • Viliv N5 MID Gets Reviewed,
mechanics -- ideas of competition, their wallet." rewards to them. processed HD video while Still Not Available to Buy
rewards, and so on -- will best fit • Leaderboards and points. As he watching different content, • Samsung Wave S8500 gets
in. argues in #2, people like to Of course,"badges, stickers, titles browsing with multiple tabs in previewed
• Status / reputation. "People compete, and even when points in and the like are no substitute for several windows, and with several • Hivision PWS700A $100
want status. It's human nature," he a game don't convert to an actual having a solid product or service o t h e r a p p s r u n n i n g i n t h e Android netbook gets video
writes. "But the thing about status reward, "simply making them that people want to use. But game background, and we couldn’t get review
is, it has to be visible: both to the v i s i b l e ( i n t h e f o r m o f a mechanics have become a useful the Apple desktop to break a • HTC HD2 confirmed for T-
person who has it and to everyone leaderboard) gives them value." mechanism for getting people "in sweat. It’s hard to imagine the Mobile USA in Spring 2010
else." If you offer rewards, make • Free stuff."Give people free the door," so to speak. Discuss everyday user that would require • Zune 2 Unboxing
sure you make them visibile and stuff to get them to show up. Give such a machine; most would
make some of them, at least, elite away a little bit of what you offer likely be better served with an
or special. (storage, for example) to users for iMac, given that model’s cheaper
price and brilliant IPS display.
Still, the absence of USB 3.0 and
Blu-ray – on both iMac and Mac
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GM eyeing ways to reuse Chevy Volt
batteries
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:23:11 PM
A new project from General
Motors will examine ways that
Chevy Volt batteries could get a
second life helping provide
renewable energy.
The electric Chevy Volt is due
out later this year.(Credit: General
Motors )
Joining forces with power grid
supplier ABB Group, GM will
study whether it can reuse
batteries that formerly powered
Volt electric cars to store energy
created by wind and solar power
generators. The goal is to find
cost-effective and creative ways
to improve the efficiency of the
country's electrical grid, the
automaker said today in a
statement. The Volt, priced at
$41,000 before a federal tax
credit, is set to launch later this
year.
Specifically, the two companies
will conduct research to learn if
the Volt batteries can fill a
number of different roles in
helping deliver clean, efficient
energy.
Among the possibilities? The
Gorgeously Retro Fujifilm X100 Sports Optical + Electronic Viewfinder
Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 8:11:00 AM
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Coming soon to a pocket
near you: Jorno folding
batteries have powered a Volt for
several years, they could live on
to provide energy to other
Bluetooth keyboard
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
sources. Apple Weblog (TUAW))
"Future smart grids will
incorporate a larger proportion of Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:30:00 PM
renewable energy sources and will
Want a Bluetooth keyboard that
need to supply a vast e-mobility
batteries could be recruited as a infrastructure--both of which you can use with your iDevice or
renewable-energy source, storing require a wide range of energy Mac and slip into your pocket
power generated by the wind and storage solutions," Bazmi Husain, when it's not in use? Cervantes
sun and tapped when the need head of ABB's smart grids Mobile LLC today introduced
arises. Utilities might be able to initiative, said in a statement. "We their Jorno folding Bluetooth
use the Volt batteries to store a r e e x c i t e d t o e x p l o r e t h e keyboard, which folds down to a
electricity generated during off- possibility of employing electric tiny 3.5" x 3.5" x .9" box when
peak times to help fill demand car batteries in a second use that not in use. When deployed, the
during higher-peak periods. The could help build needed storage keyboard is quite small -- 8.5" x Jorno will cost US$99 when it
batteries could be used as power capacity and provide far-reaching 3.5" by just 0.3" -- but apparently begins to ship later this fall, but
supplies for entire communities, economic and environmental quite usable. It's only 8.8 ounces you can preorder the keyboard for
housing electricity that can be benefits." in weight, too, so it won't bog you a special price of $79 through
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AT&T Isn’t Worried About Network Defectors Due
to iPhone Non-Exclusive
Evan Selleck (SlashGear)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:38:01 PM
AT&T’s exclusive hold on the
iPhone is coming to an end soon,
and iPhone owners all over the
United States are asking one
question, “Should I stay with
AT&T?” Analysts have already
been all over the subject, well
before the exclusive deal ends,
and the main consensus seems to
be that a high number of
customers will ditch AT&T, for
whatever other carrier grabs
Apple’s iPhone. But, that hasn’t
fazed AT&T Chief Randall
Stephenson, who says that 2 out
of 3 iPhone owners are already
loyal not to the iPhone, but to
AT&T, and therefore he’s not
worried about defectors.
At the Goldman Sachs
Communacopia conference in
New York City, Stephenson
clarified that while the iPhone
was a major success, two thirds of
iPhone purchases were previous
AT&T customers. So, because
Jewelry That's Made of Money (10 pics)
thinkpossitive (Featured Blog
Posts - My Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:30:00 PM
We always knew that good
jewelry was expensive but we
never thought about showing just
how much it's worth to the world!
they were already customers, they
probably won’t switch to get the
iPhone, a phone they probably
already have, on a different
carrier. Furthermore, he said that
upgrades to the iPhone 4 hit a
“record number,” and that meant a
huge amount of iPhone 4 owners
were already in a new, two-year
agreement, which would make it
Tine De Ruysser is a professional
jewelry designer who studied at
the Royal Academy of Fine Art in
Antwerp and the Royal College of
Art in London. She takes paper
currency from all over the world,
and turns them into amazing and
including China, USA, Australia,
wearable works of art. Notice the
Europe, South Africa, Argentina,
business lines that upgraded to the
iPhone 4 are in brand new
contracts, and that will make it
harder for those family lines to
leave AT&T, due to costs. But
there are plenty of single line
accounts out there, and if they’ve
suffered from any amount of
dropped calls, an iPhone on
another network may seem pretty
promising to them. If you won an
iPhone right now, would you
switch carriers if it were offered
by another?
[ via Electronista]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear
• AT&T hints at loss of iPhone
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• Apple iPhone is Cingular Only
difficult for potential switchers to at Launch
make the jump. • iPhone launches in UK
While Stephenson may be • AT&T bulking up network in
confident that AT&T won’t lose a preparation for cage fight with
whole swath of customers when Verizon
the iPhone finally lands on • O2 lifts 200MB data usage cap
a n o t h e r U S - b a s e d c a r r i e r , for the iPhone
numbers will speak for
themselves. He is right in thinking
that family lines, as well as
precise and detailed way she
makes chains and weaves. It's all
quite fascinating!
Tine De Ruysser
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Submitted at 9/21/2010 11:00:00 AM
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style, you can import
conversations, interviews,
lectures, or any other voice
recording into free service
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A Map Of Wireless Dead Zones In San Francisco: Every Single

One Is AT&T
MG Siegler (TechCrunch) Business Times allows you to Bay Area over the past few days
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:23:30 PM choose AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, has been much worse than
Verizon, and Other. But the only normal. Reports of missed
The San Francisco Business reports coming in are for AT&T. calls, broken voice mail, and the
Times recently began a project to That’s not to say there aren’t dead inability to send and receive texts
document wireless dead zones in zones for the other providers, but seem pretty rampant.
the Bay Area. It’s a good idea; clearly, they aren’t nearly as big Prayers continue for a Verizon
they have a simple form any user of an issue as they are on AT&T, iPhone. Or a T-Mobile iPhone. Or
can fill out to give the address of where the problem is widespread. two tin cans with a really long
the dead zone, explain it a bit if It’s pretty clear at this point that piece of string. All would be
they choose, and name their both AT&T and Apple (the preferable at this point.
service provider. So far, they’ve iPhone is the most popular AT&T View the full map on the
accumulated quite a bit of data — device) know their service in the service. Still, AT&T could offer promises that things are getting Business Times site here.
over 500 data points. The best Bay Area sucks. Sadly, it’s not discounts or partial refunds or you better when in fact the opposite CrunchBase Information AT&T
part? As far as I can tell, every clear just how much they can do know, their rip-off MicroCell, to may be happening. Information provided by
single one of the dead zones is on about it since it’s extremely hard customers affected for free. Reports have been flowing in CrunchBase
AT&T’s network. in the city to get clearance for the Instead, we just get perpetual today that AT&T’s service in the
To be clear, in their form, the new cell towers needed to boost

Michael Jackson to get his own MMOG in 2011

(CNET News.com) albums. Read more of " Michael Jackson
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:42:22 PM This morning, Los Angeles-based MMOG due in late 2011" on
SEE Virtual Worlds announced GameSpot.
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"King of Pop"--a massively Worlds, Planet Michael will be a based on the artists' various purchase said currency with actual
multiplayer game with entire free-to-play, 3D game based on musical works. In these coin of the realm.
realms dedicated to each of his the works of the late singer. Its
32 Technology/
Survey: 23% of iPhone users would
switch to Verizon
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:00:00 PM
It's something we've heard for
years now. "If the Verizon offered
the iPhone, there would be a mass
exodus from AT&T." According
to one survey, the exodus might
not be so massive.
BusinessInsider reports on a
survey conducted by Credit Suisse
that asked an unspecified number
of iPhone users who they would
select as a carrier if they could
abandon AT&T. Just 23% -- less
than one quarter -- said they'd
jump ship to Verizon.
Additionally, another 3% would
move over to Sprint while a
whopping 2% would choose T-
Mobile.
Of course, this means that 63% of
iPhone users surveyed would stay
put with AT&T. Credit Suisse
Google Deciphers The Balance Of Power Across The U.S.
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:53:50 PM
Google has consistently offered
consumers useful ways to interact
with election and politics online
including“In Quotes,” maps of
where to vote, and town hall
meetings on YouTube. Today, the
search giant is helping you see
crunched the numbers and figured
out that 23% of users represents
about 1.4 million customers who
are willing to switch to Verizon.
Personally, I live in a moderate
coverage area, so I'd have trouble
no matter who I'm with.
How about you? Are you ready
to switch?
[Via AppleInsider]
where the balance of power lies
between Republicans and
Democrats in the House, Senate
and Governor races across the
U.S.
As midterm elections draws near
(Nov. 2), Google has published an
interactive map that tracks blues
and reds across the the 500 seats
up for grabs in the U.S. Google is
TUAW Survey: 23% of iPhone
users would switch to Verizon
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mashing up data from various
political publications, including
iPhone Payments Go
Live in New York City
Subways, Taxi Cabs
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:44:00 PM
Beginning this week, New
Yorkers won't have to pull out
cash or credit to pay for their bus,
subway, train or taxi fares.
Instead, they'll be able to pay
using their iPhones as part of a
pilot program for Visa's payWave
program, which allows users to
make contactless payments.
The system makes it as easy as
waving your payWave-enabled
phone in front of a sensor, which
then securely completes the
transaction.
Sponsor
The solution is different than
many of the mobile payment
solutions we've discussed, in that
it doesn't use Near Field
Communication to communicate
with the vendor. Instead, the
system works on "a majority of
Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call
and RealClearPolitics.
You can filter information by
state, type of race (senate,
governor, house), and by source.
For example, for California,
Rothenberg Political Report
indicates that the governor
election is a toss-up and slight tilt
towards the GOP. Google says
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smart phones that have a slot for a
memory card". As we wrote when
we first discovered the payWave
program "users can insert the card
into their phone's memory slot to
transform their phones into
mobile payment devices."
With this pilot program, those
with payWave enable phones will
be able to pay for New York City
subway, PATH rail system and NJ
Transit fares using their phones,
along with fares for more than
10,000 New York City cabs.
Discuss
that data is refreshed daily based
on the latest ratings from the
publications. You can also embed
maps as a gadget, which is
powered by Fusion Tables.
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Motorola Droid X getting Android 2.2

update starting tomorrow
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:50:00 PM
Motorola's teasing that it's "still
on track for a summer launch of
Android 2.2 for Droid X," and
considering that tomorrow is the
last day of summer (sadly), that
lines up nicely with new
information on Droid Life today
that Moto's beast for Verizon will
get blessed with the update
starting tomorrow at noon Eastern
Time. Verizon's actually already
posted the update document, and
it's a doozy: besides 2.2, you get
improves visual voicemail with
Bluetooth support, a refreshed
mobile hotspot app, and a fix to
Gameloft breaks 20 million paid apps
wait for Verizon to bless you with
the OTA, so gear up and enjoy
one last evening with your Eclair-
based Droid X. Go ahead, take it
out somewhere nice, it's treated
you well.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this
in]
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Early third-generation Kindle software
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you'll be able to grab this of your provides new way to feel e-litist
own accord rather than having to
Ross Miller (Engadget) performance improvements,"
according to the site, and while
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:32:00 PM

What better way to read up on

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:00 PM
Gameloft has announced that it
has broken the 20 million
download mark across all of its
paid apps. That's a huge number,
and it shows that the company has
really latched on to the iPhone as
a huge market for its mobile
games. Gameloft hasn't been slow
on development at all -- the
French company has released 47
games this year, and of those, 42
have hit the Top Grossing top
five, and 25 have reached number
one. Gameloft hits from the past
include Hero of Sparta, the
remade Oregon Trail, FPS title
NOVA, and the mobile version of
Assassin's Creed.
They're not done yet -- Dungeon
Hunter 2 is due out later on this
year, as is the HD version of
Assassin's Creed, and an
interesting title called Star
Battalion. Gameloft's titles are
always very well made, and it's
good to see that its popularity has
landed it a spot in the growing
pantheon of successful App Store
developers and publishers.
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your Republic of Gilead lore
(whether or not such country
allows you to read in the first
place) than on a digital screen via
firmware that's just a tinge
futuristic. Amazon is offering an
early preview of software update
3.0.2 for the latest generation of
its Kindle reader. It's as simple
dragging-and-dropping a file onto
your device, jumping through the
right menus, and waiting patiently
for several minutes. What does it
offer? "Web browser and general
the browser did seem a tad
snappier, that could very well be a
phantasmagoria of our optimism.
Still, you do get to show all your
friends you've got a newer
version, and that's what really
matters, right?
Early third-generation Kindle
software update improves web
browser, provides new way to feel
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Google Earth updated for
iPhone 4 retina display,
includes ocean topography
Josh Helfferich (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:30:00 PM
Google Earth for iOS, which was
already one of the biggest "wow"
apps on the iPhone(It's the Earth
in your pants!), has received a
huge update that adds support for
the iPhone 4's gorgeous retina
display, as well as new ocean
topographies that will allow users
to explore the underwater depths.
You can see from the screenshot
above that this adds an insane
amount of detail to the textures
and drawing space. Even this
comically oversized screen grab
The Sawhorse Standing Desk [Featured Workspace]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:00:00 PM
can't convey how good this looks
on a real iPhone 4, though. I
highly suggest that you check it
out for yourself.
Google Earth is a universal
application for iPhone, iPad and
iPod touch; it is available in the
App Store as a free download.
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10 Things Making Me Nervous About
The Market Right Now
Barry Ritholtz (Money Game) widely held beliefs (assumptions, colliding with earth)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:31:49 PM really) as to how this plays out is 7. Overhead resistance:Market
too pat, and creates an opportunity are coming up against levels
A few weeks ago, we moved for surprise and disappointment. where lots of supply lives. In the
from an aggressive cash position 3. Absence of Volatility: The past, this is where resistance lay.
(80+%) to about 50% long. We VIX keeps sliding, as volatility Watch SPX 1150, NDX 2370, and
continue to find intriguing set ups fades. This may be reflecting Dow 10,800.
and attractive trades, mostly in the complacency — never a net 8. Job creation soft: The 2nd
small and mid-cap space. positive for stocks. economic headwind. Until this
But that doesn’t mean we are 4. Housing overhang: One of improves, there can be little better
sanguine about the likelihood of several major macro economic than modest improvement in
this rally going on forever. factors weighing on the market.
Indeed, there are many factors This is going to be an ongoing
retail, home sales, and
deleveraging.
that are making me uncomfortable headwind, as we make our way
w i t h b e c o m i n g e v e n m o r e down towards fair value.
9. Lack of market leadership:
Quick, what are the market
aggressive.
me nervous:
5. Sentiment: Bullish sentiment
Consider these 10 factors making (expectations that stock prices
will rise over the next six
leaders in this cycle? Its hard to
really say — Banks, Energy,
Technology? Not really. How
1. Low volume: Friday’s quad- months), rose 7% points to 50.9% about Ag, Consumer Staples,
witch volume notwithstanding, in the latest AAII Sentiment Utilities? Its tough to see much in
volume has been extremely light Survey(historical average is 39%). the way of leadership.
for weeks now. Historically, light Sentiment suddenly becomes 10. Consensus that gridlock is
volume is associated with tops bullish after each spasm higher good: I am becoming increasingly
(disinterest) while heavy volume sets off my contrary alarm bells. wary of the consensus belief that
tends to accompany bottoms 6. Recession Porn “confusing“: gridlock is such a wonderful
(capitulation). The flip side of the bullish trader thing.
2 . C o n s e n s u s o n p o l i t i c a l sentiment is the obsession with None of these individual items
outcome: If one more person every negative datapoint. From are fatal to the market rally — but
announces coming gridlock is Roubini to Zero Hedge, people collectively, hey are the factors
good for the market, I may have seem to be hunting down anything making me nervous . . .
to scream. Conventional wisdom foreboding. (How funny is this Join the conversation about this
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Jim DeMint's Courage and Lisa Murkowski's Betrayal

