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Steven Chu: Energy Secretary, Nobel Analyst Calls: AMD,

Laureate, Zombie COL, EL, GILD, HAL,
Deborah Zabarenko (Front Row
Washington)
the zombie angle? Turns out that
my alert colleague Tom Doggett, INTC, PFE, SLB, SPLS ...
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:33:26 PM who reports on energy issues, saw Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks) Halliburton ( HAL) to outperform
the zombified version of Chu from perform.
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:30:00 AM
Nov 1, 2010 13:33 EDT online last week and passed it • Gilead ( GILD) was upgraded
You sort of have to like a U.S. along to Energy Department Filed under: Analyst Reports, to outperform from sector perform
cabinet secretary and Nobel Prize spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller. Analyst Upgrades and at RBC Capital.
winner who knows how to have a To soften the blow, Tom urged Downgrades, Pfizer (PFE), Intel • Skilled Healthcare ( SKH) was
little fun while getting out a her to tell Chu not to take it (INTC), Estee Lauder (EL), upgraded to outperform from
message. personally: “I hear (Interior Schlumberger Limited (SLB), market perform at JMP Securities.
That would be Steven Chu, who Secretary Ken) Salazar looks Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), • Citigroup upgraded
posted a picture of himself as a much worse.” She wrote back: Staples Inc (SPLS), Analyst CapitalSource ( CSE) to buy from
green-faced, blood-dripping “Your email inspired a Facebook Initiations, Gilead Sciences hold.
Chu’s got nearly 15,000
zombie on his Facebook page. posting … The Secretary loved (GILD)
Facebook followers but he’s near
Just in time for Washington’s the zombie website. Be sure to Analyst Upgrades Continue reading Analyst Calls:
the bottom of a recent accounting
scrupulously-observed Halloween check out his Facebook page.” • Macquarie upgraded Intel ( AMD, COL, EL, GILD, HAL,
in Politico about which cabinet
weekend, Chu used his own And even though Halloween has INTC) to outperform from neutral INTC, PFE, SLB, SPLS ...
secretaries can claim the highest
zombification as a platform to passed, you can still see what and Advanced Micro ( AMD) to Analyst Calls: AMD, COL, EL,
media profile. Secretary of State
point out power-sucking you’d look like undead by going neutral from underperform. GILD, HAL, INTC, PFE, SLB,
Hillary Clinton tops the list, based
appliances — energy vampires, he here. • Pfizer ( PFE) was upgraded to SPLS ... originally appeared on
on how often her name showed up
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the White House blog and its
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paragraph).
Perhaps it’s a profile-raising
But how did Chu come up with
approach?
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After the Expo: Urban Renewal With Chinese Characteristics

Greg Lindsay (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:16:52 PM

The future belongs to crowds.

That’s the lesson in a sentence
from Expo 2010, which
concluded in Shanghai on Sunday
after six months, a record-
breaking 73 million visitors, and
30,000 newborns saddled with the
unfortunate name of “Shibo”
(Chinese for “Expo”). Estimates
for the cost of the World’s Fair--
the largest and most expensive in
history--run as high $58 billion,
depending on how Shanghai’s
infrastructure upgrades are
accounted for.
Visiting the Expo could be a
grueling experience. Roughly the
size of Central Park, the
fairground could accommodate
600,000 people. But daily
attendance peaked in late October
at 1 million, creating a park both
vast and massively overcrowded.
Locals warning visitors "If you
don’t go you’ll regret it; if you do
you’ll regret it twice as much,”
were specifically warning of the
epic lines, which in the Expo’s
final days took anywhere from
five to 11 hours to get through at
the most popular pavilions. (At
one point Turkey sparked a minor
incident by accusing Saudi Arabia
souvenir wasn’t some tchotchke contemplation of cities. Its finale and the engines of urban the concept of 'Cities of Harmony'
and Germany of padding their
featuring the Expo’s ubiquitous Sunday included a “ Shanghai development,” the official English embodies our dreams.”
waits for prestige.)
blue mascot, Haibao, but the Declaration” signed by all translation stated. “We are also “Cities of Harmony” echoes the
Chinese officials guaranteed they
folding plastic stools hawked participants advocating for convinced that it is necessary to re “harmonious society” envisioned
would shatter the record set by
outside the gates. greener, more sustainable, and -examine the relationship between by Chinese president Hu Jintao as
Osaka in 1970 by giving away
The Expo’s stated theme was more equitable ones. “We have people, cities and our planet. We the outcome of his “scientific
millions of free tickets and
“Better City, Better Life,” and come to realize that people's agree that, in tackling the development” policy established
subsidizing numerous tours. For
organizers boasted it was the first understanding and pursuit of a challenges of urban development, AFTER page 3
many visitors, the most popular
World’s Fair devoted to the better life are both the foundations innovation offers solutions and
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AFTER
continued from page 2
in 2005. As the Expo’s chairman
put it, “I think the key is now to
solve the problems that have been
brought about by development
through development. The priority
is development.”
And the top priority of the Expo
was to sell 70 million Chinese
attendees--many of who were
visiting Shanghai for the first time
from the countryside--on the
urgency of deserting their farms
for cities. McKinsey expects
China’s urban population to rise
by 350 million in the next 15
years, of whom 240 million will
be internal emigrants. Sheltering
them will require 5 million new
buildings and as many as 50,000
skyscrapers, thereby underwriting
both China’s real estate bubble
and its torrid rate of GDP growth.
As popular as Saudi Arabia’s and
Germany’s were, the real message
of the Expo was embodied by its
Theme pavilions, which offered
fair-goers a crash course on the
past, present, and future of cities.
In one, attendees posed for
photographs with a wax effigy of
a family of four from exurban
Phoenix, who were depicted with
a shopping cart overflowing with
groceries (top, below). Another
reprinted lines from last
December’s Copenhagen Accord
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to underscore the threat of climate
change. (Never mind that the Oil
pavilion sponsored by CNPC,
Sinopec and CNOOC featured a
mascot named “ Oil Baby.” “Oil
represents oil and gas, while baby
means growth and hope.”)
And in yet another, Chinese
visitors were introduced to Le
Corbusier, whose plans to knock
down the entire Marais district in
Paris and replace it with rows of
identical towers have more or less
been executed in Shanghai. In the
Expo’s telling, Corbu “always
designed cities as beautiful as
possible, ‘with enthusiasm, with
faith in love and beauty…’
Regrettably, his works were not
sufficiently appreciated by his
contemporaries.”
Not so in contemporary China,
where the Expo’s task was to put
a smiling face on the rationale for
forced demolitions followed by
breakneck construction. A more
honest defense of the former
appeared in the press a few weeks
before the fair’s closing, after a
standoff in the Jiangxi province
southwest of Shanghai pitting
nearly 200 government workers
against a family fighting to
preserve their home from
demolition ended with the family
lighting themselves on fire in
Baby Suommo from Spain offers
luxury baby cribs which could be
mistaken for designer furniture
attempted suicides. In response to
the resulting outrage, a local
government official wrote an open
letter to Caixin arguing the furor
obscured some inconvenient
truths: When so many are
denouncing the forced demolition
policy, it seems that we all ignore
a basic fact--everyone is the
beneficiary of forced demolition
policies. When you are living in a
spacious and comfortable house,
when you are walking on the
street, when reporters are writing
articles condemning forced
demolition policies in luxurious
hotels, can you imagine that the
land under your feet was once
obtained by the government by
forced demolition? Therefore, to
some degree, we won't have
urbanization without forced
demolitions. And we won't have a
‘brand new China’ without
urbanization. From this point, I
would add that there is no ‘new
China’ without the forced
demolition.
There would have certainly been
no Expo without it. Building the
fair required stripping the
footprint clean of the shipyard and
worker housing that once stood
there, relocating 10,660 families
in the process. In the coming
months, local authorities will
pieces. Its interiors are lined with
natural silk padding, making these
cribs a sensory pleasure for the
Business/ Technology/
flatten the site again, as the first
Expo devoted to sustainable urban
development is destined to be
landfill. From the Financial
Times: According to the rules of
the Bureau International des
Expositions, the global governing
body of Expos, almost all of the
200-odd pavilions that covered
the 5 sq km site must be taken
down. But that creates a
contradiction: that this greenest of
Expos will inevitably create
tonnes of waste by the simple fact
of its destruction.
The Shanghai Expo’s own rules
state each pavilion must be
recycled, although no one knows
how to go about this. (China’s
own pavilion will survive as one
of the fair’s few permanent
structures.) Most, the newspaper
notes, “will simply vanish--
leaving only prime real estate
perfect for that most
Shanghainese of sports: the
construction of yet more luxury
residential properties to be
snapped up by speculators.”
baby.…
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Will Home
Prices Keep
Falling?
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:00:00 PM
Filed under: Forecasts, Market
Matters, Economic Data, Housing
Will home prices keep falling?
The answer is yes. But why this is
happening? The reason lies in
high unemployment and the
increased number of foreclosures.
Here are some analysts' views on
the market, as reported by
CNNMoney:
• Fiserv, a market analytics
company, had forecast price gains
of 4% in February. Their latest
prediction is for a 7.1% drop in
prices.
Continue reading Will Home
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EXCLUSIVE WITH CHRIS ANDERSON: On
Founding A Robot Company, Writing Books,
And Fathering 5 Kids--While Editing Wired
Henry Blodget (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:36:00 PM
Prior to joining Wired as its
Editor-in-Chief, Chris Anderson
swore to himself that he would
never become a journalist. Why?
Because his parents were also
journalists.
So he went and got a degree in
physics and a job at Los Alamos.
In the end, his lineage won out
and he ended up working for the
journals Nature and Science
before moving on to The
Economist. Then, in 2000, Chris
Anderson was recruited by Conde
Nast to run its technology
magazine Wired. Anderson's reign
at Wired started off shaky, but he
notes that in retrospect, the end of
the dot com bubble was the best
time for him to take over the
magazine.
"I was able to screw up because in
those days you could not succeed
in that environment," Anderson
told us. "So, if you're going to
fail, fail in an environment where
it's impossible to succeed."
Anderson made a bet that the
Internet would continue to grow
despite the stock market crashing,
and time and time again he had
his magazine declare the Internet
had become ubiquitous. No one
believed this positive spin
however; so, the magazine had to
do something different.
"Eventually, it was science that
saved us," Anderson declared.
With 18 months of experience
under his belt as Wired's Editor-in
-Chief, Anderson released an
issue of the magazine that strayed
away from technology and
focused on the cultural differences
between science and religion.
This issue served as the launching
pad for Wired's longstanding
dominance in the technology
magazine industry.
Today, Chris Anderson is still
Editor-in-Chief of Wired, a best-
selling author, and the founder of
a robot-manufacturing company.
And he has 5 kids.
Our exclusive 40-minute
interview with Chris Anderson in
presented in its entirety below.
We'll also publish highlights from
it over the next few days.
This interview is part of our
Inspiring Performers series,
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Intel Signals Potential
Shift In Business Model
Brent Archer (BloggingStocks) the coming months, then now
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:30:00 PM could be a good time to look at a
bullish hedged trade on INTC.
Filed under: Good news, Intel INTC opened this morning at
(INTC), Options, Technical $20.35. So far today the stock has
Analysis Intel ( INTC- option hit a low of $20.34 and a high of
chain) shares are rising today after $20.67. As of 12:45, INTC is
Intel announced an agreement this trading at $20.49 up 0.44 (2.2%).
m o r n i n g w i t h A c h r o n i x The chart for INTC looks bullish
Semiconductor to manufacture and S&P gives INTC a positive 4
chips designed by the smaller STARS (out of 5) buy ranking.
company. This move is being met Continue reading Intel Signals
with excitement by traders who Potential Shift In Business Model
see it as a new revenue stream Intel Signals Potential Shift In
that Intel had previously avoided. B u s i n e s s M o d e l o r i g i n a l l y
While this particular agreement is appeared on BloggingStocks on
relativly small compared to Intel's Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST.
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Al Horford has agreed to Retro Bike Auctions - The
a five-year, $60 million 1895 Hildebrand &
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(Business Insider)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:44:00 PM
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Al Horford has agreed to a five- According to Bonhams, the rare
Hildebrand & Wolfmuller
year, $60 million contract
extension with the Atlanta Hawks, motorcycle will be auctioned off
at the Las Vegas Motorcycle
reports Michael Cunningham of
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Disney, Warner Win $400k Case
Against Firm With Ads on Pirate Sites, New Charges: Case Rests
Google Could Be Next
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:33:17 PM
Disney and Warner Bros have
just won$400,000 in damages
from a web advertiser that "helped
fund" piracy by supplying ads for
pirate websites. Is Google, the
biggest web ads provider, rightly
or wrongly next on the legal list?
The damages are levied against
Triton Media, which the courts
have thus found guilty of
"contributory copyright
infringement" and "inducement to
infringe." Triton's crime is an odd
one: Providing a web ads facility
to websites including free-tv-
video-online.info and watch-
movies.net. These sites, part of a
longer list, are accused of illegally
providing streaming access to
content that they haven't licensed
from the content owners--the
latest bane in the life of
Hollywood studios and TV
companies the world over. Their
business model is simple: At low
cost to themselves they provide a
point of access to someone else's
popular TV show or movie, their
viewers are attracted by the big-
name shows available and the fact
they don't have to pay. In-page
ads return a small revenue stream
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to the site owners, much as they
do for pretty much every other
web site out there.
By supplying ads to the sites in
question, Triton was indirectly
contributing to their copyright
abuse, so the legal argument went.
It's a valid question, when you
consider that web ads firms
generally screen their site clients
before accepting them, and it
should've been easy to spot that
these streaming sites were blatant
copyright violators.
But as a Wall Street Journal
article noted back in 2007, two
sites earned over a million dollars
in web ad income over two-year
period, of which over $800,000
came from Google. The cash
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(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:00:00 PM
Filed under: Management, Law,
Halliburton (HAL), BP p.l.c. ADS
(BP), Oil
The Financial Times reported on
a U.S. investigation that claims
that BP ( BP) and Halliburton ( explosion on the Deepwater
HAL) knew that the cement used Horizon.
to seal the failed well was Continue reading BP and
unstable. Halliburton Face New Charges:
The lawyers suing BP and Case Rests on Cement
Halliburton call this evidence a BP and Halliburton Face New
"game changer" and says it opens
quantities concerned will certainly Charges: Case Rests on Cement
have increased in the three years up the companies to penalties and originally appeared on
since this case. Hollywood studioscourt awards running into the BloggingStocks on Mon, 01 Nov
and TV show creators now have a billions of dollars. 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see
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Walmart Gets Its Groupon but Does Not Let Shoppers Dictate
Deals
Kit Eaton (Fast Company) idea, the products in question get they're not really driving this
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:25:10 PM discounted. There are a few vehicle.
provisos: Walmart gets to choose And yes, admittedly loss-leader
Walmart's execs know a money- the product; enough people have products are a possibility through
making scheme when they see to "Like" it inside a time window Crowdsaver, but rest assured
one, and they've zeroed in on Walmart chooses; and Walmart Walmart's well aware of that trick
Groupon's consumer money- gets to set the discount price. already. No matter how much you
saving coupon model as a good It all begs the question: If all "Like" an iPad, you're not
thing. So they're launching their Walmart can afford to sell things getting it from Walmart for
own version. Which ... makes a t a b i g d i s c o u n t t h r o u g h $49.95. They did, however, offer
them more money. What? Crowdsaver, couldn't it just sell a 42" plasma TV for $398, down
Walmart's Crowdsaver system, stuff at a lower price anyway? from $488 after more than 5,000
a v a i l a b l e o n t h e r e t a i l e r ' s Yes. So here's why they're doing Crowdsavers "Liked" it.
Facebook page, works a lot like this: Crowdsaver lets Walmart To keep up with this news, and
Groupon, but in a way that unload surplus product while more like it, follow me, Kit Eaton,
weekend), which likely cost g e t s i n s i g h t i n t o h o w i t s
benefits the retail giant much simultaneously boosting its public on Twitter. Or find more ways to
Walmart nearly nothing in the customers want to shop, and gets
more. Plus, it holds tight reins on image. Imagine these as the goods connect via my about.me profile:
first place. If a Crowdsaver deal lots of "Likes" which it can use as
the system. Walmart suggests otherwise sitting in a warehouse
takes off with viral-like success, a PR promotional message. about.me/rockit
products in the Crowdsaver somewhere. Or novelties (like
Walmart moves a ton of units for Consumers do ultimately benefit
w i n d o w , a n d i f e n o u g h personalized Halloween mugs,
almost no outlay. Walmart also from the price reduction, but
Facebookers "Like" Walmart's available on Crowdsaver over the

Nissan's New Mini-EV: Good for Your Short Game

David Zax (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:20:04 PM
It's the sleekest little golf-cart-
sized thing you've ever seen. But
is it what the EV industry needs?
Nissan recently revealed a two-
seat electric vehicle it's calling the
"Nissan New Mobility
CONCEPT." The car, pictured
here, isn't ready for sale yet (and
no price has been named); the
company is still studying potential
markets for such a small vehicle--
amusement parks, perhaps.
Nissan's big forthcoming EV is Nissan EV cart has a range of just
the Leaf, which will hit the streets 60 miles, and hits a top speed of
of the U.S. and Japan in about 50 mph.
December. The company intends "We don't want EVs to be a niche
to soon be producing 250,000 product," Nissan's corporate VP
EVs per year, according to the Hideaki Wanatabe told reporters
AP. It's also partnering with recently outside of Tokyo, before
government and companies--it has hopping in and silently speeding
80 partners this year, over just 30 around a showroom. Amen to
from last year--and is setting up that, Mr. Wanatabe, but for that
charging stations to build an reason we're more excited to see
back for the EV industry. of cars like the ones we already
infrastcuture for the Leaf. the Leaf rollout than this
We already know we can make drive, at the prices we already
One the one hand, this miniature, admittedly cute and stylish carlet.
electric-powered golf carts. The pay, with the top speeds and the
golf-cart-like car is cool, but on [Image: Flickr user NISSANEV]
challenge is to build an industry ranges we already want. But the
the other, it seems arguably a step
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Bombshell Pension Vote Is
About Sink California Hundreds
Of Millions Deeper Into The Red
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:44:05 PM
California recently got its budget
situation under control, but
everyone figures the state is still
in serious financial trouble.
And this news won't help, though
it was probably inevitable.
According to the Sacramento
Bee, CalSTRS (the big teachers
retirement fund) is set to vote on
Friday whether or not it should
reduce its annual investment
returns estimate from 8% to 7.5%,
a move that will add hundreds of
million to state debts (since the
pension is guaranteed, and public
taxpayers are on the hook).
That would be a huge decision, if
they do it. 8% has been the level
Pumpkin-Shaped Airports
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Airport Unveils its New
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:01:01 PM
Studio Pacific Architecture in
association with Warren and
Mahoney have designed an
unusual looking terminal, The
Rock, specially for Wellington
International Airport in New
Zealand. Quite different…
set since 1995 (talk about a whole
nother era), and artificially high
return estimates are how the
pension systems aren't (on paper)
even more insolvent than they
already seem.
Click here to see the 11 state
pension funds that will next run
out of money >
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Wootcast for
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Woot (Woot! - One Day, One
Deal)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
In this week's Woot.com video
podcast we learn the answer to
that age-old question: Who parties
like a platypus in new November
pants? According to this
sartorially-minded marsupial, no
one.
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Japan in diplomatic row after Russian isle visit (Reuters)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Lavrov called the Japanese is important that there is Senkaku and Diaoyu. airbase on southern Okinawa
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:37:39 AM reaction "unacceptable." development here, we will Hopes that relations between island, although concerns about
"It is our land and the Russian definitely be investing here." Asia's two biggest economies China have helped relations with
KUNASHIR, Kurile Islands president visited Russian land," "Life will be better here, like it is were on the mend were dashed on Washington improve recently.
(Reuters) – Russian President Lavrov told a news conference. in central Russia." the weekend, when China "The Japanese government
Dmitry Medvedev visited an The island chain, eight time State TV showed Medvedev abruptly canceled a planned strained its ties with the United
island outpost seized by Russia zones from Moscow, stretches tasting caviar on the islands at a meeting between Kan and States over Futenma, then it
from Japan at the end of World northeast from Japan's main fish plant and speaking to locals at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on mishandled the Senkaku issue
War Two stirring a diplomatic northern island of Hokkaido to shops. the sidelines of an Association of with China," said political analyst
row with Tokyo, which demands Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia has a broader problem Southeast Asian Nations Shigeki Hakamada, professor at
their return. The island Medvedev visited lies with the undeveloped areas of its (ASEAN) summit in Hanoi. Aoyama Gakuin University.
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one of four known as the Southern The dispute is a highly emotional and Japan. Their physical distance trade partner last year, replacing appropriate steps over this issue
K u r i l e s i n R u s s i a a n d t h e issue in Japan and, among more thousands of miles from Moscow the United States. Trade flows with Russia, the Kan government
Northern Territories in Japan, was nationalist circles, in Russia. has contributed to neglect of with Russia, however, are tiny by and the overall Democratic Party
likely to sour relations ahead of an But unlike the dispute with China infrastructure and investment. comparison. rule would suffer an extremely
Asia-Pacific leaders summit that over islands in the East China Medvedev's trip comes ahead of a Japan's exports to Russia totaled heavy blow."
Japan will host in mid-November. Sea, which are near potentially November 13-14 Asia-Pacific 306.5 billion yen ($3.8 billion) in (Editing by Ralph Boulton)
It also spells more bad news from vast maritime oil and gas reserves, Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2009, about 2 percent of its (Additional reporting by Yoko
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto this feud with Russia has more to summit in Japan that he will exports to China and its imports Nishikawa and Kiyoshi Takenaka
Kan, whose support ratings have do with the legacy of World War attend with leaders of the 21- from Russia came to 825.5 billion in Tokyo, Writing by Linda Sieg
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Factory growth quickens in October

(Reuters: Top News) index also rising. It was held back by a surprise 0.1 periodical cash injections, and stocks are not overpriced.
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:00:10 AM "The focus will be on the percent decline in income, the although economic data point The problem is that because of
elections and the Fed this week, first slide since July 2009. down, stock prices go up. uncertainty about the future, they
A worker tends yarn-spinning so the impact from this won't be Economists had expected a 0.2 Can anyone provide a more are not planning for increased
equipment at a Parkdale Mills as strong as it would have been percent gain. simple explanation, or has yet demand and so are not hiring. The
plant in Walnut Cove, North o t h e r w i s e , " s a i d D a v i d While the data was included in another bubble formed in WS, primary cause of the unceratinty
Carolina, in this photo taken June Kupersmith, head trader at Third Friday's advance third-quarter before our very eyes? is healthcare costs and
15, 2010. Wave Global Investors in gross domestic product report, Nov 01, 2010 10:26am EDT requirements and the secondary
Credit: Reuters/Scott Malone Greenwich, Connecticut. analysts said it underscored the Once again, the “Austrian” cause is tax costs. On healthcare,
NEW YORK| Mon Nov 1, 2010 "But the ISM is one of the most loss in momentum as the quarter economists have been proven Obama simply proved that his
12:00pm EDT important pieces of data out there ended. right, while all those we’ve put in social agenda is more important to
N E W Y O R K ( R e u t e r s ) - and the Fed will be looking at it as What's more, the Fed's preferred charge have been proven wrong. him than jobs and the economy.
Surprisingly strong growth last it prepares its comments," he measure of consumer inflation -- It’s a crying shame voters still On taxes, the Democrat Congress
month in the U.S. manufacturing added. the personal consumption don’t understand what’s at just proved that their political
sector was good news for a U.S. stocks rose, boosted partly expenditures price index, stake…or what’s coming next. posturing is more important to
s l u g g i s h e c o n o m y b u t w a s by strong U.S. and Chinese excluding food and energy - was Nov 01, 2010 10:27am EDT them than jobs and the economy.
probably too little, too late to stop factory data, while the dollar rose flat in September for the first time A new “Tool” of Fed i.e. Taxes will be decided in the next
the Federal Reserve from more and U.S. Treasury prices turned since April. The index rose 0.1 “Stimulus” We have tried to few months but hopefully this
monetary easing. negative. percent in August. analyse basic need of this and month. Healthcare still needs a
The quicker pace of factory Alan Ruskin, global head of G10 "The Fed's focus on inflation and how it was handled. And of few years to figure out but
growth was also tempered by a currency strategy at Deutsche quantitative easing was reflected course what it can do with system. American business will have
separate report showing U.S. Bank, said the Fed won't be able by today's PCE deflator number, h t t p : / / enough to go on by the first half
personal income fell in September to change course easing based on which continues to head down to amareshgangal.blogspot.com/ of 2011 that they will be ready to
w h i l e c o n s u m e r s p e n d i n g one strong ISM report. historical lows," said Joseph Thanks start moving forward again
remained tepid. But he said it would provide fuel Trevisani, chief market analyst at Amaresh. instead of just treading water.
The data was among the last for Fed hawks who are dubious FX Solutions in Saddle River, Nov 01, 2010 11:34am EDT That will leave China as the
before central bank officials about more easing and "will tend New Jersey. yr2009….the biggest reason the biggest uncertainty. The Fed has
gather Tuesday and Wednesday to to add to expectations that the Fed Nov 01, 2010 9:56am EDT stock market is going up while the to do Quantitative Easing to
assess the economy and its will want maximum flexibility to The Fed does not have any way economic indicators seems to be combat Chinese currency
uneven recovery from the worst turn off the printing press" should to put money in the pockets of pointing down is that most manipulation and other combative
downturn in 80 years. strong economic data warrant it. consumers. That is the only thing companies listed on the exchange trade policies because Congress
The Fed is expected to inject Separate data Monday showed that will get the economy going. now generate their money outside and the President won’t address
more money into the economy U.S. construction spending rose Further easing of credit will only of the US economy. The the issue with China directly.
through bond purchases, and that unexpectedly in September, make it easier for large businesses developing world economies are Unfortunately, QE devaluation of
v i e w w a s b o l s t e r e d b y t h e driven by a one-year high in to issue bonds, which will not booming and there’s lots of the USD punishes the rest of the
consumer data, which showed no investment in public projects. incentivize them to invest or to money being made there by world for China’s bad behavior.
inflation pressure in the economy. GROWTH STILL SLUGGISH hire. They’ll use the cash to ride American companies… Nov 01, 2010 12:27pm EDT
All of that overshadowed news Beyond manufacturing, though, out the double-dip that’s coming Nov 01, 2010 11:53am EDT SIMPLY PUT, goods should be
that the Institute for Supply the economy still looks less than in 2011. Based on valuations of manufactured in America, and
Management's index of national r o b u s t . T h e C o m m e r c e Nov 01, 2010 10:24am EDT companies based on their actual then exported, than vice-versa,
factory activity rose to 56.9 in Department on Monday said @Fishrl earnings, there is NOT a bubble which favours other economies.
October from 54.4, with the consumer spending rose 0.2 Looks like you’re right. on Wall Street right now. Nov 01, 2010 12:29pm EDT
employment, new orders and p e r c e n t i n S e p t e m b e r a f t e r Paradoxically, Wall Street has Companies are profitable, meeting
prices paid components of the advancing 0.5 percent in August. become addicted to these their earnings expectations and FACTORY page 13
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Republicans say voters will repudiate Obama

(Reuters: Top News) of Representatives and make big era of compromise. pensions ALL of those folks who voted for
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:32:25 PM Senate gains on Tuesday. "If they want to stick with this And wait until they start another change WILL be there, and then
Democrats hope to hang on to a filibuster strategy, obstruction and war in either Central Asia or some. Unfortunately what he fails
A s u p p o r t e r o f D e l a w a r e narrow majority in the Senate by saying no, it's going to be difficult South America and need your to realize, as usual, is that those
Republican senatorial candidate pulling out victories in a few tight to do anything," Dick Durbin, the kids for a few years. same people who voted him in,
Christine O'Donnell walks Senate races in states like No. 2 Senate Democrat, said of And wait until you lose your job are about to vote him out.
through the crowd during a Tea California, Washington and West Republicans on CNN's "State of and then your house. Get a clue- it’s not the
P a r t y E x p r e s s r a l l y i n Virginia. the Union." But, all the while, they will be Republicans you have to worry
Wilmington, Delaware, October Republican leaders said the All 435 House seats, 37 of 100 propping up petty, corrupt, violent about. It’s everyone else.
31, 2010. results will be a rejection of Senate seats and 37 of 50 state third-world potentates with what We (Independents and
Credit: Reuters/Tim Shaffer Obama's economic leadership, governors' offices are up for grabs used to be your money. moderates) put you in- and we’re
By John Whitesides which includes costly government in Tuesday's voting. Republicans And all the while, you can watch about to take you out.
WASHINGTON| Mon Nov 1, programs like the economic must pick up 39 Democratic seats Fox News tell you how well off Nov 01, 2010 11:03am EDT
2010 1:32pm EDT stimulus and broad initiatives like to take power in the House and 10 you are Are Americans so short-sighted
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - With the healthcare overhaul. to take the Senate. Extending the tax break doesn’t as to think that (a) Obama is
two days left in a bitter fight for "If Republicans win, that's what it Nov 01, 2010 8:05am EDT really matter when you have NO somehow to blame for current
control of Congress, Republicans will be -- a repudiation of Oh, so Palin finally found out the INCOME. financial hardships of the USA,
on Sunday appeared headed to a Obama's policies," Mississippi word wasn’t Nov 01, 2010 8:36am EDT despite having been in power for
smashing victory they said would Governor Haley Barbour, head of “refudiate”? Perhaps the GOP @Gulfstate – no, I think someone such a short time, (b) A
be a repudiation of President t h e R e p u b l i c a n G o v e r n o r s bought her a dictionary. else wrote it down – phonetically republican in power during the
Barack Obama and his policies. Association, said on NBC's "Meet Nov 01, 2010 8:26am EDT – on her palm. same period would somehow,
Candidates across the country the Press." This election is not going to be a Nov 01, 2010 9:24am EDT magically, have restored the USA
launched a frantic final push for Sarah Palin, the Republican vice statement of support or non- Palin and the ultra right (”Tea to bountiful prosperity within 24
support, and Obama ended a two- presidential candidate in 2008, support of Obama Party”) does not represent the months, despite what is going on
day campaign swing designed to said Tuesday's voting would be "a This election is not going to be majority of Republican Party. elsewhere in the world (c) voting
pump up Democratic turnout less political earthquake" that would anything more than evidence as to This Tea Party group of Democrats out of power will do
than 48 hours before Americans send a message to Obama. whether American voters are extremists is going to hurt the anything but create a political
begin to cast their ballots. "They're going to say, 'You blew stupid enough, gullible enough or Republican chance to have a deadlock where NOTHING can
"This election is a choice between it, President Obama. We gave you naive enough to swallow the balanced Congress not control by be achieved.
the policies that got us into this the two years to fulfill your line(s) of crap that the people who extreme liberals. Nov 01, 2010 11:06am EDT
mess and the policies that are promise of making sure that our are RESPONSIBLE for this Nov 01, 2010 10:21am EDT Joe200011:
leading us out of this mess," economy starts roaring back to economy are shoveling at us. It’s so easy to find blame, that is, Are you Joe Biden? Reading
O b a m a t o l d a b o u t 8 , 0 0 0 life again,'" she said of voters If they ARE that stupid, gullible as long as it’s not you. The fact is, from a script? or are just making
supporters in Cleveland, Ohio, in while appearing on "Fox News and naive, they deserve what’s in liberals are hurting because of this CRAP up on your own?
an auditorium that was about two- Sunday." store for them. liberals. If they were doing such a Nov 01, 2010 11:15am EDT
thirds full. GRIDLOCK ON THE AGENDA Say goodbye to the minimum great job they wouldn’t be in the Joe200011;
"If everyone who fought for Republican control of at least the wage, social security, medicare position they’re in today!! I agree, the electorate is quite
change in 2008 shows up to vote House could result in efforts to and your JOBS. Period!! gullible. Just look at who was
i n 2 0 1 0 , w e w i l l w i n t h i s repeal parts of the healthcare bill Say hello to a currency that will Nov 01, 2010 10:54am EDT elected in 2008 – there’s your
election," he said. and a renewed bout of gridlock on continue to be devalued to the “If everyone who fought for proof.
Spurred by voter discontent with pending issues like expiring tax point where the purchasing power change in 2008 shows up to vote *We welcome comments that
the ailing economy and with c u t s , c l i m a t e c h a n g e a n d of your 401(k) is worthless. in 2010, we will win this advance the story directly or with
Obama, Republicans are expected i m m i g r a t i o n . And, wait until you try to collect election,” he said.
to recapture control of the House Neither side was predicting a new on your un-funded government Oh yes, he’s half right, as usual. REPUBLICANS page 15
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Winners Crowned at Chinese International Violin Competition
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:04:47 AM
The winners of the Chinese
International Violin Competition
bronze, silver, and gold prizes:
Arianna Warsaw-Fan (L), Jing
Zhang (C), and Corin Lee (R).
The bronze winner receives
$1,000, the silver $3,000, and the
gold wins a handmade violin and
$5,000. (Henry Lam/The Epoch
Times) After a weekend of
playing Bach, Mozart, and
Beethoven, the finalists at
NTDTV’s 3rd Chinese
International Violin Competition
wrapped up the contest with
Paganini’s caprices—among the
most technically demanding
works written for the violin—and
a piece unlike any other used
before for competitions: Dedu
(“Be Saved”) Theme and
Variations, a Chinese-influenced
piece specially commissioned for
the occasion. Combining highly
challenging techniques of the
violin with elements of Chinese
musical expression, Dedu gave
contestants an opportunity to walk
away with more than just a
prize—they also gained a deeper
understanding of traditional
Chinese culture.
Dedu
The composer of the score, Ms.
Ching-ya Mahlen, also watched
the final round of the competition
on Sunday. She expressed her
thoughts upon hearing the
contestants perform her work on
stage:
“I was really, really touched.
There’s a story behind Dedu. It is
about the Falun Gong
practitioners who were persecuted
for their beliefs in China, who
elevated spiritually through
practicing Falun Gong and who
stood up for their beliefs
courageously. This story is
connected to the music. I
composed this piece for
NTDTV’s competition, in order to
introduce this music, and let more
people know the story [behind
it].”
She was moved by the amount of
thought and hard work the
contestants put into performing
the piece and especially
appreciated the diversity of their
interpretations.“Because each
performer has different
backgrounds and experiences in
life, through playing with their
hearts, they gave the audience
different messages," Mahlen said.
"While I was listening, I felt like
they were telling their own
stories.”
Chen Rutang, a judge on the
panel at the competition,
expressed his understanding of
Mahlen’s music: “Dedu is a
manifestation of the culture of
personal cultivation in China. In
traditional Chinese culture,
cultivation is very important. ...
To my understanding, Dedu
incorporates the culture of
cultivation in the music.”
Corin Lee, 21, won the
admiration of the judges at the
competition with his honest and
sincere playing, thus clinching the
$5,000 gold prize and handmade
violin. (Henry Lam/The Epoch
Times) Same Score, Very
Different Ways of Playing
Corin Lee, from the Julliard
School, played Dedu with a quiet
and poignant sensibility that at
times reminded one of the erhu, a
traditional Chinese two-stringed
instrument. His vibrato added to
the sense of sadness in the music.
Xuan Du from Lisbon, Portugal,
opted for a more expressive
rendition that included fierce,
rapid-fire bowing and majestic
notes that filled up the entire
auditorium.
Meanwhile, Jing Zhang’s (New
England Music Conservatory)
lyrical high notes tugged at one’s
heartstrings and Arianna Warsaw-
Fan (Julliard School) played with
phenomenal technique
reminiscent of virtuoso players.
Her confident and assured playing
brought out the singing quality in
the timbre of the violin.
And The Winner Is…
In the end, it was Lee’s
unembellished playing that earned
him the gold prize. Yinfen Lin,
one of the judges on the panel,
explained, “[In] other
competitions, they are looking for
mostly virtuoso players … But I
think what’s different with our
competition is that we are looking
for a special kind of character,
and it’s beauty, and sincere [sic],
and honesty. And I think Corin
Lee has that quality in him. ... He
has that honesty—he plays the
way he feels, and comfortably
too."
Judge Chen Rutang said:
“Everyone can see some very
elaborate techniques, such as the
chords, as well as the constant
transition between high and low
notes. They were able to
incorporate these techniques into
the music, so they were not just
displaying technique, but
performing music … they melted
into the music, [and] the inner
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meaning [of the music]. I think
this is very precious and also very
important. Otherwise, you’re just
showing off technique.”
Arianna Warsaw-Fan, 24, played
with meticulous technique and
wonderful grace. (Edward Dai/
The Epoch Times) Preparation
For Lee, he first approached
Dedu with “the style, the different
characters and what the composer
was trying to portray” in mind.
Warsaw-Fan listened to some
traditional Chinese music “to get
a feel for what that’s like.” For
her, Dedu was an extremely
unique composition. In addition to
a beautiful melody, she observed:
“the composer took a lot of
techniques from Western music
that I played a lot more of, so you
can see her paying homage to
certain other composers.” Warsaw
-Fan noted that the virtuosic
opening reminded her of Pablo de
Sarasate, a Romantic violinist and
composer, while the grand hymn
in the finale reminded her of
Handel’s “The Messiah.”
The audience at the final was
enraptured by the contestants’
playing. Zhou Yanhua, a
professional clarinetist, said he
admired Xuan Du’s playing the
most: “Whether it was the inner
emotions or his outer expressions,
he performed very well…the
emotions embedded in the piece is
great, and he was able to portray
them well.”
Many of the contestants are
Chinese who grew up outside of
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Governments review air security after Yemen plot continued from page 12

China and did not always have the

(Reuters: Top News) Qaeda member who turned scanning of sea containers. Plans nothing will go in my flights chance to stay in touch with their
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:35:08 PM himself into Saudi authorities. to introduce full scanning from cargo hold from any country roots. Lin explained that the
The findings disclosed what 2012 were postponed. supporting terrorism. The airlines competition is aimed to offer just
Handout image shows a toner appeared to be a loophole in air Comments can’t afford that screening? How such an opportunity. “We hope
cartridge discovered aboard a cargo security that put passengers' Nov 01, 2010 9:56am EDT well can they afford a lot of this [the competition] will give
cargo plane in East Midlands, lives at risk. Nov 01, 2010 12:18pm EDT empty seats from passengers Chinese violinists around the
north of London, October 29, "Air freight is still considered to Hang on, last week we were all flying on their competitors world a chance to gain a deep
2010, which U.K. officials be the soft underbelly of the excited about relaxing laws, now because the idea of a pound of understanding of Chinese culture
discovered had been manipulated aviation industry," aviation everyone is happy for them to be high explosive going boom eight and Chinese cultural expression ...
with wires attached and white security expert Chris Yates told tightened, delays to occur, Taxes miles up does not exactly make aside from the technique, there is
powder. BBC television. to be increased, the economy to them reach for their credit cards. an added layer of meaning.” By
Credit: Reuters/CBS News/ Qatar Airways confirmed the shrink. And the weirdest bit is And they should remember that, giving contestants the chance to
Handout Dubai parcel had been transported UPS don’t fly out of Yemen?! although Pan Am was not in the learn about the distinctive features
By Tim Castle on its passenger planes from the What the hell is going on here, all best of financial health, Lockerbie of Chinese music and Chinese
LONDON| Mon Nov 1, 2010 Yemeni capital Sanaa via Doha. seems a bit to convenient??? put the airline out of business. playing, NTDTV strives to
1:35pm EDT Nigeria said it would inspect all TheDude77 Report As Abusive TomMariner Report As Abusive promote traditional Chinese arts
L O N D O N ( R e u t e r s ) - cargo heading for the United Nov 01, 2010 12:22pm EDT *We welcome comments that and values.
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AIG Sells Assets, Gets $37 Billion to
Repay US
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:32:03 AM
American International Group
Inc., (AIG) the New York-based
insurance giant, has raised around
$37 billion in order to repay the
U.S. government, which it owes
around $100 billion in debt. (Stan
Honda/Getty Images) NEW
YORK—Bailed-out insurer
American International Group
Inc. (AIG) has raised around $37
billion in order to repay the U.S.
government, which it owes
around $100 billion in debt.
AIG, the New York-based
insurance giant, received around
$20.5 billion in an initial public
offering of its Hong Kong-based
Asia business, American
International Assurance (AIA).
Shares of AIA increased even
further, up to $35.7 billion, late
last week in Hong Kong.
British insurance company
Prudential Plc originally reached
an agreement with AIG to
purchase AIA for around $35.5
billion for an even bigger
windfall, but backed out after
shareholder opposition.
On Monday, AIG completed the
sale of its Japanese arm,
American Life Insurance Co.
(Alico) to MetLife Inc. for $16.2
billion, $7.2 billion of which is in
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Certainly he would have opposed
the bailouts and probably
Bernanke’s Quantative Easing,
which is basically a gift to the
FIRE (financial-insurance-real
estate) sector, but he also believed
in government social insurance,
providing basic shelter and
sustenance for all in society.
Hayek was mainly concerned
with the clear and present danger
of his day: government ownership
of industry and a planned
economy leading to
totalitarianism. We’re nowhere
near that today except in the area
of “defense”. There is more than
one “road to serfdom”.
Nov 01, 2010 12:45pm EDT
@habakak
cash—bringing the total mount over time. “the biggest reason the stock
raised to repay the U.S. Treasury The Treasury and the Fed gave market is going up while the
and the Federal Reserve Bank of AIG a combined $182 billion in economic indicators seems to be
New York to $36.7 billion."We September of 2008 to avert a pointing down is that most
promised the American taxpayers bankruptcy of the insurer, which companies listed on the exchange
we would repay them and the was under duress due to its now generate their money outside
initial public offering of AIA last position as one of the largest of the US economy.”
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Space Shuttle Discovery to Make Final VLC for iPhone and iPad soon
Launch to disappear thanks to GPL
(Epoch Times | All headlines) the shuttle into outer space for the However, storms may be complaints -- go get it now
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:55:36 AM last time. It will be its 39th flight expected, which could push back Nilay Patel (Engadget)
in the past 26 years. the launch date to as late as
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:48:00 PM
Space shuttle Discovery will The crew, consisting of five men Sunday.
embark on its final flight into and one woman, will fly to the After its final mission, NASA
There's always been tension
space, NASA confirmed on International Space Station for 11 said that the shuttle will go to the
between Apple's tight control of
Monday. days with equipment and the Smithsonian. The shuttles
the iOS App Store and the DRM-
The shuttle will make the trip on Permanent Multipurpose Module. Endeavor and Atlantis will also be
free license requirements of the
Wednesday at 3:52 p.m. and "There's still a certain amount of retired soon. GPL, and it seems like things are
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Video: Anna Kournikova in a Bikini on Vacation With Shirtless Enrique Iglesias!

Molly Goodson (PopSugar) Enrique Iglesias and Anna Rush!
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Hawaii wearing their sexy swim attire. Check it out on PopSugar
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200MB” option and a $30 “Web –
Unlimited” plan on offer to
subscribers, along with a new
tethering option. The latter can be
added to the Unlimited plan for an
additional $14.99 per month.
Subscribers will be able to add
the 200MB plan to their existing
voice/text package without
extending their agreement;
however they’ll save $5 per
month if they take out a new, two-
year contract.
Unfortunately there’s no option
to pick the data plan alone and
avoid the regular voice/text parts.
The carrier hasn’t said exactly
when they’ll be available to sign-
up, but it expects them to surface
around the holidays.
Press Release:
T-Mobile Kicks Off the Holidays
With a Compelling Lineup of
Affordable Android-Powered
Smartphones and New Low-Cost
Data Service Plans
T-Mobile Is Making It Easier for
Families to Stay Connected This
Holiday Season and Beyond
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Nov. 1,
2010 — T-Mobile USA, Inc.
today announced new products
and service plans designed to help
families stay connected without
busting their holiday budgets.
Beginning Nov. 3, T-Mobile is
planning to offer a variety of new
Android™ smartphones,
including the T-Mobile®
Comet™, LG Optimus T™ with
Google™ and Motorola DEFY™
with MOTOBLUR™, each for
less than $100.
“We’re heading into this holiday
season with our strongest and
most affordable lineup ever of
Android-powered smartphones,”
said Cole Brodman, chief
marketing officer, T-Mobile USA.
“Combine that with low-cost data
service plans and even easier
ways to give T-Mobile products
as gifts, and we believe families
will make the move to
smartphones — enriching how
they communicate in the new
year.”
Affordable Android Smartphones
for All
T-Mobile’s compelling suite of
affordable Android smartphones
appeals to each member of the
family, even first-time
smartphone users. In addition to
providing access to the mobile
Web while on the go, Android-
powered smartphones provide
customers with one-click access
to their favorite Google services,
such as Google Maps™, Gmail™,
YouTube®, and over 100,000
applications in Android Market™.
For less than $100 with qualifying
rate plan on a two-year agreement
(plus taxes and fees), T-Mobile
customers can purchase any of the
following devices during the
holiday season:
The T-Mobile Comet offers a
compact form factor, 528 MHz
processor, 2.8-inch full touch
screen display and a 3.2
megapixel camera. Perfect for
customers who are ready to make
the affordable transition to their
first smartphone, the T-Mobile
Comet is also available for
prepaid customers at less than
$200 (plus taxes and fees), the
lowest-priced 3G Android
smartphone in the T-Mobile
portfolio. The T-Mobile Comet is
available in a black finish.
The LG Optimus T is an easy-to-
use smartphone with a user
customizable home screen, 600
MHz processor, 3.2-inch full
touch screen display and a 3.2
megapixel camera with video
capture. Featuring Voice Actions
for Android pre-loaded on the
device, the LG Optimus T allows
customers to perform commands
through voice entry, such as
calling, texting, e-mailing and
navigating to a specific
destination. The LG Optimus T is
available in a burgundy or
titanium finish.
Slim and pocket-able, the
Motorola DEFY is equipped to
withstand all that life throws your
way. The DEFY is scratch- and
water-resistant, as well as dust-
proof, combined with
MOTOBLUR™, an 800 MHz
processor, a 3.7-inch full touch
screen and a 5-megapixel camera
with flash and video capture. The
Motorola DEFY is available in a
black and linen finish.
The Motorola CHARM™ with
MOTOBLUR features a full
QWERTY keyboard for easy
messaging, a 2.8-inch touch
screen paired with a
BACKTRACK™ pad for simple
navigation, and MOTOBLUR,
making it easy to keep up with
family and friends. Also featuring
a 600 MHz processor and a 3
megapixel camera, the Motorola
CHARM is available in a golden
bronze or cabernet finish.
Services Families Can Afford
In addition to affordable Android
-powered smartphones, T-Mobile
is delivering new low-cost data
service plans expected to be
available this holiday season,
making data even more accessible
for families. New value offers
include these:
Mobile data plans. With T-
Mobile data plans, customers will
have two options for data: the
Web – 200MB plan or the Web –
Unlimited plan. The Web –
200MB plan will be available for
$10 per month with a new two-
year service agreement or contract
extension for a limited time or for
$15 per month, which will not
require a two-year contract
extension. The Web – Unlimited
plan will be available for $30 per
month. Both data plans will be
sold paired with a new or existing
voice and text message plan.
Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing
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service plan. T-Mobile is offering
a new tethering service plan that
enables select smartphones to
function as wireless modems for
connecting devices, such as
laptops, tablets and netbooks to
the Internet through the T-Mobile
network. Customers can add the
Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing plan
to their Web – Unlimited $30
monthly plan for an additional
$14.99 per month.
Availability
The T-Mobile Comet, LG
Optimus T and Motorola DEFY
are expected to be available
starting Nov. 3 at T-Mobile retail
stores, select dealers and online at
http://www.t-mobile.com. The T-
Mobile Comet will also be
available as a prepaid Android
smartphone at Best Buy, Radio
Shack and Target. T-Mobile
expects its new mobile data plans
and tethering service plan will be
available this holiday season.
Making it even easier for
consumers to give T-Mobile
devices and accessories to their
friends and families this holiday
season, T-Mobile Gift Cards can
be purchased and redeemed at
select T-Mobile retail stores
nationwide.
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Carey Mulligan Spends
Intel creating first chip for outside manufacturer Her Sunday in the City
(CNET News.com) power drain, and 40 percent less eclipse other FPGA solutions has challenged traditional With a New Man
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:52:20 AM cost than FPGAs build on 28- expected to hit the market in the manufacturing processes, which Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
nanometer technology, Achronix next few years." u s e c o n v e n t i o n a l
Intel traditionally builds chips for s a i d . Geared for Though Intel has downplayed the photolithography, a method by Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:00:00 PM

i t s o w n u s e , b u t i t ' s n o w telecommunications, networking, new deal as a sign of things to which circuits are printed onto
branching out to create one for industrial, and consumer markets, Carey Mulligan was in NYC
come, some analysts see it as an semiconductor chips.
another manufacturer. yesterday spending her Halloween
the FPGA is expected to drive indication that the company is Intel recently announced that it
Intel will create chips based on such applications as 100G and checking out the High Line with a
jumping into the contract would spend between $6 billion
its 22-nanometer technology for 400G Ethernet networking and male friend. She joined her new
manufacturing business, and $8 billion to build a new chip
A c h r o n i x S e m i c o n d u c t o r , LTE mobile communications, companion on the East Coast
according to The New York manufacturing plant and upgrade
Achronix announced today. This added Achronix. while on a break from filming
Times. its existing fabrication plants in
marks the first time Intel is The Speedster22i will also be the Drive in California alongside
"I think this is only the beginning Arizona and Oregon. The new and
designing a chip for another first commercial FPGA family costar Ryan Gosling. Carey's had
of Intel manufacturing for others," existing plants will be put to work
manufacturer and may indicate that can be made in the U.S., another man by her side recently
said Gus Richard, a making the 22-nanometer
that the chip giant is looking to do setting it up for military and too, as she spent time after the
microprocessor industry analyst processors, which are being
some contract manufacturing for aerospace customers, which Hollywood Awards and at her LA
with Piper Jaffray, as quoted by designed to provide higher
outside customers. hotel with rumored flame Tom
require that such chips be made the Times. performance and longer battery
Based in San Jose, Calif., domestically for security reasons. Sturridge. You seem to think Tom
The deal will get off the ground life at a cheaper cost.
Achronix will use Intel's 22- "Intel has the best process and Carey are a good fit, but it
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Not Disruptive Enough: Audioo Up For Sale

Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) voicemails, amusing prank calls, AudioMicro CEO Ryan Born– he be growing at a fast clip.
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:24:14 AM 911 calls and other voice claims it only costs about $500 You can find the listings on
recordings. per month to operate and hopes Flippa and eBay if you’re
Audioo launched (or rather, Unfortunately, it wasn’t much of the auction draws enough interest interested in the Audioo auction
relaunched) as a sort of“Blippy a disruptive business idea, and the for the site to end up in the hands details. CrunchBase Information
for voicemail” at the TechCrunch site simply failed to attract a parent company) is putting the of a new owner that can foster it. Audioo Information provided by
Disrupt conference in New York sufficient number of contributors site up for auction. Meanwhile, Born and co will CrunchBase
earlier this year. Basically,the idea and visitors to stand on its own No need for Audioo to be continue to focus on stock music
was for the site to grow into a two feet. deadpooled though, says and sound effects site
massive database of transcribed Today, AudioMicro(Audioo’s AudioMicro.com, which is said to
18 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Checklist: Which to Build First - Mobile Website or

App?
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) original article): Checklist "the decision between a mobile
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:15:00 PM • Utility: To reach the broadest website and a mobile app is not a
audience, you need a mobile real question: If you or your
Developers looking to reach the website. If you go with an app, business have a website, mobile is
mobile audience (and who isn't you'll have to continue to develop just another platform that it needs
these days?) have to determine a p p s f o r t h e m o s t p o p u l a r
which mobile platforms to code p l a t f o r m s .
to work on. Period." That's a
sentiment that we think most will
Dropcam
for, which ones to skip and how to • Need: Local businesses (think
approach the design for their restaurants, retail shops) do better
mobile website itself.
agree with.
He also points to another article Echo review
with mobile websites because which deftly explains when you Tim Stevens (Engadget)
But before even getting started, customers generally just need you should consider building a do not need "an app for that." For
there's one question many small basic information like a phone mobile website. Mobile searches example, if your mobile app
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:23:00 PM

companies have to face: which do number or address. When the will reveal your site, but would doesn't make money for your
not point to your app. We'd all like to think that when
you build first? Do you build the product is a service, like finance business or enhance it in some we leave our homes absolutely
mobile website before or after or transportation, apps are better. • Cost: If cost is an important way, if it doesn't stand out in a
factor, consider a mobile website, nothing happens there -- except
building a mobile application, be Apps are also better when usage is crowded market, if you don't have maybe a Roomba making its
it for Android, iPhone, Blackberry heavy. which costs 50%-80% of the cost the resources to commit to it or if
of building your main website. solitary rounds or a pooch waiting
or whatever platform you want to • Traffic: Apps are better for you could be more successful somberly by the door. Of course
reach? Or would you be better off situations when you want to push The article also quoted Aaron leveraging something already out
Maxwell of Mobile Web Up, a that's not the case, lots of things
starting with an app? a lot of information to customers, there, then you may want to forgo can go wrong in your absence and
Sponsor or when repeated interaction is mobile design firm for businesses, app development, the article says.
saying that a well-done mobile if you're of the paranoid variety
On the Technology.Inc website, likely. Also, if your website is Another commenter, Andew surely you've entertained a few of
we came across a helpful resource already seeing a lot of traffic from app can cost as much as $35,000- Milne, pitches in as well, saying
$50,000 on each platform. (There those ideas. With a camera
for developers struggling to mobile devices, you should that the "app space is designed for capable of remote monitoring you
answer that question - a checklist launch a mobile site promptly. are low-cost alternatives, a specific job," while the mobile
however). can assuage some of those fears,
of six items that should help steer • Content: Text-based content Web "can be more fluid if and the models from Dropcam are
developers in the right direction. often does well on a mobile site, designed well." about the easiest we've seen to
A c c o r d i n g t o t h i s l i s t , t h e while media-rich content is It was also interesting to read the Have you had to decide between
comments on the article, which use. But, at $199 to $279 with
following factors should be generally better within an app. the mobile Web and an app? If so, monthly monitoring fees ranging
weighed (we're summarizing the • Availability: If you rely on and also offered some insights into what did you decide? Discuss
this dilemma. Said one from $8.95 to $24.95, they sure
findings here, for more in-depth see a lot of search engine referrals aren't cheap.
explanations, please read the for discovery about your business, commenter, Rob Woodbridge,
Gallery: Dropcam Echo
Continue reading Dropcam Echo
Celebrities Share Funny Halloween Twitter Pictures! review
Dropcam Echo review originally
Katie Henry (PopSugar) parties from NYC to LA, and just one getup, while Nicole appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:30:00 PM many shared photos of their fun Richie and Joel Madden had their Nov 2010 12:23:00 EDT. Please
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Did Apple pay big bucks in iAds settlement?
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:18:50 PM
A trademark lawsuit filed against
Apple by a Web advertising firm
over the term "iAds" was quietly
settled in July.
No one has disclosed exactly how
the case was resolved but Apple
now owns the "iAds" trademark,
and last week one of the parties
involved in the case briefly posted
a note to the Web that said Apple
paid a "seven-figure settlement."
At Apple's iOS 4's event on April
8, CEO Steve Jobs announced
Apple's iAds program. A month
later, Innovate Media, an online
ad agency headquartered near Los
Angeles, filed a trademark suit
against Apple. Innovate Media
had used the term since 2006 and
was granted two trademarks
(3,515,183, 3,515,184) for "iAds"
in October 2008.
Copy of a note posted to the Web
on Oct. 28 by Consort.
We've seen Apple caught up in
plenty of these trademark disputes
before and just like many of
those, this one was settled without
a peep from either party about the
terms. That likely would have
been the last of it but on
Thursday, Consor, a company that
helps evaluate intellectual
property, posted a release to the
Web titled "Consor Intellectual
Asset Management Secures
Success for Four Clients."
In a teaser line under the
headline, the company wrote:
"iAds, a 7-figure settlement from
Apple Computer in a trademark
infringement case."
Now here's the odd part: Consor
is now backpedaling from that
release. Doug Bania, who
oversees Consor's business
development and licensing units,
at first told CNET that the
announcement was never posted.
When he was informed that the
note was on the Web, he said
some of the information "wasn't
accurate" and declined to say
anything more. Apple
representatives weren't
immediately available for
comment.
In the body of the release the
company wrote "Imagine
[Innovate Media's] surprise earlier
this year when Steve Jobs
announced Apple's new
advertising platform for the
iPhone called "iAd.The
comprehensive confusion analysis
and quantification of economic
damages performed by Consor
were instrumental to Innovate
Media reaching a highly favorable
settlement with Apple."
Consor's note posted three
months after Apple and Innovate
Media settled the case.
So what? A big company is
accused of trampling over
someone's trademark and pays
them to end the dispute. These
settlements are typically done
quietly, without disclosing how
much money changed hands --
unless the amount is so large it
will have an impact on the
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Cindy and Elisabetta
Pack Their Bikinis For
a Mexican Getaway
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:30:00 AM
Cindy Crawford and Elisabetta
Canalis were spotted over the
weekend at their usual place in
company's earnings. That goes C a b o . B o t h C i n d y a n d h e r
double for Apple, where silence husband, Rande Gerber, were
and secrecy are golden. spotted soaking up the sun
So did Consor err in the post and together on Saturday, while
Apple didn't pay seven figures to Elisabetta sported her mismatched
settle the case? Or did Consor err bikini for a solo trip to the beach
by spilling the beans? yesterday. Elisabetta's boyfriend,
This is Apple. We may never George Clooney, didn't pop up
know. during their sunny days south of
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Reddit head leaves Conde Nast for

Hipmunk
(CNET News.com) the site with Reddit links. marijuana, Reddit ran them
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:29:02 PM Basically, the bad press for Digg anyway--for free.
has been great for Reddit. In his post on Reddit, Slowe
Christopher Slowe, a five-year "Though over the years we've had insists he isn't leaving bitterly.
veteran of Reddit who has been in a fair share of bumps and outages, "To kill any conspiracy theories in
charge of the Conde Nast-owned I daresay we are now thriving, the cradle, my parting with Conde
s o c i a l n e w s s i t e s i n c e t h e and after a lot of thought I've Nast has been nothing but
departure of its founders Steve decided to leave Reddit (the job amicable," he wrote. "I have no
Huffman and Alexis Ohanian last part any way) on a high note," doubt I'll be partaking in an odd
year, announced on Monday that Slowe wrote in a post on Reddit. job now and again on the site."
he's leaving his post. He'll be But Reddit's beef with its parent "I have been literally begging
joining Hipmunk, the travel company has been painfully Chris to join us for months, and
search site that Huffman launched visible. Conde Nast's Wired
a few months ago and which Digital division purchased the
brought Ohanian on board in start-up in 2006, and for much of
we are relieved he's finally
finished playing hard-to-get and
joining us," a post on the
HyperMac to return as
September. the ensuing time it stayed small
This is a notable move. Reddit while Digg grew and was courting
Hipmunk blog by founder Steve
Huffman read. "Hopefully he'll be
HyperJuice
has been experiencing a bit of a valuations in the nine figures. But able to put his Physics Ph.D. to as Dave Caolo (TUAW) MacBook Pro with their MagSafe
renaissance lately, with its base of as Reddit experienced a spike in much good use here as he did at Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:00:00 AM -like connector, the "MBP-PRO,"
hardcore users successfully popularity this year, its relations Reddit." the external batteries could be
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Based Scratch Pad [Notes]
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 8:30:00 AM
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pad with an emphasis on simple
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Using GDB as a Poor Man's Profiler

Pete Warden (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:00:00 PM
Most people are aware that you
can debug your own programs
with gdb, but did you know it's
also great for understanding
performance problems in
programs that you don't even have
the source for or that you can
attach to running processes at any
time?
When I notice one of my
machines is running slowly, the
first thing I do is run the top unix
command from the terminal to see
where the time is going.
Sponsor
top
This shows me that Firefox is
taking up about half of my CPU,
but doesn't tell me much about
why. To get that information,
make a note of the process
number, press q to quit top, fire
up gdb with the -p switch and that
identifier, and it will hook into the
running process:
gdb -p 69881
This pauses the program, so now
run the command thread apply all
bt to see what it was working on
at the instant it was paused:
thread apply all bt
Even though we don't have the
source code, you can often get a
it's still doing image rendering, so
the odds are that Firefox is
bogged down by something
graphics-related. You can repeat
this process multiple times to
gather more and more evidence,
and you've got a poor man's
version of a profiler.
The place I probably use this
approach most often is when a
program appears to be completely
hung. By following exactly the
same steps you can often spot if
it's truly in an infinite loop, or if
it's just making really slow
progress or swapping memory
decent idea of what the code is This is a clue that it's spending like crazy. If it is in an infinite
related to from the function time in Flash image rendering, but loop, the clues from the backtrace
names. There's a lot of threads to be more certain we need to function names are often enough
here, but the one we're interested gather more samples. To do this, to figure out what provoked it,
in happens to be the main thread, enter the c command to allow the and how to avoid running into the
listed last. You can see that the program to continue running, and same problem in the future.
stack trace has functions that look after a second or two press control Discuss
Flash-related, and the lowest level -c to pause it again and do another
ones (highest up the screen) thread listing:
appear to be image-drawing code. Here it's no longer in Flash, but

Monster Headphones Not Playing Well With Apple Devices

Evan Selleck (SlashGear) have been happening to your can result in electrical shorts that
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:15:52 PM music as of late. And it looks like cause an iPod or iPhone to pause
Apple knows there is a problem, and play erratically.” Apple’s
Not including the iPad, Apple too. internal documentation goes on to
i n c l u d e s a p a i r o f i n - e a r An unnamed source has come add that these particular
headphones with your purchase of forward to express that the headphone models “do not meet
an iDevice. And for most people, Cupertino-based company does Apple’s technical specifications.”
those usually work well enough know that there’s an issue with There’s a full list of Monster
that they don’t have to think about Monster-branded headphones, and headphones in the gallery below,
buying more headphones. But for Apple’s mobile devices: the iPad, but some models include: Turbine
t h o s e w h o w a n t s o m e t h i n g iPod line-up, and iPhone. Apple songs, as well as randomly improper use of Apple’s Remote Pro, Jamz and Lil Jamz, and
different, and decided to go with a h a s c o n f i r m e d t h a t s e v e r a l pausing and playing tracks. and Mic technology. More Turbine Basic.
Monster-branded pair of ‘phones, Monster headphones are causing Internally, Apple has confirmed accurately, the particular models [ via Boy Genius Report]
you may have been noticing that “erratic behavior,” which includes that the headphones are making “use conductive flanges, which
significantly distracting things random skips forward and back in
22 Technology/ Culture/
Take Your Desktop Wherever You Go:
iPhone 5 Could Bring Remote
Computing
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:17:37 PM
Right now, it's easy enough to
store all of your commonly used
documents and files on the Web
so you have access to them
wherever you go, right? But what
about the rest of your settings - all
the tweaks and settings that make
your computer yours? What if you
could take those with you
wherever you went?
According to Mac-centric blog
Cult of Mac, that's exactly what
may be coming with the iPhone 5
- "Remote Computing".
Sponsor
Earlier this year, Apple hired a
Near Fields Communications
expert and the blogosphere was
abuzz with the potential. NFC is a
short-range, high-frequency
wireless technology that allows
the exchange of data between two
devices. NFC is one of the
primary technologies being used
in early mobile payment
Here's the Easiest Way to Find Your Polling Location [Elections]
Matt Stempeck (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 8:45:00 AM
computer into your own -- like
you're actually working on your
own computer. Same settings,
look, bookmarks, preferences. It
would all be invisible. Your
iPhone would be all you needed to
unlock your Mac." [..] "I don't
know if this information will be
stored on the cloud or not, but I
do know that smaller bits such as
solutions. In addition to mobile preference files, system settings,
payments, however, there are documents, keychain passwords,
some interesting applications for and other items would be stored
NFC and "remote computing" is on the iPhone for fast retrieval,"
one of them. they said.
According to Cult of Mac, which According to the article, the NFC
cites an anonymous source, an technology would likely be used
NFC-enabled iPhone 5 will have for quick authentication, while
the ability to carry all of your other data - such as files and
d e s k t o p s e t t i n g s w i t h y o u , documents - could be transferred
wherever you go. from the cloud. With this
"The Mac authenticates with the technology, Apple could also
iPhone, which contains a lot of allow a number of other aspects of
the information the computer your digital, online persona to be
n e e d s , s u c h a s b o o k m a r k s , carried around with you, for quick
passwords and other data," said access, on your iPhone. How
our source, who asked to remain about media subscriptions through
anonymous. "The system would iTunes? Apple TV settings?
e s s e n t i a l l y t u r n a n y A p p l e Discuss
People offer lots of excuses for
why they don't vote. But if you're
one of the estimated 1.9 million
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Mark/Space introduces
GoGadget media
synching software
Sam Abuelsamid (TUAW) On the Mac, GoGadget promises
Submitted at 11/1/2010 9:00:00 AM to sync iTunes playlists and
iPhoto albums directly to the likes
Accurately syncing content and of the Palm WebOs phones,
data between portable devices and Nokia N900 and Sandisk Sansa
computers has long been a hassle clip. GoGadget promises a simple
for users, especially those who user interface and offers a seven-
tried to venture out of closed day free trial. For now version 1.0
ecosystems. Mark/Space and its is priced at US$19.95 but that will
Missing Sync product came to the be going to $29.95 eventually.
r e s c u e o f c o u n t l e s s u s e r s , We'll be trying it out shortly and
especially those with Macs who providing a review with some of
want to sync Palm and Windows our non-Apple devices.
Mobile devices. Mark/Space has [via MacMegasite]
just introduced a product called Mark/Space introduces
GoGadget designed to sync media G o G a d g e t m e d i a s y n c h i n g
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Microsoft execs get avatarized, sans Windows chief
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:46:08 AM
Since Microsoft launched the
idea of avatars with its "New
Xbox Experience" system
software update this time two
years ago, the company's
executives and employees have
regularly been presented in avatar
form at the company's gaming
events. But that's about as far as
it's gone--short of today.
In honor of the launch of
Microsoft's Kinect motion-gaming
camera later this week, the vast
majority of Microsoft senior
executives now appear as Xbox
avatars on the company's press
page.
One big omission is Windows
and Windows Live division
president Steven Sinofsky, whose
mug has been replaced merely
with a standard Windows icon.
Maybe he's just keeping
allegiance to Microsoft's Games
for Windows initiative, but it's
noticeably out of place compared
to the others.
Microsoft's Kinect comes to
North America store shelves this
Thursday, with Europe, Australia,
and Japan to follow later in the
month. In preparation of the
release, Microsoft put out its Fall
Xbox dashboard update earlier
this morning, which brings with it
support for Kinect and its voice
and gesture navigation controls.
All of Microsoft's senior
executives, with exception of
Windows and Windows Live
president Steven Sinofsky, get the
Xbox avatar treatment to promote
the company's upcoming Kinect
gaming accessory. Click to
enlarge.(Credit: Josh Lowensohn/
CNET)
Josh Lowensohn writes about
Web start-ups, video games,
multimedia tools, and the
occasional robot. He joined
CNET in 2006, and posts to the
Technology/ Culture/ Food/
Web Crawler and Webware blogs.
E-mail Josh, or follow him on
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Bulk Maps, Tweaks, and
Exports Windows
Networked Drives
[Downloads]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 10:00:00 AM
Windows: If you frequently map
and unmap drives on your
primary computer and computers
throughout your home or office,
Network Drive Mapper is a
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Samsung Galaxy Tab review

Joanna Stern (Engadget) to 32GB of storage and WiFi / 3G a tablet finally hit the market that
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:15:00 PM connectivity -- to put other can rival Apple's iPad? We think
Android tablets to shame, and our it's about time we answer those
The story of the Galaxy Tab has initial hands-on with it only had questions and finally open what
been quite a saga, to say the least. us yearning for more. Without might be the most important
In fact, it was actually back in pricing and availability, however, chapter of the Galaxy Tab story --
May that we first heard rumblings the story was at a cliffhanger. Of the official Engadget review. We
of Samsung's plans to unleash a 7- course, those details trickled out knew you'd agree, so join us after
inch Android tablet much like its over the next few months, and the break.
Galaxy S phones, but it was only here in the US, Samsung finally Gallery: Samsung Galaxy Tab
after months of painful teasing-- announced that all four major US (Sprint)
including a cruel look at just its carriers would be getting Tabs to Continue reading Samsung
packaging on the Engadget Show- call their own. Verizon then Galaxy Tab review
- that Sammy finally unveiled the f i n a l l y t o o k t h e l e a d i n Samsung Galaxy Tab review
contract option. Tab provide a more complete and
Galaxy Tab to the world at IFA. announcing pricing, and revealed originally appeared on Engadget
Indeed, it's been quite a long polished experience than all the
The Tab certainly packed the that its Tab would hit contract- on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:15:00
journey, but even after all of that, other Android tablets out there?
specs -- a 1GHz processor, full free for $600 -- Sprint followed EDT. Please see our terms for use
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Rumor: iPhone 5 will use NFC for remote computing