(AEI.Org: Articles) Republican leadership table--has is confident that he can win with Crist would lose to Marco Rubio concerned with changing who
Submitted at 9/20/2010 6:00:00 PM accepted her resignation from her Murkowski in the race: "She was in Florida's Senate race, Crist controls the Senate than he is with
post as vice chairwoman of the given her job and now she thinks bolted the GOP and decided to changing the way the Senate does
The knives were out for Jim Republican Conference. But she deserves it. She has run as an independent. When business--by electing outsiders
DeMint in the Senate last week, Murkowski has not been required disrespected the will of the Arlen Specter saw he would lose who are committed to restoring
as Republicans laid into the South to give up her position as the top Alaskan voter. We had the largest to Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania's the GOP's reputation as the party
Carolina senator for supporting Republican on the Senate Energy turnout of any Republican Senate race, he became a of limited government and fiscal
Tea Party favorite Christine and Natural Resources Committee primary in the history of the state Democrat. And, after losing the discipline.
O'Donnell over Rep. Mike Castle --a perch she will no doubt use as of Alaska. The race was won fair GOP nomination in Alaska, Regardless of the outcome in
in Delaware's Republican primary evidence she can deliver for and square. And then in the wake Murkowski is running as an Alaska--or who controls the upper
and endangering the GOP's Alaska. Will McConnell strip her of that, she claims that the independent write-in candidate. chamber after November--there is
chances of taking control of the of this role, too--and make clear election was 'hijacked' and that it And yet, we are told that it is the likely to be a wave of new
Senate in November. to Alaska voters that Murkowski was a group of 'extremists' that Tea Party that is dividing the GOP insurgent senators arriving in
Wonder if Sen. Lisa Murkowski will not enjoy the privileges of her voted for me. It gets down to the and threatening party unity. For Washington. The question is:
will get the same treatment this GOP seniority if she is elected as fact that she perceives herself as establishment candidates, unity When those insurgents arrive, will
week? an independent in November? entitled, and she can't let go of the seems to be a one-way street. The they remember how the
The Alaska senator lost the The idea that DeMint and the Tea power she's held for the last eight message to Tea Party activists Republican leadership fought
Republican primary to her Tea Party are threatening the GOP's years." across the country is: We want them--or how the Republican
Party-backed challenger, Joe c h a n c e s f o r r e c l a i m i n g t h e In that sense of entitlement, your votes but not your leadership fought for them?
Miller, in a fair fight. But instead m a j o r i t y i s a b s u r d . Murkowski is not alone. All last candidates. Marc A. Thiessen is a visiting
of graciously conceding and McConnell and other GOP week, we heard the GOP The idea that DeMint and the Tea fellow at AEI.
e n d o r s i n g t h e R e p u b l i c a n leaders threw down the gauntlet to establishment complain how the Party are threatening the GOP's Photo Credit: BigStock/
nominee, Murkowski announced DeMint last week, telling him it Tea Party is threatening chances for reclaiming the mtrommer
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Republican majority--at risk? responsibility, then delivering opponents virtually without fail. lose those independents would be
GOP leader Mitch McConnell-- Alaska just became McConnell's Contrast that with the record of to take back the majority and go
w h o h e l p e d t o e n g i n e e r responsibility. the establishment candidates. back to business as usual.
M u r k o w s k i ' s r i s e t o t h e In an interview, Miller told me he When it became clear Charlie This may be why DeMint is less

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Amazing Arrogance, Gall, Chutzpa, and

Unmitigated Effrontery from Berkshire Hathaway
noreply@blogger.com (Michael instead of telling them to adapt, in Munger's rant is his comparison You know what? It would have
Shedlock) (Mish's Global the culture dies.” of the current financial mess to been a damn good thing if the
Economic Trend Analysis) “Hit the economy with enough Weimar Germany. Forgive me for culture died and assholes like
Submitted at 9/20/2010 10:07:00 PM misery and enough disruption, asking but pray tell in what kind Munger got wiped out. Munger
It's hard to know exactly the destroy the currency, and God of fairytale fantasyland is the just proved beyond a shadow of a
precise words to describe the knows what happens,” Munger current deflationary credit bust doubt Wall Street's culture was
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billionaire vice chairman of bitching about a little bailout. You after the end of World War I that h t t p : / /
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What does Petroleum Distillates usage Blacked out
say about the Recovery?
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 9:59:00 AM
Reader Tim Wallace sent me an
interesting series of charts on
petroleum usage, GDP, and
Housing. This post is on
petroleum distillates.
Tim writes ...
Hello Mish
The following chart shows a drop
in oil distillates usage stared in
2006, the same year the housing
plunge started.
In my early career at Exxon I was
taught to watch these numbers.
Any time they fell below 0.8%,
you could expect a stagnant
economy, anytime below 0.5%, a
recessionary economy. Negative
numbers are very bad.
I used this chart to exit the
market in 2008, well before the
crash.
Oil Distillates Usage Decline
From Peak
click on any chart for sharper
image
This past summer, distillates
usage was propped up with
paving stimulus projects, yet we
are still more than 12% down
from peak usage.
That oil usage is still down this
much from the prior peak in spite
of those road projects is further
proof there has been no intrinsic
recovery, just a financial/banking
recovery.
Tim Thanks Tim.
Here are two more charts to
consider.
Historic Growth Levels
2010 Week by Week vs. Peak
Usage
Not Your Typical Recession or
Recovery
Please consider the following
chart courtesy of Dave
Rosenberg's September 16, 2010,
Breakfast with Dave.
In the typical recovery, GDP,
new home sales, corporate
earnings, retail sales, shipments,
and orders are all making new
highs after 33 months. Instead,
none of those items are. Add oil
distillates usage to the list.
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SINCE January 2009 The
Economist has been banned or
censored in 12 of the 190-odd
countries in which it is sold, with
news-stand (as opposed to
subscription) copies particularly
at risk. India, the only democracy
on our list, has censored 31 issues
and at first glance might look like
the worst culprit. However its
censorship consists of stamping
“Illegal” on maps of Kashmir
because it disputes the borders
shown. China is more
proscriptive. Distributors destroy
copies or remove articles that
contain contentious political
content, and maps of Taiwan are
usually blacked out. In Sri Lanka
both news-stand and subscription
copies with coverage of the
country may be confiscated at
customs. They are then released a
couple of weeks later (sometimes
sooner if the story is also reported
by another news outlet). In
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Malaysia the information ministry
blacks out some stories that it
judges may offend Muslims,
among other things. And in Libya,
four consecutive editions were
confiscated in late August/early
September 2009, the first of
which featured a piece critical of
Muammar Qaddafi.
Images can also prompt action.
The cover of last year's Christmas
issue showing Adam and Eve was
censored in five countries.
Malaysian officials covered up
Eve's breasts. Pakistan objected to
the depiction of Adam, which it
said broke a prohibition on
depicting Koranic figures.
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And Now Brazil Is Getting Serious Top 10 Weirdest

About Weakening Its Own Currency Prescription Drug Side
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real’s strength. First the central Most of us take prescription possibility of unwanted side
bank appears to have stepped up drugs-- drugs that, by law, must effects. Some medications can
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has been conducted two auctions some point in our lives. If all goes take them on an empty stomach,
a day to buy dollars since Sept 8. well, the drug works for you as it's for example, so it's a pretty simple
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intervention to have run $1 bln a "magic bullet," or drug that works There are some prescription
day for most of the last week. To the same for everyone without drugs, though, that can cause side
put that in perspective, in the Jan- any risks or side effects. A side effects that are wildly different
Aug period, the central bank effect is basically an unintended from those listed above. In some
appears to have bought about occurrence that results from cases, the side effects were
$18.6 bln. That compares to $7.3 taking a drug. Side effects can be discovered during FDA trials and
in the same period last year. good or bad, depending on how were deemed acceptable risks. In
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threatened to intervene in the differentials and strong currency The BRL weakened yesterday antihistamines, used to help with to be catastrophic but weren't well
futures market-reverse currency is contributing to the yawning and remains pinned near those allergy symptoms like itchy eyes -known until after the drug was
swaps. These were last conducted current account deficit, which is lows today. Initial resistance for and sneezing, have the side effect widely used. Let's start off with a
in May last year. Third, Finance approaching record levels. the US dollar is seen near of making you feel very sleepy. If weird side effect that falls under
Minister Mantega yesterday In addition to official words and BRL1.7350. A break could spur you're having trouble sleeping, the former category -- you may
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What can we learn from urban

archaeology?
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) landscapes beneath the concrete York, Philadelphia, Boston and
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:00:00 PM below. It wasn't until the 19th Seattle became some of the first
century that civilizations began to domestic urban archaeological
W h e n y o u t h i n k o f a n remove refuse from construction sites.
archaeological dig, or excavation, projects. Before that, refuse was Before a site is excavated, a great
you probably have visions of buried, reused, or broken down deal of research about the area's
d e s e r t l a n d s c a p e s , w i t h and trampled on until a new history must be done to tell a
researchers on their hands and structure was built on top. researcher whether or not the site
knees, brushing sand from an Because of this, cities are higher is an area of opportunity. Dirt is
ancient skeleton. While this is a in elevation than they used to be, usually hauled away because of a
r e a l i s t i c i m a g e f o r m a n y the land literally raised by the lack of space, and security is a
archaeological digs, it's not an debris of the past. Cities that have
accurate picture for another type burned, like Atlanta, Ga., which
must. Aside from these
differences, urban archaeology is
Dan Harmon of 'Community'
o f a r c h a e o l o g y : u r b a n burned during the American Civil
archaeology. War, and London, England, are
much the same as traditional field
work at sites far from civilization. on Christmas Animation and
Imagine a city block. Pedestrian even more likely to have a rich Instead of learning about an
and automobile traffic congest the bevy of past relics beneath.
asphalt underfoot. Now imagine a There's one hitch to urban
ancient king, we learn about our
more recent past, how
the Second Season
Joel Keller (TV Squad) challenge it, and I want to
researcher on his or her hands and archaeology: You can't just dig neighborhoods were settled and
knees, brushing dirt from a more through any city street. Urban Submitted at 9/21/2010 10:00:00 AM challenge it by celebrating it, and
how our previous neighbors may
recent artifact. That's what urban a r c h a e o l o g i s t s m u s t b e I want to celebrate it by
have lived.
Filed under: Features, Celebrity c h a l l e n g i n g i t . "
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learn a lot from it. redevelopment project begins. For your content and you're reading it
Harmon, you have to expect to journeys, which leads to very long
The basics of urban archaeology example, in the 1970s, when a on someone else's site, please read
hear a certain amount of verbal interviews. In fact, we spoke for
are the same as the basics of non- new parking lot was built in Paris, our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
gymnastics in his replies to your almost an hour earlier this month
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conversation turned to what he September 23 at 8PM ET on
cities -- areas that have been beneath the building site of the Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
thought of one of his stars, Alison NBC), including how he's going
developed for hundreds of years. Louvre Museum and was actually Catastrophe.
Brie, who does double-duty on t o e x p l o r e t h e r o m a n t i c
Pick any major city and you can used in its construction. In the
'Mad Men,' Harmon said this: entanglements from the season
bet that much of the area has a United States, freeway and
"Alison is like this stem cell when o n e f i n a l e , t h e s t o p - a c t i o n
rich history of past dwellings and subway projects in Atlanta, New
it comes to the characters she can animated Christmas episode he's
inhabit, which is a really cool planning, and what it'll be like to
thing." When I asked him about g o h e a d - t o - h e a d w i t h t h e
how the bromance between Abed juggernaut known as 'The Big
(Danny Pudi) and Troy (Donald Bang Theory.'
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3D Life-Size Paper-Cut Portals (5 pics)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My tunnel technique one "giant" step made a landing on the Moon. Communist Romania, travel was
Modern Metropolis) further and created them as big as 'Houston, we have a problem' was only possible in your mind."
Submitted at 9/21/2010 6:00:00 PM six feet wide. The installation, uttered during the mission and Watch Dezsö discuss the
called Sometimes in My Dreams I continues to be magically inspiration for and creation of
Taking paper-cut art to new Fly, was placed behind Rice compelling turn of phrase. What Sometimes in My Dreams I Fly,
heights, Hungarian artist Andrea Gallery's large glass walls to captures my imagination is how here.
Dezsö created 3D life-size paper- engage viewers, asking them to not being able to go somewhere Dezsö's latest show, titled Things
cut portals that transported peer inside. As Dezsö explains, "I physically opens the possibility of We Think When We Believe We
viewers into another world. want to transport the viewer, as epic mental Odysseys, and how Know, will open at the Frey
Known for her " tunnel books" when you pass by a house and we can stuff empty space full with Norris Gallery in San Francisco
which are made by individually look into a window and see a rich imaginary worlds, then move CA on October 7, 2010. Make
drawn, cut out, and painted paper different world from your own." in." sure to check it out!
that's then layered so that it's Inspired by childhood dreams of She continues, "Our imagination Andrea Dezsö
stacked one in front of another, space travel, Dezsö created this was really captured by how these {Photos by rTran75}
she usually makes miniature installation so that it's filled with i m a g i n a r y l u n a r l a n d s a p e men were exploring places where
worlds filled with depth and strange creatures that fly, walk r e f e r e n c e t h e A p o l l o 1 3 no one has been before. Because
detail. and crawl through a metropolis of expedition, which never actually we did not have passports and
At Rice Gallery, Dezsö took her moon colonies. As she says, "The could not go anywhere from

Winners of Red Bull's Epic Photo Contest (10 photos)

alice (Featured Blog Posts - My
Modern Metropolis)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:30:00 PM
Just who would be a better judge
of sports and adventure
photography than Red Bull? More
than just the world's most popular
energy drink, Red Bull has
aggressively marketed itself so
that the brand name is
synonymous with extreme sports
and daring stunts. In fact, who
doesn't remember skydiver Paul
Steiner showing us what a
connecting flight truly means?
The images were unforgettable. Playground Winner
Red Bull is back with their Tim Korbmacher
annual photography contest, Sequence Winner
called Red Bull Illume, revealing Miguel Angel Lopez Virgen
a list of 50 finalists as well as Spirit Winner
their winners. As you will see, Adam Kokot
each of the ten category winners, Wings Winner
as shown below, represent an Marcel Lämmerhirt
"extremely" unique view of an You can see the top 50 finalists,
action or adventure sport that will here, or download the category
inspire you to push your own winners' wallpapers, here.
limits both as a photogrpaher and Close Up Category Winner Daniel Grund Red Bull Illume
as a sportsman (or sportswoman). Nathan Smith Culture Winner
Overall Winner and Illumination Energy Winner Vincent Perraud
Category Winner Stuart Gibson New Creativity Winner
Chris Burkard Experimental Winner Eric Berger