Steven Sande (TUAW) NFC's initial use would be to turn NFC Macs become commonplace the next iteration of iPhone, but it
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:00:00 PM the iPhone 5 into a passcode- in hotel rooms, offices, and other would sure be an impressive and
protected electronic wallet or public locations, you wouldn't effective way to carry your Mac
Imagine if you could fit all of security passkey (like a SecureID need to carry even a lightweight anywhere you go.
your Mac's personality -- settings, fob) that would communicate via MacBook Air with you. Just with [via MacDailyNews]
documents, and even applications t h e s h o r t - r a n g e w i r e l e s s a wave of your NFC iPhone 5, Rumor: iPhone 5 will use NFC
-- into your iPhone, and then be technology to other compatible you'd have your computer for remote computing originally
able to have any Mac turn into devices. Apple has recently hired anywhere that there was a Mac. appeared on TUAW on Mon, 01
your Mac. According to a source a n u m b e r o f p e o p l e w h o Once you walk away from the Nov 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please
who talked with Cult of Mac's specialize in NFC and submitted remote Mac, it reverts back to its see our terms for use of feeds.
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Communication (NFC) capability Mac users simply wave their NFC suddenly acquires the personality there's a good chance that this
built into the device. iPhone near an NFC-equipped of their home or office Mac. If technology might not make it to
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comScore: Q3 E-
Commerce Spending Up
9 Percent To $32 Billion
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:53:38 AM

Good news today for online

retailers. According to comScore,
third quarter e-commerce was up
nine percent from the same period
last year, to $32.1 billion in
spending for the quarter. This is
the fourth consecutive quarter of
positive year-over-year growth

In The Fight Against IT Waste, 1E following the drought in spending

during the recession.
The top-performing online
Releases NightWatchman 6.0 product categories were Books &
Magazines (which excludes
Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch) managers oversee the entire centrally manage their desktops’ digital downloads), Computers/
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:38:26 AM company’s computer power energy consumption. Peripherals/PDAs, Computer
usage), improved diagnostic tools A l t h o u g h t h e a v e r a g e Software (excl. PC Games) and
Computer power management to determine why a computer NightWatchman PC only saves Consumer Electronics. Retailers
s o f t w a r e c o m p a n y , 1 E h a s hasn’t properly powered down, $36 a year in energy costs, those continue to use free shipping as an
released a new version of its and tariff calculations based on i n c r e m e n t a l s a v i n g s y i e l d incentive, with 41 percent of For retailers, this is good news
marquee p r o d u c t , location. significant sums in aggregate. online retail transactions for the for holiday e-commerce sales.
NightWatchman. Given how the price of energy Several of 1E’s clients are large quarter including free shipping. With the continued increase in
Like its predecessors, version 6.0, can fluctuate significantly on a corporations with massive IT The top 25 online retailers spending online, retailers can
helps corporations manage their region by region basis, the new operations, such as AT&T, Ford accounted for 70 percent of expect a stronger holiday sales
network of computers to optimize location-based calculations will and Dell. According to 1E, dollars spent online, up 5.5 season. To put this in perspective,
energy efficiency. It gives IT help companies more accurately NightWatchman has 4.6 million percent from a year ago. Online online holiday sales in 2009
managers the ability to remotely assess how much they’re saving licensed users around the world, a retailers who sell solely through reached$27 billion, so at the very
power down computers and o n e n e r g y u s a g e . E n e r g y group that has collectively saved the web accounted for 58 percent least, spending should pass $32
establish energy-saving settings efficiency as it relates to IT $530 million in energy costs. of dollars spent online compared billion. CrunchBase Information
(ie. automatic shutdown of management is becoming an CrunchBase Information 1E to 42 percent among multichannel comScore Information provided
desktops during the weekend). increasingly important field, and I n f o r m a t i o n p r o v i d e d b y retailers. by CrunchBase
In the latest version, 1E has according to Gartner Research, in C r u n c h B a s e
added three key features: a new two years more than half of mid
web-based dashboard (to help and large-sized businesses will
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T-Mobile Comet sends $9.99 shot Musical Tribute to

across the bow of dumbphones Quantitative Easin'
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:54:00 PM Ideos as an Android device for the Shedlock) (Mish's Global h t t p : / /
masses, and we came away with a Economic Trend Analysis) globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
The argument used to be that pretty positive impression with it Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:05:00 AM com
carriers' higher pricing for when we checked it out at IFA -- "Merle Hazard" writes ... Dear Click Here To Scroll
smartphone data plans were what so we're bullish that this thing is Mish Thru My Recent Post List Mike
kept them out of the low end, going to make some waves in its Just wanted to tell you about a "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
regardless of the upfront on- Comet guise. It launches on new song video out today that I investment advisor representative
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Comet -- a T-Mobile branded than $200." This is sung by my friend, the goal is strong performance and
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Lock and Unlock Your Car from Anywhere with GM's New
Mobile Apps
Frederic Lardinois but thanks to a new set of mobile fob functions like remote starts or manual, the apps also feature
(ReadWriteWeb) apps, owners of 2011 Chevrolet locking and unlocking the car some location-based services,
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:30:03 PM and Cadillac models (Buick and from wherever they are. The apps including the ability to tag your
GMC apps are coming in also give users the ability to check parking spot with GPS
General Motor's Volt - the November) will now get access to their fuel tank level, remaining oil coordinates and a photo or note.
company's new electric car - has a similar set of OnStar-powered live, tire pressure and information The apps also include a timer for
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The group found that Apple's
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BlackBerries beat iPhones 32 to
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Globally it's another story as
Android is firmly at the top of the
the outside looking in with just 3
percent of the global smartphone
OS market. However, Redmond is
hoping that Windows Phone 7
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:35:21 PM public in August. Shedlock) (Mish's Global somewhere between $1 Trillion
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trying to do but I have hit brick
walls left and right.
What I am wondering is how
much does it cost a private sector
employer, in either the
manufacturing or service industry
sectors of this nation today, to
bring on one full time equivalent
employee for one full year?
The cost needs to include
everything, not just the obvious,
such as wages, compensations,
benefits, and government taxes.
Hiring and training.
I know that the employer must
have a building to work in or out
of, property, plant and equipment.
Thus, the employer must meet all
of the pre-paid expenses and the
overhead that is directly or
indirectly associated with
bringing on one new full time
equivalent employee for one full
year.
I already placed calls to the
National Association of
Manufactures and the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce with no
results.
If corporate America (not small
and mid-size companies) is sitting
on a wad of cash between $1 and
$1 trillion, I have to believe they
could use 33% of this to fully
invest and hire American workers
at American facilities making and
selling American products or
services, either domestically or to
our trading partners.
To my mind's way of thinking,
the entire U.S. "economy" is a
function of the number of
Americans employed, the average
wages they are paid, and their
disposable income.
thanks much,
Jack Corporate Cash Once Again
The first problem is that
Corporate America is not sitting
on that amount of cash that Jack
and others think.
Please consider Cash Cow: Who
has the Cash, Who has the Debt,
by Sector and Company.
I posted a clarification to the
above article in Cash Cow: "Who
has the Cash?" Followup.
Of the top 50 companies in the
S&P 500, net corporate cash (cash
minus debt) is negative$749.6
billion.
That number was as of data from
Yahoo!Finance, some of it from
second quarter. I believe the
situation is worse now.
Premise Flawed
Even assuming one could come
up with some sort of "average"
cost of hire, the number would be
useless. What good does it do to
figure out the cost to hire the
"average worker" if a mining
company needs a geologist,
Amazon needs a corporate
lawyer, or Google needs cloud
computing specialists?
Companies hire if and only if
they need workers, position by
position, not by averages. It only
makes sense to hire someone if
they produce a positive rate of
return.
Hiring for hiring sake would
needlessly burn up corporate cash.
Startups are Life-blood of Job
Creation
Interestingly, Jack focused on
large corporations although small
businesses and startups are the life
-blood of job creation.
A study by Tim Kane at the
Kaugffman Foundation shows
that excluding startups, from 1977
on, there would be no net job
growth in the U.S. economy!
For more details please see Bleak
Outlook for Small Businesses and
Job Creation; Where Obama Went
Wrong, and What to do About It.
The sad fact of the matter is small
businesses have no reason to hire,
and given the economic
uncertainties, starting a business
now does not seem to be the
wisest thing to do (at least in a
general sense).
Hiring During Schumpeterian
Depressions
Inquiring minds will want to
consider Anemic Job Creation
During The "Schumpeterian
Depression"(written over a year
ago, well ahead of the curve).
Thoughts on the Schumpeterian
Depression
My friend "BC" writes:
During Schumpeterian
Depressions, large, cash-rich
firms dominate and push
increasing scale and
standardization, whereas small
firms suffer from a lack of capital
and a reluctance by banks to lend.
This trend should persist well
into the next decade, as
deflationary depressions and the
associated demographic cycle
reduces business start-up
activities, and this time around
Venture Capital activity.
Also, younger workers of a peak
demographic cohort lack the
capital and longevity in the
occupational structure to have
made sufficient contacts and
gotten access to capital and
equipment in order to reach the
necessary critical mass of
experience, reputation, and
problem solving one
demonstrates sometime in their
mid- to late 20s to early to mid-
30s.
Thus, we are not likely to see a
new wave of incremental
innovation and new capital
formation and business start ups
until no earlier than the mid-to-
late '10s to early '20s. In the
meantime, mass cross-industry
consolidation, R&D moving
inside large firms, spin-offs,
firings, wealth consumption, and
shifting composition of household
spending led by Boomers in late
life will combine to slow growth
for years to come.
Moreover it is questionable as to
whether China and India can buck
the larger demographic and
Schumpeterian-curve trends, as
they have come to rely so heavily
upon US supranational firms'
Foreign Direct Investment in
plants, equipment, trade credits,
and intellectual property. The
growth of US and Japanese firms'
FDI will likely continue to
decelerate with "trade" for years
to come. For more on
Schumpeterian Depressions,
please see Creative Destruction.
Tax Laws and Other Factors
There are still many other factors
at play. Corporations do not exist
to create jobs, they exist to create
profits. When it comes to hiring,
if companies can get a higher rate
of return by expanding overseas,
that is exactly what they will do,
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and in fact exactly what they
should do.
Unfortunately, tax law is such
that it practically begs companies
to move both jobs and profits
overseas. Those tax laws benefit
huge corporations that can take
advantage of monstrous
loopholes, to the detriment of
everyone else.
How $60 Billion is Lost to Tax
Loopholes
The US Corporate tax rate is
35%. Care to guess what tax rate
Google paid?
Bloomberg reports Google 2.4%
Rate Shows How $60 Billion Is
Lost to Tax Loopholes
Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1
billion in the last three years using
a technique that moves most of its
foreign profits through Ireland
and the Netherlands to Bermuda.
Google’s income shifting --
involving strategies known to
lawyers as the “Double Irish” and
the “Dutch Sandwich” -- helped
reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4
percent, the lowest of the top five
U.S. technology companies by
market capitalization, according
to regulatory filings in six
countries.
“It’s remarkable that Google’s
effective rate is that low,” said
Martin A. Sullivan, a tax
economist who formerly worked
for the U.S. Treasury Department.
“We know this company operates
throughout the world mostly in
high-tax countries where the
average corporate rate is well over
20 percent.”
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Hussman: Stocks Are Valued So That The Next Decade Will Be
One Of The Worst In US History
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:40:02 AM
John Hussman. Still very bearish
on stocks.
In his latest weekly note he
discusses the last lost decade (0%
returns for 10 years) and predicts
a nearly-as-dismal result for the
next 10 years.
When starting valuations are
elevated, investors require
similarly elevated terminal
valuations - 3 years, 5 years, 7
years, 10 years and further into
the future - in order for stocks to
achieve acceptable long-term
returns. Investors and analysts
entirely miss the point when they
propose that stocks are "fairly
valued" based on a short-term
condition, whether it is the
prevailing level of 10-year bond
yields (which can change
significantly over periods of
much less than 10 years), the
current inflation rate, or the
expected level of next quarter's
profits. Once valuations become
elevated, particularly on profit
margins that are also already
elevated, investors require
terminal valuations to be stretched
to the limit, years and years into
the future, in order for their
speculation to be bailed out. At
present, stock valuations are
elevated on a variety of smooth
metrics. In contrast, stocks appear
reasonably valued only on
metrics which place excessive
weight on short-term factors, and
which can therefore be shown to
perform poorly in historical data.
Based on our standard
methodology (see The Likely
Range of Market Returns in the
Coming Decade for the basic
approach) we estimate that the
S&P 500 is priced to achieve a 10
-year total return of just 5.05%
annually. Using our forward
operating earnings methodology
(see Valuing the S&P 500 Using
Forward Operating Earnings), the
projected 10-year total return is
just 4.69% annually. With the
S&P 500 dividend yield at
1.96%, the 10-year projection
from dividend-based models is
even lower, at about 2.30%
annually (though prospects are
good that faster growth of index-
level dividends will bring that
estimate closer to earnings-based
projections, see No Margin of
Safety, No Room for Error).
Overall, the projected returns for
the S&P 500 are now lower than
at any time in U.S. history prior to
the bubble period since the late-
1990's (which has resulted in
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predictably dismal returns for
investors). At present, investors
rely on a continuation of this
bubble to achieve further returns.
With respect to the bubble
period, the current projected
returns match those we observed
at the April 2010 high, and are at
about the same level as we
observed before prices collapsed
in 2008. Valuations were even
more extreme, of course, at the
bubble peak of 2000, which was
predictably followed by a decade
of zero returns.
Keep in mind that near-term
returns much higher than 5%
annually would essentially be
shifted from future years,
meaning that higher returns today
simply imply even lower long-
term return prospects tomorrow.
For very long-term investors, say
15 years or more, such variations
hardly matter. By our estimates,
investors are looking at
prospective 15-year total returns
in the range 5.8-6.5% annually,
with enormous volatility in the
interim, no matter how you cut it.
I should note that while I clearly
underestimated the extent to
which investors would
concentrate their 10-year return
prospects into an 8-month span
from March to November of
2009, this was no fault of the
valuation methods. Rather, I
refused to discard lessons from
prior historical credit crises in the
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at Highest Rate Ever Tracked
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:13:00 PM
Hallelujah! In a few days the Fed
will announce what nearly
everyone thinks is the "sure thing"
that will propel stocks higher.
Supposedly it will be buy the
rumor, buy the news, and then
keep buying.
Trader's Narrative highlights the
picture in Sentiment Overview:
Week Of October 29th, 2010
Sentiment Surveys
Contrarian investors should sit up
and take notice as we are finally
getting a definitive extreme
reading from the weekly AAII
sentiment survey. According to
the survey, the majority of retail
US investors believe that the
stock market will be higher 6
months from now: 51.2% were
bullish and only 21.6% were
bearish.
As I mentioned yesterday, this is
the first time we are seeing such a
larger bullish camp since May
2008 (53%) - this was one of the
intermediate peak retracements
during the recent bear market. The
S&P 500 topped out at 1426 and
fell 15% by mid-July 2008.
As well, the bull ratio is now
slightly above 70% - something
we hadn’t seen for almost 3 years.
That is to say, relative to bears,
the AAII didn’t have such a large
portion of bulls since February
22nd, 2007. This was just before
the S&P 500 corrected 6%, falling
from 1459 to 1374.
This week’s survey result is the
lowest number of bears since mid-
January 2006 (19%). In response
the S&P 500 was able to trundle
along for a few months basically
moving sideways but it peaked in
May 2006 about 2% above the
January bullish extreme date.
From there it declined for the rest
of the summer. The result was
that basically the first 8 months of
2006 were a wash.
Of course, during strong bull
markets it can go much higher but
in recent years we’ve seen a range
for the bull ratio between 30-70%
so this is definitely pushing the
upper boundaries. As the
examples above illustrate,
historically when the AAII survey
has been this lopsided towards the
bullish camp the equity markets
have had a tough time. According
to Bespoke, from 1990 onwards,
when the bullish levels has been
between 50-60% as it is now, the
S&P 500 index has returned an
average of -0.19% in the
following month (49.61% were
positive). Trader's Narrative also
tracks ABC News CCI,
conference board sentiment,
consumer confidence, fund flows,
investors intelligence, ISE
sentiment, Michigan consumer
sentiment, NAAIM, OEX options,
and put call ratios.
Inquiring minds may wish to give
the site a closer look.
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volumes for the veracity for the
current rally.”
“At the risk of sounding like a
broken record, we expect a
significant correction,” said the
newsletter editor. To be sure,
neither excessive nor unwarranted
optimism matters until it does.
In the meantime, everyone can
take comfort in the fact that the
high frequency trading robots that
dominate trading don't care about
sentiment measures of any kind,
earnings, unemployment, the
implosion in housing, foreclosure
fraud, double-dip recessions, the
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Income shifting commonly
begins when companies like
Google sell or license the foreign
rights to intellectual property
developed in the U.S. to a
subsidiary in a low-tax country.
That means foreign profits based
on the technology get attributed to
the offshore unit, not the parent.
Under U.S. tax rules, subsidiaries
must pay “arm’s length” prices
for the rights -- or the amount an
unrelated company would.
Because the payments contribute
to taxable income, the parent
company has an incentive to set
them as low as possible. Cutting
the foreign subsidiary’s expenses
effectively shifts profits overseas.
After three years of negotiations,
Google received approval from
the IRS in 2006 for its transfer
pricing arrangement, according to
filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
The IRS gave its consent in a
secret pact known as an advanced
pricing agreement.
Google's $1 Billion-a-Year
Loophole
For an interactive graphic that
shows how the strategy works,
please see Inside Google's $1
Billion-a-Year Tax Cutting
Strategy.
Google Inc. has cut roughly $3
billion from its income tax bill
since 2007. It relies on techniques
known to tax planners as the
"Double Irish" and the "Dutch
Sandwich" Microsoft uses a
"Double Irish" structure as well.
Apple, IBM, and Oracle also use
tax schemes, but Google is best at
it.
Tax Deference
Note that these schemes are
actually tax deference schemes,
not tax avoidance schemes. The
tax has to be paid, eventually, at
least in theory. What happens in
practice is corporations defer
taxes perpetually, until there is
some sort of tax holiday given to
repatriate taxes.
Technology Cash Cows
Interestingly, a quick check of
that first Cash Cow link shows
Apple has $46 Billion in net cash,
Google $30.1 Billion, Microsoft
$30.6 Billion, Cisco $24.6 Billion,
and Intel $18.4 billion.
That is a combined $149.7 billion
in net cash from those 5
corporations.
Yet, returning to the original
premise, just how likely is it for
those companies to use 1/3 of
their cash to go on US hiring
sprees?
Moreover, what does their
average hiring costs have to do
with average hiring costs in
general?
It is simply impossible to equate
cash on the sidelines (most of it
nonexistent except for technology
companies), with potential hiring.
In Defense of Google
Before everyone gets all up in
arms about Google, let me point
out that Google has more than
20,000 employees, many of them
very highly paid. Is that the kind
of business you want to punish?
I think not.
Small Businesses Crucified
Small businesses cannot afford
the legal teams of Google or
Microsoft.
Thus, the real tragedy is small
businesses and startups (the very
foundation for job creation) get
hit with 35% Federal tax rates,
and states take another 1%-10%
(varies by state), on top of that.
Yikes!
Who wants to start a company in
the US, with these disadvantages,
with this healthcare mess, with
overcapacity nearly everywhere
you look, with the likelihood that
cities and states will be hiking
taxes?
I wouldn't. Nor do banks want to
lend in this environment. The
risks are simply too high.
Level the Playing Field
The ideal corporate tax rate is 0%
but that would not fly in this
environment with our deficits.
Rather than overtly punish
successful businesses like Google
and Apple with higher taxes, I
propose slashing corporate
income taxes across the board to
some extremely low level while
penalizing profits held overseas,
in a revenue neutral fashion.
This would level the playing field
between big and small businesses,
encourage small business creation
right here in the US, and
encourage repatriation of profits
earned or held outside the US.
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Jenn Sterger's Lawyer:
Still Discussing
Potential NFL Meeting
FanHouse Staff (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:28:00 PM
Filed under: Jets, Vikings Jenn
Sterger's lawyer has said that his
client did not meet with the NFL
Monday, but that a meeting could
still occur in the future.
According to Joseph Conway,
Sterger's camp continues to have
"a dialogue with the NFL in terms
of a potential meeting." Phil
Reese, Sterger's manager, is
hoping to speak this week to
someone who allegedly knows
how Brett Favre got Sterger's
contact information and said that
Sterger will likely speak with the
NFL by the end of the week.
"There is a very strong likelihood
that Ms. Sterger will agree to
meet with the NFL in their
ongoing investigation," Conway
said on Saturday. "I expect that
such a meeting will take place late
next week at an undisclosed
location."
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U.S. and internationally. Except
for the relatively contained S&L
crisis, no major credit crises were
observed in post-1940 U.S. data
(which is what we use most
heavily in our investment
analysis). It is unfortunate that we
would have actually performed
better if I had assumed that the
recent downturn was nothing but
a typical post-1940 recession and
recovery, but I am still convinced
that this would not have been
appropriate. When you develop a
model using some set of data that
includes valuations, market
action, economic conditions, and
other variables, you can't
reasonably apply it to data that is
clearly "out of sample" and
unrepresentative of what you
observed in the data underlying
the model. Rather, it's essential to
examine additional data that is as
representative as possible of
conditions you actually observe.
In the case of 2009, we could not
rule out other post-credit crisis
evidence (such as pre-1940 data),
and (unfortunately, as it turned
out) that data implied the need
for much more stringent valuation
criteria than post-war data did.
I remain unconvinced even now
that we should view the current
economic climate as a standard
post-war economic cycle. Still,
the experience of the past few
years has clearly added to our
post-war dataset in that it now
contains a full-blown credit-crisis.
Every new data point adds
information, either in creating
new distinctions, or increasing
confidence in the distinctions one
has already learned. The past
three years have confirmed much
of what we already knew about
valuation, while the enormous
volatility of prices, despite an
overall market loss, has
contributed significantly to our
analysis of market action.
In any event, whether or not one
believes the current economic
cycle should be viewed as a
"typical post-war recovery," it is
clear that our valuation methods
have been accurate measures of
likely market returns over time -
even during the recent crisis. At
present, the long-term outlook for
equities is unfavorable on the
basis of valuation, so regardless of
shorter-tem influences, I expect
that long-term investors are likely
to be ill-served by investing in
stocks at current levels.
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Saut has been bullish-but-cautious
in recent weeks, but now he's
throwing caution into the wind, it
would appear.
Time is running out for the bears,
he declares.
As for the equity markets, after
being constructive since the end
of June, I turned cautious exactly
two weeks ago as we approached
last April’s price “high” on the DJ
Industrial Average (INDU/
11118.49). The senior index stood
at ~11200 back then and changes
hands around the same level
today. However, over the past two
weeks we have experienced
weakening relative stock strength
and numerous distribution days.
Additionally, the U.S. dollar has
stabilized and the 30year Treasury
bond yield has surmounted 4%
(both bearish events). Despite
those deteriorating metrics, stocks
just don’t seem to want to spill
The 12 Most Overpriced Housing Markets In The
World
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:51:50 AM
The U.S. housing market may
have crashed, but bubbles around
the world keep blowing.
Prices in some of the world's
major real estate markets continue
to be inflated by real reasons, like
scarcity, and by less savory
realities, like easy credit and
into the 5% 8% correction I have
been anticipating. While I have
not given up on a downside
correction, I must admit if it
doesn’t happen soon, time may be
running out for the bears. Indeed,
this week begins the best
sixmonth period of the year for
stocks (November through May);
and with 3Q10 earnings reports
beating estimates by 71%, as well
as 4Q10 earnings guidance rising,
underinvested portfolio managers
are experiencing intense
performance anxiety. That anxiety
should cause them to “flinch,” and
buy stocks, if a correction doesn’t
arrive soon.
Adding to that performance
anxiety is an improving economy,
for as my friends at the invaluable
Bespoke Investment Group write:
“(Last) week’s economic data
contributed to further
improvement in our Economic
speculation.
The Economist has broken down
which markets are most over-
inflated, by comparing rental
prices to sale prices of properties.
This reflects what the cash flow
is on a potential investment
property versus the underlying
asset value. If you don't get much sense.
cash out of the rental, the property Beyond the rent to price ratio,
purchase makes less and less we've included some detail on
Indicator Diffusion Index. As
shown in the (nearby) chart, the
50day rolling net total of better
than expected economic reports
hit a level of +15 this week. This
is the highest reading since early
February, and hardly an indication
of the economy going downhill.”
Here's that Economic Indicator
Diffusion Index, and it's definitely
worth paying attention to. The
fact is, when econ numbers come
in better than expected, stocks
tend to rise, and it's reasonable to
assume that the relative increase
in the number of "beats" has been
a major contributor to the recent
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Nov. 1, 1909: 'The Machine Stops'
Randy Alfred (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 6:00:00 AM
1909: E.M. Forster publishes
“The Machine Stops,” a chilling
tale of a futuristic information-
oriented society that grinds to a
bloody halt, literally. Some
aspects of the story no longer
seem so distant in the future.
“ The Machine Stops” appeared in
the November issue of The
Oxford and Cambridge Review.
At 12,000-plus words, it’s
sometimes called a longish short
story, sometimes a novella.
Forster is not thought of as a
science-fiction writer, but this
piece appeared right between his
third and fourth novels, A Room
With a View(1908) and Howards
End(1910).
The people in Forster’s future
live alone in small podlike rooms
in a honeycomb of vast,
multilayered underground cities
spread across the globe. The
physical comforts of food,
clothing and shelter are all taken
care of by the global and revered
Machine, along with numerous
opportunities for one-to-one and
one-to-many electronic
communication, in real time with
voice and pictures.
Then she generated the light, and
the sight of her room, flooded
with radiance and studded with
electric buttons, revived her.
There were buttons and switches
everywhere — buttons to call for
food for music, for clothing.
There was the hot-bath button, by
pressure of which a basin of
(imitation) marble rose out of the
floor, filled to the brim with a
warm deodorized liquid. There
was the cold-bath button. There
was the button that produced
literature. and there were of
course the buttons by which she
communicated with her friends.
The room, though it contained
nothing, was in touch with all that
she cared for in the world.
The telephone was no longer a
novelty in 1909, but radio was
still its infancy, television was a
mere dream, and we’ve only just
gotten to point-to-point
videoconferencing in our own
time.
( Spoiler alert: Extensive quotes
and major plot points follow.)
Forster’s future-dwellers are not
without their anxieties, especially
when dealing with the prospect of
non-virtual meetings: “People
never touched one another. The
custom had become obsolete,
owing to the Machine.”
Each pod comes with an
instruction manual, the Book of
the Machine. It is the only book:
All other info is electronic, and
the forests, Forster explains, “had
been destroyed during the
literature epoch for the purpose of
making newspaper pulp.” The
Book not only instructs which
button to push when, but
alleviates the trepidations of life
in the Machine:
Vashti was afraid.
“O Machine!” she murmured, and That the comfort is of a religious
caressed her Book, and was nature is revealed in this exchange
comforted.
reluctantly making a journey by
airship) and other passengers.
between Vashti (who was How we have advanced, thanks
E-reader News Edition
to the Machine!”
“How we have advanced, thanks
to the Machine!” said Vashti.
“How we have advanced, thanks
to the Machine!” echoed the
passenger who had dropped his
Book the night before, and who
was standing in the passage.
Vashti’s son is a critic of life
underground and virtual
communication:
“You know that we have lost the
sense of space. We say ’space is
annihilated,’ but we have
annihilated not space, but the
sense thereof. We have lost a part
of ourselves.
He makes illegal trips to the
surface, where even scholarly
research is forbidden. Experts are
expected to do research by re-
digesting what they can already
learn from the vast archives of the
machine. getting their results from
some proto-Google:
And even the lecturers
acquiesced when they found that a
lecture on the sea was none the
less stimulating when compiled
out of other lectures that had
already been delivered on the
same subject. “Beware of first-
hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the
most advanced of them.
The same lecturer continues, in a
chilling premonition of the
George W. Bush administration’s
derogation of “the reality-based
community”:
And in time” — his voice rose —
“there will come a generation that
had got beyond facts, beyond
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Blekko Slashes Way into Search Battle

Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 7:24:00 AM

Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta

explaining how it monitors its
growing cluster of search servers
from the company's Redwood
City, California office. Credit:
Ryan Singel/Wired.com Ignore
for a minute the awkward name:
Blekko.
Instead, behold that as of late
Sunday afternoon, there’s a new
search engine in town that’s got a
fresh approach to weed out the
ever-proliferating junk and spam
sites polluting search results.
It’s no mean feat — it’s taken
three years, $25 million in venture
capital and a gamble that there’s
enough people who care about
good search to make its model of
curated results work.
And Blekko does work, thanks to
a little thing called slash tags.
Basically slash tags tell Blekko to
limit your search to a human-
curated category of websites — a
custom search. So say you want to
find good resources for learning
about arrays in PHP? Type
“arrays /php.” Need a good
pumpkin pie recipe. Yup, you
guessed it — append the /recipes
slash tag.
What happens is that an editor or
set of editors decide what sites
return good results in that
particular category, and Blekko
only searches those sites when Well, according to CEO and co- content farms like Demand “You need to bring large-scale said. “If you have the set of the
you include a slashtag in your founder Rick Skrenta, it’s because Media, saying the web now has human curation and combine it top 150 health sites, you know
query. the web is filling up with spam 100 billion urls, most created by with algorithmic techniques to
Why is such a thing necessary? and low-rent webpages from bots. bring the quality back,” Skrenta BLEKKO page 39
38 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Shadow War in Yemen Could Heat Up After 'Printer Bomb' Scare

Spencer Ackerman (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 9:33:00 AM

The intercontinental mail-bomb

plot this weekend didn’t result in
any fatalities. But if its real
purpose was to draw the U.S.
deeper into Yemen, where the plot
was hatched, then it might be a
different kind of success. An
intense and more lethal CIA role
in Yemen, without cooperation
from the weak Yemeni
government, might be imminent,
indicating that another undeclared
war is about to intensify.
White House counterterrorism
adviser John Brennan didn’t say it
on the Sunday chat shows, but
there’s a plan gaining momentum
within the Obama administration
to expand the CIA’s “operational
control” over “U.S. hunter-killer
teams” from the Joint Special
Operations Command tracking al-
Qaeda’s Yemen-based affiliate.
The Wall Street Journal reports
that the proposal would let the
U.S. “unilaterally” attack al-
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
— the presumed (but not directly
accused) culprits of the plot–
while the Yemeni government
retained “deniability” for
counterterrorism raids. Most largely relied on cruise missile — as the Pakistani government Asiri, who may have made the record levels of intensity this year,
likely, that means official public strikes in Yemen, not drones. But secretly did. Saleh is on the verge bombs that Umar Farouk with 92 attacks so far in 2010. As
denunciation of commando drone strikes, the CIA’s preferred of receiving a military aid Abdulmutallab tried to detonate in the Journal has previously
assaults and drone strikes from answer to terrorism, would tick up package worth $1.2 billion from his underwear on Christmas. (A reported, ever since al-Qaeda in
President Ali Abdullah Saleh under the new plan. Since the the U.S., which may help him close second target is probably the Arabian Peninsula attempted
while he privately winks at the drones require bases from which decide. Whether by drone or by extremist preacher and U.S. to blow up a passenger aircraft on
operations and takes U.S. cash. to fly, it’s worth asking whether raid, target number one is likely to citizen Anwar al-Awlaki.) Christmas Day, there’s been
And if that sounds like Pakistan Saleh will turn some of his air be al-Qaeda’s Yemen The CIA’s drone campaign in
2.0, it should. So far, the U.S. has fields over to CIA Predator teams bombmaker, Ibrahim Hassan al- Pakistan’s tribal areas has hit SHADOW page 41
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what, you really can answer
nearly any health question, and
you know what, you really don’t
want to be searching outside of
that set.”
“You don’t want to search the
world wide web for health
information,” Skrenta said. “It is
scary.”
So will we all have to learn a new
search language?
Blekko hopes to solve that, as
well.
After three months of an invite-
only testing period with 8,000
volunteers, Blekko now has more
than 3,000 slashtags including
things such as /glutenfree, /liberal,
/conservative and /colleges. The
site will suggest some of these as
you start typing in a query.
But for eight categories of
searches, Blekko will
automatically opt users in: health,
colleges, recipes, lyrics, autos,
hotels and personal finance.
“Take a search like ‘cash-back
credit card’,” Skrenta said. “These
are train wrecks of spam on
Google and Bing, but we can
detect you did a personal-finance
query and opt you into a high
quality curated set of results.”
Of course, there are some trade-
offs.
Say you are searching for a
recipe for say a Cambodian dish
“Green Mango Salad.” You’ll
find some mainstream results in /
recipes, but you will miss the
obscure, and possibly more
authentic ones findable in a more
global search. Oddly, you’ll be
more in luck if you are searching
for an obscure recipe like “Red
Curry Cambogee” — for which
there are no results under /recipe,
so Blekko automatically runs a
global search, finding you a recipe
outside the curation.
So won’t this model degenerate
into infighting over what gets
included and rejected? What if
spammers try to set up a category
to find a way to sneak their sites
into a trusted slashtag?
Skrenta, a Silicon Valley veteran
whose last venture was the local
news aggregator and discussion
site Topix.net, has an answer for
that, as well.
His team has been there before.
They built the Open Directory,
now known as DMOZ.org, the
largest human categorization
project in the world. The Open
Directory, now owned by AOL
and open sourced, categorizes
websites and is used by sites
across the web, including Google,
to rank and provide data on
websites. At its peak, it had
88,000 volunteer editors and still
has over a million categories.
At AOL, DMOZ had exactly one
paid community guide, who relied
on a trusted tier of editors to
oversee their topical fiefdoms,
much as Wikipedia has created a
working, if fractious, community
of trusted editors.
Skrenta thinks that
crowdsourcing model can work
for slashtags. Even in its launch,
Blekko has a way for users to not
only create their own slashtags,
but also to work cooperatively,
adding to both global slashtags
run by Blekko, as well as those
created by other users.
The key for Blekko is likely to be
two-fold: Create enough
dedicated users to curate
categories and reduce infighting
to keep them involved and make
slashtags largely invisible and
automatic for the large majority of
searchers, who just want to find
information without having to
navigate a fight between the
moderators of the /techblogs and /
techbloggers slash tags in order to
find reviews of the newest tablet
computer.
The core idea of applying human
intelligence to aid searches has a
long and munificent history on the
web.
Yahoo rose to prominence on its
curated directory. Google took
over the search mantle after
figuring out that links created by
humans could be treated as votes
to indicate what pages were the
best (the fabled PageRank
algorithm.) Ask.com’s Teoma
team figured out that you could
then use the information that users
tended to click on say the third
result to later boost that in future
results, an insight quickly adopted
by all the major search engines.
As for the name, well, Blekko
was just an early name, culled
from a url Skrenta owned for a
server he had in college. The
company went through an arduous
process of hiring a naming firm
and consumer testing, only to find
they thought the expensive, tested
name was boring and not
memorable.
“Blekko,” ugly as it may be,
somehow sticks in people’s heads.
Despite the name, Blekko may
well be onto something. Skrenta is
optimistic, given the enthusiasm
and return rates of its early testers.
And even if it doesn’t work out,
he and his team built a search
engine, a project that starts with
copying most of the web onto a
cluster of servers and figuring out
how to make sense of them.
That’s /cool and /audacious, no
matter if Blekko goes the way of
the now-dead “Google Killer”
Cuil, gets snapped up by Bing or
turns into BLEK on the
NASDAQ.
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New Xbox 360
Dashboard
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:25:00 PM
You're going to see a lot of know
-it-alls like us weighing in on the
new Xbox 360 Dashboard over
the next few days, with all our big
highfalutin words and our fancy
silk cravats. But honestly, who
cares what us eggheads think?
Isn't the important question: what
do you think?
In that spirit, we wanted to give
you a forum to share your feelings
on the just-released, overhauled
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What do you miss? What does it
still need? ... Here -- you know
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Apple Tries Short-Circuiting Droid With Patent continued from page 36

impressions, a generation
Lawsuit absolutely colorless.
But the quality of life is not
(Wired Top Stories) patents. The other targets with reexamination requests in the getting better. The music is losing
Submitted at 11/1/2010 7:37:00 AM Motorola’s alleged infringement coming months and years, and a fidelity. The air is not as fresh as
of patents covering smartphone patent or three may ultimately be it should be. The water has a …
A little over five years ago, user interface elements. overturned. smell.
Apple and Motorola were still If the possibility Apple taking But, at the end of the day, all the The fly in the ointment is that the
buddies. Although Apple had legal action was ever in doubt, i n a d d i t i o n t o M o t o r o l a . major players in the market will device that’s supposed to remove
famously announced its intention last week’s lawsuits became an Meanwhile Motorola is facing e n d u p s i g n i n g l i c e n s i n g flies from the ointment has more
to drop the PowerPC processors inevitability when Motorola legal actions initiated by RIM and agreements with one another. than a few bugs itself:
manufactured by Motorola (and launched a courtroom offensive IP holding company NTP — with Motorola could end up pocketing But the Committee of the
IBM) in favor of Intel’s x86 earlier in October. Seeking the latter company having secured a couple of bucks from each Mending Apparatus now came
architecture, the companies were redress over Apple’s alleged a $612.5 million settlement from iPhone sale, while Apple might forward, and allayed the panic
cooperating on the launch of a infringement of 18 patents, the former after a long court rake in a small amount each time with well-chosen words. It
new Motorola phone, the ROKR Motorola filed four lawsuits battle. an HTC Touch is sold. And the confessed that the Mending
(the first handset with any iTunes against the iPhone maker and “ M o t o r o l a h a s a l e a d i n g i n c r e a s i n g l y c o m p e t i t i v e Apparatus was itself in need of
integration). initiated a separate proceeding intellectual-property portfolio, smartphone market will continue repair.
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congressional support for
exporting that model to Yemen. A
former Green Beret running for
Congress, Tommy Sowers,
signaled openness to that plan in a
recent Danger Room interview.
Why? Because shadow wars offer
U.S. policymakers the tantalizing
prospect of success without
responsibility. But rarely can it be
said that they actually work as
intended.
Both the Obama administration
and the Saleh government fear a
public backlash in Yemen to
stepped-up strikes and raids. And
there’s no appetite in war-weary
America for putting many boots
on the ground in Yemen to harass
al-Qaeda. Deploying small
commando teams, putting missile-
armed drones in the skies and
authorizing military units to train
Yemeni commandos are a way for
the U.S. to step up its efforts
while minimizing both domestic
and foreign audiences.
It’s usually considered a a
miracle option, using just enough
force to succeed. Back before 9/
11, when there was no political
constituency for invading
Afghanistan, Bill Clinton
imagined teams of “black ninjas”
rappelling into Osama bin
Laden’s compounds to take al-
Qaeda down.
At least that’s the theory. In
practice, it’s a lot more messy.
The drone campaign in Pakistan is
an open secret, fiercely unpopular
in the tribal areas in which it’s
waged, and cited by Faisal
Shahzad as a motivation for his
May attempt to blow up Times
Square. It’s also hardly a limited
commitment: in Pakistan, it’s
costing the U.S. $7.5 billion over
five years, without counting
military aid. And there’s no end in
sight, as bombarding al-Qaeda
targets in Pakistan has led to the
group’s reliance on its Yemen
branch, which operates with
relative impunity. All that’s led
analyst Micah Zenko to decry the
“ quick allure of military force” as
a “civilian’s siren song.”
But more fundamentally, the
Obama administration isn’t asking
the American public to commit to
such an expanded military/
intelligence role in Yemen. As
Noah Shachtman’s long observed
about Pakistan, most of the
country doesn’t realize the U.S. is
fighting a hot war across the
Afghanistan border, with
accordingly low levels of
oversight; high levels of just-trust-
us assurances from the CIA and
the administration that the plan is
succeeding; little debate over the
merits of expanding the war; and
controversy over an undeclared
war’s legality.
With terrorist attacks emerging
from Yemen, few dispute the need
for some kind of response. But
assuming that the U.S. needs to
fight a war there, how sustainable
will a shadow war really be? And
how deeply will the U.S.
ultimately involve itself in yet
another country it barely
understands?
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her worst dreams. People were
crawling about, people were
screaming, whimpering, gasping
for breath, touching each other,
vanishing in the dark, and ever
and anon being pushed off the
platform on to the live rail. Some
were fighting round the electric
bells, trying to summon trains
which could not be summoned.
Others were yelling for
Euthanasia or for respirators, or
blaspheming the Machine. Others
stood at the doors of their cells
fearing, like herself, either to stop
in them or to leave them….
She closed the door again and sat
down to wait for the end. The
disintegration went on,
accompanied by horrible cracks
and rumbling. The valves that
restrained the Medical Apparatus
must have weakened, for it
ruptured and hung hideously from
the ceiling. The floor heaved and
fell and flung her from the chair.
A tube oozed towards her serpent
fashion. And at last the final
horror approached — light began
to ebb, and she knew that
civilization”s long day was
closing.
She whirled around, praying to
be saved from this, at any rate,
kissing the Book, pressing button
after button….
An airship … crashed
downwards, exploding as it went,
rending gallery after gallery with
its wings of steel. For a moment
they saw the nations of the dead,
and, before they joined them,
scraps of the untainted sky.
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Conditions Chuck Guest Spot
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Demonstrators have been coming
to Washington since Coxey’s
Army trudged up the steps of the
Capitol during the depression of
the 1890s. So it was probably
inevitable that the traditional
repertoire of protest would, by
now, have grown rather stale.
These days, passionate orators,
earnest singers, and fist-shaking
marches down the National Mall
rarely matter much. The “One
Nation” rally held by the NAACP,
labor unions, and other liberal
groups on a perfect day in early
October barely managed to fill the
lawns around the Reflecting Pool
and offered no coherent message
other than hostility toward the Tea
Parties and their favorite
candidates. Most of the nation
probably didn’t even know the
event had occurred. In contrast,
Glenn Beck’s call to “Restore
Honor” drew twice as many
people, nearly all of whom were
united by the strong twin desires
to crush the left and praise the
Lord. Still, even with its clear
purpose and large turnout, the
rally slipped from the limelight
very quickly.
This weekend, Jon Stewart and
Stephen Colbert’s massive “Rally
To Restore Sanity and/or Fear”
was, at least, a novel sort of
political demonstration. And I do
mean political. Granted, Stewart
and his merry band of satirists, as
promised, presented themselves as
the bards of civil discourse and
didn’t suggest how people should
vote this year—or whether they
should vote at all. They talked,
and/or joked, about how to think,
not what to think. Yet nearly
every sign I saw and conversation
I had, or overheard, among the
masses gathered near the Capitol
confirmed what should have been
obvious to anyone who has ever
watched The Daily Show or The
Colbert Report: This was a liberal
crowd of mostly young, white
people who voted for Obama and
are contemptuous of his
conservative opponents.
The sign-makers in particular
were the most political—as well
as funny and refreshing—parts of
the rally. They imitated Stewart’s
clever put-downs of the right
while eschewing his plea for
reasonableness: “I masturbate,
and I vote”; “You’re mad as hell,
and I’m not going to take it
anymore”; “Glenn Beck: Show Us
Your High-School Diploma”;
“Trickle Down Economics is a
Golden Shower”; “Support the
Separation of Corporation and
State”; “Homophobia is Gay.”
Two young women dressed as the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
carried signs that read, “Please
don’t fear my Muslim Garb.” (It
was, after all, the day before
Halloween.) One of the best
posters I saw took the sanity
meme to heart but was clearly
directed against alarmists like
Beck who traffic in absurd
historical metaphors: On it were
pasted two identical photos of
Adolf Hitler connected by an
equal sign.
Indeed, the key question coming
out of this rally—which was only
a moderate success, considering
the wretched sound system, the
paucity of Jumbotrons, and the
odd musical coupling of Ozzy
Osbourne and Yusuf Islam, aka
Cat Stevens—isn’t whether it was
political. The question is whether
liberalism, so clearly on the
display at the event, can grow on
a diet of irony, satire, and sarcasm
mixed with appeals to “common
sense.”
Stewart’s concluding remarks, in
which he denied that “our country
is on the brink of catastrophe, torn
by polarizing hate” and asserted
that “we work together to get
things done every damn day,”
reminded me of Obama’s keynote
speech at the Democratic
Convention in 2004. “There are
those who are preparing to divide
us, the spin masters and negative
ad peddlers who embrace the
politics of anything goes,”
announced the state senator from
Chicago in his bravura debut on
the national stage. He then went
on to upbraid the “pundits” who
“like to slice and dice our country
into red states and blue states” but
ignore that “we worship an
awesome God in the blue states,
and we don't like federal agents
poking around our libraries in the
red states.”
That message helped elect
Obama president. But, since he’s
been in the White House,
Obama’s reasonable rhetoric and
pleas for bipartisanship have
mostly been thrown back in his
remarkably calm face. And the
results of the midterm elections
will make clear that the divide
between “blue” and “red”
America is as deep as ever, even
if the chasm doesn’t fall neatly
along state lines. After failing this
president, appeals to focus on
common sense and common
ground, no matter how wittily
conveyed by comedians, will
likely not bring liberals any more
success in the future.
Civility is a fine and pleasant
thing, but it has never inspired a
serious political or social
movement—or revived the
fortunes of a president. Irony and
Politics-Left/ 43
satire can be potent modes of
persuasion, but what do Stewart
and Colbert’s liberal supporters
want to persuade their fellow
Americans to actually think or
do? The Comedy Central duo has
done a reasonable job highlighting
what they think is wrong with our
system of government, the people
seeking to influence it, and the
media covering it. But time spent
by liberal rally-goers and Daily
Show viewers complaining about
how politics is conducted would
be better spent deciding what
issues to promote, fight for, and
win. In a time of economic crisis
and fears of national decline, it is
not enough to make fun of the lies
and sloppy thinking of the right.
People need to engage in the
political process to reform and
push it forward, not agree that
we’re all more reasonable than the
media portray us and promise to
behave civilly.
Like it or not, America remains a
nation of true believers. Secular
liberals with a decent sense of
humor will have to learn, or
relearn, how to adapt to that
reality and turn it to their
advantage. Or they can just pick
up their remotes and watch
Comedy Central.
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The economic collapse was not in In an earlier era, most through sheer energy and that propelled Democrats such as than their refined counterparts.
anyone's imagination, but the incumbents with that sort of preparation (and I confess it's hard Murphy into office four years ago. For comparison’s sake, even
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Marion Jones
America loves a comeback story
and few can compete with the
tumultuous rise, fall and return of
Marion Jones. Once a media
darling, the disgraced Olympic
sprinter lost the five medals she
won at the 2000 Summer Games
after admitting she used
performance-enhancing drugs.
When Jones had previously lied
about that to federal investigators
(as well as her role in a check-
fraud case), she was sentenced to
six months in prison. After a
difficult incarceration that
included a demoralizing seven-
week stint in solitary
confinement, she was released in
the fall of 2008. Less than two
years later Jones rebounded as a
professional basketball player in
the WNBA, capping a fittingly
swift turnaround for the former
world champion sprinter.
The compelling story is the
subject of this week's edition of
ESPN's documentary series 30
For 30, which presents Jones as a
woman who has overcome odds
that were largely out of her hands
and whose entire downfall was
connected to a single bad
decision. Though it is only
addressed in passing in the film,
Jones still contends that she never
"knowingly" took performance-
enhancing drugs, a claim that the
judge in her case and many track
and field observers find
preposterous given her years of
experience in the drug-riddled
sport and her forceful personality.
She maintains that her coach at
the time told her he was giving
her flaxseed oil, and she believed
him. In fact it was a cutting-edge
performance-enhancing anabolic
steroid that was at the time
undetectable by drug tests.
"Marion Jones is the toughest
woman I've ever been around, she
knew exactly what she was up to.
She was in control of her
surroundings," says sportswriter
Ron Rapoport, who wrote a
biography of Jones and is the only
voice in the film to question her
statements. "I suppose it's possible
that somebody slipped her a
mickey, but that's not the Marion
Jones I know."
Because her sentence seemed so
harsh (and because she had to
leave her young children to serve
the jail time) and thanks to her
telegenic, engaging personality,
Jones' mea culpa has been largely
embraced by the media. Oscar-
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pitched the idea for his 30 For 30
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Begins With New Episodes of 'Chuck,' Rogers Joins 'Young and
'Castle,' and '90210'
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Filed under: TV Previews Here's
tonight's lineup of new shows and
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* = Series/Season Premiere
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Welcome to the November
Sweeps -- a time of guest stars,
specials, and news reports telling
you about nose hair clippers that
may kill you. Tonight, we get a
little taste of all of that hype.
7:00 to 8:00
ESPN:'Monday Night
Countdown'-- 7:00 start
FOX: World Series-- Game five
at Texas
8:00 to 9:00
ABC:'Dancing With the Stars'--
(120 minutes)
CBS:'How I Met Your Mother'
and'Rules of Engagement'
CW:'90210'
NBC:'Chuck'-- Guest starring
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Restless' and More
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return to the genre, joining the top
-rated soap. There's one actor
going on contract on ' The Bold
and the Beautiful,' while another
voluntarily drops down to
recurring. And perhaps the best
news of all is an Emmy-winning
actress signing on for two years
more on ' One Life to Live'. For
all that and the big news about
one show filming in New Orleans,
read on interesting leading men, Tristan
A&E:'Intervention' Food Network:'Unwrapped'-- Also, don't forget to check out the Rogers, is joining 'The Young and
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Malled By Bears: Part Two

(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) crowd, everyone seemed like a
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:30:00 PM friend.
I was very surprised to see the
It wasn't even ten yet, but Marine end of the rally reaching all the
One was off on the campaign way to the Smithsonian Castle.
trail. We didn't need Obama From that distance, you could
anyway. The rally was in charge barely hear what was happening
of the city today! The crowd had on stage. You couldn't watch it
crossed the street and made it to either, because… well, look.
the third row of televisions, and But wouldn't you know it? People
they were STILL COMING. were holding their crazy signs and
After the jump, you'll see more, weird outfits and kept right on
and find out what made me enjoying themselves just as hard
change my mind about the whole as the people at the front. Clearly,
thing… again and again. I'd been wrong about this being
If I may editorialize here, I just a parody. Back here, people
personally can't STAND Arianna were creating their own event, an
Huffington. However, it was event that almost no one would
awfully nice of her to spend her ever see.
own money on the buses from Right about now Seth passed me
New York. I knew they were wearing one of our shirts.
coming, so I assumed the sudden Seth had been at the front early in
burst of people were from those the morning, before he decided to
buses, even though I still can't be move back to the back, so he was
sure. But there were a heck of a able to fill me in on what had
lot of people, and the open space been happeing. It had been calm
began to disappear. On the here, he said, very diverse and lots
monitors, clips from The Daily of fun. I asked if anyone seemed
Show were cycling past. I figured disappointed and he said no, that
it was a good time for a break, so even this far away, everyone was
I took a knee and watched for a to and nothing but heads to former Cat Stevens) playing with The crowd was everywhere, even in a good mood and enjoying
bit. This turned out to be a really, photograph. Thank goodness there Ozzy (the former Prince of spreading into the streets on both themselves. It surprised me,
really, really bad decision. was a show starting... Darkness) wasn't something I ever sides of the mall. D.C.'s traffic because weren't these people here
That was my view for the If you missed seeing it live, could have anticipated. Father cops were professionally stern, to see a comedy show?
duration of the rally. The path? videos are available on the official Guido Sarducci was also a treat. but also professionally friendly, On my way back to the front, I
Full. The street? Full. The stairs website. I assumed they would be, Of course there were technical and for the most part, everyone passed a nearby statue garden,
of the building next door? Full. I so I didn't bother to take many mistakes and some ad-libbing, but got along. All the disagreements where a security guard was asking
had been planning to track down photos of the giant TV. Plenty of that only made it even more fun! were minor, and the only one I a woman not to touch the art. I
James from Hack-A-Day for a other blogs covered the rally if And yet, by the time Kid Rock witnessed (between and old lady couldn't help but think that a few
little cross-blog interviewing fun, you want a minute-by-minute and Sheryl Crow came out, I felt and a guy with a bicycle) ended weeks ago, this could have been
but there were about 250,000 breakdown of who said what like wandering. I had to get to the with just a few swear words as an invitation for some joke about
people out there, and AT&T just went. I'll only say that it was fun back of the Mall and see just how both parties walked away. There "uncouth Tea Party types" who
k i n d a p u l l e d t h e i P l u g o n to have Mythbusters guide us far this rally stretched. It wasn't was something about the mood
everybody, so I had no one to talk through fluid dynamics (a.k.a. easy, but with some work, I made that made it hard to think of all MALLED page 51
"the wave") and seeing Yusef (the it to the street. these strangers as enemies. In this
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Malled By Bears: Part One
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:00:00 PM
The Washington Post called it
"Millennial Woodstock". The
Christian Science Monitor
predicted repercussions on a local
scale. NPR was afraid to walk a
few blocks to check it out and Fox
News was actually quite polite!
But none of the journalists ever
once considered the absolute
worst part of blogging behind a
team of Emmy award-winning
comedy writers: they use every
single freaking joke. Seriously!
Before I left to Saturday's Rally
To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, I
made a list of all the ways I could
approach the event, hoping to get
a head start on my blog posts.
And what did those jerkfaces do?
They beat me to them all. My
whole list! What the heck, guys?
Couldn't you even leave me the
black helicopter joke?
But maybe that's just a hazard of
the trade. So instead of a funny
article about FEMA camps and
chemtrails, you'll have to settle for
some pictures of funny signs
(check back later in the day for
that one) and my honest opinions
of the event. After the jump, you'll
get to read about what I saw and
what I thought about my day on
the D.C. Mall. You're free to
disagree with me in the
comments, of course, about
anything. We understand any big
event has to allow for many
different opinions on what
happened, and we really would
like to know yours. I just ask that
you read both posts first.
If you didn't get to watch the rally
on Saturday, you missed a really
great afternoon of comedy.
Naturally some of it is online, and
you can watch the videos here.
But unless you were there, you
weren't in the crowd. And that's
why Woot demanded I arrive the
night before and schlep down to
the mall. So that I could be there
from the very start, and document
everything that happened.
You might assume otherwise, but
it wasn't all duck butts and test
screens the night before. I was
really impressed when I visited on
Friday because the setup was
mostly open, and all those scary
lookin' barricades were slightly
ajar. Anyone who wanted to could
go down to the front, or even into
the press area, and take photos of
the stage-in-progress. It was a
nice gesture and we nu-media
types all took advantage of it.
That's the view when you're
standing right over the words "C-
SPAN CAMERA GOES HERE".
Naturally, the famous people were
all somewhere else (and the
squeals of the mic check were
often seriously painful) but it was
the press area! What no-talent
blogger can resist a chance to
pretend he's Wolf Blitzer for a
day? And see those drums? Those
are Questlove's drums! Have
YOU ever been that close to
Questlove's drums? No! You
haven't!
Much like politics, D.C. looks
lovely from the outside. This shot
was taken about 7:30am, and look
close, because you can see those
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front rows are already full. The
serious fans were awake before
the crack of dawn. Hmmm, I
thought to myself, when's the last
time someone camped out for
politics?
The signs were up early too, and
as I said, we'll show you more of
those later today. They ranged
from direct attacks on Fox to
glancing blows at Christine
O'Donnell to my personal
favorite, complete and total
nonsense. Stewart's writing team
obviously anticipated this, and
had already prepared a bit about
the crowd's lack of coherent
message. When I heard that, I felt
confident that I had read things
right. This rally was just a parody,
a joke rally that some people were
taking seriously. But as things
went on, my opinion began to
change.
Even still, when the big screens
started showing Powers Of Ten I
was certain. This rally was a big
farce, purposely intended to
remind us all to put things in
perspective. It wasn't some attack
on anyone (well, maybe Glenn
Beck) but rather an attack on the
way these things are reported. I
figured Stewart and Colbert and
their writers just made a great big
lightbulb and then waited on the
moths to drive in for The Roots.
Who, incidentally, were fantastic.
But the crowd KEPT COMING.
And they all had different
political opinions. And nobody
seemed to mind how crowded it
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course the reality is that we're all
jerkfaces sometimes, no matter
who we support or vote for. And
we all do stupid stuff now and
then. Somewhere back inside the
fences, the familiar voice of Tony
Bennett was singing, but I was too
far away to hear it clearly. And
even still, I was surrounded by
happy people making their own
fun.
When the rally was over, we all
started walking. Most of us were
meeting friends at bars. The
subway's full? Keep walking. This
bar's too crowded? Keep walking.
At top of the hill, I noticed people
were grinning and taking photos
of what was behind me. And so I
turned around too. And then, I
was grinning and taking a photo
as well..
The great thing about this nation
is that we're in it. Every one of us.
Together. We might all have a
wide variety of opinions, but
when we all get up and take a
walk together, we simply are
impossible to ignore. And seeing
this, a street full of people with no
common cause beyond the right to
assemble peacefully… well,
maybe it's a bit corny, but that
Ephesians 1:18 (11-01-10)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 2:00:00 AM
I pray also that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened in order
that you may know the hope to
which he has called you, the
riches of his glorious inheritance
really made me happy. I have to
say, the show was fantastic, but
this was really the moment I liked
most of all.
Waiting outside the bar, I met
John and Dana from
Frequency555.com. They were
very nice people, and we're
heavily into spreading awareness
about sustainable lifestyles. They
had some questions for me, I had
some for them, and so we traded
interviews. John said that he
believed Stewart and Colbert were
deliberately bringing awareness to
the problems we have in Congress
now, and that this rally was
designed to draw attention to that.
At the time, this statement was
one I honestly disagreed with,
because there wasn't actually a
single problem openly discussed
in between the jokes. But thinking
about it later, I had to admit that
I'd never been to a comedy show
where people would happily sit
out of hearing range, and we all
know that a three hour lecture on
tariff issues wouldn't have filled
up a rented porta-a-potty. So
maybe John was right, and there
was something else happening
right in front of me.
So what do I think happened?
in the saints.
— Ephesians 1:18(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... Heaven is
something we see with our heart.
When we are discouraged,
doubtful, and depressed, we need
to have the eyes of our hearts
"enlightened." The dawn needs to
What's my final assessment of the
rally?
Based on a Sunday morning
interview, Arianna Huffington
apparently thinks this was some
bold forward motion for the left.
From that same interview, Dick
Armey apparently thinks it was
just two really talented comedians
having fun. After thinking about
what I saw, and everyone I talked
too, I personally think that the
rally was the best kind of
performance art: the kind that
holds a mirror to your face and
shows you what you're already
thinking. People like John and
Mike and Arianna Huffington
walked away feeling reaffirmed
politically, while people like Seth
and Matt and Dick Armey (and
me) left feeling like it was just a
really great day of comedy. I don't
think that anyone would argue
that the world has changed
because of the rally, but if nothing
else, it certainly made the media a
little unnerved. Really, how
would you explain a sign like this
in a ten second sound bite?
All that having been said, on my
way home Sunday afternoon, I sat
beside a young woman talking to
her mother about the rally. "It was
rise in our darkness and we see
the dawn of hope and the riches of
our inheritance. But when things
look bad, the only way to
remember these things is to sing
them, pray them, and read God's
promises of them. My Prayer... O
God, you are my Hope. I trust in
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great!" she said. "So political!"
And then she moved on to how
the guy next to her was wearing a
pirate costume with all sort of
authentic pirate details he'd added
himself. As far as I can see, that's
going to be the aftermath of
Saturday's event. A bunch of
happy people who feel like they
did something just by showing up
and having a little fun, and then
going home with smiles on their
faces. They'll be happy just
remembering a day when
everyone was a friend no matter
what they believed.
And honestly? In this climate,
where we've all been yelling at
each other about nothing for far,
far too long? Where millionaires
we've never met are fighting over
what to take away from us next?
Maybe just taking a stranger's
hand in friendship could actually
be a political statement. We're
cheerful as hell, and we're not
going to take it any more!
you and your promises. But I
admit that at times, like even right
now, I sometimes struggle with
my confidence that you will act in
response to my prayers and do
what I've trusted you to do with
my life. Please fill me with your
Spirit and comfort my doubts and
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This holiday season,
3D is everywhere in
consumer electronics
Carol Mangis (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 9:17:22 AM
This holiday season, 3D is
everywhere in consumer
electronics
Every year brings hot new
devices that geeks, enthusiasts,
and sometimes even grandmas
would love to find inside a gift-
wrapped box: Think iPods in
2001, the Flip pocket camcorder
and Kindle e-book reader in 2007,
and last year's Droid.
So what's hot for 2010?
Mobile anything is the hottest
category, of course, with smart
phones, tablet computers, and e-
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kindle my passion that I may
serve you with boldness and share
with others your grace. Through
my Lord Jesus I pray. Amen.
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privacy concern; Google product search adds book readers leading the way.
But 3D capability is also popping
two-dimensional computer."
Test results with one of the first
refinements for brands, product types and stores up nearly everywhere.
You can get 3D capability in
3D cameras, the Fujifilm FinePix
Real 3D W1, were mixed. Our
Dirk Klingner (Consumer Everest. operate for three months. TVs, Blu-ray players, cameras, bottom line: Unless you're
Reports) New product search refinements( Freewheeling: Driverless Vans camcorders, computers, and even determined to be the first person
Submitted at 11/1/2010 9:23:59 AM Official Google Blog) Finish 8,000-Mile Trip( npr) some phones and tablets(all in your neighborhood with a 3D
...Now we’re providing additional ...The vehicles, equipped with Ratings available to subscribers). digital camera, pass on this
D a i l y D i s p a t c h : F a c e b o o k refinements for popular stores and four solar-powered laser scanners B u t h o w r e a d y i s 3 D f o r model. Its high price and limited
Friendship pages cause privacy product types. For example, and seven video cameras that primetime? For answers to that feature set don't make it a very
concern; Google product search search for [ chocolate] and now work together to detect and avoid question, see " 3D is everywhere" good value. But, if you're
adds refinements for brands, you’ll find links for related o b s t a c l e s , a r e p a r t o f a n in our December issue, just considering it for its 3D
product types and stores searches for brands (Godiva, experiment aimed at improving posted: 3D isn't yet a must-have capability, don't buy it until you're
In today's Digital Dispatch: Lindt, etc.) and types (dark, hot, r o a d s a f e t y a n d a d v a n c i n g home technology for all. Though sure you don't get disoriented by
Facebook Friendship Pages are etc.). automotive technology. the price of 3D TVs is dropping, 3D imagery and video. Some
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Saints-Steelers Beats World Series Game 4 in Ratings