The 10 Best Jobs Of The Future

Ben Paynter (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 11:31:24 AM
Job of the Future Todd Detwiler
Jobs may be scarce today, but if minds, or manning a fusion
current trends hold, pretty soon reactor. The jobs are coming. Feel
there will be plenty of fun, free to thank us over lunch at the
lucrative gigs. If you have the could be flying starships, reading hotel you built- on Mars.
vision to start prepping now, you Click to launch the photo gallery.
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Justice Undone
Francesco Bastagli (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:00:00 PM
“Come stai…? Tutto bene…?”
This had been U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan's opening
line since the early days of our
professional relationship. I'd heard
him use the greeting many times
as he rose through the ranks,
resorting to it whenever he met an
Italian colleague (like me). Still,
those words never failed to warm
my heart. Walking around his
desk Kofi smiled, hand stretched
out towards the black leather
sofa.It was early September 2006.
Both Annan and I were about to
leave the United Nations for good.
He was leaving after two terms in
office. I had just resigned, in
protest, from my post as his
special representative in Western
Sahara. Dashing any remaining
hopes, our last conversation
turned out to be emblematic of the
blandness and ambiguities that
characterize U.N. engagement
with Africa's last colony. Since
then, I have witnessed the
organization and its leaders
continuing to perpetuate a grave
injustice in Western Sahara,
contrary to their own promises
and obligations.
Half the size of France, Western
Sahara lies on the Atlantic coast
of Africa between Morocco and
Mauritania. A desert land, it has
been inhabited since time
immemorial by Arab-Berber
nomadic tribes. Since the mid-
'60s, the United Nations has
issued a staggering number of
resolutions supporting the
Saharawis' inalienable right to self
-determination under the U.N.
Charter. Yet, when Spain
withdrew from what was then
Spanish Sahara in 1976, it failed
to organize a referendum so that
its inhabitants could choose their
future status. And the territory
was soon swallowed up by a new
colonizer: King Hassan II of
Morocco.
In invading Western Sahara, the
King was pursuing an old vision
of greater Morocco and seeking
access to natural resources. He
launched a "Green March" of
some 350,000 Moroccans who
crossed the border unopposed by
the Spanish army. The subsequent
military operation was brutal.
Under bombings by the Moroccan
air force, tens of thousands of
Saharawis began to flee the few
urban areas for the desert inland.
Morocco started a program of
settlements not dissimilar from
that carried out by Israel in Gaza
and the West Bank after the Six-
Day War. A bloody desert war
ensued between the occupier and
the pro-independence
POLISARIO front. It was not
until 1991 that the two sides
agreed on a ceasefire to be
followed within nine months by a
referendum for self-
determination, facilitated by the
United Nations. However,
because of Moroccan resistance
supported by powerful allies like
France and the United States, that
referendum never took place.
The price of inaction has been
high. Morocco has constructed a
wall 1,400 miles long, cutting the
entire territory of Western Sahara
in half. An amazing sight, the
berm separates the territory under
Moroccan control, on the Atlantic
coast, from an area bordering
Mauritania and Algeria, where
POLISARIO fighters roam. Over
120,000 refugees who fled the
invasion eke out a miserable life
in five camps scattered in a
forbidding corner of the Algerian
desert. On the western side of the
divide, Saharawis live in the
underbelly of what the West likes
to depict as a benevolent
Moroccan regime. Freedoms of
movement, expression, and
assembly are denied;
discrimination, arbitrary
detentions, and beatings are
routine occurrences. Amnesty
International, Human Rights
Watch, and the Robert F.
Kennedy Center for Justice have
repeatedly decried Moroccan
human rights violations.
Ignoring international norms on
resource exploitation in a territory
under occupation, Morocco has
also been selling the riches of
Western Sahara. They range from
valuable phosphate to desert sand,
shipped in a steady flow to the
shores of European beach resorts.
In a highly profitable agreement,
Morocco has also granted
European Union fleets access to
Western Sahara fishing grounds,
among the richest in the world.
And oil may soon be an additional
perk for the occupier.
What started half a century ago
as a straightforward
decolonization issue has become a
political maze. The basic
question, however, is simple.
POLISARIO seeks a referendum
with three options: integration
with Morocco, autonomy under
Moroccan rule, or independence.
This was the gist of a plan
formulated in 2003 by former
U.S. secretary of state James
Baker who was then the secretary
general's envoy for Western
Sahara. Baker's proposal was
unanimously supported by the
Security Council and accepted by
the Polisario. However, in April
2004, Morocco declared that it
could not agree to any formula
that included the independence of
Western Sahara as a possible
outcome. Security Council
members failed to react to this
rebuff. Little has happened since,
and Rabat has only offered to
grant the Saharawis some sort of
ill-defined autonomy under
Moroccan sovereignty.
It cannot be credibly argued that
the option of independence should
be excluded a priori in post-
colonial self-determination. Yet,
over the years, Morocco's
powerful patrons have favoured
political expediency over
international legality. France is so
unquestioning in its support of
Morocco as to block even a
reference to Saharawi human
rights in Security Council
resolutions. Other Council
members waver between
indifference and collusion.
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American Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, an old friend of
Morocco, has so far dashed
Saharawi hopes despite
representing the supposedly
principled Obama administration.
Successive secretaries-general
have learned from their
governmental masters. I witnessed
this firsthand when serving as
Kofi Annan's representative in the
territory between 2005 and 2006.
After the bloody repression of
street demonstrations in El Aaiún,
Western Sahara's capital city, in
December 2005, the then head of
the UN peacekeeping department
ignored my recommendation to
express to the Moroccan
authorities the concern of the
United Nations. As the EU-
Morocco fisheries negotiations
got under way, the U.N decided
not to urge Europe to eschew an
illegal agreement that flew in the
face of a U.N. Legal Advisor
opinion. The U.N. Charter
provides that, pending self-
determination, the international
community should protect the
rights of the inhabitants of non-
self-governing territories. They
should receive priority economic
assistance and be helped to
develop political institutions. I
included a proposal to this effect
in the draft of a report to be
submitted by Kofi Annan to the
Security Council in the fall of
2006, only to see it struck out of
the text just before publication.
After resigning my position, I
JUSTICE page 42
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JUSTICE
continued from page 41
saw the new secretary general,
Ban Ki-moon, take an even more
opportunistic line. His latest
report to the Security Council,
issued in April 2010, was so
biased as to lead POLISARIO
President Mohamed Abdelaziz to
openly question the Secretary-
General's impartiality.
In recent months, tension has
been growing again in the
occupied territory and in the
refugee camps, a reminder that
neglect is no solution for Western
Sahara. Indeed, the status of
Western Sahara has been such a
bone of contention between
Algeria and Morocco—Cold War-
era foes still vying for influence
over the territory—that until the
issue is settled, diplomatic
relations will remain frozen, and
there will be no intelligence
cooperation to defeat the local
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Ratings: Dancing Dominates Premiere
fulfilling its obligations towards
the Saharawi people, the Night; Lone Star Disappoints
international community would Adam Bryant (TVGuide.com:
put into practice its often-empty Breaking News)
rhetoric about conflict prevention. Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:39:00 PM
More importantly, U.N. leaders
would redress a historic injustice Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino,
that diminishes both themselves Karina Smirnoff
and the organization. On the first official night of the
A former U.N. Assistant fall TV season, Dancing with the
Secretary-General for Stars led ABC to a ratings win,
peacekeeping, Francesco Bastagli while Fox's Lone Star was the
is a senior advisor at the Institute night's biggest disappointment,
for International Political Studies according Nielsen estimates.
in Milan. Dancing's two-hour premiere
For more TNR, become a fan on averaged 21 million viewers and
Facebook and follow us on improved 22 percent in the adults-
Twitter. 18-to-49 demographic over last
fall. Leading out of Dancing,
Castle(11.2 million viewers) also
saw a 22 percent bump in the to The Big Bang Theory's improved 11 percent in the demo
demo versus last year. performance last year. from a week ago, while Gossip
Fall TV Popularity Contest: NBC's conspiracy thriller, The Girl held steady with 1.9 million
Which new premieres won you Event(11.2 million viewers), was viewers.
over? Which flopped?
CBS took second place, bolstered
strong out of the gate, leading
NBC to third place for the night.
In cable news, HBO's Sunday
premiere of Boardwalk Empire
video, for at least 30 minutes, 4 to by a solid (but lower-than- Chuck(6.1 million viewers) was drew 4.8 million viewers, making
5 times per week. Next Mountain expected) debut for Hawaii Five- down from Heroes' debut a year it the network's biggest series
Pose 0, which drew 13.8 million ago, and new series Chase(7.3 premiere in more than six years.
This entry passed through the v i e w e r s . I t w o n t h e 1 0 / 9 c million viewers) dropped a The number grew to 7.1 million
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on someone else's site, please read p e r f o r m a n c e a y e a r a g o . Read our recaps of The Event, This entry passed through the
our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ Two and a Half Men(14.5 million Lone Star and more! Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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Five Filters featured article: demo, while other returning big numbers for Fox, as Lone Star on someone else's site, please read
Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- comedies, How I Met Your drew only 4.1 million viewers and our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/
Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Mother(8.8 million viewers) and dropped 68 percent of its lead-in, content-only/faq.php
Catastrophe. Rules of Engagement(8.3 million House(10.5 million viewers), Five Filters featured article:
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Soap Veteran Kim Zimmer Joins One Life to Live

Michael Logan (TVGuide.com: wanted my sorry ass. actress, I was balls to the wall as TV Guide Magazine: Let's face
Breaking News) TV Guide Magazine: So you then always. I'd gained a lot of it, you're a powerhouse — you
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:46:00 PM hit up OLTL? confidence after my time on The suck up a lot of oxygen when you
Zimmer: Not at all! The offer Doctors, so it wasn't like I was do your Zimmer thing — and
Kim Zimmer came outta nowhere. It's just so coming in blind or starstruck or because of that there is some
Can one soap possibly contain bizarre that I'm resurrecting this nervous about working with concern among fans that you'll
Erika Slezak, Robin Strasser and character. It's really lovely to be Strasser and Slezak and Phil take attention away from their
Kim Zimmer without imploding? wanted. I didn't even try to get Carey [Asa] and Clint Ritchie and favorites.
We'll find out October 1, when back on OLTL. I ridiculously Bobby Woods [Bo]. I was their Zimmer: I know the fans are
Guiding Light alum Zimmer assumed CBS would want to keep peer. afraid that'll happen, and if it did
returns to One Life to Live as me in the family. TV Guide Magazine: So what's that would be awful. Hey, I used
Echo DiSavoy, a role she was TV Guide Magazine: With all the Echo really up to? Cough it up, to bitch about the same thing over
fired from 27 years ago. Back campaigning you did to get a new doll. at GL. "Why are you focusing on
then, Echo sneakily seduced Clint gig, you didn't bother calling the Zimmer: She comes to town with all these new damn characters
Buchanan and tried to get him show you came from? Seriously? a juicy little secret I can't talk when it's the longtimers the
convicted of murder. And she's Zimmer: Hey! Hey! I didn't come about but it should shock a few audience wants to see?" I was
still a hell-raiser. "Echo is going from that show! I had four years people. She's also flat broke and always pissed about that! So I am
to change the lives of a lot of on The Doctors before Echo came hasn't been able to find another very sympathetic. I'm definitely
people in Llanview — she's got along. Here's what happened. Gentry — who was coaxing her sugar daddy so she comes seeking not trying to step on anybody's
some secrets and some scores to Frank Valentini and I ran into the whole time and he ended up in employment. She used to be a toes or take anybody's airtime, by
settle from way back," says exec each other on a rental-car shuttle jail. They tarred and feathered fashion photographer, so she any means. And I've been made to
p r o d u c e r F r a n k V a l e n t i n i . in L.A. last year when GL was Echo and sent her out of town. I wants to shoot for The Banner and feel very welcome. Erika called
"There's also something that going off the air and we started was supposed to be there for three Viki says, "Are you out of your me three times before I agreed to
happened with Echo in the more kibitzing about how funny it years and got the axe after three mind? Why would I ever hire the role, just to put a little bee in
recent past that some of our would be if Echo came back. But months, though Erika Slezak you? You tried to convict my my bonnet about how fun it would
characters will be very surprised we were just throwing it around. swears I was there six months. I husband on murder charges!" be to work together again. She
to know about. It will mean great It was nothing serious. Then one still don't know why they fired Echo also claims she's back to was very terrific and supportive.
story for all our vets." TV Guide day he calls me out of the clear me. visit her old boyfriend, who But I understand the fans. There
Magazine dished with the four- blue. I'm so happy to be back. TV Guide Magazine: But ain'tcha happens to be Charlie Banks are people on the show like Ilene
time Emmy-winning Zimmer Working with Erika and Robin glad it happened? [Brian Kerwin], but she's really Kristen [Roxie] who would love
about her trip back to Llanview. again is a gas. Zimmer: Are you kidding? It was doing it to make Viki bristle. And to be working more. I just think
Good news! She's as marvelously TV Guide Magazine: When we the best thing that could have then she tries to get Dorian to side it's a sign of the times at OLTL
mouthy as ever! last saw Echo, didn't she hold happened to me because GL came with her because, after all, Dorian that the producers and writers are
TV Guide Magazine: Leave it to Clint [then played by Clint along almost right away. I would hates Viki too — but Dorian tells looking for ways to shake things
you to find a job on the last soap Ritchie, now Jerry verDorn] never have done Reva. Echo she has a newfound respect up.
left in New York! responsible for the death of her TV Guide Magazine: What was for Viki, which of course makes TV Guide Magazine: You got a
Zimmer: I gotta stay put, baby! mother? Where was that left? Kim Zimmer like 27 years ago? Echo laugh. Robin and I had so new look for OLTL?
I'm an east-coaster! Zimmer: I believe that was all a Zimmer: My daughter, Rachel, much fun giggling our way Zimmer: Well it's not the look I
TV Guide Magazine: But after fabrication in Echo's mind. She wasn't even a year old when I did through our scenes. She calls me a had at the end of GL, thank God!
GL was cancelled, weren't you out was a little wacked. She was OLTL, so as much fun as I was slut, so that's fun. Listen, if I'm I'm wearing some very nice
in L.A. flirting up a storm to get looking for someone to blame but having on the show, I was also only here to be a vehicle for these upscale clothing. It's great to be
yourself a soap job there? I don't think Clint had anything to preoccupied with my leaky great actors to get some more on a show once again that actually
Zimmer: Yeah, and a lot of good do with it. She had a brother Giles breasts and wanting to be home good story, I'm fine with that. I
that did me! [ Laughs] Nobody — played by the fantastic Robert with my little babies. But, as an got a job! SOAP page 45
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Fall Preview: Raising Hope Delivers the Funny

Steve Gutierrez (TVGuide.com: "Sometimes it's harder to get her
Breaking News) to keep her clothes on!" Garcia
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:00:00 PM jokes. ("She's a gold mine," says
Plimpton.)
Raising Hope, Lucas Neff For those afraid for the child's
"There's gotta be more to life than safety, try not to worry: Kids are
cleaning the same pool over and resilient. "I once clocked one of
over!" declares Raising Hope's 23 mine [by accident] right in the 'Glee' Season 2 Premiere
-year-old Jimmy Chance. "There head with a frying pan. He's OK!
isn't," his mother replies, before And besides, it was funny!"
Review: How Long Will
heading out for a day of scrubbing Garcia says with a laugh, before the Good Times Last?
toilets. reassuring us all will be fine in the Maureen Ryan (TV Squad)
"I'm just drawn to the underdogs end. "I've read a couple things
Submitted at 9/21/2010 9:30:00 AM
of the world," creator Greg online like, 'That's sick! A child in
Garcia( My Name Is Earl) says peril? How is that going to be Filed under: Reality-Free, Fall
about his latest characters: the funny?' Big spoiler alert: The TV, Stay Tuned Remember when
Chance family, four financially baby never dies." 'Glee' (8PM ET Tuesday, Fox)
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under one roof. "They're living Want more fall preview scoop? [the show] earns any of the now! toddler -- mischievous, fresh,
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don't end there. After a one-night now! There's Jimmy changing — and Full-Text RSS service — if this is adorable?
stand with a beautiful serial killer, Just like Earl, Raising Hope is vomiting on — his baby girl for your content and you're reading it How quickly they grow up. In the
Jimmy ( Lucas Neff) becomes a both cutting and sweet — a single the first time and the kid tumbling on someone else's site, please read second half of the show's first
single parent, making his own -camera comedy in which the around the backseat after a wide our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/ season, as the hype reached fever
folks ridiculously young-looking broad humor springs from real- turn: "I just thought you had to content-only/faq.php pitch, 'Glee' had become the TV
grandparents. "I told you getting life problems. "It might be strap the baby to the seat, not the Five Filters featured article: equivalent of a teenager -- tart and
pregnant at 15 would pay off heightened a bit for the sake of seat to the car!" cries the freaked- Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- capable of sweetness, sure, but
eventually!" father Burt ( Garret television, but the situations are out new dad. Even freakier, Reporting of Falluja's Cancer also frequently possessed by wild
Dillahunt) tells his wife, Virginia ones many people find themselves Jimmy's senile great-grandmother, Catastrophe. mood swings, identity crises and
( Martha Plimpton). "It's the blind in when raising a kid for the first played by 84-year-old Cloris infected with an increasingly not-
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has a wardrobe budget. I was
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one? Echo 2.0?
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strange. I think I shocked Frank
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who always used sort of a phony
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Echo DiSavoy because she
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woman. You gotta find her heart!"
And I'm like, "But I wanna be a
bitch!" Of course, it doesn't help
that so far I'm playing all my
scenes standing in people's
doorways because no one wants
to invite Echo into their homes. [
Laughs] No one wants her!
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GL, and that's not what I wanted it
sentenced to three years probation
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difficult because now I am able to
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was worth to me, to see it as the
gift that it was, and how
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my family. Trust me, there will
still be some fabulous dish in
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ESPN.com news services poor judgment," Tannenbaum Not Catching On not guilty at the time, but he chastised by coach Rex Ryan --
(ESPN.com) said. Braylon Edwards' impact hasn't ended up pleading no contest to publicly and privately. In a team
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:07:09 PM "We are reviewing the been felt so far this season. The misdemeanor aggravated meeting, Ryan announced that he
information with the league and Jets are the only team this season disorderly conduct. He received was prepared to give Edwards a
Updated: September 21, 2010, will impose the appropriate to get fewer than 100 receiving probation and a $1,000 fine. game ball for his performance, but
3:07 PM ET disciplinary measures." yards from their wide receivers. Edwards was required to make he decided against it because of
NEW YORK -- New York Jets The Player Protect program -- ESPN Stats & Information that plea in person, and it took the penalty.
wide receiver Braylon Edwards provides a 24-hour driving service Fewest receiving yards from him away from the Jets for a day "I love the way he played -- he
was arrested Tuesday on charges exclusively for professional receivers in 2010 Jets 98* Chiefs as they prepared for a playoff was really into it -- but you're
of driving while intoxicated after athletes. The company also 114 Vikings 129 Lions 146 game last Jan. 12. At the time, the killing us," Ryan told reporters.
officers pulled him over because provides security, if requested, Buccaneers 165*54 from Jets feared he would be slapped "You can't put the team in that
his SUV had excessive tinting on from current or former law- Edwards, 44 from Jerricho with a one-game suspension from kind of jeopardy. I appreciate how
its windows, police said. enforcement agents. Cotchery the NFL, but they learned in late passionate he is, but you don't
The 27-year-old Edwards was If a player wants a lift home, he Ira Judelson, a New York City- June that there would be no want to be selfish. That's basically
pulled over on the west side of can call any time and will be based bail bondsman, was at the sanction from the league. what that is."
Manhattan around 5:15 a.m., and driven home in a luxury SUV or a courthouse on Tuesday and According to a league Jets punter Steve Weatherford
officers noticed a strong smell of Mercedes limo or an executive indicated that he had been spokesman, DUIs are reviewed wasn't happy with his teammate's
a l c o h o l , s a i d c h i e f N Y P D limo van. instructed to pay whatever bail is under the NFL's substance-abuse situation.
spokesman Paul Browne. The Jets, through their player necessary to keep Edwards out of policy. There is no automatic "It's obviously disappointing
Edwards was given a breath test development program, distributed jail. suspension under any because he's a big part of our team
at the scene and another at a leaflets on the program to every During his weekly spot on circumstances. The league isn't offensively," he said on ESPN's
police station. His blood alcohol player on the team. It informs WFAN-AM on Tuesday morning, commenting on a possible SportsCenter on Tuesday.
level was .16, twice the legal them they aren't charged for the Jets wide receiver Jerricho outcome or specifics. This might be Edwards' final
limit, officials said. There were service, that the club picks up the Cotchery said Edwards attended a The first substance-abuse offense season with the Jets. In the
four other people in the SUV at expense. Monday night event in support of is not subject to suspension for a offseason, he signed a one-year
the time. Edwards, who caught a Cotchery's nonprofit foundation player, only a fine, which is half tender for $6.05 million, and he's
T h e J e t s e x p r e s s e d t h e i r touchdown pass and two-point benefiting underprivileged youth of a game check with a maximum due to become an unrestricted free
disappointment in the receiver in conversion on Sunday in the Jets' in Manhattan. Cotchery said of $50,000. It is not known if agent in 2011.
a statement from general manager victory over the New England several teammates were there, and Edwards ever had a violation The Jets were heavily criticized
Mike Tannenbaum on Tuesday. Patriots, is currently in police the event ran from 6:30 p.m. until under the substance-abuse policy in the offseason for acquiring
More From ESPNNewYork.com custody and will be arraigned 9:30 p.m. on Manhattan's west (the program is confidential) and players with off-the-field issues.
From Hard Knocks to the later Tuesday. side. if he would be subject to a They traded for wide receiver
treatment of a female reporter, the Edwards' attorney, Peter Frankel, It's not clear where Edwards was suspension for a second offense. Santonio Holmes even though he
Jets' image has taken some hits, so refused to comment on his client's coming from when he was pulled The assault charge that Edwards was facing a four-game
the team needs to get tough with arrest. over. previously had while in Cleveland suspension for violating the
Braylon Edwards, writes Rich "It's too early in the process to say The Jets acquired Edwards, a is covered under the NFL's league's substance-abuse policy.
Cimini. Story anything at this point," he said former first-round pick out of personal conduct policy and the He has served two games.
• Check out the Jets blog outside the courtroom at the Michigan in 2005, from the two can't be used together against Also, they traded for cornerback
"We are very disappointed in M a n h a t t a n C r i m i n a l C o u r t Cleveland Browns only days after a player. Antonio Cromartie, whose tenure
Braylon's actions this morning. B u i l d i n g . he was accused of punching a Edwards' big game Sunday was with the San Diego Chargers was
The Player Protect program is in Frankel has represented man outside a Cleveland overshadowed by a taunting tainted by paternity issues. At the
place for our organization to imprisoned former Giants wide nightclub in October 2009. The penalty he received after his time of the trade, in March,
prevent this situation. Braylon is receiver Plaxico Burress in his victim was an acquaintance of touchdown.
aware of this program and showed attempts to gain work release. Jets LeBron James. Edwards pleaded On Monday, Edwards was NEW page 53
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Source: Colorado finalizing deal to play in Pac-10 in