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Nobody knows my body like me.
There were plenty of times I
should've been knocked out and
wasn't. I should be ready to play
next week.”-- Brett Favre
"Taking a seat at the end of the
game is new for me," Favre said
Sunday after Minnesota's 28-18
loss to New England, a game that
ended while he was in the locker
room getting stitches.
Until he was hit by Patriots
defensive tackle Myron Pryor
while throwing a pass midway in
the fourth quarter, Favre was
doing what he usually does:
playing hurt, trying to lead his
team to victory in his NFL-record
292nd consecutive start.
He stayed on the ground
momentarily after Pryor's hit. He
even tried to get up while holding
his bleeding face, but quickly
sank to his knees. Vikings trainers
rushed to Favre, helped him from
the field and placed him on a
sideline training table where staff
members held a towel to his chin.
"My chin is numb right now," said
Favre, who said he needed eight
stitches to close the wound. "I
don't want to make a big deal out
of it."
Asked if he might have a
concussion, Favre said, "I
remember everything --
unfortunately. But I'll be fine."
"Nobody knows my body like
me," Favre added when asked if
he would be ready for next
Sunday's game against Arizona.
"There were plenty of times I
should've been knocked out and
wasn't. I should be ready to play
next week.
"After 20 years, I still feel I can
play at a high level," he said.
Vikings coach Brad Childress
said Favre actually needed 10
stitches, and praised Favre's
durability.
"He's got pretty good recuperative
skills," Childress said. "He's a
tough guy."
Favre did not appear bothered by
two fractures in his left foot that
initially jeopardized his
availability Sunday. He said it
was "touch and go" before the
game if he would play, but there
he was, behind center as he
always has been since 1992.[+]
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Favre started Sunday despite
ankle problems, but left late in the
fourth after a hit opened a cut on
his chin that required stitches.
But not at the finish.
Tarvaris Jackson replaced Favre
and immediately threw a 1-yard
touchdown pass to Naufahu Tahi.
Jackson completed a 2-point
conversion pass to Percy Harvin,
bringing Minnesota within 21-18.
Favre has both a stress fracture
and an avulsion fracture in the
foot. The avulsion fracture in the
heel bone is where a fragment has
been torn away by a tendon or
ligament.
He appeared to have no trouble
with his foot, though. He injured
his ankle and heel in last week's
loss at Green Bay. But after a
week of treatment and even some
practice time Friday, he was in the
starting lineup Sunday, a few days
after Childress said he would
consider starting Jackson if Favre
was hobbled.
"My prayers were answered,"
Favre said. "I wanted a chance to
play ... not play to just play, one
play to get a start. To play well
enough to give us a chance to
win."
Favre played well in the first half,
but an interception in the third
quarter catapulted the Patriots to
victory.
The interception wasn't Favre's
fault -- Harvin bobbled it directly
into the arms of Patriots rookie
Devin McCourty. Favre even
gave chase, sort of, on the 37-yard
runback, falling over two other
players when McCourty was
tackled. Favre slowly stood up
and walked to the sideline,
looking weary and every bit his
age. Mike & Mike in the Morning
ESPN NFL analyst Cris Carter
says Vikings QB Brett Favre
played great against the Patriots.
Plus, Carter talks about Jets QB
Mark Sanchez's problems in the
wind and crushes Redskins coach
Mike Shanahan's excuse for
benching Donovan McNabb.
Of course, this is a guy who has
had all kinds of drama
accompanying many of those 292
starts. So seeing him behind
center from the outset was
anything but surprising.
Seeing a woozy Favre leave on a
cart was stunning.
"I didn't think it was too bad until
I saw him unbuckle his chinstraps
and it was leaking pretty good,"
Vikings running back Adrian
Peterson said.
Early in the second quarter, Favre
handed off to Peterson for a 1-
yard dive that capped a 76-yard
touchdown drive. Favre, holder of
virtually every significant passing
record, looked spry while hitting
Harvin for 21 yards on the drive.
Oddly, moments before the TD,
Favre took a hit to the helmet by
Patriots linebacker Gary Guyton
that helped set up the score. He
got up slowly, checking his head
to see if there was any blood, then
called the next play.
Favre completed his first four
passes for 40 yards and was 11 for
13 for 121 yards through the first
half. But the second half was ugly
for Minnesota -- just as much of
the season has been for the
Vikings (2-5) and their embattled
QB, who had taken every snap
this year.
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The Vikings couldn't afford to
fall further behind in the NFC
North, but with Green Bay (5-3)
beating the Jets, they did. Favre,
who nearly led the Vikings to the
Super Bowl last season, finished
22 for 32 for 259 yards. He also
was called twice for grounding.
There's more to Favre's headline-
grabbing persona this season, too.
The website Deadspin reported
weeks ago that Favre sent lewd
photos and inappropriate text
messages to a New York Jets
game hostess in 2008 when Favre
played for the team. The NFL is
investigating and the woman,
Jenn Sterger, has not yet spoken
to league investigators, although
her manager and her lawyer have
said she might do so soon.
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Duke's Kyle Singler was the season. season and start this season of Villanova was a senior. Redskins coach Mike Shanahan
leading vote-getter and only "So far in practice, he has shown ranked third in the Top 25. None of those players were on trusted backup Rex Grossman
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to make the list since voting from day one." points that game while Fredette Collins was a second-team pick The backup quarterback fumbled
began before the 1986-87 season. Singler, a 6-8 senior forward, finished with 21 points on 4-of-13 after the season, while Aldrich on his first play and Ndamukong
The team, chosen by the 65- averaged 16.5 points and 7.7 shooting, two days after getting and Harangody were on the third Suh returned it to seal the Detroit
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Monday. an honorable mention postseason on the court, averaged 22.1 points among the postseason honorable needed to prove he's in charge,
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had opportunities we just didn't
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Cornerback DeAngelo Hall said
Monday it was "definitely a
shocker" that McNabb was pulled.
He said it raises the question:
"After the season, will he be here
or not?"
The Redskins (4-4), who have a
bye this week, will have a lot of
time to work on correcting their
mistakes and likely answer
McNabb-related questions.
The six-time Pro Bowl
quarterback has his lowest rating
since 1999 when Philadelphia
drafted him No. 2 overall and he
started six games.
Shanahan said McNabb is still
the team's starting QB. If that is
still true in two weeks after a bye,
McNabb will get another chance
against his former team when the
Redskins host the Eagles in a
Is a Victory Over Notre Dame Really Worth
Monday night game. Mike &
Mike in the Morning
Former NFL QB Kurt Warner
says if a coach pulled him out of
the game the way Redskins coach
Mike Shanahan pulled QB
Donovan McNabb, he would feel
like the coach had zero faith in
him.
Washington had a 25-20 lead
with 4:40 left when Alphonso
Smith stepped in front of
McNabb's pass at the Redskins 41
to set up the go-ahead TD.
"My arm got hit, so I wasn't able
to follow through with the throw,"
said McNabb, who was 17 of 30
for 210 yards with a TD and an
interception.
McNabb was benched for just the
second time in his career. The
other time was two years ago
against Baltimore, when he was
playing for Philadelphia.
"You just have to learn from it
and move on," McNabb said. "I
did it then, and I'll do it now."
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John Walters (FanHouse Main) Navy to an ill-conceived end zone interminable anguish. This is the time in most seasons
Submitted at 11/1/2010 10:39:00 AM pass to Michael Floyd on Notre Lost games, lost coaches and when folks start looking for phone
Dame's final offensive play ultimately, for this once-proud numbers and e-mail addresses of
F i l e d u n d e r : N o t r e D a m e against Tulsa on Oct. 30, Kelly program, lost aura. The most oft- players from the 1972 Dolphins to
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The shepherded the Irish through, and repeated scene any Notre Dame ask them how they feel about the
Almighty Father required just was certainly as responsible as senior has witnessed is the players possibility that the Colts or the
seven days, according to the Book anyone for, the worst eight-day of an underdog, unheralded Patriots or (fill in the blank) will
of Genesis, to construct the stretch in the school's gridiron program celebrating inside Notre finish the season unbeaten.
universe. history. Dame Stadium. This year?
Brian Kelly needed one more In the midst of it, of course, was "I've never been a part of anything Not only did the last unbeaten
than that to raze Notre Dame's the horrific death of Declan like that," Tulsa quarterback G.J team go down three weeks ago,
2010 football season. Eight days. Sullivan, which occurred two Kinne said. "It was an awesome but there now is just one one-loss
From a failed fourth-and-goal days after Kelly celebrated his loss, wrapped inside a season of feeling." team: New England, the most
attempt on the one-yard line in the 49th birthday. unforeseen defeats, lapping up consistent winner of this century.
game's opening drive against It was a week of unspeakable against a decade or so of We got to that point Sunday when
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the still-crippled Packers knocked
off the one-loss Jets on the road
and the Saints handed the Steelers
their second loss. Those also were
wins by underachieving NFC
teams over top AFC teams,
slowing down the rush to
judgment that the AFC is far the
superior conference.
In addition:
o. Brett Favre was knocked down
and out again, probably to rise
next week.
o. Donovan McNabb was
How-to 'everything' videos coming to PS3 XMB
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:30:00 PM
"It Only Does Everything," says
the PS3's ad campaign. But how
many users actually know how to
take advantage of all of the
system's features out of the box?
With PS3 increasingly positioning
itself as a be-all entertainment
device, Sony is forced to confront
the XMB's clutter of icons, which
may be befuddling mainstream
consumers.
PSN director Susan Panico told
us that Sony is currently "creating
educational videos that will be a
great welcome kit for people that
are coming to the PS3 and the
PlayStation Network," which aim
to "really walk them through all
benched because the firm of
Shanahan and Son in Washington
seemed to think that Rex
Grossman-- Rex Grossman? -- is
better at the two-minute drill.
o. Oakland looked for the second
straight week like the team whose
motto used to be "Commitment to
Excellence.''
the advantages you get from the
PlayStation Network," including
the store. The videos "will answer
questions like, 'How do I have
Netflix movies stream on my
PS3?' And it will certainly talk
about original content available,"
Panico noted, referring to PSN
productions like The Tester and
Pulse. "That's something that's
really important to us -- to make
sure people understand from the
get-go how to find all this great
content."
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While many of the details are still
being ironed out, the how-to
videos will appear both on the
web and on the XMB. "Primarily,
it's going to be content that you
find very easily on
PlayStation.com, as well as on the
console itself," Panico said,
though "we haven't decided where
it's going to live on the XMB."
Presumably, it'll be in a prime
position, lest Sony find itself
posting a "How to find the how-to
videos" video.
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Michael Jackson: The Glove bundled with Wii
version of Michael Jackson: The Experience
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:00:00 PM
We appreciate Ubisoft's sense of
restraint. How, you may ask,
could it be considered "restrained"
to bundle a Michael Jackson-style
white glove, covered with
rhinestones, with initial shipments
of the Wii version of Michael
Jackson: The Experience?
Because Ubisoft could have
chosen to put a big loop on it for
you to strap the Wiimote into, but
it didn't. That's totally classy.
The glove is not included with
the PSP or DS versions also out
this month, but Ubisoft hasn't
mention whether a similar offer
Why Marco Rubio's Election Would Be the Most Important One
for Conservatives
Matt Lewis (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:11:00 PM
Columnist Once you get past the
fundamental qualifications of
basic honesty and credibility,
there are three ingredients, it
seems to me, that make for a
successful conservative leader.
The first (this should be obvious)
is a solid conservative political
philosophy. The second is
charisma (like it or not,
Americans prefer charismatic
candidates, and it has become
mandatory for the modern era).
would come with next year's PS3
or Xbox 360 versions. (We doubt
one would be bundled with the
Xbox game, though, because
Kinect would probably freak out
if you were wearing a reflective
Last (and perhaps most elusive)
is the ability to effectively
articulate a conservative message.
This is not to say candidates must
be pointy-headed intellectuals, but
a leader must be able to
persuasively present a serious
argument for their ideas.
To be sure, there are many
leaders and candidates out there
who bring two of these qualities
to the table, but very few can pull
off the hat trick.
Marco Rubio's election Tuesday
is vital because he is one of the
few conservative leaders on the
glove.)
In addition to this critical hand-
warmth news, two more songs
were announced for inclusion in
the game: "Speed Demon" and
"Dirty Diana." It's another show
horizon who combines all three
qualities. He could be president
some day. That's why Democrats
were so desperate to get Kendrick
Meek out of the race and try to
help Gov. Charlie Crist's
independent bid. Rubio's election
is about far more than just
electing a Republican senator.
Rubio, of course, is a bona fide
conservative (long before
Christine O'Donnell and Sharron
Angle appeared on the scene, Sen.
Jim DeMint backed Rubio) who is
also highly charismatic, smart and
eloquent. What is more, he can
of restraint on the part of Ubisoft -
- the company could have gone
the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith route
and loaded the game with non-
Michael Jackson music.
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communicate a terrific personal
story that buttresses the argument
for why conservative policies can
provide the most opportunities for
all Americans.
There are many important
elections taking place on Tuesday
(to be sure, many would argue
that the chance to defeat Majority
Leader Harry Reid makes Nevada
the obvious marquee race). But
for my money, if you're looking
for one contest that matters most
to conservatives -- that could have
long-term implications -- it's in
Florida, where voters can elect a
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Leahy Challenger Len
Britton Wins Fans, Funds
With Do-It-Yourself Ads
jeanette friedman (Politics
Daily)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:20:00 PM
Has your favorite political party
harassed you for cash until you're
ready to scream? Send them to
Len Britton. The Republican
candidate for U.S. Senate in
Vermont can teach hundreds of
campaign managers a thing or two
about making great commercials
while holding down costs.
How cheap? We're talking three
figures here.
The secret? Write the script
yourself and use your staffers,
family, and friends as actors. If
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man with the potential to be a
serious national player for years
to come.
Marco Rubio could be a game-
changer, but first, he has to win.
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you do it right, it could even put
you, an electoral neophyte, on the
political map.
Whether or not you agree with
the ideas behind the commercials,
the conservative Britton -- who is
running against veteran Democrat
and incumbent Sen. Patrick Leahy
-- has earned national kudos for
getting out a serious message,
while using humor and getting
huge bang for his buck. None of
the noteworthy commercials -- "
Better Get a Paper Route, Billy!,"
" Better Bail Faster, Billy!," and "
Record Scratch" -- cost more than
$ 700 to produce. By posting the
spots on YouTube, the Britton
campaign went viral. The
subsequent sensation led
Time.com to declare that the 30-
second "Better Bail Faster, Billy"
spot was one of the best viral
campaign ads of 2010. The ads
opened doors in Congress that had
been closed to Britton, a virtual
unknown.
A ninth-generation Vermonter
who gave up the family
lumberyard business to run for the
Senate, newcomer Britton was
desperately looking for
endorsements and funding. Once
the ads went viral, he got them --
including even a quickie airport-
based personal appearance by
Sen. John McCain. It doesn't seem
to have moved the needle, poll-
wise -- Leahy was 35 points ahead
in June, according to Rasmussen,
and is still 35 points ahead,
according to Vermont Public
Radio. But according to Blurt, the
staff blog at Seven Days (a
Burlington-based alternative
weekly), since the commercials
appeared Britton has received
$44,500 in donations from state
and national Republican Party
PACs -- "the lion's share of the
more than $60,000 Britton raised
in the last 30 days. To date, he's
raised $188,000 in his race to
unseat Leahy." Leahy, of course,
has millions to spare.
Politics Daily got the inside story
from Bradford Broyles, Britton's
campaign manager and star of
"Better Get a Paper Route, Billy,"
which rolled out last May. He said
that the office has been contacted
by political consultants of all
parties who want to know which
agency was hired to make the
spots. Those consultants were
inevitably surprised to learn it was
a DIY project.
"It's a frugal ad blitz," says
Broyles. "People love 'em and
they're paying attention. They've
been our calling card. McCain
saw the ads and took our call.
Fred Thompson put the 'Better
Bail Faster, Billy' spot on his
website. The commercials prove
you can do effective messaging
without having to spend millions
of bucks, and still attract
attention. We did on a
shoestring."
Turns out, Britton was once a
screenwriter and Broyles was
once an actor. They wrote the
scripts together and enlisted
family members and friends to
play out the scenarios. Broyles
jokes that his son Billy (his actual
name!) is now so famous in his
home state that he's been taking
the heat for the national deficit --
and his teachers chide him to get
yet another job. Broyle's wife
played the mom in "Better Get a
Paper Route, Billy," a satire on
Publishers Clearing House ads.
Broyles claims that, since the
commercials aired, Britton has
gained 10 points in the race
(according to their own polling
data). He added that, because of
the ads, the Britton campaign
raised more money in the last
month than it had previously
raised in the last year. But they
still need more money to pay for
air time, which can cost a fortune.
Though Britton's got acclaimed
commercials, he's also got six
people running against him, and
one of them is Leahy, who is
almost certain to win.
But Britton and Broyles shouldn't
despair if they lose -- they might
have new careers waiting. Politics
Daily asked if they'd consider
working for the opposition.
"Sure," said Broyles. "We'd work
for Democrats, but only
Democrats we can believe in."
And, in a follow-up phone call, a
Britton assistant said that the
candidate himself agreed. Perhaps
after the election, they'll open an
agency that could change the
world of politics as we know it:
Britton & Broyles, Vermont's
very own "Mad Men."
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Vote for Joe
Miller
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 8:28:48 AM
Tea party favorite Joe Miller won
a stunning victory when he
defeated incumbent Sen. Lisa
Murkowski in Alaska’s
Republican primary. Now Miller
is waging another battle against
Murkowski, who is running a
write-in campaign to retain her
seat — a battle Miller deserves to
win.
Murkowski was appointed to the
Senate by her father, Gov. Frank
Murkowski, when he resigned the
seat he had held for 20 years to
become Alaska’s governor in
2002, an appointment that many
derided as nepotism.
In the Senate, Murkowski has
taken positions to the left of many
Republicans. She is pro-choice,
and appears out of touch with
Alaska voters — including the tea
party opponents who helped
Miller win the primary despite
being outspent by Murkowski by
a wide margin.
VOTE page 61
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Video Interview: Tom Tancredo Charts Missing Christine O'Donnell
His Own Path in Governor's Race
Sandra Fish (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:30:00 PM
Correspondent From the speaking
circuit in July to moving within
five points of Democratic Denver
Mayor John Hickenlooper, Tom
Tancredo's independent streak is
showing in the Colorado
governor's race.
Tancredo, a Republican former
congressman and 2008
presidential candidate, is
primarily known for his strident
stance against illegal immigration.
He considered a run for governor
a year ago, but stayed out of the
race as party leaders tried to
narrow the field for former U.S.
Rep. Scott McInnis.
But McInnis didn't make it to the
August primary alone. Tea party
favorite Dan Maes, a businessman
with no political experience, was
also on the ballot, despite
allegations of campaign finance
misspending that resulted in
$17,000 in fines. And in July,
damaging plagiarism charges
surfaced against McInnis.
Democratic interests took
advantage of those allegations,
running $500,000 in attack ads
against McInnis, helping nudge
Maes to a narrow win in the GOP
Video: 'Dirty Politics' or
primary. As the GOP field
imploded, Tancredo jumped in,
persuading the American
Constitution Party candidate to
step aside.
Since the primary, Maes has
faced more damaging accusations
and virtually all of his GOP
supporters have abandoned him.
Polls show Maes garnering
between 5 percent and 10 percent
of the vote, with Tancredo trailing
Hickenlooper by between 5
percent and 14 percent. In an
interview with Politics Daily
(click play at right to watch),
Tancredo returned to his signature
issue of cracking down on illegal
immigration. He also talked tough
on the state budget, saying
education and health care
programs for the poor would have
to be cut. And he said he'd try to
turn back regulation of the oil and
gas industry implemented by
Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter, who
announced in January that he
wouldn't run for a second term.
And he left the door open to a
return to the GOP fold as
governor.
"If there's some purpose served by
going back to the Republican
Party, if it's easier to work with
the legislature or something like
that, yeah, I would certainly
consider it," Tancredo said.
"Parties, I must tell you, are not
important to me. They really have
little meaning anymore. I'm much
more loyal to a philosophy of
government called conservatism
than I am to any party."
A T-shirt sold by Tea Party
Brewing show's Tancredo dressed
in black with a white-hatted
Hickenlooper in back. "I'm Your
Huckleberry!," the pro-Tancredo
shirt proclaims.
Tuesday, Coloradoans will
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Jill Lawrence (Politics Daily)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 1:15:00 PM
Senior Correspondent Delaware
Senate candidate Christine
O'Donnell suggested "dirty
politics" was the reason a 24-
minute campaign video about her
did not run on Channel 28, a local
cable station, but a station official
said it was because the O'Donnell
campaign didn't deliver the video
on time.
"They were supposed to have the
tape to us on Friday and they
didn't get it here until Sunday,"
executive producer Tim Qualls
said in an interview. He said the
earliest the video could air would
be 3 p.m. Monday because that's
when an employee will arrive at
Comcast to put it on. "We
followed through with what we're
supposed to. If they don't give me
a tape, there's nothing I can do
about it," he added.
O'Donnell repeatedly promoted
the video Sunday on her Twitter
feed, saying it would run at 11:30
on Sunday night. But shortly after
that she tweeted, "Okay... this is
NOT our show! Must be a
programming mix up. We will get
back to you..." Next came a tweet
that urged people to watch the
video at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on
Monday -- followed by "This isn't
our show either! We are told
channel 28 'forgot' to air it...both
times... even though we paid for
E-reader News Edition
the time slot last week." And
finally, "Dirty politics again? I'd
like to think the County run
station really did just 'forget' even
though we reminded them this
morning."
The station did run the video on
its website, and it is also available
via O'Donnell's campaign. Set to
mellow, New-Agey music, it is a
montage of O'Donnell on the
campaign trail, including a visit to
a packing facility that employs
people with Down syndrome, and
featurettes of people who agree
with her positions, such as a
doctor who opposes the new
health care law. There's also a clip
of O'Donnell from her "I'm you"
ad, but minus the opening in
which she says, "I'm not a witch."
O'Donnell is running behind
Democrat Chris Coons for the
Senate seat once held by Vice
President Joe Biden. His
appointed successor, Ted
Kaufman, is leaving the Senate.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin,
who actively supports Miller, has
pointed to Murkowski’s
“involvement in racking up the
massive debt burden on our
children and grandchildren, as
well as her plan to barter over the
destructive job-killing cap-and-tax
legislation.”
Joe Miller, on the other hand,
opposes cap-and-trade and favors
a balanced federal budget and a
presidential line-item veto.
A West Point graduate, Miller
fought for his country in the first
Gulf War and was awarded a
Bronze Star. His political
positions are staunchly
conservative.
Miller wants to repeal
Obamacare, calls for the
suspension of earmarks, opposes
cuts to Medicare and Social
Security for current beneficiaries,
is critical of global warming
alarmists, has received an “A”
rating from the National Rifle
Organization, and opposes
abortion except when the
mother’s life is in danger.
Discussing the tea party
movement that spurred his
primary victory, Miller told
Newsmax in an exclusive
interview in September: "I think
the message that is being spread
of returning the country back to
its constitutional foundations is
absolutely something that can put
the Republican Party back on
track. It is something that, if
embraced, could allow the
Republican Party to provide the
answers to a nation that is in crisis
right now.”
As for the Sarah Palin connection
in this race, there seems to be no
doubt that bad blood exists
between Palin and Murkowski.
Palin successfully ran for Alaska
governor against Murkowski’s
father in the 2006 GOP primary,
and denied him re-election. She
actively campaigned against
Murkowski, the sitting
Republican senator, in favor of
challenger Joe Miller in the
primary.
Palin wrote in a fund-raising
letter to Miller supporters that
“public service should be an
honor, not a family dynasty” —
an echo of the “nepotism” charge
leveled at Murkowski.
Palin has also criticized
Murkowski for reneging on her
primary vow not to “contest the
will of the people” by staying in
the race after her primary defeat.
Fortunately, most recent polls
have Miller solidly ahead. A
survey released on Sunday by
Public Policy Polling showed
Miller with 37 percent of the vote,
Murkowski with 30 percent, and
Democrat Scott McAdams with
30 percent.
A Miller victory would be victory
for conservative principles,
Alaska, and the country.
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GOP Surge
Overwhelming
Democrats in New York
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) straight Republican ticket in the
Submitted at 11/1/2010 7:02:12 AM voting booth to underscore their
anger at Democrats.
Monday, 01 Nov 2010 12:02 PM Even more importantly, many of
In a surprising twist, the GOP is these surge voters are nominal
surging in New York state in independents.
several key races that were long “When you’re tied like this the
thought unwinnable, according to independent vote is going to
the New York Post. The paper decide,” Jeanne Zaino, a political
reported Monday that Republican science professor from Iona
Harry Wilson is in a dead heat College, told the Post. “In these
w i t h C o m p t r o l l e r T h o m a s cases, you wouldn’t want to be an
DiNapoli while GOP stalwart Dan incumbent like DiNapoli or and
Donovan is surging against Eric insider like Schneiderman.”
Schneiderman in the attorney Just weeks ago both of these
general’s race. candidates were down by double
The latest Siena College poll digits.
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Boehner: Strickland Loss Poll: GOP Headed for
in Ohio Bad for Obama Wipe-out Victory
'12
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 6:15:40 AM
Monday, 01 Nov 2010 11:15 AM
It’s no accident that President
Barack Obama and Vice President
Joe Biden have put much of their
campaign focus on Ohio. They’re
trying to save their own skins in
2012, says House Minority
Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio,
The Hill reports. "They've been
coming here for months,"
Boehner said at a
campaign rally Sunday.
"What he's [Obama is] really
coming here for is to help himself,
because he knows that come
2012, if he doesn't have
[Democratic Gov.] Ted Strickland
in office, his reelection chances
are seriously damaged."
Polls show a close race between
Strickland and his Republican
opponent John Kasich.
"Vote for Kasich to send Obama a
message," Boehner says.
When Obama passed healthcare
reform without Republican
support, "He said, 'That's what
elections are for,' " Boehner
notes.”And boy was he right."
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The poll numbers just keep
getting better and better for the
Republicans going into
tomorrow’s elections. The last
Gallup/USA Today pre-election
poll by Gallup shows the GOP
with a whopping 55 percent to 40
percent lead over the Democrats
among likely voters in a generic
congressional ballot, Politico
reports.
As a result, a GOP takeover of
the House is “highly probable.”
The poll suggests a pickup of
“anywhere from 60 seats on up,
with gains well beyond that
possible.” according to the Gallup
analysis released late Sunday.
The survey also shows a
widening of the “enthusiasm gap”
in favor of Republicans. Of
Republicans and independents
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are "absolutely certain" they will
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Recipe Makeover: Chicken Fingers Combine Basketball and

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Leaving the deep fryer in the

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version of a fast-food staple that Submitted at 11/1/2010 4:00:00 AM

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• Easy as 1, 2, 3, 4 Sure, too basketball) about 12 inches ahead
much saucing can lead to a world of your right foot. Lift your leg
of sugar, salt, and calories, but parallel to the floor, keeping your
don't walk away from the saucy hips even. Twist to the right,
verities: tang, savor, sweet heat, reaching your right arm to the
and body. This delivers all those. sky. Face the floor until you are
ready to look up. Hold for two
View Recipe: Pan-Fried Chicken minutes.
Fingers with Spicy Dipping Sauce Why: Develops your
Battered and deep-fried strips of concentration, stretches the
poultry populate most family- hamstrings, opens the hips, and
restaurant and drive-through strengthens the back muscles.
menus in America because their DOWN DOG Why: Opens up your hips,
crunchy, salty blandness is a nice l i m e j u i c e , s o y s a u c e , a n d Just enough spicy mayo sauce How: Keeping your feet hip- helping work the adductor and
foil for a dipping sauce, and Sriracha to boost the mayo base, Light, crispy, crunchy width apart, bend down and place abductor muscles while also
finger foods please the kids. But creating the perfect complement View Recipe: Pan-Fried Chicken your hands shoulder-width apart. working your core and stretching
check out the nutrition panel to a new version of America's Fingers with Spicy Dipping Sauce Step your feet away from your the lower and upper back. Related
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Grilled Chicken Pita Wrap
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Ingredients
• 2 boneless, skinless chicken
breast halves, sliced lengthwise
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano
• 1/8 tsp cayenne
• 3/4 tsp kosher salt, divided
• 2 tsp canola or vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup fat-free Greek yogurt
• 1 tbsp fresh-squeezed lemon
juice
• 1 large garlic clove
• 2 plum tomatoes, cut up
• 1 cup loosely packed parsley
• 2 whole-wheat pitas
How to Make It
1.) Remove the chicken from the
fridge and pat dry. 2.) Prepare the
spice rub: In a small bowl,
combine the cumin, paprika,
coriander, oregano, cayenne, 1/4
tsp of the oil. Coat the chicken
with the spice mixture, then set
aside to marinate for 10 minutes.
3.) Make the yogurt sauce:
Combine the yogurt, 1/4 tsp
kosher salt, and lemon juice;
cover and set aside. 4.) Whip up
some tomato relish: In a food
processor, combine the garlic,
plum tomatoes, parsley, and
remaining 1/4 tsp salt and pulse to
coarsely chop. 5.) Heat a grill pan
over medium heat; brush with the
remaining tsp of oil. When the
pan is hot, cook the chicken until
the meat is cooked through, 2 to 3
minutes per side. 6.) Warm the
pitas on the hot grill, about 1
minute per side. When done, fill
each pita with a chicken breast
and top with tomato relish and
yogurt sauce.
Nutritional Breakdown
Per serving
Calories: 419
Protein: 41 g
Carbs: 44 g
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Fat: 10 g
Fiber: 7 g
Rub On Flavor
Mixing together your favorite
spices and rubbing them on prior
to cooking is an easy, low-cal way
to cram meat with in-your-face
flavor. A few rules: Add a dash of
oil, lemon juice, or vinegar to the
rub to help the spices stick; allow
1 to 2 tbsp of rub per pound of
meat; and for max flavor, cover
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Massacre in a generic Iraqi church