2011
ESPN.com news services told ESPN.com's Ted Miller via season. season, as well as a 12-team
(ESPN.com) text message on Tuesday. The Big 12 is expected to schedule for 2012 that could be
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:27:48 PM "Beyond that I can't say." announce its scheduling decision implemented next season if
The Big 12 declined to comment Sept. 28-29, when the necessary.
Updated: September 21, 2010, on the report.
2:27 PM ET "[I] can't confirm it, [our] lawyers
conference's member
administrators meet in Dallas,
Scott hopes to have a resolution
on Colorado's fate, as well as an
New Overdraft
Attorneys at the University of still working on it with the
Colorado are finalizing a deal to conference," Colorado spokesman
according to the report.
"There is too much consensus to
agreement on a division split for
football when the conference goes
Rules: To Opt in
allow the school to begin playing D a v i d P l a t i s a i d T u e s d a y .
Pac-10 football next season, a "[We're] hopeful resolution one
get Colorado on its way to the Pac
-10," an administrator at a Big 12
to 12 teams, and a new revenue-
sharing model by the end of next
or Not to Opt in
school source told ESPN's Joe way or the other will be finalized school told Orangebloods.com. month. The board of directors nospam@example.com
Schad on Tuesday. very soon." "That's what Colorado and the Pac could vote on these issues at a (Quizzle.com) (Financiallyfit on
The University of Colorado Nebraska also is leaving the Big -10 want. That's what the Big 12 meeting Oct. 21. Shine)
Board of Regents has a meeting 12 -- for the Big Ten. wants." ESPN college football reporter Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:42:07 PM
scheduled for Tuesday night. On Sept. 11, Scott said Colorado The sticking point has been Joe Schad, ESPN.com Pac-10 By: Kristie Lorette, Quizzle.com
C o l o r a d o a n d U t a h , o f t h e officials told him negotiations money. By leaving the Big 12 reporter Ted Miller and New overdraft rules are in full
Mountain West, announced earlier with the Big 12 about a buyout for with just one season of notice, ESPN.com Big 12 reporter David effect, leaving many consumers
this year that they are joining the leaving a year early were ongoing. Colorado would owe an 80 Ubben contributed to this report. wondering if it’s best to opt in to
Pac-10. "The chances are worse than 50- percent forfeiture of revenues in a Information from The Associated now optional overdraft protection
The exact departure date for 50," Scott said. "I don't know how t w o - y e a r p e r i o d , Press was used in this report. or go without it. Learn what the
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negotiations with Big 12," Scott Colorado leave before next Colorado does not join next

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Denver Broncos coach Josh Kenny McKinley's

McDaniels: No signs Kenny McKinley Behavior Was Not
was suicidal Alarming, Broncos Say
ESPN.com news services Sunday before its game against nothing to suggest anything like Hal Spivack (FanHouse Main)
(ESPN.com) Indianapolis and players will wear this. It's a shock that caught us by Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:35:00 PM

Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:52:08 PM decals on their helmets to surprise."

remember McKinley. "Everybody has their Filed under: Broncos Denver
Updated: September 21, 2010, "I think our team is like a family, explanations, their own theories. Broncos head coach Josh
2:52 PM ET and together, we'll push through," Whether it was injuries, no one's McDaniels addressed the apparent
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Denver McDaniels said, according to going to know for sure," suicide of wide receiver Kenny
Broncos coach Josh McDaniels KDVR-TV. "Our team is a close- Bondarowicz told The Associated McKinley during his weekly press
said in a tearful news conference knit group and it was good to Press. "It's a tough situation all the conference on Tuesday.
Tuesday that nobody in the have them together here today to way around. "He was a special person ... had a
organization saw any hint that share in the grieving process." "Some people speculate that it great smile ... great personality,"
wide receiver Kenny McKinley McKinley was a second-year pro was his being injured, some said it McDaniels said. "He was always
was suicidal before he took his who was on the team's injured was financial challenges. ... It's a in a good mood, certainly always
life. reserve list. He played in eight tragic situation." well-liked by everyone who knew
Williamson: Heavy Hearts In games as a rookie in 2009 with Bondarowicz said funeral him. He had a great offseason and
Denver seven kick returns for 158 yards arrangements were pending. He we were looking forward to The 23-year-old former South
The Broncos are once again faced before going on IR with a left also said he's been in touch with Kenny making an impact on our Carolina standout was drafted by
with the prospect of moving on knee injury on Dec. 29. team and the players' association football team." the Broncos in the fifth round in
without a fallen teammate, writes He recovered and participated in about setting up a trust fund for Out of respect to McKinley's 2009. He played in eight games
ESPN.com's Bill Williamson. the team's offseason workouts but McKinley's son. family, McDaniels would not last year before being placed on
Blog got hurt again during the first Information from The Associated speak on specific circumstances injured reserve with a knee injury.
The Arapahoe County sheriff week of training camp and was Press was used in this report. regarding the situation. The team placed him on IR again
said the second-year pro died of placed on IR with a different left This entry passed through the McDaniels started to tear up and prior to the 2010 season. More:
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Cromartie had fathered seven Begley, ESPN senior NFL analyst

children from six different women
and was late on $25,000 in child-
support payments. To help
Cromartie, the Jets fronted him
$500,000 of his $1.1 million
salary.
If Edwards isn't active for Sunday
night's game in Miami, the Jets
would be without two of their top
three receivers. They have only
three other receivers on the roster,
Cotchery, Brad Smith and David
Clowney. They could look to re-
sign veteran Laveranues Coles.
Information from
ESPNNewYork.com's Rich
Cimini, ESPNNewYork.com's Ian
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Tiny Archibald
Tim Povtak (FanHouse Main) At age 62, Archibald continues to
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:30:00 PM reinvent himself through a slow
but startling transformation, from
Filed under: Celtics, Kings PORT a Hall of Fame player who retired
ST. LUCIE, Fla -- Nate "Tiny" in 1984 into one of the most
Archibald, one of the best players educated, most academically
in NBA history and arguably the driven ex-athletes in America
greatest little man ever, talked for today.
an hour last week in a small From basketball star to real role
auditorium/cafeteria to a group of model.
captivated middle school students From a youngster who almost
at the innovative Imagine Charter dropped out of his South Bronx
School. high school -- whose grades were
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basketball. Didn't need to. Didn't plans to add a Ph.D in Education
plan to. Doesn't even like to. to the Bachelor's, Master's and
That's not his message anymore. Professional degrees he already
That ticket to fame flamed out holds.
long ago.
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The poll showed support for the than 3 grams; Fat: mostly heart-
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you say yes. That's what I did, and Adventures of Captain Smiley listed an HD Mortal Kombat "kollection." WB reps wouldn't the MTVN Tribes anchored by
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DeathSpank: Thongs of
Virtue offers free DLC
during launch week
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:00 PM
Even if it seems oddly soon for a
sequel to DeathSpank, it might be
worth your while to grab Thongs
of Virtue soon rather than letting a
more appropriate interim pass. EA
announced that those who
purchase the followup during the
week of launch (September 20-27
on PSN, September 22-28 on
XBLA) will get two free items of
DLC.
After that period, the "Snowy
Mountain Dungeon" and playable
co-op character "Sidekick
Tankko" will be sold for $2.99/
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Bill Clinton: Don't Underestimate
Sarah Palin
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) she deflected reporters’ questions
Submitted at 9/21/2010 7:51:18 AM about presidential aspirations,
saying she’s focusing now on
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 12:51 PM midterm contests. “I’m clear on
Democrats who think Sarah Palin my plans,” she told reporters.
would be an easy mark if she “We’re getting through these
were the Republican presidential midterms as victors with common
candidate in 2012 should be -sense conservatives.”
careful what they wish for, says She declined to speculate on
former President Bill Clinton. when she might make a decision
“ I t ’ s a l w a y s a m i s t a k e t o she's very popular with the on 2012, saying, “I don’t know. I
underestimate your opponent,” conservative base,” ABC’s chief know that you can make a big
C l i n t o n t o l d G e o r g e political respondent quotes difference in America without
Stephanopoulos, the anchor of Clinton as saying in his blog, even having a title, so I’m grateful
ABC’s “Good Morning America.” George’s Bottom Line. “She gets for this opportunity.”
Clinton, in New York City to more people to come out. And she During her Iowa speech, she
launch the annual meeting of his h a s n ' t w o n a l l o f h e r opined that Republicans need to
Clinton Global Initiative, made endorsements, but she's won most move beyond internal rivalries to
240 Microsoft Points and $0.99/ the comment as Stephanopoulos of them. And you know, she's a beat Democrats in November.
80 Microsoft Points, respectively. asked him to reflect on the media compelling, attractive figure.” © Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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Obama's Aunt Says US Obligated to
Make Her Citizen
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 8:47:58 AM
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 01:47 PM
BOSTON — President Barack
Obama's aunt, who lived for years
illegally in Boston before being
granted asylum in May, said the
United States has an "obligation"
to grant her citizenship.
"If I come as an immigrant, you
have the obligation to make me a
citizen," Zeituni Onyango told
WBZ-TV in an interview that first
aired Monday.
Onyango came to the U.S. from
Kenya in 2000 and was denied
asylum by an immigration judge
in 2004. She was granted asylum
earlier this year by the same judge
who said she could be in danger if
she returned to her homeland.
She said she had intended to
return to Kenya but fell critically
ill and was hospitalized. When
she was discharged, she was
penniless and lived in a homeless
shelter for two years.
She told The Associated Press in
an exclusive interview last
December that she was paralyzed
for more than three months
because of an autoimmune
disorder called Guillain-Barre
syndrome and had to learn to walk
again.
"To me, America's dream became
America's worst nightmare," she
told the TV station in her first
interview since being granted
asylum.
It was after her illness, she said,
that she was assigned public
housing.
"I didn't ask for it; they gave it to
me," she said.
She said she resented being used
to attack her nephew, who has
never intervened in her
immigration case. "Don't drag my
child into it," she said.
She said she feels as if she's been
treated as "public enemy No. 1"
since her residency status went
public.
Onyango, the half sister of
Obama's late father, still lives in
public housing and collects $700
monthly disability. She doesn't
work, but said she volunteers time
at the Boys and Girls Club and
with the Boston Housing
Authority.
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Tea Party Patriots to
Hand out $1 Million for
Election Spending
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) “The people who swing these
Submitted at 9/21/2010 8:37:10 AM elections are people on the
ground,” said Mark Meckler, co-
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 01:37 PM founder and national coordinator
Tea Party Patriots, which says it of Tea Party Patriots, which says
i s t h e l a r g e s t T e a P a r t y it has more than 2,800 affiliated
organization, plans to distribute organizations and 15 million
$1 million in grants to local supporters in the U.S. Meckler
affiliates who are working to said his group will accept grant
i n f l u e n c e t h e N o v . 2 proposals until Sept. 26 and plans
c o n g r e s s i o n a l e l e c t i o n s . to distribute all the funds by Oct.
The $1 million is from an 4.
anonymous donor and can’t be Unlike the Tea Party Express, the
used to directly support any Patriots group doesn’t give money
candidate, organizers said at a directly to candidates or political
news conference in Washington action committees. It is organized
today. Instead, the funds can be as a nonprofit issue advocacy
used to help get voters to the polls group and therefore doesn’t have
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New Atomic-Laser Compass Determines Direction
of Magnetic Fields Optically
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:30:54 PM
The Good Old-Fashioned
Compass A new generation of
compasses trades the liquid-filled,
lensatic variety for a new breed of
precision atom-filled, laser-
weilding magnetic field finders.
Adamantios via Wikimedia
Modern technologies like GPS
and cell signal triangulation have
made the compass something of a
novelty for most people simply
trying to navigate their everyday
lives. But super-sensitive
compasses are necessary for many
industrial and scientific
applications, like oil and mineral
exploration, seismology, or even
maritime affairs (in emergencies,
anyhow). So perhaps a highly
accurate update to the good old
metal-magnet compasses of
yesteryear - one that employs
temperature-controlled atoms and
lasers beams- has perhaps been a
long time coming.
Researchers at Harvard wanted a
compass not only sensitive to the
size of a magnetic field, but also
its direction. Such compasses
exist, but they're not great; the
quality of their readings can be
inconsistent, making them more
or less an accessory but not a
primary tool in precision work. So
Science/ 57
Video: DIY Coilgun
Turns Voltage into
Kilojoule Projectile
Power
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 10:25:40 AM
The DIY Coilgun
Every now and then a DIY
project surfaces on the Internet
that's so cool we have to share it,
especially those we should
probably recommend you not try
at home. YouTube user
the team went to work turning through the atom cloud. By low power needs are superior to Larsplatoon's 1.25 kilojoule
some old rules of physics into a measuring the light that came out previous laser compasses. coilgun is exactly this kind of
precision compass that uses the other side, the compass can That's not to say a laser-rubidium project. We're not even sure
magnetically sensitive atoms to determine both size and direction compass will be offered on the where this battery-powered
m a k e e x t r e m e l y a c c u r a t e of the field acting upon the atoms. next iteration of the iPhone, but projectile slinger falls with respect
measurements of magnetic fields. While not the only compass ever w i t h some f u r t h e r to your state's gun laws, but
The compass consists of a conceived using lasers and atoms, experimentation and tweaking perhaps the best advice we can
domino-sized chip filled with it is the most accurate, at least such instruments could go a long offer is what's plastered to the side
rubidium-87 atoms heated to according to the Harvard team w a y t o w a r d i m p r o v i n g t h e o f t h e c o i l g u n ' s r e c e i v e r :
exactly 113 degrees. These that fashioned it. In experiments, accuracy of geologic surveys, "Danger. High Voltage. Do Not
magnetically sensitive atoms it measured fields with strengths earthquake prediction, and oil Touch. Death or Serious Injury
orient themselves in certain ways ranging from values lower than discovery in the foreseeable May Occur."
w h e n i n t h e p r e s e n c e o f a the Earth's magnetic field to those future. The 2-year on-and-off project
magnetic field. To measure their stronger than a small iron magnet. [ Science News] packs a 12-volt high drain battery,
orientation, the researchers shot a It minimizes interfering noise that four huge capacitor housings in
beam of linearly polarized light can throw off a reading, and its the stock, and a charging circuit in
the foregrip. A voltage regulator
board salvaged from old cell
VIDEO: page 58
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Robotic Swan Majestically Dances to
'Swan Lake,' Moving Viewers to Tears
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:29:10 PM
The Dying Swan Absolutely
majestic. Kerstin Gauffin
In America, the animalistic
automatons at Chuck E. Cheese
entertain (and sometimes terrify)
children with their inelegant,
slack-jawed singing, spastic
motions, and soulless, lifeless
eyes. It's a stark contrast with
Sweden, where a robot swan is
literally moving people to tears
with a four-minute, professionally
choreographed routine,
dramatically executed to
Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
The Dying Swan moves
sometimes gently, sometimes with
energetic passion, but apparently
always beautifully, leading the
few people who have witnessed
its dance to describe it with words
like "touching" and "beautiful." In
other words, its display conjures
adjectives not usually associated
with the motions of a robot.
The Dying Swan's creators at the
Mälardalen University wanted to
explore the role of robotics in art
and dance, hiring a respected
professional choreographer to
teach the swan its routine, which
it performs elegantly via 19
different joints that give it a high
degree of flexibility and dexterity.
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phones keeps the thing from video caption that the energy
overcharging itself, and a standard
trigger mechanism switches the
stored in the capacitors is 78 times
the lethal amount for human
power from the charger to the gate beings. We haven't tested the
that dumps all the energy stored thing ourselves, but the video
up in the capacitors to the coil, below speaks for itself.
which generates a magnetic field Destruction begins around 2:50.
strong enough to hurl a metal [ Make]
projectile downrange.
In other words: flip the charging
switch, watch the capacitors
charge up, and when the light
switches from red to green, fire
away. Larsplatoon claims in the
While the routine hasn't been
released publicly yet, the rest of
the world won't have to wait very
long to weep over the Dying
Swan's majesty; it makes its
public debut on Thursday at
Sweden's largest book fair in
Gothenburg.
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Take the Stamina Fitness Challenge
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 4:00:00 AM
by CJ Murphy| Print Article|
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Wondering just how well your
workouts are paying off? Try
performing a few Burpees. The
simple yet rigorous exercise
provides the short bursts the body
needs to build endurance. See
how many you can do before your
lungs start burning. That number
will help you determine your level
of conditioning.
HOW IT'S DONE
From a standing position [1],
squat down and place your hands
on the floor [2]. Now shoot your
legs straight behind you, as if you
were about to perform a pushup
[3]. Reverse the motion quickly to
come back up and jump as high as
you can with arms reaching
overhead. That's one rep. Land
softly, immediately going into the
squat again to begin the next rep.
THE TEST
Get a stopwatch and time
yourself. Perform as many
burpees as you can in one minute.
RATE YOURSELF
You performed…
• 15 or fewer burpees =
Seriously? That's pathetic.
• Around 25 = You're in average
shape.
• Around 35 = You've got good
stamina.
• 45 or more = You must never
get tired!
Didn't score as well as you'd like
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Fla. Reporter Forbidden
to Dig for Facts
Tina Korbe (The Foundry: when Pat Gonzeles, a U.S. Fish
Conservative Policy News.)
and Wildlife officer said, “You
Submitted at 9/21/2010 12:00:36 PM don’t have a permit to do this,”
and ordered Thomas to move
Posted September 21st, 2010 at down the beach.
1:00pm in Ongoing Priorities Further down the beach, yet
Print This Post another official — this time an A.
A Florida TV reporter this Negron with the National Park
weekend quickly learned that a Service — demanded to see
journalist’s job is not to dig for Thomas’ papers. Negron not only
facts and a beach is no place for a wanted to see a digging permit,
shovel — at least not in the eyes but he also wanted to see a press
of government officials. pass.
Dan Thomas, a reporter at the Papers just to film at a public
local ABC affiliate in Pensacola, beach? No home videos of the
on your burpee test? Follow this intervals in six minutes. Fla., took a shovel to the Gulf family vacation, then — and say
program, which uses the Tabata Week 4: Perform two blocks of Island National Seashore to goodbye to sand castles if digging
protocol—a highly famous and the new intervals (16 intervals in investigate just why BP workers is also off-limits. But even more
effective conditioning and fat- 12 minutes).
can’t dig more than six inches in importantly, how’s a journalist
burning method—to improve your Week 5: Take the burpee test and the sand to look for oil. Park supposed to deliver the news if
anaerobic endurance. see how you've improved. Related officials promptly stopped him. he’s not allowed to uncover it?
Get a stopwatch and perform articles:
“We had come out here to the Oil aside, park policies seem a
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60 Health/
Frogmore Stew
(Mensfitness.com)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 5:00:00 AM
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Ingredients
• 1 medium onion, quartered
• 2 large garlic cloves, smashed
• 1/4 cup seafood seasoning, such
as Old Bay
• 1 lemon, halved, plus 1 more
cut into wedges
• 1 lb. small red potatoes
• 1 lb. turkey kielbasa, cut into
pieces
• 4 ears corn, husked and halved
crosswise
• 1 lb. unpeeled shrimp,
preferably wild
How to Make It
1.) Add 1 1/2 quarts of water plus
onion, garlic, seafood seasoning,
salt to taste, and halved lemon
(squeeze its juice into the water
before tossing in the juiced rinds)
to a large roasting pan. Bring
mixture to a boil. 2.) Add potatoes
and kielbasa and return to a boil.
Cover the pot, reduce heat, and let
simmer until potatoes are just
tender, about 20 minutes. 3.) Add
corn, increase heat to medium-
high, and cook, covered, until ears
are golden and tender, about 5
minutes longer. 4.) Top stew with
shrimp; cover and steam for 3
more minutes. 5.) Turn off heat;
gently stir shrimp into hot broth,
and let stand, covered, until they
are just cooked, about 2 minutes
longer. 6.) Serve individual
portions with lemon wedges and a
bit of melted butter for dipping (if
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Serves 4
Frogmore?
A summer favorite, the dish gets
its name from an old fishing
community in South Carolina.
This traditional Southern stew
was created in the '60s and is
sometimes called Beaufort Stew
or Lowcountry or Tidewater Boil.
To sample the dish near its
birthplace, check out Charleston,
S.C.'s Lowcountry Oyster festival,
held each year in January. Related
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Bike Off the Pounds
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Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:00:00 AM
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About half of us live fewer than
five miles from our job. But
according to recent stats, more
than eight in 10 of us drive to
work. Leave the keys at home and
burn massive calories—at least
500 an hour. The extra benefits of
riding to work:
Reliability
"it takes me almost exactly the
same amount of time each day to
get to and from work—to the
minute," says Andy Clarke,
president of the League of
American Bicyclists, in
Washington, D.C.
Saving the Earth
Bike displace more than 238
million gallons of gasoline
annually. For every four miles
you peddle instead of driving,
roughly 15 pounds of pollutants
are kept out of the air.
Improving Your Work
Exercise can make you a happier,
less stressed and more productive
employee.
Extra Spending Money
Beyond the obvious savings
(parking, gas, repairs), you can
get up to $240 a year in employer
sponsored tax credits to help
cover the cost of a bike, lock, and
helmet.
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Visualize Mid-Term
Elections with Google
Maps
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:20:19 PM
As the U.S. heads into yet
another heated midterm election,
Google Maps is providing at-a-
glance information about how
various states and districts will
likely be voting this year.
The election map is a detailed
visualization of Republican and
Democrat leanings across the
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programmer,” he wrote, “there’s a
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• Take a Dry Run On the U.S. Google uses ratings from Cook,
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the season, check out our new
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O’Donnell gets God, and many votes

Bobby (GetReligion) The top of the story: The only real numbers reported might provide better data and me:
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:00:23 PM Ella Shank recalls saying a little are these: explanations for how Delaware Gary Hindes, former chairman of
prayer Tuesday before casting her According to the Association of Republicans voted? the state Democratic Party, called
All that talk about the possible Republican primary vote in the Religion Data Archives, a I also wish The News Journal had the surge in socially conservative
death of print media? Totally Greenwood Fire Hall. compilation of reports from done a better job explaining influence troubling.
premature. Christine O’Donnell’s “I believe that God is waking religious scholars and research O’Donnell’s religious “It’s scary to see a legitimate
big win in Delaware’s Republican America up,” said Shank, who centers around the world, background: political party run by people I
primary for U.S. Senate has attends a Mennonite church. She Catholics made up the largest Raised Roman Catholic, respect — but have profound
spilled enough ink to keep the was among those who helped group of adherents to a single O’Donnell converted to differences with — taken hostage
dead-tree news business operating C h r i s t i n e O ’ D o n n e l l u p s e t religious denomination in Protestantism, and later rejoined by basically extremists. It’s not
at least through the November longtime Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware as of 2000. Mainline the Catholic Church. Throughout good for America. It’s not good
election. Republican primary for the U.S. Protestants were next at 32 the 1990s, she organized young for Delaware,” Hindes said.
D o n ’ t t a k e t h a t t o m e a n , Senate. percent and evangelical Christians to fight pornography, “Taken hostage by basically
however, that O’Donnell hasn’t “If people don’t start voting for Protestants at 13 percent. premarital sex and abortion and extremists.” My question: If
done her part to boost late-night what’s right, God will punish us.” Orthodox faiths and other advocated turning homosexuals you’re going to let a source make
talk show ratings. Greenwood stands at the religions accounted for the “straight” in groups such as the such a statement, shouldn’t you at
She apparently even dabbled in epicenter of O’Donnell’s upset remaining residents. Only about Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the least provide space for him to be
witchcraft. win over Castle — a large and 40 percent of the state, however, Truth (SALT) and Concerned specific about the extreme
Here at GetReligion, we tend to mostly rural, majority-Republican claimed membership in any Women for America. positions?
run across more ghosts than election district that, along with identified church. O’Donnell rejected Castle’s Yes, the story follows up Hindes’
witches. In that regard, The News nearby Bridgeville, delivered But many with long histories of support of embryonic stem-cell quote with remarks from a Church
Journal in Wilmington, Del., more votes to O’Donnell than any watching Delaware elections research and of women’s rights to of God pastor. But while the
deserves kudos for an in-depth other in Delaware. believe the evangelical Christian abortion. She has described Democrat’s quote swings a
story Sunday that attempted to It was a district that by most voting bloc has grown in strength, homosexuality as “an identity hatchet, the response comes
explain the role of religion in accounts saw a surge in political especially in southern New Castle disorder.” across more like a butter knife.
O ’ D o n n e l l ’ s u p s e t v i c t o r y activism on social issues among County, where suburban Catholic Catholic. Protestant. Then Written by: Bobby on September
Tuesday. On the other hand, the evangelicals, surprising many congregations and new Catholic again. Anybody but me 21, 2010.
2,30o-word piece seems long on party regulars, and was a factor in evangelical churches are growing. think that might merit a bit more This entry passed through the
conjecture and short on actual derailing Castle’s political career. Interesting numbers. Particularly explanation? (And apparently this Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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O’Donnell to victory. campaign rallies. Readers are told — swayed the election. Of course, “Straight.” “An identify disorder.” content-only/faq.php
The story’s headline and subhead that no one explains the vote the stats are 10 years old, and the Anybody not totally certain about Five Filters featured article:
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P o l i t i c a l l y c o n s e r v a t i v e story mostly proceeds along those activists tipping the scales — crazy things this candidate
Christians putting ballots where lines, building an anecdotal case could stand up to serious scrutiny. believes …”)
their Bibles are — a house of sticks. Did anyone take exit polls that Finally, this quote stood out to
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Eastwood looks to eternity Missing First

Brad A. Greenberg
(GetReligion)
and doing the same sort of thing
over and over, that’s one of the
He calls the film a spiritual chick
flick. Matt Damon refers to it as
awkwardly suggests, even if
unintentionally, that leaders of Amendment
reasons I moved away from Eastwood’s French film — a major religions — whatever those
Submitted at 9/21/2010 10:31:12 AM
westerns,” said Eastwood, who
On Saturday, I watched “Dirty started his career as a later-model
description so ironic that I can’t
quite get my head around it and I
might be — are either con men or
blowhards.
discussion
Harry” for the first time. This was John Wayne and will finish it as worry it will be worse than Because life does often imitate Mollie (GetReligion)
the beginning of an expedition something close to a modern John “Space Cowboys.” art, Eastwood comes off in Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:04:06 PM