tmatt (GetReligion) were killed, and 41 hostages and when Iraqi commandos stormed
Submitted at 11/1/2010 8:53:25 AM 15 security force members were in, authorities said.
wounded, according to a source at At least seven Iraqi security
One of the first things that your the Ministry of the Interior. forces were killed during the
G e t R e l i g i o n i s t a s d o w h e n OK, I know. That’s just the lede. operation to rescue 120
preparing a post in our WordPress Reporters often need to move the parishioners who were held
software is to head over to the specifics a bit lower. For example, hostage for hours at Our Lady of
“Categories” function box and it took a few lines to get to the Salvation church in the upscale
click all of the relevant choices presumed identity of the attackers, Karradah neighborhood, an Iraqi
for how we want this item stored which was the Islamic State of police official said. … Eight
in our archives. It’s a far from Iraq, a militant network connected women and five children were
perfect process that keeps raising to Al Qaeda. among the dead, Iraqi authorities
questions. For example, “Are Then there are plenty of specifics said. Nearly 60 people were
Pentecostals really evangelicals?” in this passage, just a few wounded in the exchange of
Or how about, “OK, I know that paragraphs later. gunfire and the blasts inside the
Jordan is in the Middle East. But Hussain Nahidh, a police officer church, officials said. The U.S.
how about Iraq and Iran? How who saw the interior of the military called the takeover a
close is close enough? Do I really church, said: “It’s a horrible success.
need to create ANOTHER new scene. More than 50 people were So now we know the name of the
category?” killed. The suicide vests were church — in English, this time.
countries. this point, I would like to know if
In the world of Christianity, there filled with ball bearings to kill as However, once again there is no
Now we know the name of the the bishop was present.
are some groups that are large many people as possible. You can way to know what kind of church
church — sort of. We never find out the identity of
enough to get their own box, so to see human flesh everywhere. was bombed, although this detail
But what kind of church is it? the church, although readers are
speak. With the Divine Ms. M.Z. Flesh was stuck to the top roof of is provided:
P r o t e s t a n t ? E v a n g e l i c a l ? told this:
Hemingway on board here at the hall. Many people went to the
Anglican? Orthodox? What kind The church, with a huge cross Sunday Mass was being held
GetReligion, it is only a matter of hospitals without legs and hands.”
of Orthodox, since the Middle visible from hundreds of yards inside the Assyrian Christian
time until the spiritual sons and The violence began shortly after
East is a very complex place and away, was already surrounded c h u r c h w h e n t h e g u n m e n ,
daughters of Martin Luther get the 5 p.m. on Sunday. The gunmen
its churches ( along with other with concrete bollards and razor reportedly wearing explosive
nod. first attacked the Baghdad stock religious minority groups) are wire, and church leaders have vests, ran inside.
But what about the following e x c h a n g e i n t h e K a r a d a
living under great persecution. been fearful of attack since the That’s getting close, but, as
story from The New York Times? neighborhood, killing two security
Catholic? What kind of Catholic Rev. Terry Jones in Gainesville, mentioned before, does little to
How does one do the categories guards and wounding four others,
church is it? Etc., etc., etc. Of Fla., threatened to burn a Koran narrow the field. Is it that hard for
on this one, when this tragic setting off two bombs and then
course, it is possible for a on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 reporters to simply give the name
report includes all kinds of gory taking refuge in the nearby
concerned reader to break away attacks on the World Trade Center of one of the city’s major
details, but never gets around to Sayidat al-Nejat church. The
from the news report and do an and the Pentagon. Mr. Jones churches? Did the reporters know
telling us one very crucial fact. church — one of six bombed in
online search for “Sayidat al- decided not to burn the Koran. t h a t t h i s a t t a c k w a s o n a
Here’s the top of the report from August 2004 — was filled for
Nejat.” Then again, reporters and The Washington Post report on cathedral? And, yes, what about
Baghdad: Sunday services. A local editors can do that, too. the attack is a little bit better. This the bishop?
Iraqi antiterrorist forces stormed television channel, Baghdadiya, Just saying. Written by: tmatt on
Readers that make the effort to time, readers are told:
a church where gunmen had taken reported receiving a telephone call
do that will learn something that Thirty Iraqi Christians were November 1, 2010.
close to 100 hostages on Sunday from someone claiming to be one
is never addressed in the Times killed Sunday night during a This entry passed through the
in an afternoon of chaos that of the attackers and demanding
report — the fact that we are dramatic siege of a church in Full-Text RSS service — if this is
became a bloodbath. At least 30 the release of all members of Al
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hostages and 7 security officers Q a e d a i m p r i s o n e d i n A r a b
of the Syrian Catholic Church. At bombers detonated explosives
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Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:00:19 AM
I n the House, my projection is
for the GOP to gain 70 seats: The
GOP will win 76 House districts
currently held by Democrats, and
the Democrats will win 6 House
seats currently held by
Republicans, including a few
surprises. Republican takeovers
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DEM GOP WINNER AL 1*no
challenger* vs JO BONNER JO
BONNER AL 2 BOBBY
BRIGHT vs MARTHA ROBY
MARTHA ROBY AL 3 STEVE
SEGREST vs MIKE ROGERS
MIKE ROGERS AL 4*no
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ADERHOLT ROBERT
ADERHOLT AL 5 STEVE
RABY vs MO BROOKS MO
BROOKS AL 6*no challenger*
vs SPENCER BACHUS
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Morning Bell: Solutions for Sanity
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 8:21:36 AM
Posted November 1st, 2010 at
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Our country may just need a
Rally to Restore Comedy after
this past Saturday’s spectacularly
unfunny Rally to Restore Sanity
on the National Mall. But “The
Daily Show” host and rally
organizer Jon Stewart may have
stumbled upon some truth in his
closing remarks: “We hear every
day about how fragile our country
is — on the brink of catastrophe
— torn by polarizing hate and
how it’s a shame that we can’t
work together to get things done,
but the truth is we do. We work
together to get things done every
day. The only place we don’t is
here or on cable TV. Americans
don’t live here or on cable TV.”
The “here” Stewart is referring to
is Washington, DC, the seat of
federal power in this country.
Since 1900, except for a brief dip
in the 80s, Washington has taken
more and more power away from
the rest of the country. Then,
almost 60% of government
spending took place at the state
and local levels. Today, the
federal government spends more
than twice as much as all other
levels of government combined.
This trend has only hastened
under President Barack Obama,
including: government-owned car
companies, government-run
health care, government-
dominated mortgage markets and
national school standards. With so
many decisions being made for
millions of Americans in just one
city, is it any wonder that the
country has become so politicized
and polarized?
As President Ronald Reagan said
in his First Inaugural Address: “In
this present crisis, government is
not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem. From
time to time we’ve been tempted
to believe that society has become
too complex to be managed by
self-rule, that government by an
elite group is superior to
government for, by, and of the
people. Well, if no one among us
is capable of governing himself,
then who among us has the
capacity to govern someone
else?” By assuming more and
more tasks in more and more
areas outside of its core
responsibilities, Washington has
greatly damaged American self-
rule. The federal government’s
extended reach has weakened the
states and pushed traditional
social institutions into the
shadows.
We can do something about this:
devolve power away from
Washington to the states and the
people. The Heritage
Foundation’s Solutions for
America has a number of specific
policy proposals to cut
Washington down to size:
• Unwind Government
Intervention: The government
should end the interventions it has
made since 2008, starting with
abolition of the TARP program. It
should then abolish Freddie Mac
and Fannie Mae and repeal all
U.S. government regulatory
measures that interfere with
mortgage markets. Congress
should also repeal the
Sarbanes–Oxley Act, which
discriminates against small firms
and reduces competition.
Companies should be allowed to
fail, and laws and regulations
should create no expectation of a
future bailout.
• Spend Less: Congress should
enact a firm cap on the annual
increase in total government
spending, limited to inflation plus
population growth. Lawmakers
should exert all effort to keep
overall federal spending to less
than 20% of U.S. GDP, the
historical post–World War II
average for federal spending.
Congress should take entitlement
spending off autopilot and subject
it to the discipline of the
budgetary process through long-
term budgets that Congress
regularly reviews. This would
force entitlement spending to
compete politically with other
spending priorities.
• Devolve Responsibilities:
Education, health care,
transportation, criminal law
enforcement and homeland
security—all issues that in recent
decades have become federal
concerns but are better dealt with
at the state and local levels of
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government—should be devolved
to the states. State and local
governments can tailor programs
to make them more efficient and
can experiment with new
approaches to reduce the overall
cost of government.
“It is no coincidence that our
present troubles parallel and are
proportionate to the intervention
and intrusion in our lives that
result from unnecessary and
excessive growth of government,”
Reagan said in January 1981. “It
is my intention to curb the size
and influence of the Federal
establishment and to demand
recognition of the distinction
between the powers granted to the
Federal Government and those
reserved to the States or to the
people. All of us need to be
reminded that the Federal
Government did not create the
States; the States created the
Federal Government.” That’s a
fact Stewart and the current
administration should think about.
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SPENCER BACHUS AL 7 LUNGREN DAN LUNGREN ALLISON vs ELTON SCOTT FOLKENS JOE BACA COURTNEY vs JANET
TERRI SEWELL vs DON CA 4 CLINT CURTIS vs TOM GALLEGLY ELTON CA 44 BILL HENDRICK vs PECKINPAUGH JOE
CHAMBERLAIN TERRI McCLINTOCK TOM GALLEGLY CA 25 JACKIE KEN CALVERT KEN COURTNEY CT 3 ROSA
SEWELL McCLINTOCK CA 5 DORIS CONAWAY vs BUCK McKEON CALVERT CA 45 STEVE DeLAURO vs JERRY
Alaska ST CD DEM GOP MATSUI vs PAUL SMITH BUCK McKEON CA 26 RUSS POUGNET vs MARY BONO LABRIOLA ROSA DeLAURO
WINNER AK atL HARRY DORIS MATSUI CA 6 LYNN WARNER vs DAVID DREIER MACK MARY BONO MACK CT 4 JIM HIMES vs DAN
CRAWFORD vs DON YOUNG WOOLSEY vs JIM JUDD LYNN DAVID DREIER CA 27 BRAD CA 46 KEN ARNOLD vs DANA DEBICELLA DAN DEBICELLA
DON YOUNG WOOLSEY CA 7 GEORGE SHERMAN vs MARK REED ROHRABACHER D. CT 5 CHRIS MURPHY vs SAM
Arizona ST CD DEM GOP MILLER vs RICK TUBBS BRAD SHERMAN CA 28 ROHRABACHER CA 47 CALIGIURI SAM CALIGIURI
WINNER AZ 1 ANN GEORGE MILLER CA 8 HOWARD BERMAN vs LORETTA SANCHEZ vs VAN #page# Delaware ST CD DEM
KIRKPATRICK vs PAUL NANCY PELOSI vs JOHN MERLIN FROYD HOWARD TRAN VAN TRAN CA 48 GOP WINNER DE atL JOHN
GOSAR PAUL GOSAR AZ 2 DENNIS NANCY PELOSI CA 9 BERMAN CA 29 ADAM BETH KROM vs JOHN CARNEY vs GLEN
JOHN THRASHER vs TRENT BARBARA LEE vs GERALD SCHIFF vs JOHN COLBERT CAMPBELL JOHN CAMPBELL URQUHART JOHN CARNEY
FRANKS TRENT FRANKS AZ HASHIMOTO BARBARA LEE ADAM SCHIFF CA 30 HENRY CA 49 HOWARD KATZ vs Florida ST CD DEM GOP
3 JON HULBURD vs BEN CA 10 JOHN GARAMENDI vs WAXMAN vs CHARLES DARRELL ISSA DARRELL WINNER FL 1*no challenger*/
QUAYLE JON HULBURD AZ 4 GARY CLIFT JOHN WILKERSON HENRY ISSA CA 50 FRANCINE JEFF MILLER JEFF MILLER FL
ED PASTOR vs JANET GARAMENDI CA 11 JERRY WAXMAN CA 31 XAVIER BUSBY vs BRIAN BILBRAY 2 ALLEN BOYD vs STEVE
CONTRERAS ED PASTOR AZ McNERNEY vs DAVID BECERRA vs STEPHEN C. BRIAN BILBRAY CA 51 BOB SOUTHERLAND STEVE
5 HARRY MITCHELL vs HARMER DAVID HARMER SMITH XAVIER BECERRA CA FILNER vs NICK POPADITCH SOUTHERLAND FL 3
DAVID SCHWEIKERT DAVID CA 12 JACKIE SPEIER vs 32 JUDY CHU vs ED NICK POPADITCH CA 52 RAY CORRINE BROWN vs MIKE
SCHWEIKERT AZ 6 REBECCA MIKE MOLONEY JACKIE SCHMERLING JUDY CHU CA LUTZ vs DUNCAN HUNTER YOST CORRINE BROWN FL
SCHNEIDER vs JEFF FLAKE SPEIER CA 13 PETE STARK vs 33 KAREN BASS vs JAMES DUNCAN HUNTER CA 53 4*no challenger*/ ANDER
JEFF FLAKE AZ 7 RAUL FOREST BAKER PETE STARK ANDION KAREN BASS CA 34 SUSAN DAVIS vs MICHAEL CRENSHAW ANDER
GRIJALVA vs RUTH CA 14 ANNA ESHOO vs DAVE L. ROYBAL-ALLARD vs CRIMMINS SUSAN DAVIS CRENSHAW FL 5 JIM
McCLUNG RUTH McCLUNG CHAPMAN ANNA ESHOO CA WAYNE MILLER L. ROYBAL- Colorado ST CD DEM GOP PICCILLO vs RICK NUGENT
AZ 8 GABRIELLE GIFFORDS 15 MIKE HONDA vs SCOTT ALLARD CA 35 MAXINE WINNER CO 1 DIANA RICK NUGENT FL 6 STEVE
vs JESSE KELLY JESSE KIRKLAND MIKE HONDA CA WATERS vs BRUCE BROWN DeGETTE vs MIKE FALLON SCHONBERG vs CLIFF
KELLY 16 ZOE LOFGREN vs DAN MAXINE WATERS CA 36 DIANA DeGETTE CO 2 JARED STEARNS CLIFF STEARNS FL
Arkansas ST CD DEM GOP SAHAGUN ZOE LOFGREN CA JANE HARMAN vs MATTIE POLIS vs STEPHEN BAILEY 7 HEATHER BEAVEN vs JOHN
WINNER AR 1 CHAD CAUSEY 17 SAM FARR vs JEFF FEIN JANE HARMAN CA 37 JARED POLIS CO 3 JOHN MICA JOHN MICA FL 8 ALAN
vs RICK CRAWFORD RICK TAYLOR SAM FARR CA 18 LAURA RICHARDSON vs SALAZAR vs SCOTT TIPTON GRAYSON vs DAN WEBSTER
CRAWFORD AR 2 JOYCE DENNIS CARDOZA vs MIKE STAR PARKER LAURA SCOTT TIPTON CO 4 BETSY DAN WEBSTER FL 9 ANITA
ELLIOTT vs TIM GRIFFIN TIM BERRYHILL DENNIS RICHARDSON CA 38 GRACE MARKEY vs CORY GARDNER DePALMA vs GUS BILIRAKIS
GRIFFIN AR 3 DAVID CARDOZA CA 19 LORAINE NAPOLITANO vs ROBERT CORY GARDNER CO 5 KEVIN GUS BILIRAKIS FL 10
WHITAKER vs STEVE GOODWIN vs JEFF DENHAM V A U G H N G R A C E BRADLEY vs DOUG CHARLIE JUSTICE vs C. W.
WOMACK STEVE WOMACK JEFF DENHAM CA 20 JIM NAPOLITANO CA 39 LINDA LAMBORN DOUG LAMBORN BILL YOUNG C. W. BILL
AR 4 MIKE ROSS vs BETH COSTA vs ANDY VIDAK SANCHEZ vs LARRY ANDRE CO 6 JOHN FLERLAGE vs YOUNG FL 11 KATHY
ANNE RANKIN MIKE ROSS ANDY VIDAK CA 21*no LINDA SANCHEZ CA 40 MIKE COFFMAN MIKE CASTOR vs MIKE
California ST CD DEM GOP challenger*/ DEVIN NUNES CHRISTINA AVALOS vs ED COFFMAN CO 7 ED PRENDERGAST KATHY
WINNER CA 1 MIKE DEVIN NUNES CA 22*no ROYCE ED ROYCE CA 41 PAT PERLMUTTER vs RYAN CASTOR FL 12 LORI
THOMPSON vs LOREN challenger*/ KEVIN MEAGHER vs JERRY LEWIS FRAZIER RYAN FRAZIER EDWARDS vs DENNIS ROSS
HANKS MIKE THOMPSON CA McCARTHY KEVIN JERRY LEWIS CA 42 Connecticut ST CD DEM GOP DENNIS ROSS FL 13 JAMES
2 JIM REED vs WALLY McCARTHY CA 23 LOIS MICHAEL WILLIAMSON vs WINNER CT 1 JOHN LARSON GOLDEN vs VERN
HERGER WALLY HERGER CA CAPPS vs TOM WATSON LOIS GARY MILLER GARY vs ANN BRICKLEY JOHN 2010 page 68
3 AMI BERA vs DAN CAPPS CA 24 TIMOTHY MILLER CA 43 JOE BACA vs LARSON CT 2 JOE
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BUCHANAN FL 14 JAMES
ROACH vs CONNIE MACK
CONNIE MACK FL 15
SHANNON ROBERTS vs BILL
POSEY BILL POSEY FL 16 JIM
HORN vs TOM ROONEY TOM
ROONEY FL 17 FREDERICA
WILSON\*no challenger*
FREDERICA WILSON FL 18
ROLANDO BANCIELLA vs
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN
ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN FL
19 TED DEUTCH vs JOE BUDD
TED DEUTCH FL 20
WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ vs
HARRINGTON WASSERMAN-
SCHULTZ FL 21*no challenger*
vs MARIO DIAZ-BALART
MARIO DIAZ-BALART FL 22
RON KLEIN vs ALLEN WEST
ALLEN WEST FL 23 ALCEE
HASTINGS vs BERNARD
SANSARICQ ALCEE
HASTINGS FL 24 SUZANNE
KOSMAS vs SANDY ADAMS
SANDY ADAMS FL 25 JOE
GARCIA vs DAVID RIVERA
JOE GARCIA
Georgia ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER GA 1 OSCAR
HARRIS II vs JACK KINGSTON
JACK KINGSTON GA 2
SANFORD BISHOP vs MIKE
KEOWN MIKE KEOWN GA 3
FRANK SAUNDERS vs L.
WESTMORELAND L.
WESTMORELAND GA 4
HANK JOHNSON vs LIZ
CARTER HANK JOHNSON GA
5 JOHN LEWIS vs FENN
LITTLE JOHN LEWIS GA 6*no
challenger*/ THOMAS PRICE
THOMAS PRICE GA 7 DOUG
HECKMAN vs ROB WOODALL
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ROB WOODALL GA 8 JIM POLLAK JAN SCHAKOWSKY Iowa ST CD DEM GOP LANDRY JEFF LANDRY LA 4
MARSHALL vs AUSTIN IL 10 DAN SEALS vs ROBERT WINNER IA 1 BRUCE DAVID MELVILLE vs JOHN
SCOTT AUSTIN SCOTT GA DOLD DAN SEALS IL 11 BRALEY vs BEN LANGE FLEMING JOHN FLEMING LA
9*no challenger*/ TOM DEBBIE HALVORSON vs BRUCE BRALEY IA 2 DAVE 5*no challenger*/ RODNEY
GRAVES TOM GRAVES GA 10 ADAM KINZINGER ADAM LOEBSACK vs M. MILLER- ALEXANDER RODNEY
RUSS EDWARDS vs PAUL KINZINGER IL 12 JERRY MEEKS DAVE LOEBSACK IA ALEXANDER LA 6 MERRITT
BROUN JR PAUL BROUN Jr. COSTELLO vs TERI NEWMAN 3 LEONARD BOSWELL vs McDONALD vs BILL CASSIDY
GA 11*no challenger*/ PHIL JERRY COSTELLO IL 13 BRAD ZAUN LEONARD BILL CASSIDY LA 7*no
GINGREY PHIL GINGREY GA SCOTT HARPER vs JUDY BOSWELL IA 4 BILL MASKE challenger*/ C. BOUSTANY JR.
12 JOHN BARROW vs RAY BIGGERT JUDY BIGGERT IL vs TOM LATHAM TOM C. BOUSTANY JR.
McKINNEY JOHN BARROW 14 BILL FOSTER vs RANDY LATHAM IA 5 MATT Maine ST CD DEM GOP
GA 13 DAVID SCOTT vs MIKE HULTGREN RANDY CAMPBELL vs STEVE KING WINNER ME 1 CHELLIE
CRANE DAVID SCOTT HULTGREN IL 15 DAVID GILL STEVE KING PINGREE vs DEAN
Hawaii ST CD DEM GOP vs TIM JOHNSON TIM Kansas ST CD DEM GOP SCONTRAS DEAN SCONTRAS
WINNER HI 1 COLLEEN JOHNSON IL 16 GEORGE WINNER KS 1 ALAN JILKA vs ME 2 MIKE MICHAUD vs
HANABUSA vs CHARLES GAULRAPP vs DON TIM HUELSKAMP TIM JASON LEVESQUE MIKE
DJOU CHARLES DJOU HI 2 M A N Z U L L O D O N HUELSKAMP KS 2 CHERYL MICHAUD
MAZIE HIRONO vs JOHN MANZULLO IL 17 PHIL HARE HUDSPETH vs LYNN JENKINS Maryland ST CD DEM GOP
WILLOUGHBY MAZIE vs BOBBY SCHILLING BOBBY LYNN JENKINS KS 3 WINNER MD 1 FRANK
HIRONO SCHILLING IL 18 DEIRDRE STEPHENE MOORE vs KEVIN KRATOVIL vs ANDY HARRIS
Idaho ST CD DEM GOP HIRNER vs AARON SCHOCK YODER KEVIN YODER KS 4 ANDY HARRIS MD 2 D.
WINNER ID 1 WALT MINNICK AARON SCHOCK IL 19 TIM RAJ GOYLE vs MIKE POMPEO RUPPERSBERGER vs M.
vs RAUL LABRADOR WALT BAGWELL vs JOHN SHIMKUS MIKE POMPEO C A R D A R E L L I D .
MINNICK ID 2 MIKE JOHN SHIMKUS #page# Kentucky ST CD DEM RUPPERSBERGER MD 3 JOHN
CRAWFORD vs MIKE Indiana ST CD DEM GOP GOP WINNER KY 1 CHARLES SARBANES vs JIM WILHELM
SIMPSON MIKE SIMPSON WINNER IN 1 PETER HATCHETT vs EDWARD JOHN SARBANES MD 4
Illinois ST CD DEM GOP VISCLOSKY vs MARK LEYVA WHITFIELD ED WHITFIELD DONNA EDWARDS vs
WINNER IL 1 BOBBY RUSH vs PETER VISCLOSKY IN 2 JOE KY 2 ED MARKSBERRY vs ROBERT BROADUS DONNA
R. WARDINGLEY BOBBY DONNELLY vs JACKIE BRETT GUTHRIE BRETT EDWARDS MD 5 STENY
RUSH IL 2 JESSE JACKSON WALORSKI JOE DONNELLY GUTHRIE KY 3 JOHN HOYER vs CHARLES LOLLAR
JR. vs ISAAC HAYES JESSE IN 3 THOMAS HAYHURST vs YARMUTH vs TODD LALLY STENY HOYER MD 6
JACKSON Jr. IL 3 DANIEL MARLIN STUTZMAN MARLIN JOHN YARMUTH KY 4 JOHN ANDREW DUCK vs ROSCOE
LIPINSKI vs MIKE BENDAS STUTZMAN IN 4 DAVID WALTZ vs GEOFF DAVIS BARTLETT ROSCOE
DANIEL LIPINSKI IL 4 LUIS SANDERS vs TODD ROKITA GEOFF DAVIS KY 5 JIM BARTLETT MD 7 ELIJAH
GUTIERREZ vs ISRAEL TODD ROKITA IN 5 TIM HOLBERT vs HAL ROGERS CUMMINGS vs FRANK
VASQUEZ LUIS GUTIERREZ CRAWFORD vs DAN BURTON HAL ROGERS KY 6 BEN MIRABILE ELIJAH
IL 5 MIKE QUIGLEY vs DAVID DAN BURTON IN 6 BARRY CHANDLER vs ANDY BARR CUMMINGS MD 8 CHRIS VAN
RATOWITZ MIKE QUIGLEY WELSH vs MIKE PENCE MIKE BEN CHANDLER HOLLEN vs MIKE PHILLIPS
IL 6 BEN LOWE vs PETER PENCE IN 7 ANDRE CARSON Louisiana ST CD DEM GOP CHRIS VAN HOLLEN
ROSKAM PETER ROSKAM IL vs MARVIN SCOTT ANDRE WINNER LA 1 MYRON KATZ Massachusetts ST CD DEM GOP
7 DANNY DAVIS vs MARK CARSON IN 8 TRENT VAN vs STEVE SCALISE STEVE WINNER MA 1 JOHN OLVER
WEIMAN DANNY DAVIS IL 8 HAAFTEN vs LARRY SCALISE LA 2 CEDRIC vs BILL GUNN JOHN OLVER
MELISSA BEAN vs JOE BUCSHON LARRY BUCSHON RICHMOND vs ANH 'JOSEPH' MA 2 RICHARD NEAL vs TOM
WALSH MELISSA BEAN IL 9 IN 9 BARON HILL vs TODD CAO CEDRIC RICHMOND LA 2010 page 69
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3 JAMES McGOVERN vs LEVIN MI 13 HANSEN
MARTY LAMB JIM CLARKE vs JOHN HAULER
McGOVERN MA 4 BARNEY HANSEN CLARKE MI 14 JOHN
FRANK vs SEAN BIELAT CONYERS vs DON UKRAINEC
BARNEY FRANK MA 5 NIKI JOHN CONYERS MI 15 JOHN
TSONGAS vs JON GOLNIK DINGELL vs ROBERT STEELE
NIKI TSONGAS MA 6 JOHN JOHN DINGELL
TIERNEY vs BILL HUDAK Minnesota ST CD DEM GOP
JOHN TIERNEY MA 7 WINNER MN 1 TIM WALZ vs
EDWARD MARKEY vs GERRY RANDY DEMMER TIM WALZ
DEMBROWSKI EDWARD MN 2 SHELLEY MADORE vs
MARKEY MA 8 MICHAEL JOHN KLINE JOHN KLINE MN
CAPUANO\*no challenger* 3 JAMES MEFFERT vs ERIK
MICHAEL CAPUANO MA 9 PAULSEN ERIK PAULSEN MN
STEVE LYNCH vs VERN 4 BETTY McCOLLUM vs
HARRISON STEPHEN LYNCH TERESA COLLETT BETTY
MA 10 BILL KEATING vs JEFF McCOLLUM MN 5 KEITH
PERRY BILL KEATING ELLISON vs JOEL DEMOS
Michigan ST CD DEM GOP KEITH ELLISON MN 6
WINNER MI 1 GARY TARRYL LYNN CLARK vs
McDOWELL vs DAN MICHELE BACHMANN
BENISHEK DAN BENISHEK MICHELE BACHMANN MN 7
MI 2 FRED JOHNSON vs BILL COLLIN PETERSON vs LEE
HUIZENGA BILL HUIZENGA BYBERG COLLIN PETERSON
MI 3 PAT MILES vs JUSTIN MN 8 JAMES OBERSTAR vs
AMASH PAT MILES MI 4 CHIP CRAVAACK CHIP
JERRY CAMPBELL vs DAVE CRAVAACK
CAMP DAVE CAMP MI 5 Mississippi ST CD DEM GOP
DALE KILDEE vs JOHN WINNER MS 1 TRAVIS
KUPIEC DALE KILDEE MI 6 CHILDERS vs ALAN
DON COONEY vs FRED NUNNELEE ALAN
UPTON FRED UPTON MI 7 NUNNELEE MS 2 BENNIE
MARK SCHAUER vs TIM THOMPSON vs BILL MARCY
WALBERG MARK SCHAUER BENNIE THOMPSON MS 3
MI 8 LANCE ENDERLE vs JOEL GILL vs GREGG
MIKE ROGERS MIKE ROGERS HARPER GREGG HARPER MS
MI 9 GARY PETERS vs ROCKY 4 GENE TAYLOR vs STEVE
RACZKOWSKI ROCKY PALAZZO STEVE PALAZZO
RACZKOWSKI MI 10 HENRY Missouri ST CD DEM GOP
YANEZ vs CANDICE MILLER WINNER MO 1 LACY CLAY
CANDICE MILLER MI 11 JR. vs MARTIN BAKER LACY
NATALIE MOSHER vs THAD CLAY Jr. MO 2 ARTHUR
McCOTTER THAD McCOTTER LIEBER vs TODD AKIN TODD
MI 12 SANDY LEVIN vs AKIN MO 3 RUSS CARNAHAN
vs ED MARTIN ED MARTIN
MO 4 IKE SKELTON vs VICKY
HARTZLER VICKY
HARTZLER MO 5 EMANUEL
CLEAVER vs JACOB TURK
EMANUEL CLEAVER MO 6
CLINT HYLTON vs SAM
GRAVES SAM GRAVES MO 7
SCOTT ECKERSLEY vs BILLY
LONG BILLY LONG MO 8
TOMMY SOWERS vs JO ANN
EMERSON JO ANN EMERSON
MO 9*no challenger*/ BLAINE
LUETKEMEYER B.
LUETKEMEYER
Montana ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER MT atL DENNIS
McDONALD vs DENNY
REHBERG DENNY REHBERG
Nebraska ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER NE 1 IVY HARPER
(IND) vs JEFF FORTENBERRY
JEFF FORTENBERRY NE 2
THOMAS WHITE vs LEE
TERRY LEE TERRY NE 3
REBEKAH DAVIS vs ADRIAN
SMITH ADRIAN SMITH
#page# Nevada ST CD DEM
GOP WINNER NV 1 SHELLEY
BERKLEY vs KENNETH
WEGNER SHELLEY BERKLEY
NV 2 NANCY PRICE vs DEAN
HELLER DEAN HELLER NV 3
DINA TITUS vs JOE HECK JOE
HECK
New Hampshire ST CD DEM
GOP WINNER NH 1 CAROL
SHEA-PORTER vs FRANK
GUINTA FRANK GUINTA NH
2 ANN KUSTER vs CHARLIE
BASS ANN KUSTER
New Jersey ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER NJ 1 ROBERT
ANDREWS vs DALE GLADING
ROBERT ANDREWS NJ 2
GARY STEIN vs FRANK McCARTHY vs FRANCIS
LoBIONDO FRANK BECKER CAROLYN
LoBIONDO NJ 3 JOHN ADLER McCARTHY NY 5 GARY
vs JON RUNYAN JON ACKERMAN vs JAMES
RUNYAN NJ 4 H. MILANO GARY ACKERMAN
KLEINHENDLER vs CHRI S NY 6 GREGORY MEEKS vs
SMITH CHRIS SMITH NJ 5 ASHER TAUB GREGORY
TOD THEISE vs SCOTT MEEKS NY 7 JOSEPH
GARRETT SCOTT GARRETT CROWLEY vs KEN
NJ 6 FRANK PALLONE JR. vs REYNOLDS JOSEPH
ANNA LITTLE FRANK CROWLEY NY 8 JERRY
PALLONE JR. NJ 7 EDWARD NADLER vs SUSAN KONE
POTOSNAK III vs LEONARD JERRY NADLER NY 9
LANCE LEONARD LANCE NJ ANTHONY WEINER vs BOB
8 BILL PASCRELL vs ROLAND TURNER ANTHONY WEINER
STRATEN BILL PASCRELL NJ NY 10 EDOLPHUS TOWNS vs
9 STEVE ROTHMAN vs DIANA MUNIZ EDOLPHUS
MICHAEL AGOSTA STEVE TOWNS NY 11 YVETTE
ROTHMAN NJ 10 DONALD CLARKE vs HUGH CARR
PAYNE vs MICHAEL ALONSO YVETTE CLARKE NY 12
DONALD PAYNE NJ 11 NYDIA VELAZQUEZ\*no
DOUGLAS HERBERT vs R. challenger* NYDIA
FRELINGHUYSEN R. VELAZQUEZ NY 13 MICHAEL
FRELINGHUYSEN NJ 12 RUSH McMAHON vs MICHAEL
HOLT vs SCOTT SIPPRELLE GRIMM MICHAEL McMAHON
RUSH HOLT NJ 13 ALBIO NY 14 CAROLYN MALONEY
SIRES vs HENRIETTA DWYER vs DAVID BRUMBERG
ALBIO SIRES CAROLYN MALONEY NY 15
New Mexico ST CD DEM GOP CHARLES RANGEL vs
WINNER NM 1 MARTIN MICHEL FAULKNER CHARLE
HEINRICH vs JON BARELA RANGEL NY 16 JOSE
JON BARELA NM 2 HARRY SERRANO vs FRANK
TEAGUE vs STEVE PEARCE DELLAVALLE JOSE
STEVE PEARCE NM 3 BEN SERRANO NY 17 ELIOT
RAY LUJAN JR. vs TOM ENGEL vs ANTHONY MELE
MULLINS BEN RAY LUJAN ELIOT ENGEL NY 18 NITA
JR. LOWEY vs JIM RUSSELL NITA
New York ST CD DEM GOP LOWEY NY 19 JOHN HALL vs
WINNER NY 1 TIM BISHOP vs NAN HAYWORTH NAN
RANDY ALTSCHULER TIM HAYWORTH NY 20 SCOTT
BISHOP NY 2 STEVE ISRAEL MURPHY vs CHRIS GIBSON
vs JOHN GOMEZ STEVE CHRIS GIBSON NY 21 PAUL
ISRAEL NY 3 HOWARD TONKO vs TED DANZ PAUL
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TONKO NY 22 MAURICE HEATH SHULER NC 12
HINCHEY vs GEORGE MELVIN WATT vs GREG
PHILLIPS MAURICE DORITY MELVIN WATT NC
HINCHEY NY 23 BILL OWENS 13 BRAD MILLER vs BILL
vs MATT DOHENY MATT RANDALL BRAD MILLER
DOHENY NY 24 MICHAEL North Dakota ST CD DEM GOP
ARCURI vs RICHARD HANNA WINNER ND atL EARL
MICHAEL ARCURI NY 25 POMEROY vs RICK BERG
DAN MAFFEI vs ANN MARIE RICK BERG
BUERKLE DAN MAFFEI NY Ohio ST CD DEM GOP
26 PHILIP FEDELE vs WINNER OH 1 STEVE
CHRISTOPHER LEE DRIEHAUS vs STEVE
CHRISTOPHER LEE NY 27 CHABOT STEVE CHABOT OH
BRIAN HIGGINS vs LEONARD 2 SURYA YALAMANCHILI vs
ROBERTO BRIAN HIGGINS JEAN SCHMIDT JEAN
NY 28 LOUISE SLAUGHTER vs SCHMIDT OH 3 MARK
MICHAEL GIULIANO LOUISE MacNEALY vs MIKE TURNER
SLAUGHTER NY 29 MATT MIKE TURNER OH 4 DOUG
ZELLER vs TOM REED TOM LITT vs JIM JORDAN JIM
REED JORDAN OH 5 CALEB
North Carolina ST CD DEM FINKENBINER vs BOB LATTA
GOP WINNER NC 1 G.K. BOB LATTA OH 6 CHARLIE
BUTTERFIELD vs ASHLEY WILSON vs BILL JOHNSON
WOOLARD GK BUTTERFIELD BILL JOHNSON OH 7 BILL
NC 2 BOB ETHERIDGE vs CONNER vs STEVE AUSTRIA
RENEE ELLMERS RENEE STEVE AUSTRIA OH 8 JUSTIN
ELLMERS NC 3 JOHNNY COUSSOULE vs JOHN
ROUSE vs WALTER JONES, JR BOEHNER JOHN BOEHNER
WALTER JONES Jr. NC 4 OH 9 MARCY KAPTUR vs
DAVID PRICE vs BJ LAWSON RICH IOTT MARCY KAPTUR
DAVID PRICE NC 5 BILLY OH 10 DENNIS KUCINICH vs
KENNEDY vs VIRGINIA FOXX PETER CORRIGAN DENNIS
VIRGINIA FOXX NC 6 SAM KUCINICH OH 11 MARCIA
TURNER vs HOWARD COBLE FUDGE\*no challenger*
HOWARD COBLE NC 7 MIKE MARCIA FUDGE OH 12
McINTYRE vs ILARIO PAULA BROOKS vs PAT
PANTANO ILARIO PANTANO TIBERI PAT TIBERI OH 13
NC 8 LARRY KISSELL vs BETTY SUTTON vs TOM
HAROLD JOHNSON HAROLD GANLEY TOM GANLEY OH
JOHNSON NC 9 JEFF DOCTOR 14 BILL O'NEILL vs STEVE
vs SUE MYRICK SUE MYRICK LaTOURETTE STEVE
NC 10 JEFF GREGORY vs LaTOURETTE OH 15 MARY JO
PATRICK McHENRY PATRICK KILROY vs STEVE STIVERS
McHENRY NC 11 HEATH STEVE STIVERS OH 16 JOHN
SHULER vs JEFF MILLER BOCCIERI vs JIM RENACCI
JIM RENACCI OH 17 TIM
RYAN vs JIM GRAHAM TIM
RYAN OH 18 ZACK SPACE vs
BOB GIBBS ZACK SPACE
#page# Oklahoma ST CD DEM
GOP WINNER OK 1*no
challenger*/ JOHN SULLIVAN
JOHN SULLIVAN OK 2 DAN
BOREN vs CHARLES
THOMPSON DAN BOREN OK
3 FRANKIE ROBBINS vs
FRANK LUCAS FRANK
LUCAS OK 4*no challenger*/
TOM COLE TOM COLE OK 5
BILLY COYLE vs JAMES
LANKFORD JAMES
LANKFORD
Oregon ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER OR 1 DAVID WU vs
ROB CORNILLES DAVID WU
OR 2 JOYCE SEGERS vs GREG
WALDEN GREG WALDEN OR
3 EARL BLUMENAUER vs
DELIA LOPEZ EARL
BLUMENAUER OR 4 PETE
DeFAZIO vs ART ROBINSON
PETE DeFAZIO OR 5 KURT
SCHRADER vs SCOTT BRUUN
SCOTT BRUUN
Pennsylvania ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER PA 1 BOB
BRADY\*no challenger* BOB
BRADY PA 2 CHAKA FATTAH
vs RICK HELLBERG CHAKA
FATTAH PA 3 KATHY
DAHLKEMPER vs MIKE
KELLY MIKE KELLY PA 4
JASON ALTMIRE vs KEITH
ROTHFUS JASON ALTMIRE
PA 5 MICHAEL PIPE vs G.T.
THOMPSON GT THOMPSON
PA 6 MANAN TRIVEDI vs JIM
GERLACH JIM GERLACH PA 7
BRYAN LENTZ vs PATRICK
MEEHAN PATRICK MEEHAN
PA 8 PATRICK MURPHY vs
MIKE FITZPATRICK MIKE
FITZPATRICK PA 9*no
challenger*/ BILL SHUSTER
BILL SHUSTER PA 10 CHRIS
CARNEY vs THOMAS
MARINO THOMAS MARINO
PA 11 PAUL KANJORSKI vs
LOU BARLETTA LOU
BARLETTA PA 12 MARK
CRITZ vs TIM BURNS MARK
CRITZ PA 13 ALLYSON
SCHWARTZ vs DEE ADCOCK
ALLYSON SCHWARTZ PA 14
MIKE DOYLE vs M. A.
HALUSZCZAK MIKE DOYLE
PA 15 JOHN CALLAHAN vs
CHARLIE DENT CHARLIE
DENT PA 16 LOIS HERR vs
JOSEPH PITTS JOSEPH PITTS
PA 17 TIM HOLDEN vs DAVE
ARGALL TIM HOLDEN PA 18
DAN CONNOLLY vs TIM
MURPHY TIM MURPHY PA 19
RYAN SANDERS vs TODD
PLATTS TODD PLATTS
Rhode Island ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER RI 1 DAVID
CICILLINE vs JOHN
LOUGHLIN JOHN LOUGHLIN
RI 2 JAMES LANGEVIN vs
MARK ZACCARIA JAMES
LANGEVIN
South Carolina ST CD DEM
GOP WINNER SC 1 BEN
FRASIER vs TIM SCOTT TIM
SCOTT SC 2 ROB MILLER vs
JOE WILSON JOE WILSON SC
3 JANE BALLARD DYER vs
JEFF DUNCAN JEFF DUNCAN
SC 4 PAUL CORDEN vs TREY
GOWDY TREY GOWDY SC 5
JOHN SPRATT vs MICK
MULVANEY MICK
MULVANEY SC 6 JIM
CLYBURN vs JIM PRATT JIM
CLYBURN
South Dakota ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER SD atL S. HERSETH-
SANDLIN vs KRISTI NOEM
KRISTI NOEM
Tennessee ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER TN 1 MICHAEL
CLARK vs PHIL ROE PHIL
ROE TN 2 DAVE HANCOCK vs
JOHN DUNCAN JR. JOHN
DUNCAN JR. TN 3 JOHN
WOLFE vs CHUCK
FLEISCHMANN CHUCK
FLEISCHMANN TN 4
LINCOLN DAVIS vs SCOTT
DesJARLAIS SCOTT
DesJARLAIS TN 5 JIM
COOPER vs DAVID HALL JIM
COOPER TN 6 BRETT
CARTER vs DIANE BLACK
DIANE BLACK TN 7 GREG
RABIDOUX vs MARSHA
BLACKBURN MARSHA
BLACKBURN TN 8 ROY
HERRON vs STEPHEN
FINCHER STEPHEN FINCHER
TN 9 STEVE COHEN vs CHAR
BERGMANN STEVE COHEN
Texas ST CD DEM GOP
WINNER TX 1*no challenger*/
LOUIE GOHMERT LOUIE
GOHMERT TX 2*no challenger*
/ TED POE TED POE TX 3
JOHN LINGENFELDER vs
SAM JOHNSON SAM
JOHNSON TX 4 VaLINDA
HATHCOX vs RALPH HALL
RALPH HALL TX 5 TOM
BERRY vs JEB HENSARLING
JEB HENSARLING TX 6
DAVID COZAD vs JOE
BARTON JOE BARTON TX
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the state’s other races, Mike Scott to be the winner, as this is the edges, but he has an inspiring Nevada: Brian Sandoval, a GOP
Beebe will probably win the wrong year for Democrats to life story and commonsense rising star, will beat Harry Reid’s
If all goes as predicted below, the reelection by a comfortable count on lucky breaks. conservative values. son, Rory Reid, by an
Republicans will have eight more margin. Georgia: A lot of Republicans are #ad# Maryland: A lot of embarrassing margin. Like Snyder
governorships than they currently California: This is perhaps the worried about former Republicans surged in a lot of in Michigan, Sandoval will have
have. result I find most surprising and congressman Nathan Deal, and places this year, but Maryland his work cut out for him.
R epublicans always looked set to disappointing: Democrat Jerry this could easily go to a runoff (to was strangely immune. It’s not as New Hampshire: Republican
have a good year in governor’s Brown appears set to win by a avoid that, someone has to win 50 if the past four years under Martin John Stephen showed some signs
races; what’s fascinating is how healthy margin over Republican percent). Still, it’s hard to see O’Malley have been a great ride, of competitiveness after his
many of these races appear likely Meg Whitman. As one operative Georgia turning its back on but in these closing days, voters primary win, but the conditions in
to be GOP blowouts. Still, the told me, a lot of Californians are Republicans in such a GOP year; seem distinctly unpersuaded that this state apparently aren’t bad
ones that look likely to slip too young to remember Brown’s the state knows what it gets with Republican Robert Ehrlich would enough for voters to ditch
through Republicans’ fingers -- first go-around as governor, and former governor Roy Barnes, make their lives considerably incumbent Democrat John Lynch.
California, Massachusetts -- are h u n d r e d s o f t h o u s a n d s o f unceremoniously ejected in 2002. better. New Mexico: Remember the
going to sting because of their transplants lived elsewhere during Hawaii: Some polls have Massachusetts: David Axelrod’s name Susana Martinez, as this
symbolic value. that time. Also, the late 1970s and indicated that Republican Duke second-most-famous client, tough Republican district attorney
Still, if all goes as predicted early 1980s look like the Good Aiona is giving former Democratic governor Deval will quickly become a rising star
below, the Republicans will have Old Days in the Golden State; congressman Neil Abercrombie a Patrick, hangs on, mostly because and probably get briefly
eight more governorships than there’s actually some nostalgia for much tougher race than expected, the anti-incumbent vote is split. considered as the 2012 GOP
they currently have. Some of them t h e J e r r y B r o w n y e a r s . but in the end, Abercrombie Watch for Democrats to talk up running mate.
will be in key swing states: Ohio, Californians have forgotten that probably has enough respect and third-party options in the 2012 New York: Democrat Andrew
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and he was managing what Ronald habitual Democratic voters to presidential contest. Cuomo will win easily. Having