through Clint Eastwood’s big- Ford. “The question about what Here’s what Eastwood told Boucher’s piece as a gruff but
bark-and-all-bite police series. It happens after we die is something Boucher about why the film’s sentimental aging workhorse. Forsyth County, Georgia v.
followed through the “Dollar” that we all ask and when I read character abandon religion as a He’s not Walt Kowalski but Nationalist Movement was a 1992
spaghetti Western series in the the script by Peter Morgan it was path to eternity: neither is he a “greeting-card Supreme Court case dealing with
spring. And I have to say, there is so intelligent and I knew right “It’s a spiritual story but there are messenger” or “adamant apostle.” freedom of speech. Forsyth
so, so much more to Eastwood away that I wanted to do it.” no real religious connotations to And he’s not sure what he County had this ordinance that
than just “Unforgiven,” which, of “Hereafter,” which opens wide on it,” Eastwood said. “The [major believes: mandated permits for private
course, was great. Oct. 22, is a cinematic triptych religions] are kind of unsatisfying “People ask me what I believe,” demonstrations. County
It’s not the memorable quotes, with the separate stories of to the kid in our story because Eastwood said as he watched administrators decided on the fee,
though those are fun. It’s the battered souls searching for he’s looking for something that sheep meander across the rustic which was only up to $1,000.
surprisingly deep messages that answers about the afterlife — can answer his questions. He hotel’s pasture. “I say, ‘I don’t When a group of white
come through many of his films. there’s a reluctant Bay Area wants a straight answer and he know yet.’ I’m not closed off to it. nationalists proposed a
(I understand that he directed psychic ( Matt Damon), a London can’t seem to find anything from There are points in my life when I demonstration against the Martin
none of the “Dollar” films and youngster (Frankie McLaren) people who turn out to be either thought I knew all the answers Luther King, Jr., federal holiday,
only “Sudden Impact” from the grieving the death of his twin psychics looking for a fast buck or and other times when I was sure I they were levied a fee of $100.
“Dirty Harry” line.) It sounds like brother and a French journalist people just talking … you don’t didn’t know any of them. Right They sued, claiming the ordinance
his latest, “Hereafter,” which (Belgium-born actress Cecile de really see movies like this these now, well, I’m waiting to see. violates their free speech
screened last week at the Toronto France) who was caught up in a days that have a spiritual aspect or Aren’t we all?” guarantees. The Supreme Court
Film Festival, has taken that to an tsunami, killed by the raging a romantic aspect. And it is Come on, Harry, take it easy. agreed.
extreme. water and then revived after a romantic. These days you have a Written by: Brad A. Greenberg on I thought of that case while
The Los Angeles Times explains: strange, spectral experience. lot of movies about people September 21, 2010. reading this CNN story headlined
This is his sixth film in less than This is obviously no light subject jumping on each other in the sack This entry passed through the “ City plans to bill pastor for
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Eastwood will switch to autopilot explaining the “spiritual instead of explanation of why this kid was Catastrophe. anniversary of the September, 11,
as he moves into the twilight. merely supernatural?” Poorly. But unsatisfied with major religions, 2001, attacks, a police
“At the age I am now, I just don’t it’s not Boucher’s fault. It’s which I imagine that appears in spokeswoman said Friday.
have any interest in going back Eastwood’s. the movie. This quote also Police agencies spent more than a
month working on security plans
to ensure the community
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surrounding Jones’ Dove World
Outreach Center — the planned
site of the burning — was safe,
according to Gainesville police
spokeswoman Cpl. Tscharna
Senn.
Jones also told authorities he
received numerous death threats
because of the planned protest,
which he called off amid
increasing pressure from world
leaders.
I’m sure many of us initially read
a story such as this with a bit of
schadenfreude. But that’s not why
I highlight it here. The CNN
version is actually much more
substantive than the Associated
Press report, and yet it never gets
into the big First Amendment
questions. Once again, this is a
story that is missing some key
voices. Just like last week’s story
about a government employee
who was fired over a free speech
issue, this story doesn’t include
any perspective from civil
libertarians who are concerned
about speech, establishment and
free exercise clauses of the First
Amendment.
What’s more, the story hasn’t
gotten much coverage at all. Even
the British press seemed more
interested than folks here.
Some might wish that the media
or other actors who fanned the, er,
flames of this story be forced to
pay part of this fee, but the fact is
that forcing anyone to pay for
these services raises First
Amendment questions that need
to be dealt with head-on in a story
such as this.
Note this part of the CNN piece:
Jones said Friday that the church
was “not aware that we would be
billed for security.”
“If we had known this in advance,
then we would have refused to
have security,” he said.
Some have accused authorities of
over preparing.
I don’t think many Constitutional
scholars would see a $180,000 bill
standing up in a court of law. But
the mere fact that this is
threatened has a chilling effect on
free exercise of speech and
religion. How many people might
hear about this bill — and not that
it’s later thrown out — and decide
that the government might punish
their anti-war rally or pro-life
vigil or any other event? Imagine
if congregations involved in the
Civil Rights struggle were billed
for the dogs and water hoses the
law enforcement brought out on
them?
Now, I reread the Forsyth case
when writing this and was struck
by how even the dissenting
opinion in that case doesn’t
support the Gainesville law
enforcement authorities. The
dissenters basically said they
didn’t sign on to the majority
opinion because it answered
questions the lower courts weren’t
asking — but that on the narrow
question of whether a $100 fee for
a parade permit was
unconstitutional, they thought
precedent said such a nominal fee
was fine. But even they wrote that
imposing fees based on opposition
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crowds would be wrong.
You always have to pay attention
to the First Amendment cases of
religious and political groups with
whom you disagree because the
precedent set will soon affect
other groups, too. This is just such
a case. I didn’t understand the
media frenzy surrounding the
proposed Koran-burning, but
neither can I understand the
relative lack of coverage on this
issue or the failure to look at the
serious First Amendment issues in
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About that podcast logo … (updated)
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 9:18:28 AM
It’s time for an incomplete
announcement.
As you may have noticed, the left
sidebar of this here website now
includes a new version of the
GetReligion logo — one that says
“podcast.”
You may also have noticed that,
at the moment, this link does not
work.
It will — very soon. It should be
working today. The logo will also
be our usual blue color, as
opposed to black, but that’s
another matter.
These podcasts are a joint project
of GetReligion.org and the pros at
the IssuesEtc. radio program in St.
Louis, Mo. This is a pack of
serious Lutherans who — no
surprise here — are friends of the
Divine Mrs. M.Z. Hemingway.
They are also the rare people in
religious radio who take a
basically mainstream approach to
discussions of the news. It’s talk
radio, no doubt about it, but with
no shouting and very little snark.
GetReligion folks have been
interviewed oodles of times by the
IssuesEtc. team, primarily about
timely posts about major stories in
the news. You know, normal
radio stuff. We promise that there
will be no altar calls or appeals
for funds.
A few months ago, GetReligion
co-founder Douglas Leblanc(his
current blogging status is inactive,
alas, for professional reasons) had
an interesting idea, during a kind
of blue-skying chat session about
this site. If GetReligionistas were
going to be on IssuesEtc. from
time to time, why not simply use
that material in a podcast. Duh.
Why “Crossroads”? Well, you
mean other than(turn it up) my
love of Eric Clapton? I thought it
was yet another pun — like the
term “Get Religion” itself — that
captured the fact that religion and
the news keep colliding and there
is no way around that.
The basic idea is for each podcast
to go deeper on a topic that drew
one or more posts, allowing us to
spend more time talking about the
stories behind the stories and what
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Twenty
Candidates
Who Need Help
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:34 AM
For some GOP challengers,
victory is just barely within reach.
I n late July, my discussions with
Republican strategists and
conservatives who were closely
watching the 2010 House races
yielded a list of “ The
Underfunded 20”: GOP
challengers who had favorable
conditions such as a conservative-
leaning district, or strong issues to
run on, but who needed enough
cash to ensure their chances of
victory weren’t swept away by a
deluge of negative ads.
Mid-September is a good time to
revisit that list, salute a few
candidates for improving their
standing, remind folks of the ones
who still need help, and spotlight
another handful who could be on
the verge of key victories.
#ad#Many campaigns will bristle
at any analysis that suggests they
don’t need additional funds, but
there’s a lot of momentum behind
Rick Crawford in Arkansas’s 1st
district, Cory Gardner in
Colorado’s 4th congressional
district, Adam Kinzinger in
Illinois’s 11th district, Randy
Hultgren in Illinois’s 14th district,
Lou Barletta in Pennsylvania’s
11th district, and Rob Hurt in
Virginia’s 5th district. This isn’t
to say all of these races are
foregone conclusions or even easy
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continued from page 65
GOP wins, but all have received
good polling news in recent
weeks and are sliding down the
“needs help now” scale. A
strategist closely watching the
races in Illinois made the
argument that Bobby Schilling’s
surging bid against incumbent
Phil Hare in that state’s 17th
district -- now classified a toss-up
by most race-watchers -- probably
will come down to the district’s
political environment and anger
over high unemployment, rather
than the spending race. (If you
listen carefully, you can hear
Schilling supporters cry, “Hit the
donate button anyway!”)
Here are the 13 members of the
original Underfunded 20 who still
belong on a list of important GOP
challengers who need every bit of
help they can get:
Martha Roby, Alabama’s 2nd
district: The DCCC released a
poll showing Democratic
incumbent Bobby Bright ahead by
nine percentage points; on the
other hand, this is Alabama, and
the district has an R+16 rating on
the Cook Partisan Voting Index.
One of Bright’s ads emphasizes
that he voted against Obamacare
and will “repeal what’s wrong
with it,” but he hasn’t signed on to
legislation to repeal Obamacare,
nor has he agreed to support
defunding Obamacare. Also, he’s
running on his “conservative
values” and insisting he “stands
up to Nancy Pelosi,” but he voted
to make Pelosi speaker, and, come
January 2011, he’s another vote to
keep her speaker.
David Harmer, California’s 11th
district: There aren’t a lot of
competitive House races in
California; Charlie Cook calls this
race the state’s one true toss-up,
as the district is one of the few
where Republican and
Democratic voters are registered
in roughly equal numbers. Other
race-watchers are starting to put
this one in the “toss up” category
as well, and the American Action
Forum poll put Harmer ahead of
incumbent Jerry McNerney by a
point.
Jackie Walorski, Indiana’s 2nd
district: The American Action
Forum poll had Walorski down by
only two percentage points, but in
an environment where so many
GOP challengers are overtaking
entrenched Democratic
incumbents, it would be nice to
see a little more oomph in her poll
numbers. Incumbent Joe Donnelly
is one of those sad, desperate
Democrats, the kind who seems to
think that if he runs commercials
hitting against Nancy Pelosi and
Barack Obama enough, voters
will forget which party he’s in. He
also seems to think that if he
wavers on voting for Pelosi, this
fairly conservative Indiana district
will trust him.
Larry Bucshon, Indiana’s 8th
district: This ought to be a
friendly district for Republicans,
but Bucshon faces a Democratic
non-incumbent, Trent Van
Haaften, who is running as a
“tough prosecutor who will take
Hoosier values to Washington.”
This is the seat currently held by
Democratic Senate candidate Brad
Ellsworth; it would be a shame for
Republicans if another moderate-
sounding Democrat beat a doctor
driven into politics by
Obamacare.
Todd Young, Indiana’s 9th
district: This is the district
represented by Rep. Baron Hill,
who banned cameras from his
town-hall meetings because
“usually the films that are done
end up on YouTube in a
compromising position.” The
comment, of course, ended up on
YouTube. Young has an effective
ad on that. GOP challengers in all
three of these Indiana districts
should get a bit of a boost from
Dan Coats’s winning the Senate
race by a wide margin. A poll in
June showed Hill vulnerable but
Young still a bit behind.
#page# Andy Barr, Kentucky’s
6th district: This will probably be
one of the first swing districts
called on election night, because
Kentucky’s polls close so early.
Ben Chandler is another
Democrat who’s running ads
that“don’t identify him as a
Democrat. They barely admit that
he sits in Congress, focusing
instead on his stint a decade ago
as Kentucky’s attorney general.”
He seems to think he can
overcome public opposition to the
stimulus by constantly referring to
it as the “recovery act.”
Democrats released an internal
poll showing Barr down 14, but
GOP-commissioned polls showed
a closer race. Barr should get
some top-of-the-ticket help if
Rand Paul wins the Senate race by
a wide margin, which many polls
foresee.
Alan Nunnelee, Mississippi’s 1st
district: As noted earlier this year,
Nunnelee has some strong winds
at his back -- an R+14 district
with relatively inexpensive media
markets -- so incumbent Travis
Childers will help answer the
question of whether a rural
Democrat can escape the political
consequences of making Pelosi
speaker. Childers is the one
running that inane ad claiming his
opponent violated a 2010 promise
to not raise taxes by raising taxes
in 1997. Before Childers is sent
back to the future, he should be
sent back to the private sector.
#ad# Joe Heck, Nevada’s 3rd
district: A recent poll put
Democratic incumbent Dina Titus
narrowly ahead, but the race
remains within the margin of
error. But the poll was taken after
Titus spent a ton on negative ads
hitting Heck; if he can counter her
attacks and get his own message
out, Heck has a . . . well, a heck of
a chance in this district, which
was hit hard by Nevada’s
economic and housing troubles.
Chris Gibson, New York’s 20th
district: This is one of a half-
dozen competitive races in New
York State, but there are odd,
ominous numbers for Gibson in
the new Siena poll: Incumbent
Democrat Scott Murphy is leading
54 percent to 37 percent. If the
poll is to be believed, the stimulus
is quite popular in this corner of
New York. But Gibson is starting
to get his ads on the air, and
should have some demographic
advantages in this district.
Renee Ellmers, North Carolina’s
E-reader News Edition
2nd district: The North Carolina
Strangler, a.k.a. incumbent
Democrat Bob Etheridge, is
hitting Ellmers as extreme; she’s
responding with an ad that hits
him for not taking a position on
the Ground Zero mosque.
Subsequent ads are likely to focus
on jobs and the economy. Ellmers
has some reason for cheer;
Americans for Job Security plans
to spend $800,000 on ads hitting
Etheridge for runaway spending.
Mick Mulvaney, South
Carolina’s 5th district: A lot of
factors currently look good for
Mulvaney, including the fact that
incumbent Democrat John Spratt
didn’t want any cameras at their
debate. But Mulvaney’s internal
polls show a tied race, so clearly
this one isn’t in the bag just yet.
Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s at-
large district: Most polls from
earlier this year showed Noem
galloping ahead of her
Democratic incumbent opponent,
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. But
Rasmussen’s latest showed the
Democrat leading by 2 percentage
points, a surprising revival. South
Dakota Democrats couldn’t even
find a candidate to run against
Sen. John Thune, so the GOP has
no excuse for not winning this
seat.
Morgan Griffith, Virginia’s 9th
district: While elsewhere in
Virginia the GOP’s Robert Hurt
appears to be trouncing
Democratic incumbent Tom
Perriello, state legislator Griffith
is having a tougher time against
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Obama’s Tea Party Attack
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:30:54 PM
According to the New York
Times, President Obama’s
political advisers are considering
a national ad campaign that will
attempt to convince Americans
that Tea Party “radicals” are
“taking over” the Republican
Party. Such a strategy
demonstrates two things: first,
Democrat ideologues have bought
into their own propaganda
regarding the composition and
objectives of the movement;
second, as a result of those
erroneous assumptions,
Democrats are convinced that
tying the Tea Party to
Republicans would be detrimental
to the GOP. Oddly enough, so do
a handful of Republicans. Which
Republicans? The very same
RINOs (Republican In Name
Only) who orchestrated their own
party’s demise.
It is no secret that Republicans
were drummed out of office
beginning in 2006 for one simple
reason: they abandoned their core
principles. Americans came to
understand that “compassionate
conservatism” was nothing more
than tax-and-spend liberalism sold
under a different name. And while
George W. Bush has often been
cited for maintaining a
commitment to his core values,
those values–with the lone
exception of his approach to
Islamic terror–were hardly
conservative. They were values
which gave America such things
as “free” prescription drugs,
lavish farm subsidies, steel tariffs
— and the same kind of
irresponsible, break-the-bank
spending for which Democrats
were famous.
In short, the RINO wing of the
Republican party reigned
supreme. Much like its Democrat
counterpart, this faction of the
party believed the path to
permanent power in Washington,
D.C. consisted of bribing the
electorate with federal
programs–no matter how
unaffordable it became. The
culmination of RINO
shortsightedness was the
nomination of John McCain for
president, thus giving a
substantial portion of the
electorate, aka conservatives, a
very bad choice: a younger
liberal, versus an aging one,
masquerading as a Republican.
Americans opted for youth,
abetted by a mainstream media
which collectively–and
successfully–tamped down
Barack Obama’s radical political
views and his associations with
former terrorists, a racist preacher
and a Communist mentor.
Suffused with solid victories in
two consecutive election cycles,
the American Left reacted quite
predictably: they assumed they
had become invincible. Democrat
political strategist James Carville
summed up this mindset when he
predicted that Democrats “would
rule for forty years.” Since over-
bearing arrogance has always
Politics-Right/ 67
means necessary. This includes
president Obama, who both taught
and firmly believes in the
“Alinsky Method,” a compendium
of ideas designed to foment social
revolution written by uber
community activist Saul Alinsky.
One of those ideas, “pick a target,
freeze it, personalize it, and
polarize it” has become standard
operating procedure for a White
House which has demonized Fox
News, “fat cat” bankers, “greedy”
insurance companies, and
apparently “dangerous” Tea
Partiers in a new ad campaign.
One wonders if the president
realizes he might be polarizing a
majority of Americans with that
campaign. Even if he is not, the
been a staple of the Left, it wasn’t with illegal immigrants and reality of the 2010 election is that
long before Barack Obama, Ground Zero provocateurs over it is far more likely to be a
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al, concerned Americans who were referendum on the failures of the
were convinced that Americans called “bigots” for disagreeing Obama administration and a
would embrace their worldview of with that alignment. It is an D e m o c r a t i c a l l y - c o n t r o l l e d
a “fundamentally broken” nation arrogance which, if the current Congress than the successes of the
in need of a thorough make-over. election predictions hold, will T e a P a r t y m o v e m e n t . I t i s
That arrogance is directly l i k e l y m a n i f e s t i t s e l f i n a Democrats who own a dismal
responsible for the rise of the Tea Congressional lame-duck session economy, a hated health care bill,
P a r t y m o v e m e n t . I t i s a n where Democrats will attempt to a taxpayer bailouts for favored
arrogance demonstrated by a pass cap-and-trade bill and/or constituencies–and a thinly-
health care bill replete with amnesty for illegal aliens. disguised contempt for the will of
bribes, put together in secret, and It is no secret why the American the people. In addition, their most
voted into law without a single Left despises the Tea Party recent attempt to “blame Bush”
Republican supporting it. It is an m o v e m e n t . I t s t h r e e m a i n has fallen flat. Attempting to
arrogance which engendered an planks–limited government, fiscal portray the Tea Party movement
$865 billion stimulus bill, which responsibility and fealty to the as another bogeyman is likely to
neither held unemployment under Constitution as written–are be equally futile.
a promised eight percent, nor antithetical to everything the Left Republican resistance to the Tea
stimulated anything other than a holds dear. Thus, the very same Partiers? Very simple. The RINO
government sector, which added folks who decried the “politics of wing of the party is slowly being
jobs even as the private sector was personal destruction” during the purged and replaced with people
hemorrhaging them. It is an Clinton years are determined to
arrogance which has aligned itself undermine the movement by any OBAMA’S page 74
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Senate Must Do More Homework on New START
James Carafano (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
In her recent op-ed, Senator
Jeanne Shaheen(D–NH) expresses
her favorable opinion about the
New START Treaty that was
voted out of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee last week.
However, the op-ed, as well as the
committee vote, raises more
questions than answers.
First, there were only 12 open
and classified hearings examining
the implications of New START
for the national security of the
United States. And as usual, the
devil is in the details—with more
than 20 witnesses, the minority
was only allowed to hear
testimony from three of its
choices. It is very difficult to
argue, therefore, that the
committee had enough
information to give the treaty its
fiduciary due diligence, and even
more difficult to argue that the
treaty is ready for the Senate
floor.
Second, the New START Treaty
is flawed because its limits are
based on maintaining a balance of
strategic nuclear forces between
the U.S. and Russia. This is the
wrong way to view the balance of
forces in a proliferating world,
particularly one with growing
nuclear threats from Iran and
North Korea. The treaty’s
bilateral approach leaves
important questions unanswered,
such as: What will the U.S. do if it
faces a combination of strategic
threats from several nations,
including Russia?
Moreover, the arms control
p o l i c y o f t h i s
Administration—which is based
on the mirror image assumption
that if the United States lowers
numbers of nuclear weapons,
other nations will follow—is
fundamentally misguided. Indeed,
such an arms policy runs contrary
to historical evidence. Russia and
United States, for example,
eliminated more than 80 percent
of their nuclear weapons arsenals
since the end of the Cold War;
yet, Iran, China, or North Korea
have not been persuaded,
continuing apace by developing
and upgrading their ballistic and
nuclear weapons programs. This
trend will continue regardless of
whether the United States—or
Russia—eliminates its nuclear
weapons.
The Constitution mandates that
the U.S. Government “provide for
the common defence.” In this new
security environment, the U.S
Senate should therefore support
and commit to the development of
a robust ballistic missile defense
system that would give the
President another option besides
nuclear retaliation in the horrific
case that the U.S. is attacked with
a weapon of mass destruction. In
other words, the United States
needs to move away from a policy
based on retaliation-based
deterrence and vulnerability and
toward one that protects and
defends its people, territory,
infrastructure and institutions,
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The Senate must ensure that it
has access to the full negotiating
record and has time to review it in
detail. This is especially important
to learn what kinds of deals were
cut over missile defense in order
to garner Russian agreement to
New START. Senators must also
be given sufficient time to draft
amendments to remedy at least
some of the many flaws that are
found in or associated with the
treaty.
Lastly, there are serious concerns
regarding the latest intelligence on
the scale of Russian cheating.
This new intelligence, in
particular, could be a very serious
matter. Before the Senate moves
any further to consider the treaty,
it should meet as a body in closed
session for a briefing on this
and, to the best extent possible, its tactical nuclear weapons. intelligence. Because of these
allies. The issue of verification is one of unresolved issues—and there are
Because the Administration has the most problematic. The New many more—the Senate should
conceded to a number of Russian START verification regime is not not rush to bring New START to
d e m a n d s i n N e w S T A R T even a pale reflection of the one the Senate floor for debate.
negotiations and given away in the original START Treaty. Owen Graham and Michaela
future U.S. bargaining leverage, it Not only is the number of B e n d i k o v a f r o m t h e D a v i s
will be very difficult to get inspections lower, but New I n s t i t u t e a t T h e H e r i t a g e
Moscow to negotiate in good faith START is increasingly reliant on Foundation contributed to this
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The Road to Sharia

William Kilpatrick (FrontPage do is show your First Amendment behind bars.”
Magazine » FrontPage) papers, and you can build your Sharia law: homosexuality is
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:10:22 PM mosque wherever you like—no punishable by death.
questions asked. U.S. law: “Abdul, meet your
F r e e d o m o f r e l i g i o n f o r Yet, as most Americans realize, cellmate, Butch.”
Christians has been under attack there are no unlimited rights in Sharia law: thieves may be
for some time, but liberal opinion our society. Try exercising your punished with amputation.
makers haven’t evinced much S e c o n d A m e n d m e n t r i g h t s U.S. law: the Eighth Amendment
concern. Indeed, judging by their without getting the necessary prohibits “cruel and unusual
non-reaction to the fining or permits and you could end up in punishments.”
jailing of Christian pastors in jail. Use your licensed gun in an Sharia law: a Muslim who
Canada and Europe who have irresponsible way, and your right rejects Islam must be killed.
spoken out against same-sex will be abruptly taken away. The U.S. law: under U.S. laws this
marriage, the opinion elites seem same is true for freedom of form of Islamic justice is referred
perfectly willing to sacrifice speech. Libel laws, obscenity to as “first- degree murder.”
Christian religious freedom on the laws, national security laws, even Sharia law: non-Muslims are not
altar of gay rights. laws about “disturbing the peace” equal to Muslims under the law.
But when it comes to the put limits on our freedom of U.S. law: “all men are created
religious freedom of Muslims, it’s speech. Likewise, the free equal.”
a different matter. As a result of exercise of religion does not Sharia law: Sharia law
t h e G r o u n d Z e r o m o s q u e extend to suicide cults, or virgin supersedes any system of man-
controversy, the liberal elites have sacrifice, or to church-sanctioned made laws.
suddenly become stout defenders polygamy. U.S. law: Article VI. “This
of religious freedom. Moreover, With all the current talk about Constitution shall be…the
they seem to have taken an safeguarding the right of Muslims can be contracted for marriage at U.S. law: In this, as in so many supreme law of the land.”
absolutist stance on its meaning. t o r e l i g i o u s f r e e d o m , i t ’ s any age. The marriage can be other respects, Islamic law is null And so on. A side-by-side
Although the politicians and instructive to note that U.S. law consummated when she is eight or and void. American citizens are comparison of state and federal
pundits who defend the mosque already prohibits the free exercise nine. The laws of the United free to marry outside their laws with Sharia laws reveals that
builders rail against extremists, of Islam. If this comes as news to States frown upon such religion. in the U.S. the free exercise of
they themselves have adopted an some, it’s because we tend to arrangements. Sharia law: the testimony of a Islam is, in many respects, already
e x t r e m i s t i n t e r p r e t a t i o n o f forget that Islam is not just a faith, Under Sharia a man may marry woman in court is worth half the prohibited. The only way to
religious freedom—one which but also an all encompassing up to four wives value of a man’s testimony. guarantee Muslims complete
makes it equivalent to carte political, legal, and moral system. (simultaneously). U.S. law U.S. law: “Tell it to the judge!” freedom to practice their religion
blanche. The embodiment of that system is prohibits the practice of Sharia law: Muslim men have would be to rewrite the
Like the highly prized “letters of called “Sharia law,” and the full polygamy. permission to beat their wives for Constitution and the U.S.
transit” in Casablanca, the words p r a c t i c e o f I s l a m r e q u i r e s Under Sharia law, a man can disobedience. Criminal Code to make them
“freedom of religion” now seem compliance with it. Muslims are easily divorce his wife, but a U.S. law: In U.S. law this Sharia Sharia compliant. In other word,
to confer unlimited authority. bound by these laws because they woman cannot divorce her provision is referred to as free exercise of religion for
“They cannot be rescinded, not a r e b e l i e v e d t o b e d i v i n e husband without his consent. “domestic abuse battery.” Muslims would necessitate the
even questioned,” says Signor commandments. The trouble is, U.S. divorce courts don’t see Sharia law: adultery is abrogation of constitutional rights
Ugarte of the letters of transit. dozens of shariah law provisions things in quite the same way. punishable by lashing and stoning for U.S. citizens—including the
Apparently, the same now holds are violations of state and federal Sharia law: Muslim women are to death. right to freedom of religion.
true for religious freedom. If laws. Here are some examples: forbidden from marrying a non- U.S. law: “Let he who throws
you’re an Imam, all you have to Under shariah law a Muslim girl Muslim. the first stone be prepared for life
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Abortion at Government Facilities? continued from page 66