Michigan. Others will Reagan built -- and win. Michigan: Democrat Jennifer failed to persuade New Yorkers to
demonstrate the GOP’s ability to Schwarzenegger has not laid Idaho: Republican Butch Otter, Granholm left her state in a clean up Albany with a baseball
win statewide in traditionally blue comparable groundwork, to say perhaps the best name in politics, condition about one step above bat, unorthodox Republican
states such as Maine, New the least. will win a second term easily. “post-apocalyptic wasteland.” nominee Carl Paladino will
Mexico, and Oregon. Colorado: If Tom Tancredo is the Illinois: Republican Bill Brady Republican and self-described announce a new ambition: to
# a d # A l a b a m a : R e p u b l i c a n next governor of Colorado, I owe will defeat Democrat Pat Quinn in “tough nerd” Rick Snyder begins become cleanup hitter for the
Robert Bentley is heavily favored Number-Cruncher a steak at a very satisfying win for the GOP; the long, hard work of rebuilding New York Yankees using only a
over Democrat Ron Sparks, and Ruth’s Chris. I think Tancredo they now have an enormous the state’s economy. mop.
there is little sign of any potential will come close, but fall short of opportunity to prove that they can Minnesota: Another one of those Ohio: This one is deeply
for a massive upset. Democrat John Hickenlooper. govern more effectively than the odd three-way races, this one satisfying: Incumbent Democrat
Alaska: Suddenly promoted when Connecticut: Republican Tom party of Rod Blagojevich. between Republican Tom Emmer, Ted Strickland, who insisted that
Sarah Palin resigned, Republican Foley, a strong candidate with an #page# Iowa: Former governor Democrat (Farm-Labor) Mark the state’s economy wasn’t
Sean Parnell will get a full term of unfortunate name, is making a Terry Branstad will beat current Dayton, and independent Tom creating enough jobs in 2006 and
his own. strong push, but Democrat Dan governor Chet Culver by a wide Horner. Dayton has led all of the promised to change that, will be
Arizona: Two years ago, Jan Malloy will probably hang on in margin. polling in October by a small tossed to the curb over high
Brewer was the little-known what remains a pretty deeply blue Kansas: Onetime presidential margin. An upset win by Emmer unemployment today. John
Arizona secretary of state. Today, state. candidate Sam Brownback will wouldn’t be shocking, but in the Kasich will be one of the
she is known for her deeply held Florida: The polls say Democrat win easily. end, Dayton will probably pull out country’s most economically
opposition to illegal immigration, Alex Sink has a very narrow Maine: A wild, hard-fought four- enough Democratic votes. savvy governors.
and she will win a full term. advantage, but the early vote says way race will end with Nebraska: Republican Dave Oklahoma: Republican Mary
Arkansas: While Republicans are Republicans are having a monster Republican Paul LePage as the Heineman will win reelection by a
drubbing Democrats in most of year in this state. Expect Rick winner; he’s a little rough around wide margin. ELECTION page 78
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argue that my prediction that the about GOP chances in wouldn’t surprise me. But the safe seats behaving as if they’re
Republicans will win almost Connecticut for a while, but it Democratic incumbents have been worried. Maybe the Show Me
These picks are for entertainment every competitive House race in sounds like here, as in many hanging on in the few polls I’ve State will show us all a huge
purposes only. the Grand Canyon State is too places, the Democrats elected in seen. upset.
T he Republicans’ efforts in the optimistic, but its voters watched 2006 and 2008 as moderates are #ad# Maine: Dean Scontras may New Hampshire: For much of the
House have been pretty amazing Democratic lawmakers stand and now seen as too liberal for their seem like an upset pick, but he year, I figured Charlie Bass was a
this year. They’ve put up good applaud the president of Mexico districts, even if those districts do appears to have real momentum. near shoo-in. Yet I’m told his
fights against all the Democrats as he denounced the state in the lean Democrat. Massachusetts: Oh, how I would campaign has been a little
they could plausibly hope to oust: U.S. House of Representatives. Florida: If early voting is any love to predict a GOP win by unfocused and lackluster. The
almost all of those who won in Arizonans can’t send a message to indicator, Florida Democrats are Sean Bielat or Jeff Perry. GOP wave could very well sweep
2006 and 2008, almost all of the W a s h i n g t o n b y r e e l e c t i n g about to get massacred. Notice my Unfortunately, GOP sources both him in anyway, but I figure this is
Blue Dogs, almost all of the how- Democrats, and I think they know caution in predicting a in Washington and up in again one of those handful of
does-he-win-that-seat stalwarts that. Democratic takeover in FL-25. Massachusetts are more bearish races where things just go wrong
(John Spratt, Chet Edwards, Gene Also, for a variety of reasons, Georgia: I wouldn’t be stunned to about both races. A lot of for Republicans.
Taylor, Ike Skelton), almost all of Ben Quayle seems like the wrong see John Barrow go down in GA- Democrats will survive their New Jersey: A lot of readers
those vying for open seats, and candidate to run in this cycle -- 12, either. toughest challenges ever this year, want to see an Anna Little win,
even a few solid incumbents such too young, too associated with Hawaii: Perhaps I’m a wee bit but I have a hard time picturing a and I have little doubt she’ll give
as Phil Hare, John Hall, Bob past Washington Republicans, too optimistic to predict Djou’s chastened, modest Barney Frank. Frank Pallone the toughest
Etheridge, and Jim Oberstar. few serious accomplishments in reelection, but it’s not like any Michigan: I probably could easily challenge of his career. But it’s a
You can see my predictions here. the district. polls have put Hanabusa up by a justify more GOP wins, as the heavily Democratic district.
In the House, the projection is for Arkansas: The number of wide margin. governor’s race looks like a Neither he nor Rush Holt is quite
the GOP to gain 70 seats: The Arkansas Democrats continues to Idaho: Raul Labrador should win, landslide and no Democrat as disdained by New Jersey voters
GOP will win 76 House districts dwindle. considering how heavily incumbent can say, “Look at how as Corzine was last year.
currently held by Democrats, and California: I’m probably a little Republican the district is, but wonderful your life is because of New York: I’m really
the Democrats will win 6 House optimistic here, considering that Minnick hasn’t given him many me!” But it’s hard to get wildly conservative, meaning cautious,
s e a t s c u r r e n t l y h e l d b y the statewide races have turned votes to run against. optimistic about Michigan. here. I wouldn’t be surprised to
Republicans, including a few gloomy for Republicans and the Illinois: It’s looking like a big Minnesota: I know some see wins by Altschuler, Becker,
surprises. Republican takeovers marijuana initiative should bring rebound year for a once-dormant Minnesota Republicans are really Grimm, Phillips, or Buerkle. But
are in red; Democratic takeovers out young voters. But I suspect Illinois Republican party. optimistic, seeing a lot more wins it’s New York, the top of the
are in dark blue. that the high unemployment and Remember who was predicting than I predict here. I won’t ticket has been a disaster, and
#ad#I can hear it now: “Jim’s miserable housing-bubble fallout Phil Hare’s defeat back in May. pretend to fully understand a state knocking off a Democrat in this
been gargling with Maker’s Mark means Californians will want to #page# Indiana: I’m surprised to that elected Al Franken over region just isn’t easy, even when
again.” But I actually played it take out their frustration on some be predicting Joe Donnelly over Norm Coleman. the national mood is on the GOP’s
fairly safe on this list. I predicted i n c u m b e n t s , a n d s o a f e w Jackie Walorski, but Donnelly has Mississippi: Across the South, side.
no GOP takeovers in states where Democratic lawmakers (in not led most polls and has self-proclaimed “conservative North Carolina: After seeing
the early voting looks pretty terribly Democratic districts) aggressively distanced himself Democrats” will be replaced with Renee Ellmers leap ahead of Bob
“meh,” such as West Virginia or make likely targets. from the administration. This is actual conservative Republicans, Etheridge, I’m starting to wonder
Iowa. (Thanks to Scott Elliott at Colorado: There are a lot of one of my “things just go wrong and that’s especially in evidence if Shuler hangs on, but I figure at
www.electionprojection.com and states where the electorate can be sometimes” picks. here. least one endangered North
Rare Jazz Congress for compiling persuaded to vote for Democrats Iowa: The early-voting numbers Missouri: Weird rumblings Carolina Democrat is left
the tables.) but cannot be persuaded to vote are pretty “meh” for Republicans. coming out of this state -- all standing.
Here are some notes on the for liberals, and Colorado seems Kentucky: I really like Andy vague and anecdotal, but Ohio: Believe it or not, this is
numbers: like one of those. Barr, and Todd Lally is coming interesting. Readers say they’re
Arizona: Perhaps someone will Connecticut: I’ve been wary on strong, and a win by either seeing Democrats in traditionally ELECTION page 80
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Our liberal hero faces down the
evil Tea Party undead hordes.
S o there we were, hunkered
down in Hallandale last night, like
one of those bands of early
Christians hiding out in the
catacombs and staring into the
darkness, hoping against hope not
to see torchlight coming through
the gloom because that kind of
change was just simply not good
for children, atheists, and other
living things. Luckily, within our
blacked-out lair in Lanskyland, all
was silent, if not calm.
“They’re not coming,” said my
father, the sainted “Che” Kahane.
“They wouldn’t dare.”
“They’re feeling pretty bold these
days,” demurred my Uncle Joe.
“Fresh, even.”
#ad#“You’ve been watching too
much Fox News lately, Uncle
Joe,” I said. “You’re starting to
sound like Bill O’Reilly.”
Uncle Joe recoiled like a vampire
from a crucifix. “Shame on you!”
he shouted. “You should know
better than ever to utter that name
in my presence. Ted Baxter, now
that’s okay. But the world’s worst
worstest person -- never.”
“Quiet,” ordered Che. “You’ll
wake the dead or, even worse,
Glenn Beck.” He turned to me.
“David, peek out the window and
see what you can see.”
“Sure, Pop,” I said, and began
prising some of the nails out of
the board my uncle had nailed
across the picture window to
prevent the assault he was sure
was heading our way before the
coming of the new dawn.
“Nothing yet, Pop,” I said with as
much cheer in my voice as I could
muster. Wait a minute -- was that
. . . ? No, it couldn’t be. . . . I
decided to keep my mouth shut.
My eyes traveled to the sacred
portraits above the mantel,
flickering by the light of a lone
votive candle: Lenin,
Dzerzhinsky, Armand Hammer,
and the upturned visage of the
Emperor Barack Hussein Obama
II, Lord of the Flies and Protector
of the Holy Cities of Honolulu
and Chicago. For a brief moment
I felt better about life. Then I
remembered where I was, and
what night this was.
Uncle Joe’s plangent voice -- a
fine if somewhat wobbly baritone;
you should hear him sing “Joe
Hill”-- once again broke the
silence. “Was it only two short
years ago that the oceans stopped
advancing and the earth began to
heal? When we finally defeated
Bushiburton & Co., restored
honor to Amerikkka, sent the
deficit soaring into the
compassionate trillions, devalued
the currency to egalitarian banana
-republic levels, humbly bowed to
various princes and potentates,
and mooched expensive vacations
and trips abroad from the
taxpaying suckers? When BO 2
had ascended to Woodrow
Wilson’s throne and admonished
his subjects to become worthy of
him? And now look at us -- holed
up here like the original cast of
Night of the Living Dead. Why do
they hate us? Why? Why?”
I hated to see a grown man cry.
“Look on the bright side, Uncle
Joe,” I said. “BHO the Second is
still going to be president for
another two years. Just think of all
the progressive mischief we can
get up to. Hell’s bells, imagine
what our lame-duck Congress can
perpetrate from Wednesday to
January if only we can keep our
spirits up!”
At the word “spirits,” my dad
trembled a little. “This is how I
felt the night before Reagan-
Carter,” he whispered softly,
dredging up old memories.
“Before Reagan-Mondale. Before
the Carnera–Max Baer fight. And
I had them all, plus points!”
“Dad,” I said, “you weren’t even
born in 1934.”
“Yeah, but with my luck I would
have laid a bundle on Carnera,”
he said. “I’m telling you, David,
as they say in one of your crappy
movies, I’ve got a bad feeling
about this. Look out the window
again.”
I peeked out once more. This
time there was no mistake:
Something was moving out there
in the night. Something wicked,
this way coming. Now I knew
how Macbeth felt watching
Birnam Wood approach him like
a red-bearded Grim Reaper. But I
chose to remain silent.
#page#“And after all we’ve done
for these bastards,” said Che.
“After we put our bodies on the
line with Mario Savio in
Berkeley, battled the pigs to a
standstill in Chicago when
Hussein was still in Indonesia,
learning to recite the Koran -- ”
“That would be the Holy Koran,”
interjected Uncle Joe.
“ -- when we were throwing rocks
at pigs with guns at Kent State,
when the Church Commission
eviscerated the evil CIA -- ”
#ad#“Now, thankfully, on our
side,” said Uncle Joe.
“ -- when we transformed Mr.
Sixteen Weeks into John F. Kerry,
War Hero -- ”
“A real patriot, that Winter
Soldier,” mused Uncle Joe.
“ -- and this is the thanks we get?”
Che was practically shouting now,
and for one brief shining moment,
I could see him as he must have
been back in the day, chanting
“Hey, hey, Tricky Dick, how
many kids did you kill today?” or
some such.
At that moment there came a
pounding on the door, as if the
Commendatore had just shown
up, hungry for Don Giovanni’s
soul. I didn’t have to glance out
the window because I already
knew who was at the door. “Um,
guys,” I said, “I think you’d better
steel yourselves.” I’m telling you,
it was nightmare right here on
South Federal Highway, and I
found myself wishing I was at our
country house on Sunny Isles
Beach.
Suddenly, Uncle Joe began to
laugh maniacally. “Blessed Gaia!”
he screamed. “What fools we are!
It’s not the end of the world. It’s
not the jackbooted thugs of the
Tea Party coming to slash our
Medicare and terminate our Social
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Security. No!! It’s . . . it’s . . .”
Bravely, Che strode boldly to the
front door. In one hand he held his
draft card; in the other, the old
Zippo lighter he still used to light
his doobies. “Stand back!” he
shouted at the enemies just
beyond the pale. “Or I won’t
serve!!” I was so proud of him.
The door swung open . . . and
there stood an army. Not of, you
know, real red-blooded all-
American men. Even worse --
real, red-blooded all-American
women. Yes, friends, it was a sea
of Sarah Palins, Michele
Bachmanns, Sharron Angles,
Christine O’Donnells, Linda
McMahons, and a host of others
even I didn’t recognize, trailing
from our front door, down the
stoop, into the driveway, and out
into the road. As far as the eye
could see, female after wingnut
female, each one more gorgeous
and sexually threatening than the
next. An army of succubi,
assembled to drain our precious
bodily fluids, our purity of
essence, our . . . heck, you’ve seen
the movie and I didn’t even write
it.
“Trick or treat!” shouted the lead
Palin.
Uncle Joe fell to his knees.
“Zinoviev be praised!” he
shouted. “It’s only Halloween!”
The army of patriotically
malevolent fembots surged
forward, and now I could see
what they were holding in their
hands -- copies of the most evil,
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The CIFTA Enthusiasm Gap
Theodore Bromund (The
Foundry: Conservative Policy
News.)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:00:51 PM
In a “no news is news” story, The
Washington Post reports that, in
spite of nominal support from
President Obama in April 2009,
neither Senate Democrats nor the
White House is enthusiastic about
seeking ratification of the CIFTA
treaty. That is good news.
CIFTA is the Spanish acronym
for the Inter-American
Convention Against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking
in Firearms, Ammunition,
Explosives, and Other Related
Materials. Negotiated under the
auspices of the Organization of
American States, it was signed by
President Clinton in 1997, but it
has not yet received the advice
and consent of the Senate. And it
appears that that is not going to
change soon.
The Post story, written by Mary
Beth Sheridan, is heavily slanted
in favor of the treaty, leaving the
reader with the impression that
CIFTA is a sensible treaty that has
unfortunately been stalled for
reasons of domestic
politics—specifically, the Senate
race in Nevada. Undeniably,
domestic politics have shaped the
ratification process: that is how
things work in a democracy. But
most of the Post’s claims, and
those of the treaty’s supporters,
are seriously flawed.
According to the Post, “the U.S.
government already complies
with the treaty’s provisions. No
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U.S. laws would have to change, would have to be accompanied by
officials say.” It’s amazing how implementing legislation: it would
these claims escalate. Back in be that legislation, not CIFTA
August, Ann K. Ganzer, Acting itself, that would make currently
Deputy Assistant Secretary for lawful actions unlawful. But for
Threat Reduction, Export Koh to imply that U.S. domestic
Controls, and Negotiations, law would trump the clear
claimed that the U.S. was already meaning of the treaty is hilarious,
“in compliance with the as Koh is perhaps the U.S.’s most
Convention implementing many distinguished critic of national
of its commitments.” Now, the sovereignty and exponent of
Post tells us that the treaty is transnational progressivism as a
merely “symbolically important,” legal philosophy. Indeed, in 2002,
and that it would change nothing he explicitly praised CIFTA in a
in the U.S. law review article as “the best
The Post reports that “thousands model” on the grounds that it
of U.S. weapons have been sent requires states “to standardize
illegally south of the border in national laws,” that “the only
June 19, 2009, it “is impossible to Then, inevitably, comes the claim
recent years—although gun-rights meaningful mechanism to
know how many firearms are that the treaty would not have any
groups say that there’s no regulate illicit transfers is stronger
illegally trafficked into Mexico in effect inside the U.S.: the Post
evidence they make up the bulk of domestic regulation,” and that
a given year.” It is therefore quotes Harold Koh, the State
[drug] cartels’ arsenals.” The way “supply-side control measures
impossible to know what share of Department’s Legal Adviser, as
the Post puts it implies that the within the United States” were
those firearms is of U.S. origin. saying “If . . . actions are lawful
“gun-rights groups” are just essential. Koh’s own argument
The Post quotes Jonathan Winer, under U.S. domestic law, CIFTA
making things up. Actually, it’s from 2002 contradicts his latest
the chief U.S. negotiator of doesn’t make them unlawful.” But
the treaty’s supporters who are statement.
CIFTA, who states that, under the treaty prohibits the
fabulating. The statistical support Finally, there is another standard
CIFTA, “you can’t sell a weapon “unlicensed manufacture or
for CIFTA comes from an oft- claim: that the U.S. needs to ratify
to a country where it’s not legal. assembly or firearms,
misquoted GAO report, which the treaty in order to demonstrate
How controversial is that?” That ammunition, explosives, and other
found that, of the guns seized in its good faith. As one treaty
is not controversial, but it is also related materials,” and it defines
Mexico and given to the ATF for supporter puts it, “It’s pretty hard
not accurate. To quote the treaty, “related materials” as “any
tracing from 2004 through 2008, for us to ask countries to
one of its purposes is to “prevent, component, part, or replacement
approximately 87 percent cooperate with us on an issue
combat, and eradicate the illicit part of a firearm, or an accessory
originated in the U.S. [arms trafficking] in which we
manufacturing of and trafficking which can be attached to a
But this number says nothing haven’t ratified a key inter-
in firearms, ammunition, firearm.” In short, the treaty
about the percentage of guns American convention.” That will
explosives, and other related defines manufacturing and
seized in Mexico that originated come as a surprise to the State
materials.” In other words, one of assembly very broadly, and
in the U.S., because the U.S. does Department, which already
the (purported) purposes of the requires the creation of a domestic
not trace the majority of guns operates a wide range of bilateral
treaty is to stop a cross-border licensing system to cover these
seized in Mexico. As Jess T. Ford, programs in the Western
activity that is already illegal: activities. That would definitely
Director of International Affairs Hemisphere that confront the
arms trafficking. It has nothing to change existing U.S. law.
and Trade at the GAO, testified problems that the convention
do with ending cross-border sales What Koh may mean is that, in
before the House Subcommittee
that would be legal were it not for order for it to have domestic CIFTA page 81
on the Western Hemisphere on
the laws of the recipient country. effect, the ratified CIFTA treaty
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The Jaczko Fiasco
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 11:00:47 AM
Controversy continues to grow
around Nuclear Regulatory
Commission Chairman Gregory
Jaczko’s unilateral decision to
order the NRC staff to stop its
work on Yucca Mountain. The
chairman defended his actions in
a letter to the editor published by
Energy Daily last week
(subscription required). He
suggested that he was authorized
to stop work on Yucca by the
2011 budget. Never mind that the
budget was never passed. The
Chairman simply states that: “the
administrative actions the agency
has taken are simply a matter of
efficient resource management
and good government.”
Despite the effort, the
Chairman’s letter only
underscored the weakness of his
rationale, which has launched a
flurry of responses.
The first one came from former
DOE official, Lake Barrett, who
points out that the Chairman’s
actions would ensure that the
results of the NRC’s work on
Yucca, which was scheduled for
release this month would never be
published : He asked:
When in the name of good
government does it make any
sense to suppress the publication
of the results of the NRC staff
review of the Yucca Mountain
license application? Rather, it
would seem that in the name of
good government, transparency
and openness and scientific
integrity, the public’s interest
would be best served by
publishing the results of the NRC
staff technical review.
And today Energy Daily
published two responses to the
Chairman. First, Dr. Dale Klein,
Jaczko’s predecessor as NRC
Chairman responded with a
commentary that debunked
Chairman Jaczko’s argument that
the not-passed 2011 budget
authorized his order. Dr. Klein
points out that there were only
three commissioners when the
2011 budget was development: he
(then chairman), current
commissioner Kristine Svinicki,
and now-Chairman Jaczko and
that Commissioner Svinicki has
already publicly disagreed with
the Chairman’s actions. Hence:
It is not appropriate for Chairman
Jazcko to continue to rationalize
his actions as being consistent
with the commission’s FY 2011
budget guidance. Doing so
implies that I and Commissioner
Svinicki are complicit in
authorizing his actions, and that is
clearly not the case.
Today’s Energy Daily also
included a letter to the editor from
Heritage Foundation research
fellow in nuclear energy policy,
Jack Spencer who argues that the
budget likely would have
excluded the President’s Yucca
policy “given the vociferous,
bipartisan support for Yucca.”
Spencer goes on to point out that
the Chairman’s decision not only
relies on a budget that never
passed but also: “ignores the fact
that the NRC’s own Atomic
Licensing and Safety Board agree
unanimously that the Department
of Energy lack the authority to
withdraw its Yucca application.”
Even a new member of the
current commission is publicly
disagreeing with Jaczko. On
October 6, NRC Commissioner
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William Ostendorf wrote a memo
to his fellow commissioners
stating his opposition to the
Chairman’s policy. His position
was reiterated on October 27 in
response to a request for
Congressman Doc Hastings that
(R-WA) where he summed his
opposition as:
I disagree with Chairman
Jaczko’s decision to transition to
close out the NRC’s High-Level
Waste Repository program, and I
have voiced this disagreement to
the Chairman, my other
colleagues on the Commission,
and the NRC staff. I endorse your
view that the actions taken
contravene the intent of the
President’s directive on openness
and transparency.
The result of the Jaczko fiasco is
unfortunately a weaker Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, which is
supposed to be an independent
regulatory body. And despite
commissioners that are politically
appointed, once seated, the NRC
has traditionally operated
professionally and apolitically.
But the actions of Chairman
Jaczko undermine that heritage.
The fact is that a lot of
controversy and uncertainty
currently surround Yucca. Most
notably, the NRC’s Atomic Safety
and Licensing board ruled that the
Department of Energy did not
have the authority to withdraw its
Yucca application and courts are
still considering the legality of the
same issue. The nation needs a
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The Reforms Rhee Leaves Behind
Jennifer Marshall (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 11/1/2010 10:00:55 AM
Posted November 1st, 2010 at
11:00am in Education Print This
Post
Michelle Rhee’s tenure as D.C.
Schools Chancellor ends Monday.
In Saturday’s Wall Street Journal,
she and Mayor Adrian Fenty
published an “ Education
Manifesto” summarizing their
reform legacy and the
breakthrough they hope it
represents for other troubled
school systems.
Their rallying cry: Education
policy should serve the needs of
children, not the demands of
adults.
That conviction brought Rhee
into direct conflict with the
Washington Teachers’ Union as
she sought to revive one of the
worst school districts in the
nation. Despite spending $18,000
annually per pupil, D.C. public
schools have some of the lowest
test scores in the nation, fewer
than 50 percent of students
graduate on time, and almost one
in eight students have been
threatened with a weapon.
Rhee focused particularly on
union demands, such as tenure,
that compete with students’
interests. In 2008, she brought a
bold new proposal to the
bargaining table during the
district’s teacher contract
renegotiation. It offered teachers
significant pay raises if they
would forego tenure and agree to
compensation based on their
performance.
“At first, union leadership was
dead-set against it and simply
refused to allow their members to
vote,” write Rhee and Fenty. The
clash lasted more than two years.
But when teachers eventually did
get a say, they voted
overwhelmingly for a new
contract.
Rhee and Fenty describe the
contract’s key provisions as a
model for other cities to put
students first:
• “It rewards great teachers who
accept a higher level of
accountability with some of the
highest teacher pay in the
nation—up to twice as much as
they were previously making.
• “No longer do educators have a
job guarantee for life. Ineffective
teachers are immediately
dismissed from the system.
Minimally effective teachers do
not receive a pay step increase
and have one year to improve
their performance. If that doesn’t
happen, they are subject to
termination.
• “If layoffs are necessary, the
decisions about whom to dismiss
are based on quality and
performance instead of seniority.
• “We also instituted a
comprehensive system for
evaluating teachers, including
growth in student achievement as
measured by standardized tests
(so that teachers who take on the
toughest students aren’t unfairly
penalized), observation of their
classroom practices and
assessment of their contributions
to the school community.”
While D.C. public education has
a long way to go (which is one
reason students need private
school choice now), Rhee’s
contract reform has set the right
course.
Moreover, during Rhee’s four-
year tenure, D.C. gets the “Most
Improved” award:
The improved achievement of
our secondary students was
unprecedented in D.C.’s history
and unparalleled anywhere in the
country, with an uptick of 14
points in reading and 17 points in
math in three short years. SAT
scores of District students are also
rising: up 27 points this year, on
average, with a 40-point jump for
African-American students and a
54-point jump for male students.
D.C. students have benefited
from a tough-minded reformer.
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Now other struggling districts
need similar leaders who will
tackle the bureaucratic bloat and
look beyond spending increases
for real solutions to educational
stagnation.
Since the 1960s, per-pupil federal
education expenditures have more
than tripled(adjusting for
inflation). Non-teaching staff has
increased 83 percent since 1970,
while the student population has
grown only 7 percent. Meanwhile,
student achievement has
languished and the graduation rate
has hovered around 75 percent.
Resources aren’t lacking. The
problem is getting money to the
classroom level and to hard-
working teachers who can make a
real difference for individual
students. Leaders who can stand
up to the unions and cut through
the red tape to accomplish this,
like Rhee, will make a lasting
difference for American
education.
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Terror by Mail
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/31/2010 11:45:56 PM
It was yet another jihad plot
against targets in the United
States: the bombs, sent from
Yemen via UPS, were powerful
enough to bring down a cargo
airplane. They were addressed to
a synagogue in Chicago. Yemeni
authorities arrested a twenty-two-
year-old female computer
engineering student, Hanan al-
Samawi, whose telephone number
appeared on one of the UPS
forms, and then released her
without charge after other
students protested her arrest.
Further investigations centered on
language schools in Yemen, but
as of Sunday evening there were
no further arrests. That’s
essentially all we know so far, but
the plot in itself reveals a great
deal about the nature of the jihad
we’re facing.
First, the target: Rabbi Michael
R. Zedek of Emanuel
Congregation in Chicago said that
he had been told that four bombs
had been sent to synagogues in
Chicago. Zedek had the
impression that his Emanuel
Congregation was not the
jihadists’ specific target, but
rather that they had meant to
bomb Congregation Or Chadash,
a gay-and-lesbian oriented
synagogue sharing an address
with Emanuel.
Rabbi Larry Edwards of
Congregation Or Chadash was
mystified as to how his synagogue
ended up being targeted by
Islamic jihadists in Yemen and,
apparently, Egypt: someone there
recently visited Emanuel
Congregation’s website 83 times
in a single day. “We’re rather
puzzled,” Edwards said, “at how a
little congregation like ours would
get on the radar as a target for
somebody. I’m hoping for more
information.” Noting the
numerous and suspicious website
visits from Egypt, Zedek said: “I
think we’re interesting, but not
that interesting.”
Ah, but they are that interesting
to Islamic jihadists. It is important
in this connection to recall that the
primary target in the November
2008 jihad attacks in Mumbai, in
which jihadists murdered 173
people, the primary target was not
Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace &
Tower hotel or the Cama
Hospital, where some of the
attacks occurred. Rather, it was
Nariman House, a small Jewish
center in Mumbai. Journalist
Somendra Sharma of India’s
DNA (Daily News & Analysis)
reported in January 2009 that “the
terrorists themselves were in no
doubt that Nariman House was
the prime focus.” Jihad terrorist
Mohammed Amir Iman Ajmal
(a.k.a. Kasab), noted Sharma,
“reportedly told the police they
wanted to sent a message to Jews
across the world by attacking the
synagogue.”
The Mumbai jihad plotters spent
most of their planning time
making sure that the murders at
Nariman House would go off
without a hitch.“The Nariman
House operation has to be a
success,” said Ajmal. Sharma
added that according to Ajmal’s
statements, “as far as Nariman
House was concerned, there
should not be even a minimal
glitch in finding it and capturing
it.” Another jihadist involved in
this attack explained that he had
been warned by operatives of the
Pakistani jihadist group Lashkar-e
-Taiba (Army of the Righteous)
“that Nariman House was their
most secret operation and must
not be compromised at any cost.”
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Sanity Is Not an Option continued from page 75

strong, independent commission that courts continue to review

Rich Trzupek (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage) to provide stability and sureness cases that would answer the same
of thought. That is not what we question.
Submitted at 10/31/2010 11:44:24 PM currently have. But most curiously, the Chairman
Spencer letter: argues that his actions “are simply
Most ordinary folks in America On October 25, 2010, The a matter of efficient resource
want to achieve the same goals — Energy Daily published a letter to management and good
they just might disagree on the the editor from Gregory Jaczko, government.” Washington has
best way to get there. When it Chairman of the United States spent over $10 billion Yucca
comes to peace, prosperity, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mountain and the NRC is close to
security, equality, etc., the fair- to “set the record straight” on his issuing its Safety Evaluation
minded readily acknowledge the decision to closeout the Yucca Report, which would provide a
good intentions of their Mountain program. comprehensive review of the
ideological opponents. All too Unfortunately, Chairman Jaczko’s technical and scientific merit of
often, however, certain political defense answered none of the the project. By closing the books
forces sacrifice this mindset — relevant questions surrounding his on Yucca now, the Chairman is
and the comity of the political controversial decision. keeping the critical document,
landscape suffers tremendously as For example, he continued to which every American has paid
a result. How refreshing it was, argue that his authority to close for, from ever being published.
therefore, to hear a hero of the out the Yucca program was Americans deserve better.
Left say this over the weekend: derived from the President’s 2011 Jack Spencer
“We work together to get things budget request, which neither Research Fellow, Nuclear Energy
done every damn day. The only house of Congress passed. And Policy
place we don’t is here”—meaning an event that was full of satire and respectful discussion would be a even if they had, given the The Heritage Foundation
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co-hosted with fellow Comedy Instead, we should all go out for a display its true colors. The Left
Atomic Licensing and Safety
Central comic Stephen Colbert on couple of beers, figure everything was out in force, using the rally as Board agreed unanimously that
Saturday. In his own peculiar out, and tell the politicians and another excuse to hit back at what
the DOE lacked the authority to
way, Stewart appeared to be pundits to find something better to they call right-wing extremism. withdraw its Yucca application or
trying to reach beyond politics do. T h e y m o c k e d R e p u b l i c a n
and ideology, just as Glenn Beck There might be some legitimacy c a n d i d a t e s l i k e C h r i s t i n e
did a few weeks ago, in order to to Stewart’s vision — no matter O ’ D o n n e l l , c a l l e d f o r t h e
find common ground. Stewart how naïve it may be. Indeed, if legalization of marijuana and,
being Stewart, his more serious e q u a l l y a p p l i e d a c r o s s t h e above all, belittled the Tea Party
point was delivered at the end of political spectrum, reasoned, movement.
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Revenge of the American Robot
Stephen Brown (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/31/2010 11:40:46 PM
A report published recently in the
respected publication, Asia
Times, states that Qari Hussain
Mehsud, a high ranking al Qaeda
deputy who helped organize the
murder of seven American CIA
operatives last year, was killed
earlier this month in a drone
attack in Pakistan’s rugged tribal
area. Syed Saleem Shahzad,
author of the account, writes that
Mehsud’s specialty in the al
Qaeda organization was “training
suicide bombers”, one of whom
carried out a horrific suicide
attack against CIA personnel at
Forward Operating Base
Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan,
last December.
Mehsud’s messenger of death, a
Jordanian doctor posing as a
double agent with important
information, was welcomed at the
base where he detonated a suicide
vest before he could be searched.
The resulting loss of seven CIA
operatives, including the station
chief, made it “the deadliest
attack” against the intelligence
agency since the 1983 Beirut
bombing.
“But the damage done to the CIA
in this attack cannot be
overestimated,” claimed one
intelligence analyst. “At least one
of the agency’s top analysts on al
Qaeda was killed. In an
intelligence war, this is the
equivalent of sinking an aircraft
carrier.”
Americans may also be familiar
with the Pakistani terrorist’s most
recent attempt to kill Americans.
Mehsud was the one who
recruited in Pakistan American
citizen Faisal Shahzad, the Times
Square bomber, and the eight
members of his cell, sending them
to one of his “suicide training
camps” in North Waziristan. But
Shahzad must not have been a
good student, since he failed to set
off a bomb-rigged vehicle at the
famous New York venue last
May, for which he received life
in prison without parole.
Mehsud’s unlamented demise is
the result of the CIA’s highly
successful “decapitation”
campaign, in which drones target
high-level terrorist operatives
hiding in Pakistan. Starting in
2008, an estimated 700 al Qaeda
and Taliban terrorists have been
killed by the drone’s Hellfire
missile. Particularly painful for al
Qaeda and their allies, according
to military observers, is the fact
that about two dozen top-level
leaders, like Mehsud, and 100
mid-level ones are among the
dead. The loss of mid-level cadres
is apparently hurting the two
terrorist organizations the most,
since these are the experienced
field commanders who translate
their leaders’ plans into reality.
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cautious. Gibbs and Iott could
very well win.
Pennsylvania: Considering how I
see Toomey and Corbett winning
this state big, we might see a few
more GOP wins here. Rothfus?
Tim Burns? (Nah, that district
always teases Republicans.)
Argall?
Rhode Island: At one point, John
Loughlin looked like my most
wildly optimistic pick. But the
polling keeps looking close, and
Obama’s going to Rhode Island in
the closing days. What does that
tell us?
#page# South Carolina: It’s
amazing how quickly the
conventional wisdom went from
“Mulvaney has a shot” to “maybe
Spratt can pull off some miracle.”
Tennessee: The shift here is a
fascinating, under-examined
story. This is the “home” state of
Al Gore, the state that Democrats
used to be competitive in. And
now they’re just evaporating. The
governor’s race wasn’t even
competitive.
Texas: Man, I do not want to
stand next to Ciro Rodriguez
when he gets the bad news.
#ad# Virginia: Obviously, the
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White House thinks Perriello has
a shot. Because of redistricting,
don’t worry if Morgan Griffith
doesn’t win this year. Next year
he’ll run in the same district but
with friendlier border lines.
Washington: My readers on the
ground think they see a huge GOP
surge in this state, and it’s
happened before; in 1994,
Washington swung hard to the
right. This state has a bad case of
Democrat fatigue.
West Virginia: The early voting
numbers for Republicans here
were a disappointment. This is an
odd state; Obama’s approval
rating is low and the state is fed
up with liberal policies in
Washington, yet the Republicans
can’t seem to get traction.
Wisconsin: Another case of
Democrat fatigue, I suspect.
So there you have it. These picks
are for entertainment purposes
only.
-- Jim Geraghty writes the
Campaign Spot blog on NRO. Jim
Geraghty
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Getting Afghanistan Wrong
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 10/31/2010 11:43:33 PM
On October 27, the Washington
Post ran an article with quotes
from anonymous officials
questioning the optimistic tone of
General Petraeus towards the
surge in Afghanistan. Major
obstacles to victory undoubtedly
remain, but the piece overlooks
signs of progress and practically
declares the surge a failure less
than two months after all of the
additional forces arrived. Have we
heard this song before?
The article, titled “U.S. Military
Campaign to Topple Resilient
Taliban Hasn’t Succeeded,”
describes recent gains as “fleeting
setbacks” for the Taliban that
haven’t forced the group to the
peace table. This judgment comes
before the offensive into
Kandahar has even been
completed and far before a
credible assessment can be made.
It describes the military effort as
falling short of forcing the
Taliban to discuss a peace
agreement, but that isn’t even the
objective of the surge. Although
the article does state that U.S.
officials caution that the strategy
is in its beginning stages, this
clarification comes on the second
page and will be missed by many
readers.
Measuring success by the
willingness of the so-called
“moderate Taliban” to embrace
peace and democracy dooms the
strategy to failure. Instead, any
effort to reach out to the radical
Islamic forces should be done
with the goal of making them
defect, rather than achieve their
aims politically. The Afghan
government and NATO forces are
expanding the effort to enlist local
tribes in their fight against the
Taliban. No evaluation of the
strategy in Afghanistan can take
place until this outreach is
completed.
The governor of Kandahar has
CIFTA
continued from page 74
supposedly seeks to address,
ranging from assistance with
stockpile destruction to advice on
the creation of effective export
controls to training of foreign law
enforcement officers.
CIFTA is not a serious treaty, and
it has many disabling flaws. It
exists not to achieve its purported
aims, but as a signaling device to
Mexico: when U.S. politicians
want to show they are
concerned—as they should
be—about Mexico, they talk up
the treaty. That is why Clinton
signed it in 1997, and why Obama
mentioned it in 2009. It is also, of
course, a convenient stalking
horse for individuals, like Harold
Koh, who want “stronger
domestic regulation” and think the
just met with 350 elders in local best way to get it is through the
communities that had been under treaty process.
Taliban control until recently. As the Post acknowledges, as a
General Petraeus has begun a new treaty, CIFTA is a symbol. But, in
program to set up local security the realm of serious people,
f o r c e s , w h i c h h e c a l l s treaties are instruments of
“community watch with AK-47s,” diplomacy that, once ratified,
that is being implemented in 68 r e f l e c t o n t h e h o n o r a n d
districts. This closely resembles commitment of the United States.
the Sons of Iraq program that If other countries want to sign on
successfully turned the country to CIFTA, that is their business. If
around. U.S. forces are also
moving out of large bases and into
smaller outposts among the
communities, as was also done in
Iraq.
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they are unhappy with the treaty’s
effectiveness, that is also their
business. There are no worse
grounds for urging the U.S. to
ratify a treaty than to claim that
the U.S. needs to put polish on a
symbol, or to help other countries
fulfill commitments they entered
into freely. The reasons why
CIFTA has not received the
advice and consent of the Senate
are for Senators to know. But
nothing in the Post’s take on it
gives them any reason to change
their minds.
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Haslam should beat Democrat
Mike McWherter by a wide
margin.
Texas: When I was in the
Houston area last month, a
surprisingly common yard sign
read: “SOLD.” Even more
bizarre, I saw houses under
construction. Here in northern
Virginia, we’ve forgotten what
that looks like. This is a
roundabout way of pointing out
that the Texas economy is doing
pretty well even as the national
economy limps along, and Texans
know they’re in good shape
compared with those who live in
most other places. Chalk up
another four years for Republican
Rick Perry.
Utah: Republican Gary Herbert,
who took over when Jon
Huntsman was nominated to be
ambassador to China, will win a
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full term of his own.
Vermont: Can Republican
lieutenant governor Brian Dubie
win? Just watch what Dubie
Dubie do. Vermont is a heavily
Democratic state, but sometimes
heavily Democratic states like
having a GOP governor to apply
the brakes now and then (see
Massachusetts).
Wisconsin: Republican Scott
Walker has led Democrat Tom
Barrett consistently and should
win by a healthy margin.
Wyoming: Republican Matt
Mead should defeat Democrat
Leslie Peterson by a wide, wide
margin.
-- Jim Geraghty writes the
Campaign Spot blog on NRO. Jim
Geraghty
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Android and Apple Battle for
Smartphone Dominance [STATS]
Christina Warren (Mashable!) heir apparent in terms of
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:53:10 PM manufacturer support, device
variety and market share. Still,
As the worldwide smartphone this doesn’t preclude other phone
market continues to expand, the manufacturers or OS makers from
battle between the two primary getting some skin on the game.
players, iOS and Android, Microsoft may have only
continues to sizzle. managed to pull off 3% of
Market research firm Canalys has smartphone sales worldwide for
thrown some fuel on that fire by the quarter, but this was with a
noting that Apple is now the dying, legacy platform. Windows
leading smartphone maker in the Phone 7 has already launched in
U.S., but Android as an OS has many parts of the world and is
While Apple is the leading
greater marketshare. coming to the US next week.
smartphone maker in the US —
This study, which covers Q3 RIM still has a growing market in
and one of the leading vendors in
2010, notes that the smartphone the Middle East and Asia. And
the world — Android still took
market has grown 95% on a whether in flux, Nokia is still
the lead when it comes to sheer
global level, when compared to kicking. This is a market that is
number of devices.
the quarter a year ago. While going to only get bigger and as
According to Canalys, 9.1
Nokia remains the leading global that happens, the opportunities for
million Android units were
smartphone maker, its dominance segmentations and niche focus
shipped by various Open Handset
is shrinking at an ever-increasing can provide opportunities for
Alliance partners in the third
rate.
Additionally, as Steve Jobs noted
quarter of 2010. The equates to
43.6% of devices sold.
vendors of all stripes.
For now, however, Android
during Apple’s recent quarterly remains the rising star and the
earnings call, the iPhone maker
has topped RIM both worldwide
Google and Android may
continue to argue over what OS is
moving more mobile units per day
“once and future king” of the
smartphone OS market.
(17% versus 15%) and unseated
the BlackBerry maker as the top
smartphone manufacturer in the
— Apple counts all iOS devices
including the iPod touch and iPad,
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to an international audience can
be a great opportunity to grow
your company and reach potential
customers that may not otherwise
discover your brand, products or
services. Reaching an
international audience, though,
entails understanding regional
cultures, laws and online
behaviors.
Before kicking off your
international digital marketing
strategy, consider the following
five tips on how to successfully
market to an international
audience.
If your business has already
begun to optimize your online
presence for a global community,
add your own tips for online
international marketing in the
comments below. 1. Start with
Cross-Cultural Competency
Having your site translated into
other languages is a huge
advantage to marketing to an
international audience, but having
a deep understanding of your own
and other’s cultures is also
important.
The first step to improving cross-
cultural competency is
understanding the cultural barriers
within which you and others in
your business operate. Having a
grasp of the cultural assumptions
and biases that you hold will help
you identify cultural differences
that may jeopardize business
abroad.
Only after you understand your
own culture can you begin to
learn about other cultures and
make note of differences. Reading
books and essays on a particular
culture can only take you so far.
These readings often generalize or
stereotype a given culture. Once
you “learn” these generalizations,
take them with a grain of salt and
adapt accordingly.
While studying abroad in China,
for example, a schoolmate taught
me some Chinese Internet lingo
for chatting on QQ and MSN
Messenger, the instant messaging
platforms of choice among young
Chinese at the time. Instead of
saying “” for goodbye, I tested out
“88,” which sounds like the
English “bye bye” when spoken
in Chinese. Among my Chinese
classmates, it wasn’t universally
used, which makes perfect sense
— even in America, only certain
age groups and types of people
use cutesy emoticons and
shorthands to communicate
online. My shortsightedness and
excitement to fit in abroad had led
me to overlook the fact that not
everyone in China communicates
online in the same way.
Think about how your country or
region’s cultural norms differ
among age groups, genders,
geographical areas and so on, and
then consider these differences
among consumers in other
cultures. Learning about and
respecting other cultures will help
you localize your brand’s
message.
When possible, talk with, learn
from and spend time with people
who represent the audience you’re
hoping to reach. 2. Understand
Regional Laws
When marketing to a global
audience, your business should be
aware of regional regulations on
products, advertising and sales
tactics.
Advertising Regulations: In some
regions of the world, advertising
related to certain types of
products are subject to approval
by various governing bodies. For
example, in many countries,
advertisements for
pharmaceuticals must be
approved by local health
ministries.
Furthermore, comparative
advertising is treated with varying
degrees of hostility across the
world. While America may be
relatively relaxed about using
phrases like “best” and “better” to
describe products in relation to
other brands, Germany, France
and Belgium are all known for
having very strict principles when
it comes to competitive
messaging.
Verizon’s commercials that
compared 3G coverage across
America between Verizon’s and
AT&T’s networks, for example,
made it to fruition in the States,
but this type of comparative, and
possibly misleading, sales tactic
may not be permissible in other
countries.
Regulation of Sales Tactics:
Various sales promotion tactics —
such as contests, sweepstakes,
deals and premium offers (i.e.,
buy one, get one free) — are
usually regulated differently
across borders. Make sure your
desired promotion tactics don’t
conflict with local laws before
running them.
Product Laws: If you sell your
product online to an international
audience, it is subject to product
development laws regarding
chemical makeup, safety,
performance and packaging
designs, including languages,
sizes and materials used. 3.
Customize Search Engine
Marketing Based on Local Usage
International search engine
marketing is a mixture of
choosing the right search engines,
localizing content and
understanding keywords.
Choose the Right Search
Engines: Figure out which search
engines are used by the particular
markets you are targeting. While
you can reach many English-
speaking customers via search by
advertising on the top three search
engines in the U.S. — Google,
Yahoo and Bing— international
use of search engines varies.
Often, local markets are best
served via local search engines,
because the English-language
search engines don’t always
suffice for niche, local content.
Localize Your Content: It isn’t
enough to simply translate your
website into target languages if
quality is your goal — don’t serve
second-rate content to your
international clients. When
possible, localize your product,
services and messaging for each
market you serve. This can be
costly, so weigh the options
carefully.
Choose Native Keywords: With
international SEM, you shouldn’t
focus on translating keywords into
foreign languages. Instead, work
with native speakers trained in
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search marketing to figure out
native keywords that would be
best associated with your website
and its content. Remember that
keywords aren’t words, but
instead shortened thoughts used
by Internet browsers to find
particular types of content.
Therefore, keywords are often
influenced by culture, which is
best navigated by locals. 4.
Optimize Site Design
In many cases, the first portal for
your online communication with
potential customers will be your
website. Optimize your site
design to allow for ultimate
flexibility for global visitors.
There are a lot of considerations
when developing a global-friendly
website, a few of which are:
Colors and Symbols: Colors and
symbols are deeply ingrained in
cultures; research perceptions of
colors and symbols among your
target audience and adapt
accordingly. In most of Europe
and the Americas, for example,
white is associated with purity
and marriage. In Japan, China and
parts of Africa, though, white is
traditionally the color of
mourning. But don’t be fooled —
in Westernized Asian cities, white
weddings are becoming more
common. Beyond colors, make
sure any icons, logos or graphics
you are using are acceptable and
looked upon in good light in areas
you wish to reach. Check out
some resources for working with
color on the web.
Currency Conversion: If you are
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The Future of Social Media and Politics

Matt Silverman (Mashable!) candidates who could win that institutions, a key component of social media hub where
Submitted at 11/1/2010 12:43:49 PM didn’t have a chance once their outreach has been to train participants can suggest and vote
television emerged,” Lira said. staffers to be individuals with a on which government spending
The Future of Social Media “Social media’s effect will be no message, rather than programs should be cut from the
Series is supported by Gist. Gist less dramatic.” representatives of a large Federal budget.
provides a full view of the Lira notes that at first, organization. “We’ve had “For the first time, the public is
contacts in your professional campaigning on TV was viewed considerable success with this able to have direct impact on what
network by creating a rich as a gimmick and was given to decentralized approach, ranging their representatives vote upon on
business profile for each one that young staffers to experiment with. from tweets being picked up the House floor,” said Lira about
includes the most news, status “Over time, television asserted directly by major press outlets to the YouCut initiative. “The
updates, and work details. See itself as the dominant form of tweets being forwarded by public’s response to this program
how it works here. political communication — influencers to high-ranking White validates that they will engage
Politicians are brands. Like their remaking our nation’s politics in up any space that traditional House officials, to enhancing with Congress when given the
counterparts in the private sector, the process.” If that progression media has conceded.” The New v a r i o u s p o l i c y e x p e r t s ’ opportunity to do so.”
w e ’ v e s e e n s o m e p r e t t y sounds familiar, it’s because Grassroots reputations.” Lira said that over two million
interesting things when it comes we’re reliving it today. Like many publishers and Essentially, we may be looking at votes have been cast on the
to using social media on the It’s about how the social web is b u s i n e s s e s , p o l i t i c a l m e d i a political outreach coming full YouCut website so far, and every
campaign trail. rapidly becoming the default relations are still entrenched in a circle over the course of a few week that the House is in session,
Representative democracy seems place where people spend their “one-way announcement or press generations. Focus was initially the item that receives the most
the perfect place for social media time and discuss issues that matter release communication” style, as on personal grassroots activism, social media votes is brought to
— a direct communications to them. “It will be about how Bhadelia puts it. But today’s then on mass media, and is now the floor for debate (typically 45
channel between the governed and much society has integrated itself forward-thinking campaigns offer returning to a one-on-one trust minutes) and an actual legislative
the government. But are we into it,” said Gerrit Lansing, the a glimpse into what political model for the digital age. Socially vote. “To date, no cuts have
headed toward a more new media director for activism might look like a few Connected Legislation passed the House, but all we can
interconnected body politic, or a Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL years on. The ancient Greeks probably do in the minority is force the
new sea of unmanageable political 6th). “Citizens will be far more “Future candidates who ‘get it’ would have dug social media for debate and the vote,” said Lira.
noise? accustomed to being a fan of their will be conducting increasingly its potential to realize direct “The full voting records are
With the U.S. midterm elections C o n g r e s s m a n o n F a c e b o o k , supporter-centric campaigns that democracy. But can millions of available online, so people can
in their final throes, we spoke to because it will soon become one put the needs of the candidates’ people updating, tweeting and know where their representative
some key players for their views of the main ways in which they most enthusiastic and ardent texting really generate a vox stood.”
on what the rise of mainstream communicate with him.” supporters at the center of the p o p u l i w o r t h a S e n a t o r ’ s Komar cites another success for
social media has in store for the “What we’re seeing across the campaign,” said Brian Komar, the a t t e n t i o n ? connected legislation in a recent
next generation of political political spectrum right now is a director of strategic outreach for “I believe that social media must campaign by the Enough Project.
campaigns. The Revolution Will rejection of traditional media,” the Center for American Progress. be fully incorporated into the The organization pushed for
Not Be Televised, But Perhaps said A.J. Bhadelia, the online As social media trust continues to daily operation of the United regulation on the U.S. import of
Tweeted communications coordinator for shift away from organizations and States Congress,” said Lira. “Not conflict minerals (tin, tungsten
The medium is the message, and Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA toward individuals, a highly social s i m p l y a s a n o u t b o u n d and tantalum, which are
like television before it, the social 15th), who represents the Silicon p o l i t i c a l c a m p a i g n c a n communication tool, but to commonly used in electronics)
web will radically alter who is Valley district in California. He decentralize its message and actually include the American from eastern Congo, where
electable, according to Matt Lira, notes that among Rep. Honda’s create what successful marketers public in substantive legislative mining operations for these
the director of new media for constituents, a quarter of the have been tapping on the web for decision making.” valuable materials are often used
Republican Whip Eric Cantor. people who get their news online some time — brand ambassadors. Lira cites one digital democracy to fund violent and genocidal
“Before television, there was a get it from social media. “[I]f Komar told us that since experts e x p e r i m e n t l e d b y H o u s e
dramatically different set of given the opportunity, it will take are generally more trusted than Republicans called YouCut, a FUTURE page 85
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in the e-commerce business and
offer international shipping, make
sure you also enable users to
convert their purchase amount
into their own currency.
Conversion can be confusing to
the average consumer. Giving
users the option can only make it
easier. There are quite a few
currency conversion API tools to
choose from, but they can be
difficult to sort through — check
out Exchange Rate API for
starters.
Use of Text: There’s more to
worry about than whether your
site is easily translated. First off,
minimize the use of text in
graphics, as these cannot be
translated. While it may be
impossible to eliminate all
graphics with text, read up on
other design options made
possible by the rise of web fonts.
Furthermore, make sure your web
design flows to accommodate
machine translation. Some
elements may be fine, but others
may not display properly. Test
your site using a machine
translation service and make
adjustments as needed.
Loading Speed: Check out the
Yahoo Developer Network for
some best practices on speeding
up your website. It’s particularly
important, when it comes to
reaching a global audience, to use
a Content Delivery Network
(CDN), which is a collection of
web servers around the world.
Instead of serving your site from
one location, you can improve
load times by offering it from the
server nearest to your site visitor.
5. Adapt Social Media for Various
Languages
If your company already serves
multiple markets and your site
sees a lot of international visitors,
you should consider looking into
ways to reach your global
audience via social media. Here
are a few ideas for some popular
social platforms:
Facebook: On the world’s largest
social network, there are two key
strategies for reaching global
audiences — creating one Page or
many.
By creating one brand Page, you
can target updates by location,
demographics and language. This
is a good option if you are looking
to have one hub for content
creation. On the positive side,
users will be receiving targeted
updates in their news feeds, and
they will still be gathered in one
place. The downside is the
possibility of confusing users who
visit your Page and find updates
in multiple languages. This could
limit interaction on your Page.
Creating multiple regional Pages
increases the localization of each
Page, but this method requires
more time to customize, as
various logos and text should be
created for each one. You’ll have
to figure out the right option for
your brand, but considering your
strategy before launching is a
good start.
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proverbial “town square”
democracy that some might hope
for. “The current platforms … still
have far to go before there is
direct governance,” Bhadelia
conceded, citing concerns about
verifying the locations and
motivations of the most active
politically minded social media
participants. “Is this person a
constituent? Are the views held
by a broad slice of the district or
the vocal few?” Hands-On
Candidates
To win at social media, you’ve
got to keep it personal. In the
future, can a political candidate
still be in the game if he or she is
delegating social outreach to staff,
as many do today?
“A good new media guy who can
write well can still do it,” said
Lansing. “Five years from now, it
will need to be at least 50/50.”
“I don’t believe that an elected
official can be removed from the
process,” Lira added. “The staff
can, as they do in other areas,
support that communication. The
essence of that communication,
however, begins with the elected
official.”
Komar sees social media as yet
another component of the larger
communications picture, and
handing off responsibility might
just be a matter of course in terms
of time management.
“[P]oliticians and candidates
delegate drafting of press releases
to staff. They delegate drafting of
speeches to staff. They delegate
drafting policy positions and
fundraising asks to their staff. So
yes, serious politicians can still
delegate some social media
outreach to staff as well.” He
noted, however, that candidates
who pass all of their social media
engagement on to staffers will be
missing big opportunities for
authentic engagement of
supporters. The Takeaway
As in many sectors, it’s likely the
political landscape will be
radically different in just a few
years thanks to social media’s
pervasive influence on our ideas
about culture, business, celebrity
and public discourse. The ways in
which we think about candidates
and elected officials will change
based on how connected we feel
to them. And that will influence
how we vote.
“The day is fast approaching
when you can win your election
on the basis of a really good
social media campaign,” said
Lira. “Build genuine connections
with your constituency,
authentically engage with them,
and you can earn their support.”
Lansing’s advice to would-be
candidates of the digital age is to
“be very aggressive. What social
media allows you to do is build an
empire, and the timid do not build
empires.”
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its 12 millionth member according and his twin sister, born in 1920,
to a tweet from CEO Garret grew up amid the Great
Camp. Camp also indicated that Depression and learned to live a
the service is now seeing 500,000 very frugal life. In our family, my
new members join the site each grandpa is still, at 90, a well-
month. known cheapskate about certain
The milestone metric and the things, and his sister was a
accelerating signup rate are chronic saver, a bit of a hoarder
especially telling given minus the trash.
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an impressive feat considering it
history — once an eBay-owned Hundreds on Groceries
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These upgrades seem to be ever owned. You never know of soap, make-up or whatever But that's just my opinion. I could
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iPhone and iPad
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web discovery engine appears to standpoint, there's a lot we can Godliness (Sorry, Mom) On the other hand, if you're
be successfully transitioning from learn from our Depression-era Being a housewife used to equal shelling out big bucks for a health
elders. They got by on very little
MONEY-SAVING for a long time.
housecleaning. Gaaah! In my club, just cleaning your kitchen
continued from page 87 book, keeping things neat above and bathroom is major exercise
Writer Kate Forgach agreed to board is far more important than and sweat isn't your only reward.
a room clear out so fast as when • Less exposure to advertising share with us several the frugal
he'd turn on those old PBS black- that makes you want to buy, buy, living lessons she learned from running dust-bunny patrols under 4. Turn Off the TV
and-white specials. Perhaps that's buy! every bed. It's cheaper, too, Dad had a great way of limiting
her Depression-era parents, who because superficial cleanliness our television time. He controlled
why I picked up this nasty reading • Time to focus on more useful grew up in the 1930s and 1940s
habit and watch so little TV now. stuff, like exercise, reading and when the mantra was " Use it up, requires fewer products and the TV (including a homemade
In modern terms, there are lots of family activities. allows you to focus on truly frugal mute button) and liked to watch a
wear it out, make it do, or do practices. Unless you really enjoy LOT of World War II
benefits to reducing TV time: • You'll sleep better. (Studies without!"
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particularly if you turn off the and allow the dust to fall where it
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per day can cause significant stone lions surmounting the difference in the ingredients? You water rings from coffee tables and Some call this the 30-day rule,
sleep problems.) entrance. don't? Sadly, that's because they're lipstick from fabric; fills nail but waiting 30 days often means
My co-workers laugh at me, but exactly the same (unlike your man holes in walls; cleans the sour that car, house or other major
5. Mom Would Have Adored your local library offers so much and the Old Spice guy). smell from baby bottles; and purchase won't be waiting for you
Craig free entertainment, education and Now buy the generic. (It's not on shines diamonds. at the end of a month. These
Yes, there really is a Craig of useful information if you're a horse.) White vinegar: Cleans major decisions can wait long
Craigslist. I met him at an willing to walk through those 9. A Dab Will Do You coffeemakers, floors, drains, enough for me to sit down with
Oakland fundraiser in the late doors. Hell, you don't even have This one comes from my brother glassware, countertops, garbage paper and pen to consider the pros
1990s, when his free website for to go to a library building James: "Mother was big on 'one disposals, microwaves, and cons before saying yeah or
classified ads was just getting anymore to reap the benefits. drop of dish soap in a small refrigerators, tea kettles, laundry, nay.
started. Craig looked just like Here's a brief rundown of services amount of water.' Once, at my paint brushes, steam irons, 13. Rent the Home You Need,
Silent Bob from the movie offered by my local library. friend Ken's house, we were windows, showerheads, Not the House You Want
"Clerks," complete with trench 7. Shop Small Food Markets getting ready to do dishes and I dishwashers, metal, mini blinds, Our eyes tend to get bigger than
coat and taciturn manner. But I Big-box supermarkets are a filled the sink with a bit of water plastic food containers, tarnished our wallets when we look for a
digress. comparatively recent innovation and added the one drop. Ken brass, copper and pewter, and the new home. Mine did. The last
More From The Stir: Save and their massive mounds of teased me like crazy for being so mold off walls. time I went shopping, my boss
Energy: 8 Ideas To Warm Each m e r c h a n d i s e m a k e m e dumb. He took the bottle and put Pant, pant, pant. Obviously, I had just projected a solid fiscal
Room in Your Home uncomfortable. Perhaps that's why in a HUGE squirt of soap. His could go on and on but I'll save it year ahead and I walked into a
Craigslist has entirely displaced I tend to patronize two local mom saw it, yelled at him, asked for another blog post. stunning house that was double
the newspaper classifieds, the markets, where the prices are why he did that and he told her 11. Give It 10 Seconds my intended price. No problem,
most important part of the really quite good, the food is about me and my 'little drop of This is the short version of the I'd find a roommate. Turns out
newspaper during the Depression. much fresher and the service is soap.' His mom said, 'That's called previous rule. I used to watch that's not so easy when the
That's where people found jobs, great. They even take coupons. economizing Kenny...James' Mom stop for 10 seconds and economy falls into a pit, you're
second-hand furniture, cars, More from The Stir: Frugal mother is smart ... it saves think before popping something over 50, live in a college town and
rentals, just about everything they Living: Save Money Now money!'" into her grocery cart that wasn't your boss suddenly shutters the
needed. Come to think of it, times I only bring in two canvas Brother John weighs in with a on her list. Ask yourself why are business.
haven't changed much, except we shopping bags for smaller trips memory of Mom using the soapy you buying this item? Do you It took me a year to get out from
now find all those things online. and, once those bags are filled, I dregs to clean out kitchen window really need it? If not, put it back. under that lease, but my present
My point is -- and I do have one - can't buy more. This obviously wells. "Waste not, want not." 12. Sit on It home costs less than I can afford
- many people still don't know limits any unnecessary purchases. The truth is, a modern Did your parents ever make you and still suits me just fine. Sure,
about Craigslist, or that there's no Since I only buy fresh food, I dishwasher is more economical save up for a purchase? The it's not as beautiful, the doors
charge to advertise just about avoid buying produce that will overall, but not all of us have anticipation sometimes proved to don't close perfectly and I can't
anything. turn brown in the drawers. these new-fangled machines, so a be better than the actual buy. You run the clothes washer and space
There are rules and you have to You can expand this principle to little dab will still have to do us. also occasionally realized you'd heater at the same time, but I
be an informed consumer, but isn't suit the size of your family, say to More from The Stir: 7 Tips For rather spend your money on never worry about paying the rent.
that true for everything these four bags or one cart, but it's Saving Money Online something else. 14. Freeze Your Credit/Debit
days? Before you get started on clearly easier to follow when 10. Toothpaste and Vinegar When considering a major Cards
Craigslist, read "avoid scams and you're only shopping for one or Clean Nearly Everything purchase -- anything over $100 -- The Greatest Generation lived
fraud" and "personal safety tips." two people. Cheap toothpaste: Whitens piano I sit on the decision for a time without credit cards. We can go
6. Libraries -- I Swear! 8. Buy Generic Over-the-Counter keys; unscuffs linoleum; removes period that varies depending on without them for a day or two. So
Weekly visits to the library were Drugs yucky junk from steam irons; lifts the amount of the purchase. the next time you feel the urge for
a big event when I was a kid. The Look at the name-brand label. stains out of carpet; whitens the Sometimes I've changed my mind some shopping therapy, follow
Carnegie Public Library was my Now back at the generic. Now rubber of tennis shoes; polishes by the time I get home. this process:
favorite, with the lemon scent of back at the name-brand label. leather shoes and chrome; lifts More from The Stir: Should Kids MONEY-SAVING page 89
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• Take out a set amount of cash
from the bank (only what you can
afford, be it $5 or $100.)
• Put your cards into a Ziploc
baggie with water and a coin.
• Stick it in the freezer until
frozen.
• (The coin will keep you from
trying to quick melt the card in
the microwave.)
• Go shopping and spend the pre-
set amount of cash.
15. Never Pass Up a Chance To
Earn Extra Money
Dad was an incessant freelancer.
Of course, he had eight mouths to
feed. As a professional photo
journalist (among other things),
he never let an opportunity go by
to sell a photo to one of the wire
services. Even at their cheap
payment rates ($5 per photo or
less), it added up over time.
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For many years, even though
gainfully employed, I wrote
freelance editorial columns,
theater reviews, entertainment
columns -- you name it, I wrote it
(except sports). When times got
thin, editors remembered the
breadth of my experience and
hired me for innumerable
freelance gigs, ultimately
resulting in this full-time gig.
16. Wash Your Hands
You hear this one a lot in terms
of health, but imagine how much
your family would save on
medical bills, medications and
work-time lost if you could avoid
whatever is going around. You
don't have to use all the fancy
antibacterial soaps. Just wash
thoroughly and dry your hands on
something other than your pants.
17. Darn Those Socks
Find a darning egg (or lightbulb -
- not a CFL), a large-holed needle
and some darning thread or
embroidery floss. Next, learn how
to weave darns without pricking
your fingers and saying damn. It's
surprisingly rewarding to make
something new again with so little
effort. Besides, darning eggs are
just so darned adorable.
18. But Don't Forget the Fourth
"R"
Reduce, reuse, recycle and
REPAIR!
Two captains chairs saw constant
use in our kitchen for more than
30 years, requiring endless
repairs. By the time they were
retired from service, there may
not have been an original piece
left on their sagging wooden
bodies, but they were still
handsome rogues. Repair parts are
readily available online, so there's
no excuse.
Recycling has made us less of a
disposable society, but we're so
used to not being able to fix stuff
anymore that we tend to think first
of replacing. (I'm looking at you,
Steve Jobs, and your uncrackable
iPhones.)
19. Learn to Mend
While it's true the last two items
are all based on the theme of
repairing, there are subtle
differences.
Along with fireside chats and
rocking-chair grandmas, mending
torn and tattered clothes seems to
have fallen by the wayside. It's
hugely mystifying why people
will pay what Grandma would
have called "good money" for
clothing that looks totally trashed
but object to wearing a mended
outfit.
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Cut large swaths of fabric from
discarded clothes to use as
clothing patches or -- should you
ever become so handy -- quilt
pieces.
Oh, and save those buttons. I
found several giant cookie tins
filled with buttons after my
mother passed away. One had
every gold and silver button from
our many uniforms, blazers, etc.,
and they made the loveliest
jewelry. Even if you never find a
use for them, your kith and kin
might.
20. Make Your Debt Visual
Get those debts off your
conscious and down on paper.
Create a giant progress bar and,
each time you pay down a little
bit of debt, fill in a little more of
that progress bar. Keep your eyes
on the prize as your debt shrinks
to zilch.
21. Reuse Every Container That
Comes Into the House
Everything comes in reusable
containers these days. My nails,
screws, etc. are stored in
repurposed jars, just like Dad's.
My freezer is now lined with
repurposed spaghetti jars filled
with the previously mentioned
pesto (ready for Christmas
giving.) And the Tupperware in
my cupboards is actually old
yogurt and cottage cheese
containers. (Tossing plastic
unrecyclable plastic is a physical
impossibility.)
22. Tea Leaves and Coffee
Grounds Make Great Plant
Fertilizer
An entire china industry grew up
around little bowls for used tea
bags, so grandma could dunk,
dunk and dunk again. I'm willing
to use a tea bag twice, but then the
leaves go straight into planters as
fertilizer. Same with coffee
grounds. (I understand some
coffee filters can be composted,
but I drink espresso and don't
need filters.)
23. Replant Your Seeds
You can keep your garden going
all summer by removing the seeds
from some vegetables, drying
them out and replanting.
Continuing this cycle within the
same summer depends upon the
length of your growing season,
but you can save the best seeds
for next year.
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24. Re-Gift Gift Wrap
Girlfriend Cathy's family re-used
birthday paper wrapping until the
"givers" became the "recipients"
within an embarrassingly short
period of time and commented on
how familiar the wrapping
looked.
I do recycle particularly pretty
wrapping paper, but "wrap" the
majority of presents in Dollar
Store gift bags. Still, you have to
use tissue paper to pretty up these
bags, so I flatten out old tissue
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paper from store purchases and
previous gifts.
25. Spend Evenings Together
Not only can you shut off
electricity and heat in other rooms
but you'll increase that oh-so-
important family bonding time.
Play cards, discover the new
world of innovative board games,
mend clothes, build something or
just talk.
The time I treasure the most from
my childhood years is the time we
spent together, just being a
family. Video games, Facebook
and soccer tournaments can't
replace that interaction.
26. Not Everything Has to Match
Pots and pans from grandma are
likely more durable than those
you can afford today. I still use
my Mother's utensils and copper-
bottomed pans. (One still has the
wood handle Dad created to
replace the melted original.)
Styles come and go, but quality
kitchen supplies are worth holding
on to. Don't ditch the good stuff
just because you want to be
matchy matchy.
Read the complete version of
Kate's article:"50 Lessons
Learned From My Depression-Era
Parents"
Got any good tips you learned
from your Depression-era elders?
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