longtime incumbent Rick

Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:39 AM
in the military or not -- the right to to access are forward-deployed referrals to specialists, and fewer Boucher. The NRCC helped pay
have the federal government pay locations, such as Afghanistan, available appointments not only for a poll and is spending money
Military families will pay the tab for, provide the facilities for, or Kuwait, or the United Arab for members of the military but on both positive ads for Griffith
for abortion advocates’ hubris. otherwise facilitate the provision Emirates, that are often home to also for their families. In military and negative ads against Boucher,
A s combat operations in Iraq of abortions. combat and contingency health care, service members who is sitting on a ton of cash. An
came to an end at the end of Furthermore, common sense and operations. Are abortion understandably have priority in early September poll put Boucher
August, President Obama rightly fiscal reality dictate that using advocates really arguing that receiving care. This means that ahead 50 percent to 40 percent.
lauded the patriotism and sacrifice military facilities, equipment, and military clinics at these critical military dependents, including the Boucher’s now getting bad press
of America’s servicemen and - personnel in the performance of locations should provide ready children of our nation’s warriors, for his campaign’s buying an
women and their families. What abortions involves the expenditure access to abortion as opposed to will have to make do with reduced SUV.
he didn’t acknowledge, however, of taxpayer dollars. Medical focusing on their primary mission access to care. Here are seven GOP challengers
is that radical legislation being equipment and operating suites of triaging and treating our This is the distressing reality who didn’t make my previous list
advanced by abortion advocates used in military medical facilities wounded warriors? It would facing our military families, even of 20, but who could use a quick
will require our military families a r e p a i d f o r b y A m e r i c a n appear so. without the addition of the Burris infusion of funds, volunteers,
to make unnecessary sacrifices taxpayers, as are the salaries of A popular and wise saying Amendment. Clearly, the resources, and buzz:
and to pay an even higher price the military and civilian providers maintains that “there is no such inclusion of elective abortion in Paul Gosar, Arizona’s 1st district:
for their service. who staff these facilities. The thing as a free lunch.” So, who military health care will only A poll commissioned by the
Abortion advocates are agitating proposed payment of “personal will pay the tab if abortion make matters worse. If military American Action Forum showed
for the passage of the Burris funds” or an “administrative fee” advocates are successful in operating suites, equipment, and Gosar leading Democratic
Amendment to the National by an individual servicewoman persuading Congress to adopt the providers are being used for incumbent Ann Kirkpatrick 47
Defense Authorization Act. In seeking an abortion at a military Burris Amendment? Clearly, abortions, they cannot be made percent to 41 percent. Democrats
direct contravention of President facility cannot alter this stubborn American taxpayers will, but available to care for the routine think that by opposing the Obama
Obama’s promises, longstanding reality, though we don’t yet know military families will bear the and emergency medical needs of administration’s lawsuit against
federal law, and the will of the what the fee will be. brunt of the costs. military families. the state’s illegal-immigration
American people, this amendment Abortion advocates also argue Unfortunately, like its civilian Americans have every confidence law, they have sufficiently
would allow military hospitals, that abortion is not routinely counterpart, military health care is in the willingness of our military inoculated themselves against
military personnel, and taxpayer a v a i l a b l e t o A m e r i c a n becoming prohibitively families to sacrifice for the good public outrage over the suit. But
dollars to be used for elective servicewomen stationed overseas, expensive. Reflecting the of our nation. However, they as in so many other red states,
abortions. and, therefore, that military concerns of many defense should not be asked to sacrifice Democrats in Arizona won
# a d # E q u a l l y d i s t u r b i n g a r e facilities must be used to mitigate analysts that health-care costs are for the benefit of abortion competitive districts in 2006 and
abortion advocates’ attempts to this purported lack of access. “bleeding the defense budget advocates’ self-serving and short- 2008 by posing as independent
wrap themselves in the American Even a cursory review reveals that dry,” Secretary of Defense Robert sighted agenda. They have moderates unassociated with the
flag by pretending to contend for abortion is legal and generally Gates recently acknowledged that sacrificed too much already. liberal fringe; that pose is unlikely
the “constitutional rights” of available in most countries with health care is not “a sacred cow” -- Former U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. to play so well this year.
America’s servicewomen. In fact, American bases, including the and will likely face budget cuts Denise Burke is vice president of Dave Schweikert, Arizona’s 5th
the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade United Kingdom, Germany, just like other elements of the legal affairs with Americans district: The AAF poll showed
decision simply stops federal and Japan, and even Turkey. defense budget. United for Life and a 14-year Schweikert leading Democratic
s t a t e g o v e r n m e n t s f r o m In truth, the only active military Budget cuts to military health veteran of the U.S. military. incumbent Harry Mitchell 50
prohibiting abortion. It does not locations where abortion is not care will likely mean fewer Denise Burke percent to 44 percent. But
give American women -- whether available or prohibitively difficult providers, fewer services, fewer Schweikert wants to keep his ads
on the air, and needs an influx of
funds to make it happen. The
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The Poverty Solution: Marriage or Bust
Robert Rector (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 2:00:12 PM
Posted September 21st, 2010 at
3:00pm in Family and Religion
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Last week, new data from the
U.S. Census Bureau revealed that
the U.S. just saw the largest
annual increase in poverty
recorded in our nation’s history:
In 2009, 3.7 million more
Americans joined the ranks of the
poor.
The recession bears part of the
blame, but media outlets have
failed to inform the public about
the long-term root cause of
poverty in this country: unwed
childbearing. Buried in the
Census report are startling figures
revealing that the collapse of
marriage is creating this crisis of
poverty. Single-mother families
are almost five times more likely
to be poor than are married
couples with children; overall,
nearly 70 percent of poor families
with children are headed by single
parents.
The biggest secret in the Census
report: Marriage is America’s
number-one weapon against child
poverty. Tragically, however,
marriage has been rapidly
declining in our society and the
number of women who have
children outside of marriage has
soared. Historically, unwed
childbearing was rare. In 1964,
when the federal government
launched its War on Poverty, 6.8
percent of births were to single
mothers. Today, the unwed
birthrate has climbed to 40
percent: four of every ten births
are to single mothers. For
Hispanics and African Americans,
the rates rise to nearly 50 and over
70 percent.
While the media is quick to decry
the crisis of teen pregnancy, the
fact is that less than 8 percent of
new single mothers are minors. In
fact, the overwhelming majority
of unwed births are to young adult
women in their 20s. And because
most of these women have little
education, they are unable to
provide for themselves and their
children and, consequently, a
large portion of them end up on
welfare.
However, if these women were to
marry the fathers of their children,
nearly two-thirds of them would
be immediately lifted from
poverty. Contrary to conventional
wisdom, nearly all unwed fathers
are employed and earn enough
money to move their families out
of poverty. But, tragically, few
unwed parents marry.
It’s not a question of money: The
government has continued to pour
funds into welfare programs over
the past several decades, to the
point that the United States will
soon be spending $1 trillion a year
on programs for the poor. Yet
poverty rates have significantly
climbed.
And while data clearly show the
importance of marriage to
reducing poverty — not to
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Extremist
send a clear message to young
people in low-income
Thrives in
communities that having a child
outside of marriage dramatically Primary Fight
increases the odds of long-term
Submitted at 9/22/2010 3:00:41 AM
poverty and other ills. Just as we
tell young people that dropping The party is courting its fringes, a
out before you finish high school bad omen for future policy.
is likely to harm your future, we Y ou may have missed it amid all
should forcefully inform low- the hullabaloo surrounding
income youth that having a child Delaware, but there was another
outside of marriage is self- important primary last Tuesday.
destructive. It’s the surest road to The incumbent was a moderate, a
long-term poverty. pragmatist, someone who could
The current growth of the welfare reach across the aisle to work with
state is unsustainable. Over the those who were not traditional
next decade, government will allies. He was willing to stand up
spend more than $10 trillion on to extremists and buck his party’s
cash, food, housing, and medical political orthodoxy. His opponent,
mention its association with care for the poor. It will be very on the other hand, appealed to the
numerous other positive outcomes difficult to slow the growth of fringes of the party. He allied
for children — the federal welfare spending if marriage himself with powerful special-
government has done relatively continues to disappear in the interest groups who poured
little to promote it. In fact, the bottom half of the population. money and manpower into his
Obama administration has sought Unfortunately, both government campaign. The campaign became
to undo efforts put into place and popular culture treat marriage increasingly nasty. There were
during the previous administration as an outmoded, irrelevant even racial overtones. In the end,
aimed at helping low-income institution. To reduce poverty and voters ignored the incumbent’s
couples build strong marriages. limit the growth of the welfare solid record of getting things done
If Americans are serious about state, that attitude must change. and tossed him out by a
reducing poverty and getting ?Cross-posted at The Corner. surprisingly large margin.
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marriages, and by so doing, break Five Filters featured article: The incumbent, Adrian Fenty,
the cycle of poverty. First, the Beyond Hiroshima - The Non- was certainly no conservative, but
federal government must reduce Reporting of Falluja's Cancer he had shown himself willing to
the marriage penalties in current Catastrophe. stand up to the special interests
welfare programs. Second, that have long dominated
government and society should
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ObamaCare and the War on Hospitals
Tait Trussell (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:15:48 PM
Regardless of what happens in
the November election, the CEO
of the American Hospital
Association (AHA), Richard
Umbdenstock, said, Sept. 16, “
Many aspects of health care will
remain[.]”
But many hospitals won’t.
What he didn’t mention was the
burning dispute in the hospital
community that could wipe out
100,000 jobs and see the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services in court for “retroactive
regulation and restrictions for
arbitrary and irrational reasons,”
as charged in a lawsuit by the
Physician Hospitals of America
(PHA). That’s the association of
doctor-owned hospitals, not the
AHA hospitals, which
Umbdenstock represents.
The fuse to the fight was ignited
when the Democrats this spring
were trying desperately to hold
down the cost of the pending
health-care legislation.
“ObamaCare architect Sen. Max
Baucus (D-Mont.) proposed to
help pay for ObamaCare’s
massive expansion of
entitlements,” the Washington
Times reported Aug. 27, “by
imposing a 20 percent cut in
Medicare fees for hospital
services[.]”
The American Hospital
Association and Federation of
American Hospitals balked at
such an arbitrary cost cut. So, the
Senate Democrats threw a bone to
the big hospital groups to hush
their opposition. The “bone” was
an onerous restriction on the 265
physician-owned hospitals. The
Democrats slipped in a provision
that blocks doctors from building
or expanding their hospitals. The
provision (Section 6001) prevents
a new physician-owned hospital
from receiving Medicare
certification after the end of this
year if its doctors refer patients to
that hospital.
The lawsuit states that the federal
law has “singled out hospitals
owned by physicians…for
retroactive regulations and
restrictions for arbitrary and
irrational reasons.” It prevents a
new physician-owned hospital
facility from receiving Medicare
certification after the end of 2010
if its physicians refer Medicare
patients to that hospital. Moreover
the law “endeavors to prevent any
existing Medicare-certified
physician-owned hospital from
expanding unless it meets vague
and contradictory qualifications”
despite the quality of the hospital
and its performance.
The provision is particularly
arbitrary in view of the economic
efficiency and superior medical
outcomes of the physician-owned
hospitals. The AHA has
contended that the physician-
owned hospitals have a conflict of
interest in referring patients to
their hospitals. But, typically,
physicians have only a small
portion of the investment needed
to build these hospitals.
The American Medical
Association has said tht physician
ownership has created superior
care alternatives for patients.
AMA President J. James Roback,
M.D., has said “Restricting
physician-owned hospitals is
counter to what we are working to
achieve: a better health care
system for patients and
physicians,” according to a June
28 Amednews.com story.
A study commissioned by the
PHA and released last December
found that the cost to Medicare of
a patient receiving treatment at a
physician-owned and operated
hospital was 4.6 to 6.0 percent
lower than in hospitals not run by
physicians. Moreover, the
provision in the ObamaCare law
that dissed the physician-run
hospitals could have an economic
“loss of well over $5 billion and
could eventually cost up to
100,000 jobs,” the study
concluded. The analysis was done
by Oxford Outcomes, an
international research outfit
specializing in health economics.
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Democratic politics in this city.
Example No. 1 was education.
D.C. schools have long been
among the nation’s worst, despite
extraordinarily high per-pupil
expenditures. Fenty and his
school chancellor, Michele Rhee ,
stood up to the teachers’ union,
forcing through a merit-pay
contract, limiting tenure, and
firing nonperforming teachers.
And they achieved results:
Reading and math scores were up
substantially. A school system
that just a few years ago didn’t
know how many employees or
students it had was making real,
measurable progress.
Despite increased education
spending and the recession, Fenty
stuck to a pledge not to raise
broad-based taxes. He slashed
social spending and cut the city
work force. As result, business
investment poured into the city,
and its population, which had
been declining for decades,
actually increased as people who
had fled to the suburbs moved
back.
But Fenty also incurred the
enmity of the powerful teachers’
and public-employees’ unions.
They rallied to the cause of
Fenty’s opponent, city-council
chairman Vincent Grey. Together
they ran a nasty and racially
charged campaign. As was the
case in Delaware, this was a
closed primary -- independents
could not vote -- and Grey pitched
his appeal to the liberal wing of
the Democratic electorate. With
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DCCC recently canceled
scheduled ad buys in Arizona,
claiming their incumbents were
doing fine. Either that, or they’ve
been left for dead under the
Democrats’ triage.
#page# Steve Southerland,
Florida’s 2nd district: Southerland
is hammering Democratic
incumbent Allen Boyd on the
high unemployment in the district,
and the NRCC has spent $36,000
on ads hitting Boyd. The
Democrat faced a surprisingly
stiff primary challenge from a
state senator, in which he eked out
51 percent in the primary.
Daniel Webster, Florida’s 8th
district: Webster is taking on Alan
Grayson. The incumbent
Democrat has made some
outlandish public statements, but
he's wealthy and self-funding, so
the GOP challenger is almost
guaranteed to be outspent. This
district is nominally Republican,
so an incumbent whose tone and
style is so wildly out-of-step
would usually be in deep trouble
by now. Demonizing his opponent
with enormous amounts of attack
ads might be Grayson’s last card
to play in this race; Webster will
need the resources to counter the
inevitable last-minute accusations.
A Grayson-commissioned poll put
the incumbent ahead, 40 percent
to 27 percent and the remaining
33 percent “other” or undecided,
but some in the district are
skeptical of those results.
#ad# Vicky Hartzler, Missouri’s
4th district: Incumbent Democrat
Ike Skelton is going extremely
negative, extremely quickly: “His
campaign fliers declare him ‘A
Soldier’s Congressman.’ His TV
ads feature testimonials from the
mother of a Marine. And he
accuses his Republican opponent
of not supporting the troops.”
Skelton votes with Democrats
94.6 percent of the time, and
supported TARP and the stimulus.
Skelton has represented this
region since 1977, but this is an
R+14 district and Republican Roy
Blunt should win the Missouri
Senate race by a wide margin,
perhaps creating coattails for
Hartzler.
John Koster, Washington’s 2nd
district: This race is a bit of a
surprise, but the challenger is
running hard and appears to have
a strong get-out-the-vote effort in
place: “Koster outpolled Larsen
by 298 votes in the August
primary and last week earned
recognition from the National
Republican Congressional
Committee, which paves the way
for party financing in the general
election. Koster has raised almost
$500,000, still far below Larsen’s
$1.1 million but enough to boost
Koster’s profile nationally.”
Unsurprisingly, Larsen is running
attack ads accusing Koster of
wanting to cut Medicare; the
Republican will need the
resources to refute those
accusations and refocus the race
on his preferred issue, runaway
federal spending.
Jaime Herrera, Washington’s 3rd
district: Already, huge amounts of
money are being committed to
this race: “The National
Republican Campaign
Committee, upping the ante in the
closely watched 3rd congressional
district race, confirmed last week
that it will spend $900,000 on TV
ads in the Portland media market
to support state Rep. Jaime
Herrera. The ads will air from
Sept. 24 to Oct. 21. Last week, the
Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee announced
it had reserved $650,000 in air
time for TV ads backing
Democratic 3rd district candidate
Denny Heck. Those ads won’t
begin airing until Oct. 5.”
-- Jim Geraghty writes the
Campaign Spot for NRO. Jim
Geraghty
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turnout high among the party’s
base, Grey won 54–45.
What transforms this from a local
tragedy for Washington residents
to something bigger is the fact
that the unions were apparently
able to intimidate the president
into silence. Adrian Fenty was the
first big city mayor to endorse
Barack Obama for president. He
was pursuing reforms, especially
in education, that the president
claims to support. According to
local media reports, Fenty
personally called the president
and asked for his help. In an
overwhelmingly African-
American city, a word from
Obama might have tipped the
balance. The word never came,
and Fenty was left twisting
slowly, slowly in the wind.
The White House now says that
the president doesn’t get involved
in primaries, something that
seems not to have occurred to the
administration in the cases of, say,
Pennsylvania and Colorado.
(Perhaps Obama could have
offered Grey a White House job,
as he did in a bid to get Joe Sestak
out of the race against Arlen
Specter.)
In the wake of Grey’s victory,
there were no front-page stories
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about the “civil war” in the
Democratic party. You will not
see evening newscasts full of
worrying about Democratic
extremism.
The tea parties are bringing
millions of newly energized
voters into the political process
for the first time. In some ways,
the phenomenon is similar to the
2008 Obama campaign in its
ability to energize people and
excite those who are not
otherwise politically engaged.
Conversely, the D.C. primary
suggests that the Democratic party
now is turning its attention to its
narrowest base: the unions, the
special interests, the left-wing
fringe. There has not been much
of a civil war in the Democratic
party, because there are so few
moderate Democrats around.
In the wake of the D.C. primary,
there is one less.
— Michael Tanner is a senior
fellow at the Cato Institute and
author of Leviathan on the Right:
How Big-Government
Conservatism Brought Down the
Republican Revolution. Michael
Tanner
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Foolhardy Tax Hikes
Submitted at 9/21/2010 3:00:54 AM
Overtaxing the top 2 percent
can’t cover even nine days’ worth
of deficit.
‘R aising taxes on the top 2% of
households, as Mr. Obama
proposes, would bring in $34
billion next year: enough to cover
nine days’ worth of the deficit,”
notes The Economist. So that is
what all the political fuss about
extending the Bush tax cuts for
another year is all about. Does
this make any sense? After all,
errors in estimating next year’s
revenues are typically much larger
than $34 billion.
The arithmetic is even more
absurd than it appears, because
the alleged $34 billion of extra
revenue is a “static” estimate: It’s
based on the assumption that
higher tax rates do no damage at
all to the affected taxpayers, and
therefore no damage to consumer
spending, business investment,
employment, stock prices,
housing prices, new-car sales, etc.
#ad#In an economy producing a
GDP of $15 trillion a year, even
the slightest ill effect from
Obama’s punitive tax hikes would
quickly turn that hypothetical $34
billion revenue gain into a big
revenue loss. Even if one could
somehow believe there would be
no harmful effects on small
businesses' hiring, or on decisions
of second earners to cut back or
retire early, upper-income
families in the president’s target
zone are nevertheless very
important prospective buyers of
big-ticket items such as homes
and cars. They account for 25
percent of consumer spending, as
Mark Zandi points out.
And even if we assume the
proposed tax hikes would have no
harmful effects on the economy,
the $34 billion estimate would
still be wildly optimistic. Why?
Because it’s also based on the
assumption that high-income
taxpayers would make no effort to
avoid the added burden. Evidence
from past changes in the highest
tax rates suggests that affected
taxpayers would be able to
conceal almost enough
incremental income (above the
$250,000 threshold) to offset the
added taxes on such income,
leaving even the IRS no better off.
For example: More professional
and small-business income would
be sheltered as retained earnings
inside new corporations. More
managerial income would be
deferred, or received as perks.
More investors would maximize
contributions to tax-favored
savings plans, or switch to tax-
exempt bonds. The academic
evidence is especially clear that a
higher tax rate on dividends
would dampen investors’ appetite
for dividend-paying stocks, and
that a higher tax rate on capital
gains would reduce the frequency
with which investors sell assets
and therefore have to pay the tax.
As puny as it is, the official $34
billion estimate of the revenue
from Obama’s crusade against
high incomes is wildly optimistic.
To begin with, it fails to take into
account how taxpayers would
react. To make matters much
worse, if there are any adverse
effects on the economy at all, the
net effect would be to reduce,
rather than increase, federal, state,
and local tax receipts in 2011. Are
these risks worth taking in the
foolhardy hope of paying for nine
days’ worth of deficit?
-- Alan Reynolds is a senior
fellow with the Cato Institute, and
author of Income and Wealth.
Alan Reynolds
OBAMA’S
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who espouse genuinely
conservative principles. In three
Republican primaries in Alaska,
Florida and Delaware,
establishment party picks, Lisa
Murkowski, Charlie Crist, and
Mike Castle were beaten by Tea
Party candidates Joe Miller, Marc
Rubio and Christine O’Connell,
respectively.
Judged by the subsequent actions
of the losers, the electorate was
right on the money. Crist is
already running as a third party
candidate, Murkowski is
attempting to the do the same with
a write-in candidacy, and Castle
has announced he will remain
“neutral” rather than support
O’Donnell, despite being a
Republican for forty-five years.
So much for party loyalty.
Christine O’Donnell has been the
particular focus of establishment
scorn because she’s viewed as a
weak candidate, and because
Castle was a lock to win a state
that is now trending Democrat. It
is a scorn exemplified by
the National Republican
Senatorial Committee initially
announcing they wouldn’t fund
her campaign. They recanted a
day later. Perhaps they came to
their senses–or perhaps the fact
that O’Donnell raised nearly a
million dollars in campaign
donations less than twenty four
hours after her victory “clarified”
their thinking.
Whether O’Donnell is the right
candidate or a winner is largely
irrelevant. No political movement
produces perfect candidates, and
if the Tea Party has legs after this
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November’s election, is it likely
there will be other candidates with
less-than-stellar credentials
representing the movement.
Nor is winning the ultimate
bottom line at this particular
moment in time. Something far
bigger is occurring here:
Americans are making it plain
that the status quo of two political
parties “without a dime’s worth of
difference between them” is
coming to an end. They are sick to
death of voting for the “lesser of
two evils,” especially when such
“choices” are mortgaging the
future of the country in the
process. In Delaware, better a
“flawed” Christine O’Donnell
than a phony Mike Castle.
If Democrats are politically tone-
deaf enough to characterize as
“radicals” Americans who have
demonstrated enormous courage
by showing up at town hall
meetings, marching on
Washington, D.C., and kicking
arrogant incumbents to the curb,
so be it. If Republicans are dumb
enough to miss an enormous
opportunity to re-energize their
party around principles they say
they stand for, they are equally
obtuse.
Perhaps neither party has enough
time to consider the unthinkable:
a political movement which has
garnered so much success in less
than two years could conceivably
evolve into a viable third party by
the 2012 election. It wouldn’t take
much to get the electorate excited
by the idea of tossing out
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The Specter of Palestine continued from page 74

members of the aptly-anointed

P. David Hornik (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) “ruling class” in both parties.
It’s the principles, stupid.
Submitted at 9/20/2010 11:25:54 PM

Last week another chapter of

Israeli-Palestinian “peace talks”
began. It hasn’t gone very far yet,
and it still could all break down.
But for those who see a sovereign
Palestinian state in the West Bank
and Gaza as an intolerable
security threat to Israel, it’s
enough to induce unease.
Imagine cutting two chunks out
of New Jersey, adding up to
almost one-fourth of its land
mass, and setting up a deeply
hostile statelet in them with a
population nurtured in hatred for
generations. Rocket firings, sniper
fire, and terror incursions are
some of the problems that spring
international “peacekeepers.” The Netanyahu is playing a carefully
to mind. Not to
latest egregious example is the calibrated game aimed at
mention—particularly since this
complete failure of the enlarged managing the ongoing pressure
“New Jersey” is in the Middle
UNIFIL force in southern from Washington. Even if so, his
East—alliances with enemy
Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah words further legitimize the
countries, which could include
from rearming itself with tens of notion of such a state and sow
inviting such countries’ armies
thousands of missiles since the discomfort.
into its territory. Collusions
2006 war. In other words, the specter of the
involving sabotage or even WMD
This time, however, it’s not Palestinian state may still be far
attacks are not at all far-fetched.
shallow, malleable leaders like off, but it’s hauntingly there at the
True, there has always been talk
former prime minister Ehud fringes now. And in such a
of the Palestinian state being
Olmert or former foreign minister situation, one can only be
“demilitarized.” But with current,
Tzipi Livni who are engaging in profoundly grateful that about
purportedly moderate Palestinian
the Palestinian-state talk, but 300,000 Israelis now live in
leader Mahmoud Abbas having
Prime Minister Benjamin “settlements”—towns, villages,
said he wouldn’t tolerate the
presence of a single Jew—civilian
Netanyahu with his far greater
intellectual depth. One astute
communities—in Judea and
Samaria (the West Bank). Their
OMG, Unintended
or soldier—in his state, that would
leave only (presumably Jew-free)
international forces to monitor the
Israeli commentator, Israel Harel,
claims Netanyahu has undergone
presence simply makes it more
Consequences!
difficult, perhaps even impossible,
the “conversion” and really for the Palestinian state to arise. Alex Adrianson (The Foundry: Posted September 21st, 2010 at
supposed demilitarization.
believes in what he’s saying. It They are a natural bulwark Conservative Policy News.)
Israel, however, has had a long
still seems more likely that against such a development. OMG, page 76
and negative history with Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:30:22 PM
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2:30pm in Health Care Print This
Post
“Some of the country’s most
prominent health insurance
companies have decided to stop
offering new child-only plans,
rather than comply with rules in
the new health-care law that will
require such plans to start
accepting children with
preexisting medical conditions
after Sept. 23,” the Washington
Post reports.
The Post quotes one Ethan Rome,
executive director of the liberal
advocacy group Health Care for
America Now: “We’re just days
away from a new era when
insurance companies must stop
denying coverage to kids just
because they are sick, and now
some of the biggest changed their
minds. … [It] is immoral, and to
blame their appalling behavior on
the new law is patently
Top 5 Web Font Design Trends to Follow
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:13:08 PM
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The world of web fonts and web
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years of struggle, we’re finally at
a point where using real fonts on
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dishonest.”
This type of posturing is the pat
move of liberals every time their
designs for society are frustrated
by the reality that other people
pursue their self interests. The
only way to get around that little
problem of human nature is for
Congress, instead of regulating
business, to compel exactly the
sort of behavior it wants—e.g.,
this particular company must sell
this particular product at this
particular price to these particular
customers. But that would raise
exactly the same problem raised
by Obamacare’s mandate that
individuals must purchase health
insurance: Such a law would not
be a regulation of commerce; it
would be forcing people to
engage in commerce that they
would otherwise not engage in.
And if the Constitution allows
Congress to compel people to
For web designers, this is huge
news because it means a greater
degree of control over how
content is displayed. For end
users, it means a richer web
experience.
Thanks to web services like
Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts,
Webtype and others, the
opportunities to integrate real
fonts on the web is getting better
all the time.
Let’s look at five of the biggest
The Web Open Font Format, or
trends taking place with web font
WOFF, is edging ever closer to
and web typography design. 1.
becoming the de facto
WOFF as a Standard
standardized format for using
engage in commerce, then there
are no constitutional limits to
what Congress may do.
Note, by the way, that Mr. Rome
engages in exactly the sort of
behavior he describes as immoral,
for as best we can tell, he doesn’t
sell insurance to anybody at any
price.
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Webtype, a partnership of
Ascender, Roger Black and Font
Bureau. Similar to Typekit,
Webtype offers a way for
designers or end users to get high
quality fonts for use in their own
designs.
Last week, Monotype Imaging
formally launched Fonts.com
Web Fonts and brought many of
the most famous Monotype,
Linotype and ITC font families to
the web.
At this stage, nearly every major
foundry is either offering fonts
with web usage licenses or is
considering making their fonts
usable on the web. Eighteen
months ago, that wouldn’t have
been a reality. Today it is. 3.
Better Letter Control with
Lettering.js
When creating the Lost World’s
Fairs project, Friends of Mighty
realized they would need to have
fonts on the web.
Backed by Mozilla, Opera and
Microsoft, WOFF allows
TrueType, OpenType or Open
Font Format fonts to be embedded
into web pages.
Right now, WOFF support is
built into Firefox 3.6 and above,
Google Chrome version 5 and
above, Internet Explorer 9, and
will be supported in upcoming
versions of Safari.
Jason Santa Maria and his
Friends of Mighty built Lost
World’s Fairs as a way to
showcase IE 9 and its support of
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a way to better control individual
letters and words to offer proper
spacing and better kerning.
Thus, Lettering.js was born.
Lettering.js is a JavaScript plugin
that allows developers and
designers to better control
individual letters without having
tons of messy markup.
As Dan Rubin recently remarked
on Twitter, Lettering.js may just
end up having a bigger impact on
typography on the web than
anyone is expecting. 4. Mobile
Support
Fonts.com Web Fonts service and
Typekit both offer support for
multiple mobile browsers. This
continues to increase as more and
more mobile browser makers
support various aspects of @font-
face and draft specifications like
WOFF.
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WOFF. This fantastic piece of
typographic web art really shows
just how great type can be made
to look on the web. 2. Big
Foundries Jump on Board
When Adobe announced that
they were partnering with Typekit
back in August, it was a big
move. Historically, the biggest
font foundries have led the
resistance against getting fonts on
the web.
Adobe’s decision was followed
recently by the new company,
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It’s not just enough for fonts to
look good on the desktop, as more
and more web usage shifts to the
smartphone, having readable,
legible and properly spaced
typography on mobile devices
will be a bigger and bigger area of
interest.
Already companies like
Monotype and Typekit are
working to make sure that fonts
look their best on a number of
different screen types and sizes. 5.
Font Support in Web Apps
One of the most interesting recent
advancements in the web font
world has been the ability to
choose web fonts when
customizing an aspect of a web
app. Thanks to Typekit and
Google’s Web Font Directory, it’s
easy for developers to build these
tools into their product.
Already many Tumblr themes are
coming with Typekit support and
new web services like About.me
give users the option to customize
their typefaces for various aspects
of their profile.
This is a great use of typography
on the web because it gives end-
users direct interaction with fonts
and lets them see directly how
different fonts look together and
at different sizes.
Web typography is on a tear and
we’re at the beginning of a new
era of a more beautiful, more
legible and more customizable
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Twitter Explains Security
Exploit
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:40:11 PM
Twitter has posted an official
response to the“onMouseOver”
security flaw that hit the
Twitter.com website earlier this
morning.
In the official post, Twitter
security team member Bob Lord
lays out a timeline of the attack,
its underlying cause and the scope
of its reach.
As we noted earlier this morning,
using cross-site scripting (XSS),
malicious users were able to
exploit a security hole on
Twitter’s website. The result was
that thousands of users found
themselves redirected to other
websites, and that they were
automatically sending tweets to
pass the exploit to others.
This type of attack was
particularly nasty because it could
be exploited simply by hovering
over a link on a page. In my own
case, merely visiting the Twitter
homepage was enough to set off a
pattern of auto-tweets.
Twitter says that it discovered the
hole that led to the exploit last
month and patched it. However, a
recent update to the site (which
Twitter stresses was not related to
the new Twitter) caused the hole
to resurface.
The exploit only affected
Twitter.com users and not anyone
using the mobile web site or third-
party Twitter apps. Twitter says it
was notified about the security
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hole at 2:54 am PT and had the
most significant aspects patched
by 7:00 am PT.
The microblogging service also
says that it appears that the vast
majority of uses of the exploit
were for pranks or promotional
purposes. Lord writes that Twitter
is unaware of any issues related to
the attack that would have any
impact on a user’s computer or
Twitter account. No account
information was compromised, so
changing passwords shouldn’t be
necessary.
While it appears that this incident
resulted in more annoyances for
users than any long-lasting
damage, it is a good reminder of
just how quickly even large
website can be exploited. For
Twitter’s sake, we hope that more
code auditing takes place when
applying patches to avoid some of
these incidents in the future.
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Starbucks Digital Network to Include
Award-Winning Documentary Films
Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable!)
Submitted at 9/21/2010 1:31:06 PM
Free Wi-Fi has become a staple
at Starbucks stores in the U.S. The
accompanying in-store Starbucks
Digital Network(SDN), which
will offer exclusive access to
premium content from hand-
picked content providers, is still
slated for a fall launch. SDN will
be instrumental in the company’s
designs to capitalize on its free Wi
-Fi offering.
At TheGrill conference in Santa
Monica on Tuesday, CEO
Howard Schutlz revealed yet
another content partner for the
service, documentary film site
SnagFilms.
SnagFilms currently offers access
to 1,600 award-winning
documentary titles. Together
Starbucks and SnagFilms will co-
curate a monthly themed
collection of featured films to
highlight through SDN.
At launch, Starbucks will curate a
series of three to six music-
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purchases, even if you didn’t have
enough money in your account to
cover the charge. Consequently,
the bank would promptly hit your
account with an overdraft fee of
up to $34 for each transaction.
The new law, however, requires
you to opt-in to accept this
protection. Otherwise, the bank
must deny the charge or
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news goes to show that Starbucks
is pretty serious about beefing up
its entertainment content and
delivering on the promised third-
place experience. Here’s hoping
there’s plenty of bandwidth to go
themed documentaries, further
around.
establishing the coffee retailer’s
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New Overdraft Rules: To
of Digital Ventures Adam
Opt in or Not to Opt in
(Financiallyfit on Shine) rules are and how they affect your
Submitted at 9/20/2010 2:42:07 PM checking and savings account
withdrawal that would overdraw cleared your account, it didn’t. before you make a decision. In
your account. If you choose to opt When you swipe your debit card, user addition, find out about
-in, your bank will continue to you’re charged $3.50 and because Overdraft Fees: Opt in or Out? alternative ways to protect your
charge you a fee for each you don’t have enough funds to By: Kristie Lorette, Quizzle.com accounts from overdraft fees.
overdraft. cover the purchase, the bank New overdraft rules are in full New Overdraft Rules
Here’s how overdraft protection charges your account a $34 effect, leaving many consumers Before the new overdraft rules,
works: let’s say you enjoy a latte overdraft fee. So now, that $3.50 wondering if it’s best to opt into your bank could allow ATM
each morning at the corner coffee cup of coffee costs you $37.50. now optional overdraft protection withdrawals and debit card
shop, costing you $3.50 a pop. or go without it. Learn what the
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Federal Reserve's new overdraft
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And if you don’t catch the
mistake in time and continue to
charge purchases, you will incur
further overdraft fees for each
purchase you make.
The Alternatives
You may agree that some type of
overdraft protection is a good
idea. After all, stuff happens.
Before deciding to opt-in for the
automatic overdraft option,
however, call your bank and ask if
there are alternatives available.
For example, some banks offer an
annual overdraft protection
service. You’ll pay a yearly fee
for the service, but it's nominal
and often lower than a single
overdraft fee.
The second option is to link your
savings account with your
checking account as overdraft
protection. Many banks offer this
as a free option for protecting
your checking account from
possible mishaps. If your
checking account becomes
overdrawn, money from your
savings will automatically transfer
to your checking account to cover
the amount. Of course, you have
to have enough money in your
savings account to cover the
overdrawn amount for this to
work.
What to Do
If you have a savings account and
checking account at the same
bank, then linking the two
accounts as free overdraft
protection is your best bet. If this
isn’t an option, then inquire about
an annual overdraft program. If
you rarely overdraw your account,
then stay put – your purchases
will be declined in an overdraft
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